0:00:04 > 0:00:07Tonight at Ten:
0:00:07 > 0:00:12The woman who accused the cabinet minister
0:00:12 > 0:00:14of inappropriate conduct speaks to the BBC.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17Mr Green - one of Theresa May's closest colleagues -
0:00:17 > 0:00:19was forced to resign yesterday - after he was accused of breaking
0:00:19 > 0:00:21the ministerial code.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23Kate Maltby - a former Conservative party worker -
0:00:23 > 0:00:30says she passed on concerns about Mr Green to Downing Street - in 2016.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33I was aware that he was the Deputy Prime Minister.
0:00:33 > 0:00:40And I was aware that number ten knew about it.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42We'll have an exclusive interview with Kate Maltby -
0:00:42 > 0:00:45the day after Theresa May insisted on Mr Green's departure
0:00:45 > 0:00:46from the government.
0:00:46 > 0:00:48Also tonight:
0:00:48 > 0:00:51In Yemen, the International Red Cross says the humanitarian crisis
0:00:51 > 0:00:54has left more than 80 per cent of the population facing food
0:00:54 > 0:00:57and water shortages.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00It's not the bombs and the bullets which claim the most lives -
0:01:00 > 0:01:04it's the catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Apple has been forced to admit that it deliberately slows down
0:01:06 > 0:01:10the operating speed of iPhones as they get older.
0:01:10 > 0:01:15Homelessness in the UK.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17We report on the high number of young people 'sofa surfing'
0:01:17 > 0:01:19with no place to call home.
0:01:19 > 0:01:26# I'm passionately smashing every expectation #.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28And the runaway Broadway hit about triumph through adversity
0:01:28 > 0:01:30that's now opened in London.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32Coming up in Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News,
0:01:32 > 0:01:34a let-off for Manchester United and Manchester City.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36There'll be no FA punishment and Manchester City.
0:01:36 > 0:01:41after that dressing room altercation.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03Good evening.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06A day after the forced resignation of Damian Green from the cabinet -
0:02:06 > 0:02:08the woman who alleged he made inappropriate advances -
0:02:08 > 0:02:14has spoken tonight to the BBC.
0:02:14 > 0:02:20Kate Maltby - a former Conservative activist -
0:02:20 > 0:02:22says she passed her concerns on to Downing Street back in 2016.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Ms Maltby - who was found to be a 'plausible witness'
0:02:25 > 0:02:28by an official inquiry - said the culture in Downing
0:02:28 > 0:02:29Street needed to change.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32And tonight Number 10 said that everyone should be able
0:02:32 > 0:02:34to work in politics without fear or harassment.
0:02:34 > 0:02:35Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg has
0:02:35 > 0:02:43this exclusive report.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Damian Green's fall from grace began not with claims about the police or
0:02:47 > 0:02:52pawn but with a woman decades his junior.If you let the Prime
0:02:52 > 0:02:57Minister down?Is complaints about one of the most powerful men in the
0:02:57 > 0:03:00country prompted the investigation which removed him from office. Kate
0:03:00 > 0:03:04Maltby, journalist and activist, whose account of inappropriate
0:03:04 > 0:03:08advances towards her by Damian Green was found to be plausible, if not
0:03:08 > 0:03:12conclusively proven by Cabinet official Sue Gray, her aim to expose
0:03:12 > 0:03:17the broader concerns, not Mr Green. I wrote about the problem of sexual
0:03:17 > 0:03:20harassment in Westminster because I knew it was a persistent problem,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23but I also knew of similar experiences with many other people
0:03:23 > 0:03:28in Westminster across all parties. But what I was not seeking was a
0:03:28 > 0:03:32resignation, I've never called for Damian Green's resignation either as
0:03:32 > 0:03:39an MP or a minister. Frankly what I was expecting was an apology.The
0:03:39 > 0:03:46Daily Telegraph blogger Kate Maltby. Mr Green did apologise yesterday but
0:03:46 > 0:03:50said he doesn't recognise her account of events. Miss Maltby is
0:03:50 > 0:03:53well-known in Tory circles and has never hidden being a friendly
0:03:53 > 0:03:57contact of Mr Green. But until now she has never publicly said her
0:03:57 > 0:04:02concerns about his behaviour led her to tell one of Theresa May's team.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06Last year, before he was promoted become first Secretary of State.I
0:04:06 > 0:04:11was able to give the inquiry a lot of evidence, written evidence, that
0:04:11 > 0:04:15I'd complained frequently and consistently and contemporaneously.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19So I knew that really I was believed. The reason that I didn't
0:04:19 > 0:04:24tell many people about the first encounter, the encounter at which I
0:04:24 > 0:04:28felt the political mentorship, even a job in the Conservative Party, was
0:04:28 > 0:04:31being offered at the same time as the sexual suggestion, the reason I
