0:00:05 > 0:00:08Tonight at Ten, Robert Mugabe's decades in power seem to be over,
0:00:08 > 0:00:12following a military takeover in Zimbabwe.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14The 93-year-old president, seen here last week,
0:00:14 > 0:00:17is now under house arrest in the capital, Harare.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19Armoured vehicles are patrolling the streets but military leaders
0:00:19 > 0:00:26claim they haven't mounted a coup.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29We wish to make it abundantly clear that this is not a military
0:00:29 > 0:00:31takeover of government.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Some parts of the city are in lockdown.
0:00:34 > 0:00:42Now this is as close as we can get to some of the military tanks
0:00:42 > 0:00:43that have stationed themselves in strategic positions.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46We'll be reporting from the capital, and we'll be looking back
0:00:46 > 0:00:49at the abuses and the economic collapse of Mugabe's years in power.
0:00:49 > 0:00:50Also tonight.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53Scotland is to become the first country in the world to set
0:00:53 > 0:00:55a minimum price for alcohol, following a ruling
0:00:55 > 0:00:57by the Supreme Court.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Our second special report on the suffering in Yemen,
0:01:00 > 0:01:04where millions are threatened with starvation.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07In the deepest parts of the ocean, scientists report sea life
0:01:07 > 0:01:11is affected by plastic pollution.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14And football's great challenge - how to draw younger supporters put
0:01:14 > 0:01:17off by the price of tickets.
0:01:21 > 0:01:26Coming up in the sport, Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill has
0:01:26 > 0:01:30been officially approached by the Scottish FA but could a move to
0:01:30 > 0:01:32Sunderland B on the cards?
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Good evening.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53After nearly four decades in power in Zimbabwe,
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Robert Mugabe's turbulent days in power seem to be over.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59The president is under house arrest in the capital, Harare,
0:01:59 > 0:02:02after the army seized control of the country overnight.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06Mr Mugabe, who's 93 and the world's oldest head of state,
0:02:06 > 0:02:09provoked a fierce battle for succession within his Zanu-PF
0:02:09 > 0:02:12party and the military decided to block the progress
0:02:12 > 0:02:14of Mr Mugabe's wife, Grace.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16Tonight, military vehicles are patrolling the streets
0:02:16 > 0:02:19of the capital and the British embassy has advised UK
0:02:19 > 0:02:21nationals to stay indoors.
0:02:21 > 0:02:27Our correspondent in Zimbabwe, Shingai Nyoka, has sent this report.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30This is what Zimbabweans woke up to this morning,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33tanks on the streets of their capital city,
0:02:33 > 0:02:39something that has never happened in nearly 40 years of independence,
0:02:39 > 0:02:42followed by a statement from the military on state TV,
0:02:42 > 0:02:46saying the Mugabe family was safe and that this was not a coup.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50What the Zimbabwe defence forces is doing is to pacify
0:02:50 > 0:02:56a degenerating political, social and economic situation
0:02:56 > 0:03:01in our country, which, if not addressed, may result
0:03:01 > 0:03:05in a violent conflict.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08Overnight, President Mugabe, the world's oldest leader,
0:03:08 > 0:03:12lost control of the country he has led for 37 years.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15And though the generals say he remains president,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18he is clearly no longer calling the shots.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21The presence of the military is being felt here on the streets
0:03:21 > 0:03:25of Harare and some parts of the city are in lockdown.
0:03:25 > 0:03:29Now, this is as close as we can get to some of the military tanks that
0:03:29 > 0:03:32have stationed themselves in strategic positions.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36One, as you can see here, has blocked off access
0:03:36 > 0:03:38to the President's office.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41There's another that has blocked off access to Parliament.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44The president still has his supporters, especially in the rural
0:03:44 > 0:03:49areas, but here in Harare, it is a different story.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51TRANSLATION:We're going to have a good life now.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54We're looking forward to Christmas because of what has happened.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57We want to thank those who organised this and we want them to remain
0:03:57 > 0:04:02until our problems are resolved.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05TRANSLATION:I want to thank the general
0:04:05 > 0:04:06for removing this tyrant.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09He was ruling the country as if it belonged to his family.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12Much now depends on how Zimbabwe's neighbours react to this situation,
0:04:12 > 0:04:16especially South Africa.
