25/08/2016 BBC News at Ten

At least 250 people are dead after Italy's earthquake -

as hope fades of finding many more survivors.

One of the last to be pulled out alive -

a ten year girl called Giulia - trapped beneath the

Violent after-shocks are hampering rescue teams, sending more terror

through already traumatised towns. Just have a look over

here and you'll see all that dust has been caused

by the new after-shock. Tonight a local official

in the devastated town of Amatrice says there are at least three

British nationals among the dead. Also tonight: Four of the five young

friends who went on a day trip to the beach at Camber Sands

and lost their lives in the sea. On the roads to Calais,

people smugglers resort to violent tactics -

blocking roads with trees - And he's behind you -

Ukip's former leader takes to the stage with Donald Trump

in the US. And coming up in Sportsday

on BBC News at 10:30pm: The Champions Leicester find

out their Champions League opponents, as Manchester City

and Celtic find themselves Rescue teams in central Italy

are spending a second night searching for survivors

of the devastating earthquake that hit in the early hours

of yesterday morning. 250 people are now known

to have been killed. At least three Britons are feared

to be among them - The 6.2 magnitude quake struck

a group of mountain towns and villages in the early hours

of yesterday morning - We have two reports tonight

from the worst hit villages - Amatrice, 60 miles north east

of Rome, and Pescara Del Tronto - which have both been almost wiped

off the map. First we hear from James

Reynolds in Amatrice - a town which was packed with people

preparing for its annual Look at the town of Amatrice and see

if you can find anywhere The quake damaged or destroyed much

of its historic centre. This afternoon there

was a large after-shock. The ground has just shaken again

here and the effects Just have a look over

here and you'll see all that dust has been caused

by the new after-shock. I'm not even sure what to call it,

but we heard and we felt the entire tarmac here -

the entire ground - move. The worry at the moment will be

that rescue workers, who were down there,

you can see in the dust already working, that they might

now have been caught. Elena Serafini is still recovering

from the quake itself. She and her family were sleeping

at home when they felt TRANSLATION: You can't

understand it. It's as if you see

the face of death. A disaster - we didn't

know how to get out. We watched rescuers search

the remains of his house. Two hours later they

brought out a body. This is what the loss

of hope looks like. Relief workers, clearly exhausted,

say it's hard to stay optimistic. "It's so difficult,"

