09/07/2017

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:00:21. > :00:24.The new Justice Secretary has pledged to tackle the problems

:00:25. > :00:27.of drugs and violence in prison after new figures revealed 200 kilos

:00:28. > :00:29.of drugs and 13,000 mobile phones were found in jails in England

:00:30. > :00:38.David Lidington said the Government was increasing the number of prison

:00:39. > :00:42.officers following cuts under the last coalition government.

:00:43. > :00:51.Here's our home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani.

:00:52. > :00:56.London's Pentonville prison late last year. Orders from inmates for

:00:57. > :01:01.drugs and mobile phones being delivered by gangs on the outside.

:01:02. > :01:04.Packages thrown or catapulted over walls and security net income of

:01:05. > :01:08.prisoners use makeshift hooks to recover them.

:01:09. > :01:12.It is big business. New figures from the Ministry of Justice show the

:01:13. > :01:19.industrial scale of what happening. 225 kilograms of drugs seized last

:01:20. > :01:22.year, 13,000 mobile phones, 7000 extra Sim cards. Prison inspectors

:01:23. > :01:35.have repeatedly criticised jailed for failing to stop the smuggling,

:01:36. > :01:38.which. What I am determined to do is bring

:01:39. > :01:40.about improvements, to build on what my predecessor Liz Truss did in

:01:41. > :01:42.getting extra prison officers and putting in place effective measures

:01:43. > :01:44.to detect more accurately the problem with drugs, the new

:01:45. > :01:47.challenge we have with drones and mobile phones in prison so they are

:01:48. > :01:51.more secure places. Each jail in England and Wales now

:01:52. > :01:55.has hand-held mobile phone detectors, and there are 300 most of

:01:56. > :02:00.the dogs looking for drugs. Ministers have also pledged 2500

:02:01. > :02:04.extra prison officers by the end of next year. Critics say that is fewer

:02:05. > :02:07.staff than in 2010 and the smuggling will continue to have a huge impact.

:02:08. > :02:20.The numbers are pretty eye watering, a

:02:21. > :02:23.huge number of fines for both drugs and mobile phones, that is a good

:02:24. > :02:25.thing because the trade in prisons is very dangerous, it causes

:02:26. > :02:27.bullying, violence and self harm inside the prison, and outside the

:02:28. > :02:30.prison families have money extorted from them to pay for drugs and

:02:31. > :02:34.phones. This is one of the biggest challenges, stopping gangs from

:02:35. > :02:37.using drones under the cover of night. Walls cannot stop the air

:02:38. > :02:41.bound contraband is the police and prison governors are trying to

:02:42. > :02:45.identify the gangs behind them. So 511 men have been jailed for a total

:02:46. > :02:49.of 40 years but most experts say many more I read their determined to

:02:50. > :02:51.do the same because there is big money still to be made.

:02:52. > :02:54.The Iraqi army has been mopping up the last pockets of resistance

:02:55. > :02:56.from militants from the so-called Islamic State in Mosul.

:02:57. > :02:58.An official declaration of victory from the Government

:02:59. > :03:01.Iraqi forces have been trying to retake the city

:03:02. > :03:06.Our correspondent Jonathan Beale is in Mosul waiting for the victory

:03:07. > :03:07.declaration and told us what the situation

:03:08. > :03:15.Well, just in front of us is what the Iraqi security forces

:03:16. > :03:23.say is the last bit of IS territory that they predict will soon fall.

:03:24. > :03:25.Meanwhile, rescue teams, search and rescue teams,

:03:26. > :03:32.This looks like it was an air strike, considering that

:03:33. > :03:39.And they are going through the grim job of trying to find bodies.

:03:40. > :03:41.But, of course, most of what they are finding

:03:42. > :03:47.The chances of people being alive here are very, very slim.

:03:48. > :03:51.Not just the devastation but the extreme heat as well.

:03:52. > :03:55.We are seeing people who have been trapped under IS control

:03:56. > :04:00.coming out looking gaunt, looking haunted, wanting food

:04:01. > :04:03.and water desperately, being taken down this road just past

:04:04. > :04:08.where the search and rescue teams are.

:04:09. > :04:17.There is still a lot of misery in Mosul.

:04:18. > :04:21.Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend a rally

:04:22. > :04:24.in the Turkish city of Istanbul this afternoon to protest

:04:25. > :04:25.against the government of President Erdogan.

:04:26. > :04:29.The event is being held to mark the end of a 280 mile march

:04:30. > :04:31.from Ankara organised by the opposition to highlight

:04:32. > :04:35.the mass arrests and sackings since last year's failed coup.

:04:36. > :04:38.We can speak to our correspondent Mark Lowen, who's in istanbul

:04:39. > :04:50.Mark, how significant is this protest likely to be?

