14/12/2016

:00:07. > :00:10.It's Wednesday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

:00:11. > :00:15.Our top story today - the battle of Aleppo is over -

:00:16. > :00:18.but residents are still waiting to be evacuated from

:00:19. > :00:20.the northern Syrian city - they've painted a horrific picture

:00:21. > :00:32.To everyone who can hear me, we are here exposed to genocide in the

:00:33. > :00:39.besieged city of Aleppo. This maybe my last video. I hope you can

:00:40. > :00:42.remember us. I don't know. Thank you very much.

:00:43. > :00:44.Also on the programme - a British man who tried

:00:45. > :00:47.to assassinate Donald Trump has been sentenced to a year and a day

:00:48. > :00:52.We'll get reaction from his mum who feared for her autistic

:00:53. > :00:59.And British actor Douglas Booth who's starred in Great Expectations

:01:00. > :01:02.and the Riot club is just back from Iraq where he's been

:01:03. > :01:25.Throughout the programme this morning we'll bring you the latest

:01:26. > :01:28.breaking news and developing stories - the latest unemployment figures

:01:29. > :01:32.are due out in around half an hour - we'll bring those to you as soon

:01:33. > :01:35.as they happen and former football coach Barry Bennell is due to appear

:01:36. > :01:37.in court in the next hour charged with child sex offences.

:01:38. > :01:40.We'll have a reporter inside court with all the details.

:01:41. > :01:42.Plus a little later in the programme, David Beckham and British

:01:43. > :01:47.Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning.

:01:48. > :01:50.Use the hashtag Victoria Live and If you text, you will be charged

:01:51. > :01:55.The four-year battle for the Syrian city of Aleppo appears to be ending.

:01:56. > :01:57.Despite the ceasefire, there are reports that government

:01:58. > :01:58.forces resumed shelling of rebel-held districts

:01:59. > :02:08.The United Nations estimates that up to 50,000 civilians remain -

:02:09. > :02:10.and it's demanding access for international observers,

:02:11. > :02:29.Now that the fighting has stopped buses, have arrived ready to take

:02:30. > :02:32.rebel fighters and their families away from their former stronghold,

:02:33. > :02:34.but they're not leaving yet as negotiations over their exit

:02:35. > :02:40.And this has meant the evacuation of sick and injured civilians

:02:41. > :02:47.Ambulances were turned back this morning.

:02:48. > :02:50.Many of those who had been trapped in the crossfire have already tried

:02:51. > :02:53.to flee taking with them what little they have after a battle that

:02:54. > :03:02.For four years, the regime here has been fighting to win back

:03:03. > :03:07.In recent weeks, backed by its Russian and Iranian allies,

:03:08. > :03:14.Finally resulting in victory for the Syrian forces.

:03:15. > :03:16.Now, in the aftermath, they stand accused of war crimes.

:03:17. > :03:19.The United Nations says it has received credible reports of scores

:03:20. > :03:22.of civilians being killed either by intense bombardment

:03:23. > :03:23.or summary execution by pro-Government forces,

:03:24. > :03:30.something the regime strongly denies.

:03:31. > :03:33.At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council,

:03:34. > :03:35.the United States ambassador said she believed that victory

:03:36. > :03:53.The regime and its Russian allies will only be emboldened

:03:54. > :03:55.to replicate their starve and surrender and slaughter

:03:56. > :03:59.This will be their model for attempt to go re-take cities

:04:00. > :04:03.It will not end with Aleppo and it will not focus on terrorists.

:04:04. > :04:05.More than 300,000 people have been killed since

:04:06. > :04:11.The capture of Aleppo may be a significant victory

:04:12. > :04:13.for the Government, but the country's struggles

:04:14. > :04:26.We are going to talk much more about Aleppo. Let me bring you this. I'm

:04:27. > :04:29.going to pause. Our correspondent Tomos Morgan

:04:30. > :04:39.is in Beirut with the latest. What can you tell us about reports

:04:40. > :04:48.of resumed shelling this morning? That's right right. We first heard

:04:49. > :04:52.reports by pro-opposition media Iranian backed militants had been

:04:53. > :04:55.shelling the east of Aleppo. Activists had been saying the same

:04:56. > :05:01.thing and sources close to the BBC echoing those calls. Russia now, the

:05:02. > :05:06.latest to say that firing has now restarted. They are blaming the

:05:07. > :05:12.rebels for restarting the fighting in east Aleppo saying that the

:05:13. > :05:16.rebels fired at dawn. They used the small window of ceasefire that

:05:17. > :05:21.happened over the past 12 hours as an opportunity to regroup. But it

:05:22. > :05:27.appears as though that ceasefire has not lasted very long. Fighting is

:05:28. > :05:30.continuing for those tens of thousands of civilians who are

:05:31. > :05:33.trapped in the city who were hoping to leave, they are now in the same

:05:34. > :05:37.situation as they have been for the past four years, but in a much more

:05:38. > :05:41.condensed area. People fearing because it is so more congested that

:05:42. > :05:45.the loss of life maybe Greater. Right. And we were told that there

:05:46. > :05:51.were effectively buses on the outskirts of the east of the city

:05:52. > :05:55.waiting to evacuate those civilians, but if shelling has restarted, are

:05:56. > :06:00.they going to hang around those buses or what? Well, from what we

:06:01. > :06:03.understand those buses did arrive. They were waiting and there were

:06:04. > :06:08.injured and sick patients already on the buses waiting to leave. Some

:06:09. > :06:11.people tried to leave before the proposed evacuation time which was

:06:12. > :06:17.0500 hours, that was about six hours ago now. But nothing ever happened.

:06:18. > :06:22.Nobody ever left. One of the reasons for that, it is assumed, it was

:06:23. > :06:28.because the Syrian pro-Government forces wanted their troops to be

:06:29. > :06:32.evacuated from towns and villages in northern Syria which were circled by

:06:33. > :06:38.the rebels. So they were unwilling for the deal to continue unless they

:06:39. > :06:43.had a slice of that bargain. Talks will be continuing today according

:06:44. > :06:48.Turkish officials, talks between Turkey and Russia and hoping to

:06:49. > :06:55.bring this ceasefire to an end, the hope for the civilians still trapped

:06:56. > :06:57.in east Aleppo. Thank you very much, Momas.

:06:58. > :07:02.Back here, Lancashire Police say they have dropped an investigation

:07:03. > :07:05.into an alleged attack on the Strictly Dancer after finding no

:07:06. > :07:10.evidence that an assault took place, they say. The dancer was said to

:07:11. > :07:13.have been the victim of an unprovoked attack outside a

:07:14. > :07:18.Blackpool nightclub after the filming of Strictly, but police say

:07:19. > :07:22.examination of CCTV footage of the location of the alleged assault

:07:23. > :07:27.failed to reveal any evidence of the incident. A spokesman for Lancashire

:07:28. > :07:30.Police said we have carried out an ainvestigation and no arrests have

:07:31. > :07:34.been made. We never received a complaint from the victim and any

:07:35. > :07:37.injuries sustained were seen to be of a minor nature.

:07:38. > :07:40.Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

:07:41. > :07:44.The former football coach Barry Bennell is due to appear

:07:45. > :07:46.at Crewe Magistrates' Court this morning via video-link.

:07:47. > :07:48.The ex-Crewe Alexandra youth coach, who is 62, has been charged

:07:49. > :07:50.with eight offences of sexual assault against a boy

:07:51. > :07:56.State schools in England will have to find ?3 billion

:07:57. > :07:59.in savings by 2020, according to the public spending watchdog.

:08:00. > :08:02.The National Audit Office says schools are not ready for the "scale

:08:03. > :08:06.The warning comes as ministers are expected to announce

:08:07. > :08:08.a new formula for allocating funding, as our Education

:08:09. > :08:10.Correspondent Gillian Hargreaves reports.

:08:11. > :08:12.Making the numbers add up can be a stressful business.

:08:13. > :08:14.Tanbridge House School in West Sussex has 1,500 pupils

:08:15. > :08:17.and a budget of around ?6 million a year.

:08:18. > :08:19.But it struggles to keep the books balanced because pupils

:08:20. > :08:29.in West Sussex receive around ?1,800 less than in other schools.

:08:30. > :08:36.In teaching terms, if I was funded just down the road,

:08:37. > :08:39.like an area in Brighton, I'd be able to employ around

:08:40. > :08:43.If I were in Greenwich, that number would rise to about 80.

:08:44. > :08:45.I would effectively be able to double my staffing.

:08:46. > :08:48.Now, the Government plans to make the distribution of cash more equal

:08:49. > :08:57.In a report out today, the National Audit Office says that

:08:58. > :08:59.overall school funding isn't keeping pace with increased pupil numbers,

:09:00. > :09:05.the rising cost of national insurance and pension contributions.

:09:06. > :09:08.As a result, ?3 billion of savings will have to be made by 2020.

:09:09. > :09:11.60% of secondary schools will be in the red with deficits averaging

:09:12. > :09:21.Without more money, Tanbridge might have seen its class numbers rise,

:09:22. > :09:23.but while it's likely to be a winner other schools in places

:09:24. > :09:26.like Inner London, Coventry and Doncaster could lose out.

:09:27. > :09:28.Though the Government promises no school will see its budget cut

:09:29. > :09:46.Train bosses and unions will start formal talks this morning

:09:47. > :09:48.in an effort to resolve the Southern Rail dispute.

:09:49. > :09:51.The company has advised its 300,000 daily passengers not to travel,

:09:52. > :09:53.after ASLEF and RMT members walked out yesterday.

:09:54. > :09:55.Southern and the unions have agreed to meet

:09:56. > :10:08.There was a rise in reported cases of hate crime after the EU

:10:09. > :10:10.referendum, according to Britain's most senior policeman.

:10:11. > :10:13.Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe told the BBC cases rose by as much

:10:14. > :10:16.as three-quarters in the three months after the vote, but had now

:10:17. > :10:18.fallen back towards the level before the referendum.

:10:19. > :10:20.He described the prevalence of offences as "quite shocking"

:10:21. > :10:22.and promised to protect anyone who was threatened.

:10:23. > :10:25.A British man who tried to grab a police officer's gun

:10:26. > :10:28.at a Donald Trump rally has been sentenced to 12 months in prison

:10:29. > :10:34.Michael Sandford, who is 20, pleaded guilty to possessing

:10:35. > :10:36.a firearm and disrupting the campaign rally in Las Vegas

:10:37. > :10:39.He admitted that he had approached a policeman,

:10:40. > :10:43.saying he wanted Mr Trump's autograph.

:10:44. > :10:46.The UK ranks 54th in the world for 4G coverage, behind

:10:47. > :10:47.the likes of Romania, Albania and Peru,

:10:48. > :10:50.with many mobile users still struggling to get signal.

:10:51. > :10:58.The National Infrastructure Commission says the Government must

:10:59. > :11:01.of technology, 5G or risk languishing in the "digital slow

:11:02. > :11:13.Where have you been where you failed to get a mobile phone signal?

:11:14. > :11:18.Everywhere. 4G doesn't always work that efficiently, even in London.

:11:19. > :11:24.Well, wherever you are in the country let us know if you can get a

:11:25. > :11:31.4G signal quite interesting, down the think, that we come behind

:11:32. > :11:33.Romania and Peru etcetera. Let us know what the mobile phone signal is

:11:34. > :11:38.wherever you are in the UK. What happened in the Premier League

:11:39. > :11:47.last night, Jessica? Arsenal had the chance to go top

:11:48. > :11:50.of the table last night but blew it The Gunners will certainly

:11:51. > :11:53.be disappointed. They've scored 12 goals

:11:54. > :11:59.in their past three games, This was an opportunity

:12:00. > :12:03.to really throw their hat in the ring and say,

:12:04. > :12:07."Yes, we are genuine title But they became unstuck

:12:08. > :12:11.against an Everton side really Alexis Sanchez got Arsenal off

:12:12. > :12:15.to a good start with this free kick. But that woke Everton

:12:16. > :12:17.up and they equalised Then Ashley Williams popped up

:12:18. > :12:20.with the winner late on. That's only Everton's

:12:21. > :12:25.second win in 11 games. Also last night, Bournemouth are up

:12:26. > :12:28.to their highest ever position in the top flight,

:12:29. > :12:30.eighth, after beating Leicester 1-0. And in the Scottish Premiership,

:12:31. > :12:34.Celtic have an 11-point lead at the top after a 1-0

:12:35. > :12:42.win against Hamilton. More fallout from the

:12:43. > :12:47.Russian doping scandal? The Russian city of Sochi will no

:12:48. > :12:49.longer host the bobsleigh This comes after a recent report

:12:50. > :12:56.which alleges that more than 1,000 Russian athletes were part

:12:57. > :12:58.of a blood-doping cover-up And so the governing body

:12:59. > :13:05.the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation will name

:13:06. > :13:08.a new host city for the competition, You might remember there

:13:09. > :13:12.were threats of boycotts from some high-profile names in the sport

:13:13. > :13:16.including Britain's Olympic She's reacted to the decision,

:13:17. > :13:21.saying she's happy the sport There's been talk of one

:13:22. > :13:30.Formula One's biggest sets of rivals It seems hard to believe,

:13:31. > :13:36.considering their intense battle for the title this year,

:13:37. > :13:38.but yes, world champion Nico Rosberg says he and former Mercedes teammate

:13:39. > :13:41.Lewis Hamilton can "have a laugh together" now that

:13:42. > :13:43.Rosberg has retired! They were good friends as teenagers

:13:44. > :13:46.when they were go-kart racing, but the strain of being on the same

:13:47. > :13:49.team and challenging for the title over the past three seasons

:13:50. > :13:51.really took its toll. It seems as though they're both

:13:52. > :13:56.putting that behind them, though. Remember those pictures of a young

:13:57. > :14:06.boy from Afghanistan wearing a blue-and-white carrier bag

:14:07. > :14:08.as a football shirt to replicate The pictures went across the world

:14:09. > :14:16.on social media and the boy Well, that same little boy

:14:17. > :14:22.actually got to meet Messi. He got to walk out

:14:23. > :14:27.onto the pitch with him. Having so much fun,

:14:28. > :14:41.didn't want to leave. He wants to play for Barcelona by

:14:42. > :14:46.the looks of it. Gorgeous. Thank you very much, Jess, thank you.

