14/12/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

It's Wednesday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

Our top story today - the battle of Aleppo is over -

but residents are still waiting to be evacuated from

the northern Syrian city - they've painted a horrific picture

To everyone who can hear me, we are here exposed to genocide in the

besieged city of Aleppo. This maybe my last video. I hope you can

remember us. I don't know. Thank you very much.

Also on the programme - a British man who tried

to assassinate Donald Trump has been sentenced to a year and a day

We'll get reaction from his mum who feared for her autistic

And British actor Douglas Booth who's starred in Great Expectations

and the Riot club is just back from Iraq where he's been

Throughout the programme this morning we'll bring you the latest

breaking news and developing stories - the latest unemployment figures

are due out in around half an hour - we'll bring those to you as soon

as they happen and former football coach Barry Bennell is due to appear

in court in the next hour charged with child sex offences.

We'll have a reporter inside court with all the details.

Plus a little later in the programme, David Beckham and British

Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning.

Use the hashtag Victoria Live and If you text, you will be charged

The four-year battle for the Syrian city of Aleppo appears to be ending.

Despite the ceasefire, there are reports that government

forces resumed shelling of rebel-held districts

The United Nations estimates that up to 50,000 civilians remain -

and it's demanding access for international observers,

Now that the fighting has stopped buses, have arrived ready to take

rebel fighters and their families away from their former stronghold,

but they're not leaving yet as negotiations over their exit

And this has meant the evacuation of sick and injured civilians

Ambulances were turned back this morning.

Many of those who had been trapped in the crossfire have already tried

to flee taking with them what little they have after a battle that

For four years, the regime here has been fighting to win back

In recent weeks, backed by its Russian and Iranian allies,

Finally resulting in victory for the Syrian forces.

Now, in the aftermath, they stand accused of war crimes.

The United Nations says it has received credible reports of scores

of civilians being killed either by intense bombardment

or summary execution by pro-Government forces,

something the regime strongly denies.

At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council,

the United States ambassador said she believed that victory

The regime and its Russian allies will only be emboldened

to replicate their starve and surrender and slaughter

This will be their model for attempt to go re-take cities

It will not end with Aleppo and it will not focus on terrorists.

More than 300,000 people have been killed since

The capture of Aleppo may be a significant victory

for the Government, but the country's struggles

We are going to talk much more about Aleppo. Let me bring you this. I'm

going to pause. Our correspondent Tomos Morgan

is in Beirut with the latest. What can you tell us about reports

of resumed shelling this morning? That's right right. We first heard

reports by pro-opposition media Iranian backed militants had been

shelling the east of Aleppo. Activists had been saying the same

thing and sources close to the BBC echoing those calls. Russia now, the

latest to say that firing has now restarted. They are blaming the

rebels for restarting the fighting in east Aleppo saying that the

rebels fired at dawn. They used the small window of ceasefire that

happened over the past 12 hours as an opportunity to regroup. But it

appears as though that ceasefire has not lasted very long. Fighting is

continuing for those tens of thousands of civilians who are

trapped in the city who were hoping to leave, they are now in the same

situation as they have been for the past four years, but in a much more

condensed area. People fearing because it is so more congested that

the loss of life maybe Greater. Right. And we were told that there

were effectively buses on the outskirts of the east of the city

waiting to evacuate those civilians, but if shelling has restarted, are

they going to hang around those buses or what? Well, from what we

understand those buses did arrive. They were waiting and there were

injured and sick patients already on the buses waiting to leave. Some

people tried to leave before the proposed evacuation time which was

0500 hours, that was about six hours ago now. But nothing ever happened.

Nobody ever left. One of the reasons for that, it is assumed, it was

because the Syrian pro-Government forces wanted their troops to be

evacuated from towns and villages in northern Syria which were circled by

the rebels. So they were unwilling for the deal to continue unless they

had a slice of that bargain. Talks will be continuing today according

Turkish officials, talks between Turkey and Russia and hoping to

bring this ceasefire to an end, the hope for the civilians still trapped

in east Aleppo. Thank you very much, Momas.

Back here, Lancashire Police say they have dropped an investigation

into an alleged attack on the Strictly Dancer after finding no

evidence that an assault took place, they say. The dancer was said to

have been the victim of an unprovoked attack outside a

Blackpool nightclub after the filming of Strictly, but police say

examination of CCTV footage of the location of the alleged assault

failed to reveal any evidence of the incident. A spokesman for Lancashire

Police said we have carried out an ainvestigation and no arrests have

been made. We never received a complaint from the victim and any

injuries sustained were seen to be of a minor nature.

Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

The former football coach Barry Bennell is due to appear

at Crewe Magistrates' Court this morning via video-link.

The ex-Crewe Alexandra youth coach, who is 62, has been charged

with eight offences of sexual assault against a boy

State schools in England will have to find ?3 billion

in savings by 2020, according to the public spending watchdog.

The National Audit Office says schools are not ready for the "scale

The warning comes as ministers are expected to announce

a new formula for allocating funding, as our Education

Correspondent Gillian Hargreaves reports.

Making the numbers add up can be a stressful business.

Tanbridge House School in West Sussex has 1,500 pupils

and a budget of around ?6 million a year.

But it struggles to keep the books balanced because pupils

in West Sussex receive around ?1,800 less than in other schools.

In teaching terms, if I was funded just down the road,

like an area in Brighton, I'd be able to employ around

If I were in Greenwich, that number would rise to about 80.

I would effectively be able to double my staffing.

Now, the Government plans to make the distribution of cash more equal

In a report out today, the National Audit Office says that

overall school funding isn't keeping pace with increased pupil numbers,

the rising cost of national insurance and pension contributions.

As a result, ?3 billion of savings will have to be made by 2020.

60% of secondary schools will be in the red with deficits averaging

Without more money, Tanbridge might have seen its class numbers rise,

but while it's likely to be a winner other schools in places

like Inner London, Coventry and Doncaster could lose out.

Though the Government promises no school will see its budget cut

Train bosses and unions will start formal talks this morning

in an effort to resolve the Southern Rail dispute.

The company has advised its 300,000 daily passengers not to travel,

after ASLEF and RMT members walked out yesterday.

Southern and the unions have agreed to meet

There was a rise in reported cases of hate crime after the EU

referendum, according to Britain's most senior policeman.

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe told the BBC cases rose by as much

as three-quarters in the three months after the vote, but had now

fallen back towards the level before the referendum.

He described the prevalence of offences as "quite shocking"

and promised to protect anyone who was threatened.

A British man who tried to grab a police officer's gun

at a Donald Trump rally has been sentenced to 12 months in prison

Michael Sandford, who is 20, pleaded guilty to possessing

a firearm and disrupting the campaign rally in Las Vegas

He admitted that he had approached a policeman,

saying he wanted Mr Trump's autograph.

The UK ranks 54th in the world for 4G coverage, behind

the likes of Romania, Albania and Peru,

with many mobile users still struggling to get signal.

The National Infrastructure Commission says the Government must

of technology, 5G or risk languishing in the "digital slow

Where have you been where you failed to get a mobile phone signal?

Everywhere. 4G doesn't always work that efficiently, even in London.

Well, wherever you are in the country let us know if you can get a

4G signal quite interesting, down the think, that we come behind

Romania and Peru etcetera. Let us know what the mobile phone signal is

wherever you are in the UK. What happened in the Premier League

last night, Jessica? Arsenal had the chance to go top

of the table last night but blew it The Gunners will certainly

be disappointed. They've scored 12 goals

in their past three games, This was an opportunity

to really throw their hat in the ring and say,

"Yes, we are genuine title But they became unstuck

against an Everton side really Alexis Sanchez got Arsenal off

to a good start with this free kick. But that woke Everton

up and they equalised Then Ashley Williams popped up

with the winner late on. That's only Everton's

second win in 11 games. Also last night, Bournemouth are up

to their highest ever position in the top flight,

eighth, after beating Leicester 1-0. And in the Scottish Premiership,

Celtic have an 11-point lead at the top after a 1-0

win against Hamilton. More fallout from the

Russian doping scandal? The Russian city of Sochi will no

longer host the bobsleigh This comes after a recent report

which alleges that more than 1,000 Russian athletes were part

of a blood-doping cover-up And so the governing body

the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation will name

a new host city for the competition, You might remember there

were threats of boycotts from some high-profile names in the sport

including Britain's Olympic She's reacted to the decision,

saying she's happy the sport There's been talk of one

Formula One's biggest sets of rivals It seems hard to believe,

considering their intense battle for the title this year,

but yes, world champion Nico Rosberg says he and former Mercedes teammate

Lewis Hamilton can "have a laugh together" now that

Rosberg has retired! They were good friends as teenagers

when they were go-kart racing, but the strain of being on the same

team and challenging for the title over the past three seasons

really took its toll. It seems as though they're both

putting that behind them, though. Remember those pictures of a young

boy from Afghanistan wearing a blue-and-white carrier bag

as a football shirt to replicate The pictures went across the world

on social media and the boy Well, that same little boy

actually got to meet Messi. He got to walk out

onto the pitch with him. Having so much fun,

didn't want to leave. He wants to play for Barcelona by

the looks of it. Gorgeous. Thank you very much, Jess, thank you.

