:00:08. > :00:09.Leaving the EU would make war in Europe more likely
:00:10. > :00:11.says David Cameron, a claim the Leave campaign
:00:12. > :00:21.the issues of peace and stability are seized on by both sides ahead
:00:22. > :00:26.Britain has a fundamental national interest in maintaining common
:00:27. > :00:29.purpose in Europe to avoid future conflict between
:00:30. > :00:38.I don't think the Prime Minister can seriously believe that leaving
:00:39. > :00:40.the EU will trigger war on the European continent.
:00:41. > :00:42.We'll be examining just how effective the EU has
:00:43. > :00:56.now a man is jailed for life after a chance DNA breakthrough.
:00:57. > :00:58.Britain's involvement in the Iraq war,
:00:59. > :01:01.seven years after the inquiry began the Chilcot report will finally
:01:02. > :01:05.Shut out, hundreds of workers who say
:01:06. > :01:08.they were blacklisted by some of Britain's biggest construction
:01:09. > :01:12.And the great ball of China, how they're training up the next
:01:13. > :01:31.generation to dominate world football.
:01:32. > :01:58.Security became the latest battleground today between those
:01:59. > :02:00.campaigning to stay in the European Union,
:02:01. > :02:04.The Prime Minister made, what he called, a "bold,
:02:05. > :02:05.patriotic" case for remaining, saying peace and security
:02:06. > :02:08.could be put at risk, if the UK votes to leave.
:02:09. > :02:10.Boris Johnson, speaking for the Leave campaign,
:02:11. > :02:12.rejected the claim as "preposterous" and said he didn't believe Brexit
:02:13. > :02:15.would cause World War Three to break out on the continent.
:02:16. > :02:19.Here's our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg.
:02:20. > :02:28.Fighting over the flight, the top commanders of the rival campaigns
:02:29. > :02:33.vying to claim the mantle. Subtle it wasn't, the Prime Minister's back
:02:34. > :02:39.drop, a museum that tells the story of so many battles lost and won, to
:02:40. > :02:45.give his gravest warning yet, if you vote to leave the EU, it could be a
:02:46. > :02:49.step towards future wars. The rows of white headstones in lovingly
:02:50. > :02:54.tended Commonwealth War cemeteries stand as silent testament to the
:02:55. > :02:59.price that this country has paid to help to restore peace and order in
:03:00. > :03:03.Europe. Can we be so sure that peace and stability on our continent are
:03:04. > :03:09.assured beyond any shadow of doubt? Is that a risk worth taking? I would
:03:10. > :03:18.never be so rash as to make that assumption. The lesson from history,
:03:19. > :03:22.he claims, whether Spitfires in the skies, or soldiers in the trenches,
:03:23. > :03:30.Britain was proud alone but Europe has been safer united.
:03:31. > :03:38.Is this Prime Minister hoped, and today's leader even quoted the
:03:39. > :03:42.vision of Churchill. Isn't this warning that best alarmist and at
:03:43. > :03:46.worst a bit desperate, especially given that until three months ago
:03:47. > :03:51.you said that you would be willing to lead us out of the union? There
:03:52. > :03:56.is no doubt in my mind, the European Union has helped ring former
:03:57. > :04:00.adversaries together. Until now, the government was using its full force
:04:01. > :04:05.to say that we would be poorer if we left the European Union. The shiny
:04:06. > :04:09.diplomatic cars parked up at the speech today show that the argument
:04:10. > :04:16.over our place in the world is well and truly on. -- has helped bring.
