:00:00. > :00:00.The man suspected of the lorry attack on the Berlin Christmas
:00:07. > :00:13.Anis Amri was killed in Milan early this morning in a shoot
:00:14. > :00:15.out with Italian police after he was stopped
:00:16. > :00:20.Amri had been on the run since Monday's attack
:00:21. > :00:23.in which twelve people were killed - it's thought he travelled
:00:24. > :00:30.TRANSLATION: He was the most wanted man in Europe and he immediately
:00:31. > :00:39.This means our security is working really well.
:00:40. > :00:42.We'll have the very latest from Italy and Berlin.
:00:43. > :00:46.A Libyan passenger plane with more than 100 people on board has
:00:47. > :00:49.been hijacked and forced to land in Malta.
:00:50. > :00:51.In the last few minutes, some passengers have
:00:52. > :00:55.Here, the Christmas getaway gets underway -
:00:56. > :01:00.but delays are expected on the roads and railways.
:01:01. > :01:03.And Britain braces for Storm Barbara - with Scotland expected to bear
:01:04. > :01:09.the brunt of 90 mile an hour winds and difficult travelling conditions.
:01:10. > :01:12.And coming up in the Sport on BBC News - Oscar becomes the seventh
:01:13. > :01:16.most expensive footballer in history after a ?60 million move from
:01:17. > :01:41.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:42. > :01:44.Anis Amri - the suspect in the Berlin Christmas
:01:45. > :01:47.market lorry attack - has been shot dead in Milan.
:01:48. > :01:51.Italian officials say Amri opened fire on police who asked him for ID
:01:52. > :01:57.One Italian police officer was shot and injured.
:01:58. > :01:59.The Italian authorities say the fingerprints of the dead man
:02:00. > :02:02.match those found on the steering wheel of a lorry which drove
:02:03. > :02:05.at shoppers at a Christmas market, killing twelve people
:02:06. > :02:14.Our correspondent Angus Crawford reports.
:02:15. > :02:23.The body of Anis Amri lies on a Milan street. His last act, to pull
:02:24. > :02:29.a gun from his backpack and shoot out police. His last words, God is
:02:30. > :02:34.great. The question for the authorities is how did he evade one
:02:35. > :02:39.of the biggest manhunts in German history and make it Italy? Look in
:02:40. > :02:44.the doorway. This is thought to be Amri just hours after the attack in
:02:45. > :02:48.Berlin. Caught on CCTV leaving a mosque in the city. After that the
:02:49. > :02:54.authorities lost track of him. But we now know he travelled to
:02:55. > :02:58.Chambery, in France. Then crossing the Italian border to Turin and
:02:59. > :03:03.on-again Inter Milan, arriving early this morning. At 3am according to
:03:04. > :03:08.the Italian interior Ministry he was challenged by a two man police
:03:09. > :03:14.patrol and shot debt. TRANSLATION: In the moment he was
:03:15. > :03:18.stopped the man without hesitating immediately took his gun and shot at
:03:19. > :03:24.the police officer who asked him for his identification papers. Without a
:03:25. > :03:30.shadow of a doubt the person who was killed is Anis Amri, the suspect of
:03:31. > :03:35.the terrorist attack in Berlin. Footage has now emerged of the
:03:36. > :03:40.attack in Berlin. On the left, the lorry speeds through traffic lights.
:03:41. > :03:47.The taxi dash cam keeps filming as it heads towards the market.
