05/11/2015 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten - some of the thousands of British

tourists - stranded in Egypt - will be able to fly home tomorrow.

They've been waiting for news since British flights were suspended

after the Russian air disaster over the weekend.

The latest intelligence, according to the British Government, is that

the plane, with 224 people on board, was probably brought down by a bomb.

Because of what I have been briefed about, and the briefing I have had

from experts and officials, it was right to stop our planes from going

to sharpel shake and right to stop people returning until we have that

security put in place. We'll have the latest on the new

security measures being implemented The Bank

of England seems to change its mind - interest rates are now unlikely to

rise until the end of next year. Inside Burma ahead

of the first open elections in 25 years - a special report on

the treatment of a Muslim minority. The Rohingya are truly

an abandoned people and no campaigning politician will

speak up for them in this election. That would lose them votes

among the Buddhist majority. The little girl given 'designer

immune cells' to fight leukaemia - doctors say the pioneering

treatment has been miraculous. And he's a legend -

by his own reckoning, and millions of others - Cristiano Ronaldo talks

to us in a rare interview. Are you the best footballer

in the world right now? Police are tonight forced to move

in - to control the Million Masked March in

central London. And jail

for the man who racially abused a Some of the thousands of British

tourists who've been stranded in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh

will be able to fly home tomorrow. Downing Street says that additional

security measures are being put in place, which include new

restrictions on baggage. Flights were suspended after

David Cameron said the Russian plane that crashed on Saturday was

probably brought down by a bomb. Our security correspondent,

Frank Gardner, has the latest on the new security measures,

and the intelligence behind them. Heading home, but not to Britain.

These were some of the thousands of Russian and other nationalities

departing through Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh airport today. The

authorities there are keen to show they have got security under

control. But British holiday-makers are having to wait till tomorrow to

get out and as an extra precaution without their luggage. What we want

to do tomorrow is to see as many people come home who want to come

home and for them to be safe to do so. But there will be no storage in

the plane, in the hold. That's because the Government suspects

someone in Sharm airport who had security clearance may have placed a

bomb inside or on top of the luggage, just before the Russian

plane took off. British officials say it's still just possible that

the cause of the crash could turn out to be technical. But they are

increasingly convinced that is not the case. Now, my understanding is

that the critical piece of new intelligence that came in yesterday

in which prompted all of these dramatic precautions was some

intercepted communications between suspected militants in the Sinai.

Jihadists there say they brought this plane down and they will prove

it at a time of their choosing. Egypt says that is propaganda and

that it is too soon to draw conclusions. But this whole tragedy

has overshadowed the red carpet welcome Downing Street laid on today

for Egypt's President al-Sisi. To some, he's a dictator and human

rights abuser. To others, a beacon of stability. Despite the

handshakes, Egypt is baffled why Britain has concerns about Sharm

el-Sheikh airport. TRANSLATION: Ten months ago we were

asked by our British friends to allow teams into Sharm el-Sheikh

airport to make sure the security procedures were sound. We responded

immediately. They checked security and were happy with it.

That was not the case yesterday, which is why David Cameron took the

decision he did. I act on the basis of advice that I get. Of course, I

cannot be sure, my experts cannot be sure, that it was a terrorist bomb

that brought down that Russian plane. But if the intelligence is,

and the judgment is, that that is a more likely than not outcome, then I

think it is right to act in the way that I did. As the investigation in

Egypt drags on, it is clear that other countries share Britain's

concerns. Few governments want to risk this happening to their

citizens. Frank Gardner, BBC News. The Foreign Office estimates that

around 20,000 British holiday-makers Some were complaining today that

they were not being given enough information and, in some cases,

there were reported problems in securing accommodation

while the flight delays continued. For the latest, let's join

our correspondent, Mark Lowen, It's been an anxious wait here at

Sharm el-Sheikh airport all day. 17 flights to the UK that were

scheduled, all cancelled. Tonight, Downing Street says that from

tomorrow British nationals will begin to be repatriated, albeit with

additional security measures. Egypt's tourist industry is only

beginning to recover after a tumultuous few years.

No way out to Britain today. But others heading from Sharm el-Sheikh

to Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere were boarding. With a British team

here to assess the airport, all UK flights were grounded. Downing

Street believing a bomb could indeed have made it on to Flight 9268.

Passengers were left stranded as the checks continued. We are not told

anything. We are here because we think it's a suspected terrorist

attack. Nobody is telling us anything, airlines or hotels.

