07/12/2017 BBC News at One

The leader of the Palestinian group

Hamas calls for an uprising

after President Trump's recognition

of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Tear gas and water cannons are used

as violence breaks out

in Palestinian areas of the West

Bank.

We will be asking what further

fallout there is likely to be from

President Trump's controversial

announcement.

President Trump's

controversial announcement.

Also this lunchtime:

Missed targets in A&E -

the number of people waiting more

than four hours in UK has more

than doubled since 2013.

A final report into a tram crash

in Croydon in south east London

which killed seven passengers has

concluded that the driver

probably fell asleep.

Under fire - a university

is criticised for giving

its outgoing vice-chancellor more

than £800,000 in pay and benefits.

It cost £3 billion to build

and weighs 65,000 tonnes -

the Queen welcomes HMS

Queen Elizabeth into the fleet.

And pizza goes posh, the Neapolitan

pizza gains world Heritage status.

world Heritage status.

And coming up in the sport on BBC

News: Premier League clubs make

history in the Champions League -

with 5 teams from England

reaching the knockout

stages for the first time.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

The leader of Hamas,

the Palestinian Islamist group,

has called for an uprising

or intifada in response

to President Trump's decision

to recognise Jerusalem

as the capital of Israel.

Palestinians in the West Bank

and Gaza Strip are today holding

a day of strikes and protests

and Israel's military

has used water cannon

against protesters in Bethlehem.

Traditional allies

of the United States,

including Saudi Arabia and France,

have condemned President Trump's

decision, but Israel has hailed it

as "historic," and Mr Trump himself

insists his plan will help to

promote peace in the Middle East.

Here's our correspondent

Tom Burridge.

Tension is again simmering here in

the Israeli occupied West Bank.

Israeli soldiers confronting pockets

of Palestinians, protesting after a

landmark shift in US policy. In

Jerusalem's all city where security

is always tight shops shut in the

Muslim quarter reflect anger. But

for many Israeli dues, their key

ally recognising this as their

capital, is long overdue.

Definitely

historic. We have been waiting for

it for a long time. I hope it does

not get stuck in endless

bureaucracy. The proof is in the

pudding and we are very excited

about it.

But for many Palestinians

the mood disqualifies Washington as

an honest broker, the noise now not

about peace but resistance. In Gaza

Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist

group, called for another uprising.

In Arabic it is intifada, a word

synonymous with more troubled times.

TRANSLATION: Tomorrow will be a day

of rage and the beginning of a wider

move towards an uprising which we

will call the intifada of Jerusalem

and freedom in the West Bank.

Donald

Trump said he was merely recognising

the reality. Israel's Prime Minister

is now claiming others will follow

suit.

TRANSLATION: I have no doubt

that once the American embassy moves

to Jerusalem or even before, there

will be a movement of other

embassies to Jerusalem. The time has

come.

But the international reaction

so far suggests otherwise. In

Istanbul anger directed at

Washington outside the US consulate

last night. And America's allies

like France also disagree. President

Macron was today at an airbase in

Qatar will stop a piece del between

the Palestinians and Israelis he

says is only possible if Jerusalem

has an international status.

TRANSLATION: The status of Jerusalem

is a question of international

security which concerns the entire

international community.

So as

tensions rise, France and Britain

will express their opposition

directly to the Americans at a

special UN Security Council meeting

tomorrow. The fear that a

decades-old conflict could lead to

widespread violence once again.

widespread violence once again.

Our diplomatic Correspondent

James Robbins joins me.

James, taking up on what Tom was

saying, this violence we have seen

is what was feared the most?

It was

predicted widely predicted by

President Trump's State Department

who issued instructions to that

effect to its own diplomats, to

avoid all but essential travel to

the region. What is really

remarkable that was in Tom's report

was the scale of international unity

against the position taken by

President Trump. It is advocating

completely different tactics, Hamas

and the government of the major

Western powers, including Britain

and France, who are calling for a

discussion of the United States

Brahma decisions in the security

council. It is very unusual for the

Europeans to be seen orchestrating a

meeting in the UN which is bound to

be highly critical of Washington. It

is a remarkable moment but the hope

is that such protests as there is

maybe largely peaceful, not

exclusively peaceful, and the

pressure now on President Trump,

including from Boris Trout the

Foreign Secretary, is to back up his

decision with definite American

proposals to try to advance the

peace process. Boris Johnson echoing

what other people have said, you

have taken this provocative

decision, now you have to follow it

up with ideas about how you really

are going to advance the peace

process.

process.

The number of patients waiting

for over four hours to be seen

in Accident and Emergency units

across the UK has more than doubled

in the past four years,

according to research done

by the BBC.

Northern Ireland has the worst

performance, England has seen

the fastest deterioration.

The government says more money

is being made available in England

to help hospitals cope this winter,

as our Health Correspondent

Dominic Hughes reports.

Right across the UK,

accident and emergency departments

have been working at full capacity.

Now BBC analysis shows how

an already busy system

is struggling to cope.

The waiting time target to treat

or deal with 95% patients

within four hours is being missed

across the country.

In the past year, more

than 3 million patients waited

longer than four hours,

an increase of 120%

on four years ago.

But visits to A&E are up by only 7%,

to nearly 27 million.

To ensure the target is met,

the NHS would need to build

an additional 20 A&E departments.

There is no more

capacity in the system.

Staff are working really hard,

our nurses, our doctors,

and we've reached a point

where we unfortunately

cannot meet that demand.

It's clear that, over

the last four years,

more and more people have been

attending accident and emergency

departments, but it's the complexity

of many of those cases that has

contributed to longer

and longer waits for patients,

and the picture right across the UK

is extremely mixed.

Scotland has come closest

to hitting the target,

while England has seen the biggest

increase in those facing the long

wait, but performance

is even worse in Wales.

Northern Ireland manages

to see just three quarters

of patients within four hours.

The Luton and Dunstable Hospital

is one of the best performing

in the UK, but that's taken

an intense effort.

We can only meet the four-hour

target if we can move patients out

of the emergency department and,

to be able to do that,

we need to have beds available

within the hospital to move those

patients from the emergency

department, and that's

where everybody working

within the hospital system

has a role to play.

Across the UK, there are efforts

to control the numbers arriving

at A&E while also moving patients

through hospitals more

quickly to free up beds,

but the coming winter months

will be a challenge.

We know the NHS is under more

pressure, because we've got more

people coming to A&E.

We also know that money is tight.

We also know there are

workforce shortages.

But what I can assure everybody

is that both trusts and the national

NHS have prepared better

for this winter than they have

ever prepared before,

but we'll have to see what happens.

A busy NHS means longer

waiting times and, so far,

there is little sign of respite

for staff or patients.

Dominic Hughes, BBC News.

With me now is our

Health Editor Hugh Pym.

Are the pressures on A&E even more

intense this winter the last?

It

does seem like that. We had new

figures today from NHS England stay

in bed occupancy in hospitals in the

most recent week was 94.5% above

where it was a year ago. The issue

of bed availability is key to all of

this because if beds cannot be freed

up for new patients coming in, you

get a backlog going back into A&E

and these long wait there.

Discharging patients is a problem as

we have heard so many times because

of social care issues. If an elderly

patient is medically fit but cannot

be found somewhere to go because

something has not been set up at

home, that causes problems. Yes,

more money has been invested in

social care by the government in

England and, yes, the government has

made more money available in the

budget for the NHS to deal with

winter pressures. But there is a

feeling that is too little, too

late. Looking back with this BBC

research it shows the relentless

rise in patient numbers coming

through the door, but even more of

them waiting longer than four hours.

It has gone down a bit in Scotland

but rapidly up in England.

And how

much is this down to people going to

A&E when they do not need to?

There

is an element of that. The way best

hospitals deal with it, including

Luton and Dunstable, is to have

senior doctors near the front door

of the hospital, and GPs, so you can

take people out of the equation and

send them back into the community

because they do not need to be

there. But there are people who feel

they are not getting what they need

from their local GP, they are not

getting the cover they want outside

hospital and they want to be there.

The NHS in England feels there is a

big education robo people here who

are going to see a pharmacist and

not coming to A&E, are going to a

GP, and they think that is the best

way of taking pressure off this

winter.

winter.

And if you want to find

out what waiting times

are like at your hospital service,

go to the BBC's NHS Tracker

page on the website.

You just need to put

in your postcode.

Accident investigators have

concluded that the driver

of the tram which crashed in Croydon

last year killing seven passengers

and injuring dozens more had

probably dozed off as the tram

approached a sharp

bend at high speed.

Investigators made a number of

investigations, including

introducing automatic braking

systems and putting in tougher

windows and doors.

Going far too fast around a tight

bend that killed seven people and

injured more than 60. Now the

official report suggests the driver

may have temporarily nodded off. You

can see just how tight this band is.

The tram was meant to be going

around it at 13 miles an hour, a

snail's pace, like we are now. It

actually went around the bend at

nearer 45 miles an hour. One of the

survivors was standing exactly where

I am standing now checking his

phone.

The injury I sustained on the

tram that they just changed my life.

It is more than a year ago, but the

memories are fresh.

I pulled my foot

away and I held into the pole in

front of me and I said, God, please

save my life. There were people

screaming and shouting underneath

the tram because they were trapped.

Please do not serve on me, I am

still alive.

He thinks passengers

tried to warn the driver.

Normally

when they approach that corner it

normally slows down. But that date

everybody knew, everybody was

screaming and shouting back down the

door, but we did not get any

correspondence from the driver.

Investigators found other worrying

facts. Another tram nearly derailed

on the same corner just nine days

before but it was not investigated

properly. Nine drivers admitted they

had used emergency or heavy braking

on the same bend but were worried

about reporting near misses. There

was talk about inadequate speed

signs. Half of the passengers were

thrown out through smashed windows

and doors, the main cause of

injuries and deaths. Investigators

say trams should have tougher doors

and glass in the future. Marilyn

Logan lost her husband Philip in the

accident. She is furious at the tram

operator did not act on previous

speeding events.

Very angry because

these procedures should be there to

protect the public. That is not

protecting the public.

The driver is

still being investigated on

suspicion of manslaughter. Since the

accident Newsbeat signs have gone up

and there is a new system that

vibrates the seat if the driver

closes their eyes for more than a

second. Survivors are living with

this accident every day.

I don't

know what to say. It changed my life

completely.

It changed my life completely.

Downing Street says the government

is "close to an agreement"

on the status of the Irish border

after Brexit, although there

is more work to be done.

The EU says a proposal from the UK

is needed by Sunday at the latest,

in advance of a summit next week.

Let's speak to our Political

Correspondent Chris

Mason at Westminster.

The clock is ticking,

and the government's under a lot

of pressure to come up

with a solution that

will satisfy all sides?

Yes. To describe this as rather

tricky would be the mild

understatement of the morning. As

things stand there is no

breakthrough, said the European

Commission said this morning there

was no white smoke yet, in their

words. Downing Street is saying that

they are close but there is still

more work to be done. We now know of

a new deadline, a redefinition of

when the end of this week is. The

European Commission are saying as

far as they are concerned there is

an till the end of Sunday for the UK

to come forward with a new plan.

Why? On Monday morning civil

servants, known as Sherpas because

they are meant to guide the way to

the summit, that European summit

started a week today that will

decide whether or not sufficient

progress has been made to talk about

the next stage, to talk about the

future relationship. Meanwhile, back

here criticism from 19 remain

supporting Conservative MPs in the

direction of their Brexit supporting

colleagues saying they have acted

irresponsibly in restricting the

Prime Minister, making it harder for

her to negotiate. A reminder of the

multidimensional, multinational,

mighty complicated nature of these

negotiations. There are critics and

different compromises to consider.

Our top story this lunchtime:

Tear gas and water cannons are used

as violence breaks out

in the Palestinian West Bank,

following President Trump's

recognition of Jerusalem

as Israel's capital.

Coming up:

'Tis the season to be jolly,

and this group of actors is gearing

up for The Great Muslim Panto.

Coming up in sport:

Russian Sports Federations

are to decide next week

whether they will accept

an invitation from the IOC

for athletes who prove themselves

"clean" to compete at

the Winter Games in Pyeongchang.

This is the the largest and most

expensive warship ever

built for the Royal Navy.

The Queen commissioned HMS

Queen Elizabeth at a ceremony

in Portsmouth attended

by 4,000 people.

The ship, which won't take part

in military operations until 2021,

cost more than £3 billion and has

become the flagship of the fleet.

Our defence correspondent Jonathan

Beale has been watching it all.

Well, despite the weather, this is a

bright day for the Royal Navy. This

ship will be in service for the next

50 years. As you say, the largest,

most expensive warship now being

commissioned by Her Majesty the

Queen into service, and the white

ensign raised for the first time.

A day of pride for the Royal Navy,

and a chance to look to the future

and, for now, forget about recent

defence cuts and fears of even more.

This, the day the nation's largest

ever warship is commissioned into

service.

It's been a long,

complicated but committed journey to

get to this point, and commissioning

the ship is a key milestone in that.

It's been one of the biggest

engineering projects ever

undertaken, a national endeavour

involving more than 10,000 people

across the UK, helping build this,

the first of two massive new

carriers, all assembled in Rosyth.

Over the past few months, HMS Queen

Elizabeth and her 700 strong crew

have been testing her at Stephen

Dodd Russia has already described

her as a large convenient target.

But the government says she will be

a potent weapon and a symbol of

British military power. Two years

ago, the queen named her. Today, she

made her first visit on board, in

front of 4000 guests in the ship's

cavernous hangar that will

eventually hold the carrier's

aircraft.

May God's blessing be an

this ship and your endeavours to

uphold the endeavours of the Royal

Navy in the service hopper Majesty

the Queen be crowned with success

and happiness.

And the raising of

the white ensign for the first time,

meaning she is now legally

recognised as a Royal Navy warship.

The nation's future flagship saluted

with a fly past.

A true flagship for

the 21st century, the most powerful

and capable ship ever to raise the

white ensign, she will in the years

and decades ahead represent this

country's resolve on the global

stage.

She will be a giant of the

sea, but at a price of more than £3

billion. The jet that will fly off

her will cost millions more. And,

despite the cheering, this at a time

when there is talk of further

defence cuts.

This is another milestone, not the

end of the journey. Next year, Queen

Elizabeth will be conducting flight

trials, first with helicopters and

then with those US 35 jets, each

costing about £100 million, and then

she will go on her first military

deployments in 2021.

Bath Spa University has

defended its decision

to give its departing

Vice Chancellor £808,000

in pay and benefits.

It comes a week after

the vice-chancellor at neighbouring

Bath University announced

she was resigning,

following controversy over her pay.

Adina Campbell reports.

Known for its popular teacher

training courses, Bath Spa

University prides itself as one of

the UK's leading creative

institutions. It's also one of the

country's smallest universities, but

it's now been revealed that payments

to its departing Vice Chancellor,

Professor Christina Slade, are

thought to be the highest in the

university sector, reigniting anger

about excessive Vice Chancellor

play.

£800,000 for a former vice

Chancellor is outrageous, and for

Bath Spa University to be paying

this shows they are accountable to

nobody in effect. We need an

independent enquiry into vice

chancellors' pay and, until that's

done, I think the government should

impose a cap of no more than

£200,000 for any Vice Chancellor per

year.

Bath Spa University said it

paid Professor Slade a sum which

reflected her contractual and

statutory entitlements and was

considered to represent value for

money. On top of her quarter of £1

million salary, Professor Christina

Slade was also paid £429,000 for

loss of salary, £89,000 of pension

contributions, plus a housing

allowance and other benefits

amounting to £40,000. A total of

£808,000.

You are talking an

enormous amount of money, and you

are talking about this set against

students having high levels of debt,

staff finding their pensions are

being attacked, knowing that they

have a system that is under real

pressure.

This isn't the first time

that Bath has hit the headlines over

Vice Chancellor play. Last week,

Professor Dame Glynis broke well,

Britain's highest-paid Vice

Chancellor, announced she was

resigning from Bath University in a

row over her £468,000 salary. --

Glynis Breakwell. The government has

told universities from next year

they have to justify paying staff

more than £155,000, in what

campaigners say is a bloated and out

of date big bucks system.

A senior counterterrorism officer

has pleaded guilty to leaving

confidential documents in a car. He

admitted leaving them in a car for

45 days before they were stolen in

May. -- for four or five days.

An investigation has been launched

into whether Momentum,

which supports Jeremy Corbyn,

broke spending rules

during the general election.

The Electoral Commission

is considering if the grassroots

campaigning organisation spent more

money than is legally allowed,

and if it accurately

recorded donations.

There's been yet another outbreak

of wildfire in southern California,

hitting the state's main costal

highway and reaching

the Pacific Ocean.

The homes of more than 150,000

people have been evacuated

in an area north of Los Angeles,

and hundreds of buildings

have been damaged.

James Cook has sent this report.

No one can escape from nature,

not even in Bel-Air,

one of the wealthiest

suburbs on earth.

All day, there's been

a battle to save homes here,

and the owners have been rushing

to grab what they can as they flee

from their mansions.

We built this house 13 years ago.

Never seen anything like it.

Do you think the firefighters

are going to save it?

They are my heroes.

I'm hoping.

It's in God's and the

firefighters' hands.

And those heroes are being helped

by much lighter winds, for now.

So, with the potential winds, OK,

and the fires developing,

those embers can fly a distance

away, spark-firing canyons below us.

And you are worried that that

might be what happens,

because the winds are forecast

to get up?

That's correct.

The media mogul Rupert Murdoch's

vineyard property is one of those

which is smouldering,

but helicopters have been making

good use of the lull in the weather.

Well, these firefighters are now

battling a blaze in one of the most

exclusive neighbourhoods in Los

Angeles.

We are surrounded by expensive

homes, and this fire is likely

to get worse this afternoon,

when the winds pick up.

It was in the beach-side city

of Ventura where the first wildfire

exploded with terrifying speed.

Driven by ferocious desert winds

whipping down the dusty canyons.

And last night it jumped

the main coastal motorway,

causing terror for drivers.

To the left is Bel-Air.

To the right is, hmm...

Is that Brentwood?

Is Brentwood.

It has barely rained here in LA

for six months, and you can tell.

Many scientists say climate change

is driving more frequent and more

destructive wildfires.

For California, this is yet

another grim wake-up call.

James Cook, BBC News, Los Angeles.

Australia's parliament has

voted overwhelmingly

to legalise same-sex marriages,

after months of intense

nationwide debate.

There was cheering, clapping

and hugging as parliament's lower

house approved the measure.

A national poll showed

a majority of Australians

were in favour of same-sex unions.

Chart-topping singer-songwriter

Ed Sheeran has been awarded an MBE

by the Prince of Wales

for his musical achievements

and his charity work.

The award-winning celebrity,

whose latest album Divided spent

more than 15 weeks at the top

of the charts, received the honour

at Buckingham Palace.

World heritage status -

conferred by the Unesco -

is usually awarded to buildings

or to sites of special importance.

But today the art of Neapolitan

pizza-making has been honoured

by the cultural body.

Pizza-makers in Naples say they'll

celebrate by giving out -

guess what - free pizza

in the streets.

James Reynolds has been

hoping to get a slice.

You might not think that

pizza here in Naples

needs Unesco protection.

There are plenty of

people queueing up.

But it's now of the world's

intangible heritage.

If I can get past here,

I want to show you how it's done.

This is the pizza maker.

Unesco decided what

he's doing here...

Have a look at how he's

kneading the dough.

What he's doing here

is unique to Naples.

It may be copied across the world,

but it started here first.

THEY SPEAK ITALIAN.

He's very happy.

Obviously, a leading question.

Then have a look here

at what happens to the world's

intangible heritage.

