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David Cameron makes his case for MPs to back British air strikes | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
Allies like the French already bomb so-called IS - he says the terror | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
We have to hit these terrorists in their heartlands now. We must not | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
shirk our responsibility for security or hand it to others. | :00:29. | :00:43. | |
But Labour's leader tells the party's MPs that he can't | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
We'll be asking if air strikes could make Britain | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
More details of George Osborne's spending plans - | :00:55. | :01:06. | |
Net migration to Britain hits a new record - it jumps | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
And on Reporting Scotland at 6.30pm: Austerity is not over - | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
as councillor demonstrate, John Swinney, says the budget set | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
by the Chancellor's spending review means he's facing tough choices. | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
And, we look ahead to Celtic's crucial | :01:20. | :01:20. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:21. | :01:45. | |
Britain can't afford to stand aside from the fight against Islamic State | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
extremists, that's the message from the Prime Minister | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
today as he called on MPs to back UK air strikes into Syria. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
David Cameron side that IS was a direct threat to Britain and the UK. | :01:55. | :02:14. | |
Laura Kuenssberg is at Westminster for us with the latest. | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Two significant things happened in Westminster. The prime went to the | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
House of Commons and made an argument for military action asking | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
MPs to back his belief that strikes in Syria would be the right thing to | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
do. But as we speak Labour MPs are receiving a letter from Jeremy | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
Corbyn, saying he cannot back the strikes. He does not think that the | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
party ought to. But many MPs have expressed a desire to do so and | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
believe that the time may now be right. Tonight in Westminster, there | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
are two political fights. The Russians are doing it. | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
The French are doing it. And the Prime Minister believes that | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
it is now our turn to do it too. Dropping bombs, not just over Iraq | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
but on so-called Islamic State in Syria. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
Statement, the Prime Minister: Thank you, Mr Speaker. We can't wait for a | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
political transition, we have to hit these terrorists in their heartlands | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
right now. We must not shirk our responsibility for security or hand | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
it to others. Mr Speaker, throughout our history, the United Kingdom has | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
stood up to defend our values, and our way of life. We can and we must | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
do so again. The shock of Paris has changed the | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
terms of the debate. 130 people died, less than 300 miles from the | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
UK capital. David Cameron believes air strikes | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
thousands of miles away could stop attacks here. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
That bomb in Paris, that could have been London. If they had their way | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
it would be London. I can't stand here and say we are safe from all of | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
these threats. We are not. I cannot say we will remove the threat | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
through the action that we take but do I stand here with advice behind | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
me that taking action will degrade and reduce the threat over time? | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
Absolutely. I have examined my conscious, that is what is telling | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
me. But what went wrong in Iraq hung | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
heavy here. In the light of the record of | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
western military intervention in recent years including Iraq, | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
Afghanistan and Libya, does the Prime Minister accept that UK | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
bombing of Syria could risk more of what President Obama called: | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Unintended consequences? And that a lasting defeat of Isil can only be | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
secured by Syrians and their forces within the region. | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
There will not be British boots on the ground. So who are the reliable | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
70,000 forces that the Government says could help. I ask him to look | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
at his figure of 70,000 Free Syrian Army. We have been told directly | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
through contact that there are few moderates remaining on either side | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
of the Civil War. Today, the Prime Minister wants us to launch a | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
bombing campaign without effective ground support in place or a fully | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
costed reconstruction and stability plan. | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
What a crazy war! Enemies to the right of us, enemies to the left of | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
it, keep out! There are objections on all sides. Because of the risk of | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
losing, the Government won't even bring a vote here to the Commons | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
unless they can be sure of a comfortable win. That means that | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
they need the support of maybe dozens of Labour MPs. Their leader | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
is deeply reluctant. The rest of them are is split. | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Straight after the debate, Labour's top team gathered to try to agree | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
whether to support air strikes in Syria, they could not. Hours later, | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
the party's leader said he cannot sport the bombing, though sources | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
suggest that more than half of his Shadow Cabinet are in favour and the | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Shadow Affect sounds like he is one of them. | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
