17/01/2016 BBC Weekend News

Jeremy Corbyn has suggested the UK could keep its Trident

submarine fleet but without carrying nuclear warheads.

Mr Corbyn told the BBC there were "options" for maintaining

defence jobs while showing the UK was willing to take a lead

The party is carrying out a review of its defence strategy.

They are at sea round the clock, carrying Britain's Trident nuclear

missiles, but this year Parliament will decide whether to build a new

generation of submarines to carry the warheads. It's an issue Labour

MPs are sharply divided on. This morning Jeremy Corbyn suggested you

could keep the submarines but without the nuclear missiles. They

don't have to have nuclear warheads on them. An option he indicated was

being looked at in Labour's defence review. There are option there is,

the paper that Emily Thornberry put forward is a very interesting one

and deserves a good study and read of it. I hope there'll be a serious,

mature response to what is a very serious and hopefully mature debate

about the nature of security and insecurity, the nature of the way in

which we protect ourselves against insecurity and bring about a more

secure world as a result. It is unclear how Mr Corbyn's idea would

work in practice but it is these workers and jobs unions are worried

about. They've been putting pressure on the Labour leader not to give up

the party's pro nuclear stance. It is absolutely correct that Jeremy as

a future leader of our nation and the Labour Party have a proper

debate about our whole in this worrying world we live in, that we

have a comprehensive debate about this sector and don't obsess on

Trident. The boats are built in Barrow-in-Furness. The local Labour

MP says Mr Corbyn's idea is mindless. Having a deterrent with no

capacity to deter in it because it has no missile in it is like having

a broken Army without ammunition. It is deeply frustrating, because every

day we spend debating implausible schemes like this is a day we are

not able to hold the Conservative Government to account. The killings

on Trident is likely to happen before the summer. It will bring

another headache Mr Corbyn could do without.

Mr Corbyn also said he was in favour of repealing the law which prohibits

people going out on strike in support of other workers.

He said so-called sympathy strikes were legal in most other countries

What did he have to say about the strikes? Jeremy Corbyn is certainly

sticking to that left-wing agenda which won him the Labour leadership.

He said for some time he would' peel the Trade Union Bill which would

restrict the power of unions to hold strikes, introduce thresholds for

ballots and so on. Now he says he thinks sympathy strikes should be

allowed so that workers in one industry could walk out in support

of workers in a quite different business. That is something which

was tackled by the Thatcher Government and finally outlawed 25

years ago. The Tories have said if this was allowed it would damage the

economy. Some more moderate Labour MPs are quite concerned about the

concern and tone of the agenda. One said it was a throw back to one of

the worst periods in Labour's history when the party was

unelectable. But you won't be surprised to know that the unions

are absolutely delighted. Len McCluskey of Unite said it was music

to his ears. Carole, thank you. Iran says the lifting of nuclear

sanctions has opened a new chapter in its international relations

and will be a turning point The Iranian Government says

it is ready to increase its crude oil exports by 500,000

barrels a day. In the last hour, a plane carrying

four Americans previously held by the Iranians left Tehran

for the United States. It's a new era for Iran. Many of the

sanctions that have crippled its economy have been lifted. Iran's

President Hassan Rouhani told Parliament the deal is a golden page

in his country's history. A turning point for its relations with the

rest of the world. Another sign of warming ties with America, a

dramatic prisoner swap. Washington Post reportth reporter Jason Rezaian

and three other Iranian Americans released from captivity. For more

than a decade there've been concerns that Iran has been trying to develop

nuclear weapons, but now it has dramatically scaled back its nuclear

programme. Inspectors here at the UN's

nuclear watchdog in Vienna will have a crucial role to play

if their suspicions about Iran's Under the terms of the nuclear deal,

they've been given much stronger powers of inspection and greater

access to nuclear sites in Iran. But some countries, notably Israel,

are concerned that Iran still has ambitions to develop

a nuclear weapon. TRANSLATION: The international

community must impose clear and severe sanctions for any violation.

Iran would have possessed nuclear weapons a long time ago. In Iran

people are celebrating. It will take time before people feel the full

effects of sanctions relief, but there's hope the days of isolation

are now over. Six Canadians were among the 28

people killed in an Islamist gun attack in the West African

country of Burkina Faso The attack was carried out

by a group linked to Al-Qaeda. Our correspondent,

Thomas Fessy, is in Ougadougou. Perhaps you can bring us up to date

with the latest. We now know that people from at least nine different

countries were killed during the attack on Friday night. More bodies

have yet to be identified, and the identification process is ongoing.

The investigators are at the scene behind me at the hotel, but already

we though that people from Canada, Ukraine, from France, Libya, the US,

from Portugal, from Switzerland have been killed in this attack. Quite

clearly Al-Qaeda militants who stormed the hotel picked a hotel

where they knew they were going to find westerners there. Before they

stormed the hotel, they began the attack just across the street in a

cafe. One of the most popular with foreigners here in the capital. We

understand that this has been the scene of the biggest carnage. More

than two thirds of the casualties were found there. Thomas, thank you.

Exactly 25 years after the start of the conflict,

the Royal British Legion has said more needs to be done to help those

Over 33,000 British servicemen are thought to be suffering

Over 50,000 apprenticeship troops in the largest military coalition since

World War II. 25 years on many of those who served are still suffering

from the side effects of their service. Gulf War syndrome is the

umbrella term to describe those side effects.

They include acute and chronic fatigue, rashes, muscle pain,

It's thought 33,000 veterans suffer from the condition.

Despite this, very little is known about how to treat it,

Former RAF navigator John Nichol was shot down and captured

He says the Government should be doing more.

The Government sends young men and women into conflict, to fight,

to die, to come back with terrible injuries, and we all accept that

But it is the Government, the state, and I mean by that you,

me and I and all of your viewers, who should be picking up the tab

for this, not leaving it to charities.

So today the Royal British Legion is calling on the Government to invest

in more research. We see this as the Government's opportunity to fulfil

its obligations through the Military Covenant which was enshrined in law

and states that no service personnel should experience disadvantage or

inequalities as a result of their service.

The Ministry of Defence accepts that Gulf War illnesses do exist,

The Government does fund a war pension scheme to help pay for

treatment of these illnesses but the Royal British Legion says it is

money for search that would improve that treatment.

You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.

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