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Tonight at ten, riot police
on the streets across Iran | 0:00:04 | 0:00:08 | |
amid the biggest anti-government
demonstrations for a decade. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
At least 22 people have died
during six days of demonstrations | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
across the country. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
Iran's supreme leader has
blamed foreign enemies | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
for causing the unrest. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
We'll be asking how serious these
protests are for the Iranian | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
government and what impact
they could have on the region. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:30 | |
Thousands of routine operations
postponed this month | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
because of sustained pressure
on the NHS in England - | 0:00:35 | 0:00:39 | |
one doctor says conditions
are the worst he's seen. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
I want to do the best I can
for the patients that I'm seeing. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
I want to do the best I can. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
But I'm not being given
the resources to do that. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:51 | |
The biggest increase in rail fares
for five years. Train operators say | 0:00:56 | 0:01:00 | |
it is vital to address decades of
underinvestment. The plastic | 0:01:00 | 0:01:09 | |
problem, wider UK under pressure to
find new ways to recycle waste. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:14 | |
A helping hand for China's poorest
people - as its president vows | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
to lift 43 million from extreme
poverty in just three years. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:17 | |
And the new kid on the block -
a 27-year-old former electrician | 0:01:20 | 0:01:24 | |
causes a sensation in
the world of darts as he's | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
crowned world champion. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:27 | |
And coming up on Sportsday on BBC
News, we'll have all the action | 0:01:28 | 0:01:33 | |
from tonight's Premier League games,
where it has just been | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
raining goals this evening. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
Good evening. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:01 | |
Riot police are out in force
in cities across Iran tonight as | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
anti-government protests continue. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:05 | |
At least 22 people have died
since the demonstrations | 0:02:05 | 0:02:07 | |
began six days ago. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
Hundreds of people
have been arrested. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
Today, Iran's Supreme Leader
broke his silence for the first time | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
since the protests began
and accused his country's enemies | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
of stirring up the unrest. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
The protests are the boldest
challenge to Iran's clerical | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
leadership for almost a decade. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
Tonight, America urged Iran
to exercise restraint and to restore | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
people's access to social media. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
Here's our Middle East
Editor Jeremy Bowen. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
In Tehran, squads of motorbike
police are cruising the streets | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
to break up groups of demonstrators. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:44 | |
The protests have changed
since they started last Thursday. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
GUNSHOTS | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
To begin with, they
were about the economy. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
Most of the protesters
are young men - more than 50% | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
of Iranians are under 30 -
and perhaps 40% of | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
them are unemployed. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
But pent up political frustration
is spilling out and much of it has | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
been directed at this man,
the supreme leader | 0:03:12 | 0:03:14 | |
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:19 | |
He is the powerful figurehead
of the Islamic Republic, | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
and attacks on his posters will be
seen as attacks | 0:03:21 | 0:03:23 | |
on the Islamic system. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:27 | |
He's blaming Iran's foreign enemies. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
TRANSLATION: Following recent
events, the enemies have united | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
and using all their means -
money, weapons, policies | 0:03:34 | 0:03:39 | |
and security services -
to create problems for | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
the Islamic Republic. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
It's not just Ayatollah Khamenei,
the supreme leader, | 0:03:44 | 0:03:46 | |
who's blaming foreigners. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
Mohammad Khatami, the former
president, who's a reformist, | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
says Iranians have the right
to protest, but he blamed Iran's | 0:03:51 | 0:03:56 | |
enemies, led by the United States,
for inciting people to destroy | 0:03:56 | 0:04:00 | |
public buildings and to
insult religious values. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:05 | |
President Obama, in 2009,
was careful not to give the last big | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
protest his backing. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:13 | |
But President Trump has
tweeted his support. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
The people of Iran,
he declared, are finally acting | 0:04:16 | 0:04:18 | |
against the brutal and corrupt
Iranian regime. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
The Americans are
encouraging the protests. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
But they deny they are behind them. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
We all know that is
complete nonsense. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
The demonstrations are
completely spontaneous. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
They are virtually
in every city in Iran. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
This is the precise picture
of a long oppressed people rising up | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
against their dictators. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:45 | |
The last big protests in Iran
were in 2009, after a disputed | 0:04:45 | 0:04:48 | |
presidential election. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:51 | |
Back then, they were defeated
by the power of the state, | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
even though they were led by top
politicians and faced a badly | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
divided Islamist leadership. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:01 | |
The new street level protests don't
have national leaders | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
and may run out of steam. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:13 | |
This is not a new Iranian
revolution, though it's clear that | 0:05:13 | 0:05:15 | |
many Iranians are fed up
with increasing poverty | 0:05:15 | 0:05:17 | |
and years of repression. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
The fact the protests are happening
at all is very significant for Iran, | 0:05:20 | 0:05:25 | |
its allies and enemies in a chaotic
part of the world. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:27 | |
Jeremy Bowen, BBC News. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:37 | |
Jeremy is here with me. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
How serious are these protests for
the Iranians government? Very | 0:05:40 | 0:05:49 | |
serious, you can see by the supreme
leader's reaction that he is very | 0:05:49 | 0:05:53 | |
concerned. Things are very fluid, it
is unpredictable and chaotic in the | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
wider region, so predictions are, in
a way, a mug's game. At these | 0:05:56 | 0:06:03 | |
protesters do not seem to be
interested in the reform of the | 0:06:03 | 0:06:05 | |
system, they want something new.
