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or Gatwick airports - will be announced by | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
But the Government's official preference, | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
on where to build a new runway, won't be put to a Parliamentary vote | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
And the Prime Minister is to allow colleagues to speak out | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Some Conservative MPs are unhappy with the position. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
I think it's deeply disappointing if we fudge and delay this decision, | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
so vital to Britain's interests, so vital to Britain's | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
We'll have more on the latest indications that backing will be | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Following the killing of a mother and daughter in Lincolnshire, | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
a 15-year-old girl has been convicted of murder. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
The rising price of fuel and clothing pushing inflation to its | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
highest level for nearly two years. ( | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
50 years after the Aberfan disaster, the story of the community's long | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
And we meet Bruce Springsteen to talk about life, music | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
Riyad Mahrez scores a crucial opening goal, as Leicester City | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
look to take a huge step towards the Champions League | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
A final decision on whether to expand Heathrow or Gatwick | :01:17. | :01:40. | |
will be announced by the Government next week. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
But that won't be the end of the matter, because the preference | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
won't be put before MPs for at least another year. | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
And in a highly unusual move, Cabinet ministers who are opposed | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
will be allowed to speak publicly against the plan. | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
That's being seen as a strong hint that backing will be given | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
to Heathrow, which is opposed by the Foreign Secretary, | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
Our deputy political editor, John Pienaar, has the story. | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
The long awaited choice of where and how to expand Britain's airport | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
capacity has hung in the air for over a quarter of a century. It's | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
vital to travel and trade in post Brexit Britain. Today the verdict - | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
a new or extended runway at Heathrow or another at Gatwick has drawn | :02:25. | :02:34. | |
closer. Demos have marched through the years. Parties are split and so | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
is the Cabinet. Education Secretary Justine Greening, seen here shoulder | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
to shoulder with Labour's Shadow Chancellor against Heathrow. And | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, another colleague whose | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
opposition has been loud and clear. I will lie down with you in front of | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
the bull dozers and stop the building, stop the construction of | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
that third runway. Today the Prime Minister wrote to ministers setting | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
out plans to reach a decision and keep her Cabinet from splitting. The | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
time table looks like this: Next week a Cabinet committee meets to | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
recommend a preferred option. Ministers will be free for a time to | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
restate their known views and objections, but they can't actively | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
campaign, which should avoid resignations. Then there will be | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
public consultation. Then in winter 2017/18 Parliament votes on a final | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
plan. Then it could take at least a decade before any runway is built. | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
It's important to get the decision and get it right. We've been waiting | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
for a long time for airport expansion in the UK. We need it. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Post-Brexit, if we are going to be an open, trading nation, and looking | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
at new alliances around the world, then we're certainly going to need | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
more airport capacity. Have you changed your mind on Heathrow | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
expansion? Senior ministers, including Boris Johnson, and his | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
fellow opponent to Heathrow expansion, Justine Greening, were at | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Number Ten today to hear of the deal that's meant to keep them aboard. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Not everyone likes. It If you are a minister, if you sit round the | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Cabinet table, as I've done in the past, you have to go along with the | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
collective decisions or you don't have to be a minister. That's your | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
choice. This fudge, this in-between world, that's unacceptable and it | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
will do great damage to our economy. It's about internal Tory party | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
political issues. We have divisions of opinion in our party as well. But | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
we wouldn't have let that cause us to delay making a decision. Tonight, | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Boris Johnson seemed to suggest casually as ever, he still hoped the | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
case against Heathrow might yet prevail. | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
REPORTER: Are you going to lie in front of the bull dozers at | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Heathrow? It's unlikely there will be bull dozers. Take care. Either | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
way there's a distance to travel before this long and hazardous | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
political journey reaches its end. Navigating the course is tricky. The | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
decision taking like the planning process deeply complex and none | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
hurried. Even when a final decision is taken, there's every chance of a | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
legal challenge from the likes of Greenpeace and a queue of local | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
authorities. Those who have been press soing hard for a decision -- | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
