24/11/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at 10pm:

One of the worst terror attacks

in Egypt in living memory,

as gunmen kill 235 people

in a mosque.

SIRENS.

They burst in, shooting at men

and boys just as Friday prayers

were ending in a remote town

in north Sinai.

Egypt's President says

he will respond with an iron fist.

Also tonight:

Celebrations in Zimbabwe

as the new President,

Emmerson Mnangagwa, is sworn in.

He vows to rebuild the shattered

economy and tackle corruption.

We must work together.

You, me, all of us who

make up this nation.

Theresa May is given

a deadline by the EU -

no trade talks next month

unless progress is made

on all Brexit issues

in the next ten days.

Black Friday bargain hunters.

£2.5 billion - that's how much

shoppers are thought

to have spent today.

And England and Australia

are neck and neck as they go

into the third day of the first

Ashes Test in Brisbane.

Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News,

England's women make it two from two

in World Cup qualifying with a

4-0 victory over Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Good evening.

Egypt's President has vowed

to respond with brutal force

after one of the deadliest attacks

in modern Egyptian history.

At least 235 people have

been killed and more

than 100 injured, many

critically, after gunmen

detonated a bomb and then stormed

a packed mosque at the end

of Friday prayers.

It happened in a remote town

in Egypt's north Sinai region.

The mosque was popular

with Sufi worshippers.

They follow a mystical form of Islam

which extremists regard as heresy.

Just to warn you, there

are some distressing images

in Orla Guerin's report.

SIRENS.

A rush to save the wounded

when a place of worship

became a place of carnage.

The attackers struck

during Friday prayers.

For Egypt, this was a grim new first

- a massacre in a mosque.

Inside, worshippers lay dead where

minutes earlier they had prayed.

The mosque was popular

with Sufi Muslims, who revere saints

and shrines and are viewed

as heretics by Islamic extremists.

Within hours, a televised address

to a nation in shock.

President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi

telling Egyptians their anguish

would not be in vain

and there would be

decisive punishment.

The sophisticated assault

on the mosque was the latest attack

by militants based in Sinai.

The state has been

battling them for years.

As Egypt counted its new dead,

analysts here warned that

President Sisi has already tried

a hardline military

response to no avail.

The scorched earth approach

that we have seen has failed

to prevent this from happening,

it has failed to prevent Isis

from continuing to operate in Egypt

and in Sinai specifically.

And it is a reasonable question

to ask - to what extent does this

scorched earth approach actually

help Isis perhaps recruit

further followers?

The most deadly previous attack

by IS here was the downing of this

Russian aircraft in Sinai in 2015,

with a loss of 224 lives.

In the past year, IS have killed

scores of Christians in three

attacks on churches,

saying followers of the cross

were their favourite prey.

This time, militants in Sinai have

targeted their fellow

Muslims, showing no mercy.

There has been no claim

of responsibility.

We don't yet know if IS was

behind this, but it bears

many of their hallmarks.

Outside local hospitals tonight,

crowds waited to donate blood.

After a day of horror,

many Egyptians now fearful

about what might come next.

Orla joins us from Cairo now.

Orla, this is a remote town

in a remote part of Egypt.

These were Muslims

at prayer in a mosque.

Why would they be the target

of such a brutal attack?

Well, certainly in the past, IS for

example is highlighted Sufi as

heretics, and the hardliners object

to the Sufi form of Islam, which

involves reverends for the Saints,

and IS had kidnapped and beheaded an

elderly Sufi but today has been a

day of terrible firsts, reported to

be the first attack on a mosque, the

first major assault on Sufi Muslims,

and the first death toll on this

scale among Egyptian civilians. This

was a sophisticated, coordinated

attack, not only a bomb but,

according to eyewitnesses, as many

as 40 gun men were in position,

ringing that mosque, waiting for the

chance to pick off any survivors who

made it through the door alive. It's

an attack that has been condemned

internationally. It is a major

challenge to the Egyptian state, a

major provocation and, if was IS,

it's always worth considering the

broader regional dimension. In the

last few months, we have seen IS

with massive territorial losses in

Iraq and Syria, being driven out of

their strongholds in Mosul and Iraq,

and losing a lot of territory. If IS

was behind this, this could be an

attempt to remind their supporters

around the world, we are still here,

we are still relevant and we can

still inflict terrible damage on our

enemies. What we don't know tonight

is if the Egyptian security

establishment, if Preston CC as

anything else in his Arsenal that

you can try. -- if President

al-Sisi. He has already tried a

military approach. A massive

military operation has gone on in

the Sinai peninsula for many years

and it hasn't delivered the results

the establishment has promised. I

don't doubt we will see the Army

claiming to have rounded up scores

of suspects and perhaps killed

scores of suspects, but it is

unclear if they have something new

they can try to attempt to curb this

stubborn Islamic insurgency, which

today has inflicted such terrible

damage.

Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sworn

in as the new President of Zimbabwe.

He used his inauguration speech

to call for national reconciliation

and to promise elections would be

held next year, as planned.

He also paid tribute

to his predecessor, Robert Mugabe,

who was forced to step down

by a military intervention,

after 37 years in power.

Mr Mnangagwa, who's

known as "the Crocodile"

because of his ruthlessness,

was a close aide of

the former President.

Here's our Africa

Editor, Fergal Keane.

If there had been a roof, they would

have raised it. 60,000 voices. And

rhythm. And sure feet. Unleashing

the pent-up emotion not of days but

of decades. All the past tortuous

week felt as if it had been building

to this moment. For the one scalp

people. -- for the once proud

people. The military triggered the

events that brought the Mugabe era

to an end, and the traditional

chiefs had fully expected to see him

die in power. Instead, a man who, a

week ago, was hiding inexorable,

fearing for his life, arrived to

claim the presidency. -- hiding in

exile.

You can hear the 21 gun salute.

Emmerson Mnangagwa, right behind me,

is the new president of Zimbabwe,

and what an extraordinary moment it

is. He has the backing of the

international community now. The

backing of his army, and the

goodwill of his own people. These

are gifts he will squander at his

peril. The new president was once a

loyal comrades of Robert Mugabe.

And, in power, he had to mastermind

the often violent takeover of white

farms. And the brutalisation of

opposition politicians in rigged

elections. He spoke of opening the

country to foreign investment,

creating jobs, compensating white

farmers who had lost their land, and

of a break with the painful past.

Why we cannot change the past, there

is a lot we can do in the present

and the future. To give our nation a

different, positive direction. As we

do so, we should never remain

hostages of our past. I thus humbly

appeal to all of us that we let

bygones be bygones. Let us embrace

each other in defining a new destiny

for Zimbabwe.

To test the mood of

the nation today, we spoke with

Zimbabweans from different walks of

life. This man is a pensioner who

travelled to the inauguration.

It

was excellent. He promised jobs,

jobs, jobs, and also peace in the

country. Peace is the fundamental

thing for any country to develop.

This is a farmer who lost his land,

but now helps to train young black

farmers.

He has been involved in

breaking the law and we are

concerned that he will not come back

to the rule of law. What we need in

this country is the rule of law, and

only time will tell if he believes

in that or not.

This is a political

activist, one of a young generation

of Africans ready to challenge their

government.

I have been followed by

the intelligence services and even

found one in my house but, now that

Robert Mugabe is gone and we are

free, I can express myself as an

activist as much as possible.

If you

were looking fine indication of a

change of mood in the country,

listen to the moment the crowd booed

the chief of police. This is

interesting, the crowd booing the

chief of the police. Remember, for

them, the police were a force of

oppression. The people who took

bribes, who intimidated them. The

generals who backed Mr Mnangagwa

were listening. What do they do now,

I asked their leader? The job was

done, they were going back to

barracks, said the general.

Scepticism is justified, but the

people are tired of the old way.

They cheered for freedom. Today, at

least, was no one party party.

Our Africa Editor, Fergal Keane,

joins us from Harare.

A big moment not just for Zimbabwe,

but for Africa too.

How much change can we expect,

given Mnangagwa was his right

hand man for so long?

He was. Here is a man who was

steeped in authoritarian politics,

he has been implicated in corruption

and serious brutality, but think

about the promises he made today. He

spoke repeatedly in the last few

days of jobs, and today he opened

out to be black and white farmers

and would be compensated for the

loss of their land. Cars he opened

out to people like white farmers. He

realises that the international

community is listening. If he's

going to deliver on the promise of

jobs, he's going to need foreign

investment and bilateral aid, and he

isn't going to get that if they go

to the politics of rigged elections.

Watch what happens next year with

elections. I expect the key demand

of the opposition and international

community will be for credible

international monitoring, something

that fell away in recent elections

in Zimbabwe, and that will be

important. Also bear in mind the

extraordinary moment in that stadium

today, it was electrifying to be

there and get people going it chief

of police, a man who lived in

terror. That will not have been

unnoticed, certainly by the generals

around Mr Mnangagwa, but also

elsewhere in Africa, because one

activist spoke to be recently and

said there was a democratic

recession at the moment,

authoritarian government is pushing

back against the democracy of the

last ten to 15 years. The people in

the stadium today are part of a

generation which is now energised

and which isn't going to accept the

old way.

Fergal Keane, thank you.

16 people were injured and nine had

to be taken to hospital

after a mass panic in the heart

of London this afternoon.

Oxford Circus and Bond Street Tube

stations were evacuated as armed

police responded to reports that

shots had been fired.

Thousands of people fled

on what was one of the busiest

shopping days of the year,

as police told them to shelter

in shops and buildings

while they investigated.

An hour and a half later,

the Tube stations were reopened

after police said they'd found no

evidence of any sort of attack.

Police have said in the last few

minutes that the evacuation was

caused by an altercation between two

men on the station platform at

Oxford Circus.

Major companies have

suspended their advertising

on YouTube after it emerged that

people have been leaving sexually

explicit comments next

to videos posted by children,

comments that hadn't

been removed by YouTube.

Adverts for major brands like Mars

and Cadbury have been appearing

alongside some of the videos.

YouTube says since this came

to light it has taken action

to remove the comments.

Amol Rajan, reports.

YouTube has reinvented the very

idea of broadcasting,

allowing anyone with access

to the internet to create their own

channel and build a following.

The site now has a billion users

and pulls in around £4 billion in ad

revenues every year.

Users have to be 13 before they can

upload and share videos,

but millions of teenagers use

the opportunity to share their inner

thoughts with the world,

and just to have fun.

That is why and where sexual

predators often stalk them online.

These comments found by the BBC

are a fraction of the total material

on YouTube but they do show how

digital platforms have emboldened

some would-be offenders.

Technology, social media,

it's a new frontier.

What it does bring is anonymity.

So what maybe you wouldn't do,

or you might not be bold enough

to do because it's attached

to your name, your face,

your character, there's a lot

to lose, potentially,

you might be more keen or willing

to do it if you think

you'll never be caught.

New research by BBC Trending,

the BBC social media

investigations unit,

has discovered that for close

to a year something went

wrong with the system

for removing obscene comments.

I am really, really

concerned that the public

function of reporting

isn't seemingly working.

It's something I will be writing

to YouTube about straightaway

and I will want them

to take immediate action.

Exciting work with

billion-dollar brands...

Several leading brands have now

said they will suspend

their advertising on the platform

until it is further cleaned up.

Brands such as Mars,

Adidas and Lidl.

In a statement, YouTube's owners,

Google, said: A power broker

A power broker in Britain's

advertising industry applauded

the tech giant's efforts

to address the issue but said

they should do more.

I think we have to be

incredibly diligent.

Whether they would call themselves

a platform or a publisher,

they are responsible to advertisers

I think to make sure

that the environments that they take

advertising in and make money

from are free of these dangers.

Some campaigners, and indeed

politicians, say that YouTube

should be regulated just

like any other broadcaster.

But the very principle of the open

web is that users and not companies

should shape our public domain.

And the sheer volume

of content on YouTube,

400 hours of video uploaded every

single minute, means that ultimately

this is an issue that would be

managed not by human beings,

but by machines.

Digital giants like Google

are adamant that social problems

in the internet age have

technological rather

than regulatory solutions.

But the prevalence of sexual

predators online is an issue that

will never be fully eradicated,

because the anarchic freedom

of the internet will always afford

them a home somewhere in cyberspace.

To fight them is to enter

a war without end.

Amol Rajan, BBC News.

A brief look at some

of the day's other news stories.

The Olympic and Paralympic athlete

Oscar Pistorius has had his jail

term more than doubled to 15 years.

A judge in South Africa

ruled his original sentence,

for shooting dead his

girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp,

had been too lenient.

A teenager who killed seven-year-old

Katie Rough has been detained

for life and ordered to serve

a minimum of five years.

The girl, who's 16 and cannot be

named for legal reasons,

pleaded guilty to manslaughter by

diminished responsibility in July.

Police in Somerset say a man has

been arrested on suspicion

of attempted murder,

after a 96-year-old D-Day veteran

was attacked with a hammer

on his own doorstep.

Jim Booth was left with serious

injuries after the assault

at his home in Taunton.

The president of the EU Council,

Donald Tusk, has given Theresa May

a deadline of ten days to make

progress on the Brexit negotiations

if she wants to start

discussing trade next month.

Mr Tusk said movement

was needed on all issues,

including the Irish border.

Mrs May insisted the talks

in Brussels had been held

in a "positive atmosphere".

Our Deputy Political Editor,

John Pienaar, reports.

An amicable divorce from a room full

of partners, but it's getting tense.

So now Theresa May is hinting to EU

leaders, starting with Donald Tusk

in the summit chair,

Britain might up, and some say

double, its offer of £20 billion

in a separation deal -

dig deeper into the nation's

purse, if only the EU

is ready to talk trade.

Or this long goodbye could end

in tears, the last thing she wanted.

These negotiations are continuing

but what I'm clear about is

that we must step forward together.

This is for both the UK

and the European Union to move

onto the next stage.

Brexit negotiations could, maybe

will, turn to trade next month.

But leaders here need

more persuasion.

Mr Juncker, are you

worried about Brexit?

Brexit is a tragedy.

I will meet the British Prime

Minister on the 4th of December

and then we will see if there has

been sufficient progress.

Are you at all confident

progress will be made?

Yes.

But every country must agree

to start talking trade,

and Ireland's minority government

is facing the risk of collapse

at home, but was sounding tough

here, suggesting Brexit talks

could stall without clear guarantees

there will be no hard

North-South customs border.

Is Ireland prepared

to block progress?

I don't think Ireland will have

to block anything on its own.

There is absolute solidarity

across 27 countries here.

Germany's not much more supportive.

Angela Merkel was

already firm on Brexit.

Now she has her hands full

forming a new government.

She met Mrs May today,

another leader looking for more give

on the British side.

In her one-on-one talks

with the EU Council President,

no final proposals, no breakthrough,

and they may not settle hard

numbers on the divorce

bill for months to come,

but they explored the case

for more compromise.

Moments after that meeting,

Donald Tusk was on Twitter calling

progress a huge challenge.

Mrs May's verdict, both

sides must find a way.

There are still issues

across the various matters

that we are negotiating on to be

resolved, but there's been a very

positive atmosphere in the talks

and a genuine feeling

that we want to move

forward together.

Neither side wants the Brexit

talks to end in stalemate

but without more give-and-take,

it could happen.

And then the risk would grow

of negotiations ending with no

EU trade deal at all,

and that's the outcome that business

leaders who are worried

about Brexit say they fear most.

So, more talking to do ahead

of the next big summit next month.

The slow march of Brexit goes on,

its course and destination

being decided one step at a time.

John Pienaar, BBC News, Brussels.

It's Black Friday again, but this

year most of the bargain-grabbing

seems to have gone online.

By the end of today,

it's thought that British shoppers

will have spent more

than £2.5 billion in one day alone.

That's about £937,000

a minute online.

But not all retailers like it.

Emma Simpson's at Amazon's warehouse

in Tilbury in Essex.

Everywhere you look today,

a blizzard of deals,

from the high street right

to your inbox.

Black Friday in full swing.

It's first light and we've come out

to see who's shopping.

Forget the stores -

we're on the train,

because it's all about this.

I've been shopping

online this morning.

Already?

Yeah, I managed to get

a discount for my son

for a monitor for Christmas.

I bought a Dyson this morning.

It just seems to be

getting bigger each year.

I don't know, it's mental.

I've actually been thinking

about it for the past week,

waiting for today, and the first

opportunity I've got, I logged on.

Those orders are already

on their way here at Amazon,

with robots moving thousands

of items from the shelves

to the pickers.

They've been doing deals all week.

So too have many others -

anything to get shoppers to spend.

Personal finances are under pressure

and consumer confidence

is beginning to falter a bit,

but this is a really

important time of the year,

where Black Friday's the starting

gun for Christmas, and retailers

will be hoping that this spurs

consumers on to spend.

That's what they are banking

on at this small electronics

business in Cambridge.

They bought half a million pounds'

worth of stock to sell -

exciting but nerve-racking, too.

If we don't operate in Black Friday,

they're just going to

buy off somebody else.

It's not an option for us.

We have to sell on Black Friday.

It is very nerve-racking.

The more that people

are reliant on Black Friday,

the more people consumers wait

until making their purchase on that

day, the more you sit

there in the weeks leading up

to that and think, is it actually

going to happen this year?

Doing incredibly well on socks...

But the boss of this clothing

chain isn't taking part.

For the high street, it is bonkers.

I can't think of a better

word to describe it.

All it's doing is moving sales

from December to November.

It's not growing the market.

And everybody's having to sell

things at reduced margins.

As the sun goes down in Leeds,

who are the winners on Black Friday?

Shoppers may feel they've

bagged a bargain but,

with all these discounts,

the profits won't be

sparkling for many retailers.

Emma Simpson, BBC News.

Cricket now, and play

is about to get under way

in the third day of the first

Ashes Test in Brisbane.

England and Australia

are almost neck and neck.

Andy Swiss is at Brisbane's

cricket ground, the Gabba.

Yes, Sophie, welcome. Day three has

a pretty tough act to follow. So

much drama on day two. Collapses and

comebacks from both teams, and

Australia will resume on 165-4, with

the match intriguingly poised.

After a patient opening day,

the Ashes were about to hit

the fast forward button.

Long queues outside the Gabba,

and at first, England also

played the waiting game.

For an hour and a half

they were calm, composed.

A 50 for Dawid Malan.

What could possibly go wrong?

Well, pretty much everything

as it turned out.

Malan's swish sparking a collapse

in the grand English tradition.

Losing 6-56.

Moeen Ali was the next

to go as Nathan Lyon sent

the visitors spinning.

Chris Woakes was utterly bamboozled.

Jake Ball, brilliantly

caught by David Warner.

And by the time Stuart Broad

holed out, England hadn't

even lasted the morning.

All out for 302.

Well, lunch will be tasting pretty

good for these Australian

fans after that horrible

collapse by England.

Six wickets in barely an hour that

transformed the mood of this match.

But that mood was about

to swing once again,

as the Gabba's glee was silenced.

Stuart Broad with the breakthrough

before a bit of Moeen magic,

trapping Usman Khawaja.

Suddenly it was Australia's

turn to tumble.

Warner inexplicably serving

up catching practice.

But they recovered thanks

to an unbeaten half-century

from captain Steve Smith to cap

a day of fluctuating,

fascinating fortunes.