:00:00. > :00:08.The Prime Minister urges MPs to back British airstrikes on Islamic
:00:09. > :00:15.As France and Russia agree to coordinate their strikes against
:00:16. > :00:19.IS, David Cameron says Britain can't afford to stand aside.
:00:20. > :00:23.We have to hit these terrorists in their heartlands right now.
:00:24. > :00:27.And we must not shirk our responsibility
:00:28. > :00:33.But tonight the Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has told his MPs he
:00:34. > :00:49.Does the Prime Minister accept that the UK bombing of Syria could risk
:00:50. > :00:52.more of what President Obama called "unintended consequences?"
:00:53. > :00:55.We'll be looking at the case for and against British airstrikes
:00:56. > :00:58.The head of world athletics - Lord Coe -
:00:59. > :01:00.quits his paid role as an ambassador for Nike, following allegations
:01:01. > :01:03.After the Chancellor's spending review, independent analysts
:01:04. > :01:09.warn of significant Government spending cuts still to come.
:01:10. > :01:12.Millions of tonnes of food thrown into landfills
:01:13. > :01:21.in Britain - new research on the greenhouse gases it produces.
:01:22. > :01:27.And the Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne on his latest film
:01:28. > :01:33.A warning that terrorists could be trying to get guns into the capital.
:01:34. > :01:55.- a disabled woman is left in a critical condition.
:01:56. > :02:01.The Prime Minister has told MPs that the UK can't afford to stand aside
:02:02. > :02:06.from the fight against Islamic State extremists and he's urged them to
:02:07. > :02:19.David Cameron said so-called IS was a direct threat to the UK and argued
:02:20. > :02:21.that Britain's right to "self defence" meant air strikes were
:02:22. > :02:24.But this evening the Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn,
:02:25. > :02:29.wrote to his MPs saying he could not support military action, and arguing
:02:30. > :02:32.wrote to his MPs saying he could not support military action, arguing
:02:33. > :02:34.that David Cameron had no "coherent strategy" to defeat IS.
:02:35. > :02:36.Here's our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg.
:02:37. > :02:51.And the Prime Minister believes it's now our turn.
:02:52. > :02:53.Dropping bombs not just over Iraq but on so-called Islamic State
:02:54. > :02:58.THE SPEAKER: Statement, the Prime Minister.
:02:59. > :03:04.We can't wait for a political transition.
:03:05. > :03:06.We have to hit these terrorists in their heartlands right now.
:03:07. > :03:08.And we must not shirk our responsibility
:03:09. > :03:16.Mr Speaker, throughout our history, the United Kingdom has stood up to
:03:17. > :03:17.defend our values, and our way of life.
:03:18. > :03:31.The shock of Paris has changed the terms of the debate.
:03:32. > :03:37.130 people died less than 300 miles from the UK capital.
:03:38. > :03:38.David Cameron believes air strikes thousands of miles
:03:39. > :03:45.That bomb in Paris, that could have been London.
:03:46. > :03:47.If they had their way, it would be London.
:03:48. > :03:50.I can't stand here and say we are safe
:03:51. > :04:01.I can't stand here either and say we'll remove the threat
:04:02. > :04:05.But do I stand here with advice behind me that taking action
:04:06. > :04:07.will degrade and reduce that threat over time, absolutely.
:04:08. > :04:10.And I have examined my conscience and that's what it is telling me.
:04:11. > :04:12.But memories of military intervention, what went
:04:13. > :04:16.In the light of the record of Western military intervention
:04:17. > :04:20.in recent years, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya,
:04:21. > :04:27.does the Prime Minister accept that UK bombing in Syria could risk more
:04:28. > :04:30.of what President Obama called "unintended consequences"
:04:31. > :04:33.and that a lasting defeat of Isil can only be secured by Syrians
:04:34. > :04:50.British boots won't be on the ground.
:04:51. > :04:53.So, who are the reliable 70,000 forces there
:04:54. > :04:59.the Government says could help and can they really be trusted?
:05:00. > :05:03.I'd ask him to look again at his figure of 70,000 Free Syrian Army.
