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Fighting erupts across Syria, the heaviest bombardment in months as | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
the ceasefire crumbles. People scramble to rescue survivors from | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
the rubble. Syria's President Assad blames America. I believe that the | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
United States are not genuine. The UN says it will attempt to bring in | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
aid convoys, despite the renewed fighting. Also tonight... | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
The tens of thousands of cancelled operations not included in official | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
Agony for families in Egypt, as hundreds of migrants feared dead in | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
the Mediterranean. Doctors warn of the risk to children | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
of swallowing batteries - this is what they do | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
to a slice of ham. Mary quits the Bake off, | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
but Paul says he'll stay. And coming up in Sportsday later | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
in the hour on BBC News: The latest | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
on the County Championship decider it a hatrick of titles | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
with victory against Middlesex. Good evening, and welcome | :01:07. | :01:29. | |
to the BBC News at Six. Fighting has broken out once more in | :01:30. | :01:39. | |
parts of Syria, with increased ferocity after the collapse of the | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
temporary truce. Uncompromising President Assad says he believed the | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
six-year long war will drag on and it is impossible to say when it | :01:50. | :01:50. | |
could end. He also claims his enemies alone, | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
which include the US, are to blame for the devastation | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
across the country. Our Diplomatic Correspondent | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
James Landale has more. Around Aleppo last night there was | :02:00. | :02:10. | |
anything but a ceasefire. These unverified pictures show warplanes | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
dropping bombs in what is said to be rebel held territory. At least 45 | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
people were reported to have died. And elsewhere in Syria, including | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
the central provinces, there seems little left of what truce there was. | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
In an interview with the Associated Press news agency, President Assad | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
was defiant. Denying he was besieging eastern Aleppo, and | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
denying he was using barrel bombs to kill civilians. A bomb is a bomb, | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
what is the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
to kill. It is about how to use it. When you use it, use it to defend | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
the civilians, you kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. You do | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
not have the moral incentive, we do not have the interest. The war, he | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
said, would drag on, whilst outside powers interfered. And he blamed | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
America for the breakdown of latest ceasefire. I believe the United | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
States is not genuine regarding the success secession of Syria. As the | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
attack on Monday which destroyed a humanitarian convoy and killed 28 | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
workers, he denied any involvement. Regarding the White House yesterday | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
accusing either the Syrian or the Russians in that regard, I would | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
say, what I can officially say about the conflicts in Syria, they have no | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
credibility, whatever they say, it is just lies. Today, his forces | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
gained control of yet more territory. As more than 100 rebel | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
fighters and their families were evacuated from opposition health | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
districts in Homs. Elsewhere, a United Nations aid convoy did get | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
through to rebel holds about the Damascus. But so far, none has been | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
allowed into Aleppo, something the UN said to change. Please, President | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
Assad, do your bit to enable us to get eastern Aleppo and also the | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
other besieged areas. But aid will reach here only if there is a | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
ceasefire. And although there will be yet more talks in the UN this | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
evening, there are a few hopes that the fighting will end any time soon. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
James Landale, BBC News. Within the last | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
And within the last hour the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
has been speaking at the United Nations about | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
the Russians have an opportunity to show leadership, to do the right | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
thing by the people of Syria, and the right thing by the world. That | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
is to accept that there has to be a transition away from President Assad | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
and a future for the Syrian people that does not involve an Assad | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
tyranny. Our Diplomatic Correspondent James | :04:59. | :04:59. | |
Robbins is at the UN James, those comments by Boris | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
Johnson were made in an interview with you. What else did he have to | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
say? Well, I have just come from talking to Boris Johnson. He said | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
that people would have to say that the Kerry- Lavrov process that is | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
the current American - Russian negotiation to broker a ceasefire, | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
but progress is very much in jeopardy. That is the most downbeat | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
I have overheard Foreign Secretary about this. He did go on to say that | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
there was no other game in town, that there was no other possible | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
diplomatic model for trying to bring an end to the Syrian wall. And so | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
they would have to do their best to keep that process going, however | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
difficult -- Syria wall. You heard the appeal he made to the Russians. | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
He was pretty blood. He warned them that if they didn't accept that | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Assad had to go, and he didn't believe they did accept that, they | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
risk getting Russia bogged down in Syria in the same way that the | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
soviet Union had before in Afghanistan after the Soviet | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
invasion of the 1980s. I have to say, Boris Johnson was not holding | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
out any substantial home. He was merely contrasting what he sees as | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
