To be treated for whats being described as a pre existing condition. Almost 100 Flood Warnings are in place across england, and the situation is set to get worse, with heavy rain forecast overnight. And coming up, the bbcs media editor meets the editor of private eye magazine at 17 30 a walk through the year in media with ian hislop. Good afternoon. More than 100 bushfires are raging across australias most populous state, New South Wales. Christmas travellers are being urged to delay theirjourneys as record temperatures of more than a0 degrees and strong winds intensify the fires. Australias deputy Prime Minister, Michael Mccormack has said his country must step up its efforts to tackle climate change. Heres our sydney correspondent shaimaa khalil. correspondent shaimaa khalil. This was said to be one of the worst days australias most populous state has ever seen, and its lived up to every urgent warning. Huge flames spiralling out of control, moved by strong, unpredictable wind. This is the second time in less than two months that they have seen catastrophic fire conditions. Firefighters have been patrolling this area throughout the day. They have been keeping an eye out on the smoke just behind that tree line. This is where villagers have fires at an emergency level and theyve been told to evacuate and theyre concerned that embers will blow this way. Elizabeth maclaren evacuated her house a few hours ago. She packed the necessities and a few other things she couldnt afford to lose. Her familys ok, but she worries about those she left behind. I hope my house doesnt burn down but, ultimately, all of my friends stayed to fight the fires at their house. They cant get out now, so im just hoping that theyre safe. I can replace my house i cant replace lives, you know . Helen has also evacuated her homes. Taking all of her dogs and cats with their force will you stay . At the carrigan. At the car park . Yes. We did at the other night. It is fine. Uncomfortable, but fine. Australias Prime Minister, scott morrison, has cut short his holiday to hawaii, as criticism continued to mount of his leadership during the bushfire crisis. Its brought the divisive debate about global warning back to the fore. Scientists have long warned that a hotter, drier climate would contribute to australias fires becoming more frequent and more intense. Shaimaa khalil, bbc news, mittagong, New South Wales. The Prime Minister has defended the decision to approve a li billion pound takeover of the British Defence company, cobham, by an american firm. Speaking as he visited british troops in estonia borisjohnson said he was satisfied the deal didnt raise National Security issues. Lady Nadine Cobham part of the family which set up the uk firm which employs 10,000 people is among those criticising the decision. She called the takeover deeply disappointing. Our business correspondent, Katy Prescott reports. One of the uks oldest defence companies. A pioneer of air to air refuelling, cobham started life in the 1930s as a flying circus. Providing jobs at the headquarters. For the last few months, the government has been grappling with whether to allow its sale to the American Private equity firm, advent. Which aims to buy companies, improve them and sell them on. Borisjohnson come having christmas lunch with uk troops, defended it last nights decision. A lot of checks have been gone through to make sure that that particular case, that all the Security Issues that might be raised can be satisfied. In the uk will continue to be a very creative and dynamic contributor to that section of industry and all others. They started life in the 1930s as a flying circus. Shareholders voted for the sale. The daughter in law of the founder has been critical. She says this is a deeply disappointing announcement and one cynically timed to avoid scrutiny on the weekend before christmas. Ina in a heavily redacted document, the ministry of defence said this race National Security concerns. Because of access to information and ongoing defence projects. The Home Office Said that they were concerned about access to the uk Emergency Services radio systems. Which they said could prejudice ongoing operations. To allay the fears the government says advent has agreed to ensure that sensitive government information continues to be protected. To honour the terms of existing contracts and to give prior notice to the ministry of defence and home office if there any plans to sell the whole or any parts of the business. But critics say the sale is a mistake. This is an amazing british company. A world leading british company. It has a very Important National sense of contract with the mentioned offence. It is taken just a week after the election for conservatives to sell out to donald trump. The government says the agreement with them is legally enforceable. In any breach could be for it to the court in the low pound has made a Pretty Companies attracted to american buyers. And this is a high profile example of the latest sale. Katy prescott, bbc news. Eric grove is a visiting fellow at the International Institute for strategic studies. He told us just how significant the inFlight Refuelling technology is. It is very significant indeed. 