0:04:31 > 0:04:36didn't tell many people then accept my parents is I wondered if it was a
0:04:36 > 0:04:40one-off and eventually I spoke to a very senior and long serving aide of
0:04:40 > 0:04:44Theresa May.You gave evidence to the official inquiry. That's as far
0:04:44 > 0:04:49as you're concerned, number ten was aware that there was an issue with
0:04:49 > 0:04:53Damian Green's behaviour towards women?I gave evidence to the
0:04:53 > 0:04:58inquiry as soon as I sat down with Sue Gray that, to the best of my
0:04:58 > 0:05:04knowledge, Downing Street was aware. This whole story has been about
0:05:04 > 0:05:09power. This whole story is about power. Damian Green became a very,
0:05:09 > 0:05:14very powerful person. I was aware that there seems to be improper,
0:05:14 > 0:05:24there seemed to be an improper mixing of mentorship and... Sexual
0:05:24 > 0:05:29advance within the Conservative Party. In his case I was aware he
0:05:29 > 0:05:34was the Deputy Prime Minister, and I was aware that number ten knew about
0:05:34 > 0:05:38it.What would you say to some of our viewers who might be thinking,
0:05:38 > 0:05:42hang on a minute, this young woman was sending texts to this man, she
0:05:42 > 0:05:47met him for a drink in a bar, this is just the rough and tumble of what
0:05:47 > 0:05:53goes on.We are not wilting flowers. I've always been able to stand up
0:05:53 > 0:05:57for myself. So I haven't done this so much to complain about my own
0:05:57 > 0:06:02terrible treatment by Damian Green so much as to try and change the
0:06:02 > 0:06:09culture. It is, I mean this is something, the rough-and-tumble of
0:06:09 > 0:06:13Westminster is a highly sexualised environment, a highly deceitful
0:06:13 > 0:06:16environment, it's problematic in many ways. There is a lot that goes
0:06:16 > 0:06:20on there that we all just put up with. But we shouldn't have too. I
0:06:20 > 0:06:24have the resources to stand up and say we should not.Her riposte to
0:06:24 > 0:06:29those who claim she went public for her own advantage?I'm sure my
0:06:29 > 0:06:34career has been damaged by this. It was a calculated loss because I
0:06:34 > 0:06:38think there's something more important at stake here.If you saw
0:06:38 > 0:06:44Damian Green now what would you say to him?I never want to see him
0:06:44 > 0:06:51again.Downing Street flatly denies the Prime Minister knew. A number
0:06:51 > 0:06:54ten source said:
0:07:12 > 0:07:16yet this winter's revelations have already changed both of their lives
0:07:16 > 0:07:18for good.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Laura joins me now from Westminster.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25After all the events of the past 24 hours, this interview conducted
0:07:25 > 0:07:30today takes us back to the start of this train of events.It does, it
0:07:30 > 0:07:34takes us right back to the beginning a couple of months ago when all of
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Westminster was reeling about some of the stories are emerging about
0:07:36 > 0:07:40some of the kinds of harassment young people particularly involved
0:07:40 > 0:07:45in politics had been sharing and coming forward to tell. And to be
0:07:45 > 0:07:48clear, Kate Maltby says she is speaking out now because she wants
0:07:48 > 0:07:51to change that culture, because she believes that her motives that the
0:07:51 > 0:07:55time were questioned for coming forward. We should be also be clear
0:07:55 > 0:07:59that Damian Green has apologised to her but has always said he doesn't
0:07:59 > 0:08:03recognise her version of events. Of course he was forced out last night
0:08:03 > 0:08:06because he, in the end, had to admit he gave misleading statements about
0:08:06 > 0:08:10whether or not he knew about pornography found on his work
0:08:10 > 0:08:15computer. He was not forced to depart from his job because of the
0:08:15 > 0:08:23claims Miss Maltby said. But I think what this does remind us of is
0:08:23 > 0:08:26everything that happened in the last few weeks, there still is a real
0:08:26 > 0:08:30demand here in Westminster, and a real concern, about the culture
0:08:30 > 0:08:34spread across all political parties, and still real calls for all of the
0:08:34 > 0:08:39party political leaders to actually take real action. Therefore made
0:08:39 > 0:08:43promises the culture has to change. They've all said they will do
0:08:43 > 0:08:48things. There are various ideas and various things that have been put
0:08:48 > 0:08:52forward so far. But there is still a real call for people at the very top
0:08:52 > 0:08:57of the political tree to take this issue more seriously as we get into
0:08:57 > 0:09:01next year.Once again, thanks very much for the latest at Westminster.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Laura Kuenssberg, our political editor.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07The International Red Cross says the number of suspected cholera
0:09:07 > 0:09:08cases in Yemen has now reached one million.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11It said the figures highlight the humanitarian crisis which has
0:09:11 > 0:09:13left more than 80 per cent of the population facing food
0:09:13 > 0:09:14and water shortages.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17The country - the poorest in the Arab world -
0:09:17 > 0:09:20has been caught up in a two-year civil war between supporters
0:09:20 > 0:09:22of the President - who's backed by Saudi Arabia -
0:09:22 > 0:09:26and a rebel group - the Houthis - who are linked to Iran.
