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This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The Headlines; hopes are dashed for the thousands waiting | :00:08. | :00:16. | |
It's another freezing night as a deal to send buses to fetch | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
rebels and civilians is again put on hold. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
But there are now hopes of a deal at the United Nations to send | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Gunmen in Jordan carry out a series of attacks | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
in the historic town of Karak, killing at least ten people. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Poland's political crisis shows no sign of ending - | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
And Real Madrid come out on top, winning football's Club World Cup | :00:47. | :00:56. | |
for the second time in three years. | :00:57. | :01:13. | |
Thousands of people in rebel-held areas of Aleppo are enduring another | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
night of freezing conditions - after plans to evacuate them | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
Buses appeared at the crossing point in western Aleppo but that's as far | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
The failure of a simultaneous evacuation of government | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
supporters elsewhere - may have contributed. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
In New York, the UN Security Council has met to discuss | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
a monitoring mission for the evacuation - | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
and there are reports that a compromise has been reached. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
With the situation in Eastern Aleppo increasingly | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
desperate, looking after the frail and wounded is becoming | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
With more, here's our correspondent Quentin Sommerville | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
If only the ceasefire in Aleppo hadn't collapsed, | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
then this might never have needed to happen. | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
They are doing the best they can here, but this hospital | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
There are none left in eastern Aleppo, so nurses | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
TRANSLATION: The child has a birth defect. | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
We immediately brought the mother here to the operating | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
room for a Caesarean, which we are doing now. | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
The mother is in a bad way and her baby boy even worse. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
But everyone here is at their wits end. | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
TRANSLATION: As soon as the patient arrived, | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
I told the Red Cross that the patient needed emergency | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
surgery but there was no answer because the evacuation | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
Some of the sick made it out of here on Thursday | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
After 24 hours, the ceasefire collapsed. | :02:55. | :03:04. | |
There are now 100 badly injured people trapped here. | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
He has been stuck here for three days, says this man. | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
We have tried to leave but they stopped us. | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
Rival factions attacked buses that were meant to free trapped sick | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
Only when they are freed will the regime allow convoys | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
And only after Aleppo's misery would you consider this salvation. | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
The buses that bring them are so crowded there | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
is no room for luggage, but here, there's relief. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
TRANSLATION: Rockets, Russian jets and warplanes all bombing us, | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
We kept fleeing from one place to another. | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
There was hunger, poverty and sleeping in the streets. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
This woman made it here with her twin girls. | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
The camp may be crowded but here the sisters can breathe again. | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
TRANSLATION: It is better than it was in Aleppo, | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
We have new friends walking and playing together. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
There was a food shortage back there. | :04:26. | :04:26. | |
We hated life but here we are eating biscuits and everything. | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
Every minute and every hour of the ceasefire that is lost, | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
is another moment of life denied to the children of Aleppo. | :04:39. | :04:50. | |
Well, in New York the Security Council is discussing | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
resolution on UN Monitoring of these evacuations - let's | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
go to Gary O'Donoghue who is in Washington for us. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
There appears to be movement on this. What more can you tell us? | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
They had about three hours inside the Security Council behind closed | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
doors discussing a French proposal to put monitors, UN monitors on the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
ground to ensure people could get onto these buses and get out of | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
eastern Aleppo safely. That was opposed by the Russians initially. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
We felt there was going to be a stand-off effectively. After that | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
three hours they seem to have emerged saying they have some sort | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
of compromise resolution they are going to vote on tomorrow or Monday | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
morning at 9am local time in New York. So that does give a glimmer of | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
hope that there may be some kind of oversight of what is actually | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
happening to those civilians in eastern Aleppo. We don't know the | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
detail of how it will work but the US ambassador Samantha Power did say | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
that she could envisage some of those monitors being on the buses | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
when they were moving out of those areas. The question will be the | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
extent to which the Syrian government will have control over | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
how that works. That's something that was a stumbling block for | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
Russians initially. We know that evacuations have been halted for the | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
time being. Is it the case that we are waiting for a decision from the | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
Security Council for the evacuations to continue? I think it's more | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
