25/08/2014 BBC News at Six

The first Briton infected with the deadly ebola virus is named.

William Pooley, a 29-year-old volunteer nurse in Sierra Leone,

is in strict isolation at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

Scotland gears up for it's second TV debate on independence, shown live

around the UK for the first time. A mother is jailed for 11 years

for murdering her three-year old son and hiding his body

in a suitcase in woodland. The French government resigns in a

very public argument over austerity. very public argument over austerity.

I want to be drunk. The Prime Minister leads

the tributes to the actor and director Richard Attenborough

who's died at the age of 90. A British victim of the ebola virus

is being kept in strict isolation this evening in a London hospital.

William Pooley, a 29-year-old nurse, contracted

the potentially fatal disease while treating patients in Sierra Leone,

where he's been called a hero. He was flown home by the RAF last

night and is being cared for at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead.

Our health correspondent Branwen Jeffreys reports.

William Pooley went to Sierra Leone to care for the dying, visiting AIDS

and cancer patients in their homes. When the ebola outbreak struck, he

left the hospice team to volunteer in a hospital putting his own life

at risk. He is really a hero. A wonderful volunteer. He is very

compassionate. He truly loves people. I admire him. Now he is a

patient in the UK's only high-level isolation unit. His bed sealed

inside a tent, the air in and out of filtered. The team treating him will

reach in using special suits built into the tent, all designed to avoid

contact with the virus. This high-tech unit could not be more

different from the hospital in Sierra Leone. There, the number of

patients was overwhelming staff. He was putting in sometimes 18 hour

days. We have been understaffed at the hospital. The nursing staff

sometimes are afraid to go in under certain circumstances. In those

difficult conditions, teams are taking every precaution. Just a

brief exposure to the virus is enough. It is transmitted through

direct contact with bodily fluids, constant vigilance is needed to spot

early symptoms. Today, his family said they were astounded by the

speed of the operation to bring him back to the UK. They say he couldn't

be in a better place and he is receiving excellent care here. In

health care facilities, of a kind that most of the ebola victims in

Africa don't have access to. There is no proven treatment for the

virus. But they can put him on a trip to maintain his fluid levels

and use antibiotics toward off any other infections. Giving this

dedicated nurse a fighting chance of recovery.

Branwen Jeffreys reports. With just over three weeks to go

until the Scottish referendum on independence there's

a second televised debate tonight. Scotland's First Minister, Alex

Salmond, will be putting the case FOR independence and the former

Labour chancellor, Alistair Darling, will argue that the country should

stay within the United Kingdom. Both men had to rise to a different

challenge before tonight's debate. stay within the United Kingdom.

Once the Scottish actor James McAvoy had nominated them they couldn't not

take the ice bucket challenge. Alistair Darling unflappable

as ever. Go Scotland!

Alex Salmond, characteristically more animated.

Glasgow's magnificent Kelvingrove Museum will host this second TV

encounter and this time viewers across the UK can watch it live.

Last time, Alistair Darling attacked Alex Salmond on the question

of which currency an independent Scotland would use.

Supporters of the union say Scotland's First

Minister still has no answer to this most vital question.

What people want tonight are not just quick one-liners from

Alex Salmond, but real answers, real answers about the currency,

real answers about funding for Scotland, about the future

of jobs and hospitals. That's what people want,

real answers, and if he does not deliver, I think

he'll get a very negative response. Alex Salmond's supporters want

a more robust performance from him tonight and they expect him to

challenge Alistair Darling as what they see as Scotland's uncertain

future inside the European Union. To drive momentum back into the Yes

campaign, Alex Salmond will have to try to turn the tables forcing

Alistair Darling onto the defensive. We can expect to hear a lot

from Alex Salmond tonight on what he sees as the consequences

for Scotland's public services especially the NHS, if the country

votes to stay in the union. I'd be absolutley sure the

First Minister tonight is going to set out the very positive case

for Scottish independence. Of course, the important thing to

point out is how badly we have been let down by Westminster and

the threats that lie down the road if we were to remain within the UK.

The polls still put the anti-independence campaign ahead.