Domenico told me. "There's a lot of dust, the sniffer

dogs aren't finding anything." Some survivors have been given

a new temporary home in the park. The youngest may have no idea

what they've all just lived through. And tonight relief workers

have pitched two dozen More than 1000 people now need

a place to stay in their own town. Just 15 miles north of Amatrice

lies the small village The population there

runs to little over 100, but such is the devastation that

virtually the entire village is now homeless,

as our correspondent From up high you really see how this

village tumbled down the mountain. Down there, teams were

still searching today, Another tremor could send

the rubble cascading lower, so everyone was kept away while fire

crews helped people who had come Francesco and his family

all survived. But all they can do

is recover a few possessions. "We spent lovely times

here, lovely moments. But in this landscape now there's

no life or laughter, Hundreds of years of history,

of memory, obliterated. It's as if a giant wrecking ball hit

Pescara Del Tronto and smashed This man knew many of them,

saw them every day when he came TRANSLATION: We're talking

about people I used to see You can see very clearly up

here it's the old part of Pescara Del Tronto, the bottom

of the hill, that collapsed. People living at the top

in new homes survived. 17 hours after the quake

though, there was this Giulia, a ten-year-old girl,

plucked from under the rubble. The rescue teams here managed

to dig her free. Since then they've found

no more survivors. Still, they search

on knowing at least two more One rescuer told us though

there was little chance The town collapsed

like a house of cards. The sand that held buildings

together crumbled and it seems unlikely they'll

ever be reconstructed. I don't think that you could

rebuild the same town, no. I hope no, but if you see,

the reality is different A village broken,

robbed of its future. Damian Grammaticas, BBC News,

Pescara Del Tronto. Let's go back to a Matt Ritchie and

James Reynolds is there. How difficult is it for the authorities

to establish just how many people may have died? -- let's go back to

amatory J. It's extremely difficult, this was peak tourist season. There

were plenty of tourists having their summer holidays or preparing for the

summer festival so the authorities are struggling to account for their

whereabouts. An official has told us three British citizens have been

killed here and the Foreign Office stresses it is providing consular

support. Italy is also have a number of questions of their own. The most

simple, the most powerful as this. Why did buildings collapse? This is

an earthquake prone region. There was a big quake in 2009, in

L'Aquila, more than 300 people died. After that, Italy decided buildings

should be renovated to obey the earthquake code. Clearly, as you can

see, that did not happen. Italian prosecutors have begun a criminal

investigation to find out whether or not anybody should be to blame for

this. James Reynolds, thank you. The five men who died in the sea

at Camber Sands in East Sussex yesterday afternoon were a group

of friends who'd gone Police say they were in their late

teens and early 20s. It's believed they may have got

into trouble after failing to realise how quickly

the tide would come in. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy

reports. They were friends from childhood

who played football together Four of the five men have now been

named and include two brothers, Also among the dead

is Inthushan Sri, whilst Nitharsan Ravi was just

22 years old. His brother says the men had just

gone for a fun day out at the beach. They don't know how

to explain their agony. They still feel like he's

with us, he's amongst us, especially those four others,

he's very upset about the parents of them, how the siblings

are coping just like me. It's been a very

emotional day for us. There were around 25,000 people

on the beach when the five men, all in their teens and early 20s,

lost their lives. Yesterday's tragedy took

place extremely quickly. Emergency services were called

at 2:10pm, but just ten minutes later a second person

was in difficulty and by 2:35pm a third person was being

pulled from the sea. Then last night the bodies

of the two other men Even today, witnesses say

they are bewildered. All night I was just walking

around in the bedroom. Did you think twice

about coming back today? But how did the men

get into trouble? Some say it's strong

undercurrents called riptides, whilst others say they don't really

exist here at Camber Sands. Instead they blame the huge

undulations in the beach in conjunction with

the fast incoming tide. There's quite a significant

difference between the top The tide will come in very quickly

and people can become cut off and get out

of their depth really quickly. There's no lifeguard to intervene

in these waters that have the power to overwhelm and turn a place

of safety and fun into one Duncan Kennedy, BBC News,

on the Camber Sands. Motorists heading to Calais

are being warned to be extra vigilant at night as people

smugglers resort to increasingly An investigation by BBC South East

has filmed masked men blocking motorways with fallen trees -

causing traffic to stop - so they can get migrants on board

lorries more easily. The authorities in Calais say

the French army should be called in because the roads have become too

dangerous for motorists between midnight and

six in the morning. We're on the main motorway

into Calais. Careful. Entirely blocking

the carriageway, a tree, dragged onto the road by masked

and armed people smugglers. Using increasing levels of violence

this is the terrifying reality The roadblock causes traffic

to build, giving migrants the chance The smugglers direct them

to lorries, queueing behind us. In the shadows they flank our

vehicle, but then... Oh, look, he's hitting the car,

he's hitting the lorry. The smugglers turn their attention

to the people they traffic. Migrants who don't pay are often

subjected to violence. They're moving it, so now

they're moving the tree. It's unclear how many migrants got

onto trucks but with their job done the smugglers disappear back

into the bushes. We've now pulled over

but that was a really The people smugglers, the guys

with the masks around their faces, controlled the whole situation

with menace and threats of violence. The attacks are constant and spread

out over a wide area. The French police are on patrol

and search motorway An estimated 9000 migrants

are now in Calais. The city's deputy mayor believes

the police need assistance The army could come to support

the police and to stop the migrants A tree dragged onto the road

by masked and armed We showed our footage to returning

British holiday-makers. I would say that's pretty scary

and certainly it's a bit worrying as to where things

are going to develop. Travelling on Calais's roads

at night is running the gauntlet. Armed masked people

smugglers and migrants often The roadblocks and the attacks are

happening here in Calais between midnight and 6am. But French police

sources say there are around 30 incidents every night. This weekend

is going to be one of the busiest of the year with many British

holiday-makers returning home. The advice if you are going to be

driving on these roads late at night is to drive carefully.

