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Police are questioning the parents of a five-year-old boy | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
with a brain tumour, taken from a hospital in Southampton to Spain. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Ashya King's father has defended his family's actions, | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
saying he can't understand why the police ever got involved. | :00:16. | :00:26. | |
His face is all over the Internet and newspapers this morning. We have | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
been labelled kidnappers. The government is proposing a ban | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
on British citizens suspected of fighting for Islamic State, | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
preventing them As the fighting continues | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
in Ukraine, President Putin says he wants talks on an independent state | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
for pro-Russians in the east. And why shoppers are rushing to bag | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
high-powered vacuum cleaners, Officers in Spain are questioning | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
the parents of the five-year-old boy with a brain tumour, | :00:54. | :01:20. | |
who was taken from hospital in Brett and Naghemeh King were | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
arrested in Malaga last night and are due in court tomorrow | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
facing extradition proceedings. Today, Hampshire Police defended | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
their decision to launch Let's go live now to Malaga | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
and our correspondent there, Tom Burridge, who's outside the hospital | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
where Ashya's being treated. Good evening. Hampshire Police have | :01:41. | :01:54. | |
confirmed today that Ashya King has been moved from high to low | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
dependency at Malaga's main Children's Hospital. He was moved | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
here late last night. Although it is important to keep stressing that his | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
parents did nothing wrong, all that is the suggestion at least, when | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
they removed him from hospital in Hampshire on Thursday, they were | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
arrested late last night in a hotel not far from Malaga. | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
After a long journey, all the way from Hampshire, this is the hotel | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
near Malaga where Ashya King's parents checked in with their seven | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
children yesterday afternoon. This woman was working on reception and | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
recognised their car after reading about the search on a Spanish | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
website. She alerted the police. TRANSLATION: They did not seem | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
surprised to see the police. They were calm, who operative and just | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
worried about their son. Ashya King is seriously ill with a brain tumour | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
and was taken in a ambulance to Malaga's main Children's Hospital | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
where he is now being treated. Last night, his parents were arrested by | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Spanish police. They are being held at a police station in the region. A | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
police source told me they were arrested on suspicion of | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
maltreatment of a child. It is an allegation they strongly denied. | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
Before his arrest, Ashya King's father released this YouTube video, | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
insisting they were taking good care of their son. We were most disturbed | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
today to find that his face is all over the Internet and newspapers, | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
and we have been labelled as kidnappers. There has been a lot of | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
talk about this machine. As you can see, it is all plugged in. We have | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
got loads of these feeds, here. There is nothing to suggest that his | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
parents broke the law when they removed their son from the hospital | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
in Hampshire. Southampton General Hospital says it is delighted that | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
he has now been found. There has been significant debate about the | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
appropriateness of police involvement in the case. Today, | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Hampshire Police defended their actions. Medical experts were | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
telling us that if he did not get the care he needed, there was a | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
potential threat to his life. Faced with those circumstances, I make no | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
apology for the police being as proactive as we possibly could be, | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
to find him and ensure he gets the help he needs. Ashya King's parents | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
say they removed him from hospital so he could have a treatment called | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
proton beam therapy. The complex and sensitive nature of this young | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
boy's story, and that of his family, means it is hard to predict what | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
will happen next but everyone shares one priority: The health of the | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
young boy. So as we've heard, Ashya's parents | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
want a special treatment for his It's not currently available | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
in the UK but in some circumstances, the NHS pays | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
for children to be treated abroad. Jon Brain has been finding | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
out what it involves. Behind the raw emotion of a | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
desperate family's fights to help their critically ill son is a | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
dispute over medical practice. We asked the NHS. Ashya King's father | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
believes his team should be treated with something called proton beam | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
therapy. It is so much better for children with cancer. It zones in on | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
the area, whereby normal radiation passes right through his head, and | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
comes out the other side, destroys everything in his head. So what | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
exactly is proton beam therapy? In conventional radiotherapy, cancer | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