That will scare quite a few | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
Iranians. As well as that, they will
draw down upon themselves, if this | 0:06:09 | 0:06:14 | |
goes on, the coercive power of the
state. They might simply run out of | 0:06:14 | 0:06:20 | |
steam. In the wider region, if all
feeds into the most dangerous at | 0:06:20 | 0:06:26 | |
fault lines in the Middle East, the
ones which have Iran and its allies | 0:06:26 | 0:06:31 | |
on one side, and the US, Saudi
Arabia and Israel on the other. Now, | 0:06:31 | 0:06:37 | |
if there was three decide they want
to up the pressure on Iran, because | 0:06:37 | 0:06:41 | |
of the internal crisis going on, it
could result in all kinds of | 0:06:41 | 0:06:49 | |
unpredictable potential escalations.
That is something which, again, is | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
dangerous. Later this month,
President Trump himself has a chance | 0:06:52 | 0:06:56 | |
to reimpose sanctions on Iran which
were suspended because of the | 0:06:56 | 0:07:00 | |
nuclear agreement. Now, if he
decides to do that, to try to do | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
down an agreement which he has
always said is completely worthless | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
and useless, the real risk of war
that existed in the region before | 0:07:06 | 0:07:12 | |
the agreement was signed would come
snapping back into sharp focus. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:16 | |
Jeremy Bowen, thank you. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
Hospitals in England have been told
to postpone tens of thousands | 0:07:19 | 0:07:21 | |
of non-urgent surgery and outpatient
appointments until | 0:07:21 | 0:07:23 | |
the end of this month. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
NHS chiefs say it's to ease
pressure on services | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
after a busy Christmas period. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:30 | |
It comes as some doctors have been
speaking about the extremely | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
difficult conditions at A&E. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:34 | |
Our health editor Hugh Pym reports. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
There is always great pressure
on the NHS in the New Year. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
Some patients have held off
until after the seasonal holiday. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
But the strains seem
even bigger this year. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:52 | |
Two Ambulance Services in England,
covering the north-east and east, | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
are on the highest state
of operational alert, | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
asking families to use their own
transport to bring patients | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
into hospital for possible. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
Here in the north-east,
they say they've prepared as much | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
as they possibly could. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:10 | |
It's unprecedented levels of demand
that we're dealing with - | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
you know, if I take just the period
from the 23rd of December | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
until the 1st of January,
we've seen 30% more calls. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
Now, you know, we do
plan for winter. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
We start planning in the summer,
so we are predicting and forecasting | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
activity from historic periods,
but we didn't anticipate | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
a 30% increase. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
The trust running Scarborough
and York Hospital said | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
there were high numbers of patients,
and staff were under | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
considerable pressure. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
One doctor said in his view
it was unprecedented. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
I've worked in a number
of different emergency | 0:08:41 | 0:08:43 | |
departments around the country,
and that's the worst I've seen. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
I just want to do a good job,
I want to do the best I can | 0:08:45 | 0:08:49 | |
for the patients that I'm seeing. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:50 | |
I want to do the best I can, but I'm
not being given the resources | 0:08:50 | 0:08:54 | |
to do that job properly. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
I feel like I'm fighting
a losing battle. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:58 | |
I feel like I've already
lost the battle, because | 0:08:58 | 0:09:00 | |
I can't do any more. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
Twitter carried reports from some
staff at other hospitals. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
An emergency doctor in Stoke said
he personally apologised to local | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
people for what he called
Third World conditions | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
due to overcrowding. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:16 | |
NHS England has told hospitals
to postpone all nonurgent operations | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
and outpatient appointments til
the end of January, an escalation | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
of temporary measures announced
just before Christmas. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
In that time hospitals won't be
penalised for putting | 0:09:26 | 0:09:28 | |
patients in mixed-sex wards. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:33 | |
This is a planned response
to a winter that we knew | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
