and the world's biggest tech conference in las vegas. a bike that glides on water is among the latest advancements convered by click, in half an hour here on bbc news. the queen has summoned senior members of the royal family to sandringham to discuss future roles for the duke and duchess of sussex, who want to step back from their duties and spend more time in north america. the prince of wales, the duke of cambridge and the prince harry will attend the meeting tomorrow, while meghan is expected join over the phone from canada. here's our royal correspondent, nick witchell. it's been described as the "sandringham summit". 0n the queen's estate in norfolk tomorrow, the queen will come face—to—face with prince harry for the first time since he and his wife issued their personal statement about their future last wednesday. also there will be the prince of wales and prince william, and harry's wife, meghan, the duchess of sussex, is expected to phone—in to join the discussion from canada. officials have worked hard in recent days to understand what the sussexes want. there will, we understand, be a range of possibilities to review. it is hoped next steps will be agreed at the meeting. however, officials are stressing that any decision about the sussexes‘ future status will take time to be implemented. the trickiest area will be to agree the financial position of the sussexes as they seek financial independence. there are likely to be tax implications of any decision to base themselves outside of the united kingdom for any length of time. and buckingham palace will want tight protocols to prevent them cashing in too blatantly on their royal status. and underpinning it all is the human side, a rift most poignantly between two brothers. according to the sunday times, william has spoken to friends of his sadness at the bond which has now been broken. "i've put my arm around my brother all our lives," he is quoted as saying. "i can't do that any more." nicholas witchell, bbc news. the queen hasjust the queen has just left church in sandringham and our correspondent is there. more interest than usual for a sunday morning service? certainly, yes. you have just missed you havejust missed hundreds you have just missed hundreds of well—wishers coming through those gates, all coming here to catch a glimpse of her majesty. she arrived a few minutes before iiam. glimpse of her majesty. she arrived a few minutes before ”am. she was wearing a light brown jacket with a matching hat of course. and she came down here, she was driven through the driveway, through the gates towards the mary magdalene church where the service began about an hour ago. it has been quite a tough day for the queen herself. with all that has been going on throughout the last week or so. she put on a brave face, smiling and waving at the well—wishers and it almost seemed as if it was business as usualfor seemed as if it was business as usual for the seemed as if it was business as usualfor the queen. she is quite used to this as the head of the church, it is her role and responsibility. last year when prince philip was very poorly, he was in hospital but she still came to the carol service. she takes that responsibility very seriously. from what i've been reading, she had a very warm reception from the people who gathered? clearly delighted to see her under these rather testing circumstances? she certainly has and she's always going to be a popularfigure, particularly here in sandringham. i was speaking to a view of the people who came here today and i asked why they came. they said, you know, it's been a tough week for her with harry and meghan and it must be very difficult for the family. was interesting to hear how they feel sorry for the royal family and hearing that side because, again, they are just a family like me and you. yes, they have a lot of focus with the cameras but again, they are a family. this is really upset the royal family. harry and a family. this is really upset the royalfamily. harry and meghan both took this decision without consulting the queen and prince and as we've been told by the palace, they are upset about it. thank you very much. earlier i spoke to the royal commentator and historian, anna whitelock, for her assessment of where the royal family goes from here. well, i think we are in a time of transition, and it's a time of transition that really properly won't kick off until the end of the queen's reign, but we are beginning to see an articulation of this problem in a sense between modernity and how that works with a monarchy which, of course, is based on tradition, precident, ritual and that goes back centuries. in a sense it is an anachronistic institution. based on priviledge of birth, not merit. how does that fit into the modern age, particularly with harry and meghan who do have a public and media profile and it's time to figure out what they can do within the royal family, but clearly, as they say, they want to also do their own thing and play by their own rules, and that is what they are going to try to figure out tomorrow at sandringham. what are the rules they are going to sign up to to try and avoid really, as far as the palace is concerned, the awful events of the last few days. what about whether it is going to be only harry and meghan taken the decision if the royalfamily is to become smaller? this is a conversation which has already started and