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A landmark employment ruling - the taxi service Uber is told it | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
must give its drivers basic workers' rights. | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
The minimum wage and paid holidays may be on the way. | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
Unions say it could affect tens of thousands of workers. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
This is the most important employment law decision | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
Its implications reach far, far beyond Uber. | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
Uber says it will appeal against the decision. | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
Syrian rebels make a major push to break the government siege | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
People with the lung condition cystic fibrosis | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
are told of a new drug, shown in tests to produce | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
I'm transformed, I think, like a butterfly out of a cocoon. | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
Why the cost of your cuppa could be about to go up. | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
And the plans to create the world's largest maritime | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
Moeen Ali's five-wicket haul helps to bowl Bangladesh out for 220 | :01:04. | :01:13. | |
but England lose quick wickets in reply on day one | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:16. | :01:41. | |
Drivers who work for the cab service Uber are entitled to holiday pay, | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
the minimum wage and other employment rights, according | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
to a landmark ruling from a tribunal today. | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
The company will appeal against the decision, | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
but the unions say it could be the start of a significant shift | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
in workplace rights for tens of thousands | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
of workers at Uber itself and also at other companies | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
Uber drivers, like Asif, get their jobs via the smartphone app. | :02:03. | :02:12. | |
They are pioneers of the digital age. | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
While Uber is his main source of | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
income, he is classed as self-employed. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
Which is why he says Uber has been denying him normal | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
I have control of the work, I have an at the app | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
How could I be classified as self-employed, | :02:29. | :02:42. | |
Uber has 40,000 drivers in Britain, but they are not employees with full | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
employee rights, they are self-employed, or independent | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
As Uber calls them who have to fend for themselves. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
But the drivers who brought this case, | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
Which is legally somewhere in the middle. | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
Entitled to rest breaks, holiday pay, and the national minimum wage. | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
And today an employment tribunal decided to drivers, and the union | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
This is the most important employment law decision | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
Its implications reach far, far beyond Uber and reach right out | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
They clarify the position and level the | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
Uber is no stranger to protest, traditional | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
taxi drivers around the world accuse it of driving down fares and | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
It said it would appeal and that the overwhelming | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
majority of drivers who | :03:49. | :03:49. | |
use the Uber at one to keep the freedom and flexibility of being | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
able to drive when and where they want. | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Yet, today's decision will | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
reverberate around a new generation of delivery companies, minicabs and | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
courier firms, which use smartphones to mobilise an army of self-employed | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
They are going to need to look very carefully at the case to decide | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
whether they can distinguish their business | :04:14. | :04:14. | |
operating model from the | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
Or whether it is sufficiently similar that they are | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
now at substantial risk of having to pay the minimum wage, provide paid | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
So pending the appeal, he should get his workers' rights | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
Because the government has commissioned an | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
independent review into whether employment law now needs to be | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
What is going to change with this ruling? As you said, Uber has | :04:38. | :04:54. | |
appealed. Although the tribunal were scathing about their case, it means | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
they may not have to change their terms and conditions for drivers | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
until the appeal has worked its way through, which could take months or | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
years. On the other hand, unions say there are 200,000 people working in | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
a similar way to the Uber drivers, and perhaps 6 million who do not | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
have full workers' rights. Many of those are properly self-employed, | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
but a growing proportion are part of the casual economy. And are there | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
likely to be other knock-on effects? I think so. The attraction of Uber | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
was that it was cheaper. If it has to pay drivers more as a result of | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
having to pay the minimum wage, for instance, and holidays, that could | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
erode its advantage and it could mean customers end up paying higher | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
prices. Rebel groups in Syria have launched | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
a major offensive to try to break the government siege of Aleppo, | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
the city at the centre Reports say hundreds of missiles | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
have been fired at government-held positions by rebel groups | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
in a coordinated assault. Quentin Sommerville has | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
been following events from neighbouring Lebanon, | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
