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Decision day in Westminster as MPs are asked to make up their minds | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The debate is underway in the House of Commons with the result of the | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
My strong view is that this House should make clear that we will take | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
up our responsibilities rather than pass them off | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
and put our own national security in the hands of others. | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
Public opinion is moving increasingly against what I believe | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
to be an ill thought out rush to war and he wants to hold this vote | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
before the opinion grows further against it. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Six typhoons and two tornados are ready to be deployed if Mps vote | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
in favour of bombing the Islamic State group in Syria. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
We'll bring you the latest from Westminster | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
as the debate unfolds and we'll be talking to our correspondent | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Also on the programme this lunchtime: | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
The Facebook founder Mark Mark Zuckerberg greets | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
the birth of his baby with a ?30 billion gift to the world. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
Four men in their 30s have been arrested in Luton on suspicion | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Wartime speeches and letters to Stalin penned by Sir | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Winston Churchill are given to the UN's Memory of the World Register. | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
The mayor says Londoner's won't be any more at threat from terrorism as | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
And a report into hospital closures in north west | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
London says the proposals are flawed and could make things worse. | :01:33. | :01:51. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
MPs are debating now whether to authorise RAF air strikes | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
against the Islamic State group in Syria with a vote expected | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
David Cameron has been trying to persuade MPs that it's in the UK's | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
national interest to extend its current bombing campaign | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
All the arithmetic suggests the Government will win the vote, but | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
there are still concerns from MPs across all parties about the scope | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
of air strikes and their likely impact on the future of Syria. | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
We'll have the latest from Damascus in a moment and from RAF Akrotiri | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
on Cyprus where those British fighter jets are based. | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
But first let's cross to Ben Brown who's in Westminster. | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
Yes, that debate has now been underway for an hour and a half. | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
It was opened by the Prime Minister, who's been arguing that | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
the fight needs to be taken to IS in Syria because that's where attacks | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
He says attacks will reduce the threat to the UK. | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
Needless to say, that's a point of view rejected by other MPs, | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
Our first report this lunchtime is from our political correspondent, | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
It is the biggest decision a Prime Minister makes. This morning David | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
Cameron left for the Commons to make his case, confident he has the | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
support in Parliament for UK military action. | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
The RAF is already dropping bombs on IS targets in Iraq and the | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
Government says that must be extended across the border joining | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
countries including the United States and France already attacking | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
IS in Syria. At a private meeting of Conservative MPs last night, the | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
Prime Minister branded opponents of action terrorist similar thighsers, | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
words that infuriated Labour and some of his own MPs. Well, I think | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
it is a ridiculous way of putting it and it is offensive. One of the | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
people who will be in the lobby clearly was spent much of his career | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
fighting terrorism in Northern Ireland. Others of us have been on | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
terrorist death lists, I don't want to take lex ture. The Labour leader, | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Jeremy Corbyn is opposed to military, but his party is at war | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
over the issue. The divisions are deep and as MPs poured into | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Parliament this morning, a big question was how many Labour MPs | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
would back military action? The Prime Minister. Opening the debate | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
in a packed Commons Chamber, David Cameron said there was no simple | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
answer, but the choice was clear. This threat is very real and the | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
question is this - do we work with our allies to degrade and destrou | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
this threat and do we go after these terrorists in their heartlands from | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
where they are plotting to kill British people? Or do we sit back | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
and wait for them to attack us? Mr Cameron was challenged to apologise | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
for his remarks last night. The Prime Minister is facing an | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
amendment which was signed by 110 members of this House from six | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
different political parties. I have examined the list carefully. I | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
cannot identify a single terrorist sympathiser among the list. Will he | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
now apologise for his deeply insulting remarks? | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
I have made very clear, this is about how we fight terrorism and | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
there is honour in any vote that honourable members make. Several | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
