Before it spread to neighbouring vehicles. And 100 years on from the revolution that changed the world, we take a look at how russians view its legacy, in the shadow of red october. Thats in half an hour. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The metropolitan police has said that four young men have been stabbed to death between yesterday morning and the early hours of today in a series of unrelated attacks. Three, aged 17, 18 and 20, were killed yesterday. A fourth, who was 20, died after been stabbed on an estate in the old street area of east london in the early hours of this morning. Officers say the murders highlight the scale of knife crime in the capital. During yesterday and last night there were thousands of Police Officers on duty across london, determined to ensure millions of londoners were able to enjoy the celebrations, the passing of 2017 and the coming of 2018. To those millions of londoners i would like to say thank you for your cooperation in having a safe and enjoyable night. Tragically, there are four families who awake this morning to the heartbreaking news they have lost loved ones to the callous use of knives as lethal weapons. 0ur detectives are working tirelessly today and Going Forward to bring those who have committed these murderers tojustice, and weve already made a number of arrests. We have certainly seen in recent months an increase in knife crime. We are working hard to tackle that, taking more knives off the streets of london and bringing offenders to justice. So whilst the events of the last 2a hours are unusual, we are working tirelessly to taking knives off the streets of london and stop people committing violence on the streets of the capital. Were joined now by barry mizen, whose16 year old son jimmy was stabbed to death in South East London in 2008. Since then, barry and his wife margaret have worked with young people and campaigned against violence. These circumstances must always bring it back to you . Certainly does, and our thoughts and prayers but the families of those affected by this outrageous night, if you like. A terrible night for the families concerned. Remind us of the circumstances in which jimmy families concerned. Remind us of the circumstances in whichjimmy died. He went into a local bakery shop and he was attacked by a very well known young man involved in violence at the time and had a glass dish smashed in his face, severed his arteries and he bled to death in a couple of minutes. The foundation you setup works to try and increase the prospects of young people not getting involved in this, what are the messages you try to put out . Youngsters have said im not aggressive, im not riding, buti feel safer if i have a knife on me to protect me against someone who might be like that are not binding. That is the message coming out. We invite people to see what we are doing, it is to enable young people to take responsibility for their own communities. As far as we are concerned, a Strong Community is are concerned, a Strong Community is a safe one, and in this instance we would urge people in communities who have knowledge of this crime and others, to come forward, because communities can make the change. Much of it is about youngsters challenging their friends when they are aware they are carrying a knife, thinking it will make them safer, but they dont know the circumstances they could end up in. You are right for the time to get that across, to work the logic, doesnt happen with many young people, and it is about pushing on an encouraging, the police do a great job, an encouraging, the police do a greatjob, and im sure they will get convictions for this, but encouraging the local communities, if you want a different, what are you prepared to do . It is notjust a london problem, we have reports overnight of a new Years Eve Party that was disrupted by people again being stabbed in knife attacks, but tha nkfully being stabbed in knife attacks, but thankfully no one has died in that. But in london there has been a big focus on the numbers are quite high, 80 in the last 12 months, often young people, often young men. The mayor of london and his predecessor and his predecessor have all talked about making this a priority, do you have any sense of why we dont sing to be able to reduce it . Seem. Have any sense of why we dont sing to be able to reduce it . Seem. We focus too much on knives, because of it wasnt nice, it would be another weapon, but it is about who are we looking to solve this for us, theres a stand off between some parts of the community and the police, but can we come together and Work Together for the common good. We dont want this. There are young people out there very frightened, they dont want this, and the one for young people we meet in schools in the capital and around the country do not want any of this. What are we prepared to do ourselves . It is not a case of sitting back and demanding the government and the police do their job, although they do have a job to do, but it needs to be backed up by Strong Community support. Barry, thanks forjoining us. Despite the circumstances, happy new year to you. Thank you. We have some breaking news. Update ona we have some breaking news. Update on a crime that we reported last week, this is the case of a person who was stabbed to death, a young woman, in finsbury park. Detectives investigating the murder have arrested a man at lunchtime today, the 31 rod man was arrested at 130 in dost and 31 year old man was arrested at 130 in team 1 macro. Dalston. The woman who died was 22 and had been working in a barand was well known the area. She was found ina was well known the area. She was found in a disused building located in the North Eastern part of finsbury park. So a 31 year old man has been arrested about one hour ago and is being held at a police station, being questioned on suspicion of murder. Air investigators in australia say it may take many months