20/12/2015 BBC News at Ten

In Spain's general election, two new parties have made big gains.

The governing Popular Party has most seats but is forecast

Former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major urges the cabinet

rail - passengers are advised to postpone their trips.

The Tamar has just reopened. -- the time of -- Eurotunnel.

Air France says a suspicious package which caused a flight to be diverted

Also in the next hour, Andy Murray is crowned BBC

The tennis player - who helped Great Britain to victory

in the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936 -

And coming up in half an hour, The Papers.

Joining me tonight are Martin Lipton, sports writer

for the Sun, and the broadcaster and barrister Sophia Cannon.

Good evening and welcome to BBC News.

Spain's ruling conservative Popular Party has won the most votes

With over 70 percent of votes counted,

and new anti-austerity party Podemos has 20.5 percent of the vote

Spanish politics, Podemos. This party has gone from nowhere, it did

well in regional elections, controlling Madrid, Barcelona. In

these elections it has really come up to be probably the second

strongest force in Spanish politics. It looks to have done well across

the country and it is a grassroots movement that came from the city of

protest. People occupied the mains where here in Madrid. It is a social

movement. Its victory tonight is a big no to corruption scandals and a

big no to austerity directed by Brussels. This party talks about

producing quality -- equality, pumping money into public services

and raising the minimum wage and raising the taxes on businesses and

the very rich. How much of the

for the Economist. Spanish politics? -- a turn-up. It

is a big change, I'm currently sitting in the Podemos headquarters.

It is a remarkable result really in Spanish terms. Two parties that did

not exist on the national stage a few years ago, it leaves us in a

messy situation where the government would have four or possibly five

parties. The Basque country appear to have a balance of power in

Parliament. The outgoing People's party has a majority in the Senate,

which means the two hands a Parliament would have to compete

against each other. We are seeing pictures from the Podemos

post-election gathering, all looking extremely happy as you would expect.

For a new party to be so successful so quickly, it must be a surprise to

a lot of people, what does it mean in terms of who will form the

coalition? No one can do it on their own, I am afraid, this is why we

will have to listen to what people have to say. It is quite possible

that we will have either a short lived government or a close election

sometime soon. I'm afraid I will have to go and listen to public

places speaking now. Yes, the all-important job of gathering the

news. -- listen to someone speaking now.

The former Conservative Defence Secretary Liam Fox has urged

David Cameron to allow Cabinet members to campaign for the UK

to leave the European Union - without having to resign.

Dr Fox has confirmed he'll be voting to leave

But the Prime Minister's approach to renegotiating Britain's EU

membership received further support today from one of his predecessors -

Our Political Correspondent Chris Mason reports.

It's 43 years since Ted Heath signed us up to what is now the EU.

In the next two years, we will be asked whether we want to stay.

This former Prime Minister says we should.

If we vote to stay out, then we are out and we will have

to get on with it and face the consequences.

David Cameron has been in Brussels trying to persuade fellow European

leaders that the UK needs a new deal with the EU.

He knows that back home some grumble, that they will say his

But changing things is important, John Major says, because...

It isn't common sense to sweep into countries more people

than we can provide for if they are sick,

Some in the cabinet, like Iain Duncan Smith,

Today, a former Cabinet colleague said they should be able

to keep their jobs and campaign to leave, just as he already is.

For me, two things had to happen to want to stay in the EU.

One was a fundamental change in our relationship

with the European Union, but more importantly,

a change in direction for the EU itself, away from the concept

of an ever-closer union, and towards a much more independent

and looser association of sovereign states.

At the last European referendum in 1975, Labour Cabinet Ministers

were allowed to campaign on both sides of the debate.

David Cameron has so far avoided saying whether he will allow that

And we'll find out how this story - and many others - are covered

in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30pm this evening

in The Papers - our guests joining me tonight are sports writer

for the Sun, Martin Lipton and broadcaster and barrister Sophia

Eurotunnel says delays have now increased to up to eight hours

from Folkestone after a technical fault at at tunnel.

