good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and sally nugent. our headlines today: president trump defends the us airstrike that killed iran's top military commander, saying it was done to prevent further attacks on americans we took action last night to stop a war. we did not take action to start a war. thousands of extra troops are called up in australia to tackle the raging bush fires, as country's prime minister warns of difficult days ahead. two more labour mps, lisa nandy and jess phillips, join the race to be the party's next leader.

england's batsmen flounder again. another dismal display leaves them on the back foot going into day two of the second test against south africa. the story of a blunder on mastermind and why greta thunberg changed her name on twitter to sharon as a result. hello. a very good morning to you. throughout the course of the morning we will keep you up—to—date with the weather situation across the fire affected areas in australia. closer to home, quite a chilly start to the weekend. for some it is a cloudy, breezy sort of day. quite a bit of dry weather around. it is not a right by any means. some northern and western areas will see a little bit of rain. they will have all the details for you injust bit of rain. they will have all the details for you in just a few minutes. it's saturday the 4th of january. good morning. our top story: the us president donald trump has defended his decision to have an iranian military leader killed in a us air strike. he says qasem soleimani was killed to stop him carrying out attacks on american targets, and claims it has ended a reign of terror.

iran has warned that it will avenge the attack, as david willis reports. american officials say the airstrike that killed qasem soleimani was carried out in self defence stop they say the man who's been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of americans in the middle east over the years was plotting a major attack on us diplomats and military personnel. at a rally last night in florida, president trump said that threat had now been lifted. qasem soleimani has been killed and his bloodied rampage is now for ever gone. he was plotting attacks against americans, but now we've ensured that his atrocities have been stopped for good. they are stopped for good. iran has vowed revenge and amid heightened tensions the us is sending reinforcements to

the us is sending reinforcements to the region, 3750 troops so far, and warning its citizens stationed in iraq to get out as soon as they can. qasem soleimani was one of america's deadliest enemies. but the us has yet to release intelligence information supporting its claim that he was planning a major attack. administration officials insist, however, that hundreds of americans could have died. neither the us nor iran favours outright war, but the trump administration's claim that this will prevent further bloodshed may scene be put to the test. we can speak now to our middle east correspondent lina sinjab, who is in beirut. good morning to you. what are we seeing in terms of reaction at this stage? definitely there are split views between those who support iran

and those who oppose it. but inside tehran there are thousands of took to the streets mourning the loss of a big man, ofan important man who shaped the foreign policy and shape the influence and control over the region. and they are now preparing for a funeralfor qasem region. and they are now preparing for a funeral for qasem soleimani that will take place on sunday. however, also, in baghdad, there will be some morning today and for the iraqi official who was also killed in the airstrike, that will be buried today in baghdad. however, you know, there are some other reactions in a rock at the moment because many of the youth who took to the streets protesting against the government and the iranian influence, they were celebrating the killing of qasem soleimani. they wa nt killing of qasem soleimani. they want iran out of their country and the layman for the instability in a rock. at the wider region is also an alert and concerned, because the

consequences of this killing is going to be massive. and no—one knows what type of reaction iran will take. for the moment, thank you. lina sinjab reporting from beirut for us. we will hear how people in tehran responded to the attack. that is just after seven o'clock this morning. australia's prime minister scott morrison says he'll up to three thousand army reserve troops are set to be deployed to help tackle raging bushfires across the country as the death toll continues to rise. it comes as officials warn high winds and soaring temperatures could push fires into heavily populated areas this weekend. 0ur correspondent phil mercerjoins us now from nowra in new south wales. what is the latest there? in new south wales and the state of victoria over the course of the day, they have had a dozen emergency warnings in both states at certain times. now the wind is the big enemy for the firefighting efforts. there are fires burning to the west and

also that major blaze has jumped a river to the north. so here in nowra there is a lot of anxiety, a lot of people packing up getting ready to leave, as you can see, the air is very thick with smoke. in this particular area defies tour through here on new year's eve, causing a great amount of distress and anxiety for residents right across the state of victoria and south australia the authorities have been urging people for days, excuse me, excuse me, a fly. for days, excuse me, excuse me, a fly, to leave, because of the emergency. as a very unpleasant situation for residents. the prime minister, scott morrison, bringing in 3000 defence force personnel to help with this emergency effort stop is also bringing in more helicopters and aircraft as well. so the next couple of hours could be extremely decisive. this winter, is picking up

here, could turn the fires around and makea here, could turn the fires around and make a dangerous situation even more perilous —— wind. and make a dangerous situation even more perilous -- wind. thanks very much indeed. phil mercer in tricky conditions in new south wales for us this morning. the labour mps lisa nandy and jess phillips have bothjoined the contest to succeed jeremy corbyn as party leader. they're promising to win back the trust of voters in former labour heartlands. let's get more from our political correspondentjohn 0wen. what else are these new contenders offering? good morning to you. tell us a little more about the two new contenders. good morning. two more high—profile names to confirm. they will be entering the race to succeed jeremy corbyn as the labour leader. that is the wigan mp lisa nandy and the batham mpjess phillips. they join emily thornberry and the shadow treasury minister clive lewis as the four candidates to so far declare that they will be standing in the labour leadership election. i think from lisa nandy we are likely to see

an emphasis on the need for labour to rebuild in its labour heartlands, where they performed unexpectedly badly at the recently —— recent general election. she will say a summary general election. she will say a summary from one of those community she is well placed to make labour's case to voters. in her own words, she is somebody who thinks she is able to perform particularly well in the north of england. meanwhile, jess phillips, a long—standing critic ofjeremy corbyn, i think she will be appealing to those voters who want to see a clean break with the current labour leadership and fresh thinking and fresh ideas to ta ke fresh thinking and fresh ideas to take the party forward. john, for the moment, thank you. the climate change campaigner greta thunberg has changed her name to "sharon" on twitter, in honour of a celebrity game show contestant who appeared to have no idea who she was. the casualty actress amanda henderson was appearing on celebrity mastermind when she was asked to name

the famous activist. take a look at this. the 2019 book entitled title? no—one is too small to make a difference is a collection of speeches by a swedish climate change activist, what's a name? sharon. greta thunberg. honestly. it's difficult because you are under enormous pressure. just a mind blank. anyway, a clip of that answer, that that we have shown you, it has been viewed more than 5 million times online. the video soon made its way back to greta thunberg herself — and yesterday she changed her name on twitter. she often responds very quickly on her twitter account. let's move on. a portrait of the queen and her three heirs to the throne has been released to mark the start of the new decade. the photograph, which was taken the week before christmas, shows the prince of wales, the duke of cambridge

and prince george standing alongside her majesty at buckingham palace. it is the second official portrait of the four generations of royals together. you are watching breakfast on bbc news. it's time for a look at this morning's papers. the times leads with the death of the iranian general qasem soleimani after that us air strike, it reports that american citizens in iraq have been advised to leave the country. their photograph there showing the aftermath of the attack outside baghdad airport. the same story leads the guardian, which highlights the decision by the pentagon to order an additional 3,000 us troops to the middle east following the strike. world waits for iran's revenge, is the i weekend's headline, as it follows most of the saturday papers covering the fallout following the assassination of iran's second—most powerful leader. 0nline, in other news, the sydney morning herald website leads with that decision by the australian prime minister scott morrison to deploy up to 3,000 army reservists to help in the relief efforts

following the ongoing major bushfires after the official death toll rose overnight to 22. we will be reporting on the problems there throughout the morning. most children go back to school next week and, for some of them, that will mean a return to regular square meals — not just at lunch, but also before lessons begin. 280,000 children get a free breakfast at school every day, and that number is set to rise after the government announced £12 million of extra funding. fiona lamdin reports. lessons may not have started again yet, but seven—year—old sadie loves being back at school at the holiday club. at home it's quite boring, because i have a brother but he doesn't normally say. is quite boring at home that's why i've come here. her school that stoker is one of the most deprived areas in the country. last year 10,000 children

in stoke benefited from these holiday clubs. they are hoping with this extra government funding they will be able to triple that number. a lot of families are particularly wa nt to a lot of families are particularly want to come through, on a holiday period there is no provision for preschool. there is nothing to replace it. this can make a big hole in the family's budget. what we do is we provide food not only for when the children come to the sessions, but we send food home for them for the families as well. and after the glow in the dark dodgeball everyone is hungry. at home you're not always wondering what are going to feed them and what my going to do? and some families are struggling. so just knowing they have all the children here and they will have at least one hot meal today is really worthwhile. you sort of plan ahead, financially wise, for the holidays, so financially wise, for the holidays, so we're lucky in that way. but i understand there are families in the community that it would help, you know, massively. the new money could also find the school's breakfast

clu b also find the school's breakfast club in term—time. also find the school's breakfast club in term-time. this incredible new extension funding means we can reach an additional 650 schools so that schools like glebe cannot fly to. we want to make sure no students start their day too hungry to learn. but critics say plenty more needs to be done. fiona lamdin, bbc news. we will be talking later on in the programme about children being given brea kfast programme about children being given breakfast before school and how important it is and it improves that memory and learning capabilities. we are memory and learning capabilities. we a re interested memory and learning capabilities. we are interested in your thoughts this morning. to get in touch with us about that. it is 13 minutes past six. we have been talking a lot this morning about those terrible fires in australia. phil is here with the weather. you're going to start with more information about what the situation is like deniau. good morning, it is dire and the pictures explain it far better than i ever could but i wanted some sort

of sense of the meteorology —— i wa nted of sense of the meteorology —— i wanted to give you some sort of sense of the meteorology behind it. the darker colours show how searingly hot it has been across a good part of eastern australia. i show the range of temperatures, looking at some of the observations just within the past few minutes, if i tell you the temperature there at 47 degrees, that is about 18 degrees above what we would expect at this time of year. the heat is only part of the story. there are cool looking colours towards the south, and this is the area we are expecting to see the change in the weather come from, change with regard to the temperature only, i have to stress. i will show you saturday and then i will change it to sunday and you see how those darker colours, the 405, become confined further up into the 5outhern part5 become confined further up into the 5outhern parts of queensland. however, it comes around because of a 5outherly change, i.e., a 5outherly flow and a south—easterly flow bringing cooler air from 5outherly flow and a south—easterly flow bringing cooler airfrom down towards the antarctic but, i have to

tell you, that despite the fact the flow has changed around about the high pressure and i5 funnelling tho5e cooler air up into the fire affected areas, the strength of the wind is such that the australians, the bureau of meteorology, have severe weather warnings about the 5trength severe weather warnings about the strength of the wind which in its own right could still be gu5ting strength of the wind which in its own right could still be gusting to 45 miles an hour so a wee bit more bearable to live in, 27— 28 degrees, something of that order, rather than 44, but you still have the issue that it 44, but you still have the issue thatiti5 44, but you still have the issue that it is bone dry despite —— despite the weather front there, one or two shower5, it will not put the fires out and the wind, although from a different direction, is 5trong indeed and we will keep you updated through the morning. coming back to here. what a complete contrast. really quite a chilly start, especially acro55 contrast. really quite a chilly start, especially across some of the 5outhern counties of england and wale5 where the cloud did break during the course of the night. we ended up with the odd pocket of fro5t. the mild air that we were bathed in a couple of days ago off

into the near continent, little ridge of high pressure giving us a fairly quiet to the day but it isn't quite like that everywhere. that will do the story for england and wale5. will do the story for england and wales. a lot of cloud with his mild flow coming in for the atlantic, wa5 delayed in air, but the weather front is not 1 delayed in air, but the weather front is not1 million miles away from the western quarter of scotland than here, a miserable day with rain coming and going throughout the course of the day and those temperatures not bad for the time of year, 5even temperatures not bad for the time of year, seven to about 10 degrees or so. year, seven to about 10 degrees or so. and the odd bit of sunshine poking through. but if you work on the basis they could be some drizzly rain acro55 the basis they could be some drizzly rain across the western side of britain through the channel area, you will not go far wrong. what a great deal changes overnight, launching into the first part of sunday now, frost free for the most pa rt sunday now, frost free for the most part but a gap in the cloud towards the east may well find that you get temperatures down there close to freezing in one or two spots. sunday, you will see not a great deal of change, perhaps bringing the weather front end towards the north—western quarter of scotland is a bit more of a player and the rain

i5 a bit more of a player and the rain is quite persistent but el5ewhere, cloud, the odd hole, particularly when you get to the eastern side of higher ground, it is that children of the cloud over the higher ground that tends to help to break things up that tends to help to break things upa wee that tends to help to break things up a wee bit. and if you are off to work for the first time after the new year break on monday, well, certainly in western 5pots you have a more persistent band of rain and some pretty strong winds a5 a more persistent band of rain and some pretty strong winds as well acro55 some pretty strong winds as well across these we5tern areas. but for the most part, they are coming in from the south and south—west what will not be a cold start to the new working week by any means at all but as you see there, many northern and we5tern pa rt5 will as you see there, many northern and western parts will have as you see there, many northern and we5tern pa rt5 will have to as you see there, many northern and western parts will have to contend with quite a deal of rain. the further ea5t you other dryer will be. it tends to get a little bit drierfor be. it tends to get a little bit drier for a be. it tends to get a little bit drierfor a time during the course of the night but the next week is very much marked by a succession of low pressures, look at the number of isobars on the chart! and there are only brief lull5 in proceedings in between before the next system rising from the atlantic next week i5 rising from the atlantic next week is marked by some very strong wind,

especially acro55 is marked by some very strong wind, especially across the north of scotland, there will be some rain at time5 scotland, there will be some rain at times but because the wind is coming in from the atlantic for the most part, things for the most part will be on the mild side. there are certainly no signs of a beast from the east. enough from the east. enough certainly no signs of a beast from the east. enough from me. that is good to know, phil. thank you. 18 minutes past six. time now for the film review with james king and ben brown. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is james king. a warm welcome and happy new year. talk us through what we've got. well, we've got scarlettjohansson heading to germany injojo rabbit. matthew mcconaughey goe5 to london in the gentlemen.

and aaron eckhart doesn't really know where he is going in in the line of duty. not to be confused with the tv series! very much not to be confused with the tv series. let's start off. jojo rabbit 5ound5 intriguing — a comedy drama. a ten—year—old hitler youth member who begins to question the ideology of nazism? ye5, taika waititi is the name of the film—maker, who has had a lot of success in the marvel film world and also in low—budget kiwi comedy, like what we do in the shadows. that is also a tv show. ye5, set in the second world war, in germany, aboutjohannes — jojo, of the title, who is so obsessed, such a hero wor5hipper of adolf hitler that he actually imagines him as a friend. so you have taika waititi playing an imaginary adult hitler. shall we take a look at a clip?

yeah, why not? here it is. poorjojo! what's wrong, little man? hi, adolf. want to tell me about that rabbit incident? what was all that about? they wanted me to kill it. i'm sorry, i couldn't. don't worry about it. i couldn't care less! but now they call me a scared rabbit. let them say whatever they want. people used to say a lot of nasty things about me. "oh, this guy's a lunatic." "oh, look at that psycho, he's going to get us all killed." i'm going to let you in on a little secret. the rabbit is no coward. the humble little bunny faces a dangerous world every day, hunting carrots for his family, for his country. my empire will be full of all animals. lions, giraffes, zebras, rhinoceroses, octopuses, rhin—octopus — even the mighty rabbit. rhin—octopusses — even the mighty rabbit. what do you make of it, james? it has had mixed reviews. 0h, oh, really?

it seems like one of those films that people love or hate? mixed reviews. i've read 5—star review5 and one—star reviews. what do you give it? i was more on the 5—star side. it's not so much what it's saying — what it's saying i've seen before — but it's the way it's saying it. showing war through the eyes of a child, through the eyes of someone who doesn't really understand the magnitude of what's going on, doesn't understand the context of what's going on. and that is what gives it its novelty, really. i will tell you who has really liked it — mel brooks. the legendary director has sung this film's prai5e5. there are definitely elements of mel brooks in, certainly, the first half of the film — the broad comedy and farce. it gets more serious as the film goes on. it becomes much more touching, much more like a wes anderson film. but it is one of those comedies where you either go with it or you don't. there isn't really a middle ground. i think that is why there are divisive reviews. quite hard to pull off comedy about nazism ? absolutely, mel brooks has done it in the past. the lead actor who plays

the title character, roman griffin davis, does a wonderfuljob. he is getting a lot of great mentions for this because he is particularly good. the supporting cast as well, sam rockwell, scarlett joha n55on, stephen merchant. let's go on to the gentlemen. guy ritchie, famous for lock, stock and two smoking barrels, snatch and so on. this is back to the gangster underworld. very much going back to that. is it 2020 or 2002, watching this film? guy ritchie going back to his roots. guy ritchie going back to geezer and gangster movies. in fact, the opening scene si matthew mcconaughey going into a london pub and ordering a pint and a pickled egg. it is guy ritchie to the nth degree. the actual plot is about hugh grant's character, a tabloid hack who is trying to blackmail matthew mcconaughey, who is a crime bo55. of course, there is lots of bribery

and corruption along the way. a lot of alpha males in this movie, a lot of swearing. a completely colourful and bonker5 script. it doesn't entirely add up to much, but what i would say is first of all, a lot of energy to it. you expect that with guy ritchie films. secondly, hugh grant is having a whale of a time in this. we know he is not the biggest fan of tabloid journalism. this seems to be him getting a bit of revenge for that. it sounds a bit like peter cook — he has an amazing accent in it. a bit silly, a bit pointless, but not dull. i am not a fan of guy ritchie films but i do love hugh grant, i love matthew mcconaughey. both are brilliant actors. matthew mcconaughey is doing his thing. he's laid—back, cool guy, but he is great at that. the cast makes it. lets go on to in the line of duty, not the line of duty, what did you make of this? it is interesting, this one. it's a thriller starring aaron eckhart, who plays a police officer who accidentally ruins a kidnap operation and is desperate to prove himself by finding the hostage, desperate to make

up for things. when you cast aaron eckhart in a movie, you expect a certain inten5ity because he is a respected actor, but this is more like a straight—to—dvd movie. but there is a very good cha5e 5cene in it, which i think we can look at now. here is the best bit of the film. two at the 44. dramatic music. glass smashes. car alarm beeps. thanks, padre. that is the best bit of the film? laughter. the cha5e scene is about ten minutes

long, quite near the start of the film, and quite impressive. the film starts off and you think "ok, this has a bit of depth to it" but it is what happens after that which is the problem. it never really follows through on the early promise. the director is a man who has made a lot of straight—to—dvd action movies. despite the credibility of actors like aaron eckhart, this does descend on being another one of those average films. it will not take off in the cinemas then? it will be at cinemas, but more a film to watch at home. what is wrong with it, do you think? i think it's just pedestrian. that is the problem. ultimately, it starts off saying something, it starts off quite positively, but cannot follow through on that. that is just a lack of ambition, really. that ultimately i5 the problem for it. you sometimes wonder how these films get off the drawing board! i wonder that all the time. yeah, i wonder that all the time. when they see the script, do they not realise it is a turkey?

