0:00:06 > 0:00:07Tonight at Ten:
0:00:07 > 0:00:09New evidence of the intense pressure on the NHS,
0:00:09 > 0:00:12as winter takes its toll.
0:00:12 > 0:00:20Ambulances wait in line outside hospitals, unable
0:00:21 > 0:00:23to deliver patients, because there's no
0:00:23 > 0:00:27spare capacity inside.
0:00:27 > 0:00:32At the moment, we have no rooms in the A&E so these patients are just
0:00:32 > 0:00:33waiting for beds.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35We spent four days filming in A&E at a hospital
0:00:35 > 0:00:38in the North-East of England - one that has some of
0:00:38 > 0:00:39the best waiting times.
0:00:39 > 0:00:40They're marvellous, these two men.
0:00:40 > 0:00:41They've never left me.
0:00:41 > 0:00:42I know.
0:00:42 > 0:00:43I'm in agony.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Staff at North Tees say they're doing the best they can,
0:00:46 > 0:00:48but they can't cope with the numbers coming for help.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50There's not the capacity.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53We don't have the capacity to safely look after the amount of patients
0:00:53 > 0:00:55that are coming through the door.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57We'll have an extended report from North Tees,
0:00:57 > 0:01:00where the problems are similar to those in many other areas.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Also tonight:
0:01:02 > 0:01:06A court is told that a man who drove into a crowd of Muslims in London
0:01:06 > 0:01:11last year was trying to kill as many people as possible.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13A report from Syria, where the people of Eastern Ghouta
0:01:13 > 0:01:16have suffered more bombardment, as the UN meets again
0:01:16 > 0:01:19to discuss what to do.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21Henry Bolton refuses to step down as Ukip leader,
0:01:21 > 0:01:27despite the resignations of 12 senior members of the party.
0:01:27 > 0:01:28And Alexis Sanchez has completed his move to
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Manchester United from Arsenal.
0:01:30 > 0:01:36He's likely to be the highest paid player in the Premier League.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38And coming up in Sportsday, on BBC News:
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Could Liverpool come from behind at Swansea to keep
0:01:40 > 0:01:47up their tilt on a place in the Premier League's top four?
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Good evening.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11And we start with stark new evidence of the intense strain
0:02:11 > 0:02:13on hospitals across the UK, as the NHS struggles
0:02:13 > 0:02:17to deal with the pressure of the winter months.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Medical staff at the University Hospital of North Tees,
0:02:19 > 0:02:22in the North-East of England, say they don't have the capacity
0:02:22 > 0:02:25to give proper care to all incoming patients, and the Trust says
0:02:25 > 0:02:27pressures are 'immense'.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29A BBC News team spent several days at the hospital,
0:02:29 > 0:02:32witnessing the problems at first hand - as our special
0:02:32 > 0:02:40correspondent, Ed Thomas, explains in this extended report.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Inside the NHS.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48For the first time this winter, we have been given full
0:02:48 > 0:02:51access to a hospital.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54I have worked for the trust for 19 years, I have never known it to be
0:02:54 > 0:02:57as bad as it is now.
0:02:57 > 0:03:02Over a weekend, we spoke to patients.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05It's supposed to be the best country in the world.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07We are nowhere near the best country in the world.
0:03:07 > 0:03:08Progressively getting worse.
0:03:08 > 0:03:09Definitely.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11I met staff, facing unprecedented pressure.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13We have no rooms in the A&E department, so these
0:03:13 > 0:03:19patients are waiting here for the next available bed.
0:03:19 > 0:03:24How do you describe the NHS?
0:03:24 > 0:03:29It just feels like a disaster zone.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32It's just completely under strain, bursting at the seams.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34What is it like being on the corridor?
0:03:34 > 0:03:40I think it's a disgrace.
0:03:40 > 0:03:48The University Hospital of North Tees.
0:03:48 > 0:03:56It has some of the best A&E waiting times in England,
0:03:56 > 0:04:03but was so full at one point this month, it had to close its doors.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05It's Friday and we are in the Rapid Assessment Unit.
0:04:05 > 0:04:06I'll do this one.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08It used to be the hospital's gym.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11It is always hot, it is because the windows are at the top.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13It is like stepping off a plane abroad.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15That's what it's like, the heat just hits you.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Are you comfortable there?
