:00:00. > :00:10.A ceasefire in Syria from midnight tonight,
:00:11. > :00:14.it's been brokered by Russia and Turkey.
:00:15. > :00:16.President Putin says the Syrian government and main opposition
:00:17. > :00:18.groups have agreed to the basic terms, and to the start
:00:19. > :00:27.After nearly six years of conflict, those behind the deal say it's
:00:28. > :00:28.a window of opportunity that mustn't be wasted.
:00:29. > :00:31.TRANSLATION: The first document is about
:00:32. > :00:33.a ceasefire on the territory of the Syrian Arab republic.
:00:34. > :00:36.The second document is a set of measures for monitoring
:00:37. > :00:38.the ceasefire and the third document is a statement about readiness
:00:39. > :00:44.Also today, a warning from GPs that patients in England could wait more
:00:45. > :00:47.than a month for an appointment, because the system's
:00:48. > :00:55.And, the actress Debbie Reynolds has died at the age of 84,
:00:56. > :01:19.just a day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher.
:01:20. > :01:28.Russia has announced a nationwide ceasefire in the Syrian conflict.
:01:29. > :01:31.The deal has been brokered by Russia and by Turkey,
:01:32. > :01:32.who've been on opposing sides in the conflict.
:01:33. > :01:35.The Syrian government and main opposition groups have agreed
:01:36. > :01:37.to a ceasefire from midnight local time tonight.
:01:38. > :01:38.But some groups, including so-called Islamic State,
:01:39. > :01:43.The announcement was made in Moscow from where our correspondent
:01:44. > :01:51.For nearly six years, Syria has been torn apart by civil war.
:01:52. > :02:02.A conflict that has left more than 400,000 people dead.
:02:03. > :02:05.There have been peace initiatives before which brought no peace.
:02:06. > :02:09.But today Russia announced a breakthrough.
:02:10. > :02:14.In the Kremlin, Russia's defence Minister handed Vladimir Putin
:02:15. > :02:17.a list of Syrian opposition groups which had signed up to a ceasefire
:02:18. > :02:23.60,000 rebels, he said, would stop fighting.
:02:24. > :02:27.This is how President Putin summarised the deal.
:02:28. > :02:31.TRANSLATION: Three documents have been signed.
:02:32. > :02:34.The first document between the Syrian government and the armed
:02:35. > :02:36.opposition is about a ceasefire on the territory of
:02:37. > :02:40.The second document is a set of measures
:02:41. > :02:45.And the third document is a statement about readiness
:02:46. > :02:50.to start peace talks on ending the Syrian conflict.
:02:51. > :02:54.The Syrian government was persuaded by Russia to sign today's agreement.
:02:55. > :02:59.It's with an assortment of seven Syrian rebel groups.
:03:00. > :03:02.Turkey's role was crucial in convincing them.
:03:03. > :03:07.Not part of the deal are so-called Islamic State,
:03:08. > :03:12.or the main Kurdish rebel group who are fighting them, the YPG.
:03:13. > :03:15.And there's confusion tonight over whether the agreement
:03:16. > :03:17.covers a key rebel group, widely seen as linked to Al-Qaeda.
:03:18. > :03:26.With John Kerry's diplomacy the US had been co-sponsor, with Russia,
:03:27. > :03:34.But today the Kremlin has snubbed the Obama administration.
:03:35. > :03:37.Moscow said it hoped America would join the new round of peace
:03:38. > :03:45.Today the Free Syrian Army, a loose alliance of rebel
:03:46. > :03:54.TRANSLATION: During the talks the Russian government guaranteed
:03:55. > :03:57.to us that they will keep the Syrian regime forces and their
:03:58. > :04:04.During these talks we have not met anyone from the Syrian regime.
:04:05. > :04:15.Meanwhile the violence in Syria continues.
:04:16. > :04:18.This amateur video purports to show the aftermath of an air strike today
:04:19. > :04:24.Schoolchildren running, screaming, through the smoke and the chaos.
:04:25. > :04:31.When it begins, can the ceasefire end this war?
:04:32. > :04:36.You can understand why many Syrians have low expectations.
