06/01/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten, resignations and recriminations -

the turbulent aftermath of Labour's reshuffle.

It was Jeremy Corbyn's first as Labour leader -

prompting a very public row among Labour MPs.

Three party spokesmen resigned in protest,

unhappy with the leader's handling and citing policy differences.

It has been completely chaotic, and I think it also shows

how Jeremy and his office don't understand how Parliament works.

What we wanted was to ensure that we had a coherent

representation of the party's policies both in the Shadow Cabinet

and right the way across that party, and that's what we are achieving.

We'll have details of Labour's changes

and the divided opinion within the parliamentary party.

Also tonight, in North Korea, a spirited announcement

but the international community is not applauding.

After the recent floods, the Environment Agency

defends its handling of the crisis during the storms.

In Germany, police are criticised for failing to prevent

a wave of attacks on women on New Year's Eve in Cologne.

And the dynamic French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez

Later on BBC London, ?500,000 worth of jewellery

is stolen by a gang armed with machetes and axes in Mayfair.

Half-price travel for early-bird commuters,

the latest fare-busting proposal for the capital.

Jeremy Corbyn's first reshuffle as Labour leader has prompted

public recriminations and the resignations of three spokesmen,

angry about way the reshuffle was handled.

Jonathan Reynolds, Stephen Doughty and Kevan Jones also expressed

disagreement on policy especially defence and nuclear issues.

But Mr Corbyn's supporters have defended

accusing his critics of belonging to a right-wing clique.

For the latest, let's join our political editor,

Huw, this whole process has not just been chaotic but also slow. It began

48 very long hours ago, and although I am told they are imminent, we are

waiting for the last couple of names to complete the list. It has also

been very personal and today turned very bitter. The path to get here

has been anything but smooth. He is meant to be the boss,

but Jeremy Corbyn's first reshuffle has been a painful journey

for his party. The most angst in recent days

over the Shadow Foreign Secretary. Mr Corbyn wanted to move

Hilary Benn, but he stayed put, it was claimed with a promise

to be less critical, but does he think

anything has changed? I'm going to be carrying

on doing my job exactly as before, which is speaking for

Labour on foreign policy. Not quite the same as from

the Shadow Chancellor, Mr Corbyn's closest ally,

who spent the day defending the changes -

they do take some explaining. None of us were arguing,

publicly or privately, We were saying, basically,

what we wanted was to ensure that we had a coherent

representation of the party's policies both in Shadow Cabinet

and right the way across the party. The last 24 hours have been

a damaging pantomime. While Jeremy Corbyn's been

bunkered up in his office he hasn't always seemed

in charge of events, and, simply, he didn't

have the clout to make all of the changes

he wanted to. But the Labour leader was able

to recast his Shadow Cabinet more in line

with his own priorities. Despite two long days

and nights of wrangling, Mr Corbyn did move nuclear

weapons supporting Maria Eagle from defence to

take charge of culture. I'm looking forward to getting

on with my new job, and no doubt I will talk to you again

in that capacity in due course. Emily Thornberry,

who is anti-Trident, a politician resigning live

on television, the mood in parts of Labour

this morning - toxic. I've just written

to Jeremy Corbyn I think the things that

are being said, that are being briefed at,

that I've seen people being briefed at this morning,

are simply not true. Undoubtedly, they'll do it

about other individuals. Two others announced

their departures as well, on radio and even on Facebook,

after a frontbencher, because of these comments in

the wake of the Paris attacks. No-one forces them to kill

innocent people in Paris or Beirut, and unless we are clear about that,

we will fail even to be able let alone confront it

and ultimately overcome it. but today's chaos will be

remembered. Yet for Jeremy Corbyn's

many thousands of supporters around the country,

this flexing of his muscles After all of that, what are we

really left with in terms of the Labour Party and its immediate

future? There is a real clash on display of a fundamentalist use,

defence and national security, but remember, from day one, there has

been a real gap between Jeremy Corbyn's thousands of very

enthusiastic supporters around the country and many Labour MPs, who

taught from the off that his leadership was a nonstarter. -- who

thought. That reachable process has made the gap deeper and wider, and

made the tensions even more strained. -- reshuffle. It looks

like a party that is coming to terms with itself, not a party that will

find it easy to get the public on its side.

