:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK
:00:00. > :00:13.A political crisis grips Poland over limits on press freedom.
:00:14. > :00:17.In Poland demonstrators block the parliament in the capital.
:00:18. > :00:21.The Prime Minister calls it scandalous.
:00:22. > :00:24.China tells the United States, stop spying around our coast,
:00:25. > :00:30.Thousands of Syrians wait in freezing conditions
:00:31. > :00:35.for a new deal to evacuate eastern Aleppo.
:00:36. > :00:38.And tributes to Henry Heimlich, the man who invented the technique
:00:39. > :00:50.thought to have saved thousands from choking.
:00:51. > :01:01.A political crisis is taking hold in Poland
:01:02. > :01:07.Thousands of people have taken to the streets to show their anger
:01:08. > :01:12.at Government plans to limit media access to parliament.
:01:13. > :01:18.Here's the live scene outside parliament in Warsaw.
:01:19. > :01:20.Demonstrators, with flags are blocking the entrance
:01:21. > :01:30.They say the media freedom is being threatened.
:01:31. > :01:32.In the last couple of hours, Poland's prime
:01:33. > :01:34.She says the protests are scandalous.
:01:35. > :01:48.The demonstrations have continued into a second day was no sign of it,
:01:49. > :01:54.right. -- with no sign of compromise.
:01:55. > :02:00.TRANSLATION: I am here because I love Poland, freedom and democracy.
:02:01. > :02:06.I want Scotland to be free and democratic. I will not give back
:02:07. > :02:12.democracy. -- I want Poland to be free and democratic. Opposition MPs
:02:13. > :02:18.crisis session to a halt, brandishing signs that said, free
:02:19. > :02:23.media and Parliament. They were protesting against the Government's
:02:24. > :02:33.plan to restrict journalist access to the building.
:02:34. > :02:37.TRANSLATION: The journalists will have to sit outside of the
:02:38. > :02:42.parliament. They will not be able to film the MPs. There will just be a
:02:43. > :02:49.few chosen correspondence. It calls into question the future of our
:02:50. > :02:54.work. TRANSLATION: Reporters access to the
:02:55. > :02:57.parliament Hall will not be limited. What is being practised in many
:02:58. > :03:05.parliaments around the world will be practised. Limiting the reporters
:03:06. > :03:12.access to parliaments in either parliaments, including in Europe,
:03:13. > :03:17.are far more far-reaching. Governing lawmakers eventually went to another
:03:18. > :03:25.and continued recession. -- continue their session. Outside, thousands
:03:26. > :03:32.gathered to protest, chanting, we will not give back democracy.
:03:33. > :03:37.Protesters later blocked the parliaments's boating entrance.
:03:38. > :03:46.Police officers forcibly removed them. It was called an illegal
:03:47. > :03:49.attempt to seize power. Let's speak to as the Eastern. The Prime
:03:50. > :03:59.Minister has been speaking in the last few hours and she is not happy
:04:00. > :04:04.with the protests. She's not. She's particularly not happy with the
:04:05. > :04:09.sitting by the other MPs. She called that scandalous. She said that
:04:10. > :04:14.essentially the opposition is leading the protesters and sprinting
:04:15. > :04:23.polls against one another. -- rating Polish people against one another.
:04:24. > :04:32.Promoting conflict in society. Its -- its vertices that they have
:04:33. > :04:38.popularity amongst the country but there are some opposition Polish
:04:39. > :04:45.people that seizes particular issue of restricting access to the
:04:46. > :04:50.parliament building as part of the administration's attempt to roll
:04:51. > :04:55.back democratic values. They are holding an unprecedented review into
:04:56. > :05:01.the Polish Government's attempt to neuter the top court. They are
:05:02. > :05:07.considering whether that will constitute a serious breach of the
:05:08. > :05:12.law. This has been a year of protests on almost a monthly basis.
:05:13. > :05:22.That is by the opposition and liberal minded polls. They say that
:05:23. > :05:27.they have a very strong mandate to introduce serious reform. They say
:05:28. > :05:32.that they have a lot of support. How unusual is that there has been an
:05:33. > :05:41.individual in this loan and that she says that this has been a threat to
:05:42. > :05:50.democracy? Yes, she it to the lack of access to information indignity
:05:51. > :05:55.ships. -- in dictatorships. He was in a conference. It is reaffirmed to
:05:56. > :06:00.make statements about domestic politics since he's been the
:06:01. > :06:05.president of the repealing Council. It is a significant statement.