was going to be difficult,
and we are managing that | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
in the way that we expected,
and we are taking early action. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:43 | |
We're not waiting to have
to respond to a problem. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
Have you got pain at the moment? | 0:09:45 | 0:09:47 | |
The authorities in Scotland,
Wales and Northern Ireland | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
are saying they are facing higher
demand from patients and more | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
pressure on front line services. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
With flu cases on the increase,
the worry now is that the predicted | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
outbreak may become a reality. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
Of course, many hospitals are
getting on with implementing plans | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
drawn up for just this sort of
winter scenario. They say while they | 0:10:08 | 0:10:12 | |
are very busy, they are basically
coping. I was at one such hospital | 0:10:12 | 0:10:17 | |
earlier today and we are told
repeatedly this is always the | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
busiest time of the year. The
question is, will be pressures ease | 0:10:20 | 0:10:29 | |
up in the weeks ahead? The fact that
energetic blend needs its hospitals | 0:10:29 | 0:10:34 | |
focusing on just emergency care,
even if it means nonurgent work, | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
shows that there is concern that
things could get worse before they | 0:10:37 | 0:10:42 | |
get better. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
A man who killed two previous
partners has today admitted | 0:10:44 | 0:10:46 | |
to murdering a third. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
Theodore Johnson attacked
Angela Best in north London a year | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
ago after they broke up
and she began a relationship | 0:10:50 | 0:10:52 | |
with someone else. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:53 | |
The Old Bailey heard he was
an abusive and controlling man. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
He'll be sentenced on Friday. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
Train operators have been defending
the biggest rise in rail | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
fares for five years,
insisting that it's necessary | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
to address decades
of under investment. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:13 | |
Average ticket prices across the UK
have gone up by 3.4%. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
Unions say commuters
are being priced off the trains | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
as the burden of paying
for the system falls | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
increasingly on passengers. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:22 | |
Here's our transport
correspondent Richard Westcott. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:28 | |
This report contains flashing
images. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
It's one of the most reliable
things on the railway - | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
every January, without fail,
the fares go up. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:35 | |
This year's rise is especially
steep, the highest in five years. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:42 | |
This is the busy commuter line,
people coming in from Cambridgeshire | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
and Hertfordshire into Londona
and plenty of people on this train | 0:11:44 | 0:11:44 | |
and Hertfordshire into London
and plenty of people on this train | 0:11:47 | 0:11:49 | |
are just a few pounds
shy of the £5,000 club. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
£5,000 for an annual season ticket. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
That's gone up by about £600
in the last five years, the price | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
rises have been relentless. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:02 | |
Average fares across
Britain go up by 3.4%. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:06 | |
Season tickets, which are regulated
by the Government, go up by 3.6%. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:11 | |
It adds more than £140 to a ticket
between Crewe and Preston. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
If you commute into London
from Swindon, it's now | 0:12:14 | 0:12:18 | |
£300 more expensive,
and the Glasgow-Edinburgh | 0:12:18 | 0:12:20 | |
commuter goes up by £136. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:26 | |
Different parts of the country,
but most people have similar gripes. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:30 | |
It's pretty disgusting. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:35 | |
Well, you're not even
guaranteed a seat. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:37 | |
So, I think it's wrong. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
I travel around Cardiff quite
a lot using the train, | 0:12:39 | 0:12:41 | |
I find that quite convenient,
and I find it quite | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
affordable to do that. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:45 | |
It compares quite well
with the bus and it compares | 0:12:45 | 0:12:47 | |
quite well with driving. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:48 | |
Better service, please,
more trains and there'll be more | 0:12:48 | 0:12:50 | |
people, wouldn't there? | 0:12:50 | 0:12:51 | |
They'll get people
off the roads then. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:53 | |
This is where a lot
of the money is going. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:55 | |
London Bridge has just had
a £1 billion makeover. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
And there's a whole new line snaking
