06/10/2016 BBC News at Ten

Fresh turmoil for Ukip as the man tipped to be their new leader

is rushed to hospital after a fight in the European Parliament.

Steven Woolfe collapsed after reports of a bust up

with a fellow Ukip MEP at a party meeting in Strasbourg.

It is two grown men getting involved in an altercation.

It's not very seemly behaviour but I'm not today

going to get involved in the blame game.

Tonight Ukip's millionaire backer, Arron Banks, has said the party

We'll have the latest from Strasbourg.

The Government gives the green light to a controversial

Hurricane Matthew leaves more than 100 dead in Haiti,

as it powers its way towards Florida where a state

Eastern Aleppo - home to more than quarter of a million Syrians -

could be wiped out by Christmas says the UN if the fighting

Diane Abbott is made Shadow Home Secretary

as Jeremy Corbyn begins assembling his new team.

And why this view from a train has been voted Britain's best new

Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Joe Allen scored a stunner

for Wales in their World Cup qualifier against Austria.

Bitter divisions within the UK Independence Party were laid bare

today after the man tipped to be the party's next leader collapsed

after a bust up with a colleague at the European Parliament.

49-year-old Steven Woolfe, who suffered two seizures,

is now recovering in hospital in Strasbourg.

Ukip's Leader Nigel Farage condemned the incident saying it was bad

Its millionaire backer Arron Banks said Ukip was at breaking point

and criticised what he called a minority of "troublemakers".

Our Political Correspondent, Alex Forsyth, reports from Strasbourg.

Steven Woolfe may not abhousehold name but he's prominent in Ukip. An

ally of Nigel Farage, for some, the front runner to become the next

leader of a party craving stability after feuds and bitter infighting.

Today, further extraordinary events at the European Parliament. Steven

Woolfe's team announced online he had been suddenly taken ill. Then

Nigel Farage confirmed there had been a confrontation at a Ukip

meeting. Allegations followed that Steven Woolfe had been punched by a

colleague. Later, he collapsed unconscious. At one point there were

even fears for his life. Steven Woolfe is in a better place

than a few hours ago. He did, as you know, collapse coming out of the

chamber during the voting session and hit the ground hard. He has

suffered two seizures, one quite major one. Which is obviously pretty

serious. He did lose consciousness for a bit.

Things were pretty bad. As for the events that led up to it, it is two

grown men getting involved in an altercation. It is not very seemly

behaviour but I'm not, today, getting involved in the blame game.

In the UK we are always told... Claims that Mike Hookham, the Ukip

defence spokesperson is the other man involved have not been denied by

the party but the spokesperson said no punch was thrown.

