15/11/2013 BBC News at Ten

David Cameron at the Commonwealth Summit - his convoy is mobbed by

people demonstrating about alleged war crimes committed by the Sri

Lankan government. Photographs of the disappeared.

Desperate families in search of their loved ones, four years after

the brutal and bitter civil war ended. What we need from the Sri

Lankan government is more generosity. In victory, magnanimity.

Bring the country together by making sure people have proper rights.

Tough talking at a face to face meeting. The two men clash over Mr

Cameron's call for the truth about what happened in the conflict.

The plight of the children in the Philippines, homeless and hopeless

after Typhoon Haiyan. New proposals for the elderly and

vulnerable to have a named GP in charge of their care.

China announces an easing of its one child policy.

And England feel the Chile factor tonight at Wembley.

Coming up on BBC News, a new era for Ireland as Martin O'Neill and Roy

Keane lead the Republic. Good evening from Colombo, where the

Commonwealth Summit has got underway. The meeting has been

overshadowed by allegations that the Sri Lankan government is guilty of

war crimes committed at the end of the conflict with Tamil separatists

in 2009. Thousands of civilians were killed in the final battle. David

Cameron is here and it is an issue he has raised with the Sri Lankan

president. After the opening ceremony here, Mr Cameron became the

first foreign leader for more than 60 years to visit Jaffna, the

heartland of the Tamil minority. Nick Robinson was with Mr Cameron

when his convoy was confronted by a protest.

They call them the disappeared, fathers, sons, husbands who

surrendered at the end of Sri Lanka's civil war and have not been

seen since. The United Nations says that only in Iraq are there more

people who have simply vanished without trace. Today in Jaffna, the

police stopped their relatives handing in their photos, their

letters, their petitions to the first world leader ever to visit

their part of this troubled island. They want to see the Prime Minister

here. But David Cameron could not see them. He claims this visit, to a

region which once dreamt of forming its own country, will shine a

spotlight not just on the crimes of the past but the abuses of the

present. There, too, to greet him at every stop he made, the same group

of pro-government protesters. Their signs in perfect English. Anybody

here speak English? You have English signs. The answer was that none of

them did. They were supporters of President Rajapaksa, who greeted

David Cameron at the start of today's Commonwealth Summit. The

leader of Sri Lanka is relishing being at the centre of attention.

Whilst the leaders talked, David Cameron visited the main Tamil

newspaper in the north, its presses smashed and burned. Who did it? One

journalist told me the government, before pleading that I should not

show his face. And here is why. On the walls of the newspaper office,

pick chores of the six journalists killed. -- photos. Everywhere we

went, a reminder of how resident Rajapaksa exerts control. A Tamil

leader told the Prime Minister there are still 120,000 security forces in

this region, four years after the war ended. This is what the

government euphemistically call a welfare centre. To you and me, it is

a refugee camp. 14 camps like this. We think over 100,000 people. Now a

court of a century of war is over, it is time, he says, for

reconciliation. -- a quarter of a century. The fighting is done. What

is needed is generosity and magnanimity from the Sri Lankan

government to bring the country together. Coming here and listening

to these people and hearing the argument helps to draw attention to

their plight. He took that message to a meeting with the president,

described as tough and Frank. No wonder. Look at the Prime

Minister's face at the end. It suggested little had been achieved.

This is a day David Cameron will never forget, but the leader of this

country is counting on the fact that others will forget and will move on.

Since the victory over Tamil separatists, the military has

achieved heroic status among those here who saw the conflict as a war

against terrorists. But four years after the end of the fighting,

critics say the Sri Lankan Armed Forces have too much power over

civilian affairs. As I have heard, there are growing fears, especially

among Tamils, that the military threatens to crowd them out.