Finally the work has been completed, it was a problem with one of the

tracks and for a large part of the day they had to close one of the

tunnels. You are taking away 50% of the capacity and one is a busy

travel day with a lot of people travelling for Christmas. There have

been huge delays and the bad news is those delays are likely to continue

into the night, there were delays of around eight hours. It is taking

around an hour and a half if you turn up to the terminal just to get

into the terminal itself and then another six and a half hours waiting

to get into a train. Now we have both tunnels open, it will be full

capacity and they will work to reduce the backlog and it will take

several hours to sort that out. What is the advice that those meant to be

travelling. If you are planning to set out tonight, booked on a train

overnight, then the best option is not to travel. Yellow back. --

postpone your journey tonight if possible and by tomorrow morning

they hope things will be back to normal. The advice is checked before

you set out, but they are very confident things will be running

normally by the morning. What happens if you bought a ticket, will

it be honoured? It will, Eurotunnel says you can exchange through

different date. If you have booked and made your travel plans, your

travelling will be quite difficult, you may not want to risk changing

the date. Eurotunnel does have a good deal of capacity and there is

the option of the ferry. It is just about thinking before you set out on

what the best option is, particularly if you are travelling

with children or you have a lot of passengers in your car.

David Cameron has ordered a review into the use of guns by police

The move follows the Paris attacks and will look at whether the law

gives enough support to officers having to make

If similar attacks were to happen here, could our police protect us?

The government wants more police firearms training like you can see

here, but are officers legally protected in case

If an attack were to happen in a busy city centre like this one,

it would come down to split-second decisions, and we understand that

at the highest levels of police, there are concerns that firearms

officers simply don't have the correct legal or political

protection that they would require if something were go wrong.

The Criminal Law Act allows police to use reasonable force.

The Criminal Justice Act allows the officer to open fire

This could in itself persuade police that politicians

and the law are on their side, but there are concerns it shouldn't

It is important to get the balance right.

It's got to be democratically decided.

But we cannot have shoot to kill without any democratic involvement.

On the London Underground in 2005, a Jean Charles de Menezes

was killed, after police suspected him incorrectly

In Paris, they are clearing away the floral tributes,

but the questions as to how the police should respond to such

Tyson Fury has apologised for any offence his controversial comments

about women and homosexuality may have caused at the BBC's

Sports Personality of the Year awards.

Over a 130,000 people had signed a petition calling for the boxer

to be removed from the shortlist, and around forty people staged

a protest outside the awards venue in Belfast.

