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Labour and the EU referendum, Jeremy Corbyn officially backs the Remain | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
He says EU membership is best for workers' rights but admits | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
It's perfectly possible to be critical and still be convinced | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
We'll be looking at how important Labour voters | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Does BP's boss really deserve a ?14 million pay package? | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
The Lancashire hospital that plans to close its A | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
department temporarily because of a shortage of doctors. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
The migrants who used this dinghy to cross the Channel. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
Kate gets the giggles after trying her hand | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
And coming up in spot on BBC News: Liverpool look to make it through to | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
the Europa League semifinals, but they will have to get past | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
tournament favourites Borussia Dortmund first. | :01:06. | :01:26. | |
Hello and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
In his first major speech on the EU referendum Jeremy Corbyn has said | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
that the Labour Party will be backing the Remain Campaign. | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Despite his own past record of opposing the EU, Mr Corbyn said | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
there would be nothing half-hearted about Labour's support. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
He warned that a referendum vote to leave the EU would lead | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
to what he called a bonfire of workers' rights. | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Here's our political editor Laura Kuenssberg. | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
Jeremy Corbyn has taken a while to work out exactly where he is going | :02:00. | :02:09. | |
in the European Union. But now he is officially in the in crowd and | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
taking his place on its platform. The Labour Party is overwhelmingly | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
for staying in because we believe the European Union has brought | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
investment, jobs and protection for workers, consumers and the | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
environment. The European Union, many warts and all, has proved | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
itself to be a crucial international framework to do that. If it does not | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
sound that enthusiastic it is because he is not. For years he has | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
had public doubts about the EU. We have a European bureaucracy totally | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
unaccountable to anybody, powers have gone to the commission and the | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
Council of Ministers and these are serious matters. Before today you | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
branded some of its policy is crazy and immoral, would you now describe | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
yourself as a pro-European? This is a decision about whether we stay in | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
and argue for the kind of socially just Europe that I want, that our | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
party once, that the vast majority of trade unions and ordinary people | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
of this country want, or we walk away from it. Does it mean I recant | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
on everything I have ever said or done, absolutely not, I am sorry. | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
But what about EU immigration that tops so many people's concerns? Do | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
you think too many other people from other parts of the EU have come to | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
live and work in the UK? I do not think too many have come, the issue | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
has to be wages and regulations. There is nothing wrong about people | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
migrating to work, but there has to be a level playing field on pay and | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
conditions and we have unscrupulous employers doing that. Jeremy Corbyn | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
says there is nothing half-hearted about Labour's decision to stay in | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
the European Union, but it sounds somewhat grudging. We will have to | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
see how he tries to persuade the Labour voters to back the Remain | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Campaign. 9 million people voted Labour last May. In Middleton the | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
seat stayed that way as it has done for decades, but Ukip has nibbled | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
away at the party's support. Can Jeremy Corbyn bring vital votes for | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
the EU? I am a fan of Corbin, his opinions and policies, so I think | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
so. I looked at the lad we had before and I voted for the common | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
market. I have no problems with being friendly with Europe, but I do | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
not see what another country says we have to live a certain way. But | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
there is a lot of trading sides in this referendum. Jeremy Corbyn is on | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
the same side as him and him, the Lib Dems, the SNP and others trying | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
to persuade you to vote to stay in. Only a clutch of Labour MPs will | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
argue against all these politicians. But one of them says Mr Corbett is | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
going through the motions. I feel Jeromy was trying to look like he | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
really meant it and he did well at that, but deep down I know that | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Germany does not believe that the EU can be reformed. In the country | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
there are millions of Labour supporters and voters who just | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
cannot wait to vote to leave. At midnight this whole campaign | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
officially begins. Jeremy Corbyn's EU journey might have taken some | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
time, but his position and the date is now set. | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
Can we assume this is a good day for the Remain Campaign? It has been a | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
decent day at the office for those who are trying to persuade all of us | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
to stay in the European Union. Jeremy Corbyn has been at their | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
trying to urge his supporters to come on board and Unison one of the | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
biggest unions in the country say they will campaign to stay. Lloyds | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
