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Theresa May holds crucial talks
with ministers to agree | 0:00:07 | 0:00:09 | |
a united approach to Brexit. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:16 | |
Senior ministers are at Chequers
this afternoon as the Prime Minister | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
tries to get Cabinet
consensus on Brexit. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
We'll have the very latest
from our correspondent at Chequers. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:25 | |
Also this lunchtime: The number
of EU citizens leaving the UK | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
is at its highest for a decade. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:32 | |
President Trump suggests giving
guns to some teachers | 0:00:32 | 0:00:33 | |
as he meets survivors
of the Florida school shooting. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:38 | |
Scientists say anti-depressants
do work, and more of | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
us should be on them. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
And up, up and away
at the Winter Olympics - | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
it's gold for America in the men's
skiing half pipe. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:54 | |
And coming up in the
sport on BBC News... | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
Team GB's men are out of the curling
at the Winter Olympics. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
The silver medallists from four
years ago lost 9-5 to Switzerland | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
in their play-off match. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
Hello, welcome to the news out on. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:34 | |
There's a crucial meeting this
afternoon of the government's | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
inner cabinet on Brexit. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:37 | |
The Prime Minister is holding talks
with senior ministers at Chequers, | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
in an attempt to secure a common
approach on Britain's negotiating | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
position with the European Union. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:44 | |
The meeting begins in an hour,
but with significant | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
differences to be resolved,
it could go on until | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
late into the evening. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:49 | |
Here's our political
correspondent, Chris Mason. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:54 | |
The official country residence of
British prime ministers since 1921. | 0:01:54 | 0:02:01 | |
Checkers in the Buckinghamshire
countryside, hosting a meeting of | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
the Government's most senior figures
involved in making Brexit happen. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:09 | |
The chance for them to work out what
they see our long-term relationship | 0:02:09 | 0:02:15 | |
with the EU looking like. Questions
to the Secretary of State for | 0:02:15 | 0:02:21 | |
International Trade. Back at
Westminster, Brexit dominates | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
everything. Liam Fox faced questions
this morning, as did the Prime | 0:02:24 | 0:02:30 | |
Minister's de facto deputy, who
tried to talk things down. This is | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
one of a number of meetings of
Cabinet ministers to talk through | 0:02:34 | 0:02:39 | |
how we approach the forthcoming
negotiations. Obviously everybody | 0:02:39 | 0:02:45 | |
brings their particular departmental
interests to the table but if you | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
look at what happened back before
the December European summit there | 0:02:47 | 0:02:54 | |
was a lot of speculation the Cabinet
would not reach agreement. We all | 0:02:54 | 0:02:58 | |
agreed the position the Prime
Minister took to Brussels and got a | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
successful outcome and we are
determined to get the best possible | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
deal. But there are continuing rows
about precisely how long the | 0:03:05 | 0:03:10 | |
transition period immediately after
Brexit next year should be. And | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
crucially there are differences of
instinct around the Cabinet table | 0:03:13 | 0:03:18 | |
about what the UK's long-term
relationship with the EU after | 0:03:18 | 0:03:23 | |
Brexit should look like and those
differences won't melt away easily. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:27 | |
The Prime Minister has got to keep
Brexiteer backbenchers onside. The | 0:03:27 | 0:03:33 | |
Brexit Cabinet all fought the last
election on a manifesto of leaving | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
the European Union and that's
basically what they are talking | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
about, the structure as to how we do
that. The Prime Minister enunciated | 0:03:39 | 0:03:44 | |
yesterday the main principles about
taking back control of our laws and | 0:03:44 | 0:03:50 | |
money, leaving the single market and
customs union. Labour has faced | 0:03:50 | 0:03:55 | |
criticism is itself about a lack of
clarity about what it wants but is | 0:03:55 | 0:03:59 | |
now saying... We have been evolving
and deepening our policy over the | 0:03:59 | 0:04:04 | |
last few months. The key issue is to
say to the Government you got to | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
have the transition period of these
two years, but also for the | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
long-term look at the potential of a
customs union. The cameras won't get | 0:04:11 | 0:04:17 | |
much closer to checkers than this
today. Spectacular views, yes, but | 0:04:17 | 0:04:21 | |
don't expect spectacular political
theatre. The process of negotiating | 0:04:21 | 0:04:26 | |
Brexit and home -- at home and
abroad is a slow and grinding on. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:33 | |
Our Political Correspondent Alex
Forsyth is at Chequers. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
How important is this meeting? | 0:04:35 | 0:04:41 | |
It is pretty crucial because, as
Chris was outlining, the whole point | 0:04:41 | 0:04:45 | |
of it is to try to get some
