01/09/2014 BBC News at One

a brain tumour appear in court faced with extradition to the UK. We will

be live in Spain at the court and the hospital for the latest. Also

this lunch time. New plans to tackle the threat of Islamist extremists,

but the coalition agreement -- disagreements over their legality.

Millions of children prepare to go back to school and, with a new

curriculum, five-year-olds are going to learn about computer programming.

Ukrainian forces withdraw from a key airport

after heavy fighting, as Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov calls

Splashing the cash - Manchester United sign up Colombia striker

Radamel Falcao with 11 hours of the football transfer window left.

The black cab drivers demanding action

And business group the CBI says airport expansion is

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

As his parents appear in court to face extradition to

the UK, five- year-old Ashya King, who has a brain tumour,

remains in a Malaga hospital. Brett and Naghemeh King were arrested on

Saturday after removing their son from the Southampton Hospital where

he was being treated. Hampshire Police say they contacted

Spanish officers after they were told

the boy's health was at risk, and they had no choice but to ask for

an arrest warrant for his parents. The King's supporters say they are

being treated like criminals Their hearing at the

Madrid High Court is underway now. Our Correspondent Tom

Burridge is there. The hearing has been delayed because

the lawyer was delayed. The Kings will be asked if they accept their

extradition back to the UK. If so they could be back in the UK within

48 hours. If they do not agree it will go to another court hearing in

weeks or even months. And the court here will decide in the meantime if

they are to be granted bail. The parents of five-year-old Ashya King

were driven this morning in a police van into the High Court here in

Madrid. Last night they were taken in handcuffs from a hearing at a

regional court in Malaga. What is your message tonight? The

best treatment for Ashya. Images like these had increased criticism

of how the couple have been treated. Ashya's and mother told us she was

appalled. It is appalling, they are being treated like criminals. They

have taken for a little Ashya who's dying of a brain tumour and they

will not let his parents see him at all. It is terrible. It is so cruel

it is unbelievable. But Hampshire police said they had to act as

quickly as possible and they say that issuing a European arrest

warrant was there only option. A European arrest woman has to be

agreed by the Crown Prosecution Service and a district judge. --

European arrest warrant. It is not just the view of Hampshire

Constabulary that Ashya is vulnerable and needs to come back to

the UK for treatment. For now Ashya is in a children's hospital in

Malaga. Authorities in Britain say his life was in danger but one of

his older brothers said that after he was removed by his parents from

hospital, he was given the necessary care. We did not change his food, it

was the same food. He was not starving along the way. The parents

say they just want the young boy to get the best treatment, a treatment

they say is only available abroad. No UK hospital offers proton beam

therapy of the US -- by the NHS was paid for some to have the treatment

abroad. Last year 143 patients had their cases considered, 122 of those

were approved, 99 were children. The cost is around ?100,000 per patient.

Proton therapy is a more targeted form of radiotherapy used in

children to reduce the severity of some long-term side effects of

treatment. The use of proton therapy is not an advantage for everyone and

so there is a specialist panel which advises the NHS as to which patients

will benefit from proton therapy. At the centre of everything as a young

boy who is still seriously ill in a Spanish hospital. When Ashya King

and his six siblings might return to the UK is still not clear. And what

happens next to Ashya and his six siblings were still in Spain depends

to a large extent on what happens to their parents in that hearing in the

High Court behind me. Whether or not they accept extradition and it is

High Court behind me. Whether or not they accept whether the judge grants

them bail. We expect that decision soon.

Let's speak to our correspondent Jon Kay, who's outside the hospital in

What is the latest on his condition? Ashya was brought here on

Saturday night when his parents were arrested. He is in a private room

under police guard. None of his family, his six brothers and sisters

who are somewhere in the surrounding area, none of them have been allowed

to go inside to see him. They told me they found that distressing. We

heard from the grandmother and she also said she found it distressing.

Just in the last couple of minutes I was with Danny King, the older

brother who is 23. He got a call from doctors telling him he could go

there this afternoon to see his little brother for the first time.