:14:47. > :14:49.There are reports that shelling has resumed

:14:50. > :14:52.in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a day after a ceasefire was agreed

:14:53. > :14:55.between the government and rebel fighters.

:14:56. > :14:58.Witnesses say government forces began firing on rebel-held districts

:14:59. > :15:02.in eastern Aleppo but that it stopped after half an hour.

:15:03. > :15:10.Meanwhile the planned evacuation of civilians and rebel fighters

:15:11. > :15:13.from the city has been delayed, as the government there demands

:15:14. > :15:15.a simultaneous evacuation for its own injured fighters.

:15:16. > :15:17.Aleppo has been a key battleground in the war between forces loyal

:15:18. > :15:19.to President Bashar al-Assad and rebels who want

:15:20. > :15:27.People living in the East, have faced non-stop bombardment

:15:28. > :15:29.from pro-government forces for the last two days

:15:30. > :15:33.with reports of barrel bombs, dead bodies in the streets,

:15:34. > :15:35.and claims that civilians were being shot dead

:15:36. > :15:40.This time yesterday on the programme we were reporting the tweets

:15:41. > :15:42.of desperate residents trapped in the Syrian city of

:15:43. > :15:46.Here are some of the social media videos people have been posting

:15:47. > :15:52.To everyone who can hear me, we are here exposed to a genocide

:15:53. > :17:09.We are tried to get in touch with him to get him back on the

:17:10. > :17:11.programme. In an interview on Russian Today,

:17:12. > :17:14.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that the West does not care

:17:15. > :17:17.about civilians in Aleppo. Here's an extract from

:17:18. > :17:18.that the interview, If we liberate Aleppo

:17:19. > :17:21.from terrorists, Western officials and mainstream media would be

:17:22. > :17:25.worried about civilians. They do not worry when the opposite

:17:26. > :17:29.happens, when terrorists kill those civilians or attack Palmyra

:17:30. > :17:34.and start destroying the human heritage, not

:17:35. > :17:37.only Syrian heritage. In an extraordinary intervention

:17:38. > :17:41.last night, US Ambassador to the United Nations Stephanie Power

:17:42. > :17:44.asked Syria, Russia and Iran whether there was literally nothing

:17:45. > :17:57.that could shame them. You in truly incapable of shame? Is

:17:58. > :18:07.there literally nothing that can shame you? Is there no act of

:18:08. > :18:10.barbarism against civilians, no execution of a child that gets under

:18:11. > :18:20.your skin, that creeps you out a little bit?

:18:21. > :18:29.I gather you can hear shelling right now? Tell us what is going on. About

:18:30. > :18:39.three hours ago the shelling and bombing started to hit the besieged

:18:40. > :18:50.city by the Iranians and Syrian regime. We heard there is a problem

:18:51. > :18:57.with... You can hear that? I heard it. There is a problem with those

:18:58. > :19:04.who occupy the city. The Iranians would love to kill everybody in

:19:05. > :19:13.Aleppo, because that is what is satisfying them. Can I just ask

:19:14. > :19:20.about that? You said Iranians are trying to kill everyone in eastern

:19:21. > :19:29.Aleppo to satisfy them? Yes. That is what they want. I just heard some

:19:30. > :19:40.more shelling. Yes, it has continued for the last three hours. I read

:19:41. > :19:45.that the Russians said that the rebels resumed attacks and the

:19:46. > :19:53.regime will attack the city, and that is what has happened. But the

:19:54. > :19:58.regime starts hitting these neighbourhoods, to start attacking

:19:59. > :20:09.again this besieged city, maybe to put pressure on the Syrian friends

:20:10. > :20:13.to evacuate the people from the city without any conditions, and the

:20:14. > :20:27.Iranians want to put in another condition, about evacuation of a

:20:28. > :20:34.village. The same as what will happen to Aleppo city. Before we

:20:35. > :20:37.continue our conversation, do you want to leave us, do you want to

:20:38. > :20:49.move somewhere, do you want to continue talking? We are under a

:20:50. > :21:00.real genocide. But because of our last messages and our low voice, we

:21:01. > :21:07.shout, for the world to stand for this. But we know they will keep

:21:08. > :21:20.silent. If the Iranians and Russians killed us, they will not care about

:21:21. > :21:28.that. Everything will be good. That is what we think about. We know that

:21:29. > :21:44.we should survive, because there is nothing important to die for. We can

:21:45. > :21:53.sacrifice ourselves for freedom and democracy. It looks like nobody

:21:54. > :22:02.cares about our freedom and our democracy. They care about

:22:03. > :22:10.dictatorships and who can take power. I just want to check whether

:22:11. > :22:15.you feel OK continuing to talk to us now with the shelling that we can

:22:16. > :22:25.hear in the background. It is not a problem. We to that. -- we are used

:22:26. > :22:30.to that. We have seen reports in people in the east of Aleppo,

:22:31. > :22:35.civilians, opposition activists, saying there have been dead bodies

:22:36. > :22:46.piling up in the streets, that there have been executions. Have you seen

:22:47. > :22:56.that? I did not see that. But one of my friends, his relative was killed

:22:57. > :23:04.and executed when they were captured by the Assad regime. If we suppose

:23:05. > :23:11.is has not happened, we know what the Assad regime did since the

:23:12. > :23:22.uprising began, 100,000 people executed. My friend, a doctor, was

:23:23. > :23:27.executed in the air force security branch, they burned him alive in

:23:28. > :23:36.2012. All of the world knows about that, this crime.

:23:37. > :23:47.If you suppose it has not happened, I am sure it has happened. It would

:23:48. > :23:53.not be unusual for the Assad gang and his allies. I will bring in some

:23:54. > :23:58.more people who have got pertinent things to say about what is going on

:23:59. > :24:05.in eastern Aleppo. If you need to leave us, we completely understand.

:24:06. > :24:07.If you can take -- stay, we would be grateful, but I will leave it up to

:24:08. > :24:08.you. We can speak now to Hamish Gordon

:24:09. > :24:11.from the charity Doctors Under Fire, and Crispin Blunt, who's

:24:12. > :24:16.a Conservative MP and the chair of the Foreign Affairs

:24:17. > :24:35.Select Committee. You voted against intervention in

:24:36. > :24:42.Syria in 2013 but voted for it in 2015. It is being reported by a P,

:24:43. > :24:45.those buses that were supposed to take civilians, children and rebel

:24:46. > :24:48.fighters out of Aleppo, Associated Press said they have returned to

:24:49. > :24:54.their depots without anybody on board. We were speaking to our

:24:55. > :25:00.people in East Aleppo earlier this morning. They try to get out, but

:25:01. > :25:09.the Iranians militias were preventing it. What we have heard

:25:10. > :25:15.coming out of East Aleppo is very concerning. If the Iranians intent

:25:16. > :25:19.to murder everybody there, that is absolutely shocking. We were

:25:20. > :25:26.hopeful, speaking to people only half an hour ago, that the buses and

:25:27. > :25:32.ambulances... We have ambulances available to take injured out, we

:25:33. > :25:35.were hopeful they would be back later, so they were hopeful 30

:25:36. > :25:39.minutes ago. The general ceasefire appears to be in place but it

:25:40. > :25:44.appears that the Iranians militias are still fighting, and creating

:25:45. > :25:52.what we have heard on the ground at the moment. Hence the sound of

:25:53. > :25:56.shelling? That would appear to be the case. Overnight it has been

:25:57. > :26:02.relatively quiet, we have not seen any end attacks on the regime ought

:26:03. > :26:07.from... Apparently Russia has not been attacking for some time. The

:26:08. > :26:13.children we have had prepared and ready to go, a plan we have worked

:26:14. > :26:18.on for several weeks, we were very hopeful last night that by now they

:26:19. > :26:22.would be out and in the main hospital in Italy. It is very

:26:23. > :26:26.disappointing that is not happening, although people were upbeat half an

:26:27. > :26:31.hour ago that this might happen again later or tomorrow morning. But

:26:32. > :26:36.it appears it is the Iranians who are the block. Let's hope, after the

:26:37. > :26:41.debate yesterday, where everybody agreed that hitherto we have been

:26:42. > :26:47.pretty woeful in our activities in Syria, that people are now

:26:48. > :26:51.galvanised. I would hope the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary are

:26:52. > :26:55.on the phone to the Iranians the moment to try and assert influence

:26:56. > :27:01.on them. Because I agree with George Osborne and Andrew Mitchell, what

:27:02. > :27:03.Britain is brilliant at is diplomacy, and we have not flexed

:27:04. > :27:10.that muscle enough recently, and we should be now. Just to explain to

:27:11. > :27:13.people who are wanting to learn more about this situation, the Iranians

:27:14. > :27:20.militias are there fighting alongside resident Assad's troops.

:27:21. > :27:25.Correct. Assad has a variety of different allies, Hezbollah and also

:27:26. > :27:31.the Iranians militias, who are fighting with him. They are even

:27:32. > :27:35.less controlled than the Syrian Army. We have heard of the

:27:36. > :27:40.executions yesterday, our people on the ground have confirmed that has

:27:41. > :27:49.been happening, but 282 people, women and children, shot in the

:27:50. > :27:53.open. -- up to 82 people. I could not say hand on heart that they had

:27:54. > :27:57.witnessed it, but they say they have seen it happen, and there are people

:27:58. > :28:04.in the streets who have been summary executed and murdered by these

:28:05. > :28:08.militias. You're 40 Syrian staff, when was the last time you heard

:28:09. > :28:14.from them, and what have they told you? Thankfully I have just spoken

:28:15. > :28:22.to them via what's up minutes ago. This confirms they are still alive.

:28:23. > :28:28.They are trapped inside East Aleppo. Much of what we are hearing tonight

:28:29. > :28:33.about the continued shelling of the city, there is a loss of faith both

:28:34. > :28:38.from our staff and from the wider civilian community about the

:28:39. > :28:41.international ability, desire or interest to stop this ongoing

:28:42. > :28:46.conflict, which is killing hundreds of thousands and currently trapping

:28:47. > :28:53.them in what can only be described as hell on earth. Why would the

:28:54. > :28:59.Iranians militias want to kill all of those civilians and opposition

:29:00. > :29:06.activists and rebel fighters as they try to leave eastern Aleppo? I don't

:29:07. > :29:07.know. What do we think? They are working alongside Assad, is it doing

:29:08. > :29:35.his dirty work? I don't know. Is it a parallel of the kind of

:29:36. > :29:39.motivation that is infusing the Islamist extremists who make up some

:29:40. > :29:44.of the forces who are fighting against the Assad regime, as well as

:29:45. > :29:47.the rest of civilisation? You will be to get a proper answer to your

:29:48. > :29:54.question, we need to understand in more detail the nature. Do you as a

:29:55. > :29:59.British MP believed you share some responsibility for what has happened

:30:00. > :30:07.in eastern Aleppo? The international community has failed. Including

:30:08. > :30:11.British politicians? So far as we hold the Government to account. I

:30:12. > :30:17.was not part of the Government in 2011, I was not responsible for

:30:18. > :30:22.foreign policy. But collectively, we have some degree of responsibility

:30:23. > :30:28.for the signals sent out in 2011, which implied support to those

:30:29. > :30:31.people on the back of the Arab Spring and rose against Assad as

:30:32. > :30:35.another Arab dictator who would fall in the wake of Arab Spring. I

:30:36. > :30:40.believe they made some shins about the scale of the help they would get

:30:41. > :30:46.from the West. We raised their expectations. That is a reasonable

:30:47. > :30:53.point to make. We were not prepared to follow through with giving them

