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Britain's bombing campaign against Islamic State in Syria | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
starts within hours of MPs voting for it to go ahead. | :00:08. | :00:15. | |
Four Tornado jets from the RAF's base in Cyprus took part, | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
targeting oil fields in an area controlled by IS. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
This is going to take time. It is complex, it is difficult, what we | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
are asking our pilots to do and our thoughts should be with them and | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
their families as they commence this important work. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
We'll be reporting from the border with Syria on the likely | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
And we'll be assessing the fallout for Labour after 66 of | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of the murder | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after an appeal court overturns his | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
A mass shooting at a social services centre | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
in California - 14 people die - the attackers are shot dead by police. | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
Should scientists be allowed to do research that alters the DNA of | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
human embryos? Experts are deeply divided at a conference in | :01:18. | :01:17. | |
Washington. And how safe is your hoverboard ? | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
officials warn that thousands of them have | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
a fault that leads them to explode. Coming up in the sport, more arrests | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
at Fifa. Swiss authorities say they have taken two high-ranking | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
officials in dawn raids at a hotel in Zurich. | :01:35. | :01:51. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
RAF jets have carried out their first air strikes | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
Syria - just hours after MPs voted to approve bombing. Four Tornado | :01:56. | :02:05. | |
jets from the RAF's base in Akrotiri in Cyprus took part in the | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
operation, targeting oil fields in eastern Syria, which are under IS | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
control. The Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the strikes were | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
designed to deal "a very real blow" to the revenue on which IS depends, | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
and he described them as "successful." Let's go now to our | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
correspondent Richard Galpin, who sent this. | :02:33. | :02:33. | |
Tornadoes ticking off just one hour after the vote was passed in | :02:34. | :02:43. | |
parliament, laden with bombs, their mission to cross into Syria and to | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
hit one of several lucrative oilfields controlled by Isis | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
bulletins. On their return in the early hours of the morning it was | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
clear that at least six bombs had been dropped. I can confirm that | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
four British Tornadoes were involved in strikes in the eastern oil fields | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
of Syria specifically the Omar oilfields attacking wellheads, | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
hoping to disrupt the flow of oil and the revenue that the Daesh | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
terrorists came from oil. We need to be patient and persistent. This is | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
going to take time. It is complete and difficult, what we are asking | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
our pilots to do and our thought should be with them and their | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
families as they commence this important work. A British don't like | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
this one was also used in the attack to gather intelligence. But will | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
this bombing campaign lead to Syrian civilians being killed? Schmeichel a | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
drone like this. The RAF says no. We have had absolutely no civilian | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
casualties reported, the oars of engagement are that our crews both | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
apply in the air and our commanders on the ground, mean that I am | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
confident that this will continue to be the case with operations in | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
Syria. But the risk remains, particularly as the bombing campaign | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
carried out by aircraft based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus could last | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
several years. And this morning more warplanes took off from RAF | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Lossiemouth in Scotland to join those already in Cyprus. With others | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
also flying from RAF Marham in Norfolk the RAF will soon be able to | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
carry out regular air strikes both in Syria and Iraq. We can speak too | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
rigid in Cyprus. What is the latest? -- we can speak to Richard. We are | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
awaiting the assessment of how much damage was done to the oilfields by | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
this first strike by the RAF. We're waiting for this information. | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon seemed to think it had been a | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
successful strike. We are at the airbase. Behind me you can see some | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
of the aircraft. The next thing to happen here will be that they will | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
be a significant number of warplanes arriving at that report, but as I | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
say that report, eight new warplanes will come here, Typhoons, and | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
Tornadoes. They will bolstered the strikeforce that has already been at | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
this base carrying out air strikes over Iraq. It will double the number | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
of planes the RAF will have at its disposal to carry out air strikes in | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
both countries now. Thank you. So, what's the strategy behind these | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
air strikes - and what could they achieve? Our correspondent Christian | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Fraser has been looking at the thinking behind extending the | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
