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Tonight at Ten: The United Nations says it's preparing to restart | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
aid deliveries in Syria, despite the recent attacks. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
They were suspended after an attack on an aid convoy near Aleppo | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
At the United Nations today, America questioned the Russians' | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
denial of responsibility and their attitude to | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
It's a moment of truth for President Putin and Russia. | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
It's a moment of truth, also, for the opposition. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
We'll have the latest from the United Nations | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
as the security situation in Syria gets worse. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
The death of a teenage boy in a psychiatric hospital in south | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
London is blamed on neglect and failures by staff. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Jeremy Corbyn tells us he'll offer an olive branch to his critics | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
if he retains the Labour leadership this weekend. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
In Iraq we meet some of the British fighters who've joined the campaign | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
For people to say that this isn't the West's war, | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
you've got your head stuck in the sand. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
And to save the African elephant, a call for much tougher rules | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: After three defeats in a row, | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
could Manchester United turn their fortunes around | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
against Northampton town in the EFL Cup? | :01:25. | :01:49. | |
The United Nations says it's now preparing to restart aid | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
They were suspended after an attack on a convoy near Aleppo on Monday | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
The UN said supplies would be sent to the areas most in need | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
Earlier the US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
that the world faced a moment of truth in Syria. | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
He was addressing the UN in New York following yet another deadly attack | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
on humanitarian workers in Syria, as our diplomatic correspondent | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Monday night's attack on the aid convoy was a shocking part of the | :02:15. | :02:29. | |
violent end to the Syrian ceasefire. American led accusations that a | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Russian air strike was responsible for this, Russian denials of any | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
involvement now threaten to derail the entire search for a Syrian | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
peace. At the United Nations, its most | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
powerful body, the security council, Metz to see if any peace can be | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
saved. Passions were running extraordinarily high, but the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Russian Foreign Minister said nobody should trim to conclusions. | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
TRANSLATION: Many said that it could have been a rocket or an artillery | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
shelling. That is what initial reports were. Then a helicopter or | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
warplanes were mentioned. I think we need to refrain from emotional | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
reactions and making public comments immediately and first investigate | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
and be very professional. That appeal to avoid feelings was | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
too much for the American Secretary of State. John Kerry let rip on a | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
sustained assault on Russia's motives and credibility backing | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
President aside. How can people sit at a table with a | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
regime that bombs hospitals and drops chlorine gas again and again | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
and again and again and again and again? And act with impunity? You | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
are supposed to sit there and have happy talk in Geneva? Then he | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
dismissed must go's accounts of the attack on the aid convoy, including | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
one suggestion it could have been a simple fire on the ground. The | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
trucks, food and medicine spontaneously composted? Anybody | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
here believe that? I mean, this is not a joke. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
What do we know about the attack on the aid convoy? It took place on | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
Monday night. The convoy was intending to head to rebel held | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
areas in Aleppo province. Russia has admitted tracking the convoy with a | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
drone, they say their footage showed it was accompanied by an armed rebel | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
vehicle. Later that evening the convoy was hit, those unseen insist | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
it was struck from the air. TRANSLATION: Four barrel bombs were | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
dropped, Russian jets then attacked us. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
The UN say there were Russian strike planes above the convoy at the | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
precise moment it was hit, but Russia strongly denied involvement, | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
saying there are no craters at the scene and suggests that somehow the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
cargo caught fire. But the Foreign Secretary, Boris | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
Johnson, does not buy that, convinced the attack was from the | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
air and that only the Russians had the capability. | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
There are only two possible culprits, two forces capable of | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
having carried out that striker flying in that area. There are the | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Syrians and the Russians. We have doubts about the Syrian capability | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
to fly at night. So you are left with a pretty strong conclusion, as | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
