24/09/2014 BBC News at One

Parliament is likely to be recalled on Friday to vote on whether Britain

should join air strikes against Islamic State.

David Cameron is in New York - he's expected to receive

a formal request for help from the new Iraqi Prime Minister.

This is a fight you cannot opt out of.

They have got us in their sights, and we have to put together this

International forces, led by the United States, mounted fresh air

We'll have all the latest from New York, Westminster and Baghdad.

Ed Miliband defends missing out part of his speech on the economy -

but insists the deficit is high on his agenda.

The controversial preacher Abu Qatada walks free after being

cleared of terror offences in Jordan ? here, the Home Office insists he

Trinity Mirror, the publisher of four tabloid newspapers,

publicly admits for the first time that some of its journalists were

First time lucky - India makes history on its maiden mission to put

The capital will become a 24-hour city as overnight trains

Friends and family turn out for the funeral of a pensioner beheaded

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

Parliament is expected to be recalled

on Friday to discuss the prospect of British airstrikes against fighters

David Cameron, who's in New York, is expected to receive

a formal request for help from the Iraqi Prime Minister when they meet

Mr Cameron has already warned that Britain can't

The Labour leader Ed Miliband said he'd want UN backing

before intervening in Syria, but said he hadn't ruled out

A new wave of US-led air-strikes have reportedly taken place

against IS fighters in Syria, close to the Turkish border.

Let's hear first from our security correspondent Frank Gardner.

Targeting the forces of so-called Islamic State. This aerial footage

released by the US military shows some of the 200 coalition air

strikes in Syria hitting the jihadists' headquarters, barracks

and training camps. Britain did not take part, but the primaries to

hinted that it may do in the near future. This is a fight you cannot

opt out of. These people want to kill us. They have got us in their

sights and we have to put together this coalition, working with all

those countries I mentioned to make sure we ultimately destroy this evil

organisation. Parliament is widely expected to be recalled this week to

debate the issue. There is cautious political backing for Britain to

join the air strikes, but an Islamic State positions in Iraq, not Syria.

The international coalition against IS is building. These are Australian

attack jets arriving at a UAE air base in Dubai. Five Arab countries

have taken part in the air strikes, with others offering discreet

logistical support. Their governments so the jihadists as a

serious threat. Not all their populations will agree, but there is

no disputing the worsening humanitarian crisis boost by IS

advances towards the Syrian Turkish border. Well over 100,000 Syrian

Kurds have become refugees, fleeing into Turkey were bodyguards are

struggling to control the exodus. Homeless and frightened, they will

be facing winter within weeks. Kurdish forces, seen here fighting,

said that since the air strikes, IS militants have stepped up the

pressure on the border town of Kobani, reinforcing themselves with

tanks and troops. We have to make sure the Syrian people are taken

care of. We have seen the latest figures about the humanitarian

situation. They are very worrisome. I don't need to put the numbers, but

there are 11 million people in need in Syria. At the United Nations,

much of the talk today is about how to defeat so-called Islamic State.

More than 50 countries have signed up to the coalition against it,

although Iran, a regional giant, has called the air strikes illegal. The

US has warned that this campaign could take years. Britain's role in

it is still being decided. A former Attorney General says air strikes in

Iraq would be legal, but in Syria, less so. By Friday, it should become

clear if Britain will join in and take on a full combat role. Frank

Gardner, BBC News. In a moment, we do speak to our

correspondent in Baghdad and at the United Nations in New York. First,

our political correspondent at Westminster. Parliament will

probably be recalled on Friday. What support will David Cameron have for

air strikes? I think support will be broad and cross-party. Behind the

scenes for weeks, there has been a lot of discussion between party

leaders to ensure that support is there. David Cameron does not want

to risk another Commons defeat on foreign policy of the sort he

experienced last year over Syria. But the mood now is very different

to what it was then. There is a grim determination to tackle Islamic

State in any way that Britain can, joining the international effort.