prince charles has talked in the past about a slimmed down family when he inherits the throne and, indeed, i think the queen has signalled this through images, portraits that have been released in recent months, not least the portraitjust recently where the queen was there with prince charles, prince william and prince george who, of course, are the next three kings. they are the successors and they are what really matters. charles has talked about slimming things down beyond that so i think this was a conversation that was already in play and by all accounts harry and meghan have expressed the fact they wanted to forge a different kind of role and william and charles and, indeed, the queen were responsive and receptive to that. i think it has been the pace that they have initiated and of course, that an announcement that completely wrong—footed buckingham palace. it hadn't been consulted beforehand. that is what has really thrown this crisis into the open in this quite dramatic way. that was historian and whitelock. borisjohnson has travelled to 0man following the death of sultan qaboos, the longest serving modern arab ruler. the sultan died on friday at the age of 79 after a long illness. mrjohnson will attend a condolence ceremony today as part of three days of offical mourning. he will be joined by prince charles. the defence secretary ben wallace and the chief of the defence staff will also be there. the british ambassador to iran has denied taking part in protests in tehran following his arrest last night. in a tweet rob maccaire said he was detained for three hours after attending a vigil to pay his respects to the four british nationals who were killed in the ukrainian passenger plane that was shot down by the iranian military on wednesday. the foreign secretary dominic raab has said iran was in breach of international law and called on tehran to descalate tensions in the region. simonjones reports. protests in tehran against the government. for three days, iran had denied it shot down a ukrainian passenger plane. then, in an extraordinary turnaround, the military finally admitted it had made a disastrous mistake. britain's ambassador to tehran had joined what started as a vigil for the dead in the iranian capital. he left when it turned into a demonstration. but rob macaire was arrested as he stopped at a barbershop for a haircut. he was accused of helping to organise the protests. under the vienna convention, diplomats cannot be detained. here at the foreign office in london, the foreign secretary dominic raab has described the ambassador's arrest as a flagrant violation of international law. he said the iranian government was at a crossroads moment. it could continue the march towards pariah status with all the political and economic isolation that involves, or it could take steps to de—escalate tensions and engage in diplomacy. britain is also demanding the investigation in the crash should be comprehensive, transparent and independent. a senior military commander in iran said the plane had been wrongly identified as an american missile. tensions were high in the region following the us‘s assassination of a senior iranian general. 57 of the 176 people who lost their lives were from canada. canada will not rest until we get the accountability, justice and closure that the families deserve. as the mourning continues, so does the anger. simon jones, bbc news. i've been speaking to kasra naji, special correspondent at the bbc persian service about the protests in tehran. this is the first that we've seen after the events of the last week or so, after the attack on the iranian general, the killing of the general by the americans. then the iranian response to firing missiles at american airbase in iraq and then after that, immediately after that, the shooting down of the plane that now, three days later, the iranian authorities have accepted responsability for it. there is quite a bit of anger at what is going on. barefaced lies by the iranian authorities about the shooting down of this aeroplane for three days, misleading the public in a big, big way. there is quite a bit of anger in various places. we saw demonstrations in tehran at various universities and we have reports of protests in a couple of other cities across the country. today we are already getting reports that riot police are out in force in many cities, including tehran, anticipating more today. given that the president has said that the shooting down of that plane was unforgivable, how long are they likely to let these protests go on? if they had the choice they would put an end to it today, but i'm not sure whether that is possible. having seen the sort of thing happening in iran before, my own impression is that this might go on for days in various parts of the country and iranians authorities will put riot police everywhere out on the streets to make sure it doesn't happen. already the government is highly embarrassed. people are on the streets shouting slogans against the iranian revolutionary guard, and we haven't seen that before. very direct slogans against the iranian leader for having supported this campaign of lies and not taking responsibility earlier for killing so many people, many of them iranians, young iranians. let's bring you some dramatic pictures now from the philippines. this is the taal volcano, south of the philippine capital, manila. a dramatic release of steam and ash has led the authorities there to temporarily suspend flights from manila airport. 