:00:00. > :00:08.Tonight at Ten - we have more evidence of the intense
:00:09. > :00:12.pressure on hospital A departments in England.
:00:13. > :00:16.Figures released to the BBC show a 47% rise in the number of people
:00:17. > :00:20.with mental health problems seeking help in accident and emergency.
:00:21. > :00:22.We'll have a special report on the urgent measures
:00:23. > :00:26.being taken in the community to try to tackle to problem.
:00:27. > :00:29.And we'll have other figures on the number of patients facing
:00:30. > :00:36.Jeremy Corbyn is accused by some of his own MPs
:00:37. > :00:44.of causing confusion on Labour's policy on immigration.
:00:45. > :00:52.We are not wedded to me free movement in the EU as a point of
:00:53. > :00:54.principle, but I do not want to be misinterpreted. Nor do we rule it
:00:55. > :00:56.out. Police in York name
:00:57. > :00:59.a seven-year-old girl who died after being found seriously
:01:00. > :01:00.injured yesterday afternoon. Tens of thousands of travellers
:01:01. > :01:02.experience another day of disruption because of strikes
:01:03. > :01:04.by Southern Railway, And we pay tribute to the journalist
:01:05. > :01:08.who first reported the outbreak of the Second World War,
:01:09. > :01:13.who has died at the age of 105. Coming up in Sportsday
:01:14. > :01:15.on BBC News - we've had the first of the League Cup
:01:16. > :01:18.semifinals, with Wayne Rooney given the chance to break
:01:19. > :01:20.the Manchester United There has been a significant
:01:21. > :01:44.increase in the number of people with mental
:01:45. > :01:46.health problems asking to be seen at accident and emergency
:01:47. > :01:50.departments in England. Figures from NHS Digital,
:01:51. > :01:53.analysed for the BBC, show that in the year 2015-16,
:01:54. > :01:57.there were over 165,000 psychiatric attendances at A
:01:58. > :01:59.departments, a rise of 47% over And it includes a rise of 89%
:02:00. > :02:08.in the number of children and young Doctors say the reality is even
:02:09. > :02:14.worse than the figures suggest. Our social affairs correspondent
:02:15. > :02:17.Alison Holt has the story, It's another day of unrelenting
:02:18. > :02:24.demand in the Emergency Department of Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth
:02:25. > :02:27.Hospital. Is there any movement
:02:28. > :02:30.in terms of beds? Patients are lining up
:02:31. > :02:33.on trolleys in the corridor, She's taken an overdose of some
:02:34. > :02:40.prescribed medication... The psychiatric team,
:02:41. > :02:46.based in the department, is dealing with a number of people
:02:47. > :02:49.who have tried to take She had a follow-on plan, she'd
:02:50. > :02:53.taken an overdose the last time. Among them, a woman
:02:54. > :02:55.in her early 20s. Doctors have dealt with the physical
:02:56. > :02:57.affects of the overdose, but the root cause is her history
:02:58. > :03:00.of mental health problems. I took an overdose, I went
:03:01. > :03:10.up to the train track. She is one of a rapidly increasing
:03:11. > :03:15.number of patients arriving at A like this with psychiatric
:03:16. > :03:17.difficulties - many are young. The voices are getting more intense,
:03:18. > :03:19.wanting to harm myself. It's not attempts, it's
:03:20. > :03:22.actually trying to do it. I'm not just doing it
:03:23. > :03:24.as a cry for help. Is this the worst that
:03:25. > :03:26.you've ever felt? I've never been this
:03:27. > :03:30.bad before, I'm scared. In a busy A, even finding a room
:03:31. > :03:39.for this conversation was a struggle - now,
:03:40. > :03:41.this isn't the right place for her, You know, if we were to
:03:42. > :03:48.discharge her from here, she would likely go out
:03:49. > :03:50.there and try and do Was there any particular trigger why
:03:51. > :03:54.you took the tablets? At this hospital, they see more
:03:55. > :03:59.than 100 people a week facing a psychiatric crisis,
:04:00. > :04:01.and the Mental Health Trust has set up a quiet unit nearby to assess
:04:02. > :04:06.people away from the pressure. Its staff then search
:04:07. > :04:08.for the psychiatric beds I'm trying to act upon this
:04:09. > :04:17.as a matter of urgency for this lad because he doesn't sound
