:00:00. > :00:00.Delaying the deal on Britain's first new nuclear power plant in decades -
:00:07. > :00:09.the French energy firm building it was given no warning
:00:10. > :00:16.The ?18 billion Hinkley Point scheme has been dogged by controversy -
:00:17. > :00:20.some think the current plan is now in jeopardy.
:00:21. > :00:23.I think effectively, what it means is that the deal
:00:24. > :00:26.in its current form is dead in the water.
:00:27. > :00:29.We'll be examining the Government's decision and what this could mean
:00:30. > :00:37.Also tonight: Police in Scotland charge 77 people over online sex
:00:38. > :00:42.abuse of children after finding more than 30 million images.
:00:43. > :00:49.I accept your nomination for president of the United States!
:00:50. > :00:54.Hillary Clinton says the US faces a "moment of reckoning"
:00:55. > :01:01.Two British men are jailed for trying to smuggle 18 migrants
:01:02. > :01:07.into the country in an inflatable boat which nearly sank.
:01:08. > :01:10.And England's World Cup victory 50 years ago -
:01:11. > :01:17.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,
:01:18. > :01:20.Henrik Stenson is the early clubhouse leader at the US PGA,
:01:21. > :01:44.continuing his Open winning form in Baltusrol.
:01:45. > :01:48.The French energy firm EDF says it was made aware only yesterday
:01:49. > :01:53.of the Government's plan to delay a final decision on Britain's first
:01:54. > :01:58.The deal for an ?18 billion scheme at Hinkley in Somerset was meant
:01:59. > :02:01.to be signed today after EDF, which is financing
:02:02. > :02:06.most of the project, approved it yesterday.
:02:07. > :02:08.The Government's announcement has been described as "bewildering
:02:09. > :02:14.Our Business Editor Simon Jack reports.
:02:15. > :02:16.Just when you think you've got there,
:02:17. > :02:20.After EDF's board voted to give this project the green light,
:02:21. > :02:25.This tent should have been thronging with officials
:02:26. > :02:27.celebrating the start of construction in earnest,
:02:28. > :02:31.with the on-site workforce growing from hundreds to thousands.
:02:32. > :02:34.But the Government said, "Not so fast."
:02:35. > :02:38.Deeply disappointed, and I've spoken to many people
:02:39. > :02:40.who are really angry, people who have spent years
:02:41. > :02:42.working to get us to the position that we've got to.
:02:43. > :02:45.There was real celebrations yesterday when EDF's board made
:02:46. > :02:52.and this very much felt like a slap in the face from the UK Government.
:02:53. > :02:59.Option one, pause - think, read the small print
:03:00. > :03:05.Option two, renegotiate - try to save money by offering EDF
:03:06. > :03:07.a lower price for the energy from Hinkley, but this might
:03:08. > :03:10.further delay or risk the project collapsing,
:03:11. > :03:17.Option three, cancel - walk away, save ?18 billion,
:03:18. > :03:19.saying, after a decade of effort from two previous governments,
:03:20. > :03:25.But then where would the electricity everyone agrees we need
:03:26. > :03:28.The Government says it wants to take its time
:03:29. > :03:32.After all, this is a 50-year commitment we're talking about.
:03:33. > :03:35.It'll lock us in a contract that could cost consumers ?30 billion
:03:36. > :03:40.That all seems fair enough, but they didn't tell the very people
:03:41. > :03:43.building it until the last moment, and that seems a strange way
:03:44. > :03:47.to treat important trading partners like China, like France,
:03:48. > :03:49.at the very time you're trying to tell the world
:03:50. > :03:54.Remember, EDF is 85% owned by the French state.
:03:55. > :04:03.If one of the governments, one of the sides cancels the deal,
:04:04. > :04:09.it's going to be very bitter on the other side, and, yeah,
:04:10. > :04:14.it could contribute to a souring of the relationships
:04:15. > :04:17.especially in the context of the Brexit.
:04:18. > :04:20.China agreed to put in a third of the money,
:04:21. > :04:22.a result in part of a George Osborne charm offensive,
:04:23. > :04:26.but changing partners or price will be very difficult.
:04:27. > :04:27.I think, effectively, what it means
:04:28. > :04:34.is that the deal in its current form is dead in the water.
