:00:00. > :00:24.The Queen leads tributes to those killed in conflict.
:00:25. > :00:28.Thousands of veterans were among those gathered in London,
:00:29. > :00:30.as Remembrance Sunday was commemorated across the UK Also
:00:31. > :00:37.A row erupts between the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn
:00:38. > :00:41.and the Head of the Armed Forces over Britain's nuclear deterrent.
:00:42. > :00:44.Mourning the victims of the Russian plane downed in Egypt
:00:45. > :00:48.as an investigator says a bomb was almost certainly to blame.
:00:49. > :00:51.And the remarkable story of one Afghanistan war veteran who
:00:52. > :01:16.The Queen has led the nation's tributes to service personnel killed
:01:17. > :01:21.in conflict, laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in London this morning.
:01:22. > :01:24.She was joined by politicians, and thousands of veterans and members of
:01:25. > :01:28.the armed forces, as the traditional minute's silence was observed.
:01:29. > :01:31.The ceremony was one of many held across the UK on this Remembrance
:01:32. > :01:41.Sunday, as our Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports.
:01:42. > :01:46.It is a day when differences are put to one side as the nation pauses to
:01:47. > :01:53.remember those who gave their lives in war. Making his first appearance
:01:54. > :01:58.at the Cenotaph and getting a guiding hand from the Prime Minister
:01:59. > :02:02.on where to stand, the Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, in a dark
:02:03. > :02:08.jacket and tie and a red poppy in his lapel. No one has more
:02:09. > :02:13.experience of these occasions than the Queen. It is 70 years since she
:02:14. > :02:18.attended her first Remembrance Day in 1945. Then, she was a 19-year-old
:02:19. > :02:23.princess. Now she approaches the age of 90.
:02:24. > :02:31.At the stroke of 11 a.m., a field gun signalled the start of the two
:02:32. > :03:06.minutes' silence observed in Whitehall and around the nation.
:03:07. > :03:11.At The Cenotaph, the Queen placed a wreath on behalf of the united
:03:12. > :03:17.kingdom and countries of the Commonwealth. For the first time,
:03:18. > :03:21.some members of the Royal family laid their wreaths in groups to
:03:22. > :03:25.shorten the time that the Queen and world World War II veterans had to
:03:26. > :03:29.stand at the Cenotaph, so Princes William, Harry and Andrew stepped
:03:30. > :03:32.forward together. The Prime Minister stepped forward to place a wreath on
:03:33. > :03:36.behalf of the government, then it was the turn of Mr Corbyn. There had
:03:37. > :03:43.been a plan for opposition party leaders to lay the reads as a group,
:03:44. > :03:45.but it had to be shelved. After the wreath laying, a short service and
:03:46. > :03:49.the singing of the national anthem in which all of the party leaders
:03:50. > :03:58.joined, some with perhaps more confidence than others. After the
:03:59. > :04:02.politicians had gone, past the Cenotaph came the veterans, turned
:04:03. > :04:13.out in their best to show respect for those who never came home.
:04:14. > :04:18.The head of the Armed Forces says Jeremy Corbyn will undermine that
:04:19. > :04:22.the deterrent value of nuclear weapons by saying he would never use
:04:23. > :04:26.them. Nicholas Houghton's commenters were sparked -- sparked an angry
:04:27. > :04:34.response from Jeremy Corbyn. How serious is this, Carol? It is quite
:04:35. > :04:37.a row and it is very rare for the senior military leader in the
:04:38. > :04:41.country to get involved in political controversy. Jeremy Corbyn is not
:04:42. > :04:45.only opposed to the Trident nuclear weapons system he also said he would
:04:46. > :04:49.never press the button, and general Nicholas Houghton said he was
:04:50. > :04:52.worried if someone was in power with such views as it would completely
:04:53. > :04:57.undermine the British nuclear deterrent. The whole thing about
:04:58. > :05:02.deterrence rests on the credibility of its use. When people say you are
:05:03. > :05:06.never going to use the deterrent, I say you use the deterrent every
:05:07. > :05:10.second of every minute of every day, and the purpose of the deterrent is
:05:11. > :05:15.that you don't have to use it because you successfully deter. This
:05:16. > :05:19.is a difficult issue of the Jeremy Corbyn and he is out of step with
:05:20. > :05:24.his party's current policy on the issue, but he has reacted very
:05:25. > :05:26.strongly, saying that there is a breach of constitutional principle
:05:27. > :05:31.here, which is that the military should always remain neutral. He has
:05:32. > :05:35.written to the Defence Secretary about it and you now have a very
:05:36. > :05:37.public spat between the leader of the British Armed Forces and the
:05:38. > :05:42.Leader of the Opposition on Remembrance Sunday.