0:09:26 > 0:09:31Our correspondent Nawal Al-Maghafi is in
0:09:31 > 0:09:34the capital Sana'a - and has just sent this report -
0:09:34 > 0:09:35parts of which you may find distressing.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38CRYING
0:09:38 > 0:09:40This is 11-month-old Abdillahi, exhausted and beyond despair,
0:09:40 > 0:09:44he's just one of Yemen's starving children.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47With his belly swollen from malnutrition, there are 400,000
0:09:47 > 0:09:48other infants suffering just like him.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Once confined to rural areas, the threat of famine has now
0:09:51 > 0:10:01reached the capital.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Abdillahi's mother Jamilla sits helpless at his side,
0:10:06 > 0:10:08she's already lost two other children to hunger.
0:10:08 > 0:10:13She tells me, he's all she has to live for.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15TRANSLATION:My husband's salary used to provide for us,
0:10:15 > 0:10:18it would run out at the end of the month, but he would get paid.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Everything was OK.
0:10:20 > 0:10:29Now, all we eat is bread and tea.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31All the infants here were born into this war,
0:10:31 > 0:10:32now in its third year.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36From birth, it's a struggle to survive.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Eight-year-old Allah has just arrived and he's just been
0:10:38 > 0:10:40given his first proper meal in days.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43He's from a family with a well-paid government job, but for over a year
0:10:43 > 0:10:53anyone working for the state hasn't received a salary.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58So the family quickly fell into poverty.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Too ashamed to ask their own family for help, they struggled in silence.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03TRANSLATION:I break one piece of bread between two children
0:11:03 > 0:11:05and another is shared out between the rest.
0:11:05 > 0:11:06That's all we have.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09At night they ask for dinner, they cry, but I can't give them
0:11:09 > 0:11:19anything, so they sleep hungry.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22It's really heartbreaking.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25In Yemeni culture it's shameful to go out and ask for help and I'm
0:11:25 > 0:11:29shocked that Jamilla waited until her son was in this state
0:11:29 > 0:11:33before she asked her sister for money to bring him here.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36It makes me wonder how many more people are starving in their homes.
0:11:36 > 0:11:43And here's the incredible thing, whilst millions of people
0:11:43 > 0:11:46are starving across the country, supermarket shelves in the capital
0:11:46 > 0:11:49are stocked high with food, but ordinary Yemenis can no longer
0:11:49 > 0:11:54afford to shop here.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58A once busy store, now empty.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01Two thirds of the population don't know where their next meal is coming
0:12:01 > 0:12:03from, and they're totally dependent on aid to survive.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05TRANSLATION:This milk used to cost $15.
0:12:05 > 0:12:10Now it is 25.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12The people only come here to look at the food,
0:12:12 > 0:12:14they can no longer eat it.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16On the streets of Sana'a you can see the toll
0:12:16 > 0:12:17the fighting has had on the
0:12:17 > 0:12:21city.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23Burnt buildings, homes in ruins.
0:12:23 > 0:12:28The war in Yemen has had an impact on all aspects of life.
0:12:28 > 0:12:29The coalition air strikes, the fighting
0:12:29 > 0:12:32on the ground, has left people here living in fear.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34The country is more divided than ever and people are too
0:12:34 > 0:12:36afraid to speak their minds.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38But it's not the bombs and the bullets
0:12:38 > 0:12:41claiming the most lives.
0:12:41 > 0:12:42It's the catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Much of the problem lies here.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47The Saudi led coalition has blocked all
0:12:47 > 0:12:57commercial imports from entering Yemen's main ports.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Which has driven up prices.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Yesterday, the blockade was lifted for the next 30 days.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04But the Houthi rebels are impeding what little aid is being delivered.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Everyone here is now struggling.