When this does come to a vote, I think the government will get its

way. Critical to this is the Labour Party. Labour opposed the government

last year over Syria. This time, they seem to be on board. Ed

Miliband today said it was possible that they would back the government

in terms of air strikes on Iraq on IS. But he raised an interesting

question over whether that would extend to Syria. There is a big Bury

over whether the government's motion would include Syria. I don't think

it will -- there was a big JEERING over it. We expect the recall of

Parliament to happen imminently. And Laura Trevelyan is that the UN in

New York. It David Cameron deliberately choosing the UN as his

site for making a statement about expected air strikes? I don't know

if he will use his speech tonight to the United Nations General Assembly

to specifically say that Britain is taking part in air strikes. That

seems more likely to come in front of the British Parliament. But he

does have a key meeting at the United Nations in New York. He is

going to meet the Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi. The

expectation is that Iraq's Prime Minister will invite Britain to be

part of this coalition of action against Islamic State. That could

then give Britain the green light and legal backing to take part in

air strikes against Islamic State. That is what they think could hinge

on when it comes to Britain's participation in air strikes. And

Lyse Doucet in Baghdad, what difference would probable British

air strikes make on the ground? For those here who support a British

role in the US-led collision, and there are many, they point to

Britain's long history in the region. It has understanding of

Iraqi culture and British forces have worked before with the Iraqi

military, playing a role in training and intelligence gathering. For the

Iraqi power minister, who spent decades living and working in

Britain, he sees Britain being involved not just in military might,

but also political prestige and giving legitimacy to yet another

foreign intervention in Iraq. But this is still a deeply divided

society and powerful Shi'ite militias in these physical factions

staged protests here last week against another US intervention

here. There are also Sunni tribal groups who remain suspicious of the

government. So despite the fact that there are millions of Iraqis who

fear the rise of the so-called Islamic State, including the

possibility of them coming to Baghdad, they also fear violence by

other groups here. And there is of course the constant possibility of

any errant air strikes. Thank you to all of you. You can

keep up-to-date on all the elements at the UN throughout the afternoon

and evening on the BBC News Channel. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has

insisted the economy is "incredibly He was responding to criticism that

he forgot the section of his conference speech

about the budget deficit. The Chancellor, George Osborne,

said the lapse was "extraordinary". Today, the Shadow Health Secretary,

Andy Burnham, will give more details Our Political Correspondent Chris

Mason reports. The talk here today is about Ed

Miliband's speech, what was in it and what wasn't. Cheers. So here it

is, the text of Ed Miliband's speech. If you do one of these no

notes routines, the danger is that you forget stuff. And if the stuff

you forget is the deficit and immigration, people will notice. It

is not something I would do. I prefer to have notes in front of me.

And of course, it was a glaring omission. And so never interviewed

this morning, the questioning went something like this. The deficit -

did you forget that paragraph? The way I prepare these speeches is that

I write a speech... But with the deficit paragraph... Did you forget

it? I did not do one part of the speech. How high on your list of

priorities is the deficit he forgot it? Incredibly high, because Ed

Balls set out on Monday a clear plan for how we will get the deficit

down, how we will get the national debt falling, how we will have the

current budget in surplus and how we will have no proposals in our

manifesto for additional borrowing. He was the bid he did not forget.

Labour is offering an extra ?2.5 billion a year for the health

service in England. The Conservatives say it went up by more

than that last year anyway. The annual budget is 113 billion. The

Shadow Health Secretary is also promising more rights for family

carers and making it easier for terminally ill people to choose to

die at home. An NHS that put people before profit, an NHS that cares for

the carers, an NHS that is there for your mum and dad. An NHS with time

to care, an NHS for all of you. It is the health service that fires up

activists here, but as they head home bomber some fret over whether

Ed Miliband has what it takes to get Labour back into government. Chris

Mason, BBC News, in Manchester. Our system political editor Norman

Smith is in Manchester for us. Has the conference been overshadowed by

Ed Miliband's loss of memory? Well, Labour wanted to date to be all

about their big plans for the NHS. Instead, it is all about that

disappearing word. This party knows it is a significant blow. I was

getting a lift to my hotel would Labour Party delegates, and even

they were going, oh dear. They know in their bones that it is a real

blunder. Why? Not just because it is an absolute gift to Mr Miliband's

opponents, who can now rush out posted at the next election, saying

Ed Miliband, the man who forgot about the deficit, but more because

one of the central aims of Mr Miliband at this conference was to

try and reassure voters that Labour could be trusted on the economy.

