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Tonight at Ten - thousands of operations cancelled as junior | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
doctors in England take industrial action. | :00:19. | :00:19. | |
It's the first time in 40 years that they've gone on strike | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
on pay-related issues - they say it's a clear | :00:21. | :00:21. | |
We're here to promote patient safety. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
We do not want to be in a contract that will make us tired. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
As many routine operations and procedures were cancelled, | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
ministers said the action was unnecessary and some patients | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
They've got people's lives in their hands | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
I don't know how they could possibly do it. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
We'll be looking at the cause of the dispute - | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
the new doctors' contract - as more strike says are planned. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
In Turkey, at least ten people - including eight German tourists - | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
have been killed by a Syrian suicide bomber in the centre of Istanbul. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
We report from Aberdeen where the collapse in global oil | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
prices is taking its toll on local business. | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
Following a BBC documentary about mistreatment at a young | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
offenders' unit, the security firm G4S has sacked four of its staff. | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
And a journey to the Arctic to see the place that might one day | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Suspended - the Kids Company psychologist, who gave drugs | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
to a youngster she met through the charity. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
And the London student with leukaemia, hoping to find | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
For the first time in 40 years, junior doctors in England have taken | :01:32. | :01:56. | |
industrial action in the latest stage of their dispute over | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
Ministers said the strike action was 'completely unnecessary', | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
but the British Medical Association said it was important to send | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
NHS trusts say around 10,000 junior doctors reported for duty today out | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
of a possible 26,000 - and they continued to | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
But around 3,500 routine operations and procedures have been postponed - | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
and two more strikes have been planned for the coming month. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
In a moment, we'll take a closer look at the unresolved issues | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
in this dispute, but first this report from our health editor, | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
8.00am this morning and junior doctors around England were out on | :02:33. | :02:45. | |
strike. Those that is involved in non-urgent | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
care. They believe they have no | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
alternative because of Government plans on pay and hours, which they | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
say are unacceptable. It's a short-term disruption for a | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
long-term goal. We thought with these contract changes that have | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
been forced through by the Government undermine our ability to | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
provide safe healthcare. We are here Government undermine our ability to | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
to promote patient safety. Tired doctors kill patients. We do not | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
want to be in a contract that makes us tired. Some members of the public | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
made plain their anger at the doctors' action. You swore a | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Hippocratic oath to protect people's lives, no t to spit your dummy out | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
and come out here. Emily is a patient who finds it hard to support | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
the strike. She has a complex stomach condition. Here she is | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
administering her medication. She was due to have an important | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
operation today after a long wait. But then heard it had been | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
postponed. I'm really angry and disappointed. I only found out | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
yesterday that it wasn't going to go ahead. To be told it's cancelled due | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
to a strike is really annoying and it is so unfair. They have people's | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
lives in their hands and they are walking out. I don't know how | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
lives in their hands and they are could possibly do it. The Health | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Secretary and the doctors' union continued their verbal exchanges. In | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
the end, this is a completely unnecessary dispute. We have some | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
disagreements with the BMA over pay. But we all want to promise every | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
patient who uses the NHS the promise of the same high-quality care every | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
day of the week. The Government wants to introduce a contract that | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
they say makes it easier to roster doctors around-the-clock. I guess it | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
would. They want to remove a lot of the protections against overwork | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
that have been put into doctors' contracts over the last 20 years or | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
so and which have helped protect patient safety. One hospital, | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
Sandwell n the West Midlands, declared a major incident because of | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
high patient numbers and said striking doctors should return to | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
work. The unions said that was in breach of a national agreement. The | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Trust later said things were under control and dropped its request. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
The 24-hour action which began today covers routine and non-emergency | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
care. That will be extended to 48-hours on January 26th. The one | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
that NHS chiefs are concerned about, assuming no breakthrough in the | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
talks, is the planned all-out strike on February 10th, covering all forms | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
of care, including emergencies. It may not come to that. Talks at | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
Acas are set to continue. But right now, there are few signs of movement | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
towards a lasting settlement of the doctors' contract row. Hugh Pym, BBC | :05:32. | :05:32. | |
News. The dispute in England - | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
about changes to the junior doctors' contract - has been going | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
on for the past two years. In Wales and Scotland, | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
the devolved governments say they plan to keep existing | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
contracts for the time being, while no final decision has been | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
