21/12/2015 BBC News at Ten


21/12/2015

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 21/12/2015. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

Two of the most powerful men in football have been banned

:00:00.:00:09.

You have been kicked out in disgrace, how does it feel?

:00:10.:00:21.

Sepp Blatter, the outgoing president of Fifa, is accused

:00:22.:00:23.

of abusing his position, but he's promised to launch

:00:24.:00:25.

Suspended eight years, but I will fight, I will fight

:00:26.:00:28.

And Michel Platini, the head of Uefa, also denies

:00:29.:00:36.

abusing his position in connection with a ?1 million payment approved

:00:37.:00:36.

We'll have the latest on the crisis that's engulfed Fifa this year.

:00:37.:00:42.

This man begged for police help before he was murdered.

:00:43.:00:47.

Now two officers have been convicted of misconduct.

:00:48.:00:51.

The world's strongest antibiotics, powerless against a superbug that's

:00:52.:00:55.

Another vulnerable patient whose death was not investigated

:00:56.:01:02.

It's blatantly obvious that the care received was not good enough.

:01:03.:01:09.

For them to not investigate is unbelievable.

:01:10.:01:16.

And, the BBC gives up its contract to televise Formula One three years

:01:17.:01:20.

The 19-year-old who died at the hands of her family.

:01:21.:01:28.

Her sister-in-law and five siblings are jailed.

:01:29.:01:30.

And, a threat to down arms if a police colleague is charged

:01:31.:01:36.

Two of the most powerful men in world football,

:01:37.:01:59.

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, have each been banned from the sport

:02:00.:02:05.

An investigation by a Fifa committee found they had

:02:06.:02:05.

Mr Blatter, the outgoing president of Fifa, and Mr Platini,

:02:06.:02:11.

the head of European football, have both said they will launch appeals.

:02:12.:02:14.

They both deny any wrongdoing when Mr Platini received a ?1

:02:15.:02:17.

million payment approved by Mr Blatter.

:02:18.:02:30.

There are some flashing images in the report.

:02:31.:02:38.

Just minutes after being kicked out of football in disgrace,

:02:39.:02:45.

a visibly aged and dishevelled Sepp Blatter arrived at Fifa's

:02:46.:02:47.

Wearing a plaster on his face, following a minor operation,

:02:48.:02:52.

recent events appear to have caught up with the former president.

:02:53.:02:59.

Anyone hoping for contrition should have known better.

:03:00.:03:00.

I am sorry that I am still somewhere, a punching ball,

:03:01.:03:07.

but I am sorry I am, as president of Fifa,

:03:08.:03:11.

He vowed to appeal and said he is prepared to take his case

:03:12.:03:30.

to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

:03:31.:03:32.

I will fight for me and I will fight for Fifa.

:03:33.:03:45.

Also banned today was Michel Platini, the man who had been

:03:46.:03:50.

In September, Swiss prosecutors opened a criminal investigation over

:03:51.:04:00.

what they described as an alleged disloyal or illicit payment of ?1.3

:04:01.:04:03.

Platini said it was for work he had performed as an adviser to Fifa

:04:04.:04:11.

With no written contract, the two most powerful men

:04:12.:04:12.

in football were suspended and today Fifa banished both from the game

:04:13.:04:17.

I am man of principles and these principles are,

:04:18.:04:25.

and I still go on, never take money you have not earned.

:04:26.:04:28.

Now, they are telling me that I have tried to buy,

:04:29.:04:37.

through Michel Platini, votes for the two elections.

:04:38.:04:43.

Blatter has ridden out countless controversies but in May Fifa

:04:44.:04:47.

was plunged into crisis, a host of senior football officials

:04:48.:04:50.

arrested amid a US-led investigation into decades

:04:51.:04:53.

Despite that, he was re-elected for a fifth term.

:04:54.:04:59.

Under mounting pressure he announced he would step down next year.

:05:00.:05:06.

European football chief Platini seemed set to take advantage but now

:05:07.:05:06.

The sport is left to count the cost for the cost.

:05:07.:05:11.

The game has not been affected by that.

:05:12.:05:13.

