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Ordered back from Africa
by the Prime Minister - | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
Priti Patel looks set to be sacked,
after a series of unsanctioned | 0:00:07 | 0:00:10 | |
meetings with Israeli politicians. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:14 | |
Pressure has been growing
on the International Development | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
Secretary since it was revealed
she had a number of unsanctioned | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
meetings in Israel while on holiday. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:24 | |
It is up to the Prime Minister what
she does. She is already tightening | 0:00:24 | 0:00:31 | |
the ministerial code even further. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:32 | |
She is already tightening
the ministerial code even further. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
She's due to land in London
in a couple of hours' time. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
We'll have the latest
from Westminster. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:38 | |
Also this lunchtime: | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
The boss of NHS England says
the health service should get | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
the cash boost it was promised
during the EU referendum. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:46 | |
The NHS was not on the ballot paper,
but it was on the ballot boss. Vote | 0:00:46 | 0:00:54 | |
Leave for a better funded health
service, £350 million a week. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
service, £350 million a week. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:58 | |
A woman goes on trial charged
with murdering her ex-boyfriend. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
He ended his own life
in a euthanasia clinic, | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
following a suspected acid attack. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:04 | |
President Trump arrives
in China, where he will call | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
on the Chinese leader,
Xi Jinping, to put pressure on North | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
Korea over its nuclear ambitions. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
And it's 'ewe'! | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
Researchers find that sheep can be
taught to recognise people's faces, | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
proving they're cleverer
than many thought. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
And coming up in the
sport on BBC News: | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
England and Germany will both wear
poppies on black armbands | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
for their friendly this Friday,
after Fifa changed their rules. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
Good afternoon and welcome
to the BBC News at One. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
The International Development
Secretary, Priti Patel, | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
is flying back to London from Africa
this lunchtime after being ordered | 0:01:54 | 0:01:59 | |
back by the Prime Minister. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
And she looks set to be sacked. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
She was summoned after more
disclosures about unofficial | 0:02:05 | 0:02:07 | |
meetings she held with Israeli
politicians while on holiday there. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
Priti Patel has already apologised
for holding twelve undisclosed | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
meetings in Israel in August -
including one with the Israeli | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:16 | |
But it's since emerged
that there were another two | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
meetings in September. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:19 | |
Our political correspondent, Leila
Nathoo, reports from Westminster. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:25 | |
Another high-level
meeting off the books. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:32 | |
This time, with the Israeli Minister
for Public Security, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
in Parliament in September. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
In August, while on holiday
in Israel, Priti Patel said she had | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
taken the opportunity to meet
a number of people. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:41 | |
Among them - charity leaders,
Israeli politicians, | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
and even the country's
Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
A Secretary of State
apparently disregarding strict | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
ministerial procedure,
holding meetings arranged outside | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
the usual channels, with no British
Government officials present. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
When reports of her August
meetings emerged last week, | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
Priti Patel initially claimed
the Foreign Office did know | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
in advance about her visit. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:06 | |
On Monday, she corrected the record,
admitting 12 separate meetings | 0:03:06 | 0:03:10 | |
and that the FCO only became aware
of her trip while it was under way. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:14 | |
She was summoned to Downing Street
and reminded of her obligations | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
under the Ministerial Code. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
And after that reprimand,
Theresa May considered | 0:03:19 | 0:03:20 | |
the matter closed. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
But now she has been recalled
to Number Ten after two further | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
meetings with Israeli government
representatives in | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
September were disclosed. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
She is a member of
the British Government. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
What she did secretly
from the British Government | 0:03:32 | 0:03:39 | |
is discussed with a foreign
powers government how best | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
to get something out
of the British Government. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
As a collective, which is
what the British Government is, | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
she should have kept everybody
informed and not conducted | 0:03:46 | 0:03:48 | |
her own foreign policy. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:49 | |
After Priti Patel returned
from her August trip, | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
unknown to Theresa May
until yesterday, she proposed | 0:03:51 | 0:03:57 | |
sending taxpayers' money to
the Israeli Army, to treat wounded | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
Syrian refugees. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
A controversial suggestion,
in a part of the world fraught | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
with political sensitivities. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:06 | |
These are bear traps
for politicians. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:11 | |
If you depart one iota
from the agreed government position, | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
there is a reason why government
positions are resolved with | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
collective discussion very carefully
about what the implications | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
are of any departure
from the government position. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
And she was getting
herself into danger. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:28 | |
That danger has not passed. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:30 | |
She has been recalled from official
business in East Africa | 0:04:30 | 0:04:32 | |
at the request of Downing Street. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
At the start of the week,
Theresa May said she had | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
accepted Priti Patel's | 0:04:38 | 0:04:39 | |
apology for the way she had
handled her visit to Israel. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
And would look at tightening
the Ministerial Code. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
But now it appears the International
Development Secretary did not reveal | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
to the Prime Minister the true
extent of her freelance diplomacy. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:52 | |
Priti Patel's fate now seems clear. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
Theresa May could be
facing her second cabinet | 0:04:56 | 0:04:58 | |
departure in a week. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
Another blow for her
fragile government. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:05 | |
Our diplomatic correspondent,
James Landale, is here. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:11 | |
You broke the story last Friday, it
has snowballed since. Tell others | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
about the latest allegations that
have led to her being summoned back | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
to London. The original part of the
story was that Priti Patel had been | 0:05:19 | 0:05:23 | |
to Israel and had official meetings
and had not told anybody. What we | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
have learned in the last few hours
of this morning is that there was | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
subsequent meetings, not in Israel,
once in the United Kingdom and House | 0:05:30 | 0:05:34 | |
of Commons and Swansea New York, and
she had further meetings with senior | 0:05:34 | 0:05:40 | |
Israeli figures. They were not
organised and reported back in the | 0:05:40 | 0:05:47 | |
usual way, they were freelancing.