before they know why a seaplane carrying a prominent british businessman and four members of his family, crashed on new years eve. Richard cousins who ran the catering giant compass was killed along with his two sons, his fiance, her daughter and the pilot. Phil mercer reports. The wreckage of the seaplane lies 13 metres below the surface of the hawkesbury river. One of the victims was the british businessman, richard cousins, the chief executive of the Worlds Largest catering firm, compass, who was due to retire later this year. The company confirmed his death in a statement. Mr cousins, who was 58, died alongside his fiancee, emma bowden, and her 11 year old daughter, heather. Also on board the seaplane that crashed intojerusalem bay, william cousins, 25, who worked for open britain a pro eu group set up in the aftermath of the brexit vote. Colleagues said that they were shocked by news of his death. His brother, edward, who was 23, had recently graduated from the university of st andrews. The pilot, gareth morgan, had done more than 10,000 flying hours, 9,000 of which were on seaplanes. The pilot had collected mr cousins and members of his family from an exclusive waterfront restaurant and was heading back to rose bay on sydney harbour. Shortly after take off, the plane plummeted into the water. Investigators say it quickly sank and there were no survivors. These are people who have come out on holiday to visit australia in one of the most beautiful parts of the world. And for this to happen to them in a place like that is nothing more than just tragic. It could take months to work out how and why a routine sightseeing trip could end in utter disaster. Air crash investigators have begun their work. Their task wont be easy. The wreckage of the seaplane has been submerged in more than a0 feet of water. And although these idyllic bays and inlets are geographically close to sydney, the crash site is tucked away and hard to get to. Sydney seaplanes, which owns the aircraft, has suspended all its flights until further notice. Phil mercer, bbc news, sydney. The labour mp and former shadow business secretary chuka umunna worked alongside will cousins at the open Britain Campaign group and paid tribute to his colleague. Its absolutely devastating. I cannot compute this happening. Its an utter tragedy for the family. Will, i knew him best, he was an incredible young guy, starting off in his life, just 25. He was so passionate and so energetic and so utterly dedicated to the pro european cause in this country. We really have lost one of our very best and one of the last conversations i had with his father a few weeks ago, i was telling him how important will was to open britain as an organisation. He was telling me how proud he was of his son. And for richard, compass, the whole family, his fiancee, to lose their lives in this way, it is just horrific will. They will be really sorely missed. You cant compute this. It is too awful to compute. A huge fire has destroyed up to 11100 vehicles in a multistorey car park in liverpool. The fire at kings dock, next to liverpools echo arena, is said to have started accidentally in one car and spread to others. Many people were forced into temporary accommodation as nearby buildings were evacuated. Danny savage reports. It was shortly after dark yesterday evening when fire took hold in the multistorey car park on liverpools famous waterfront. It is understood a small fire in one car spread rapidly, destroying vehicles and then moving on to all levels of the car park. It was soon a huge blaze. Merseyside fire and rescue say its one of the worst theyve ever dealt with. All the car owners could do was watch and accept they would never see their vehicles again. Ive got a vehicle in there, yes. Im unsure at the moment what its going to be. We cant get anywhere near it. Do you hold out much hope for your car . Looking at the flames, no. Nearby flats and a hotel were evacuated too as the alarming sight of the massive fire attracted lots of onlookers. The fires still going on. I canjust see black smoke everywhere. The car park is attached to the liverpool arena, where an International Horse show was taking place. All the animals were quickly led to safety. This morning, the blackened building was surrounded by fire engines as experts assess the site. The concern is that the car park may collapse. This spectacular fire certainly caused a huge amount of damage. The insurance bill for the cars alone will be several million pounds. The good fortune was that no one was hurt. Danny savage, bbc news, liverpool. The leader of north korea, kim jong un, has warned the United States that he has a Nuclear Button on his desk, ready for use, if his country feels threatened. The comments came during a televised new years day speech in which he also said that he wanted to lower military tensions with neighbouring south korea from where our correspondent sophie long reports. Just after the first sun of 2018 rose over the korean peninsular, kim jong un delivered his new years address live on state run television, with an unsurprisingly defiant message for the United States. Translation the entire United States is within range of our Nuclear Weapons and the Nuclear Button is always on my desk. This is reality, not a threat. Perhaps more surprising was the olive branch he appeared to offer his neighbour, south korea. He said he hoped the Winter Olympics theyre about to host would be a success, and said he was considering sending a delegation to the games. That comes as music to the ears of violinist won hyung joon. For ten years he has tried and failed to organise a peace concert with these young south koreans playing together with north korean musicians. He now hopes to make that happen at the pyeonchang opening ceremony. We have hope that the olympics is coming and with the olympics, everyone is coming. And it is beyond political difficulties. So i really wish north korea would