30/08/2016 BBC News at Six

The European Commission tells IT giant Apple to pay eleven billion

The EC accuses the Irish government of offering Apple's business

This decision sends a clear message: member states cannot give unfair tax

As Europe decides to take on the big multinationals over tax,

She's quit as head of a health trust criticised after the deaths

of hundreds of patients - but is kept on the same salary.

Nearly seven thousand migrants in one day

are rescued trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.

How almost a third of patients in England and Wales are being given

the wrong diagnosis straight after a heart attack.

After being blown up in Afghanistan, how one former

serviceman is preparing for the Paralympics in Rio.

I served my country as a royal marine in afghanistan and being able

to fly the flag again - I can't wait.

And they were born conjoined at the abdomen with a slim

chance of survival - today they're trying

And coming up in the sport on BBC News:

Europe's Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke picks Englishman Lee Westwood

as a wild-card to take on the USA at Hazeltine in Minnesota next month.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC's news at six.

It has to be the biggest tax bill ever.

Eleven billion pounds - that's what the US technology giant

Apple has been ordered to pay in back taxes by the

given Apple's business there illegal tax benefits, which meant it paid

"substantially" less tax than other businesses -

in one year it was just 0.005 per cent.

Both Ireland and Apple say they will appeal -

Apple insists it is the biggest taxpayer in the world.

Our Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan Jones has more.

It is a wealthy technology company. Their products are money are world.

Outside America, nearly all of Apple's sales revenues are

channelled through one small country. Now the deal made between

the Irish government and Apple has been ordered illegal and they have

been told to pay back billions in back taxes. We've found that the

Irish have allowed the huge majority of the profits of apple to be sent

to the head office which only exists on paper and which is nontax and

that means a large majority of the profits are nontax. It was in 1980

that Steve jobs opened his first operation overseas. It was in court.

Along the way they signed attacks deal which the European Union says

was unfair. Reaction to the ruling was next. We should not have given

them a deal like that. Everything we did was wrong. It would be

marvellous if this country got the tax. I suppose the other thing is

they could leave which would be terrible. I think it is they are,

they are making a lot of profits. The European Commission says at one

point they were paying an effective tax rate of 0.005%. On every 1

million euros they took they paid 50 euros. But Apple says the expensive

and development takes place in America and that is where it should

pay tax. Apple says it is the largest

taxpayer in both Ireland and the United States at this afternoon the

White House expressed concern about Europe's General stance on tax.

We are worried about this process we have worked on collaboratively with

the Europeans. Apple has worked hard to bring jobs to the country but is

rejecting the windfall. But the EU are determined to change the rules

of the game. Our Business Editor Simon Jack

is in Dublin for us. This ruling from the EC pitches

governments against big business but also one

government against another - You would think any government would

be delighted they were due for such a tax windfall but they said they

applied the tax laws to profits made in Ireland and the fact lots of

international products made it here was not the issue, it is not

Ireland's job to be tax collector for the rest of the world. In the

United States politicians are unhappy for a different reason, they

don't want Apple to be able to set off the ?11 billion against the US

tax bill and they fear American companies are being unfairly singled

out. Governments are not agreeing and Apple says this could harm job

creation because it creates uncertainty in the global tax

system. What most people agree we need is a coordinated global

approach and there has been some progress on that, among the OECD

countries and indeed in the UK, the government introduced a diverted

profits tax. If collaborative efforts are needed, today is seen as

a unilateral thing which is against that. It shows that we are a very

long way off sorting out international tax matters, which

allows multinational companies to offset costs in high tax

jurisdictions against profits in low tax jurisdictions. We've got a long

way to go before we get an answer to this tax mess.

The chief executive of Southern Health NHS trust,

one of the biggest mental health trusts in the country,

Katrina Percy was sharply criticised when it was revealed that

Southern Health had failed to properly investigate the deaths

She will however continue in a different job for the Trust

Our Social Affairs Correspondent Michael Buchanan -

who broke the story of the trust's failings - reports.

months, she withstood withering criticism of her running of southern

health. Families were repeatedly told she was the best person to read

it. You have definitely piled it on, all of you. We are all incredibly

sorry. Connor Sparrowhawk drowned in a bath under the care of southern

health. His death sparked outrage and his mother said she was pleased

she had gone. It is good she has gone. It allows a breathing space

for actual change to happen. I've never understood how she could

possibly go to work every morning given everything that unfolded. The

buck stops at the top. She was leading an organisation clearly

feeling in so many different levels. An official report found hundreds of

unexpected deaths at southern health were not investigated. Failures of

leadership and governance were blamed. In April CQC report found

significant problems at the trust, and again, management was

criticised. Throughout it all, chief executive has refused to resign

until this morning. In a statement, she said...

She will keep her salary working as an adviser at the trust. The

regulator says the deal represents value for money for taxpayers. For

the family of Connor Sparrowhawk, today's resignation is a cause for

satisfaction. He would be really chuffed because he had such a strong

sense of justice himself that he would be outraged that she stayed in

that position for so long. The Italian Coastguard says it's had

one of its busiest days in years. This was the scene

with just one boat as nearly 7,000 migrants

were rescued from the So far this year more

than 112,000 migrants have arrived in Italy,

and calm weather in the coming days is expected to encourage more people

to make the dangerous journey Our Diplomatic Correspondent

James Landale reports. When you're tired and desperate,

even this makes sense. A final leap of hope that is the end of a journey

that has lasted thousands of miles. These migrants are the lucky ones.

Just some of the almost 7000 rescued on Monday. A record number. It is a

crisis were the numbers are already extraordinary. Most were picked up

of the Libyan coast. Packed into fishing boats and 44 inflatable

dinghy is, often with just enough fuel to reach international waters.

Phoned around 5am, they had been for 14 hours, and in that time we

rescued over 5000 people, according to the information we have from the

authorities. Rescuers said most of the migrants appeared to be from sub

Saharan Africa, encouraged to leave the beaches and take to the sea.

They were rescued by ships from the Italian coastguard, aid agencies and

even the British Navy. The survey vessel HMS enterprise picked up more

than 700 of the migrants and will land them in Italy tomorrow. The

International organisation for migration says so far 111,000

migrants have been rescued in the central Mediterranean and taken to

Italy. At the same time, some 2700 have died. Those are pretty similar

numbers to the same period last year on this particular route. Even the

migration across the eastern Mediterranean here has dropped

substantially since the deal with Turkey, the numbers crossing from

Libya do not appear to have risen as a result. The problem remains. The

migrants keep coming because there is no safety work at home, no

security in Libya. Always the chance of rescued in the sea. It's a very

dangerous journey and people don't leave for the reason. They are very

desperate to leave. Also desperate to be somewhere safe. Is evening,

the first of those rescued in recent days were arriving in Italy. If

others are prepared to go to see, even with newborn twins, it will not

be lost. The Italian coastguard they expected more to come whilst the

weather holds. Britain and France have pledged

to cooperate more closely in a bid to ease the pressure of migration

at the port of Calais. Earlier today the Home Secretary

Amber Rudd met her French counterpart in Paris

to discuss the situation. Our correspondent Lucy Williamson

is in Paris now - Lucy there's been a lot of talk about where border

checks and asylum claims should take place, what's come out

of this meeting today? The message out of the meeting is

basically that both governments broadly see eye to eye on the

current border arrangements. A joint statement by the Minister said they

would continue to cooperate on that, continued to strengthen security

around the port area and the Channel Tunnel entrance, the problem being

all these agreements are only valid for the next eight months, until

France goes to the polls to elect a new president. There are several

candidates on the right who want to change the current arrangement, want

to change the treaty that in effect allows the UK to police the border

on French soil. With pressure coming from the far right on issues like

immigration, the debate is not going away. Thank you.

A British man who was seriously wounded,

while trying to save a backpacker from being fatally stabbed in

Thomas Jackson, who was 30, attempted to help Mia Ayliffe-Chung

when she was attacked at a hostel in Queensland a week ago.

A 29-year-old Frenchman is in custody.

Police say he will now be charged with a second murder.

Almost a third of patients in England and Wales are being given

the wrong initial diagnosis after a heart attack

resulting in an increased risk of death.

And women are 50% more likely to be misdiagnosed.

examined data from about 600,000 heart attack cases.

NHS England says it's working to improve accurate

Our health correspondent Sophie Hutchinson reports.

Every three minutes in the UK, someone's taken to hospital

Diagnosing it quickly is vital but the symptoms can be confusing.

didn't realise she was having a heart attack.

She says she got an unusual pain one morning before work but didn't seek

The symptoms I felt were mainly in my jaw, neck and collarbone.

It was a burning deep ache, not a pain I'd ever experienced before.

But I didn't think it was anything serious.

Thought it might have been a pulled muscle or indigestion.

A new study shows just how difficult it can be to spot a heart attack,

More than a quarter of men were given the wrong diagnosis

at first, according to figures over nine years for England and Wales.

For women, it was even higher, more than a third were misdiagnosed.

And every misdiagnosis is estimated to carry a 70% increased risk

One of the reasons it's so dangerous for patients not to get a correct

diagnosis of a heart attack is they don't get the vital

treatment they need and are at risk of another heart

But researchers here at St Thomas' Hospital in London are working

on a new blood test which they hope will accurately pinpoint

which patients need potentially life-saving care.

It's hoped the test will improve on the current blood

test which often gives inaccurate results for women.

Experts say women need to be more aware of heart attacks.

People don't think that heart disease is a female disease.

You think women, you think cancer, men, heart disease.

Women are just as likely to suffer from heart disease,

Just as many women die of heart disease as men, sadly.

The symptoms to look out for vary from a crushing chest pain

to indingestion-type discomfort, nausea, tiredness

NHS England said it's working hard to improve diagnoses but stressed

survival rates for heart attacks are the best they've ever been.

The European Commission orders IT giant Apple to pay ?11 billion

And still to come - a day their mother was

warned may never come - first day at school for the twins

England's record goal scorer, Wayne Rooney, says the current World Cup

qualifying campaign is to be his last.

He's retiring after the tournament in Russia in 2018.

Serious funding problems and poor ticket sales may have overshadowed

the Paralympic Games in the last fortnight.

But in just over a week, they get underway in Rio

and Britain is sending a team of more than 260 athletes.

All this week, we'll be hearing from some of them

as they get ready to perform on the biggest stage.

We start with Joe Townsend from Eastbourne,

who'll be competing in the Paratriathlon.

He was injured while serving as a Royal Marine in Afghanistan.

Our reporter Kate Grey, a former paralympian herself,

In February, 2008, when when I stepped on the improvised explosive

device I didn't really know what I was ever going to do with my life.

I just remember sitting there on the battlefield

in Afghanistan thinking, yeah, what am I going to do now.

Six weeks in intensive care, three years in rehabilitation

The road to recovery hasn't been easy for Joe.

Even daft things like carrying a cup of tea whilst being in

a wheelchair was a completely different challenge.

For me, it's just been a steep learning curve.

Trying to find ways around doing mundane, everyday tasks.

I know a lot of guys really struggle and dwell in the past

It's understandable if you've been young, fit and active

and have something horrendous happen to you,

it's easy to look back and think, why me.

I could just look forward in life and look to see

what I could strive to achieve and move forwards, really.

Once I was about six months into my rehabilitation

at Headley Court, I tried different adaptive sports.

You're free, and your disability becomes irrelevant.

I got that competitive edge back, that spark.

I was thinking, actually, I like this.

If gives me the opportunity to push myself again.

Despite the fact his sport, a triathlon, was not included

in the London 2012 Paralympics, he still found a way to be involved.

I remember actually coming into the stadium with all those

That really set it in my head, actually, I want to be there in Rio.

Joe's spent the last four years preparing for Rio and believes he's

If I can deliver my best race on the day

and give 100% of what I know I've been doing in training,

then, yeah, I've definitely go the option of getting on the podium.

I've served my country as a Royal Marine in Afghanistan.

Being able to fly the GB flag again and represent my country

as an athlete, it's gone from one life to another.

who'll be competing in the Paralympics next week.

The Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents most

police officers in London, has called for a review of

the Notting Hill Carnival after more than 40 officers were injured.

Scotland Yard said it had made more than 450 arrests over the two days,

The government's controversial badger cull in England is being

increased dramatically to try to prevent the spread of TB in cattle.

Nearly 1,500 badgers were killed last year.

Now the aim is to cull 10,000 this year.

Ministers say the cull's necessary to reduce bovine TB.

Our Rural Affairs Correspondent Claire Marshall

is in Lower Kingcombe in Dorset for us.

and now it's being rolled out on a much larger scale.

Yes, it is a much larger scale. These fields in Dorset look very

peaceful. In just a few hours, marksmen, trained, will be operating

in order to fulfil the new requirements under this badger cull.

We don't know the exact location. It's kept secret for security

reasons. But, as you say, 10,000 badgers over the next three months

need to be culled. Ecologists and conservationists are incredulous.

They say, it doesn't make sense. They say the main reason for TB

increases is cattle passing it on to other cattle. They say it is a

complete waste of money. Farmers say this is a huge relief. They've been

wanting something to be done for years. This is an on a scale that

satisfies many of them. The Government says badgers do carry TB.

They are a reservoir of the disease. Even if there are other methods of

transmission, badgers have to be culled in order to get this disease

under control. Last year, another amazing figure, 30,000 cows had to

be culled in order to rid the disease of these infected cattle

from farmers. Farmers really are delighted. They say they're being

listened to. However, conservationists and some scientists

do really doubt whether culling is the right way to bring TB under

control. Clare, thank you. Cricketer Alex Hales has broken

the record for the highest score by an England batsman

in a one day international. Opener Alex Hales led the way

setting another record, this time for the highest score by an England

batsman in a one day international. He scored 171 off 122 balls to

surpass the previous of 167 set by Robyn Smith in 1993

Wayne Rooney has said he'll no longer play for England

He announced his intention to retire

after being confirmed as captain, by the new manager Sam Allardyce.

He's been captain since 2014 and is England's record goalscorer

with 53 in 115 international appearances.

They were born joined at the abdomen and were given only

are preparing for their first day of school.

The conjoined twins shared part of the intestine

and had to have an emergency operation to separate them.

And, four years on, they're trying on their first school uniforms.

Like lots of children starting school,

Rosie and Ruby are excited to be trying on their uniforms.

It marks a huge milestone in their lives.

The girls were born in 2012 joined at the abdomen

For mum, Angela, it was a scary time.

About four hours after they were born,

they went off to Great Ormond Street.

I was kept at UCH because I'd just had a C section

I was in a room with other women that had their babies.

We walked to the theatre with the nurses and the doctors

At that point, I could never see this day coming.

I sometimes forget how special they are.

But when they're being naughty and arguing, I sit down and think

and remember what they've been through and how far we've come.

The girls know they were once joined together.

And Angela's kept all their doctors' notes so they can learn more

about their incredible surgery when they're older.

It's another milestone that we've reached.

I just want them to enjoy their childhood.

Be little girls and not have to worry about going into hospital.

Time for a look at the weather. Here's Tomasz Schafernaker.

Has it been gorgeous everywhere? It has. It's been beautiful. Look at

this picture behind me, its as Norfolk. I can literally feel almost

that fresh air coming in off the North Sea. Temperatures into the

high 20s today. A bit fresher tomorrow. Not like it everywhere, it

has to be said. A little bit of cloud around the Irish Sea, parts of

Wales, the north-west of Scotland. This is all in advance of this lump

of cloud, this line of cloud. A weather front which will bring a bit

of rain to Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland through the course

of tonight. By early hours of Wednesday morning, you can see some

of that rain nudging into Wales and knocking on the door there in

Cornwall. For the vast majority of England and Wales it will be a dry

night and a clear one too. Tomorrow, a little more cloud around. This

weather front zips across the UK. Some of us will get a few spots of

rain for sure tomorrow. Could be heavy in one or two areas,

particularly in the north early in the day. These temperatures from the

high 20s in the south-east into the mid-20s. For most of us in the

teens. Tomorrow, increasing winds in the north. A few showers around. For

most of us, a fine end to the day once again. On Thursday, we are in

between weather systems. We're one coming off the ocean of the most of

us are in between. Later in the day, things will cloud over and we're in

for some rain for Belfast, eventually Glasgow as well. For most

of England a dry day. On Friday, a bit more mixed. More cloud around.

The chance of catching some showers. Particularly across the central and

southern swathe of the UK later in the day. Temperatures a little

lower. Come the weekend, unsettled. Saturday and Sunday could Britain

rain at times and increasing winds. Sunshine around from time to time.

Rain at the weekend, typical!