the correct behaviour followed by the United States and her allies, | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
for instance, admitting to the accidental bomb of Syrian soldiers | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
at the weekend, and what he regards as the cynical process taken by | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
President Assad and his Russian backers. James Robbins, thank you. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Tens of thousands of operations were cancelled in England last year | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
but not included in official figures, the BBC has discovered. | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
Hospitals only have to record operations postponed on the day | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
But a BBC investigation has found that 41,500 additional operations | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
were called off one to three days before, but not counted. | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
It should have been a routine operation, but it turned | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
into a nightmare experience for Iona from Cornwall. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
After a wait of several months for a hysterectomy, | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
the operation was postponed the day before it was due, and then | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
She felt so upset, she went straight to her local radio station | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
in her hospital gown to talk about her experience. | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
Because you can see, I've still got my name tag on. | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
The operation did eventually take place and went smoothly. | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
But Iona, who is self-employed, won't forget the stress caused | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
by being told of cancellations with very limited notice. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Every time they give you a date to go in for your operation, | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
there is a lot of preparing before you go in for that day. | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
So any cancellation that you get is obviously a very traumatic time | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
because of everything you have to do, all of the plans that you've | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
made, everything you did, your mindset, everything. | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Official figures show 7.7 million operations were carried out | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
1% involved last-minute cancellations on the original day | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
Patients were guaranteed a new date within 28 days. | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
But a BBC investigation with responses from nearly | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
half of hospital Trusts uncovered an additional | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
They said nearly 41,500 were cancelled 1-3 days before | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
These don't show up in any official figures, and there is no 28-day | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use different definitions | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
Hospital chiefs in England admit there is a growing problem, | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
but that increasing patient numbers are putting pressure on wards | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
In a situation where we have got so many people needing planned | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
operations, and an increasing level of emergency admissions, | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
then we have a situation where we often need to cancel | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
And isn't that pretty devastating for the patients involved? | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
It's absolutely devastating for the patient involved, | :08:49. | :08:49. | |
and we don't underestimate what that means. | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
Iona simply feels she was passed around the system with no | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
Well, I did feel like I was a piece of meat. | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
And they could do basically what they want, really. | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
They don't understand the emotions that go with it. | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
As a hospital, there should be beds for everybody. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
I've got problems as much as the next person. | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
The local hospital said it was working hard | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
to reduce short-notice cancellations. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Iona's view is that it has to be a priority | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
An influential survey suggests small businesses are feeling gloomy about | :09:20. | :09:36. | |
their prospects. The last time they felt this and confident about the | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
future was in the middle of the Eurozone crisis. So go on | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
confidence. Small businesses or a crucial engine in our economy. Is it | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
because of Brexit? As our business editor reports, there is more to it | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
than that. On the surface, small businesses like this cleaning | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
company in South Bend should be feeling chirpy. On the whole, they | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
were more relaxed about Brexit, and the economic news since June has | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
been good. A sharp fall in confidence is a surprise. The owner | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
says he is having to turn down new contracts every week. For lack of | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
workers to do the job. Brexit has had an effect inasmuch as we don't | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
attract as many migrant workers now. They are uneasy, they don't quite | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
know where they stand. The other problem we have is that since the | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
Living Wage has come in, other companies are paying in line with | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
what we pay. Anybody looking for a job has more options, and this is | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
affecting the candidates we get applying the cleaning jobs locally. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
Small business confidence has taken a particularly sharp dive in the | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
last three months, and it seems likely some of that is to do with | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
Brexit uncertainty. For many small businesses, those issues seem quite | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
a long way over the horizon. In the foreground there are other issues | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
bothering them, things like the National Living Wage, pension auto | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
enrolment and the general softening of the UK economy. It is those | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
issues in the here and now that small businesses hope the Chancellor | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
will do something to help with. New Chancellor Philip Hammond delivers | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
his plan for the economy in late November. He can't un-pick his | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
predecessor's National Living Wage promise, ?7 20 per hour, but a | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
welcome reception back in April. George Osborne plan to raise it to | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
