05/10/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten, change is going to come.

That's the Prime Minister's promise following the referendum result.

She tells the Conservative Conference that she'll use

the powers of the state to change things for the benefit

Change has got to come too because of the quiet revolution that

took place in our country just three months ago.

A revolution in which millions of our fellow citizens stood up

and said they were not prepared to be ignored anymore.

She spoke of fairness and warned some big companies that paying tax

I'm putting you on warning, this can't go on anymore.

A change has got to come and this party is going to make it.

We'll have more on the changes Mrs May wants to make and we'll be

asking business people if they liked the message.

The undercover tabloid reporter Mazher Mahmood -

is facing jail after being found guilty of tampering with evidence.

In Haiti, bridges destroyed, communications down as they assess

the damage caused by Hurricane Matthew.

Nigel Farage back in charge of Ukip for the time being -

just 18 days after handing over to Diane James, who's now resigned.

And a welcome home to Bristol for the charity runner who's

Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, what next for Tyson Fury

The world heavyweight champion could lose his boxing licence.

The vote to leave the European Union was a once-in-a-generation chance to

That was the Prime Minister's message to the Conservative

Conference today - where she described the referendum

result as a quiet revolution and promised to address the needs

of ordinary working-class people with policies based

And, in stark contrast to some of her predecessors,

Theresa May commended the role of the state in improving

This report tonight by our political editor Laura Kuenssberg contains

Take your seats, the new Prime Minister's big

They were ready to listen - but Theresa May wanted you to as well.

MUSIC: "Start Me Up" by The Rolling Stones.

It was quiet resolve that propelled her on to the main stage

What's my vision for Britain, my philosophy?

In June, people voted for change and a change is going to come.

Because of the quiet revolution that took place in our country,

A revolution in which millions of our fellow citizens stood up

and said, they were not prepared to be ignored any more.

Easy to say - much, much harder to make it happen.

I want us to be a country where it doesn't matter where you were born,

who your parents are, where you went to school,

what your accent sounds like, what God you worship,

whether you are a man or woman, gay or straight, black or white.

All that should matter is the talent you have and how hard

Three months ago it might not have been her.

Now firmly in charge, Theresa May wants to take her party

It's time to remember the good that government can do.

Time to reject the ideological template provided by the socialist

left and the libertarian right, and to embrace a new centre

ground in which government steps up and not back,

A Tory Prime Minister applauded for praising the state.

Then using her famous challenge to her own party to go

The Labour Party is not just divided, but divisive.

Fighting among themselves, abusing their own MPs,

Tolerating anti-Semitism and supporting voices of hate.

It was a speech about her basic beliefs,

But, above all, it was a self-portrait of the

As I leave the door of my office at Number Ten, I pass

The portraits of Prime Ministers past, lined up along the wall.

Those portraits remind me of the good that government can do.

And as I pass them every day, I remember that our nation has been

shaped by those who stepped up to be counted when the big moments came.

Such opportunities are rare, but we face such a moment today.

So, to everyone here this morning, and the millions beyond,

whether leavers or remain, I say come with me and we will write

Come with me and we'll make that change.

Come with me as we rise to meet this moment.

Come with me and, together, let's seize the day.

The Prime Minister nearly overwhelmed by the meaning

But political success is determined over years,

Theresa May's offer to you - do the right thing and

She wants to scoop up voters in the middle as Labour has moved

But, ultimately, she will be judged by what she does,

Secretaries of State, what did you make of the speech?

Very good speech, reminds me of Margaret Thatcher's speeches.

Bringing this hall to its feet, the Tory party together,

Persuading you, the country, to follow her now is a very

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Birmingham.

Theresa May's declaration that a change is going to come also

applied to the world of business and industry.

The Prime Minister sent a message to those global companies which,

in her words, treated tax laws as an optional extra.

And she drew attention to expensive energy tariffs -

saying her government would be prepared to intervene

Our business editor Simon Jack has been asking business

people what they made of the Prime Minister's message.

The way a small number of businesses behave fuels

I'm putting you on warning, this can't go on any more.

The tone was stern, the finger was wagging and the rap

Massive pay inequality, staff neglected by some employers,

tax avoided, assets stripped from struggling companies,

markets like energy failing consumers and a tendency to turn too

Responses to a Tory Party Conference speech were not what you

I don't think they want a situation where Government is dictating

to them, they want a situation where we are working together very

closely to tackle the big transition that we face

It would be a sad day if having a global workforce suddenly became

It's great that we can get skills from here at home

Too often, said the Prime Minister, the fruits of business success

Companies are being run more in the interests of the owners

The answer, according to Theresa May, is to put

We welcome the commitment to putting workers on boards,

and it would do a lot to help restore the trust and reputation

It will also introduce a good dose of common sense into the boardroom.