Everyone is getting moved around too much. Nobody knows what everyone is

doing. We have been dragged out of our hotel and everybody is upset.

Not been told nothing. Everything contradicts each other. One day, one

hour we are told go to the airport, next hour, stay at the hotel and

everything's changing all the time. Would you think about coming back to

Sharm el-Sheikh? Probably not, not in the next couple of years, no.

Tonight, the Government said it has agreed on extra security measures to

be taken here and will now resume flights back to the UK from

tomorrow. All flights from Britain into Sharm el-Sheikh remain

grounded, though, a sign of continuing security concerns here.

It will end the limbo for some of the estimated 20,000 British

nationals caught up here. That's great news. Hopefully, we can get on

a flight tomorrow and we can get back to the UK. If it is not

tomorrow, then so be it, if it is Saturday, then so be it. It's

whatever it is. We can't do anything about it. Sharm el-Sheikh is one of

Egypt's tourism jewels, the main draw for the million British

tourists who visit the country each year. This is a shot of our hotel

pool... Many keep coming back and dread the idea that an attacker

could have infiltrated their idyllic report. We have been to Sharm about

eight times over the last seven or so years. It oo es -- it's a place

that is dear to our hearts. The airport has a backlog to clear.

Extra flights will be laid on to repatriate the many thousands

waiting. They are keen to show their security measures at work here

tonight. But Britain sending its own team here and refusing for its

planes to take off until the experts have reported back is a sign of a

lack of confidence in the Egyptian authorities and a big embarrassment

for Cairo. Another night of sitting at base, but perhaps tomorrow they

will finally be airborne. The planes out of this resort will carry those

shaken by what might have taken place here and wondering if it will

be safe to return. Mark Lowen, BBC News, Sharm el-Sheikh.

In a moment, we'll have the latest from

Washington with Jon Sopel, but first to Downing Street and our political

What's the Prime Minister been contending with today, do you think?

Well, certainly several diplomatic hurdles for Mr Cameron to get over,

not least the incredibly awkward timing of announcing the grounding

of those planes just hours before Mr Al-Sisi arrived here. I'm told the

two men had a private meeting, without officials, and there was

understanding on both sides of the situation that each country is in.

Next stop was a ten-minute telephone conversation between Mr Cameron and

President Putin of Russia in which the President really said that

Britain had jumped the gun here, that they should have waited for

that official investigation. I am told there were no raised voices and

it was quite an affable conversation. What Downing Street do

reject is any suggestion that Mr Cameron has gone out on a limb here,

that he is any way isolated. They prefer to see it as leadership, they

say Britain has so much more at stake here because there are so many

thousands of British tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh and we have heard

from David Cameron today what many British Prime Ministers have said

over the years, that their main role is to keep British citizens safe.

And Mr Cameron simply wasn't prepared to take a risk on that.

Let's go to Washington and Jon is there. Are the Americans seeing

eye-to-eye with the British, where this intelligence is concerned?

Well, given the fact that the British and the Americans share

intelligence, it is hard to exaggerate just how striking it is

to hear them saying something different from each other. It is

clear they are on a different page from each other. The President

spokesman said British has got different interests from America in

this, with thousands of more tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh. He was