:04:35. > :04:38.I think the only reason for a review can be one of two factors.
:04:39. > :04:41.First, that the Government don't like the price that is being asked.
:04:42. > :04:46.Second, that they don't like the involvement of the Chinese
:04:47. > :04:49.I think it's going to be very difficult
:04:50. > :04:54.Once again, the decision on this mammoth project
:04:55. > :04:58.this time for the Government to decide the way forward.
:04:59. > :05:05.Hinkley Point was due to start generating power in 2025.
:05:06. > :05:08.But with the project on pause for now, many are asking
:05:09. > :05:12.about the Government's options for making sure the lights stay on.
:05:13. > :05:15.Here's our Science Editor David Shukman - David,
:05:16. > :05:21.You're right, it is complicated, and the context for this
:05:22. > :05:24.long-running saga is that over the past decade, one government
:05:25. > :05:27.after another has tried to balance three very different aims -
:05:28. > :05:31.keeping the lights on as older power stations are phased out,
:05:32. > :05:35.keeping energy bills as low as possible for consumers,
:05:36. > :05:42.and cutting our carbon emissions to help tackle climate change.
:05:43. > :05:47.So Hinkley, which would produce 7% of UK needs with carbon-free power,
:05:48. > :05:49.meets two of those objectives, but it is expensive.
:05:50. > :05:53.Even so, supporters say it's essential.
:05:54. > :05:57.When you look at a nuclear plant, the up-front capital cost to build
:05:58. > :05:59.the power station is very high, but you've got to look
:06:00. > :06:02.at the through-life cost, and how long these power stations
:06:03. > :06:06.So Hinkley Point will be generating for probably 50 years plus,
:06:07. > :06:09.and for all of that time it's going to be giving secure
:06:10. > :06:12.electricity, reliable electricity and clean electricity continuously.
:06:13. > :06:16.The two reactors planned for Hinkley were picked
:06:17. > :06:18.because they were the most modern design
:06:19. > :06:27.The operating concept is the same as for a pressurised water reactor...
:06:28. > :06:29.But projects to build these EPR reactors have struggled.
:06:30. > :06:32.I saw one in Finland which is running nine years late,
:06:33. > :06:33.and there isn't yet one working anywhere.
:06:34. > :06:41.Renewable energy produced 25% of UK power in the
:06:42. > :06:46.It is carbon-free, and costs are falling, but wind
:06:47. > :06:48.and solar are intermittent, which really matters
:06:49. > :06:58.It provided 37% of our power earlier this year.
:06:59. > :07:01.It is the cleanest fossil fuel, but either we import it,
:07:02. > :07:03.which creates uncertainty, or get it by fracking -
:07:04. > :07:09.and we've seen the opposition to that.
:07:10. > :07:13.So a serious home-grown supply could be years away.
:07:14. > :07:16.A third option is to be more efficient.
:07:17. > :07:19.Modern appliances use less power than older ones,
:07:20. > :07:22.so demand fell 6% over the past three years, nearly as much
:07:23. > :07:28.So critics say nuclear power is a costly mistake.
:07:29. > :07:31.If you look at the cost of Hinkley to the consumer,
:07:32. > :07:34.astronomical, I mean they're now talking about consumers paying
:07:35. > :07:38.?30 billion above the wholesale price of electricity
:07:39. > :07:41.during its lifetime, a huge sum of money,
:07:42. > :07:43.and then you've got to deal with the nuclear waste.
:07:44. > :07:46.You've got to store this waste for hundreds of thousands of years,
:07:47. > :07:52.They don't yet know what they're going to do with that waste.
:07:53. > :07:55.Ultimately, there are no easy options - no single source of power
:07:56. > :07:58.meets all of those objectives of being reliable,
:07:59. > :08:02.Big decisions about energy are always hard, and this one
:08:03. > :08:10.Our Political Correspondent Eleanor Garnier is at
:08:11. > :08:19.Are we any closer to knowing why this decision was taken?