British military operation against These so-called Islamic State is no | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
respect of international borders. You will see from our map that their | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
control still stretches deep into Iraq from Syria. A closer look at | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
the map and you can see the areas where the alliance has been focused | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
over the last year. It is in a corridor that stretches from IIS | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
headquarters in Raqqa past the biggest city in the East of the | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
country, incidentally, here is the oilfields that was hit by the RAF | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
last might. All the way down to the so-called Sunni triangle, Fallujah, | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
areas where the Shia led militias are trying to get a foothold. The | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
targets over the last year, principally, they have been fixed | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
positions, artillery units, bunkers and oil installations from which IS | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
has profited this past year. These sort of installations are now feel | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
and far between. The nature of the battles as this military analyst | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
from the Royal Institute says, is starting to change. This big obvious | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
targets that can be preplanned before a flight, hit this | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
specifically, those have been hit. But in terms of forces on the ground | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
that we can hit, there is definitely stuff there, is just hard to find. | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
So the targets are more dispersed but the RAF is very good at | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
surveillance reconnaissance, picking up targets that appear on the | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
battlefield as this one did. This is a building that was used by IS | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
fighters, spotted by an RAF drone and the bomb dropped was very | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
accurate reducing collateral damage. Air strikes alone won't win | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
the battle but in areas where bombing has been most concentrated, | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
represented by the biggest circles, they have managed to degrade IS | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
capabilities. They are not able to mass troops, heavy artillery in | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
these places where they are looking to take new ground. To the extent | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
that the Kurdish people have been able to take back a large tract of | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
land in the north of the country represented by this purple strip. | :07:59. | :08:20. | |
You'll also see from the map that compensated and congested, this | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
battlefield. Among the 70,000 troops the Prime Minister is talking about, | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
the moderate ones, the Kurds, the Free Syrian Army, also smaller ones | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
are lined by necessity to more extreme elements that dominate. They | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
need to be, in order to survive. So there is a lot of work that will | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
have to be done to find a co-ordinated fighting force not to | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
mention a political force that can make a difference in Syria. | :08:36. | :08:35. | |
Well, as Christian just said, the fight against IS | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
on the ground is having an effect, but how much is Britain's | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
contribution from the air likely to make? | :08:42. | :08:42. | |
Our correspondent Mark Lowen has been to the border between Turkey | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
Britain may have joined the air strikes against Islamic State in | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
Syria but all sides are aware that the bombings alone will not destroy | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
the group. There is also the need for a ground force. That will come | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
in the shape of Kurdish fighters and also local troops from the Free | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
Syrian Army. GUNFIRE | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
The problem is that the FSA fighters are not very cohesive and some are | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
more focused on removing President Assad from power than fighting | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Islamic State. That said, they will be crucial and are willing to step | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
up to the fight as a Free Syrian Army spokesman told me. The Assad | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
regime is the cancer that Isis grew out of. Without erasing Assad from | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
power, which means not just focusing on the symptoms, that will not make | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
a big difference so we in the Free Syrian Army, we are the West's best | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
partners on the ground. Full Syria and maybe the east of Syria, and in | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
the south of Syria, we are the only ones who will be able to push Isis | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
and from these areas. The strikes will focus on Raqqa, the Guptill of | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
the self-declared caliphate. This undercover footage is a rare glimpse | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
into a city where military control is all-consuming. The lucky ones | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
have left like Hassan Mahmud who left four months ago. TRANSLATION: | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
Life is very hard in Raqqa. Humans cannot survive. There is no | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
freedom. Cafes are closed. The Internet is not allowed. Hospitals | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
and schools have been taken over. Air strikes have not helped. They | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
just destroyed buildings. Britain joining the campaign might help | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
reduce Daesh fighters but will not destroy them. No one knows how long | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
this fight will last, how many sorties British and Allied jets will | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
make. When it is over, what comes next? Can the power vacuum in Syria | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
be filled and can immediately to come to be united again? The West | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