:30:54. > :30:56.lethal support. The regime often involved in fighting for its

:30:57. > :31:05.existence against the various threats, and they fought back. With

:31:06. > :31:11.the two understand the divided nature of Syrian society, people

:31:12. > :31:14.were looking to the regime for protection from their perceived

:31:15. > :31:17.threat from Islamist extremism. You then have the recipe and the result

:31:18. > :31:30.of this appalling Civil War. Irony is not the right word, but as

:31:31. > :31:34.we are talking about this and the vote in the British Parliament in

:31:35. > :31:39.2013 not to authorise the use of military force against Syria, after

:31:40. > :31:42.President Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons on his own

:31:43. > :31:49.peoplement there are shells going off, four years later, behind us, as

:31:50. > :31:53.our guest talks to us on Skype. I mean, do you regret the way you

:31:54. > :31:58.voted back then? I don't regret the way I voted back then because we

:31:59. > :32:04.were being asked around a specific objective to get rid of President

:32:05. > :32:09.Assad's chemical weapons. The means we were being asked to authorise

:32:10. > :32:16.would not have achieved the objective. In the end the objective

:32:17. > :32:25.was achieved with the Russians disarming their Syrian ally. Hamish

:32:26. > :32:30.Gordon is sitting alongside you... I know what this intervention is going

:32:31. > :32:35.to be... Let him speak for himself. I was collecting evidence of the use

:32:36. > :32:39.of chemical weapons and I had just come out of Syria when the mass

:32:40. > :32:44.attack, the sarin attack on 21st August... What did you think of the

:32:45. > :32:51.vote back then and how it... I was shocked. I was a veteran of both

:32:52. > :32:56.Gulf wars and a veteran in the Army. People were saying we don't want to

:32:57. > :33:03.repeat 2003, it was nothing like 2003. What is the link between that

:33:04. > :33:11.vote in 2003 and what we are seeing in Aleppo now One of the interesting

:33:12. > :33:15.facts, the regime have dropped chemical weapons into Aleppo,

:33:16. > :33:24.chlorine that forced the children out of the cellaers, we have seen a

:33:25. > :33:29.sarin attack two days ago. That was supposed to have been removed in

:33:30. > :33:33.2013 and when that red line was crossed and we collectively, I as

:33:34. > :33:37.the British Government, or the British people tell their

:33:38. > :33:42.politicians how to vote, so we're all responsible, but when you look

:33:43. > :33:47.at that, and we didn't act then, chemical weapons are now used, you

:33:48. > :33:50.know, the great taboo are used all over the world. In Mosul Islamic

:33:51. > :33:54.State are using them at the moment, and by not being firm, they are

:33:55. > :34:01.common place and we have seen the news and I firmly believe and, you

:34:02. > :34:07.know, I hear Cripin on this, we would be in a better position had we

:34:08. > :34:10.intervened asm. We have got Iranian militias who are threatening to kill

:34:11. > :34:15.everybody in Aleppo. What are we doing? What are we doing to prevent

:34:16. > :34:20.that? What are we doing Crispin blunt? The responsibility sits with

:34:21. > :34:24.Russia. It is Russia... And what are we doing? Well, we have to hold

:34:25. > :34:27.Russia to account and what is different about war these days, we

:34:28. > :34:30.are seeing the end of a siege of the it is almost medieval of the

:34:31. > :34:35.consequences of what we're seeing. What is different today is a future

:34:36. > :34:43.accountability. Here we are with this situation being able to talk to

:34:44. > :34:48.someone in a studio in London and there is the end of a siege in

:34:49. > :34:52.Aleppo. There is more accountability, there will be

:34:53. > :34:57.pictures and electronic record... It don't know that's any consolation to

:34:58. > :35:02.anyone who has lost kids, mothers, brothers... Of course, it isn't. All

:35:03. > :35:10.of that influences future acts as well... Does it? After the genocide

:35:11. > :35:15.in Rwanda? The Russia is the P5 power that has chosen to put itself

:35:16. > :35:19.in this position, their leaders take up a degree of responsibility. Of

:35:20. > :35:24.course, it is right now incredibly difficult to hold them to account

:35:25. > :35:31.now, but we are creating a record now of what's happened, but this

:35:32. > :35:36.story is as almost as old as human history of our failure as humanity

:35:37. > :35:42.and the way we behave towards each other and we are hopefully making

:35:43. > :35:46.some progress with international institutions talking over decades in

:35:47. > :35:50.the post Second World War settlement to do this better. The challenge to

:35:51. > :35:54.our system is the failure of the international community to address

:35:55. > :36:01.this collectively. I think we have lost the Skype line. This is being

:36:02. > :36:04.reported by AFP, a legal advisor to Syrian opposition factions says that

:36:05. > :36:08.an evacuation deal for Aleppo is being held up by Iranian fighters

:36:09. > :36:14.who have renewed shelling of the rebel part of the city which is

:36:15. > :36:20.confirmation, I think, of what Monta was telling us anyway. Sorry, Mike,

:36:21. > :36:27.did you want to say something there? Well, I think, the people have

:36:28. > :36:33.raised good points about future accountability. What civilians and

:36:34. > :36:36.the wider Syrian context, they no longer want words, they want some

:36:37. > :36:39.action that actually means that they are safer and when they are safe,

:36:40. > :36:44.that they receive the humanitarian assistance that they feel they

:36:45. > :36:49.rightly deserve. So this loss of faith goes back to events such as

:36:50. > :36:54.the bombing, the chemical weapon attacks outside of Damascus in 2013.

:36:55. > :37:01.I was in fact in Syria at that time in the east of the Kurds and west

:37:02. > :37:07.and the community back then was saying the red line has been

:37:08. > :37:12.crossed. Where is the action and we are sitting three years later and

:37:13. > :37:16.the atrocities of Aleppo city are continuing, but like a chemical

:37:17. > :37:18.weapon attack in terms of political sensitivity and not a single action

:37:19. > :37:26.is happening to protect these people. OK. This is coming in from

:37:27. > :37:29.one of President Putin's spokesmen. This is about UN accusations of

:37:30. > :37:34.forces allied to the Syrian Government carrying out excuses of

:37:35. > :37:37.civilians in Aleppo. A spokesman for President Putin said they should

:37:38. > :37:41.have watched the material from TV journalist on the ground which shows

:37:42. > :37:44.the local population with joy and emotion welcomed the liberation of

:37:45. > :37:47.the eastern part of the city from terrorists. This is in stark

:37:48. > :37:53.contrast to such accusations and it is not correct the fact they, ie,

:37:54. > :37:56.the UN don't have a position on the atrocities carried out by the

:37:57. > :38:01.terrorists. Thank you very much for coming on the programme. Thank you

:38:02. > :38:11.Mike talking to us in New Zealand. Thank you very much.

:38:12. > :38:17.Unemployment has fallen in the three months to October aid cording to

:38:18. > :38:21.official figures. Unemployment has fallen again, by 16,000 to 1.62

:38:22. > :38:27.million in the three months to October. Average earnings increased

:38:28. > :38:32.by 2.5% in the year to October. 0.1% up on the previous month.

:38:33. > :38:37.Still to come: A 20-year-old autistic British man who tried

:38:38. > :38:40.to grab a gun at a Donald Trump rally has been given a one year

:38:41. > :38:51.Riot Club and Great Expectations actor Douglas Booth

:38:52. > :38:58.He's been to Iraq to visit Syrian refugees there.

:38:59. > :39:03.Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:39:04. > :39:07.Shelling has resumed in the Syrian city of Aleppo,

:39:08. > :39:09.a day after a ceasefire was agreed between the government

:39:10. > :39:15.It was clearly audible during an interview on this programme a short

:39:16. > :39:17.time ago. The evacuation of wounded civilians

:39:18. > :39:19.and up to 1,500 fighters from Aleppo has been delayed

:39:20. > :39:27.because of new demands Buses which were meant to take

:39:28. > :39:32.rebels and civilians out of Aleppo have returned empty to their depots.

:39:33. > :39:35.The former football coach Barry Bennell is due to appear

:39:36. > :39:37.at Crewe Magistrates' Court this morning, via video-link.

:39:38. > :39:39.The ex-Crewe Alexandra youth coach, who is 62, has been charged

:39:40. > :39:41.with eight offences of sexual assault against a boy

:39:42. > :39:46.Train bosses and unions will start formal talks this morning

:39:47. > :39:50.in an effort to resolve the Southern Rail dispute.

:39:51. > :39:53.The company has advised its 300,000 daily passengers not to travel

:39:54. > :39:56.after ASLEF and RMT members walked out yesterday.

:39:57. > :39:58.Southern and the unions have agreed to meet

:39:59. > :40:09.The UK ranks 54th in the world for 4G coverage, behind Romania,

:40:10. > :40:11.Albania and Peru with many mobile users still struggling

:40:12. > :40:14.The National Infrastructure Commission says the government must

:40:15. > :40:17.make sure the country is ready for the next generation

:40:18. > :40:19.of technology, 5G or risk languishing in what it calls

:40:20. > :40:37.Eddie says, "No 4G outside of Telford in a rural village. Signal

:40:38. > :40:38.poor from all the major networks unless we stand outside." It could

:40:39. > :40:41.be worse. Arsenal missed the chance to go top

:40:42. > :40:46.of the Premier League last night. Celtic are now 11

:40:47. > :40:54.points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership

:40:55. > :40:57.after a 1-0 win over Hamilton. A new host city for the bobsleigh

:40:58. > :40:59.and skeleton world championships will be announced in

:41:00. > :41:03.the next few days. That's after the sport's governing

:41:04. > :41:05.body said it wouldn't be "prudent" to hold the event in Russia

:41:06. > :41:08.in February, following last week's Formula One World Champion Nico

:41:09. > :41:17.Rosberg says he hopes he might become friends

:41:18. > :41:23.with Lewis Hamilton again. The former Mercedes team-mates had

:41:24. > :41:25.an intense rivalry on track, but Rosberg says the pair have had

:41:26. > :41:29.kind words since he won the title. The German announced his retirement

:41:30. > :41:31.from the sport ten days ago. Dylan Hartley will find out today

:41:32. > :41:34.if he'll be available to captain He will appear in front

:41:35. > :41:42.of an independent panel who'll decide the length of ban he'll

:41:43. > :41:44.receive after being sent off for the third time in his career

:41:45. > :41:47.in Northampton's defeat I will have a full bulletin for you

:41:48. > :41:59.at 10am. the latest unemployment

:42:00. > :42:09.figures are just out. They are a lagging indicator, they

:42:10. > :42:14.are looking at what happened before. If you compare it to the same time

:42:15. > :42:18.last year, the unemployment rate then was 5.2%. Over the year, it is

:42:19. > :42:22.down. Interesting if you devil into the numbers it tells us unemployment

:42:23. > :42:28.fell by 16,000, so the number of people out of work standing at 1.62

:42:29. > :42:32.million people. But and this is the bit I always talk to you is

:42:33. > :42:36.earnings. How much on average are wages going up and whether it is

:42:37. > :42:41.rising quickly? Well, it is not to be frank because it is going up by

:42:42. > :42:44.2.5%. 2.5% which you think is all right, but inflation is starting to

:42:45. > :42:48.rise and that's the big thing. So prices in the shops starting to rise

:42:49. > :42:51.and we've been told that that is going to pick up pace even more in

:42:52. > :42:55.the New Year because we start to get all that Brexit effect because the

:42:56. > :43:00.value of the pound has fallen. It means stuff that we import from

:43:01. > :43:04.overseas goes up in price. So yesterday, the inflation figures

:43:05. > :43:06.coming in at 1.2%, all the expectation is that next year it

:43:07. > :43:10.will start rising more. So the problem is if our wages going up

:43:11. > :43:14.even more the gap between what we're paying out in the shops and what

:43:15. > :43:17.we're earning starts to get narrower and narrower and it means we will

:43:18. > :43:24.have less money in our pocket. OK, thank you very much. Thank you,

:43:25. > :43:29.Ben. Ben Thompson reporting. Some tweets on Aleppo. A viewer

:43:30. > :43:36.says, "Massive respect for your coverage on Aleppo and thank you for

:43:37. > :43:40.caring." Some e-mails, "Yes, of course, Putin, Assad and Putin are

:43:41. > :43:44.war criminals and listening to the tweets on your programme, it is

:43:45. > :43:50.clear our feeble Government needs to act, the Russian ambassador should

:43:51. > :43:56.be expelled from the UK and the Russian Embassy closed. : " Joel

:43:57. > :44:01.says it is not that people don't care about events in Aleppo, it is a

:44:02. > :44:06.complicated situation that the media haven't explained well." Ian says,

:44:07. > :44:09."The lack of action by the UK, etcetera is utterly despicable.

:44:10. > :44:15.People in power and with influence should be ashamed."

:44:16. > :44:18.A British man who tried to assasinate Donald Trump has been

:44:19. > :44:27.sentenced to 12 months and one day in a court in Las Vegas.

