:00:00. > :00:11.The government says it's considering calls to take
:00:12. > :00:15.in unaccompanied children who've arrived in Europe as refugees.
:00:16. > :00:18.Charities say Britain should take 3000 of those who've made it out
:00:19. > :00:20.of war-torn countries like Syria and are at grave risk.
:00:21. > :00:23.Our teams across Europe who are welcoming refugees have been
:00:24. > :00:25.seeing tens of thousands of children coming through who have already
:00:26. > :00:27.suffered extremely harrowing experiences in the region or country
:00:28. > :00:33.they are coming from and are now all alone in Europe.
:00:34. > :00:36.The US east coast starts to recover from the weekend's snowstorms.
:00:37. > :00:39.More than 20 people were killed and millions affected.
:00:40. > :00:44.We've been stuck in the truck for 13 and a half hours.
:00:45. > :00:53.We haven't had any food since yesterday.
:00:54. > :00:55.After the doping scandal, a blow for world athletics as Adidas
:00:56. > :01:00.is set to end its sponsorship deal early.
:01:01. > :01:02.And the ground-breaking Antarctic study revealing how penguins
:01:03. > :01:30.The government says its considering 'calls from charities to respond
:01:31. > :01:33.to the numbers of unaccompanied child refugees in Europe and allow
:01:34. > :01:38.An estimated 26,000 children from Syria alone are thought to have
:01:39. > :01:41.fled conflict and managed to reach Europe but,
:01:42. > :01:44.without their families, are vulnerable and at risk.
:01:45. > :01:46.Today the International Development Secretary,
:01:47. > :01:48.Justine Greening, said a call for Britain to take in 3,000
:01:49. > :01:56.Our Political Correspondent, Iain Watson, reports.
:01:57. > :02:02.Are these the forgotten victims of Syria's Civil War?
:02:03. > :02:06.Some children fleeing the conflict risk the hazardous trip to Europe.
:02:07. > :02:08.Thousands have been arriving, some as recently as this week,
:02:09. > :02:14.with their papers but without their parents.
:02:15. > :02:17.Earlier this month a cross-party group of MPs urged the Prime
:02:18. > :02:20.Minister to go further in helping them by resettling 3000 refugee
:02:21. > :02:26.The government has been signalling that this
:02:27. > :02:33.We have been right at the forefront, frankly, of helping children
:02:34. > :02:36.who have been effected by this crisis and will continue to look
:02:37. > :02:39.at how we can do that over the coming days and weeks.
:02:40. > :02:42.So just how big is the scale of the crisis?
:02:43. > :02:45.Last year it was estimated that around 26,000 children arrived
:02:46. > :02:47.in Europe without their families, escaping from Syria,
:02:48. > :02:50.Afghanistan and some countries in Africa.
:02:51. > :02:53.It is believed that many simply disappear after they arrive.
:02:54. > :03:00.The call for the UK Government to take in 3000 unaccompanied
:03:01. > :03:03.children would be in addition to the 20,000 refugees the UK has
:03:04. > :03:06.already pledged to take direct from refugee camps.
:03:07. > :03:09.Our teams across Europe who are welcoming refugees have been
:03:10. > :03:12.seeing tens of thousands of children coming through who have already
:03:13. > :03:14.suffered extremely harrowing experiences in the region or country
:03:15. > :03:17.they are coming from and now are all alone in Europe.
:03:18. > :03:20.These children are at risk of falling prey
:03:21. > :03:28.The Prime Minister visiting refugee camps in Lebanon last year.
:03:29. > :03:32.So far he has preferred to resettle vulnerable refugees from the region
:03:33. > :03:34.rather than from Europe to discourage others from making
:03:35. > :03:41.I'm told the Prime Minister has not yet made up his mind
:03:42. > :03:45.He knows he could be on the brink of a referendum campaign
:03:46. > :03:51.But Labour's leadership is urging him to do more.
:03:52. > :03:54.They say if he helps his European partners tackle the migration
:03:55. > :03:57.crisis, they could then give him a better deal to take
:03:58. > :04:02.But he is under competing political pressure.
:04:03. > :04:05.Ukip say they want to help the most vulnerable but there are risks
:04:06. > :04:09.in taking children from Europe rather than from refugee camps.
:04:10. > :04:12.Evidence is coming from Germany and other European countries that
:04:13. > :04:15.suggests that, unfortunately, children are being used as a Trojan
:04:16. > :04:20.horse for family members to come at a later stage.
:04:21. > :04:26.That is why it is crucial that these children are assessed from the camps
:04:27. > :04:30.and that it is an undertaking that we know they are genuinely
:04:31. > :04:34.children who have lost their parents or families.
