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The Prime Minister calls on MPs "across all parties" to support him,

as Westminter prepares for decision day on air strikes in Syria.

If MPs vote yes tomorrow, British fighter planes could be targeting IS

This has been a very deliberate and proper process: a cabinet meeting,

legal advice, a proper motion in front of the House of Commons, ten

and a half hours debate tomorrow in the House of Commons.

MPs will spend more than ten hours debating military action in Syria

before the deciding vote tomorrow night.

Thousands of operations cancelled at hospitals across England, despite a

24-hour strike by junior doctors being called off.

The Yorkshire Ripper is no longer mentally ill and should be returned

New CCTV pictures of the Hatton Garden heist are shown to a jury -

including the only footage from inside the building.

As world leaders grapple with limiting carbon emissions,

we have a special report from Vanuatu in the South Pacific.

Coming up in the sport on BBC News: Andy Murray and his Davis Cup

team-mates are posted by the Prime Minister at Downing Street after

winning the first time since 1936. -- after winning the title for the

first time. Good afternoon and welcome to the

BBC News at 1pm. The Prime Minister has called

for MPs from all parties to back plans for air strikes

against the Islamic State group in Syria, as Westminster prepares

for tomorrow's crucial vote. David Cameron met with the Cabinet

this morning and said they'd approved a motion, setting out

the need for military action as part of a "broader strategy" involving

diplomacy and humanitarian aid. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

has given his Mps a free vote tomorrow, but he is appealing to

them to oppose the bombing campaign. Our political correspondent,

Robin Brant, reports. There are 24 hours to go before MPs

debate whether to attack in Syria. The Cabinet met this morning to

agree the final preparations. Will this bombing make Britain a safer

place? He is the man that will make the final decision on the bombing.

That comes after the vote in Parliament tomorrow. The Defence

Secretary, Michael Fallon, has called for the RAF to drop bombs on

so called IS in Syria. The prime confident the majority of MPs agree.

This has been a very deliberate and proper process: a cabinet meeting,

legal advice, a proper motion in front of the House of Commons, ten

and a half hours debate tomorrow in the House of Commons.

This is the man who made it possible, Jeremy Corbyn does not

support air strikes and he tried to make his MPs back him but many do

not agree. Your cultural secretary Angela Deputy and the Northern Irish

secretary, the list goes on. They will get a free vote that they

wanted that this lunchtime there was no letup as the Labour leader to try

to try and persuade them. As them to think again about the implications

of what we're doing and please vote against supporting this

government's military endeavours in Syria. The divisions in the Labour

Party are key to this book. David Cameron is confident he has around

320 on his own side who will back him and another 50 Labour MPs to

support air strikes and ten others from the DUP and Liberal Democrats

to agree. Remember some on his own side don't want it and will put

against it. -- and will vote against it. There is no pine for the final

state of Syria and they know less about the outcome of this war than

we knew about Libya and Iraq and that how badly they turned out. As

the prospect of British bombing nears, peaceful protest continued.

This was Glasgow last night. The matter what side you are on everyone

seems to agree that this is the start of something and not the end.

Well, David Cameron's case for British military strikes

in Syria is that RAF strikes against IS targets in Iraq have proved

successful and he says extending them is "the right thing to do".

But there are still questions about the exact nature and scope of the

proposed mission and what difference British strikes would make.

Our diplomatic correspondent, Caroline Hawley, reports.

British aircraft have been bombing IS targets in Iraq for over a year.

The government argues that it strikes in Syria would help cut the

supply lines to the group and would make a difference. RAF tornadoes are

poised to expand their mission in the Middle East. The US and France

are already bombing targets in northern Syria and the German

government has today agreed on a support role. British aircraft are

conducting intelligence gathering. The Cameron says the UK would bring

special capabilities to the coalition. The missiles carried by

the attorney was our highly accurate. The RAF currently has a

tornadoes based in Cyprus. The plan is to increase that to ten. They

will be supplemented by the deployment of-fighters. -- typhoon

fighters. The government says it will not defeat IS but it will

degrade. It. Then expanding further in Syria and it will relieve the

pressure on opposition forces that are being attacked by IS. They can

enhance the prospects of the political negotiations that are now

under way from leading to a new and more secure Syrian state. These IS

tunnels, discovered by Kurdish fighters in Iraq, are a reminder of

how difficult the militants are to target. This is not a bunch of

fanatical gangsters using brutality in Iraq and Syria, it is a network,

it is a brand, it is an inspiration sadly to a lot of young people. This

is not going to be defeated with more bombs in Syria. There is broad

agreement on the danger posed by so-called Islamic State. Major

questions still exist on the best way of confronting them.

