26/01/2017 BBC News at One

The Prime Minister heads to the United States to become

the first world leader to meet the new President.

Theresa May will first address Republican congressmen and say

Britain and America have the chance to lead the world together again.

But Donald Trump's latest comments on supporting torture,

in his first interview as President, are likely to complicate the visit.

Would I feel strongly about water boarding?

As far as I'm concerned, we have to fight fire with fire.

We will be live in Philadelphia for the latest.

Strong consumer spending helped the UK's economy to grow faster

than expected at the end of last year.

A record number of prisoners committed suicide in jails

A DNA breakthrough - police finally solve the mystery

of a body found on Saddleworth Moor a year ago.

And British astonaut Tim Peake on his plans to return to space,

as the Soyez capsule which carried him there and back

Coming up in the sport on BBC News: Roger Federer reaches his first

grand slam final in two years with victory over Swiss

compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka at the Australian Open.

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

Theresa May is expected to become the first world leader to meet

America's new President this evening when she addresses Republican

Tomorrow, she will travel to the White House for formal talks.

The Prime Minister is expected to tell her audience

tonight that a "sovereign, global" Britain wants to enhance

But some politicians here have reacted to the meeting

with misgivings, after Mr Trump said he supported the use

Here's our political correspondent, Carole Walker.

Theresa May says her meeting with President Trump will be an

opportunity to renew the special relationship, to discuss a future

trade deal and the importance of strengthening defence and security

cooperation. But how will she respond to the new President's

latest remarks? Some of his advisers do not agree with him but Donald

Trump says he would consider methods such as waterboarding to tackle

international terrorism. When they are chopping off the heads of people

because they happen to be a Christian in the Middle East, when

Isis is doing things nobody has heard of since medieval times, but I

feel strongly about waterboarding? As far as I am concerned, we have to

fight fire with fire. I want to do everything in the bounds of what we

can do legally but do I feel it works? Absolutely, I feel it works.

The Foreign Secretary says the Government's stance is clear. The

Prime Minister did answer that question in the House of Commons

yesterday and she was very clear that our principled position and our

objection to torture remains unchanged. The Prime Minister has

said she will not be afraid to stand up to the American President on

issues where they disagree. Yesterday, a senior Tory and the

raised his concerns. President Trump has repeatedly said that he will

bring back torture as an instrument of policy. When she sees him on

Friday, will the Prime Minister make clear that in no circumstances will

she permit Britain to be dragged into facilitating that torture, as

we were after September 11? I can assure my honourable friend that we

have a very clear position on torture, we do not sanction torture,

we do not get involved with that and that will continue to be our

President. As the Prime Minister continues to negotiate Britain's the

from the EU, she has spoken about the importance of loping -- of new

global ties, the EU is our biggest trading market, with more than ?500

billion annually but Theresa May knows the progress of a future US

trade deal would send an important signal. It is very important for

Britain and the United States we have better trade agreements, they

could be even better with the right kind of deal and it is good that we

work together on the main issues around the world. And the British

Government has been very clear in its stance. The Prime Minister will

speak in glowing terms about the importance of the special

relationship when she addresses senior Republicans later. She will

say the US and UK working together to defeat evil have fulfilled the

promise of freedom, liberty and the rights of man, but is under pressure

to confront the American President over remarks which many believe fly

in the face of those ideals. Theresa May knows that establishing a strong

personal rapport will be hugely important. Downing Street said there

may be frank exchanges, but it is clear that renewing the special

relationship will be the priority. Theresa May will address congressmen

later today and President Trump is expected to attend, a big moment for

expected to attend, a big moment for the Prime Minister.

What sort of reception is the Prime Minister likely to get?