I think all agree on the threat to the United Kingdom and I think that | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
we have a responsibility, it is the first duty of the Government and the | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
opposition, to protect the British people. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
For good or ill, there is a growing sense of inevitability. Labour | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
voices giving public support. What does it say about our judgment | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
if we fail to take heed from the appeal of the United Nations? | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Previous Tory Conservative Party ticks are now in favour. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
On balance the country is best served by the House supporting his | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
judgment that the United Kingdom should play... A full role in the | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
coalition. Yet unless ministers are totally | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
confident they will get the authorities to send British planes | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
to Syria, a vote will not happen. Tonight it certainly feels like it | :07:06. | :07:06. | |
is moving in their direction. So big questions tonight about what | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
impact British military action would have on the ground in Syria | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
and whether it could make Britain Our Security Correspondent Frank | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
Gardner has this assessment. Syria hasn't always been at war. | :07:21. | :07:32. | |
Just five years ago it was a popular tourist destination. Ruled by a | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
largely unpopular regime. Then came the Arab Spring. It | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
started as a peaceful protest by unarmed civilians, calling for an | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
end to ash tear arrests and torture. But President Assad's regime | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
responded with bullets and tanks and more torture. By April 2011, the | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
popular up rising was already turning violent. New rebel groups I | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
merged, including radical Islamists. It became a Civil War. | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
In 2013, Assad's forces were widely blamed for a mass poisonous gas | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
attack. Over 1,000 people died. In 2014, the so-called Islamic State | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
seized large parts of Iraq and Syria. US-led air strikes on the | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
group began. Britain joined in but only in Iraq. So does it make | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
military sense to now extend British action into Syria? The military plan | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
is credible in military terms and Britain does have something to | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
contribute as the weapons are accurate, they can be used in a | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
discriminating way. But Britain is not in a position to add huge | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
numbers of aircraft or sorties. Syria has had air strikes for more | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
than four years as rival forces battle for control of territory. The | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
Syrian government is clinging to pockets of land Sloane in red. Then | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
the rebel groups, moderate and radical, shown in light red. The | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Kurdish forces in yellow, have been fighting against Islamic State, | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
their forces are shown in orange, they are spread across the border | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
into Iraq where Britain is already paschaling them. In Syria, the RAF | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
can only conduct surveillance. If that now changes to British air | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
strikes in Syria, what could go wrong? Many things could go wrong. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
There are so many steps that have to follow in sequence and as we have | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
seen with the downing of the Russian warplane, that is the kind of thing | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
that canoe cure and throw everything off plan. | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
Then there is the terrorist threat here in Britain. | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
IS already want to target this country. | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
But after such a public debate over air strikes, they are thought likely | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
to want to step up their efforts. Yesterday the Chancellor said he | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
would not go through with But independent experts who've been | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
picking through the details say families could be | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
worse off in other ways. They say that some 2.5 million new | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
claimants would be worse off under the new system | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
of Universal Credit than they would But nearly two million | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
would be better off. Our Economics Correspondent | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
Andy Verity looks at the figures. If George is the builder, can he fix | :10:22. | :10:37. | |
it? Well, sort of. The high-visibility headline what a | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
U-turn on tax credits but laying out the detail, the u-turn takes us to | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
the same destination. Britain needs to move to a lower | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
welfare, higher wage economy, that is what is right for the country. We | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
can help families to the transition to the lower welfare, higher wage | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
economy and use the improvements in the public finances to do that. | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
The Chancellor is planning to take billions from low paid working | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
families who need the income topped up but they are the claimants of | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
tomorrow, not today. Among today's claimantants is Stuart, his family | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
stood to lose up to ?1,500 a year. It means a massive difference to | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
myself and my family. We are cautious as we know there will be | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
further cuts further down the line but we are happy with the result we | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
have at the moment. In this building behind me, the | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Institute for Fiscal Studies has been explaining what happens to the | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
