:00:00. > :00:07.The Ministry of Defence says four men arrested on suspicion
:00:08. > :00:11.of being members of a banned neo-Nazi group are serving
:00:12. > :00:18.The men were all arrested in cities in England and Wales this morning
:00:19. > :00:21.on suspicion of preparing acts of terror.
:00:22. > :00:25.They are all believed to be members of the National action group. We
:00:26. > :00:27.will have the latest. The toddler murdered
:00:28. > :00:31.by her own mother - a serious case review finds
:00:32. > :00:33.that the child's needs were overshadowed by concerns
:00:34. > :00:36.for the mother. I've apologised to the family
:00:37. > :00:40.and I'm truly sorry that on this occasion we didn't
:00:41. > :00:42.prevent her death. Russia's president warns that
:00:43. > :00:47.what he calls the military hysteria over North Korea could lead
:00:48. > :01:07.to global catastrophe A court finds a French celebrity
:01:08. > :01:08.magazine over publishing topless photographs of the Duchess of
:01:09. > :01:09.Cambridge. All eyes on Syria -
:01:10. > :01:11.a country not known for its footballing prowess
:01:12. > :01:14.could qualify for the World Cup And why scientists now think a group
:01:15. > :01:18.of whales were left stranded And coming up in the sport later
:01:19. > :01:22.in the hour on BBC News, Anthony joshua has confirmed hi
:01:23. > :01:24.next heavyweight world He'll face the
:01:25. > :01:26.Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev Good afternoon and welcome
:01:27. > :01:51.to the BBC News at One. Four serving members of the Army
:01:52. > :01:54.have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to a banned far-right
:01:55. > :01:56.group and planning were arrested this morning
:01:57. > :02:02.in England and Wales in an operation involving both
:02:03. > :02:05.the police and the Army. Our home affairs correspondent
:02:06. > :02:17.Dominic Casciani is here. This is an emerging story, so things
:02:18. > :02:21.are still becoming clear. We know four men are being held, one in
:02:22. > :02:34.Birmingham, another in Northampton and a third in Ipswich, all in their
:02:35. > :02:39.20s. A fourth man in the Powys, and critically, in an operation that was
:02:40. > :02:42.supported by the army. Today the Ministry of Defence has confirmed
:02:43. > :02:47.these men are serving members of the Armed Forces. We don't know the
:02:48. > :02:51.regiments of these men. We have no idea about that at the moat. We
:02:52. > :02:57.don't know if these men were arrested at home addresses or on
:02:58. > :03:03.Ministry of Defence property. They are being held in Birmingham. On
:03:04. > :03:08.suspicion of being members of a banned group, National Action. Tell
:03:09. > :03:15.us more about the group. National action was banned last December in
:03:16. > :03:20.particular because its and supporters applauded the murder of
:03:21. > :03:25.MP Jo Cox. They have organised demonstrations were young members
:03:26. > :03:29.show up carrying Nazi style flags and display Hitler style salutes and
:03:30. > :03:33.confront people in city centres. It can be a very scary experience. They
:03:34. > :03:37.say they are trying to rebuild the right-wing, in their language, in
:03:38. > :03:40.the UK. The Home Secretary, when she banned the group last year, said
:03:41. > :03:43.they were homophobic, anti-Semitic and incredibly dangerous.
:03:44. > :03:46.Ayeeshia-Jayne Smith was only 21 months old when she was
:03:47. > :03:49.A serious case review has found that social workers weren't focused
:03:50. > :03:53.enough and care professionals allowed concern for the toddler's
:03:54. > :03:54.mother to overshadow the child's needs.
