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International sanctions against Iran - in place for years - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
are tonight lifted, as it's confirmed Tehran has scaled | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Within the last hour, the EU representative, | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
with the Iranian Foreign Minister by her side, made the announcement, | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
As Iran has fulfilled its commitments, today multilateral | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
and national economic and financial sanctions related to Iran's nuclear | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
The deal means Iranian oil can again be sold on the world market, | :00:26. | :00:37. | |
as well as new trade and financial opportunities for Tehran. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Iran has undertaken significant steps that many - | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
and I do mean many - people doubted would ever | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
We'll be assessing the significance of Iran being brought back | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
Terror in the capital of Burkina Faso, after 29 people | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
are killed in an attack on a luxury hotel by Islamist militants. | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
He has got him. He has got it. And England's seize the series against | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
South Africa, with an emphatic win in the Third Test. | :01:19. | :01:38. | |
International sanctions against Iran, which have been | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
It came after the international nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
confirmed that Tehran had, in accordance with requirements, | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
In the last hour, the European Union's foreign policy | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
chief Federica Mogherini, with the Iranian Foreign Minister | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
by her side, said the deal represented a victory for political | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
The lifting of sanctions will now mean that Iran can again sell oil | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
Let's go straight now to our diplomatic correspondent | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
Bridget Kendall, who's in Vienna where the talks have | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
We, it was under two hours ago here as the UN headquarters in Serena | :02:13. | :02:32. | |
that the UN nuclear Watchdog gave a green light for the Iranian sanction | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
to be lifted. Only in the last hour have we heard from the European | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Foreign Policy Chief prrks the Iranian Foreign Minister and the US | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
Secretary of State John Kerry, that yes, the sanctions will be over, and | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
we are entering a new phase. It has been a long day of anticipation here | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
in Vienna, quite a lot of the time officials didn't seem to though what | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
was happening and it emerged that was because there had been two twin | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
tracks of intense diplomacy behind is scenes here today. One was double | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
and triple checking that nuclear deal, before finally making the | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
announcement that sanctions would be lifted. And the other was the | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
dramatic announcement that there has been a prisoner swap between the | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
United States and Iran. The moment Iran had been waiting | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
for. In Vienna confirmation it has done enough to curtail its nuclear | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
programme, triggering a green light to lift international sanctions. | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
As Iran has fulfilled its commitment, today, multilateral and | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
national economic and financial sanctions related to Iran's nuclear | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
programme are lifted. This achievement clearly demonstrates | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
that with political will, perseverance and diplomacy we can | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
solve the most difficult issues. The Iranian Foreign Minister could not | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
hide his jubilation. I am going to do what I always do, | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
read exactly what she said in English. | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
Also today, released from captivity, for allegedly plotting against the | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
Iranian state, Washington Post reporter Jason, along with three | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
other Iranian-American captives, former US Marine on the left and | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
religious pastor on the right, and a fourth man. All freed in a dramatic | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
prisoner swap with the United States. This evening, we are really | :04:36. | :04:45. | |
reminded once again of diplomacies power to tackle significant | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
challenges. So what has Iran done? Well, in | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
essence it scaled back much of its nuclear programme. It has cut back | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
the number of centrifuges used to enrich uranium but two thirds. It | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
has reduced its stockpile, shipping out the bulk of it to Russia. And | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
its dismantled the core of the heavy water react for at Iraq, replacing | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
it with concrete, so it can't be used to make a plutonium bomb. | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
It is a far cry from just a few years ago, when the west saw the | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
President and Iran's nuclear activities as one of the biggest | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
dangers in the world. Even though Iran insisted its programme was | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
peaceful. But there was more trust in his | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
successor the moderate President. His gamble to conclude a nuclear | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
deal, to lift the sanctions squeeze on Iran's struggling economy, has | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
paid off. Some sanctions will remain, but | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
overall this is a significant milestone. Iran's oil can flow out | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
again, and investors can dive in. Ending years of Iran's international | :05:53. | :05:53. | |
