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a special report on the surge in gun violence | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
In Chicago gun attacks have increased by nearly 50% | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
in the past year - most of the incidents | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
You can't make no mistakes. It can cost you your life, literally. | :00:18. | :00:31. | |
The city's death toll from gun violence | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
by the end of August, at more than 500, | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
In reality most gun crime in America actually doesn't happen in the | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
massacres that garner large scale media attention but take place in | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
isolated spots like this, in inner-city America. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
We'll be asking if this surge in gun violence | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
in President Obama's political home city | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
The Labour MP Keith Vaz has resigned as chair of the Home | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Affairs Select Ccommittee, after claims that he | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
The radical Muslim preacher, Anjem Choudary, has been jailed | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
for five-and-a-half years for encouraging people to support | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
In the Syrian city of Aleppo reports that government forces | :01:11. | :01:22. | |
have used chlorine to attack rebel-held districts. | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
And on the eve of the opening ceremony in Rio, | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
we take a look at British hopes in the Paralympic Games. | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News. Manchester United's 18 | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
-year-old striker, Marcus Rashford hits a hat-trick for England's | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
under-21s, just days after being overlooked for the senior side. | :01:42. | :02:02. | |
We start tonight with evidence of a startling rise | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
in levels of gun violence in parts of the United States, | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
including President Obama's political home, the city | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
known as Labor Day weekend, saw 65 shootings | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
and 13 deaths, which means that Chicago's death toll from gun | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
violence, by the end of August, at over 500 was more | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
are young black men from some of the city's | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
Our international correspondent, Ian Pannell, and cameraman | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Darren Conway, spent a week in Chicago and sent | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
Bring me a wagon with a bodybag, also. | :02:37. | :02:53. | |
Welcome to the Chicago they don't want you to see. | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
In a city where some live in peace and prosperity, others | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
# It was crazy growing up where I was raised. | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
Duop is a rapper, a promoter and a gang member. | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
He's also a father, and an Iraq war veteran. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
When I'm passing through certain neighbourhoods, if there's already | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
a heightened alert of violence in that neighbourhood, | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
you have got to hurry up and get from point A to point B. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
You can't just be cruising through no neighbourhood | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
You know what I'm saying, nine times out of ten, | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
they probably don't recognise the car you are in at a time | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
and they could mistake you as a shooter from one | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
of their rival gangs and they open fire on you. | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
It would cost you your life, literally. | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
Many in the gang are still at high school. | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
Strict gun laws have made no difference here. | :04:00. | :04:14. | |
The last day without a shooting or murder was February 2015. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
The sad fact is that for some, a life of drugs | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
and violence has now become a way to get ahead. | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
The real tragedy about Chicago is just how common | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
In reality, most gun crime in America actually doesn't really | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
happen in the massacres that garner large scale media attention. | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
But they take place in isolated spots like this, in inner-city | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
And more often than not, the victims are young, | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
black and their cases are largely ignored. | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
The violence swirls around west and southside Chicago. | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
A few weeks ago, a six-year-old was wounded in a drive-by shooting. | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
Some say they are forced into a life of violence. | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
But even those who don't walk that path, like Ticara, | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
How common is it that there is shooting around here? | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
I tell you the truth, I'm really scared for my kids. | :05:14. | :05:22. | |
Childhood ends early on the South Side. | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
A party on Duop's block commemorates his best friend | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
The residents meet to remember and also to forget. | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
The Police Authority don't like exactly what we do | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
We actually don't like the way that we live. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
But when you are pushed into a way of life, when you are forced | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
into a way of life, how else can you live? | :05:47. | :05:58. | |
Even though we know the hood, how sad looking in, looking | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
like we glorify the hood, we want to be out of the hood. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
That's why we work so hard at showing our potential | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
because we want to leave this place, man, for good. | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
A place to record a music video and a place where drug addicts go | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
In my neighbourhood they start young, man. | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
When you read the news headlines that's the age frame | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
they are all dying from, from gun violence. | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
We have got to teach the kids how to defend themselves. | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
It is senseless violence at the end of the day. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
But what do you do when you are caught in that moment? | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
You rather be caught with protection, than without protection. | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
We had a lot of guns but I have never seen so many | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Bodiel is a rapper from the West Side. | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
Now the most violent part of Chicago. | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
