07/10/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten, Hurricane Matthew batters the Caribbean,

leaving more than 800 dead in Haiti alone.

It's the worst storm to hit the region in a decade,

with tens of thousands being left homeless.

Rescuers are only now reaching the worst hit areas.

We've spent the day with one team trying to help the survivors.

Our personal things, important documents like birth

We sleep on the streets with our children and nobody came

The hurricane is now moving up the coast of Florida,

leaving half a million homes without power.

Get ready for turbulence - the Chancellor's warning

about the UK economy after Brexit fears send the pound to a 30 year

As Ukip MEP Stephen Woolfe remains in hospital tonight,

the colleague accused of hitting him denies there was a fight.

There was no punches thrown, there was no face slapping,

there was no digs, there was nothing.

It was as, as what people in Hull would term as, handbags at dawn.

Questions about the employment practices of one of Britain's most

And meet Britain's most valuable sports star.

Why a retired Frankel is worth more than Premier League footballers.

And coming up in Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News,

There's a thrilling start to the one day series in Bangladesh,

The number of people killed after Hurricane Matthew

cut a devastating path across the Caribbean,

has been rising steadily throughout the day.

In Haiti alone, more than 800 people are thought to have died.

Matthew is the most powerful storm to hit the area in a decade,

and is now moving steadily up the east coast of the

In Haiti, rescue teams have only just begun reaching remote areas,

The BBC travelled with a medical team to the southern town

of Port Salut, and our correspondent Nick Bryant has sent this report.

Today we joined the first medical teams to reach the coastal

communities stranded after the hurricane.

Doctors flown in by helicopter, rushing to treat the wounded

in devastated areas cut off from the rest of the country.

These have become morbid journeys, because as contact is finally made

with more marooned towns, the number of dead continues to rise.

Only now are we getting a true sense of the lethal force

They were in the house when the storm hit.

Parts of it fell in on them but they were able to ride out

They were in Port Salut, for local Haitians, a popular

tourist destination known for its tranquil beaches.

Now it has become a place of misery, hardship, need.

The doctors managed to reach Port Salut's hospital to treat a man

whose legs were both broken by a collapsing wall.

The wall fell on his legs, broke both his legs.

I don't think he's got a pelvic fracture, but he might.

Obviously hit his head and has been sewn up.

For all his agony, at least he's still alive.

Many of the dead were killed by falling buildings

This is Jeremie, one of the worst affected communities,

Even buildings that have stood for generations have been

Our personal things, important documents like birth

We sleep on the streets with our children and nobody came

As the coastline was battered by storm surges, as the city

was inundated by floodwaters, many people drowned.

Medics think that was the biggest single cause of death.

When we arrived in the country on Tuesday, the official death toll

Now that figure is being measured in the hundreds.

Sometime in the future, long after the cameras are gone,

people here might wonder why their homeland seems stuck

Their more immediate concern, though, is survival.

29,000 homes have been destroyed by the hurricane and some 53,000 people

are in need of assistance and not a lot is getting through. Many aid

organisations based in Haiti are doing a great job, they came here in

2010 after the earthquake and they haven't left. But the relief effort

is being hampered by the inaccessibility of those worst hit

communities. Right now you can only reach them by air or see. Because of

those communication problems, we are being told tonight that we might not

get a final death toll until this time next week.

Hurricane Matthew is now moving up the coast of Florida,

with winds of 120 miles an hour whipping up waves in some places,

There are warnings of the threat of flooding from a storm surge,

while more than half a million homes have been left without power.

Laura Bicker reports from close to Daytona Beach Florida.

Hurricane Matthew has stalked the Florida coastline.

Authorities described it as a monster.

Millions across the east coast were told to evacuate,

and they settled into makeshift shelters.

After abandoning their homes to the hurricane, all they could

As the storm strengthened, winds of over 100mph

clashed with power lines, cutting supplies to

In Cape Canaveral, some of the buildings simply

could not withstand the constant beating.

The flying debris was captured on camera.

But as conditions begin to ease, officials fear complacency will set

in and people will leave the shelters too quickly.

The wind has pounded this part of Florida for the last 12 hours,

Structurally, most of the homes remain intact.

