:00:00. > :00:11.The headlines at ten: The Queen pays tribute to 'unsung heroes' who do
:00:12. > :00:15.'small acts of goodness' in her Christmas message.
:00:16. > :00:18.I often draw strength from meeting ordinary people doing
:00:19. > :00:27.Volunteers, carers, community organisers and good neighbours.
:00:28. > :00:30.But she's forced to miss the Christmas Day church
:00:31. > :00:33.service at Sandringham because of a heavy cold.
:00:34. > :00:37.11 bodies have been recovered from the Black Sea after a Russian
:00:38. > :00:45.military plane crashes, killing all 92 people on board.
:00:46. > :00:47.Also in the next hour, in his Christmas Day sermon
:00:48. > :00:50.the Archbishop of Canterbury says the last year has left the world
:00:51. > :00:55.Pope Francis calls for a new effort for peace between Israel
:00:56. > :00:57.and the Palestinians, at his Christmas mass
:00:58. > :01:04.And Carrie Fisher's mother, the actress Debbie Reynolds has
:01:05. > :01:07.written on social media that her daughter is in a stable
:01:08. > :01:24.In half an hour I will be looking back at a diverse year in film.
:01:25. > :01:39.That's Review 2016, The Year In A Film with me, Mark commode.
:01:40. > :01:45.Good evening and welcome to BBC News.
:01:46. > :01:48.The Queen has missed her annual Christmas Day visit to church
:01:49. > :01:52.Other members of the Royal Family including the Duke of Edinburgh
:01:53. > :01:53.attended the service at Sandringham without her.
:01:54. > :01:55.In her traditional Christmas broadcast, the Queen focussed
:01:56. > :02:07.Our Royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, reports.
:02:08. > :02:08.Christmas Day service at Sandringham Church,
:02:09. > :02:14.Other members of the family including the Duke of Edinburgh
:02:15. > :02:16.attended, but the Queen remained at Sandringham House,
:02:17. > :02:18.continuing to recover from what Buckingham Palace
:02:19. > :02:25.After the service the family appeared to be relaxed.
:02:26. > :02:28.The Queen's absence is understood to have been precautionary.
:02:29. > :02:37.Also absent from Sandringham this year, the Duke and Duchess
:02:38. > :02:39.of Cambridge and their children, George and Charlotte.
:02:40. > :02:41.They attended church at Bucklebury, Berkshire, where they spent
:02:42. > :02:52.the day with the family of the Duchess, the Middletons.
:02:53. > :02:54.Inspiration was the theme of this year's Christmas broadcast
:02:55. > :03:01.by the Queen, which was recorded at Buckingham Palace some days ago.
:03:02. > :03:03.She cited achievements of Olympic and Paralympic athletes and said
:03:04. > :03:07.that she also drew inspiration from daily life.
:03:08. > :03:09.I often draw strength from meeting ordinary people doing
:03:10. > :03:19.Volunteers, carers, community organisers and good neighbours.
:03:20. > :03:24.Unsung heroes whose quiet dedication makes them special.
:03:25. > :03:27.She recalled this had been the year of her 90th birthday
:03:28. > :03:29.and paid tribute to the inspiring work of charities
:03:30. > :03:37.She said much more could be achieved globally by acting with others.
:03:38. > :03:39.It's understandable that we sometimes think the world's
:03:40. > :03:46.problems are such that we can do little to help.
:03:47. > :03:52.On our own, we cannot end wars or right injustice.
:03:53. > :03:55.But the cumulative impact of thousands of small acts
:03:56. > :03:59.of goodness can be bigger than we imagine.
:04:00. > :04:02.Her own life, she said, had been guided by the inspiring
:04:03. > :04:11.The example of the small things with great love,
:04:12. > :04:24.whoever does them, and what ever they themselves believe.
:04:25. > :04:27.It was a broadcast by a monarch who, although usually indisposed this
:04:28. > :04:30.Christmas, shows little sign of yielding to the passage of years.
