:00:00. > :00:07.Tonight at ten, the daunting challenge ahead for the economy,
:00:08. > :00:11.as Britain prepares to leave the European Union.
:00:12. > :00:13.The Chancellor says business will get all the support it needs
:00:14. > :00:19.But he tells the Conservative conference
:00:20. > :00:21.that it could be a roller-coaster ride,
:00:22. > :00:24.as the Brexit negotiations take their course.
:00:25. > :00:27.Throughout the negotiating process, we are ready to take whatever steps
:00:28. > :00:33.are necessary to protect this economy from turbulence.
:00:34. > :00:35.And in a clear break with his predecessor,
:00:36. > :00:39.Mr Hammond is abandoning plans to balance the books by 2020.
:00:40. > :00:43.Also tonight, as the attacks on Aleppo continue,
:00:44. > :00:50.the Americans suspend talks with Russia,
:00:51. > :00:52.accusing them of targeting hospitals and aid centres.
:00:53. > :00:54.More than 5,000 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean today.
:00:55. > :00:58.We report from one of the rescue boats off the coast of Libya.
:00:59. > :01:00.These people will have been travelling for several hours now,
:01:01. > :01:03.they'll have left the Libyan coast in the darkness,
:01:04. > :01:06.unclear if they're ever going to reach their destination.
:01:07. > :01:09.Police in Paris say Kim Kardashian, the reality-TV star,
:01:10. > :01:15.who broke into an apartment and left nothing to chance.
:01:16. > :01:19.I've met the man I want to spend my life with.
:01:20. > :01:22.For the first time ever, a film directed by a black British
:01:23. > :01:27.film-maker is to open the London Film Festival.
:01:28. > :01:30.And coming up in the sport on BBC News, Durham are relegated
:01:31. > :01:31.to Division Two of the County Championship because of
:01:32. > :01:58.financial problems and will start next season with a 48-point penalty.
:01:59. > :02:02.The British economy faces a daunting challenge and a turbulent period,
:02:03. > :02:07.as negotiations proceed for the UK's exit from the European Union.
:02:08. > :02:09.That was the warning delivered by the Chancellor,
:02:10. > :02:13.Philip Hammond, at the Conservative conference today.
:02:14. > :02:15.He also confirmed that he'd abandoned the Government targets
:02:16. > :02:18.for eliminating the deficit by 2020, one of the principal goals
:02:19. > :02:24.Mr Hammond said it was time for a more pragmatic approach,
:02:25. > :02:27.because times had changed since the vote to leave the EU.
:02:28. > :02:32.Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, reports.
:02:33. > :02:36.You probably have seen him somewhere.
:02:37. > :02:38.Philip Hammond has done some of the biggest jobs
:02:39. > :02:45.But now he's the man in charge of the country's money.
:02:46. > :02:48.Dropping in on the nearest building site has long been
:02:49. > :02:55.a political staple, but some things really have changed.
:02:56. > :02:58.As the economy waits and holds its breath after the referendum,
:02:59. > :03:05.it's Philip Hammond's time, and time to change.
:03:06. > :03:08.The fiscal policies that George Osborne set out
:03:09. > :03:16.But when times change, we must change with them.
:03:17. > :03:18.So we will no longer target the surplus
:03:19. > :03:27.But make no mistake, the task of fiscal consolidation must continue.
:03:28. > :03:31.In other words, he'll still try to balance the country's books
:03:32. > :03:37.but isn't promising to have it done by 2020.
:03:38. > :03:40.There'll be no splurge - spending will still be cut,
:03:41. > :03:48.But this Tory Chancellor is also willing to borrow,
:03:49. > :03:51.despite his hope to get the country out of debt.
:03:52. > :03:57.Throughout the negotiating process, we are ready to take whatever steps
:03:58. > :04:00.are necessary to protect this economy from turbulence.
:04:01. > :04:08.to build an economy that works for everyone.
:04:09. > :04:11.A new plan for the new circumstances Britain faces.