Although he says, I have made loads of speeches this week about the

deficit and so has Ed Balls, this was his keynote, Prime Minister in

waiting speech, and he neglected to mention what is perhaps the biggest

issue facing any government coming into office. Many people will regard

that as a political howler. He insists that it is just one of the

perils of giving a speech without notes. My gut instinct is that next

year, we will see the return of the autocue with a vengeance.

The radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada has been cleared of terrorism

Judges there said there was "insufficient evidence" that he was

involved in a plot to target Jordan's millennium celebrations.

Abu Qatada was deported from the UK in 2013.

He was freed from prison this morning -

ministers here say there's no chance of him returning to the UK.

Our Home Affairs correspondent June Kelly sent this report.

This report contains flash photography. In Britain, he was

branded a threat to national security. In the cage-like dog of

Jordan's state security court, where he has been on trial on terrorism

charges, this was finally verdict today for Abu Qatada. As the

civilian judges announced that they had found him not guilty, the court

erupted. His many sisters and brothers have followed this case

from the start. And one of his lawyers, there was a kiss. He has

been cleared of conspiring in a plot which was thwarted to target Western

and Israeli interests in Jordan 15 years ago. The judges ruled that the

evidence was too weak to convicted. His son told reporters, we were

hopeful, and Baxter Allah for granting us what we asked for. That

has been an international legal marathon was the Abu Qatada took his

case through every British court and then on to Europe as he fought

against being sent back here to face these charges. He has now been

declared an innocent man. Theresa May led the drive to deport the

radical cleric. The UK courts here were clear that Abu Qatada posed a

threat to our national security. That was why we were pleased as a

government to be able to remove him from the UK. He is subject to a

deportation order and a UN travel ban. That means he will not return

to the UK. Our still a supporter of Al-Qaeda, he has railed against

Islamic State and condemned the kidnapping of Western journalists

and aid workers like Alan Henning. It was a view repeated today by his

lawyers. He said that this is not from Islam, this work. Is he saying

that Alan Henning should be food? - freed? Yes. The man himself once

denounced as a truly dangerous individual was taken back to prison

for some formalities. Later, he was released. Abu Qatada is now a free

man in his home country. What happens next?

Well, he (as in a short time ago and was greeted by a number of family

members, including his father. He got down on the ground and kissed it

as a mark of respect. He will be united with his children, some of

whom were born in the UK. Theresa May was asked this morning whether

she regretted treating him as a terrorist subject, given this

acquittal. She said, not at all. The due process of law had to take place

in Jordan. Of course, the British government succeeded in their prime

aim, which was to get him on a plane out of here so he ceased to be a

British problem. On this business of his comments regarding Islamic

State, he does not support fellow air strikes against Muslims.

Trinity Mirror - the group behind the Daily Mirror,

Sunday Mirror and Sunday People - has said for the first time that

some of its journalists were involved in phone hacking.

It's admitted liability to four people, and said it had settled

Well, with me is our correspondent, Matt Prodger.

This is the first time we've had an admission of hacking beyond News of

the World. Yes, that was where the principal focus was. That's not to

say we did not believe it was happening elsewhere. One person who

was convicted, a man called Dan Evans, for example, is thought to a

packed hundreds of phones while working for the Sunday Mirror. Now,

the publishers of the Sunday Mirror admitting liability in four cases.

Shane Ritchie, Shobna Gulati, Lucy Benjamin and Alan Yentob.