:03:48. > :03:52.Shoppers run away in terror. It took German police two days to focus on
:03:53. > :03:57.Amri. His fingerprints were found on the steering wheel. His documents
:03:58. > :04:03.hidden in the cab. But what do we know about Amri? You left his family
:04:04. > :04:07.in Tunisia travelling illegally to Italy in 2011. He spent four years
:04:08. > :04:11.there in jail for violence and theft. But without a passport he
:04:12. > :04:18.could not be deported. So last year he moved to Germany, denied asylum
:04:19. > :04:22.once again he wasn't deported. Security services feared he was
:04:23. > :04:25.trying to get automatic weapons for an attack, but with no new evidence
:04:26. > :04:33.surveillance of him was halted in September. From petty criminals to
:04:34. > :04:35.terror suspect. A journey that for Anis Amri ended here. Angus
:04:36. > :04:38.Crawford, BBC News. We'll get the latest
:04:39. > :04:40.from Berlin in a moment, but first let's speak
:04:41. > :04:51.to our security correspondent, The police are saying in Italy this
:04:52. > :04:56.is a success, but he was able to travel from Berlin to Milan. Is that
:04:57. > :05:00.a failure? I think a lot depends on when exactly the alert went out for
:05:01. > :05:05.him because he had a head start because the German police failed to
:05:06. > :05:10.identify him in the first 20 hours. They wasted 20 hours, interrogating
:05:11. > :05:13.the wrong suspect. They didn't find the documents immediately. They
:05:14. > :05:16.didn't find the fingerprints. It allowed him to escape westwards into
:05:17. > :05:32.France, Bourdais high-speed train before there was an alert out for
:05:33. > :05:34.him. He took the train to Turin, so by then he had cost two
:05:35. > :05:37.international borders all within the Schengen passport free zone, where
:05:38. > :05:39.he was able to board a regional train to Milan. It's not 100% clear
:05:40. > :05:41.whether this was sheer luck and good policing, the vigilant Italian
:05:42. > :05:46.police at three o'clock in the morning outside a police station
:05:47. > :05:49.stopped him and asked for identity documents, or another series there
:05:50. > :05:53.was some kind of tip-off that the Italian authorities are sensibly not
:05:54. > :05:56.talking about because there could be other accomplices. It's very rare
:05:57. > :06:00.that somebody is operating completely on their own as a
:06:01. > :06:04.so-called lone wolf. They've nearly always got somebody helping them.
:06:05. > :06:10.Let's pick up on that point by going to Bethany Bell. Bethany, obviously
:06:11. > :06:15.the confidence this is the man who was behind the wheel, but as Frank
:06:16. > :06:22.says, investigations will continue. Very much so. There are a number of
:06:23. > :06:28.open questions. When did he leave Germany? Did anybody help him leave
:06:29. > :06:34.Germany? Was he going to meet anybody in Italy itself? Was there a
:06:35. > :06:38.wider network? A lot of very big questions for the German
:06:39. > :06:41.investigators, and we are told that they are continuing their enquiries
:06:42. > :06:47.at full speed ahead. Here in Perlin of course there is a big sense of
:06:48. > :06:53.relief that this money is no longer a threat to the public and I'm here
:06:54. > :06:57.in the Christmas market, where he is believed to have driven that lorry
:06:58. > :07:01.through, whether people were killed, people are out today looking at the
:07:02. > :07:06.candles and flowers which have been laid to the victims, but also they
:07:07. > :07:10.are coming back to the market as well, drinking mulled wine and
:07:11. > :07:12.eating sausages in a sign, they say, that life has to go on. Bethany,
:07:13. > :07:16.thank you, from Berlin. And there'll be continuing coverage
:07:17. > :07:19.of this story here on BBC News - and you can also keep up to date
:07:20. > :07:22.with the latest developments online A Libyan airliner has been
:07:23. > :07:26.forced to land in Malta after being hijacked by two men
:07:27. > :07:29.on board who are threatening More than 100 passengers
:07:30. > :07:32.and crew are on board. The emergency services
:07:33. > :07:34.are on the scene at the airport in Malta's capital -
:07:35. > :07:36.Valletta. Let's speak to our correspondent
:07:37. > :07:45.Smitha Mundasad. In the past few minutes some
:07:46. > :07:48.passengers have been seen coming down the plane steps. Let's get more
:07:49. > :07:53.from our correspondent Smitha Mundasad. Bring is up to date with
:07:54. > :07:57.developments. In the last 15 minutes we have seen some passengers, we
:07:58. > :08:01.believe women and children, making their way down the steps on the
:08:02. > :08:04.tarmac. They've been around 100 passengers sitting on that plane
:08:05. > :08:07.with the engine is still running for more than two hours. They were
:08:08. > :08:13.expecting to fly from the south-west of Libya to Tripoli, the capital.
:08:14. > :08:16.Instead we understand possibly one more two hijackers on board,
:08:17. > :08:20.possibly with hand grenades, saying they were going to blow the plane
:08:21. > :08:24.up. The reports are still confused. We don't have details confirmed. We
:08:25. > :08:30.don't yet know the fate of the other male passengers on board. There are
:08:31. > :08:35.some very key questions that are still unanswered. What do these
:08:36. > :08:40.hijackers want? What is the threat? What is the request? Can it be met?