:04:18. > :04:20.well at all. Nobody in a mental health crisis
:04:21. > :04:22.should be in Accident and Emergency unless they've got
:04:23. > :04:26.a physical health need. Our A, what I see,
:04:27. > :04:30.are very, very busy, overstimulated places, and somebody
:04:31. > :04:33.with a mental health issue, it's just not conducive at all to them,
:04:34. > :04:37.to being in that environment. That's why in Birmingham, they've
:04:38. > :04:40.set up this street triage team to intervene before people reach
:04:41. > :04:51.the Emergency Department. The patient hearing voices, stating,
:04:52. > :04:53.going to kill someone. With a police officer, paramedic
:04:54. > :04:55.and psychiatric nurse on board, they respond to 999 calls
:04:56. > :04:58.where there are mental Already this evening,
:04:59. > :05:08.the man they're visiting has called His physical health is checked,
:05:09. > :05:11.they listen to and assess him. Are you telling me that there
:05:12. > :05:14.was these negative voices I think like there's
:05:15. > :05:17.someone controlling me. It's kind of like, I'm
:05:18. > :05:21.some kind of machine. After half an hour, it's agreed,
:05:22. > :05:24.rather than going to A, he'll keep a community appointment
:05:25. > :05:25.in the morning. I think the first step
:05:26. > :05:34.is me asking for help, as well as being assured
:05:35. > :05:39.that I will get the help. Over the last four, five weeks,
:05:40. > :05:42.he's been going to A quite a lot. I think he's had six
:05:43. > :05:47.admissions through A So we've come out tonight to try
:05:48. > :05:52.and prevent that cycle. Night and day, the street
:05:53. > :05:56.triage team is in demand, but here they believe it's making
:05:57. > :05:58.a difference in getting We managed to reduce
:05:59. > :06:05.the numbers of attendance to the A, but what you get,
:06:06. > :06:08.you get high quality. You get mental health,
:06:09. > :06:13.police forces and paramedics working in collaboration together to look
:06:14. > :06:15.after one single patient. For many, A will remain
:06:16. > :06:22.the first place they turn to, For many, A will remain
:06:23. > :06:25.the first place they turn to. The challenge is to help people
:06:26. > :06:37.who are vulnerable before When we look at the range of reasons
:06:38. > :06:43.for these figures, what would you direct us to? It is a complicated
:06:44. > :06:46.picture, but better recording and an increased awareness of mental health
:06:47. > :06:50.issues generally is part of the picture. It does not explain the
:06:51. > :06:55.significant increase. Campaigners say, if people are turning to A
:06:56. > :06:59.when they are in crisis, or sometimes they are directed there by
:07:00. > :07:02.professionals, then that is a sign, they say, that services in the
:07:03. > :07:07.community are just not keeping up with demand, or they are not the
:07:08. > :07:10.right services to keep up with the care which prevents them from
:07:11. > :07:15.reaching that crisis point. Also, doctors say these statistics
:07:16. > :07:18.underestimate the problem because they only show people who are
:07:19. > :07:21.recorded by staff as having psychiatric reasons for being there
:07:22. > :07:25.as the main reason. So, for instance, somebody turned up having
:07:26. > :07:29.self harmed, although there would be mental health issues involved, it
:07:30. > :07:33.would go in a different statistics and it would be recorded in another
:07:34. > :07:37.way. Tonight, the Department of Health has said that the Prime
:07:38. > :07:42.Minister has made it very clear that they are committed to improving
:07:43. > :07:45.mental health care across the board, both in the NHS and in the
:07:46. > :07:48.community, for people who need it. Another set of official NHS figures
:07:49. > :07:51.seen by the BBC show that so far this year,
:07:52. > :07:53.tens of thousands of patients in England have waited
:07:54. > :07:55.hours on trolleys before This winter is proving one of
:07:56. > :08:00.the busiest on record for accident But the Health Secretary,
:08:01. > :08:04.Jeremy Hunt, has insisted that most of England's hospitals
:08:05. > :08:05.are coping well. Our health editor,
