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and in halfan hour, i and in half an hour, i will be looking back at a momentous year in one which has seen tim peake return to earth after his six month stay in space. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. and a happy christmas as well. the queen has delivered her annual christmas speech, in a message where she says she often draws strength from meeting ordinary people, doing extraordinary things. the speech has been televised throughout britain and much of the commonwealth this afternoon. after paying tribute to the uk s olympians and paralympians, she spoke of her admiration for unsung heroes i often draw strength from meeting ordinary people doing extraordinary things, volunteers, carers, community organisers and good neighbours, unsung heroes whose quiet dedication makes them special. they are an inspiration to those who know them, and their lives frequently embody a truth expressed by mother teresa, from this year, st teresa of calcutta. she once said, not al ....
and happy christmas. the queen has missed her annual christmas day visit to church because of a heavy cold. other members of the royal family including the duke of edinburgh attended the service at sandringham without her. in her traditional christmas broadcast, the queen focused on the theme of inspiration. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. christmas day service at sandringham church but this year, without the queen. other members of a family including the duke of edinburgh attended by the duke of edinburgh attended by the queen remained at sandringham, continuing to recover from what buckingham palace has described as a heavy cold. as they left the service, the family appeared to be relaxed. the queen s absence is understood to have been precautionary and there is no sense of undue concern. also absent from sandringham this year, the duke and duchess of them and their children, george and charlotte. they attended church at bucklebury in berkshire, whe ....
the transport minister says investigators aren t ruling out any possible reasons for the crash that includes terrorism. among those on board were members of the famous red army choir. vigils have been held, this one at the os tan kino tv station to remember the nine journalists who were killed in the crash. the authorities say the location of the wreckage has been pinpointed, and more than a hundred divers were exploring the sea bed. so far, eleven bodies have been recovered. steve rosenberg reports from moscow. this is one of the final images of the tupolev 154 jet. it was taken by a journalist before he boarded the plane. the flight would end in tragedy. the aircraft crashed into the black sea. the russians scrambled helicopters and ships but the search became a recovery operation. there were no survivors. the plane had taken off from a military airfield near moscow. it flew south, stopping in sochi to refuel. the final destination was syria, and russia s airbase ....
as we enter 2017. the events of the last year have changed our world. popular votes in the united states and united kingdom have shaken the west. both have been an angry backlash against decades old policies. the rising tide of antiestablishment feeling is found its voice in social media. as the new means of communicating propelled us into an age where fact no longer matters? post truth is the word of the year. what does it mean? what is new is the speed at which some of these false and get distributed, and the willingness of people to embrace them. and what does the future look like? is britain s vote to leave the eu the beginning of a wider european unravelling? in the pale winter dawn of western pennsylvania the deer hunting season has begun. chuck eriksson has been shooting deer for a0 years. they start hunting here as early as eight years old. over the years it has changed. we have gone from being meat seekers to trophy hunters. it was a bad day if we saw 100 deer. ....
george michael has been announced. he was 53. he shot to fame in the 1980s as half of the band wham, and went on to have a hugely successful solo career. he s sold more than 80 million records worldwide. his publicist says he passed away peacefully at his home just outside london on sunday. andy moore looks back at his life. # well, i hadn t seen your face around town a while, so i greeted you, with a knowing smile. he burst onto the scene in the early 1980s when he formed wham with andrew ridgeley. the duo had number one singles around the world. they even conquered china, becoming the first western pop band to perform there. george michael loved fame but never became used to it. to be obviously a part of people s lives as an artist, that s what i dreamed of and that s what i m still grateful for. but my god, i wish i could cope with the other stuff the way other people do. i wish i d been born with that particular suit of armour, you know, because i wasn t. # you know ....