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Patients with less severe symptoms can be sent here instead of A&E.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Dawn has worked here for nearly 20 years -
0:04:22 > 0:04:26this has been her busiest winter yet.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28It's exhausting mentally and physically, trying to keep up
0:04:28 > 0:04:31with everything we need to do in the short space of time
0:04:31 > 0:04:33we have to do it in.
0:04:33 > 0:04:38It can be hard and tiring, but I do love my job.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40We'll get you there.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Some patients spent up to six hours here.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Average waiting times are not included in
0:04:45 > 0:04:47the hospital's A&E figures.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49How many trolleys have you got in here?
0:04:49 > 0:04:5012.
0:04:50 > 0:04:51How many patients?
0:04:51 > 0:04:5318.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56How many more to come in?
0:04:56 > 0:04:57Nine.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Another nine to come in.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03About two hours before you get your results.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06They don't have the time to look after patients and do their own
0:05:06 > 0:05:08jobs and everything.
0:05:08 > 0:05:13It's terrible.
0:05:13 > 0:05:14The nurses get really upset, don't they?
0:05:14 > 0:05:16They really do get upset.
0:05:16 > 0:05:17I think the nurses deserve better.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21The nurses couldn't do any more.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23We need a proper area for rapid assessment.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25If the patients weren't here, where would they be?
0:05:25 > 0:05:29Sat in A&E.
0:05:29 > 0:05:35On Saturday, A&E is filling up.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38The Rapid Assessment Unit in the gym is closed.
0:05:38 > 0:05:39Lady out of 12 is going into nine.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41And Leanne, the nurse in charge, must find space.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Just more patients coming through the door, more elderly
0:05:44 > 0:05:48patients, more poorly patients.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51What are your concerns?
0:05:51 > 0:05:53There's not the capacity, we don't have the capacity to safely
0:05:53 > 0:05:59look after the amount of patients coming through the door.
0:05:59 > 0:06:05By 4:00, ambulances are backing up outside A&E.
0:06:05 > 0:06:13Inside, paramedics wait with their patients.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14She's looking after me lovely.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15I'm doing well.
0:06:15 > 0:06:22I'm in pain, but I'm coping.
0:06:22 > 0:06:23Blanche is 83.
0:06:23 > 0:06:31And she is struggling to breathe.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36They're marvellous, these two men.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39They've never left me.
0:06:39 > 0:06:40I know.
0:06:40 > 0:06:48I'm in agony.
0:06:49 > 0:06:55She's in a lot of discomfort and pain.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Being in the corridor is not where she needs to be.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01We have given her what we can in terms of pain relief.
0:07:01 > 0:07:02What does she need?
0:07:02 > 0:07:04She needs to be seen by a doctor.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06That's it.
0:07:06 > 0:07:12Paramedics told us they waited with Blanche for an hour.
0:07:12 > 0:07:17When you see that lady down there for an hour...
0:07:17 > 0:07:18It's awful.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20We don't like it.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23Nobody likes the patients to be in the corridor,
0:07:23 > 0:07:26but I physically have no room to put this lady in.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29I have been down and apologised, but there is no physical bed
0:07:29 > 0:07:37to transfer this lady into.
0:07:38 > 0:07:43Across the NHS, emergency admissions are at record levels.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46You are doing fantastic.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49What do these mean to you?
0:07:49 > 0:07:51They are amazing.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Tenfold, they are amazing.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57Many hospitals are also facing a major flu outbreak.
0:07:57 > 0:07:58What has this place meant to you?
0:07:58 > 0:08:01She wouldn't be here.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03She said herself she thinks she would be dead if it hadn't
0:08:03 > 0:08:07been for these doctors.
0:08:07 > 0:08:14Here, it means by Sunday, every bed on every medical ward is full.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16We're trying to move patients from Orthopaedics
0:08:16 > 0:08:18to create some capacity.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21It's Denise's job to find beds.
0:08:21 > 0:08:22Hello, Denise speaking.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23Site coordinator.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26To keep patients moving through the hospital.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28We can always want more beds and more staff,
0:08:28 > 0:08:33but you can't go on forever just using more beds and staff,
0:08:33 > 0:08:36we have to look at the other reasons they come into hospital as well,
0:08:36 > 0:08:41and is there any other resources we can use?
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Patients that are in trolleys in corridors
0:08:44 > 0:08:48are very rare within the Trust.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51My concern is that the year-on-year increase in the acuity of patients
0:08:51 > 0:08:53and number coming to A&E is not sustainable.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55We need to transform our care.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58From Friday to Sunday, the hospital failed to meet its A&E
0:08:58 > 0:08:59four-hour waiting target.