If the amount of concrete and glass is a way to judge progress, then Sri

Lanka's economy is on the up. There is unprecedented investment in the

infrastructure, not just here in the capital, but in the war-ravaged

North. Even the military is in on the act. Without a water fight,

perhaps it is better to have upwards of 300,000 men under arms occupied

in this way, rather than have them return to civilian life in a big

rush. But some fear a more troubling development. Never before in this

country's history has the military had such a role of prominence in

public life. My fear is that institutionalised militarisation,

like we have at the moment, will shape the structure of power. For

example, here, you have the military cordoning off land along the coast.

We went there. The predominantly Tamil east coast has some of the

prime beaches. During the civil war it was out of bounds. When it was

over, some with land thought they would be reaping the dividends of

peace. This Jesuit priest and human rights lawyer says the presence of

the military has made that difficult. There is denial of access

to Tamil farmers, and also Tamil civilians, of getting back their

land. This is the beach. This man has dreams of inviting tourists to

his plot of land on the beach, and he brought me what he says are his

title deeds. We tried to go to the property but got no further than the

military checkpoint. Is this your land?

Yet, further along the coast, the air force runs a resort for its

personnel. Elsewhere, the military is involved in everything from

guesthouses to agriculture. At the summit today, the presidential

spokeswoman told me the military was simply helping to develop the

country. The idea that the military is helping economic development is

one that is lost on the local people in the east of the country. I am not

sure I agree. We have heard both sides. We have heard people

commending the role of the military and all that they have done, so I am

not sure whom you have spoken to, but we have heard the other side of

the story as well. But the great fear among Tamils is that the

growing presence of the military is part of what they call a process of

colonisation, and attempts to change the demography of the country. Nick

Robinson is with me. In your report you said there was tough talking

between the leaders. Will it make any difference? In public, all we

have heard from President Rajapaksa is defiance. In private we are told

he listened to David Cameron and then said, we need more time. It has

only been four years since the end of the civil war. Not good enough

for the Prime Minister. I am told he will try to take an initiative

tomorrow to put more pressure on him. But he knows that the president

is very popular at home in his own country. So the question we have to

ask is whether the spotlight that David Cameron has kept talking

about, the spotlight he said he was shining on the way Sri Lanka

behaved, is less powerful than the legitimacy the president thinks he

has got eye appearing alongside the air to the Throne, along with this

the Commonwealth leaders in that magnificent centre at a summit that,

for all of the fuss, has not talked about Sri Lanka once. That is it

from the Commonwealth Summit. Back to you.

A week after Typhoon Haiyan tore through the Philippines aid workers

are still struggling to reach the affected. Although many countries

have come forward to help, delivery of aid is being hampered by a

shortage of vehicles. An RAF cargo plane is due to arrive this weekend

to boost the relief effort. The number of dead confirmed has now

reached over 3500, although the United Nations has warned the

eventual figure is likely to be higher, as more bodies are found.

The Red Cross has estimated over 25,000 people are missing. The UN

children's agency says it is worried about 5 million children in the

disaster zone. Jeremy Cooke has been to the devastated city of Tacloban

and a school which is now home to 1500 people.

The waters are calm today. The children play in peace. But just

metres away, the reality. Their homes destroyed by the raging storm

and the giant waves that struck a week ago. Their young lives are

changed forever. This girl was badly injured as she swam for her life, a

gash in her head now becoming infected. She lives in the filth of

a ruined hospital while her parents wait for someone, anyone, to help.

She is badly hurt, he says, the doctors say she needs to be

transferred to another hospital. They just don't have the facilities

to treat her here. Amid the ruins and the chaos and the confusion,

tens of thousands of children in this 1's city are homeless. Their

schools, if they still stand, have become shelters, classrooms and

corridors packed to capacity. Infant babies, who somehow survived

disaster, entire families with no other place to go. In an upstairs

dorm, teenagers, reflecting on how totally, utterly life has changed.

