28/10/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten, the FBI announces a new investigation into emails

relating to Hillary Clinton - less than two weeks

Wow, what a beautiful day in Cedar Rapids!

At a rally tonight, Mrs Clinton ignored it entirely -

but the move reignites an issue that's dogged her campaign.

Her Republican rival - who's repeatedly dubbed

her "Crooked Hillary" - pounced on the new turn of events.

Hillary Clinton's corruption is on a scale we have

With Mrs Clinton's team tonight questioning the timing

of the FBI's statement, we'll be assessing the impact

the investigation could have on the race for the White House.

Uber taxi drivers win workers' rights.

Unions say it's a victory for thousands classed as self-employed -

Syrian rebels launch a major push to break the government siege

A breakthrough in the treatment of cystic fibrosis -

a trial of a new drug produces startling results.

And protecting the penguins - the creation of the world's largest

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News - the former technical

director of British Cycling, Shane Sutton, is found to have

used sexist comments towards cyclist Jess Varnish.

With just 11 days to go before the US Presidential Election,

there's a dramatic development that could have serious consequences

for Hillary Clinton's campaign for the White House.

The FBI announced this evening that it's looking at new information

relating to her emails while she was Secretary of State.

It had previously closed an investigation into her,

after criticising her for holding classified information

on a private email server, but clearing her of criminal action.

The Democratic candidate, who was campaigning tonight,

stuck doggedly to a pre-prepared speech and said nothing -

but her team has questioned the timing of the release.

And her Republican rival Donald Trump moved quickly to praise

the FBI, and declared she must be prevented from taking

what he described as "her criminal scheme" into the Oval Office.

Our chief correspondent Gavin Hewitt is outside the FBI headquarters

in Washington for us tonight.

Quite simply the Clinton campaign is furious, saying it is extraordinary

that this should come out just 11 days before a presidential campaign.

And another indicator of the serious nurse, or the potential seriousness

of this, came from the White House where they put out a statement

saying that President Obama still had every faith in Hillary Clinton.

This is a significant moment in the American election campaign,

Hillary Clinton was arriving in Iowa, her campaign in good spirits.

Then they learnt that the FBI is carrying out a new investigation

into her e-mails, as part of its probe into her use

The FBI has discovered new e-mails and wants to see if any of them

Donald Trump was in New Hampshire, and he immediately

For weeks, he had based much of his campaign on referring

They are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal

conduct that threatens the security of the United States of America.

The Republican candidate went on to say, this

The news came in a letter from the director of the FBI

I agreed, he wrote, that the FBI should take appropriate

investigative steps, designed to allow investigators

to review these e-mails, to determine whether they contained

The FBI says it doesn't know whether the material

is significant, or how long its investigation will take.

This enquiry goes back to the time Hillary Clinton

was Secretary of State and used a private e-mail server.

In July, after a long enquiry, the FBI closed the case.

Although there is evidence of potential violations of

the statutes regarding the handling of classified information,

our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.

The issue of the e-mails surfaced during the presidential debates,

and Hillary Clinton apologised for how she had handled

I made a mistake using a private e-mail.

And if I had to do it over again, I would obviously do it differently.

At every campaign stop, however, Donald Trump has made

Hillary Clinton's honesty and trustworthiness a key issue.

Let's knock out "Crooked Hillary Clinton", crooked

At a rally in Iowa, Hillary Clinton did not mention the FBI enquiry.

She ignored shouted questions from reporters, but this development

is likely to dominate the closing days of the campaign.

Back to Gavin in a moment, but first Kim Ghattas

is with the Clinton campaign in Cedar Rapids in Iowa.