:04:35. > :04:36.While many are moved by the plight of refugees,
:04:37. > :04:38.some politicians say the Prime Minister must also listen
:04:39. > :04:43.to a wider concerns about immigration.
:04:44. > :04:46.Iain is at Downing Street for us now and Iain,
:04:47. > :04:51.how likely is it that these children will be allowed in to the UK?
:04:52. > :04:59.I'm told not to expect and in and an announcement from the Prime Minister
:05:00. > :05:04.but you are right that it is tricky. He is under political pressure, not
:05:05. > :05:08.just from the charities but from opposition politicians. Tim Farron
:05:09. > :05:11.has said for some time he thinks we should do more to take in what he
:05:12. > :05:17.calls our fair share of child migrants from elsewhere in Europe.
:05:18. > :05:20.Jeremy Corbyn is visiting camps in Calais over the weekend and he says
:05:21. > :05:23.that anybody with a British connection should have their
:05:24. > :05:27.applications considered and that could be several thousand people but
:05:28. > :05:30.beat by Minister is listening to competing advice, not least from
:05:31. > :05:34.local authorities who say they would struggle to find enough foster
:05:35. > :05:38.parents for child refugees. Above all he is genuinely worried by this
:05:39. > :05:43.idea of taking people in from Europe rather than directly from camps and
:05:44. > :05:47.this could provide a further magnet for migration which could form an
:05:48. > :05:52.unwelcome backdrop to an EU referendum campaign that could be
:05:53. > :05:55.just weeks away. He is likely to be offering more help to refugees in a
:05:56. > :05:57.special conference on Syria that will take place here in the next few
:05:58. > :06:00.weeks. Thank you. Eastern parts of the United States
:06:01. > :06:02.may face days of disruption as they try to recover
:06:03. > :06:05.from the weekend's snowstorms, More than 20 people were killed,
:06:06. > :06:10.roads and rail lines blocked, and thousands of flights cancelled
:06:11. > :06:14.as airports were closed. Eleven states were badly
:06:15. > :06:21.affected including New York, Our North America Editor Jon Sopel
:06:22. > :06:36.joins us from there now. They are calling it dig out DC day
:06:37. > :06:41.as an army of officials and volunteers try to get the streets
:06:42. > :06:47.ready so the capital can reopen for business tomorrow. After this
:06:48. > :06:48.historic storm, when more than two feet of snow fell, that is unlikely
:06:49. > :06:55.to happen. This is how come speeded up, the
:06:56. > :06:59.face of a city and region were changed in 24 hours as
:07:00. > :07:02.record-breaking levels of snow fell across the eastern seaboard of the
:07:03. > :07:07.United States, affecting millions of people. As a state of emergency was
:07:08. > :07:11.declared, the advice was to stay inside but some found themselves
:07:12. > :07:14.caught, like the owners of these trucks and cars who have spent the
:07:15. > :07:21.weekend stuck on a Pennsylvania motorway. We have no food, we have
:07:22. > :07:26.water but we haven't had any food since yesterday. In New York, where
:07:27. > :07:31.yesterday all private vehicles were banned, there has been some easing
:07:32. > :07:34.of the restrictions but not without being accompanied by a serious
:07:35. > :07:38.health warning. You do not need to be on the roads, you should not be
:07:39. > :07:42.in that roads because there are still dangerous spots and spots with
:07:43. > :07:47.black ice and this is still about getting the emergency crews out
:07:48. > :07:50.there. More than 20 efforts have been associated with the storm, some
:07:51. > :08:05.from car crashes, many from heart attacks brought on from shovelling
:08:06. > :08:09.snow -- 20 deaths. Today, the big clear up has started. At the White
:08:10. > :08:13.House and across Washington, snow blowers and people with shovels are
:08:14. > :08:19.trying to clear streets and pavements. The transport network it
:08:20. > :08:23.still paralysed. This is the airport, no planes are yet coming
:08:24. > :08:28.in, only a few are going out. At the emergency centre in the city, they
:08:29. > :08:35.are warning that subzero to butchers tonight will bring fresh problems.