North Korea is facing the prospect of further international sanctions

following claims from the country's regime

that it's successfully tested a hydrogen bomb.

The UN Security Council has been holding an emergency meeting,

and the Americans, while expressing doubts about the claims,

warned North Korea against provocative action.

The test was detected when an earthquake happened

near a nuclear site in the north of the country this morning.

Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes

reports from neighbouring South Korea.

At ten o'clock in the morning, North Korean state television

made the dramatic announcement as only it can.

"A successful hydrogen-bomb test has been carried out,"

crowds had been marshalled to watch the announcement.

they measured a man-made earthquake caused by the explosion.

It was not very big, and it remains unclear

if this latest test really was a hydrogen device,

So what is the difference between a hydrogen bomb

Atomic bombs were first dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

The blast is created by splitting an atom,

releasing the huge amount of energy contained inside.

Hydrogen bombs use an atomic bomb to force elements together,

creating what is called a fusion reaction.

The resulting blast is thousands of times

more powerful than an atomic bomb,

but hydrogen bombs are much more difficult to make.

Hydrogen bombs, or thermonuclear weapons,

are very difficult to build, and it's highly unlikely

that North Korea has this capability.

But the important thing for North

Korea is that it sees nuclear weapons capabilities

as a deterrent, a deterrent against

offensive attack from South Korea and the US.

North Korea's soldiers may be good at goose-stepping,

but a hydrogen bomb would put this impoverished country

The main beneficiary would be its young dictator, Kim Jong-un.

nuclear weapons are about one thing - his own survival.

Perhaps Kim Jong-un wants to tell his domestic constituents

that he is powerful, he is strong, he is in control of his regime

that he just took over a few years ago.

He also seems to be trying to tell the international community

that he is, his country is a nuclear weapons state,

and that means his country is a nuclear power.

For people living here in Seoul, the idea that North Korea,

just 30 miles away to the north of here,

may now have a hydrogen bomb is pretty terrifying.

But the question remains, what can the world do about it?

Sanctions have been tried and have failed.

Maybe it is now time for the world to engage with North Korea.

But it's very hard to see how any Western leader

can engage with a regime that has just set off a nuclear device.

In New York, the UN Security Council has met in emergency session

to condemn North Korea and to consider what to do next.

This act is a profoundly destabilising for regional security

international nonproliferation efforts.

So far, North Korea has succeeded in defying everyone,

including China, in exploding four nuclear devices.

But its ambition is to go much further,

to put a nuclear weapon on board a missile that can reach America.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC News, in Seoul.

Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, is in Washington for us tonight,

and, Jon, a good deal of scepticism?

High. The President's spokesman said their initial analysis suggested

this was not a hydrogen bomb that had been exploded by North Korea,

and therefore America is not changing its assessment of the

strategic threat posed by North Korea. There was unequivocal

condemnation of what they have done and a call to stop the provocation.

