08/05/2016 BBC News at Ten

Two former intelligence chiefs say Britain's security could be

The ex-heads of MI6 and MI5 say intelligence sharing could be

We would not be able to take part in the decisions that frame the sharing

of data which is a crucial part of counterterrorism and countless other

work that we do these days. We have by far the best and intelligence

services in Europe so there is no reason we could not negotiate a

perfectly satisfactory agreement if we leave.

We'll be looking at the debate on security and the EU ahead

of a speech tomorrow by the Prime Minister.

Canada's wildfires continue to rage but cooler temperatures are raising

hopes of bringing them under control.

We report from North Korea as Kim Jong-un addresses a rare

Ahead of the opening of the Invictus Games in Florida,

Prince Harry on his public role and his private life.

A good night for the BBC at the television BAFTAs.

Two former heads of Britain's intelligence and security services

have said the UK's ability to protect itself could be

undermined by a vote to leave the European Union.

Sir John Sawers, who stepped down as the head of MI6 in 2014,

and Lord Evans, who led its domestic counterpart MI5 until three years

ago, say a British exit could damage intelligence sharing and destabilise

But the Vote Leave campaign says the UK would be safer

Here's our security correspondent Frank Gardner.

Out of the shadows and into the debate,

two top former intelligence chiefs said today that Britain

Jonathan Evans ran MI5, John Sawers ran MI6,

They say sharing datasets on terror suspects between EU

If Britain left, it would receive less data.

The former MI6 spy chief said Britain could no longer shape

the debate on balancing privacy with security.

We have built the structures over the last 30 or 40 years.

And we in Britain have played an important role,

in making sure the security dimension is properly considered

and integrated into the EU decisions that are taken.

If we walk away from it, we will lose a lot of those gains.

But others say cross-border co-operation would continue,

EU governments would still feel morally obliged to pass

on intelligence that could save lives, and they need

Europe's borders and EU laws are being quoted by both

The two former spy chiefs say worries over border controls

are exaggerated as the UK is not part of the Schengen

And that the European Arrest Warrant has led to over 5000

people being extradited to European countries.

But another former MI6 chief, Sir Richard Dearlove,

says Brexit would give Britain greater control over migrants coming

Today a previous Home Secretary welcomed the chance to be rid

of the European Court of Justice, which hands down rulings on EU law.

The European Court of Justice interferes in all sorts of ways

It's even considering at the moment a case involving the surveillance

agreements that we recently put in place in this country

which the Home Secretary said are absolutely critical

to protect our people and to make this country safe.

The former MI6 and MI5 chiefs say Europe's long period of postwar

stability would be in jeopardy if a Brexit led to

Vote Leave say Britain's security is hitched to Nato, not the EU.

The people who work in this building, MI6, and their colleagues

down the river at MI5, have been careful not to get

drawn into the public debate on the EU referendum.

But Sir John Sawers and Lord Evans both left secret intelligence

in the last three years, so they are free

And the intervention they have made today makes them probably the most

authoritative voices so far in the world of intelligence

to express their opinions on whether Britain is safer

When you have prominent people from the intelligence apparatus

talking about Brexit, it is important and significant.

But, equally, there are a lot of people who have served

in intelligence and police who have said it will have no

Both men insist their views are independent of Downing Street,

but what they have said today will undoubtedly be

welcomed by David Cameron and the Remain camp.

One of the leading campaigners for Britain to leave

the European Union, the Justice Secretary, Michael Gove,

has confirmed that he also wants the UK to leave the single market.

He said a post-Brexit UK should negotiate access to the market,

But the Chancellor, George Osborne said leaving the single market

Our political correspondent, Vicki Young, reports.

Britain's economy and our prosperity are at the heart of the argument

over whether we should stay in the EU.

Across manufacturing, retail and financial services,

how we trade with other countries has an impact on jobs and prices.

For those making the case to leave, there's one very important question.

Do you want us to stay inside the single market, yes or no?

We should have access to the single market,

but we should not be governed by the rules the European Court

of Justice imposes on us, which cost business and restrict freedom.

This is how the single market works at the moment.

It allows goods, services and money to be bought and sold freely

around the European Union, but there are rules which come alongside that.

Free movement is one of them, which is why people can come

Remain campaigners think Michael Gove's words

We have just had the Leave Campaign admit this morning that Britain

the largest free trade area in the world.

That would be catastrophic for people's jobs,

and their incomes and their livelihoods.

Some people might think wrecking the economy is a price worth paying,

But Lance Foreman, who runs a salmon smoking firm in East London,

says small businesses are weighed down by EU red tape.

Last year, we had to spend thousands of pounds printing new packaging

so that a packet of smoked salmon could have a warning sign

printed on the back which said "Contains fish".

Just a huge, huge waste of unnecessary expenditure.

Leading business figures, though, insist the existing arrangements

we have with the EU are crucial to the UK economy.

