12/02/2016 BBC News at Ten

Syria's President Assad vows to regain control of the whole

country - as world powers agree to try to stop the fighting.

The UN says it hopes the international agreement means

it can get aid to desperate people in Syria within days.

We have agreed to implement a nationwide cessation

of hostilities, to begin in a target of one week's time.

But as Russia says it will continue bombing what it calls terrorist

targets - the rebels say they won't put down their arms.

We should ask the Russians this question, are you going to stop

bombing during this aid returning, getting to Syria to besieged areas?

We'll be asking what hope there is for a pause in hostilities.

Also tonight: The dark side of Facebook -

the BBC exposes the secret groups used by paedophiles

to swap obscene pictures of children.

Turning off the printing presses after 30 years as the Independent

becomes the UK's first national paper to go online-only.

Containing Zika ? 200,000 soldiers mobilised as Brazil investigates

almost 4,000 reports of birth defects linked to the virus.

And should this German long jumper be allowed to compete alongside

able-bodied athletes at the Rio Olympics?

Levi Bellfield denies he has confessed to Milly Dowler's murder.

And the Doctor Who spoke President Assad of Syria has said

he is determined to regain control He was speaking hours before world

powers agreed to try to reach At talks in Munich, Russia

and the United States said they'd push for a halt to hostilities

within a week. The agreement could mean desperately

needed aid reaching besieged areas But already there are doubts over

whether the agreement can work. Russia has said it will carry

on its bombing campaign And the rebels have told the BBC

they won't put down their weapons. Our correspondent Quentin

Sommerville reports. In Syria today was

business as usual. If a ceasefire is moving closer

here, there is no sign of it In the northern Aleppo countryside,

the rebels continued their fight, Russian air power, strike

after strike, is hitting them hard. It has given President Assad

the advantage, and a new confidence on display in his first

interview in months. TRANSLATION: If we negotiate,

it does not mean we will. TRANSLATION: If we negotiate,

it does not mean we will stop First, negotiation, and second,

fighting terrorism. And the two tracks are

separate from each other. Before the war, this

was Syria's largest city. The red area shows what the regime

controlled back in September. The population from rebel held areas

is fleeing in their thousands. Sprawling camps on the northern

border with Turkey are already full. The scale of the exodus has

prompted international action. We have agreed to implement

a nationwide cessation With his Russian counterpart

at his side, Mr Kerry warned Our work today, while it has

produced commitments on paper, I want to restate the real test

is clearly whether or not all the parties honour those

commitments and implement In this besieged town west

of Damascus, they are starving. "I need medicine", this old woman

says, "I need everything". Another says, "We are starving

to death, please open The new agreement will bring UN aid

trucks here, but only if all sides This is why we joined

the revolution. The Free Syrian Army will help

getting this humanitarian aid to the besieged areas, but we should

ask the Russians this question. Are you going to stop bombing

during this aid getting to Syria, Of all the rebel groups

the BBC has spoken to, none are prepared to

put down their guns. They will only do so if the Russians

stop their bombing campaign. Commanders tell us this was a plan

cooked up by international powers, But there is so little trust

on the ground now in Syria, renewed international pressure may

be the only hope this plan has Quentin Somerville,

BBC News, Istanbul. Our chief international

correspondent Lyse Doucet is in Munich where those talks

have been taking place. Lyse, an awful lot of scepticism

about this international agreement - can this pause in hostilities

even begin next week? a great deal of scepticism here, a

certain amount of cynicism, but a lot of realism as well. One senior

British official described this agreement as the least worst

outcome. This is not a ceasefire. It is described as a cessation of

hostilities, pause perhaps in inviting. In may take place in Syria

where opposition forces are exhausted. But it will not happen

where it really matters, and that is around the larger city of Aleppo

where tens of thousands of people are fleeing the Russian bombings.

