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A senior Conservative urges David Cameron to allow Cabinet | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
ministers to campaign to leave the EU without having to resign. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
The former Defence Secretary Liam Fox says he's already decided | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
We will all have to make up our minds, possibly | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
For me it is now very clear what direction we should take | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
But the former Prime Minister Sir John Major calls for the Cabinet | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Also tonight: Votes are counted in Spain after an election that saw | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
the two main parties face an unprecedented challenge. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
The ruling Conservatives win the most votes, but lose their overall | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
majority. The use of guns by police in England | :00:42. | :00:42. | |
and Wales is to be reviewed to see if the law gives | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
officers enough support. In Syria, we speak to | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
the British Islamist who says he's prepared to die fighting both | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
so-called Islamic State The BBC sports personality of the | :00:54. | :01:21. | |
year for 2015 is the incomparable Andy Murray. I work as hard as I can | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
every day to try and make you proud and I appreciate all the moat -- | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
votes. Thank you very much. The former Conservative Defence | :01:27. | :01:40. | |
Secretary Liam Fox has urged David Cameron to allow Cabinet | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
members to campaign for the UK to leave the European Union | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
without having to resign. Dr Fox has confirmed | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
he'll be voting to leave But the Prime Minister's approach | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
to renegotiating Britain's EU membership received further support | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
today from one of his predecessors, Our Political Correspondent | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
Chris Mason reports. It's 43 years since Ted Heath signed | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
us up to what is now the EU. In the next two years, we will be | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
asked whether we want to stay. This former Prime Minister | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
says we should. If we vote to stay out, | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
then we are out and we will have to get on with it and | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
face the consequences. David Cameron has been in Brussels | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
trying to persuade fellow European leaders that the UK needs | :02:27. | :02:38. | |
a new deal with the EU. He knows that back home some | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
grumble, that they will say his What does the Prime Minister hoped | :02:44. | :02:59. | |
to achieve from the renegotiation. He wants to protect the powers of | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
Westminster and help businesses be more competitive by cutting | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
regulations, and prevent -- protect countries that kept the Roman | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
currencies and to stop migrants being claiming benefits. This is | :03:17. | :03:17. | |
something John Major endorses. It isn't common sense to sweep | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
into countries more people than we can provide | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
for if they are sick, Some in the cabinet, | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
like Iain Duncan Smith, are not | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
exactly big fans of the EU. Today, a former Cabinet colleague | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
said they should be able to keep their jobs and campaign | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
to leave, just as he already is. For me, two things had to happen | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
to want to stay in the EU. One was a fundamental | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
change in our relationship with the European Union, | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
but more importantly, a change in direction for the EU | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
itself, away from the concept of an ever-closer union, | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
and towards a much more independent and looser association | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
of sovereign states. At the last European referendum | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
in 1975, Labour Cabinet Ministers were allowed to campaign on both | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
sides of the debate. David Cameron has so far avoided | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
saying whether he will allow that Chris is in Westminster | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
for us tonight. Is the Prime Minister going to be | :04:15. | :04:31. | |
able to maintain the line he has kept? That is the big question. | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Whilst at the moment he can make the argument and keep a big tent | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
approach around the Cabinet table over the EU, because the | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
renegotiation is continuing and all of the cabinet can acknowledge that | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
for the time being that is worth pursuing. Once the renegotiation is | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
complete and the Prime Minister, as he hopes, can make the argument that | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
we can stay in the EU, there is likely to be some around the Cabinet | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
table who think exactly the opposite, and it's not just Liam Fox | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
who is arguing that the Prime Minister should suspend Cabinet | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
responsibility. Graham Brady also made that argument and said it would | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
be morally right and catastrophically wrong to do the | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
opposite. It gives you some sense of just how much is at stake for the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
Prime Minister in holding his party together on this. Chris, thank you. | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
Votes were cast today in Spain's most fiercely contested general | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
An anti-austerity party and a liberal party are challenging | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
the dominance of Spain's two traditional political forces | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
by fielding candidates across the country for the first time. | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
conservative Popular Party means the governing, | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
Has lost its overall majority despite getting the most votes. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
Our correspondent Tom Burridge sent this report from Madrid. | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
A warning it contains flash photography. | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
Can this man remain Prime Minister of Spain? He and his conservative | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
