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Britain is to get its first new nuclear power plant in 20 years. | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
The Government has finalised a deal for the building | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
of Hinkley C in Somerset, with the French company EDF, | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
and billions of pounds of investment from China. | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, was expected to agree the deal | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
two months ago, but ordered a review on security | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
The Government says it will now impose safeguards | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
for future foreign investment in infrastructure projects. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
But Labour says the measures are 'window-dressing'. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
Here's our political editor Laura Kuenssberg. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Were they really going to stop the engines? | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
And give up on years of preparation, chuck away millions already spent? | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
Statement, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
Ministers did pause, but are now pressing go. | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
Hinkley unleashes a long overdue new wave of investment in nuclear | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
engineering in the UK, creating 26,000 jobs | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
and apprenticeships, providing a huge | :01:17. | :01:17. | |
Under the ?18 billion deal, the new reactor should | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
The Chinese plan to build another new nuclear plant | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
The Government will take a special share in that and any future | :01:30. | :01:46. | |
That will give them some more control over | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
The deal was first signed last year, amid a welcome for the Chinese | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
leader, that could hardly have been more lavish. | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
There were nerves around Westminster about the huge cost, | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
security and the environment, but Chinese involvement | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
in new nuclear projects was applauded at the top. | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
But with a change of the boss, a change of heart, and to Chinese | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
fury, one of Theresa May's first acts was to delay the decision | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
Mr Speaker, the Government created a commercial crisis, | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
they sent shock waves through the industry and unions | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
alike, they risked a diplomatic dispute with one of our key future | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
trading partners, and in the end all they have done is pretend | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
to give themselves powers which they already possessed. | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
Ministers say there will be an important new framework to check | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
up on all big projects - the hope Hinkley will help keep | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
the lights on at Big Ben and everywhere else. | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
The risk is controversial and expensive. | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
When Theresa May moved into Number Ten, the National Security Council | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
had already reviewed the deal, the terms had already been agreed. | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Those close at that stage tell me there is no fundamental difference | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
But imagine she had gone ahead straightaway. | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
The brand-new Prime Minister would have been waving through one | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
of the most controversial deals in history, barely | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
There is no difference, and one has to wonder that Britain's | :03:19. | :03:35. | |
paid a very high diplomatic price and potentially a price | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
Now there is official go ahead, the next stage | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
But no project like this has been completed before. | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
All the fuss, all the political hopes for Hinkley | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
The boss of the French energy firm, EDF, which will build the new plant, | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
says the deal is a big boost for the UK and "great news" | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
Here's our business editor, Simon Jack. | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
Off the drawing board and into reality. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
Today was heralded as the renaissance of UK nuclear | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
but in truth it's been a protracted and difficult rebirth. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
But one to be celebrated, according to its proud French parent. | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
It is a great boost for the UK industry and it is a great step | :04:18. | :04:27. | |
It is not just good news for the French builders | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
the benefits of this project will be felt in the economy | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
We are really pleased about the jobs which were promised, | :04:35. | :04:45. | |
over 25,000 over its lifetime, 500 new apprentices, and, | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
We are really pleased about the jobs which were promised, | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
over 25,000 over its lifetime, 500 new apprentices, and, | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
of course, plenty of jobs within the supply chain. | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
Similar projects in France and Finland have run billions over | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
budget and years over schedule - risks the builders will bear | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
We are really pleased about the jobs which were promised, | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
Similar projects in France and Finland have run billions over | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
budget and years over schedule - risks the builders will bear | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
in return for potentially large rewards went built. | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
The Government clearly feels the political and economic case | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
But does that make it, in itself, a good idea? | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Now if it's delivered on budget, it'll cost that figure | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
of ?18 billion you've heard, making it the most expensive | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
The good news is that EDF and their Chinese partners | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
are paying that cost upfront, but only because the Government has | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
agreed to guarantee them a price of ?92.50 per unit of that | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