cells are bombarded with high-energy x-rays in a bid to destroy them. | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Proton beams there are people direct the radiation precisely to where it | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
is needed, with minimal damage to surrounding tissue. This makes it | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
particularly suitable for some complex childhood cancers. Morgan | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
were sent to the US for proton beam treatment for his tumour. His mother | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
can sympathise with the family. I understand totally where they are | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
coming from. You have to do everything in your power to make | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
your child right, and you would do anything. The NHS does pay to send | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
people aboard the treatment -- abroad for the treatment. Last | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
year, 143 cases were considered, and 122 approved, of whom 99 were | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
children. It costs around ?100,000 per patient. But medical experts say | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
it is by no means suitable for everyone. The efficacy in many brain | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
tumours has not improved at all. It is not widely regarded as the best | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
treatment for many tumours. It appears that the doctors treating | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Ashya felt that in his case, conventional treatment in the UK | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
would give this little boy the best chance of making a recovery. | :06:48. | :06:59. | |
Ashya's parents are due to appear at an extradition hearing in Madrid | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
early tomorrow morning. Hampshire Police officers are in Malaga. And | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
the British Embassy is involved. At this stage, it is still unclear what | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
will happen to Ashya, in a stable condition in hospital behind me, and | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
his six siblings who I believe are still in Malaga. It could depend to | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
a large extent on what happens at the extradition hearing for his | :07:21. | :07:21. | |
parents in Madrid tomorrow morning. The BBC understands the government | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
is planning to introduce temporary bans on UK-born jihadists in Iraq | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
and Syria returning to the UK. The government had been | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
considering ways to remove citizenship from those suspected of | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
being involved in terrorist acts. Our political correspondent | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Vicki Young is at Westminster. The government has been wrestling | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
with what to do about British jihadis. Why have they settled on | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
what is effectively a travel ban on them coming home? Speaking to those | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
who have been working on this, they don't want to announce a raft of | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
measures and then watch them slowly unravel in the courts over the | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
coming weeks and months as has happened in the past. There are | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
several areas they are looking at, one is prevention, beefing up | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
community programmes to try to stop young was in when wanting to fight | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
in these conflicts in the first place. -- young Muslim men. Taking | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
passports to stop them travelling abroad and this controversial idea | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
of stopping them coming home. People are already questioning whether that | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
would be legal. Another potential sticking point is the surveillance | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
of suspected terrorists. These kind of measures have been watered down | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
in the past and David Cameron is under great pressure to toughen the | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
rules again but there is no doubt when MPs return tomorrow and listen | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
to what he has to say after the summer break, they will once again | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
be agonising over the threat from home-grown terrorists. Thank you for | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
joining us. In Iraq, government forces are | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
reported to have entered the town of Amerli, which had been under | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
siege by Islamic State extremists. The US carried out limited air | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
strikes in the area against the militants, and now aid | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
supplies have been dropped in. Our Middle East correspondent, | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
Jim Muir, is in northern Iraq now. You have been close to where the | :09:03. | :09:12. | |
fighting has been taking place. What did you see? A lot of militia men, | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
Shia militia men, mainly, and also Kurdish forces, who has been taking | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
part in the operation, mainly by bombarding and shooting at nearby | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
Islamic State positions. And of course, there was celebration | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
pushing up from the South, south-east and south-west, had | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
broken in. Those are Iraqi army forces, backed by Shia militia. They | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
seem to be the main force on the ground. The way for this was | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
prepared by American air strikes. It is the first time the Americans have | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
used their airpower slightly indirectly, in support of manoeuvres | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
on the ground by the Iraqi army and Sheila militia, some of whom were | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
involved in fighting the Americans in their last two years of the | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
occupation. -- Shia militia. It is kind of an ironic situation but the | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
air strikes, according to those on the ground, made a big difference, | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
combined with airdrops of emergency supplies to the thousands of people | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
trapped in the town. The siege has now been, mercifully for them, | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
broken. Thank you for joining us. Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
says any agreement to end the conflict | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
