28/07/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten - Britain's first nuclear plant in 20 years gets

approval from the French energy firm EDF.

Hinkley Point C in Somerset will take a decade to build and cost

Supporters say it's essential for future energy supplies.

We need a lot of new electricity, otherwise the lights

We also need a lot of low carbon electricity.

Construction could start next year, but critics say the project

is absurdly expensive, and the technology is uncertain.

It locks us into a 20th-century technology, when what we should be

doing is investing in today's technologies which are smarter,

cheaper and faster ways of providing our energy security.

But tonight - in a new twist - the government has said it needs

until the autumn to make a final decision.

The plight of a quarter of a million people in Aleppo in northern Syria

under intense bombardment and running out of food.

TRANSLATION: How will these children survive?

Bashar al-Assad is bombing us with everything he has.

Barrel bombs, artillery shells, everything.

Germany's policy of welcoming migrants and refugees will not

change despite recent attacks, according to Chancellor Merkel.

The discovery of a new antibiotic inside the human nose

gives scientists hope of defeating more superbugs.

And we talk to the Welsh swimmer hoping to make an even bigger splash

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News...

The US PGA Championship is in full swing in New Jersey.

But 2-time champion Rory McIlroy struggled to set the pace

The first nuclear plant to be built in the UK for 20 years has been

approved by the French energy firm EDF.

The estimated cost of the project is around ?18 billion,

making it the most expensive power station in the world.

It will take 10 years to build, and once completed,

Hinkley Point will generate 7% of the UK's electricity.

But tonight - in a new twist - the government has said it needs

until the autumn to make a final decision.

For the latest, let's join our business editor Simon Jack,

This is a very different story all of a sudden because of the most

peculiar and unexpected turn of events in the last couple of hours.

This story was all about EDF, getting them to agree to do this and

getting the board to agree its final investment decision, and we got that

around 6pm. Suppose to be the final piece of the puzzle before

construction could begin in earnest. Now the government says it wants to

think about it in a few weeks. It says the government will now

consider carefully all the proponents of this project and make

its decision in early autumn. A cool and noncommittal statement. They are

not saying they will not decide, but I tell you something, it took EDF

completely off-guard. A VIP party arranged for tomorrow has been

cancelled and executives have pulled out of mourning interviews. It's an

unexpected twist in this bedevilled the project.

Potentially the site of the most expensive power plant.

After nearly a decade of wrangling, EDF's board has given

Now the government wants time to consider its position.

Costly and controversial, and yet several previous

ministers have been convinced the project makes sense,

including the man who agreed the terms of the 50 year commitment

Otherwise the lights will go out in 2020.

Otherwise the lights will go out in the 2020s.

We also need a lot of low carbon electricity because the evidence

is climate change is seriously affecting our planet

Given that the Conservative government has taken off the table

options like renewables, like more investment in energy

efficiency, like carbon capture and storage,

the need to have Hinkley has actually gone up.

The deal on the table is a massive undertaking.

Scheduled to take nine years to build it should

It will eventually provide 7% of all of the UK's electricity.

EDF wants to charge ?92.50 per megawatt hour for 35 years.

That's more than double the current prices.

EDF say that will add ?10 to annual bills for 35 years.

And that is if everything goes according to plan, which seems

pretty optimistic given there have been budget and schedule overruns

in Finland and here on EDF's own turf in Flamanville.

Six years behind schedule and 7 billion euros over budget.

The company has had to raise extra money, cut costs,

The prospect of taking on Hinkley as well, prompted EDF's chief

EDF have shared some of that risk with the Chinese state-owned nuclear

company CGN, taking a one third stake in the project.

There are technical risks, as well, there is not yet a working

example of this design anywhere in the world and there are concerns

French unions voted against the project and Austria

is arguing that the price guarantee breaks EU state aid rules.

But how long those will even apply to the UK on its way out of the EU

There has been a lot of will they or won't

If you came here just a few weeks ago this site was dead,

At peak construction there will be 5000 people on site.

