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Tonight at Ten: Theresa May is expected to announce plans - | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
within days - to open new grammar schools in England. | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
It's a highly controversial move - ministers say it's about enhancing | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
social mobility, but critics say it will have the opposite effect. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
There'll be no return to simplistic binary choices of the past | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
where school separate children into winners or losers, | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
This policy will not help social mobility but will entrench | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
The proposals are expected to be included in a government | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
A special report from a rebel-held part of Damascus - | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
where people have been under siege for five years. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Massive disruption in their lives, huge tragedy, but for the government | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
this is a good day because they are strengthening their hold | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
We report from Switzerland on possible lessons for Britain | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
In Rio - it's a record 12th gold medal for Dame Sarah Storey | :01:04. | :01:16. | |
And why scientists say they've rewritten the biology | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News at 10.30pm: | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
Chris Froome is still playing catch up at the Vuelta Espana. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Three stages left and three and a half minutes off the lead. | :01:29. | :01:51. | |
The Prime Minister is expected to announce plans within days | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
to open new grammar schools in England. | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
The BBC understands that the proposals will be included | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
in a Government green paper, a consultation document, | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
with an emphasis on enhancing social mobility. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
The schools would be forced to set aside a number | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
of places for children from poorer backgrounds. | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
Critics of the plans say it would be a return to the days when pupils | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
were divided into winners and losers at the age of 11, as our education | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
The best chance for the brightest kids or a chance for the few at the | :02:23. | :02:34. | |
expense of the many. Grammar schools have never gone away, one of the | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
great battle grounds in education. You can use a calculator. This is | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
where Theresa May's top adviser came to school. Now it could be the model | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
for a new generation of grammar schools. Because you're getting a | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
place is not just about test scores. I think it's hard to find a test | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
which will be immune to practice and tutoring. This group of grammar | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
schools set aside some places, up to a quarter go to children from lower | :03:03. | :03:14. | |
income families. It's about the children, maximising the impact and | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
life chances, the impact they can have on all those children whatever | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
their background. Grammar schools have a history of getting pupils | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
into top universities but some fear this entrenches privilege. Grammar | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
schools are proud of their tradition of academic excellence. The problem | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
is that very few have gone as far as this school in making sure that poor | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
pupils get places. It's why the debate about who gets into grammar | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
schools is now going to be crucial. The Education Secretary went to a | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Coprah offensive in Rotherham. Now she will have to push through a law | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
to allow new grammar schools. There will be no return to the simplistic | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
binary choice of the past were schools separate children into | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
winners or losers, successes or failures. The government wants to | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
focus on the future, to build on our successes and create a truly | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
21st-century school system. Labour appointed to research that poor | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
children have lost, not gained from selection. This policy will entrench | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
inequality and disadvantage. It will be the lucky few who can afford the | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
tuition who will get ahead and the disadvantaged will be left behind. A | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
policy for the few at the expense of the many. Skegness Grammar school is | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
a part of a group of academy schools. Closer links like this will | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
be expected in future because each grammar school has a knock-on | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
impact. But will that be enough to meet the concerns of senior Tory | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
critics? We don't want to blast back to the past, if we are going to have | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
new selective schools of any type they had to fit in with the system | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
and make sure the blend with multi-academy trusts, the options | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
for university technical colleges and so on. A grammar school | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
education is still what some families want but many believe it's | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
not the best or the only way to give children the chance to excel. | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
Our political correspondent Vicki Young is at Westminster. | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
We know it's a controversial policy, what is the Prime Minister's | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
thinking in pursuing it like this? For Theresa May it's about social | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