you will have been hearing. The UN is prepared to resume aid | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
convoys in Syria, but not too Aleppo, under heavy bombardment | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
again today. Four medical staff were killed by strikes so of the city, | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
leaving the head of their organisation distraught. Hospitals | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
in Syria are the riskiest places, I swear. Hospitals are more dangerous | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
than the front line. This has been an extraordinary day | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
of reckoning at the UN. The unprecedented level of public anger | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
from John Kerry suggests he sees little future trying to broker a | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
peace by working with Russia. The trouble is that, without Russia, | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
there can be no peace, because it is by far the strongest military power | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
in Syria. So the diplomatic effort must limp on. | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
Our chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet | :06:13. | :06:13. | |
Let's have your assessment of the likelihood of reimposing the | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
ceasefire started last week? John Kerry put it right, he said it was a | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
moment of truth. The truth is there is very little hoped that this | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
tangled conflict that is Syria can move towards positive resolution, | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
even a truce on the ground is proving so difficult. Listen to the | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
anger in John Kerry's voice, the consummate diplomat who has been | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
surrounded by doubters in his own State Department, the US military, | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
who said you are on a fool's errand trying to make a deal with | :06:50. | :07:03. | |
Russia. He has been humiliated by the Russians, he believes. He said | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
it was no joke today in the UN Security Council. The mediators | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
would say there were 500 days of failure and one day a success. The | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
UN envoy said he believes that John Kerry and surrogate Lavrov will go | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
back to the table, Syria was hanging by a thread, they control that, and | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
if they don't go back to the table there is really nothing. But | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
diplomats here have told me it is really stuck, and they don't know | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
how it will move forward. The one bright light, they are going to | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
start delivering aid. Syria needs aid. Most of all, Syria needs peace. | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
At the UN Security Council today, there is a real sense that it is | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
moving back, and a big?, will it ever now move forward? Thank you, | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
Lyse Doucet at the United Nations. A coroner has ruled that neglect | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
by one of England's biggest mental health trusts contributed | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
to the death of a 15-year-old Christopher Brennan died | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
in the Bethlem Royal The inquest was told that | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
staff carried out no risk assessment even though he had | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
a history of self-harm. Campaigners say the case | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
illustrates wider failings in the care of children | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
in psychiatric hospitals. Our social affairs correspondent | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
Michael Buchanan has been speaking What are your strongest memories | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
of him? I don't know, come into my room | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
and try to get me to sniff his feet. Christopher Brennan | :08:15. | :08:25. | |
was a happy-go-lucky little boy He started hearing voices in his | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
head that drove him to self-harm. The first we knew was a knock | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
on the door by the police. Christopher was experiencing | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
voices and he didn't feel So he phoned up Childline, | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
who sent the police around. In July 2014, Christopher became | :08:42. | :08:53. | |
seriously ill and was admitted once Six weeks later, he was dead, having | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
choked on an item he'd swallowed. Today, a coroner concluded gross | :08:57. | :09:05. | |
failings by South London and Maudsley NHS Trust contributed | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
to the 15-year-old's death. The adolescent unit was struggling | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
to cope due to staff shortages. Staff were desensitised to incidents | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
of self-harm, due to the sheer number of them, and no risk | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
assessment was carried out of Christopher's behaviour and there | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
was no up-to-date care plan. The coroner said today | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
that she did not believe that Chris He had all his plans | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
written out for the future. He wanted to be a paramedic, | :09:32. | :09:42. | |
have at least 30 Ministers say they're investigating | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
how many other teenagers have died in psychiatric units in England | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
and will publish the One charity says it's aware of 11 | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
such deaths over a four-year period and is calling | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
for a wide-ranging inquiry. There's growing disquiet | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
about the lack of resourcing of mental health services | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
for children and young people, so we want an independent review | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
into the deaths of children and young people so that we can | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
properly act on the vital learning The Trust have apologised | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
to Christopher's family, they say lessons have been learned | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
and that the services were recently independently inspected and found | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