:04:31. > :04:33.For the Queen this year there has been that significant 90th birthday
:04:34. > :04:35.and some lightening of the workload, but there is no expectation
:04:36. > :04:38.whatsoever that she will step away from the core duties of her role
:04:39. > :04:53.And Nick said there is no cause for alarm over the Queen's health.
:04:54. > :05:05.No appearance today a church in the first time for many years. No sense
:05:06. > :05:08.of undue concern. We can detect both from the demeanour of the family
:05:09. > :05:13.including the Duke of Edinburgh who also had a cold, he looked as though
:05:14. > :05:19.there was little wrong with him. They all looked relaxed and
:05:20. > :05:24.Buckingham Palace officials are not indicating there is any cause for
:05:25. > :05:30.alarm. It was a protective move, given that she is the age she is. It
:05:31. > :05:34.was felt better she should remain indoors and not go out to church on
:05:35. > :05:37.this occasion. It will disappoint those who made the journey to
:05:38. > :05:45.Sandringham. They didn't see the Queen but nor did they see Prince
:05:46. > :05:46.William or his family. They spent Christmas Day with the Middleton
:05:47. > :05:48.family in Berkshire. Eleven bodies have been recovered
:05:49. > :05:50.after a Russian military plane with more than 90 people on board
:05:51. > :05:53.crashed into the Black Sea. The plane was carrying 64 members
:05:54. > :05:56.of the renowned Red Army Choir and was heading from Sochi
:05:57. > :05:58.to Latakia in Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin has
:05:59. > :06:01.declared a day of mourning tomorrow. From Moscow, Steve Rosenberg
:06:02. > :06:09.sent this report. This is one of the final images
:06:10. > :06:13.of the Tupolev-154 jet. It was taken by a journalist before
:06:14. > :06:16.he boarded the plane. The aircraft crashed
:06:17. > :06:23.into the Black Sea. The Russians scrambled helicopters
:06:24. > :06:27.and ships but the search became The plane had taken off from
:06:28. > :06:39.a military airfield near Moscow. It flew south, stopping
:06:40. > :06:41.in Sochi to refuel. The final destination was Syria,
:06:42. > :06:43.and Russia's airbase near Latakia, but minutes after leaving
:06:44. > :06:45.Sochi, it crashed. At the Russian Defence Ministry,
:06:46. > :06:48.a spokesman said that more than 90 He said the recovery
:06:49. > :06:57.operation was continuing. On board were more than 60 members
:06:58. > :07:00.of the Russian army's famous song and dance ensemble,
:07:01. > :07:03.once known as the Red Army Choir. They had been due to give a concert
:07:04. > :07:17.at the Russian airbase in Syria. Also killed was a prominent
:07:18. > :07:21.humanitarian activist, known to millions of Russians.
:07:22. > :07:22.Most civilian airlines have stopped using the Tupolev-154,
:07:23. > :07:24.once the workhorse of the Russian aviation industry.
:07:25. > :07:27.In 2010, a Tupolev-154 carrying the Polish President crashed
:07:28. > :07:33.The following year, a similar plane caught fire
:07:34. > :07:49.Throughout the day, Muscovites brought flowers to the headquarters
:07:50. > :07:53.of the Russian Army choir. This has left Russia stunned and silence. The
:07:54. > :07:58.Kremlin has promised a thorough investigation into this tragedy. It
:07:59. > :08:02.has also declared Monday a day of national mourning.
:08:03. > :08:04.Olga Ivshina of the BBC Russian Service has been looking
:08:05. > :08:17.This is a deep shock for most Russians, because the red Army choir
:08:18. > :08:32.always receives a warm welcome in Russia.
:08:33. > :08:42.She was also helping hospitals in Syria and was a humanitarian
:08:43. > :08:47.activist and adored by many in Russia.
:08:48. > :08:49.Church leaders have used their Christmas sermons to reflect
:08:50. > :08:51.on the emotional impact of global events in 2016.
:08:52. > :08:54.The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, told his congregation
:08:55. > :08:57.that the end of the year leaves people in a less predictable world.
