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The US launches missile strikes on the Syrian airbase believed | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
to have mounted a chemical weapons attack earlier this week. | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
Nearly 60 cruise missiles were fired from two American navy ships | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
in the Mediterranean in the early hours of this morning. | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
Tonight, I call on all civilised nations to join us in seeking to end | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria. | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
As Syrian television shows the aftermath of the attack, | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Russia says fewer than half the missiles hit their target, | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
The Governement here gives the attack its full support, | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
but Jeremy Corbyn says it risks further escalating | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
We'll have the latest from our correspondents | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
The remaining in tourist injured in the Westminster attacks has died. -- | :00:51. | :01:04. | |
by Romain yen tourist. Andreea Christea was | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
on holiday from Romania. She was catapulted into | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
the Thames during the attack. There's a sharp rise in the number | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
being turned away by A And, it's Ladies Day | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
at Aintree on the second day And coming up in the | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
sport on BBC News... Lee Westwood is the leading British | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
player after the opening He is third, five shots off | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
the lead, at Augusta. Good afternoon, and welcome | :01:28. | :01:51. | |
to the BBC News at One. The US has carried out a missile | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
strike on a Syrian air base in response to the chemical weapons | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
attack earlier this It is the first direct US military | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
action against forces commanded The Kremlin, which backs the Assad | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
regime, has condemned the move. The missile strike hit the Shayrat | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
airbase in the west of Syria, north of the capital, | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Damascus. Six people are thought | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
to have been killed, and the Pentagon says aircraft | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
and buildings were severely damaged. The strike was a direct response | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
to the chemical attack believed to have been carried out | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
by the Syrian regime further north Our first report comes | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
from our correspondent It contains flashing images from the | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
start. It was a decisive response | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
from an administration that has often seemed disorganised | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
and at times dysfunctional. A fusillade of Tomahawk cruise | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
missiles fired from US Navy ships in the Mediterranean, | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
aimed at the Syrian air base from which America says that deadly | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
chemical weapons attack was launched A line-in-the-sand moment | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
for the new Commander-in-Chief. On Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bashar | :03:04. | :03:13. | |
al-Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
on innocent civilians. Using a deadly nerve agent, | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
Assad choked out the lives These are the heart-breaking images | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
that moved the President to action, prompting in the process | :03:31. | :03:40. | |
a remarkable shift in foreign policy on the part of his | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
fledgling administration. A week ago, White House officials | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
professed little interest in regime change in Syria, | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
but the use of what they now say was the deadly nerve agent sarin | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
on people in the province of Idlib by Bashar al-Assad's forces | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
has changed everything. At least 86 people are thought | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
to have died in the attack, The President's revised stance | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
on Syria is in sharp contrast to the position he took | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
after the chemical As then President Obama | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
contemplated, and subsequently shelved, plans for a retaliatory | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
strike, Mr Trump fired off a string of tweets calling on the US | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
to stay out of Syria. Now, less than three months | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
after taking office, the man who campaigned on a platform | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
of selective engagement in the Middle East finds himself | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
embroiled in one of the most complex and intractable conflicts | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
the region has ever seen. A conflict Barack Obama spent years | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
actively attempting to avoid. So, will there now be more US | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
missile strikes to come? This was the first time the US has | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
taken direct military action The Tomahawk missiles | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
caused considerable damage to the airfield in central Syria, | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
and several Syrian soldiers are also President Trump said he acted | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
in the national interest to prevent But news of the missile strike has | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
overshadowed today's summit with China's President Xi, | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
a meeting at which the two were expected to discuss the growing | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
threat posed by North Korea. President Trump has said that, | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
if necessary, he's prepared to go it But he could find he has his work | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
cut out in Syria, in a quagmire of a conflict which could come | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
to define his presidency Russia has strongly condemned | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
the US missile strikes, describing them as an act | :05:47. | :05:55. | |
of aggression against a sovereign state carried out in violation | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
of international law. Our Moscow Correspondent, | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
Steve Rosenberg, reports On Russian TV, the first pictures | :06:04. | :06:19. | |