complex than that in the sense that part of the reason the evacuations | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
stopped from eastern Aleppo is because of what happened in these | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
other Shia villages west of Aleppo where these buses were allegedly | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
burned that were meant to be taking Shia members of those villages out | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
of the area surrounded by the rebels. The government was very keen | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
to make that part of the whole deal. There was a lot of anger because of | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
the sabotage of those buses. That's why to some degree the halt was | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
called to the evacuation in eastern Aleppo. Big concern from the | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
international community is while there is not anybody around to check | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
what's going on and that there could be war crimes committed, there could | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
be massacres. People have talked about not having another Srebrenica, | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
you remember when those civilians were killed in Bosnia in 1995. So | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
that's the concern. So time is of the essence. There are UN people in | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
the vicinity. Samantha Power talking about re-purpose and those people to | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
be monitors. We don't know how quickly they can be in place to get | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
this effort moving. And temperatures are plummeting. Without shelter that | :07:58. | :08:08. | |
is the real potential for it, and evermore escalating humanitarian | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
crisis in the area. Thank you for that update. | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
In neighbouring Jordan officials say at least nine people | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
have been killed - including one Canadian | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
a series of attacks in the historic city of Karak. | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
They targeted two police patrols in separate attacks, | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
while gunmen also opened fire at the ancient Crusader castle. | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
Armoured personnel carriers racing through the streets of Karak. | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
They are responding to a series of shootings in and around | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
The security forces desperately tried to establish | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
There is panic, confusion and more gunshots. | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
This amateur footage shows police and special forces closing | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
in on the gunmen who have now taken refuge in the Crusader Castle | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
and are still firing on those around them. | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
The medieval citadel draws tourists from around the world, | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
and there were initial unconfirmed reports that some had | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Others were able to get out as the battle raged around them. | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
This is where most of the casualties were found. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
All were Jordanian except for one Canadian woman who was killed. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
Tonight, the city appears calm although it is unclear | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
There will be relief the attack is contained but it will be another | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
blow to Jordan's reputation as a sea of calm in a region of crisis. | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
A look at some more top stories this hour. | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
The Islamic State group says it was behind a suicide attack | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
in Yemen which left at least 40 soldiers dead. | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
They were queueing to collect their pay - | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
The head of security in the city is reported to have resigned. | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
It follows the killing of 50 soldiers in a similar | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
Government troops in Myanmar have taken a key position from the rebel | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
Both the military and the insurgents suffered heavy casualties amidst | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
intense fighting to retake the Gidon outpost. | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
Four US senators are calling for the setting-up of a panel | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
to investigate allegations of Russian hacking. | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
The US government has claimed that Russia, | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
as well as other foreign countries, were involved in cyber attacks | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
designed to influence the outcome of the US election. | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
Opponents of the Polish government have been staging a third day | :10:37. | :10:48. | |
of protests in the capital, Warsaw over the government's plans | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
to restrict journalists' access to parliament. | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
Demonstrators gathered outside the constitutional court | :10:53. | :10:53. | |
today, while opposition MPs continued their sit-in | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
A short time ago I spoke to Yarlsaw Vordowcheg, | :10:56. | :11:08. | |
the President of the Press Club in Poland, from Warsaw. | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
The truth is that the speaker of the lower house is not liking | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
He didn't make, when he started a year ago, until now, even | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
The government is saying it is not unusual to accredit | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
journalists in this way across Europe. | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
I don't, of course not because they give as an example | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
The European Parliament is very liberal. | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
Of course nobody can enter the Parliament room, | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
either in Poland or in Brussels but it's easy access | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
to all European Parliament members and now we've got easy access | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
Yesterday night we met with the speaker of the Senate, | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
and we will continue talks tomorrow at noon, Warsaw time. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
He declared that they will not change the rules | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
This is the result of the mass protests we organised, | :12:09. | :12:18. | |
over 30 of the largest media outlets, Friday, under | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
The protest today, without politicians, | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
