01/11/2016 BBC News at Six

The battle against so-called Islamic State:

Iraqi forces enter Mosul - the extremists' stronghold.

They are within the city limits for the first time

since they were driven out two years ago.

The troops have now entered the outskirts of Mosul.

As you can probably hear, and we are going to hear more

of it and see more of it, the resistance has just

We'll be hearing from civilians trapped inside the city.

Ready to hit back - the new Government strategy to deal

Tough times - we hear from one of the thousands

of families preparing for the new cap to benefits.

A week to go before the US presidential elections -

And the pioneering women who worked in television when the industry

And coming up in the sport on BBC News, Pep Guardiola

will try to avenge Manchester City's 4-0 defeat against his

old club Barcelona in the Champions League tonight.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at 6.

Two years after the humiliation of being driven out by so-called

Islamic State, the first Iraqi forces have re-entered Mosul.

Tonight they are within the city limits.

The assault, now in its third week, involves hundreds of troops

in heavily-armoured vehicles, together with tanks and bulldozers.

More than a million civilians are thought to be

A team of Iraqi special forces have retaken control

Our correspondent Ian Pannell and cameraman Darren Conway

are the first Western broadcast team to enter the city.

They have sent this report from the Mosul suburb of Gowagjali.

Once again, Iraqi forces left their bases before dawn,

it seems they're determined to keep the momentum up

They've now cleared all remaining towns and villages that

stands between the writ of the Iraqi Government and the writ

Once again we're rumbling, clattering across the desert

in these weirdly robotic-like Humvees with a turret

swivelling left and right, looking for possible

There's been a RPG, a rocket propelled grenade has exploded

overhead and there's been a little bit of gunfire going across.

We don't know exactly what the plan is, but judging

by a look at the map, it seems that we are once again

trying to do a flanking manoeuvre, in other words going

round and pushing ever and ever closer towards the city of Mosul.

The troops have now entered the outskirts of Mosul.

As you can probably hear, and we will hear more of this

and see more of it, the resistance has just

I think it's fair to say they had much more momentum than anybody

expected up until this point, and right now they're coming under

attack from a number of different directions,

And just spare a thought for the million or so civilians

who still live in this town, and the tens of thousands

who are thought to have been brought as human shields, as hostages,

by Islamic State when they withdrew from other cities.

Many now hunkered down in their homes, terrified, listening

That was Ian Pannell on the Iraqi front line with the troops.

It's almost impossible to talk to people trapped inside Mosul.

Islamic State militants have banned satellite dishes and mobile phones.

But some are managing to communicate with the outside world.

Orla Guerin reports from a radio station in Northern Iraq.

A snapshot of Mosul; silent, besieged, braced for the assault.

See how IS have hidden an anti-aircraft gun under a bridge.

A resistance group, called the Mosul Brigades, secretly

Others are resisting by daring to speak.

The airwaves of Alghad radio station, meaning tomorrow, are open

We can't say where it's located or identify the staff,

they've received death threats from the jihadis.

We join the presenter in studio as listeners phone

Callers say they are in danger not just from IS, but also from air

Off-air, another caller told us that many in the city were waiting

for a chance to take revenge on the jihadis.

He said life was unbearable and he had to speak out,

And, God forbid, if they discovered you making this call,

The station says these days it's getting more calls from Mosul,

a sign that the captive city is recovering its voice.

Orla Guerin, BBC News, Northern Iraq.

Our correspondent Orla Guerin joins us from northern Iraq.

We have just been hearing to the voices of those desperate people.

What is the latest on the offensive to liberate them? I think this is a

hugely significant day for Iraq and also the people of Mosul, who have

been waiting for this moment for two and a half years. We saw in Ian's

report that Iraqi counterterrorism forces have pushed into the city.

They entered into the eastern suburb, pushed in from the

outskirts, took the TV station, they met fierce resistance. They came

under sniper fire but also under fire from laser guided anti-tank

missiles. They have had direct construction walls, concrete walls

around the advancing troops, to try to prevent vehicle borne suicide

bombers which have been such a feature here over the last two

weeks. We have been told fighting has now stopped for the night

because darkness has fallen, but also because a sandstorm has come

up. Iraqi generals are describing this as the beginning of the true

liberation of Mosul. I think the key phrase is key beginning. The deeper

they penetrate into the city, the more resistance they will face,

particularly on the west side, where they will be able to use armoured

vehicles, that will be street to street and house-to-house and nobody

expects that to finish in weeks, it will probably be a matter of months.