There are reports that shelling has resumed

in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a day after a ceasefire was agreed

between the government and rebel fighters.

Witnesses say government forces began firing on rebel-held districts

in eastern Aleppo but that it stopped after half an hour.

Meanwhile the planned evacuation of civilians and rebel fighters

from the city has been delayed, as the government there demands

a simultaneous evacuation for its own injured fighters.

Aleppo has been a key battleground in the war between forces loyal

to President Bashar al-Assad and rebels who want

People living in the East, have faced non-stop bombardment

from pro-government forces for the last two days

with reports of barrel bombs, dead bodies in the streets,

and claims that civilians were being shot dead

This time yesterday on the programme we were reporting the tweets

of desperate residents trapped in the Syrian city of

Here are some of the social media videos people have been posting

To everyone who can hear me, we are here exposed to a genocide

We are tried to get in touch with him to get him back on the

programme. In an interview on Russian Today,

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that the West does not care

about civilians in Aleppo. Here's an extract from

that the interview, If we liberate Aleppo

from terrorists, Western officials and mainstream media would be

worried about civilians. They do not worry when the opposite

happens, when terrorists kill those civilians or attack Palmyra

and start destroying the human heritage, not

only Syrian heritage. In an extraordinary intervention

last night, US Ambassador to the United Nations Stephanie Power

asked Syria, Russia and Iran whether there was literally nothing

that could shame them. You in truly incapable of shame? Is

there literally nothing that can shame you? Is there no act of

barbarism against civilians, no execution of a child that gets under

your skin, that creeps you out a little bit?

I gather you can hear shelling right now? Tell us what is going on. About

three hours ago the shelling and bombing started to hit the besieged

city by the Iranians and Syrian regime. We heard there is a problem

with... You can hear that? I heard it. There is a problem with those

who occupy the city. The Iranians would love to kill everybody in

Aleppo, because that is what is satisfying them. Can I just ask

about that? You said Iranians are trying to kill everyone in eastern

Aleppo to satisfy them? Yes. That is what they want. I just heard some

more shelling. Yes, it has continued for the last three hours. I read

that the Russians said that the rebels resumed attacks and the

regime will attack the city, and that is what has happened. But the

regime starts hitting these neighbourhoods, to start attacking

again this besieged city, maybe to put pressure on the Syrian friends

to evacuate the people from the city without any conditions, and the

Iranians want to put in another condition, about evacuation of a

village. The same as what will happen to Aleppo city. Before we

continue our conversation, do you want to leave us, do you want to

move somewhere, do you want to continue talking? We are under a

real genocide. But because of our last messages and our low voice, we

shout, for the world to stand for this. But we know they will keep

silent. If the Iranians and Russians killed us, they will not care about

that. Everything will be good. That is what we think about. We know that

we should survive, because there is nothing important to die for. We can

sacrifice ourselves for freedom and democracy. It looks like nobody

cares about our freedom and our democracy. They care about

dictatorships and who can take power. I just want to check whether

you feel OK continuing to talk to us now with the shelling that we can

hear in the background. It is not a problem. We to that. -- we are used

to that. We have seen reports in people in the east of Aleppo,

civilians, opposition activists, saying there have been dead bodies

piling up in the streets, that there have been executions. Have you seen

that? I did not see that. But one of my friends, his relative was killed

and executed when they were captured by the Assad regime. If we suppose

is has not happened, we know what the Assad regime did since the

uprising began, 100,000 people executed. My friend, a doctor, was

executed in the air force security branch, they burned him alive in

2012. All of the world knows about that, this crime.

If you suppose it has not happened, I am sure it has happened. It would

not be unusual for the Assad gang and his allies. I will bring in some

more people who have got pertinent things to say about what is going on

in eastern Aleppo. If you need to leave us, we completely understand.

If you can take -- stay, we would be grateful, but I will leave it up to

you. We can speak now to Hamish Gordon

from the charity Doctors Under Fire, and Crispin Blunt, who's

a Conservative MP and the chair of the Foreign Affairs

Select Committee. You voted against intervention in

Syria in 2013 but voted for it in 2015. It is being reported by a P,

those buses that were supposed to take civilians, children and rebel

fighters out of Aleppo, Associated Press said they have returned to

their depots without anybody on board. We were speaking to our

people in East Aleppo earlier this morning. They try to get out, but

the Iranians militias were preventing it. What we have heard

coming out of East Aleppo is very concerning. If the Iranians intent

to murder everybody there, that is absolutely shocking. We were

hopeful, speaking to people only half an hour ago, that the buses and

ambulances... We have ambulances available to take injured out, we

were hopeful they would be back later, so they were hopeful 30

minutes ago. The general ceasefire appears to be in place but it

appears that the Iranians militias are still fighting, and creating

what we have heard on the ground at the moment. Hence the sound of

shelling? That would appear to be the case. Overnight it has been

relatively quiet, we have not seen any end attacks on the regime ought

from... Apparently Russia has not been attacking for some time. The

children we have had prepared and ready to go, a plan we have worked

on for several weeks, we were very hopeful last night that by now they

would be out and in the main hospital in Italy. It is very

disappointing that is not happening, although people were upbeat half an

hour ago that this might happen again later or tomorrow morning. But

it appears it is the Iranians who are the block. Let's hope, after the

debate yesterday, where everybody agreed that hitherto we have been

pretty woeful in our activities in Syria, that people are now

galvanised. I would hope the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary are

on the phone to the Iranians the moment to try and assert influence

on them. Because I agree with George Osborne and Andrew Mitchell, what

Britain is brilliant at is diplomacy, and we have not flexed

that muscle enough recently, and we should be now. Just to explain to

people who are wanting to learn more about this situation, the Iranians

militias are there fighting alongside resident Assad's troops.

Correct. Assad has a variety of different allies, Hezbollah and also

the Iranians militias, who are fighting with him. They are even

less controlled than the Syrian Army. We have heard of the

executions yesterday, our people on the ground have confirmed that has

been happening, but 282 people, women and children, shot in the

open. -- up to 82 people. I could not say hand on heart that they had

witnessed it, but they say they have seen it happen, and there are people

in the streets who have been summary executed and murdered by these

militias. You're 40 Syrian staff, when was the last time you heard

from them, and what have they told you? Thankfully I have just spoken

to them via what's up minutes ago. This confirms they are still alive.