:04:17. > :04:19.To the anger of some, the in campaign circulated a video of
:04:20. > :04:25.veterans testimonies. But that argument was turned on its head by
:04:26. > :04:31.the out campaign's biggest draw. I saw myself the disaster in the
:04:32. > :04:37.Balkans, when the EU was charged and mandated with sorting out the former
:04:38. > :04:41.Yugoslavia. I saw how actually it was Nato and the American led
:04:42. > :04:48.alliance that had to come in and sort it out. It is now the US itself
:04:49. > :04:53.and its anti-democratic tendencies that are a force for instability and
:04:54. > :04:58.alienation. The think David Cameron is telling the truth when he tells
:04:59. > :05:03.voters that leaving Bees you would risk peace on our continent? I do
:05:04. > :05:07.not believe that leading Bees you would cause world War three to break
:05:08. > :05:12.out on the European continent. This side needs plenty of shoe leather to
:05:13. > :05:17.make their arguments, not least as Boris Johnson burst into song in
:05:18. > :05:22.German. LAUGHTER Yes, sung in German, to kill
:05:23. > :05:30.accusations that they are not just backward looking little Englanders.
:05:31. > :05:33.The past does loom over this campaign, the history of this
:05:34. > :05:37.country and the Tory party, who have split time and again over Europe.
:05:38. > :05:41.This is such a big decision about our place in the world, not
:05:42. > :05:45.surprisingly both sides are too tried to take the patriotic high
:05:46. > :05:49.ground. There are conflicts are personal as well as political. This
:05:50. > :05:57.is about war and peace in the Tory party. As the referendum battle
:05:58. > :05:58.really starts to raw, it is hard to see how they will afterwards call a
:05:59. > :06:08.truce. -- roar. STUDIO: Well, both sides drew
:06:09. > :06:10.on history to support arguments over the EU
:06:11. > :06:13.and security today. So just how effective has it been
:06:14. > :06:16.in ensuring peace on the continent? Our Diplomatic Correspondent,
:06:17. > :06:25.James Robbins has this assessment. VOICEOVER: Here we are, London...
:06:26. > :06:30.London, 1945, much of Europe was in ruins after two world wars in 40
:06:31. > :06:35.years, something in relations would win warring states, particularly
:06:36. > :06:39.France and Germany, had to change, Winston George was blunt, his speech
:06:40. > :06:47.in Zurich demanded a united Europe. If we are to form the United States
:06:48. > :06:47.of Europe, or whatever name it may take, we
:06:48. > :06:54.must begin now. Did he mean that Britain was to be part of that?
:06:55. > :07:02.Leading historians profoundly disagree. The first full leave, the
:07:03. > :07:06.second four remain. It is quite clear that he did not expect Britain
:07:07. > :07:12.to be part of this enterprise at all. -- the first for leave, the
:07:13. > :07:18.second for remained. What our history tells us is that for much
:07:19. > :07:21.the part of history, the larger part of history, our affairs have been
:07:22. > :07:25.inextricable from those of the continent, even when we wanted to
:07:26. > :07:31.withdraw, as in the early 20th century, we were drawn back in again
:07:32. > :07:34.and again. By 1957, six Nations, France, Germany and Italy among
:07:35. > :07:39.them, were ready to sign the Treaty of Rome, launching the European
:07:40. > :07:43.economic community, and embrace designed to make another war all but
:07:44. > :07:52.impossible. Britain, the island nation, kept its distance. This is
:07:53. > :07:55.the room... This veteran BBC correspondent witnessed the moment,
:07:56. > :08:00.he was a trainee with Reuters news agency, you're a member 's British
:08:01. > :08:07.detachment, even disdain. Invited as it was not even the story of the
:08:08. > :08:08.day. -- in Reuters. I sense just to see if anything went
:08:09. > :08:11.wrong, I was the youngest member of the team, the fact that I was sent
:08:12. > :08:12.to cover it ago, back in 1957, for the written
:08:13. > :08:20.six member countries, all political
:08:21. > :08:22.roads lead to Rome, and the Treaty, but for
:08:23. > :08:35.Britain, very much in position of an Britain did join eventually in 1973,
:08:36. > :08:40.and peace as range, at least inside the expanding club. -- piece did
:08:41. > :08:42.rain. In the 1990s, on its own, the EU could not prevent
:08:43. > :08:46.or hold wars in former Yugoslavia. --
:08:47. > :08:49.peace. pushing for closer links to hard and
:08:50. > :08:57.too fast. Former Labour Foreign Secretary Lord Owen, one-time
:08:58. > :09:15.enthusiasts, wants Britain to leave the EU now, condemning its record.