:04:37. > :04:39.Our correspndent Steve Rosenberg is in Moscow and Laura Bicker
:04:40. > :04:51.Steve, a point you made at the end of your report which is really to do
:04:52. > :04:57.with how hopeful people in Russia are that this deal could stick, what
:04:58. > :05:01.are your thoughts on that? This is potentially a diplomatic coup for
:05:02. > :05:05.Russia and for Vladimir Putin. Just look at how things have turned
:05:06. > :05:09.around for the Russian president. Over the last year he has been
:05:10. > :05:14.criticised constantly by the West over Russia's military campaign in
:05:15. > :05:18.Syria. Moscow has been accused of indiscriminate bombing, even war
:05:19. > :05:22.crimes or complicity in war crimes. But today's sitting at his desk in
:05:23. > :05:27.the Kremlin President Putin could project himself as the deal-maker,
:05:28. > :05:31.the peacemaker in the Middle East with American nowhere to be seen.
:05:32. > :05:36.And the deal actually bring peace? There's no guarantee of that because
:05:37. > :05:38.this is a very complex conflict involving many regional players and
:05:39. > :05:42.ending it will be very difficult indeed.
:05:43. > :05:49.Given that it is being discussed as some sort of snub, what are your
:05:50. > :05:52.thoughts on it and the response, there? The State Department says it
:05:53. > :05:58.welcomes the ceasefire and hopes it will be respected by all parties.
:05:59. > :06:03.But it did not elaborate as to why it played no role in these talks.
:06:04. > :06:08.The problem for President Obama is he's got very little leveraging in
:06:09. > :06:12.Syria. When he chose to back those cerium rebels he was so unwilling to
:06:13. > :06:15.get bogged down in another war in the Middle East that he only offered
:06:16. > :06:19.very limited support and their weapons were no match for those air
:06:20. > :06:24.strikes from the Assad regime, backed by Russia. And diplomatically
:06:25. > :06:29.turkey's role in this will raise quite a few eyebrows. They usually
:06:30. > :06:32.choose to coordinate their strategy with the US alliance but on this
:06:33. > :06:38.occasion they've chosen Russia as the main player. And if that
:06:39. > :06:42.relationship continues it could further isolate the United States in
:06:43. > :06:43.the Middle East. Laura, thanks very much, and Steve Rosenberg, in
:06:44. > :06:46.Moscow. The Hollywood actress
:06:47. > :06:47.Debbie Reynolds, who starred with Gene Kelly
:06:48. > :06:50.in the musical Singin' Her death was announced a day
:06:51. > :06:55.after the death of her daughter, Her son said the news had been too
:06:56. > :06:59.much for her to bear, as our correspondent
:07:00. > :07:04.David Sillito reports. # I'm singin' in the rain,
:07:05. > :07:08.just singin' in the rain. Singin' In The Rain,
:07:09. > :07:14.Debbie Reynolds was just 19. She'd not really danced
:07:15. > :07:17.before this, but this I was supposed to be an innocent,
:07:18. > :07:26.virginal little I think it was a tough deal
:07:27. > :07:31.for poor Gene to be stuck It would have been far better
:07:32. > :07:37.for him to have a great dancer. But I worked so hard that I think,
:07:38. > :07:40.in the end when I look at that performance
:07:41. > :07:42.of that little girl, # All I do is dream
:07:43. > :07:48.of you the whole night through.# 64 years later, her death comes
:07:49. > :07:51.just a day after losing She'd been planning her funeral
:07:52. > :07:57.when she was taken ill. Her son Todd said the stress
:07:58. > :08:03.was simply too much. Among the tributes,
:08:04. > :08:04.Bette Midler, who said Dame Joan Collins said she was truly
:08:05. > :08:09.heartbroken. You could make an album,
:08:10. > :08:13.I could produce it. That mother-and-daughter
:08:14. > :08:14.relationship, Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine gave us a taste
:08:15. > :08:17.of the ups and downs in Indeed Debbie Reynolds wanted
:08:18. > :08:23.to play the role but was told she wasn't
:08:24. > :08:25.right for the part. You want me to do well,
:08:26. > :08:32.just not better than you. What she was right for was
:08:33. > :08:34.old school Hollywood The show always went on,
:08:35. > :08:41.even when she was abandoned by her husband, Eddie Fisher,
:08:42. > :08:46.for Elizabeth Taylor. My personal life is always
:08:47. > :08:48.sort of like this. That little choo-choo train that
:08:49. > :08:51.says, "I think I can, I think Luckily for me, God was good
:08:52. > :09:00.and I have two wonderful children. And here she is, Carrie Fisher,
:09:01. > :09:03.six years old, watching her The photographer said
:09:04. > :09:07.she didn't move. 54 years later, Debbie
:09:08. > :09:09.Reynolds final words: But if you want to
:09:10. > :09:14.remember what made her The actress Debbie Reynolds who has
:09:15. > :09:42.died at the age of 84. The head of the Royal College
:09:43. > :09:45.of General Practitioners has warned that patients in England could be
:09:46. > :09:47.forced to wait four weeks or longer, to see
:09:48. > :09:49.their family doctor, Helen Stokes-Lampard says surgeries
:09:50. > :09:55.are already over-stretched because of a shortage of GPs,
:09:56. > :10:02.and years of under-investment. But the government says it's
:10:03. > :10:05.investing an extra ?2.4 billion in family doctor services,
:10:06. > :10:06.by 2020, as our health correspondent
:10:07. > :10:08.Robert Pigott reports. Hello, Mrs Richardson?