mobility, she said that is what she wanted to do when she became Prime | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Minister and she feels education can be key to that. The problem is that | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
with grammar schools there is little evidence they have actually been | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
achieving that, helping the most disadvantaged pupils to fill their | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
potential. She is not simply bringing in a new wave of grammar | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
schools, she is going to attach conditions. It's going to be done in | :05:51. | :06:00. | |
a different way, a certain number of places reserved for those poor | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
children but also closer ties with local schools. I think that an | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
attempt to raise standards and try to persuade sceptical MPs and the | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
House of Lords that they should pass this new legislation. We also | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
understand there will be changes to the ways that faith schools select | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
pupils, that was said to encourage new Catholic schools to open which | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
they regard as very popular and successful. There are many here in | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Westminster who think this talk of a few grammar schools in England is a | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
distraction from a much broader issue about raising standards in | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
senior schools across the state sector, the schools that the | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
majority of pupils go to. Thank you very much. | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
Diplomatic efforts to build a peace settlement in Syria are intensifying | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
as the United States and Russia prepare to hold talks | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
Both sides have agreed that any deal would involve a meaningful ceasefire | :06:45. | :06:55. | |
and humanitarian access to parts of the country worst affected | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
One of those heavily affected areas is Mouadamiya a rebel-held suburb | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
From there, our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen has sent this report. | :07:04. | :07:14. | |
This road is paved with guns, tears and loss. | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
These families in the UN's words have faced four years | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
Children starve, starving people eat grass, amid fighting | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
Many of the children here are too young to remember peace. | :07:30. | :07:42. | |
The departing families had fled from a neighbouring enclave emptied | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
at the end of August in an evacuation | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
For the regime, both places were nests of terrorists. | :07:48. | :08:04. | |
Local men said they were just defending themselves. | :08:05. | :08:14. | |
These are forced evacuations, siege and starvation | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
Children were dressed in their best clothes for the journey. | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
TRANSLATION: We've left behind tragedy. | :08:23. | :08:34. | |
Two of this woman's sons were killed and so were two grand daughters. | :08:35. | :08:46. | |
TRANSLATION: My heart was broken for my two children. | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
They went looking for food and they never came back. | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
My two grand daughters, ten and 15 years old, | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
Those are my memories of the last four years. | :08:59. | :09:10. | |
Look at the faces of some of the civilians, you can see | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
the strain they have been living under for such a long time. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Now, massive disruption in their lives, huge tragedy. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
But for the government, this is a good day because they are | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
strengthening their hold on the area around the capital. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
For President Assad, that counts as an important step forward. | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
For the rebels, all this adds up to a defeat. | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
Syrian Army soldiers searched everyone leaving. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
They seemed to respect the opposition fighters who emerged | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
After a few minutes, the two groups warmed up enough | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
He's there, he has a picture of Assad on his uniform? | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
He's a person, he's a Syrian man, I don't hate him. | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
For me, I want all people who killed us, who killed our children, | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
who attack us, to be judged and put in jail. | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
Some rebel fighters could follow the civilians out if they're | :10:24. | :10:37. | |
This war might have years left in it, but in this part | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
of the the capital suburbs for now, it looks to be over. | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
Four men from Birmingham and Stoke on Trent have been charged | :10:45. | :10:54. | |
They were all arrested on 26th August. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
On that day an army bomb disposal van was called a business | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
All four men will be now be brought to London and will appear | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
at Westminster Magistrates Court tomorrow morning. | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
In Paris, a woman has been shot and wounded as she was arrested | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
along with two others by police investigating the discovery of a car | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
containing gas canisters near Notre Dame Cathedral | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
France's interior minister has described the three women | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
aged between 19 and 39 as 'radicalised fanatics'. | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
A policeman was stabbed during the arrests. | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
The Prime Minister has held her first formal face-to-face | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
meeting with Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
on the preparations for the UK's exit from the European Union. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Mrs May said the aim was to make the process as smooth as possible. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
And she said the UK would take time to prepare for the negotiations, | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