pressing so hard for a decision will just have to wait, whether they like | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
it or not. Thanks very much. | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
A 15-year-old girl has been found guilty of murdering a woman | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
and her daughter at Spalding in Lincolnshire, in what police said | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
The girl - who can't be named because of her age - | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
had admitted the manslaughter of Elizabeth and Katie Edwards | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
but claimed to have been suffering from a mental disorder. | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Her teenage boyfriend had already admitted a charge of murder. | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
They'll both be sentenced next month, as Danny Savage reports. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Liz Edwards and her daughter Katie were found murdered in their home | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
They were both well liked and adored each other. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
This crime is exceptional, though, because they were | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
killed by two children, a boyfriend and girlfriend, | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
drawn together by violence and extreme thoughts. | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
She was today found guilty of murder and has never shown any remorse. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
What makes this case even more shocking is that these two were 14 | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
years of age when they planned, committed these callous, | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
senseless and unprovoked attacks on Elizabeth and Katie. | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
This case has left a number of lives in ruins. | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
Liz Edwards, 49-years-old, and enjoying Christmas with the man | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
she was hoping to marry. | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
Friends say she was happy and content. | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
I did notice a change in her, she was a lot happier in herself, | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
she met somebody she could trust, who loved her kid as much | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
as she did, which I thought was really sweet. | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Jane Blanford also knew Liz Edwards and she has strong views on the two | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
14-year-olds who sat down to watch teen romance vampire films | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
I've got nothing to say, he's just scum. | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
I hope he gets locked up and they throw the key away, | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
She could have had a bright future ahead of her. | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
If this didn't happen, he could have had a bright future. | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
I just see it that they've thrown everything all away. | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
And they didn't just throw everything away on a whim, | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
the two teenagers planned these murders in detail. | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
They went and sat in a local McDonald's to plot. | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
And on the night of the killings, the boy walked along | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
this river in the dark to rendezvous with the girl, | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
carrying kitchen knives to kill their victims. | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
What happened next was described in court as cold, calculated, | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
The girl told police she'd felt like murdering for quite | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
a while and that a gun would have been easier, | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
The murder weapon was shown to the jury, who were asked | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
to consider if the girl was mentally ill. | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
The personal possessions of the victims have now gone | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
from an end terrace in a Lincolnshire cul-de-sac. | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
The two killers of this mother and daughter cannot be named | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
That may change when they're sentenced next month. | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
The rate of inflation has risen to its highest level | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
for nearly two years, with some experts warning it | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
could be driven significantly higher by the fall in the value | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
of the pound, following the vote to leave the EU. | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
The Consumer Price Index hit 1% last month, driven by higher fuel | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
The impact will start to be felt by millions of public sector | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
workers and families on benefits and tax credits, | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
as our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, explains. | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
How much we pay to fill up with fuel. | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
How much we pay for what we wear all have increased in price | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
as inflation starts to march upward and it is just the start. | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
I think it's fair to say that the trajectory for inflation | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
from here is likely to the up side and that really is largely | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
as the falls in the currency start to feed through to | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
We've only just started seeing signs of that. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Clothing prices were 6% higher last month as stores slowed | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Restaurant and hotel prices were also up by 0.7% after summer | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
bargains ended and fuel crept up a little to 111 pence per litre | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
compared to 110 pence last year, a small increase with larger rises | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Well, currently there's a bit of a double whammy, | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
the main factor is the pound is so much weaker against the dollar, | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
We buy our fuel in dollars, so that affects us and then, | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
on the other side, Opec and Russia are talking about cutting back | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
on production, so that puts the crude price up. | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
Higher prices for fuel, higher prices for food are difficult | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