ok, let's go on to best 0ut this week. what do you have? very much the opposite of a turkey — little women. came out on boxing day. really pleased to see a lot of people went to see it over the holidays. of course, the classic coming—of—age 5tory. jo march, one of the many march sisters in massachusetts in civil war america. a really fresh take on the story. it's quite difficult to mess up the story because it is a classic but there are a couple of new twi5t5 to this. i like the way it was structured, this film, the way it is told through a lot of flashbacks. it really does flag up the nostalgia these girls have for their childhood and for their adolescent years. also, just some really strong female roles that perhaps were not in the original story, butjo march is a real pioneer in this film, doing what she wants to do, being the person she wants to be at a time when women weren't always allowed to do that. wonderful performances. for me, it's all about florence pugh, the british actor, who had a great year.

yeah. 2019 was a great year for her. she plays amy in this. if you are in a movie with meryl streep and you still steal scenes, that says something. better than meryl streep?! is that what you are saying? exactly, yeah. it isjust is that what you are saying? exactly, yeah. it is just been is that what you are saying? exactly, yeah. it isjust been her birthday, actually. belated happy birthday wishes to florence pugh. i think she walks away with this film. you say a fresh take. a lot of people will say they have seen so many adaptations of little women in film and tv. yeah, absolutely, but what greta has done is taken a classic story but found a new way into it. a new way to tell it, and a new way to highlight things. it is not a movie about feminism, but there is certainly more of a feminist slant to it than perhaps other adaptations. it feels modern and fresh. a film for the #metoo era? to a certain degree, yes. toa to a certain degree. all right. and best dvd? a million little pieces, based on a book from james frey in 2003 about his time in rehab. sam taylor—johnson is the director.

her husband arron taylor—johnson starred in it, both wrote and produced it. very much a passion project for them. so, sam's last film was 50 shades of grey — a big hit movie, but she has suggested it wasn't the greatest time, professionally, for her working on that film. this feels like a reaction to that. this feels like her saying, actually, "i can make really intense, personal character studies" because that is what it is. and aaron taylor—johnson, as someone in rehab with addiction, gives this remarkable warts—and—all performance, it really is bruised and battered throughout. so a tough watch but, because of the performance in it, that's why it is impressive. good have you with us, james king. thank you so much. james king there. that is it that this week. from both of us, thank you watching. goodbye.

hello. this is breakfast with charlie stayt and sally nugent. good morning. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. the us president donald trump has defended his decision to have an iranian military leader

killed in a us air strike. iran has warned that it will avenge the attack, which took place in baghdad yesterday. president trump says qassem soleimani was killed to stop him carrying out attacks on american targets, and claims it has ended a reign of terror. qasem soleimani has been perpetrating acts of terror to destabilise the middle east for the past 20 years. what the united states did past 20 years. what the united states d id yesterday past 20 years. what the united states did yesterday should have been done long ago. a lot of lives would have been saved. just recently qasem soleimani led the brutal repression of protesters in iran, where more than 1000 innocent civilians were tortured and killed by their own government. we took action last night to stop a war. we did not take action to start a war.

australia's prime minister scott morrison says he'll deploy 3,000 army reserve troops to help tackle raging bush fires across the country, as the death toll continues to rise. two people have died overnight on kangaroo island, near adelaide, bringing the death toll across the country to 23. there are fears that high winds and soaring temperatures could push fires into heavily populated areas this weekend. police in london have launched a murder investigation after a man was stabbed to death. the victim, who was in his thirties, was attacked in the finsbury park area of north london last night. people at the scene said he had been delivering food on his moped. no—one has been arrested. two more labour mp5 havejoined the contest to succeed jeremy corbyn as party leader. wigan mp lisa nandy has promised to win back the trust of voters in former labour heartlands, and the birmingham yardley mp jess phillips says the party needs "brave and bold leadership". emily thornberry and clive lewis have already announced their intention to stand.

the climate change campaigner greta thunberg has changed her name to "sharon" on twitter, in honour of a celebrity game show contestant who appeared to have no idea who she was. the casualty actress amanda henderson was appearing on celebrity mastermind when she was asked to name the famous activist. take a look at this. the 2019 book entitled no—one is too small to make a difference is a collection of speeches by a swedish climate change activist, what's her name? sharon. greta thunberg. that clip has been seen 5 million times online. the video soon made its way back to greta thunberg herself, and yesterday she changed her name on twitter. she doesn't miss a trick. very funny on twitter.

gavin has all the morning sport for us. gavin has all the morning sport for us. they failed to take advantage of good conditions for batting england. they don't think it is as bad as people are saying. it could be worse, today am an eternal optimist. fingers crossed they can politico for the second day. —— pull it together. play resumes at 8:30. and it looks as though england will be relying on their bowlers again, after another dismal batting display in cape town. they finished day one of the second test on 262 for nine. here's our sports correspondent, joe wilson. cape town's newlands ground is appreciated fully from a distance. might be the best view in world cricket. zak crawley, 21 years young, was just trying to watch the ball and stay cool. edged and gone. he opened england's batting — not easy. edged and gone. crawley played because rory burns

had hurt himself playing football. south africa don't need extra help. and england's training session football games are now banned. their batting here was stop—stop, or start—stop. dom sibley gone for 34. so was captain joe so was captainjoe root. and also joe denly. bowled him! still, step forward , joe denly. bowled him! still, step forward, ben stokes. these are the reasons when you realise so many of cape town spectators were england fans. it is a very dryjanuary in that son. stokes was out like this. he saw it, couldn't believe it. england's intermittent innings threatened to fully stop stop that was curran gone. they got to 202 to two thanks mainly to ollie pope, just turned 22. his innings wasn't quite table mountain but it was high enough to give england some hope. 56 not out. now it's a big weekend for football romantics and dreamers. the fa cup third round gets under way today. it's a chance for smaller teams to shine against the big boys and they don't come much bigger than holders manchester city.

that's where league two side port vale are heading this evening. they enjoyed a comfortable win over cheltenham in the last round, but they won't recognise the etihad stadium, because the last time these two sides met was more than 20 years ago. a year later, port vale's most famous fan — robbie williams — had a hit album sing when you're winning, but he's not expecting to this time. they will be able to go up there have a great night, a great day ahead. miracles do happen, but maybe this is expecting a miracle a bit too far. who knows, you know? pep guardiola might put out hisjunior squad. please, pep. and the fa cup not only holds special memories for players, it provides the opportunity to create them too. peterborough midfielder george boyd played in the 2014 fa cup final

for hull when they lost to arsenal. and this lunchtime he's returning to face his former club burnley where he made more than a hundred appearances. it's a reunion he's looking forward to despite the gulf between the premier league team and his league one side. yeah, it would be nice. the kids in the family are all going to come and watch. when the draw was happening there was blackburn and a few others, but it was the one we wanted asafamily others, but it was the one we wanted as a family to watch. three great yea rs. as a family to watch. three great years. probably enjoyed it. it will be nice to see some old faces but i hope to go there and get the win. one man definitely missing out on the magic of the fa cup is harry the tottenham striker tore his hamstring during the defeat at southampton on wednesday. he'll miss the trip to middlesbrough tomorrow and will face at least four weeks out. kane tweeted "head up. tough times don't last, tough people do". and there is of course full coverage of the fa cup across the bbc sport website. sale sharks scored six tries in their win over harlequins in rugby union's premiership — and one of them was really u nfortu nate. sam james took advantage of a hamstring injury to quins' tom lawday, as he tried to block him at the line. it was a feisty game,

with three players sin binned, and sale took it by 48 points to 10 — that bonus point win taking them up to third in the table. in the pro14, ireland winger jacob stockdale scored his first club try for a year, as ulster continued their unbeaten run at home this season. they picked up a bonus point 38—17 win over munster in belfast. and three penalties from leigh halfpenny helped scarlets to go top of conference b — they only scored one try, through gareth davies, but it was the turning point in their 16—14 win at cardiff. yesterday, we told you how australia's nick kyrgios said he was donating around £100 for every ace he hits this month, to the relief fund for victims of the bushfires in his country. well, he hit 20 in his atp cup match in brisbane, as he beatjan—lennard struff, so that's over £2,000 already — and he was understandably emotional afterwards.

i don't really care about the praise too much amino, ijust think we have the ability and the platform to do something like that and obviously my hometown is canberra. we have the most toxic air in the world right now. it's just sad. most toxic air in the world right now. it'sjust sad. it'sjust most toxic air in the world right now. it's just sad. it's just tough. visibly emotional they are. there area visibly emotional they are. there are a couple of other players from australia donating to that relief fund. when you see the pictures it is incredible, how it has just affected the country. we are going to stay on that theme. australians are bracing themselves for another difficult and dangerous weekend as soaring temperatures and high winds cause bush fires to burn out of control. one of the worst affected areas is new south wales, where a week—long state of emergency has been declared. jules vitoria is a former british army officer who moved there 11 years ago — and he's now among the thousands of volunteer firefighters on the ground.

we can talk tojules now who joins us from his fire engine, near the city of goulburn near canberra. jules, i know you would you to finish your shift, but you have just been called out. can you explain to us been called out. can you explain to us what is happening and where you are heading now. yeah, we were on standby all day and then at about four o'clock this afternoon we got the call to head down towards canberra, where the fires have picked up as the southerly wind has come through. so it's about a 160 kilometre response. and once we get there we will be told which of the fires we will actually be moving to. can you describe to us some of the situations that you have come into contact with that you have been seeing while you are there. it's a bit a verb —— it's a bit of a mixed bag. just before christmas i was up in the blue mountains when that went up. and that's where i think had hit

the news around the world with the 60 metre flame heights. so that was pretty challenging. 0ver christmas, thankfully, the weather called down a little bit so we were able to get in and put some backbones into try to contain the fires, but heating up again this week things are getting dangerous again. and when you speak to your colleagues about what's going on there, how is everybody managing? we know as first responders emergency services are under incredible stress and strain. yeah, look, it's a strain for everyone. you know, with our families, they don't hear from everyone. you know, with our families, they don't hearfrom us for sort of 12—18 hours while we are out. and then for the guys, we are all volunteers, for the guys who work themselves, it is difficult, they are losing out on work. for most of my work for a company that is very supportive and so long as

they can they will let us go and get out and support the community —— for myself. while you are there, can you show me around the vehicle and maybe introduce us to the team you are with? absolutely. driving here is jason. we have troy, will, and justin in the back. justin is another plumbing. there are a few of us another plumbing. there are a few of us in the brigade. this is a general look around with all the gear. all the trucks are looking a little bit weatherbeaten now after we have been fighting fires for the best part of two months now. jules, we found you because your brother rupert actually got into and said we should try to track you down and talk to you and explain to us your the work you're there. he, your sister, explain to us your the work you're there. he, yoursister, your explain to us your the work you're there. he, your sister, your nieces, and if you have sent a message. just

listen to this. hi, jules, we have been watching the incredible and frightening footage of all the fires from australia and we know what an amazing job you and all the other volunteer firemen are doing out there to keep everyone safe. we want to say how incredibly proud we are of you and please stay safe and we will see you soon. stay safe uncle julian! that's great. that was fantastic. how much support have you been getting from home?‘ fantastic. how much support have you been getting from home? a lot. a lot. i think obviously wife and two teenage daughters, they are very supportive, but i think from back home in the uk, family and my father, they worried, because they see what's on the news, so keep them posted, but they are very supportive of what we are doing and they understand how important it is for us understand how important it is for us to be doing this to look after

the communities around new south wales. jules, it is fantastic to talk to you, stay safe and the very best of luck with whatever you are going to have to face today. that is jules vittoria who is on his way to help people as a volunteer firefighter. they have been deployed. they have a journey, they get to near canberra and then they work out what they will be doing. full of respect for the work they are doing. 6:43. we have filled with the weather. you will be talking about those conditions in australia throughout the programme today but you will concentrate on the weather here through the weekend now. just to add into that previous piece that mentioned canberra, they have just smashed there all—time temperature record, 42.2 recorded in 1968, 43.6 today. so nearly 1.5 degrees above where they have ever been before. so thatjust puts it into context and why today is such a

desperate day in that south—eastern quarter of australia. closer to home, it is much quieter thanks to the influence of a high pressure. pretty cloudy i have to say and mainly dry, i say mainly because you will see why in the second but that is the high pressure doing its stuff took two—thirds of the british isles. the weather front isn't1 million miles away, running up the western flank, increasing the cloud into the north—western quarter of scotland. rain on and off through the day here pretty much. for the shetland isles, sunshine this morning but it will be lost by three pm and the best of the sunshine, such as it is, probably to the eastern side of high ground, the eastern side of high ground, the eastern side of the pennines and welsh hills and part across these western areas in the odd spot of rain on the breeze and temperatures in the range of 7—10. but is because the air is very much coming in from a relatively mild source at the moment from the atlantic. not a great deal changes overnight, we still have the weather front waving away across the north—western quarter of scotland. if the cloud breaks, remember, it is early

january, it will be a cool night across eastern spots, one, two, three degrees or so to start sunday, but on sunday, a rerun of saturday, if the truth be known, essentially an western later self — south—westerly flow with a lot of cloud across a good part of the british isles and at its thickest in the north—western quarter, close by to the weather front. but it is a relatively mild flow at this stage, 8- 12 relatively mild flow at this stage, 8— 12 degrees or so. into the start of next week, not a great deal changes, the flow is still coming at us changes, the flow is still coming at us from the atlantic but what else is coming at us from the atlantic, and you will not miss it across western scotland and northern ireland to start your new working week, is a weather front, ireland to start your new working week, is a weatherfront, quite ireland to start your new working week, is a weather front, quite a bit of rain falling from this beast and using a trails down into the south—west of england, a dry day during daylight hours across the east of east anglia, east midlands, yorkshire perhaps, going to the south—east of england, and then things these offer a time during the course of the evening and overnight, and between that system and the next

system running in from the atlantic, it comes on monday night into tuesday i want you to notice that we have a lot of isobars in the weather forecast tuesday, it looks to be particularly windy, especially so across the northern half of scotland where some of the gusts of wind could be put towards 75 or possibly 80 miles an hour we think at the moment. that is some way off and we will keep you updated. next week, gaels, rain at times but on the mild side because the air is from the atlantic. see you later. —— gales. it is 40 six minutes past six. —— 46. time now for click. this week the team look at the top tech of the past year. hello, welcome, and a very happy new year to you.

gosh, 2020 always sounded like the future, didn't it?! now that it's here, i guess it's not. we are going to get stuck into the new year next week but first, we're going to take you on a trip back through 2019. it was the year that we celebrated our 1000th show with an interactive episode online, where you could choose your own path through. imagine if everything that you watched was interactive, and if you could change your experiences depending on your mood, desires, or even how much time you had. if you go online to the address that is on—screen now, you will find a special version of this programme that is interactive. you get to choose which tech stories you hear about and in how much detail. as you watch, you will be given options to dive deeper or to look at things from a different perspective or maybe to skip on entirely.

i tried out nasa's next moon buggy. by the way, we are on a slight incline right now. laughs. and we visited taiwan to see how green technology was helping to clean up the environment. i think 2019 was a year when many of us regarded technology with a healthy degree of scepticism. instead of just openly welcoming tech advances, we worried about data privacy, about the management of social media sites, and about online security. it was a year when the police around the world stepped up their use of facial recognition technology and while, yes, it could help track down criminals, as the police here in the uk discovered, big brother is not everyone's cup of tea. police cameras in an east london street. everyone gets scanned. if you refuse, here's what can happen. if i want to cover me face, i'll cover me face! don't push me!

this man didn't want to be caught by the police cameras so he covered his face. police stopped him, photographed him anyway, an argument followed. how would you like it if you walked down the street and someone grabbed you? crosstalk. what's your suspicion? the fact that he's walked past clearly marked... i would do the same! it gives us grounds to stop him and verify... no, it doesn't! the police said this was disorderly behaviour, so they gave him a fine. the chap told me down the road, he said they've got facial recognition. so i walk past like that — it's a cold day as well. as asoon as i've done that, the police officers asked me to come to them. so got my back up, i said to him, (bleep) off, basically. i don't want my face shown on anything. if i want to cover my face, i will cover my face. it's not for them to tell me to not cover my face. got a now £90 fine — there you go, look at that!

thanks, lads! £90! well done! he was caught up in the last of ten trials carried out by the metropolitan police. the met have had successes — there were three arrests from facial recognition on this test day alone — but the trials have proved controversial. 0pponents claim they are taking place in a legal vacuum. there is nothing in uk law that has the words ‘facial recognition'. there is no legal basis for the police to be using facial recognition. there are no legal limitations on how they can use it, no policy, no regulation. it's a free for all. we are reviewing all capabilities in terms of live facial recognition. and absolutely, the technology is there for body—worn or smaller devices to be fitted with facial recognition technology as is cctv, so absolutely, we will look at that. but again, the right safeguards and the right reviews and learning has to be put around that. now, what is your top technology of 2019? well, the one that we think really

came of age this year, really started to take off, was electric cars. for the first time, if you were thinking of getting a new car, you probably at least considered getting an all—electric one. so we did a whole show on them. and to prove how quick they can go, we raced one against a lambo. now, both cars are in their fastest set—ups and whatever happens today, we recommend you don't try this at home. we have several safety measures in operation, first of all, johnny is a professional racing instructor here at drift limits. he does this day in, day out to scare the living daylights out of members of the public. in the passenger seat will be mark, ensuring fair play and probably screaming his head off. and who can we get to give one of the finest sports cars a run for its money in a tesla? it's only top gear's the stig! oh, i'm sorry, the stig wasn't available, so i'm standing in. is that 0k? it's only click‘s lara lewington!

drivers, start your engines! revs engine. relaxing music plays. ready... i'm the passenger here. myjob is really simple, ijust have to observe and report! 0h! i did brake a bit early but i have so clearly won. i'm no expert but that was no contest. wow! and i can tell you that lara hasn't stopped bragging about that race since. now, 2019 was the year when many more manufacturersjoined

the electric party. better infrastructure, decent driving ranges and guarantees on battery life all added to the mood music. and so, dan simmons went to the frankfurt motor show to catch the electric buzz. electric may only represent less than 3% of all new car sales last year, but vw have taken a close look at them and reckon it's the future. well, it's obviously not real. these cool designs actually for the future, maybe. each car manufacturer brings out some concept ideas. interestingly on the volkswagen stand, they were all electric. the real car they were launching was the id3 — a sort of electric golf. with a 205—340 mile range depending on the exact model, with prices starting from a competitive 30,000 euros. and a first from vw — they will guarantee the battery

for eight years, meaning that if it loses more than a quarter of its full charge when new, they will replace it. audi hasn't done much in the way of electric for the past ten years either, although now they have this. sorry, that's another concept car. now, they have this. they have started with the popular style family suv, but at more than £70,000, can many families afford it? surely, some things will never lose the roar of a combustion engine. now, when land rover decide to make the defender electric, well, then you know there is a trend going on. it also updates its own software over the air. and then, there were the sports cars. the taycan is porsche's first all—electric car and it shifts, 0—62 in 3.2 seconds,

with a range of up to 279 miles and a guarantee on that battery. ok, it's £115,000, but that's a 12k saving on its petrol performance equivalent, the 9/11 actual turbo. good value, maybe, but i have a feeling that it's that vw that will turn out to be super competitive is an entry model for most. that was dan playing with the everyday and the not—so—everyday evs. last autumn, marc cieslak was invited to new mexico in the states to see the world's first commercial spaceport. fire! it's a little after 7am and i'm

heading into the desert in new mexico, about 20 miles past a place called truth or consequences. hi there. thank you very much. welcome to spaceport. thank you! the only way that you can get to space today is with the russians, and they're currently charging nasa around $80 million per ticket. spaceport america is the new home of virgin galactic — the company founded by billionaire sir richard branson to take paying customers on 90—minute flights to the edge of space. the spaceport‘s exterior is the product of british architects foster & partners. eventually, five spaceships and two carrier aircraft will reside in the hangar. passengers will also receive three days' training here before blasting off into the upper atmosphere.