It is a cloud cuckoo land world to imagine we would be able

to have the same trade deals with the European Union having left

that the Vote Leave campaign is making.

Trade deals are very difficult to do.

And the Government has warned that it is not just businesses

that will suffer from a British exit.

The Chancellor has said house prices will fall

causing a significant shock to the housing market.

Let's join Vicki now live from Westminster.

And now that last week's elections are over, the EU referendum will be

That's right and tomorrow we will hear the Prime Minister move on to a

new stage come away from the economic arguments and making what

we are told is a patriotic speech, the case for staying in. Looking at

history and talking about Churchill saying it shows us that we need to

be a part of the EU because it keeps us safe and we have to have an

influence rather than being dictated to. On the other Saab -- aside the

argument, Boris Johnson will rejoin the fray and I'm told he will make

the liberal case for leaving, saying the risk of staying -- is staying in

because there has been no reform. Mr Johnson will be unleashed on the

nature and later in the week taking part in a tour visiting towns and

cities around the country. Those who want to leave says he have a more

positive reaction from the public than any other politician and they

want to use that to their advantage in the coming weeks. Thank you.

The authorities in Canada have said tonight that a huge

wildfire is spreading less quickly than feared.

However, it is still expected to be the most costly natural disaster

80,000 people have already been evacuated from the town

of Fort McMurray, many fleeing south to Edmonton.

Our correspondent Laura Bicker has the latest from the affected area.

After the panic and the fear, there is quiet in Fort McMurray,

They are still fighting to save what they can,

and they may have finally reached a turning point, but it is taking

I don't consider myself a hero. But I've met more heroes in this

experience than I've ever thought existed. Sorry. Nature is finally

lending at hand and cooler weather conditions are beginning to help but

strong winds are fanning the flames towards the neighbouring province of

Saskatchewan and officials believe this wildfire could burn for weeks

to come. We are about 20 kilometres from the edge of Fort McMurray on

day eight after these fires started and still they are battling the

flames. They say they need prolonged rainfall but that is something they

have not had here for over two months. The last evacuees had been

airlifted from the city with the help of the Army. This strategy has

been one of containment as conditions made it too difficult to

control. 80,000 people had to abandon their homes. The mass

evacuation but the main roads and two people were killed in a car

accident as they fled. Our hearts go out to their families. This is

Mother's Day and I'm hoping in this crisis to spend a few minutes with

my own children today. That not all of us can do that is definitely an

awful tragedy. So many have lost so much, this is likely to be the most

expensive natural disaster in Canadian history and insured losses

alone will be billions of dollars. For those who once lived here, they

must be asking how and when they will ever get a chance to rebuild.

Laura Bicker, BBC News, Fort McMurray.

Police and protestors have clashed outside the Greek parliament,

as MPs vote on controversial new austerity measures.

Thousands demonstrated peacefully but some threw petrol bombs

and other objects at officers, who responded with tear gas.

Eurozone finance ministers are due to meet tomorrow

to try to restart stalled talks on Greece's debt repayments.

Police are investigating the death of a soldier in Powys.

The man, who has not been identified, was found injured

and unconscious on a street in Brecon at around 1

The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that he was a member

A 23-year-old has been arrested and is being held in custody

The new Mayor of London, Labour's Sadiq Khan,

has warned that his party can win elections only if it reaches

He says it's vital for Labour to be what he called a "big tent",

and emphasised its aim should be to improve people's lives.

Our political correspondent, Eleanor Garnier, is at

After his decisive victory, how will Sadiq Khan use his

It was a significant victory. Sadiq Khan took the job of London Mayor

and with it city hall lit up in yellow, from the Conservatives,

winning more than a million votes. Arguably he now has a bigger

personal mandate than his party leader. Labour suffered historic

losses in Scotland last week and it failed to make progress in the local

elections across England. Fresh from his victory and speaking at a

Holocaust Remembrance Day event, said Khan offered his colleagues

some advice. What is important for

the Labour Party is to get back We can only improve people's lives

and improve our society by being in office and that means

winning elections, winning Mayoral elections,

winning general elections. The Labour movement has improved

people's lives when we have been in government and I'm hoping

we speak to more and more people who didn't vote Labour last time

to persuade them to lend us their votes so we can be again

a Labour government. These remarks are being seen as a

clear message to the party's leader that they cannot rely on the core

vote alone to win that there was also a warning to Jeremy Corbyn's

critics to resist focusing on internal party problems. All sides

in this know they need to present a united party but the difficulty is

that Labour MPs are divided on key issues so finding that agreement and

presenting that unity is not easy. Thank you.

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has told a gathering

of his country's political and military elite that its nuclear

weapons will not be used for a first strike.

He was addressing a rare meeting of the Workers Party Congress,

which has taken place for the first time in 36 years and

which he is thought to be using to consolidate his power.

From Pyongyang here's our correspondent John Sudworth.

This is the North Korea on display to foreign journalists.