That compared to the current price of just ?43. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Now, depending on the electricity prices at any one time, | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
that equates to a subsidy of between ?10 to ?20 per household | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
When complete, it'll contribute to 7% of the UK's total electricity | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
needs but that is not enough to convince | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
Well what we need to be doing now is investing in the renewables, | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
in wind, which is already available, off-shore wind is cheaper | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
We need to invest in solar, so people can have this | :06:07. | :06:19. | |
on the roofs of their houses, put that together with batteries | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
and they could be getting revenues as well as bills. | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
But when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
you have a problem, which can lead to shortfalls like yesterday, | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
when a sudden demand surge saw prices rocket to twice | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
the price of electricity produced by Hinkley. | :06:33. | :06:33. | |
The UK energy price spike has drawn attention to how narrow our supply | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
That's the reason behind the Government's thinking | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
If you thought Hinkley was controversial, wait | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
China expects to be rewarded for its support of this project, | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
with a contract to design, build and operate it's very | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
It's thought the Chinese will submit plans to build that nuclear plant, | :06:52. | :07:03. | |
But some have questioned whether Beijing should be able | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
to play such a big role in a critical part of UK | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
infrastructure, even with Government safeguards. | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
Here's our China editor, Carrie Gracie. | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
For China, today is less about Hinkley Point and more about Brad | :07:19. | :07:29. | |
well. The go ahead for the Somerset plant embeds China in future UK | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
energy plans and means that a state-owned Chinese company will be | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
building critical national infrastructure, here in Essex. The | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
Chinese side would say it's been a long time coming. Three years ago, | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
an eager Chancellor was impressed by the scale and speed of China's | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
nuclear roll-out and soon invited Beijing to invest and bid for | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
contracts in the UK. They are going to use the deal as a stepping stone | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
to achieve major foothold in the European market and you get into | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
demand sectors like nuclear, it is a major success for the Chinese. China | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
will now begin the long process of getting its nuclear reactor approved | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
in the UK and then it'll build it here in Essex T wants Bradwell to be | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
its nuclear showcase to the world and with this deal, the UK is | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
forging closer ties with China, just at the moment when other major | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Western powers are becoming more cautious in their dealings with | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Beijing. The United States, for example, diplomatic niceties aside, | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
Washington has accused the UK's new Chinese partner of stealing US | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
nuclear technology and Australia's just rejected a Chinese extra bid on | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
national security grounds. Britain is now committed to going much | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
further than its Allies and neighbours, to secure Chinese | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
investment. It brings up all kinds of questions when you are dealing | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
with the Chinese. I know that a company here in the United States | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
work with the Chinese and as a result every scrap of information, | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
every iota of technical information on all of their designs went, gone, | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
went to China. Bradwell, the symbol of mu actual | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
trust between Beijing and London - mutual trust. They'll now want to | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
put a bruising seven weeks behind them and get back to the language of | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
win-win deals to come. Expect talk of a free trade deal for a | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
post-Brexit British economy, and a Chinese role in other piece of key | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
UK infrastructure, high speed rail. The Government took close to two | :09:45. | :09:57. | |
months to review the deal. Was it ever really in doubt? I think it | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
didn't feel it was inevitable when the Prime Minister slammed the | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
brakes on at the end of July. It was a shock to a lot of people, | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
especially after the really visible enthusiasm of the previous | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
administration but when you talk to Theresa May's team they are deadly | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
serious about this. They say they were quite surprised the checks and | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
balances hadn't been more thorough on this deal, those that had been | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
put in place. They were very clear - Theresa May was not going to be | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
rushed, she very determinedly wanted tolike at this again and take her | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
time over T when you look at the big picture, to back out two would been | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
a serious two fingers up not just to the Chinese, but also to France, at | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
a time when the UK needs friends because we are embarking on the | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
process of leaving the EU. It would have been a real alarm for the | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
business community from a new Government, not necessarily because | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
there weren't alternatives but a question of trust, the deal had been | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
agreed and politically, to tear up this part of David Cameron and | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
George Osborne's legacy, would have been an enormous political statement | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
for the new Prime Minister, who, afterall, sat around the same | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
Cabinet table as them. So maybe it wasn't quite inevitable, but I do | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