I understand there was an argument between some MEPs and Steven picked

a fight with one of them and came off worse. But I have heard that

second-hand. It remains to be seen what the full

truth is. This came days after Diane James

stepped down as leader after less than three weeks in the job, saying

she lacked the authority to lead Ukip. Steven Woolfe was the first to

say he would stand to replace her. It is understood that the tempers

flared amongst colleagues after telling the BBC he had been tempted

to join the Conservatives. We had been enthused by a lot of

what Theresa May had said. I did have discussions with those in the

Conservative Party. Steven Woolfe has said he is

recovering. Saying he is sitting up, said to be looking well. That the

only consequence is a bit of numbness on the left-hand side of

his face. Calm has been restored but this will fuel Ukip's internal

turmoil. Alex Alexis joins us now. What has

been the reaction tonight? Well, Ukip has been grappling with the

bitter infighting since the general election. Today the strength of the

animosity became apparent. In the after math of this moment, there was

a moment of calm. Good wishes for Steven Woolfe from all corns of Ukip

but then in a statement, Arron Banks said that the party was at a

breaking point, threatening to withdraw support unless the ruling

body was replaced and two of its most prominent figures left, Douglas

Carswell and Neil Hamilton. And that is the crux, in the broader sense

between those that support Nigel Farage and his vision, and those who

don't, including former Tory members. This incident proved the

scale of the challenge that Ukip's leader has, whoever it may be in the

future, when it comes to restoring some sense of unity. Alex, thank

you. For the first time, a controversial

fracking process has been given the go-ahead in the UK,

despite fierce local opposition. The Government has overturned

a decision by the county council in Lancashire, which means

horizontal fracking for shale gas can now begin at a site

in North West England. Our industry correspondent, John

Moylan, reports from Lancashire. It's an ordinary field

on Lancashire's Fylde coast. And for the past two years,

it's been on the Local residents here have been

fighting Cuadrilla's plans. The proposed frack site is just that

field over there. Susan Holliday lives

just 300 metres away. Today she was devastated by the news

that fracking had been There's going to be

noise 24 hours a day. We are going to be able to hear it,

potentially smell it, see it. It's really going to have an affect

on our quality of life. Emotions were also running high

eight miles away in the village of Roseacre, where fracking might

also be approved if traffic It should not go ahead anywhere,

but in particular here. The Prime Minister, Theresa May,

said democracy should work for everybody and unfortunately

for the community here, This region is known

for agriculture and tourism. But Cuadrilla's plans will transform

this particular part First a drilling rig will be

installed here of up to 30 to 40 Then in April next year,

they will begin drilling the first And, by the autumn,

fracking will begin. That sort of intense,

industrial activity could continue Plans are to drill four exploration

wells on the side. Cuadrilla believes Britain will need

shale gas in the years to come. Today they welcome

the Government's decision. It is an important milestone

for Cuadrilla and an important milestone for the future

of shale gas in the country. But most importantly it gives us

an opportunity now to test and see whether this gas that we know

is in the ground, we can get it out of the ground at commercial rates

and stop importing the stuff. Fracking involves injecting water,

sand and chemicals at high pressure into shale rocks deep underground

to release gas that's been trapped It's boosted gas production in the

US, could it happen here? You would need a lot of wells,

possibly hundreds, possibly thousands for this to make

a dramatic change to our present Despite accusations it overruled the

views of local people, the Government has taken the big

Government has taken the big decisions.

Opponents will now be scrutinising this decision to see

But after years of debate, fracking has now come a big step closer.

There is not much to see here tonight but come back and this place

could look very different indeed. Fracking has been given the green

light here, in Scotland there is a moratorium, and environmentalists

argue that getting more gas out of the ground, while fracking, say that

it is against our flavoural goals. More than 100 people are now known

to have died after Hurricane Matthew swept across Haiti in

the Caribbean two days ago. The true scale of the devastation

is only now becoming clear because large parts of the country

have been unreachable. In Haiti's southern city of Jeremie

about 80% of the buildings The hurricane is now just hours away

from the Florida coast. We'll have the latest

from there in a moment. But first Nick Bryant reports

from Port au Prince. The first glimpse of the coastal

communities hit hardsest by Hurricane Matthew. Marooned here,

for the past 48 hours. This is what is left of Jeremie, a place known as

Haiti's City of Poets, now it has become Ground Zero in this

humanitarian crisis. Much of it looks like a scrap heap. The

destruction is almost complete. About 80% of the buildings have been

destroyed. This man is a farmer, unable to feed

his family. He has lost the food in his house, he says, they have

nothing to cook, they are starving. The relief effort, hampered by the

floodwaters that have cut off the south-west of the country but as

more roads become passable and more costal communities are reached, the

number of dead keeps on rising. In the capital, Port-au-Prince,

reminders it is not just a hurricane and the after effects of the 2010

earthquake that Haiti is confronting. It is also in the grip

of an epidemic, cholera, that over the past ten years has killed 8,000

people. Aid agencies have warned that the poor sanitation system has

been totally overwhelmed by flooding, that means that the

disease could spread much mover quickly. The Bahamas may be a world

away in terms of wealth and privilege but they have been

battered by the same high winds. They have downed trees and power

lines. And next in the hurricane's path, Florida.

If you are in an evacuation zone and you are watching this, evacuate.

Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate. This one-way traffic shows that

warnings are being heeded. A mass evacuation is under way. And no

wonder, this hurricane could be the worst to make land fall in America

in more than a decade. Nick Bryant, BBC News, Haiti.

Hurricane Matthew is the most powerful storm to threaten the US

Atlantic coast in more than a decade.

It's expected to hit Florida within the next couple of hours.

One and a half million people have been told they should

Our correspondent, Laura Bicker, is in Jacksonville.

