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Turkey shoots down a Russian warplane on the Syrian border. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
The Turkish military says two fighter jets brought down the bomber | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
after it violated Turkish airspace - something the Russians deny. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
The Russian pilots were seen parachuting from the plane - | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
reports say one is dead, the other is missing. | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
The president says it was not in Turkey's airspace. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Here, the foreign office has called the | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
incident very serious and says it's urgently seeking further details. | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Almost ?4bn extra for NHS England's frontline services next year | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Alton Towers says the roller-coaster crash was caused by human error. | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
Easyjet cancel all flights to Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
until January after the bombing of a Russian holiday jet. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
Shining the light on one of the world's poorest countries - | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
how electricity is changing children's lives in Malawi. | :00:56. | :01:05. | |
On BBC London, another teenager is killed in North London. The 14th to | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
be fatally stabbed at this year. And an inquest hears the pilot of the | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
crashed helicopter was not looking forward to the flight because of the | :01:16. | :01:16. | |
weather. Good afternoon | :01:17. | :01:30. | |
and welcome to the BBC News at One. A Russian fighter jet has been shot | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
down by Turkish forces Istanbul is insisting the plane | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
had entered its airspace and had Both aircrew ejected | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
before the plane crashed near Latakia - one is thought to have | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
died, the other is still missing. In the last few minutes, Vladimir | :01:48. | :02:00. | |
Putin called the incident a stab in the back and insisted the jet was | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
inside Syrian airspace. Nato has called an emergency meeting about | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
the incident this afternoon. Shot down in flames, a Russian air | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
fighter plummets to close to the Syrian border. Turkey said its own | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
warplanes shot it down after it violated airspace. They warned it | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
ten times to steer clear. Russia said the plane never once steered | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
out of Syria and it can prove it. We have not yet heard from the Defence | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
Ministry about the causes of downing our plane. We know for certain it | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
was in Syrian airspace. Turkey disputes this, issuing this military | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
map showing what it says was the route taken by the Russian air | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
fighter, marked with arrows. Both pilots rejected from the fighter. | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
They were seen descending towards the hills. Search and rescue | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
helicopters have been combing the area. It is populated by rebels who | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
have been bombed by both the Syrian and Russian air forces. Video | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
appears to show the body of one pilot while the other is thought to | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
be on the run. The incident has provoked a diplomatic emergency. The | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
Russians are angry, there are reasons to fear a rise in tensions. | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
On the other hand, both sides will be quite keen to contain the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
incident. The Russians are keen to build up their links with the West | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
and attacks have plenty of other problems on their plate with | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
refugees and Kurds. Ever since Russia entered the crowded skies | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
over Syria two months ago to defend President aside it was feared | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
backlash like this could happen -- to defend President Assad. Recently, | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
Vladimir Putin has been closer to the West. Now this incident | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
threatens to undermine that cooperation amid fears of how Russia | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
will react. Our Moscow correspondent is in Moscow. We have had the | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
reaction and very strong language from President Putin. Russia has | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
reacted with anger. President Putin has said the shooting down of the | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
jet was a stab in the back by accomplices of terrorism. He | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
contrasted that with the heroism of Russian troops fighting terrorism. | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
He said the Russian jet had been hit in Syrian territory. Turkey said it | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
had violated Turkish airspace. Moscow denied that. He said the | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
aircraft had not pose the threat to Turkish territory and the incident | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
would have serious consequences for relations between Russia and Turkey. | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
He said they would carefully analyse what had happened. These are very | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
strong words and how Russia reacts next will depend on one man, | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
President Putin. There had been concerned something like this could | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
happen since Russia started their bombing campaign. Absolutely. Last | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
month, Turkey complained that Russian jets were violating Turkish | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
airspace. Russia admitted one incident and said one of the planes | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
had strayed into Turkish airspace because of bad weather. Nato had | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