?9 by 2020, and that has got small business groups worried. It is an | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
aspiration at the moment. If it is the work we have to bear in mind the | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
drop in confidence and the domestic headwind. It sounds like the figure | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
should be reviewed, in your view? It will need to be looked at closely. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Although pessimistic, the survey did show more small companies with | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
export ambitions. The fall in the value of the pound since Brexit | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
should help, according to this not in fertiliser producer. Reduction of | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
the value of the pound means that our products become cheaper if we | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
are selling in pounds. I am hugely optimistic about trade with the USA, | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
the Far East, Africa, and particularly is of America. But | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
those small businesses don't export -- most small businesses. For them | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
it is issues like wages, taxes and orders that matter, and is making | :12:14. | :12:14. | |
many of them worried. Farewell to soggy bottoms - | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
the parting words of Mary Berry as she announced she won't go | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
with The Great British Bake Off when She says her decision is "out | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
of loyalty to the BBC". Her fellow judge Paul Hollywood has | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
announced he is going to stay It means Bake Off will lose three | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
of its four current hosts I could take more orange than that. | :12:31. | :12:45. | |
My problem is, it is very dense. I could almost bring that out with a | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
flannel. Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, the judges on Britain's | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
biggest TV show. Their expert eye and devilish challenges have been a | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
key part of the Bake Off recipe. But the partnership is over. Mary Berry | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
today said, my decision to stay with the BBC | :13:02. | :13:22. | |
Paul Hollywood, seen yesterday arriving at Channel 4, is staying | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
loyal to the bunting and squirrels in return for a rather larger | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
paycheque. It is understood the BBC was so keen to keep him they even | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
offered him some appearances and roll on Top Gear and then added to | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
the departure of Mel and Sue, there will be a very different Bake Off | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
recipe. It will be so hard for them to pull this off with different | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
presenters on a different channel. That will be the real test for | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
Channel 4, where they are going to really try and make this a success, | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
or whether it will be flat as a pancake. So, the BBC loses the Bake | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
Off. But it's quite so hang on to the presenters. Channel 4 says at | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
once as few changes as possible, but there is only one familiar face | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
left. So will it once. A lot of loyal fans are disappointed. This | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
battle over baking has become a bit of a mess. These are two public | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
service broadcasters. Of course it is up to the production company to | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
sell it to another broadcaster if they choose to do so. But I'm | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
slightly surprised that Channel 4, another publicly owned broadcaster, | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
should essentially poked a very successful show of the BBC by paying | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
them more money. Channel 4 said it wouldn't have the show if the | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
relationship with the BBC hadn't broken down. There may be a line of | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
change, but they feel they have saved the Bake Off for free to air | :14:44. | :14:44. | |
television. Fighting erupts across Syria - | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
the heaviest bombardment in months Hull announces its plans | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
for its year as City of Culture - with plays, opera and the Turner | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
Prize. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
in the next 15 minutes: The draw has been made for the first | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
round of next year's Davis Cup. After their semi-final | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
defeat last weekend, Great Britain have a tricky opening | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
tie away in Canada. Doctors are warning | :15:13. | :15:25. | |
about the potentially lethal risk posed to young children by button | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
batteries - the sort found Surgeons at London's Great Ormond | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
Street Hospital say they've seen a rise in the number of children | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
suffering severe injuries They can get lodged | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
in the oesophagus and quickly burn a hole through its lining, | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
and that can prove fatal. Our Medical Correspondent Fergus | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
Walsh has more. Ready? | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
Yeah. All it took was a tiny watch | :15:50. | :15:50. | |
battery to devastate this After she swallowed the button | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
battery it burned through her This is the latest of many | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
operations at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
to try to repair the damage. For the past year the three-year-old | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
has been fed through a tube into her stomach and has a bag | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
to collect her saliva. Her mother who's Russian says it has | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
turned their lives upside down. She hopes Valeria will | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
eventually recover. Essentially this battery starts | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
working in the oesophagus. Surgeons at Great Ormond Street | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
Hospital are seeing one child a month with caustic soda burns | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
caused by button batteries. The most important thing is to be | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
aware that these are extremely dangerous and should be treated | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
essentially like a poison and should be kept out | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
of the reach of children. Let's mimic what can happen | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
when a button battery gets lodged The ham represents | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
the delicate lining of the oesophagus, | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
and water, saliva. I'll cover this side but put another | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
battery here so we can see We've left this for just two hours, | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
and already a huge amount If I lift the button battery you can | :17:12. | :17:26. | |