It is too powerful to be affected by certain individuals.

:05:14.:05:18.

What has been affected is the fact that people are talking

:05:19.:05:21.

about the corruption and about the football

:05:22.:05:24.

and about the game in the same sentence.

:05:25.:05:27.

The sport is now desperate to move on with a replacement for Blatter

:05:28.:05:30.

The president must be relieved of his duties,

:05:31.:05:42.

otherwise you cannot elect another president.

:05:43.:05:44.

I am ashamed if you go in depth what has been presented and how

:05:45.:05:53.

It would appear football has not seen the end of Blatter yet.

:05:54.:05:59.

And that is the problem for the sport.

:06:00.:06:03.

The symbol of its tainted past may have been shown the door

:06:04.:06:06.

but his reign will continue to cast a shadow.

:06:07.:06:13.

The fear is that Sepp Blatter leaves behind an organisation that is now

:06:14.:06:23.

broken beyond repair. Fifa is being run in effect by a team of lawyers,

:06:24.:06:28.

so many of its former leaders have left in disgrace, its critics argue

:06:29.:06:35.

the question should not be who should succeed Sepp Blatter in

:06:36.:06:36.

February, all which reform should be in plummeted to somehow regain

:06:37.:06:41.

public trust, but whether or not in the future this organisation can

:06:42.:06:45.

survive intact in its current form at all, whether it should be shut

:06:46.:06:48.

down by the Swiss government and another body set up to replace it.

:06:49.:06:53.

Sepp Blatter may have gone today, but the biggest scandal football has

:06:54.:06:57.

ever seen, with further investigations on the horizon, looks

:06:58.:06:59.

set to continue. A police officer and

:07:00.:07:05.

a community-support officer have both been convicted of misconduct

:07:06.:07:07.

following the murder of a man Bijan Ebrahimi, who was 44,

:07:08.:07:10.

was murdered in what was called a vigilante attack amid false claims

:07:11.:07:14.

he was a paedophile. He'd repeatedly called police

:07:15.:07:18.

for help in the days before his death, but officers

:07:19.:07:20.

were said to have dismissed him Disabled, depressed and vulnerable,

:07:21.:07:22.

but the court heard Bijan Ebrahimiwas failed by police,

:07:23.:07:36.

who saw him as a nuisance. In the summer of 2013,

:07:37.:07:37.

a neighbour, Lee James, entered his home and wrongly

:07:38.:07:45.

accused him of being a paedophile. Bijan Ebrahimi filmed his

:07:46.:07:49.

threats and dialled 999. The court heard that Bijan Ebrahimi,

:07:50.:07:52.

born in Iran, would often call police, and over the next couple

:07:53.:08:01.

of days he repeatedly dialled 101. He said neighbours were still

:08:02.:08:08.

calling him a paedophile and he asked for his local beat

:08:09.:08:14.

manager, PC Kevin Duffy, to visit, but he refused

:08:15.:08:14.

to take the calls. Bijan Ebrahimi on the

:08:15.:08:18.

phone, asking for you. The following night,

:08:19.:08:29.

Bijan Ebrahimi was kicked to death by his neighbour, Lee James,

:08:30.:08:31.

and his body then set on fire. Today, a jury found PC Kevin Duffy

:08:32.:08:37.

guilty of misconduct He will be sentenced

:08:38.:08:40.

in the New Year. Police community support officer

:08:41.:08:44.

Andrew Passmore was also found Have you anything

:08:45.:08:55.

to say? The jury was told he had made false

:08:56.:08:55.

claims to an investigation about the area where

:08:56.:09:03.