0:13:06 > 0:13:07All government workers are now trying to
0:13:07 > 0:13:09feed their families without any income.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Mohammed has been teaching for over a year without pay.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13He says his family goes hungry, but he
0:13:13 > 0:13:23couldn't live with himself if he didn't turn up to lessons.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29TRANSLATION:If they don't pay us our salaries and the situation
0:13:29 > 0:13:31doesn't change, it'll be a catastrophe for teachers, for the
0:13:31 > 0:13:32people.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34Already, the middle-class has completely disappeared.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36The UN says Yemen is the world's biggest humanitarian crisis,
0:13:36 > 0:13:38but according to its resident co-ordinator, the international
0:13:38 > 0:13:48community isn't doing enough to stop the war .
0:13:55 > 0:13:58There is a glaring lack of pressure beyond the words.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01There's been words coming out of the US, there is words coming out
0:14:01 > 0:14:04of Europe and words coming out of the UK and everywhere else,
0:14:04 > 0:14:06but it's not translating into a pushback on this action
0:14:06 > 0:14:08and the only solution is political.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11So the political people have to get around this table and take a real
0:14:11 > 0:14:13full-hearted approach at fixing this.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16With a lack of international diplomacy and the war at a stalemate
0:14:16 > 0:14:19those at the brunt of the suffering are the vulnerable.
0:14:19 > 0:14:20Nawal Al-Maghafi, BBC News, Sanaa.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly
0:14:24 > 0:14:27backed a resolution calling on the United States
0:14:27 > 0:14:28to reverse its decision to recognise Jerusalem
0:14:28 > 0:14:30as the capital of Israel.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33128 countries - including the UK -
0:14:33 > 0:14:37voted to reject Donald Trump's recent announcement while nine voted
0:14:37 > 0:14:39against the resolution, which is non-binding.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41The United States had warned there will be consequences
0:14:41 > 0:14:47for those nations that challenged its new policy.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49We will remember it when we are called
0:14:49 > 0:14:51upon to once again makes the
0:14:51 > 0:14:55world's largest contribution to the United Nations.
0:14:55 > 0:15:01And we will remember it when so many countries come
0:15:01 > 0:15:05calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our
0:15:05 > 0:15:06influence for their benefit.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09America will put our embassy in Jerusalem.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11That is what the American people want us to do.
0:15:11 > 0:15:21And it is the right thing to do.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25Our correspondent Nada Tawfik is at the United Nations in New York.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Very strong words from the ambassador but they didn't really
0:15:27 > 0:15:33bring the result they wanted.Yet, Huw
0:15:33 > 0:15:36bring the result they wanted.Yet, Huw, this was always going to be a
0:15:36 > 0:15:39highly charged debate, but President Trump and Nikki Haley raised the
0:15:39 > 0:15:42stakes even further when they threatened to cut financial aid to
0:15:42 > 0:15:46countries that support the measure. Many countries here really resented
0:15:46 > 0:15:51that intimidation. The General Assembly hall they called it
0:15:51 > 0:15:56blackmail, arrogance, unethical. At the time of the vote, key allies of
0:15:56 > 0:16:00the United States, including the United Kingdom, brushed off
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Washington's threats and decided to support the measure. Canada, which
0:16:03 > 0:16:06was going to vote no in the end up staying because one senior diplomat
0:16:06 > 0:16:11told me they didn't like the tone the United States used. Now the
0:16:11 > 0:16:15threat did have a small impact, more states than anticipated abstained,
0:16:15 > 0:16:2221 didn't even show up. But with absolutely clear from this was that
0:16:22 > 0:16:26this was a strong rebuke President Trump's decision, his unilateral
0:16:26 > 0:16:29decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital. But it was more
0:16:29 > 0:16:34than that. It was also a strong repudiation of his America first
0:16:34 > 0:16:39foreign policy.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43Thank you for the latest from the UN in New York.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46There's been a high turnout in elections in the Spanish
0:16:46 > 0:16:48region of Catalonia - where voters are choosing
0:16:48 > 0:16:50between those parties which back independence -
0:16:50 > 0:16:55and those who want to remain part of Spain.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58With most of the votes counted the pro-independence party appears to be
0:16:58 > 0:17:02on course for a majority in the region's Parliament. Parliament was
0:17:02 > 0:17:06dissolved earlier this year for unlawfully declaring independence,
0:17:06 > 0:17:10one of the worst political crises in Spain in decades.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Our correspondent James Reynolds reports from Barcelona -
0:17:12 > 0:17:14and there is some flash photography in his report.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17Here's how much this election matters to the people of Catalonia.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Voting carried on right up to the final seconds.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22An expected record turnout.
0:17:22 > 0:17:29The pro-independence camp is watching every moment of the vote
0:17:29 > 0:17:33count, the future of their movement may come down to one or two seats.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35The deposed exiled Catalan leader Carlos Puigdemont joined
0:17:35 > 0:17:44colleagues in Brussels to learn his fate.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48A victory for his pro-independence camp may lead to his return.
