26/08/2016 BBC News at Ten

The number of dead in Italy's earthquake

A state of emergency has been declared.

Marcus Burnett, who was 14, and Will and Maria Henniker-Gotley

They all died in the same collapsed building.

There was nothing we could do with our bare hands, they were sleeping

in a room on the ground floor and it all collapsed on them.

As time passes, with so much devastation,

the authorities say hope is fading, of finding anyone else alive.

As time passes, with so much devastation,

We'll "never be able to dry our tears" says

We'll be live in one of the worst affected areas.

Thousands of people are allowed to leave the Syrian town of Daraya,

after one of the most brutal and long-running sieges of the war.

A bomb disposal team is sent to a neighbourhood in Birmingham,

after five people are arrested on terror offences.

The drug addicts and dealers in the Philippines,

who are are happy to turn themselves in, to avoid death squads

And West Ham's newest player signing, who'll never

Coming up in Sportsday: a Rangers' old boy gave

Find out if they could turn it around to extend their lead

at the top of the Scottish Premiership.

Three Britons are among the dead of Wednesday's

Marcus Burnett, who was 14, was on holiday with his parents

and sister, who all survived, while Will Henniker-Gotley,

and his wife, Maria, both in their 50s, also died.

Today the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi,

said his country will "never be able to dry its tears," and he's

promised ?42 million to help rebuild the worst-affected areas.

The current death toll stands at 281.

Our correspondent James Reynolds has sent us this report.

This is the road to the village of Sommati.

Two British families, the Henniker-Gotleys and

This is the house in which both British families were staying.

And you can see that the damage is dramatic.

Both families have paid tribute to the work of those relief workers

Their neighbour Nando Bonnani was the first to reach them.

TRANSLATION: I shouted and called out for Maria and Will,

There was nothing we could do with our bare hands.

They were sleeping in a room on the ground floor and it

The Burnett family from London lost their 14-year-old son,

His school calls him a much loved and admired boy.

50-year-old Maria Henniker-Gotley and her 55-year-old

They were from Stockwell in south London.

Many survivors are left with a simple, powerful question.

Why did so many buildings fall and so many people die?

The small town of Ascoli Piceno has counted its dead.

The smaller boxes show you how short some of these lives were.

These two coffins contain the bodies of two little girls.

Italy also mourns this married couple.

They'd come to this region on holiday.

Underneath the rubble, rescuers found their

11-month-old Elena Sofia has no idea that she, too, was nearly killed.

She and her mother, Sonia, are recovering in hospital.

I freed myself and started asking for help, but everyone

So I went back and with my hands I freed my daughter from the rubble.

I could only see her little foot and I just pulled her out.

The worst hit town, Amatrice, will soon begin to hold

This town, and others, will have to find new ground

Italy has now declared a state of emergency in the worst-affected

areas after the quake, as the search for

More than 1,000 aftershocks have hit the region since Wednesday,

with the authorities saying hopes are fading, of finding anyone

Here's our Europe Correspondent, Damian Grammaticas.

Back and forth they went today, teams heading

The task now was to search villages and hamlets no specialist rescuers

had yet managed to reach, more than 30 new locations spread

In our experience, you can also find alive people after 48

We are still looking for alive people.

You still think it's possible to find them?

It's a little more than 48 hours now.

Yes, but we hope it is still possible.

And that means 5,000 rescuers are still hard

And this is the task the rescue teams face,

to comb through every pile of rubble like this, in every single

Because each one of these used to be somebody's home.

And there could, even now, still be people alive underneath here.

Here in the Apennine mountains, towns perch

The toll here in Amatrice is now more than 200 dead,

and dozens perished in other villages, too.

Romeo De Angelis showed me where six or seven of his neighbours died.

He managed to scramble to safety as the masonry crumbled around him.

TRANSLATION: The houses over there, they are all destroyed.

But even if you go inside the houses that look OK,

So Romeo, along with more than 2000 other survivors,

are now living like this, camping out in shelters.

Where they'll go, where they can now live, nobody knows.