:08:20. > :08:26.Well, those around the new Prime Minister want it to be known that
:08:27. > :08:30.she will take her decision once she has made it. Frankly, she is not
:08:31. > :08:33.going to be pushed around. EDF might have wanted the UK Government to
:08:34. > :08:37.make its position clear ahead of their board meeting, but I am told
:08:38. > :08:42.Mrs May was not going to be bounced into that. And we no one of her
:08:43. > :08:45.closest advisers has previously raised concerns about Chinese
:08:46. > :08:50.investment in areas that could threaten Britain's security. And of
:08:51. > :08:54.course, a huge project like this would have implications not just for
:08:55. > :08:57.energy policy and national security, but foreign relations as well, so
:08:58. > :09:01.the government thinks it warrants this level of scrutiny. Theresa May
:09:02. > :09:05.has only been in the job just over two weeks. The whole business
:09:06. > :09:09.department is being restructured, and David Cameron's government might
:09:10. > :09:14.have taken a particular attitude and approach to the Hinckley project,
:09:15. > :09:18.but it has been pointed out to me that Theresa May's government will
:09:19. > :09:22.not be a mirror image of her predecessor's. In terms of what this
:09:23. > :09:26.looks like for potential foreign investors and whether Britain is
:09:27. > :09:33.still open for business post that Brexit vote, we shouldn't over
:09:34. > :09:36.interpret this review. It's more a case of reassurance rather than
:09:37. > :09:37.policy being ripped up to start all over again.
:09:38. > :09:41.Police in Scotland say an investigation has identified
:09:42. > :09:42.more than 500 victims, or potential victims,
:09:43. > :09:47.At least 77 people have been arrested and charged
:09:48. > :09:50.after a six week police operation in which 30 million
:09:51. > :09:56.Our Scotland correspondent Steven Godden reports.
:09:57. > :09:58.It is the sinister side of the online world.
:09:59. > :10:00.This summer, Scottish police concentrated their efforts
:10:01. > :10:05.on tackling the sexual abuse of children, six weeks that revealed
:10:06. > :10:11.Codenamed Operation Lattise, detectives identified more
:10:12. > :10:17.They recovered more than 30 million images of children as young
:10:18. > :10:25.On one computer alone, 10 million pictures and videos were discovered.
:10:26. > :10:29.These individuals want to be wherever children are,
:10:30. > :10:30.so they're using websites, forums, chat rooms
:10:31. > :10:36.These men, predominantly, are using the profiles of children,
:10:37. > :10:38.pretending to be children, effectively, to communicate
:10:39. > :10:41.with younger children, to groom them online,
:10:42. > :10:49.In this crime lab, the grim task of unpicking
:10:50. > :10:55.In the worst case, it'll take a team of four officers six months
:10:56. > :11:00.By targeting their resources, Police Scotland's aim was to shine
:11:01. > :11:04.As they suspected, the more they looked,
:11:05. > :11:11.So far, the operation has led to more than 70 people being charged
:11:12. > :11:18.Those arrested ranged in age from 14 to almost 90.
:11:19. > :11:21.Behind every image is a crime scene, a child who has been subject
:11:22. > :11:25.to abuse, and every time that image is shared,
:11:26. > :11:28.that child is re-victimised, and we need to make sure that both
:11:29. > :11:32.we tackle the crimes that are being committed,
:11:33. > :11:35.but also prevent them from happening in the first place.
:11:36. > :11:38.Young people are spending more and more time online.
:11:39. > :11:41.For parents at this gaming festival in Glasgow,
:11:42. > :11:47.My daughter is six, so she's really young just now, but when she gets
:11:48. > :11:50.to that age, who knows where social networking is going to be,
:11:51. > :11:53.online, the internet is not going to go away,
:11:54. > :11:56.it's potentially going to become more of a safety issue.
:11:57. > :11:59.Anybody can make up stories, they can kid
:12:00. > :12:04.If you don't hear their voice, if they're just typing,
:12:05. > :12:07.You need to constantly check and constantly monitor
:12:08. > :12:10.what your kids are doing, or it will take something
:12:11. > :12:15.wrong to happen for you to figure that out.
:12:16. > :12:17.Your reputation, safety and responsibility...
:12:18. > :12:22.While enforcement continues, so do efforts to warn children
:12:23. > :12:26.Those catching the abusers say prevention is their
:12:27. > :12:36.Hillary Clinton has formally accepted
:12:37. > :12:39.the Democratic nomination to run for the White House.