And we have learnt and establishing | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
allegation, a report by an Israeli
newspaper, that during this trip, | 0:05:51 | 0:05:57 | |
there were not 12 meetings as Priti
Patel said on Monday, there was a | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
13th and that was a visit to an
Israeli defence Force killed | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
hospital in the Golan Heights. This
is a part of the world that the | 0:06:05 | 0:06:11 | |
British Government does not
recognise Israel's occupation of it, | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
not a place where British ministers
ever go as far as we can tell and | 0:06:14 | 0:06:18 | |
yet Priti Patel went, again without
telling the rest of her government. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:22 | |
Thank you. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:23 | |
Our assistant political editor,
Norman Smith, is in Westminster. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:28 | |
Priti Patel is back in London at
about half past three this afternoon | 0:06:28 | 0:06:32 | |
and she will see the Prime Minister,
we understand. If she does go and | 0:06:32 | 0:06:38 | |
she loses her job, that is two
Cabinet ministers that have gone in | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
less than a week, where does that
leave the Government? It is bad, | 0:06:41 | 0:06:47 | |
bad, bad for Mrs May to lose two
Cabinet ministers in seven days. And | 0:06:47 | 0:06:52 | |
it risks unsettling the Brexiteers
and Remainers in the Government. She | 0:06:52 | 0:07:02 | |
might harbour her only the ship
ambitions, and while the Cabinet is | 0:07:02 | 0:07:07 | |
being buffeted over the sexual
harassment scandal. And it could get | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
messy with reports in the Jewish
Chronicle this lunchtime that Mrs | 0:07:11 | 0:07:15 | |
May did know about some of these
meetings and did know about the | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
meeting with the Israeli Prime
Minister, claims denied by Number | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
10. But although it is bad, there is
a worse scenario and that is if Mrs | 0:07:21 | 0:07:29 | |
May what do not think because that
would further cement the motion that | 0:07:29 | 0:07:34 | |
Mrs May -- will to do nothing. It
would cement the idea that she is so | 0:07:34 | 0:07:39 | |
weak and fragile, she dare not move
anybody, even if it appears they | 0:07:39 | 0:07:44 | |
mislead her and in effect defy her
authority. So although it is bad, | 0:07:44 | 0:07:49 | |
there is a worse option, and that is
if Mrs May was to turn the other | 0:07:49 | 0:07:54 | |
cheek and do nothing. From
Westminster, thank you. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:59 | |
The head of the NHS in England,
Simon Stevens, has warned | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
that the budget for the health
service next year is well | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
short of what's needed. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
He told a conference in London
that the public expects | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
the Government to honour promises
made on health spending | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
during the EU referendum campaign -
such as an extra £350 million a week | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
for the NHS. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
Our health correspondent,
Sophie Hutchinson, reports. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:24 | |
The NHS in England is under
unprecedented strain. Based with the | 0:08:24 | 0:08:29 | |
tightest sustained financial
settlement in its history, it is | 0:08:29 | 0:08:32 | |
failing to keep up with patients
demand. Today, its boss spoke | 0:08:32 | 0:08:37 | |
bluntly about the impact on patients
next year if significant extra | 0:08:37 | 0:08:41 | |
funding was not made available. On
the current funding outlook, the NHS | 0:08:41 | 0:08:46 | |
waiting list will grow to 5 million
people by 2021. That is an extra 1 | 0:08:46 | 0:08:54 | |
million people on the waiting list,
one in ten of us waiting for an | 0:08:54 | 0:08:58 | |
operation. The highest number ever.