:44:28. > :44:29.20-year-old Michael Sandford, who is autistic, attempted to snatch

:44:30. > :44:31.a policeman's gun at rally for the then Republican

:44:32. > :44:39.We've spoken regularly to Michael Sanford's mother,

:44:40. > :44:41.Lynne, on this programme, who has told us she worries

:44:42. > :44:47.about her son's fragile state of mental health.

:44:48. > :44:58.Can you hear me OK? I can, thank you. How has Michael reacted to the

:44:59. > :45:03.sentence? He has enormously relieved. He is

:45:04. > :45:05.grateful the judge was compassionate to take all his circumstances into

:45:06. > :45:10.consideration and instead of looking at a sentence of years, you know, he

:45:11. > :45:16.is only looking at months to do. Yeah, fantastic news for him.

:45:17. > :45:24.So he could be deported to the UK in how many months? He would take off

:45:25. > :45:27.time served, six months, and he would get two months off for good

:45:28. > :45:32.behaviour, said he could be back in four months. You seem really up

:45:33. > :45:38.eight, the most up and I have seen you for a long time. None of us knew

:45:39. > :45:43.what to expect, we were looking at potentially 30 years initially, so I

:45:44. > :45:48.am so glad that we could get such good legal help and medical help

:45:49. > :45:55.from the professionals and have so much support behind us, it has been

:45:56. > :45:58.so gratifying and humbling, and we would not be where we are today

:45:59. > :46:04.without it. I am really happy. The court heard your son failed to pull

:46:05. > :46:11.the gun from an officer's holster at this rally. The judge described the

:46:12. > :46:16.incident as a crazy stunt, and he did really appear to be synthetic to

:46:17. > :46:22.Michael. The judge was fantastic. He was a very reasonable and logical

:46:23. > :46:27.man, he could see that Michael was not a bad person, that he had just

:46:28. > :46:33.got lost along the way, overrun by mental health issues, and he did a

:46:34. > :46:40.very bad thing in a weak moment. He can get past this and given a second

:46:41. > :46:44.chance. The judge said, I don't see you as evil or a sociopath, and

:46:45. > :46:49.wished your son good luck as he rose to leave the court room. He did. He

:46:50. > :46:55.also questioned, had Michael succeeded in pulling the gun, he

:46:56. > :47:00.would not have stood a chance, he would not have been able to wrestle

:47:01. > :47:06.with police officers, it was just a very crazy moment, as the judge

:47:07. > :47:10.said. The last time we spoke, you explained why it was that Michael

:47:11. > :47:16.was in the US, you had not been able to stop him going there or

:47:17. > :47:18.travelling around. If he is put back here in four months, how will you

:47:19. > :47:23.make sure that does not happen again? He has told me he never

:47:24. > :47:28.intends to go anywhere again. This has been the shock of a lifetime for

:47:29. > :47:35.him. He said, I wish I had listened to do, I wish I had never gone. He

:47:36. > :47:38.cannot wait to be back home to the safety and comfort of his own

:47:39. > :47:43.country. What does Michael say about the incident now? How does he

:47:44. > :47:48.reflect on what he tried to do? He does not remember the incident, he

:47:49. > :47:51.said it is just a blur. When he was put on medication and he realised

:47:52. > :47:58.what he had done and the gravity of it, he was overcome by remorse. He

:47:59. > :48:03.was disgusted with himself, what he had attempted to do, he has never

:48:04. > :48:08.tried to hurt anybody in his life, so this was a massive wake-up call

:48:09. > :48:11.for him. Are you staying there for Christmas or coming back to the UK?

:48:12. > :48:17.I shall be back the day after tomorrow. Thank you for talking to

:48:18. > :48:23.as again, we appreciate your time. Clearly very relieved, her son

:48:24. > :48:27.Michael jailed for a year and a day, although he could be back home in

:48:28. > :48:32.four months because of time he has already spent in custody.

:48:33. > :48:35.Coming up, we'll talk to the union behind the strikes on Southern Rail,

:48:36. > :48:41.and to someone whose livelihood is threatened by the disruption.

:48:42. > :48:43.While the world's attention is finally on the city of Aleppo

:48:44. > :48:47.in Syria, albeit too late, the British actor Douglas Booth,

:48:48. > :48:50.who was in Great Expectations and The Riot Club, has just returned

:48:51. > :48:52.from a trip to Iraq, where he's been meeting refugees

:48:53. > :48:58.The 24-year-old wants to challenge the negative stereotypes

:48:59. > :49:16.Who did you meet and what did you see?

:49:17. > :49:24.I flew to northern Iraq, to start with I met Syrian refugees who had

:49:25. > :49:30.fled to Iraq who were living in an urban setting, and often you think

:49:31. > :49:35.of refugees in tented camps, I was meeting them trying to life in local

:49:36. > :49:38.communities, and then I met internally displaced Iraqis in Iraq

:49:39. > :49:44.had fled from Mo Soul, the second biggest city in Iraq. That was

:49:45. > :49:49.interesting, because you have people who had been living under Islamic

:49:50. > :49:53.State rules for two years, so I met people who had either just been

:49:54. > :49:57.liberated or had escaped hours before or a couple of days before. I

:49:58. > :50:06.heard their stories about life under Islamic rule. It was quite shocking,

:50:07. > :50:13.I was sitting down with young people like me, and to hear them talk about

:50:14. > :50:20.life, it sounded normal before, the football clubs they love to support,

:50:21. > :50:23.Real Madrid, but then have people dictating what they wore, the way

:50:24. > :50:28.they grew their beard, they could not watch TV, there was no music, so

:50:29. > :50:32.to talk to a young person like me about that was interesting, they had

:50:33. > :50:34.to cut their symbols of their football shirts because they could

:50:35. > :50:41.not show any. That was very interesting. The gradual oppression?

:50:42. > :50:47.Yes, and they moved people from surrounding villages to the city

:50:48. > :50:52.centre, so they could control them. Families were split up, friendship

:50:53. > :50:59.groups, so life became arduous. All of the women were pulled out of

:51:00. > :51:02.school. Lots of parents decided to take their young sons out of school

:51:03. > :51:12.because they were scared of bracket -- radicalisation. They were

:51:13. > :51:16.learning about guns. There was hard propaganda and radicalism happening

:51:17. > :51:20.in schools. Fathers said they followed their sons around like a

:51:21. > :51:25.shadow, they would have to sit them down every evening over the kitchen

:51:26. > :51:35.table and say, this is not true. It was a struggle. Meeting young girls,

:51:36. > :51:38.18 and 21, 22, who had been science students, hoping to work in

:51:39. > :51:44.laboratories and Bush signed forward, they had such a bright

:51:45. > :51:47.future, and to hear their stories, being pulled out of education,

:51:48. > :51:51.terrified to leave the house, even if they left the house just showing

:51:52. > :51:58.their eyes they would be reprimanded. Shocking. For me, to

:51:59. > :52:02.see these people who were just like us, ordinary families going through

:52:03. > :52:05.extraordinary circumstances, it was incredible.

:52:06. > :52:07.Let's take a look at you at the camp, meeting some

:52:08. > :52:46.Tell him something so he can remember you.

:52:47. > :53:01.Tell us about these kids. They are Iraqi kids who had just been

:53:02. > :53:09.liberated from Mosul. A really beautiful family. There was a sense

:53:10. > :53:14.of jubilation, because a lot of them could not run around and play in the

:53:15. > :53:17.street, so for the first time they could run around, having

:53:18. > :53:22.conversations with me, and they were showing us around, and young guys

:53:23. > :53:28.were being able to play football. I spoke to a young man who had had

:53:29. > :53:33.this act of defiance, he had got married with a young girl from his

:53:34. > :53:38.village, no music was allowed, but they've rolled down the blackout

:53:39. > :53:48.blinds, he dead to trim his beard, they had a party, and he said it was

:53:49. > :53:51.beautiful that she did not -- he did not know where his wife was, because

:53:52. > :53:58.she was off chatting with friends. You will have seen events in Aleppo,

:53:59. > :54:01.over the last few years. How do you react to some of the reports we are

:54:02. > :54:06.getting from their? It is devastating. There have been

:54:07. > :54:12.atrocities happening there for years. As the international

:54:13. > :54:20.community, we have let civilians down. I have not been there. I am

:54:21. > :54:23.not as educated on that as I am with this situation, but the UN refugee

:54:24. > :54:28.agency are standing by with aid, shelter and protection for civilians

:54:29. > :54:37.there who desperately needed. They have been calling for years to give

:54:38. > :54:42.aid and shelter, but they can't, it has fallen on deaf ears. I heard

:54:43. > :54:48.there had been a ceasefire that has not held. I hope that the

:54:49. > :54:55.international community continues to put pressure on whoever is involved,

:54:56. > :55:00.just to let the aid in and let the civilians get the protection they

:55:01. > :55:04.deserve. You have the power of celebrity, the power to shine a

:55:05. > :55:09.light. You also know that when you make these trips and you meet these

:55:10. > :55:13.people in desperate situations, and then you come back to your normal

:55:14. > :55:19.life, you put yourself out there for criticism. How do you respond? I try

:55:20. > :55:24.not to think about criticism. People can criticise me for trying to do a

:55:25. > :55:35.good thing. I am fortunate to have a platform. I try and use it to meet

:55:36. > :55:40.people in Iraq or Lesbos who don't have a voice. I feel it is my

:55:41. > :55:44.response will do, to give them a voice, as much as I can do, and to

:55:45. > :55:50.raise awareness amongst people my own age, and try and spread

:55:51. > :55:58.awareness about the issues, try to start a conversation. I have great

:55:59. > :56:01.hope for my generation, great hope that we want to do the right thing,

:56:02. > :56:06.and we just need to get a conversation started.

:56:07. > :56:09.And you're staying around, Douglas, for a Facebook Live for this

:56:10. > :56:17.You can send your questions via the BBC News Facebook page.

:56:18. > :56:22.David Beckham has been an ambassador for the United Nations

:56:23. > :56:26.And now he's using his famous tattoos in a new campaign to end

:56:27. > :56:30.violence against children across the world.

:56:31. > :56:45.Mixed fortunes today. For England and Wales, a lot of dry weather to

:56:46. > :56:50.come. We should get more sunshine than in recent days stop but it will

:56:51. > :56:56.not be dry everywhere, we will see cloud and rain working into Northern

:56:57. > :57:01.Ireland and Scotland. We had fog to start the day in Windsor, and across

:57:02. > :57:07.the North and South Downs and Salisbury Plain. Poor visibility.

:57:08. > :57:11.Most of it has cleared. Across Wales, we had cloud breaking up,

:57:12. > :57:17.with sunny spells. This picture was taken near to Port Talbot. They were

:57:18. > :57:24.the front is snaking its way up towards the UK. It is not exactly

:57:25. > :57:30.straight. It will snake along the Irish Sea area, coming inland across

:57:31. > :57:36.Northern Ireland, into western Scotland, giving a real soaking to

:57:37. > :57:38.the Isle of Man. For England and Wales, the early-morning murkiness

:57:39. > :57:42.will break up, and we will see decent sunshine coming through. Over

:57:43. > :57:49.the sunshine is late to reach the intention and North Yorkshire. As we

:57:50. > :57:53.go through the afternoon in Scotland, the rain will come more

:57:54. > :57:57.widespread and a lot heavier. A cloudy day in the Western Isles

:57:58. > :57:59.competitor with yesterday. But the south-east of Scotland may escape

:58:00. > :58:04.with dry weather around the Scottish Borders. In Northern Ireland, the

:58:05. > :58:11.rain will be reluctant to move away from Antrim and down. Some 50 pulses

:58:12. > :58:14.of rain coming and going. England and are mild, with southerly

:58:15. > :58:18.breezes, with more sunshine than there has been over the last few

:58:19. > :58:24.days. Tonight, the weather front will continue to push East, whilst

:58:25. > :58:28.weakening. We will be left with an area of cloud, bits and pieces of

:58:29. > :58:37.light rain and drizzle. It will turn milky over the hills. For many, it

:58:38. > :58:42.will be on the mild side. The big story at the moment, we have the

:58:43. > :58:47.high-pressure in Europe, the weather front zooming across the Atlantic,

:58:48. > :58:51.hitting that high-pressure, and dying as they move across the UK. We

:58:52. > :58:56.have got that again for tomorrow's forecast. We start cloudy with

:58:57. > :59:01.dampness. The next weather front comes in across Northern Ireland. It

:59:02. > :59:11.will bring another spell of rain. Some of the rain could be heavy.

