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Surprise as Britain's top diplomat at the EU quits just months before | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
tough Brexit negotiations are due to begin. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Sir Ivan Rogers had faced criticism for warning that a post-Brexit trade | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
His departure prompts a mixed reaction. | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
It is a spectacular own goal, because the only way we're | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
going to deliver a workable Brexit, is with people like Ivan Rogers. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
My only regret is that he didn't go the day after the referendum. | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
Tonight the BBC has seen Sir Ivan's resignation email to his staff | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
in which he criticises muddled thinking and ill founded | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
The 28-year-old man shot dead by police on the M62 last night - | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
police say a firearm was discovered in his car. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Trump's tweet turns up the heat on the US car industry. | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Now Ford says it will cancel a new plant in Mexico and build | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Four Chelsea fans are ordered to pay more than ?8,000 to a black French | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
commuter who they racially abused in Paris last year. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
And the lucky escape for a couple who got lost in Cairngorms | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News... | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
Arsenal had the chance to go third in the Premier League with victory | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
at Bournemouth but could they come back from 3-0 down | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
Britain's most senior diplomat at the European Union, | :01:32. | :01:55. | |
Sir Ivan Rogers, has resigned just months before he was due | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
to play an important role in the complex negotiations | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
Sir Ivan faced criticism last month when it emerged that he'd warned | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
the Prime Minister that securing a post-Brexit trade deal | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Tonight the BBC has obtained his resignation email to his staff | :02:12. | :02:25. | |
in which he urged them to continue to speak truth | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
them to challenge muddled thinking about Brexit. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
More on that in a moment but first here's our Political Correspondent, | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Behind the darkened windows, at the Prime Minister's side, | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
as she arrived at last month's EU summit, Sir Ivan Rogers tried | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
But his warning that it could take the UK ten years to get a new EU | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
trade deal overshadowed what was already a difficult | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
He was criticised for being too pessimistic, though Downing Street | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
said he was just relaying the views of other EU members. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
Some who've worked with Sir Ivan believe his departure is a real | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
The only way we're going to deliver a successful, workable Brexit | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
is precisely with the expertise of people like Ivan Rogers, who's | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
now been forced to the margins, forced to the sidelines, | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
because of the angry zeal of Brexiteers who just won't accept | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
anyone who says anything different to what they so happen | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Theresa May is losing a figure who knows the corridors of EU | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
He worked for a former British Commissioner in Brussels, | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
David Cameron appointed him as ambassador to the EU in 2013 | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
and he was a key member of the former Prime Minister's team | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
as he tried to get agreement on a new relationship with the EU | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
In an unusually outspoken tweet, the former top civil | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
servant at the Treasury, Lord Macpherson, said "Ivan Rogers, | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
huge loss, can't understand wilful and total destruction | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
But leading Brexit campaigners are delighted he's gone. | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
Sir Ivan is part of the establishment that, frankly, | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
haven't accepted the referendum result and are hoping that, frankly, | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
I'm sorry to say, but the Foreign Office is stuffed | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
full of these people, from top to bottom. | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
For decades, they've been taking Britain in completely | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
the wrong direction, and I hope Sir Ivan's departure | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
Whilst Downing Street is determined to convey a positive Brexit message, | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
sources who know Sir Ivan well and know Brussels well | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
believe his warnings of the difficulties ahead | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
were dismissed because they did not fit that narrative and they fear it | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
will be difficult to find a replacement who knows | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
enough about how Europe works and is acceptable | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
And whoever takes over as the UK representative to the EU | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
It's important that we have someone in the job, as Sir Ivan was doing, | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
and no doubt his successor will do as well, who will report back | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
to the British Government, and through the Government | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
to Parliament, about what the other member states | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
Because in a negotiation it really pays to know where the other | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
