29/02/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten: the latest flashpoint in Europe's migration

crisis, this time on the Greek border with Macedonia.

Macedonian police used stun grenades to drive back the migrants

and refugees trying to make their way to northern Europe.

They don't open the borders, Macedonia, don't open the borders

and the people are coming more and more.

And 1500 miles away, another migrant crisis,

this time in Calais, where a demolition team destroys

We'll be reporting on Europe's latest response to the crisis

Hundreds of thousands of retail jobs at risk in the decade to come

as more and more shopping moves online.

In America it's the last day of campaigning before the busiest

single day of the presidential primaries, Super Tuesday.

The weapons that could have 'unleashed carnage' on Britain's

streets, the evidence presented at the trial of four people

And the race row at the Oscars, but what is Hollywood proposing

Is Hollywood racist? You're downright Hollywood is racist.

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Manu Tuilangi has tonight

joined England's training squad ahead of their next Six Nations

match with Wales after recently returning from injury.

The latest flashpoint in Europe's migration crisis

is Greece's border with Macedonia , where thousands of migrants have

been driven back with tear gas by Macedonian police.

The migrants had stormed one of the main gates in the border

fence, close to a camp at Idomeni, where 7,000 people

are using facilities designed to cater for just 2,000.

Macedonia is one of several European countries introducing

border controls to limit the number of people

Our correspondent, Danny Savage, is at the camp.

This border camp is full way beyond its capacity.

After a night out in the open, much of the day is spent

7,000 mainly Iraqis and Syrians are here.

Many of them have the right papers to move on from Greece

but the border is hardly ever open and they

You have to wait for a long time for food, toilets, everywhere.

And a crowd marched on the border gate.

As countries further up the migrant trail restrict the flow of people,

So the people took direct action, forcing open

This is the view from the Macedonian side, a border guard fires tear gas

On the other side of the fence the man in the front of the picture

in the blue jacket is hit by that canister.

There's panic as the toxic gas starts spreading.

A boy staggers from the crash, retching.

Others collapse with their eyes and lungs burning.

Today, on a European border, children were tear-gassed.

Those who have worked here for months know why

People just feel like nothing is moving, they are worried

that the border is not going to open at all.

They saw how quickly restrictions were

implemented for the Afghanis and I think there's a real sense

amongst the Syrians and Iraqis that at any

It's quite a while now since the tear gas was fired

but you can still smell it and tasted in the air as well.

So this stand-off continues with several

hundred people still here at the border gates.

And the violence will continue as well, if the numbers here keep

growing and people keep getting frustrated.

And some people here understand why the Macedonian

authorities reacted in the way they did.

Because they throw stones on police and they don't care about them.

This evening this huge encampment settled

down to another night in fields in northern Greece.

They know there are people in Europe who don't want

them, but they also know Germany's doors are open and can't comprehend

why the countries between here and there

Danny Savage, BBC News, on the Greece

Some 1500 miles away from Greece in Northern France

another migrant crisis has been developing.

Much of the camp near the port of Calais,

known as 'the jungle', where thousands of people have been

living in makeshift shelters, has been dismantled.

Some of the migrants say they might be forced to claim asylum in France

rather than making the journey to Britain.

Our correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from Calais.

They came in at breakfast time, the arrival of the state

One by one, migrants waking in the camp's southern zone

were told they had an hour to pack their things and leave,

as all around, demolition teams took the empty shelters apart.

It didn't take long for others to join in the destruction.

A fire at one of the shelters set riot police against

Among them, activists, who have been urging residents

What was meant to be a gentle eviction through encouragement

and information became a blunt exchange of tear gas and rocks

Just a few hours in, and already the plan for eviction

The question here is who the police are fighting -

the migrants themselves or the activists who say

Those who leave are being offered places in government container homes

just a few minutes walk away in the camp's

Unpopular with those not planning to stay. You have to enter

fingerprints. If you give them fingerprints, and leave and go to

another country, they can say for you, you asked for asylum in France

already, so we cannot give you documents.

By dusk, the battle was underway again, a second fire in the place

The water cannon brought in, not for the fire,

And then teargas for anyone else still standing nearby.

TRANSLATION: The north border activists set fire to the tents

That is not acceptable and it is normal that we have

Among the weapons on display in the camp

tonight, a machete, carried openly, within metres of the police.

The stakes in the crisis here are growing, and this,

says Calais, is Britain's problem, not ours.

As we've seen the migrant crisis is putting extreme pressure

on Europe's borders, and different countries

It's not just Macedonia which is putting up fences.

Bulgaria has built a razor-wire fence, 15-feet high,

along parts of its border with Turkey.

Hungary has put up barriers along its borders with Serbia and Croatia.