we had no politicians in printed press, radio and television, empty, | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
blank pages and the blank screens sometimes on television stations | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
How much is the Polish public actually paying | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
attention to these protests, given that the government, | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
The government is very popular and has so many people | :12:49. | :12:58. | |
against the government and people who are pro. | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
In the afternoon, after a few hours of our journalist protests, | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
which is not political, this is only about the access | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
to information and the freedom of speech, the opposition blocked | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
the Parliament, saying we want to support journalists, | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
and then people went onto the streets and said | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
I'm very suspicious when politicians are supporting journalists. | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
And I'm very suspicious especially when today, | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
the opposition and yesterday, the governing party | :13:33. | :13:33. | |
That was the President of the Polish Press Club, | :13:34. | :13:46. | |
Stay with us on BBC News, still to come: | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
Britain's Prince Harry - his life and charitable work | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
in Africa is captured in a new documentary. | :13:52. | :14:16. | |
The signatures took only three minutes but brought a formal end to | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
three and a half years of conflict that has claimed more than 100,000 | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
lives. The former leaders put their names to the peace agreement. | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
The Rimini and border was sealed and silent today. Romania has cut itself | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
off from the outside world in order to prevent the details of the | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
presumed massacre from leaking out. From sex at the White House to a | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
trial for his political life. The Lewinsky affair tonight guaranteed | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
Bill Clinton his place in history as only the second ever president to be | :14:58. | :14:58. | |
impeached. Thousands of people are holding out | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
in freezing temperatures in Eastern Aleppo as attempts | :15:01. | :15:10. | |
to resume their evacuation fail. Gunmen in Jordan carry | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
out a series of attacks in the historic town of Karak, | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
killing at least ten people. While investigations continue | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
into last Sunday's explosion at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
families of the victims Twenty-four people were killed, | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
most were women and children. The Egyptian president has | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
blamed a suicide bomber, Mahmoud Shafiq, alleged | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
perpetrator of the Church He was sentenced to two years | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
in prison earlier this year. He was convicted of belonging | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
to the Muslim Brotherhood and of But he fled the village | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
before the verdict. Outside his family home, | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
journalists waited for hours hoping The only interview she gave was to a | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
local newspaper. I couldn't tell if it was a local or | :16:11. | :16:32. | |
international number. He does not talk much. He knows our calls could | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
be recorded by the police. I don't believe he was a suicide attacker. | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
Maybe somebody did it in his name. The explosion, which killed | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
and injured dozens of Christians, was claimed by the so-called Islamic | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
State. It is hard to verify | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
it was Mahmoud who did it. The suicide bomber walked | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
through this door to blow himself We can still see stains of blood | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
covering the ground and the pews. The blast did not only cause severe | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
damage to this place, He lost his dad and she lost her | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
husband, the church guard. Nothing is left of him but a mobile | :17:13. | :17:30. | |
phone with his pictures on it. TRANSLATION: Every morning, | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
the boy asks me, where is my dad? People like her are now having | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
to rebuild their lives, but picking up the pieces after such | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
a tragedy will not be easy. A Philippine senator who's | :17:46. | :17:55. | |
calling for the impeachment of President Rodrigo Duterte, | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
has told the BBC she fears for her life - | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
but won't be silenced. Leila de Lima, a former | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
justice minister, said she'd taken on extra security | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
since she began criticising This is what Ms De | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
Lima told BBC News. I certainly believe that he is a | :18:08. | :18:26. | |
killer. He admitted it. Of course his defenders, his spokesperson will | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
try to explain it away by saying it's just part of his bravado and | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
probably just a joke. We've had enough of those so-called jokes. | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
Such acts are impeachable. Let's call a spade a spade. That is a high | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
crime, committing mass murders. And mass murderers do not only pertain | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
to victims of the death squad but also current victims of the current | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
so-called war on drugs. There are real security threats against me. Of | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
course I take extra security measures, I have my own security | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
compliment. But I cannot be cowed into doing and saying what I don't | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
want to do and say. Manchester City put their recent | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
problems behind them, moving up to second place | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
in the Premier League table after beating | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
Arsenal 2-1 at the Etihad. City had | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
to come from behind. It was Raheem Stirling | :19:23. | :19:23. | |
who scored their winner 20 minutes from time, | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
but earlier Theo Walcott had opened the scoring for Arsenal | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