Well, tonight here we are in a prime stretch of real estate in

Jacksonville beach front and it is abandoned. Residents here have spent

the day boarding up windows, the doors, hoping to save their homes

from the worst of this storm. But the worry here in Jacksonville is

not just the 140 mile an hour winds that are predicted, it is a costal

surge. They fear waves of up to 11 feet could hit this area. President

Obama has declared a state of emergency. That will allow federal

funds to flow into Florida. Thousands of members of the National

Guard are already on stand-by and around 80 evacuation centres have

been set up. Now you heard the stark warning from the Florida governor

Rick Scott. He says you must leave now if you want to get out in time.

Florida is very well drilled in hurricane protocol but it seems that

Hurricane Matthew could prove a real test.

Part of Syria's second largest city - Aleppo -

faces total destruction by Christmas.

That's the warning from the UN envoy to Syria.

He's pleaded with Russia and the Syrian government

to end their bombardment of eastern Aleppo and says he's prepared

to personally accompany al-Qaeda-linked jihadists

out of the city if it would stop the fighting.

More than a quarter of a million civilians are trapped there.

Here's our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet.

On Aleppo front lines, the battle intensifies.

The Syrian army making its greatest gains in the shattered city since

the battle began here four years ago.

This video released by the Syrian military shows soldiers

advancing on the ground, where the flag of the opposition

From the air, blistering bombardment from regime and Russian warplanes,

often hurting the most innocent in this war.

The UN says more than 100 children were killed in the past two

If this agony goes on East Aleppo itself

Maximum two and a half months, Eastern Aleppo, this rate,

We are talking about the old city in particular.

Thousands of Syrian civilians, not terrorists, will be

killed and many of them wounded, thousands and thousands of them may

try to become refugees in order to escape from this.

The fighting and the fear was a nearly six-year war now focus on

Aleppo. Here is how the battle lines are drawn. The west under government

control under fire from rebel forces. The UN says 27 a,000 people

live in the east of Aleppo, including 8,000 fighters from a wide

array of groups. About 1,000 belonging to an Islamist faction. It

recently claimed it had severed links to Al-Qaeda. This is one of

their training camps, al-Nusra, they are regarded as one of the strongest

rebel forces in Aleppo. The Syrian military and allies insist that is

who they are targeting. So today a new UN plan to save the city. It's

called on the fighters to leave and will even escort them out an offer

that they are unlikely to accept and President Assad knows that.

We will not accept that terrorists will take control of any part of

Syria, this is our mission and this is our goal and this is our next

step. The great Aleppo of old still lives but only in the government's

new tourism video, the graceful city now lies largely in ruin. And the

government is dropping leaf thes in the east, warning civilians to leave

before it is too late. The suffering of Aleppo shocked and shamed the

world but the city braces itself for what could still be the worst of the

fight fighting in this most ferocious of wars.

The Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has announced a number

Baroness Chakrabarti, has become Shadow Attorney-General

and Diane Abbott has been made Shadow Home Secretary.