popular party won the most votes, but the first time in three decades, | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
new parties have broken through and his party fell well short of the | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
majority of MPs it won four years ago. Since then, Spain has become a | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
more competent country after the crisis. The economy is growing now, | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
but unemployment is still 21% stop and in the eyes of many Spaniards, | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
the incumbent government has been damaged by corruption. So people | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
like Roberta, half American half Spanish, voted today for a new | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Liberal party promising a change. I think this is a watershed day in the | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
young democracy of Spain. Now it needs to go up to the next level. | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
Cleaner, more democratic more participation, more transparency. We | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
have two new parties and it looks like they are to stay. Pablo | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
Iglesias leads the other new political force. His message is that | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
Spain has become more unequal country because of austerity has | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
support. -- has galvanised support. Tonight, after their first general | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
election, his supporters are celebrating. They are a new force | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
here, and they have a message for European leaders who directed | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
austerity in Spain. We are saying that we want to govern our own | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
country, not to listen to Brussels. We know that we are lower | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
economically than Brussels and Germany, but please listen to us. | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
These people want Europe to listen and the politics of their government | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
to change because so many Spaniards are worse off than they were four | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
years ago. Tonight, the vote is split, and traditional parties here | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
have been punished. The shell, the Prime Minister has, and said because | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
his Popular Party got the most votes they should form the government, but | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
on paper it will be difficult for them to do that which leaves open | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
the possibility of a different type of coalition of left-wing parties, | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
possibly with pro-independence Catalan parties and it would be | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
messy, but it will include the anti-austerity movement who have | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
risen to third in the election because of their anti-austerity | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
ticket against the policies and lamented by this party and directed | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
by Brussels. European leaders will be watching with interest and I. | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
Don't think that any Spanish party is Eurosceptic in the British sense. | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
But tonight people have voted against the way Europe has been run | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
over the course of the last few years. | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
David Cameron has ordered a review into the use of guns by police | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
The move follows the Paris attacks and will look at whether the law | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
gives enough support to officers having to make | :09:09. | :09:09. | |
Paris has led to a rethink. It's similar attacks were to also happen | :09:10. | :09:24. | |
here could our police protect us? The government wants more police | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
firearms training like you can see here. But are the officers legally | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
protected enough if they make a mistake? If an attack were to happen | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
in a busy city centre like this one it would come down to split-second | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
decisions. We understand that at the highest levels of the police there | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
are serious concerns that firearms officers simply do not have the | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
correct legal or political protection they would require if | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
something were to go wrong. Here is the protection as it stands. The | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
criminal Law act allows police to use reasonable force. The criminal | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
Justice act recognises the defence that an officer had an honest and | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
instinctive belief that opening fire was reasonable. The government | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
presumably hopes that the review will persuade armed police that | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
politicians are on their side, even if the law is not actually | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
rewritten. One former Met police firearms officer says the threat has | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
changed, as has the role of the police. The police are being pushed | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
towards the military role. So you then have to be somewhat less | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
delicate in your thinking and actions to enable them to do their | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
job to help to keep this country safe. But some caution that this | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
should not go too far. It's important to get the balance right. | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
It's got to be democratically decided. But we can't just have | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
shoot to kill without any kind of democratic involvement. These are | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
not new concerns. On the London Underground in 2005 officers killed | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
John Charles the Menez ez. Policing correctly suspected him of | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
committing terrorist offences. -- the police incorrectly suspected | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
him. In Paris they are clearing away the former floral tributes, but | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
concerns over how the police should approach these attacks remains just | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
as important as ever. Key to the government's strategy | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
to defeat so-called Islamic State in Syria are what it refers | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
to as 'moderate' rebels, which it claims number | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
70,000 fighters. But the shifting alliances | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
of Syria's war makes identifying The BBC has gained exclusive access | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
to one British Islamist who is in Syria fighting, he says, | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
