08/03/2016 BBC News at Ten

The Governor of the Bank of England says leaving the EU would affect

Mark Carney makes his warning to MPs and provokes sharp exchanges

with those in favour of leaving the EU.

The issue is the biggest domestic risk to financial stability.

It is speculative and beneath the dignity of the Bank of England

to be making speculative pro-EU comments.

We'll be assessing the significance of Mr Carney's words and how

they might affect the EU Referendum debate.

A warning from the UN about the migrant crisis -

a proposal to send back refugees would be against international law.

It's not about other people around you, it's not

As major sponsors pull out over her doping admission,

The big rise in teenagers taking anti-depressants -

Do you really need a car? Yes, we need it!

Every day? Every day!

And old habits die hard - but how some town planners are thinking of

Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Arsenal remain on course to win

a third successive FA Cup this season as they beat Hull

in tonight's Fifth Round Replay at the KC Stadium.

The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has told MPs that

leaving the EU is the biggest domestic risk

That led to sharp criticism by MPs in favour of leaving the EU -

who said Mr Carney was breaching the impartiality of the Bank

of England, being partisan, and "entirely political".

Our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, has more.

He's the man charged with maintaining economic stability

and today the Governor of the Bank of England said that stability

could be at risk if Britain decides to leave the European Union.

In evidence before MPs, Mark Carney made it clear this

The issue is the biggest risk, the biggest domestic risk

And part of the issue's around uncertainty.

But also because - if I may just finish quickly -

because it has the potential - potential, depending on how

it is prosecuted and how these issues can be addressed -

to amplify risks around the current account as has been discussed,

potential risks around housing, potential risks around market

fluctuation, which we're trying to mitigate.

Sterling's value could fall, jobs could be lost,

Mr Carney also wrote to the Select Committee praising

the Prime Minister's EU deal, saying it would improve

competitiveness and reinforce the positive impact

The list of reasons for staying in the EU was a long one,

so long that MPs that back Britain leaving the EU

The statements you make about the dynamism of the economy

could just as well refer to the reforms introduced

It is speculative and beneath the dignity of the Bank of England

Mr Carney making it clear, with the raised eyebrow

depicting Governor anger, that there could also be dangers

We say membership of the European Union brings risk

as well and the principle risk - risks, I should say,

because there is more than one - are associated with the unfinished

After what were sometimes bad-tempered exchanges with MPs,

Mark Carney returned here, the somewhat safer environment

of his office at the Bank of England.

I am told he's pleased with today's session.

He thinks he got across two big points.

Firstly, that, yes, there could be a short-term economic risk

if Britain were to leave the European Union and,

second, that no politicians lent on him to say that.

Maybe not, but his critics said he was drifting

And I think it is quite wrong for a Governor of the Bank

of England to enter the political fray in this way.

Mr Carney said this would be his last substantial intervention

Yes, leaving the EU could have short-term risks, but he ended

In the long-term he said it is impossible to be conclusive

about whether leaving the EU would be better or worse

What is your assessment then of what Mr Carney had to say today? Well, it

was three hours. I sat through all three hours. Certainly, I think the

big point that Mark Carney wanted to leave viewers and listeners with is

that if Britain does leave the European Union, there would be, in

his words, short-term risks. What does that mean? He means two, three,

four years, possibly, as Britain renegotiates free trade deals and

our relationship with Europe and the rest of the world. These are

shark-infested waters for the Governor. He is an independent

person, he is not a politician and he knows almost anything he says on

this issue is going to be taken by both the remain in the EU camp and

the leave campaign to be supporting their position. He did put some

important caveats about his point about the risk of leaving the

European Union. The issue that in the long-term kind of who knows

ultimately and there are risks to staying in, this idea of the

two-speed Europe where the eurozone goes in one direction and the

countries out of the European Union go in the other. Mr Carney hopes

this has laid out the Bank of England's position. It is their

independent belief that leaving the EU has risks. He doesn't want to get

too political. When it comes down to the European Union referendum, he

probably knows that is almost impossible. Thank you.

And there's more about the EU Referendum and the economic

arguments on both sides on our "reality check" pages.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has disowned and dismissed as a cock

up an email sent to his senior staff telling them not

to contradict his views on the EU Referendum.

But despite that, the rule remains in place this evening.

At the weekend, Mr Johnson had criticised the dismissal of the head

of the British Chambers of Commerce after HE had spoken out

Here's our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

REPORTER: Why have you gagged members of your staff from speaking

Boris Johnson is rarely known for keeping his views to himself.

REPORTER: Isn't this gross hyprocisy?