and he sent this report. In Aleppo, a call to arms. God | :05:57. | :06:12. | |
willing, see these rebels, they will soon be in the heart of the city. | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
They brought with them plenty of firepower. Hundreds of rockets fired | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
into the city's regime- controlled West. But there is something else | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
just as powerful, a new unity. Moderate rebels and hardline | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
Islamist working together. And here, they are using a favourite jihadist | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
tactic. Suicide car bombs. But in numbers far greater than before. | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
More than half a dozen already today. This command said the | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
criminal regime has besieged our brothers. They have committed | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
continuous and the daily massacres. We will free our brothers. In the | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
West, 15 people were killed and more than 100 injured. This boys says a | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
tank show hit the kitchen, my head is injured from shrapnel. And this | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
woman, children were playing, the house was destroyed on top of us. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
East and West Aleppo started looking similar today. In the West, | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
residential neighbourhoods were badly damaged. Unified, the rebels | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
have more firepower and more ground troops than before. By the | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
afternoon, here in the Assad neighbourhood, they broke through | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
government lines. Aleppo's fate, and that of Syria's vicious civil war | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
are joined together. For now, the rebels have the upper hand. Quentin | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
Somerville, BBC News, Beirut. Meanwhile a major offensive is | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
continuing against the Islamic State Today, the United Nations accused | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
IS of using tens of thousands of civilians as human shields | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
in the beseiged city of Mosul. It said men, women and children | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
were being moved to areas under attack from advancing | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
government forces. Shaimaa Khalil has been hearing | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
the story of one family who escaped the horror of life under IS, | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
when their village near Ashraf and his family have been | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
living in this refugee For the first time in two years, | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
they're able to sleep They'd escaped their village near | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Mosul when the Iraqi forces came in. But life under the so-called | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
Islamic State has taken its toll. Especially on Ashraf, | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
who was abducted by the extremist. TRANSLATION: They took me to a house | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
and hit me with sticks They said, "Your brothers | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
are with the peshmerga, I told them, "My brothers | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
drivers, not fighters." They fired over my head and tortured | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
me with electric shocks. Nahla told me she had to beg | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
for her son's life. TRANSLATION: His father | :08:54. | :09:05. | |
and I followed the car I went up to the fighters | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
and said, "I want my son." They said they were going | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
to kill him. I said, "My son hasn't | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
done anything." I said, "Shoot me, but let | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
my son go." The IS fighters kicked them out | :09:18. | :09:26. | |
to use it as a base to fight from. You can get fined, lashed, | :09:27. | :09:40. | |
or even killed for They forced us to grow beards | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
and to go five times They called for the destruction | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
of America and Britain. Sabrine was out feeding | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
decals when she was shot She's been paralysed for three years | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
now and is in desperate TRANSLATION: I used | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
to watch TV to distract But they came and took the TV | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
and mobile phones away. I would lie there 24 | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
hours with nothing to do. Now with the UN says IS have | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
abducted thousands of civilians from around Mosul to use | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
them as human shields. Families here may have escaped | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
the extremists' grip, but many more are suffering | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
the terror of life under Two children have died | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
following a fire at a house A boy aged eight and a six-year-old | :10:32. | :10:43. | |
girl were taken to hospital, The children's father | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
was found several hours later Let's speak to Phil Mackie who's | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
at the scene this evening. What else are the police saying? | :10:53. | :11:08. | |
They are still trying to work out exactly what happened, the sequence | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
of events in the early hours of the morning. The house is just behind | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
the police van behind me. At 3:40am, firefighters found the children | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
lying on the front lawn with neighbours giving them CPR. The | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
firefighters tried to resuscitate them, but it was too late and they | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
were pronounced dead in hospital. Four hours later, the father of the | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
children was found in a fire damaged car 40 miles north of here in | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
Newcastle-under-Lyme and he is in a critical condition in hospital. One | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
of the firefighters said the fire was not particularly big and was | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
easily extinguished when they got here. The mother, now a significant | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
witness, was treated for the effects of smoke inhalation but is otherwise | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
all right. We do not know the cause of death or the identities of the | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
