:00:00. > :00:00.The Business Secretary visits Port Talbot to try to reassure steel
:00:00. > :00:11.workers, three days after they're told their plant is to be sold.
:00:12. > :00:14.Sajid Javid tells them Port Talbot has a future and there will be
:00:15. > :00:18.a resolution, but he's short on detail.
:00:19. > :00:20.The process has begun but I'm confident that,
:00:21. > :00:22.when that begins, with our involvement, we will see a process
:00:23. > :00:31.We have a special report from China which stands accused
:00:32. > :00:34.of selling its steel to the UK at well below what it
:00:35. > :00:38.We'll be asking whether the Government has misjudged our trading
:00:39. > :00:46.Delivery driver Junead Khan is found guilty of planning to kill US
:00:47. > :00:53.Millions of low-paid workers get a rise through the new national
:00:54. > :00:58.living wage but there are warnings of the effect on businesses.
:00:59. > :01:01.No regrets - we speak to the man who posed for a photo
:01:02. > :01:06.I want, if the worst does come to the worst,
:01:07. > :01:14.I want my family and my friends to know that I died how I lived.
:01:15. > :01:17.And England get into the swing of things before their T20 cricket
:01:18. > :01:22.final against the West Indies this weekend.
:01:23. > :01:25.Nico Rosberg just edges Lewis Hamilton in Bahrain,
:01:26. > :01:52.as Mercedes set the pace ahead of Sunday's Formula One Grand Prix.
:01:53. > :01:56.Three days after the steel crisis erupted, the Business Secretary
:01:57. > :02:00.Sajid Javid arrived at the plant in Port Talbot insisting that steel
:02:01. > :02:03.is vital to the future of UK industry.
:02:04. > :02:07.Mr Javid has been under fire for being in Australia at the time
:02:08. > :02:10.that its owners - Tata - announced that they wanted to sell
:02:11. > :02:16.He said the Government had been "engaged with Tata for weeks"
:02:17. > :02:20.He sought to reassure workers but declined to specify what help
:02:21. > :02:25.the Government is willing or able to offer.
:02:26. > :02:28.Our Wales correspondent Hywel Griffith sent this report
:02:29. > :02:38.Among furnace men and fitters, Sajid Javid arrived to feel the full
:02:39. > :02:43.heat of this crisis three days after it began.
:02:44. > :02:50.The Business Secretary was on the other side of the world
:02:51. > :02:53.when Tata announced the sale of its UK business.
:02:54. > :02:57.And no one was sent to speak to these workers in his place.
:02:58. > :03:01.He insists he had been talking to the company from the start,
:03:02. > :03:08.One thing that was new was talk afterwards about the timeframe
:03:09. > :03:12.of the sale, which I got concerned about and that is why I rushed back
:03:13. > :03:17.here, because talk of three or four weeks was not what I had in mind.
:03:18. > :03:22.These workers had hoped for detail, but they got none.
:03:23. > :03:35.Not at the moment, but it seems positive.
:03:36. > :03:38.The Government has already said no to full nationalisation,
:03:39. > :03:42.A private sale would be the answer to its prayers,
:03:43. > :03:48.So some form of supported sale with incentives to keep the business
:03:49. > :03:54.The alternative would be to allow it to fail -
:03:55. > :03:57.financially much cheaper, but politically it would come
:03:58. > :04:02.It is hard to overestimate what is at stake.
:04:03. > :04:06.Jobs here come with a ?30,000 starting salary.
:04:07. > :04:10.Nothing in this area can compete on the same scale.
:04:11. > :04:13.And yet people's horizons are broad, especially when it comes to looking
:04:14. > :04:18.at what is happening in other countries.
:04:19. > :04:21.Scott says his whole family is suffering because of the influx
:04:22. > :04:27.The third generation of his family to work here, his father
:04:28. > :04:32.is nearing retirement, his pension at risk.
:04:33. > :04:35.I don't think there is a future here for me, for my father,
:04:36. > :04:44.I don't think there is a future for anyone.