0:17:48 > 0:17:56For some this is a chance to get even.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Spanish police violence in October has turned this woman into a
0:17:58 > 0:18:06pro-independence voter.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08TRANSLATION:I want them to listen to us out
0:18:08 > 0:18:11there in the world, for them to listen to us in Spain, in Europe,
0:18:11 > 0:18:14for them to know that the Catalan people and Catalan sentiment exists
0:18:14 > 0:18:18and that we've been forgotten, we've been treated like nobodys.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21In October's disputed independence referendum,
0:18:21 > 0:18:24this polling station was a scene of chaos.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27The Spanish police used force to confiscate ballot boxes.
0:18:27 > 0:18:28By contrast, this election is organised and orderly.
0:18:28 > 0:18:38Everyone is getting the chance to vote.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41In Barcelona's old city, the three Moreira sistors split
0:18:41 > 0:18:47two to one in favour of pro-independence parties.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50"We haven't tried to convince one another," Amina admitted.
0:18:50 > 0:18:55Retired maintenance man Jordi wants Catalonia to become a republic.
0:18:55 > 0:19:00Raquel said that she was voting for freedom from Spain.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Marta says she wants deposed pro-independence leader Carlos
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Puigdemont to return.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08But in Hospitalet and other working-class
0:19:08 > 0:19:15districts, many voters take the opposite view.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17TRANSLATION:If they want independence they should look
0:19:17 > 0:19:18for an island and go there.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21This is Spain, Catalonia is Spain.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23TRANSLATION:I went to see a government that is
0:19:23 > 0:19:28anti-independence because I believe that if the others
0:19:28 > 0:19:30win, our economy will get worse.
0:19:30 > 0:19:35This election may reveal Catalonia's divisions.
0:19:35 > 0:19:41But it won't bring them to an end.
0:19:41 > 0:19:46And tonight the pro-independence movement behind me is claiming and
0:19:46 > 0:19:49celebrating victory. If the projections are confirmed they will
0:19:49 > 0:19:55retain a slim majority in the parliament. If that turns out to be
0:19:55 > 0:19:59so, then all the recent months of crisis will have succeeded in
0:19:59 > 0:20:08changing no one's mind. Many thanks, James Reynolds, in Barcelona, Europe
0:20:08 > 0:20:13correspondent on the Catalonia elections.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17An investigation has cleared the International Trade Minister
0:20:17 > 0:20:19Mark Garnier of breaching the ministerial code,
0:20:19 > 0:20:22after it was alleged he asked a member of his staff to go
0:20:22 > 0:20:24into a sex shop for him.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Downing Street has said Theresa May believes a line should be
0:20:26 > 0:20:29drawn under the matter.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Two men have been arrested in Australia after a car was driven
0:20:32 > 0:20:36into a crowd of pedestrians in a busy street in Melbourne. 19 people
0:20:36 > 0:20:41are injured and several critically. The police save the driver was a
0:20:41 > 0:20:4432-year-old Australian citizen of Afghan origin with a history of
0:20:44 > 0:20:55mental health issues and drug use.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12An MP's aide has been cleared of raping a woman after they had sex
0:21:12 > 0:21:13in the MP's Westminster office.
0:21:13 > 0:21:1524-year-old Sam Armstrong, who worked for the Conservative
0:21:15 > 0:21:17MP Craig Mackinlay, was found not guilty
0:21:17 > 0:21:20at Southwark Crown Court after a two-week trial.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22A Ukrainian government interpreter, who visited Downing Street
0:21:22 > 0:21:24and met Theresa May, has been arrested in Kiev
0:21:24 > 0:21:26and accused of being a Russian spy.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Reports say Stanislav Yezhov had been under surveillance
0:21:28 > 0:21:30for several months, and was present at numerous
0:21:30 > 0:21:31high level meetings.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Apple has confirmed the suspicions of many iPhone owners,
0:21:33 > 0:21:35by revealing that it deliberately slows down some models
0:21:35 > 0:21:37of the iPhone as they age.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39The company says this is to prolong their life,
0:21:39 > 0:21:40because the performance of the batteries
0:21:40 > 0:21:41diminishes over time.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones reports.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45They're expensive devices which have made Apple the world's most
0:21:45 > 0:21:46valuable company.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49But after a couple of years many iPhone users say there's one
0:21:49 > 0:21:50thing they begin to notice.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52What have you noticed as your iPhone gets older?
0:21:52 > 0:21:54It slows down and the battery goes.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57The battery life goes and it's slightly slower.
