31/08/2014 BBC Weekend News

Police are questioning the parents of a five-year-old boy

with a brain tumour, taken from a hospital in Southampton to Spain.

Ashya King's father has defended his family's actions,

saying he can't understand why the police ever got involved.

His face is all over the Internet and newspapers this morning. We have

been labelled kidnappers. The government is proposing a ban

on British citizens suspected of fighting for Islamic State,

preventing them As the fighting continues

in Ukraine, President Putin says he wants talks on an independent state

for pro-Russians in the east. And why shoppers are rushing to bag

high-powered vacuum cleaners, Officers in Spain are questioning

the parents of the five-year-old boy with a brain tumour,

who was taken from hospital in Brett and Naghemeh King were

arrested in Malaga last night and are due in court tomorrow

facing extradition proceedings. Today, Hampshire Police defended

their decision to launch Let's go live now to Malaga

and our correspondent there, Tom Burridge, who's outside the hospital

where Ashya's being treated. Good evening. Hampshire Police have

confirmed today that Ashya King has been moved from high to low

dependency at Malaga's main Children's Hospital. He was moved

here late last night. Although it is important to keep stressing that his

parents did nothing wrong, all that is the suggestion at least, when

they removed him from hospital in Hampshire on Thursday, they were

arrested late last night in a hotel not far from Malaga.

After a long journey, all the way from Hampshire, this is the hotel

near Malaga where Ashya King's parents checked in with their seven

children yesterday afternoon. This woman was working on reception and

recognised their car after reading about the search on a Spanish

website. She alerted the police. TRANSLATION: They did not seem

surprised to see the police. They were calm, who operative and just

worried about their son. Ashya King is seriously ill with a brain tumour

and was taken in a ambulance to Malaga's main Children's Hospital

where he is now being treated. Last night, his parents were arrested by

Spanish police. They are being held at a police station in the region. A

police source told me they were arrested on suspicion of

maltreatment of a child. It is an allegation they strongly denied.

Before his arrest, Ashya King's father released this YouTube video,

insisting they were taking good care of their son. We were most disturbed

today to find that his face is all over the Internet and newspapers,

and we have been labelled as kidnappers. There has been a lot of

talk about this machine. As you can see, it is all plugged in. We have

got loads of these feeds, here. There is nothing to suggest that his

parents broke the law when they removed their son from the hospital

in Hampshire. Southampton General Hospital says it is delighted that

he has now been found. There has been significant debate about the

appropriateness of police involvement in the case. Today,

Hampshire Police defended their actions. Medical experts were

telling us that if he did not get the care he needed, there was a

potential threat to his life. Faced with those circumstances, I make no

apology for the police being as proactive as we possibly could be,

to find him and ensure he gets the help he needs. Ashya King's parents

say they removed him from hospital so he could have a treatment called

proton beam therapy. The complex and sensitive nature of this young

boy's story, and that of his family, means it is hard to predict what

will happen next but everyone shares one priority: The health of the

young boy. So as we've heard, Ashya's parents

want a special treatment for his It's not currently available

in the UK but in some circumstances, the NHS pays

for children to be treated abroad. Jon Brain has been finding

out what it involves. Behind the raw emotion of a

desperate family's fights to help their critically ill son is a

dispute over medical practice. We asked the NHS. Ashya King's father

believes his team should be treated with something called proton beam

therapy. It is so much better for children with cancer. It zones in on

the area, whereby normal radiation passes right through his head, and

comes out the other side, destroys everything in his head. So what

exactly is proton beam therapy? In conventional radiotherapy, cancer

cells are bombarded with high-energy x-rays in a bid to destroy them.

Proton beams there are people direct the radiation precisely to where it

is needed, with minimal damage to surrounding tissue. This makes it

particularly suitable for some complex childhood cancers. Morgan

were sent to the US for proton beam treatment for his tumour. His mother

can sympathise with the family. I understand totally where they are

coming from. You have to do everything in your power to make

your child right, and you would do anything. The NHS does pay to send

people aboard the treatment -- abroad for the treatment. Last

year, 143 cases were considered, and 122 approved, of whom 99 were

children. It costs around ?100,000 per patient. But medical experts say

it is by no means suitable for everyone. The efficacy in many brain

tumours has not improved at all. It is not widely regarded as the best

treatment for many tumours. It appears that the doctors treating

Ashya felt that in his case, conventional treatment in the UK

would give this little boy the best chance of making a recovery.

