:00:00. > :00:07.The Prime Minister calls on MPs "across all parties" to support him,
:00:08. > :00:10.as Westminter prepares for decision day on air strikes in Syria.
:00:11. > :00:13.If MPs vote yes tomorrow, British fighter planes could be targeting IS
:00:14. > :00:20.This has been a very deliberate and proper process: a cabinet meeting,
:00:21. > :00:24.legal advice, a proper motion in front of the House of Commons, ten
:00:25. > :00:28.and a half hours debate tomorrow in the House of Commons.
:00:29. > :00:31.MPs will spend more than ten hours debating military action in Syria
:00:32. > :00:34.before the deciding vote tomorrow night.
:00:35. > :00:39.Thousands of operations cancelled at hospitals across England, despite a
:00:40. > :00:43.24-hour strike by junior doctors being called off.
:00:44. > :00:46.The Yorkshire Ripper is no longer mentally ill and should be returned
:00:47. > :00:53.New CCTV pictures of the Hatton Garden heist are shown to a jury -
:00:54. > :00:56.including the only footage from inside the building.
:00:57. > :01:01.As world leaders grapple with limiting carbon emissions,
:01:02. > :01:10.we have a special report from Vanuatu in the South Pacific.
:01:11. > :01:16.Coming up in the sport on BBC News: Andy Murray and his Davis Cup
:01:17. > :01:24.team-mates are posted by the Prime Minister at Downing Street after
:01:25. > :01:26.winning the first time since 1936. -- after winning the title for the
:01:27. > :01:35.first time. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:36. > :01:38.BBC News at 1pm. The Prime Minister has called
:01:39. > :01:41.for MPs from all parties to back plans for air strikes
:01:42. > :01:43.against the Islamic State group in Syria, as Westminster prepares
:01:44. > :01:47.for tomorrow's crucial vote. David Cameron met with the Cabinet
:01:48. > :01:50.this morning and said they'd approved a motion, setting out
:01:51. > :01:54.the need for military action as part of a "broader strategy" involving
:01:55. > :01:58.diplomacy and humanitarian aid. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,
:01:59. > :02:01.has given his Mps a free vote tomorrow, but he is appealing to
:02:02. > :02:04.them to oppose the bombing campaign. Our political correspondent,
:02:05. > :02:17.Robin Brant, reports. There are 24 hours to go before MPs
:02:18. > :02:22.debate whether to attack in Syria. The Cabinet met this morning to
:02:23. > :02:27.agree the final preparations. Will this bombing make Britain a safer
:02:28. > :02:31.place? He is the man that will make the final decision on the bombing.
:02:32. > :02:36.That comes after the vote in Parliament tomorrow. The Defence
:02:37. > :02:42.Secretary, Michael Fallon, has called for the RAF to drop bombs on
:02:43. > :02:47.so called IS in Syria. The prime confident the majority of MPs agree.
:02:48. > :02:50.This has been a very deliberate and proper process: a cabinet meeting,
:02:51. > :02:53.legal advice, a proper motion in front of the House of Commons, ten
:02:54. > :03:01.and a half hours debate tomorrow in the House of Commons.
:03:02. > :03:06.This is the man who made it possible, Jeremy Corbyn does not
:03:07. > :03:13.support air strikes and he tried to make his MPs back him but many do
:03:14. > :03:21.not agree. Your cultural secretary Angela Deputy and the Northern Irish
:03:22. > :03:23.secretary, the list goes on. They will get a free vote that they
:03:24. > :03:29.wanted that this lunchtime there was no letup as the Labour leader to try
:03:30. > :03:33.to try and persuade them. As them to think again about the implications
:03:34. > :03:35.of what we're doing and please vote against supporting this
:03:36. > :03:41.government's military endeavours in Syria. The divisions in the Labour
:03:42. > :03:46.Party are key to this book. David Cameron is confident he has around
:03:47. > :03:51.320 on his own side who will back him and another 50 Labour MPs to
:03:52. > :03:55.support air strikes and ten others from the DUP and Liberal Democrats
:03:56. > :04:02.to agree. Remember some on his own side don't want it and will put
:04:03. > :04:07.against it. -- and will vote against it. There is no pine for the final
:04:08. > :04:10.state of Syria and they know less about the outcome of this war than
:04:11. > :04:17.we knew about Libya and Iraq and that how badly they turned out. As
:04:18. > :04:21.the prospect of British bombing nears, peaceful protest continued.
