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