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Its president, Jacob Zuma, spoke on the phone to Mr Mugabe
0:04:20 > 0:04:23earlier and has now sent South Africa's defence minister
0:04:23 > 0:04:29to assess the situation first-hand.
0:04:29 > 0:04:33I am hoping that the defence force will not move and do more damage,
0:04:33 > 0:04:36that they will be able to respect the constitution of Zimbabwe
0:04:36 > 0:04:42as well as the people of Zimbabwe.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45But ultimately, this takeover is down to a power struggle
0:04:45 > 0:04:49within Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Last week, Emmerson Mnangagwa was sacked as vice president.
0:04:51 > 0:04:56A loyal ally, he was, like Mugabe, a veteran of the country's
0:04:56 > 0:04:59struggle for independence.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02But in recent years, he's found himself up against this
0:05:02 > 0:05:08woman, Grace Mugabe, the President's young, ambitious
0:05:08 > 0:05:11and some would say ruthless wife, a one-time typist and now one
0:05:11 > 0:05:13of the most powerful political figures in the country,
0:05:13 > 0:05:17with plans to take over as vice president.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21She remains a divisive figure among party supporters.
0:05:21 > 0:05:29Just last week, she was met with boos while attending a rally.
0:05:29 > 0:05:30Boo, go ahead!
0:05:30 > 0:05:32I don't care!
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Since the takeover, the military has begun
0:05:34 > 0:05:37to arrest those close to her and the British Foreign
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Office issued a warning to British nationals in the city.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42Stay at home. Stay in your hotel room.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Wait until things settle down a little bit.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Tonight, the city remains in relative calm.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51So far, a bloodless military takeover, but it leaves those
0:05:51 > 0:05:55inside the country wondering what lies ahead.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Change is under way but whether it's the change Zimbabweans have been
0:05:58 > 0:06:00yearning for is far from clear.
0:06:00 > 0:06:05Shingai Nkoya, BBC News, Zimbabwe.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe since 1980,
0:06:10 > 0:06:12when the country formerly known as Rhodesia gained
0:06:12 > 0:06:15independence from Britain.
0:06:15 > 0:06:21His downfall has been predicted many times, but until now,
0:06:21 > 0:06:23the 93-year-old has managed to confound his many
0:06:23 > 0:06:25critics at home and abroad, as our Africa editor
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Fergal Keane reports.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Robert Mugabe is a leader who has outlived his epoch.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34From icon of the struggle against racist rule,
0:06:34 > 0:06:38to symbol of excess and repression, he has fallen hard and inflicted
0:06:38 > 0:06:42untold damage on his country in the process.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45There was a deceptive calm in Salisbury, capital
0:06:45 > 0:06:49of Rhodesia, on the day of UDI, the Declaration of Independence.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52It was this world of white privilege and black exclusion he and other
0:06:52 > 0:06:55revolutionary leaders sought to overthrow.
0:06:55 > 0:06:59Robert Mugabe went to jail for ten years and later fled
0:06:59 > 0:07:05to join his guerillas in the bush.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08A revolutionary war led to thousands of casualties but when apartheid
0:07:08 > 0:07:11South Africa withdrew support from the Rhodesian regime,
0:07:11 > 0:07:14it was forced into negotiations.
0:07:14 > 0:07:20Whether they accept it or not is immaterial to us, really.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23They will have to accept it in as much as they must accept
0:07:23 > 0:07:26political domination.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Under the stewardship of the old British colonial power,
0:07:29 > 0:07:32there were elections, which Robert Mugabe won,
0:07:32 > 0:07:34promising forgiveness and tolerance.
0:07:34 > 0:07:39And bear true allegiance to Zimbabwe and observe...
0:07:39 > 0:07:43But in power, a ruthless nature swiftly asserted itself.