:08:06. > :08:12.Hugh Pym, has more details. A 92-year-old patient at one
:08:13. > :08:22.hospital A unit today. been lying here so long, it just
:08:23. > :08:26.hurts. An ageing population, one factor
:08:27. > :08:29.behind rising patient demand. Here it's even more hectic
:08:30. > :08:31.than usual with an astonishing 20% more patients than this
:08:32. > :08:33.time last year. They're urging people
:08:34. > :08:35.to stay away and seek care elsewhere if their health
:08:36. > :08:39.problem isn't urgent. The beginning of January
:08:40. > :08:41.is always a busy time, and it's much busier
:08:42. > :08:47.than this time last year. I think we will make
:08:48. > :08:49.it through the winter, but it is going to be really
:08:50. > :08:51.hard for us. Since Christmas, the NHS has been
:08:52. > :08:55.under immense pressure with some of the busiest ever
:08:56. > :09:00.days in hospitals. Now, the BBC has obtained internal
:09:01. > :09:03.NHS figures revealing the scale of the pressure and problems
:09:04. > :09:05.in England last week, including numbers of patients lying
:09:06. > :09:08.on trolleys for hours at a time The figures cover the seven-day
:09:09. > :09:20.period ending yesterday morning and come from 131 hospital
:09:21. > :09:25.trusts in England. They show that 485 people waited
:09:26. > :09:27.longer than 12 hours on trolleys over that week,
:09:28. > :09:30.whereas only 158 patients faced those long waits in the whole
:09:31. > :09:37.of January last year. Last week, only one hospital trust
:09:38. > :09:43.hit the target of assessing 95% And more than half of trusts
:09:44. > :09:49.failed to see even 80%. The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt,
:09:50. > :09:52.hinted yesterday the four-hour target might be changed to cover
:09:53. > :09:59.urgent cases only. Are you going to explain to the
:10:00. > :10:07.public what your intention is? Earlier, Mr Hunt said some A had
:10:08. > :10:09.very serious problems but, according to service leaders,
:10:10. > :10:11.most had coped better There were warnings,
:10:12. > :10:17.though, from one expert Over the last 30 years we've reduced
:10:18. > :10:22.the number of beds to about half and we've increased the number
:10:23. > :10:25.of admissions to about double and so it's a sort of reaching
:10:26. > :10:28.a crisis situation, I would say. The trolley wait data in Scotland,
:10:29. > :10:31.Wales and Northern Ireland are not An NHS source said the figures
:10:32. > :10:34.obtained by the BBC didn't cover all hospitals,
:10:35. > :10:36.but there was unprecedented Pressure on social care services
:10:37. > :10:40.and a shortage of mental health crisis care are among factors
:10:41. > :10:42.stretching A services Jeremy Corbyn has been accused
:10:43. > :10:53.by some of his own MPs of creating confusion after declaring that
:10:54. > :10:57.Labour was "not wedded" to freedom of movement for EU citizens and then
:10:58. > :10:59.adding that he wasn't The Labour leader insisted that
:11:00. > :11:02.Labour DID understand voters' Earlier, Mr Corbyn had prompted
:11:03. > :11:06.further criticism from his own side when he suggested that capping
:11:07. > :11:09.earnings would be a way Our political editor,
:11:10. > :11:19.Laura Kuenssberg, has more details. A welcome for him on the platform,
:11:20. > :11:22.but will you welcome what was billed as his vision
:11:23. > :11:26.for Britain after Brexit? Whether you voted to leave
:11:27. > :11:28.or remain, everybody voted On the biggest question -
:11:29. > :11:37.how many EU citizens can keep coming to Britain to move freely,
:11:38. > :11:39.what was his verdict? We're not wedded to free movement
:11:40. > :11:44.of the EU as a point of principle, but I don't want to be
:11:45. > :11:46.misinterpreted, nor We'll demand that these
:11:47. > :11:49.negotiations give us the power to intervene decisively,
:11:50. > :11:51.to prevent workers from here or abroad being used
:11:52. > :11:54.and exploited to undermine pay The original version of his speech
:11:55. > :12:02.had suggested freedom of movement might be ditched,
:12:03. > :12:05.but instead, he wants to tighten up rules at work that allow foreign
:12:06. > :12:08.workers to be exploited. Does that mean that you would