:04:12. > :04:15.A Conservative government demonstrating the flexibility,
:04:16. > :04:18.the common sense and the pragmatism that has made our party
:04:19. > :04:27.the most successful political party in British history.
:04:28. > :04:32.They don't look like big spenders or borrowers,
:04:33. > :04:35.it's only two billion to start with to build houses,
:04:36. > :04:37.but before the referendum, the previous Chancellor,
:04:38. > :04:39.rarely seen without his high-viz jacket,
:04:40. > :04:46.Dealing with the deficit was practically
:04:47. > :04:51.The big campaign claim in the general election -
:04:52. > :04:55.that only the Tories would get the country out of debt.
:04:56. > :04:57.The Tories prided themselves on squeezing spending,
:04:58. > :05:04.making enemies in some quarters and fans in others.
:05:05. > :05:07.The cuts won't stop, but the new Chancellor wants the option
:05:08. > :05:09.of slowing down or even borrowing,
:05:10. > :05:11.because after our vote to leave the EU,
:05:12. > :05:16.he can't be sure what the country can afford.
:05:17. > :05:18.You and Philip Hammond as Conservative Cabinet ministers
:05:19. > :05:22.That's what Labour promised at the election.
:05:23. > :05:25.He said at the start of his speech, we still have a big deficit
:05:26. > :05:32.but we need to be practical in bringing that deficit down.
:05:33. > :05:35.The previous Chancellor promised to bring infrastructure,
:05:36. > :05:39.it's just he failed to deliver. So it is a snub to George Osborne?
:05:40. > :05:47.The point is, it's highly possible that once we are clear
:05:48. > :05:49.and established about our relationship with
:05:50. > :05:54.the European Union, the economy itself will grow fast.
:05:55. > :05:57.So he inherits a particular situation,
:05:58. > :06:00.has to look at it and review it as he sees fit.
:06:01. > :06:02.If it takes a little longer, so be it.
:06:03. > :06:06.Brexit has changed tough Tory talk on the deficit -
:06:07. > :06:13.It's not the end, though, of the spending squeeze,
:06:14. > :06:19.Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Birmingham.
:06:20. > :06:23.During the day, the Chancellor confirmed that his Autumn Statement
:06:24. > :06:25.in November would set out new policies, giving the Government
:06:26. > :06:28.more scope to borrow to boost the economy.
:06:29. > :06:30.But he also warned that the job of tackling
:06:31. > :06:35.With his thoughts on the Chancellor's strategy,
:06:36. > :06:38.here's our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed.
:06:39. > :06:41.The Treasury, run by Philip Hammond and Britain's holder
:06:42. > :06:44.of the purse strings, a department now engaged
:06:45. > :06:48.in a delicate balancing act between borrowing to support
:06:49. > :06:52.the economy post the referendum and austerity, balancing the books,
:06:53. > :06:53.cutting the deficit so the Government does not
:06:54. > :06:59.The Chancellor still wants to get the deficit under control,
:07:00. > :07:03.but he won't be able to do it as fast as he was hoping,
:07:04. > :07:07.because he is expecting the economy to be doing less well.
:07:08. > :07:10.He might end up spending a bit more, but even if he doesn't,
:07:11. > :07:12.we won't get that deficit down to zero.
:07:13. > :07:16.The UK's deficit is the gap between what the country spends
:07:17. > :07:20.and what it receives in revenues from things like taxes each year.
:07:21. > :07:23.It's been the key political battle ground since the financial crisis.
:07:24. > :07:31.In 2006-7, before the financial crisis, the deficit was ?36 billion.
:07:32. > :07:37.As the recession bit, tax revenues fell and spending rose
:07:38. > :07:42.and the deficit hit ?155 billion in 2009-10.
:07:43. > :07:46.Before the referendum, it was forecast to fall
:07:47. > :07:51.to ?55 billion next year and zero by 2020.
:07:52. > :07:55.Philip Hammond today confirmed that target has been abandoned.
:07:56. > :08:00.The Government will borrow more to support the economy.
:08:01. > :08:12.manufacturing benefiting from the lower pound.
