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The Foreign Secretary confirms that
a former Russian spy | 0:00:05 | 0:00:08 | |
and his daughter are the two people
believed to have been | 0:00:08 | 0:00:10 | |
poisoned in Salisbury. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found
two days ago slumped on a bench - | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
they are now in a critical
condition. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:19 | |
Sergei Skripal is a former double
agent working for MI6 - | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
friends of his daughter Yulia say
she was here visiting him. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:27 | |
Areas near the incident in Salisbury
remain cordoned off - | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
Boris Johnson told MPs
the government would do | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
what was necessary if Russia
is found to be involved. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:40 | |
I can reassure the house that should
evidence emerge that implies state | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
responsibility then Her Majesty's
government will respond | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
appropriately and robustly. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
We'll bring you all the latest
from our correspondents here and in | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
Russia on this developing story. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:53 | |
Also this lunchtime... | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
The leaders of North
and South Korea have agreed to meet | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
for the first time in a decade. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
Britain needs to go on a diet -
health officials urge food | 0:01:02 | 0:01:06 | |
manufacturers to cut the calories
in their products. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
Six months after Hurricane Irma
swept through the Caribbean | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
flattening all in its path -
we return to the Island of Tortola. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:17 | |
It's been no mean feat
to clear this island, | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
if you remember the kind
of | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
damage that was created. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:22 | |
More than 80% of buildings
were badly damaged, | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
or completely destroyed. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:28 | |
And the former BBC presenter
Bill Turnbull has revealed that he's | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
been diagnosed with prostate
cancer. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
And coming up in the
sport on BBC News... | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
After 14 months out and now
a mother, Serena Williams | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
makes her singles comeback
and she says don't expect | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
too much at first. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:47 | |
Good afternoon and welcome
to the BBC News at One. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
The government has confirmed
that the two people suspected | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
of being poisoned in Salisbury
are a former Russian | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
spy and his daughter. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
Sergei Skripal was found slumped
on a bench in the city centre | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
on Sunday, alongside 33-year-old
Yulia Skripal. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:22 | |
Wiltshire Police say both
remain in a critical | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
condition in intensive care,
after being treated for suspected | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
exposure to an unknown substance. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
A restaurant and a pub in Salisbury
have been cordoned off, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
and one member of the emergency
services remains in hospital | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
after the incident. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
The Foreign Secretary says
the government will respond robustly | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
if any Russian state
responsibility is proven. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
Richard Lister reports. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:47 | |
Two figures, believed to be Sergei
Skripal and his daughter Yulia | 0:02:47 | 0:02:52 | |
Two figures, believed to be Sergei
Skripal and his daughter Yulia, | 0:02:52 | 0:02:53 | |
caught on CCTV on Sunday. Within
hours they would be fighting for | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
their lives, poisoned by an unknown
substance. There was a man slumped | 0:02:57 | 0:03:02 | |
on the bench, being sick. I was told
that there was a woman on the floor | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
but I could not see because she was
surrounded by paramedics. The man | 0:03:05 | 0:03:10 | |
has a complex past, Sergei Skripal
is a Russian convicted of spying for | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
the West before coming to the UK.
Today, police are | 0:03:13 | 0:03:22 | |
focused on the area outside of a
shopping centre where he and his | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
daughter were found unconscious.
They have said emergency services | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
personnel at the scene were taken to
hospital for assessment afterwards. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
All but one have been released.
Wiltshire Police are still trying to | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
establish whether a crime has even
been committed here but they are | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
being supported by counterterror
officers. The critical thing is to | 0:03:41 | 0:03:42 | |
get to the bottom as to what caused
this illness as quickly as possible. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:46 | |
As you would expect, specialist
resources in the counterterror | 0:03:46 | 0:03:51 | |
network, and partners, working with
Wiltshire Police to get to the | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
bottom of this as quickly as
possible. With a mystery poisonous | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
substance involved, tracing the
pair's movements is a priority. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:01 | |
After taping of the area around the
shopping | 0:04:01 | 0:04:02 | |
After taping of the area around the
shopping centre where they were | 0:04:02 | 0:04:04 | |
found, police secured the Zizzi
restaurant as a precaution. Today, | 0:04:04 | 0:04:10 | |
they said the Bishops Mill pub | 0:04:10 | 0:04:12 | |
restaurant as a precaution. Today,
they said the Bishops Mill pub in | 0:04:12 | 0:04:13 | |
the centre of Salisbury had also
been sealed off. Sergei Skripal and | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
Yulia Skripal are still in a
critical condition at Salisbury | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
Hospital. Public Health England has
stressed there is no wider health | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
risk from the incident. But
parallels with the 2006 | 0:04:24 | 0:04:31 | |
parallels with the 2006 poisoning of
Alexander Litvinenko are hard to | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
ignore, a Russian dissident,
poisoned in London by a radioactive | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
compound.
