:00:00. > :00:07.Nearly 250 prisoners are moved after yesterday's
:00:08. > :00:13.Fires were started in the unrest which lasted 12 hours
:00:14. > :00:19.As the clean-up operation begins, a warning that the violence
:00:20. > :00:22.is a symptom of understaffing and overcrowding in jails.
:00:23. > :00:31.13 off-duty soldiers are killed and 56 injured after another
:00:32. > :00:36.In rugby union's Champions Cup, Wasps suffer their first European
:00:37. > :00:42.And a memorial service for the man who helped define America's
:00:43. > :01:06.supremacy in space - John Glenn.
:01:07. > :01:16.An investigation's under way after the worst violence
:01:17. > :01:19.it was described, in an English prison for over 25 years.
:01:20. > :01:21.Nearly 250 inmates from Birmingham prison have been transferred
:01:22. > :01:23.to other jails after yesterday's rioting.
:01:24. > :01:25.Four wings were damaged - two of them seriously.
:01:26. > :01:27.The Prison Officers Association says more than two hundred
:01:28. > :01:30.of their members had to be drafted in from other areas to get
:01:31. > :01:40.Let's go to Birmingham and our correspondent, Dan Johnson.
:01:41. > :01:48.Extra officers are on duty tonight and there is a easy operation to
:01:49. > :01:55.still move prisoners. Van Zyl coming and going into the evening. 24 hours
:01:56. > :02:00.ago this prison was almost lost. The keys and were in charge of about
:02:01. > :02:03.half of the wings. This is still a prison on the edge.
:02:04. > :02:05.A prison wing up in flames, apparently broadcast live
:02:06. > :02:14.The result of a day of rioting when prisoners snatched
:02:15. > :02:17.the keys and took control, smashing up cells, even
:02:18. > :02:20.posting pictures wearing officers' riot gear.
:02:21. > :02:23.Today, we got an idea of the tension that has built up here over recent
:02:24. > :02:27.weeks from a prisoner released last month.
:02:28. > :02:31.I would have to say it ends up being an accumulation of things, like not
:02:32. > :02:36.being able to have a warm shower in the morning.
:02:37. > :02:42.Or maybe you've been promised certain things, a part of
:02:43. > :02:45.the regime, but because of staffing shortages, that has had to be
:02:46. > :02:48.So when inmates rebelled, it took hundreds of riot-team
:02:49. > :02:51.officers more than 12 hours to restore order
:02:52. > :02:59.Today, prisoners were being ferried to other jails.
:03:00. > :03:03.240 of the 600 who rioted have been moved as Birmingham returned to calm
:03:04. > :03:08.There is significant damage to two wings,
:03:09. > :03:12.New toilets going in, broken furniture coming out.
:03:13. > :03:16.Strangeways, Manchester, 26 years ago.
:03:17. > :03:21.The last time we saw rioting like this, the prison
:03:22. > :03:23.officers union says, but prison bosses claim modern
:03:24. > :03:25.issues are behind the current crisis.
:03:26. > :03:28.Particularly a rise in the number of prisoners who come
:03:29. > :03:31.into prison with violence, gang-related violence in particular,
:03:32. > :03:36.and then a whole issue around psychoactive drugs,
:03:37. > :03:40.legal highs as they used to be euphemistically called -
:03:41. > :03:46.but our absolutely dangerous things that are now illegal and banned
:03:47. > :03:49.but have been got into prisons and have changed the
:03:50. > :03:53.This afternoon, more vans moving more prisoners.
:03:54. > :03:56.The government says order is returning here,
:03:57. > :03:58.but across the prison system there are still problems
:03:59. > :04:03.with drugs and violence, fear and frustration.
:04:04. > :04:06.Kitted up in case there is more trouble.
:04:07. > :04:14.Police are investigating how this started and who was involved.
:04:15. > :04:17.The Justice Secretary says they will face the full force of the law.
:04:18. > :04:24.The Prison Officers Association has warned this latest unrest
:04:25. > :04:26.is a symptom of understaffing and overcrowding in jails.
:04:27. > :04:28.The government's pledged to recruit more officers -
:04:29. > :04:30.but they won't be available immediately, as our home
:04:31. > :04:34.affairs correspondent, Danny Shaw, reports.
:04:35. > :04:41.Places of tension, anger and distress.
:04:42. > :04:45.Where violence is never far from the surface and prison staff
:04:46. > :04:53.We saw what it was like at Wandsworth Prison in south
:04:54. > :05:01.In the past six weeks, the frustration and fury has boiled
:05:02. > :05:08.First, a serious disturbance at Lewes prison in Sussex.
:05:09. > :05:11.Then trouble at Bedford jail involving 200 offenders.
:05:12. > :05:16.A day later two prisoners escaped from Pentonville,
:05:17. > :05:21.where an inmate had been fatally stabbed the previous month, and now,
:05:22. > :05:28.We've got to do something about staffing levels
:05:29. > :05:31.and if we cannot get appropriately trained staff into our jails
:05:32. > :05:34.as soon as possible, then we might have to look
:05:35. > :05:37.at executive clemency to reduce the numbers of non-violent offenders
:05:38. > :05:42.There are some 18,000 front-line prison officers
:05:43. > :05:49.That is down almost 7000 on the number six years ago.
