0:00:05 > 0:00:06Tonight at ten...
0:00:06 > 0:00:08Downing Street says the Prime Minister is appalled
0:00:08 > 0:00:11by allegations that women were sexually abused at an all men
0:00:11 > 0:00:15charity dinner in London.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18An undercover reporter - hired as a hostess -
0:00:18 > 0:00:21filmed at the Presidents Club dinner last week and said she was groped.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24It's sparked outrage.
0:00:24 > 0:00:29Women were bought as bait for men, rich men, not a mile
0:00:29 > 0:00:32from where we stand, as if that is an
0:00:32 > 0:00:35acceptable behaviour.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38It is totally unacceptable.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40After hosting exclusive dinners for more than 30 years,
0:00:40 > 0:00:44the Presidents Club has cancelled all future events.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Also tonight...
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Jailed for 175 years for molesting young gymnasts -
0:00:49 > 0:00:51the disgraced USA gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar
0:00:51 > 0:00:55apologises to his victims.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57Controversial monkey business - 20 years after Dolly the Sheep
0:00:57 > 0:01:05scientists in China have cloned two monkeys.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11An exclusive report from inside northern Serbia after Turkey opens
0:01:11 > 0:01:15up a new front in Syria's seven-year war. -- northern Syria.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Baroness Tessa Jowell gives her first interview
0:01:17 > 0:01:19since being diagnosed last May with a severe form of brain cancer.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20I am not afraid.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21I feel...
0:01:21 > 0:01:29Very clear about my sense of purpose.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35Not the best first day in a new job for Phil Neville as the new manager
0:01:35 > 0:01:39of the England women's football team apologises for sexist treats.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Coming up on Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News,
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0:02:05 > 0:02:06Good evening.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08The exclusive men-only Presidents Club, which has held
0:02:08 > 0:02:12charity dinners in London for more than 30 years, has cancelled
0:02:12 > 0:02:14all future events after women employed at the event say
0:02:14 > 0:02:19they were groped and sexually harassed by the guests.
0:02:19 > 0:02:20Downing Street says the Prime Minister is appalled
0:02:20 > 0:02:22by the revelations.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26An undercover reporter filmed last week's dinner at the Dorchester.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29A Government adviser who helped organise it has resigned,
0:02:29 > 0:02:32and some of the charities for which money was raised
0:02:32 > 0:02:36are handing back hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations.
0:02:36 > 0:02:42Here's our special correspondent Lucy Manning.
0:02:42 > 0:02:47All the Presidents Club men appear to be enjoying themselves
0:02:47 > 0:02:50at their charity dinner, the women working there much less
0:02:50 > 0:02:53so, with claims that they were groped at the men only event
0:02:53 > 0:02:54for those in business and politics.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Women working as table hostesses were made to wear revealing outfits,
0:02:57 > 0:03:02their phones confiscated.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Madison Marriage is the Financial Times journalist who went undercover
0:03:05 > 0:03:07to expose the dinner.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Multiple women told me that they had been touched inappropriately,
0:03:11 > 0:03:15and that ranged from, you know, holding their hands,
0:03:15 > 0:03:19touching their bums, kind of grabbing them,
0:03:19 > 0:03:22pulling them into their laps.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Yeah, there was a complete range of sexual harassment.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27And did that happen to you?
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Yes.
0:03:29 > 0:03:34Yeah, I had three men touch me inappropriately.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38Were you surprised that this was happening in this day and age?
0:03:38 > 0:03:40I am surprised by the institutionalised scale
0:03:40 > 0:03:46of this particular event.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49The charity auction offered the men-only diners hospitality
0:03:49 > 0:03:53with the Foreign Secretary and Bank of England Governor, although both
0:03:53 > 0:03:56said they knew nothing about it, or even the chance to,
0:03:56 > 0:04:04as it was put, "Spice up the wife with plastic surgery".
0:04:13 > 0:04:18This is the contracts of the women were made to sign at the dinner two
0:04:18 > 0:04:22years ago. This event has many influential people attending, remain
0:04:22 > 0:04:26discreet. They had to sign along -- a nondisclosure agreement.