It is thought he was probably | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
murdered by the Kremlin. The Russian
embassy complained of speculative | 0:04:40 | 0:04:44 | |
stories today, which it said were
demonising Russia. But the | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
government have now put Moscow on
notice. While it would be wrong to | 0:04:47 | 0:04:52 | |
prejudge the investigation, I can
reassure the house that should | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
evidence emerged that implies state
responsibility, then Her Majesty 's | 0:04:54 | 0:05:00 | |
government will respond
appropriately and robustly. The | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
first pictures have now emerged at
33-year-old Yulia Skripal, who was | 0:05:03 | 0:05:07 | |
visiting her father from Russia when
they fell ill. They may be able to | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
shed some light as to what happened
to them on Sunday, but they remain | 0:05:11 | 0:05:17 | |
gravely ill.
Richard Lister, BBC News. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
The Kremlin says it is willing
to co-operate in the police | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
investigation but says Russia has
"no information" on what could have | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
caused the incident. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:27 | |
Officials are stressing that it's
too early to speculate | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
on what happened in Salisbury. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:30 | |
Richard Galpin takes at any motives
there might have been. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:36 | |
Sergei Skripal and his daughter
Yulia | 0:05:36 | 0:05:40 | |
Sergei Skripal and his daughter
Yulia, now fighting for their lives, | 0:05:40 | 0:05:42 | |
they are not the only Russians in
Britain who may have been targeted | 0:05:42 | 0:05:46 | |
for assassination by Moscow. It was
proved a former spy Alexander | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
Litvinenko was poisoned by
radioactive polonium in London 12 | 0:05:49 | 0:05:54 | |
years ago. At an inquest, continuing
into the mysterious death in Surrey | 0:05:54 | 0:05:59 | |
of this whistle-blower.
This is the moment in 2004 when | 0:05:59 | 0:06:08 | |
Sergei Skripal was arrested in
Russia for betraying his country. He | 0:06:08 | 0:06:13 | |
was a military intelligence officer
who had been secretly supplying MI6 | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
with information, and worse
convicted for high treason. But | 0:06:16 | 0:06:23 | |
after several years in prison he was
pardoned and able to fly to Britain | 0:06:23 | 0:06:26 | |
as part of a spy swap. But that was
never a guarantee that he would be | 0:06:26 | 0:06:31 | |
safe here. The fact that he was a
British spy, a former member of the | 0:06:31 | 0:06:36 | |
Russian military, in the minds of
most Russians, they would categorise | 0:06:36 | 0:06:40 | |
him as a traitor. There would be,
and there are people there, who | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
would be delighted to see him dead.
From the Kremlin today, a guarded | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
response. They said what had
happened was a tragedy and they were | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
open to co-operating with British
authorities. But for many Russians | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
living here in the UK, who opposed
the Kremlin, it has been clear for a | 0:06:55 | 0:07:00 | |
long time that they are vulnerable
and they want greater protection. We | 0:07:00 | 0:07:05 | |
need to be sure that people
receiving political asylum here are | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
completely safe, and the state that
provide this asylum need to be more | 0:07:09 | 0:07:18 | |
serious, particularly now after what
happened to this Sergei and his | 0:07:18 | 0:07:24 | |
friend or partner.
Meanwhile, back in Moscow, Vladimir | 0:07:24 | 0:07:32 | |
Putin is almost guaranteed to win
yet another term in office in the | 0:07:32 | 0:07:36 | |
presidential election later this
month. The British enquiry into the | 0:07:36 | 0:07:40 | |
death of Alexander Litvinenko
concluded that Mr Putin probably | 0:07:40 | 0:07:47 | |
ordered the assassination, something
the Kremlin denies. The question now | 0:07:47 | 0:07:50 | |
is whether there has been another
killing in this country ordered by | 0:07:50 | 0:07:54 | |
the Russian state.
Richard Galpin, BBC News. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
In a moment, we'll
speak to our Moscow | 0:07:58 | 0:08:00 | |
correspondent Sarah Rainsford. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
But first to our Home Affairs
Correspondent Tom Symonds, | 0:08:02 | 0:08:03 | |
who is in Salisbury. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:07 | |
Tom, bring us up to date with the
police investigation. Well, I think | 0:08:07 | 0:08:13 | |
we are at a critical point in that
investigation for several reasons. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:18 | |
Firstly, I understand senior
officers are meeting about now to | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
discuss the future of the
investigation, will Wiltshire | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
Police, a relatively small force,
continued to lead it? As we have | 0:08:23 | 0:08:28 | |
seen, there are possible political
ramifications for international | 0:08:28 | 0:08:34 | |
politics. It may be the nation's
counterterror operation takes over | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
the lead in this investigation.