think that the Government was looking for a way it make this | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
happen, rather than looking for a way out. OK, many thanks. | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
The shocking impact on the health service in England, of a crisis | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
in social care provision, has been laid bare today. | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
New figures show a rapid rise in the numbers of people | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
unable to leave hospital, because of problems | :11:27. | :11:27. | |
It's costing the NHS ?820 million a year and putting | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
hospitals under huge strain - as our social affairs correspondent | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
found out in Liverpool and, a warning, there are some | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
It's nine o'clock in the morning and the Royal Liverpool Hospital | :11:40. | :11:49. | |
In accident and emergency, patients needing immediate treatment | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
At the minute, the A department is full. | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
Each of these red dots represent someone who has been waiting | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
for more than four hours, breaching government targets. | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
One patient has been here 18 hours, ready to be moved to a ward. | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
There is no capacity, we are actually overflowing in A | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
You must be really frustrated with that? | :12:16. | :12:25. | |
We need to get those patients moved as soon as possible. | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
Upstairs, senior staff are trying to free up beds | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
for the new patients needing operations or emergency treatment. | :12:34. | :12:45. | |
There is no trolley space in resuss and we have | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
two patients waiting in the corridor at the moment. | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
Have we got any patients identified who can be moved? | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
Yes, there are about three or four, we have nowhere to move them out to. | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
They have more than 100 patients who are ready to leave hospital, | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
but can't because there are delays in getting home care, residential | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
The surgery cannot start until we have identified a bed | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
for someone to return to after theatre. | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
86-year-old Derek Chin is one of the patients who will go | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
He has been on the specialist stroke ward whilst waiting | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
This was the only bed available for doctors, | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
even though he had a fall, not a stroke. | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
Essentially, it is a very expensive residential home bed. | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
He isn't the problem, it is our system preventing us | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
from discharging people appropriately, which means | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
for the acute patients who have the need for these beds, | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
are being delayed downstairs in the accident and emergency department. | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
On another ward, Camille has been waiting 72 days to leave hospital, | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
but the council is struggling to find a care provider who can support | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
They should do more to get people back into the community. | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
These are the pressures being felt in an increasing number of hospitals | :13:58. | :14:15. | |
More and more cuts are expected from us... | :14:16. | :14:32. | |
The man who runs social care in the city says | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
they are struggling with budget cuts and staff shortages. | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
We are seeing more people in high demand is because of their health. | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
People are living longer which is great, we celebrate it, | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
but we don't have the services out there to cope with the number. | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
This sounds like a system at breaking point? | :14:47. | :14:47. | |
Yes, and that is what keeps me awake at night. | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
The government says it is making significantly more money available | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
to social care to ensure affordable, dignified support. | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
It is five o'clock and back at A at the Royal, | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
there is no letup in patients needing help but for this time | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
For a short period of time they had to divert ambulances | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
They have nine people on trolleys in corridors and there | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
are no resuscitation beds available at the moment. | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
Upstairs in a meeting, the implications of that are clear. | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
The emergency department is now on the highest level of alert. | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
It means, as they head into the evening, they will begin | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
the search for people who can be sent home safely all over again. | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
And you can find out the cost of care in your area, | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
wherever you live in the UK, by using the BBC's online guide. | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
Enter your postcode, local council name, | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
or Northern Ireland health board, and discover the cost | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
of an hour of homecare and information about | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
Let's take a brief look at some of the day's other top stories now. | :15:51. | :16:01. | |
Police are investigating the deaths of a woman and her nephew in London, | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
They died at a flat in East Finchley. | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
The family of the victims, named locally as Anny Ekofo, | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
who was 52, and her nephew, Bervil, may have been the victims | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
Five police officers face possible dismissal over the way they dealt | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
with a man who'd broken his neck following an incident | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
Julian Cole who's 23, broke his neck outside a nightclub | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Prosecutors are deciding whether to go to court | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
following an investigation by the police watchdog, the IPCC. | :16:33. | :16:42. | |
The Bank of England says the short-term economic impact | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
of Brexit isn't as bad as first feared. | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
