0:00:04 > 0:00:07The Government backs down and offers MPs a chance to vote on the detail
0:00:07 > 0:00:11of the final Brexit deal.
0:00:11 > 0:00:14It's a last-minute concession, ahead of a controversial
0:00:14 > 0:00:15Brexit legislation debate, which returns to
0:00:15 > 0:00:18the Commons tomorrow.
0:00:18 > 0:00:20Parliament will be given time to debate, scrutinise and vote
0:00:20 > 0:00:23on the final agreement we strike with the European Union.
0:00:23 > 0:00:27This agreement will only hold if Parliament approves it.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31These questions have been pressing for months.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33This last-minute attempt to climb down brings them
0:00:33 > 0:00:35into very sharp focus.
0:00:35 > 0:00:40But the Government's warning that a vote against the deal means the UK
0:00:40 > 0:00:42will leave with no agreement leaves some MPs unimpressed.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Also tonight:
0:00:44 > 0:00:46A BBC investigation reveals a deal to allow so-called IS fighters
0:00:46 > 0:00:48to escape the Syrian city of Raqqa.
0:00:48 > 0:00:55Where are they now?
0:00:55 > 0:00:57It's here that they realised that they might live
0:00:57 > 0:00:58to fight another day.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01The deal to get them out of here is the deal that no-one
0:01:01 > 0:01:02wants to talk about.
0:01:02 > 0:01:08It's Raqqa's dirty secret.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10The force of the earthquake that struck Iraq and Iran,
0:01:10 > 0:01:14killing over 350 people.
0:01:14 > 0:01:15The British woman imprisoned in Iran.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17The Foreign Secretary apologises for mishandling her case
0:01:17 > 0:01:23and increasing her distress.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26And the ten million tonnes of food we throw away every year -
0:01:26 > 0:01:30that experts say is mostly good enough to eat.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32And coming up on Sportsday on BBC News:
0:01:32 > 0:01:351958 was the last time Italy failed to make it to the World Cup.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Can Sweden prevent them from reaching Russia next year?
0:02:01 > 0:02:02Good evening.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05In a political climbdown, the Government has offered MPs
0:02:05 > 0:02:12the opportunity to debate the final Brexit agreement line
0:02:12 > 0:02:14by line - and potentially vote to amend it.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16But the Brexit Secretary, David Davis, couldn't guarantee
0:02:16 > 0:02:19the bill will happen before Brexit day, in March 2019, and warned
0:02:19 > 0:02:22that if MPs use the bill to vote against the deal -
0:02:22 > 0:02:25whatever it is - Britain will simply leave the EU without an agreement.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28It appears to have been a move to appease Tory rebels, ahead
0:02:28 > 0:02:30of a key Brexit debate tomorrow.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33But it's infuriated many MPs on both sides of the Commons.
0:02:33 > 0:02:38Here's our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg.
0:02:45 > 0:02:50The trappings of power at the Prime Minister at London's glittering
0:02:50 > 0:02:55Guildhall tonight. An evening away from the Parliamentary grind, trying
0:02:55 > 0:03:01to avoid being hit by the Golden mace. Less surprising were her
0:03:01 > 0:03:04reassurances about her Brexit approach.
0:03:04 > 0:03:08There will be ups and downs along the way. But I believe we should
0:03:08 > 0:03:12embrace this period with confidence and optimism.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15The Government is not too cheery about getting their Brexit
0:03:15 > 0:03:20legislation through the Commons. Secretary David Davis. This
0:03:20 > 0:03:26afternoon, at -- a concession, a new act of Parliament on the final
0:03:26 > 0:03:30Brexit deal. I can confirm that once we reach an
0:03:30 > 0:03:33agreement, we will bring forward is Pacific Pisa primary legislation to
0:03:33 > 0:03:37implement that agreement. Parliament will be given time to debate,
0:03:37 > 0:03:40scrutinise and boat on the final agreement we strike with the
0:03:40 > 0:03:42European Union. This will only hold a Parliament
0:03:42 > 0:03:48approves it.Giving in Sorum Tory and Labour demands for Parliament to
0:03:48 > 0:03:52have a proper decision if and when a deal is done.It is a recognition by
0:03:52 > 0:03:57the Government that it is about to lose a series of boats on the
0:03:57 > 0:04:02Withdrawal Bill. Mr Speaker, these questions have been pressing for
0:04:02 > 0:04:04months, this last-minute attempt to climb down brings them into very
0:04:04 > 0:04:11sharp focus and we are entitled to clear answers.