:04:45. > :04:47.This is a global trade war that is hotting up.
:04:48. > :04:52.Today, China announced a 46% tariff on some European steel imports.
:04:53. > :04:55.Some EU members want to raise the stakes.
:04:56. > :04:57.It's claimed Britain has blocked high tariffs
:04:58. > :05:04.The French are in favour of lifting this rule.
:05:05. > :05:08.And yet here we are, the UK standing in the way
:05:09. > :05:13.of a method to actually solve the problems we are facing today.
:05:14. > :05:16.For workers with jobs on the line, that does not sound fair.
:05:17. > :05:21.I have been involved, calling the first meeting of the EU
:05:22. > :05:24.Council on an emergency basis months ago.
:05:25. > :05:27.We have seen tariffs imposed much more quickly.
:05:28. > :05:31.The reality is that the UK has been a leader in getting tariffs imposed
:05:32. > :05:41.Meeting over, the Business Secretary will have taken home
:05:42. > :05:51.The pressure is on to make up for lost time.
:05:52. > :05:53.Despite disagreeing over tariffs, both the Government and unions
:05:54. > :05:57.are blaming cheap Chinese imports for the woes facing
:05:58. > :06:01.In 2013, the UK produced 12 million tonnes of steel.
:06:02. > :06:12.13 years ago, China exported just over 7 million tonnes of steel.
:06:13. > :06:15.Last year that jumped to 107 million tonnes.
:06:16. > :06:18.China has been accused of "dumping" its steel on European markets -
:06:19. > :06:23.meaning selling it not just cheaply, but at a loss.
:06:24. > :06:30.has been to the city seen as China's steel capital.
:06:31. > :06:35.No economy has ever risen so far and so fast.
:06:36. > :06:41.In just a few short decades, China has become the world's biggest
:06:42. > :06:45.In the boom times, every new mill, many backed with government money,
:06:46. > :06:54.Except now growth is slowing and China finds itself making more
:06:55. > :07:06.This plant alone employs almost as many people as the whole
:07:07. > :07:12.China's government admits it has a problem, but for local
:07:13. > :07:19.authorities, concern over jobs and social stability means
:07:20. > :07:23.there is huge pressure to keep those furnaces burning.
:07:24. > :07:26.But the workers starting the early shift this morning insist China
:07:27. > :07:34."We make a good, competitive product", this man insists.
:07:35. > :07:36.The argument that subsidised, surplus steel is devouring British
:07:37. > :07:46."We don't get any subsidies", this man insists.
:07:47. > :07:52."In fact, our industry pays a lot of tax".
:07:53. > :07:55.In reality, though, the Chinese steel industry survives on large
:07:56. > :07:57.amounts of state support that even the government says
:07:58. > :08:05.And the UK says it does raise the issue of China's glut of cheap
:08:06. > :08:10.steel, although with closer diplomatic ties now the priority,
:08:11. > :08:14.critics say the British Prime Minister may be reluctant to push
:08:15. > :08:23.No one can accuse China of doing nothing.
:08:24. > :08:24.Unprofitable mills are being made to close.
:08:25. > :08:32.The trouble is, nothing like fast enough to help British workers out
:08:33. > :08:45.Let's speak to our Political Correspondent, Alex Forsyth,
:08:46. > :08:51.who's at Westminster for us this evening.