:12:09. > :12:11.like to see more or fewer people from other parts
:12:12. > :12:13.of the European Union It probably means there would be
:12:14. > :12:19.fewer, but I think we should also recognise that there is a massive
:12:20. > :12:22.contribution made to our health service, education and manufacturing
:12:23. > :12:24.industry by people from all over You say the word "probably be fewer"
:12:25. > :12:30.people coming here, by how many? I can't put a figure on it
:12:31. > :12:35.because we haven't yet seen the work Isn't this a question
:12:36. > :12:39.of principle, though, really? About the kind of levels
:12:40. > :12:41.that you're happy with? The principle has to be that
:12:42. > :12:44.employers should not be allowed to tear up existing arrangements
:12:45. > :12:46.in the construction industry We've asked you previously
:12:47. > :12:50.whether or not you think the levels are too high and you said that
:12:51. > :12:53.you don't think the levels are too My mind is quite clear
:12:54. > :12:58.that we need to end We need to maintain a market access
:12:59. > :13:03.within Europe and we need to ensure there are good relations
:13:04. > :13:06.between all communities. But do you or do you not
:13:07. > :13:09.want to end the wide principle I want us to have market
:13:10. > :13:13.access in Europe. I want us to have trade
:13:14. > :13:15.with Europe and let's... And that means continuing
:13:16. > :13:18.with freedom of movement? Erm, let's see what comes out
:13:19. > :13:20.of these negotiations. Mr Corbyn was in Peterborough,
:13:21. > :13:22.a town whose face has been The kind of place where Labour MPs
:13:23. > :13:26.worry their leader's approach Immigration has been
:13:27. > :13:29.good for Peterborough, but the amount of immigration has
:13:30. > :13:34.not been good for Peterborough. A lot of foreigners are quite nice,
:13:35. > :13:37.but the island can't cope with them, I don't really understand
:13:38. > :13:42.what their issues are. But Mr Corbyn hopes he might
:13:43. > :13:46.have more appeal on how we earn our pounds and pence,
:13:47. > :13:49.far from party policy yet, but income limits
:13:50. > :13:54.could be on the way. I think you have to look
:13:55. > :14:00.at each company and say - well, is it really right
:14:01. > :14:03.that the chief executive should earn 100 or more times than those
:14:04. > :14:06.who are actually doing the work that Either you do a cap or you look
:14:07. > :14:10.at the levels of disparity After being expected
:14:11. > :14:16.to change direction today, in the end, the Labour leader more
:14:17. > :14:19.or less stayed on-the-spot. For his supporters, it's
:14:20. > :14:22.sticking to principles that For many of his MPs,
:14:23. > :14:25.it's stubbornness that means Police in York have named
:14:26. > :14:30.a seven-year-old girl who died, after being found seriously injured
:14:31. > :14:34.in a field yesterday afternoon. A teenage girl is being
:14:35. > :14:41.questioned about her death. Our correspondent Danny Savage
:14:42. > :14:46.reports from York. This is seven-year-old Katie Rough,
:14:47. > :14:48.found with fatal injuries in a playing field in York
:14:49. > :14:51.late yesterday afternoon. Her grandparents describe her
:14:52. > :14:57.as their "darling princess". Friends came to leave flowers close
:14:58. > :15:00.to where she was discovered today. She was a very close
:15:01. > :15:04.friend to my daughter and a truly unique,
:15:05. > :15:06.beautiful, little girl. I respect their family,
:15:07. > :15:10.beautiful family. People living in this
:15:11. > :15:12.small cul-de-sac tried to help Katie's mother,
:15:13. > :15:14.who arrived just after A woman ran up the street -
:15:15. > :15:21.it was obviously the mother of the daughter - she was shouting,
:15:22. > :15:24."Help, call for an ambulance." So I put my shoes on and went
:15:25. > :15:27.to go up the alleyway. When I got half way up
:15:28. > :15:31.and I could see a body lying in the field, but the police
:15:32. > :15:34.were already there attending. Seven-year-old Katie died a short
:15:35. > :15:37.time later in hospital. Tonight, police say a 15-year-old
:15:38. > :15:39.girl, arrested in connection with what happened here,