Colin Campbell, thank you. The government has restated its goal

of cutting net migration to below 100,000, after official figures

revealed it remains at more 327,000 more people came to the UK

than left in the year to March - Net migration from the EU

was 180,000, with record arrivals Ministers say reducing EU migration

will be at the heart NHS managers have suspended

children's Accident Emergency The Children's Emergency Centre

at the County Hospital has been deemed unsafe due to a shortage

of specialist staff. The trust said emergency care

was available at other hospitals. More than half a million

teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

received their GCSE results today. Overall grades are down

to their lowest level since 2008 - and have shown their biggest ever

year on year decline. The proportion of pupils getting

an A star to C is down The overall fall has been blamed

on tens of thousands of pupils in England who last year got less

than a C being forced Results in Northern Ireland have

improved and remained Our education editor

Branwen Jeffreys On the Chantry estate in Ipswich,

the first nervous arrivals. Golden envelopes, containing

happy news for some. Neve did even better than she'd

hoped, but not such good news for ministers, as overall

results in England fell. This school is helping

its pupils make progress. But here, too, they saw a small

dip in results. Anyone who gets a D in English

or maths is going to have to resit And the effect of that resit policy

is already showing up For Corbin, even though

he was chilled before, the relief of getting a B

in maths was obvious. I don't have to retake them so I can

get on with life. But schools are under pressure

to be more academic. More kids sitting hard GCSE subjects

has also had an effect. It's about giving children

here better prospects, say ministers, so no Government

apology for the academic focus. Instead, a reminder that employers

want qualifications. More teenagers are signing up

at colleges like Suffolk One. For Sophie and Jade,

that meant a check They got D grades and face

re-sitting until they pass. It's not my subject that

I'm good at. I don't think it should be forced

upon them when they've just left This college gets a third of

students through maths GCSE resits, But the principal told me

resitting the same exam The important thing is that

students demonstrate a level of competency and knowledge,

and different qualifications Results day in England has brought

plenty of questions, Next year, GCSE maths and English

will be even tougher exams. Branwen Jeffreys, BBC News,

Ipswich. An investigation by the United

Nations has concluded that both the Syrian Government,

and so-called Islamic State, have used chemical weapons

in the war in Syria. Three years ago, hundreds of Syrians

were killed in a large chemical attack in Ghouta,

to the east of Damascus. The moment marked the crossing

of what President Obama Our correspondent Quentin

Sommerville has spoken to some His report contains some very

distressing images near the start. The destruction in Syria today

is becoming familiar. But in these streets,

a particular horror took place. In Syria's civil war,

innocents are regularly targeted, Three years ago in Ghouta,

they weren't able to wash off This man was working

as a nurse that night. In his arms, he holds two tiny

babies killed in the attack. TRANSLATION: Most of the victims

were children and babies, and some mothers died immediately

because they were sleeping and by the time they realised

what was happening, There is much evidence

that the attack here came from forces loyal to President

Assad. Damascus, though, denies

using chemical weapons. For this man, this is a war crime

that's gone unpunished. TRANSLATION: There were 10,000

people living here. If someone was tried with murder,

he'd be tried with trying It's been three years since this

crime, this massacre, And it is a crime

that's being repeated. In Aleppo, a suspected

gas attack last week. The regime was forced to destroy

its chemical weapons stocks, This attack is one of more than 60

identified by the BBC that show chemical weapons

are still in steady use. And this was the town

of Sarmin in March last year. The UN says it is certain

that the Syrian regime used And that later elsewhere,

the so-called Islamic But it was in Ghouta,

three years ago, that a red line was crossed,

and threatened Western military intervention

never materialised. In Syria, chemical

attacks keep coming. Still, enough to keep killing,

and just small enough to avoid too much attention

from the outside world. The Labour leadership challenger

Owen Smith has attacked Jeremy Corbyn's record in Scotland,

saying the party had fallen to third place,

behind the SNP and Conservatives, Mr Smith was speaking

at a debate between the two Mr Corbyn said Labour's

new anti-austerity message would win back voters from the Scottish

Nationalists. Jeremy Corbyn did get a seat on the

virgin train he travelled on. Owen Smith flew in, saying that as a

Welshman he understands the nuances of Scottish politics. After recent

electoral disasters, the Labour Party needs a huge turnaround in

Scotland. Jeremy Corbyn has attracted thousands of new members

to the Labour Party in Scotland but they are still dwarfed by the SNP,

who have stolen so much support from the Labour Party here. The question

is, can Jeremy Corbyn or Owen Smith convince voters that they can win

back Scotland for Labour? They were asked exactly that as the hustings

began, asked what has gone wrong for the party in Scotland? There have

been very tough challenges. The issues have to be the Labour Party's

commitment to redistribution of wealth and power, to challenge the

SNP on its austerity programme which is so damaging to local government

across Scotland. We have gone backwards on your watch in Scotland.