:08:13. > :08:15.But overall, in the medium term, we're still expecting challenges
:08:16. > :08:17.there, and that would mean that, for the Chancellor,
:08:18. > :08:21.there is likely to be less revenue coming in
:08:22. > :08:26.and more challenges to support the economy.
:08:27. > :08:31.A tweet from an old friend, wishing the new Chancellor luck.
:08:32. > :08:36.and the Treasury will be wary as the pound fell again today,
:08:37. > :08:38.markets planning for Britain leaving the EU.
:08:39. > :08:41.It is a delicate balancing act indeed, as the Chancellor
:08:42. > :08:45.plots his course through this most uncertain of times.
:08:46. > :08:53.Live to Birmingham, and Laura Kuenssberg.
:08:54. > :09:04.Your to what extent as Philip Hammond broken with the approach
:09:05. > :09:08.that we saw from George Osborne? Well, Huw, it is really notable that
:09:09. > :09:12.there has been a move away from the days when it felt like sorting out
:09:13. > :09:16.the deficit was the only game in town for the Tories, the priority
:09:17. > :09:19.above everything else. This may not be that surprisingly though, given
:09:20. > :09:23.all the uncertainty around the economy since the referendum vote,
:09:24. > :09:28.and it is not because Philip Hammond and Theresa May suddenly woke up one
:09:29. > :09:32.morning and thought that Labour's answer is the right one, to borrow
:09:33. > :09:36.in order to invest, it is more like an insurance policy that he has
:09:37. > :09:41.written for himself in case things go badly wrong during the process of
:09:42. > :09:47.untangling ourselves from the EU. He wants people to know, and he
:09:48. > :09:49.believes that he might need the options of either borrowing a little
:09:50. > :09:52.bit more or slowing down the cats if the economy needs more support. But
:09:53. > :09:56.tomorrow at the conference, the Tories are going to try to turn the
:09:57. > :09:59.page. I understand there will be an announcement from the Defence
:10:00. > :10:03.Secretary, Michael Fallon, about squeezing down on the number of
:10:04. > :10:06.claims being made against British military personnel who served in
:10:07. > :10:11.Iraq. There will also be an announcement about recruiting more
:10:12. > :10:14.doctors. Theresa May is determined that her premiership, not just this
:10:15. > :10:24.week, will not only be defined by how we leave the EU, but it
:10:25. > :10:26.certainly is the issue, the big question that is hanging in the air.
:10:27. > :10:28.Laura, thanks again, Laura Kuenssberg for us at the
:10:29. > :10:29.Conservative conference in Birmingham.
:10:30. > :10:31.America has tonight suspended talks with Russia
:10:32. > :10:33.on trying to resolve the Syrian conflict.
:10:34. > :10:34.US diplomats said they're responding to Russia's continued role
:10:35. > :10:36.in the assault on the city of Aleppo,
:10:37. > :10:38.where more than 250,000 people are trapped.
:10:39. > :10:41.The White House said that everyone's patience with Russia had run out.
:10:42. > :10:43.A ceasefire in Syria, which started a fortnight ago,
:10:44. > :10:46.lasted just a few days, with each side blaming the other.
:10:47. > :10:48.Our correspondent in the Middle East, Quentin Somerville,
:10:49. > :10:55.Syria's war long ago slipped out of the hands of Syrians.
:10:56. > :11:03.Rescue workers rushed to a hospital bombed today by the regime.
:11:04. > :11:08.The first victim, "He's dead", they say and move on.
:11:09. > :11:11.Searching from ward to ward, they help an injured medic.
:11:12. > :11:15.Despite talks to halt the killing, Russia and the regime are bombing
:11:16. > :11:19.civilians into submission, says the USA,
:11:20. > :11:24.Everybody's patience with Russia has run out.
:11:25. > :11:28.They have also spent a great deal of credibility in making a series
:11:29. > :11:31.of commitments without any clear indication
:11:32. > :11:35.that they were committed to following them.
