:00:07. > :00:09.A new legal challenge to allow the terminally ill the right to die
:00:10. > :00:13.Noel Conway has motor neurone disease and is taking his
:00:14. > :00:16.But it's a move fiercely resisted by others.
:00:17. > :00:24.I have a right to determine how I should die, and more
:00:25. > :00:32.We already have to fight for the right to live.
:00:33. > :00:38.Please, don't help us for the right to die.
:00:39. > :00:41.MPs rejected so called assisted dying back in 2015.
:00:42. > :00:47.Donald Trump calls allegations of Russian hacking a political
:00:48. > :00:52."witch hunt", as he's briefed by US spy masters.
:00:53. > :00:54.How some diesel cars produce double the toxic
:00:55. > :00:59.While China's pollution creates a smog cloud
:01:00. > :01:07.# You should come to my hood, my hood, my hood...#
:01:08. > :01:19.A 22-year-old singer-songwriter tipped for the top.
:01:20. > :01:25.In Sportsday, we are at the London stadium for West Ham against
:01:26. > :01:46.Manchester City. Good evening and welcome
:01:47. > :01:50.to the BBC News at Six. A terminally ill man has begun
:01:51. > :01:53.a legal fight for the right Noel Conway, who's 67,
:01:54. > :01:57.has motor neurone disease and says he fears becoming "entombed"
:01:58. > :01:59.in his own body as his Mr Conway, who is being backed
:02:00. > :02:04.by the campaign group Dignity In Dying, wants a doctor to be able
:02:05. > :02:07.to prescribe a lethal dose when his health
:02:08. > :02:11.deteriorates further. The case will be the first
:02:12. > :02:14.High Court challenge since MPs rejected an attempt to introduce
:02:15. > :02:16.assisted dying in 2015. Our medical correspondent Fergus
:02:17. > :02:23.Walsh has this exclusive report. I fear very soon I shall be
:02:24. > :02:37.entombed in my own body, and the thought of that fills me
:02:38. > :02:43.with absolute horror. Day by day, Noel Conway is gradually
:02:44. > :02:54.losing all strength in his body. Increasingly, he relies
:02:55. > :03:00.on his wife, Carol. He is too weak to take his own life,
:03:01. > :03:04.so when his condition gets worse, he wants a doctor to be allowed
:03:05. > :03:08.to give him a lethal dose. I have a right to determine
:03:09. > :03:16.how I should die. And more importantly,
:03:17. > :03:20.when I should die. And I want to do so when I have
:03:21. > :03:27.a degree of dignity remaining to me. Noel often relies on a ventilator
:03:28. > :03:32.to help him breathe. He is registered with the Swiss
:03:33. > :03:37.suicide group Dignitas, but will soon be unable to travel,
:03:38. > :03:43.so he is challenging the law here. Our current law condemns people
:03:44. > :03:50.like me to unimaginable suffering. I'm just heading, really, on a slow,
:03:51. > :04:00.slippery slope to hell. Noel was a keen walker,
:04:01. > :04:03.climber and skier. His family support his right to die
:04:04. > :04:06.but don't want to play It places me in an
:04:07. > :04:12.intolerable position. We need the assistance
:04:13. > :04:24.of professionals, of medical staff, The courts have shown leniency
:04:25. > :04:33.with relatives involved in assisting a suicide,
:04:34. > :04:35.but campaigners, most recently Tony Nicklinson,
:04:36. > :04:39.have never been able to persuade judges that doctors should be
:04:40. > :04:46.allowed to end a life. This issue stirs huge passions,
:04:47. > :04:50.and when MPs last voted, So does that mean this latest High
:04:51. > :05:00.Court challenge is doomed to fail? While it is Parliament
:05:01. > :05:02.that makes the law, So when the case comes here,
:05:03. > :05:09.Noel Conway's legal team will seek a declaration that the current law
:05:10. > :05:11.is not compatible with his basic human rights, to live
:05:12. > :05:18.and die with dignity. Under the 1961 Suicide Act,
:05:19. > :05:23.any doctor who helped end his life Baroness Jane Campbell has spinal
:05:24. > :05:34.muscular atrophy and has been close A disability rights campaigner,