:15:40. > :15:43.is still in custody. They're appealing for anyone who saw
:15:44. > :15:49.Katie Rough with an older girl, around here yesterday afternoon,
:15:50. > :15:50.to contact them. In the past half hour,
:15:51. > :16:13.a jury in Charleston, South Carolina, has condemned a man
:16:14. > :16:16.to death for the racist killing of nine black men and woman
:16:17. > :16:24.in a church shooting in June 2015. had told a sentencing
:16:25. > :16:30.hearing that he felt he had The jury had an option
:16:31. > :16:36.to sentence Roof to life imprisonment, but instead
:16:37. > :16:38.chose the death penalty. The Democratic Unionist leader,
:16:39. > :16:40.Arlene Foster, has said Northern Ireland is "undoubtedly"
:16:41. > :16:42.heading for a period of direct The power-sharing Government is in
:16:43. > :16:45.crisis following the resignation of Sinn Fein's Martin McGuiness
:16:46. > :16:48.as Deputy First Minister. The main cause of the dispute
:16:49. > :16:50.is the mishandling of an energy scheme which could cost the taxpayer
:16:51. > :16:53.hundreds of millions of pounds. Our correspondent, Nicholas
:16:54. > :16:55.Witchell, reports from Belfast. THE SPEAKER: The Secretary of State
:16:56. > :16:57.for Northern Ireland. It all has echoes
:16:58. > :16:59.of unhappier times. In the House of Commons,
:17:00. > :17:01.a British minister was making Right honourable and honourable
:17:02. > :17:04.members should be in no doubt, the situation we face
:17:05. > :17:07.in Northern Ireland today is grave and the Government treats it
:17:08. > :17:09.with the utmost seriousness. The situation to which he was
:17:10. > :17:12.referring was the collapse of the power-sharing
:17:13. > :17:16.Government at Stormont. A decade of broad consensus
:17:17. > :17:17.between Republicans On the surface, it's
:17:18. > :17:24.about a green energy scheme, the cost of which was found
:17:25. > :17:28.to have been exorbitant. The scheme was originally overseen
:17:29. > :17:40.by the Democratic Unionist leader and now former First
:17:41. > :17:43.Minister, Arlene Foster. The major sticking point between us
:17:44. > :17:46.over this last few weeks has been the fact that Sinn Fein would not
:17:47. > :17:48.agree to the establishment of an inquiry until I stepped
:17:49. > :17:51.aside as First Minister. For me, I felt to have done
:17:52. > :17:54.so would have led to the conclusion that I was guilty of something
:17:55. > :17:57.improper, which is not the case. Across in West Belfast the leader
:17:58. > :18:00.of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, was issuing two warnings -
:18:01. > :18:02.a return to direct rule from London would not be acceptable and neither
:18:03. > :18:05.would a return to the same power-sharing arrangements
:18:06. > :18:08.with the Democratic Unionists If the DUP think that they're
:18:09. > :18:20.going to waltz out of Government or have an election and then waltz
:18:21. > :18:22.back into Government on the same terms as caused
:18:23. > :18:25.the collapse, then they'll have The politics of Northern Ireland can
:18:26. > :18:31.seem pretty impenetrable from outside, but here's
:18:32. > :18:33.the essential point - it took years to put together
:18:34. > :18:35.a successful power-sharing That Government oversaw
:18:36. > :18:39.peace and stability. There is uncertainty about how
:18:40. > :18:48.to put it all back together. Nicholas Witchell,
:18:49. > :18:53.BBC News, Belfast. Hundreds of thousands of commuters
:18:54. > :18:56.in the south of England have struggled to get to and from work
:18:57. > :18:59.today because of the latest strike The dispute, which has been
:19:00. > :19:03.going on for nearly 10-months, The unions say they're trying
:19:04. > :19:06.to protect the safety Our transport correspondent,
:19:07. > :19:09.Richard Westcott, reports More than 2,200 Southern services
:19:10. > :19:22.weren't running today. Platform 2 for the delayed
:19:23. > :19:27.0747 Thameslink service. Their passengers were forced
:19:28. > :19:29.to find other routes in. The whole situation seems
:19:30. > :19:31.like a complete joke. I'd like to know that
:19:32. > :19:34.when I get on the train, that I'm going to end up