:11:36. > :11:41.They have been reduced to either acting unilaterally or supporting
:11:42. > :11:43.the Iranians in dropping bunker-busting bombs
:11:44. > :11:55.The hope had been to restore a short-lived ceasefire
:11:56. > :12:00.That died in the burnt-out remains of a UN aid convoy,
:12:01. > :12:07.bombed, says the United States, by Russia and the regime.
:12:08. > :12:09.A war crime, says the United Nations,
:12:10. > :12:10.which Russia says it didn't carry out.
:12:11. > :12:13.But a humanitarian deal, while humanitarians
:12:14. > :12:17.were being killed, looked even further impossible.
:12:18. > :12:20.In this battle on the ground, America and Russia couldn't agree
:12:21. > :12:26.Russia says America did not do enough
:12:27. > :12:32.In the fight for the streets of Aleppo, these rebels
:12:33. > :12:36.were President Assad's enemies and Russia's, too.
:12:37. > :12:40.Russian firepower has transformed the regime's fortunes.
:12:41. > :12:45.Moscow is President Assad's ally and his saviour.
:12:46. > :12:49.American and Russian diplomatic efforts have crumbled.
:12:50. > :12:52.The two sides say they will still cooperate in the skies above Syria
:12:53. > :12:55.to prevent collisions as they target jihadists.
:12:56. > :12:58.Russia says it regrets the US decision.
:12:59. > :13:03.Wider negotiations won't end, but if Moscow and Washington can't
:13:04. > :13:07.agree to stop the killing here, then there isn't much hope of peace
:13:08. > :13:10.and an even greater risk of further catastrophe for Syria's people.
:13:11. > :13:16.In a moment, we'll talk to Jon Sopel,
:13:17. > :13:18.our North America editor in Washington,
:13:19. > :13:26.but first to our correspondent Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.
:13:27. > :13:33.Tell us a little bit more about the reaction we have had from the
:13:34. > :13:39.Russians to this decision tonight. Well, Moscow's reaction has been
:13:40. > :13:48.pretty bland, really. That Russia is not at fault, that America is trying
:13:49. > :13:52.to shift the blame for what is happening in Syria to Russia, and in
:13:53. > :13:56.fact all they do Kremlin has been frustrated and angry with the United
:13:57. > :14:00.States, and earlier there was a presidential decrees are spending a
:14:01. > :14:04.key agreement with the United States and the use of weapons grade
:14:05. > :14:08.plutonium. That deal was to have eliminated enough plutonium for
:14:09. > :14:12.17,000 nuclear missiles, but again the Russians say the Americans were
:14:13. > :14:16.not following through on that, as tonight President Putin has listed
:14:17. > :14:21.astonishing conditions which he says America must accept before Russia
:14:22. > :14:25.returns to that plutonium deal. He says the United States must scrap
:14:26. > :14:30.all sanctions against Russia and the Russians, the United States must pay
:14:31. > :14:34.compensation to Russia, and the United States must reduce the number
:14:35. > :14:36.of US troops in all countries that joined Nato after September 2000,
:14:37. > :14:45.and that is not going to happen. Straight to Washington and Jon
:14:46. > :14:50.Sopel, increasingly angry statements from John Kerry in recent days there
:14:51. > :14:54.was this inevitable? I think it was and I think frankly, the agreement
:14:55. > :14:58.lasted longer than many expected, particularly after the bombing of
:14:59. > :15:02.the aid convoy. There has been a deep scepticism about what the
:15:03. > :15:05.Russians are doing. The State Department said they were either
:15:06. > :15:10.unwilling or unable to ensure Syrian regime adherence to the
:15:11. > :15:13.arrangements. It just shows, as Steve said, how parlous state of
:15:14. > :15:17.relations relations between Russia and the USA. The other striking
:15:18. > :15:23.thing about this is the total lack of leveraged that America seems to
:15:24. > :15:27.have over Russia. The statement from the State Department, you would
:15:28. > :15:31.expect to have a final paragraph or something along the lines of,
:15:32. > :15:36."Unless Russia does this, consequences will follow". But there
:15:37. > :15:40.is nothing and as though they have taken the dictum of Teddy Roosevelt,
:15:41. > :15:45.who said the key to diplomacy is to speak softly but carry a big stick.