Thank you. Britain faces a growing

threat of cyber attack organised by hostile states,

criminal gangs or hackers. Today, the Chancellor has announced

plans to improve cyber security. Philip Hammond said Britain needed

the capacity to 'strike back' Our Technology Correspondent Rory

Cellan-Jones has the details. We know our computers are under

threat, we're getting used to the idea that our phones

might not be secure, but surely we don't have to worry

that the kettle could be hacked... Yes, actually, Internet connected

devices, now in many homes, are providing

new opportunities for hackers. It punches a hole

through your firewall... This brand of home CCTV setup

was hijacked in a recent major These things are so insecure they're

starting to be turned against us. They're starting to be used

to attack parts of the Internet, to take down critical

infrastructures. It's that kind of threat the UK

now wants to confront. The Government's new cyber security

strategy includes more money for law enforcement efforts

to combat cyber crime, automated systems to stop spam

and malicious software, and a promise to strike back

against state-sponsored attacks from countries

like Russia and China. By having the ability to strike back

in kind, in cyberspace, to let the hackers and attackers

know that if they take down our networks, they risk

having their networks taken down, we will make Britain safer

and we will make it an even more attractive place for people

to do digital business. However much we spend on shoring

up Britain's defences against the hackers,

we're going to need a lot more people with cyber security skills,

and right now there's a shortage What we're basically looking

at is we're for suspicious activity At BT's headquarters,

cyber security apprentices are hearing about the company's

own security tools. The Government wants more young

people to see this There's a different attack every

day, a different threat every day and it's always keeping

you on your toes and you're It's going to be very important

pretty much forever, From MI5, whose boss today accused

Russia of mounting cyber attacks, to the police officers

hunting for young hackers, Britain is trying to show it means

business, but keeping up with the fast changing world

of cyber crime will be a challenge. Campaigners say "the gloves are now

off" in their fight for an inquiry into the clashes at Orgreave

in South Yorkshire during The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd,

