24/09/2014 BBC News at Six

The prospect of British military action against Islamic State

As US air strikes continue in Iraq and Syria.

MPs are summoned back to Westminster this Friday to discuss

possible British involvement, says the Defence Secretary.

Everything we do has to be with the authority of the Iraqi government

and has to be in accordance with our own law and endorsed by Parliament.

President Obama vows to keep up the military pressure on

Islamic State and asks countries around the world to help.

There can be no reasoning, no negotiation, with this brand of

evil. The only language understood by killers like this is the language

of force. We'll have the latest from New York,

where David Cameron will be meeting Also tonight, Ed Miliband insists

it's not just the NHS that's high on his agenda, despite forgetting to

talk about the budget deficit in his More phone hacking victims, as

Trinity Mirror admits for the first time that some of its journalists

were involved in accessing voice mail.

And the woman who transformed Chatsworth House, the Dowager

Duchess of Devonshire, the last of the Mitford sisters, has died.

a 24-hour service - a night tube is confirmed for

And the Met firearms officer who won a race

and sex discrimination case against the force speaks about her ordeal.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at 6.

In the last few minutes the Prime Minister has announced that

Parliament is being recalled to discuss air strikes against Islamic

State in. David Cameron, who is in New York, will meet Iraq's Prime

Minister at the United Nations this evening where it is thought Britain

will be formally asked to take action against IS. This afternoon

President Obama addressed the UN and called on countries around the globe

to joined the fight against Islamic State. First here is our Deputy

political editor James Landale. For weeks these RAF fighter jets

have been flying over Iraq, taking and gathering intelligence. Very

soon they could be launching missiles and bombs as well. In New

York, after talks with the Iranians President and other world leaders

the Prime Minister announced he was recalling Parliament on Friday, to

debate and vote on his plans for Britain to launch air strikes

against so-called Islamic State targets in Iraq. The Defence

Secretary in Afghanistan explained why. This is a very real and present

danger. And we do have to deal with it now. Obviously everything we do

has to be with the authority of the Iraqi government and has to be in

accordance with our own law and has to be endorsed by Parliament. This

is the campaign the UK forces will be joining. But crucially, while

American and Arab air strikes have been launched against targets across

the region, including Syria, RAF jets will only take action in Iraq.

The nose to the left 285. David Cameron has been cautious about

military action after failing to persuade Parliament to back action

against Syria. The threat to murder another British hostage Alan

Henning, as well as alleged IS plots against targets in the UK have

changed everything. There is no ambiguity about the threat we are

facing. We have seen this barbaric organisation the head British

citizens. We have seen this barbaric organisation slaughter other

Muslims. We have seen this barbaric organisation somehow declare that

anyone that does not believe in their warped extremist view of the

world somehow has to be put to death. Crucially the government has

also won the support of labour. This afternoon the Shadow Cabinet

gathered in Manchester to discuss their options, after which Ed

Miliband said he would support action in Iraq but not Syria. We

have a democratic state in Iraq which has asked for help. We have a

threat from ISIL which is genuinely a threat which cannot be negotiated

with and therefore military action does appear to be a last resort

against them. So, with Labour support David Cameron can guarantee

that his motion for military action will get through the House of

Commons. Some MPs will vote against on principle and others will want to

go further, that it does appear that many MPs who were reluctant to

contemplate military action last year are much more willing to

support it this time. What we are facing today is a very different

situation. We are facing first a humanitarian crisis of enormous

proportions against a barbaric IS. On top of that we face the regional

threat that is immense. So these aircraft based in Cyprus could be in

action very soon in the skies over Iraq. What many MPs will want to

know them is what happens next? James Landale, BBC News,

Westminster. President Obama vowed to keep up

the military pressure on Islamic state militants in Iraq and Syria -

as he addressed the United Nations He said the extremist group must be

destroyed and called for nations around the world to come together

and join a US-led coalition. And

the President warned fighters who have joined Islamic state to "leave

the battlefield while they can". Here's our North America editor

Jon Sopel. New York is gridlocked during

General Assembly week as roads are closed to allow presidential

motorcades to move freely. But he has also managed to navigate

successfully a path to building a And here at the UN, a body dedicated

to resolving differences peacefully, the President explained why this

wasn't possible when it came to No grievance justifies

these actions. There can be no reasoning, no

negotiation with this brand of evil. The only language understood

by killers So the United States of America will

work with a broad coalition to And to date America has pulled

together an international coalition of around 40 countries in the fight

against Islamic State, which Crucially,

five Arab states have joined: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan,