Bijan Ebrahimi lived. The constabulary failed local people

:09:04.:09:04.

and this vulnerable person and has Two other police officers

:09:05.:09:07.

were cleared of misconduct. Including PC Helen Harris,

:09:08.:09:13.

who arrested Bijan Ebrahimi two days What part of be quiet

:09:14.:09:20.

do you not understand? She admitted her behaviour had

:09:21.:09:21.

been unprofessional, but today she was cleared

:09:22.:09:26.

by the jury, along with her colleague, PC Leanne Wood,

:09:27.:09:31.

who was also found not guilty. Bijan Ebrahimi's sisters say

:09:32.:09:41.

the evidence they have seen and heard during the trial

:09:42.:09:45.

has been heartbreaking. They did not take any notice of him,

:09:46.:09:47.

they dismissed him and let him down. It is unimaginably painful for us

:09:48.:09:55.

to hear and see how the police officers dealt with him

:09:56.:10:01.

while he was in custody The trial may be over,

:10:02.:10:04.

but next year at least 18 police officers and other staff face

:10:05.:10:13.

internal misconduct hearings into the way they dealt

:10:14.:10:17.

with Bijan Ebrahimi. Avon Somerset Police will not

:10:18.:10:21.

comment on claims that some of those hearings will feature

:10:22.:10:24.

allegations of racism. In Afghanistan, the Taliban claims

:10:25.:10:34.

it has taken control of most of the Sangin district

:10:35.:10:36.

following days of heavy fighting. Sangin was central to the British

:10:37.:10:40.

military campaign in Helmand province, and the Taliban's advance

:10:41.:10:43.

comes just over a year after British combat operations

:10:44.:10:47.

ended in Afghanistan. More than 100 British soldiers

:10:48.:10:50.

died in the fighting A former commander of British forces

:10:51.:10:52.

in Afghanistan says Afghan forces We know that you have reported many

:10:53.:11:10.

times from Afghanistan, what is your reading of the situation? You

:11:11.:11:16.

mentioned how the Afghan forces need help, they do, the deputy governor

:11:17.:11:21.

of Helmand province took to Facebook to say that Helmand province is on

:11:22.:11:25.

the brink, he was begging for help, he said that 99 Afghan soldiers have

:11:26.:11:33.

died in the last two days, and in some areas they are on the brink of

:11:34.:11:35.

starvation. There has been a month of heavy fighting across the

:11:36.:11:40.

province, Britain was involved, but as it stands, in a province of 14

:11:41.:11:46.

districts, all but two are either in Taliban hands or they are heavily

:11:47.:11:51.

contested. Viewers will ask, what was the point of the battles that

:11:52.:11:57.

British troops fought their? They made a difference, but a feud is ago

:11:58.:12:03.

the Pentagon recognised that the Taliban was resilient, because they

:12:04.:12:10.

were not defeated, they were pushed back, or they melted into the

:12:11.:12:15.

traditional society, part of the society, so they are fighting back,

:12:16.:12:21.

and it has been a terrible day, not just in sunken, but north of Kabul,

:12:22.:12:28.

the American biggest military base, a suicide bombing, and six soldiers,

:12:29.:12:35.

believed to be American, died in that operation. It is a reminder

:12:36.:12:38.

again of these walls of our time, they are very long pause, they will

:12:39.:12:40.

take place for a long time to come. More evidence has come to light

:12:41.:12:47.

of failures to investigate unexpected deaths in parts

:12:48.:12:51.

of the National Health Service. Last week, the Government ordered

:12:52.:12:53.

a review of how investigations are handled in England after heavy

:12:54.:12:55.

criticism of one of the biggest More families have now come forward

:12:56.:12:59.

to voice their concern, as our social affairs correspondent,

:13:00.:13:03.

Michael Buchanan, reports. Thomas was beautiful,

:13:04.:13:08.

amazing, compassionate, definitely mischievous,

:13:09.:13:11.

he just wanted to make people laugh. Thomas Rawnsley was a son

:13:12.:13:15.

and brother who happened to have He loved his music, his tomato

:13:16.:13:18.

ketchup, sausage and chips, he just wanted the simple things,

:13:19.:13:26.

his family and to be happy. There, one carer physically

:13:27.:13:36.

abused him while his parents raised many other complaints

:13:37.:13:38.

about his treatment. In February he contracted pneumonia

:13:39.:13:41.

and died, aged just 20. No investigation has taken

:13:42.:13:47.

place into his death. It feels like he was ignored

:13:48.:13:49.

and dismissed throughout, especially during the last four

:13:50.:13:55.

years, and to carry on doing that, even though it is obvious

:13:56.:14:00.

that the care received was not good enough, for them to not

:14:01.:14:03.

investigate is unbelievable. The family have been told

:14:04.:14:13.

there is no medical evidence to suggest that Thomas

:14:14.:14:18.

died of anything other Therefore, there will not be

:14:19.:14:20.

an investigation into his death. But they are not alone

:14:21.:14:23.

in trying to get the NHS Figures from two thirds

:14:24.:14:26.

of mental-health trusts suggest that after nearly 1,500 deaths

:14:27.:14:32.

of learning-disability inpatients over the past four years, just over

:14:33.:14:34.