agreement among Theresa May's top | 0:04:45 | 0:04:49 | |
team about what the long-term
relationship between the UK and the | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
EU will be. The tricky aspect of
that is trade. The Prime Minister | 0:04:53 | 0:04:57 | |
has been clear it's her view of the
UK will be leaving the single market | 0:04:57 | 0:05:02 | |
and customs union. The question is
what kind of trading relationship | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
replaces that and crucially how
closely aligned the UK will state of | 0:05:05 | 0:05:10 | |
the EU with its | 0:05:10 | 0:05:21 | |
rules and regulations, and what it
is prepared to trade off in terms of | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
the UK's own sovereignty in order to
gain access to the markets. The | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
difficulty is there are
significantly different views about | 0:05:28 | 0:05:30 | |
that, not just between parties but
between the ministers who will be | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
meeting here today. Some of course
whom campaigned for Brexit, some of | 0:05:32 | 0:05:34 | |
whom wanted the UK to stay in the
European Union. This meeting this | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
afternoon could be tricky, could be
very long, and they will have to try | 0:05:38 | 0:05:42 | |
to agree some sort of compromise. We
may get detail later about what that | 0:05:42 | 0:05:46 | |
looks like but we are also expecting
a speech from the Prime Minister | 0:05:46 | 0:05:51 | |
next week outlining what the UK
hopes to achieve. When they get | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
through the negotiations here, once
they agree what they want, they have | 0:05:55 | 0:05:59 | |
to agree it with Brussels too. Alex,
thank you. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:04 | |
The EU appears to have rejected
a key British proposal | 0:06:04 | 0:06:06 | |
for the future relationship
after Brexit, according | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
to documents published
by the European Commission. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
Our reporter Adam Fleming has
been looking at them. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:17 | |
Adam, what has the EU been saying? A
couple of weeks ago EU officials | 0:06:17 | 0:06:24 | |
have a private meeting to discuss
this proposal put forward by the | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
British government, that you have
some areas where the UK keeps EU | 0:06:27 | 0:06:32 | |
rules and regulations, other areas
of the economy where they have the | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
same goal but get there using
different rules and regulations, and | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
areas where things are totally
different between the two. A | 0:06:39 | 0:06:43 | |
document published last night shows
the European Commission's Brexit | 0:06:43 | 0:06:48 | |
negotiators said that concept would
be incompatible with the EU ground | 0:06:48 | 0:06:56 | |
rules for Brexit which are all about
protecting the integrity of the | 0:06:56 | 0:06:59 | |
single market, the internal market
as they call it here in Brussels. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:01 | |
This morning a senior EU diplomat
said it looks like the UK was trying | 0:07:01 | 0:07:05 | |
to pick bits of the single market it
liked and reject bits it didn't like | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
which to them is not an acceptable
course of action. This meeting at | 0:07:09 | 0:07:14 | |
Chequers today is all about the UK
agreeing an opening position for the | 0:07:14 | 0:07:18 | |
next phase of Brexit talks which is
all about trade and the future | 0:07:18 | 0:07:23 | |
relationship. If we have learned
anything about the process, | 0:07:23 | 0:07:32 | |
anything about the process, all of
these meetings here with Michel | 0:07:32 | 0:07:33 | |
Barnier and David Davies are about
finding a compromise between the | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
British and Brussels position which
they are happy with in Brussels and | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
end up being happy with in Britain.
Adam, thank you. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
The number of European Union
nationals leaving the UK | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
is at its highest level
for a decade. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
New figures show that 130,000
EU nationals emigrated | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
in the year to last September. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
Our home affairs correspondent
Danny Shaw is here. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
Danny, how significant
are these statistics? | 0:07:54 | 0:08:01 | |
These figures from the office for
National Statistics appear to | 0:08:01 | 0:08:04 | |
indicate to me is certainly that
Brexit is having an impact on | 0:08:04 | 0:08:09 | |
whether EU nationals want to live in
the UK. If you look at the | 0:08:09 | 0:08:16 | |
referendum June 2016, since then
every quarter these figures are | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
published there's been a drop in the
number of EU nationals coming to | 0:08:19 | 0:08:23 | |
live here and there's been a rise in
the number of EU citizens leaving | 0:08:23 | 0:08:28 | |
Britain. The latest numbers we have
got, 130,000 people leaving, that's | 0:08:28 | 0:08:34 | |
the highest since 2008, and 220,000
arriving, the lowest for almost four | 0:08:34 | 0:08:43 | |
years. At the same time we are
seeing a rise in the number of | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
people from outside Europe coming to
Britain, the highest number since | 0:08:45 | 0:08:52 | |
September 2011. What does this do
for the controversial target to cut | 0:08:52 | 0:08:57 | |
net migration, the difference
between overall numbers coming and | 0:08:57 | 0:09:01 | |
leaving to less than 100,000? They
are still way off that target at 240 | 0:09:01 | 0:09:08 | |
4000. Danny, thank you very much
indeed. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:13 | |
The UK economy expanded by less
than previously thought in the final | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
three months of last year,
official figures reveal. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:18 | |
Gross domestic product -
or GDP - grew by 0.4% | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
