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A suspected terror plot
thought to be planned | 0:00:04 | 0:00:06 | |
for Christmas is foiled,
as police arrest four men | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
Hundreds of people were moved
from their homes, as the bomb | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
squad was sent to one
address in Chesterfield. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:18 | |
They come banging on the door
saying, "You need to evacuate." | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
My grandad refused
to leave the house. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
He's still in there now.
The only one on the street. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
And they said, "It's
for your own safety, bomb | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
disposal are here." | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
In the last hour, bomb disposal
experts have moved to another | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
property in Sheffield. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
We've have the latest
on the ongoing operation. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
Also on the programme tonight... | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
Social media companies taken to task
by MPs in Parliament, | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
as they're accused of not doing
enough to tackle hate crime. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:50 | |
Killed in the hotel
fire at Loch Lomond - | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
Richard Dyson and Simon Midgley
were staying at the Cameron House | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
hotel for a weekend break. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
The future of Toys R Us and more
than 3000 jobs in the UK hangs | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
in the balance tonight,
amid fears it's about to collapse. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:03 | |
And the 95 year-old
librarian who is one | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
New York's oldest employees -
we report on the superagers, | 0:01:06 | 0:01:08 | |
as scientists say they're close
to finding drugs to delay | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
the ageing process. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News: | 0:01:15 | 0:01:16 | |
Suspicion hangs over sprinter
Justin Gatlin amid doping | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
allegations involving two
of his associates. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:25 | |
Good evening. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
Police have arrested four men
in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
as they swooped in to disrupt
a suspected Islamist terror plot | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
planned for Christmas. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:57 | |
Armed officers made the arrests
early this morning at four | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
separate addresses,
using stun grenades. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:01 | |
The Army Bomb Disposal Unit
was called to a row | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
of shops in Chesterfield. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
More than a hundred people have been
evacuated from their homes. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
Tonight, the bomb squad has
just arrived at another | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
address in Sheffield. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
With the latest, here's our
correspondent, Danny Savage. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:18 | |
On a terraced street
in Chesterfield today, Army bomb | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
disposal experts were
looking for explosives. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:29 | |
They have been here for hours. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
Counter-terrorism officers arrested
a 31-year-old man here this morning. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
In the predawn darkness,
armed police were pictured guarding | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
the scene as the raid took place. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:40 | |
At the edge of the cordon, people
evacuated from their homes couldn't | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
believe what was happening
in their streets. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
They come banging on the door
saying, "You need to evacuate." | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
My grandad refused
to leave the house. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
He's still in there now.
The only one on the street. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
And they said, "It's
for your own safety, bomb | 0:02:52 | 0:02:54 | |
disposal are here." | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
They made everyone else
leave apart from him. | 0:02:57 | 0:02:58 | |
How does it feel that this
is happening in your neighbourhood? | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
In a way it's a bit scary,
bit weird, isn't it? | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
You don't expect things like this
to happen in Chesterfield, | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
or in a little area like this. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
So it's a bit worrying in a way. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
Arrests were made elsewhere too,
as police took action against an | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
alleged Islamist terror plot
against the UK that could have come | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
to fruition over Christmas. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
Although the most
obvious activity was in | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
Chesterfield, about 15 miles away
in the Burngreave area of Sheffield, | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
two other men were arrested. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:31 | |
A business was raided,
and another man | 0:03:31 | 0:03:33 | |
was arrested in Meersbrook, where
local people heard stun | 0:03:33 | 0:03:35 | |
grenades being used. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
We were woken up at about 5:30
by a really, really loud bang. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:42 | |
Initially we did think that somebody
had crashed outside our house. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
So we were looking outside,
and all we could see were police | 0:03:45 | 0:03:50 | |
officers in riot gear. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:52 | |
They were storming a house
across the road from us. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:57 | |
There was lots of running
about, lots of shouting. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:01 | |
This is the Fatima Community Centre
in Sheffield, where | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 | |
two of the detained men
were arrested in bedsits | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
adjoining the centre. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:10 | |
These were co-ordinated
counter-terrorism raids, which may | 0:04:10 | 0:04:12 | |
have stopped a plot timed
to coincide with the | 0:04:12 | 0:04:14 | |
Christmas holidays. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:22 | |
Tonight the four men who were
arrested are being held in a police | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
station in Yorkshire. They are aged
between 22 and 41. As for the bomb | 0:04:25 | 0:04:31 | |
disposal unit that has been here for
much of the day, they are now gone. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:36 | |
There is a police van. The bomb
disposal unit is at the community | 0:04:36 | 0:04:41 | |
Centre in Sheffield. A cordon is in
place. People have been told they | 0:04:41 | 0:04:47 | |
can't go into it. People inside have
been told they may be moved out of | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
the area as the evening continues.