Let's speak to our assistant political editor, Norman Smith.

A big day ahead of Westminster tomorrow and a decisive day. The

fact it is going ahead shows that the Prime Minister is confident he

has the numbers that he needs. This is the motion that MPs will be

putting on a ten hours of debate tomorrow. Prime Minister's Questions

has been scrapped to allow a full day of debate on this motion and the

expectation is that David Cameron will win comfortably. But do not let

that disguise the difficult questions that David Cameron will

face MPs, particularly about who will provide the ground troops to

take on IS. There is scepticism about his suggestion that there are

70,000 moderate fighters ready to take it to IS. MPs are questioning

who they are and whether they will work together and whether they will

fight IS instead of President Assad. The motion stresses the need for a

diplomatic and humanitarian plan and it cites the US backing, but it

stresses the need to avoid civilian casualties. This lunchtime, the

Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has warned that civilians will be

killed. He said that we will kill people in their homes with our

bombs. He has urged Labour Party members to press their MPs to oppose

action. As for the Liberal Democrats, they will decide their

position later tonight. The Scottish National Party are against the

motion. MPs might vote for this, but be aware there are serious doubts

and apprehension about what Britain is getting into.

Thousands of operations and hospital appointments in England

have been cancelled today, despite a planned walk-out

Two further strikes have been suspended while the British Medical

Association and the government try to resolve their dispute about a

Our health correspondent, Dominic Hughes, reports.

This man has already had an operation cancelled three times. The

strike meant that it was put back again. His response to a fourth

translation is not what we might have expected. It is annoying, but

in this case I 100% behind them. What can they do? They have been

driven against a brick wall and they cannot do anything else. I would do

the same if I was a junior At the Royal Blackburn Hospital,

plans were in place to cope with the threat

of a strike by junior doctors. doctor. Senior staff are ready to

fill the gaps left by the junior colleagues. Our priority is to make

sure that patients get the care that they need. We needed to do a lot of

planning for today so that we know that our contingency plans an

effective and we can put in place the plan is to make sure that we

have the doctors on the ward to deliver the care that patients will

require. This hospital has had to cancel around 10% of the operations

that were scheduled to take place today. Across England, that means

between 4000-5000 cancelled operations and across England many

more outpatient appointments were rescheduled. The BMA and the

government now have until January to resolve this dispute. Many junior

doctors believe that the threat of strike action and the disruption it

cause was justified. Although patients have been disrupted and I

am sorry that has happened, I feel that something good can come from

this and overall I think in the long term if we can get a second their

contracts we can improve patient safety in the long term. At this

hospital staff had been busy rebooting 700 cancelled

appointments. At this other hospital, 47 operations were

cancelled and patients were told to come in if they could. Many beds. We

know that many of the patients who would have been seen are still

attending for the outpatient clinic appointments as normal. The main

factor has been our operations that we have had to postpone today.

Deadline is now in place for a resolution of this row over a new

contract with junior doctors. If talks fail, strikes could be back on

the agenda along with more destruction for patients. A report

by medical experts have suggested that the Yorkshire Rapper, Peter

Sutcliffe, should be taken out of hospital and returned to prison.

Sutcliffe - who murdered 13 women - started his 20 life sentences

in a standard jail, but was moved to Broadmoor in 1984.

The Justice Secretary must give the final consent to that.

Our correspondent, Danny Savage, reports.

Peter Sutcliffe, a notorious 20th-century serial killer.