:05:04. > :05:07.We have been told very directly, through recent contact that there
:05:08. > :05:12.are very few moderates remaining on either side of this civil war.
:05:13. > :05:15.Today the Prime Minister wants us to launch a bombing campaign without
:05:16. > :05:17.effective ground support in place, or a fully-costed reconstruction
:05:18. > :05:25.Enemies to the right of us, enemies to the left of it.
:05:26. > :05:32.But a crucial Conservative opponent has changed his mind in favour.
:05:33. > :05:35.It is now my personal view that, on balance,
:05:36. > :05:39.the country would be best-served by this House supporting his judgment
:05:40. > :05:46.that the United Kingdom should play a full role in the coalition.
:05:47. > :05:49.The Government's small majority means they need a chunk of Labour
:05:50. > :05:53.So, after the debate, Labour's top team gathered to try to
:05:54. > :05:58.But Jeremy Corbyn was set against,
:05:59. > :06:03.most of his Shadow Cabinet in favour.
:06:04. > :06:06.So, after a difficult couple of hours, at 3.00pm, they agreed to
:06:07. > :06:11.disagree and talk again next week but at 6.00pm, Jeremy Corbyn stunned
:06:12. > :06:15.some of his colleagues, publishing a letter, making claim his opposition.
:06:16. > :06:23.That puts him in complete opposition to his Shadow Foreign Secretary
:06:24. > :06:31.I think all of us agree on the threat to the United Kingdom and
:06:32. > :06:35.The first duty of the Government, but also of the Opposition,
:06:36. > :06:41.Labour faces a deep and dangerous split.
:06:42. > :06:45.And unless ministers can be totally confident they'll get
:06:46. > :06:47.the authority to send British planes to Syria, a vote won't happen.
:06:48. > :07:00.But tonight there is a political fight on not one, but two fronts.
:07:01. > :07:03.So big questions tonight about what impact British military action would
:07:04. > :07:06.have on the ground in Syria and whether it would make Britain
:07:07. > :07:11.Here's our world editor, John Simpson.
:07:12. > :07:18.This report contains flash photography. Islamic State,
:07:19. > :07:24.so-called, is the most extreme and merciless enemy the outside world
:07:25. > :07:30.has faced in a long time. And it has an almost global reach. So, is
:07:31. > :07:36.Britain right to attack it in Syria? The case in favour, as put forward
:07:37. > :07:39.by the Government, has a lot to do with showing the Americans and the
:07:40. > :07:46.French that we are fully committed to the fight. Britain's contribution
:07:47. > :07:49.won't in fact be all that great. But the RAF's Tornados are highly
:07:50. > :07:53.effective. Their Brimstone missiles can hit moving targets at short
:07:54. > :07:58.notice, something even the Americans can't always do. And since we're
:07:59. > :08:02.deeply involved in Iraq anyway, the argument goes that it's illogical
:08:03. > :08:06.not to stage attacks across in Syria, given that IS operates on
:08:07. > :08:11.both sides of the border. If we are going to be involved in finding a
:08:12. > :08:15.solution in Syria, unless we are actually there, taking part in these
:08:16. > :08:19.things, we are not going to be able to influence it and therefore our
:08:20. > :08:25.credibility is diminished. The case against bombing in Syria is more
:08:26. > :08:33.varied. One big argument is that IS is now highly sophisticated. As
:08:34. > :08:36.these pictures of the elaborate tunnels it's dug under the
:08:37. > :08:42.newly-recaptured Iraqi town of Sinjar show. IS often embeds its
:08:43. > :08:46.fighters in highly-populated areas. So the dangers of British pilots
:08:47. > :08:51.killing civilians is a real one. That would recruit more Jihadis for
:08:52. > :08:56.IS, and could mean attacks within Britain itself Many things could go
:08:57. > :09:02.wrong. There are so many steps that have to follow in sequence. And as
:09:03. > :09:06.we have seen with the Downing of the Russian war plane, that is the kind
:09:07. > :09:11.of thing that can occur and throw everything off plan. The fight
:09:12. > :09:18.against IS in Syria is already highly complex. You can see that
:09:19. > :09:22.when you look at the map of where the various factions are operating.
