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Tonight at ten, America attacks Islamist millants in Iraq, launching | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
air strikes in the north of the country. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
This is thought to be the moment American warplanes began their | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
assaults. President Obama said it was time to act. When we have the | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, then I believe the United | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
States cannot turn a blind eye. We can act, carefully and | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
responsibility to prevent a potential act of genocide. These are | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
the first pictures, as aid is finally delivered to a community | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
trapped by the fighting. Britain says it will assist in air drops. We | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
will be looking at what the US action means for Iraq. Also tonight, | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
fighting resumes in Gaza after a three-day ceasefire ends. Five | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
people are killed, including a ten-year-old boy. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
The World Health Organisation declares the Ebola outbreak in West | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
Africa an international emergency. How much is too much for breast | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
cancer treatment? The NHS says no to a ?90,000 drug. And sun, sea and | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
sanctions - why more parents than ever are being fined for taking | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
their children out of school to go on holiday. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
On London - Bromley's waste mountain. How hundreds of thousands | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
of pounds have been spent fighting fires there. And how the turmoil in | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
the Middle East is being reflected on the streets of London. | :01:35. | :01:55. | |
A very good evening. Within hours of President Obama authorising air | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
strikes in Iraq, US aircraft have launched several targeted attacks in | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
the north of the country. It comes almost three years after America | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
withdraw troops. The irstrikes were aimed at fighters from Isis, who | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
control large areas. Earlier this week, the Islamists took Qaraqosh, | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Iraq's biggest Christian town. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
people from the minority Yazidi sect remain surrounded and of trapped on | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
mount sin Sinjar, without food or water. Forces will assist. | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
In a moment, we will get the latest from Washington. First, here is our | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
diplomatic correspondent James Robbins. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
For months, the extremists of Isis now calling themselves simply | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Islamic State have been pumping out video as they take more and more of | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Iraq, threatening to breakup of the country. Now, for the first time, | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
the Islamists have come under direct American attack. The first attack | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
was launched from an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. Two | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
F/A-18s drop laser-guided bombs. These are thought to be pictures of | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
that American strike carried out because the city of Irbil is under | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
threat. Washington says more fighter jets and drones were used on attacks | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
on mortar positions and an Islamist convoy. To stop the events on Irbil, | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
I have directed our military to take targeted strikes against target | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
convoys should they move towards the city. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
But Washington is also committed to helping religious minorities facing | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
massacre by the Islamists. These pictures of the Yazidi people, | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
fleeing for their lives on to a barren mountain without food or | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
water shocked the world. And today, speaking from the mountain, one of | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
their leaders stressed their vulnerability. | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
TRANSLATION: The clash is now very close to where I stand. Now there | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
are clashes among the final line of resistance. They will kill all of us | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
and we don't think we have enough time. Now, the first supplies have | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
reached some of the Yazidi. Iraqi authorities say these pictures, | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
although impossible to verify, show a helicopter delivering aid. The | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
Yazidi religion is older than Christianity or Islam but is enough | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
to make them targets of the extremists who overran their town. | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
When we face a situation like we do on that mountain, with innocent | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
people facing the prospect of violence on a horrific scale and we | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
have a mandate to help, in this case a request from the Iraqi Government | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
and when we have the of capabilities to help avert a massacre then I | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
believe the United States cannot turn a blind eye. Facing this | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
crisis, let's look at the plight of the Yazidi people, forced to flee | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
their homes and seek refuge here, high up on the barren slopes of the | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
mountains above Sinjar. As this map shows, they took what is really the | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
only road up the mountain. We have reports some essential supplies, | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
including food and water, have been delivered from the air, in an effort | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
to keep them alive. What if the extremists try to pursue them up the | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
mountain? The hope must be that they could be spotted | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
mountain? The hope must be that they American strike aircraft. Further | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
east, the other religious minority under threat is the Christian | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
community. Their major centre, the town of Qaraqosh, has fallen. Among | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