Our political correspondent, Iain Watson, is in

Two big promotions. Two big promotions for both women. Jeremy

Corbyn had been feeling some pressure to put women in some of the

top posts in the Shadow Cabinet. You got lots of criticism for not

putting them in those posts before when he became leader. Diane Abbott

has a role as does Baroness Chakrabarti. Both women are seen as

close allies of Jeremy Corbyn. They may be seen to be showing him up

after a bruising leadership contest. Here Starmer is not seen as a

natural Jeremy Corbyn ally. He has also agreed to serve in the shallow

dashes under the Shadow Cabinet. It is about who is out. The very

popular Chief Whip, Rosie Winterton, has been sacked. She stood up for

the interests of MPs against party leaders. Many are expressing

disappointment that she has gone. Clive Lewis disagreed with his

leader on changing the party policy on Trident renewal but he has been

shifted to business. All of this prompted one of the most senior

figures in the party tonight to describe the reshuffle is

cack-handed and vindictive. Unity has not yet broken out in the Labour

Party. Economic leaders

from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund

and the World Trade Organisation met in Washington today to call

for a new push on free trade. As critics of globalisation mount,

the head of the World Bank, told the BBC he understood people's

anger but said free trade Dr Jim Kim also warned that

if countries start throwing up barriers, the United Nations target

to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 Here's our economics

editor Kamal Ahmed. Minesson, a town that made America -

steel from this city built millions of cars,

the Golden Gate Bridge Since the 1970s more

than 23,000 jobs have gone, burnt, according to the locals,

at the alter of globalisation. 1955I got out of high school. I was

17 years old. now 79, he wants to fight back,

but it's difficult, with the world, as he sees it,

against him and his town. Globalisation killed

the steel industry, it killed the automobile industry,

it's killed the tyre industry, and the subsequent industries that

go with that. You can't keep exporting

middle-class jobs. If you do, who will buy the products

that you bring in from other countries that are cheaper

if you don't have the money? Minneson is a stark symbol,

for the people here, a stark symbol of the damage

they believe has been caused by globalisation and it's

not just a local issue, It's an issue that sparked

demonstrations across Europe, it's an issue at least in part,

behind the vote for Brexit, and it's an issue that has seen

the explosion of a whole The face of that new politics came

here in June, filling these now quiet streets -

One Donald Trump - who told the angry, the disaffected

that its time for governments This wave of globalisation

has wiped out totally, We can turn it around, and we can

turn it around fast! In Washington, I met the man

Donald Trump depends on for advice on trade and asked him

why our people so angry? Folks that have gained

a system benefit from it They may get bought off with cheap

underwear but have lost the ability to have a good paying job that

could provide for themselves, Trade deals are going to be walked

away from if they can't be renegotiated to the point

where they are a net positive for our GDP and a positive

for a good paying job growth. Warnings are flashing

and there international organisations gather

today to make the case. Globalisation has created jobs,

they argue, has meant cheaper prices If we don't continue on the same

path, the target to eradicate extreme poverty

by 2030, could be missed. Dr Jim Kim is the head

of the World Bank. He admits more must be done

to support those who missed out. The people that I grew up

with in Iowa and the Midwest, I'm communicating with many of them

on Facebook - they are very angry with trade, they are very

angry with the current administration, they think that

if they just put walls up, that life will be better for them

but what we're trying to say is that all the evidence points in the other

direction, life will get much worse. Maybe unfairly, globalisation has

become the punch bag for the ills of many economies, inequality,

low growth, falling wages but unfair or not, solutions will have to be

found, something to convince the residents of rust-belt America

and many millions like them, that someone, somewhere

is on their side. There's more from our day

of coverage on the impact of globalisation and trade

on the BBC business news website. Sir Cliff Richard has begun legal

action against the BBC and South Yorkshire Police

following the investigation of historical sexual abuse

allegations against him. The singer - who has always

denied the accusations - was never arrested or charged

and was told earlier this year One of Team Sky's former riders has

questioned its decision to allow Sir Bradley Wiggins to take a banned

drug to treat his asthma. In an exclusive interview for

the BBC - Jonathan Tiernan-Locke, who rode for the team

until he was sacked for a doping violation, says the matter "looked

suspicious" and "odd". Sir Bradley - who's always

denied any wrongdoing - was granted a therapeutic use

exemption before three major races - including the 2012 Tour de

France which he won. Jonathan Tiernan-Locke is riding

out of his skin here. Four years ago, he was the next big

thing in British cycling. Then Jonathan Tiernan-Locke's

world fell apart. Banned for an anti-doping violation,

stripped of his titles, His former employers have recently

been involved in another controversy, having to defend

Sir Bradley Wiggins' use, on medical grounds, of a banned

steroid before major races and, at home in Cornwall,