0:04:26 > 0:04:32Absolutely nothing must be discussed or disclosed before, during or after
0:04:32 > 0:04:36the event to anyone, ever. Adding, it will be fun. The company said you
0:04:36 > 0:04:40to the calibre of the guests it would be astonished if any claims of
0:04:40 > 0:04:41sexual harassment were made.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44Some of the men are now paying for their attendance.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46David Meller, one of the organisers, resigned as a member
0:04:46 > 0:04:48of the Department for Education's board.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Education Minister Nadhim Zahawi faced questions about his decision
0:04:50 > 0:04:55to go to the dinner.
0:04:55 > 0:05:01He was brought in to see the Chief Whip. He said he unequivocally
0:05:01 > 0:05:04condemned the behaviour.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08Down the road from the Dorchester, where the dinner was held last week,
0:05:08 > 0:05:09MPs couldn't contain their anger today.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Women were bought as bait for men, rich men, not a mile
0:05:12 > 0:05:14from where we stand, as if that is an
0:05:14 > 0:05:16acceptable behaviour.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19It is totally unacceptable.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22It is quite extraordinary to me, Mr Speaker, that in the 21st
0:05:22 > 0:05:26century, allegations of this kind are still emerging.
0:05:26 > 0:05:32Women have the right to feel safe wherever they work.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36Charities are now returning money donated by the Presidents Club.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Great Ormond Street says it will hand back half a million pounds.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42But BBC News has learned of claims that it was warned previously
0:05:42 > 0:05:45not to take the money.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48We have been told at a meeting it was raised with senior
0:05:48 > 0:05:50fundraisers that the Presidents Club had questionable practices
0:05:50 > 0:05:54and whether money should be taken from them.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Great Ormond Street has very strict policies and it was brought up
0:05:58 > 0:06:01Great Ormond Street said tonight: "We have checked our records and can
0:06:01 > 0:06:03find nothing to suggest we were aware of all discussed any
0:06:03 > 0:06:08concerns about the Presidents Club".
0:06:08 > 0:06:12Tonight the Presidents Club is no more. Shuts down after the doors
0:06:12 > 0:06:18were prised open.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22The trustees of the Presidents Club said it would no longer holds any
0:06:22 > 0:06:25charity events. Downing Street tonight said the Prime Minister was
0:06:25 > 0:06:29appalled and it showed there was still a long way to go before women
0:06:29 > 0:06:33were properly treated as equals. The doors have been opened on what
0:06:33 > 0:06:38normally stays hidden and, for the men who attended this dinner, some
0:06:38 > 0:06:44are probably having to explain to wives, daughters, female employees
0:06:44 > 0:06:48and colleagues what went on here. And what went on here certainly did
0:06:48 > 0:06:50not look good. Lucy Manning, thank you.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53The former team doctor for America's gymnastics squad, Larry Nassar,
0:06:53 > 0:06:55has been sentenced to 175 years in prison for sexually abusing
0:06:55 > 0:06:57young female athletes.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01More than 160 of his victims testified in court.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03The judge said the 54-year-old didn't deserve to walk out
0:07:03 > 0:07:06of prison ever again.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09America's star Olympic gymnast, Simone Biles, who was also abused,
0:07:09 > 0:07:12praised those who'd spoken out and said Nassar no longer had
0:07:12 > 0:07:15the power to steal their happiness.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19Rajini Vaidyanathan reports.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21The tables have turned, Larry.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25We are here, we have our voices and we are not going anywhere.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28The amount of physical, mental and emotional trauma this man
0:07:28 > 0:07:30has forced upon me is immeasurable.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Over the last seven days, their voices and their stories have
0:07:33 > 0:07:36become hard to ignore.
0:07:36 > 0:07:44156 women say they were sexually abused by this man, Larry Nassar.
0:07:47 > 0:07:53I am giving you 175 years, which has 2100 months. I have just signed your
0:07:53 > 0:07:56death warrant.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59During the hearing, the judge invited other women who had been
0:07:59 > 0:08:00abused to come forward.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02The response was unprecedented, what started as ten convictions
0:08:02 > 0:08:03turned into an outpouring of testimony.
0:08:03 > 0:08:09Today she did not hold back when delivering her verdict.
0:08:09 > 0:08:18Your decision to assault was precise, calculated, manipulative,
0:08:18 > 0:08:24devious, despicable. I wouldn't send my dogs to you, sir.
0:08:24 > 0:08:31You do not deserve to walk outside of a prison ever again.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Today he had this response for his victims.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35An acceptable apology to all of you is impossible
0:08:35 > 0:08:38to write and convey.