200 have been investigated. Data from a smaller sample indicates

:14:35.:14:43.

that of the 276 deaths classed as unexpected, just

:14:44.:14:43.

100 were investigated. If something happens

:14:44.:14:49.

in one part of the NHS, it may be equally applicable

:14:50.:14:51.

to another part, something in the south-west may be applicable

:14:52.:14:53.

in Cumbria or the north-east, and if there is no systematic

:14:54.:14:57.

collection of information and investigation, there is no way

:14:58.:14:59.

that other providers can NHS England say they have

:15:00.:15:07.

commissioned a study looking at all deaths of people

:15:08.:15:09.

with learning difficulties. The families have already lost loved

:15:10.:15:12.

ones and fear what others may What happened to Thomas

:15:13.:15:15.

is horrendous, with a family fighting his corner very hard,

:15:16.:15:21.

so what could be happening to vulnerable people out

:15:22.:15:24.

there that do not have family? In a rare show of unity last week,

:15:25.:15:29.

the UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution endorsing

:15:30.:15:40.

an international road map The conflict has so far claimed

:15:41.:15:41.

a quarter of a million lives and has forced millions into exile,

:15:42.:15:50.

and the situation on the ground Tonight, in the latest of our series

:15:51.:15:52.

looking back at this year's migration crisis, our special

:15:53.:15:57.

correspondent, Fergal Keane, considers

:15:58.:15:59.

the ability of the biggest global organisations to cope with the scale

:16:00.:16:02.

of the world's problems. The struggles of the present

:16:03.:16:14.

are rooted in the past. When great powers decided the fate

:16:15.:16:14.

of far-away millions. Here at Sevres, outside Paris,

:16:15.:16:17.

they signed the first of a series of treaties that would bring

:16:18.:16:20.

generations of conflict. In this room, the defeated

:16:21.:16:29.

Ottoman Turks gave up an empire that Ironically, as the victorious Allies

:16:30.:16:31.

were busy carving up the Middle East here,

:16:32.:16:38.

they had already signed another treaty in a different part

:16:39.:16:44.

of the city to set up the world's first peacekeeping organisation,

:16:45.:16:50.

the League of Nations, But now, as millions of Syrians

:16:51.:16:50.

flee their homeland, why has the international community,

:16:51.:16:54.

embodied in the UN, been incapable There is no value for the child,

:16:55.:16:58.

for a human being. Back in 1994, the horrific images

:16:59.:17:05.

of the Rwandan genocide, along with Bosnia, prompted

:17:06.:17:21.

international pledges I reported on a country

:17:22.:17:21.

abandoned by the world. There were two pots then,

:17:22.:17:27.

that of the people who knew they were going to die

:17:28.:17:29.

and the mortal terror they must have felt, and of the savagery and hatred

:17:30.:17:32.

in the hearts of those After the shame of Rwanda,

:17:33.:17:35.

interventions like Sierra But invasions in the Muslim world

:17:36.:17:40.

would change all of that. The region was destabilised,

:17:41.:17:53.

the UN deeply divided. When Syria descended into chaos,

:17:54.:17:55.

there was no big power The West was fearful

:17:56.:17:57.

of entanglement. The Russians backed Assad

:17:58.:18:00.

and regional powers waged Rony Braumann, a founder

:18:01.:18:02.

of the aid agency, MSF, is one of the world's most eminent

:18:03.:18:09.

thinkers on humanitarian affairs. You cannot just say

:18:10.:18:13.

interventions are worth nothing. In some cases, yes,

:18:14.:18:16.

it is worth something. In most cases, it produced

:18:17.:18:22.

more harm than good. We're all mindful of what happened

:18:23.:18:26.

in Iraq in 2003, or what happened in Libya after the French

:18:27.:18:30.

and British intervention in 2011. So, be wary of intervention

:18:31.:18:35.

as a political solution. President Assad, his enemies,

:18:36.:18:41.

and their supporters, The West has been incoherent

:18:42.:18:44.

and inconsistent. A veteran UN peacemaker in Africa,

:18:45.:18:50.