:09:23. > :09:27.A nationwide patchwork of conflict. IS, of course, is fighting across
:09:28. > :09:33.the border in Iraq as well. And, the problem isn't just on the ground.
:09:34. > :09:37.The skies overhead are criss-crossed by the military aircraft of a
:09:38. > :09:42.variety of countries. What will happen in the long term to the
:09:43. > :09:48.anti-IS campaign? The there have been real problems, of course. On
:09:49. > :09:53.Tuesday, Turkey shot down a Russian aircraft and President Putin has now
:09:54. > :09:58.imposed sanctions on the Turks. But President Hollande of France was in
:09:59. > :10:01.Moscow today, trying to persuade President Putin to cooperate with
:10:02. > :10:07.the anti--IS coalition, which includes Turkey. Perhaps it worked.
:10:08. > :10:11.TRANSLATION: We have agreed to improve the flow of information in
:10:12. > :10:15.the fight against terrorism and improve the cooperation between our
:10:16. > :10:20.military specialists, so as to avoid duplication and incidents. But there
:10:21. > :10:25.are still big question marks over the anti-IS operation. What, for
:10:26. > :10:29.instance, is supposed to happen to Syria's President Assad? Two years
:10:30. > :10:35.ago, David Cameron wanted to bomb him. Now Mr Cameron wants to bomb Mr
:10:36. > :10:38.Assad's enemies instead. Do we still want regime change in Syria? Or have
:10:39. > :10:44.we forgotten about all that now? Belgium has lowered
:10:45. > :10:47.its security threat level. It had been on the highest state
:10:48. > :10:50.of alert after warnings about the Today a friend of one
:10:51. > :10:56.of the main suspects still being hunted by police, has been telling
:10:57. > :10:59.the BBC how Salah Abdeslam phoned people in Brussels the night
:11:00. > :11:02.following the attacks and asked them The friend has been speaking to
:11:03. > :11:19.our Europe correspondent, He is the Paris attacker still on
:11:20. > :11:25.the run, Salah Abdeslam. In Brussles we met a friend of his. He agreed to
:11:26. > :11:32.speak anonymously because of fear of reprisals.
:11:33. > :11:35.He said that on the night of the attack, Salah Abdeslam telephoned
:11:36. > :11:39.one of his friends and asked for help.
:11:40. > :11:42.I saw Mohammed and Hamza at the corner near my place,
:11:43. > :11:45.I said hello. I had a cigarette with them.
:11:46. > :11:48.Hamza left and came back and said, "Poor Salah he is in trouble, his
:11:49. > :11:52.car broke down in Paris, he needs someone to go and pick him up."
:11:53. > :11:54.It was a favour for a friend, like you help me,
:11:55. > :12:01.And while Mohammed and Hamza went to par toys pick up Salah, he stayed in
:12:02. > :12:04.Brussels. He had to work the next day. In the Belgium police raids
:12:05. > :12:08.that followed, Mohammed and Hamza were among those arrested. They have
:12:09. > :12:16.now been charged with terrorism-related offences.
:12:17. > :12:32.This is Salah's brothers. One of the Paris suicide bombers. Our source
:12:33. > :12:37.was a close friend for years. He said he watched online video, shared
:12:38. > :12:38.wildly among Facebook friends w graphic images of casualties in
:12:39. > :12:44.Syria. He watched those videos regularly,
:12:45. > :12:49.it is true. Was it those videos that
:12:50. > :12:54.pushed him to do what he did? I don't think so
:12:55. > :13:06.but maybe it played a role but maybe The Abdeslam brothers lived here in
:13:07. > :13:11.Brussels. The question remains - how were these young Belgium men
:13:12. > :13:16.radicalised. The clue could be 100 yards away around the corner, is a
:13:17. > :13:19.shop owned by the man French police described as the ringleader Paris
:13:20. > :13:23.attacks, who died in the police raid in the days afterwards.