0:08:38 > 0:08:44I will carry your words with me for the rest of my days.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Described as a monster and as Satan in court,
0:08:46 > 0:08:48the former USA gymnastics team doctor treated hundreds
0:08:48 > 0:08:52of women over decades.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54From decorated Olympians and state-level gymnasts
0:08:54 > 0:08:57to the children of family friends.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Sent to him for medical treatment instead of taking away their pain,
0:09:00 > 0:09:08he stole their innocence.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13You know, I think we saw yet another example of Larry being a master
0:09:13 > 0:09:17manipulator, that is something society needs to understand better,
0:09:17 > 0:09:21this is how predators operate. He didn't think he did anything
0:09:21 > 0:09:26wrong, his words are empty. They are empty they are empty. You would
0:09:26 > 0:09:33think by now he could take ownership, and he just hasn't.
0:09:33 > 0:09:39I think we have started a tidal wave of people speaking up, because they
0:09:39 > 0:09:44feel supported, they feel validated. And that is not just for Nelson
0:09:44 > 0:09:49victims, but every victim of sexual assault and sexual abuse.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Mixed emotions as this hearing comes to a close. Many here still wonder
0:09:52 > 0:09:58how Larry Nelson was able to abuse young and vulnerable women for so
0:09:58 > 0:10:02long and not to be held to account, but those same women demonstrated
0:10:02 > 0:10:08sheer strength in this courtroom. The judge described them as warriors
0:10:08 > 0:10:12with Superwoman Steel. The focus of the sentencing has been
0:10:12 > 0:10:17on those who survived Larry Nassar's abuse. Perhaps the biggest victory
0:10:17 > 0:10:21isn't seeing the man who molested them behind bars, but knowing that
0:10:21 > 0:10:26together they found the collective strength to confront him.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29A jury's been told that a man accused of carrying out
0:10:29 > 0:10:32the Finsbury Park terror attack last June kept smiling and even blew
0:10:32 > 0:10:34a kiss at the gathering crowd after ploughing a van
0:10:34 > 0:10:35into mMslim worshippers.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38-- into Muslim worshippers.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Darren Osborne from Cardiff denies murder and attempted murder
0:10:40 > 0:10:44after the attack in North London which left one man dead.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Darren Osborne from Cardiff denies murder and attempted murder
0:10:46 > 0:10:50An Imam who was one of the first on the scene told the court how
0:10:50 > 0:10:52he stopped the crowd attacking the driver of the van.
0:10:52 > 0:10:59Daniel Sandford reports.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Witness after witness described how the van der Gragt its engines just
0:11:02 > 0:11:11before smashing into the group of Muslim men and women. -- how the van
0:11:11 > 0:11:13revved its engines. Some said they feared for their lives, thinking
0:11:13 > 0:11:17somebody would get out with a Colonel Rene. The jury heard in 999
0:11:17 > 0:11:23call for ambulances.He ran over a lot of people, a lot of people have
0:11:23 > 0:11:28died.In a van?A big fan, he has run over everyone when I was calling
0:11:28 > 0:11:32you, he turned and ran over everyone.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37Within the hour, 51-year-old Makram Ali was declared dead at the scene.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40This man suffered life changing injuries, including broken pelvis,
0:11:40 > 0:11:45broken ribs and a broken lock. He told the court how friends pulled
0:11:45 > 0:11:51him out from under the van. People grabbed the man they believed to be
0:11:51 > 0:11:54the van driver to detain him. The court heard how some people punched
0:11:54 > 0:12:03and kicked him. The
0:12:03 > 0:12:06and kicked him. The Imam of the local mosque said he should answer
0:12:06 > 0:12:10for his crimes in a court like this, not on the street, and he stop
0:12:10 > 0:12:13people from attacking him. The man who made them I know nine
0:12:13 > 0:12:17call said to the crowd, I have done my job, you can kill me now. He was
0:12:17 > 0:12:22constantly smiling, the 999 call records.
0:12:22 > 0:12:28Darren Osborne denies charges of murder and attempted murder. He was
0:12:28 > 0:12:33played video from a police officer's body one camera in which Darren
0:12:33 > 0:12:37Osborne rants about Muslims and says hacked some of that, have some of
0:12:37 > 0:12:41your own. At least I had a proper go. Daniel
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Sandford, BBC News, Woolwich Crown Court.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46Two decades after Dolly the Sheep, scientists in China have now
0:12:46 > 0:12:48used the same technique to clone two monkeys.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50The identical macaques were born several weeks ago
0:12:50 > 0:12:51at a laboratory in Shanghai.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Scientists say genetically identical monkeys would help with research
0:12:53 > 0:12:55into human diseases.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57But critics say the work raises ethical concerns.
