09/05/2016 BBC News at Ten

Leaving the EU would make war in Europe more likely

says David Cameron, a claim the Leave campaign

the issues of peace and stability are seized on by both sides ahead

Britain has a fundamental national interest in maintaining common

purpose in Europe to avoid future conflict between

I don't think the Prime Minister can seriously believe that leaving

the EU will trigger war on the European continent.

We'll be examining just how effective the EU has

now a man is jailed for life after a chance DNA breakthrough.

Britain's involvement in the Iraq war,

seven years after the inquiry began the Chilcot report will finally

Shut out, hundreds of workers who say

they were blacklisted by some of Britain's biggest construction

And the great ball of China, how they're training up the next

generation to dominate world football.

Security became the latest battleground today between those

campaigning to stay in the European Union,

The Prime Minister made, what he called, a "bold,

patriotic" case for remaining, saying peace and security

could be put at risk, if the UK votes to leave.

Boris Johnson, speaking for the Leave campaign,

rejected the claim as "preposterous" and said he didn't believe Brexit

would cause World War Three to break out on the continent.

Here's our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

Fighting over the flight, the top commanders of the rival campaigns

vying to claim the mantle. Subtle it wasn't, the Prime Minister's back

drop, a museum that tells the story of so many battles lost and won, to

give his gravest warning yet, if you vote to leave the EU, it could be a

step towards future wars. The rows of white headstones in lovingly

tended Commonwealth War cemeteries stand as silent testament to the

price that this country has paid to help to restore peace and order in

Europe. Can we be so sure that peace and stability on our continent are

assured beyond any shadow of doubt? Is that a risk worth taking? I would

never be so rash as to make that assumption. The lesson from history,

he claims, whether Spitfires in the skies, or soldiers in the trenches,

Britain was proud alone but Europe has been safer united.

Is this Prime Minister hoped, and today's leader even quoted the

vision of Churchill. Isn't this warning that best alarmist and at

worst a bit desperate, especially given that until three months ago

you said that you would be willing to lead us out of the union? There

is no doubt in my mind, the European Union has helped ring former

adversaries together. Until now, the government was using its full force

to say that we would be poorer if we left the European Union. The shiny

diplomatic cars parked up at the speech today show that the argument

over our place in the world is well and truly on. -- has helped bring.

To the anger of some, the in campaign circulated a video of

veterans testimonies. But that argument was turned on its head by

the out campaign's biggest draw. I saw myself the disaster in the

Balkans, when the EU was charged and mandated with sorting out the former

Yugoslavia. I saw how actually it was Nato and the American led

alliance that had to come in and sort it out. It is now the US itself

and its anti-democratic tendencies that are a force for instability and

alienation. The think David Cameron is telling the truth when he tells

voters that leaving Bees you would risk peace on our continent? I do

not believe that leading Bees you would cause world War three to break

out on the European continent. This side needs plenty of shoe leather to

make their arguments, not least as Boris Johnson burst into song in

German. LAUGHTER Yes, sung in German, to kill

accusations that they are not just backward looking little Englanders.

The past does loom over this campaign, the history of this

country and the Tory party, who have split time and again over Europe.

This is such a big decision about our place in the world, not

surprisingly both sides are too tried to take the patriotic high

ground. There are conflicts are personal as well as political. This

is about war and peace in the Tory party. As the referendum battle

really starts to raw, it is hard to see how they will afterwards call a

truce. -- roar. STUDIO: Well, both sides drew

on history to support arguments over the EU

and security today. So just how effective has it been

in ensuring peace on the continent? Our Diplomatic Correspondent,

James Robbins has this assessment. VOICEOVER: Here we are, London...

London, 1945, much of Europe was in ruins after two world wars in 40

years, something in relations would win warring states, particularly

France and Germany, had to change, Winston George was blunt, his speech

in Zurich demanded a united Europe. If we are to form the United States

of Europe, or whatever name it may take, we

must begin now. Did he mean that Britain was to be part of that?