But on Europe, is there one rule for him and another

I was only made aware of this edict very late last night and it ceased

to be operative as soon as I was made aware of it.

But the accusation followed him from home this morning,

REPORTER: Have you gagged your staff?

Because the London Mayor's office did warn his staff to keep quiet

if they disagree with his view that we should leave the EU.

In so far as that edict was ever operative,

Mr Johnson's chief of staff, Sir Edward Lister, sent an email,

just on Friday, to Mr Johnson's deputy mayors and his senior

He wrote, "During the referendum campaign, I would expect you either

to advocate the Mayor's position or otherwise not openly

When the very next day Boris Johnson was determinedly defending this man,

John Longworth, bumped out of his job as leader of the business

group, the British Chambers of Commerce, because he argued

With every week that passes, Boris' credibility, not only

as a future Prime Minister, but certainly as somebody who wants

to play a vocal part in this EU referendum campaign, is diminished.

They've ditched the email advice in Mr Johnson's office

and say his team can say whatever they want, but not when

Boris Johnson has dismissed this email as a blunder,

but the official rules are still in place at London's City Hall

and it matters because, like all the big players

in the arguments over the EU, he wants you to believe him and then

to back his case and what his office warned in private sits uncomfortably

alongside what the Mayor himself has said loudly in public.

Boris Johnson famously said his policy on cake is pro

But on the European Union, might he have bitten off

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

It's not quite 24 hours since EU leaders talked of a possible

solution to the migrant crisis - already cracks are starting

The United Nations says a key proposal to send migrants who've

arrived in Greece back to Turkey is incompatible with EU

Our Europe editor, Katya Adler, assesses whether the chances

It is not the promised land, but it is better than where they ran from.

Syrian families stuck here on the border between Greece and Macedonia

were stunned today by rumours whispered through this camp that

Europe now plans to push them en masse back across the Mediterranean.

TRANSLATION: all we wanted was to have reached

safety. We don't want to go backwards. We want to live. We want

a future. It is a violent change of course for Europe, which months ago

spoke of solidarity and helping those in need. But even once

welcoming Germany and Sweden now say enough is enough. Fortress Europe is

slamming shut. But is that really workable? Enter the new hoped-for

It's angler Michael's political career that is on the line. She has

key elections this weekend. She was pushing the moves at the EU summit,

and luckily for her, votes will be counted in Germany before it all has

a chance to unravel. The Chief Executive of Sunderland

football club, Margaret Byrne, has resign because of her involvement in

the Adam Johnson case. The footballer is facing a jail sentence

after he was convicted of sexual activity with the 15-year-old girl.

Sunderland has been criticised for allowing Johnson to continue to

play. The executive was under pressure for a few days, Fai has she

resigned today? Quite simply, I think Sunderland felt this was the

only way to draw a line under this after so much damage had been done

to their reputation. The club has been in crisis since last week, when

former player Johnson was convicted. Today, that intensified with the

resignation of Margaret Byrne, the chief Executive. Johnson was

suspended initially, having been arrested, then he was reinstated by

Margaret Byrne and allowed to resume his career. He earned around ?3

million more despite facing four criminal charges. Eventually, the

club decided to sack him when he changed his plea to guilty on two of

those counts. The Chief Executive faces criticism -- faced criticism

for allowing him to continue to play. She said today that she had

indeed, last May, been handed information by Johnson's barrister

in which he admitted kissing his 15-year-old victim and communicating

with our, and she said it was wrong to allow him to play on. The club,

meanwhile, said they were sorry to the victim and they had let her

down. Johnson is expected to be sentenced at the end of this month.

The tennis star, Maria Sharapova, looks set to lose millions

after three major sponsors - including the sportswear firm Nike -

have suspended their links with her, in the light

Yesterday, the five-times Grand Slam winner revealed she'd tested

positive for a drug called Meldonium, saying she took it

Our sports correspondent, Richard Conway, reports.

She's one of the world's most famous sports stars with a string

of lucrative endorsements, but after admitting to using

a banned performancing-enhancing drug, Maria Sharapova's tennis

career and brand are at risk of grinding to a halt.

Porsche, Tag Heuer and Nike have all now distanced themselves

from the five-time Grand Slam winner, but her great on court rival

today expressed admiration for her stance.

Most people were surprised and shocked by Maria but,

at the same time, I think most people were happy

that she was upfront and very honest.

Meldonium is used to treat heart conditions such as angina.

It's manufactured in Latvia, but it's not approved for use

In healthy people, there's evidence it can improve athletic performance

by boosting endurance and aiding recovery.