But that lead narrowed after the last TV debate, despite Alistair

Darling's strong performance. Will tonight be the pivot on

which the campaign will turn? It is perhaps the most important 90

minutes in this long, long battle. And our Scotland Correspondent

Lorna Gordon is in Glasgow. Really important, especially with

someone we don't know. Yes, there are a big proportion of Scotland's

four million-plus electorate who have already made their minds up but

there is a significant amount of people, the undecided people, and

the soft voters on either side who are veering towards yes or no, but

who may yet change their minds. Alistair Darling in Alex Salmond

tonight are aiming their arguments at them. Expect some familiar ground

to be revisited. We will hear arguments over the economy,

currency, oil, the NHS, but a word of warning. Both of these men are

skilled debaters but don't expect that necessarily to transfer into a

bump in the polls. Lorna, thanks very much

Lorna Gordon is in Glasgow. And you can see the second televised

debate on Scottish independence ahead of next month's referendum

at 8.30 tonight on BBC Two and on BBC One in Scotland.

A woman who killed her three-year-old son has been jailed

for 11 years by a judge at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Rosdeep Adekoya denied murdering Mikaeel Kular, but admitted a lesser

charge of culpable homicide. Andrew Anderson reports

from Edinburgh. indeed his mother had beaten him

after they have eaten at a restaurant. Mikaeel died from

internal injuries in Edinburgh. Two days later, she called the police,

claiming her son had disappeared. A massive police operation was

launched in the north of the city. In this particular case it became

clear that Mikaeel had not gone missing. Of his own accord. As had

been reported. His body was lying in woodland 20 miles away. His mother

had wrapped him in bedding, put his body in a suitcase, and hidden it in

behind her sister 's house. Eventually, she led police to him.

behind her sister 's house. Eventually, she At court in

Edinburgh this morning, Rosdeep Adekoya was sentenced to 11 years.

Originally charged with murder, she admitted a lesser charge of culpable

homicide. The judge told her: Rosdeep Adekoya and her family were

known to social services in Edinburgh and in Fife. The social

workers involvement ended in December last year. Four weeks

later, Rosdeep Adekoya killed her son. There were now been enquiry

into the more could be done. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson,

has called for tougher powers to deal with

extremists who return to Britain from fighting in Iraq and Syria.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he said people travelling to war zones

without telling the authorities should be presumed to be potential

terrorists - until proven innocent. The idea's been dismissed

as 'simplistic' by the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

Here's our Political Correspondent Iain Watson.

Around half of the 500 British Stetsons fighting in Syria and Iraq

alongside Islamic State militants could come from London, and today

Doris Johnson called for tougher action against potential terrorists.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he said:

in other words, they would be a presumption of guilt, not innocents.

He says: control orders were introduced by

the last Labour government and scrapped by the coalition. These

allow terrorist suspects to be detained in their own homes without

trial. Terror suspects are often taken to this Court in central

London for their initial hearing, and the Home Office said the

government intends to take the strongest possible action against

those that commit crimes when abroad. The Liberal Democrats

believe that Boris Johnson's apparent solutions to tackling

Islamic State sympathisers are too simplistic. I sometimes wish it was

as simple as he implies, all we need to do is pass a law and everything

will be well. I'm afraid passing a law in Westminster is not suddenly

going to remove the existence of Isis, it is a threat that will stay

there for some period of time. Dominic Grieve, until recently the

government's most senior legal adviser said the puzzle was

Draconian. There are lots of reasons why people might go to Iraq or

Syria, people might be a workers, they might have family in the

region, you can't just presume that people going to those countries are

going to be involved in jihadist activities. Boris Johnson has said

he wants to become a Conservative MP again, telling the Daily Telegraph

the government should be tougher on terrorists won't have harmed his

chances. Hundreds of people gathered in

St Louis, Missouri for the funeral of Michael Brown -

the unarmed black teenager shot dead by police more than two weeks ago.

His death was followed by a week of rioting and looting that put

the issue of race relations back on political agenda in America.

Our correspondent Aleem Maqbool isi n St Louis.