Leading historians profoundly disagree. The first full leave, the

second four remain. It is quite clear that he did not expect Britain

to be part of this enterprise at all. -- the first for leave, the

second for remained. What our history tells us is that for much

the part of history, the larger part of history, our affairs have been

inextricable from those of the continent, even when we wanted to

withdraw, as in the early 20th century, we were drawn back in again

and again. By 1957, six Nations, France, Germany and Italy among

them, were ready to sign the Treaty of Rome, launching the European

economic community, and embrace designed to make another war all but

impossible. Britain, the island nation, kept its distance. This is

the room... This veteran BBC correspondent witnessed the moment,

he was a trainee with Reuters news agency, you're a member 's British

detachment, even disdain. Invited as it was not even the story of the

day. -- in Reuters. I sense just to see if anything went

wrong, I was the youngest member of the team, the fact that I was sent

to cover it ago, back in 1957, for the written

six member countries, all political

roads lead to Rome, and the Treaty, but for

Britain, very much in position of an Britain did join eventually in 1973,

and peace as range, at least inside the expanding club. -- piece did

rain. In the 1990s, on its own, the EU could not prevent

or hold wars in former Yugoslavia. --

peace. pushing for closer links to hard and

too fast. Former Labour Foreign Secretary Lord Owen, one-time

enthusiasts, wants Britain to leave the EU now, condemning its record.

Peace has been maintained not by EU but by Nato. We took them too far to

the boundaries of the Russian Federation. -- to close. The mess we

are in over Ukraine is to quite a large extent our own fault. That is

not to justify the outrageous annexation of the Crimea or the

continued fighting. -- too close. But, the EU, the EU Ukraine

agreement was inflammatory. Those views drew heavy return fire today

from several parts of Europe, complains that history is being

rewritten. It is clearer than ever now that this referendum is about

opposing views of the past as well as competing visions of the future.

STUDIO: And James Robins is with me now.

Two very different takes on the role the EU plays in peace

What is really notable is that this argument has opened up Britain's

debate the voices from mainland Europe who have previously tried to

stay out of the referendum campaign. Explosively, I think. The former

prominence of Sweden, Carl Bildt, he has called Boris Johnson an

apologist for Russian's president Vladimir Putin, and I can tell you

that five former secretary-general of Nato, two of them British, the

three others from Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain, have written

a letter to appear in the Daily Telegraph tomorrow, and it is also

very strongly worded. " Britain's exit would lead to a loss of British

influence, undermine Nato and give succour to the west's enemies just

when we face threats on our doorstep. Not surprisingly, Downing

Street has drawn attention to this letter, they are delighted with it.