:05:43. > :05:45.One of the investigators working to determine the cause of the Russian
:05:46. > :05:47.plane crash in Egypt says he is 90% certain it
:05:48. > :05:51.The Egyptian government says it is still too early to know
:05:52. > :05:55.Here, the Foreign Secretary has said that if a bomb is proven there will
:05:56. > :05:59.need to be rethink of airport security in parts of the world where
:06:00. > :06:11.Our Middle East Correspondent Orla Guerin reports.
:06:12. > :06:18.Taking off today, images filmed from a distance. The airport authorities
:06:19. > :06:21.will not allow our cameras inside but there are growing questions
:06:22. > :06:24.about security in the terminals and on the runway before the departure
:06:25. > :06:31.of the Russian jet which fell from the skies. Egyptian investigators
:06:32. > :06:35.are looking at airport staff who had access to the plane including
:06:36. > :06:38.baggage handlers. They were supposed to be monitored by closed-circuit
:06:39. > :06:42.television, but according to one report, those screens were often
:06:43. > :06:49.abandoned, and many cameras inside the airport were broken. We filmed
:06:50. > :06:53.at this security screening on Friday when staff were being vigilant. But
:06:54. > :06:59.the Foreign Secretary has told the BBC that if the so-called Islamic
:07:00. > :07:03.State did bring down the plane there are implications across the Middle
:07:04. > :07:10.East. If this turns out to be a device planted by an Isil operative
:07:11. > :07:15.or somebody inspired by Isil we will have to look again at the level of
:07:16. > :07:20.security we expect to see in airports in areas where Isil is
:07:21. > :07:24.active. Tighter security measures means thousands of passengers are
:07:25. > :07:30.still grounded here. Some got briefed by easyJet today. If you are
:07:31. > :07:34.going to say you are on the flight the next morning, phone to confirm.
:07:35. > :07:39.The tourist filming the picture says it was their first sighting of a
:07:40. > :07:43.representative in five days. These couples from Suffolk were due to
:07:44. > :07:48.leave last Thursday. When we met this morning, they were still
:07:49. > :07:53.waiting to hear from easyJet. Just get in touch with us and tell us
:07:54. > :07:57.what's going on. Rather than just leave you dangling. Oh, well, you
:07:58. > :08:04.are all right, you are in a 5-star hotel, sit back and relax. But that
:08:05. > :08:08.is exactly what some British tourists here are doing. Relishing
:08:09. > :08:13.their time in the sun and the swimming pool. Brenda and Kevin
:08:14. > :08:19.Davies, who were supposed to go next Thursday, say they will definitely
:08:20. > :08:22.be back. It has been fantastic. Sharm el-Sheikh is wonderful and the
:08:23. > :08:28.people are brilliant, they are friendly, helpful. It's been
:08:29. > :08:31.absolutely great. The authorities here are hoping that these are the
:08:32. > :08:33.kind of images that visitors will take away, but tourism could be
:08:34. > :08:38.another casualty of the crash. Memorial services have been held
:08:39. > :08:40.today in St Petersburg, Moscow and other Russian cities
:08:41. > :08:43.for the victims of the crash. In St Petersburg, the bells of
:08:44. > :08:46.St Isaac's Cathedral tolled 224 Steve Rosenberg sent this
:08:47. > :09:14.report from St Petersburg. In Saint Petersburg today they
:09:15. > :09:20.stopped and they listen. The bell rang out 224 times, for each victim
:09:21. > :09:24.of the plane crash. Inside Saint Isaacs Church there were prayers for
:09:25. > :09:30.the dead. People here are struggling to come to terms with what happened.