I think she will get a warm reception, the chemistry when she

meets Donald Trump tomorrow will be fascinating, you could not really

imagine two different characters in terms of their personal style. The

torture issue is difficult because she will be under a lot of pressure

to raise that. But what she needs to do when she comes here is the

persuade Congress to Republicans when she speaks to them behind me

and the President himself that Britain can negotiate a good

bilateral trade deal once it is out of the European Union. The

difficulty for her is that Donald Trump is in favour of bilateral

trade deals, he really likes them, he hates multilateral deals, but he

likes bilateral deals because he believes America can always get the

upper hand, the better deal. They can effectively get the best out of

those bilateral deals because it is the more powerful country. She will

have to come away from Washington tomorrow with something to show,

some positive words to give some sense of enthusiasm and some bite to

her and her government's view that Britain can exist properly in trade

terms outside the EU. Thank you. Our assistant political editor,

Norman Smith, is in Westminster. Her meeting with President Trump

is certainly going to Well, this was always a meeting

which some people in Westminster were queasy about given the views of

Mr Trump on various issues, but his comments about torture have made it

a lot more problematic. Because this morning, there has been quite a

backlash following his remarks, not just from Labour politicians, senior

Conservatives also unhappy about his remarks on using waterboarding,

saying that is morally indefensible, legally unacceptable. But there are

also security implications because the secured -- the concern is

British spies cannot take advantage of American intelligence because we

do not know if it is screened from using torture. So for Theresa May,

her people will wonder how to manage this, we want the best possible

relations and yet we know Mrs May has said she is quite prepared to be

frank with Mr Dashwood Mr Trump. We will find out in the next couple of

hours exactly how Frank Mrs May is prepared to be.

And an important milestone reached in Parliament

Yes, we have here the Brexit bill to begin the process of taking us out

of the EU. A pared down, stripped down, fast-track bill to be pushed

through the Commons, starting next Tuesday, done and dusted by the

following Wednesday. A number of Labour MPs have said this is not

acceptable, it is an attempt to muzzle MPs and gag parliaments, not

enough time. One of the key developments this lunchtime is

Jeremy Corbyn is to order his MPs to back this bill. A lot of anger among

some Labour MPs over this, with suggestions it could prompt more

resignations from Jeremy Corbyn's team, including from the Shadow

Cabinet, so there is the potential that this bill could lead to another

Jeremy Corbyn leadership crisis. From Westminster, thank you.

Those comments were in the new President's first major interview

Speaking to the American broadcaster ABC, he said protecting the US

Our world affairs correspondent, Paul Adams, reports.

Donald Trump is getting used to his new home, following his

hallowed and not so hallowed footsteps.

Five days after his inauguration, does the 45th

I want to make this a great success for the

American people and for the people that put me in this position, so I

So I can be the most presidential person

ever, other than possibly the great Abe Lincoln, all right?

But I can be the most presidential person, but I

may not be able to do the job nearly as well if I do that.

National security has loomed large in this first week.

President Trump promising once again to suspend

the flow of refugees from several Arab countries.

You're looking at people that come in, in many cases,

They're coming in under false pretences, I don't want that.

I'm going to be the President of a safe

You think this is going to cause a little more

Donald Trump says American interests will always come first.

Listen to what he says he would have done in Iraq.

Well, we should have kept the oil when we got out.

And you know, it's very interesting, had

we taken the oil, you wouldn't have Isis.

Because they fuelled themselves with the oil, that's

So you believe we can go in and take the

These are some of the pictures that were taken.

Last weekend, the White House was furious at the suggestion that

Donald Trump's inauguration had not attracted record crowds.

When you look at this tremendous sea of love, I call

it a sea of love, it's really something special.

That all these people travelled here from all parts

of the country, maybe the world, but all parts

Many of these people were the forgotten men and

But more importantly, they're going to love

Mr Trump says it was only massive voter fraud that

prevented him from winning the popular vote in November.

Most experts say there is simply no evidence.

You've got people who are registered who are dead, who are

illegals, who are in two states, and I will say this.

Of those votes cast, none of them come

Donald Trump has been the most powerful man

A week of decisions and recriminations, able to

start for his legions of fans, an unnerving guns

The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, says the UK's economy

is robust and resilient, but he's warned there may

be uncertainty ahead, as Britain adjusts to

His comments come as official figures show that the economy defied

the expectations of some economists and grew by 0.6% in the final

three months of last year and by 2.0% over 2016.

Our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, is at the Microsoft

headquarters in Reading, where the Chancellor has been

Yes, famously and rather sarcastically, it was Napoleon that

called Britain a nation of shopkeepers. And frankly, Philip

Hammond is probably pretty glad that we are a nation of consumers. It has

been the services sector of the UK economy, 80% of the UK economy, that

has really lifted those growth figures. Retail, restaurants and

travel agents have all been contributing to those growth

figures. As you say, there were lots of gloomy forecasts about what would

happen to the economy if we voted to leave the European Union, which of

course we did. I kicked off by asking the Chancellor here in

Reading whether this was a pain cancelled or delayed.