opposition members stood up to demand an apology too. The Prime | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
Minister was then asked about the risk of civilian casualties. I'm not | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
standing here and saying there are no casualties in war, of course, | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
there are. This is a very, very difficult situation we are putting | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
ourselves into. It is hugely complex. It is a difficult argument | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
in many ways to get across, but its heart is a simple point will we in | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
the long-term be safer and better off if we can get rid of this | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
so-called caliphate which is radicalising Muslims, turning people | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
against us and plotting atrocities on the streets of Britain? The | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Government doesn't pretend bombing alone will feet IS, the strategy | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
relies on around 70,000 Syrian opposition forces fighting the group | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
on the ground. But a civil war has been raging in the country since | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
2011 and MPs on both sides of the Commons question how plausible that | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
part of the strategy is. What concerns many of us is a lack of a | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
comprehensive strategy both military and non-military including an exit | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
strategy. The Prime Minister insisted there was a strategy. | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
Alongside the 70,000 there are, some 20,000 Kurdish fighters with whom we | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
can also work. Now, I'm not arguing, this is a crucial point, I'm not | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
arguing that all the 70,000 are somehow ideal partners. Some left | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
the Syrian army because of Assad's brutality and they clearly can play | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
a role in the future of Syria. The Government is confident of winning | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
tonight's vote because it has support from the Lib Dems and the | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
DUP and dozens of Labour, but not its antiwar leader who said this is | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
one of the most serious decisions politicians make. The Prime | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
Minister's attempt to brand those who plan to vote against the | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
Government as terrorist sympathisers, both demeans the | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
office of the Prime Minister and I believe undermines the seriousness | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
of the deliberations we're having today. If the Prime Minister now | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
wants to apologise for those remarks, I would be happy to give | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
way to him to do so. The Prime Minister refused the | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
invitation and Jeremy Corbyn then got to the heart of his argument. | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Whether it is a lack of strategy worth the name, the absence of | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
credible ground troops, the missing diplomatic for a settlement, or the | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
refugee crisis and civilian casualties, it is becoming | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
increasingly clear that the Prime Minister's proposals for military | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
action simply do not stack up. The third largest party in the Commons, | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
the SNP, will vote against military action. But if the Government wins | :08:07. | :08:15. | |
tonight's vote, these planes at this RAF base maybe heading to the | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
region. Let's go live to Norman Smith who is | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
following it all for us. Norman, your thoughts on the debate so far. | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
It has been pretty bad tempered at times? Ben, I'm sure Mr Cameron | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
still expects to win tonight's vote, but there is no doubt he made his | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
task harder by his refusal to say a single word, sorry. His repeated | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
refusal to offer an explicit apology for dubbing opponents of military | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
action terrorist sympathisers incensed many. Some Labour figures | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
say they are not going to back Mr Cameron even though there is an | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
element of political posturing here. I don't think anyone seriously | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
believes Mr Cameron believes his critics are terrorist sympathisers. | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
These were remarks at a private meeting. He was playing to the | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
gallery. He was trying to allude to Jeremy Corbyn's previous ties with | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
Sinn Fein and Hamas. Nevertheless, his refusal to accept some motherly | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
advice from one Labour female MP, who urged him to think again, I | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
think has cost him a lot of goodwill in this debate. On top of which he | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
came under renewed pressure on his Achilles heel in the whole argument, | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
namely the issue of ground troops, who are the forces that are going to | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
take on IS on the ground? Mr Cameron stuck by his assertion there are | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
70,000 moderate Syrian opposition forces. Ben, may Cameron maybe on | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
course to win, but there remain difficult questions and doubts and | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
real unhappiness at his handling and his tone during the debate. Norman, | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
thank you very much indeed. Another nine hours or so of debate lie ahead | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
and the critical vote at 9pm. A momentous and historic day at | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
Westminster. Sophie. Ben, thank you. | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
The Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has credited Russia's entry | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
into the war in his country with changing the balance on | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
the ground saying a year of Western air strikes had failed to stop the | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
Mr Assad said that since the Russians' intervention, the jihadist | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