to be of a good standard. The Brennan family certainly home | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
so so others are spared The house is too | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
quiet without him, He used to sit looking for him out | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
of the window for months after. Michael Buchanan, BBC | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
News, south London. Voting has ended in the Labour | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
leadership contest and the result will be announced at the party | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
conference in Liverpoool Jeremy Corbyn, who's | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
being challenged by Owen Smith, told the BBC today that the party | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
should make every effort to unite after the contest - | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
and he offered to wipe the slate clean with those dozens of Labour | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
MPs who've expressed a lack of confidence | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
in Mr Corbyn's leadership. Mr Corbyn's been speaking to our | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
political editor, Laura Kuenssberg. He's on the edge of winning | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
the Labour leadership I've got a bigger | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
olive tree at home. Jeremy Corbyn has an olive tree | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
on his balcony, a few branches might come in handy after months | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
of division and distress. It's almost like Labour has a split | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
personality between its MPs I invite all my colleagues | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
in parliament to recognise, I tell you, I've had an awful lot | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
of calls from Labour MPs in the last few days who are very interested | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
in how we come together Throughout most of the last year, | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
the issues haven't necessarily been about disagreement over policy, | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
they've often been about your So what will be different | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
about Jeremy Corbyn mark II? Sadly for everyone, it's the same | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
Jeremy Corbyn who's been through the last year, | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
indeed been through the last 30 When you have 172 out of 230 | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
of your MPs who're representing 9 million Labour voters, | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
saying they have questions about your competence, | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
don't you think you do have to change some things | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
about how you operate? Despite a lot of very unpleasant | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
remarks that have been made about me by a very large number of Labour | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
MPs, I've not replied Wipe the slate clean | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
and move forward. He won't yet agree to MPs' demands | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
to chose the Shadow Cabinet nor Well, under the old system, | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
an MP would be worth several I don't think that's a very good | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
way of doing things. He is on their side | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
and they're on his. Jeremy Corbyn's incredible | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
network of supporters, convinced he's the future, | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
convinced he will and should win. If you can think of one or maybe two | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
words that you believe should be the priority | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
for the next Labour leader? My question to other people is - | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
why should he not be given a chance, just like all the other politicians | :13:20. | :13:33. | |
have been given? We feel differently about him | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
and we feel he can do something. Well, I believe that he's just | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
a principled and authentic person. His unequivocal political stance, | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
it kind of encourages... I find it encouraging | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
because you don't really find that There's a serious divide | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
within our party and we can't get back to business | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
without reconciliation. What's more important | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
to you as the party leader - keeping the membership happy, | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
growing the membership The membership needs to be | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
content with the general direction the party's going, | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
it needs to be active and on board and included and feel included | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
and have their voice included That, in turn, translates into this | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
campaigning activity. Some people might say, | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
you shouldn't mistake that enthusiasm for something | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
that would translate 20,000 people used to turn up | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
to hear Michael Foot speak and he never got | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
anywhere near power. Michael Foot did a great | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
job and did his best. Which is more of a priority to you - | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
keeping the members happy or winning power, because leaders often have | :14:42. | :14:51. | |
to make that choice? You take the members | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
with you in order to win The members, the party, | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
the leader and the electorate have Jeremy Corbyn will almost | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
certainly keep this But waving at crowds | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
is only part of the job. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
Westminster. Britain is boosting | :15:11. | :15:20. | |
the amount of humanitarian The International Development | :15:21. | :15:21. | |
Secretary, Priti Patel, has told the BBC the Government | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
will spend an extra ?37 million this year to help the millions of people | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
suffering as a result of civil war. A Saudi-led coalition, which is | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
