:00:20. > :00:27.A huge police operation is underway in Istanbul -
:00:28. > :00:35.to find a gunman who shot dead 39 people at a nightclub.
:00:36. > :00:37.The man opened fire at the Reina club at around 130
:00:38. > :00:40.Dozens of injured remain in hospital.
:00:41. > :00:42.15 foreigners - from Israel, Saudi Arabia
:00:43. > :00:44.and Morocco were among - were among the dead.
:00:45. > :00:48.Our Turkey Correspondent Selin Gerit has just sent this report.
:00:49. > :00:51.One of the most famous nightclubs in Istanbul,
:00:52. > :00:53.Reina is packed with a jubilant crowd, ready to welcome
:00:54. > :01:00.They are counting down to what they hope will
:01:01. > :01:11.A man armed with a long barrelled weapon opens fire outside the venue.
:01:12. > :01:15.He kills a policeman and another civilian as he rushes his way in.
:01:16. > :01:18.The club immediately turns into the scene of a massacre.
:01:19. > :01:20.As the attacker fires on the people partying inside.
:01:21. > :01:27.Survivors still in shock of what they have been through.
:01:28. > :01:36.My husband suddenly told me to get on the floor, a man ran inside,
:01:37. > :01:44.two or three people started firing and then there was a fog.
:01:45. > :01:46.I fainted at that moment until special forces
:01:47. > :01:50.There were bodies lying on the floor.
:01:51. > :01:53.There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack
:01:54. > :01:55.and authorities did not name any suspects.
:01:56. > :01:58.This man was a security guard at the club last night.
:01:59. > :02:02.He said he heard gunfire and ran away.
:02:03. > :02:04.Everyone is nervous at the moment, he said, the attacker
:02:05. > :02:12.The security forces say the assailant was alone rather
:02:13. > :02:20.He was wearing a jacket and trousers when he opened fire,
:02:21. > :02:22.but there is separate information that he tried to leave wearing
:02:23. > :02:26.The nightclub area remains sealed off this morning,
:02:27. > :02:30.heavily armed police block the street leading to Reina club.
:02:31. > :02:33.Crime scene investigators were inside searching for evidence.
:02:34. > :02:36.This is as close as we can get to the scene of the attack that
:02:37. > :02:45.In a span of 18 months more than 500 people have been killed in this
:02:46. > :02:49.Now, civilians got hit on a night of hope and joy.
:02:50. > :02:52.This already feels like it is going to be yet another difficult
:02:53. > :02:57.Turkey faces the Islamic State threat, a renewed conflict
:02:58. > :03:06.with the Kurdish rebels and the south-east and
:03:07. > :03:09.across the border in Syria and Iraq, and big cities like Istanbul feel
:03:10. > :03:13.Our Correspondent Selin Gerit is outside a hospital in Istanbul
:03:14. > :03:14.where some of the victims are being treated.
:03:15. > :03:23.On the security operation and the manhunt. The attacker is still at
:03:24. > :03:30.large and the hunt for him carries on. In several districts in
:03:31. > :03:35.Istanbul. After reports of suspicious people came through. I'm
:03:36. > :03:42.at one of the hospitals and there are almost 70 people injured, four
:03:43. > :03:49.are in critical condition and the death toll is still at 39 but the
:03:50. > :03:54.fear is that it could rise. The Prime Minister has spoken and has
:03:55. > :03:59.said no nation is immune to such terror attacks, but Istanbul, having
:04:00. > :04:02.witnessed an attack only three weeks ago, feels increasingly edgy. Thanks
:04:03. > :04:06.for joining us. The Queen was absent from the annual
:04:07. > :04:08.New Year's Day church service in Sandringham this morning,
:04:09. > :04:14.because of a "lingering heavy cold". She also missed the Christmas Day
:04:15. > :04:17.service at her Norfolk estate Buckingham Palace says the Queen has
:04:18. > :04:21.been up and about in recent days, but is "still recuperating"
:04:22. > :04:29.as our Royal Correspondent, For a second time in the holiday
:04:30. > :04:34.season at the Royals headed to church, and for a second time the
:04:35. > :04:40.Queen was a notable absentee. Her 95 erode husband did attend, he was to
:04:41. > :04:46.scrub by one observer as chipper. -- 95-year-old husband. The Windsors
:04:47. > :04:50.are an attraction for the dedicated, and despite the weather they gather
:04:51. > :04:56.outside the Sandringham church, but once again the monarch was not on
:04:57. > :04:59.display. Disappointed that the Queen was not there but that is
:05:00. > :05:06.understandable at 90 years of age. She is in the best place and I wish
:05:07. > :05:10.her all the best for 2017. She is not well and we do not want to see
:05:11. > :05:13.her out in this weather. At Christmas our attention is drawn to
:05:14. > :05:17.the birth of a baby some 2000 years ago. The Queen recorded her
:05:18. > :05:24.Christmas message early in December and will not have taken the decision
:05:25. > :05:27.to miss church likely, the supreme Governor of the Church of England
:05:28. > :05:30.has a deep faith, but on the advice of her doctor that she is exercising
:05:31. > :05:37.caution in the face of a heavy cold she has had for nearly two weeks.
