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The energy company EDF has said it cannot confirm its commitment | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
to build a new nuclear reactor in Somerset unless the French | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
The reactor at Hinckley Point is the first in a series of planned | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
new nuclear power stations, intended to help guarantee | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
Earlier this week, EDF's finance director resigned, | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
warning the contract would break the company. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Our business correspondent Joe Lynam reports. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
This is what the proposed Hinkley Point power station should | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
It's set to provide 7% of Britain's entire electricity demand, | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
and will ensure the lights stay on for decades. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
But the company building it, EDF, is having problems. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Similar reactors in France and Finland are severely delayed | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
and over budget, and the ?18 billion cost of building Hinkley is more | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
Its trade unions are sceptical and the company's finance director | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
So now the EDF chairman has written to staff to reassure them, | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
and also to say that the French Government, | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
which owns the company, they have to stump up more money. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
The political will to build Hinkley is immense. | :01:29. | :01:42. | |
David Cameron and President Hollande reaffirmed their commitment | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
to the deal a week ago, describing it as a pillar | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
But a key group of MPs thinks the deal may have to be re-examined. | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
We will have a look, we will be led by the evidence. | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
The Energy and Climate Change Committee prides itself on looking | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
at evidence and making a call on the evidence. | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
As it looks at the moment, I've got to say, the evidence | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
UK taxpayers will be paying ?92.50 for each megawatt hour that | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
That's almost three times as much as the current wholesale | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
But it's less than the Government is already paying for offshore wind | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
energy and only slightly more than what we would pay | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
The Department of Energy and Climate Change says | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
it is committed to Hinkley as the only proven low carbon | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
technology to deliver electricity for decades. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
The political will on both sides of the Channel to get this deal done | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
appears to be such that it could override any financial logic. | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
Footage has emerged appearing to show Turkish coastguards lashing | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
out with sticks at a boat full of migrants in the Aegean Sea. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
The video is believed to have been filmed this morning in Turkish | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
waters near the Greek island of Lesbos. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
Turkey says the coastguards were trying to stop the boat | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
Early this morning off the coast of Turkey, | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
a migrant vessel is being hit with boat hooks. | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
Women scream, children cower on the floor of the boat. | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
They're Turkish coastguards, trying, they claim, to disable the engine | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
Humanitarian experts say these pictures are disturbing. | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
Previously, the Turkish coastguard has been filmed using water cannon | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
Nato ships are now in the waters between Greece and Turkey. | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
Sailors and aircrew will be tasked with sending boats packed full | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
of people heading for Europe towards Turkish coastguards for them | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
But is this what Nato's servicemen and women will be sending | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
The Turkish coastguard says it was trying to stop the migrants | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
getting into Greek waters without harming the refugees. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
Those on board this boat did make it to Greece today, | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
but others were intercepted by the Turkish authorities | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Their attempts thwarted as efforts are stepped up to stop the flow | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
of people paying smugglers to get them onto European soil. | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
The Justice Secretary Michael Gove today declined to deny | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
that he was the source of the story in the Sun that claimed the Queen | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
He told reporters this morning he didn't know where the Sun got | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
all its information - although a source close to Mr Gove | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
later insisted the newspaper was not briefed by him. | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
Well, as I've said before, I don't know how the Sun got | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
all its information, and I don't think it's really | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
worth my adding anything to what's already been said about this story. | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
I think it's critically important that people make their own minds up | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
on the facts about our position in the European Union. | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
With me now is our political correspondent, Ross Hawkins. | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
What do you read into what Mr Gove said? When the story was published, | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
the Palace stressed the Queen's neutrality and complaint to the | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
press regulator. The Sun is confident and says it has multiple | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
sources, but who? It source close to Mr Gove told me earlier that he did | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
not brief this story, taken together he has not ruled out that he knows | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
where some of the Sun 's information comes from, as opposed to all, and | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
he has not ruled out the possibility that something he said has | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
inadvertently found its way to the papers. The Cabinet Secretary has | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
ruled out a formal inquiry conducted by him despite Labour asking for it, | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
the Sun is confident -- I think we can say with some confidence that | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
Labour MPs will ask Mr Gove whether or not he had involvement with the | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
story, as will journalists. The leader of the SNP is to make | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
a new push for independence. Speaking at her party's spring | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
conference in Glasgow, Nicola Sturgeon said a second | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
referendum would not take place quickly, and that independence | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
would be achieved only when a majority of people | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
in Scotland were persuaded. She also said a new campaign would | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
begin this summer. She said that many had not found the argument is | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
to leave the UK compelling. Making and winning that | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
case is our challenge, That's why I can tell | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
you today that, this summer, the SNP will embark | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
on a new initiative to build A 24-year-old man has been shot | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
by police following a siege in North Armed officers were called | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
to a house in Kilbirnie. They say they were confronted | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
by a man wielding a machete The injured man is being | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
treated in hospital. His injuries are not thought | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
to be life-threatening. Charities have strongly criticised | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
planned new cuts to welfare payments More than half a million people | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
are expected to face a cut in their personal independence | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
payments under the changes. The Government says the reforms will | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
save more than ?1 billion pounds. They say they are the hardest hit, | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
and in recent years they have taken their arguments | :07:03. | :07:17. | |
out onto the streets, protesting against cuts | :07:18. | :07:18. | |
to their benefits. In the latest changes | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
to Personal Independence Payment, the formula used to calculate | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
the benefit is being tightened. It could mean cuts for | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
640,000 people by 2020, and save the Government | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
?1.2 billion. Kate's disabilities mean | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
she is in constant pain. She's had her benefits cut | :07:41. | :07:41. | |
before and is worried It feels like a budget decision, | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
it feels like a financial decision If they cared about independence, | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
they wouldn't take my car, because that takes my independence | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
away. The Government says it wants to make | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
sure these benefits go to people who need them and claims the current | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
system isn't working, with many eligible for benefits | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
despite having minimal or no It says these changes will make | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
support for people with The announcement of changes | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
to disability benefits comes just days before the Chancellor's Budget, | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
with critics suggesting the savings could be used to fund tax cuts | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
in George Osborne's latest plans. In fact, it's unforgivable | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
if they are proposing to take that money and spend it instead on tax | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
cuts for people like... People like MPs who earn a decent | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
wage and don't need a further tax cut, especially on the backs | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
of the poor and the disabled. But tonight a Treasury source | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
dismissed the idea that cuts to disability benefits were linked | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
to any changes in taxation. In Rugby's Six Nations, | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
Ireland beat Italy by 58 points to 15 in Dublin, while England | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
are currently taking on Wales at Twickenham in what could be | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
the Championship decider. At half time England were leading | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
16-0 thanks to three penalties from the boot of Owen Farrell | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
and a try from winger With around half an hour remaining, | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
England's lead 19-0. There's more throughout the evening | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
on the BBC News Channel. We are back with the | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
late news at 10:25pm. Now on BBC One it's time | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
for the news where you are. | :09:36. | :09:37. |