22/11/2015 BBC Weekend News

The Government prepares to make the case for airstrikes against the

Ministers argue Britain cannot stand on the sidelines

Britain has never been a country that stands on the sidelines and

relies on others to defend us. More money's been announced

for counter terrorism, but there are questions about possible cuts

to frontline policing in Police in New Zealand name

the four British tourists The army and police will be

strengthened to deal with an imminent terror attack.

Police in New Zealand name the four British tourists

from Cambridge and Hampshire, killed in a helicopter crash.

Them chest passes... -- forgive our trespasses.

And the Lords Prayer is deemed unsuitable for ANY cinema audience,

leaving the Church of England "bewildered."

The Government is to set out its strategy this week for tackling

the so-called Islamic State group, including possible airstrikes

The Chancellor, George Osborne, says Britain cannot stand on

the sidelines in the fight against IS, but made it clear there would be

no Commons vote on military action, unless it was sure it would win.

He's announced more money for counter terrorism, but refused

to rule out cuts to the number of frontline police officers in his

He says it is right the police played their part

Here's our Political Correspondent Ben Wright.

The panic attacks are reshaping politics here, forcing Parliament to

consider again the fight against IS, hardening the Government's sold to

launch new air strikes abroad and pressuring ministers to strengthen

security at home. Senior police officers have warned they would

struggle to cope with a spare -- a Paris style attack if funding were

cut further. The Prime Minister will set out his spending plans on

Thursday. George Osborne announced more money for counterterrorism but

was asked if they would be more cuts to front-line policing. We will make

sure that Britain is properly defended against a terrorist threat.

I would make a broader point about the spending review. You cannot have

national-security without economic security. Labour said any cuts to

front-line policing would undermine security. The Chancellor's inform

and if it is tight. The problem for the Chancellor is he wants to find

significant savings from a smaller group of departments. He is

protecting defence, the schools, overseas aid. He wants to protect

the police as well. There is not much left to cut. The Chancellor has

set out his plans for carving up government spending. The questions

of national security raised by Paris looming at large. You'll also hear

the Prime Minister said that the Government case for UK military

action against IS in Syria. At the moment British bombing of IS is

limited to Iraq. Russia is among the countries already carrying out air

strikes against the group in Syria. The Government says the UK should

not stand on the sidelines. We're not going to go to the House of

Commons and lose again. That would be a publicity coup for Isil and

send a terrible message about Britain's role in the world for that

will only call the vote were mere confident we will win it. The

Government is seared by this, the moment that they voted on air

strikes against the Assad regime. Jeremy Corbyn is warning against

military action that many of his MPs take a different view. Today John

McDonnell did not rule out a free vote. My view has always been that I

think Parliament should act as Parliament, not on a party to tickle

bases. We should arrive at the view that is in the best interests of the

country. -- party political basis. Tomorrow David Cameron will meet the

French president to show UK support. In the last few minutes, authorities

in Belgium have released details of a review of security measures in the

capital, Brussels, which will remain on high alert for an imminent terror

attack. The police are still hunting several

suspects including Saleh Abdesalem, alleged to have been a key member

of the group that attacked Paris Christian Fraser is in Brussels

for us tonight. What have the authority been saying?

We have just had a press conference from the Belgian Prime Minister, who

informed that he is keeping the terror alert at four, the highest

level, as it has been throughout the weekend. He apologises but they are

working with quite specific intelligence which raises the threat

or risk of another Paris style attack. And what he is saying, the

investigation is focused here in Brussels.

