12/07/2016 BBC News at Six

David Cameron prepares to leave office as he hold his

No time to waste - the removal vans have already

Theresa May attends her last meeting as Home Secretary -

the next time she walks in that door, she will be prime minister.

The labour party at war - a decision is expected tonight

about whether Jeremy Corbyn can fight off a leadership challenge.

The divisions turn nasty - with threats and a broken window

at the office of the leadership challenger Angela Eagle.

As one party welcomes in a new leader and a new era,

fighting over the leader of the other turns nasty -

At least twenty people are killed after two trains

Learning maths Chinese style - new funding to revolutionise the way

it's taught in primary schools in England.

And why are so many top golfers pulling out of the Rio Olympics?

And coming up in the sport on BBC News.

Britian's Chris Froome retains the leader's yellow jersey

after stage 10 of the Tour de France, but Mark Cavendish loses

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

The removal vans have arrived in Downing street as David Cameron

held his last cabinet meeting this morning.

Warm tributes were paid to the suddenly outgoing prime

minister by his senior colleagues, including Theresa May.

She posed for photographs on her way in to Number 10, next time

she walks in the building, she will be the prime minister

and a new chapter for the party - and the country - will begin.

Our deputy political editor John Pienaar has more.

The van always comes in the end, whoever's Prime Minister.

Dreams and plans, like winning the EU

referendum, like handing the keys to Number 10 to his friend George

Osborne next door, packed up with everything else

and carried away by the removal men, always somehow too soon.

For a moment, David Cameron was glimpsed at a

window, a practical politician who'd gambled on a Coalition Government,

So nearly a winner, David Cameron leaving

Theresa May looked pleased with life.

Fixing relations with Europe, handling economic troubles, uniting

a divided Britain, all for the future.

Ministers were obviously thinking ahead.

I'm very optimistic, I'm very positive about Mrs May, I

think shall be a great Prime Minister for this country.

The cars carrying Cameron 's Cabinet crowded into the last time. Business

on the agenda but it felt like leaving do and everybody thinking of

what was next, maybe their next job. Will you be moving to number 11?

Stephen Crabb was once tipped as a possible leader but he fell behind

like all the rest. Michael Gove didn't hang around, he fell out with

David Cameron then fell out of the race. In Cabinet David Cameron spoke

of his pride and honour had been PM. Ministers banged the table in

salute. Theresa May left after speaking

of the warmth and respect We had some wonderful tributes

to a great Prime Minister led by Theresa May who will be Prime

Minister and by George Osborne. And I think there was a feeling

across the Cabinet of great pride at what David Cameron has achieved

over the last six years. Tomorrow Mrs May's Cabinet reshuffle

starts. Old foes and rivals may get a job,

Boris Johnson was front runner until he was forced

out by Michael Gove, Chris Grayling could rise

in the pecking order, Andrea Leadsom failed

spectacularly, but may yet appear There is speculation in every

studio, but Prime Ministers Any Prime Minister when they make

a cabinet puts noses out of joint. We are in politics because we

want to serve. We want to serve

at the highest level. At the end of the day, there will be

people who will be upset. Tomorrow David Cameron

will take his last question There'll be tributes

and they will be sincere. He won two elections

and two referendums, before defeat in the European vote

carried away all he had gained and his dream of leading a one

nation compassionate That's the task Theresa May

has pledged to carry on with her new team,

and without seeking a new mandate But the David Cameron, as the

removal van loads up and leaves, that's someone else's problem, which

may be some consolation, but not much. John Pienaar, BBC News,

Westminster. A meeting is taking place now over

the troubled leadership Labour's National Executive

Committee is deciding whether Jeremy Corbyn can

automatically stand in a leadership ballot even without the support

of 20% of the party's At the moment Mr Corbyn doesn't

appear to have sufficient support whereas his challenger,

Angela Eagle, does. Our political editor

Laura Kuenssberg has the latest. Good afternoon, lovely to see you.

