:00:00. > :00:00.A senior Conservative urges David Cameron to allow Cabinet
:00:00. > :00:12.ministers to campaign to leave the EU without having to resign.
:00:13. > :00:14.The former Defence Secretary Liam Fox says he's already decided
:00:15. > :00:21.We will all have to make up our minds, possibly
:00:22. > :00:25.For me it is now very clear what direction we should take
:00:26. > :00:29.But the former Prime Minister Sir John Major calls for the Cabinet
:00:30. > :00:35.Also tonight: Votes are counted in Spain after an election that saw
:00:36. > :00:37.the two main parties face an unprecedented challenge.
:00:38. > :00:41.The ruling Conservatives win the most votes, but lose their overall
:00:42. > :00:42.majority. The use of guns by police in England
:00:43. > :00:46.and Wales is to be reviewed to see if the law gives
:00:47. > :00:50.officers enough support. In Syria, we speak to
:00:51. > :00:53.the British Islamist who says he's prepared to die fighting both
:00:54. > :01:21.so-called Islamic State The BBC sports personality of the
:01:22. > :01:24.year for 2015 is the incomparable Andy Murray. I work as hard as I can
:01:25. > :01:26.every day to try and make you proud and I appreciate all the moat --
:01:27. > :01:40.votes. Thank you very much. The former Conservative Defence
:01:41. > :01:43.Secretary Liam Fox has urged David Cameron to allow Cabinet
:01:44. > :01:46.members to campaign for the UK to leave the European Union
:01:47. > :01:52.without having to resign. Dr Fox has confirmed
:01:53. > :01:54.he'll be voting to leave But the Prime Minister's approach
:01:55. > :01:59.to renegotiating Britain's EU membership received further support
:02:00. > :02:01.today from one of his predecessors, Our Political Correspondent
:02:02. > :02:09.Chris Mason reports. It's 43 years since Ted Heath signed
:02:10. > :02:13.us up to what is now the EU. In the next two years, we will be
:02:14. > :02:16.asked whether we want to stay. This former Prime Minister
:02:17. > :02:20.says we should. If we vote to stay out,
:02:21. > :02:23.then we are out and we will have to get on with it and
:02:24. > :02:26.face the consequences. David Cameron has been in Brussels
:02:27. > :02:38.trying to persuade fellow European leaders that the UK needs
:02:39. > :02:43.a new deal with the EU. He knows that back home some
:02:44. > :02:59.grumble, that they will say his What does the Prime Minister hoped
:03:00. > :03:02.to achieve from the renegotiation. He wants to protect the powers of
:03:03. > :03:08.Westminster and help businesses be more competitive by cutting
:03:09. > :03:16.regulations, and prevent -- protect countries that kept the Roman
:03:17. > :03:17.currencies and to stop migrants being claiming benefits. This is
:03:18. > :03:20.something John Major endorses. It isn't common sense to sweep
:03:21. > :03:23.into countries more people than we can provide
:03:24. > :03:25.for if they are sick, Some in the cabinet,
:03:26. > :03:29.like Iain Duncan Smith, are not
:03:30. > :03:31.exactly big fans of the EU. Today, a former Cabinet colleague
:03:32. > :03:35.said they should be able to keep their jobs and campaign
:03:36. > :03:41.to leave, just as he already is. For me, two things had to happen
:03:42. > :03:44.to want to stay in the EU. One was a fundamental
:03:45. > :03:46.change in our relationship with the European Union,
:03:47. > :03:49.but more importantly, a change in direction for the EU
:03:50. > :03:53.itself, away from the concept of an ever-closer union,
:03:54. > :03:56.and towards a much more independent and looser association
:03:57. > :04:01.of sovereign states. At the last European referendum
:04:02. > :04:07.in 1975, Labour Cabinet Ministers were allowed to campaign on both
:04:08. > :04:12.sides of the debate. David Cameron has so far avoided
:04:13. > :04:14.saying whether he will allow that Chris is in Westminster
:04:15. > :04:31.for us tonight. Is the Prime Minister going to be
:04:32. > :04:35.able to maintain the line he has kept? That is the big question.