:03:55. > :03:57.Kathryn Smith was jailed for at least 19 years
:03:58. > :04:01.for stamping on her daughter at her home in Burton-on-Trent
:04:02. > :04:16.The smiling face of Ayeeshia-Jayne Smith, or AJ, as a family called
:04:17. > :04:20.her. Only 21 months old, she was murdered by her mother during a
:04:21. > :04:26.savage outburst. My daughter is not breathing... This was the 999 call
:04:27. > :04:32.Kathryn Smith made after stamping on her daughter so hard that the
:04:33. > :04:36.child's heart was literally broken. She's not breathing. Can you hear
:04:37. > :04:41.anything coming from her mouth? There's nothing. She's gone. Smith
:04:42. > :04:44.is serving a 19 year prison sentence for murder. Her partner Matthew
:04:45. > :04:49.Rigby three and a half years for allowing the death of a child. Even
:04:50. > :04:52.during their trial it was clear social workers and medics might have
:04:53. > :04:58.missed opportunities to spot the abuse. Today's serious case review
:04:59. > :05:06.identified 17 different agencies involved in AJ's at and made the
:05:07. > :05:08.recommendations. Social workers showed a lack of professional
:05:09. > :05:12.curiosity and were too quick to believe Kathryn Smith's lies and it
:05:13. > :05:16.tragically reveals there was a growing sense of unease and a
:05:17. > :05:23.meeting was held to discuss AJ. It happened the day before she died. I
:05:24. > :05:27.just want to recognise that Ayeeshia-Jayne's death was an
:05:28. > :05:30.absolute tragedy. It's been devastating for everybody involved
:05:31. > :05:36.in her care. But mostly for her family. I have already met with her
:05:37. > :05:40.family and we accept all the findings. I accept all the findings
:05:41. > :05:43.of this review. And for those errors of practice that should have been
:05:44. > :05:49.stronger, I have apologised to the family and I am truly sorry that on
:05:50. > :05:52.this occasion we were not... We did not prevent death. Medics who
:05:53. > :05:56.treated her at the Queens Hospital in Burton also missed signs of
:05:57. > :06:05.abuse. Thinking she had suffered a fit brought on by a childhood fever,
:06:06. > :06:10.known as afebrile contusion. We had two instances where he definitely
:06:11. > :06:17.didn't exhibit enough professional curiosity and Ayeeshia-Jayne's
:06:18. > :06:25.attendance. It turns out it wasn't afebrile convulsion. We didn't to
:06:26. > :06:31.family situation as much as we should have done and didn't ask
:06:32. > :06:35.enough questions. Since the death questions been asked of services.
:06:36. > :06:37.But it was too late for what was described as a loving and lively
:06:38. > :06:44.toddler. A full and frank apology, clearly
:06:45. > :06:49.lessons have been learned. You would hope so. We have heard this story
:06:50. > :06:55.many times before. I have covered so many cases in my career of serious
:06:56. > :06:59.case reviews into children's death is where we learn, and it often
:07:00. > :07:01.raises things like a lack of professional curiosity, missed
:07:02. > :07:06.opportunities, lessons will be learned etc. Looking at this
:07:07. > :07:12.compared to others it does appear as though things have moved on, since
:07:13. > :07:15.previous cases. Different agencies involved in the care of young
:07:16. > :07:19.children are now willing to get together. As I said in the report,
:07:20. > :07:22.they had had a meeting about AJ the day before she died. It's possible
:07:23. > :07:25.that if she had lived another week or two, things might have been
:07:26. > :07:30.resolved. Another person who comes out with credit from the report from
:07:31. > :07:35.the Derbyshire safeguarding children board is the child's natural father,
:07:36. > :07:43.Ricky booth, he was really raising concerns. One of the problems was
:07:44. > :07:45.people were not listening to him. Nor were they applying a great deal
:07:46. > :07:48.of professional vigour when they were looking at the excuses given by
:07:49. > :07:51.Kathryn Smith. She is now serving a 19 year prison sentence. But all of
:07:52. > :07:54.this comes too late to save another little girl's life.
:07:55. > :07:56.The Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned of a "global catastrophe"
:07:57. > :07:58.if military tensions with North Korea
:07:59. > :08:04.He was speaking after South Korea's navy staged a major
:08:05. > :08:06.exercise off the country's east coast, as a show of strength
:08:07. > :08:08.following Pyongyang's latest nuclear test.
:08:09. > :08:10.President Trump says he's prepared to approve the sale of billions
:08:11. > :08:14.Our correspondent, Robin Brant, reports
:08:15. > :08:21.For the second day running, South Korea has been
:08:22. > :08:28.This time it was the Navy, in what was described
:08:29. > :08:31.as a massive live firing exercise off the eastern coast.
:08:32. > :08:33.To show how this country could defend itself, or attack.
:08:34. > :08:36.There's no doubt the military is stepping up its readiness.
:08:37. > :08:39.The Ministry of Defence said the US had agreed to sell
:08:40. > :08:49.That was after approval was given yesterday to restore the US missile
:08:50. > :08:54.But all this could lead to a global catastrophe according
:08:55. > :09:03.He said tougher sanctions wouldn't work either.
:09:04. > :09:06.TRANSLATION: The use of sanctions of any kind in this case is already
:09:07. > :09:12.As I told my colleagues yesterday, they will eat grass,
:09:13. > :09:15.but they will not give up this programme if they do not feel safe.