0:07:43 > 0:07:51My government will never rest until those within that party
0:07:51 > 0:07:54who are responsible for organising the disturbance are crushed
0:07:54 > 0:07:58and crushed fully.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01In Matabeleland province, he used the army to crush supporters
0:08:01 > 0:08:04of a rival guerrilla army.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07It was a pitiless campaign of massacre, as I discovered when I
0:08:07 > 0:08:10went to investigate the atrocities.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14This is a country in a state of fear.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Everywhere you go, there are militia, police
0:08:17 > 0:08:20roadblocks and of course, the spies whom you can't see.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23The West stayed silent, believing Robert Mugabe was good
0:08:23 > 0:08:28for stability and had kept his promise to allow
0:08:28 > 0:08:32white farmers to hold their lands and lifestyle.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35But as opposition to his rule grew amid economic downturn,
0:08:35 > 0:08:40he turned on the white farmers, harnessing anger over long-festering
0:08:40 > 0:08:46grievances among the landless poor and veterans of the guerrilla war.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51His political opponents were terrorised, too.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54None of this troubled the army or the man tipped
0:08:54 > 0:08:57to succeed Mr Mugabe, Emmerson Mnangagwa.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59He is another veteran of the liberation war and has
0:08:59 > 0:09:03been implicated in past massacres and corruption.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05There isn't much difference between Mnangagwa and President
0:09:05 > 0:09:08Robert Mugabe himself.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12They may differ in terms of style and he's much younger
0:09:12 > 0:09:15than President Robert Mugabe but he has been part and parcel
0:09:15 > 0:09:17of the formation of Zanu-PF.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19He has been behind the scenes.
0:09:19 > 0:09:24He has been the brains behind President Robert Mugabe.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26What forced him and his military allies into action
0:09:26 > 0:09:29was the inexorable rise of Grace Mugabe.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Her ostentatious spending shocked even some of the corrupt elite
0:09:32 > 0:09:35around the president.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38But it was her political plotting that finally forced
0:09:38 > 0:09:43the old revolutionaries of the army and the ruling party into action.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47There is among an older generation of Africans some residual
0:09:47 > 0:09:50affection for a man once seen as an icon of liberation.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54But his old regional allies are dead and gone and many in his own country
0:09:54 > 0:09:57will be glad to see the end of the age of Mugabe.
0:09:57 > 0:10:05Fergal Keane, BBC News.
0:10:05 > 0:10:10Let's go live to Harare and our Zimbabwe correspondent, Shingai
0:10:10 > 0:10:13Nkoya. Tell us more about the reaction there has been to the past
0:10:13 > 0:10:1624 hours and indeed what you are picking up about people's hopes for
0:10:16 > 0:10:26the months ahead.Africa appears to come up with its tolerance to coups
0:10:26 > 0:10:31appears to be shrinking at the African union chairperson issued a
0:10:31 > 0:10:35strongly worded statement condemning the events of the last 24 hours,
0:10:35 > 0:10:38saying this is tantamount to a coup but the continental body has not
0:10:38 > 0:10:42specified what kind of action it will take against the military and
0:10:42 > 0:10:46you will know that the military has said this is not a coup or a
0:10:46 > 0:10:52military takeover, that they are trying to bring justice to some of
0:10:52 > 0:10:55the criminal offences that have been taking place or that have been
0:10:55 > 0:11:00happening with people that surround President Robert Mugabe but there is
0:11:00 > 0:11:04a sharp contrast between the African union's objections and how people
0:11:04 > 0:11:09have received this news and this probably points to the grim reality
0:11:09 > 0:11:13is that Zimbabweans face Ulster 3 million of them have fled to South
0:11:13 > 0:11:17Africa, where they are living as economic refugees. Unemployment is
0:11:17 > 0:11:21one of the highest in the world and food prices are rising. Many of them
0:11:21 > 0:11:26hope the recent changes might bring the change that they want.Thank you
0:11:26 > 0:11:33for joining us. From the latest -- with the latest in Harare, Shingai
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Nkoya, there.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Scotland is to become the first country in the world to introduce
0:11:38 > 0:11:39a minimum price per unit of alcohol.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42The Supreme Court ruled that it was a "proportionate means"
0:11:42 > 0:11:43of improving public health.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46The policy was agreed five years ago, but it drew a prolonged legal
0:11:46 > 0:11:48challenge by the Scotch Whisky Association.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, expressed her
0:11:50 > 0:11:51delight at the outcome.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55Our health editor, Hugh Pym, reports.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58In Scotland, with 22 people dying each week from alcohol problems,
0:11:58 > 0:12:03minimum pricing has been on the agenda for over five years,
0:12:03 > 0:12:06but it's only today the Government can plan to implement it.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11Though it won't be popular with everybody.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14It's not going to stop anybody buying it.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17It's probably quite a good thing.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20I actually work as a community psychiatric nurse, so we get a lot
0:12:20 > 0:12:22of people addicted to alcohol and things like that.