Danny was extremely relieved to hear that news. He is delighted. He was

thankful to the Spanish doctor who told him that because he has been

really concerned about how Ashya is dealing with this. He is five years

old, seriously ill and on his own. He is in a foreign country. He

cannot communicate with the doctors around him and his oldest brother

was concerned about what on earth would be going through his mind. So

he hopes he will be able to reassure him this afternoon. As far as the

family are concerned this is the first bit of good news they had

heard over the course of the last couple of days. So court proceedings

in Madrid, an ethical and legal debate going on in the UK, but the

focus is still on that one little boy in a hospital room on the fourth

floor of this building behind me. We can speak now to

our legal affairs correspondent, What happens next? The Crown

Prosecution Service have gone to a court in this country and persuaded

a district judge there are reasonable grounds of suspecting his

period of having committed a criminal offence. There have been no

charges, but reasonable ground for suspicion. That triggered the rest

in Spain and this afternoon either his parents will agree to the

extradition and return to the UK swiftly, or they will seek to fight

it. If they do it could be a matter of weeks or months. And it is

difficult to resist and fight extradition under this fast-track

system that was brought in after the September the 11th attacks. It is to

facilitate the fast return of those suspected of criminal offences. The

uncomfortable aspect is that there is a five-year-old boy in hospital

with no access to his parents. That will be determined by whether the UK

authorities resist an application for bail. If they do, and bail was

not granted, because the parents are deemed to be at risk of flight, one

of the grounds for resisting a bail application, then they will perhaps

be in custody for weeks or months. We'll find out later this afternoon

what the government's plans are to tackle the threat from Islamist

extremists. All weekend the Conservatives have

been in talks with Liberal Democrats over proposals for temporary bans

on fighters travelling home Plans which some senior Lib Dems

have warned could be illegal. The Prime Minister says the threat

is greater than ever. But what exactly should now be done to keep

the country safe with Mac several hundred British nationals are

thought to have travelled to Iraq and Syria to join Islamic State

fighters. Some may already have come back and others could return

prepared to carry out violence here. Someone coming back from that sort

of area has got to prove to the likes of me and everyone else in

this country that they're not coming back to do us harm. Otherwise we as

politicians would be remiss in our duty.

Over the weekend and again this morning senior ministers met to

consider the options. Tightening up existing protections and considering

some new measures. Plans to make it easier to seize passports, temporary

bans on British fighters travelling home from conflict abroad and

stricter surveillance. Labour want stronger laws to restrict the

movement of suspects, like the old control orders now replaced by

lesser powers. If you do that the police can keep a

lesser powers. If you do that the better eye on them and you can

remove them from their associates where they are plotting. If we put

that power back into those orders we now have, that would be used. MPs

will have to consider whether existing terror laws need to be

strengthened. If ministers insist that they do,

strengthened. If ministers insist that any new package would have to

have enough political support and be legally watertight. Even if the

authorities can identify suspect and obtain enough evidence against them,

could they be detained at airports without being arrested? Wherewith

they then go? With a passports be removed even temporarily? If you

have a passport removed and you are British citizen it could present

problems with various UN conventions on statelessness. Parliament has

been faced with dilemmas such as this before. Upholding freedom while

at the same time doing everything to keep us safe.

Let's speak to our Assistant Political Editor, Norman Smith.

How difficult will it be to get agreement? Well agreement has only

been reached in the last few minutes which underlines the difficulties

involved in securing agreement between the Liberal Democrats and

the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats much more cautious about

restrictions on British citizens and even temporarily barring British

subjects returning to the UK. At difficulties above all in ensuring

any new measures are legally watertight and do not crumble in the

courts as has so often be the case with counterterrorism legislation.

When the Prime Minister gets up I suspect what we will hear is strong

language about generational threat we face, and new measures, but

precious little new legislation. But I think that tells us is firstly, it

is comparatively easy to talk about cracking down on terrorism but much

harder to come up with specific legislative measures to do so. And

also in the view of ministers, it underlines that we are involved in a

long generational struggle and in that struggle, argument, opinion,

expressing British values, maybe much more important than simply

coming up with an endless list of new pieces of counterterrorism

legislation. Millions

of children return to school this And this term they're also having to

cope with a new, tougher, Five-year-olds will be learning

fractions and computer coding, while students in early secondary

school will have to study According to the Department

for Education, the aim is to prepare children

for "life in modern Britain". Though some teachers have warned

they haven't had enough time to get Max is ten years old and taught

himself coding. I started coding when I was six. He started typing in

instructions like these with that laptop and it helped him our

websites and android apps. Coding, you can do so much with it. It gets

you so creative. If you get coding in schools it might not seem as fun

any more. You do not want to learn something in school out of school.

That is the challenge ahead for the government. They want teachers in

England to crack coding just like Max and make mandatory computer

lessons interesting. It is one of the biggest changes to the National

Curriculum in 26 years so over the summer teachers have been learning

all about coding at sessions like this to get them ready to teach the

subject in time for the new school term.

I think most primary schools are not repaired for this September and it

will take time and a lot of the Fort.

You want to be able to know your subject as well as you possibly can.

