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David Cameron calls the death of the British doctor who died in a Syrian | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
jail a sickening tragedy. As Abbas Khan's body is flown back | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
to the UK, the Prime Minister tells his family the regime should be held | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
to account. With ten days to go until employment | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
restrictions on Bulgarians and Romanians are lifted, the Business | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Secretary says the Conservatives are panicking on immigration because of | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
UKIP. How extreme weather could hit the | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Christmas getaway - gales and high winds are forecast for many areas | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
tomorrow. And England are caught in a spin as | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
bowler Graham Swann announces he's retiring. | :00:41. | :00:59. | |
Good evening. The Prime Minister has called for | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
the Syrian regime to be answerable for the death of a British surgeon | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
in Damascus last week. In a letter to the mother of Abbas Khan that's | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
just been made public, David Cameron said the doctor was despicably | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
treated by the Syrian authorities and that his death after over a year | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
in custody was a sickening tragedy. Today the body was flown back to the | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
UK, where a postmortem will be carried out. Jonathan Blake reports. | :01:23. | :01:35. | |
Abbas Khan, a father of two children and a surgeon who died in a Syrian | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
prison just days before he was due to be released. In a personal letter | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
written two days ago now released by his family, the Prime Minister | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
extended his sympathy and said he knows from his own experience of | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
losing a child but words are of little comfort. David Cameron goes | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
on to describe the death as a sickening and appalling tragedy | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
which the Syrian regime should answer for. Soon after Abbas Khan's | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
body arrived back in the UK this morning, through his mother's greet | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
was a clear determination to find out how he died. -- grief. I don't | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
know why on his release day they killed my son. I want answers. | :02:20. | :02:31. | |
Fatima Khan spent five months in Syria working to free her son. She | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
filmed this footage on her mobile phone, and while in the country | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
appeal to several foreign embassies for help. India didn't want to | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
help. They said, no, you are British, we don't want to help. The | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Russian Embassy said you are British, we are not going to help | :02:51. | :03:03. | |
you. The Foreign Office have said Abbas Khan was in effect murdered by | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
the Syrian authorities, but the surgeon's family are frustrated with | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
what they see as a lack of help from the British government. We have | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
received letters from the Prime Minister who has said he is going to | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
help us get answers but nothing has been said as to how they are going | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
to do this and when. Abbas Khan's body has been taken to a coroner's | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
of this and a postmortem will be carried out tomorrow. After that, | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
family segment their priority is lay his body to rest. -- after that, the | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
family say, their priority is to lay his body to rest. Lyse Doucet met | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
the family in Lebanon. What do you make of the way the government are | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
dealing with this? Judging from the family has said, they felt | :03:55. | :04:04. | |
completely abandoned. They felt forsaken. The mother, Fatima, said | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
she knocked on every door she could in Damascus, and in Damascus, Syria | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
and officials said the only person who did something for him was her | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
mother. The letter from David Cameron says that behind-the-scenes | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
they were doing more than the family suggested. The family says they did | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
nothing. David Cameron says the Syrian Embassy refused to engage. Is | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
he now telling us they did more than the family knew, or is this an | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
attempt to varnish the situation so Britain is not accused of washing | :04:40. | :04:50. | |
their hands of the case? Divisions within the government over | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
EU immigration are becoming more entrenched, with the Business | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
Secretary Vince Cable accusing the Conservatives of being in a panic on | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
the issue because of UKIP. His comments come ten days before | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
restrictions on Bulgarians and Romanians working in the UK are | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
lifted. Today the Bulgarian President warned that tougher | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
immigration rules risked isolating Britain. This report from our | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
political correspondent, Chris Mason. | :05:08. | :05:17. | |
Ten days and counting until we all need a new talent -- Callander on | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
until the lifting of restrictions. From January the 1st, people here in | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
Bulgaria and Romania can impact airbags, moved to the UK and look | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
for work. The government has changed the rules to prevent migrants from | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
claiming out of work benefits for their first three months here, but | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
this change, and some of the language used in discussing | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
immigration, has irritated the president of Bulgaria. In an | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
interview with the Observer, he says there is a danger of isolating | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Britain and damaging Britain's reputation. Immigration, he claims, | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
is good for the UK. You guys are making a profit out of this. Keep it | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
like that. Enter the Lib Dem Cabinet minister, Vince cable, who is not | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
afraid of sounding off about the Conservatives. We sometimes get | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
