:00:00. > :00:07.Britain's bombing campaign against Islamic State in Syria
:00:08. > :00:15.starts within hours of MPs voting for it to go ahead.
:00:16. > :00:21.Four Tornado jets from the RAF's base in Cyprus took part,
:00:22. > :00:26.targeting oil fields in an area controlled by IS.
:00:27. > :00:34.This is going to take time. It is complex, it is difficult, what we
:00:35. > :00:37.are asking our pilots to do and our thoughts should be with them and
:00:38. > :00:40.their families as they commence this important work.
:00:41. > :00:43.We'll be reporting from the border with Syria on the likely
:00:44. > :00:47.And we'll be assessing the fallout for Labour after 66 of
:00:48. > :00:52.Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of the murder
:00:53. > :00:55.of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after an appeal court overturns his
:00:56. > :00:59.A mass shooting at a social services centre
:01:00. > :01:09.in California - 14 people die - the attackers are shot dead by police.
:01:10. > :01:17.Should scientists be allowed to do research that alters the DNA of
:01:18. > :01:17.human embryos? Experts are deeply divided at a conference in
:01:18. > :01:21.Washington. And how safe is your hoverboard ?
:01:22. > :01:24.officials warn that thousands of them have
:01:25. > :01:31.a fault that leads them to explode. Coming up in the sport, more arrests
:01:32. > :01:34.at Fifa. Swiss authorities say they have taken two high-ranking
:01:35. > :01:51.officials in dawn raids at a hotel in Zurich.
:01:52. > :01:53.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:54. > :01:55.RAF jets have carried out their first air strikes
:01:56. > :02:05.Syria - just hours after MPs voted to approve bombing. Four Tornado
:02:06. > :02:08.jets from the RAF's base in Akrotiri in Cyprus took part in the
:02:09. > :02:13.operation, targeting oil fields in eastern Syria, which are under IS
:02:14. > :02:17.control. The Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the strikes were
:02:18. > :02:21.designed to deal "a very real blow" to the revenue on which IS depends,
:02:22. > :02:32.and he described them as "successful." Let's go now to our
:02:33. > :02:33.correspondent Richard Galpin, who sent this.
:02:34. > :02:43.Tornadoes ticking off just one hour after the vote was passed in
:02:44. > :02:46.parliament, laden with bombs, their mission to cross into Syria and to
:02:47. > :02:51.hit one of several lucrative oilfields controlled by Isis
:02:52. > :02:56.bulletins. On their return in the early hours of the morning it was
:02:57. > :03:03.clear that at least six bombs had been dropped. I can confirm that
:03:04. > :03:07.four British Tornadoes were involved in strikes in the eastern oil fields
:03:08. > :03:12.of Syria specifically the Omar oilfields attacking wellheads,
:03:13. > :03:18.hoping to disrupt the flow of oil and the revenue that the Daesh
:03:19. > :03:22.terrorists came from oil. We need to be patient and persistent. This is
:03:23. > :03:26.going to take time. It is complete and difficult, what we are asking
:03:27. > :03:29.our pilots to do and our thought should be with them and their
:03:30. > :03:34.families as they commence this important work. A British don't like
:03:35. > :03:44.this one was also used in the attack to gather intelligence. But will
:03:45. > :03:47.this bombing campaign lead to Syrian civilians being killed? Schmeichel a
:03:48. > :03:49.drone like this. The RAF says no. We have had absolutely no civilian
:03:50. > :03:54.casualties reported, the oars of engagement are that our crews both
:03:55. > :03:58.apply in the air and our commanders on the ground, mean that I am
:03:59. > :04:04.confident that this will continue to be the case with operations in
:04:05. > :04:09.Syria. But the risk remains, particularly as the bombing campaign
:04:10. > :04:15.carried out by aircraft based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus could last
:04:16. > :04:18.several years. And this morning more warplanes took off from RAF
:04:19. > :04:28.Lossiemouth in Scotland to join those already in Cyprus. With others
:04:29. > :04:32.also flying from RAF Marham in Norfolk the RAF will soon be able to
:04:33. > :04:42.carry out regular air strikes both in Syria and Iraq. We can speak too
:04:43. > :04:48.rigid in Cyprus. What is the latest? -- we can speak to Richard. We are
:04:49. > :04:54.awaiting the assessment of how much damage was done to the oilfields by
:04:55. > :04:57.this first strike by the RAF. We're waiting for this information.