It's predicting growth for the third quarter of this year | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
Our economics editor Kamal Ahmed is in the City for us tonight. | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
This seems to mark a significant change in tone on the part of the | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
Bank of England? I think you are absolutely right. The Bank of | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
England, a definite change of tone from the rather gloomy assessment it | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
made post the referendum vote in August. It is responding to a whole | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
list of new figures which really show that the impact of the vote is | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
not as bad as expected. Employment figures are strong. Consumer | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
confidence is up. House prices haven't collapsed. Retail sales are | :17:34. | :17:42. | |
strong. After the vote the Bank of England cut interest rates to a | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
record low which boosted consumer confidence. We are still in the | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
European Union, paradoxically with a weaker currency. It is very good for | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
exports and that is another boost for the economy. There is a degree | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
of political stability and certainly warmer noises from the UK Government | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
about wanting a good trade deal with the European Union. That settled | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
some business fears. If this confidence going to continue into | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
2017? They're the bank is much more cautious. It says there is some | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
evidence of importation costs growing. It is keeping in its back | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
pocket, the opportunity or the decision to reduce interest rates | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
again if the economic data takes a turn for the worst. Thank you. | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
Hillary Clinton is back campaigning tonight in her run | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
for the White House, after collapsing at a 9/11 memorial | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
The Democratic candidate told supporters that it was great to be | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
back. Meanwhile, her Republican rival, | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
Donald Trump, has released details of his health, as our North America | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
editor Jon Sopel reports. Hillary Clinton is up | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
and running again - That's big progress from last | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
Sunday when she collapsed It was later revealed | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
she was suffering from pneumonia. First campaign stop, | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
Greensboro, North Carolina. And to the strains of I Feel Good, | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
she took to the stage. I have to say it's great to be back | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
on the campaign trail! I recently had a cough that turned | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
out to be pneumonia! I tried to power through it but even | :19:29. | :19:38. | |
I had to admit a few days Her supporters, it seemed, | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
couldn't have been less The only thing I worry about, | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
she may have been working too hard! Are you concerned about | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
her health? I think she's a great example | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
for all women, especially young women who want to get | :20:02. | :20:14. | |
into politics like me. Women push through and | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
work through sickness. Today, Donald Trump's physician | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
released a letter with some of his medical history, | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
and most recent test results. And last night in Ohio, | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
he appeared magnanimous In all fairness, she's lying in bed | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
getting better and we want her better, we want | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
her back on the trail. But as you might expect, | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
limits to that magnanimity... You think Hillary would be | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
able to stand up here Hillary Clinton has not been | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
on stage for an hour but she's come through this unscathed, | :20:54. | :21:04. | |
54 days till polling and next stop - The person with all the momentum | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
at the moment is Donald Trump. The UN has made a fresh | :21:09. | :21:25. | |
appeal to President Assad, to allow aid convoys | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
into the northern city of Aleppo, where nearly 300,000 people are said | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
to be in desperate need. Many more have fled the fighting | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
there, which has been going on for four years, | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
and among them, 15-year-old Nujeen Mustafa in a wheelchair, | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
made the perilous journey to Europe. Our special correspondent, | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
Fergal Keane met her exactly a year ago, at a border | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
crossing in Hungary. She's now settled in Germany, | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
and he's been back to meet her. 2000 miles from Aleppo and the war, | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
Nujeen Mustafa has a new life. On her way to school, | :21:56. | :22:04. | |
speaking fluent German, This is Nujeen a year | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
after arriving on European shores. It was a journey made by thousands, | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
but for a girl in a wheelchair, You should fight to get | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
what you want in this world so, yes, Age 16 she taught herself English | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
by watching soap operas I would love to be in | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
astronaut and go out and see Nujeen's journey has crossed | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
the borders of nations As I said, I am | :22:42. | :22:52. | |
stronger than I look. The new Nujeen is just | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
like any other person. She wakes up early, | :23:04. | :23:13. | |
she goes to school, she is a hard-working pupil, | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
I hope. But this is not a story | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
with an uncomplicated happy ending. Resentment of migration | :23:21. | :23:37. | |
is growing in Germany. In Cologne, young migrant men | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
were blamed for a wave of With over a million migrants | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
and refugees arriving in the last year, the far right | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
has gained politically. It would refuse entry | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