0:04:11 > 0:04:16Stop Brexit! In other words, what took you so long to admit that
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Parliament would need a make or break Brexit moment?
0:04:20 > 0:04:25Stop Brexit! There has been the is resistance to
0:04:25 > 0:04:30the laws already going through the Commons and this was meant to take
0:04:30 > 0:04:33some of the wind out of the sails of the rebels but if there is no deal
0:04:33 > 0:04:38and no time, could there be no vote? If we run out of time, none of these
0:04:38 > 0:04:42suggestions that have been put forward is that the time has to be
0:04:42 > 0:04:46extended under Article 50 so that all parties are able to deal with
0:04:46 > 0:04:51it.If the House of Commons votes down the new Withdrawal Bill, will
0:04:51 > 0:04:56the consequence be that we will still leave on the 29th of March
0:04:56 > 0:05:062019 but without an agreement?Yes. What was that?The Secretary of
0:05:06 > 0:05:13State said, yes. So does it change that much? There
0:05:13 > 0:05:17is still an happiness swirling around.I have to say a lot of us
0:05:17 > 0:05:20were insulted by this because it sounded so good and when you dug
0:05:20 > 0:05:26into the detail, you realised this so-called meaningful vote was
0:05:26 > 0:05:28completely meaningless. It matters not so much here, but in
0:05:28 > 0:05:33the real world. European business equipped in Number 10 today to make
0:05:33 > 0:05:38it plain to the Prime Minister. Jobs, millions of families
0:05:38 > 0:05:42livelihoods depend on her getting Brexit right.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46Laura, the timing of this intervention by the Government
0:05:46 > 0:05:49is key, but how meaningful is this suggested new bill and is it enough
0:05:49 > 0:05:52to keep the Government out of difficulty with its own MPs?
0:05:52 > 0:05:55I think it is certainly not enough to keep the Godman out of trouble
0:05:55 > 0:06:00with its own MPs. The timing of this is absolutely crucial. It is no
0:06:00 > 0:06:03current system is the Government caved on this particular issue
0:06:03 > 0:06:10today. Tomorrow, the Withdrawal Bill as it is known gets into its next
0:06:10 > 0:06:16stage in the House of Commons and there will be between now and
0:06:16 > 0:06:21Christmas line by line, day by day, arguments on hundreds of amendments
0:06:21 > 0:06:24over how the Government wants to take us out of the EU as they try to
0:06:24 > 0:06:31transpose European law back onto the British statute book. But the idea
0:06:31 > 0:06:34that suddenly emerged by surprise today of having another Withdrawal
0:06:34 > 0:06:40Bill much later in the stage to give MPs a Finals Day was intended to
0:06:40 > 0:06:45calm down all the tempers that were already fraying over what would
0:06:45 > 0:06:49happen in the next few months and has it allowed those tempers to cool
0:06:49 > 0:06:54down? It does not seem that way to me. I am told by people on both
0:06:54 > 0:06:57sides inside the Tory Party that there was a stormy meeting between
0:06:57 > 0:07:02the Chief Whip, in charge of party discipline, and a dozen key Tory
0:07:02 > 0:07:08rebels about this matter this afternoon. Both sides concede it was
0:07:08 > 0:07:12stormy, that is political code for quite grim and probably with a lot
0:07:12 > 0:07:15of shouting involved. Ministers know that they are going to have to give
0:07:15 > 0:07:19ground in the coming months and may have known for a long time they
0:07:19 > 0:07:24would have the net and took and compromise here and there, but
0:07:24 > 0:07:26today's attempt at conceding, which is not something a competent
0:07:26 > 0:07:33government would have done, has knocked -- has not waved a magic
0:07:33 > 0:07:37wand to make this all go away. Thank you.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40When US-backed Syrian fighters took full control of the city of Raqqa,
0:07:40 > 0:07:43it ended three years of rule there by so-called Islamic State.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46But now the BBC has uncovered details of a secret deal that let
0:07:46 > 0:07:48several hundred IS fighters escape.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52IS made Raqqa, in northern Syria, its headquarters in early 2014.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Last month, Raqqa fell, but this programme has learnt that
0:07:55 > 0:07:58in exchange for a deal to save lives and bring peace to the city,
0:07:58 > 0:08:01a convoy carrying several hundred IS fighters,
0:08:01 > 0:08:03their families and weapons and ammunition were able
0:08:03 > 0:08:07to leave the city freely.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10The question now is, where are they now?