0:08:59 > 0:09:05I'm going to check the floor.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08They averaged 85% - well below the 95% target.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11We are losing a lot of experienced staff, because they are
0:09:11 > 0:09:12becoming burned out.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15They are realising they can't keep going like this.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19Just discharge him, but when you discharge...
0:09:19 > 0:09:20It's been nonstop.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22We've had that many people through today.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24We haven't been able to give them a drink.
0:09:24 > 0:09:25How does that make you feel?
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Frustrated and sad, I would say.
0:09:27 > 0:09:28Can you go on doing this?
0:09:28 > 0:09:29No.
0:09:29 > 0:09:30Not just me personally.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34I don't think any of us can.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37You have had a few more years than me and I think
0:09:37 > 0:09:39I've got less to give.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43How long do you think you can stick it out for?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45At this moment in time, I've probably got
0:09:45 > 0:09:49about five years left, tops.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51So far, my career has been four years long.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54I wouldn't say I would do a long career in the NHS.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Step back before you sit down.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59With our ageing population, more patients with complex acute
0:09:59 > 0:10:01conditions, more nurses leaving than joining in England last year,
0:10:01 > 0:10:09many want to know how the NHS can continue to cope.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13Come this time next year, this will happen again and again
0:10:13 > 0:10:14and again and again.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16And we will see all these pictures in the news,
0:10:16 > 0:10:24and the horrendous trolley waits, and it doesn't seem to change.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38I don't understand what you need to make things better.Lots of
0:10:38 > 0:10:39questions raised.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42In a moment, We'll have a word with our health editor, Hugh Pym,
0:10:42 > 0:10:44at the Department of Health and Social Care.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47But first, let's talk to Ed Thomas, whose report we've just seen.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51Staff remarkably candid about the immense challenges they are facing.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55What the impressions you took away? Yes, that is right, it was
0:10:55 > 0:10:58incredibly difficult to get into that hospital to tell that story.
0:10:58 > 0:11:05But once we did, we were struck by how open and frank and honest
0:11:05 > 0:11:09nurses, consultants, health consultants were, they wanted to
0:11:09 > 0:11:13tell their story. The stories you just heard tonight, they were just a
0:11:13 > 0:11:18snapshot of a particular moment inside the hospital. They were
0:11:18 > 0:11:21representative of our time there. People who are tired and frustrated.
0:11:21 > 0:11:28And importantly, the pictures you have just been watching, the
0:11:28 > 0:11:32ambulances outside A&E, the patients queueing up in the corridors, they
0:11:32 > 0:11:37match what clinicians have told us up and down the country this winter.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41But the one thing to take away from all of this was how incredibly hard
0:11:41 > 0:11:45the nurses and doctors were working inside that hospital to keep
0:11:45 > 0:11:51patients safe, despite winter pressures.Many thanks once again.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54Straight to Whitehall and the Department of help. The Prime
0:11:54 > 0:11:59Minister has already acknowledged the immense challenges in the NHS.
0:11:59 > 0:12:04Tubing more evidence like this is likely to bring a change, a change
0:12:04 > 0:12:09of approach or policy?The official line tonight is that the Government
0:12:09 > 0:12:13did put more money into the NHS in England over two years in the budget
0:12:13 > 0:12:16is more for this winter's pressure but nobody here is denying the
0:12:16 > 0:12:23images we saw maybe typical of hospitals around the country. A&E
0:12:23 > 0:12:26units and a real strain, difficulties finding beds and start
0:12:26 > 0:12:31feeling the pressure. It will add momentum to a debate around
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Whitehall about the long-term funding needs of the NHS. Jeremy
0:12:34 > 0:12:38Hunt, the Secretary of State, has already called for a 10-year funding
0:12:38 > 0:12:42plan. His department is under pressure on another front tonight,
0:12:42 > 0:12:46but the calculation of A&E statistics for the key four our
0:12:46 > 0:12:50waiting time benchmark. The BBC has become aware is smaller but of
0:12:50 > 0:12:55trusts, possibly more, have been adding data from minor injuries set
0:12:55 > 0:12:58at centres run by other providers into their data to perhaps make
0:12:58 > 0:13:02their performance look better and the Watchdog react into that has
0:13:02 > 0:13:06called for explanations from NHS leaders. Labour is putting pressure
0:13:06 > 0:13:11on the Government to provide answers as well. And embarrassingly for
0:13:11 > 0:13:16everyone in government and the NHS, it could well be that the biggest in
0:13:16 > 0:13:21NHS in England at hospitals going back over a year or more may have to
0:13:21 > 0:13:24be recalculated.Many thanks once again.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27The trial has started of a man accused of driving a van
0:13:27 > 0:13:32into a group of Muslim worshippers outside a mosque in North London.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34Darren Osborne, who's 48, denies the murder of Makram Ali,
0:13:34 > 0:13:38and attempting to kill nine others.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41The prosecution says he was trying to kill as many people as possible,
0:13:41 > 0:13:44in an act of terrorism - as our home affairs correspondent,
0:13:44 > 0:13:49Daniel Sandford, reports.
