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You are watching murky pictures from Cairo but every few seconds we see | :00:07. | :00:18. | |
the flames bursting through, it is now midnight in Cairo. They have | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
actually lit up the pyramids with some flames as well as a fireworks | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
display which will start imminently. You can see some of the flames and | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
pick out the pyramids and the fireworks erupting over Cairo as the | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Egyptian capital celebrates the start of 2016. They have put up some | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
fire opportunities, to light up the pyramids, but the backdrop is really | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
only visible this time of night when you get the full effect from the | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
fireworks display. There you can see some of the crowds holding aloft | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
flaming torches to add a bit of light, but it is a great... What a | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
backdrop, what a backdrop. The pyramids just outside the suburbs of | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
Cairo. And a very spectacular view. We will be seeing quite a bit more | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
of this over the coming hours as different parts of the world | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
celebrate the beginning of 2016. A huge fire engulfs a hotel in Dubai | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
close to the city's New Year Witnesses say the inferno rapidly | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
spread through the skyscraper that's There | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
was debris falling down. It just shot up through | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
the entire building. Despite the blaze Dubai authorities | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
decide to go ahead with a planned Also in the next hour - | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
security is tight in central london as revellers arrive | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
for the midnight fireworks display as revellers arrive for the midnight | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
fireworks display on the River The crowds are building up here, two | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
hours ahead of midnight when 12,000 fireworks will be launched into the | :02:05. | :02:05. | |
night sky. An big clean-up operation | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
is underway after Storm Frank brings flooding misery to thousands | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
of people in Scotland and northern And at half past ten - | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
Talking Movies reports on the launch of Star Wars: The Force Awakens - | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
one of the most eagerly awaited Hello. Good evening and a warm | :02:20. | :02:44. | |
welcome to BBC News. Thank you for joining us. | :02:45. | :02:45. | |
A huge fire broke out this evening in a high-rise luxury hotel | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
It erupted as the city prepared to hold a giant fireworks display | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Officials said the fire began on the 20th floor - | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
So far there are reports of light injuries but no fatalities. | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
Here's our correspondent Bridget Kendall. | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Literally a towering inferno, an intense blaze sweeping | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
The blaze broke out less than three hours before the city's planned | :03:14. | :03:26. | |
spectacular New Year firework display. | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
Just a few metres away from the Burj Khalifa, | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
the world's tallest building, the fire apparently started | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
on the hotel's 20th floor, and before long flames engulfed | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
the side of the 63-story building, sending out billowing smoke | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Inside one resident said as the alarms went off | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
there was absolute pandemonium as people rushed to get | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
Amazingly with the help of the fire brigade and civil defence teams it | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
Officials said that apart from one person who suffered a heart attack | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
there were only moderate and light injuries. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
One jazz singer was performing inside the hotel as the blaze | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
All of the glamorous women took off their high heels | :04:16. | :04:28. | |
The wind has been really strong all week but especially tonight. | :04:29. | :04:49. | |
And the smoke and the fire really took hold of the building. | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
I can't imagine it not being in the interior. | :04:52. | :05:01. | |
After little more than an hour the fire subsided, what caused | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
There have been no signs so far that it was deliberate | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
despite fears around the world of possible terror attacks. | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
The Dubai authorities did not want to stop the party. | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
At midnight the celebrations went ahead, but it won't be the fireworks | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
that the start of 2016 will be remembered for but a massive hotel | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
fire that miraculously did not cause more injuries. | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
Our reporter Marcus George joins me now from Dubai. | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
What is the latest that the authorities are saying about the | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
state of the fire at the moment and casualties? I have been hearing from | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
eyewitnesses close to the scene of these residential towers nearby the | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
hotel and they say that flames have really died down now, the smoke is | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
still billowing away from the damage, that has been sustained over | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
this fire which has lasted so far three and a half hours, four and a | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
half hours. It has really died down. Firefighters have been under much | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
more control now. We heard from eyewitnesses and I have heard from | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
others about how massive the fire was coming golfing two thirds of the | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
building, is 63 story building. Really quite massive indeed. And | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
clearly, very concerning, causing a great deal of panic in the streets | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
below and of course in the hotel itself. Amazingly as we have heard | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