incomes of low paid working families and the benefit changes going | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
through. 1. 9 million working families will be better off by ?1400 | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
a year on average, than under the current system. But 2. 6 million | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
will be worse off to the tune of ?1600 a year. | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
Cuts to tax credits have gone from next year. No-one on a tax credit | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
will see a fall in their car benefits next year or into the | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
future. But the Chancellor is still making | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
the same long-term savings, the way he is doing that is because he is | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
making the Universal Credit system to replace tax credits less | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
generous. The tax credits cuts reduce the | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
amount earned before the tax credit is clawed back. But that happens | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
when they are replaced by Universal Credit. A single parent working part | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
time with a child will get ?2,800 a year less claiming in 2020 than now. | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
For a couple with three children on the Living Wage, it is ?3,050 less. | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
But a single worker could claim ?1,000 more. Universal Credit is | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
rolled out to jobcentres next year, replacing six benefits from tax | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
credits to jobseeker's allowance. But the introduction has been dogged | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
by delays. For the Chancellor it must work. His chances of getting | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
the budget to surplus depend on it. A brief look at some of | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
the day's other other news stories. Barclays has been fined ?72 million | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
for failing to carry out proper The regulator, | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
the Financial Conduct Authority, said the bank didn't follow standard | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
procedures designed to prevent money laundering, because it didn't want | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
to upset its rich customers. There's no suggestion, however, that | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
any crime was actually committed. Talks have begun in an effort to | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
stop the planned industrial action The first | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
of three walkouts over pay and The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
agreed to meet junior doctors' representatives | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
at the conciliation service ACAS. A communist cult leader who | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
allegedly kept his daughter prisoner for 30 years | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
has denied treating her cruelly. Aravindan Balakrishnan told | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
Southwark Crown court, the reason she didn't go out alone | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
was because she feared she'd be attacked Balakrishnan, who is 75, | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
denies sexually assaulting two of his followers | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
and imprisoning his daughter. Net migration to the UK has hit | :13:56. | :14:06. | |
a new all-time high. The difference between the number | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
of people coming to live in Britain and those leaving | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
the country was 336,000 in That's 82,000 higher than | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
the previous year. But the government wants | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
the total to be much lower, just The Government missed the target, | :14:18. | :14:39. | |
what happened? The Government has been a victim of its own success. | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
The increase is in people coming to work here. Up 73% in three years. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
Why? The economy is doing well. There are jobs. Britain is | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
attractive. There is also foreign students. The numbers coming to | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
study at UK universities, colleges and schools is flat. Despite the | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
global expansion in the sector which led some to say we could be missing | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
out on foreign income. Refugee, the debate goes on as Europe deals with | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
the exodus from Syria. Refugees, still make up just 5% of non-British | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
immigration. So a small part. The real pull factor is our economy. It | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
is not just that our economic success is encouraging migrants, | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
migrants are boosting our economy. With the new jobs fuelling growth. | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
Two thirds are filled by foreigners. The Chancellor did not need to cut | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
tax credits and the police yesterday because of an official forecast | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
saying that net migration would boost economy growth more than | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
expected in the next few years. The better that the economy does, the | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
harder it is for the Government to hit the net migration target. | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
David Cameron urges MPs to back air strikes on IS extremists in Syria. | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
And still to come - a family affair as Great Britain | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
hopes to win the Davis Cup for the first time in nearly 80 years. | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 18:30. | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
Calls for the widening of the government inquiry | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
into child abuse in residential institutions. | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
And the world premiere of a new opera - sung in Shetland dialect. | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
Climate change is something we've reported on many times | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
But now it seems that food waste could be making the problem worse. | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
Every year we throw away more than 4 million tonnes unnecessarily - | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
and most of it ends up on rubbish dumps around the country. | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
Scientists are now studying the greenhouse gases | :16:54. | :16:54. | |
As world leaders prepare for a summit on climate change in | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
Paris next week, our Science Editor David Shukman has been looking | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
