:00:09. > :00:11.British MPs are debating whether to authorise joining the US, France and
:00:12. > :00:13.others in air strikes against the so-called Islamic State in Syria.
:00:14. > :00:16.Making the case for bombing, Prime Minister David Cameron said
:00:17. > :00:22.Britain needs to tackle an urgent threat to its national security.
:00:23. > :00:25.And this is the scene live inside the House of Commons where
:00:26. > :00:30.the debate is set to continue for up to another six hours.
:00:31. > :00:33.Russia claims these images show tankers carrying oil from IS
:00:34. > :00:39.territory to Turkey and accuses the Turkish President of involvement.
:00:40. > :00:41.The heaviest monsoon rains in over a century hit Chennai
:00:42. > :00:47.More than 180 people have died so far.
:00:48. > :00:51.After the birth of their daughter, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg
:00:52. > :01:10.and his wife donate nearly all their shares to charity.
:01:11. > :01:14.British MPs are now eight hours into a debate on whether to approve
:01:15. > :01:19.UK airstrikes against so-called Islamic State targets in Syria.
:01:20. > :01:20.The House of Commons is expected to vote
:01:21. > :01:27.The debate was opened by the Prime Minister , who warned that Britain
:01:28. > :01:32.couldn't afford to sit back and wait for an attack here in the UK.
:01:33. > :01:34.But David Cameron faced persistent criticism from opposition MPs after
:01:35. > :01:40.he described those against air strikes as terrorist sympathisers.
:01:41. > :01:43.The leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, warned against
:01:44. > :01:47.an ill-thought-out rush to war and said the government's plans could
:01:48. > :01:56.We'll get an in-depth report from the BBC's political editor,
:01:57. > :02:05.Our correspondent, Rob Watson, is at Westminster for us.
:02:06. > :02:13.David Cameron confident that he will win this boat. He is confident and
:02:14. > :02:19.he said he would not even be holding if he wasn't sure because that would
:02:20. > :02:23.just give a propaganda victory to so-called Islamic State. What the
:02:24. > :02:27.Prime Minister thinks has really changed, the tone of political
:02:28. > :02:36.position in the UK, where the attacks in Paris. So David Cameron
:02:37. > :02:39.feels that the mood had changed here and of course that he has made the
:02:40. > :02:45.case that Britain needs to be part of the action along with its allies,
:02:46. > :02:48.particularly France. The argument has been going on all day. What
:02:49. > :02:54.timescale are we looking out for the boat and action? Am I allowed to
:02:55. > :02:59.look quickly at my watch? I would say probably in about three hours
:03:00. > :03:03.for the vote, it will conclude a long day. As for action, I don't
:03:04. > :03:09.think there is any doubt that the government will be sitting around
:03:10. > :03:13.afterwards. In the days and hours after the vote, you would expect to
:03:14. > :03:16.see British planes flying from their base in Cyprus and engaging in
:03:17. > :03:23.action in Syria. British planes already involved in action in Iraq.
:03:24. > :03:29.What difference does David Cameron so this would make? To be bettered
:03:30. > :03:32.the Prime Minister, he has been incredibly careful ever since he
:03:33. > :03:37.thought he could make the case again for trying to persuade the British
:03:38. > :03:42.Parliament to extend action to Syria to be modest. He is not saying this
:03:43. > :03:49.will be a game changer or decisive or move Syria swiftly towards a
:03:50. > :03:53.political solution. He is just making the case that on balance,
:03:54. > :03:57.it's probably better in his view to take the fight Islamic State in
:03:58. > :04:01.their heartland rather than try to fight them here and that although
:04:02. > :04:08.British air strikes would be decisive, they will degrade Islamic
:04:09. > :04:12.State and keep them on the defensive. What point would be most
:04:13. > :04:19.controversial and keep them on the defensive. What point would be most
:04:20. > :04:25.controversial moderate fighters that could be lied with a coalition?