:12:40. > :12:41.In a speech at the party's convention in Philadelphia,
:12:42. > :12:44.she said the election was a "moment of reckoning" for the US.
:12:45. > :12:47.And she laid into her rival, Donald Trump, accusing him
:12:48. > :12:51.of having neither the character nor the experience to be President.
:12:52. > :12:54.Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, reports.
:12:55. > :13:00.Ladies and gentlemen, our next president, Hillary Clinton!
:13:01. > :13:03.She's spent a quarter of a century in public life,
:13:04. > :13:05.but no speech has mattered as much as this one.
:13:06. > :13:08.First, though, the historic formalities.
:13:09. > :13:16.and boundless confidence in America's promise
:13:17. > :13:28.They cheered themselves hoarse, some cried as Hillary Clinton
:13:29. > :13:31.sought to reintroduce herself to the American public.
:13:32. > :13:35.It was personal, but she set out detailed policies too -
:13:36. > :13:38.some influenced by Bernie Sanders' insurgent campaign.
:13:39. > :13:43.Bernie Sanders and I will work together
:13:44. > :13:50.to make college tuition free for the middle class and debt-free for all.
:13:51. > :14:06.by someone who shouldn't have a gun in the first place.
:14:07. > :14:08.And she promised to raise the minimum wage.
:14:09. > :14:12.If you believe the minimum wage should be a living wage
:14:13. > :14:21.should have to raise their children in poverty, join us!
:14:22. > :14:26.to make about temperament and experience,
:14:27. > :14:28.why she was fit to be commander-in-chief
:14:29. > :14:34.Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis.
:14:35. > :14:45.is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.
:14:46. > :14:49.This has been an optimistic and upbeat vision of America
:14:50. > :14:52.presented by Hillary Clinton as the fireworks go off,
:14:53. > :14:56.a sharp contrast to the bleak and dark picture
:14:57. > :15:02.Politics is normally conducted in shades of grey,
:15:03. > :15:06.but the difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
:15:07. > :15:18.Oh, my God, that's excellent, it's...!
:15:19. > :15:26.it's the chance of a lifetime to be here, I'm so thankful!
:15:27. > :15:28.We're excited for the first woman President.
:15:29. > :15:33.What did you think of her? I liked her!
:15:34. > :15:36.If conventions and razzmatazz won elections,
:15:37. > :15:40.but with Donald Trump in the fight, they don't -
:15:41. > :15:53.A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.
:15:54. > :15:55.The charity Save The Children says a maternity hospital that
:15:56. > :15:57.it supports in the Syrian province of Idlib
:15:58. > :16:00.has been hit by an air strike in a rebel-held area.
:16:01. > :16:06.and a number of patients and staff have been injured.
:16:07. > :16:08.The US state of Florida has confirmed the first four cases
:16:09. > :16:13.of the Zika infection to be contracted from local mosquitoes.
:16:14. > :16:15.The Zika virus, which can cause birth defects,
:16:16. > :16:18.first gained public attention in Brazil last year.
:16:19. > :16:27.have been connected to people catching Zika abroad.
:16:28. > :16:30.BBC News has learned that an NHS trust under scrutiny for failing
:16:31. > :16:32.to investigate the deaths of hundreds of patients
:16:33. > :16:36.to companies owned by associates of its chief executive.
:16:37. > :16:41.The trust says the contracts had provided value for money.
:16:42. > :16:46.are being made available to NHS patients in England today,
:16:47. > :16:48.due to the relaunch of a special fund.
:16:49. > :16:52.which had closed because of spiralling costs,
:16:53. > :16:56.will make treatments for lung, bowel and skin cancer available.
:16:57. > :17:03.Up to 4,500 patients are expected to benefit.
:17:04. > :17:06.The BBC has tonight been given access to key court judgments
:17:07. > :17:12.the six-year-old girl from South London murdered by her father
:17:13. > :17:15.less than a year after she was returned to her parents' care.
:17:16. > :17:18.Her father Ben Butler, who's lodged an appeal
:17:19. > :17:22.against his conviction, is serving a 23-year minimum term.
:17:23. > :17:24.The BBC and other media organisations went to court today
:17:25. > :17:29.to force the publication of these documents.