What you can see in the background there, that is just to mix

And it isn't just concrete they are pouring in,

it's billions of pounds and a great deal of political capital

in this monument, if you like, to Anglo-French-Chinese collaboration.

But it's not quite all systems go just yet.

The government will make its decision in September

and critics think there are good reasons to pause.

It's not going to do very much our energy security.

We will get no electricity until 2030.

It is going to put up our energy bills.

It locks us into 20th-century technology, when what we should be

doing is investing in today's technologies which are smarter,

cheaper, faster ways to provide energy security.

The EDF decision was welcomed by UK unions and business groups but this

unexpected delay means the on switch still remains unflicked.

Lets talk more about the government statement tonight. Is it a case of

caution or possibly the start of a change of mind in your opinion? It's

very noncommittal, not the Tubthumping we have heard in recent

weeks. Philip Hammond said he thought it was all going ahead. The

plan was that government ministers would line up tomorrow to sign a

whole raft of contracts including the crucial one guaranteeing the

price for 35 years. Senior executives would come down here for

some backslapping and handshaking, and that has all now changed. It

looks as if it could be some time to pause to consider the policy. Both

sides up to their neck in political capital in this up until now. ?2.5

billion have already been spent. It seems at odds with what the

government are trying to promote, that Britain is open for business

and it would be a reassuring vote of confidence in a post-Brexit Britain.

But tonight there is a -- of sourness in the entente cordial

everyone was expecting. Britain and France have called

on the Syrian government and its ally Russia,

to end their siege of the ancient More than a quarter of a million

people are trapped there under intense bombardment and running

out of food. For months, rebel forces have held

the centre of Aleppo. Now the Syrian army,

backed by Russian air power, has completed its encirclement,

cutting the rebels Russia says it is hoping to open

humanitarian corridors to allow people to leave,

although the UN said it hadn't been With the latest, here's our world

affairs correspondent This was once the economic capital

of the country. Syria's largest and richest city. Pummelled by air

strikes, impoverished by four years of fighting, and is now completely

surrounded by government forces. Footage filmed by the Syrian regime

shows their advance. The government has now captured one of the main

roads into Aleppo, severing the rebels' last supply line. Aleppo is

a big prize for both sides and the regime is now determined to take the

whole of the city back. It's a dangerous moment, both for the

rebels and civilians who are running low on food and medicine. Even the

Russians, who are backing the offensive with air strikes say the

humanitarian situation is close to critical. This woman now feeds her

four children by growing vegetables at home. TRANSLATION: We gathered

soil from the garden and planted stuff. The regime blocked all routes

in and we have nothing to eat but this. Make God help us. The families

had no running water for three years, and the children are hungry.

There are fears the regime is trying to starve Aleppo into submission.

TRANSLATION: These children want to eat. There is no medicine. My boy is

disabled. He fell ill the other day but there is no medicine to treat

him. How will these children survive? Bashar al-Assad is bombing

us with everything he has. Barrel bombs, artillery shells, everything.

The bombing of Aleppo has been relentless and indiscriminate. Tens

of thousands have been killed. This week alone the UN says four

hospitals have been hit as well as a blood bank. The Syrian government

has been dropping leaflets telling Syrians how to flee. It has called

for rebels to lay down their arms and leave. The leaflets show the

promised exit corridors, but the erection from rebels, aid workers

and civilians has been one of deep mistrust. This afternoon we got

three to one of the rebels main leaders in Aleppo. TRANSLATION: We

have decided to remain in the city and defend it to our last breath.

This is our land and we will remain steadfast until the very end. With

its latest advances, regime forces now seem to be sensing victory.

Taking Aleppo back would be the regime's biggest military success in

five years and could be a turning point in a war that has killed,

maimed and uprooted so many. Caroline Hawley, BBC News.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that she will not

change her policy of welcoming refugees,

in spite of recent attacks, including two carried out

by asylum seekers, and linked to the Islamic State group.