the UAE and Qatar. And not satisfied with 40 nations,

the President says he wants the whole world to unite in

the fight against Islamic State, and But he also wants to deal with

the problem at source of what he says is the corruption

of young minds by violent ideology. There were fresh air strikes

overnight and this unverified footage posted

online purports to show IS fighting Kurdish forces for the control of

Kobani, a Syrian town on the border In another unverified IS video

posted online yesterday, we cannot verify the date,

the streets of Raqqa appear normal and people talk

about life after the air strikes. TRANSLATION:

US jets conducted air strikes against Raqqa

at five o'clock in the morning. May God bring them shame

along with the Gulf states' jets. There are only minor injuries,

Meanwhile, an Algerian Jihadist group has

released a video that appears to show the beheading of a French

In his opening address to the UN the Secretary General that Iraq

and Syria were seeing new unspeakable acts of barbarity.

James Landale is at Westminster for us, James.

We've heard in the last few minutes that Parliament is being recalled,

it will be recalled on Friday. This is in response to a specific request

from the Iraqi government, Downing Street confirmed that. Secondly,

they made clear that the motion the MPs will debate on Friday will

discuss, and I quote precisely: The request from the Iraqi government

for air strikes to support operations against ISIL in Iraq.

That's the crucial point, operations in Iraq and not in Syria. We know

the Prime Minister will open the debate, the Deputy prime and Esther

will wind it up. The Prime Minister also called a Cabinet tomorrow lunch

time to discuss the options. -- the Deputy Prime Minister. Why are they

doing this now? The primers to believes this will be legal because

of the request from the Iraqi government, they believe they will

be broad political support in parliament and across the public. He

believes that because the situation is now clear of the Scottish

referendum there is no risk of any military action being caught up in

that campaign and becoming a political football. More importantly

I think there is a sense now that there is a wider alliance growing

against ISIL against this operation. Crucially the military contribution

Britain will make is very small but the hope from Downing Street is that

the political and diplomatic impact will be greater. James Landale,

thank you. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband,

says he wishes he had remembered to speak about Britain's budget deficit

in his speech to Mr Miliband insisted

the economy was incredibly high on his list of priorities,

despite forgetting that section when He described the omission as

"an occupational hazard". He's been talking to

our political editor Nick Robinson. Your very own souvenir

copy to take home. The speech of the man who wants

to be your next Prime Minister. A speech,

which will be remembered for two things - that promise to spend more

hiring nurses, doctors and carers, and Ed Miliband's failure to utter

a single word about the deficit. How big a problem do you think

Britain's budget deficit is? I think it's a significant problem.