What has emerged from their six hours of very difficult talks which

went on past midnight, is Russia was adamant. They would not allow Aleppo

to be added to the list of places where there would be a cessation of

hostility. Russia would continue its bombing of what it calls

terrorist groups, that means the so-called Islamic State, it means

the Al-Qaeda linked nursery front. We have heard from sources that if

any other group get in the way, because these groups are often

working together, they would be in Russia's way in Russia would simply

bombed them. Russia is getting away with getting away with it. Just as

it did in Crimea, in eastern Ukraine and just as it is in Syria. Thank

you. Facebook says it will look

into secret groups on its website - exposed by the BBC -

that are being used to groom children and exchange

obscene images. The social media company -

which has more than 1.5 billion users worldwide, actively promotes

family values and takes pride But the BBC has uncovered groups,

invisible to ordinary users, that have been set up by paedophiles

who try to lure in young children. A warning - Angus Crawford's report

contains some disturbing material. Neil Ivel calls himself

a paedophile hunter. He and his wife pretend to be young

girls online to expose the men that You've come to meet

a 12-year-old girl for sex. This man, Lee Hardy, pleaded guilty

and was sent to prison. Why would you do that

to a 12-year-old? Hardy was a member

of a secret group. Facebook settings mean

these kinds of groups We all know there is a dark side

of the web, this is the dark Everyone thinks

Facebook is brilliant. But is it?

going to the shops, We set up our own fake profile,

gaining access to closed They were full of pornographic

and highly suggestive images, There were also plenty of seemingly

innocent images, too. Many of the pictures in these groups

are obscene, indecent. But what is as disturbing is that

many other pictures appear to have been stolen and disgusting

comments have been written The images had been taken

from newspaper reports, And even more disturbing,

taken secretly, up close, It's clear he's taking the picture

from his own jacket. So, using Facebook's own reporting

facility, we told the company about images and comments

we thought were unacceptable. Report after report,

we got the same response. Nor did this, in a group called

Cute Teen Schoolies. It doesn't go against the Facebook

community standards. We reported a whole group, too,

called We Love Skoolgirlz, And that didn't get

taken down either. Facebook removed just four,

leaving half still up. We showed what we found to retired

police commander Andy Baker, formerly deputy head of CEOP,

the Child Exploitation Facebook is meant to be

the safe social network. It is dangerous, because it allows

people to go in there and feed It just opens a complete network

of opportunity to paedophiles. That's why these secret groups

should not exist. We asked Facebook for an interview

but our request was refused, so we caught up with the company's

head of public policy at an event When it comes to specific groups,

I think it's important we investigate the groups,

so if you are able to share the details with me,

I can work with my colleagues who do the investigations, make sure

we investigate and remove the content that shouldn't be there,

and also deal directly with law enforcement to make sure

they are aware of these groups That's really important

that we are going to do that We told the police about

the worst of the material. Detained and questioned,

computer taken. This man is at least now

known to the authorities. Tonight, many of the groups

he was a part of are still online. The Prime Minister says he can win

a referendum campaign to keep Britain in the EU -

if he can secure the changes he is seeking on the terms

of Britain's membership. But in a speech in Hamburg tonight,

he said if he doesn't get the changes he wants -

he rules nothing out. It comes just days before next

week's crucial summit of leaders at which he hopes

to get a final deal. Our Europe editor Katya Adler

is in Hamburg for us tonight - Sophie, this is an evening of

symbolism. The Prime Minister ended his European shuttle diplomacy tour

here in UK friendly Germany in this city, so Anglophile, that there is a

saying that if it rains in London, the people in Hamburg open their

umbrellas. But when it comes to the crunch of EU reform, David Cameron

is aware. The German Chancellor is not the Independent powerhouse she

is to be. A warning, my report contains flush the geography.