:06:06. > :06:12.Having said that, he is the arch enemy of the head of the governing
:06:13. > :06:16.Law and Justice. He is considered to be the man who wield ultimate power
:06:17. > :06:21.in this country. There is no love lost between the stable. It is not
:06:22. > :06:24.surprising that he would make these comments. Thank you very much.
:06:25. > :06:26.China has told the United States to end spying operations
:06:27. > :06:29.near its coastline, in a worsening dispute about an underwater drone.
:06:30. > :06:33.A Chinese naval vessel took the American drone when it was off
:06:34. > :06:40.But The US President-elect, Donald Trump has already pitched in,
:06:41. > :06:42.tweeting to say China's actions are unprecedented.
:06:43. > :07:00.What happened on Thursday is that China intercepted an unmanned drone
:07:01. > :07:06.that the United States survey ship was just about to collect, off the
:07:07. > :07:11.coast of the Philippines. It was hundreds of commanders from the
:07:12. > :07:15.Chinese mainland. On Saturday morning, China admitted that they
:07:16. > :07:21.had taken the drawn when the states asked for it to be given back. The
:07:22. > :07:26.Ministry of Defence, in China, issued a statement saying that the
:07:27. > :07:31.Americans have been carrying out this activity for some time. They
:07:32. > :07:36.don't want any surveillance reconnaissance activities taking
:07:37. > :07:41.place off the Chinese coast. What does this say about US and China
:07:42. > :07:49.relations at the moment? China are testing Donald Trump. Effectively,
:07:50. > :07:55.China wants to control the south China Sea. It has great territorial
:07:56. > :08:00.claims that. Since the Second World War, America has been the dominant
:08:01. > :08:08.paradigm. China is testing American reactions. It is saying that it can
:08:09. > :08:13.intercept and acts on what you are doing if we see fit to do so. They
:08:14. > :08:20.are pushing back at Donald Trump, trying to test has reaction. Does
:08:21. > :08:24.this have anything to do with the row over Taiwan over the last few
:08:25. > :08:30.weeks? Yes, Donald Trump already indicated that when he becomes
:08:31. > :08:38.president, she might change the policy with China. They have up
:08:39. > :08:47.until now acknowledged that Taiwan is part of China. Donald Trump
:08:48. > :08:50.accepted a phone call from the president of Taiwan. That made China
:08:51. > :08:55.angry. China is saying that they boards take this lying down. They
:08:56. > :09:02.are saying, this is a recording of you and these are our core
:09:03. > :09:08.interests. We will push back. -- this is our core area and these are
:09:09. > :09:12.our core interests. What are the consequences? It would have serious
:09:13. > :09:17.consequences but it is the Chinese Government saying to the United
:09:18. > :09:21.States, we have here, we're powerful, we have own interests and
:09:22. > :09:25.you'd better be aware of those when you get into power, Donald Trump.
:09:26. > :09:28.Turkey is under attack from terror organisations -
:09:29. > :09:30.that's the claim by the country's President
:09:31. > :09:34.This time 13 military personnel died in an explosion
:09:35. > :09:42.which the Government is blaming on Kurdish militants.
:09:43. > :09:45.The blast was aimed at a bus in the central city of Kayseri,
:09:46. > :09:49.The Prime Minister said a suicide bomber struck the bus carrying
:09:50. > :10:00.The latest target in Turkey's wave of terror.
:10:01. > :10:03.It was hit this morning as it waited at a traffic light
:10:04. > :10:06.a suicide bomber pulling up in a car.
:10:07. > :10:09.On board were off duty soldiers, enjoying their weekend leave,
:10:10. > :10:15.Some of the wounded were taken to intensive care
:10:16. > :10:19.Kayseri, a largely peaceful industrial city
:10:20. > :10:43.It is a week since Turkey's last attack.
:10:44. > :10:46.Twin bombs in Istanbul that killed 44 and injured dozens,
:10:47. > :10:49.Kurdish militants said they were behind those blasts
:10:50. > :10:51.and the PKK, again the prime suspects today.
:10:52. > :10:54.President Erdogan referring to them as he blamed the
:10:55. > :11:02.Kurdish militants have hit police and military over the year
:11:03. > :11:04.since the ceasefire with the Turkish state broke down.