I think you know I think that. We have talked this week, Ed Balls

talked about our approach on the deficit and I've talked many times

about our approach on the deficit. It's the biggest in the G-7,

almost as big as when Britain went Why wasn't it front and centre

of your speech? It was part

of the speech that was prepared. As you know, the way I do

the speeches is I go on the stage, I do the speech somewhat from

memory, If I did

the speech again it would definitely We couldn't have been clearer

about the deficit and But where, I asked the Labour

leader, were his party's new There was one measure Ed Balls

announced for helping to get Roughly what percentage

of the deficit does curbing child It's hundreds

of millions of pounds that we are I think if what you are saying is

have we set out all of our tax But we've given a clear sense that

we want to get the deficit down and we are taking measures, which

the coalition is not taking, like a 50p tax rate on the highest rate

earners, like taking winter fuel allowance from the wealthiest

pensioners, which absolutely speaks This party is not stirred by talk

of the deficit, Today, 91-year-old Harry Smith moved

delegates to tears with memories of a time before a free

health service when his young sister died

because her family simply couldn't Say it loud, say it clear in this

hall and across this country - Mr Cameron, keep your mitts off my

NHS! That is Labour's new rallying call,

together with Ed Miliband's new promise to raise taxes on the better

off, the City, and tobacco firms to I think it would be unrealistic to

say we will end pressure in the health service but I think it

will make a significant difference We are talking about ?2.5 billion -

not just for more doctors, nurses and midwives and care

workers, which I think it is really important, because so many people

feel those services are not there, The government spent ?2.6 billion

more extra You are now promising that you will

spend ?2.5 billion extra, money that will help but it's not going to

transform, to use your words, is it? It's part of the inflation increase

what happened last year, and that's the kind of thing that needs to

happen in the health service. I think you asked me, is it going

to make all the problems go away? And I said no it isn't going to

make all the problems go away, but I'm not saying life is going to be

easy in the health service Proving he can make a difference is

what this week has been about, but Ed Miliband knows the Tories will

exploit his failure to talk about the disease still ailing the British

patient, too much borrowing. Trinity Mirror,

the group that publishes the Daily Mirror, The Sunday Mirror and Sunday

People, has admitted for the first time that some of its journalists

were involved in phone hacking. It's agreed to pay compensation to

a number of people who sued for The owner of the Mirror newspapers

has always said the same thing to claims it hacked the phones of a

string of famous people. Our journalists operate within the law,

note present tense. Now Trinity Mirror has admitted that wasn't

always the case. Actors Shane Richie and Lucy Benjamin, as well as TV

presenter will receive compensation and an apology. James Hipwell was a

daily Mirror business reporter and claims to have witnessed routine

phone hacking. I used to sit next to the show business desk and I would

say that a very large proportion of show business stories in 1999 and

2000 came from phone hacks. Trinity Mirror, based on the 22nd floor of

Canary Wharf's tallest building, made its submissions today in the

face of compensation claims from hacking victims. These court

document set out the phone hacking allegations. They state that

voicemails were regularly listened to with the approval, encouragement

or knowledge of senior executives and journalists, including the

editor of the daily Mirror at the time, Piers Morgan. My evidence is

that I have no reason or knowledge to believe it was going on. He's

always denied it, including at the Leveson Inquiry. The hacking scandal

did for Britain's oldest tabloid, leaving News Corporation with a

legal bill running into the hundreds of millions. At least 400 people may

have been hacked by Trinity Mirror journalists. This campaign

This group does not have the deep pockets of News Corporation. Our

hope is The Mirror is able to settle these claims without that sort of

expenditure but it is bound to have implications, and as soon as they

clean out what is going on, the better. It could take Trinity Mirror

years to deal with the victims' claims, and simultaneously, the

police are still investigating some of its journalists.

David Cameron recalls Parliament on Friday to discuss joining the US

airstrikes against Islamic State in Iraq.

And still to come, the last of the Mitford sisters, Deborah,

the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, has died at the age of 94.

The murder trial of a 15 year-old killed in Hackney.

Her teenage boyfriend tells the Old Bailey he shot her by accident.

And taxi drivers bring parts of Central London to a standstill.

They claim it's a protest to defend their livelihoods.

He fought deportation from Britain for years but last year he finally

Now the extremist preacher Abu Qatada has been freed from

prison in Jordan after being found not guilty of terrorism offences.

But the Home Secretary, Theresa May, who led efforts to remove him

from Britain, has insisted he will not be returning here.

The Jordanian national was recognised as a refugee and granted

Wanted in Jordan on terror charges, he fought deportation

The cost to the UK taxpayer of the eight-year-long legal battle

Our home affairs correspondent June Kelly reports from Amman.

There are flashing images in June's report.

Abu Qatada returned to his home country last year as a terror

suspect. Today he became a free man. One of his first gestures was to

kiss the feet of his father in a traditional show of respect. He

thanked first God and then his lawyer for his freedom. Earlier, he

was brought into the cage-like dock of the security court to learn his

fate. As the civilian judges delivered the not guilty verdict, a

formality of the court was forgotten. His many sisters and

brothers have followed this case from the start. For his lawyer,

there was a kiss. He has been cleared of conspiring in a plot

which was thwarted to attack Western and Israeli interests in Jordan 15

years ago. This has been an international legal marathon. Abu

Qatada took his case through everybody's court and then on to

Europe, as he fought against being sent back here to face these

charges. As part of a deal with the UK, the Jordanians promised that

testimony obtained through torture and other suspects would not be used

against him. The judges said the remaining evidence was too weak to

convict but there is no chance of him returning to Britain. The UK

courts here were very clear that he posed a threat to our national

security and that is why we were pleased as a government to be able

to remove him from the United Kingdom. He is subject to A.D.

Portlaoise and order and also a UN travel ban, and that means he will

not be returning to the UK. -- key is subject to a deportation order.