:09:16. > :09:18.But further sanctions with the threat of military action
:09:19. > :09:21.is exactly what the Americans told the United Nations is the answer.
:09:22. > :09:25.His abusive use of missiles and his nuclear threats show
:09:26. > :09:32.War is never something the United States wants.
:09:33. > :09:38.But our country's patience is not unlimited.
:09:39. > :09:46.The recent self defensive measures by my country, DPRK,
:09:47. > :09:52.are a gift package to none other than the US.
:09:53. > :09:57.The US will receive more gift packages from my country as long
:09:58. > :09:59.as it relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts
:10:00. > :10:13.This is North Korea's border with China, where further sanctions would
:10:14. > :10:18.bite. But Beijing is reluctant to cause any further waves yet. You
:10:19. > :10:21.could give people heading home here in Seoul this evening for perhaps
:10:22. > :10:25.feeling a little bit confused. On the one hand they have seen images
:10:26. > :10:29.of their military preparing maybe for a confrontation. And yet they
:10:30. > :10:32.have a president here who has talked instead about a new round of
:10:33. > :10:37.economic sanctions. And now Russia, not far to the north, has stepped in
:10:38. > :10:44.and labelled those useless and may be ineffective. As the around the
:10:45. > :10:48.chance of conflict increases, there was this in Japan. A silent protest
:10:49. > :10:49.in Hiroshima. A place where they know what nuclear devastation looks
:10:50. > :10:54.like. Robin Brant, BBC News, Seoul. China's role in handling
:10:55. > :10:56.Pyongyang is complex. It has made clear it does not
:10:57. > :10:59.want to see a nuclear-armed North Korea but neither does it
:11:00. > :11:02.want to see the regime there swept away, partly because millions
:11:03. > :11:04.of refugees would flood into China. Our China correspondent
:11:05. > :11:07.John Sudworth is in Dangdong, on the border between China
:11:08. > :11:11.and North Korea. The Chinese city of Dangdong
:11:12. > :11:13.is a very good place to contemplate China's position
:11:14. > :11:17.in the North Korean nuclear crisis. If we pan across the river you can
:11:18. > :11:20.see just how close the two They are connected by that iron
:11:21. > :11:25.bridge behind me and almost all of North Korea's trade in goods,
:11:26. > :11:29.as well as its vital crude oil You can see an antiquated
:11:30. > :11:39.North Korean power station A sign of just how dilapidated
:11:40. > :11:50.its energy infrastructure is. Donald Trump's argument, of course,
:11:51. > :11:53.is that China could, if it wanted to, simply force
:11:54. > :11:56.North Korea into submission by turning off this lifeline,
:11:57. > :11:59.but when you look at this proximity, you can see why the Chinese
:12:00. > :12:01.leadership see things Their fear is that pushing
:12:02. > :12:04.North Korea towards regime collapse will bring chaos and instability,
:12:05. > :12:09.factional infighting, possibly even war, right up
:12:10. > :12:12.against this border, and that is why Beijing is insisting
:12:13. > :12:15.that it will not contemplate It will not contemplate talk
:12:16. > :12:21.of military options. All it wants to see is a return
:12:22. > :12:25.to dialogue and that has John Sudworth with the view from
:12:26. > :12:35.China. Well, let's get more from our
:12:36. > :12:43.correspondent Richard Galpin. Tough words from America yesterday
:12:44. > :12:46.at the Security Council. Enough is enough, was their message, but it is
:12:47. > :12:51.difficult to see where this will go. It absolutely is. The focus at the
:12:52. > :12:53.moment will be the UN Security Council, certainly over the next
:12:54. > :12:56.week with an attempt from the United States and its allies to get a
:12:57. > :13:01.resolution passed that will impose very tough sanctions indeed. They
:13:02. > :13:04.even talking about the possibility of cutting oil supplies to North
:13:05. > :13:11.Korea, which would have a catastrophic impact on the North
:13:12. > :13:14.Korean economy. As we have heard in the UN Security Council. China is
:13:15. > :13:18.very aware of doing anything that will destabilise the North Korean
:13:19. > :13:23.regime. Russia today explicitly saying sanctions are pointless. It
:13:24. > :13:28.looks like this resolution, certainly in its current form, will
:13:29. > :13:32.not pass. If that is the case, obviously individual countries can
:13:33. > :13:36.impose sanctions. The United States, and Chancellor Angela Merkel in
:13:37. > :13:39.Germany has talked of the EU imposing sanctions, but that is
:13:40. > :13:42.nowhere near as effective and will not have the same impact as the
:13:43. > :13:49.United Nations security council imposing sanctions. It's likely the
:13:50. > :13:53.focus will also return to the United States, its allies, Japan, South
:13:54. > :13:59.Korea, again putting pressure on China to do something sufficient
:14:00. > :14:03.enough to persuade North Korea to freeze its nuclear programme.
:14:04. > :14:10.A French celebrity magazine has been fined 100,000 euros in damages by a
:14:11. > :14:13.French court for publishing topless photographs of the Duchess of
:14:14. > :14:15.Cambridge sunbathing on holiday five years ago.
:14:16. > :14:17.The photographs - taken when the Duke and Duchess stayed
:14:18. > :14:20.at a private chateau in Provence - were printed by France's
:14:21. > :14:29.Magazine's editor and owner were both fined the maximum amount
:14:30. > :14:33.possible. Hugh Schofield is in Paris with the latest for us.
:14:34. > :14:37.Invasion of privacy cases coming up pretty regularly in the French
:14:38. > :14:40.courts but this has attracted more than usual interest because of the
:14:41. > :14:46.profile of those involved, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Five years
:14:47. > :14:49.on, Closer magazine and two executives have been convicted of an
:14:50. > :14:54.invasion of privacy. No surprise there. They have had the maximum
:14:55. > :14:56.possible fine and more importantly, perhaps, damages awarded to the Duke
:14:57. > :15:04.and Duchess of 100,000 euros. No surprise with the verdict. The
:15:05. > :15:08.pictures, taken at this chateaux in southern France were indeed, said
:15:09. > :15:11.the court, and evasion of the royal couple's privacy. The images of a
:15:12. > :15:15.topless Duchess of Cambridge appeared briefly five years ago in a
:15:16. > :15:20.French gossip magazine before an injunction ordered the edition
:15:21. > :15:24.removed from newsstands. The criminal case has dragged on ever
:15:25. > :15:27.since with two executives and two photographers at the magazine
:15:28. > :15:31.answering charges they violated the Royals' rights to a private life. At
:15:32. > :15:35.the trial in May, a lawyer for Prince William said memories of his
:15:36. > :15:40.own mother, Princess Diana, made the affair all the more stressful. It's
:15:41. > :15:46.exactly 20 years since she died in a car crash in Paris, chased by
:15:47. > :15:51.paparazzi. The sum awarded in damages might fall short of the 1.5
:15:52. > :15:54.million euros asked for by the Royals, but by French standards it's
:15:55. > :16:02.still extremely high, reflecting the court's view that this was a
:16:03. > :16:06.glaringly shameless offence. Coming after news of their third expected
:16:07. > :16:09.baby, news of the judgment in Paris might be an unwelcome reminder of an
:16:10. > :16:12.unhappy episode, but the Royal couple have made their point. In the
:16:13. > :16:15.battle for privacy, they will fight back.
:16:16. > :16:22.The truth is, there was never really any doubt about the verdict. The
:16:23. > :16:25.focus was more on the extent of the damages that would be awarded. The
:16:26. > :16:29.Royal couple and their lawyer had been asking for 1.5 million euros,
:16:30. > :16:34.which would have been way out of line with precedent here. In fact,
:16:35. > :16:40.the 100,000 euros is still a big sum, but is much more in keeping
:16:41. > :16:41.with the tradition finds the French court has given now in this kind of
:16:42. > :16:46.affair. The Brexit Secretary,
:16:47. > :16:48.David Davis, will face questions in the Commons this afternoon,
:16:49. > :16:50.as MPs return to Westminster Mr Davis is expected to be pressed
:16:51. > :16:58.on the state of the negotiations Our assistant political editor,
:16:59. > :17:03.Norman Smith, is in Westminster. EU officials have been
:17:04. > :17:16.warning about the lack They have, and I think David Davis's
:17:17. > :17:20.message to MPs today is like Lance Corporal Jones in Dad's Army, don't
:17:21. > :17:25.panic! He will not say it like that but that is the broad message, don't
:17:26. > :17:29.get flustered and bamboozled because EU negotiators are saying it is all
:17:30. > :17:32.going slowly and the British Government has not come forward with
:17:33. > :17:36.any plans and the clock is ticking. David Davis thinks this is all just
:17:37. > :17:39.part of their negotiating tactics to crank up the pressure on the British
:17:40. > :17:44.Government by saying, you have got to go forward with some proposals
:17:45. > :17:47.because otherwise committee will run out of time. Mr Davis's view is away
:17:48. > :17:52.from the big difficult issues like that divorce Bill and progress is
:17:53. > :17:56.being made in smaller, technical issues. And in terms of the divorce
:17:57. > :18:00.Bill, his view is that is no question of us agreeing a figure for
:18:01. > :18:05.the amount we repaired to pay until we know what we will get in return
:18:06. > :18:09.in terms of a trade deal. In other words, if time is the EU's big
:18:10. > :18:16.leader, money is our big lever. But I think his hope is that eventually,
:18:17. > :18:20.the big EU countries will say to their negotiators, let's just move
:18:21. > :18:24.on from all this wrangling over the divorce Bill and get down to the
:18:25. > :18:30.crucial issue of trade talks because we want a good trade deal as well.
:18:31. > :18:36.The danger is that this may just be wishful thinking. Because so far,
:18:37. > :18:39.there is no sign of the EU countries breaking ranks and putting pressure
:18:40. > :18:46.on their negotiators, or trying to help out the David Davis. Thank you.
:18:47. > :18:51.The Ministry of Defence says four men arrested on suspicion
:18:52. > :18:53.of being members of a banned neo-Nazi group are serving
:18:54. > :19:06.Battening down the hatches as a category five hurricane with winds
:19:07. > :19:08.of 170 mph, Irma, barrels towards the Caribbean and Florida.
:19:09. > :19:12.Coming up in sport in the next 15 minutes on BBC News: Can Wales make
:19:13. > :19:15.it a clean sweep for the home nations in the international break?
:19:16. > :19:22.They need a win in Moldova tonight to keep their World Cup hopes alive.
:19:23. > :19:24.Thousands of people are continuing to flee from Myanmar -
:19:25. > :19:27.formally known as Burma - into Bangladesh, after fighting
:19:28. > :19:34.in recent weeks that's left at least 400 people dead.
:19:35. > :19:36.It's Rohingya Muslims, a minority group, who are being targeted
:19:37. > :19:39.in the mainly Buddhist country, and it's forced tens
:19:40. > :19:41.of thousands to flee over the border, according
:19:42. > :19:47.to the United Nations' refugee agency.
:19:48. > :19:49.Officials say that 37,000 people have arrived in Bangladesh
:19:50. > :19:52.in the past 24 hours alone, taking the total number of refugees
:19:53. > :19:54.to more than 123,000 in less than two weeks.
:19:55. > :19:57.Our correspondent, Sanjoy Majumder, is at a refugee camp
:19:58. > :20:05.These are the latest batch of Rohingya refugees who've arrived
:20:06. > :20:12.Lots of children, as you can see, a lot of women.
:20:13. > :20:16.They're exhausted, because whatever food they had to eat along
:20:17. > :20:25.But the biggest thing for them is, they've made it to relative safety.
:20:26. > :20:28.Now, over on that side is Myanmar's Rakhine State where,
:20:29. > :20:30.over the past few days, we've seen fresh fires break out,
:20:31. > :20:36.There's no way, of course, to verify this, and these people
:20:37. > :20:48.What they'll do now is head to any temporary shelter they can find -
:20:49. > :20:51.by the side of a hill, inside a building, just to get
:20:52. > :20:55.The biggest thing now is, even though they've got
:20:56. > :20:57.here to safety, what'll happen to them next?
:20:58. > :20:59.They have to be fed and then, eventually, they need
:21:00. > :21:02.to find some place to live, some place to build
:21:03. > :21:05.Sanjoy Majumder reporting there from the Bangladesh border.
:21:06. > :21:08.The leading British PR firm Bell Pottinger has been thrown out
:21:09. > :21:15.of the industry's trade body because of a campaign which stoked
:21:16. > :21:18.An independent report found that Bell Pottinger had spread
:21:19. > :21:25.The company - whose Chief Executive resigned over the weekend -
:21:26. > :21:27.says it accepts that lessons do need to be learned.
:21:28. > :21:32.Our media editor, Amol Rajan, reports.
:21:33. > :21:39.Post-apartheid South Africa was meant to be the rainbow nation. But
:21:40. > :21:43.over 25 years, one family has acquired a degree of power and
:21:44. > :21:48.influence that critics say is anything but democratic. The three
:21:49. > :21:53.Gupta brothers only conglomerate with interest from mining the media.
:21:54. > :21:57.With close links to Jacob Zuma, they are accused of rampant corruption,
:21:58. > :22:00.which they deny. But with a reputation to salvage, they gave the
:22:01. > :22:05.British PR firm Bell Pottinger a call. For several months, Bell
:22:06. > :22:14.Pottinger ran a disinformation campaign stoking racial hatred, and
:22:15. > :22:17.targeting hostile journalists. All the journalists who were writing
:22:18. > :22:21.about state capture who were interested in this new crony
:22:22. > :22:27.network, really, you could see almost daily there would be, largely
:22:28. > :22:34.driven on Twitter and social media, quite insulting images of them made.
:22:35. > :22:37.And only now do you understand that it was actually a constructed
:22:38. > :22:43.campaign. The scandal has claimed the scalp of several staff at the
:22:44. > :22:47.firm including partner Victoria Geoghegan and CEO James Henderson.
:22:48. > :22:50.Now the trade body that represents Britain's your industry has chucked
:22:51. > :22:53.out Bell Pottinger. It is the harshest penalty available to was
:22:54. > :22:57.and the harshest we have ever imposed on members and that reflects
:22:58. > :23:02.the fact that it was the worst piece of PR work that I have seen in ten
:23:03. > :23:06.years. The PR industry is overwhelmingly professional, Bell
:23:07. > :23:08.Pottinger neither of those. Last night, the former adviser to
:23:09. > :23:11.Margaret Thatcher who founded the firm but left after falling out with
:23:12. > :23:17.Mr Henderson said the was finished. I think that it probably is getting
:23:18. > :23:21.near the end, yes. You can try and rescue it but it will not be very
:23:22. > :23:24.successful. This scandal has sent shock waves through the British BR
:23:25. > :23:30.industry and also young democracy of South Africa. The PR -- but the PRCA
:23:31. > :23:34.is a trade body rather than a regulator and when some very rich
:23:35. > :23:39.individuals or families are prepared to spend huge sums to burnish their
:23:40. > :23:43.reputation, frankly, some PR firms like Bell Pottinger in London will
:23:44. > :23:45.take the money. And a ticking off and temporary ban from a trade
:23:46. > :23:51.association is not going to change that. But for opponents of President
:23:52. > :23:56.Zuma, this is not so much about the state of PR is the state of South
:23:57. > :23:59.Africa. One family's grip on power is tightening, even as the
:24:00. > :24:02.reputation of their PR advisers is now in the gutter.
:24:03. > :24:04.Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, will set
:24:05. > :24:05.out her government's legislative programme this afternoon,
:24:06. > :24:10.pledging a "bold" and "ambitious" plan for the coming year.
:24:11. > :24:12.Ms Sturgeon will focus on health, the economy and,
:24:13. > :24:19.principally, education - an area where opposition parties
:24:20. > :24:21.say the SNP should be "embarrassed" by its record.
:24:22. > :24:27.Our Scotland correspondent, Lorna Gordon, is outside Holyrood.
:24:28. > :24:32.Yes, one of the challenges for the SNP in their tenth legislative
:24:33. > :24:37.programme for government is to counter accusations from the
:24:38. > :24:41.accusation that they have neglected the day job to focus on the
:24:42. > :24:45.constitutional agenda. Before the recess, Nicola Sturgeon said she
:24:46. > :24:50.would use the summer to take stock and refresh. She said that the SNP
:24:51. > :24:53.after a decade in power needed to set out some bold and radical
:24:54. > :24:58.policies. So the mood music around this legislative programme is, to
:24:59. > :25:03.quote a spokesperson for the First Minister, that it will be very all
:25:04. > :25:06.and very borough. It has been described as the most ambitious
:25:07. > :25:11.programme for government ever set out here in the Scottish Parliament.
:25:12. > :25:15.What can we expect? Policy announcements likely to touch on
:25:16. > :25:21.every area of life in Scotland and legislation in areas like health,
:25:22. > :25:25.justice and, yes, education. An area where the SNP opposition and critics
:25:26. > :25:29.say the SNP are failing to deliver. It is likely to have a green theme
:25:30. > :25:33.as well and we might see announcements on renewable energy
:25:34. > :25:39.projects, perhaps electric cars and, yes, a deposit scheme for plastic
:25:40. > :25:42.waste recycling as well. So in total, we are expecting 16 bills to
:25:43. > :25:44.be announced to add to the 11 already going through the Parliament
:25:45. > :25:48.here at Holyrood. Thank you. Sir Bruce Forsyth's manager has
:25:49. > :25:50.confirmed that his funeral The entertainer, who died
:25:51. > :25:53.on August 8th, was buried in a private service,
:25:54. > :25:55.attended only by family The Government has taken control
:25:56. > :26:05.of Croydon's Children's Services, after an Ofsted report revealed
:26:06. > :26:07."widespread and serious" failures It blamed weak management
:26:08. > :26:12.of the South London borough at all levels for failing to ensure
:26:13. > :26:19.social workers followed protocols for missing children and those
:26:20. > :26:22.at risk of sexual abuse. Croydon Council says it is working
:26:23. > :26:29.with Ofsted to implement changes. Well, there was success for three
:26:30. > :26:32.of the home nations in the World Cup qualifying matches last night,
:26:33. > :26:35.and Wales has a key match tonight. But this afternoon, a country not
:26:36. > :26:37.known for its footballing prowess hopes to make a big splash
:26:38. > :26:40.on the world stage - Syria plays its must-win
:26:41. > :26:42.game against Iran. With me is our sports
:26:43. > :26:51.correspondent, Richard Conway. It is certainly an unusual game. It
:26:52. > :26:55.is, Syria have in pushing for a World Cup place now for over a year
:26:56. > :26:59.but like all things involving the country, given the six-year long
:27:00. > :27:02.walk it is a context position. A lot of people within the country and who
:27:03. > :27:08.have fled say this team does not represent them, but others say this
:27:09. > :27:11.is the last thing that represents the country, it transcends the war,
:27:12. > :27:15.it transcends politics. So there is a good be a link that this is
:27:16. > :27:18.something Syrians can hold on to enlist troubled time for the
:27:19. > :27:22.country. The country has been starved of money because of
:27:23. > :27:26.sanctions, they play on threadbare pictures and the players spread out
:27:27. > :27:30.across the world, so to achieve a World Cup place would be a
:27:31. > :27:38.remarkable achievement. They have to beat their opponents this afternoon,
:27:39. > :27:42.Iran, in the Tehran and hope Uzbekistan get a good result against
:27:43. > :27:45.South Korea. We will know by 6pm and Syria could be heading to Russia
:27:46. > :27:51.next year for a place in the World Cup you. -- World Cup finals.
:27:52. > :27:54.Last year, 29 sperm whales became stranded on beaches in the UK
:27:55. > :27:56.and elsewhere in Europe, and it puzzled scientists
:27:57. > :27:58.because the mammals were all young and healthy.
:27:59. > :28:00.Now they think the whales may have been victims
:28:01. > :28:03.of large solar storms, which played havoc with their
:28:04. > :28:05.navigational abilities - as our environment correspondent,
:28:06. > :28:08.Crowds gathered at Hunstanton, on the coast of Norfolk,
:28:09. > :28:11.in February 2016, to see this ocean giant washed up on a
:28:12. > :28:17.All around the North Sea, more than two dozen other sperm
:28:18. > :28:19.whales were found stranded in the first two
:28:20. > :28:25.Scientists were extremely puzzled - the creatures were young,
:28:26. > :28:37.Now it's thought the Northern Lights may have played a role in the loses.
:28:38. > :28:40.The Aurora are the visible evidence of large solar storms, which distort
:28:41. > :28:43.This can cause species that rely on that field
:28:44. > :28:48.for navigation, like sperm whales, to lose their way.
:28:49. > :28:51.After big solar storms in December 2015, scientists say the confused
:28:52. > :28:53.creatures swam into the shallow North Sea and beached themselves,
:28:54. > :29:01.Researchers at London Zoo autopsied a number of the whales
:29:02. > :29:10.We know that sperm whales are stranded around
:29:11. > :29:13.the North Sea for many, many years historically and it's
:29:14. > :29:16.certainly a possible factor in this instance that we have these whales
:29:17. > :29:18.that got into the North Sea for an unknown reason and then
:29:19. > :29:21.once they are in there, they cannot find their way out
:29:22. > :29:25.and they become so disorientated, dehydrated and then strand.
:29:26. > :29:27.So that's what happened in last year's events.
:29:28. > :29:30.Why did they end up there in the first place?
:29:31. > :29:32.To be honest, I think we will never know.
:29:33. > :29:34.There is too much uncertainty around the events in this
:29:35. > :29:37.instance in terms of where, where they came from, and so on.