There are also fences between Croatia and Slovenia,

Austria has also been heavily criticised for limiting the amount

of asylum applications it accepts to 80 a day.

All this has meant that migrants and refugees arriving in Greece

are having trouble moving north, deepening the country's crisis.

Our Europe editor Katya Adler is in Athens tonight.

We have talked a bit about the response of individual countries,

what about the response of the European Union? Well, the EU has

plenty of plans in place. It wants to form an EU border and coastguard.

It wants security checks for those coming from outside the EU to the

inside. It wants to expel failed asylum seekers more efficiently. But

that is all taking too long. In the meantime those countries you

mentioned who had hundreds of thousands of refugees and others

travelling across them from their entry point into Europe here in

Greece, they are breaking ranks and imposing their own border controls

to protect themselves, they say. Tensions are really running high.

Greece is panicking, still struggling economic too. Now worried

it's going to be left looking after 70,000 angry stuck refugees and

others by the end of March because of those border closures. Austria's

Chancellor says Greece only has itself to blame for acting as a

travel agent for migrants coming he says, putting them further to

richer, Northern Europe. Germany says it's very angry about those

northern border closes. Chancellor Merkel says Greece cannot be

abandoned to plunge into chaos. Her word used to count for a lot in EU

circles but now many countries blame her open-door policy for making even

worse the mess that you find itself in. Spring is coming and that means

more boats. The EU says the only way forward is together but it's 28

member countries cannot agree how. The retail sector faces the loss

of nearly a million jobs and the closure of thousands

of shops in the next decade, partly because of the rapid

growth of online shopping. The British Retail Consortium

says rising costs due to the National Living Wage

and the new apprenticeship levy Our economics editor Kamal Ahmed has

more details. Britain has been accused

of being a nation of shopkeepers, Three million people have jobs

in the retail sector, the largest private

employer in the country. One out of every ten

of us works in retail. This shop in Coventry

is at the sharp end. Online is getting bigger,

discounters are getting bigger. The only way is by

reducing staff hours. Today, online giant Amazon sealed

a deal with Morrison's The number of jobs in the retail

sector could fall by a third, Of the 270,000 shops in the UK

today, the report claims up The British Retail Consortium

estimates the cost of the new national living wage

to the industry of up I met one of Britain's leading

retailers and asked him if people understood the possible

shocks ahead. Currently, there is a sort

of complacency around where, somehow, people are not realising

just how significantly the workplace And I think that is dangerous,

in fact. Oxford Street, one of the busiest

shopping streets in the world. Not too much evidence

here of the crisis facing But in other parts of Britain,

less affluent parts of Britain, Rising costs, falling prices

and reduced profits are a toxic mix. What is striking about this report

is how the industry is responding - by increasing the number of people

on very low pay. I do believe retail has a problem

with low pay. It has been evidence-based that it's

part of the low-paying sectors, and that is the very reason we have

been campaigning for quality jobs, The changing world of retail could

mean better prices for customers. Brutal competition has its

advantages. It could mean higher pay for those

left in the industry But for hundreds of thousands

of shop workers who could lose their jobs, this is

a time for concern. The first minister of

Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has warned David Cameron

against fighting what she called a 'miserable, negative

and fear-based' referendum campaign. The Scottish Government

is in favour of the UK staying in the European Union,

and the first minister said Mr Cameron was already counting

the cost of 'going negative'. Mr Cameron has rejected claims he's

trying to scare people Our Scotland editor

Sarah Smith reports. Nicola Sturgeon is probably the UK

party leader most enthusiastic In London today she laid out

what she thinks is a much more positive case than we've heard

from the Prime Minister. Free trade, free

movement, environmental protections, employment and social

rights, all of these are substantial She fears David Cameron could lose

the referendum if he tries The risk to the In

campaign is that if it is a miserable, negative,

scaremongering campaign then they will turn people

off and that is the last thing needed given how narrowly

balanced the opinion polls look Many of the arguments we are hearing

so far are very reminiscent of the arguments in the No

campaign in the Scottish What happened in the Scottish

referendum was that that kind of negative campaign saw the No

campaign squander a 20 point lead David Cameron could save these

tactics won the referendum The point I'm going on to

make is the In campaign doesn't have a 20 point

lead to squander. For once the Prime Minister

and Nicola Sturgeon But she says you will not

see them out campaining Today he is warning of up

to a decade of uncertainty if the UK What happens for the seven,

eight, nine years while we wait to put these

arrangements in place? What happens to jobs,

what happens to confidence, what happens to

people's livelihoods? What happens to businesses

thinking about whether to invest here in Britain

or go somewhere else? Boris Johnson was touring

a bus factory in Northern He's calling the remain

campaign Project Fear, trying to spook voters

with scare stories. It's time to show the positive side

of what Britain can do. We lead the world in

all sorts of sectors that nobody dreamt

of even ten years ago. And now is the opportunity to get

rid of so much of the bureaucracy and the overregulation that's

coming from Brussels. We look forward

to June's referendum. Nicola Sturgeon says

she doesn't want to scare people into staying in the EU,

it would be more effective She's hoping to encourage

David Cameron to try There's more information

and background on the BBC News website including analysis

from our Reality Check team on the latest claims

and counter-claims - In America it's the last day

of campaigning before the busiest single day of the

presidential primaries. on the latest claims

and counter-claims - On what's called Super Tuesday,

voters in 11 states will take part in the process of selecting

their party candidates. There's been criticism

that the standard of campaigning on the Republican side,

where Donald Trump is still the front-runner, has

reached an all-time low. But his main rival,

Senator Marco Rubio, believes the man he's been

calling a 'con-artist' can editor Jon Sopel

reports from Georgia. It's also aggressive

and uncompromising battle. And if you want some

of that in your politics, well, it seems only one

person fits the bill. Literally every single driver

and mechanic we spoke to had He's going to make

America great again. They are equally uncompromising

about what they like Everybody is so angry

about the Democrats and so angry with the Republicans, that's why

he's got the support he's got. He's the "screw you Washington"