Everything was normal. It was a sunny day. We thought the storm was

not true. But looking at the school now, and seeing how Storm Yolanda

hit our school, it is like it is never going to be the same. The

children and their families can consider themselves among the lucky

ones. They survived and they have found a place of safety. Yes, the

future is still uncertain, but at least they are alive. So far, the

international aid has not got this far. But the teachers are organising

for when it does. Everyone, they say, will get their fair share. The

requirements are basic. The needs of this school, the people, our food

and medicine, and inspiration to move on. Inspiration, yes, but

practical help needed, too. There is hunger here, but no starvation. They

need help, but the people, the children are holding on, despite so

much destruction and tragedy. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has

admitted it will take until the end of the decade to deal with

written's debt and deficit. On a visit to a coal mine in

Nottinghamshire, he insisted the government was making progress but

there was still a lot of risk to the recovery and no quick fixes. The

government has struck a deal with doctors leaders in England which it

hopes will reduce the number of patients turning up at stretched A

departments. There will be greater support from GP practices and a

named GP in charge of their care. For everyone, the minimum of ten

minutes per appointment will be scrapped, giving doctors greater

flexibility. From next year, patients must be offered online

booking of appointments if they ask for it. The doctors union come in

the British Medical Association, has welcomed the move but says it will

not mean GPs will be on call 24 hours a day.

A GP -- at GP surgeries, doctors now provide a broad range of careful

stop at this practice, GPs even carry out minor surgery. But there

have been consistent complaints that there is too much bureaucracy and

box ticking in general practice. Ministers say the new guidelines

will give doctors more time to focus on their most vulnerable patients.

It restores the vital link between GPs and patients they are there to

look after for every over 75 in the country. I would like to do it more

widely but this is a very important step. Will patients be reassured by

the idea of a single name Doctor in charge of their care? It is much

better. It gives me confidence and I feel as though he knows me. I am all

for it. You think it will be a reassurance as you get older?

Definitely. Do I look old? Not every elderly patient will necessarily see

their named GP every time. It is just that their care will be

supervised by that doctor. Labour says these plans don't address the

fundamental problem of availability. Under David Cameron it has got

harder to get a GP appointment and nothing in today's announcement will

correct that. People will still face the frustration of ringing the

surgery at 9:00am and being told there is nothing available. These

measures are designed to put the doctors surgeries at the heart of

care for most vulnerable patients, the elderly and frail, and coach --

should ease the pressure. Providing better care for older patients is

crucial because they make up the bulk of admissions to A We need

to switch money from hospitals to looking after people in their own

communities, by switching the technology from an acute hospital

bed system to a primary system. The care of the growing number of frail

and elderly patients is the biggest challenge facing the NHS. These

changes won't come in until next April in England, while negotiations

in the rest of the UK are still underway and the pressure of a tough

winter lies ahead. The Chinese government has announced

a huge raft of economic and social reforms, singling some of the

biggest changes in the country in decades -- signalling. They include

plans to ease the one child policy and the abolition of the much

criticised system of labour camps. It is the world's most controversial

family planning law. China's one child policy is set to be relaxed.

Many couples in the cities will now be allowed to have a second child.

Introduced 30 years ago, the policy was designed to prevent a population

explosion. There has often -- it has often been brutally enforced. Last

year we met this woman. She and her husband already had a child. Under

the exemption she was actually allowed a second. But when she was

six months pregnant, officials dragged her to hospital and injected

her to force an abortion. TRANSLATION: My baby did not die

immediately. It kept on struggling inside me. It broke my heart. The

next day it was born still alive. It cried. The doctor said, don't look

at it, you will have nightmares. China may have the worlds biggest

population but it more babies. The number of workers here is shrinking

and the cost for supporting the elderly is rising. The big concern

for the country's leaders is that China will become old before it gets

rich. This is to make the Chinese demographic trend more balanced,

rather than have to many boys and a gender imbalance which is a serious

concern. Beijing also announced it will abolish its labour camps, where

people could be sent for up to four years without a trial. At this

camp, you could hear the chance from prisoners undergoing forced

re-education. Today's announcements were bold and eye-catching. The

party ultimately believes it will strengthen rather than weaken its

grip on power. In Libya, at least 31 people have

been killed and more than 200 injured during violent clashes

between armed militias and protesters. The protesters were

demanding that armed groups leave the capital, Tripoli. The government

has been struggling to control numerous militias who control many

parts of the country. Nurses, doctors and health managers

who mistreat and neglect their patients will face up to five years

in prison, under a law changed announced by the government. There

will be a new law of wilful neglect covering any staff suspected of

mistreating patients in their care. The government has been considering

its response to the health care scandal in Mid Staffordshire between

2005 and 2009, when as many as 1000 patients could have died needlessly.