:04:58. > :05:03.Defence Secretary Michael Fallon seemed to think it had been a
:05:04. > :05:07.successful strike. We are at the airbase. Behind me you can see some
:05:08. > :05:12.of the aircraft. The next thing to happen here will be that they will
:05:13. > :05:17.be a significant number of warplanes arriving at that report, but as I
:05:18. > :05:24.say that report, eight new warplanes will come here, Typhoons, and
:05:25. > :05:29.Tornadoes. They will bolstered the strikeforce that has already been at
:05:30. > :05:33.this base carrying out air strikes over Iraq. It will double the number
:05:34. > :05:35.of planes the RAF will have at its disposal to carry out air strikes in
:05:36. > :05:39.both countries now. Thank you. So, what's the strategy behind these
:05:40. > :05:43.air strikes - and what could they achieve? Our correspondent Christian
:05:44. > :05:45.Fraser has been looking at the thinking behind extending the
:05:46. > :05:54.British military operation against These so-called Islamic State is no
:05:55. > :05:58.respect of international borders. You will see from our map that their
:05:59. > :06:05.control still stretches deep into Iraq from Syria. A closer look at
:06:06. > :06:09.the map and you can see the areas where the alliance has been focused
:06:10. > :06:13.over the last year. It is in a corridor that stretches from IIS
:06:14. > :06:18.headquarters in Raqqa past the biggest city in the East of the
:06:19. > :06:24.country, incidentally, here is the oilfields that was hit by the RAF
:06:25. > :06:28.last might. All the way down to the so-called Sunni triangle, Fallujah,
:06:29. > :06:32.areas where the Shia led militias are trying to get a foothold. The
:06:33. > :06:39.targets over the last year, principally, they have been fixed
:06:40. > :06:45.positions, artillery units, bunkers and oil installations from which IS
:06:46. > :06:49.has profited this past year. These sort of installations are now feel
:06:50. > :06:55.and far between. The nature of the battles as this military analyst
:06:56. > :06:59.from the Royal Institute says, is starting to change. This big obvious
:07:00. > :07:04.targets that can be preplanned before a flight, hit this
:07:05. > :07:10.specifically, those have been hit. But in terms of forces on the ground
:07:11. > :07:15.that we can hit, there is definitely stuff there, is just hard to find.
:07:16. > :07:19.So the targets are more dispersed but the RAF is very good at
:07:20. > :07:22.surveillance reconnaissance, picking up targets that appear on the
:07:23. > :07:30.battlefield as this one did. This is a building that was used by IS
:07:31. > :07:33.fighters, spotted by an RAF drone and the bomb dropped was very
:07:34. > :07:37.accurate reducing collateral damage. Air strikes alone won't win
:07:38. > :07:42.the battle but in areas where bombing has been most concentrated,
:07:43. > :07:46.represented by the biggest circles, they have managed to degrade IS
:07:47. > :07:50.capabilities. They are not able to mass troops, heavy artillery in
:07:51. > :07:54.these places where they are looking to take new ground. To the extent
:07:55. > :07:58.that the Kurdish people have been able to take back a large tract of
:07:59. > :08:20.land in the north of the country represented by this purple strip.
:08:21. > :08:22.You'll also see from the map that compensated and congested, this
:08:23. > :08:24.battlefield. Among the 70,000 troops the Prime Minister is talking about,
:08:25. > :08:27.the moderate ones, the Kurds, the Free Syrian Army, also smaller ones
:08:28. > :08:29.are lined by necessity to more extreme elements that dominate. They
:08:30. > :08:32.need to be, in order to survive. So there is a lot of work that will
:08:33. > :08:35.have to be done to find a co-ordinated fighting force not to
:08:36. > :08:35.mention a political force that can make a difference in Syria.