children. There will be postmortem examinations carried out over the | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
weekend, and West Midlands Police have said they are not looking for | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
anybody else in connection with the fire. | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
A new drug treatment that targets the cause of cystic fibrosis has | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
been shown to slow lung damage by more than 40%. | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
It's called Orkambi and was tested on more than 1000 | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
But it's not available on the NHS, as it costs more | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
I was always very pale, short and skinny, very tired. | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
Now I look like everyone else and I can run like I've never | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Clara's lungs used to be so clogged up, this sort of exercise would have | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
The 15-year-old from Somerset has cystic fibrosis but since starting | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
the Orkambi trial three years ago, her health | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
I'm transformed, I think, like a butterfly out of a cocoon. | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
My lungs work so much better, my lung function, which is how | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
they measure how your lungs are working at hospital | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
I've grown a lot in the last year or so and I feel a lot | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
Cystic fibrosis is a serious, progressive genetic condition | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
and only half of people affected make it into their 40s. | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
DNA errors mean they produce a thick, sticky mucus that clogs | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
The new drug therapy aims to correct the underlying cause of cystic | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
fibrosis, altering the microscopic machinery in the lungs, | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
Studies suggest it slows irreversible lung damage by more | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
than 40% over two years, and patients were less likely | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
Previously, all treatments for CF treated with symptoms of CF. | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
And while we need those antibiotics and agents, | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
they are not ever going to be called a cure. | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
So potentially we are on the right path now for a cure. | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
The trouble is Orkambi costs ?104,000 per year. | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
The health watchdog, Nice, has turned it down for NHS patients, | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
Clara relies on a whole raft of medications, | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
like this nebuliser, to keep healthy. | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
She knows the Orkambi tablets she takes are not a cure, | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
but hopes that despite the cost, the NHS will eventually | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
offer the drug to other cystic fibrosis patients. | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
The company is told it must give them workers rights, | :14:35. | :14:51. | |
including the minimum wage and paid holidays. | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
The final migrants leave the Jungle camp today. | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News... | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola admits the longest | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
winless run of his career is a worry, as the Premier League | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
table toppers return to league action this weekend. | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
But despite the drink being identified so much | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
Now the boss of one of the biggest brand names in the country | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
is warning that the falling value of the pound means prices | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
in the shops for tea will have to rise - | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
There's only one ingredient in this factory - tea leaves, | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
Each of these large bags cost up to ?60 more, thanks to the fall | :15:47. | :15:58. | |
You'd need to sell a lot of tea bags to make any money. | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Here, they churn out 125 million tea bags a week. | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
But the boss is warning that he can no longer cope with the extra cost. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
It's our favourite drink, and best drink. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
But, unfortunately, the cost per cup will go up. | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
It is affecting us monthly, ?250,000-?300,000. | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
So you can imagine in one year's time if we are in debt of 3 million, | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
We are trying to do as much as possible to get it discussed, | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
but we are coming to a position now where the costs | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
Trouble is brewing for any supplier who relies on raw ingredients | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
Some firms will have protected themselves by fixing their exchange | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
rate when the pound was a lot stronger. | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
But these contracts only last so long and because sterling has | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
remained low, right now many suppliers are in discussions | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
with the supermarkets about price rises. | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
Some prices have actually already gone up in store. | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
This man advises food producers on how to negotiate. | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
One set of people that cannot absorb the margin is the retailer. | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
They've been squeezed by the battle with Aldi and Lidl over | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
And the consumers have actually had the benefit of that in low | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
So this one, the retailers can't take any more pain. | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
If it comes as a price increase to them, they will have | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
How do you take your tea? Milk first? | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
So could shoppers cope with price rises? | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
Ultimately, the food shop would probably pretty much | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
But all those nice extras that we can afford at the moment | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