criticised Russia for violating Turkish airspace. Perhaps not a | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
surprise. But certainly, very strong language coming out of the Kremlin | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
today. We will need to wait and see how Russia reacts next. Much more on | :05:56. | :06:06. | |
the background to this story online. The NHS in England is to get an | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
extra ?3.8 billion next year. The money is to pay partly for a full | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
seven day a week health service. News of the extra money comes ahead | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement. He is expected to | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
announce cuts. The NHS is in crisis, | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
missing vital targets and growings sign the system is | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
struggling to keep up with demand. including ambulance response times, | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
wait in A and cancer treatment. All signs the system is struggling | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
to cope with growing demand. After weeks of haggling, | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
ministers and Health Service leaders are back in step over NHS spending | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
plans for the next five years. They'd already agreed on the need | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
for an extra ?8 billion a year by 2020, the big question was how | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
quickly this would be phased in. This year's NHS budget is just | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
over ?100 billion, and ministers have agreed an extra ?3.8 billion | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
next year on top of inflation. The annual increases will continue | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
to reach nearly ?8.5 billion The Government says it all adds up | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
to an extra ?10 billion when you factor in extra money that | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
went in this year. We are giving the money upfront so | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
the NHS can implement its own plan There'll have to be savings | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
elsewhere in Government spending to pay for this, but it just goes to | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
show you can only have a strong NHS NHS leaders are relieved | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
the extra money is coming in sooner rather than later, but they warn | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
there's still a long way to go. We made the case for front loaded | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
investment in the National Health The reason it's so important is that | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
we've got to do two things; we've got to relieve the pressure | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
on frontline nurses and doctors services that we know the | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
Health Service will need over and hospital services right now, | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
and we've got to invest in the new NHS Trusts say it will still feel | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
like a tough spending settlement. Great to get an extra ?10 billion, | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
particularly when other departments are having significant reductions, | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
but this will still be the longest, deepest financial squeeze in NHS | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
history between 2010 and 2020. Concerns remain about funding | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
for programmes to prevent poor health and social care | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
which fall outside NHS budgets. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
will receive a proportionate increase in line with extra health | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
spending in England, but details of Let's speak to our health editor. | :08:30. | :08:47. | |
NHS leaders have welcomed the boost in funding but there are still | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
concerns about funding for other parts of the NHS. That's right, | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
particularly the public health prevention work done by local | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
authorities. You heard it referred to their by Adam in his piece. As I | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
revealed last week there are set to be cut in those budgets, things like | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
sexual health, smoking cessation clinics, things that are considered | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
to be pretty important. We will only know the scale of that tomorrow. The | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
money for health education England, the training of nurses and doctors | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
and so on, it seems very likely it will be announced that nurses will | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
need to start paying tuition fees and borrow money for that in line | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
with doctors and obviously other students. We will get all of that | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
tomorrow. As you suggested, this deal today, giving ?3.8 billion | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
above inflation, is very much what the NHS wanted. I detected quite a | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
lot of relief talking to NHS leaders today that they got that money. The | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
front loading you heard referred to. The ?8 billion that has been spoken | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
about is ?8.4 billion. One thing that has emerged today which is | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
important is that the cost of rolling out more services at | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
weekends in hospitals and GP surgeries has to be accounted for by | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
these numbers. Initially, NHS leaders wanted extra money for that | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
and they are now not going to get it. I'm told that will come towards | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
the end of the parliament in a few years. It is a big challenge | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
delivering that and I think it will remain a big challenge, preparing | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
for the efficiency savings which will very much be needed by that | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
point. We need to know where they are going to come from. Alton Towers | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
