good morning. welcome to breakfast with me, charlie stayt. our headlines today. siren. a siren rings out to mark 20 years since a deadly tsunami killed around 230,000 people from more than a dozen countries across asia. the king praises the response to the uk riots in his christmas message, as he gives his personal thanks to the health workers who supported him during cancer treatment. i offer special, heartfelt thanks to the selfless doctors and nurses who this year have supported me and other members of my family. boxing day sales begin, but the doors to some of the uk's largest retailers remain closed but online sales are expected to rise. in sport, pep guardiola needs a boxing day boost. manchester city's premier league run is historically bad and now their boss has

warned they might miss out on the champions league. and ten years since she was last on our screens, miranda hart shares her long fight for a medical diagnosis and how she met her new husband while dealing with a mould problem in her house. go did he do a good job? i'm pleased go did he do a good “ob? i'm pleased to sa he go did he do a good “ob? i'm pleased to say he was _ go did he do a good “ob? i'm pleased to say he was an — go did he do a good job? i'm pleased to say he was an excellent _ go did he do a good job? i'm pleased to say he was an excellent project - to say he was an excellent project manager! i was involved... the mould man, as i call him. manager! i was involved. .. the mould man, as i call him.— good morning, it is going to be another cloudy and leggy day head with drizzle in the forecast, we have rain across parts of northern ireland and scotland. there will be some limited brightness in eastern england and north—east wales. i will have all the details later in the programme. good morning. it's thursday the 26th of december. our main story.

countries affected by the 2004 boxing day tsunami have been commemorating the 20th anniversary of the disaster. the vast wave, caused by an earthquake in the indian ocean, struck indonesia first before engulfing island and coastal communities in a dozen other countries including thailand, india and sri lanka. around 230,000 people died, and nearly two million people were displaced. 0ur south—east asia correspondent jonathan head, who witnessed the devastation in 2004, sent this report. siren. the chilling wail of the warning sirens this morning in northern indonesia, in banda aceh, marking the moment when the city was almost completely wiped out by the biggest tsunami in modern times. a frightening reminderfor survivors, it is also a reassurance that today, they are better prepared. in

thailand, they hung photographs of those who died on the tiled memorial, which reaches the height of the wave which smashed into the beaches on that boxing day morning. most of the 15! british victims died here. translation: i most of the 151 british victims died here. translation:— most of the 151 british victims died here. translation: i feel this may. it has been 20 _ here. translation: i feel this may. it has been 20 years. _ here. translation: i feel this may. it has been 20 years. i _ here. translation: i feel this may. it has been 20 years. i came - here. translation: i feel this may. it has been 20 years. i came here i it has been 20 years. i came here every day of stop time flies, but it passes slowly in our minds. few understood _ passes slowly in our minds. few understood what _ passes slowly in our minds. few understood what was happening back then, as they watched the lethal torrent of water roaring in. there had been no warnings. thailand, like sri lanka, was a long way from the massive earthquake which sent the wave racing across the indian ocean. over here in this building, welcome at the moment... for those of us reporting the toon army, it was like

nothing we had experienced before. —— is reporting the tsunami. arriving on an island in thailand, i watch them full body after body, most of them tourists still in their colourful beachwear, from under the rubble. i300 colourful beachwear, from under the rubble. 1300 had died in this small island in a matter of minutes. the destruction i witnessed in indonesia was an almost unimaginable scale. scenes of death and grief which remained bert into my memory. yet the survivors rebuilt and recovered, sometimes from communities of which only fragments remained. leaving, here and there, monuments to that dreadful day. and carrying the hard lessons learned on what to do, should they hear the sirens, part of a now greatly improved warning system, go off. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. jonathanjoins us now from the thai capital, bangkok. good morning. your report, there, we heard some sombre reflections but

also a reminder in those images from your reporting of the scale of the destruction then.— destruction then. yes, it was absolutely — destruction then. yes, it was absolutely unprecedented. . destruction then. yes, it was l absolutely unprecedented. all destruction then. yes, it was - absolutely unprecedented. all of us were just stunned as we looked around, notjust at were just stunned as we looked around, not just at the death, were just stunned as we looked around, notjust at the death, on a scale we will never experience again, ithink, but scale we will never experience again, i think, but at the almost despairing grief of the people who had lost everything. i have covered so many disasters and other events where loss and grief are part of it. but not on that scale. i remember meeting people in aceh who were just a handful of survivors of a community of a few thousand, who have lost their neighbours, families, homes, even the land on which their villages were built had been washed away by the tsunami. at that stage, they couldn't think how they would possibly ever recover. but when you reflect back, 20 years later, of course, for those who lost so much, it is still a trauma,