Since he was deported back to the Middle East, he has condemned

Islamic State but as he returns to family life, he remains a supporter

of Al-Qaeda. And Abu Qatada is now free to speak openly once again.

Detectives searching for the missing teenager Alice Gross

have travelled to Latvia in the hope of learning more about

The Latvian was jailed there for seven years for killing his

He was last seen about a week after Alice disappeared.

His brother says he has been portrayed unfairly and has been

Our correspondent Jenny Hill reports from Riga.

It has been almost a month since Alice Gross disappeared. These CCTV

images show her walking in West London on August the 28th. Her

family have not seen or heard from her since. This is the man police

have named as the prime suspect in her disappearance. Arnis Zalkalns

has also vanished. He is a builder from that the and he is a convicted

killer. -- from Latvia. This is the street in Riga where he used to

live. Detectives think it is possible he has returned to Latvia

where 16 years ago he was jailed for the murder of his wife. Police

officers from Britain are now in the country, working with the Latvian

counterparts, but it has emerged it might not be possible for either

British or Latvian officers to arrest Mr Zalkalns even if they find

him. No European arrest warrant has been issued. Police emphasised this

is still an investigation into two missing people. There are no

investigations against a person in Latvia so we don't have any reason

to put the investment in because there has been no crime committed.

And that is something Mr Zalkalns's brother say people should remember.

TRANSLATION: What I know and what I have heard differs. Everybody is

looking for a sensation where he is shown as a monster, a villain. That

is what they want. In Britain, the search for Alice Gross goes on. It

is a huge police operation. Tomorrow, detectives. A Jay

reconstruction of her last known movements. And in her community,

yellow ribbons for a missing girl. Police insist there is no evidence

Alice has come to harm, so here they wait and they hope.

Nicola Sturgeon has launched her bid to become leader of the

Scottish National Party and Scotland's First Minister.

Her candidacy had been widely predicted after Alex Salmond

announced last week that he would resign

after Scotland's vote to reject independence in the referendum.

Ms Sturgeon has been Deputy First Minister since the SNP came to

The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, the last of the Mitford sisters,

Much of her life was focused on making Chatsworth House

in Derbyshire one of the most successful and profitable

There were seven Mitford children and they were extraordinary, famed

for their looks, their intelligence, their love of mischief and,

Diana married the fascist Oswald Mosley.

Deborah, the youngest, married a duke.

She pretended she was not clever but she was beautiful,

like her sisters, and she spoke with the same distinctive Mitford voice.

I was never the least bit interested in politics of any sort so it just

went over my head. I just in bother with it. It was the person I loved.

After a wartime marriage to the Duke of Devonshire, she moved to

establishment circles. She was there on the left outside a posh reception

when President Kennedy came to London. Harold Macmillan, a

relative, used to come grouse shooting on their land. But her

life's work was at Chatsworth. the gardens and 35,000 acres

in the Derbyshire Peak District. In the 1950s and '60s,

she turned the house into a successful business, attracting

hundreds of thousands of visitors. She described herself

as a housewife, One of her hobbies was keeping

chickens. Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Helen Willetts. Thank you, Sophie. A beautiful

picture behind me. Many of us had sunshine today after some rain for

the gardens for many of us overnight and this morning, courtesy of this

weather front. Another one advancing in from the North so rain in the

forecast for the next few days but not a great deal. A predominantly

dry September but there will be rain, misty low cloud and a breeze.

In the South, a chilly night, just two or three out in the suburbs. We

have all the cloud in the north by contrast. It is meandering across on

that breeze. This will blow a few holes in the cloud. A misty and damp

picture further south and west. East of the Pennines we could see some

sunshine and in the sunshine, eastern Scotland and eastern England

with temperatures possibly into the low 20s. On the whole, on balance,

more cloud around and we have seen during the day today. Hot on the

heels of tomorrow's weather front another comes in tomorrow night.

Quite potent across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Severe galeforce

winds are possible but they will blow the cloud further South, so a

lot of cloud there. Great news for the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles with

pretty respectable temperatures for this time of year in the sunshine.

It stays mainly dry but with those weak weather fronts, quite a bit of

cloud at times, feeling warm in the sun but hopefully not too many

problems with frost overnight. A reminder of our main story, MPs

are being recalled to Parliament on Friday to discuss joining the US air

strikes against Islamic State in Iraq. That is all from us.