It just shows this is an ongoing | 0:04:50 | 0:04:56 | |
enquiry, with search is still being
carried out. Danny Savage, thank | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
you. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:00 | |
MPs have heavily criticised social
media companies for not doing enough | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
to tackle hate crime. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
Senior bosses from Facebook,
Twitter and Google | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
appeared before MPs today. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
They were accused of providing
a platform for extremism | 0:05:10 | 0:05:13 | |
and allowing people to use
social media to further | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
the ills of society. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
Here's our Media
Editor, Amol Rajan. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:26 | |
Harmful content online takes
countless forms, but not all of them | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
are illegal. There is the hate
speech that attacks individuals on | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
the basis of attributes such as
disability or gender. That is quite | 0:05:33 | 0:05:38 | |
separate from extremist content,
which propagates the worldview of | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
those ranging from neo-Nazis to
so-called Islamic State. How easy is | 0:05:41 | 0:05:45 | |
it to find this material online?
Very easy indeed. One campaigner | 0:05:45 | 0:05:51 | |
working with MPs on the issue
believes social media platforms | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
you're vulnerable adults into the
extremist Web. How big an issue is | 0:05:54 | 0:05:59 | |
soft extremism? It is a significant
issue because actually the material | 0:05:59 | 0:06:06 | |
clearly is not removed, it is not
illegal in the eyes of social media | 0:06:06 | 0:06:10 | |
providers. The other factor is their
algorithms are diverging individuals | 0:06:10 | 0:06:14 | |
who may have an aggressive
worldview, and the algorithms direct | 0:06:14 | 0:06:18 | |
them to join other groups who may
have similar content. Today MPs | 0:06:18 | 0:06:25 | |
called Tech companies as part of an
enquiry into hate crime. The | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
committee chair set Twitter still
had not removed a -- an offensive to | 0:06:28 | 0:06:32 | |
eat it was warned about in March.
That Tweed is still on your | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
platform. Why is it? I don't know
the answer to that question. I | 0:06:36 | 0:06:42 | |
really do all think we should kill a
Tory. Think of the benefits were we | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
to kill just one Tory. That is on
Twitter. Your home say she will not | 0:06:46 | 0:06:53 | |
tolerate violent threats of
individuals or groups. How does that | 0:06:53 | 0:07:00 | |
comply with your code? We have 500
million tweets a day, 330 million | 0:07:00 | 0:07:08 | |
users. Twitter is used in multiple
languages. You are actively | 0:07:08 | 0:07:12 | |
recommended what is effectively
raises material into people's | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
timelines. Aye Well Asghar reviewers
to look into it and get back with a | 0:07:15 | 0:07:23 | |
solid response. -- I will ask our
viewers. I will look at how we can | 0:07:23 | 0:07:30 | |
look at hate speech. Isn't the truth
that your algorithms and the way you | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
want to attract people to look at
other linked things, is that | 0:07:34 | 0:07:39 | |
actually your algorithms are doing
that grooming and that | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
radicalisation? But that is not how
Facebook sees it. While I do | 0:07:42 | 0:07:48 | |
recognise we have a problem, which
is a shared problem, with the | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
police, with yourselves, with civil
society organisations, how do we | 0:07:51 | 0:07:55 | |
address that personally? We may be
going down a channel which can lead | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
to them being radicalised. MPs have
a personal stake in the fight | 0:07:59 | 0:08:04 | |
against harmful content online. But
it's not clear that turning tech | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
giants into centres is the best way
to safeguard democracy. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
Amol is here. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:14 | |
MPs did sound exasperated today.
