04/05/2016 BBC News at Ten

Britain will now accept unaccompanied child refugees

Thousands of children have made it to Europe without their parents -

it's not yet clear how many will be allowed into the UK.

We are going to do more for children who are already

We've been to Calais to talk to some of the children surviving

on their own in the camp known as The Jungle.

We'll be asking what prompted the government's climbdown.

Triumphant Trump as his last rival quits the Republican race -

he's now the party's only candidate for the White House.

Jailed - the fraudsters who conned pensioners out of a million pounds.

A massive wildfire in Canada - an entire city's evacuated as flames

Gareth Barrett is on-site and he has a lot to pick out and he doesn't

need them! And a crucial match

for Manchester City as they take on Real Madrid and battle

it out for a place in Coming up in Sportsday

on BBC News... Consequences

for Chelsea and Tottenham. They are both charged after this

brawl at their draw on Monday, which handed Leicester

the league title. Britain is to open its doors

to unaccompanied children who've fled the conflict in Syria and made

it to Europe. The decision is a major shift

in government policy. Until now, ministers had insisted

that such a move would simply encourage more refugees

to try to reach Europe. But David Cameorn has been under

pressure to change his mind and was facing a Commons defeat

on the issue next week. The government will now hold talks

with councils to see how many Our political editor,

Laura Kuenssberg, reports. If child refugees on their own make

it to Europe's shores, The government has always said it's

best if they never even make Help near their homes

in the Middle East and Africa But for months he has rejected calls

to take thousands of children We are already taking child migrants

in Europe with a direct family connection to the UK

and we will speed that up. I'm also talking to

Save The Children to see what we can do more,

particularly with children who came here before the EU-Turkey

deal was signed. But that was a victory for those

who have been pushing Labour, Tories, Lib Dems,

campaigners, with refugees here in Greece today who even last

week, with this blistering Stop with his attitude to lone child

refugees, putting this house We think we help them by taking them

from the refugee camps, taking them from Lebanon,

taking them from Jordan, taking them when they

come to this country. That what we're doing

and we have a proud record Ministers already promised to take

23,000 refugees from the region For the first time now the door

will open to unaccompanied child refugees already in Greece,

Italy and France who don't have Final details of the plans

are still to be agreed In the long-term, no one

in the nooks and crannies of Westminster can say how many

children will come but in the short term, David Cameron has avoided

a vote on the issue next week. In recent weeks MPs in here have

been trying to persuade ministers Now today it is ministers

trying to convince MPs I'm told that in the last 36 hours

there have been five different versions of the plan but it

seems that it's enough to stop the government

being beaten next week. Like all these things,

waiting to see the detail that follows after the local

elections on Thursday. But as it stands, yes,

we will be offering sanctuary to children refugees in Europe that

came before the new Turkey deal. The councils that will have to find

places for the children are under huge pressure to look after refugees

who have already made The resources are not there yet

to support those young people who have already made

the journey to the UK, including very large numbers we have

seen going into the care So we need to ensure

that there is money so councils are not faced with a choice

between closing libraries or funding care for vulnerable elderly people

and supporting refugee children. Our Parliament is not just hundreds

of miles from these scenes but a whole world away but power

play in Westminster just might make a difference

to some of what you see. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC

News, Westminster. Many of those child refugees find

themselves on their own in the camp in Calais often

referred to as The Jungle. Aid workers say that some are abused

and exploited by traffickers. Our chief international

correspondent, Lyse Doucet, has been talking to

teenagers hoping to rebuild Hours after first light on a cold

bleak morning in Calais. Boys straggle back to

the shantytown to sleep. It has been another long night,

another night of trying to make it to Britain,

illegally, and failing. So it is another day in the squalid

camp they call The Jungle. It is a hard life for grown-ups

fleeing conflict and hardship. Imagine what it's like for

children, on their own. But the Afghan boys at this centre

say they will not stop until they reach family

and a new future in Britain. TRANSLATION: Last night

I jumped into a lorry. By the time they let me go

it was midnight. I didn't know the way

and was very scared. This shack is home for

16-year-old Hassan. He fled Syria on his

own six months ago. Today his older neighbour is making

a window to let in sunlight, At night, when you are in your tent,

what do you dream about? I dream, Hassan says,

of getting to Britain to be Hassan is trying to get

in through existing EU rules. He is being helped

by a British charity. Are you worried it is going

to create an incentive for more families to send children

on these perilous journeys? We say that the British government

has a moral and legal obligation I see and work with children every

day who not only struggle under the pressures of living alone

in a foreign continent, but who are also at risk of very

real dangers with sexual exploitation on the one hand

and human traffickers on the other. As we were leaving Calais,

Hassan gets news. He can go to Britain

and apply for asylum. The question now,

how many will follow? Lyse Doucet, BBC News,

Calais. Our political editor,

Laura Kuenssberg, is in Westminster. The government has been under a lot

of pressure for some time so why have they made this decision now?