backed by Britain and the US, has carried out a bombing campaign | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
against the rebels who overthrew A naval and aerial blockade | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
by the Saudi coalition, which controls all the goods and aid | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
coming into the country, has led to further shortages | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
of food, fuel and medicine. In the second of her special reports | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
from Yemen my colleague at BBC Arabic, Nawaal al-Maghafi, assesses | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
the impact of the conflict. Yemen has always been struggling, | :15:55. | :16:06. | |
but an 18-month war has crippled this country. Months of fighting | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
have destroyed lives. Leaving millions injured, homeless and | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
starving. A four month ceasefire gave people hope, but the moment we | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
arrived it collapses. This factory made potato crisps. 10 | :16:20. | :16:34. | |
people were killed and 300 left jobless. The Saudis claim it was an | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
arms depot, but the owner tells me there was absolutely no weapons or | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
militants. This isn't the first factory to be targeted in Yemen. | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
It's one of many. Four factories in this compound alone have been hit | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
and many others that this family owns across the country have also | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
been completely demolished. Once Yemen's busiest port, now left at a | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
standstill. A blockade immowsed by the Saudi coalition to stop arms | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
reaching the rebels has caused severe delays in food and aid coming | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
in. All the cranes have decommission stroid by air strikes making it | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
impossible to off-load what does come through. In a country that | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
relies on imports for 90% of its stable foods, the bombings and the | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
blockade imposed by the Saudis has had a catastrophic effect on the | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
humanitarian situation. Millions have been forced from their homes. | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
They are living in make-shift camps, like this one. We are suffering, he | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
yells, tell the world we're suffering. Half of Yemen's | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
population is food insecure, which simply means they don't know where | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
their next meal will come from the people here tell me they have feel | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
forgotten. They attack innocent civilians, they attack schools, | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
markets homes. Even people asleep at night, safe in their own homes, they | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
come and bomb them. The Saudible government denied deliberately | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
targeting civilians and humanitarian supplies. Both sides in this | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
conflict are accused of atrocities. As with most wars, it's the people | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
who may the HIVest price. Nawaal al-Maghafi, BBC News, Yemen. | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
You can see more on the plight of Yemen's children on Our World | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
at 9.30pm this Saturday and Sunday on the BBC News Channel | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
More than 40 people have died and hundreds are believed to be | :18:42. | :18:53. | |
missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized off | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
More than 160 people have been rescued and search teams | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
It's feared around 600 people may have been on board when the vessel | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
overturned in the Mediterranean, near Rosetta, which lies west | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
Britain's vote to leave the European Union has had little | :19:08. | :19:16. | |
immediate impact on the UK economy, according to the Office | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
But it's warned that the long term effects remained to be seen. | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Its latest report came as another body - the Organisation | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
for Economic Cooperation and Development - | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
raised its short-term forecast for economic growth in the UK. | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
Our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, is here. | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
A list of good news? Certainly, Huw, all those who were predicting a real | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
and significant downturn in the UK economy following the referendum, if | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
we voted to leave the European Union, have had to revise their | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
forecasts, as you say, the chief economist at the Office for National | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
Statisticses has said the UK economy has not, as he described it, "fallen | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
at the first hurdle." Prows prices have not collapsed. Employment is | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
still strong. Consumer confidence has bounced back. As you say, the | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
OECD, the big economic foreCaster for the global economy, has uprated | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
its growth forecast for this year for Britain. It does warn about next | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
year, when maybe some of the ramifications of the referendum | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
start to crystallise. We start the process the leaving the European | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
Union. Such is their worry about next year they actually suggest that | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, should increase spending to boost | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
the economy. We won't know about that until the Autumn Statement in | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
November. Tonight, the Federal Reserve, the American central bank, | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
has said it's likely it will increase interest rates this year as | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
the American economy strengthens. That is good for exports. That is | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