these panics in the UK. I remember going back to Enoch Powell and | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
rivers of blood. They were panics of the Jewish immigrants from Eastern | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
Europe. The responsibility of politicians in this situation is to | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
reassure people and to give them facts. No word from the Prime | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Minister today but he was in Brussels on Friday and said no -- | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
further changes will be needed if other countries joined the EU in | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
future. As we contemplate countries like Serbia or Albania one-day | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
joining the EU, we must find a way to slow down access to each other's | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Labour market until we are sure this will not cause vast migrations. Did | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
big picture here is the rise of the UKIP and the jostling the head of | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
the European elections. -- the big picture. | :07:03. | :07:15. | |
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian oil tycoon released by President | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
Putin after ten years in jail, has said he will do all he can to help | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
secure freedom for political prisoners. But, speaking in Germany, | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
Mr Khodorkovsky said he would not return to Moscow unless he received | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
guarantees he could leave. From Berlin, Daniel Sandford sent this | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
report, which contains some flash photography. | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
Stepping back into the limelight today, the Russian oligarch who | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
became the country's most famous political prisoner. In his first | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
public appearance since his surprise release, he described the moment | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
when he heard he would be freed. TRANSLATION: It was 2am when the | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
head of the prison woke me up and told me I was going home. Then, only | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
during the journey, was I told I was going to Berlin. He had spent ten | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
years in prison, ostensibly for fraud and money-laundering. But many | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
believe he was there because President Putin ordered it. Do you | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
intend to return to Russia or US actively in textile? Are you | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
encouraging people to go to the Saatchi Winter Olympics? The | :08:23. | :08:32. | |
President's spokesman says nobody is stopping me returning to Russia. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Right now I have no guarantee I would be able to leave again if I | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
needed to. Speaking about the Olympics, it is a festival of | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
sport, a celebration for millions. Let's not spoil it. On the other | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
hand, it shouldn't be a party for one man, President Putin. For a man | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
who has been in jail for ten years, he was calm, moderate and without | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
anger. His main concern was the other political prisoners who have | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
been left behind. Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once Russia's | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
richest man. He made his money in oil and banking in the unscrupulous | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
1990s. He had the ear of President Yeltsin. But when President Putin | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
came to power, he became a fierce critic of the corruption surrounding | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
the Kremlin. The two men fell out, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky ended up in | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
prison. Today, he said he would not be returning to Russian politics, | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
and symbolically drove through the famous checkpoint Charlie, once a | :09:38. | :09:47. | |
key crossing in the Berlin Wall. There are warnings that the | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
transport network could be badly hit in the run up to Christmas with | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
severe gales and heavy rain forecast for tomorrow. Drivers heading to | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
parts of Scotland, Wales and England are being told they could face | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
difficult conditions and train operators have urging customers to | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
travel earlier if they can. Ben Ando is at Euston rail station. | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
It is becoming something of a not very festive tradition. This year, | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
the threat is a storm heading this way from the Atlantic Ocean. Eight | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
weeks ago, parts of Britain were brought to a standstill by the storm | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
St Jude. Network Rail cancelled trains and there were problems for | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
air and road travellers. Nobody is suggesting to my's weather will be | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
as bad. But there are warnings about this option. -- tomorrow's weather. | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
For many people, the railways are the best option. Operators say | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
tickets dated for travel tomorrow will be accepted today. Tomorrow we | :10:51. | :10:59. | |
plan to travel at 4.30. Apparently that will be the worst time. The | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
problem is a huge depression heading to the south coast of England from | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
the Atlantic. It is expected to cause high winds of up to 70 mph in | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
southern England and southern Wales. The Environment Agency has issued | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
six flood warnings. On the roads, the risk to cars and lorries is also | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
considerable. The Highways Agency says its website has invented for | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
driving safely in deteriorating conditions. The AA says people | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
should plan their journeys. And for those jetting off for the Christmas | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
break, air travel is not immune. So far, no flights have been cancelled | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
due to the weather, but Heathrow is urging passengers flying tomorrow to | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
check airline websites before setting out. Tomorrow could be | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
something of a double whammy. Many people are working normally, so they | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
will be regular commuters alongside Christmas travellers. That is why | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
companies are lifting restrictions to allow people to tell this evening | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
or tomorrow evening if they can. -- to travel. | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
