03/10/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten, the daunting challenge ahead for the economy,

as Britain prepares to leave the European Union.

The Chancellor says business will get all the support it needs

But he tells the Conservative conference

that it could be a roller-coaster ride,

as the Brexit negotiations take their course.

Throughout the negotiating process, we are ready to take whatever steps

are necessary to protect this economy from turbulence.

And in a clear break with his predecessor,

Mr Hammond is abandoning plans to balance the books by 2020.

Also tonight, as the attacks on Aleppo continue,

the Americans suspend talks with Russia,

accusing them of targeting hospitals and aid centres.

More than 5,000 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean today.

We report from one of the rescue boats off the coast of Libya.

These people will have been travelling for several hours now,

they'll have left the Libyan coast in the darkness,

unclear if they're ever going to reach their destination.

Police in Paris say Kim Kardashian, the reality-TV star,

who broke into an apartment and left nothing to chance.

I've met the man I want to spend my life with.

For the first time ever, a film directed by a black British

film-maker is to open the London Film Festival.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News, Durham are relegated

to Division Two of the County Championship because of

financial problems and will start next season with a 48-point penalty.

The British economy faces a daunting challenge and a turbulent period,

as negotiations proceed for the UK's exit from the European Union.

That was the warning delivered by the Chancellor,

Philip Hammond, at the Conservative conference today.

He also confirmed that he'd abandoned the Government targets

for eliminating the deficit by 2020, one of the principal goals

Mr Hammond said it was time for a more pragmatic approach,

because times had changed since the vote to leave the EU.

Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, reports.

You probably have seen him somewhere.

Philip Hammond has done some of the biggest jobs

But now he's the man in charge of the country's money.

Dropping in on the nearest building site has long been

a political staple, but some things really have changed.

As the economy waits and holds its breath after the referendum,

it's Philip Hammond's time, and time to change.

The fiscal policies that George Osborne set out

But when times change, we must change with them.

So we will no longer target the surplus

But make no mistake, the task of fiscal consolidation must continue.

In other words, he'll still try to balance the country's books

but isn't promising to have it done by 2020.

There'll be no splurge - spending will still be cut,

But this Tory Chancellor is also willing to borrow,

despite his hope to get the country out of debt.

Throughout the negotiating process, we are ready to take whatever steps

are necessary to protect this economy from turbulence.

to build an economy that works for everyone.

A new plan for the new circumstances Britain faces.

A Conservative government demonstrating the flexibility,

the common sense and the pragmatism that has made our party

the most successful political party in British history.

They don't look like big spenders or borrowers,

it's only two billion to start with to build houses,

but before the referendum, the previous Chancellor,

rarely seen without his high-viz jacket,

Dealing with the deficit was practically

The big campaign claim in the general election -

that only the Tories would get the country out of debt.

The Tories prided themselves on squeezing spending,

making enemies in some quarters and fans in others.

The cuts won't stop, but the new Chancellor wants the option

of slowing down or even borrowing,

because after our vote to leave the EU,

he can't be sure what the country can afford.

You and Philip Hammond as Conservative Cabinet ministers

That's what Labour promised at the election.

He said at the start of his speech, we still have a big deficit

but we need to be practical in bringing that deficit down.

The previous Chancellor promised to bring infrastructure,

it's just he failed to deliver. So it is a snub to George Osborne?

The point is, it's highly possible that once we are clear

and established about our relationship with

the European Union, the economy itself will grow fast.

So he inherits a particular situation,

has to look at it and review it as he sees fit.

If it takes a little longer, so be it.

Brexit has changed tough Tory talk on the deficit -

It's not the end, though, of the spending squeeze,

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Birmingham.

During the day, the Chancellor confirmed that his Autumn Statement

in November would set out new policies, giving the Government

more scope to borrow to boost the economy.

But he also warned that the job of tackling

With his thoughts on the Chancellor's strategy,

here's our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed.