You are right, that clash between morality and political practicality

has been running around this square mile since September at least with

real concerns about sending out a message that would encourage more

refugees and migrants to come to Britain, smashing up against the

kind of personal stories we have just heard. As ever, what has

changed is the politics. Opposition from the Scott Wheeldon -- Scottish

National party, the Lib Dems and Labour and crucially some Tory

rebels was amassing so much that it looked almost certain that the

government would have been humiliated into making this

climb-down at the beginning of next week. Hey presto, at a sensitive

political time, the pie minister has had a change of heart. We are

probably talking in the hundreds or perhaps one or 2000 child refugees

on their own coming to the UK but, as with much of what we heard today,

there is little detail set in stone. There is no guarantee on final

numbers, no deadline has been set by when this has to happen. After the

kind of intense campaigning on this issue we have seen recently, those

are details that the government is going to have to get right to avoid

further opposition. Laura Kuenssberg, thank you.

Just a few months ago Donald Trump was seen as a no-hoper

in the contest to become the Republican Party's candidate

to run for President of the United States.

Today - after his closest rival pulled out of the race -

When that happens, the property billionaire will be the first

nominee in more than 60 years to aim for the White House

When that happens, the property billionaire will be the first

nominee in more than 60 years to aim for the White House

without having had any previous experience of elected office.

Our North America correspondent, Nick Bryant, has more.

When Donald Trump launched his campaign for the presidency,

When that happens, the property billionaire will be the first

When Donald Trump launched his campaign for the presidency,

he was written off as a giant ego with a minuscule chance.

But victory in Indiana has delivered the knockout blow,

And he celebrated at Trump Tower, the New York skyscraper

Never have been through anything like this, but it's a beautiful

thing to watch and a beautiful thing to behold.

Usually so boastful, usually so outspoken,

the Trump who appeared last night was more restrained,

more presidential, but his core message stayed the same.

You will be so proud of this country very, very soon.

His hostile takeover of the Republican Party is complete.

Ted Cruz, an evangelical Christian, discovered this contest wasn't

about faith, but fears about immigration and terrorism

With a heavy heart, we are suspending our campaign.

To understand Trump's extraordinary success,

just visit rural Pennsylvania, a region once described as America's

industrial heartland, that's come to be

Closed steel mills now resemble archaeological sites,

remnants of a bygone world, landmarks to the country's

Five million blue-collar jobs have disappeared since the turn

In its day, this was the Silicon Valley of the world.

Bill used to work at this mill and witnessed how automation

and foreign competition forced its closure.

Everybody feels things are stacked against the working man.

I came out of high school, you could get a job in the mill,

make some good money, you could get some good benefits,

you could raise your family and do pretty well.

Jobs like that are hard to come by, if not impossible.

Some mills remain operational, but for blue-collar workers,

Of the 2.9 million good jobs since the recession,

No wonder people like Dave Morgan feel they have been left behind.

I mean, with no jobs to go to, it's a sad state of affairs.

Once prosperous manufacturing towns have become places of decline

and decay, as if wrecked by the whirlwind of globalisation.

Many young people have left, communities have been officially

Visiting these communities, it is obvious why so many people

have lost faith in the American economic and political system

and also the American dream, that great animating idea

about opportunity and social mobility.

It helps explain much of the anger, much of the alienation in this

Donald Trump has given voice to the politics of decline.

But it will surely take more than sloganeering,

to carry him all the way to the White House.