Theresa May has said she'll trigger Article 50 by the end of March | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
and it won't be easy to get a new representative | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
to the EU in place and ready for the start of those crucial | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Carole Walker, BBC News, Westminster. | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
With me is our Diplomatic Correspondent, James Landale. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
You've obtained his resignation email to staff - | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
just how strong a parting shot is it and who's it aimed at? | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
Ostensibly this is just an e-mail to his staff in Brussels but the target | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
is clearly the government it does not take that much decoding. He | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
says," I hope you will continue to challenge ill founded arguments and | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
muddled thinking, that he will never be afraid to speak the truth to | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
those in power. I hope you will support each other in the difficult | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
moments when you had to deliver messages that are disagreeable to | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
those who need to hear them." The clear implication is that this is | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
the experience he has had as ambassador in Brussels sending | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
messages to London, that those messages have been falling to some | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
in Downing Street on deaf ears and he is not being listened to. That is | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
why we think he has resigned, because of this frustration that he | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
has felt that he has been speaking what he considers to be truth of | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
power. He is clear in his unhappiness but in this long e-mail, | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
four or five pages longer he also makes clear his own unhappiness with | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
other parts of the government's preparation for Brexit, particularly | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
in the says the structure of the negotiating team needs rapid | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
resolution. He is critical of other part as well. This is a document | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
that will become almost the set text of where Britain's ambassador sees | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
our preparations for these extra merry negotiations that are about to | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
happen and his own unhappiness and why he will not be part of it. Thank | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
you. The Independent Police | :06:59. | :06:59. | |
Complaints Commission, which is investigating the shooting | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
of a man by armed officers on the M62 motorway, | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
says a firearm was found in his car. Yassar Yaqub, who was 28, | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
was shot dead in what police have called a "pre-planned | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
operation" at Ainley Top, just Our correspondent Danny | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
Savage has the details. For much of the day, | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
the cars involved in the incidents remained exactly where | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
they stopped last night. The two dark coloured vehicles | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
and the silver Mercedes in front The two white cars were | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
the target of the operation. As police boxed them | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
in and stopped, shots were fired. Bullet holes can be seen | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
in the windscreen of a white Audi. One man was killed and investigators | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
tonight confirmed a non-police issue firearm was found in the car | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
he was in. Yassar Yaqub was a 28-year-old | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
father from Huddersfield. He was cleared of trying to shoot | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
dead two people, eight years ago. One friend on Facebook wrote, | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
"You were no angel, The incident happened just outside | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
Huddersfield as the cars came off At around 6.00pm, they drove | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
on to this slip road and were hemmed Shortly after that, shots were fired | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
and Yassar Yaqub was killed. Three people were | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
arrested at the scene. At the same time, in Bradford, | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
another vehicle was stopped as part of the same operation | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
and two others arrested. As the busy motorway junction | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
was closed down last night, many people were caught up | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
in the chaos. There were these rapid response | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
vehicles that kept pulling up, big large vehicles, then a couple | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
of ambulances turned up. As soon as the ambulance pulled up, | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
some of the policemen ran up and told the ambulance they had | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
to get down, as quickly as possible, to where | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
the incident had took place. It looked like somebody needed | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
urgent medical help. At Yassar Yaqub's family home | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
armed police arrived this Friends and relatives | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
who were visiting soon left. The operation related to information | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
received about a criminal possession of a firearm and I've been fully | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
updated by the Chief Constable. The incident is not | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
terrorism related. Tonight, more than 24 hours | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
after the shooting, the vehicles are finally being taken away | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
for further examination. It includes the car Mr Yaqub | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
was in and in which a gun was found. The Independent Police | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
Complaints Commission is now One of the questions | :09:34. | :09:34. | |
