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Tonight at ten - Britain appoints its new man in Brussels | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
as Brexit puts the strain on relations between ministers | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Sir Tim Barrow - a career diplomat and former ambassador to Russia - | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
becomes the UK's new top civil servant at the EU. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
I think it makes sense to get this resolved swiftly, | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
but what matters most is getting right, not quick, | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
and I think Sir Tim is right guy to bring some fresh thinking, | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
a whole range of experience, and lead the team in Brussels. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
After the government is accused of muddled thinking over Brexit | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
by the outgoing ambassador, more questions over how much | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
We'll be looking at the impact on negotiations with Brussels. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
A vigil on the M62 slip road where a 28 year old man was shot | :00:41. | :00:49. | |
dead by police as his father speaks out for the first time. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
How can you kill someone like this, at a time like this, without giving | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Straight, three bullets through the windscreen.... | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
FROM BACKGROUND: It's because they're Pakistanis. | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
Disappointing Christmas sales at Next - the high street retailer | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
warns of a difficult year ahead as the weak pound drives up prices. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
We speak to the British doctor in Syria helping the injured who've | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
And, have Chelsea made it 14 wins in a row, | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
Or did Spurs put an end to their winning streak? | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
World Number One Sir Andy Murray brings his winning streak | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
to 26 matches by reaching the quarterfinals of the Qatar Open. | :01:28. | :01:52. | |
The government has moved fast to appoint a new Ambassador | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
to the European Union after the surprise resignation | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
of Britain's top diplomat in Brussels yesterday. | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Sir Tim Barrow - a former ambassador to Russia - | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
will begin work next week on the complex Brexit | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
His appointment comes after Sir Ivan Rogers | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
stood down suddenly, and then accused the government | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
His departure led to accusations that he'd lost the trust | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Our diplomatic correspondent James Landale reports. | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
Until today said Tim Barrow was one of the most senior officials at the | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
Foreign Office, always on hand to advise his boss. Tonight he's the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
new ambassador to the European Union with the awesome task of getting the | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Brexit negotiations back on track. His former boss said he was the | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
right man for the job. He's an absolutely classic, tough civil | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
servant. Very experienced. Knows the EU very well and will go in there | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
and do a good job. I think he will sing honestly to ministers what he | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
thinks the decision is, when they take a decision on the project and | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
plan, then he will implement it very loyally. Tim Barrow is a former | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
ambassador to Moscow and has spent much of his career working in | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
Brussels. While Ukip criticised what they saw as another Foreign Office | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
insider, Tory campaigners for Brexit were relaxed about the appointment | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
of a career diplomat with a natty line in waistcoats. | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
I think it makes sense to get this resolved swiftly, | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
but what matters most is getting it right, not quick, and I think | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Sir Tim is the right guy to bring some fresh thinking, | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
a whole range of experience, and lead the team in Brussels. | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
This is the man whose shoes Sir Tim is filling commissaire Ivan Rogers, | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
who resigned unexpectedly, attacking what he called the government's | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
muddled thinking and ill founded arguments over Brexit. The | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Ambassador's job was to be Theresa May's eyes and ears at the | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
negotiations in Brussels, but in a blunt resignation letter, Ivan | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
Rogers spelt out the challenges facing his successor, revealing he | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
did not yet know what the government would set in negotiating objectives | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
with the UK's relationship with the EU after Brexit. That plan has been | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
kept hidden, or at least is still being prepared behind closed doors | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
in Downing Street. Foreign Secretary, have you pushed aside, | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
who will replace him? Ministers today refused to give, yes, a | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
running commentary. Four months last year Ivan Rogers traipsed | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
fruitlessly between London and Brussels trying to reform the EU | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
ahead of the referendum, but said in his letter the government was not | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
prepared for the even bigger talks ahead. Serious multilateral | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
negotiating experience is in short supply in Whitehall. The structure | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
of the UK's negotiating team needs rapid resolution. The most worrying | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
thing in Ivan Rogers' e-mail to his staff on leaving office was a | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
confession that he is ambassador to the EU did not know what the | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
