31/01/2016 BBC News at Ten

Sir Terry Wogan - a giant of television and radio -

Welcome to the beginning of what I hope will be a long

How anyone can get such applause and still stay as nice

Tributes are paid to a broadcasting legend whose career spanned more

than five decades. From the corner, attempting

to approach onto the road, to shake President

Kennedy by the hand. He has this crowd of people running

alongside the car... And ended up as one of Britain's

best-loved faces and voices. We'll be looking back on his life

and be hearing from some We have a special report

from a region on the verge More EU talks for David Cameron this

evening but, as yet, no deal on reforming

Britain's relationship. And an emotional end to this year's

Australian Open for Andy miles per houry. He's beaten for the fifth

time in the final. Dr for Andy Murray.

He had one of the most recognisable faces - and voices -

in the land, inspiring affection, as well as admiration,

over the course of a 50-year career in television.

Sir Terry Wogan has been called a 'broadcasting legend' today

after his death was announced by his family.

In his years with the BBC, he had his own TV chat show,

his own Radio 2 show, he was the voice of the Eurovision

Song Contest and the face of Children in Need.

Our Arts Correspondent, David Sillito, looks

Please welcome our Knight of the Realm, Sir Terry Wogan!

Welcome to the beginning of what I hope will be a long

How anyone can get such applause and still stay as nice as me,

I mean, if being famous was there on offer, great.

Terry Wogan - warm, witty, never lost for a word.

A chapter of broadcasting history is over.

He is a warm, generous person and he was able to express that

He was natural, but he had the right temperament to be

He was a charming, warm, generous, witty man and that came across.

You knew him as soon as you heard him.

The crowd are attempting to encroach onto the road to shake

Commentating for RTE on President Kennedy's

A number of expensive and smart restaurants,

But his ambitions lay with another broadcaster.

I suppose I was a bit of a West Brit.

When I was growing up in Limerick, I didn't listen to Irish radio,

I used to listen to the live programme.

The Goon shows, Take it From Here, all those things.

So I suppose in a way, I had more in common with British

radio and television than I had with Irish.

He was one of the original line-up of Radio 1, but his real

All great radio is the friend behind the microphone and no-one

was a better friend than Terry Wogan.

And I think that's why people feel upset and genuinely shocked today,

because they feel as though they've lost a friend.

And for some, it really is the loss of someone very close.

20 years a contributor to the show, Father Brian D'Arcy was with him

We're all just enormously sad, really.

But grateful for having known a true gentleman

Here we go, the final total of this very night for Children in Need...

On television, he was the face of Children in Need.

Coping with anything, he was enormously proud

His '80s chat show was on three times a week.

Would you say you find this kind of thing horrific?

Proving he could cope, even when the guests didn't chat.

Do you do any of this stuff in America?

Are you glad you did this one?

His mischievous good nature blossomed on Blankety Blank.

I could have been a brain surgeon or anything.

I could have been a disc jockey, yes!

Or gently mocking the Eurovision Song Contest.

His love of golf even provided a bit of TV magic.

But he was at his best in the place where he had most freedom.

It was certainly the hardest to say goodbye to.

The years together with you, have not only been a pleasure,

You have allowed me to share your lives with you when you tell me how

how important I've been in your lives,

till we're together again in February.

Have a happy Christmas and thank you.

Sir Terry was famous for his close relationship with his audience,

particularly his ardent Radio 2 fans, known as TOGs -

When he retired from Radio 2, he paid tribute to them and said how

Our special correspondent, Lucy Manning, reports.

He had the most loyal fans - the TOGs, always listening

The TOGs, of course, are Terry's Old Geezers and Gals.

And, as you know, they have a life of their own now.

Yes, how do you know if you're a TOG?

Well, you're asleep, but others worry that you're dead.

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Terry even got some of his Togs together.

He had to wait a little while to make sure that we were

going to stay together, and then he was quite happy

after that to say he took the credit for us being together.

And it felt like it was part of a big family.

He always made you feel like you were the one

You know, it was just a single person almost.