He murdered 13 women over a six-year period

Now aged 69, he has spent most of his jail sentence in Broadmoor

He was sent here after being diagnosed with paranoid

schizophrenia, but it is now understood he is no longer mentally

Her son has today given his view on what he makes

There is a difference between Broadmoor and prison,

but I'm not in a position where I'm full of anger and hatred,

I'm not sure whether or not he needed to be in Broadmoor or not,

but what I do believe is he is ill, he must have been ill to have done

the things that he did, it's 40 years since it happened, I let the

professionals make the decisions, and hopefully they have made

Sutcliffe's last victim was Jacqueline Hill in 1980.

The police reconstructed her last movements in Headingley in Leeds.

The killer was finally caught the following year.

Wherever you are here in West Yorkshire,

you're never too far from somewhere where the Yorkshire Ripper struck.

His serial killings left people terrified to go out for years,

but today isn't about moving him towards freedom.

It was ruled some years ago that Peter Sutcliffe will never

But what do experts make of the move from a secure hospital to a prison?

Mental disorder, specifically schizophrenia

in this case, as we reported, is a severe and enduring condition.

Its symptoms can abate with treatment,

however it is unlikely to completely go away if treatment is stopped.

And one destination for Peter Sutcliffe could be

Wakefield Prison, in the very county where he repeatedly killed.

Danny Savage, BBC News, West Yorkshire.

Well, our correspondent, Duncan Kennedy, is at

Two things. First we will get confirmation from the doctors and

psychiatrists that Peter Sutcliffe's paranoid schizophrenia

is really under control and there -- and IT produces a different of risk.

Michael Gove will have to decide whether to act on the clinical

advice or whether to seek further or family advice. It is highly

sensitive. Peter Sutcliffe, despite his mental illness, was responsible

for the murder of 13 women and the attempted murder of seven others.

Michael Gove will want to take his time on this and we have just hired

that he may want to take six months to make his decision whether to move

him. -- we have just heard. It is not about moving Peter Sutcliffe to

any kind of open prison or releasing him. In 2009-2010, the High Court

ruled he must spend his whole life behind bars of whatever type that

is. The decision is whether he stays in the hospital or moves to a

maximum security prison where life will be different.

The Prime Minister has called on Mps "across all parties" to support him

as Westminter prepares for decision day on air strikes in Syria.

The new bank with a smartphone app but no branch on the high street.

In sport: Chelsea have unveiled plans for only 60,000 seater stadium

on the site of Stamford Bridge. The local council will decide on the

application after successful consultation.

It's day two at the climate change summit in Paris, where delegates are

getting down to the nitty gritty of thrashing out a global deal to

China remains the world's biggest carbon emitter.

Just this week the authorities in Beijing have warned

about air pollution in the capital, and told industrial plants to

Work on construction sites was suspended

and people were warned to cut down how much time they spend outdoors.

It might not seem like it, but it is the middle

The air is so polluted, it has darkened the sky.

A recent study showed that even breathing this kind of air

for an hour can reduce a person's life expectancy by 20 minutes.

It is akin to being a heavy smoker, smoking a pack and a half

We wanted to know, how are people in the city coping with the bad air?

TRANSLATION: I'm trying to avoid going outside,

my throat hurts, and I think people should drive less and all

TRANSLATION: I don't have a face mask.

I am used to bad air now because I've always worked on the streets.

On days like this it is very easy to fall ill, the smog definitely

TRANSLATION: I have to keep working to earn

a living, I have not bought any facemasks.

Pollution is a serious issue, but ordinary people like me have no

A recent survey showed the majority of people in China's

biggest cities have little faith that the polluted air will improve

Despite pledges coming from the Paris conference, most believe

At the other end of the scale, it's small islands like Vanuatu in the

Pacific that are already threatened by the effects of climate change.

These low-lying islands are predicted to be one

of the first nations to be submerged by rising seas.

Matthew Price reports from the village of Tokaru.

This is the ferry service which is taking people across to some

You can see that this village is right at sea level,

there is barely a metre or so that would have to rise to get up

Because when there are storm surges, cyclones, tropical storms,

and the rest, like there was at the beginning of this year,

And what that meant during the last storm was that 200-300

metres of village had water in it and they had to start from scratch

in many ways, and many buildings which they have had to rebuild.