They are trapped inside East Aleppo. Much of what we are hearing tonight

about the continued shelling of the city, there is a loss of faith both

from our staff and from the wider civilian community about the

international ability, desire or interest to stop this ongoing

conflict, which is killing hundreds of thousands and currently trapping

them in what can only be described as hell on earth. Why would the

Iranians militias want to kill all of those civilians and opposition

activists and rebel fighters as they try to leave eastern Aleppo? I don't

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

his dirty work? I don't know. Is it a parallel of the kind of

motivation that is infusing the Islamist extremists who make up some

of the forces who are fighting against the Assad regime, as well as

the rest of civilisation? You will be to get a proper answer to your

question, we need to understand in more detail the nature. Do you as a

British MP believed you share some responsibility for what has happened

in eastern Aleppo? The international community has failed. Including

British politicians? So far as we hold the Government to account. I

was not part of the Government in 2011, I was not responsible for

foreign policy. But collectively, we have some degree of responsibility

for the signals sent out in 2011, which implied support to those

people on the back of the Arab Spring and rose against Assad as

another Arab dictator who would fall in the wake of Arab Spring. I

believe they made some shins about the scale of the help they would get

from the West. We raised their expectations. That is a reasonable

point to make. We were not prepared to follow through with giving them

lethal support. The regime often involved in fighting for its

existence against the various threats, and they fought back. With

the two understand the divided nature of Syrian society, people

were looking to the regime for protection from their perceived

threat from Islamist extremism. You then have the recipe and the result

of this appalling Civil War. Irony is not the right word, but as

we are talking about this and the vote in the British Parliament in

2013 not to authorise the use of military force against Syria, after

President Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons on his own

peoplement there are shells going off, four years later, behind us, as

our guest talks to us on Skype. I mean, do you regret the way you

voted back then? I don't regret the way I voted back then because we

were being asked around a specific objective to get rid of President

Assad's chemical weapons. The means we were being asked to authorise

would not have achieved the objective. In the end the objective

was achieved with the Russians disarming their Syrian ally. Hamish

Gordon is sitting alongside you... I know what this intervention is going

to be... Let him speak for himself. I was collecting evidence of the use

of chemical weapons and I had just come out of Syria when the mass

attack, the sarin attack on 21st August... What did you think of the

vote back then and how it... I was shocked. I was a veteran of both

Gulf wars and a veteran in the Army. People were saying we don't want to

repeat 2003, it was nothing like 2003. What is the link between that

vote in 2003 and what we are seeing in Aleppo now One of the interesting

facts, the regime have dropped chemical weapons into Aleppo,

chlorine that forced the children out of the cellaers, we have seen a

sarin attack two days ago. That was supposed to have been removed in

2013 and when that red line was crossed and we collectively, I as

the British Government, or the British people tell their

politicians how to vote, so we're all responsible, but when you look

at that, and we didn't act then, chemical weapons are now used, you

know, the great taboo are used all over the world. In Mosul Islamic

State are using them at the moment, and by not being firm, they are

common place and we have seen the news and I firmly believe and, you

know, I hear Cripin on this, we would be in a better position had we

intervened asm. We have got Iranian militias who are threatening to kill

everybody in Aleppo. What are we doing? What are we doing to prevent

that? What are we doing Crispin blunt? The responsibility sits with

Russia. It is Russia... And what are we doing? Well, we have to hold

Russia to account and what is different about war these days, we

are seeing the end of a siege of the it is almost medieval of the

consequences of what we're seeing. What is different today is a future

accountability. Here we are with this situation being able to talk to

someone in a studio in London and there is the end of a siege in

Aleppo. There is more accountability, there will be

pictures and electronic record... It don't know that's any consolation to

anyone who has lost kids, mothers, brothers... Of course, it isn't. All

of that influences future acts as well... Does it? After the genocide

in Rwanda? The Russia is the P5 power that has chosen to put itself

in this position, their leaders take up a degree of responsibility. Of

course, it is right now incredibly difficult to hold them to account

now, but we are creating a record now of what's happened, but this

story is as almost as old as human history of our failure as humanity

and the way we behave towards each other and we are hopefully making

some progress with international institutions talking over decades in

the post Second World War settlement to do this better. The challenge to

our system is the failure of the international community to address

this collectively. I think we have lost the Skype line. This is being

reported by AFP, a legal advisor to Syrian opposition factions says that

an evacuation deal for Aleppo is being held up by Iranian fighters

who have renewed shelling of the rebel part of the city which is

confirmation, I think, of what Monta was telling us anyway. Sorry, Mike,

did you want to say something there? Well, I think, the people have

raised good points about future accountability. What civilians and

the wider Syrian context, they no longer want words, they want some

action that actually means that they are safer and when they are safe,

that they receive the humanitarian assistance that they feel they

rightly deserve. So this loss of faith goes back to events such as

the bombing, the chemical weapon attacks outside of Damascus in 2013.

I was in fact in Syria at that time in the east of the Kurds and west

and the community back then was saying the red line has been

crossed. Where is the action and we are sitting three years later and

the atrocities of Aleppo city are continuing, but like a chemical

weapon attack in terms of political sensitivity and not a single action

is happening to protect these people. OK. This is coming in from

one of President Putin's spokesmen. This is about UN accusations of

forces allied to the Syrian Government carrying out excuses of

civilians in Aleppo. A spokesman for President Putin said they should

have watched the material from TV journalist on the ground which shows

the local population with joy and emotion welcomed the liberation of

the eastern part of the city from terrorists. This is in stark

contrast to such accusations and it is not correct the fact they, ie,

the UN don't have a position on the atrocities carried out by the

terrorists. Thank you very much for coming on the programme. Thank you

Mike talking to us in New Zealand. Thank you very much.

Unemployment has fallen in the three months to October aid cording to

official figures. Unemployment has fallen again, by 16,000 to 1.62

million in the three months to October. Average earnings increased

by 2.5% in the year to October. 0.1% up on the previous month.

Still to come: A 20-year-old autistic British man who tried

to grab a gun at a Donald Trump rally has been given a one year

Riot Club and Great Expectations actor Douglas Booth

He's been to Iraq to visit Syrian refugees there.

Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

Shelling has resumed in the Syrian city of Aleppo,

a day after a ceasefire was agreed between the government

It was clearly audible during an interview on this programme a short

time ago. The evacuation of wounded civilians

and up to 1,500 fighters from Aleppo has been delayed

because of new demands Buses which were meant to take

rebels and civilians out of Aleppo have returned empty to their depots.

The former football coach Barry Bennell is due to appear

at Crewe Magistrates' Court this morning, via video-link.

The ex-Crewe Alexandra youth coach, who is 62, has been charged

with eight offences of sexual assault against a boy

Train bosses and unions will start formal talks this morning

in an effort to resolve the Southern Rail dispute.

The company has advised its 300,000 daily passengers not to travel

after ASLEF and RMT members walked out yesterday.

Southern and the unions have agreed to meet

The UK ranks 54th in the world for 4G coverage, behind Romania,

Albania and Peru with many mobile users still struggling

The National Infrastructure Commission says the government must

make sure the country is ready for the next generation

of technology, 5G or risk languishing in what it calls

Eddie says, "No 4G outside of Telford in a rural village. Signal

poor from all the major networks unless we stand outside." It could

be worse. Arsenal missed the chance to go top

of the Premier League last night. Celtic are now 11

points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership

after a 1-0 win over Hamilton. A new host city for the bobsleigh

and skeleton world championships will be announced in

the next few days. That's after the sport's governing

body said it wouldn't be "prudent" to hold the event in Russia

in February, following last week's Formula One World Champion Nico

Rosberg says he hopes he might become friends

with Lewis Hamilton again. The former Mercedes team-mates had

an intense rivalry on track, but Rosberg says the pair have had

kind words since he won the title. The German announced his retirement

from the sport ten days ago. Dylan Hartley will find out today

if he'll be available to captain He will appear in front

of an independent panel who'll decide the length of ban he'll

receive after being sent off for the third time in his career

in Northampton's defeat I will have a full bulletin for you

at 10am. the latest unemployment

figures are just out. They are a lagging indicator, they

are looking at what happened before. If you compare it to the same time

last year, the unemployment rate then was 5.2%. Over the year, it is

down. Interesting if you devil into the numbers it tells us unemployment

fell by 16,000, so the number of people out of work standing at 1.62

million people. But and this is the bit I always talk to you is

earnings. How much on average are wages going up and whether it is

rising quickly? Well, it is not to be frank because it is going up by

2.5%. 2.5% which you think is all right, but inflation is starting to

rise and that's the big thing. So prices in the shops starting to rise

and we've been told that that is going to pick up pace even more in

the New Year because we start to get all that Brexit effect because the

value of the pound has fallen. It means stuff that we import from

overseas goes up in price. So yesterday, the inflation figures

coming in at 1.2%, all the expectation is that next year it

will start rising more. So the problem is if our wages going up

even more the gap between what we're paying out in the shops and what

we're earning starts to get narrower and narrower and it means we will

have less money in our pocket. OK, thank you very much. Thank you,

Ben. Ben Thompson reporting. Some tweets on Aleppo. A viewer

says, "Massive respect for your coverage on Aleppo and thank you for

caring." Some e-mails, "Yes, of course, Putin, Assad and Putin are

war criminals and listening to the tweets on your programme, it is

clear our feeble Government needs to act, the Russian ambassador should

be expelled from the UK and the Russian Embassy closed. : " Joel

says it is not that people don't care about events in Aleppo, it is a

complicated situation that the media haven't explained well." Ian says,

"The lack of action by the UK, etcetera is utterly despicable.

People in power and with influence should be ashamed."