those those who did escape, some have reached Irbil. Some have found | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
refuge in this church, but worry about relatives they have lost | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
contact with. In Brussels some of the extended family of the Yazidi | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
appealed for action to end what they call a genocide. In London, an | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
emergency meeting of ministers authorised British military | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
involvement in missions to drop aid, but not in any sort of combat | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
mission. Our focus is an assisting that humanitarian mission and using | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
our military in support of the Americans, in terms of refuelling | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
and surveillance, to underpin their mission and to add to it, with food | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
drops of our own. From behind the soundproof glass at the Oval, a | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
glimpse of President Obama briefing allies. Amid reports that hundreds | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
of Yazidi women may have been captured by the Islamists, who pose | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
an increasing threat not just to Iraq but to the entire region. Let's | :06:43. | :06:52. | |
speak to our correspondent, David Willis, who is at the White House. | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
How far will America go to stop the advance of the Islamic State? A | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
prolonged campaign of military intervention is not on the casheds | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
here. That said, the President has said it will be determined by events | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
on the ground. And those events are not very easy to predict. Privately | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
officials here say they are concerned about how well trained and | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
how well armed these Islamist fighters are. There are those on the | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
right who would like to see more. They would like to see troops on the | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
ground at the very least. The President has said he's not in | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
favour of that. Given the current situation, there is every chance of | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
mission-creep, if these air strikes do not pay off. Thank you very much. | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
Israel has resumed air strikes in Gaza after Palestinian militants | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
fired rockets shortly before the end of a 72-hour ceasefire. Palestinian | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
officials said five people were killed, including a ten-year-old | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
boy. Earlier, Israeli Government officials pulled out of talks in | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Cairo, stressing they would not negotiate under fire. But there are | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
signs that discussions between Egyptian officials and Palestinian | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
representatives are continuing. Our Middle East correspondent, Orla | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
Guerin, has spent the day in Gaza City. This report contains images | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
you may find distressing. The Gaza skyline looks like this | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
again. Israeli air strikes deep in civilian areas. Warfare filling the | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
horizon, after a three-day truce. This was filmed by Finnish TV. | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
They weren't the only ones fleeing an Israeli strike. It was | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
Palestinian militants who fired first. Here some of their rockets | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
were intercepted. Dozens more got through, causing no loss of life in | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Israel. But in Gaza, this man was coming to | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
say goodbye to his son. Ten-year-old Ibrahim was being | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
prepared for burial. His father last saw him at breakfast, before the boy | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
left early for Friday prayers. But by prayer time Ibrahim was dead | :09:16. | :09:24. | |
and people gathered to pray for him. His father wants one last kiss. | :09:25. | :09:37. | |
"My beloved son. Talk to me," he says. | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
A huge crowd has gathered here now to bury Ibrahim. There is tremendous | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
grief and anger at the killing of another child. This boy lost his | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
life just hours after the ceasefire came to an end. Locals tell us he | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
was out in the street playing when Israel attacked. | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
Ibrahim was the first to die today. In front of his local mosque. | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
In front of his His death was followed by others. | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
One of them a fighter. His death was followed by others. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
One of Israel says it will keep targeting terror sites across Gaza. | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
One more father is now pledging support for the militants. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
On this day, when my son was killed, I ask God to strengthen the | :10:22. | :10:30. | |
resistance. We are proud of them. Why should we stop firing rockets | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
when thousands of our people have been killed? | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
As another child went to his grave in Gaza, attempts to reach a lasting | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
truce stalled in Cairo. Hamas is demanding that Israel lift its | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
punishing siege, but many here believe that will only be achieved | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
by fighting and dying. Well our chief international | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
correspondent, Lyse Doucet, joins us from Jerusalem. We saw the violence | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
on the ground. What hope is there for a new ceasefire? Yes, I have | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
lens on the ground increasing this evening -- violence on the ground | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
increasing this evening. There are a few more positive notes. In the last | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
few hours, US officials have said they hope this temporary truce can | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
be resumed. Egyptian mediators are calling both sides back to the | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
table. They are looking at issues such as how much can they ease the | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
punishing blockade of Gaza, while ensuring security needs. How many | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
prisoners can be reached? To give Hamas the credit it feels it needs | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