It goes into the oven

for about two minutes.

It may be intangible but,

in the end, you can eat it.

James Reynolds in Naples, hoping to

sample some world heritage pizza.

What's thought to be Britain's

first-ever Muslim pantomime

premiers this month.

It will be touring six cities.

BBC Asian Network's

Shabnam Mahmood has more.

Final rehearsals for

the Great Muslim Panto,

billed as the first of its kind.

It's not much different

from your average production,

but this one's been made

with Muslims in mind and includes

a regular from the BBC hit

comedy Citizen Khan.

It's a Muslim cast, a full Muslim

cast for the first time,

and the storyline is a little bit

different as well.

There's a bit of good teaching Islam

implemented in it as well.

We get a lot of stick

from certain people who say

that we don't integrate enough,

but you can't get more integrated

than a Muslim panto, can you?

# So the story goes...

Although it follows the real life

story of an orphan girl,

the production keeps in mind

the traditional Christmas pantos -

plenty of songs, costume

changes and comedy.

It's been created and performed

by a Muslim family cast of seven,

which includes the baby.

It's got all the traditional

slapstick, it's got the "He's behind

you", all of that in it,

but it's just got a bit

of our history, too.

It's actually an opportunity

for people like Muslim women to say,

you know what, I wear a hijab

but I can still go on stage and act

and I can still do my dream,

so we're giving a platform for them.

The performance is not just

restricted to a Muslim audience

but organisers are hoping for more

people from the Islamic faith

to come to the show,

proving that pantomime

is for everyone.

I told you to poison the red apple!

I did poison the red apple.

The Great Muslim Panto will tour six

cities across the country

and is expected to raise thousands

of pounds for charity.

Shabnam Mahmood, BBC News.

Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Louise Lear.

As storm Caroline arrived?

Yes, and she is influencing the

weather story, but not you would

think, because we have storm force

winds across the north of Scotland

and an amber weather warning in

force but, once this frontal system

plays away, it's going to open

floodgates for bitterly cold Arctic

air to push right across the

country. It will feel pretty

miserable out there for the next

couple of days, a really wintry

flavour to the weather. For now,

we've still got some rain in the far

south-east to tearaway. Behind it,

some brightness and sunshine coming

through before a cluster shells

develops, some of them heavy and

sundry with some hail and eventually

smoke as we go through the end of

the day. It will be a miserable end

to the day across Scotland, blizzard

like conditions here with the snow

and feeling bitterly cold. We've

seen the warmest of the weather,

believe it or not, across England

and Wales this morning, but the cold

air starting to filter down from the

north, and that will continue to

exacerbate the shower through the

night, falling as snow across

Scotland, into Northern Ireland,

through the Cheshire gap towards

Wales as well. A cold start to

Friday, with temperatures hover ring

either side of freezing. If you are

roads early on with some snow

showers, lying snow a possibility,

and some ice on the road but it's

worth tuning in to your BBC local

radio stations for travel and

traffic updates. Look how widespread

the showers are at 8am, blown in by

gale force winds. A miserable start

for much of Scotland and Northern

Ireland, running down through the

Isle of Man, through the Cheshire

gap and towards the north Midlands

and Wales, which is where we are

likely to see the most frequent

showers in the early morning. A cold

start elsewhere, but a dry one, with

some glimpses of sunshine for some,

particularly eastern England. The

north-westerly wind always driving

in the showers, chiefly to north and

west facing coasts, but some of

those will filter inland, so we

could see some accumulations by the

end of the afternoon, five to ten

centimetres across England and

Wales, ten to 20 centimetres across

Scotland, and it will feel raw at

fair. You will need to wrap up warm.

On Friday and Saturday, a cold and

frosty start, a few showers but not

as frequent and a quieter day, with

some sunshine, but bitterly cold. On

Sunday, you will need to keep

abreast of the forecasts if you've

got outdoor plans, because this

weather system as it comes in is

going to bump into the cold air and

on the leading edge there will be

some snow, but there is a great deal

of uncertainty about that.

A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime:

Tear gas and water cannons are used

as violence breaks out