see all this black marked area. Eventually this would have | :17:27. | :17:35. | |
burnt its way right through the ham. When she swallowed a button battery | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
last year doctors warned her mum there could be | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
life changing injuries. They said that her vocal cords | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
could be damaged then and there and she would never | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
develop a voice. And again, they said that if she did | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
pull through she may never eat again because her oesophagus may have | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
been too badly damaged. Fortunately the two-year-old has | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
made a complete recovery. But it's a warning to parents | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
to keep toddlers away Tonight hundreds of people | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
are feared dead in one of the worst disasters | :18:16. | :18:28. | |
of the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Survivors have told the BBC around | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
550 people were crammed on board a boat which set sail | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
from the Egyptian coast - and that only 160 could be rescued | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
when it capsized yesterday. The disaster happened 12 | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
miles from the coast, near the town of Rosetta - | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
rescuers are still Four crew members have been | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
arrested. From there our correspondent | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
Orla Guerin reports. Reclaimed from the sea, survivors of | :18:50. | :19:04. | |
the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean, saved by the Egyptian | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
military and taken into police custody. Some overwhelmed by | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
exhaustion after up to eight hours treading water. Staring death in the | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
face. Most were young Egyptians from poorer communities who told us they | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
wanted to reach Italy to find work. They said more than 550 people were | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
crammed onto the boat. It was very small, said this | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
17-year-old. It only had a room for 200. We were at sea for two days and | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
they kept bringing more people before we capsized and half the crew | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
got away. Mohammed survived but without his | :19:51. | :20:00. | |
cousin who was just 14. TRANSLATION: May God have mercy on | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
all the young men who died. I was going to die but God helped me, God | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
and the Army. We were reciting the prayer before that, not once but ten | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
or 15 times. We said, God help us, God save us. | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Outside the police station anguish and anger, some relatives | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
complaining the authorities took hours to respond to distress signals | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
from the sinking boat. But then what they'd all been waiting for. | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
The survivors are emerging now. They've spent the night in custody. | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
They are being reunited with their families. Many of the relatives have | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
been maintaining a vigil here right through the night hoping against | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
hope to get news of their loved ones, hoping that they were not | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
among the dead. Orla Guerin reporting from Egypt | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
where the survivors of the terrible Maicon disaster in the Mediterranean | :21:03. | :21:03. | |
are. A brief look at some of the day's | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
other other news stories. A former panellist on the BBC quiz | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
show Eggheads has appeared in court in connection with an alleged | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
killing in Amsterdam in 1988. CJ De Mooi, who's from | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Monmouthshire, was arrested The current delivery of social work | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
services in Scotland is "unsustainable" - | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
according to a report by the local The Accounts Commission | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
says the annual bill has It says an additional ?667 million | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
will be needed by 2020 - unless new ways of delivering | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
services are found. In Northern Ireland the families | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
of over 30 people, who were killed during the Troubles, | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
are to take legal action They want it to pay for inquests | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
into their relatives' deaths. They've given the Northern Ireland | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
Office and the Stormont Executive The Duke of Cambridge has warned | :21:51. | :22:07. | |
that the African elephant could be extinct by the end of the decade. He | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
wants to draw attention to the threat of the illegal trade in | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
wildlife. Nicholas Witchell reports. They've been part of the African | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
landscape for as long as man can remember but the future of the | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
African elephant is in danger. They are being hunted without mercy for | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
their tusks, tasks made of ivory, ivory which is one of the most | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
precious commodities in the illegal wildlife trade. Ivory which is | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
shipped to countries like China where it is carved into works of | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
art. It's an illegal trade which William is determined to stop. He | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
raised it in Washington with President Obama and in Beijing with | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
President Xi Jinping. And now as Britain plans tighter laws about the | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
sale of antique Ivory William Harris Boka and out in London with a call | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
to the international community to do more. When I was born there were 1 | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
million elephants roaming Africa. By the time my daughter Charlotte was | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
born last year the numbers of savanna elephants had crashed to | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
just 350,000. And at current pace of illegal poaching when Charlotte | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
turns 25 African elephant will be gone from the wild. Williams said he | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
was not prepared to be part of a generation which did nothing. Now is | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
the chance to send and an ambiguous message to the world that it is no | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
longer acceptable to buy and sell ivory, rhino horn or other illegal | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
ivory products. I would challenge anyone who knows the truth of how | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