:15:46. > :15:48.America at the moment, as far as Russia is concerned, seems to be
:15:49. > :15:54.speaking softly and carrying no stick at all. Thank you for joining
:15:55. > :15:56.us. Jon Sopel and Steven Rosenberg. There.
:15:57. > :15:57.Migrants are continuing to make the dangerous journey
:15:58. > :15:59.across the Mediterranean, while the waters are
:16:00. > :16:07.Some 5,500 people were rescued today alone.
:16:08. > :16:09.But they're arriving in a Europe where countries
:16:10. > :16:11.are closing their borders, and where public
:16:12. > :16:16.Nearly 3,500 are believed to have died
:16:17. > :16:18.in the effort to cross the sea this year.
:16:19. > :16:21.More than 600 children have drowned in the same period.
:16:22. > :16:23.My colleague Reeta Chakrabarti is on board one rescue boat,
:16:24. > :16:35.led by the charity Save the Children, and we can join her now.
:16:36. > :16:45.I have been on this rescue ship for several days now. Forgive me, I'm
:16:46. > :16:49.battling against the sound of the ship's engine of it. I am in the
:16:50. > :16:52.middle of the Mediterranean and behind me, there's a sea of people
:16:53. > :16:57.on the deck. You could probably see them. They are mostly asleep now.
:16:58. > :17:01.Over 200 migrants were picked up by this rescue ship yesterday. But they
:17:02. > :17:06.are only a fraction of the thousands of people who made the perilous
:17:07. > :17:11.journey just today, undeterred, it seems, by the dangers they are
:17:12. > :17:12.exposing themselves to and also by the potential reaction they might
:17:13. > :17:14.get when in Europe. Scanning the horizon
:17:15. > :17:15.in the early morning, when the sea
:17:16. > :17:20.reveals its human cargo. The migrant boat set out at night
:17:21. > :17:23.so the owners won't be caught. A vessel comes into view with around
:17:24. > :17:27.100 on board. There is no orange to be seen,
:17:28. > :17:30.meaning no life jackets. The team scrambles to
:17:31. > :17:32.get the small rescue They're given life jackets
:17:33. > :17:44.to make them safe. Over 300,000 people reached Europe
:17:45. > :17:46.across this sea, this year. Over 3000 have died doing so,
:17:47. > :17:58.or been reported missing. The people have been
:17:59. > :18:00.quite calm until now, but they are quite clearly getting
:18:01. > :18:03.a bit agitated and the rescuers are having to tell them to sit down,
:18:04. > :18:06.stay calm and they These people will have been
:18:07. > :18:11.travelling for several hours now. They have left the Libyan
:18:12. > :18:13.coast in the darkness, unclear if they're ever
:18:14. > :18:15.going to reach their destination. There are smiles, relief,
:18:16. > :18:23.but no celebration. The group is entirely male
:18:24. > :18:27.and mostly from West Africa. He's come from the Ivory Coast,
:18:28. > :18:35.which he left four years He says he's experienced kidnap
:18:36. > :18:39.and forced labour and hopes TRANSLATION: We are all human
:18:40. > :18:50.beings, whatever the colour We don't do this because we really
:18:51. > :18:55.want to, we do this If only people would welcome
:18:56. > :19:00.us because we're not The conditions in which we find
:19:01. > :19:08.ourselves are really unfavourable. And now there is effectively
:19:09. > :19:12.a second rescue going on. There is another humanitarian
:19:13. > :19:17.mission ship over there. It's already transporting migrants,
:19:18. > :19:19.and about 100 of them are being transferred from that ship
:19:20. > :19:23.to this one. There are women this time,
:19:24. > :19:25.some of them looking shattered The majority of these
:19:26. > :19:32.people are from Somalia. One is this 16-year-old girl,
:19:33. > :19:36.escaping a forced marriage. She's been travelling for ten months
:19:37. > :19:38.and wants to study medicine Italy, where the boat is heading,
:19:39. > :19:50.will let her stay until she's 18. If you don't like me,
:19:51. > :19:55.maybe you will have I may be different from others,
:19:56. > :20:00.or I may be the same. How you take me...