:10:09. > :10:10.Come on in, I'm Doctor Helen. Come on through,
:10:11. > :10:13.come and have a seat. Doctor Helen Stokes-Lampard has been
:10:14. > :10:15.struggling to make routine appointments within three to four
:10:16. > :10:19.weeks at her surgery in Lichfield. Winter is increasing the demand
:10:20. > :10:22.on health services already under GPs warned that their service
:10:23. > :10:27.is stretched desperately thin and lengthening waiting times
:10:28. > :10:30.could pose a serious Firstly, there just aren't
:10:31. > :10:37.enough GPs out there, we don't have enough clinicians
:10:38. > :10:40.in the workforce. But also we haven't got
:10:41. > :10:42.enough nurses and other So the problem this winter
:10:43. > :10:46.is as bad as it's ever been. GPs currently see more
:10:47. > :10:50.than 1.3 million patients every day and there are now 60 million more
:10:51. > :10:53.consultations every year The doctor is available
:10:54. > :11:03.Wednesday 11th. Like other GPs, the doctors
:11:04. > :11:06.at Central Surgery in Rugby have found themselves caring increasingly
:11:07. > :11:09.for frail, elderly people and patients with complex,
:11:10. > :11:14.long-term illnesses. It's helped add 16% to GPs' workload
:11:15. > :11:19.in the last seven years. Experts estimate that family doctors
:11:20. > :11:21.now provide 360 million appointments every year in England,
:11:22. > :11:32.dwarfing the capacity of hospitals. There's a very small change
:11:33. > :11:44.in what GPs are capable of doing. It could be capable of completely
:11:45. > :11:47.overwhelming the A departments and outpatient departments
:11:48. > :11:49.by increasing referrals. They are an absolutely key part
:11:50. > :11:52.of the health system and unless we look after them,
:11:53. > :11:55.the whole system could be GPs have told the Department
:11:56. > :11:58.of Health that the NHS has been phenomenally successful both
:11:59. > :12:01.in nipping disease in the bud and in keeping alive huge numbers
:12:02. > :12:03.of people with chronic conditions But they warn this preventative care
:12:04. > :12:07.could now be undermined with potentially serious and even
:12:08. > :12:09.tragic consequences NHS England say GP services
:12:10. > :12:13.are on track to receive an extra ?2.4 billion in real terms
:12:14. > :12:20.investment by 2020. To build on this track record
:12:21. > :12:23.of success and expand access to convenient appointments
:12:24. > :12:26.throughout the week. The Royal College of GPs welcomed
:12:27. > :12:29.the extra funding promised for England and Scotland but said
:12:30. > :12:31.similar commitments have not yet been made in Wales
:12:32. > :12:35.or Northern Ireland. Police in Cornwall are
:12:36. > :12:41.investigating what they say are the unexplained
:12:42. > :12:43.deaths of two men. The bodies were found
:12:44. > :12:45.yesterday evening at a block One man was in his early thirties,
:12:46. > :12:54.the other was in his 20s. A review of the youth justice system
:12:55. > :12:58.has proposed that offenders who commit crimes before they're 18
:12:59. > :13:01.years old should be given It's understood ministers are now
:13:02. > :13:04.considering introducing legislation The review says naming child
:13:05. > :13:08.offenders such as Jon Venables and Robert Thompson,
:13:09. > :13:10.who murdered two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993,
:13:11. > :13:12.undermines attempts to Our home affairs correspondent
:13:13. > :13:35.Tom Symonds is at the It is controversial, it is probably
:13:36. > :13:38.a small number of cases that anyone who is prosecuted under the age of
:13:39. > :13:43.18 generally goes to the youth court where there is a right to anonymity
:13:44. > :13:47.until they are 18 but not further. This is likely to affect most of
:13:48. > :13:50.those that go for serious cases to the Crown Court. We are talking
:13:51. > :13:54.about child murderers. This recommendation would give a right to
:13:55. > :13:59.anonymity for life and it would mean that, for example, the killers of
:14:00. > :14:05.James Bulger, the child killer Mary Bell in 1968 and clinic, who to get