:04:26. > :04:29.There is the big picture disagreement in the smaller more
:04:30. > :04:35.logistical picture. The big picture disagreement is represented by
:04:36. > :04:38.Jeremy Corbyn. He says in general, Western military interventions in
:04:39. > :04:44.that part of the world have not been a great success. But there have been
:04:45. > :04:49.other more specific disagreements with MPs saying, what exactly is the
:04:50. > :04:53.overall plan? How does this lead to a political solution? If we were to
:04:54. > :04:59.degrade Islamic State will ship them from their bases, who would be the
:05:00. > :05:05.ground forces to take over. David Cameron had mentioned this figure of
:05:06. > :05:09.70,000 fighters on the ground. A lot of MPs are sceptical. But it's
:05:10. > :05:14.important to stress on balance, most MPs take the view that something
:05:15. > :05:21.should be done. Does that mean they fully support it? Not at all. That
:05:22. > :05:27.reservation even applies to the government and that is why the
:05:28. > :05:28.action will be cared because people think on balance something needs to
:05:29. > :05:57.be done. It is the biggest decision a
:05:58. > :06:00.Prime Minister makes. This morning David Cameron left
:06:01. > :06:02.for the Commons to make his case, confident he has the support in
:06:03. > :06:05.Parliament for UK military action. The RAF is already dropping bombs
:06:06. > :06:08.on IS targets in Iraq and the Government says that must
:06:09. > :06:11.now be extended across the border, joining countries including
:06:12. > :06:12.the United States and France As MPs poured into Parliament,
:06:13. > :06:17.a big question was how many Labour The party is deeply divided
:06:18. > :06:20.on the issue. Opening the debate
:06:21. > :06:23.in a packed Commons Chamber, David Cameron said there was no simple
:06:24. > :06:25.answer, but the choice was clear. This threat is very real
:06:26. > :06:29.and the question is this - do we work with our allies to degrade
:06:30. > :06:32.and destroy this threat and do we go after these terrorists in their
:06:33. > :06:34.heartlands from where they are Or do we sit back and wait
:06:35. > :06:59.for them to attack us? The Prime Minister's attempt to
:07:00. > :07:06.brand those who planned to vote against the government as terrorist
:07:07. > :07:10.sympathisers demeans the office of Prime Minister and undermined the
:07:11. > :07:18.seriousness of the deliberations were having today. If you want to
:07:19. > :07:26.apologise that the remarks, I would be happy to give way for him to do
:07:27. > :07:30.so. If the government does winter might's vote, these planes made very
:07:31. > :07:40.soon be heading to the Syrian region.
:07:41. > :07:42.Well, our chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, is in
:07:43. > :07:45.the Syrian capital, Damascus and she told me how the prospect of British
:07:46. > :07:47.warplanes flying above Syrian skies is being received there.
:07:48. > :07:49.The morning newspapers didn't even mention the British vote
:07:50. > :07:52.in Parliament and still hasn't been on the evening news.
:07:53. > :07:55.And that is partly a measure of just how many players are now
:07:56. > :07:58.involved on one side or another in this tangled conflict and partly
:07:59. > :08:01.a measure of just how hard life is here for Syrians, and they are just
:08:02. > :08:05.But everyone I ask a question to about possible British
:08:06. > :08:07.action against the so-called Islamic State welcomed it.
:08:08. > :08:09.But in this capital, which is largely under government control,
:08:10. > :08:12.they also had a warning, saying that unless the campaign was coordinated
:08:13. > :08:16.with President Assad and the Syrian army, it simply wouldn't work.
:08:17. > :08:20.Now, that is what Russia is doing but that is what the West and Arab
:08:21. > :08:23.states backing the Syrian opposition refuse to do,
:08:24. > :08:27.blaming President Assad's forces for the ferocious bombardment which
:08:28. > :08:34.So there's a real heavy sense here among people that they just think
:08:35. > :08:37.the war is going to drag on and, of course, life will continue just
:08:38. > :08:43.The Syrian opposition says defeating IS won't solve
:08:44. > :08:47.Monzer Akbik, a member of the Syrian National
:08:48. > :08:50.Coalition, has been speaking to the BBC's Hardtalk programme.