:17:30. > :17:31.Our home affairs correspondent June Kelly is with me now.
:17:32. > :17:38.What is it in these documents that is so significant?
:17:39. > :17:45.Well, Reeta, just a bit of background to this case. Ben Butler
:17:46. > :17:49.was convicted she King Ellie when she was just six weeks old. The
:17:50. > :17:53.conviction was overturned on a technicality, and he and her mother
:17:54. > :17:57.went to the family courts and succeeded in having Ellie returned
:17:58. > :18:01.to them. Within a year, he had murdered a Ellie, and he was jailed
:18:02. > :18:05.last month for the killing, and Jennie Gray was sentenced for child
:18:06. > :18:12.cruelty. This document shows that three months before he kills Ellie,
:18:13. > :18:15.he was up before magistrate and a probation report was done on him,
:18:16. > :18:20.and that report described him as violent. It was a housing benefit
:18:21. > :18:24.offence, I should say. That report described as violent and said he
:18:25. > :18:30.posed a medium risk of causing serious harm to people when he was
:18:31. > :18:34.under stress. Now, tonight, Sutton Council said the report was not
:18:35. > :18:42.shared with them, and they said that the judge in the family courts, Mrs
:18:43. > :18:43.Just as Hogg, was aware of his violent past.
:18:44. > :18:46.Two men, one of them a former British judo champion,
:18:47. > :18:49.for trying to smuggle 18 Albanian migrants into Britain.
:18:50. > :18:52.None of the migrants had been given a life jacket,
:18:53. > :18:54.and they believed they were minutes from death.
:18:55. > :19:01.Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports.
:19:02. > :19:03.This was the ghostly image of the migrants' boat adrift,
:19:04. > :19:09.Closer up, you can see the two smugglers in their red clothing.
:19:10. > :19:11.Robert Stillwell and Mark Stribling had life jackets on.
:19:12. > :19:20.including two children and a woman, did not.
:19:21. > :19:24.you can see one migrant desperately trying to bail out water.
:19:25. > :19:26.The judge today said that everyone here
:19:27. > :19:33.Stillwell and Stribling were each paid ?2,000 to smuggle migrants in.
:19:34. > :19:39.The migrants each paid ?5,000 to make the journey.
:19:40. > :19:45.We often see that people smugglers treat human beings as a commodity.
:19:46. > :19:49.In this instance, they were treated as cargo.
:19:50. > :19:52.Robert Stillwell was a former British judo champion
:19:53. > :19:54.and was today given four years in jail.
:19:55. > :19:58.Mark Stribling also received four years.
:19:59. > :20:01.The court heard the two men were given the boat as hired hands
:20:02. > :20:10.who aimed to make around ?90,000 from this one single trip.
:20:11. > :20:12.Today's sentencing brings to an end one of the biggest people-smuggling
:20:13. > :20:16.cases ever to reach the British courts.
:20:17. > :20:17.There have been warnings for months
:20:18. > :20:19.about the vulnerability of the UK coastline,
:20:20. > :20:23.given the numbers of migrants reaching northern France.
:20:24. > :20:25.The Government says it's aware of the problem
:20:26. > :20:30.and is now increasing the number of maritime patrols.
:20:31. > :20:32.In a separate but almost identical case today,
:20:33. > :20:35.this man, Steven Jackson, was also jailed
:20:36. > :20:37.for people smuggling along the south coast.
:20:38. > :20:42.to bring in 17 Albanian migrants into Chichester Harbour.
:20:43. > :20:49.35 migrants were involved in today's two cases.
:20:50. > :20:52.All but nine have now been sent back.
:20:53. > :20:54.This has been a success for the Home Office,
:20:55. > :20:58.but also a warning about British coastal defences.
:20:59. > :21:06.Pope Francis has visited Auschwitz, the death camp in Poland
:21:07. > :21:12.where more than a million people were murdered by the Nazis.
:21:13. > :21:16.He spent much of his visit in silent contemplation.
:21:17. > :21:19.The Catholic Church has faced criticism
:21:20. > :21:23.against the persecution of Jewish people and other minorities.
:21:24. > :21:26.The Pope met Holocaust survivors, and Polish Christians
:21:27. > :21:31.who risked their own lives to protect Jewish neighbours.