Our chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
President Assad has little good to say about the West's campaign, | :10:28. | :10:37. | |
and that is pretty much inkeeping with what his line has been | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
He criticises the West repeatedly, and so do all the senior officials | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
here, for backing the groups that he calls "terrorist." | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
They tend to dismiss with the same brush all | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
of the opposition groups fighting against Syrian government forces. | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
When it comes to the intensified campaign | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
against the so-called Islamic State, he made it clear that he felt they | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
Recruits from around the world have increased. | :11:01. | :11:22. | |
While since the participation of Russia in the same fight, | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
so called against terrorism, Isis has been shrinking, | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
Russia is not just targeting positions of IS it has been | :11:27. | :11:38. | |
targeting the areas held by Syrian opposition forces to try to bolster | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
the position of the Syrian army on some key front lines and Russia's | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
approach here seems to be two-fold. One is to fight Islamic State as are | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
many other countries, but largely from the west, but also to bolster | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
President Assad and at the same time it has been made clear do him, we | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
understand, that he has to make a greater effort to find a political | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
solution and negotiate a way out of this war, but the president's | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
comment yesterday underlines again the contempt with which senior | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
Government officials hold the opposition, they always say they are | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
ready to go to any talks and there is discussion again, about possible | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
talks between the Government and the opposition early next year, but they | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
basically feel that the opposition as it exists does not represent any | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
significant percentage of the Syrian people and therefore, they have made | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
it clear they don't take them seriously, but the pressure will be | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
on President Assad to show he is committed to some kind of a new | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
political arrangement. Lyse Doucet reporting from | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
Well, any RAF air strikes will involve planes taking off from | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
Our correspondent, Richard Galpin, is there. | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
Damascusment If there is a vote in favour of | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
carrings out airstrikes over Syria, the RAF planes at this base or | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
British drones based in Kuwait could be in action over the skies of Syria | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
quickly. Indeed, there are indications it could come within | :13:10. | :13:10. | |
hours of the vote being held. RAF Tornados heading off from | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
their base here in Cyprus today on Over the past year | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
the RAF has carried out almost 400 air strikes, hitting the militant | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
group Isis so far only in Iraq. But if Parliament gives | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
its assent today the RAF is ready to More planes, including six Typhoons, | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
are on stand-by to fly out from Britain to Cyprus, | :13:36. | :13:44. | |
along with another two Tornadoes. Which would double | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
the strikeforce in Akrotiri. Officials insist it would amount to | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
a significant contribution to Not least because the RAF has this | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
particularly sophisticated missile, the Brimstone, | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
which can hit moving targets. According to the government, all | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
this is vital to keep Britain safe. They're going after us | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
and the only way we can protect ourselves is fighting back, | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
hitting back at them, degrading them, reducing their capacity to | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
plan and plot attacks against us. But many are questioning whether | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
launching air strikes from this RAF base here in Cyprus really is the | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
right strategy for defeating Isis, particularly as the United States | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
and several coalition partners have been bombing Isis targets in Iraq | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
and Syria for more than a year. And yet the militant group remains | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
a potent force. Intervention from the air is one | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
thing, helping with intelligence is another, but the issue will be | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
decided, as all these issues are, Of course this brings | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
into question the whole issue of boots on the ground and that | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
brings the question into focus as to But so far at least, the government | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
is only prepared to commit British warplanes in a combat role | :15:03. | :15:26. | |
against Isis in Iraq and Syria. Military experts are saying ground | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
forces are needed to defeat Isis. It is dubious as to whether there is | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
any local force in Syria which is united enough or cohesive enough to | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
carry out that task. Well David Cameron argues that | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
action needs to be taken against the Islamic State group to counter the | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
threat of attacks here in the UK. So will RAF air strikes diminish | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
the threat? Let's speak to our security | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
correspondent, Frank Gardner. Let's look at where if the boat is | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
yes, where the strikes would be? There are is a map we can look at. | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