:08:41. > :08:44.We don't know. And how did, if there was a weapon on board, how did it
:08:45. > :08:48.get on board in Libya? We just don't know. For now, thank you.
:08:49. > :08:50.If you're planning a Christmas getaway you may be
:08:51. > :08:54.Extensive rail engineering work starts across Britain from midnight
:08:55. > :08:57.- with 200 different projects being carried out over
:08:58. > :09:01.The biggest re-signalling scheme in the network's history will close
:09:02. > :09:05.the line between Cardiff Central, Bridgend, Newport and the Valleys.
:09:06. > :09:09.Services around Manchester will be affected by work there,
:09:10. > :09:13.while Paddington Station in London will close to allow the Crossrail
:09:14. > :09:18.Roads are also expected to be busy and Britain's airports
:09:19. > :09:21.are predicting the busiest festive travel getaway ever.
:09:22. > :09:29.Our transport correspondent Richard Westcott reports.
:09:30. > :09:35.It's going to be the biggest rail upgrade ever taken on and it all
:09:36. > :09:39.starts late tonight, hitting services across South Wales, London
:09:40. > :09:45.and Manchester. The lack of trains will make the roads busier. This is
:09:46. > :09:51.the M6 today. It's a popular time to fly away for the holidays. Here's
:09:52. > :09:54.Stansted. So why do they always pick Christmas to close the railways? We
:09:55. > :09:57.have a huge programme of works that we have to deliver as part of our
:09:58. > :10:02.railway upgrade programme and some of that work just can't be done on a
:10:03. > :10:05.live railway. We have to shut the railway. So Christmas is the best
:10:06. > :10:12.time to do it because it's one of the quietest times of year. 24,000
:10:13. > :10:15.engineers will work on 200 sites across Britain. One of the bigger
:10:16. > :10:21.jobs they are doing this Christmas is to open up and test these new
:10:22. > :10:24.lines between the concrete blocks there, critically they unblock a
:10:25. > :10:28.bottleneck between the trains going from Heathrow into Paddington
:10:29. > :10:32.Station in London. It will hit services across the country.
:10:33. > :10:37.Paddington station will actually close for six days after the last
:10:38. > :10:40.train leaves tonight. Services that other big stations, including London
:10:41. > :10:46.Bridge, charring Cross and Liverpool Street, will be severely affected.
:10:47. > :10:49.There will be no trains late on Christmas Eve between Cardiff
:10:50. > :10:53.Central, Bridgend, Newport and the Valleys as they finished the biggest
:10:54. > :10:58.reason and a link job ever done. It's affected me, I have to take an
:10:59. > :11:00.extra day off work because the replacement service is not good
:11:01. > :11:05.enough on the buses. I understand the work needs to be done. Families
:11:06. > :11:09.want to get together and they haven't seen each other for a while,
:11:10. > :11:17.and it is disrupted. You can't get to anywhere you want to go. Totally
:11:18. > :11:21.isn't inconvenient. A lot of commuters, shopping between
:11:22. > :11:26.Christmas and New Year, so bus services are unnecessary. Christmas
:11:27. > :11:30.engineering overrun two years ago, Colmcille -- causing chaos because
:11:31. > :11:33.the back-up plan fails. Network Rail says the holiday work since then has
:11:34. > :11:38.gone without a hitch. Most roadworks have been cleared for the holidays
:11:39. > :11:42.but tonight could still be tricky. Between the hours of 4pm and 8pm
:11:43. > :11:45.this evening we think will be the busiest. That's the rush hour
:11:46. > :11:48.period. Additional traffic travelling long distances, it's
:11:49. > :11:56.going to get busy. The pinch points will be the obvious choices of the
:11:57. > :12:01.M1, M6, M25 and M5. As ever, leave plenty of time before you head off,
:12:02. > :12:05.or take the sleigh instead! Richard Westcott, BBC News.
:12:06. > :12:11.Well our correspondent Anisa Kadri is at Paddington now.