:59:12. > :59:18.We will have the best of any sunshine in Scotland. Looking at the

:59:19. > :59:21.forecast through Friday and into the weekend, we are expecting a lot of

:59:22. > :59:26.dry weather. Not a great deal of rain. We will sue the best of the

:59:27. > :59:28.sunshine on Saturday, especially northern England Northern Ireland

:59:29. > :59:44.and into Scotland. Through Sunday, the cloud again

:59:45. > :59:47.tends to build in. A lot of dry weather over the next few days,

:59:48. > :59:49.especially as we get to the weekend. But sunshine might be in short

:59:50. > :59:55.supply. The Syrian Army

:59:56. > :00:06.has started shelling the city of Aleppo again despite a deal

:00:07. > :00:08.to evacuate opposition We spoke to one resident

:00:09. > :00:13.there who told us the bombing It has continued for

:00:14. > :00:26.about three hours. The regime started

:00:27. > :00:28.shelling and hitting this neighbourhood to start attacking

:00:29. > :00:35.again this besieged city. More travel misery

:00:36. > :00:38.for rail passengers. There are no trains on any route

:00:39. > :00:41.on Southern's network for a second day as train drivers

:00:42. > :00:43.continue their strike We will talk to the leader of the

:00:44. > :00:52.RMT union. And if you've had a challenging

:00:53. > :00:55.year, how do you face 2017 Dr Steve Peters is a top

:00:56. > :00:59.psychiatrist who has coached our national sportsmen and women

:01:00. > :01:04.to Olympic success. He reckons he can do

:01:05. > :01:09.the same for us. Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom

:01:10. > :01:12.with a summary of today's news. Shelling has resumed

:01:13. > :01:17.in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a day after a ceasefire was agreed

:01:18. > :01:20.between the government The evacuation of civilians and

:01:21. > :01:30.fighters have been delayed. Buses, which were meant to take

:01:31. > :01:33.rebels and civilians out of Aleppo, The sound of shelling could be heard

:01:34. > :01:41.on this programme a short time ago. Yes, it has continued

:01:42. > :01:48.for about three hours It says that the rebels resumed

:01:49. > :01:57.the attacks and the regime will attack the city and that's

:01:58. > :02:02.what is happening. The former football coach

:02:03. > :02:06.Barry Bennell is due to appear at Crewe Magistrates' Court this

:02:07. > :02:08.morning via video-link. The ex-Crewe Alexandra youth coach,

:02:09. > :02:11.who is 62, has been charged with eight offences of sexual

:02:12. > :02:13.assault against a boy Train bosses and unions

:02:14. > :02:19.are starting talks this morning in an effort to resolve

:02:20. > :02:22.the Southern Rail dispute. The company has advised its 300,000

:02:23. > :02:24.daily passengers not to travel, after ASLEF and RMT members

:02:25. > :02:27.walked out yesterday. Southern and the unions are meeting

:02:28. > :02:32.at the conciliation service ACAS. State schools in England

:02:33. > :02:35.will have to find ?3 billion in savings by 2020, according

:02:36. > :02:38.to the public spending watchdog. The National Audit office says

:02:39. > :02:41.schools are not ready for the "scale The warning comes as ministers

:02:42. > :02:46.are expected to announce a new education

:02:47. > :02:53.funding formula today. The UK ranks 54th in the world

:02:54. > :02:57.for 4G coverage, behind Romania, Albania and Peru with many mobile

:02:58. > :02:59.users still struggling The National Infrastructure

:03:00. > :03:02.Commission says the government must make sure the country is ready

:03:03. > :03:05.for the next generation of technology, 5G or risk

:03:06. > :03:22.languishing in what it calls There was a rise in the reported

:03:23. > :03:25.numbers of hate crime. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe told the BBC that cases

:03:26. > :03:29.rose by three-quarters in the three months after the vote. But had now

:03:30. > :03:34.fallen back towards their former level. He described the figures as

:03:35. > :03:51.shocking and promised to protect anyone who was threatened.

:03:52. > :04:03.Under a plea agreement, he admitted he had approached a policeman saying

:04:04. > :04:05.he wanted Mr Trump's autograph. The Philippines president admitted

:04:06. > :04:10.personally killing suspected criminals when he was the Mayor of A

:04:11. > :04:15.southern city. He said he was setting an example to police

:04:16. > :04:20.officers. He has drawn international criticism for his hard-line policy

:04:21. > :04:23.to eradicate illegal drugs which has seen police kill thousands of

:04:24. > :04:26.suspects since he became president in June.

:04:27. > :04:35.Viewers are telling us where they haven't got 4G or 3G. Philip is in

:04:36. > :04:44.North Yorkshire. Mobile signal awful. Mount Everest has 4G, why not

:04:45. > :04:48.North Yorkshire? Gillian is cross, the mobile signal in West London is

:04:49. > :04:52.atrocious. I have no choice, but to use a signal booster to make sure I

:04:53. > :04:56.can receive and send messages and calls and my current provider hasn't

:04:57. > :05:00.been helpful. This texter, "I live in Surrey and

:05:01. > :05:08.the EE network is at best really bad. We don't get any service most

:05:09. > :05:15.of the time let alone 3G or 4G. EE should spend more money on Kevin

:05:16. > :05:21.Bacon! Such a small thing, but so very,

:05:22. > :05:26.very annoying, isn't it Joanna? I'm glad it is not just me. I was saying

:05:27. > :05:29.the other day that I don't find it as bad as 3G used to be sometimes.

:05:30. > :05:33.It is clearly a problem. Those were the days! Thank you, Joanna.

:05:34. > :05:35.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

:05:36. > :05:38.use the hashtag Victoria LIVE, and if you text, you will be charged

:05:39. > :05:54.Arsenal have been in brilliant form of late, scoring 12 goals

:05:55. > :05:56.in their past three games, so you'd probably have

:05:57. > :05:58.bet on them overcoming a struggling Everton side.

:05:59. > :06:00.But the Gunners lost 2-1 at Goodison Park,

:06:01. > :06:02.even after going in front through Alexi Sanchez.

:06:03. > :06:04.Everton equalised before half-time and then Ashley Williams

:06:05. > :06:08.That's only Everton's second win in 11 games.

:06:09. > :06:13.Also last night, Bournemouth beat Leicester 1-0,

:06:14. > :06:15.and in the Scottish Premiership Celtic won 1-0

:06:16. > :06:21.Formula One World Champion Nico Rosberg says he hopes to be friends

:06:22. > :06:27.The former Mercedes team-mates have had an intense rivalry on the track

:06:28. > :06:31.Rosberg, who announced his retirement from the sport ten days

:06:32. > :06:33.ago, says things have got friendlier between the pair since

:06:34. > :06:42.There was some ups and downs. What really helped us through this time

:06:43. > :06:46.was the respect that we still have back from the days when we were

:06:47. > :06:51.really good friends in the carting days when we were like 14 years old

:06:52. > :06:55.and that got us through all this. So in a decent way and now, you know,

:06:56. > :06:59.we can have a laugh together at the moment. So I think, who knows maybe

:07:00. > :07:01.in the future we might get on well again.

:07:02. > :07:04.Dylan Hartley will find out today if he'll be available to captain

:07:05. > :07:09.He will appear in front of an independent panel who'll

:07:10. > :07:12.decide the length of ban he'll receive after being sent off

:07:13. > :07:14.for the third time in his career in Northampton's defeat to Leinster

:07:15. > :07:19.A new host city for the bobsleigh and skeleton world championships

:07:20. > :07:25.will be announced in the next few days.

:07:26. > :07:29.That's after the sport's governing body said it wouldn't be "prudent"

:07:30. > :07:32.to hold the event in Russia in February following last week's

:07:33. > :07:36.It claimed more than 1,000 Russians benefited from a doping cover-up

:07:37. > :07:46.Remember those pictures of a young boy from Afghanistan wearing

:07:47. > :07:49.a plastic bag to replicate Messi's Argentina shirt?

:07:50. > :07:51.The picture went across the world on social media and the boy

:07:52. > :07:58.Now that same little boy, his name is Moo-taza,

:07:59. > :08:09.And he got to walk out onto the pitch with him.

:08:10. > :08:23.Having so much fun, he didn't want to leave.

:08:24. > :08:29.Barcelona might have a new signing there.

:08:30. > :08:31.This time yesterday on the programme we were reporting the tweets

:08:32. > :08:34.of desperate residents trapped in the Syrian city of

:08:35. > :08:47.Rebel fighters are preparing to leave under a deal that could end

:08:48. > :08:50.more than four years of fierce fighting.

:08:51. > :08:59.Buses have been brought in, but the evacuation is being delayed

:09:00. > :09:01.as the government there demands a simultaneous evacuation

:09:02. > :09:14.Aleppo has been a key battleground in the war between forces loyal

:09:15. > :09:15.to President Assad and rebels who want

:09:16. > :09:24.People living there in the East, have faced non-stop bombardment

:09:25. > :09:26.from pro-government forces for the last 48 hours,

:09:27. > :09:28.with reports of barrel bombs, dead bodies piled in the streets,

:09:29. > :09:31.and claims that civilians were being shot dead in the street,

:09:32. > :09:44.Earlier we spoke to someone who is trapped in eastern Aleppo. He told

:09:45. > :09:53.us about the fears of the people still there.

:09:54. > :09:57.They love to kill everybody in Aleppo because that's what is

:09:58. > :10:03.satisfying them. Sorry, I don't, can I just ask you about that last bit

:10:04. > :10:07.you said? You said Iranians are trying to kill everyone in eastern

:10:08. > :10:11.Aleppo to satisfy them. Is that what you just said? Yeah, that's what I

:10:12. > :10:16.said because the Iranians, that's what they want and that's what they

:10:17. > :10:22.have declared. I just heard some more shelling. Yes, it has continued

:10:23. > :10:31.more about three hours and right now, I read about the Russians. It

:10:32. > :10:36.says that the rebels resumed the attacks and also the regime will

:10:37. > :10:42.attack the city and that's what is happening, but opposite the regime

:10:43. > :10:50.started shelling and hitting the neighbourhoods to start attacking

:10:51. > :10:57.again this besieged city. Let's talk to our reporter who is in

:10:58. > :11:02.Beirut. Where are on the evacuation of people from the east of Aleppo?

:11:03. > :11:06.Nobody has been evacuated from what we understand. The fighting goes on.

:11:07. > :11:12.That ceasefire doesn't seem to have lasted for very long at all.

:11:13. > :11:16.Different reports from both sides blaming each other on why the

:11:17. > :11:22.fighting restarted. Proopposition media and activists saying that

:11:23. > :11:26.Iranian militants, to back President Assad started shelling the start

:11:27. > :11:32.remain enclave first thing this morning. Russia then responding

:11:33. > :11:37.saying that it was in fact the rebels that began fighting and that

:11:38. > :11:42.they used the short-term ceasefire as an opportunity to regroup. Now,

:11:43. > :11:47.this whole situation regarding this deal was completely confusing when

:11:48. > :11:50.it first came about last night. There were several different reports

:11:51. > :11:53.about what was in part of this deal and what wasn't and when it was

:11:54. > :11:56.going to begin and when people were going to start evacuating. It is

:11:57. > :12:01.clear it hasn't held. Turkish officials said this morning that

:12:02. > :12:07.talks are continuing between them and Russia to make sure that

:12:08. > :12:10.evacuation does take place, but the Russian Foreign Minister has also

:12:11. > :12:16.said this morning that it could take between two and three days for this

:12:17. > :12:20.to come to an end and unclear if he moons for the fighting or the

:12:21. > :12:26.evacuation deal to come into fruition. We will see what happens.

:12:27. > :12:28.I know you will keep updating our audience.

:12:29. > :12:33.Fardous Bahbouh, a Syrian living in the UK with friends and family

:12:34. > :12:43.Zouhir Alshimale, Syrian national and freelance

:12:44. > :12:46.Mary Creagh, a Labour MP who spoke in yesterday's debate on Syria

:12:47. > :12:51.and who voted against military action in 2013.

:12:52. > :12:59.And in favour of airstrikes against IS in December 2015. Let me start

:13:00. > :13:03.with you as you are in east Aleppo. What is happening there on the

:13:04. > :13:13.ground? The situation now is intensifying.

:13:14. > :13:18.We can hear the shelling. How regular is that bombing? It is

:13:19. > :13:23.constantly. In one hour, in one minute, you can count more than ten

:13:24. > :13:30.attacks in one minute. So you can count in one hour how many bombs are

:13:31. > :13:35.being hit until now with all of it by mortar attacks and artillery

:13:36. > :13:41.attacks and the heavy launch, with a heavy ground launch bombs that are

:13:42. > :13:46.being dropped here in a small area where it is overcrowded with the

:13:47. > :13:52.civilians and families who are trapped in their buildings, they

:13:53. > :13:56.cannot go and they cannot leave to go to the west of Aleppo. Are you

:13:57. > :14:03.comfortable with continuing to talk to us or do you need to move?

:14:04. > :14:08.I can't move anywhere else. There is no where else which is safe here in

:14:09. > :14:14.the whole east. So if I move to the other part of the building, it will

:14:15. > :14:20.be the same. Right. That bombing sounds close to you. Yes, it's

:14:21. > :14:26.close. We're in a small area in the east here. So any bombs that might

:14:27. > :14:32.drop is going to be very close and it might drop here in this building

:14:33. > :14:36.or in this street as what happened like five minutes ago. It is still

:14:37. > :14:41.continuing until now. Did you have hope, did you have

:14:42. > :14:45.optimism overnight that you would be able to get out of the city this

:14:46. > :14:53.morning after the ceasefire? Yes, of course. All the people were

:14:54. > :15:02.excited and happy with the agreement about evacuating the city finally.