:09:16. > :09:19.Peace has been maintained not by EU but by Nato. We took them too far to
:09:20. > :09:23.the boundaries of the Russian Federation. -- to close. The mess we
:09:24. > :09:29.are in over Ukraine is to quite a large extent our own fault. That is
:09:30. > :09:32.not to justify the outrageous annexation of the Crimea or the
:09:33. > :09:39.continued fighting. -- too close. But, the EU, the EU Ukraine
:09:40. > :09:43.agreement was inflammatory. Those views drew heavy return fire today
:09:44. > :09:46.from several parts of Europe, complains that history is being
:09:47. > :09:50.rewritten. It is clearer than ever now that this referendum is about
:09:51. > :10:00.opposing views of the past as well as competing visions of the future.
:10:01. > :10:02.STUDIO: And James Robins is with me now.
:10:03. > :10:05.Two very different takes on the role the EU plays in peace
:10:06. > :10:10.What is really notable is that this argument has opened up Britain's
:10:11. > :10:15.debate the voices from mainland Europe who have previously tried to
:10:16. > :10:19.stay out of the referendum campaign. Explosively, I think. The former
:10:20. > :10:23.prominence of Sweden, Carl Bildt, he has called Boris Johnson an
:10:24. > :10:26.apologist for Russian's president Vladimir Putin, and I can tell you
:10:27. > :10:32.that five former secretary-general of Nato, two of them British, the
:10:33. > :10:35.three others from Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain, have written
:10:36. > :10:40.a letter to appear in the Daily Telegraph tomorrow, and it is also
:10:41. > :10:44.very strongly worded. " Britain's exit would lead to a loss of British
:10:45. > :10:49.influence, undermine Nato and give succour to the west's enemies just
:10:50. > :10:53.when we face threats on our doorstep. Not surprisingly, Downing
:10:54. > :10:56.Street has drawn attention to this letter, they are delighted with it.
:10:57. > :11:00.It should be pointed out that there had been other voices from within
:11:01. > :11:04.the security and defence establishment and they have taken
:11:05. > :11:05.the other view, they think that Brexit would be a good thing for
:11:06. > :11:07.Britain. And there's plenty more on the EU
:11:08. > :11:10.and how it works plus information about the referendum
:11:11. > :11:12.on the BBC website. A man has been jailed
:11:13. > :11:18.for life for murdering Christopher Hampton finally admitted
:11:19. > :11:21.stabbing Melanie Road to death The 64-year-old was caught
:11:22. > :11:25.after his daughter's DNA was put on the national database last year
:11:26. > :11:30.following a domestic incident. and Melanie Road was
:11:31. > :11:45.studying for her A-levels. She had been out clubbing
:11:46. > :11:48.with friends, but on the way home the schoolgirl was raped
:11:49. > :11:50.and stabbed to death. Melanie walked back
:11:51. > :11:52.on her own that night. It is only about half a mile
:11:53. > :11:55.from the centre of Bath Her body was discovered by a milkman
:11:56. > :12:03.the next morning, next to some garages
:12:04. > :12:05.in a quiet cul-de-sac. The police filmed drops
:12:06. > :12:13.of the killer's blood at the scene, and over the years thousands
:12:14. > :12:20.of local men but the murderer
:12:21. > :12:23.was not identified. Scientists found that a DNA swab
:12:24. > :12:28.taken from a woman in an unrelated case was similar to DNA
:12:29. > :12:30.found at the scene. That new sample came
:12:31. > :12:32.from the daughter of this man, He in turn was tested,
:12:33. > :12:36.and there was a complete match. Today, 32 years later,
:12:37. > :12:41.he admitted murdering Melanie. Melanie's mum said she can't believe