In that way, I think everybody felt that they were part

They revelled in the on-air jokes, the silly names, his Janet and John.

And you didn't have to be an old gal or geezer to 'Wake Up to Wogan'.

I went on a first date with my now husband Andrew and in the course

of the evening, I said to him, I need to confess something to you.

I 'Wake up with Wogan' in the morning.

And he looked at me and said, that's OK, so do I!

That we'd found young lovers of Wogan.

We walked out of our wedding reception to The Floral Dance.

# Each one making the most of his chance.

# All together in The Floral Dance #.

And for the group Blake, the backing of such an influential

broadcaster mattered, as they listened to

'At one o'clock...' There's the voice.

'A trio of surpassing musical brilliance...'.

We still have a quote from Sir Terry on our posters.

It says, 'A trio of surpassing brilliance.

And it was just, again, a charming, charming thing to say.

I'm sure it sold some tickets as well.

That voice, that charm that was Terry Wogan.

David Sillito, our Arts Correspondent, is live outside BBC

A tremendous talent. Also a man who inspired a lot of devotion from his

fans. It has been an extraordinary day. So many tributes far and wide.

British and Irish Prime Minister, the President of Ireland and so many

famous names and of course all the various millions of people who have

listened to him over more than 50 years. One thing I think stands out,

is the fact that is many people say the same thing over and over again,

the nern private was very much the person they heard on air. There was

nothing phoney about him. You try and work out what was it that was so

appealing about him. Of course there was the wit. It helped being Irish,

the accent, sort of classless. And there was a key element. And I think

Father Brian D'Arcy, his friends for all those years, appeared on Wake Up

To Wogan, he said what made him special, was the direct contact. Two

people having a shared conversation together. He said he was one of the

few broadcasters who truly believed that the audience was as clever as

he was. Thank you, David. Our arts correspondent there,

looking back on the life of Sir Terry Wogan had has died at the age

of 77. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

visited a drought-hit region of Ethiopia today, to draw attention

to its worsening hunger crisis. More than ten million

people are short of food, amid one of the worst

droughts for decades. Some aid is coming in but,

as our correspondent Alastair Leithead has seen

in Dire Dawa, in eastern Ethiopia, The skies are dark,

but the land is dry. To people here,

animals are everything. -- their cattle. Their carcasses

were shattered everywhere. The stefrnl was so bad we had to bury

them all. For what -- the stench was so bad we had to bury them. Neither

animal or people can live here any more. They have travelled to a far

horizon. It is hardly an oasis but it is a central place where aid can

be delivered. They have known drought here before but none as bad

as this, they say. The area affectside far wider than that hit

by famine more than 30 years ago. TRANSLATION: I lost all my life

stock, so we are here to seek support. There is no pasture no,

water, we have never seen anything like this before.

Help is being given to those sticking it out. The improvised

desert water tank holds two days of water for five households.

government is helping. Food rations government is helping. Food rations

are being given out. But the UN's World Food Programme is so

underfunded, Ethiopia is making up the difference for now. Well the

food aid is getting through. People here aren't starving. Ethiopian

government is doing a great deal to mitigate the situation but this

drought soefr a vast area of the country. There is a shortfall in the

amount of money that the international community says is

required, because of what is being provided. If that doesn't come, over

the next few months, these people are facing a much greater crisis.

And so, the United Nations Secretary-General came here to

highlight the problem. Nearly ?1 billion is needed, but just half is

funded. This is not the Ethiopia of 1984

when hundreds of thousands died of hunger. A new railway line brought

aid here, all the way from the coast.

But, a serious drought and the impact of El Nino, has left more

than 10 million people desperate. It is now not about whether the rain

comes but whether help arrives. Talks in Downing Street this evening

between the Prime Minister and the President of the European Council,

Donald Tusk have ended without agreement. Further discussion will

continue tomorrow. Carole Walker is in Downing Street now. Did they make

progress? Well, we are told it was a productive working dinner, over the

smoke salmon, bill fillet of beef and pear and apple crumble but

Donald Tusk left abruptly afterwards saying no deal. What has emerged

since is there will be a further 24 hours of intensive work to try to

resolve outstanding ditcheses. A draft text we were expecting

tomorrow won't now be circulated before Tuesday at the earliest.