from inside the Syrian air base hit by US cruise missiles. In the | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
distance, one aircraft that is still intact. Russia's military claims the | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
damage he was limited, but Moscow is calling the US strike a gross | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
groundless violation of international more. It is definitely | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
an aggressive act against international law, against a | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
sovereign country. And without any true evidence of the Assad regime | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
using chemical weapons. Up until now in Syria, it is Russian military | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
power that's been keeping President Assad in power. | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
Russia's air force, and the Russian navy, helping Syria's leader turned | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
the tide of the country's six-year long Civil War. And helping Moscow | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
boost its role in the Middle East. Today, the Kremlin accused | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Washington of inventing a pretext for the missile strikes, which | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Moscow claimed had harmed the fight against terrorism. There is a | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
American Tomahawks may have been targeting the Syrian military, but | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
judging by what the Kremlin has been saying, it is US - Russia relations | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
that will take a real battering now as a result of the missile strike. | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
The Russians had been hoping that with Donald Trump in the White | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
House, relationships with America would improve. But so far, there's | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
been no sign of that. Today, Russia said it was suspending a deal | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
designed to prevent US and Russian warplanes from accidentally clashing | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
in the skies over Syria. As for political dialogue, that will | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
continue. America's Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due in Moscow | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
next week. Up until the US missile strikes in Syria, he could be in for | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
some difficult conversations -- after the missile strikes. Steve | :08:11. | :08:11. | |
Rosenberg, BBC News, Moscow. Here, the Prime Minister has given | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
her full support to the attack. In a moment, we'll speak | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
to our Political Correspondent, But first we can talk | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
to our Washington Jane, is it fair to say that the | :08:19. | :08:28. | |
administration is still very much staying at this stage that this is a | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
one-off? Yes, it is. And there is no signs of any further military action | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
in Syria against the Assad regime. But don't forget that there or | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
American forces on the ground in Syria are already, supporting the | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
push to retake Raqqa from Islamic State. That has always been the | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
focus of the Trump administration, the fight, he says, is against | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Islamic State not against the Assad regime. Now, there has been a | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
dramatic change in that in that only a few days ago by the administration | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
was saying that Assad could stay. Now they are saying that he needs to | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
go. But this strike is being framed as a one-off, purely as a message to | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
Assad that America will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons. But I | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
think it is also a message to Russia that even were Russian interests are | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
involved, America is not afraid to act. Fiona O'Brien, thank you. -- | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
Jayne Bryant. Our Political Correspondent, Eleanor | :09:28. | :09:28. | |
Garnier, is in Downing Street. There was support to that approach | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
from number ten? I think Britain has been at the forefront of the | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
international support for the US strikes in Syria. I spoke to the | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
Defence Secretary earlier, he said that he and the Prime Minister had | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
been kept informed brought by the White House and that he had spoken | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
to the US Defence Secretary yesterday to discuss the options | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
available to viewers administration. He said he thought the response by | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
the US was both proportionate, but it was also limited -- to the US | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
administration. He said it was an appropriate response to what he | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
called the barbaric chemical attack in Syria earlier this week. I asked | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
him if the UK support for the US military action was so strong, why | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
was Britain not involve itself? They didn't ask us to get involved | :10:17. | :10:29. | |
or choose a particular option. They decided to take this very limited, | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
appropriate action, attacking the airfield, the aeroplanes and the | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
equipment that they believe were involved in the gas attack with the | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
very specific purpose of trying to deter the regime from future gas | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
attacks on their own people, including civilians. That is the | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
view of the Defence Secretary. It would appear this lunchtime there is | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
not unified response from the opposition? That's right. The | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
strikes have polarised political opinion here, with the Labour leader | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
Jeremy Corbyn criticising the Trump ministration, saying the actions | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
could in fact make the situation in Syria even worse -- the Trump | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
administration. I think it is the wrong time to do it. I think they | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
should have been in consultation with the UN before anything | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
happened, but it just happened. Let's now have a rapid ceasefire and | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
return to the negotiating table in Geneva. Millions of people have been | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
forced into exile, tens of thousands have died in this conflict, weapons | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
are pouring into the region and it's getting worse. There has to be a | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
political solution. I should doubt that Jeremy Corbyn's stance is that | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
direct odds with the deputy leader of the Labour Party -- I should add. | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
Tom Watson believes the US strikes were a proportionate response to the | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
chemical attacks. The Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has urged the UK | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
Government to consider further military action. The Defence | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
Secretary has said that this stage it doesn't look like that is going | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
to happen. If there were an appetite for it, the Government would go to | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
Parliament, it would go to the Commons to ask MPs to vote on | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
further military action. And I think it would only do that if it knew | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
that it could win the vote. Eleanor Garnier, thank you. | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
Our Security Correspondent, Frank Gardner, is with me is now. | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Do you think there is any sense in which the Assad regime. To consider | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
that chemical attack and on goal, essentially? I think it will | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
certainly think twice before doing it again. It got away, according to | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
chemical experts, with three chlorine strikes on civilian areas | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
last year with no action. And remember that there was no action, | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
punitive action, after the 2013 chemical strike, the sarin gas | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
attack on the outskirts of Damascus. So clearly President Assad is | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
determined to reclaim the Hall of Syria. And he wants to punish those | :12:50. | :12:58. | |
areas outside his control, and basically drive them back into the | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
Syrian government or by -- the whole of Syria. This was an extraordinary | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
on goal really. There is a similarity here with the so-called | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
Islamic State. Back in 2014 they were carrying out atrocities and | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
nobody was really paying any attention. Then they went and | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
captured that Yazidi people, the sex slaves and Western hostages and | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
beheaded them on camera, that brought the West into the war, it | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
was an own goal. Now they are using... Abusing Mosul and they will | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
lose Raqqa. There is a similarity -- now they are losing Mosul. Assuming | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
President Assad did this chemical strike, he will think very carefully | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
before doing any more. It is a deterrent. Thank you, Frank Gardner. | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
And we'll have more on this story later in the programme. | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
But you can also get more online at bbc.co.uk/news. | :13:41. | :13:51. | |
Now we will take a look at the rest of the day's news. | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
The Romanian tourist who was knocked into the River Thames | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
during the Westminster attack two weeks ago has died. | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
Andreea Cristea, who was 31, had been visiting London | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
Her death brings the number of people killed to five. | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
Andreea Cristea was much loved. She had come to London with her | :14:05. | :14:21. | |
boyfriend, Andrei Burnaz, when they became victims of the terrorist | :14:22. | :14:22. | |
attack on parliament. On a spring day two weeks ago, | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
the couple had been strolling along Westminster Bridge | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
when Khalid Masood deliberately Ms Cristea fell into | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
the River Thames, Despite intense efforts | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
by medical teams, yesterday it was decided her life-support | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
machine should be switched off. Today, her family | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
made this statement. Last week, hundreds walked | :14:45. | :15:07. | |
across Westminster Bridge to pay Among them was Miss Cristea's | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
partner, Andrei Bernaz, whose foot was broken | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
during the assault. It'a emerged he had intended | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
to propose to her that evening. They were coming to London | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
to celebrate their birthday. The floral tributes | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
at Westminster Bridge to the four people who lost their lives | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
there continue to grow. Ms Cristea's family say | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
the thousands of pounds raised by the public for her care will now | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
be donated to charity. Hospitals in England were forced | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
to turn away ambulances almost twice as often this winter | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
than in the previous three years. The Nuffield Trust says its analysis | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
shows ambulance services are facing even more pressure | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
than NHS hospitals. Our Health Correspondent, | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Jane Dreaper, has the details. A grieving brother. Sam has suffered | :16:07. | :16:20. | |
from an Ambulance Service under strange. His brother died in | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
December after a six-hour wait and he feels he's had to battle to get | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
answers. We believe the ambulance arriving late, very late, had a | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
direct result, so it's absolutely devastating and I'm not sure that | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
myself and other members of the family really quite believe what's | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
happened. It's like a really bad dream. Emergency services are under | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
increasing pressure, with ambulances sometimes being sent to hospitals | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
further away as a temporary measure. Today's report shows hospitals are | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
diverging ambulances more often. During the three winters beginning | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
in 2013, this happened on average 249 times. But in the most recent | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
winter, the number of diverts jumped, to almost 500. You may say | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
that's not a big number for stopping the tip of the iceberg. They have | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
doubled. They reveal a service under tremendous pressure. There will be | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
500 diverts, but many more A departments working right at the | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
limit that they could have diverted. Ambulance trusts in England are | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
missing their expected response times and paramedics say being found | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
elsewhere doesn't help anyone. -- being sent elsewhere. The report | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
says morale is low amongst ambulance staff. NHS England believes too many | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
ambulances are being dispatched to simply try to hit targets and it's | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
reviewing the system. Jane Dreaper, BBC News. | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
Lloyds banking group is to set aside ?100 million to compensate customers | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
who were victims of a large fraud at its subsidiary, HBOS. | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
Six people, including two former HBOS employees, | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
were jailed earlier this year for their part in the scheme. | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
The Financial Conduct Authority is resuming its investigation | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
into the fraud, which was put on hold because of | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
A man who was spared prison sentence for domestic violence after telling | :18:14. | :18:25. | |
the court he would lose an offer to play professional cricket has now | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
been jailed, after the judge reviewed his sentence. It emerged | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
after the original hearing that Mustafa Bashir had not been made an | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
offer, as he'd claimed, by Leicestershire County Cricket Club. | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
Judith Moritz is outside Manchester Crown Court. There was a huge | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
reaction after that original sentence for stuff explain what's | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
happened now. What's happened today is that most Bashir was led down to | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
the cells to begin serving his prison sentence immediately. Last | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
month, when he was brought before this court, he was given an 18 month | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
suspended sentence. But today, the Judge Richard Mansell QC told him he | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
was altering that sentence, because he had been fundamentally misled by | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
Mustapha Bashir. He had pleaded guilty previously to assaulting his | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
wife, to forcing her to drink police bleach and hitting her with a | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
cricket bat but when he was being sentenced his original defence team | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
told the court that if he was allowed to keep his liberty, that | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
he'd be employed as a professional by Leicestershire County Cricket | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
Club. On hearing that, the club denied it, contacted the proud | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
prosecution service and the judge brought the man back in front of the | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
court today to have his sentence reviewed. We were told in court that | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Mustapha Bashir had played cricket at local league level but never had | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
the offer of a professional contract. He said there had been a | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
series of misunderstandings but he had not intended to mislead the | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
court. The judge dismissed that and said he had misled them. The judge | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
addressed criticism that had been made about comments he'd previously | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
made to do with the vulnerability of the Victor Minnis case for stopping | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
been reported as saying siege hadn't been particularly vulnerable. Today, | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
he said he'd been sticking to guidelines issued by the court do | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
with victims' vulnerability, and she should be considered a vulnerable | :20:25. | :20:25. | |
victim. The US launches missile strikes | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
on the Syrian airbase believed to have mounted the chemical attack | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
earlier this week. President Trump said | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
it was in the interests Reaching new heights, the coastal | :20:39. | :20:51. | |
rope bridge that is so popular timed entry has been brought in to deal | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
with the crowds. Coming up in sport at 1:30pm: Unsafe | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
conditions force second practice to be abandoned ahead | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
of the Chinese Grand Prix - leaving the drivers to find other | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
ways of keeping the crowds Refuges and shelters in England | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
are now turning away more women and their children | :21:05. | :21:16. | |
than they accommodate. That's according to the domestic | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
violence charity, Women's Aid - which says a lack of funding | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
is putting lives at risk. Our home affairs correspondent | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
June Kelly has been talking to women These children in an art | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
class are the victims They may not have been physically | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
hurt, but they have witnessed And they fled with their mums | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
to this refuge in Surrey. Clare arrived here last | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
year with her young son. We left with one | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
carrier bag, literally. I had five minutes | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
to grab what we could. All my belongings, my child's | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
toys, just left behind. I came here and, basically, | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
I broke down and cried and cried. Although her partner didn't | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
harm her physically, he subjected her to years of mental | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
torment, what is known I used to say, "I'll lock | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
you out," and he'd say, The Government has a strategy | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
for tackling violence And it says it's earmarked | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
at least ?40 million But those who work on the frontline | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
say there needs to be The Government is putting | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
money in at the moment, which we're very grateful for, | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
but it's a very short-term approach. What we need is a longer-term | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
approach, and a longer term investment with a long-term | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
strategy, so that refuges can If that doesn't happen, refuges | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
will close and more women will die. Clare is now preparing to move out | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
of the refuge, into a new home. This refuge, run by the charity | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
Women's Aid, is so short on space that this office will soon be | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
converted into an extra bedroom. Staff will then have to work | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
from a shed in the garden. One in six specialist refuges | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
in England have closed since 2010 because of a shortage of money, | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
according to domestic And they're warning that around | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
the country, the future of many At the refuge in Surrey, | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
new arrivals are provided with the basics for mums | :23:25. | :23:49. | |
and children, as they But for all the women and children | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
they give a home to, there are many more that they have | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
to turn away. Brexit poses an unprecedented threat | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
to the environment - that was the warning | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
from the Green Party, as it launched its local election | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
campaign Speaking in Worcester, the party's co-leader | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
Jonathan Bartley said the UK's withdrawal from the European Union | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
puts 40 years of environmental Timed tickets are being introduced | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
at Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, to try to deal with the crowds | :24:19. | :24:28. | |
at the coastal attraction Its popularity has been boosted | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
in recent years by its link Yes, there's been a huge growth of | :24:31. | :24:50. | |
visitor numbers here to Northern Ireland's northern coast and part of | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
that is due to Game of Thrones, which builds around here. There's a | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
tour on now. This bouncy rope bridge is something a lot of people come to | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
see. However, the National Trust has taken the decision to put in place a | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
strict time limit. This lot will have 16 minutes to cross to the | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
island, because of the sheer pressure of numbers. The National | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
Trust says that's important to protect both people and the | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
spectacular environment. Each year, 100s of thousands of | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
people test their nose by crossing high above the rocks to the tiny | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
island of Carrick-a-Rede. This rope bridge hangs many metres over the | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
sea but it's only 18 inches wide and just eight people are allowed across | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
it at any one time. But there is such a demand from visitors that the | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
National Trust have put in place a strict time limit. It's to ensure | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
people have a safe visit and time to access the site. We welcome 425,000 | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
people here last year. NEWSREEL: Isner 90 feet to the land | :26:01. | :26:11. | |
below. It was built in the 1700s by salmon fisherman. It's long been one | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
of Northern Ireland's most tour popular tourist attractions. It's | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
gradually been made safer and sturdier over the centuries, | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
although it still sways in the wind and many choose not to look down. If | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
someone is walking behind you, it feels terrifying. Very, very | :26:31. | :26:39. | |
beautiful. Magic. The Giant's Causeway, which sits nearby, also | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
attracts many visitors. There are some people concerned about | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
protecting the natural beauty along Northern Ireland's rugged north | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
coast. But they also want to ensure tourists get a chance to see as much | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
as possible, even if here at Carrick-a-Rede that will now be | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
against the clock. Chris Buckler, BBC News at the Carrick-a-Rede rope | :27:02. | :27:02. | |
bridge. It's Ladies Day at Aintree, | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
on the second day of And thoughts are also | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
turning to the world's most famous steeplechase | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
which takes place tomorrow. Top female jockey Katie Walsh | :27:14. | :27:14. | |
says she will be fit to ride in tomorrow's race | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
despite injuring her arm Our correspondent Andy | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
Swiss is at Aintree. Hello, yes, welcome to Aintree, | :27:20. | :27:34. | |
where, as you say, Ladies Day is very much in full swing. Around | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
50,000 fans here already soaking up the atmosphere. If today is the | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
social highlight, tomorrow is very much a sporting highlight. It's the | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
Grand National, and as usual, it's wide open. | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
Welcome to Aintree's annual fashion stakes - Ladies Day. | :27:54. | :27:55. | |
The glitzy warm up, ahead of tomorrow's main event. | :27:56. | :27:57. | |
And this year it's something of an anniversary National - | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
exactly 40 years since a legend completed a memorable hat-trick. | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
COMMENTATOR: Red Rum wins the National. | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
Appropriately enough, this year's favourite is another | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
red - Definitely Red - trained in Yorkshire, | :28:16. | :28:17. | |
The pressure is always there, whether you are running | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
It's great, we've got one of the favourites | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
so all we want to do is get him there and in the race | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
Well, the challenge of the National is like nothing else. | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