:08:36. > :08:38.Well, as Christian just said, the fight against IS
:08:39. > :08:41.on the ground is having an effect, but how much is Britain's
:08:42. > :08:42.contribution from the air likely to make?
:08:43. > :08:45.Our correspondent Mark Lowen has been to the border between Turkey
:08:46. > :08:51.Britain may have joined the air strikes against Islamic State in
:08:52. > :08:55.Syria but all sides are aware that the bombings alone will not destroy
:08:56. > :08:59.the group. There is also the need for a ground force. That will come
:09:00. > :09:02.in the shape of Kurdish fighters and also local troops from the Free
:09:03. > :09:06.Syrian Army. GUNFIRE
:09:07. > :09:10.The problem is that the FSA fighters are not very cohesive and some are
:09:11. > :09:14.more focused on removing President Assad from power than fighting
:09:15. > :09:17.Islamic State. That said, they will be crucial and are willing to step
:09:18. > :09:24.up to the fight as a Free Syrian Army spokesman told me. The Assad
:09:25. > :09:33.regime is the cancer that Isis grew out of. Without erasing Assad from
:09:34. > :09:37.power, which means not just focusing on the symptoms, that will not make
:09:38. > :09:44.a big difference so we in the Free Syrian Army, we are the West's best
:09:45. > :09:50.partners on the ground. Full Syria and maybe the east of Syria, and in
:09:51. > :09:56.the south of Syria, we are the only ones who will be able to push Isis
:09:57. > :10:02.and from these areas. The strikes will focus on Raqqa, the Guptill of
:10:03. > :10:06.the self-declared caliphate. This undercover footage is a rare glimpse
:10:07. > :10:10.into a city where military control is all-consuming. The lucky ones
:10:11. > :10:18.have left like Hassan Mahmud who left four months ago. TRANSLATION:
:10:19. > :10:23.Life is very hard in Raqqa. Humans cannot survive. There is no
:10:24. > :10:27.freedom. Cafes are closed. The Internet is not allowed. Hospitals
:10:28. > :10:32.and schools have been taken over. Air strikes have not helped. They
:10:33. > :10:38.just destroyed buildings. Britain joining the campaign might help
:10:39. > :10:43.reduce Daesh fighters but will not destroy them. No one knows how long
:10:44. > :10:47.this fight will last, how many sorties British and Allied jets will
:10:48. > :10:51.make. When it is over, what comes next? Can the power vacuum in Syria
:10:52. > :10:55.be filled and can immediately to come to be united again? The West
:10:56. > :10:59.has often been accused of bombing and then leaving with no plan to
:11:00. > :11:02.clear up the mess. This time it is hoped that past mistakes will be
:11:03. > :11:05.remembered and warnings will be heeded.
:11:06. > :11:07.Let's turn now to the political fallout here
:11:08. > :11:11.66 Labour MPs voted with the government - against the
:11:12. > :11:17.Some of those who voted for air strikes say they've been
:11:18. > :11:19.subjected to intimidation and bullying by party activists
:11:20. > :11:30.Our Political Correspondent Robin Brant now reports.
:11:31. > :11:37.This was a rare sight and a rare sound, applause from all sides was
:11:38. > :11:42.how MP3 acted to Hilary Benn's closing speech last might. These two
:11:43. > :11:46.man at the top of the Labour Party have opposing views on Syria, as
:11:47. > :11:51.they left for work this morning only one of them wanted to talk. I'm off
:11:52. > :11:54.to the House of Commons. I just wanted to say this, now the House of
:11:55. > :11:59.Commons has made its decision, having heard all the arguments, all
:12:00. > :12:04.of our thoughts today with the brave men and women of the Royal Air Force
:12:05. > :12:08.and we pray for their safely turn. The Syria vote exposed deep
:12:09. > :12:12.divisions in the Shadow Cabinet, Labour's senior figures. There are
:12:13. > :12:17.no signs of it going away with comparisons like this. I thought
:12:18. > :12:22.Hilary Benn's speech was great, it reminded me of Tony Blair's speech
:12:23. > :12:26.taking us into the Iraq war. I am always conscious that the greatest
:12:27. > :12:30.oratory can lead to the greatest mistakes. It's not just digs, others
:12:31. > :12:36.have gone further, calling for those in their own party who sided with
:12:37. > :12:41.the government to be deselected. An MP should not have the right to a
:12:42. > :12:45.seat for life which most MPs do when they get elected. If your local
:12:46. > :12:50.party does not agree with you they deserve an MP they do agree with.
