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David Cameron is warned by the European Council President | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
that some of his proposals for EU reform are "unacceptable." | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
With a summit of EU leaders due in the next few hours to discuss | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Britain's membership, the Prime Minister is said to face | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
With EU leaders also discussing the migrant crisis, | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
we report from Athens which is coping with thousands | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
And the other main stories this lunchtime. | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
Are the majority of cancers caused by lifestyle or by factors | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
More strong words from President Putin against Turkey | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
for shooting down a Russian warplane last month. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
And creating a more active nation - sport not just for teenagers | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
but for the very young, and the quite old. | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
And in the sport, Sepp Blatter appears before the Fifa ethics | :00:54. | 2:33:02 | |
committee. Swiss authorities announced they have pros and tens of | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
of pounds relating to suspected corruption. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
has warned that some parts of Britain's demands for EU | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
He was speaking before David Cameron's meeting this evening | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
with EU leaders about his plans for a new deal, before a referendum | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
on Britain's EU membership by the end of 2017. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
It will be the first time that the leaders discuss | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the Prime Minister's proposals in detail. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Several countries are strongly opposed to his plans to limit | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Let's go to our correspondent Alex Forsyth who's in Brussels | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
No doubt David Cameron is bracing himself for some tough talks today. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
There is no final agreement on any of his proposed reforms, but the one | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
that is proving the most difficult are the changes he wants to make to | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the EU's welfare system. He will try to persuade his European | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
counterparts to see things from his perspective, but they are focused on | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
The issues that have dominated this year will command most attention as | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
EU leaders gather in Brussels. The migration crisis, terrorism and | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
security will be at the forefront of most minds, but David Cameron has | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
his own agenda. He is trying to negotiate the UK's relationship with | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the EU before a vote on whether to remain orderly. This morning, the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
man who has to brokered the deal said some of his demands are out of | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the question. It does not change the fact that some parts of the British | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
proposals seem unacceptable. However, if Prime Minister Cameron | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
persuade leaders tonight that we can work together to find solutions | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
regarding all issues, then we will have a chance to strike a deal in | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
February. Away from the summit on the outskirts of Brussels there is a | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
theme park which represent every country in the EU. The Prime | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Minister's demands will have to be agreed by everyone. He wants to | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
protect the power of national parliaments, make the EU more | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
competitive, protect countries that do not have the euro from decisions | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
made by those that do, and to ban in work benefits for migrants for four | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
years, which David Cameron argues will reduce immigration. Some | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
countries like Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
worry that last measure will discriminate against their citizens | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
who want to work in the UK. They are strongly opposed to the plan and it | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
is proving to be a real sticking point. To avoid going round in | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
circles on this intractable point there will need to be concessions | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
when all 28 EU leaders are in the ring today for the first detailed | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
discussion of these reforms. There will be no final deal, at best steps | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
towards a possible solution. The Prime Minister's challenge will be | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
satisfying his European counterparts and Eurosceptics in the UK. It looks | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
likely now they will have to compromise. One EU official said | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
yesterday if David Cameron is to win the support he needs, he needs to be | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
open and honest about the political pressure he is facing in the UK. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Downing Street is confident he will get the best deal possible. But | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
whatever he is able to negotiate, will it make a difference to the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
outcome of the referendum when people in the UK decide whether to | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
remain or leave the European Union? Today's EU summit is set to focus | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
heavily on how to deal with the migrant crisis, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
something which has A group of eight countries, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
including Germany, met this morning to discuss ways | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
to stem the flow of migrants Our Europe correspondent, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Chris Morris, was at that meeting. What was said? These were leaders | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
led by Angela Merkel who were meeting with the Turkish minister, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
looking at ways to potentially transfer Syrian refugees directly | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
from camps in Turkey into the EU, in other words bypassing those | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
dangerous journeys they take across the sea by paying smuggling gangs. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
But there are lots of ifs and buts before that can happen. The EU is | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
saying they were only do that transfer if Turkey takes real steps | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
to stem the illegal flow across the sea. A report will be given to the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
EU summit later today and it will say there is little evidence that | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Turkey has managed to reduce the number of arrivals. Turkey is saying | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
we are not going to take concerted action against the smuggling gangs | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
until we see the colour of your money. The EU has promised 3 billion | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
euros to support Turkey. There is a lot of sequencing going on, but | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