However, authorities fear the worst might not be over.

They say that out there they have measured waves at 17 feet high.

That is the size of a double-decker bus.

If that comes ashore, these levels will rise

And in the last few hours, those fears proved well founded.

A coastal surge hit Jacksonville in the north of Florida.

The Sunshine State is used to storms, but Matthew is proving

It now has its sights set on Georgia, South

and North Carolina, where a state of emergency has now been declared.

This hurricane has not finished with the US just yet.

Laura Bicker, BBC News, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

At the end of a week in which the pound fell to a 30 year

low against the dollar, the Chancellor has reaffirmed

there will be a "period of turbulence" ahead,

as markets get used to the idea of Britain

But Philip Hammond insisted the fundamentals of the UK

economy were strong, and the government would

take "the necessary measures" to support it.

He's been speaking to our Economics Editor, Kamal Ahmed.

The pound under pressure, falling all week as markets via Brexit, and

then overnight in Asia a flash crash and a 9% fall in two in minutes,

down to $1.18, as nerves were compounded by computer programmes

automatically selling currency. In Washington today, the Chancellor

described it as technical, but admitted it was time to get used to

a pretty bumpy ride. The markets will go up and down. Markets respond

to noises off. As I said earlier this week, we are going to go

through a period of volatility now. The pound has been under pressure

since the vote to leave the European Union. Just before the referendum it

was trading at $1.50. Since then it has fallen markedly, closing tonight

at one point recovering after overnight lows. That is good for

exports and tourism as foreign visitors look for bargains, but less

good for those travelling abroad, holidays more expensive. And for

inflation, as imports like food and fuel become more expensive. Another

casualty today, the government's plan to sell its ?3.6 billion stake

in Lloyds bank in a 1980s style public share offering. Philip

Hammond said market volatility had put paid to that policy. Even here

in Washington, for the Chancellor and all his officials, talk is

dominated by one thing, and that is Brexit. I think he was in

reassurance mode, reassurance for business. He told me he wanted to

see the closest possible trade ties with the rest of the European Union.

And reassurance for the public, saying we had to look through all

this currency volatility at the fundamentals of the British economy,

fundamentals he said were strong. And reassurance on the government's

enthusiasm on paying off its debts. Some people have said you are

looking to spend a huge amount more on infrastructure and borrow more to

do that. Can we expect a spending splurge ahead? No spending splurge.

What we have said we are going to do is create, within a new fiscal

framework, enough space for the government to be able to respond to

the turbulence in the economy that I have talked about this week. As we

go through this period, we want to be able to provide fiscal support,

if necessary. Brexit or not, we asked if making things had made

economy perform strongly than before the referendum. Will that give

Philip Hammond wriggle room? The way to look at the British economy, it's

crying out for more government investment, more government spending

that time. I think that's what the Chancellor should do, I think what

the Chancellor will do is worry a bit too much about government debt

and not enough about what the country needs in terms of

investment. Here in America and away from prying eyes, the Chancellor met

other finance ministers to press his case for the best deal between

Britain and the EU. He has talked about a roller-coaster ride. For the

pound today, it felt more like the Big Dipper. Kamal Ahmed, BBC News,

Washington. The Republican Presidential

candidate Donald Trump could be facing more criticism

over his attitude to women after a video emerged this evening,

in which he's apparently heard making lewd and

disparaging comments. The conversation was recorded

during the show "Access Hollywood" in 2005 and has been obtained

by the Washington Post newspaper Let's get the latest

from our North America Editor Jon Donald Trump's approach to women and

his attitudes towards women has been fairly well documented. He has come

under attack by Hillary Clinton for it, for comments he made about a

former Miss universe. But what we hear on this tape is something on a

different scale altogether. It is lewd, talks about groping women and

talks about women in pretty disparaging terms as sexual objects.