under the city, Crossrail, | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
although critics argue too much
is spent on London. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:07 | |
The Government says it's
investing record amounts | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
to improve the trains,
but it's also changing | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
who foots the bill. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:14 | |
A smaller proportion now
comes from the taxpayer, | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
which means more has to come
from ticket sales. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:22 | |
Well, for every £1 that
a passenger pays in fares, | 0:13:22 | 0:13:24 | |
97p goes directly into running
and improving the railway. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:28 | |
But also, with more people
using the railway, that means | 0:13:28 | 0:13:31 | |
we have more money to invest. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
Campaigners suggest people
are being priced off the trains. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:37 | |
This graph shows what's been
happening to fares in recent years, | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
and here's how it compares
to the average pay packet. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:42 | |
You can see how ticket prices
often outstrip wages. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
Labour want to
re-nationalise the network. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:51 | |
If we can continue to make savings
by bringing the railways back | 0:13:51 | 0:13:54 | |
into public ownership,
stop wasting money on franchising, | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
stop wasting money on the complexity
of the arrangements between all | 0:13:57 | 0:14:00 | |
these different companies,
and we don't pay out dividends | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
to state-owned companies
across the Channel. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
They've accused the Transport
Secretary, Chris Grayling, | 0:14:06 | 0:14:08 | |
of hiding away today. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:11 | |
He's on an official visit to Qatar,
a trip he's defended. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:15 | |
And I make no apology for trying
to help win jobs for Britain and I'm | 0:14:15 | 0:14:19 | |
here because there is a major
contract, multi-billion pound | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
investment programme,
taking place in the airport. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:27 | |
I'm here to try and make sure that
British firms win part of that, | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
so we get jobs for Britain. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:32 | |
Many people have little choice
but to do this every day and little | 0:14:32 | 0:14:35 | |
choice but to pay the higher fares. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:36 | |
Richard Westcott, BBC News. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:38 | |
Winds of up to 90 miles per hour
are expected to hit parts | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
of Northern Ireland and northern
England tonight with | 0:14:41 | 0:14:43 | |
the arrival of Storm Eleanor. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:47 | |
So far the Atlantic coast
of the Republic of Ireland | 0:14:47 | 0:14:49 | |
has taken the brunt,
with serious flooding | 0:14:49 | 0:14:51 | |
in the city of Galway. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:52 | |
As the storm moves eastwards,
there'll be high winds | 0:14:52 | 0:14:54 | |
across much of England,
Wales and Northern | 0:14:54 | 0:14:56 | |
Ireland overnight. | 0:14:56 | 0:15:04 | |
13 monkeys have been killed
in a fire at Woburn Safari | 0:15:04 | 0:15:06 | |
Park in Bedfordshire. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
The blaze in one of the enclosures
was spotted by security guards | 0:15:09 | 0:15:12 | |
during a routine patrol,
but despite efforts to rescue | 0:15:12 | 0:15:14 | |
the animals, none could be saved. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
The safari park's manager says it
may have been caused | 0:15:16 | 0:15:18 | |
by a faulty generator. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:22 | |
Britain's recycling
system is about to be put | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
under severe pressure. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
Until now, almost half
of what we recycle every year has | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
been sent to China to be
dealt with there. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
But yesterday, China introduced
a ban on recycling many types | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
of plastic wastes from abroad
to try to reduce pollution. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
So what will happen now
to all the plastic we throw away? | 0:15:39 | 0:15:42 | |
Our science editor,
David Shukman, reports. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
Ever wondered what happens
to our recycling? | 0:15:45 | 0:15:51 | |
Well, great streams of it are sorted
in giant centres like this one | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
in south-east London. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:56 | |
The tins are extracted by magnet
and are sold to food | 0:15:56 | 0:15:59 | |
and drink manufacturers. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:03 | |
A vigorous shake separates bottles
from paper and cardboard, | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
they're also in demand. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:07 | |
The machines then try
to pick out the plastic. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
The bags make this much harder. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:15 | |
But if all this can be sorted,
it can be sold on and the biggest | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