Secondly, what was the substance | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
that left a father and his daughter
in such a terrible state on a park | 0:08:42 | 0:08:46 | |
bench over there, covered by the
tent behind me. What was it? Police | 0:08:46 | 0:08:51 | |
will be looking at toxicology
reports but we understand several | 0:08:51 | 0:08:55 | |
members of the emergency services
were also admitted to hospital. I | 0:08:55 | 0:08:59 | |
understand two were cleared by
doctors and released but one police | 0:08:59 | 0:09:03 | |
officer is still in hospital. I'm
told the symptoms experienced by | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
some of those close to this include
wheezing, trouble breathing, and | 0:09:07 | 0:09:11 | |
also itchy eyes. What was the
substance? Another key question. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:17 | |
Finally, if it was an attempt to
take the lives of these two people, | 0:09:17 | 0:09:22 | |
how with the substance administered?
We have seen the restaurant cordoned | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
off for security, to ensure that as
safe as evidence, and we have also | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
seen a pub cordoned off. Was
something slipped into food or drink | 0:09:30 | 0:09:35 | |
during Sunday afternoon? A long way
to go in this investigation. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
Sarah Rainsford is in Moscow. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:42 | |
Tell us more about Russia's reaction
to this incident? Russia has been | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
pouring a fair amount of cold water
on what it calls a lot of | 0:09:46 | 0:09:51 | |
speculation and Russia phobia coming
from the UK at the moment. We spoke | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
to the Kremlin's spokesman for
Vladimir Putin earlier today and he | 0:09:54 | 0:09:59 | |
made the point that there is little
information about what has happened, | 0:09:59 | 0:10:02 | |
pointing out that it was a "Tragic
situation", as he described it, | 0:10:02 | 0:10:09 | |
suggesting here in Moscow the
Kremlin do not know what Sergei | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
Skripal was involved with, and who
he was involved with after he moved | 0:10:11 | 0:10:16 | |
to the UK. Suggesting that there
could be other explanations as to | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
what happened. As for the suggestion
is to some kind of Russian state | 0:10:19 | 0:10:26 | |
involvement, the spokesperson for
Vladimir Putin said that that did | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
not take long, did it? Speaking of
the response here, it has been what | 0:10:28 | 0:10:38 | |
they have called Russia phobia, and
scandalous. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:43 | |
Our Security Correspondent
Gordon Corera is here. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:47 | |
What was the focus of the
investigation, what will it be? As | 0:10:47 | 0:10:53 | |
Tom said, identifying the substance
and how it was administered, and | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
seeing if other people were
involved. I'm trying to work out | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
why, if indeed, there is a link to
Russia. The tone of the Foreign | 0:11:00 | 0:11:05 | |
Secretary's remarks in the last hour
were interesting. He said he could | 0:11:05 | 0:11:09 | |
not prejudge the investigation, he
did not want to get ahead of it but | 0:11:09 | 0:11:13 | |
if suspicions that this has proved
well founded, there will be action, | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
that is what he suggested against
Russia. Clearly, despite | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
protestations from Moscow, you can
get the sense that the suspicions | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
within government, even if they are
not yet confirmed, are that there | 0:11:23 | 0:11:27 | |
may be a Russian link behind this.
Because of that issue that we heard | 0:11:27 | 0:11:31 | |
earlier, that this is someone who
the Russian government, and | 0:11:31 | 0:11:36 | |
intelligence services, may have
regarded as a traitor and therefore | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
someone they may target for that
reason. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:40 | |
We do not know that for sure yet,
but clearly that is the suggestion | 0:11:40 | 0:11:44 | |
at the moment that is being looked
at strongly by the government, even | 0:11:44 | 0:11:48 | |
as the police investigation goes on,
dealing with those specific details | 0:11:48 | 0:11:51 | |
as to why and how this may have
happened. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:55 | |
OK, Gordon Corera, thank you. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
The Foreign Secretary,
Boris Johnson, has in the last half | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
hour been speaking to MPs
about the government's | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
policy towards Russia. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:03 | |
Our assistant political editor
Norman Smith is in Westminster. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:07 | |
Norman, it was a sharply worded
statement from Boris Johnson? Very | 0:12:07 | 0:12:12 | |
strong words, and although Mr
Johnson sought to stress that it was | 0:12:12 | 0:12:16 | |
still an ongoing investigation,
details were still coming in. He was | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
not pointing the finger of blame, it
is absolutely clear that he and | 0:12:19 | 0:12:23 | |
others in government, and more
widely at Westminster, believe it is | 0:12:23 | 0:12:27 | |
highly likely that this involvement
did involve Russian state | 0:12:27 | 0:12:34 | |
did involve Russian state sponsored
attack. And Mr Johnson said it | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
carried clear echoes of the
Alexander Litvinenko case. And MPs | 0:12:37 | 0:12:41 | |
would draw their own conclusions.
There were strong words. Mr Johnson | 0:12:41 | 0:12:46 | |
said that the British government
would respond robustly to safeguard | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
British lives, values and freedoms.
Much less clear is what the British | 0:12:49 | 0:12:53 | |
government may do. It is under huge
pressure to make a much tougher | 0:12:53 | 0:12:59 | |
stand after accusations it was
guilty of appeasement, following the | 0:12:59 | 0:13:03 | |
killing of Alexander Litvinenko.