in the eyes of Gazans who have suffered in this last war. Both | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
sides need to emerge with a sense that this was a war worth fighting, | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
whatever the cost. For the moment, it is only the cost that continues | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
to rise. A drug that can extend the lives | :12:00. | :12:11. | |
of some women with an advanced form of breast cancer has been rejected | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
for use on the NHS in England, because it's too expensive. | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says a course | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
of Kadcyla costs ?90,000, making it "impossible" | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
to recommend it for widespread use. Here's Hugh Pym. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
For Hayley, this breast cancer drug has given | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
time she never thought she had. Under previous gruelling treatment, | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
her hair fell out and she was told she had only months to live, | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
but with this drug she feels more confident about the future. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
I could get an extra six months or a year with my children. | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
That is priceless. You can't put a figure on to | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
a young mum of 33 to four children. You can't put a figure | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
on somebody's life. It's criminal. | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
Hayley could get Kadcyla through the Cancer Drugs Fund created | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
by the Government to provide new drugs to some patients, | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
but which will close in 2016. The regulator NICE has decided | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
the drug should not be universally available on the NHS budget | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
in England. NICE usually approves drugs costing | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
up to ?30,000, in a calculation reflecting the patient's length | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
and quality-of-life. For cancer drugs it has a maximum | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
of ?50,000. Kadcyla costs ?90,000 per patient | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
and NICE has said that is too much. Cancer treatments can command | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
a premium price in the NHS over treatments for other diseases | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
and conditions, but even with that flexibility, the price that the | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
manufacturer Roche wants to charge the NHS puts it well beyond anything | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
that we could have supported. But Roche argues that | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
the drug is prescribed in many other European health services. | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
It says it did offer to cut something off the price. | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
Some people will feel ?90,000 sounds a lot of money for a drug. | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
Why can't you cut the price further? We believe the price reflects | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
the value it brings to patients, particularly with this very | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
important disease. I would also add that 15 years of | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
clinical trials went into developing Kadcyla and 30 years of research | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
went into developing the technology that makes Kadcyla so unique. | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
More potentially exciting but probably costly new cancer drugs | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
are coming on stream every year, including some developed here | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
at Imperial College London. So the debate on what is affordable | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
for the NHS will not go away. There are not many ways | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
of avoiding the current problem. I think the pharma companies | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
need to look at the cost of what it takes to produce a new drug. | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
I think they need to be ready to be flexible, and be ready to link | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
the price of their drugs to the value it creates. | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
It is a complex picture. Universities like this, funded | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
by the Government, can help develop lower cost drugs, but it is the big | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
companies which have the financial clout to bring them to the market. | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
And for that, they say, they need to set prices to cover | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
costs and turn in a profit. Hugh Pym, BBC News. | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
The World Health Organisation has declared the Ebola outbreak in west | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
Africa an international emergency. More than 960 people have died from | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
the disease this year and there have The outbreak started in Guinea, and | :15:17. | :15:28. | |
has spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone serious and unusual, and it appealed | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
for international help for the countries affected. We'll be hearing | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
more in a moment from West Africa We'll be hearing more | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
in a moment from West Africa and America, but first this report | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
from our Fergus Walsh. How do you defend the world | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
against Ebola? It starts with more help for | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
West Africa. The worst affected communities lack | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
the basics - adequate protective clothing, trained medical staff | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
and laboratory facilities. The World Health Organization says | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
only international support will bring the outbreak under control. | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
This is an infectious disease which can be contained. | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
It is not mysterious. This is something | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
which can be stopped. This depends | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
on identifying everybody who has an Ebola infection and making sure | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
that they receive the right treatment, and making sure that we | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
stop the chain of transmission. Ebola is a viral infection | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
which originates in animals such as bats and chimpanzees. | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
It spreads between humans through direct contact with blood | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
