25/08/2014 BBC News at One

The first Briton infected with the deadly Ebola virus is named.

William Pooley, a 29-year old volunteer nurse in

Sierra Leone, is being treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

The Prime Minister leads the tributes to the actor and

director Richard Attenborough, whose death was announced last night.

A mother is jailed for 11 years for murdering her three-year old son

and hiding his body in a suitcase in woodland.

The French government resigns in a very public argument over austerity.

Why watching other people play computer games is now considered

Doctors at a London hospital have begun treating

a British man who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone.

He was flown to Britain last night by the RAF.

The man's been named by a colleague as William Pooley,

a 29-year-old nurse who volunteered to go to West Africa to care

The disease has already killed almost 1,500 people in the region.

William Pooley went to Sierra Leone to care for the dying, visiting aids

and cancer patients in their homes. When Ebola struck, he went to help

out in hospital, putting his own life at risk. Very compassionate. He

loves people. He worked for long hours. He is a patient in the UK's

only high-level isolation unit. His bed sealed inside a tent, the air in

and out filtered. He will be treated by people in special suits designed

to avoid contact with Ebola. It spread by contact with somebody who

is infected, their body fluids. People who have died who are

particularly infectious. You cannot get the virus through breathing in.

It is not the most infectious virus we can deal with. It is nowhere near

as infectious as influenza. Teams have arrived in West Africa. Basic

health systems stretched beyond their limits. Health workers are

taking every precaution but long hours and difficult conditions

increase the chances of being exposed to the virus. At the last

little in north London the NHS is looking after one of its own. The

selfless volunteer nurse in their care.

Branwen is here. What can doctors actually do for him?

There is no problem treatment for the Ebola virus but William Pooley

is at least in highly specialised treatment were my key can get the

best chance of recovery. That means treating all of the symptoms that

can occur, for example vomiting and diarrhoea. The isolation tent will

make a big difference to keep him and the people looking after him

very safe. They will be trying to bolster his immune system. Hopefully

he will have a robust immune system. They will treat any other

small infections which made her car to give his body the best chance of

fighting off the virus. The Prime Minister has led

the tributes to the actor and director Richard Attenborough,

whose death at the age David Cameron called

Lord Attenborough one Film producer David Puttnam said

his friend was "completely irreplaceable" and had done "a

mind-boggling list of decent, Jon Brain has been listening to

the tributes. You cannot have any more to drink.

1942, and a promising young actor made his debut in a wartime morale

booster. Over seven decades, Richard Attenborough was to become one of

the towering figures of British and ultimately world cinema. I ought to

be drunk. I want to be drunk. His talent in front of the camera was

obvious. The role of a psychopath in Drayton Rock was an early triumph.

Described as the best realisation of one of his characters he had ever

seen on film. For the next 20 years he was prolific. The actor of choice

for many directors. Here, he excelled as John Christie, an and

assuming middle-aged serial killer. It is what I would expect, of

course. I know he had decided his future lay behind the camera. A

musical saw his first acting as a director. He specialised in the epic

sweep of history. Young Winston was a compelling biography of the early

years of Churchill. Illiterate they maybe... His greatest triumph came

in 1992, Gandhi dominated the following your's Oscars, including

two for Attenborough himself. Friends say his achievements went

beyond that. He not only had talent, I think you would call it genius for

knowing what to do and having the persistence to go ahead and do it.

He was an extraordinary man, the canopy of the British film industry

and more in the last extent or 70 years. In an interview in 2007 he

spoke of his love for his chosen profession. In the movies, in the

cinema, is heaven on earth for me. I would want to go on and on until I

disappeared. He did go on until the end. Right up until his death he was

collaborating on a project for yet another film.

Jon Brain looking back at the life of Richard Attenborough, whose

There's a special tribute programme to Lord Attenborough tonight on

With just over three weeks to go until the Scottish referendum

on independence, a second televised debate takes place this evening.

Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond,

and the Labour former chancellor, Alistair Darling, who represents

the Better Together campaign, will go head to head in Glasgow.

Our correspondent Lorna Gordon's there for us now.

Lorna, what issues do you think will dominate the debate this evening?

Both sides have been trotting out the one-liners this morning, trying

to capture and their arguments in a single sentence. Those who believe

in independence there this is about voting for prosperity versus

austerity if you want to stay within the union. Those who believe in the

union said the problem is not with the salesmen, it is with the

product. They believe there are too many unanswered questions. You will

see them revisiting some of the issues that have been dominating the

agenda over the past few weeks. Both protagonists will focus in on what

they see as their strength at the other side's weaknesses. You would

expect Alistair Darling to revisit currency and statistics with oil.

Alex Salmond will probably bring up different statistics to do with oil

and will focus on the issue of the NHS, which he will argue can on the

be safeguarded with a yes vote. That is disputed by the other side. We

know more about the structure of this debate, to start with opening

statements, the order of those to be decided with a toss of a coin, as

his where each man will stand. Alex Salmond will be on the right,

Alistair Darling in the middle and Glen Campbell on the left. They will

have to touch on four topics, the economy, Scotland at home, Scotland

and the world and what happens after the vote. Expect a big audience,

aiming in particular at the undecided voters.

The mother of Mikaeel Kular has been jailed for 11 years at the High

Court in Edinburgh this morning for killing her three-year-old son.

Rosedeep Adekoya was accused of murdering Mikaeel Kular but admitted

a lesser charge of culpable homicide which was accepted by prosecutors.

Adekoya, who is 34, beat the boy to death in January.

Andrew Anderson reports from Edinburgh.