wherever you look along the migration trail at the moment, be | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Turkey, Greece or in the Balkans, every country is being overwhelmed | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
by the numbers and that is creating splits and divides within the EU. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
This meeting this morning had nine or ten EU leaders, mostly from | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
central Europe like Hungary and Poland were not there. They were | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
saying they did not want refugees coming to their country and that is | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
creating tensions with leaders like Angela Merkel. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
One country that has been at the forefront of the migrant | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras believes his country | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
is becoming a vast holding pen for migrants and he'll use | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the summit to ask for more money and help. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Despite thousands arriving every day, only those fleeing wars | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
and violence in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are being allowed | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Our correspondent, Nick Thorpe, is in Athens for us now. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Here in central Athens I am standing in a square with several hundred | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
migrants. These are people not from those three privileged countries, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
but from other countries like Iran, Morocco and Algeria. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
The first foothold on the European mainland. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Most days, over 3,000 migrants arrive here at the port of Athens. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
They have come from the Greek Aegean islands on their way | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Greece has been much-criticised for not defending | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
TRANSLATION: According to international law, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
it's our obligation to save the lives of those at sea. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
The sea border is different to a land border, so we won't sink | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the migrant boats, and we will not push them back into Turkish waters. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
But the relief many migrants feel at reaching Greece is short-lived. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Instead, they're moved from one temporary facility to another. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
More than a thousand people slept in this stadium last night. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
They've now been asked to leave and the government's plan is to move | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
them to another stadium not far away in another part of Athens. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
People tell me they're not happy with that idea but they don't | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
We have to find the best way, we have to be very careful | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
We have to know the best way and to follow that. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
The city authorities are not happy either. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
But they've reluctantly struck a deal. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
The migrants can stay in their district for three months | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
TRANSLATION: Greece believes in relocating refugees | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
More time is needed to persuade them that this is in their interests. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
They should not be transferred from one camp to another. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
At the European Summit, Greece will try to persuade more | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
It will ask for more technical help to register them | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
when they arrive and to deport those it decides are economic migrants. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Nick Thorpe, BBC News, Athens. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
A new study suggests that between 70% and 90% of cancers | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
are caused by lifestyle choices such as smoking and drinking | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Our medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh, is here. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
First of all, what does the report suggest? Cancer is a massive health | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
issue. Every family in the UK has been touched by it. 2.5 million | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
people in the UK are living with cancer and 338,000 new diagnosis | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
happen every year. They are big figures. This research found that | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
70-90% of cancers, this team in New York reckoned they were down to | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
external factors and only 10-30% due to random cell mutations which | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
happens every time a cell divides. There is a chance it will pick up a | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
mutated and become cancerous. There was a report earlier this year that | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
suggested cancer was bound to random bad luck. What do we believe? I am | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
sure people will be scratching their heads. That research said only one | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
third of cancers were down to lifestyle and two thirds were down | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
to bad luck. I think it is somewhere between the two of them. I am most | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
comfortable with the figures of Cancer Research UK. They suggest | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
more than 40% of cancers can be prevented through lifestyle. What | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
can you do? Diet, exercise, healthy weight, alcohol consumption, being | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the son were, and the biggest single risk factor, smoking. We all know | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
smokers who do not get cancer and very fit people who do, so there is | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
an element of chance. It is a bit like Russian roulette. There is a | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
cancer bullet in there, but you can add more in if you smoke and have an | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
unhealthy lifestyle. You can reduce your chance of getting cancer if you | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
The Prime Minister is preparing to curb the powers of the House | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
of Lords after it blocked the Government's plans | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
A review will say peers should lose their absolute veto over laws | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Labour says the reform is a "massive over-reaction" | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Our deputy political editor, James Landale, is in Westminster. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Where will this leave the Lords and the influence they have? | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
This is all about power and a power struggle between the House of Lords | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
and the House of commons, particularly over the powers of the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
House of Lords to scrutinise minor, technical regulations known as | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
secondary legislation, stuff that affect a lot of our lives. At the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
moment the House of Lords as an absolute veto over this. It does not | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
use it very often, but it does occasionally. The review says the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Lords should lose that absolute veto and get a new mechanism to allow | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