isolation. So what is the reaction to this? For | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
the diplomats involved I would say above all relief, and also a sense | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
of triumph, Philip Hammond the British Foreign Secretary, Britain | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
was involved from the beginning of this diplomacy, said tonight some | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
sceptics said this would never happen, another thing, there is also | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
eagerness, eagerness to get into Iran for all those business | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
opportunity, a consumer market of 80 million people. | :06:24. | :06:23. | |
Thank you. And Barbara Plett joins | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
us from Washington. A very significant moment, clearly. | :06:28. | :06:37. | |
How big an achievement is this for US Iranian diplomacy? It is an | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
enormous achievement, after more than 35 years of hostility, and | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
enmity, they have managed to solve this issue of Iran's nuclear | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
programme. They still don't have diplomatic relationships sthaienedz | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
have many areas where they have significant differences but the | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
State Department in particular has been emphasising these negotiations | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
have opened up a new and important channel of communication, this is | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
also you know, a really big day for President Obama, because this has | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
been his foreign policy priority. Basically staked his reputation on | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
it and he has fought tooth and nail against a strong Republican | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
opposition in Congress. That isn't going to go away and Mr Obama is | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
aware he only has one more year in office to make this agreement stick. | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
But I think he is banking on the success of the deal, if it is | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
successful, as well a strong international support to mean that | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
the deal wouldn't be reversed if it is a Republican who in the end | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
replaces him. At least 29 people, including | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
a number of foreigners, have been killed, and dozens injured | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
in a gun attack by Islamist extremists on a hotel | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
in the West African state of Burkina 120 hostages were freed after local | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
troops, backed by French special A group linked to Al-Qaeda has | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
claimed responsibility. It took place in Burkina Faso's | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
capital Ouagadougou in a luxury Our correspondent Thomas Fessy | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
reports from there. This is when Government troops | :07:54. | :08:15. | |
backed by French special forces finally retook control of the hotel. | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Dramatic scenes right in the centre of the capital city. | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
The terrified guests were evacuated after a long night in hiding. | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
It began on Friday evening round supper time. Al-Qaeda militants | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
stormed the Splendid Hotel in and a cafe across the street. Both popular | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
with UN staff and foreigners. They started shooting and everybody | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
lay down on the ground. As soon as you lifted your head you would get | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
shot straightaway so you had to be pretend to be dead. They even came | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
to touch our feet to check if we were alive. | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
Soldiers had no other option but to fight back here, there was no | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
negotiation. The Jihadist didn't come to take hostage, they came to | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
kill. TRANSLATION: When they left they set | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
fire to the place. The smoke started to suffocate me and the our | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
survivors. This is the scene hours after the end of the siege. Some | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
reports suggest that at least two women were among the four militants | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
killed in the rescue operation. More than 100 people were freed. | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
We are not allowed to go new further than here but from here we can see | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
the traces of the attack, we have seen soldiers and investigators | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
going in and out of the hotel, but the authorities say they have the | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
situation under control. And they have called on people to | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
stay calm. Suzanne is reunited with her | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
husband, but on a hospital bed. A local painter, she was attending a | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
meeting chaired by Government minister in the hotel, when gunshots | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
rang out. TRANSLATION: I am still shocked. It | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
was a nightmare. What we have seen is horrible. It really was horrible. | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
Tonight, families are still waiting for news of their loved ones. The | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
whole country's scarred by the first Jihadi attack by such a scale. The | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
militant have shown they remain a threat throughout the region. | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
Companies could be banned from paying dividends | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
to shareholders unless they pay workers the Living Wage, | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
under proposals outlined by Jeremy Corbyn. | :10:33. | :10:33. | |
The Labour leader also suggested imposing pay ratios between those | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
at the top and bottom of a firm's salary scales. | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
With me now is our political correspondent, Carole Walker. | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
How firm are are the proposals? At this stage they are just Sugg | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