It should be pointed out that there had been other voices from within

the security and defence establishment and they have taken

the other view, they think that Brexit would be a good thing for

Britain. And there's plenty more on the EU

and how it works plus information about the referendum

on the BBC website. A man has been jailed

for life for murdering Christopher Hampton finally admitted

stabbing Melanie Road to death The 64-year-old was caught

after his daughter's DNA was put on the national database last year

following a domestic incident. and Melanie Road was

studying for her A-levels. She had been out clubbing

with friends, but on the way home the schoolgirl was raped

and stabbed to death. Melanie walked back

on her own that night. It is only about half a mile

from the centre of Bath Her body was discovered by a milkman

the next morning, next to some garages

in a quiet cul-de-sac. The police filmed drops

of the killer's blood at the scene, and over the years thousands

of local men but the murderer

was not identified. Scientists found that a DNA swab

taken from a woman in an unrelated case was similar to DNA

found at the scene. That new sample came

from the daughter of this man, He in turn was tested,

and there was a complete match. Today, 32 years later,

he admitted murdering Melanie. Melanie's mum said she can't believe

Hampton could murder a girl he didn't know and then

hide his secret for so long. I always said if I got hold of him,

I would strangle him or stick a knife into him,

and that is how I felt. But I wouldn't even use

my energy up on him. I feel he should be shut up

in a dungeon like they used

to in the olden days Over the decades, 700 police

officers have worked on the case. They hoped advances in science

would one day identify the killer. But soon after the attack,

Hampton had moved away from Bath to Bristol, where he had had

a family and kept his He has managed somehow to live

with this terrible secret. I have no idea how his conscience

has allowed him to do that, Hampton was told he would

serve at least 22 years Given that he is now in his mid 60s,

the judge said he may Jon Kay, BBC News,

Bristol Crown Court. STUDIO: The long-awaited report

into Britain's involvement in the war in Iraq will finally be

published on July 6th. The inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot

was set up seven years ago, has cost more than ?10 million

and has heard evidence from 150 witnesses including the former

Prime Minister Tony Blair. Here's our political

correspondent Vicki Young. March 2003, and the attack on Saddam

Hussein begins - one of the most controversial foreign policy

decisions ever made by a British Soon, we'll have the official

version of what led our The task handed to Sir John Chilcot

and his team seven years ago was to examine the run-up to war

and whether planning We will approach our task in a way

that is thorough, Rose Gentle's son Gordon

was killed in 2004. She says the families

of the soldiers who died in Iraq We know there is going be a lot held

back from us, but we will but we will see what we can make out

which is actually in it. If there's anybody accountable

for it, they should be mentioned. Tony Blair has denied

he is to blame for slow progress, but there was a dispute

about the publication of classified documents,

and his correspondence Plus, those criticised in the report

have had the right to reply - a process which has added years

to Sir John Chilcot's timetable. About "expletive deleted",

"expletive deleted" time, most people I think

in Britain would say. The truth is, if it was the case

that the Government laid on in the conditions they did,

he probably had no option but to do what he did - I'm not sure

he should be blamed for that. The question is, how do we do these

things in future? And the answer is, we need to do

it better than this. The Iraq inquiry was never supposed

to be about apportioning blame. Crucial will be its assessment

of whether troops were We need to consider exactly

what the right mechanism is for having a way of learning

the right lessons out And perhaps if Sir John had reported

before we got engaged in Libya, there might have been some lessons

which would have been useful for our current

Prime Minister to draw on. There is relief in Westminster

that this report of more than 2.5 million words will finally

see the light of day in July. Bereaved families want military

leaders and politicians held But there are some who fear

that it is now so long since those events in Iraq that the impact

of the inquiry could be lost. Claims that hospital patients

in England are more likely to die at weekends are based on flawed

data, according to new research It says the variation in mortality

rates is down to differences The so-called weekend effect has

been a key factor behind the Government's push to change

junior doctors' contracts Are patients going into hospital

at weekends more likely to die within a certain time than those

admitted on weekdays? It has turned into a highly

controversial debate, as the Government calls

for better NHS services We are absolutely determined

to eliminate the weekend effect, which sees 11,000 excess

deaths every year. It has become a key issue

in the junior doctors' dispute. Ministers argue that more staff

are needed at weekends Junior doctors say they already

worked on Saturdays and Sundays, Junior doctors say they already work

on Saturdays and Sundays, and challenge the idea

of a weekend effect. Now, one medical expert has

questioned the data behind We certainly found no evidence

when we put together It really is an excellent example

of how poor-quality data badly interpreted can lead

to the wrong answer. The study looked at data from one

area used in death rate analysis, 1,700 reported hospital

stroke admissions, more for more routine problems,

which were mostly on weekdays, and with a lower risk of death,

leading to a false impression that Research published last year

which pointed to a higher risk of dying for patients who went

into hospital at weekends has been Today, one of the authors

defended the findings, It would be great if

this was the solution, But actually, sadly,

that isn't the case, This doesn't undermine

the study that we conducted, and there is still a major problem

in the NHS at the weekend. This latest row over NHS weekend

services and death rates comes at a sensitive

time in the junior doctor dispute. Today, for the first time in three

months, the British Medical Association and the Government

sat down for talks, to try and resolve

their differences. Whatever the outcome of the talks,

the debate over weekend patient care is far from over -

the Government insisting there is evidence that standards

are lower than during the week, while critics continue to scrutinise

and challenge that evidence. In North Korea, rare access has

been given to witness the Workers Party congress,

which today re-elected But the BBC has expressed

disappointment that one of its news teams has been

expelled from the country. The authorities in Pyongyang

questioned Rupert Wingfield-Hayes for eight hours for what they

described as improper reporting. Other staff remained

to cover the congress, including our correspondent

John Sudworth. For the first time, foreign

journalists were invited inside Before, we had only

seen the TV pictures. But now we could quite

literally feel the mass political CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

AND TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYS And there, a few rows away,

was Kim Jong-un, a young man just given yet another title,

unanimously of course - It is an extraordinary sight -

the highest political gathering of one of the world's

most totalitarian regimes. At there at the front,

the supreme leader of a country that has long defied

predictions of its imminent demise. Earlier in the day, we were given

a glimpse of another enduring fact of North Korean life -

the suppression HE SPEAKS IN NORTH KOREAN, MENTIONS

NAME OF RUPERT WINGFIELD-HAYES Rupert Wingfield-Hayes,

a BBC colleague who had also been reporting from Pyongyang,

was being expelled. North Korean officials made it clear

they objected to his reporting. During their coverage,

they were not very just in terms the system in the DPRK,

and they even made distorted facts, the realities about the situation,

and they were speaking very the leadership of the country,

when they should have been reporting very fairly,

objectively and very correctly. Rupert was driven to the airport

and put on a flight to Beijing. Foreign media visits are always

tightly-controlled, but Meanwhile, we've been allowed

to continue our reporting trip with the numerous visits

to factories and monuments. This is a country that cares deeply

what the outside world I ask one of the workers

about the deep economic crisis. "Nonsense, that's just

a lie," she tells me. The powerful propaganda has helped

this system endure, with a message The outside world is welcome,

but only on North Korea's terms. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says

the party is "not yet doing enough" to win back power in 2020,

but has insisted things are moving He told Labour MPs to stop

criticising his leadership in public.

Our political correspondent Carole Walker is at

Carole, how did this message go down?

He was greeted warmly, he said there were real signs that Labour's

recovery was under way, but that the performance in the elections in

Scotland was very disappointing, and the party had not yet done enough

for 2020. This was exactly what many of his critics in the party had been

saying. They had been saying that Jeremy Corbyn as the leader needs to

take some of the blame for that. But Mr Corbyn's message was that instead

of parading themselves around the media Studios, they should be

turning their fire on the Tories instead of talking about themselves.

Sadiq Khan, the newly elected London mayor, also addressed the meeting,

and had a rather upbeat message. He said that with the right approach,

Labour could still win in 2020. And he intended to show by his actions

in City Hall, reaching out to everyone, that Labour could be

trusted to govern again. It was certainly said it can't got the

biggest cheers of the night. Buoyed by that election victory, and

interesting talking to some Labour MPs afterwards, some of them felt

that it was a Sadiq Khan who had delivered a more impressive speech

than the party leader. The battle to contain the wildfires

in Canada has reached a turning point, thanked two weather

conditions, according to some observers. A BBC team has reached

the town of Fort McMurray, which was evacuated. 80,000 people were forced

to leave their homes. A fifth of the town was destroyed. Wildfires have

been raging across Alberta for more than a week.

More than 700 workers who say they were blacklisted by some

of Britain's biggest builders because of their political views

or trade union membership have won millions of pounds

in compensation after a long legal battle.

Their names appeared on a database used by major construction

firms including Balfour Beatty and McAlpine.

Our industry correspondent John Moylan has the story.