:08:58. > :09:02.Entering Canterbury Cathedral in time-honoured fashion,
:09:03. > :09:05.Archbishop Justin Welby focused his Christmas Day sermon
:09:06. > :09:08.on the uncertainty and division that has marked both domestic
:09:09. > :09:14.and international politics over the last year.
:09:15. > :09:23.He described 2016 as a year of unpredictability and uncertainty,
:09:24. > :09:26.The end of 2016 finds us in a less predictable world which feels more
:09:27. > :09:32.He went on to suggest that our anxiety is a clear sign
:09:33. > :09:35.that placing our trust in material prosperity has failed.
:09:36. > :09:38.The uncertainty of our world and our feelings
:09:39. > :09:55.following the Berlin attack, Pope Francis also criticised
:09:56. > :09:58.materialism, and appealed to Christians to stand out as people
:09:59. > :10:05.TRANSLATION: It is time for weapons to be still forever and the
:10:06. > :10:07.international community to actively seek a negotiated solution so that
:10:08. > :10:19.civil coexistence can be restored in the country.
:10:20. > :10:21.He concluded by appealing for Christians to stand
:10:22. > :10:30.out as people of compassion and self-sacrifice.
:10:31. > :10:33.Our Rome Correspondent David Willey listened to the Pope's message
:10:34. > :10:40.It is not unexpected that he devoted his message
:10:41. > :10:48.He lamented the fact that there is so much conflict going on,
:10:49. > :10:51.wherever you look in the world - the Middle East, Africa,
:10:52. > :10:57.And even he referred to the conflict still going on between North
:10:58. > :11:02.and South Korea, the fact that there has been no end
:11:03. > :11:05.to the state of war, which has existed for decades
:11:06. > :11:09.He says without peace, there is no future for the world.
:11:10. > :11:11.People have the resolve their conflicts.
:11:12. > :11:18.And then he went on to talk in a much more personal way
:11:19. > :11:20.about all of those who have suffered, not only those who have
:11:21. > :11:22.suffered from violence, he mentioned, he mentioned
:11:23. > :11:25.the Berlin terrorist attack, but also the children who have
:11:26. > :11:38.The children who have been suffering in other ways as well,
:11:39. > :11:51.brought over from Africa across the Mediterranean
:11:52. > :11:54.on these overcrowded boats, many of them losing their lives.
:11:55. > :12:27.And the children who are hungry because they are malnourished.
:12:28. > :12:32.Carrie Fisher is stable and her mother has thanked fans for their
:12:33. > :12:34.support. Chile has lifted a tsunami alert,
:12:35. > :12:36.after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6
:12:37. > :12:38.struck off the coast. The quake hit 140 miles
:12:39. > :12:40.southwest of Puerto Montt. Buildings in the area
:12:41. > :12:42.were evacuated as a precaution, but there are no reports
:12:43. > :12:49.of damage or casualties. A World War II bomb that caused
:12:50. > :12:52.the evacuation of more than 50,000 residents of a German city
:12:53. > :12:54.has now been defused. Residents of the southern German
:12:55. > :12:57.city of Augsburghad had been forced to leave their homes
:12:58. > :13:00.on Christmas Day so that the huge This was the biggest evacuation
:13:01. > :13:03.in Germany for an unexploded bomb The British bomb is thought to be
:13:04. > :13:08.a legacy of an Allied air-raid in 1944, which destroyed
:13:09. > :13:17.the old town. The Israeli leader
:13:18. > :13:18.Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his Foreign Ministry
:13:19. > :13:21.to summon and reprimand ambassadors from countries on the United
:13:22. > :13:23.Nations Security Council, The move is a response to the UN
:13:24. > :13:27.vote on Friday that condemned Israel's building of Jewish
:13:28. > :13:29.settlements in the Our Middle East analyst,
:13:30. > :13:37.Alan Johnston, told me that Mr Netanyahu's action
:13:38. > :13:39.shows his frustration It looks as if a number of