A very difficult day for the Clinton team. What's the reaction been? Yes,

indeed, the newest rogue and it come -- the news broke and it caught the

campaign off-guard. On the plane they were sounding confident,

briefing is on the state of the race. They said they were not

feeling complacent, but confident. They said she wasn't quite measuring

the drapes at the White House because they told us she is

superstitious, and there you have it, we land and a statement from the

FBI about e-mails, yet again. Even though we now know that this is not

about e-mails from her, or not about e-mails that were on her private

server, it does reignite the whole question about transparency when it

comes to Hillary Clinton. Now the statement from the FBI was very

vaguely worded and it is unclear whether it's going to change the

race, but some damage has already been done, with all these headlines

swirling. Now, as you saw in this report by Gavin Hewitt, she didn't

mention this issue here, but if there's one thing the campaign has

learned its to avoid the usual defensive crouch and a statement

from the campaign has made very clear that they find the timing

extraordinary and they believe, or the indicating that statement, that

they believe the FBI simply came under pressure from Republicans and

called on the FBI director to do what is right by American voters and

clarify as quickly as possible the details of what they are looking

into. Gavin, what is the likely impact of this news on the campaign

overall? Firstly it has to be said nothing has been proven. We don't

know whether bees e-mails contain classified information, or whether

they are significant. The e-mails didn't come from Hillary Clinton's

server, they came from a former congressman whose wife worked with

Hillary Clinton, but all of this is a gift for Donald Trump. At rally

after rally he says that she's a liar sitting atop a criminal

enterprise. He will now be able to say to people, how can you possibly

vote for somebody who is under investigation? On the other hand,

the Clinton campaign will put huge pressure publicly on the FBI and say

look, clear this up quickly. If there is something there, get it

out. If there isn't, we would like Hillary Clinton to be cleared. All

of this will be fought out over the next few days. But for Donald Trump

this is the day they were text Link and saying it's been one of the best

days of the campaign. -- they were sending texts. Gavin Hewitt and Kim

Ghattas with the Clinton campaign in Iowa.

Drivers who work for the cab service Uber are entitled to holiday pay,

the minimum wage and other employment rights -

Unions say a tribunal decision - handed down this afternoon -

could be the start of a significant shift in workplace rights for tens

Uber has said it will appeal the decision, as our business

correspondent Simon Gompertz reports.

Uber drivers, like Asif, get their jobs via a smartphone app.

But while Uber is Asif's main source of income,

Which is why he says Uber has been denying him normal workers' rights.

I have no control of the work, I have an app.

So how could I be classified as self-employed, because I

Uber has 40,000 drivers in Britain, but they're not employees

with full employees' rights, they're self-employed,

or independent contractors, as Uber calls them, who have

But the drivers who brought this case say they should be workers.

Which is legally somewhere in the middle.

Entitled to rest breaks, holiday pay, and the national minimum wage.

And today, an employment tribunal decided the drivers, and the union

This is the most important employment law decision

Its implications reach far, far beyond Uber and reach right out

They clarify the position and level the playing field up.

Traditional taxi drivers around the world accuse it of driving down

It said it would appeal and that the overwhelming majority

of drivers who use the Uber app want to keep the freedom

and flexibility of being able to drive when and where they want.

Yet today's decision will reverberate around

a new generation of delivery companies, minicabs and courier

firms, which use smartphones to mobilise an army

They're going to need to look very carefully at the case

to decide whether they can distinguish their business

operating model from Uber's, or whether it's sufficiently similar

that they are now at substantial risk of having to pay the minimum

wage, provide paid holiday, sick pay, and so on.

So, pending the appeal, Asif should get his workers' rights

and the rules could change anyway, because the Government's

commissioned an independent review into whether employment law now

Rebel groups in Syria have launched a major offensive to try to break

the government siege of Aleppo, the city at the heart

Hundreds of missiles have been fired at government-held

positions by rebel groups in a coordinated assault.

Our Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville has been

following events from neighbouring Lebanon, and he sent this report.

God willing, say these rebels, they will soon be

They brought with them plenty of firepower.

Hundreds of rockets fired into the city's

But there is something else just as powerful, a new unity.

Resupplied moderate rebels and hardline Islamists working together.