Tiernan-Locke has always He told me he had been surprised

by the revelations. I don't want to insinuate anything

but the timing doesn't look great. You'd assume, if you had

a need for such a thing, it would be consistent

throughout your career. It would be something

you use year-in, year out. So, from that point of view,

it looks suspicious. Then, from the other perspective,

a team like Sky are so thorough, they don't want to leave

anything to chance. So, why risk these allergies

derailing their best laid plans? Therapeutic Use Exemptions,

or TUEs have come under scrutiny after Russian computer

hackers leaked athletes' Both Wiggins and Team Sky insist

he took the drug, triamcinolone, for asthma-related allergies,

and not to gain an unfair advantage. It was approved by the authorities

and there is no suggestion either Definitely surprised

to see some of the TUEs, and especially the timing of those,

from riders from Team Sky. Yeah, from the outside,

it definitely looks... I do think it's not quite singing

from the same transparent hymn sheet as we were led to

believe previously. There will be some who will have

listen to what you have to say If the shoe was on the other foot,

I might think in a similar fashion. You're absolutely sticking

to that, 100%? Tiernan-Locke also claims that,

when competing for his country rather than Team Sky in 2012,

he was offered a legal, but controversial, super-strength

painkiller that some in the sport There was a time I rode

the World Championships. We were offered a painkiller

called tramadol, which, I wasn't in any pain,

so I didn't need to take. It just didn't sit well

with me at the time. I'm not in any pain,

why would I want a painkiller? The national governing body,

British Cycling, says the doctor concerned denies

Tiernan-Locke's claim. He, meanwhile, having

served his ban, is now focusing on trying to get his career

back on track. Football, and Wales have been

in World Cup qualifier action tonight in Austria

where they secured a 2-2 draw Since Chris Coleman got the Wales

job, England have had five managers, Wales certainly have confidence,

even dressed in grey. Joe Allen scored his first goal

for Wales in their last game. Austria's manager suggested Wales

had been lucky to reach the semifinals at the Euros,

where Austria flopped. They have talented players

like Marco Arnautovic. 1-1 and the two goal-scorers,

both team-mates, at Stoke. High-quality Austrian team work,

well, until they got to this bit... Now Bale with the long throw

in but the goal which gave Wales the lead again

took some deciphering. Tottenham fans may just recognise

defender Kevin Wimmer lying on the ground,

neatly placing the ball Wales gave Arnautovic a second

opportunity in the second But a draw in Vienna actually

means a lot to Wales. The winner of the Stirling Prize -

one of the most prestigious architecture awards in Britain -

has been unveiled tonight. It's considered "the greatest

contribution to the evolution Our Arts Editor Will

Gompertz is at the awards Caruso St John, a London based

architects practice. It has gained a reputation around museums and

galleries it has built. It has won for the Newport Street Gallery in

south London, whose owner is the one-time bad boy of British art, now

a respected impresario, curator and member of the establishment, Damien

Hirst. Here it is, the winner

of the 2016 Stirling Prize - Damien Hirst's Newport Street

Gallery, designed by the architects

Caruso St John. They have transformed three listed

Victorian industrial buildings in Vauxhall,

south London, which were once used for painting theatrical scenery,

into a contemporary exhibition space to present Hirst's private art

collection to the public. The architects added two

new buildings to create a terrace that runs half

the length of the street, which makes for an eye-catching

facade for train passengers using the railway line

on the other side. Inside, there are six exhibition

spaces, a pharmacy-themed restaurant The judges selected it because,

they said, it was an irreverent, yet sensitive conversion

that expresses a poetic Damien Hirst proclaimed immense

pride in what had been achieved and the reaction the gallery has

received in its first year of opening, and hoped people

will continue to enjoy it. OK. I am joined by one half of the

winning architectural practice, Caruso St John. Peter, welcome.

Congratulations. Thank you very much. Did you expect to win? Not

really. No. I prepared myself for not winning. I did not think an art

gallery would necessarily win the prize. Why not? People have got used

to there being quite a few galleries in London. In my opinion, there

could never be enough. The judges described it as irreverent yet an

elegant conversion. What do they mean by irreverent? Well, I think

it's a lot more than a conversion. We did start with some listed

buildings, some Victorian scenery painted studios. But we added 50%

more new buildings and we made something that I think was much more

lively and fall of by Brent C band the original buildings. So it is not

the conversion, something new. What was Damien Hirst like as a client?

Well, he was a brilliant clients. We often have nice clients. He was

particularly good, I guess visually very cute, very brave. His real

passion is art. Not just his own art, but everyone's art. He wanted

great art spaces and knows a lot about that full he was an unusual

client to work with. Congratulations on winning the Stirling Prize

tonight. Bull. Here on BBC One, it's time

for the news where you are. Something is going very wrong in

Ukip at the moment. Things have gone from bad to worse. We'll be speaking

to the party chairman. What does he think is causing the friction?