:04:22. > :04:25.This was Glasgow last night. The matter what side you are on everyone
:04:26. > :04:26.seems to agree that this is the start of something and not the end.
:04:27. > :04:28.Well, David Cameron's case for British military strikes
:04:29. > :04:31.in Syria is that RAF strikes against IS targets in Iraq have proved
:04:32. > :04:34.successful and he says extending them is "the right thing to do".
:04:35. > :04:38.But there are still questions about the exact nature and scope of the
:04:39. > :04:41.proposed mission and what difference British strikes would make.
:04:42. > :04:49.Our diplomatic correspondent, Caroline Hawley, reports.
:04:50. > :04:55.British aircraft have been bombing IS targets in Iraq for over a year.
:04:56. > :04:59.The government argues that it strikes in Syria would help cut the
:05:00. > :05:06.supply lines to the group and would make a difference. RAF tornadoes are
:05:07. > :05:09.poised to expand their mission in the Middle East. The US and France
:05:10. > :05:13.are already bombing targets in northern Syria and the German
:05:14. > :05:17.government has today agreed on a support role. British aircraft are
:05:18. > :05:20.conducting intelligence gathering. The Cameron says the UK would bring
:05:21. > :05:24.special capabilities to the coalition. The missiles carried by
:05:25. > :05:31.the attorney was our highly accurate. The RAF currently has a
:05:32. > :05:35.tornadoes based in Cyprus. The plan is to increase that to ten. They
:05:36. > :05:44.will be supplemented by the deployment of-fighters. -- typhoon
:05:45. > :05:49.fighters. The government says it will not defeat IS but it will
:05:50. > :05:52.degrade. It. Then expanding further in Syria and it will relieve the
:05:53. > :05:59.pressure on opposition forces that are being attacked by IS. They can
:06:00. > :06:03.enhance the prospects of the political negotiations that are now
:06:04. > :06:09.under way from leading to a new and more secure Syrian state. These IS
:06:10. > :06:14.tunnels, discovered by Kurdish fighters in Iraq, are a reminder of
:06:15. > :06:22.how difficult the militants are to target. This is not a bunch of
:06:23. > :06:28.fanatical gangsters using brutality in Iraq and Syria, it is a network,
:06:29. > :06:33.it is a brand, it is an inspiration sadly to a lot of young people. This
:06:34. > :06:39.is not going to be defeated with more bombs in Syria. There is broad
:06:40. > :06:44.agreement on the danger posed by so-called Islamic State. Major
:06:45. > :06:45.questions still exist on the best way of confronting them.
:06:46. > :06:52.Let's speak to our assistant political editor, Norman Smith.
:06:53. > :06:58.A big day ahead of Westminster tomorrow and a decisive day. The
:06:59. > :07:02.fact it is going ahead shows that the Prime Minister is confident he
:07:03. > :07:06.has the numbers that he needs. This is the motion that MPs will be
:07:07. > :07:09.putting on a ten hours of debate tomorrow. Prime Minister's Questions
:07:10. > :07:14.has been scrapped to allow a full day of debate on this motion and the
:07:15. > :07:19.expectation is that David Cameron will win comfortably. But do not let
:07:20. > :07:23.that disguise the difficult questions that David Cameron will
:07:24. > :07:29.face MPs, particularly about who will provide the ground troops to
:07:30. > :07:35.take on IS. There is scepticism about his suggestion that there are
:07:36. > :07:39.70,000 moderate fighters ready to take it to IS. MPs are questioning
:07:40. > :07:44.who they are and whether they will work together and whether they will
:07:45. > :07:48.fight IS instead of President Assad. The motion stresses the need for a
:07:49. > :07:52.diplomatic and humanitarian plan and it cites the US backing, but it
:07:53. > :07:58.stresses the need to avoid civilian casualties. This lunchtime, the
:07:59. > :08:02.Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has warned that civilians will be
:08:03. > :08:07.killed. He said that we will kill people in their homes with our
:08:08. > :08:13.bombs. He has urged Labour Party members to press their MPs to oppose
:08:14. > :08:17.action. As for the Liberal Democrats, they will decide their
:08:18. > :08:22.position later tonight. The Scottish National Party are against the
:08:23. > :08:27.motion. MPs might vote for this, but be aware there are serious doubts
:08:28. > :08:29.and apprehension about what Britain is getting into.