A British man who tried to assasinate Donald Trump has been

sentenced to 12 months and one day in a court in Las Vegas.

20-year-old Michael Sandford, who is autistic, attempted to snatch

a policeman's gun at rally for the then Republican

We've spoken regularly to Michael Sanford's mother,

Lynne, on this programme, who has told us she worries

about her son's fragile state of mental health.

Can you hear me OK? I can, thank you. How has Michael reacted to the

sentence? He has enormously relieved. He is

grateful the judge was compassionate to take all his circumstances into

consideration and instead of looking at a sentence of years, you know, he

is only looking at months to do. Yeah, fantastic news for him.

So he could be deported to the UK in how many months? He would take off

time served, six months, and he would get two months off for good

behaviour, said he could be back in four months. You seem really up

eight, the most up and I have seen you for a long time. None of us knew

what to expect, we were looking at potentially 30 years initially, so I

am so glad that we could get such good legal help and medical help

from the professionals and have so much support behind us, it has been

so gratifying and humbling, and we would not be where we are today

without it. I am really happy. The court heard your son failed to pull

the gun from an officer's holster at this rally. The judge described the

incident as a crazy stunt, and he did really appear to be synthetic to

Michael. The judge was fantastic. He was a very reasonable and logical

man, he could see that Michael was not a bad person, that he had just

got lost along the way, overrun by mental health issues, and he did a

very bad thing in a weak moment. He can get past this and given a second

chance. The judge said, I don't see you as evil or a sociopath, and

wished your son good luck as he rose to leave the court room. He did. He

also questioned, had Michael succeeded in pulling the gun, he

would not have stood a chance, he would not have been able to wrestle

with police officers, it was just a very crazy moment, as the judge

said. The last time we spoke, you explained why it was that Michael

was in the US, you had not been able to stop him going there or

travelling around. If he is put back here in four months, how will you

make sure that does not happen again? He has told me he never

intends to go anywhere again. This has been the shock of a lifetime for

him. He said, I wish I had listened to do, I wish I had never gone. He

cannot wait to be back home to the safety and comfort of his own

country. What does Michael say about the incident now? How does he

reflect on what he tried to do? He does not remember the incident, he

said it is just a blur. When he was put on medication and he realised

what he had done and the gravity of it, he was overcome by remorse. He

was disgusted with himself, what he had attempted to do, he has never

tried to hurt anybody in his life, so this was a massive wake-up call

for him. Are you staying there for Christmas or coming back to the UK?

I shall be back the day after tomorrow. Thank you for talking to

as again, we appreciate your time. Clearly very relieved, her son

Michael jailed for a year and a day, although he could be back home in

four months because of time he has already spent in custody.

Coming up, we'll talk to the union behind the strikes on Southern Rail,

and to someone whose livelihood is threatened by the disruption.

While the world's attention is finally on the city of Aleppo

in Syria, albeit too late, the British actor Douglas Booth,

who was in Great Expectations and The Riot Club, has just returned

from a trip to Iraq, where he's been meeting refugees

The 24-year-old wants to challenge the negative stereotypes

Who did you meet and what did you see?

I flew to northern Iraq, to start with I met Syrian refugees who had

fled to Iraq who were living in an urban setting, and often you think

of refugees in tented camps, I was meeting them trying to life in local

communities, and then I met internally displaced Iraqis in Iraq

had fled from Mo Soul, the second biggest city in Iraq. That was

interesting, because you have people who had been living under Islamic

State rules for two years, so I met people who had either just been

liberated or had escaped hours before or a couple of days before. I

heard their stories about life under Islamic rule. It was quite shocking,

I was sitting down with young people like me, and to hear them talk about

life, it sounded normal before, the football clubs they love to support,

Real Madrid, but then have people dictating what they wore, the way

they grew their beard, they could not watch TV, there was no music, so

to talk to a young person like me about that was interesting, they had

to cut their symbols of their football shirts because they could

not show any. That was very interesting. The gradual oppression?

Yes, and they moved people from surrounding villages to the city

centre, so they could control them. Families were split up, friendship

groups, so life became arduous. All of the women were pulled out of

school. Lots of parents decided to take their young sons out of school

because they were scared of bracket -- radicalisation. They were

learning about guns. There was hard propaganda and radicalism happening

in schools. Fathers said they followed their sons around like a

shadow, they would have to sit them down every evening over the kitchen

table and say, this is not true. It was a struggle. Meeting young girls,

18 and 21, 22, who had been science students, hoping to work in

laboratories and Bush signed forward, they had such a bright

future, and to hear their stories, being pulled out of education,

terrified to leave the house, even if they left the house just showing

their eyes they would be reprimanded. Shocking. For me, to

see these people who were just like us, ordinary families going through

extraordinary circumstances, it was incredible.

Let's take a look at you at the camp, meeting some

Tell him something so he can remember you.

Tell us about these kids. They are Iraqi kids who had just been

liberated from Mosul. A really beautiful family. There was a sense

of jubilation, because a lot of them could not run around and play in the

street, so for the first time they could run around, having

conversations with me, and they were showing us around, and young guys

were being able to play football. I spoke to a young man who had had

this act of defiance, he had got married with a young girl from his

village, no music was allowed, but they've rolled down the blackout

blinds, he dead to trim his beard, they had a party, and he said it was

beautiful that she did not -- he did not know where his wife was, because

she was off chatting with friends. You will have seen events in Aleppo,

over the last few years. How do you react to some of the reports we are

getting from their? It is devastating. There have been

atrocities happening there for years. As the international

community, we have let civilians down. I have not been there. I am

not as educated on that as I am with this situation, but the UN refugee

agency are standing by with aid, shelter and protection for civilians

there who desperately needed. They have been calling for years to give

aid and shelter, but they can't, it has fallen on deaf ears. I heard

there had been a ceasefire that has not held. I hope that the

international community continues to put pressure on whoever is involved,

just to let the aid in and let the civilians get the protection they

deserve. You have the power of celebrity, the power to shine a

light. You also know that when you make these trips and you meet these

people in desperate situations, and then you come back to your normal

life, you put yourself out there for criticism. How do you respond? I try

not to think about criticism. People can criticise me for trying to do a

good thing. I am fortunate to have a platform. I try and use it to meet

people in Iraq or Lesbos who don't have a voice. I feel it is my

response will do, to give them a voice, as much as I can do, and to

raise awareness amongst people my own age, and try and spread

awareness about the issues, try to start a conversation. I have great

hope for my generation, great hope that we want to do the right thing,

and we just need to get a conversation started.

And you're staying around, Douglas, for a Facebook Live for this

You can send your questions via the BBC News Facebook page.

David Beckham has been an ambassador for the United Nations

And now he's using his famous tattoos in a new campaign to end

violence against children across the world.

Mixed fortunes today. For England and Wales, a lot of dry weather to

come. We should get more sunshine than in recent days stop but it will

not be dry everywhere, we will see cloud and rain working into Northern

Ireland and Scotland. We had fog to start the day in Windsor, and across

the North and South Downs and Salisbury Plain. Poor visibility.

Most of it has cleared. Across Wales, we had cloud breaking up,

with sunny spells. This picture was taken near to Port Talbot. They were

the front is snaking its way up towards the UK. It is not exactly

straight. It will snake along the Irish Sea area, coming inland across

Northern Ireland, into western Scotland, giving a real soaking to

the Isle of Man. For England and Wales, the early-morning murkiness

will break up, and we will see decent sunshine coming through. Over

the sunshine is late to reach the intention and North Yorkshire. As we

go through the afternoon in Scotland, the rain will come more

widespread and a lot heavier. A cloudy day in the Western Isles

competitor with yesterday. But the south-east of Scotland may escape

with dry weather around the Scottish Borders. In Northern Ireland, the

rain will be reluctant to move away from Antrim and down. Some 50 pulses

of rain coming and going. England and are mild, with southerly

breezes, with more sunshine than there has been over the last few

days. Tonight, the weather front will continue to push East, whilst

weakening. We will be left with an area of cloud, bits and pieces of

light rain and drizzle. It will turn milky over the hills. For many, it

will be on the mild side. The big story at the moment, we have the

high-pressure in Europe, the weather front zooming across the Atlantic,

hitting that high-pressure, and dying as they move across the UK. We

have got that again for tomorrow's forecast. We start cloudy with

dampness. The next weather front comes in across Northern Ireland. It

will bring another spell of rain. Some of the rain could be heavy.