To be able to deliver that to students. I have spent so much of my

own time getting myself ready. Schools in Scotland, Wales and

Northern Ireland said they had no plans to make computer programming

mandatory but they say it is plans to make computer programming

mandatory but they say still an important part of their curriculum.

The National Association of head teachers believe the changes in

England have come too soon. It would have given us opportunity to drip

feed it into the curriculum. But as long as people do not expect them to

be built in a day. The government said teachers have had over a year

to prepare. They are confident that mandatory computer lessons including

coding will benefit children. We need to teach them how to programme,

how to build and understand how a computer works. That is what the new

curriculum will deliver. Schools in England are settling into the

changes. Max one day once to turn his love of coding into a career.

The hope is many other children will follow.

received -- release new footage of the so-called Plebgate incident. It

led to the resignation of Andrew Mitchell. It was said it was the

first time it could be published because of criminal and disciplinary

proceedings. Does this tell us anything new? This is a closing

report and it is unusual for the police to mark the end of an

investigation by putting so much detail out there, including these

videos. It was controversial and I think they wanted the public to have

all the information. The video shows new angles on an incident that has

been so much talked about. This camera, you can see Andrew Mitchell

talking to two police officers, who said he could not go through the

main gate and had to go through the pedestrian gate. This conversation

lasted about 36 seconds. He moves off and it is at that point he is

alleged to have called the police officers plebs. There is no sound so

there is no way of confirming that. One of the officers involved said

there were people who could overhear what is being said and they were

visibly shocked by what they heard. We can see in the picture there is

one person who is close enough to hear, and even that is arguable.

That particular account is pretty much discredited by these pictures.

The end product of this is there have been disciplinary hearings for

four officers and four dismissed and one sent to prison for effectively

writing to his MPs saying he was the person who overheard the

conversation and not saying he was a serving Metropolitan police officer.

Watt the top story. The parents of a five-year-old with

a brain tumour are appearing in court in Madrid facing extradition.

And remembering the warhorses. Later on BBC London, a study suggests many

of London's parents want local councils to have more control over

school places. And Watford's head coach quits.

Ukraine's president has accused Russia of direct and open

aggression and said the conflict had now changed in a radical way.

There's still fierce fighting in the east of the country

between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists.

Today the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov,

Representatives from Ukraine, Russia and the Organisation for Security

and Cooperation in Europe are meeting today to discuss the crisis.

Here's our world affairs correspondent, Mike Wooldridge.

In the region at the centre of an intensifying diplomatic

crisis, pro-Russian separatists prepare to fight.

One leader said they were heading to Donetsk airport, shut at the end

of May after clashes between rebels and government forces.

It has been under the control of the military ever since.

The Foreign Minister repeated denials of Russian involvement. He

said talks on the Ukraine crisis were about an imminent and

unconditional cease-fire. But international concern is now

focusing on the key sports city -- port city of marry. -- marry Paul.

Residents took to the streets yesterday to protest and to pray for

peace. Ukraine's president used a gathering of military cadets today

to accuse Russia of what he called direct and open aggression against

his country, said it has radically changed the situation in the zone of

conflict. The US and Europe have charged rusher with sending troops

to intervene in Ukraine. European security organisation said today it

was hard to confirm the presence of regular Russian forces within

Ukrainian territory. That said, Australia has stepped up its

sanctions against Russia. I want to make it clear that the bullying of

small nations by big ones and assertions that might is right

should have no place in our world. In the latest development on the

ground, Ukrainian officials say their troops have retreated from the

airport close to this rebel stronghold after coming under

artillery fire. We can speak to our diplomatic correspondent. A lot of

people will ask what Vladimir Putin is up to. It seems to have been a

turnaround in the past week. It looked like the Ukrainian army was

on its way to crushing the rebels, but they are retreating because the

rebels seem to have more men. Vladimir Putin said he did not

supply it and he wants peace and a cease-fire. It seems to me what he

is trying to say to the Ukrainian president is he cannot win against

Russia's military might and has no option but to start peace talks.

There is a NATO summit taking place at the end of the week, perhaps he

is also signalling to the Ukrainian resident that they will not come to

their military aid. They will not want to take on Russia directly for

fear of war in Europe. What he has wanted all along, a peace deal, that

allows the rebels to have an autonomous region inside Ukraine, so

they would have a veto over decisions Kiev would want to

undertake before example to join NATO. Would it work? I do not know.

Far, when he has upped the anti-it has led them to harden their stance.