Damian Grammaticas, BBC News, Amatrice.

Let's talk to James Reynolds, who's in Amatrice for us this evening.

James, one gets the impression that as the hours pass by, this is

becoming more of a search and recovery operation, with less

emphasis on the rescue. That's right. Because the sound of constant

digging here in Amatrice has stopped. No digging probably means

no hope of finding survivors. But there's still an extensive relief

operation in this area. My colleagues and I spent several hours

driving around this region and almost every small road and ham let

we saw soldiers and firefighters trying to security access ways and

buildings. Survivors, here in Amatrice will spend the night in

giant tenting pitched a few blocks away. They will, of course, get

access to that ?40 million of emergency aid but that's just the

beginning. In the long term, Italy really has a decision to make - is

this country prepared to spend the billions and billions of pounds

needed in order to renovate and restore all buildings in this

earthquake-prone region, to make sure what happened here, a mass

collapse of buildings, never happens again.

Thank you James. The US Secretary of State,

John Kerry, says he's had "long, productive and constructive talks"

with his Russian counterpart The discussions are aimed

at restarting peace negotiations Today government and rebel troops

agreed a deal on the evacuation of civilians from the besieged

suburb of Dariya, on the outskirts of Damascus, ending one

of the longest standoffs of the war. Our Chief International

Correspondent Lyse Doucet's report, These children have known

little else but war. For four years, this rebel-held town

was bombed, blockaded and broken. For the opposition, Darayya

was a symbol of defiance. Now a scene of surrender and,

for President Assad's This soldier says rebel

fighters knew their fate. He accuses the opposition of holding

people hostage here. As families leave, the fighters

still stay, uncertain Far from Darayya, in Geneva today,

a push to reach a very different The US's John Kerry here to meet

Russia's Foreign Minister, again, to see if their diplomacy can

stop the fighting. What's the main obstacle to a truce,

a journalist shouts. Mr Lavrov quips, "I don't

want to ruin the atmosphere". The foreign ministers have now spent

the entire day inside this hotel. We are told they are trying to close

the last gap in a deal to strengthen their military

cooperation against so-called Islamic State in Syria in order

to pressure their Syrian But even if they do make progress

here, it's unlikely to be enough More than five years on,

Syria is shattered. Even now, fighting still intensifies

in divided cities like Aleppo. These two boys just

lost their brother. They still have each

other, it's not enough. What will be enough to end Syria's

war, Mr Lavrov and John Kerry emerged after 12 hours of talks here

in Geneva, they didn't have a deal they wanted and Syria desperately

needs but both foreign ministers talked about narrow the difference.

Mr Lavrov talked about a few dots dividing them and John Kerry said

they now had more clarity in how to reach that elusive truce but no sign

yet here, or indeed in the ground in Syria, of when that truce will ever

happen. Thank you Lyse. West Midlands police have

arrested five people, Three were detained in Birmingham,

the other two in Stoke on Trent. After one of the arrests,

an army bomb disposal team was sent to the Lee Bank area

of Birmingham as a precaution. All five men are now being

questioned by counter-terror Let's speak to our

Correspondent, Phil Mackie. Phil, fill us in on the latest? That

army bomb disposal unit has gone in the last couple of minutes. It has

been here for the past seven hours. Although this particular street

looks like a rather derelict industrial estate, we are very close

to the city centre here and lots of people were in bars, restaurants

nearby were told to stay inside earlier on. Most of the attention

has been focussed on the little business unit next to where the

police van is parked at the moment. We have seen officers in their

forensic overalls coming and going all afternoon. Those five men were

arrested on the suspicion, preparation or incity gafgs of acts

of terrorism. The first time anyone has been arrested on such a serious

offence for years. There was a much wider cordon earlier on in this part

of to you. The bars, rows strauntsds and hotels have been open -- rows

straupts and hotels have been open as norm A those men have been

delaned in the West Midlands. The police have -- detained in the West

Midlands. The police have 48 hours before they have to apply for a

custody extension to their time limit.