good for Britain, good for the global economy. What we are CCTVing | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
here, Huw, is two big forces in conflict. Consumer confidence on the | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
one side, strong, the Bank of England cut interest rates after the | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
referendum. Money is cheap, the public is feeling good about the | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
economy. On the other side business caution. That is where the issues | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
are for the economy. It's how these two trends battle out over the next | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
month and years that will really show which way the UK economy is | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
going. It's going well or is there real problems because of Britain | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
leaving the European Union. OK, Kamal, once again, thanks very much, | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
Kamal Ahmed there for us. The Government wants to introduce | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
much tougher rules on the sale of ivory to combat the slaughter | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
of elephants in Africa. There's already a ban on trading | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
in ivory that's less than 70 years old, but at the moment dealers can | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
still get permits to sell it Campaigners say there should be | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
a total ban on all ivory sales Our science editor, | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
David Shukman, has more details. A massive bonfire in | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
Kenya earlier this year. The tusks from 6,000 elephants | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
slaughtered by poachers. The killings are triggered | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
by a demand for ivory that So, across the great plains | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
of Africa, entire herds Some populations face a real | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
threat of extinction. So there's huge pressure to clamp | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
down on sales of ivory, and today Britain announced | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
that it would do just that. We are taking a very | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
significant step forward, banning all modern ivory trading | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
in the United Kingdom. There is more to do to meet our | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
manifesto commitment, but it does require global concerted | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
action, and so this is a really The new measures will still allow | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
antique ivory to be traded, Only more modern | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
ivory will be banned. Other countries, like America, | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
have imposed even tougher controls. So antique dealers | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
here are relieved. It's extremely important that | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
all of us in this country and around the world are able to learn | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
and appreciate and enjoy works of art that are part of our shared | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
cultural inheritance. And somehow if you demonize ivory, | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
that particular aspect of our past gets pushed into a cupboard, | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
so to speak. The key with ivory is its age | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
and whether it dates So this piece is at least 200 years | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
old and, as a work of art, This one, much paler by comparison, | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
dates from the 1970s, so it can't be legally bought | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
or sold and what matters The most reliable system | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
is carbon dating. This lab at Oxford University looks | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
for traces of radioactivity. If there aren't any, | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
the ivory is from before But the technique is expensive | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
and conservationists worry the clampdown on trading | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
doesn't go far enough. We welcome the fact | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
that the Government has made an announcement and is therefore | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
showing a real interest But our fear is that they are not | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
going to go far enough to really eradicate the ivory | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
trade in this country. The test is whether this stops | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
the slaughter of the elephants. The key is halting demand for ivory, | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
especially in China and every initiative is meant to send | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
a signal to the poachers. Seven men have been charged | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
by police investigating allegations of abuse at a young offenders centre | :24:21. | :24:30. | |
in Kent run by the private It followed undercover filming | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
by the BBC at the Medway Secure Six men have been charged | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
with misconduct in a public office. The seventh is accused of taking | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
photographs and making recordings inside a prison contrary | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
to the Prison Act. The forces of so-called | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
Islamic State could be expelled from Iraq within months, | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
according to the Defence He was speaking during a visit | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
to Iraq where troops are preparing to attack | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
the northern city of Mosul, which has been occupied | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
by IS forces since 2014. As Iraq's army advances | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
from the south, Kurdish Peshmerga Our Middle East correspondent, | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
Orla Guerin, has visited their front-line, just | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
a few miles from Mosul, On the front-line, a tense moment | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
for Kurdish Peshmerga fighters. They spot a car in territory | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
controlled by the so-called Islamic State, | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
they think it could be The commander tells me | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