0:12:57 > 0:13:05Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh is here with me.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09Tell us more about why they are doing this?Those rather cute baby
0:13:09 > 0:13:15macaques you just saw, in an incubator with soft toys around
0:13:15 > 0:13:21them, those images will worry some people and see it rather too close
0:13:21 > 0:13:25to humans for comfort. The reality is that since Dolly the sheep was
0:13:25 > 0:13:31born in Scotland in 1996 we have had loads of different cloned animals.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35Cattle, pigs, dogs, cats, rats, you name it. The significance is this is
0:13:35 > 0:13:39the first time we have had a nonhuman primate baby born using
0:13:39 > 0:13:45other Dolly method which involves transferring DNA to a donor egg, it
0:13:45 > 0:13:49is incredibly inefficient and it took 79 embryos to produce these
0:13:49 > 0:13:54macaques. The DNA that created them came not from an adult monkey but a
0:13:54 > 0:14:00foetus. Why would you want to do this? Why would you want a whole
0:14:00 > 0:14:03laboratory full of genetically identical monkey codes? Scientists
0:14:03 > 0:14:07say it will enable them to study primate biology and because of their
0:14:07 > 0:14:13closeness to humans it will help in research into human diseases, from
0:14:13 > 0:14:17cancer to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Critics will say it
0:14:17 > 0:14:21will lead to cloned humans. They have said that for the past 25
0:14:21 > 0:14:26years, as far as we know it has not happened. The Chinese team say they
0:14:26 > 0:14:30are opposed under reputable scientist wants to clone humans.
0:14:30 > 0:14:37Fergus Walsh, thank you.-- and no reputable scientist wants to clone
0:14:37 > 0:14:38humans.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41Figures out today show the number people in work has
0:14:41 > 0:14:42risen to a record high.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Unemployment in the UK fell by 3000 to 1.44 million
0:14:44 > 0:14:46in the three months to November.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48But the data from the Office for National Statistics also shows
0:14:48 > 0:14:49that wage growth remained below the level of inflation.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53It's emerged that victims of the rapist John Worboys were sent
0:14:53 > 0:14:55letters by police and prosecutors after his conviction -
0:14:55 > 0:14:58telling them he'd be in jail for a long time.
0:14:58 > 0:15:03Many are angry that the 60-year-old former taxi driver has been approved
0:15:03 > 0:15:05for release from prison by the Parole Board nine
0:15:05 > 0:15:09years after his trial.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12The former Prime Minister David Cameron has been caught on camera
0:15:12 > 0:15:14saying that the UK's decision to leave the European Union
0:15:14 > 0:15:19was a mistake, not a disaster.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23Mr Cameron was chatting at the World Economic Forum in Davos
0:15:23 > 0:15:25and heard saying that Brexit has turned out "less badly
0:15:25 > 0:15:26than we first thought."
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32Davos -
0:15:32 > 0:15:34where the great and good allegedly work out what is
0:15:34 > 0:15:35going on in the world.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39What happens to the UK outside the European Union
0:15:39 > 0:15:41is one of their concerns.
0:15:41 > 0:15:47But how is the track record of those types who gather here?
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Look who popped up, admitting he thought, privately,
0:15:50 > 0:15:53his Brexit prediction was not quite so good.
0:16:01 > 0:16:05But in the expensive Alps, there is a view a deal we'd
0:16:05 > 0:16:07like to do will come with a cost.
0:16:07 > 0:16:13There has to be some price for access.
0:16:13 > 0:16:18To what extent this access is going to be available has
0:16:18 > 0:16:22to be made dependent on some other contributions.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Rather different to what ministers tell us at home, where repeatedly
0:16:26 > 0:16:29the government says the era of big British payments to the EU is over,
0:16:29 > 0:16:34without quite ruling out specific costs.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37What is making some Conservatives scratchy, though, is not
0:16:37 > 0:16:40how much we would pay, but what happens on day one
0:16:40 > 0:16:43after we leave the European Union.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47There is a broad plan for a couple of years of getting used to life
0:16:47 > 0:16:52outside before we cut all significant ties.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55But some Brexiteers are fearful almost nothing would change -
0:16:55 > 0:16:56we'd hardly have left at all.