bank, the biggest high-street back in the country, has been warning of | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
the economic risks if we decide to leave. One of the interesting things | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
is although Jeremy Corbyn has been criticised for his support be a bit | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
lukewarm and being in the room it really did feel like that, there are | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
not very many high profile figures arguing to stay in the EU who do so | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
with very much affection for the institution itself. Nobody in the | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
course of the next couple of months, or certainly very few people, will | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
say to the public I love the European Union and you should as | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
well. In what will probably be a brutal campaign, it is based much | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
more on the pragmatic decision in front of us. That might be something | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
they will find quite challenging in the next ten weeks. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Shareholders in the oil company BP have voted against a ?14 million pay | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
deal for it's chief executive, Bob Dudley. | :06:52. | :06:52. | |
Almost 60% rejected the package, but it doesn't mean Mr Dudley | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
The Institute of Directors said the pay rise, at a time | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
when the company is in the red, could send the wrong message. | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Here's our Business Editor Simon Jack. | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
The chief executive of BP, Bob Dudley, was awarded pay | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
and bonuses of ?14 million for his work last year. | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
And today, the shareholders arrived at their annual meeting to mount one | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
of the biggest revolts in UK corporate history. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
I think our friend's salary is just a bit over the top. | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
I think he probably earns it and deserves it. | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
It is easy to see why the majority are upset. | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
Over the last year, the value of the company fell | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
It reported losses of ?3.6 billion, and yet Bob Dudley's pay went | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
A falling oil price has seen profits slump at all oil companies, | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
and BP have the additional cost of settling claims resulting | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
from the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
The chairman of the board said this today: | :08:02. | :08:18. | |
Bob Dudley's pay today by saying that the oil price crash | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
wasn't his fault, the Deepwater Horizon explosion wasn't his fault, | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
these were cards he was dealt and under the circumstances, | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
he played them pretty well and deserved the big bucks. | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected that rationale. | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
That 20% increase gives the wrong message to the market, | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
the country as a whole and the employees, some of whom have | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
Remember, today's vote is just a protest. | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
Like this environmental one outside the AGM, it has no power | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
That doesn't mean it won't be noticed in other boardrooms. | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
I think this is a watershed moment for British business, | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
and I am sure other companies will be looking very closely, will be | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
What will investors make of Sir Martin Sorrell's pay cheque | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
Shareholders last rose up in 2012, costing several bosses their job. | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
Is this the beginning of another shareholder spring? | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
The union Unite says the Royal Bank of Scotland is to cut another 600 | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
RBS has not confirmed the numbers, but in a statement said | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
banking had changed significantly in the last few years. | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
The redundancies mean RBS has cut around 1500 UK jobs | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
The entertainer Rolf Harris has pleaded not guilty to seven charges | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
of indecent assault and one of sexual assault | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
The allegations date from 1971 to 2004 and relate to girls and | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
women who were aged between 12 and 27. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
A hospital in Lancashire is to temporarily shut its Accident | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
and Emergency department because it says it can't find enough | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
Chorley Hospital will instead run an urgent care unit between 8 | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
Emergency patients will be taken to Preston, 14 miles away. | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
Here's our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Chorley's small district general hospital is finding it | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
Too many gaps in rotas means the hospital can't | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
We cannot safely staff our rotas, and that's because we have | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
a shortage of doctors who are able to lead an emergency | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
department overnight without the backing of consultants. | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
This hospital is not alone in struggling to recruit doctors, | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
particularly junior doctors, to come and work in its A | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Those gaps in the rota were being filled by locums, | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
but now those locums are choosing to work elsewhere. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Between April and December last year, the NHS in England spent | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
more than ?2.7 billion on locum and agency staff, | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
A new cap on fees for hiring locums was introduced in November, | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
so a registrar should cost ?43.17 an hour at most. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
While a consultant should cost no more than ?101.46. | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
The shortage of doctors willing to work in A | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
is being felt across England, hence the heavy reliance | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