Iraq, Northern Ireland, Martti Ahtisaari condemns

:18:51.:18:54.

the international disunity over It is a disgrace and I am ashamed

:18:55.:19:00.

that international communities have allowed the Syrians to keep

:19:01.:19:03.

on killing each other. There are places where

:19:04.:19:12.

peace is winning. This is a celebration for

:19:13.:19:21.

Nobel Prize winners from Tunisia. Where civil society groups refused

:19:22.:19:26.

outside help and still brought opposing factions together,

:19:27.:19:29.

opposing civil war. Ouided Bouchamaoui,

:19:30.:19:40.

a business leader, is one Many of the international

:19:41.:19:43.

communities try to help us It is our fear, sometimes

:19:44.:19:46.

we were upset, sometimes But we have just one

:19:47.:19:51.

thing, to avoid war. The Syrian crisis presented

:19:52.:20:00.

the world with its greatest political and humanitarian

:20:01.:20:03.

challenge in decades. These newly-arrived refugees

:20:04.:20:08.

in Stockholm are among the millions If you see every day a lot of kids

:20:09.:20:10.

killed without any reasons. You find the kids in pieces,

:20:11.:20:27.

without heads, without That was Orabi Hamdan

:20:28.:20:33.

speaking to Fergal Keane. Bacteria that can resist the most

:20:34.:20:49.

powerful antibiotic available have Last month, it was reported

:20:50.:20:55.

that the same bug had been found in patients and livestock in China,

:20:56.:20:56.

prompting scientists to warn that the world was edging

:20:57.:20:58.

towards a dangerous Our health editor,

:20:59.:21:00.

Hugh Pym, is with me. how do you assess the extent of this

:21:01.:21:11.

threat? There have been warnings about the danger of superbugs

:21:12.:21:17.

emerging, resistant to all antibiotics in decades to come.

:21:18.:21:21.

Today's developed and is about the last resort drug for doctors if all

:21:22.:21:26.

else fails. Last month in China there were strains of bacteria in

:21:27.:21:31.

humans and animals said to be resistant to the drug. Public Health

:21:32.:21:37.

England has said it has looked back thousands of patient records on

:21:38.:21:39.

bacteria and found in a small number of cases there was resistance to the

:21:40.:21:46.

drug. Public Health England says it is a very low risk and these

:21:47.:21:54.

bacteria can be treated by other and to budget. Campaigners have said

:21:55.:21:55.

there is overused, particularly in agriculture, and this is very much a

:21:56.:21:57.

warning shot. After the most closely-fought

:21:58.:22:02.

general election in Spain's recent history the political parties

:22:03.:22:05.

are about to engage in talks The Conservative Prime Minister,

:22:06.:22:07.

Mariano Rajoy, says he'll try to keep his Popular Party

:22:08.:22:10.

in power, despite falling far short Two new parties, including

:22:11.:22:13.

the anti-austerity Podemos, Our correspondent, Tom Burridge,

:22:14.:22:17.

reports from Madrid. The economic crisis

:22:18.:22:26.

is often invisible... Even in a working-class

:22:27.:22:30.

suburb of Madrid. Talk to people here,

:22:31.:22:33.

and that word, austerity, It is why this woman,

:22:34.:22:36.

who cares for the elderly for 700 euros a month,

:22:37.:22:42.

voted for a party with TRANSLATION: All my social

:22:43.:22:45.

support has been cut, Her vote went to Podemos,

:22:46.:22:53.

an anti-austerity movement. After a ground-breaking election,

:22:54.:23:05.

it is a political force This was the party's leader today,

:23:06.:23:07.

a former university professor, so different from your traditional,

:23:08.:23:14.