they'll be asking is - did Mr Yaqub pose an imminent | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
threat to life? What they won't have are images | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
from body cameras as firearms officers in West Yorkshire | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
don't wear them. Danny Savage, BBC | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
News, Huddersfield. The main suspect in | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
the New Year terror attack on a nightclub in Istanbul | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
which left 39 people dead Turkish police have detained more | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
than a dozen people so far. Our Turkey correspondent, | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
Mark Lowen, has been allowed into the club | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
where the massacre took place. Three days ago, this | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
place was full of joy, Today, Reina nightclub is a crime | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
scene, scarred by terror. We were the only British media | :10:15. | :10:24. | |
allowed in, briefly. A rare glimpse of where 39 people | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
were killed on New Year's Eve. Imagine the horror as 180 | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
bullets were sprayed here. People jumping into the freezing | :10:34. | :10:43. | |
Bosphorus to escape. The owners of Reina say they will | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
re-open the nightclub, it's a sign Yes, people are sombre, | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
yes, they're fearful, but Turks have lived with a terror | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
threat for decades, albeit on a smaller scale, | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
and they're determined not to let Watch the right hand side of this | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
footage from the attack. A man jumps over a low fence outside | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
the nightclub to avoid the bullets. Then the gunman runs up to the door, | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
shooting his way into Reina. That man on the right of the video | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
was nightclub manager, Ali Unal, TRANSLATION: I felt bullets | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
explode next to me. I threw myself over the fence, | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
but tripped and fell. The bullets went | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
centimetres over my head. When I fell, he must have | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
thought he had hit me, so he went inside and I heard | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
the terrible sounds. The suspect still hasn't been | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
caught, new pictures show him at a bus station in the central city | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
of Konya before So-called Islamic State | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
called him "their brave soldier." The Turkish authorities have given | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
no more information about him. Raids tonight in a part of Istanbul | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
from where he's thought to have Security is being tiightened | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
amid fears IS could strike again here in revenge for Turkey's | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
operations against There have though been others | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
detained, including two foreigners It's not clear what link if any | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
they're thought to have Those tired of terror went | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
to the scene of the massacre today, Tributes were laid and thoughts | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
gathered about how their country can rebuild and how the next generation | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
can regain a sense of safety. I don't want to cry any | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
more while I'm watching It makes me really sad and I don't | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
want my daughter to grow up in this kind of environment, | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
you know, with this news And so a nervous wait to see | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
if those who protect this country are really closing in on the man | :12:56. | :13:05. | |
who brought horror The US President-elect, Donald | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
Trump, had the American car industry in his sights today when he fired | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
off the latest of his often Mr Trump criticised GM motors | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
for importing one of its models of cars from Mexico and threatened | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
to impose a "big Just a few hours later, | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
the car giant Ford then announced it was cancelling plans | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
for a ?1.5 billion plant in Mexico and said it | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
would invest in the US instead. So, is Mr Trump's Twitter | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
strategy working? Here's our North America | :13:44. | :13:44. | |
Editor, Jon Sopel. Not yet the president but the new | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
way of doing business is clear. If Donald Trump has something on his | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
mind, you will read about it in a tweet or two. Today out of nowhere | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
it was the executives of GM getting a kicking from the President-elect. | :14:03. | :14:16. | |
That left the American car giant scrambling for a response. The | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
company pointed out that the model is actually made in a fire while the | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
car is built in Mexico -- cars built in Mexico were for the global market | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
but 4500 had made their way to America dealerships. This is the | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
issue that Donald Trump made his own in the campaign. We are living | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world. Our jobs | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
are going to Mexico. And he is not giving up on it with no US | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
corporation immune from the naming and shaming. And it seems to be | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
yielding results. Today Ford announced that it planned to do a | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
$1.6 billion plant in Mexico was being shelved and instead an | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
existing plant in Michigan would be expanded, creating 700 new jobs. The | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