He knew this moment might come. A bit of politeness, please, can you

all make way. Jeremy Corbyn fought through the Labour establishment to

win, now it's taking him on. Can you guys be really kind for once and let

me get into the meeting? His refusal to make way, though most MPs want

him gone, mean Labour is stuck in a stalemate. Good luck Jeremy! It's

not about luck but the meaning of the law. MPs who want Mr Corbyn to

quit belief that under the rules he does not have an automatic right to

stand again as leader. But his supporters have had legal advice

that says the opposite thing. It's cut and dry and eventually we will

sort this matter out and Jeremy will remain. Most MPs believe his useful

team as leader is over, and the rules say he would need the support

of more than 50 of them to run again. After dozens of resignations,

that's just not likely to happen. So in effect this meeting could kick

him out. We have now got up new Prime Minister coming in tomorrow, I

think that will concentrate everyone's minds carefully. Does

that mean Jeremy Corbyn must go soon? Jeremy Corbyn is the elected

Labour Party leader. The build date to the meeting has been frantic. Mr

Corbyn's allies even try to shove one MP off the crucial committee in

the middle of the night. What happened to you in the middle of the

night? I was asleep in the middle of the night. They went in for hours of

discussion and one big decision at the party HQ. There is a leadership

contest in labour, so should Jeremy Corbyn, the current leader, be able

to stand without getting dozens of MPs to nominate him first? This

isn't just some strange fuss outside an anonymous London office block on

a wet Tuesday afternoon. The NEC is extra Labour MPs, union officials,

ordinary party members, and they are roughly split between those who want

Jeremy Corbyn to stay and those who want him out. It's nasty. A brick

was hurled through the Merseyside office of the MP who wants to be

Labour's next leader. Then Angela Eagle had to switch venues on a

campaign tour in Luton because of threats. Protesters, one wearing a

T-shirt of the Corbyn backing momentum group still tracked her

down. Billy Bowden condemned any abuse but Angela Eagle, who wants to

replace him so badly, says it's not enough -- the leader condemns any

abuse. They are being done in his name and he needs to get control of

the people supporting him and make certain this behaviour stops and

starts now. It is bullying and has absolutely no place in politics in

the UK and it needs to end. But Mr Corbyn does still have the muscle of

most of the unions on his side, and it's thought most of the parties

still growing membership. An attempt to kind of keep Jeremy off the paper

would be seen as a sordid fix. And I'm but be hoping that that doesn't

happen. I hope common sense and a bit of decency prevails at the NEC

this afternoon. Disquiet about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership spilled

out from Labour's backrooms into public view long ago, but the charge

against him maybe far from over. I contest, not a departure, is still

the most likely end. -- a contest. As we've heard, Angela Eagle's

constituency office in Wallasey was attacked overnight when a brick

was thrown through the window. Labour supporters there are divided

as to whether she should replace Reeta Chakrabarti has spent the day

in Wallasey talking to people about the crisis engulfing

the Labour Party. A boarded-up window is a common

enough sight, but the brick through Angela Eagle's office window

is an act of political They include the present police

and crime commissioner It is an absolutely disgraceful

situation that you cannot take part in a democracy without having this

kind of threat, the violence of it. Local party members know the brick

isn't an isolated incident. There have been claims

of intimidation and bullying, too. Claims they say

are wide of the mark. I don't recognise that picture

of the Labour Party. I've never seen any intimidation,

I've never witnessed any homophobia. It is crazy to say Jeremy Corbyn

is this out of touch crazy Both men back Jeremy Corbyn

as leader over their own Where's the evidence,

they ask that he is unelectable? He's articulating policies that

people haven't been talking about for many years,

like public ownership of the railways and the energy

industry, tackling tax These are all massively

popular policies. Nearly 400 people have joined

the local Labour Party Signs of healthy

participation, say some. Infiltration by extremists,

say others. Both these party members think

Mr Corbyn should go. Jeremy's position as party leader

is completely untenable. I think Angela offers

a better alternative. She offers a positive view

for what Labour could be and a positive vision

for what Britain can be. A brick through her office

window and a possible The mood here in Angela Eagle's

own constituency is bitter. It reflects the atmosphere in Labour

right across the country with deep tensions caused by conflicting views

as to what the party Labour's leader, whoever it is,

has a major task to reunite it. Reeta Chakrabarti,

BBC News, Wallasey. Laura Kuenssberg is

live in Westminster. Laura, this meeting of the National

executive committee about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership still going on,

what's the latest? It is grinding on and it may be some time yet. If

you've been following Labour Party politics for a while you learn never

to be in a hurry if we are expecting something to be over quickly. But

they will conclude something tonight. One of the interesting

things about this is that some months ago Jeremy Corbyn's close

team thought that this kind of extraordinary intervention might

actually happen and they sought legal advice to try to protecting

from this. His opponents inside the party on the other hand didn't think

that it would come to this. They thought that with resignations, with

critics coming out one after the other after the other they would be

able to pile so much pressure up on him that he would have to go. But

they failed and he is still there, and now we are in a situation where

two different sides of one political party are scrapping with each other

over what that party's own rule book says. There's even the prospect now

tonight if Jeremy Corbyn is told by the National executive committee

that he does not have the right automatically to stand again in the

leadership contender, that he might instead of withdrawing take them to

the courts. So you might have the possibility by the end of this

evening where one part of the Labour Party machine is challenging the

other part of the Labour Party machine to a legal fight with a

judge expected to sort it all out. But whatever the legal machinations,

the rights and wrongs of who's right on the narrow point of the party's

rule book, the big picture is this: there's been internal upset, rows,

ramblings, all sorts of things going on behind the scenes in the Labour

Party. Months and months and months of it. And now the two sides are

both completely and utterly dug in to their positions. They are now

having to try to resort to the law to sort it all out. And in the

meantime of course the idea that any MPs in the Labour Party are really

being able to push ahead with proper decent scrutiny of what the

government is doing is really pretty hard to imagine, that they are not

being completely distracted by all of this. Thank you.