How could the Prime Minister not be of good cheer tonight in Anglo file

Hamburg, a safe port of call for his final speech on his EU reform plans

before they are put to the vote at a summit in Brussels next week. Every

EU leader has to give the nod there, or no deal will be served. Tonight,

David Cameron tried to whet their appetite and tempt the British

people with visions of a better, safer, richer EU, with the UK

leading the way. When it comes to the question of Britain's place in

Europe, I have always been confident that together we can secure the

reforms that address Britain's concerns, and also work for Europe

as a whole. David Cameron has spent months trailing across Europe with

his sales pitch, was he convincing? The Prime Minister has a credibility

problem, not here in Germany, but elsewhere in Europe. Countries

question his sudden concern for their well-being inside the EU. In

the past, he has dismissed, derided and even mocked EU debates. They

feel no compunction to do him political favours now. The Prime

Minister had hoped Chancellor Merkel could bulldoze EU peers into

agreement over cutting migrant benefit and protecting the UK from

eurozone rules. But although not unwilling, she is increasingly

unable. Because of this. Domestic and international criticism over her

handling of the Europe's migrant crisis. These families took to the

streets of Hamburg hours before David Cameron arrived.

TRANSLATION: Public opinion is turning against Angela Merkel. She

does not have the situation under control. Germany is struggling to

accommodate more than 1 million asylum seekers. Hamburg has run out

of space. It is housing refugees in refurbished shipping container 's.

Angela Merkel urgently needs help. She cannot afford to alienate

European neighbours over the British question. She needs the other

countries so much. If they say, we do not want this compromise with

Britain, she will say, OK, we want to make it. So would Angela Merkel

sacrifice Britain in the EU because of the pressure of the migration

crisis? Yes, I think she will sacrifice Britain now, yes. But we

are not there yet. Here at this Hamburg Rugby Club, German and

British players told us everything should be done to keep the UK

onside. But it is an uncomfortable playing field for David Cameron, in

Europe and at home. And we are not even close to referendum day.

30 years after it launched, the Independent newspaper

has announced it is ending its print editions next month

and becoming the UK's first online only national paper.

In its heyday, the Independent sold more than 400,000 copies a day -

but circulation had slumped to little more than 50,000 -

far behind rival national newspapers.

Our media correspondent David Sillito reports.

It wanted to be politically neutral, visually bold.

It was the first broadsheet to go tabloid,

and now it is the first to give up on print.

It has been a tough day, and there are lots of people

Having said that, as I said to staff, I think it

We are going to embrace an exciting digital future and this transition

Indeed, the sale of its sister paper was the warning.

Nevertheless, when the news dropped, it was said you could see the ripple

of disappointment across the newsroom.

At its peak in the 1990s print sales were approaching

These days, weekday newsagent sales are closer to 30,000.

What has happened here has gone further and moved faster

than elsewhere but every other newspaper

The problem is, no one has found a way of making money out of digital

in the way that they used to out of print.

Back when it was set up, this cartoon said it all.

And new technology was changing the economics of print.

Now, 30 years on, another technological

revolution, and going digital only feels inevitable to its joint

Not only are all newspapers across the world

Now they are losing advertising income, very

The only question is, when do you come to terms with it?

And so, on its website today, news of the

Goodbye to print, and also more than half of the 200 or so staff.

Digital news may be the future, but paying for it is the problem.

200,000 troops will be on the streets of Brazil tomorrow

One of the world's biggest armies is getting ready to mobilise

Not on a belligerent neighbour but against the smallest neighbour

Hundreds of thousands of troops preparing to hand out leaflets

and warning citizens about the dangers of Zika.

When the people see soldiers walking the street, giving to them

information, I think they will realise the situation

Indeed, there is now evidence the Zika outbreak may be more

Already suspected of causing debilitating birth defects

in babies, Zika has also been linked to Guillain-Barre syndrome,

where the body's immune system attacks nerves,

causing gradual weakness and often paralysis.

At the hospital where he was treated, there has been

Now back running a small bakery in northern Brazil,

"I thought I would be a quadriplegic for life.

"The whole town prayed for me", says Claudio, who almost lost

the ability to breathe and could have died.

Guillain-Barre is a rare but worrying condition,

And there is a lot we still need to discover.