:12:42. > :12:46.Hampton could murder a girl he didn't know and then
:12:47. > :12:49.hide his secret for so long. I always said if I got hold of him,
:12:50. > :12:52.I would strangle him or stick a knife into him,
:12:53. > :12:55.and that is how I felt. But I wouldn't even use
:12:56. > :12:57.my energy up on him. I feel he should be shut up
:12:58. > :13:00.in a dungeon like they used
:13:01. > :13:02.to in the olden days Over the decades, 700 police
:13:03. > :13:13.officers have worked on the case. They hoped advances in science
:13:14. > :13:16.would one day identify the killer. But soon after the attack,
:13:17. > :13:19.Hampton had moved away from Bath to Bristol, where he had had
:13:20. > :13:21.a family and kept his He has managed somehow to live
:13:22. > :13:26.with this terrible secret. I have no idea how his conscience
:13:27. > :13:30.has allowed him to do that, Hampton was told he would
:13:31. > :13:39.serve at least 22 years Given that he is now in his mid 60s,
:13:40. > :13:45.the judge said he may Jon Kay, BBC News,
:13:46. > :13:57.Bristol Crown Court. STUDIO: The long-awaited report
:13:58. > :14:01.into Britain's involvement in the war in Iraq will finally be
:14:02. > :14:04.published on July 6th. The inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot
:14:05. > :14:07.was set up seven years ago, has cost more than ?10 million
:14:08. > :14:10.and has heard evidence from 150 witnesses including the former
:14:11. > :14:12.Prime Minister Tony Blair. Here's our political
:14:13. > :14:18.correspondent Vicki Young. March 2003, and the attack on Saddam
:14:19. > :14:22.Hussein begins - one of the most controversial foreign policy
:14:23. > :14:25.decisions ever made by a British Soon, we'll have the official
:14:26. > :14:30.version of what led our The task handed to Sir John Chilcot
:14:31. > :14:39.and his team seven years ago was to examine the run-up to war
:14:40. > :14:41.and whether planning We will approach our task in a way
:14:42. > :14:45.that is thorough, Rose Gentle's son Gordon
:14:46. > :14:49.was killed in 2004. She says the families
:14:50. > :14:52.of the soldiers who died in Iraq We know there is going be a lot held
:14:53. > :15:02.back from us, but we will but we will see what we can make out
:15:03. > :15:07.which is actually in it. If there's anybody accountable
:15:08. > :15:09.for it, they should be mentioned. Tony Blair has denied
:15:10. > :15:14.he is to blame for slow progress, but there was a dispute
:15:15. > :15:18.about the publication of classified documents,
:15:19. > :15:19.and his correspondence Plus, those criticised in the report
:15:20. > :15:24.have had the right to reply - a process which has added years
:15:25. > :15:27.to Sir John Chilcot's timetable. About "expletive deleted",
:15:28. > :15:29."expletive deleted" time, most people I think
:15:30. > :15:33.in Britain would say. The truth is, if it was the case
:15:34. > :15:37.that the Government laid on in the conditions they did,
:15:38. > :15:40.he probably had no option but to do what he did - I'm not sure
:15:41. > :15:44.he should be blamed for that. The question is, how do we do these
:15:45. > :15:46.things in future? And the answer is, we need to do
:15:47. > :15:49.it better than this. The Iraq inquiry was never supposed
:15:50. > :15:52.to be about apportioning blame. Crucial will be its assessment
:15:53. > :15:54.of whether troops were We need to consider exactly
:15:55. > :15:57.what the right mechanism is for having a way of learning
:15:58. > :16:00.the right lessons out And perhaps if Sir John had reported
:16:01. > :16:09.before we got engaged in Libya, there might have been some lessons