0:21:57 > 0:22:02The phone doesn't last that long and you have to update it.
0:22:08 > 0:22:13Now Apple has admitted that it does act to slow down some
0:22:13 > 0:22:16older models like the iPhone 6S released two years ago, but it says
0:22:16 > 0:22:18that's not, as some suspect, to persuade people to rush
0:22:18 > 0:22:21out and buy new phones.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24Apple says this move is all about making older versions of
0:22:24 > 0:22:25the iPhone work more reliably.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28As the battery ages there's a risk, particularly in colder weather, that
0:22:28 > 0:22:32the phone suddenly shuts down without warning.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35The software update is designed to stop that happening
0:22:35 > 0:22:39by making everything run just a little more slowly.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43But the software update in question happened last year.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Apple put out its statement only after this technology analyst
0:22:45 > 0:22:50identified what was going on with older phones.
0:22:50 > 0:22:57So I think Apple could have been a lot more transparent.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00It would have great had Apple been
0:23:00 > 0:23:02straightforward and upfront about this and said your battery is old,
0:23:02 > 0:23:06we are going to have to do things to ensure that you get good battery
0:23:06 > 0:23:07life out of your phone.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09I think if Apple had been upfront and
0:23:09 > 0:23:12transparent from the get go this wouldn't be quite the uproar that
0:23:12 > 0:23:13it is today.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16The solution is to replace the battery rather than the whole
0:23:16 > 0:23:19phone, but now that they are built in that's nothing like as simple or
0:23:19 > 0:23:21as cheap as it used to be.
0:23:21 > 0:23:21Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Homelessness blights the lives of tens of thousands
0:23:25 > 0:23:28of people in Britain, and only yesterday MPs called it
0:23:28 > 0:23:32a national crisis.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Some of those affected, so called sofa-surfers who move
0:23:34 > 0:23:37from friend to friend to keep off the streets, don't even register
0:23:37 > 0:23:38in the official statistics.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41So BBC News has commissioned a survey to give some indication
0:23:41 > 0:23:45of the scale of the problem, particularly among young people.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48It found that almost one in ten of 16 to 25-year-olds questioned,
0:23:48 > 0:23:51found themselves sofa surfing for over a month, and that
0:23:51 > 0:23:53more than a quarter had done it for over a week.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Our social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan has this
0:23:55 > 0:24:01special report on Britain's young hidden homeless.
0:24:01 > 0:24:08Time passes slowly if you're homeless.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11For some, most days are spent waiting and hoping, waiting
0:24:11 > 0:24:16for the phone to ring, hoping they will have a bed tonight.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18So there won't be any further assistance?
0:24:18 > 0:24:21Is there anything else we could look at possibly?
0:24:21 > 0:24:24All right, thank you for that.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27Sam's local council paid for a room for a few nights
0:24:27 > 0:24:32as temperatures fell below zero, but with the nights becoming
0:24:32 > 0:24:35warmer Sam's prospects have called.
0:24:35 > 0:24:40Hi, my name's Sam North, I'm ringing up for Janet regarding the room.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42With the council withdrawing support, the 23-year-old who has
0:24:42 > 0:24:44spent time in prison and suffers from mental health problems
0:24:44 > 0:24:48desperately searches for somewhere to sleep.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51Don't know whether I'm coming or going, I don't
0:24:51 > 0:24:56know where I will sleep from night to night.
0:24:56 > 0:25:00I might find somewhere I can stay for a few days,
0:25:00 > 0:25:02then after that it's doing it all over again.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06I'll have a pack of spuds.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Unlike some, Ian knows he has a roof over his head tonight and,
0:25:09 > 0:25:11thanks to this charity, food in his cupboards.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Three weeks in a friend's flat means the daily struggles of sofa
0:25:14 > 0:25:17surfing are over for now.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20Ian's next aim is to get a job though it won't be easy.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24Looking for a job with no permanent address is really difficult.
0:25:24 > 0:25:29Not only that, with sofa surfing it is difficult
0:25:29 > 0:25:31to keep your hygiene up so you're not smelling
0:25:31 > 0:25:33while you're in work, looking smart, it is difficult.