:15:03. > :15:12.They were trying to get what they have and leave in the morning. The

:15:13. > :15:17.severely injured people will be evacuated at 5am this morning. It

:15:18. > :15:25.hasn't happened. And until now no one has left the east of Aleppo.

:15:26. > :15:28.People were bombed and were frightened about the escalation

:15:29. > :15:31.that's taking place right now and they think the regime is going to

:15:32. > :15:50.take our ground forces. It is just happening around here.

:15:51. > :15:59.Very close attacks. Maybe they will have ground forces on the ground,

:16:00. > :16:05.escalating attacks. It might be there are 100 family members that

:16:06. > :16:15.are scared now. There are many kids and women who are trapped and have

:16:16. > :16:25.nowhere us to go. They are being abandoned. I know you have already

:16:26. > :16:28.said... Can you still hear me? You have said there is nowhere as for

:16:29. > :16:34.you to go to, because you are trapped, but if you want to end this

:16:35. > :16:43.conversation, you must do that. No, it is fine, if you have anything you

:16:44. > :16:47.want to ask. In the east there are more than 60,000 people, mostly

:16:48. > :16:51.women and children, trapped, there is nowhere for them that is safe.

:16:52. > :17:15.Many injuries. Until now, the attacks have been

:17:16. > :17:24.intensified, as you can he. It is unimaginable for British people

:17:25. > :17:32.watching you now. I don't know how you live like this, how you have

:17:33. > :17:38.survived. I survived because I have not got bombed yet in my building.

:17:39. > :17:47.But it might happen any time. Nobody is moving towards ending this

:17:48. > :17:54.catastrophe. The regime are carrying on with their attacks. People on the

:17:55. > :18:01.streets yesterday was not enough to hold the regime. Or to put pressure

:18:02. > :18:08.on them to stop to let the people out of the city, and give them their

:18:09. > :18:14.life back. They want to kill everybody here. Nobody cares about

:18:15. > :18:26.those people who are trapped here and are being killed. Maybe we will

:18:27. > :18:38.be trapped under the rubble of the buildings. Many people are watching,

:18:39. > :18:46.we should go and demonstrate against the regime, we should do something,

:18:47. > :18:52.assemble your friends and families and demand to stop the War crimes

:18:53. > :18:57.that are taking place. I have a lady who lives here in the UK, who is a

:18:58. > :19:03.Syrian, who has friends where you are, in the East and West. What

:19:04. > :19:07.would you like to say to him? I am struggling to find words to support

:19:08. > :19:12.you and tell you that there is solidarity from the people here, we

:19:13. > :19:15.are just not seeing the political will to do something to stop the

:19:16. > :19:25.regime. The action should have been done a long time ago. Why would they

:19:26. > :19:32.announce a ceasefire with no protection for civilians? We are all

:19:33. > :19:37.with you, we are standing in solidarity with our friends in the

:19:38. > :19:48.UK, but we want the political will. Yes. There is nothing to say, is

:19:49. > :19:53.there? Is a British politician, what can you say or do? I want to thank

:19:54. > :19:57.you for the incredible courage you have shown in speaking to us today

:19:58. > :20:02.and in the work that you do, live tweeting, I followed you on Twitter,

:20:03. > :20:06.the work that you and other citizen journalists did a couple of nights

:20:07. > :20:09.ago to wake the world up to the mass executions that were happening is

:20:10. > :20:12.the reason why there was a discussion at the Security Council

:20:13. > :20:19.yesterday, why we had that confrontation between the US and the

:20:20. > :20:23.Russians on the Security Council why we had that debate in Parliament

:20:24. > :20:30.yesterday. The courage that you have shown is one of the reasons why they

:20:31. > :20:37.are playing cat and mouse with the West. You are caught in the middle

:20:38. > :20:42.of a war of propaganda. The person who is victorious owns the history.

:20:43. > :20:46.They want to own a history to say that you are all jihadis there, they

:20:47. > :20:49.want to say that you are all rebel fighters, and they don't want to say

:20:50. > :20:55.that they were teachers, human at variance, nurses, women and babies

:20:56. > :21:01.and elderly and disabled people and that treated you the same. We know

:21:02. > :21:05.that humanitarians and journalists have been attacked by the regime

:21:06. > :21:10.consistently for showing up the terrible abuses that your people

:21:11. > :21:15.have suffered. I want to say, thank you for what you have done, and

:21:16. > :21:22.history will remember you, and the incredible courage you have shown.

:21:23. > :21:25.If I may add, we all need to remember that the Syrian border

:21:26. > :21:31.started as a peaceful revolution for freedom. The citizens in Aleppo,

:21:32. > :21:38.they want the world to remember that we wanted freedom and the pity, but

:21:39. > :21:40.the regime, with its brutality, and with Russian support, crushed

:21:41. > :21:46.everybody, and now there is propaganda. But we wish the world

:21:47. > :21:50.had acted a long time ago. There were so many missed opportunities to

:21:51. > :21:56.stop Assad and Russia and Iran and the militia of Hezbollah. The world

:21:57. > :22:02.has done nothing. How can win get ourselves later on, with no action?

:22:03. > :22:06.There is still time for action. The Aleppo situation did not just start

:22:07. > :22:18.yesterday, it has been going for so long, and it is time to do something

:22:19. > :22:23.about it. Do you have hope that the international community can put

:22:24. > :22:32.further pressure on Assad and the Russians to make sure a ceasefire

:22:33. > :22:36.holds, so you can get out? I don't have any hope from the international

:22:37. > :22:42.community at all. It has been six years until now. They have done

:22:43. > :22:48.nothing apart from statements to said they are worried. They are

:22:49. > :22:54.afraid about mass killing and people already killed. They are watching

:22:55. > :23:00.and having statements. I have more faith in the people themselves, the

:23:01. > :23:04.people who are our brothers, human beings, watching people in other

:23:05. > :23:09.parts of the world, far away from here, from you in the UK or in

:23:10. > :23:16.America or all around Asia or Africa, watching these videos that

:23:17. > :23:30.came out from here, they can do something. There is a feeling that

:23:31. > :23:42.each country has the power to put intense pressure on the Government,

:23:43. > :23:52.in the Security Council, in every embassy. All around the world. She

:23:53. > :24:00.just can not go to the main squares in every country and assemble and

:24:01. > :24:06.demand to stop the massacring -- you can go to the main squares. If you

:24:07. > :24:20.would like to do something, just go and do it. You don't have to pay for

:24:21. > :24:27.something or to have some Facebook time, just go at night and assemble

:24:28. > :24:42.and gather the people that you can go with during the night and just go

:24:43. > :24:54.and make pressure, to put pressure on the Government.

:24:55. > :25:03.American and Asian people and Arabian people... I could hear

:25:04. > :25:12.voices in the background, are there people there? Are you OK? They are

:25:13. > :25:19.friends of mine. I am going to read some messages from our British

:25:20. > :25:25.audience. We are talking to a freelance journalist and a Syrian

:25:26. > :25:31.and, he is talking to us live from East Aleppo. As we have been

:25:32. > :25:36.conversing, we can clearly hear shelling going on behind him. This

:25:37. > :25:41.after a ceasefire was meant to have been put into place last night. It

:25:42. > :25:46.lasted for some hours, but it began again in the early hours of this

:25:47. > :25:55.morning. There are some e-mails and tweets from British people. Wendy

:25:56. > :25:59.says, I and crying as I watch him talk. Kramer says, how can the world

:26:00. > :26:07.be watching this and take no action? It is an embarrassment to humanity.

:26:08. > :26:10.Another viewer and says, Theresa May, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel,

:26:11. > :26:14.are they watching this programme? Darren says, what are we waiting

:26:15. > :26:24.for? We need to get these people safe. Clearly, there are people who

:26:25. > :26:29.care deeply about you. They are not in a position of power, though. I am

:26:30. > :26:37.just getting this news, from Damascus. It says rebel rocket fire

:26:38. > :26:44.on government-held part of Syria's second city Aleppo has killed seven

:26:45. > :26:49.people and wounded others, that has been reported on state television.

:26:50. > :26:57.The Skype connection has just gone down. This being reported on a

:26:58. > :27:02.French news agency, it is coming from state television in Syria, they

:27:03. > :27:05.report that rebel rocket fire on government-held part of Aleppo has

:27:06. > :27:11.killed seven people and wounded others. After fighting has regime

:27:12. > :27:18.and an evacuation deal was suspended. It says six people were

:27:19. > :27:23.killed and others wounded in another neighbourhood, with a seventh person

:27:24. > :27:29.killed, and more wounded in other government-held parts of the city.

:27:30. > :27:33.Final comment from you? The pressure now falls to the British Government

:27:34. > :27:39.to call in the Russian ambassador and the Syrian ambassador. We have

:27:40. > :27:43.British aid charities that have workers in eastern Aleppo who are

:27:44. > :27:47.trapped. I asked Foreign Secretary what he was doing to get the

:27:48. > :27:53.humanitarians out. We know they are targeted by the regime and the

:27:54. > :28:00.Russians. It is incumbent upon us as a country, if we believe in

:28:01. > :28:03.humanitarian... Intervening on humanitarian grounds, I see no

:28:04. > :28:06.clearer case than what is unfolding in Aleppo today.

:28:07. > :28:08.The former football coach Barry Bennell is appearing

:28:09. > :28:11.at Crewe Magistrates Court this morning, via video link.

:28:12. > :28:14.The ex-Crewe Alexandra youth coach has been charged

:28:15. > :28:32.Barry Bennell has been remanded in custody and will appear again at

:28:33. > :28:40.Chester Crown Court on January 11th. The hearing here lasted about 15

:28:41. > :28:46.minutes. He did not appear here in person, he appeared via video link.

:28:47. > :28:50.He was wearing a blue jumper, he spoke only to confirm his name and

:28:51. > :28:56.address, which was given as of no fixed abode. He is 62, a former

:28:57. > :29:03.football coach, a former youth coach with Crewe Alexandra, he also worked

:29:04. > :29:07.as a number of other clubs across the north-west. He has been charged

:29:08. > :29:12.with eight offences of sexual assault against boy aged under 15.

:29:13. > :29:18.The offences are alleged to have happened between 1981 and 1985. He

:29:19. > :29:22.was charged following an investigation by Cheshire police,

:29:23. > :29:28.they submitted a file of evidence in September. Barry Bennell has been

:29:29. > :29:30.remanded in custody, he will appear again at Chester Crown Court on

:29:31. > :29:38.January the 11th. With the news, here's Joanna

:29:39. > :29:40.in the BBC Newsroom. Shelling has resumed

:29:41. > :29:42.in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a day after a ceasefire was agreed

:29:43. > :29:45.between the government The evacuation of wounded civilians

:29:46. > :29:49.and up to 1,500 fighters has been delayed because of new demands

:29:50. > :29:54.from the government. Buses which were meant to take

:29:55. > :29:57.rebels and civilians out of Aleppo The audible sound of shelling

:29:58. > :30:12.interrupted an interview from Aleppo A local journalist told us how

:30:13. > :30:16.residents had started the day happy that a ceasefire had been announced.