In yellow is Isis that so-called Islamic State. And Raqqa up there in | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
the North, so if the boat is yes then the RAF will join existing US | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
air strikes and French ones and probably Russian ones in hitting | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
targets like Raqqa. For the moment we're not allowed across the Iraqi | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
border. They are allowed to do surveillance flights in Syria but | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
not air strikes. But the government argues is that is where the command | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
and control centres, the sort of people who planned the Paris | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
attacks, are hanging out. Those against Wood said they are embedded | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
with the civilian population and you would be very lucky to catch a | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
terrorist in a car. Which occasionally happens. With no | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
civilians around. And the Brimstone missile can go through the roof of a | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
car. But most times there will be civilians around so it will | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
potentially increase the risk of innocent people being hurt. And a | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
lot of talk in the debate in the comments already about exit | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
strategies, the need for fighters on the ground, these 70,000 fighters | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
David Cameron spoke of, who are they? I really pressed people on | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
this, drilled into it. These are not jihadists, not even some of the | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
people who would be considered extreme who were invited to Saudi | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
Arabia for a conference. There are up to 110 different factions but the | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
big blocks the northern and southern blocks, the biggest complement is | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
the free Syrian army. But they spent the last four years fighting the | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
Syrian regime. So to turn their guns against Isis and to get them to | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
think that is the main problem will be very difficult. They're not a | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
cohesive fighting force, there is no one general in charge of them. And | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
frankly after four years of civil war in Syria I'm not sure there is | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
such a thing as moderate. Everyone is very polarised and getting them | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
to accept the pluralistic government will be very difficult. | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
We'll have more on our main story at the end of the programme. | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
And you can keep up with the debate throughout the day | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
on the BBC News Channel, and there's full, uninterrupted, | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
And, of course, there's in depth analysis on the BBC News website. | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
MPs are debating now on whether to authorise air strikes | :18:17. | :18:26. | |
The Prime minister says it's in the national interest. | :18:27. | :18:37. | |
My strong view is that this House should make clear that we will take | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
up our responsibilities rather than pass them off, | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
and put our own national security in the hands of others. | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
Public opinion is moving increasingly | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
against what I believe to be an ill-thought out rush to war and | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
he wants to hold this vote before the opinion grows even | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
Another young person stabbed on the capital's streets. | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
This year's seen the highest number of teenage deaths since 2008. | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
And voting for a clean up - how one street in London is experimenting | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife, | :19:14. | :19:27. | |
have announced the birth of their first child and vowed to give away | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
most of their multi-billion pound fortune to to make the world a | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
As our technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones reports, | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
the news was broken - fittingly - in a post on his Facebook page. | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
Like many a young couple Mark and Priscilla took to Facebook to | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
celebrate the birth of their daughter. But they had other news. | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
In a video recorded just weeks before the arrival of Max, the | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
couple gave a hint of their plan. Having this child has made us think | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
about all the things that should be improved in the world. And the | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
Facebook founder and his wife now made it clear that will involve | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
giving away most of their huge fortune. In a letter to their | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
daughter they said they will donate 99% of their Facebook shares over | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
the course of their lives to promote good causes, from better health and | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
education to greater equality. To have that kind of wealth and you can | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
give away 46 billion, you should be giving away a lot of your money. But | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
I think it is good to set a standard and model for other people to give. | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan join other billionaires in giving | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
away much of their wealth. Bill and Melinda Gates have donated over ?21 | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
billion so far. Warren Buffett has given 15 billion and investor George | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
Soros has donated ?7 billion so far to charity. Mark Zuckerberg started | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
Facebook when he was aged 24 years later had already turned down a | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
lucrative offers to buy it. That was a mistake, I suggested in 2008. 24, | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
when you could basically have retired, that never entered your | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
mind, you thought I will carry on? What would I do! That is just not | :21:17. | :21:26. | |
what I care about. What the Facebook founder does care about is his | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