these wildlife products are obtained to justify desiring them. | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
Materialistic greed cannot be allowed to win against our moral | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
duty to protect threatened species and vulnerable communities. In a | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
couple of days an international conference will consider what can be | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
done and all the time in Africa the poachers continue the brutal work | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
which threatens to destroy the continent's remaining population of | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
elephants. Nicholas Witchell, BBC News. | :24:12. | :24:27. | |
There are just a hundred days to go until Hull becomes the UK city | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
Among the highlights announced today are Opera North performing | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
from the Humber Bridge, and the city hosting | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz, has been taking a look. | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
This is Hull, frantically getting ready to welcome the world | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
in a little over three months' time when it takes on the mantle of UK | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
City of Culture and hosts a 12 month arty party. | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
Ferens Art Gallery, jewel in the crown of the city. | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
The man behind the festivities tells me the | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
gallery is having a ?4.5 million face-lift in preparation for hosting | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
next year's Turner Prize, which is one highlight in a programme | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
that includes citywide light shows, Opera on the Humber Bridge and | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
The overall aim, he says, is to tell Hull's story. | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
It's investing hugely in green energy. | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
It is a port to northern Europe, it is | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
So I think what we try to find is that balance | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
between celebrating the historic nature of this city as a great | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
place, which once had great wealth, its ups and downs socially and | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
economically, but also pushing it into the future as a vibrant place. | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
Last year I took a tour of the city with Hull-based theatre director | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
And then behind it is going to be an amphitheatre. | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
An amphitheatre? Yeah. | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
It was amazing to see so many people coming down and | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
area of the city known as the Fruit Market. | :25:47. | :25:56. | |
You can see that it's sort of halfway through its | :25:57. | :25:58. | |
To become this cultural and kind of creative | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
It doesn't look like much at the moment but this, | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
all being well come January, is going to be Hull's | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
Truth be told, Madeleine, are the local people | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
slightly fed up with all the disruption? | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
Well, of course they are | :26:14. | :26:14. | |
because the entire city has been, like, barriers across it and trying | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
to navigate those barriers can be a bit frustrating. | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
But I think everybody is starting to see those | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
changes, they are starting to get on board with how brilliant it is | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
People's interpretation of the city by physically coming | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
here, looking around it, talking to people. | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
It's nice to see so much regeneration in the city and I'm | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
looking forward to seeing who comes in to do work | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
throughout the City of | :26:42. | :26:42. | |
I think it's going to be really exciting. | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
I think people look down at Hull and they shouldn't. | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
There's lots of excellent stuff going on in Hull. | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
?130 million plus is being spent on the city's cultural | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
The hope is that the 2017 arts festival will | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
It is a party to which we are all invited. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
how many of us will want to go. | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
Time to look at the weather and in a marvellous piece of joined up | :27:08. | :27:19. | |
thinking Alex Deakin is from Hull. It looks fantastic, one of the | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
sunniest cities in northern England. Not that I am biased. In Beverley of | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
the road, one of our weather watchers sent this picture in. We do | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
have a little bit of a chilly night ahead and wet night this evening, a | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
band of showery rain edging across Scotland into parts of north-west | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
England, North and west Wales but it fizzles out. For many it is a dry | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
and clear night and it will be chilly, cool the man last night, | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
across the south and east, temperatures in rural areas into | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
single figures. You will notice a different feel about tomorrow | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
morning. -- cooler than last night. It should be a fine day with plenty | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
of autumn sunshine on offer and one or two showers in South Wales early | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
on. We will know to change in the north-west later as we seek out | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
picking up and outbreaks of rain spreading. For most places much of | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
the day dry and bright and we could again get up to 20 degrees in the | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
south-east of England. Light winds and sunny spells across south-west | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
England and Wales, one or two early showers here but much of Wales, | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
northern England set fair again along with eastern Scotland. But | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
here is a change, a weather system approaching and the wind is picking | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
up and the rain sets in and when it has set in it will last into the | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
weekend, the north-west of Scotland, we have to keep an eye on it, and | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
the rain will push into Northern Ireland, the wind picking up, a | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
windy Saturday in the north and west, the rain edging into parts of | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
north-west England and Wales, but drawing up warm air and over 20s in | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
the south-east. They could be rain across the south-east and East | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
Anglia early on Sunday but then we are left with a fresher feel. | :29:04. | :29:04. |