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the last stronghold of self-styled Islamic State in the country. | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
The elite troops faced fierce resistance as they drove | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
In the distance, an IS militant in plain sight, | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
our correspondent was with Iraqi special forces as they | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
We've seen a number of Isis fighters moving around, | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
There have been incoming attacks... | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
We'll bring you the latest from inside Mosul | :00:35. | :00:48. | |
and also hear from residents who've been living in the city under IS | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
The families fearing eviction because of a new cap on benefits - | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
brought in to encourage people to work. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
The US Presidential candidates on their final exhausting sprint around | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Manchester City mount a comeback against Barcelona | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
And the female pioneers of a new frontier - | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
Kevin De Bruyne gave Manchester City a 2-1 lead against Barcelona, | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
find out if they could be on for three points | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
Iraqi government forces today fought their way into Mosul, | :01:33. | :01:58. | |
gaining a foothold in the city for the first time since | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
it was taken by so-called Islamic State two years ago. | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
The assault on the eastern outskirts of Iraq's second largest city | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
They entered the eastern suburbs and encountered strong | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
But they succeeded in taking control of the state television building. | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
Our international correspondent, Ian Pannell, and cameraman | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Darren Conway, were the first broadcast journalists to enter | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
the district of Gogjali with frontline troops - | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
and they sent this report from inside Mosul. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
To the east, the warm glow of an autumn warning in Iraq. The dawn of | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
a new day built on the hope of a brighter future. But to the west, a | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
reminder of the bloodshed and madness that's cursed this country | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
for years. The sky over Mosul. Well the troops as you can see - close to | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
the city of Mosul, we've heard a sound overhead. The sound of sniper | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
fire or certainly gunfire coming in from Islamic State. The troops have | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
come down. They're now trying to respond and stop the shooting coming | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
in. GUNFIRE | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
Few expected they'd advance this far this fast. But the closer they get | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
to Mosul, so the resistance only grows. Even so, the war machine | :03:29. | :03:40. | |
roars on relentlessly. Thousands of soldiers and their guns, slowly | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
taking back the land of the so-called caliphate. And in the face | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
of an advancing army, with only a simple piece of white cloth to | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
defend themselves, more than a million people, trapped between two | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
warring sides. And this is the moment Iraqi troops finally entered | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
Mosul. It's taken almost two-and-a-half years to get here and | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
the so-called Islamic State was waiting for them. On the skyline we | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
saw two suspected fighters. Barely aware that the troops are advancing. | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
GUNFIRE And then this... . Four militants | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
run across the alley. Armed and dangerous, ready to defend the city, | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
and to fight to the death. And that's what happened. Nothing short | :04:35. | :04:44. | |
of all-out war. It's hard to overstate how dangerous today was. A | :04:45. | :04:56. | |
brutal, terrifying battle. It will shape the future of Iraq, and the | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
threat of Islamic State to the world. The counter-terrorism forces | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
have been moving through Mosul, the outskirts only, for the last few | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
hours, and have met incredibly stiff resistance. We have seen a number of | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
Isis fighters moving around, carrying rocket-propelled grenades. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
There have been incoming attacks... Skap | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
gunfire - GUNFIRE... And a lot of gunfire. The | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
ground is treacherous. It's laced with IEDs and it just illustrates | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
how hard and difficult this final stage of the battle is going to be. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
This is just day 1 inside Mosul. This is the road the troops must now | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
take. Straight to the city centre. A dark and dangerous journey into the | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
heart of the caliphate of Islamic State. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
Ian Pannell, BBC News, Mosul. Mosul is home to more | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
than a million people, who've been living under IS control | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
for the last two years. IS has banned satellite | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
dishes and mobile phones, making communication | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
with the outside world difficult. But some residents have | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
risked their lives to make contact with a radio station in Northern | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
Iraq. Our correspondent, Orla Guerin, | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
has been listening to their calls. A snapshot of Mosul - silent, | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
besieged, braced for the assault. See how IS have hidden | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
an anti-aircraft gun under a bridge. A resistance group, called | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
the Mosul Brigades, secretly Others are resisting | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
by daring to speak. The airwaves of Alghad radio | :06:43. | :06:53. | |
station, meaning tomorrow, are open The jihadis have | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
been killing people, We can't say where the station | :06:57. | :07:06. | |
is located or identify the staff, they've received death | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
threats from IS or Daesh. We join the presenter | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
in studio as listeners phone Callers say they are in danger, | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