come and especially with the musicians and we will be able to play together. The south korean government has welcomed those words from the north korean leader, saying it too was willing to engage in dialogue. After a year of Nuclear Tests and missile launches, young koreans welcomed in the new year with hope that tensions might now reduce, if only in the very immediate future. As a citizen of this country, its all i can really wish for. It is obvious to anyone in the world that we are in a very tense situation right now, and i think that means we have hope for the future. Sophie long, bbc news, seoul. The headlines on Bbc News Police appealfor information after four men are stabbed to death in london in unrelated incidents in new year attacks. The six victims of a seaplane crash near sydney are identified , among them the british boss of one of the Worlds Largest catering companies. A huge blaze at a liverpool car park destroys around park destroys around 14 hundred vehicles, stranding hundreds in the city centre overnight. Sport now and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. Waving in the new year on the south coast, for many 2018 offers a clean slate and for these teams their resolutions are as they were, premier league survival. But after a festive workload players understandably begin to feel the strain. Anthony knockaert had to receive treatment in the warm up, but minutes later he proved his fitness and finishing were sharp. Brightons start was everything they hoped for, although bournemouth equalised against the run of play thanks to steve cook. The home side continued to dominate, they started the second half as they did the first, glenn murray on the end of the past. Brighton in front. The victories that have been secured 20 minutes from time, the colombian with the breakaway but not the finish. Bournemouth were hoping to salvage something and it was a shame the final note was an ugly one of such an entertaining game. Ping pong football in the box and the points we re football in the box and the points were shared. What became at times a opening game against a very good bournemouth side that have got a lot of power and pace, i thought some of oui of power and pace, i thought some of our attacking play was really good. Certainly on chances and what you regard as clear cut chances we had by far the better of the clear cut chances. To come here at 2 2 after leading twice and having the best chances, hugely disappointing and it feels like two points lost. When there is one goal in it, any team in there is one goal in it, any team in the premier league can look uncomfortable with whats at stake and the home crowd can get nervous, and the home crowd can get nervous, andl and the home crowd can get nervous, and i felt we were better coming from behind, chasing the game, we looked stronger. We were trying to win it at the end and that is a good sign, the players were going all out for three points. There are three games going on at the moment, 15 minutes gone in those. Manchester united manager jose mourinho, says he has problems ahead of todays premier league game at everton. United have slipped to third, after a run of three draws. Mourinho has to contend, with injuries to romelu lukaku, and zlatan ibrahimovic, as well as, ashley young beginning a three match ban. We have problems, we have difficulty 110w we have problems, we have difficulty now to rotate players and the fact we dont play the cup semifinals is a good thing for us, i think that is a good thing for us, i think that is a good thing because we have no players to play these possible extra matches in january. Players to play these possible extra matches injanuary. Now we have to cope with everton and derby county. And now to tennis news. British number one Yohanna Konta has started her season with a two sets to one victory over madison keys, at the brisbane international. Its her first tournament with new coach michaeljoyce. She lost the first set to the american 6 4 but broke early in the second to take that 6 4 and level the match. Keys lost her serve at the start of the deciding set and konta was untroubled from there strolling through 6 3 to reach the second round. Shell play ayla tomlayanovic next. There are a couple of big matches in rugby unions pro 1a on sunday. Leinster have made 13 changes for their match against connacht which isjust getting under way in dublin. While later ulster play munster. That is all the sport for now. More protesters have been killed in Anti Government demonstrations in iran. State run media says ten people have died in protests in the last week. President rouhani says people have the right to protest, but violence is unacceptable. Very conflicting reports and impossible to verify, it is all my shutdown and people say it takes half an hour to write a tweet so we have not received any footage and anything confirmed is almost impossible. But state television said about ten people have been killed overnight and they say they we re killed overnight and they say they were rioters and some of them were armed. It is impossible to find out. Protesters say they have been killed by government forces. The evidence that these are serious protests is the fact that the president was drawn to make these very clear comments, they have a right to protest, but they dont have a right to be involved in violence, which implies that they had to take action of some kind to bring these protests to order. That is why he has given a couple of speeches in the last 44 hours, so clearly they feel there is serious tension. On top of that he acknowledges why people are so angry, we are talking about very high unemployment, in some cities where protests a re high unemployment, in some cities where protests are taking place 60 of people are unemployed. He acknowledges the fact that, that corruption is serious amongst the political elite, inflation has been very high, but he also has fears of possible