peers to reject the statutory instruments, send them back to the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
House of Commons, force MPs to think again, but they will only be able to | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
do this once. Do some people that sounds like sensible, practical | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
reform. To others it is a direct assault on the power of the House of | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Lords to scrutinise detailed government policy. We will find out | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
what the government thinks about it in the New Year, but I do not think | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
they will recommend different proposals. Then there will be a | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
battle royal between these houses, essentially changing the rules of | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
engagement that will capture a lot of the debate in Parliament for the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
next five years. Public investment in community sport | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
is being extended to children as young as five as part | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
of the Government's Sport England is to share its ?1 | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
billion budget more widely than before - in what's been | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
described as the biggest shake-up Our sports correspondent, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Katie Gornall, reports. A few miles from London's Olympic | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Park, the fight for our sporting future is taking shape. Today the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
sports minister announced the first major shake-up of community sport in | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
over a decade and a planned the government hopes will benefit every | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
part of society. There are lots of groups out there who deliver sport | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
and physical activity to deprive communities, to communities where | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
there are physical or learning disabilities, to older people, and | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
we want to definitely encouraged that in order to make show we get | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
more people physically active. Under the plan, money will be diverted | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
from national governing bodies with more made available to charities and | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
community groups like this boxing club in North London. I do not | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
really enjoy sport, but I like boxing. You can stay at home and | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
watch TV and be on your phone, but you do not get to socialise. If they | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
find a sport they enjoy, that will cut down the staying at home and | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
start to get them into exercise. This is what prompted the government | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
to act. Since 2012, the number of adults playing sport has fallen by | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
over 400,000. Few are 5-10 -year-olds are exercising and this | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
group will receive more support. Nearly four years on from the London | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Olympics the battle to secure its legacy remains as tough as ever. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Many will welcome today's announcement as a chance for the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
country to strengthen its relationship with sport, while | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
others suggest the problems are partly the government's own making. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
I decline in school sport has also been blamed for disappointing | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
participation figures in the wake of 2012. We all need to do something, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
whether it is scientists, doctors, teachers, it is not just down to | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
sports clubs and leisure centres to get people fit. We all have a role | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
to play and the individual has as well. The London Olympics was sold | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
on a promise to inspire a generation. As those memories fade, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
now comes an attempt to provide its sporting legacy. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
David Cameron is warned by the European Council president | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
that some of his proposals for EU reform are "unacceptable." | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
And still to come: It's beginning to look a lot | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
The mild temperatures are producing some unseasonal sights. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
England's cricketers lose seven wickets on the third and final | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
morning of their warm up match against a South African Invitational | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
11. The Russian president Vladimir Putin | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
has again bitterly criticised Turkey for shooting down a Russian | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
warplane last month, saying relations between their | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
countries wouldn't be resolved under Turkey said the plane had crossed | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
into Turkish airspace from Syria. But Mr Putin, speaking at his annual | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
news conference in Moscow, was more upbeat about a possible | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
peaceful resolution hours of carefully vetted questions. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
And the president, who has ruled Russia for 15 years, often uses it | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
to speak out about international disputes. There is no more pressing | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
issue than this, the crisis sparked by the shooting down of a Russian | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
fighter bomber last month by Turkey, a member of Nato. Today Mr Putin | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
made it clear the crisis would not end until there were new leaders in | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Turkey. TRANSLATION: I think the actions of the Turkish government | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
against our aeroplanes is not a friendly, but an enemy act. Our | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
people have died and we are enraged. The president went on to use crude | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
language to criticise Turkey's close relationship with the United States, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
and yet relations between Mr Putin and the United States seem to be | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
better at the moment, at least over the attempted to push forward with a | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
peace process for Syria. I spoke to John Kerry about it and our position | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
is unchanged and our position is a principled position. The Syrian | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
people must decide who will rule them, by which standards, and we | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
support the initiative of the United States to increase the efforts of | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the United Nations. By the end of this marathon news conference, Mr | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Putin has stressed how Russia and the United States agreed on the need | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
for a new constitution for Syria and need to find ways to oversee future | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
elections there. Tomorrow Russia will support a draft UN resolution | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