market has been China, until now. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:21 | |
This is the tip of the iceberg of
what we all send off for recycling. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:25 | |
What the Chinese have done is said
that they're no longer | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
going to accept anything that's
difficult to handle. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:31 | |
So, anything that's dirty or this
kind of thin plastic | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
that's hard to recycle. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
In fact, a mix of different
types of plastic. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
This has sent shock waves
through the recycling industry. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:49 | |
Already huge bundles of recycling
turned down by China | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
are piling up in Hong Kong,
and mountains of unwanted plastic | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
waste may build up in Britain. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
I think it's a game
change for the UK. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:57 | |
I think for the last two decades,
at least, all our collection systems | 0:16:57 | 0:17:00 | |
have been geared up to having
the Chinese market. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
China take virtually half
of everything that we produce | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
in terms of paper and plastics
in the UK. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:10 | |
So what'll happen? | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
Well, there's now a rush
to try to sell the stuff to India | 0:17:13 | 0:17:16 | |
and other countries,
but there's a limit | 0:17:16 | 0:17:18 | |
to what they'll take. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
Another option is to
burn the plastic here. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
Most incinerators generate
electricity, so this | 0:17:23 | 0:17:25 | |
wouldn't be a total waste. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:28 | |
But the greenest solution is to turn
plastic into the raw material | 0:17:28 | 0:17:31 | |
to make new plastic objects,
like milk containers, | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
and we may see more of this. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
We've made incredible progress
in terms of recycling in this | 0:17:37 | 0:17:41 | |
country, but we're stalling now
and the Chinese ban to import bad | 0:17:41 | 0:17:45 | |
quality may be a great incentive
and the best chance ever | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
for this country. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:52 | |
It takes a human eye to pick out
what the machines miss. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
Householders are often confused. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:57 | |
Most thin plastic film
can't be used again. | 0:17:57 | 0:18:00 | |
Different councils have their own
rules and few products are designed | 0:18:00 | 0:18:02 | |
with recycling in mind. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:08 | |
There is now pressure for all that
to change, and China's ban may | 0:18:08 | 0:18:11 | |
actually encourage that. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:12 | |
David Shukman, BBC News. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:21 | |
Police investigating the death
of a woman in North London over | 0:18:21 | 0:18:24 | |
the Christmas period have charged
a 31 year old man with murder. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:27 | |
Kasim Lewis will appear
in court tomorrow. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:37 | |
The body of juliana Tudo,
who was 22 and worked in a pub, | 0:18:39 | 0:18:43 | |
was discovered in Finsbury Park last
Wednesday. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:44 | |
She had disappeared
while walking home in north | 0:18:44 | 0:18:46 | |
London on Christmas Eve. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:56 | |
The former England footballer,
Trevor Sinclair, has admitted | 0:18:56 | 0:18:58 | |
racially abusing a policeman who'd
arrested him for drink-driving. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:05 | |
Sinclair - here in the grey suit - | 0:19:05 | 0:19:11 | |
was sentenced to 150
hours' community service | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
at Blackpool Magistrates Court. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:14 | |
He's been banned from
driving for 20 months. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
Scientists in Oxford have
developed a system which can | 0:19:16 | 0:19:18 | |
diagnose some diseases more
accurately than doctors. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
It uses Artificial Intelligence
to analyse scans and in clinical | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
trials it outperformed human
specialists for lung cancer | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
and coronary heart disease. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:25 | |
The technique could save
the NHS billions of pounds | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
through early diagnosis. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:28 | |
Here's our science
correspondent, Pallab Ghosh. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:30 | |
Scans are modern medical miracles,
but they still need a doctor to make | 0:19:30 | 0:19:33 | |
a diagnosis, until now. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:34 | |
Scientists have developed artificial
intelligence, or AI systems, | 0:19:34 | 0:19:36 | |
to do the job better
than the best doctors. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:38 | |
The Government's health care tsar
says that AI systems are set | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
to revolutionise medicine. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:42 | |
20 years from now, health care
will have AI embedded in a whole | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