in Ukraine must include discussions on the creation of a separate state | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
for pro-Russians in the east. His comments came after European | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
leaders threatened to impose more sanctions, if the Kremlin doesn't | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
change its cross-border policy. Here's our diplomatic correspondent, | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Paul Adams. Heavy government shelling of the | :10:40. | :10:53. | |
rebel held town close to done yet. For months, this whole area has seen | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
the worst of the fighting. -- close to Donetsk. Further south, off the | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
coast at Marriott poll, a first, a gifted Ukrainian Coast Guard vessel | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
under rebel attack, another ominous sign of a conflict apparently | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
spreading. In Brussels last night, a warning to Russia from European | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
leaders: "Withdraw your forces immediately or face new 's actions | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
within a week. " It is a deeply serious situation and we have to | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
show real resolve and resilience in demonstrating to Russia that if she | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
carries on in this way, the relation ship between Europe and Russia, | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Britain and Russia, America and Russia, will be radically different | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
in the future. For more than five months, the West has been applying | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
mounting economic pressure on Russia. In March, the EU and US | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
imposed these bands and asset freezes on officials involved in | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Crimea's referendum. The following month, Washington targeted President | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
Putin's in a circle, oligarchs and the ruling elite. In late July, | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
another major step, European and American sanctions against Russia's | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
oil and defence sectors, as well as other sensitive technologies. Russia | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
retaliated, banning most food imports from the US and EU. Faced | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
with the latest threats, President Putin seems to have issued and | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
alarming new demand of his own. TRANSLATION: We need to have | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
immediate and meaningful talks, not just about the technical issues but | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
also on issues of political organisation and statehood in | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
southeastern Ukraine. People are realising he is not stopping. They | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
thought they could possibly rationalise the Crimea annexation. | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
This was something in Russian history, an obvious point. But now | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
there has been a blatant invasion of eastern Ukraine, and talk of | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
statehood there. Where does it go next? Will the annex more of | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
Ukraine? Will he cast his eyes on EU and NATO members like the Baltic | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
states? Anything is possible. Overnight, Ukraine and Russia swap | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
prisoners in a rare moment of corporation amidst a worsening | :12:59. | :12:59. | |
crisis. -- cooperation. Now, do you care how powerful | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
your vacuum cleaner is? It seems plenty of people do, | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
after a rush to buy more powerful models ahead of a new European ban | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
coming into force tomorrow. It's all part of attempts to reduce | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
carbon emissions, No one likes doing the housework, so | :13:13. | :13:23. | |
the quicker it can be done, the better. But soon, it might take a | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
bit longer as a new cap on the amount of energy vacuum cleaners can | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
use comes into force. From Monday, no vacuum cleaner in Europe can be | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
made or imported which consumes more than 1600 watts will stop that is | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
around 11% less than the average device sold in Britain. All new | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
devices must have a clear label rating its ability to pick up dust, | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
energy efficiency and noise level. Wholesalers and retailers still have | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
some time to tell their -- to sell their existing stock. The reduction | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
in CO2 emissions was agreed by all the countries in the EU. This is not | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
one of those cases where the EU is meddling in the British consumer's | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
affairs. But many consumers are not taking the chance. Sales have spiked | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
by almost 50% in some stores and certain brands have sold out | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
entirely. These Rotherham shoppers certainly felt the need to buy | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
today. He has got allergies. I just thought it was the best thing to do, | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
go out and get one before it comes in. It is a bit daft, really. To be | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
honest, if somebody wants a stronger hoover, it is up to them to use more | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
electric. This cap on the wattage used by vacuum cleaners may not be | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
the end of it. And EU wide study is underway to find other devices which | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
may need to be capped, like electric lawn mowers, kettles and even | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
electric hairdryers. Some people are hot under the collar about it. It is | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
absolutely ludicrous. If you are reducing the power, it takes longer, | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
so the client is unhappy but if you reduce the power, you hold it for | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
longer, which means they use as much energy anyway. But the cap might be | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
a long way off. In the meantime, households may have do suck it and | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
see if they can live with less powerful devices, especially before | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
2017, when the motor in the banking cleaners must be less than 900 | :15:17. | :15:17. | |
watts. -- in the vacuum cleaners. | :15:18. | :15:23. |