Now, Mr Johnson was asked repeatedly | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
what sort of measures the British
government may take. He suggested | 0:13:07 | 0:13:12 | |
that there could be targeted
sanctions against those close to | 0:13:12 | 0:13:14 | |
President Putin, in other words,
close political and business allies. | 0:13:14 | 0:13:21 | |
Mr Johnson also suggested that the
British government would discuss | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
with Nato allies how to respond.
That is interesting because it | 0:13:24 | 0:13:29 | |
suggests that the British government
may seek support of other countries | 0:13:29 | 0:13:33 | |
for a much broader range of
sanctions, to say to other countries | 0:13:33 | 0:13:37 | |
that East and needs to be made
against Russia in the wake of | 0:13:37 | 0:13:42 | |
allegations of interference in
western elections and cyber attacks. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:45 | |
What is absolutely clear though, is
that relations between London and | 0:13:45 | 0:13:50 | |
Moscow now appear to have plunged to
new depths, with Mr Johnson | 0:13:50 | 0:13:55 | |
describing Moscow as "A malign and
disorderly force". The chairman of | 0:13:55 | 0:13:59 | |
the foreign affairs select committee
accused President Putin of waging a | 0:13:59 | 0:14:05 | |
soft war against the West. OK,
Norman Smith, thank you. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:13 | |
In other news now... | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
The Russian military in Syria has
offered rebels what it calls safe | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
passage out of the besieged enclave
of Eastern Ghouta. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
It comes as UN investigators say
that all sides in the conflict | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
in Syria are guilty of war crimes. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:25 | |
Let's speak to Martin Patience who's
in neighbouring Lebanon. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:31 | |
Tell us more about this United
Nations report? | 0:14:31 | 0:14:38 | |
Nations report? This was a UN
report, and it comes out every six | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
months. It singled out two series of
incidents in Syria. What we have | 0:14:41 | 0:14:48 | |
seen is a conflict intensifying,
they accused the Syrian government | 0:14:48 | 0:14:51 | |
of carrying out three chemical
attacks in that besieged area of | 0:14:51 | 0:14:55 | |
Eastern Ghouta, last July. Also
significantly, it accused both | 0:14:55 | 0:15:00 | |
Americans and Russians of carrying
out air strikes that resulted in | 0:15:00 | 0:15:06 | |
mass casualties. The latest that we
have from Syria is on that Russian | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
offer to the rebels that they could
leave eastern Gouda, to another | 0:15:10 | 0:15:16 | |
area, along with their families. We
have seen this kind of move before. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:19 | |
That was one year ago, when Syrian
troops retake the major city. In | 0:15:19 | 0:15:26 | |
fact, Syria's largest city of
Aleppo. Families bust out to a | 0:15:26 | 0:15:33 | |
nearby province. It shows that
Moscow wants to wrap up the | 0:15:33 | 0:15:37 | |
campaign, but in terms of the
opposition in eastern | 0:15:37 | 0:15:45 | |
opposition in eastern Ghouta, they
are trying to forcibly transfer the | 0:15:45 | 0:15:49 | |
population there. Martin, thank you. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:53 | |
More than 780 civilians -
including 170 children - | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
are believed to have died
in the rebel-held enclave | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
of Eastern Ghouta since the Syrian
government started its latest | 0:15:58 | 0:16:00 | |
offensive over two weeks ago. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:01 | |
Yolande Knell has been
to a refugee camp in Lebanon, | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
where families are waiting
for news. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:08 | |
This refugee camp is deeply affected
by Syria's latest deadly battles. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:14 | |
Every family here comes from
besieged Eastern Ghouta. Relatives | 0:16:14 | 0:16:18 | |
back home constantly on their minds
to. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:23 | |
TRANSLATION: They cannot move
because of the attacks, they are | 0:16:23 | 0:16:28 | |
terrified. They spend day and night
in basements. This is a disaster. I | 0:16:28 | 0:16:34 | |
call on the world to save our
children. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:40 | |
She lost two brothers, one just days
ago. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:48 | |
ago. People come and give their
condolences and I am burning inside | 0:16:49 | 0:16:52 | |
as I mentioned my brother, she says.
Her husband is devastated by what he | 0:16:52 | 0:17:01 | |
sees. This was yesterday in Eastern
Ghouta. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:10 | |
TRANSLATION: The news is terrible,
their strikes, bombings, massive | 0:17:12 | 0:17:15 | |
destruction of houses and people
being killed. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:23 | |
being killed. It is protest songs
not cartoons that the children in | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
the camp watch online. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:32 | |
the camp watch online. How is the
camp? | 0:17:33 | 0:17:38 | |
Many refugees have spent five
difficult years here, it is a long | 0:17:38 | 0:17:42 | |
time to be living in a tent with
poor sewage and little water, she | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
tells me. Now these Syrians are
pessimistic about their future and | 0:17:46 | 0:17:52 | |
what is happening in Eastern Ghouta.