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Our Middle East correspondent, Quentin Sommerville,
0:08:12 > 0:08:17has this exclusive report.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Even at peace, with the so-called Islamic State gone, Raqqa
0:08:28 > 0:08:31is still deadly dangerous.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Few of its roads have been cleared.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36The fighting stopped here a month ago, but there are still mines
0:08:36 > 0:08:40and booby traps everywhere.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Most of the city is a no-go zone.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Hardly anyone has been allowed to return.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47But we made it inside, searching for a trail
0:08:47 > 0:08:50through the debris, looking for clues to the Islamic
0:08:50 > 0:08:57State's escape route.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59The city hospital was their last refuge and it's here
0:08:59 > 0:09:05where our journey begins.
0:09:10 > 0:09:16The group's final defeat came thanks not to a battle, but to a bus ride.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18The convoy left from here, the city hospital.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20They'd been holed up inside for months.
0:09:20 > 0:09:29On it were IS fighters, their families and hostages,
0:09:29 > 0:09:32but we're told the mood was not dejected, it was not defeated.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33They were defiant.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36It was here that they realised that they might live to fight
0:09:36 > 0:09:38another day.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41The deal to get them out of here is the deal that no
0:09:41 > 0:09:42one wants to talk about.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44It's Raqqa's dirty secret.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46So did Kurds, Arabs and the Western coalition get together and agree
0:09:46 > 0:09:51a deal that not only allowed IS to escape from Raqqa,
0:09:51 > 0:09:54but also allowed its fiercest fighters to roam far and wide
0:09:54 > 0:10:01from the confines of this city?
0:10:01 > 0:10:05They left a city lonely, empty and in ruins.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08The hunt begins here in Raqqa, but would take us across
0:10:08 > 0:10:10northern Syria and beyond.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14The deal started with a media blackout.
0:10:14 > 0:10:21The Islamic State's escape was not to be televised.
0:10:21 > 0:10:26But, thanks to amateur footage...
0:10:26 > 0:10:30We see that this was a convoy and a deal too large to hide.
0:10:30 > 0:10:35The world was told only a few dozen local fighters were being let go.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37No foreigners and no weapons.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39But the trucks were crammed full of fighters, some
0:10:39 > 0:10:40wearing suicide belts.
0:10:40 > 0:10:45All were heavily armed.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48After days of searching, we picked up the trail at a truck
0:10:48 > 0:10:51stop on the outskirts of Tabqa.
0:10:51 > 0:10:56Here, we discovered the drivers, all civilians, who drove
0:10:56 > 0:10:59IS to freedom.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01They had been hired by the Kurdish-led Syrian
0:11:01 > 0:11:02Democratic Forces.
0:11:02 > 0:11:08It was the longest journey of their lines.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11Their trucks were rigged with IS bombs, in case
0:11:11 > 0:11:12the deal collapsed.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15They had been told they were picking up only a few hundred civilians,
0:11:15 > 0:11:17that it would be a quick job.
0:11:17 > 0:11:24They ended up driving day and night for three days.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Everybody's been saying only a couple of hundred at the absolute
0:11:27 > 0:11:29maximum IS fighters left Raqqa.
0:11:29 > 0:11:35You took them out, tell us how many you transported.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37TRANSLATION:We were 47 trucks and 13 buses, and IS militants
0:11:37 > 0:11:39took their own vehicles, as well.
0:11:39 > 0:11:45Our convoy was 6-7 kilometres long.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48We took out around 4,000 people, including women and children.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Tell me about the foreigners that were on the trucks,
0:11:51 > 0:11:52where were they from?
0:11:52 > 0:11:55TRANSLATION:France, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan,
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Yemen, Saudi, China, Tunisia, Egypt.
0:11:58 > 0:12:05There was a huge number of foreigners.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07This couldn't look like the Islamic State's escape to victory,
0:12:07 > 0:12:12so the SDF insisted there would be no flags and no banners.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16Instead, IS fighters sat boldly on top of the trucks.
0:12:16 > 0:12:22The axle on one lorry broke, it was so overloaded with IS weaponry.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25When they made it to the village of Shenina, they stopped
0:12:25 > 0:12:28at this person's shop.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32Pale and hungry, the IS fighters cleared his shelves.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35TRANSLATION:We were at the shop here and an SDF vehicle stopped
0:12:35 > 0:12:38to say there was a truce agreement between them and IS.
0:12:38 > 0:12:44They wanted us to clear the area.
0:12:44 > 0:12:49As soon as we did so, an IS convoy came passing through.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52There were about 4,000 people leaving Raqqa on that road here.