What more can be done? Most people | 0:08:14 | 0:08:19 | |
agree what abusive content is.
Everyone agrees there is too much of | 0:08:19 | 0:08:23 | |
it. No one agrees on what to do
about it. There are two reasons. The | 0:08:23 | 0:08:28 | |
first is principal. These companies
do not want to be in the business of | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
censoring the Internet. They are not
publishers like the BBC Ore | 0:08:31 | 0:08:35 | |
newspaper. They are platforms that
gave everybody a voice and they rely | 0:08:35 | 0:08:39 | |
on the community to police it. The
bigger issue is the question of | 0:08:39 | 0:08:52 | |
scale. There is just so much of this
material uploaded online every | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
single minute, that ultimately you
will never control of completely. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:57 | |
That is not to be defeatist. It is a
pragmatic point of view. Facebook | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
and Google say they are going to
double the number of people looking | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
at this. They say the best skill is
not what human beings but smarter | 0:09:02 | 0:09:05 | |
computers. Thank you. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:06 | |
Two men who died at a luxury
hotel on Loch Lomond | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
yesterday, have been named. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:10 | |
Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson -
both thought to be from London - | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
were on a winter break
at the Cameron House Hotel, | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
when the fire broke out
in the early hours of the morning. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
Firefighters managed
to save a couple on their honeymoon | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
and their baby, who were on an upper
floor of the hotel. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
Our Scotland Correspondent,
Lorna Gordon, is there | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
for us this evening. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:26 | |
On the secluded shores of Loch
Lomond, the burned-out remains of | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
one of Scotland's most prestigious
hotels. It was here that early | 0:09:29 | 0:09:34 | |
yesterday morning, while many of the
200 guests were still sleeping, the | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
fire took hold. It gutted the main
building and led to the loss of two | 0:09:37 | 0:09:42 | |
lives. The BBC understands that
Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson had | 0:09:42 | 0:09:47 | |
been staying at Cameron house on a
winter break. Police have not | 0:09:47 | 0:09:52 | |
confirmed their identities but
tribute at Bin paid social media. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
More than 60 firefighters were
involved in fighting the blaze. The | 0:09:55 | 0:10:03 | |
damage she is extensive. The top two
floors of the main building looked | 0:10:03 | 0:10:08 | |
to be completely burnt out. The
priority for fire crews now is to | 0:10:08 | 0:10:13 | |
make this building safe. And their
initial investigation is likely to | 0:10:13 | 0:10:17 | |
focus on trying to find out where
the blaze began. We will be taking | 0:10:17 | 0:10:23 | |
witness statements from the guests
and staff that were on the property. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
They will be looking to see if there
are a CCTV cameras which may assist | 0:10:26 | 0:10:32 | |
them in narrowing the focus of where
the fire first started. Footage | 0:10:32 | 0:10:36 | |
taken at the time showed fire crews
rescuing a recently married couple | 0:10:36 | 0:10:41 | |
from their second-floor room. Their
baby carried out by a firefighter. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:46 | |
In a statement, the Hotel described
this as a heart stopping moment. It | 0:10:46 | 0:10:51 | |
called the firefighters involved
heroes. The swift actions of the | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
emergency services may have
prevented further loss of life in | 0:10:54 | 0:10:58 | |
this fatal fire. Lorna Gordon, BBC
News, Loch Lomond. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:03 | |
It's one of the worst scandals
in the history of the NHS. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:06 | |
Almost 2,500 people
died after being given | 0:11:06 | 0:11:07 | |
contaminated bloods in the 1970s
and 80s - blood that had been | 0:11:07 | 0:11:10 | |
infected with HIV and hepatitis C. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
This week the government
will announce who will run a public | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
inquiry into the scandal. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
It's welcome news at
last, say campaigners, | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
as it emerges that government
officials have been using | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
a discredited report into the blood
controversy for more than a decade - | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
despite assurances it had been
taken out of circulation. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:30 | |
Here's our Health Editor, Hugh Pym | 0:11:30 | 0:11:40 | |
He developed HIV and hepatitis and
died. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:54 | |
Carol has campaigned for decades for
April -- full public enquiry into | 0:11:54 | 0:11:58 | |
the scandal which claimed 2500 lives
and ruined thousands more. At last, | 0:11:58 | 0:12:03 | |
that is about to happen. She has
uncovered hundreds of documents | 0:12:03 | 0:12:07 | |
which she says revealed an official
cover-up. I think there are huge | 0:12:07 | 0:12:15 | |
implications for government. They
don't want the conversation because | 0:12:15 | 0:12:18 | |
there are high numbers of people
both infected and affected because | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
you've got the infected
haemophiliacs and you've got the | 0:12:21 | 0:12:25 | |
affected family members. Blood
products were haemophiliacs and | 0:12:25 | 0:12:32 | |
transfusions were imported from the
US. Some were infected by donors, | 0:12:32 | 0:12:37 | |
including prisoners. In 2006, the
government published what was billed | 0:12:37 | 0:12:41 | |
as a definitive report. But some
original documents have been | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
destroyed, so key information was
missing. The BBC can reveal it was | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
still in use this year. In August,
the top civil servant at the | 0:12:48 | 0:12:53 | |
Department of Health wrote that the
report had not been used by | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
officials in recent years and will
not be used in the future. But the | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
BBC has seen a letter written
earlier this year by a health | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
minister which did make reference to
the report as an authoritative | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
account. When Sir Chris was told, he
apologised and said it wouldn't | 0:13:07 | 0:13:11 | |
happen again. The former Lib Dem
Minister, Baroness Featherstone, | 0:13:11 | 0:13:16 | |
received the letters from the civil
servant, said it was shocking that | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
even this year misleading
information was being put out. He | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
apologised because he himself had
been part of what beginning that he | 0:13:22 | 0:13:26 | |
has suffered since day one.
Obfuscation, misuse of facts, lies, | 0:13:26 | 0:13:32 | |
rebuttals, refusing to acknowledge,
almost incapable of listening. The | 0:13:32 | 0:13:38 | |
Department of Health said the
independent enquiry would ensure | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
victims and their families got
answers. For Carol, the long battle | 0:13:41 | 0:13:45 | |
with the authorities has come at
great personal cost. At the end of | 0:13:45 | 0:13:53 | |
the day it's taken my family life
away. That's the reality. You know, | 0:13:53 | 0:13:57 | |
I started this as a young woman. I'm
now going towards retirement and | 0:13:57 | 0:14:04 | |
there is still no justice. Carol
wants to pass on all her documents | 0:14:04 | 0:14:09 | |
to the official enquiry. She can
only hope it gets to the truth of | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
what has been described as the
biggest disaster in the history of | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
the NHS. Hugh Pym, BBC News. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:19 | |
Our top story this evening. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:26 | |
A suspected terror plot thought to
be planned for Christmas is foiled | 0:14:26 | 0:14:29 | |
as police arrest four men in
Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
Still to come: | 0:14:32 | 0:14:33 | |
The 500 year old Turkey bones,
thought to be the oldest ever | 0:14:33 | 0:14:36 | |
discovered in the UK. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:42 | |
Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News: | 0:14:42 | 0:14:43 | |
Many have tried, many have
failed, can Leicester | 0:14:43 | 0:14:45 | |
stop Manchester City,
in the League Cup | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
quarter-final's tonight. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:55 | |
Imagine starting a whole
new career when you're | 0:15:04 | 0:15:08 | |
in your 80s and feeling young,
fit and healthy, both | 0:15:08 | 0:15:10 | |
in body and mind. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:16 | |
Or taking on some physical
challenge in your 90s, | 0:15:16 | 0:15:18 | |
walking for miles with no
aches or pains. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:21 | |
Well, scientists in America
are predicting that it won't be long | 0:15:21 | 0:15:24 | |
before more and more of us can
do just that. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
They're working on drugs
that could help delay | 0:15:26 | 0:15:36 | |
the way our bodies age,
meaning that we'll be able to do | 0:15:36 | 0:15:41 | |
much more for much longer. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:42 | |
In the second of his reports
on 'superagers' our medical | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
correspondent, Fergus Walsh,
has been to San Francisco | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
and New York. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:48 | |
New York Public Library,
one of the city's grandest | 0:15:48 | 0:15:50 | |
buildings, which has one
of the city's oldest employees. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