:13:24. > :13:25.Now Salah is the most wanted man in Europe. Do you have any idea where
:13:26. > :13:29.he could be? I think he just has two options -
:13:30. > :13:32.either he turns himself in or he He could go to Syria, thinking
:13:33. > :13:48.he had nothing to lose any more. So the West will intensify its war
:13:49. > :13:49.on Syria but will that prompt more anger among those watching the
:13:50. > :13:52.videos? The head of athletics' world
:13:53. > :13:54.governing body, Lord Coe, has announced he's
:13:55. > :13:57.stepping down from his role as a paid ambassador with the sportswear
:13:58. > :13:59.company Nike after 38 years. He'd been facing questions about
:14:00. > :14:02.a potential conflict of interest in connection with the awarding of the
:14:03. > :14:04.2021 Athletics' World Championships Our Sports Editor Dan Roan
:14:05. > :14:14.reports from Monaco. This report contains flash
:14:15. > :14:18.photography. From an athlete who won Olympic
:14:19. > :14:20.medals for his country, to an administrator who helped bring
:14:21. > :14:23.the Games to London, Lord Coe has But his short time as the most
:14:24. > :14:28.powerful man in his sport has Ever since he was elected IAAF
:14:29. > :14:32.president, Coe has defied calls to end a lucrative ambassadorial role
:14:33. > :14:34.with sportswear giant Nike. But today, amid mounting pressure,
:14:35. > :14:39.came an embarrassing climb-down. It is clear that perception
:14:40. > :14:43.and reality have become horribly I have stepped down
:14:44. > :14:49.from my ambassadorial role with The current noise level
:14:50. > :14:58.around this ambassadorial role is not good for the IAAF
:14:59. > :15:02.and it is not good for Nike. This week, the BBC obtained
:15:03. > :15:04.an e-mail that showed Coe had discussed taking athletics' 2021
:15:05. > :15:08.World Championships here, the city of Eugene in the United
:15:09. > :15:13.States, the birthplace of Nike, with Coe denied lobbying for the bid
:15:14. > :15:17.and maintains his long partnership with Nike does not constitute
:15:18. > :15:20.a conflict of interest. But today, he reluctantly
:15:21. > :15:24.stepped down from the role. You've been bounced into this
:15:25. > :15:27.decision, haven't you, by the media? You will remember,
:15:28. > :15:31.because you interviewed me about this subject shortly after I became
:15:32. > :15:34.president of the International Athletics Federation, that of course
:15:35. > :15:39.a review process had started. It actually started the day after I
:15:40. > :15:43.became president, and that review process would of course involve
:15:44. > :15:48.my own outside interests. Systemic doping
:15:49. > :15:52.in Russia has seen it banned from international competition,
:15:53. > :15:56.while the IAAF has been rocked by a corruption scandal implicating
:15:57. > :16:00.Lamine Diack, the man Coe replaced. The new president will hope today's
:16:01. > :16:03.U-turn will allow him to focus I think it's very pleasing,
:16:04. > :16:08.I think it's a very positive step Maybe a little bit late,
:16:09. > :16:13.but he's done something that I think will bring a lot of trust
:16:14. > :16:17.and support him in his role. Coe says he had the IAAF's backing
:16:18. > :16:21.to stay with Nike but that he had Some will ask tonight, however,
:16:22. > :16:39.why it took him quite Calls for Lord Coe to quit Nike
:16:40. > :16:44.mirror the American multinational's slogan, just do it. Tonight, of
:16:45. > :16:48.course, he did exactly that, and he will hope he can now be allowed to
:16:49. > :16:52.move on and tackle some of track and field's various crises. The problem
:16:53. > :16:56.he faces is it took time to get here. As an athlete on track, Coe
:16:57. > :17:01.was known of course for his speed, his turn of pace. The delay in
:17:02. > :17:04.reaching today's decision here in Monaco however may have caused yet
:17:05. > :17:07.more damage both to him and his sport.
:17:08. > :17:09.Independent experts have been picking through the details of
:17:10. > :17:12.Yesterday George Osborne announced he wouldn't go through with
:17:13. > :17:17.But the Institute for Fiscal Studies says families could still lose out
:17:18. > :17:22.They say that some 2.5 million new claimants would be worse off under
:17:23. > :17:26.the new system of universal credit than under existing tax credits.