That is why the chiefs of this village are now talking

They want to remove the whole village and get it to

And that is where they want to relocate, towards that hill,

to get to higher land, it is what many communities across the Pacific

As the sea levels rise, which in turn makes the storm surges

from tropical cyclones and the like, that much higher,

One of the big things which nations like Vanuatu are

hoping to see come from the Paris conference, is more funding to help

A jury has been watching CCTV images of a gang who stole tens

of millions of pounds worth of jewellery from a safety deposit

vault in London's Hatton Garden over the Easter weekend.

They were caught on one of the few working cameras covering

The court was told that other cameras weren't recording

because the unit operating them had been stolen.

From Woolwich Crown Court, here's Daniel Sandford.

This was the only moment during the heist when the men were caught

This man has never been identified, he has been referred to in court

With him is 60-year-old Daniel Jones who was earlier recorded out on

the street apparently coordinating part of the burglary using what

seems to be a walkie-talkie. All the main CCTV recorders in the

They stole an estimated ?14 million worth of jewellery, much of

They drilled through the wall of the Hatton Garden safety deposit

to break into the vault and to assist them the jury have a model

of the holes the burglars made in front of them, in the court room.

They have heard how Brian Reader, at 76 of the oldest of the men, came

to England's biggest ever burglary using someone else's bus pass.

Seeing in these newly released pictures from the trial,

most of the other robbers arrived at the scene of the crime

by white transit van, posing as work men in high visibility jackets.

They brought some of the equipment into the building

in wheelie bins, and made off with their loot the same way.

Air accident investigators in Indonesia have said that a

faulty component and errors by the pilots caused an Air Asia flight to

crash into the Java Sea a year ago, killing all 162 people on board.

Air accident investigators in Indonesia have said that a

faulty component and errors by the pilots caused an Air Asia flight to

crash into the Java Sea a year ago, killing all 162 people on board.

The report said a soldered joint in the Airbus A3-20's flight control

computer was cracked and during the flight from the Indonesian city

of Surabaya to Singapore it malfunctioned four times.

Banks that are built around an app on a smartphone rather than

a high street branch became a step closer to reality today when the

Bank of England granted a licence to a new bank called Tandem.

Smartphone apps have become the most popular way of checking bank

accounts, so financial entrepreneurs are using them to bypass traditional

Our personal finance correspondent, Simon Gompertz,

This report contains flashing images. Mobile phone apps have taken

off to be the most popular way of banking, so people are setting up

banks that are little more than apps, targeting millions of

customers. Every we can make this perform better for the customer by

learning what preferences are. Like tandem Bank, based in London, using

140 staff it offers what traditional banks employ tens of thousands of

people to provide. We would like to be the first of the mammals, but we

think that customers will gradually realise they have an alternative to

the dinosaurs. We have financial services ready for a revolution. 250

miles away, this bank thinks they can steal 5% of the banking market

with an app and you will not even need to use a password. How will you

do your banking when it is just an app and how will you stay safe? They

have stored your facial features, your voice patterns for security, so

you take a selfie and they will verify your identity and let you

into the app. You had to set up your account first and to do that with

your documents you just photograph them while you're sitting on the

sofa and a check these and you never have to go into a branch. Can you

trust a bank that is an app? Is it safe? It is very safe. It is based

around your face and your boys in your identity. It is based on

systems we have built from scratch using the best of encryption

technology. The challenge for the new bank will be persuading people

who tend to be reluctant to switch to take the plunge, but they could

pose a significant threat to their rivals on the high street.

There's a growing north-south divide in the standard of secondary

education in England according to Ofsted and children from poorer

Its annual report says a third of secondary schools

in the Midlands and the north of England are not good enough.

Our education correspondent, Robert Pigott, reports.

The teamwork and harmony that have brought success to Millfield science

and performing arts college, this secondary school near Blackburn

has achieved rapid improvement, two thirds of

What I would like you to do is to create as many words as possible...

Millfield was rated good in its last Ofsted inspection, partly

Ofsted says teaching and leadership of schools can be poor.