:12:12. > :12:17.How long will the station because done what's the impact? The station
:12:18. > :12:21.is closed for six days and from tomorrow, if you try to turn up at
:12:22. > :12:24.Paddington station and get a train, well, it just won't happen because
:12:25. > :12:29.trains are not running from tomorrow the full six days. This morning here
:12:30. > :12:33.at Paddington we have seen lots of people on their way to the
:12:34. > :12:36.south-west of England, as well as South Wales, for Christmas, with
:12:37. > :12:40.luggage in tow, some with pets in tow as well and the concern for them
:12:41. > :12:44.is whether these engineering works that are going to be taking place
:12:45. > :12:48.will actually hamper their future travel plans, for instance if they
:12:49. > :12:53.want to come back from wherever they have gone to London, for example.
:12:54. > :12:56.But engineering works is due to the Crossrail project, which is the new
:12:57. > :12:59.railway for London and the south-east, but it's not just in
:13:00. > :13:03.London that engineering works are taking place. They are going on in
:13:04. > :13:09.other places including Manchester and Cardiff. The advice is to check
:13:10. > :13:12.online and if you are keen on Twitter user than Network Rail say
:13:13. > :13:17.use # Christmas works. Britain is braced for the arrival
:13:18. > :13:20.of Storm Barbara, which is expected to bring winds of up to 90mph
:13:21. > :13:23.to some parts of the country. The Met Office has issued severe
:13:24. > :13:26.weather warnings for much of the UK, with Scotland expected to bear
:13:27. > :13:29.the brunt of the storm. Our Scotland correspondent
:13:30. > :13:41.Lorna Gordon reports. Storm Barbara is barrelling in. The
:13:42. > :13:46.worst of the weather has yet to hit, but already conditions are difficult
:13:47. > :13:50.out at sea. Ferries to many of the islands have been cancelled. For
:13:51. > :13:55.those who couldn't get home early Christmas travel plans are for now
:13:56. > :14:01.on hold. Today, there is some services operating. They are
:14:02. > :14:05.battling through. The Northern areas are definitely off. We are reviewing
:14:06. > :14:10.those services and will make announcements tomorrow evening, and
:14:11. > :14:15.people may be able to travel, however we can't guarantee that.
:14:16. > :14:18.Gusts reaching more than 70 miles an hour have already been recorded in
:14:19. > :14:22.the Outer Hebrides. Some homes on the Isle of Lewis and South Uist
:14:23. > :14:28.left without power. But the stormy conditions were forecast well ahead.
:14:29. > :14:33.Extra generators have been shipped out and others, including farmers
:14:34. > :14:37.here, have taken precautions. I slept quite well until 5am, when the
:14:38. > :14:41.winds started to hit. I spend all day yesterday preparing for it,
:14:42. > :14:46.moving livestock to set sheltered areas and making sure everything was
:14:47. > :14:52.tied down so I don't lose anything. This Christmas tree in Dunoon is
:14:53. > :14:56.holding tight, for now! While festive rides in Edinburgh are
:14:57. > :15:00.off-limits because of high winds-macro. Storm Barbara is an
:15:01. > :15:05.unwanted early gift. Travelling may get more difficult as the Gaels
:15:06. > :15:09.increase and those hoping to get away will be hoping the weather
:15:10. > :15:12.eases for long enough to get home for Christmas, when more stormy
:15:13. > :15:19.weather is expected to sweep in once again. Lorna Gordon, BBC News.
:15:20. > :15:27.Let's speak to our correspondent James Shaw. He is at the coast. It
:15:28. > :15:30.is looking relatively calm? Yes, I should explain that we are on the
:15:31. > :15:34.Firth of Clyde, leading from the River Clyde to the North Channel
:15:35. > :15:39.between Scotland and Northern Ireland. This is a relatively
:15:40. > :15:44.sheltered, protected body of water, out on exposed coasts, in the open
:15:45. > :15:48.sea. The conditions will be much worse than this there. You can
:15:49. > :15:54.probably tell it is pretty windy, there is white water on the Firth of
:15:55. > :15:59.Clyde. You can probably see that very, storm bound, one of 1926
:16:00. > :16:03.services that they have cancelled so far today. Some of this is going to
:16:04. > :16:10.start moving into large parts of the rest of the United Kingdom. Even as
:16:11. > :16:16.far south as the south-west of England, there will be periods where
:16:17. > :16:21.gusts between 50 and 60 mph and heavy rain are expected, fairly
:16:22. > :16:27.short periods but large swathes of England in the north and in the West
:16:28. > :16:29.are going to experience, get some taste of what Storm Barbara is like.