:21:32. > :21:33.Russia's weightlifting team has been banned
:21:34. > :21:36.from competing at the Rio Olympics because of doping offences.
:21:37. > :21:40.The International Weightlifting Federation described
:21:41. > :21:44.the team's record as "extremely shocking and disappointing".
:21:45. > :21:47.The Olympics' governing committee, the IOC,
:21:48. > :21:49.has told individual sport federations to rule on whether
:21:50. > :21:55.Russians can compete at the Games, which begin in a week's time.
:21:56. > :21:58.It's considered to be a masterpiece of the English Renaissance,
:21:59. > :22:01.and now, for the first time, it will be owned by the public.
:22:02. > :22:04.This historic portrait of Queen Elizabeth I
:22:05. > :22:06.celebrating the defeat of the Spanish Armada
:22:07. > :22:11.will be kept in Britain after a successful fund-raising campaign.
:22:12. > :22:13.It will hang in the Queen's House in south London,
:22:14. > :22:24.since England won the football World Cup.
:22:25. > :22:28.But despite the expectations of millions of fans,
:22:29. > :22:30.the team have never come close to repeating the feat since.
:22:31. > :22:33.Our special correspondent Allan Little reports for us now
:22:34. > :22:36.on the significance of that victory, and what it revealed
:22:37. > :22:43.about the sort of nation that England was in the summer of 1966.
:22:44. > :22:46.Why does this moment still resonate so powerfully
:22:47. > :22:52.50 years on, it looks like a moment of transition -
:22:53. > :22:54.from the monochrome grime of post-war recovery
:22:55. > :22:58.to the Technicolor explosion of '60s modernity.
:22:59. > :23:02.Post-war Britain was a country in retreat from global power.
:23:03. > :23:05.Internationally, there had been little cause to cheer.
:23:06. > :23:10.There's a different stadium now as well, mind,
:23:11. > :23:13.without the twin towers. Yeah.
:23:14. > :23:18.Alf Howe and Brian Jones, brothers-in-law from Teesside,
:23:19. > :23:21.walked down Wembley Way to that match half the century ago.
:23:22. > :23:24.When you come back here now and think of that day,
:23:25. > :23:30.I think just the elation. The success.
:23:31. > :23:35.The fact that we won something, the elation, yeah, definitely.
:23:36. > :23:38.I came out and stood against one of the twin towers and just
:23:39. > :23:42.slid down like a cartoon figure, completely drained, and I thought,
:23:43. > :23:49.You know, that's it, what have we achieved now?
:23:50. > :24:01.with a by then fading sense of British greatness,
:24:02. > :24:03.the idea that this was still an exceptional nation.
:24:04. > :24:05.This replica of the original World Cup
:24:06. > :24:08.was used by the team doing the victory celebrations in 1966.
:24:09. > :24:11.It is now in the National Football Museum in Manchester.
:24:12. > :24:13.To my generation, children who grew up in the 1960s,
:24:14. > :24:16.the Jules Rimet Trophy was probably the most glamorous,
:24:17. > :24:21.most thrilling 12 inches of metal anywhere in the world.
:24:22. > :24:24.There was something almost mystical about the power of it,
:24:25. > :24:31.and five decades on, I can still feel it, even now.
:24:32. > :24:33.It had seemed like we had done nothing but lose,
:24:34. > :24:36.it was defeat after defeat, whether that be out in the Empire,
:24:37. > :24:38.you know, getting reports from Malaya,
:24:39. > :24:42.somewhere in Africa, Borneo or whatever.
:24:43. > :24:46.The British were on the retreat, and the same went for football.
:24:47. > :24:50.The flags in the stadium that day were Union flags -
:24:51. > :24:53.English and British identity were still fused,
:24:54. > :24:59.All the players were white and mostly working class.
:25:00. > :25:02.They lived the same lives as those who cheered them from the stands,
:25:03. > :25:05.for this was the tail end of an older Britain,
:25:06. > :25:11.not yet the age of the super-rich sporting celebrity.
:25:12. > :25:16.Geoff Hurst's third goal secured victory.
:25:17. > :25:19.The next day, he went home and mowed his lawn.
:25:20. > :25:32.After his football career, he took a job selling insurance.
:25:33. > :25:34.Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.