Downing Street is claiming, though, a significant breakthrough. They say

that the European Commission has agreed that Britain does meet the

criteria to impose an emergency break on the payment of benefits to

EU migrants. Something they say will mean that David Cameron would be

able to deliver on his original commitment for a four-year delay

before EU migrants could claim in-work benefits here. But there are

a lot of details to be thrashed, to be thrashed out. We are not there

yet is the word from number ten. And David Cameron has always made it

clear that if he doesn't get the right deal, he is prepared to walk

away, empty handed, from that EU summit in two-and-a-half weeks' time

and carry on negotiating. Thank you. #

The Business Secretary, Sajid Javid, says the controversial settlement

between Google and the tax authorities "wasn't

Under the deal, the internet giant has agreed to pay ?130 million

in additional back taxes covering the past decade.

The Chancellor, George Osborne had called the agreement a "major

The World Health Organisation meets tomorrow to discuss whether the Zika

virus, which is spreading through Latin America,

should be declared an international emergency.

Four million cases are predicted for this year and the mosquito-borne

virus has been linked to babies being born

Our South America Correspondent, Wyre Davies, reports on the impact

This is why the Zika outbreak couldn't have come at a worse

It's the height of summer - mosquito breeding season.

Millions of people packed together on the streets,

But one person not enjoying carnival this year is Shoraya.

The 23-year-old has Zika now and is suffering badly.

TRANSLATION: I'm itching and scratching all the time.

I can't keep anything down apart from water.

specific for Zika has yet been developed.

Shoraya is also making sure she doesn't get pregnant.

With fears about the suspected link between Zika and abnormalities

in newborn babies, for women who are ready pregnant,

this is a particularly worrying time.

Some of those who can, like Lene, are taking the drastic decision

I don't see it as the ideal situation to have to leave

the country but I feel really lucky that I can.

If I had to stay here another six months, that's a long

Nine months is a long time where something can go wrong.

The Catholic and evangelical churches are powerful

For those pregnant women worried about microcephaly who can't afford

and church leaders are vehemently against reopening the debate

This man is the auxiliary Archbishop of Rio and he is a qualified doctor.

Even if the link is established, he tells me, every sick

Whether it is a child in the womb or somebody in hospital,

Women are, in many ways, at the forefront of the Zika crisis

and, with what the WHO calls an exploding situation,

there is a desperate shortage of information.

our science editor is in Recife tonight, a city at the outbreak.

Does it look like it is getting under control? They are talking

about fighting this virus in terms of fighting a war but it is not

going well. Picture what is going through the minds of thousands of

pregnant women across this city and regions elsewhere, who may have the

Zika virus but dope know what effect it might have on their unborn

quhirn. I met one woman yesterday who says she's too afraid to go out

at night and covers herself in repellant. The real worry is

uncertainty. Scientists are working around the clock to see how the

virus works. I spent the weekend with doctors assessing the latest

evidence. I have to say they are pretty convinced there is a definite

link between the virus and the fact that babies are growing up without

the proper formation of their brains. What happens here really

matters globally, because this city is on the frontline. What it gets

wrong will be a lesson to be learned by other tropical cities that may be

in line next. What it gets right could be a template for them to

follow, to avoid the kind of terrible scenes we are getting here.

Doctors in Switzerland say they have separated eight-day-old twins

who were fused together at the liver and the chest.

The sisters are believed to be the youngest babies ever

Doctors had planned to operate on them when they were a few months

old, but brought the surgery forward when the twins developed

At least 50 people have been killed and more than a 100 injured

in a series of bombings close to the Syrian capital,

The so-called Islamic State says it carried out the attacks

which targeted one of Shia Islam's holiest shrines.

