24/02/2018 BBC Weekend News

The UN Security Council unanimously

approved a resolution demanding a 30

day ceasefire in Syria.

It follows a week of intense

bombardment of rebel held eastern

Ghouta by government forces -

activists say hundreds

have been killed.

The vote, to allow for aid

deliveries, was repeatedly delayed -

Syria's ally Russia was accused

of stalling for time.

In the three days it took us to

adopt this resolution, how many

mothers lost their kids to the

bombing and shelling? How many more

images did we need to see of fathers

holding their dead children?

We'll have the latest

live from the UN.

Also tonight:

Hi

Hi. Well hello...

The actress Emma

Chambers, best known

for The Vicar Of Dibley,

has died at the age of 53.

The International Committee

of the Red Cross reveals more

than 20 staff have been dismissed

in the last three years

for sexual misconduct.

And Billy Morgan's bronze

in the snowboarding gives Team

GB their biggest-ever medal haul

in a Winter Olympics.

Good evening.

After days of deadlock,

the UN Security Council has

unanimously voted for an immediate

30-day ceasefire across Syria.

It's hoped the truce will allow aid

to reach areas including

rebel-held eastern Ghouta,

where more than 500 civilians

are said to have been killed

in government air strikes

in the past week.

The vote had been delayed repeatedly

to avoid drawing a veto from Russia,

an ally of the Syrian government.

Western diplomats accused Moscow

of stalling for time.

Nick Bryant reports.

The people of eastern Ghouta woke up

this morning to continued aerial

bombardment and the news

from New York that the Security

Council remained deadlocked.

And still couldn't reach agreement

on how to bring about even

a temporary halt to the killing.

Delay in Syria always

brings more death.

At least 120 children have been

killed since Sunday according

to human rights activists.

Hospitals overwhelmed by the number

of casualties have been targets

of the government's bombing.

On the fringes of

the Security Council,

the tensest of negotiations.

But always a sense of urgency

from the backers of this resolution

and always the unresolved question,

would Russia allow it to pass?

I would call upon those

who are in favour of the draft

resolution to raise their hand.

When it came to a vote the Russian

ambassador held his arm

aloft not to wield a veto

but to finally agree.

Yet Western diplomats

still attacked Moscow

for delaying its passage for days.

As they dragged out the negotiation,

the bombs from Assad's fighter

jets continued to fall.

In the three days it took us

to adopt this resolution,

how many mothers lost their kids

to the bombing and the shelling?

While we've been arguing over

commas, Assad's planes have been

killing more civilians

in their homes and

in their hospitals.

Imposing unbearable suffering.

The Russian ambassador

was pessimistic about the chances

of the ceasefire, saying

there weren't concrete guarantees

from warring parties to abide by.

This resolution brings the hope,

at least, that aid convoys will soon

be driving through the streets

and medical evacuations

can finally take place.

But even after the Security Council

agreed its passage, reports came

from eastern Ghouta that government

warplanes were continuing

their week-long bombardment.

Let's speak to Nick in New York.

Even getting this far has been

tricky, Nick. Implementing this far

harder potentially.

It is, ceasefire

is turned to unravel very quickly.

The Russian ambassador very

pessimistic even that this truce

would come into effect. Even some

Western diplomats are saying tonight

that they think the Syrian regime

will ignore a lot of this

resolution. There is no enforcement

mechanism, no penalties to make sure

they abide by its terms. This does

create this problem of

implementation. But the feeling here

is even a week resolution is better

than no resolution. Russia didn't

wield its veto, it's done at 11

times over Syria. There is this

small glimmer of hope that they can

get some humanitarian aid into

eastern Ghouta and get some of those

medical casualties out.

Nick Bryant

in New York.

Two people have appeared in court

charged with causing the death

of two young brothers

by dangerous driving.

Corey and Casper Platt-May,

who were six and two,

were on a family trip to a park

in Coventry when they were hit

by a car on Thursday.

Robert Brown, who's 53,

and Gwendoline Harrison,

who's 41, were remanded

in custody by magistrates.

The actress Emma Chambers has

died at the age of 53.

She was best known for playing Alice

in the long-running BBC comedy

The Vicar Of Dibley.

Lizo Mzimba looks

back at her career.

