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David Cameron calls the death of a British doctor in a Syrian jail a | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
sickening tragedy. Abbas Khan's body is flown home, the Prime Minister | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
tells his mother the regime should be held to account. After criticism | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
from the family that they were abandoned by the British Government, | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
we'll look at how the case has been handled. Also tonight: Train | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
operators warn of disruption tomorrow as many areas face gales | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
and high winds amid the Christmas travel rush. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
With ten days to go until the lifting of work restrictions on | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Bulgarians and Romanian, the Business Secretary says UKIP is | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
causing Conservative panic on immigration. And England are caught | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
in a spin as Graeme Swann announce announces he is retiring. | :00:51. | :01:09. | |
Good evening. The Prime Minister says the Syrian regime must answer | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
for the death of a British surgeon in a Damascus jail last week, | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
calling it a sickening tragedy. In a letter to the mother of Abbas Khan | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
made public today, David Cameron said the doctor was badly treated by | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
the Syrian authorities and Britain will press for those responsible to | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
be held to account. Dr Khan's body was flown home today. | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
Abbas Khan, a father of two children and a surgeon who died in a Syrian | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
prison, just days before he was due to be released. After criticising | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
the Government for not helping them his family have released a letter | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
from the Prime Minister. He offers condolences and described the death | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
as a sickening and appalling tragedy, which the Syrian regime | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
should answer for. David Cameron acknowledges he knows from his own | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
experience of losing a child that words are of little comfort. This | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
morning his mother flew back from Syria with her son's body. She | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
appealed to the British and other international embassies for help. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
India didn't want to help. They said, no, no, you are British. We | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
will not help you. I went to the Russian embassy. They said, no, you | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
are British and we're not going to help you. You are British and we | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
don't want to help you. I was British and they said no, I didn't | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
get help from the British Government. | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
The Foreign Office have said Abbas Khan was, in effect, murdered by the | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Syrian authorities. That and Mr Cameron's letter are not enough for | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
the family. His sister says she wants to see action, not just words. | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
We have received letters from the Prime Minister who said he is now | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
going to help us get answers, but nothing has been said as to how and | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
when. His body has been taken to the East London Coroner's office. A | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
postmortem will be carried out tomorrow. After that, the family say | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
their priority is to lay his body to rest. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
Our chief international correspondent is just back from | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Syria. The question will be not just what the British Government says, | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
but what it is doing and what it did in the past This letter from David | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
Cameron suggests the British Government behind the scenes was | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
doing more than the family was aware of. You heard the grief there - | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
mixed with anger. When I spoke to them in Beirut, in a telephone | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
conversation with them, they used words like abandoned and forsaken. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Fatima told me she only found out during the 13 months through the | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
Indian embassy he was still alive. David Cameron said they did work | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
with the ement baysy which represents -- the embassy which | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
works with British interests there. The family feels very much alone. In | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Beirut they were given the telephone number of a funeral director to try | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
and get the body back to Britain. Of course, it is a complicated | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
political story. It is a story of no relations between Britain and Syria. | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
A very strained relationship. Therefore, it was hard for Britain | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
to react in this case. The big question is now - could they have | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
done more? What could they have done? | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Lyse Doucet, thank you. Anyone planning to travel home for | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Christmas tomorrow should brace themselves for delays ahead of | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
warnings of heavy rains and strong winds. Airliners have advised people | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
to check their websites before setting off. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Let's get the latest now from Euston station. How is it looking, Ben? | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
Well, Christmas travel problems seem to be turning into an unwelcome | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
festive tradition now. The problem this time is a huge storm in the | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Atlantic, heading this way. At its heart possibly the most intense | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
low-pressure system recorded here for nearly 130 years. Whichever way | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
you are planning to travel you may face disruption. For many people the | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
railways are the best Christmas travel option. To encourage | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
passengers to beat the storm all operators say tickets dated for | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
travel tomorrow will be accepted today. Tomorrow, we plan to travel | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
at 4. 30pm. According to the weather that is the worst time. It is quiet | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
here. Hopefully we'll be all right. The problem is a huge depression | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
heading towards the south coast of England from the Atlantic. It is | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
expected to cause high winds of up to 70 miles per hour across southern | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
England and south Wales. And up to 60 mms of rain throughout the day. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
The Environment Agency has issued six flood warnings. On the roads, | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
the risk to cars and lorries is also considerable. The Highways Agency | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
said its website has hints for driving safely in deteriorating | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
conditions. The AA says people should plan their journeys. | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
And for those jetting off for the Christmas break, air travel is not | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
immune. So far, no flights have been cancelled due to the weather, but | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
Heathrow is urging passengers flying tomorrow to check airline websites | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