in the October-to-December period,
down from the initial | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
estimate of 0.5%. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:24 | |
The Office for National Statistics
said the downgrade was due to slower | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
growth in production industries. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:32 | |
Donald Trump has suggested that
giving guns to some teachers | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
would stop massacres like last
week's high school shooting | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
in Florida, in which 17 pupils
and staff were killed. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
The president said teachers
with firearms training could have | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
concealed weapons in the classroom. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:46 | |
His comments came as he met
survivors of the Florida massacre | 0:09:46 | 0:09:49 | |
and other shootings. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:57 | |
Barbara Plett-Usher
reports from Florida. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:04 | |
The people demand a hearing. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
In Florida telling their lawmakers
loud and clear, they don't want this | 0:10:07 | 0:10:10 | |
mass shooting to drop off
the political agenda | 0:10:10 | 0:10:12 | |
like all the others have. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
At the White House, President Trump
was listening, to victims | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
of the Parkland school attack,
but also those that came before it. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:24 | |
Andrew Pollack's 18-year-old
daughter Meadow was | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
killed last week. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
It doesn't make sense, fix it,
should have been one school shooting | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
and we should have fixed it. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:36 | |
And I'm kissed. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
Because my daughter I'm
not going to see again. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
She's not here, she's not here. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:47 | |
She's in North Lauderdale
at whatever it is, | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
King David Cemetery,
that's where I go to see my kid now. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:56 | |
It doesn't make sense
to her schoolmate Samuel Zeif | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
either, especially the gunman's
access to a semiautomatic rifle. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
I don't understand. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:05 | |
I turned 18 the day after,
woke up to the news that my best | 0:11:05 | 0:11:09 | |
friend was gone and I don't
understand why I could still go | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
in a store and buy a weapon of war. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:19 | |
The president has responded to calls
for tougher gun laws with promises | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
of strong background checks,
but also more guns. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:29 | |
It's called concealed
carry, where a teacher | 0:11:29 | 0:11:30 | |
would have a concealed gun on them. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
They'd go for special training. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:40 | |
They would be there and you would no
longer have a gun-free zone. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
There is some support for that
argument, but students who survived | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
the attack flooded Florida's state
legislature, demanding a ban | 0:11:47 | 0:11:49 | |
on assault rifles. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
Lawmakers may make it harder
for a teenager to buy one, | 0:11:52 | 0:11:56 | |
but not more than that. | 0:11:56 | 0:11:58 | |
ALL: Never again! | 0:11:58 | 0:11:59 | |
Still, that's movement
in an unmoving debate. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:01 | |
The students aim to harness that
momentum and turn it | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
into a national campaign. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
This feels like something new. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:08 | |
The students seem to
have captured a moment. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:10 | |
They're giving a face and a voice
to widespread anger and frustration | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
about mass shootings. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:14 | |
But whether their movement has
the power to bring real | 0:12:14 | 0:12:16 | |
change will be the story
of the coming months. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
Barbara Plett-Usher, BBC News,
Tallahassee, Florida. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
Our Correspondent Gary O'Donghue
is in Maryland where | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
later today the head
of the National Rifle Association | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
is making his first speech
since the Florida school shooting. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
Gary, what's he likely to say? | 0:12:30 | 0:12:38 | |
That is interesting because the NRA
has a pattern of these things, when | 0:12:41 | 0:12:49 | |
the shootings happened. It goes very
quiet in the immediate aftermath of | 0:12:49 | 0:12:53 | |
that and that's exactly what's
happened this time. This will be the | 0:12:53 | 0:12:58 | |
first public comments by the head of
the NRA since the Parkland shooting | 0:12:58 | 0:13:03 | |
and there's a lot of things for him
to address. There is pressure for | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
example for a ban on assault rifles,
something they won't support at all. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:13 | |
There is pressure to raise the age
at which you can buy such guns, | 0:13:13 | 0:13:18 | |
that's one of the suggestions in the
Florida house at the moment. Then | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
there's the question of what you do
about people with mental health | 0:13:22 | 0:13:26 | |
problems and their access to guns.