Mrs Merkel said she would not allow terrorists to undermine Germany's

Our correspondent Chris Buckler has been to the Bavarian

town of Landshut, which has seen a significant influx

Bavaria prides itself on being a welcoming place,

but in Germany's largest state there is increasing

unease over Angela Merkel's so-called open door policy.

Towards those not coming for a holiday, but to make a new life.

The two English words within Landshut's name might give

There are people who want tighter controls on who enters this land.

TRANSLATION: We are prepared to take people in but we need controlled

Earlier this year, the region's Mayor sent a bus of refugees

to Chancellor Merkel's official residence in Berlin.

And with it a message that she should be

doing more to help places like Landshut.

While the flow of people has eased, there are still many in this town

waiting to be given asylum status and therefore still reliant

This man asked for his face not be shown because he has relatives

But the process of approving asylum takes time.

It's struggling to cope, like some of the families

Five years you are in the same place.

There is clear frustration and after recent attacks

involving refugees there were lots of concerns.

There are a lot of people who have crinimal records in their country

When they come here they become idle, they possess that

There are many who feel there should be more checks,

particularly with so many headlines about terror.

And today Chancellor Merkel did propose measures

But to the frustration of right-wing parties, she said her asylum

TRANSLATION: Everywhere in the world, where people

blow themselves up, it is called Islamic terrorism.

But in Germany, here it is explained away as psychological problems.

The majority of people who come here, the vast majority,

There are no security concerns, it is just that they are

TRANSLATION: You can work it out, when there are 2 million people

coming in over a year, if one in 1000 is criminal

that is 2000 people who have bad intentions.

There are an incredibly small number who are a threat to society.

I understand these people who are scared because of

But I think these people just need help.

There is a growing distance between Berlin and Bavaria on how

to deal with worries about finances and fears, and that could leave

The second attacker who murdered an elderly priest at a church

in Normandy has been identified as a known terror suspect

who was being hunted by the French police.

19 year-old Abdel Malik Petitjean - from eastern France -

had recently tried to join the Islamic State group in Syria,

Our correspondent Lucy Williamson is in Paris tonight.

Lucy, what more can you tell us about the second attacker?

He was a young man from the south-east of the country, the

alpine regions 700 kilometres from where the attack took place. He is

not thought to have any police record but the police were given two

tip-offs about him in the weeks leading up to the attack. One from

Turkey who spotted him trying to cross into Syria, they thought, and

one from anti-terror agency in France who handed police a

photograph and said that he might be planning an attack. They didn't get

to him in time, but there are reports here in one of the most

credible news journals in France is suggesting perhaps 200 people might

have had some indication of what the pair were up to because the other

attacker was using social media to send out messages describing exactly

this kind of attack. And also saying he met a mentor, a man in prison who

he said inspired him with ideas. As if anyone was in any doubt hear that

this was a long battle to restore public confidence, President Holland

today announced the creation of a National Guard to try to support the

country's very overstretched security forces.

A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.

Police in Pakistan investigating the death of a

28-year-old woman from Bradford have confirmed that a bruise

was found on her neck at the post mortem.

Samia Shahid died last week while visiting relatives

Her husband says she was the victim of a so-called honour killing,

an allegation denied by her relatives in Pakistan.

A man has been found guilty of murdering 13-month-old

Noah Serra-Morrison in Luton last November.

He died as a result of a fracture to his skull.

Luton Crown Court had heard that Hardepp Hunjan's life

Noah's mother Ronnie Tayler-Morrison

was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child.

Jeremy Corbyn has seen off a legal challenge

and will retain his place in Labour's leadership contest.

A High Court judge ruled that Mr Corbyn did not need nominations

from 51 MPs and MEPs in order to be on the ballot.

The case was brought by the Labour donor Michael Foster

who said he would not appeal against the decision.