TRANSLATION: Every minute is a | 0:17:52 | 0:17:59 | |
minute of pain for us, we cry over
every new loss, we just hope this | 0:17:59 | 0:18:05 | |
war and the bombing will soon be
over. But there is no sign of that | 0:18:05 | 0:18:09 | |
and for now, for these children of
Eastern Ghouta, this camp will have | 0:18:09 | 0:18:14 | |
to remain home. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:19 | |
Britain is suffering
an obesity epidemic, | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
and the country needs to go
on a diet. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
That's the message from
Public Health England, | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
which has told food companies
they must cut the calories | 0:18:25 | 0:18:27 | |
in their products within six years. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
Our health correspondent
Adina Campbell reports. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:36 | |
They are firm family favourites but
too many processed foods and ready | 0:18:36 | 0:18:41 | |
meals do not do our way signs any
favours. It is a personal choice if | 0:18:41 | 0:18:46 | |
they want to buy it. I am very lazy.
Personally. I would not sit there | 0:18:46 | 0:18:54 | |
and look at the calories and think,
this has too many. When you are | 0:18:54 | 0:18:58 | |
really hungry, you do not focus on
what you are taking in. Especially | 0:18:58 | 0:19:03 | |
if you have a lot of fast food
restaurants near where you work. Now | 0:19:03 | 0:19:07 | |
supermarkets, food manufacturers and
fast food restaurants are being | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
urged to shoulder some of the
responsibility by reducing calories | 0:19:11 | 0:19:15 | |
by 20% over the next six years.
Public Health England says this can | 0:19:15 | 0:19:20 | |
be achieved in three ways. Changing
the recipes, using better quality | 0:19:20 | 0:19:26 | |
products, smaller portion sizes,
which would help control how much we | 0:19:26 | 0:19:30 | |
eat. Or steering us to buy lower
calorie products, making better | 0:19:30 | 0:19:36 | |
informed decisions. We all need to
be part of this journey because it | 0:19:36 | 0:19:39 | |
is affecting us now and if we think
we have free choice in our | 0:19:39 | 0:19:44 | |
supermarkets, in our fast food
restaurants, we probably don't. We | 0:19:44 | 0:19:48 | |
are being guided towards the choices
we currently make by those | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
businesses. Quite simply, as a
nation, we are getting fatter and | 0:19:52 | 0:19:58 | |
the sheer volume of high calorie
foods available to us is not | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
helping, not just bad for our
health, bad for the NHS and | 0:20:01 | 0:20:05 | |
taxpayers. To help us make healthier
choices, you could soon be seeing | 0:20:05 | 0:20:10 | |
more of these posters, a rough guide
advising us to eat 400 calories at | 0:20:10 | 0:20:16 | |
breakfast, another | 0:20:16 | 0:20:22 | |
breakfast, another 600 for lunch and
dinner. But campaigners say the | 0:20:25 | 0:20:26 | |
advice goes too far. It is far too
low, people will look at that and | 0:20:26 | 0:20:29 | |
see how much a role in terms of
calories is and they will say, no, | 0:20:29 | 0:20:32 | |
we need to eat more. It is estimated
some children are consuming up to | 0:20:32 | 0:20:38 | |
500 calories more than needed every
day. And around a third leave | 0:20:38 | 0:20:43 | |
primary school overweight or obese.
If the food industry fails to take | 0:20:43 | 0:20:49 | |
action, they could face tougher
consequences by the Government. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:54 | |
Our top story this lunchtime... | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
The Foreign Secretary confirms that
a former Russian spy | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
and his daughter are the two people
believed to have been | 0:20:59 | 0:21:02 | |
poisoned in Salisbury. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:03 | |
I can reassure the House that
should evidence emerge | 0:21:03 | 0:21:11 | |
That implies state responsibility,
then Her Majesty's government will | 0:21:12 | 0:21:16 | |
respond appropriately and robustly. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:19 | |
Coming up in sport in the next 15
minutes on BBC News... | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
Jack Nowell could be out for
England's next Six Nations match. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:25 | |
The wing is a fitness doubt
for the must-win game | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
against France on Saturday. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
It's six months since the second
most powerful hurricane in Atlantic | 0:21:36 | 0:21:39 | |
history struck the Caribbean. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:41 | |
Hurricane Irma caused catastrophic
damage and killed dozens of people | 0:21:41 | 0:21:44 | |
as it passed through the region last
September. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:48 | |
One of the worst-hit places
was the island of Tortola, | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
in the British Virgin Islands,
where 85% of the buildings | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
were either damaged
or completely destroyed. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:58 | |
Aleem Maqbool has been to the island
to assess how life has | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
changed since the storm. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:04 | |
It is perhaps unsurprising,
given that Irma was the most | 0:22:04 | 0:22:08 | |
powerful hurricane ever to be
reported in this part | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
of the world, that six
months on, even though | 0:22:12 | 0:22:14 | |
people are trying to get
on with their lives, trying to get | 0:22:14 | 0:22:17 | |
on with their businesses, | 0:22:17 | 0:22:18 | |
if they can, that the reminders
of what happened when the storm | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
ripped through this island