CEO admitted that it was largely down to trump's policies. The | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
announcement we are making today of $700 million investment here in | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
Michigan and adding 700 jobs, one of the factors we put into that was the | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
more favourable US business environment that we seek under | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
President-elect 's trump. And bullying by tweet scored another | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
victory as he rounded on Republicans for wanting to strip Congress's | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
independent ethics committee of its powers. He went on social media to | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
say... After this it tweet as House | :15:40. | :15:55. | |
Republicans gathered, word came out they had abandoned their plan. | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
Democrats warned this couldn't be presidency by tweet. The Making | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
America great again requires more than 140 characters per issue. The | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
With all due respect, America cannot afford a Twitter presidency. The | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
Republicans had wanted to show unity of purpose today, but at times | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
looked more united with the Democrats on the other side. With | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
this PR disaster, they seem to have hit the ground stumbling. Jon joins | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
me now from Washington. It certainly shows the power of his tweets. Is | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
that what we're going to have to get used to? I think it is the new | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
politics that we are in. If you are a politician, a diplomat, a | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
businessman, a journalist, you have to start your day now, not with a | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
cup of coffee, look at Donald Trump's Twitter feed. If you look at | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
what he said in the past few weeks, various different countries have | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
been in the cross hairs. He has rewritten American nuclear policy | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
settled for 40 years. He has gone after individuals and | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
gone after corporations. With the two examples we have seen today | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
there have been successes. He promised to drain the swamp, | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
Republicans look like they were going back on that. He whacked them | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
one, they caved in. Likewise, Ford announcing it's moving its plant to | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
Michigan, not Mexico. The So it used to be the case that with the | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
President you would scratch your head and say - I wonder what they | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
really think. With Donald Trump you know exactly what he thinks. How | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
seriously do we take it? There was a really good comment by someone, a | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
journalist a little while back he said, the mistake the establishment | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
makes is it takes Donald Trump literally, but not seriously. | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Whereas the public take him seriously, but not literally. I | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
think that everyone has got a lot of learning to do in this new | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
presidency. Jon Sopel, in Washington, thank you. | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
There's been more fighting in Yemen, with 11 civilians, | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
including five members of one family, reported to have been killed | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
in clashes between pro-government forces and rebels. | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
It's believed they're supported financially by Iran. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
They managed to take over the capital, Sanaa, in 2014. | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
A coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, began an air | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
But the rebels still retain control of large parts | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
of Yemen and the front-lines shift constantly. | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
Nawal al-Maghafi has been to the country | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
and reports on the danger for civilians caught in the middle. | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
This is where the battle to retake the capital begins. | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
The mountains ahead are all that stand between the army | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
Their commander is taking us high up into the front-line positions. | :18:41. | :18:49. | |
He tells me the terrain makes it a natural fortress for the Houthi | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
rebels and his men are always exposed to death. | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
It's the first time any international broadcaster has | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
The army are just 40 miles from the capital. | :18:57. | :19:08. | |
But the closer they push into the mountains, | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
TRANSLATION: Every day we make some progress, | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
People are lost, but at least land is liberated. | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
The rebels are retreating on a daily basis. | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
But both sides have reached a stalemate. | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
Despite arms and air support from the Saudi-led coalition, | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
these fighters from the national army haven't made any major gains. | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
And, as they fight for ground, the situation in Yemen has | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
As the front lines shift, landmines have been left behind. | :19:43. | :19:52. | |
The army say that the Houthi rebels have planted tens of thousands | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
of them in both military and civilian areas. | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
The scale of the problem makes Yemen one of the worst affected | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
Despite a lack of training, the army say they've defused over | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
The locals in this area say all their farmland was mined. | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