:05:35. > :05:40.she says altering the law If the law were changed,
:05:41. > :05:49.it would feed into society's fear that to be severely disabled,
:05:50. > :05:53.to be trapped within your body, which I already practically am,
:05:54. > :05:57.is a state worse than death. We already have to fight
:05:58. > :06:06.for the right to live. Please don't help us
:06:07. > :06:12.with the right to die. But that is exactly
:06:13. > :06:15.what Noel Conway wants. Canada and California
:06:16. > :06:17.have introduced assisted Noel is determined it
:06:18. > :06:25.should happen here. But he knows he may run out of time
:06:26. > :06:45.before his case is settled. Another challenge to the law less
:06:46. > :06:50.than two years after the last one was rejected. What chance that this
:06:51. > :06:54.will be successful? Well, the campaign group behind this knows
:06:55. > :06:58.that they have no realistic hope of changing the law to introduce
:06:59. > :07:01.Assisted Dying Bill parliament. MPs roundly rejected it two years ago,
:07:02. > :07:07.and that included the safeguards they wanted, that two doctors and a
:07:08. > :07:12.High Court judge would need to approve each case and it would need
:07:13. > :07:16.to involve only terminally ill, mentally competent patients with
:07:17. > :07:20.less than six months to live. So instead of now trying through MPs,
:07:21. > :07:24.through parliament, they are putting the proposals in a real-life case
:07:25. > :07:30.before judges to see what they make of it. The last time this went up
:07:31. > :07:38.before the Supreme Court, two out of nine justices said base considered
:07:39. > :07:42.the current rule -- said they considered the current will
:07:43. > :07:47.incompatible with human rights. But those opposed will say, yes, have
:07:48. > :07:48.sympathy for people like Noel Conway, have compassion, but it is
:07:49. > :07:51.too dangerous to change the law. Donald Trump is being briefed by US
:07:52. > :07:53.intelligence agencies on how they believe Russia conducted
:07:54. > :07:55.a cyber hacking campaign to try to help him win
:07:56. > :07:57.the presidential election. He has been openly sceptical
:07:58. > :08:00.about it, and has described it in an interview as a political witch
:08:01. > :08:03.hunt driven by his But the Vice President, Joe Biden,
:08:04. > :08:07.said it's "absolutely mindless" for Mr Trump to claim he knows more
:08:08. > :08:10.than the US intelligence agencies. Did a cyber attack on America
:08:11. > :08:17.organised by Vladimir Putin help put US intelligence can't say
:08:18. > :08:22.whether votes were changed or opinions altered
:08:23. > :08:25.but they are convinced Russia wanted the billionaire to win and conducted
:08:26. > :08:29.a multifaceted cyber campaign using hacking, propaganda and fake
:08:30. > :08:34.news to boost his chances It wasn't just the billionaire who
:08:35. > :08:40.celebrated his unexpected victory, Intercepted conversations reportedly
:08:41. > :08:46.picked up senior figures in the Russian government rejoicing,
:08:47. > :08:49.too, among them officials said to be Donald Trump will be told
:08:50. > :08:55.by America's intelligence chiefs that the Russians tried much harder
:08:56. > :08:57.to hack the computers of the Democratic National Committee
:08:58. > :09:01.than those at Republican headquarters, and also that
:09:02. > :09:05.go-betweens have been identified who allegedly handed stolen e-mails
:09:06. > :09:11.to the website WikiLeaks. Details from the classified report
:09:12. > :09:14.were leaked to NBC News, "How did NBC get an exclusive
:09:15. > :09:20.look into the top-secret Vice President Joe Biden said it was
:09:21. > :09:49.time for Donald Trump to grow up. The idea that you know more
:09:50. > :09:56.than the intelligence community knows, is something like saying
:09:57. > :09:59."I know more about physics Donald Trump this morning complained