clear, no determination had yet been made by the US as to what caused the

plane to crash, even though all options were open. And the President

echoed that. Compare and contrast to David Cameron who said it looked

increasingly likely that it was a bomb. Now, when pressed about why

are Britain saying something different from the Americans, the

White House spokesman was forced to say well, you would have to ask

David Cameron why he is choosing the words that he is. To use Vicki

Young's phrase, the Americans aren't quite saying that Britain has gone

out on a limb, but that seems to be the implication, and a former CIA

Director has said that he frankly thinks that the British have been a

bit unBritish in the way that they have made this sort of statement. I

think there are many in the White House behind me who would share that

assessment. Jon, thank you. Jon Sopel in Washington and Vicki Young

in Downing Street. The Bank

of England says inflation will stay low for longer than previously

thought, and it's signalled that interest rates are unlikely to rise

until the end of next year. Rates have been held at a record

low for the past six years. The governor of the Bank,

Mark Carney, said the outlook for global growth

had weakened since the summer. Our economics editor, Robert Peston,

looks at the implications Preparations for

the legendary bonfires of Lewes, all a bit damp and wet and economically,

it is not as sunny as it was. The Bank of England today

signalled that interest rates may I must say I have

a vested interest as I'm a buy-to-let landlord, so the lower it

stays the longer the better for me. For me, it will be bad news

if it stayed low. I would prefer it to go up

a little bit. I wouldn't like to be the

chairman of the Bank of England! In the summer,

Mark Carney warned us to expect rate In the last few months you have

repeatedly said that the decision to raise interest rates

would come into sharper relief It's patently not going to come

into sharper relief at the turn I am speaking about a decision,

not prejudging what that decision The question was how much progress

would be made in the economy There have been some notable events

in intervening months, including I would say progress in terms

of the prospects of normalisation Does it matter that Mark Carney gave

what some will see as a bum steer on the timing of

when interest rates will go up? There is a tradition that Central

Bank Governors are supposed to be infallible, so that could be a cost

to his reputation in the city. Also,

some people will have remortgaged on the basis of what Mark Carney

said in July and they today may be Sparks and bangs in China,

where fireworks were invented. Then it's the economic slowdown

there and in emerging economies that's dampened global growth

and is partly responsible And for the Bank of England's

forecast that inflation will remain That's why there is no need to

put up interest rates now but... About two-thirds of households on

the basis of various survey measures expect that interest rates will

begin to increase at some point over Given this forecast,

that is a reasonable expectation. But we will have to

see what transpires. It's been a long, long march

for the British economy since the Bank cut its interest rate to almost

zero at the beginning of 2009. Now, there is no chance

of them taking off like a rocket any time soon, but maybe there will be

a tiny first rise in about a year. Elections take place this weekend in

Myanmar, previously known as Burma, Today, the opposition leader,

Aung San Suu-Kyi, insisted she will lead the government if her party

wins power even though the constitution drafted by the military

bars her from becoming president. The United Nations says

persecution of ethnic minorities New religious laws are said to

favour the Buddhist majority while thousands of Muslims,

known as the Rohingya, are denied Many have fled their homes

in the west of the country to Our special correspondent

Fergal Keane has returned to Sittwe The country is on the cusp

of an awakening, but something dangerous

has emerged here. These are victims

of growing religious hatred - Muslims

of the Rohingya ethnic group, behind Denied citizenship rights,

dispossessed, most will not be able Their children are denide

access to full education. And they risk attack

if they leave the ghetto. 73 and blind,

Samir was born here but the law says he is not a citizen, as

his ancestors came from Bangladesh. The same discrimination

applies to his grandson. We have lost everything,

and now we must live in the dirt. that erupted three years ago.

burned in the ethnic violence 200 people were killed,

more than 140,000 displaced. Surrounded by enemies, demonised and

discriminated against, the are truly an abandoned people

and no campaigning politician will that will lose them votes

among the Buddhist majority. As we filmed in the ghetto,

the ruling party campaigned just It is accused

of discriminating against all Burma's Muslims,

even those with citizenship. And on the new religious laws,

campaigners were evasive. What is your feeling

about the Muslim situation now? But away from the microphone,

this party member He said Muslims were dangerous, that

they will not let them take over. Stoking fear of Muslims has won the

ruling party influential allies. This smiling cleric belongs to

a monk's movement, one of whose They accuse pro-democracy leader,

Aung Sang Suu Kyi, In Myanmar,

if the Muslims do something against The irony is that Aung Sang Suu Kyi

and her party have been bitterly criticised

by human rights groups for failing And it says something

of the pressure for monks that her National League for Democracy,

just like the ruling party, is not At her last election press

conference, she spoke confidently of leading the country but would that

offer hope for threatened minorities? Can you promise that

your party wins this election, the human rights, the civil rights of

all people who live in this country, whatever their religion, whatever

their ethnic background, that those So, if they are able to form

a government, certainly we will abide by our commitment to human

rights and democratic values. These Rohingya women will hope

that promise comes true. In this clinic for the displaced,

there is only basic medical care. Aminacatu is pregnant but the child

in her womb is dead. She is afraid to go to hospital

in the city for vital treatment. Aminacatu's brother was murdered

and she lost her home True democracy should mean

an end to fear. But with hatred now part

of the political mainstream, A brief look at some

of the day's other news stories: New car sales in the UK have fallen

for the first time in four years. The emissions scandal engulfing

Volkswagen saw their sales down nearly 10% in October compared

with the same month last year. Overall car sales fell

by just over 1%, The trial has started of the

DJ Neil Fox - known as Dr Fox - who's accused of using his fame to

sexually abuse fans as young as 15, The 54-year-old denies eight counts

of indecent assault and two Northern Ireland's high-security

Maghaberry Prison has been judged 'unstable' and 'unsafe' by the

Chief Inspector of Prisons who said it posed a danger for prisoners

and staff alike. Nick Hardwick said conditions

were so poor that Dickens could A baby girl from London has become

the first person in the world to receive a revolutionary genetic

treatment, which doctors have described as 'almost a miracle'.