and spaceship from base, you are go for l—10 on top. it's also home to mission control, where all flight operations are monitored from. and this is the very first time a tv crew has been allowed to film inside this room. winds are holding 160 at ten knots and 360... when do you think virgin galactic is going to be putting paying customers up into space? when is the date — when's that going to happen? right now, according to our current projections, we think that we can start commercial operations next year. that is all we have time for for the shortcut of click this week. for more of the big themes and big moments from click 2019, check out the full version which is up on iplayer right now. who knows what 2020 will bring! well, to try and find out,

next week, we will be at the world's largest expo, ces in las vegas, and we would love you to be there too. hold on tight, this ride does not stop! see you there.

good morning. welcome to breakfast with sally nugent and charlie stayt. 0ur headlines today: president trump defends the us airstrike that killed iran's top military commander, saying it was done to prevent further attacks on americans. we took action last night to stop a war. we did not take action to start a war.

thousands of extra troops are called up in australia to tackle the raging bush fires, as country's prime minister warns of difficult days ahead. two more labour mp5, lisa nandy and jess phillips, join the race to be the party's next leader. in sport, england's batsmen flounder again. another dismal display leaves them on the back foot going into day two of the second test against south africa. the story of a blunder on mastermind and why greta thunberg changed her name on twitter to sharon as a result. hello. a very good morning to you. throughout the course of the morning we will keep you up—to—date with the weather situation across the fire affected areas in australia. closer to home, quite a chilly start to the weekend. for some it is a cloudy, breezy sort of day. quite a bit of dry weather around. it is not a write off by any means at all. some northern and western areas will see a little bit of rain.

i will have all the details for you in just a few minutes. good morning. it's saturday the 4th of january. our top story: the us president donald trump has defended his decision to have an iranian military leader killed in a us air strike. he says qassem soleimani was killed to stop him carrying out attacks on american targets, and claims it has ended a reign of terror. iran has warned that it will avenge the attack, as david willis reports. american officials say the airstrike that killed qasem soleimani was carried out in self defence. they say the man who's been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of americans in the middle east over the years was plotting a major attack on us diplomats and military personnel. at a rally last night in florida, president trump said that threat had now been lifted. qasem soleimani has been killed and his bloody rampage is now forever gone.

he was plotting attacks against americans, but now we've ensured that his atrocities have been stopped for good. they are stopped for good. iran has vowed revenge. and amid heightened tensions the us is sending reinforcements to the region, 3,750 troops so far, and warning its citizens stationed in iraq to get out as soon as they can. qasem soleimani was one of america's deadliest enemies. but the us has yet to release intelligence information supporting its claim that he was planning a major attack. administration officials insist, however, that hundreds of americans could have died. neither the us nor iran favours outright war, but the trump administration's claim that taking out one of iran's most powerful officials will prevent further bloodshed may soon be put to the test. david willis, bbc news, los angeles.

we can speak now to our middle east correspondent lina sinjab, who is in beirut. lina, what on earth can we expect to happen next? well, everything is expected from iran. the anger is hugein expected from iran. the anger is huge in the country. they lost a man they consider the most important after the ayatollah, the supreme leader. they consider him the man who shaped their policy, who ruled the military, who influenced their presence in the region and shape cities across the region. so today isa cities across the region. so today is a big day of mourning both in iraq and iran. and the reason it's on alert is because iran has vowed to ta ke on alert is because iran has vowed to take revenge on the revenge is going to hit american interest, but

also american allies' interests that could be in the region or anywhere else that could hit them hard. but they will definitely respond. the time and the way is unknown. lina sinjab, thank you very much indeed. and in just a few minutes we'll be hearing how people in tehran have responded to the attack. australia's prime minister scott morrison says he'll deploy 3,000 army reserve troops to help tackle raging bush fires across the country, as the death toll continues to rise. officials are warning that high winds and soaring temperatures could push fires into heavily populated areas this weekend. 0ur correspondent phil mercerjoins us now from nowra in new south wales. just looking at the landscape around you and the air that surrounds you there as well gives us a sense of what has been happening. it's a pretty grim. the fire that is burning to the west of nowra is a

real monster and today has been very hot. the winds have been so changeable. we are on nowra hill and since we have been here in the last few hours sometimes it comes from the north, then it comes from the west, then it moves around to the east. it is this changeability of the wind that is a real menace for firefighters. across the day there have been a dozen emergency fire warning is here in new south wales. asimilar number warning is here in new south wales. a similar number in the state of victoria. serious fires to in south australia. 0n kangaroo island in south australia two people have died and that brings to 23 the number of people who have died in this fire crisis since september. so 1500 houses have also been lost. and we had in the last couple of hours from the prime minister. he is bringing 3000 army reserve troops into help with the firefighting efforts, on top of that a big navy vessel, another navy ship is coming in,

along with more army helicopters and surveillance aircraft. so in many ways this does feel like a country ona ways this does feel like a country on a warfooting ways this does feel like a country on a war footing and here we have the military coming in in even greater numbers. in the next couple of hours, it is six o'clock in the evening here in eastern australia, the danger is expected to intensify because those wins are expected to become far more capricious and far more dangerous. and really spare a thought for people to the south of here in communities that are cut off because the roads are too dangerous to travel. so australia's day of danger still has more time to run. for the moment, thank you. police in london have launched a murder investigation after a man was stabbed to death. the victim, who was in his thirties, was attacked in the finsbury park area of north london last night. people at the scene said he had been delivering food on his moped. no—one has been arrested. the labour mp5 lisa nandy and jess phillips have bothjoined the contest to succeed jeremy corbyn as party leader. they're promising to win back the trust of voters in former labour heartlands.

let's get more from our political correspondentjohn 0wen. what else are these new contenders offering? as you say, two more fairly high profile figures have confirmed they will be entering the race to succeed jeremy corbyn as labour leader. they are weakened mp lisa nandy and the birmingham mpjess are weakened mp lisa nandy and the birmingham mp jess phillips. are weakened mp lisa nandy and the birmingham mpjess phillips. they join the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry and clive lewis as the four candidates who have now formally declared that they will be standing. ithink formally declared that they will be standing. i think from lisa nandy we can expect to see an emphasis on the so—called labour heartlands, those parts of the country, particularly in the north of england where labour performed unexpectedly badly at the recent general election, she will make a case of somebody representing one of those community she will be especially well—placed to make labour's case to voters there. i think forjess phillips, she is a

long—standing critic of jeremy corbyn, so she will be appealing to those members of the labour party who want to see a clean break from the current leadership. she will be arguing that as an independent minded mp she can be the fresh blood that labour now needs to rebuild. of course the slightly strange thing about this konta so far is that the two front runners, the shadow brexit secretary keir starmer and shadow business secretary, rebecca long—bailey, have yet to formally declare that they will be standing. but we do expect them to both declare in the next couple of days. thank you very much indeed. john 0wen, our political correspondence. the climate change campaigner greta thunberg has changed her name to "sharon" on twitter, in honour of a celebrity game show contestant who appeared to have no idea who she was. the casualty actress amanda henderson was appearing on celebrity mastermind when she was asked to name the famous activist. take a look at this. the 2019 book entitled no—one is too small to make a difference is a collection of speeches by a swedish climate change activist, what's her name? sharon?

greta thunberg. it is agony to see it. but it is so easyin it is agony to see it. but it is so easy in the moment, a name to slip. of course. a clip of her answer has been viewed more than five million times online. the video soon made its way back to greta thunberg herself, and yesterday she changed her name on twitter. a portrait of the queen and her three heirs to the throne has been released to mark the start of the new decade. the photograph, which was taken the week before christmas, shows the prince of wales, the duke of cambridge and prince george standing alongside her majesty at buckingham palace. it is the second official portrait of the four generations of royals together. you are watching breakfast on bbc news. president donald trump has said the us killed iran's top military commander qasem soleimani "to stop a war, not to start one." but there's no doubt that the attack

has escalated tensions in the middle east. let's get a view from iran now. professor seyed mohammad marandi joins us from the capital, tehran. a very good morning to you. thank you for your time this morning, professor, speaking to us from tehran. can you give us a sense of the scale of the response in tehran to this assassination? well, there's a great deal of anger, obviously, because this was an unprovoked act of war against because this was an unprovoked act of waragainst iran, because this was an unprovoked act of war against iran, because he was a high—ranking general. it's as if a british high—ranking general would be assassinated by a foreign regime. you can imagine the response in the uk. it also this was an act of war against the people of iraq stop because a very high ranking iraqi military official was also murdered during the attack yesterday, the deputy had of the popular mobilisation force, which

spearheaded the operations to defeat isis in iraq. in the words of president trump, who spoke yesterday evening, he said "we took action to stop a war. " trump is trump and he is not known to be an honest person. in fact the secretary of state, mike pompeo, just a few months ago famously said when we were at the cia we had horses to cheat, to lie, and to steal, he said it laughing in front of an audience. the united states la id front of an audience. the united states laid its way into a rock and destroyed the country by claiming that iraq was producing wap weapons of mass destruction as well as forging an alliance with 05ama bin laden, both dishonest claims. as a result they killed over! million iraqis and we have what we have today as a result. iran's supreme

leader has vowed revenge. what could that mean? this was an act of war. and iranian military officials were murdered. as well as iraqis. americans have been assassinated iraqi combatants fighting isis repeatedly. it is ironic that the people fighting isis, their life is their countries been questioned and used as a justification to murder them. so the americans a couple of days ago murdered 30 iraqi soldiers who were fighting on the syrian iraq board against isis. and of course the reason was because they were opposed to us policy in a rock and the us occupation, but also because the us occupation, but also because the americans wanted to weakened the iraqi government and the syrian government alongside the border so isis could regain a foothold there in order to prevent syria from doing

trade with iran. in other words in their attempts to strangle syria the americans were trying to weaken the iraqi army positions in that area. and the reality is that these are the sort of things that we don't here in the western media and especially the us media, but in our region people see the us behaviour and how they form people with impunity, they act as judge, jury, and executioner, and when the iraqi prime minister tells the americans not to do it they ignore him when he asks for their intelligence proving that these operations need to be carried out, they refused to give him intelligence, obviously, because there is no intelligence. so qasem soleimani, president trump said he was plotting attacks against americans, he is deemed to be held responsible for many, many deaths in the past and president trump saying

he has been stopped for good. what will change, do you think, as a result of qasem soleimani not being in his role anymore? well, nothing is going to change. iran's policy will be the same. qasem soleimani actually saved iraq from isis when isis invaded iran. the country was about to collapse. and general soleimani wen—tang took charge of the defence of that began training iraqi troops and they, alongside iranian troops, pushed back isis. and the reason why isis rose in the first place was because of the american, saudi, turkish, amorosity lies to support extremism in syria. if your view was read the us defence intelligence agency document of 2012 and admissions of general michael flynn on an aljazeera programme it becomes clear that from early on in

the fighting in syria that extremists had the upper hand, the americans knew it, and they supported their allies in the region in supporting these extremist... professor, thank you very much for your time this morning. that is our time. that is professor seyed mohammad marandi, speaking to us from the university of tehran. giving us a perspective from iran itself. here's phil with a look at this morning's weather. i know you have been looking at much more detail on what is happening in australia at the moment. sadly it has been a busy morning trying to keep up to date how things have developed on what always was going to bea developed on what always was going to be a super saturday for all the wrong reasons because a number of elements have come together media logically to make this a devastating date —— media logically. i want to show you the extent of those target read, how hot is it? giving you some of the recent numbers, 47 is only

just to the western side of sydney andi just to the western side of sydney and i have to tell you that a little bit further south down in canberra, they have just smashed their all—time computer record, it was 42.2 and they have gone up to 43.6dc today. it is the extent of the heat on saturday but notice where those darker colours and i will show you now sunday. they become a little bit more confined, further north up towards queensland where they have had a crushing drought for years and yea rs. had a crushing drought for years and years. this is not a new phenomenon by any means across australia. those call the colour is beginning to seep into the south. the reason for that is this whether front is bringing cloud, also bringing some rain, nowhere near enough, maybe one inch but that is not enough, what it also introduces is something called the southerly change and that will put a dent in those temperatures, albeit for the next three or four days and it gets hotter midweek and then the forthcoming week. here, no worries

about heat. a fairly cool start to the day and that is because the pressure feel that we developed across the british isles yesterday is the dominant force at the moment because the winds has come with a wee bit of a westerly if not a fraction north of west but with time, those winds or background into the south—west again and over the course of the weekend will push those temperatures up by degree or too. a lot of cloud on those moisture laden air coming in from the atlantic and the cloud at its thicket across the north and north—west of scotland —— at its thickest. it is not bad for the time of year. the day is sitting there, brightness in really short supply both by day and getting on into the night, very few holes in the cloud that will stick around for any length of time. it is the time of year that if they do, the temperatures dribble away and you get down to one, two, three. you see that in short supply as we start the new day on sunday. maybe three on the sandy soils of east anglia and here, we go again. the air coming in on the south and south—westerly

breeze across all parts of the british isles, no disguising the fa ct british isles, no disguising the fact the rainjust british isles, no disguising the fact the rain just keeps on coming north of the great glen. elsewhere, maybe the odd hole in the cloud to live spirits with a wee bit of sunshine but do you see what i mean? a degree or two for some of those temperatures getting into double figures for some areas. a quick snapshot of next week, get used to this, a lot of isobars and occasionally weather front is coming through, just the thought of things that the australians could do with by the way of a lot of rain because monday will be a wet one across northern and western parts and then into sort of tuesday and maybe a fraction of wednesday, really strong winds, making some headlines for some, especially across the northern half of britain, rain at times but all of the weather is coming from the atlantic so we will be, for this time of year, on the mild side. after you too. thank you, phil. if you're planning to forego your usual bacon bap or sausage sandwich this morning, or even the milk in your tea, then you're not alone. more than a million people in the uk are expected to go vegan this month.

one of them is nick steier, who joins us now along with the dietician ursula philpot and jane land, who co—founded the campaign group veganuary. so, nick, starting with you. you have just started. just started. january the first, you have gone vegan. how is it going? it has been tough! talk me through, i am fascinated, talk me through day one. day one, i was in amsterdam, flying back, and in the evening i was at the airport and i did not have a lot of time to prepare, ijust did it, andi of time to prepare, ijust did it, and i was thinking i am a vegan and i will, what can i eat, and i'm looking at pizzas, cheese, all of the sandwiches had meat, cannot have that, so i had a smoothie and i got to the uk, went to gregg's and got a vegan sausage roll and a salad and yeah, it is not as easy as you think, you know? it doesn't sound

easy at all. and these things are actually much harder to do when you are travelling? you have to be quite organised, i imagine, to be participating in veganuary? you answer this one. as a beacon for seven years i find it a lot easier to do now. —— a vegan. it is easier than ever to become vegan now in the uk and if you are travelling there is an app called happy cow and you put in your postcode and it will tell you all of the vegan eater is nearby, whether they are vegan or vegetarian or... for those that do not know, took us through the basic principles of a vegan diet. not know, took us through the basic principles of a vegan dietm not know, took us through the basic principles of a vegan diet. it is no animal products, so there is no dairy, there is no eggs and no meat, no nothing. and so in practice, we have a few items we have brought in here so do you want to talk us through it we have? here we have some vegan through it we have? here we have some vegan meat substitutes, we have burgers and sausages and we have got vegan cheese and they have no meat

or dairy. what is vegan cheese? it is made with coconut or vegetable oil as the base of it with some starch, it is not going to have the same consistency of cheese and it doesn't taste like cheese, it is a cheese substitute, but the burgers and sausages would be made with pea protein or soy protein so they are much more, more of what you would expect from a vegetarian— type burger. you are a dietician so what have we learned so far about the vegan diet? its benefits and how it can compare with what we may normally eat? we know generally that there is evidence that vegan diets can have some health benefits, generally lower cholesterol, generally lower cholesterol, generally lower cholesterol, generally lower body weight, generally lower body weight, generally sort of lower risk of heart disease but you do have to ta ke heart disease but you do have to take care and just doing it for one month you are not going to run into problems, if you eat even a really poor diet but longer than that, it has to be fairly well—planned. we do have, there are gaps in the diet

with things like iron, b12, vitamin d. with things like iron, b12, vitamin d, omega three fats. some well— planned vegan diet d, omega three fats. some well—planned vegan diet is great for health. but you do have to put some thinking into it and have to be pretty organised so that would be the thing that i would urge people to think about if you are doing it longer than one month but it is a great way to start on a sort of more plant —based diet. great way to start on a sort of more plant -based diet. next, not made you decide to do it? —— nick, what made you? we run a lot of programmes in asia and i was in thailand, speaking to different advocates and a lot of them were vegan and it sparked the initial curiosity and how much they were enjoying it and it kind of gauged my interest and before christmas i watched game changers on netflix and i watched it andi changers on netflix and i watched it and i thought, january, new decade, i will try something different and i'm not doing rightjanuary so i will do vegan january and i'm not doing rightjanuary so i will do veganjanuary and then i found out about veganuary so i stumbled into it by accident and i realised a lot of people were doing

it. how long have you been vegan for now? eight years this year. eight yea rs, now? eight years this year. eight years, so now? eight years this year. eight years, so you know how to navigate this path. quite a lot of people i think are adopting some veganism so they may be changing their diet to some extent. do you see that anecdotally more and more? we do, and people who sign up on our website, people who are going straight from omnivore to vegan, maybe transitioning and doing vegetarian first, we are making it as easy as possible. we have a website so you sign up, nick has too, and you get your vegan starter kit so we tell you how to read labels and prepare your shopping list for you, making it as easy as possible for people to make those next steps. one thing i am concerned about with this is encouraging or talking about a restrictive diet in a way, are there people who may be vulnerable to restricting their eating too much and how do you

manage that? absolutely. we know that there are, the population, between one and 4% of the population stay vegan after doing something like veganuary but in younger females, we have to take care around disordered eating and eating disorders in particular, you know, that we have a lot of evidence that people who have eating disorders often start with a restriction like vegetarian and then become vegan and restrict even further so there is a word of caution here that if you are somebody who has some vulnerabilities towards disordered eating it is possibly not for you and you have to do it more carefully and you have to do it more carefully and slowly. it is early days, nick, what do you think you may stick with it longer than one month? the thought has crossed my mind, still figuring it out, and the funny thing is when i first decided to do it i was with two friends and i said i am doing vegan january and was with two friends and i said i am doing veganjanuary and ijust watched this documentary and they we re watched this documentary and they were like let's do it together so we

did it together as a group and we inspire each other. that makes it easier. it does, we have a facebook group as well where any questions you have got, you have loads of support in there for people to answer them support in there for people to answerthem and we support in there for people to answer them and we do know the majority, about half the disciplines tend to stay with it. interesting. lovely to see you all this morning and good luck. it is 25 minutes past seven. calls for a review of celibacy laws to allow child and the pa rents to celibacy laws to allow child and the parents to be recognised as such, the time of the birth. currently pa rents the time of the birth. currently parents have to apply to the courts for a child to be legally recognised as their own which often does not happen. bbc scotland has this report. really cute. for laura and stephen, penelope is their medical baby. ten years ago, laura was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia. she manages her illness with daily chemotherapy tablets but knew she always wanted a family. in