0:13:49 > 0:13:53The pandemonium on a summer night in North London after a large box
0:13:53 > 0:13:55van smashed into a crowd of worshippers at speed, leaving
0:13:55 > 0:14:01them strewn across the pavement, some with life-changing injuries.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04And leaving 51-year-old Makram Ali dead.
0:14:04 > 0:14:10Today, his family were at Woolwich Crown Court to watch
0:14:10 > 0:14:15as 48-year-old Darren Osborne, from Cardiff, went on trial.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Jonathan Rees QC for the prosecution said Osborne had deliberately driven
0:14:17 > 0:14:23into a group of Muslims, trying to kill as many as possible.
0:14:23 > 0:14:28The prosecution say Darren Osborne became enraged after a BBC drama
0:14:28 > 0:14:31about sexual abuse by Pakistani men in Rochdale, and by the attacks
0:14:31 > 0:14:33on London and Manchester.
0:14:33 > 0:14:40His partner said he was a ticking time bomb who followed
0:14:40 > 0:14:42on Twitter Tommy Robinson, the founder of the
0:14:42 > 0:14:43far-right group the EDL.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46The day before the attack, he hired a large van.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48That Saturday evening, Darren Osborne came
0:14:48 > 0:14:49here to his local pub,
0:14:49 > 0:14:52the Hollybush, and the prosecution say that witnesses remember him
0:14:52 > 0:14:54writing on a piece of paper, and then becoming increasingly loud
0:14:54 > 0:14:58and abusive about Muslims.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00The prosecution say that after the attack, a misspelled note
0:15:00 > 0:15:04was found in the cab of the van Osborne hired.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Part of it reads...
0:15:25 > 0:15:29The prosecution say that this pro-Palestinian march may have been
0:15:29 > 0:15:32Darren Osborne's original target, but when that didn't prove
0:15:32 > 0:15:37viable, he instead started looking for mosques.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40Their case is that it was an act of terrorism designed to intimidate
0:15:40 > 0:15:41the Muslim community.
0:15:41 > 0:15:46Daniel Sandford, BBC News.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49The head of the Army - General Sir Nick Carter -
0:15:49 > 0:15:51has warned that the armed forces might struggle to respond to future
0:15:51 > 0:15:54threats, without further investment.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Speaking this evening, he highlighted Russia,
0:15:57 > 0:16:00which he said posed the most complex threat to the UK from another state
0:16:00 > 0:16:05since the end of the Cold War.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Sir Nick also underlined the threat to the UK from cyber attacks,
0:16:07 > 0:16:10as our defence correspondent, Jonathan Beale, reports.
0:16:10 > 0:16:15Russia is building an increasingly modern and aggressive military.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18Already tested in battle in Syria, using weapons Britain
0:16:18 > 0:16:21would struggle to match, like long-range missiles.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24In Ukraine they have been using unconventional
0:16:24 > 0:16:29warfare, electronics, cyber and misinformation.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33And they are even on manoeuvres on Europe's doorstep,
0:16:33 > 0:16:36with large-scale exercises near Nato's borders.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38Enough to worry the head of the British Army,
0:16:38 > 0:16:42who tonight gave this rare public warning.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45I believe our ability to pre-empt or respond to these threats will be
0:16:45 > 0:16:49eroded if we don't match up to them now.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53They represent a clear and present danger.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55They are not thousands of miles away.