:11:05. > :11:07.So-called Islamic State have bombed Turkey but have tended to strike
:11:08. > :11:13.Arguably the most turbulent year in Turkey's history has
:11:14. > :11:27.as Turks ask which corner is really safe from the violence?
:11:28. > :11:29.In neighbouring Syria both the Government and rebels say
:11:30. > :11:32.details are being worked out on a new deal to allow more people
:11:33. > :11:36.Thousands of civilians and fighters are waiting in freezing conditions.
:11:37. > :11:39.The evacuations were suspended on Friday after both
:11:40. > :11:41.sides accused the other of breaching the ceasefire.
:11:42. > :11:45.Here's our correspondent in neighbouring Lebanon Lina Sinjab,
:11:46. > :11:49.on what we know about the evacuation.
:11:50. > :11:51.An agreement has been reached between the government
:11:52. > :11:52.and the opposition on resuming the evacuation.
:11:53. > :11:55.Of course, the Syrian government has put priority to evacuate
:11:56. > :11:59.loyalists to President Assad from the Shi'ite villages
:12:00. > :12:10.The details are the ones that are difficult in
:12:11. > :12:15.The Syrian government made it clear that first,
:12:16. > :12:20.we will evacuate the loyalists to President Assad and then
:12:21. > :12:27.Now, we've learned from the Syrian Observatory For Human Rights that
:12:28. > :12:30.more than 20 buses have actually departed the city of Aleppo.
:12:31. > :12:38.But then there were disputes, disagreements on how many people
:12:39. > :12:43.The government wanted 4000, but the Syrian Observatory said
:12:44. > :12:49.the numbers have been dropped to 1500.
:12:50. > :12:54.We're still waiting to see the actual evacuation of people
:12:55. > :12:56.from Fua and Kefraya, who are not living in conditions
:12:57. > :12:58.that are comparable to the residents of Eastern Aleppo,
:12:59. > :13:03.And since yesterday, since the evacuation was on hold,
:13:04. > :13:05.they've been out in the cold waiting to be evacuated.
:13:06. > :13:12.Many children, women, elderly and wounded as well,
:13:13. > :13:20.in really difficult conditions, waiting to leave.
:13:21. > :13:23.Stay with us on BBC World News, still to come:
:13:24. > :13:25.Thousands gather in Ohio to pay tribute to American
:13:26. > :13:39.space legend John Glenn, who died last week aged 95.
:13:40. > :13:46.After eight months on the run, Saddam Hussein has been captured.
:13:47. > :13:54.Saddam Hussein is finished. He killed our people and our women and
:13:55. > :13:58.children. They brought a formal end to three and a half years of
:13:59. > :14:07.conflict. Conflict that has claimed more than 200,000 lives. Before an
:14:08. > :14:13.audience of voltages, the president is put their names to a peace
:14:14. > :14:19.agreement. -- an audience of world leaders. The mania has cut itself
:14:20. > :14:30.off from the outside world. This is in order to prevent the details of
:14:31. > :14:37.the presumed massacre of looking at. The Lewinsky affair has guaranteed
:14:38. > :14:38.Bill Clinton's place in history as only the second president ever to be
:14:39. > :14:38.impeached. In Poland demonstrators block
:14:39. > :14:48.the parliament in the capital. The Prime Minister
:14:49. > :14:50.calls it scandalous. China tells the United States stop
:14:51. > :14:52.spying around our coast Pollution in the Chinese capital,
:14:53. > :15:01.Beijing, has reached ten times the level considered safe
:15:02. > :15:04.by the World Health Organisation. That's on the first day
:15:05. > :15:06.of a five-day smog alert which will see traffic restrictions
:15:07. > :15:08.and other measures aimed To give you an idea of the scale
:15:09. > :15:18.of the problem, these are air quality readings taken
:15:19. > :15:21.at the top of the American As you can see, pollution
:15:22. > :15:25.there has been building up. They have already reached
:15:26. > :15:41.hazardous levels today. Friday evening in northern China.
:15:42. > :15:46.Police enforce a ban on vehicles, taking half of them off the streets.
:15:47. > :15:52.According to an even, odd number plate system. Earlier, factories,
:15:53. > :16:00.schools and construction sites were ordered to close. The measures
:16:01. > :16:06.followed the first modern red alert and will last five days. They have
:16:07. > :16:12.prompted mixed reactions from the distance.