We will have the best of any sunshine in Scotland. Looking at the

forecast through Friday and into the weekend, we are expecting a lot of

dry weather. Not a great deal of rain. We will sue the best of the

sunshine on Saturday, especially northern England Northern Ireland

and into Scotland. Through Sunday, the cloud again

tends to build in. A lot of dry weather over the next few days,

especially as we get to the weekend. But sunshine might be in short

supply. The Syrian Army

has started shelling the city of Aleppo again despite a deal

to evacuate opposition We spoke to one resident

there who told us the bombing It has continued for

about three hours. The regime started

shelling and hitting this neighbourhood to start attacking

again this besieged city. More travel misery

for rail passengers. There are no trains on any route

on Southern's network for a second day as train drivers

continue their strike We will talk to the leader of the

RMT union. And if you've had a challenging

year, how do you face 2017 Dr Steve Peters is a top

psychiatrist who has coached our national sportsmen and women

to Olympic success. He reckons he can do

the same for us. Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. Shelling has resumed

in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a day after a ceasefire was agreed

between the government The evacuation of civilians and

fighters have been delayed. Buses, which were meant to take

rebels and civilians out of Aleppo, The sound of shelling could be heard

on this programme a short time ago. Yes, it has continued

for about three hours It says that the rebels resumed

the attacks and the regime will attack the city and that's

what is happening. The former football coach

Barry Bennell is due to appear at Crewe Magistrates' Court this

morning via video-link. The ex-Crewe Alexandra youth coach,

who is 62, has been charged with eight offences of sexual

assault against a boy Train bosses and unions

are starting talks this morning in an effort to resolve

the Southern Rail dispute. The company has advised its 300,000

daily passengers not to travel, after ASLEF and RMT members

walked out yesterday. Southern and the unions are meeting

at the conciliation service ACAS. State schools in England

will have to find ?3 billion in savings by 2020, according

to the public spending watchdog. The National Audit office says

schools are not ready for the "scale The warning comes as ministers

are expected to announce a new education

funding formula today. The UK ranks 54th in the world

for 4G coverage, behind Romania, Albania and Peru with many mobile

users still struggling The National Infrastructure

Commission says the government must make sure the country is ready

for the next generation of technology, 5G or risk

languishing in what it calls There was a rise in the reported

numbers of hate crime. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe told the BBC that cases

rose by three-quarters in the three months after the vote. But had now

fallen back towards their former level. He described the figures as

shocking and promised to protect anyone who was threatened.

Under a plea agreement, he admitted he had approached a policeman saying

he wanted Mr Trump's autograph. The Philippines president admitted

personally killing suspected criminals when he was the Mayor of A

southern city. He said he was setting an example to police

officers. He has drawn international criticism for his hard-line policy

to eradicate illegal drugs which has seen police kill thousands of

suspects since he became president in June.

Viewers are telling us where they haven't got 4G or 3G. Philip is in

North Yorkshire. Mobile signal awful. Mount Everest has 4G, why not

North Yorkshire? Gillian is cross, the mobile signal in West London is

atrocious. I have no choice, but to use a signal booster to make sure I

can receive and send messages and calls and my current provider hasn't

been helpful. This texter, "I live in Surrey and

the EE network is at best really bad. We don't get any service most

of the time let alone 3G or 4G. EE should spend more money on Kevin

Bacon! Such a small thing, but so very,

very annoying, isn't it Joanna? I'm glad it is not just me. I was saying

the other day that I don't find it as bad as 3G used to be sometimes.

It is clearly a problem. Those were the days! Thank you, Joanna.

Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

use the hashtag Victoria LIVE, and if you text, you will be charged

Arsenal have been in brilliant form of late, scoring 12 goals

in their past three games, so you'd probably have

bet on them overcoming a struggling Everton side.

But the Gunners lost 2-1 at Goodison Park,

even after going in front through Alexi Sanchez.

Everton equalised before half-time and then Ashley Williams

That's only Everton's second win in 11 games.

Also last night, Bournemouth beat Leicester 1-0,

and in the Scottish Premiership Celtic won 1-0

Formula One World Champion Nico Rosberg says he hopes to be friends

The former Mercedes team-mates have had an intense rivalry on the track

Rosberg, who announced his retirement from the sport ten days

ago, says things have got friendlier between the pair since

There was some ups and downs. What really helped us through this time

was the respect that we still have back from the days when we were

really good friends in the carting days when we were like 14 years old

and that got us through all this. So in a decent way and now, you know,

we can have a laugh together at the moment. So I think, who knows maybe

in the future we might get on well again.

Dylan Hartley will find out today if he'll be available to captain

He will appear in front of an independent panel who'll

decide the length of ban he'll receive after being sent off

for the third time in his career in Northampton's defeat to Leinster

A new host city for the bobsleigh and skeleton world championships

will be announced in the next few days.

That's after the sport's governing body said it wouldn't be "prudent"

to hold the event in Russia in February following last week's

It claimed more than 1,000 Russians benefited from a doping cover-up

Remember those pictures of a young boy from Afghanistan wearing

a plastic bag to replicate Messi's Argentina shirt?

The picture went across the world on social media and the boy

Now that same little boy, his name is Moo-taza,

And he got to walk out onto the pitch with him.

Having so much fun, he didn't want to leave.

Barcelona might have a new signing there.

This time yesterday on the programme we were reporting the tweets

of desperate residents trapped in the Syrian city of

Rebel fighters are preparing to leave under a deal that could end

more than four years of fierce fighting.

Buses have been brought in, but the evacuation is being delayed

as the government there demands a simultaneous evacuation

Aleppo has been a key battleground in the war between forces loyal

to President Assad and rebels who want

People living there in the East, have faced non-stop bombardment

from pro-government forces for the last 48 hours,

with reports of barrel bombs, dead bodies piled in the streets,

and claims that civilians were being shot dead in the street,

Earlier we spoke to someone who is trapped in eastern Aleppo. He told

us about the fears of the people still there.

They love to kill everybody in Aleppo because that's what is

satisfying them. Sorry, I don't, can I just ask you about that last bit

you said? You said Iranians are trying to kill everyone in eastern

Aleppo to satisfy them. Is that what you just said? Yeah, that's what I

said because the Iranians, that's what they want and that's what they

have declared. I just heard some more shelling. Yes, it has continued

more about three hours and right now, I read about the Russians. It

says that the rebels resumed the attacks and also the regime will

attack the city and that's what is happening, but opposite the regime

started shelling and hitting the neighbourhoods to start attacking

again this besieged city. Let's talk to our reporter who is in

Beirut. Where are on the evacuation of people from the east of Aleppo?

Nobody has been evacuated from what we understand. The fighting goes on.

That ceasefire doesn't seem to have lasted for very long at all.

Different reports from both sides blaming each other on why the

fighting restarted. Proopposition media and activists saying that

Iranian militants, to back President Assad started shelling the start

remain enclave first thing this morning. Russia then responding

saying that it was in fact the rebels that began fighting and that

they used the short-term ceasefire as an opportunity to regroup. Now,

this whole situation regarding this deal was completely confusing when

it first came about last night. There were several different reports

about what was in part of this deal and what wasn't and when it was

going to begin and when people were going to start evacuating. It is

clear it hasn't held. Turkish officials said this morning that

talks are continuing between them and Russia to make sure that

evacuation does take place, but the Russian Foreign Minister has also

said this morning that it could take between two and three days for this

to come to an end and unclear if he moons for the fighting or the

evacuation deal to come into fruition. We will see what happens.

I know you will keep updating our audience.

Fardous Bahbouh, a Syrian living in the UK with friends and family

Zouhir Alshimale, Syrian national and freelance

Mary Creagh, a Labour MP who spoke in yesterday's debate on Syria

and who voted against military action in 2013.

And in favour of airstrikes against IS in December 2015. Let me start

with you as you are in east Aleppo. What is happening there on the

ground? The situation now is intensifying.

We can hear the shelling. How regular is that bombing? It is

constantly. In one hour, in one minute, you can count more than ten

attacks in one minute. So you can count in one hour how many bombs are

being hit until now with all of it by mortar attacks and artillery

attacks and the heavy launch, with a heavy ground launch bombs that are

being dropped here in a small area where it is overcrowded with the

civilians and families who are trapped in their buildings, they

cannot go and they cannot leave to go to the west of Aleppo. Are you

comfortable with continuing to talk to us or do you need to move?