vote, that's all he is. The one person who could possibly

overtake him is the Florida Last Thursday in a TV

debate he changed tactics. Clearly calculating that he has

to play Donald Trump Something he's continuing

to do at his rallies. A guy with the worst spray tan

in America is attacking me He should sue whoever

did that to his face. And continued that line

of attack when I spoke to him Are you confident you can

still beat Donald Trump? There is no way the party of Lincoln

and Reagan is going to be taken over We are going to do

everything we can. I will be in this race

as long as it takes. And did Thursday make a difference

in the debate? We will find out, but it is just

the beginning of the process. He has fooled a number

of voters around this country so far into believing

he really is what he says he is. We look forward to

examining his record and we have confidence

about what it will mean. At the end of the day,

when this process is finished, Donald Trump will not have the 1,237

delegates he needs to win, and I will be in this

race as long as it takes to prevent

that from happening. The deep South is deeply

conservative and the strategy of the Rubio camp

is to try to convince people like these that Trump

is really a slightly dodgy But the public for

the moment doesn't seem This is the tri-state area,

Georgia that way, cross the bridge And if you go in that

direction you are In all three states

according to the latest Yes, there has been a sustained

onslaught from Marco Rubio these past few days, but is it

too little, too late? Four people have gone

on trial at the Old Bailey accused of illegally importing

dozens of automatic weapons into the UK - which prosecutors say

were capable of 'unleashing carnage The court heard the gang used a boat

to smuggle the weapons Prosecutors said the weapons

would have been sold into the criminal underworld -

as our home affairs correspondent As the defendants were swept

into the Old Bailey courthouse the City of London traffic

was held up by police. Armed officers stood sentry

and security levels in and around On trial three men and a woman

accused of smuggling a frightening number of weapons across

the Channel into Britain. Among them 22 assault rifles made

in the Czech Republic, 25-year-old Harry Shilling

on the left is accused of planning the job, helped by his

friend, Michael Defraine. The prosecution say they bought this

boat to bring the guns He's pleaded guilty,

but his partner, Jenny Arthy, is on trial accused

of helping him buy The prosecution says he picked up

the guns in Boulogne harbour, sailed back across the Channel

and up the River Medway into an area Once the guns were in Kent, Dave

Payne sent a text to a go-between, a friend of Harry

Shilling, "All done". The prosecution say Harry Shilling

then emailed Michael Defraine, And then, "We no officially

gangsters." The next day the guns

were brought ashore. But as the men were unloaded

the weapons, they were unaware that they were being filmed

by surveillance officers from the National Crime Agency

who had based themselves The guns were seized along

with a large amount of ammunition. All four people on trial deny

the charges against them. 14 men have been convicted

of plotting to steal Chinese artefacts and rhino horn -

worth up to ?57 million - in a series of raids

on museums and auction houses. The biggest was on the Fitzwilliam

Museum in Cambridge four years ago. The men will be sentenced

at a later date. A significant shortage of NHS

doctors and nurses means that more than two-thirds of trusts

and health boards - in England, Wales

and Northern Ireland - are actively trying to recruit

staff from overseas. Figures obtained by the BBC show

there are more than 23,000 nursing vacancies in those parts of the NHS

- that's 9% of the workforce. And there are 6,000

vacancies for doctors - Our health correspondent

Dominic Hughes has joined one NHS recruitment team in Manila

in the Philippines. A city more than 6,500

miles from the UK. And yet almost every week NHS trusts

fly halfway around the world Their mission, to find some

desperately needed nurses. Pauline is leading a team

from rural Lincolnshire. Today we are looking

for something like 46. You have to get a good feel for,

have they got the right skills and values and give them

a chance to get comfortable Around 200 candidates are put

through a gruelling series of tests Well, the United Lincolnshire Trust

is 200 nurses short and that contributes to a staggering bill

of ?2.5 million spent each The charity ward of

Manila's biggest hospital. One of the senior nurses here says

this is a typically intense training ground for those trying

to land jobs in the UK. Handling 25 patients per shift,

basically hones more of the skills. Unlike the NHS, the Philippines has

a glut of qualified nurses - each year as many as