not just from IS, but also from air Off-air, another caller told us many | :07:23. | :08:12. | |
in the city were waiting for a chance to take revenge | :08:13. | :08:31. | |
on the jihadis. He said life was unbearable | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
and he had to speak out, And, God forbid, if they discovered | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
you making this call, The station says these days it's | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
getting more calls from Mosul, a sign that the captive city | :08:43. | :08:58. | |
is recovering its voice. Orla Guerin, BBC | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
News, Northern Iraq. Orla is back in Irbil | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
in northern Iraq now. We were hearing Iraqi troops got | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
into Mosul faster than expected. But what can they inspect from here on | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
in? Well, I think the key question is the level of resistance they are | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
going to face and probably what was experienced by our team inside the | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
city today is just a taste of what's to come. There was resistance on the | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
way in from small weapons, from snipers, from heavy weapons and | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
indeed from anti-tank missiles but the deeper the Iraqi forces go | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
inside Mosul, the more resistance they are likely to face and the more | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
the advantage will pass to the jihadis. They have been in residence | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
in Mosul for more than two years. They have had ample opportunity to | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
construct an elaborate system of defences. We know that they have | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
constructed tunnels stretching far under the city, under the ground. We | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
know they have trenches with oil, ready to set alight. We know they | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
have crude chemical weapons. We saw one of those ourselves about two | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
weeks ago. All of these are likely to be deployed in some form, as the | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
troops move forward. Now, the key test will be when they cross the | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Tigris River, which divides Mosul, when they pass from the east bank, | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
which is where they now are, into the west side. That is the ancient | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
part of the city, the streets are incredibly narrow, far too narrow to | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
allow any kind of mechanised vehicles, tanks or heavy vehicles to | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
be brought through. At that stage, the army will be facing | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
street-by-street, urban warfare, house-by-house, that is when I think | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
the real test is going to come. We have had Iraqi generals saying today | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
that this is the beginning of the liberation of Mosul. I think the key | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
phrase there is "the beginning." That enManx, Orla. -- - many thanks. | :10:59. | :11:07. | |
Housing charities are warning that more than a 100,000 families will be | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
affected by a new cap on benefits, with some at risk of being | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
The maximum amount of benefits a household can receive is being cut | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
from an annual ?26,000 to ?23,000 in London and ?20,000 | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
Ministers say it'll encourage people to get back into work, | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
but charities are warning it'll make life harder for the | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
Our home editor, Mark Easton, reports. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
Could single mum Emma and her family face eviction | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
Unless she works at least 16-hours a week, her benefits | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
will soon be capped, leaving her ?76 a week short | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
on the rent, but Emma says with four kids, | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
including a young baby to care for, getting a job is not an option | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
I lose my kids because I haven't been able to pay my rent. | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
Yeah, I am really worried because if they've got no | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
roof over their heads, then they really... | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
It's not like I can sleep with them on | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Sleep on the streets, is this something that really | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
Yeah. Yeah, it does. | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
The Government is desperate to reduce the housing benefit bill | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
which has ballooned to ?27 billion a year as housing costs have risen, | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
but ministers are being warned that when they reduce the overall | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
household benefit cap next week, more than 100,000 families, | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
including 300,000 children, could then struggle to pay their rent. | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
You can't run up arrears indefinitely without your landlord, | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
in the end, having to take measures to evict you and to take possession | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
At that point you're a homeless household and homelessness is rising | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
Getting a job is what the Government insists the cap encourages people | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
to do, pointing out that 23,000 people, who lost money | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
under the existing cap, are now exempt having found at least | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
What's important to make sure is that we spend the money | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
on welfare in the right way, in ways that incentivise people | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
to move into work and cares for the most vulnerable, | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
and this benefit cap absolutely does that. | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
Outside London, the welfare cap equates to ?385 a week. | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
Imagine the case of a widow, her widowed parents allowance | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
So do the benefits she receives for the three children she's now | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
bringing up on her own, which means there's only ?53.48 | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
a week left within the cap for housing benefit to cover her rent. | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
The family's modest three bed private flat in Coventry costs ?128, | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
Coventry based Housing Association, Orbit, has found hundreds of people | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