:08:51. > :08:53.He told Zeinab Badawi that tackling IS has to go
:08:54. > :09:08.You cannot a decisive end, you cannot completely eradicate Isis and
:09:09. > :09:13.have a sustainable campaign that would lead to a complete success
:09:14. > :09:22.unless the danger from the regime and its allies is succeeded or
:09:23. > :09:26.ended. They are both important. The confrontation should continue but
:09:27. > :09:32.you cannot reach a final result with Isis unless you get the most
:09:33. > :09:39.important, the biggest front, with the regime that has to be some kind
:09:40. > :09:43.of ceasefire or political solution. Something has to happen there in
:09:44. > :09:53.order for the people to make a sustainable and successful campaign
:09:54. > :09:56.against Isis. You can watch the full interview. I will be on Thursday
:09:57. > :10:06.this week. The rift between Russia and Turkey
:10:07. > :10:08.has widened with Moscow accusing the Turkish President's family
:10:09. > :10:10.of involvment in the smuggling of oil from areas controlled
:10:11. > :10:13.by the so-called Islamic State The allegation has been vehemently
:10:14. > :10:18.rejected by President Erdogan. Russian defence officials produced
:10:19. > :10:20.satellite images which they said showed tankers carrying oil
:10:21. > :10:37.from IS-held territory into Turkey. Turkey is the main consumer of the
:10:38. > :10:41.oil stolen from its rightful owners, Syria and Iraq. According to
:10:42. > :10:45.information we have received, the senior political leaders of the
:10:46. > :10:48.country are involved in this criminal business.
:10:49. > :10:50.Mr Erdogan has dismissed the claim, promising to resign
:10:51. > :11:06.No one has the right to slander Turkey by accusing it of buying oil.
:11:07. > :11:11.Turkey has not lost its values. In a moment, we'll hear from
:11:12. > :11:14.Emre Temel of BBC's Turkish service but first, this assessment
:11:15. > :11:29.from Famil Ismailov of BBC Russian. They gave us some numbers. They said
:11:30. > :11:33.8500 tankers involved in transporting 200,000 barrels of oil
:11:34. > :11:40.to turkey at least and crossing through the Turkish border and as
:11:41. > :11:45.Russian military say, that brings $2 billion to be Islamic State. They
:11:46. > :11:50.didn't show any evidence per se but showed pictures of big cars,
:11:51. > :11:54.tankers, on the border. They showed convoys of tankers moving along the
:11:55. > :12:02.roads but who do they belong to? What do we know it's happening on
:12:03. > :12:08.the ground? Nobody 's nose. He said the information they have got does
:12:09. > :12:09.not have to be proven or approved. He said this information will help
:12:10. > :12:11.to fight terrorism. Emre Temel from the
:12:12. > :12:14.BBC's Turkish Service says none of the evidence produced
:12:15. > :12:28.by the Russians linked President Obviously, Turkey increased controls
:12:29. > :12:34.over the last few months and is under intense pressure from Western
:12:35. > :12:39.allies to do more against the fight... Against Isis. The US
:12:40. > :12:45.actually wants to escalate the tension and is putting that
:12:46. > :12:54.aspiration on Turkey and Russia to do the same. President Obama talked
:12:55. > :12:59.to the presidents of Turkey and Russia at the climate summit and
:13:00. > :13:05.asked them both to refocus their efforts on combating terrorism. But
:13:06. > :13:10.Russians are very angry. Mr Putin rejected to meet him and is still
:13:11. > :13:15.waiting for an apology. No apology. The Turkish President is very clear
:13:16. > :13:18.on this issue. He refuses to apologise by saying Moscow should
:13:19. > :13:20.apologise instead. Returning now to our main story -
:13:21. > :13:23.the ongoing debate in the British Parliament on whether MPs
:13:24. > :13:25.should approve UK airstrikes against so-called Islamic State
:13:26. > :13:27.targets in Syria. If the RAF air strikes go ahead,
:13:28. > :13:30.possibly within hours of tonight's vote, they will involve
:13:31. > :13:33.jets taking off from the RAF's base The BBC's defence correspondent,
:13:34. > :13:49.Jonathan Beale, is there. How important is that base for
:13:50. > :13:55.operations in the region? The UK doesn't have an aircraft carrier so
:13:56. > :14:00.this is essentially the airbase from which to launch those as strikes
:14:01. > :14:03.first of all in Iraq but maybe, if there is a Yes vote in Parliament,
:14:04. > :14:08.they were then turned their attention to Syria as well and we do
:14:09. > :14:14.expect those combat missions over Syria to start very soon if there is
:14:15. > :14:18.a Yes vote indeed probably to light. Remember that politicians
:14:19. > :14:23.back in the UK will want to show that the RAF is making a difference
:14:24. > :14:27.and are doing something. The Americans who are leading this
:14:28. > :14:31.coalition, there are very few countries taking part in air
:14:32. > :14:34.strikes, we want to show that Britain has joined in that fight so
:14:35. > :14:39.I think there will be pressured to do something pretty soon that you
:14:40. > :14:45.have to remember about scale. This is a modest contribution from the
:14:46. > :14:50.UK. Eight Tornado jets based here. Another eight jets, two tornadoes
:14:51. > :14:56.and two typhoons if there is that Yes vote. They will patrol not just
:14:57. > :15:00.Syria but Iraq as well, carrying on the mission there. They have got
:15:01. > :15:06.twice as much to patrol essentially. It won't be a huge difference in
:15:07. > :15:09.military terms. The French contribution is greater and the US
:15:10. > :15:14.contribution is significantly greater but of course the coalition
:15:15. > :15:19.wants the help of Britain and Britain has niche capabilities. They
:15:20. > :15:22.have a missile which they say causes, low collateral damage and it
:15:23. > :15:27.will minimise civilian casualties. Very few journalists have had any
:15:28. > :15:32.access to Islamic State territory. He's a German journalist and former
:15:33. > :15:38.MP who spent ten days with IS last He's been telling Ros Atkins why
:15:39. > :15:55.he's against airstrikes in Syria. We have been bombarding the Taliban
:15:56. > :16:05.for 14 years and we have been unsuccessful. Bebop barbers were
:16:06. > :16:12.completely unsuccessful and counter-productive. When we started
:16:13. > :16:18.to bombard the Taliban, we had 100 terrorists and now we have 100,000.
:16:19. > :16:22.Our bombardments were a terror breeding programme. We are actually
:16:23. > :16:26.increasing terrorism by bombarding Isis because we are also killing
:16:27. > :16:34.civilians. And for every child we will kill all we are killing, we
:16:35. > :16:38.will have 1000 new terrorists. You have witnessed Islamic State
:16:39. > :16:49.close-up. What would you do to undermine this group? We should
:16:50. > :16:52.force Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states to stop the delivery of
:16:53. > :17:00.weapons and ammunition to terrorist groups in Syria, groups affiliated
:17:01. > :17:07.to Al-Qaeda. We should help our Turkish partners to close the border
:17:08. > :17:13.between Turkey and Islamic State. Every day, 200 new fighters join
:17:14. > :17:18.Islamic State. I have also crosses borders. It's very easy and we
:17:19. > :17:26.should stop it. The third point is, Isis is cooperating with groups in
:17:27. > :17:31.Syria and Iraq which are excluded from the political process in the
:17:32. > :17:38.country. We should do everything we can to get them the opportunity to
:17:39. > :17:43.get back on the political process, to play a role in the country. We
:17:44. > :17:57.need a national reconsideration in Syria and Iraq. Isis does not feel
:17:58. > :18:01.that bombs... It fears not getting weapons and ammunition from Saudi
:18:02. > :18:06.Arabia, they fear the borders are closing, and they feared peace in