that IS are just a kilometer ahead. "They've tried to attack us 30 or 40 | :25:38. | :25:53. | |
times", says General Nabi Dolamari. "We have defeated them here", | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
he says, "and we will defeat them We drive over rough terrain along | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
the front-line which stretches Riding shotgun, in the shadows, | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
a fighter who has been here on Bashik mountain for 18 months, | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
but his uniform separates him He's a former British soldier, | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
turned volunteer sniper, who says he has no hesitation | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
pulling the trigger on IS. it's like putting your foot | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
on an ant, it's nothing. For you personally, what was it that | :26:35. | :26:45. | |
drew you here to risk your own life? You came for Scotland, | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
this isn't your country, For people to say that this isn't | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
the West's war, you've If Daesh have got their caliphate | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
here, then the next step Nice, Paris, would be nothing | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
to what we would see. The fact of the matter | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
is that the Peshmerga held the line This mortar landed soon | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
after we arrived. IS were responding to our | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
presence, the Kurds said. Their horizons stretches | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
beyond defeating the insurgents, the Peshmerga have been | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
expanding their territory and plan They want independence | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
for their autonomous region but, for now, the focus is on freeing | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
Mosul. This IS defector, who surrendered | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
to the Kurds, claims the extremists We're not revealing his identity | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
because he has relatives They are trying to convert a canon | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
to fire mustard gas so that when the army comes they will | :28:00. | :28:13. | |
use it against them. They have underground | :28:14. | :28:15. | |
tunnels around Mosul, They have bunkers equipped | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
with bathrooms and enough Back at the front-line, | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
a distant glimpse of Mosul, the captive city where | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
IS proclaimed its caliphate. The UN is warning that | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
if the militants decide to make a last stand there, | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
they may want Mosul Orla Guerin, BBC News, northern | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
Iraq. More than 1.5 million | :28:44. | :28:51. | |
people in the UK work in the digital economy, | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
in companies developing computer software or | :28:55. | :28:56. | |
publishing computer games. But increasingly small British | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
start-ups are looking to apply their expertise more | :29:01. | :29:02. | |
widely, hoping to transform millions In the third of our series | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
on the digital tech revolution, Reeta Chakrabarti takes a closer | :29:06. | :29:14. | |
look at those emerging firms Digital start-ups have been | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
popping up all over the UK. London leads the way, | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
but three quarters of all tech businesses are in fact | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
outside the capital. At the university, they're designing | :29:28. | :29:28. | |
imposing new robots to carry out tasks as diverse as housework | :29:29. | :29:35. | |
and space exploration. At the opposite end there's Marty, | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
a pint-sized robot designed to get There's a shortage of engineers | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
already in the UK and, as robotics becomes a bigger thing, | :29:44. | :29:59. | |
as we need more and more of those skills, it's very important | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
that we get people inspired when they're young to | :30:04. | :30:05. | |
get into engineering. In the shadow of old Edinburgh | :30:06. | :30:07. | |
is the new. CodeBase is an incubator for around | :30:08. | :30:10. | |
70 aspiring digital businesses Some have now emerged | :30:11. | :30:12. | |
as multi-million pound companies, demonstrating the UK's | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
strength in the sector. What we're amazing at is building | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
companies for industry, so rather than something | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
which is very consumer facing, it's building solutions | :30:29. | :30:30. | |
for industry. So things like healthcare, | :30:31. | :30:33. | |
things like energy, things In fact, every sector you can | :30:34. | :30:35. | |
imagine and building those solutions Speech Graphics is a software | :30:36. | :30:46. | |
company, we develop software that converts speech, | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
audio, into facial animation. This technology, using a real voice | :30:51. | :30:51. | |
to drive a virtual face, is already It's going to spread | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
and transform our relationships with computers, according to one | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
of this firm's founders. Virtual humans will become | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
more and more prevalent throughout our lives and the way | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
that we relate to our computers is going to be increasingly the way | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
that we relate to each other. Where will new ideas | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
for the future come from? Well, it's hoped partly from here - | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
a coding club for the under-19s, I found making software is a lot | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
more fun than simply using it. So I've always been | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
interested in programming. I have a couple of ideas about maybe | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
working in digital technology - except coding, I'm not entirely sure | :31:31. | :31:38. | |
whether it could be a job, but There is one big challenge, | :31:39. | :31:41. | |
getting more women But work being developed here looks | :31:42. | :31:44. | |
set to stretch into every COMPUTER VOICE: So could this be | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
the face of the future? Rita Chakrabarti, BBC News, | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
Edinburgh. Newsnight's about to begin over | :31:53. | :31:54. | |
on BBC Two in a few moments. | :31:55. | :31:59. |