:17:27. > :17:30.But they say nearly two million would be better off.
:17:31. > :17:34.Our economics correspondent Andy Verity looks at the figures.
:17:35. > :17:39.If George is the builder, can he fix it?
:17:40. > :17:43.The high-visibility headline was a U-turn on tax credits,
:17:44. > :17:47.but when you lay out the detail that U-turn somehow takes
:17:48. > :17:53.Britain needs to move to that lower welfare, higher wage economy.
:17:54. > :17:56.It's the right thing for our country.
:17:57. > :17:59.We can help families in the transition to that lower
:18:00. > :18:02.welfare higher wage economy and use the improvement
:18:03. > :18:07.In fact, the Chancellor is still planning to
:18:08. > :18:10.take billions from low-paid working families who need their income
:18:11. > :18:14.topped up, but they're the claimants of tomorrow, not today.
:18:15. > :18:18.Among today's claimants is Stuart Boardman, whose family did
:18:19. > :18:25.It means a massive difference to myself and my family.
:18:26. > :18:29.We're still cautious because we know there's going to be
:18:30. > :18:33.further cuts further down the line, but we're just happy with
:18:34. > :18:38.In this building behind me, the Institute for Fiscal Studies
:18:39. > :18:41.has been explaining what will happen to the incomes of low-paid working
:18:42. > :18:45.families under benefit changes already coming through.
:18:46. > :18:51.1.9 million working families will be better off by ?1400 a year each
:18:52. > :18:54.on average than they would under the current system, but 2.6 million
:18:55. > :19:01.working families will be worse off to the tune of ?1600 a year each.
:19:02. > :19:03.Cuts to tax credits have gone from next year.
:19:04. > :19:06.No one who's currently on a tax credit will see any fall
:19:07. > :19:10.in their cash benefits next year, or indeed into the future.
:19:11. > :19:14.But the Chancellor is still making the same long-term savings
:19:15. > :19:17.and the way he's doing that is because he's making the universal
:19:18. > :19:20.credit system, which is what's going to replace tax credits,
:19:21. > :19:25.The tax credit cuts would have reduced the amount you could earn
:19:26. > :19:28.before your tax credit money was clawed back, but that will still
:19:29. > :19:32.happen when they're replaced by a new benefit, universal credit.
:19:33. > :19:36.Take a single parent with one child, working part-time
:19:37. > :19:43.They'd get ?2800 a year less claiming in 2020 than they get now.
:19:44. > :19:47.For a couple with three children on the living wage,
:19:48. > :19:52.it's ?3050 less, but a single worker on the living wage would be over
:19:53. > :20:01.Universal credit is being rolled out to all job centres next year,
:20:02. > :20:05.replacing six benefits from tax credits to jobseeker's allowance.
:20:06. > :20:07.But its introduction has been dogged by delays.
:20:08. > :20:16.His chances of getting the budget into surplus depend on it.
:20:17. > :20:19.Net migration to the UK has hit a new all-time high.
:20:20. > :20:22.The difference between the number of people coming to live in Britain
:20:23. > :20:26.and those leaving the country was 336,000 in
:20:27. > :20:31.That's 82,000 higher than the previous year.
:20:32. > :20:34.But the government wants the total to be much lower -
:20:35. > :20:48.Why can't the month get the figures going in the direction they want to?
:20:49. > :20:52.You could say the government is a victim of its own success. The big
:20:53. > :20:57.increases in people coming to work, 73% up in three years. Why? Because
:20:58. > :21:02.our economy is doing relatively well. There are jobs. The UK is
:21:03. > :21:06.attractive. Another big driver is foreign students. The numbers coming
:21:07. > :21:10.are pretty flat going to UK universities, colleges and schools,
:21:11. > :21:15.despite the global expansion of that sector. Some people worry we may be
:21:16. > :21:19.missing out on valuable foreign income. Refugees, we should talk
:21:20. > :21:23.about, much debate as Europe deals with the exodus from Syria. More
:21:24. > :21:27.people are seeking a file in the UK but it remains a very small part,
:21:28. > :21:32.just 5%, of total immigration. The real pull factor is the economy.