:12:51. > :12:54.Labour MP Stella Creasey was targeted with these insults online
:12:55. > :12:57.as well as a protest on her doorstep. Most MPs are used to
:12:58. > :13:01.watching their words when they are like places like this on TV. Yet
:13:02. > :13:05.nowadays most of the abuse doesn't happen in front of cameras, it
:13:06. > :13:09.happens on here. Senior Labour figures are calling for a new code
:13:10. > :13:30.of conduct to stop intimidation on the Internet. But is a code of
:13:31. > :13:32.conduct enough? This senior Labour figure thinks it's much more
:13:33. > :13:34.serious. I gather today that some members have received photographs of
:13:35. > :13:36.severed heads. MPs have broad shoulders, of course, but, as Billy
:13:37. > :13:39.did to review the security of members's homes and offices? The
:13:40. > :13:40.vote is done, the decision made, yet with deep distrust, it will be hard
:13:41. > :13:41.to fix. Our assistant political editor
:13:42. > :13:47.Norman Smith is in Westminster. Just picking up on what was said at
:13:48. > :13:52.the end of that piece, how damaged do you think the Labour Party is?
:13:53. > :13:58.Those divisions within the ranks have been put up in neon headlines
:13:59. > :14:01.by the simple fact that around 66 Labour MPs and 11 Shadow Cabinet
:14:02. > :14:06.members defied Jeremy Corbyn. More than that it was the sight of the
:14:07. > :14:11.Shadow Foreign Secretary delivering a barnstorming speech in favour of
:14:12. > :14:15.bombing, widely applauded across the House, with his leader sitting
:14:16. > :14:20.slumped behind him, staring at the ground, refusing to applaud, that
:14:21. > :14:24.really highlighted the tensions now rippling through the Labour Party.
:14:25. > :14:28.Tensions which have become more better because of the very personal
:14:29. > :14:34.and vengeful way that some people seem to be fighting out these
:14:35. > :14:38.disagreements. So we have had these highly abusive tweets sent to some
:14:39. > :14:43.supporters of the bombing campaign, and some very unpleasant leaflets
:14:44. > :14:51.put through their doors, complaints about mobs gathering outside their
:14:52. > :14:55.constituency offices. Jeremy Corbyn's team insist they deplore
:14:56. > :15:01.this and have urged everyone to air their differences in a respectable
:15:02. > :15:04.way. But some of Mr Corbyn's critics believe he almost licensed such
:15:05. > :15:09.behaviour by encouraging party members to try to put pressure on
:15:10. > :15:13.MPs. You just sense that Labour are on the cusp of all the infighting
:15:14. > :15:16.and division and bloodshed that bedevilled them in the 1980s.