0:16:55 > 0:17:00They are now on Europe's doorstep.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04The UK is already seriously outnumbered - Russia has
0:17:04 > 0:17:06more than 2500 tanks, among them the most
0:17:06 > 0:17:10advanced in the world.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13In contrast, Britain has fewer than 300 and the UK's Challenger
0:17:13 > 0:17:19tank, here on an exercise, is now over 20 years old.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22This intervention by the head of the Army is as much an appeal
0:17:22 > 0:17:25for more money for defence as it is a warning about
0:17:25 > 0:17:29the threat posed by Russia.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32Over the next ten years, the Ministry of Defence needs
0:17:32 > 0:17:35an extra £20 billion to modernise the Armed Forces and without that
0:17:35 > 0:17:39money, they could face another round of brutal cuts.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42So how does Britain's defence spending compare?
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Last year its budget was £35 billion.
0:17:44 > 0:17:49While Russia's was £44 billion.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53But the UK is still part of a Nato alliance who together spent
0:17:53 > 0:18:00£657 billion, including a US defence budget of £443 billion.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03This is not only about Russia, it is also about our European allies
0:18:03 > 0:18:05and the United States.
0:18:05 > 0:18:09We need to show to our Nato allies that we are taking Russia seriously
0:18:09 > 0:18:11and that we intend to maintain ourselves as a serious
0:18:11 > 0:18:13military power.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16The Defence Secretary has sent his top brass into battle
0:18:16 > 0:18:19to persuade the Chancellor to give him more money,
0:18:19 > 0:18:22but they are competing with other demands and other departments
0:18:22 > 0:18:24and defence may not be the top of the list.
0:18:24 > 0:18:32Jonathan Beale, BBC News.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36For five years, the Syrian suburb of Eastern Ghouta has been
0:18:36 > 0:18:39the target of endless attacks by President Assad's forces,
0:18:39 > 0:18:43and some 400,000 people in the area are now suffering what the UN says
0:18:43 > 0:18:45is a humanitarian crisis.
0:18:45 > 0:18:51Eastern Ghouta is one of several 'de-escalation' zones in Syria,
0:18:51 > 0:18:54formed as part of an attempted truce between government forces -
0:18:54 > 0:18:56backed by Russia - and Syrian rebels.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00Despite that, the bombardment continues, and the UN
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Security Council is meeting tonight to address the situation,
0:19:03 > 0:19:06as our correspondent, Nawal Al-Maghafi, reports.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10Eastern Ghouta is a suburb under siege.
0:19:10 > 0:19:15Airstrikes have become a daily occurrence here.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18Racing from emergency to emergency, there seems to be no
0:19:18 > 0:19:21end to the violence.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24And when half of the population that lives here are children,
0:19:24 > 0:19:32it's them who suffer the most.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36Mahamoud, just three years old, survived the attack unhurt.
0:19:36 > 0:19:44His brother was lost in the rubble.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52Altogether, eight civilians were pulled out of the
0:19:52 > 0:19:56remains of their homes.
0:19:56 > 0:20:03They survived this attack, but they can't escape the siege.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06Surrounded for the past five years, the UN has recently described
0:20:06 > 0:20:12Eastern Ghouta as the epicentre of suffering in Syria.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15For almost 400,000 people, that means daily misery,
0:20:15 > 0:20:19with little food, winter temperatures, and heavy bombardment.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Once the dust settles, the children are sent out
0:20:21 > 0:20:27to search for firewood.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30This woman has lost one child to this war, and she's
0:20:30 > 0:20:35struggling to feed the others.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Eastern Ghouta might be 20 minutes' drive from Damascus,
0:20:38 > 0:20:44but food is 15 times more expensive than the capital.
0:20:44 > 0:20:45TRANSLATION:I have six children.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47How am I meant to feed them?
0:20:47 > 0:20:50I can't even afford to buy them bread.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52All they have is a mouthful each.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53They never get full.
0:20:53 > 0:20:58Have mercy on us!
0:20:58 > 0:21:01In an attempt to escape the shelling, Abu Brahim has made
0:21:01 > 0:21:03this abandoned building his home.
0:21:03 > 0:21:07With no windows, he's chosen to face the cold than the bombs.
0:21:07 > 0:21:12His two boys exposed to the chill of winter.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15TRANSLATION:When it comes to food, we can't afford to buy that much.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19We eat day by day.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23We can't afford to buy wood, so we burn whatever we can find.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26I burnt most of my belongings that I took with me
0:21:26 > 0:21:29when we were displaced.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33No aid has been allowed into the area since November.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Without vital supplies, tens of thousands of children face
0:21:35 > 0:21:40the threat of malnutrition.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44As the attacks continue, the Syrian and Russian governments
0:21:44 > 0:21:48say their forces only attack Islamist rebels in the area.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52For many children here, they've been born into this brutal siege,
0:21:52 > 0:21:54and if something isn't done soon, it's all they will
0:21:54 > 0:21:58ever come to know.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02Nawal Al-Maghafi, BBC News.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04In a new front in the Syrian conflict, Turkey has
0:22:04 > 0:22:10intensified its military offensive against Kurdish forces
0:22:10 > 0:22:14in northern Syria, despite the negative diplomatic
0:22:14 > 0:22:16reaction around the world, including the US Government.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18The Turkish Government says that the operation will continue
0:22:18 > 0:22:20until every terrorist is "cleansed from the region".