I can't move anywhere else. There is no where else which is safe here in

the whole east. So if I move to the other part of the building, it will

be the same. Right. That bombing sounds close to you. Yes, it's

close. We're in a small area in the east here. So any bombs that might

drop is going to be very close and it might drop here in this building

or in this street as what happened like five minutes ago. It is still

continuing until now. Did you have hope, did you have

optimism overnight that you would be able to get out of the city this

morning after the ceasefire? Yes, of course. All the people were

excited and happy with the agreement about evacuating the city finally.

They were trying to get what they have and leave in the morning. The

severely injured people will be evacuated at 5am this morning. It

hasn't happened. And until now no one has left the east of Aleppo.

People were bombed and were frightened about the escalation

that's taking place right now and they think the regime is going to

take our ground forces. It is just happening around here.

Very close attacks. Maybe they will have ground forces on the ground,

escalating attacks. It might be there are 100 family members that

are scared now. There are many kids and women who are trapped and have

nowhere us to go. They are being abandoned. I know you have already

said... Can you still hear me? You have said there is nowhere as for

you to go to, because you are trapped, but if you want to end this

conversation, you must do that. No, it is fine, if you have anything you

want to ask. In the east there are more than 60,000 people, mostly

women and children, trapped, there is nowhere for them that is safe.

Many injuries. Until now, the attacks have been

intensified, as you can he. It is unimaginable for British people

watching you now. I don't know how you live like this, how you have

survived. I survived because I have not got bombed yet in my building.

But it might happen any time. Nobody is moving towards ending this

catastrophe. The regime are carrying on with their attacks. People on the

streets yesterday was not enough to hold the regime. Or to put pressure

on them to stop to let the people out of the city, and give them their

life back. They want to kill everybody here. Nobody cares about

those people who are trapped here and are being killed. Maybe we will

be trapped under the rubble of the buildings. Many people are watching,

we should go and demonstrate against the regime, we should do something,

assemble your friends and families and demand to stop the War crimes

that are taking place. I have a lady who lives here in the UK, who is a

Syrian, who has friends where you are, in the East and West. What

would you like to say to him? I am struggling to find words to support

you and tell you that there is solidarity from the people here, we

are just not seeing the political will to do something to stop the

regime. The action should have been done a long time ago. Why would they

announce a ceasefire with no protection for civilians? We are all

with you, we are standing in solidarity with our friends in the

UK, but we want the political will. Yes. There is nothing to say, is

there? Is a British politician, what can you say or do? I want to thank

you for the incredible courage you have shown in speaking to us today

and in the work that you do, live tweeting, I followed you on Twitter,

the work that you and other citizen journalists did a couple of nights

ago to wake the world up to the mass executions that were happening is

the reason why there was a discussion at the Security Council

yesterday, why we had that confrontation between the US and the

Russians on the Security Council why we had that debate in Parliament

yesterday. The courage that you have shown is one of the reasons why they

are playing cat and mouse with the West. You are caught in the middle

of a war of propaganda. The person who is victorious owns the history.

They want to own a history to say that you are all jihadis there, they

want to say that you are all rebel fighters, and they don't want to say

that they were teachers, human at variance, nurses, women and babies

and elderly and disabled people and that treated you the same. We know

that humanitarians and journalists have been attacked by the regime

consistently for showing up the terrible abuses that your people

have suffered. I want to say, thank you for what you have done, and

history will remember you, and the incredible courage you have shown.

If I may add, we all need to remember that the Syrian border

started as a peaceful revolution for freedom. The citizens in Aleppo,

they want the world to remember that we wanted freedom and the pity, but

the regime, with its brutality, and with Russian support, crushed

everybody, and now there is propaganda. But we wish the world

had acted a long time ago. There were so many missed opportunities to

stop Assad and Russia and Iran and the militia of Hezbollah. The world

has done nothing. How can win get ourselves later on, with no action?

There is still time for action. The Aleppo situation did not just start

yesterday, it has been going for so long, and it is time to do something

about it. Do you have hope that the international community can put

further pressure on Assad and the Russians to make sure a ceasefire

holds, so you can get out? I don't have any hope from the international

community at all. It has been six years until now. They have done

nothing apart from statements to said they are worried. They are

afraid about mass killing and people already killed. They are watching

and having statements. I have more faith in the people themselves, the

people who are our brothers, human beings, watching people in other

parts of the world, far away from here, from you in the UK or in

America or all around Asia or Africa, watching these videos that

came out from here, they can do something. There is a feeling that

each country has the power to put intense pressure on the Government,

in the Security Council, in every embassy. All around the world. She

just can not go to the main squares in every country and assemble and

demand to stop the massacring -- you can go to the main squares. If you

would like to do something, just go and do it. You don't have to pay for

something or to have some Facebook time, just go at night and assemble

and gather the people that you can go with during the night and just go

and make pressure, to put pressure on the Government.

American and Asian people and Arabian people... I could hear

voices in the background, are there people there? Are you OK? They are

friends of mine. I am going to read some messages from our British

audience. We are talking to a freelance journalist and a Syrian

and, he is talking to us live from East Aleppo. As we have been

conversing, we can clearly hear shelling going on behind him. This

after a ceasefire was meant to have been put into place last night. It

lasted for some hours, but it began again in the early hours of this

morning. There are some e-mails and tweets from British people. Wendy

says, I and crying as I watch him talk. Kramer says, how can the world

be watching this and take no action? It is an embarrassment to humanity.

Another viewer and says, Theresa May, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel,

are they watching this programme? Darren says, what are we waiting

for? We need to get these people safe. Clearly, there are people who

care deeply about you. They are not in a position of power, though. I am

just getting this news, from Damascus. It says rebel rocket fire

on government-held part of Syria's second city Aleppo has killed seven

people and wounded others, that has been reported on state television.

The Skype connection has just gone down. This being reported on a

French news agency, it is coming from state television in Syria, they

report that rebel rocket fire on government-held part of Aleppo has

killed seven people and wounded others. After fighting has regime

and an evacuation deal was suspended. It says six people were

killed and others wounded in another neighbourhood, with a seventh person

killed, and more wounded in other government-held parts of the city.

Final comment from you? The pressure now falls to the British Government

to call in the Russian ambassador and the Syrian ambassador. We have

British aid charities that have workers in eastern Aleppo who are

trapped. I asked Foreign Secretary what he was doing to get the

humanitarians out. We know they are targeted by the regime and the

Russians. It is incumbent upon us as a country, if we believe in

humanitarian... Intervening on humanitarian grounds, I see no

clearer case than what is unfolding in Aleppo today.

The former football coach Barry Bennell is appearing

at Crewe Magistrates Court this morning, via video link.

The ex-Crewe Alexandra youth coach has been charged

Barry Bennell has been remanded in custody and will appear again at

Chester Crown Court on January 11th. The hearing here lasted about 15

minutes. He did not appear here in person, he appeared via video link.

He was wearing a blue jumper, he spoke only to confirm his name and

address, which was given as of no fixed abode. He is 62, a former

football coach, a former youth coach with Crewe Alexandra, he also worked

as a number of other clubs across the north-west. He has been charged

with eight offences of sexual assault against boy aged under 15.

The offences are alleged to have happened between 1981 and 1985. He

was charged following an investigation by Cheshire police,

they submitted a file of evidence in September. Barry Bennell has been

remanded in custody, he will appear again at Chester Crown Court on

January the 11th. With the news, here's Joanna

in the BBC Newsroom. Shelling has resumed

in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a day after a ceasefire was agreed

between the government The evacuation of wounded civilians

and up to 1,500 fighters has been delayed because of new demands

from the government. Buses which were meant to take

rebels and civilians out of Aleppo The audible sound of shelling

interrupted an interview from Aleppo A local journalist told us how

residents had started the day happy that a ceasefire had been announced.