It seems that Zika has a more intense reaction,

or a more intense connection with the nervous system,

As the officers told their troops, the battle against Zika is now

Although some members of government have already admitted that Brazil

is losing the war against the Aedes aegypti mosquito, it's not

an admission you're going to hear from the generals.

200,000 troops on the streets may be good for morale,

but other approaches will be needed in the months ahead.

A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.

A British medical student Tarik Hassan has pleaded guilty

to conspiracy to murder and preparation of terrorist acts,

Hassan, from west London, was charged over an alleged plot

to kill people in a series of drive-by shootings on a moped,

Eight girls are recovering in hospital after they were hit

by a car outside a school in Liverpool.

Six of the girls aged between 11 and 13 suffered mainly broken bones.

One child is being treated for a head injury.

An 80-year-old woman who was driving the car is helping police

sexual offences against young women and girls as young as 12.

Harris, who's currently serving a jail term,

is due to appear in court next month.

It's being seen as an historic step towards the healing

of a 1000-year-old rift between two religious leaders.

Tonight the Pope and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church

have met and embraced in Cuba, something that was unthinkable

for centuries after a bitter schism that split Christianity.

The two Churches are being brought together again by shared concerns

over the persecution of Christians in Syria and Iraq.

This report from our religious affairs correspondent Caroline Wyatt

A moment many thought might never happen.

Finally, Pope Francis said to Patriarch Kirill,

"We are brothers", and centuries of chill began to thaw.

The split in 1054, between the Church in the East

and the West, came largely thanks to these two,

Pope Leo the ninth and the then Patriarch of Constantinople,

over issues of papal authority and doctrine.

Almost 1000 years on, today's Roman Catholic

and Russian Orthodox Church leaders were brought together,

they say, by the destruction of ancient Christian sites

And by what they term the genocide unleashed on Christians of every

After two hours of talks, they appealed to the international

community for urgent action to stop Christians being killed, and both

called for the restoration of Christian unity.

This is a meeting that's taken a very long time indeed to set up,

but both Churches say the time is now right for them to do more

and work together to help Christians who have been persecuted

But is that really why they are meeting now?

Historians say these spiritual leaders have broader aims in mind.

The Vatican will be looking for less pressure

Patriarch Kirill will be looking for a boost in his position

in the Orthodox world, and behind him there

is President Putin, of whom he is a mouthpiece,

looking to boost his agenda of ultra-Orthodox, ultra-nationalist

And real differences remain, but tonight, neither side

was letting anything come between them after so many years apart.

Markus Rehm is a German amputee, a long jumper who's set on competing

in the Olympic Games in Rio this summer.

Last year he smashed the Paralympic world record with a distance that

would have beaten Britain's Greg Rutherford to the gold medal

Now World Athletics is trying to decide whether he can compete

with his blade, alongside able-bodied athletes,

He is the so-called blade jumper hoping to leap into history.

Markus Rehm had been a talented schoolboy

athlete when, at 14, he lost his lower right leg

Using a carbon fibre blade, though, he has pursued his sporting dream,

with remarkable results, in October, jumping 8.40 metres.

Oh, my gosh, that is absolutely huge!

Indeed, it was further than Greg Rutherford jumped

And this summer Rehm told me he wanted his own

Many people have the wrong thinking about

disability in their mind, and that's exactly what I try to change

and maybe motivate some other people as well.

The platform of the Olympic Games is just amazing.

Four years ago Oscar Pistorius became the Olympics'

On recent form, Markus Rehm would be a genuine contender for the Olympic

But to get that chance, he will have to answer one crucial

Does his prosthetic blade give him an unfair advantage over

The coach of one of Britain's's most famous

The prosthetic does seem to be throwing Markus further

That is the question, that is for someone at the IAAF

to look at and look at the technicalities.

Rehm will now have to provide scientific data to prove his case.

Some people say, "Of course you have to jump further

A few years ago you said, "Great that you can do sports,

that you can run again, can jump again".

And now I do have an advantage with the

So when was the point when it changed?

And it is a battle for inclusion in which he

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