after just five minutes. City are now seven points behind | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
league leaders Chelsea. Of course, it was quite | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
similar to Chelsea. With Chelsea, we didn't | :19:39. | :19:50. | |
win, and today we did. We have problems with | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
important players not That is very difficult to accept | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
in a game like that. I believe there is a lot going | :19:59. | :20:17. | |
on the moment that is not serious. It is unbelievable, | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
but every time the decisions go against | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
you, and unilaterally. Spurs are now only a point behind | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
Arsenal, in fifth place. They beat Burnley 2-1 | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
at White Hart Lane. Like Manchester City, | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
Spurs also had to come from behind. Danny Rose scored the winner | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
20 minutes from time. Earlier Ashley Barnes had given | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
Burnley the lead before Dele Alli I think always the Premier League | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
is hard to win games. Today we knew that Burnley is a team | :20:51. | :21:04. | |
that fight a lot, run a lot, every ball, they | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
are ready to challenge. I think the team played | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
in a very good way. I think that we fully deserved | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
in the end the victory and I am pleased with that because it | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
was a difficult win. And in the other Premier League | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
match, Southampton won They were 3-1 winners | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
at Bournemouth. Elsehwere, Real Madrid have | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
won the Club World Cup. Cristiano Ronaldo scored | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
a hat-trick as they beat Japan's Kashima Antlers 4-2 | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
in extra time. After Karim Benzema had put | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
Real ahead early on, Gaku Shibasaki equalised | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
just before the break. And then the Antlers went ahead | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
with this fine strike. The J-League champions, | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
who only qualified as hosts, seemed on the verge of the biggest | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
shock in the history But Ronaldo equalised | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
with a penalty before putting his side in | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
front in extra-time. He then | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
added his third on the night and the Spanish club's fourth | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
to secure the championship. It's Real's second World Club | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
title in three years. England's hope of a consolation | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
victory in the fifth and final test India batted all the way | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
through the third day That's 86 behind England's | :22:22. | :22:30. | |
first innings score, with Rahul falling just one run | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
short of a double century. On Day 4 of the first Test | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
between Australia and Pakistan at the Gabba in Brisbane, | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
Asad Shafiq scored an unbeaten century as Pakistan chased | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
a daunting 490 runs to win. They began the penultimate | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
day on 70-2 and reached Scotland's John Higgins and Marco Fu | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
of Hong Kong are into final session Fu is 8-4 up, he needs just | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
one more for victory. Prince Harry has been speaking | :23:03. | :23:12. | |
frankly about his royal life. at a young age made him | :23:13. | :23:32. | |
question his position, but that he now views life "very, | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
very differently". Prince Harry looks in his | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
element as he helps out in a centre teaching life skills | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
to young people affected by HIV. It is run by a charity | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
he co-founded ten years ago in the small southern | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
African state of Lesotho. Sentebale have helped | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
more than 21,000 people, And Harry's clearly | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
passionate about its work. HIV/Aids is the number one killer | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
of adolescents across sub-Saharan You have a bunch of kids | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
who have no idea about HIV. They are not allowed | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
to talk about it. And now that we have the drugs and | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
pills to be able to give these kids a healthy, happy, | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
long life, yet we're not educating them or empowering | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
them to make their own decisions. Harry first visited Africa in 1997, | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
not long after his mother's death and he says he still feels | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
a connection to the continent. I think the first time that I went | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
to Africa, I was tiny. I think I went with my dad | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
to a Spice Girl concert Not only have I found that escape | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
but I have found a way to try and use the name and | :24:49. | :25:00. | |
the position for good. In recent weeks, Harry's | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
relationship with actress placed him firmly in the media | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
spotlight once again. He says, in the past, | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
he resented his position and wanted to bury his head | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
in the sand. Now, though, he's excited to be able | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
to use his profile to help A rare Asian elephant calf has been | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
born at Chester Zoo. was born to 12-year-old mother | :25:20. | :25:31. | |
Sundara after a 22-month gestation. She's the 19th elephant to be born | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
at the zoo in its 85-year history. Keepers say both mother | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
and daughter were doing well. Asian elephants are officially | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
listed as endangered, and calves are born | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
into captivity in the UK only From me and the rest | :25:51. | :25:52. | |
of the team, goodbye. Hello. Looks like the Christmas | :25:53. | :26:13. | |
weather will be more windy than white and next weekend will be very | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
different from this | :26:17. | :26:17. |