:08:36. > :08:41.We will have a hard icepack and that will hinder us -- sub zero
:08:42. > :08:47.temperatures. We would urge caution because of the ice and we will still
:08:48. > :08:52.be digging out two feet of snow so we make the decision to close
:08:53. > :08:57.schools tomorrow. Full get the official ban on sporting contests,
:08:58. > :09:01.unofficial ones were in full swing like this snowball contest. The
:09:02. > :09:06.capital was the venue for mass sledging, some held their own
:09:07. > :09:11.freestyle swimming dollars, rather than. And in Times Square was the
:09:12. > :09:21.skiing and boarding contest which amused everyone. Well, nearly. As we
:09:22. > :09:26.heard, the schools will remain shut tomorrow. Also on Capitol Hill there
:09:27. > :09:29.will be no votes at all this week because of the difficult for
:09:30. > :09:33.congressmen and women to get back to take part. We are also waiting to
:09:34. > :09:38.hear if the federal government will open at all tomorrow. The storm may
:09:39. > :09:43.have passed, the after-effects, not so much.
:09:44. > :09:46.The BBC has learned that Adidas is to terminate its sponsorship deal
:09:47. > :09:49.with athletics' world governing body, the IAAF,
:09:50. > :09:53.in the wake of the doping scandal engulfing the sport.
:09:54. > :09:56.Adidas has been the IAAF's biggest sponsor and is understood to have
:09:57. > :09:58.made its decision as a direct result of the scandal.
:09:59. > :10:01.Our Sports Editor Dan Roan is in the BBC Sports Centre
:10:02. > :10:09.Dan, another blow for the organisation?
:10:10. > :10:16.This really is the last thing that they needed with the sport already
:10:17. > :10:22.in the grip of an unprecedented crisis. Last year the world
:10:23. > :10:25.anti-doping agency found evidence of systemic state sponsored cheating in
:10:26. > :10:29.Russia and earlier this month in a second damning report it said there
:10:30. > :10:35.had been a culture of corruption at the governing body, the IAAF. This
:10:36. > :10:39.seems to have proven too much for their sponsors, Adidas. We have
:10:40. > :10:45.learned that senior executives at the German sportswear giant wrote to
:10:46. > :10:48.the IAAF informing it of its intention to terminate its
:10:49. > :10:53.sponsorship agreement. In context, they have an 11 year agreement, the
:10:54. > :10:58.biggest one the IAAF had signed in 2008 and we believe that ending it
:10:59. > :11:03.for years early could cost athletics tens of millions of pounds. It is
:11:04. > :11:07.understood that Adidas believes the doping revelations could constitute
:11:08. > :11:11.a breach of contract. Another major blow for the IAAF and its British
:11:12. > :11:16.president Lord Coe as they desperately seek to recover after a
:11:17. > :11:21.desperate few months in this, an Olympic year. And remember, Adidas
:11:22. > :11:25.remains Fifa's oldest sponsor but when it comes to the athletic
:11:26. > :11:28.scandal, it seems to be too much, even for them. Thank you.
:11:29. > :11:30.Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said it
:11:31. > :11:32.would be "a mistake" for David Cameron to hold
:11:33. > :11:34.a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU as early
:11:35. > :11:38.There's been speculation a vote could take place then
:11:39. > :11:41.if the Prime Minister manages to agree a deal on EU reforms
:11:42. > :11:54.But Nicola Sturgeon told the Andrew Marr Show on BBC One that
:11:55. > :11:56.that would confuse voters because of elections due to be held
:11:57. > :11:59.You might interpret it as being a bit selfish.
:12:00. > :12:03.The Welsh, Northern Irish and London elections are in May.
:12:04. > :12:05.I think to have a referendum campaign starting
:12:06. > :12:09.in parallel would be disrespectful to those important elections.
:12:10. > :12:13.The latest attacks in Iraq by the Sunni militants
:12:14. > :12:15.of so-called Islamic State has set off a spiral
:12:16. > :12:21.Since the US-led invasion in 2003, Iraq's Shia Muslim majority have
:12:22. > :12:23.largely held the power, sidelining many Sunnis,
:12:24. > :12:30.This month an attack on a cafe in the town of Muqdadiyah killed
:12:31. > :12:33.nearly 30 people, many of them Shia, and was followed by deadly revenge
:12:34. > :12:41.Our correspondent Jim Muir reports from there.
:12:42. > :12:44.We travelled into Muqdadiyah with the main Shia armed faction
:12:45. > :12:49.On the surface, life seemed to be more or less back to normal.
:12:50. > :12:52.This is the cafe wrecked by a double suicide bombing
:12:53. > :13:00.So-called Islamic State said it did it.
:13:01. > :13:02.Clearly the aim was to provoke trouble between Sunnis and Shia
:13:03. > :13:07.They come from rival branches of Islam whose differences
:13:08. > :13:10.are currently sharply dividing the whole region.