:04:36. > :04:40.Whilst at the moment he can make the argument and keep a big tent
:04:41. > :04:43.approach around the Cabinet table over the EU, because the
:04:44. > :04:47.renegotiation is continuing and all of the cabinet can acknowledge that
:04:48. > :04:51.for the time being that is worth pursuing. Once the renegotiation is
:04:52. > :04:55.complete and the Prime Minister, as he hopes, can make the argument that
:04:56. > :05:00.we can stay in the EU, there is likely to be some around the Cabinet
:05:01. > :05:03.table who think exactly the opposite, and it's not just Liam Fox
:05:04. > :05:09.who is arguing that the Prime Minister should suspend Cabinet
:05:10. > :05:12.responsibility. Graham Brady also made that argument and said it would
:05:13. > :05:15.be morally right and catastrophically wrong to do the
:05:16. > :05:19.opposite. It gives you some sense of just how much is at stake for the
:05:20. > :05:22.Prime Minister in holding his party together on this. Chris, thank you.
:05:23. > :05:24.Votes were cast today in Spain's most fiercely contested general
:05:25. > :05:29.An anti-austerity party and a liberal party are challenging
:05:30. > :05:31.the dominance of Spain's two traditional political forces
:05:32. > :05:36.by fielding candidates across the country for the first time.
:05:37. > :05:45.conservative Popular Party means the governing,
:05:46. > :05:50.Has lost its overall majority despite getting the most votes.
:05:51. > :05:52.Our correspondent Tom Burridge sent this report from Madrid.
:05:53. > :05:56.A warning it contains flash photography.
:05:57. > :06:04.Can this man remain Prime Minister of Spain? He and his conservative
:06:05. > :06:08.popular party won the most votes, but the first time in three decades,
:06:09. > :06:12.new parties have broken through and his party fell well short of the
:06:13. > :06:18.majority of MPs it won four years ago. Since then, Spain has become a
:06:19. > :06:26.more competent country after the crisis. The economy is growing now,
:06:27. > :06:32.but unemployment is still 21% stop and in the eyes of many Spaniards,
:06:33. > :06:37.the incumbent government has been damaged by corruption. So people
:06:38. > :06:42.like Roberta, half American half Spanish, voted today for a new
:06:43. > :06:47.Liberal party promising a change. I think this is a watershed day in the
:06:48. > :06:55.young democracy of Spain. Now it needs to go up to the next level.
:06:56. > :06:58.Cleaner, more democratic more participation, more transparency. We
:06:59. > :07:02.have two new parties and it looks like they are to stay. Pablo
:07:03. > :07:11.Iglesias leads the other new political force. His message is that
:07:12. > :07:19.Spain has become more unequal country because of austerity has
:07:20. > :07:21.support. -- has galvanised support. Tonight, after their first general
:07:22. > :07:28.election, his supporters are celebrating. They are a new force
:07:29. > :07:36.here, and they have a message for European leaders who directed
:07:37. > :07:45.austerity in Spain. We are saying that we want to govern our own
:07:46. > :07:50.country, not to listen to Brussels. We know that we are lower
:07:51. > :07:56.economically than Brussels and Germany, but please listen to us.
:07:57. > :07:59.These people want Europe to listen and the politics of their government
:08:00. > :08:05.to change because so many Spaniards are worse off than they were four
:08:06. > :08:13.years ago. Tonight, the vote is split, and traditional parties here
:08:14. > :08:17.have been punished. The shell, the Prime Minister has, and said because
:08:18. > :08:20.his Popular Party got the most votes they should form the government, but
:08:21. > :08:24.on paper it will be difficult for them to do that which leaves open
:08:25. > :08:29.the possibility of a different type of coalition of left-wing parties,
:08:30. > :08:34.possibly with pro-independence Catalan parties and it would be
:08:35. > :08:37.messy, but it will include the anti-austerity movement who have
:08:38. > :08:40.risen to third in the election because of their anti-austerity
:08:41. > :08:45.ticket against the policies and lamented by this party and directed
:08:46. > :08:49.by Brussels. European leaders will be watching with interest and I.
:08:50. > :08:53.Don't think that any Spanish party is Eurosceptic in the British sense.
:08:54. > :08:56.But tonight people have voted against the way Europe has been run
:08:57. > :09:00.over the course of the last few years.