:04:51. > :04:56.It has become extremely significant. It began a month ago as a protest

:04:57. > :05:00.when an opposition MP was imprisoned but has become an unprecedented act

:05:01. > :05:06.of defiance against the Erdogan government. Tens of thousands of

:05:07. > :05:09.people walking 280 miles from Ankara to Istanbul. I joined them last

:05:10. > :05:14.Monday about 70 miles from Istanbul as they marched in the boiling heat

:05:15. > :05:20.along a motorway. They had trudged through rain, up two hills and

:05:21. > :05:24.villages. They are led by the sprightly 68 Sage opposition leader

:05:25. > :05:27.but it is not under a political banner, it is under the word

:05:28. > :05:31.justice. They are fighting what they see as the erosion of Turkish

:05:32. > :05:36.democracy. 50,000 people arrested since the failed coup last year,

:05:37. > :05:39.more than 140,000 dismissed or suspended. A feeling that the

:05:40. > :05:44.Government has seized the opportunity to crush all dissent. It

:05:45. > :05:48.has rattled President Erdogan -- President Erdogan, who has long

:05:49. > :05:52.busted the March for, in his words, siding with terrorist groups. Jeremy

:05:53. > :05:54.Corbyn has written a letter of support to the march as it reaches

:05:55. > :06:15.its end point near Istanbul where the opposition

:06:16. > :06:18.MP has been imprisoned for the last 25 years. The question now is

:06:19. > :06:20.whether this can grow beyond today to bridge the divisions in Turkey's

:06:21. > :06:22.notoriously fractured opposition and become a credible political

:06:23. > :06:23.challenge to the Erdogan Government in the next election. Thank you.

:06:24. > :06:26.Fresh clashes erupted early this morning in the streets of Hamburg

:06:27. > :06:30.German police attempted to disperse dozens of protesters with water

:06:31. > :06:34.It was the third day of violence in the city in which more than 200

:06:35. > :06:37.police officers have been injured and a hundred and 43

:06:38. > :06:41.Sir Vince Cable, who is likely to become the next leader

:06:42. > :06:43.of the Liberal Democrats, says he is beginning to think

:06:44. > :06:47.He told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that the problems were too enormous

:06:48. > :06:50.and the divisions between the two major parties too great.

:06:51. > :06:53.I'm beginning to think that Brexit may never happen.

:06:54. > :06:54.I think the problems are so enormous...

:06:55. > :06:59.The problems are so enormous, the divisions within the two major

:07:00. > :07:01.parties are so enormous, I can see a scenario

:07:02. > :07:12.The parents of Charlie Gard are delivering a petition

:07:13. > :07:14.to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, calling on doctors

:07:15. > :07:17.to allow their terminally ill baby to travel to the US

:07:18. > :07:22.The petition has been signed by more than 350,000 people.

:07:23. > :07:25.The 11-month old boy's case is due to return

:07:26. > :07:32.Still desperately fighting to keep their son alive

:07:33. > :07:38.Charlie Gard's parents started a legal battle

:07:39. > :07:40.with Great Ormond Street Hospital in March.

:07:41. > :07:43.They'd raised ?1.3 million to take Charlie, who has

:07:44. > :07:45.a rare genetic condition, to the US for

:07:46. > :07:51.But doctors here say they believe there is no chance of improvement,

:07:52. > :07:54.and as the 11-month-old can't hear, see, move, cry or swallow,

:07:55. > :08:01.instead his life support should be switched off.

:08:02. > :08:05.So far the courts have agreed with them.

:08:06. > :08:07.But support has grown for the family, with Charlie's story

:08:08. > :08:12.crossing borders and reaching the American president and the Pope.

:08:13. > :08:17.Seven specialist researchers led by the Vatican Children's Hospital

:08:18. > :08:19.signed a letter saying the use of nucleoside therapies should be

:08:20. > :08:29.reconsidered following success in conditions similar to Charlie's.

:08:30. > :08:31.We're quite happy with today's outcome, and we're hopeful that

:08:32. > :08:39.A hearing at the High Court in London tomorrow will determine

:08:40. > :08:42.whether or not this evidence changes the legal decision.

:08:43. > :08:45.Great Ormond Street has made clear its view remains the same,

:08:46. > :08:53.But his parents are keeping the pressure up, hoping against hope

:08:54. > :08:54.that at some point soon, Charlie's future will

:08:55. > :09:04.Well, our correspondent Wyre Davies is at Great Ormond Street

:09:05. > :09:07.The Charlie Gard case is being heard again in court tomorrow,

:09:08. > :09:10.so why do you think the parents are handing in this

:09:11. > :09:21.That is a very good point, the petition itself will have no impact

:09:22. > :09:25.in the courts even though it might have been sent by 350,000 people.

:09:26. > :09:29.But the parents clearly feel they have been given a ray of hope given

:09:30. > :09:34.the new information from Italy and the United States. I think it is

:09:35. > :09:37.important to say that the hospital's position has not changed, they are

:09:38. > :09:41.in concurrence with the original High Court decision that Charlie's

:09:42. > :09:48.quality of life cannot be improved and doctors should be allowed to

:09:49. > :09:50.turn off his life-support systems, allowing him only palliative care.

:09:51. > :09:54.The parents are clearly emboldened, they have new support and new

:09:55. > :09:57.information from the United States and Italy. A lot of that will be

:09:58. > :09:58.heard tomorrow in the High Court. Thank you.

:09:59. > :10:01.The next news on BBC One is at 6:35pm.

:10:02. > :10:20.Heat has been one of the main summer weather talking points so far this

:10:21. > :10:21.year, not so much this