The Treasury, run by Philip Hammond and Britain's holder

of the purse strings, a department now engaged

in a delicate balancing act between borrowing to support

the economy post the referendum and austerity, balancing the books,

cutting the deficit so the Government does not

The Chancellor still wants to get the deficit under control,

but he won't be able to do it as fast as he was hoping,

because he is expecting the economy to be doing less well.

He might end up spending a bit more, but even if he doesn't,

we won't get that deficit down to zero.

The UK's deficit is the gap between what the country spends

and what it receives in revenues from things like taxes each year.

It's been the key political battle ground since the financial crisis.

In 2006-7, before the financial crisis, the deficit was ?36 billion.

As the recession bit, tax revenues fell and spending rose

and the deficit hit ?155 billion in 2009-10.

Before the referendum, it was forecast to fall

to ?55 billion next year and zero by 2020.

Philip Hammond today confirmed that target has been abandoned.

The Government will borrow more to support the economy.

manufacturing benefiting from the lower pound.

But overall, in the medium term, we're still expecting challenges

there, and that would mean that, for the Chancellor,

there is likely to be less revenue coming in

and more challenges to support the economy.

A tweet from an old friend, wishing the new Chancellor luck.

and the Treasury will be wary as the pound fell again today,

markets planning for Britain leaving the EU.

It is a delicate balancing act indeed, as the Chancellor

plots his course through this most uncertain of times.

Live to Birmingham, and Laura Kuenssberg.

Your to what extent as Philip Hammond broken with the approach

that we saw from George Osborne? Well, Huw, it is really notable that

there has been a move away from the days when it felt like sorting out

the deficit was the only game in town for the Tories, the priority

above everything else. This may not be that surprisingly though, given

all the uncertainty around the economy since the referendum vote,

and it is not because Philip Hammond and Theresa May suddenly woke up one

morning and thought that Labour's answer is the right one, to borrow

in order to invest, it is more like an insurance policy that he has

written for himself in case things go badly wrong during the process of

untangling ourselves from the EU. He wants people to know, and he

believes that he might need the options of either borrowing a little

bit more or slowing down the cats if the economy needs more support. But

tomorrow at the conference, the Tories are going to try to turn the

page. I understand there will be an announcement from the Defence

Secretary, Michael Fallon, about squeezing down on the number of

claims being made against British military personnel who served in

Iraq. There will also be an announcement about recruiting more

doctors. Theresa May is determined that her premiership, not just this

week, will not only be defined by how we leave the EU, but it

certainly is the issue, the big question that is hanging in the air.

Laura, thanks again, Laura Kuenssberg for us at the

Conservative conference in Birmingham.

America has tonight suspended talks with Russia

on trying to resolve the Syrian conflict.

US diplomats said they're responding to Russia's continued role

in the assault on the city of Aleppo,

where more than 250,000 people are trapped.

The White House said that everyone's patience with Russia had run out.

A ceasefire in Syria, which started a fortnight ago,

lasted just a few days, with each side blaming the other.

Our correspondent in the Middle East, Quentin Somerville,

Syria's war long ago slipped out of the hands of Syrians.

Rescue workers rushed to a hospital bombed today by the regime.

The first victim, "He's dead", they say and move on.

Searching from ward to ward, they help an injured medic.

Despite talks to halt the killing, Russia and the regime are bombing

civilians into submission, says the USA,

Everybody's patience with Russia has run out.

They have also spent a great deal of credibility in making a series

of commitments without any clear indication

that they were committed to following them.

They have been reduced to either acting unilaterally or supporting

the Iranians in dropping bunker-busting bombs

The hope had been to restore a short-lived ceasefire

That died in the burnt-out remains of a UN aid convoy,

bombed, says the United States, by Russia and the regime.

A war crime, says the United Nations,

which Russia says it didn't carry out.

But a humanitarian deal, while humanitarians

were being killed, looked even further impossible.

In this battle on the ground, America and Russia couldn't agree

Russia says America did not do enough

In the fight for the streets of Aleppo, these rebels

were President Assad's enemies and Russia's, too.