The Governor of the Bank of England has defended its impartiality

to a committee of MPs following accusations it

overstepped its remit in the run up to the EU referendum.

Mark Carney hit back at those accusing him of employing scare

On Thursday, the Bank will announce whether interest rates will be cut

to cushion any impact from the vote.

At least 23 people have been killed, and dozens injured,

after two trains collided head on in southern Italy.

It happened on a single stretch of track between the towns

Rescue workers are trying now to pull people from the wreckage

The two local trains smashed into each other this morning.

The carriages which took the full impact ripped apart.

With debris scattered through the olive groves.

A massive rescue operation has been underway for hours,

with teams picking their way through the mangled carriages

And finding many who'd been injured, and others in a state

TRANSLATION: I was thrown forward, I don't know what happened,

I saw my mother on the ground, my father and my sister bleeding.

The trains, owned by a local private company, collided

There are unconfirmed reports that an automatic braking system failed,

and the train drivers were unable to see each other because of

A field hospital has been set up

nearby, and there have been appeals for local people to donate blood.

This has been one of the worst train crashes in Italy

over the past decade, and the government has

pledged that investigators will find out what caused it.

Removal vans in Downing Street as David Cameron prepares to leave

office tomorrow. And still to come, an extraordinary

discovery in Sussex, as archaeologists uncover signs

of prehistoric farming. Brendan Rodgers takes charge

of Celtic for the first time, less than an hour to kick-off

against Lincoln Red Imps from Gibraltar in their

Champions League qualifiers. Thousands of primary schools

in England are to be offered the chance to follow an Asian style

of teaching maths. The government is providing

?41 million to encourage schools to adopt a method which is used

in high performing maths lessons in Shanghai,

Singapore and Hong Kong. Tests have revealed that

15-year-olds in China's biggest city are three years ahead of those

in England in their ability Our education correspondent,

Gillian Hargreaves, reports. The equation you could do is 16,

plus two... Maths savvy 11-year-olds confident in net abilities. The

pupils at this primary School have been taught in the Chinese way for

the past two years. They enjoy doing sums. I liked everything about

maths. I like numbers and calculations to find stuff out. I

like algebra because it's like a puzzle. The Chinese say British

teaching is a mile long butters and to deep. Too much is crammed in,

whereas they focus on fewer topics but make sure pupils understand each

concept before moving on. The idea is that because the maths is broken

down so clearly, the children who might struggle, they keep up and

they understand. Last year the government invited Chinese teachers

to Britain to share their knowledge. Now they are setting up specialist

maths centres, with textbooks modelled on Asian teaching methods.

The benefits are certainly being felt at Elmhurst. Undoubtedly this

is a bold and ambitious plan. So that England's pupils can compete

with the brightest and best in the world. But parents will only be

convinced if it works best for their children, whatever their abilities.

There is a constant thirst to learn in Shanghai, failure is shameful.

Something not easily translated here. We really need to address

cultural attitudes in this country, which are very different to

attitudes in China. It's socially acceptable to say I can't do maths.

We need to challenge that very explicitly. The government wants

this new way of teaching to promote a can-do attitude. The Chinese have

a phrase, maths gets you everywhere. Gillian Hargreaves, BBC News.

Barack Obama is arriving in Dallas this evening,

where he'll attend a memorial service for the five police officers

who were shot and killed at a protest last week.

The US president is expected to speak at the event,

and talk about rising racial tensions across the country.

Further demonstrations are being held in major cities

Our North America Correspondent Nick Bryant reports.

Dallas Strong has become the mantra of this traumatised city.

And last night its citizens gathered together.

All ages, all races, in a vigil to honour the five

The city's black police chief has emerged is that rare thing

in modern-day American life, a unifying figure.

This his message to the mourning families.

Because we will not only be loving you today,

Micah Johnson, the soldier turned sniper who carried

His murderous response to the spate of police shootings

A surgeon who treated the wounded tried to make sense of that rage.

I understand the anger and frustration and distrust

The problem is the lack of open discussions about the impact of race

The national conversation on race is taking all forms.

This poem delivered by a 14-year-old boy in Georgia entitled

I love it because when I see a police officer I see

To be honest I'm scared of what it would be like if I wasn't on the top

rung, if the tables were turned and I didn't have my

White Boy privilege safety blanket to protect me.