It has been called a national scandal, a so-called blacklist

operated in the construction industry involving leading firms

including McAlpine, Balfour Beatty and Karelian, all now facing

multi-million pound pay-outs. It is unbelievable that people could keep

these secret files for decades. It has hit people like Sandie, who says

he was blacklisted from sites in the early 1980s for being an active

trade unionist. He had to look for lower paid jobs. Working for the

local council on ?200 a week is very different from working on a building

site where you can earn ?500 a week or more. It is a financial loss,

possibly hundreds of thousands at the end of the day. You don't get

that back. You would probably be able to live a different life today.

His file one of more than 3000 uncovered in a raid on these offices

in Worcestershire six years ago. The database held details of workers was

no political affiliations and union activities. It was used by the

companies to vet workers on projects including the Olympics. Details of

the settlements in this long-running legal saga have now emerged. The

case involved 771 workers. The total paid in compensation and legal fees

by the firms is thought to be in the region of ?75 million. Individual

workers have received between ?25 and ?200,000. Some say it is not

enough. It does not provide accountability for actions. There

were named defendants. Those named defendants should be required to

give evidence to a public inquiry as to what was going through their

minds when they created this list. And clearly these companies have to

answer questions as to whether or not they are suitable for public

procurement. Tonight, the firms repeated their unreserved apology

for the part on what they call a vetting information system. They

added that they deeply regretted the impact it had on employment

opportunities and the anxiety caused. The firms hope the

settlement will draw a line under the matter, the end of a dark

chapter in Britain's industrial history.

Sky watchers across the world have been treated to the sight

of Mercury, this small black dot, moving across the face of the sun

Travelling at around 30 miles per second, it took Mercury more

This move happens only about 14 times each century.

Could the world's great footballing nations -

Brazil, Germany, Italy - soon be joined by China?

The Chinese Government certainly thinks they could,

and it has come up with a massive national plan to try

to make it happen, led by the president Xi Jinping.

He wants 50 million Chinese people to be playing the game by 2020.

He has ordered 6,000 pitches and stadiums

And he is setting up 50,000 football schools within 10 years.

Our sports correspondent Richard Conway sent this special

The rhythm of football is taking hold across the most populous nation

And there is fierce competitive ambition

here to have the best league and to be the best national team

I'm fine. And you...?

One familiar face has lived and worked here for three years,

and insists there is no end in sight to the game's rapid growth.

Recently, this season, it's gone crazy.

The big, foreign names, they were not really

Only when they are getting older, on the way down.

But now, even when they are at their peak, they are

When Jiangsu Suning took Ramires from Chelsea and Liverpool lost out

on Brazilian striker Alex Teixeira earlier this year,

they became the biggest spending Chinese club, and the world

China's leading players' agent believes more stars will now follow.

We had a saying, like, OK, the only two players

China in this window is Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi!

So the other names, it's all highly possible!

It's here in Tiananmen Square that China's political power is centred.

It has also been the location for some of the darker

But President Xi Jinping is firmly focused on China's future.

He wants the country to be a global leader in football, hosting

A football-supporting President has motives beyond sport, though.

There is an ambition to diversify the economy and for China to exert

Two hours' drive east of Beijing lies the rural

It's here that the President's plan is starting to take shape.

It's home to this elementary school, which lies in the shadow

These six- and seven-year-olds are pioneers.

They attend one of China's first designated football schools

and provide a first glimpse of their President's vision

I just want them to practise walking around with the ball...

The unlikely American forging a new path for the People's Republic

Having achieved cult status in Japan,

contributing to their football development, he's been headhunted

by their neighbours and rivals to deliver similar results.

The economy surpassed Japan, so they're the number two economy,

they're putting rockets up into space, everything's going good,

but they can't beat countries like Thailand in a football match.

In the past, the professional game has faced allegations of corruption,

and has been described by observers as chaotically-run.

But if any country knows about manufacturing

Everything appears to be in place, but they will need to be patient.

It may take another generation before we see a World Cup victory

Newsnight is about to begin over on BBC Two in a few moments.

Project Fear has stepped up a gear with that warning of instability in

Europe if we leave the EU. Liam Fox, former Defence Secretary, will be

with us to assess that risk. Join me for