:16:10. > :16:12.which would have been useful for our current
:16:13. > :16:15.Prime Minister to draw on. There is relief in Westminster
:16:16. > :16:19.that this report of more than 2.5 million words will finally
:16:20. > :16:22.see the light of day in July. Bereaved families want military
:16:23. > :16:25.leaders and politicians held But there are some who fear
:16:26. > :16:30.that it is now so long since those events in Iraq that the impact
:16:31. > :16:35.of the inquiry could be lost. Claims that hospital patients
:16:36. > :16:38.in England are more likely to die at weekends are based on flawed
:16:39. > :16:41.data, according to new research It says the variation in mortality
:16:42. > :16:46.rates is down to differences The so-called weekend effect has
:16:47. > :16:53.been a key factor behind the Government's push to change
:16:54. > :16:55.junior doctors' contracts Are patients going into hospital
:16:56. > :17:04.at weekends more likely to die within a certain time than those
:17:05. > :17:07.admitted on weekdays? It has turned into a highly
:17:08. > :17:11.controversial debate, as the Government calls
:17:12. > :17:13.for better NHS services We are absolutely determined
:17:14. > :17:19.to eliminate the weekend effect, which sees 11,000 excess
:17:20. > :17:27.deaths every year. It has become a key issue
:17:28. > :17:30.in the junior doctors' dispute. Ministers argue that more staff
:17:31. > :17:32.are needed at weekends Junior doctors say they already
:17:33. > :17:39.worked on Saturdays and Sundays, Junior doctors say they already work
:17:40. > :17:43.on Saturdays and Sundays, and challenge the idea
:17:44. > :17:46.of a weekend effect. Now, one medical expert has
:17:47. > :17:48.questioned the data behind We certainly found no evidence
:17:49. > :17:52.when we put together It really is an excellent example
:17:53. > :17:57.of how poor-quality data badly interpreted can lead
:17:58. > :18:00.to the wrong answer. The study looked at data from one
:18:01. > :18:03.area used in death rate analysis, 1,700 reported hospital
:18:04. > :18:09.stroke admissions, more for more routine problems,
:18:10. > :18:14.which were mostly on weekdays, and with a lower risk of death,
:18:15. > :18:17.leading to a false impression that Research published last year
:18:18. > :18:27.which pointed to a higher risk of dying for patients who went
:18:28. > :18:30.into hospital at weekends has been Today, one of the authors
:18:31. > :18:33.defended the findings, It would be great if
:18:34. > :18:38.this was the solution, But actually, sadly,
:18:39. > :18:43.that isn't the case, This doesn't undermine
:18:44. > :18:48.the study that we conducted, and there is still a major problem
:18:49. > :18:52.in the NHS at the weekend. This latest row over NHS weekend
:18:53. > :18:56.services and death rates comes at a sensitive
:18:57. > :18:58.time in the junior doctor dispute. Today, for the first time in three
:18:59. > :19:02.months, the British Medical Association and the Government
:19:03. > :19:05.sat down for talks, to try and resolve
:19:06. > :19:10.their differences. Whatever the outcome of the talks,
:19:11. > :19:13.the debate over weekend patient care is far from over -
:19:14. > :19:15.the Government insisting there is evidence that standards
:19:16. > :19:23.are lower than during the week, while critics continue to scrutinise
:19:24. > :19:31.and challenge that evidence. In North Korea, rare access has
:19:32. > :19:33.been given to witness the Workers Party congress,
:19:34. > :19:35.which today re-elected But the BBC has expressed
:19:36. > :19:38.disappointment that one of its news teams has been