0:16:56 > 0:17:01We are transitioning from one state to another.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04We are going from one state to another and you can call it
0:17:04 > 0:17:05what you like but not vassal.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08All right, if not a vassal state, in what sense have we left
0:17:08 > 0:17:16the European Union, other than we have no say...
0:17:18 > 0:17:20We are leaving as in leaving as in transiting.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Who is going to punish us if we get on with it now?
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Are we just still acting as if we are in the European Union,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29we are bound by the European Union, we are lackeys of
0:17:29 > 0:17:30the European Union?
0:17:30 > 0:17:31And we are acting as a law-abiding country.
0:17:31 > 0:17:32Bolder.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Remember, Theresa May making her own way to Davos desperately needs
0:17:35 > 0:17:36Eurosceptic support.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39Her first challenge, as ever, keeping a handle on her own party.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41I'm very concerned about the bickering that is still going
0:17:41 > 0:17:43on on the government side.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Transitional arrangements are necessary and needed now
0:17:45 > 0:17:48and we need to agree them.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51The fact the government still does not have a settled
0:17:51 > 0:17:52position is deeply worrying.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55There is some clamour from the EU, too.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58By the end of the week the government will have shown
0:17:58 > 0:18:00a bit more of its hand, but as the Prime Minister
0:18:00 > 0:18:04joins her fellow leaders in Switzerland tonight,
0:18:04 > 0:18:06there are multiple audiences she needs to keep onside.
0:18:06 > 0:18:07Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Let's speak to our economics editor Kamal Ahmed, who's
0:18:09 > 0:18:16at the World Economics Forum in Davos.
0:18:16 > 0:18:22Theresa May has arrived.What reception can she expect tomorrow? I
0:18:22 > 0:18:28think this is not her natural habitat. Rather dismissively people
0:18:28 > 0:18:32here are sometimes described as the global elite and speaking to
0:18:32 > 0:18:36business leaders they are baffled at the decision for Britain to leave
0:18:36 > 0:18:41the European Union but do not forget, these are the type of people
0:18:41 > 0:18:46who backed Britain staying in the European Union. For businesses they
0:18:46 > 0:18:50will want to hear from Theresa May and open armed message about Britain
0:18:50 > 0:18:55being open for business. I am not sure they will quite get that. She
0:18:55 > 0:18:59will talk about technology, the importance of technology in
0:18:59 > 0:19:03developments of economies and a warning about technology, saying
0:19:03 > 0:19:09technology companies had to do more to stop the spread of extremist
0:19:09 > 0:19:15material and terrorist material, so a warning as well as the embracing
0:19:15 > 0:19:19language that technology is good for growth. It will not be her public
0:19:19 > 0:19:24speech that will be the big issue tomorrow, it will be the bilateral
0:19:24 > 0:19:28with the other global leader arriving tomorrow, that is President
0:19:28 > 0:19:31Trump. This will be the first meeting between the Prime Minister
0:19:31 > 0:19:38and President Trump since that rather embarrassing diplomatic
0:19:38 > 0:19:42incident when President Trump abandoned a plan to visit the UK,
0:19:42 > 0:19:46and open the new embassy in London, saying he did not like the building
0:19:46 > 0:19:52very much. There will be bridge building tomorrow between Theresa
0:19:52 > 0:19:56May and Donald Trump but actually the big excitement will be the
0:19:56 > 0:20:01arrival of the US president, the first time a US president has come
0:20:01 > 0:20:06to Davos since Bill Clinton in 2000. What message will he be sending on
0:20:06 > 0:20:12Friday when he makes his big speech to the World Economic Forum? Will he
0:20:12 > 0:20:18be conciliar tree, say he does agree with some forms of globalisation, or
0:20:18 > 0:20:21will he be hard-nosed, we need protectionism to protect the
0:20:21 > 0:20:23American economy and American jobs?