2016, she began trying for her own child. when i was first diagnosed andi child. when i was first diagnosed and i went to hospital, had a list of questions i wanted to ask, you know, am i going to die, am i going to lose my hair, will i be able to have children, and the cancer increased and increased quite rapidly and wonder i went to hospital and she said to me if you did get pregnant, and the cancer continued to increase it could get to five or six months into the pregnancy and we would have to decide whether we save your life or save the baby's. and that was the most devastating blow. ifelt really, really useless and that cancer had not only taken a kind of chunk of my life, because obviously it plays on your mind that what is my life expectancy going to be, but that it had played with my chance of having a family. and, yeah, tha nkfully having a family. and, yeah, thankfully there was someone there to help with that. but someone was her sister—in—law, jane. to help with that. but someone was her sister-in-law, jane. i am

blessed to have a family and i know what the feeling is like to have your child and i wanted that my brother and sister—in—law and we would do anything, as we have done, to make it happen for them. i don't see her as my child. i think if i had had issues and have the baby blues all post—natal depression then, as we talked with the counsellor, then maybe surrogacy may not have been a good option for me but i have had no problems before. penelope's special book of her journey. i think we always felt it was important to do so that we could write down everything we were feeling and all of the states we had gone through so that when she is old enough, maybe five years old or so, they would be able to tell her how she came into the world. maybe penelope jayne tessa was born on november 23 after being conceived by ivf on the nhs —— baby. november 23 after being conceived by ivf on the nhs -- baby. penelope is biologically hours so i had to go through ivf and have my eggs

removed, jayne had to in checked herself as well so there were two of us going through that and for me to watch jayne having to go through that and know it is for us as well as really tough to take. we had a lot of ups and downs. it is not easy at all. it did not work the first time, there was a lot of upset and actually, at the point when jayne came to tell us that she was actually pregnant, i think i had given up hope. i really thought it was not going to happen. jayne arrived at our door with a positive pregnancy test and it was just the most incredible moment of my life. in the eyes of the law, jayne is penelope's mum and laura and stephen can apply to change this when she is six weeks old and officially become recognised as a parents. for them all, the long journey to get to hear has been worth it and it means laura has been worth it and it means laura has more reasons than ever to stay positive about her own health. has more reasons than ever to stay positive about her own healthm gives me something to live for, more

than ever now, so i am determined to just carry on and stay as healthy as icanfor just carry on and stay as healthy as i can for her. it is honestly been the most wonderful, wonderful thing, so the most wonderful, wonderful thing, soiam the most wonderful, wonderful thing, so i am eternally grateful for jayne, sorry... but we all love her, so... jayne, sorry... but we all love her, so... you know... she is special. yeah. what a moving story! penelope. gorgeous! sleeping through the whole thing! i think also smiling! to stay with us. the headlines are coming up.

hello. this is breakfast with charlie stayt and sally nugent. good morning. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. the us president donald trump has defended his decision to have an iranian military leader killed in a us air strike. iran has warned that it will avenge the attack, which took place in baghdad yesterday. president trump says qassem soleimani was killed to stop him carrying out attacks on american targets, and claims it has ended a reign of terror. soleimani has been perpetrating acts of terror to destabilise the middle east for the past 20 years. what the united states did yesterday

should have been done long ago. a lot of lives would have been saved. just recently soleimani led the brutal repression of protesters in iran, where more than 1000 innocent civilians were tortured and killed by their own government. we took action last night to stop a war. we did not take action to start a war. australia's prime minister scott morrison says he'll deploy three thousand army reserve troops to help tackle raging bush fires across the country, as the death toll continues to rise. two people have died overnight on kangaroo island, near adelaide, bringing the death toll across the country to 23. there are fears high winds and soaring temperatures could push fires into heavily populated areas this weekend.

police in london have launched a murder investigation after a man was stabbed to death. the victim, who was in his 305, was attacked in the finsbury park area of north london last night. people at the scene said he had been delivering food on his moped. no—one has been arrested. two more labour mp5 havejoined the contest to succeed jeremy corbyn as party leader. wigan mp lisa nandy has promised to win back the trust of voters in former labour heartlands, and the birmingham yardley mp jess phillips says the party needs "brave and bold leadership". emily thornberry and clive lewis have already announced their intention to stand. the celebrity psychic derek acorah has died, according to a statement posted by his wife on social media the 69—year—old was best known for his appearance on the tv show most haunted. his wife, gwen, said he passed away after a brief illness. a portrait of the queen and her three heirs to the throne has been released to mark the start of the new decade. the photograph, which was taken the week before christmas, shows the prince of wales,

the duke of cambridge and prince george standing alongside her majesty at buckingham palace. it is the second official portrait of the four generations of royals together. those are the main stories. gavin has the sport for us now. yes. starting with the cricket. not a great day on the second test in south africa for england. play resumes in less than one hour. they didn't have the most fertile of conditions in terms of their batting performance. they will be wanting to improve with holding for sure. —— bowling. it looks as though england will be relying on their bowlers again, after another dismal batting display in cape town. they finished day one of the second test on 262/9. here's our sports correspondent, joe wilson. cape town's newlands ground is appreciated fully from a distance. might be the best view in world cricket. zak crawley, 21 years young, was just trying to watch the ball and stay cool. he opened england's

batting — not easy. edged and gone. crawley played because rory burns had hurt himself playing football. south africa don't need extra help. and england's training session football games are now banned. their batting here was stop—stop, or start—stop. dom sibley gone for 34. so was captainjoe root. and alsojoe denly. bowled him! still, step forward, ben stokes. good, firm hit. these were the moments when you realise so many of cape town's spectators were england fans. well, it is a very dry january, in that sun. watch what stokes did next, or perhaps don't. out! he saw it but still couldn't believe it. england's intermittent innings threatened to fully stop. that was curran gone. they got to 262—9, thanks mainly to olly pope, just turned 22. his innings wasn't quite table mountain, but it was high enough to give england some hope. 56 not out. joe wilson, bbc news.

now it's a big weekend for football romantics and dreamers. the fa cup third round gets under way today. it's a chance for smaller teams to shine against the big boys and they don't come much bigger than holders manchester city. that's where league two side port vale are heading this evening. they enjoyed a comfortable win over cheltenham in the last round, but they won't recognise the etihad stadium, because the last time these two sides met was more than 20 years ago. a year later, port vale's most famous fan — robbie williams — had a hit album sing when you're winning, but he's not expecting to this time. they will be able to go up there have a great night, a great day ahead. miracles do happen, but maybe this is expecting a miracle a bit too far. who knows, you know? pep might put out hisjunior squad. please, pep.

we will see. maybe. and the fa cup not only holds special memories for players, it provides the opportunity to create them too. peterborough midfielder george boyd played in the 2014 fa cup final for hull when they lost to arsenal. and this lunchtime he's returning to face his former club burnley where he made more than a hundred appearances. it's a reunion he's looking forward to despite the gulf between the premier league team and his league one side. yeah, it would be nice. the kids in the family are all going to come and watch. when the draw was happening there was blackburn and a few others, but it was the one we wanted as a family to watch, go back to burnley. three great years. i thoroughly enjoyed it. it will be nice to see some old faces but i hope to go there and get the win. one man definitely missing out on the magic of the fa cup is harry kane. the tottenham striker tore his hamstring during the defeat at southampton on wednesday. he'll miss the trip to middlesbrough tomorrow and will face at least four weeks out. kane tweeted "head up. tough times don't last, tough people do". and there is of course full coverage of the fa cup across the bbc sport website.

sale sharks scored six tries in their win over harlequins in rugby union's premiership — and one of them was really u nfortu nate. sam james took advantage of a hamstring injury to quins' tom lawday, as he tried to block him at the line. it was a feisty game, with three players sin binned, and sale took it by 48 points to 10— that bonus point win taking them up to third in the table. in the pro14, ireland winger jacob stockdale scored his first club try for a year, as ulster continued their unbeaten run at home this season. they picked up a bonus point 38—17 win over munster in belfast. and three penalties from leigh halfpenny helped scarlets to go top of conference b — they only scored one try, through gareth davies, but it was the turning point in their 16—14 win at cardiff. yesterday, we told you how,

australia's nick kyrgios said he was donating around £100 for every ace he hits this month, to the relief fund for victims of the bushfires in his country. well, he hit 20 in his atp cup match in brisbane, as he beatjan—lennard struff, so that's over £2,000 already — and he was understandably emotional afterwards. i don't really care about the praise too much, um, i just think we have the ability and the platform to do something like that and obviously, you know, my hometown's canberra. and we've the most toxic air in the world right now. so it's pretty sad. so, yeah, it'sjust — it's tough. it means a lot to the players. the australian open will no doubt be dominated by talk of the relief fund for the bushfires and the people who have been affected. absolutely. we will see you later on. most children go back to school next week and for some of them that will mean a return to regular square meals, notjust at lunch but also before lessons begin. 280,000 children get a free

breakfast at school every day — and that number is set to rise after the government announced 12 million of extra funding. fiona lamdin reports. lessons may not have started again yet, but seven—year—old sadie loves being back at school at the holiday club. at home it's quite boring, because i have a brother but he doesn't normally play with me. so it's quite boring at home that's why i come to the holiday club. her school in stoke is one of the most deprived areas of the country. last year 10,000 children in stoke benefited from these holiday clubs. they're hoping with this extra government funding they'll be able to triple that number. a lot of families that particularly want free school meals, when you're on a holiday period there's no provision for the free school meal. there is nothing to replace it. and this can make a big hole in the family's budget. and what we do is we provide food not only for when the children come to the sessions, but we also send food home for them

for the families as well. and after the glow in the dark dodgeball everyone's hungry. at home you're not always wondering what are going to feed them and what am i going to do? and some families are struggling. so just knowing that all the children here will have at least one hot meal today is really worthwhile. you sort of plan ahead, financially—wise, for the holidays, so we're quite lucky in that way. but i understand there are families in the community that it would help, you know, massively. the new money could also find this school's breakfast club in term—time. this incredible new extension funding means that we can reach an additional 650 schools so that great schools like glebe can apply too. we want to make sure no child starts their day too hungry to learn. but critics say plenty more needs to be done. fiona lamdin, bbc news. let's hear more from

carmel mcconnell, who you just saw in that film. she's the founder of magic breakfast, one of the charities which provides meals in schools. shejoins us now. we know the benefits, don't we, of getting children to eat something before they have to sit down and try to learn something. how many changes have you seen two children who now have you seen two children who now have a breakfast who maybe didn't have a breakfast who maybe didn't have before? it is an incredibly successful thing. because obviously a hungry child can't concentrate. the most important lessons are taught in the morning. so these teachers are so amazing. you saw that school yesterday, the amount of work that goes in. but these children, it's a range of things. based on what we know from our own experience in schools, teachers tell us that the children are settled and ready to learn, plus they are actually coming into school. there are kids looking for food actually coming into school. there are kids looking forfood on actually coming into school. there are kids looking for food on the way to school. have attendance, punctuality, concentration,

behaviour, the parents have an extra chance to get to work or study and the school is settled. that's the big thing. so a school breakfast is, you have so many benefits for one simple thing. can you talk us through some of the basics. how much value do they have to come into school and what do they get? what is brea kfast? school and what do they get? what is breakfast? it can be arranged. we wa nt to breakfast? it can be arranged. we want to make sure that every single precious child as well knows at the start of the school day. au summit isa start of the school day. au summit is a breakfast club at start with a member of staff there. in lots of schools now with the national school brea kfast schools now with the national school breakfast programme we are putting the food into the classrooms. so the kids come in and it's a soft start, a quarter to nine, they will have a bagel, a bowl of porridge, choice of cereal, some fruit... so there is time set aside at the beginning of the day? exactly. in this schools describe the extra time is a safety valve at the start of the school day to get the children in and get them to get the children in and get them to be eating something and socialising. the emotional and socialising. the emotional and social benefits that come through this are incredible. one of the big

things, the food itself is essential, because we have 1.8 million school—aged children in food insecure homes, so there is a lot of hunger in our schools, and teachers are bringing in food themselves every single day in order to teach. so that's a first thing to sort out. but the government is a connection with the national school breakfast programme so we can with the national school breakfast programme so we can get this porridge, bagels, we have got the fruit and the low sugar cereals, the schools put in the staff and the extra things like the cheese and the eggs, so you want to give the children the very best start. some of them just love a kind of toasted bagel from a brilliant leeds company, and a bit ofjam or honey and a glass of milk. job done. but a lot of the kids haven't had anything since their meal the day before so it is really vital. what happens for these children in school holidays and what more could be done for them? as we say, the government has announced 1120 £8 million for school

brea kfast was announced 1120 £8 million for school breakfast was not working at 650 new schools, an e—mail will come up, —— 11.8 million. the money for the holidays is a good investment from the government. the children we see, the government. the children we see, the teachers tell us, it takes two weeks after the holidays to get the kids to be back where they were, because they are getting their brea kfast because they are getting their breakfast lunch at school. as a country i'm quite optimistic that this is a new era when we will make big domestic reform happen, because we finally got some of the noise of the exit may be settled and carmel mcconnell family action is determined to say let's make it that we have a country where no child is too hungry to learn and every single holiday a child can enjoy themselves because they have a bit of food and classroom support at the start of the day in a safe setting —— magic brea kfast the day in a safe setting —— magic breakfast family action. it is important work. they can vouch for

the fact that something to eat before you start work, not school, helps. a bowl of porridge under here. it helps the mind get into the right place. lovely to see you. you so right place. lovely to see you. you so much for having me on. and in emergency banana i see. that also helps. here's phil with a look at this morning's weather. thank you. very grateful to one of our regular weather watchers was out on early patrol at the esk estuary in south—east devon, the club breaks to well to his south, a lot of cloud over him and many will have a lot of cloud over you this week. something a bit cooler in the mid— part of the week yesterday, transformed us into a fresher feel, you week yesterday, transformed us into a fresherfeel, you have may noticed, by the presence of the sunshine while slowly but surely as the high pressure gradually moves away to the east, the winds will fall back into the south and south—west it will get a little milder with time but it could take a time but on that flow we have got a

lot of cloud under weather front is close by to the north—west of scotla nd close by to the north—west of scotland and temperatures, well, issue for the time being, it could be colder but at best, we will push towards ten or 11 degrees —— ish. sunshine in really short supply, you have a better chance with the brakes further to the south. it will be some gaps in the cloud, they may well pop—up overnight but forecasting them is really tricky, i have to tell you. north—east of scotla nd have to tell you. north—east of scotland and eastern side of the pennines could see some gaps in that is why you will get temperatures down to two or three tonight so i call the start to sunday but here we go again, by this stage south and south—west is well—established across here and the rain to the north of scotland —— cooler start. elsewhere, the odd gap in the cloud if you have got a plan to get out and about during the course of the day, i do not think the weather will get in your way by any means at all. however, that may not be the case as we get on into next week. this is in fa ct we get on into next week. this is in fact building up towards monday. what is also building up is the

number of isobars and also a weather front, chugging its way across northern and western parts of the british isles. wet and windy fair perhaps your return to work again the further south and east to other more it is you will stay drier and brighter. be a fraction cooler and the milder is putting on with association of the front. then a lull in proceedings and it is only that, that is monday night, because tuesdayis that, that is monday night, because tuesday is all about that. you thought there were a lot of isobars on monday but look at tuesday! really windy fare and it is wednesday and it is very windy indeed across northern parts of scotland. potentially on tuesday and wednesday is rupert —— disruptively windy with gales, if not severe gals, and some pushing 75 or 80 miles an hour, and as you have seen, rain at times but with the flow coming in from the atlantic, it should stay relatively mild. i will see you later on. it is a positive, phil. thank you. 47 minutes past

seven. time now for newswatch with samira ahmed. hello and welcome back to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. has bbc news been taking too much holiday over christmas and new year, with fewer and shorter news bulletins, shown later than normal, and more repeated features? and was is it right to fly a presenter to interview the climate activist greta thunberg when she herself shuns air travel because of its impact on the environment? welcome to the first newswatch of 2020 and a happy new year. the traditional celebrations featured widely on bbc news this week — for instance, in the headlines of tuesday's early evening bbc one bulletin. and dazzling displays light up the night skies across the globe to welcome in the new decade.

but is this, in fact, a new decade, as was repeated several times across the bbc this week? a viewer called ami said not, begging: and alan mcintyre reiterated that. that same new year's eve programme contained another error — though this time it was corrected in time for the late bulletin. new year — a new decade and new zealand kicked it off, with auckland the first major capital to welcome 2020.

