01/10/2016 BBC Weekend News

Tens of thousands of people with a lifelong disability

will no longer be required to keep proving they are ill

The Government said it was "pointless"

to repeatedly test people's health

if they had no prospect of getting better.

It's part of a number of measures to be unveiled

at the Conservative Party Conference,

as our political correspondent Ian Watson reports.

VOICEOVER: She does not want the government to be defined by Brexit,

so this week, Theresa May take the battle to her political opponents on

the home front, first of all, ending repeated medical assessments for

benefit claimants who suffer from long-term sickness. Kieran has

attention deficit disorder and is on the autistic spectrum, he receives

employment and support allowance, but finds the process of being

reassessed for work every three months very stressful. I would want

to be able to access the jobs when I needed to, to be able to find work,

not forced into, they are not helping, they are just checking up

on you when you are being reassessed. It seems like a waste of

time on both parts. A lot of stress for myself. More than 2 million

people who find it difficult to work are eligible for employment and

support allowance but not all will be exempt from medical tests, those

in the support group get ?109 a week, they are regarded as unable to

look for work, they are most likely to be exempt from future

assessments. Many of those in the work-related activity group whose

conditions may well improve, could still be regularly reassessed. For

people who have got a serious condition which means they cannot

work, if that condition is going to stay the same or get worse, no point

reassessing them, we will stop reassessing them, when we have

worked out who they are. It will be a large number of people, it will

help tens of thousands of people. Labour saver the government has

actually moved very slowly to adopt ideas. It is a welcome new turn by

this government following my announcement last Monday that the

Labour Party would be scrapping the discredited work capability

assessment which the government tried to reform in 2012. -- adopt

its ideas. It is a positive move but the devil will be in the detail.

When she stood here on the steps of Downing Street in July, as the new

Prime Minister, Theresa May pledged to fight burning injustice and help

what she called Alden Ehrenreich class families. Since then, there

has been the policy on grammar schools, now she is invading Labour

territory once again, not just on welfare but workers' rights. A new

review carried out by an old adviser to Tony Blair when he was there at

number ten, will now look at job security, pay and employment rights.

When Theresa May addresses the party next week, she will be justifying

that they do not just have a new Prime Minister but a new government.

STUDIO: Our Political Correspondent Vicki Young is in Birmingham.

Vicki given the Conservative party conference is about to start,

what does this tell us about what we might expect?

Theresa May will arrive here in the next 30 minutes for her first

conference in charge, that shows that she is willing to try to do

things differently from her predecessor, not afraid to change

the emphasis, we have seen that in domestic policy, when it comes to

the call for more grammar schools. Tone on welfare is very different

today, the Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green talking today

about a compassionate approach, a caring approach, saying that he is

not looking for new areas for more cuts in welfare, and his quote today

saying hard-headed not hard-hearted. Downing Street to some extent do not

want Brexit to dominate this week. Tomorrow they want to get it out of

the way in some terms by having speeches from Theresa May on Brexit

and on some other ministers. That will be hard to achieve, already

Tory ex-ministers are laying out what they want Brexit to be. She

will not be short of talking points this week.

Reports from Syria say an air raid on the rebel-held half

of Aleppo have hit the area's largest hospital

The medical charity, which supports the hospital,

said it had been struck by two barrel bombs.

The same building was hit on Wednesday in a raid carried out

by either Syrian government or Russian warplanes.

The second straight attack on the MTM hospital in the last week, plus

diminishing, barrel bombs and even a chlorine bomb hit the hospital, we

have seen pictures of medical facilities described. The French

Foreign Minister has said that the perpetrators will be held to account

and France is mobilising the UN Security Council to bring this

tragedy to an end. The UN has proven unable for five and a half five to

's of this Syrian war to hold the fighting. -- for five and a half

years. The regime Bashar al-Assad is pursuing the ground offensive

towards Aleppo, it clearly feels that if it can win Aleppo, it can

win this war, the cost would be the annihilation of vast swathes of

Syria's largest city. -- the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

Thames Valley Police have issued a description of two men they're

looking for after a 14-year-old girl was abducted and raped

One man is said to be around six feet tall,

in his mid 20s with dark blond hair and blue eyes.

The other man was in his late teens or early 20s, had brown eyes

The boxer Mike Towell has died in hospital

after being seriously injured in a bout on Thursday.

after a fifth-round loss to Dale Evans in Glasgow.

His partner said she "was absolutely heartbroken."

COMMENTATOR: The biggest moment of his undefeated career. VOICEOVER:

Looking to make his name in the ring, Mike Towell, but this would be

his last contest, the young man from Dundee becoming the third UK boxer

in just over two decades to die following a professional fight. He

was knocked down in the first round, and then again in the fifth, the

referee then stopped the fight. Mike Towell collapsed and after receiving

treatment was carried out on a stretcher. I knew that this was not

going to go the distance but nobody wants to see a man stretchered out

of the ring, I hope he is all right. Mike Towle was placed on a life

support machine, suffering from severe swelling on the brain, late

last night he died. His family at his bedside. -- Mike Towell. On

Facebook, is partner said: it has been the longest 24-hour was of our

lives, he fought right to the end and he has done us all so proud. He

left doing the thing he is best at. She is adamant this will not be part

of their young son's future. Mike Towell's death has led to renewed

questions about the dangers of boxing. Is it safe, yes, very, the

British boxing board of control do a fantastic job, medics on hand. Every

show... It is just one of these tragic cases that can happen. It can

happen in a number of other sports. We have been calling and the British

Medical Association have been calling for boxing to be banned for

many years, as long as you have people punching each other in the

head, at great force, then your a lot of damage will be sustained. It

is very rare that there is a one punch all very rare that there are

deaths in the ring but there are many people who end up with lifelong

disability. As boxing mourns the death of Iron Mike and consider the

consequences, his family must come to terms with the consequences of a

tragedy which left a young boy without a father.

Europe's golfers are looking to continue their fightback

after they trailed the US 5-3 overnight.

Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss is watching the action.

SHOUTING VOICEOVER: Confident? Just a little,

the USA fans with their familiar dawn chorus, after yesterday's

comeback, could Europe silenced them? Let them have their chance,

let them have their USA, USA... It's not going to do it. We argue!

Quelling the noisy crowd would not be easy, but Europe's Thomas Peters

was soon showing exactly how it's done. The home fans were soon

cranking up the decibels, Jordan Spieth started his match in style,

things got increasingly lively. Missed European parts were greeted

with glee. -- putts. Soon they had more to cheer, a moment of magic

from Phil Mickelson. The Ryder Cup at its raucous best. CO-COMMENTATOR:

Tonne of spin on it. On a tight tense morning, Europe has scrambled

well, looking to conjure one of the great escapes in golf. The latest

news that I can tell you, Europe have just won the first match of the

day, they are now trailing, 5-4, wings looking more promising as they

battle to close that overnight gap. -- things looking more promising.