Yes, hundreds of people, among them the family of Michael Brown, the

teenager who was shot dead in Bergson, but also civil rights

activists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and hundreds of people

from the local community, African-Americans mainly. There

hasn't been any trouble here of the type of the protests you were

talking about, able say just attending this is part of their

protest, we have mothers saying they are here because it could have been

their son who was shot dead. Others are saying they're going to continue

despite until they get justice that means not just justice for Michael

Brown and prosecution of the police officer who killed him but also a

real change in what happens in ratio between the police and

African-American communities across this country. That is the real test,

once all these cameras disappear, whether they will be real change, no

one is yet sure whether that will happen.

isi n St Louis. The government of France has

collapsed in a row over the country's faltering economy.

Two senior cabinet ministers criticised

the current austerity programme, and President Francois Hollande has

now asked his prime minister to form a new cabinet by tomorrow.

Lucy Williamson reports from Paris. France's latest political crisis

grew out of this, a bottle of wine nicknamed recovery by the

President's on economy minister who then offered his boss a drink from

it. He might as well have called it a humiliation. After losing his job

today, he made his point more directly. That France needed to ease

up on its austerity policies and head in a different direction.

TRANSLATION: The way in which the deficit is being forcibly reduced if

sinking all the European economies and what we don't want and what I'm

obliged to say, we don't want the European Union to continue its

descent into hell. But behind the photos, this family feud has rumbled

on for years and it's not just Montebourg without a job today. One

by one, France's former Cabinet ministers have been summoned here to

the Prime Minister's office to explain why they should keep their

jobs. It's a public display of power, designed to show that

President Hollande is still in charge. But even if that solves one

problem for the president, it could end up creating another one. Even if

he can strengthen his control on the government, then the assembly might

rebel. If they don't vote for the budget, which is the key issue

within the majority, then we will have to go to a general election.

Enthusiasm for Francois Hollande is damper than ever here. Uniden 20% of

voters believe he can turn things around. He needs to deliver economic

gains to stand a chance of real action but with growth stagnant and

his party divided, he is struggling to find any shelter from the storm.

Lucy Williamson reports from Paris. Leading figures in the movie

industry have been remembering the actor and Oscar-winning director

Lord Attenborough, who's died at the age of 90.

The broadcaster Lord Bragg described him as a man of colossal

range, who had done a tremendous amount for the film industry.

Our arts editor Will Gompertz looks back at his life.

A young Richard Attenborough playing a young Richard his first film role.

He was a teenage drama student at the time, he had been talent spotted

by Noel Coward, the film's director. It led to this role in which he made

his name as a violent and psychotic pinky brown. In the 1947 film

adaptation of Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock. He really was a

dreadful young man cometh thirsted for this power and from the power

came his ruthlessness. And it was a frightening character to play.

Tonight, this is your life. Richard Attenborough was soon a national

celebrity much to the amusement of his brothers, John and David. In

1969 the actor turned director. The film version of the stage musical oh

what a lovely War. And historical drama about a Winston Churchill

followed. And then in 1982 came another film about a charismatic

leader, Gandhi was an epic in every way. Years in the making, a cast of

thousands and when it came to it, awards galore, including an Oscar

for the director. In the movies is heaven on earth for me and I would

want to go on and on until I fell off a tweak and disappeared. He not

only had a knack and talents, think you would call a genius for knowing

what to do and for having the persistence to go ahead and do it.

He was an extraordinary man, he was the canopy for the British film

industry in the last 60 or 70 years. Richard Attenborough was not only

one of the most distinguished actors and directors of his generation, he

also played a significant part in shaping and's post-war cultural

life. He was a president of BAFTA, chairman of the BFI and life

president of Chelsea football club. We have lost a wonderful man and a

true friend, he loved our football club and he really was an

inspiration. There were moments he used to come down to the dressing

room, it had a real impact on the team. He used to share with myself

and foreign players as a real Chelsea fan back in the day. Richard

Attenborough was an end-user stick Labour Party supporter, a compelling

social activist and an energetic fundraiser for many charities. He

was a compassionate, intelligent and wonderfully wholehearted man.

looks back at his life. Richard Attenborough, whose death

was announced last night. And there's a special tribute

programme to Lord Attenborough tonight on BBC1 at 10.30.