8,000 people living nearby have been told to leave the area. the volcano has emitted a plume of grey ash that shot up as high as a kilometre into the sky. three earthquakes were also recorded, related to the eruption. the volcano is located on the island of luzon. it's the second most active volcano in the philippines and has erupted over 30 times. philippine officials have raised their alert level and are warning that a full—scale eruption is possible in the coming days or weeks. the six candidates in the labour leadership havejust over 2a hours to gain the backing they need to get to the next stage of the contest. sir keir starmer, rebecca long—bailey and lisa nandy have the required number of nominations — leaving emily thornberry and clive lewis lobbying to get the backing of at least 22 of their fellow labourmps and meps. registered supporters — who are not full party members — will have 48 hours from 14th to the 16th of january to secure a vote by paying £25. the ballot will be open from 21st february to the 2nd of april. with the results announced two days later on the 4th april. 0ur political correspondent tony bonsignore gave us this update. rebecca long—bailey, lisa nandy, jess phillips and sir keir starmer, who is way out ahead with 68 nominations at the moment. there are two struggling at the moment which is emily thornbury — she's got 10 — and clive lewis who's only got four nominations. emily has been speaking to bbc in the last hour or so. she's got 12 to go so not even halfway there, but she says she is still pretty confident that she can get over the line. can you do it? i think so. what's happened is we've only had a week to get those nominations in. there is a large number of mps who haven't nominated yet and many of them have wanted to speak to their party members and go to the hustings and think about this because it's obviously a very important decision. from the conversations i've had this weekend, i'm fairly confident that i'll be fine. i will get across the line and, you know, then we will move onto the next stage. it is a long contest and it will have its ups and downs and i've been a slow starter but i did start from a standing start after the general election. she has been a slow starter, when you look at the numbers. she is confident she can do it and she says there is a lot of her local party people talking to their constituencies and talking about who they are going to go for. if she's going to make it is going to have to happen in the next few hours. rebecca long—bailey is often labelled as the continuity candidate because she was very close to jeremy corbyn. how helpful to her is that? not hugely, is the honest answer. it's helpful in that she's got the support of the current leadership. it looks like she's going to get the support of momentum, this powerful grouping within labour who are behind jeremy corbyn, and also there are still an awful lot of labour members who are very supportive of jeremy corbyn about thejeremy corbyn project. in that sense, it's going to be useful to her but on the other hand, how far does she want to be associated with that catastrophic election defeat in december? she was asked about this today on sky news and she said, well, she regretted what happened, for example on anti—semitism and a number of other issues but when it came to the manifesto she was broadly supportive. here's what she had to say. the platform on which many of those policies was developed was a positive one and as i said it did deal with the reinvestment and reinvigoration of our economy and the shift of wealth and power away from those few minorities that have it to everybody and every single community. we didn't get that message through and we need to recognise that. members can vote in this leadership contest. when it was jeremy corbyn‘s time, when he was elected as leader, we saw a big spike in applications tojoin the party. quite a cheap thing to join at that point, wasn't it? and there is a big variable this and this week is a big one for the labour party because not only do we have the deadline for nominations but after that there is a 48—hour window when people can sign up, pay £25 and become what is known as a registered supporter and then vote in that leadership contest from late february to the start of april. how are those people going to vote? even though at this stage sir keir starmer looks like the front runner because he's got the most nominations, that doesn't necessarily mean he's going to win. a lot of unpredictability in this contest. the headlines on bbc news... urgent talks between the queen and prince harry and meghan will be held tomorrow over the royal couple's future. iranians protests after the military finally admits to shooting down a passengerjet — as the arrested british ambassador denies being a part of any demonstrations in tehran. 8,000 people are ordered from their homes and manila international airport puts all flights on hold after steam and ash erupt from a volcano in the philippines. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here'sjohn. good afternoon. the england cricket squad has been hit by illness yet again. this time it's captain joe root, who had to miss training in port elizabeth this morning, due to a stomach bug. with the test series against south africa level at i—all, the 3rd and deciding test starts on thursday. england s tour has been badly affected by illness and injury from the start, with 17 players and support staff laid low by flu—like symptoms, and rory burns and james anderson forced to return home through injury. hopefully it is just today. 0bviously hopefully it is just today. obviously it is a frustration. nobody misses training more than him so nobody misses training more than him so it has been a story of the tour so so it has been a story of the tour so far, guys getting ill, but i'm sure he will be fine and we've got a few more days before the game so i'm sure he will be fine. serena williams has won her first title for three years. she beat jessica pegula in straight sets in the final of the auckland international and donated her winner's cheque of around 33—thousand pounds to the australian bushfires relief fund. williams will have another shot at a record—equalling 24th grand slam title, when the australian open starts a week tomorrow. played pretty well in new york. just not in the final! again in boldon, just not in the final. here, so i'm getting there. it'sjust putting it together for the whole tournament. i'm feeling good and fit and i feel like i've got some good matches, long rallies, short rallies, power players and elements so this is what i needed going into melbourne. it's good, it's really good. karolina pliskova held on to her brisbane international title, despite a spiritied performance from madison keys. pliskova said the tough three—set win was the ideal preparation for the australian open. the former world number one reached the semi—finals in melbourne last year, but she's yet to win a grand slam singles title. novak djokovic has taken the atp cup final to a deciding doubles rubber, with victory over rafael nadal in sydney. spain went i—nil up thanks to roberto bautista agut‘s victory in the morning singles, before the world's top two players took to the court. and djokovic broke nadal twice in the opening set to take it 6—2. but nadal didn't go down without a fight, taking the second set to a tie—break. the pair are likely to be back on court again straight after this match — they're both expected to play in the deciding doubles. 16 points clear in the premier league following a record number of wins this season — liverpool manager jurgen klopp feels there remains room for improvement. no other team has started a season as well as liverpool in europe's top five leagues — a one nil win over tottenham gave them their 20th win from their opening 21 matches — not that they'll sit back and rest on that record run. 0ur contenders are so strong so that he will not give up, whatever pep guardiola says, they will not give up. we have to play there and then stuff like this and that's how it is. i know that, it's no problem, i would do the same. but so far, so really good. another record could fall today if sergio aguero scores twice for manchester city in the late kick off against aston villa, the argentine would become the highest foreign goalscorer in the premier league. thierry henry is the current record—holder, with 175 goals — aguero isjust one behind. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more in the next hour. after weeks of criticism over the handling of australia's bushfire emergency, the country's prime minister has admitted he could have done things differently. scott morrison says he'll propose a powerful inquiry — a royal comission to look into the official response. he also announced a fund of 76 million australian dollars to help some of those most—affected. he's been speaking to our partner network in australia, abc. there are things that i could have handled on the ground much better. these are very raw, emotional environments. i've got to say that 95% or thereabouts of the responses i have had in most cases have been very positive and very appreciative. but, david, these are sensitive environments. they are very emotional environments. prime ministers are flesh and blood too in how they engage with people. 0ur correspondent katy watson sent us this update on the fires from victoria. people here in victoria, especially where i am, which is right on the border where the bushfires are, are just doing theirjob or taking advantage of the slower days, if you like, where the fires are not creeping and growing as quickly. it is slightly cooler, slightly less wind. so what they are doing is, they are trying to contain these fires. every few minutes we see helicopters landing, refuelling, going off to try and put water on the bushfires to stop their spread. so, really, that on the ground is what people are focusing on. i mean, certainly, there has been a lot of criticism of scott morrison and how he has handled these fires, as he called them, unprecedented, but certainly there has been little sympathy for the politicians, and it is really about the community here pulling together. these last few days have been seen as a bit of a respite, being able to build containment lines so that these bushfires don't spread, so that when the temperatures kick up again, perhaps they can contain the fires and handle them better. but at the same time, this community has also learned of another firefighter who has died about 60 kilometres from here — bill slade, who was a firefighter in parks victoria — and he was hit by a tree. and i think that's the difficulty