:19:35. > :19:37.at my destination at a certain time. Well, this is the queue just to get
:19:38. > :19:40.into East Croydon station, all of these people are trying
:19:41. > :19:43.to get to London, it's It snakes around a lot,
:19:44. > :19:49.then actually goes down the side of the station,
:19:50. > :19:52.probably about 100 meters For nearly a year, they've been
:19:53. > :19:59.rowing about changes to the role Southern wants drivers to take over
:20:00. > :20:03.closing the train doors. The unions say that
:20:04. > :20:07.threatens safety and jobs. Southern says no-one's
:20:08. > :20:10.losing their post and the safety This is The Body Shop's
:20:11. > :20:22.new ?1 million lab in Croydon. They moved hundreds of staff
:20:23. > :20:25.here last year because of the great train service, but Southern's
:20:26. > :20:28.drivers aren't working overtime at the moment,
:20:29. > :20:30.causing delays and cancellations It's having a devastating effect
:20:31. > :20:40.on The Body Shop's staff. They're missing children's
:20:41. > :20:43.birthdays, they can't arrange meetings,
:20:44. > :20:44.they're having arguments at home. They're feeling stressed,
:20:45. > :20:46.tired and irritable and there's a number of people saying every day,
:20:47. > :20:49.from about 4.00pm, they're sitting getting more and more stressed
:20:50. > :20:52.about whether they're going to get home, at all, or on time
:20:53. > :20:54.for the commitment Back on board, several
:20:55. > :20:57.commuters said this. I mean the Government need
:20:58. > :20:59.to do something about it. So the BBC put the question
:21:00. > :21:02.to the Minister. REPORTER: What are you,
:21:03. > :21:04.as Transport Secretary, Don't you have a duty
:21:05. > :21:07.to step in on behalf... The Government's engaged day
:21:08. > :21:10.in and day out in trying to find a way to get this issued resolved,
:21:11. > :21:18.and we'll carry on doing that. In Merseyside, unions are fighting
:21:19. > :21:20.similar plans to bring It's Southern today,
:21:21. > :21:23.but this issue threatens In just a few hours' time,
:21:24. > :21:35.President Obama will deliver his farewell speech in Chicago -
:21:36. > :21:37.the city where he claimed victory in the presidential
:21:38. > :21:45.election eight years ago. But as his second term,
:21:46. > :21:47.as the 44th President of the United States comes
:21:48. > :21:50.to a close, how will In his second report, looking back
:21:51. > :21:53.at Mr Obama's time in office, our North America editor,
:21:54. > :21:55.Jon Sopel, looks at the international issues which have
:21:56. > :21:57.defined the Obama presidency. There was always something upside
:21:58. > :22:00.down about Barack Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize before he'd
:22:01. > :22:04.really done anything as President. When he came to office,
:22:05. > :22:08.one of the greatest strategic threats was Iran, a resurgent power
:22:09. > :22:11.in the region, but more important than that was securing
:22:12. > :22:13.a multi-national deal to curb An agreement struck,
:22:14. > :22:19.despite fierce opposition When Benjamin Netanyahu came
:22:20. > :22:25.to address the Congress, nearly two years ago,
:22:26. > :22:29.there was fury in the White House. They were angry that an invitation
:22:30. > :22:32.had been extended by Republican leaders and accepted
:22:33. > :22:39.without the President knowing. But very soon someone much more
:22:40. > :22:42.to the Israeli Prime Minister's liking will be occupying
:22:43. > :22:44.the White House and the question the world is asking -
:22:45. > :22:47.will the Iran nuclear deal survive For over a year, we've
:22:48. > :22:52.been told that no deal His relationship with Netanyahu
:22:53. > :23:02.was one of the lows, culminating in the US refusing
:23:03. > :23:06.to veto a UN resolution critical of Israel's policy
:23:07. > :23:10.of settlement building. The chemistry with the Russian
:23:11. > :23:12.leader, Vladimir Putin, was no better - Crimea,
:23:13. > :23:16.cyber espionage and Syria left The pledge at the start of his
:23:17. > :23:23.presidency was all about disengaging from costly conflicts and bringing
:23:24. > :23:26.the troops back home. In 2011, President Obama
