07/03/2016 BBC News at Six

EU leaders locked in talks to try, once again, to find a solution

to Europe's worst refugee crisis since the Second World War.

With ten times as many migrants arriving this year compared

to the same period last year, EU leaders are putting

But Turkey is demanding billions of Euros, to stem the flow of people

leaving its shores to head to Europe.

The talks in Brussels were due to end this afternoon,

but have now been extended into the evening as leaders struggle

The teenager stabbed to death at school in Aberdeen last year,

a 16-year-old pupil is convicted of culpable homicide.

One of EDF's most senior bosses quits, over the energy giant's plans

to build a new nuclear power station at Hinkley.

Get fit in your 40s, how becoming healthier can help

you have a happier and longer retirement.

And as the first trial begins of driverless cars for commuters,

will they be able to avoid the wildlife?

And coming up in the sport on BBC News.

Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton gets the go ahead

to race at next week's Cheltenham Festival.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at 6pm.

European leaders are in Brussels this evening, for emergency talks

on how to tackle Europe's worst refugee crisis

One key aim, to persuade Turkey to take back thousands of migrants

stranded in Greece and prevent others from setting off for Europe.

With a solution proving hard to find, the talks have been

The latest figures show a record number of migrants and refugees have

entered Europe this year, 130,000 in the first two months.

That's more than ten times for the same period, last year.

The main destination for many is Germany,

following a route through the Balkans.

But now, with many countries introducing temporary border

controls, migrants have been blocked from getting through.

Our Europe Editor Katya Adler reports from Brussels.

Or, at least trying to add yet another emergency migration in

Brussels. The aim of the meeting need the summed up this morning by

the amazing Argentine minister. TRANSLATION: We must stop a regular

migration pure and simple. Europe's migrant crisis is destroying the

EU's reputation, ripping its members apart politically and geographically

as borders are slammed shut. With the EU overwhelmed, Nato is now

wading in to help, with a new mission aimed at stopping people

smugglers. The British Royal Navy is taking heart. It's important that we

help the continent of Europe to secure its external border. That is

in our interest and we are sending British ships to do that. This

underlines the special status we have in this organisation. We are

not in the Schengen no Borders zone, we keep our own strong borders.

Migrants who come to Europe aren't able to come to the UK. If any one

country holds the key to alleviating this crisis it's Turkey, not an EU

nation although it wants to be. The Turkish Prime Minister is ardently

the most watched need at this summit. The EU wants Turkey to stop

people smugglers on its beaches and take back all migrants that the EU

judges not to be in need of its protection. But the UN warns that

might break international human Terry and law even if Turkey agrees

to the EU's wish list, how high will the price be? The Turkish Prime

Minister came to today's meeting sounding amenable.

Challenges will be sold through our corporation and Turkey is willing to

work with the EU. It even when agreements are made, the track

record of keeping to them isn't great. In May, EU countries agreed

to spread out the number of arriving asylum seekers more equally. 160,000

people were supposed to be relocated in total but only 900 have actually

been moved. In June, the EU told Greece to set up registration

centres to properly identify arriving migrants but Greece has

only now started that process properly. In the meantime, tens of

thousands of undocumented migrants walked out of Greece and into the

rest of Europe. Agreed in November, the EU hoped Turkish governments

would stop birds of migrants leaving Turkey in the first place but there

has been little evidence of that so far. The EU is trying hard to woo

Turkey including offers of more money. If it fails, Greece agrees it

has the most to lose. Farmers fields and city squares like this in Athens

are now filling with migrants. Greece is appealing to anyone who

will listen at this summit not to abandon it, letting it become the

refugee camp for the continent. The vast majority of migrants come

to Europe from Turkey, taking an often dangerous

journey across the Aegean. Our correspondent Mark Lowen

reports from Cheshmeh, This abandoned holiday camp has

become a makeshift holding centre for refugees and migrants in western

Turkey waiting to make the crossing The refugees and migrants

are staying in abandoned houses You can see the fragments of rubbish

and clothes everywhere. Patrollingpatrolling Turkey's border

is the key. It's a vast coastline is for one half thousand miles long,

the smugglers using new routes, preying on the desperate. There are

still plenty of them, every day like this family from Syria. We don't

have anything. I go because I need life. I don't know. Accept me, don't

accept it, but I go. Too often it ends in disaster. This, the latest,

25 people drowning off the Turkish coast yesterday. A message to

Europe's leaders to act. These tragedies keep happening and get the

migrants keep coming and that is why Turkey holds the cards. It is

Europe's gatekeeper. Ankara is using that as leveraged and it knows that

the EU will turn a blind eye to other problems here like human

rights and an increasingly authoritarian government. Freedom of

expression is being crushed. Protests over the government's

takeover of Turkey boss at largest newspaper ended in this. Brussels

criticised because being too migrant focused to speak out.

