Voiceover live from our studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and noon in eastern australia, where fire crews are assessing the damage from the weekends bushfires. The weather has cooled down a little, but the political debate is raging on. The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, returned home from holiday after being heavily criticised for going away with his family to hawaii. Shaimaa khalil has the story. It feels like a deserted war zone, but this is the aftermath of the catastrophic bushfires that have ravaged New South Wales. And in the village of balmoral, the devastation is everywhere. Russell scholes has been a volunteer firefighter for six years. He was out with his team trying to control the blaze in the village when his own house was burned to the ground. So many of the brigade are tired. Thats the mental side of it when youre continually battling something you cant beat. The Prime Minister Scott M
Have attention deficit disorder. President erdogan of turkey says more than 80,000 people have fled recent attacks by the Syrian Government on rebel held territory in idlib province, and that his country wouldnt be able to cope if a new wave of refugees attempted to cross the border. Thereve been reports of civilian deaths in air strikes on towns and villages, and accounts of large numbers of people trying to flee. Gareth barlow reports. Its an all too familiar story after eight years of war. Syrians fleeing fighting. Some people havent managed to escape in time. Members of the White Helmets volunteer rescue group desperately try to help those caught up in the latest upsurge of violence. As the Syrian Government battles to regain territory held by rebels in the Northern Province of idlib. But the turkish president has warned his country cant cope with the number of refugees trying to escape the fighting. Translation more than 80,000 of our brothers from idlib have started migrating tow
Spending your money this year. Good morning from Blenheim Palace and youre listening to the oxford gospel event choir. Alice in the palace here, some wet weather but mild compared to as of late. More details later. Its monday, december 23rd. Our top story there are calls for a government inquiry into racism in football. Its after the Chelsea Player, Antonio Rudiger, complained of racist chanting during yesterdays premier league match at tottenham. The professional Footballers Association said it was disgusted by the reports, and insisted urgent action was needed. Heres our sports correspondent, andy swiss. It was a day english football was once again overshadowed by racism. Chelseas Antonio Rudiger clearly showing hed heard abuse from the crowd an hour into his teams game against tottenham. He informed his captain, who in turn told the referee, and after he spoke to both managers, for the first time in the premier league, a warning was made over the public address system, twice repeate
Children and teachers were amongst those invited for tests at charltons Football Ground today. One way to help keep the virus out of schools, but will it be enough . Some think things are out of control and they want schools to stay closed. Teaching unions say staff are at risk. We know members of our union got sick. Some of them died over the christmas period. So there is the concern for our members. There is also concern for parents and grandparents and we dont think it is safe. We think there should be a period of closure to get cases down. Londons Primary School children will all stay off after a u turn ended the patchwork of partial closures. So harrison has a fortnight at home. We are not going back to school and we are going to have to do home learning. What do you think about that . Not very good because i want to see my friends. Mum and dad have the challenge of finding childcare. It all seems very la st finding childcare. It all seems very last minute, really. Its all very co
With the champions liverpool questioning the criteria and pointing out that some children at the top of the premier league, cross boroughs to go to school. After beating aston last night the education secretary announced a change, which means all of londons primary villa last night. Schools will now stay closed. The absolute right place ready . Down and up for all children to be is in school, but we need to really focus he got millions of us up and about during lockdown in 2020, on making school safe and ensuring that we get a Clear Strategy but what has joe wicks in place to support our most got planned for 2021 . Well speak to him just before 9 00. Disadvantaged children, whom we are extremely worried about that attainment gap which has grown massively for them, as this pandemic continues to rage. Its not the first decision the department of education has had good morning. 0ur cold spell of to reverse, but ministers say weather is going to continue for quite a while yet. Today it is