And here, they are using a favourite jihadist tactic.

But in numbers far greater than before.

At least half a dozen hit pro-government positions.

This commander said, "The criminal regime has

"They have committed continuous and daily massacres.

In a city divided, East and west Aleppo almost looked the same today.

15 people were killed by rebel shells landing in the west

My children are under the rubble, they are still under the rubble. The

building collapsed, oh, my God. Blood and war are the city's Common

ground. Aleppo has been torn apart. Unified, the rebels have more

weapons and more ground troops than before. They pressed the advantage.

By the afternoon, here in the Assad neighbourhood, they had broken

through government line. In the east, as this mobile phone footage

shows, they came out to celebrate. Until recently, Russian and Syrian

air killed hundreds here. There has been a pause in those attacks and

Russia says they won't restart yet. Aleppo's fate and that of Syria's

vicious civil war are joined together. For now, it's the rebels

that have the upper hand. Quentin Somerville, BBC News, Beirut.

Meanwhile a major offensive is continuing against the Islamic State

Today, the United Nations accused IS of using tens of thousands

of civilians as human shields in the besieged city of Mosul.

It said men, women and children were being moved to areas under

attack from the advancing government forces.

Our correspondent Shaimaa Khalil has been hearing the story of one family

who escaped the horror of life under IS, when their village

Ashraf and his family have been living in this refugee

For the first time in two years, they're able to sleep

They'd escaped their village near Mosul when the Iraqi forces came in.

But life under the so-called Islamic State has taken its toll.

Especially on Ashraf, who was abducted by the extremist.

TRANSLATION: They took me to a house and hit me with sticks

They said, "Your brothers are with the peshmerga,

I told them, "My brothers are drivers, not fighters."

They fired over my head and tortured me with electric shocks.

Nahla told me she had to beg for her son's life.

TRANSLATION: His father and I followed the car

I went up to the fighters and said, "I want my son."

They said they were going to kill him.

I said, "My son hasn't done anything."

I said, "Shoot me, but let my son go."

The IS fighters seized it to use it as a base to fight from.

You can get fined, lashed, or even killed for

They forced us to grow beards and to go five times

They called for the destruction of America and Britain.

Sabrine was out feeding the cows when she was shot

She's been paralysed for three years now and is in desperate

TRANSLATION: I used to watch TV to distract

But they came and took the TV and mobile phones away.

I would lie there 24 hours with nothing to do.

Now the UN says IS have abducted thousands of civilians

from around Mosul to use them as human shields.

Families here may have escaped the extremists' grip,

but many more are suffering the terror of life under

Shaimaa Khalil, BBC News, northern Iraq.

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

Two children have died after a house fire in Birmingham.

Their father is a critical condition in hospital, after being discovered

Police say no one else is being sought in connection

with the incident, which is being treated as suspected arson.

17-year-old Ronan Hughes died last year after being tricked

into sharing intimate images of himself online.

Today, a man appeared in court in Romania on charges relating to

The High Court in Belfast has rejected two legal challenges

The cases were brought by a cross-party group

of Northern Ireland politicians - who'd claimed the Stormont Assembly

should be allowed a vote on whether Brexit negotiations should begin.

Meanwhile the boss of Typhoo Tea says the effect of the EU referendum

has been a disaster for his company, because of the fall

Somnath Saha told the BBC that Typhoo is losing hundreds

of thousands of pounds every month, and customers will end up having

A new treatment of drugs targeting the cause of cystic fibrosis has

been shown to slow lung damage by more than 40%.

It's called Orkambi and was tested on more than 1000 patients over

But it's not yet available on the NHS, and costs more

Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh reports.

I was always very pale, short and skinny, very tired.

Now I look like everyone else and I can run like I've never

Clara's lungs used to be so clogged up, this sort of exercise would have

The 15-year-old from Somerset has cystic fibrosis but since starting

the Orkambi trial three years ago, her health

I'm transformed, I think, like a butterfly out of a cocoon.