reliving it, and yet people did rebuild. i think what was so different for us was, you know, when you cover other kinds of news events where there is a lot of fault and blame and analysis, a lot of debate, this was a natural disaster. yes, they should have had better preparations but people did recover. it really showed the indomitable spirit to rebuild communities and lives that people can show even in the most despairing circumstances. for the moment, thank you very much. king charles has used his christmas message to pay tribute to the medical staff who treated him and the princess of wales for cancer this year. he also spoke of his pride at how communities responded to the summer riots. here's our senior royal correspondent daniela relph. the king and queen led the royalfamily from church on the sandringham estate. a moment to reflect on the challenges of the past 12 months. the prince and princess of wales were with them, alongside their three children. for the crowds, who stood

for many hours waiting for a glimpse of the royals, there was a chance to chat and hand over gifts. thank you very much. thank you so much, yeah. it's very kind of you to come all this way. happy christmas. god save the king plays. in his christmas message, delivered from a former hospital chapel in central london rather than a royal residence, the king spoke of the suffering we all experience at some stage of our life, and touched on his own experience of cancer treatment. from a personal point of view, i offer special, heartfelt thanks to the selfless doctors and nurses who this year have supported me and other members of my family through the uncertainties and anxieties of illness, and have helped provide the strength, care and comfort we have needed. recalling his visit to australia and samoa, he talked of diversity as a strength, not a weakness, and emphasised

the power of community, especially after the summer riots in the uk. i felt a deep sense of pride here in the united kingdom when, in response to anger and lawlessness in several towns this summer, communities came together, not to repeat these behaviours, but to repair. to repair notjust buildings but relationships. and most importantly, to repair trust by listening, and, through understanding, deciding how to act for the good of all. the king's christmas message from this small, intimate chapel is more personal and more direct this year, reflecting the challenging 12 months he has been through. the king's cancer treatment will continue into 2025. but palace sources say this christmas he is feeling positive about the year ahead.

daniela relph, bbc news. authorities in kazakhstan say 38 people were killed, and 29 survived, when a plane crashed near the city of aktau. the plane came down while flying from baku, in azerbaijan, to grozny, in the chechen province of russia. the azerbaijani president says a criminal investigation is under way, president biden has described russia's christmas day air strikes on ukraine as "outrageous" and a deliberate attempt to cut people's power supply during the cold winter months. moscow fired more than 170 missiles and drones, killing one person and leaving around 500,000 without power. at least ten people have been killed in two separate israeli airstrikes on gaza. one of the attacks was on a minibus which the gazan health authorities say was carrying journalists. the israeli military claim it was a terrorist cell. millions of shoppers will be seeking bargains

in the boxing day sales today, although some major chains, including next, john lewis and aldi, will remain closed. retail forecasters are also predicting a 7% increase in online spending. our correspondent colletta smith has the details. perhaps you're hitting the shops and spending big today. i've grown up going to boxing day shopping every single year. i used to have the struggle of who can take us because the trains never used to be on, the buses never used to be on, so we're finding a parent that will get up with us at 7am so that we can be there when everything opens. and the first year that one of us could drive, we were straight there. but this year, ellen is not leaving the sofa. she's staying at home, joining millions of others with their feet up, within reach of a box of chocs. but she will still be working and shopping as well. i have stuff prepared beforehand that i can just then pop in...the prices or, um, confirm everything, and then i canjust pop them out,

so that then i can go and shop and enjoy it. as a full—time influencer, ellen earns a living by working for big make—up brands, promoting the products she likes. i'm very much an advocate for a bargain or a discount, so when things are on sale, obviously i shout about them quite a lot. black friday is a biggie and boxing day is important too, then. 100%, yeah, especially because people have just had christmas money and they've seen what they've got for christmas, what they've not got. let's go and see if i can, like, get this now cheaper. adobe provide behind—the—scenes data about online customers for most of the biggest online retailers. they're predicting almost £0.5 billion will be spent online this boxing day here in the uk. while some people are certainly planning to hit the shops this boxing day, lots of people will be using their phone instead. the boxing day factors are around people maybe returning items, buying different types of items. in fact, adobe thinks 60%

of online sales today will be made through a mobile. there's still strength and interest around spending on boxing day, so it's really important for retailers to think about how they can capitalise on this sort of second wave of spending after christmas. i will definitely scroll - because i'm always scrolling. he said i've got on first name terms with the delivery guy. _ well, since covid, isn't it, everyone just does it online now, so... i can't be bothered going outside. it's too busy! barely bought a single christmas present in the shops. i bought it all online this year. have you? the only time i come shopping is when i need inspiration. yeah, that's why we're here today. but there are still plenty of shoppers keen to spend in person. i think because you've been in on christmas day and that, and it's been busy, i'd just like to go out there and have a little...little escape. the husbands and partners watch football. 0h! so it's a sports day, so it's girls to go out. ok, so that's your little escape. that's it. getting out to the shops. yeah.