:05:38. > :05:40.The Queen has been laid low and left feeling pretty miserable at the end
:05:41. > :05:44.of another significant year in her long reign. As well as celebrating
:05:45. > :05:46.her landmark birth date she has started to acknowledge her advancing
:05:47. > :05:52.age and reduce her workload. Just last month she severed hurling stick
:05:53. > :05:59.25 organisations she had been patron of for many decades -- she severed
:06:00. > :06:03.her links with 25 organisations. As head of state she continues to deal
:06:04. > :06:06.with the government documents she receives and she is clearly doing
:06:07. > :06:10.all she can to get rid of a lingering cold rather than make it
:06:11. > :06:15.worse. Peter Hunt, BBC News, Buckingham Palace.
:06:16. > :06:17.A police hunt's underway for a hit-and-run driver who knocked
:06:18. > :06:20.down two teenage girls in Oldham, leaving one dead and the other
:06:21. > :06:24.12 year old Helina Kotlarova was killed when crossing with her
:06:25. > :06:31.The two girls had been holding hands at the time.
:06:32. > :06:38.One of her relatives described what happened.
:06:39. > :06:41.When we went there, she was on the floor and she had
:06:42. > :06:45.I was touching her, seeing if she was going to breathe
:06:46. > :06:49.or something, but she couldn't breathe or nothing.
:06:50. > :06:52.There's been delays in attending to emergency ambulance calls
:06:53. > :06:54.across London after its computer system crashed on one
:06:55. > :06:58.Staff in the London Ambulance control room had to log calls
:06:59. > :07:01.using pen and paper for nearly five hours overnight.
:07:02. > :07:09.Jon Ironmonger is at the London Ambulance Service headquarters.
:07:10. > :07:17.A troubled start to the New Year for staff here with a direct impact on
:07:18. > :07:21.the safety of Londoners, and for about five hours from 1230 in the
:07:22. > :07:25.morning the computer system used by London Ambulance Service crashed and
:07:26. > :07:30.that was because of a technical error and it forced the control room
:07:31. > :07:34.staff to process and log the emergency calls coming in by hand,
:07:35. > :07:39.with pen and paper. This delayed emergency response times and
:07:40. > :07:45.treatment, and had an impact on another service, a real-time web
:07:46. > :07:51.mapping tool which tells the control room staff where the ambulances are.
:07:52. > :07:55.That also went down, and they had to communicate via radio communication
:07:56. > :07:59.only. And this on one of the busiest nights of the year, tens of
:08:00. > :08:04.thousands of partygoers were on the streets in London at the time, they
:08:05. > :08:07.were alcohol fuelled and London and live service said it responded to
:08:08. > :08:13.hundreds of calls. -- London Ambulance Service. They said staff
:08:14. > :08:17.are trained to cope with these situations and prioritised the
:08:18. > :08:19.response to patients with life-threatening conditions. An
:08:20. > :08:21.investigation into the cause of the problem will now be carried out.
:08:22. > :08:25.Thanks for joining us. The Archbishop of Canterbury,
:08:26. > :08:27.Justin Welby, has urged people to use 2017 to heal divisions caused
:08:28. > :08:30.by the EU referendum. In his new year message
:08:31. > :08:32.recorded in Coventry, the leader of the Church of England
:08:33. > :08:35.praised the efforts of refugees Our religious affairs correspondent
:08:36. > :08:41.Martin Bashir has more. Surrendering to the demands
:08:42. > :08:45.of television lighting, the Archbishop of Canterbury
:08:46. > :08:48.prepares to deliver his New Year's Justin Welby returned to Coventry,
:08:49. > :08:55.the city where he started A city whose wartime suffering
:08:56. > :09:00.and forgiveness, he says, The story of this city says
:09:01. > :09:10.so much that is true about Britain at its best,
:09:11. > :09:12.about our courage, standing up to tyranny, how we stand alongside
:09:13. > :09:15.the suffering and defeated, how we stand for human
:09:16. > :09:18.dignity and hope. The Archbishop visited a drop-in
:09:19. > :09:22.centre for refugees, people he called a blessing
:09:23. > :09:28.to our way of life. And he drew his message to a close
:09:29. > :09:31.by focusing on an issue that has divided so many parts
:09:32. > :09:34.of the country. The EU referendum was a tough
:09:35. > :09:38.campaign, and it has left division. But I know that if we look
:09:39. > :09:43.at our roots, our history and our culture in the Christian
:09:44. > :09:46.tradition, if we reach back into what is best in this country,
:09:47. > :09:49.we will find a path towards reconciling the differences
:09:50. > :09:54.that have divided us. From Coventry to Canterbury,
:09:55. > :09:56.the Archbishop believes that looking back will only help us prepare
:09:57. > :10:25.for the future. A very happy New Year. We have a
:10:26. > :10:26.contrast across the UK to