surprised many yesterday by ruling out an inquiry into the violence

between pickets and police. The Orgreave Truth and

Justice Campaign says it's Further consultations are to be held

by the Government to decide whether the second part

of the Leveson Inquiry Culture Secretary Karen Bradley told

MPs that the government needed to consider if part two

of the inquiry, which started after the phone hacking scandal,

was in the public interest or not. But campaigners say today's

announcement was a betrayal There are warnings of an increase

in evictions and homelessness as tens of thousands of households

are hit by a new cap on benefits The cap reduces the amount of money

a household can receive from ?26,000 a year to ?23,000 in London

and ?20,000 outside the capital. Ministers say the new cap ensures

that households on benefits will not be better than the average

family in work. Here's our home editor,

Mark Easton. Could single mum Emma

and her family face eviction Unless she works at least 16-hours

a week, her benefits will soon be capped,

leaving her ?76 a week short on the rent, but Emma

says with four kids, including a young baby to care for,

getting a job is not an option I lose my kids because I haven't

been able to pay my rent. Yeah, I am really worried

because if they've got no roof over their heads,

then they really... It's not like they can sleep

with them on the streets with me. Sleep on the streets,

is this something that really The Government is desperate

to reduce the housing benefit bill which has ballooned to ?27 billion

a year as housing costs have risen, but ministers are being warned that

when they reduce the overall household benefit cap next week,

more than 100,000 families, including 300,000 children, could

then struggle to pay their rent. You can't run up arrears

indefinitely without your landlord, in the end, having to take measures

to evict you and to take possession At that point you're a homeless

household and homelessness is rising Getting a job is what the Government

insists the cap encourages people to do, pointing out that 23,000

people, who lost money under the existing cap,

are now exempt having found at least What's important to make sure

is that we spend the money on welfare in the right way,

in ways that incentivise people to move into work and cares

for the most vulnerable, and this benefit cap

absolutely does that. Outside London, the welfare cap

equates to ?385 a week. Imagine the case of a widow,

her widowed parents allowance So do the benefits she receives

for the three children she's now bringing up on her own,

which means there's only ?53.48 a week left within the cap for

housing benefit to cover her rent. The family's modest three bed

private flat in Coventry costs ?128, Coventry based Housing Association,

Orbit, has found hundreds of people They're already making hard

choices about eating, Capping benefits ia justified

because it encourages The question is whether the lower

cap is asking too much. Iraqi troops have entered the city

of Mosul for the first time since they were driven out

by so-called Islamic The pioneering women of television,

80 years since broadcasting began. Louis Smith is suspended

by British Gymnastics for two months after a video emerged

of the four-time Olympic medallist When Britain leaves

the European Union, its only land border with an EU state will be

between Northern Ireland What sort of controls might there be

and how will it affect trade? Tomorrow, the Irish Prime Minister,

Enda Kenny, will host a forum to hear a wide range of views

on Brexit from across the island. Our special correspondent,

Allan Little, has sent To understand Ireland's Brexit

anxiety, go to the farms of its rich They sell more than half

of what they produce A falling pound has

already made their milk Now, there's the prospect

of a new border separating them Like, we have a huge market,

50 miles from where we stand here now, and if we can't supply

that market without tariffs, it's not good, like,

it's very worrying talk or prospect. Once there were Customs controls

between the UK and Ireland, but those border posts disappeared

when both countries joined the European Community

together in 1973. This is what that border

crossing looks like now, you can drive down this road

without even noticing that you've left one country

and entered another, but soon this will be the edge

of the European Union. Down there, migrants from 26 other

countries will still be able to come and live

and work and claim benefits, but not if they walk up there,

into the United Kingdom. If you have no border controls here,

how do you police that? Northern Ireland's biggest party,

the Democratic Unionists, Their emphatic British unionism

seems reinvigorated by their sense of having seized back

a lost UK sovereignty. But they believe that the border

can, with political With the political willingness

from both the British and Irish governments privately

that they would never see a return to borders of the past,

we're actually quite But we're not ignoring the fact

that there are issues that need to be worked through,

but they are entirely surmountable, In the Republic they're not

reassured by this sunny optimism. For one option is for Ireland to bow

to the realities of geography and to allow the UK to place

its Border and Customs controls You're asking for an independent

state, the Republic of Ireland, to impose and work British migration

law at its ports and airports. I mean, that's really

what you're saying. Which you're kind of saying -

well, we don't really think you're an independent country,

it's just a kind of figment I think, as an Irish person,

you feel pretty angry about the fact that something really profound has

been done to Ireland without Ireland having featured at all

in the discussion. Ireland has forged its modern

identity as an independent nation in Europe, but the powerful

gravitational pull of its larger Football's world governing body,

Fifa, has turned down a request from the English

and Scottish Football Associations to allow players to wear a poppy

during their World Cup qualifier Fifa's current rules won't allow

the poppies as it considers them Let's get the latest

from our sports correspondent, Is this final or can the teams

appeal? Well, talks between the FA and Fifa I'm told are ongoing. All

parties will meet here on Thursday to discuss a range of matters and

the poppy is expected to be discussed. I 22011 granted it to be

worn on armband. That be ha turned. Fifa believe a pragmatic solution

can be found to this in the days ahead. -- 2011. Richard, thank you.

A week today, America will be electing a new president

after what most people agree has been the most unconventional

Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been

shuttling across the country, visiting key battleground states.

As our North America editor Jon Sopel reports,

the polls look much tighter than they have been for many weeks.

All our presidents... Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both launched

their campaigns in June. June 2015 that is. They've been going at it

nonstop ever since. Trump... Today Donald Trump was in Pennsylvania.

Hillary Clinton is now on her way to Florida for a busy day's

campaigning. Now, there's just one week to go. This is where the

marathon turns into a sprint as the candidates hurtle around the key

swing states that will determine this election. So what are the key

swing states? They are Florida, North Carolina in the south and Ohio

and Pennsylvania in the industrial north. For Donald Trump to have a

path to victory he needs to win all four. But successive polls suggest

Hillary Clinton has come foshl leads in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

That is why, in the battle to get the keys for this place, the FBI

intervention may have given Donald Trump momentum, it hasn't

decriesively shifted the race. Hillary Clinton is still winning

where she needs to. I was calling to see if we still have your support

for Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton? Leaving polls to one side, you need

a ground game. Here too in conventional terms Hillary Clinton

is better placed. This is her team working in another swing state,

Nevada. She has far more staff, far more offices, even more money.

Remember this, though Donald Trump may not have the infrastructure that

didn't seem to matter in the race to become the Republican nominee when

he saw off all his opponents. It's worth underlining in many states

that early voting has already started via postal ballots or

polling stationing opening early. It's estimated that around 24

million Americans have already voted. On a nationwide average

that's around 20% of the likely turnout in this election. But that

number is obviously far higher in early voting states, many of them

key battlegrounds. Hillary, Hillary. The figures of registered

Republicans and registered Democrats going to vote a slight edge for

Hillary Clinton. In trying to explain this race, American

political pundits have used the phrase of a British Prime Minister

from the 1960s - Howard Wilson's comment that a week is a long time

in politics. In this helter-skelter white knuckle ride, indeed it is.