:08:30. > :08:31.Thousands of operations and hospital appointments in England
:08:32. > :08:33.have been cancelled today, despite a planned walk-out
:08:34. > :08:36.Two further strikes have been suspended while the British Medical
:08:37. > :08:39.Association and the government try to resolve their dispute about a
:08:40. > :08:54.Our health correspondent, Dominic Hughes, reports.
:08:55. > :09:00.This man has already had an operation cancelled three times. The
:09:01. > :09:04.strike meant that it was put back again. His response to a fourth
:09:05. > :09:11.translation is not what we might have expected. It is annoying, but
:09:12. > :09:15.in this case I 100% behind them. What can they do? They have been
:09:16. > :09:17.driven against a brick wall and they cannot do anything else. I would do
:09:18. > :09:20.the same if I was a junior At the Royal Blackburn Hospital,
:09:21. > :09:22.plans were in place to cope with the threat
:09:23. > :09:35.of a strike by junior doctors. doctor. Senior staff are ready to
:09:36. > :09:39.fill the gaps left by the junior colleagues. Our priority is to make
:09:40. > :09:44.sure that patients get the care that they need. We needed to do a lot of
:09:45. > :09:47.planning for today so that we know that our contingency plans an
:09:48. > :09:52.effective and we can put in place the plan is to make sure that we
:09:53. > :09:56.have the doctors on the ward to deliver the care that patients will
:09:57. > :09:59.require. This hospital has had to cancel around 10% of the operations
:10:00. > :10:07.that were scheduled to take place today. Across England, that means
:10:08. > :10:10.between 4000-5000 cancelled operations and across England many
:10:11. > :10:16.more outpatient appointments were rescheduled. The BMA and the
:10:17. > :10:19.government now have until January to resolve this dispute. Many junior
:10:20. > :10:24.doctors believe that the threat of strike action and the disruption it
:10:25. > :10:29.cause was justified. Although patients have been disrupted and I
:10:30. > :10:32.am sorry that has happened, I feel that something good can come from
:10:33. > :10:36.this and overall I think in the long term if we can get a second their
:10:37. > :10:43.contracts we can improve patient safety in the long term. At this
:10:44. > :10:48.hospital staff had been busy rebooting 700 cancelled
:10:49. > :10:53.appointments. At this other hospital, 47 operations were
:10:54. > :10:59.cancelled and patients were told to come in if they could. Many beds. We
:11:00. > :11:03.know that many of the patients who would have been seen are still
:11:04. > :11:08.attending for the outpatient clinic appointments as normal. The main
:11:09. > :11:12.factor has been our operations that we have had to postpone today.
:11:13. > :11:16.Deadline is now in place for a resolution of this row over a new
:11:17. > :11:19.contract with junior doctors. If talks fail, strikes could be back on
:11:20. > :11:31.the agenda along with more destruction for patients. A report
:11:32. > :11:34.by medical experts have suggested that the Yorkshire Rapper, Peter
:11:35. > :11:38.Sutcliffe, should be taken out of hospital and returned to prison.
:11:39. > :11:41.Sutcliffe - who murdered 13 women - started his 20 life sentences
:11:42. > :11:45.in a standard jail, but was moved to Broadmoor in 1984.
:11:46. > :11:47.The Justice Secretary must give the final consent to that.