100,000 are trained. But the country can offer less

than 40,000 nursing jobs. The reason so many Filipino nurses

are willing to swap the vibrant and chaotic streets of Manila

for Lincolnshire is poverty. A nurse here may expect to earn

around ?135 a month. By getting a job in the UK

with the NHS they can increase their salary

by ten times at a stroke. One nurse heading to Lincolnshire

is 26 year-old Rose. The job she has been offered

will change her life and that For Rose, Lincolnshire

is a long way from home. I will be leaving my family

here and living there Because I really want to help them,

I really want to earn money just to help them and give

them a better life. We are absolutely delighted

to offer 131 of you a job Rose and more than 100 others

offered jobs still have to pass tough language and professional

exams, and get a visa before they can take up

their jobs in the UK. But the recruitment process

is also about saving money. Once they work in practice for three

months unsupervised, becoming independent practitioners,

they will have paid for themselves. While the NHS struggles to train

and recruit staff at home, for these Filipino nurses a new life

in Lincolnshire awaits. Google's self-driving car has

hit a bus in a minor It's believed to be the first case

of one of the company's autonomous Our Technology Correspondent Rory

Cellan-Jones is here. We know that in previous incidents

other cars have driven into Google's car. This is the first time the

reverse has happened. This was in Mountain View California, where

Google is based. It was in the right hand lane preparing to turn right,

where there were sandbags in its way. The car and the driver looked

behind them, saw a bus coming up, judged it was going to stop, pulled

out. The bus didn't stop, ran into the car, causing minor damage and no

injuries. Google says it is now reprogramming the software and from

now on our cars will more deeply and that buses and other large vehicles

are less likely to yield to us than other vehicles, a lesson perhaps

other human drivers have perhaps already learned. Thank you.

This year's Oscars shone a bright light -

once again - on the lack of ethnic diversity in Hollywood -

and certainly among this year's Oscar nominees.

All 20 nominees in the best acting or supporting acting

It's prompted a lively debate about the reasons -

and the kind of response that some say is needed.

Let's join our entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimbo

-- on Sunset Boulevard. Yes, the per exemption is that the Academy has

been stunned into action. Proposals include losing some more elderly

members and doubling the number of ethnic minority voters by the year

2020. None of this was in time for last night's ceremony, although it

was a night where a number of celebrities highlighted serious

subjects, including the host, Chris Rock, on the ongoing diversity row.

Serious issues being talked about as much

Well, I'm here at the Academy Awards.

Otherwise known as the White People's Choice Awards!

You realise if they nominated hosts, I wouldn't even get this job!

Chris Rock's sometimes savage monologue referenced the present

We were too busy being raped and lynched to care

As was the winner of Best Actor, Leonardo DiCaprio.

I thank you all for this amazing award tonight.

Let us not take this planet for granted.

His director, on The Revenant, Alejandro Inarritu, also won.

His speech was also more substance than show business.

Make sure, for once and forever, that the colour of a skin becomes

as irrelevant as the length of our hair.

To the surprise of a few, Best Film was won by...

The Academy honouring the story of the Boston Globe's uncovering

Brie Larson was named Best Actress for her performance

in the heavyweight abduction drama Room.

Thank you to the fans, thank you to the moviegoers,

thank you for going to the theatre and seeing our films.

British successes included Mark Rylance.

The actor, who made his name on the stage, has now added

a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Bridge of Spies to his Olivier

How does it feel to have won, Mark?

As an actor, to win an Academy Award is something very unusual,

Amy, about singer Amy WineHouse, took the best documentary award.

It is about showing the world what she was really like.

The beautiful girl, funny, intelligent, witty.

And multiple Brit and Grammy award winner Sam Smith now has

a Best Song Oscar too for his Bond theme, Writing's on the Wall.

I stand here tonight as a proud gay man and I hope we can all stand

While Lady Gaga spoke out musically against sexual abuse,

at an Oscars where so many took the opportunity to make a statement

to a global audience in the tens of millions.

Europe appears to be adopting the Donald Trump solution to border

control, building bigger fences to restrict migration. We'll ask if it

works and is it really the best Europe can do.