We can play a clip. Some context, he's on a bus so we do not see him

and his is the first voice. And there was much more besides,

fade pretty graphic nature. Donald Trump has issued a statement saying,

this was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place

many years ago. He added that Bill Clinton has said far worse. Hillary

Clinton has just tweeted in the past few minutes, this his horrific, we

cannot allow this man to become president. I think why this is

significant, Donald Trump's problems with reaching women aren't getting

their vote has already been documented. I think this also plays

into temperament, the man of Donald Trump, something else Hillary

Clinton has tried to accuse him of. I suppose if there is a silver

lining in all this, America is totally preoccupied by Hurricane

Matthew and might be slightly less concerned about the latest storm

Donald. The Ukip MEP accused of hitting his

colleague Stephen Woolfe, who ended up in hospital,

has been giving HIS account Mike Hookem denies throwing a punch,

and said the incident was more "handbags at dawn"

than a major fist fight. Mr Woolfe is still receiving

treatment after collapsing Ukip says it will hold

a full investigation. From Strasbourg, here's our

Political Correspondent A smile from his hospital bed,

despite a bust-up that Steven Woolfe will be

here for another two days after an altercation

with a fellow MEP. There was a row between him

and this man, Mike Hookem, Mr Hookem says it

was just a scuffle. There was no punches thrown,

there was no face slapping. It was as, as people in Hull

would term, handbags at dawn. Anger, Mr Hookem told the BBC,

because Steven Woolfe, who wants to be Ukip's next leader,

had considered defecting And could we trust him as a leader,

is he going to jump What happened here yesterday might

be embarrassing, but it's just a symptom of a much

wider problem for Ukip. It has more MEPs than any other,

but internally there are fundamental differences about the direction it

should take, how it should be run, Some are loyal to the party

Nigel Farage has created - plain-speaking, antiestablishment,

strong on immigration. Others think he has too much control

and want a broader agenda, including some former Tories

who've joined Ukip. A previous adviser to Nigel Farage,

who now wants to be leader, There has been a lack of impetus

at the very top of the party There are two make clear

camps inside the party who want to take the party in two

very different directions. Those differences

aren't irreconcilable. If everyone is willing to sit

around the table and put all the past behind them,

we can absolutely move on from this What led to this hospital visit

will be investigated by the party While Steven Woolfe is said to be

recovering, the damage to Ukip Alex Forsyth, BBC News,

Strasbourg. Some changes are being made

to the way thousands of staff are paid and rota-ed,

at a huge distribution warehouse in Barnsley run on behalf

of the fashion retailer Asos. It follows a BBC investigation

into XPO Logistics which runs the warehouse, with many staff

saying they were unhappy with the system of payment

for extra hours worked. The company says it's "fully

compliant with employment law". Our Special Correspondent Ed Thomas

has more details.. ASOS, a global fashion retailer

with its giant Barnsley warehouse. For the first time, the BBC hears

from workers who say they're exploited and a call for bosses

to be questioned in parliament. ASOS has 9 million customers

and a ?1 billion turnover. To meet demand, it needs this

warehouse. Staff pick items every 23 seconds,

but some are speaking out. I just want to be paid

for the hours that I'm owed. This worker, like many we spoke to,

wanted to talk about a clause Staff get paid the same every month

regardless of hours worked, but can be flexed up and work

an extra 10-hours every other week. The hours are not paid,

but placed in a flex bank. As soon as possible,

the company says it offers shorter shifts or staff

can ask to work less, But these texts from the warehouse

show that, two-days before the end of the financial year,

this worker was still We've worked them hours,

so we should get paid If we don't do these hours,

we get disciplined. XPO, the company that

runs the ASOS warehouse, told the BBC persistent

non-attendance for flex hours may result in disciplinary action,

but no-one had been sacked as a result of a failure

to attend a flex shift. She says she was asked to flex up

just hours before a shift. A single parent, childcare

meant she had to say no. They, basically, just say that I'd

go down as a late anyway. ASOS say you know when your flex

weeks are, so sort it out. Yeah, but it would be fair

if they gave enough notice, but I don't believe an hour,

maybe two hours, is enough notice. XPO say staff struggling

with childcare are encouraged to speak out and being asked to flex

up on the day is very rare and that staff are given their flex

weeks months in advance. But this lawyer believes flex

contracts may breach employment law. What's not permissible

is for additional hours, flexed up hours, to be banked