:21:33. > :21:36.It's not just our relative economic success which is encouraging
:21:37. > :21:39.migrants. Migrants are actually bolstering our economic success.
:21:40. > :21:42.About two thirds of the new jobs, those fuelled by growth, are filled
:21:43. > :21:46.by foreigners, and the Chancellor didn't need to cut tax credits and
:21:47. > :21:50.the police yesterday because an official forecast says its net
:21:51. > :21:53.migration, growing net migration, that's given as the boost that means
:21:54. > :21:56.he doesn't have to do that. Mark, thank you.
:21:57. > :21:58.The Government has outlined plans to regulate Muslim religious
:21:59. > :22:01.after-school classes - known as madrasas - in England.
:22:02. > :22:03.David Cameron has expressed concern that some children are
:22:04. > :22:06.Muslim organisations have said protecting child welfare is
:22:07. > :22:09.a priority, but they've expressed concern about the government
:22:10. > :22:13.interfering in the independence of religious institutions.
:22:14. > :22:16.Anywhere providing regular and intensive education to children
:22:17. > :22:22.will also have to register and could be inspected by Ofsted.
:22:23. > :22:27.Barclays has been fined ?72 million for failing to carry out proper
:22:28. > :22:31.The regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority,
:22:32. > :22:36.said the bank didn't follow standard procedures designed to prevent money
:22:37. > :22:40.laundering, because it didn't want to upset its rich customers.
:22:41. > :22:49.There's no suggestion, however, that any crime was actually committed.
:22:50. > :22:52.2015 is likely to be the warmest year on record -
:22:53. > :22:57.As world leaders gather in Paris for a climate change summit next week -
:22:58. > :23:00.our science editor David Shukman has been looking at the effect food
:23:01. > :23:06.waste in the UK could surprisingly be having on rising temperatures.
:23:07. > :23:10.On a frozen morning, steam rises from a mountain of waste.
:23:11. > :23:13.A scene most of us never think about, but at this site near
:23:14. > :23:18.Manchester and 200 others, rubbish dumped every day starts rotting.
:23:19. > :23:22.When you get this close, the smell does become pretty intense.
:23:23. > :23:25.That's because the waste here, including old bits of food,
:23:26. > :23:32.What's happening is that bacteria are working away on that waste
:23:33. > :23:36.and giving off a host of different gases - including greenhouse gases -
:23:37. > :23:44.and this is happening on a massive scale right across the country.
:23:45. > :23:47.Households throw away staggering amounts of food.
:23:48. > :23:49.For example, the equivalent of 86 million
:23:50. > :23:56.So we asked researchers to monitor what happens - under lights that
:23:57. > :24:03.Our time-lapse camera followed the grim process of decomposition.
:24:04. > :24:08.Bacteria creating gases that force the chicken to swell up over
:24:09. > :24:14.No surprise - flies were soon attracted.
:24:15. > :24:18.So we've injected the sample from the decomposed chicken
:24:19. > :24:20.and you can see on the mass spectrometer this large
:24:21. > :24:27.Some food is collected by local councils,
:24:28. > :24:30.but most of it still isn't, and that means more greenhouse gases
:24:31. > :24:38.Not only is it costing us a lot of money as householders -
:24:39. > :24:42.?60 per month for the average family with children - but the 4.2 million
:24:43. > :24:45.tonnes of food that could have been eaten, a lot of it ends up going to
:24:46. > :24:47.landfill where it basically just rots and gives
:24:48. > :24:53.There are ways that food waste can be used.
:24:54. > :24:56.Here, rubbish is divided automatically.
:24:57. > :25:02.Some of it diverted into equipment that goes on to produce electricity.
:25:03. > :25:05.Not on a big scale so far, but more and more waste is being
:25:06. > :25:10.Any food waste, whether it's leftover food or food
:25:11. > :25:14.that has gone off, it's important people put that in the right bin.