Of course, we recognise that as we go into this period of negotiation

with the European Union and as we absorb the impacts of the

depreciation of Stirling last year, there will be more uncertainty ahead

during the course of this year. But the fact the economy is so robust

and resilient going in should give us great cause for optimism about

Britain's future. Of course, Brexit and our

negotiations for leaving the European Union are at least one of

the big unknowns the UK economy, the Chancellor told me there were some

concerns about business investment being delayed because of worries

about that uncertainty. But I asked him whether that period of

uncertainty was now seeming a little shorter than it had initially.

I sense that the period in which our European partners were wanting to

chastise us has passed, has moved on, and actually what people are

looking to do now is look for a practical solution that works for

us, that works for the European Union and that will make all our

people more prosperous in the future.

I think now of course Philip Hammond will be looking towards his next big

event and that is the budget in March. But growth figures for 2016

mean that the Government will have a bit more money to play with because

the Government and its receipts will have increased from taxes, does not

mean we are out of the woods, the Bank of England saying growth for

next year will be lower than forecast for this year, but for the

moment, the UK economy is certainly continuing with that strong, robust

growth that we have seen today. Thank you.

The number of prisoners who committed suicide in jails

in England and Wales last year has reached record levels.

The Ministry of Justice says there were 119 suicides -

the highest number since records began in 1978.

Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, reports.

Last year, the BBC was given rare access to one Britain's

It didn't take long for our team to come across the mental health

problems driving today's rise in prisoners killing

Another inmate had smashed up his cell, painted its walls.

He said his conditions had been diagnosed,

He said his conditions had been diagnosed, but not well treated.

I am asking for help, but the service seems to be so slow.

From this picture of life behind bars to the figures

354 deaths were recorded in 2015-16, up more

119 were self-inflicted, another record.

And there were more than 25,000 assaults, yet again a record.

The Government's focus has been on restoring

numbers of prison officers, which had previously been cut.

We are investing an extra ?100 million, 2,500 extra prison

officers across the estate, so that we are able

to have a caseload of one prison officer for every six prisoners

enabling us to give support and challenge to help them

turn their lives around, but also making sure

that they are kept safe while they are in prison.

It's a very serious situation and I've acknowledged that.

If she's going to be serious about saving lives and making

prisons safer, and making prisons work better to serve

putting in more staff is only one thing.

She has in the end to reduce the number of people in them.

Prisons are overflowing, they're rat infested,

cockroach infested, and they're festering with crime.

Getting tough with prisoners is easy politics for the Government.

Increasing officer numbers is achievable, yet brings

But cutting the number of people in prison, well,

The Prime Minister heads to the United States to become

the first world leader to meet the new president.

The last of the Dambusters - a petition to honour George Johnson

Coming up in sport at 1:30pm: Will England captain Eoin Morgan be

made to rue putting India into bat in Kanpur?

We'll have the latest from the first Twenty20 international,

as England look to take the early advantage.

He spent 186 days in space on board the International Space Station -

and the British astronaut Tim Peake says he's going back for more.

The 44-year-old says he's excited about returning,

and looking forward to seeing the spectacular view

He's been talking about his plans at London's Science Museum,

where the Soyuz spacecraft that launched him into orbit

and returned him to Earth went on public display today.

Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh is there.

So here it is, the space capsule that took Tim Peake into space. And

as you said, it's now on permanent display here at the Science Museum.