Hilda Jaffe is still going strong
at 95, so what's her | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
secret to a long life? | 0:15:55 | 0:15:56 | |
Pick your parents, it really is. | 0:15:56 | 0:15:59 | |
It's got to be genetic
because both my parents lived long. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
Good morning, Fergus,
I'm glad you could meet me here | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
in this absolutely beautiful room. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:12 | |
Hilda gives tours of this historic
building when she's not | 0:16:12 | 0:16:14 | |
at the theatre, music concerts,
opera or her two book clubs. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:17 | |
I don't exercise,
I walk, I walk a lot. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:19 | |
If I had to give anybody advice
I would say, just keep moving. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:25 | |
Samples of Hilda's DNA are stored
in this freezer in the Bronx, | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
part of a study into longevity. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:34 | |
They found only one in 10,000 people
has protective superager genes, | 0:16:34 | 0:16:37 | |
but say drugs might be able to help
the rest of us. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:41 | |
Metformin is an old,
cheap diabetes drug, | 0:16:41 | 0:16:47 | |
but a major trial is planned to see
if it can delay ageing. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
I can get you 690 of those for $60. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:54 | |
Scientists here believe it may slow
the biological processes that | 0:16:54 | 0:16:57 | |
trigger key diseases. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:01 | |
We have data in humans that
metformin would delay cardiovascular | 0:17:01 | 0:17:05 | |
disease and will delay diabetes
and is associated with less cancer | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
and seems to delay Alzheimer
or cognitive decline in people. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:17 | |
Ageing is an inevitable process
which begins as we reach adulthood | 0:17:17 | 0:17:19 | |
and continues through the decades
as our muscles, bones | 0:17:19 | 0:17:21 | |
and organs gradually wear out. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:31 | |
This tai chi group in San Francisco
show that we can delay that decline, | 0:17:32 | 0:17:36 | |
it helps with balance,
core strength and provides | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
a social network. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:39 | |
It makes me feel so young,
I have so much fun. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
I feel like I'm in the
kindergarten of the universe. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
My mother lived to 103. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:45 | |
I don't desire to live that long,
but I want to be as healthy | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
as I can, as long as I can. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
That's an ambition we can all share. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
Imagine a future where it
didn't hurt to get old, | 0:17:52 | 0:17:54 | |
where our joints didn't wear out? | 0:17:54 | 0:18:04 | |
It would have a huge impact
on our quality of life as we age. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:11 | |
This biotech company in California
has developed a drug to counter | 0:18:11 | 0:18:14 | |
one of the key diseases
of ageing, osteoarthritis. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:16 | |
Human trials of this experimental
compound should begin next year. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:26 | |
This is an area of the cartilage
that is now diseased. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
You can see the
cartilage is damaged. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
It works by clearing cells
which build up in the knee joint, | 0:18:32 | 0:18:42 | |
which maybe a trigger
for the painful condition. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:49 | |
A single injection that we believe
and hope will alleviate their pain | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
and begin the restorative process
in their knee to perhaps at least | 0:18:52 | 0:18:55 | |
halt, regress and even completely
repair the knee in the end | 0:18:55 | 0:18:57 | |
is what our wildest
hopes would imagine. | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
That would mean more people
could age like Hilda, | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
free of aches and pains
and independent well into their 90s. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
Fergus Walsh, BBC News, New York. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:13 | |
The future of the retailer Toys R Us
and the jobs of more than 3,000 | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
people who work for it in the UK
are hanging in the balance tonight | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
amid fears that the company
is about to collapse. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
Toys R Us has been told it
has to put £9 million | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
into its struggling pension fund
by the end of this week, | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
