Pope francis celebrates christmas mass. Calling for a hearts and for conflict to end. May bring consolation to our rock. Iraq. A powerful typhoonpa tutors o rts of the philippines leaving tens of thousands of people stranded. A fire engulfs the chilean city. Alert. Vement declares a red after what the queen calls a bumper year, she highlights the need for reconciliation as part of her annual chstmas message. Food for festive thought. The u. K. Baking bugs into bread. Anchor welcome, and a verys merry christ our viewers around the world. Religious leaders around the world haveelivered their christmas messages. At the vatican, pope francis denounced attacks by extrweist groups i africa. He prayed for venezuelans to receive the aid they need and he urgethe world to ensure security in the middle east. Under a perfect christmas got, 55,000 came to st. Peters square. Watching the balcony beneath the dome. At noon, he emerged the leader of the worlds 1. 3 billion catholics. Treating pope francis, the s of the vatican and ita and a pade as he spoke to the city and theorld. Hisas message w tour of trouble spots for space in syria, yemen, venezuela and ukraine. From the man himself, cement italian immigrants he focused on migration. It is injustice that makes them cross deserts and sees. It is injustice that forces them to endure unspeakable abuse, enslavement, and torture. Earlier, he endedo other leaders u gave a separasual message calling on south sudan factions to form a government. He recently brought both sides to the vatican. Kissing their feet in a gesture of reconciliation. His seventh christmas is part as hope draws to close with a political tone. Adoredy his followers. The list of world hotspots he quoted is a reminder oo how much is tbe done. Anchor t archbishop of canterbury addressed those around the world. He also used his Christmas Day rmon to talk about the darkness of the London Bridge terror attack. Darkness is a monster that li. Its claimed seem toalut with a louder volume. We see the shadows out of th corner of our eyes. There may be violence, there may be political, they may be personal from ram leaf you relationship problems, illness. The darkness within us that sometimes seems to threaten our stability and hope. Anchor in the plippines, a typhoon has caused major floods and instruction. More tn 25,000 people have been stranded. Many of them unable to joinr thmilies for christmas. The typhoon has been following a similar track to a tapin in 2013, the most powerfu to have the archipelago in a long time. Reporter apart from peaceful christmas in the philippines. The typhoon has brought sustained winds of almost 200 kilometers per hour. Terrified local people and leaving a trail of destruction. Heavy rain has left many homes flooded. More than 16,000 people have to spend the night in improvised shelters. At least 100 families have been in this majority catholic country, the thai fund typhoon has stopped many people from visiting their families for christmas. Lipinos are used to tropical storms and typhoons with around rthe most deadly ent times was in 2013. Ms of storm surgeefmore than 75 7000 people dead. Many of the areas worst hit back thenru have borne the of this latest storm. Anchor lets loo at the other stories making the news today. A group in afghistan says 27 of its members have been abducted by e taliban as they were traveling in the west of the country. A spokesperson for the Peoples Peace Movement says the group again our march begin their march 2 weeks ago. Police and hong kong have fired tear gas at protesters after they marched for shopping mallsi ng slogans. The violence followed clashes on tuesday where police fired tear gas. The japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe has told his chinese counterpart that although lllateral relations are improving, they ontinue to suffer unless tensions reduce in the east china sea. Aihe efforts to improve relations were back on track. More than 100 homes have been destroyed by ainorest fir chilean. Rehigh temperatu and strong winds are whipping up the flames. Authorities say they are investigating suspicions that the fire was lit delivered late. Deliberately. Christmas day up in flames. This was the scene that residents fled. After a nearby forest fire swept through two districts destroying 150 homes. While others awoke to gifts and good cheer, those affected that the night in shelters and returned to their homes to findg their belogs reduced to ash. 2000 residents were without electricity. We managed to get the pets and the television out what the police to the away as there was nothing else that could be done. Families are returning to find their houses destroyed. My cousin and uncle, we all have houses on the street. This was the house where i was born and my brother was born. Now, it is all destroyed. Dry conditions and strong winds whipped the fire into the area. The fire which they believe was startedal intentionly continues to burn away from builtup areas. It is home to 250,000 people and sits in the central part of the country which is been subjected to a severe drought for more than 10 years. The government has committed more than 165 million to combat the fires. For the families, it is too late to rekindle this years christmas cheer and to save their homes. Anchor Queen Elizabeth has made heannualad bst in the United Kingdom and commonwealth. She knowledged tha 2019 has been