against both President Assad and IS and prepared to carry out | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
suicide attacks against them. Our correspondent Quentin | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Sommerville spoke to him Syria's war is moving closer. | :11:37. | :11:52. | |
Already British fighters have taken up arms. This man is English, a | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
Muslim convert, and he is fighting jihad. He calls himself a moderate | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
and says it is time for Western help. As fighters, we are willing to | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
cooperate with any other group that is going to help us against our | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
primary enemies. Our primary enemies being Isis and Bashar al-Assad's | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
army. He will not show his face and it is too dangerous for us to visit | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
that part of Syria. We spoke via the Internet. He says Britain needs to | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
embrace jihadists if the EIS group is to be defeated. What we need to | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
look at is that in terms of the peshmerga or the Kurdish groups | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
fighting against IS, there were British soldiers and American | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
soldiers who are fighting against IS as well. I am doing the same thing. | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
The army are not prepared to put on a suicide vest. They are not, but it | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
comes down to the same goal. They are fighting to stop this group, | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
Isis, and for example, if one of them got stuck in a situation where | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
they were surrounded by the enemy, maybe they would take a grenade, | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
open up the pin and blow himself up with the enemy. It is the same idea. | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
We are coming down to the same goals. More than 700 Brits have come | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
to Syria to fight with IS, but nobody knows how many have taken up | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
arms with other groups. One of the things that nearly all the foreign | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
fighters who come here to Cherie share -- to Syria share is that they | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
all say they experience something that changes them. They fight and | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
they kill, so how could it not? But what of the change do they bring | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
back home? Just how different are they less Chamakh if there are | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
70,000 moderate fighters here, they would be difficult to identify in | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
the wreckage of Syria, and the British security services warn that | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
friends on the battlefield could still be enemies at home. Britain | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
has joined an alliance of convenience here to destroy IS, but | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
in the fast moving allegiances of this war, those shared aims will be | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
unlikely to hold for long. Dozens of people are reported | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
to have been killed in an air attack on the rebel-held city of Idlib | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
in north west Syria, with some residents | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
blaming Russian planes. Rescue workers have been quoted | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
as saying that 43 people were known Russia has not confirmed whether it | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
carried out strikes in the area. An emergency landing | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
by an Air France plane in Kenya was caused by a false bomb alert, | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
according to the airline's chief. The incident is the fourth false | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
alarm the airline has had Our Paris Correspondent | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
Lucy Williamson reports. Just days before Christmas, | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
a reminder of just how suddenly Found in a toilet on board this | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
plane, a suspected bomb. It turned out to be a false alarm, | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
the device fashioned from a cardboard box | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
and a kitchen timer, but the fears it caused were enough | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
to divert the flight to Kenya The 459 passengers on board | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
reportedly unaware of what was going on until their feet | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
touched the ground. The plane went down, slowly, slowly, | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
so we just realised something The people of Air France | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
were just wonderful. They kept everybody | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
calm and really quiet. A replacement flight is expected | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
to bring the passengers back Several of them have reportedly been | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
questioned by police. At a press conference in Paris, | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
the Air France CEO described TRANSLATION: We are still waiting | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
to hear more about the legal implications from the Kenyan | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
authorities, and we are going to ask Ever since the November attacks, | :15:57. | :16:12. | |
extra security forces have patrolled airports, train stations and even | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
Christmas markets. This latest incident turned out to be a false | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
alarm, but here in Paris tonight it only reminds people of the very real | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
threats levelled against their country. Lucy Williamson, BBC News, | :16:25. | :16:25. | |
Paris. Alleged victims of child sexual | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
abuse by the former Labour MP, Lord Janner, have reacted angrily | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
to the news their testimony will no Lord Janner's death at the age of 87 | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
yesterday means what's known as a "trial of the facts" | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
can't now take place. But it's expected the independent | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
inquiry into child sexual abuse chaired by Justice Lowell Goddard | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
will now consider the case. Here's our Home Affairs | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
Correspondent, Tom Symonds. Well-respected in the Jewish | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
community, and MP for 27 years, but if anything, the allegations | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
of child sexual abuse were growing in the years before | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
Lord Janner's death - claims that he sexually abused | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
at least nine children Because of his worsening | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