:11:48. > :11:48.Our correspondent, Danny Savage, reports.
:11:49. > :11:50.Peter Sutcliffe, a notorious 20th-century serial killer.
:11:51. > :11:52.He murdered 13 women over a six-year period
:11:53. > :11:58.Now aged 69, he has spent most of his jail sentence in Broadmoor
:11:59. > :12:02.He was sent here after being diagnosed with paranoid
:12:03. > :12:06.schizophrenia, but it is now understood he is no longer mentally
:12:07. > :12:17.Her son has today given his view on what he makes
:12:18. > :12:22.There is a difference between Broadmoor and prison,
:12:23. > :12:25.but I'm not in a position where I'm full of anger and hatred,
:12:26. > :12:32.I'm not sure whether or not he needed to be in Broadmoor or not,
:12:33. > :12:36.but what I do believe is he is ill, he must have been ill to have done
:12:37. > :12:40.the things that he did, it's 40 years since it happened, I let the
:12:41. > :12:45.professionals make the decisions, and hopefully they have made
:12:46. > :12:48.Sutcliffe's last victim was Jacqueline Hill in 1980.
:12:49. > :12:54.The police reconstructed her last movements in Headingley in Leeds.
:12:55. > :12:58.The killer was finally caught the following year.
:12:59. > :12:59.Wherever you are here in West Yorkshire,
:13:00. > :13:04.you're never too far from somewhere where the Yorkshire Ripper struck.
:13:05. > :13:07.His serial killings left people terrified to go out for years,
:13:08. > :13:12.but today isn't about moving him towards freedom.
:13:13. > :13:15.It was ruled some years ago that Peter Sutcliffe will never
:13:16. > :13:22.But what do experts make of the move from a secure hospital to a prison?
:13:23. > :13:23.Mental disorder, specifically schizophrenia
:13:24. > :13:29.in this case, as we reported, is a severe and enduring condition.
:13:30. > :13:36.Its symptoms can abate with treatment,
:13:37. > :13:41.however it is unlikely to completely go away if treatment is stopped.
:13:42. > :13:43.And one destination for Peter Sutcliffe could be
:13:44. > :13:46.Wakefield Prison, in the very county where he repeatedly killed.
:13:47. > :13:53.Danny Savage, BBC News, West Yorkshire.
:13:54. > :13:55.Well, our correspondent, Duncan Kennedy, is at
:13:56. > :14:11.Two things. First we will get confirmation from the doctors and
:14:12. > :14:20.psychiatrists that Peter Sutcliffe's paranoid schizophrenia
:14:21. > :14:24.is really under control and there -- and IT produces a different of risk.
:14:25. > :14:28.Michael Gove will have to decide whether to act on the clinical
:14:29. > :14:35.advice or whether to seek further or family advice. It is highly
:14:36. > :14:38.sensitive. Peter Sutcliffe, despite his mental illness, was responsible
:14:39. > :14:42.for the murder of 13 women and the attempted murder of seven others.
:14:43. > :14:47.Michael Gove will want to take his time on this and we have just hired
:14:48. > :14:53.that he may want to take six months to make his decision whether to move
:14:54. > :14:57.him. -- we have just heard. It is not about moving Peter Sutcliffe to
:14:58. > :15:02.any kind of open prison or releasing him. In 2009-2010, the High Court
:15:03. > :15:08.ruled he must spend his whole life behind bars of whatever type that
:15:09. > :15:11.is. The decision is whether he stays in the hospital or moves to a
:15:12. > :15:13.maximum security prison where life will be different.
:15:14. > :15:17.The Prime Minister has called on Mps "across all parties" to support him
:15:18. > :15:23.as Westminter prepares for decision day on air strikes in Syria.
:15:24. > :15:35.The new bank with a smartphone app but no branch on the high street.
:15:36. > :15:42.In sport: Chelsea have unveiled plans for only 60,000 seater stadium
:15:43. > :15:44.on the site of Stamford Bridge. The local council will decide on the
:15:45. > :15:51.application after successful consultation.