here. people are on the ground working overtime, working as much as they can. they're bringing in firefighters from the us, who i met a couple of hours ago. you know, boots on the ground just trying to contain these fires and at the same time, you know, dealing with the news of yet another firefighter who has sadly died. that was katie watson in victoria. the government is urging more people to visit local pharmacies to ease pressure on gps and hospitals. figures this week show a&e departments in england have experienced their worst month since waiting targets were introduced. patients who call the nhs iii hotline are being directed to pharmacists for urgent medication for things like asthma and diabetes, as well as those with mild conditions such as sore throats and earache. the health secretary says accident and emergency departments should be only for the most seriously ill patients. we always hear about the impact of carbon dioxide on the environment but methane is actually a more potent heat—trapping greenhouse gas and there are huge quantities of it locked away in ice under the seabed. so a key question for climate scientists in cambridge, is what would happen if some of it gets released when that ice melts. here s oui’ science correspondent richard westcott, correspondent richard westcott. to find answers to global issues, you start small. in a lab in cambridge university, they are trying to understand how methane moves. so, these days everyone is talking about carbon dioxide. methane, if you're thinking about a 20 year scale, if you release methane into the atmosphere, it's 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide, over 100 years it's 20 times more potent. vast quantities of methane are locked away in an icy cage below the sea bed. it's thought to contain as much carbon as oil, gas and coal put together. as temperatures rise and some of the ice melts, it is important to understand what happens to the released gas. hence this dye. it shows how the gas will move through sea water. so, by knowing where methane has travelled in the water column, using fundamental mathematics and physics, engineers can use that knowledge to design solutions that will work in the real world to stop the methane from getting into the atmosphere. in the same lab a different experiment, to model how the gas moves when it's still trapped in the icy ground. what we are trying to understand here is how much gas might get released, if any at all, so actually there is huge quantities of methane hydrates but most of it is under a very stable condition. it's not going to get released. the concern is in certain areas if the ocean might get warmer than these conditions might be perturbed and destabilised and that might cause the gas to escape. down here, over time, organic matter slowly decays. creating a volcano of methane gas. some see methane as the saviour. it is the key component in natural gas and it's cleaner than oil and coal. china and japan are among countries looking to tap into their reserves, but some scientists fear we may pay a price. we are dealing with huge quantities of methane in the form of methane hydrates and even if a very small percentage of it gets destabilised, released into the water colony and potentially the atmosphere, we could be looking at potentially catastrophic consequences. this year's brit award nominations have been announced, but there's been some controversy over the lack of females up for the top awards. singer lewis capaldi, stormzy and harry styles are in the running for multiple awards and bruce springsteen has been nominted for best male international artist, 3a years after his last win. the ceremony takes place in london next month. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. much more sunshine around this afternoon. some heavy showers through wales, the midlands. that will be off into the north sea. still a few showers dotted around in the west and south. cho is turning to snow over the higher ground in scotland. quite a chilly day here. in the south temperature is dropping. chilly conditions in tonight. a brief spell of showers lifting the temperatures. it will be up lifting the temperatures. it will be up and down tonight in terms of temperatures but in the coldest spots we could see a touch of frost around and a little bit of ice into monday morning. starting sunny on monday morning. starting sunny on monday but do not be filled, turning wetter and windierfrom monday but do not be filled, turning wetter and windier from the west with torrential rain, widespread gales. it will lift temperatures above it but fairly academic because we will see 50,16, above it but fairly academic because we will see 50, 16, maybe 70 above it but fairly academic because we will see 50,16, maybe 70 mph winds into the evening rush hour. damaging winds may be reaching 80 mothers per hour in western scotland into the evening. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: urgent talks between the queen and prince harry and meghan will be held tomorrow over the royal couple's future. ira nia ns protest after the military finally admits to shooting down a passengerjet — following his arrest, the british ambassador denies being a part of any demonstrations in tehran. 8,000 people are ordered from their homes and manila international airport puts all flights on hold

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