The Metropolitan Police says it's reviewing Nigella Lawson's admission | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
that she took cocaine. The TV chef told the fraud trial of two former | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
personal assistants that she had taken the drug, but was not a | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
habitual user. Scotland Yard had said it wouldn't take any action, | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
but now officers said a specialist team would examine all the evidence | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
emerging. Northern Ireland's main political | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
parties have been given revised proposals on how to deal with | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
parades, flags and the past. They were drawn up by the former US | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
diplomat Richard Haass, who is chairing talks on how to resolve the | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
contentious issues. Chris Page is in Belfast. What is the suggestion as | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
to how the issue should be beguiled with? These are the issues left over | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
from the other negotiations over the years in Northern Ireland. The | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
American diplomat has been meeting the political parties for the next | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
few months. Now we are on to endgame. He said his latest | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
proposals to the party this afternoon. They have not been made | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
public. But it is thought he had come up with a new idea on the main | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
issue which is flagged. It is an issue that still has the potential | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
to cause street violence in Northern Ireland. The year ago, there were | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
loyalist protests after councillors voted to restrict the flying of the | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
Union flag at Belfast City Hall. There has been more potential for | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
agreement on parading and the issue of Northern Ireland's past. Flags | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
have been that the problem. Sources have said that the diplomat has | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
suggested there should be a new process to look specifically at the | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
issue of flags. The parties will negotiate around the table tomorrow | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
morning, not for the first time looking like it will go up to the | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
deadline. There are fears that South Sudan is | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
heading towards civil war, with the UN Secretary General, Ban-ki-Moon, | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
calling for both sides to find a political way out of the crisis. The | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
country has been in turmoil since President Salva Kiir accused his | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
former vice-president of attempting a coup last week. At least 500 | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
people have been killed since the fighting began, with the government | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
struggling to keep control of the capital, Juba. | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
With all the sport, here's Olly Foster at the BBC Sports Centre. | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
Good evening. There were two matches in the Premier League. Everton are | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
up to fourth after beating Swansea 2-1 with two brilliant goals. It was | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
ever-0 at half-time. It was Everton's first. Swansea pulled one | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
back until this late free kick. They are now just two points behind | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Liverpool. The other match was at St Mary's, where Tottenham beat | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
Southampton 3-2. Tim Sherwood will have talks about his future | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
tomorrow. Cardiff City Stadium manager, Malky Mackay, will stay in | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
charge for the foreseeable future. The owner gave him an ultimatum | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
earlier in the week to resign or get sacked. He was in charge for their | :15:11. | :15:19. | |
defeat yesterday, but a club statement today said the crisis for | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
the time being is over. Graeme Swann says he can't justify his place in | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
the England team and has retired from all cricket. There are still | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
two tests to play in Australia with the Ashes loss. But he says the time | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
is right to stand down. Dan Roan is in Melbourne. | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
You may have thought England's Ashes campaign couldn't get any worse, but | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
today, Graeme Swann made a shock announcement. The tourists would | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
have to rebuild without him. I was hoping to win the Ashes out here | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
again. With the Ashes gone, personally I think to stay on and | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
selfishly played just to experience another Boxing Day Sydney test match | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
would be wrong. Graeme Swann was integral to England. He was six in | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
his country's all-time list for wickets. A natural on and off the | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
pitch, he was as popular as he was prolific. But this series had not | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
been as much fun, and, having struggled with injury and form, he | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
decided he had had enough. The iconic Boxing Day test match here at | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
the cavernous Melbourne Cricket Ground was meant to be a pivotal | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
fixture in this Ashes series. Instead it has become crucial for | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
England for very different reasons. They are trying to recover from what | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
has become a very ill-fated tour. The wheels are off from the England | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
perspective. Looking at the series, they are 3-0 down. You have now got | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
one of the top three England spinners of all-time retiring. Monty | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
Panesar must now step at -- up as England step into a period of | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
transition. Gloucester wanted a's match in rugby | :17:05. | :17:16. | |
you's premiership. At the start was delayed after the pre-match | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
entertainment involving two giant inflatable balls saw one of the | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
crossbars become dislodged. Ground staff took half an hour to fix it | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
before play could finally get under way. That is all the sport. | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
There's more throughout the evening on the BBC | :17:36. | :17:36. |