They're already making hard choices about eating, heating, | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Capping benefits is justified because it encourages people | :13:59. | :14:11. | |
The question is whether the lower cap is asking too much. | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories. | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
Campaigners for a public inquiry into the clashes between police | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
and striking miners at Orgreave in 1984 say the "gloves are off" | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
They're now considering a legal challenge following yesterday's | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
decision by the Home Secretary to rule out an inquiry. | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
A man accused of strangling a police officer has admitted | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
being "inspired" by the US TV series Breaking Bad when he tried to | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
Stefano Brizzi denies murdering PC Gordon Semple at his flat in London, | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
claiming he died during a sex game that went wrong. | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
A consultation will be held into whether to go ahead | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
with the second phase of the Leveson Inquiry | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
The Government says it's considering whether it's | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
Campaigners called today's announcement a "betrayal | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
In a week's time, America will be electing a new President | :15:04. | :15:14. | |
after what most people agree has been the most unconventional | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
shuttling across the country, visiting key battleground states. | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
As our North America editor Jon Sopel reports, | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
the polls look much tighter than they have been for many weeks. | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both launched their campaigns | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
They've been going at it non-stop ever since. | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
This is where the marathon turns into a sprint as the candidates | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
hurtle round the key swing states that will determine this election. | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
They are Florida, North Carolina in the south and Ohio and Pennsylvania | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
For Donald Trump to have a path to victory, he needs to win all four. | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
But successive polls suggest Hillary Clinton has | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
comfortable leads in both North Carolina and Pennsylvania. | :16:13. | :16:25. | |
That is why, in the race to get the keys for this place, | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
may have given Donald Trump momentum, it | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
Someone like this becoming president, who insults more than | :16:36. | :16:54. | |
half the population of the United States of America, and what about | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
our boys? Is this is not someone we want them looking up to. No. Will | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
the latest email scandal hurt her in those key swing states? Allardyce | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
politicians have mixups and foul-ups. She's doing her best to be | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
honest. I still trust her. I really think this is hurting her. So close | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
to the election. I think there has been a lot of doubt. Really this | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
whole season. This whole campaign season. This isn't helping anything. | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
That's what Donald Trump is hoping for. He was in Pennsylvania today | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
talking policy, in particular his plan to repeal and replace the | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
health reforms introduced by Barack Obama. It will be such an honour for | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
me, for you, and for everybody in this country because Obamacare has | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
to be replaced and we will do it and we will do it very, very quickly. It | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
is a catastrophe. But for some of the electorate these pledges may not | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
make a difference. In many states early voting has already started. | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
It's estimated that around 24 million Americans have already | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
voted, that's about 20% of the likely turnout. The figures of | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
registered Republicans and Democrats going to vote shows a slight edge | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
for Hillary Clinton. In trying to explain this race, American | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
political pundits have started using the phrase of a British Prime | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
Minister from the 1960s. Harold Wilsonson's comment, "that a week is | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
a long time in politics." In this helter-skelter, white knuckle ride, | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
indeed it is and who knows what's going to happen next. Jon Sopel, BBC | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
News, Washington. When Britain leaves | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
the European Union its only land border with an EU state will be | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
between Northern Ireland What sort of controls might there be | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
and how could it affect trade? Tomorrow, the Irish Prime Minister, | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
Enda Kenny, will host talks on the implications of Brexit | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
for Ireland, north and south. Our special correspondent, | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
Allan Little, has sent To understand Ireland's Brexit | :19:00. | :19:00. | |
anxiety, go to the farms of its rich They sell more than half | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
of what they produce to the United Kingdom, | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
a trade worth 5 billion euros a year A falling pound has already | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
made their milk and Now, there's the prospect | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
of a new border separating them Like, we have a huge market, 50 | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
miles from where we stand here now, and if we can't supply that market | :19:28. | :19:38. | |
without tariffs, it's not good, like, it's very | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
worrying talk or prospect. Once there were Customs controls | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
between the UK and Ireland, but those border posts disappeared | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
when both countries joined the This is what that border crossing | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
looks like now, you can drive down this road without even noticing that | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
you've left one country and entered another, but soon this will be | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
the edge of the European Union. Down there, migrants from 26 other | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
countries will still be able to come and live | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
and work and claim benefits, but not if they walk up there, | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