In an interview at the ceremony he insisted he had not meant any

I have said a lot of stuff in the past and none of it is with

intentions to hurt anybody, it is all tongue in cheek and fun and

games for me, I am not a serious person, everything is happy-go-lucky

with Tyson Fury. If I have said anything in the past that has hurt

anybody, I apologise, it is not my intention to do that. Sports

personality of the year went to Andy Murray and I'm sure that we will be

talking about that in a few moments. An emergency landing

by an Air France plane in Kenya was caused by a false bomb alert -

according to the airline's chief. The incident is the fourth false

alarm the airline has had Our correspondent Lucy Williamson

reports from Paris. Just days before Christmas,

a reminder of just how suddenly Found in a toilet on board this

plane, a suspected bomb. It turned out to be a false alarm,

the device fashioned from a cardboard box

and a kitchen timer, but the fears it caused were enough

to divert the flight to Kenya The 459 passengers on board

reportedly unaware of what was going on until their feet

touched the ground. The plane went down, slowly, slowly,

so we just realised something The people of Air France

were just wonderful. They kept everybody

calm and really quiet. A replacement flight is expected

to bring the passengers back Several of them have reportedly been

questioned by police. At a press conference in Paris,

the Air France CEO described TRANSLATION: We are still waiting

to hear more about the legal implications from the Kenyan

authorities, and we are going to ask Security around France

and on board its national carrier has been stepped up since

the attacks in Paris last month. It isn't clear who created the false

alarm on the flight today, or why, but with memories

of the Paris attacks still fresh, even hoaxes like this have the power

to chill and disrupt. In Spain's general election,

two new parties make big gains. The conservative Popular Party has

most seats but is forecast Former Conservative Prime Minister

Sir John Major urges the cabinet to back David Cameron's EU

negotiations and campaign together Delays of up to eight hours

in the Eurotunnel after a broken rail - the tunnel

has just re-opened Sport now and for a full round up,

from the BBC Sport Centre, I have not moved since we last

spoke. I was fearful if I missed my slot!

Andy Murray has won the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year Award

It's the second time in three years that the World's number two tennis

I am really nervous, apologies about that,

I would like to thank all my team-mates, all

of the staff, they were absolutely incredible.

This has been a five-year journey, we were down at the bottom level

of tennis and now we are ranked number one in the world,

Tyson Fury came fourth, just 7000 would be possible.

Tyson Fury came fourth, just 7000 votes behind Jessica Ennis Hill.

Earlier in the evening he apologised for comments about homosexuality and

the role of women. I have said a lot of stuff

in the past and none of it is with intentions

to hurt anybody, it is all tongue in cheek and fun

and games for me, I am not a serious person, everything is

happy-go-lucky with Tyson Fury. If I have said anything

in the past that has hurt anybody, I apologise,

it is not my intention to do that. Jurgen Klopp says his players lost

their minds today at Watford. It is their fourth win in a row. Liverpool

have only one point from their last three matches.

As always in football like this, somebody makes a mistake

We did not play what we wanted to play.

It was not easy, it was very complicated,

we gave them always a chance to press.

They had an easy pressing situation and always when we play

easy, it was better, we had our moments.

Swansea are still in the relegation zone after a goaless draw at home

after sacking Garry Monk, they dominated the first half.

to Mario Zarate but there was no getting through for the Hammers.

Jack Cork's spectacular volley wopuld have been some winner

Swansea stay 18th - two points from safety .

There was an astonishing result in Spain as Real Madrid beat

Rayo Vallecano 10-2 at the Bernebeu.

Vallecano were 2-1 up before having two players sent off.

The floodgates opened and Gareth Bale scored 4

Karim Benzema brought up double figures and also

Real are now two points off the leaders Barcelona

Leicester took another step towards the knockout stages

of rugby's European Champions Cup with a 17-6 home defeat of Munster.

Tries from Ed Slater and Vereniki Goneva

helped the Tigers keep up their one hundred per cent record in Pool

Leicester now have an eight point lead at the top of the group,

Elsewhere Ulster got a first away win in their pool,

they narrowly beat Toulouse 25-23 Clermont Aurvergne thrashed Exeter

We had an upset at the darts, 2012 runner up Andy 'the hammer'

Hamilton was knocked out in the first round at the PDC

World Championship at Alexandra Palace

no drama for Raymond Van Barneveld.

The Dutchman, who won the BDO World title 4 times and this won once

in 2007, was far too good for his compatriot Dirk van

Duvenbode, Barney winning 3 sets to nil.