variety of different levels and much
of the health care system will be | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
enabled by smart systems that help
you identify people at risk, | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
diagnose disease earlier,
diagnose disease more precisely | 0:19:51 | 0:19:52 | |
and identify who will benefit
from what interventions. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:54 | |
It changes the whole way
the paradigm operates. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:58 | |
This is Ultromics, the world's
first cyber cardiologist. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:04 | |
Developed at the John
Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, | 0:20:04 | 0:20:08 | |
it's an AI system that can
analyse heart scans. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:11 | |
Here, Ultromics has identified areas
of heart disease, shown in red. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:17 | |
It then gives a recommendation -
positive, which means that it | 0:20:17 | 0:20:22 | |
believes there's a risk
of the patient having | 0:20:22 | 0:20:23 | |
a heart attack. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:28 | |
Doctors get one in five
of their diagnoses wrong, | 0:20:28 | 0:20:31 | |
the artificial intelligence system
does much better. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:34 | |
So how much could hospitals
save using the new system? | 0:20:34 | 0:20:38 | |
12,000 heart scans alone
are misdiagnosed each year, | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
that costs the NHS £600 million. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:45 | |
Because artificial intelligence
is more accurate, it | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
could save £300 million,
and that's just the start. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
AI can be used to diagnose
many other conditions. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:56 | |
The software tells us the risk
of it being cancerous. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
So we can just click on it and it
tells us the risk is 14%. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:05 | |
This system looks for early
signs of lung cancer, | 0:21:05 | 0:21:07 | |
it can rule out harmless cases
several months earlier | 0:21:07 | 0:21:09 | |
than human doctors. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
It can save the NHS money
and patients a lot of anxiety. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:15 | |
What we have developed is software
that will help us decide | 0:21:15 | 0:21:21 | |
whether the patient has a nodule
that we need to follow up | 0:21:21 | 0:21:26 | |
or is likely to be cancer or is one
we don't need to follow up, | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
and then we can
discharge the patient. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:31 | |
Britain leads the world in AI
and the systems currently | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
being developed will be available
for free to NHS | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
hospitals next summer. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:37 | |
Pallab Ghosh, BBC News, Oxford. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:42 | |
More than 7,000 extra grammar school
places have been created | 0:21:42 | 0:21:46 | |
in England since 2010,
according to new | 0:21:46 | 0:21:48 | |
analysis by the BBC. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
That's the equivalent to opening
around 11 new grammar schools. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:58 | |
In many areas, the schools have
added the new places in areas | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
where there's no demand for more. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:02 | |
Our education editor,
Branwen Jeffreys, reports. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
The Cotswolds, a landscape
shaped by tradition, | 0:22:04 | 0:22:08 | |
home to some of the oldest grammar
schools in England, schools close | 0:22:08 | 0:22:14 | |
to the village where Henry
and Florence have grown up. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:19 | |
They're both now at grammar schools
after passing an academic test. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:26 | |
Their mum, Ruth, is pleased
more grammar school | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
places have been created. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:29 | |
It's a consumer society,
so if parental demand is there, | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
and there are children that
want to go, and I do think | 0:22:32 | 0:22:36 | |
it's harder for children
to get good results, | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
get to university and get a job. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
So anything we do to help them
seems to me a no-brainer. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
Was their anxiety here
about the number of grammar school | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
places that were available? | 0:22:45 | 0:22:49 | |
We are competing with children
coming up from Swindon, | 0:22:49 | 0:22:56 | |
and Wiltshire and Bristol,
and some people are even relocating. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:58 | |
You know, they're doing the test
and then they're moving from another | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
part of the country. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:02 | |
Which is fair, I suppose. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:03 | |
But another part of me thinks it's
unfair, because it's five | 0:23:03 | 0:23:06 | |
miles from where we live. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:07 | |
Every grammar school
in Gloucestershire has added more | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
places, even though the number
of 11-year-olds | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
hasn't been going up. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:12 | |