Early today, Tim and his capsule were reunited for the first time

since he returned to Earth. It's been to the Space Station

and back, and now the final leg The capsule that sent

Tim Peake into orbit The Soyuz has landed -

at the Science Museum in London. It's like unwrapping a Christmas

present for the staff here, revealing a singed, scorched piece

of Britain's scientific history. He was inside when he first

experienced the wonders of space. And he was looking through this

very window when he saw what it was like to re-enter

the Earth's atmosphere. And now he's been told he'll be

given another mission to the Space Station,

in a few years' time. It's great news for myself

and my colleagues that we're going to get the opportunity

for a second mission back It's wonderful news for the future

of European space travel. The Science Museum want the display

to be an inspiration Well, just knowing

it's been in space. You can actually really

smell the capsule. It's smaller than

I expected as well. Tim came back to Earth

in his capsule last year. It is now a celebration of Britain's

recent history of sending The return to Earth is the most

exciting ride of all time in space. You feel the G build-up and you can

see the outside surface bubbling away as you come

through the atmosphere. The parachutes open up

and you bump down on the ground. Many of the children

here want to follow in Tim and Helen's footsteps,

but not all of them. Everyone here is really excited,

especially at the news that Tim is going to get another mission to the

space station. We don't know exactly when, but it will be some time,

probably, between 1919 -- between 2019, and 2024, so not long to wait

before we can relive all that excitement of last year, all over

again. The number of cars being built in

the UK has reached a 17-year high - because of continued economic

recovery in Europe. The Society of Motor Manufacturers

and Traders says more than 1.7 million vehicles were made

last year - but they warned that investment in the industry

is falling due to uncertainty about Our industry correspondent

John Moylan reports. It's a British brand that's in

demand the world. This is the new Discovery, the latest model from

Midlands -based Jaguar Land Rover. Last year, more than 540,000 cars

rolled off JLR's production lines, making it Britain's biggest

car-maker. We had a fantastic December. Sales in January remains

strong as well. In fact even in markets like China, we have the best

sales month in our history in December. In 2016 UK plants produced

more than 1.7 million cars, a 17 year high. And we exported record

numbers. 1.35 million, more than half of that went to the EU. But

investment fell to ?1.6 billion, down around one third on the

previous year. That's falling investment would appear to be the

clearest sign yet that -- the clearest sign yet that Brexit is

having an impact and that the uncertainties surrounding our future

trading arrangements has caused some investment to be put on hold.

Anecdotally we are getting comments from an array of our members that

effectively left -- they are sitting on their hands, waiting to see what

the future will hold and waiting for the greater certainty about future

relationships with Europe. Despite the vote to leave the EU last year

Nissan said it would build two new models here, after receiving support

and assurances from the government. Aston Martin and McLaren also

announced major investment funds. But Brexit means the UK now has to

negotiate a new trade deal with the EU and some fear the prolonged

negotiations could prove highly damaging. So we want to see

preferably as much access to the single market. If that is not

maintained, then there is the question about investment in the UK

in the car industry and how many plants will remain here in the long

term. The industry wants tariff free trade with the EU to keep our car

exports growing. Production is set to hit an all-time high by the end

of the decade. The big unknown is what will happen after that. John

Moylan, BBC News. The mystery of a body found a year

ago on Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester has

finally been solved. Police made numerous public appeals

for information after he was found lying on the hillside with no

identification or phone. Now a DNA match has

uncovered his identity. Judith Moritz is at Dovestone

reservoir, on the moors. Yes, it was at this beauty spot on

the edge of Saddleworth Moor, at around 12 o'clock, the middle of the

day, on the 15th of December in 2015, passing cyclist discovered the

body of a man. Now at first it was thought that he had had a heart

attack, had been out walking and suffered a heart attack or something

similar, but then the police, who were called by the Mountain rescue

here, came and said that their belief was that he had deliberately

chosen come here to die. The problem for the police was they had no idea

who he -- who the man was. On his body when they found him there were

no documents, no wallet, no mobile phone, nothing like that. The pieces

of the jigsaw have taken more than a year to establish who he was. What

they did find on the man's body were tickets. That took them to Ealing

Broadway station in London. He was captured there on CCTV. They were

able, through looking at that footage, to create an e-fit drawing

of the man and to follow lots of different lines of enquiry. Both in

the UK and also over in Pakistan, because the other thing found with

the man's body was a small pot of strychnine poisoning, which was

traced to Pakistan, along with a medical implants in the man's lead.

It's taken more than a year and they've been combing flight records,

but the police today have said through the coroner's court that the

man was David Lytton, 67 years old, from London. They discovered he flew

to the UK two days before he died from Lahore in Pakistan and they've

been able to make a DNA match with one of his relatives. There will be

a full inquest heard in due course, when more information will emerge.

We are told that Mr Lipton's family have been told about all of this and

are being comforted -- David Lytton's family have been told and

are being comforted. Poverty is blighting the lives

of nearly one in five children in the UK -

and those from the most deprived backgrounds are experiencing much

worse health compared That's according to the Royal

College of Paediatrics and Child Health, which says the UK

is lagging behind most western European countries on measures such

as infant mortality rates, Our health correspondent

Dominic Hughes reports. Hi, I'm Sophie, and I'm

an emotional wreck. Anxiety, depression

and the need to be listened to. These are the themes of a short play

on mental health performed by students in Liverpool,

and echoed in today's report on the health of young

people and children. It paints a picture of the UK

struggling to match other countries and even fallen behind. Evidence has

been developing that all is not well with our children's health. It's the

first time we've pulled together a proper picture across all four

countries and the news is not good. Some of the issues that raise

concerns over the state of child health include just 34% of babies

breast-fed to six months, less than half the rate in Norway.