:20:01. > :20:03.It's for you to decide. The flimsy vessels that deliver
:20:04. > :20:08.people here are destroyed by the rescuers so
:20:09. > :20:09.they can't be reused. As for their occupants,
:20:10. > :20:14.they face an uncertain future in a Europe uncertain
:20:15. > :20:18.that it wants them. Reeta Chakrabarti, BBC News,
:20:19. > :20:23.off the Libyan coast. A brief look at some
:20:24. > :20:26.of the day's other news stories. Southern Railway says it
:20:27. > :20:28.will terminate the contracts of conductors, unless the RMT
:20:29. > :20:31.union accepts an offer aimed at averting further
:20:32. > :20:35.strikes by Thursday. The company says the ultimatum
:20:36. > :20:37.is a "final attempt" to end the dispute over working
:20:38. > :20:40.practices, which has caused months of disruption for passengers
:20:41. > :20:44.travelling between London and Surrey, Sussex,
:20:45. > :20:47.Kent and Hampshire. The Republican presidential
:20:48. > :20:50.candidate Donald Trump's charitable foundation has been ordered
:20:51. > :20:52.by the New York attorney to stop In a letter, the Attorney General's
:20:53. > :20:57.office said the foundation wasn't A spokeswoman for Mr Trump told
:20:58. > :21:15.the New York Times she was concerned that the investigation
:21:16. > :21:17.was politically motivated. The Caribbean is bracing itself
:21:18. > :21:21.as one of the most powerful hurricanes for a decade moves
:21:22. > :21:22.across the region. Hurricane Matthew could bring winds
:21:23. > :21:25.of more than 150mph. Haiti is expected to suffer
:21:26. > :21:26.the most damage. Parts of Jamaica have
:21:27. > :21:28.already been hit. The Nobel Prize for Medicine has
:21:29. > :21:31.been awarded to Dr Yoshinori Ohsumi from the Tokyo Institute
:21:32. > :21:33.of Technology, for discoveries about how the body recycles
:21:34. > :21:37.old and defective components. It's a process that helps explain
:21:38. > :21:39.what leads to diseases such Work has already started
:21:40. > :21:48.to try to rescue a peace deal between the government of Colombia
:21:49. > :21:51.and the rebel group known as the Revolutionary
:21:52. > :21:54.Armed Forces of Colombia, The deal, which took
:21:55. > :21:59.four years to negotiate, was narrowly rejected by voters
:22:00. > :22:03.in a referendum yesterday. The rebels say they are prepared
:22:04. > :22:06.to review the terms of the deal, which would end more than half
:22:07. > :22:09.a century of conflict Our correspondent Wyre Davies
:22:10. > :22:26.is in Bogota with the latest. The huge sense of shock and
:22:27. > :22:30.uncertainty in Colombia denied coming Bogota and across the nation
:22:31. > :22:33.after a vote many people thought was a mere formality, to bring in enter
:22:34. > :22:37.the world's longest-running guerrilla insurgency. But the people
:22:38. > :22:41.of Colombia, the 40% of people who voted, rejected the deal between the
:22:42. > :22:42.government and left-wing guerrillas and the question is, what happens
:22:43. > :22:44.now. It was all too much for some -
:22:45. > :22:48.after more than 50 years of civil war, this was meant to be the moment
:22:49. > :22:52.of hope, the realisation of a dream that finally the bombs
:22:53. > :22:54.and the guns could be put down But by less than 0.5%, the people
:22:55. > :23:01.of Colombia rejected the deal. President Juan Manuel Santos
:23:02. > :23:04.had repeatedly warned there was no Plan B,
:23:05. > :23:06.but he vowed not to let his peace plan
:23:07. > :23:09.die so easily. I'll continue the search for peace
:23:10. > :23:15.until the last moment of my mandate, because that is the way to leave
:23:16. > :23:20.a better country for our children. Only last week, after four years
:23:21. > :23:24.of difficult talks, President Santos and leaders of the Marxist Farc
