06/01/2017 BBC News at Six

A new legal challenge to allow the terminally ill the right to die

Noel Conway has motor neurone disease and is taking his

But it's a move fiercely resisted by others.

I have a right to determine how I should die, and more

We already have to fight for the right to live.

Please, don't help us for the right to die.

MPs rejected so called assisted dying back in 2015.

Donald Trump calls allegations of Russian hacking a political

"witch hunt", as he's briefed by US spy masters.

How some diesel cars produce double the toxic

While China's pollution creates a smog cloud

# You should come to my hood, my hood, my hood...#

A 22-year-old singer-songwriter tipped for the top.

In Sportsday, we are at the London stadium for West Ham against

Manchester City. Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six. A terminally ill man has begun

a legal fight for the right Noel Conway, who's 67,

has motor neurone disease and says he fears becoming "entombed"

in his own body as his Mr Conway, who is being backed

by the campaign group Dignity In Dying, wants a doctor to be able

to prescribe a lethal dose when his health

deteriorates further. The case will be the first

High Court challenge since MPs rejected an attempt to introduce

assisted dying in 2015. Our medical correspondent Fergus

Walsh has this exclusive report. I fear very soon I shall be

entombed in my own body, and the thought of that fills me

with absolute horror. Day by day, Noel Conway is gradually

losing all strength in his body. Increasingly, he relies

on his wife, Carol. He is too weak to take his own life,

so when his condition gets worse, he wants a doctor to be allowed

to give him a lethal dose. I have a right to determine

how I should die. And more importantly,

when I should die. And I want to do so when I have

a degree of dignity remaining to me. Noel often relies on a ventilator

to help him breathe. He is registered with the Swiss

suicide group Dignitas, but will soon be unable to travel,

so he is challenging the law here. Our current law condemns people

like me to unimaginable suffering. I'm just heading, really, on a slow,

slippery slope to hell. Noel was a keen walker,

climber and skier. His family support his right to die

but don't want to play It places me in an

intolerable position. We need the assistance

of professionals, of medical staff, The courts have shown leniency

with relatives involved in assisting a suicide,

but campaigners, most recently Tony Nicklinson,

have never been able to persuade judges that doctors should be

allowed to end a life. This issue stirs huge passions,

and when MPs last voted, So does that mean this latest High

Court challenge is doomed to fail? While it is Parliament

that makes the law, So when the case comes here,

Noel Conway's legal team will seek a declaration that the current law

is not compatible with his basic human rights, to live

and die with dignity. Under the 1961 Suicide Act,

any doctor who helped end his life Baroness Jane Campbell has spinal

muscular atrophy and has been close A disability rights campaigner,

she says altering the law If the law were changed,

it would feed into society's fear that to be severely disabled,

to be trapped within your body, which I already practically am,

is a state worse than death. We already have to fight

for the right to live. Please don't help us

with the right to die. But that is exactly

what Noel Conway wants. Canada and California

have introduced assisted Noel is determined it

should happen here. But he knows he may run out of time

before his case is settled. Another challenge to the law less

than two years after the last one was rejected. What chance that this

will be successful? Well, the campaign group behind this knows

that they have no realistic hope of changing the law to introduce

Assisted Dying Bill parliament. MPs roundly rejected it two years ago,

and that included the safeguards they wanted, that two doctors and a

High Court judge would need to approve each case and it would need

to involve only terminally ill, mentally competent patients with

less than six months to live. So instead of now trying through MPs,

through parliament, they are putting the proposals in a real-life case

before judges to see what they make of it. The last time this went up

before the Supreme Court, two out of nine justices said base considered

the current rule -- said they considered the current will

incompatible with human rights. But those opposed will say, yes, have

sympathy for people like Noel Conway, have compassion, but it is

too dangerous to change the law. Donald Trump is being briefed by US