government's negotiating objectives were. That makes us all believe what | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
we already suspected, that the government doesn't have a plan. The | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
government has moved very quickly to replace Ivan Rogers to try to draw a | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
line under a row that has not only exposed tensions in Whitehall but | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
has posed questions about the government's preparations for | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
Brexit. Tonight the ministers are rallying round the appointment of | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
Sir Tim Barrow. They know in this building he's hugely rated. But the | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
questions posed by his predecessor remain. MPs hope Theresa May will | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
provide some answers on a speech on Brexit to be given scene. One she | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
will have to write with a new ambassador at her shoulder, who is | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
playing catch-up just weeks after negotiations begin. James Landale, | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
BBC News. Let's speak to our deputy political | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
editor John Pienaar in Westminster. What impact will this have on Brexit | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
negotiations? We've seen the weight Brexit supporting Conservatives have | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
been love bombing the new ambassador, determined that the | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
relationship should work smoothly. It doesn't address the underlying | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
tension between some very high-ranking civil servants who are | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
worried their political masters may not fully understand and certainly | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
won't admit the sheer difficulty and scale and complexity of Brexit. | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
Their worry is that Mike in the end undermine the day to day working of | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
government and the success of Brexit itself. As for the Theresa May | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
speech mentioned in James's report, we expect that early in the year, | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
and we expect more detailed of her thinking on Brexit. It might ease | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
some of the pressure for more clarity, but given how much she | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
wants to keep her cards close to her chest, given how much she wants to | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
keep our options open, I will not be holding my breath on that. John | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
Pienaar in Downing Street. And I'm joined by our | :06:44. | :06:44. | |
business editor Simon Jack. Detail is what many are clamouring | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
for. What about the world of business, do they feel they are | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
getting enough information? In one sense they are pretty happy. They | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
say to me that after a slow start they are impressed by the amount of | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
engagement they are getting from government. The chief executives | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
from biggest companies are not struggling to get face time with | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
government departments. What they say is that at the moment it's | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
one-way traffic. The government is doing a lot of listening but not | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
transmitting much detail back the other way. They think it's not | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
because there's some master plan under wraps, they suspect there is | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
not a fully formed plan. In the meantime, as the clock ticks down to | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
article 50 being triggered, they are having to make contingency plans and | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
spending tens of millions of pounds on that, our companies. It could be | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
like rolling the beach towels out all over Europe, hiring people, | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
putting in regulatory permissions. They are wondering whether that will | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
happen. What they are saying to me is that they don't want to press an | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
emergency button, but they need to have a button to press, even if they | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
spend tens of billions of pounds, they would like to leave the button | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
behind the glass and unbroken. They want more detail and not getting it | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
yet. Simon Jack, thank you. Dozens of people have | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
attended a vigil tonight in memory of Yasser Yaqub - | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
the man shot dead by a police marksman as he drove off the M62 | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
slip road in Huddersfield Speaking at the roadside | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
where his son died, Mr Yaqub's father told the BBC | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
he believes his son was killed unlawfully, and that the police have | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
questions to answer. At the exact spot where Yassar Yaqub | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
died, Friends and family gathered quietly | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
and respectfully to lay The mood was polite, but his | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
brother-in-law and father told me they were angry and want | :08:31. | :08:45. | |
more information. From start to finish, | :08:46. | :08:46. | |
nothing hidden. My message is that he has | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
been killed unlawfully. How can you kill | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
someone like this at a time like this without giving them | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
a chance to get out or anything? Three bullets through | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
the windscreen and that's it. We are not in America, | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
not in a third world country. Yassar Yaqub was shot | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
dead by police on Monday night, the gun was found | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
in the car he was in. In 2010 he was cleared | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
of attempted murder and a firearms offence | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
after it was alleged he opened fire on a car | :09:23. | :09:23. | |
in Huddersfield. Some local people told us | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