to people like Nujeen. The refugee policies | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
of Angela Merkel were wrong I would have catered for let's say | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
Syrians in the region, in Lebanon, That would have been cheaper | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
and you would have been able But like many Syrians, | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
Nujeen longs for home. Here she is in Aleppo | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
before the war. She wanted to send | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
a message to Syria. And don't worry, you are just | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
really, really sick. But I am sure you are going to get | :24:27. | :24:36. | |
better, and when you do, Fergal Keane, BBC News, | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Cologne. The BBC is being asked to name | :24:42. | :24:56. | |
all its presenters and staff, It's part of the renewal | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
of the corporation's Royal Charter, the document which sets out how it | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
should be run, Our home editor Mark Easton's report | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
contains some flashing images. Fascination with celebrities, | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
what people earn and demand for accountability have | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
combined to open the seal There are top names | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
like Gary Lineker, chat show host Graham Norton, | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
and Strictly stars like to pocket hundreds | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
of thousands year. But now, after a change | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
of government thinking, scores of journalists and presenters | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
will have their salaries published. Theresa May, who has long | :25:38. | :25:47. | |
had a reputation for transparency in public life, | :25:48. | :25:49. | |
is insisting that everyone at the BBC who earns more | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
than ?150,000 a year The new government says the public | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
has a right to know. My concern is that these | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
proposals won't help. They are not in the best interests | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
of our audiences. We operate in a highly competitive | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
market as was reinforced this week, Programmes like the Great British | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
Bake Off, just acquired by Channel 4 which outbid the BBC, | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
will be even more difficult for the Corporation to hold | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
onto, it is suggested. The Government though | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
says the new charter The BBC is one of this country's | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
greatest achievements These reforms ensure it | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
will continue to be cherished at home and abroad for many | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
years to come. The licence fee, part of British | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
life since the 1920s, will now The biggest change is to the way | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
the BBC is governed. The independent BBC Trust | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
is abolished, and replaced by a new BBC unitary | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
board of 14 people - five including the chair, | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
appointed by the Government. Five independent appointees | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
and four BBC executives. The government don't want to be seen | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
to be running the BBC, in control of the media, | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
but they do want their hands around the BBC's neck every now and again, | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
just because they can't resist it. There may be anxieties | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
about independence and salaries, but many in broadcasting | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
and would probably agree that the new charter is largely | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
a BBC continuity announcement. Mark Easton, BBC News, | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
Broadcasting House. It's been another triumphant day | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
for Britain's Paralympians in Rio, with golds for canoeists | :27:31. | :27:32. | |
Jeanette Chippington, There was also victory in equestrian | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
events, as British athletes passed With all of today's action, | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
here's our sports correspondent Proof that the best things really do | :27:41. | :28:00. | |
come to those who wait. 20 years ago, Jeanette Chippington was | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
winning Paralympic gold as a swimmer before she retired and became an | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
instructor. Now in her 40s, a comeback as a canoeist produced a | :28:09. | :28:16. | |
result. Afterwards she admitted she'd | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
never set out to achieve I said right from the start, I don't | :28:20. | :28:21. | |
want to get into elite sport again. Before I knew it, I was training | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
twice a day, every day. Four years later, here I am | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
with a gold medal. For the British fans at the lake, | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
it was the start of a magical hour. Next, victory for an | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
ecstatic Emma Wiggs. Before Anne Dickins completed | :28:37. | :28:38. | |
a golden hat-trick. Dickins was a volunteer | :28:39. | :28:40. | |
at London 2012. At the dressage, another | :28:41. | :29:01. | |
celebration. Sophie Christiansen who has cerebral palsy won gold with a | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
flawless display. And 67-year-old and done, Britain's oldest | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
competitor took silver. There was also gold for Natasha Baker, | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
performing for the final time on Cabral, the horse she calls her soul | :29:19. | :29:26. | |
mate. It was highly emotional. Elsewhere, in the doubles final of | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
the wheelchair tennis, Gordon Reed and Alfie Hewett are battling for | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
gold, but they will have to do it the hard way, after losing the first | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
set. Yes, that tennis final is still going on, but that has been | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
disappointment in the athletics for wheelchair racer David Weir. He | :29:44. | :29:50. | |
could only finish sixth in the 800 metres and afterwards he announced | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
that he will retire after the London Marathon next year, Clive. | :29:55. | :29:55. | |
Thank you. And before we go, while we've | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
been on air, the winner of the 2016 Mercury Music Price | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
has been announced. The judges chose Konnichawa - | :30:03. | :30:10. | |
the fourth album by the London Here on BBC One it's time | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
for the news where you are. | :30:17. | :30:36. |