and other bodily fluids. The virus has an incubation period | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
of up to 21 days, and the death rate is alarming. | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
More than half of those infected have died. | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
Fortunately, Ebola is not very contagious. | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
Pneumonia, an airborne infection, kills 3000 children each day, | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
more than Ebola has in 40 years, as do other diseases. | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
The numbers of people who have died so far in this epidemic or perhaps | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
ever, from Ebola, are dwarfed by the numbers who die from tuberculosis | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
every day, for example. So the numbers are small | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
but the potential for an outbreak like this to go out of control and | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
to spread, and the numbers really to ramp up, is truly frightening. | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
The threat to countries like Britain remains low. | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
Even if Ebola did come here via a sick air passenger, | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
health officials are confident they could contain it using isolation | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
facilities like these. But it's a different story | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
in west Africa, from where Will Ross reports. | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
In Liberia, soldiers have joined the fight | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
against the deadly Ebola virus. There is a state of emergency and | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
they are stopping people travelling. Desperate measures to try to | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
prevent the spread of Ebola. The medical charity | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
Doctors Without Borders describes the situation as catastrophic | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
and says there is a dire need for more international support. | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Some hospitals have closed, with staff to scared to work. | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
In neighbouring Sierra Leone, the spiralling number | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
of patients is also alarming. At Lagos airport in Nigeria, | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
they are screening passengers for symptoms. | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
If they had been doing this last month, the infected man from Liberia | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
might have been intercepted. He died, | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
and health workers who treated him are now fighting for their lives. | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
The nightmare scenario is the rapid spread of the Ebola virus | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
in this chaotic city of 20 million people, especially as Lagos is such | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
a busy international hub. There is not yet a cure for Ebola, | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
but Nigeria has appealed for an experimental drug to be made | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
available. It is being developed in San Diego, | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
from where Alistair Leithead reports. | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
We are looking at an image of the three-dimensional structure | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
of the Ebola virus glyco-protein. This is how that | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
experimental drug does it. The antibodies, shown in red, | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
stop the virus spreading. Scientists here | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
in San Diego have been working on a cure for years, but turning | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
science into a serum you can give to people is a much bigger challenge. | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
The drug was developed in the most unlikely of places, this | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
industrial estate in San Diego. Map Biopharmaceutical, | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
only nine employees and a camera-shy chief executive who | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
would only tell me it could be months before they can produce | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
the drug in large quantities. That's because they are growing | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
the antibodies, in genetically engineered tobacco plants, and | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
waiting to harvest the next batch. The drug works in the lab, | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
cured monkeys, but untested in humans, is it safe? | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
I would take it myself and I have been studying this for ten years. | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
So I know exactly how it works, what the risks and benefits are. | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
We have to bear in mind the alternative is Ebola virus. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
One of the two American medics infected and treated in Liberia | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
walked to his isolation ward after his condition improved. | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
But disease control scientists aren't convinced. | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
We don't know whether that treatment is helpful, harmful, | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
or doesn't have any impact. And we're unlikely to know from | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
the experience of two or a handful of patients, whether it works. | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
There is a new urgency to their work and unanswered ethical | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
questions over who should be given limited stocks of an untested drug. | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
Alistair Leithead, BBC News, San Diego. | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
Some of the day's other other news stories. | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
Downing Street has announced the appointment of 22 new peers, taking | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
the total number to 796, despite all three main party leaders calling | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
for a smaller House of Lords. The list includes the former Marks | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
Spencer boss Sir Stuart Rose, and the businesswoman Karren Brady, | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
who'll both sit on the Tory benches, plus the former Eastenders actor | :20:48. | :21:00. | |
Michael Cashman, a Labour supporter. Afghanistan's rival presidential | :21:01. | :21:01. | |
candidates have signed a deal to form a government | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
of national unity, four months after the disputed election. | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani had both claimed victory and accused | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
each other of electoral fraud. The deal was announced | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
during a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry. | :21:13. | :21:23. | |