:16:30. > :16:31.OK, thank you. Well today is set to be the busiest
:16:32. > :16:35.food shopping day of the year, with an estimated 10 million people
:16:36. > :16:38.hitting the supermarket aisles. Shops are also expecting a big rush
:16:39. > :16:44.for the those last minute presents. Our correspondent Judith Moritz
:16:45. > :16:58.is in East Didsbury Yes, they tell me that across the
:16:59. > :17:03.country today they are expecting, across all supermarkets and grocers,
:17:04. > :17:08.to sell 61 million mince pies. That is today alone. It feels to me like
:17:09. > :17:12.a lot of them are being sold here, in Manchester, because this is
:17:13. > :17:16.peak-time today, around lunchtime, of the peak day of the Christmas
:17:17. > :17:20.trade. Possibly, for supermarkets, the peak day of the whole year. It
:17:21. > :17:28.has been incredibly busy. That, of course, is how they like it. Merry
:17:29. > :17:32.Christmas! Two days until Christmas. For the supermarket industry, this
:17:33. > :17:35.is frenzied Friday, the day most shoppers go to buy their festive
:17:36. > :17:42.food. 10 million British customers will keep the tills ringing today.
:17:43. > :17:46.At peak time we will serve 15,000 customers in a minute, today. So, a
:17:47. > :17:50.huge volume of customers will go through our checkouts. But we are
:17:51. > :17:54.ready for it. For the grocers, it has all been building up to this
:17:55. > :17:58.point, a peak day of trading after months of planning. Supermarkets
:17:59. > :18:02.have to get the stock levels just right. The planning starts almost a
:18:03. > :18:05.year in advance. The last few days are the most important time. They
:18:06. > :18:09.will be looking at exactly how money sales of each product from each
:18:10. > :18:13.store, are likely to happen, make sure that products are on the shelf
:18:14. > :18:17.in the right quantity. Of course, it is all about Christmas dinner. Tesco
:18:18. > :18:23.say they will sell more than 200,000 turkeys today. Don't forget the
:18:24. > :18:27.vegetables, 27 million carats and, love them or hate them, they will
:18:28. > :18:33.sell 40 million sprouts. It is because of people, the experience,
:18:34. > :18:36.feeling something, touching something and being there. I'm not
:18:37. > :18:42.really bothered about how busy it is, just get on with it, it's fine.
:18:43. > :18:48.It is bizarre, just one day in the year and you panic, you think, we
:18:49. > :18:51.need more wine, milk! In Bristol, the Christmas market is doing a
:18:52. > :18:55.brisk trade and this spending will continue tomorrow with the hope of
:18:56. > :18:59.an extra boost because Christmas Eve falls on Saturday this year. Some
:19:00. > :19:03.research points to a downturn in the total amount of retail spending in
:19:04. > :19:06.the UK this Christmas. But shopkeepers needn't despair. The
:19:07. > :19:12.Boxing Day sales are only just around the corner.
:19:13. > :19:17.The Centre for retail research says that spending across the whole
:19:18. > :19:21.Christmas week has been well below expectations. Of course, there is a
:19:22. > :19:23.lot of time left, the rest of today, and a lot of mince pies to shift.