We know that where companies do have workers on boards, they're more

likely to invest in R, in training for workers.

It's been a topsy-turvy four days of Conference.

Businesses like this one in the East Midlands have also seen

the pound fall to its lowest level in 30 years as markets reacted

to strong signals that border control is incompatible

with and more important than single market membership.

Volatility that makes business even more difficult.

A lot of our import costs come in dollar or euro denominated

currencies, so it's a huge increase in some of our import costs.

Equally, we're looking to benefit in our exports.

It's not comfortable, it's very difficult to forecast

and at the moment we feel as though we're walking on a knife edge.

Today's message to business was clear - we are on your side,

And the biggest question of all - how will Brexit affect trade,

employment and the currency - remains unclear.

Underpinning Mrs May's conference speech was her determination

to redefine the centre ground of politics, based

on her understanding of the needs and attitudes

So to what extent did the Prime Minister's message

Our home editor, Mark Easton, went to Hastings, in

The tide is turning, the Prime Minister talks of a once

in a generation chance to change the direction of our nation,

not to respond, she says, will cause division and disaster

Brexit exposes an ancient faultline in British society that cuts

across party politics, the disillusion of the left

and the traditionalists of the right found common cause.

Now Mrs May wants to appeal to both and occupy the centre ground,

but where post-Brexit is the centre ground?

Hastings has a Tory MP and a Labour council. The area voted decisively

to leave the EU and there is a widespread view, as Theresa May

suggested today, that London, the road, does not understand the

concerns of non-metropolitan Britain. I wish politicians would

get their heads together and really come up with something for the

people. Not for themselves. You do not think they are listening to you?

I don't think so. They never listen to us, to be honest. That is the way

a lot of people feel. The rest of the country is by the by. I know,

because I work in London and I live in Hastings. The people of Hastings

have so little say. Brexit was a cry of pain, for millions who do not

think the system works for them. Too many people in positions of power,

the Prime Minister conceded, think they have more in common with the

international elite than the people down the road. There is a quiet

revolution going on, Theresa May suggested. Knock on doors and you

will find its roots. So, we did. Quiet revolution, yes. I don't think

there aren't that many people that are geared up to either really

oppose what is happening or what has happened with the vote, or really

geared up to push things forward as fast as possible. Ukip RNA mess.

Labour is in a mess. She is the only person that is getting on doing

something. I quite like her. Rio the majority that did vote were

seriously misled by members of her Cabinet. If there is a revolution,

it is against her? That is one I would support quietly, from behind

my door. Conventional party politics is at sea. Theresa May is trying to

offer safe passage, while trimming her sales as the wind changes

direction. The tide is indeed turning.

Let's turn to the day's other main stories.

An undercover tabloid journalist, whose investigations led to a series

of exclusives on the private lives of celebrities,

has been found guilty of conspiring to pervert

Mazher Mahmood - also known as the Fake Sheikh -

tampered with evidence in the drugs trial of the singer,

Lawyers say the convictions could have major repercussions

for other cases, as our correspondent,

The man in the anorak, hiding his face, is Mazher

The master of the undercover tabloid sting.

He dressed as an Arab sheikh and set up dozens of elaborate deceptions

His story on the singer Tulisa led to her going

As far as I was concerned, in my mind, I was like,

It's pretty much, 90%, this is the end.

However, the trial collapsed, Tulisa walked free, a vital piece

of evidence had been concealed by Mahmood.

This man, Alan Smith, Mahmood's own driver,

had told police that he'd overheard Tulisa's strong disapproval

of drugs in his car, but after phoning and emailing

Mahmood claimed he knew nothing, even though the statement had

Phones were destroyed, emails deleted.

And events here today cast a new layer of doubt about many

Remember, Mazher Mahmood, the Fake Sheikh, his evidence has

been instrumental in convictions that go back over

The actor, John Alford, was one of his victims,

His is now one of six cases in the hands of the Criminal

Cases Review Commission, others may follow.

Mahmood helped bring charges against more than 70 people.

This is going to dwarf phone-hacking in a way, because although there

might be a smaller number of claims, the amount of damage that has been

done to people goes back many, many years - lost income,

Phone-hacking, corrupt payments, this is far from the first time

that the tactics of the press have been in the spotlight.

But Mazher Mahmood, the Fake Sheikh, he was the secret star and Tulisa's

lawyer says police have strict controls about undercover

traps, but when it comes to evidence from journalists...

Sadly, that's not the case, as the recent Tulisa

trial has just exposed, in the case of

They are, in effect, a law unto themselves.

You're guilty of lying to secure a scoop, what do you say to that?

His employer for the Sun on Sunday said it was disappointed

A man who spent 25 years hiding his identity has

himself now been exposed - a liar, a convicted criminal.