:08:52. > :08:58.It has been a difficult week for the steel industry and the Government
:08:59. > :09:01.and ministers are no closer to a resolution. Steely executives have
:09:02. > :09:08.been warning for months that the flood of steel places unsustainable
:09:09. > :09:10.pressure on the industry. The accusation is that the government
:09:11. > :09:14.failed to act when it could because it posed an EU plan which would have
:09:15. > :09:18.allowed higher tariffs on cheap imports from China, so critics say
:09:19. > :09:23.the Government prioritised trade relations with China over the UK
:09:24. > :09:27.steel industry. Ministers refused that, saying they did oppose
:09:28. > :09:31.wholesale change of the tariff system because it could have
:09:32. > :09:35.affected industries other than steel and pushed up prices, but they say
:09:36. > :09:40.they insisted on higher tariffs on some specific Chinese products. They
:09:41. > :09:43.are trying to show they are taking action internationally as well as
:09:44. > :09:47.domestic league. Senior Government sources have said the Prime Minister
:09:48. > :09:53.approached the Chinese president during a dinner at the White House
:09:54. > :09:57.last night to raise concerns about the industry. In truth there are
:09:58. > :10:02.limited levers the Government can poll because this is a global market
:10:03. > :10:07.and there is overcapacity. And yet ministers face pressure to find a
:10:08. > :10:12.solution in Port Talbot, but also widely across the UK for an industry
:10:13. > :10:15.they say is vital. But David Cameron has admitted tonight that that is a
:10:16. > :10:18.very difficult situation. An Islamist extremist has been found
:10:19. > :10:21.guilty of planning an attack Junead Khan was a delivery driver
:10:22. > :10:25.whose route took him past RAF Police said he'd planned to stage
:10:26. > :10:30.a car crash and to attack a soldier Both Khan and his uncle,
:10:31. > :10:34.Shazib Khan, were also convicted of preparing to join so-called
:10:35. > :10:36.Islamic State in Syria. Our Home Affairs Correspondent
:10:37. > :10:43.Daniel Sandford reports. The black flag of so-called
:10:44. > :10:46.Islamic State hanging on the wall behind him in his bedroom in Luton,
:10:47. > :10:48.this is Junead Khan, who was planning the first attack
:10:49. > :10:52.on US servicemen in the UK, and was being helped and advised
:10:53. > :10:58.by an IS recruiter in Syria. His intended targets,
:10:59. > :11:02.American airbases in East Anglia, His plan, to slaughter a US airman
:11:03. > :11:09.in an attack similar to the one His weapon, this knife
:11:10. > :11:13.he was trying to buy, His intention was to target a US
:11:14. > :11:20.military officer by staging He was then going to use
:11:21. > :11:26.a knife to attack that He had also researched quite
:11:27. > :11:31.extensively and got instructions As Junead Khan made his plans
:11:32. > :11:37.last summer, his friend from Luton, Abu Aziz, seen here on the left,
:11:38. > :11:41.was killed by the Americans in An IS leader and planner
:11:42. > :11:47.of attacks on the West, he was in a vehicle
:11:48. > :11:49.destroyed by a drone. This seems to have increased
:11:50. > :11:53.Junead Khan's determination. When police arrested him last July,
:11:54. > :11:55.his iPhone contained key evidence of his planned attack,
:11:56. > :11:59.including an online conversation with Junaid Hussain,
:12:00. > :12:01.an infamous IS recruiter Chatting on the encrypted social
:12:02. > :12:10.media app, Surespot, Junaid Hussain at first offered
:12:11. > :12:13.to send Junead Khan the home But Khan said he wanted to kill
:12:14. > :12:17.Americans so Hussain He then sent him instructions
:12:18. > :12:43.on how to make a bomb. When Junead Khan announced his
:12:44. > :12:46.intention to target US servicemen at airbases in Britain,
:12:47. > :12:48.Junaid Hussain, in Syria, Just over a week later,
:12:49. > :12:55.Junead Khan was arrested, and six weeks after that,
:12:56. > :12:59.Junaid Hussain was killed by an American drone strike,
:13:00. > :13:05.their plot abruptly terminated. Junaid Hussain, who came