:09:31. > :09:35.They are frightened of what happens next. It is not only the scale of
:09:36. > :09:38.the disaster which has shocked people in St Petersburg and across
:09:39. > :09:42.Russia, it is the growing suggestion that it might well have been a bomb
:09:43. > :09:46.that blew a plane with Russian holiday-makers out of the sky. The
:09:47. > :09:52.Kremlin had claimed its air strikes at Syria would make Russians safer
:09:53. > :09:55.at home by neutralising the threat from international terrorism. So if
:09:56. > :10:02.it was a bomb that destroyed the Airbus, will Russians feel let down
:10:03. > :10:05.by their government? At St Petersburg airport, at the makeshift
:10:06. > :10:09.shrine to the victims of the crash, the people we spoke to still
:10:10. > :10:18.supported Russia's operation in Syria. If you take on evil there is
:10:19. > :10:24.always the chance it will hit you back. Act like a coward and it will
:10:25. > :10:28.teach you even more. Russians are not blaming their leaders for this
:10:29. > :10:33.disaster, but they are numb with grief. Steve Rosenberg, BBC News, St
:10:34. > :10:39.Petersburg. The head of athletics' world
:10:40. > :10:41.governing body, Lord Coe, has said he's shocked and angry
:10:42. > :10:43.after allegations about bribery One of the authors of a report,
:10:44. > :10:47.due to be published tomorrow, has said it will expose "a whole
:10:48. > :10:50.different scale of corruption". Here's our Sports News
:10:51. > :10:59.Correspondent, Richard Conway. The fight against doping is a
:11:00. > :11:03.constant challenge for athletics, but it must now face up to
:11:04. > :11:06.allegations of a cover-up involving individuals who were, until
:11:07. > :11:14.recently, at the very top of the sport. The president of the IAAF
:11:15. > :11:17.stepped aside in August and is now the subject of a French criminal
:11:18. > :11:22.investigation over claims he took bribes that enabled Russian athletes
:11:23. > :11:26.to continue competing after failing drugs tests. The man who replaced
:11:27. > :11:31.him, Lord Coe, is aware of the scale of the problem. These are dark days
:11:32. > :11:36.for our sport, but I'm more determined than ever to rebuild the
:11:37. > :11:40.trust in our sport. It's not going to be a short journey, and I'm
:11:41. > :11:44.determined to rebuild and repair the sport with my council colleagues,
:11:45. > :11:51.but this is a long road to redemption. Things may be about to
:11:52. > :11:53.get a lot worse though. Tomorrow a World Anti-Doping Agency
:11:54. > :11:57.investigation into the claims will be revealed, and one of the waters
:11:58. > :12:00.has described the findings as a real game changer for sport. It will
:12:01. > :12:07.outline how in addition to the Kremlin enquiries on's have also
:12:08. > :12:14.charged the former President's on, the former head of the anti-did
:12:15. > :12:19.hoping apartment is also under investigation -- anti-doping. As is
:12:20. > :12:24.the former president of the all Russia athletics Association, along
:12:25. > :12:26.with one of the country's leading long-distance coaches. Lord Coe is
:12:27. > :12:30.likely to come under increasing scrutiny after making a strong
:12:31. > :12:35.defence over the affect of anti-doping procedures earlier this
:12:36. > :12:39.year. As the newly installed head of world athletics he must deliver on
:12:40. > :12:41.his election pledges and tackle the worst crisis in the history of the
:12:42. > :12:43.sport. Richard Conway, BBC News. Polls have closed in Myanmar -
:12:44. > :12:46.also known as Burma - in an election which could end over
:12:47. > :12:48.50 years of military-backed rule. The opposition National League
:12:49. > :12:50.for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, is expected to win
:12:51. > :12:54.most of the seats in parliament. Our special correspondent, Fergal
:12:55. > :13:10.Keane has sent this report from At dawn, freedom and beckoned.
:13:11. > :13:16.Literally a minute before they open the gates. What does it feel like to
:13:17. > :13:22.be voting? Very happy. A government official in his first election. To
:13:23. > :13:29.those who remember when the streets were filled with fear, this patient
:13:30. > :13:34.progress was a revelation. Generations who doubted they would
:13:35. > :13:38.ever see this day join to those who hoped their children will inherit a
:13:39. > :13:44.democratic nation. How does it feel to have voted? Exciting. So
:13:45. > :13:51.exciting. You feel real changes coming? Yes, I believe. This has
:13:52. > :13:55.come about through non-violent struggle, something exceptional in a
:13:56. > :14:00.world beset by conflict. That is because this woman, pro-democracy
:14:01. > :14:03.leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, always refused to countenance violence.