Despite pulling off one of the most extraordinary feats in American

political history, the polls repeatedly suggest that Donald Trump

is the most unpopular presidential candidate of modern times and what

makes this election so intriguing is that the same polls show that the

most unpopular Democratic presidential candidate of the last

30 years is Hillary Clinton. It is going to be a blockbuster of a

campaign. Eight men, who conned

dozens of pensioners out of more than ?1 million,

have been jailed for The gang posed as police officers

and persuaded their victims to withdraw their cash

and hand it over. Some of the money ended up

being used by British men, thought to be linked to so-called

Islamic State. Our home affairs correspondent,

June Kelly, reports. The victims of this

fraud lived in areas More than ?1 million was stolen

from 140 pensioners. The gang would phone

an elderly person... And, pretending to be police

officers, tell them their bank They instructed their victims to go

to their banks and move Hello there, I'm the courier,

here to pick up. The pensioners then

entrusted their savings In some cases, delivering the cash

straight into their hands. One of the victims was

Elizabeth Curtis, who is 73. She doesn't want her face shown

but she does want to talk about what the scammers

have done to her. She was robbed of her life

savings of ?130,000. When I first learned that

I was scammed, I thought, can I live with myself

for having lost so much money? And the thought of suicide did pass

through my mind. But then I realised

it wasn't the answer. Today at the Old Bailey eight men

have been sentenced for the fraud. One, Nathan Fagan-Gayle,

was a former contestant He had ?20,000 of Elizabeth Curtis's

money and went on a spending spree. Others, like the gang leader,

Makhzumi Abukar, have links to individuals who have

left the UK for Syria. More than half of Elizabeth Curtis's

money went into the accounts of two men, Ahmed Ali

and Abraham Ghebrezadik, Ghebrezadik's Muslim name recently

featured on a membership list The police investigation

was led by counterterrorism Some of that money has been used

to facilitate travel to some individuals who have gone

out to Syria. But the rest of that money has

disappeared and that is part of the challenge in not just tracing

the money but trying to get There is no evidence that

Elizabeth Curtis's savings were used by IS but she is anxious

that they might have been. I was very upset to think that my

money was being used for terrorism. That is something I have got

to live with. The terrorists training

and coming back to Europe, blowing people up and that

sort of thing, killing The banks have reimbursed

about a third of what Like the other victims, she is now

fighting to try to recover The European Commission has formally

recommended that most EU governments ease some visa requirements

for travellers from Turkey - a country with nearly

79 million people. The proposal, which relies on Ankara

implementing a series of reforms and improving human rights,

is part of a controversial deal which has cut the number

of migrants coming to Europe. EU leaders are still

to give their backing to the visa relaxation,

which could come into force The United States says an agreement

has been reached with Russia to extend the truce in Syria

to include the embattled The State Department said

the agreement went into effect at midnight local time,

and already there has been a marked Our World Affairs Editor,

John Simpson, joins airbase near Latakia

in the north of Syria. Is this going to bring peace to

Aleppo? Well, there's a chance that it will bring peace for 48 hours.

And maybe beyond that. Let's hope so. But really I think this is

mostly because the Americans and the Russians felt it was impossible to

carry on with things like those dreadful attacks on hospitals that

we saw in Aleppo. But that city is a kind of trapped nerve of American

and Russian relations. It is the place, in the whole world, where

they are most in conflict because the Russians support President

al-Assad in his attempt to recapture the whole city, and the Americans

support the rebels there. And so there's this very bitter

relationship between them. At the same time, you have to remember that

the American and Russian relationship is a global one and

they have to get on to a slightly better relationship. I think this is

the one place where it can happen. But, you know, we are not looking at

a solution to what's happening in Aleppo, we are just looking at

putting it in the freezer for, well, two days, three days, or whatever,

and in the longer term, nothing can be sorted out until either President

al-Assad wins, which is more likely, or the rebels win, which is, I have

to say, less likely. John Simpson, thank you.

On the border between Gaza and Israel, there's been the worst

outbreak of violence since the summer war two years ago.

Israel has been using tanks and airstrikes.

Militants in Gaza have responded with mortar fire.

Since last October, there's been a wave of violent Palestinian

attacks on Israeli citizens - including stabbings and bombs.

Our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, reports from Jerusalem.

This is a training exercise, based on a real incident.

Israelis in the occupied West Bank were ambushed by Palestinians.

These are Israeli self-defence experts.

They believe that a second's hesitation before fighting

After each attack, more and more Israelis ask them for lessons.

For Israelis, old nightmares seem to be returning, especially

when a bus was blown up in Jerusalem last month.

Since the attack, a 15-year-old Israeli schoolgirl, Eden Dadon,

has been treated here for severe burns.

She waited with her elder daughter as doctors woke Eden

TRANSLATION: Not only did I have to save myself,

I had to do it at the speed of light, even though

Do you think you can live peacefully with the Palestinians?

As far as I can see, living with them in peace

What's been happening shows that they don't want peace.

The bus bomber, Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, 19, died

His family in Bethlehem have a long record of opposition,

But not angry enough to want to kill.

He think that they are our occupation, they took

They always do many things to make us angry.

We know every people want to take a freedom,

In 1967, Israel captured the old city of Jerusalem

and the other territories the Palestinians now want for a state.

For almost 50 years, the consequences of the 1967 war

Palestinians say violence from their side is a reaction

The Israeli government says the real problem is that Palestinians

Now, what's concerning for the future about the current violence

On both sides of the wall, there's cynicism at best,

Eventually, the two sides have a choice -

perpetual conflict, or they will have to sit down

Closest to perpetual conflict is Hebron, holy to Muslims

and Jews, home to more than 150,000 Palestinians.

The Israeli Army protects around 800 Jewish settlers in the city centre.

Palestinians are banned from so-called sterile roads

Thousands of them have been forced to abandon homes and businesses.

Achiya Schatz served here in an Israeli undercover

Now he campaigns against the occupation.