0bviously in Flight Refuelling is an important part of any countrys aviation capability but on the other hand, we are so dependent on the americans anyway that i dont really see this makes a huge amount of difference. We are very heavily integrated already, probably even more so after we leave the eu, so i am not too concerned. I can understand why the cobham family are a bit concerned about this because this was very much a british initiative, in Flight Refuelling was very much pioneered by cobham, but i dont see this being a great problem. In fact, we are so integrated with the United States anyway that this is just an additional, just a slight change in the balance. A mother and her partner have appeared in court in belfast, accused of murdering a 5 year old girl. Nadia zofia kalinowska, was discovered at the family home in newton abbey, in the early hours of last sunday. Her mother Aleksandra Wahab and stepfather, abdul wahab, were remanded in custody. More now on news that nearly 100 Flood Warnings are in place across southern and eastern england, the midlands and yorkshire. A severe warning of more heavy rain is in place across southern england until noon on sunday. Motorists embarking on the christmas getaway are being advised to check their routes in advance with warnings of potential travel delays and flooding with up to 30mm of rain forecast. There are currenlty a dozen Flood Warnings in place across surrey, from where our correspondent, adrian harms, warns of more rain to come. The river wey itself, which is in flood. Its gone across the fields here outside of guildford. As i say, it is still raining and the situation here looks like it will get worse before it gets any better. There is a lot of water making its way down the river. There is more rain forecast for the rest of the day and overnight. The two main rivers where there are Flood Warnings are the river mole. This morning there were six Flood Warnings there. Some of those have been dropped to the lowest state flood alert but there is still a Flood Warning in leatherhead. There the Environment Agency has been working very hard putting out flood defences around the town and currently they say it seems to be working. The same is happening in guildford. There are a number of flood defences around the town, towards the bottom of guildford, around the cinema and towards the bus depot and Police Station where flood defences are in place. There is a flood alert here on the river wey so yet to be raised to a warning and people are hoping levels do not go higher certainly for the rest of the day, but more rain forcast during today and overnight tonight. The met office have issued a yellow weather warning, for the south of england. The Environment Agency warn of more rain to come. Today, we have got a relatively dry period. But we have more rain coming tonight possibly up to another 20 mm. Although the situation is Getting Better today, we will see it Getting Better today, we will see it getting worse overnight and into tomorrow morning. And then after that we have more rain on sunday and more rain on monday. It is not going to get any better. I think the key thing here is it is not going to get to the severe situation where we have significant numbers of properties. It will remain high until christmas. But after that we have a dry period. Hopefully things will calm down. The duke of edinburgh is continuing to be treated at a hospital in london after being admitted yesterday. The queen remains at her sandringham estate in norfolk. 0ur correspondent tolu adeoye is at sandringham. Yes. All quiet here this evening. This is where the duke has spent much of his time since he retired in 2017. This is where he left yesterday morning to go to hospital in london. We know around the same time the queen was arriving for her christmas break air. It really is that business as usual that estimate not a huge sense of alarm around the fa ct not a huge sense of alarm around the fact that the prince has been admitted to hospital. In the palaces only said that hes been admitted for observation and treatment in relation to a pre existing condition. They described it as a precautionary measure. The palace is not confirmed he went to hospital in a helicopter we know when he got there he did walk into the hospital. The palace have not given us any further details today. Of course they would not give running commentary on his condition. 0ne they would not give running commentary on his condition. One key question that a lot of the people wa nt to question that a lot of the people want to know is will the prince be 0kfor want to know is will the prince be ok for Christmas Day. We know lots of senior royals already are right here on Christmas Day in the queen will host the cambridge is in the duke and duchess of cornwall, other senior royals and many of them will be hoping duke is well tojoin them. We live it there for now. Thank you for the update. The man who fought off the attacker at fishmongers hall near london bridge, using a narwhal tusk has given a dramatic account of how he was able to stop the knifeman, and pin him to the ground. Two people died in the attack last month. Civil servant, darryn frost, has described how usman khan was running towards people with knives, raised above his head, and wearing what looked like a suicide vest. This report from rich preston. This is the dramatic moment passers by attempted to stop convicted terrorist usman khan. His attack had begun at fishmongers hall, where he had just killed two people. It was there darryn frost, a civil servant, took on khan, with others attending a prisoner rehabilitation event. Describing for the first time what happened, mr frost told the press association that he took a narwhal task to defend himself after hearing a commotion from the floor below. He described the moment khan ran at him with knives raised above his head. He went on to recall chasing khan onto london bridge, where a group wrestled him to the ground, stopping him attacking anyone else, or set off what they thought was a suicide vest. Talking about jack merritt and saskia jones, who were both killed by khan, mr frost said he will always feel the deep hurt of not being able to save them. He said he hoped speaking out would urge people to unite against terrorism and raise money for the victims