intelligence agencies on how they believe Russia conducted

a cyber hacking campaign to try to help him win

the presidential election. He has been openly sceptical

about it, and has described it in an interview as a political witch

hunt driven by his But the Vice President, Joe Biden,

said it's "absolutely mindless" for Mr Trump to claim he knows more

than the US intelligence agencies. Did a cyber attack on America

organised by Vladimir Putin help put US intelligence can't say

whether votes were changed or opinions altered

but they are convinced Russia wanted the billionaire to win and conducted

a multifaceted cyber campaign using hacking, propaganda and fake

news to boost his chances It wasn't just the billionaire who

celebrated his unexpected victory, Intercepted conversations reportedly

picked up senior figures in the Russian government rejoicing,

too, among them officials said to be Donald Trump will be told

by America's intelligence chiefs that the Russians tried much harder

to hack the computers of the Democratic National Committee

than those at Republican headquarters, and also that

go-betweens have been identified who allegedly handed stolen e-mails

to the website WikiLeaks. Details from the classified report

were leaked to NBC News, "How did NBC get an exclusive

look into the top-secret Vice President Joe Biden said it was

time for Donald Trump to grow up. The idea that you know more

than the intelligence community knows, is something like saying

"I know more about physics Donald Trump this morning complained

of a political witchhunt, and his spokesman said he is right

to be cautious. The President-elect has a healthy

scepticism of everything, People need to know that

when decisions are made, we've seen in the past that a rush

to judgment is not in This morning Donald Trump got

into an online dispute with Arnold Schwarzenegger over

ratings for the TV And so he continues

with his unconventional journey to the White House,

but troubled by that nagging question, did Russia

help him on his way? Hundreds of people have

attended the funeral in Huddersfield of Yassar Yaqub,

who was shot dead by police The inquest into his death

was opened this morning and heard that a gun was found in the foot

well of the passenger seat, Hundreds of people came to

Yassar Yaqub's funeral at a mosque Many didn't know him personally

but were here to support his family. His father, mother and sisters

were deeply distressed. The consistent thoughts from those

present is that they want answers as to why he was shot by police

on Monday night. His friends, family,

they need answers. As far as the gun culture

is concerned and criminal activity is concerned,

we strongly condemn that. But the question arises that the way

this was carried out, in my opinion it was totally

out of order. Investigators say they are working

as swiftly as possible and keeping But one key question about

the shooting was answered today. The police have already said a gun

was found in the white We know he was the front seat

passenger in the car. At the inquest into his death this

morning it was revealed the gun was found in the front passenger

footwell of the vehicle, Yassar Yaqub was listed in court

as being a 28-year-old office clerk. He was once accused and cleared

of trying to murder two people, His family and friends,

though, stress he was never Meanwhile a 30-year-old man arrested

on Monday as part of the police operation here has appeared in court

today charged with possession Moshin Amin from Dewsbury

was remanded in custody after his Modern diesel cars produce more

than twice as much toxic emissions as a lorry or bus of the same age,

according to new analysis from the International Council

on Clean Transportation. The report comes as one road

in central London breached its legal air pollution limits for 2017,

just five days into the new year. Other London roads are expected

to breach the limits shortly. It doesn't seem to make sense. How

can small diesel car engine speed twice as polluting as the engines on

20 tonne lorries and buses? This research comes from the same group

that exposed VW cheating its emissions, so why do they think

there is this huge difference between the latest cars and lorries?

It is not about the technology, because the technology for cars and

trucks is quite similar. It is more about the relation to how the

vehicles are tested. For trucks, they are testing real trucks under

real driving conditions, whereas for cars at its prototypes in the

laboratory, which makes a very big difference. The research focuses on

the average amount of poisonous nitrogen oxides being produced.