During the referendum, the Life | 0:08:58 | 0:09:05 | |
campaign made controversial claims
that breaking from the EU would mean | 0:09:05 | 0:09:10 | |
an extra £350 million a week for the
NHS. Mr Stevens said today it was a | 0:09:10 | 0:09:15 | |
crucial deciding factor for those
who voted Brexit and must be | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
respected. By the end of the next
financial year for the NHS, March | 0:09:18 | 0:09:24 | |
2019, the United Kingdom will have
left the European Union. Trust in | 0:09:24 | 0:09:29 | |
Democratic politics will not be
strengthened if anyone now tries to | 0:09:29 | 0:09:34 | |
argue, devoted Brexit pop before a
better funded health service, but | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
precisely because of Brexit, you now
cannot have one day she voted Brexit | 0:09:37 | 0:09:44 | |
for a better funded health service.
At the same conference, the Health | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
Secretary said there could be no
commitment because of the | 0:09:47 | 0:09:51 | |
uncertainty of the Brexit outcome.
It was not a government promise. It | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
was a promise by the Vote Leave
campaign. But what I very much agree | 0:09:55 | 0:10:03 | |
with is that if there is a Brexit
dividend, if we end up having less | 0:10:03 | 0:10:08 | |
pressure on public finances, because
of the fact that we are not making | 0:10:08 | 0:10:14 | |
net contributions to the EU, then I
believe that the NHS should be the | 0:10:14 | 0:10:19 | |
first port of call. The plea for a
financial boost for hospitals, | 0:10:19 | 0:10:24 | |
ambulance and community services was
reinforced today by three major | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
think tanks which insist an extra £4
billion is essential for next year | 0:10:27 | 0:10:32 | |
if the NHS is to provide adequate
care for patients. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:36 | |
And if you want to find
out what waiting times | 0:10:36 | 0:10:39 | |
are like at your local hospital
service, go to the BBC's NHS Tracker | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
page on the website. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:43 | |
You just need to put
in your postcode. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:50 | |
President Trump has arrived
in the Chinese capital, Beijing, | 0:10:50 | 0:10:52 | |
on the latest stop of his twelve-day
tour of Asia. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
He was given a lavish welcome at one
of the country's most | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
important historic sites -
the Forbidden City - | 0:10:57 | 0:10:59 | |
by President Xi Jinping. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:05 | |
Mr Trump is expected to use
the visit to press China to do more | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
to enforce sanctions on North Korea,
as John Sudworth reports. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:14 | |
At China's historic Forbidden City,
a meeting of the worlds first | 0:11:14 | 0:11:18 | |
At China's historic Forbidden City,
a meeting of the world's first | 0:11:18 | 0:11:20 | |
and second most powerful men. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:22 | |
But some are beginning
to wonder which one is which. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:30 | |
While President Trump
is beset by domestic woes, | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
and seen to be lacking a coherent
foreign policy, President Xi enjoys | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
a tight grip on power
and growing influence abroad. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:40 | |
It is no coincidence that the visit
starts here behind the walls | 0:11:40 | 0:11:43 | |
of the old Imperial Palace. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:44 | |
From a time when China had huge
influence on the world stage. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:49 | |
The symbolism could not be clearer. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:50 | |
China's time has come again. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
Forget second place,
President Xi is seeking | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
a new relationship of equals
with his American counterpart. | 0:11:55 | 0:12:01 | |
A few hours earlier,
in the South Korean capital, | 0:12:01 | 0:12:04 | |
Mr Trump once again underlined his
priority for this trip, | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
the crisis in North Korea. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:11 | |
Today, I hope I speak not
only for our countries, | 0:12:11 | 0:12:20 | |
but for all civilised nations
when I say to the north, | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
do not underestimate us. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
We call on every nation,
including China and Russia, | 0:12:25 | 0:12:34 | |
to fully implement UN
Security Council resolutions. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
But China may not be willing
to dance to Mr Trump's tune. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
In a leader who prides
himself on his deal-making, | 0:12:40 | 0:12:45 | |
it sees the opportunity to drive
a hard bargain. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:47 | |
John Sudworth, BBC News, Beijing. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:52 | |
The Welsh First Minister,
Carwyn Jones, is facing questions | 0:12:52 | 0:12:57 | |
about the sacking of the former
minister Carl Sargeant, | 0:12:57 | 0:12:59 | |
following allegations from a number
of women about his personal conduct. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
49-year-old Mr Sargeant was found
dead at his home yesterday, | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
days after he was dismissed
and suspended from the Labour Party. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:08 | |
Our Wales correspondent,
Sian Lloyd, is in Cardiff. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:15 | |
His friends and colleagues have
spoken of their shock following his | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
death, what is the mood there now?
Indeed. And the work of the Welsh | 0:13:18 | 0:13:23 | |
Assembly has been suspended for the
rest of the week as a mark of | 0:13:23 | 0:13:28 | |
respect to Carl Sargeant and members
from across the political divide | 0:13:28 | 0:13:31 | |
have paid tribute. They have left
messages in a book of condolence | 0:13:31 | 0:13:34 | |
that was opened earlier this
morning. But amongst the feelings of | 0:13:34 | 0:13:39 | |
sadness, there is a growing sense of
anger amongst some Welsh Labour | 0:13:39 | 0:13:44 | |
Assembly members about the way the
thing was handled. Carl Sargeant was | 0:13:44 | 0:13:49 | |
sacked from his Cabinet role on
Friday by the First Minister of | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
Wales, Carwyn Jones, amidst
allegations of inappropriate | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
behaviour made by a number of
people. Mr Sargeant said the exact | 0:13:55 | 0:14:01 | |
nature of those claims have not been
made to him and it is understood his | 0:14:01 | 0:14:06 | |
solicitor contacted Welsh Labour
over the weekend but there was still | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
no specifics. The First Minister
said this morning he is saddened by | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
the events, but now is a time to
reflect and to think of Mr | 0:14:12 | 0:14:16 | |
Sargeant's family. Thank you. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:18 | |
The trial has begun
of a woman charged with | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
murdering her ex-boyfriend,
following a suspected acid attack. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:24 | |
The jury has heard Mark van Dongen
was left paralysed from the neck | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
down and lost his left leg,
ear and eye. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:34 | |
He ended his life in a euthanasia
clinic 15 months later, | 0:14:34 | 0:14:36 | |
saying he couldn't bear
the pain any longer. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:38 | |
He died in Belgium at
the start of this year - | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
more than a year after attack took
place in Bristol. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
Our correspondent, Jon Kay,
reports from the trial in Bristol. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:46 | |
Mark van Dongen
and Berlinah Wallace. | 0:14:46 | 0:14:48 | |
He was an engineer from Holland. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:50 | |
She was a fashion student
from South Africa. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:52 | |
They were together for five years,
living in this Bristol flat. | 0:14:52 | 0:14:56 | |
The prosecution claims that
in September 2015 she bought | 0:14:56 | 0:15:00 | |
sulphuric acid online and threw it
over him while he was sleeping | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
in just a pair of shorts. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:06 | |
The jury was told that she laughed,
saying if I can't have | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
you, no one will. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:10 | |
She was said to be unhappy
the relationship had broken down | 0:15:10 | 0:15:15 | |
and that Mark van Dongen had
a new partner. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:22 | |
Berlinah Wallace wept as the case
against her was outlined. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
She denies murder and throwing
a corrosive fluid. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
The jury was told that she claimed
she thought the liquid | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
was a glass of water. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:30 | |
The court heard that Mark van Dongen
was taken to Southmead Hospital | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
in Bristol where his injuries
were described as horrific | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
and catastrophic. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:36 | |
He was said to be grotesquely
scarred by the acid, | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
paralysed from the neck down. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:41 | |
He lost an eye and needed
a leg amputated. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:45 | |
The prosecution said that 15
months after the incident, | 0:15:45 | 0:15:49 | |
Mark van Dongen decided
he could take it no longer. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
After being repatriated to be
near his family in Belgium he asked | 0:15:52 | 0:16:00 | |
a euthanasia clinic there
to help end his life. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:02 | |
Three doctors assessed him
and judged his physical | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
and psychological suffering
to be unbearable. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
He died on the 2nd
of January this year. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:12 | |
The prosecution claims that the
suffering that he sustained was so | 0:16:12 | 0:16:16 | |
unbearable that it drove him to use
a lazy and that is why they say Ms | 0:16:16 | 0:16:21 | |
Wallace is guilty of murder which
she denies. The jury are now being | 0:16:21 | 0:16:26 | |
shown a video of Mark van Dongen
lying in his hospital bed here in | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
Bristol talking to police about what
happened. In the video you can see | 0:16:29 | 0:16:35 | |
the acid scars across his face, neck
and chest. The judge warned the | 0:16:35 | 0:16:40 | |
journey -- the jury they could find
the contents of it upsetting and | 0:16:40 | 0:16:43 | |
shocking. This was hardly looked at
the screen during the first 20 | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
minutes or so of the video. More
will be shown later today and the | 0:16:46 | 0:16:51 | |
trial continues. -- Ms Wallace. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:56 | |
Our top story this lunchtime. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:57 | |
Ordered back from Africa
by the Prime Minister - | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
the international development
secretary Priti Patel | 0:16:59 | 0:17:05 | |
looks set to be sacked
after a series of meetings | 0:17:05 | 0:17:07 | |
with Israeli politicians. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:08 | |
And coming up - we meet the swimmer
who fled war-torn Syria. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:14 | |
Coming up in sport. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:16 | |
UK Anti-doping are concerned a case
against former heavyweight champion | 0:17:16 | 0:17:18 | |
Tyson Fury could bankrupt them -
and it's thought they've | 0:17:18 | 0:17:21 | |
asked the government
to underwrite the case. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:31 | |
Clarence House has defended
the Prince of Wales | 0:17:34 | 0:17:38 | |
after he was criticised for failing
to disclose an investment | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
by his private estate
in an offshore company. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
The revelations come
from a number of leaked | 0:17:43 | 0:17:45 | |
documents about tax havens,
known as the Paradise Papers. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:49 | |
It's the second time
this week that a member | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
of the Royal Family has been named. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
But Prince Charles' private estate -
the Duchy of Cornwall - | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
insists that the Prince had no
direct involvement | 0:17:55 | 0:17:57 | |
in its investments. | 0:17:57 | 0:17:59 | |
Our economics correspondent
Andy Verity reports. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:06 | |
As Prince Charles left the hotel
in Malaysia early this morning, | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
an investment he'd made on the other
side of the world in Bermuda | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
caught up with him. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:13 | |
Sir, do you have any comments
on the Paradise Papers | 0:18:13 | 0:18:15 | |
revelations today? | 0:18:15 | 0:18:16 | |
A car took him to the airport
and later he and Camilla | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
began a visit to India,
while supporters at home | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
defended his failure to disclose
a shareholding in a company that | 0:18:21 | 0:18:24 | |
stood to benefit from his
environmental campaigning. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:27 | |
On the right here is the late
Hugh van Cutsem, one | 0:18:27 | 0:18:29 | |
of the Prince's oldest friends. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:31 | |
He was a director of Sustainable
Forestry Management Limited, | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
a firm that managed tropical
rainforests registered in Bermuda. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:39 | |
The company wanted to trade
in carbon credits but tropical | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
rainforests were not included
in carbon credit trading schemes. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:44 | |
So it needed the rules
to be changed. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:48 | |
In February 2007 the Duchy bought 50
shares in Van Cutsem's | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
company worth $113,500. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:56 | |
At that time SFM's directors
agreed to keep the Duchy's | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
shares confidential. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:00 | |
Mr Van Cutsem asked for lobbying
documents to be sent | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
to the Prince's office. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:05 | |
And soon the Prince was making
speeches campaigning for changes | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
to two international agreements
on carbon credits. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
In June 2008 the Duchy
sold its share for $395,000, | 0:19:12 | 0:19:16 | |
a profit of more than 200,000. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:21 | |
There is a potential
conflict of interest. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
If on the one hand the Duchy
of Cornwall was making profits | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
in investments in one sector
and at the same time | 0:19:27 | 0:19:31 | |
the Prince of Wales
is lobbying in that same area. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:36 | |
But at the end of the day it boils
down to whether the Prince of Wales | 0:19:36 | 0:19:41 | |
knew that the Duchy of Cornwall
was making these investments. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:45 | |
Clarence House said the prince does
not have any direct involvement | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
in the investment decisions taken
by the Duchy and he has certainly | 0:19:48 | 0:19:53 | |
never chosen to speak out on a topic
simply because of a company that it | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
may have invested in. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:57 | |
I do not think it was a conflict
of interest, he has been talking | 0:19:57 | 0:20:01 | |
about environmental issues,
about carbon issues, | 0:20:01 | 0:20:02 | |
since the 1970s. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:05 | |
And anybody who chooses to go online
and go back over 852 speeches, | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
they're all there for them to see. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:12 | |
There's no suggestion of illegality,
nor that Prince Charles's | 0:20:12 | 0:20:16 | |
campaigning caused the share price
of his friend's company to rise. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:23 | |
Nor is it suggested that the Duchy
was seeking to avoid tax. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:26 | |
Andy Verity, BBC News. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:27 | |
Our Royal Correspondent Nicholas
Witchell is in Delhi. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:30 | |
This all overshadowing the prince's
visit to New Delhi - | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
has there been any comment from him
at all? | 0:20:33 | 0:20:39 | |
I do not think it is overshadowing
it in any significant way. He is | 0:20:39 | 0:20:44 | |
carrying on the visit which is
important in the Anglo Indian | 0:20:44 | 0:20:49 | |
context. He is visiting the Indian
Prime Minister at the moment and his | 0:20:49 | 0:20:54 | |
officials say they are comfortable
bubble is no conflict of interest | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
over these shareholdings and
suggesting by implication he had no | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
knowledge of their shareholdings and
did not of course speak up in | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
support of increasing their value.
More broadly of course this and the | 0:21:03 | 0:21:07 | |
earlier disclosures about the Queen
and her offshore holdings have | 0:21:07 | 0:21:11 | |
renewed calls for greater | 0:21:11 | 0:21:23 | |
transparency over Royal finance and
renewed calls for a register if you | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
like of Royal financial interest. I
think that would be strongly | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
resisted by the Royal households,
they would regard it as private | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
income and in the case of the Queen
and the Prince, from the Duchy of | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
Lancashire and Duchy of Cornwall.
But whether they could ever be | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
regarded as private investors and
accorded the privacy that private | 0:21:38 | 0:21:40 | |
investors would expect of course is
a moot point. Nick Witchel, thank | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
you. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:43 | |
The broadcaster Sky says it
will consider closing Sky News if it | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
becomes a stumbling block
in its proposed merger | 0:21:46 | 0:21:47 | |
with 21st Century Fox. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
Rupert Murdoch's bid
for full control of Sky | 0:21:49 | 0:21:51 | |
is being investigated
by the Competition | 0:21:51 | 0:21:52 | |
and Markets Authority,
over concerns that the media empire | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
could become too powerful. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
Our Media Editor Amol
Rajan joins me now. | 0:21:56 | 0:22:03 | |
Does this mean that the deal is more
likely to go ahead? I think it makes | 0:22:03 | 0:22:09 | |
the deal marginally more likely to
go ahead. Just to be clear no one is | 0:22:09 | 0:22:14 | |
saying the Sky News will shut any
time soon, we are a long way from | 0:22:14 | 0:22:18 | |
that. But what has happened
overnight, the independent directors | 0:22:18 | 0:22:22 | |
of Sky have sent the message that no
one should take for granted that Sky | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
News which loses tens of millions of
pounds but both world-class | 0:22:25 | 0:22:29 | |
journalism, no one should take for
granted that it will continue in | 0:22:29 | 0:22:33 | |
perpetuity. I've spoken to senior
people at Sky and across the | 0:22:33 | 0:22:39 | |
industry this morning and they say
that the Murdoch family who are | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
desperate for this bid to go
through, they will be pleased that | 0:22:42 | 0:22:46 | |
this morning there is a reminder
that they will not necessarily fund | 0:22:46 | 0:22:50 | |
Sky News forever. So I think that
he'll fly more likely to go through | 0:22:50 | 0:22:54 | |
although this could be an empty
threat but a message that it is an | 0:22:54 | 0:22:58 | |
important part of British
journalism. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
Relatives of those who died
in the Enniskillen bombing have been | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
gathering in the town today to mark
the 30th anniversary | 0:23:03 | 0:23:06 | |
of the explosion. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:07 | |
The IRA attack was one of the most
notorious of the Troubles - | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
12 people lost their lives. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:11 | |
Our Ireland Correspondent
Chris Buckler reports. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:21 | |
Exactly 30 years ago today people
gathered in the same place, in the | 0:23:21 | 0:23:27 | |
same town, in an act of remembrance.
In 1987 the service was held to | 0:23:27 | 0:23:35 | |
honour those who had died in two
world wars. Today's ceremony was to | 0:23:35 | 0:23:40 | |
remember those murdered as they
stood in tribute here at the | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
Cenotaph in Enniskillen. Wesley
Armstrong... Each of the 12 names | 0:23:43 | 0:23:49 | |
was read out. All victims of an IRA
attack that stood out as shocking | 0:23:49 | 0:23:57 | |
even amid the series of shootings
and bombings, all to simply known as | 0:23:57 | 0:24:04 | |
the Northern Ireland troubles.
Bodies were left buried in rubble | 0:24:04 | 0:24:08 | |
after the explosion. The dead left
lying alongside the dozens injured. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:13 | |
A day that caused huge grief and has
never left the families of those | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
killed. The loss is just so
terrible. And someone just said to | 0:24:16 | 0:24:25 | |
me this last year that grief is the
price of love and I never thought of | 0:24:25 | 0:24:33 | |
it until I heard that. And it truly
is. The great granddaughter of a | 0:24:33 | 0:24:46 | |
couple killed during that Poppy Day
bombing sang during the service. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:50 | |
Despite the presence of politicians
and police officers this was an | 0:24:50 | 0:24:55 | |
event for the families. The message
was read from the Queen from talking | 0:24:55 | 0:25:00 | |
of the irreplaceable loss suffered
by each of the families. They will | 0:25:00 | 0:25:05 | |
gather again in this town this
weekend as is still traditional on | 0:25:05 | 0:25:09 | |
Remembrance Sunday. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
BBC local radio is 50
years old today. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
BBC Radio Leicester went on air
on November the 8th 1967 as part | 0:25:15 | 0:25:19 | |
of a two year "experiment" -
funded by local | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
councils, not the BBC. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:31 | |
After two years that experiment
was judged a success and by 1971 | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
20 BBC local radio stations
were on air - rising | 0:25:34 | 0:25:37 | |
to more than 40 today. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:42 | |
Sir Andy Murray and his wife
Kim are celebrating | 0:25:42 | 0:25:44 | |
the birth of a baby girl. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:46 | |
It's understood she was
born a few days ago. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
She's the couple's second child -
their first, Sophia, | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
was born last year. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:53 | |
The news emerged a day after Murray
played his first match | 0:25:53 | 0:25:55 | |
since suffering a hip
injury at Wimbledon. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:57 | |
It was a charity exhibition match
in Glasgow against Roger Federer, | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
which he lost 6-3, 3-6, 10-6. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:06 | |
She fled Syria two years ago
after her home was destroyed | 0:26:06 | 0:26:10 | |
in the civil war and only just made
it into Europe by boat. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:16 | |
She was a strong swimmer and less
than a year later she found herself | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
competing at the Rio Olympics
as part of the refugee team. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:22 | |
Now settled in Germany,
the teenager has her sights | 0:26:22 | 0:26:24 | |
firmly set on Tokyo 2020. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:25 | |
Our sports correspondent
Alex Capstick has been | 0:26:25 | 0:26:27 | |
to Berlin to meet her -
a warning that there are flashing | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
images in his report. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:32 | |
You know that you might
lose your life on the way. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:37 | |
Yusra Mardini, Olympian and refugee
who saved lives, including her own. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
The teenage swimmer who fled
war-ravaged Syria to pursue | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
her sporting dreams. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:46 | |
A 25 day nightmare which featured
a sinking boat full of migrants | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
heading for Greece. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
Yusra and her sister jumped
into the sea to help keep it afloat. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:57 | |
I know that of course I was afraid,
it was dark and I was just seeing | 0:26:57 | 0:27:00 | |
the island but never reaching it. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:05 | |
Not that I was the hero
pulling a rope, you know. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:10 | |
OK, I helped the boat
and so on but it was not | 0:27:10 | 0:27:13 | |
only me or my sister. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:15 | |
Yusra Mardini eventually
arrived in Berlin. | 0:27:15 | 0:27:18 | |
Already a promising swimmer,
she joined this club | 0:27:18 | 0:27:20 | |
at the city's Olympic Park. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
Incredibly, just 11 months later,
she was in Rio on the biggest | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
sporting stage of all,
competing for the first | 0:27:26 | 0:27:28 | |
ever Refugee Team. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:34 | |
Even after, before when they
were telling me that I'm | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
leaving to the Olympics,
it was a really big surprise | 0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | |
after only one year. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:42 | |
I'm a refuge in Germany
and I'm going and there | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
is a Refugee Olympic Team. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:46 | |
It was incredible. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
Yusra's remarkable back story means
she is now a teenager in demand, | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
with an expanding entourage
befitting her growing | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
stature on the world stage. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
I'm just hoping to get the idea
to people that they are normal | 0:27:59 | 0:28:03 | |
people and they had a normal life
and they were forced | 0:28:03 | 0:28:06 | |
to flee their country
because of violence. | 0:28:06 | 0:28:10 | |
And you are making a movie,
or a movie is being made about you. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:14 | |
How exciting is that? | 0:28:14 | 0:28:15 | |
Stephen Daldry is directing it. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:16 | |
Yeah. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:17 | |
It's amazing. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:18 | |
I'm really excited. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:20 | |
But above all, Yusra Mardini
is focused on training hard. | 0:28:20 | 0:28:23 | |
She wants a place at the 2020
Olympics in Tokyo and doesn't | 0:28:23 | 0:28:26 | |
mind who she represents. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:29 | |
My ambition is just
to be an athlete. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:33 | |
If I'm going to start
for Germany or for my country | 0:28:33 | 0:28:35 | |
or for the Refugee Olympic Team,
I'm going to do the best I can | 0:28:35 | 0:28:39 | |
and it would be my pleasure. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:42 | |
In a life full of twists and turns,
the way to Tokyo may | 0:28:42 | 0:28:45 | |
not be straightforward,
but it's clear this determined | 0:28:45 | 0:28:47 | |
19-year-old will rise to whatever
challenges lie ahead. | 0:28:47 | 0:28:51 | |
Alex Capstick, BBC News, Berlin. | 0:28:51 | 0:28:55 | |
Sheep can be taught
to recognise the faces | 0:28:55 | 0:28:57 | |
of people they've never met. | 0:28:57 | 0:29:00 | |
Researchers from Cambridge
University trained a flock | 0:29:00 | 0:29:03 | |
of Welsh Mountain sheep to pick out
the faces of celebrities, | 0:29:03 | 0:29:07 | |
including the actors Jake Gyllenhaal
and Emma Watson, and the former | 0:29:07 | 0:29:10 | |
US President, Barack Obama. | 0:29:10 | 0:29:11 | |
Researchers say it proves
the animals possess similar facial | 0:29:11 | 0:29:16 | |
recognition abilities to primates. | 0:29:16 | 0:29:17 | |
Tom Burridge reports. | 0:29:17 | 0:29:22 | |
Two faces and a sheep, the sheep
pauses and then correctly picks the | 0:29:22 | 0:29:32 | |
former US president. Next
contestant, please. Spot the British | 0:29:32 | 0:29:35 | |
actress. Some of the sheep being
tested have Huntington's disease. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:41 | |
Scientists wanted to know if those
with the genetic mutation that | 0:29:41 | 0:29:46 | |
causes the disease still have a
properly functioning brain. What I'm | 0:29:46 | 0:29:51 | |
interested in developing a way of
measuring the cognitive function and | 0:29:51 | 0:29:56 | |
flexibility. And face recognition is
a very complex human task and we | 0:29:56 | 0:30:00 | |
thought it would be good to see if
she broke capable of doing it. | 0:30:00 | 0:30:04 | |
Identifying the correct face equals
food. So it turns out that sheep are | 0:30:04 | 0:30:10 | |
not as stupid as we all thought. So
my friends, which is 007? Anybody? | 0:30:10 | 0:30:18 | |
Any takers? What about, who is this
lady? Did someone say... Mmmmm. So | 0:30:18 | 0:30:39 | |
when you next get that stare
remember, she may remember your | 0:30:39 | 0:30:42 | |
face. | 0:30:42 | 0:30:43 | |
Time for a look at the weather. | 0:30:43 | 0:30:45 | |
Here's Ben Rich. | 0:30:45 | 0:30:48 | |
Here's Ben Rich. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:52 | |
If you do not like the weather you
have got at the moment it will | 0:30:52 | 0:30:57 | |
probably change. We had some cloud
this morning across Kent. But blue | 0:30:57 | 0:31:02 | |
skies in York, a beautiful day here
and sunshine across these central | 0:31:02 | 0:31:08 | |
portions of the British Isles. Then
add to the North West we have cloud | 0:31:08 | 0:31:17 | |
and rain moving across Scotland and
Northern Ireland with a | 0:31:17 | 0:31:19 | |
strengthening wind. Where the
temperatures with a maximum of 11 | 0:31:19 | 0:31:29 | |
degrees. This evening with the clear
skies it is going to get chilly | 0:31:29 | 0:31:34 | |
quite quickly through the evening
then patchy rain moving south and | 0:31:34 | 0:31:38 | |
east and by the end of the night
telling chilly again across northern | 0:31:38 | 0:31:43 | |
Scotland. Those are the temperatures
in towns and cities but much lower | 0:31:43 | 0:31:47 | |
in the countryside. So with the cold
air in place and some cloud rolling | 0:31:47 | 0:31:59 | |
in from the north-east, a pretty
miserable start morning through the | 0:31:59 | 0:32:02 | |
south-east. Across Wales something a
little bit milder. Brighter skies | 0:32:02 | 0:32:12 | |
already developing in northern
England and Scotland and Northern | 0:32:12 | 0:32:16 | |
Ireland with some spells of sunshine
along with blustery showers across | 0:32:16 | 0:32:20 | |
the far north of Scotland. Those
sunny skies gradually spread a | 0:32:20 | 0:32:24 | |
little further south and east.
Taking some time to break up in the | 0:32:24 | 0:32:29 | |
south. But here a bit milder
tomorrow at 14 degrees there in | 0:32:29 | 0:32:33 | |
Cardiff. On Friday mainly a fine
start, some thundery showers | 0:32:33 | 0:32:41 | |
possible in northern Scotland. And
then clouding over across Northern | 0:32:41 | 0:32:45 | |
Ireland with outbreaks of rain. A
lot going on to the next few days. | 0:32:45 | 0:32:50 | |
This frontal system will be with us
for the start of the weekend | 0:32:50 | 0:32:54 | |
bringing outbreaks of rain. Some
cold air heading in our direction. | 0:32:54 | 0:32:59 | |
So chilly feeling to the weather on
Saturday. Some spells of sunshine, | 0:32:59 | 0:33:04 | |
some showers blowing in as well. On
Sunday we shift wind direction, more | 0:33:04 | 0:33:13 | |
of a northerly wind so most showers
down the east coast at this stage. | 0:33:13 | 0:33:17 | |
And temperatures of | 0:33:17 | 0:33:21 |