Grammar schools can
expand because they're | 0:23:12 | 0:23:14 | |
so popular with parents. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:19 | |
After all, they only take
the children who are already | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
doing well at school. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:25 | |
But that also means the larger
they grow, the greater their effect | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
on other neighbouring schools,
and some fear that could | 0:23:28 | 0:23:30 | |
reach a tipping point. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:34 | |
In many parts of England,
grammar school places have increased | 0:23:34 | 0:23:36 | |
faster than pupil numbers. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:40 | |
In 2010, there were just
over 110,000 pupils aged | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
11-15 in grammar schools. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:48 | |
By 2017, that had reached 118,000,
the equivalent of 11 | 0:23:48 | 0:23:51 | |
new grammar schools. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:55 | |
This risks a knock
on impact on other schools. | 0:23:55 | 0:24:00 | |
Results are above average at this
secondary in Warwickshire, | 0:24:00 | 0:24:04 | |
but both the nearby grammar schools
have added lots of extra places. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:10 | |
With the places, they take a bigger
share of local pupils and the cash | 0:24:10 | 0:24:13 | |
that follows them through school. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:14 | |
Over five years with a backfill,
it would be, let's say, | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
£600,000 that is brought
in by adding an additional class. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:21 | |
And that's a tension,
regardless of what the school is. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:25 | |
It may be selective,
it may be non-selective. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:29 | |
To offer enough subjects
in their sixth form, | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
they need enough cash
and pupils coming through. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:36 | |
But here, and other places
where grammar schools are expanding, | 0:24:36 | 0:24:38 | |
the competition is getting tougher. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:39 | |
Branwen Jeffreys, BBC News. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:49 | |
You can read more about
that story, including | 0:24:55 | 0:25:02 | |
in your area on our website,
that's at bbc.co.uk/news/education. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
The Chinese government has set
itself an extraordinary target, | 0:25:04 | 0:25:06 | |
it says it will lift 43 million
people out of extreme poverty | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
in just three years. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:10 | |
The country's President, Xi Jinping,
says he recognises the pressing | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
political need to close the gap
between China's urban rich | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
and some of its desperately
poor rural communities. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
But some of the obstacles
facing remote communities | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
will be challenging. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
Our Beijing correspondent,
John Sudworth, reports. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:24 | |
It's best not to look down. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:34 | |
Step-by-step and heavily laden,
this is the only way | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
to the village at the top. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
But the two-hour, 800-metre
climb is easier and safer | 0:25:39 | 0:25:42 | |
than it used to be. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:49 | |
The old, home-made wooden ladder -
still visible here and there - | 0:25:49 | 0:25:52 | |
has been replaced with a spectacular
series of steel ladders. | 0:25:52 | 0:26:00 | |
Remote mountain communities
like these, languishing so far | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
behind China's big cities,
now find themselves | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
on the front line of a massive
anti-poverty campaign. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:11 | |
The improved access to this clifftop
village has won praise from none | 0:26:11 | 0:26:14 | |
other than China's President,
Xi Jinping. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:24 | |
But life here remains tough. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:27 | |
While President Xi may be promising
to lift 43 million people out | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
of this kind of extreme poverty,
not everyone's convinced. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:36 | |
TRANSLATION: We have no income.
We are poor. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:40 | |
We grow corn and potatoes,
nothing else. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:44 | |
The government says that it wants
to wipe out poverty in the next | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
three years in China. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
Do you think it's possible? | 0:26:49 | 0:26:50 | |
TRANSLATION: I don't
really think so. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:52 | |
China has a more radical
solution, though. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:59 | |
In the past 12 months alone,
more than 3 million of China's | 0:26:59 | 0:27:04 | |
poorest people have been relocated
to new homes. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:10 | |
A smiling President Xi looks down
on the new schoolrooms. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:16 | |
This family has now left its remote
mountain village for good. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:19 | |