TRANSLATION: Security services have decided that threat level still

needs to stay at four for the region of Brussels. It will remain at four

as he says. That will bring a lot of frustration for people as they go

back to the working week tomorrow. The Metro system will remain closed,

so to the schools in the Brussels area. Many people would have

anticipated by now and arrest was that they have had eight days to

find Saleh Abdesalem and perhaps a second gunman. They might be

questioning, as indeed Francis, why it has taken so long. They will have

to take own decisions as to what they will do tomorrow. Word from the

International tennis Federation. Great Britain plays an important

match in the Davis Cup final next weekend in Ghent. The team are

supposed to travel with Andy Murray here to Belgium to meet today. They

have postponed that decision till tomorrow. Clearly it is disrupting

their plans. We have also heard today from the brother of Saleh

Abdesalem who says it gained his brother should hand himself in. He

says he wants to see him in a prison rather than a cemetery. He is trying

to sell a line that perhaps his brother had a last-minute change of

heart, which is perhaps what he did not blow himself up. Lots of people

will find that difficult to believe given that an arrest warrant calls

him a highly dangerous individual. Well, tomorrow,

the details of a defence review of the current risks facing the UK

will be made public, and they're likely to lead to a speeding up of

the purchase of new fighter jets. Here's our Defence Correspondent,

Jonathan Beale. At an airbase in the Middle East,

and -- and RAF Reaper drone armed with missiles is about to fly

another mission against the group known as Islamic State. This is

where they are being flown from. By crews back in the UK. We have been

asked not to identify them for security reasons. RAF reapers have

already carried out an air strike in Syria on a British jihadi. They also

helped to identify and target the man known as Jihadi John. Here is

the confirmation they are hunting down others, with or without

Parliamentary approval. There are groups who are actively planning as

harmful to weather threat is imminent and where they can be

identified, we will be failing in our duty if we did not deal with it,

and we will. Ministers will not talk about a hit list but they are keen

to highlight extra resources. They will double the size of the RAF

drone fleet from ten to 20. This is the front line against Islamic

State. A massive hangar at an RAF base in Lincolnshire. Inside these

cabins are RAF crews flying unmanned Reaper drones thousands of miles

away in Iraq and Syria was this is what David Cameron believes is the

future for the British military. There will also be money for new

jets. Britain will be buying dozens of the F 35 jump jet for its two new

aircraft carriers. All part of the defence review, in stark contrast to

the last, will mean increases to the defence budget rather than more

cuts. At a time of rising threats from IS and a more aggressive

Russia. Defence is in a much better position than it thought it would

be. That is to say it is not likely to be cut. Nevertheless, with the

small increases in spending, it still find it difficult to meet the

commitments the Government wants it to meet. It will still take some

time before this new recruitment is delivered. The Royal Navy's new

aircraft carriers will not be ready for combat for at least another five

years. helicopter crash in New Zealand have

been identified. Nigel and Helen Charlton

from Hampshire, and Andrew Virco and Katharine Walker from

Cambridge, died when the aircraft came down on the Fox Glacier

on South Island yesterday morning. Dawn has just broken on a moped West

Coast of New Zealand. We have pretty atrocious weather conditions today.

That is making the recovery operation difficult, if not

impossible. The authorities are warning it could be days before all

of the bodies are covered. For Nigel and Helen Charlton, it was

meant to be the holiday of a lifetime.

They had been on a six-week tour of New Zealand.

The head of radiotherapy at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge,

one of seven people killed, along with her partner, Andrew Virco.

They wanted to do this, to go out and really enjoy it. At the end of

the day, they did what they wanted to do. This is the helicopter they

were on board. Now resembling a crumpled toy, wedged in a crevasse.

Fresh pictures of the debris field have emerged. Today efforts to

recover the bodies will resume. Three have already been winched off

the mountain by helicopter but four of the dead are still trapped. The

company that operated the flight and lost a pilot expressed its

condolences. At the pilots meeting this morning,

it was very sombre and we had I do feel for the families involved,

for the community. It will take time for the small,

remote town which relies on tourism to recover. With more bad weather

forecast, authorities are warning it could be days even before emergency

crews can bring all the bodies of the mountain.

A man released from prison in America after surging dashes because

serving 23 is for murdering a British tourist has been talking

about his conviction. An investigation found the judge and

please detectives did not believe he was guilty and said another man had

already been convicted of the crime. Julie Stott was murdered in New

Orleans. We have this exclusive report.

Robert Jones is finally out of prison,

to be with all his family for the first time in more than 23 years.

Among those he was reunited with, his mother, his sister, and the

A judge ruled he could be released pending retrial

after it was found his original prosecution was not fair.

You must have been thinking about this moment for a long time.

Yes, I have been thinking about it for a million years.

The wheel of justice turned slow but it turned.

In April 1992, a series of violent crimes were

committed in New Orleans, the same attacker described each time.

One of the crimes was the killing of the British tourist, Julie

Stott, after which police received a tip and arrested Robert Jones.

Even though another man was eventually convicted of the murder

and had compelling evidence linking him to all of the crimes,

Last month, the original judge in that trial was among those who

told us prosecutors withheld key, favourable evidence that led to

The fact that he was wrongly convicted and was in jail for

Robert Jones remained behind bars - until now.

Say, for instance, there is a guy that pulled out a pistol, that

You look at him as a cold-blooded murderer.

Here you have a District Attorney that takes and

withholds favourable evidence from a guy, takes his life, sends him to

prison and most guys die in prison innocent people.

Who is the murderer and who is not a murderer?

Robert talked of others he knew he believed were also innocent

I watched a lot of guys die in prison.

That is another added thing that gave me the strength.

Though he is now reunited with his family, he does still face a fight.

In spite of the original detectives and

a judge standing by him, and of all he has been through, the state is

The Church of England says it's "bewildered"

by a decision by leading cinemas, not to screen a Christmas advert,

Digital Cinema Media which sells advertising,

says it didn't accept messages that were religious or political.

Here's our Religious Affairs Correspondent, Caroline Wyatt.

Our Father in Heaven... The ad features a son grieving at his

father's grave. Street preachers, weight lifters, a farmer and the

London community Gospel choir. All was fighting The Lord's Prayer. We

filmed as it was being put together, aimed at celebrating the prayer in

the run-up to Christmas. Whoever designed this prayer seemed to have

found a language and words that makes one feel as if you are

actually talking to God. The idea was for the ad to be shown ahead of

the new Star Wars film just before Christmas at a time when many

families will be going to the cinema together. The agency which sells

advertising for the major chains says it could not show the ad after

all because it was about religion. The final ad was approved by the

British board of film classification for showing in cinemas. The Church

of England says no concerns were raised when it approached the agency

in July. They even discuss the cost. In a statement, Digital Cinema Media

told the BBC it had a policy of not accepting political or religious

advertising. Some adverts could cause offence to those of no faith

or different faiths. We find that astonishing and disappointing and

rather bewildering. We invite people to make their own minds up, to come

to their own decision. The cinema's refusal to show a Christian ad

around Christmas may provoke some soul-searching about the place of

religion in today's society. Others agree with the decision. The cinema

chain might, if it took this advert, be even more at risk of being sued

if it decided it did not want to take an advert for another

if it decided it did not want to religion. I can very much understand

why they do not want to start on it. The Church of England's that

celebrating The Lord's Prayer is now on their website instead.

And Rory McIlroy has finished the season as Europe's top golfer.

The Ulsterman holed a mammoth putt in the course of his victory in the

McIlory, who missed three tournaments this

summer due to injury, said he was looking forward to a rest

And in the Premier League this afternoon, Tottenham currently lead

-- Tottenham beat West Ham 4-1. Harry Kane netted again five minutes

into the second half after the ball was given away by West Ham. The

result means birds were placed London rivals in the top five.

There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel,