0:00:04 > 0:00:06Tonight at ten...
0:00:06 > 0:00:08The Prime Minister has suffered her first House of Commons
0:00:08 > 0:00:16defeat in the Brexit process.
0:00:16 > 0:00:21The ayes to the right, 309, the noes to the left, 305.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24By a majority of just four, MPs voted to change the EU
0:00:24 > 0:00:27Withdrawal Bill, calling for the final Brexit deal to be
0:00:27 > 0:00:31approved by a new law.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34I am pleased with the outcome.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36I felt it was a vote that had to be taken,
0:00:36 > 0:00:38particularly in view of the intransigence and difficulty
0:00:38 > 0:00:42we had trying to reason with the Government.
0:00:42 > 0:00:48We have had seven days of committee stages with multiple votes, we have
0:00:48 > 0:00:50won everyone but this and we lost this by four votes.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52It's a setback but it's a fairly minor setback,
0:00:52 > 0:00:54it won't frustrate the Brexit.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Theresa May's team spent much of the day trying to persuade
0:00:56 > 0:00:59a handful of Conservative MPs to back the Government's plans.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01And tomorrow the Prime Minister goes to Brussels for an EU summit
0:01:01 > 0:01:04which is set to give approval for the Brexit talks to move
0:01:04 > 0:01:06on to the next phase.
0:01:06 > 0:01:07Also tonight...
0:01:07 > 0:01:09The road cyclist Chris Froome, four-time winner of the Tour
0:01:09 > 0:01:11de France, is fighting to save his career after
0:01:11 > 0:01:13failing a drugs test.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Eight people have been sentenced for smuggling drugs
0:01:17 > 0:01:20into prisons by using drones.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22A special report from the Democratic Republic of Congo,
0:01:22 > 0:01:24where the UN says a cut in the number of peacekeepers
0:01:24 > 0:01:27is creating more instability.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29And six months after the Grenfell fire, we report
0:01:29 > 0:01:36on the lasting impact in London's wealthiest borough.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39And coming up on Sportsday on BBC News, England captain Joe Root calls
0:01:39 > 0:01:41for a big performance from his players ahead
0:01:41 > 0:01:45of the crucial third Ashes Test.
0:02:06 > 0:02:07Good evening.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09The Prime Minister has suffered her first defeat
0:02:09 > 0:02:11in the House of Commons on the Government's
0:02:11 > 0:02:14legislative plans for Brexit.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16By a majority of just four, MPs supported a change
0:02:16 > 0:02:19to the EU Withdrawal Bill, which called for the terms
0:02:19 > 0:02:23of a final Brexit deal to be approved by a separate new law.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25Repeated offers of concessions by ministers were not
0:02:25 > 0:02:27enough to win the day.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30The amendment had been proposed by the Conservative MP
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Dominic Grieve, a former Attorney General who'd
0:02:32 > 0:02:35said it was time to put country before party -
0:02:35 > 0:02:39as our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49The Tory rebels, huddled among their colleagues on the left, and Labour
0:02:49 > 0:02:53on the right, for they had lost. Weeks of energy and effort gone to
0:02:53 > 0:02:59waste. But watch that shuffle of MPs, the
0:02:59 > 0:03:05four approaching in the middle. The signal Theresa May had been
0:03:05 > 0:03:13beaten.The ayes to the right, 309, the noes to the left, 305.
0:03:13 > 0:03:18There was only four votes in it. One of the Tories who had voted against
0:03:18 > 0:03:23the Prime Minister on the top left in white, reaching two colleagues in
0:03:23 > 0:03:26congratulation. Cabinet ministers tucked behind the chair wondered
0:03:26 > 0:03:31what would happen next. The key thing is the balance between
0:03:31 > 0:03:34getting the legislative detail in place for a smooth Brexit and making
0:03:34 > 0:03:37sure parliament has the proper transparency and accountability, so
0:03:37 > 0:03:41we will look again to make sure we get the balance right, it is a minor
0:03:41 > 0:03:46setback but will not stop is leaving the EU in March 20 19.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50But the first defeat of its kind for Theresa May is not a minor incident.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54It is a success for the opposition parties and a powerful group of Tory
0:03:54 > 0:03:56Remainers. We've got to get over this,
0:03:56 > 0:04:02cooperate together to make sure this bill is in a proper state to do what
0:04:02 > 0:04:06people want, which is to deliver a smooth and effective Brexit, and we
0:04:06 > 0:04:09will do that. I will get together with my
0:04:09 > 0:04:13colleagues and continue the work. I will be heartily glad when it is
0:04:13 > 0:04:18over.No question, this emboldens the opposition. As well as Tories
0:04:18 > 0:04:22with doubts about how the Government is managing Brexit.
0:04:22 > 0:04:27At last Parliament has asserted itself, the Prime Minister tried to
0:04:27 > 0:04:30power grab, pushed through an EU WIthdrawal Bill without proper
0:04:30 > 0:04:40Parliamentary scrutiny and take powers away from Parliament.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Parliament resisted.Ministers had mounted a full-scale operation to
0:04:42 > 0:04:45avoid losing. As the vote began, watch the small knot of Tory levels
0:04:45 > 0:04:47on the top left corner, hoping they still happen is... Tory rebels.
0:04:47 > 0:04:52Blink and you would a figure joins them, the Defence Secretary, until
0:04:52 > 0:04:56weeks ago the Chief Whip. Taking one of them aside for a quiet chat. You
0:04:56 > 0:05:01might not see clearly but moments after that conversation finished,
0:05:01 > 0:05:06the MP stays on the benches, drops his head to his phone to tweet that
0:05:06 > 0:05:09he would abstain, not vote against the Government.
0:05:09 > 0:05:16In front of your eyes, the guts of how close votes are lost or won all
0:05:16 > 0:05:20afternoon, her topless tenants were trying to avoid this result.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23REPORTER: Has the Government Dinning is to be the rebels?
0:05:23 > 0:05:28But what is it about? Some Tory MPs, opposition parties and these hardy
0:05:28 > 0:05:33campaigners were backing so-called amendment seven. Demanding a legal
0:05:33 > 0:05:37promise from the Government that MPs will have a chance to votes and
0:05:37 > 0:05:41debate the deal between Britain and the rest of the EU, crucially before
0:05:41 > 0:05:48it is signed.Stop Brexit. The Government had promised a vote,
0:05:48 > 0:05:52there was just not trust that they would stick to it. The debate has
0:05:52 > 0:05:56been bitter and rough. Large numbers of people telling won
0:05:56 > 0:06:01that one is a traitor, some, I have to say with regret, of one's
0:06:01 > 0:06:06honourable and write honourable friends saying things I say, go find
0:06:06 > 0:06:11slightly startling. Deep suspicion those who wanted to
0:06:11 > 0:06:16stay in the EU are trying to run the referendum again.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Clause nine is not about implementing leaving the European
0:06:18 > 0:06:29Union.Read it! Read it! Sits down!If people in this Haas
0:06:29 > 0:06:33use that amendment for those purposes, the backlash from the
0:06:33 > 0:06:37British public will be like non-seen before. He should beware of that
0:06:37 > 0:06:41consequence. The idea written how undermines the
0:06:41 > 0:06:44referendum decision is a load of rubbish and he well knows it. If he
0:06:44 > 0:06:48had any better arguments he would put them rather than using something
0:06:48 > 0:06:52that is so ridiculous. The Downing Street offensive,
0:06:52 > 0:06:57however much charm there was... REPORTER:What will it take?!
0:06:57 > 0:07:08Calling in rebels, did not work.
0:07:13 > 0:07:14After hours of debate, a last-minute concession was dangled.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17The Government is willing to return a report stage with an amendment on
0:07:17 > 0:07:20the face of the bill, making clear the undertaken assurance that I gave
0:07:20 > 0:07:22in my speech but statutory instruments under clause and I will
0:07:22 > 0:07:24not enter into force until we have had a meaningful vote in Parliament.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27It is tabulate, you cannot treat the Haas in this fashion.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29It was too latent too little. Parliament, not the Tory party, had
0:07:29 > 0:07:34its day.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Laura, what is your sense on the impact of this on the Prime
0:07:37 > 0:07:43Minister's authority at Westminster and in Brussels?
0:07:43 > 0:07:46It was nail-biting and it will be embarrassing for Theresa May to have
0:07:46 > 0:07:50to arrive to that crunch summit in Brussels to greet the EU leaders,
0:07:50 > 0:07:54having a few hours before been beaten by her own site. It is a
0:07:54 > 0:07:59drama for number ten today but it is not an out and out disaster. We
0:07:59 > 0:08:05should not overemphasise the impact. The vote was very close, this vote
0:08:05 > 0:08:09does not stop Brexit in any way and the legislation is a long way from
0:08:09 > 0:08:13ending up on the statute books, so like it or not there months and
0:08:13 > 0:08:19months of argument ahead. Something important has happened tonight, MPs
0:08:19 > 0:08:24from all parties, Tory, Labour, SNP, Lib Dems, working together to make
0:08:24 > 0:08:27the collective will of the Commons chamber speak louder than the
0:08:27 > 0:08:34Government. There were only four votes in it, it is not the case at
0:08:34 > 0:08:36all that Parliament will certainly have its say on everything to do
0:08:36 > 0:08:41with Brexit, the Government has suddenly become a better player, but
0:08:41 > 0:08:45it is an important moment and it is, don't forget, the first time that
0:08:45 > 0:08:51Theresa May has been beaten in the Commons on her own plans since
0:08:51 > 0:08:53becoming Prime Minister. I think it stiffens the sinews of people in
0:08:53 > 0:08:58this place who have been timid about rebelling, timid about making
0:08:58 > 0:09:02trouble, and are probably also stiffens the Lord's down there, who
0:09:02 > 0:09:07are pretty much certain to cause a lot more trouble than those in the
0:09:07 > 0:09:11Commons chamber. And I wonder if it leaves Theresa May with a choice.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15Until now she has taken a very tough line uncompromising on anything to
0:09:15 > 0:09:18do with Brexit. Her critics inside the Tory party would say she has had
0:09:18 > 0:09:23to be dragged kicking and screaming to anything that looks like a whiff
0:09:23 > 0:09:27of compromise. I think tonight she now faces a choice, does she change
0:09:27 > 0:09:31her tone and try to work together with people in her party, or does
0:09:31 > 0:09:36she allow the bitterness to spread and continue if she carries on the
0:09:36 > 0:09:41kind of course she has so far? There are Tory rebels who tonight looked
0:09:41 > 0:09:45over the edge and decided they were willing to cross it.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Thank you very much, Laura Kuenssberg with the latest after the
0:09:48 > 0:09:51vote at Westminster.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Chris Froome, Britain's most successful road cyclist,
0:09:53 > 0:09:55is facing the prospect of being banned from the sport
0:09:55 > 0:09:56for failing a drugs test.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59The four-time Tour de France winner registered twice the limit
0:09:59 > 0:10:02of a medication used to treat asthma during a race in Spain in September.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04Cycling's world governing body has launched an investigation.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Both Froome and Team Sky have denied any wrongdoing,
0:10:06 > 0:10:11as our sports editor Dan Roan reports.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Chris Froome has told the BBC tonight into standard will come as a
0:10:14 > 0:10:19big shock to a lot of people but insists he has not broken any rules.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23-- that he understands it will come as a big shock to a lot of people.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24Having come to dominate cycling's biggest race,
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Chris Froome's established himself as the pre-eminent force
0:10:26 > 0:10:29in his sport, but the British star now faces a fight
0:10:29 > 0:10:30to save his reputation.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32It was here during his historic victory at Spain's grand tour
0:10:32 > 0:10:35the Vuelta that he was found to have exceeded the permitted legal level
0:10:35 > 0:10:38of the asthma drug salbutamol.
0:10:38 > 0:10:46He says on doctors' advice he increased his dosage due asthma,
0:10:46 > 0:10:50And at a training camp in Majorca he told the BBC he had done nothing
0:10:50 > 0:10:55wrong.I understand it has come as a big shock to a lot of people, but I
0:10:55 > 0:11:00stand by what I have always said, I certainly have not broken any rules
0:11:00 > 0:11:05here. I have not taken more than the permissible amount and I am sure at
0:11:05 > 0:11:11the end of the day the truth will be told.
0:11:11 > 0:11:17Riders can take salbutamol, but the rider has given a you're in sample
0:11:17 > 0:11:23with traces twice the permitted amount. He says it can be explained.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27It can be affected by a lot of different factors. Dehydration, the
0:11:27 > 0:11:32way the body metabolises it, for example. This is not a positive
0:11:32 > 0:11:40test, all asthmatics out there will no what salbutamol is and obviously
0:11:40 > 0:11:49I have only been too happy to try and help the UCI fill in the blanks.
0:11:49 > 0:11:50In a statement the Team Sky boss said...
0:11:59 > 0:12:02There is a medical need, what needs to happen is that the support around
0:12:02 > 0:12:05the athlete needs to improve in terms of this his asthma is that
0:12:05 > 0:12:12bad, should he be cycling? Is it a health issue? Your asthma is that
0:12:12 > 0:12:15bad, you're taking that much salbutamol, you are still
0:12:15 > 0:12:18symptomatic, shall we call it a day and come back tomorrow when the
0:12:18 > 0:12:22asthma is better. Scrutiny on Team Sky has intensified
0:12:22 > 0:12:25in the last year, with management grilled at a Parliamentary select
0:12:25 > 0:12:28committee and a UK Anti-Doping investigation into allegations all
0:12:28 > 0:12:32denied a not proven surrounding a mystical medical delivery to Sir
0:12:32 > 0:12:36Bradley Wiggins in 2011. Froome meanwhile has taken a strong
0:12:36 > 0:12:41moral stance on the controversial use of TUV, or therapeutic use
0:12:41 > 0:12:47exemption is, for usually banned substances.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49I think most people will listen to everything we are saying about
0:12:49 > 0:12:52hearing sent offensive etc and will not care, as far as they are
0:12:52 > 0:12:54concerned it is yet another thing what has happened to Team Sky and
0:12:54 > 0:12:57cycling, as far as the reputation of cycling is concerned it is
0:12:57 > 0:13:02enormously damaging. Next year Froome plan to seal a
0:13:02 > 0:13:06remarkable fifth Tour de France triumph, but instead the potential
0:13:06 > 0:13:09ban and the potential loss of his Spanish title hang over him.
0:13:09 > 0:13:14He faces a very anxious wait, as does Team Sky at the headquarters of
0:13:14 > 0:13:16the National velodrome in Manchester. They have built their
0:13:16 > 0:13:20brand around him and are trying to recover from recent controversies.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24Froome has come to symbolise a new era for the sport after it's deeply
0:13:24 > 0:13:28troubled doping past and there is a huge amount at stake for him, his
0:13:28 > 0:13:31team and for cycling.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33The US Democratic Party has been celebrating an unexpected victory
0:13:33 > 0:13:37in a special election for the US Senate in the state of Alabama.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39Doug Jones beat the controversial Republican candidate Roy Moore,
0:13:39 > 0:13:43who'd been strongly backed by President Trump.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45Mr Moore had faced allegations of sexual misconduct
0:13:45 > 0:13:50with teenage girls, allegations he'd consistently denied.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53The result means the Republican majority in the US Senate now
0:13:53 > 0:13:54stands at just 51 to 49.
0:13:54 > 0:14:04Our North America correspondent, Nick Bryant, reports.
0:14:04 > 0:14:09Amidst all the noise and rage of American politics,
0:14:09 > 0:14:16it's worth remembering elections are often decided in quiet suburbs.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18That was true in Alabama, where moderate Republicans didn't
0:14:18 > 0:14:22turn out for their party's radical, scandal-hit candidate.
0:14:22 > 0:14:27and where many don't much like Donald Trump either.
0:14:27 > 0:14:28It's a rejection of Donald Trump.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Tracy James is a lifelong Republican, who yesterday
0:14:30 > 0:14:31went Democrat.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33It was also a protest vote against the president.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36I do think Donald Trump has a problem in the Republican suburbs.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39You don't know what's going to come out of his mouth next.
0:14:39 > 0:14:49You don't know whether we're going to go to war with North Korea.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52You don't know if he's going to insult a woman in Congress.
0:14:52 > 0:14:53I think they're very uncomfortable with that.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Modern-day Democrats aren't supposed to win in staunchly conservative
0:14:56 > 0:14:57states like Alabama.
0:14:57 > 0:14:58It hasn't happened here for 25 years.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00No wonder the blizzard of confetti.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03Alabama has been at a crossroads.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06It has been at crossroads in the past and unfortunately,
0:15:06 > 0:15:10we have usually taken the wrong fork.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, you took the right road.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17The losing Republican candidate, Roy Moore,
0:15:17 > 0:15:20thought he was on his way to Washington, but he was hit
0:15:20 > 0:15:25by allegations, which he denies, of sexual misconduct against teenage
0:15:25 > 0:15:29girls and shunned by senior figures in the Republican establishment.
0:15:29 > 0:15:34That's where the anger of his dejected supporters was directed.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37It's really sad for the people of Alabama what took place
0:15:37 > 0:15:43in this state tonight.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45You think you've been betrayed by the Republican establishment?
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Absolutely, no doubt about that.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49# You can't always get what you want #.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53It's true, you can't always get what you want.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56A lesson for Donald Trump, who has strongly backed Roy Moore.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58So get out and vote for Roy Moore.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Do it. Do it.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04So this is a big black eye for the president and also a failure
0:16:04 > 0:16:06of the Trump political playbook, to deny accusations of wrongdoing
0:16:06 > 0:16:12as fake news and to attack accusers.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15With a Republican majority in the Senate reduced to a single
0:16:15 > 0:16:18seat, it will be even harder for the president to enact his
0:16:18 > 0:16:20stalled legislative agenda.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23The Democrats hope this result is indicative of an anti-Trump wave
0:16:23 > 0:16:25which will help win them back Capitol Hill in next year's
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Congressional elections.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31This Senate race doubled as a battle for the soul of the Republican
0:16:31 > 0:16:34movement and thus marked a defeat for conservative insurgents
0:16:34 > 0:16:42against the party establishment.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45That too is a setback for Donald Trump and his
0:16:45 > 0:16:46unorthodox brand of politics.
0:16:46 > 0:16:47Nick Bryant, BBC News, Alabama.
0:16:47 > 0:16:55A fourth child has died after a house fire in
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Greater Manchester earlier this week.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Three-year-old Lia Pearson died in hospital earlier today.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01A 35-year-old woman remains in a serious condition.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05The fire was started in the early hours of Monday morning.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Earlier today, two people made their first court appearance
0:17:07 > 0:17:12charged with murder in relation to the fire.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Wages have grown more slowly than the cost of living
0:17:14 > 0:17:21for a seventh month in a row.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that pay
0:17:23 > 0:17:26in the year to October increased by 2.3%, while inflation
0:17:26 > 0:17:27currently stands at 3.1%.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30There were also 56,000 fewer people in work in the three months
0:17:30 > 0:17:32to October than in the previous quarter, the biggest fall
0:17:32 > 0:17:38for more than two years.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Eight people have been sentenced for smuggling drugs
0:17:40 > 0:17:43into prisons by using drones.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Craig Hickinbottom, a former armed robber,
0:17:45 > 0:17:55organised the flights from inside.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Police have identified at least 49 drone flights carrying contraband,
0:17:58 > 0:18:00thought to have been worth as much as £1.2 million.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Our home affairs correspondent, Daniel Sandford, has the story.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Cameras originally set up to take pictures of wildlife,
0:18:04 > 0:18:11catching instead Britain's most prolific drone smuggling gang.
0:18:11 > 0:18:17Recording the pilot, Mervyn Foster, time and again flying the drone
0:18:17 > 0:18:19from a field outside Hewell Prison in Worcestershire.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Its illegal cargo hanging underneath on fishing line.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25From the field, the smugglers had a view directly into the jail
0:18:25 > 0:18:27and the prison block where the drone's cargo was pulled
0:18:27 > 0:18:31in through the windows.
0:18:31 > 0:18:36Over the months, the gang grew in confidence and sophistication.
0:18:36 > 0:18:41They'd started by simply throwing the drugs over the prison wall,
0:18:41 > 0:18:45But then they started using drones and they added to the contraband -
0:18:45 > 0:18:47mobile phones, weapons, screwdrivers and even a Freeview box
0:18:47 > 0:18:50with a remote control.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54Cameras inside Hewell Prison caught one of the ringleaders,
0:18:54 > 0:18:57John Hickinbottom, with an improvised hook used
0:18:57 > 0:19:01to catch the fishing line and recover the contraband.
0:19:01 > 0:19:07The gang, led by armed robber Craig Hickinbottom,
0:19:07 > 0:19:10is thought to have smuggled in over a million pounds worth
0:19:10 > 0:19:12of drugs and phones, continuing even after they'd been
0:19:12 > 0:19:13arrested and charged.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15The contents of the loads, on at least 49 flights,
0:19:15 > 0:19:17were specifically ordered by individual inmates
0:19:17 > 0:19:21from the Midlands to Scotland.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24The recent epidemic of drones being used to airlift contraband
0:19:24 > 0:19:26into prison grew from nothing in just four years.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28We didn't see this one coming.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32So, the drones literally came from nowhere.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36They were flown in and it actually just was a game changer for us.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39So we had to really relook at our systems,
0:19:39 > 0:19:41our procedures and methods of gathering intelligence.
0:19:41 > 0:19:49And it gave the gangs of opportunity to actually breach the secure
0:19:49 > 0:19:50perimeters almost effortlessly.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52To crack this case, officers downloaded the memories
0:19:52 > 0:19:55of the drones they seized and linked that to mobile phone calls
0:19:55 > 0:19:56the smugglers were making.
0:19:56 > 0:20:06The prisons' ministers had to invest millions of pounds in a new national
0:20:06 > 0:20:08network of police and prison officers working together,
0:20:08 > 0:20:09which helped catch this gang.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13What we've shown here is that this is the most prolific gang we've come
0:20:13 > 0:20:15across and we've been able to deal with them.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18They're going to be serving jail time, and that is a huge success.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20But with huge profits being made by the smuggling gangs,
0:20:20 > 0:20:25keeping drones away from prisons is going to be a lengthy battle.
0:20:25 > 0:20:30Daniel Sandford, BBC News, at HMP Hewell in Worcestershire.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34The United Nations is warning that a reduction in the number
0:20:34 > 0:20:36of peacekeeping troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
0:20:36 > 0:20:38in Central Africa, is likely to lead to more instability
0:20:38 > 0:20:40and loss of life.
0:20:40 > 0:20:46Last night we had a special report on the unfolding
0:20:46 > 0:20:49humanitarian crisis in the DRC, where nearly 1.5 million people have
0:20:49 > 0:20:51fled their homes and severe acute malnutrition is affecting hundreds
0:20:51 > 0:20:55of thousands of children.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59The desperate situation began last year in the Kasai region
0:20:59 > 0:21:01of the country after a conflict between government-backed
0:21:01 > 0:21:02troops and rebel fighters.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Both sides have committed atrocities.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Our Africa editor Fergal Keane and cameraman Tony Fallshaw
0:21:08 > 0:21:14travelled to Kasai.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16You may find some images in this report distressing.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18The grass grows over, it conceals.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21Day by day the truth recedes in view, but the UN patrol knew
0:21:21 > 0:21:23where the bodies had been dumped.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26You can smell it.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28One of 87 known mass graves in Kasai.
0:21:28 > 0:21:34"Some bones here", the soldier says.
0:21:34 > 0:21:39Fragments of atrocity.
0:21:39 > 0:21:40The clothes of the dead.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42At least 3,000 people have been killed - shot,
0:21:42 > 0:21:47hacked, beaten to death.
0:21:47 > 0:21:48Nearly a million-and-a-half displaced.
0:21:48 > 0:21:49The blood is speaking.
0:21:49 > 0:21:50The blood is speaking?
0:21:50 > 0:21:51Yes, the blood is speaking.
0:21:51 > 0:22:01This is the blood of my brothers.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Even myself, if I was there, I could be killed also innocently.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09We met a woman who says she saw the army arriving.
0:22:09 > 0:22:10We've protected her identity.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12TRANSLATION:The military were burying the bodies.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15We saw where they stopped and how they dug to bury the corpses.
0:22:15 > 0:22:20Some were as young as 12.
0:22:20 > 0:22:27They did not only kill the militia, they killed innocent people.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30Across Congo, a small UN force is struggling in the face
0:22:30 > 0:22:32of growing instability.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35In Kasai, it says the targeting of civilians by all sides could
0:22:35 > 0:22:40amount to crimes against humanity.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43The violence escalated when security forces killed this man,
0:22:43 > 0:22:48Chief Kamuina Nsapu, after he'd rebelled
0:22:48 > 0:22:50against the government whose president, Joseph Kabila,
0:22:50 > 0:22:52is clinging to power despite having served the two terms he's
0:22:52 > 0:22:56allowed under the law.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59In response, the Chief's followers attacked everybody and anything
0:22:59 > 0:23:03associated with the state.
0:23:03 > 0:23:09Like these policemen, beheaded soon after the video was taken.
0:23:09 > 0:23:17Even civil society activists, trying to register voters,
0:23:17 > 0:23:18were attacked when rebels swept into this town.
0:23:18 > 0:23:23Offices destroyed, family members butchered.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25TRANSLATION:I have lost my daughter, who was a dressmaker.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28She was beheaded with her husband.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Their children are orphaned and they have remained here.
0:23:30 > 0:23:37I take care of them now.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39350 kilometers to the south, Emmanuel showed me
0:23:39 > 0:23:45the ruins of his home.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48When the militia attacked, he fled with his older child,
0:23:48 > 0:23:56but in the chaos a sleeping three-year-old girl was left
0:23:56 > 0:23:57and burned to death.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59TRANSLATION:I was afraid to be killed myself.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02I wanted to save my life and the life of the child
0:24:02 > 0:24:04who was with me, hence the other child was killed.
0:24:04 > 0:24:08I keep crying, crying always.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12The state fought back with pitiless violence,
0:24:12 > 0:24:17killing militia supporters, who believed magic charms
0:24:17 > 0:24:19could protect them from bullets, and turning its guns on civilians
0:24:19 > 0:24:25who lived in rebel areas.
0:24:25 > 0:24:34This man told us what he'd witnessed near the town of Chikapa.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36TRANSLATION:The military were taking people, killing them
0:24:36 > 0:24:38and throwing them into the river.
0:24:38 > 0:24:39People started to run away and hide.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42They followed them, killed them and threw them into the river.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45We saw the army do this.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48These are not isolated accounts, we've spoken with other witnesses
0:24:48 > 0:24:51who saw bodies being thrown into the river.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55We met a 13-year-old boy, shot in the chest, he survived.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58We've heard from people who saw women being dragged away
0:24:58 > 0:25:02by the army screaming.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05At this church in Chikapa we met hundreds of villagers who'd fled
0:25:05 > 0:25:07violence at the hands of a pro-government militia,
0:25:07 > 0:25:17drawn from another ethnic group.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20TRANSLATION:I saw people with machetes, guns and clubs.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22They were beheading people, cutting arms and legs,
0:25:22 > 0:25:23slashing bellies.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25I had to climb over dead bodies to escape.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28I had four children, but could escape with only one.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32The other three were killed.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35The government denies the army committed crimes
0:25:35 > 0:25:40against humanity and says it's been fighting militia terror.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42We are facing a terrorist offensive from there.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46We see no difference between those people
0:25:46 > 0:25:53and the Boko Haram or Shabaab.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56In Kasai, only one force stands between the actions of the state
0:25:56 > 0:25:57and the different militias.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59But the UN is under pressure.
0:25:59 > 0:26:07In a country two-thirds the size of western Europe,
0:26:07 > 0:26:10there are fewer than 20,000 troops, and even this force has been cut
0:26:10 > 0:26:12back as America reduces peacekeeping funding.
0:26:12 > 0:26:13What can be achieved with so few troops?
0:26:13 > 0:26:16Quite simply, what would happen if we weren't here?
0:26:16 > 0:26:20We want to do everything we possibly can with the resources
0:26:20 > 0:26:26of the United Nations to save lives and to make the situation better.
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Amid deteriorating security across Congo, survivors
0:26:27 > 0:26:32fear fresh violence.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35Like this mother and her 15-year-old daughter, who were abducted
0:26:35 > 0:26:37by the same pro-government militia, separated and taken
0:26:37 > 0:26:41to different farms.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44TRANSLATION:We had left our village in April and were taken as slaves
0:26:44 > 0:26:46on the farm the same month.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49It's difficult to count how many times I was raped because it was
0:26:49 > 0:26:52during so many months.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54I did not know where my daughter was, she was
0:26:54 > 0:26:56released after I escaped.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59They told her - "go now, for your mother has escaped
0:26:59 > 0:27:00and can get us arrested."
0:27:00 > 0:27:03Only then, when she joined me in Chikapa, did I discover
0:27:03 > 0:27:07that she had been raped too.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10I have a lot of bitterness in my heart because my little
0:27:10 > 0:27:11girl has been deviled.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15She's just a kid.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19In Kasai, where the dead are cast into rivers, into mass graves,
0:27:19 > 0:27:23there is no real peace to keep, only a daily effort to hold back
0:27:23 > 0:27:29the forces of chaos.
0:27:29 > 0:27:36Fergal Keane, BBC News, Kasai.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39The Chief Inspector of Schools, Amanda Spielman, says more than 100
0:27:39 > 0:27:42schools in England are struggling and haven't been judged good
0:27:42 > 0:27:45by the inspection service Ofsted for more than a decade.
0:27:45 > 0:27:51The annual report warns that a core of persistently underachieving
0:27:51 > 0:27:54schools are struggling to recruit teachers and to keep head teachers.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56The Government says it's targeting additional help
0:27:56 > 0:28:02at challenging areas.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05At St Paul's Cathedral tomorrow, members of the Royal Family
0:28:05 > 0:28:08will attend a memorial service with many of those affected
0:28:08 > 0:28:11by the fire at Grenfell Tower in West London, in June this year,
0:28:11 > 0:28:18exactly six months ago, which claimed the lives of 71
0:28:18 > 0:28:20victims and made hundreds of people homeless.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22Our special correspondent, Allan Little, has been back
0:28:22 > 0:28:25to the area where the disaster happened and reports on the lasting
0:28:25 > 0:28:26impact there and beyond.
0:28:26 > 0:28:34It is the abiding image of 2017, it scars the West London cityscape
0:28:34 > 0:28:36and, perhaps, the conscience of the country.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38That it happened in one of the richest parts of London has
0:28:38 > 0:28:41made it for many a tale of two Britons, living side
0:28:41 > 0:28:43by side, but separately.
0:28:43 > 0:28:49The Dale Youth Boxing Club used to train in Grenfell Tower,
0:28:49 > 0:28:52their gym was lost to the fire, now they use this concrete corner
0:28:52 > 0:28:54of a multi-storey car park.
0:28:54 > 0:28:583, 2... Stay down.
0:28:58 > 0:29:02The club coach is Gary McGuinness, he says years of gentrification,
0:29:02 > 0:29:03of regeneration projects, have made the old London
0:29:03 > 0:29:06working-class, who used to thrive here, a diminishing presence.
0:29:06 > 0:29:10Regeneration, what does the word mean, like, you know?
0:29:10 > 0:29:13You know, it seems like it means clear out for the locals to me.
0:29:13 > 0:29:16That's what's going on around here, ain't it, basically, as you see.
0:29:16 > 0:29:19You know, the locals are getting pushed out.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21The kids can't afford to buy places around here.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23Do you think it's got worse over the years?
0:29:23 > 0:29:24Of course it has, yeah.
0:29:24 > 0:29:25Yeah, yeah.
0:29:25 > 0:29:26Definitely, yeah.
0:29:26 > 0:29:35You should be concentrating, watching what he's doing.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37The Grenfell Tower fire exposed this long, steady,
0:29:37 > 0:29:38drifting apart of rich and poor.
0:29:38 > 0:29:43But don't push a simple rich poor interpretation too far here.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45Five members of Mutah Chellat's family died in the fire.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48For him, the problem is not that there are rich and poor,
0:29:48 > 0:29:50but that increasingly the poor are disregarded.
0:29:50 > 0:29:53If you're going to ask me who I blame, I don't blame the rich
0:29:53 > 0:29:55people in Holland Park because they didn't come down
0:29:55 > 0:29:58here and light the fire, do you know what I mean?
0:29:58 > 0:30:01They just happen to live where they live, it's not their fault.
0:30:01 > 0:30:04But if you're going to ask me who the blame is, yes,
0:30:04 > 0:30:06I blame the council, I blame the local authorities,
0:30:06 > 0:30:09I blame the Government that are supposed to look after these
0:30:09 > 0:30:10sort of buildings.
0:30:10 > 0:30:11But why are they not maintaining them?
0:30:11 > 0:30:14That's when you could turn around and say, well,
0:30:14 > 0:30:16probably it's because they don't care about these sort of people.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18You know, these so-called disadvantaged people that live
0:30:18 > 0:30:20in these council estates and things like that.
0:30:20 > 0:30:21"So-called disadvantaged", he says.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24For the people of Grenfell do not recognise the version
0:30:24 > 0:30:25of themselves that has entered the public imagination.
0:30:25 > 0:30:28Nina Masroh has lived on the estate for nearly 30 years.
0:30:28 > 0:30:34We were portrayed as a poor, uneducated, disadvantaged
0:30:34 > 0:30:36people who didn't work, on benefits which is
0:30:36 > 0:30:37the actual opposite.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39A lot of people do work.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42There are some very highly educated people living on council estates
0:30:42 > 0:30:44in Grenfell Tower itself.
0:30:44 > 0:30:47There were architects, there were engineers,
0:30:47 > 0:30:52people worked in social media, in technology, IT.
0:30:52 > 0:30:57So to have this kind of view, simply because somebody lives
0:30:57 > 0:31:06on a council estate, that they are not worthy
0:31:06 > 0:31:09or they are less than anyone else, is a complete...
0:31:09 > 0:31:10It's a fallacy.
0:31:10 > 0:31:11Did you feel insulted by it?
0:31:11 > 0:31:13Deeply insulted, deeply insulted.
0:31:13 > 0:31:16I think also there was that sense of - oh, they're all just
0:31:16 > 0:31:19a bunch of foreigners.
0:31:19 > 0:31:22That's what makes London, I suppose that's what makes the UK.
0:31:22 > 0:31:27We're a multi-cultural society.
0:31:27 > 0:31:30Its location has made Grenfell Tower a graphic symbol
0:31:30 > 0:31:32of inequality in Britain, an inequality that before the fire
0:31:32 > 0:31:42was hidden in plain sight.