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Our correspondent, Mark Lowen, is in Hatay,
0:22:22 > 0:22:30on Turkey's border with Syria.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Despite the criticism I mentioned, is there any sign that Turkey will
0:22:33 > 0:22:39change the kind of operation it is mounting?Absolutely no sign at all,
0:22:39 > 0:22:43it is ploughing ahead despite this pretty dreadful weather. Turkey is
0:22:43 > 0:22:48that the first Turkish soldier has been killed in the clashes. Kurdish
0:22:48 > 0:22:50activists say around 20 civilians have been killed by Turkish as
0:22:50 > 0:22:54strikes although the Turkish government says that is nonsense
0:22:54 > 0:22:59propaganda. The risk is growing for those living in the border regions
0:22:59 > 0:23:04in southern Turkey. We went to a town close to here which saw an
0:23:04 > 0:23:08incoming rocket blamed on the Kurdish militia in Syria, we saw
0:23:08 > 0:23:11shattered glass on the ground and mangled corrugated iron and I spoke
0:23:11 > 0:23:17to be some are they Syrian refugee killed in that rocket strike, as he
0:23:17 > 0:23:21drove with the coffin of his father towards the Syrian border he said,
0:23:21 > 0:23:25"We have escaped the terror of the Assad regime in Zim yet only to be
0:23:25 > 0:23:32met by the terror of the Kurdish militants." -- in Syria. President
0:23:32 > 0:23:37Erdogan, when questioned by the US about the length of the operation,
0:23:37 > 0:23:41said it was not a maths equation, how long have you been in Iraq and
0:23:41 > 0:23:48Afghanistan? The only approval he is interested in is the 50.1% of the
0:23:48 > 0:23:53voters he will need here to be re-elected next year.Thank you for
0:23:53 > 0:23:55the latest from Hatay.
0:23:55 > 0:23:56The leader of Ukip, Henry Bolton, is resisting the growing
0:23:56 > 0:23:58calls for his resignation following a controversy
0:23:58 > 0:24:06about racist comments made by his former girlfriend.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08No fewer than 14 party spokesmen and women have now resigned,
0:24:08 > 0:24:11calling on Mr Bolton to step down, but he's insisted he'll put
0:24:11 > 0:24:13an end to what he calls "factional infighting".
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Live to Westminster for the latest with our political
0:24:15 > 0:24:20correspondent, Leila Nathoo.
0:24:20 > 0:24:25To those in his party who want him to walk away, fighting talk from a
0:24:25 > 0:24:30leader determined to stay where he is.I will not be resigning as party
0:24:30 > 0:24:35leader.Instead, a provocative message setting his sights on Ukip's
0:24:35 > 0:24:39warring body that backed a vote of no confidence in him last night.It
0:24:39 > 0:24:42is now time to put an end to the factional infighting that has been
0:24:42 > 0:24:46going on within the party for some time and to remove those who have
0:24:46 > 0:24:51been part of that. In a single phrase, it is time to drain the
0:24:51 > 0:24:55swamp.It was Henry Bolton's relationship with Jo Marney that
0:24:55 > 0:25:00triggered this latest turmoil. He says it is now over after she had to
0:25:00 > 0:25:05apologise for sending racist text messages. For many in Ukip that is
0:25:05 > 0:25:08not enough. 14 senior members have resigned from their posts in protest
0:25:08 > 0:25:14at his reluctance to step aside.We should be a party that is talking
0:25:14 > 0:25:17about Brexit, putting the case for this country to come out with no
0:25:17 > 0:25:22deal, if we don't get a good deal, but all that has been lost because
0:25:22 > 0:25:25of the spectacle of his private life.He does not have the
0:25:25 > 0:25:31confidence of the party, he cannot operate even vaguely successfully as
0:25:31 > 0:25:38a party leader. He never had much of a mandate and he now should go.