:16:13. > :16:15.TRANSLATION: If the situation is really that bad, it is good to
:16:16. > :16:20.implement measures like suspending skill classes and vehicles. It is
:16:21. > :16:28.good for the physical and mental public health.
:16:29. > :16:32.TRANSLATION: I don't quite agree with Rogic this kind of their too
:16:33. > :16:37.often. It brings in a lot of trouble to our daily light. It is difficult
:16:38. > :16:45.for people and makes it difficult to make Christmas. -- to make
:16:46. > :16:48.arrangements. TRANSLATION: Going out is
:16:49. > :16:55.inconvenient. I will just take a rest and not go outside. Some 20
:16:56. > :17:01.cities across China are adopting similar measures. Religion is an
:17:02. > :17:08.issue of increasing public concern in the world's's second-largest
:17:09. > :17:20.economy. Pollution is annexed issue. There is -- pollution is an
:17:21. > :17:20.increasing issue. Let's go to import them.
:17:21. > :17:23.Chelsea have stretched their lead at the top of the Premier League
:17:24. > :17:26.to nine points after a one nil victory at Crystal Palace.
:17:27. > :17:28.The result was Chelsea's 11th win in a row under
:17:29. > :17:30.manager Antonio Conte - equalling their club record.
:17:31. > :17:33.Diego Costa got the crucial goal just before half time.
:17:34. > :17:37.Chelsea have gone on to win the Premier League every time
:17:38. > :17:43.they've been top of the table at Christmas.
:17:44. > :17:55.That's what are going to be this year. My players are deserving this.
:17:56. > :18:04.I see them every day every single moment they are committed. The way
:18:05. > :18:08.that we prepare, the way that they fight in every game and its
:18:09. > :18:14.syntactic. I think that we can improve. I am pleased for the fans.
:18:15. > :18:16.It looks like Chelsea's former manager Jose Mourinho is beginning
:18:17. > :18:18.to turn things round at Manchester United.
:18:19. > :18:21.They're now level on points with fifth place Spurs after a 2-nil
:18:22. > :18:26.Both goals were scored by former Swedish international
:18:27. > :18:43.When he decided to come to England to the most difficult championship
:18:44. > :18:51.in the world, I think he's proved that he is Superman in his
:18:52. > :18:59.mentality. He is doing fantastic. What he's doing at the age of 35 is
:19:00. > :19:02.a for everyone at 25, every striker of 25 to arrive in the Premier
:19:03. > :19:03.League and impressed and with that he is doing.
:19:04. > :19:05.Elsewhere, there were wins for Middlesbrough, Sunderland
:19:06. > :19:08.and West Ham Leicester came from behind to force a draw at Stoke
:19:09. > :19:11.despite having Jamie Vardy sent off midway through the first half.
:19:12. > :19:14.England are still in with a reasonable chance of a consolation
:19:15. > :19:21.They recovered from a poor start to the second day in Chennai
:19:22. > :19:23.to reach 477-477 all out - debutante Liam Dawson
:19:24. > :19:27.and Adil Rashid both making half centuries.
:19:28. > :19:35.In reply, India were 60 without loss at the close of play.
:19:36. > :19:46.I didn't expect the call up. I was very happy to get it and to do well.
:19:47. > :19:51.66, not out in your first innings, terrific. Tell us about your nerves.