:30:17. > :30:22.People were excited and happy with the agreement and evacuating the

:30:23. > :30:35.city, finally. They were just preparing themselves, packaging

:30:36. > :30:43.their stuff, and we have got to know that the severely injured people

:30:44. > :30:49.will be evacuated at 5am. It has not happened, and nobody has left the

:30:50. > :30:52.east of Aleppo. People were very frightened about this escalation

:30:53. > :30:57.that is taking place now. They think that the regime will take ground

:30:58. > :31:02.forces... The former football coach

:31:03. > :31:04.Barry Bennell has appeared at Crewe Magistrates'

:31:05. > :31:07.Court via video-link. The ex-Crewe Alexandra youth coach,

:31:08. > :31:10.who is 62, was charged with eight offences of sexual assault

:31:11. > :31:13.against a boy under the age of 14. He was remanded in custody

:31:14. > :31:24.until next month. Train bosses and unions have begun

:31:25. > :31:26.talks in an effort to resolve The company has advised its 300,000

:31:27. > :31:30.daily passengers not to travel, after ASLEF and RMT members

:31:31. > :31:32.walked out yesterday. Southern and the unions are meeting

:31:33. > :31:37.at the conciliation service ACAS. Police have charged a 29-year-old

:31:38. > :31:39.policeman with attempting to "incite sexual activity"

:31:40. > :31:44.with a child under 13. Nicholas Pool, a PC

:31:45. > :31:46.in South Cumbria, will appear at Carlisle Magistrates'

:31:47. > :31:48.Court this morning. He is currently suspended

:31:49. > :31:53.from the force. A British man who tried to grab

:31:54. > :31:56.a police officer's gun at a Donald Trump rally has been

:31:57. > :31:59.sentenced to 12 months in prison Michael Sandford, who is 20,

:32:00. > :32:02.pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm and disrupting

:32:03. > :32:04.the campaign rally in Las Vegas, He admitted that he had

:32:05. > :32:07.approached a policeman, saying he wanted

:32:08. > :32:11.Mr Trump's autograph. Join me for BBC

:32:12. > :32:22.Newsroom Live at 11am. Thank you very much. We have many

:32:23. > :32:29.messages from you about the interview with the journalist in

:32:30. > :32:33.east Aleppo. Most of you are saying that he had immense courage for

:32:34. > :32:40.actually continue talking to you as the shelling was going on around him

:32:41. > :32:43.in that city. A viewer says, "Very powerful stuff from the journalist

:32:44. > :32:48.in Aleppo. The situation there needs sorting out now." Emily tweets,

:32:49. > :32:51."Shocking scenes from Aleppo. Staggering scenes and sounds from

:32:52. > :32:55.east Aleppo says Emma. Terrifying and gut-wrenching. Horrible,

:32:56. > :32:58.horrible situation and I feel helpless. Amanda says, "So how we

:32:59. > :33:02.areful. This man is so brave." Arsenal missed the chance to go top

:33:03. > :33:12.of the Premier League last Celtic are now 11

:33:13. > :33:19.points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership

:33:20. > :33:22.after a 1-0 win over Hamilton. Formula One World Champion Nico

:33:23. > :33:24.Rosberg says he hopes he might become friends

:33:25. > :33:26.with Lewis Hamilton again. The former Mercedes teammates had

:33:27. > :33:28.an intense rivalry on track, but Rosberg says the pair have had

:33:29. > :33:32.kind words since he won the title. The German announced his retirement

:33:33. > :33:37.from the sport ten days ago. Dylan Hartley will find out today

:33:38. > :33:40.if he'll be available to captain He will appear in front

:33:41. > :33:44.of an independent panel who'll decide the length of ban he'll

:33:45. > :33:47.receive after being sent off for the third time in his career

:33:48. > :33:49.in Northampton's defeat A new host city for the bobsleigh

:33:50. > :33:56.and skeleton world championships will be announced in

:33:57. > :34:01.the next few days. That's after the sport's governing

:34:02. > :34:04.body said it wouldn't be "prudent" to hold the event in Russia

:34:05. > :34:06.in February, following last week's The investigation into an alleged

:34:07. > :34:14.assault on Strictly Come Dancing star Gorka Marquez has

:34:15. > :34:16.been dropped by police. Our Entertainment Reporter Chi Chi

:34:17. > :34:18.Izundu joins me now. Remind us, what

:34:19. > :34:25.originally happened? This incident is said to have taken

:34:26. > :34:31.place after the Blackpool Tower ballroom live event of Strictly.

:34:32. > :34:35.Apparently Gorka was walking to a nightclub in Blackpool with others.

:34:36. > :34:39.He was apparently set upon by a group of youths. They punched him to

:34:40. > :34:44.the ground and then he chipped two of his teeth on his lower jaw and

:34:45. > :34:48.had to get emergency dental surgery. What have the police said? Well, the

:34:49. > :34:53.police said they have checked CCTV of the assault and haven't found any

:34:54. > :34:57.evidence of it taking place. They have said they carried out a

:34:58. > :35:01.proportionate investigation which is now closed and that they never got a

:35:02. > :35:04.complaint from Gorka in the first place, but they want victims of any

:35:05. > :35:08.crime to come forward and talk to them as much as possible. Has Gorka

:35:09. > :35:11.said anything after the news from the police? He hasn't and there has

:35:12. > :35:14.been no official statement from the BBC, but they have stressed that in

:35:15. > :35:20.the past when this incident did happen, he said that he wanted to

:35:21. > :35:26.put it behind him and move on. BAFTA has said it is to introduce a

:35:27. > :35:29.series of diversity measures following a survey of its

:35:30. > :35:35.membership? Indeed. This is not going to kick in until 2019, but

:35:36. > :35:39.they did a recent survey of their 7500 strong membership. 45% actually

:35:40. > :35:43.replied and they discovered that their numbers are quite low in

:35:44. > :35:49.response. They have got 41% female and 13% were from an ethnic minority

:35:50. > :35:55.and the media age was 52. They want to change that. From 2019, the

:35:56. > :35:58.criteria for outstanding British film and outstanding debut by

:35:59. > :36:04.British writer, director or producers will need to be eligible

:36:05. > :36:06.in these categories to adhere to the British Film Institute's diversity

:36:07. > :36:10.standards which will change to make sure the make up of the film, both

:36:11. > :36:14.on screen and behind screen, actually make up the audience that

:36:15. > :36:17.are watching film. So it is representative effectively? It is

:36:18. > :36:22.definitely representative. Southern rail passengers are facing

:36:23. > :36:25.a second day of travel chaos due to strikes, as talks continue to try

:36:26. > :36:28.and find a resolution to the dispute We can talk to the RMT union's

:36:29. > :36:36.General-Secretary Mick Lynch. Huw Merriman, a Conservative MP

:36:37. > :36:40.who sits on the Transport Select Committee and is a rail

:36:41. > :36:42.commuter himself, Leigh Robb, a former train driver

:36:43. > :36:45.and guard, and Jacqui Miles, who is stranded in Oxford and can't

:36:46. > :37:01.get home because of the strike. Where is home? Caterham in Surrey.

:37:02. > :37:04.I'm going to start with Mick Lynch. The rail safety standards board says

:37:05. > :37:10.there is no evidence to suggest that there is an increased risk of harm

:37:11. > :37:14.to passengers where drivers operate powered doors providing the correct

:37:15. > :37:20.procedures are followed? The RSB talks about risk. We are not

:37:21. > :37:23.particularly interested in risk we are interested in high standards.

:37:24. > :37:27.They said the method that was in place was just as safe. What

:37:28. > :37:30.Southern has done is bring forward a new operating system which saves

:37:31. > :37:32.them money and they attempted to do that so they can increase their

:37:33. > :37:36.profits. They could have continued with the previous system and not

:37:37. > :37:40.have had this dispute, but they are doing what the Government has asked

:37:41. > :37:43.them it to did which get rid of guards and destaff the trains. If

:37:44. > :37:47.they revert back to the system we had before which is perfectly

:37:48. > :37:53.sound... Who asked Southern to do that? Well, Peter Wilkinson said...

:37:54. > :37:58.Who is he? The head of the trains division, at the Department for

:37:59. > :38:05.Transport. Is he an elected official or a civil servant? He is a civil

:38:06. > :38:10.servant. Is senior civil servant told the bosses of Southern to make

:38:11. > :38:17.people redundant? That's our view. Have you got evidence? He said on

:38:18. > :38:22.file that he wants to smash the RMT and ASLEF. Why would the RMT do the

:38:23. > :38:25.bidding... This is a directly operated company where they get paid

:38:26. > :38:31.a management fee so they are under the control of the DFT. We think if

:38:32. > :38:35.the DFT creates an environment where Southern are free to make an

:38:36. > :38:38.agreement to our union and ASLEF we can get an agreement to this. The

:38:39. > :38:45.organisation that is responsible for safety standards on the railways...

:38:46. > :38:50.Yes. There is no evidence. Are you saying the companies are corrupt?

:38:51. > :38:53.I'm not saying they are corrupt. Their point is to facilitate what

:38:54. > :38:57.the companies want to do. They are in charge of standards for safety.

:38:58. > :39:02.They are not going to make something up to suit their pay masters? They

:39:03. > :39:06.are not in charge of safety. Sorry, there is no evidence to suggest that

:39:07. > :39:09.there is an increased ricks of harm to passengers. So it is the same as

:39:10. > :39:12.now? There is evidence to suggest it. They are the safety standards

:39:13. > :39:16.board. They say there is no evidence? I know what they are

:39:17. > :39:21.Victoria. I know what they do and I know who pays for them. They have

:39:22. > :39:25.authorised the other system with guards and conductors which operates

:39:26. > :39:28.in 70% of the rail system. If you asked them about that, rather than

:39:29. > :39:33.selecting that quote they would say that's a sound system as well.

:39:34. > :39:38.Well, you make donations to the Labour Party who would like to see

:39:39. > :39:41.the nationalisation of the railways, is that corrupt? We're not

:39:42. > :39:45.affiliated to the Labour Party. You make donation to the Labour Party...

:39:46. > :39:48.We don't make donations to the Labour Party. We don't make

:39:49. > :39:54.donations to the individual MPs. So Jeremy Corbyn? I want to nationalise

:39:55. > :39:58.the railways. Is there anything wrong with that link in the way you

:39:59. > :40:02.are making out the link between the staeventds board and Southern? There

:40:03. > :40:07.is no corrupt link between us or Labour MPs and green MPs whom we

:40:08. > :40:11.also support. The RSSB is there to facilitate, it is a club of train

:40:12. > :40:18.operators to facilitate what they want to do which is create a

:40:19. > :40:21.guardless system. Leigh, what's it like being the driver of a train

:40:22. > :40:28.where you have responsibility for opening and closing the doors? Well,

:40:29. > :40:35.I have been driving trains for many years and obviously it has change

:40:36. > :40:40.quite a bit over the time. The actual camera system isn't

:40:41. > :40:45.particularly that good. So you are with a long train, a lot of

:40:46. > :40:52.carriages... The 12 carriages, I personally would rather have a guard

:40:53. > :40:55.at all times, but obviously, because of the financial restraints,

:40:56. > :40:59.etcetera we have had to put up with over the years, but I will say I

:41:00. > :41:02.have to agree with a lot of what this gentleman says, it is easy to

:41:03. > :41:08.knock because he is a member of a union and a lot of what he says,

:41:09. > :41:13.reading between the lines from what I hear from reports and other

:41:14. > :41:17.people, there seems to be a lot of involvement by from people outside

:41:18. > :41:23.the industry. Do you back the strike? Well, I work for Southern

:41:24. > :41:27.and they are not a bad company. Do you back the strike? For drivers to

:41:28. > :41:31.go on strike there has to be a major problem because drivers do not go on

:41:32. > :41:34.strike. Do you back it? I would have done if I was a driver, but I

:41:35. > :41:39.haven't been driving for five years, but I'm not in that situation at the

:41:40. > :41:43.moment, and I don't want to comment as such, but for a driver to strike

:41:44. > :41:48.there has to be a major problem. I was a driver 20 years and I can't

:41:49. > :41:50.remember us actually ever striking. You sit on the Transport Select

:41:51. > :41:54.Committee and you are a commuter. When is this going to be resolved,

:41:55. > :42:01.that's all passengers want to know? Well, they rightly do. One behind

:42:02. > :42:04.you on that basis. It is incredibly frustrating, constituents get to

:42:05. > :42:11.work and get back to their families. We know that. The power is with the

:42:12. > :42:15.union. We don't have the powers to bring the union back and that shows

:42:16. > :42:18.how irresponsible and unreasonable this strike action is because jobs

:42:19. > :42:22.have been guaranteed, pay has been guaranteed there, is an argument

:42:23. > :42:26.about who opens and closes the doors with technology that's been

:42:27. > :42:31.introduced since 1982 so whilst Southern drivers are on strike right

:42:32. > :42:34.now, 30% of the network, with ASLEF drivers are driving the same

:42:35. > :42:36.technology. That's what my constituents can't understand. There

:42:37. > :42:41.is no consistency, there is no logic.