and for those hours to be suspended and then paid at the end

of the financial year. They should be reconciled

during the National Minimum Wage reference period, which can't go

beyond a month. XPO says it complies fully

with employment law. It's all for the advantage

of the company at the Ian Wright is the Chair

of the Commons Business Committee. The MP who led the inquiry

into Sports Direct. He wants flex contracts

tested in law. How is it reasonable that you've

done a period of work in one month and that you might not be paid

for a significant number Do you want to see ASOS

bosses in front of you? I want them to answer that question,

but I also want Government And, whether the parliament has

to now change the law I think that's an important

point as well. I find that really, really unfair

and unreasonable, completely. Since our investigation began,

workers inside ASOS have Firstly, they've been told they'll

no longer be asked to flex up Secondly, they've been promised

all outstanding hours, currently in the flex bank,

will be paid this month. From now on, a pledge that unpaid

flex hours will be settled at time-and-a-half at the end

of the financial year. Too late though for former

workers like Emma. That job means so much

to those people. ASOS says it cares deeply

for its workers, but The GMB union is demanding

an inquiry and soon bosses The former head of the troubled

Southern Health NHS Trust, Katrina Percy, has

left the organisation. She'd faced criticism

for the trust's failure to investigate hundreds

of unexplained deaths. She leaves with a payoff

of nearly ?200,000. This year's Nobel Peace Prize has

been won by the Colombian He's being honoured for brokering

a peace deal with armed Marxist rebels in his country,

that bought an end to 50 years of conflict in which up

to 200,000 people died. But the prize is being awarded,

despite the peace deal being rejected by the people

of Colombia, in a referendum It had been one of the world's

longest, most brutal wars, a 50-year war, a byword

for kidnappings, Then, last week, an extraordinary

moment, the Farc leader, To all the victims,

for all the pain. With a pen fashioned from a bullet,

President Santos signed Days later, Colombians rejected

the accord, narrowly, in a nationwide vote,

a shocking setback after years But today, a vote of confidence

for the President, the world's most TRANSLATION: This prize gives me

more energy and impetus We lost a small battle with the vote

but we are in the fight for peace and we are going to win

it with all of you. Years ago, as Defence Minster,

Juan Manuel Santos fought hard against the Farc to negotiate

the release of hostages. But he also opened a secret

channel for talks. When I met him in Colombia last

week, he admitted winning a real peace would be as hard

as waging war. The signature of the deal is simply

the end of conflict. Reconstructing our country,

a country at war for 50 years. Even the peace prize divides

a people who have lived Paolo, an engineer, says it's

excellent that Santos It will help the peace

process, he says. Critics demand tougher punishment

for the Farc. Supporters say the President got

the best deal he could. Only Colombians can

bridge this divide. But their President is now

a Nobel laureate. Winning this peace matters

to Colombians and the world. He was regarded as the best

racehorse in the world, winning all 14 of his races,

before retiring in 2012. So, what has Frankel

been doing since? And why is he now worth

a staggering ?150 million? A horse who is pure class. Frankel

has destroyed them. He was quite simply flat racing's greatest ever

thoroughbred. After 14 consecutive wins, including this memory in the

2000 Guineas, Frankel retired in glory. Owned by a Saudi Arabian

prince, he is now worth an estimated ?150 million. Horses he has

fathered, winning 23 races so far. Given such success, yearlings with

Frankel in their bloodline are selling at premium prices of over

?1.5 million. Frankel definitely has added an extra dimensional. He was

probably the best racehorse any of us have seen. He has got off to a

fantastic start as a stallion and that has heightened interest with

his second crop of yearlings. This is where the magic happens by

producing the next generation of champions comes with a hefty price

tag. It will cost ?125,000 for what would be an intimate moment with

Frankel. The economics are pretty staggering in terms of the stud fee

he can command and what his progeny, the sales can command. Racing is a

futures business. We are buying tomorrow. That is exciting. But

Frankel's value to his own and to the sport as a whole could be given

a further boost. One of his sons will this weekend attempts to echo

his father's success by winning the Dubai Dewhurst stakes, which crowns

Europe's best two-year-old horse. He resonates in people's hearts. Now

his baby is going out and winning races, good races. It is again

massive for our sport because it continues that story. It seems that

Frankel's illustrious career in racing has a long way to run.

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