Layla Richards was diagnosed with a particularly aggressive form of

leukaemia when she was just 3-months-old. After all conventional

treatments had failed, doctors at Great Ormond Street decided her only

option was to try the experimental technique, which they say has

saved her life. Our Health She's happy and lively now,

but one-year-old Layla is lucky to Diagnosed with leukaemia,

cancer of the white blood cells, The hospital said her parents,

Ashley and Lisa, But they refused to give up,

so doctors agreed to use an experimental treatment,

never before tried on humans. I took the gamble,

and this is her today, standing, She was so weak

before this treatment. Doctors used

a revolutionary new genetic tool to re-engineer white blood cells and

so create a designer immune They used

a technique called gene editing. Immune cells known as T cells

were taken from a healthy donor. They then used a new

and very precise genetic tool, a kind of molecular scissors, to cut

through their DNA. One snip made the T cells

invisible to the strong anti-cancer The second cut neutered the cells,

so they didn't attack Layla's They then added a synthetic gene

which armed the cells to seek out Once injected

into her, the modified cells The technology itself has enormous

potential to correct other conditions where cells are

engineered and given back to patients, or

provide new properties to cells that allow them to be used in a way that

we couldn't imagine at the moment. That is a lovely dress, you look

beautiful. Doctors who cared

for Layla are amazed Let's have a look at that

tummy. They're hopeful that it could be

effective for other children with aggressive forms of leukaemia, but

they stress Other children may not be able to

in the same way. These cells appear to have worked

incredibly well for her, but that doesn't mean they are going

to work for the next five or ten We need to do some proper studies

to learn just how good they are. Nearly two months on from the end of

her treatment, Layla is doing well. Her family don't know what

the future will hold. She will have monthly bone marrow

checks and could be on some But they're just overjoyed

she's here at all. Cristiano Ronaldo by his own

reckoning and the reckoning of millions of fans is a legend

quite simply the best footballer in the world and one of the best of

all time. He's told the BBC that he's reached a standard which is

'not easy to improve'. He's been crowned World Footballer of the Year

three times, he's scored more than 500 goals for his clubs and his

national team Portugal. And, he's rewarded with a weekly salary of

half a million pounds. He rarely gives interviews but he's been

speaking to our sports editor Dan Cristiano Ronaldo isn't just

a footballing phenomenon, he's an advertisers' dream

and a global superstar, The Real striker's arguably

the most valuable player in the sport, and when we met him, it

was clear he thinks he's worth it. Are you the best footballer

in the world right now? I don't care what people think,

what they say. In my mind, not just this year,

but always, I'm always the best. For almost a decade now, Barcelona's

Argentinian genius, Lionel Messi, Maybe in your opinion,

Messi is better than me, but The rags to riches story of Ronaldo

is the subject of a new film to be released next week, a study of

a man who relishes the limelight. What's it

like being a footballing superstar? It has given me motivation

to still work hard. The reason is,

I'm unbelievable on the pitch. He refuses to rule out a return to

Manchester United, where he made his name, a club still struggling

to rebuild after the retirement of Is it sad for you to see them not

quite at the level they were before? For me, it's hard to see that,

because it's a club that I love. Of course,

I want to see Manchester United at I think they still have work to

do to be at the level that they Manchester City have more money

to spend on big players. Is it possible that one day,

if they gave you the right offer, Do you think money will change

my mind now, at 30? If you speak about money,

I could go to Qatar. They probably have more

money than Manchester City. But it's not about the money,

it's about passion Goal-scorer,

millionaire and now film star. Love him or loathe him,

Cristiano Ronaldo is at the top of his game, the epitome

of the modern sporting celebrity. Now if you've been out in the damp

this Bonfire night these pictures NASA has published images of the Sun

at it's spectacular best, producing the heat and light that

sustains life here on earth. They show explosions of energy and fires

on its surface. It is rare to see solar images of

this clarity and intensity. So