has often been accused of bombing and then leaving with no plan to | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
clear up the mess. This time it is hoped that past mistakes will be | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
remembered and warnings will be heeded. | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
Let's turn now to the political fallout here | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
66 Labour MPs voted with the government - against the | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Some of those who voted for air strikes say they've been | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
subjected to intimidation and bullying by party activists | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
Our Political Correspondent Robin Brant now reports. | :11:20. | :11:30. | |
This was a rare sight and a rare sound, applause from all sides was | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
how MP3 acted to Hilary Benn's closing speech last might. These two | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
man at the top of the Labour Party have opposing views on Syria, as | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
they left for work this morning only one of them wanted to talk. I'm off | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
to the House of Commons. I just wanted to say this, now the House of | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
Commons has made its decision, having heard all the arguments, all | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
of our thoughts today with the brave men and women of the Royal Air Force | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
and we pray for their safely turn. The Syria vote exposed deep | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
divisions in the Shadow Cabinet, Labour's senior figures. There are | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
no signs of it going away with comparisons like this. I thought | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
Hilary Benn's speech was great, it reminded me of Tony Blair's speech | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
taking us into the Iraq war. I am always conscious that the greatest | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
oratory can lead to the greatest mistakes. It's not just digs, others | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
have gone further, calling for those in their own party who sided with | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
the government to be deselected. An MP should not have the right to a | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
seat for life which most MPs do when they get elected. If your local | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
party does not agree with you they deserve an MP they do agree with. | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
Labour MP Stella Creasey was targeted with these insults online | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
as well as a protest on her doorstep. Most MPs are used to | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
watching their words when they are like places like this on TV. Yet | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
nowadays most of the abuse doesn't happen in front of cameras, it | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
happens on here. Senior Labour figures are calling for a new code | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
of conduct to stop intimidation on the Internet. But is a code of | :13:10. | :13:30. | |
conduct enough? This senior Labour figure thinks it's much more | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
serious. I gather today that some members have received photographs of | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
severed heads. MPs have broad shoulders, of course, but, as Billy | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
did to review the security of members's homes and offices? The | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
vote is done, the decision made, yet with deep distrust, it will be hard | :13:40. | :13:40. | |
to fix. Our assistant political editor | :13:41. | :13:41. | |
Norman Smith is in Westminster. Just picking up on what was said at | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
the end of that piece, how damaged do you think the Labour Party is? | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Those divisions within the ranks have been put up in neon headlines | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
by the simple fact that around 66 Labour MPs and 11 Shadow Cabinet | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
members defied Jeremy Corbyn. More than that it was the sight of the | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
Shadow Foreign Secretary delivering a barnstorming speech in favour of | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
bombing, widely applauded across the House, with his leader sitting | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
slumped behind him, staring at the ground, refusing to applaud, that | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
really highlighted the tensions now rippling through the Labour Party. | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
Tensions which have become more better because of the very personal | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
and vengeful way that some people seem to be fighting out these | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
disagreements. So we have had these highly abusive tweets sent to some | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
supporters of the bombing campaign, and some very unpleasant leaflets | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
put through their doors, complaints about mobs gathering outside their | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
constituency offices. Jeremy Corbyn's team insist they deplore | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
this and have urged everyone to air their differences in a respectable | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
way. But some of Mr Corbyn's critics believe he almost licensed such | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
behaviour by encouraging party members to try to put pressure on | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
MPs. You just sense that Labour are on the cusp of all the infighting | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
and division and bloodshed that bedevilled them in the 1980s. | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
Norman, thank you. Britain's bombing campaign against | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Islamic State in Syria starts within hours of MPs voting for it to go | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
ahead. Four Tornado jets took part targeting oilfields in an area | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
controlled by IS. Two Fifa vice presidents are | :15:30. | :15:42. | |
arrested in a dawn raid in Zurich on suspicion of accepting millions of | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
dollars in bribes. Coming up in the sport, could the football World Cup | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
grow from 32 teams to 40 teams? The governing body would debate the idea | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
today. If agreed it could happen for the 2026 tournament. The athlete | :15:56. | :16:12. | |
Oscar guilty of murder after his original | :16:13. | :16:23. | |