Spanish politician. What is your message

:23:15.:23:19.

for the rest of Europe today? Sovereignty is the main

:23:20.:23:21.

word for us in order Never again, never again,

:23:22.:23:27.

Spain as a periphery of Germany. The leader that implemented

:23:28.:23:35.

the austerity measures is Mariano Still for now the Prime

:23:36.:23:37.

Minister of Spain. Tonight, after a meeting

:23:38.:23:41.

with senior party members, he insisted he will try to form

:23:42.:23:44.

a government because his Conservative Party

:23:45.:23:47.

won the most votes. His supporters celebrated

:23:48.:23:53.

for the cameras last night. But the party suffered

:23:54.:23:57.

its worst result since 1989. Mr Rajoy might struggle to find

:23:58.:24:04.

allies so he can govern. So, journalists in Spain are now

:24:05.:24:08.

discussing the unknown in a new era. Many leaders are starting to think

:24:09.:24:12.

about the possibility of another election in two or three months'

:24:13.:24:15.

time because it is so difficult to form a government

:24:16.:24:19.

with the numbers that we have. There are no real answers to any

:24:20.:24:24.

of the questions today. It is an extraordinary day

:24:25.:24:28.

in our lives in Spain. Not even villages escape

:24:29.:24:34.

the property bubble which caused economic pain and now

:24:35.:24:38.

political change. In rural areas, you find

:24:39.:24:42.

the other Conservative Spain, So, Spain is divided tonight. Though

:24:43.:25:03.

most people agree that there is a need for change, the parties

:25:04.:25:06.

negotiating for power disagree on fundamental questions like how to

:25:07.:25:09.

run the economy and whether there should be a Scottish style

:25:10.:25:13.

referendum in the region of Catalonia. Spain is shrouded in

:25:14.:25:21.

uncertainty. Financial markets expressed some uncertainty about

:25:22.:25:23.

that today. There has to be a Coalition Government within two

:25:24.:25:26.

months, otherwise there will be a fresh election early next year.

:25:27.:25:31.

There will be no more Formula One races covered live

:25:32.:25:33.

The contract is being ended three years ahead of time to save money.

:25:34.:25:37.

The terrestrial rights will be taken over by Channel 4.

:25:38.:25:40.

The BBC's director of sport said the decision had

:25:41.:25:42.

But BBC Radio 5 Live will still have commentary of every grand prix,

:25:43.:25:48.

as our correspondent, David Sillito, reports.

:25:49.:25:59.

The BBC and Formula 1 have a long history. What began 40 years ago in

:26:00.:26:11.

the era of James Hunt and commentator Murray Walker has today

:26:12.:26:21.

ended with the BBC handing over its rights mid-contract. I am enormously

:26:22.:26:27.

sad that the BBC is losing Formula 1. Long-term, I have to say I worry

:26:28.:26:33.

about the BBC's ability to retain major sport. Sport deserves more and

:26:34.:26:44.

Formula 1 certainly does. It is not the only sport the BBC has lost

:26:45.:26:53.

recently. The the open has gone in the goal. In a statement, the

:26:54.:26:56.

director of sport said: lights out, away we go. For viewers

:26:57.:27:14.

it means simply a switch to Channel 4. Free to air TV matters. Globally,

:27:15.:27:23.

Formula 1 audiences have been dipping. Bernie Ecclestone wants to

:27:24.:27:23.

keep the sport as visible as possible. By watching on free to air

:27:24.:27:28.

you are getting 20 times the number of people watching it. Bernie needs

:27:29.:27:33.

people watching it to encourage sponsors into the sport, to keep it

:27:34.:27:37.

strong. He needed to keep it on free to air. Formula 1 did spend ten

:27:38.:27:44.

years with ITV. But the BBC relationship that began in the 70s

:27:45.:27:54.

will be hard to rekindle. In an age of spiralling sports right and the

:27:55.:27:55.

corporations looking to save another half ?1 billion.

:27:56.:28:01.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS