29/08/2016 BBC News at Six

More political pressure on the agreement which allows UK

A French official in Calais calls for migrants be allowed to apply

Brazil's suspended President calls her impeachment trial a death

New research suggests switching to a Mediterranean diet can

substantially reduce the risk of early death, in people

And we get exclusive access to the scientists trying to discover

Migrants in Calais who want asylum in the UK should be allowed

to lodge their claim in France, according to the president

Xavier Bertrand told the BBC that people living in the camp known

as the Jungle should be able to apply for asylum before

His comments come after two leading contenders for the French presidency

in next year's election - Nicolas Sarkozy and Alain Juppe -

also called for changes to the treaty which allows UK border

Where fences and barbed wire stretch along the roads and the railways

that lead to the ferries, the trains, and on to Britain.

Every day more are put up to stop people living here illegally

But there's only so much a fence can do.

Calais' shantytown camp that's known as The Jungle, is growing.

Many here believe that part of the problem is the bilateral

agreement known as Le Touquet, that sees British border guards

The president of this region says Le Touquet must

It's not possible to keep the border here without a new co-operation

If the British Government don't want to open this discussion,

we will tell you, the Le Touquet agreement is over.

Migrants hoping to claim asylum in the UK should be able to do

Partly because that's not how the asylum system works.

You're supposed to apply in the country that

Secondly, I just think it would be a huge magnet to draw thousands more

migrants to Calais who would come to chance their arm that they might

Mr Bertrand's intervention highlights how important

the issues of security, of borders, of migration,

He doesn't have the power to change the Le Touquet accord,

but the next French President will have that power.

Elections are due to be held next year and already,

two of the leading contenders for the post have said

One of them, the former president Nicolas Sarkozy, spoke this

He said border controls should be shifted to Britain.

The current French President, who recently met the Prime Minister,

He says the accord is in the interests of both their countries.

But it doesn't feel like it on the roads leading to Calais.

Where smugglers block the route so migrants can stow

Tomorrow the Home Secretary Amber Rudd will be in Paris

to meet her opposite number, and Calais will be on the agenda.

Our Correspondent Lucy Williamson is in Paris for us.

Lucy, how serious are these calls for changes to the treaty?

When the Home Secretary arrives here tomorrow she will find a government

in Paris that broadly sees eye to eye with the UK on the Togwell

agreement. Present Francois Hollande, a socialist president, has

refused to negotiate it but he is also a president with some of the

lowest approval ratings in modern French streets over the UK, the

worry is what happens after those presidential elections next spring.

And the far right here in France has been stoking the fire of present

Francois Hollande? Centre-right rival. Candidate after candidate

lining up to position themselves as strong on issues like security and

immigration. I think the regional head of Calais may not have that

power to decide exactly how and where at those migrants get

processed, but the next president of France will have that power and if

it is a right-wing president then the UK might have to look at we

negotiated that agreement. Police in Surrey investigating

reports that a boy had been abducted, have arrested a man

on suspicion of perverting A search was launched on Thursday,

after a member of the public reported seeing a child

being bundled into a van in Redhill. Police now say that no

information has been received Police in the Irish Republic say

a family of five have been found Their bodies were discovered

at a property in Barconey The dead are a man in his 40s,

his wife and their three sons Officers say they're not

looking for anyone else British scientists have developed

a test that could spot the early The technique involves

testing for a protein It's believed that early diagnosis

would greatly improve The suspended Brazilian President

Dilma Rousseff has been defending her record in office,

at her impeachment trial. Senators are due to vote

later this week on whether to remove her from power -

a move she called an attempted coup. Our correspondent Aleem Maqbool

is in the Brazilian capital. We are inside the Senate building.

We have come out of the chamber where Dilma Rousseff is a woman

under fire, taking questions from the same senators who will decide

her fate in the next couple of days. She has been defiant and, to saying

that this is a cool and saying it would be a disaster for Brazil if

she is removed from office. Arriving for what could

be her last stand. At her impeachment trial she made

a final attempt to fight off In what she sees as

simply a class war. TRANSLATION: As with all elites,

they don't want to follow the will of the people,

they want to take over at any price. Well there are supporters

of Dilma Rousseff outside the Senate as she speaks,

but millions more around the country too who feel

she is being impeached unfairly. But the small numbers and relative

lack of energy is a sign that very few have hope left

that she will survive this process. Earlier this year thousands

took to the streets both for and against their president

in an illustration of just how Dilma Rousseff has

been judged before. In her youth she was jailed

for fighting against But she rose to Brazil's highest

office in 2010, receiving the presidential sash

from her predecessor and mentor, But it was a dramatic economic

collapse that led Rousseff's opponents to seize on an opportunity

to push against her and What many celebrated,

others saw as an injustice. The decision to suspend

Dilma Rousseff, when no corruption The trial now is all a big comedown

after the feel-good factor of the of the venues are dismantled it

seems a break for the games can't to move on from trying

to save their president. They say Brazilians

have a short-term memory, they can't remember stuff that happens, they

only remember what just happened. But Dilma Rousseff says fighting

is inher nature, and In reality, before the week is out,

she could be told she has to vacate Aleem Maqbool, BBC

News, in Brasilia. The United States has described

fighting between Turkey and the Kurdish YPG militia forces

in northern Syria as unacceptable. Turkish troops moved across

the border last week and drove out But since then, they've

concentrated their fire on Kurdish groups who are a key partner

of the US in its battle Singapore has confirmed 15

new cases of the Zika virus, bringing to 56 the total number

of people who have been infected. None of those infected is known

to have recently travelled to Zika affected areas - suggesting they've

been infected in Singapore. Zika generally has mild effects -

but it poses a risk to pregnant women because it can cause

severe birth defects. Many people already know

the benefits of a Mediterranean diet in reducing the chances

of heart disease. But does eating food rich

in vegetables, nuts, fish and oils have an effect

if you already have problems? Well, new research suggests your

risk of dying from heart disease can be reduced by up to a third,

as Dan Johnson reports. The key ingredients

for a long and healthy life. We know a diet of vegetables,

fish, nuts and olive oil But now a claim it can even

help beat heart disease. The balance of fruit and vegetables

means there is extra vitamins and related compounds,

which are better for you. The Mediterranean diet is generally,

I think, more healthy in most of its components than,

if you like, the standard British 1,200 patients who had

had heart attacks, strokes and blocked arteries,

were tracked over seven years. Ones who followed

a Mediterranean diet were less likely to be amongst those

who died during the study. And healthier hearts are no surprise

here at this We use in our recipes are a lot

of vegetables and fruits. Pasta, pizza, everything

is from the ground. My wife is a bit of

a fanatic on this front. The grilled fish, vegetables

and lovely meat dishes. more than a quarter

of all deaths in the UK. So the hope is by eating more

like this, we may be able to prevent some of that disease

and extend some of those lives. There is a claim Mediterranean

cooking could be more effective than drugs like statins, widely

prescribed for heart problems. The author of this study even said

the NHS should prescribe Gypsies and travellers say that

government policy is threatening Changes to planning rules

in England, introduced a year ago, mean those who stop travelling

are unlikely to be granted The government says it wants

a fair system which gives councils more power -

gypsies believe they're This place is literally

sacred to us. Appleby Fair, a celebration

of a way of life. I am a Romany Gypsy and I am

fiercely proud of my identity, my culture, my language

and my traditions. The Gypsy community,

immersed in a culture, which has Washing the horses in the river,

we've been doing that ever since we arrived in this country

500 years ago. We have been coming here to the fair

and ever since we've been washing the horses in the river

in the exact same way. Today, they're enjoying

their day in the sun. Many families have now

abandoned their traditional life There is a desperate

shortage of caravan sites. That is why 80% of our people

are in houses, because they got so desperate and it got

so difficult for them, They don't want to be in houses,

they want to be on a caravan site. The pressures of modern life mean

Gypsies often reluctantly move into houses for work,

for school, or because of age But the law changes in England mean

that once they come off the road, even for a short time,

they can now find it impossible Trying to get planning permission

for a caravan site as a Gypsy or traveller has become

more and more difficult. Prejudice on the part

of the general population It is harder and harder and harder

for people to find somewhere. It took Nicola 12 years to win

a planning battle Just trying to settle down and give

them the best in life you can and do the best for them so that

when they get older, Everyone else is up there,

and travellers are down there. It has been like that

for a long time. No matter how much you shout,

people don't want to know. Away from the romance of the summer

fair, what Gypsies want is this. We have caravans that we use

for bedrooms and living rooms. We have a smaller caravan

for the children. We have all the conveniences

people in the settled But, at the same time,

we are hanging onto our culture These new rules only

apply in England. Ministers say that councils now have

more power to stop unauthorised camps and more freedom to decide

what sites to provide. The government insists it treats

all communities equally. But some believe that Gypsies,

far from being victimised, I think travellers who travel

probably do have a strong case. But travellers who don't travel

and are seeking a permanent lifestyle on a particular spot

in the countryside should not have the right to build

where no-one else can. It all leaves Gypsies fearing

that they are being forced Genuinely, people in this world

today think it is a crime And they genuinely, genuinely think

we should not be allowed to exist. And so England's Gypsies fear

an uncertain future. But the government insists it is up

to local communities to decide what sites to provide for those

who choose the travelling life. Football, and the England manager

Sam Allardyce has started preparations for his first

World Cup qualifier. He met his new squad

for the first time today, which includes the uncapped West Ham

midfielder, Michail Antonio. Have you ever wondered how even

the smallest birds manage Scientists at Stanford University

have designed a unique bird windtunnel to find out -

hoping ultimately to design flying Our science reporter Victoria Gill

has had exclusive access Only in very slow motion can we see

the minuscule adjustments this lovebird constantly makes

to its flapping wings. Its tiny body has evolved perfectly

to fly and human engineers haven't That's something that researchers

in this lab hope to change. They've dedicated an entire room

at Stanford University in California to building this wind

tunnel, the only one OK, so this is where you fly

the birds. And it's starting to help them

discover some of the Wind tunnels have been used

for a long time to study bird flight but the new thing about this one

is that with this device, they can manipulate the airflow

to recreate any environment on Earth, from a gusty city

to the top of a mountain. When you see a bird fly

by in a city, you see all these And that is all it's doing to adjust

to all the turbulence. And so it's really these tiny

motions where they adapt quickly And we have no idea how they make

these in response to In the moving air, the bird remains

in one place. So exactly how it shifts

as the airflow changes can be seen But the team with their specially

clicker-trained birds have also measured invisible

characteristics of short, This setup is unique because it

allows us to capture all the forces that a bird generates

from the moment it takes off to when it lands

during one of these flights. We have been able to record that

actually most birds when they fly, they generate twice as much lift

during the downstroke to support And during upstroke,

it actually freefalls. So what can be done with all

of this flight insight? The next generation of small-scale

flying robots, or drones, will need to cope in unstable

environments if they're to be useful in military or search

and rescue applications. Currently, they simply can't manage

as smoothly as birds. So these scientists will aim

to create robotic copies of what nature has perfected

over millions of years. Victoria Gill, BBC News,

California. The American singer Beyonce

dominated this year's MTV video awards in New York,

winning eight categories. She picked up the top award,

Video of the Year, for her song 'Formation', which makes

reference to racism, police brutality and Hurricane

Katrina. The ceremony also included

a comeback performance from Britney Spears,

nine years after her last appearance at the awards,

and a Lifetime Achievement award There's more throughout the evening

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