:19:39. > :19:41.expelled from the country. The authorities in Pyongyang
:19:42. > :19:44.questioned Rupert Wingfield-Hayes for eight hours for what they
:19:45. > :19:47.described as improper reporting. Other staff remained
:19:48. > :19:49.to cover the congress, including our correspondent
:19:50. > :19:53.John Sudworth. For the first time, foreign
:19:54. > :19:57.journalists were invited inside Before, we had only
:19:58. > :20:05.seen the TV pictures. But now we could quite
:20:06. > :20:09.literally feel the mass political CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
:20:10. > :20:19.AND TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYS And there, a few rows away,
:20:20. > :20:26.was Kim Jong-un, a young man just given yet another title,
:20:27. > :20:29.unanimously of course - It is an extraordinary sight -
:20:30. > :20:42.the highest political gathering of one of the world's
:20:43. > :20:46.most totalitarian regimes. At there at the front,
:20:47. > :20:51.the supreme leader of a country that has long defied
:20:52. > :20:55.predictions of its imminent demise. Earlier in the day, we were given
:20:56. > :20:58.a glimpse of another enduring fact of North Korean life -
:20:59. > :21:01.the suppression HE SPEAKS IN NORTH KOREAN, MENTIONS
:21:02. > :21:08.NAME OF RUPERT WINGFIELD-HAYES Rupert Wingfield-Hayes,
:21:09. > :21:13.a BBC colleague who had also been reporting from Pyongyang,
:21:14. > :21:15.was being expelled. North Korean officials made it clear
:21:16. > :21:20.they objected to his reporting. During their coverage,
:21:21. > :21:22.they were not very just in terms the system in the DPRK,
:21:23. > :21:28.and they even made distorted facts, the realities about the situation,
:21:29. > :21:31.and they were speaking very the leadership of the country,
:21:32. > :21:38.when they should have been reporting very fairly,
:21:39. > :21:42.objectively and very correctly. Rupert was driven to the airport
:21:43. > :21:46.and put on a flight to Beijing. Foreign media visits are always
:21:47. > :21:47.tightly-controlled, but Meanwhile, we've been allowed
:21:48. > :22:00.to continue our reporting trip with the numerous visits
:22:01. > :22:02.to factories and monuments. This is a country that cares deeply
:22:03. > :22:05.what the outside world I ask one of the workers
:22:06. > :22:09.about the deep economic crisis. "Nonsense, that's just
:22:10. > :22:11.a lie," she tells me. The powerful propaganda has helped
:22:12. > :22:14.this system endure, with a message The outside world is welcome,
:22:15. > :22:32.but only on North Korea's terms. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says
:22:33. > :22:35.the party is "not yet doing enough" to win back power in 2020,
:22:36. > :22:48.but has insisted things are moving He told Labour MPs to stop
:22:49. > :22:51.criticising his leadership in public.
:22:52. > :22:52.Our political correspondent Carole Walker is at
:22:53. > :22:58.Carole, how did this message go down?
:22:59. > :23:05.He was greeted warmly, he said there were real signs that Labour's
:23:06. > :23:08.recovery was under way, but that the performance in the elections in
:23:09. > :23:12.Scotland was very disappointing, and the party had not yet done enough
:23:13. > :23:16.for 2020. This was exactly what many of his critics in the party had been
:23:17. > :23:20.saying. They had been saying that Jeremy Corbyn as the leader needs to
:23:21. > :23:25.take some of the blame for that. But Mr Corbyn's message was that instead
:23:26. > :23:28.of parading themselves around the media Studios, they should be
:23:29. > :23:32.turning their fire on the Tories instead of talking about themselves.