last year i was heavily pregnant, and i went at 6am, didn't i? because if you're ordering online, most of the stuff are out of stock before you've even clicked order. and it's that feeling of bagging a deal, whether in person or online, that will keep the tills ringing this boxing day. colletta smith, bbc news, in warrington. thousands of miles of historic footpaths that faced being lost forever could now be saved, after the government committed to lifting a deadline for all england's rights of ways to be mapped. campaigners have welcomed the decision but a body that represents rural landowners said it will cause "significant uncertainty" for farmers. a bracing walk in the countryside. for many, a boxing day tradition. but the previous government had said that public rights of way would have to be registered within the next six years, or they would be gone forever. that deadline has now been removed, to the delight of campaigners, who say mapping them all in that time frame would have been impossible. well, there are hundreds of miles,

if not thousands of miles, of paths out there which are public highways in law, so we have the right to use them on foot, bike, horseback, but they're unrecorded, and so they're a secret and nobody knows they're there. developers build over them. landowners plant crops over them. so we need to get those paths put on the map so we all know where they are, so that we can use and enjoy them. and the 2031 cut—off was designed to stop us from doing that, and would have meant that all these public paths would have remained a secret, would have been lost. the battle over access to the countryside stretches back decades. the mass trespass of kinder scout in 1932 kick—started a campaign which eventually led to the creation of a definitive map showing public rights of way. but the map has never been declared complete. it's thought there are more than 40,000 miles of historic rights of way across england and wales, and as of march this year, there were nearly 8,000 unprocessed

applications sitting with councils, with research suggesting local authorities have worked through fewer than one in three cases over the past five years. but a deadline for a definitive list would have given landowners certainty over the status of their land, with the national farmers union saying today's announcement means claims will continue to disrupt many farm businesses for years to come, with an outdated focus on routes that haven't been used for centuries. and so, in many places, the clash over who has a right to access historic routes looks set to continue long into the future, the kind of argument that many hope won't get in the way of the pleasure of their boxing day walk. hannah miller, bbc news. the security service mis has released a special version of the poem the night before christmas, voiced by the actor gary oldman. �*twas the night before christmas, when all through thames house, not a creature was stirring —

just the click of a mouse. fans of the show slow horses will recognise the voice of oldman�*s character, jackson lamb, a spy in charge of a group of failed mis agents, as he recites a slightly altered version of the classic poem. it's been released to highlight the work that continues to be done by the intelligence agency over the festive period. here's carol with the weather. hgppy happy christmas to you. good morning. thank you, and the same to you, and happy christmas as well. good morning, everyone. this morning, it is again another mild start to the day for the time of year. the weather today very similar to what weather today very similar to what we had on christmas day and that it is going to be mild but it will remain rather cloudy. it is also quite murky if you have not yet stepped out. a lot of low cloud and some drizzle and mist and fog, quite extensive across parts of england and wales. we have got a weather

front which has been drifting southwards through the last couple of days, producing some rain across parts of scotland and northern ireland. not quite as windy as it has been in the far north. cooler in the north, eight or nine in the northern and western isles. further south, looking at nine to about 12 degrees. heading into this evening and overnight, this is the weather front. if anything, and overnight, this is the weather front. ifanything, it and overnight, this is the weather front. if anything, it is going to retreat northwards as we go through the night, taking its patchy rain and drizzle with it. it is business as usual for the rest of us, once again, a lot of cloud around and murky conditions, some mist and fog and drizzle. one or two breaks in the east but where we see them, we could also see some fog patches forming. temperatures overnight, not cold for the time of year, 5—9 degrees the overnight lows. tomorrow sees a lot of cloud around, too, rain and drizzle now cross the far north—west of scotland. again, we could see some gristly bits and pieces coming out of the cloud in

northern ireland. —— some drizzly bits and pieces. a similar picture, not much in the way of brightness at this stage, with highs of 7—12 degrees. business as usual for us all, for now. thank you, we will see you later. this time ten years ago, one of the highlights of the festive tv schedule was the miranda christmas special. the sitcom ended in 2015, after which its creator and star, miranda hart, dropped out of the public eye, partly due to chronic ill health. she's described that experience, and much more, in a new memoir, as she explained when we sat down for a chat. # to, uh, oh, those summer nights. # oh, well, oh, well, oh, well oh, uh. laughter. that's what they're used for. btw, she isn't actually available because she is... england's number—one sex goddess. how are you? i'm 0k. physically, i'd say i've got a way to go. lyme disease is a nasty thing that