into the United Kingdom. If you have no border controls here, | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
how do you police that? Northern Ireland's biggest party, | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
the Democratic Unionists, Their emphatic British unionism | :20:24. | :20:36. | |
seems reinvigorated by their sense of having seized back | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
a lost UK sovereignty. They believe that immigration | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
can be controlled, even with an open border, | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
but don't yet say how. With the political willingness | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
from both the British and Irish governments privately | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
that they would never see a return to borders of the past, | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
we're actually quite But we're not ignoring the fact | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
that there are issues that need to be worked through, | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
but they are entirely surmountable, In the Republic they're not | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
reassured by this sunny optimism. For one option is for Ireland to bow | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
to the realities of geography and to allow the UK to place | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
its Border and Customs controls You're asking for an independent | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
state, the Republic of Ireland, to impose and work British migration | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
law at its ports and airports. I mean, that's really | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
what you're saying. Which you're kind of saying - | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
well, we don't really think you're an independent country, | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
you know, it's just a kind of figment of history | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
that's been invented. I think, as an Irish person, | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
you feel pretty angry about the fact that something really profound has | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
been done to Ireland without Ireland having featured | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
at all in the discussion. Ireland has forged its modern | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
identity as an independent nation in Europe, but the powerful | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
gravitational pull of its larger Allan Little, BBC News, | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
Dublin. Britain faces a growing | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
threat of cyber attack organised by hostile states, | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
criminal gangs or hackers, according to the Chancellor, | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
who has announced plans Philip Hammond said Britain needed | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
the capacity to "strike back" Our technology correspondent, | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
Rory Cellan-Jones, has the details. We know our computers are under | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
threat, we're getting used to the idea that our phones | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
might not be secure, now we may have to worry | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
about the kettle being hacked. It might sound trivial, | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
but internet connected devices, from domestic appliances to web | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
cams, are giving new openings to global hackers bent | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
on causing serious damage. It punches a hole | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
through your fire wall. This very brand of home CCTV setup | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
was hijacked in last month's major attack which took down sites | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
like Twitter and Netflix, These things are so insecure, | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
they're starting to be They're starting to be used | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
to attack parts of the internet, to take down critical | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
infrastructures. And today saw warnings that hostile | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
governments could mount The boss of MI5 warned that that | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
Russia was using cyber weapons to pursue its foreign policy aims | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
and the Government said Britain needed to be able | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
to retaliate against attackers. The Chancellor warned that rogue | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
states, or criminal hackers, posed the threat of damaging | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
industrial espionage and could bring down power networks | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
or Air Traffic Control By having the ability to strike back | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
in kind in cyberspace, to let the hackers and the attackers | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
know that if they take down our networks, they risk | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
having their networks taken down, we will make Britain safer and we'll | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
make it an even more attractive place for people | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
to do digital business. However much we spend on shoring | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
up Britain's defences against the hackers, | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
we're going to need a lot more people with cyber | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
security skills and, right now, there's a shortage | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
of that kind of know how. What we're basically looking | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
at is we're looking for suspicion At BT Headquarters, cyber security | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
apprentices are hearing about The Government wants more young | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
people to see this There's a different attack every | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
day, a different threat every day and it's always keeping | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
you on your toes and you're Cyber security's an upcoming field, | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
it's going to be very important pretty much forever as long | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
as we use computers. More money will now be spent | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
on cybercrime investigators, but keeping up with the threat | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
from hackers, ranging from teenagers to nation states, | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
will be a major challenge. The London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
has ordered an investigation into the spiralling cost | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
of converting the London Olympic Stadium for use as a football | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
ground by West Ham United. It was previously thought the cost | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
of transforming it was ?272 million. The Mayor now says the real cost | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
is ?50 million more. West Ham has contributed | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
?15 million, the rest is being met Football and Manchester City fought | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