The reality, in a country with chronic food shortages,

And so, too, with the Workers' Party congress, an event

in which propaganda is the primary purpose.

For domestic audiences, it's a show of strength.

For the outside world, though, a different message.

"We won't use our nuclear weapons unless we are attacked first",

the supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, told the delegates.

Outside the congress, the media bandwagon

We are taken to this show home, a picture of comfort far removed

And to a model factory, a symbol of industrial

self-sufficiency at odds with the antiquated

Of course, North Koreans know the reality, so they are

Some countries have nuclear weapons and they threaten us.

So we must have nuclear weapons and develop it

North Korea has long been a master of nuclear brinkmanship.

The leadership openly says it has learnt the lessons of other rogue

For the end of this party congress, in the city behind me,

we have heard the sound of thousands of people preparing to celebrate

what is seen as the defining victory, the simple fact of regime

survival, underwritten by a nuclear weapons programme.

As those preparations continue tonight, there are reports that

North Korea's fifth nuclear test may be imminent.

John Sudworth, BBC News, Pyongyang.

To football and Sportscene follows this programme in Scotland

so if you don't want to know what happened in the Scottish

Celtic have been crowned Champions after victory over

It's their fifth title in a row and they've lost just three

Prince Harry is in Florida for the start the Invictus Games,

the tournament for injured service personal and veterans

Ahead of the opening ceremony the prince has been speaking

to the BBC about his involvement and about what he called

"unnecessary" media intrusion into his private life.

Let's join our correspondent Aleem Maqbool in Orlando.

Excitement is building here, the hope of Disney World which is right

next door to where these games are taking place. All of these people

are streaming in for the opening ceremony of the games which will

happen in just a couple of hours, attended not just by Prince Harry

but Michelle Obama as well. Those looking forward to this the most are

those taking part, more than 500 extraordinary athletes from 14

countries and we had a chance to meet some of them.

A very Disney welcome for competitors at the Invictus Games,

an event for injured or sick members of armed forces from Britain

It is all the vision of Prince Harry, who has been

spending time with athletes as they prepare for competition.

He created the first games in 2014, after wanting to do

something for those he had served with in his own time in the Army.

Josh from Salisbury has hopes of a gold medal.

He lost both legs and an arm after stepping on an explosive

In London in 2014, we thought it was just going to be a big sports

day and the public would just feel sorry for injured soldiers and,

I will give you a big hug or something.

But the level of competitiveness was great, and you come to a place

We all know the Americans like to put on a show, don't they?

Well, as happy an event as this is, the reminders of the costs of war

are all around, and Invictus isn't just about veterans with physical

injuries, but those with psychological trauma as well.

American Tino suffered PTSD after several tours in Iraq.

It is clear what he feels Prince Harry has done for him.

It gives me the drive, gives me ambition to still accomplish things,

But Prince Harry himself says he is frustrated his private life,

not his charity work, is still what some people are interested in.

There is this sort of incessant need to find out every detail about

It's unnecessary, I hope that people get to see me here in this Invictus

role, cracking on with the guys and mucking in and having a good

time with them, and this what is I enjoy doing.

But the the private life has to be private.

For the next five days, Prince Harry says he hopes

it is the remarkable athletes here who are the focus.

The BBC has had a successful night at the TV Baftas in London tonight,

winning a host of awards including Best Entertainment Show

for Strictly Come Dancing and Best Drama for Wolf Hall.

Some winners, including Wolf Hall's director Peter Kosminsky,

The BBC has had a successful night at the TV Baftas in London tonight,

warned the government against interfering with public

service broadcasting, ahead of this week's White Paper

Here's our Entertainment Correspondent, Lizo Mzimba.

Some of the biggest stars of the small screen on the red carpet for

tonight 's awards. The night's big winner was Wolf Hall, taking best

drama and best actor. Its director, and understanding ovation, speaking

out about what he sees as government attacks on the Corporation. In many

ways, our broadcasting, the BBC and Channel 4, which they are also

attempting to eviscerate, is the envy of the world and we should

stand up and fight for it, not let it go by default. And if we don't,

blink and it will be gone. Thank you. Culture Secretary John

Whittingdale has said he had as a portable the BBC but has expressed

concerns about its scale and scope. -- he is a supporter. And the BAFTA

goes to Peter Kay. The BBC was dominant, winning over half of the

prizes. Two for Peter Kay's Kashi. The BBC took twice as many BAFTAs as

its nearest rival, Channel 4. There were wins for popular shows like the

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice and also for less widely seen

programmes like BBC Three drama, Don't Take My Baby. A special award

went to Sir Lenny Henry are recognising his contribution to

television. Overall the BBC will be hoping that with its future coming

under discussion in the near future, tonight large haul of award will

serve as a timely reminder to the public and politicians about the

strength of its output. You can seek more on all of today's

stories and a first look at tomorrow's papers on the BBC News

Channel.