repeating that Article 50, the mechanism for Brexit, | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
would not be triggered before the end of the year. | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
The former president of Switzerland has added her voice to the debate | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
on Brexit; she told the BBC that Britain should work with the Swiss | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
to try to secure a new deal with the EU maintaining access | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
to the single market while changing the rules | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
Switzerland, which is not a member of the European Union, | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
is currently trying to renegotiate its relationship with the EU | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
after the country rejected free movement of people in 2014. | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Our economics editor Kamal Ahmed has been to see if Switzerland has any | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
It's a country viewed as quiet, serene. | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
But beneath the picturesque exterior Switzerland has been split | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Concerns so strong, in 2014 it voted against freedom | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
This small country, wholly surrounded by EU member states, | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
has suddenly discovered it could be a player in Britain's Brexit debate. | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
This is the beautiful town of Bremgarton. | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
It's in the heart of an area of Switzerland which voted most | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
It might not look much like Britain, but the concerns here are very | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
Worries about who exactly controls the border with the European Union. | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
Micheline Calmy-Rey is the former president of Switzerland and well | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
knows how hard it is trying to negotiate with the EU. | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
She says it's time for her country and Britain to join forces. | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
The European Union is very rigid on the question of freedom | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
of movement and I think if the European Union doesn't | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
integrate diversity inside its institution it | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
Ladies and gentlemen we are now arriving at Zurich main station. | :13:46. | :13:57. | |
From Geneva to Zurich to talk to the man who negotiated | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
Switzerland's major trade deals with the EU. | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
Could there be movement on the freedom of movement? | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
I think the basic problem is what I call the binary problem. | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
You are either fully in or you are fully out. | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
And this does not serve the interest I think neither | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
of the European Union nor of the outsiders. | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
I am sure that Brexit is sort of a catalyser | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
for contributing to the debate, whether the European Union has | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
Theresa May knows she's going to need allies | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
if she is going to get the best Brexit deal possible | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
and here in Switzerland she has a willing partner. | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
I have been told that Swiss diplomats have already been | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
dispatched to London to look at opening lines of communication. | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
There is a willingness ro cooperate on limiting the freedom of movement, | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
on retaining legal sovereignty and working on those | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
When it comes to tackling the European Union, it does | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
appear that two voices may well be louder than one. | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
There will be difficult issues to bridge. | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
Yes, demands for flexibility, but the EU knows that | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
If the EU is too soft with the UK other countries might | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
This might be the end of EU integration as we know it now. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
So it's a very important political problem, not only economic. | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
It's been a long time, two years since Switzerland voted | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
for immigration quotas, and the EU has yet refused to budge. | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
But that was before a possible new ally decided it had had enough | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
The opening day of the Paralympic games have been getting under way, | :15:41. | :15:54. | |
and tonight there has been success for Team GB on the cycling track | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
as Dame Sarah Storey has won her 12th gold medal. | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
She's has now become Team GB's most successful female paralympian. | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss reports. | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
So would the fans come? Well, this was the answer. | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
After all the worries over ticket sales, thousands flocked to the | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
Paralympic Park hoping for a dramatic day. After a dramatic | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
night. Among the opening ceremony's | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
highlights, American winter paralympian Amy Purdy dancing the | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
Samba with a robot. It wasn't a total celebration. The booing of the | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
Brazilian President a reminder of the country's problems. But this was | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
the true Paralympic spirit, torch bearer and former athlete Marcia | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
Malsar slipped on a rain-soaked floor, but the stadium rose in | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
support as she picked herself up and carrying on, her determination to | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
succeed which Rio will hope the Games can emulate. With the first | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
day of action bring a moment of history? The fastest Dame on two | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