He's a member of the Vice Lords Gang. | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
He's been in prison and even he is shocked by what is happening. | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
Like somebody dropped off crates of guns in everybody's hood. | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
It is like they were designed for the hood. | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
But I think like a lot of guys need to die | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
need to get killed to get them out of the way | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
We have been stood here for like five minutes, | :07:21. | :07:30. | |
I have seen two police cars, one ambulance go by. | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
I mean it ain't safe over here at all. | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Suddenly we were told to leave the area as Bodiel | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
Hey, what just happened, why did we have to leave so quickly? | :07:38. | :08:01. | |
More people have been killed here since 2001 | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
than US deaths in Iraq, and Afghanistan combined. | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
I do, to be honest, I have a son at seven and I've got | :08:11. | :08:20. | |
I haven't taught neither one of them how to ride a bike yet. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
The environment they live in is not safe. | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
I'm just trying to change the cycle and it is hard, | :08:27. | :08:39. | |
when you don't really have help, you know what I'm saying. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
It's like we are put in a weird position. | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
You know what I'm saying, because... | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
That's why we do so many drugs because we are just | :08:53. | :09:10. | |
We are human, we are just human, man. | :09:11. | :09:26. | |
With so many guns and so little control, the murders will rise. | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
The special report from Chicago by Ian Pannell. He joins us now from | :09:30. | :09:46. | |
the city. Roughly two months until election day S there any sense of | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
this issue of gun violence have any impact on this presidential | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
campaign? - is there any sense? I don't think #i6 seen so many guns | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
outside of what we would normally call a war zone. I don't know what | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
to be more surprised of, the level of guns on the streets, the fact | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
that a grandmother and mother were killed yesterday and barely an | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
eyebrow was raised or that it hasn't been raised as an issue. It has been | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
used, and the Republicans try to use it as a stick to beat the Democrats, | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
in particular because this is President Obama's home town. Their | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
argument is foremore tighter control over law and order in America and | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
that gun legislation doesn't work. Overall, don't expect this to be a | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
major political issue but do expect the level of crime and murderer in | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
Chicago to go on, to continue to rise. Many thanks again, Ian. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
The senior Labour MP, Keith Vaz, one of Westminster's most | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
high-profile politicians, has resigned as chair of the Home | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
Affairs Select Committee, following claims that he paid | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
for the services of two male sex workers. | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
Mr Vaz has yet to comment in detail on the allegations | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
but he said the work of the committee needed to be | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
conducted without distractions and that those who held | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
others to account, should themselves be accountable. | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
Our deputy political editor, John Pienaar, has the story. | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Out of luck, out of friends and now out of one of the most prestigious | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
jobs an MP can do outside Government. | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Keith Vaz, who spent years putting pressure on the powerful, | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
left home today to give into the pressure on him, | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
to quit over tabloid allegation abouts his sex life. | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
The news he'd resigned was as big as the story that brought him | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
An MP responsible for monitoring policy on prostitution, | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
reportedly caught out using male prostitutes. | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
No laws broken, except the unwritten ones about reputation and authority. | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
His committee announced the penalty that he'd accepted. | :11:39. | :12:12. | |
The committee listened, I think in sadness, to what Keith | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
had to say and with a good deal of respect. | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
Keith has clearly acted in the best interests | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
of the Home Affairs Select Committee and the important work | :12:29. | :12:43. | |
that we do and, with sadness, we all accepted that | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
that was the appropriate course of action that he has taken | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
and we also appreciate the many challenges facing him | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
And there was this tribute to Mr Vaz's work. | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
I think he has a reputation for getting the best out | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
of witnesses, or being a robust Chair but also being | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
Keith Vaz's cutting style in the Home Affairs committee Chair | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
It is your judgment we are questioning. | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
Can I say on behalf of this committee, we have found your | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
Can I just finish my question before - I know you are eager to give | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
evidence, but you need to just calm down. | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
This was the story that brought Keith Vaz down, | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
Labour's leader was keen to draw a line under it all. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
There has to be confidence in a democratic process | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
and therefore confidence in politicians in what they do. | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
Keith has made that decision to resign. | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
I think we should respect that decision, thank him | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
for his work in Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
Keith Vaz was elected in 1987, one of a handful of ethnic minority | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
MPs and rose to become Europe Minister under Tony Blair | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
but there was controversy, about the way he'd lobbied to get | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
British passports for the billionaire Hinduja | :13:55. | :13:55. | |
His financial dealings had been questioned. | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
Once he was suspended for making exaggerated accusations. | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
Finally, he took a risk in his private life and lost badly. | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