0:12:52 > 0:12:53It took them about 2-3 hours.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55It was bumper-to-bumper.
0:12:55 > 0:12:59Coalition aircraft flew above them, but did nothing.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03The convoy drove on.
0:13:03 > 0:13:08We kept close on its tracks, for here is where IS hoped to disappear.
0:13:08 > 0:13:14They left the main road.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17Mahmoud watched as they took a dirt trail into the desert.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20As they passed, they warned that they would behead
0:13:20 > 0:13:21the people who'd betrayed them.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23TRANSLATION:There were loads of vehicles.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24I could not count them all.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26It took them about four hours to pass through.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29We have been living in terror for the past four, five years.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32It will take us a while to rid ourselves of that
0:13:32 > 0:13:33psychological fear.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35We feel that they may be coming back for us,
0:13:35 > 0:13:39or send sleeper agents.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42We're still not sure that they have gone for good
0:13:42 > 0:13:45and will not ever return.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Responding to our investigation, the coalition now admits that
0:13:47 > 0:13:51thousands were allowed to leave here.
0:13:51 > 0:13:56But foreigners did not escape, it maintains.
0:13:56 > 0:14:04Some of those who escaped have already made it here to Turkey.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Raqqa was their capital, but it was also a cage.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08There, they were trapped.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12The deal brought peace to the city, but it also allowed some of the most
0:14:12 > 0:14:15battle-hardened IS fighters to escape not just Raqqa,
0:14:15 > 0:14:18but also Syria, and arrive here on Europe's doorstep.
0:14:18 > 0:14:24The winds have carried news of the Islamic State's defeat,
0:14:24 > 0:14:28but they bring with them a warning and a threat from a smuggler
0:14:28 > 0:14:30and a former IS fighter.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34TRANSLATION:After IS crumbled in Raqqa and Deir ez-Zur,
0:14:34 > 0:14:37the smugglers here noticed a surge in the numbers of those
0:14:37 > 0:14:45who are trying to cross into Turkey.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48They are mostly IS fighters and families from Raqqa and Deir ez-Zur.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50They are both foreigners and Syrians.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52TRANSLATION:There are some French brothers from our group who left
0:14:52 > 0:14:55for France to carry out attacks in what would be called
0:14:55 > 0:14:57a day of reckoning.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00The caliphate has gone, but the Islamic State
0:15:00 > 0:15:02is still out there.
0:15:02 > 0:15:07Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, Istanbul.
0:15:07 > 0:15:08More than 400 people have been killed
0:15:08 > 0:15:11in a powerful earthquake that's struck the northern
0:15:11 > 0:15:14border of Iran and Iraq.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17Another 7,000 were injured and the casualty figure
0:15:17 > 0:15:21is expected to rise on both sides of the border.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23A major rescue operation is underway, but it is being hampered
0:15:23 > 0:15:25by landslides and power cuts.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28The epicentre of the quake, which measured 7.3,
0:15:28 > 0:15:30was just under 20 miles south of Halabja.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32One of the worst-hit areas was Sarpol-e Zahab,
0:15:32 > 0:15:36as James Robbins reports.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38The moment the Earth starts shaking violently.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41A man runs for his life from the control room of this dam,
0:15:41 > 0:15:46as massive boulders are hurled around outside.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48The dam wall was not breached.
0:15:48 > 0:15:53But, elsewhere, devastation.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56In Iran, the border town of Sarpol-e Zahab was hit hardest.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58As entire walls collapsed, many families did manage
0:15:58 > 0:16:05to flee their homes, but others were crushed or buried.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08At a local hospital, there were many stories of narrow escape.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10TRANSLATION: I fell from the balcony down.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13The earthquake was very strong.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16TRANSLATION:The earthquake shattered the window,
0:16:16 > 0:16:20which fell on me, and it wounded my hand and my face.
0:16:20 > 0:16:25Rescue has been made more difficult by the mountainous terrain.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Iranian authorities are pouring resources in, but landslides
0:16:28 > 0:16:32and power cuts are slowing both rescue efforts and
0:16:32 > 0:16:35the task of establishing the full extent of casualties.