Wada, the World Anti-Doping Agency, added Meldonium to its list

Sharapova insists she was unaware the substance had been prohibited

and that her doctor legally prescribed it to her for close to 10

years, a period during which she was at the top of the women's game.

But the former head of Wada has his doubts.

10 years is a long time to take a drug like that.

Are you assured by her that she was taking it

Whatever comment I've seen on it is that a drug like this

you wouldn't take it over a long period of time.

So that would suggest that perhaps she was taking it

That's why there was an urge to put the drug on the list.

I made a huge mistake and I've let my fans down.

Following her mea culpa, Maria Sharapova will now try to argue for

a reduction in a likely two-year ban from tennis. Her commercial value

has been badly damaged but so too her chances of ending a glittering

playing career on her own terms. Richard Conway, BBC News.

The World Health Organisation has told the BBC it's concerned

by the number of children and young people on antidepressants in the UK.

A new international study shows that there has been a 54% increase

in use over seven years, despite warnings about the potential

Hywel Griffith has this exclusive report.

I was terrified, I'm still terrified of medication.

At one point, I stayed in my house for six months,

memories of that time definitely do still give me flashbacks and it does

It's a simple routine - every day, every week,

for five years, George has taken an antidepressant.

He started at 15 and says they were prescribed on his first

My doctor put me on the antidepressants really

I wasn't offered, you know, counselling or anything like that.

Antidepressants are a recognised treatment for managing depression

in children, but the guidelines are clear - they shouldn't be

offered initially if the symptoms are mild.

In more serious cases, they should only be used alongside

psychological therapies and the type of antidepressant is key.

There are some drugs licensed for adults that guidelines say

The only recommended drug is fluoxetine, commonly known

as Prozac, but new research shows in most cases doctors

are prescribing other antidepressants.

The World Health Organisation says it's particularly concerned

by this use of so-called 'off label' drugs.

There are legal regulations and also there are professional guidelines.

Off label use of drugs many times cross both of them and that's

something which we are very concerned about.

We must be reliant upon the clear evidence and guidelines that

We do recognise doctors need some flexibility, but very often use off

label reasons for prescription is something which

12 years ago, antidepressant use amongst children dropped

after concerns they could lead to suicidal behaviour.

The new research for the European Journal

of Neuropsychopharmacology shows use then grew within years.

GPs say they aren't the ones initiating the prescriptions,

but they have seen a growth in children needing help.

The mild end, the school counsellors pick up,

The more severe end can access specialist psychological

and psychiatric help for children and for teenagers.

The problem is, everybody in the middle.

None of the other services seem geared to picking them up,

so this is a huge problem and it is that middle group

They're trying to prove something to themselves...

More children reaching out for help may be positive,

but putting more of them on antidepressants shouldn't

We need to start thinking about mental health from birth

and giving children the tools that they need

Teaching children about their brains and how they work in just the same

way we would their bodies and encouraging them to get

For George, daily medication has moved into adulthood.

He hopes the time will come when he can cope without and feel

The Government is facing a possible Commons defeat over plans to extend

Sunday trading in England and Wales after the SNP decided to join Tory

The plans would give local councils the power to grant larger shops

Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster tonight.

Have the SNP got involved in this? ? Scotland shops can open when they

like. Staff are paid more to work on a Sunday. The SNP claims it's those

higher wages that will be hit if the Government changes go through. The

SNP, not for the first time, are intervening on legislation that

technically only covers England and Wales. That's something their leader

said they wouldn't do. The Government's calling the SNP

hypocritical for denying people the freedoms to shop that are already

available in Scotland. But it is a difficult time for the Government.