are still everywhere you look here. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:27 | |
This site has been used
solely to dump debris | 0:22:27 | 0:22:31 | |
created by Hurricane Irma. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:33 | |
As you can see, piles
and piles of it. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:37 | |
Believe it or not, it is still being
added to to this day. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:41 | |
It has been no mean feat
to clear this island. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:43 | |
If you remember the kind
of damage that was created - | 0:22:43 | 0:22:46 | |
more than 80% of buildings
were damaged or completely destroyed | 0:22:46 | 0:22:50 | |
and hundreds of boats were lifted
out of the sea and dumped | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
on the shore. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
So, how are things now? | 0:22:56 | 0:22:58 | |
Well, sadly, six months on,
we found that some people | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
are still living in shelters. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
Most, of course, have gone home now,
but even though a lot | 0:23:03 | 0:23:06 | |
of construction work has taken
place, we have seen many, | 0:23:06 | 0:23:10 | |
many buildings still without roofs
or that are badly damaged. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
One of the biggest hits
the British Virgin Islands took, | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
though, is in its tourism industry. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
This is one of the main docks
and usually it would have cruise | 0:23:18 | 0:23:22 | |
liners coming in here and flooding
this place with tourists every day | 0:23:22 | 0:23:24 | |
and that is just not happening
on the same scale anymore and that | 0:23:24 | 0:23:28 | |
has had a devastating impact
on people's livelihoods here. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:35 | |
Given that this is a UK territory,
the question for many is, | 0:23:35 | 0:23:38 | |
did Britain do enough
after Hurricane Irma? | 0:23:38 | 0:23:40 | |
Certainly, there were British troops
here in the immediate | 0:23:40 | 0:23:42 | |
aftermath of the storm, | 0:23:42 | 0:23:44 | |
helping with the emergency
aid effort and also | 0:23:44 | 0:23:46 | |
helping restore security. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
But those soldiers left
after a few weeks. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:53 | |
After that, we are told
by the British Governor | 0:23:53 | 0:23:55 | |
here that the UK has been working
very hard behind the scenes | 0:23:55 | 0:23:58 | |
to help restore power. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
Most of this island does now have
electricity well ahead of schedule. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
But that hasn't stopped
the perception among many | 0:24:04 | 0:24:08 | |
here on the British Virgin Islands,
particularly when they look | 0:24:08 | 0:24:10 | |
at the damage that remains
on their roads and particularly | 0:24:10 | 0:24:13 | |
their schools, that Britain
could have done much more to help | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
in the recovery effort. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:22 | |
Aleem joins us live
from Tortola now | 0:24:22 | 0:24:27 | |
What is life like now on the ground
for people? We know that the British | 0:24:27 | 0:24:34 | |
Government is assessing whether or
not its readiness or its response | 0:24:34 | 0:24:40 | |
could have been better, but in the
meantime, life is still very tough | 0:24:40 | 0:24:44 | |
here. Facing the trauma of what
happened, still having to deal with | 0:24:44 | 0:24:49 | |
the impact of it, construction is
going on right across the island, | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
still a great deal of debris to
remove and they have had massive | 0:24:52 | 0:24:58 | |
blows in recent weeks, in terms of
the tourism industry, the big cruise | 0:24:58 | 0:25:04 | |
companies, Disney and others, they
are not bringing customers to the | 0:25:04 | 0:25:09 | |
island this season. Now people are
fearful again because less than 100 | 0:25:09 | 0:25:14 | |
days' time, the next hurricane
season is due. More people are | 0:25:14 | 0:25:17 | |
worried about, having shot as they
can go to that time but they are | 0:25:17 | 0:25:24 | |
still dealing with the impact that
Hurricane Irma brought last year. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:30 | |
Thank you. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
The leaders of North
and South Korea have agreed to meet | 0:25:32 | 0:25:34 | |
on the heavily-armed border
between the two countries next month | 0:25:34 | 0:25:37 | |
in the first such summit
for more than a decade. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
Laura Bicker is in the South
Korean capital, Seoul. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:41 | |
This appears to be a very
significant development. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:43 | |
How has this come about? | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
It came about after a dinner hosted
by Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang, the | 0:25:46 | 0:25:53 | |
first time he has met ministers from
South Korea, but the headlines to | 0:25:53 | 0:25:58 | |
come out of it are extraordinary.
Kim Jong-un has indicated to the | 0:25:58 | 0:26:02 | |
South Koreans he is willing to talk
about getting rid of his nuclear | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
weapons, something that would have
been unthinkable a few months ago. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:10 | |
He is also willing to sit down with
the US and he says there will be no | 0:26:10 | 0:26:16 | |
further missile tests while the
talks take place. Of course, there | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
will be the summit between the
leader of North Korea and the | 0:26:19 | 0:26:25 | |
president here from Seoul. When they
meet in April, the first time two | 0:26:25 | 0:26:29 | |
leaders have met in over a decade.