0:12:22 > 0:12:26The changes will mean prices of some of the cheapest alcohol
0:12:26 > 0:12:34in Scotland increasing sharply.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38This four pack of beer costs £1.00, it's set to rise to at least £4.00.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40This bottle of wine is currently £2.80, in future
0:12:40 > 0:12:41it'll be at least £4.69.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44And this £11.00 bottle of vodka will be at least £14.00.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Ministers were celebrating, saying it was a step forwards
0:12:46 > 0:12:51in tackling the country's unhealthy relationship with drink.
0:12:51 > 0:12:56The policy is, you know, by its very nature,
0:12:56 > 0:12:58controversial because, you know, again, this is an example
0:12:58 > 0:13:00of Scotland leading the world.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02It will continue to have its critics, but it's the kind
0:13:02 > 0:13:05of bold and necessary policy that we need to tackle our
0:13:05 > 0:13:08public health challenges.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10The ruling followed attempts by the Scotch Whisky Association
0:13:10 > 0:13:13to block minimum pricing, calling it a restriction on trade.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17They now say they accept the ruling.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20The Scottish Government's pioneering move will be watched
0:13:20 > 0:13:22closely around the UK.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25The Welsh Government wants to go ahead with a similar policy.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27There's sympathy for it in Northern Ireland.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30But in England, a plan to introduce minimum alcohol pricing
0:13:30 > 0:13:35under the last Government was later dropped.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Joanne wants to see change in England.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Her daughter Megan was just 16 when she died
0:13:40 > 0:13:43after drinking strong cider at a party.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46It had cost just 16p a unit.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49It's so cheap.
0:13:49 > 0:13:54You know, it's pocket money prices and the minimum unit pricing that's
0:13:54 > 0:13:57come in in Scotland, you know, I'm ecstatic about.
0:13:57 > 0:14:01You know, it's fantastic news and hopefully it will roll out now
0:14:01 > 0:14:04just across the rest of the country because that's what needs to happen.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07For retailers and manufacturers, there'll have to be a major rethink
0:14:07 > 0:14:10of how they market alcoholic drinks in Scotland.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13What remains to be seen is the impact on drinkers
0:14:13 > 0:14:16and alcohol-related health problems.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19Hugh Pym, BBC News, Glasgow.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26The head of Britain's National Cyber Security Centre has confirmed
0:14:26 > 0:14:33Russian hackers have targeted the UK media, telecoms and energy sectors.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35Ciaran Martin said it was a "cause for concern" and accused Moscow
0:14:35 > 0:14:38of "seeking to undermine the international system."
0:14:42 > 0:14:47At least 15 people have died in flash floods in Greece.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51Three towns to the west of Athens were hit by a torrent of water
0:14:51 > 0:14:58caused by heavy overnight rain.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02Locals are saying the damage was on an unprecedented
0:15:02 > 0:15:02scale in that region.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05A man has been found guilty of deliberately trying to infect 10
0:15:05 > 0:15:08men with HIV after meeting them on a dating app.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10Daryll Rowe was convicted at Lewes Crown Court of five counts
0:15:10 > 0:15:13of grievous bodily harm with intent and five counts of
0:15:13 > 0:15:14attempting to do so.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Four people have been treated by paramedics after a fire
0:15:16 > 0:15:19at a block of flats on the outskirts of West Belfast.
0:15:19 > 0:15:24The block was evacuated.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27Safety drills had been carried out there following the Grenfell Tower
0:15:27 > 0:15:29tragedy in London in June.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, has held his first
0:15:32 > 0:15:41meeting with Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin
0:15:41 > 0:15:42Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman who is
0:15:42 > 0:15:43in prison in Iran.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Mr Johnson pledged to leave no stone unturned in trying
0:15:45 > 0:15:46to secure her freedom.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49She was jailed for five years in April last year for spying,
0:15:49 > 0:15:54an allegation she has always denied.
0:15:54 > 0:15:55Our special correspondent, Lucy Manning, explains.
0:15:55 > 0:15:56He's waited 19 months.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Richard Ratcliffe finally on his way to meet the Foreign Secretary,
0:15:59 > 0:16:03with his wife still in prison in Iran.