:09:01. > :09:03.David Cameron has ordered a review into the use of guns by police
:09:04. > :09:08.The move follows the Paris attacks and will look at whether the law
:09:09. > :09:09.gives enough support to officers having to make
:09:10. > :09:24.Paris has led to a rethink. It's similar attacks were to also happen
:09:25. > :09:27.here could our police protect us? The government wants more police
:09:28. > :09:32.firearms training like you can see here. But are the officers legally
:09:33. > :09:36.protected enough if they make a mistake? If an attack were to happen
:09:37. > :09:39.in a busy city centre like this one it would come down to split-second
:09:40. > :09:44.decisions. We understand that at the highest levels of the police there
:09:45. > :09:48.are serious concerns that firearms officers simply do not have the
:09:49. > :09:52.correct legal or political protection they would require if
:09:53. > :09:56.something were to go wrong. Here is the protection as it stands. The
:09:57. > :10:01.criminal Law act allows police to use reasonable force. The criminal
:10:02. > :10:04.Justice act recognises the defence that an officer had an honest and
:10:05. > :10:09.instinctive belief that opening fire was reasonable. The government
:10:10. > :10:13.presumably hopes that the review will persuade armed police that
:10:14. > :10:17.politicians are on their side, even if the law is not actually
:10:18. > :10:22.rewritten. One former Met police firearms officer says the threat has
:10:23. > :10:27.changed, as has the role of the police. The police are being pushed
:10:28. > :10:31.towards the military role. So you then have to be somewhat less
:10:32. > :10:34.delicate in your thinking and actions to enable them to do their
:10:35. > :10:39.job to help to keep this country safe. But some caution that this
:10:40. > :10:43.should not go too far. It's important to get the balance right.
:10:44. > :10:47.It's got to be democratically decided. But we can't just have
:10:48. > :10:51.shoot to kill without any kind of democratic involvement. These are
:10:52. > :10:58.not new concerns. On the London Underground in 2005 officers killed
:10:59. > :11:02.John Charles the Menez ez. Policing correctly suspected him of
:11:03. > :11:05.committing terrorist offences. -- the police incorrectly suspected
:11:06. > :11:13.him. In Paris they are clearing away the former floral tributes, but
:11:14. > :11:15.concerns over how the police should approach these attacks remains just
:11:16. > :11:17.as important as ever. Key to the government's strategy
:11:18. > :11:19.to defeat so-called Islamic State in Syria are what it refers
:11:20. > :11:21.to as 'moderate' rebels, which it claims number
:11:22. > :11:23.70,000 fighters. But the shifting alliances
:11:24. > :11:25.of Syria's war makes identifying The BBC has gained exclusive access
:11:26. > :11:30.to one British Islamist who is in Syria fighting, he says,
:11:31. > :11:32.against both President Assad and IS and prepared to carry out
:11:33. > :11:36.suicide attacks against them. Our correspondent Quentin
:11:37. > :11:52.Sommerville spoke to him Syria's war is moving closer.
:11:53. > :12:00.Already British fighters have taken up arms. This man is English, a
:12:01. > :12:04.Muslim convert, and he is fighting jihad. He calls himself a moderate
:12:05. > :12:10.and says it is time for Western help. As fighters, we are willing to
:12:11. > :12:16.cooperate with any other group that is going to help us against our
:12:17. > :12:24.primary enemies. Our primary enemies being Isis and Bashar al-Assad's
:12:25. > :12:28.army. He will not show his face and it is too dangerous for us to visit
:12:29. > :12:32.that part of Syria. We spoke via the Internet. He says Britain needs to
:12:33. > :12:40.embrace jihadists if the EIS group is to be defeated. What we need to
:12:41. > :12:47.look at is that in terms of the peshmerga or the Kurdish groups
:12:48. > :12:50.fighting against IS, there were British soldiers and American
:12:51. > :12:57.soldiers who are fighting against IS as well. I am doing the same thing.
:12:58. > :13:01.The army are not prepared to put on a suicide vest. They are not, but it
:13:02. > :13:06.comes down to the same goal. They are fighting to stop this group,
:13:07. > :13:10.Isis, and for example, if one of them got stuck in a situation where
:13:11. > :13:14.they were surrounded by the enemy, maybe they would take a grenade,
:13:15. > :13:19.open up the pin and blow himself up with the enemy. It is the same idea.