John Kerry has said the United States does not and will not accept

North Korea as a nuclear armed power, and there is some relief, I

think, in America that you have Russia and China in concert

condemning the move. Now, as we heard in Rupert's report, the UN

Security Council as met and talked about further significant measures

because of the gravity of the violation against already existing

UN resolutions, so a tougher sanctions package. The conundrum is,

what is going to work that has not worked before? To that question,

there are no easy answers. All right, Jon, thanks again, Jon Sopel

at the White House. The chairman of the Environment

Agency, Sir Philip Dilley, says he regrets not coming back

earlier from a holiday in the Caribbean when the recent

storms caused severe flooding He was giving evidence

to a parliamentary committee he had been in contact with his team

while he was away. Our home editor, Mark Easton,

has more details. The floodwaters may have subsided,

but in many parts of northern England, frustration and anger

have been left in their wake. As the clear-up continued

at this West Yorkshire school today, to protect homes and businesses

splashed against the walls of Parliament,

as officials from the agency responsible for flood

defences arrived I'm Sir Philip Dilley, I'm the

chairman of the Environment Agency. A tanned Environment Agency chief,

Sir Philip Dilley, was asked if he regretted

not returning earlier from his holiday home in Barbados

while devastating floods hit the UK. This was a PR disaster

for you personally, wasn't it? Yes, as I said, in

hindsight, it would have been much better if I'd come back

as early as I could, Officials blame exceptional

rainfall for flood defences being overwhelmed

in Cumbria just after Christmas, but one guesthouse owner

who lost her home and business told the committee

that too much attention including a local scheme

to save freshwater mussels, Please, what is the

point of all this? I mean, my sympathies

to the mussels, At Prime Minister's Questions,

David Cameron was challenged over whether his government

has done enough to prevent the floods

in northern England. I have the greatest sympathy

with anyone that has been flooded, and we have to do what it

takes to get people and get to communities back

on their feet, and that is why we have but record sums

in more quickly to help communities in Cumbria, in Lancashire,

and now in Yorkshire, Flood defence scheme after flood

defence scheme has been cancelled, postponed

or cut. and too many

lessons have been ignored. The argument is over

whether the Government should focus more on long-term

strategic investment, things like the Thames Barrier,

rather than what critics say is short-term, reactive

spending on flood defences, responding to rising

levels of misery. Over the last decade,

central government real-terms spending on flood defences rose

after the floods of 2007 and 2009, fell when the coalition

came to power, rose again after the devastating

floods of 2014, and has now fallen back a little,

although increases are promised. There is more flooding

happening more frequently, and so therefore we need

to do more about it. I don't feel you're being

dynamic enough about it. If you had asked us that question

on the 1st of December, I think the answer would be

we are properly funded... Nothing was abnormal up

until the 1st of December. Thereafter, the changes that

we've experienced are potentially ones

that need to adjust it. The bad weather brought

more disruption with a 70 tonne landslide

blocking the railway line at Hexham. Questions about how

Government should respond to the challenge

of our changing climate will continue to rain down

for years to come. It's exactly a month ago that

Storm Desmond caused widespread flooding in Cumbria,

affecting thousands of homes. In Carlisle,

the floodwaters have receded, but the process of clearing up

will take some time. Our North of England correspondent,

Danny Savage, has more details. A month ago today,

you would have needed a boat to get down Warwick Road

and the streets around it. and it's littered with the remains

of a Christmas past. So many people have a tale

about needing help or offering it. My mum was downstairs

with my disabled brother, and I and my partner had to move out

into a touring caravan on the drive. for my parents

and my disabled brother. It was the first day of term

today for many pupils, Newman High is uninhabitable

after being flooded. So staff and 650 pupils

have been moved to a mothballed primary school

with temporary classrooms. The most important thing was

to get some kind of normality back into the lives of the children

and their families, This is my kitchen,

which is in the bathroom. And as you can see, this is the only

source of running water, And your work surface

is this trolley? This is the only work surface

there is, so this is where I do

the washing up. Janet is recovering

from a hip operation, If you could sit down

with the people in power, Well, I don't think

any of us here expected it to flood again

after 2005. And I think now the whole question

of flooding needs to be looked at very carefully

because water has to go somewhere. of building the defences

higher and higher. Businesses have set up

temporary kiosks on the street. there's no time for political

arguments about flood defences. It is all right looking at it

on the television and seeing everybody flooded,

I've done it myself. They just sit there in

their little House of Commons and shout things out to each other,

and nothing seems to get done. People just don't want

their concerns swept away, and it's the effect on mortgages