He will be talking among friends, | 0:13:26 | 0:13:33 | |
this is a right-wing conference so
he will I think get a lot of support | 0:13:33 | 0:13:38 | |
here. But bear in mind his
organisation is extraordinarily | 0:13:38 | 0:13:44 | |
powerful. It spends a lot of money
lobbying and politically giving | 0:13:44 | 0:13:48 | |
money to congressmen for their runs
and they know that. In terms of the | 0:13:48 | 0:13:55 | |
president himself, he is saying this
morning it does have to be the time | 0:13:55 | 0:13:58 | |
when teachers get guns in ordered to
stop what he calls sickos shooting | 0:13:58 | 0:14:08 | |
in schools. Thank you. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:11 | |
The United Nations Security Council
will today consider a resolution | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
calling for a ceasefire in Syria. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:15 | |
It comes as government
forces in the country | 0:14:15 | 0:14:17 | |
continue their intense bombardment
of the rebel enclave | 0:14:17 | 0:14:19 | |
of Eastern Ghouta,
on the outskirts of Damascus. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
The UN have described
the enclave as "hell on earth", | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
and in the last few days hundreds
of civilians, including many | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
children, have been killed there. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:29 | |
This report from Paul Adams does
include some distressing images. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:37 | |
A massacre, hell on earth, a
monstrous campaign of annihilation. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:44 | |
The world is running out of ways to
describe what's happening in eastern | 0:14:44 | 0:14:49 | |
Ghouta, but the bombs are still
falling and the toll is dreadful. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:55 | |
And medical facilities are not being
spread. This Children's Hospital now | 0:14:55 | 0:15:01 | |
wrapped.
TRANSLATION: The clinical care and | 0:15:01 | 0:15:06 | |
surgery unit is out, the incubator
unit is out, the paediatric section | 0:15:06 | 0:15:11 | |
is out. All of the departments of
hospital are out of service, the | 0:15:11 | 0:15:15 | |
destruction is total. Elsewhere
medical staff tried desperately to | 0:15:15 | 0:15:22 | |
keep up with hundreds of casualties.
The siege of eastern Ghouta began | 0:15:22 | 0:15:27 | |
five years ago. The situation was
intolerable long before this | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
terrible week.
TRANSLATION: These are hopeless | 0:15:30 | 0:15:37 | |
cases, there's nothing we can do to
save them. These victims have | 0:15:37 | 0:15:41 | |
suffered head and brain injuries.
This one has stopped breathing. I'm | 0:15:41 | 0:15:46 | |
worried about this boy too, both
need intensive care but we cannot | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
operate because the bombing is
relentless. Where are the Arabs? | 0:15:50 | 0:15:58 | |
Where are the Muslims? Do we have to
appeal to Israel instead to help? | 0:15:58 | 0:16:07 | |
Shame on you, this is just a little
boy who wants freedom. Why are you | 0:16:07 | 0:16:13 | |
doing this? I don't know what to do.
Can any of this be stopped through | 0:16:13 | 0:16:22 | |
diplomacy? The UN wants a ceasefire
and there's a meeting at the UN | 0:16:22 | 0:16:26 | |
Security Council this afternoon, but
in Geneva its envoy for Syria | 0:16:26 | 0:16:31 | |
doesn't sound optimistic.
Comment on whether you think there | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
will be a deal today on a ceasefire
resolution? I hope it will, but it | 0:16:34 | 0:16:39 | |
is uphill, it is very urgent. If
there isn't one, what happens? We | 0:16:39 | 0:16:45 | |
will have to push for it to take
place as soon as possible because | 0:16:45 | 0:16:50 | |
there is no alternative to a
ceasefire and humanitarian access. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:54 | |
Russia says the real blame lies with
terrorists firing out of Ghouta into | 0:16:54 | 0:17:00 | |
the capital. Jihadi fighters
including some connected with | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
Al-Qaeda have been active in the
area since the siege began. This for | 0:17:03 | 0:17:07 | |
President Assad is about securing
Damascus, there's no immediate sign | 0:17:07 | 0:17:12 | |
of him stopping. Britain is halfway
towards its target of resettling the | 0:17:12 | 0:17:22 | |
most vulnerable refugees from the
Syrian civil war. The Home Secretary | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
says 10,000 refugees have already
come here and she's looking to see | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
what to do after the scheme ends in
two years' time. Daniel Sandford | 0:17:29 | 0:17:33 | |
reports. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
Far from the horrors
of the war in Syria, | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
we found Khaled Kara Hasan playing
football in his garden in Coventry | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
with his sons, Mahmood and Zid. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
His family are some of the 10,000
people now given refuge in Britain | 0:17:43 | 0:17:46 | |
under the vulnerable person
resettlement scheme. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:47 | |
Khaled, who was a pharmacy
assistant in Syria, now works | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
part-time in Waitrose. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
He told me he fled Homs in 2012
after Syrian government forces | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
bombed first his neighbourhood
and then a second area, | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
where he'd taken refuge. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
I decided with my family
to leave Syria, Turkey, | 0:18:01 | 0:18:07 | |
because I like my family. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:10 | |
To protect them. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:12 | |
I remember my brothers,
I remember my friend, my neighbours. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:19 | |
Here it's more safe, more safe,
but in Syria it's like, | 0:18:23 | 0:18:29 | |
you know in Syria it's
like fighting, but it's | 0:18:29 | 0:18:33 | |
still my country. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
You miss it a bit, yeah? | 0:18:36 | 0:18:37 | |
Yeah. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:39 | |
But the old Syria is gone. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:40 | |
This mobile phone footage sent
by a friend shows what their flat | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
in Homs looks like today. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:46 | |
The scheme to resettle refugees
from Syria is overseen | 0:18:46 | 0:18:52 | |
by the Home Secretary,
Amber Rudd, who was in a camp | 0:18:52 | 0:18:55 | |
in Lebanon this week. | 0:18:55 | 0:18:56 | |
The UK has promised to give homes
to 20,000 of the most vulnerable | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
by the end of 2020 and is now
halfway to that target. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:05 | |
I think that the British public can
be very proud of that, | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
proud of the fact they've been able
to reach that commitment, | 0:19:08 | 0:19:10 | |