:23:27. > :23:29.achieved something the Bush administration did not,
:23:30. > :23:32.the successful tracking down and raid to kill
:23:33. > :23:36.Public Enemy Number One. The United States has
:23:37. > :23:39.conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden,
:23:40. > :23:46.the leader of Al-Qaeda. The raid and promise
:23:47. > :23:51.of the Arab Spring would soon be replaced by a Middle East in flames
:23:52. > :23:54.and the rise of so-called Islamic State, the fight against
:23:55. > :23:58.which remains unfinished business. Arguably, the low point
:23:59. > :24:01.for President Obama in the Middle East has been Syria
:24:02. > :24:04.which has been a humanitarian catastrophe sparking the worst
:24:05. > :24:09.refugee crisis since World War II and the President's failure to act
:24:10. > :24:13.against President Assad, despite much huffing and puffing,
:24:14. > :24:19.has come back to to haunt him. A red line for us is we start seeing
:24:20. > :24:22.a whole bunch of chemical weapons I think it was a mistake not
:24:23. > :24:29.to enforce the red line. When the United States says,
:24:30. > :24:36.very clearly ,that there will be costs and consequences for a certain
:24:37. > :24:38.action, I think it's important But I also wouldn't confuse that,
:24:39. > :24:42.enforcing the chemical weapons red line, with the notion
:24:43. > :24:44.that there was some interventionist Barack Obama's policy towards Syria
:24:45. > :24:52.is very much like the country's embassy here in Washington DC,
:24:53. > :24:56.an empty shell, newspapers piling up In the talks to bring
:24:57. > :25:00.peace to the country, Barack Obama has flipped flopped
:25:01. > :25:07.over whether to take military action, too slow to react
:25:08. > :25:09.to the dangers of It's been a period in which American
:25:10. > :25:14.influence has waned From one empty embassy
:25:15. > :25:21.to another that has had This is the Cuban embassy
:25:22. > :25:26.in north-west Washington. For over 50 years it had lain
:25:27. > :25:30.derelict, a last legacy, In the warmth of a Caribbean island,
:25:31. > :25:45.Barack Obama consigned the last piece of icy Cold War
:25:46. > :25:47.legacy to history. Cuba had brought the world
:25:48. > :25:50.to the edge of nuclear war, now diplomatic relations
:25:51. > :25:51.are restored, an extraordinary He leaves office largely admired
:25:52. > :25:55.and popular around the world, not least for his role in the global
:25:56. > :26:02.climate change deal. He'd tried to carve out
:26:03. > :26:06.a foreign policy that he saw as right for the times,
:26:07. > :26:10.but as the Commander-in-Chief was given the traditional send-off,
:26:11. > :26:15.in his own way was he as destructive to US power and influence
:26:16. > :26:21.as his predecessor, George W Bush, and what would the Nobel Committee
:26:22. > :26:23.make of him eight years on? There will be live coverage
:26:24. > :26:36.of Barack Obama's farewell speech from Chicago at 2.00am on the BBC
:26:37. > :26:39.News Channel. Sir David Clementi, a former deputy
:26:40. > :26:43.governor of the Bank of England, is to be the next chairman
:26:44. > :26:45.of the BBC. The appointment of Sir David
:26:46. > :26:47.was announced after it was approved He faces the task of leading
:26:48. > :26:57.a new Board to oversee how the BBC is run while the media watchdog,
:26:58. > :27:01.Ofcom, takes over the Football's world governing body,
:27:02. > :27:05.Fifa, has approved plans to expand The new format will be
:27:06. > :27:10.introduced from 2026. The bulk of the additional slots
:27:11. > :27:13.are likely to go to African Our Sports News correspondent,
:27:14. > :27:20.Richard Conway, has been talking to Fifa's new boss,
:27:21. > :27:38.Gianni Infantino. 16 more countries have the chance to
:27:39. > :27:43.get their hands on the World Cup. Speaking to me today, the world
:27:44. > :27:47.governing bodies president insisted in the face of much criticism it's
:27:48. > :27:53.time for the sport to look beyond its traditional borders.
:27:54. > :27:56.Football has now become a truly global game because many more
:27:57. > :27:58.countries, many more teams, will have the chance to qualify,
:27:59. > :28:00.so they will invest in developing football.