he was a renowned drugs dealer but others didn't think he was | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
involved in any criminal activity. People living close | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
to his home also say that his house was targeted | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
by gunmen more than a year ago. The house now has obvious security | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
cameras on the outside. All I can say, I've | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
known him for a very long time, spent every day | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
with him and I know that he's not a person | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
who would shoot at anybody. Because there are lots | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
of reports suggesting He's never been charged | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
with any of those He hasn't got a bad | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
past, he has never There was a very different tone 15 | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
miles away in Bradford last night. blocked a main road, | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
about the killing "Police don't shoot," | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
said one of the banners. They have killed | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
an innocent brother. A police car was attacked | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
at one point, with an A local MP has appealed | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
for the community to remain calm. We need to wait to see what comes | :10:30. | :10:42. | |
out of the investigation and police, they have my confidence, | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
the community and in terms of the they have regular conversations with | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
me. If we need to have more conversation | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
between the community The Independent Police Complaints | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
Commission is now overseeing this Five other men were arrested | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
at the time on suspicion of possessing a firearm | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
with intent to cause fear. Understandably there is no | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
running commentary from investigators but that is leading | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
to many different theories as to how Danny Savage, BBC | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
News, Huddersfield. The high street retailer Next has | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
warned of a difficult year ahead, as the weak pound increases costs | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
and drives up prices. It comes after it announced worse | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
than expected figures in the run up to Christmas, | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
causing a big fall Our business correspondent | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
Emma Simpson reports. The festive season, | :11:35. | :11:43. | |
it's when the tills But it's been a difficult one | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
for Next, one of our Their Christmas results are seen | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
as a bellwether for the high street. The high street is struggling | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
with the switch from actual selling Struggling with coping | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
with Black Friday, which is taking But at the same time, | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
Next itself is struggling because the big growth area in Next | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
has been the directory, But to have such a disappointment | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
from one of the stronger retailers first thing is clearly | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
not good news. But, as always, some | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
will do better than others. The signs are that it's been | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
decent for John Lewis. Its department stores saw a surge | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
in sales in the final week. Consumers haven't stopped spending, | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
but we have been spending less on what we wear and more | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
on what we do. Record player's from my | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
parents, and little bits Gadgets and everything | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
nowadays, it's, you know... So, yeah, it has become | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
a lot more expensive. We will be reining it | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
in in the New Year. 2016 was tough for Next, | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
but it's warning this year will be even tougher, | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
with what it describes as It says profits will be hit, | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
and that the devaluation of the pound after the EU referendum | :13:02. | :13:10. | |
vote will push up its prices by 5%. And the industry's trade body | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
also thinks the going's 2016 has been a pretty | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
tough year and it looks You've got rising prices, | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
which means consumers' budgets won't go as far, | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
and they won't be able Ultimately, that will affect | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
retailers' profits. At the same time, we've got rising | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
costs from the impact of the national living wage | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
and business rates, which also means the cost of doing business | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
is going up at the same time. For now, though, the question is, | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
has Next fared better or worse than its rivals in a market more | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
crowded and competitive than ever? The full Christmas story | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
will unfold in the coming days. A 38-year-old man from Oldham | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
has appeared in court, charged with causing the deaths | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
of two young cousins. Helina Kotlarova, who was 12, | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
and 11-year-old Zaneta Krokova, Three other men are charged with | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
perverting the course of justice. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
Netanyahu has called for a pardon for a soldier who's been convicted | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
of manslaughter for killing Sergeant Elor Azaria killed | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
Abdul Fatah al-Sharif in Hebron last March, | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
after the Palestinian had been involved in | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
stabbing another soldier. Our Middle East correspondent | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