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a dual citizen, was accused
0:16:04 > 0:16:08of trying to overthrow the Iranian regime.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Today, her husband said the meeting was positive,
0:16:10 > 0:16:12but there were reservations about giving his wife
0:16:12 > 0:16:15diplomatic protection, and he's still waiting to hear
0:16:15 > 0:16:21if he can travel to Iran with the Foreign Secretary.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25He said, listen, I'm open to the idea, you know,
0:16:25 > 0:16:30I'd love you to come, but I need to check both
0:16:30 > 0:16:33with the Foreign Office officials, whether they think it's a good idea,
0:16:33 > 0:16:34and also with Iran.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37How closer do you think you are now to your wife
0:16:37 > 0:16:38coming home for Christmas?
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Well, the Foreign Secretary didn't make any promises.
0:16:40 > 0:16:41He promised to do his best.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44And you know, I couldn't ask for more than that.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47In terms of how close do I feel, it feels like with all the attention
0:16:47 > 0:16:50and concern, that can only be a good thing.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52But the Foreign Office has always been reserved that more attention
0:16:52 > 0:16:53makes it more complicated.
0:16:53 > 0:17:00Mr Johnson upset the family two weeks ago, appearing
0:17:00 > 0:17:02to contradict her claim she was just in Iran on holiday.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04He spoke ahead of the meeting.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06People here in the Foreign Office and across government have been
0:17:06 > 0:17:10working very hard over the last 19 months to secure the release
0:17:10 > 0:17:14of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and indeed to solve some other very
0:17:14 > 0:17:18difficult consular cases in Iran, and we're going to continue to do
0:17:18 > 0:17:21that, and we will leave absolutely no stone unturned.
0:17:21 > 0:17:26If you ask me if Nazanin is still cross with him,
0:17:26 > 0:17:27yes, she is still cross with him.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30If you ask me if I'm cross, I'm not cross.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32Me, I'm focused on just bringing her home.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34And to bring home his three-year-old daughter Gabriella,
0:17:34 > 0:17:38who is also still in Iran.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42Mr Ratcliffe now has the publicity and the political profile,
0:17:42 > 0:17:48but will it help to ensure the release of his wife?
0:17:48 > 0:17:52The kind of concessions that the Iranians want
0:17:52 > 0:17:55of the British Government cannot be done publicly and it's much
0:17:55 > 0:17:57better to try and do these things behind the scenes,
0:17:57 > 0:18:00just as the kind of concessions that they have to give goes
0:18:00 > 0:18:05through a similar sort of stages.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07But with reports the charity worker's health is deteriorating,
0:18:07 > 0:18:09her husband hopes there can be a diplomatic solution.
0:18:09 > 0:18:14Lucy Manning, BBC News.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18The charity Save the Children is warning that 50,000 children
0:18:18 > 0:18:21under the age of five in Yemen are expected to die this year
0:18:21 > 0:18:23from hunger or disease.
0:18:23 > 0:18:30The crisis began in 2015 when Houthi rebels, backed by Iran,
0:18:30 > 0:18:32ousted the President and took control of parts of the country.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35A coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, then began a campaign of airstrikes
0:18:35 > 0:18:39to try to restore the government.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42The United Nations estimates that nearly seven million people are now
0:18:42 > 0:18:46under imminent threat of starvation.
0:18:46 > 0:18:50Well, in the second of his extended reports from Yemen, my colleague
0:18:50 > 0:18:52Clive Myrie and cameraman Nick Millard have been
0:18:52 > 0:18:54to the front-line city of Taiz, where there's no let up
0:18:54 > 0:18:56in the fighting.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59And a warning, there are some distressing images from the start.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02It shouldn't be like this, children fed through plastic tubes,
0:19:02 > 0:19:10not because of nature, but because of man.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14Nuwara is two years old and acutely malnourished.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17Her skin, starved of nutrients, is flaky.
0:19:17 > 0:19:23She's a prime target for infections that could kill her.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25TRANSLATION:She had diarrhoea and vomiting when we first
0:19:25 > 0:19:29came to the hospital.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Now they feed her through a pipe.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33There seems to be nothing we can do.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Who can I blame?
0:19:35 > 0:19:42I don't know.
0:19:42 > 0:19:47The tragedy of the Yemen war is that Nuwara is far
0:19:47 > 0:19:50from alone in her suffering, there are half a million other
0:19:50 > 0:19:53children straddling life-and-death.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56It's estimated a child is dying of a preventable disease
0:19:56 > 0:20:03here every ten minutes.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06The city of Tiaz, population 600,000, sums up Yemen's
0:20:06 > 0:20:08dystopian nightmare, it's a city sinking
0:20:08 > 0:20:14under the weight of war.