:10:00. > :10:12.of a political witchhunt, and his spokesman said he is right
:10:13. > :10:15.to be cautious. The President-elect has a healthy
:10:16. > :10:17.scepticism of everything, People need to know that
:10:18. > :10:22.when decisions are made, we've seen in the past that a rush
:10:23. > :10:25.to judgment is not in This morning Donald Trump got
:10:26. > :10:30.into an online dispute with Arnold Schwarzenegger over
:10:31. > :10:31.ratings for the TV And so he continues
:10:32. > :10:37.with his unconventional journey to the White House,
:10:38. > :10:39.but troubled by that nagging question, did Russia
:10:40. > :10:43.help him on his way? Hundreds of people have
:10:44. > :10:49.attended the funeral in Huddersfield of Yassar Yaqub,
:10:50. > :10:51.who was shot dead by police The inquest into his death
:10:52. > :10:57.was opened this morning and heard that a gun was found in the foot
:10:58. > :11:00.well of the passenger seat, Hundreds of people came to
:11:01. > :11:10.Yassar Yaqub's funeral at a mosque Many didn't know him personally
:11:11. > :11:18.but were here to support his family. His father, mother and sisters
:11:19. > :11:25.were deeply distressed. The consistent thoughts from those
:11:26. > :11:29.present is that they want answers as to why he was shot by police
:11:30. > :11:34.on Monday night. His friends, family,
:11:35. > :11:43.they need answers. As far as the gun culture
:11:44. > :11:48.is concerned and criminal activity is concerned,
:11:49. > :11:50.we strongly condemn that. But the question arises that the way
:11:51. > :11:54.this was carried out, in my opinion it was totally
:11:55. > :11:57.out of order. Investigators say they are working
:11:58. > :12:00.as swiftly as possible and keeping But one key question about
:12:01. > :12:07.the shooting was answered today. The police have already said a gun
:12:08. > :12:10.was found in the white We know he was the front seat
:12:11. > :12:16.passenger in the car. At the inquest into his death this
:12:17. > :12:19.morning it was revealed the gun was found in the front passenger
:12:20. > :12:22.footwell of the vehicle, Yassar Yaqub was listed in court
:12:23. > :12:34.as being a 28-year-old office clerk. He was once accused and cleared
:12:35. > :12:37.of trying to murder two people, His family and friends,
:12:38. > :12:40.though, stress he was never Meanwhile a 30-year-old man arrested
:12:41. > :12:44.on Monday as part of the police operation here has appeared in court
:12:45. > :12:48.today charged with possession Moshin Amin from Dewsbury
:12:49. > :12:55.was remanded in custody after his Modern diesel cars produce more
:12:56. > :13:07.than twice as much toxic emissions as a lorry or bus of the same age,
:13:08. > :13:11.according to new analysis from the International Council
:13:12. > :13:15.on Clean Transportation. The report comes as one road
:13:16. > :13:18.in central London breached its legal air pollution limits for 2017,
:13:19. > :13:24.just five days into the new year. Other London roads are expected
:13:25. > :13:45.to breach the limits shortly. It doesn't seem to make sense. How
:13:46. > :13:49.can small diesel car engine speed twice as polluting as the engines on
:13:50. > :13:54.20 tonne lorries and buses? This research comes from the same group
:13:55. > :13:58.that exposed VW cheating its emissions, so why do they think
:13:59. > :14:04.there is this huge difference between the latest cars and lorries?
:14:05. > :14:07.It is not about the technology, because the technology for cars and
:14:08. > :14:12.trucks is quite similar. It is more about the relation to how the
:14:13. > :14:17.vehicles are tested. For trucks, they are testing real trucks under
:14:18. > :14:20.real driving conditions, whereas for cars at its prototypes in the
:14:21. > :14:26.laboratory, which makes a very big difference. The research focuses on
:14:27. > :14:31.the average amount of poisonous nitrogen oxides being produced.