:19:52. > :19:59.May one 20 balls were nervous. I think that is natural. Any player
:20:00. > :20:01.would go through that. After that, you can relax. Thankfully, I got to
:20:02. > :20:03.that point. Rafa Nadal has turned to fellow
:20:04. > :20:06.Mallorcan Carlos Moya in an attempt Moya is also a former world number
:20:07. > :20:12.one and will join team Nadal, Moya will work alongside Rafa's
:20:13. > :20:15.uncle Toni and Francis Roig. The Spaniard withdrew
:20:16. > :20:17.from the French Open and missed But he finished the season
:20:18. > :20:22.ninth in the rankings. Former world champion boxer
:20:23. > :20:24.Bernard Hopkins will enter the ring for what he says will be the last
:20:25. > :20:31.time later today - at the age of 51. The Executioner faces Joe Smith
:20:32. > :20:34.Junior in a light heavyweight bout. Here he is at the weigh-in,
:20:35. > :20:39.not in bad shape for a man who's He holds the record for the oldest
:20:40. > :20:45.man to win a world title - that was when he was 46 and again
:20:46. > :20:51.at 48 in a unification bout. Hopkins made his professional debut
:20:52. > :20:54.in 1988 - before his The fight in Los Angeles
:20:55. > :20:57.will be his 65th. the crash that killed most
:20:58. > :21:16.of his team in Colombia last month says he changed
:21:17. > :21:18.seats at the last minute. Alan Ruschel says a team mate
:21:19. > :21:21.encouraged him to sit beside him. The Chapecoense player
:21:22. > :21:23.is recovering from a back injury but says he hopes
:21:24. > :21:38.to play football again. TRANSLATION: When we arrived in
:21:39. > :21:44.Bolivia, we were going to take the chartered flight. Our football
:21:45. > :21:49.director asked as to move to the front of the plane. I was sitting
:21:50. > :21:53.more to the back and he asked me to move to the front so that the
:21:54. > :21:59.journalists could sit at the back. At the time, I didn't want to move.
:22:00. > :22:05.Then I saw over goalkeeper who insisted I sit next to him. I left
:22:06. > :22:11.the back seat and sat with him. That's what I can remember. A very
:22:12. > :22:17.emotional survivor of the Colombian plane crash.
:22:18. > :22:20.Henry Heimlich, the man who gave his name to a technique
:22:21. > :22:23.he created to save choking victims, has died at the age of 96
:22:24. > :22:27.He came up with the Heimlich manoeuvre in 1974.
:22:28. > :22:29.It's believed to have saved the lives of thousands of choking
:22:30. > :22:34.David Campanale looks back at his life.
:22:35. > :22:43.Doctor Henry J Heimlich. His name will be forever linked with saving
:22:44. > :22:50.lives. Doctor Henry Heimlich, seen here giving a 1970s education videos
:22:51. > :22:53.shown across America at the time, demonstrates the anti-choking
:22:54. > :22:58.techniques that he had recently created. Still effective today, the
:22:59. > :23:03.Heimlich manoeuvre has saved countless lives. The traitor should
:23:04. > :23:11.millions how to do it. He came up with the technique after reading
:23:12. > :23:18.about the amount of people killed by talking on food. -- the inventor
:23:19. > :23:24.showed millions hardwood. He had to do it for the first time in a kiln.
:23:25. > :23:33.She was sitting on a chair and turned around so that her back would
:23:34. > :23:45.be exposed. I put my arms around her and pressed on the abdomen below the
:23:46. > :23:53.rib cage and did three conversions. She just started breeding. --
:23:54. > :23:59.started breathing. This patient was thankful to be alive. The next thing
:24:00. > :24:09.I knew, I couldn't squeeze. When I bought my thank you note, I said,
:24:10. > :24:14.God puts me in that seat next to you so that you could save my life.
:24:15. > :24:22.Anyone can be a key role with the Heimlich manoeuvre. It requires no
:24:23. > :24:26.equipment and only minimal training. She's never had to do it in real
:24:27. > :24:31.life and I think it's amazing that this circumstance happened that he
:24:32. > :24:36.got to perform it. For any artistic should all strive to be able to get
:24:37. > :24:43.up and react and perform a first it never is impressive, but for the guy
:24:44. > :24:52.who invested to do it is incredible. In a statement, the family said that
:24:53. > :24:53.he had saved untold numbers of lives using what they called common sense
:24:54. > :25:09.procedures. A public more real service was held
:25:10. > :25:15.on the campus of Ohio State University for John Glenn. This is
:25:16. > :25:19.the state capital. This is where he toured during the latter part of his
:25:20. > :25:23.life. It can solve two days of public events that commemorated him.
:25:24. > :25:29.He was the first American to orbit Earth. He was described by Nasa as a
:25:30. > :25:30.true American hero. He was also the first senior citizen to venture into
:25:31. > :25:33.safe. The Polish Prime Minister Beata
:25:34. > :25:37.Szydlo has strongly condemned opposition protests against what it
:25:38. > :25:40.says are restrictions on the media. She said people were free
:25:41. > :25:42.to demonstrate, but she called her The opposition is blocking
:25:43. > :25:48.parliament over plans