suggestion but it is clear from two Stevens Jeremy Corbyn made today he | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
does want to do more to strengthen workers right, one idea would be to | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
prevent companies paying dividends to shareholders unless all their | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
workers get the living wage. It has to be said that the present Tory | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Government is going to make the living wage compulsory so they may | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
have to do so any way. Jeremy Corbyn has a wider agenda, he want to | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
strengthen the power of testify union, to repeal the bill that would | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
curb their powers, he want to look at what he sees the gulf between the | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
Tom and -- top and bottom of the wage stale-of-scale. He wants unions | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
to have online ballots. He is setting up a commission to look at | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
all of this, but it has to be said, businesses are not happy, they say | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
that politicians should not businesses are not happy, they say | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
involved in getting involved in private companies, and some Labour | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
MPs will be concerned the whole agenda and tone is anti-business. | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
Thank you. Taiwan has elected its | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
first female President. Tsai Ying-wen is leader of the party | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
that wants independence from neighbouring China, | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
and in her first speech after winning, she said the island's | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
democratic system must be respected. China sees Taiwan as | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
a breakaway province, which it has threatened to take back | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
by force, if necessary. From the Taiwanese capital Taipei, | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports. What has happened in Taiwan | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
tonight is nothing short The small bespectacled woman shaking | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
hands on stage has just been elected Taiwan's new President - | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
and by a huge margin. Tasi Ying-wen is a | :12:27. | :12:35. | |
British-educated law Professor. Today's victory shows the whole | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
world Taiwanese people "Taiwanese people are democratic, | :12:39. | :12:55. | |
and as President I will make sure To Beijing, those are fighting | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
words. Tsai and her passionate young | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
supporters want the world to see Taiwan as an independent, | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
democratic country - It's not a view shared | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
by these people. At the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall | :13:11. | :13:29. | |
in Taipei, bus loads of mainland Chinese tourists are crowding | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
in to watch the Changing Nearly four million Chinese tourists | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
visited Taiwan last year. But familiarity does not appear to | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
be bringing greater understanding. "But if they try to declare full | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
independence, then we will fight." The threat that China could one day | :13:49. | :14:01. | |
invade this island used to fill Tonight, the people of Taiwan have | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
spoken loudly and emphatically, This is our country, | :14:05. | :14:16. | |
this is our democracy, and we will not be bullied by one | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
party dictatorship in Beijing. England's cricketers | :14:20. | :14:34. | |
have won the Test series with a resounding seven wicket | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
victory in Johannesburg. Man of the Match Stuart Broad took | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
six wickets for just 17 runs, as the home team were bowled out | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
for 83 in their second innings. It left England needing | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
just 74 to win. A series victory at the home | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
of the world's best. This England side once again | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
reaching spectacular new heights. Still, all that seemed a long way | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
off, as Joe Root returned His wicket began an England | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
batting collapse of sorts - quite literally here | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
in the case of Moeen Ali. The last five lost quickly | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
as conditions swung back The lead for England | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
a mere ten runs. But this match - and the series - | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
was about to turn once more, England's pace attack relentless, | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
unforgiving. This was Stuart Broad's first | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
wicket, and when he finds his rhythm there are few more destructive | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
anywhere in the world. AB de Villiers, South Africa's | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
captain, couldn't cope with him. Others simply tried | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
to get out of his way. Whilst the bowling was brilliant, | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
James Taylor's catch to dismiss In one spell Broad took | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
an astonishing five wickets for just His sixth ended their innings | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
on a meagre 83. For England, a quite | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
remarkable victory. The guys are celebrating in that | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
changing room because we have worked hard throughout this tour for this | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
sort of moment, and this sort of day, and it came very | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
quickly for us. South Africa now lose their place | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
as the world's top Test side. England - well, their reputation | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
just continues to grow. You can see more on all of today's | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
stories on the BBC News Channel. Good evening. Another cold day for | :16:23. | :16:44. | |
most of us and we saw some fairly significant snow | :16:45. | :16:45. |