Lifeguards will be deployed this bank holiday weekend

at the beach in East Sussex, where five men from London

Council officials hope the temporary service at Camber Sands,

Relatives say those who died may have survived,

NHS services across England could be cut, as part of wide-ranging

The proposals include ward closures, cuts to bed numbers

and changes to Accident and Emergency departments.

NHS England needs to save ?22 billion by the end of 2020.

It says local people will be consulted on the plans.

Our Health Editor, Hugh Pym, reports.

It's a process which could result in a radical shake up of health

and social care services in some areas of England, with possible

closure of A units, hospital buildings, and a review

Near Leeds, plans have been drawn up for the possible closure of some

wards across several hospital sites in the city.

the local A is already earmarked for closure.

Campaigners who have been fighting that decision,

are concerned with the latest news of a wider,

Everything seems to be done piecemeal and there doesn't seem

to be an overarching plan that puts patients, the public at the centre.

I think there needs to be a huge debate about the NHS.

More detail has emerged of local health plans

In Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland there are proposals

to reduce three general hospitals to two.

In the Black Country area of the West Midlands,

there is a plan to close an A unit.

In Cornwall there is a proposal to remove resources from hospital

Local health and council leaders have been told by NHS England

to come with up their own plans for working more closely together,

The background to that is the need to find billions of pounds

of efficiency savings over the next few years.

The problem is, while the Government has given the NHS more money,

it hasn't kept up with increasing demand for patient care.

NHS leaders say it's not about cuts for the sake of it but how to meet

the needs of a growing and ageing population.

With that demand comes rising costs, and we are not trying to say -

well, the simple answer is to just slash and burn and close services

but, in fact, we need to think about how we deliver services

and what tends to drive up those costs?

Public consultation will start in the autumn.

Health chiefs say it is a big moment for the NHS, as it tries to tackle

the long-term financial and care challenges.

But selling that message won't be easy, as local campaign groups

Standby for what could be a bruising and heated debate.

There's been an unprecedented rise in the murder rate

in the Philippines, after the country's new president

won power, promising tough action in the war on drugs.

But Rodrigo Duterte's critics say his hardline tactics

include turning a blind eye to extrajudicial killings.

One campaign promise included a pledge to kill 100,000 criminals

Well, nearly 2000 people have died in the seven weeks

since the crackdown began, with more than 750 killed

The chief of police says nearly 700,000 drug users and dealers have

Jonathan Head has been on one police raid in Manila, and sent us

The war on drugs is reaching all corners of the Philippines.

Many of these men are already serving long sentences for drug use,

in cells so packed with bodies it's hard to breathe.

It says something about the extent of the drug problem here

in the Philippines that the police have had to come here and raid one

of the biggest prisons around Manila.

There are clearly concerns about real drug problems here.

But the focus at the moment, as with so much of this campaign,

is people at the very bottom of the trade,

The bodies of dealers and addicts are discovered every night

in the slums of Manila, killed either by the police,

It started when this man, Rodrigo Duterte, an outspoken

crime-fighting mayor, was elected president in May.

Either you kill me, or I will kill you.

When he said he would kill drug dealers, he meant it.

The president is still wildly popular for this kind of talk.

Drug addiction has blighted neighbourhoods already

But his campaign has forced Roger - not his real name - into hiding.

He has been a minor drug dealer for years.

TRANSLATION: I've done some awful things, I know.

I've wronged a lot of people because they've become addicted

to drugs, because I'm one of the many who sells them drugs.

Not everyone who uses drugs commits crimes.

This chilling security camera video shows why those targeted

by the anti-drug campaign have so much to fear.

A motorbike slows down for a moment, the passenger firing

It might easily have been Maria, a young mother and a hired assassin.

She says she's killed five people since President Duterte

Like Roger, she says it was poverty that drove her into the job.

TRANSLATION: I tell my husband that we can't keep

I would not want our children to know what we do.

I do not want them to come back at us and say that they got to live

Nearly 700,000 terrified drug addicts have already surrendered

to the Philippines police to save their lives.