I've got three young children, so I am quite careful | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
I don't think it will affect too much the way we eat, | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
While some exporters are doing well from the currency changes, | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
Typhoo Tea is finding it hard to swallow. | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Just one example of why some prices in the shops looks set to rise. | :18:12. | :18:23. | |
Is the NHS doing enough to identify foreign patients who should be | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
The National Audit Office thinks not, and it's estimated | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
that the Health Service is losing out around ?150 million a year - | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
most of it from other European countries, | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
Hospitals need every penny they can get. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
The NHS in England ended last year with an unprecedented deficit | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
But its failure to charge overseas patients mean it's | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
What are the prospects for NHS England to recover its costs? | :18:54. | :19:05. | |
The government aims to recover half a billion pounds | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
But today's report suggests they'll actually manage less | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
That means a shortfall of more than ?150 million. | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
130 million of it, says the NAO, which should be easy | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
to recover from countries in the European economic area. | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
Health trusts, such as St George's in Tooting, say they face another | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
huge drain on their resources - patients from outside Europe | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
use English hospitals, even though they're not entitled to. | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
The government has introduced a surcharge for visitors who do | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
But a government report says the average cost of health care | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
for temporary migrants is actually well over ?700. | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
A leading cancer surgeon claims that England is making that kind of loss | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
on hundreds of thousands of migrants every year. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
I hold a letter from the Home Office which confirms that the number | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
of health surcharge visas issued in 2015-16 is just under 450,000. | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
One problem for health trust is that 42% of hospital doctors are unaware | :20:01. | :20:13. | |
Some big London hospitals, like Guy's and Saint Thomas', | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
are managing to claw back substantial sums | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
That the National Audit Office says that the fact that some trusts | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
retrieve as little as 15% of the debt, while others get it | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
all back, shows just how much room there is for improvement. | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
The government says the charges to migrants aren't intended to meet | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
But that it will take further steps to ensure it meets its target. | :20:37. | :20:47. | |
A High Court judge has ruled that an influential London imam promoted | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
violence despite wearing what he called "a cloak | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave described Shakeel Begg as "a Jekyll and Hyde | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
character" who "revealed the horns of extremism" when the | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
The imam lost a libel action against the BBC after the judge | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
agreed that he had adopted extremist positions. | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
Firefighters in Exeter are tackling a fire at one | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
It's believed the fire started in an art gallery next | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
to the Royal Clarence Hotel in the city centre. | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
Over 100 firefighters, police and paramedics are involved | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
in fighting the blaze which started in the early hours of this morning. | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
The hotel has been on this site for 300 years. | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
Officials in France say they've finally relocated the last | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
of the migrants in the camp at Calais known as the Jungle. | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
Police began clearing the site, which was home | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
Our correspondent, Damien Grammaticus, | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
A few child refugees were still there this morning, | :21:49. | :22:02. | |
like Hassan from Afghanistan - unwilling to abandon this place | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
We take all kind of danger, we face danger. | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
So if they're going to refuse us, we also spending | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
About one o'clock, you follow Christian! | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
So today, French authorities gave those still here a choice. | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
This is the slow, final emptying of the Jungle. | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
Some have held on even as the bulldozers have | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
But now they're giving up, taking the offer to get on those | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
And leading this last exodus was the man who struggled | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
to rid his town of the Jungle, Calais' police chief - | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
Of course it's difficult. Of course. | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Difficult as an emotional? Yeah. | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
Why? Because you work with humans. | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
Sometimes we frighten them, and sometimes we help them, | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
So this is your last picture? Yes, last picture. | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
Of the Jungle? Yes, the Jungle. | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
It's finished now? Finished, Jungle finished. | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
It's all gone? Yes. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
Most left with barely a glance at their old home. | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
And just time for some goodbyes for the Jungle's children | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
We don't know how their age will be assessed. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
That's happening right behind me, and I don't know | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