and house prices In Germany, the Interior Minister

has strongly criticised police in the city of Cologne for failing

to prevent a wave of sexual assaults More than 100 women have complained

of being attacked by gangs of up to 30 men outside

the city's train station. Witnesses and police have said

that the men involved were mostly of Arab or North

African appearance. Our correspondent Jenny Hill

is in Cologne tonight. Yes, these attacks took place in the

very heart of one of Germany's biggest cities. There is still

outrage here. There were protests in the square here today. That is

because these attacks also took place in in a country struggling

with record levels of immigration. Today, the government announced that

last year alone well over a million people arrived in Germany to seek

asylum. For this country it's both a sensitive time and a sensitive

subject. What happened here on New Year's Eve

has horrified Germany. women were attacked,

robbed and sexually assaulted. wanted to tell us

what happened to her. She and her friends

were surrounded by about 20 men. They just grabbed our

arms, tried to tear us apart and pushed our clothes away

and so on and tried to get between our legs, or I don't know

where, and just got everything

we had in our pockets and so on. This has ignited an already

highly charged national debate. The police say, as yet,

there's no evidence that the perpetrators

were asylum seekers. They've not ruled out

the possibility it was the work of professional

pickpocket gangs using sexual assault

as a distraction technique. Even so, ministers are trying

to calm a stormy public mood. TRANSLATION: The perpetrators'

behaviour was outrageous, regardless of

their nationality. It's emerged that what happened

here on New Year's Eve There are similar reports of sexual

assault and robbery in places All of this is being seized on

by those who believe that Angela Merkel's

open-door refugee policy hasn't just failed, it's now putting

German citizens in danger. It doesn't help that

no-one's been charged, TRANSLATION: We ask women to prepare

mentally for such situations. They must realise that

dangerous situations can develop if they encounter large

groups of men in places where lots

of alcohol is consumed. The Mayor of Cologne's

promised extra security at major public events,

but Henrietta Reker provoked outrage when she appeared

to suggest that women standing in crowds

could protect themselves It's not our fault, how

should we get arm's-length in a group full of people

where you couldn't even move? 2016 is the year in

which Angela Merkel must prove to Germany that it can

cope with mass immigration. Police in Turkey have uncovered

an illegal workshop making fake life jackets for sale to refugees

and migrants who are trying to reach Under-age Syrian girls

were found working there. Hundreds of thousands of people have

been boarding boats in western Turkey to cross the Aegean

to the nearby Greek islands. The price of oil has

fallen below $35 a barrel, that's the lowest by

the way in 11 years. Traders say the latest drop reflects

tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran and concerns

about China's slowing economy. A steep decline in oil prices over

the past 18 months has already lowered the cost of petrol

and diesel at the pumps. Detectives are "urgently" seeking

the partner of a former actress after three bodies were found

at the couple's home. The man is thought to have

travelled to Ghana. Sian Blake and her two sons have not

been seen at their home The Metropolitan Police has referred

the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission

following complaints about how the investigation has been handled

as our correspondent, Sian Blake, the young actress

who landed a part in a top TV show. It was in the '90s that

she was in EastEnders, after she left the soap

she became a mother. But recently she'd been in poor

health with the debilitating She had two boys, Zachary,

who was eight and four-year-old Now, all three are being mourned

by their family and Sian Blake's partner, Arthur Simpson-Kent,

the children's father, It's understood he travelled

to the west African state of Ghana before Christmas, it's unclear

if he's still there. Back home in their neighbourhood,

there's astonishment He was never a customer,

she was a customer of mine. The family home, in Erith in Kent,

is now a crime scene and a picture has emerged of events leading up

to the discovery of the bodies here. Sian Blake and her children

were last seen on December the 13th. On December the 16th,

she was reported missing. Police visited the family home

and spoke to Arthur Simpson-Kent. He was then reported

to have disappeared. Two days later, police

returned to the house, forced entry and

carried out a search. It was a fortnight after that,

on January the 1st, that officers made their first public

appeal for information. On January the 4th, Scotland Yard's

homicide crime team took The next day, three bodies

were discovered in the back garden. So it was three weeks

after Sian Blake was reported missing that the bodies

were found here. Now questions are being asked

about the initial police inquiry. This afternoon, Scotland Yard

announced that it was referring the case to the Independent Police

Complaints Commission. The Met said there was some

potential issues over the handling Meanwhile, the international search

for a partner and father goes on. Prince Ali of Jordan,

who is standing for election as the next president of Fifa,

has described the contest as the "last chance" to save

football's world governing body. He said it would be a "catastophe"