causes your immune system to go haywire and it causes a sort of me picture. so fatigue is a thing of my life, which is something that's hard to explain because everyone gets tired but...fatigue is a very, very different...different ball game. there was a moment you're at home and you collapse. yeah. and... do you want to just sort of tell me about that moment, and its significance in what obviously has been long—term problems for you 7 there was one point when i sort of tried to keep going with work, cos i was told it was just stress, or... and then eventually, at the end of a year of doing some work — not too much — but i felt so unwell and i literally — yeah, collapsed on my sitting—room floor. and i was on my own. and it was... it was sort of frightening because i thought, i don't know what's happening to my body. if a doctor came now, all i could say is, "i'm so exhausted i can't lift my hand off the floor." but at the same time, i... with years of chronic illness, i knew it was pointless to call an ambulance. so i was in this really weird

sort of in—and—out state of unconsciousness in a way. um, but at the same time, it was the profound point looking back. i'm very lucky that i can look back now and say that's when i also relaxed and went, "i surrender to this. there's nothing i can do right now. i'm either going to get better and learn what's wrong..." um... it was a sort of sink—or—swim moment. there'll be people watching this who see you today and they'll think, "you lookjust like miranda who was on the telly..." she laughs. "..ten years ago." she's the same person, funnily enough — it was me. it was you. it was me. but how are you sort of a different person than you were then? it's basically that sort of ghastly privilege of having the time and the stillness with illness to... ijust realised that was a little rhyme. sorry, ijust threw a bit... that's nice, you can do the whole thing in rhyme, if you... you probably don't get that often on this show — rhyme! she laughs. i've lost my train of thought now. go for it. but, um... yeah, it was that it gave me

the chance to really...work out who i was beyond my identity in the world as a comedian or an actress. i couldn't socialise or have relationships, so i sort of lost everything. and with that became this amazing chance to go, "what do i say yes to in the world that i actually, for me, need to say no to? who am i, really?" and working out that, actually, i'm an introvert, i need a lot of time on my own, that i became more and more — as the title of the book says — honestly, myself, and it's led to a freedom and a joy and a sort of holistic health i never thought would be possible. and i think that's what i'm so excited that most people are taking away from it. you've got married. yes. i put the little love stories, i like to call it, within it, because the way we met was quite extraordinary. i had, at the beginning of the book, this real longing not to be alone any more, and i admitted that to myself.

and it was quite painful, because i think when we long for what we want, its at a time we don't have it, so admitting that to yourself is a painful time. so i was, you know, in my 405, single. and then we met because part of my illness was i was allergic to mould in my house. i mean, you couldn't write it! and i lost my house, had to leave my house. and the project manager who came to sort out the building works, um...and is now my husband! did he do a good job? they laugh. i'm pleased... i'm pleased to say he was an excellent project manager. good with the mould? he was very good with the mould! the mould man, as i call him. nice! he was lovely. but, um... yeah, i was out of the house and a friend was dealing with it all because i couldn't be in there. and we met on the sort of final day of all the works being done, and sort of did that "hello, nice to meet" — we'd had a few zooms — and sort of, i think i could say probably fell in love there and then. # thank you very much. # i need somebody with a human touch... oh, it's mortifying.

i wish the ground could have swallowed me up. how does it work looking forward? will we see you on telly? well... they laugh. no, kind of doing what we... yeah, i know what you're saying. ..people love. yeah — oh, well, i hope so. i mean, i'd be... it would be really sad for me not to be silly in a studio again. i watched sarah hadland in strictly the other night live, and just being in a studio wasjust...wonderful, and every time i've done it, seen cameras around, i'm like, yeah, this is my home — i love the camera. um... she laughs. i love myjob, so i hope so. is strictly a thing for you? yes! i mean, is it a thing that you might do? 0h, d? oh, do? no, it's the thing i very much watch. not... i like the idea of learning to dance, just not on national television. it's been lovely talking to you. it's been really fun! thank you.

i don't think i'll ever be a therapist any time soon. they laugh. but what i've learnt, i've put in the book. miranda speaking to me, there, she has had a very difficult time. miranda's book is called i haven't been entirely honest with you. it talks a lot about her problems over the is and where she is at now, as you have seen. good morning. boxing day is a big moment in sport. if it is not sunny, boxing day is about football and if it is sunny, it is about cricket. but for some many —— so many people, it is as traditional as turkey damages, the boxing day football treat, it is so unique, there are television deals which revolve around premier league matches on boxing day, they are so important to so many people in terms of what the tradition is. but pep guardiola is not a particularly

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