:15:52. > :15:54.It's day two at the climate change summit in Paris, where delegates are
:15:55. > :15:58.getting down to the nitty gritty of thrashing out a global deal to
:15:59. > :16:01.China remains the world's biggest carbon emitter.
:16:02. > :16:04.Just this week the authorities in Beijing have warned
:16:05. > :16:07.about air pollution in the capital, and told industrial plants to
:16:08. > :16:11.Work on construction sites was suspended
:16:12. > :16:15.and people were warned to cut down how much time they spend outdoors.
:16:16. > :16:22.It might not seem like it, but it is the middle
:16:23. > :16:27.The air is so polluted, it has darkened the sky.
:16:28. > :16:30.A recent study showed that even breathing this kind of air
:16:31. > :16:34.for an hour can reduce a person's life expectancy by 20 minutes.
:16:35. > :16:38.It is akin to being a heavy smoker, smoking a pack and a half
:16:39. > :16:48.We wanted to know, how are people in the city coping with the bad air?
:16:49. > :16:51.TRANSLATION: I'm trying to avoid going outside,
:16:52. > :16:54.my throat hurts, and I think people should drive less and all
:16:55. > :17:05.TRANSLATION: I don't have a face mask.
:17:06. > :17:08.I am used to bad air now because I've always worked on the streets.
:17:09. > :17:12.On days like this it is very easy to fall ill, the smog definitely
:17:13. > :17:19.TRANSLATION: I have to keep working to earn
:17:20. > :17:22.a living, I have not bought any facemasks.
:17:23. > :17:25.Pollution is a serious issue, but ordinary people like me have no
:17:26. > :17:35.A recent survey showed the majority of people in China's
:17:36. > :17:38.biggest cities have little faith that the polluted air will improve
:17:39. > :17:43.Despite pledges coming from the Paris conference, most believe
:17:44. > :17:57.At the other end of the scale, it's small islands like Vanuatu in the
:17:58. > :18:00.Pacific that are already threatened by the effects of climate change.
:18:01. > :18:02.These low-lying islands are predicted to be one
:18:03. > :18:04.of the first nations to be submerged by rising seas.
:18:05. > :18:12.Matthew Price reports from the village of Tokaru.
:18:13. > :18:16.This is the ferry service which is taking people across to some
:18:17. > :18:25.You can see that this village is right at sea level,
:18:26. > :18:28.there is barely a metre or so that would have to rise to get up
:18:29. > :18:37.Because when there are storm surges, cyclones, tropical storms,
:18:38. > :18:46.and the rest, like there was at the beginning of this year,
:18:47. > :18:55.And what that meant during the last storm was that 200-300
:18:56. > :19:00.metres of village had water in it and they had to start from scratch
:19:01. > :19:07.in many ways, and many buildings which they have had to rebuild.
:19:08. > :19:10.That is why the chiefs of this village are now talking
:19:11. > :19:18.They want to remove the whole village and get it to
:19:19. > :19:21.And that is where they want to relocate, towards that hill,
:19:22. > :19:25.to get to higher land, it is what many communities across the Pacific
:19:26. > :19:32.As the sea levels rise, which in turn makes the storm surges
:19:33. > :19:38.from tropical cyclones and the like, that much higher,
:19:39. > :19:44.One of the big things which nations like Vanuatu are
:19:45. > :19:48.hoping to see come from the Paris conference, is more funding to help
:19:49. > :19:59.A jury has been watching CCTV images of a gang who stole tens
:20:00. > :20:01.of millions of pounds worth of jewellery from a safety deposit
:20:02. > :20:06.vault in London's Hatton Garden over the Easter weekend.
:20:07. > :20:09.They were caught on one of the few working cameras covering
:20:10. > :20:12.The court was told that other cameras weren't recording
:20:13. > :20:14.because the unit operating them had been stolen.
:20:15. > :20:18.From Woolwich Crown Court, here's Daniel Sandford.