You no longer have the open
fire, you no longer live | 0:27:19 | 0:27:23 | |
close to your animals. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:28 | |
Do you miss those things,
those traditions? | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
TRANSLATION: We don't
miss the old way of life | 0:27:31 | 0:27:35 | |
or the unhygienic things,
like having a pigsty | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
right at the door. | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
Meanwhile, the anti-poverty
slogans are everywhere. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
Even the new ladder
is a national news story. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:48 | |
This is poverty as propaganda. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:53 | |
It's an issue that's now dominating
the domestic news agenda, | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
and it's driven by the vision
of just one man. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
President Xi Jinping
knows that the continued | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
existence of serious,
widespread poverty represents | 0:28:02 | 0:28:07 | |
a threat to the very legitimacy
of a Communist Party that came | 0:28:07 | 0:28:10 | |
to power promising to help
communities like these, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
not leave them behind. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:17 | |
Even if China can help
all those living below | 0:28:17 | 0:28:22 | |
the extreme poverty line,
tens of millions more will be left | 0:28:22 | 0:28:25 | |
languishing just above it. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:29 | |
But while there are many challenges,
no one can doubt the sheer scale | 0:28:29 | 0:28:32 | |
of China's ambition. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:34 | |
John Sudworth, BBC News,
Sichuan Province. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:44 | |
This time last year he was working
as an electrician, but last night | 0:28:44 | 0:28:47 | |
Rob Cross caused a sensation
in the world of darts | 0:28:47 | 0:28:49 | |
when he was crowned world champion. | 0:28:49 | 0:28:51 | |
The 27-year-old beat the 16-time
winner Phil Taylor to the title | 0:28:51 | 0:28:53 | |
at Alexandra Palace,
as well as pocketing | 0:28:53 | 0:28:55 | |
£400,000 in prize money. | 0:28:55 | 0:29:03 | |
Rob Cross - the first
debutant to become world | 0:29:03 | 0:29:05 | |
champion in 10 years -
says he still can't quite | 0:29:05 | 0:29:08 | |
take in what's happened. | 0:29:08 | 0:29:09 | |
Natalie Pirks reports. | 0:29:09 | 0:29:10 | |
This time last year,
he was watching the final on TV. | 0:29:10 | 0:29:13 | |
COMMENTATOR: Rob Cross! | 0:29:13 | 0:29:14 | |
When Rob Cross sealed victory,
it was clear this wouldn't | 0:29:14 | 0:29:17 | |
sink in for a while. | 0:29:17 | 0:29:20 | |
He'd not only become £400,000
richer, he'd beaten the greatest | 0:29:20 | 0:29:23 | |
darts player of all time to be
crowned world champion. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:26 | |
Even today, he was struggling
with the magnitude of his win. | 0:29:26 | 0:29:29 | |
It all feels very surreal. | 0:29:29 | 0:29:30 | |
It's like I need to pinch
myself or something, | 0:29:30 | 0:29:34 | |
because I couldn't have
wrote my year any better, really. | 0:29:34 | 0:29:38 | |
It's been a bit like a fairy tale. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:41 | |
You might not associate the game
of darts with fairy tales, | 0:29:41 | 0:29:44 | |
yet Cross was an unknown electrician
until the start of 2017. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:49 | |
Last year, his winnings included £7
picked up in a pub tournament. | 0:29:49 | 0:29:53 | |
The rise from anonymity
to acclaim has been dizzying. | 0:29:53 | 0:29:58 | |
I would say that anyone
what believes they can play the game | 0:29:58 | 0:30:00 | |
and sort of aspires to it,
then go and have a go | 0:30:00 | 0:30:06 | |
because you never know
what's going to happen. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:08 | |
If you thought darts
was just a pub game, | 0:30:08 | 0:30:10 | |
you might be shocked to hear
what the future holds | 0:30:10 | 0:30:13 | |
for a world champion. | 0:30:13 | 0:30:14 | |
It's difficult to put
a number on it. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:19 | |
I would think the value of winning
the World Championships in today's | 0:30:19 | 0:30:23 | |
market would be a minimum
of £5 million and possibly | 0:30:23 | 0:30:25 | |
£10 million or possibly more. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:28 | |
No one can take away that he's won
the World Darts Championships, | 0:30:28 | 0:30:32 | |
and that has ramifications
financially which will | 0:30:32 | 0:30:34 | |
safeguard him and his family
for the rest of their life. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:37 | |
And he has potentially
decades left in the sport, | 0:30:37 | 0:30:39 | |
unlike his opponent. | 0:30:39 | 0:30:42 | |
Phil Taylor won his first of 16
world titles in 1990, | 0:30:42 | 0:30:46 | |
the year Cross was born. | 0:30:46 | 0:30:48 | |
Nicknamed 'The Power',
last night was his last | 0:30:48 | 0:30:50 | |
ever professional match. | 0:30:50 | 0:30:53 | |
He will go down as the best
the game has ever seen. | 0:30:53 | 0:30:55 | |
You're never going to see
another Phil Taylor in any | 0:30:55 | 0:30:58 | |
sport, I don't believe. | 0:30:58 | 0:30:59 | |
I don't think someone can
dominate their sport | 0:30:59 | 0:31:01 | |
for that amount of time. | 0:31:01 | 0:31:04 | |
So it's probably the coming of me
but, at the same time, | 0:31:04 | 0:31:07 | |
we were saying farewell to a legend. | 0:31:07 | 0:31:09 | |
To shout in his face
at the end and do all that, | 0:31:09 | 0:31:12 | |
I wasn't willing to do that. | 0:31:12 | 0:31:13 | |
I've got too much respect
for him in that way. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:23 | |
Cross now has set his sights
on becoming world number one. | 0:31:23 | 0:31:25 | |
When your year starts as well as
this, anything is possible. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:28 |