:13:11. > :13:13.It is in mixed areas like this that the future of Iraq
:13:14. > :13:19.If coexistence between Sunnis and Shia doesn't work here,
:13:20. > :13:23.the chances of it working elsewhere in Iraq don't look good.
:13:24. > :13:26.Just across the road, the results of an outburst
:13:27. > :13:33.A Sunni mosque partly reduced to rubble.
:13:34. > :13:35.At least four others were also attacked.
:13:36. > :13:38.Two journalists from a local TV station who tried to film
:13:39. > :13:46.Less than an hour's drive away, Sunni families were on the move
:13:47. > :13:51.but they are not fleeing, they are coming back.
:13:52. > :13:55.These people ran away to years ago when the militants took over.
:13:56. > :13:58.Now they feel safe enough to come back, encouraged by the government
:13:59. > :14:03.and the Shia factions which drove IS out.
:14:04. > :14:09.This woman says she and her family are glad to be back.
:14:10. > :14:13.TRANSLATION: I've got three kids, the two older ones remember our
:14:14. > :14:18.house here and are excited to be coming back to it.
:14:19. > :14:22.There was a big reception to welcome hundreds of Sunni families home.
:14:23. > :14:24.The head of the biggest Shia armed faction told them
:14:25. > :14:32.TRANSLATION: Victory has no meaning if the displaced don't come back.
:14:33. > :14:35.These people are Sunnis and they fled from IS which proves
:14:36. > :14:45.The extremist conspiracy to stir up sectarian trouble has failed.
:14:46. > :14:48.Fine words, but in Iraq it is actions that count.
:14:49. > :14:51.Iraq's future will only be assured when all those who were uprooted
:14:52. > :14:53.are back in their homes and there are more
:14:54. > :15:05.Investigations into nearly 60 allegations of unlawful killing made
:15:06. > :15:08.against British soldiers who served in Iraq have been dropped.
:15:09. > :15:11.The Ministry of Defence said the body set up to review
:15:12. > :15:13.accusations of abuse of Iraqi civilians had decided not to proceed
:15:14. > :15:18.Hundreds of others are still being investigated.
:15:19. > :15:21.Last week the Prime Minister ordered a clamp down on lawyers pursuing
:15:22. > :15:27.what he called "spurious" claims against veterans.
:15:28. > :15:31.Three dead whales have been washed up on a beach in Lincolnshire.
:15:32. > :15:35.The sperm whales were found near Skegness and are believed to be
:15:36. > :15:38.from the same pod as another whale which died a day earlier in Norfolk.
:15:39. > :15:40.Scientists have taken samples to try and establish what happened
:15:41. > :15:47.With all the sport, here's Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes at the BBC
:15:48. > :15:55.There are highlights of the day's football on Match of the Day 2
:15:56. > :15:57.after the news, or after Sportscene in Scotland.
:15:58. > :16:00.So if you don't want to know the scores,
:16:01. > :16:03.Arsenal missed out on going back to the top of the table,
:16:04. > :16:06.beaten 1-0 at home by Chelsea after playing most of the game
:16:07. > :16:13.Diego Costa once again a thorn in Arsenal's side,
:16:14. > :16:16.prompting the sending-off and scoring the goal.
:16:17. > :16:18.Earlier, Swansea's new manager, Francesco Guidolin, got off
:16:19. > :16:21.to a winning start, beating Everton 2-1.
:16:22. > :16:24.And there were two red cards but no goals as Hamilton drew with Hearts
:16:25. > :16:30.Now, as England's cricketers fought to stay in contention in the fourth
:16:31. > :16:32.Test in South Africa, one of their former players
:16:33. > :16:34.was excelling in the Big Bash in Australia.
:16:35. > :16:36.It highlights the sport's contrasting formats,
:16:37. > :16:37.competing for attention, as our correspondent
:16:38. > :16:54.In Centurion English tradition, the third day of the Test match,
:16:55. > :17:00.technique, subtlety, another Joe Root 50. Meanwhile in Australia, the
:17:01. > :17:05.Big Bash. New era cricket, the Melbourne Stars lost the final of
:17:06. > :17:11.Australia's T20 competition but Kevin Pietersen walloped 74. The T20
:17:12. > :17:16.World Cup is in March, Pietersen remains former England batsmen. He
:17:17. > :17:19.could be that X factor, that difference between England competing
:17:20. > :17:22.at a World Cup and potentially winning it. I don't think it will
:17:23. > :17:29.happen but I would pick him, tomorrow. Test matches offer
:17:30. > :17:33.different rewards for a young fast bowler will stop Kagiso Rabada took
:17:34. > :17:39.seven wickets at England were all out for 342, 133 behind. South
:17:40. > :17:43.Africa have already lost the series but Rabada is their future so which
:17:44. > :17:50.England batsmen did he most enjoyed dismissing? Stokes and Joe Root.