My lungs work so much better, my lung function, which is how

they measure how your lungs are working at hospital,

I've grown a lot in the last year or so and I feel a lot

Cystic fibrosis is a serious, progressive genetic condition

and only half of people affected make it into their 40s.

DNA errors mean they produce a thick, sticky mucus that clogs

The new drug therapy aims to correct the underlying cause of cystic

fibrosis, altering the microscopic machinery in the lungs,

Studies suggest it slows irreversible lung damage by more

than 40% over two years, and patients were less likely

Previously, all treatments for CF treated with symptoms of CF.

And while we need those antibiotics and agents,

they are not ever going to be called a cure.

So potentially we are on the right path now for a cure.

The trouble is Orkambi costs ?104,000 per year.

The health watchdog, Nice, has turned it down for NHS patients,

Clara relies on a whole raft of medications,

like this nebuliser, to keep healthy.

She knows the Orkambi tablets she takes are not a cure,

but hopes that despite the cost, the NHS will eventually

offer the drug to other cystic fibrosis patients.

French officials say they've finally relocated the last of the migrants

in the camp at Calais known as the Jungle.

Around 6000 people have been removed to locations around France

since the operation to clear the camp began on Monday.

Our Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas was watching

A few child refugees were still there this morning,

like Hassan from Afghanistan - unwilling to abandon this place

We will take all kind of danger, we will face danger.

So if they're going to refuse us, we'll be also spending

About one o'clock, you follow Christian.

But today, French authorities gave those still here a choice.

This is the slow, final emptying of the Jungle.

Some have held on even as the bulldozers have

But now they're giving up, taking the offer to get on those

And leading this last exodus was the man who struggled

to rid his town of the Jungle, Calais' police chief -

Of course it's difficult. Of course.

Yeah. Why? Because you work with humans.

Sometimes we fight against them, and sometimes we help them,

So this is your last picture? Yes, last picture.

Of the Jungle? Yes, the Jungle.

It's finished now? Finished, Jungle finished.

It's all gone? Yes.

Most left with barely a glance at their old home.

And just time for some goodbyes for the Jungle's children

We don't know how their age will be assessed.

That's happening right behind me, and I don't know

who is the person and how qualified they are to make that assessment.

But the promise is all asylum claims will be heard.

They've crossed continents, and still their journey isn't done.

Damian Grammaticas, BBC News, Calais.

The Ross Sea in Antarctica is one of the last great wildernesses,

and home to some of the world's most diverse species, including most

Now, after years of talks, it's been declared a protected area,

Commercial fishing will be banned, as will mining.

But the protections won't last forever, as our science editor

The waters around Antarctica may be icy, but they are teeming with life.

This is one of the world's least disturbed stretches of ocean.

Because it is so rich biologically, it is attracting

The protection agreed today is seen as hugely important.

In the 25 years that I've been working in polar marine biology,

It is a massive decision and British Antarctic Survey

are delighted that all the hard work for more than five years by 24

countries have resulted in this incredible decision.

Tiny creatures known as krill are the foundation of life

The aim of the new marine protected area is to safeguard

There's still so much in this bizarre world

that remains a mystery, even after a century of exploration.

For scientists it is a huge challenge trying to understand

what makes this remote and unique ecosystem tick.

I once saw that for myself as I joined a team of biologists,

So will the new deal protect all this?

It will last 35 years, some say that is not enough.

But for the campaigner, Lewis Pugh, who even swam in the Antarctic

waters to highlight the issue, the deal is a big step forward.

For me this is an issue about justice.

Yes, it is about the environment, but most of all it is about justice.

It is about ensuring that we look after our environment

That there's justice between generations.

What's remarkable about the agreement for this remotest

corner of the planet is that there has been

some very rare harmony between Russia and the West.

Far from the disputes over Syria or Ukraine,

governments have looked at Antarctica and decided

that it is just too precious to put at risk.

That's it. Now it's time for the news where you are.