for people to pay particularly if they are on lower incomes. | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
They're also difficult politically, Theresa May knows there is one key | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
equation in politics - if inflation is rising | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
faster than incomes, then people feel worse off and that | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
That political risk could crystallise as early as next year | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
with predictions inflation could rise above 3%. | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
With the Government also freezing benefits for people in work, | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
the just managing classes could be hit hardest. | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Theresa May's made it clear that she wants to help those | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
families that are just about managing or kind | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
of struggling to get by, but actually that's exactly the kind | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
of group of families that this freeze in working age benefits | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
affects because it doesn't just affect out of work households | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
claiming benefits, but in-work households claiming things | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
As those benefits stay flat in cash terms, if prices rise, | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
they're going to find it harder to afford things like food and fuel | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
The head of Tesco in the UK said that food inflation was lethal | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
A little inflation might be good for the economy, | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
but too much and the consumer will soon start to feel | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
President Obama has said he's confident that the battle | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
to to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from so-called Islamic | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
Mr Obama was speaking on the second day of the military offensive, | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
which has seen Iraqi security forces, backed by coalition air | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
strikes, taking several villages in the south. | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
In the north east, Kurdish forces - known as the Peshmerga - | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
are also closing in on the city, which has a million inhabitants. | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
Our correspondent, Orla Guerin, is travelling with them | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
In the distance, Mosul, a city in waiting for deliverance | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
It's the last bastion of IS in Iraq, but for how much longer? | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
As the net closes on so-called Islamic State, the risks | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
are increasing for those trapped down below in Mosul. | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
There's the danger of coalition air strikes, IS could try to use | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
the local population as human shields and if and when Iraqi forces | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
make it inside the city, they could be caught | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
Here's what IS wants you to see from inside Mosul, it's latest | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
propaganda video paints a picture of normality. | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
The message is, all's well, anyone daring to say | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
"Thank God everything is fine", says this man. | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
But some in Mosul are challenging the extremists. | :12:33. | :12:44. | |
This video, from one activist network, shows a recent attack | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
We made contact with the network's founder outside the city, | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
for his own safety, we can't identify him. | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
"We are divided into eight groups, each has their own plan | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
Some will destroy communications equipment, some will | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
We have assault rifles an rocket-propelled grenades, | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
but we can't rise up until the security forces get | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
Victory over the extremists can look like this. | :13:19. | :13:27. | |
A year ago they were driven from Abu Mohammad village by air | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
strikes and the Peshmerga, troops from Iraq's autonomous | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
They took us to see what IS may have in store when the battle | :13:36. | :13:44. | |
Here a homemade chemical weapon, chlorine gas attached | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
to an improvised mortar, crude but potentially lethal. | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
The fuses have already been removed. | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
How many of these did you find? | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
Some are fleeing areas near Mosul as troops advance. | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
There could be many more to follow if they can find a way, | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
but Kurdish sources told us IS executed 15 civilians in one | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
village yesterday, just for trying to escape. | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
Orla Guerin, BBC News, east of Mosul. | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
Concerns about the leadership of the inquiry into historical child | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
sexual abuse in England and Wales were reported to the Home Office | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
in April more than three months before Dame Lowell Goddard resigned | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
That was the evidence presented to the Home Affairs | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
Dame Lowell was the third head to quit the inquiry. | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, has the story. | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
The panel of experts running Britain's massive child abuse | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
inquiry arriving for a grilling about its troubles, including | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
the breakdown in relations between them and their former chair, | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
Dame Lowell Goddard, followed by her resignation. | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
It was clear from the beginning that Lowell Goddard really | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
would have preferred to sit on her own without the assistance | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
There were challenges. However... | :15:15. | :15:29. | |
That's a very all-encompassing word "challenges" usually? | :15:30. | :15:30. | |
Well, and indeed there were some fairly all-encompassing | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