Russian firepower has transformed the regime's fortunes.

Moscow is President Assad's ally and his saviour.

American and Russian diplomatic efforts have crumbled.

The two sides say they will still cooperate in the skies above Syria

to prevent collisions as they target jihadists.

Russia says it regrets the US decision.

Wider negotiations won't end, but if Moscow and Washington can't

agree to stop the killing here, then there isn't much hope of peace

and an even greater risk of further catastrophe for Syria's people.

In a moment, we'll talk to Jon Sopel,

our North America editor in Washington,

but first to our correspondent Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.

Tell us a little bit more about the reaction we have had from the

Russians to this decision tonight. Well, Moscow's reaction has been

pretty bland, really. That Russia is not at fault, that America is trying

to shift the blame for what is happening in Syria to Russia, and in

fact all they do Kremlin has been frustrated and angry with the United

States, and earlier there was a presidential decrees are spending a

key agreement with the United States and the use of weapons grade

plutonium. That deal was to have eliminated enough plutonium for

17,000 nuclear missiles, but again the Russians say the Americans were

not following through on that, as tonight President Putin has listed

astonishing conditions which he says America must accept before Russia

returns to that plutonium deal. He says the United States must scrap

all sanctions against Russia and the Russians, the United States must pay

compensation to Russia, and the United States must reduce the number

of US troops in all countries that joined Nato after September 2000,

and that is not going to happen. Straight to Washington and Jon

Sopel, increasingly angry statements from John Kerry in recent days there

was this inevitable? I think it was and I think frankly, the agreement

lasted longer than many expected, particularly after the bombing of

the aid convoy. There has been a deep scepticism about what the

Russians are doing. The State Department said they were either

unwilling or unable to ensure Syrian regime adherence to the

arrangements. It just shows, as Steve said, how parlous state of

relations relations between Russia and the USA. The other striking

thing about this is the total lack of leveraged that America seems to

have over Russia. The statement from the State Department, you would

expect to have a final paragraph or something along the lines of,

"Unless Russia does this, consequences will follow". But there

is nothing and as though they have taken the dictum of Teddy Roosevelt,

who said the key to diplomacy is to speak softly but carry a big stick.

America at the moment, as far as Russia is concerned, seems to be

speaking softly and carrying no stick at all. Thank you for joining

us. Jon Sopel and Steven Rosenberg. There.

Migrants are continuing to make the dangerous journey

across the Mediterranean, while the waters are

Some 5,500 people were rescued today alone.

But they're arriving in a Europe where countries

are closing their borders, and where public

Nearly 3,500 are believed to have died

in the effort to cross the sea this year.

More than 600 children have drowned in the same period.

My colleague Reeta Chakrabarti is on board one rescue boat,

led by the charity Save the Children, and we can join her now.

I have been on this rescue ship for several days now. Forgive me, I'm

battling against the sound of the ship's engine of it. I am in the

middle of the Mediterranean and behind me, there's a sea of people

on the deck. You could probably see them. They are mostly asleep now.