sue barnard pointed out: on wednesday, when the new year arrived in the uk, there were more fireworks on our screens, this time with helena wilkinson reporting on the crowds by the thames in london. tens of thousands watched from the banks of the river as the capital's skyline burst into colour. in his new year's message, the prime minister, who is on holiday in the caribbean, said, "we can start a new chapter in the history of our country in which we come together and move forward, united, unleashing the enormous potential of the british people." the image used in that graphic caught the attention of lynda from solihull, who wrote:

after a frenetic year forjournalists, there was respite for some over the past couple of weeks with the suspension of most domestic political business and a lighter news agenda. the move away from the westminster bubble prompted a different style of output, which pleased nigel tinkler, writing on wednesday:

there have, of course, been fewer and shorter news programmes on over christmas and new year, and fewer staff on duty at bbc news, as is usual at this time of year. paul hedges objected to this custom, e—mailing: and when bbc one's late news bulletin returned to its full half—hour length this week, it wasn't in its normal slot, appearing at 10:30pm on wednesday, thursday and friday, after the channel's new drama show dracula. the reaction of alex curry:

plugging some of the gaps on the news channel over the past fortnight have been a series of one—off specials and features. some of them were shown several times, including this extended interview by media editor amol rajan with the editor of private eye magazine, ian hislop. how do you come up with a private eye cover like those? well, this was when theresa may, who — do you remember her? she was around at the beginning of the year. she used to be prime minister. anyway, she left and we had to think "how can we pay tribute to mrs may?" so i thought perhaps a blank page would be good, and so we had the theresa may memorial issue — her legacy in full. john grimes was watching the news channel on wednesday and had this response:

do let us know your thoughts on any of what we are covering on this programme, or on any aspect of bbc news. details of how to contact us at the end of the programme. now, for some more of your other concerns this week, and one of the biggest stories over the holiday period has been the bushfires that have been raging across australia. there's been a week—long state of emergency declared in the state of new south wales, where at least seven people have been killed and 400 homes destroyed by the fires. but liz fawcett wanted to hear more about a natural disaster elsewhere in the world. she tweeted:

in addition to those fires in australia, the climate more widely has been featuring strongly of late on bbc news with, for example, michelle hussein interviewing the swedish environmental activist greta thunberg on many bbc outlets on monday. i hope i don't have to be a climate activist any more. i am really looking forward to going back to school and to just be like a normal teenager. but, of course, this isn't a normal situation. and we must all do things that... ..that we may not feel comfortable doing and we need to step out of our comfort zones. that interview took place in greta thunberg's home city of stockholm, and some viewers were unhappy about how michelle hussein had got there. hazel wood asked:

the interview was initiated by radio 4's today programme, of which greta thunberg was guest editor on monday, and in which, as mentioned, she spoke to sir david attenborough via skype as she avoids air travel because of its environmental impact. but michelle hussein did indeed fly to sweden to meet her face—to—face and today's editor sarah sands admitted that that decision had caused some debate and discussion, saying: the decision to invite the teenage activist to guest edit the today programme produced reactions more widely, with chris clode e—mailing:

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good morning, welcome to breakfast with sally nugent... and charlie stayt. our headlines today. president trump defends the us airstrike that killed iran's top military commander, saying it was done to prevent further attacks on americans. we took action last night to stop a war. we did not take action to start a war. thousands of extra troops are called up in australia to tackle the raging bush fires, as the country's prime minister warns of difficult days ahead. two more labour mp5, lisa nandy and jess phillips, join the race to be the party's next leader. a weekend of football for the dreamers, romantics and robbie williams —

it's the fa cup third round. the singer's club port vale take on holders manchester city — but who will get the chance to "sing when they're winning"? miracles do happen, but maybe this is expecting a miracle a bit too far. the story of a blunder on mastermind, and why greta thunberg changed her name on twitter to sharon as a result. hello. a very good morning to you. throughout the course of the morning we will keep you up—to—date with the weather situation across the fire affected areas in australia. closer to home, quite a chilly start to the weekend. for some it is a cloudy, breezy sort of day. quite a bit of dry weather around. it is not a write—off by any means at all. some northern and western areas will see a little bit of rain. i will have all the details for you in just a few minutes. it's saturday the 4th of january. our top story. the us president donald trump has defended his decision to have an iranian military leader

killed in a us air strike. iran has warned that it will avenge the attack, which took place in baghdad yesterday. president trump says qasem soleimani was killed to stop him carrying out attacks on american targets. speaking last night at a rally of his supporters, he claimed it has ended a reign of terror. last night my military... qasem soleimani has been killed and his bloody rampage is now forever gone. cheering he was plotting attacks against americans but now we have ensured

that his atrocities have been stopped for good, they are stopped for good. we can speak now to our chief international correspondent lyse doucet. lyse, what can we expect to happen next? a lot of reaction around the world, it keeps coming in in the immediate aftermath of this targeted killing of eran's most important across the region. there was immediate condemnation from iran, as you have been reporting, which says it will carry out severe retaliation, so many are now placed across the region, americans have upgraded their security at a number of diplomatic missions around the world, 3000 troops on their way to the region, but we are also getting state m e nts the region, but we are also getting statements from britain, from

germany, from the european union, from many other saying please, the region cannot afford another war, we must urge restraint, and you heard president trump saying we did not do this to start a war, we killed qasem soleimani to end a war, in other words they are accusing him of being in the process of organising more attacks against american targets, against american personnel in the region. there is a fear in the region, an already volatile region, where tensions kept escalating last year, thenjust at where tensions kept escalating last year, then just at the moment where the region seemed to be on the brink of another confrontation, the tensions would subside, now the tensions would subside, now the tensions have been ratcheted up again, and! tensions have been ratcheted up again, and i think it is anyone's guess as to what happens next. yes, just looking, here in the uk, new advice from the foreign secretary in connection with british nationals. the advice my two british nationals is against all travel to iraq, and

against all travel to iran as well, so against all travel to iran as well, so there are against all travel to iran as well, so there are concerns against all travel to iran as well, so there are concerns about how that could affect us allies as well. huge concerns, there is a lot of chatter on social media now as to what targets a re on social media now as to what targets are off now, the anger among qasem soleimani's supporters that he was targeted in this way, concerns that were already in the region, particularly in iraq, where tensions had been rising for many weeks. foreign nationals, americans and other nationalities too, could be kidnapped. yesterday in the aftermath of the killing, the united states urged all of its nationals to leave iraq as soon as possible, even though baghdad airport was closed. now, as you say, we have this travel advice that has just been issued by the british foreign office, using

words to avoid all bit essential travel, it is a dangerous time for nationals to be in the region. but what if you are from the region, what if you are from the region, what if you are from the region, what if you are iraqi, syrian, lebanese, they are not going anywhere, and nobody knows what form, when, where, how the iranians will retaliate and whether it will be on will retaliate and whether it will beona will retaliate and whether it will be on a scale with the united states —— where the united states feels it also has to respond in kind. looking at the next couple of days, i understand there is a day of mourning today then at the funeral tomorrow for qasem soleimani, so that will presumably heighten anger and tensions as well? this will be a focus for the next few days, the priority for iran's now is to send a very strong message about how much

qasem soleimani matters. we have been reporting about how much he mattered in terms of being the most important military official for iran, the most important intelligence official, he had celebrity status, they want to see massive funerals, massive processions through the streets of major iranian cities, that already started yesterday. what is happening today in the capital, baghdad, is the funeralfor the... today in the capital, baghdad, is the funeral for the... who was also killed in the attack. it is a lot of p°mp killed in the attack. it is a lot of pomp and ceremony, with military parades, marching bands with smart red jackets, but also huge crowds filling the street, there will be three days of that in iran, starting tomorrow in a holy city, then moving the next day to qasem soleimani's hometown. yesterday the streets were already flooded with people, and in

tehran on the 7th ofjanuary, the supreme tehran on the 7th ofjanuary, the supreme leader, ayatollah hominy, will lead prayers for qasem soleimani. they want to symbolise his status as a marketer. it is clear from all of the signs that he already had cultural status and they wa nt already had cultural status and they want the symbolism of the martyr in death as he was in life. thank you, lyse, our chief international correspondent. australia's prime minister scott morrison says he'll deploy 3,000 army reserve troops to help tackle raging bush fires across the country,

as the death toll continues to rise. officials are warning that high winds and soaring temperatures could push fires into heavily populated areas this weekend. our correspondent phil mercer joins us now from nowra in new south wales. some of the fires in south—east australia are threatening lives and property, dozens burning across the states of new south wales and victoria, also south australia. here in new south wales there have been at least a dozen emergency warnings throughout the day. the prime minister of australia, scott morrison, says the disaster has gone toa morrison, says the disaster has gone to a whole new level, he has announced that 3000 troops will be deployed to help with the firefighting effort and the recovery effort, more navy ships, more army, helicopters and air force planes are coming in. to the west of us is a very large fire causing concern, we understand that has jumped the river to the north and we can hear

thunderstorms in the air. it is very hot here, just after seven o'clock in the evening, we can hear thunderstorms. it adds to the sense of ghostly miss, it is a very sinister feel of ghostly miss, it is a very sinisterfeel in this of ghostly miss, it is a very sinister feel in this part of the country, many towns are empty because people have left. the scorched land is very unnerving for the people still here. so the big problem for australians in this part of australia is that fires are very unpredictable and nobody knows when they will strike, if they will strike, and if they do, how ferocious they will be, so more dangerous hours ahead for this part of the country. thank you, phil mercer, in new south wales for us this morning. the number of contenders in the labour leadership contest doubled from to two to four last night, with bothjess phillips and lisa nandy throwing their hats in the ring. we can talk to one of them now. lisa nandyjoins us from her constituency of wigan, in greater manchester.

good morning to you. i'm going to ask you the most basic question first of all... i am in lancashire. why would you make a good leader of the labour party? to be honest, because we cannot go on as we have, we have been virtually wiped out in scotland, and north wales. what we have seen in the last few weeks in the general election result is a political earthquake. people have been telling us we cannotjust keep changing the man at the top and determining the priorities and solutions to the problems they face from behind a desk in victoria street, westminster whitehall, they wa nt street, westminster whitehall, they want something different, power and agency and control over their lives and a stake in the national story, which requires a different sort of leadership and different sort of leader. after the scale of what we have seen in the last few weeks, i think i have a duty to stand up for

those people and see if labour can become a national force again rooted in our communities and capable of speaking for and with those people. why do you believe you are best place to reach the people in the places where labour was deserted, the former heartlands? because i have spent the last few years, ten yea rs have spent the last few years, ten years in parliament, living in a community where people have been moving away from us for decades, where people have felt all is not well. they want to see a break with the sort of paternalistic approach, where political parties come in and say we will fix this for you, we will tell you what is good for you and we will give you the things we determine our right after commissioning, think tank reports, reports from central london. there isa reports from central london. there is a reason why take back control ca ptu red is a reason why take back control captured the mood because people wa nt captured the mood because people want the means to fix things for

themselves. and to do that we have to change not just themselves. and to do that we have to change notjust the way we approach people, show real respect for people, show them we have skin in the game, we live amongst them, that we care, that we have a stake in rebuilding those communities, but we also have to show that we understand that in order to do that the labour party has to change, and we have to become a party led by grassroots. we had a former deputy, tom watson, on the programme yesterday, talking about life in the labour party and clearly about why he could not do thatjob any more, and he said he left because of the brutality and hostility in the party. are you prepared for that, are you ready for what the fight will bring to you? i have lived with that in the labour party for some time, and the last few years have been riven by division, and they have been a very difficult few years for every single activist, member, councillor and member of parliament and the party, but i am someone who

comes traditionally from the left of the party, i work with child refugees and homeless teenagers, i worked as a housing caseworker, but now one person has the monopoly on wisdom, and the hung parliament that gave us a hearing with the public and the media... the next labour leader has to go out and earn back the trust, show people we have changed, we are kind and compassionate towards one another, that we have zero tolerance on issues like anti—semitism, and when we say we believe in a more equal compassionate society, we are walking the walk within our own party, not just talking walking the walk within our own party, notjust talking the talk. you're talking about what you will say to people listening now, but isn't the battle you would face actually within the party? how on earth do you heal these extreme

divisions within the labour party? well, a lot of the divisions in the past have been about brexit, and of course now what has happened with huge majority for boris johnson course now what has happened with huge majority for borisjohnson as he settles on a course where we are leaving the eu on the hard disk terms with potentially devastating consequences for communities like mine, who voted to leave, but may see industry disappearing as a consequence, so see industry disappearing as a consequence, so labour is going to have to get on the same page about this and make sure speak with one voice, to fight that very hard brexit and protect people across this country, but we also have to leave behind the factional divisions of the last few years and the bitter infighting, andi of the last few years and the bitter infighting, and i think that is something most people in this movement, half a million strong, are desperate to see. right across this country we have people, activists, members, councillors on the front line trying to deliver change in their communities and protect people in the toughest of times, they don't have the luxury of fighting about

the small differences between us, andi the small differences between us, and i think the next leader of the labour party absolutely has to stand up labour party absolutely has to stand up and set that town and say, no more of the factions, no more of the infighting, it lets down the people we claim to represent and we are not allowed any more. as a brexit supporter, if you now accept boris johnson's version of brexit, what makes you different from him? johnson's version of brexit, what makes you different from him7m johnson's version of brexit, what makes you different from him? it is interesting that you say a brexit supporter, because in westminster i am seen as someone who supporter, because in westminster i am seen as someone who supports leave, and here i am seen as someone who supports remain and trying to block brexit, and that is one of the things i have felt as part of the growing disconnect between what happens in westminster and places like wigan over the last few years, thatis like wigan over the last few years, that is one of the reasons i have been out for the last three years saying we need a compromise and we need to respect both sides in this argument. i campaigned for remain, voted to remain, and many friends

voted to remain, and many friends voted to remain, and many friends voted to leave, and we have mutual respect for one another. that is what differentiates the whole of the labour party from boris johnson what differentiates the whole of the labour party from borisjohnson and the tories, because they have no respect for people who find themselves on the other side of the political argument, and we have to go out and convince people not only that we do, but that we have a vision for the future of this country rooted in our communities that gives people the power and agency and control they have been planning for, but that we will never abandon that we are an outward —looking internationalist party working to drive up standards together. if you are the leader of the labour party this morning, how would you respond to the situation between the united states and iran? i would be recalling parliament immediately because there are british personnel at risk

representing a lot of people in the armed forces, so it is important we hear from the armed forces, so it is important we hearfrom the prime minister of armed forces, so it is important we hear from the prime minister of what hear from the prime minister of what he is going to do to safeguard british people abroad, but more importantly perhaps than that on the longer term scale, we also need to hear from the longer term scale, we also need to hearfrom the prime minister longer term scale, we also need to hear from the prime minister that he is working with our european allies in order to restrain what is really quite reckless action from donald trump. there is no question about it, this man is a bad man, and has done some terrible, terrible things, but is one of the speakers in an earlier item on your programme was saying, there is a very real risk now that he becomes a martyr and the situation escalates with huge repercussions for us here in britain and across the world. so we need to hear from boris and across the world. so we need to hearfrom borisjohnson and across the world. so we need to hear from boris johnson in parliament urgently that he has a plan to deal with his and he is working internationally to try to de—escalate the situation. working internationally to try to de-escalate the situation. lisa nandy mp, thank you. listening to

that in the studio wasjon tonge. we heard lisa nandy saying different sort of leadership and leader required, and no more inviting. that isa required, and no more inviting. that is a big check list. she is com pletely is a big check list. she is completely right on the infighting, there are people in the labour party in denial, they have lost four elections on the bounce, and still some people said it was the electorate that was wrong, not the labour party. the new year message from jeremy corbyn talked about the labour party being the resistance, but it needs to change, very quickly, there is no quick fix, the chance of the labour party winning the next election given where it currently is is slim, and lisa nandy‘s great connection as she can connect with northern voters who live in labour leave towns, the question is whether she can connect

with labour voters in the south, who voted remain. can she turn things around in scotland ? voted remain. can she turn things around in scotland? the snp are dominant. what is the way back for labour? there is an awful lot to do, we need to hear more of her prospectus. she is going to be on the ballot paper, you need 21 mp5 supporting you, 5% of constituency labour parties and 5% of affiliate is. jess phillips has also put her name down officially, so two female candidates in the last 24 hours. and it is perhaps important for the labour party, a party with a 120 year history committed to quality, but it finally has a woman leader, but it finally has a woman leader, but if you look at the first pull of

who members want, kier starmer was co mforta bly who members want, kier starmer was comfortably ahead, so you could argue this is a contest for kier starmer to lose, but some people who left the labour party blame him for muddying labour‘s brexit message. one quick question, i noticed that lee said that —— lisa nandy did not go into anything about social care, which you would expect from a labour leader. it is the biggest crisis she would argue confronting us. the other question is, which of those expensive spending commitments that labour offered, the electorate clearly did not believe in, would actually be cancelled ? clearly did not believe in, would actually be cancelled? 58 million for the waspi women denied their pension, for example. would anyone cancel those spending pledges, which ones would go and which would remain? that is a legitimate question to ask every candidate. you're going to have a look through the newspapers a little later, just

after nine o'clock, we will see you then. here's phil with a look at this morning's weather. thank you. we are going to start in australia, because the dark red gives an indication of where heat is way above the seasonal norm. some temperatures on for you. canberra just broke its record pushing up towards 43 celsius, and that 47% is pretty close just to the west of sydney. an unconfirmed report that the new high is 48.9 in the western suburbs of sydney. those temperatures are about 20 degrees above what we would expect at this time of year. that is the extent of the heat on saturday. sunday, notice how the area of darker coolerjust moves further to the north, and the

relief from the heat, and i stress the heat alone, comes from this weather front. we are showing a little rain, at best about an inch for some areas, but that will come in the form of thunderstorms, which can spark fires as well in their own right. the winds are still pretty dusty, 45 mph, fanning the flames in a different direction. coming back to the uk, it is a bright enough start for some, but you are the favoured few because there is a lot of cloud trapped under the high—pressure circulating its way towards the british isles. now we are thicker perhaps than the weather front floating around the north western flank, with high pressure to the south, so it is a cloudy day. some of you get to see some brightness breaking through, parts of east anglia doing quite nicely, and some spots out west, i am afraid you will have enough cloud for a spot of rain. it won't amount to much. temperature is not bad for the

time of year, getting to ten or 11 degrees, and not a great deal changes overnight. the high slipping further towards the south and east, a lot of cloud over night helping to keep temperatures above freezing for many of us, but that is how we start the new day on sunday, with a lot of cloud. again, some gaps in it, it is not a write—off by any means, except close to that weather front which is still moving around north of the great glen, but we are finding a degree or two because of the north—westerly wind. on monday, this weather front is a bother to start the new working week. if you thought that was winding on monday, tuesday isa that was winding on monday, tuesday is a humdinger of a day, especially across the northern half of the united kingdom. charlie and sally,

back to you. thank you, tuesday is a humdinger of a day. phil was talking about the temperature in australia, suggestions they may have beaten the all time high. a real problem is there already. australians are bracing themselves for another dangerous and difficult weekend, high winds causing bushfires to burn out of control. two people died overnight on an island close to adelaide. earlier we spoke to a former british army officer who moved there 11 yea rs army officer who moved there 11 years ago, who is now among thousands of volunteer firefighters. this is him as they move towards the fires. we are on standby all day,

and four o'clock this afternoon we got the call to head to canberra. the southerly wind has come through, so the southerly wind has come through, so it is about 160 k response, under lights and sirens, and when we get there we will be told which of the fires we will be moving to. can you describe some of the situations you have come into contact with that you have come into contact with that you have been seeing while you're there? yes, it's a bit of a mixed bag, just before christmas i was up in the blue mountains, when that went up, and that's where the news around the world... pretty challenging. after christmas the weather cooled down a little so we were able to contain the fires, but without heating up again this week, things are getting dangerous again. and when you speak to your colleagues about what is

going on there, how is everyone managing? we know as first responders the emergency services are under incredible stress and strain. yes, it is a strain for everyone, with our families, strain. yes, it is a strain for everyone, with ourfamilies, they do not hear from us for 12 to 18 hours while we are out, and we are all volunteers, so for the guys who work themselves, it is difficult, they are losing out on work. i work for a company that is very supportive and as long as there is anything not business critical, they let us go and get out and support the community fighting fires. while you're there, can you just show me around the vehicle and introduce us around the vehicle and introduce us a little to the team you're with. absolutely. driving here is jason. we have troy, william and justin,

justin is another pommie. all the trucks are looking a little bit weather—beaten after we have been fighting fires for the best part of two months now. we find you because your brother got in touch and said we should try to track you down and speak to you regarding the work. he and your nieces and nephews and sister—in—law have sent a little message for you, just listen. we have been watching the incredible and frightening footage of the fires from australia, and we know what an amazing job you and the other volunteer firemen are doing out there to keep others say. we just wa nt there to keep others say. we just want to say how incredibly proud we are of you and please stay safe, and we will see you soon. stay safe,

uncle jules! that is fantastic. how much support have you been getting from home? a lot, i have a wife and two teenage daughters, they are very supportive, but i think from back home in the uk, my family and my partner worry because they see what is on the news, but they are very supportive of what we are doing and they understand how important it is for us to be doing this to look after the communities around new south wales. that was just over an hour and south wales. that was just over an hourand a south wales. that was just over an hour and a half ago, on their way to canberra, a 130 kilometrejourney, then they were going to be allocated how they would be deployed. they are quite busy now, i think. good luck to those involved in all the operations. stay with us, headlines coming up.

hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and sally nugent. here's a summary of this morning's main news. the us president donald trump has defended his decision to have an iranian military leader killed in a us air strike. iran has warned that it will avenge the attack, which took place in baghdad yesterday. president trump says qassem soleimani was killed to stop him carrying out attacks on american targets, and claims it has ended a reign of terror.

the labour mp and leadership candidate lisa nandy has told breakfast that the killing will escalate tensions in the region. she entered the leadership race last night, along with the birmingham yardley mp jess phillips. there is a very real risk now that he becomes a martyr and the situation escalates with huge repercussions for us here in britain and people across the world. so, we need to hear from and people across the world. so, we need to hearfrom boris and people across the world. so, we need to hear from borisjohnson and people across the world. so, we need to hearfrom borisjohnson in parliament urgently that he has a plan to deal with this and that he is working internationally to try to de—escalate the situation. in the last hour, the british foreign office has advised all uk nationals against travelling to parts of iraq and iran. the foreign secretary has cited heightened tensions in the region following the death of soleimani. people are now advised not to travel to iraq, with the exception of the kurdistan region, and to consider carefully whether its essential to travel to iran. australia's prime minister scott morrison says he'll deploy 3 thousand army reserve troops to help tackle raging bush fires

across the country, as the death toll continues to rise. two people have died overnight on kangaroo island, near adelaide, bringing the death toll across the country to 23. there are fears high winds and soaring temperatures could push fires into heavily populated areas this weekend. police in london have launched a murder investigation after a man was stabbed to death. the victim, who was in his thirties, was attacked in the finsbury park area of north london last night. people at the scene said he had been delivering food on his moped. no—one has been arrested. the celebrity psychic derek acorah has died, according to a statement posted by his wife on social media the 69—year—old was best known for his appearance on the tv show "most haunted". his wife gwen said he passed away after a brief illness. a portrait of the queen and her three heirs to the throne has been released to mark the start of the new decade. the photograph, which was taken the week before christmas, shows the prince of wales, the duke of cambridge and prince george standing alongside her majesty at buckingham palace. it is the second official portrait of the four

generations of royals together. time to talk to gavin who has this point. the third round of the fa cup. it's a chance for smaller teams to shine against the big boys and they don't come much bigger than holders manchester city. that's where league two side port vale are heading this evening. they enjoyed a comfortable win over cheltenham in the last round, but they won't recognise the etihad stadium, because the last time these two sides met was more than twenty years ago. a year later, port vale's most famous fan — robbie williams — had a hit album "sing when you're winning", but he's not expecting to this time. they will be able to go up there have a great night, a great day ahead.

miracles do happen, but maybe this is expecting a miracle a bit too far. who knows, you know? pep might put out hisjunior squad. please, pep. and the fa cup not only holds special memories for players, it provides the opportunity to create them too. peterborough midfielder george boyd played in the 2014 fa cup final for hull when they lost to arsenal. and this lunch time he's returning to face his former club burnley where he made more than a hundred appearances. it's a reunion he's looking forward to despite the gulf between the premier league team and his league one side. yeah, it would be nice. the kids in the family are all going to come and watch. when the draw was happening there was blackburn and a few others, but it was the one we wanted as a family to watch, go back to burnley. three great years. i thoroughly enjoyed it. it will be nice to see some

old faces, but i hope to go there and get the win. england have it all to do, if they're to stay in with a chance of winning the 2nd test against south africa, with play just underway in cape town. they're1—0 down in the series, and the second day on 262 for 9. so not the best performance with the bat. they are currently 266 for nine. ollie pope the main man for them yesterday — he top scored with 56. one man definitely missing out on the magic of the fa cup is harry kane. the tottenham striker tore his hamstring during the defeat at southampton on wednesday. he'll miss the trip to middlesbrough tomorrow and will face at least four weeks out. kane tweeted "head up. tough times don t last, tough people do". and there is of course full coverage of the fa cup across the bbc sport website. sale sharks scored six tries in their win over harlequins in rugby union's premiership — and one of them was really u nfortu nate. sam james took advantage of a hamstring injury to quins' tom lawday, as he tried to block him at the line.

it was a feisty game, with three players sin binned, and sale took it by 48 points to 10 — that bonus point win taking them up to third in the table. in the pro14, ireland winger jacob stockdale scored his first club try for a year, as ulster continued their unbeaten run at home this season. they picked up a bonus point 38—17 win over munster in belfast. and three penalties from leigh halfpenny helped scarlets to go top of conference b — they only scored one try, through gareth davies, but it was the turning point in their 16—14 win at cardiff. yesterday, we told you how, austalia's nick kyrgios said he was donating around 100—pounds for every ace he hits this month, to the relief fund for victims of the bushfires in his country. well, he hit 20 in his atp cup match in brisbane, as he beatjan—lennard struff, so that's over two—thousand pounds already — and he was understandably emotional afterwards. i don't really care about the praise too much,

um, ijust think we have the ability and the platform to do something like that and obviously, you know, my hometown's canberra. and we've the most toxic air in the world right now. so it's pretty sad. so, yeah, it'sjust — it's tough. so, there we go. he was very emotional. i think the cortana is mental bigotry emotional, considering how it is going there. a lot of players to mating, notjust from the aces. —— i think the whole tennis will be emotional. in a way he is speaking for a nation, isn't it? absolutely, yes. he had a lot of pr problems previously and i think this could go so much preparing that. a noble gesture and i think a lot of players of the following suit, as well. thank you, gavin. back to one of our main stories this

morning. the funeral of iran's top military commander — qasem soleimani — will take place today, after he was killed by a us drone strike yesterday morning. president trump says he ordered the attack "to stop a war, not to start one" — but there's no doubt that it has escalated tensions in the middle east. looking at some of the front pages this morning, you can see, they brink of four is on the front page of the times. talking about 3000 troops from the us rushed to the middle east and on the front page of the daily mail you can see there, britain braced for iran revenge. we can speak now to professor of international relations, fawaz gerges. very good morning to. can you pet those headlines in some kind of context for us? in terms of the concerns about what will happen next. well, i think what i would

like your viewers to know that general soleimani was not just like your viewers to know that general soleimani was notjust the most senior iranians militate commander, he was the second most powerful leader in iraq after the supreme powerful leader in iraq after the supreme leader. so, by killing the second most powerful man in the irani leadership, president trump seems like panting iran to strike back. the question is not whether iran was strike back or retaliate, the question is when and how? thus creating a vicious cycle of escalation and counter escalation and setting the conditions for a greater conflict in the middle east. so, yes, i think everyone there is uncertainty, the end everyone is preparing for the coming clash, direct clash between iran and its

allies on the one hand and the united states and its allies on the other hand. the iranians regime has a ready bow to prevent these attacks. and equally well, president john has said he is silly prepare to ta ke john has said he is silly prepare to take whatever action is necessary. so the real danger is about the escalation. absolutely. imagine it is an area whereby iran retaliates against american forces. there are about tens of thousands of american forces in the middle east and more coming in the next days. you have military bases in kuwait, qatar, in bahrain, you have military ships that stop at the iranians retaliate against the americans and the americans retaliate back, this really could be a trigger for a regionwide conflict. i doubt it very much, if president trump is ready and prepared for the coming

confrontation in the middle east. i think it was a very dangerous pre—emptive action on the part of the president. not very wise at all. nobody is suggesting that general soleimani was innocent. there was plenty of blood on his hands. but this kind of really significant escalation by striking at the very nerve centre of the iranians leadership, i think president trump is setting the conditions for further escalations and a final point on this, and your question. ironically, that both a public precedent and republican president had opposed the killing of soleimani. this is on the record. they feared this was set up the conditions for a great comfort in the middle east itself. so, regardless of how we view the politics of what has happened, it

posed gasoline on the regime not just between united states and iran, but the region. imagine what happened during the american invasion and occupation of iraq between 2003 and 2008. professor, thank you very much. here's phil with a look at this morning's weather. hi, sally. very good morning. iwas just thinking as i was looking at this picture that it is to cornwall. sadly, the cloud as well. at the moment it looks as though they began as going to be marked by a lot of cloud, quite busy at times, particularly across the north and west. a lot of dry weather around, thanks to the influence of the high pressure. not quite enough to keep that weather front at bay. a cool sort of flow. that transition

yesterday, sunshine in many areas, but a fresher feel. that is the sort ofair but a fresher feel. that is the sort of air mass we are in at the moment. until d went goes back into the south and south—west, which it eventually building on sunday. but today the favoured few get to see better sunshine, enough cloud out towards the west and the old spot of rain on the breeze. the clouds taken of me that weather front crossing with the north—west of scotland to keep the rain coming on and off for the greater part of today. that fund will waive its way back towards the north—west and quarter of scotland as we get onto the small hours. elsewhere, ethical aspects for any length of time, you may get down to two or three degrees. many of the sport to about seven iterative. that is how beside sunday, still a lot of cloud across the place. one or two gaps, i would cloud across the place. one or two gaps, iwould have cloud across the place. one or two gaps, i would have thought that the eastern side of high ground sheltered from that flow has a better chance of seeing a little bit of sunshine. do you seal timing?

many more will get to ten or 11 degrees. this is the start of the new working week. look at the isobar is beginning to squeeze appear. northern and western parts already seeing a when your prospect and a better one, too. the weatherfront draped and none too decorously across northern and western parts of the british isles. the darker blue is indicative of some heavy rain for a time. the further east you arguably get to see that rain after dark. following on behind, a little in proceedings. sadly it comes overnight monday into tuesday. look at tuesday. a good how those i suppose squeeze up widely across the british isles, but especially across parts of scotland. some of those gusts could well be looking at around 75, possibly in exposed locations 80 miles an hour. at times during the forthcoming week we will be talking about and of a lot of wind, if not gales was to gales and

possibly disrupting. at least, this is the bowed bites back, it could well be mild, given that wind from somewhere in the west. clutching at straws, i know. back to you. i think the bbc breakfast christmas day came down a monday this week. it's twelfth night on monday, which means many of us will be taking down our christmas decorations this weekend — and getting rid of the tree. if you don't fancy wrestling yours into the car — and finding needles in there for the rest of the year — there are charities who'll take it away for a small fee. mairead smith is in liverpool to tell us more. morning, married. good morning to. welcome to liverpool. you can see, behind me there are plenty of people who are second the sight of their

christmas trees already. the fed and the festivities are over, so it is time to clear away and maybe make a new start. even though 12th night is still two days away. there is a reason, isn't there? i am joined still two days away. there is a reason, isn't there? iam joined by councillor loren robson collins from liverpool city council. why do you have this pile of christmas trees here? we have 12 sites across liverpool and it is really important that people really reuse their waste. with christmas trees, we can directly use them in the city. we make these anti bark chippings and compass for our parks. a very direct use, it is really important that people today recycle and reuse everything they buy now. 2020, we have declared a climate emergency and we have to be just a matter of yea rs we a re and we have to be just a matter of years we are making. it is common to see some many trees before travelling? absolutely, yes. people get ready to go back to work and school. for three weeks it can bring

your tree to 12 sites across the city. then, he also know that your christmas tree has an impact, doing something positive for the region. absolutely. as i say, it has a direct and saves us money in the parks, because bikini this the idea is compass and bark chippings for our own use and the parks. it is a very effective in direct use of what is now based at other people. very effective in direct use of what is now based at other people! sites across the city. what happens people cannot get a trigger? we do have a green bin garden service, which is suspended at the moment, but will start again. —— cannot get here? 12 sites across the city, hopefully most people can get to one. if you do not fancy packing entry into the back of your car or carrying a downed here are one of the other sites, there is another option. you can donate money to a charity and they will come and get it for you. a charity like the

hospice in st helens. you are one of the elite members of that hospice and why have you decided to do this? lam and why have you decided to do this? i am corporate director at the hospice and we run this initiative for five years. abba fundraising table, come out with bands and collect feedback to collections of christmas trees for a minimum donation of £5. we use that money to raise much—needed funds to run the hospice. so, this yearat raise much—needed funds to run the hospice. so, this year at think we have a pledge of 350 trees to be collected already starting monday and we have raised about £2200 of work. but we're looking for a lot more, because that will buy things like rising and inclining beds and equipment of the inpatient unit. not everybody has access to car, so we can help support the council at the same time. this is have to be in your area or canopy across the city region? we are collecting from a

numberof region? we are collecting from a number of places, you can look on their website. it can help you buy much—needed equipment and that supports people in your local area. that is right. we support people, we have over 1000 patients we treat every year and we need to raise more money. we only get a third of the money. we only get a third of the money we need to the nhs and the re st money we need to the nhs and the rest three fundraising. this is another way we can raise money for the hospice at every little helps. every contact we have with people we are able to talk to them about the work hospice is doing and we are supported by our volunteers. just quickly, you could help a skill achieved a world record couldn't you? that is correct. they are looking to create the world's largest pug hotel, he is collecting some of the trees to take over to that school and help them with their kids science project. so, good luck to them. and laura, your husband was

cared for at the hospice and you know volunteer to help them. we have seen know volunteer to help them. we have seen first—hand what difference this money makes. it makes a massive difference. my husband visibly there for a short time, but i relate with a special place it was. they rely on volunteers bringing in money, you know, i work in the shops. but there are all kinds areas volunteers working. we realise how much we are needed and i hope more people will agree to volunteer. we are having a campaign, make a new year's resolution to volunteer. i hope people will take up, because it is much—needed. people will take up, because it is much-needed. wonderful. there are options out there, you can get your tree activity the park one of the 12 sites in liverpool or you can ask the local hospice to pick up your che, just make a donation of £5. i will be back in the next hour. thank you very much indeed. a new measure to protect our money when we make

online bank payments began this week. banks must now check if the money is going to the correct account. but at the moment they won't necessarily tell us if it goes astray. paul lewis can tell us more. good morning. explain a little more about the story. at the moment it is very strange. at the moment when you make payment, i make make a payment to for example. i would pigeon name, bank account and switch code, but on the bank which exists which could in the bank which exists which could in the number. so, back of the number wrong or of somebody have been pretending to be over the phone and said yes, tis me, here are my bank details and i paid them, no cheque will be made on whether it is going to your account by your name. now, from this week, last wednesday, banks have to be able to check if the name that i painterly is the same as the name the account. but they do not have to tell me. so, the

bank might know it is going to liberal place, but they do not tell me. in stage one of what is called confirmation of paying, very important fraud protection measure, but coming in in this very strange way and will not be fully enforced until april. that sounds mad. it does sound a bit mad. the banks can now do it, but there are not way to tell us until april about this. they do not even have to tell each other, u nless do not even have to tell each other, unless one asks. so, it is being phased in. very important change, but being done in a slightly strange way. experts i have talked in the industry say well, it is coming in ina industry say well, it is coming in in a strange way, but because they could do this, if they choose not to, and! could do this, if they choose not to, and i make the wrong payment to the wrong person or amd folded out of money, the banks will have to pay up. now, the banks have not confirmed that to me, but that is the view of industry insiders. so,

if something does go wrong in the next three months, before this concept properly, then go to the bank and say you could have checked and you chose not to. what are the bank saying about the principles and where this is going to go? mukiele it isa where this is going to go? mukiele it is a bit bizarre, really. i spoke last night to uk finance, the trade body that represents the bank. —— last night to uk finance, the trade body that represents the bank. "w is not one for us to comment on. bed bizarre. they do say on their website they are beginning to inform customers about these changes, but at the moment they are not commenting and so exactly how this will proceed, who is liable is a bit unclear. but come april, i hope i should be back here saying this is a marvellous new system, it started and from now on you can all be check ifiam and from now on you can all be check if i am paying the right charlie when i send you some money. just msn

money anyway, how about that? if it comes through, good and if not well no harm done. conveniently paul lost contact at that point. he will be back on radio four at midday today. there are calls for a review of surrogacy laws to allow a child's intended parents to be recognised as such, at the time of their birth. currently, parents have to apply to the courts for a child to be legally recognised as their own, which often doesn't happen. bbc scotland's carole erskine reports. really cute. for laura and stephen, penelope is their medical baby. ten years ago, laura was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia. she manages her illness with daily chemotherapy tablets, but knew she always wanted a family. in 2016, she began trying for her own child. when i was first diagnosed and i went to hospital, i had a list of questions

i wanted to ask. you know, am i going to die? am i going to lose my hair, will i be able to have children? and the cancer increased and increased quite rapidly and when i went to hospital, a nurse she said to me "if you did get pregnant, and the cancer continued to increase, it could get to five or six months into the pregnancy and we would have to decide whether we save your life or save the baby's." and that was the most devastating blow. i felt really, really useless, and that cancer had not only taken a kind of chunk of my life — because obviously it plays on your mind that what is my life expectancy going to be? — but that it had played with my chance of having a family. and, yeah, thankfully there was someone there to help with that. that someone was her sister—in—law, jayne. i am blessed to have a family and i know what the feeling is like to have your child and i wanted that for my brother and sister—in—law and we would do anything, as we have done,

to make it happen for them. i don't see her as my child. i think if i had had issues and had the baby blues or post—natal depression then, as we talked with the counsellor, then maybe surrogacy may not have been a good option for me, but i have had no problems before. penelope's special book of herjourney. i think we always felt it was important to do so that we could write down everything we were feeling and all of the states we had gone through so that when she is old enough, maybe five years old or so, we would be able to tell her how she came into the world. baby penelope jayne tessa was born on november 23 after being conceived by ivf on the nhs. penelope is biologically ours so i had to go through ivf and have my eggs removed. jayne had to have injections herself as well, so there were two of us going through that and for me, to watch jayne having to go through that and know it is for us

as well was really tough to take. we had a lot of ups and downs. it is not easy at all. it did not work the first time, there was a lot of upset and actually, at the point whenjayne came to tell us that she was actually pregnant, i think i had given up hope. i really thought it was not going to happen. jayne arrived at our door with a positive pregnancy test and it was just the most incredible moment of my life. in the eyes of the law, jayne is penelope's mum and laura and stephen can apply to change this when she is six weeks old and officially become recognised as a parents. for them all, the long journey to get to here has been worth it, and it means laura has more reasons than ever to stay positive about her own health. it gives me something to live for, more than ever now, so i am determined to just carry on and stay as healthy as i can for her. it is honestly been the most

wonderful, wonderful thing, so i am eternally grateful forjayne, sorry... but we all love her, so... you know... she is special. yeah. essentially absolutely gorgeous? sleeping on the way through that report. one very happy family. penelope, beautiful. coming up b have a lovely story of a family who found out two pieces of incredible news over christmas. one that their child was all clear after suffering from cancer. too, that they had won the lottery. can you imagine? that quite something. find out more about that after the headlines which are coming up andjust that after the headlines which are coming up and just in moment.