Across the country protest chants, not poetry.

The Dallas slaughter has not subdued the Black Lives Matter campaign.

And the voice we are waiting to hear from belongs to America's first

African-American president. He will speak in the next hour. A gifted

orator, a tough challenge to find words to consult the grieving

families, but also to find words to acknowledge why so many protesters

have taken to the streets. A plea perhaps the unity, for

understanding, her empathy, from whites, from blacks, and also the

uniform blue. Four-time golf major

winner Rory McIlory has defended his decision to join

a number of top golfers in pulling out of the Rio Olympics,

because of fears over He said it wasn't a difficult

decision for him and that he was unlikely to bother to watch

the golfing action from home. So why are so many golfers pulling

out of the olympics? Here's our Sports

Correspondent Richard Conway. It's under a month until the start

of the Rio Olympics. But one of the biggest issues facing

organisers is a virus. One that is threatening

to overshadow the world's Tens of thousands of Brazilians

have contracted Zika, But it's also believed to be

responsible for microcephaly, a disorder which causes babies to be

born with abnormally small The world's top four golfers say

they will not play the Olympic courses built on reclaimed swampland

and near sewage-polluted waterways, given their worries

of contracting the virus. Critics claim Zika is being used

by them as a convenient excuse. But today, ahead of

the Open Championship, I didn't get into golf

to try and grow the game, I got into golf to win championships

and win major championships. I'll probably watch the Olympics,

but I'm not sure golf will be one The World Health Organisation

insists the Games should After facing criticism over the 2014

Ebola epidemic they say their There's absolutely no question, your

risk of getting Zika is very low. If you take specific measures

you can make this risk very low The Olympics are something

very, very special. Some health experts are also

concerned with the potential So far, it's known to be transmitted

by mosquitoes in 65 countries. With half a million expected

to attend the Olympics, it's feared That's because Zika can also be

transmitted through sexual contact In the past 18 months there have

been 14 reported cases in the US of the virus

being transmitted this way. When visitors come to Rio,

they can pick up the Zika virus through mosquitoes or through sex,

and then they go home. Many of them to places where, again,

there are mosquitoes, And it's highly possible

for the virus to spread that way. A single infected traveller

came, and now you've got More stars may yet decide

to stay away from Rio, as far as Olympic organisers

are concerned, the show must go on. Archaeologists are hailing an

extraordinary discovery in Sussex. They've discovered field patterns,

buried underneath woodland in the South Downs, that suggest

pre-Roman Britain was much more Duncan Kennedy joins us

live from Bignor Hill, The breathtaking woodlands

of the South Downs. Beneath this lush canopy,

historians have uncovered It took ground-breaking lasers

to reveal the underground secrets. For two years, they scanned

the floor and analysed the data 300 square miles of fields

from 1500 years BC. Organised farming on a scale

and age not seen before. It is really important

and exciting that in England's newest national park,

we have used aerial radar to make archaeological discoveries that

are some of the most extensive and significant in England

over the last decade. Until now, it was thought

large-scale organised farming The researchers say that

their findings put that With the scale of this

on the South Downs and the quality of the preservation

within the wooded part of the South Downs, it is a truly

remarkable discovery. The ancient fields under these trees

would have seen wheat Prehistoric people farming,

not hand-to-mouth, Let's take a look at the weather

now. Are we ever going to get the summer

back. It's not raining everywhere, it's been quite beautiful today in

western parts of England and Wales. This shot taken in Cornwall. But as

Fiona did hint, it's not been the same for all of us. It's been soggy

in the south-east. London has seen some really heavy downpours. Some

trees and branches down from the strength of the wind, too.

Torrential rain quite now -- right now across parts of East Anglia.

Downpours lingering in the south-east but for most other

places, relatively quiet. Some showers coming in on the breeze to

some western areas. Where the skies are clear overnight it will be cool.

In Scotland it could get as low as four or 5 degrees. Around about Dawn

some brightness for many of us. Early showery rain across the

south-east fading away. Then we'll see some showers coming in on the

breeze to northern and western areas. A sharp shower in southern

England by the afternoon and in Scotland and Northern Ireland a

scattering of showers. Nothing too intense. Not exactly warm, we are

struggling on the temperature front. Mid, possibly high teens in places.

In western coastal areas of England and Wales, a few sharp showers, and

in southern counties of England. But not the destructive downpours we've

seen today. Looking further ahead, a ridge of high pressure building in.

Ignore this stuff behind me. But that ridge of high pressure will

enable a fine day for most of us on Thursday. We've got the open golf

starting and the Test match at Lord's. Very few showers, sunshine

and light winds. How long it lasts is another matter.

David Cameron is preparing to spend his last night at Downing Street

ahead of the appointment tomorrow of Theresa May as Prime Minister.

That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me,