:17:51. > :18:00.Because they are the best players? Because of that and other reasons as
:18:01. > :18:03.well. Can you elaborate? I don't like seeing them at the crease
:18:04. > :18:10.scoring runs, that is as much as I will say. Anderson struck but South
:18:11. > :18:14.Africa will resume on 42-1 will stop Test matches are long than the big
:18:15. > :18:19.-- longer than the big as but no less intense. -- Big Bash.
:18:20. > :18:21.Exeter and Northampton have completed the quarter-final line-up
:18:22. > :18:24.for rugby union's European Champions Cup after a day for the calculators.
:18:25. > :18:26.James Short scored a brace of tries in Exeter's 33-17 win
:18:27. > :18:30.While Ulster were the other team to miss out.
:18:31. > :18:32.It's the first time Exeter have reached the knock-out stages.
:18:33. > :18:37.And their reward is an away tie with Wasps.
:18:38. > :18:40.So, in the last eight line-up there are five English and three
:18:41. > :18:45.French teams but none from Scotland, Wales or Ireland.
:18:46. > :18:55.That's the sport. Thank you. lost their tri-series
:18:56. > :18:57.British scientists working on a ground-breaking project
:18:58. > :18:59.to monitor penguin life in the Antarctic have found evidence
:19:00. > :19:02.of how they are adapting in the face of climate change.
:19:03. > :19:04.Footage gathered using remote cameras shows penguin colonies
:19:05. > :19:07.being established in new areas, while other research suggests
:19:08. > :19:12.threats to some penguins' food sources and declining numbers.
:19:13. > :19:14.Our Science Correspondent, Victoria Gill, has had exclusive
:19:15. > :19:17.access to research sites on the Antarctic peninsula
:19:18. > :19:28.The only continent on earth with no native human population.
:19:29. > :19:33.This is our planet's great wilderness.
:19:34. > :19:41.These are gentoo penguins and this is a new colony.
:19:42. > :19:44.The birds started nesting here at Moot Point on the Antarctic
:19:45. > :19:48.peninsular just ten years ago and there are now 500 of them.
:19:49. > :19:51.That movement in their breeding sites is one of the signs
:19:52. > :20:00.of penguins adjusting to a changing climate and that is why these
:20:01. > :20:02.They are installing a network of cameras to keep watch
:20:03. > :20:10.We can look at how many chicks survive or if they die off suddenly
:20:11. > :20:12.we can look at what happened just before that.
:20:13. > :20:15.Whereas if we turn up at the end of the season or next year,
:20:16. > :20:19.and we see colony failure, there is no way to pin down
:20:20. > :20:22.what the threat was, what the cause of that was.
:20:23. > :20:26.It's like CCTV, rewind it and see what happened immediately
:20:27. > :20:33.What those cameras reveal is a rare glimpse of Antarctic life.
:20:34. > :20:36.This footage is composed of a photo taken every hour over an entire year
:20:37. > :20:38.and for the scientists that is building up
:20:39. > :20:49.The team now has 40 cameras just like this one in penguin colonies
:20:50. > :20:52.throughout the Antarctic peninsular and it's only by having this
:20:53. > :20:55.constant monitoring presence generating all of that data
:20:56. > :20:58.that they can work out how threats like human activity and climate
:20:59. > :21:03.change are effecting this continent's unique wildlife.
:21:04. > :21:06.While the cameras show this environment in flux,
:21:07. > :21:09.the team is also working with scientists from the US
:21:10. > :21:13.This means a headcount in every colony they study,
:21:14. > :21:19.It is revealing some worrying trends.
:21:20. > :21:23.We are here at a colony of chinstrap penguins and this particular region,
:21:24. > :21:27.this particular species is seeing a decline over the last few decades.
:21:28. > :21:29.Those declines are likely associated with climate change and there may
:21:30. > :21:32.also be a link with competition from fisheries, as in humans
:21:33. > :21:34.obtaining the same food - krill - as these penguins
:21:35. > :21:40.The Antarctic peninsular is one of the fastest warming places
:21:41. > :21:44.on the planet and this project aims to reveal just how that change
:21:45. > :21:47.is impacting the wildlife that survives and thrives
:21:48. > :21:55.Victoria Gill, BBC News, Antarctica.
:21:56. > :21:59.You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.
:22:00. > :22:11.Stay with us on BBC One, it's time for the news
:22:12. > :22:15.Police have identified what were described as knowledge