0:25:38 > 0:25:42Henry Bolton is Ukip's third new leader in less than 18 months. He is
0:25:42 > 0:25:47now pushing for a no ball, something welcomed by one of the biggest names
0:25:47 > 0:25:53in the party.Ukip does not change, it will not exist in 18 months.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Emerging from this seafront hotel with such a defiant message, Henry
0:25:56 > 0:26:01Bogdan laid down a challenge to his colleagues, it is time for reform to
0:26:01 > 0:26:06overcome divisions -- Henry Bolton. But his bullish approach, at odds
0:26:06 > 0:26:11with what so many want to do here, risked making things far worse. You
0:26:11 > 0:26:17are a member?I was, not any more. When did you cancel your membership?
0:26:17 > 0:26:22Last week on that basis. To be honest with you, it is a failing
0:26:22 > 0:26:30party now.I was a Ukip man but now I'm afraid, no. They won't get my
0:26:30 > 0:26:34vote unless they get themselves into gear.It is now up to Ukip members
0:26:34 > 0:26:39to decide his fate but yet another fractious episode is damaging for a
0:26:39 > 0:26:44party struggling to define its message and its role.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Two men have been jailed for at least 34 years
0:26:48 > 0:26:50after being found guilty of murdering the businessman
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Guy Hedger in an attempted burglary at his home in Dorset last April.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Kevin Downton and Jason Baccus committed burglaries
0:26:55 > 0:26:57to fund their drug habits.
0:26:57 > 0:27:02A third man, Scott Keeping, was acquitted.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Police have arrested a man who's thought to be the father
0:27:05 > 0:27:07of eight-year-old Mylee Billingham who died after being
0:27:07 > 0:27:10stabbed on Saturday night.
0:27:10 > 0:27:1254-year-old Bill Billingham is in a critical condition
0:27:12 > 0:27:18after he was found with a stab wound in his stomach.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21A leading manufacturer of ejector seats,
0:27:21 > 0:27:23Martin-Baker Aircraft Limited, has admitted breaking
0:27:23 > 0:27:25a health and safety law in connection with the death
0:27:25 > 0:27:27of a Red Arrows pilot.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham died in 2011 when he was thrown
0:27:30 > 0:27:32from his jet while it was on the ground at RAF
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Scampton in Lincolnshire.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Sentencing will take place next month.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41Our correspondent Danny Savage reports.
0:27:41 > 0:27:46This is the Red Arrows Hawk jet that Sean Cunningham was ejected from.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Unknown to him, the ejector seat was in an unsafe position and went
0:27:49 > 0:27:53off unexpectedly with the plane on the ground.
0:27:53 > 0:27:57The 35-year-old, whose life's ambition was to be a Red Arrows
0:27:57 > 0:28:00pilot, could have survived but the parachute on the seat
0:28:00 > 0:28:01failed to deploy.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03He crashed back down, still strapped to the seat,
0:28:03 > 0:28:07and died from his injuries.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11The Red Arrows are based here at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14This is where Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham was fatally injured
0:28:14 > 0:28:18back in November 2011.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21His inquest heard that an over-tightened nut and bolt
0:28:21 > 0:28:25on his ejector seat stopped the parachute from working properly.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28The manufacturers of that seat, Martin-Baker, knew about the issue
0:28:28 > 0:28:33and told some air forces but not the Ministry of Defence.
0:28:33 > 0:28:37So the engineers here were unaware of the issue.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39Flight Lieutenant Cunningham's sister, mother and father
0:28:39 > 0:28:42were in court today to hear the guilty plea.
0:28:42 > 0:28:47This has been a long ordeal for them.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50We welcome the conclusion of the coroner which confirmed
0:28:50 > 0:28:56what we knew all along, which is that Sean was blameless.
0:28:56 > 0:28:57A director of Martin-Baker, John Martin, seen here
0:28:57 > 0:29:00second from the left, today admitted breaking
0:29:00 > 0:29:03health and safety law on behalf of the company.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05One former senior RAF officer believes this incident
0:29:05 > 0:29:08has changed attitudes.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11They are an outstandingly good company and what went wrong
0:29:11 > 0:29:13would have hurt them deeply as well.
0:29:13 > 0:29:19They have learned a terrible amount from this.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21Martin-Baker ejection seats are still fitted to Red Arrows Hawks
0:29:21 > 0:29:24and all RAF fast jets.
0:29:24 > 0:29:27The company says their equipment has saved the lives of thousands
0:29:27 > 0:29:28of aircrew over many decades.