:23:25. > :23:28.guerilla movement had signed the historic agreement
:23:29. > :23:29.before an approving All that remained was
:23:30. > :23:37.the endorsement of the Colombian people - a formality,
:23:38. > :23:41.thought most observers. But many Colombians were deeply
:23:42. > :23:48.unhappy about concessions made to the guerillas, who've been
:23:49. > :24:00.fighting a leftist insurgency A war in which more than 200,000
:24:01. > :24:04.people have been killed, thousands raped or kidnapped, and millions
:24:05. > :24:09.forced to flee from their homes. Why? Asked the no campaign, where
:24:10. > :24:12.they now being offered a deal that would see Farc leader standing for
:24:13. > :24:17.Congress rather than being punished for war crimes. Over the last few
:24:18. > :24:21.months, thousands of Farc guerrilla fighters have been gathering in the
:24:22. > :24:25.jungle camps, preparing to demobilise. The result has left both
:24:26. > :24:30.sides wondering what to do now. But having spent years negotiating the
:24:31. > :24:31.peace, Farc leaders say they have no appetite for a resumption of
:24:32. > :24:34.violence. TRANSLATION:
:24:35. > :24:38.We reiterate our commitment to use only words to
:24:39. > :24:40.construct the future. Both the government and
:24:41. > :24:42.the guerilla leaders say they will honour
:24:43. > :24:46.an existing ceasefire agreement. But the real concern
:24:47. > :24:48.here is there will be an inevitable return to violence,
:24:49. > :24:51.just as happened when previous For now, there is despair
:24:52. > :24:54.among the millions of Colombians who thought this civil war
:24:55. > :24:57.had finally come to an end. In Paris, police say an armed gang,
:24:58. > :25:05.who broke into an apartment and robbed the reality television
:25:06. > :25:07.star Kim Kardashian-West, were well prepared and left
:25:08. > :25:09.with millions of pounds' The robbery took place in the early
:25:10. > :25:16.hours of this morning. Ms Kardashian-West had been
:25:17. > :25:19.in the city for Paris Fashion Week, as our correspondent
:25:20. > :25:20.Lucy Williamson reports. There's is some flash
:25:21. > :25:26.photography in this report. It's not hard to know
:25:27. > :25:28.where Kim Kardashian is. Last week, her fans,
:25:29. > :25:29.followers and photographers Today, it was police,
:25:30. > :25:37.not paparazzi, on the steps Investigators now occupying
:25:38. > :25:44.the rooms where one of the world's best-known celebrities was held up
:25:45. > :25:47.and robbed in the early hours of this morning
:25:48. > :25:50.by men dressed as police. Police have told us that the five
:25:51. > :25:54.men broke in here last night and handcuffed the security guard,
:25:55. > :25:56.forcing him to show them the apartment where Kim
:25:57. > :26:00.Kardashian was staying. Once inside, they held a gun to her
:26:01. > :26:03.head as they robbed her of jewellery worth almost ?8 million and then
:26:04. > :26:07.tied her up and locked her A police official said the robbers
:26:08. > :26:15.had been well prepared. TRANSLATION: The gunmen
:26:16. > :26:17.were informed and very They wore police-style jackets
:26:18. > :26:26.and balaclavas so they would not be recognised if caught
:26:27. > :26:28.on CCTV footage. Her husband, rapper Kanye West,
:26:29. > :26:31.heard the news while performing As Kim Kardashian flew
:26:32. > :26:45.back to the US today, morning shows broke
:26:46. > :26:48.the news to America. She was badly shaken,
:26:49. > :26:50.a spokeswoman said, On social media, some joked
:26:51. > :26:56.about the attack or accused Others urged sympathy
:26:57. > :27:02.for her as a wife and mother, The woman whose celebrity was built
:27:03. > :27:10.on broadcasting the private life of her family today
:27:11. > :27:13.chose privacy in the face For the first time ever,