made in Northern Ireland. Ministers at Westminster say | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
the current contract is outdated, but the BMA is concerned about pay | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
for weekend duty and safeguards to protect doctors | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
from being overworked. Our home editor, Mark Easton, | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
considers both sides Well, both sides in this dispute say | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
that patients are at the heart of what they're doing and accuse | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
the other lot of only Who are the junior | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
doctors first of all? There are actually 55,000 | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
of them and they're not The term covers any qualified doctor | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
who's not yet a consultant or a GP. They could have been working | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
in the NHS for just a few days, And what they get paid | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
varies hugely, too. A salary of ?23,000 is what's | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
on offer for some newly-qualified medics, but there are top-ups | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
for antisocial hours and, at the other end of the scale, | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
salaries of more than ?70,000 plus extras are possible | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
for registrars, working with consultants, taking life | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
and death decisions. Well, there's an 11% | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
increase in basic pay. But a 25% cut in the extra payments | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
for those antisocial hours. And the scrapping of automatic | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
incremental pay rises. The Government calculates that | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
three-quarters of junior doctors NEWSREEL: Ask your doctor now | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
if he'll look after you under Since the birth of the NHS, | :07:12. | :07:24. | |
the relationship between Government and doctors has tended | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
to be on the cool side. Nye Bevan famously said he only won | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
the backing of consultants for the new Health Service | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
by stuffing their mouths with gold. The last doctors' pay strike in 1975 | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
was over proposed contracts that would have forced them to abandon | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
lucrative private practice. Medics tend to be fiercely | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
independent and hate being told And once again, the Government finds | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
itself at odds with doctors over funding their ambition | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
for a seven-day-a-week The Government wants to continue | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
to improve and develop services but it hasn't really got | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
the money to invest in that, More than two-thirds of hospital | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
budgets go on pay and our hospitals are in deficit and heading | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
for a deficit of about ?2 Whoever's to blame, for patients | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
today, the NHS has been Our political editor, | :08:19. | :08:34. | |
Laura Kuenssberg, is here. What is your reading of the | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
determination among ministers here? What is your reading of the | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
They are still very bullish. One Government source said today we know | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
they, the doctors, are going to lose. The Government has the option | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
of imposing these contracts, perhaps as early as next month, if the BMA | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
continues to refuse to play ball here. At this stage, ministers are | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
not in a position of throwing up their hands and saying we are going | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
to force this through. They still do want some accommodation to be found. | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
They know that the process, if we look at the other dates that are | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
planned, is a risky one? Indeed. No Government would want to find | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
themselves in this kind of position, where trust had broken down so | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
badly, particularly when we get to that possibility of the third strike | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
planned for the middle of February with no emergency cover. Tonight, | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
this feels like a traditional stand-off with both sides convinced | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
that they are right and refusing to budge. The crucial element that | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
could change very fast is, of course, public opinion. And when | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
they do get back around the table at Acas, the conciliation service, that | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
will be absolutely on both sides' minds. Thank you very much. Laura | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
Kuenssberg there. The Turkish authorities have blamed | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
militants from so-called Islamic State for carrying out | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
a bomb attack in the heart At least ten people - | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
mainly German citizens - were killed and at least 15 | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
others were wounded. The authorities say a suicide bomber | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
from Syria detonated the device. Germany has warned its citizens | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
to avoid crowds at tourist Our special correspondent, | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
Fergal Keane, Behind the trees Sultanahmet Square | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
is sealed off as the call for prayers echoes | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
around the city on edge. For today terrorists struck | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
at Istanbul's historic core This photograph is believed to show | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
the moment the suicide attacker detonated his bomb, amidst | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
a crowd of civilians, TRANSLATION: The explosion | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
was so loud, even our windows shook, For those closest to the scene, | :10:50. | :11:08. | |
survival was a matter of luck. TRANSLATION: It was a big shock, | :11:09. | :11:18. | |
you don't think these things will The air pressure was really strong | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
and I knew to turn away. She could not protect herself | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
from what she then saw. That testimony of carnage is too | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
graphic to be broadcast. As the security operation got under | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
way, the Turkish government blamed the so-called Islamic State | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
and promised tough action. The West has been pressing Turkey | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
to do more to fight IS. TRANSLATION: As with all terrorist | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
organisations, we will not pull back against Daesh in our | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
fight against terror. The networks and connections | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