0:16:35 > 0:16:41This quake was 7.3 in magnitude and happened in a known danger zone.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44The surface of the Earth is made up of tectonic plates,
0:16:44 > 0:16:49and, in this case, the Arabian plate has been moving roughly northwards
0:16:49 > 0:16:51against the Eurasian plate at a rate of two centimetres -
0:16:51 > 0:16:54just under an inch a year.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Forces build up and eventually are very suddenly
0:16:56 > 0:17:01released with devastating effect.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05The destruction in Iran is greater than in neighbouring Iraq,
0:17:05 > 0:17:09where a major rescue operation is also under way.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11BBC correspondent Rami Ruhayem is there.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15This area is one of the hardest hit in Iraq by Sunday's earthquake.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19We are told seven people were inside this home when it collapsed.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23Two of them were killed and others were injured.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Several other buildings suffered similar damage to this one,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29but, fortunately, they seem to be the exception rather than the rule,
0:17:29 > 0:17:32and most of the other homes in the region managed to withstand
0:17:32 > 0:17:36the impact of the earthquake.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40For the survivors, night-time is the toughest.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42In rapidly falling temperatures, families are huddled around fires.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Even where buildings are intact,
0:17:44 > 0:17:47fear of after-shocks will keep people outdoors.
0:17:47 > 0:17:54James Robbins, BBC News.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57The Foreign Secretary has admitted for the first time that he made
0:17:57 > 0:17:58a mistake in his handling of the case
0:17:58 > 0:18:00of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - the British woman held
0:18:00 > 0:18:02in prison in Iran.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06Boris Johnson apologised for the distress and suffering
0:18:06 > 0:18:09he had caused her and her family by wrongly saying that she was
0:18:09 > 0:18:12training journalists in Iran, as opposed to being on holiday.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14He also confirmed that he would be meeting Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's
0:18:14 > 0:18:15husband this week.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18Our special correspondent, Lucy Manning, has been speaking to him.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21THEY SING
0:18:21 > 0:18:28A mother singing with her daughter just a week before her arrest.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has now been separated from three-year-old
0:18:30 > 0:18:35Gabriella for a year and a half.
0:18:35 > 0:18:40With her health deteriorating in an Iranian prison and the words
0:18:40 > 0:18:43of politicians here appearing to harm her case, her
0:18:43 > 0:18:44husband has this message for the Foreign Secretary.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47I want you to solve this mess in your name.
0:18:47 > 0:18:48And I stand by that.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51I think it's not a mess that's entirely the Foreign Secretary's
0:18:51 > 0:18:54making, by any means, but it is a mess that his name has
0:18:54 > 0:18:56been attached to and it is getting deeper and more complicated
0:18:56 > 0:18:58because of that.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01He will take these requests to a meeting with the Foreign
0:19:01 > 0:19:02Secretary this week.
0:19:02 > 0:19:03You're going to go to Iran.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05And when you go, I'd like to go with you.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09I'd like to be on that plane, I'd like to be standing next to you,
0:19:09 > 0:19:10for the symbolism that has.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13The second thing is that Nazanin be given diplomatic protection.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15That is within the gift of the Government.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19Mr Johnson had been less than clear in backing the family's account that
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in Iran visiting relatives
0:19:21 > 0:19:22when she was arrested.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24When you look at what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
0:19:24 > 0:19:27was doing, you just, you know, she was simply
0:19:27 > 0:19:31teaching people journalism, as I understand it.
0:19:31 > 0:19:36Today, Labour demanded answers about Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case
0:19:36 > 0:19:38from the Foreign Secretary, who had to return from Brussels.
0:19:38 > 0:19:39It is not good enough.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42If it is a matter of pride that the Foreign Secretary
0:19:42 > 0:19:46is refusing to admit simply that he has made a mistake, well,
0:19:46 > 0:19:50then I feel bound to say to him that his pride matters not one ounce
0:19:50 > 0:19:54compared to Nazanin's freedom.
0:19:54 > 0:19:55Mr Johnson was apologetic.
0:19:55 > 0:19:56It was my mistake.
0:19:56 > 0:19:57I should have been clearer.
0:19:57 > 0:20:03I apologise for the distress...
0:20:03 > 0:20:06I apologise for the distress and anguish that has been caused
0:20:06 > 0:20:07to Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Ministers are considering if diplomatic protection can be
0:20:09 > 0:20:12given to Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, which would turn it from a consular
0:20:12 > 0:20:21issue into a more serious dispute between the UK and Iran.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24But it's not clear if this would help her.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's employers were insistent her job
0:20:26 > 0:20:27was an administrative one.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29We don't work in Iran.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31To start with, the Thomson Reuters' condition doesn't work there.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33And we have no relations with Iran.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35But on top of that, she was really on holiday.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38And let me tell you, she's not spy material at all.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42Her family just want her home.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45Young Gabriella cried when her visit to her mum in prison this
0:20:45 > 0:20:46weekend was cut short.