:14:32. > :14:34.Lorries and buses belch out around 210 mg per kilometre. The latest
:14:35. > :14:40.cars produced more than twice that amount. What is worse, cars can
:14:41. > :14:45.become six or seven times dirtier once taken out of the laboratories
:14:46. > :14:49.and put on the road. Welcome to Brixton Road, London, which has just
:14:50. > :14:53.become famous for the wrong reasons. It has become the first St in
:14:54. > :14:57.Britain to breach one of the European pollution laws for nitrogen
:14:58. > :15:03.dioxide, a poisonous gas from diesel engines. The thing is, this is an
:15:04. > :15:10.annual limit, and it breached it in just five days. London is the worst,
:15:11. > :15:13.but many places around Britain are breaking air-quality laws. But this
:15:14. > :15:19.isn't really about cars, but about the impact of pollution on our
:15:20. > :15:22.bodies. Those particles get into the lungs and penetrate the lungs and
:15:23. > :15:27.get into the blood circulation. And there, they circulate to the rest of
:15:28. > :15:32.the body, and that is where you get the effects of pollution on not only
:15:33. > :15:39.the lungs, but on the heart, on the brain, on the immune system. Car
:15:40. > :15:43.testing is about to get much tougher. New European rules are
:15:44. > :15:48.being rolled out from September but they will not be fully in place
:15:49. > :15:50.until 2021, so it will be years before the tests are as rigorous as
:15:51. > :15:53.they are for lorries. A man who is terminally ill
:15:54. > :16:01.with motor neurone disease begins And still to come -
:16:02. > :16:15.we hear from Britain's triple Tour He talks about doping in cycling and
:16:16. > :16:19.the future of the sport. Coming up on BBC News, we will look ahead to
:16:20. > :16:23.the third round of the FA Cup in Sportsday. It starts here with West
:16:24. > :16:25.Ham against Manchester City but we've also take a closer look at
:16:26. > :16:30.some of the non-league teams. As I mentioned earlier,
:16:31. > :16:32.pollution is already a problem in London just six days
:16:33. > :16:34.into the new year. But imagine leaving your
:16:35. > :16:37.house and seeing this? This is Beijing -
:16:38. > :16:39.which is currently experiencing one of the worst bouts of smog
:16:40. > :16:42.to hit the city in years - reducing visibility
:16:43. > :16:45.to less than 200 metres. And it's not
:16:46. > :16:46.just China's capital A smog cloud 2000 miles long is now
:16:47. > :16:55.blanketing cities from Beijing to Chengdu to Hunan province -
:16:56. > :16:57.leaving them on the highest alert Our China
:16:58. > :17:14.Correspondent John Sudworth reports from Shiijazhuang in
:17:15. > :17:16.the last month has become Somewhere, underneath this
:17:17. > :17:21.murky gloom, is a city And for the unfortunate
:17:22. > :17:27.residents, this is normal. For the past 30 days,
:17:28. > :17:29.the average air quality in this city has measured as hazardous
:17:30. > :17:34.on the official scale. You can smell, even taste the coal
:17:35. > :17:37.dust in the air, the grim, tangible reality of this country's
:17:38. > :17:44.model of economic growth. And people have no choice
:17:45. > :17:47.but to live, eat and sleep in this "It's like living under a cloud",
:17:48. > :17:58.this noodle seller tells me. "The smog is harming
:17:59. > :18:03.my children's health". "Of course I want to leave",
:18:04. > :18:06.this man says, "but I can't afford to, and anyway,
:18:07. > :18:11.the whole country is polluted". 200 miles away, the pollution
:18:12. > :18:17.literally rolled into A toxic mix of coal dust from power
:18:18. > :18:27.stations and car exhaust. The smog now regularly blankets
:18:28. > :18:33.a huge swathe of northern China. And it is believed to cause
:18:34. > :18:36.more than a million Public concern has forced
:18:37. > :18:43.the Chinese government to begin investing heavily
:18:44. > :18:54.in renewable energy. Those working in the sector believe
:18:55. > :19:05.China can clean up its air, just as wealthier and more developed
:19:06. > :19:09.countries once had to. So the experience in the UK,
:19:10. > :19:12.they have spent, I think, over 40 years in solving
:19:13. > :19:14.the air pollution issues. Actually, we don't need that much
:19:15. > :19:18.time for the science research. We don't need that much time
:19:19. > :19:20.to develop relevant technologies. So I think a lot of things are ripe
:19:21. > :19:24.for us to make faster solutions. Those solutions can't come fast
:19:25. > :19:26.enough for this city. Fossil fuels may have lifted China's
:19:27. > :19:28.economy to ever greater heights, Scotland's First Minister Nicola
:19:29. > :19:43.Sturgeon has suggested her preferred option of a second
:19:44. > :19:46.referendum on independence could be put to one side if the UK follows
:19:47. > :19:49.a strategy of so-called Let's talk to our Scotland
:19:50. > :19:52.correspondent Glen Campbell outside Holyrood, does this signal a change
:19:53. > :20:02.of heart by Ms Sturgeon? Does this single a change of heart?