wheels, Sarah Storey chasing a place in the record books. She was up | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
against Lane. The 3,000 metre pursuit was over in a flash. So what | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
no British woman's ever achieved, a 12th Paralympic title for Stoerye | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
and a new pinnacle in an extraordinary career. Born without a | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
functioning left hand, Storey started out as an outstanding | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
swimmer before becoming an even better cyclist, a world beater | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
across two sports and the woman whose record she's surpassed told me | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
it was richly deserved. For Sarah and Sport Cycling to win 12 golds is | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
amazing and well deserved. She did incredibly well as a swimmer, | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
transferred to cycling. There's a bit of me that wished she started | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
cycling earlier because that's her sport. She is looked up to and | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
respected because she's an incredible person. Earlier, | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
Britain's first gold of the Games went to Megan three years after | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
taking up cycling after a stroke. She proved untop jab, catching her | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
opponent with ease. Britain's medal tally off the mark in emphatic | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
style. The day's biggest cheers came for the hosts in the visually | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
impaired long jump, Ricciardo Costa leaping for glory. Brazil's first | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
gold of the Games after a difficult build-up, already plenty to | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
celebrate. A great moment for Brazil and it's | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
turning into a great night for Britain. In the last 20 minutes or | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
so, there's been more British success, another gold in the | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
velodrome for Steve Bait and Adam Doubleby in the tandem, gold in the | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
pool, Olly Hind winning the 400 metres in a new world record time | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
and more chances in the swimming somewhere John Fox and Bethany Firth | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
both with real prospects. So four golds already, it seems another | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
British gold rush is under way here in Rio, Huw. Thank you very much. | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
We'll talk again tomorrow. The Labour leadership contender | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
Owen Smith has confirmed that he would favour | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
a new referendum on the terms of Brexit | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
negotiated by the government. He was facing questions - | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
alongside the leader Jeremy Corbyn - from voters in Oldham this evening | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
in a special edition Our political correspondent | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
Alex Forsyth is there. I mentioned the debate, but who came | :19:38. | :19:48. | |
out on top, if either did? We are approaching the final stages of this | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
leadership contest and, despite weeks of such debates, it doesn't | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
really seem to have moved much. Jeremy Corbyn's still deemed to be | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
the front-runner among party members, Owen Smith is still | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
commanding the majority of support from MPs and tonight, there was | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
familiar territory on domestic policy issues, the two candidates | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
largely agree on the need for investment in Public Services, on | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
opposing austerity. Their differences on the EU once again | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
clear, Owen Smith saying he thinks we should fight against Brexit. | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
Jeremy Corbyn saying that democratic referendum result should be | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
respected. What this really boils down to is, who is the best man to | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
lead Labour. That is where some of the more heated exchanges came | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
tonight, Owen Smith questioning Jeremy Corbyn's leadership | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
credentials, Jeremy Corbyn saying he's the man who can unite the | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
Labour Party. Owen, I don't fully understand what the problem is. You | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
obviously have enormous talents. Why can't we work together? | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
APPLAUSE. Well, I've said it several times, | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
Jeremy. And I'll say it again to you. If I felt that you were going | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
to lead Labour back to power, then I would work with you in the Shadow | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Cabinet. But I feel that you are satisfied to lead us in opposition. | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
The audience tonight was made up of two thirds of Labour supporters and | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
perhaps one of the most striking things was the tangible frustration | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
from some audience members at both candidates, one saying they had | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
rendered Labour unelectable, another saying it was a sad situation, a | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
third saying quite simply, it was disgraceful. Perhaps that is a sign | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
that no matter who wins this leadership contest, and we'll find | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
out in just over two weeks, they have a mountain to climb, not just | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
in terms of uniting Labour, but more importantly, getting into power. | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
Alex, thank you very much. Millions of pounds will be invested | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
in new flood barriers in England and more accurate forecasts will be | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
developed following the floods of last Christmas when thousands | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
of people were forced from their homes in | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
Cumbria and Yorkshire. Critics say the Government's | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