Anecdotal evidence suggests many are now moving to Scotland or Wales, | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
And the body that represents the agencies that supply locum | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
doctors, says many hospitals are ignoring the cap anyway. | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
The caps are being broken, we think 50% of NHS trusts | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
are paying more, and that's because they are recognising | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
that they need staff to cover shifts in A and across the wards. | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
And they are quite rightly making the decision that it's better to pay | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
staff a little bit more than they should be in relation | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
to the caps, so they can protect patients' safety. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
I've had to go here myself quite a few times recently, | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
And back in Chorley, patients like Riley Gretton | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
are concerned about the implications of losing their local A | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
The nearest one other than this would be Preston. | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
In practical terms it could mean the difference | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
A statement from the NHS said patient safety was the priority | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
and it would support efforts to recruit more staff at Chorley. | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
But other hospitals across England are also under extreme pressure, | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
and this may not be the last town where NHS services are curtailed. | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Dominic Hughes, BBC News, Chorley. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Well, those problems in Lancashire appear to be part of a much wider | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
Delays at accident and emergency departments in England | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
are at their worst levels since targets were | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
Figures for February show fewer than 88% of patients | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
With me now is our Health Editor Hugh Pymn. | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
Just how serious that these problems got? Certainly the February figure | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
that you reported was worse than January with no obvious reason. The | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
weather did not suddenly get worse and the percentage of patients seen | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
or treated within A units in England in terms of the four ours | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
was the worst since 2004. England was behind Scotland although | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
slightly ahead of Wales and Northern Ireland. Another key missed target, | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
response times for less urgent calls, the worst since records began | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
in 2012. A key cancer targets from GP referral to treatment was missed | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
yet again. If you look at the numbers coming through the front | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
door into A comic you see the pressure. They were up 13% year on | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
year and that is a huge interest increase. The government says | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
hospitals are coping reasonably well given that pressure, but Labour are | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
quick to say there are huge financial pressures on NHS hospitals | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
and the NHS in his view is in a real sense of crisis. | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
Jeremy Corbyn gives Labour's backing for the Remain campaign | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
in the EU referendum - though he admits he's critical | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
And still to come, all present and correct - | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
from an estate in Tottenham, to the highest accolade | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
Coming up on Sportsday, West Ham will pay just ?2.5 million a year to | :14:39. | :14:54. | |
read the Olympic Stadium from next season. It cost ?272 million to be | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
converted to a football ground. It's two years since more than 200 | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
girls were kidnapped by the Islamist rebels, | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
Boko Haram, in NIgeria. Their abduction sparked a worldwide | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
campaign with the slogan Now video footage has emerged | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
which appears to show some of the schoolgirls who were captured | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
in Chibok, in the North Despite a big military search, | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
219 girls are still missing. And it doesn't end there - | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
at least 300 students were abducted Today, families of the Chibok girls | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
have been marching in the capital Abuja to demand the government | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
does more to find them. From there, our Nigeria | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
correspondent Martin This is the first time any | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
of the kidnapped Chibok girls have Shown in a proof of life video sent | :15:42. | :15:55. | |
to the Nigerian government, it's likely negotiations were | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
underway to secure their release. The girls state their | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
names for the camera. And despite captivity, | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
they appear healthy. For the relatives of the girls, | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
stunned disbelief and renewed hope To bring some hope to people, | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
this case is truly still alive. Today in the capital, | :16:14. | :16:30. | |
the young and old protested on behalf | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
of those who could not. We are marching towards | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
the presidential villas. They want answers | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
from their government. In two years, not a single one | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
of the girls has been rescued. But they were stonewalled, | :16:44. | :16:55. | |
a ring of security stopping them Not two weeks, not two months, | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
but two years. It's unfair, if they put in more | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
effort the girls would be This is the school where the girls | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
were kidnapped two years ago. A month later they appeared in a | :17:08. | :17:23. | |
Boko Haram propaganda video. It sparked a social media campaign | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
supported by high profile figures. Despite international military | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
assistance, including from the UK, the Nigerian army has failed to find | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