Lloyds Banking Group says it's cutting 3,000 jobs

It's being blamed on the transformation

in banking in recent years with far more people using online

Lloyds is still partly state-owned and is already

The UK Supreme Court has ruled against a controversial plan

by the Scottish government to appoint a named person such

as a teacher or health visitor to look after the welfare

The proposal was due to be brought in next month

but the court decided the scheme in its current form

failed to protect families' right to privacy and confidentiality.

Our correspondent Glenn Campbell reports.

The grand design, to safeguard children's rites and welfare by

giving every youngster in Scotland and parents, a named professional to

approach for advice and support. Today, the UK Supreme Court decided

that was fine in principle, flawed in practice as rules on how

confident shall information is shared is too loose.

With delivering the scheme on the ground it could be in breach of

important revelations protecting privacy and confidentiality.

The named person powers, to grab and share confident shall data on

parents and their children was a Big Brother nightmare.

The judges say that while the intention of the law is legitimate

and benign, the information sharing proposals breached rights to privacy

and a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights. That

legislation make it is possible, that confident shall information

about a young person could be widely disclosed without either the child

or their family knowing. Those behind the legal challenge think

that the named persons scheme could be counterproductive.

If you spread resources wider, which is what would happen with this,

people will slip through the net. The bigger the haystack, the more

difficult it is to find the needle. In the Highland Council area, a

version of the scheme is being tried out.

We have the named person as children and families said they wanted a

single point of contact. We have seen it work, improve service

services and reduce risks. Here, they want the named person scheme

scrapped but all other political parties continue to offer broad

support. The Scottish Government says it accepts the court's judgment

and it will now change the law to address the concerns.

The Government has a job of work to do to clarify the data sharing

arrangements to implement the named policy in full as we promised we

would do. Legal defeat is a setback for the

Scottish Government and the plans to put named persons in place next

month. The scheme is delayed but not destroyed. Glenn Campbell, BBC News,

Glenn Campbell, BBC News, Edinburgh.

Scientists in Germany say they hope the discovery of a new antibiotic

inside the human nose could open a new front

New antibiotics are desperately needed as doctors face a growing

challenge from infections that resist existing drugs

Our science editor David Shukman has the story.

Over billions of years, bacteria evolve, some adapting to resist

bugs. Penicillin was the first antibiotic,

an invention that saved millions of lives. But since, researchers

struggled to come up with new weapons against the most dangerous

bacteria, until now. It is significant. When we have been

looking for antibiotics in the past we have been either trying to make

them in the laboratory, using chemistry, or we have gone out into

the environment, to look for organisms in the soil. So this is

really the first report, or an early report of finding antibiotics in our

bodies. Superbugs that can't be defeated by

antibiotics are a growing threat. This discovery could in future prove

life-saving. It starts, bizarrely, inside the nose. It is not a

pleasant thought but lots of bacteria exist up there and compete.

One can cause MRSA but it turns out another kind of bacteria can swap

it. The key finding from the scientist in Germany. They found a

gene in the microbe produces a substance that they have called lug

dinin. When given it to mice, it saw it could resist infections. So it

creates what could become a new type of antibiotic.

Developing drugs is never a rapid process. It could be a decade before

the discovery is turned into a real medicine. But for Emily Morris, help

can't come soon enough. She is well now but keeps getting serious

infections that put her in hospital and the options are running out.

There will be a time, I'm expecting the time when they say that they

can't treat this one. Then it is what happens then? That is why me

and my family are really worried. But hopefully, with the new

technology and things like that, it will look at more positive things.