Alzheimer's disease, he made just one brief appearance | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
in court in the summer. A judge this month decided he wasn't | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
well enough to take part As a result, a jury wouldn't be able | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
to pass judgment on him, but it was going to consider | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
the facts of the case. His accusers do not know | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
when their testimony will be heard. This man says Lord Janner abused him | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
at a working man's club. I feel very let down | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
because we cannot have our Now, people will say it could be it | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
might not have happened. Another alleged victim wrote today, | :17:41. | :17:49. | |
"I have lived for nearly 50 years My only outlook was one day | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
to drag him into court." There is one final opportunity for | :17:57. | :18:10. | |
all of this to be fully examined. The Independent enquiry into child | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
sexual abuse based in this central London tower block is, next year I | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
understand, highly likely to add the Lord Janner allegations to its | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
examinations of child abuse over there in Westminster. Lord Janner | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
has always denied the allegations and his family do as well. Tom | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
Symons, BBC News, central London. With all the sport, here's | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
Karthi Gnanasegaram at the BBC Sport Andy Murray has won the BBC's | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
Sports Personality of the Year Award That was after leading Great Britain | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
to their first Davis Cup victory for 79 years. They also won the team of | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
the year. There is flash photography in this report. The winner is the | :18:52. | :19:02. | |
incomparable Andy Murray. Not for the first time, he was simply | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
unbeatable. A standing ovation for Andy Murray has, for the second time | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
in three years, he collected that famous trophy ahead of Kevin | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
Sinfield and Jessica Ennis. Not bad, as he joked, Thirimanne whose | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
personality has sometime been questioned. -- for a man. A friend | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
sent me a message with an article from a newspaper which said that | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
Andy Murray is duller than a weekend in Worthing. Which I thought was a | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
bit harsh to Worthing. This year 's show has attracted the usual array | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
of stars but also attracted controversy over the inclusion of | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
one of British board's most polarising figures. Tyson Fury | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
arrived to a flash of camera bulbs and outside a small group of | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
protesters, angered by his recent comments about women and | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
homosexuality. He finished fourth in the public vote after insisting in | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
his interview that he had never meant to cause offence. I've said a | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
lot of stuff in the past and none of it is with the intention is to hurt | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
anybody, it's all very tongue in cheek and fun and games. I'm not a | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
serious type of person. Everything is happy-go-lucky with Tyson Fury. | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
If I've said anything in the past that has hurt anybody, I apologise | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
to anyone who has been hurt. It's not my intention to do that. One of | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
the most emotional awards of the night was to age old Bailey | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
Matthews. He has cerebral palsy and this year completed a triathlon, | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
whilst in Belfast there was a popular choice for coach of the | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
year, the Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill. But the night | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
belonged to Andy Murray. A glittering end to another | :20:49. | :20:48. | |
extraordinary year. It's been a season of upsets | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
and unusual results Swansea and West Ham bucked that | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
trend with a 0-0 draw. But Watford beat Liverpool 3-0 today | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
and sit in seventh place They are just a point of the | :21:00. | :21:12. | |
Champions League places. The festive season has begun, and the sea | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
surprises goes on and on. Watford played host to this pre-Christmas | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
gathering and it was Liverpool who brought the gifts. Add Bogdan Lobont | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
able to get to grips with a corner and for Watford, immediately | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
something to cling onto -- unable to get to grips. For Jurgen Klopp and | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
his team, things were getting significantly worse. Ighalo proving | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
once again that he is one of the season's eye-catching players. The | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
second half, and second helpings. Only this time Ighalo could not | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
quite finish off. For Liverpool, chances were infrequent, unlike | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
here, never enough. Watford's run of big results continues as does the | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
goal-scoring of Ighalo. His second, their third, brought the latest | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
surprise in this extraordinary season. Sometimes the celebrations | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
and high spirits are such you cannot help joining in. | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
The Bayern Munich coach, Pep Guardiola, has confirmed | :22:09. | :22:09. | |
he is leaving the German Champions at the end of this season. | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
Guardiola has been heavily linked with a move to | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
Well, Guardiola's former team, Barcelona, today won | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
the Club World Cup beating River Plate 3-0. | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
It's Barcelona's fifth trophy of the year. | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Rugby union, and Ulster have beaten four-time champions Toulouse | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
It's the first time Ulster have beaten them in France. | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
The 25-23 win keeps Ulster's hopes of reaching | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
Elsewhere Leicester beat Munster, but Exeter were defeated. | :22:34. | :22:46. | |
It's time for the news where you are. | :22:47. | :22:48. |