:20:03. > :20:07.Not quite, she remains committed independence. Watch it has made
:20:08. > :20:10.clear today is that she would be prepared to put talk of another
:20:11. > :20:15.independence referendum on hold for at least the next couple of years.
:20:16. > :20:19.-- what it has. Whilst Brexit is being negotiated. If the UK
:20:20. > :20:23.Government accepts her proposals for what she regards as a compromise.
:20:24. > :20:29.You may remember, she set out last month her idea of a compromise deal
:20:30. > :20:35.that would allow her to hold her nose and accept that travel tobacco
:20:36. > :20:39.leave means Leave if the Scottish parliament becomes more powerful and
:20:40. > :20:42.if the UK Government seeks to remain within the single market, or six a
:20:43. > :20:48.deal that would allow Scotland to stay in. -- that leave means leave.
:20:49. > :20:50.Theresa May is apparently considering these proposals. There
:20:51. > :20:56.are no signs that she is prepared to accept them. That is why Nicola
:20:57. > :20:59.Sturgeon has taken to social media to say that she believes another
:21:00. > :21:01.referendum on independence is more likely than a soft Brexit.
:21:02. > :21:06.Thank you. Britain's triple Tour de France
:21:07. > :21:08.winner Chris Froome has been speaking about allegations
:21:09. > :21:10.of doping in cycling. He says they've been "bad
:21:11. > :21:13.for cycling and bad for sport" - and he said he would never take
:21:14. > :21:17.substances usually banned but that are allowed for medical reasons -
:21:18. > :21:19.as his former team mate He's been speaking to our
:21:20. > :21:22.Sports Correspondent Olympic bronze and his third Tour de
:21:23. > :21:31.France victory in four years, 2016 might have been a year
:21:32. > :21:33.to forget for some Whilst British cycling
:21:34. > :21:39.enjoys a golden age, off the road and track is mired
:21:40. > :21:42.in controversy with doping's blurred A TUE, or Therapeutic Use Exemption,
:21:43. > :21:46.allows athletes to take a banned substance for
:21:47. > :21:48.genuine medical reasons. The issue is whether some have
:21:49. > :21:51.exploited the system Just the fact that we're having that
:21:52. > :21:59.debate about authenticity of TUEs, I think there's a problem
:22:00. > :22:01.with the system. I think WADA, the anti-doping
:22:02. > :22:03.authorities, need to tighten their regulations around TUEs,
:22:04. > :22:05.so that they're not something In those leaks by Russian hackers
:22:06. > :22:14.it was revealed that Froome's former team-mate,
:22:15. > :22:16.Sir Bradley Wiggins, had received three TUE injections
:22:17. > :22:18.before three major races It's perfectly legal,
:22:19. > :22:27.but Froome revealed to me he refused one in 2015
:22:28. > :22:34.on moral grounds. I didn't feel as if having a TUE
:22:35. > :22:38.in the last week of the Tour de France was something
:22:39. > :22:40.was prepared to... It just didn't sit well morally
:22:41. > :22:42.with me that that was Do you think, therefore,
:22:43. > :22:46.it's right we are asking questions, for example why Bradley Wiggins had
:22:47. > :22:48.three corticosteroids Sure, I mean, I think it's only
:22:49. > :22:53.healthy to ask those questions. Froome's team, Team Sky,
:22:54. > :22:57.is currently the subject of a UK anti-doping investigation over
:22:58. > :22:58.an incident involving a mystery package delivered
:22:59. > :23:00.to Bradley Wiggins in 2011. I mean, it's not good
:23:01. > :23:09.for sport in general, the fact that we are discussing
:23:10. > :23:12.the validity of results and... And, as I said, that brings it back
:23:13. > :23:15.to the authorities and something that they hopefully need
:23:16. > :23:18.to tighten up on. As he attempts to win his fourth
:23:19. > :23:21.tour this summer, the doping questions will again come
:23:22. > :23:26.thick and fast. Froome's biggest desire is to leave
:23:27. > :23:28.a cycling legacy no one Michelle Obama has made her last
:23:29. > :23:35.speech as America's First Lady. She was speaking at the White House
:23:36. > :23:42.- and it all got quite emotional. She gained her remarks at the
:23:43. > :23:51.country's students. I want our young people to know that
:23:52. > :23:57.they matter. That they belong. So don't be afraid. Do you hear me?