says human error was to blame for the roller-coaster crash this year | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
which left five people seriously injured. A report by the theme park | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
said the right's safety control systems had been manually | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
overridden. Two young woman who were trapped for hours had to have | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
amputations as a result of the accident. I joined by our | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
correspondent. Explain what more we know. We've had some more | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
confirmation from the theme park which explains what went wrong with | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
that manual override. A new statement has said a member of staff | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
had misunderstood, that is the word Alton Towers uses, a shutdown | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
message and chose to manually override the system, which sent the | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
carriage, carrying 16 visitors, into the back of a stationary carriage. | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
This happened on June the 2nd. You mentioned those two young woman who | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
had legs amputated. Also in the front row of the carriage that | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
crashed into the back of the empty one were to men as well -- two men | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
as well. One suffered severe knee injuries and another suffered a | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
punctured lung and broke his leg. Merlin entertainments has said they | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
suffered a loss in earnings as a result of the accident. They have | :11:56. | :11:56. | |
had fewer visitor numbers at parks. Brussels is still in lockdown - | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
because of fears Meanwhile in Paris, | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
police are examining what's thought to be a suicide belt, | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
dumped on a Paris street. It's said to be similar to | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
the ones used by the attackers, and was found near to a spot where | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
a mobile phone used by a key suspect, Salah Abdeslam, was traced | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
on the night of the killings. British airways and easyJet are | :12:15. | :12:28. | |
cancelling all their flights to and from Sharm El-Sheikh until January. | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
It follows a bombing of a Russian airliner. Our business correspondent | :12:34. | :12:45. | |
reports. The wreckage of the Metro Jet flight lies scattered across the | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
desert. 224 people were aboard, mainly Russian holiday-makers | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
heading home. We now know the accident was caused by a bomb, | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
Robert Lee placed aboard here at the airport of Sharm El-Sheikh. -- | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
probably placed. After the accident, flights were suspended. There was | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
chaos as travel companies scrambled to get their customers home. | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
Security warnings have been to stay away from the airport. EasyJet has | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
decided to cancel all flights to the region until the 6th of January, in | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
order to provide certainty for passengers. They have promised | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
refunds but some would-be holiday-makers are not impressed. My | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
wife is quite disappointed. It is the first day of my son's school | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
holidays. We were meant to be going away. We are not going away now. It | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
will be a rainy Christmas in London instead of a sunny one in Egypt. | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
British Airways has also cancelled services until the 14th of January. | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
Under normal circumstances, Egypt is a popular destination. For package | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
operators, the Christmas holiday is a peak period. For the moment, they | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
still hope to operate. Thomas Cook and others have suspended flights | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
until the middle of December. They will be keen to get back to normal | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
as soon as possible. Further cancellations look inevitable. The | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
top story: A Russian fighter jet has been shot down by Turkish forces | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
along the border with Syria. President Putin called it a stab in | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
the back. Coming up, concerns about the extent of performance enhancing | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
drugs among Welsh Rugby League players. Later on BBC London, | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
exhibitions looking at technology come together for an opening. | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
And, a return to the ring for Bermondsey boxer David Haye, | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
more than three years after he retired from the sport. | :14:52. | :15:01. | |
We were reporting on yesterday's programme about how countries | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
like Morocco are using solar power to help meet their energy needs. | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
Today, we're looking at Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries, | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
where the vast majority of people have no access to electricity. | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
Our Environment Correspondent, Roger Harrabin, visited the country to see | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
what the problems are and how small scale projects are providing | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
90% of people in Malawi have no electricity. | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
He sells the charcoal almost all people here use for cooking. | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
He gets up at 2am, then makes a 60-mile round trip for less than ?2. | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
She grubs in the dirt for fragments of charcoal to sell. | :15:43. | :15:58. | |
Malawi's emissions from coal and gas are tiny compared with rich nations. | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