committee's work and the safety net of colleague support | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
People may be more forgiving about private morality than in past | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
years but MPs are still bound by codes of conducts, | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
harder to define, but no more forgiving than the laws they pass. | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
Tonight Keith Vaz was in the Commons' Chamber, reduced, living | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
testimony to the fragility of a political career. | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
At Westminster the sympathies mostly for his family. | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
Suddenly Keith Vaz seems a lonely figure. | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
John Pienaar, BBC News, Westminister. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
The radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has been sentenced | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
to five and a half years in prison for inviting support | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
Police said Choudhary, who's 49, had stayed just | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
within the law for years but was arrested in 2014 | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
The judge at the Old Bailey described him as a calculating | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
and dangerous man, who'd shown no remorse, as our home affairs | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
They arrest you for speaking the truth! | :15:03. | :15:14. | |
For 20 years he was Anjem Choudary hate preacher. | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
Now he is Anjem Choudary convicted terrorist. | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
He could have been jailed for ten years. | :15:19. | :15:19. | |
He was given five-and-a-half because the judge said his oath | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
of allegiance to so-called Islamic State didn't lead to any | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
The same sentence was passed on his co-defendant and close | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
As they were side by side in the dock, their supporters looked | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
One shouted, allahu akbar - God is great - as the judge | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
All the evil they've been sowing, all the evil words and dissent | :15:43. | :15:52. | |
they've tried to sow throughout society is over. | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
They are paying the price and they are going to jail. | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
The dominant and dogmatic Choudary has been at the centre of a network | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
His former right-hand man Siddhartha Dhar was originally | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
arrested with him but fled to Syria while on bail and is now suspected | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
Another follower was Michael Adebolajo. | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
He and a fellow Choudary disciple were responsible for the savage | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
street killing of fusilier Lee Rigby. | :16:20. | :16:29. | |
Choudary's influence extended across Europe. | :16:30. | :16:30. | |
In Belgium, many extremists linked to him have been prosecuted. | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
We are here in the heart of Europe, in Amsterdam. | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
This was him in Holland, just one of the countries where his toxic | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
This academic has studied how his reach grew over two decades. | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
Anjem Choudary has been hugely influential over the last 20 years. | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
It's almost hard to think of a significant terrorist plot | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
either here or abroad that's involved a British individual that | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
hasn't in some way connected back to him or his group and particularly | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
American Jessie Morton, once an extremist, has now reformed | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
He spoke to Choudary online and learned how he operated. | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
Here is a man who looks like he is living in the 7th century, who | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
speaks the words of the prophet Mohammed and the words of the koran, | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
he may misinterpret them but for you he is offering you something that's | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
powerful, something to cling on to. The judge described Anjem Choudary | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
as calculating and dangerous and said he had shown no remorse. He now | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
follows many he once led into the prison system. At the age of 49 this | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
is his first jail term. Anjem Choudary begins his sentence in the | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
high security unit of Belmarsh prison. Housed with a small number | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
of other inmates. He was taken there today knowing he could be out in a | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
couple of years. The challenge for the authorities is to stop this arch | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
manipulator becoming a figure of influence behind bars. | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
In Syria, rescue workers in the rebel-held part of Aleppo say | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
that Government forces have used chlorine gas to attack civilians. | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
President Assad's Government has always denied using chemical | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen reports from Syria. | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
Civil defence volunteers were on the scene before the dust | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
This was on the east side of Aleppo, held by rebels. | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
The Syrian Government controls the west side. | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
Dozens were taken to a hospital to be treated | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
Local reports said the reason was that Government forces had | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
dropped bombs containing poisonous chlorine gas. | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
There were similar reports and pictures from east | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
The casualties were washed, decontaminated to get traces | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
Aleppo, Syria's biggest city before the war, | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
Rebels and government forces in Aleppo have fought | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
The Syrian Government has always denied using chemical weapons. | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
It was forced to give up its own chemical weapons arsenal | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
after a deadly attack in the Damascus suburbs in 2013 | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
But since then there have been repeated reports of attacks | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
using chlorine gas which isn't banned. | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
Now the fighting all summer has been because the Government, Government | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
forces backed by the Russians, have been trying to completely encircle | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
the rebel-held eastern side of the city which has about 250,000 people | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
in it, including 100,000 children. Now when this war started it always | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
seemed complicated and diplomacy directed at it has up to now always | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
failed. But it's getting much worse, much more tangled. I spoke to a | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