:05:50. > :05:52.At the same time, there has been a small rise in the total
:05:53. > :06:04.Two thirds, according to penal reform campaigners.
:06:05. > :06:08.Added to all that is the problem of new synthetic drugs that are used
:06:09. > :06:17.The government is promising extra staff, 2500 over the next two years.
:06:18. > :06:20.Victorian prisons will be replaced by modern ones and new tests will be
:06:21. > :06:22.introduced to improve the detection of drugs.
:06:23. > :06:28.Meanwhile, prisons remain volatile places.
:06:29. > :06:30.And the potential for trouble is heightened at Christmas,
:06:31. > :06:32.when prisoners are separated from their families.
:06:33. > :06:39.13 off-duty soldiers have been killed and 56 others injured
:06:40. > :06:43.after a suicide car bomb attack in Turkey.
:06:44. > :06:45.Many of the victims were members of a commando brigade
:06:46. > :06:48.who were aboard a bus in the central city of Kayseri.
:06:49. > :06:50.Turkish officials are blaming Kurdish militants.
:06:51. > :06:57.Our Turkey correspondent Mark Lowen reports from Istanbul.
:06:58. > :07:03.The latest target in Turkey's wave of terror.
:07:04. > :07:06.It was hit this morning as it waited at a traffic light
:07:07. > :07:12.A suicide bomber pulling up in a car.
:07:13. > :07:14.On board were off-duty soldiers enjoying their weekend leave,
:07:15. > :07:19.Some of the wounded were taken to intensive care
:07:20. > :07:23.Kayseri, a largely peaceful industrial city,
:07:24. > :07:29.TRANSLATION: As a result of this treacherous act,
:07:30. > :07:34.These events will not weaken our determination
:07:35. > :07:47.On the contrary, they will strengthen it.
:07:48. > :07:51.It is a week since Turkey's last attack.
:07:52. > :07:53.Twin bombs in Istanbul that killed 44 and injured dozens,
:07:54. > :08:00.Kurdish militants said they were behind those blasts
:08:01. > :08:03.and the PKK is again the prime suspect today - President Erdogan
:08:04. > :08:05.referring to them as he blamed the separatist terrorist
:08:06. > :08:10.Kurdish militants have hit police and military over the past year,
:08:11. > :08:12.since the ceasefire with the Turkish state broke down.
:08:13. > :08:14.So-called Islamic State have also bombed Turkey,
:08:15. > :08:19.but have tended to strike public sites in Istanbul or Ankara.
:08:20. > :08:25.And so arguably the most turbulent year in Turkey's history has become
:08:26. > :08:27.even deadlier, as Turks ask which corner
:08:28. > :08:29.of this country is really safe from the violence.
:08:30. > :08:36.Reports from Syria suggest a deal is near to resume the evacuation
:08:37. > :08:37.of thousands of civilians and fighters from rebel-held
:08:38. > :08:44.Today convoys of buses were seen leaving eastern Aleppo
:08:45. > :08:47.and were believed to be heading to help evacuate other people in two
:08:48. > :08:50.villages in the north-east of the country.
:08:51. > :08:52.Air travellers are facing serious disruption over Christmas as more
:08:53. > :08:58.than 4,000 British Airways cabin crew at Heathrow are to go
:08:59. > :09:02.on strike on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, in a row over pay.
:09:03. > :09:04.Swissport, which employs airport staff, and Virgin Atlantic pilots
:09:05. > :09:10.A memorial service has taken place for the American
:09:11. > :09:23.Around 2,500 people gathered in Ohio,
:09:24. > :09:26.to pay tribute to one of the great pioneers of the space race.
:09:27. > :09:29.Saying goodbye to the man who came to define America's
:09:30. > :09:31.supremacy in space - an explorer, leader
:09:32. > :09:38.Accompanied by Marines - he was one himself,
:09:39. > :09:44.and a distinguished World War II fighter pilot - John Glenn
:09:45. > :09:46.made his journey through the sombre streets of Columbus,
:09:47. > :09:50.The mourners were led by Annie, his wife of 73 years.
:09:51. > :09:53.Vice-President Joe Biden was one of those who paid tribute.
:09:54. > :09:58.I think John defined what it meant to be American.
:09:59. > :10:00.What it meant to be an American, what we were about,
:10:01. > :10:10.We were a country of possibilities, opportunity.
:10:11. > :10:18.John Glenn was a pioneer of America's space programme,
:10:19. > :10:21.whose place in the nation's pantheon of heroes was secured in 1962
:10:22. > :10:25.when he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
:10:26. > :10:33.The mission restored US confidence and optimism at a time
:10:34. > :10:37.when the Soviet Union appeared to be getting the upper hand.
:10:38. > :10:40.In 1974, he was elected to the Senate and made
:10:41. > :10:44.an unsuccessful bid for the White House, 10 years later.