:23:33. > :23:37.Sadiq Khan, the newly elected London mayor, also addressed the meeting,
:23:38. > :23:42.and had a rather upbeat message. He said that with the right approach,
:23:43. > :23:46.Labour could still win in 2020. And he intended to show by his actions
:23:47. > :23:49.in City Hall, reaching out to everyone, that Labour could be
:23:50. > :23:54.trusted to govern again. It was certainly said it can't got the
:23:55. > :23:57.biggest cheers of the night. Buoyed by that election victory, and
:23:58. > :24:01.interesting talking to some Labour MPs afterwards, some of them felt
:24:02. > :24:02.that it was a Sadiq Khan who had delivered a more impressive speech
:24:03. > :24:16.than the party leader. The battle to contain the wildfires
:24:17. > :24:21.in Canada has reached a turning point, thanked two weather
:24:22. > :24:26.conditions, according to some observers. A BBC team has reached
:24:27. > :24:31.the town of Fort McMurray, which was evacuated. 80,000 people were forced
:24:32. > :24:34.to leave their homes. A fifth of the town was destroyed. Wildfires have
:24:35. > :24:37.been raging across Alberta for more than a week.
:24:38. > :24:40.More than 700 workers who say they were blacklisted by some
:24:41. > :24:42.of Britain's biggest builders because of their political views
:24:43. > :24:44.or trade union membership have won millions of pounds
:24:45. > :24:46.in compensation after a long legal battle.
:24:47. > :24:49.Their names appeared on a database used by major construction
:24:50. > :24:50.firms including Balfour Beatty and McAlpine.
:24:51. > :25:00.Our industry correspondent John Moylan has the story.
:25:01. > :25:05.It has been called a national scandal, a so-called blacklist
:25:06. > :25:10.operated in the construction industry involving leading firms
:25:11. > :25:15.including McAlpine, Balfour Beatty and Karelian, all now facing
:25:16. > :25:19.multi-million pound pay-outs. It is unbelievable that people could keep
:25:20. > :25:23.these secret files for decades. It has hit people like Sandie, who says
:25:24. > :25:28.he was blacklisted from sites in the early 1980s for being an active
:25:29. > :25:33.trade unionist. He had to look for lower paid jobs. Working for the
:25:34. > :25:37.local council on ?200 a week is very different from working on a building
:25:38. > :25:42.site where you can earn ?500 a week or more. It is a financial loss,
:25:43. > :25:49.possibly hundreds of thousands at the end of the day. You don't get
:25:50. > :25:55.that back. You would probably be able to live a different life today.
:25:56. > :25:59.His file one of more than 3000 uncovered in a raid on these offices
:26:00. > :26:03.in Worcestershire six years ago. The database held details of workers was
:26:04. > :26:07.no political affiliations and union activities. It was used by the
:26:08. > :26:11.companies to vet workers on projects including the Olympics. Details of
:26:12. > :26:17.the settlements in this long-running legal saga have now emerged. The
:26:18. > :26:23.case involved 771 workers. The total paid in compensation and legal fees
:26:24. > :26:31.by the firms is thought to be in the region of ?75 million. Individual
:26:32. > :26:36.workers have received between ?25 and ?200,000. Some say it is not
:26:37. > :26:40.enough. It does not provide accountability for actions. There
:26:41. > :26:43.were named defendants. Those named defendants should be required to
:26:44. > :26:47.give evidence to a public inquiry as to what was going through their
:26:48. > :26:50.minds when they created this list. And clearly these companies have to
:26:51. > :26:54.answer questions as to whether or not they are suitable for public
:26:55. > :26:58.procurement. Tonight, the firms repeated their unreserved apology
:26:59. > :27:04.for the part on what they call a vetting information system. They
:27:05. > :27:07.added that they deeply regretted the impact it had on employment
:27:08. > :27:10.opportunities and the anxiety caused. The firms hope the
:27:11. > :27:13.settlement will draw a line under the matter, the end of a dark
:27:14. > :27:16.chapter in Britain's industrial history.
:27:17. > :27:19.Sky watchers across the world have been treated to the sight
:27:20. > :27:22.of Mercury, this small black dot, moving across the face of the sun
:27:23. > :27:26.Travelling at around 30 miles per second, it took Mercury more
:27:27. > :27:32.This move happens only about 14 times each century.
:27:33. > :27:35.Could the world's great footballing nations -
:27:36. > :27:38.Brazil, Germany, Italy - soon be joined by China?