He is the creative director of the BBC. It has also settled six further

claims, including former England football manager Sven

Goran-Eriksson. And there are a further 19 people either already

suing them or intending to do so, including Cilla Black. What we are

seeing is the civil courts, not a police investigation, breaching the

defences of a national newspaper publisher. That's not to say there

is no police investigation, there has been one into Trinity Mirror

since September. It interviewed Piers Morgan, former editor, in

February. And rumbling away in the background there is a further trial

involving dozens of journalists, most of them from Rupert Murdoch's

tabloid newspapers. That is proceeding in the background to all

of this. Parliament is likely to be recalled

on Friday to vote on whether Britain should join air strikes

against Islamic State. Deadlocked for 29 kicks -

the shoot out that became penalty World War II veterans gather

at Biggin Hill to remember the Battle of Britain

and honour female fighter pilots. And phone-hacking at the theatre -

we speak to the cast of a new Nicola Sturgeon has launched her bid

to replace Alex Salmond At the moment,

she's the party's deputy leader and Mr Salmond announced he was stepping

down after Scotland rejected independence

in last week's referendum. Speaking in Glasgow,

Ms Sturgeon said she was committed to working towards more powers

for Holyrood, and to putting Here's our Scotland

correspondent Laura Bicker. She has waited in the wings long

enough. Nicola Sturgeon, after a decade as deputy, has now bid to

become leader of her party and the First Minister of Scotland. She

joked about filling Alex Salmond's shoes, but when it came to fighting

for more powers for Scotland there were stern words. This package will

be something near to federalism. Let me say this to Westminster on behalf

of Scotland: It had better be. If the UK parties move forward in that

spirit, they will have in me a willing partner for progress. If

not, they will pay a heavy political price. She is the clear favourite to

win the top job and may not even face any rivals, although it is

right -- it is likely there will be a contest for the deputy leadership.

Glasgow voted yes in the referendum, one of the few places to do so. In

her bid for leadership, Nicola Sturgeon refused to rule out a

future independence referendum. But she made her priorities clear. She

wants to unite yes and no boaters in what she described as a majority for

change, to bring more powers to the Scottish Government. Her opponents

say they will deliver for Hollywood. The Scottish plan is one that will

be delivered unconnected to anything else. It has to be connected in its

own terms whether or not we make progress on any other issue. Note --

Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond have been a defining partnership in

Scottish politics. They are friends and she describes him as her mental.

But the Nao, Nicola Sturgeon has set out her own course. -- her mentor.

But for now. Detectives involved in the search

for Alice Gross have travelled to Latvia in the hope of learning

more about their main suspect. Arnis Zalkalns, who is Latvian,

served seven years in jail there for killing

his wife before moving to Britain. He was last seen about a week

after the 14-year-old schoolgirl His brother says he has been

portrayed unfairly and had been Our home affairs correspondent

Tom Symonds reports. Of such different backgrounds,

but both missing. A 14-year-old girl from West London

and a 41-year-old old man from Latvia, a self-confessed murderer,

who 17 years ago was photographed showing police where he'd buried

his wife in a shallow grave. He is now a suspect because on

the day Alice Gross disappeared he Arnis Zalkalns has children from

a previous relationship in Latvia. Scotland Yard detectives are now

in Riga in case he is, too. But the mother of his former partner

believes he may have witnessed something on the towpath that day

rather than perpetrated it. TRANSLATION:

I think he saw something bad, because how can

a person drive to work and doesn't His brother is concerned

about the case has been reported. What I know

and what I've read differs. No one is interested in

whether he was a good man. Everyone is looking

for a sensation where he is shown Focused on a path alongside the half

mile section of the River Brent, They've already worked

their way through these woods once, but this level

of attention is designed to find the smallest of objects, a mobile

phone perhaps, or even the SIM card But this massive operation drawing

in officers from around the UK is Police in Thailand investigating

the murders of two British tourists claim

they're close to making an arrest. David Miller and Hannah Witheridge,

who were both in their twenties, were found dead

on a beach nine days ago. Police are trying to track

down a Thai man who left the island He's believed to be in the capital,

Bangkok. to succeed in putting a spacecraft

into orbit around Mars on the first attempt. The mission is one of the

cheapest ever carried out. Our correspondent Sanjoy Mujumder sent

this report from Bangalore. Celebrating an historic triumph

at mission control. Reaching the red planet on

the very first attempt, and joining A proud moment for the scientists,

and India's Prime Minister, who had We have tried to reach out

into the unknown and have achieved There were a few tense moments

as the spacecraft was put through a series of critical movements

before being placed in orbit, There's a real sense of pride,

for not only had they succeeded in sending a mission to Mars on

the very first attempt - something that's never been done before -

they've also done it at a fraction India's home-grown mission is almost

a 10th of the cost of a NASA's Even cheaper than a Hollywood

blockbuster Gravity. Over the next six months, it will

explore the red planet's atmosphere Today, though,

it was all about national pride. Now, penalty shoot outs are meant to

be a quick way of ending a football match. But last night when

Liverpool's League Cup tie with Middlesbrough finished 2-2 after

extra time, it took a marathon 29 penalties to decide the match. Our

sports correspondent David Ornstein Finally, it's all over! The end of

one of football's most extraordinary evenings. Liverpool have gone into

the next round of the League Cup, almost three hours after it began.

It was the 30th penalty of a remarkable shoot out, the longest

ever seen in this competition. Ironically, it was the penalty at

the end of extra time that led to such drama. But nobody knew the

extent of what was about to unfold. This is from both sides took us to

sudden death, and, incredibly, 20 conversions followed. Even

goalkeepers found the net. It was agony for the fans. Congratulations

to all the players. It is obviously a relief. This club knows a bit

about history. Last night was the highest penalty shoot out in English

professional football but still some way short of the 48 spot kicks in

the 2005 memory be in cup final. Now, decent weather for most of us

this afternoon. Some fairly decent spells of sunshine with a brisk

north-westerly breeze. We have had a few showers already across parts of

East Anglia and south-east England, but these are swinging over to the

continent now. This whether Frank continues to move over towards

France. Behind that for most of us, a fine afternoon. South-west England

and South Wales will be the sunniest, temperatures here getting

up to 19, possibly 20 degrees. One or two isolated showers left across

eastern England. The cloud across Northern Ireland at the moment

should continue to them and break up. In northern Scotland, one or two

showers on that brisk breeze but also a lot of dried red -- dry

weather. Outbreaks of rain arrived tonight in the north but further

south in England and Wales we keep the clear spells. That means an

aural areas, temperatures could get down to two or three Celsius in the

coldest spots. Thursday will be quite breezy, a change in the

weather across the North West, with outbreaks of rain. Some of the rain

could jump into the Pennines and Yorkshire before moving out of the

way. After a largely sunny start of the day in the south, things will

tend to cloud over. Still into the upper teens the most areas, possibly

up to 23 degrees in parts of Aberdeenshire and the north-east of

Wales and Cheshire. Thursday night becomes even windier. Gales develop

across the north west of the British Isles. This cold front pushes

southwards on Friday bringing a lot of cloud across England and Wales.

But brighter weather moves in from the North through the day, so we

should see some sunshine to end the day. It is the start of the Ryder

Cup and there is a risk of a spot of rain to start on Friday. But what

they will mostly notice is those gusts of wind as they start to play.

This weekend, lots of dry weather around, but often pretty cloudy,

sometimes with the odd spot of drizzle. Equally, there will be some

bright sunny spells. Temperatures just a above average. That's how the

weather is shaping up. Now a reminder of our top story this

lunchtime... Parliament is likely to B called

on Friday to vote on whether Britain should get involved. David Cameron

is in New York. This is a fight you cannot opt out of. These people want

to kill us, they've got us in their sights and we need to put together

this coalition.