single-minded mission to change the way the world communicates. That has | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
turned out to be good for his business and for the causes that he | :21:34. | :21:34. | |
and his wife support. The trial three men accused of the | :21:35. | :21:43. | |
Hatton Garden burglary has heard how the break-in over Easter was only | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
discovered by a security guard two days after it has happened. We can | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
cross to Daniel Sanford at Woolwich Crown Court. Alice more about what | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
was said in court. We heard from Kevin Stockwell, a security guard | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
who worked at the Hatton Garden safe deposit for 20 years. He described | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
how he locked up as usual on the evening of Maundy Thursday before | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
the bank holiday weekend and had gone home as normal. He was woken | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
soon after midnight with the message that the alarm had gone off at the | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
building. He went to the building and check the front door to the | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
building and the fire exit at the rear. But unaware that the burglars | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
were inside, he then told one of the owners of the business that he | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
thought the place was secure and the owner said to him you might as well | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
go home. On the Tuesday after the bank holiday weekend he came to work | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
at just after eight o'clock in the morning to find one of his | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
colleagues saying he thought they had been burgled. When he looked | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
through the door he could see on the floor drills, cutting material, the | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
lights were on in the second door, bars were lifted up and indeed they | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
had been burgled and he went to call the police. | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
Four men have been arrested in Luton on suspicion of committing offences | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
Seven properties in the town, and a number of vehicles, | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
Detectives say it's part of an ongoing investigation, and not | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent, June Kelly, is with me. | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
What more do we know? These were early morning raids, someone | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
claiming to be involved twisted, I have been raided by anti-terror | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
police at 5:40am this morning a completely innocent of any crime. | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
The four men arrested are in their 30s, we have seven address being | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
search. A mixture of homes and businesses. We understand that while | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
these arrests are described as significant, they're not linked to | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
any lot to attack the UK, not links to the Paris attacks as you say and | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
not linked to travel to Syria. This has been we understand a | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
long-running covert police operation involving officers from Scotland | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Yard counterterrorism unit and counterterrorism officers covering | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
Blue Jumeriah. No firearms officers were deployed in the arrest this | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
morning so that gives an indication of how police view of the suspects. | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
And the four men are now in custody at a London police station. | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
The manuscripts of some of Winston Churchill's most famous | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
wartime speeches have been given United Nations protection. | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
The archive also includes more personal letters, | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
including one written to his mother when he was just seven | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
Churchill's dispatch box when he was serving as Secretary of State | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
Just one of the treasures held in the strongroom at Churchill | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
College, the home of an archive that runs to some 1 million documents. | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
Churchill's post 1945 papers were passed to the college by his widow | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
The earlier papers joined them here in the early '70s. | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
And this is the broadcast that he made in the | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
Something that he'd waited two years for. | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
And you can see at the top here he has written, | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
And if we turn over you can see here we've got the famous passage, | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
It is not even the beginning of the end. | :24:59. | :25:08. | |
But it is perhaps the end of the beginning. | :25:09. | :25:23. | |
By contrast, a doctor's prescription, written in | :25:24. | :25:24. | |
prohibition era New York in 1932 while he was recovering from a | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
He's actually prescribing him alcohol. | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
It says here, the post accident convalescence of | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
the Honourable Winston S Churchill necessitates the use of alcoholic | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
The quantity is naturally indefinite, | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
but the minimum requirements would be 250 cubic centimetres. | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
This is one of the earliest things in the archive. | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
This is actually a letter to his mother, written from Harrow. | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
And he has done this wonderful drawing of himself in his school | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
My dearest Mama, you can't think what a ripping piece | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
So of course here he is as a young man going to the theatre, | :25:53. | :26:02. | |
perhaps learning some of his later technique. | :26:03. | :26:04. | |
The collection, including letters to US presidents | :26:05. | :26:05. | |
and other world leaders, now joins UNESCO's International | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
This collection, the Churchill papers, they have been purchased for | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
the nation and this confirms that they're not just a national resource | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
but they are an international resource and have universal value. | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