:13:20. > :13:24.We are coming down to the same goals. More than 700 Brits have come
:13:25. > :13:30.to Syria to fight with IS, but nobody knows how many have taken up
:13:31. > :13:36.arms with other groups. One of the things that nearly all the foreign
:13:37. > :13:42.fighters who come here to Cherie share -- to Syria share is that they
:13:43. > :13:46.all say they experience something that changes them. They fight and
:13:47. > :13:50.they kill, so how could it not? But what of the change do they bring
:13:51. > :13:54.back home? Just how different are they less Chamakh if there are
:13:55. > :13:59.70,000 moderate fighters here, they would be difficult to identify in
:14:00. > :14:03.the wreckage of Syria, and the British security services warn that
:14:04. > :14:08.friends on the battlefield could still be enemies at home. Britain
:14:09. > :14:12.has joined an alliance of convenience here to destroy IS, but
:14:13. > :14:14.in the fast moving allegiances of this war, those shared aims will be
:14:15. > :14:18.unlikely to hold for long. Dozens of people are reported
:14:19. > :14:21.to have been killed in an air attack on the rebel-held city of Idlib
:14:22. > :14:24.in north west Syria, with some residents
:14:25. > :14:26.blaming Russian planes. Rescue workers have been quoted
:14:27. > :14:29.as saying that 43 people were known Russia has not confirmed whether it
:14:30. > :14:36.carried out strikes in the area. An emergency landing
:14:37. > :14:39.by an Air France plane in Kenya was caused by a false bomb alert,
:14:40. > :14:42.according to the airline's chief. The incident is the fourth false
:14:43. > :14:45.alarm the airline has had Our Paris Correspondent
:14:46. > :14:52.Lucy Williamson reports. Just days before Christmas,
:14:53. > :14:55.a reminder of just how suddenly Found in a toilet on board this
:14:56. > :15:01.plane, a suspected bomb. It turned out to be a false alarm,
:15:02. > :15:03.the device fashioned from a cardboard box
:15:04. > :15:07.and a kitchen timer, but the fears it caused were enough
:15:08. > :15:11.to divert the flight to Kenya The 459 passengers on board
:15:12. > :15:18.reportedly unaware of what was going on until their feet
:15:19. > :15:22.touched the ground. The plane went down, slowly, slowly,
:15:23. > :15:25.so we just realised something The people of Air France
:15:26. > :15:32.were just wonderful. They kept everybody
:15:33. > :15:34.calm and really quiet. A replacement flight is expected
:15:35. > :15:40.to bring the passengers back Several of them have reportedly been
:15:41. > :15:45.questioned by police. At a press conference in Paris,
:15:46. > :15:49.the Air France CEO described TRANSLATION: We are still waiting
:15:50. > :15:56.to hear more about the legal implications from the Kenyan
:15:57. > :16:12.authorities, and we are going to ask Ever since the November attacks,
:16:13. > :16:15.extra security forces have patrolled airports, train stations and even
:16:16. > :16:19.Christmas markets. This latest incident turned out to be a false
:16:20. > :16:24.alarm, but here in Paris tonight it only reminds people of the very real
:16:25. > :16:25.threats levelled against their country. Lucy Williamson, BBC News,
:16:26. > :16:30.Paris. Alleged victims of child sexual
:16:31. > :16:32.abuse by the former Labour MP, Lord Janner, have reacted angrily
:16:33. > :16:35.to the news their testimony will no Lord Janner's death at the age of 87
:16:36. > :16:39.yesterday means what's known as a "trial of the facts"
:16:40. > :16:41.can't now take place. But it's expected the independent
:16:42. > :16:44.inquiry into child sexual abuse chaired by Justice Lowell Goddard
:16:45. > :16:46.will now consider the case. Here's our Home Affairs
:16:47. > :16:54.Correspondent, Tom Symonds. Well-respected in the Jewish
:16:55. > :16:56.community, and MP for 27 years, but if anything, the allegations
:16:57. > :17:04.of child sexual abuse were growing in the years before
:17:05. > :17:06.Lord Janner's death - claims that he sexually abused
:17:07. > :17:08.at least nine children Because of his worsening
:17:09. > :17:11.Alzheimer's disease, he made just one brief appearance
:17:12. > :17:15.in court in the summer. A judge this month decided he wasn't
:17:16. > :17:18.well enough to take part As a result, a jury wouldn't be able
:17:19. > :17:23.to pass judgment on him, but it was going to consider
:17:24. > :17:26.the facts of the case. His accusers do not know
:17:27. > :17:32.when their testimony will be heard. This man says Lord Janner abused him
:17:33. > :17:38.at a working man's club. I feel very let down
:17:39. > :17:40.because we cannot have our Now, people will say it could be it
:17:41. > :17:49.might not have happened. Another alleged victim wrote today,
:17:50. > :17:56."I have lived for nearly 50 years My only outlook was one day
:17:57. > :18:10.to drag him into court." There is one final opportunity for