0:20:14 > 0:20:24No-one seems to be in control here, rubbish piles up in the streets.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26It fills the local canal instead of water, much of it
0:20:26 > 0:20:28bags of human excrement.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32Cholera's rampant.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35Taiz sits on the front-line of this country's war between Saudi-backed
0:20:35 > 0:20:40government forces and Houthi rebels, allegedly supported by Iran.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Win Taiz, on the main highway running north
0:20:42 > 0:20:44to south across Yemen, and you dominate the
0:20:44 > 0:20:50southern battlefield.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53A commander with forces loyal to the government points out
0:20:53 > 0:20:58the positions of the rebel army.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00TRANSLATION:Their coalition supports us with air strikes
0:21:00 > 0:21:03and light weapons and some heavy weapons, but not enough.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Their efforts are important to liberating Yemen,
0:21:05 > 0:21:10but we need more heavy weapons.
0:21:10 > 0:21:15Neither side in this war is making any significant territorial gains.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17The fighting simply grinds on with civilians inevitably
0:21:17 > 0:21:21caught in the middle.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24For the Saudi-led coalition, air power after two years has
0:21:24 > 0:21:25not proved decisive.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27It is not winning the day.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Their military intervention has become stuck, it's bogged down.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33Any kind of victory here seems a long way off.
0:21:33 > 0:21:38EXPLOSIONS
0:21:38 > 0:21:45While the fighting drags on, the neglect mounts in Taiz.
0:21:45 > 0:21:50War dictates everything, not the banalities of peace.
0:21:50 > 0:21:55This is the local courthouse, what chance of law and order here?
0:21:55 > 0:22:00Whole neighbourhoods have been abandoned.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02This man points out there are snipers down the road,
0:22:02 > 0:22:04we can't go any further.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06TRANSLATION:There is no food.
0:22:06 > 0:22:11They're besieging us.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13We can't move at all.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Our lives are full of danger and no-one is helping us.
0:22:15 > 0:22:20Taiz has been forgotten.
0:22:20 > 0:22:30And every citizen has a war story, though some require no words.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Muneer Hassan lost three limbs and his mother.
0:22:33 > 0:22:39"She was martyred", he told me.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43"Shot by a sniper. I wish this country was safe."
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Few in Yemen have the luxury of memories that don't
0:22:45 > 0:22:49include a time of war.
0:22:49 > 0:22:53Through Britain's colonial era in Aden, the years of communism,
0:22:53 > 0:22:56civil war and now the proxy struggle of regional powers that see
0:22:56 > 0:23:00Saudi Arabia so prominent here.
0:23:00 > 0:23:08This is what's left of a department store, smashed by an air strike.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10After all the destruction and lives lost this war,
0:23:10 > 0:23:12like most modern conflicts, will only come to an end
0:23:12 > 0:23:15with a political solution and, at the very least, that requires
0:23:15 > 0:23:18the Yemenis themselves to come together for the greater good.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22But the chances of that happening are as remote as they've ever been,
0:23:22 > 0:23:31so it seems Yemen's pain is destined to endure.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33All the malnourished children in this humble ward
0:23:33 > 0:23:38are victims of grand designs.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41The manoeuvrings of the Middle East power players, from Tehran
0:23:41 > 0:23:43to Riyadh, Yemen is stuck in the middle.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Born into this world as war babies, will they ever know peace?
0:23:46 > 0:23:56Clive Myrie, BBC News, in southern Yemen.
0:23:56 > 0:24:02That was the second of Clive's extended reports on the appalling
0:24:02 > 0:24:05suffering there of the people in Yemen.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08The cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky won't face any charges
0:24:08 > 0:24:10after an investigation into the contents of a package
0:24:10 > 0:24:12that was delivered to him in 2011.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14Sir Bradley, a five-time Olympic champion, said that he'd been put
0:24:14 > 0:24:17through a "living hell" during the course of the inquiry.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Our sports editor, Dan Roan, is at the National Cycling
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Centre in Manchester.