:18:07. > :18:17.Syria and peace in Iraq, and that is what we should do. Reports from
:18:18. > :18:21.Afghanistan say they Taliban leader has been wounded in a firefight in
:18:22. > :18:28.Pakistan and that is said to have followed a disagreement at a meeting
:18:29. > :18:32.of commanders. A source close to the Taliban to the BBC firing broke out
:18:33. > :18:37.spontaneously and the he was seriously hurt but in the past
:18:38. > :18:38.couple of hours, et al Obama spokesman dismissed reports of any
:18:39. > :18:39.injury to its leader. To India now where the
:18:40. > :18:41.Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has ordered a massive relief effort
:18:42. > :18:44.in the southern city of Chennai, which is experiencing severe
:18:45. > :18:46.flooding after the heaviest monsoon Flights and trains have been
:18:47. > :18:51.suspended and hundreds The army has been deployed to rescue
:18:52. > :18:56.thousands of stranded people More rain is forecast
:18:57. > :19:02.in coming days. The Hindu newspaper, which is
:19:03. > :19:04.produced from Chennai, has been unable to publish for one of the few
:19:05. > :19:09.occasions in its 137-year history. Amit Baruah, the managing editor
:19:10. > :19:12.of the newspaper's national editions, explained what's happening
:19:13. > :19:24.there at the moment. This has been a really serious
:19:25. > :19:29.crisis. If you put it together with what happened some time ago and in
:19:30. > :19:36.Mumbai some years ago, increasingly what we are seeing is on account of
:19:37. > :19:40.many changes in drainage patterns, wetlands being destroyed, flood
:19:41. > :19:45.plains destroyed. Essentially the absence of water to go anywhere,
:19:46. > :19:50.drainage issues. We are seeing a major crisis in the major cities of
:19:51. > :19:54.India, a lot due to an planned construction and bad planning. We
:19:55. > :20:03.are seeing the results of all of that. When you have this heavy rain,
:20:04. > :20:07.I often visit Chennai to my headquarters, and even a month ago,
:20:08. > :20:12.when there was a little bit of rain, I found that the streets were
:20:13. > :20:17.totally waterlogged, drainage was poor, and today we have a situation
:20:18. > :20:21.that schools and colleges have closed, public transport is very
:20:22. > :20:22.difficult or minimal. We have a serious situation.
:20:23. > :20:25.The head of world athletics, Lord Coe, has accepted there have
:20:26. > :20:27.been failures in tackling blood doping in the sport.
:20:28. > :20:29.The President of the IAAF was giving evidence to
:20:30. > :20:32.Russia was banned from international events after an independent
:20:33. > :20:35.World Anti-Doping Agency report alleged state-sponsored doping.
:20:36. > :20:38.And during the hearing, Lord Coe was asked whether the doping
:20:39. > :20:58.The chair of the independent commission has made it clear that
:20:59. > :21:03.this is not simply about Russia or athletics. People forget that this
:21:04. > :21:11.is not about athletics. But I will await with interest the second
:21:12. > :21:23.report because it may show... May throw more light on other areas that
:21:24. > :21:28.we need to be concerned about. And sang sushi has met the President and
:21:29. > :21:30.influential rid of the Army. Both men have pledged to smooth the
:21:31. > :21:43.trans-Buddha would would once have been unthinkable. The last time she
:21:44. > :21:49.won an election, the Burmese army refused to set aside. This time, it
:21:50. > :21:52.feels different. Her meeting with the President focused almost
:21:53. > :21:58.entirely on putting systems in place to ensure a smooth transfer of
:21:59. > :22:01.power. Thorny issues like the clause in the Constitution that stops are
:22:02. > :22:10.becoming President were apparently not even discussed. She never
:22:11. > :22:20.mentioned this issue. Did they discuss the would-be President then?