conviction was overturned. The judge at the Supreme Court said that | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
mistakes had been made in the original trial and that he must have | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
known he would kill somebody when he fired shots to the toilet door. He | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
could face a minimum of 15 years in prison. In a much anticipated | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
judgment by the Appeal Court Justice Eric Leach today overturned the | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
culpable homicide conviction of Oscar Pistorius. The methods | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
referred back to the trial court to reconsider an appropriate sentence a | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
fresh in light of the comments in this judgment. Justice of the | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Steenkamp family has been served. The verdict that Reeva Steenkamp's | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
mother June always hoped for. The judgment made by the original judge | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
was deemed to be incorrect. Now the Supreme Court of appeal is judged | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
unanimously and put to rest the question of how the law should be | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
applied. They have now developed the law and for the rest of South Africa | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
they have said what should be called judicial precedent. Paige Reeva | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Steenkamp was shot dead to this toilet door. Oscar Pistorius told | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
the court he thought he was shooting at an intruder, not at his | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
girlfriend but the Supreme Court said he should have seen the | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
consequences of his actions when he fired, implying that he should have | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
known that he was going to kill someone. For his actions, he spent | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
one year in this prison cell in Pretoria. This is where he could | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
well written. Oscar Pistorius will remain chair at the Home Office | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
uncle on house arrest, now branded a murderer by the Supreme Court of | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
appeal, the disgraced athlete will wait until next year to be sentenced | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
again and find out if he is heading back to prison. It is not likely | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
that the blade runner will be able to appeal the verdict today. He now | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
faces a possible 15 year jail term. The Swiss government says two | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
officials from football's world governing body, Fifa, have been | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
arrested in Zurich as part of It said the two men, | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
both Fifa vice presidents were "suspected of accepting bribes | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
of millions of dollars". Our Sports Correspondent Richard | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
Conway reports from Zurich. Yet another early hotel wake-up call | :18:33. | :18:42. | |
for Fifa executives. Acting on behalf of a few as authorities, | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Swiss police arrested two high-ranking Fifa officials. They | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
are alleged to have received millions of dollars in bribes in | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
return for awarding lucrative marketing rights in Latin America. | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
The man arrested are Juan Angel Muppet, and another former serving | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
Fifa president. These transactions mostly came through the USA, and the | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
idea that it is being used as an waystation for fraud will not sit | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
well with anyone at the Department of Justice. That is much as anything | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
else is driving the investigation. Back in May the arrest of seven | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
officials triggered the resignation of Sepp Blatter. Asus has alleged | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
inquiry was then launched into how the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
awarded. Hotel staff are getting used to police looking for Fifa | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
executives before dawn, it's less than six months since the first wave | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
of arrests took place at this 5-star hotel in Zurich. It might not be | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
such a surprise. US officials always said there would be further payment | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
for world football, further arrests, and they seemed to have been to to | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
their word. Senior executive discovered to discuss how to best | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
reform the beleaguered world body of football, a discussion of expanding | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
the World Cup from 32 teams to 40 teams has also taken place. Yet | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
again the focus of the discussions has been blurred by the | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
organisation's toxic past. The Justice Secretary, Michael Gove, | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
is to scrap the controversial The charge of up to ?1,200 | :20:26. | :20:27. | |
has been mandatory in criminal cases It has caused widespread concern | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
among magistrates triggering a record number of them to resign | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
from the bench in protest. Fourteen people have been killed and | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
seventeen injured in a mass shooting A man and woman, armed with | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
assault rifles and wearing military-style clothing, opened | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
fire at a social services centre. They were later shot dead | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
in a gunfight with police. The motive | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
for the attacks is not yet known. President Obama said the | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
United States has a pattern of mass shootings that has no parallel | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
anywhere else in the world. David Willis reports from | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
San Bernadino. What caused an apparently mild | :20:59. | :21:11. | |
mannered man to shoot up his office Christmas party? | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
Terrified staff were ushered to safety after a colleague left the | :21:14. | :21:29. | |