:28:01. > :28:02.They will invest in developing elite football as well as
:28:03. > :28:13.The growth of the World Cup will bring enormous extra revenue,
:28:14. > :28:16.Fifa stand to make an additional ?500 million in profit in 2026,
:28:17. > :28:20.But the man elected as Fifa president, partly on a pledge
:28:21. > :28:22.to deliver a bigger competition, insists it's not
:28:23. > :28:26.Well, it's not at all a money and power grab, it's
:28:27. > :28:42.actually the opposite, it's a football decision.
:28:43. > :28:45.So the way we presented it was - OK - we presented four formats,
:28:46. > :28:47.every one of the four formats has advantages, in terms
:28:48. > :28:50.of the financial situation, which means we are in a comfortable
:28:51. > :28:52.situation to be able to take a decision simply based
:28:53. > :28:55.Asia, where interest in football is booming,
:28:56. > :28:58.and Africa stand to benefit the most when the extra 16
:28:59. > :29:01.There will be more slots too for European nations.
:29:02. > :29:03.The Scottish FA welcomed today's decision, believing it will give
:29:04. > :29:08.them and others a better chance of qualifying.
:29:09. > :29:11.After a number of years, when Fifa was a by-word for corruption,
:29:12. > :29:14.its new leadership is determined to assert itself.
:29:15. > :29:23.Gianni Infantino's task is now to convince his critics a reformed
:29:24. > :29:28.The former war correspondent, Clare Hollingworth,
:29:29. > :29:30.who reported the outbreak of the Second World War,
:29:31. > :29:39.She was the first journalist to report on the build-up of German
:29:40. > :29:42.troops on the Polish border in 1939, and she went on to witness some
:29:43. > :29:44.of the most significant events of the 20th Century.
:29:45. > :29:46.Our world affairs editor, John Simpson, knew Clare
:29:47. > :29:50.Hollingworth and he's been looking back at her life and achievements.
:29:51. > :29:53.ARCHIVE: This is a national programme from London.
:29:54. > :29:57.Germany has invaded Poland and has bombed many towns.
:29:58. > :30:02.It was Clare Hollingworth's first story.
:30:03. > :30:05.Three days earlier, she'd spotted the build up of German armour
:30:06. > :30:09.I rode along a valley and there was tarpaulin up
:30:10. > :30:16.to prevent you looking down into the valley.
:30:17. > :30:20.Suddenly, a gust of wind blew the tarp away from the moorings.
:30:21. > :30:22.I looked down into the valley and there were scores,
:30:23. > :30:34.That set the pattern for her long career, scoop after scoop.
:30:35. > :30:37.It was Clare who broke the news of Kim Philby's defection to Russia,
:30:38. > :30:40.though her newspaper, the Guardian, fearing a libel suit,
:30:41. > :30:48.In Vietnam, she was a fearless war correspondent.
:30:49. > :30:51.I'm really passionately interested in war.
:30:52. > :30:54.If one is passionately interested in war, one can't
:30:55. > :31:00.Despite her bad eye sight and slight build, she was remarkably tough.
:31:01. > :31:07.She used her auntie-ish appearance to great effect.
:31:08. > :31:11.Once in East Berlin, she spotted a brand new Soviet Tank.
:31:12. > :31:14.The crew had wandered off, so she clambered onto it and got
:31:15. > :31:16.a look at the spedometer and petrol gauge.
:31:17. > :31:21.The Russian soldiers came running back furious,
:31:22. > :31:24.but she said innocently she was just trying to work out how
:31:25. > :31:29.The next day, her paper led on the new tank's speed and range.
:31:30. > :31:37.She led the way for all the tens of thousands of women journalists
:31:38. > :31:42.who are now working all over the world and especially in wars.
:31:43. > :31:43.I think she was almost fearless and absolutely
:31:44. > :31:56.She remained a journalist into her 90s and last year,
:31:57. > :31:58.in Hong Kong, where she lived, her friends celebrated
:31:59. > :32:03.Clare Hollingworth had been a remarkable witness
:32:04. > :32:17.The tributes today to journalist Clare Hollingworth, who's
:32:18. > :32:25.This was meant to be the day that Jeremy Corbyn set out a clear
:32:26. > :32:27.Labour policy on Brexit, I'll be asking one of his
:32:28. > :32:30.closest lieutenants why it was such a shambles.
:32:31. > :32:33.Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.