:14:06. > :14:08.killed his teacher in 2014 but none of those would be named. Deciding
:14:09. > :14:12.whether to go with this, the government looks at the needs of
:14:13. > :14:17.open justice, our right to know who commits crimes, and way that up
:14:18. > :14:23.against the needs and views of families of those killed, victims of
:14:24. > :14:26.crime who may feel that they have no right to anonymity and sometimes get
:14:27. > :14:33.all needed and unwarranted publicity as a result of being victims. --
:14:34. > :14:35.unneeded. The authorities in Berlin say
:14:36. > :14:38.they've released a Tunisian man, who was detained yesterday
:14:39. > :14:40.on suspicion of being involved in last week's attack
:14:41. > :14:42.on a Christmas market. The 40-year-old was
:14:43. > :14:44.freed without charge. Investigators have also
:14:45. > :14:47.revealed that the lorry involved in the attack
:14:48. > :14:50.was slowed down by its automatic braking system,
:14:51. > :14:51.probably saving many lives. Russian officials investigating
:14:52. > :15:00.the crash of a plane in the Black Sea on Christmas Day
:15:01. > :15:04.say there was no explosion on board. The Tu-154 came down shortly
:15:05. > :15:06.after taking off from Sochi, The country's transport minister
:15:07. > :15:11.said it had been established that the plane's equipment
:15:12. > :15:19.wasn't working correctly. In three weeks' time,
:15:20. > :15:22.Donald Trump will be sworn in as 45th president
:15:23. > :15:24.of the United States in a ceremony on Capitol Hill before
:15:25. > :15:26.moving in to White House. But in the seven weeks
:15:27. > :15:28.since his election, Mr Trump has opted to stay
:15:29. > :15:31.at his home in Trump Tower in New York, a city that
:15:32. > :15:33.voted overwhelmingly As our correspondent
:15:34. > :15:39.Nick Bryant explains, Trump Tower has become a magnet
:15:40. > :15:42.for those who can't, or won't, It's hardly a season
:15:43. > :15:59.of goodwill towards People coming out here
:16:00. > :16:04.in the streets to oppose this woman-hating, racist,
:16:05. > :16:09.disgusting fascist regime. In places, the carols have been
:16:10. > :16:14.drowned out by anti-Trump chants. The buildings that bear his name
:16:15. > :16:16.have become focal points of protest. Many New Yorkers hate having
:16:17. > :16:20.Donald Trump in their midst. We know him better than
:16:21. > :16:32.anybody in the country. It is despicable that
:16:33. > :16:37.a New Yorker could be so egregiously against women,
:16:38. > :16:42.people of colour, people When he comes from the most
:16:43. > :16:50.beautiful melting pot of New York. It is a dagger in my heart,
:16:51. > :16:56.to be honest, as a New Yorker. Protests large and small have become
:16:57. > :17:05.almost a permanent feature of life in New York City since the election
:17:06. > :17:08.of Donald Trump. And feelings are particularly
:17:09. > :17:10.intense in Manhattan, his home, where nine out of ten voters
:17:11. > :17:16.supported Hillary Clinton. Some New Yorkers have
:17:17. > :17:18.registered their disapproval by campaigning to have his name
:17:19. > :17:20.removed from their And here at this playground
:17:21. > :17:25.in Brooklyn when pro-Trump graffiti appeared alongside Swastikas,
:17:26. > :17:26.it was quickly transformed A rally shortly afterwards displayed
:17:27. > :17:40.the deep community leaders here that A rally shortly afterwards displayed
:17:41. > :17:42.the deep community unease here that reports of hate or bias crimes
:17:43. > :17:45.in New York have increased I reject Donald Trump's
:17:46. > :17:48.vision of America. New York city, I'm asking
:17:49. > :17:53.you to do the same. The billionaire is synonymous
:17:54. > :17:55.with this city, his name remains emblazoned on buildings,
:17:56. > :17:59.even ice rinks. But this Christmas, the Big Apple
:18:00. > :18:02.has something of a Gotham-city feel, with the President-elect cast
:18:03. > :18:06.by many of his fellow New Yorkers Outside Trump Tower,
:18:07. > :18:24.with just three weeks There's more throughout the evening
:18:25. > :18:29.on the BBC News Channel,