:20:19. > :20:21.This was the only moment during the heist when the men were caught
:20:22. > :20:27.This man has never been identified, he has been referred to in court
:20:28. > :20:33.With him is 60-year-old Daniel Jones who was earlier recorded out on
:20:34. > :20:35.the street apparently coordinating part of the burglary using what
:20:36. > :20:38.seems to be a walkie-talkie. All the main CCTV recorders in the
:20:39. > :20:46.They stole an estimated ?14 million worth of jewellery, much of
:20:47. > :20:56.They drilled through the wall of the Hatton Garden safety deposit
:20:57. > :21:04.to break into the vault and to assist them the jury have a model
:21:05. > :21:07.of the holes the burglars made in front of them, in the court room.
:21:08. > :21:11.They have heard how Brian Reader, at 76 of the oldest of the men, came
:21:12. > :21:13.to England's biggest ever burglary using someone else's bus pass.
:21:14. > :21:15.Seeing in these newly released pictures from the trial,
:21:16. > :21:19.most of the other robbers arrived at the scene of the crime
:21:20. > :21:22.by white transit van, posing as work men in high visibility jackets.
:21:23. > :21:24.They brought some of the equipment into the building
:21:25. > :21:33.in wheelie bins, and made off with their loot the same way.
:21:34. > :21:36.Air accident investigators in Indonesia have said that a
:21:37. > :21:39.faulty component and errors by the pilots caused an Air Asia flight to
:21:40. > :21:45.crash into the Java Sea a year ago, killing all 162 people on board.
:21:46. > :21:49.Air accident investigators in Indonesia have said that a
:21:50. > :21:52.faulty component and errors by the pilots caused an Air Asia flight to
:21:53. > :21:57.crash into the Java Sea a year ago, killing all 162 people on board.
:21:58. > :21:59.The report said a soldered joint in the Airbus A3-20's flight control
:22:00. > :22:02.computer was cracked and during the flight from the Indonesian city
:22:03. > :22:04.of Surabaya to Singapore it malfunctioned four times.
:22:05. > :22:07.Banks that are built around an app on a smartphone rather than
:22:08. > :22:10.a high street branch became a step closer to reality today when the
:22:11. > :22:13.Bank of England granted a licence to a new bank called Tandem.
:22:14. > :22:15.Smartphone apps have become the most popular way of checking bank
:22:16. > :22:18.accounts, so financial entrepreneurs are using them to bypass traditional
:22:19. > :22:20.Our personal finance correspondent, Simon Gompertz,
:22:21. > :22:33.This report contains flashing images. Mobile phone apps have taken
:22:34. > :22:37.off to be the most popular way of banking, so people are setting up
:22:38. > :22:41.banks that are little more than apps, targeting millions of
:22:42. > :22:47.customers. Every we can make this perform better for the customer by
:22:48. > :22:54.learning what preferences are. Like tandem Bank, based in London, using
:22:55. > :22:59.140 staff it offers what traditional banks employ tens of thousands of
:23:00. > :23:06.people to provide. We would like to be the first of the mammals, but we
:23:07. > :23:12.think that customers will gradually realise they have an alternative to
:23:13. > :23:18.the dinosaurs. We have financial services ready for a revolution. 250
:23:19. > :23:22.miles away, this bank thinks they can steal 5% of the banking market
:23:23. > :23:29.with an app and you will not even need to use a password. How will you
:23:30. > :23:33.do your banking when it is just an app and how will you stay safe? They
:23:34. > :23:39.have stored your facial features, your voice patterns for security, so
:23:40. > :23:47.you take a selfie and they will verify your identity and let you
:23:48. > :23:51.into the app. You had to set up your account first and to do that with
:23:52. > :23:56.your documents you just photograph them while you're sitting on the
:23:57. > :24:03.sofa and a check these and you never have to go into a branch. Can you
:24:04. > :24:08.trust a bank that is an app? Is it safe? It is very safe. It is based
:24:09. > :24:12.around your face and your boys in your identity. It is based on
:24:13. > :24:18.systems we have built from scratch using the best of encryption
:24:19. > :24:22.technology. The challenge for the new bank will be persuading people
:24:23. > :24:25.who tend to be reluctant to switch to take the plunge, but they could
:24:26. > :24:27.pose a significant threat to their rivals on the high street.