0:24:21 > 0:24:29Dan, does this mean that all these questions have now gone away?Sadly,
0:24:29 > 0:24:36not, Huw. While today's judgment adds talk of strippingifiles or bans
0:24:36 > 0:24:41nor does it clear anybody of cheating. Team Sky and Wiggins,
0:24:41 > 0:24:45no-one has actually been charged. That will no doubt come as a big
0:24:45 > 0:24:48relief to all of them that this long investigation which cast a shadow
0:24:48 > 0:24:53over the most successful sport in the country and the most decorated
0:24:53 > 0:24:59Olympian in British sporting history is finally at an end. It falls short
0:24:59 > 0:25:03of a full exoneration of any of those involved because they said
0:25:03 > 0:25:07they were havrpdered by a lack of that evidence would support the
0:25:07 > 0:25:13explanation that that mystery Jiffy Bag bag contained a mere deacon
0:25:13 > 0:25:17jestant and not a steroid as alleged. They have been criticised
0:25:17 > 0:25:20for their close relationship, both who are based here at the National
0:25:20 > 0:25:24Velodrome in Manchester behind me. They say the lack of medical
0:25:24 > 0:25:28record-keepingnd and the lack of a paper trail was a great difficulty.
0:25:28 > 0:25:33As for Bradley Wiggins himself. He is furious. He says he's been
0:25:33 > 0:25:39through a living hell and a malicious witchhunt. Many in the
0:25:39 > 0:25:43sport tonight will be feeling uneasy about the ambiguous report and
0:25:43 > 0:25:48result. They will refer back to the scrutiny that Wiggins was under for
0:25:48 > 0:25:52his use of medical exemptions of banned substances before major
0:25:52 > 0:25:59races, the lack of power of UKkad. The investigation may have come to
0:25:59 > 0:26:05an end but the suspicion will linger on.Dan, thank you very much.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Every year, some eight million tonnes of plastic are thought
0:26:08 > 0:26:11to find their way into the world's oceans and a new study has
0:26:11 > 0:26:13highlighted just how pervasive and destructive this pollution is.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Scientists at Newcastle University have found man-made fibres
0:26:15 > 0:26:17inside creatures in the deepest trenches in the Pacific Ocean,
0:26:17 > 0:26:19some seven miles below the surface.
0:26:19 > 0:26:29Our science editor, David Shukman, has been looking at the research.
0:26:29 > 0:26:34A startling creature, the deepest part of the ocean. A realm so alien
0:26:34 > 0:26:39it feels utterly unlike anything we're familiar with.I think it's a
0:26:39 > 0:26:45sponge. No, it's trash!Until the cameras pick up sights like this. We
0:26:45 > 0:26:48now know it's the pollution you can't see that might be more
0:26:48 > 0:26:54damaging. Is carrier bags and other plastic waste break up into millions
0:26:54 > 0:27:00of tiny fragments. Research a few years ago revealed how these plastic
0:27:00 > 0:27:15particles can be ingested, even by the smallest marine creatures. Now a
0:27:15 > 0:27:19re search team have found more startling things. The scientists had
0:27:19 > 0:27:22an unwelcome surprise. Every creature they brought up from the
0:27:22 > 0:27:28deep had swallowed some plastic waste. Being remote is no defence.I
0:27:28 > 0:27:32think it's quite worrying. It's quite a surprise. I think when we
0:27:32 > 0:27:34entered this we figured we would probably see something, find
0:27:34 > 0:27:38something of interest. We didn't expect to find so much of it and
0:27:38 > 0:27:42there are areas, for example, the bottom of the French every single
0:27:42 > 0:27:46thing we looked at had one fibre in its stomach.The scale of plastic
0:27:46 > 0:27:51pollution in the oceans is so vast it's hard to grasp. There's an
0:27:51 > 0:27:55estimated five trillion pieces of plastic out there. Weighing
0:27:55 > 0:27:59something like 300 million tonnes. With up to 13 million tonnes more
0:27:59 > 0:28:03being added every year. Now. Of this waste floats at or just
0:28:03 > 0:28:08below the surface, but some of it sinks. Last year scientists found
0:28:08 > 0:28:13tiny fragments of plastic in marine creatures 2,000 meters deep in the
0:28:13 > 0:28:18Atlantic. That was depressing enough. But this latest discovery is
0:28:18 > 0:28:22nearly 11,000 meters down, nearly seven miles at the deepest part of
0:28:22 > 0:28:26the Pacific. That show that is nowhere in the oceans is safe.When
0:28:26 > 0:28:29we first started thinking about the problem of plastics in the oceans
0:28:29 > 0:28:33people talked about big islands of plastic. The truth it's everywhere.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36It won't be easy to scoop up the plastic. We have to stop it at the
0:28:36 > 0:28:43source.The biggest pieces can kill seabirds. I saw for myself how this
0:28:43 > 0:28:47young albatross almost choked on a plastic hook there. Are projects to
0:28:47 > 0:28:50stop waste entering the oceans, but products used once and then thrown
0:28:50 > 0:28:56away are a legacy threatening every corner of the planet. David Shukman,
0:28:56 > 0:29:01BBC News.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04A study by BBC Sport has found that most ticket prices in football have
0:29:04 > 0:29:07stood still or have fallen for a third year in succession,
0:29:07 > 0:29:09but the game is still having difficulty attracting
0:29:09 > 0:29:10a younger audience.