before setting out. And for many people it is a double | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
whammy. Not only do you have the normal commuters, you have the extra | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
Christmas travellers. If you can change your plans, the message is, | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
try and travel before lunch time. Thank you. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, has admitted there are tensions in | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
the Government with EU immigration, accusing the Conservatives of being | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
in a panic over the issue because of UKIP. He has been speaking with ten | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
days to go until restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians working in | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
the UK are lifted. Ten days and counting until we all | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
need a new calendar and until the lifting of restrictions which are | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
now causing a deepening row over immigration. From January 1st, | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
people here in Bulgaria and Romania can pack their bags, move to the UK | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
and look for work. The Government has changed the rules to predict | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
migrants from claiming out of work benefits for their first three | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
months here. This change and some of the language used in discusses | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
immigration has irritated the President of Bulgaria. In an | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
interview with The Observer he said there is a danger of isolating | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
Britain and damaging Britain's reputation. Immigration, he claims, | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
is good for the UK. You guys are making a profit out of this. Keep it | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
like that. Liberal Democrats say a cap on | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
European Union migrants, referred to in a leaked Home Office document, | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
would be illegal. Vince Cable, for one, is not afraid of sounding off | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
about the Conservatives. We periodically get these immigration | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
panics in the UK. I remember going back to Enoch Powell and Rivers of | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
Blood and all that. And if you go back a century, a panic over Jewish | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
immigrants from Eastern Europe. The responsibility of politicians, when | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
people are getting anxious is to try and reassure them and give them | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
facts and not panic. No word from the Prime Minister today. He was in | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Brussels on Friday and said further rule changes would be needed if | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
other countries joined the European Union in future. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
As we contemplate countries like Serbia or Albania one day joining | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
the EU, we must find a way to slow down full access to each other's | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
labour markets, until we can be sure this will not cause vast migrations. | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
The bigger picture is the rise of the UKIP and the jostling for | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
position going on ahead of the European elections in six months' | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
time. There is the Conservative's desire to renegotiate our | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
relationship with the European Union and put our membership to a | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
referendum in 2017. The Russian oilty conreleased by | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
President Putin after ten years in jail has said he has no plans to | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
enter politics and will work for the freedom of political prisoners. | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
Mikhail Khodorkovsky also said he will not be returning to Russia | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
without guarantees that he'll be able to leave again. | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
This report contains flash photography. | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Stepping back into the limelight today, the Russian oligarch who | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
became the country's most famous political prisoner. In his first | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
public appearance since his prize release, he described the moment | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
when he heard he would be freed. TRANSLATION: It was 2am, when the | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
head of the prison woke me up and told me I was going home. During the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
journey I was told I was going to Berlin. | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
He had spent ten years in prison for fraud and money laundering. Many | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
people believe he was there because President Putin ordered it. | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
??FORCEWHITE REPORTER: Do you intend to return to | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
Russia or are you in exile? Ful TRANSLATION: The President's | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
spokesman says no-one is stopping me returning to Russia. Unfortunately I | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
have no guarantees that I would be able to leave again if I needed to. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
For a man who has been in jail for ten years, he was calm, moderate and | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
without anger. His main concern - the other political prisoners who | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
have been left behind. This evening, his oldest son, who | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
did not see his father for ten years, described to me the toll his | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
imprisonment has taken on the family. My younger brothers, who | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
were four years old when my father was arrested are now 14. They have | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
grown up without a father. And I think that is way too much of a | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
price to pay. Once Russia's richest man Khodorkovsky made his money in | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
oil and banking. When President Putin came to power he became a | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
fierce critic of the corruption surrounding the Kremlin and ended up | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
in prison. Today, he said he wouldn't be returning to Russian | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
politics and symbolically drove off through Berlin's famous checkpoint | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
charily. The UN says hundreds of thousands of | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
people in South Sudan are fearing for their lives amid escalating | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
ethnic violence. 500 people have been killed in fighting which broke | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
out a week ago between soldiers loyal to the President Syracuse Sir. | :11:48. | :11:59. | |
-- Salva Kiir. Tens of thousands are seeking refuge in compounds. They | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
talk of targeted killing of civilians, ferocious fighting. An | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
oil-rich country is beginning to tear itself apart. There is a | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
considerable amount of tension W that tension we see a build-up of | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
people that have been dispersed from their towns and villages. We've got | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
a considerable number of people that we are here to protect. South Sudan | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
is the world's youngest nation. A power struggle between President | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
Salva Kiir and the Vice-President who he sacked in July has reignited | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
a festering ethnic conflict. As the violence escalates, Government | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
troops have been sent to the areas seized by the rebel forces. | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
In order to try and push out this renegade in the main centre. That | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
was done yesterday. In fact they are being cleared out from the city. | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