:15:17. > :15:21.Norman, thank you. Britain's bombing campaign against
:15:22. > :15:26.Islamic State in Syria starts within hours of MPs voting for it to go
:15:27. > :15:29.ahead. Four Tornado jets took part targeting oilfields in an area
:15:30. > :15:42.controlled by IS. Two Fifa vice presidents are
:15:43. > :15:46.arrested in a dawn raid in Zurich on suspicion of accepting millions of
:15:47. > :15:51.dollars in bribes. Coming up in the sport, could the football World Cup
:15:52. > :15:55.grow from 32 teams to 40 teams? The governing body would debate the idea
:15:56. > :16:12.today. If agreed it could happen for the 2026 tournament. The athlete
:16:13. > :16:23.Oscar guilty of murder after his original
:16:24. > :16:26.conviction was overturned. The judge at the Supreme Court said that
:16:27. > :16:29.mistakes had been made in the original trial and that he must have
:16:30. > :16:33.known he would kill somebody when he fired shots to the toilet door. He
:16:34. > :16:39.could face a minimum of 15 years in prison. In a much anticipated
:16:40. > :16:45.judgment by the Appeal Court Justice Eric Leach today overturned the
:16:46. > :16:54.culpable homicide conviction of Oscar Pistorius. The methods
:16:55. > :16:58.referred back to the trial court to reconsider an appropriate sentence a
:16:59. > :17:02.fresh in light of the comments in this judgment. Justice of the
:17:03. > :17:08.Steenkamp family has been served. The verdict that Reeva Steenkamp's
:17:09. > :17:12.mother June always hoped for. The judgment made by the original judge
:17:13. > :17:16.was deemed to be incorrect. Now the Supreme Court of appeal is judged
:17:17. > :17:20.unanimously and put to rest the question of how the law should be
:17:21. > :17:25.applied. They have now developed the law and for the rest of South Africa
:17:26. > :17:29.they have said what should be called judicial precedent. Paige Reeva
:17:30. > :17:32.Steenkamp was shot dead to this toilet door. Oscar Pistorius told
:17:33. > :17:36.the court he thought he was shooting at an intruder, not at his
:17:37. > :17:40.girlfriend but the Supreme Court said he should have seen the
:17:41. > :17:42.consequences of his actions when he fired, implying that he should have
:17:43. > :17:49.known that he was going to kill someone. For his actions, he spent
:17:50. > :17:54.one year in this prison cell in Pretoria. This is where he could
:17:55. > :17:59.well written. Oscar Pistorius will remain chair at the Home Office
:18:00. > :18:02.uncle on house arrest, now branded a murderer by the Supreme Court of
:18:03. > :18:06.appeal, the disgraced athlete will wait until next year to be sentenced
:18:07. > :18:11.again and find out if he is heading back to prison. It is not likely
:18:12. > :18:13.that the blade runner will be able to appeal the verdict today. He now
:18:14. > :18:20.faces a possible 15 year jail term. The Swiss government says two
:18:21. > :18:22.officials from football's world governing body, Fifa, have been
:18:23. > :18:24.arrested in Zurich as part of It said the two men,
:18:25. > :18:30.both Fifa vice presidents were "suspected of accepting bribes
:18:31. > :18:32.of millions of dollars". Our Sports Correspondent Richard
:18:33. > :18:42.Conway reports from Zurich. Yet another early hotel wake-up call
:18:43. > :18:47.for Fifa executives. Acting on behalf of a few as authorities,
:18:48. > :18:50.Swiss police arrested two high-ranking Fifa officials. They
:18:51. > :18:54.are alleged to have received millions of dollars in bribes in
:18:55. > :19:02.return for awarding lucrative marketing rights in Latin America.
:19:03. > :19:07.The man arrested are Juan Angel Muppet, and another former serving
:19:08. > :19:12.Fifa president. These transactions mostly came through the USA, and the
:19:13. > :19:15.idea that it is being used as an waystation for fraud will not sit
:19:16. > :19:22.well with anyone at the Department of Justice. That is much as anything
:19:23. > :19:26.else is driving the investigation. Back in May the arrest of seven
:19:27. > :19:32.officials triggered the resignation of Sepp Blatter. Asus has alleged
:19:33. > :19:36.inquiry was then launched into how the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were
:19:37. > :19:40.awarded. Hotel staff are getting used to police looking for Fifa
:19:41. > :19:46.executives before dawn, it's less than six months since the first wave
:19:47. > :19:51.of arrests took place at this 5-star hotel in Zurich. It might not be
:19:52. > :19:58.such a surprise. US officials always said there would be further payment
:19:59. > :20:01.for world football, further arrests, and they seemed to have been to to
:20:02. > :20:05.their word. Senior executive discovered to discuss how to best
:20:06. > :20:09.reform the beleaguered world body of football, a discussion of expanding
:20:10. > :20:12.the World Cup from 32 teams to 40 teams has also taken place. Yet
:20:13. > :20:14.again the focus of the discussions has been blurred by the
:20:15. > :20:25.organisation's toxic past. The Justice Secretary, Michael Gove,
:20:26. > :20:27.is to scrap the controversial The charge of up to ?1,200
:20:28. > :20:34.has been mandatory in criminal cases It has caused widespread concern
:20:35. > :20:37.among magistrates triggering a record number of them to resign
:20:38. > :20:40.from the bench in protest. Fourteen people have been killed and
:20:41. > :20:43.seventeen injured in a mass shooting A man and woman, armed with
:20:44. > :20:46.assault rifles and wearing military-style clothing, opened
:20:47. > :20:48.fire at a social services centre. They were later shot dead
:20:49. > :20:51.in a gunfight with police. The motive
:20:52. > :20:53.for the attacks is not yet known. President Obama said the
:20:54. > :20:56.United States has a pattern of mass shootings that has no parallel
:20:57. > :20:58.anywhere else in the world. David Willis reports from
:20:59. > :21:11.San Bernadino. What caused an apparently mild
:21:12. > :21:13.mannered man to shoot up his office Christmas party?