there have been no loss of life reported so far. Just mostly minor | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
injuries. That is the state of play at the moment. And it looks like it | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
will stay that way. Is there any indication of how the authorities | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
have been handling trying to bring the fire under control, apart from | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
the evacuation which seems to have been very successful, but in terms | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
of actually fighting the fire? There seems to rule out a little detail on | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
that and given that it's New Year's Eve it's impossible to actually | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
access down there, not least because you have security agencies fending | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
off the area from people getting in and trying to find out information, | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
and also because it is New Year's Eve everyone is travelling | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
everywhere, Dubai becomes a Fiesta in the streets, cost you simply go | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
anywhere, everybody wants to watch the fireworks. It's a difficult time | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
and officials have been tight-lipped so far, other than a few official | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
statements about what's going on. It appears there have been some reports | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
not yet confirmed that the fire may have been started by a curtain being | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
accidentally set on fire in one of the rooms which led to a much | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
greater fire of course. And led to this huge potential disaster which | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
appears to have been averted. As I say that is not yet confirmed. As | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
the evening wore on people hung around to enjoy the reason they came | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
in the first place, the fireworks display, which was pretty | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
impressive? Very impressive, and Dubai is well known for putting on | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
such magnificent displays, it does it pretty much every year and this | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
years was no exception. It started at the Burj Khalifa, a few minutes | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
late, and snaked its way down past the middle ground of Dubai City and | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
then up the coast towards where I am now near the Burj Al Arabiya, the | :08:37. | :08:48. | |
sail shaped hotel. Tens of thousands if not more came out to see the | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
fireworks, and I think somewhat ironically, all of these | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
evacuations, people on the ground near the Burj Khalifa were evacuated | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
so they could not get the proper picture of the fireworks quite from | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
where they wanted to. The irony is that the world got to see Dubai's | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
magnificent fireworks but actually in the background there was also a | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
burning building, so not quite the picture that Dubai wanted to get | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
across to the world, but at least we are hearing there is no loss of | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
life. Marcus George in Dubai, thanks very much. | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
On the line is Steve Brookwell - an amateur photographer who's been | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
Thank you for joining us. I know it is now two o'clock in the morning | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
where you are, things have clearly settled down a bit. What was your | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
impression as the fire took hold? Err... It was a bit surreal, to be | :09:43. | :09:51. | |
fair. Just this huge line of flames coming from around the bottom of the | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
building and going upwards, basically. How quickly did it appear | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
to take hold? It was pretty big, you had to double take to actually look | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
at it. I was setting up my tripod, I'm an amateur photographer and I | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
was getting imposition of the fireworks. I was doing preliminary | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
pictures to make sure the composition would be good and then | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
suddenly this huge ball of orange flame was coming out of the building | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
next to it. It must have been a scary site, such a huge building. It | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
is enormous. I was on the rooftop of a similar building further down the | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
street earlier in the evening for the sunset. That was smaller than | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
the building that went up to night unfortunately, and it was quite an | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
unusual evening. How did people respond and how were they reacting | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
where you were? I was on the other side of the highway, I was not under | :10:46. | :10:56. | |
the building, I was set back. To be honest, people were still just | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
enjoying themselves, we were still waiting for the fireworks because we | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
did not know whether it would be still on and people shoot it would | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
still be on but personally I didn't think it would be. -- people | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
assuming it would be. People were just in the streets and picnicking | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
and waiting for the fireworks. A bit unusual. I have heard of keep calm | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
and carry on but that is quite something. Although the building is | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
still burning, the risk has now been contained, and people have been | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
successfully evacuated. The fireworks display went ahead on | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
schedule pretty much. Did you get good pictures? Sadly I got some | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
pictures, only for unused purposes I thought they would be useful, | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
because the BBC have asked me sending images but I'm only just got | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
home now. It was quite strange because obviously there was a huge | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
amount of smoke coming off the top of the building but it was such a | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
raging fire, going from the bottom to the top and continued as a solid | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
ball of flame for at least an hour and a half, two hours. It was | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