0:25:33 > 0:25:38Sofa surfing mainly affects young men and as our poll suggests falling
0:25:38 > 0:25:42out with parents is the main reason.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46Our main drive is to get young people back in touch
0:25:46 > 0:25:49with their families,
0:25:49 > 0:25:55that would be our first port of call to go back to parents
0:25:55 > 0:25:58and say it's not going to be that easy, they won't get
0:25:58 > 0:26:00a flat straightaway, your child could be
0:26:00 > 0:26:02left on the streets and negotiate with them and see
0:26:02 > 0:26:05if there is any way we can get them back home.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Moving back in with his mother, though, was never an option
0:26:08 > 0:26:09for 20-year-old Dale.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Living in close quarters with her, our relationship gradually got
0:26:11 > 0:26:12worse, so constant arguing,
0:26:12 > 0:26:19and had a snowball effect, gradually getting worse and worse
0:26:19 > 0:26:22until Christmas Day of 2014 when we had a massive argument and
0:26:22 > 0:26:24she kicked me out and I became homeless.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26He normally would have gone to his gran's,
0:26:26 > 0:26:28but she was in a home, having developed dementia.
0:26:28 > 0:26:29Just months earlier Dale
0:26:29 > 0:26:32had been living with her and was her primary carer.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35So he relied on friends for two months while still at school.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38It's extremely hard because doing your A-levels is stressful as it is,
0:26:38 > 0:26:40no one really enjoy A-levels, well, I didn't anyway.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42But it was very hard trying to balance work
0:26:42 > 0:26:44life and personal life.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48It's hard to focus on doing your school work and your revision
0:26:48 > 0:26:50during the day when you're worrying about where you will
0:26:50 > 0:26:58be sleeping at night.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01Would you sometimes go into school in the morning knowing that at that
0:27:01 > 0:27:03moment you had nowhere to sleep that night?
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Yes, that was often the case, yeah.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07Dale prevailed - he's now renting a flat in his second
0:27:07 > 0:27:08year at university.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11As we left, Sam was facing a night on the streets but hours later
0:27:11 > 0:27:13a friend called to offer his sofa.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Relief for tonight but tomorrow the search for shelter begins again.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Michael Buchanan, BBC News.
0:27:21 > 0:27:25Birmingham will host the 2022 Commonwealth Games,
0:27:25 > 0:27:28the bid was the only one submitted by the September deadline.
0:27:28 > 0:27:33With an estimated budget of £750 million,
0:27:33 > 0:27:36it will be the most expensive sports event in Britain since
0:27:36 > 0:27:37the London 2012 Olympics.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Our sports editor Dan Roan reports from Birmingham on the reaction
0:27:39 > 0:27:45to today's announcement.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47The host of the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be...
0:27:47 > 0:27:53Birmingham.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55It may not have been sport's best-kept secret
0:27:55 > 0:27:57but this was the moment they had been waiting for,
0:27:57 > 0:27:59an assembly to remember for these local schoolchildren this
0:27:59 > 0:28:01morning with official confirmation their city
0:28:01 > 0:28:05would be staging its first global sports event.
0:28:05 > 0:28:06The man in charge of the Commonwealth Games
0:28:06 > 0:28:09movement told me they had found an ideal host.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12I think Birmingham will bring diversity, it will bring a journey
0:28:12 > 0:28:21over the next four years of working with the host city to
0:28:21 > 0:28:24run a Games right, run a Games for the people,
0:28:24 > 0:28:25by the people.
0:28:25 > 0:28:26Birmingham beat Liverpool to be Britain's candidate
0:28:26 > 0:28:29after the original choice Durban was stripped of the Games
0:28:29 > 0:28:32for financial difficulties but no other rivals emerged.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Come 2022, the Alexandra Stadium will host some
0:28:34 > 0:28:37of the world's finest athletes.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39For those who train here, like hurdler Heather
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Paton, today's news is added motivation.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44I narrowly missed out for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46I only got one of the qualifying times rather
0:28:46 > 0:28:49than the two that we needed.
0:28:49 > 0:28:53So, now, to compete here in 2022 is a massive goal of mine.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56Organisers insist the Games will transform venues like this
0:28:56 > 0:28:58and help regenerate this part of Birmingham with the athletes'
0:28:58 > 0:29:01village creating 1000 homes.
0:29:01 > 0:29:09The 11 days of sporting action will cost £750 million
0:29:09 > 0:29:12to stage, it's the most expensive sports event
0:29:12 > 0:29:15to be held in Britain since London 2012, and a quarter of that total
0:29:15 > 0:29:17has to be raised by local authorities.
0:29:17 > 0:29:21The huge cost overruns at London's Olympic Stadium have cast a
0:29:21 > 0:29:31shadow over the Games' legacy record and a hotel tax, with visitors
0:29:45 > 0:29:47paying a small fee, a first for Britain,
0:29:47 > 0:29:48is now being considered
0:29:48 > 0:29:50to help raise money for Birmingham 2022.
0:29:50 > 0:29:52Opinion is very mixed about it, some people are excited
0:29:52 > 0:29:54about the event coming, it's good news for Birmingham.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57Others are very concerned about the effect on council services
0:29:57 > 0:30:00which are not at a great standard at the moment, and also concerned
0:30:00 > 0:30:01about the disruption in the local community.