0:20:23 > 0:20:26President Trump has spoken to the Turkish president
0:20:26 > 0:20:28and urged him to de-escalate Turkey's military operations
0:20:28 > 0:20:30in northern Syria to stop any risk of conflict between Turkish
0:20:30 > 0:20:32and American forces.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36On Saturday Turkey launched an assault on Kurdish
0:20:36 > 0:20:39forces on the other side of the border in Syria.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Turkey believes the Kurdish militia - known as the YPG -
0:20:42 > 0:20:46is a terrorist group.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49The YPG group controls all this - more than 250 miles
0:20:49 > 0:20:51of Syria's northern border.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53But Turkey wants them out, to stop the Kurds consolidating
0:20:53 > 0:20:56their hold on the area.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58Our Turkey correspondent Mark Lowen is the first Western journalist
0:20:58 > 0:21:01to be granted access to the border town, from where the Turkish
0:21:01 > 0:21:07operation is being launched.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11The drill of war.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Syrian opposition police training for a new front.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16They are backed by Turkey, the two working side by side
0:21:16 > 0:21:24in the offensive against the Kurdish militia or YPG.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31The target, says Turkey, YPG is linked to the PKK, the Kurdish
0:21:31 > 0:21:32insurgents inside Turkey.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34So some troops here are Kurds, taking up arms against
0:21:34 > 0:21:35the Kurdish militia.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38This commander denies he is betraying his people.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42TRANSLATION:I am taking part in this offensive,
0:21:42 > 0:21:44not to fight the Kurds but to save them from
0:21:44 > 0:21:45the terrorism of the YPG.
0:21:45 > 0:21:51They planted terror into the heads of our youth.
0:21:51 > 0:21:56The shelling intensified today as Turkey's President vowed
0:21:56 > 0:22:01to neutralise every last terrorist.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04Many of those involved are sent from here to the nearby front line.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05The terrain is bumpy.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07The threat is constant.
0:22:07 > 0:22:12Any car, any passer-by, is scanned for explosives.
0:22:12 > 0:22:17We are patrolling the front line with Turkish troops.
0:22:17 > 0:22:24The closest position of the YPG militia just a few hundred
0:22:24 > 0:22:29metres from the direction where they fire artillery.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31We just heard a couple of incoming mortars.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33The Turkish military offensive is focused on clearing the villages
0:22:33 > 0:22:35around this area of the YPG.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Turkey says it wants to establish a buffer zone,
0:22:37 > 0:22:39pushing the militia 20 miles deep away from its border
0:22:39 > 0:22:40into northern Syria.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Among local residents there is trust in those keeping guard
0:22:43 > 0:22:50and in the operation itself.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52The Kurdish militia stole our villages, killed our young people
0:22:52 > 0:22:54and displaced us Arabs, says this refugee.
0:22:54 > 0:22:55God should bless the military offensive.
0:22:55 > 0:23:00But YPG resistance is fierce.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02They are armed by the US, which says the offensive
0:23:02 > 0:23:08distracts from fighting the Islamic State group.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10The Kurds say civilians are being killed by Turkish artillery.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Turkey denies it.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15But for those in areas hit by air strikes, it is hell.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18TRANSLATION:There is no one here, I am alone.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20There is no electricity and they are firing on us.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22They are shaking the world with this.
0:23:22 > 0:23:27Everybody has left.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Here it is scarred by the legacy of a seven-year long war.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34In Syria, territory is power and as the country has fallen apart,
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Turkey is determined to stop its age-old foes
0:23:36 > 0:23:44from grabbing a piece of it.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47It's his first full day in the job but already Phil Neville -
0:23:47 > 0:23:49the new head coach of the England women's football team -
0:23:49 > 0:23:53has had to apologise for sexist remarks on Twitter.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56The former Manchester United player said the comments were not "a true
0:23:56 > 0:23:57and genuine reflection" of his beliefs.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01Our sports correspondent Natalie Pirks reports.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05Just everything about this was the perfect opportunity for me,
0:24:05 > 0:24:09and, literally, I haven't slept because of the excitement.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Sleepless nights all round now, though, as the FA get to grips
0:24:12 > 0:24:15with another scandal around their women's head coach.
0:24:15 > 0:24:20Phil Neville's tweets from six years ago alluded to such things as women
0:24:20 > 0:24:23being too busy doing domestic chores to watch sport, and another
0:24:23 > 0:24:29ill-advised joke referred to him battering his wife.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31He's deleted his Twitter account and apologised.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34The FA says it was aware of some but not all the tweets
0:24:34 > 0:24:37before they hired him, but the FA also confirmed
0:24:37 > 0:24:39he won't be punished because the comments don't
0:24:39 > 0:24:42reach their threshold for a charge.
0:24:42 > 0:24:43Was it discriminatory in language, in nature?
0:24:43 > 0:24:44Yes, it was.
0:24:44 > 0:24:45Was it in context?
0:24:45 > 0:24:47Yes, it was.