40% of children in England's most deprived areas

And half of adult mental health problems start before the age of 14.

For the drama group in Liverpool, mental health issues are a priority.

Mental health is not seen physically but it doesn't mean it's not there.

Our production will mainly be to get rid of that stigma about mental

health and just educate our audience a bit more about mental health.

It challenges all four governments of the UK to consider

the impact their policies will have on children.

They've responded by restating commitments

The last surviving member of the famous Dambusters raid -

George Johnson - was in his early 20s when he and the rest

of Bomber Command Squadron 617 embarked on the perilous mission

Last year he was passed over for a knighthood,

after being nominated for his charity work

Today, his friend Carol Vorderman is going to Parliament -

along with Gulf War veteran John Nichol - in a campaign to get

The mile long march from Bomber Command memorial to Downing Street,

with the hope of finally honouring a hero. George Johnson, known as

Johnny, seen here on the far left. One of the 133 men who flew over

Germany to bomb downs. More than a third of them never going home.

People to say to me, were you frightened? I said well, I think

anybody who saw that for the first time must have been at least a bit

apprehensive. If not, they were either devoid of emotion or

strangers to the truth. But Johnny has never been recognised for the

party played on the 16th of May, 1943. Despite being nominated, he

didn't appear on the new Year's honours list. I hadn't realised he

had been nominated, but then realised he'd been snubbed in the

New years Honours list, it was an insult not only to him but also to

those he fought with and those who adore him, and I'm one of them. And

she's not alone. Hundreds of thousands, up and down the country,

agree. And so today, Carol Vorderman, along with RAF veteran

John Nichol, took their message to the Prime Minister. I'm not saying

Johnny is more worthy than a fashion designer or a celebrity or a sports

man or a TV personality, but it's those people are worthy of awards,

then Johnny is worth one, 100 fold. In just three weeks, over 200,000

people have signed the petition. But whether Johnny Johnson, our last

surviving dambuster, appears on the Queen's list next time remains to be

seen. Vienna Landing, BBC News. The weather now with Sarah Keith-Lucas.

We have some contrast across the UK, you can see the beautiful blue skies

in Scotland. The satellite image shows there's a lot of cloud around

the rest of the UK. This picture comes from Dorset, where a fairly

different scene is there. There's a lot of grey cloud, some drizzly

outbreaks of rain. We've even had some snow grains around across parts

of the country. Where you have the cloud it's feeling pretty chilly.

Add on the wind-chill as well. There should be some sunshine be appearing

along the south coast, as we had through the afternoon. This is 3pm,

also some brightness across more western parts of Wales. For the East

of Wales, through the Midlands, North East England, it's feeling

cold out there. Scotland should see most of the sunshine. Temperatures

just above freezing for many others, but feeling below zero when you want

on the effect of the wind-chill. This evening and overnight, dry for

most parts. A sharp frost. A cold night ahead from any of us. We'll

see more cloud filtering in from the south, bringing some bright spots of

rain or even some snow. There's the risk tomorrow morning we could have

some icy stretches, particularly towards the south-east. A cold start

a Friday morning. Through the day we have a front trying to move in from

the West, but it's bumping into high-pressure, in charge across

continental parts of Europe. Through the day of high pressure keeps

things mostly dry. It will turn milder and cloudier from the south

and the West, with a few spots of rain. Temperatures seven or 8

degrees, typically around two towards the north-east. On Saturday

the area of rain pushes away towards the east. We are back into sunshine

and showers, blustery feel, but we should just about push into double

figures. A change in the story as things turned that bit milder. Onto

the second half of the weekend, we see a front towards the south

bringing some wet and windy weather. Some uncertainty about how far north

that front gets during the course of Sunday. It looks like we should have

the clearest conditions across northern areas, 5-6 here, further

south milder as we had through the course of the weekend. There's a

change on the cards, certainly over the next couple of days we'll start

to lose the chilly feel. While the period of weather. Tonight, watch

out for another cold and frosty night

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