0:30:01 > 0:30:04How will you go about making sure it represents good value?
0:30:04 > 0:30:06The Treasury have crawled all over this.
0:30:06 > 0:30:07It's correct that they should have done.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10We are very confident today that with their support,
0:30:10 > 0:30:13they are saying this is good value for money for the British taxpayer
0:30:13 > 0:30:16because we are expecting to get back the investment we put in and more.
0:30:16 > 0:30:17So it's a good starting point.
0:30:17 > 0:30:20The commercial success of Glasgow's Commonwealth Games in 2014
0:30:20 > 0:30:22helped secure Britain's reputation as a sporting host.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24Now it's Birmingham's turn to deliver the event and to prove
0:30:24 > 0:30:25it's worth it.
0:30:25 > 0:30:26Dan Roan, BBC News.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29It was an unlikely hit on Broadway, a hip-hop musical about one
0:30:29 > 0:30:31of the 18th century politicians who helped
0:30:31 > 0:30:32to establish the United States.
0:30:32 > 0:30:32Hamilton is the story of a poor immigrant from the Caribbean ,
0:30:34 > 0:30:37Hamilton is the story of a poor immigrant from the Caribbean,
0:30:37 > 0:30:39who arrived in New York on the eve of the American Revolution,
0:30:39 > 0:30:42and went on to become the country's first Treasury Secretary.
0:30:42 > 0:30:43It's been enthusiastically reviewed in the US,
0:30:43 > 0:30:45and it opened in London tonight.
0:30:45 > 0:30:48Our arts editor Will Gompertz has been to meet the show's creator.
0:30:48 > 0:30:51# Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain
0:30:51 > 0:30:52# And he wrote his first refrain.#
0:30:52 > 0:30:54Here is Hamilton's creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda,
0:30:54 > 0:30:56at the White House poetry slam in 2009, performing
0:30:56 > 0:30:58what would become the opening number of his musical
0:30:58 > 0:31:01about America's founding fathers.
0:31:01 > 0:31:04Six years later it opened in New York and became
0:31:04 > 0:31:05an instant classic.
0:31:05 > 0:31:07# What's your name, man?
0:31:07 > 0:31:12# Alexander Hamilton # His name is Alexander Hamilton
0:31:19 > 0:31:24# We are waiting in the wings for you. #
0:31:24 > 0:31:26And now it's in London, as is for a few days
0:31:26 > 0:31:29the man behind the show, who's been compared to...
0:31:29 > 0:31:30Well... Are you the 21st-century Shakespeare?
0:31:30 > 0:31:34Not even close!
0:31:34 > 0:31:36No, Shakespeare wrote a mind-altering amount of dramas
0:31:36 > 0:31:38and comedies and sonnets, worked with other playwrights.
0:31:38 > 0:31:40I've written two musicals, so let's, everybody, chill out.
0:31:40 > 0:31:41# I'm past patiently waiting!
0:31:41 > 0:31:46# I'm passionately smashin' every expectation
0:31:46 > 0:31:49I recognised in the story of Hamilton the story of so many
0:31:49 > 0:31:52immigrants who are coming to the United States today.
0:31:52 > 0:31:56And so I used the music that I love to tell their story.
0:31:58 > 0:32:02A lot has been made of the multiracial cast.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05This is the story of America then told by America now.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07We're going to use every tool at our disposal to eliminate
0:32:07 > 0:32:10the distance between a modern audience and something that happened
0:32:10 > 0:32:12200 somewhat years ago.
0:32:12 > 0:32:16The casting is part of that, and casting it to look
0:32:16 > 0:32:21like the way our country looks eliminates distance.
0:32:22 > 0:32:27When George Washington is a young man of colour and he's
0:32:27 > 0:32:31running for his life, suddenly you're not filled
0:32:31 > 0:32:33with images of Washington standing like this, crossing the Delaware,
0:32:33 > 0:32:36he's not invincible any more.
0:32:36 > 0:32:38It's suddenly, these are real people.
0:32:38 > 0:32:41How nervous were you about bringing this show to the UK?
0:32:41 > 0:32:43I was not nervous at all.
0:32:43 > 0:32:45What I was very excited for was the reaction
0:32:45 > 0:32:50to King George III in the shadow of Buckingham Palace.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53I mean, we're really right up the street, so the only change
0:32:53 > 0:32:56we've made in that direction is we have tarted up
0:32:56 > 0:33:01his outfit quite a bit.
0:33:01 > 0:33:04George III might have lost America but he steals this show every night.