of the assailant will be revealed and they will be punished | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
as they deserve. Turkey is mired in conflict, | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
with the Kurds, with Russia and the Assad regime, | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
and hosts nearly 2.5 This expert says much tougher action | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
against IS is inevitable. Isis decided to take Turkey | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
as an enemy and there will be consequences, so we may see a more | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
co-operative treaty in the fight This attack was aimed at the Turkish | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
state and Westerners and its impact on the crucial tourism industry | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
will be severe. But it has a deeper symbolic | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
meaning. For centuries this city has been one | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
of the great meeting places of Islam Tonight, it is part of the shifting | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
front-line in a pitiless war. Within the past hour, | :12:50. | :13:02. | |
the Pentagon have confirmed that two US Navy vessels in the Persian Gulf | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
have been taken into custody Reports say the small boats | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
were moving between Kuwait Our North America Editor, Jon Sopel, | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
is in Washington for us. What's been said about this? Well, | :13:15. | :13:28. | |
what we understand is that two small boats were moving between Bahrain | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
and Kuwait in the Persian Gulf when one of them developed mechanical | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
trouble. What happened was that it ran aground near Farsi Island. The | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
Americans lost contact. They were picked up by Iranian service | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
personnel. That would seem to be a serious incident, since when we have | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
had reassuring words from the American side saying we have been in | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
contact with Iran and received assurances that the crew and the | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
vessels will be returned promptly. Now, John Kerry has built up a close | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
personal relationship with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammed Zarif | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
as a result of the Iran nuclear deal which has been negotiated. That deal | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
holds the key to this being sorted out very quickly indeed. Iran nor | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
the US will want this to get inthe way of the implementation of that. | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
Jon Sopel for us. The security firm G4S has sacked | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
four of its staff following last night's BBC Panorama programme | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
which exposed the alleged abuse of inmates at a young offenders' | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
institution in Kent. Secret filming appeared to show | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
teenagers being assaulted and staff The Justice Secretary, | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
Michael Gove, has been holding talks with managers from G4S this | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
afternoon, as our special correspondent, Lucy Manning, | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
reports. Staff reacting in a way that even | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
those who run this young offenders Teenagers restrained | :14:51. | :15:01. | |
when they claimed it Boasts from staff they mistreated | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
offenders and allegations incidents weren't properly reported | :15:05. | :15:19. | |
to avoid fines, all filmed Now, four staff members have been | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
sacked, four are suspended or on restricted duties and one | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
health worker is also suspended. With some MPs questioning | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
whether G4S should still be running prisons or young offenders units, | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
G4S managers were called in to see the Secretary of State for Justice | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
who wanted to deal with the issues One of those managers says he's | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
shocked and apologises REPORTER: Should you still be | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
running these sort of centres? Well, obviously, you know, | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
everything is under review. We are looking very much | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
at making sure, first of all, We ensure all the children | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
there are safe. Once we've done all that, | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
we will obviously have a complete review are of how this occurred | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
and how we can ensure it But tonight there are claims | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
brutality by staff at the Medway Security Training Centre has been | :16:12. | :16:31. | |
going on for five years. Sue Hill's son, Brandon, | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
was sent there in 2010 after seeing night's programme he told | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
her what he saw there. They would put their fingers in this | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
part of their throat with so much force that he couldn't breathe | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
and that some youths had I don't know if Brandon has ever | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
passed out, but he said it was used to the point where boys and girls, | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
because there were girls at Medway G4S says if any young | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
person were to pass out during or after a restraint this | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
would constitute a serious injury and warning sign and would be | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
referred for external independent But what goes on behind locked doors | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
is now under scrutiny. BP has announced plans to cut 600 | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
jobs in its North Sea operations. The company's fortunes have been | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
badly affected by the collapse A barrel of Brent Crude now trades | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
at just over $30 dollars, The centre of Scotland's oil | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
industry, the city of Aberdeen, is feeling the full impact | :17:25. | :17:34. | |
of the slump as our Scotland editor, There are some flashing images | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
in her report. Aberdeen awoke this morning | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
to double dose of bad tidings. Even the normally bustling harbour | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
is feeling the slump with a further fall in the oil price | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
and yet more job cuts. BP say they are to lose a fifth | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
of their North Sea workforce. The job losses announced today come | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
on top of at least another 65,000 that have already been lost as | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
a result of the tumbling oil price. In other parts of the UK, | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
business has received a bit of a boost from the low-cost | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
of crude, but in Scotland Willard and Henry build personnel | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
transport devices for the off Fewer orders mean they've already | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