good morning, welcome to breakfast with sally nugent. and charlie stayt. our headlines today. president trump defends the us airstrike that killed iran's top military commander — saying it was done to prevent further attacks on americans. we took action last night to stop a war. we did not take action to start a war. thousands of extra troops are called up in australia to tackle the raging bush fires, as country's prime minister warns of difficult days ahead. two more labour mp5, lisa nandy and jess phillips, join the race to be the party's next leader. a weekend of football for the dreamers, romantics

and robbie williams — it's the fa cup 3rd round. the singer's club port vale take on holders manchester city — but who will get the chance to "sing when they're winning"? miracles do happen, but maybe this is expecting a miracle a bit too far. the story of a blunder on mastermind and why greta thunberg changed her name on twitter to sharon as a result. hello. a very good morning to you. throughout the course of the morning we will keep you up—to—date with the weather situation across the fire affected areas in australia. closer to home, quite a chilly start to the weekend. for some it is a cloudy, breezy sort of day. quite a bit of dry weather around. it is not a write—off by any means at all. some northern and western areas will see a little bit of rain. i will have all the details for you in just a few minutes. it's saturday the 4th of january. our top story.

the us president donald trump has defended his decision to have an iranian military leader killed in a us air strike. iran has warned that it will avenge the attack, which took place in baghdad yesterday. president trump says qasem soleimani was killed to stop him carrying out attacks on american targets. speaking last night at a rally of his supporters, he claimed it has ended a reign of terror. last night, at my direction, the united states military executed a flawless strike that terminated the terrorist ringleader responsible for gravely wounding and murdering thousands and thousands of people and hundreds and hundreds at least of americans, qasem soleimani has been killed and his bloody rampage is now forever gone. cheering

he was plotting attacks against americans, but now we have ensured that his atrocities have been stopped for good, they are stopped for good. in the last hour, the british foreign office has advised all uk nationals against travelling to parts of iraq and iran. the foreign secretary has cited heightened tensions in the region following the death of soleimani. people are now advised not to travel to iraq, with the exception of the kurdistan region, and to consider carefully whether its essential to travel to iran. earlier our chief international correspondent lyse doucet told us about the reaction in the region. a lot of reaction around the world, and it keeps coming in in the immediate aftermath of this targeted killing of iran's most important officer across the region, someone known to all, whether they loved him or loathe him. there was immediate condemnation from iran, as you have

been reporting, with vows to carry out severe retaliation, so i think many are now braced across the region, the americans have upgraded their security at a number of their diplomatic missions around the world, some 3000 troops are on their way to the region, but we are also getting statements from britain, from germany, from the european union, from many others, saying, the region cannot afford another war, you must urge restraint, and you heard president trump saying we did not do this to start a war, we killed qasem soleimani to end a war, in other words they are accusing him of being in the process of organising more attacks against american targets, american personnel in the region, but there is a fear in the region, but there is a fear in the region, but there is a fear in the region, an already volatile region, where tensions kept escalating last year, thenjust region, where tensions kept escalating last year, then just at the moment where the region seemed to be on the brink of another

confrontation, the tensions would subside. now the tensions have ratcheting up again, and it is anyone's guess as to what happens next. it is four minutes past nine. australia's prime minister scott morrison says he'll deploy 3,000 army reserve troops to help tackle raging bush fires across the country, as the death toll continues to rise. officials are warning that high winds and soaring temperatures could push fires into heavily populated areas this weekend. our correspondent phil mercer joins us now from nowra in new south wales. we have spoken to you a couple of times this morning, and i can see around you things have changed quite significantly, what is going on? this is what the authorities have been most worried about today, this southerly change, these very strong winds which have barrelled up from the south through the fire grounds in victoria and southern parts of new south wales. what has happened is these winds have picked up a huge

cloud of dust and ash, dust storms sweeping where we are, at the command centre. these winds are almost strong enough to blow you off your feet, so the significance of this wind is that it will fan the fla mes this wind is that it will fan the flames that have burned so ferociously here in eastern australia. some of the fires burning in victoria and south australia and here, in new south wales, are threatening lives and property, and these winds, the ferocious winds, will simply add to the danger. it has been a very dangerous day for many people here in south—eastern australia, the authorities feared this wind change would make things even worse, it well. the next few hours will be extremely perilous for residents and the firefighters. hours will be extremely perilous for

residents and the firefighterslj just residents and the firefighters.” just want to ask about that very thing, what can the firefighters do? you are at a central command place now, what can they do to help people who may be around there? people are being urged to seek shelter, there we re being urged to seek shelter, there were fire engines here in the last few moments, they have all gone, so clearly those firefighters are going to the fires that burned very close to the fires that burned very close to here. the entire sky has been turned this deathly shade of orange, the trees are shaking wildly in this dust storm. we are on a hill where we we re dust storm. we are on a hill where we were speaking to you earlier, and within a few moments this dust storm has raged through this part of eastern australia. it will fan the flames, it will make the job of the firefighters extremely perilous because we have got the military coming in, we have thousands of firefighters on the ground, but there the mercy of the weather

today. it was very hot here in history —— eastern australia today, the wind has dropped the temperature by i'm guessing about 10 degrees or more, so the temperatures might be receding, but these gusty winds could well spell disaster in some of the fire zones, so it is an extremely hazardous situation, the emergency efforts, it is a thin line, it is being stretched and stretched, but they will do what they can to protect life and property. we can see that you are having to wear a mask and goggles. for you personally, what is it like to breathe the air? it is pretty hideous, there is this acrid smell blowing in from the fire zone, it is about a ten minute drive away. it was a pretty hazy day, we were speaking to you just beforehand, all ofa speaking to you just beforehand, all of a sudden in a moment or two, this

huge dust storm came barrelling through. it was coming towards us like a monster, you could smell it, you could taste it, you could feel the ash bouncing on your skin and clothes, and the winds are so ferocious, i am clothes, and the winds are so ferocious, iam not clothes, and the winds are so ferocious, i am not quite sure how strong they are, but it is very strong, and for the firefighting effort this is not good news. take care, it is great to see you, thanks very much indeed. the labour mp5 lisa nandy and jess phillips have bothjoined the contest to succeed jeremy corbyn as party leader. they're promising to win back the trust of voters in former labour heartlands. let's get more from our political correspondentjohn owen. tell us a little more about these two new candidates. as you say, two high—profile figures have joined the race to succeed jeremy corbyn as labour leader, and one of them as the birmingham mpjess phillips, and

the birmingham mpjess phillips, and the other is the wigan mp lisa mandy. she spoke to the bbc earlier today and said labour needs to be a national force today and said labour needs to be a nationalforce again, today and said labour needs to be a national force again, and she told us that the next labour leader needs to bring the party together and heal divisions. right across the country we have people, activists, members, councillors on the front line trying to deliver real change in their communities and trying to protect people in the toughest of times. they don't have the luxury of fighting about the small differences, and i think the next leader of the labour party absolutely has to stand up and set the tone and say no more of the factions, no more of the infighting, it lets them people we claim to represent, and we are not going to allow it any more. lisa nandy is one of four candidates who have confirmed they will be standing leadership. shejoins the confirmed they will be standing leadership. she joins the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry,

and we are expecting declarations from the shadow brexit secretary, kier starmer, and also rebecca lum bailey, before too long. -- lum bailey. let's return to those raging fires in australia now — and the prime minister scott morrison says he'll deploy 3,000 army reserve troops, as the death toll continues to rise. the latest two victims died overnight on kangaroo island, near adelaide. the islands mp is leon bignell. he's on a ferry to the mainland now — and we can speak to him. thank you very much for speaking to us. can you tell us about the situation for the people you're dealing with? these fires have been burning on kangaroo island since the 20th of december. it is around 4500

square kilometres, it is the third biggest island in australia, and we a lwa ys biggest island in australia, and we always knew that when we had the spikes in high temperatures and winds, we were in all sorts of trouble, and unfortunately that came yesterday. despite a heroic effort by so many firefighters on the ground and in the air, they could not hold back this absolute wall of fire, and people who have lived here all their lives have never seen anything like it. the losses have been unbelievable for vegetation and livestock. we have also lost two human lives, a man in his 705 and his son, in his 405. human lives, a man in his 705 and his son, in his 40s. lyon, can you just explain the geography of where you are, you're obviously travelling to continue your work. where are you heading to my —— leon? i'm heading back to my constituency, which

includes a wine growing area of south australia, mclaren vale, which may be familiar to some of your viewers, so i will head back over there, and regroup with some of the people and work out what else we need to do. today we had cooler temperatures, so the firefighters we re temperatures, so the firefighters were doubling down to make sure they could get out as many embers as they could, but this will take a few weeks to get the fire out, and u nfortu nately weeks to get the fire out, and unfortunately what we know, it is all cyclical in the weather game, at this time of year in australia, so in five or six days, we will see a return of the conditions we had yesterday, and we need to make sure we get as much out as we can, but it is going to be a big job for the firefighters. thank you very much indeed, the mp for the southern suburbs. we can see the conditions where he was, significantly different to where our correspondence phil mercer is at the moment, where the wind has picked

up. let's go back to one of the main stories this morning. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has called for an urgent meeting of the privy council over the us killing of a top iranian general in iraq. president trump says qasem soleimani was killed "to stop a war, not to start one." we can speak now to the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry. thank you very much for your time this morning, emily thornberry. what is it you think should happen next? i have a long memory, i remember back 17 years to the iraq war, and the pivotal role that the united nations played at that point. i don't understand why britain is not calling for an emergency meeting at the security council. i think we are in very grave circumstances and i think there is a tremendous risk that we could end up in another war, andi that we could end up in another war, and i think we have to do everything we can to pull donald trump back from this. i think that what he has done is a deliberate and reckless escalation of the conflict with

iran, and we are moving into a com pletely iran, and we are moving into a completely different scenario now, and i'm very concerned that we could get dragged into this. first of all, i don't think it should happen, but i would be concerned we would get dragged in. what do you make of the uk government response? well, i think it is pathetic. this has been going on for years now, obviously viewers will remember that when donald trump is standing —— was standing for election as president, he said he would tear up the iranian nuclear deal, and he did that when he got in, and all he has done as a result of that is give extra strings to the hardliners. there are right wing the attracts dominating parts of iran, and part of the reason for the deal was to give encouragement to the more moderate wing within iran, who knew they had to come in from the cold and start engaging with the west, but the

programme, obviously it didn't solve everything with regard to iran, but it got them talking and drop them in from the cold a bit, and much more work needed to be done, but it simply pushed them away —— to simply push them away in this way and ratchet up the military escapades is very, very dangerous. there is a guy called lawrence wilkinson who was the chief of staff of colin pebble, and people will remember he was one of the leading generals in the iraq war, and he said president trump has been playing to the iraqi war playbook for some time. —— colin powell. he said, i sold the false

protects —— prospectus, and i'm worried is what is happening. we need to speak to the un security council, there are times we need to stand up to the us, we should make it clear it was wrong to tear up the deal, and we need to make it clear that activities such as this are counter—productive bringing us on the path to war. have we learned nothing from our previous escapades in the middle east? it does us no good, and frankly puts british military in the way of harm, and also frankly millions of civilians, innocent civilians have their lives traumatised and profoundly changed. look what has happened in syria or iraq, have we learned nothing? looking at the foreign office advice released this morning advising against travel to iraq and iran, is

it your concern that british citizens, not necessarily military personnel, are more at risk by what has happened ? personnel, are more at risk by what has happened? of course, and my thoughts go out to the family of nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, it is the hardliners in iran who have her and other innocent british civilians who have dual nationality, and what worries me is the same as worries richard, that if we end up in conflict, the rights and needs of women such as her will go out of the window, i am very concerned about that and also profoundly concerned about the wider issue, that piece in the middle east is extremely unstable. what will happen now in iraq, given that sovereignty has been breached by president trump bombing baghdad airport in order to kill the leader of the iranian military? how will they respond to

that? there is talk today that the iraqis will be under pressure to demand the americans leave iraq. what happens then to fighting the insurgent al-qaeda? can i just ask you another question, the supporters of donald trump would say, when you are the leader of a nation and you know that you have in your sites and known enemy who you believe to have been responsible for many, many killings over a long period of time, and you have the word from people on the ground that you could take someone the ground that you could take someone out in a moment in time, this presents a challenge to anyone in leadership, and other people have been asked this question as well, you have a window of opportunity, one minute, whatever the timescale is, we don't know the detail, what do you do? so, the first thing you do, if your country is under imminent attack, you must do

everything to defend it. but if it is, asa everything to defend it. but if it is, as a result of a pattern of behaviour, listen, ished no tears for the death of the guy and i appreciate he has the blood of many innocent people on his hands, but if the justification is that he is generally a threat and has been the leader of the iranian forces in southern lebanon or syria, where there have been many opportunities in the past to kill him, but people have stood back and said, what will of that be in terms of peace? all i am saying is they have been times in the past when we have thought, isn't ita the past when we have thought, isn't it a good idea to get rid of gaddafi, or the leader of iraq, these are bad guys, let's kill them. have we learned nothing from previous escapades? it is superficially attractive to decide, yes, it would be good to take the opportunity to kill this person or that person, but have we learned

nothing? lessons from chilcott are that you should not be taking military action unless you think through the consequences of what you're doing, and unless you have a clear plan of where this is taking you, do not do it. it may give you momentary satisfaction, but it is reckless and drunk, and we should be standing up to donald trump and say no. emily thornberry, thanks very much for your time this morning. a full round—up of the paper is coming shortly, but first, the weather. starting with the terrifically high temperatures we are hearing about in australia. yes, we have been talking about south australia, and rightly so. those dark red areas are the searing temperatures, indicative of temperatures, indicative of temperatures which, at this time of year, the major towns and cities across the south—east of australia, should be upper 205 or so. i show

you these temperatures, and you see why we have such a problem. add to the strength of the wind you have seen so the strength of the wind you have seen so graphically represented in the report by phil mercer, these temperatures, some 15 to 20 degrees above what they should be at this time of year. i know it is the summertime, but that is extraordinary. we have seen camera record temperature, correspondence from them this morning, and also an unconfirmed report just to from them this morning, and also an unconfirmed reportjust to the western suburbs of sydney, a temperature of 48.9 celsius, which would be a new temperature record by 1.5 degrees. this is the situation on sunday, notice how the dark colours become more confined a little further north, and the reason for the change, and it is only with regard to temperatures, is that we have this weather front coming in. some rain to the north and west of adelaide, but this portion of the

weather front is significant with regard to rain, but it marks the change to the southerly wind, gusts around 45 mph, and there are severe weather warnings about that. closer to home, it is a chilly sort of start to the day because we had the transition behind the weather front of cool air transition behind the weather front of coolaircoming in transition behind the weather front of cool air coming in from the west, from the atlantic, and nigh today we start off cool and grey in a number of locations. there are some gaps in the cloud, as some weather watchers have shown us. across the north of scotla nd have shown us. across the north of scotland rain will come and go throughout the course of the day. there is the temperature. not spectacular. it could be a lot colder at this time of year. no signs ofan colder at this time of year. no signs of an easterly in the forecast for the next few days, or the forthcoming week in fact. overnight the gaps are coming and going, and if we keep on for any length of

time... the gaps tomorrow, they are fleeting. the eastern side of the pennines, eastern side of the welsh hills could also favour a little sunshine. because the wind is a little more south than south—westerly rather than western and south—westerly, just finding a degree or two. into the start of next week, this is getting into monday for the return to work, there isa monday for the return to work, there is a combination of wet and windy fair, and we ramp up the wins as we go into tuesday in the north of scotland. we are talking about gales at times. but the one positive as it is relatively mild for the time of year.

jon tonge is here to tell us what's caught their eye. were talking about the candidates to be the new labour party leader. there is an interview withjess phillips, combining the back story, working class background, first child at 22, some family problems, reliance upon benefits, with the critique she offers of the labour party when she says we had a real credibility problem at the last election, working class voters did not believe we could deliver the spending promises. she talks about how working class people scrimp and save for holidays or christmas, and to simply offer such a generous package as labour did defied credibility, that is her critique. the only thing missing is what her

policies would be to address that, and we need to hear notjust from jess phillips, but all the other candidates and fairness. still some candidates and fairness. still some candidates to declare, we believe.” think there will be as many as eight candidates trying to get on the ballot paper for it. whether they will all get on it and get sufficient support within the party is another matter. there is a high number of women candidates, and this could belabour‘s first chance to have a labour leader in the 120 yea rs of its have a labour leader in the 120 years of its existence. there are quickfire questions, question time or strictly come dancing? strictly is the answer. gas have —— glass half empty or full? full, all the time. straight talking, that is the pitch, we can connect to working—class voters and win them back for the labour party. a lot of the front pages talking about action and iran over the last 36 hours, and

the ft has a lot of the front pages talking about action in iran over the last 36 hours, and the ft has apiece. this comes from a us diplomat who has been there and done that, in terms of global hotspots. a very gloomy piece. he says there is no chance at all of avoiding retaliation, suggests the americans will be forced to withdraw troops from iraq rather than the current administration is doing, sending more troops. he says this will not bea more troops. he says this will not be a conventional war on battlefields with soldiers, it will bea battlefields with soldiers, it will be a cyber war, the iranian use of militias in various parts of the middle east, and frankly a war without end, is what he says. a very gloomy piece, from someone who has not given to hyperbole. take us away from all that, to something closer to home, there is a story in the mirror, death of the saturdayjob. did you have one? yes, i was a paper

delivery boy, but people take ages to get them because i was reading them on the way. i had a firm job, i don't know if i had a saturdayjob, i had part—timejobs and things along the way. according to this piece in the mirror, the percentage of people doing these part—time jobs is in sharp decline, declined to 2596, is in sharp decline, declined to 25%, a drop of half almost over the last two decades. why is that? paul routledge on the left—hand side of the piece as the headline is layabout kids miss out, but it is more subtle than the headline suggests, basically the concentration on good gcse results, good a—level results, means there is more pressure for kids, they haven't got time, and the same at university, the number of people working part—time even as university stu d e nts working part—time even as university students has fallen in the last few yea rs. students has fallen in the last few years. the irony being they were

facing huge debts at the end of their education. if you're a university student, the money is slightly better, if you're 16 or 17, the wage for pounds 35p, you will not get the money. there is also the suspicion that the bank of mum and dad will help, if they pay their offspring doing jobs around the house, that may be better rewarded than doing a paper round.” house, that may be better rewarded than doing a paper round. i have an image of you walking around, where we re image of you walking around, where were you then? i lived in southport at that point. i was dismissed three times for taking too long, reading the papers! and look at you now! occasionally i would take the paper home on the person never got it, so i apologise. someone will be out there, thinking, when was this?m was the 19705, early 19805. there, thinking, when was this?m was the 1970s, early 1980s. good to see you, thank you forjoining us. stay with us, headlines coming up.