senior Syrian general today and he said we are planning for a long war. | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
I said hang on, it's already in year six. He was talking about perhaps | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
another ten years of fighting. So we are going to be hearing a lot more | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
over, I think, a much longer period from this country. | :20:23. | :20:32. | |
Jeremy, thank you for the update there. | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
The retailer Sports Direct says it will improve pay and conditions | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
for thousands of its staff after heavy criticism by MPs. | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
It will now offer shop staff guaranteed hours, | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
instead of using controversial zero-hours contracts, | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
and all warehouse staff will be paid above the National Minimum Wage. | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
There will be a workers' representative appointed | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
to the board, as our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports. | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
Sports Direct's distribution centre in the Derbyshire countryside, | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
a vast site, manned mostly by thousands of temporary | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
A place which MPs recently likened to a Victorian workhouse. | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
The company's own review today found serious shortcomings. | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
Its so-called six strikes and you're out policy is being suspended. | :21:10. | :21:19. | |
Workers will be paid above the national minimum wage | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
and it will trial a scheme to move ten agency workers on to direct | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
Taking ten people a month will take 28 years to get those people | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
as they sit now into permanent, decent employment with Sports Direct | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
and that's not good enough so we have a long way to go. | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
In a surprise move this evening, Mike Ashley released a video | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
statement promising a workers' representative on the board. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
It is very difficult sometimes when you're not involved | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
with everything that's going on and you're therefore not | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
That input is invaluable and I think it will be the one no-brainer future | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
thing that Sports Direct should have been doing and, | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
unlike zero hours, I want to leap on that opportunity now and be | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
At the site today some workers had plenty to say. | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
If they get rid of the strike system then this place should be OK. | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Until they get rid of that this place is abysmal. | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
The conditions are not perfect, but I have worked in worst places. | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
Away from the warehouse, there's change for thousands | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
It's offering to move them from zero hours contracts to permanent ones | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
which guarantee at least 12 hours' work a week. | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
I used to go home every night and say to my girlfriend I don't | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
know when I can next work, I don't know when I can next earn | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
some money even though I stated to them that I am desperately | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
willing to work as many hours as possible. | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
Mike Ashley built Sports Direct from scratch. | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
He still owns most of the company but the share price has been rapidly | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
going down as the grievances pile up. | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
This review comes just a day before Sports Direct faces the wrath | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
of independent shareholders at its annual general meeting. | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
Pressure from investors has been growing for changes to its top team | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
Sports Direct is promising more work on that but will today's concessions | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
be enough to quell tomorrow's potential shareholders rebellion? | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
Unpublished papers suggesting the Government is considering plans | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
for new grammar schools in England have been caught on camera | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
The document, being carried into Number 10, says | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
the Education Secretary, Justine Greening, wants | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
the new grammars presented as an option. | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
Our education editor Branwen Jeffreys is with me. | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
I suppose the question is how realistic an option? Well, this | :23:51. | :23:59. | |
careless slip has shown us they are looking seriously at expanding | :24:00. | :24:01. | |
grammar provision in England, but they also know it could be tricky, | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
it could be controversial, not least to get through parliament. So this | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
memo suggests the first thing they would look at is to work with the | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
existing 160-odd grammar schools in England to see if any want to | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
expand. That was something that was in the Conservative manifesto at the | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
last election. They've already given permission for a school in Kent to | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
open up on a separate site ten miles down the road. So we could see a | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
little bit more of that. Interestingly, as well, the word | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
reform is used in here, the suggestion that perhaps grammars | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
aren't doing as well as they should be. That's essentially code for | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
making sure that they take pupils from every kind of background. Not | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
all grammar schools have had a good record at making sure that poor | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
bright children get places alongside middle class kids. So before any | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
other moves could be imposed they would look at doing that because the | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
next step for any new school would have to be to change the law, that's | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
the only way that a new grammar school could be allowed. And there | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
will be opposition from within the Conservative Party and some vocal | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
critics outside, it's only yesterday that sir Michael Wilshaw the chief | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
inspector said it was none cess to suggest that opening up more grammar | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
schools could help poor bright children do well. Tonight the | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
Government is saying it's not commenting, it's looking at options | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
and it wants to provide opportunities for the many and not | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