:10:45. > :10:47.But space still beckoned and, at 77, he returned
:10:48. > :10:55.If I'm still a little round faced here today,
:10:56. > :10:58.and that comes from the fluid body shift that occurs and that's
:10:59. > :11:01.something, as I understand it, that goes away over a couple of days
:11:02. > :11:03.here and you get back to normal again.
:11:04. > :11:05.But perhaps John Glenn will be remembered most,
:11:06. > :11:10.not for his achievements, but for being a man who believed
:11:11. > :11:13.that a life should be spent pursuing something greater than one's self.
:11:14. > :11:25.Dr Henry Heimlich - the man who invented the life
:11:26. > :11:28.saving Heimlich manoeuvre - has died.
:11:29. > :11:29.Doctor Henry J Heimlich, a leading specialist
:11:30. > :11:32.He devised his famous technique - for preventing choking
:11:33. > :11:34.victims from suffocating - while working in
:11:35. > :11:37.He estimated it had prevented the deaths
:11:38. > :11:45.He himself used the Heimlich manoeuvre just last year, aged 96,
:11:46. > :11:49.saving the life of a fellow resident in his nursing home.
:11:50. > :11:57.A photograph of the Queen and the Prince of Wales has been
:11:58. > :12:00.released to mark the end of the year in which Her Majesty turned 90.
:12:01. > :12:03.The picture, taken in May, shows mother and son in one
:12:04. > :12:06.It was taken by fashion photographer Nick Knight.
:12:07. > :12:08.With all the sport, here's Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes
:12:09. > :12:14.It's been a dramatic day in Rugby Union's European Champions Cup.
:12:15. > :12:18.Leicester's hopes of qualifying for the quarter-finals were kept
:12:19. > :12:25.Exeter finally found their cup form but Northampton were heavily beaten
:12:26. > :12:28.again and Wasps' perfect record was ruined with the last kick
:12:29. > :12:44.Galway's Showgrounds, intimate but intense. Wasps knew that few go west
:12:45. > :12:50.and returned with profit. Joe Simpson picked up a nugget, try.
:12:51. > :12:59.Kayseri are an unlikely success story and they play expansive rugby.
:13:00. > :13:05.Take Danie Poolman's try and lead. The locals could barely draw breath.
:13:06. > :13:11.Bassett scored the try that seem to steal it for wasps. The game would
:13:12. > :13:19.be over if the ball went out. Adeolokun got it down. One kick to
:13:20. > :13:23.win it, Jack Carty's kick. On the ground that normally hosts
:13:24. > :13:31.greyhounds on a Saturday, how is this for a photo finish? Munster
:13:32. > :13:37.scored four tries against Leicester Tigers last time. It took one this
:13:38. > :13:42.time. But a late twist and kicked. Owain Williams from way out.
:13:43. > :13:45.Qualification may be a long shot for Leicester but they are quite good at
:13:46. > :13:56.them. Exeter's hopes are more remote. They beat 14 man Bordeaux,
:13:57. > :14:00.20-12. Turbulent times at Northampton of late. They have lost
:14:01. > :14:09.the England captain Dylan Hartley to a six-week ban for violent conduct.
:14:10. > :14:15.Here the right side of the Saints' defence. Revenge worth five points.
:14:16. > :14:17.For Northampton, the kind of defeat that can have consequences.
:14:18. > :14:18.Today's Premier League football was particularly influential
:14:19. > :14:24.You can see the highlights on Match of the Day later,
:14:25. > :14:27.so if you don't want to know what happened -
:14:28. > :14:32.Chelsea stretched their lead at the top of the table to 9 points
:14:33. > :14:35.after Diego Costa scored the only goal in their win at Crystal Palace.
:14:36. > :14:39.It's a club record-equalling 11th victory in a row for Chelsea.
:14:40. > :14:44.There were also wins for Middlesbrough, Sunderland -
:14:45. > :14:46.who move-off the bottom of the table, West Ham
:14:47. > :14:50.Celtic's lead in the Scottish Premiership is back up to 11 points.
:14:51. > :14:54.Ross County won at home to Aberdeen and the other
:14:55. > :15:01.England's cricketers are still in with a chance
:15:02. > :15:04.of a consolation win in the final Test against India.
:15:05. > :15:07.They recovered from a poor start to the second day in Chennai
:15:08. > :15:09.to reach 477 all out in their first innings -
:15:10. > :15:12.and Adil Rashid both making half centuries.
:15:13. > :15:15.In reply, India were 60 without loss at the close of play.
:15:16. > :15:18.John Higgins staged a remarkable comeback to reach the final
:15:19. > :15:26.The Scot was 5-1 down to Judd Trump and on the verge of going out
:15:27. > :15:28.of the tournament but he fought back in Glasgow.
:15:29. > :15:32.Higgins took five frames in a row to seal his place in the final
:15:33. > :15:44.The winner of this year's Strictly Come
:15:45. > :16:05.BBC Sport presenter Ore Oduba.
:16:06. > :16:09.He and his partner Joanne Clifton collected
:16:10. > :16:13.He and his partner Joanne Clifton collected the trophy.
:16:14. > :16:27.You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.
:16:28. > :16:28.Hello, some of us have a blue sky start to the weekend with parts