Lorries and buses belch out around 210 mg per kilometre. The latest

cars produced more than twice that amount. What is worse, cars can

become six or seven times dirtier once taken out of the laboratories

and put on the road. Welcome to Brixton Road, London, which has just

become famous for the wrong reasons. It has become the first St in

Britain to breach one of the European pollution laws for nitrogen

dioxide, a poisonous gas from diesel engines. The thing is, this is an

annual limit, and it breached it in just five days. London is the worst,

but many places around Britain are breaking air-quality laws. But this

isn't really about cars, but about the impact of pollution on our

bodies. Those particles get into the lungs and penetrate the lungs and

get into the blood circulation. And there, they circulate to the rest of

the body, and that is where you get the effects of pollution on not only

the lungs, but on the heart, on the brain, on the immune system. Car

testing is about to get much tougher. New European rules are

being rolled out from September but they will not be fully in place

until 2021, so it will be years before the tests are as rigorous as

they are for lorries. A man who is terminally ill

with motor neurone disease begins And still to come -

we hear from Britain's triple Tour He talks about doping in cycling and

the future of the sport. Coming up on BBC News, we will look ahead to

the third round of the FA Cup in Sportsday. It starts here with West

Ham against Manchester City but we've also take a closer look at

some of the non-league teams. As I mentioned earlier,

pollution is already a problem in London just six days

into the new year. But imagine leaving your

house and seeing this? This is Beijing -

which is currently experiencing one of the worst bouts of smog

to hit the city in years - reducing visibility

to less than 200 metres. And it's not

just China's capital A smog cloud 2000 miles long is now

blanketing cities from Beijing to Chengdu to Hunan province -

leaving them on the highest alert Our China

Correspondent John Sudworth reports from Shiijazhuang in

the last month has become Somewhere, underneath this

murky gloom, is a city And for the unfortunate

residents, this is normal. For the past 30 days,

the average air quality in this city has measured as hazardous

on the official scale. You can smell, even taste the coal

dust in the air, the grim, tangible reality of this country's

model of economic growth. And people have no choice

but to live, eat and sleep in this "It's like living under a cloud",

this noodle seller tells me. "The smog is harming

my children's health". "Of course I want to leave",

this man says, "but I can't afford to, and anyway,

the whole country is polluted". 200 miles away, the pollution

literally rolled into A toxic mix of coal dust from power

stations and car exhaust. The smog now regularly blankets

a huge swathe of northern China. And it is believed to cause

more than a million Public concern has forced

the Chinese government to begin investing heavily

in renewable energy. Those working in the sector believe

China can clean up its air, just as wealthier and more developed

countries once had to. So the experience in the UK,

they have spent, I think, over 40 years in solving

the air pollution issues. Actually, we don't need that much

time for the science research. We don't need that much time

to develop relevant technologies. So I think a lot of things are ripe

for us to make faster solutions. Those solutions can't come fast

enough for this city. Fossil fuels may have lifted China's

economy to ever greater heights, Scotland's First Minister Nicola

Sturgeon has suggested her preferred option of a second

referendum on independence could be put to one side if the UK follows

a strategy of so-called Let's talk to our Scotland

correspondent Glen Campbell outside Holyrood, does this signal a change

of heart by Ms Sturgeon? Does this single a change of heart?

Not quite, she remains committed independence. Watch it has made

clear today is that she would be prepared to put talk of another

independence referendum on hold for at least the next couple of years.

-- what it has. Whilst Brexit is being negotiated. If the UK

Government accepts her proposals for what she regards as a compromise.

You may remember, she set out last month her idea of a compromise deal

that would allow her to hold her nose and accept that travel tobacco

leave means Leave if the Scottish parliament becomes more powerful and

if the UK Government seeks to remain within the single market, or six a

deal that would allow Scotland to stay in. -- that leave means leave.

Theresa May is apparently considering these proposals. There

are no signs that she is prepared to accept them. That is why Nicola

Sturgeon has taken to social media to say that she believes another

referendum on independence is more likely than a soft Brexit.