These huge fences make it one of sport's most unpredictable events | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
and as history has proved anything can happen. | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
It's exactly this 50 years from this melee, | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
from which remarkably all emerged unscathed, allowed a 100-1 | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
outsider to romp to victory and half a century on, | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
the National's surprise factor is as great as ever. | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
It's the biggest horse race over jumps for sure in the world | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
and the biggest test for any horse, and for a jockey it's one | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
of the best thrills in the world to have a good ride round there. | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
I've been lucky enough to finish second twice, but there's | :29:15. | :29:16. | |
So while for the fans it might be all for fun, for the riders, | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
racing's sternest test is now within their sights. | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
Let's return to the news that the US has carried out a missile strike | :29:27. | :29:36. | |
on a Syrian air base, in response to the chemical | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
weapons attack earlier this week in Idlib province. | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
Our Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, is with me now. | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
Might thoughts turn to regime change as a result of this? Just before the | :29:52. | :29:58. | |
attack the US Secretary of State said Assad has no part in the future | :29:59. | :30:01. | |
of Syria. That's been said loads of times before. But when it said in | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
conjunction with an attack on the regime, crossing a self-imposed red | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
line on the US Administration, then that I think means that it will be | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
taken much more seriously. But how would they actually make that | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
happen? When he says it has no future, I think they've still been | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
talking about some sort of political deal that excludes him full stop not | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
active Saddam Hussein style regime change, which is a much bigger | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
event. But I think the big question now is will the Americans do | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
something else? They've been indicating this is job done. But if | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
they have any other plans, certainly at the very least is what they've | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
done is inject a big note of uncertainty into the regime, which | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
seemed to have been riding high. Although the regime in Damascus | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
absolutely denies it had anything to do with a chemical attack and blames | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
the rebels. Thanks very much, Jeremy Bowen. | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
Time for a look at the weather, with Tomasz Schafernaker. | :30:58. | :31:05. | |
It's good news as far as the weather goes this weekend. The temperatures | :31:06. | :31:12. | |
are going to be rising. We could get temperatures as high as 23 LCS in | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
some spots. Not for everybody, but warm enough. The warmth, as | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
predicted, will be coming in from the south, from Spain, from France. | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
The temperatures that will happen in London on Sunday could be as high as | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
Paris and even Madrid. Some pleasant warm weather on the dot way. The | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
pollen level has been high and will remain high in England and Wales for | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
a couple more days at least yet. Stating the obvious, we are not used | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
to that strong spring sunshine just yet, so if you are heading off to | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
the beach where the temperature may be 13-14, you will burn. All this | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
talk about sunshine, there's certainly a lack of it across a | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
number of parts of the country in the last couple of days. Suddenly | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
Northern Ireland, the north-west of England, North Wales and West of | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
Scotland. It's been cloudy, the clouds have been stuck on this very | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
sluggish area of high pressure. Here I think it will be fairly cool | :32:10. | :32:12. | |
today. Temperatures of 12 Celsius, the best of the weather by far | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
across some southern and eastern areas of the UK. Very little change | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
on the way tonight, like last night it will be chilly this coming night. | :32:21. | :32:25. | |
In towns and cities, probably around 6-7. In rural spots, maybe 2-3 above | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
freezing. Saturday dawns on a beautiful note. We are exciting | :32:31. | :32:35. | |
about it. A stunning sunny day. Earlier today, 12-macro people said | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
wherever I touch the map, the sun comes out! I'm going to touch the | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
map pretty much everywhere across the country, hear, hear, hear, are | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
really beautiful day! Adventures into the 20s across parts of | :32:50. | :32:52. | |
Yorkshire, nudging into the north-east, maybe 18-19 across | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
southern Scotland. I'm not going to reach the far north-west of Scotland | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
for our friends in Stornoway, Kirkwall and Lerwick, it looks like | :33:01. | :33:03. | |
it will be cloudy with spots of drizzle. Great for the Grand | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
National. Ladies Day was a little cloudy. The sun will come out. | :33:09. | :33:12. | |
Sunday, while it will be the warmest day for England and Wales, things | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
are going to go downhill across north-western areas. Much fresher | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
across Scotland and Northern Ireland eventually. In England, temperatures | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
could get up to 23 Celsius. It's going to end on a sour note as we | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
head into Monday. Not that sour, but temperatures are going to lower and | :33:31. | :33:33. | |
we will see a little bit more cloud. But the weekend is looking good. | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
A reminder of our main story this lunchtime. | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
The US has launched missile strikes on the Syrian air base believed to | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
have mounted the chemical attack earlier this week. | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
On BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :33:56. | :33:57. |