And who knows what's going to happen next. Jon Sopel, BBC News,

Washington. 80 years ago tomorrow,

the world's first television programmes were broadcast

from Alexandra Palace You might have thought

it was a man's world but, even in those pioneering days,

women were a vital part of running the Service - on screen

and behind the scenes. Jane Hill has been to meet some

of the women involved in the early ARCHIVE: The controllers are ready

on vision, and sound. Women played a key role

in these early broadcasts And not only in front

of the camera, nearly half the pay roll was female,

working in a new There were executive women,

far more than one might think in those days,

but then the Corporation was far Many women were employed

as secretaries, but were ARCHIVE: I'm going to

hand you over to the... Working as producers and technicians

in entertainment and in news, This is now being refurbished

as part of a huge project to showcase the birthplace

of television to the public. Lois Singer and Olive Trevet worked

at Ally Pally as it's affectionally I experience of that

by being given a camera, The day before the programme went

out, and to be told by the person who had handed it to me,

"you can do the programme tomorrow." Olive operated the tellyprompter

for news bulletins and needed special permission to

wear trousers at work. We weren't allowed to wear

what we liked. We had to, you know,

always wear skirts to work. You couldn't wear, you know,

slacks, that was unheard of. But it's ridiculous now,

when you think about it These The first female camera operator,

Bimby Harris, spoke of being frozen out by male colleagues and as TV

became established more men I think as television became more

professionalised as well perhaps there was a sense it was a more

attractive career for men to take early days, the almost gender

parity of the early days here at Alexandra Palace started

to kind of slip away really I think But 80 years ago women played

as important a role as men Jane Hill, BBC News, at

Alexandra Palace. You will be able to find out more

about the 80th anniversary of the birth of television

on a new section of the website www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/birth-

-of-tv. Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Tomasz Schafernaker. Yesterday was a beautiful day, it

was nice and warm. Today, the temperatures have plummeted. We had

lovely weather. Here is a nice picture from Cumbria. It's from

Moonmist. Calm winds, lovely picture again from Cumbria. Turning colder.

Today autumn has been knocking on the door. By the end of the night it

will be banging on the door. We have chilly weather on the way. Nothing

too extreme, nothing too wintry, but we are going to feel that wind as it

swings in from the north over the next few days. As far as this

evening is concerned, the skies are clearing, the temperatures are

dropping, there will be lots of frost around, particularly outside

of city centres tomorrow morning. Look at the temperatures in rural

areas, down to freezing even as far south as southern Britain. In the

bigger towns and cities it won't fall below zero, it won't be far

off, two, three, four degrees, those values. With a crisp start to the

day we will get sunshine. Actually, not looking too bad with that high

pressure in charge. The eastern coast there a little bit more

breezy. There might be one or two showers to northern and northern

eastern Scotland and East Anglia. Overall a fine day, nice sunshine

there. Thursday dawns on a cold, crispy note as well. Particularly

across England and Wales. Look at that. Rather than high pressure we

get a low pressure coming in which will introduce cloud and rain.

Rather than crisp, cold, dry, it will be damp colder air with the

breeze off the Atlantic. Look what happens with this low. When a low

shifts towards the east we get the floodgates, the colder air will come

in from the north. That is what is heading our way this weekend. It is

not necessarily the temperatures will be low, you will feel that

wind-chill. Autumn is definitely here. Back to you. Thank you. . More

now on the first Iraqi forces entering the city of Mosul in Iraq.

Our correspondent has sent this updated report from the front-line

in the fight against so-called Islamic State. This is the moment

the troops entered the outskirts of Mosul. It's hard to exaggerate how

dangerous this day was. Islamic State fighters barely seem to care

that the troops are advancing. That doesn't mean they are not prepared

to defend the city, nor fight to the death.

Forces have been moving through Mosul, the outskirts only, for the

last few hours. They are meeting stiff resistance. We have seen Isis

fighters moving around, carrying rocket-propelled grenades. There

have been in coming attacks. GUNFIRE. And a lot of gunfire. The

ground, the ground is thresh rouse. It's laced with IEDs and illustrates

how hard and difficult this final stage of the battle will be. This is

just day one inside Mosul. You can see more of this that report on

tonight's BBC News at Ten. That's it. Now on BBC One we