:00:20. > :00:24.Tens of thousands of people with a lifelong disability
:00:25. > :00:28.will no longer be required to keep proving they are ill
:00:29. > :00:36.The Government said it was "pointless"
:00:37. > :00:38.to repeatedly test people's health
:00:39. > :00:43.if they had no prospect of getting better.
:00:44. > :00:45.It's part of a number of measures to be unveiled
:00:46. > :00:46.at the Conservative Party Conference,
:00:47. > :00:48.as our political correspondent Ian Watson reports.
:00:49. > :00:55.VOICEOVER: She does not want the government to be defined by Brexit,
:00:56. > :00:59.so this week, Theresa May take the battle to her political opponents on
:01:00. > :01:01.the home front, first of all, ending repeated medical assessments for
:01:02. > :01:09.benefit claimants who suffer from long-term sickness. Kieran has
:01:10. > :01:12.attention deficit disorder and is on the autistic spectrum, he receives
:01:13. > :01:14.employment and support allowance, but finds the process of being
:01:15. > :01:19.reassessed for work every three months very stressful. I would want
:01:20. > :01:26.to be able to access the jobs when I needed to, to be able to find work,
:01:27. > :01:29.not forced into, they are not helping, they are just checking up
:01:30. > :01:34.on you when you are being reassessed. It seems like a waste of
:01:35. > :01:39.time on both parts. A lot of stress for myself. More than 2 million
:01:40. > :01:42.people who find it difficult to work are eligible for employment and
:01:43. > :01:47.support allowance but not all will be exempt from medical tests, those
:01:48. > :01:51.in the support group get ?109 a week, they are regarded as unable to
:01:52. > :01:54.look for work, they are most likely to be exempt from future
:01:55. > :01:58.assessments. Many of those in the work-related activity group whose
:01:59. > :02:05.conditions may well improve, could still be regularly reassessed. For
:02:06. > :02:08.people who have got a serious condition which means they cannot
:02:09. > :02:12.work, if that condition is going to stay the same or get worse, no point
:02:13. > :02:16.reassessing them, we will stop reassessing them, when we have
:02:17. > :02:20.worked out who they are. It will be a large number of people, it will
:02:21. > :02:25.help tens of thousands of people. Labour saver the government has
:02:26. > :02:31.actually moved very slowly to adopt ideas. It is a welcome new turn by
:02:32. > :02:36.this government following my announcement last Monday that the
:02:37. > :02:39.Labour Party would be scrapping the discredited work capability
:02:40. > :02:44.assessment which the government tried to reform in 2012. -- adopt
:02:45. > :02:48.its ideas. It is a positive move but the devil will be in the detail.
:02:49. > :02:52.When she stood here on the steps of Downing Street in July, as the new
:02:53. > :02:57.Prime Minister, Theresa May pledged to fight burning injustice and help
:02:58. > :03:00.what she called Alden Ehrenreich class families. Since then, there
:03:01. > :03:04.has been the policy on grammar schools, now she is invading Labour
:03:05. > :03:09.territory once again, not just on welfare but workers' rights. A new
:03:10. > :03:13.review carried out by an old adviser to Tony Blair when he was there at
:03:14. > :03:16.number ten, will now look at job security, pay and employment rights.
:03:17. > :03:20.When Theresa May addresses the party next week, she will be justifying
:03:21. > :03:26.that they do not just have a new Prime Minister but a new government.
:03:27. > :03:34.STUDIO: Our Political Correspondent Vicki Young is in Birmingham.
:03:35. > :03:36.Vicki given the Conservative party conference is about to start,
:03:37. > :03:39.what does this tell us about what we might expect?
:03:40. > :03:43.Theresa May will arrive here in the next 30 minutes for her first
:03:44. > :03:47.conference in charge, that shows that she is willing to try to do
:03:48. > :03:50.things differently from her predecessor, not afraid to change
:03:51. > :03:54.the emphasis, we have seen that in domestic policy, when it comes to
:03:55. > :03:58.the call for more grammar schools. Tone on welfare is very different
:03:59. > :04:02.today, the Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green talking today
:04:03. > :04:05.about a compassionate approach, a caring approach, saying that he is
:04:06. > :04:11.not looking for new areas for more cuts in welfare, and his quote today
:04:12. > :04:15.saying hard-headed not hard-hearted. Downing Street to some extent do not
:04:16. > :04:19.want Brexit to dominate this week. Tomorrow they want to get it out of
:04:20. > :04:23.the way in some terms by having speeches from Theresa May on Brexit
:04:24. > :04:25.and on some other ministers. That will be hard to achieve, already
:04:26. > :04:31.Tory ex-ministers are laying out what they want Brexit to be. She
:04:32. > :04:35.will not be short of talking points this week.
:04:36. > :04:39.Reports from Syria say an air raid on the rebel-held half
:04:40. > :04:40.of Aleppo have hit the area's largest hospital
:04:41. > :04:44.The medical charity, which supports the hospital,
:04:45. > :04:46.said it had been struck by two barrel bombs.
:04:47. > :04:49.The same building was hit on Wednesday in a raid carried out
:04:50. > :04:52.by either Syrian government or Russian warplanes.