:29:38. > :29:40.And so I think we will really never know what really
:29:41. > :29:43.Proving the impact of geomagnetic storms on the strandings of sperm
:29:44. > :29:45.whales may well be impossible, however researchers here
:29:46. > :29:48.at London Zoo and a team at Nasa are actively investigating
:29:49. > :29:50.the impact of solar activities on the strandings
:29:51. > :29:54.The results in that study are due in the next month or so.
:29:55. > :29:56.That might shed some definitive light on the role
:29:57. > :30:01.Hurricane Irma has been reclassified as an "extremely dangerous" Category
:30:02. > :30:03.five storm as it continues ploughing towards the Caribbean
:30:04. > :30:16.With sustained winds of 175 rows per hour.
:30:17. > :30:22.Irma is due to move over part of the Leeward Islands tonight.
:30:23. > :30:25.These pictures were taken from a cockpit over the Caribbean.
:30:26. > :30:35.Category five is really serious. That is the strongest hurricanes go
:30:36. > :30:37.up to. You mentioned the sustained winds and we have even stronger
:30:38. > :30:47.gusts, two miles per hour. The UK forecast first and we started
:30:48. > :30:53.in humid conditions in the UK. With cloud and rain across parts of
:30:54. > :30:57.England and Wales. This was the atmospheric scene in Shropshire. The
:30:58. > :31:01.rain has been easing from here. Across the North West of Scotland,
:31:02. > :31:05.we have seen brighter spells and showers. Perfect weather conditions
:31:06. > :31:09.to make some of these, beautiful pictures of rainbows you have been
:31:10. > :31:12.sending so thank you for those. Through the rest of today, we will
:31:13. > :31:17.keep a lot of the cloud for England and Wales and it feels quite humid.
:31:18. > :31:21.Patchy outbreaks rain, mostly light through the rest of the day.
:31:22. > :31:24.Eventually, brighter skies across Scotland and Northern Ireland and
:31:25. > :31:29.that is where the fresh air is so temperatures down a bit, but feeling
:31:30. > :31:32.a little bit more comfortable. Overnight tonight, the last humid
:31:33. > :31:39.air gets swept away by freshening westerly breeze so we see humidity
:31:40. > :31:43.levels dropping and it feels a bit fresher, clearing skies and
:31:44. > :31:47.temperatures 11 or 12 degrees, typically overnight. Some showers
:31:48. > :31:54.over the North Scotland. On Wednesday, the best day of the week.
:31:55. > :31:57.Sunny spells forecast for most, many starting with clear blue skies.
:31:58. > :32:01.Patchy cloud is the day goes by and that brings passing showers to
:32:02. > :32:07.Cumbria and across Northern and Western areas of Scotland. Quite
:32:08. > :32:12.blustery. Fresher compared to recent days, temperatures 16-20dC. After
:32:13. > :32:16.Wednesday's relatively quiet day thanks to this ridge of high
:32:17. > :32:20.pressure, that moves out of the way and on Thursday, Friday and into the
:32:21. > :32:25.weekend, low pressure sits over the top of the British Isles and
:32:26. > :32:30.unsettled weather with rain or showers, some sunny spells through
:32:31. > :32:34.Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Strong winds at at times making it
:32:35. > :32:38.feel a little cool, temperatures around 40 degrees in Glasgow.
:32:39. > :32:44.Thursday and Friday. Let's take a check on what is going on with Irma.
:32:45. > :32:48.It has been reclassified as a Category Five hurricane, when
:32:49. > :32:55.speaking at 210 mph. And heading straight towards Antigua, maybe
:32:56. > :32:58.Barbuda to the North. This is a devastating hurricane not just in
:32:59. > :33:01.terms of the wind, there would be torrential rain. And there is the
:33:02. > :33:06.storm surge where the hurricane lifts up a wall of water from the
:33:07. > :33:10.sea and shoves it inland. I am just over six foot, 6-foot three, the
:33:11. > :33:13.storm surge from this hurricane could reach 11 put in place so
:33:14. > :33:15.nearly twice the highs of me, this will cause widespread devastation.
:33:16. > :33:17.Thank you. A reminder of our main
:33:18. > :33:19.story this lunchtime: The Ministry of Defence says four
:33:20. > :33:23.men arrested on suspicion of being members of a banned
:33:24. > :33:26.neo-Nazi group are serving That's all from the BBC News at One,
:33:27. > :33:31.so it's goodbye from me. And on BBC One, we now join
:33:32. > :33:33.the BBC's news teams where you are.