:22:21. > :22:28.No. There will be decided by the next Parliament. Is the army ready
:22:29. > :22:33.to give up its political power here? That's a $1 million question! I
:22:34. > :22:37.cannot answer that. In search of the answer, she went for a second
:22:38. > :22:45.meeting of the day. This time with the country's top shoulder. This is
:22:46. > :22:50.now the key relationship. To change the constitution, she needs to win
:22:51. > :22:55.the army's trust and reassure them that their brutal past will not be
:22:56. > :22:58.revisited. For now, the army seems willing to let her operate within
:22:59. > :23:05.the limits that they themselves have set. This feels like another hurdle
:23:06. > :23:10.cleared. She may not be able to be the next President but it looks
:23:11. > :23:14.likely that she will be allowed to form the next government. It is that
:23:15. > :23:19.point in April next year that she will face a really big decision,
:23:20. > :23:24.does she accept the boundaries of this army political system or dish
:23:25. > :23:26.you push for true democracy in the knowledge that it will almost
:23:27. > :23:30.certainly lead to confrontation? The founder of Facebook, Mark
:23:31. > :23:32.Zuckerberg, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have announced they're giving
:23:33. > :23:37.away nearly ?30 billion or 99% of their Facebook shares to mark
:23:38. > :23:41.the birth of their first child. The couple say they want to make
:23:42. > :23:44.the world a better place for Like many a young couple,
:23:45. > :23:52.Mark and Priscilla took to Facebook to celebrate the birth of their
:23:53. > :23:57.daughter, but they had other news. In a video recorded just weeks
:23:58. > :24:01.before the arrival of Max, the Having this child has made us think
:24:02. > :24:08.about all of the things that should be improved in the world
:24:09. > :24:12.for her whole generation. We need to make sure that there are
:24:13. > :24:14.investments and programmes that ensure that the
:24:15. > :24:19.future isn't going to be like today, In a letter to their daughter,
:24:20. > :24:24.the couple now say that over their lifetimes they'll donate 99% of
:24:25. > :24:27.their Facebook shares, to promote good causes, from better health
:24:28. > :24:33.and education, to greater equality. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan
:24:34. > :24:35.join other billionaires in giving Bill and Melinda Gates have
:24:36. > :24:43.so far donated over ?21 billion. The businessman Warren Buffett
:24:44. > :24:46.has given ?15 billion. And the investor George Soros has
:24:47. > :24:49.donated ?7 billion Bill and Melinda Gates have been
:24:50. > :24:55.praised for their contribution to eradicating diseases
:24:56. > :24:57.in developing countries, but sometimes donors can find it hard to
:24:58. > :25:04.direct cash where it's needed. It is all too easy to spend money
:25:05. > :25:07.that's aimed to do good on things that don't have an impact,
:25:08. > :25:11.and what I'd encourage them to do is to focus on causes that are really
:25:12. > :25:14.big problems, that are neglected by other funders,
:25:15. > :25:19.so you can really make progress. Right from when he founded Facebook
:25:20. > :25:21.as a 20-year-old student, Mark Zuckerberg has said his mission
:25:22. > :25:25.is to change the way the world Luckily for him, and for
:25:26. > :25:45.the causes he and his wife support, Let's take you inside the British
:25:46. > :25:50.House of Commons. The debate is still going on. It is approaching
:25:51. > :25:55.the eight and a half hour mark now. We think they will vote on whether
:25:56. > :26:01.Britain should launch air strikes in three or four hours' time.
:26:02. > :26:06.Hello there, some of us were lucky enough to see some sunshine today.
:26:07. > :26:10.Still have the differences in temperature, though.
:26:11. > :26:12.We've got colder air tucking into the north-west of the UK,
:26:13. > :26:16.still mild further south, and the dividing line continues to
:26:17. > :26:21.After moving southwards today, it's going to start to move northwards
:26:22. > :26:27.again overnight and into tomorrow, taking the rain across Wales, away