:14:04. > :14:08.During decades of brutal military repression. Our camera caught the
:14:09. > :14:18.moment when she voted. But to form a government her party
:14:19. > :14:24.needs a landslide to counter the built-in advantage enjoyed by the
:14:25. > :14:28.military. Her opponent, the sitting president, is a former general and
:14:29. > :14:33.backed by the military who have one quarter of the seats reserved for
:14:34. > :14:36.them in Parliament. That is their insurance against losing influence
:14:37. > :14:41.as the country transforms under the eyes of the world. They are high
:14:42. > :14:44.stakes for the country, courage transition state they are in, and we
:14:45. > :14:48.cannot expect the elections to be perfect. It's the first time
:14:49. > :14:52.international observers have been invited to an election in Myanmar
:14:53. > :14:56.and we believe that in itself constitutes progress. Out in her raw
:14:57. > :15:01.constituency, Aung San Suu Kyi visited polling stations. Even she
:15:02. > :15:07.does win the landslide, the challenges are immense. Many of the
:15:08. > :15:10.Muslim country members are disenfranchised and grinding poverty
:15:11. > :15:13.a lot of the majority of the nations. As Aung San Suu Kyi
:15:14. > :15:18.continues to tour her constituencies, there is a sense of
:15:19. > :15:28.quiet expectation. After of human rights abuse, military rule, a great
:15:29. > :15:31.deal of hope rests on this moment. And that her party headquarters
:15:32. > :15:36.tonight, a constellation of the hopeful thousands. Now that the
:15:37. > :15:40.polls are closed the waiting will go on. By this time tomorrow, people
:15:41. > :15:42.here should know whether the election has delivered a dramatic
:15:43. > :15:45.change they hoped for. Let's return to our main story,
:15:46. > :15:48.and the ceremonies that took place Among those at the Cenotaph today
:15:49. > :15:54.was 25-year-old Shaun Stocker, who lost his sight and both of his
:15:55. > :16:14.legs while serving in Afghanistan. Step-by-step, Shaun Stocker is
:16:15. > :16:19.starting a new life. He became a veteran just three weeks ago,
:16:20. > :16:25.leaving the Army more than five years after the bomb blast that took
:16:26. > :16:30.both his legs and his site. Today was his first remembrance service
:16:31. > :16:33.using prosthetic limbs. I have only been able to come down once, and
:16:34. > :16:39.that was a couple of years ago, and that was in a wheelchair, so it's
:16:40. > :16:43.good to actually be able to walk. And this is the journey he has made
:16:44. > :16:51.after eight weeks in a coma and 40 operations. He had to learn to walk
:16:52. > :16:56.blind. The explosion happened just days before he was due to end his
:16:57. > :17:01.first tour of Afghanistan. I felt like I was in a dream. It took a few
:17:02. > :17:05.seconds for me to figure out what had happened. I could feel the guys
:17:06. > :17:08.putting the tourniquets on my legs and patching me up, so I knew
:17:09. > :17:13.something serious had gone on, but I didn't know what had happened to me
:17:14. > :17:17.until I heard somebody say on the radio that they had a double
:17:18. > :17:22.amputee. Being a 19-year-old lad, I didn't want to use a walking stick
:17:23. > :17:26.or a blind stick. His injuries changed everything, including his
:17:27. > :17:31.hopes of becoming a father. But surgeons froze some of his sperm,
:17:32. > :17:35.and earlier this year helped him and his fiancee conceived. Their baby is
:17:36. > :17:39.due on Christmas Day. He is very strong and he just keeps going. He
:17:40. > :17:44.has got stronger over the past few years, more confident. The walking
:17:45. > :17:47.is making him more confident. Having someone that loves you and spends
:17:48. > :17:53.all their time with you definitely helps. Determined that nothing will
:17:54. > :17:56.get in his way, his next challenge is to walk 100 kilometres, raising
:17:57. > :18:01.money for other blind veterans and helping those on the same path.
:18:02. > :18:05.There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel, we are back
:18:06. > :18:06.Now on BBC1 its time for the news where you are.