Three-year-old Mikaeel Kular whose body suffered 40 injuries when

health service found by police in January this year. His mother,

Rosedeep Adekoya, struck him repeatedly angry her son had been

sick after they had eaten at a restaurant. Two days after he died

from internal injuries at the family home in Edinburgh, his mother called

999, telling police her son disappeared from the flats during

the night. That sparked a massive police operation in the north of the

city. Hundreds of locals turned out,

anxious to help, desperate to find the toddler. In this particular

case, it became clear that Mikaeel Kular hadn't gone missing of his own

accord, as had initially been reported. Therefore we started to

pursue lines of inquiry that led us eventually to the site that his body

had been deposited in. In fact, his body was lying in

woodland 20 miles away in Fife. His mother wrapped her son in bedding

put his body in a suitcase and hidden it in woodland behind her

sister's house. A court in Edinburgh this morning,

Rosedeep Adekoya was sentenced to 11 years. She admitted a lesser charge

of murder, of culpable homicide. Her lawyer told the court this had been

completely out of character and there was nothing to suggest that

Rosedeep Adekoya would behave in such a way towards her children.

Rosedeep Adekoya and her family we are known to social services in

Edinburgh and in Fife. Social work involvement with the family appears

to have ended in December last year. Four weeks later, Rosedeep Adekoya

killed her son. There is - now an inquiry under way

into whether more could have been done to prevent the death of Mikaeel

Kular. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson,

has called for tougher powers to deal with extremists who leave

Britain to fight in Iraq and Syria. Writing in his Daily Telegraph

column, Mr Johnson says control orders should be brought back

immediately for the most serious cases. He also says some people

should be stripped of their citizenship. Our Political

Correspondent, Iain Watson, joins me now. What more has he been saying?

He's got a lot to say. The 500 British Jihadis fighting in Syria,

half are estimated to come from London. It's not surprising the

City's Mayor would speak out. He's mentioned the reintroduction of

control orders, detention without trial, introduced by the Labour

Government but scrapped by the coal Is. The most controversial proposal

is to say there will be an assumption that anyone travelling to

Iraq and Syria would be assumed to be there for terrorist purposes, in

other words, a presumption of guilty and not innocence. The Home Office

said they are taking strong action so this change in the law isn't

necessary and until recently, the most senior law officer drive, told

the BBC that he thought this was Draconian -- Dominic Grieve. He said

it could undermine British values. Boris Johnson is set to become a

Conservative MP once again. The constituency is about to select its

candidate so it doesn't do any harm writing an article saying we should

get tougher on the terrorists, more tougher than the Government is

prepared to be. France's government's collapsed this

morning in a row over the country's faltering economy. The country's

Prime Minister offered up his socialist Government's resignation

to Francois Hollande after criticism from within the Cabinet about

France's austerity programme. Let's speak to our correspondent in

Paris, Lucy Williamson. Why is the president reacting in this way?

I think he's keen to show he's not going to Buckle under pressure and

there's been an awful lot of pressure on his economic policy. His

election promises about boosting growth and creating jobs are in

shreds. He's got an awful lot of pressure coming from Brussels to cut

spending faster and now, over the weekend, he's had this fresh attack

from within his own party on those economic policies. His economic

minister, one of the two men who actually run France's economy. His

reaction to that by dissolving the Government and recreating the

Cabinet as a whole, really says that he's not going to be swayed by that

pressure, he's going to stick to his economic policies whatever anyone

else thinks and it also tells us just how much is at stake for him.

Thank you very much. Now, it's a grey and wet Bank

Holiday for many of us today but the organisers of Britain's biggest

indoor gaming festival couldn't have hoped for better weather. Thousands

of people have descended on Coventry's rich Cho Arena for the

event. Graham Satchell has been finding out that watching other

people play computer games is fast becoming a legitimate spectator

report. This report contains flashing images.

They have come in their thousands. Some to play computer games, but

most to watch. I know what you are thinking,

sitting in front of a computer all day playing games is one thing but

sitting watching other people playing games all day... Really? If

you know the game, you can appreciate the level of skill and

technical ability that goes into it. It's funny to watch some of the

stuff they can do and think, wow, they must have really put a lot of

practise into this. It inspires you to keep on going. It's enough of a

sport to be sitting inside and hone your skills in that way instead of

with a football or a rugby ball. Do you think it's a legitimate sport?

Yes, yes. This is a hi-tech professional set-up. Two teams play

for thousands of pounds in prize money. You can see the tension.

The game is streamed live online, there are even commentators.

Great work from him... Gaming is of course a multibillion

pound industry and there's plenty of money changing hands here on the

coolest newest stuff. But what is surprising is the

numbers of people now watching other people play games like this, the

global audience online and at live events last year was over 70

million. Lost in a world of mine craft, we

met 11-year-old Alex. Mine craft is some sort of game that is built by

the perfect people. Why do you like watching other

people playing? Well, it makes me feel like I want to do what they are

going to do. This is Josh and his mum Michelle.

Josh watches videos of gaming all the time. His mum doesn't get it. I

find it really weird. I was watching it earlier, watching people

commenting on other people's playing and I've never seen anything like

it. Obviously that's where the fun is, which I hadn't really got. I

thought it was just the gaming itself. So I do find it slightly

strange. On stage, some living legends, gamers who record

themselves playing League of Legends and then uploaded on to YouTube.

This man has thousands. I have a coach. It's a really nice... I'm

happy it's a sustainable job that I have for now.

This event is taking place at Coventry's football ground. So is

the national sport being overtaken by so-called e-sport? Not yet. Some

here can't even stay awake. But gaming is evolving and growing all

the time. You can see more on all of today's

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