People were excited and happy with the agreement and evacuating the

city, finally. They were just preparing themselves, packaging

their stuff, and we have got to know that the severely injured people

will be evacuated at 5am. It has not happened, and nobody has left the

east of Aleppo. People were very frightened about this escalation

that is taking place now. They think that the regime will take ground

forces... The former football coach

Barry Bennell has appeared at Crewe Magistrates'

Court via video-link. The ex-Crewe Alexandra youth coach,

who is 62, was charged with eight offences of sexual assault

against a boy under the age of 14. He was remanded in custody

until next month. Train bosses and unions have begun

talks in an effort to resolve The company has advised its 300,000

daily passengers not to travel, after ASLEF and RMT members

walked out yesterday. Southern and the unions are meeting

at the conciliation service ACAS. Police have charged a 29-year-old

policeman with attempting to "incite sexual activity"

with a child under 13. Nicholas Pool, a PC

in South Cumbria, will appear at Carlisle Magistrates'

Court this morning. He is currently suspended

from the force. A British man who tried to grab

a police officer's gun at a Donald Trump rally has been

sentenced to 12 months in prison Michael Sandford, who is 20,

pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm and disrupting

the campaign rally in Las Vegas, He admitted that he had

approached a policeman, saying he wanted

Mr Trump's autograph. Join me for BBC

Newsroom Live at 11am. Thank you very much. We have many

messages from you about the interview with the journalist in

east Aleppo. Most of you are saying that he had immense courage for

actually continue talking to you as the shelling was going on around him

in that city. A viewer says, "Very powerful stuff from the journalist

in Aleppo. The situation there needs sorting out now." Emily tweets,

"Shocking scenes from Aleppo. Staggering scenes and sounds from

east Aleppo says Emma. Terrifying and gut-wrenching. Horrible,

horrible situation and I feel helpless. Amanda says, "So how we

areful. This man is so brave." Arsenal missed the chance to go top

of the Premier League last Celtic are now 11

points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership

after a 1-0 win over Hamilton. Formula One World Champion Nico

Rosberg says he hopes he might become friends

with Lewis Hamilton again. The former Mercedes teammates had

an intense rivalry on track, but Rosberg says the pair have had

kind words since he won the title. The German announced his retirement

from the sport ten days ago. Dylan Hartley will find out today

if he'll be available to captain He will appear in front

of an independent panel who'll decide the length of ban he'll

receive after being sent off for the third time in his career

in Northampton's defeat A new host city for the bobsleigh

and skeleton world championships will be announced in

the next few days. That's after the sport's governing

body said it wouldn't be "prudent" to hold the event in Russia

in February, following last week's The investigation into an alleged

assault on Strictly Come Dancing star Gorka Marquez has

been dropped by police. Our Entertainment Reporter Chi Chi

Izundu joins me now. Remind us, what

originally happened? This incident is said to have taken

place after the Blackpool Tower ballroom live event of Strictly.

Apparently Gorka was walking to a nightclub in Blackpool with others.

He was apparently set upon by a group of youths. They punched him to

the ground and then he chipped two of his teeth on his lower jaw and

had to get emergency dental surgery. What have the police said? Well, the

police said they have checked CCTV of the assault and haven't found any

evidence of it taking place. They have said they carried out a

proportionate investigation which is now closed and that they never got a

complaint from Gorka in the first place, but they want victims of any

crime to come forward and talk to them as much as possible. Has Gorka

said anything after the news from the police? He hasn't and there has

been no official statement from the BBC, but they have stressed that in

the past when this incident did happen, he said that he wanted to

put it behind him and move on. BAFTA has said it is to introduce a

series of diversity measures following a survey of its

membership? Indeed. This is not going to kick in until 2019, but

they did a recent survey of their 7500 strong membership. 45% actually

replied and they discovered that their numbers are quite low in

response. They have got 41% female and 13% were from an ethnic minority

and the media age was 52. They want to change that. From 2019, the

criteria for outstanding British film and outstanding debut by

British writer, director or producers will need to be eligible

in these categories to adhere to the British Film Institute's diversity

standards which will change to make sure the make up of the film, both

on screen and behind screen, actually make up the audience that

are watching film. So it is representative effectively? It is

definitely representative. Southern rail passengers are facing

a second day of travel chaos due to strikes, as talks continue to try

and find a resolution to the dispute We can talk to the RMT union's

General-Secretary Mick Lynch. Huw Merriman, a Conservative MP

who sits on the Transport Select Committee and is a rail

commuter himself, Leigh Robb, a former train driver

and guard, and Jacqui Miles, who is stranded in Oxford and can't

get home because of the strike. Where is home? Caterham in Surrey.

I'm going to start with Mick Lynch. The rail safety standards board says

there is no evidence to suggest that there is an increased risk of harm

to passengers where drivers operate powered doors providing the correct

procedures are followed? The RSB talks about risk. We are not

particularly interested in risk we are interested in high standards.

They said the method that was in place was just as safe. What

Southern has done is bring forward a new operating system which saves

them money and they attempted to do that so they can increase their

profits. They could have continued with the previous system and not

have had this dispute, but they are doing what the Government has asked

them it to did which get rid of guards and destaff the trains. If

they revert back to the system we had before which is perfectly

sound... Who asked Southern to do that? Well, Peter Wilkinson said...

Who is he? The head of the trains division, at the Department for

Transport. Is he an elected official or a civil servant? He is a civil

servant. Is senior civil servant told the bosses of Southern to make

people redundant? That's our view. Have you got evidence? He said on

file that he wants to smash the RMT and ASLEF. Why would the RMT do the

bidding... This is a directly operated company where they get paid

a management fee so they are under the control of the DFT. We think if

the DFT creates an environment where Southern are free to make an

agreement to our union and ASLEF we can get an agreement to this. The

organisation that is responsible for safety standards on the railways...

Yes. There is no evidence. Are you saying the companies are corrupt?

I'm not saying they are corrupt. Their point is to facilitate what

the companies want to do. They are in charge of standards for safety.

They are not going to make something up to suit their pay masters? They

are not in charge of safety. Sorry, there is no evidence to suggest that

there is an increased ricks of harm to passengers. So it is the same as

now? There is evidence to suggest it. They are the safety standards

board. They say there is no evidence? I know what they are

Victoria. I know what they do and I know who pays for them. They have

authorised the other system with guards and conductors which operates

in 70% of the rail system. If you asked them about that, rather than

selecting that quote they would say that's a sound system as well.

Well, you make donations to the Labour Party who would like to see

the nationalisation of the railways, is that corrupt? We're not

affiliated to the Labour Party. You make donation to the Labour Party...

We don't make donations to the Labour Party. We don't make

donations to the individual MPs. So Jeremy Corbyn? I want to nationalise

the railways. Is there anything wrong with that link in the way you

are making out the link between the staeventds board and Southern? There

is no corrupt link between us or Labour MPs and green MPs whom we

also support. The RSSB is there to facilitate, it is a club of train

operators to facilitate what they want to do which is create a

guardless system. Leigh, what's it like being the driver of a train

where you have responsibility for opening and closing the doors? Well,

I have been driving trains for many years and obviously it has change

quite a bit over the time. The actual camera system isn't

particularly that good. So you are with a long train, a lot of

carriages... The 12 carriages, I personally would rather have a guard

at all times, but obviously, because of the financial restraints,

etcetera we have had to put up with over the years, but I will say I

have to agree with a lot of what this gentleman says, it is easy to

knock because he is a member of a union and a lot of what he says,

reading between the lines from what I hear from reports and other

people, there seems to be a lot of involvement by from people outside

the industry. Do you back the strike? Well, I work for Southern

and they are not a bad company. Do you back the strike? For drivers to

go on strike there has to be a major problem because drivers do not go on

strike. Do you back it? I would have done if I was a driver, but I

haven't been driving for five years, but I'm not in that situation at the

moment, and I don't want to comment as such, but for a driver to strike

there has to be a major problem. I was a driver 20 years and I can't

remember us actually ever striking. You sit on the Transport Select

Committee and you are a commuter. When is this going to be resolved,

that's all passengers want to know? Well, they rightly do. One behind

you on that basis. It is incredibly frustrating, constituents get to

work and get back to their families. We know that. The power is with the

union. We don't have the powers to bring the union back and that shows

how irresponsible and unreasonable this strike action is because jobs

have been guaranteed, pay has been guaranteed there, is an argument

about who opens and closes the doors with technology that's been

introduced since 1982 so whilst Southern drivers are on strike right

now, 30% of the network, with ASLEF drivers are driving the same

technology. That's what my constituents can't understand. There

is no consistency, there is no logic.