On a frozen morning steam rises from a mountain of waste. | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
A scene that most of us never think about. | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
But at this site near Manchester, and 200 others, rubbish dumped | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
When you get this close the smell does become pretty intense. | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
That is because the waste here, including old bits of food, | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
What is happening is that bacteria are working away on that waste | :17:28. | :17:37. | |
and giving off a host of different gases, including greenhouse gases. | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
This is happening on a massive scale right across the country. | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
Households throw away staggering amounts of food. | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
For example, the equivalent of 86 million | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
We asked researchers to monitor what happens under lights that mimic | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
Our time-lapse camera followed the grim process of decomposition. | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
Bacteria creating gases that force the chicken to swell up over | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
No surprise, flies were soon attracted. | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
We have injected the sample from the decomposed chicken | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
and you can see this large peak here, that peak is methane. | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
Some food is collected by local councils, | :18:30. | :18:30. | |
And that means more greenhouse gases added to the air, and money wasted. | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
Not only is it costing us a lot of money as householders, that is ?60 | :18:38. | :18:48. | |
a month for the average family with children, but the 4.2 million tonnes | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
A lot of it ends up going to landfill where it basically just | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
rots and gives off greenhouse gas emissions. | :18:58. | :18:58. | |
There are ways that food waste can be used. | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
Here, rubbish is divided automatically. | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
Some of it diverted into equipment that goes on to produce electricity. | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
Not on a big scale so far, but more and more waste is being | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
Any food waste, whether it is leftover food, or food | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
that has gone off, it is important people put that in the right bin. | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
We can take that material, use it in technology like this, | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
People, by recycling their food waste, are actually | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
Scientists prepare a drone to fly over landfill and | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Nobody knows exactly how big the problem is, but these flights | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
Many landfill sites are due to close in the coming years, | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
but even when they do there will be a legacy of gases seeping out | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Muslim organisations have said protecting child welfare is | :19:50. | :20:10. | |
a priority, but they have expressed concern about the Government | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
interfering in the independence of religious institutions. | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
Here's our Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys. | :20:16. | :20:26. | |
And 500 children in that one of Preston's largest madrassas. They | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
are here for after-school classes and everyday part of growing up for | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
many Muslim children. -- and everyday part. They are here to | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
learn how to be good Muslims and learned to re-site and read the | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
Koran. Under Government plans, any regular teacher like this will be | :20:46. | :20:59. | |
regulated. -- recite and read. This is being done to make sure extreme | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
it -- extremist views are not being taught. In our madrassa we started | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
to say shared values. The madrassas, on the contrary, are making the | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
positive changes to the life of many Muslims in understanding the | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
mainstream Islam. She says radicalisation happens on social | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
media, not at madrassas. The curriculum fit into David Cameron's | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
big society and about making a difference in the community, | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
cohesion, and integration. That is what madrassas are all about. If he | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
wants to take the issue of terrorism and extremism innings to come from a | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
very different angle. -- it needs to come from. The religious instruction | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
in madrassas is very much part of the normal weekly routine for | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
British Muslim children. Madrassas have a core role in shaping their | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
perception of the world and their place in society. And there are | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
concerns about some teaching happening in backstreet settings. , | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
intolerant views, and children being hit. -- about narrow minded, | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
intolerant views. We owe a duty of care to all of the children in this | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
country so they are brought up to respect values of democracy, | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
freedom, tolerance, and human rights. The Government wants to | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
reach further into the lives of British Muslim children. It will | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
have to work hard to convince their parent it is in their best | :22:37. | :22:37. | |
interests. The head of the athletics' world | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
governing body, Lord Coe, Has announced he will resign from | :22:42. | :22:57. | |
his role as ambassador of Nike. He was repeatedly questioned about a | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
conflict of interests in which he denied. I have stepped down from my | :23:00. | :23:08. | |
ambassadorial role with Nike which dates back to eight years. The noise | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
around this role is not good for the IAAF, and it is not good for Nike. | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
Frankly, it is a distraction to the 18 hour days that I and our teams | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
are working to steady the ship. Our Sports Editor Dan Roan is | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