Yolande Knell reports. It's minutes after two young | :14:38. | :14:47. | |
Palestinian men with knives attacked One is dead and one | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
is clearly still alive. Sergeant Elor Azaria, | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
a 19-year-old medic, helped treat a wounded soldier, | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
and then he did this. A single bullet to the head killed | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
Abdul Fatah al-Sharif. Today the Sergeant was in a military | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
court, smiling to see But soon after, he was found | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
guilty of manslaughter. Judges rejected the soldier's | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
claimed that the Palestinian posed a threat and decided he shot him | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
out of revenge. But Sergeant Azaria has loyal | :15:22. | :15:33. | |
backers in a country where most They accuse the army | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
of abandoning one of its own. This guy came to do | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
an attack, to hurt families. Even the Israeli Defence | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
Minister spoke of this Before taking up his post, | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
he made clear his support And that caused tensions | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
with the top brass here They said they command according | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
to rules and an ethical code, Such a high-profile trial | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
of a soldier for killing a Palestinian is very | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
unusual in Israel. The outcome was welcomed by | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
the family of Abdul Fatah al-Sharif. TRANSLATION: I feel like any father | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
would feel after seeing my son It's still hard for me every time | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
I remember what happened. If he died instantly it | :16:19. | :16:33. | |
would have been much easier than to see your son | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
executed like that. Sergeant Azaria's crime took place | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
during a wave of Palestinian attacks when there was a national debate | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
about how to respond. And his case has proved | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
highly divisive. When he is sentenced, | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
the maximum he could serve is 20 years in jail, | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
but he is expected to get far less. And tonight the Prime Minister has | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
joined other Israeli politicians With less than three weeks to go | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
until he leaves office, President Obama says he plans | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
to release more inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
centre, after vowing to shut it down But the President elect - | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
Donald Trump - has taken issue with his decision, | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
tweeting that the inmates are "dangerous people" | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
who shouldn't be released. Guantanamo Bay was opened in January | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
2002 to hold terror suspects after the September 11th attacks | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
and the subsequent US-led At its peak, as many as 779 | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
prisoners were held there. During his time in office, | :17:25. | :17:34. | |
President Obama has Our security correspondent Gordon | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
Corera, who first visited Guantanamo Bay 15 years ago, | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
has been back inside to The evening call to prayer from | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
inside the cells of Guantanamo Bay. For everyone here, these | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
are uncertain times. President Obama promised | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
to Guantanamo when he first took office but he was frustrated | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
by Congress and it's a promise He is still trying to transfer | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
some of the remaining 60 But during our visit, | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
the admiral in charge admitted You know the detainees have | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
questions, are the transfers going to stop when the new president | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
takes charge on January 20th? Their lawyers may speculate | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
but nobody knows. But in a tweet, Donald Trump has now | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
made clear what he thinks. "There should be no further | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
releases from Guantanamo. These are extremely dangerous people | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
and should not be allowed back The uncertainty hanging over | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
the base was clear as we toured We were allowed to film detainees | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
through one-way glass. One realised we were on the other | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
side and displayed a hand-painted sign, a question-mark | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
with a padlock underneath. I watched some of the first | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
detainees arrived at Camp X-ray It was the early days of what was | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
called the war on terror. Now we found Camp X-ray abandoned, | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
steel cages, overgrown. Permanent structures | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
took its place but they've This block in Guantanamo used | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
to house 100 detainees but since last summer it has been | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
empty and silent, part of President Obama's | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
push to close the camp. That's failed and the question now | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
is whether, under President Trump, these cells will once again be | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
filled with detainees. This morning I watched | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
President Obama talking about GTMO, right, Guantanamo Bay, | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
which, by the way, we are keeping And we're going to load it up | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
with some bad dudes, believe me, The colonel in charge of day-to-day | :19:58. | :20:06. | |
operations told me they could take in new prisoners straightaway | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
if they receive the orders. We'd be prepared to receive | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