When it comes to sceptics, they | 0:26:29 | 0:26:34 | |
wonder whether this is straight out
of Pyongyang's playbook, that they | 0:26:34 | 0:26:38 | |
will walk up to the table and walk
away again while they buy time to | 0:26:38 | 0:26:42 | |
try to get rid of international
sanctions. Whatever way it goes, the | 0:26:42 | 0:26:46 | |
ball is now in the court of
Washington and it is up to Donald | 0:26:46 | 0:26:50 | |
Trump what may happen next. Thank
you. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:56 | |
Packaging firms in England have been
accused of not paying enough | 0:26:56 | 0:26:58 | |
towards the cost of dealing
with plastic waste. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:00 | |
The waste consultancy Eunomia claims
the companies are paying only 10% | 0:27:00 | 0:27:03 | |
of the overall bill for dealing
with the waste. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:05 | |
The packaging industry
denies the claims. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:06 | |
Roger Harrabin reports. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:12 | |
Dealing with waste is expensive.
Under a government scheme, the firms | 0:27:12 | 0:27:17 | |
that produce packaging have to chip
in towards improving recycling. But | 0:27:17 | 0:27:22 | |
today's report says the packaging
industry is playing just one tenth | 0:27:22 | 0:27:26 | |
of the real cost of clearing up the
mess it creates. We spent something | 0:27:26 | 0:27:30 | |
like 2.8 billion as councils each
year on waste collection and | 0:27:30 | 0:27:34 | |
disposal, but we only receive
something like 50 million from the | 0:27:34 | 0:27:38 | |
plastics industry that contributes
towards the cost. That is far too | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
low. Today's report says the
packaging industry is also | 0:27:41 | 0:27:48 | |
overstating the amount it recycles
by about 30%. No one from the | 0:27:48 | 0:27:52 | |
industry was available for interview
on the issue. A spokesman said all | 0:27:52 | 0:27:57 | |
their figures on the cycling were
independently verified. But the | 0:27:57 | 0:28:02 | |
question of who pays how much to
recycle plastics is clearly up for | 0:28:02 | 0:28:07 | |
debate. This really matters to all
of us because we share the bill | 0:28:07 | 0:28:11 | |
through our council tax for getting
rid of waste. But is that Bill | 0:28:11 | 0:28:16 | |
shared fairly? Suppose I am the sort
of man who eats lots of takeaway | 0:28:16 | 0:28:19 | |
than drinks lots of fizzy drinks, I
am generating an awful lot of | 0:28:19 | 0:28:23 | |
rubbish. Suppose the neighbour does
not create much waste at all. Then | 0:28:23 | 0:28:32 | |
she is contributing the same amount
in council tax as me but causing a | 0:28:32 | 0:28:36 | |
small fraction of the problem.
Environmentalists say it is not | 0:28:36 | 0:28:40 | |
fair. Change is on the way, the
Government is reviewing waste policy | 0:28:40 | 0:28:47 | |
and councils want firms to pay much
more to fund recycling. The industry | 0:28:47 | 0:28:51 | |
of course wants to keep its bill as
small as possible. Environmentalists | 0:28:51 | 0:28:56 | |
think firms should pay 100% of the
cost of recycling the things they | 0:28:56 | 0:29:01 | |
produce. Roger Harrabin, BBC News. | 0:29:01 | 0:29:04 | |
The former BBC Breakfast presenter
Bill Turnbull has revealed that he's | 0:29:04 | 0:29:07 | |
suffering from prostate cancer. | 0:29:07 | 0:29:08 | |
The 62-year-old broadcaster says
he was diagnosed at the end of last | 0:29:08 | 0:29:11 | |
year and that he wants to encourage
people to get tested. | 0:29:11 | 0:29:13 | |
Our medical correspondent,
Fergus Walsh, reports. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:18 | |
There were some moments that I had
forgotten about entirely. Bill | 0:29:18 | 0:29:24 | |
Turnbull on his last day on BBC
Breakfast in 2016 after presenting | 0:29:24 | 0:29:29 | |
the programme for 15 years. | 0:29:29 | 0:29:36 | |
the programme for 15 years. The star
of many shows, among them Strictly, | 0:29:36 | 0:29:39 | |
he treated the news he was diagnosed
with prostate and bone cancer last | 0:29:39 | 0:29:44 | |
November. He added, I am in good
spirits and I hope to be around for | 0:29:44 | 0:29:48 | |
some time yet. I will place that
there. The diagnosis came when he | 0:29:48 | 0:29:54 | |
was recording the special Great
Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To | 0:29:54 | 0:30:00 | |
Cancer which begins tonight. In an
interview, he said, I was getting | 0:30:00 | 0:30:03 | |
pains in my legs and my hips
particularly, and I thought, this is | 0:30:03 | 0:30:08 | |