:23:58. > :23:58.Young people, don't be afraid. Be focused.
:23:59. > :24:03.So, I want to close today by simply saying...
:24:04. > :24:05.Thank you for everything you do for our kids,
:24:06. > :24:09.Being your First Lady has been the greatest honour of my life,
:24:10. > :24:30.A 23 year-old singer songwriter called Ray BLK has won BBC
:24:31. > :24:34.It's the first time an unsigned artist has topped the list -
:24:35. > :24:37.which is picked by music critics to recognise emerging talent.
:24:38. > :24:40.The panel has an enviable record of picking future stars.
:24:41. > :24:42.Recent winners include Sam Smith and Adele.
:24:43. > :24:46.Our Entertainment Correspondent Lizo Mzimba reports.
:24:47. > :24:58.The Sound Of list highlights highlights the year's most exciting
:24:59. > :25:13.For 23-year-old South London singer-songwriter Ray BLK
:25:14. > :25:14.coming top came something as a surprise.
:25:15. > :25:17.On the BBC Music Sound Of list you are the winner.
:25:18. > :25:32.Her neighbourhood, her childhood, all
:25:33. > :25:46.# I'll show you gangsters don't you go running your mouth #.
:25:47. > :25:49.I grew up listening to gospel music on the way to church,
:25:50. > :25:52.being in the choir, singing gospel music all the time, and I think
:25:53. > :25:59.that influence flows right through my music.
:26:00. > :26:04.# Love me, love me, say that you love me call me, call me #.
:26:05. > :26:07.Artists who won the BBC Sound Of when they were still relatively
:26:08. > :26:14.# Are you really ready, or are you wasting my time? #.
:26:15. > :26:22.Ray BLK is the first singer ever to win without a record deal.
:26:23. > :26:26.We live in an age now where you really can do it yourself.
:26:27. > :26:32.So, you could start like I started and just post songs online,
:26:33. > :26:41.Potentially inspiring others in how they shape music and in how they
:26:42. > :27:09.Is it going to get warmer? It is. A cold and frosty start of the day.
:27:10. > :27:12.Cloud has been rolling in bringing much milder weather in. There was
:27:13. > :27:19.some brightness around today. Here is how we ended the day. Elsewhere,
:27:20. > :27:22.a lot of cloud around. Cloud has been piling in. A warm front has
:27:23. > :27:25.been shifting south east through the course of the day, bringing not just
:27:26. > :27:30.that cloud but also some outbreaks of rain, too. As we head into the
:27:31. > :27:35.evening and overnight period, patchy rain that much of England and Wales,
:27:36. > :27:38.shifting south. Further north of northern England, Scotland and
:27:39. > :27:43.Northern Ireland, a dry at night to come but also mist and fog around.
:27:44. > :27:47.Many start Saturday on a murky note with hill fog and mist dinners.
:27:48. > :27:51.Quite a lot of cloud. But it is looking mainly frost free. It could
:27:52. > :27:56.be frosty around rural parts of Scotland. The best of any brightness
:27:57. > :27:59.on Saturday will be in the North. The Scotland, northern England and
:28:00. > :28:03.perhaps Northern Ireland, some sunny spells. But further south we keep
:28:04. > :28:10.the low cloud and hill fog. Pretty murky. Temper just ten to 11 in the
:28:11. > :28:16.south, slightly fresher further north, but brighter, too. --
:28:17. > :28:21.temperatures. A lot of cloud, mist, and fog on Sunday morning. Most
:28:22. > :28:24.looking try with light winds. Could be a touch of frost across rural
:28:25. > :28:30.parts of Scotland first thing Sunday morning. No great changes on Sunday.
:28:31. > :28:34.A cloudy day. Mist and fog around. Pretty murky. Some rain to the North
:28:35. > :28:38.West of Scotland. Elsewhere looks generally dry. There will be some
:28:39. > :28:42.brightness around, mainly east of high ground. For eastern parts of
:28:43. > :28:45.Wales and the north-eastern part of England, too. Looking like a quiet
:28:46. > :28:49.week in. Fairly cloudy, but things will be more unsettled for the week
:28:50. > :28:51.ahead. -- quite weekend.