:24:28. > :24:29.There's a growing north-south divide in the standard of secondary
:24:30. > :24:32.education in England according to Ofsted and children from poorer
:24:33. > :24:37.Its annual report says a third of secondary schools
:24:38. > :24:41.in the Midlands and the north of England are not good enough.
:24:42. > :24:45.Our education correspondent, Robert Pigott, reports.
:24:46. > :24:47.The teamwork and harmony that have brought success to Millfield science
:24:48. > :24:51.and performing arts college, this secondary school near Blackburn
:24:52. > :24:55.has achieved rapid improvement, two thirds of
:24:56. > :25:00.What I would like you to do is to create as many words as possible...
:25:01. > :25:02.Millfield was rated good in its last Ofsted inspection, partly
:25:03. > :25:22.Ofsted says teaching and leadership of schools can be poor.
:25:23. > :25:30.A third of secondary schools in Midlands and the North are not doing
:25:31. > :25:37.well enough. 60 local authorities in the county and we have 13 of the
:25:38. > :25:43.worst. A look at the map shows the widening divide. Local councils
:25:44. > :25:48.where less than 60% of secondary pupils are in good schools are
:25:49. > :25:52.concentrated in the North, in places like Bradford in Hartlepool. The
:25:53. > :25:56.best performing areas are in the south, including some proprietors of
:25:57. > :26:01.London. Problems recruiting good teachers and heads is exasperating
:26:02. > :26:08.underachievement and teaching unions agree. Teacher recruitment has been
:26:09. > :26:12.very difficult and it is getting more difficult all the time. 84% of
:26:13. > :26:18.our members are saying it is more difficult than in previous years.
:26:19. > :26:21.That has to affect those schools that are in more challenging areas
:26:22. > :26:26.and some of those areas are in the North and Midlands. The Education
:26:27. > :26:31.Secretary, Nicky Morgan, acknowledge that more action was needed to
:26:32. > :26:35.tackle pockets of underperformance. She said the new national teaching
:26:36. > :26:38.service being piloted next year in the North West would send some of
:26:39. > :26:42.the best teachers to the areas that needed them most.
:26:43. > :26:44.Your Christmas tree lights could be among a number of household
:26:45. > :26:46.electronic goods slowing down the speed of your broadband.
:26:47. > :26:48.That's the warning from the regulator Ofcom,
:26:49. > :26:51.which says up to 6 million homes and offices could improve their wifi
:26:52. > :26:57.They also say one and a half million homes in rural areas still can't get
:26:58. > :27:00.the minimum broadband speed the Government is promising.
:27:01. > :27:05.Here's our technology correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones.
:27:06. > :27:08.Britain is speeding up as superfast broadband reaches much of the
:27:09. > :27:14.country, but here in rural Devon they are still in the slow lane.
:27:15. > :27:17.Graham is among 1.5 million in the countryside getting speeds of
:27:18. > :27:22.The minimum the government now says will soon be guaranteed to everyone.
:27:23. > :27:24.He says rural Britain is missing out.
:27:25. > :27:28.I don't think the current programme is fair to rural areas compared to
:27:29. > :27:31.urban areas, and so we have a programme which is serving the needs
:27:32. > :27:39.of the towns and cities and not serving the needs of rural areas.
:27:40. > :27:42.It is not just deep in the countryside that there are
:27:43. > :27:44.issues, right in the centre of London this 1980s housing
:27:45. > :27:47.development is another place where speeds are way below what the
:27:48. > :27:50.A metropolitan area, there is absolutely no reason why
:27:51. > :27:53.in 2015 every house has not got fast broadband.
:27:54. > :27:56.BT have not installed it because they can't,
:27:57. > :28:02.Ofcom says there are challenges in delivering better coverage,
:28:03. > :28:05.but improving your Wi-Fi network can help.