The panel had concerns about the qualities of leadership | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
that were being evidenced through the course of the inquiry. | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
Was she a nightmare to work, as some papers have suggested? | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
I would prefer to say that there were challenges. | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
Dame Lowell was appointed in February 2015, | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
but the Home Office - which set up the inquiry - | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
says it only became aware of problems on the 29th July this year. | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
Lowell Goddard resigned six days later, so did the Home Office | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
The answer to that is a categorical, no. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
There's nothing in the Home Office records to suggest any of my staff | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
dealing with the inquiry were aware, until it was brought | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
Except that, months earlier, a Home Office Director General, | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Mary Calam, was tipped off by the inquiry, but agreed | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
One problem for the Home Office is that the inquiry | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
There are victims' groups which are deeply concerned | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
at the number of Home Office staff working on the inquiry and some | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
of them are strong supporters of Dame Lowell Goddard. | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
If the Government had intervened, it might have been accused | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
of interfering, a new row, and the inquiry has had | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
Perhaps that's why the Home Secretary gave this reason | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
She was a long way from home and she decided to step down. | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
..when giving evidence to MPs in September, without mentioning | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
Today one member of the committee said they'd been misled. | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
This week, the people of Aberfan in South Wales are having to relive | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
the terrible events of half a century ago, when a mountain | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
of coal waste collapsed onto the village school, | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
claiming the lives of 116 children and 28 adults. | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
The scale of the disaster made headlines around the world, | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
and people gave generously to support the community. | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
But the families of Aberfan had to fight for decades to get justice, | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
a fight that started on that Friday morning in October 1966. | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
NEWS REEL: We are now returning to the newsroom. | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
Disaster struck suddenly this morning at the small Welsh | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
coalmining village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil. | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
At 9.15am, on the last morning of lessons before half-term, | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
Pantglas Junior School was buried underneath a mountain of coal waste. | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
The scale of the loss, 116 children and 28 adults, | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
is still difficult to comprehend, half a century later. | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
What happened at Aberfan was one of the greatest disasters | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
in the modern history of Wales, indeed the modern history | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
of the United Kingdom, and it's important to get one thing clear, | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
It was a man made disaster, it was entirely foreseeable and it | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
of negligence, arrogance and incompetence. | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
One of those who survived the disaster, her life | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
still overshadowed by the events of 50 years ago, is Gaynor Madgwick. | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
She was eight at the time and lost her brother Carl and sister | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
Marylyn on that day, she's since written a book | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
We met in the memorial garden on the site of | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
The ceiling of the school had come in and it landed on half | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
the children and I had a radiator, that had come off the wall, | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
I just remember looking at another friend of ours, who had literally | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
tried to climb up through the roof, which was on top of the children, | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
and she said, "I'm going to get help, I'm going | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
I was whisked away in the ambulance to St Tydfil's Hospital | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
and I remained there, isolated I feel, for over three months. | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
And it was then, in the evening time, that I was told | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
that my brother and my sister had died and all my friends had | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Within weeks of the disaster, an official tribunal was set | :19:25. | :19:43. | |
up, under the Welsh Judge Edmund Davies, | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
ARCHIVE: Well, I should hate to think that anybody | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
would connect me with any whitewashing exercise. | :19:50. | :19:50. | |
But getting straight answers from the National Coal Board, | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
the public body which owned the mines, proved a very | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
The Chairman of the National Coal Board was Lord Robens and he denied | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
any responsibility for the disaster and kept on insisting that it | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
ARCHIVE: We have our normal procedures for ensuring that pits | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
are safe, but I'm bound to say that we have no proceedure that | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
tells us that there is a spring deep down under a mountain. | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
This is the site of the old Merthyr Vale Colliery, this is where | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
the coal waste was put in trams and then sent across the valley | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
and piled high on the mountains opposite and those tips used | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