back after going a goal down to Barcelona's Lionel Messi | :25:18. | :25:29. | |
in their Champions League City suffered a 4-0 defeat | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
to the Spanish side a fortnight ago. But tonight, at home in Manchester, | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
it was a very different story - as our Sports Correspondent | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
Katy Gornall reports. Bars lone are ya, they say, is a | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
team with a perfect 10. The players around him aren't too bad either. | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
Football fans know they may never see such attacking talent again. The | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
problem for Pep Guardiola was how to stop them? The first of November is | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
early for a Cup final in the Champions League, but that was how | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
Manchester City's manager saw this match. Defeat would leave them in | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
danger. For 20 minutes they were on top. There was always a feeling that | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
at some point they could crack. Against Barcelona, they always do. | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
The first goal was a display of brilliant efficiency, precision | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
engineered by the master craftsman, Messi. It was all looking bleak for | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
City until they were offered a way back. One mistake and it was | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
punished. Gundogan showing that Barcelona are human after all. It | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
was a goal that lifted City and after half time they turned the | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
match in their favour, thanks to one swing of Kevin De Bruyne's boot. | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
Barcelona was under pressure as their defence was overwhelmed by a | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
swirl of blue and Gundogan confirmed the inevitable. For City fans this | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
goal couldn't have felt more special. This was their European | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
revival. Five times City had lost to Barcelona before tonight, this time | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
they beat them and beat them at their own game. It was an | :26:55. | :27:05. | |
exhilarating match. It means they need three points from their next | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
two games to reach the knock-out stages. Let me tell you what | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
happened elsewhere in City's Group tonight. Celtic came from a goal | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
down against Borussia Monchengladbach to keep their slim | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
hopes of staying in Europe alive. Moussa Dembele, who has been in | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
fantastic form scoring the penalty. His 16th goal of the season. There | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
was drama as well in Bulgaria. Arsenal came from 2-0 down to beat | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
Ludogorets 3-2. They have Mesut Ozil to thank for that. A solo goal late | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
on in that match to snatch all three points. That win means Arsenal are | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
through to the knock-out stages. 14th season in a row they made it to | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
that stage. So, all in all, a very positive night for British teams in | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
the Champions League. Thank you very much, Katie. | :27:56. | :28:03. | |
80 years ago tomorrow, the world's first television programmes | :28:04. | :28:05. | |
were broadcast from Alexandra Palace in North London. | :28:06. | :28:17. | |
The pictures looked a little bit like this, | :28:18. | :28:19. | |
so don't adjust your set, and you might have | :28:20. | :28:21. | |
But even in those pioneering days, women were a vital part | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
of running the Service - on screen and behind the scenes. | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
Jane Hill has been to meet some of the women involved in the early | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
ARCHIVE: The controllers are ready on vision, and sound. | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
Women played a key role in these early broadcasts | :28:36. | :28:37. | |
And not only in front of the camera, nearly half the payroll was female, | :28:38. | :28:46. | |
working in a new experimental medium. | :28:47. | :28:47. | |
There were executive women, far more than one might | :28:48. | :28:49. | |
think in those days, but then the Corporation was far | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
Many women were employed as secretaries, but were asked | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
ARCHIVE: I'm going to hand you over to the... | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
..working as producers and technicians in entertainment | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
and in news, which came from here, in Studio A. | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
This is now being refurbished as part of a huge project | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
to showcase the birthplace of television to the public. | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
Lois Singer and Olive Trevett worked at Ally Pally, | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
as it's affectionally known, in the late 1940s and 1950s. | :29:20. | :29:22. | |
I had experience of that by being given a camera, | :29:23. | :29:29. | |
The day before the programme went out, and to be told by the person | :29:30. | :29:39. | |
who had handed it to me, "you can do the programme tomorrow." | :29:40. | :29:42. | |
Olive operated the teleprompter for news bulletins and needed | :29:43. | :29:44. | |
special permission to wear trousers at work. | :29:45. | :29:46. | |
We weren't allowed to wear what we liked. | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
We had to, you know, always wear skirts to work. | :29:50. | :29:51. | |
You couldn't wear, you know, slacks, that was unheard of. | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
But it's ridiculous now, when you think about it. | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
The first female camera operator, Bimby Harris, spoke of being frozen | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
out by male colleagues and, as TV became established, | :30:10. | :30:11. | |
I think as television became more professionalised as well, | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
perhaps there was a sense it was a more attractive | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
career for men to take up and so those very early days, | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
the almost gender parity of the early days here | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
at Alexandra Palace, started to kind of slip | :30:31. | :30:33. | |
away really I think in relation to that. | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
But, 80 years ago, women played as important a role as men | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
Jane Hill, BBC News, at Alexandra Palace. | :30:43. | :30:52. | |
Gymnast Louis Smith has been punished for mocking Islam | :30:53. | :31:03. | |
in a private video, so we're asking what is harmless fun and what's | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
socially unacceptable and we'll test the rules by looking at some | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
Join me now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland. | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :31:14. | :31:17. |