:25:15. > :25:17.We can take that material, use it in technology like this
:25:18. > :25:22.So by recycling their food waste, people are actually helping to keep
:25:23. > :25:28.Scientists prepare a drone to fly over landfill and
:25:29. > :25:35.No one knows exactly how big the problem is, but these flights
:25:36. > :25:41.Many landfill sites are due to close in the coming years,
:25:42. > :25:44.but even when they do there will be a legacy of gases seeping out
:25:45. > :26:01.Talks will continue tomorrow between the government and the British
:26:02. > :26:05.Medical Association in an effort to stop the planned industrial action
:26:06. > :26:08.by junior doctors in England. The first of three walk-outs over pay
:26:09. > :26:11.and working hours is due next Tuesday. The government has agreed
:26:12. > :26:12.to meet junior doctors' representatives at the conciliation
:26:13. > :26:16.service Acas. BBC Three will be moved online
:26:17. > :26:19.from February - as part of a series of cost cutting measures being
:26:20. > :26:21.introduced across the corporation. The television channel will remain
:26:22. > :26:23.in operation until March to direct viewers to
:26:24. > :26:26.its new home on the internet. The BBC Trust approved the move,
:26:27. > :26:29.on the condition that all of the channel's long form
:26:30. > :26:31.programmes also get shown at some It's the film that nobody would
:26:32. > :26:39.fund because the topic was not But The Danish Girl - staring Eddie
:26:40. > :26:44.Redmayne as a transgender pioneer - has made it to the big screen
:26:45. > :26:48.and will open in the UK next year. Our arts editor Will Gompertz has
:26:49. > :26:50.been to meet the British Oscar winner to talk
:26:51. > :27:07.about his latest transformation. She propositioned me. Is that true?
:27:08. > :27:12.When I said hello to make... A coy looking every -- Eddie Redmayne
:27:13. > :27:16.adverse happily married Einar Wegener, a successful Danish artist,
:27:17. > :27:20.who gives up his career with the support of his wife to live the
:27:21. > :27:26.woman called Lili. My dear, you look exquisite. It was a love story
:27:27. > :27:30.unlike anything I'd read. It was about love being not bound by
:27:31. > :27:35.gender, not bound by physical bodies, it's about the soles. No,
:27:36. > :27:51.never. I met women from the trans-community
:27:52. > :27:57.and heard their experience and it became absolutely clear that the key
:27:58. > :28:08.to playing Lili for me was about the emotional journey. I mean, my
:28:09. > :28:13.husband, do get in? I can't. Has this whole process in any way caused
:28:14. > :28:17.you to question your own gender? It absolutely makes me look at the
:28:18. > :28:21.notion of my own gender and the thing that I have learned I think is
:28:22. > :28:26.that this notion of gender being binary, about being two things,
:28:27. > :28:30.seems in this day and age, that feels incredibly antiquated and what
:28:31. > :28:34.I have learned I think is that gender is a spectrum and that where
:28:35. > :28:39.one falls upon that spectrum is entirely unique to who you are.
:28:40. > :28:45.Where do you fall on that spectrum? I think... I'm not going to tell you
:28:46. > :28:51.that. I'll keep that to myself. The film is a melodramatic retelling of
:28:52. > :28:55.Lili Elbe's true story, which culminates in her decision to
:28:56. > :28:59.undergo experimental gender reassignment surgery in 1930. The
:29:00. > :29:02.script, or at least the story, has been knocking around for quite
:29:03. > :29:08.awhile. Why does it take so long to get made? When I fell in love with
:29:09. > :29:14.it was considered a hard film to finance because a difficult subject.
:29:15. > :29:16.Why? I can only imagine the prejudice against trans stories
:29:17. > :29:19.filters into financial decisions and people say at the prejudice against
:29:20. > :29:24.trans stories filters into financial decisions and people say it's
:29:25. > :29:28.subject seven years ago. There's no doubt the film's timing is good. The
:29:29. > :29:35.issue certainly has currency. But will critics and filmgoers be as
:29:36. > :29:40.convinced as this young man? You are old-fashioned. By The Danish Girl.
:29:41. > :29:44.Don't forget a first look at the papers over on the BBC News