In the last year when you have been leader of the Labour Party across

the UK, we have gone from second to third behind the Tories. On Europe,

will either man promised a new referendum or a manifesto that

rejects the Brexit deal? We will have the courage to put it back to

the British people to rubber stamp or reject Brexit at a second

referendum or in a manifesto at a general election. If we go into an

election saying there was a referendum but we did not like the

results we will ignore it, identikit says very much for our respect for

democracy. I am not sure Jeremy did vote in the referendum. I thought we

had grown up and were no longer going to use those kind of questions

or remarks. I'm still wondering why you haven't answered my direct

question. You know perfectly well what the answer is and I am

surprised and disappointed that you should even raise this question.

They talk about restoring party unity but their faces tell a very

different story. How much of our data should police

and the state have access to? That's the question before

Parliament next month. The House of Lords is expected

to push the Government to give way on some of the more controversial

provisions in the In the third in our series on big

decisions facing the Prime Minister, In our connected lives, we

increasingly leave a trail of data. The question at the heart

of the Investigatory Powers Bill is how far police, spies

and the state should be able The most significant new power

is the requirement that, for the first time, everyone's

so-called internet connection record What would be kept is the fact that

someone had been on a particular website, like, say,

a social media site, although not what they had been

specifically communicating. It would also show if someone had

been on a travel site, booking flights, although not

what specific page they had It would also show if someone had

been on a site hosting criminal content, such as child abuse

material, or that When we make phone calls,

police can currently get details But as we move to communicate

through the internet, they say their job will become much

harder without this new power. By getting the itemised billing,

we can work out who you spoke to and we can do normal law

enquiries to then If you had done the same thing

but booked through the internet, then all we would get is the fact

that you connected to the internet. We will not know who it is you are

speaking to, or the purpose for which you are speaking,

and that really curtails our And you'd get that from these

internet connection records. But those concerned over privacy say

since we live so much of our lives online,

details of all our web browsing will reveal much more

about our lives than the phone So you can get the most

enormously detailed life map of what people are doing,

incredibly rich perspective on people's lives, from

a smartphone, which you could never The Investigatory Powers Bill

returns to Parliament next month and the parts which deal

with internet connection records may face heavy pressure in the House

of Lords, forcing Theresa May to decide if she wants to make

concessions on a bill she sponsored If Labour peers hear the strength

of argument against giving the Government these powers,

then I think there is every chance that we can force them to think

again on this. It is expensive, it is intrusive,

and ultimately it is ineffective. I don't see that really having much

chance of getting through the Lords. Technology is transforming our

lives, challenging everything And whatever happens

with the specific provisions of this bill, the big decisions

surrounding our data and who gets Nigel Farage has spoken to thousands

of Republican supporters The outgoing Ukip leader

said he wouldn't tell American people how to vote,

but he stressed the party could "beat the pollsters"

in the race to become the next US Mississippi is now

Donald Trump country! Donald Trump tries to fire up his

controversial campaign. His theme, to the surprise of some,

the lessons of Brexit. I am going to invite onto the stage

the man behind Brexit, and a man who led, brilliantly,

the United Kingdom Donald Trump didn't quite know

where to find Nigel Farage but the former Ukip leader said

he came with a message of hope that little people could take back

control of their destiny. We made June 23rd our

Independence Day when we smashed Nigel Farage didn't explicitly

endorse Donald Trump but he was dismissive

of his opponent. But I will say this,

if I was an American citizen, I wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton

if you paid me. So how does Nigel Farage being here

help the campaign for Donald Trump? Well, the Trump campaign

want their TV audiences to see their candidate not

as extreme or divisive, but part of a much wider

anti-establishment movement. Then it was back to the political

roughhouse. And afterwards, the verdict

on Nigel Farage? Many here believed they were in

the same fight as Britain. We love him, he's wonderful,

an inspiration to us. And we want to do the same thing,

we want to take our country back Are you comfortable being seen

as an ally on stage Well, look, you know,

there was nothing tonight in that speech that he gave,

I don't think by anybody, that could be construed

as extremist or unpleasant. Nigel Farage left, his moment

in American politics over, but he stepped

into a fierce political battle, with Hillary Clinton today

denouncing the Trump campaign Gavin Hewitt, BBC News,

Jackson, Mississippi. The French fashion designer

Sonia Rykiel, known as the queen of knitwear, has died aged 86.

She'd been suffering She began her career as a window

dresser but by the Sixties had became a fixture

of the Paris fashion scene. Her striped knitwear designs,

which were seen as an alternative to formal suits, earned her a famous

following, including The French President,

Francois Hollande, was one of the first to pay tribute,

describing her as a pioneer, not only in creating fashion,

but also an attitude that Here, it's time for

the news where you are.