Engineers at Harvard University in the United States have created | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
a robot that folds itself into shape from a flat sheet, | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
and is able to crawl. The design is inspired | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
by the Japanese art of origami. The team say it could be developed | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
to create devices that self-assemble in confined spaces, | :21:35. | :21:34. | |
such as war zones or in space. There has been a rise in the number | :21:35. | :21:53. | |
of fines issued to parents for a children's absence from school. | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
Figures obtained by the BBC from three quarters of councils show that | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
almost 64,000 fines were issued to parents in the last school year, a | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
rise of 70% on the previous year. Some of the finds are for persistent | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
poor attendance, but most were about unauthorised holidays. | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
such as war zones or in space. School is out for the summer, | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
so families have flocked to the seaside. | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
But some parents have already been on holiday, taking | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
their children during term time. This couple, who run a busy tearoom | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
in Devon, say closing during peak season would damage their business, | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
so they took their teenage daughter out of school on a trip to Thailand. | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
They were fined ?120 for the unauthorised absence. | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
She got 97% attendance for that year and they still say you | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
can't take her out for five days. Is one week going to make that much | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
difference to a child's education? Family travel | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
in term time used to be allowed in special circumstances but | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
since September teachers can only grant leave in exceptional cases. | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
It's led to a sharp rise in the number of parents who have | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
been fined for jetting off without permission, and more | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
than 200,000 have signed a petition in protest, not least at increased | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
holiday prices in peak times. But teachers say any departure | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
from the curriculum can cost here. The only effect it is going to | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
have for those parents who continue to take those children out is that | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
those children will miss learning. If that happens for a couple of | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
weeks every year for that child's life, I do believe that is damaging. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
Fewer children are missing lessons, the Government says, | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
as a result of its reforms, and ministers say that schools can set | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
term dates to ease holiday demand at peak times, even though some parents | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
still think fines are unfair. Alex Forsyth, BBC News. | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
When Sir Neville Marriner takes to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
in London this weekend he will become the oldest conductor ever to | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
lead a Prom. 90-year-old Sir Neville began | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
his musical career as a violinist before founding his own orchestra | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
and then picking up a baton. Will Gompertz went along to | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
rehearsal to meet one of the most recorded conductors of all time. | :24:05. | :24:13. | |
A casually dressed Sir Neville Marriner in the rehearsal room, | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
practising with his orchestra for Sunday's Prom performance | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
of Sir William Walton's Henry V. The 90-year-old conductor could have | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
retired years ago but explains why he has no intention of doing so. | :24:30. | :24:38. | |
It's reasonably addictive. First of all, that you are able to | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
express yourself, musically, so freely, and you don't have to | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
practice an instrument. So it all goes in in your head | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
and your heart. I'm sure most people at the end | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
of their working life would wish to have something like that. | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
I would certainly feel pretty strange without | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
that opportunity now. Neville Marriner made | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
his Proms debut at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1963, playing violin | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
with the London Symphony Orchestra. He returned a couple of years later, | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
again playing the violin but this time also directing his own | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
chamber orchestra of the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields. | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
And then in 1970 he took to the Proms podium for the first time | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
as a fully fledged conductor. Since when, | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
he has never looked back. Here he is conducting in 1974, | :25:31. | :25:39. | |
younger, certainly, but... I see some of my early things and I | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
think how incredibly tolerant the players were to put up with | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
that little ridiculous sort of clumsy gestures and inarticulate. | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
Why do you think there are so few female conductors | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
in charge of the major orchestras? I have a feeling there's | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
a certain audience resistance. There's something strange | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
about the female figure conducting. But musically speaking, | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
they're so gifted. The actor John hurt will join | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
the orchestra on Sunday to speak Shakespeare's words. | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
Sir Neville will conduct before moving on to his next | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
concert, in an ongoing career that sees his work diary already planned | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
ahead for the next two years. Will Gompertz, BBC News. | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
That's all from us. Now it's time for the news where | :26:36. | :26:38. |