There was plenty of evidence, based on previous incidents, | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
that piling this waste on wet mountain sides was an exceptionally | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
risky and dangerous thing to do, and yet those warnings were ignored. | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
By the time the report was published, the National Coal Board | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
had been forced to admit that the disaster was foreseeable. | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
It was blamed, unequivocally, for what had happened, | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
but no-one was disciplined or sacked. | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
I only wish that Lord Robens was here today. | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
They should have been sent to jail, lost their jobs. | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
But the battle was far from over, there was still coal tips | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
above Aberfan and people, quite naturally, wanted them gone, | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
but no-one was ready to pay - not the Government, not the Coal | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
The families lobbied the Welsh Office in Cardiff | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
demanding help, what they got instead from the Welsh Secretary, | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
He wanted the local community to use their charity fund | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
ARCHIVE: Of course they will pay what they can afford, | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
but the scheme will depend on what they pay. | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
It took 30 years for the people of Aberfan to regain | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
the money they'd lost, it was finally repaid | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
by the Welsh Government and today the gardens and memorials | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
of the village have been restored giving the families the sense | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Collectively, we've been able to 50 years get through it as a family. | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
I've always said Aberfan is a family. | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
We've shared our thoughts and feelings, so many good things | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
have come out of Aberfan and have you to think like that. | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
You know, they are courageous, courageous people. | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
That was Gaynor Madgwick, a survivor of the disaster, | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
speaking to me in Aberfan to mark the 50th anniversary. | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
Tonight, at 10.45pm, after the news on BBC One, | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
I'll be telling the full story of Aberfan's long fight for justice. | :22:14. | :22:22. | |
Donald Trump's wife has dismissed the widespread | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
criticism of his conduct, insisting that he's "a gentleman." | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
Melania Trump said that the comments Mr Trump was heard making | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
about women were "inappropriate", but amounted to what | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
Our correspondent, Nick Bryant, has been considering to what extent | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
the Republican presidential candidate is alienating | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
It's pumpkin rolling season in America, a sure sign that polling | :22:43. | :22:53. | |
day is fast approaching and it can't come soon enough for many of these | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
mothers in the suburbs of Philadelphia, deeply offended | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
by Donald Trump's words and alleged behaviour. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
A new poll, conducted here, suggested he's trailing | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
Hillary Clinton amongst female voters by a staggering 43 points. | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
It just seems part of who he is and I find it just | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
His words are just not something, you know, I want my children to hear | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
and it's just not something that, you know, we want to invite | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
into our house, even though typically I would vote Republican. | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
In an attempt to quell this political storm, | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
a serene Melania Trump has gone on television. | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
A wife, turned character witness, stressing she's | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
Those words, they were offensive to me and they were inappropriate | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
and he apologised to me, and I accept his apology. | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
Even before this scandal, Donald Trump's support amongst | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
Republican women had started to slide, but he still has die | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
Donna is not just still planning to vote for him, but also to clock | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
Well, to be honest with you, I wasn't happy, but I know Mr Trump | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
and I know his heart and he loves this country, and he does | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
Ever since the mid 1960s, more women in America have voted | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
than men and they've often had the decisive say in the suburbs that | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
tend to decide the outcome of presidential elections, | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
but for Donald Trump this has become a nationwide crisis. | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
The Republicans have had a women problem for 30 years, | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
that's how long female voters have supported Democratic presidential | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
candidates at a higher rate than men. | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
But Donald Trump has turned that gender gap into a gaping chasm. | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
One recent poll suggested that Hillary Clinton has a 30 | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
Today, protests outside Trump buildings around the country | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
from women sensing the likelihood of what they'd see as poetic justice | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
- the election of America's first female president. | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
Nick Bryant, BBC News, Philadelphia. | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
The current state of American politics is an embarrassment | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
in the eyes of the singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen. | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
He was speaking on a visit to London to launch his autobiography - | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