had to cut some jobs and the workers who are still here have lost | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
overtime shifts worth hundreds You've definitely got | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
to tighten your belt. You've just got to rein it | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
in right across the board. Whether it be night outs, | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
it could be holidays, your savings. Obviously, I've got a family | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
and that as well to think about it and, obviously, I've just | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
got a new car as well. Yeah, I'm feeling the pinch | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
like, definitely. Are you worried that things | :18:43. | :18:43. | |
could get worse before As the company tightens | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
its corporate belt that affects Because we've got less business | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
coming in, it means we don't need to be buying as much | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
from the local economy now. So there's a knock-on effect | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
and also our customers are taking longer to pay us so we're not able | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
to pay our suppliers. So there's a whole knock-on effect | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
to the local economy. That knock-on effect means | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
Scotland's unemployment rate is higher than the UK's | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
while retail sales are lower. Car sales are always | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
a useful economic barometer. New car registrations in the UK have | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
just hit an all-time high, but in Aberdeen it's hard to sell | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
even second hand cars when your customers | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
are losing their jobs. So a customer came in and, | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
obviously, bought the car and then she was quite happy with her job, | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
she was very confident with it. She arranged a loan, | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
came back three days later and just The loan company lose the loan. | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
take the car she got told that day, of the British economy | :19:43. | :20:05. | |
is starting to sink. The partner of the former EastEnders | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
actress, Siane Blake, He was remanded for two weeks. | :20:08. | :20:23. | |
and told he will face It's believed he left the UK | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
on the 19th December following the deaths of his former | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
partner and their two young sons. The German government is to make it | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
easier to deport asylum seekers who commit crimes following the wave | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
of sexual assaults in Cologne The new proposals outlined today | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
were welcomed by Police say that most of the suspects | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
identified so far in relation to the assaults are | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
foreign nationals. Jenny Hill, our correspondent, | :20:54. | :21:04. | |
reports now from Cologne. This isn't how Angela Merkel | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
wanted 2016 to start. Hundreds of women attacked in German | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
cities, their assailants said to be Proof, some say, | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
that she got it wrong. Today, her ministers | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
came up with a new law, making it easier to deport asylum | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
seekers who commit crimes TRANSLATION: We owe this | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
to the victims of these serious crimes, but it's also necessary | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
to protect the majority of innocent refugees in Germany who don't | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
deserve to be vilified. Meanwhile, detectives | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
are using mobile phone footage They've identified suspects, | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
mainly North African men, motivated, police say, | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
by sexual gratification. There are fears here | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
of reprisals against refugees, This politician represents one | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
of Germany's far right parties. We strongly oppose that | :21:58. | :22:07. | |
people have to take arms. They have to go on the street | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
and make their own laws, but I think some people | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
are being forced to deal with these situations on their own | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
because they are left alone Fierce national debate over | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
immigration rages on here, TRANSLATION: These people who come | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
here and commit crimes They didn't turn into | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
criminals in Germany. We treat women in different way, | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
but not in this way. What happened here could still have | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
profound consequences for this country because these attacks and, | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
more importantly, Angela Merkel's response to them, could well | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
determine her political future. Many here are still proud | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
of Germany's welcome to refugees, but it's time, her critics | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
say, to close the door. In Washington, President Obama | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
is preparing to deliver his final State of the Union address setting | :23:03. | :23:15. | |
out the agenda for his last year The speech later tonight, | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
to a joint session of Congress, is expected to focus on those themes | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
which Mr Obama hopes Mr Obama's campaign | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
for the presidency, nearly a decade ago, started in the city of Chicago | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
from where our North America editor, Chicago's been dancing | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
to an uneasy beat of late - gun crime at a high, | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
police brutality in the spotlight and allegations of | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
corruption swirling. When he was working with my mother | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
and they were organising a meeting in the community, this is where | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
we would have our community meeting. But in Altgeld Gardens, | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
a public housing project 20 miles south of the city centre, | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
where Barack Obama started as a community organiser, | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
30 years ago, his successor says that things have got better | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
since he became President. There was so much expectation | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
that there would be a new world built when Obama - | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
that was too much expectation. You know because he inherited | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
a mess, and it's still a mess, and he has corrected | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
a lot of the mess. The next First Family | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