that these families are being
resettled in the community | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
and are being looked after. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
But campaigners say Britain
could still be doing much more. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:19 | |
There are more than 5 million
Syrian refugees living | 0:19:19 | 0:19:22 | |
in neighbouring countries,
some in terrible conditions. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:26 | |
Like this woman, who has
three children under ten | 0:19:26 | 0:19:28 | |
and whose husband is missing. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
A couple of years ago she had
the chance to go to Germany. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:37 | |
I was afraid at the time,
as my children were still young, | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
so I declined the offer,
she told the BBC. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
With a return to Syria
still impossible, it's a decision | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
she now bitterly regrets. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
Daniel Sandford, BBC News. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:55 | |
Our top story this lunchtime. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
Theresa May is holding crucial
talks with her ministers | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
at Chequers this afternoon,
to agree a united approach | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
for the Brexit negotiations. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:06 | |
And still to come. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
More disappointment for Team GB
in the Winter Olympics - | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
men's curling is the latest to be
knocked out, with the skipper | 0:20:10 | 0:20:16 | |
Coming up in sport... | 0:20:16 | 0:20:17 | |
Mercedes reveal their new car
for the Formula One season. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:19 | |
Lewis Hamilton says he'll quickly
get used to the new halo | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
designed to protect drivers. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:28 | |
New research shows
antidepressants are effective - | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
and that many more people
could benefit from taking them. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
The study, in the medical journal
the Lancet, found 21 common | 0:20:39 | 0:20:43 | |
antidepressants were more effective
than placebos at reducing symptoms | 0:20:43 | 0:20:47 | |
of acute depression. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:48 | |
Here's our health correspondent,
James Gallagher. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:53 | |
How did the chicken cross the road? | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
Comedian Christian Talbot makes
a career out of making people laugh. | 0:20:55 | 0:20:59 | |
..to feel safe. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:02 | |
But off the stage he takes
antidepressants in order to get | 0:21:02 | 0:21:04 | |
from one day to the next. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:08 | |
It did feel literally
like a weight off my shoulders. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
I was less anxious. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
And I sort of felt just more even,
you know, not happy, but even. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:19 | |
Antidepressants are some of our most
commonly-used drugs. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:23 | |
64 million prescriptions were handed
out in England in 2016 and, yet, | 0:21:23 | 0:21:27 | |
they are the source of huge debate. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:31 | |
So many people take antidepressants
that it seems remarkable | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
there could be serious questions
about whether they work, | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
but some trials have hinted
they have no affect, | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
and for the fiercest critics,
antidepressants are snake oil. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:46 | |
But scientists think
they have finally answered | 0:21:46 | 0:21:47 | |
the question in a huge study. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
They analysed more than 500 clinical
trials, including previously | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
unpublished data held
by drug companies. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:57 | |
We found that all the most commonly
prescribed antidepressants work | 0:21:57 | 0:22:02 | |
for major depression and for people
with moderate to severe depression | 0:22:02 | 0:22:08 | |
and also we found that some of them
are more effective than others, | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
or better tolerated than others. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:16 | |
The study assessed whether these
drugs are effective | 0:22:16 | 0:22:18 | |
in the short term. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
More work is underway to see how
long any benefits last. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
However, there are still
patients that don't respond | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
to any form of treatment. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:29 | |
The patient can be reassured that
if they need antidepressants | 0:22:29 | 0:22:31 | |
and they take antidepressants
they are doing the right | 0:22:31 | 0:22:35 | |
thing, but we can move
on to the new most important | 0:22:35 | 0:22:38 | |
questions, which is what we do
with patients who don't respond | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
to all available antidepressants. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
The study included 21 drugs,
yet some to patients do not | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
respond to any of them. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:46 | |
How can we help them? | 0:22:46 | 0:22:47 | |
Another concern is too few people
with depression get treatment. | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
Researchers estimate at least
one million more people | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
in the UK would benefit
from therapies including | 0:22:52 | 0:22:55 | |
antidepressants. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:56 | |
James Gallagher, BBC News. | 0:22:56 | 0:23:01 | |
University lecturers across the UK
are beginning a series of strikes. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
The action will affect
around a million students. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:11 | |
Members of the University
and College Union are walking out | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
in protest at planned changes
to their pension scheme, | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
which they say will leave them
worse off in retirement. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
Our correspondent Tomos Morgan has
this report from Cardiff - | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
where hundreds of university staff
are taking action. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:25 | |
Know ifs, no buts, no pension cuts.