We are a week away from the Budget. In the middle of a very challenge EU

referendum campaign. The Government won't want to be left red faced if

it loses the argument on Sunday trading. But with the SNP, with

Labour, with around 20 Tory MPs potentially and more all opposing

the Government's plans, it will be very difficult to push these changes

through unless they can come up with a new compromise. Eleanor, at

Westminster, thank you. Police investigating

the disappearance of the chef Claudia Lawrence in York,

say four men arrested last year on suspicion of murder

will not face any charges. when she failed to turn up for work

at York University in March 2009. Detectives have said they will not

give up their investigation. There's been a series of stabbing

attacks in Jaffa in Israel - an American tourist has been

killed and several other Police are said to have

shot dead the attacker, US Vice President Joe Biden -

who's visiting Israel - It's five years since the start

of peaceful uprisings in Syria The subsequent government crackdown

led to a conflict that has left a quarter of a million

people dead and over half Peace talks are due to resume

in Geneva this week, but with four of the five permanent

UN Security Council members involved in the conflict, our Middle East

editor, Jeremy Bowen, This was Damascus in October last

year. The current truce is a respite, not an end. The war has

killed more than 200,000, created millions of refugees and re-ignited

wars in Syria's neighbours. It's also pulled in the world's biggest

military powers - Russia, as well as the US, Britain and France. At the

UN's Geneva headquarters they're trying to end five years of

diplomatic failure. Five years in which Syria's internal uprising has

become a mini world war. Another deadly complication

is the fact that the war in Syria is now a major front in the conflict

between Shia and Sunni Muslims that stretches right across

the Islamic world. Syria has produced layers of war,

about power, as well as identity. It started with demonstrations five

years ago against the Assad regime. Now that quickly turned

into a shooting war and when the two sides main backers got involved,

the sectarian dimension deepened. The Assad regime is dominated

by Alawites, they are a sect of Shia Islam and their main backers

are in the main Shia as well. There's Iran and also

the Lebanese Hezbollah movement as well of course as Russia,

who aren't Shi'ites. The armed rebels have been

backed by Saudi Arabia, by Turkey, by Jordan and by Qatar,

all Sunni countries. The Saudis and the Iranians already

saw themselves as regional rivals but now that's escalated

into a proxy war with Syria In Damascus and across Syria, each

new layer of war has made peace making harder. After five years,

it's become a tangled, complex fight. Deals between Syrians are

possible, but the war that ruined Syria left space that has been

filled by the jihadists who call themselves Islamic State. IS

brutality, not the destruction of Syria, forced a reluctant US and

Britain into the fight. But long before so much was lost, the world's

big powers should have acted to stop the war and the exodus of civilians,

say the UN Human Rights Chief. One of the most upsetting parts of this

migration discussion is that it's the migrants who have to pay the

price for the failure of the international system. So permanent

members of the Security Council, Britain among them, should have

tried harder My feeling is, yes. They are the riposte are you of

institutional knowledge. They have special responsibilities, not just

special privileges, they should have known better. Should have done more?

Should have done more. And because they didn't, that's a major factor

what, in the last five years of killing? I think it's undeniably so

it's a major factor. Yes. Neutral, quiet Switzerland feels as if it's a

long way from the killing. That is an illusion. Belatedly Europeans are

realising that Syria's mini world war is on their doorstep. Trying to

contain it or ignore it is no kind of policy. Jeremy Bowen, BBC News,

Geneva. The big car manufactures recognise

that mass produced cars It is this revolution that has town

planners rethinking the urban As part of our series on changing

cars our home editor, Mark Easton, asks if the future

could be green and serene? Or are we just too attached

to our trusty motors? It was all supposed

to be so different. NEWS REEL: ...of Harrow's

garden villages. The suburbs promised the rural idyll

close to the big city, instead of leafy streets

and beautiful gardens, what we got was cars,

cars and more cars. Maybe new technology,

like driverless electric vehicles and Uber-style taxi apps, mean that

rather than having your own car, which is parked up 95% of the time,

you simply press a button and summon what you need, far cheaper,

when you need it. And just think how that might change

the places we live in. This is Capthorne Avenue in Harrow,

a classic suburban street. Take the cars out of the picture,

lay some grass, plants some trees, the cluttered road becomes a green

space, a community resource where children can play

and neighbours can meet. Instead of the private car,

people only use a car It's a model that politicians

in London took a close interest in as a way of dealing

with the housing crisis and the design consultancy behind

the proposals has even come up with a name for it -

not suburbia, superbia. The point about the self-driven car

is that it takes up much less space, it's much safer, it's

smaller and it's not But people really like having

their car just outside, And, when they get used

to new technologies, it'll be just like

whistling for your dog. We tried the idea on the residents

of Capthorne Avenue. If me have music on,

me like looking at the car You like to see it

outside? Taking cars out of cities

is hardly new. In Freiburg, in southern Germany,

they started closing central streets But now the idea has spread

to residential neighbourhoods, it's just you can't park it

outside your house. You have to put it in

the multistorey, on the edge of the estate, where a space

costs 20,000 euros. So what's happened is people moved

here, thought they'd need a car, but very quickly they've

just given it up. They realised after a while they

don't need to own one and actually sometimes they really

felt very much relieved. The kids go to school on their own,

even to kindergarten. It might seem a long way

from the streets of Harrow today, but if technology can provide

all the convenience and independence of a car without having to own one,

then perhaps suburban Britain Mark Easton, BBC News,

Capthorne Avenue. Tonight, it's morally messy,

politically imperfect, Would the crisis be better

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