The Bank of England is to get new powers to limit how much | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
The sector - where investors buy homes to rent out - | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
is growing faster than any other part of the housing market. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
The new powers could also allow the Bank to place a limit | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
on the amount of rent which would be required to cover | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Our personal finance correspondent, Simon Gompertz, is here. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Why are they doing this and how will it work? The worry about the rise of | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
buy to let is they hit first-time buyers, but also there could be a | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
boom and bust, which would mean buy to let people would default and that | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
would have an effect on the banking system. The Chancellor has taken | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
away some of the tax perks of buy to let and they will have to pay higher | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
stamp duty from next April, and now these extra powers from the Bank of | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
England which means they could limit the amount you could borrow, say 75% | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
of the value of the property. Or they could say you have to have a | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
certain amount of rent to cover the mortgage interest, that could be | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
125% to make sure that you could afford it. By squeezing their, they | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
can take away defiance that a lot of buy to let people need. What effect | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
will this happen? People say there will be a boom and people are going | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
to buy before April, before the increase in stamp duty, pushing up | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
prices. Then lenders are predicting a drop in buy to let next year and | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
then even further the year after. These powers might not even come in | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
until the end of next year. Modern Britain is still suffering | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
from "deep divides" in society, according to a major | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
report out today. The Social Mobility | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
and Poverty Commission says there's a growing split by income and by | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
class, with privately-educated pupils still dominating the top | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
professions and earners. Here's our education | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
correspondent, Robert Pigott. Pupils at Trafalgar School in | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Portsmouth expanding their horizons with the city's sailing trust. Less | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
than a quarter of children from low income families nationally are | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
achieving the minimum standard of five good GCSEs and even fewer get | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
two A-levels. Last year not a single poor pupil from Portsmouth started | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
at an elite university. A lot of students come in assuming they will | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
not get well-paid jobs and they will not go to university because that is | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
not how it happens for them. Our school is an example of challenging | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
that right from the start and to explode people's horizons so there | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
are many more options available for them. Half the pupils at Trafalgar | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
School are from low income families, many are white boys whose poor | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
performance has been hard to improve. The commission says if the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
government wants to achieve its ambition of a more equal society it | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
must close the achievement gap between poor children and the rest. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
It is calling for a zero tolerance of failing schools, better pay for | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
teachers, and many more high-grade apprenticeships. There is a very big | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
gap between the divided Britain of today and the one nation Britain the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Prime Minister would like to see. On current progress it will take 30 | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
years before the attainment gap in schools between the poorest children | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
and their better of classmates even have to. Trafalgar School has | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
focused on raising the aspirations of its pupils as the key to | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
realising their potential. My name is lazy and I want to be a midwife | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
because my mum did not achieve it when she was growing up. If I do | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
achieve it, I will have to go to college. I want to be a forensic | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
scientist and we have to study science and maths and I am planning | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
on going to university so I can get my job. I want to get good GCSEs and | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
go on to university and get a degree in maths and English since my mum or | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
my dad did not go to university. The government says it is committed to | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
building a one nation Britain when no one is defined by the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
circumstances of their birth and its reforms to schools are designed to | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
bring this about. Seven former paratroopers | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
have won a legal battle against being arrested and sent | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
to Northern Ireland to be questioned The High Court ruled | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the men can be interviewed Police are investigating | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
whether criminal offences may have been committed when soldiers | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
who opened fire during a civil A group of schoolchildren | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
in Blackpool has been challenged to give up fizzy drinks for 21 days | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
in order to cut down on calories For most people over the age of 11, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the recommended daily amount of sugar is 30 grams, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
but some of the most popular soft drinks contain at least | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
that amount per can, Our health correspondent, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Dominic Hughes, reports. One of these drinks particularly has | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
20 teaspoons of sugar hiding These school pupils | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
love fizzy drinks. Do you think any of these drinks | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
actually contain this Not many of them know just how much | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
sugar those drinks contain. Last month these Year 8 pupils | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
at St George's School in Blackpool were challenged to see | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
if they could kick the fizzy pop habit for 21 days, to cut down | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
on calories and prevent tooth decay. Sugar in fizzy drinks | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
is empty calories, you know. It just adds calories, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