money it may not have. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:29 | |
Our business correspondent,
Simon Gompertz, is at a Toys R Us | 0:19:29 | 0:19:31 | |
store in south London. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:32 | |
Can it survive? Well,ing this outlet
in fact is one that wasn't going to | 0:19:32 | 0:19:39 | |
survive. What Toys R Us plan to do
was to make a rescue deal, with its | 0:19:39 | 0:19:45 | |
creditors, that they would vote on
under which it would be a slimmed | 0:19:45 | 0:19:49 | |
down Operation Operation. Losing a
quarter of its outlets it would pay | 0:19:49 | 0:19:54 | |
back less to its creditors and
struggle on. What happened today is | 0:19:54 | 0:19:58 | |
that the Pension Protection Fund,
which is the lifeboat organisation | 0:19:58 | 0:20:03 | |
which stands behind the pension
schemes of troubled companies like | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
this one, has voted against that
rescue deal, putting all the outlets | 0:20:07 | 0:20:13 | |
in jeopardy. The reason is, they
say, they want Toys R Us to come up | 0:20:13 | 0:20:18 | |
with three years worth of pension
contributions upfront in order to | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
win its vote. Toys R Us says it
doesn't have the money. So it's not | 0:20:22 | 0:20:26 | |
all over yet. The company says it
can carry on trading as things are | 0:20:26 | 0:20:30 | |
through Christmas and into th new
year. The vote isn't finalised until | 0:20:30 | 0:20:39 | |
Thursday. Expect intense negotiation
until Thursday to try to bring the | 0:20:39 | 0:20:43 | |
Pension Protection Fund round.
Simon, thank you. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:54 | |
In Northern Ireland,
a recent survey of gay and lesbian | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
pupils found that two thirds of them
did not feel valued | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
in their schools. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:32 | |
However, gay rights groups claim
that official report was initially | 0:21:32 | 0:21:34 | |
shelved because the then DUP
Education Minister wouldn't give | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
clearance for it to be published. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
Our Ireland correspondent,
Chris Buckler, reports. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:39 | |
Every pupil has bad days
in class, but some feel | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
like they simply don't belong. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:43 | |
Alex goes to a single sex school,
but identifies as non-binary. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
That means Alex sees themselves
as neither male nor female. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:48 | |
It's a pretty huge problem
because you've basically got | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
a target on your back if you're
different to everybody | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
else in the school. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
It's name-calling in the corridors,
it's chanting on the bus. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
It's just constant negativity every
single day in school. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
What kind of an effect
does that have on you? | 0:21:58 | 0:22:05 | |
It has impacted my mental
health, obviously. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:13 | |
It just makes you not
want to go to school. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
It just makes you like
tired, constantly tired | 0:22:16 | 0:22:18 | |
and constantly tired. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:19 | |
At Hazelwood Integrated College
they're making a point of trying | 0:22:19 | 0:22:21 | |
to offer more support. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
They've set up a group called Gay,
Straight, Whatever and the school's | 0:22:23 | 0:22:29 | |
made changes to recognise
the needs of LGBT pupils. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:35 | |
We changed our uniform
policy from female to male | 0:22:35 | 0:22:37 | |
to adjust our uniform. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:38 | |
The group includes both
pupils and staff members | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
who are openly gay and lesbian. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:46 | |
I actually went to this
school and I work here now | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
on the support staff. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
When I went here, I had no
confidence because I had | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
no one to talk to. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:53 | |
So now coming back and
seeing things like - | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
"Some people are gay,
get over it" and posters | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
on the walls, it's great. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
Yeah, it's definitely
a tough place to come out | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
because there are so many
politicians in the Government, | 0:23:03 | 0:23:05 | |
and all of that itself,
that is putting a lock | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
on equal marriage. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:17 | |
At this year's Belfast Pride event,