Picket lines, protests, the scene at | 0:23:25 | 0:23:32 | |
universities across the country.
Staff walking out in a dispute over | 0:23:32 | 0:23:36 | |
pensions. Institutions say there's a
£6.1 billion deficit in the current | 0:23:36 | 0:23:42 | |
scheme, which is unsustainable. They
say changes must be made. But after | 0:23:42 | 0:23:45 | |
35 meetings over the past year, the
University and College Union says | 0:23:45 | 0:23:50 | |
the strikes were inevitable is the
proposed new scheme would be far | 0:23:50 | 0:23:56 | |
less generous. We are saying changes
to the scheme should be fair. We are | 0:23:56 | 0:24:01 | |
in the scheme which the staff and
employers are committed to. They | 0:24:01 | 0:24:05 | |
employers have now junked that
approach and are going for something | 0:24:05 | 0:24:07 | |
where the staff are being shoved
aside. With lectures being affected | 0:24:07 | 0:24:11 | |
by the strikes there a danger that
student degrees will be impacted. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:15 | |
There are suggestions exams may have
to be modified marking relaxed. The | 0:24:15 | 0:24:21 | |
thousands of students that have come
out today to protest across the | 0:24:21 | 0:24:25 | |
country are doing so alongside their
lecturers. Their frustration is | 0:24:25 | 0:24:29 | |
aimed at their institutions. They
are seen as consumers in the eyes of | 0:24:29 | 0:24:33 | |
regulators and the courts and if
this deadlock continues students | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
believe they deserve some
compensation from universities for | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
the loss of teaching time. Students
across the country have begun | 0:24:39 | 0:24:44 | |
petitions, calling for universities
to recognise that they are not | 0:24:44 | 0:24:48 | |
receiving a service paid for by
their tuition fees. The petition | 0:24:48 | 0:24:52 | |
here in Cardiff has already had
almost 5000 the glitches. It's an | 0:24:52 | 0:24:58 | |
opportunity to focus on financial
compensation, we believe that | 0:24:58 | 0:25:02 | |
academic compensation is more
beneficial. We don't believe in the | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
long-running financial compensation
will benefit students and changes to | 0:25:05 | 0:25:11 | |
exam feedback or deadlines benefits
is more. The union says senior | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
lecturers could be £10,000 a year
worse off under the proposed new | 0:25:15 | 0:25:20 | |
scheme. Universities UK, the body
that represents institutions, says | 0:25:20 | 0:25:25 | |
that they are making every effort to
minimise the impact of industrial | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
action on students, adding that
changes proposed will make the | 0:25:28 | 0:25:32 | |
pension scheme secure and
sustainable, safeguarding the future | 0:25:32 | 0:25:37 | |
of universities. Currently, 14 days
of protests are planned. But unless | 0:25:37 | 0:25:43 | |
a deal can be reached soon, unions
say more strike action stretching | 0:25:43 | 0:25:48 | |
into the summer exam period is
inevitable. Tomos Morgan, BBC News, | 0:25:48 | 0:25:52 | |
Cardiff. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:54 | |
Britain's biggest energy supplier,
Centrica, says it's cutting 4000 | 0:25:54 | 0:25:56 | |
jobs over the next couple of years. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:58 | |
It follows a big drop in profits,
down by 17 % last year. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
The group - which owns British Gas -
has blamed its performance | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
in North America as well in the UK. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:06 | |
Our business correspondent
Emma Simpson reports. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:14 | |
It's been a disappointing year for
Britain's biggest energy supplier. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:19 | |
Today, the hard numbers will stop
Centrica's group profits down 17% | 0:26:19 | 0:26:26 | |
come at a £1.25 billion. It also
lost 1.4 million British Gas | 0:26:26 | 0:26:32 | |
customer accounts and more
cost-cutting is on the way, with | 0:26:32 | 0:26:37 | |
4000 jobs to go. And those cuts, the
boss told me, are partly down to the | 0:26:37 | 0:26:42 | |
government's looming price cap on
bills. It's about competition and | 0:26:42 | 0:26:47 | |
what customers are wanting, but
there's a third reason. There is a | 0:26:47 | 0:26:51 | |