The dream of sanctuary lies just five miles across the Aegean. Many

who go could now be sent back, Turkey becoming Europe's refugee

camp. For those fleeing war, hope still outweighs the risk.

Let's go live now to our Europe Editor, Katya Adler

Let's go live now to our Europe Editor, Katya Adler in Brussels.

It feels like we've been here before, is it likely to be any

As the Greek Prime Minister rightly pointed out here are not

implementing an agreement is about the same value as not having an

agreement at all. That is what is the big worry, getting a new

agreement with Turkey is proving very difficult. It has come with a

whole host of new political and funding demands. Wanting a doubling

of the 3 billion euros that the EU had promised to help with the

migrant crisis. Wanting to speed up joining the EU. That is

complications with Turkey never mind arguments with EU countries over the

migration crisis. Will they not accept that on taking quotas of

migrants already in Europe and refugees directly from Turkey, the

UK is not part of the plan. In the meantime, voters from Greece are

warning it could turn into the Lebanon Europe they say. Well

refugee camps supposed to be temporary turn out to be sprawling

and long-term. A teenager who stabbed a 16 year-old

boy in an Aberdeen school last year has been found guilty

of killing him. Bailey Gwynne died after being

stabbed in the heart The 16-year-old accused

of the killing had denied murder, but was convicted of culpable

homicide, similar to manslaughter. Our Scotland correspondent

Kevin Keane reports. It is one of Scotland's

best-performing state schools, producing high-achieving students

from an Olympic medallist But at lunchtime on October 28th

last year, Cults Academy became Bailey Gwynne was stabbed in

the heart and died within minutes. He was a quiet boy, the last person

many would expect to be in a fight. It was a disagreement, which started

over a packet of biscuits. Outside court, Aberdeen's education

director said it had been There are no words that can

sum this up. The emotional impact

of what happened, it is still hard The boy who has been convicted

is a 16-year-old fellow pupil who had a history of carrying knives

and knuckle-dusters. He had been warned by the school

about the dangers of such weapons Several years earlier he had

attacked another child The victim ended up

in hospital with concussion. There are calls for this

to form part of a review, announced today into

last year's stabbing. I want to see a full

investigation of that incident. So that we can be reassured

that there is nothing we could have done then that would have prevented

what has happened now. There was an outpouring of grief

after the stabbing as friends gathered, struggling

to comprehend what had happened. The incident itself was over

in less than 30 seconds. A teacher saw Bailey and his

attacker exchanging punches. Bailey Then stumbled into a wall. He didn't

seem badly hurt at first but quickly lost consciousness and died a short

time later. His family has maintained a dignified silence

throughout this trial. The 16-year-old pupil will return to

court later this month to be sentenced.

The UK is facing the threat of "enormous and spectacular

attacks" by so-called Islamic State militants,

according to the national head of counter terrorism policing.

The Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said

rather than targeting police or the military IS now wants

The chief financial officer for the French Energy firm,

EDF, has resigned over the company's plans to build a new nuclear power

Thomas Piquemal had expressed concern that the ?18 billion

cost of the project could jeopardise the future of the company.

Here's our Industry Correspondent John Moylan.

It will be the first nuclear plant to be built in Britain for a

generation and is meant to provide 7% of our electricity for decades to

come but Hinkley Point C will also be one of the most expensive

man-made structures in the world. Which is why this man, Thomas

Piquemal, has resigned from EDF. As chief finance officer at the huge

French firm, he believed that pressing ahead with the project now

would put the whole company in jeopardy.

Make no mistake, Hinkley Point will be a hugely expensive power plant.

Its projected cost is ?18 billion, but the final sum could be much

EDF's Chinese partner, China General Nuclear will pay

around a third of that, but EDF must find the rest.

So, the British Government is guaranteeing the French energy

giant this, more than ?90 per megawatt hour.

That's the price to be paid for all the electricity that Hinkley

Point will generate and it's more than double the price today.

EDF's finances are under strain. Its new plant here in France and Finland

are over budget and behind schedule, its revenues have been hit by

falling power prices and with mounting costs ahead, French unions,

which sit on EDF's board believe Hinkley Point should be delayed. I

think we should wait before we go ahead with Hinkley Point because we

have four reactors in construction. And zero working. At a summit last

week, David Cameron and the French president Francois Hollande called

Hinkley Point a pillar of the Anglo-French relationship. Today

both governments again pledged their support but critics are unconvinced.