which has taken seven years to write - and expressed the view that | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
millions of ordinary Americans were being left behind. | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
He spoke to our arts editor, Will Gompertz. | :25:26. | :25:35. | |
Bruce Springsteen wrote Born to Run sitting on the edge of his bed in | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
his rented cottage. It was a humble beginning for a song that would | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
launch this man from Newses Jersey into rock-and-roll superstar doom. | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
I had two records out. They hadn't done that well. I had only a few | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
record deals. This was my last shot. Initially I have the riff, it's a | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
Duwayne Eddie, riff, basically. Then I had the chorus... Babe yes we were | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
born to run. I couldn't get the rememberses. I spent six months | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
writing it and six months recording it. It developed as it went along | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
into this, into this very, big piece of music. Is that the moment you | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
think - you found your voice, you found yourself, you found Bruce | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
Springsteen? Yeah. One of the few records where I made, after we mixed | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
it, I came home, I I put it on the next morning and said - that's | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
exactly what I wanted it to sound like. | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
# We go down to the river... # You talk about depression. You are | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
32 years old, in the car, and this phrase rang out at me "toxic | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
confusion." What does that mean? You hit a wall. You hit a wall where you | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
simply don't know what to do with the next day. You are uncomfortable | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
with your skin. Unsatisfied with where you are. Completely at loose | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
ends. You don't know how to continue constructing your life. You don't | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
know... You just don't know how to Stepney further. | :27:17. | :27:25. | |
# Oh, down to the river we'd ride... # | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
very unpredictable, but It's toxic confusion would be a good | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
description of where you sit once it lands on you. | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
# Born in the USA # I was born in the USA... # | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
Your country today, what's going on? I'm not going to be able to explain | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
that to you! Part of what's going on is you have 30 or 40 years of | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
deindustrialisation and the globalisation of the economy. So | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
there are a lot of people that were left out of that. Whose voices have | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
been fundamentally ignored and not heard. Why aren't the Democrats | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
doing that? They address it more than Republicans do. You know. But | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
I'm still not sure it's being addressed on a deep enough level to | :28:12. | :28:19. | |
provide answers to until a dem God like Trump comes along who appears | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
to be listening whochl has very simple answers to very, very | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
complicated and difficult questions. I think he's a conman and they are | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
getting plagued, but, you know, if you've been... I know if I was... If | :28:35. | :28:42. | |
I couldn't play music tomorrow and had to fine another completely | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
different line of work. I have no idea what I do He says going into | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
politics isn't a career option. He's going to stick with the day job and | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
let his music do the talking. Will Gompertz, BBC News. | :28:57. | :29:05. | |
Britain's medal-winning Olympic and Paralympic athletes were invited | :29:06. | :29:07. | |
to Buckingham Palace this evening and were greeted by members | :29:08. | :29:09. | |
of the Royal Family, including the Queen | :29:10. | :29:11. | |
The reception marked the end of two days of parades, | :29:12. | :29:18. | |
in Manchester and in London, to celebrate their success | :29:19. | :29:26. | |
at the Rio Games, as Natalie Pirks has this report. | :29:27. | :29:28. | |
With 240 guests to host, you could forgive the Queen for not | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
But to take an active interest in the hockey team's injuries went | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
Whilst some Paralympians gave Her Majesty a lesson | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
in rattling medals, others were quizzed on the matters | :29:43. | :29:45. | |
She was wondering how I was not managing to break my neck | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
It's the question that I got asked quite a lot, actually. | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
But, yes, she seemed very lovely, bless her. | :29:55. | :29:56. | |
So what did you say when she asked you that? | :29:57. | :29:58. | |
I told that they were making my neck very sore, | :29:59. | :30:01. | |
The Duchess of Cambridge is known for her love of hockey. | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
Catherine came bounding in when you won. | :30:07. | :30:09. | |
The Prince told the all conquering team she "bounded in" to break | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
No bounding, but plenty of patriotism from Adam Peaty. | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
For Britain's first gold medallist at the Rio Olympics, | :30:19. | :30:20. | |
It is, you know, a huge honour to be here and just to be in this kind | :30:21. | :30:29. | |
of building is, you know, I'm a hugely patriotic guy, | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
This is why you win golds, for stuff like this and you get | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
Earlier today, in Trafalgar Square, it was a less formal affair. | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
Time now for the athletes to relax and take a well-earned holiday. | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
Many will surely be back to the Palace though | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
when the New Year's Honours list is announced. | :30:51. | :30:52. | |
Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC Two in a few moments. | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
50 years ago, the BBC lay Cathy Come Home stunned the nation, | :30:59. | :31:14. | |
50 years on, we still have huge problems with housing. | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
We'll be asking if we can ever get a decent home for all. | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
Join me now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland. | :31:22. | :31:23. | |
Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :31:24. | :31:27. |