who is the person and how qualified they are to make that assessment. | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
But the promise is all asylum claims will be heard. | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
They've crossed continents, and still the journey isn't done. | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
It's taken years of talks between dozens of countries, | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
but finally the largest marine reserve in the world is set | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
The Ross Sea in Antarctica, an area of some half | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
a million square miles, will be protected from commercial | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
fishing and exploration to allow marine life to flourish, | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
as our Science Editor, David Shukman, reports. | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
The waters around Antarctica may be icy, but they are teeming with life. | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
This is one of the world's least disturbed stretches of ocean. | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
Because it is so rich biologically, it is attracting | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
The protection agreed today is seen is hugely important. | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
In the 25 years that I've been working in polar marine biology, | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
It is a massive decision and British Antarctic Survey | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
are delighted that all the hard work for more than five years by 24 | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
countries have resulted in this incredible decision. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
Tiny creatures known as krill are the foundation of life | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
The aim of the new marine protected area is to safeguard | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
There's still so much in this bizarre world | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
that remains a mystery, even after a century of exploration. | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
For scientists it is a huge challenge trying to understand | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
what makes this remote and unique ecosystem tick. | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
I once saw that for myself as I joined a team of biologists, | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
So will the new deal protect all this? | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
It will last 35 years, some say that is not enough. | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
But for the campaigner, Lewis Pugh, who even swam in the Antarctic | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
waters to highlight the issue, the deal is a big step forward. | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
For me this is an issue about justice. | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
Yes, it is about the environment, but most of all it is about justice. | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
It is about ensuring that we look after our environment | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
That there's justice between generations. | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
What's remarkable about the agreement for this remotest | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
corner of the planet is that there has been | :25:56. | :25:57. | |
some very rare harmony between Russia and the West. | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
Far from the disputes over Syria or Ukraine, | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
governments have looked at Antarctica and decided | :26:03. | :26:04. | |
that it is just too precious to put at risk. | :26:05. | :26:16. | |
Beautiful, but chilly. Chillier than here, I hope? | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
Let me take you from Antarctica to Aberdeenshire. The one thing I love | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
about Weather Watchers is not just great photos like this, but you get | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
some places you don't hear from. Like this wonderfully named place in | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
Aberdeenshire, a beautiful view this afternoon. It takes is on to the | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
weekend forecast where we are expecting a good deal of cloud, but | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
plenty of dry weather to come. It's a wild throughout, but there will be | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
some visibility problems first thing in the morning weather is patchy fog | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
around. Patchy fog developing elsewhere. England and Wales, maybe | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
after you see some drizzly rain this evening. Chilly for a time in | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
eastern Scotland and North East England tonight, but temperatures | :27:03. | :27:04. | |
pick up later with cloud increasing. A mild night for most. High pressure | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
in charge but the flow of air around the high pressure is dragging in | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
lots of moisture, not necessarily in the way of rain but with plenty of | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
cloud. Low cloud again to give a foggy start in the hills in the West | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
tomorrow. Patchy fog elsewhere and we could see a bit of drizzle at | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
times in Western Hills. Most places are going dry with limited sunshine | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
in the afternoon. It should brighten up a little bit into Northern | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
Ireland and eastern Scotland. As in the hills of eastern and north-east | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
Scotland, you could encounter is that rain or drizzle. But the winds | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
and white. Some breaks in a cloud for North Cornwall and North Devon. | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
If you get into a bit of sunshine, it does feel quite warm for the time | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
of year. 17-18 Celsius is possible. Here's how your Saturday evening is | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
looking, most places dry. Saturday night and into Sunday, a change for | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland. It's here you could these outbreaks of | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
rain for a time, patchy in nature. More sunshine for the south-east of | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
England on Sunday. Sunday's Diwali festival of light, suitably, an hour | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
earlier than that on Sunday. Don't forget that the clocks go back an | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
hour on Saturday night, that means an extra hour in bed. | :28:17. | :28:18. | |
A victory for Uber taxi drivers - the company's told it must give | :28:19. | :28:25. | |
them workers' rights, including the minimum | :28:26. | :28:27. | |
Syrian rebels launch a major push to break the government siege in the | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
city of Aleppo. It's goodbye from me, | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
and on BBC One we now join | :28:39. | :28:44. |