:19:24. > :19:28.There is still time for an upturn. A ?300 million fund to build
:19:29. > :19:31.affordable housing for first-time buyers in England is to target areas
:19:32. > :19:34.with high levels of second homes. The money has been raised
:19:35. > :19:36.through increases in stamp duty and will be shared between councils
:19:37. > :19:39.over the next five years. The biggest amount will be allocated
:19:40. > :19:41.to the south-west of England, as our correspondent Mark Lobel
:19:42. > :19:43.reports. A generous supply in holiday homes,
:19:44. > :19:46.but a shortage in affordable housing blights the lives of many in St
:19:47. > :19:48.Ives. The Government say that
:19:49. > :19:51.if a community has 21% of second home ownership,
:19:52. > :19:54.it becomes slightly unsustainable In the centre of St Ives,
:19:55. > :20:03.we have 25% and increasing in some localised areas,
:20:04. > :20:07.of second-home ownership. One idea is building so-called
:20:08. > :20:11.community-led housing, like these affordable flats in East
:20:12. > :20:15.London. They will be for local people,
:20:16. > :20:18.on a local income, and they can only be sold on to similar people,
:20:19. > :20:21.at a similar rate. The Government wants 10,000
:20:22. > :20:23.of these over the next five To do that, the Government has
:20:24. > :20:30.announced today it will spend ?60 million a year on affordable
:20:31. > :20:32.housing schemes, funded A third of the pot, ?19 million,
:20:33. > :20:39.will go to the South-west, with ?11 million for the South-east
:20:40. > :20:41.and millions more shared I think it's a big
:20:42. > :20:47.problem in certain areas. One of the difficulties
:20:48. > :20:50.in my job is I have to set national housing policy,
:20:51. > :20:51.and things are different I was in Cornwall recently, looking
:20:52. > :20:55.at the coastal towns and villages, People are saying they need somebody
:20:56. > :21:01.to man the lifeboat, and people can't afford any
:21:02. > :21:04.of the homes in the village. Today's announcement
:21:05. > :21:08.will create 10,000 homes. That's just 1% of the Government's
:21:09. > :21:10.own annual target. Labour says it's a drop in the ocean
:21:11. > :21:13.for the most affected communities and offers nothing to those with no
:21:14. > :21:16.hope of ever getting Anis Amri, the man suspected
:21:17. > :21:28.of the lorry attack on the Berlin Christmas Market,
:21:29. > :21:30.has been shot dead And still to come, we have the story
:21:31. > :21:37.of just one family who've fled the fighting in the Syrian
:21:38. > :21:41.city of Aleppo. Coming up in Sport at 1:30pm:
:21:42. > :21:44.Home from hospital in time for Christmas -
:21:45. > :21:46.the two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova is due
:21:47. > :21:47.to be released today, after surgery on a hand injury
:21:48. > :21:50.she suffered during a knife The Syrian army has described
:21:51. > :22:03.the defeat of rebels in Aleppo as a turning point in
:22:04. > :22:05.the country's civil war. Pro-government forces took full
:22:06. > :22:07.control of the city yesterday after the final evacuations
:22:08. > :22:09.of opposition fighters and civilians The army high command said it
:22:10. > :22:16.would continue fighting until every last bit of Syria
:22:17. > :22:19.had been liberated. Well, thousands of families have
:22:20. > :22:22.left the city over the past weeks and our correspondent Lina Sinjab
:22:23. > :22:27.has caught up with one of them. A moment of relief for Aleppo's
:22:28. > :22:30.children, finally warm and safe, No more fear, no more tears,
:22:31. > :22:41.but fun and laughter. And they even compete over
:22:42. > :22:47.who gets their picture taken. This school has turned
:22:48. > :22:49.into a temporary shelter for many families who fled the horrors
:22:50. > :22:54.of Eastern Aleppo. 75-year-old Suliman Ahmed Badem's
:22:55. > :22:57.family is among them. He made it through with his wife and
:22:58. > :23:03.three children and their families. This classroom has now
:23:04. > :23:06.become their home. They have some food and some
:23:07. > :23:12.means to stay warm. They left with only the clothes
:23:13. > :23:15.they were wearing, but were stripped TRANSLATION: I left
:23:16. > :23:24.with my whole family. The regime got the men on the floor
:23:25. > :23:30.and took everything. They waited in freezing
:23:31. > :23:51.temperature in eastern Aleppo He is constantly coughing,
:23:52. > :23:56.the grandmother tells the doctor. They were stuck for days
:23:57. > :24:03.after the evacuation was suspended. They were among hundreds
:24:04. > :24:05.who were pushed back from the crossing point,
:24:06. > :24:10.threatened by gunfire. They are not expecting to go back
:24:11. > :24:16.to Aleppo any time soon. TRANSLATION: We would love to go
:24:17. > :24:19.back when things are safe. We have three houses but we won't go
:24:20. > :24:25.back to be under fire. I would live in tents
:24:26. > :24:28.and never go back now. What was their home,
:24:29. > :24:38.turned into a ghost town. Ishmael's family is moving
:24:39. > :24:40.to the border with Turkey to live in tents there but it may not be
:24:41. > :24:48.the safe haven they were hoping for. Refugee camps were targeted before
:24:49. > :24:50.and, as long as they stay in rebel-held areas,
:24:51. > :25:14.they may face bombardment Two men have been convicted of using
:25:15. > :25:20.aid convoys to supply terrorists in Syria.
:25:21. > :25:22.Our home affairs correspondent Dominic Cashiani
:25:23. > :25:32.This is an interesting, disturbing case. It is the first confirmation
:25:33. > :25:36.we have had before the court that the massive community led aid
:25:37. > :25:42.convoys to Syria, which largely took place in 2012 and 2013 were
:25:43. > :25:48.effectively infiltrated and abused by would-be jihadists to get cash
:25:49. > :25:53.out to other fighters in the region. At the centre of the cases a man
:25:54. > :26:00.from Stoke-on-Trent. The court heard he sent ?4500 to his nephew, in the
:26:01. > :26:07.region, fighting. It was extensively to buy a rifle, perhaps a sniper
:26:08. > :26:11.rifle. They talked about how to deal with their enemies. He sent a
:26:12. > :26:15.message from the UK, basically saying to behead your enemies, but
:26:16. > :26:21.do not mutilate them. Two the men were cleared. One of them is a very
:26:22. > :26:23.high well-known Muslim charity worker from Huddersfield. He has
:26:24. > :26:26.raised literally hundreds of thousands of pounds for these
:26:27. > :26:33.convoys. He told the court that he had no idea that he was unwittingly
:26:34. > :26:39.involved in whatever plan that Syed Hoque had hatched. He has been
:26:40. > :26:40.cleared today. We are waiting to find out about sentencing for Syed
:26:41. > :26:42.Hoque and his co-accused. Part of a prison wing in Kent
:26:43. > :26:47.that was taken over by inmates all prisoners were back
:26:48. > :26:52.in their cells last night after specialist teams
:26:53. > :26:53.were sent into HMP Swaledale It's the latest in a number
:26:54. > :26:57.of disturbances over Our correspondent Andy Moore
:26:58. > :27:05.is at the prison. As we say, it is the latest
:27:06. > :27:14.disturbance. What happened here? This disturbance started at about
:27:15. > :27:18.7pm. It is understood that they were carrying out a search, they seized
:27:19. > :27:23.some items and that caused the disturbance. Fires were lift and
:27:24. > :27:27.prisoners posted videos of themselves on social media. The
:27:28. > :27:33.prison service said it involved one landing on one wing, and the rest of
:27:34. > :27:36.the prison was on lockdown. Specialist teams were brought in and
:27:37. > :27:42.they got the prison under control by about 1am. No prison officers or
:27:43. > :27:45.prisoners were injured. This is the fourth disturbance in British
:27:46. > :27:49.prisons in the last two months. There was a riot last week at
:27:50. > :27:53.Birmingham prison, involving several hundred prisoners, lasting about 12
:27:54. > :27:56.hours. Before that, disturbances at Bedford and blues.
:27:57. > :28:02.The prison service say that Britain's prisons are enduring
:28:03. > :28:04.long-standing problems and they will not be solved overnight.
:28:05. > :28:07.A survey of rough sleepers suggests they are 17 times more likely
:28:08. > :28:10.to be a victim of crime than the general public.
:28:11. > :28:12.The charity Crisis says homeless people are regularly
:28:13. > :28:15.There are thought to be about 4,000 people sleeping rough
:28:16. > :28:22.Our social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan reports.
:28:23. > :28:24.3am in Worcester city centre, and two men
:28:25. > :28:33.One stamps the head, the other kicks the legs.
:28:34. > :28:38.Casual, unprovoked violence is a daily fear for rough sleepers.
:28:39. > :28:40.They have no shelter, anyone, at any time, could attack.
:28:41. > :28:43.This man was homeless for five years and took to sleeping
:28:44. > :28:47.on London commuter trains after being assaulted.
:28:48. > :28:50.I was in Leicester Square, got into a discussion with a young
:28:51. > :28:59.He became quite aggravated, I would guess, by the fact
:29:00. > :29:01.I was homeless and I was saying, being homeless, everybody's
:29:02. > :29:03.an individual and people are homeless for different reasons.
:29:04. > :29:06.And from there he ended up punching me in the face, basically.
:29:07. > :29:11.His experience is fairly common, says today's survey.
:29:12. > :29:16.30% of rough sleepers say they've been deliberately hit or kicked.
:29:17. > :29:21.31% say they've had things thrown at them.
:29:22. > :29:28.It's not just the incident itself but it's the impact it
:29:29. > :29:30.has on that individual, on their mental health, on their
:29:31. > :29:35.We found that most homeless people who are rough sleeping actually
:29:36. > :29:38.feel ashamed already, and surely if you're then urinated
:29:39. > :29:43.on you're going to feel even more ashamed and even more marginalised.