But the charcoal trade itself is fuelling climate change. | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
Malawi has one of the worst deforestation records in the world. | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
Bear hills heat the climate and wood felling has another side effect. | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
Soil flushing off deforested hills is choking Malawi's rivers. | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
And that's reducing the amount of electricity made | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
by the country's main energy source, clean, hydropower. | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
So the people up stream are so desperate for power that they | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
are cutting wood which is loosening soil, clogging up the dam | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
Malawi has promised that despite its poverty, | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
it will reduce deforestation and cut projected greenhouse gas emissions | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
It's also warned environmentalists that it needs some coal power too. | :16:58. | :17:09. | |
We still need a lot of energy to drive our equipment. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
The Malawi government said we still need to go | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
These women on a project funded by British aid are using mud to | :17:17. | :17:27. | |
And bolted on to a cook stove here is this thermo-electric generator | :17:28. | :17:39. | |
It makes electricity through heat to charge your phone or your radio. | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
And in the darkness, there's a little light. | :17:47. | :17:55. | |
This six-year-old's school grades have improved since her | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
But here is a reality check, most people here can't afford | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
the ?2.50 Lamps and whatever happens in climate | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
negotiation, countless families will still face a mighty challenge over | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
You can see more on that on Newsnight tonight at 10. 45. | :18:14. | :18:33. | |
Seven out of eight children who are abused don't tell anyone, according | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
to research by the Children's Commissioner for England. | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
A report found that 50,000 children had been abused between 2012 | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
and 2014 but it estimates the true figure could be as high as 450,000. | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
Here's our social affairs correspondent, Alison Holt. | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
Wrung of Maurice Robinson's earliest memories is of his father sexually | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
abusing him. He describes what happened from them on as relentless. | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
Today's report says the majority of child sexual abuse happens within | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
family networks. Like a significant number of abuse survivors, Maurice | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
did tell his mother but that didn't stop the abuse. | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
I tried to explain as a three or four-year-old child would do. He got | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
me again and said, you told your mum again, you mustn't tell anybody | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
else. He said, I'm only teaching you and that was the way perpetrators | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
work, they want to win all the time. The report by the Children's | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
Commissioner for England draws on data from police, councils and abuse | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
survivors. It estimates over two years up to 50,000 children were | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
sexually abused, but only one in eight were known to the authorities. | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
It also says 66% of child sexual abuse happens at the hands of family | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
members or their close friends. Most children tell us they don't | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
know how to tell. Most won't come to the attention of the services | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
because of that. We need to recognise that and change it. The | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
report team also found most children who managed to tell someone were 12 | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
or older, but for many, the abuse had started years before. | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
Police leaders and others say we have to do much better. I think this | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
now has to be a watershed moment for all partners and agencies involved | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
in child protection matters. We now have to fundamentally rethink how we | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
go about stopping abuse happening on he horrific scale that the | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Commission identified. Like Maurice, many only tell their stories as | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
adults. More training is needed to spot signs of abuse as part of a | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
drive to protect children who don't have the words to explain what is | :20:55. | :20:55. | |
happening. Alison is here with me now. Alarming | :20:56. | :21:05. | |
figures, potentially up to 450,000 children abused in a two-year | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
period. How do they arrive at the figures? Well, they are an estimate, | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
because in the end we'll never know for certain exactly how many chink | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
are facing this sort of abuse and trauma. But, it's got comprehensive | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
research behind it so the figures are robust. What they've done is, | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
gathered data from police and local authorities, they've reviewed all | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
existing research and, in addition to that, they have surveyed more | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
than 750 adult survivors of abuse, so the most comprehensive survey of | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
that particular type. They have combined it using a model used by | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
Government to estimate the scale of problems and have come up with this | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
figure of between 400,000 and 450,000 children being abused. I | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