0:29:28 > 0:29:31Danny Savage, BBC News, Lincoln.
0:29:36 > 0:29:38The Chilean player Alexis Sanchez has completed his much-anticipated
0:29:38 > 0:29:41move to Manchester United from Arsenal and is expected
0:29:41 > 0:29:46to become the highest-paid player in the Premier League.
0:29:46 > 0:29:48He is reported to earn £500,000 per week.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51Let's join our sports editor, Dan Roan, who's at Old Trafford
0:29:51 > 0:29:55with the latest tonight.
0:29:55 > 0:29:59Fuelled by booming broadcast deals, Premier League finances have seen to
0:29:59 > 0:30:02be in a different planet for years but the remarkable Alexis Sanchez
0:30:02 > 0:30:07deal takes it to a whole new level, revealing much about the desperation
0:30:07 > 0:30:11that Manchester United feel as they tried to claw back lost ground
0:30:11 > 0:30:15against arch rivals and runaway league leaders Manchester City, the
0:30:15 > 0:30:18power and influence of football agent and the amount of money that
0:30:18 > 0:30:23is swilling around the English game. United may not have had to pay a fee
0:30:23 > 0:30:28for this signing but it is certainly not a free transfer.
0:30:28 > 0:30:34Sanchez has scored an absolute beauty!It is talent like this that
0:30:34 > 0:30:38has persuaded Manchester United to make Alexis Sanchez the best paid
0:30:38 > 0:30:42player in Premier League history. The striker remarkably set to earn a
0:30:42 > 0:30:49report that half £1 million a week after his protracted transfer from
0:30:49 > 0:30:54Arsenal was finally completed. More akin to a movie trailer than a
0:30:54 > 0:30:57signing announcement, United howled at his arrival with a carefully
0:30:57 > 0:31:01orchestrated video on their social media tonight. The rest of the game
0:31:01 > 0:31:05left to marvel at a deal the like of which British football has never
0:31:05 > 0:31:12seen before.The money side of it is absolutely huge, it is absurd in
0:31:12 > 0:31:18some people's eyes. Our football is worth this? Arsene Wenger a couple
0:31:18 > 0:31:23of days ago said it would not be long before a player earns £1
0:31:23 > 0:31:25million a week.With midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan heading to
0:31:25 > 0:31:29Arsenal as part of eight swap deal, United may have avoided paying a
0:31:29 > 0:31:34transfer fee for centres but with his agent reportedly pocketing £50
0:31:34 > 0:31:39million, the full cost of the zoning could turn into a staggering £180
0:31:39 > 0:31:44million. -- of the signing. Jose Mourinho made clear his admiration
0:31:44 > 0:31:51earlier this month.The only word I can say is the same with everybody
0:31:51 > 0:31:54says, a phenomenal player. Apart from that, Arsenal player.Not any
0:31:54 > 0:31:57more, megarich Manchester City have been the favourites to sign him but
0:31:57 > 0:32:01even they were scared off by the money involved and it instead United
0:32:01 > 0:32:04to won the race for his signature and they must now hope he is worth
0:32:04 > 0:32:06it.
0:32:06 > 0:32:09Many tributes have been paid to the former England football
0:32:09 > 0:32:11captain Jimmy Armfield, a member of the 1966
0:32:11 > 0:32:15World Cup winning squad, who's died at the age of 82.
0:32:15 > 0:32:17Sir Bobby Charlton said he was "the most honest and genuine
0:32:17 > 0:32:20gentlemen I had the good fortune to meet".
0:32:20 > 0:32:22He spent his entire career at Blackpool, playing more
0:32:22 > 0:32:26than 600 games for the club.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28Armfield later became a manager and a highly-respected
0:32:28 > 0:32:31pundit for BBC Radio.
0:32:31 > 0:32:34He was recently asked how he'd like to be remembered.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38Somebody asked me once, they said, when you see yourself now,
0:32:38 > 0:32:41don't you wish you'd have had all the television programmes
0:32:41 > 0:32:43they have, you know, when you were playing?
0:32:43 > 0:32:45And I thought about it for a minute.
0:32:45 > 0:32:48And I said, I'm not so sure, really.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51I said, it's probably better to let them think
0:32:51 > 0:32:56I was a half decent player!
0:32:56 > 0:32:59Jimmy Armfield, who's died at the age of 82.
0:32:59 > 0:33:14Here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.