the girls. The Chibok kidnapping might have captured worldwide | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
attention, but for every girl shown here, there are many more who have | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
been killed, rates, or even forced to be a suicide bomber by Boko | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
Haram. Martin Patience, BBC News, Abuja. | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
A powerful earthquake has hit southern Japan, causing several | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
Around 40 people were injured when the quake - | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 - struck near the city of Kumamoto. | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
The quake also caused a fire in a neighbouring town, | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
but does not appear to have harmed the region's nuclear power plants. | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
Two migrants have been rescued from a small inflatable dinghy | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
a mile off the Kent coast attempting to reach the UK. | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
The men - who are from Iran - had been at sea for about eight | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
hours in one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
With increased security around Calais there are fears that | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
smugglers are now trying to reach quieter ports on the English coast. | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
If it wasn't for this lifeboat and the light of a mobile phone, we | :18:39. | :18:50. | |
could have been looking at a double tragedy in the channel today. As it | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
was, this lifeboat got to the two men just in time. But these migrants | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
are not alone. The National Crime Agency this week said that hundreds | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
of people smugglers were working to try to bring migrants into British | :19:06. | :19:06. | |
ports around our coast. Yet two men risked their lives | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
in this tiny dinghy to cross one of the world's | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
busiest shipping lanes. The two Iranians had dialled 999, | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
but were only spotted when the captain of a passing ferry | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
saw the light from Very cold, fully soaking wet, | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
all their clothes, and the boat We took them onboard | :19:24. | :19:32. | |
and administered first-aid. 400 commercial vessels use | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
the Dover Straits every day, yet the two men made it | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
to within a mile No-one knows exactly how many | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
migrants are using small vessels like these to try | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
to get into Britain. But just this week, | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
the National Crime Agency warned of smugglers operating right around | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
Britain's coast. Two years ago, this Frenchman | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
was arrested on suspicion of people smuggling, | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
after he broke down Here, two migrants were picked up | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
in this child's dinghy near Dover. In this case, the fisherman who took | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
these pictures sped after the yacht that dropped off the dinghy, | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
and found the skipper We know it happens, | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
we have examples of that, and we are the shortest point | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
from here to France, on most place, just from here and up to ten milesle | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
up the shore is the closest point. The authorities say with fencing | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
in Calais now so strong, migrants are looking for other ways | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
to cross the Channel. The Home Office said today | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
the security of Britain's borders was paramount, | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
but recent incidents show the resourcefulness | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
of the smugglers and the risk A brief look at some of the day's | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
other other news stories. A drunk lorry driver has been jailed | :20:48. | :20:57. | |
for six months after CCTV cameras showed him trying to reverse | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
the wrong way up the M6 The driver, from the Czech republic, | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
was nearly three times over Some of the 17 schools closed | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
on safety grounds in Edinburgh could be shut in the "longer term" | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
according to the leader Hundreds more pupils returned | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
to classes today, and thousands more will have to attend different | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
schools The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
have arrived in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
for a two day visit. They've met the country's | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
young King and Queen and tried their hand at archery, | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
the national sport. Our Royal Correspondent Nicholas | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
Witchell is travelling with them. This is a country that | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
proudly proclaims that it It is Bhutan, until quite recently | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
it was known as the hermit A small nation, strongly influenced | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
by its Buddhist faith, They even have a national | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
happiness index here. So a place with a difference | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
for William and Catherine to visit. But a destination that's hardly | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
a priority when it comes They normally have to | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
have a very clear purpose. So you might ask, why, | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
other than to imbibe some happiness and contentment, | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
why have William and Catherine come to this small country | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
in the Himalayas? King Jigme, with his wife | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
Queen Jetsun, two royals of a similar age to William | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
and Catherine, and here's He's Bhutan's first constitutional | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
as opposed to absolute monarch, presiding over a democratic nation | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
which happens to be sandwiched It's also, of course, | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
a pretty amazing experience for the visitor, of | :22:43. | :22:52. | |
whom there still aren't that many. The king and queen escorted | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
their guests to a Buddhist temple, And here's another part | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