in Monaco. Why has he stepped down? | :23:26. | :23:35. | |
Ever since he became the most powerful man in athletics earlier | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
this summer he has faced tough questions over whether or not it was | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
right that he retained a paid ambassadorial role for Nike, the US | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
sports giant, worth around ?100,000 per year. This question only | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
intensified earlier this week when the BBC obtained an e-mail, which | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
appeared to show that he has been in discussions with a senior Nike | :24:00. | :24:13. | |
executive. He maintains it doesn't constitute a conflict of interests. | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
He wasn't lobbying on the half of the executive. He said he wasn't | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
doing anything wrong. But the pressure has got too much. He said | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
it wasn't because it was wrong, but because of the noise around the | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
controversy. Others will say the timing is interesting, coming just a | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
couple of days after that story. The calls for him to quit that role | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
mirror the slogan of Nike, Just Do It. And he has. | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
Thank you. Andy Murray is | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
the man who brought success back to British tennis many feared would | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
never come again with the first But now he's aiming for success | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
which might mean even more; winning The Davis Cup final begins tomorrow | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
with Great Britain playing Ghent, where the modern world | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
squeezes in alongside the medieval. For centuries a city of rivers, | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
for the next few days the world's The biggest tennis occasions are | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
routine for Andy Murray, And what stronger team than | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
a family? Britain's final is | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
down to the Murrays' commitment. For us to be able to be a part | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
of that, on the same team, is a pretty unique thing to do, I think, | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
for two brothers to play at the highest level in sport and being | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
able to represent your country, too, Five or six years ago, we were way, | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
way behind, you know, I think it was the lowest | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
level we have ever been at. Four or five years later, | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
to be playing, and competing in the final, | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
it is a great opportunity for us. There is the draw, | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
Andy Murray will play Then it's Andy and Jamie Murray | :26:00. | :26:01. | |
playing the doubles on Saturday. Basically, Britain need to win three | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
matches to get back the Davis Cup. Britain actually have not | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
won it since the 1930s. However you look at it, | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
it is a big deal. This is a reward | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
for all those who followed the team. Travelling to Ghent at a time | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
of heightened security in nearby Brussels required careful | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
consideration. We are really not aware | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
of anything untoward going on. It just feels like | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
a normal European city. It could be a once-in-a-lifetime | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
opportunity for us. Obviously, | :26:36. | :26:37. | |
we have never been anywhere near a Davis Cup final before in our | :26:38. | :26:38. | |
lifetime, and you just don't know what's around the corner, in terms | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
of the next players coming through. Kyle Edmund, aged 20, will make | :26:43. | :26:44. | |
his Davis Cup debut for Britain But what will it feel | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
like without the Murrays? Imagine approaching this | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
inflatable with a great big pin. It has been a fine and quiet day for | :26:53. | :27:07. | |
most. This was taken by one of our view was taken by one of our blue | :27:08. | :27:16. | |
sky and sunshine. Temperatures today reached 15 Celsius. Well above | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
average for this time of year. Some brightness in the east. For most, | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
quite a lot of cloud. That sticks with us this evening and overnight. | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
Things will cool down over the coming days down to this cold front | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
sweeping in from the aromatic ocean. The aromatic ocean. Before it | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
reaches us, we have the miles south-west air flow. -- Atlantic. | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
Drizzly outbreaks mainly over the hills in the West at the | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
temperatures overnight, around ten to 12 Celsius. Starting off mild for | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
most, but attention turns to this cold front. It is heading in a | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
crossover Northern Ireland and Scotland initially. Winds and heavy | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
rain. That will sink South. To the south-east of that, we have the mild | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
air, so double figures. Further north and west, around four to six | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
Celsius, with some wintry showers arising. On into Saturday, snow | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
showers, many across the hills of Scotland and Northern Ireland. | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
Further south and east, that is where we see the clear and dry | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
conditions. But where ever you are, it will be a chilly start of the | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
weekend with temperatures in towns and cities typically at Fort | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
Celsius. It is looking unsettled this weekend. This front is coming | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
in. -- four Celsius. It is looking pretty windy through the course of | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
the weekend, and cool. Further outbreaks of rain added a bit of | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
sunshine. Lots happening over the next few days, keep an eye on the | :28:45. | :28:46. | |
website and the latest weather forecasts. | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me. | :28:50. | :28:50. |