:42:42. > :42:45.So when are you going to sort it? We hope the across talks will reach

:42:46. > :42:48.some fruition, if they don't the Secretary of State for transport

:42:49. > :42:55.said that legislation has to be an option and that would be a shame to

:42:56. > :42:57.go down that route. This is so disproportionate, you are

:42:58. > :43:04.restricting the freedom of my constituents to get to work and get

:43:05. > :43:08.back to their homes. Grayling won't allow a settlement because he wants

:43:09. > :43:15.to get rid of the guards. This is safe. It has been used for decades

:43:16. > :43:20.and it is safe on Southern. Jacqui, you are a commuter, tell Mick Lynch

:43:21. > :43:26.from the union how fed up you are? It is not just the union, it is the

:43:27. > :43:30.Government too. I don't blame the unions on this. My frustration is

:43:31. > :43:35.that nothing has happened in seven or eight months. I have been, I work

:43:36. > :43:41.at the English National Opera and I have to travel into London sometimes

:43:42. > :43:46.twice a day and for the last seven months that's been a nightmare, turn

:43:47. > :43:51.up at the station, maybe it has been cancelled and it disappears off the

:43:52. > :43:53.screen while you are waiting and the destination changes and the

:43:54. > :43:57.culmination has been the last week and I teach in Oxford and I teach in

:43:58. > :44:02.Caterham at home, as well as commuting into London. And I come to

:44:03. > :44:08.Oxford to teach. And I was planning to go back this week to Caterham to

:44:09. > :44:11.teach two days of pupils and have a Christmas concert which the students

:44:12. > :44:16.have been working towards for the whole of the term and I had to

:44:17. > :44:19.cancel that. I've lost income as a result of it. But there is quite a

:44:20. > :44:24.few children who are disappointed they haven't had the chance to do

:44:25. > :44:29.their concerts. Fair enough. It is not fair enough, but I understand

:44:30. > :44:33.that. Hugh, if the Government ever does go down to the road of

:44:34. > :44:37.introducing legislation to ban strikes on the railways, that would

:44:38. > :44:41.be an admission that you had completely mishandled this whole

:44:42. > :44:44.dispute, wouldn't it? It would be an admission that this is a union that

:44:45. > :44:48.unlike some of the other unions that reformed this is a union that still

:44:49. > :44:51.demands to call the shots over and above what passengers and the

:44:52. > :44:54.operators want and as far as I'm concerned that's wrong because it is

:44:55. > :44:58.the passengers that are paying for the service and I would like the

:44:59. > :45:01.unions to be responsible. You consider the Miners' Strike, that's

:45:02. > :45:04.when the mines were being closed downment the rail industry doubled

:45:05. > :45:08.in the last 20 years of the it is a great industry to work in and this

:45:09. > :45:09.type of action is only going to make it worse, not just for passengers,

:45:10. > :45:19.but those who work in it. It is because passenger numbers have

:45:20. > :45:28.doubled that this is not suitable, it is about a whole suite of

:45:29. > :45:38.measures. We are defending the standards. DOO is outmoded, we need

:45:39. > :45:41.a card and driver working together, and a settlement is available today

:45:42. > :45:44.if the Government allow it to happen. Chris Grayling needs to get

:45:45. > :45:53.out of the arena or make the settlement happen.

:45:54. > :45:58.Thank you for commenting on the interview with the freelance

:45:59. > :46:05.journalist in East Aleppo. He was speaking to us in a besieged city,

:46:06. > :46:14.as severe shelling took place close to him.

:46:15. > :46:20.It is close. Any bond that might drop are going to be very close. It

:46:21. > :46:28.might drop here in this building or in this street. As happened five

:46:29. > :46:33.minutes ago. It is still continuing. Did you have optimism overnight that

:46:34. > :46:39.you would be able to get out of the city this morning after the

:46:40. > :46:44.ceasefire? Yes, of course. All the people were excited and happy with

:46:45. > :46:53.the agreement about evacuated the city, finally. They were packaging

:46:54. > :47:00.their stuff, trying to get what they have and to leave in the morning.

:47:01. > :47:07.We have been in touch with him since the interview, which was about 25

:47:08. > :47:14.minutes ago, he is OK. We lost the Skype line. He is OK, he says. We

:47:15. > :47:16.will keep in touch with him over the coming hours. He has just tweeted

:47:17. > :47:32.this. Thank you for your many messages.

:47:33. > :47:38.Incredible reporting, says one person on Twitter, live from Aleppo.

:47:39. > :47:42.This guy is so courageous. Richard, he is one of the bravest people I

:47:43. > :47:48.have seen, Aleppo is a tragedy and people need our help. Matt says, he

:47:49. > :47:54.is so very brave to be talking to Victoria, no words can explain the

:47:55. > :47:58.horrific events. One person says, unbelievable coverage today, it

:47:59. > :48:02.makes me feel ashamed. We moan about mobile phone coverage, come on. If

:48:03. > :48:09.he says, terrifying scenes from Aleppo. Tasha says, literally in

:48:10. > :48:12.tears watching the journalist talking live from eastern Aleppo

:48:13. > :48:23.while arms are going off around his building. Thank you for those.

:48:24. > :48:29.We will talk to one of the country's top psychologists.

:48:30. > :48:32.He's coached the likes of Sir Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton

:48:33. > :48:34.and Ronnie O'Sullivan to success and has worked across

:48:35. > :48:44.He is a psychiatrist I beg your pardon, not a psychologist.

:48:45. > :48:46.What he does for those top sportsmen and women,

:48:47. > :49:04.In terms of the sportsmen and women you have turned around when they

:49:05. > :49:09.have lost, can you do the same for the rest of us? They have turned

:49:10. > :49:15.themselves around, I can only catalyse that. The person

:49:16. > :49:18.themselves, when I work with them, I can get them to say what they are

:49:19. > :49:22.trying to achieve, and what they think is and isn't working, and then

:49:23. > :49:27.offer some ideas. It is unique to the person. I would love to say,

:49:28. > :49:31.these are the five things that will make you happy and successful. But I

:49:32. > :49:37.can say there are commonalities that maybe will help people. It is

:49:38. > :49:44.finding something that resonates and making yourself proactive in doing

:49:45. > :49:50.that. As we reflect on 2016, this has the caveat with what we are

:49:51. > :49:55.reporting in Aleppo, so whatever anybody has gone through, I am not

:49:56. > :50:00.sure much of it could compare, but you would look on your last year, as

:50:01. > :50:03.you move into the next one, what advice can you give people for

:50:04. > :50:11.approaching 2017 with some kind of decent outlook? Having seen these

:50:12. > :50:17.news items, one thing that resonates is, get perspective. When you get

:50:18. > :50:21.perspective, it starts making things seem less serious, because some of

:50:22. > :50:26.the things we worry about, at the time they don't seem to be trivial,

:50:27. > :50:31.but sitting back and thinking, five or ten minutes a day, can make a

:50:32. > :50:35.difference, cos you think, what am I trying to achieve? That gives us

:50:36. > :50:38.perspective and helps us work with reality, which is the starting

:50:39. > :50:45.point. Once you have perspective, then what? Define what it is you are

:50:46. > :50:49.trying to achieve. I had the privilege of working in sport, I

:50:50. > :50:54.have been in the NHS for over 20 years as a consultant, now I have

:50:55. > :50:59.jumped into elite sport and schools. It has been fantastic. I will give

:51:00. > :51:05.Ronnie O'Sullivan as an example. I spoke to him yesterday, I would not

:51:06. > :51:10.talk to somebody I work with in less they give permission, and he is

:51:11. > :51:14.happy. I met him five years ago, the most gifted snooker player we have

:51:15. > :51:18.ever had, and he walked into the room and he complained about stress,

:51:19. > :51:23.he had not won anything for three years, what can he do? My question

:51:24. > :51:29.was basic. What is it you want to do? To cut it short, he said, I just

:51:30. > :51:35.want to be happy and placed Luke. This is what we have seen in elite

:51:36. > :51:41.sports people, you forget what it is about, it is about enjoying what you

:51:42. > :51:46.do. What we do is, we substitute the enjoyment for attainment. I'm not

:51:47. > :51:51.saying attainment is wrong, but get perspective. Counterintuitively, it

:51:52. > :51:56.follows, happier you get, the more you are likely to attain. We are

:51:57. > :52:01.trying to get his victories at the World Championships, but we got him

:52:02. > :52:06.back to the table saying, let's enjoy snooker. The result was he won

:52:07. > :52:11.the next two world titles. By allowing himself to simply enjoy it,

:52:12. > :52:15.rather than aiming to be the world champion, that took some pressure

:52:16. > :52:21.off him? Exactly. You see this with children. This is the next

:52:22. > :52:28.generation of people that we want to get it right for, the last thing I

:52:29. > :52:33.want is to see people stressing out. It is a result of their own outlook.

:52:34. > :52:37.Look at what you are doing and see if you can change your approach.

:52:38. > :52:43.Attainment in business, in medicine, I trained doctors, that is critical

:52:44. > :52:49.and important, but it is a dream. We hope to be fantastic, and you cannot

:52:50. > :52:54.guarantee it. You can guarantee that you can enjoy yourself and do your

:52:55. > :52:58.best. That is the key. I say to children, do your best, and the

:52:59. > :53:04.research backs this. If you encourage them to do their best and

:53:05. > :53:08.prays that, they are likely to attain, but if you say, this is what

:53:09. > :53:12.you have got to get, the evidence is that you start to stress, because

:53:13. > :53:20.you cannot guarantee that you will achieve. In terms of that kind of

:53:21. > :53:23.outlook, enjoying stuff, having a perspective, how much is it also

:53:24. > :53:33.about conquering your personal fears? I am a psychiatrist, we look

:53:34. > :53:37.at the mind and the neuroscience. I have tried to make it simpler,

:53:38. > :53:42.because it is complex. We do not stress, it is the brain that start

:53:43. > :53:47.bringing stress and it cannot understand something or perceived

:53:48. > :53:54.change -- danger. But often we get that wrong. What I would say to

:53:55. > :53:58.people is, if you start to feel anxious and you feel these emotions

:53:59. > :54:02.coming, to them as a message that says, what are you going to do about

:54:03. > :54:11.it? Rather than engaging with them and getting into more of a mess.

:54:12. > :54:16.Rather say, the machine is saying, there is stress for a reason, what

:54:17. > :54:19.is the solution? That is the way forward, but the emotion to one side

:54:20. > :54:24.and say, how am I going to take this forward to resolve the message? We

:54:25. > :54:31.talk about mental health a lot, it is a huge issue. You want to see

:54:32. > :54:38.changes in schools, tell us about that. I am not the expert. I was a

:54:39. > :54:42.former teacher. You have just thought about this more than we

:54:43. > :54:48.have. I have a charitable company, we work in schools, and we say...

:54:49. > :54:50.For teachers as well, they get stressed, because of pressures put

:54:51. > :54:58.on them. They are doing a brilliant job, 99% of them have integrity and

:54:59. > :55:03.are working hard. All we can do is start praising them, because they

:55:04. > :55:05.deserve the same. If we cascade that their two children, if we start

:55:06. > :55:13.awarding the fact that they are doing their best, and that means

:55:14. > :55:17.trying, they will start to XL. If we keep saying to them, you must attain

:55:18. > :55:23.the following and do this, instead of saying, we would like you to do

:55:24. > :55:27.that but enjoy it, that is likely to get them their five GCSEs, rather

:55:28. > :55:31.than saying, we will measure this. That creates stress. It is

:55:32. > :55:38.concerning that we have these recent studies, in girls, between 15 and

:55:39. > :55:42.25, a quarter are suffering depressive features or anxiety and

:55:43. > :55:48.self harming. We have to address this, it is becoming a bit of a

:55:49. > :55:51.crisis. For the schools, I say, can we change our stand? The evidence is

:55:52. > :55:59.it will work. What about social media? And the pressures that puts

:56:00. > :56:04.on young boys and girls? Some kids have smartphones aged seven, it is

:56:05. > :56:11.believable. It is not an evil thing, like anything, it can be. We have to

:56:12. > :56:15.teach children to use it sensibly, but we will never stop bullying will

:56:16. > :56:21.stop we should address it, but it will happen. I listened to somebody

:56:22. > :56:25.talking about children and stress and saying, get them to talk, and I

:56:26. > :56:32.absolutely agree. And adults as well. When we talk, we listen to our

:56:33. > :56:37.staff, -- ourselves, and it helps us rationalise. For children, the step

:56:38. > :56:43.further is that we teach resilient. We know that life will be tough. All

:56:44. > :56:47.of this about being happy and constructive, you still have to deal

:56:48. > :56:50.with what will be knocking is about emotionally, so I would like them to

:56:51. > :56:55.talk, but maybe start teaching resilient. How do you key to

:56:56. > :57:01.resilient? Teaching them perspective, reality, values, and we

:57:02. > :57:05.operate by a value system and award ourselves by a plummeting values?

:57:06. > :57:10.Cos you start to see who you are and you get to be in tune with your

:57:11. > :57:13.values, rather than asking how many of your friends like you, that is an

:57:14. > :57:26.unstable foundation. This is the latest from Aleppo. The

:57:27. > :57:36.Syrian army says the number of people wanting to leave Aleppo is

:57:37. > :57:40.15,000. Including 4000 insurgents. The Syrian Army says the number of

:57:41. > :57:46.people wanting to leave is 15,000, including 4000 insurgents. That has

:57:47. > :57:51.been reported by Reuters. We were hearing earlier that the UN

:57:52. > :57:56.estimated there were 50,000 civilians still trapped. In our

:57:57. > :58:01.interview with the freelance journalist in the east of Aleppo,

:58:02. > :58:04.who was reporting live on our programme for about 20 minutes as

:58:05. > :58:09.the shells were going off around him, lots of you asking if he is OK.

:58:10. > :58:15.He is, we have been in touch with him. We lost the sky plan, but we

:58:16. > :58:19.have been back in touch, he is OK. We will keep in touch with him over

:58:20. > :58:22.the coming hours and days. Thank you for your company today, we are back

:58:23. > :58:31.tomorrow at 9am. Have a good day. You all right there?

:58:32. > :58:33.Oh, it's a very exciting day A very young MasterChef Gregg

:58:34. > :58:37.Wallace is paying us a visit. He's probably going to tell everyone

:58:38. > :58:43.how the nation consumes