gathering following a disagreement and returned with his wife, both | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
brandishing semiautomatic handguns and assault rifles. There was a | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
shooter in her building. They went into a room and locked the door. I | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
told her, turn of the lights. I have not tried to call her because I | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
didn't want the phone ringing. For several hours the couple were | :21:53. | :22:03. | |
at large, before police spotted A fierce gun battle ensued, | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
in which two suspects, They were identified as Syed Farook | :22:08. | :22:21. | |
and Tashfeen Malik. He had worked for the local health department for | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
many years and was described as quiet and polite. His brother-in-law | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
was said he was stunned to hear of his relative's involvement in the | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
attack. Par I have no idea, why would he do that, why would he do | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
something like this? I have no idea. I am in shock myself. This was | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
the worst mass shooting in America since Sandy Hook three years ago and | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
President Obama has repeated his call for tougher gun control laws | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
here. We have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
no parallel anywhere else in the world. There are steps that we could | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings but to improve | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
the odds that they don't happen as frequently. This massacre was | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
clearly planned, less clear is what prompted it. | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
to rule out the possibility of terrorism acts to Mac say they are | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
keeping an open mind. David Willetts, BBC News, San Bernardino, | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
California. Should scientists be allowed to do | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
research which alters the DNA It's a question being discussed | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
by hundreds of scientists from 20 countries in Washington - | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
at a conference on gene editing. The technology makes it possible to | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
change the genes parents pass It might help prevent inherited | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
diseases - but it also gives rise to From Washington, our Medical | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
Correspondent Fergus Walsh reports. Genetics, what can it mean? Genetic | :23:44. | :23:57. | |
manipulation was once purely the territory of science fiction as in | :23:58. | :24:07. | |
the film Gattica. But earlier this year in a world first scientists in | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
China edited the DNA of human embryos in a laboratory. They used a | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
new cut and paste Jean Duluth technique which might one day allow | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
inherited disease to be killed. The prospect of genetically engineered | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
children being born will make many feel uneasy but some at this summit | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
in Washington feel that it should be allowed. We should trust our | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
instincts but we must also trust them, we were initially concerned | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
about in vitro fertilisation and as soon as it get through safety and | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
efficacy testing it can progress to clinical trials in a measured | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
manner. For others a step too far. It's too risky, we don't need it, | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
there are other ways to have healthy children and it would open the door | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
possibly to a world of genetic heart is and have - not but. Many | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
scientists at this summit wanted to do gene editing in embryos to | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
increase understanding of human biology. Talk of designer human | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
beings is, they say, a distraction, something many years away. But all | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
agree that now is the time to debate the ethics. Fergus Walsh, BBC News, | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
Washington. Alan Yentob is to resign | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
as the BBC's creative director He said the controversy over | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
his role as Chairman of the collapsed charity Kids Company | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
had become a "serious distraction." Alan Yentob has faced scrutiny over | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
his role at the charity which went bankrupt in August, and | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
was accused of trying to influence He will continue to make | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
and present TV programmes. Our media correspondent | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
David Sillito is here. David, why has he gone and why now? | :25:40. | :25:51. | |
The rumours, the revelations, the ultimate collapse of Kids Company, | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
he was the chair of it, who was leading many of the investigations, | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
the BBC. He had strong views and expressed them to Newsnight and also | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
appeared in the studios of Radio 4 during an interview about the | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
coverage. An investigation was made, saying that he had not influenced | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
the BBC in any way it covered the story but those questions continued. | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
Even at the beginning of this week the chairman of the BBC said that | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
investigations, questions, were still ongoing. He said that as this | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
had gone on for such a long time it was proving a serious distraction | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
given that there was so much scrutiny of the BBC at the moment. | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
In a Batman garage today spoke in his defence and said he was a | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
creative person who had done a lot for the arts -- Camila | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
Batmanghelidgh. He will of course remain as presenter of Imagine. | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
Thank you. Voters are going to the polls | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