:27:14. > :27:23.a film directed by a black British filmmaker, Amma Assante,
:27:24. > :27:26.is to open the 60th London Film Festival when it
:27:27. > :27:28.starts on Wednesday. Called A United Kingdom,
:27:29. > :27:32.it tells the story of the first president of Botswana
:27:33. > :27:35.and his wife, Ruth Williams. Their mixed marriage was frowned
:27:36. > :27:39.upon in 1940s Britain, Elaine Dunkley has been speaking
:27:40. > :27:44.to Amma Assante about the film I am told that you no longer
:27:45. > :27:50.wish me to honour my duty as your king because of the colour
:27:51. > :27:55.of the wife I have chosen! A United Kingdom, a film based
:27:56. > :27:58.on the true story of a marriage that shocked
:27:59. > :28:02.the world, rocked the Creatively, it is a
:28:03. > :28:14.fascinating story. What happens when the intimate story
:28:15. > :28:17.of two people falling in love happens against a huge political
:28:18. > :28:20.backdrop, the backdrop of an empire? But also, there are all these
:28:21. > :28:28.details in the film that I haven't been allowed to previously
:28:29. > :28:31.see on screen, as a black woman So I was really aware of the young,
:28:32. > :28:38.privileged African men who were running around London
:28:39. > :28:40.in the 1940s, you know, in their trilbies and overcoats,
:28:41. > :28:43.many of whom were going to go back to their countries and be part
:28:44. > :28:46.of walking their countries into independence
:28:47. > :28:50.during that period. Do you feel accepted
:28:51. > :28:52.as a British director, or do you still get that question,
:28:53. > :28:55."Where are you really from?" Once I became a little bit
:28:56. > :29:00.known as a director, I became understood as somebody
:29:01. > :29:09.who's British, particularly because I think my stories are able
:29:10. > :29:13.to express something The language in your film
:29:14. > :29:24.is very bold when it comes Has that been influenced
:29:25. > :29:28.by your upbringing? Yeah, I lived in a very explicitly
:29:29. > :29:34.negative world when it came to race. I remember a time walking home
:29:35. > :29:37.from the cinema in Streatham Hill with my sister and having
:29:38. > :29:42.bottles thrown at us. We were one of just two black
:29:43. > :29:45.families living on the street that I lived in in Streatham,
:29:46. > :29:48.so we were very unusual in many ways, and we were
:29:49. > :29:52.reminded of that regularly. You have been recently invited
:29:53. > :29:55.to vote as part of the Oscars. There was the whole issue around
:29:56. > :29:59.diversity at the Oscars. Is there a will to change,
:30:00. > :30:02.and will things change? This has to be a
:30:03. > :30:05.many-pronged attack. We have to start changing
:30:06. > :30:09.within the industry, and when we do, and when the films are presented
:30:10. > :30:12.to Oscar voters, we have Do you ever get those
:30:13. > :30:15."pinch me" moments? Walking down the red carpet
:30:16. > :30:20.for the premiere of my film, the first time,
:30:21. > :30:22.you know, with my dad. That was at the London Film Festival
:30:23. > :30:26.12 years ago. I am very lucky, and yeah,
:30:27. > :30:29.right now, it is every other day The stories from the past
:30:30. > :30:35.are being given a new vision, a breakthrough for black British
:30:36. > :30:38.history on the big screen. The film opens the film Festival
:30:39. > :30:52.later this week. Newsnight is about
:30:53. > :30:58.to begin on BBC Two. More from the Conservative Party
:30:59. > :31:00.conference in Birmingham. We are here at the
:31:01. > :31:04.Conservative Party conference in Birmingham and the party has
:31:05. > :31:07.been criticised for not The question is,
:31:08. > :31:10.does it have one now? Join me now on BBC Two,
:31:11. > :31:14.at 11pm in Scotland. Here on BBC One, it's
:31:15. > :31:17.time for the news where you are.