some, in the short term, if that was required to us | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
and the orders were given to us. If it were to become an expensive | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
thing, then there would need to be some additional changes | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
to the structure since we've closed -- if it were to become an extensive | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
thing. We'd have to find a way | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
to open that back up. President Obama has said Guantanamo, | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
because of its reputation around the world, undermines rather | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
than advances America's security but it will now be up | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
to a new president to decide what to do with those | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
America is fighting. Where to put them, | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
how to treat them. And so, for now, the future of this | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
place hangs in the balance. Gordon Corera, BBC | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
News, Guantanamo Bay. Our North America Editor, | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
Jon Sopel, joins us Guantanamo Bay just the latest big | :20:59. | :21:11. | |
issue being aired very publicly between President Obama and Donald | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
Trump? Sophie, there is a wonderful symmetry about today. As we were | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
hearing in Gordon Corera 's port, Barack Obama, when running for | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
president eight years ago, promised it would be closed. Guantanamo Bay | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
would cease to be, no ifs, no buts. He gets to office, finds out it is | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
small, located than that and, 80, it is still open. | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
Donald Trump made a similar pledge during the campaign which, now here | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
is about to start governing, recognises as a little more | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
complicated, that is the affordable care act, or ObamaCare, if you like, | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
the policy which has given 20 million Americans ensuring to | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
previously did not have it. But people's premiums went up and the | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
cover got worse and he sounded very popular during the campaign to say, | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
you know what, I will get rid of it. Vice President-elect Mike Pence went | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
to Capitol Hill today and said this must be our priority, but what will | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
we do about all those people who might suddenly lose cover? What | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
about this policy that people must be given insurance even if they have | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
pre-existing conditions? There was suddenly an awareness that things | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
were little more complicated and all the talk of ObamaCare is not of | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
scrapping it immediately but of some form of transitional arrangements. | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
It is the same, whether you are talking about ObamaCare, via Rantie | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
all, the climate change arrangements, easy to save you will | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
scrap them, but what you put in its place? -- whether you are talking | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
about ObamaCare, the Iran deal. Boruc Obama has discovered, Donald | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Trump is discovering, that campaigning is a lot easier than | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
governing. -- Barack Obama has discovered. | :23:03. | :23:02. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories. | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
Turkey's Foreign Minister says officials know the identity | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
of the gunman who carried out the Istanbul nightclub | :23:08. | :23:09. | |
attack on New Year's Eve, but he's stopped short | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
No further details about the inquiry into the murder of 39 people | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
So-called Islamic State has said it carried out the attack. | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
Police in Germany have detained a Tunisian man who's suspected | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
of being involved in the lorry attack on a Christmas market | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
The authorities say the 28-year-old had dinner with the attacker | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
Anis Amri the night before he killed 12 people. | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
13,000 people have had their holidays cancelled, | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
following the collapse of the travel company All Leisure | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
Customers who had booked cruises with Swan Hellenic and Voyages | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
of Discovery will be given full refunds. | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
Turkey has warned that peace talks in Syria are under threat | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
because of repeated cease-fire violations by government forces. | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
Hundreds of civilians who were injured in the Russian | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
backed bombing of Aleppo were evacuated from the city last | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
Many of them have ended up in hospitals in the | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
There a British surgeon - David Nott - has been | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
He's been speaking to our correspondent Quentin Sommerville. | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
His report contains some distressing details. | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
The agony of East Aleppo didn't end with its defeat by President Assad. | :24:26. | :24:34. | |
"He destroyed everything," cries this woman. | :24:35. | :24:35. | |
Some of the most desperate, including five-month-old Maram, | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
Her right arm is her only unbroken limb. | :24:44. | :24:53. | |
A bomb hit her family as they were evacuating from the city. | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
Britain's David Nott lead the surgery inside Syria. | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
They'll have to be the ones that go, definitely. | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
This baby is in danger of losing her leg, or her life. | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
A piece of shrapnel has broken her hip. | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
As you can see, the fragment on the x-ray, I think we have found | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