They must somehow now be accommodated in these

An optometrist who failed to spot an eye condition during the routine

test of a young boy who later died, has been given a two-year

Honey Rose failed to notice that Vincent Barker had swollen optic

discs, when she examined him at a branch of Boots

The abnormality is a symptom of fluid on the brain.

Vincent, who was eight, died five months later.

France's highest court has suspended a ban on full-body swimsuits,

While the ruling only applies to one town,

that of Villeneuve-Loubet, it's likely other resorts,

including Cannes and Nice, may have to lift the restriction as well.

Campaigners said the burkini ban infringed the rights of women

Hugh Schofield as been gauging reaction to the suspension

This is Sara Gadeh and her family, and the moment when we told them

that the burkini ban had been lifted.

She's Muslim, originally from Tunisia, and she told me that

had it not been for the ban she would have been wearing

a burkini or something like it on the beach today.

Now that the news has come from Paris, she'll be back covering

TRANSLATION: It's been really hard because we all felt

Even though I've been covered for 30 years,

In the last two weeks, I felt awkward.

It is the way people were looking at me.

Before, people did not show how they felt towards us,

now they say they don't like it and that really hurts.

In nearby Nice it was pictures this week of a Muslim woman apparently

being told by police to remove part of her clothing that caused outrage

Towns along the coast had said that after the Nice lorry attack,

there was a risk to public order from outward signs of Muslim

affiliations on public beaches, but now the court in Paris has

overruled that, at least here in Villeneuve-Loubet,

where there will be no more fines now for wearing too much.

Of course, not everyone in France will agree with

Former President Nicolas Sarkozy says he wants a burkini ban

And polls suggest that a majority of the French would probably agree.

They want to stop what they see as the gradual encroachment

of Islamic lifestyle and symbols into the public sphere.

A short distance away, a French family were this evening

enjoying a traditional dinner on the beach.

They all supported the burkini ban because they feel the state needs

to push back to defend the French way of life.

TRANSLATION: It's the values that I've known, the region, the colours,

the smells and environment which are very special.

If all that changes, it will feel like it's no longer home.

A sense of belonging to a region, a town,

a state, a country, is crumbling away completely.

Today's court decision should act as a precedent but this evening

several mayors are saying they plan to keep the ban

Hugh Schofield, BBC News, Villeneuve-Loubet.

Video gaming is a multi-billion pound global industry,

and its marketing potential is now attracting conventional

So much so, that a 24-year-old from Somerset, Sean Allen,

who's achieved huge success playing Fifa 16 on a console,

has been snapped up by West Ham United to represent

Rory Cellan-Jones has more on the Hammers' newest signing.

At West Ham's training ground, they are preparing for the big match

But one new signing is watching from the sidelines,

because his skills lie in a virtual version of football,

Sean Allen, whose game name is Dragonn, plays

Signed in May by West Ham, he was the runner-up in this year's

I'm just always trying to keep the higher pressure.

The first e-sports player signed by a Premier League club is now

expected to represent West Ham every time he plays in a Fifa tournament.

But his training takes place in front of a games console.

What would you say to people who thought this isn't a proper

Obviously people are always going to think that I'm just

going to be sitting indoors playing video games,

But I've proved, the amount of money I've made this year

especially from Fifa, I've proved...

Most people earn less than what I've earned in a year, just from working.

And I've been sitting here doing video games.

West Ham, who just moved into the Olympic Stadium,

believe that e-sports will one day be big business for the club.

Football is, of course, a vastly lucrative sport

with all sorts of revenue-earning opportunities, while e-sports

But one day, could a vast stadium like this be filled with an audience

who turned up just to watch a video game?

In fact, in South Korea, that's already happening.

This stadium was packed out for the final of League of Legends,

And football isn't the only sport trying to connect

The car-maker Nissan has been running the PlayStation Academy,

taking the best online games players to race for real.

West Ham won't say, but you can bet Sean Allen is paid a tiny fraction

of what midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate earns.

Mind you, in this game of Fifa, Sean won 5-0.

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