We need to understand that if we do want to have settlers living here,

it's going to be costing us lives of soldiers,

it's going to be costing us money, it will cost us moral standards

because you need to have this kind of road clear.

We took their life, their jobs, their ability to live in dignity.

There are no peace talks, no real hope, and that means

When that happens, the result is always more bloodshed.

Huge wildfires are sweeping across the Canadian

An entire city has been evacuated - forcing almost 90 thousand people

Officials say whole neighbourhoods have been destroyed.

Our North America Correspondent James Cook is in the province that

has seen the biggest evacuation in its history.

Tens of thousands of people forced to leave their homes in minutes.

Behind them, Fort McMurray, a ghostly sight, covered in smoke,

The fire jumped the river and we had basically two minutes to get home,

They didn't even let us take our things when we asked them,

Reports from the city are sketchy, rumours are rife.

But there has been significant damage.

In one neighbourhood, four out of every five homes

Even those hardened to tragedy are finding this tough.

It's been the worst day of my career.

The community's going to be devastated.

This is going to go on, this is going to take us

As they ran, some residents filmed, documenting their escape

The blaze, burning since Sunday, had looked to be coming under control

The flames leapt roads, complicating the evacuation.

Fort McMurray, being evacuated, has been extremely difficult, not

just for the province and officials, but for the folks who live there.

And with high temperatures, low humidity and strong winds,

the danger is far from over in this city of fire.

James Cook, BBC News, Alberta Province, in Canada.

Tomorrow, millions of people across the UK will be

Not only in the Scottish Parliament, and the devolved assemblies in Wales

and Northern Ireland, but also in the local council

and mayoral elections in London and other cities.

Here's Jeremy Vine with a look at the political landscape.

Let us look first at the lay of the land, those 124 English

councils where councillors are being elected on Thursday.

We might point out for example Exeter, Labour red,

they are in control, way outside their natural territory,

And also here, Castle Point in Essex, it's Ukip

versus the Conservatives, a fascinating battle.

Plus this splodge of Liberal Democrat orange,

Let's go back to 2008 and have a look at the total number

And you see here the Conservatives, almost double the number

But Labour then start to recover and it is the Lib Dems

being punished, it seems, for the Coalition Government until,

by the end of our graph, almost to the present day,

here we have Labour, almost equal with the Conservatives

But the percentages tell a more complicated story.

Have a look at this terrible result for Gordon Brown's party, in third

But there was then a kind of recovery under Ed Miliband.

2012 was the last year these council seats were fought and

They will have to do as well as 38% just not to lose seats on Thursday.

Similarly, the Conservatives only have to improve on 31%

Come to the end of the graph, and we see the General Election year.

They're ahead of the Liberal Democrats on 13%.

It is not just about councillors on Thursday,

Let's have a look at the four Mayoral contests in England.

We have Salford, Liverpool, Bristol and the capital

This was the map in 2012 when Boris Johnson was elected Mayor

Sadiq Khan, for Labour, stands a great chance of winning.

If he wins in London, will that offset Labour

And there's more about all tomorrow's elections -

including Jeremy Vine's look at the Scottish Parliament

and devolved assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland -

The Duchess of Cambridge came face to face with herself

tonight when she visited an exhibition in London.

She was there to see two portraits of herself,

taken by the British photographer, Josh Olins.

The photos are part of an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Vogue.

They're now on public view in the National Portrait Gallery,

where Kate has been a patron since 2012.

Football, and it's been a big night for Manchester City in the second

leg of their Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid -

the team that's won more European Cups than any other.

Our sports correspondent Joe Wilson is in Madrid.

Think of all that investment from Abu Dhabi, the manoeuvring through

financial fairplay, the effort, the recruitment, what's it all for for

Manchester City? Exactly for this, a noisy night in Madrid with so much

at stake. This opportunity, these opponents. The sad thing for

Manchester City is, they didn't really do themselves justice here

tonight. At the end of the day, at the end of the evening, all they

needed was a goal. There is only one place

where they measure their European It is part of the marketing

at Real Madrid. Come here and you are

taking on the best. But if it is a journey you are

after, think City, Manchester. Many fans here watched them play

in the third tier of I have been asleep

for 15 years, mate! After tonight, it will be

the ultimate dream. Inside the first ten minutes,

Manchester City in luminous kit, Vincent Kompany in agony and unable

to go on. Gareth Bale couldn't score

from there, could he? Still, on the away goals rule,

a score draw would send Bale came close again and now

Ronaldo - who do you think you are, The clock ticking to

88 minutes and still The end of this City dream and,

for the manager, two more games So it seems Mr Trump

is the Republican candidate. Can he unify his party

and can he win? Join me now on BBC Two,

11.00pm in Scotland. Here on BBC One, it's time

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