link between our cost efficiency
programme and preparing for price | 0:26:51 | 0:26:56 | |
cap in the UK. We've got to be
competitive and this measure means | 0:26:56 | 0:26:59 | |
that we've got to drive more
efficiency. The posts will go over | 0:26:59 | 0:27:07 | |
the next three years, mainly in its
UK residential business. It's only a | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
couple of years ago that I was
talking to the Chief Executive | 0:27:10 | 0:27:17 | |
around 5500 job losses and that
being the necessary action required, | 0:27:17 | 0:27:22 | |
and now here we are again with a
further 4000 job cuts being | 0:27:22 | 0:27:28 | |
announced. It's very, very
concerning. The government says | 0:27:28 | 0:27:32 | |
Britain's energy market isn't
working. Customers are being | 0:27:32 | 0:27:35 | |
overcharged. That's why it wants to
cap the most expensive energy bills. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:40 | |
A move which could put another
squeeze on Centrica's profits, so | 0:27:40 | 0:27:45 | |
our price rises on the cards? I
can't make any guarantees others and | 0:27:45 | 0:27:50 | |
we watch the input costs closely and
we are trying to make our energy as | 0:27:50 | 0:27:56 | |
competitive as possible. From
government intervention to | 0:27:56 | 0:27:59 | |
increasing competition, the whole
industry is in the midst of change, | 0:27:59 | 0:28:04 | |
but will it come at a price, and for
whom? Emma Simpson, BBC News. | 0:28:04 | 0:28:11 | |
In the Winter Olympics,
British skier Dave Ryding finished | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
ninth in the men's slalom. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
The GB men's curling team failed
to reach the semifinals, | 0:28:15 | 0:28:17 | |
after Switzerland beat them
in their tie-break match. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:21 | |
In the men's skiing half pipe,
some spectacular aerial acrobatics - | 0:28:21 | 0:28:24 | |
as you'll see in David Ornstein's
report from Pyeongchang. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:28 | |
COMMENTATOR: From Great Britain
and Northern Ireland, | 0:28:28 | 0:28:29 | |
Dave "The Rocket" Ryding. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:32 | |
At the gateway to Olympic glory. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:35 | |
From a dry ski slope in Lancashire
to the real stuff in South Korea, | 0:28:35 | 0:28:40 | |
Dave Ryding has followed
an unconventional path, | 0:28:40 | 0:28:42 | |
but now finds himself battling
against the world's best. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:47 | |
The Rocket starts to get
acceleration on the flat. | 0:28:47 | 0:28:49 | |
Ryding's final run here propelled
him to a ninth place finish - | 0:28:49 | 0:28:52 | |
Britain's best Olympic Alpine skiing
result in 30 years. | 0:28:52 | 0:29:00 | |
That's a superb performance
by Dave Ryding, but it won't quite | 0:29:00 | 0:29:04 | |
be enough to get him on the podium,
and Britain's wait for another medal | 0:29:04 | 0:29:08 | |
at these Games goes on. | 0:29:08 | 0:29:11 | |
I'm 31, but still life
in the old dog yet, and it | 0:29:11 | 0:29:14 | |
motivates me for another four years
and I know I can | 0:29:14 | 0:29:17 | |
improve on that still. | 0:29:17 | 0:29:20 | |
Curling has become one
of the country's main sources | 0:29:20 | 0:29:22 | |
of Olympic success -
the men taking silver | 0:29:22 | 0:29:25 | |
in Sochi four years ago. | 0:29:25 | 0:29:27 | |
This, however, is a new team
and they leave empty-handed, | 0:29:27 | 0:29:30 | |
after an agonising defeat by
Switzerland. | 0:29:30 | 0:29:33 | |
Leading 5-4 with just two ends to go
and a semifinals place at stake, | 0:29:33 | 0:29:38 | |
the Brits capitulated to lose 9-5. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:43 | |
We had a good game today,
but it wasn't to be, sadly. | 0:29:43 | 0:29:46 | |
A couple of things didn't go our way
and a couple of half shots | 0:29:46 | 0:29:50 | |
and that's all it takes
against a team as good as them. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
Meanwhile there was confirmation
today that the Russian mixed doubles | 0:29:53 | 0:29:56 | |
pair of Alexander Krushelnitskiy
and his wife Anastasia Bryzgalova | 0:29:56 | 0:30:00 | |
have been stripped of their curling
bronze medal after Krushelnitskiy | 0:30:00 | 0:30:05 | |
was found guilty of doping. | 0:30:05 | 0:30:07 | |
In the women's ice hockey
there was incredible drama | 0:30:07 | 0:30:09 | |