The real surprise is where this new antibiotic has been found. Until

now, no-one thought that the human nose would be hash ouring useful

bacteria to defeat the dangerous ones. But given the emerging threat

of superbugs, all that matters is that we find something that does

beat them. In Philadelphia Hillary

Clinton will bring the Democratic Convention to a close

later tonight when she formally accepts the party's nomination

for the US Presidency. Last night, Barack Obama told

delegates that there has never been a candidate more qualified to be

President than Hillary Clinton. Our North America editor

Jon Sopel sent this report. They chanted the war cry

from eight years ago But he was here to say, "yes,

she can, and yes she should". The great speech-maker

using all his powers to convince the American people

of Hillary Clinton's virtues. There has never been

a man or a woman, not me, not Bill, nobody, more qualified

than Hillary Clinton to serve as president

of the United States of America. And you can see how much

Bill Clinton loved that. Barack Obama said she had

the temperament and judgment in matters of national security,

unlike her rival, Donald Trump. I know Hillary won't relent

until Isil is destroyed. And she will do it without resorting

to torture, or banning entire She is fit and she is ready to be

the next Commander-in-Chief. There

is more than one New York This one, the former

Republican Mayor of the city, I am a New Yorker, and I know

a con when I see one. From the Vice President,

another attack. This time with a slogan that

just might catch on. He has no clue about what makes

America This is how they do it in politics,

with a big hug. The most powerful, visual symbol

Of what President Obama hopes will be a transfer of power,

not the end of an era. But if it was all love

inside the arena, it's a different This lunch time at one

of Philadelphia's most famous land marks, the doubters

were not hard to find. I think she should have

been more upfront about The list goes from here

all the way to New York. Right now, if I had to pick

from the two, the stronger candidate, that would

be Donald Trump. I was for Donald Trump

in the beginning, now I'm starting starting to see that Hillary

is a little more serious. But some had been

on less of a journey. As this convention is drawing

to a close, Hillary Clinton will be hoping a lot more

people will be saying, It is going to be tough

for Hillary Clinton to match She will say she is steadfast, who

will deliver for the working class of the country, whereas Donald Trump

represents the billionaires. But in a sense, one speech is not what

Hillary Clinton needs. You saw the views in the diner. The doubts about

her honesty and integrity run deep. Those are questions she must

address. A policeman said: In this election there is a choice between a

witch and a bufoon. An election is about choice, I think this November

it is more of a dilemma for some. Thank you very much Jon Soham.

The Olympic Games in Rio start next week

and Team GB have set themselves a target of making it their most

One Welsh swimmer making her Olympic debut is being tipped for success.

Jazz Carlin missed London 2012 because of illness

but she's won medals at every level of international competition.

In the latest of our reports on the British athletes to spot

Andy Swiss has been to speak to Jazz

there are some flashing images in his report.

Few have waited as long or struggled as hard but finally,

Jazz Carlin was still a teenager when she won her first major medals.

She looked set to be one of the stars of London 2012,

but then illness cruelly ended her hopes,

I found out I had glandular fever, and it was a really tough time.

I was getting tonsillitis every two to three weeks.

I had to take time away from the sport, find my love for it

again, find the enjoyment and the passion that I needed.

And come 2014 and the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow,

Jazz Carlin from Swansea takes Wales to gold!

and after the heartache of London, tears, this time of joy.

For Glasgow, it was the kind of home games I'd never got to experience.

To be standing on top of the podium, hearing the national anthem

was probably my proudest moment to date, really.

A lot of people have spoken about your determination.

I know your former coach nicknamed you Pitbull.

Does that sum up your character, do you think?

I think it's one of those things, whether I was at school

in the sports days, I used to love racing, even the sack...

Training is a hard slog sometimes when you're up early

Especially being a distance swimmer, I'm always the first one in the pool

I'm doing between 70 and 80 kilometres a week.

I get home sometimes and just fall asleep on the sofa,

It's tough at times, but it makes it all worth it

What does it mean to you to finally compete in the Olympics?

Yeah, it's one of those things that when you're a young girl

dreaming of the Olympics, you watch these amazing athletes

It's just one of those things where it's a really surreal feeling,

and to finally say I'm going to be an Olympian is incredible.

And so, from the pain of 2012 to perhaps a podium in 2016,

Jazz Carlin will be hoping her Olympic journey ends in a smile.

Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two with Kirsty Wark.

After a bumper build-up, Hillary Clinton takes the stage in

Philadelphia. But with opinions divided, what does she have to do to

stop the divide in the country?