A third of secondary schools in Midlands and the North are not doing

well enough. 60 local authorities in the county and we have 13 of the

worst. A look at the map shows the widening divide. Local councils

where less than 60% of secondary pupils are in good schools are

concentrated in the North, in places like Bradford in Hartlepool. The

best performing areas are in the south, including some proprietors of

London. Problems recruiting good teachers and heads is exasperating

underachievement and teaching unions agree. Teacher recruitment has been

very difficult and it is getting more difficult all the time. 84% of

our members are saying it is more difficult than in previous years.

That has to affect those schools that are in more challenging areas

and some of those areas are in the North and Midlands. The Education

Secretary, Nicky Morgan, acknowledge that more action was needed to

tackle pockets of underperformance. She said the new national teaching

service being piloted next year in the North West would send some of

the best teachers to the areas that needed them most.

Your Christmas tree lights could be among a number of household

electronic goods slowing down the speed of your broadband.

That's the warning from the regulator Ofcom,

which says up to 6 million homes and offices could improve their wifi

They also say one and a half million homes in rural areas still can't get

the minimum broadband speed the Government is promising.

Here's our technology correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones.

Britain is speeding up as superfast broadband reaches much of the

country, but here in rural Devon they are still in the slow lane.

Graham is among 1.5 million in the countryside getting speeds of

The minimum the government now says will soon be guaranteed to everyone.

He says rural Britain is missing out.

I don't think the current programme is fair to rural areas compared to

urban areas, and so we have a programme which is serving the needs

of the towns and cities and not serving the needs of rural areas.

It is not just deep in the countryside that there are

issues, right in the centre of London this 1980s housing

development is another place where speeds are way below what the

A metropolitan area, there is absolutely no reason why

in 2015 every house has not got fast broadband.

BT have not installed it because they can't,

Ofcom says there are challenges in delivering better coverage,

but improving your Wi-Fi network can help.

The regulator has launched an app which checks your wireless signal

Some people might be able to use this app to improve their Wi-Fi

networks but many more will be concerned that they can't even get

a decent internet connection into their home in the first place.

They will be looking to Ofcom to put pressure

on the telecoms companies to speed up the roll out fast broadband.

It is BT's Openreach division which is responsible for many of

Critics say it is not doing a great job and would

Ofcom's new boss is reviewing the state

of the broadband market and makes it clear she is minded to things up.

I think there will be change, we are looking at a number

of options, but I think it is very unlikely that we will conclude that

the status quo which has worked over the last ten years is where we are

Where people do have fast broadband, they are now using it

for all sorts of services, and that means the gap between the digital

It is the first day of December and for many of us it will not feel like

it today. We did have some more typical winter weather in Scotland.

Here are some snowy scenes. We did not get the snow as expected in the

north-east of England. We got some slow in Scotland, but still levels

have been rising and mostly what is following in Scotland is rain. -- we

got some slow. South-westerly winds developing and some drizzle in the

Western Hills, but we will get some shelter and sunshine in the Midlands

and that will do good things for the temperatures, could reach 16

Celsius. Temperatures rising across Scotland. It will be a mild wind for

all of us. Some drizzle on the hills and then the rain will come back to

Scotland and Northern Ireland and it will trickle down towards northern

England. By the time we reach rush hour tomorrow we will they colder

air returning to north-west Scotland were some showers. It should dry up

in Northern Ireland in the morning and the rain will move towards the

Borders and maybe into Snowdonia, but the rush-hour will start

blustery and dry, cloudy and mild. Through the day we will find this

rain stalling. It will. In north-west England and Wales and

will be some heavy rain over the hills. To the south and east it will

be brighter with sunshine and very mild, although it will be quite

breezy. The wind will ease through the day and it will be a lovely day

for Scotland and Northern Ireland with some sunshine and it will be

colder than today. There may be some frost in Scotland during tomorrow

night. This weather front keeps the rain going in this area across Wales

and Northern Ireland tomorrow night. The rain will clear away from

northern England on Thursday and will head into the Midlands. It is

turning cooler from the North but it will be another nice day on Thursday

for Scotland and Northern Ireland. It will not be as nice in Wales. We

have seen the rain that is continuing, there could be four

inches or more, so bear in mind this hotline number. The sunshine will

come out in Wales and northern England on Friday but only briefly

before wet and windy weather arrives just in time for the weekend.

Thank you. A reminder of our main story: The

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