if he didn't succeed Sepp Blatter, insisting

he was the only candidate capable He's been speaking to our sports

editor, Dan Roan. It was football's year to forget -

a series of arrests, raids and corruption investigations

bringing Fifa to its knees. President Sepp Blatter kicked

out of the organisation With the New Year comes the chance

to turn a corner and one of the favourites in next month's

presidential election told me I think it's the last chance

to save the organisation and to get it back in the right shape and then

to focus on what my real goal is, which is total development

of football around the world. I don't want to see a day coming

in the future if you have another situation were scandals come up

in the next year or two. Prince Ali was the sole

challenger in May's election. He lost, but days later

Blatter stepped down Now, the Jordanian is back,

presenting himself as the reform We need fresh ideas,

fresh blood, free thinking, With the greatest of respect,

you have served on that executive For sure I am, and my track

record speaks for itself. These are the men who

stand in Ali's way. Asian football chief,

Sheikh Salman of Bahrain. Uefa General Secretary,

Gianni Infantino. South Africian, Tokyo Sexwale

and former Fifa executive, But already this year,

more controversy. Yesterday, Fifa announced that

Blatter's former right-hand man, Jerome Valcke, faces a nine-year ban

for violating ethics rules. The question now, it seems -

whether anyone can be trusted. Are there any skeletons

in your closet? Can you give us a cast-iron

guarantee that we're not going to discover anything

about you in the future that makes I can guarantee that I am the right

person for this job. My track record is that I keep

with my word and I implement Fifa, of course, has been

notoriously resistant to change. For Ali, overcoming that

hurdle will be one thing, but even if he wins,

repairing the damage done by the Blatter era could

prove even tougher. In cricket, the second Test

between England and South Africa has ended in a draw in Cape Town,

but only after England had suffered a scare when they lost a flurry

of wickets in their second innings. With two matches still to come,

South Africa's Hashim Amla has decided to resign as captain

to concentrate on his batting. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

have released photographs of Prince George on his first

day at nursery school. The pictures were taken

by his mother at the Westacre It's hoped the release of the images

will help protect the Prince's privacy as he starts

his school years. Music is not there to please people,

according to the French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez,

but to disturb them. And that's the key to understanding

much of his work, according to the many tributes paid today

on his death at the age of 90. There was talk of his remarkable

creative energy and his artistic vigour as chief conductor of the BBC

Symphony Orchestra and the New York Our arts editor, Will Gompertz,

considers his many achievements. The BBC Symphony Orchestra

playing Stravinsky's ground-breaking masterpiece, The Rite Of Spring,

conducted by Pierre Boulez. He was, first and foremost,

a composer and only took up conducting to advance the cause

of contemporary music. Recently, I have seen

the programme of an organisation, and I was looking, and the great

novelty was Beethoven's symphonies, and of course they are

beautiful, but I mean, you cannot really just

rely on that constantly, and you have to make

the audience aware He did - both with the music

he conducted and composed. Work that he would revisit

and revise over decades. When you are young,

you have many ideas. But when you are older,

you see, well, maybe there are more to be done with that

than I thought at first. was the chief conductor

of the New York Philharmonic and an amused

BBC Symphony Orchestra. Threatening to blow up

all of the opera houses of Europe, of course, was his famous great

moment as a young tyrant. and keeping tradition

for its own sake. He wanted to explode the myths

that we had all inherited, about what

art really should be. Pierre Boulez was a giant

of 20th Century music, bridging the past and the present

and pointing towards the future. The one-time firebrand

became a revered elder statesman, but at no point did

he lose his iconoclastic spirit. When the dog is outside,

out of the house, he barks. When the dog is in the house,

he doesn't bark, he bites. The composer and conductor

Pierre Boulez, Newsnight is about to get

underway over on BBC Two. Here, on BBC One, it's time

for the news where you are.