many campaigned for the introduction | 0:23:17 | 0:23:19 | |
of same-sex marriage
in Northern Ireland, | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
which was blocked by
the Democratic Unionist Party. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:22 | |
Some of the DUP's other statements
and actions have angered members | 0:23:22 | 0:23:25 | |
of the LGBT community. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:26 | |
A report by Northern Ireland's
Department of Education found | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
that two thirds of gay,
lesbian, bisexual and trans pupils | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
did not feel welcome
or valued in their schools. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
However, this report wasn't
released for many months, | 0:23:33 | 0:23:35 | |
apparently because the then DUP
Education Minister, Peter Weir, | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
wouldn't give clearance
for it to be published. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:39 | |
The DUP refused a series
of interview requests. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:49 | |
However, this report wasn't
released for many months, | 0:24:11 | 0:24:13 | |
apparently because the then DUP
Education Minister, Peter Weir, | 0:24:13 | 0:24:15 | |
wouldn't give clearance
for it to be published. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:17 | |
The DUP refused a series
of interview requests. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:19 | |
REPORTER: I just
wanted to ask you... | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
But when we caught up
with the party's former minister | 0:24:21 | 0:24:23 | |
at a constituency event,
he denied shelving the report. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
You will find different communities
will find themselves under levels | 0:24:26 | 0:24:28 | |
of pressure at school,
and I think that's something which | 0:24:28 | 0:24:30 | |
need to combated across the board. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:32 | |
Do you think unionists could be
doing more to make sure that LGBT | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
pupils feel welcome? | 0:24:35 | 0:24:36 | |
I'm not quite sure why
you're particularly saying | 0:24:36 | 0:24:38 | |
unionists in that regard. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:39 | |
We have spoken to some and they're
upset because of same-sex marriage, | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
they're upset because of comments
that have been made | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
by Unionist politicians,
DUP politicians in the past. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:46 | |
Well, I think that people
should always try and be | 0:24:46 | 0:24:48 | |
sensitive in their comments. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:49 | |
Obviously from my own party
point of view, in terms | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
of same-sex marriage,
we've a particular definition | 0:24:52 | 0:24:53 | |
that we believe in the traditional
definition of marriage. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
Across the UK, schools are studying
how they can change with society | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
and Tthat means learning
with their pupils. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:00 | |
Chris Buckler, BBC News, Belfast. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:01 | |
A man has been sentenced to 25 years
in prison for throwing acid | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
into the crowd at a packed
East London nightclub. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
16 people were seriously injured. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:08 | |
In CCTV footage from
the Mangle Club in Hackney, | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
taken in April last year,
Arthur Collins, the former boyfriend | 0:25:10 | 0:25:12 | |
of a reality TV star,
can be seen squirting the liquid | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
into a group on the dance-floor. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:16 | |
Prosecutors say it related to a gang
feud Collins was involved in. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
Christmas, it's that time of year
again when rather a lot | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
of turkeys will be served up
for the traditional Christmas roast. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
But archaeologists in Devon
believe they have unearthed | 0:25:25 | 0:25:26 | |
a rather special turkey,
it may well be the oldest turkey | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
ever discovered in the UK,
dating back almost 500 years. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:31 | |
Jon Kay has the story. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:33 | |
A traditional turkey dinner
with all the trimmings, | 0:25:33 | 0:25:35 | |
but it seems they've been gobbling
it up here in Devon for much longer | 0:25:35 | 0:25:38 | |
than anybody realised. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:39 | |
At Exeter University,
a surprise discovery. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:40 | |
At first I wasn't sure because it
looks like a giant chicken. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
In a pile of ancient animal remains,