:13:06. > :13:07.from Birmingham, had been one of IS's most prolific propagandists,
:13:08. > :13:11.which is why the Americans He wasn't like a single
:13:12. > :13:17.fighter with an AK-47 He had the potential,
:13:18. > :13:21.through his cyber efforts, to reach across the sea
:13:22. > :13:27.and to motivate, radicalise and inspire violence in foreign
:13:28. > :13:33.countries around the world. With two of his IS contacts dead
:13:34. > :13:36.from American drone strikes, Junead Khan now faces a long prison
:13:37. > :13:40.sentence for his part in plotting to kill US servicemen
:13:41. > :13:41.based in Britain. Daniel Sandford, BBC News,
:13:42. > :13:50.at Kingston Crown Court. A 16-year-old boy has been sentenced
:13:51. > :13:53.to nine years' imprisonment for killing a pupil
:13:54. > :13:55.at a school in Aberdeen. The victim, Bailey Gwynne,
:13:56. > :13:58.who was also 16, died after being stabbed in the heart
:13:59. > :14:02.at Cults Academy in October. The defendant - who can't be
:14:03. > :14:04.named for legal reasons - had denied murder, but was convicted
:14:05. > :14:10.of culpable homicide. The new National Living Wage
:14:11. > :14:12.has come into force, with workers aged over 25 now
:14:13. > :14:15.entitled to a minimum payment The Chancellor, George Osborne,
:14:16. > :14:23.said the measure would play a central role in moving Britain to
:14:24. > :14:26.what he called "a higher wage, lower tax and lower welfare
:14:27. > :14:27.economy". But businesses say
:14:28. > :14:29.they face higher costs. Our Economics Correspondent
:14:30. > :14:34.Andy Verity reports. If you work in a job like this
:14:35. > :14:37.on the minimum wage, you might well have a reason
:14:38. > :14:39.to smile to yourself today. If you are 25 or over,
:14:40. > :14:43.you just got a pay rise of more than 10%, four times as much
:14:44. > :14:48.as your better-paid colleagues. I'm trying to start saving
:14:49. > :14:50.for a house at the moment. I've got a little bit of savings
:14:51. > :14:53.but obviously that extra money per year will mean I'll be able
:14:54. > :14:57.to put a bit more away and hopefully get there sooner than
:14:58. > :14:59.I would otherwise. The living wage should cause
:15:00. > :15:02.a so-called ripple effect where employers lift the pay
:15:03. > :15:05.of workers on the next rung So 1.8 million people earning less
:15:06. > :15:12.than ?7.20 will get an instant pay rise but, over the coming year,
:15:13. > :15:16.2 million full-time workers can expect an average boost of ?860,
:15:17. > :15:22.while 2.4 million part-time workers It's going to help
:15:23. > :15:29.millions of people. So often in the past
:15:30. > :15:32.when the economy grows, And we were determined that this
:15:33. > :15:37.time it would be different, that everyone would benefit
:15:38. > :15:39.as the economy grows, and that's what you get
:15:40. > :15:41.when you have a modern, compassionate Conservative
:15:42. > :15:43.government on the side Most of those who gain are women
:15:44. > :15:50.and more than half work part-time. Many have partners
:15:51. > :15:53.earning a full-time wage. That means you get a different
:15:54. > :15:57.picture when you look at households. By the end of this Parliament,
:15:58. > :16:00.the benefits of the national living wage will actually be spread
:16:01. > :16:04.across all household incomes. The poorest households won't gain
:16:05. > :16:07.much because most in that bracket The biggest gain is to households
:16:08. > :16:12.with incomes not at the top Then look at this -
:16:13. > :16:17.four years from now, the cuts to in-work benefits
:16:18. > :16:20.that were postponed in the Autumn Statement
:16:21. > :16:22.will be back. For the poorest households
:16:23. > :16:25.and the whole of the bottom half, those cuts far outweigh any gains
:16:26. > :16:32.from the national living wage. While the national living wage
:16:33. > :16:35.is a welcome and bold policy move, it can't be said to
:16:36. > :16:38.offset welfare cuts. It's not of the same order
:16:39. > :16:41.of magnitude and it's much more spread across households,
:16:42. > :16:43.rather than concentrated on those with lower incomes,