interference of irans regional allies and that is what he has been warning the protesters about. In this insane to them you are in danger of being used by outside forces who are hostile to oui outside forces who are hostile to our country. In essence he is saying to them. We were talking about this at the wigan, be protests might have been started by hardliners opposed to the president but then got out of control with people with other motives we were talking about this at the weekend. It seems that is credible, because many officials have now commented about how it originally started and it looks like there were some internal rivals of president rohani who words defeated in the recent election and they asked supporters to get on the street and protest against inflation and basically against inflation and basically against president rohanis policies but they miscalculated the level of frustration amongst many people, especially people in the more deprived areas that we have seen, so many cities in the south of the country and the west of the country, they are very young, educated but they are very young, educated but they dont have jobs. The Unemployment Rate is 28 . Incredibly high figure. It is incredibly high. The minister says in some cities it goes up to 60 which is astonishing. On top of that there have been small protests in recent months against the banks, many of the investment banks were shut down because they almost went bankrupt and people have lost their life savings. So there has been this thing going on, boiling under the surface, and i think as soon as it found a chance it erupted. Pope francis has condemned what he called the banality of consumerism in his homily at a new year mass in st peters basilica in vatican city. He contrasted the contemplative silence of the virgin mary, the mother ofjesus in the christian faith, with the blare of commercials, saying the wave of shouting had a corrosive effect on society. Translation to set aside a moment of silence each day to be with god is to safeguard our soul; it is to shield our freedom from being corroded by the banality of consumerism, the blare of commercials, the stream of empty words and the overpowering waves of empty chatter and loud shouting. The uk recycling industry says it doesnt know how to cope with a chinese ban on imports of Plastic Waste. Britain has been sending up to 500,000 tonnes of plastic for recycling in china every year. But the trade has now been stopped. Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin reports. Its a massive blow, the decades we have been relying on the Chinese Market for the surplus of materials that we collect in the uk that we dont have the capacity at home to recycle a nd dont have the capacity at home to recycle and reprocess. Incineration might get rid of some of the uks waste but plans for more incinerators would be strongly resisted by green groups. Incinerators would be strongly resisted by green groupsm incinerators would be strongly resisted by green groups. If you build an incinerator you are basically creating a 20 30 year market for plastics so you are encouraging us to produce more single use throwaway plastics which is exactly the problem we need to tackle. The government is looking at taxes and deposit schemes to deter Plastic Waste but that is for the longer term. No one yet knows how britain will solve its short term china crisis. From sydney to hong kong, london to new york, cities across the world have been ringing in 2018 with spectacular firework displays. One of the biggest new years parties was on the banks of the river thames, where Caroline Davies report begins. Bell chimes even big ben couldnt miss this party. Despite being under repair, it rang, marking the start of 2018 in london along with 12,000 fireworks. This years soundtrack was dominated by female artists. 2018 is 100 years since women first got the vote. Celebrations are planned. Just one thing the year has in store. The best year ever. Were going to get our careers. Were going to get into university. Get into university its going to be good. In scotland, storm dylan had brought winds of up to 70 mph but it wasnt enough to dampen spirits for hogmanay in edinburgh. In sydney, the harbour bridge lit up in rainbow colours, a tribute to the year australia voted to legalise same sex marriage. Around the world, cities celebrated the start of 2018. Hong kong erupted. Athens glowed. And moscow sparkled. In new york, thousands watched in times square as the new years eve ball dropped. In rio, more than 2 Million People gathered on copacabana beach, welcoming in 2018 with high hopes of a bright year to come. Caroline davies, bbc news. The festivities have carried on through today around half a Million People have turned out for the annual new years day parade, which is well under way in central london. Thousands of performers, many of them from the United States, have been entertaining the crowds. Ian palmer has been taking it all in. There is a very distinct american feel to this parade with dozens of marching bands and one of them, the alabama mobile marching band has just gone through. Im with a couple of their participants Katie Sullivan is the alabama try made, how was it . Great, so much fun. Just explain what you are wearing and what the culture of the trial made means . This is a southern antebellum dress that is handmade and on the top 50 at High School Seniors that you get to participate in in alabama. Incredibly well my dress. Jackson is one of the marching band members of the alabama mobile ban. Did you enjoy question not yes, its been a blast. Have you been here before . No, ive never been here before . No, ive never been to london before fourth of described the experience and how you felt as you were walking through the streets. You see a lot of things on tv, on the internet, but it is different to see this in real life. There are dozens and of 14 27; 252 . Q£ § ; 2 1 z ; high