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Hello and welcome to News Hour Live from the BBC World Service in London.
I'm Rebecca Kesby.
Coming up on the programme today, as the counting of ballots in the Honduran election continues,
it does look as if President Trump's favoured candidate has a very slender lead.
But why did Trump want to try to influence that vote?
We've got the backstory to a favourite Christmas tune and a bit of a warning we'll be talking about rage baiting online.
What triggers your anger?
Though there are about 5,000 kilometres between Sri Lanka and Indonesia, but both,
plus Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines are grappling with severe flooding,
landslides and storm damage after torrential rain and vast cyclones hit the region over the past few days.
Rescue workers are still struggling to reach some survivors and some areas.
It's incredibly difficult and dangerous as landslides are still occurring even
though much of the rain has now eased off.
We're going to head to Sri Lanka in just a moment where the president has now declared a state of emergency.
But first to Indonesia, where 570,000 people have been evacuated, there are at least 600 dead,
but many still unaccounted for and rescue teams are trying to find survivors.
These emergency workers in a boat found one man clinging to the trunk of a beetle tree surrounded by water.
They just managed to save him, pulled him into the boat and he looked very relieved about that,