Over 200 migrants were picked up by this rescue ship yesterday. But they

are only a fraction of the thousands of people who made the perilous

journey just today, undeterred, it seems, by the dangers they are

exposing themselves to and also by the potential reaction they might

get when in Europe. Scanning the horizon

in the early morning, when the sea

reveals its human cargo. The migrant boat set out at night

so the owners won't be caught. A vessel comes into view with around

100 on board. There is no orange to be seen,

meaning no life jackets. The team scrambles to

get the small rescue They're given life jackets

to make them safe. Over 300,000 people reached Europe

across this sea, this year. Over 3000 have died doing so,

or been reported missing. The people have been

quite calm until now, but they are quite clearly getting

a bit agitated and the rescuers are having to tell them to sit down,

stay calm and they These people will have been

travelling for several hours now. They have left the Libyan

coast in the darkness, unclear if they're ever

going to reach their destination. There are smiles, relief,

but no celebration. The group is entirely male

and mostly from West Africa. He's come from the Ivory Coast,

which he left four years He says he's experienced kidnap

and forced labour and hopes TRANSLATION: We are all human

beings, whatever the colour We don't do this because we really

want to, we do this If only people would welcome

us because we're not The conditions in which we find

ourselves are really unfavourable. And now there is effectively

a second rescue going on. There is another humanitarian

mission ship over there. It's already transporting migrants,

and about 100 of them are being transferred from that ship

to this one. There are women this time,

some of them looking shattered The majority of these

people are from Somalia. One is this 16-year-old girl,

escaping a forced marriage. She's been travelling for ten months

and wants to study medicine Italy, where the boat is heading,

will let her stay until she's 18. If you don't like me,

maybe you will have I may be different from others,

or I may be the same. How you take me...

It's for you to decide. The flimsy vessels that deliver

people here are destroyed by the rescuers so

they can't be reused. As for their occupants,

they face an uncertain future in a Europe uncertain

that it wants them. Reeta Chakrabarti, BBC News,

off the Libyan coast. A brief look at some

of the day's other news stories. Southern Railway says it

will terminate the contracts of conductors, unless the RMT

union accepts an offer aimed at averting further

strikes by Thursday. The company says the ultimatum

is a "final attempt" to end the dispute over working

practices, which has caused months of disruption for passengers

travelling between London and Surrey, Sussex,

Kent and Hampshire. The Republican presidential

candidate Donald Trump's charitable foundation has been ordered

by the New York attorney to stop In a letter, the Attorney General's

office said the foundation wasn't A spokeswoman for Mr Trump told

the New York Times she was concerned that the investigation

was politically motivated. The Caribbean is bracing itself

as one of the most powerful hurricanes for a decade moves

across the region. Hurricane Matthew could bring winds

of more than 150mph. Haiti is expected to suffer

the most damage. Parts of Jamaica have

already been hit. The Nobel Prize for Medicine has

been awarded to Dr Yoshinori Ohsumi from the Tokyo Institute

of Technology, for discoveries about how the body recycles

old and defective components. It's a process that helps explain

what leads to diseases such Work has already started

to try to rescue a peace deal between the government of Colombia

and the rebel group known as the Revolutionary

Armed Forces of Colombia, The deal, which took

four years to negotiate, was narrowly rejected by voters

in a referendum yesterday. The rebels say they are prepared

to review the terms of the deal, which would end more than half

a century of conflict Our correspondent Wyre Davies

is in Bogota with the latest. The huge sense of shock and

uncertainty in Colombia denied coming Bogota and across the nation

after a vote many people thought was a mere formality, to bring in enter

the world's longest-running guerrilla insurgency. But the people

of Colombia, the 40% of people who voted, rejected the deal between the

government and left-wing guerrillas and the question is, what happens

now. It was all too much for some -

after more than 50 years of civil war, this was meant to be the moment

of hope, the realisation of a dream that finally the bombs

and the guns could be put down But by less than 0.5%, the people

of Colombia rejected the deal. President Juan Manuel Santos

had repeatedly warned there was no Plan B,

but he vowed not to let his peace plan

die so easily. I'll continue the search for peace

until the last moment of my mandate, because that is the way to leave

a better country for our children. Only last week, after four years

of difficult talks, President Santos and leaders of the Marxist Farc

guerilla movement had signed the historic agreement

before an approving All that remained was

the endorsement of the Colombian people - a formality,

thought most observers. But many Colombians were deeply

unhappy about concessions made to the guerillas, who've been

fighting a leftist insurgency A war in which more than 200,000

people have been killed, thousands raped or kidnapped, and millions

forced to flee from their homes. Why? Asked the no campaign, where

they now being offered a deal that would see Farc leader standing for

Congress rather than being punished for war crimes. Over the last few

months, thousands of Farc guerrilla fighters have been gathering in the

jungle camps, preparing to demobilise. The result has left both

sides wondering what to do now. But having spent years negotiating the

peace, Farc leaders say they have no appetite for a resumption of

violence. TRANSLATION:

We reiterate our commitment to use only words to

construct the future. Both the government and

the guerilla leaders say they will honour

an existing ceasefire agreement. But the real concern

here is there will be an inevitable return to violence,

just as happened when previous For now, there is despair

among the millions of Colombians who thought this civil war

had finally come to an end. In Paris, police say an armed gang,

who broke into an apartment and robbed the reality television

star Kim Kardashian-West, were well prepared and left

with millions of pounds' The robbery took place in the early

hours of this morning. Ms Kardashian-West had been

in the city for Paris Fashion Week, as our correspondent

Lucy Williamson reports. There's is some flash

photography in this report. It's not hard to know

where Kim Kardashian is. Last week, her fans,

followers and photographers Today, it was police,

not paparazzi, on the steps Investigators now occupying

the rooms where one of the world's best-known celebrities was held up

and robbed in the early hours of this morning

by men dressed as police. Police have told us that the five

men broke in here last night and handcuffed the security guard,

forcing him to show them the apartment where Kim

Kardashian was staying. Once inside, they held a gun to her

head as they robbed her of jewellery worth almost ?8 million and then

tied her up and locked her A police official said the robbers

had been well prepared. TRANSLATION: The gunmen

were informed and very They wore police-style jackets

and balaclavas so they would not be recognised if caught

on CCTV footage. Her husband, rapper Kanye West,

heard the news while performing As Kim Kardashian flew

back to the US today, morning shows broke

the news to America. She was badly shaken,

a spokeswoman said, On social media, some joked

about the attack or accused Others urged sympathy

for her as a wife and mother, The woman whose celebrity was built

on broadcasting the private life of her family today

chose privacy in the face For the first time ever,

a film directed by a black British filmmaker, Amma Assante,

is to open the 60th London Film Festival when it

starts on Wednesday. Called A United Kingdom,

it tells the story of the first president of Botswana

and his wife, Ruth Williams. Their mixed marriage was frowned

upon in 1940s Britain, Elaine Dunkley has been speaking

to Amma Assante about the film I am told that you no longer

wish me to honour my duty as your king because of the colour

of the wife I have chosen! A United Kingdom, a film based

on the true story of a marriage that shocked

the world, rocked the Creatively, it is a

fascinating story. What happens when the intimate story

of two people falling in love happens against a huge political

backdrop, the backdrop of an empire? But also, there are all these

details in the film that I haven't been allowed to previously

see on screen, as a black woman So I was really aware of the young,

privileged African men who were running around London

in the 1940s, you know, in their trilbies and overcoats,

many of whom were going to go back to their countries and be part

of walking their countries into independence

during that period. Do you feel accepted

as a British director, or do you still get that question,

"Where are you really from?" Once I became a little bit

known as a director, I became understood as somebody

who's British, particularly because I think my stories are able

to express something The language in your film

is very bold when it comes Has that been influenced

by your upbringing? Yeah, I lived in a very explicitly

negative world when it came to race. I remember a time walking home

from the cinema in Streatham Hill with my sister and having

bottles thrown at us. We were one of just two black

families living on the street that I lived in in Streatham,

so we were very unusual in many ways, and we were

reminded of that regularly. You have been recently invited

to vote as part of the Oscars. There was the whole issue around

diversity at the Oscars. Is there a will to change,

and will things change? This has to be a

many-pronged attack. We have to start changing

within the industry, and when we do, and when the films are presented

to Oscar voters, we have Do you ever get those

"pinch me" moments? Walking down the red carpet

for the premiere of my film, the first time,

you know, with my dad. That was at the London Film Festival

12 years ago. I am very lucky, and yeah,

right now, it is every other day The stories from the past

are being given a new vision, a breakthrough for black British

history on the big screen. The film opens the film Festival

later this week. Newsnight is about

to begin on BBC Two. More from the Conservative Party

conference in Birmingham. We are here at the

Conservative Party conference in Birmingham and the party has

been criticised for not The question is,

does it have one now? Join me now on BBC Two,

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