in the first by-election Labour are defending a majority | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
of more than 14,000 in Oldham West The by-election was caused by the | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
death of the former Labour minister It's tipped to be one | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
of this year's most popular Christmas presents - but anyone | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
wanting to buy a hoverboard or self-balancing scooter has been | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
warned they could be a fire hazard. Thousands of hoverboards have | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
been imported to the UK in recent But trading standards | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
officers said 15,000 that The boards have faults | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
which can cause them to explode or Our Personal Finance Correspondent | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
Simon Gompertz reports. Hoverboards a trophy gift high on | :27:26. | :27:38. | |
Christmas lists but beware cut-price unbranded versions. This is the | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
danger, that some have caught fire while charging, causing serious | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
damage. And started giving of really weird fumes. I thought I shouldn't | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
go near it. This family from London had a lucky escape. They had emptied | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
all their savings to pay for it and the terrifying fact is that it could | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
have burned the house down. Trading standards are trying to intercept | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
them, breaking into a container full of them at Felixstowe port last | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
might. In this batch from China 1000 defective hoverboards and 10,000 | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
more on the way from this supplier alone. The worry is that the worst | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
problems could only emerge at Christmas itself. There will be many | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
people who bought directly via the Internet. Those presents might be | :28:27. | :28:54. | |
hidden at the back of the wardrobe or under the bed ready to go under | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
the tree. There are so many out there that we don't know the | :28:58. | :28:59. | |
potential scale. We have a plaque that is not correctly shaped and is | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
dangerous, the wrong views in it, and charger which doesn't work | :29:03. | :29:04. | |
properly, a manual which is for a different product and inside the | :29:05. | :29:06. | |
hoverboard a lithium battery for which the cut of mechanism that | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
stops and charging when it is full does danger of and this is where the | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
danger of fire comes with the price at over ?500 it is clear why | :29:13. | :29:14. | |
families seeing cheaper versions online might take risks. Trading | :29:15. | :29:16. | |
standards service do not leave them charging and attended, and | :29:17. | :29:17. | |
definitely not at night with the price that over ?500 | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
it is clear why families seeing cheaper versions online might take | :29:21. | :29:22. | |
risks. Trading standards service do not leave them charging and | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
attended, and definitely not at time to look at the one unifying theme is | :29:29. | :29:35. | |
cloud some heavy rain in the Lake District witha rather dull day, some | :29:36. | :29:37. | |
heavy rain in the Lake District with strong winds here, snow in Scotland, | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
a cold story, this is the top of the Ben Nevis range. It looks as of the | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
cold theme will continue for the afternoon across Scotland, this were | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
the front is a dividing line between the cold air to the north and the | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
milder air to the south. Incredibly mild for the early half of December | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
temperatures are already sitting at around 14 Celsius in places, early | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
getting up to five or six as a maximum in the far north of | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
Scotland. That'll have a consequence this afternoon as the weather front | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
drifts further north we could see some snow over the Southern | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
uplands, maybe some slushy deposits in the lower levels, turning back to | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
rain, some rain heavy down the borders, north-west England and | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
North Wales. The winds strengthening as the rain pushes in. Central and | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
eastern areas a little brighter this afternoon, incredibly mild for this | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
time of year. Through this evening the wet and windy weather pushes | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
quickly south and east. The wind changing more around two or westerly | :30:40. | :30:46. | |
overnight. Still breezy, frost and fog and issue, some isolated showers | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
in the north, wintry on higher ground. Tomorrow will be quieter, | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
rather breezy still yet hopefully more sunshine in England and Wales. | :30:55. | :31:02. | |
Severe gales developing in the North West of Scotland as we see heavy | :31:03. | :31:04. | |
rain although they will have a milder afternoon with two bridges | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
reaching ten or 12 degrees. Some very wet and windy weather through | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
Friday night and into Saturday across the extreme north of the | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
country, a miserable start to the weekend, I'm afraid, severe girls, | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
assistant rain likely to attract severe gales, North West Wales, | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
windy elsewhere, yet try and still mild. Bad weather front moves south | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
and east, weakening somewhat and stagnating across England and Wales, | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
hopefully something brighter as we move into the far north. The weekend | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
summary is a wet and windy start for the far north, windy and brighter in | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
the South on Saturday, all change on Sunday with lighter rain in the | :31:48. | :31:50. | |
South and hopefully something try and brighter in the North. Something | :31:51. | :31:52. | |
to look forward to! Britain's bombing campaign | :31:53. | :31:59. | |
against Islamic State in Syria starts within hours | :32:00. | :32:01. | |
of MPs voting for it to go ahead. | :32:02. | :32:05. |