:16:44. > :16:46.who are going to be hit A year ago, few well-paid
:16:47. > :16:51.workers would have bet on a Conservative Chancellor
:16:52. > :16:54.forcing their employer to dish out higher wages, a policy previously
:16:55. > :16:59.cherished by the left. Fewer still would have expected it
:17:00. > :17:01.to help most not the households at the bottom but
:17:02. > :17:05.those in the middle. The United Nations is warning
:17:06. > :17:12.of a deepening humanitarian crisis in Yemen, with more than 2 million
:17:13. > :17:16.people displaced from their homes and 80% of the population
:17:17. > :17:20.in need of aid. It comes a year after Saudi Arabia
:17:21. > :17:22.began a bombing campaign against rebel forces who had toppled
:17:23. > :17:25.the country's president - a campaign in which the British
:17:26. > :17:28.Government has admitted offering the Saudis military
:17:29. > :17:32.advice and training. Our Middle East correspondent
:17:33. > :17:35.Orla Guerin has sent this report It does contain some
:17:36. > :17:42.distressing images. The ancient city of Sanaa,
:17:43. > :17:45.cradled by mountains, where a year of war has
:17:46. > :17:50.cast a long shadow. This is ten-month-old Marwan,
:17:51. > :17:55.weakened by hunger. It's long been a threat
:17:56. > :17:58.to Yemen's children, but the United Nations says the risk
:17:59. > :18:02.of severe malnutrition has doubled And the threat of famine now looms
:18:03. > :18:14.over half the country. Here in the capital, the queue for
:18:15. > :18:18.aid on the World Food Programme. Prices have soared because
:18:19. > :18:20.of a Saudi blockade, a choke hold on a country that
:18:21. > :18:24.imports 90% of its food. The temperature is rising
:18:25. > :18:29.here and tempers are fraying. What people get when they come
:18:30. > :18:31.here is a food voucher. It's supposed to be enough to feed
:18:32. > :18:34.a family for a month, but many here are telling us
:18:35. > :18:38.they need a lot more help. One woman has just said
:18:39. > :18:40.she and her family, including her children,
:18:41. > :18:45.are living on tea and bread. And then there's this,
:18:46. > :18:49.the impact on Yemen's schools. More than 1000 are reported to have
:18:50. > :18:52.been damaged or destroyed The principal of this school tells
:18:53. > :19:00.us it was hit three times Half the classrooms were demolished,
:19:01. > :19:07.but no pupils were present The teachers carry
:19:08. > :19:15.on as best they can. But these ten-year-olds have already
:19:16. > :19:19.learned hard lessons "I'm scared they'll target
:19:20. > :19:30.our house," he says, "and our friends' houses,
:19:31. > :19:36.and the whole village." Even before the bombing
:19:37. > :19:39.began, Yemen was the Arab Some here believe it has been
:19:40. > :19:45.set back by decades. The United Nations says this
:19:46. > :19:47.is a forgotten conflict, partly because Yemenis can't
:19:48. > :19:53.easily flee to Europe. There has been precious little
:19:54. > :19:56.attention for victims An air strike hit his neighbourhood
:19:57. > :20:07.as he slept. "There was a burst of fire
:20:08. > :20:11.and I started screaming," he says. "My grandfather was killed,
:20:12. > :20:15.and two of my uncles. "By God's will, we will soon get
:20:16. > :20:22.revenge on the enemy." More peace talks are coming,
:20:23. > :20:26.but too late for Mohammed. He will carry the terrible scars
:20:27. > :20:29.of this war for President Jacob Zuma of South Africa
:20:30. > :20:41.has said he will abide by the ruling of the country's highest court
:20:42. > :20:44.that he should pay back some of the ?15 million of taxpayers'
:20:45. > :20:46.money that was spent He's been under intense
:20:47. > :20:50.pressure to step down after the court found he'd
:20:51. > :20:54.breached the constitution. Despite accepting the court's
:20:55. > :20:56.ruling, it's unclear how much money Sarah Young, a British crew member
:20:57. > :21:04.in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race,
:21:05. > :21:06.has died in an accident. The 40-year-old was washed