bumpy. E couraged people to follow jesus message of understanding. Reporter the morning service, notable for who attend who was absent. Making their firstceppearance, preorge and its a charlotte. Absent, prince andrew. He decided to attend an earlier private service for the family. After the 11 00 svice, the queen headed back where prince aiphilip had rd after his discharge from hospil yesterday. That left cambridge is to lead the royal party grading the crowds. Ldadopting for the chin who had not done this before. They stayed close to their parents as they receivedlo fwers and for charlotte, a hug. In her christmas message, the queen spoke of here delight at rth of her eight andchild, archie whos in canada with his parents. Turning away from should knowledged the efforts made by young people to prnmect the envit. The challenges manyeople face today may be different by the my generation. I have been struck by w w generations have brought a similar sense of purpose to issues such as protecting our environment and our climate. For the 75th anniversary reporter she focused on the need for reconciliation. There was a lesson to be learned from dday. By beingilng to the past differences behind us and move forward together, we honor the freedom and democracy once one reporter the queen said the need to seek harmony and understanding was at the heart of the teaching of jesus christ. Many of us try to follow in his footsteps. The ph is not always smooth. It may have felt quite bumpy but small steps can make a world of difference. It is the sma steps which can bring about thelasting change. That descripon of a bumpy year is almost s c thattainly a reference to the brexit debate. It has been a difficult year for the royal family as well. The queen will be hoping for a smoother path passage in 2020. For the country d for her family. Anchor stay with on bbc world news. Still toam come on the pro the woman behind one of the most wellknown tv theme songs has died at the age of 72. We will take a look at the other work that made her famous long before friends. The world of music has been tpayibute to orge michael at the age of 53. He sold well over 100 million albums and a career spn ning more tha30 years. The United States troops have been trying to overthrowhe dictatorship of the memo noriega. The pentagon says it has failed in its principal objective to capture him and taken tos he united sta face drug charges. The russian flag was posted over what is now no longer the soviet union of the commonwealth of independt states. You can see what happens when a plane eight stories high false from 30,000 feet. Christmas has returned to albania after a ban lesson within 20 years. Thousands went to not mass where there were anticommunist riots 10 days ago. Anchor you are watching abc world news. Pe francis has uses traditionalhristmas message at the vatican to draw attention to the suffering of people of people aund the world. A typhoon is causing major floods and destruction around the philippines. Heafter whatueen calls a bumpy year, she highlights the need for reconciliation as part of her annual christmas message. A postchristmas heat wave is being forecasted parts of to devastate the country. Firefighters, manyoses praed volueers in his christmas message. The pubc have also been showing their gratitude to the fire service. We will hear from a family who lost their home. Rst, our correspondent. Reporter taking a brief christmas break before heading back to the front lines. Of these firefighters have been working nonstop for weeks. Despite a low of the weather with cooling temratures and predicted rain, the risk is not over. Teams braho themselves fo conditions later in the week. The rul fire servicee is Worlds Largest volunteer organization of more than 70,000 members. Most are local volunteers who have takenn the task to protect the rural communities. Nyma have been overwhelmed by the response ttheir work. Presents for the kids, i asked what they ne at the moment. I havent gone Christmas Shopping for my daughter. Thank you. Vethank yo much. Reporter last weeks fires have been fueled by record temperatures of over 41 degrees. As a heat wave swept across the country combined with wins and dry conditions. Australia has been fighting wildfires for months. The early start to the fire season is stretching alreadyar water resources. Pictures of a thunderstorm in brisbane showed some respite in the weather. Firefighters say a lot more rain is needed in many more places. Not muc next few weeks. R the anchor she told me how her and her mothers homes were destroyed by the fires. N early november, theires were in septemr as well but november is also early for the bushfire season. There was a fire burning in the mountains the kind of this area. A fewd been burning fo months it came down. This is not uncommon. As a massive firestorm. Definitely yes australia has bushfires but the firestorms are a whole new thing. Ldthey c firestorms with 50 ter high walls of fire and they create their own weather. It broht through a hole village and took o over 80 homes, half the homes in the area. Anchor it looks devastating. Do ho it had you cope with that . It is quite amazing how humans are resilient and adaptable. I didnt imagine this could happen but you just do cope with it. You go on and find ways to. Also, having family. So lucky that nobody in this community died. The stories i heard, it is really lucky