The facts are that the reactor is not a good reactor and the deal is

not a good deal. EDF are in a perilous financial state. It looks

like we need to find a way out of this mess. EDF said it will take a

decision on this project in the near future and now there is one less

senior executive to oppose a deal but today its shares fell sharply,

this long-running saga is far from over.

EU leaders locked in talks to try - once again - to find a solution

to Europe's worst refugee crisis since the second world war.

And still to come, how the aurora borealis lit up our skies as far

Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Dr Eva Carneiro and her lawyers meet

with her former club Chelsea for six hours as she looks to reach

a settlement for contsructive dismissal.

The Swedish car maker Volvo is about to start recruiting 100

people to commute to work next year in a driverless car.

behind the wheel on a busy road - such as read a book

In the first of a series of reports on the impact and future of the car,

our Transport Correspondent, Richard Westcott, was given special

Home of Volvo, a place where drivers need to beware of the elks.

On a test track, the company is showing me its unique experiment.

And they will need members of the public to help.

They're going to ask 100 ordinary people to commute in a car,

And then they're going to tell those people they are actually free to do

From the track, to the evening commute.

By next year Gothenburg's 100 volunteers will be driverless

That is roads with no cyclists or pedestrians, and bearing in mind

The computer needs to see the white lines.

The man in charge of the technology told me what would

If something unexpected happens, the car needs to be able

We cannot count on a driver to immediately take over.

So the car will be able to detect it and it will slow down in order

It is not going to suddenly shove control back to the driver?

No, the driver may be sitting relaxing, reading,

you cannot count on him or her to intervene immediately,

Things look a bit different in the UK.

In Milton Keynes, public-transport pods will eventually use

the pavements to shuttle people between the shops and the station.

Would you happily share a pavement with one of those,

The choices, it has to decide, it has to decide in an instant

whether it has got to stop or it has got to carry on going for the safety

of who's in it or who is on the outside.

You don't worry about it bumping into you?

No, you can easily move out of the way.

In the US, Google is leading the way in driverless testing,

They have just had their first crash, where the computer

Experts describe a future straight out of a science-fiction novel.

You're going to see this technology in forklift trucks,

And that, for me, is extremely interesting.

That this technology is not just about transport,

Back on the test track, time to enjoy a drama on the telly.

It could still take a decade or even two, but eventually children

will marvel at the idea that people actually used to

The families of the men who were killed and buried in debris

when a building collapsed at the Didcot power plant last

month have spoken publicly for the first time, criticising

the length of time taken to find their loved ones.

A petition to retrieve the men's bodies has now been launched

Jade Ali has been with Chris Huxtable for more

They have an 11-year-old daughter together.

But Chris, along with two fellow workers, has been missing for nearly

two weeks in the rubble of the collapsed Didcot power station.

Today, Jade's frustration and anger at the lack of progress in finding

What have the last two weeks been like?

I need Chris home, it has been too long.

Jade has now set up this online petition calling for more to be done

She says in earthquake zones people are found long after the first

tremors, and says she and her daughter are not getting

My daughter is phoning me every day, have they found Daddy?

It is one thing the family not giving up, there is a God up

The families of all the missing men today met police and

health-and-safety executives to discuss those frustrations

The police said they were working to support the families and also

to find out exactly what caused this incident.

Some families today returned to the site to be

The Health and Safety Executive said that it was still too risky

Those like Jade say, two weeks on, they remain

A judge has been urged to ignore sentencing guidelines and give long

prison terms to the seven men behind the largest theft in English legal

history, the raid on Hatton Garden in London last Easter.

Six of the convicted men have appeared in court for sentencing.

Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Daniel Sandford is in Hatton Garden

- a seventh man was unable to appear as he's had a stroke in prison?