:21:07. > :21:09.into the sea by a wave as she tended to the mainsail aboard
:21:10. > :21:13.the IchorCoal boat. Organisers have paid tribute,
:21:14. > :21:15.saying she was an integral part The British man who posed
:21:16. > :21:23.for a photo next to a plane hijacker who was wearing
:21:24. > :21:24.a suspected suicide belt has been explaining why
:21:25. > :21:27.he did what he did. Ben Innes was one of the passengers
:21:28. > :21:31.onboard an Egypt Air flight He told the BBC he wanted to take
:21:32. > :21:37.a closer look at the belt to see if it was fake or real,
:21:38. > :21:40.and that he had no regrets, This is the image that
:21:41. > :21:46.shocked Ben Innes to fame, as the picture he hashtagged
:21:47. > :21:48."best selfie ever" went Beside him Seif Eldin Mustafa,
:21:49. > :21:57.wearing what at the time When he approached the hijacker,
:21:58. > :22:02.six others were still being held hostage, prompting
:22:03. > :22:06.criticism from national newspapers. But he says asking for a picture
:22:07. > :22:10.was his attempt to influence a tense I wanted him to understand
:22:11. > :22:17.I wasn't a threat. I also wanted a closer
:22:18. > :22:20.look at this bomb. I have no expertise
:22:21. > :22:23.in that field but there might have been a tell-tale sign
:22:24. > :22:26.it was fake, or real. I also just thought,
:22:27. > :22:29.if the worst comes to the worst, I want my friends and family
:22:30. > :22:33.to know I died how I lived, What you say to some security
:22:34. > :22:42.specialists who say this was more sensible and you were putting other
:22:43. > :22:44.passengers who were still held All these experts
:22:45. > :22:54.and specialists, and also I say to all the keyboard
:22:55. > :22:57.warriors out there who have an opinion on the
:22:58. > :22:59.matter, that was the Those are the actions
:23:00. > :23:02.I took, and I in no way I have no blemishes upon my
:23:03. > :23:06.conscience about the actions I would do the exact same
:23:07. > :23:10.thing, the exact same Ben and everyone else on board
:23:11. > :23:18.the flight emerged safely He says the ordeal has not
:23:19. > :23:22.changed his attitude to flying, Police have praised a group
:23:23. > :23:32.of children who helped them As a police helicopter
:23:33. > :23:38.was trying to locate the men, the friends, who were out
:23:39. > :23:40.on an Easter egg hunt, formed an arrow on the ground
:23:41. > :23:43.showing the pilot which direction England's cricketers go
:23:44. > :23:49.into their T20 final against the West Indies
:23:50. > :23:51.in India this weekend finding themselves unlikely
:23:52. > :23:56.celebrities with local cricket fans. With the hosts beaten
:23:57. > :23:58.in the semi-finals, England's players have found their
:23:59. > :24:00.popularity on the rise, Inside three weeks in India,
:24:01. > :24:08.England's cricketers have travelled from world irrelevance
:24:09. > :24:12.to world finalists. Now, in a country where cricketers
:24:13. > :24:16.really matter, they suddenly have Jason Roy is very
:24:17. > :24:30.good, good chaser. Obviously we want to finish
:24:31. > :24:49.with a win in the final. The guys have been gaining
:24:50. > :24:51.confidence from personal performances and other people's
:24:52. > :24:53.performances within the team. Right now, Kolkata is a city
:24:54. > :25:03.processing a tragedy. The sudden collapse of a flyover
:25:04. > :25:06.here and the loss of life has naturally provoked
:25:07. > :25:08.grief and resentment. In these circumstances,
:25:09. > :25:10.it's often the role of cricket India's semifinal defeat came
:25:11. > :25:19.against cricket's West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo
:25:20. > :25:28.has been leading the dance routine which has accompanied their route
:25:29. > :25:31.to the final, and he wants everyone Possibly, the President
:25:32. > :25:40.has been busy. At the start of this tournament,
:25:41. > :25:43.England lost to West Indies. Win the trophy, and they might just
:25:44. > :25:45.be as famous back home Well, it's a half-century
:25:46. > :25:56.since England's last That's all from us. Now it's time
:25:57. > :26:01.for the news where you are.