0:20:46 > 0:20:50Lucy Manning, BBC News.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53A man has been has been found guilty of carrying out an acid attack
0:20:53 > 0:20:55at a London nightclub in which 16 people
0:20:55 > 0:21:05were seriously injured.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10In CCTV, you can see 25-year-old Arthur Collins
0:21:10 > 0:21:12throw the corrosive substance at the Mangle Club,
0:21:12 > 0:21:13in east London, in April.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15He was convicted of 14 charges, including grievous bodily harm.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17An inquest has heard that Welsh Government
0:21:17 > 0:21:19minister Carl Sergeant - who was sacked after allegations
0:21:19 > 0:21:21about his conduct - hanged himself.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23His body was discovered at his home in Flintshire last week.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Mr Sergeant was facing a Labour Party investigation
0:21:25 > 0:21:27following claims about his behaviour by a number of women.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31Bob Geldof has returned his honour granting him freedom of the city
0:21:31 > 0:21:34of Dublin in protest at the Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi
0:21:34 > 0:21:37receiving the same award.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39She has faced criticism for the treatment of the Rohingya
0:21:39 > 0:21:41minority in her country.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43MPs in Westminster have been debating a budget
0:21:43 > 0:21:46for Northern Ireland, ten months after the power-sharing
0:21:46 > 0:21:48government at Stormont collapsed.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51Despite talks, the DUP and Sinn Fein have failed to agree a deal
0:21:51 > 0:21:53to restore devolution since then.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Our Ireland correspondent, Chris Buckler, is at Stormont tonight.
0:21:55 > 0:22:03Chris, this is not something Westminster wanted.
0:22:03 > 0:22:09But not having a budget has had an effect. Yes, public services have
0:22:09 > 0:22:13been running out of cash without a power-sharing executive Westminster
0:22:13 > 0:22:18has had to step in and the announcement tonight the promise of
0:22:18 > 0:22:22an extra 15 million for health and education, money that has come from
0:22:22 > 0:22:28the million pound deal the DUP did to support the Tories at Westminster
0:22:28 > 0:22:32but relationships there have not helped relationships that Stormont
0:22:32 > 0:22:37and Sinn Fein and the DUP are deeply divided. James Brokenshire I was at
0:22:37 > 0:22:42pains in the Commons to say it was not the start of direct rule, where
0:22:42 > 0:22:46London would take over the running of departments in Belfast. He wants
0:22:46 > 0:22:52a deal between parties here he said. Sinn Fein said negotiations are over
0:22:52 > 0:22:57for the moment and the DUP have been taking the instruction of direct
0:22:57 > 0:23:01rule in a matter of weeks. We have a limbo for Northern Ireland
0:23:01 > 0:23:07government between devolution and direct rule and without anyone able
0:23:07 > 0:23:10to make decisions. Frankly, that cannot go one for ever.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Global carbon-dioxide emissions are projected to rise
0:23:12 > 0:23:14for the first time in four years.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16Scientists at a United Nations climate conference in Germany say
0:23:16 > 0:23:19the main cause of the growth is the greater use of coal in China,
0:23:19 > 0:23:21as its economy grows.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Researchers say cuts in emissions are needed to avoid dangerous global
0:23:24 > 0:23:27warming later this century, as our science editor,
0:23:27 > 0:23:31David Shukman, explains.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34For more than a week now, the people of Delhi have been
0:23:34 > 0:23:39suffering in air that has become toxic.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Smog created by countless engines burning fossil
0:23:41 > 0:23:44fuels, including coal.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Coal is one of the biggest sources of pollution worldwide.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49Power stations such as this one in Poland belch out gases
0:23:49 > 0:23:53including carbon dioxide, and despite promises to clean up,
0:23:53 > 0:23:57emissions are actually increasing.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59For countries in the path of devastating hurricanes,
0:23:59 > 0:24:01like the ones that struck the Caribbean earlier this year,
0:24:01 > 0:24:04this is depressing.
0:24:04 > 0:24:08Because global warming may bring more extreme weather.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12And it seems to them that little is being done to stop it.