This is one of the areas that the Houthis had control | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
of as they were trying to take over Marib. | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
The national army and the people of Marib then pushed them out. | :20:21. | :20:31. | |
As they were doing so, the Houthis planted | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
landmines, scattered all over these fields. | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
Sul and his family fled once the fighting started, | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
they thought it was safe to return to their home. | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
TRANSLATION: My wife was praying here in the room and my son | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
They had lunch and my son asked my wife to pass him a blanket. | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
As she pulled the blanket, there was a huge explosion. | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
The mine planted in his home killed his wife, 22-year-old son | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
"It hurts to remember what happened", he says, | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
The Houthis strongly deny the use of landmines in civilian areas. | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
They say they only target military vehicles and accuse the coalition | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
Regardless of who's responsible, the prospect for a lasting solution | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
remains distant and the Yemeni people, stuck in the middle, | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :21:24. | :21:38. | |
A British soldier, who was killed in Iraq yesterday, has been named | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
as Lance Corporal Scott Hetherington of 2nd Battalion The Duke | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
He died at Camp Taji, north of Baghdad. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
It's understood that he'd been shot after the accidental | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
Tributes have been paid to a former chef from West Sussex who's been | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
killed fighting the Islamic State group in Syria. | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
Ryan Lock, who was 20, had told his family he was going | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
on holiday to Turkey, but instead joined Kurdish militia. | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
He died during an assault on the city of Raqqa in December. | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
Some British Airways cabin crew are to stage a 48-hour strike | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
Members of the Unite union have rejected a new offer aimed | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
A previous walk-out, planned for Christmas Day and Boxing Day, | :22:22. | :22:35. | |
BA says it plans to ensure that all their customers can travel | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
A court in France has given four Chelsea fans suspended sentences | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
for racially abusing a man on the Paris Metro in 2015. | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
The four were also ordered to pay more than ?8,000 in compensation | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
to the black Frenchman who was filmed being pushed off | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
A routine journey home, two years ago, that became a national scandal. | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
Frenchman Souleymane Sylla pushed off his train three times that | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
night by Chelsea fans singing racist chants. | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
We're Chelsea, we're racists and that's the way we like it. | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
TRANSLATION: Because of them I had problems. | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
Because of them I wasn't able to ride the subway. | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
Because of them I was held back in my job and my future was changed. | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
Avoiding the cameras at a Paris court today, | :23:33. | :23:46. | |
the two youngest accused Joshua Parsons and James Fairburn | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
denied their actions that night had been racist. | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
Another two men, including a 52-year-old former police officer, | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
The panel of judges found all four defendants guilty of violence, | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
aggravated by racism, handing down suspended sentences | :23:57. | :23:57. | |
of between six and 12 months and awarding ?8,000 of damages. | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
TRANSLATION: My client was found guilty because he was in the wrong | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
The court did not take into account individual responsibility. | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
This is a misunderstanding and I think this decision | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
It took just a few hours for judges to find the four men guilty, | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
three have already been banned from matches in Britain. | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
French football has had its own taint of racism in recent years, | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
but this episode, randomly caught on camera, has also tarnished | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
the image of British football in France. | :24:30. | :24:30. | |
A Government initiative on starter homes for first-time | :24:31. | :24:48. | |
buyers in England is due to get underway this year. | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
But the housing backlog is so big that it could take | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
The roots of today's housing crisis in Britain are often traced | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
back to the sell-off of the nation's council houses. | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
Back in 1981, almost a third of English households | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
Today, that number has dropped to less than one in ten. | :25:02. | :25:13. | |
As our correspondent Jeremy Cooke reports. | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
New homes for housing crisis Britain, and not | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
just any new houses, these are council houses. | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
They're a rare sight, but this is Birmingham, | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
where they've built more council houses in the past seven years | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
than any other local authority - on a mission to tackle a housing | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
waiting list that stands at 18,000 people. | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
The Osmonds' have been in their flat for eight years, | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