With fiercer battles likely to come, many oil workers have been | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
evacuated. The capital of a vital oil-rich state has already fallen to | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
the rebels. The UN is overwhelmed. Two Indian peacekeepers were killed | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
in one attack on a UN base, prompting kaults for calm and the -- | :13:16. | :13:28. | |
calls for calm and . Of I call them to stop hostilities and end the | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
violence against civilians. There is little sign the blood-letting and | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
the tragic fallout will end soon. The American diplomat tasked with | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
resolving some of Northern Ireland's most contention issues has | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
recommended a separate process to deal with the flying of flags. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
Earlier today Richard Haass gave the parties his revised proposals on how | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
to deal with issues still outstanding after the peace process. | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
Let's join our correspondent. What is the view Mr Haass has come to? | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
These are the most significant political negotiations here, | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
designed to deal with the contentious issued left over. Dr | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Richard Haass has been talking to political parties and others for | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
several months. He's proposed new bodies will set up to deal with two | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
of the issues - parading and the legacy of Northern Ireland's | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
troubled past. In his latest draft document, he said the politicians | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
have not been able to find a common position on the issue of flags. That | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
is an issue which has the potential to cause street violence here. A | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
year ago Belfast City Council voted to restrict the flying over the flag | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
in the civic building. He has proposed a new commission to look at | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
the issue over the long-term. The parties will discuss that at round | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
table talks tomorrow. Thank you. In Iraq, suicide bombings and | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
assassinations are reaching levels last seen five years ago, with the | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
UN estimating that 8,000 people have been killed this year. In a BBC | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
interview Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki blamed the conflict | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
in neighbour neighbouring Syria. He has been speaking exclusively to our | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
correspondent. A life came to a halt a month ago. | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
She was shopping with her children, when suddenly, nearby a suicide | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
bomber detonated his explosives. She was so badly hurt, her family kept | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
the truth from her. TRANSLATION: It has been a month and | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
I didn't know what had happened to them. The truth was, they were dead. | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
I have just been told. It was a lie. They weren't in | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
hospital. My life is not beautiful any more without them. I wish I | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
would have died with them. The last thing she lebs is a -- | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
remembers is a hug from Omar. His five-year-old sister died in their | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
father's arms. People here are caught in the middle of a sectarian | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
conflict. It is turning Iraqi against Iraqi, Sunni against Shia. | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
More than 6,000 civilians have been killed this year. Iraq's Prime | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
Minister told us its trouble -- it is trouble outside the country that | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
is causing the violence. TRANSLATION: We have high confidence | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
we'll be able to contain this wave of terrorism which is not only | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
dangerous to Iraq, but the whole region and maybe the world. The | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
solution should be to contain the crisis in Syria, which is feeding | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
terrorism within the region. In Baghdad, traffic is regularly | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
brought to a standstill by increased security checks. The Security | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
Services don't have a grip on the insurgency. The minority Sunni | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
population is blamed for the attacks. We met one man who was | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
arrested in a Government raid. Like many others, he says he was | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
tortured. He asked for his identity to be concealed. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
TRANSLATION: My hands were cuffed behind my back. I was blindfolded | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
and hung upside down from the ceiling. They wanted me to confess | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
to something, but I didn't know what. Now I am too scared to sleep | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
in my own bed. I feel like a stranger living in Iraq. | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
It is Shia neighbourhoods baring the brunt of the attacks. Those linked | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
to Al-Qaeda try and tear the country apart on secretary tarp lines. One | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
senior official told me there are large swathes of the country where | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
it is not safe for the Security Services. | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
Now to cricket and the surprise news that spin bowler Graeme Swann is | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
retiring with mediate effect in the middle of the Ashes in Australia. | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
England y lost the series, although there are two more Tests to play. | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
This report contains flash photography. You may have thought | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
England's Ashes campaign could not have got any worse. With two Tests | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
to play Graeme Swann made a shock announcement. The tourists would | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
have to build without him. I was desperately hoping to win the Ashes | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
out here like we did in 2010, 2011. With it gone now, I think personally | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
to stay on and selfishly play to experience another boxing day Test | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
match would be wrong. He was integral across all foremaths. He is | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
six -- formats. He is sixth in his country list. A natural performer on | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
and off the pitch. This series had not been as much fun. Having | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
struggled with injury and form, Swann decided mid-series that he'd | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
had enough. The iconic boxing day Test match here at Melbourne Cricket | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Ground was meant to be a pivotal fixture. Instead it has become | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
crucial for England for very different reasons, as they try and | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
recover from what has been an ill fated tour. The wheels are often in | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
the England's camp. We have been 3-0 down. You have what I believe is one | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
of the top three England spinners of all time retiring. Monty Panesar | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
must step up as England enter a period of transition. Whichever way | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
it is spun, Swann's surprise departure mean the changes may start | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
sooner than anticipated. That's it from us. Now on BBC One, | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
time for | :19:51. | :19:51. |