0:24:12 > 0:24:13This is very worrying for us.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17I would hate to say that it sounds a death knell,
0:24:17 > 0:24:20but it translates into that, given this summer we have had such
0:24:20 > 0:24:21an active hurricane season.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25We know what Irma and Maria did to the region.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27This new research finds that more and more carbon dioxide
0:24:27 > 0:24:30is being released from power stations, factories and different
0:24:30 > 0:24:33forms of transport.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35And this matters because the gas traps heat in the atmosphere.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38This graph shows how emissions of carbon dioxide have risen over
0:24:38 > 0:24:43almost three decades.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46In the last few years, they have been levelling off,
0:24:46 > 0:24:48which was seen as a positive sign.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51But this year, there has suddenly been an increase of 2%.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54So what is happening and who is to blame around the world?
0:24:54 > 0:24:59In America, emissions of carbon dioxide have fallen slightly
0:24:59 > 0:25:01and that is despite President Trump wanting to leave
0:25:01 > 0:25:03the Paris agreement.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05In Europe, they are on course to be down as well.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08But in China they are up, as the economy picks up
0:25:08 > 0:25:12and more coal is burned.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15Climate scientists say it is vital that less coal is used
0:25:15 > 0:25:17if we are to have any chance of heading off the worst
0:25:17 > 0:25:18of global warming.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21But President Trump is promoting the coal industry and he wants
0:25:21 > 0:25:26America to help other countries to use it.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29There are countries that have said that coal is going to be
0:25:29 > 0:25:31part of our energy mix for the foreseeable future, many
0:25:31 > 0:25:34in Asia and some in Africa as well.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38And they have been clear that because coal is going to be part
0:25:38 > 0:25:40of their energy mix in the future, they want support for
0:25:40 > 0:25:44cleaner coal technology.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47There is now a battle over a fuel that many economies rely on.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51There are plans to make coal cleaner, to use it
0:25:51 > 0:25:52without releasing carbon dioxide.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56But this is not much of a reality so far and, in the meantime,
0:25:56 > 0:25:59there are warnings that emissions need to fall rapidly,
0:25:59 > 0:26:05not rise, as they are now.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09Now, it looks pretty revolting.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13Just some of the ten million tonnes of food we throw away each year.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15And despite what it looks like here, experts say much
0:26:15 > 0:26:17of it is good enough to eat.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19There is waste throughout the food supply chain,
0:26:19 > 0:26:22but it's thought that the biggest problem lies with consumers -
0:26:22 > 0:26:25that's us - and campaigners are urging families to be much more
0:26:25 > 0:26:33careful about what they throw away, as Jeremy Cooke explains.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35OK, it is past its sell-by date.
0:26:35 > 0:26:36But this is, or was, food.
0:26:36 > 0:26:37What's this?
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Sushi.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42Grown, produced, processed, and discarded.
0:26:42 > 0:26:47A super-sized serving of stinking waste.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51It's amazing how much food is thrown out, and it's amazing how long it's
0:26:51 > 0:26:52taken the message to get through.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55If you don't have to eat it, don't buy it.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58The striking thing here is the tonnes of food waste
0:26:58 > 0:27:00that we all throw away all the time.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04This stuff has come from bars and restaurants and businesses
0:27:04 > 0:27:09and there are mountains of it piling up here every day.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Across the country, we throw away 10 million
0:27:11 > 0:27:15tonnes of food every year.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19That's £17 billion worth in the bin.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22And we're told 60% of that is avoidable -
0:27:22 > 0:27:25food that could have and should have been eaten.
0:27:25 > 0:27:29There is waste through the entire supply chain.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31From in the field, in the manufacturing,
0:27:31 > 0:27:34in the restaurant, in the retail, in the supermarket, distribution,
0:27:34 > 0:27:37and in the kitchen at home.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41Overproduction is a fact of the modern food industry.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Most of the surplus - good, nutritious stuff - goes to waste.
0:27:44 > 0:27:49But here there's another way.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51All of this, if it wasn't for Fareshare, would end
0:27:51 > 0:27:53up going in the bin.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55At the Fareshare charity, they take the surplus and use
0:27:55 > 0:27:58it to feed the hungry.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01The thing that really drives us nuts is it is going to waste
0:28:01 > 0:28:03while there are people going hungry.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06We feed at the moment half a million people a week,
0:28:06 > 0:28:12half a million people a week, with this food.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15We do that to 7000 front-line charity and community groups.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Which is good news here at the Melton Learning Hub,
0:28:18 > 0:28:23where disadvantaged kids get good, fresh food.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25For our kids it means they get hot meal.
0:28:25 > 0:28:29They definitely get a hot meal every day.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32Lots of different circumstances the young people come to us
0:28:32 > 0:28:35in and it is a brilliant way of using food that would,
0:28:35 > 0:28:36as you say, go to waste.