Yes, Brian reader, the oldest of the gang, was here on the night they

drilled into the vault, he admits being part of a gang of men who

stole what the prosecution say was ?14 million of cash, jewellery and

gold bullion, but he was not in court today, his lawyer said he is

recovering from septicemia, a stroke and prostate cancer. For part of

last week he was in a critical care unit in an NHS hospital, being

guarded by six police officers with machine guns. The men sentenced this

week have an average age of 63, but the prosecution are urging the judge

to go beyond the normal guidelines for burglary and impose even heavier

sentences, which means the men, suffering from things like

arthritis, rheumatism, incontinence, diabetes, Crohn's disease, a double

hip replacement, are facing prison sentences of up to ten years and

possibly more if they do not give some of the money back. Facing the

real prospect that some of the men are so old, they may spend the rest

of their lives in prison. A brief look at some of the day's

other other news stories. A dissident republican group calling

itself the New IRA has said it was responsible for the bomb

which injured a prison officer In a statement, the group said

the man was targeted for training prison officers at MagAbry

Jail, where dissident The 52-year-old is in a stable

condition in hospital and four An alternative draft

Wales Bill has been unveiled by First Minister Carwyn Jones

following the UK Government's plans He said the Welsh Government

would cut the list of powers kept by Westminster and set up a separate

legal system for Wales. The Wales Office, run

by the Conservatives, say separate legal jurisdiction

was previously ruled out by Labour. Drink less, exercise more, eat more

healthily and give up smoking. That's the message to people

in middle age, in a new campaign It says that people in their 40s

who change their lifestyles have a better chance

of being healthy in their 70s. But if they don't, they could die

early, or face a retirement At an exercise class in Hyde

in Greater Manchester, these women know the value

of keeping moving. But I feel much better during

the day and I just enjoy coming. People are living a lot longer,

so you need to, you know, My mum is 99, so I

hope I follow her! Which could lead to

the "these used to fit" you. Exercise more, drink less,

lose weight, stop smoking. These are all familiar messages

from health experts. To help you start the fightback

to a healthier you. But this new campaign is targeting

everyday bad habits, Arguing that good health now

will pay dividends in the future. We're not wanting people

to live forever. We want them to live well

for as long as possible. And the evidence is it is never too

late, doesn't matter if you've got Julie Racquel, a smoker for 38

years, has done just that. She was getting through 60 a day,

now she has given up. My breathing capacity for my age

was like an 83-year-old woman. And I just thought, no,

can't do this no more. I need to be my age

and live my life. For some, a gentle walk

in the winter sunshine is the best One of the main messages

from today's campaign is it doesn't have to be about the big gym

membership or an organised physical activity, it can just be as simple

as going for a walk But the key thing is

just to keep active. Similar campaigns in other parts

of the UK have been aimed But this is the first

time the overall health of the middle-aged has been

so much in the spotlight. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

have released photographs of the family's first holiday

together since Princess Charlotte There have been dazzling displays

of the Aurora Borealis, better known as the Northern

Lights, across parts of the UK The spectacle is only usually

visible in the far north of Scotland, but a lucky combination

of conditions meant it could be seen as far south as Oxfordshire

in England, with many taking to social media to share photographs

of the dramatic light show. Aurora Borealis occurs

when electrically-charged particles from the sun enter

the earth's atmosphere. And as the clouds cleared last

night, the sky was filled with shades of green,

purple and blue. Creating scenes like this

in Innerleithen in the Scottish Dunstanburgh Castle near Alnwick

in Northumberland made a dramatic setting as shades of

pink filled the sky. While over in North Yorkshire,

this was the view over Saltburn Forecasters had predicted good

conditions for the light show, and a kaleidoscope of colours

were visible to the naked eye, including this pink night sky over

Patterdale in Cumbria. In the Republic of Ireland,

fiery reds and oranges were seen over Ballynamona

beach in County Cork. This was the scene in Ormskirk,

Lancashire, with flashes of green In Anglesey, this was the display

over Bull Bay. The still lake of Lough Fea

near Cookstown in Northern Ireland provided the setting

for this stunning shot. While these illuminations painted

the night sky over Fabulous, I would have loved to have

seen it. Any chance of seeing it tonight?

There is some activity forecast and we have clear skies, but it will be

further north, the northern half of Scotland, where you have some

potential. Further south, it is looking a bit less likely for this

coming evening. The cloud will increase as we head through the

course of the evening and overnight. A weather front approaching from the

north-west. A hard frost developing before that, so a cold night ahead.

The weather front rings rain and heavy still smoke across Scotland,

into the north-west of England. We will see icy conditions developing

through the morning. Through the course of the day, this

band of cloud edges gradually further east, bringing outbreaks of

light rain, sleet, a bit of hill snow, but it tends to fizzle out as

it reaches the Southeast later. Another fairly cold day.

Things into the middle of the week.

Things a developing area of low pressure

from the Atlantic, there is uncertainty about how it will

develop. It looks like we are in for a spell of wet and windy weather

through the course of Wednesday. We will have the strongest wind across

Wales and the south-west of England and heavy rainfall Central and

eastern parts of England, but don't take this too literally. We could

see the rain further south or north. Northern Ireland and Scotland will

have a quieter day. The temperatures nudging up. That is a hint of things

to come for the weekend. We could see them back up to 15 degrees or so

by the weekend. and on BBC One we now join the BBC's

news teams where you are.