People were saying, why was no one put in prison why was no one

prosecuted? The government has already been looking at placing a GG

on medical staff to speak out when they see abuse. -- AGG on. -- a duty

on. They are going to consult on how much time they should spend in

prison but the idea is to extend legislation which currently exists

and applies to the treatment of children and mental health patients.

If that principle was applied, doctors and nurses could face up to

five years in prison if it is proved they wilfully neglected a patient.

The British medical Association is saying the threat of criminal

sanctions could create a climate of fear in the NHS and could make it

more difficult for doctors and nurses to speak out against their

colleagues if they think they will go to jail.

Drug cheats will face new sanctions after the World Anti-Doping Agency

aggrieved a raft of measures at a major gathering in South Africa. The

move will see the minimum ban for athletes doubled from two to four

years, meaning they would miss at least one Olympics. Support staff

like coaches and doctors who assist doping will be targeted, and the

agency will also gain new investigatory Powers to look at

countries failing to conduct enough testing. Concerns continue to be

raised about drug testing in Kenya and Jamaica, two of track and

field's most successful nations. Jamaica, one of the powerhouses of

world athletics but failed drugs tests and concerns about the

country's anti-doping regime just will not go away. It has been one of

the big talking point here in Johannesburg, where the World

Anti-Doping Agency has gathered for a major conference on drugs in

sport. Following a visit to Jamaica they have insisted on more tests and

an increased budget. Wilder's new British president told me the

Jamaicans were still under pressure -- W ADA's new British president. I

want to see the Jamaican organisation immediately go back and

implement the measures. Clearly they were not doing enough testing

themselves, the governance was wrong. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

raised the stakes, station would be prepared to boycott major events if

the authorities did not do more. If that helps Jamaica to reinforce what

they have got to do, and be much more effective, then maybe her

comments will be of considerable help. This conference has approved

new measures which it hopes will help sport cat up with the drugs

cheats. But recent doping -- catch up with. Recent scandals have

exposed differences in the World Anti-Doping Agency and have left

some wondering whether enough is being done. It is not just a --

Jamaica, in Kenya the government has been accused of dragging its heels

over doping allegations made by a German TV investigation. Those in

charge of athletics are worried. These are two powerhouses of track

and field and we must make sure that those athletes are in a system that

protects them, and most importantly protect the reputation of those that

choose to do it cleanly. The singer is provided an unusually

vibrant conclusion to this conference -- these singers

provided. The message was clear. Sports integrity may rest on whether

promises can be turned into real action.

England's footballers have lost their first game in a year, at

Wembley this evening. They were beaten 2-0 in a friendly with Chile.

Northern Ireland lost 1-0 away to Turkey. Scotland were against the

USA, viewers in Scotland County Highlands on BBC Two -- can see

highlights on BBC Two. If you don't want to know the result, look away.

A golden moment for another of England's so-called golden

generation. As Captain Lampard celebrating reaching 103 caps, Roy

Hodgson was handing debuted to three audition ease. One was Celtic keeper

Fraser Forster, in ahead of Joe Hart. Leighton Baines, starting

ahead of Ashley Cole, should have done better. Eight changes left

England looking unrecognisable. Rooney tried to inject some urgency.

Herbert and Alan Malala nearly answered the call -- Adam Lallana

nearly answered the call but the South Americans were getting under

England's skin. England were left scratching their heads, thanks to

Sanchez again. Chile with a fully deserved victory, England booed off

the pitch. Don't worry, it is only Germany next. Scotland look to

avenge the 5-1 thrashing at the hands of the USA. Both sides had

chances but it ended 0-0. There is a first look at the papers

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