constant and it hadn't died down by the time we left for the fireworks. | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
The building is still standing to be fair. That is the next question for | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
people there and in the surrounding area, how stable the remains will | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
be. I would have almost guaranteed the thing would have come down, it | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
was a really intense ball of flame from top to bottom but you have no | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
idea whether there were people in there or not. I believe everybody | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
got out. The authorities are saying that and we are waiting for more | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
details, perhaps they will emerge early in the morning. So far they | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
are saying that there are only light injuries with one heart attack. | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
There is no condition checked on that person but they insist that no | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
one died which is clearly a merciful bit of news after those | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
extraordinary shots which we are seeing at the moment. We will let | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
you get on with downloading the pictures and look forward to seeing | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
the results of your hard work this evening. Thank you for joining us. | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
No problem. Happy New Year. Earlier we spoke to singer | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
Anita Williams, who was performing a New Year concert in the hotel | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
when the fire began She told me first how | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
she was feeling after the successful evacuation of people | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
from the hotel. Well, to be very honest with you it | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
was probably for me one of the scariest things I have ever | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
experienced. It was incredible. It happened so quickly. None of us were | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
expecting what happened. You know, we were singing and performing, and | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
one of the band members said, there is a fire on the balcony three | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
floors above and before unit the entire hotel was an inferno. Tell us | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
about the hotel, we heard from an earlier eyewitness that there was a | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
public bar several floors up and at one point, although it was the view | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
from the outside, it seemed as though it was in the bar area. What | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
was your impression? It was going up the hotel, not inside. All we could | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
see was flames and debris falling everywhere. You can imagine the | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
panic, it was surreal. You have no idea of the panic. Everybody | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
thought, my goodness, we need to get out of here. We just left everything | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
on the stage and ran. We were guided underground. The staff were | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
incredible and they guided us out to the Mall we ended up in Dubai Mall. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Everybody took off their shoes and they were running. It was Serena. | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
What was the reaction among the people in the bar who had come to | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
watch your performance? -- it was surreal. We all felt there was | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
justified and they would put it out quickly but unfortunately that was | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
not the case. It was incredible how the entire hotel went up. And the | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
way that the authorities dealt with it, I've never seen so many trucks | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
and helicopters and police, I've never seen anything like it. You | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
were pretty impressed by the reaction? I was amazed. Firstly, I | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
am amazed and I think it's incredible and I am so happy for | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
everyone that there were no injuries or any fatalities, because what we | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
witnessed and saw was incredible. I just really, honestly, I'm amazed | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
that we all got out of there safely and we all did. Anita Williams | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
talking to me earlier after her lucky escape from the Address | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
Downtown hotel. Let's return to the UK now. | :16:06. | :16:06. | |
Security has been stepped up across Europe for | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
In France, one hundred thousand officers are on duty | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
tonight - and a fireworks display in Paris has been called off. | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
In Brussels, official festivities have been abandoned | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
after information came to light of an alleged plot | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
In London, extra armed police will patrol train | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
Our correspondent, Daniel Boettcher, is on the South Bank of the Thames | :16:23. | :16:34. | |
What is the situation there? Security is always tight for this | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
event anyway. As you mentioned there, this year we are told there | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
are extra armed officers at train stations, underground stations, and | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
other transport hubs. Highly visible police presence around the viewing | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
areas and other areas in central London. We have seen police launches | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
on the river here. The helicopter overhead as well. Earlier | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
superintendent Joe Edwards from Scotland Yard explained the thinking | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
behind police plans. We are liaising closely with the event organisers, | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
the stewarding company, and with our colleagues at the City of London | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
Police and British Transport Police and we have a strong police presence | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
to reassure people. People will see more visible police officers and | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
firearms officers on the streets tonight, but there is no specific | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
threat, there is no intelligence against this event in London | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