The Archive Centre says this recognition will spirit on to | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
share its material with everyone who wants to come here and see it. | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
More now on our main story - the House of Commons is debating | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
whether to authorize air strikes against IS targets in Syria. | :26:40. | :26:41. | |
A vote is expected at around ten o'clock tonight. | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
Let's cross to Westminster and our Assistant Political Editor, | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
You have been listening to the debate. Your assessment? It is | :26:46. | :26:56. | |
striking that again and again MPs come back to the issue of ground | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
troops. Who is going to take on Islamic State on the ground, who are | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
these 70,000 troops that David Cameron talks about, will they work | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
together, can they be relied upon, I be interested in fighting Isis or | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
with a carry on fighting President Assad. The response from David | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
Cameron was to save not all ideal partners but many of them are | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
reliable, they are former members of the Syrian army. He also suggested | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
there are some 20,000 Kurdish Peshmerga forces and he suggested in | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
time there could be reconstructed Syrian army, in other words | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
President Assad's former forces who could also join in a ground | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
offensive against Islamic State. But one Conservative MP Alan Duncan, a | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
committed supporter of air strikes, a member of the intelligence | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
committee, he said the idea that there were 70,000 ground troops was | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
an act of faith and we want we risk flying into a mess. The issue of | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
ground troops is absolutely pivotal. And there is no escaping the fact | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
that although MPs may vote for action, many are very dubious that | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
they will be ground troops to take on Islamic State. And of course you | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
can follow the debate throughout the day on the BBC News channel. | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
A record-breaking dull November for many so nice to see the sunshine out | :28:15. | :28:24. | |
today. This was the scene this morning. But | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
it is not sunny everywhere, we still have a thick band of cloud. | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
Yesterday that moved north across the UK but overnight and this | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
morning the band of cloud has pushed back south into the UK. That marks | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
the boundary between some warm and mild weather in the south and cold | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
air tucking into the north west behind the band of cloud which are | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
still producing some rain. That rain clearing away from the East of | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
Scotland but the band of rain getting stuck across North Western | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
areas and Wales. I decided that some sunshine, in the sunshine in the | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
East Midlands and East Anglia, temperatures around 40 degrees but | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
getting colder in spite of the sunshine across Scotland and | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
Northern Ireland. A pleasant afternoon at getting chilly | :29:14. | :29:14. | |
overnight tonight. Southern England, further south, pushing the rain | :29:15. | :29:22. | |
north again. Across Wales and clearing away from the Midlands | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
later on, moving north back into the North of England, not quite reaching | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland overnight. By the morning | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
rush-hour, beginning to cloud over across Scotland and Northern Ireland | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
so chilly start. We start in the North of England with cloud and | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
rain, but it was North Wales, mid and South Wales and the Midlands dry | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
by the end of the night. Generally try but mild across southern England | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
to start the day. Heading through the day this band of cloud and rain | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
will sneak further north towards southern Scotland and maybe Northern | :30:01. | :30:02. | |
Ireland and then through the afternoon it turns wetter across | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
Wales and the South West. The East Midlands, Lincolnshire, the | :30:07. | :30:08. | |
south-east of England dry and mild again at the club pushing back into | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland, cold here but mild further south at | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
around 15 degrees. The rain gets its act together tomorrow evening, | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
sweeping east across England and Wales, maybe parts of Scotland as | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
well. Dusty wintertime, one by Freddie morning. Looks like a good | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
day for many especially towards the south-east where we get the | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
sunshine. The wind picking up in the north-west during the day and we | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
have cloud increasing the temperature still above average for | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
the time of year. That sets us up for a disappointing weekend, | :30:42. | :30:43. | |
especially wet and windy on Saturday. A little better across | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
northern parts of the UK at least on Sunday. Still not so good in the | :30:49. | :30:50. | |
South. Now a reminder | :30:51. | :30:51. | |
of our top story this lunchtime. MPs debate whether to authorise | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
British air strikes against The Prime Minister says it is in the | :30:55. | :30:56. | |
national interest. My strong view is that this house | :30:57. | :31:06. | |
should make clear that we will take up our responsibilities rather than | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
pass them off, and put our own national security | :31:10. | :31:11. | |
in the hands of others. Public opinion is moving | :31:12. | :31:22. | |
increasingly against what I believe to be an ill thought out Rush to | :31:23. | :31:30. | |
war. He wants to hold this vote before opinion grows even further | :31:31. | :31:31. | |
against him. That's all from us, | :31:32. | :31:31. | |
now on BBC One it's time | :31:32. | :31:34. |