Ashya's parents are due to appear at an extradition hearing in Madrid

early tomorrow morning. Hampshire Police officers are in Malaga. And

the British Embassy is involved. At this stage, it is still unclear what

will happen to Ashya, in a stable condition in hospital behind me, and

his six siblings who I believe are still in Malaga. It could depend to

a large extent on what happens at the extradition hearing for his

parents in Madrid tomorrow morning. The BBC understands the government

is planning to introduce temporary bans on UK-born jihadists in Iraq

and Syria returning to the UK. The government had been

considering ways to remove citizenship from those suspected of

being involved in terrorist acts. Our political correspondent

Vicki Young is at Westminster. The government has been wrestling

with what to do about British jihadis. Why have they settled on

what is effectively a travel ban on them coming home? Speaking to those

who have been working on this, they don't want to announce a raft of

measures and then watch them slowly unravel in the courts over the

coming weeks and months as has happened in the past. There are

several areas they are looking at, one is prevention, beefing up

community programmes to try to stop young was in when wanting to fight

in these conflicts in the first place. -- young Muslim men. Taking

passports to stop them travelling abroad and this controversial idea

of stopping them coming home. People are already questioning whether that

would be legal. Another potential sticking point is the surveillance

of suspected terrorists. These kind of measures have been watered down

in the past and David Cameron is under great pressure to toughen the

rules again but there is no doubt when MPs return tomorrow and listen

to what he has to say after the summer break, they will once again

be agonising over the threat from home-grown terrorists. Thank you for

joining us. In Iraq, government forces are

reported to have entered the town of Amerli, which had been under

siege by Islamic State extremists. The US carried out limited air

strikes in the area against the militants, and now aid

supplies have been dropped in. Our Middle East correspondent,

Jim Muir, is in northern Iraq now. You have been close to where the

fighting has been taking place. What did you see? A lot of militia men,

Shia militia men, mainly, and also Kurdish forces, who has been taking

part in the operation, mainly by bombarding and shooting at nearby

Islamic State positions. And of course, there was celebration

pushing up from the South, south-east and south-west, had

broken in. Those are Iraqi army forces, backed by Shia militia. They

seem to be the main force on the ground. The way for this was

prepared by American air strikes. It is the first time the Americans have

used their airpower slightly indirectly, in support of manoeuvres

on the ground by the Iraqi army and Sheila militia, some of whom were

involved in fighting the Americans in their last two years of the

occupation. -- Shia militia. It is kind of an ironic situation but the

air strikes, according to those on the ground, made a big difference,

combined with airdrops of emergency supplies to the thousands of people

trapped in the town. The siege has now been, mercifully for them,

broken. Thank you for joining us. Russia's President, Vladimir Putin,

says any agreement to end the conflict

in Ukraine must include discussions on the creation of a separate state

for pro-Russians in the east. His comments came after European

leaders threatened to impose more sanctions, if the Kremlin doesn't

change its cross-border policy. Here's our diplomatic correspondent,

Paul Adams. Heavy government shelling of the

rebel held town close to done yet. For months, this whole area has seen

the worst of the fighting. -- close to Donetsk. Further south, off the

coast at Marriott poll, a first, a gifted Ukrainian Coast Guard vessel

under rebel attack, another ominous sign of a conflict apparently

spreading. In Brussels last night, a warning to Russia from European

leaders: "Withdraw your forces immediately or face new 's actions

within a week. " It is a deeply serious situation and we have to

show real resolve and resilience in demonstrating to Russia that if she

carries on in this way, the relation ship between Europe and Russia,

Britain and Russia, America and Russia, will be radically different

in the future. For more than five months, the West has been applying

mounting economic pressure on Russia. In March, the EU and US

imposed these bands and asset freezes on officials involved in

Crimea's referendum. The following month, Washington targeted President

Putin's in a circle, oligarchs and the ruling elite. In late July,

another major step, European and American sanctions against Russia's

oil and defence sectors, as well as other sensitive technologies. Russia

retaliated, banning most food imports from the US and EU. Faced

with the latest threats, President Putin seems to have issued and

alarming new demand of his own. TRANSLATION: We need to have

immediate and meaningful talks, not just about the technical issues but

also on issues of political organisation and statehood in

southeastern Ukraine. People are realising he is not stopping. They

thought they could possibly rationalise the Crimea annexation.

This was something in Russian history, an obvious point. But now

there has been a blatant invasion of eastern Ukraine, and talk of

statehood there. Where does it go next? Will the annex more of

Ukraine? Will he cast his eyes on EU and NATO members like the Baltic

states? Anything is possible. Overnight, Ukraine and Russia swap

prisoners in a rare moment of corporation amidst a worsening

crisis. -- cooperation. Now, do you care how powerful

your vacuum cleaner is? It seems plenty of people do,

after a rush to buy more powerful models ahead of a new European ban

coming into force tomorrow. It's all part of attempts to reduce

carbon emissions, No one likes doing the housework, so

the quicker it can be done, the better. But soon, it might take a

bit longer as a new cap on the amount of energy vacuum cleaners can

use comes into force. From Monday, no vacuum cleaner in Europe can be

made or imported which consumes more than 1600 watts will stop that is

around 11% less than the average device sold in Britain. All new

devices must have a clear label rating its ability to pick up dust,

energy efficiency and noise level. Wholesalers and retailers still have

some time to tell their -- to sell their existing stock. The reduction

in CO2 emissions was agreed by all the countries in the EU. This is not

one of those cases where the EU is meddling in the British consumer's

affairs. But many consumers are not taking the chance. Sales have spiked

by almost 50% in some stores and certain brands have sold out

entirely. These Rotherham shoppers certainly felt the need to buy

today. He has got allergies. I just thought it was the best thing to do,

go out and get one before it comes in. It is a bit daft, really. To be

honest, if somebody wants a stronger hoover, it is up to them to use more

electric. This cap on the wattage used by vacuum cleaners may not be

the end of it. And EU wide study is underway to find other devices which

may need to be capped, like electric lawn mowers, kettles and even

electric hairdryers. Some people are hot under the collar about it. It is

absolutely ludicrous. If you are reducing the power, it takes longer,

so the client is unhappy but if you reduce the power, you hold it for

longer, which means they use as much energy anyway. But the cap might be

a long way off. In the meantime, households may have do suck it and

see if they can live with less powerful devices, especially before

2017, when the motor in the banking cleaners must be less than 900

watts. -- in the vacuum cleaners.