think it's fair to say the data is robust, it raises serious questions | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
about how we deal with this and provides valuable detail about what | :22:02. | :22:02. | |
was going on in children's lives. The trial of three men accused | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
of taking part in the Hatton Gardens heist has heard how | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
the first attempt to break The jury's been hearing how | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
the gang had to buy more drilling equipment to get into the room | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
housing the safety deposit boxes. Let's cross to Woolwich Crown Court | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
and our correspondent, It's been a day in which the | :22:23. | :22:32. | |
prosecution said two of the burglars pulled out after the unsuccessful | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
first night. They say one of the men on trial here actually walked away | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
at the scene of the crime just as his accomplices were about to pull | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
off England's biggest burglary. The jury heard yesterday how the | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
Hatton Garden burglars drove off in their van the first night empty | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
handed. They had drilled through the vault | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
wall but hadn't managed to get past the backs of the safe deposit | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
cabinets inside the vault. But, the prosecution say, two days later, the | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
men visited Machine Mart in Twickenham and bought a new pump and | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
hose to push over the cabinets. That night, the men arrived again at | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
Hatton Garden. But at that moment, according to the prosecution, Carl | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
Wood, one of the men on trial today, walked away from England's biggest | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
burglary. Terry Perkins, one of the ring | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
leaders, recalled the moment six weeks later, recorded on a police | :23:31. | :23:31. | |
bug in his car. And they did get in. They forced the | :23:32. | :23:50. | |
cabinets over, crawled into the vault and got open 73 safe deposit | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
boxes and ransacked them. On Easter Sunday morning, the | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
prosecution say they made off with ?14 million worth of gold, diamonds, | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
watches and jewellery, all stashed in their bags and two wheelie bins, | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
only around a third of the stolen property has been recovered. | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
In the last hour, the jury heard how six weeks after the burglary, the | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
police were on to the gang and installed recording dwietions in two | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
of their cars. They were listening in as the men discussed moving their | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
loot. Eventually, as several bags of stolen property were being moved, | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
detectives pounced and arrested most of the gang, but one of the men, | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
known only as Basil, has never been identified. | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
A number of Labour MPs are expected to back replacing Britain's Trident | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
nuclear deterrent despite opposition from its leadership. | :24:46. | :24:47. | |
The debate has been called by the SNP, which wants the nuclear | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
Let's speak to our political correspondent, Carole Walker. | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
The SNP have opened this debate, the party's defence spokesman Brendan | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
O'Hara said there was political consensus across the parties and the | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
people in Scotland, that they wanted to be rid of what he called "weapons | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
of mass destruction", but what this debate and this vote later this | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
afternoon does do is, it shines a very harsh light on the difficulties | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
that there are within the Labour Party on this issue. | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
The Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, a life long campaigner against nuclear | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
weapons wants to be rid of them. Most of his party, his MPs here at | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Westminster want to retain and renew the Trident nuclear weapons system. | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
Now, the Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, has said, that is a | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
shambles, Labour have been told to abstain when it comes to the vote | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
later this afternoon, but it looks as though around 20 Labour MPs could | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
in fact vote with the Government, thus underlining how difficulties | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
for Labour to resolve its differences, particularly when it | :25:55. | :25:55. | |
comes to security and defence. There are concerns that the use of | :25:56. | :25:56. | |
performance enhancing drugs by rugby Figures show that a third | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
of all the athletes banned in the UK are league or union players from | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
Wales, as our Wales correspondent, It's a game where the pressure is on | :26:07. | :26:19. | |
to be bigger, faster and stronger than the opposition. But despite | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
testing for banned substances at every level of rugby, some are | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
clearly prepared to run the risk of getting caught. | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
Last week, two Welsh amateur level players became the latest to join | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
the UK's banned list after being found to take performance enhancing | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
drugs. They joined 15 other Rugby League and union players from Wales | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
serving suspensions. The number of players who've been | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
caught and banned is relatively small compared to the thousands who | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
play rugby at grass roots level every week, but some argue they're | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
only a symptom of a much bigger problem that the authorities failed | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
to tackle. One former player spoke to the BBC anonymously about what | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
he'd witnessed in Welsh rugby. His words are spoken by an actor. | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
I think it's totally off the scale. I think people are probably blind to | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
it and if the truth came out, I think there would be probably a lot | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
more players who were banned from playing. It's not just a problem for | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
Welsh rugby. Former England under 16 player Daniel Spencer-Tonks was | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
given a four-year ban after testing positive in a third tier Rugby | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
League game. At my level, you knew the testers were coming around | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
potentially once a year pre-season and then maybe towards the end of | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
the year they might come around after a game, probably not. I | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
believe that's why it's so massive because you can get away with it. | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
Doping is under scrutiny in every sport. In athletics and cycling, | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
some have been shown to cheat their way to the very top. The ability to | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
take a drug which passes through the body quickly has made it easier to | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
be one step ahead of the testing regime. The drugs will leave the | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
system very quickly, they can be quite confident when they are going | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
to testing that they won't be caught because the current testing will not | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
be able to detect the drugs because they are no longer in the system. | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
Both Rugby Union and Rugby League admit there is an issue which they | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
say they are addressing. I wouldn't say it's not an issue in rugby, | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
because the fact that one player getting banned is one too many, as | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
far as I'm concerned, so the challenge for us not just in rugby | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
but in sport generally I think is to get it out of the game. A challenge | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
for rugby at every level is to keep confidence in the sport and ensure | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
supporters and sponsors and everyone is playing within the rules. | :28:47. | :28:48. | |
Time for a look at the weather now with Chris. | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
Seeing some big swings in temperatures this week across the | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
UK. This picture was sent in yesterday showing some fog on the | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
grass, fog on the horizon in the cold Arctic air, with temperatures | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
down at minus six in Oxfordshire. Since then, temperatures have | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
surged, some 15 degrees up. Neonatal to start the day and this morning we | :29:14. | :29:20. | |
have had a recent change. You can see a lot of cloud here in | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
Kent with outbreaks of rain. You get a sense of the weather front | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
becoming more organised an active. It's going to drag its heels. For | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
some in Kent it might be still raining in a couple of hours, but | :29:38. | :29:46. | |
eventually becoming dry. Clumps of showers in some areas. For Northern | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
Ireland, cloud write with showers and Northern Ireland having a few | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
showers. At least between the showers you are going to see some | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
sunny spells but you are in the cold air. The Atlantic flexes its muscles | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
tonight. A breeze will come in from the sea. | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
Temperatures eight to ten in the west. Notice the clearer skies | :30:07. | :30:09. | |
further north and east, that is where we'll have the lower | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
temperatures and in parts of Scotland, pockets of frost in | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
shelter, temperatures perhaps down to minus two. Looking at Wednesday's | :30:17. | :30:23. | |
picture, an east-west split. A weak weather front brings splashes of | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
rain. In the eastern side, some sunshine but it will feel cool, | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
temperatures seven degrees in Norwich and Edinburgh as well. | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
We are all in a cloudy boat on Thursday, dry weather but a bit of | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
rain across the north-west of the UK, heaviest in Scotland. It will | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
start to get a bit milder. We end the week with low pressure bringing | :30:45. | :30:52. | |
another pulse of rain across the UK. The winds are coming in from a | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
south-westerly mild direction so temperature-wise on Friday, highs to | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
12. It will be the mildest day of this week. | :31:01. | :31:03. | |
The stripe of rain is a cold front and, as that swings through, as we | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
head through Friday night, we'll get into the colder air. That is what we | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
are looking at this weekend, cold enough for some wintry showers, snow | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
over the high ground of northern parts of the UK, whereas further | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
south we areliking at blustery conditions this weekend with some | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
pulses of rain. Quite a changeable picture and big swings in | :31:22. | :31:22. | |
temperatures over the next few days. Now a reminder | :31:23. | :31:25. | |
of our top story this lunchtime. A Russian fighter jet has been shot | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
down by Turkish forces That's all from us, | :31:29. | :31:31. | |
now on BBC One it's time | :31:32. | :31:37. |