:13:40. > :13:46.ambassadors in Israel did not quite have the kind of Christmas Day
:13:47. > :13:57.they may have been planning. As you say, a string
:13:58. > :14:00.of them called into the of Benjamin Netanyahu
:14:01. > :14:02.and the British, French, the Russians,
:14:03. > :14:04.the Chinese, the Spanish, the and others will have been left
:14:05. > :14:07.in no doubt at all as to Israel's deep frustration
:14:08. > :14:09.about what happened on Friday. The passing of that
:14:10. > :14:11.UN resolution which strongly condemned the Israeli
:14:12. > :14:13.settlement building project in the occupied territories, describing it
:14:14. > :14:15.as a flagrant violation of Suddenly Israel found itself
:14:16. > :14:22.without a friend in the world after the US turned its back
:14:23. > :14:26.on the Israelis and allow the resolution to go and didn't veto it,
:14:27. > :14:35.the message is clear from the world body and Israel is not
:14:36. > :14:44.accepting it for one moment. The headlines at ten: The Queen pays
:14:45. > :14:55.tribute to 'unsung heroes' who do 'small acts of goodness'
:14:56. > :14:57.in her Christmas message. But she's forced to miss
:14:58. > :14:59.the Christmas Day church service at Sandringham
:15:00. > :15:01.because of a heavy cold. 11 bodies have been recovered
:15:02. > :15:04.from the Black Sea after a Russian military plane crashes,
:15:05. > :15:15.killing all 92 people on board. Christmas is a time for family,
:15:16. > :15:18.but if you don't have one, The poet Lemn Sissay knows
:15:19. > :15:21.exactly how that feels. He was fostered as a baby
:15:22. > :15:24.but when he turned 12, his foster He spent the next five years
:15:25. > :15:28.in and out of children's homes. That's why each year he organises
:15:29. > :15:31.special Christmas dinners for young Jayne McCubbin went to meet him
:15:32. > :15:44.as he prepared for one of those Not everyone has
:15:45. > :15:48.someone at Christmas. If I visited a friend's house,
:15:49. > :16:08.I often felt I was the boy with no family who was going to visit
:16:09. > :16:13.families, you know? for one of his Care Leavers'
:16:14. > :16:23.Christmas Dinners - a project that has grown from one
:16:24. > :16:26.city to five cities in four years. All of the gifts here have been
:16:27. > :16:30.donated by strangers, and all the parties will all be
:16:31. > :16:32.run by volunteers. Do we really not know
:16:33. > :16:37.the words to Jingle Bells? The only reason we do the Christmas
:16:38. > :16:40.dinner is so that those young care leavers go away with a memory
:16:41. > :16:43.that they can look onto next year. That's all Christmas is -
:16:44. > :16:46.it's the making of a memory So we all come around the Christmas
:16:47. > :16:52.dinner table and we all remember, "We did this last year,
:16:53. > :16:56.and it was incredible". For a lot of care leavers,
:16:57. > :17:02.the memory was a bad one This is his passion,
:17:03. > :17:11.and for the team, that This is Amanda, who is
:17:12. > :17:16.sorting everybody out. We have 20 volunteers -
:17:17. > :17:24.60 young people, four hairstylists, artists,
:17:25. > :17:26.musicians, social workers coming down to do a really amazing
:17:27. > :17:29.Christmas Day for young people. This is Sabrina, who is
:17:30. > :17:34.the hair woman and stylist, As a care leaver myself,
:17:35. > :17:48.I know how important it is to give self-esteem and to feel
:17:49. > :17:54.like people care. Ryan is going to be
:17:55. > :18:04.the chef for the evening. When I was 14 I went into temporary
:18:05. > :18:07.foster care for a weekend, and it sort of turned
:18:08. > :18:09.into nearly five years. Christmas is about family, and not
:18:10. > :18:15.everyone is lucky enough to have it. The best part of the day
:18:16. > :18:19.was sitting down and having a meal with everyone,
:18:20. > :18:22.getting to know people. Messages from previous
:18:23. > :18:24.dinners show just how much I hope they have one
:18:25. > :18:37.next year as well!