0:24:47 > 0:24:48Did people find it offensive?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Yes, they did.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53I kind of thought that was what the threshold was.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56But the Twitter storm seems to be obscuring the real issue,
0:24:56 > 0:24:58which is whether Phil Neville is actually qualified for the job,
0:24:58 > 0:25:00having never managed before and never worked
0:25:00 > 0:25:02in the women's game.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05The FA confirmed tonight that two of the four final candidates
0:25:05 > 0:25:07for the job were female, but all four withdrew
0:25:07 > 0:25:10from the process.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13The FA desperately needed to get this one right.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17Neville's predecessor Mark Sampson had guided England
0:25:17 > 0:25:20to third in the world, before becoming embroiled
0:25:20 > 0:25:24in a racism scandal, late last year, and being sacked for inappropriate
0:25:24 > 0:25:27behaviour, uncovered from a previous role.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Phil Neville's friends in the game, though, are backing him to do well.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33A bit of flak, you've got to be able to take that,
0:25:33 > 0:25:37but all I can say is I have known Philip a number of years,
0:25:37 > 0:25:38he will do a really good job.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Many say a qualified woman could have done
0:25:41 > 0:25:44the job equally as well, though, and Neville is fast learning
0:25:44 > 0:25:46things don't always go to plan when you step
0:25:46 > 0:25:47into the Lionesses' den.
0:25:47 > 0:25:52Natalie Pirks, BBC News, Wembley.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56A nun has broken down in tears at the Scottish child abuse inquiry
0:25:56 > 0:25:59and apologised to anyone who may have been abused at a notorious care
0:25:59 > 0:26:00home in Lanarkshire.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03Dozens of former residents at the Smyllum Park orphanage claim
0:26:03 > 0:26:05they were attacked by nuns between the 1940s and 1970s.
0:26:05 > 0:26:10From Edinburgh, our correspondent Michael Buchanan reports.
0:26:10 > 0:26:15Former residents say a culture of evil existed at Smyllum,
0:26:15 > 0:26:19a children's home in Lanark run by the Daughters of Charity.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Dozens of people who lived here have alleged they were abused.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26A BBC investigation last year also suggested around 400 children
0:26:26 > 0:26:28from Smyllum are buried in this nearby cemetery
0:26:28 > 0:26:30in an unmarked grave.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Theresa McGrane, who lived in the home in the 1960s and 1970s,
0:26:33 > 0:26:36says she was sexually assaulted by a priest then punished by a nun
0:26:36 > 0:26:38who discovered the abuse.
0:26:38 > 0:26:43She finds the refusal to admit what happened ridiculous.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45People have been battered, people have been, like myself,
0:26:45 > 0:26:47flung into a wall.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49It is just like this red thread going through
0:26:49 > 0:26:51everyone's explanations.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53They have been physically, grossly abused.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56REPORTER:Do you accept the abuse took place?
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Today the current head of the Daughters of Charity came
0:26:59 > 0:27:02to Edinburgh to give some answers.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04In evidence to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry,
0:27:04 > 0:27:08Sister Ellen Flynn offered a sincere apology.
0:27:08 > 0:27:16She said through tears...
0:27:19 > 0:27:23But she refused to admit abuse had taken place.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25The nuns did admit
0:27:25 > 0:27:28to failing to investigate more than 100 allegations
0:27:28 > 0:27:34of abuse made in the 1990s against staff at Smyllum.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Eddie McColl, who says he was beaten by nuns in the 1950s,
0:27:37 > 0:27:38was appalled by today's evidence.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41It is always "if" this happened and "if" that happened.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44It is not "if," it did happen, and they are just...
0:27:44 > 0:27:46They're in denial.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Today's evidence will be of little comfort to the former residents
0:27:48 > 0:27:50who say they were abused at Smyllum.
0:27:50 > 0:27:55Some were hoping for an apology, an acknowledgement of what had
0:27:55 > 0:27:57happened, and the nuns' unwillingness to do that will merely
0:27:57 > 0:28:01infuriate them further.
0:28:01 > 0:28:07The nuns could give few details of how many children from Smyllum re
0:28:07 > 0:28:09buried in the unmarked grave.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11They said an expert was working with them to identify each body.
0:28:11 > 0:28:18Michael Buchanan, BBC News, Edinburgh.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20Mark E Smith, the singer and songwriter who founded
0:28:20 > 0:28:23The Fall, has died aged 60.