good morning, welcome to breakfast with sally nugent. and charlie stayt. our headlines today. president trump defends the us airstrike that killed iran's top military commander — saying it was done to prevent further attacks on americans. iran has warned it will avenge the attack. president trump says qasem soleimani was killed to end rain on terror. in the last few minutes emily thornberry told us that the attack

ta kes thornberry told us that the attack takes us closer to war. i don't understand why we are not having an emergency meeting with the un security council. i think there is a tremendous risk we could end up in another war, and i think we have to do everything we can to pull donald trump back from this. i think that what he has done is a deliberate and reckless escalation of the conflict with iran, and we are moving into a com pletely with iran, and we are moving into a completely different scenario now, andi completely different scenario now, and i am very concerned that we could get dragged into this. first of all i don't think it should happen, but secondly i would be concerned we would get dragged in. in the last hour the british foreign office has advised all uk nationals against travelling to parts of iraq and iran. the foreign secretaries cited heightened tensions following the death of qasem soleimani, and people are advised not to travel to iraq, with the exception of the kurdistan, and to consider carefully if it is essential to travel.

australia's prime minister scott morrison says he'll deploy 3,000 army reserve troops to help tackle raging bush fires across the country, as the death toll continues to rise. there are fears high winds and soaring temperatures could push fires into populated areas this weekend. the psychic derek acorah has passed away, according to a statement by his wife. the climate change campaigner greta thunberg has changed her name to "sharon" on twitter, in honour of a celebrity game show contestant who appeared to have no idea who she was. the casualty actress amanda henderson was appearing on celebrity mastermind, when she was asked to name the famous activist. take a look at this. the 2019 book entitled no—one is too small to make

a difference is a collection of speeches by a swedish climate change activist, what's her name? sharon? greta thunberg. one of these awful moments. mind blank. i have had lots of those on any number of quiz shows over the yea rs. on any number of quiz shows over the years. plenty on programme as well! a clip of her answer has been viewed more than five million times online. the video soon made its way back to greta thunberg herself, and yesterday she changed her name on twitter. i like that! sharon is with us now! we have all done it! i think it happens to everyone. we are talking the fa cup to begin with. the little quys the fa cup to begin with. the little guys against the big guys. manchester city won the competition last year, and it is a special place in the weekend schedules this weekend because it is the fa cup third round, where the smaller teams

get to shine against the big boys, and they don't come much bigger than the holders manchester city, and thatis the holders manchester city, and that is where league 2 side port vale are this evening. they enjoyed a comfortable win against cheltenham, but they won't recognise the etihad stadium. robbie williams had a hit album called sing when you're winning, but he is not expecting that this time. maybe this is expecting a miracle too far. miracles do happen, but maybe this is expecting a miracle a bit too far. who knows, you know? pep might put out hisjunior squad.

please, pep. england had a poor opening day with the bat,. sam james took advantage of a hamstring injury to quins' tom lawday, as he tried to block him at the line. it was a feisty game, with three players sin binned, and sale took it by 48 points to 10 — that bonus point win taking them up to third in the table. in the pro14, ireland winger jacob stockdale scored his first club try for a year, as ulster continued their unbeaten run at home this season, they picked up a bonus point 38—17 win over munster in belfast. and three penalties from leigh halfpenny helped scarlets to go top of conference b — they only scored one try, through gareth davies, but it was the turning point in their 16—14 win at cardiff.

they are going to play this film just before. yes, in minute of silence. raising awareness of mental health support. friends and supporters of harry dunn, the motorcyclist who died when he was struck by a car driven by the wife of an american diplomat in august, are gathering outside the raf base where it took place. they're holding a demonstration to raise awareness of their fight to have anne sacoolas extradited to the uk, to face a charge of causing death by dangerous driving. the dunn family spokesman radd seigerjoins us now from raf croughton in northamptonshire. get money to. thank you for your time today. just explain why the demonstration is happening today and why you're standing exactly where you are right now. look, we had a

huge developmentjust before christmas when answer because this was charged with causing harry's death by dangerous driving. that was a huge relief to the family. it is very shortly after that we started to hear some worrying messages coming out of washington. also signal since that if she were to be sent back to be an egregious abuse that would set a dangerous precedent. look, the family and friends of harry are extremely frightened, extremely great. those noises out of washington are not helping. when you combine fear and worry and anxiety, there was a powerful emotions. this campaign will not stop until answer killers is back facing the localjustice system and the friends of harry, they are all young, bright kids, absolutely determined to not let this go. they say it is very important to be here to send that loud and clear message to washington that they will not ever accept the

situation where it is acceptable by the good american people who work here to come out of this base to kill us and then walk away. can you just explain the geography letter bed and where you are invited so significant? yes. i am standing right outside the raf base. this is one of the leading bases operated throughout the world. we are right on the border of northamptonshire and oxfordshire and harry's family lived about three miles north of here. this is the place where the fa ns a ppa re ntly here. this is the place where the fans apparently multi to, demonstrate, because ultimately, u nless demonstrate, because ultimately, unless the americans commit to sand and back to face the justice system, she is innocent until proven guilty let us not forget that. they are determined to close the space down and that is ultimately what will happen. these people here pose a

threat to us and none of us will accept that in any of our communities. as far as she are aware about is the very latest on the extradition request? everything is going well in london and we were assured by priti patel, which came to my house just before christmas to meet with the family that things are be dealt with under the bill of law and due process of be followed. we we re and due process of be followed. we were grateful to hear that message. but the decision will ultimately be made in washington. without wanting to bring politics into it, i am a freight i have which are placed but ijust do not freight i have which are placed but i just do not trust the trump administration are anything any more. you know, whether they will deal with it quickly or kick it into the long grass? were refused extradition request is out of our hands. that is where the decision will be made, in washington. thank you very much. just to bring you

up—to—date with the situation in the australian fires. the record temperatures that are causing real problems. our correspond was that we saw his location for marquee was broadcasting in new south wales changed magically even during the morning. they went conditions particularly are causing actual risk. there has been having a look at the problems they are facing this morning. indeed we have. the temperatures across that area of australia have been 20 degrees above the seasonal normal. so, we have had temperatures, an unconfirmed report just west of sydney of around 48.9 celsius. that has not been confirmed by the bureau of meteorology. the change we are expecting throughout the course of this weekend, it may have heard this phrase southerly change. that is when a weather front comes in from the south through the fire affected area in the

south—east. that changes they went direction, not during the heat out of the centre of the trolley. we offer up of the centre of the trolley. we offerupa of the centre of the trolley. we offer up a reduction in temperatures, but the southerly went behind that by the front which offers no meaningful prospect of rain into the fire affected areas, thatis rain into the fire affected areas, that is southerly and could be every bit as ghastly as the wind our correspondence was experiencing at the last report. but deathly pole of smoke and those almost hell —like orange slice. quality a real issue. a reduction in temperatures, yes, but no meaningful rain and still if strong wind. by comparison, coming back to the uk, things are really quite quiet this weekend for many others. a lot of cloud in the forecast, she will say. but things are going to be dry. notable exception immediately in the direction of the north—west of scotland, quite close to a weather

front. he had had rain or continue to have rain on and off during the course of the rest of the morning on into this afternoon and overnight, as well. elsewhere, the cloud comes and goes. really tough going. i do not expect sympathy as a forecaster, but chasing this cloud. the eastern side of the hills perhaps. perhaps they're in quite nicely. i do nothing the weather but get in the way of whatever you have intended today. perhaps it is more of a factor across the north—west of scotland, were again the rain will keep going overnight. the rest of the gaps towards the east allowing the gaps towards the east allowing the temperature to dribble away to four of 5 degrees or so. elsewhere four of 5 degrees or so. elsewhere four to about 8 degrees is where we starting today and sunday, as well. change for sunday? only in as a painter went a little bit more south and south—westerly. a fraction milder. still a lot of cloud, the old spot of rain on the breeze and a lot of rain on this north—western

quarter of scotland. notice how those temperatures have come up, perhaps ten, 11, are lucky. a lot of isobars and a weather front. thus be an issue across northern and western parts of the british isles as we get the day. further east, i think you will stay dry but that that longer. from about the wash down towards the isle of wight. following on behind the rain, a brighter enter the day across northern ireland. but the little ridge of high pressure that brings that is but a temporary, temporary transit feature. because, asi temporary transit feature. because, as i take you from monday to tuesday, look at that. a real squeeze in the isobars and a lot of rain in the northern half. they went to catch the headlines, because that could be disruptive. the forthcoming when weak, real january could be disruptive. the forthcoming when weak, realjanuary star. in the senseit when weak, realjanuary star. in the sense it is a better times, gales to be had, but as i have been saying

throughout the morning, the one—stop perhaps is that it is mild the time of year. back to. it was the original reality television — "castaway 2000" saw 36 men, women and children stranded on a remote scottish island for a whole year as they struggled to build a community. one of those taking part was ben fogle — who is now a household name as a tv presenter and author. he's gone back to the island to mark 20 years since to mark 20 years since that first adventure. let's have a brief reminder of the series. beautiful place. so, at the end of the year is it ok if i stay here? hello and welcome to the weather. as you can see, it is a fine day here with mild, light, southerly winds. break!

the island isjust fantastic. cannot explain what it's like. yesterday was absolutely stunning. ben foglejoins us from tara nsay now. on the island paris, rg, then? looking out towards tyneside. on the island paris, rg, then? looking out towards tynesidem on the island paris, rg, then? looking out towards tyneside. it is just amazing. that is the island behind me. it is so evocative to be backing. it is a bit like a pill image, to be honest. this part of they will change my whole life. it gave me amazing opportunities and it is also where i fell in love with nature, with islands, the travel, with adventure, with all of those things. i have a lot to thank as pa rt things. i have a lot to thank as part of the world for. so, bend, for people who cannot remember, paint a picture of yourself. what you are like and where you went there in the precipice. it was 20 years ago, but

people must remember is that reality tv did not really exist in its current form back then. i was working in central london, doing a job i did not really want to stick with and i saw this advert in the paper saying volunteers wanted to be marine for a year on an island and i lea pt marine for a year on an island and i leapt at the opportunity. it was adventure, it was exciting. we spent adventure, it was exciting. we spent a whole year living over there, cut off from the outside world, new phone, no internet, no social media. it was just us. it changed my whole life. there were 36 of us, including children and i just life. there were 36 of us, including children and ijust had so much to be thanked for and that is one of the reasons i had come back. in fa ct, the reasons i had come back. in fact, i am giving a talk today on the beach just behind fact, i am giving a talk today on the beachjust behind me. i in the inviting islanders to come along. i have been touring the country with a staged her old tales from the window nest which is my whole story from the island where i am today. i

thought it was... et al. try to come back here in the beginning of 2020. to share my server to islanders and to thank them. i am not alone. some are over here is my own daughter, who was not here when i lived on the island. but it means huge amount to be able to come back with my own family and share with them just how important this part of the world as fermi. that is really special. lovely to see you both there. did they know a lot about what you did then? capital than the whole story? i have. i own and is part of the story. i had the dvd is determined they have watched little bits of it. but i think it is quite hard to explain to people now watch castor mobiles. it was not really reality tv, there was no winner, new game show, none of us were paid. none of us mandatory fame and fortune. we went there to have an amazing adventure and i think if you watch

the show now, it seems a bit slow. but back then, it was more of a social experiment. it was to see whether we could go back to our brits and back to a simpler life, one off grid. i think now, as we head into the 205, which i suppose we are now, more and more people are looking for a simpler way of life. less i m pa ct looking for a simpler way of life. less impact on the landscape around us. i think there is a lot we can learn from that show. i tell you what, bend, normally your children are very what, bend, normally your children are very uninterested in what she had done in the past, they are great levellers, and they? they sometimes treat stuff like that little bit dismissive. this one keeps me on my toes. i may climb mount everest and go and do all of those things, but she is far more interested in colouring, painting, running around singing, eating, all of those things

keep me on my toes. are lovely to see you both. iona, thank you very much. lovely to see on irish beans, as well. looks like testing conditions for you as she heads out. —— lovely to see you on our screens. it isa —— lovely to see you on our screens. it is a prevent on the beach. we are going for a swim, as well. —— three event. we will be in the water later! is iona going, too? you going summing? i think that is the plan. she is a hardy girl, named after one of the local islands. lovely. have a great day, then. can you imagine summing in that today? it will be bracing. it's twelfth night on monday, which means many of us will be taking down our christmas

decorations this weekend — and getting rid of the tree. if you don't fancy wrestling yours into the car — and finding needles in there for the rest of the year — there are charities who'll take it away for a small fee. mairead smith is in liverpool to tell us more. good morning to you. welcome to sefton park tear behind me you can see there are hundreds of trees that people had been prepared to squeeze into their cars. the smell is beautiful, it makes me sad that it is the end of christmas. two days to go before 1290 and these trees are already piling up. i am joined by councillor loren roberts and collins. this is one of 12 sites in liverpool, is it like this on the other sites? absolutely. we only collect about 15,000 trees and we are asking people to dispose of their trees responsibly. we can use these trees, which happen, we can use them in our parks and for compost to help us to grow our other green spaces. it is very important that people taping the treatment of

the sites. i surprisingly so many before 12th night? people are busy starting to have a tidier before back to school. we have been collecting mega lay, so please come along and use them. it is really important that we dispose of things responsibly. we had a climate emergency and we need to cut down on the amount of waste we are producing. if you want to cut down on your waist and help a charity, you can get in touch with a hospice in some towns. the on tell us more. it is the 38 at this initiative. we will come around and collect christmas trees from people in the st helens area. we were cycle for a minimum donation of £5. it helps us raise much—needed funds for the hospice. we do not get all of our money from the nhs, unfortunately, and we can use this money to buy equipment to help patients. hopefully you can base thousands and you could also help ascorbate a bar

track? we are helping a school when, hopefully, a world record in building a bunk hotel. we will donate some of the trees to them and they will then try and take a place... hopefully, yes, the school but do well out of it. getting rid of trees, hopefully helping to break a world track. if people want to get in touch, how can i let you know that they wanted to pick up the trees? not you personally, but somebody will come and help, but they? they will. they come into shop we can given that the number of the fundraising office where we can give them a leaflet and given that information and they can ring up and arranged my collection. wonderful. obviously some of the huge different, doesn't it, this money? it certainly does. all aspects, the

fundraising is very important. taking advantage of the christmas tree collection is a great opportunity to raise more funds. wonderful. you have the choice then, you can get in touch with a hospice in athens, and pick up your tree for a minimum donation of five points or you can bring a tear. one of 12 sites across liverpool. i better let these guys get on with the job, i have stopped them twice already today for picking up all that these christmas trees. i better get back home in so doing mine. back to you. great to see you, thank you. the time now is 9:53am. when it comes to good news, you might think that winning two million pounds on the lottery is hard to beat. but we're about to meet a family who did exactly that. john and allison mcdonald scooped the lotto jackpot a week before christmas. three days later they were told that their teenage son ewan, who had been diagnosed with non—hodgkin lymphoma in may, is now cancer free. john, allison

and ewanjoin us now. wonderful to see looking so well, michael t. how wonderful to see looking so well, michaelt. how are wonderful to see looking so well, michael t. how are you feeling? good, thank you. your treatment was gruelling and tough, how bad has it been for you? i was in hospital most of the time. 12 weeks i had for the tone. dad is getting a big thumbs up. this is such a great story. telus when you knew that you were free of the cancer. about the 21st, it was three days after finding out about the lottery win. fantastic. let us go back in time a little bit new can tell the tale. we saw those pictures of the lottery win. just tell us that story, first of all. how did you find out you had won the money? i had gone to work that

morning, the day after the draw, i had done some patrols and thought i would go and have a t. patrols, because you are... i am a security officer. i opened up my lottery app, got my ticket out and progressed to got my ticket out and progressed to go through my numbers one at a time. i normally put my thumb across and the first one came out, number 13. thought that was good. they think you might add that yes! i have a lucky dip, fantastic! the more numbers, i thought some money are coming my way. the last two numbers just hit me right in the face. i just hit me right in the face. i just thought oh, my god, i have won the lottery. alison, pick up the story. i had a mascot iphone, but i was ina story. i had a mascot iphone, but i was in a dentist. —— i had a missed call. iphone him back and he told me. when you saw the missed call did

you not think it was bad news? yes, i thought maybe something that happened with ewan. but it was actually the lottery win. at that time, you know, that is an amazing thing to happen, petunia to same time that ewan had the struggle and it was ongoing at that point. so, i guess life was not sweet as it might has been in other circumstances. and then, you find out the good news about... yes, earlier in the wiki had had a scan. we are waiting on the scan results and it came three days after we found out we had one. i have to ask the $60 million question, what she going to spend it on? we planned by any family home, but is as far as we have got.” retired the thursday morning i

checked my lottery ticket. but no money like that is a wonderful thing, but it is nothing compared with having a hell. that is right. you probably had a few thoughts about that, because that is exactly the situation he had been in. you must think that, too, aquitaine. health comes first. winning the lottery is good news. who would've thought she could get news that week? and then you did. are you going to do anything together as a family to mark this to pulling things? i guess we will have a family holiday. where do you want to 90. family holiday. where do you want to go, ewan? i would family holiday. where do you want to go, ewan? iwould not family holiday. where do you want to go, ewan? i would not mind going to estrella. telus elizabeth about the future for you. we have gcse year coming up now. obviously the treatment you are having has not been easy, tells about that.”

treatment you are having has not been easy, tells about that. i was doing and! been easy, tells about that. i was doing and i am today in hospital of different subjects, and then dropped four subjects at school to concentrate on mars, english and science. because you're to balance that out with your treatment, presuming late not feeling too good either? no. i am hoping to go into a in college. brilliant. what is your favourite subject? i want to do chemistry and biology. you have got plenty of time. i can only imagine you guys passing on these various bits of information to friends and family. what has that been like? lots and lots of messages. from some friends we do not even know. i have got a niece over in australia who message my brothers saying uncle john has on the lottery, do you know? so, it isjust antacid. all

really nice messages and goodwill messages, so really nice messages and goodwill messages, so that is really nice. great story for the new year. good luck with exams, so glad you are well. nice to end on a happy note. it was lovely to see you. that's all from us this morning. thanks forjoining us. have a good saturday.

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