0:29:10 > 0:29:13A survey commissioned by the BBC, suggests that more than half
0:29:13 > 0:29:15of young adults say that they're attending fewer games because
0:29:15 > 0:29:18tickets are still too expensive.
0:29:18 > 0:29:20Our sports correspondent, Natalie Pirks, has been
0:29:20 > 0:29:23studying the findings
0:29:23 > 0:29:26The biggest crowds, the brightest talent.
0:29:26 > 0:29:33COMMENTATOR:Eriksen. Delightful ball. What a great goal.The reward
0:29:33 > 0:29:36for the fans dedication is thrilling entertainment. That loyalty comes as
0:29:36 > 0:29:42at cost.How come you prefer to watch it at home or play FifaIt's
0:29:42 > 0:29:46money, really. The cost of travel and the cost of a ticket.Fans like
0:29:46 > 0:29:50Sam are feeling the pinch and missing out on the live experience
0:29:50 > 0:29:55because of it.It's louder than I thought it was going to be, to be
0:29:55 > 0:29:58You wouldn't go honest.Get this at home.There are those who believe
0:29:58 > 0:30:02football could do more to help. Pricey, especially forIt's young
0:30:02 > 0:30:08people. Wages are not going up every year. Ie, people say season tickets
0:30:08 > 0:30:11are froze not as expensive as they were two or three years ago. It's a
0:30:11 > 0:30:16lot of money to watch 90 minutes of football.Business is booming, in
0:30:16 > 0:30:20the Premier League they hit record level of attendances for the third
0:30:20 > 0:30:26year running. The BBC survey shows when it comes to young adult they
0:30:26 > 0:30:29ares missing a trick. Why is it important, they are the season
0:30:29 > 0:30:33holders of the future despite more than three quarters of clubs
0:30:33 > 0:30:36offering discounts for young adults more than half surveyed said they
0:30:36 > 0:30:39have stopped going to matches completely or go to fewer games
0:30:39 > 0:30:45because of the expense. The extras all add up, too. An adult shirt tops
0:30:45 > 0:30:49£50 for the first time and a junior shirt more than £40 a big ask for
0:30:49 > 0:30:55parents I spoke to.With kids kit as well they don't want the kit they
0:30:55 > 0:30:59want, they want the player's name on the back that you are paying for as
0:30:59 > 0:31:05well. The kids kit becomes so expensive. .You have to say you can
0:31:05 > 0:31:09have home or away, not all three of the brand new kits.Why do you need
0:31:09 > 0:31:16tho have the West Ham shirt?It makes me support West Ham.David
0:31:16 > 0:31:20Scudamore said gaming is the biggest threat. Our poll suggests he might
0:31:20 > 0:31:28be on to something. 61% said their engagement came through playing
0:31:28 > 0:31:32football games.That will create a problem for football clubs moving
0:31:32 > 0:31:36forward because it's those younger fans they need to engage to generate
0:31:36 > 0:31:43the crowds of the next 20, 30 or 40 years time.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46COMMENTATOR: There is Giroud pulling it back. The Premier League says
0:31:46 > 0:31:51more than half of their match tickets cost £30 or less, but it
0:31:51 > 0:31:54seems fans want more support from their clubs in return for their
0:31:54 > 0:32:00support. Natalie Pirks, BBC News.
0:32:00 > 0:32:02Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two, here's Emily.
0:32:02 > 0:32:04Tonight, the Facebook founder's on a mission to meet
0:32:04 > 0:32:05the American people.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07Does Mark Zuckerberg have political ambition?