:27:39. > :27:41.The Chinese Government certainly thinks they could,
:27:42. > :27:44.and it has come up with a massive national plan to try
:27:45. > :27:47.to make it happen, led by the president Xi Jinping.
:27:48. > :27:51.He wants 50 million Chinese people to be playing the game by 2020.
:27:52. > :27:55.He has ordered 6,000 pitches and stadiums
:27:56. > :28:04.And he is setting up 50,000 football schools within 10 years.
:28:05. > :28:06.Our sports correspondent Richard Conway sent this special
:28:07. > :28:17.The rhythm of football is taking hold across the most populous nation
:28:18. > :28:20.And there is fierce competitive ambition
:28:21. > :28:23.here to have the best league and to be the best national team
:28:24. > :28:27.I'm fine. And you...?
:28:28. > :28:30.One familiar face has lived and worked here for three years,
:28:31. > :28:33.and insists there is no end in sight to the game's rapid growth.
:28:34. > :28:36.Recently, this season, it's gone crazy.
:28:37. > :28:41.The big, foreign names, they were not really
:28:42. > :28:46.Only when they are getting older, on the way down.
:28:47. > :28:49.But now, even when they are at their peak, they are
:28:50. > :28:57.When Jiangsu Suning took Ramires from Chelsea and Liverpool lost out
:28:58. > :29:01.on Brazilian striker Alex Teixeira earlier this year,
:29:02. > :29:04.they became the biggest spending Chinese club, and the world
:29:05. > :29:11.China's leading players' agent believes more stars will now follow.
:29:12. > :29:14.We had a saying, like, OK, the only two players
:29:15. > :29:18.China in this window is Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi!
:29:19. > :29:23.So the other names, it's all highly possible!
:29:24. > :29:26.It's here in Tiananmen Square that China's political power is centred.
:29:27. > :29:29.It has also been the location for some of the darker
:29:30. > :29:33.But President Xi Jinping is firmly focused on China's future.
:29:34. > :29:37.He wants the country to be a global leader in football, hosting
:29:38. > :29:43.A football-supporting President has motives beyond sport, though.
:29:44. > :29:46.There is an ambition to diversify the economy and for China to exert
:29:47. > :29:57.Two hours' drive east of Beijing lies the rural
:29:58. > :30:02.It's here that the President's plan is starting to take shape.
:30:03. > :30:04.It's home to this elementary school, which lies in the shadow
:30:05. > :30:10.These six- and seven-year-olds are pioneers.
:30:11. > :30:13.They attend one of China's first designated football schools
:30:14. > :30:16.and provide a first glimpse of their President's vision
:30:17. > :30:21.I just want them to practise walking around with the ball...
:30:22. > :30:24.The unlikely American forging a new path for the People's Republic
:30:25. > :30:32.Having achieved cult status in Japan,
:30:33. > :30:34.contributing to their football development, he's been headhunted
:30:35. > :30:37.by their neighbours and rivals to deliver similar results.
:30:38. > :30:40.The economy surpassed Japan, so they're the number two economy,
:30:41. > :30:43.they're putting rockets up into space, everything's going good,
:30:44. > :30:47.but they can't beat countries like Thailand in a football match.
:30:48. > :30:52.In the past, the professional game has faced allegations of corruption,
:30:53. > :30:57.and has been described by observers as chaotically-run.
:30:58. > :30:59.But if any country knows about manufacturing
:31:00. > :31:06.Everything appears to be in place, but they will need to be patient.
:31:07. > :31:09.It may take another generation before we see a World Cup victory
:31:10. > :31:19.Newsnight is about to begin over on BBC Two in a few moments.
:31:20. > :31:33.Project Fear has stepped up a gear with that warning of instability in
:31:34. > :31:37.Europe if we leave the EU. Liam Fox, former Defence Secretary, will be
:31:38. > :31:38.with us to assess that risk. Join me for