America's presidential hopefuls face their first electoral test

tomorrow night with a series of votes - or caucuses -

It's the first formal stage in the race for both Republican and

Our North America editor Jon Sopel is live in Iowa's capital

How predictable are the outcomes of the cue causes? Totally

unpredictable and unknowable. This has been the most bizarre set of

races for decades. A year ago you would have said Jed Bush for the

Republicans and Hillary Clinton for the Democrats. But Jed Bush seems to

be sinking without trace, for all the millions he spent and that seems

to be down to the press enof one man, Donald Trump. He made his

entrance to Des Moines this weekend on his private jet. Huge loud

speakers blaring out music. Listen to the music, the theme tune to Air

Force One. He doesn't do quietly. The other contender is Ted Cruz,

also anti-establishment candidate. And then on the Democrat side you

see Hillary Clinton facing a fierce challenge from the new kid on the

block, Senator Bernie Sanders, who is 74, who describes himself as a

Democratic socialist, who is also saying that he wants to raise taxes

for middle classes and, yet, is pulling in thousands and thousands

of supporters, and millions in donations. All that said, despite

all the polls, despite all the TV ads, despite the televised debate,

not a vote has yet been cast. That changes tomorrow and as we know from

the British general election, polls can be badly wrong. Jon Sopel in

Iowa, thank you. Let's catch up with the tens and the rest of the day's

sport at the BBC Sport Centre. Andy Murray said he was "proud"

to have reached the Australian Open final but was keen to get home

after losing in straight sets to the world number

one, Novak Djokovic. The Serb has now won

11 Grand Slam titles, this was a record-equalling Sixth

at the Australian Open. Andy miles per houry.

Andy Murray must have had a sense of deja vu. -- Andy Murray. As he

attempted to win the trophy that has eluded him for so lovenlingt this

was his fifth Australian Open title. The fifth against his gnome Nis,

Novak Djokovic. The first set was a dises a tempt the Scot didn't get a

look in, going down 6-1. His brother Jamie, who ticked Andy off for

staying up late last night to watch him win the doubles, may have had a

point. In the second, though, Murray woke up, managing to break serve.

But the Serb came good when it mattered, to go 2 two sets up. He

looks tired. In the third Murray refused to lie down, forcing a

tie-break but the world number one knows how to finish things quickly.

He took the match with an ace. And with it, a trophy that he has

made his own. So, once again, it is the Serbs who are celebrating here

in Melbourne. Novak Djokovic a sixth time winner at the Australian Open.

Andy Murray, five times runner-up here. He will though have something

to distract him from from his disapoi. He is due on the first

flight home. His wife, Kim, due to be give birth any day now.

-- his disappointment. Murray admitted it had been a tough

few weeks in Australia. His father in law collapsed

in Melbourne during the tournament and his wife, Kim, is due

to have their first child soon. She is going to be watching back

home just now. You have been a legend the last two weeks. Thank you

so much for all of your support. And I will be on the next flight home.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

It's time to pop out of the room if you don't want to know today's

football results as Match of the Day and Sportscene,

of the competition at the fourth round stage last year,

made sure of their place in the last 16 with a 5-1 win over MK

Dons, which included a first half hat trick from Oscar.

There are no League Two clubs left after Carlisle's defeat

but League One side, Shrewsbury Town, are rewarded

with a home tie against Manchester United.

The stand out tie sees Chelsea host Manchester City.

And the Chelsea captain, John Terry, has announced that he will leave

Terry has spent 21 years at Stamford Bridge and in that time

has won 14 major trophies, ncluding four

Premier League titles, five FA Cups and the Champions

Scottish League Cup holders Celtic have been knocked out

Ross County took advantage of Celtic having a player sent off early in

on to win 3-1 to reach the League Cup Final for the first

Our main news again. Tributes have been paid to one of Britain's

best-known and best-loved broadcasters Sir Terry Wogan who has

died at the age of 77. There will be a special programme on the One Show

tomorrow night at 7.00pm on BBC One. In a moergets the news where you

are, but we'll leave you with Sir Terry's own words about his Radio 2

show and his career on the airwaves. I love the nature. It is my

creation, I impose my own timing on it, my own sense of humour I'm

talking to myself, really. Winds will pick up overnight ahead

of the arrival of