0:28:23 > 0:28:24He was the driving force behind the band
0:28:24 > 0:28:26and the only constant member for four decades.
0:28:26 > 0:28:30# Hit the North!
0:28:30 > 0:28:34# Hit the North!
0:28:34 > 0:28:37# 95% of hayseeds (Hit the North!) are corn-pones, guaranteed
0:28:37 > 0:28:45# Hit the North.#
0:28:45 > 0:28:51Mark E Smith who died today.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54The former Labour Cabinet Minister Baroness Tessa Jowell will lead
0:28:54 > 0:28:58a debate in the House of Lords tomorrow arguing that people
0:28:58 > 0:29:00should be given the chance to pursue all options
0:29:00 > 0:29:01to try to beat their cancer.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04She's given her first interview since she was diagnosed last May
0:29:04 > 0:29:09with a severe form of brain cancer.
0:29:09 > 0:29:13Passion, determination, a sense of mission,
0:29:13 > 0:29:16that is what Tessa Jowell displayed as the minister who helped bring
0:29:16 > 0:29:19the Olympics to London.
0:29:19 > 0:29:24Now she is showing all that and more as she speaks publicly for the first
0:29:24 > 0:29:27time about the brain tumour she discovered she had last May.
0:29:27 > 0:29:34It came with absolutely no expectation.
0:29:34 > 0:29:41No warning?
0:29:41 > 0:29:44Absolutely none at all, I did not have a single apparent symptom.
0:29:44 > 0:29:46Her symptoms now include a struggle to find words
0:29:46 > 0:29:47which used to come so easily.
0:29:47 > 0:29:53Anyone who has had cancer knows that particularly
0:29:53 > 0:29:56for people like you, and maybe for me, the hardest
0:29:56 > 0:30:02thing is to get used to not being in control.
0:30:02 > 0:30:08I don't think I immediately leapt to the inevitability of cancer.
0:30:08 > 0:30:16I think that to begin with I felt that I would have this tumour,
0:30:16 > 0:30:24that it would be operated on, and that would be it.
0:30:25 > 0:30:29It is actually much harder now, because now my life is day by day
0:30:29 > 0:30:36affected by this tumour.
0:30:36 > 0:30:43And affected by the uncertainty of what my cancer
0:30:43 > 0:30:49is actually going to mean.
0:30:49 > 0:30:51I can feel your frustration because there are words
0:30:51 > 0:30:59occasionally that do not come.
0:30:59 > 0:31:01That is the tumour, sadly doing its work.
0:31:01 > 0:31:03The tumour bloody well does this to you.
0:31:03 > 0:31:04But Tessa Jowell is not asking for sympathy,
0:31:04 > 0:31:07she is demanding change, change to allow cancer
0:31:07 > 0:31:12patients to switch from one drug trial to the next,
0:31:12 > 0:31:17rather than having to wait months when months may be all they have.
0:31:17 > 0:31:22There is no point in having another six months of waiting for that trial
0:31:22 > 0:31:25because it is not going to have any effect, so let's go
0:31:25 > 0:31:27onto the next one.
0:31:27 > 0:31:30So a patient might say, I'm willing to take the risk,
0:31:30 > 0:31:33I am willing to try one, two, three things whatever
0:31:33 > 0:31:35the side effects?
0:31:35 > 0:31:43That is exactly the kind of risk patients should be free to take.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46People listening to you will be thinking, why don't you curl up
0:31:46 > 0:31:49on the sofa, be with your family and friends and look after yourself.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51Absolutely impossible.
0:31:51 > 0:31:57I have so much love.
0:31:57 > 0:32:05It is the most extraordinary, blessed and...
0:32:05 > 0:32:08..and re-creating sense.
0:32:08 > 0:32:11I've been lucky enough to read the speech you will give
0:32:11 > 0:32:15to the House of Lords, and you end with some
0:32:15 > 0:32:17words from Seamus Heaney the poet and you mean it.
0:32:17 > 0:32:18"I am not afraid."
0:32:18 > 0:32:24I am not afraid.
0:32:24 > 0:32:29I feel very clear about my sense of purpose and what I want to do
0:32:29 > 0:32:33and how do I know how long it is going to last?
0:32:33 > 0:32:35I am certainly going to do everything I can to make
0:32:35 > 0:32:39it a very long time.
0:32:39 > 0:32:51Tessa Jowell talking to Nick Robinson.