Rescue teams in Haiti are still trying to assess the full

extent of the damage caused by Hurricane Matthew which swept

across the island with winds of 125 miles an hour.

The hurricane, now heading towards the USA, caused

Hospitals have no more beds and at least 10,000

From the capital Port-au-Prince our correspondent,

Disaster must often seem like a way of life for the hard pressed people

of Haiti. This morning victims of Hurricane Matthew were trying to

make this treacherous river crossing by foot. A journey that on Monday

they could make by car. The bridge linking the main road from the

capital to the worst affected communities in the south of this

country has been washed away. It's severed this town in half and

severely hampered the relief effort. Homes have been swamped by the

deluge of rain and destroyed by 140 mile an hour wind. This shanty

dwelling only just managed to survive the hurricane force winds,

but here, just a few yards away, in what now looks like wasteland, the

homes of four families were washed away as the floodwaters rushed down

the valley. These are the people made homeless. These are the

children whose futures seem to be continually plighted by tragedy. The

epicentre of the 2010 earthquake was a short drive away. So it's not just

sorrow they're feeling, but a sense of unfairness. , "the children have

just started school and their new uniforms were washed away." These

children were evacuated from coastal communities before the storm hit and

given shelter in the capital. Now, they're stranded. They don't know

when they'll be able to get home or what they'll find when they get

there. With the storm barrelling towards America, a first world

emergency is in the making, but here Hurricane Matthew has left a trail

of Third World destruction and this impoverished country is struggling

to cope. Nick Bryant, BBC News, Haiti.

For the second time in as many days, British science has been recognised

in the Nobel awards. The world's smallest machines, 1,000

times thinner than a human hair, are poised to revolutionise

healthcare and create new materials. One of the scientists who's

developed this molecular technology is Sir Fraser Stoddart,

a Scottish researcher who's He and his team have won

the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. In welcoming the award,

Sir Fraser also said he feared for the future of British science

research following the Brexit vote. Our science editor,

David Shukman, reports. From the immense size

of space rockets... ..to the giantic dimensions

of heavy industry, to the Large Hadron Collider

in Geneva, we often think of machines as being vast,

but this is only one end And from a drone that

fits into your hand, to one the size of a tiny coin,

researchers are pushing the boundaries of how small

they can make machines, even building them

molecule by molecule. This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry

is about the world's There were three winners,

one of them, Sir Fraser Stoddart, who was born in Scotland and now

works in Illinois. Very surprised and elated

because of my strong support that I've had from a large number

of young scientists over the best It takes some imagination to grasp

what this Nobel Prize for Chemistry is all about,

and the key thing is scale. So picture a typical human hair,

it's pretty narrow, but then visualise zooming past its surface

and right into its structure, drilling down to the very

molecules that it's made of, 1,000 times thinner than that hair

and it's in that incredibly small world that the three Nobel Prize

winners have been assembling tiny machines, like this car,

built from individual molecules. One idea is for miniature machines

to travel inside the body delivering drugs to the right places

or using the machines Imagine that you could actually

transport things across the surface So it might be possible to transport

this bottle, over here, just So all these things that sound

like a Harry Potter film But Sir Fraser Stoddart used his big

day to warn that British science If I look back to my old country,

it's in a real mess because it thinks that it can raise borders

to people coming into it. He said that labs here would lose

out without access to the best A stark warning at a proud moment

for some startling science. A 41-year-old man has appeared

in court charged with drugging and murdering four young

men that he met on gay Stephen Port, from Barking

in East London, is accused of giving his victims drugs before

sexually assaulting them and leaving their bodies

in or near a churchyard He denies four counts of murder

and 25 other offences. Nigel Farage is back in charge

of Ukip for the time resignation of Diane James,

who stepped down last night after just 18 days in the job

for personal reasons. Mr Farage says he'll continue

as interim leader until a permanent The announcement has caused yet

another row within the party that gathered 4 million votes in last

year's general election. Our political correspondent,

Alex Forsyth, has the latest There's flash photography

in her report. The UK Independence Party,

Diane James. The enthusiastic victor,

less than three weeks ago. Diane James knew she had big shoes

to fill as Ukip's new leader and, after a period of bitter

in-fighting, she urged members I ask you, support me,

work with me, win with me. But just 18 days on,

she's stepped down saying some in the party were never fully

behind her, along with family illness and some personal abuse,

the job proved too big, It's suggested she was always

a reluctant leader. The paperwork for the post had

a Latin phrase written next to her name meaning -

an agreement made under duress. So this man, who's returned

after resigning twice I keep getting over the wall

and running for the hills and before Insisting though

it's only temporary. I've absolutely no intentions

of ever coming back to lead Ukip The leadership contest will be

re-run with some new contenders, the MEP Stephen Woolfe

is the first to declare. Other former candidates

are hedging their bets. One said, rather than a shambles,

this was good PR for the party. I see it as a very positive thing,

very positive for PR and of course It's almost like being

part of Dynasty. But can any leader match this man's

success particularly when, in winning the EU referendum,

Ukip lost its main reason for being? Now the UK has voted

to leave the EU, some wonder The party must not just

overcome its internal turmoil, but convince voters it's

still relevant in Ukip drives the political agenda

on far more than just You know, irrespective

of our position now within the European Union,

we're all delighted that we're going to leave,

but there is no doubt that Ukip's going to have a solid future

in driving that political agenda for common sense

policies moving forward. So the next leader,

whoever that may be, must heal divisions,

assert their authority and set out Alex Forsyth, BBC News,

Westminster. The former Prime Minister

of Portugal, Antonio Guterres, is set to become the new

Secretary-General of the United Nations after winning

the support of the Security Council. Mr Guterres served as the UN's

High Commissioner for He'll be formally confirmed

in the job in the coming days and will take up the position

when Ban Ki-Moon stands down Some 35 million Americans

watched last night's debate between the vice-presidential

nominees - Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence -

as they debated issues ranging from tax to immigration to abortion

rights, some of which will no doubt feature in this Sunday's second

debate between Hillary So as the campaign enters the final

month, Jon Sopel guides us through the most important

battlegrounds and he explains where the candidates are most likely

to get their support. We all get that this has been

the wackiest of wacky races. The strangest election that America

has seen and one question keeps being asked -

can Donald Trump win the White There may be more paths for

Hillary Clinton. But, yes,

he definitely can. Each state brings a certain number

of electoral college votes. It's all according to how big

the state's population is. And to win, a candidate needs 270

of those votes. These are the swing states that

Democrats and Republicans Clinton's route in these swing

states is pretty straight-forward, she needs to lure back that die hard

Democratic base that propelled Barack Obama to the White House,

but doesn't seem to have a whole Take Florida, for example,

many thought Clinton would have a strong chance

there because of its increasing Hispanic population,

but the candidates had been neck and neck in this state,

until the first debate that was. Since then, polls suggest

she's opening up a lead, despite many white voters,

along with many Cuban Americans, saying they've been inspired to turn

out for Trump. So unpredictability seems to be

the key in this electoral cycle. Clinton's looking for support

in some unexpected places , like traditionally

Republican Arizona and Texas, where increasing number

of Hispanics, of Mexican dissent, might turn those states a little

less Republican red. His support is skewed

towards slightly older, In fact, 81% of his

supporters think the US Translation - they're not very keen

on all the social and economic Like Clinton, Trump's courting

voters in unexpected places, cue traditional Democratic Wisconsin

and Michigan, both have significant So even if Donald Trump scoops up

all those white voters, He has to appeal to more than those

just yearning for the old days, he needs to appeal to women

and the college educated. While Hillary Clinton has to win

over that vast swathe of the American public that

simply don't trust her. Early indications suggest that

in the first presidential debate she did rather better at addressing

those negatives because both have historical low favourability ratings

and they need somehow to address But an awful lot of people say

the outcome of this election will come down to the same

old thing in the end - which party can win

in the battleground states and who's got the best machine

to get out the vote. 401 marathons, in 401 days, that's

the feat achieved by Ben Smith who started his challenge

in September 2015, raising ?250,000 The man who took up running,

only three years ago, returned to his home city of Bristol

and our correspondent, Jon Kay, was there

to see him arrive. After 400 marathons,

in 400 days, travelling all over Britain in his camper van,

just one last run. I've been through 22

pairs of trainers, And this is it, after

today you're done. Ben's achievement is thought

to unprecedented, 10,000 miles, during which he broke bones

in his back. For marathon 401, it was home

to Bristol today, joined by several hundred followers who've been

inspired by his story. We joined him too,

for a short section. You know these people

have been calling They should call me Ben Smith,

Forrest Gump's a fictional I bet it feels very real

at the moment? Ben was bullied as a schoolboy

for being gay and has done all this In all, 9,000 people have run

with him, these women Just amazing to think that Ben gets

up every morning to run a marathon. Finally, after all that

time and pain, the end. He was welcomed

by his partner, Kyle. I've always thought he was special

from the very first time I saw him. Well, all right,

maybe that's opinion. And after all this, well,

tomorrow he starts another month of half-marathons to get his body

back to normal. More analysis and discussion of

Theresa May's speech at the Conservative Party Conference today

on Newsnight. Here's Emily. Tonight, how much centre ground

can one leader claim? Theresa May makes a pitch

for the left and the Join me now on BBC Two,

11.00pm in Scotland.