:21:14. > :21:29.Terrified staff were ushered to safety after a colleague left the
:21:30. > :21:34.gathering following a disagreement and returned with his wife, both
:21:35. > :21:42.brandishing semiautomatic handguns and assault rifles. There was a
:21:43. > :21:49.shooter in her building. They went into a room and locked the door. I
:21:50. > :21:52.told her, turn of the lights. I have not tried to call her because I
:21:53. > :22:03.didn't want the phone ringing. For several hours the couple were
:22:04. > :22:07.at large, before police spotted A fierce gun battle ensued,
:22:08. > :22:21.in which two suspects, They were identified as Syed Farook
:22:22. > :22:24.and Tashfeen Malik. He had worked for the local health department for
:22:25. > :22:28.many years and was described as quiet and polite. His brother-in-law
:22:29. > :22:33.was said he was stunned to hear of his relative's involvement in the
:22:34. > :22:37.attack. Par I have no idea, why would he do that, why would he do
:22:38. > :22:43.something like this? I have no idea. I am in shock myself. This was
:22:44. > :22:48.the worst mass shooting in America since Sandy Hook three years ago and
:22:49. > :22:54.President Obama has repeated his call for tougher gun control laws
:22:55. > :22:58.here. We have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has
:22:59. > :23:04.no parallel anywhere else in the world. There are steps that we could
:23:05. > :23:09.take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings but to improve
:23:10. > :23:14.the odds that they don't happen as frequently. This massacre was
:23:15. > :23:16.clearly planned, less clear is what prompted it.
:23:17. > :23:22.to rule out the possibility of terrorism acts to Mac say they are
:23:23. > :23:24.keeping an open mind. David Willetts, BBC News, San Bernardino,
:23:25. > :23:28.California. Should scientists be allowed to do
:23:29. > :23:31.research which alters the DNA It's a question being discussed
:23:32. > :23:34.by hundreds of scientists from 20 countries in Washington -
:23:35. > :23:37.at a conference on gene editing. The technology makes it possible to
:23:38. > :23:39.change the genes parents pass It might help prevent inherited
:23:40. > :23:43.diseases - but it also gives rise to From Washington, our Medical
:23:44. > :23:57.Correspondent Fergus Walsh reports. Genetics, what can it mean? Genetic
:23:58. > :24:07.manipulation was once purely the territory of science fiction as in
:24:08. > :24:11.the film Gattica. But earlier this year in a world first scientists in
:24:12. > :24:18.China edited the DNA of human embryos in a laboratory. They used a
:24:19. > :24:22.new cut and paste Jean Duluth technique which might one day allow
:24:23. > :24:26.inherited disease to be killed. The prospect of genetically engineered
:24:27. > :24:30.children being born will make many feel uneasy but some at this summit
:24:31. > :24:35.in Washington feel that it should be allowed. We should trust our
:24:36. > :24:38.instincts but we must also trust them, we were initially concerned
:24:39. > :24:42.about in vitro fertilisation and as soon as it get through safety and
:24:43. > :24:47.efficacy testing it can progress to clinical trials in a measured
:24:48. > :24:51.manner. For others a step too far. It's too risky, we don't need it,
:24:52. > :24:57.there are other ways to have healthy children and it would open the door
:24:58. > :25:03.possibly to a world of genetic heart is and have - not but. Many
:25:04. > :25:06.scientists at this summit wanted to do gene editing in embryos to
:25:07. > :25:11.increase understanding of human biology. Talk of designer human
:25:12. > :25:16.beings is, they say, a distraction, something many years away. But all