old age. Eventually, they got so bad
I thought I'd better go and see my | 0:30:08 | 0:30:12 | |
GP. He said, I will give you a blood
test. The next morning, the doctor | 0:30:12 | 0:30:16 | |
said it is fairly clear you have
advanced prostate cancer. In an | 0:30:16 | 0:30:21 | |
interview in the Radio Times, he
urges men not to ignore symptoms | 0:30:21 | 0:30:25 | |
that might indicate prostate cancer
which will affect one in eight men. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:30 | |
The key symptoms are any very rapid
changes to how often you go to the | 0:30:30 | 0:30:34 | |
toilet to your innate, any pain when
you do or pain generally in the | 0:30:34 | 0:30:39 | |
pelvic area, though symptoms might
not be cancer, they probably are | 0:30:39 | 0:30:43 | |
not, but they would potentially
suggest there is an issue and men | 0:30:43 | 0:30:46 | |
should go to their GP if they have
any symptoms. Bill says he's still | 0:30:46 | 0:30:50 | |
working and does not want to be
defined by his illness. He adds, | 0:30:50 | 0:30:54 | |
although cancer will shorten his
consultant's ambition is he will see | 0:30:54 | 0:31:00 | |
another 18 years. -- cancer will
shorten his life. | 0:31:00 | 0:31:07 | |
Time for a look at the weather. | 0:31:07 | 0:31:09 | |
Here's Matt Taylor. | 0:31:09 | 0:31:10 | |
This was the scene just outside
Glasgow this morning. The covering | 0:31:14 | 0:31:18 | |
of snow yet again. Across some parts
of Scotland, it continues to snow. | 0:31:18 | 0:31:24 | |
Big temperature contrasts. England
and Wales, ten, 11 degrees this | 0:31:24 | 0:31:28 | |
afternoon. A struggle to get to
four, five in Scotland. Here in the | 0:31:28 | 0:31:34 | |
Grampians and the eastern islands,
continuing to see snow on the hills | 0:31:34 | 0:31:38 | |
through the day, another 10-15
centimetres possible. Most will be | 0:31:38 | 0:31:44 | |
dry. A few showers to the west of
England and Wales, through East | 0:31:44 | 0:31:48 | |
Anglia and the south-east.
Overnight, the snow clears from | 0:31:48 | 0:31:51 | |
Scotland, a few more showers pushing
into the western half of the UK and | 0:31:51 | 0:31:56 | |
potentially the Channel Islands,
clear skies in between, it will be | 0:31:56 | 0:32:00 | |
colder, greater chance of frost just
about anywhere, and where the ground | 0:32:00 | 0:32:04 | |
is wet, on the icy side. Tomorrow,
for many, dry and bright. There will | 0:32:04 | 0:32:11 | |
be some showers, rain, sleet and
hill snow in the West, western | 0:32:11 | 0:32:15 | |
fringes of England and Wales, heavy
in Devon and Cornwall with hail, | 0:32:15 | 0:32:19 | |
through the day, we could see heavy
rain working from South to East, and | 0:32:19 | 0:32:25 | |
in between, most places dry with
sunshine. Low pressure still with us | 0:32:25 | 0:32:32 | |
into Thursday, clear skies, frosty
night again, just watch this weather | 0:32:32 | 0:32:35 | |
front developing across northern
France, it could bring rain to the | 0:32:35 | 0:32:39 | |
Channel Islands, it may skirt into
the far south-east. A lot of dry and | 0:32:39 | 0:32:45 | |
bright weather on Thursday. A few
showers. The further north, the more | 0:32:45 | 0:32:49 | |
likely to see snow over the hills,
but nothing compared to what we have | 0:32:49 | 0:32:53 | |
had of late. The sun is gaining
strength day by day. Still frost by | 0:32:53 | 0:32:58 | |
night, as we will see on Friday.
Snow returns at times across | 0:32:58 | 0:33:03 | |
northern Scotland, most having a dry
and bright day, during the day, | 0:33:03 | 0:33:07 | |
cloudier and wetter in the
south-west of England and Wales. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:10 | |
Some very mild air which will try to
push north through the weekend, | 0:33:10 | 0:33:15 | |
called air still in place over
Scotland, so England and Wales on | 0:33:15 | 0:33:20 | |
Saturday the rain spread north, it
will turn to snow in the northern | 0:33:20 | 0:33:23 | |
half of the country. The milder
weather will eventually win, | 0:33:23 | 0:33:28 | |
sunshine at times too. A weekend of
a little bit of everything but | 0:33:28 | 0:33:32 | |
finishing with milder and sunnier
weather for many. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:36 | |
A reminder of our main
story this lunchtime. | 0:33:36 | 0:33:40 | |
The Foreign Secretary confirms the
former Russian spy and his daughter | 0:33:40 | 0:33:44 | |
are the two people believed to have
been poisoned in Salisbury. | 0:33:44 | 0:33:48 | |
That's all from the BBC News at One,
so it's goodbye from me. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:51 | |
And on BBC One, we now join
the BBC's news teams where you are. | 0:33:51 | 0:34:11 |