that people here did not die. That would be a whole other level of grief for those who haveost lost loved ones. Chanor we have heard of the two wfirefighters lost theirs live in battling these bushfires. Aw does the community, how do you rally aroundnd support each other given that these temperatures are not going dow and we are expecting high temperatures again to come up over the weekend . Here, it has been i, not so scary but the temperatures yes. I grew upen here but i have living in the mountains near sydney. I came up from the Blue Mountains to be here to be with my family for this Holiday Season but also to clean up and rebuild. I left the Blue Mountains with valuable things because there is a fire there is well. Down ithe bl mountains, if the whole greater sydney reveon it is stil real or it the fire is still coming. It is five kilometers from m house. How the Community Rallies together, it just does. In times like this, it is when the leadership has to come from the community. The important stuff comes from the community. And it ces from the firefighters. The Community Supports them so much more than the government does. Anchor you are a climate activists. You have done work with the Extinction Rebellion group, the movement. What kind of hope, what kind of message do you want from the vernment . What you want them to do . What action you want them to take . We want them to stop mining and burning coal and transition to the renewable energy. There is so much available in gies thatthe techno have been created. They are still continuing to say that in order to have a strong economy, we need to keep building the coal industry and a lot of people continue to believe that. They think that in order for us to have a strong economy, we need coal. Its crazy. We wante to listen to science and get real about it because they are not. We want them to transition. Anchor youre among many who bluster homes in new outh allee willis has diedt e age of 72. She won a grammy award for other work that she is best known for writing the theme song to friend yeporter it was the late 1970s and although theight not have known it, people across the world were strutting their stuff to allee willis. Boogie wonderland, the anthem she cowrote for wind and fire. Earth wind and fi she also worked with them on september. She was born in detroit, the motor city of motown fam a white girl who absorbed the sounds of black america. The drums, bass, background vocals leaking through the walls of homes in her neighborhood. Nshe could play an instrument but s had with themn her head. Her career lessons and later, awards and nominations started to flow. She won Grammy Awards for the color purple and beverly hil cop. She alsoowrote the theme for frnds. ll be there for yra by the rembts. N her work sold more t million records. Small wondeshe was inducted into the songwriters hall of fame last year. This compassionate multitalented dynamo described as eccentric never lost her roots. Shved detroit and barking later on a mammoth musical projec reinvent a city that seemed crippled by the motor industrylp that it build it. It involved dozens of musiciansr vocalist andidents from across the city. As witeverything else, it had sold. Soul anchmembering allee willis who has died at 72. A bakery in the northwest of england is claiming to be the first to make bread out of insects. Each loaf at the bakery contains more than 300 crickets mixed into the flour. Eating insects can help beast nutrition pollution. Reporter they are still making their usual bread but there is a new batch in production. Where the key ingredient is this, crickets. The bakery claims to be the first in the u. K. To make insect bread. A crunchy cricket loaf. We want them to think about their food and wherendt comes from the impact it has on the environme. This is our way of saying take the challenge, try a loaf and see if you like it. Reporter its not as unusual as you might first think. Its estimated at least 2 billion people ate insects last year. Theyofre a good sourc protein and producing them is less environmentally damaging and meet. When they grow crickets, we need a small land aria area. The event much less greenhouse gas. They him met less greenhouse gas. Reporter et there are 336 cri and each loaf prar. Ey re ground into an index with wheat flour. Its a bit dry. T tastes disappointingly normal. Just like nice brown bread. Nd there are 336 credits each loaf. Crickets in each l. It taste nutty. I dont taste e crickets. If i can, it taste good. Reporter the first batch is 100 hsmo they will await public reaction before the cricket red moves forward. Anchor ge it a try and let me know. Get in touch with me on social media. Wish you a very happy christmas from me and the bbc world news team. Thank you for joining me. Goodbye. Captioning sponsored by newshourroductions, llc e nawaz goning. Im amna nawaz. Judy woodruff is away. To on the newshought reviewing e year in climate. Environmental change has had on our planet in 2019. Thenthe state of the world. A decadelong look back at the trends around the globe and what they mean r the United States. Plus, on the newshour bookshelf the other americans. Novelist laila lalami examines immigration and entity through fiction. And hark, hear the bells nawaz united, we s members of the United States armed forcesround the world perform carol of the bells. All that and more, on tonights pbs newshour