:25:17. > :25:18.agree that now is the time to debate the ethics. Fergus Walsh, BBC News,
:25:19. > :25:20.Washington. Alan Yentob is to resign
:25:21. > :25:22.as the BBC's creative director He said the controversy over
:25:23. > :25:27.his role as Chairman of the collapsed charity Kids Company
:25:28. > :25:30.had become a "serious distraction." Alan Yentob has faced scrutiny over
:25:31. > :25:32.his role at the charity which went bankrupt in August, and
:25:33. > :25:35.was accused of trying to influence He will continue to make
:25:36. > :25:39.and present TV programmes. Our media correspondent
:25:40. > :25:51.David Sillito is here. David, why has he gone and why now?
:25:52. > :25:55.The rumours, the revelations, the ultimate collapse of Kids Company,
:25:56. > :26:00.he was the chair of it, who was leading many of the investigations,
:26:01. > :26:05.the BBC. He had strong views and expressed them to Newsnight and also
:26:06. > :26:09.appeared in the studios of Radio 4 during an interview about the
:26:10. > :26:14.coverage. An investigation was made, saying that he had not influenced
:26:15. > :26:18.the BBC in any way it covered the story but those questions continued.
:26:19. > :26:23.Even at the beginning of this week the chairman of the BBC said that
:26:24. > :26:28.investigations, questions, were still ongoing. He said that as this
:26:29. > :26:31.had gone on for such a long time it was proving a serious distraction
:26:32. > :26:35.given that there was so much scrutiny of the BBC at the moment.
:26:36. > :26:39.In a Batman garage today spoke in his defence and said he was a
:26:40. > :26:43.creative person who had done a lot for the arts -- Camila
:26:44. > :26:47.Batmanghelidgh. He will of course remain as presenter of Imagine.
:26:48. > :26:50.Thank you. Voters are going to the polls
:26:51. > :26:52.in the first by-election Labour are defending a majority
:26:53. > :26:56.of more than 14,000 in Oldham West The by-election was caused by the
:26:57. > :26:59.death of the former Labour minister It's tipped to be one
:27:00. > :27:04.of this year's most popular Christmas presents - but anyone
:27:05. > :27:09.wanting to buy a hoverboard or self-balancing scooter has been
:27:10. > :27:12.warned they could be a fire hazard. Thousands of hoverboards have
:27:13. > :27:14.been imported to the UK in recent But trading standards
:27:15. > :27:21.officers said 15,000 that The boards have faults
:27:22. > :27:25.which can cause them to explode or Our Personal Finance Correspondent
:27:26. > :27:38.Simon Gompertz reports. Hoverboards a trophy gift high on
:27:39. > :27:43.Christmas lists but beware cut-price unbranded versions. This is the
:27:44. > :27:47.danger, that some have caught fire while charging, causing serious
:27:48. > :27:51.damage. And started giving of really weird fumes. I thought I shouldn't
:27:52. > :27:58.go near it. This family from London had a lucky escape. They had emptied
:27:59. > :28:03.all their savings to pay for it and the terrifying fact is that it could
:28:04. > :28:07.have burned the house down. Trading standards are trying to intercept
:28:08. > :28:13.them, breaking into a container full of them at Felixstowe port last
:28:14. > :28:16.might. In this batch from China 1000 defective hoverboards and 10,000
:28:17. > :28:21.more on the way from this supplier alone. The worry is that the worst
:28:22. > :28:26.problems could only emerge at Christmas itself. There will be many
:28:27. > :28:54.people who bought directly via the Internet. Those presents might be
:28:55. > :28:57.hidden at the back of the wardrobe or under the bed ready to go under
:28:58. > :28:59.the tree. There are so many out there that we don't know the
:29:00. > :29:02.potential scale. We have a plaque that is not correctly shaped and is