Thank you. Mobile phones are on and cheque

books are out on the final day of what is the most expensive transfer

window in British football history. By 11 o'clock tonight, we'll know

exactly who's gone where - but there's already been at least one

big name arrival at Old Trafford. Manchester United have been the

Premier League's biggest spenders this summer and today they have

another high-profile arrival, the Colombian striker Radamel Falcao,

arriving on loan from Monaco. He has a reputation as one of the world's

most prolific goal-scorers and is valued at around 50 billion. This is

quite a deal for Manchester United, who have spent a record-breaking

?150 million on new players as they tried to recover from the

disappointment of last season. It is not just here at Manchester United,

clubs in the Premier League are spending more on new players than

ever. ?745 million spent across the Premier League in this transfer

window. That has smashed last summer's record. Wigmore transfers

expected, the final total could be up to the ?1 billion mark. They are

getting more money than ever from a bumper TV deal, which is why they

are spending. The deadline is 11pm. Expect a frenetic few hours as clubs

tried to sign the player who could make the difference between success

and failure. Their contribution in the First

World War was highlighted in the play War Horse and today the animals

and men of the British Cavalry 100 years ago, they helped to

stop the German advance on Paris. It changed the course of the

Great War but was also the last time cavalry on horseback

took part in a major action. And today they are remembered

in the French town of Nery, Those who have seen

their passing have spoken Over the past five days,

the khaki-clad column has clattered through the lanes

and villages north of Paris. Every rider represents one regiment

amongst the many driven south Some carry personal mementos

from family members who survived My great-grandfather was

Lieutenant John Gage Williams of the 19th Hussars, and he was shot

here in November 1914. I'm now wearing his dog tags

along with my own. My own I last wore in Afghanistan,

and his were last worn 100 years In late August 1914, long before

the stalemate of trench warfare, cavalry still played a vital part

in the Allied response to a German Cavalrymen could move quickly,

scout ahead of the infantry, On the foggy morning of September

the 1st, British cavalry and artillery were

under fire from a much larger force. Today, crowds will watch part

of that story unfold on the field where three Victoria

Crosses were won in just an hour. Amid the carnage, the crew of

the surviving field gun fought on. The hero of the day was

really Captain Bradbury. He managed to summon up

the troops to man the guns and take on the Germans as they were

shelling from the higher ground. And you can see from the picture,

you just get a sense of the terrible casualties, both amongst

the men and the horses here. They lost all the horses

of the battery. British casualties were relatively

light, but hundreds This ceremony marks the loss of

life. Going home and looking back

and just looking at the past week at what I've done, I feel very

proud, and I hope the families of the deceased do feel proud too,

because we won't let them forget. NASA has released new footage

showing a series There've been more than half

a dozen on the surface of the sun over the last week

and that means we'll soon be feeling It has been a pretty busy week for

the sudden, cosmically speaking. NASA's pictures prove the point. On

the left, a huge explosion of radioactive material, it is a solar

flare. Over the past days there have been more than half a dozen similar

eruptions. Look at this image with particles of superheated energy

shooting thousands of kilometres out into space. It is not just about

pretty pictures. The solar wind travels through the cosmos and can

reach us on earth. Satellite communications could be affected

amongst other things. At the very least, you will get to see a

wonderful display, like the Northern lights. This is what happens when

solar winds hits the Earth's atmosphere. The solar flares do not

appear to be aimed in our direction, so we can breathe easy.

But they are an extraordinary sight, nonetheless. But will it be getting

any warmer? We will feel the effects of the

September sun here and there this week, but not necessarily

everywhere. The sunshine, that is the big question for the week ahead.

The weather is settled this week. Not much rain after today. It will

feel warm. Why is the weather settled? We have high-pressure

building from the Atlantic. The problem today is the weather front

across eastern and central England. It is providing a dismal Monday

here. Further west, sunshine. It might brighten up in north-east

England but for East Anglia and the South East, grey with rain and

drizzle for the rest of today. Brighter skies in the west. In

north-west England some sunshine. Parts of Scotland, also. With the

light wind, feeling pleasant. Overnight, some showers across East

Anglia. Rain clearing from the South East. The most, it is dry after

midnight. It will be not a cold night, with temperatures in double

figures. Tomorrow, they could be a few fog patches around. Bear that in

mind if you are heading back to work. The east remaining trapped

throughout the day. One or two spots of drizzle across the East where

temperatures may be held down if it stays gloomy. Up into the 20s. There

should be no problems at Edgbaston, but it might be cloudy. That might

break up in the afternoon. From Wednesday, we have high-pressure in

control. That means settled weather and another dry day for most. The

temperatures climbing higher, up to 24 degrees. We still have

high-pressure in charge on Thursday. A reminder of the top story. The

parents of a five-year-old boy with a brain tumour are appearing in

court in Madrid facing extradition to the UK. Now,