just the privileged few. Thank you. | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
A boy and girl aged 15 have pleaded guilty to a man lawyer of a woman | :25:35. | :25:48. | |
but denied murder. : There's been a serious breach of | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
security at London's city airport after activists gained access to a | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
runway there and staged a protest. Flights were stopped for six hours | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
causing major disruption. The campaign group Black Lives Mat every | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
said their action was to drawn attention to the environmental | :26:03. | :26:04. | |
impact of climate change on black people. | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
In Scotland, the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, says her Government | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
will focus on boosting the economy, following the UK's vote | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
She was setting out the SNP Government's legislative | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
programme for the year ahead and promised to spend ?4 billion | :26:18. | :26:19. | |
on infrastructure and to consult on a draft | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
Our Scotland editor Sarah Smith reports. | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
This is brilliant, I can't believe it's going to be a football pitch. | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
Nothing says I'm getting on with the job better than a photo | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
call in a high-vis jacket so Nicola Sturgeon got suitably | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
kitted up for a visit to a new school under construction | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
But it will feel like it's outside up here? | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
These pictures carefully co-ordinated to deliver the message | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
that she plans to focus on both education and increased | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
This programme for Government demonstrates how, with an iron focus | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
on the business of Government, we will create opportunity for all. | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
It outlines how we will support economic growth, invest | :26:58. | :26:59. | |
in child care and schools, improve public services | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
As well as increased infrastructure spending, the First Minister | :27:04. | :27:18. | |
announced ?500 million in support for private sector businesses facing | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
Plans to send more Government funding direct to school head | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
teachers and reduce teachers' workload. | :27:25. | :27:25. | |
A child poverty bill which will include a baby | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
box containing clothes, bedding and books for every | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
child born in Scotland, and draft legislation to allow | :27:30. | :27:31. | |
another referendum on Scottish independence | :27:32. | :27:32. | |
The Tories are now the main opposition in the Scottish | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
parliament, partly because of their trenchant opposition | :27:41. | :27:41. | |
The real dividing line in this country is between the SNP, | :27:42. | :27:49. | |
desperate to drag us back to a second independence referendum, | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
and the rest of us who all just want to put it behind us and move on. | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
Opposition parties accuse Nicola Sturgeon of being obsessed | :27:57. | :27:58. | |
with Scottish independence and neglecting the day job. | :27:59. | :28:00. | |
So it is important she's seen to be concentrating on governing | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
Scotland while she's also considering whether to call | :28:04. | :28:05. | |
She has to be seen to focus on those core issues that matter to voters | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
that matter to citizens, and that need to be dealt | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
with and if the SNP Government doesn't make a success of those | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
within the context of devolution, then it will struggle to win | :28:19. | :28:20. | |
the argument for further constitutional change. | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
How well the Scottish Government use the powers they have to address | :28:27. | :28:28. | |
voters current concerns could determine whether | :28:29. | :28:30. | |
they will ever succeed in achieving independence. | :28:31. | :28:32. | |
The opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games takes place | :28:33. | :28:43. | |
tomorrow night and there are high hopes that Paralympics GB can match | :28:44. | :28:45. | |
or even improve on the 120 medals they won at London 2012, | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
despite having a smaller team this time. | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss is in Rio and he's been | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
At their Brazilian training base, the British team are making | :28:55. | :29:04. | |
their final push for Rio hoping to turn graft into gold. | :29:05. | :29:11. | |
Today though, the first big result - equestrian star, Lee Pearson, | :29:12. | :29:18. | |
has won 10 Paralympic titles, now he's been voted flag bearer | :29:19. | :29:20. | |
It is the biggest honour in the whole of the world. | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
To carry the flag would be an honour, but to be voted | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
by my fellow Paralympic GB athletes is surreal. | :29:33. | :29:34. | |
London 2012 forged an array of new stars, so will this be | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
In recent Paralympics, Britain's medal tally has risen steadily. | :29:41. | :29:48. | |
From 102 in Beijing, eight years ago, to 120 in London. | :29:49. | :29:50. | |
Here, in Rio, their target is to go at least one better than that | :29:51. | :29:56. | |
with what is a smaller team and, of course, no home advantage. | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
The absence of Russia here, banned after their recent | :30:03. | :30:04. | |
doping scandal, should help Britain's cause, | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
but the head of the British team insists it's still a testing target. | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
History tends to show that it's very difficult to go to your next away | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
Games and repeat that level of performance. | :30:16. | :30:18. | |
So it's a challenging target, but I think that the results over | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
the last couple of seasons especially really point towards this | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
It's a team with plenty of new faces. | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
16-year-old Maria Lyle juggles school work with sprinting, | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
now she's among around half the British athletes | :30:37. | :30:38. | |
It's crazy to think, four years ago, I was watching it | :30:39. | :30:45. | |
and now I'm like in the training camp with the whole team. | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
But I think, even just being here, is a great achievement, | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
I'm enjoying every moment and I'm looking forward to | :30:53. | :30:54. | |
Of course, British athletes in Rio haven't done too badly | :30:55. | :31:04. | |
So could there now be a second goldrush? | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
On Copacabana, the Olympic rings have been replaced | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
The stage is set for yet more sporting drama. | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
Andy Swiss, BBC News, Rio. | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
There is more talk of the Paralympics on Newsnight. On the Eve | :31:23. | :31:32. | |
of the Paralympics we reveal confusion over the classification | :31:33. | :31:35. | |
system used to select athletes to compete in the Games. Join me now on | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
BBC Two. Here on | :31:41. | :31:41. |