It's a bit of shell, a bit of fragmentation | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
from a military armament, a piece of metal. | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
Part of her left leg is missing, and the team treated that, too. | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
This is a piece of fragment from a shell from an air strike. | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
Now back safely in London, Dr Nott talked me through the surgery. | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
My heart actually bled for this little girl. | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
It bled because she wanted me to help her, she couldn't move her | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
She couldn't move her legs because they were fractured. | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
She had a big piece of iron on her other leg | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
and she couldn't move that, and she had exposed bones. | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
Dr Nott operated day and night for a week. | :26:10. | :26:28. | |
Around 750 seriously injured people were evacuated from eastern Aleppo. | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
He was reunited with doctors he trained. | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
They'd stayed in the city while the bombs fell. | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
They're very good war surgeons, really good war surgeons. | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
And they can cope with lots of things which they couldn't | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
Not only that, we saved countless hundreds and thousands | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
of people's lives, and I think that was all we could ask for, | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
Most of eastern Aleppo's doctors are now in Idlib, | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
The civilians who fled have horrible injuries. | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
There was multiple amputations, because those patients | :27:08. | :27:09. | |
So although you're doing an amputation, it's like getting | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
frostbite in your amputated leg, and so we had to go | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
The battle for Aleppo may be over, but Syria's medical needs | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
The most gravely ill have been sent to Turkey for more help. | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
Sent there alone, we don't know if she survived. | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
Flowers have been late on Coniston water in the Lake District to mark | :27:37. | :27:54. | |
the 50th anniversary of the land and speed water record holder Donald | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
Campbell. His jet powered boat Bluebird broke into pieces as he | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
attempted to break his own record. His daughter said she was humble but | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
his achievements are still being recognised 50 years later. | :28:06. | :28:06. | |
A French cyclist - who is 105 years old - | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
has set a world record for the furthest distance cycled | :28:10. | :28:11. | |
in one hour in a new age group category created for him | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
Robert Marchand managed to cycle 14 miles around a velodrome. | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
He was slightly slower than when he completed the same race | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
Afterwards he said he could have done better - | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
but wanted to prove you can still ride a bike at 105. | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
Chelsea went into tonight's game against Spurs knowing a win | :28:35. | :28:36. | |
would set a new top flight record of 14 consecutive wins | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
in a single season, but Tottenham had other ideas. | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
Our sports correspondent Natalie Pirks reports from White Hart Lane. | :28:43. | :28:50. | |
Whilst the rest of us might have the January blues, | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
Flying high in the league and on the brink of making history | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
If there's any game you wanted to get the 14, | :28:59. | :29:07. | |
Diego Costa is the league's top scorer and he is also | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
rather partial to a row, although not usually | :29:13. | :29:14. | |
The pair were still at it a full minute later. | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
Chelsea have the best defence in the league | :29:20. | :29:27. | |
but seconds before half-time, England's Dele caught them with one | :29:28. | :29:29. | |
A goal to knock Chelsea's pride and knock some of the Spurs | :29:30. | :29:38. | |
The old adage goes that if it ain't broke, don't fix it, | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
so in the second half, Spurs did exactly | :29:45. | :29:46. | |
A carbon copy Dele header and a second goal to savour. | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
Chelsea knew the chance to make history was over. | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
Madrid might covet him, but right now, Dele's all theirs. | :29:56. | :30:10. | |
White Hart Lane used to be known as 3-point play by Chelsea fans, such | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
was their dominance here, not any more. After Chelsea ended Spurs' | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
title hopes last season, this was the perfect revenge. Not only did | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
this cut Chelsea's Lido this post to seven points and push Spurs above | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
rivals Man City and Arsenal to third place, but it also sends a real | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
statement of intent, a statement that this site could be title | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
contenders yet again. They are happy, and Dele will get all the | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
plaudits, but this is a classy team performance. As for Chelsea, Gary | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
Cahill said after the match, it will not affect this mentally and we go | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
again. Given that is what Steven Gerrard said when Liverpool famously | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
slipped up, that was probably not the best choice of words. | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
Newsnight is about to begin over on BBC in a few moments. | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
Here is Evan. Tonight we will be looking at what is in store for | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
France this year, our nearest neighbour and closest rival. The | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
presidential election that could end up as a contest between the far | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
right and the Thatcherites, making for interesting times. | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
Join me on BBC Two. That's it from us, you can keep up to date | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
throughout the night with the BBC News Channel. Now it is time for | :31:27. | :31:27. |