but the family has long outgrown the space available. | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
If we want to play, we have to just like play there for 10 minutes | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
Now, they've heard it's their time to move into one | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
We've been trying and trying and trying to get a house. | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
We never expected to get a new house. | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
Cambridge is one of a handful of local authorities who've just | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
qualified for Government money to start building council houses, | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
but there are warnings that it will take 20 years to fix a problem | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
that's already been around for decades. | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
The fundamental problem is that Government stops us | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
The total value of all of our housing is ?1.5 billion, | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
if they just gave us the freedom to borrow against that, | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
we could build 10,000 homes over the next 20-30 years. | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
The Government insists that the number of council houses | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
being built today is at its highest rate since 1996 and that there | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
are billions of pounds available to fund them. | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
But the numbers are creeping back from an all-time low in 2004, | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
when the UK built just 130 council homes. | :26:40. | :26:41. | |
Hard to believe that in 1953, that number was a high of 245,000. | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
Homes for the baby-boomers and beyond. | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
NEWS REEL: ARCHIVE: Even by present standards, | :26:56. | :26:57. | |
The dinette has a serving hatch to the kitchen. | :26:58. | :27:12. | |
Ageing tower blocks, once the future, are being torn down, | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
clearing the way for a new approach to modern, social housing. | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
There are people living in these already? | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
New council houses and new houses for sale. | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
Now, in Birmingham, it's back to the future - | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
We're also bringing empty properties back into use | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
in the city and we're also, where necessary, using | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
So we're using all the tool kit, really. | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
But when council homes are built, they do change lives. | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
The Osmonds get a first look at their house and, | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
But for most of the 1.4 million on England's council | :27:48. | :27:55. | |
house waiting lists, this is still a distant dream. | :27:56. | :27:57. | |
It's one of Scotland's most beautiful mountain ranges, | :27:58. | :28:07. | |
but a couple from Leicestershire, who disappeared after setting off | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
with their dog on a New Year's day walk in the Cairngorms, | :28:13. | :28:23. | |
have been speaking of their lucky escape. | :28:24. | :28:24. | |
Bob and Cathy Elmer, both experienced hill walkers, | :28:25. | :28:26. | |
were caught out after miscalculating the length of their walk. | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
They were forced to spend the night in a white out | :28:30. | :28:31. | |
after the cloud suddenly closed in and it began snowing. | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
Our Scotland correspondent, Lorna Gordon, has the story. | :28:35. | :28:36. | |
The brutal conditions of a Scottish winter. | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
Out on the hills - 50 mph winds, freezing temperatures and deep snow. | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
Bob and Cathy Elmer had become disorientated in the appalling | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
weather and had realised their only option was to hunker down | :28:51. | :28:52. | |
Their footprints and those of their dog, spotted | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
from a helicopter, helped narrow the search. | :28:58. | :28:58. | |
Then this, the moment a mountain rescue team found them and then | :28:59. | :29:09. | |
The snow was, at times, up to our waist. | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
We eventually got out onto the plateau with the intention | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
of trying to find the summit of Cairngorm, and then my head lamp | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
gave up, so we decided that we couldn't go on any further | :29:24. | :29:26. | |
because we didn't know really where we were going. | :29:27. | :29:28. | |
You couldn't see a hand in front of your face, | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
so we decided to get the survival bags out and get down | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
It was a move rescuers believed saved their lives | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
and that of their dog, Meg, who had her own | :29:38. | :29:39. | |
Conditions were Arctic and in the area they were, you know, | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
no matter which way they walked, there was steep ground | :29:45. | :29:52. | |
there and in the dark, with one head torch and disorientated, it | :29:53. | :29:55. | |
would have been so easy to take a very, very serious tumble. | :29:56. | :29:58. | |
This is one of Scotland's's highest mountains and conditions further up | :29:59. | :30:01. | |
towards the summit can close in quickly, catching out even | :30:02. | :30:03. | |
And the couple's close call underlines just how dangerous | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
It's like they say, if we hadn't had the right equipment, | :30:08. | :30:13. | |
It is a grim place up there in the winter time, especially | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
And, you know, if you're not prepared for it, | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
you can seriously run into some serious situations. | :30:23. | :30:24. | |
Safely down, but not put off and determined to return | :30:25. | :30:26. | |
We'll definitely be back, but we'll probably be a little bit | :30:27. | :30:39. | |
Willie's a very careful driver, he'll look after you. | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
Keen, but certainly more cautious after their New Year's Day walk | :30:44. | :30:45. | |
Lorna Gordon, BBC News, Cairngorm mountain. | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
Ten questions for 2017, and we'll have eight guests | :30:53. | :31:03. | |
Yes, we'll be looking at the year ahead - | :31:04. | :31:14. | |
Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :31:15. | :31:16. |