tonight. We want people to feel confident in our plan, to come in | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
and plan their journey in and home, more importantly, so they have a | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
safe and enjoyable New Year's Eve. As you can see, the crowds are | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
building up behind me now, for a second gear this is a ticket only | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
event. Just over 110,000 tickets sold. Everybody here has had to go | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
through security points and there have been back checks. As you would | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
imagine most people here are from in and around London but we have a very | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
international feel as well. Moving across, you are from Holland. I am | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
Stephane. Have you come over specifically? Not specifically but | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
we came here yesterday and we arrived yesterday and we'll leave on | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
Sunday. You are looking forward to it? Of course. It has been a long | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
wait in the cold. It is not that cold. We will see. Have you seen the | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
London display on television? Some fragments. I am from Bangladesh. | :18:40. | :18:52. | |
What are you expecting tonight? A lot of fireworks. Happy New Year, | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
Bangladesh. What are you expecting? It is impressive. I'm enjoying it. | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
Where are you from? I am from Taiwan. This is my first time in | :19:04. | :19:12. | |
London. And I think it is very special. You were lucky enough to | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
get a ticket. Actually I booked it in advance. Thank you for joining | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
us. Lots people very excited about this, not long to go, preparations | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
are now complete. When we get the fireworks at midnight around 12,000 | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
fireworks will be launched into the night sky from three barges which | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
are moored in the river and also around the edge of the London I | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
display here. Thank you very much indeed. I know we will be talking to | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
you later in the evening. If you want to check your watch, let's have | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
a look at Big Ben. those 12,000 fireworks that Daniel | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
says display. In Edinburgh, the flames | :19:52. | :20:12. | |
burning on top of Edinburgh Castle as you can see in the centre of the | :20:13. | :20:23. | |
shot, and then the view beyond towards the wheel and the rest of | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
Edinburgh. Lit up for us. A pretty impressive sight anyway without any | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
fireworks to mark Hogmanay. And of course celebrations too at midnight | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
there. A big party, and it's nice that this year the weather hasn't | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
disrupted it and we have had that before in Edinburgh when | :20:42. | :20:59. | |
literally a damp squib and they had to call it off. It looks tonight as | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
though everybody is well ready for the party | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
of 2016. Stay with us class on BBC News because we will bring you | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
pictures and of course more pictures from around the world where we | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
expect to see celebrations from some of the European cities that are of | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
course an hour ahead of us in the UK, for whom midnight will be | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
arriving in 39 minutes. Let's have a look at some other news. | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
faces more heavy rain at the weekend. | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
between Carlisle and Glasgow closed - with the West Coast mainline | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall came to talk | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
This was the A93 on Deeside, swallowed by the water, | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
leaving a huge repair bill and weeks of work. | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Further south in Newton Stewart, it was a similar picture. | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
Debbie Scott was just one of many people trying | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
to salvage their waterlogged belongings. | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
Is this the bed? Yes. | :22:04. | :22:04. | |
This was one of the worst affected towns. | :22:05. | :22:31. | |
Scotland's First Minister came here to see for herself. | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
I've been talking to some residents and local businesses and this | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
is probably the worst flooding episode that Newton Stewart and much | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
of this region has experienced for some people in living memory. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Northern England missed the worst of the weather yesterday, | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
In Croston in Lancashire, the RAF was back in action, | :22:51. | :23:02. | |
lowering sandbags to shore up flood defences. | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
Can I shake your hands and say thank you very much. | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
In York today, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn came | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
The only people who have been here helping me is Cleveland Fire | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
And the Muslims Brothers from Bradford and London. | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
And those left angry because they feel they | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
Do you think it makes a difference for high profile people to come? | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
We're getting on now and on a cleaning mission now. | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
But definitely, it makes a big difference for people | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
But after the high-profile visitors have gone, this carries on, | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
and the worry for people living in York and other cities affected | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
by flooding over the last month is that this will happen again | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
The hope is that the weather will hold for the next few days | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
at least, to allow the northern flood plains to drain | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
The MP for Rochdale Simon Danczuk has been suspended from | :23:57. | :24:09. | |
the Labour Party, following newspaper allegations that he sent | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
sexually explicit messages to a 17-year-old girl. | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
Mr Danczuk, who is 49, said that while the story was "not | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