of the United States of America. But back in 2008, in his | :24:28. | :24:37. | |
Chicago victory speech, it was all | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
about the infinite possibilities. At this defining moment, | :24:41. | :24:41. | |
change has come to America. Hope was never more audacious | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
than it was on that night It seemed there was a belief that | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
if enough people said, yes, we can, then change | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
would magically happen, but politics is more difficult | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
than that and sometimes change comes Nowhere more so than in | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
the roughest parts of Chicago. Joe and Will are | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
violence interrupters. They're ex-gang members who've | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
served long prison terms and are trying to help young people | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
avoid the mistakes they made, but on the day we met they'd had bad | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
news about two young people They tried to rob the place | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
and the owners killed them. We got a phone call saying | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
that two guys got killed They say more has to be done to take | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
guns off the streets. You can buy a gun off | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
the street right now, $25. As easy as even asking | :25:40. | :25:41. | |
somebody for a cigarette. But at Mr G's Supper Club | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
in the neighbourhood, it's all about dressing | :25:51. | :25:52. | |
up and dancing. The violence in the community has | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
nothing to do with the President, it has something to do | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
with the joblessness, the poor education system, | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
the higher taxes and the disregard We need more jobs for this | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
young generation but, you know, more opportunity for them | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
to get them off these streets. Among Obama's staunchest supporters | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
there's a reluctance to blame him for their problems, | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
but all the old issues are still there, even as he prepares | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
to deliver the final State of the Union speech | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
of his presidency. Football, and in the Premier League | :26:31. | :26:32. | |
Newcastle United fought back after falling behind twice to earn | :26:33. | :26:46. | |
a 3-3 draw with Manchester United. With just minutes to go, | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
Newcastle levelled the score It leaves Manchester United sixth | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
in the Premier League table. Newcastle stay in | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
the relegation zone. Tim Peake is making | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
final preparations ahead of his historic | :27:03. | :27:03. | |
spacewalk on Friday. Hopefully you can see there how | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
water behaves. The British astronaut, | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
speaking to the BBC's Stargazing programme, showed viewers some | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
newly-learned skills, including drinking water | :27:27. | :27:27. | |
in near-zero gravity. He also unveiled some | :27:28. | :27:41. | |
of the equipment he'll be The aim of the spacewalk is to fix | :27:42. | :27:43. | |
a broken power unit connected to one One we are into the eclipse and | :27:44. | :27:53. | |
there is no power into that solar panel we can change the box out. We | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
will have 40 minutes to do that task. That was Tim Peake speaking | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
there. The impact of climate change | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
and the devastating consequences of prolonged conflict | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
in some parts of the globe are two of the factors | :28:09. | :28:10. | |
mentioned by scientists concerned about protecting food | :28:11. | :28:12. | |
crops around the world. on the remote Svalbar Islands | :28:13. | :28:22. | |
and our science editor, David Shukman, | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
was given special access. In the punishing cold | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
of an Arctic mountain, in the remote Svalbar Islands, | :28:29. | :28:30. | |
a doorway leads to what's meant A good thing that it | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
bridges the road there. Scientists are on their way, | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
approaching through this isolated and hostile terrain and I'm | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
with them as they carry a precious cargo of seeds to be kept out | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
of the way of whatever climate I mean, how often do | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
you get these deliveries? We have deliveries | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
three times a year. A box of seeds is about to go | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
through the first line of security, I've just come down | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
the access tunnel that's cut This place is 130 meters | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
above sea level because, if the worst happens, | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
and global warming melts all of the polar ice-caps, | :29:13. | :29:14. | |
this project will still be safe. The deeper inside the mountain we go | :29:15. | :29:22. | |
the more the temperature drops. The store is designed to survive | :29:23. | :29:25. | |
any natural disaster. The seeds can last here | :29:26. | :29:28. | |
for a very long time, it depends on what crop it is, | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
but some of the crops may survive You're really imagining | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
this place functioning, keeping the seeds | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
safe for 4,000 years? I'm sure that the Pharaohs thought | :29:40. | :29:42. | |
that their pyramids would last long, The last barrier | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
to the store itself. The rows of shelves are filling up | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
with seeds from all over the world. There are samples of nearly half | :29:54. | :30:03. | |
of the most important food crops, Samples of seeds used to be held | :30:04. | :30:06. | |
in glass test tubes, now they're kept in little plastic | :30:07. | :30:14. | |
packets and there are more than 800,000 of these in this vault | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
and everywhere you look there are examples of why | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
this place matters. There are seeds from Syria, | :30:23. | :30:25. | |
plants that are good at coping with drought, and some have just | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
been returned to the Middle East. When harvests are ruined by extremes | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
of weather having backup copies Another threat is flooding, | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
which can damage national varieties of plants so keeping | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
different genetic types helps It is for the survival | :30:43. | :30:56. | |
of mankind in the future. We need diversity, all the different | :30:57. | :31:04. | |
kinds of plant material to get food problems and to tackle | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
that we need genetic variation. So, in these remote mountains, | :31:08. | :31:19. | |
this place is meant to be An insurance policy | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
for a warming world. David Shukman, BBC News | :31:24. | :31:24. | |
in Svalbar in the Arctic. We're looking at another apparent | :31:25. | :31:39. | |
case of police not owning up | :31:40. | :31:45. |