of the experience. Which, as Kate discovered, | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
is not as easy as it looks. Bhutan has some of the best | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
archers in the world. Come to think of it, | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
not a lot of people know Bhutan. Nicholas Witchell, BBC | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
News, Thimpu, Bhutan. Tomorrow at Sandhurst - | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
the elite academy where British Army officers are trained - | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
a black cadet who's worked his way up through the ranks will be awarded | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
the Sword of Honour, Kidane Cousland's family and friends | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
told him not sign up, saying the army was just | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
for white people. Our defence correspondent | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
Jonathan Beale has met Kidane, who's been talking about how | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
different life at Sandhurst Brought up in Tottenham, | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
I didn't know my dad. Single mum, lot of conflict racially | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
- there is always is in those kind of areas where there is a low level | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
of, kind of opportunity, and personally a really poor level | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
of schooling when I was there. I was illiterate till | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
roughly the age of 11, is when I can actually remember | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
being able to read a book The grand surroundings of Sandhurst, | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
where the British Army A place where old, sometimes curious | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
traditions continue. But also where Kidani Cousland, | :24:26. | :24:34. | |
Danny to his friends, is fulfilling Danny joined the army seven years | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
ago as a private, against the advice of friends and family, | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
who said it was for white people. He served in Afghanistan, | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
and the army spotted his potential. Now he is preparing for his passing | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
out parade, in which he will receive the Sword of Honour, | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
a first for someone like him. I have had racism | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
everywhere the world. I come to the army, and I've had it | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
from individuals, but as an institution, | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
it is not about that, and as an institution | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
it isn't racist. For me, with my few GCSEs at a C | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
grade, you know, to rub together, I didn't expect to be | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
where I was, to be honest. But when people speak | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
to you about how well you did academic schools and all that stuff, | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
you realise, I am probably saying to myself, sure I'm a little bit | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
better than I think I am. Watching him tomorrow | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
receive the sword of honour He too has broken down barriers | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
as the first British black male It is something, for getting | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
something so huge, it is amazing, something to be proud of, | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
but seeing his being there, seeing his journey as well, | :25:57. | :25:58. | |
it is just inspiring to see him kind The British army is still | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
overwhelmingly white - just over 4% of its soldiers come | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
from Britain's ethnic minorities. But the army insists Danny's award | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
is not about tokenism, Time for a look at the weather with | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
Sarah. It's been a day of sun sign and | :26:15. | :26:36. | |
showers. Some pictures from our weather watchers today, including | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
this from Berkshire. You can see blue skies but showers around, and | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
we have had showers and thunderstorms. Stretching from East | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
Wales, through the Midlands towards East Anglia, still seeing heavy | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
downpours with the rumble of thunder and hail over the next few hours. | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
Then our attention will turn to more persistent rain moving to the south. | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
Through the north, a of the weather front heading to the north of | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
Scotland to bring outbreaks of rain and snow, even through fairly | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
moderate hills. Across the North of Scotland we have colder air | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
filtering in from the north, wintry showers and sunny spells across the | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
North of Scotland. Further south the band of rain until snow will work | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
its way south across southern Scotland and Northern Ireland, a | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
cloudy start in Northern Ireland with a few spots of light rain. | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
Further south there will be more outbreaks of rain across southern | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
England, south Wales and heavy bursts of shower rerating moving up | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
from being this channel as we had through the morning. A lot going on | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
with the weather, a messy picture. Rain, heavy and sundry at times | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
across the south and east of England. Further north the band of | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
rain and hills know will work south across Northern Ireland and | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
Scotland. Temperatures of only six or seven across Scotland, but more | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
like 14 of 15 further south. Looking ahead through Saturday and Sunday, | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
for the capital cities, a lot of dry weather over the course of the | :28:02. | :28:03. | |
weekend but temperatures will be down on what to expect at the time | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
of year. Through the weekend, turning dry with showers easing. | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
Some sunshine, but for all of us it will turn colder through the | :28:14. | :28:14. | |
weekend. Jeremy Corbyn gives Labour's backing | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
for the remain campaign in the EU referendum - | :28:20. | :28:21. | |
though he admits he's critical That's all from the BBC News at Six | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
- so it's goodbye from me - and on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
news teams where you are. | :28:33. | :28:35. |