:28:06. > :28:08.The regulator has launched an app which checks your wireless signal
:28:09. > :28:15.Some people might be able to use this app to improve their Wi-Fi
:28:16. > :28:18.networks but many more will be concerned that they can't even get
:28:19. > :28:21.a decent internet connection into their home in the first place.
:28:22. > :28:24.They will be looking to Ofcom to put pressure
:28:25. > :28:29.on the telecoms companies to speed up the roll out fast broadband.
:28:30. > :28:32.It is BT's Openreach division which is responsible for many of
:28:33. > :28:37.Critics say it is not doing a great job and would
:28:38. > :28:42.Ofcom's new boss is reviewing the state
:28:43. > :28:49.of the broadband market and makes it clear she is minded to things up.
:28:50. > :28:52.I think there will be change, we are looking at a number
:28:53. > :28:55.of options, but I think it is very unlikely that we will conclude that
:28:56. > :28:59.the status quo which has worked over the last ten years is where we are
:29:00. > :29:07.Where people do have fast broadband, they are now using it
:29:08. > :29:10.for all sorts of services, and that means the gap between the digital
:29:11. > :29:34.It is the first day of December and for many of us it will not feel like
:29:35. > :29:37.it today. We did have some more typical winter weather in Scotland.
:29:38. > :29:42.Here are some snowy scenes. We did not get the snow as expected in the
:29:43. > :29:47.north-east of England. We got some slow in Scotland, but still levels
:29:48. > :29:54.have been rising and mostly what is following in Scotland is rain. -- we
:29:55. > :29:59.got some slow. South-westerly winds developing and some drizzle in the
:30:00. > :30:03.Western Hills, but we will get some shelter and sunshine in the Midlands
:30:04. > :30:08.and that will do good things for the temperatures, could reach 16
:30:09. > :30:15.Celsius. Temperatures rising across Scotland. It will be a mild wind for
:30:16. > :30:20.all of us. Some drizzle on the hills and then the rain will come back to
:30:21. > :30:24.Scotland and Northern Ireland and it will trickle down towards northern
:30:25. > :30:27.England. By the time we reach rush hour tomorrow we will they colder
:30:28. > :30:33.air returning to north-west Scotland were some showers. It should dry up
:30:34. > :30:39.in Northern Ireland in the morning and the rain will move towards the
:30:40. > :30:45.Borders and maybe into Snowdonia, but the rush-hour will start
:30:46. > :30:52.blustery and dry, cloudy and mild. Through the day we will find this
:30:53. > :30:56.rain stalling. It will. In north-west England and Wales and
:30:57. > :31:00.will be some heavy rain over the hills. To the south and east it will
:31:01. > :31:04.be brighter with sunshine and very mild, although it will be quite
:31:05. > :31:07.breezy. The wind will ease through the day and it will be a lovely day
:31:08. > :31:12.for Scotland and Northern Ireland with some sunshine and it will be
:31:13. > :31:17.colder than today. There may be some frost in Scotland during tomorrow
:31:18. > :31:22.night. This weather front keeps the rain going in this area across Wales
:31:23. > :31:24.and Northern Ireland tomorrow night. The rain will clear away from
:31:25. > :31:31.northern England on Thursday and will head into the Midlands. It is
:31:32. > :31:35.turning cooler from the North but it will be another nice day on Thursday
:31:36. > :31:40.for Scotland and Northern Ireland. It will not be as nice in Wales. We
:31:41. > :31:43.have seen the rain that is continuing, there could be four
:31:44. > :31:51.inches or more, so bear in mind this hotline number. The sunshine will
:31:52. > :31:55.come out in Wales and northern England on Friday but only briefly
:31:56. > :32:02.before wet and windy weather arrives just in time for the weekend.
:32:03. > :32:06.Thank you. A reminder of our main story: The
:32:07. > :32:09.Prime Minister has cold on MPs across all parties to support him as
:32:10. > :32:14.Westminster prepares for decision day on air strikes in Syria. That
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