:04:53. > :05:04.The second straight attack on the MTM hospital in the last week, plus
:05:05. > :05:08.diminishing, barrel bombs and even a chlorine bomb hit the hospital, we
:05:09. > :05:11.have seen pictures of medical facilities described. The French
:05:12. > :05:14.Foreign Minister has said that the perpetrators will be held to account
:05:15. > :05:18.and France is mobilising the UN Security Council to bring this
:05:19. > :05:21.tragedy to an end. The UN has proven unable for five and a half five to
:05:22. > :05:30.'s of this Syrian war to hold the fighting. -- for five and a half
:05:31. > :05:32.years. The regime Bashar al-Assad is pursuing the ground offensive
:05:33. > :05:38.towards Aleppo, it clearly feels that if it can win Aleppo, it can
:05:39. > :05:42.win this war, the cost would be the annihilation of vast swathes of
:05:43. > :05:50.Syria's largest city. -- the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
:05:51. > :05:52.Thames Valley Police have issued a description of two men they're
:05:53. > :05:55.looking for after a 14-year-old girl was abducted and raped
:05:56. > :05:58.One man is said to be around six feet tall,
:05:59. > :06:01.in his mid 20s with dark blond hair and blue eyes.
:06:02. > :06:07.The other man was in his late teens or early 20s, had brown eyes
:06:08. > :06:09.The boxer Mike Towell has died in hospital
:06:10. > :06:11.after being seriously injured in a bout on Thursday.
:06:12. > :06:16.after a fifth-round loss to Dale Evans in Glasgow.
:06:17. > :06:17.His partner said she "was absolutely heartbroken."
:06:18. > :06:28.COMMENTATOR: The biggest moment of his undefeated career. VOICEOVER:
:06:29. > :06:33.Looking to make his name in the ring, Mike Towell, but this would be
:06:34. > :06:36.his last contest, the young man from Dundee becoming the third UK boxer
:06:37. > :06:41.in just over two decades to die following a professional fight. He
:06:42. > :06:47.was knocked down in the first round, and then again in the fifth, the
:06:48. > :06:53.referee then stopped the fight. Mike Towell collapsed and after receiving
:06:54. > :06:56.treatment was carried out on a stretcher. I knew that this was not
:06:57. > :07:00.going to go the distance but nobody wants to see a man stretchered out
:07:01. > :07:03.of the ring, I hope he is all right. Mike Towle was placed on a life
:07:04. > :07:07.support machine, suffering from severe swelling on the brain, late
:07:08. > :07:12.last night he died. His family at his bedside. -- Mike Towell. On
:07:13. > :07:16.Facebook, is partner said: it has been the longest 24-hour was of our
:07:17. > :07:21.lives, he fought right to the end and he has done us all so proud. He
:07:22. > :07:27.left doing the thing he is best at. She is adamant this will not be part
:07:28. > :07:32.of their young son's future. Mike Towell's death has led to renewed
:07:33. > :07:36.questions about the dangers of boxing. Is it safe, yes, very, the
:07:37. > :07:41.British boxing board of control do a fantastic job, medics on hand. Every
:07:42. > :07:46.show... It is just one of these tragic cases that can happen. It can
:07:47. > :07:49.happen in a number of other sports. We have been calling and the British
:07:50. > :07:53.Medical Association have been calling for boxing to be banned for
:07:54. > :07:57.many years, as long as you have people punching each other in the
:07:58. > :08:02.head, at great force, then your a lot of damage will be sustained. It
:08:03. > :08:05.is very rare that there is a one punch all very rare that there are
:08:06. > :08:14.deaths in the ring but there are many people who end up with lifelong
:08:15. > :08:18.disability. As boxing mourns the death of Iron Mike and consider the
:08:19. > :08:23.consequences, his family must come to terms with the consequences of a
:08:24. > :08:28.tragedy which left a young boy without a father.
:08:29. > :08:30.Europe's golfers are looking to continue their fightback
:08:31. > :08:33.after they trailed the US 5-3 overnight.
:08:34. > :08:39.Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss is watching the action.
:08:40. > :08:45.SHOUTING VOICEOVER: Confident? Just a little,
:08:46. > :08:48.the USA fans with their familiar dawn chorus, after yesterday's
:08:49. > :08:53.comeback, could Europe silenced them? Let them have their chance,
:08:54. > :08:58.let them have their USA, USA... It's not going to do it. We argue!
:08:59. > :09:03.Quelling the noisy crowd would not be easy, but Europe's Thomas Peters
:09:04. > :09:09.was soon showing exactly how it's done. The home fans were soon
:09:10. > :09:14.cranking up the decibels, Jordan Spieth started his match in style,
:09:15. > :09:21.things got increasingly lively. Missed European parts were greeted
:09:22. > :09:25.with glee. -- putts. Soon they had more to cheer, a moment of magic
:09:26. > :09:32.from Phil Mickelson. The Ryder Cup at its raucous best. CO-COMMENTATOR:
:09:33. > :09:36.Tonne of spin on it. On a tight tense morning, Europe has scrambled
:09:37. > :09:41.well, looking to conjure one of the great escapes in golf. The latest
:09:42. > :09:46.news that I can tell you, Europe have just won the first match of the
:09:47. > :09:51.day, they are now trailing, 5-4, wings looking more promising as they
:09:52. > :09:56.battle to close that overnight gap. -- things looking more promising.