Well, I can't believe this stuff

that is not

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter

is not

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.

LAUGHTER.

And I can't believe that both

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter

and the stuff that I can't believe

is not

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter

are both, in fact, not butter.

And I believe they both

might be butter.

Emma Chambers' Alice Tinker,

a character as humorous

as she was naive.

Oh, and this is a nice woman

we met on the flight.

She was a bit tired

when we got to Turkey,

so Hugo was ever so sweet

and carried her case

through Customs.

This is Honey.

She's my baby sister.

This is one of those

key moments in life.

Just as loved was Honey in hit

romcom Notting Hill.

Her co-star, Hugh Grant,

today called her a hilarious

and brilliant actress.

While Dawn French led the tributes

from the Vicar Of Dibley cast,

saying she'd lost the most loyal

and loving friend

anyone could wish for.

And fans are mourning the woman

behind a comedy character

who was loved by millions.

The actress Emma Chambers,

who has died at the age of 53.

The Head of the International

Committee of the Red Cross has said

the recent revelations of sexual

misconduct by aid agency workers

is a watershed moment

for the charity sector.

Yves Daccord's comments came

as he revealed that more than 20

of his staff have been dismissed

in the last three years

for sexual misconduct.

Our Diplomatic Correspondent,

Caroline Hawley, reports.

The Red Cross emblem

is seen as a symbol

of protection around the world.

Like here in South Sudan.

And most of the time it is.

But the ICRC has now revealed

behaviour it says was a betrayal

of the people it was set

up to serve.

Since 2015, 21 members of staff

either resigned or were dismissed

for paying for sex.

The head of the ICRC spoke

of the silence around sexual

misconduct being shattered and

called this a watershed moment for

the humanitarian sector as a whole.

Yesterday, 22 British aid

organisations came together to write

a joint letter promising to root out

staff who have abused their power,

and saying they were truly sorry.

Among them was Oxfam.

Revelations about the behaviour

of seven of its workers in Haiti put

the whole aid sector under scrutiny

with all aid agencies now under

pressure for transparency,

Plan International has just

confirmed six cases of sexual abuse

and exploitation of children.

Organisations dedicated to saving

and improving lives are now also

trying to rescue reputations.

It's clear that we have a particular

challenge within the charity sector

in that some people in some

charities have been concerned that

if they report this kind

of behaviour it will harm the work

that they so passionately

believe in.

And we've seen from the case

of Oxfam that loss of public trust

is hugely, hugely damaging.

As aid agencies try to rebuild

trust, the government has

given them a deadline.

192 British charities working abroad

have until Monday to come

clean on past allegations

of sexual misconduct.

They must also show what they're

doing now to protect the people

they help from future abuse.

Caroline Hawley, BBC News.

Scientists in the United States

are developing wearable sensors

to speed up the recovery of people

who've had a stroke.

The sensors are able to send

information to doctors continuously,

allowing them to monitor

the effectiveness

of their therapies.

Wearable technology

is now being developed

by researchers around the world -

as our Science Correspondent,

Pallab Ghosh, reports

from Austin, Texas.

Technology you can wear.

Skin displays developed

by Japanese researchers that

show your vital signs.

It's to put on patients so that

doctors can monitor their progress.

The displays are among a new wave

of wearable electronics finding

medical applications.

And we're going horizontal

with this one, correct?

In the US, Lizzie had

a stroke two years ago.

She couldn't move or speak

or swallow for several weeks.

Lizzie is testing out

wearable sensors that

might speed her recovery.

They send information wirelessly

to the medical team.

She's a doctor and she can see

how it would help her.

This technology, to be able to put

sensors on the body and really

assess what muscle groups

are working or not can really

pinpoint the areas affected

by the stroke and target therapies

to specifically

improve those issues.

The doctors here can continuously

monitor Lizzie wherever she goes

using these devices.

They can follow her muscle activity,

her heart rate, even her speech.

May I please have two tacos?

Sure.

The idea is they can closely track

whether she is showing

signs of improvement.

Do we see that they're walking more

at home or do we see that they're

engaging in conversations?

Those are the types of things I can

get feedback from the sensors

where currently I only

have their report.

The challenge for the scientist

was to pack a lot of electronics

into a small, flexible material.