We are now going to speak some more about the Spanish election. We will

speak to a journalist. Just how much an achievement is it that these two

new parties do have made these gains? It is extraordinary and

surprising. The party, Podemos, that is the one that has had clear

success here, it is a left party, it was started just a few years ago, it

began very well a year ago. It was believed to be the first or the

second party in Spain. -- it began very well, then a year ago it was

believed to be the first or second party in Spain. Opinion polls

indicated it was coming back and it has had an extraordinarily good

result. Citizens, it is a liberal centre-right party, it has

underperformed. They expected a better results, still it is a new

party, not the numerous party. It has now gone national and it has had

a good results, but not as good as they expected. How likely is it that

either of these new parties will form a coalition with Rajoy? There

was the possibility of this new centre-right party, citizens,

supporting a Conservative government without entering a coalition. Now

the numbers do not allow that. Even together they will not be able to

form a government. That is off the table now and the only chance for

the Prime Minister to form government would be with the

socialist, which is the rival party, that is very unlikely and then there

is the option of a snap election. What are the most pressing problems

facing the government what ever form it takes? The economy. Although the

Spanish economy has been recovering, that was precisely the mainline

coming out from the ruling party during the campaign, yes the Spanish

economy is recovering, but not fast enough. Spain has a huge debt. It

received a bank bailout this morning. It has to give back.

Brussels has not intervened in the Spanish economy in the same way it

has with Ireland all Greece. Still Spain has to follow the guidelines

that are issued by Brussels and they are tough guidelines. It will be

tougher now that the election is over, that will be a very difficult

challenge for any government that is formed, let alone if no government

is formed and we have a period of instability.

The youngest person convicted in the notorious 2012 Delhi gang

rape case has been released from a correctional centre.

There was global outrage after a 23 year old student was brutally raped

She eventually died from her injuries.

Legal challenges failed to prevent the release of one of the accused,

who was 17 at the time of the attack.

The police were keen to keep a lid on

The police are using force to break up this protest,

bundling the protesters into this bus and

These protesters are angry at the release of the youngest

He was released from a correctional facility, given a new identity

and handed over to a charity because of fears for his safety.

The parents of the victim campaigned against his release and believe

he should have been punished more severely.

TRANSLATION: My daughter was lying on the street crying for help,

I am hurt that I live in such a society.

It should not be a factor for such a horrific crime,

I'm disappointed at our legal system.

It was onboard this public bus that the young woman was brutally

The case led to massive protests across India sparking a debate

Since then new laws have been brought in and many believe that not

At least 59 people are missing, after a landslide

engulfed buildings in China's southern city of

It happened at an industrial park in the city's

Guangming New District - with local media reports suggesting

the landslide was caused by the collapse of a mound of earth

More from the BBC's Michael Bristow.

The landslide swept away everything in its path.

The people watching paused to take in what they'd just seen,

and then realised that they might be in danger.

The wall of earth engulfed an industrial park on the outskirts

Once a fishing village, now a symbol of China's economic boom.

About 20 buildings were destroyed, including two dormitories

The authorities had some warning because they had time to evacuate

Afterwards, search teams combed the rubble and earth looking

for anyone who might be trapped underneath.

Media reports suggest the landslide was caused by collapsing earth

which had been dug up during construction work over

the past two years, but explanations will come later.

For the moment the focus is on the search for

It felt fresher today although temperatures were still mild for

this time of year. Overnight tonight it will feel quite cold. In some

rural spots we could get down to two or three degrees, but generally

frost free. Some showers around. A bright, fresh start tomorrow

morning, some sunshine to be had in the east. Further west is a

different story, brain will be piling into Northern Ireland. Wet

and windy weather, that will be spreading into the West of Scotland

as well. Not very nice at all. Things will improve later in the

day. After a dry start, things will go downhill. Get out and enjoy the

sunshine while you can. Temperatures at six, seven, 8 degrees. Turning

wet across South Wales -- West Wales. The sunshine across the

eastern areas will be replaced by brain, meanwhile the rain across

western areas will be replaced by sunshine. -- rain. Technically, it

will be another mild day across the southern and eastern areas, but with

the wind in the rain it will not feel that clever. Temperatures

levelling off in the afternoon. Some of the showers are wintry. Those

fronts cleared away only to be replaced by a whole gaggle of France

on Tuesday. Jews do does not look and I stay at all. -- choose day

does not look like a nice day at all. Technically again, pretty mild

across southern areas before the wind and rain arrives. Just to

reiterate, if you are on the move and I know a lot of people are, rain

and gales could be a real feature on Tuesday and could cause some

disruption. Check your local radio. On Wednesday that will disappear.