:18:11. > :18:13.all of this to be fully examined. The Independent enquiry into child
:18:14. > :18:21.sexual abuse based in this central London tower block is, next year I
:18:22. > :18:24.understand, highly likely to add the Lord Janner allegations to its
:18:25. > :18:27.examinations of child abuse over there in Westminster. Lord Janner
:18:28. > :18:30.has always denied the allegations and his family do as well. Tom
:18:31. > :18:33.Symons, BBC News, central London. With all the sport, here's
:18:34. > :18:36.Karthi Gnanasegaram at the BBC Sport Andy Murray has won the BBC's
:18:37. > :18:47.Sports Personality of the Year Award That was after leading Great Britain
:18:48. > :18:51.to their first Davis Cup victory for 79 years. They also won the team of
:18:52. > :19:02.the year. There is flash photography in this report. The winner is the
:19:03. > :19:05.incomparable Andy Murray. Not for the first time, he was simply
:19:06. > :19:10.unbeatable. A standing ovation for Andy Murray has, for the second time
:19:11. > :19:15.in three years, he collected that famous trophy ahead of Kevin
:19:16. > :19:17.Sinfield and Jessica Ennis. Not bad, as he joked, Thirimanne whose
:19:18. > :19:25.personality has sometime been questioned. -- for a man. A friend
:19:26. > :19:29.sent me a message with an article from a newspaper which said that
:19:30. > :19:40.Andy Murray is duller than a weekend in Worthing. Which I thought was a
:19:41. > :19:44.bit harsh to Worthing. This year 's show has attracted the usual array
:19:45. > :19:47.of stars but also attracted controversy over the inclusion of
:19:48. > :19:53.one of British board's most polarising figures. Tyson Fury
:19:54. > :19:58.arrived to a flash of camera bulbs and outside a small group of
:19:59. > :20:02.protesters, angered by his recent comments about women and
:20:03. > :20:04.homosexuality. He finished fourth in the public vote after insisting in
:20:05. > :20:10.his interview that he had never meant to cause offence. I've said a
:20:11. > :20:15.lot of stuff in the past and none of it is with the intention is to hurt
:20:16. > :20:19.anybody, it's all very tongue in cheek and fun and games. I'm not a
:20:20. > :20:23.serious type of person. Everything is happy-go-lucky with Tyson Fury.
:20:24. > :20:26.If I've said anything in the past that has hurt anybody, I apologise
:20:27. > :20:31.to anyone who has been hurt. It's not my intention to do that. One of
:20:32. > :20:36.the most emotional awards of the night was to age old Bailey
:20:37. > :20:40.Matthews. He has cerebral palsy and this year completed a triathlon,
:20:41. > :20:44.whilst in Belfast there was a popular choice for coach of the
:20:45. > :20:48.year, the Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill. But the night
:20:49. > :20:48.belonged to Andy Murray. A glittering end to another
:20:49. > :20:51.extraordinary year. It's been a season of upsets
:20:52. > :20:53.and unusual results Swansea and West Ham bucked that
:20:54. > :20:59.trend with a 0-0 draw. But Watford beat Liverpool 3-0 today
:21:00. > :21:12.and sit in seventh place They are just a point of the
:21:13. > :21:17.Champions League places. The festive season has begun, and the sea
:21:18. > :21:21.surprises goes on and on. Watford played host to this pre-Christmas
:21:22. > :21:25.gathering and it was Liverpool who brought the gifts. Add Bogdan Lobont
:21:26. > :21:28.able to get to grips with a corner and for Watford, immediately
:21:29. > :21:33.something to cling onto -- unable to get to grips. For Jurgen Klopp and
:21:34. > :21:38.his team, things were getting significantly worse. Ighalo proving
:21:39. > :21:43.once again that he is one of the season's eye-catching players. The
:21:44. > :21:48.second half, and second helpings. Only this time Ighalo could not
:21:49. > :21:53.quite finish off. For Liverpool, chances were infrequent, unlike
:21:54. > :21:57.here, never enough. Watford's run of big results continues as does the
:21:58. > :22:02.goal-scoring of Ighalo. His second, their third, brought the latest
:22:03. > :22:05.surprise in this extraordinary season. Sometimes the celebrations
:22:06. > :22:08.and high spirits are such you cannot help joining in.
:22:09. > :22:09.The Bayern Munich coach, Pep Guardiola, has confirmed
:22:10. > :22:12.he is leaving the German Champions at the end of this season.
:22:13. > :22:15.Guardiola has been heavily linked with a move to
:22:16. > :22:18.Well, Guardiola's former team, Barcelona, today won
:22:19. > :22:20.the Club World Cup beating River Plate 3-0.
:22:21. > :22:24.It's Barcelona's fifth trophy of the year.
:22:25. > :22:26.Rugby union, and Ulster have beaten four-time champions Toulouse
:22:27. > :22:31.It's the first time Ulster have beaten them in France.
:22:32. > :22:33.The 25-23 win keeps Ulster's hopes of reaching
:22:34. > :22:46.Elsewhere Leicester beat Munster, but Exeter were defeated.
:22:47. > :22:48.It's time for the news where you are.