It's almost mechanically sort

of imperceptible to the patient

who's wearing the device.

And you can embed all sorts

of advanced sensor functionality,

microprocessor computing capability,

radios, power supplies, into this

kind of very unusual platform.

That is the uniqueness

of what we do.

Thursday, Friday...

By the end of this year the team

will have more information

than anyone has ever had before

about recovery from stroke.

They believe that their study

could transform the way patients

are treated in the future.

Pallab Ghosh, BBC

News, Austin, Texas.

A busy day in the world of sport.

A busy day in the world of sport.

With all the sport,

here's Karthi Gnanasegaram

Good evening.

Scotland have beaten England

for the first time in ten years

to win the Calcutta Cup.

Ireland are now the only side

to maintain an unbeaten record

in rugby union's Six Nations

after their victory over Wales.

Olly Foster reports

from Murrayfield.

# Flower of Scotland #.

England are always out some at

Murrayfield, rarely are they

outplayed. Proud Eddie Jones's team

have been sent home to think again.

Hugh Jones's early score was the

first against them at Murrayfield

for 14 years.

Hugh Jones.

Two more

brilliant Scottish tries by

half-time. Sean Maitland went over

in the corner, Jones dragged two

investment across the line. They

were 16 points up.

What a score.

Hugh Jones, who can stop him?

Owen

Farrell scored all of England's

points, his sole try giving them

some belief. They gave away too many

penalties. When Sam Underhill was

sin binned for a dangerous tackle

there was no way back. Just joy for

Scotland.

A win for Scotland for

Murrayfield to celebrate.

Scotland

have waited ten years for this and

it is all the sweeter because

they've scuppered England's hopes of

the grand slam. But there is still

one team left in the championship

still unbeaten. Ireland remain top

of the table with three winds out of

three, though they tried to throw it

away against Wales in Dublin. They

came from behind to go 14 clear in

the second half as they easily

punched holes in the Welsh defence.

Wales came back off the ropes and

when Steff Evans's late try was

converted there were just three

points between them until they steal

from Jacob Stockdale, his second try

of the match. Ireland had stolen a

march in the six Nations

championship. Olly Foster, BBC News.

A bronze medal for Billy Morgan

in snowboarding's Big Air

competition has given Great Britain

and Northern Ireland

their highest medal tally

in Winter Olympics history.

Morgan won Team GB's

fifth medal of the Games.

Andy Swiss reports from PyeongChang.

And he needs to go

absolutely stratospheric.

He's a former acrobat with a dodgy

knee, but Billy Morgan

was about to leap into history.

Double grab...

Yes, yes!

At 28, Morgan is a

snowboarding veteran.

This, his last jump,

but surely his last Olympics.

What a way to finish.

That is absolutely huge!

It propelled Morgan into bronze

medal position and one

by one his rivals' hopes

came tumbling down.

When the last one crashed,

Morgan, to his utter

disbelief, had his medal.

It's a bit of luck, luck

of the draw, it came

down to me on the day.

So happy days.

And Morgan's joy was also Team GB's.

A record-breaking fifth

medal of these games.

The British team have had their ups

and downs here but Billy Morgan has

ensured they've hit their target

making this the most successful

Winter Olympics in history.

But there have been

bitter disappointments.

None more so than the women's

curlers set to take their bronze

medal match to an extra end,

Captain Eve Muirhead went for broke.

A shot for victory.

But instead, calamity.

It's got to just sit right.

It's not.

Instead of knocking out Japan's

stone she knocked out her own,

handing her opponents the bronze

and Britain a desperate defeat.

For another woman, though,

a day of extraordinary achievement.

After winning gold on skis last

weekend, it was gold on a snowboard

for the Czech Republic's Ester

Ledecka.

Two titles, two sports, one quite

extraordinary athlete.

It's time to pop out

of the room if you don't

want to know today's results,

as Match of the Day

follows soon on BBC One.

Liverpool have moved up to second

place in the Premier League

after a 4-1 win over West Ham.

While Swansea dropped

in to the relegation zone,

and Southampton moved up

to 16th place.

All of the day's sports headlines,

including the Scottish Premiership

results, are on the BBC

Sport website.

Jane.

That is all from us here on BBC One

for tonight. Good night.