approach is not Our science editor David | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
Shukman has more details. It was a winter that saw storms | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
bringing terrible destruction. The bridge at Tadcaster | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
just crumbling. The record rainfall | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
swamped 16,000 homes. The sight of families being rescued | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
was repeated week after week. So questions were raised | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
about our flood defences and the government | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
promised a review. Today it unveiled a new weapon | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
against flooding. Temporary barriers which can be | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
assembled where they are most The Army has units ready for the job | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
and ministers say this should help. At the end of the day we don't know | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
exactly where the rain is going to fall, I can't promise | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
that no home will ever be not flooded again but I can say | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
we are in a better place than we were last winter | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
in being able to All these barriers are ready to be | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
deployed to hold back the next big flood and there are six other sites | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
like this across the country. It looks a lot until you read | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
the detail of this report into last winter's flooding and see just how | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
many vitally important pieces of infrastructure - | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
water supplies, electricity networks, telecommunications - | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
are still vulnerable to flooding. The report investigated exactly how | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
many sites are at risk. It found that across England 820 | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
are vulnerable to flooding. Of those 290 are kept | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
safe with good defences. And the potential impact | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
of that is all too obvious. Even now the bridge at Tadcaster | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
is still being repaired. Local people have long said | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
the government is not doing enough for them and this was | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
the reaction to that investment ?12.5 million, thank you for that, | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
that's great but let's really get We need to be spending a lot | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
more on the defences. Emergency repairs by | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
helicopter last winter. The government has committed | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
to ?2.5 billion to flood defence over six years but that | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
won't protect everyone. Matthew Brown runs two pubs in | :24:02. | :24:15. | |
Hebden Bridge. Both flooded on Christmas Day. He's worried they are | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
still vulnerable. I don't believe to my knowledge there's anything | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
stopping it. I'm still concerned it could happen. | :24:23. | :24:23. | |
The floods tore through Northern England, Wales, | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
And Met Office analysis has come up with a worrying conclusion; | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
that there could easily be bigger storms to come. | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
A mentally ill man stabbed a university lecturer to death | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
in North London just days after prosecutors dropped charges | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
against him for possessing knives and assaulting a policeman. | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
Dr Yuroon Ensink was killed as he left home to post cards | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
announcing the birth of his daughter. | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
23-year-old Femi Nandap admitted his manslaughter by reason | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
Bristol Crown Court has been hearing evidence in the case | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
of Christopher Halliwell, a former taxi driver accused | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
The court was told that Halliwell, who's defending himself, | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
is already serving a life sentence for murdering another woman. | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
Today he cross-examined Steve Fulcher, a former police | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
office who arrested him for that murder. | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
On the day of his arrest five years ago it is claimed that Halliwell led | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
police to a field where the body of Becky Godden was discovered. | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
He denies murdering Becky Godden; the trial continues. | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
Public Health England has been asked to investigate high numbers | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
of deaths among drug and alcohol users on the Wirral in Merseyside. | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
BBC News has learned that investigators were called | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
in by the local authority after 74 deaths were reported | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
Official figures on deaths related solely to drugs in England and Wales | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
Last year they were at record levels, as our social affairs | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
correspondent Michael Buchanan reports. | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
Plaid was ravaged by heroin in the '80s, Liverpool the first city in | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
Britain to suffer a mass epidemic -- Merseyside. At one time, the highest | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
rate of heroin abuse among teenagers was to be found here on the Wirral. | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Some of those who managed to survive are now dying off rapidly. Thinking | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
back to the last funeral, you are thinking, I have to live... Frances | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
has lost several friends in recent months. Like him, they were former | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
heroin addicts reliant on rehabilitation report. He feels | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
short comings in care contributed to the deaths. If they'd come in and | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