Thank you. Britain's triple Tour de France

winner Chris Froome has been speaking about allegations

of doping in cycling. He says they've been "bad

for cycling and bad for sport" - and he said he would never take

substances usually banned but that are allowed for medical reasons -

as his former team mate He's been speaking to our

Sports Correspondent Olympic bronze and his third Tour de

France victory in four years, 2016 might have been a year

to forget for some Whilst British cycling

enjoys a golden age, off the road and track is mired

in controversy with doping's blurred A TUE, or Therapeutic Use Exemption,

allows athletes to take a banned substance for

genuine medical reasons. The issue is whether some have

exploited the system Just the fact that we're having that

debate about authenticity of TUEs, I think there's a problem

with the system. I think WADA, the anti-doping

authorities, need to tighten their regulations around TUEs,

so that they're not something In those leaks by Russian hackers

it was revealed that Froome's former team-mate,

Sir Bradley Wiggins, had received three TUE injections

before three major races It's perfectly legal,

but Froome revealed to me he refused one in 2015

on moral grounds. I didn't feel as if having a TUE

in the last week of the Tour de France was something

was prepared to... It just didn't sit well morally

with me that that was Do you think, therefore,

it's right we are asking questions, for example why Bradley Wiggins had

three corticosteroids Sure, I mean, I think it's only

healthy to ask those questions. Froome's team, Team Sky,

is currently the subject of a UK anti-doping investigation over

an incident involving a mystery package delivered

to Bradley Wiggins in 2011. I mean, it's not good

for sport in general, the fact that we are discussing

the validity of results and... And, as I said, that brings it back

to the authorities and something that they hopefully need

to tighten up on. As he attempts to win his fourth

tour this summer, the doping questions will again come

thick and fast. Froome's biggest desire is to leave

a cycling legacy no one Michelle Obama has made her last

speech as America's First Lady. She was speaking at the White House

- and it all got quite emotional. She gained her remarks at the

country's students. I want our young people to know that

they matter. That they belong. So don't be afraid. Do you hear me?

Young people, don't be afraid. Be focused.

So, I want to close today by simply saying...

Thank you for everything you do for our kids,

Being your First Lady has been the greatest honour of my life,

A 23 year-old singer songwriter called Ray BLK has won BBC

It's the first time an unsigned artist has topped the list -

which is picked by music critics to recognise emerging talent.

The panel has an enviable record of picking future stars.

Recent winners include Sam Smith and Adele.

Our Entertainment Correspondent Lizo Mzimba reports.

The Sound Of list highlights highlights the year's most exciting

For 23-year-old South London singer-songwriter Ray BLK

coming top came something as a surprise.

On the BBC Music Sound Of list you are the winner.

Her neighbourhood, her childhood, all

# I'll show you gangsters don't you go running your mouth #.

I grew up listening to gospel music on the way to church,

being in the choir, singing gospel music all the time, and I think

that influence flows right through my music.

# Love me, love me, say that you love me call me, call me #.

Artists who won the BBC Sound Of when they were still relatively

# Are you really ready, or are you wasting my time? #.

Ray BLK is the first singer ever to win without a record deal.

We live in an age now where you really can do it yourself.

So, you could start like I started and just post songs online,

Potentially inspiring others in how they shape music and in how they

Is it going to get warmer? It is. A cold and frosty start of the day.

Cloud has been rolling in bringing much milder weather in. There was

some brightness around today. Here is how we ended the day. Elsewhere,

a lot of cloud around. Cloud has been piling in. A warm front has

been shifting south east through the course of the day, bringing not just

that cloud but also some outbreaks of rain, too. As we head into the

evening and overnight period, patchy rain that much of England and Wales,

shifting south. Further north of northern England, Scotland and

Northern Ireland, a dry at night to come but also mist and fog around.

Many start Saturday on a murky note with hill fog and mist dinners.

Quite a lot of cloud. But it is looking mainly frost free. It could

be frosty around rural parts of Scotland. The best of any brightness

on Saturday will be in the North. The Scotland, northern England and

perhaps Northern Ireland, some sunny spells. But further south we keep

the low cloud and hill fog. Pretty murky. Temper just ten to 11 in the

south, slightly fresher further north, but brighter, too. --

temperatures. A lot of cloud, mist, and fog on Sunday morning. Most

looking try with light winds. Could be a touch of frost across rural

parts of Scotland first thing Sunday morning. No great changes on Sunday.

A cloudy day. Mist and fog around. Pretty murky. Some rain to the North

West of Scotland. Elsewhere looks generally dry. There will be some

brightness around, mainly east of high ground. For eastern parts of

Wales and the north-eastern part of England, too. Looking like a quiet

week in. Fairly cloudy, but things will be more unsettled for the week

ahead. -- quite weekend.