entirely accurate," his behaviour was "inappropriate." | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
He has been suspended by the General secretary of the Labour Party under | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
half of the party and they will now be an independent investigation and | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
he will make his case and the concerns will be discussed. It will | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
be independent and it would be down to me or other individuals. Could he | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
be allowed to return? He is still a member of Parliament and he will be | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
carry on because he was elected by the people of Rochdale to be their | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
MP and that's his job. Is this another blow for the Labour Party? | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
We have shown that we are concerned when incidents like this happen and | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
we believe they should be investigated and we believe that the | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
Labour Party members should behave to the highest possible standards | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
and that is what we are assuring. The leader of the Labour Party, | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
Jeremy Corbyn. Nearly 1200 people | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
have been recognised in the Queen's New | :25:20. | :25:20. | |
Year Honours List. They include well-known entertainers | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
and sporting heroes, as well as civil servants and others | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
who work for the public good. She's long been a national | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
treasure, now she a dame. I'm just so honoured, | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
I'm so thrilled. I just say thank you, | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
and I'll do my best to be a very good dame - and I don't | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
mean in pantomime! There's a knighthood for 20 time | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
champion jockey AP McCoy. It's very surreal, it's hard | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
to get my head around it. I never thought anything like that | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
would ever be bestowed A knighthood too for Lynton Crosby, | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
the election strategist credited with masterminding | :26:00. | :26:09. | |
the Conservatives' general election victory - an honour that's been | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
criticised by opposition MPs. Luther star Idris Elba | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
becomes an OBE. Football legend Denis | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Law is made a CBE. And Fara Williams, the most capped | :26:21. | :26:20. | |
of England's Lionesses, As in previous years the majority | :26:21. | :26:30. | |
of awards have gone to people not in the public eye, many | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
of whom never expected to be People like James Banks, | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
a bagpiper for 50 years. I'm very proud to be recognised, | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
but it's nice to see that the instrument, | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
the music and the general culture and that people are | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
taking an interest. He's one of the hundreds | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
being honoured for their work Let me bring Newson news coming into | :26:56. | :27:14. | |
us at the BBC, it has been reported by a couple of respected agencies, | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
the Associated Press, the American agency, and Reuters are reporting | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
that police in Munich are warning of an imminent threat of a terrorist | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
attack and have cleared two railway stations will stop they are asking | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
people to avoid crowds in Munich. -- railway stations. That report is | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
being carried by the Associated Press and Reuters and there are | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
suggestions that this will come -- that this has come from an | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
independent police source. We are waiting to confirm this | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
independently but it is reported that police in Munich, more details | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
coming in, police are asking people to stay away from the main railway | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
station and the second railway station because of a serious | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
imminent threat of a terror attack. Police say on their Facebook page | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
that serious information is that there will be an attack to night and | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
a separate German news agency is quoted by the Associated Press as | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
saying that one station was evacuated and trains will be passing | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
straight through. Coming shortly before the celebrations in the New | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
Year which will be celebrated in Munich like other parts of Germany | :28:32. | :28:38. | |
and Europe in less than an hour. Those are the reports coming out of | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
Munich tonight. Coming up we will be taking a look at the latest | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
record-breaking Star Wars film, The Force Awakens. | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
But first: Not so long ago, in places not so far away - | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
some of the world's major capitals have already been celebrating | :28:52. | :28:53. | |
Let's look at some of the best pictures of new year celebrations | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
A flavour of how the world does New Year 's celebrations. Let's take a | :28:58. | :32:17. | |
look at the weather prospects. Going to start New Year's Day on a frosty | :32:18. | :32:22. | |
and foggy note. Only those of you up early enough to see that, cloud | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
gathering from the south-west ahead of this great cloud heading over | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
Northern Ireland and south-western areas. For most of us staying dry | :32:32. | :32:37. | |
and pretty windy, feeling quite cool, the best of the brightness in | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
the far north and east. All change as we move into the weekend, the | :32:42. | :32:46. | |
winds remaining feature, more significant rain, the forecast for | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
Saturday likely to be scattered showers and sunny spells. Some | :32:51. | :32:53. | |
relentless rain in the far north-east of Scotland. Some top | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
temperatures of 7-8d, maybe double figures in the south-west. By Sunday | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
the show was ease, more significant low-pressure moving in from the | :33:05. | :33:08. | |
west, bringing yet more wet and windy | :33:09. | :33:10. |