families. President trump has signed into a law, the creation of a us space force, the countrys first new military service in 70 years. He described space as, the worlds newest war fighting domain. The forces creation is part of a 738 billion Dollar Defence bill, voted through by Congress Last week. There will be a lot of things happening in space because space is the worlds newest war fighting domain. Amid grave threats to our National Security, american superiority in space is absolutely vital and we are leading but we are not leading by enough but very shortly we will be leading by a lot. This space force will help us to deter aggression and control the ultimate high ground. President trump there. Breaking news coming to us here. This man announced that the former west them and titled the midfielder Martin Peters who also scored englands second goal in the 1966 finals against west germany has sadly died at the age of 76. Following a long battle against alzheimers disease. We do have a statement from west ham united. They say it is with profound sadness that we announce that martin passed away peacefully in his sleep at 4am this morning. A beloved husband, dad, and granddad and a kind gentle and private man. We are devastated by his allies. News coming to us here that the world cup winner, Martin Peters, has died at the age of 76 following a long battle with alzheimers disease. We will of course be getting more of this on this story right here at bbc news. To give you a little bit more background and the start of the memories, bobby moore come he was pa rt memories, bobby moore come he was part of the trio of bobby moore and jeff hearst who scored a hat trick in the 4 to victory at wimberly. More on this as and when we get it. But Martin Peters, world cup winner, 9066, has sadly passed away at the age of 76. 1966. The headlines on bbc news. A catastrophic fire warning is issued for parts of eastern australia, including sydney, amid record breaking temperatures following months of severe drought. The government approves the takeover of uk defence and aerospace specialist, cobham, by an american company. A man who confronted the fishmongers hall attacker, with a narwal tusk, describes his deep hurt that he couldnt save the two people who died. Facebook says its removed hundreds of accounts with ties to a conservative news outlet, that uses fake profile photos, generated with the help of artificial intelligence. Researchers said the facebook and instagram fake profiles, generate thousands of personalities who emphasise support for president trump, and opposition to the chinese government. Peter bowes is following the story from los angeles. It shows what technology can achieve these days. In terms of generating these images, faces that look like the profile shots of ordinary people, but they are fake. They are generated by algorithms. There is absolutely nothing real about them. They dont represent real people. They have been generated by users in vietnam, say facebook, purporting to be americans. They have removed several hundred of these facebook accounts, as you say, along with instagram sites, and various pages, as well, that carried with their messages which were anti china, that were pro trump, or generated conversations about family values, or elections, or impeachment, a lot of those important issues which are in the news at the moment. Peter bowes reporting there. Christmas celebrations in the uk, often centre on food, drink and family gatherings, but campaigners are warning, that the party season can place additional strain on those living with eating disorders. The nhs and the eating disorder charity, beat, have issued new advice, for people with conditions such as anorexia and bulimia, on how to cope at christmas. Comedian dave chawner has been sharing his story. When it first started for me, i was 17, and i remember back then, i had got exams, i had got essays, i had research, all of the stresses and strains that most teenagers have. But i didnt have a coping mechanism, i didnt have a way of dealing with it, and actually, focusing on calories, focusing on exercise and weighing myself was something that i could control. So it was something that became really important because when everything felt really unmanageable, those are the things that i could manage. Those are the things that i could focus on, and over time, that became an obsession, an addiction, it became a control that, it was something that i could focus on when Everything Else felt like it was completely unmanageable. One of the misconceptions about anorexia is people think that anorexics dont like food or dont think about food, but that was my every waking thought. Because as soon as i say to you, you cant have anything, that is the only thing that you can think about. So i was constantly thinking about food, i was constantly totting up calories in my brain, i was constantly thinking of excuses or ways i could get out of things. And also something that we see with people with anorexia is they tend to binge and purge a lot. So i was eating whole sausage rolls and stuff, not even chewing them, just getting them down. Tom quinn is the director of external affairs at beat, the charity involved in this campaign. He explained to my colleague shaun ley how people can prepare and keep themselves busy, during the festive period. For many of us, its a holiday thats focused on food, on eating, and so for people who have an illness thats focused on struggle with eating, it can be a really difficult time. Also, its a time, often, where usual routines and structures perhaps arent quite in place, so its really important that both people who are suffering and their families sort of plan ahead for this difficult time. Is routine one of the things tha