worked in the spirit of openness and sharing and listening to what the | :26:39. | :26:48. | |
users wanted, needed, then things could have been so different. Drug | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
and alcohol services on the Wirral are provided by this organisation. | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
Over the past 18 months, we've learnt 73 of their clients have died | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
-- 74. The local council's asked public health England to | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
investigate. Most die of long-term health problems, rather than drug | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
overdoses, says the charity running the service. They say they are | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
collaborating with inquiries and are not under investigation. They say | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
they provide good support to service users. It's an opportunity to see | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
can we prevent and intervene earlier to help people access the right | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
treatment. We are not physical health treatment provider. It's not | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
necessarily in our gift to make sure people get the respiratory care they | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
need, for example. You could pass them on? Entirely. And it's not been | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
happening? Not as much as it should do. On this street in Birmingham, we | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
found plenty evidence of the city's enduring heroin problem. A number of | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
users declining across the country, many still need support. The rehab | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
budgets are being cut here, as elsewhere, this former GP spent deck | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
aids working with drug users has significant concerns. Anything | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
people can do to put more resources in in terms of people and trained | :27:58. | :28:05. | |
helpers and time, we'll move towards getting a safe drug treatment | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
service again. At the moment, it doesn't feel safe. Many former | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
heroin users rely on methadone to survive. But in recent years, | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
Government policy's been encouraging abstinence. Some pay extra to get | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
users drug free. That approach works for some people but can have | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
unintended consequences. Getting people to stop using drugs increases | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
the risk of relapse into heroin use and illegal drug use and | :28:34. | :28:35. | |
consequently increases the risk of sudden death. Heroin addiction in | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
the housing estates of Edinburgh was the inspiration for a seminal novel. | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
So-called Train Spotting generation are now dying as long-term drug | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
dependence wrecks their bodies. It's led to record levels of drug related | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
deaths in Scotland and England, a heroin epidemic decades ago still | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
killing people. Michael Buchanan, BBC News. | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
One of the most influential names in the arts world, | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
Sir Nicholas Serota, is to step down as the director | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
of the Tate Galleries to take up a new role as chair | :29:07. | :29:08. | |
He was a leading light in the creation of the Tate Modern | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
and over nearly three decades under his stewardship the gallery | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
has expanded and the Tate has opened its first regional galleries. | :29:18. | :29:30. | |
Prince Buster has died at his home in Florida, he was 78. | :29:31. | :29:40. | |
His recordings in the 1906s, including One Step Beyond and | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
madness provided a revival of scar music. Bands including Madness, who | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
took their name from a Prince Buster song, covered a number of classics. | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
Scientists working in Namibia say they've rewritten the biology | :29:58. | :30:00. | |
of the tallest mammal on Earth, the giraffe. | :30:01. | :30:02. | |
The Giraffe Conservation Foundation asked a team of scientists to carry | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
out genetic analysis of giraffes in Namibia and found | :30:06. | :30:07. | |
that the mammals have evolved into four distinct species. | :30:08. | :30:10. | |
The previous assumption was that there was just | :30:11. | :30:12. | |
Our correspondent Victoria Gill reports from Chester Zoo. | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
But these animals are in decline, as their natural | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
That threat was the trigger for scientists to sample giraffe DNA | :30:23. | :30:31. | |
to find out more about these increasingly fragmented populations. | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
What these new results show is that there are actually four | :30:35. | :30:42. | |
different species of giraffe, all very tall and they look very | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
similar, but they're actually genetically as distinct from each | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
other as a polar bear is from a brown bear. | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
So these animals have now been newly categorised. | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
There are articulated giraffes, northern giraffes, southern giraffes | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
It may look like a very tricky game of spot the difference, | :31:01. | :31:07. | |
but to conservationists, it's crucial information. | :31:08. | :31:10. | |
Now understanding there's real genetic differences helps us | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
understand there may well be differences in mating behaviour | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
Those are critical to conserving the species. | :31:21. | :31:30. | |
The wild population of giraffes has declined by 40% | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
So looking deep into their DNA could help conservationists | :31:36. | :31:44. | |
to understand and protect the world's tallest mammals. | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
Victoria Gill, BBC News, Chester Zoo. | :31:49. | :31:57. | |
Tonight, we reveal the contents of the Government green paper which | :31:58. | :32:08. | |
confirms Theresa May wants to make further selection in English | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
education a key feature of her Government. Join me on BBC Two, 11 | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
o'clock in | :32:15. | :32:15. |