unnecessary calories to our diet. In Blackpool, there is a particular | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
issue in that more than a third of 10 and 11-year-olds | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
are overweight. These young people are also amongst | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the biggest consumers of fizzy drinks, so let's see how | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
they all get on giving up fizzy pop If each pupil gave up just one can | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
of fizzy drink a day, over 21 days, they would | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
reduce their sugar intake Shay volunteered to help us out, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
recording a video diary It is day six giving up loving pop | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
and I'm doing pretty I'm finding it in the middle | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
at the moment, but I'm still staying strong and I'm still determined | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
to do this challenge. So it's the last day of giving up | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
loving pop and I've finally completed the challenge | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
and I have succeeded. How many of you actually gave up | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
loving pop for 21 days? Most but not all of Shay's group did | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
manage the challenge, but their teachers know | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
more needs to be done. It's a hard nut to crack and we have | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
to also talk to parents about what they think | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
because they've been brought up a similar way to what the children | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
have in using sugar as a reward. It's a simple experiment that | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
exposes just how much hidden For some parts of the UK, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
it's been the mildest start Temperatures have been as much as 5 | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
or 6 degrees Celsius above average across central and southern parts | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
of the UK and it's set to continue The unseasonal temperatures have | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
produced some unusual sights Our correspondent, Sophie Long, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
is at Kew Gardens in West London Welcome to Kew Gardens. There are | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
signs of Christmas here with Christmas trees and even a sign | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
saying Christmas at Kew Gardens, but it is exceptionally mild. It is | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
great news if you like Christmas, but you do not like the cold, but a | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
bit confusing for the Flora here in the gardens. Even holly bushes are | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
flowering months ahead of schedule. I am joined by Ray Townsend and you | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
have worked here for 40 years. Have you ever experienced such a mild | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
December? No, I have not. It is 16 degrees today and it is incredible. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
I have never seen daffodils in flower. We have got holly in full | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
flower which would normally not do that until the spring. I do not | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
remember seeing this before at Kew Gardens. Talk us through some of the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
most extraordinary things you are witnessing. We have got daffodils | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
coming through and some of the s Camelliahave come into flower. The | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
biggest surprise for me is the holly and I have never seen that before. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
It is worth seeing. That is the real icon of Christmas, the holly with | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
its red berries. It has still got red berries? Yes, your associate | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
holly and Christmas with red berries, and we do still have that, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
but to see it with flowers is something else. Later today the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
iconic palm house will be lit up and there will be fountains in front | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
dancing to Yuletide tunes, a sign that Christmas continues here at Kew | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Gardens whatever the weather. The flowers may be confused, let's see | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
what the weather holds in store for the weekend. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
It has been exceptionally dull and there has been an enormous variation | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
in rainfall amounts across the UK. It has been exceptionally mild and | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the weather watchers have been out in force capturing the confusion in | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
nature. We even have had pictures of daffodils up in Ayrshire. This could | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
have confused you this morning, the temperatures you step out into. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
There is a flight in the ointment with this moderate weather front. In | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the afternoon it will go a bit further eastwards and some heavy | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
rain in Central and southern England and the Midlands. These are the sort | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
of temperatures you might expect to see this afternoon, but this is what | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
you were actually see, several degrees above normal. There will be | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
heavy bursts on that front as it clears the East Anglia and the south | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
east overnight. Then the sky is clear, but the temperatures do not | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
dip. Many of us stay in double figures and that is the way we start | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
the new day on Friday. It is bright enough in eastern parts. But we have | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
got a new weather system coming in of the Atlantic and this will be | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
quite heavy rain. If you are thinking about the M8 and the M 74, | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
there will be heavy bursts, maybe 80 millimetres of rain in the highest | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
ground. Less in the way of rainfall as you come a bit further south. A | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
dry afternoon in prospect with the last of the day's sunshine still | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
hanging on in East Anglia. It could well be that we set new night-time | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
minimum records on Saturday. If we see 14 in England, that will be | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
enough for a new December record. But it comes at a price. We have | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
another weather front coming in from the Atlantic, so there will be a | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
spell of quite significant rain again in the middle of the | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
afternoon. Not bother for the South East until later on and then on | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Sunday there will be blustery showers, but there will be some | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
sunshine as well. A slightly fresher feel. Watch out for those records | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
tumbling over the next couple knights. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime: | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
David Cameron is warned by the European Council president that some | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
of his proposals for EU reform are unacceptable, but the Prime Minister | 2:33:03 | 2:33:02 | |
says he was to see real progress after tonight's | 2:33:03 | 2:33:03 |