So when are you going to sort it? We hope the across talks will reach

some fruition, if they don't the Secretary of State for transport

said that legislation has to be an option and that would be a shame to

go down that route. This is so disproportionate, you are

restricting the freedom of my constituents to get to work and get

back to their homes. Grayling won't allow a settlement because he wants

to get rid of the guards. This is safe. It has been used for decades

and it is safe on Southern. Jacqui, you are a commuter, tell Mick Lynch

from the union how fed up you are? It is not just the union, it is the

Government too. I don't blame the unions on this. My frustration is

that nothing has happened in seven or eight months. I have been, I work

at the English National Opera and I have to travel into London sometimes

twice a day and for the last seven months that's been a nightmare, turn

up at the station, maybe it has been cancelled and it disappears off the

screen while you are waiting and the destination changes and the

culmination has been the last week and I teach in Oxford and I teach in

Caterham at home, as well as commuting into London. And I come to

Oxford to teach. And I was planning to go back this week to Caterham to

teach two days of pupils and have a Christmas concert which the students

have been working towards for the whole of the term and I had to

cancel that. I've lost income as a result of it. But there is quite a

few children who are disappointed they haven't had the chance to do

their concerts. Fair enough. It is not fair enough, but I understand

that. Hugh, if the Government ever does go down to the road of

introducing legislation to ban strikes on the railways, that would

be an admission that you had completely mishandled this whole

dispute, wouldn't it? It would be an admission that this is a union that

unlike some of the other unions that reformed this is a union that still

demands to call the shots over and above what passengers and the

operators want and as far as I'm concerned that's wrong because it is

the passengers that are paying for the service and I would like the

unions to be responsible. You consider the Miners' Strike, that's

when the mines were being closed downment the rail industry doubled

in the last 20 years of the it is a great industry to work in and this

type of action is only going to make it worse, not just for passengers,

but those who work in it. It is because passenger numbers have

doubled that this is not suitable, it is about a whole suite of

measures. We are defending the standards. DOO is outmoded, we need

a card and driver working together, and a settlement is available today

if the Government allow it to happen. Chris Grayling needs to get

out of the arena or make the settlement happen.

Thank you for commenting on the interview with the freelance

journalist in East Aleppo. He was speaking to us in a besieged city,

as severe shelling took place close to him.

It is close. Any bond that might drop are going to be very close. It

might drop here in this building or in this street. As happened five

minutes ago. It is still continuing. Did you have optimism overnight that

you would be able to get out of the city this morning after the

ceasefire? Yes, of course. All the people were excited and happy with

the agreement about evacuated the city, finally. They were packaging

their stuff, trying to get what they have and to leave in the morning.

We have been in touch with him since the interview, which was about 25

minutes ago, he is OK. We lost the Skype line. He is OK, he says. We

will keep in touch with him over the coming hours. He has just tweeted

this. Thank you for your many messages.

Incredible reporting, says one person on Twitter, live from Aleppo.

This guy is so courageous. Richard, he is one of the bravest people I

have seen, Aleppo is a tragedy and people need our help. Matt says, he

is so very brave to be talking to Victoria, no words can explain the

horrific events. One person says, unbelievable coverage today, it

makes me feel ashamed. We moan about mobile phone coverage, come on. If

he says, terrifying scenes from Aleppo. Tasha says, literally in

tears watching the journalist talking live from eastern Aleppo

while arms are going off around his building. Thank you for those.

We will talk to one of the country's top psychologists.

He's coached the likes of Sir Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton

and Ronnie O'Sullivan to success and has worked across

He is a psychiatrist I beg your pardon, not a psychologist.

What he does for those top sportsmen and women,

In terms of the sportsmen and women you have turned around when they

have lost, can you do the same for the rest of us? They have turned

themselves around, I can only catalyse that. The person

themselves, when I work with them, I can get them to say what they are

trying to achieve, and what they think is and isn't working, and then

offer some ideas. It is unique to the person. I would love to say,

these are the five things that will make you happy and successful. But I

can say there are commonalities that maybe will help people. It is

finding something that resonates and making yourself proactive in doing

that. As we reflect on 2016, this has the caveat with what we are

reporting in Aleppo, so whatever anybody has gone through, I am not

sure much of it could compare, but you would look on your last year, as

you move into the next one, what advice can you give people for

approaching 2017 with some kind of decent outlook? Having seen these

news items, one thing that resonates is, get perspective. When you get

perspective, it starts making things seem less serious, because some of

the things we worry about, at the time they don't seem to be trivial,

but sitting back and thinking, five or ten minutes a day, can make a

difference, cos you think, what am I trying to achieve? That gives us

perspective and helps us work with reality, which is the starting

point. Once you have perspective, then what? Define what it is you are

trying to achieve. I had the privilege of working in sport, I

have been in the NHS for over 20 years as a consultant, now I have

jumped into elite sport and schools. It has been fantastic. I will give

Ronnie O'Sullivan as an example. I spoke to him yesterday, I would not

talk to somebody I work with in less they give permission, and he is

happy. I met him five years ago, the most gifted snooker player we have

ever had, and he walked into the room and he complained about stress,

he had not won anything for three years, what can he do? My question

was basic. What is it you want to do? To cut it short, he said, I just

want to be happy and placed Luke. This is what we have seen in elite

sports people, you forget what it is about, it is about enjoying what you

do. What we do is, we substitute the enjoyment for attainment. I'm not

saying attainment is wrong, but get perspective. Counterintuitively, it

follows, happier you get, the more you are likely to attain. We are

trying to get his victories at the World Championships, but we got him

back to the table saying, let's enjoy snooker. The result was he won

the next two world titles. By allowing himself to simply enjoy it,

rather than aiming to be the world champion, that took some pressure

off him? Exactly. You see this with children. This is the next

generation of people that we want to get it right for, the last thing I

want is to see people stressing out. It is a result of their own outlook.

Look at what you are doing and see if you can change your approach.

Attainment in business, in medicine, I trained doctors, that is critical

and important, but it is a dream. We hope to be fantastic, and you cannot

guarantee it. You can guarantee that you can enjoy yourself and do your

best. That is the key. I say to children, do your best, and the

research backs this. If you encourage them to do their best and

prays that, they are likely to attain, but if you say, this is what

you have got to get, the evidence is that you start to stress, because

you cannot guarantee that you will achieve. In terms of that kind of

outlook, enjoying stuff, having a perspective, how much is it also

about conquering your personal fears? I am a psychiatrist, we look

at the mind and the neuroscience. I have tried to make it simpler,

because it is complex. We do not stress, it is the brain that start

bringing stress and it cannot understand something or perceived

change -- danger. But often we get that wrong. What I would say to

people is, if you start to feel anxious and you feel these emotions

coming, to them as a message that says, what are you going to do about

it? Rather than engaging with them and getting into more of a mess.

Rather say, the machine is saying, there is stress for a reason, what

is the solution? That is the way forward, but the emotion to one side

and say, how am I going to take this forward to resolve the message? We

talk about mental health a lot, it is a huge issue. You want to see

changes in schools, tell us about that. I am not the expert. I was a

former teacher. You have just thought about this more than we

have. I have a charitable company, we work in schools, and we say...

For teachers as well, they get stressed, because of pressures put

on them. They are doing a brilliant job, 99% of them have integrity and

are working hard. All we can do is start praising them, because they

deserve the same. If we cascade that their two children, if we start

awarding the fact that they are doing their best, and that means

trying, they will start to XL. If we keep saying to them, you must attain

the following and do this, instead of saying, we would like you to do

that but enjoy it, that is likely to get them their five GCSEs, rather

than saying, we will measure this. That creates stress. It is

concerning that we have these recent studies, in girls, between 15 and

25, a quarter are suffering depressive features or anxiety and

self harming. We have to address this, it is becoming a bit of a

crisis. For the schools, I say, can we change our stand? The evidence is

it will work. What about social media? And the pressures that puts

on young boys and girls? Some kids have smartphones aged seven, it is

believable. It is not an evil thing, like anything, it can be. We have to

teach children to use it sensibly, but we will never stop bullying will

stop we should address it, but it will happen. I listened to somebody

talking about children and stress and saying, get them to talk, and I

absolutely agree. And adults as well. When we talk, we listen to our

staff, -- ourselves, and it helps us rationalise. For children, the step

further is that we teach resilient. We know that life will be tough. All

of this about being happy and constructive, you still have to deal

with what will be knocking is about emotionally, so I would like them to

talk, but maybe start teaching resilient. How do you key to

resilient? Teaching them perspective, reality, values, and we

operate by a value system and award ourselves by a plummeting values?

Cos you start to see who you are and you get to be in tune with your

values, rather than asking how many of your friends like you, that is an

unstable foundation. This is the latest from Aleppo. The