:29:44. > :29:47.Some rough sleepers have had their possession set on fire.
:29:48. > :29:49.One man told researchers he was thrown from a height
:29:50. > :29:56.Most attacks were carried out by people they didn't know.
:29:57. > :30:00.The one question this survey didn't ask is why on earth
:30:01. > :30:04.would somebody punch or kick, or urinate on a rough sleeper?
:30:05. > :30:16.Rough sleepers rarely report abuses to the police,
:30:17. > :30:19.Officers say they protect everyone and will fully
:30:20. > :30:38.Amid the hurly-burly of the Christmas preparations, some
:30:39. > :30:42.hurly-burly weather. It will only affect various parts of the country
:30:43. > :30:45.at various times. We will go through sequentially. This is a shot from
:30:46. > :30:51.the Highlands in Scotland. It sets the scene for wet and windy weather,
:30:52. > :30:54.courtesy of Storm Barbara. The core of Storm Barbara, whistling up to
:30:55. > :30:59.the north of the UK. Draped around it, all of those ring clouds.
:31:00. > :31:04.Intense rainfall sweeping southwards across England and Wales over the
:31:05. > :31:09.next few hours. Very squally wind, but a 70 mph in exposed areas right
:31:10. > :31:14.now. As that clears through, don't be lulled into a sense of security
:31:15. > :31:17.across the far north of Scotland. Here, the wind will strengthen even
:31:18. > :31:21.further. This is not the wildest weather that the North of Scotland
:31:22. > :31:25.has ever experienced. Let's put it into context. But it is enough to
:31:26. > :31:29.cause significant disruption, possibly some power outages with
:31:30. > :31:33.winds of 80 and possibly 90 mph, hence the Amber warning from The Met
:31:34. > :31:40.Office. Be prepared for Storm Barbara through this evening. Gales
:31:41. > :31:44.blowing as we head into the early hours of Christmas Eve. It turns
:31:45. > :31:48.colder, sleet and snow down to quite low levels, a lot of snow for
:31:49. > :31:53.Highland areas of Scotland. Quieter further south. But we will start
:31:54. > :31:57.Christmas Eve on a chilly note, wherever you are. There goes
:31:58. > :32:01.Barbara. We are into a run of strong, westerly wind. Chilly
:32:02. > :32:05.westerly wind through Christmas Eve. Pledge of sunshine across southern
:32:06. > :32:11.areas. Here, a bright and breezy day. Very strong winds still across
:32:12. > :32:14.northern parts of the UK and further frequent wintry showers,
:32:15. > :32:18.particularly north of the Central Belt. Showers for Scotland, Northern
:32:19. > :32:23.Ireland and northern England. 7 degrees should not feel too bad,
:32:24. > :32:27.colder further north. Things go downhill on was received, with wet
:32:28. > :32:30.weather spilling in across Northern Ireland, parts of Scotland. The wind
:32:31. > :32:36.intensifying further as the next deep area of low pressure arrives.
:32:37. > :32:40.We will have some fairly warm air for a time on Christmas Eve,
:32:41. > :32:45.remarkably mild. That is the story for Christmas day. For a time, at
:32:46. > :32:50.least, very mild indeed, tempered by the wind. Temperature is open to mid
:32:51. > :32:53.teens for many of us as we start the day on Christmas morning. Very windy
:32:54. > :32:58.and pretty wet weather sweeping into the Northwest. That cold front is
:32:59. > :33:01.quite important, because as we move to Christmas Day a band of rain will
:33:02. > :33:05.push the cloud across the country. Behind that, as it is a cold front,
:33:06. > :33:11.temperatures will fall. By Christmas night it will be cold enough for
:33:12. > :33:15.some snow over the high ground of northern Scotland. For a few of us,
:33:16. > :33:20.a white Christmas. Is that the end of things? Not quite. That will
:33:21. > :33:26.develop into the next named storm, Conor. It will only affect the far
:33:27. > :33:29.north of Scotland with any intensity, gusts of 90 mph enough to
:33:30. > :33:33.cause disruption. Further south, a largely bright and breezy day, a
:33:34. > :33:36.hint that things will eventually settle down later on.
:33:37. > :33:39.That's all from the BBC News at One, so it's goodbye from me
:33:40. > :33:41.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.