:29:03. > :29:04.dangerous, the wrong views in it, and charger which doesn't work
:29:05. > :29:06.properly, a manual which is for a different product and inside the
:29:07. > :29:09.hoverboard a lithium battery for which the cut of mechanism that
:29:10. > :29:12.stops and charging when it is full does danger of and this is where the
:29:13. > :29:14.danger of fire comes with the price at over ?500 it is clear why
:29:15. > :29:16.families seeing cheaper versions online might take risks. Trading
:29:17. > :29:17.standards service do not leave them charging and attended, and
:29:18. > :29:20.definitely not at night with the price that over ?500
:29:21. > :29:22.it is clear why families seeing cheaper versions online might take
:29:23. > :29:28.risks. Trading standards service do not leave them charging and
:29:29. > :29:35.attended, and definitely not at time to look at the one unifying theme is
:29:36. > :29:37.cloud some heavy rain in the Lake District witha rather dull day, some
:29:38. > :29:43.heavy rain in the Lake District with strong winds here, snow in Scotland,
:29:44. > :29:48.a cold story, this is the top of the Ben Nevis range. It looks as of the
:29:49. > :29:52.cold theme will continue for the afternoon across Scotland, this were
:29:53. > :29:56.the front is a dividing line between the cold air to the north and the
:29:57. > :30:01.milder air to the south. Incredibly mild for the early half of December
:30:02. > :30:05.temperatures are already sitting at around 14 Celsius in places, early
:30:06. > :30:09.getting up to five or six as a maximum in the far north of
:30:10. > :30:13.Scotland. That'll have a consequence this afternoon as the weather front
:30:14. > :30:16.drifts further north we could see some snow over the Southern
:30:17. > :30:20.uplands, maybe some slushy deposits in the lower levels, turning back to
:30:21. > :30:24.rain, some rain heavy down the borders, north-west England and
:30:25. > :30:30.North Wales. The winds strengthening as the rain pushes in. Central and
:30:31. > :30:35.eastern areas a little brighter this afternoon, incredibly mild for this
:30:36. > :30:39.time of year. Through this evening the wet and windy weather pushes
:30:40. > :30:46.quickly south and east. The wind changing more around two or westerly
:30:47. > :30:49.overnight. Still breezy, frost and fog and issue, some isolated showers
:30:50. > :30:54.in the north, wintry on higher ground. Tomorrow will be quieter,
:30:55. > :31:02.rather breezy still yet hopefully more sunshine in England and Wales.
:31:03. > :31:04.Severe gales developing in the North West of Scotland as we see heavy
:31:05. > :31:10.rain although they will have a milder afternoon with two bridges
:31:11. > :31:13.reaching ten or 12 degrees. Some very wet and windy weather through
:31:14. > :31:18.Friday night and into Saturday across the extreme north of the
:31:19. > :31:22.country, a miserable start to the weekend, I'm afraid, severe girls,
:31:23. > :31:28.assistant rain likely to attract severe gales, North West Wales,
:31:29. > :31:33.windy elsewhere, yet try and still mild. Bad weather front moves south
:31:34. > :31:37.and east, weakening somewhat and stagnating across England and Wales,
:31:38. > :31:43.hopefully something brighter as we move into the far north. The weekend
:31:44. > :31:47.summary is a wet and windy start for the far north, windy and brighter in
:31:48. > :31:50.the South on Saturday, all change on Sunday with lighter rain in the
:31:51. > :31:52.South and hopefully something try and brighter in the North. Something
:31:53. > :31:59.to look forward to! Britain's bombing campaign
:32:00. > :32:01.against Islamic State in Syria starts within hours
:32:02. > :32:05.of MPs voting for it to go ahead.