as the United States and Canada went
to a sudden-death shoot out. | 0:30:09 | 0:30:13 | |
COMMENTATOR: Saved,
the USA win gold. | 0:30:13 | 0:30:17 | |
Having claimed each of the last four
titles, Canada were left devastated | 0:30:17 | 0:30:21 | |
as the USA celebrated
a famous victory. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:26 | |
There was more American joy
in the men's ski half pipe. | 0:30:26 | 0:30:29 | |
Defending champion David Wise making
the spectacular look simple, | 0:30:29 | 0:30:34 | |
to triumphant again
with a near-perfect final run. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:38 | |
COMMENTATOR: Oh, that's it! | 0:30:38 | 0:30:39 | |
David Ornstein, BBC
News, Pyeongchang. | 0:30:39 | 0:30:46 | |
Time for a look at the weather. | 0:30:46 | 0:30:48 | |
Here's Stav. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:49 | |
We are in for some Winter Olympics
temperatures? | 0:30:53 | 0:30:57 | |
Indeed we are, the story is
unfolding. Good afternoon. I'll | 0:30:57 | 0:31:01 | |
start with the European map and the
temperature contrast, you can see | 0:31:01 | 0:31:04 | |
the blues pouring out from Siberia
into western Russia, spreading | 0:31:04 | 0:31:10 | |
across the continent and reaching
our shores, particularly into next | 0:31:10 | 0:31:13 | |
week you really will notice the
bitterly cold conditions. It's going | 0:31:13 | 0:31:17 | |
to feel extremely bitter,
particularly if you add on the wind. | 0:31:17 | 0:31:20 | |
Widespread morning frosts. There's
the chance of some snow in some | 0:31:20 | 0:31:24 | |
areas, but uncertainty in that
detail. Keep tuned to the forecast | 0:31:24 | 0:31:28 | |
the weather snow will fall. Here and
now, we have high pressure in | 0:31:28 | 0:31:31 | |
control. Its finance settled. A lot
of dry weather around through the | 0:31:31 | 0:31:36 | |
afternoon. The best of the sunshine
across eastern side of England, | 0:31:36 | 0:31:40 | |
eastern Scotland and some glimmers
elsewhere, but there will be a tough | 0:31:40 | 0:31:43 | |
cloud and disappointingly chilly
where you have the cloud. Not too | 0:31:43 | 0:31:46 | |
bad in the sunshine. 5-7dC. As we
had through this evening and | 0:31:46 | 0:31:52 | |
overnight, the skies clear quite
widely. It looks like temperatures | 0:31:52 | 0:31:54 | |
will plummet. It will be a dry one
for where the skies are clear, | 0:31:54 | 0:32:00 | |
particularly in England and the fund
into parts of Scotland it will be a | 0:32:00 | 0:32:03 | |
really cold one, much colder than
last night, with a hard frost down | 0:32:03 | 0:32:06 | |
to maybe minus five Celsius in a few
places. One thing is for sure, it | 0:32:06 | 0:32:11 | |
will be a cold start tomorrow
morning. You'll be scraping the car | 0:32:11 | 0:32:13 | |
if you are heading out early. Like
today, because high | 0:32:13 | 0:32:22 | |
pressure is in control, it will be
largely financed right, variable | 0:32:30 | 0:32:33 | |
amounts of cloud and good spells of
sunshine, the best of it in | 0:32:33 | 0:32:36 | |
Scotland, parts of England and why,
a bit of cloud rolling in off the | 0:32:36 | 0:32:39 | |
North Sea for north-east England.
Temperatures 4-7. That's the trend | 0:32:39 | 0:32:41 | |
as we head into the weekend. The
temperatures continue to fall away | 0:32:41 | 0:32:44 | |
as we pick up the south-easterly
wind bringing the cold air, which is | 0:32:44 | 0:32:47 | |
already across the near continent.
Again, high pressure in control for | 0:32:47 | 0:32:49 | |
Saturday. A lot of fine and dry
weather. Wrap up well and head out, | 0:32:49 | 0:32:52 | |
it should be quite nice, good sunny
spells around. A bit more of a | 0:32:52 | 0:32:56 | |
breeze. It will start to knock the
temperatures down further. Ranging | 0:32:56 | 0:33:00 | |
from 4-7dC. A similar picture on
Sunday, with a lot of dry weather | 0:33:00 | 0:33:04 | |
around. Temperatures continue to
fall, particularly after Sunday. At | 0:33:04 | 0:33:07 | |
the start of next week we're looking
at highs a couple of degrees above | 0:33:07 | 0:33:11 | |
freezing. Add on the wind and it
will feel colder. There should be | 0:33:11 | 0:33:15 | |
quite a bit of sunshine around as
well but there is some snow in the | 0:33:15 | 0:33:18 | |
forecast, so keep tuned to the
weather forecast for the next few | 0:33:18 | 0:33:22 | |
days. | 0:33:22 | 0:33:25 | |
That's all from the BBC News at One. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:26 | |
That's all from the BBC News at One. | 0:33:26 | 0:33:27 |