0:28:36 > 0:28:41But Luke and his mates know that this is the exception.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44Most surplus food is simply thrown away.
0:28:44 > 0:28:48This stuff, if it was like left on the shelf, it would get put
0:28:48 > 0:28:50into storage and get put in landfills and that
0:28:50 > 0:28:51and that's not good.
0:28:51 > 0:28:55Tackling the issue will mean dumping less food and doing more
0:28:55 > 0:28:57with whatever goes in the bin.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00Here it is used to make valuable fertiliser to generate
0:29:00 > 0:29:02gas and electricity.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04But most of our discarded food still goes to the incinerator
0:29:04 > 0:29:06or to landfill - perhaps the definition of waste
0:29:06 > 0:29:09in a hungry world.
0:29:09 > 0:29:14Jeremy Cooke, BBC News.
0:29:14 > 0:29:17The four-time winners of football's World Cup - Italy -
0:29:17 > 0:29:20have been eliminated from the finals next year in Russia.
0:29:20 > 0:29:23The Italians could only draw nil-nil in the second leg of their match
0:29:23 > 0:29:25against Sweden in Milan.
0:29:25 > 0:29:27It's the first time Italy has failed to qualify
0:29:27 > 0:29:33for the World Cup finals since 1958.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36The new stage adaptation of the 1970s film Network -
0:29:36 > 0:29:38a satire on television news's obsession with ratings -
0:29:38 > 0:29:41has had its world premiere tonight in London.
0:29:41 > 0:29:43Its star, Bryan Cranston, from the cult television
0:29:43 > 0:29:46series Breaking Bad - has been speaking to our Arts
0:29:46 > 0:29:49editor, Will Gompertz, about his concerns about the impact
0:29:49 > 0:29:52of social media on news and the current climate in Hollywood.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54They met at the National Theatre.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57A very interesting perspective.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00Because I've never sat out here, looking that way.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03OK.
0:30:03 > 0:30:10It's quite an impressive set, though, isn't it?
0:30:10 > 0:30:13You were an overnight success, you could argue, at fifty-ish.
0:30:13 > 0:30:14Although they may look the same.
0:30:14 > 0:30:15Bryan Cranston became an international superstar
0:30:15 > 0:30:18in the hit TV show Breaking Bad.
0:30:18 > 0:30:21Playing Walter White, a chemistry teacher who becomes
0:30:21 > 0:30:26a drug-dealing criminal.
0:30:26 > 0:30:28Breaking Bad was a phenomenal experience for me.
0:30:28 > 0:30:34It changed my life completely.
0:30:34 > 0:30:36And here he is in another life-changing role.
0:30:36 > 0:30:44I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!
0:30:44 > 0:30:47In the National Theatre's stage adaptation of the 1970s film
0:30:47 > 0:30:50Network, in which his character loses it on air and becomes
0:30:50 > 0:30:53a ratings sensation.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56In the '70s it was clearly a satire.
0:30:56 > 0:31:02Network in 2017 is no longer a satire.
0:31:02 > 0:31:08It is profound and it is what we are living in.
0:31:08 > 0:31:16This inundation of information is not necessarily a good thing.
0:31:16 > 0:31:25That our children can access not only horrific
0:31:25 > 0:31:28acts of real violence on their cellphone, but pornography.
0:31:28 > 0:31:32Anything and everything is accessible now.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35It's not good for society.
0:31:35 > 0:31:41It's starting to feel like a dark age in Hollywood.
0:31:41 > 0:31:43Is there a way back for the Weinsteins and
0:31:43 > 0:31:46Spaceys of this world? If they were to show us
0:31:46 > 0:31:49that they put the work in and are truly sorry,
0:31:49 > 0:31:53and making amends, and not defending their actions,
0:31:53 > 0:31:55but asking for forgiveness, then maybe down the road
0:31:55 > 0:32:03there is room for that.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05Character transformation is becoming a theme of Bryan Cranston's
0:32:05 > 0:32:10late career as a star of stage and screen.
0:32:10 > 0:32:11From crystal-meth-cooking teachers to mad-as-hell newscasters.
0:32:11 > 0:32:13Will Gompertz, BBC News.
0:32:13 > 0:32:15Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two.
0:32:15 > 0:32:20Here's Evan Davis.
0:32:20 > 0:32:23On August 30th this year, a massacre occurred in a village
0:32:23 > 0:32:25called Tula Toli, in Mynamar.
0:32:25 > 0:32:28Our team has been piecing together what happened that day.
0:32:28 > 0:32:30The testimony they've acquired makes a disturbing film,