found here in the '80s, | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
two mysterious thigh bones
and a wing. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
Archeologists have now established
they're from an American species | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
of turkey nearly 500 years ago,
believed to be the oldest | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
ever found in Britain. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:54 | |
I started knocking on doors
and showing off just how excited | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
I was by actually telling other
people, "look what I found." | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
But, yes, so it is very nice
and it's really great for a zoo | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
archeologist to actually have this
connection with history. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:04 | |
We've got a plate and a bowl. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:06 | |
The bones could be dated
because they were found | 0:26:06 | 0:26:08 | |
with a pile of washing up -
crockery from a grand | 0:26:08 | 0:26:11 | |
feast in the early 1500s,
which is when the first | 0:26:11 | 0:26:13 | |
turkeys arrived here. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:14 | |
These were an exotic bird,
brand new into the country. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:17 | |
You know, people wouldn't
have heard of it. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:18 | |
What did it taste like? | 0:26:18 | 0:26:20 | |
You know, what is this giant bird? | 0:26:20 | 0:26:21 | |
The first turkeys are said to have
been imported by the explorer | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
William Strickland in the 1520s
after he bought six | 0:26:24 | 0:26:26 | |
from some native Americans. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:27 | |
Well, Strickland is said to have
sold his birds for tuppence each. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
Five centuries later,
turkeys are rather bigger business, | 0:26:30 | 0:26:32 | |
10 million of them due to be sold
in Britain just over Christmas. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:35 | |
Off we go then, turkeys. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:37 | |
This Devon farmer wonders
if the bones found down the road | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
might be from those original birds. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:41 | |
Potentially these, in some way,
are direct descendants | 0:26:41 | 0:26:43 | |
of the ones that arrived,
and here they are back in Devon. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:46 | |
So this's quite nice. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:48 | |
In what else but a sandwich box,
the turkey bones have now been taken | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
to the city museum to go
on the display after | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
Christmas dinner. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:54 | |
Jon Kay, BBC News, Exeter. | 0:26:54 | 0:27:04 | |
Time for a look at
the weather, here's | 0:27:07 | 0:27:12 | |
Tomasz. It was bone chilling cold in
Bournemouth this morning, compared | 0:27:12 | 0:27:18 | |
to other parts of the country. We
will look at that in | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
to other parts of the country. We
will look at that in a second. Look | 0:27:21 | 0:27:22 | |
at this stunning picture from
Uckfield, East Sussex. Beautiful. A | 0:27:22 | 0:27:29 | |
nice foggy one from Staffordshire.
We didn't quite have as much fog as | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
we thought. It was more frosty than
anything. My yus four on the coast | 0:27:32 | 0:27:37 | |
there. 15 degrees at the same time
in Scotland. That is how incredible | 0:27:37 | 0:27:41 | |
and weird our climate is sometimes.
Or weather! This evening, lots of | 0:27:41 | 0:27:48 | |
cloud across the country. There will
be no freezing fog or frost or | 0:27:48 | 0:27:53 | |
anything tonight. Temperatures will
be too high for that, six, seven | 0:27:53 | 0:27:56 | |
degrees. Early on Wednesday morning
in the north of the country it will | 0:27:56 | 0:28:00 | |
be into double figures. Overall a
mild night in the way. We are | 0:28:00 | 0:28:04 | |
forecasting this mild weather to
stay with us through most of this | 0:28:04 | 0:28:07 | |
week and into the run-up to
Christmas. Look at that, the mild | 0:28:07 | 0:28:10 | |
air has reached areas as far north
as Scandinavia, Finland and even the | 0:28:10 | 0:28:15 | |
far west of Russia. Through the
course of tomorrow it's cloudy and | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
quite drizzly across western parts
of England and Wales. There is a | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
weather front moving across the UK.
This is where we sometimes find a | 0:28:22 | 0:28:26 | |
little bit of rain to the north of
the weather front it will be cooler. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:32 | |
Not desperately cold, nine in
Aberdeen. There will be more | 0:28:32 | 0:28:34 | |
sunshine around. A mild morning and
a mild day overall across the UK | 0:28:34 | 0:28:38 | |
tomorrow. Here is Thursday, stays
mild, cloudy unfortunately, not very | 0:28:38 | 0:28:42 | |
festive. No frost around either. The
north of the country a little bit | 0:28:42 | 0:28:46 | |
fresher | 0:28:46 | 0:28:46 |