:00:00. > :00:08.Tonight at Ten, Theresa May prepares to spell out her ambitions
:00:09. > :00:12.for Britain's departure from the European Union.
:00:13. > :00:14.On the eve of her long-awaited speech, we'll be reporting
:00:15. > :00:21.on the likely shape of the Prime Minister's strategy.
:00:22. > :00:23.And there's already an offer of help from Donald Trump,
:00:24. > :00:25.he tells journalists he'll work on an early trade
:00:26. > :00:30.Obama said you'll go to the back of the line
:00:31. > :00:32.meaning, if it does happen, that was a bad statement.
:00:33. > :00:34.And now we're at the front of the queue?
:00:35. > :00:40.And we'll be reporting on reaction to Mr Trump's
:00:41. > :00:42.criticism of Germany, of Nato, and the EU.
:00:43. > :00:47.The inquest into the killing of 30 British tourists in Tunisia hears
:00:48. > :00:49.that the security forces delayed their response
:00:50. > :00:51.In Northern Ireland, the power-sharing
:00:52. > :00:59.There'll be new elections to the Assembly on March the 2nd.
:01:00. > :01:01.No one should underestimate the challenge faced to the political
:01:02. > :01:10.institutions here in Northern Ireland, and what is at stake.
:01:11. > :01:13.Rolls-Royce will pay nearly ?700 million to settle allegations
:01:14. > :01:21.They're quite naughty, rebellious books, I suppose.
:01:22. > :01:26.There are a lot of naughty, rebellious children around.
:01:27. > :01:29.And tributes to the children's author and illustrator Babette Cole,
:01:30. > :01:34.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:
:01:35. > :01:37.Andy Murray gets off to a winning start in Melbourne
:01:38. > :01:39.as the world number one sets his sights on the first
:01:40. > :02:01.tennis major of the year, the Australian Open.
:02:02. > :02:06.Theresa May has been finalising her long-awaited statement
:02:07. > :02:09.on the government's ambitions for the forthcoming talks
:02:10. > :02:14.In tomorrow's speech the Prime Minister's expected
:02:15. > :02:17.to spell out what kind of Brexit deal she wants, and the future
:02:18. > :02:23.Donald Trump says his promise to negotiate an early trade deal
:02:24. > :02:27.between America and the UK should strengthen Mrs May's hand.
:02:28. > :02:29.Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports
:02:30. > :02:34.on what we might expect, based on the evidence so far.
:02:35. > :02:37.Heard the one about leaving the European Union?
:02:38. > :02:53.But despite what sounds like meaningless platitudes, the big
:02:54. > :02:58.decisions on the European Union have been obvious since June.
:02:59. > :03:00.There is clearly no mandate for a deal that involves accepting
:03:01. > :03:04.the free movement of people as it has worked hitherto.
:03:05. > :03:08.Unlimited EU immigration won't stay, nor the power of European judges.
:03:09. > :03:10.Our judges, sitting not in Luxembourg, but in
:03:11. > :03:16.Without them in charge, it means we'll be out
:03:17. > :03:20.People talk in terms as if somehow we are leaving the EU
:03:21. > :03:24.but we still want to kind of keep bits of membership of the EU.
:03:25. > :03:31.And she's even dressed up to make plain how doing business
:03:32. > :03:36.outside Europe will be more and more important.
:03:37. > :03:39.And a thumbs up for Brexit from the man who in 91 hours will be
:03:40. > :03:43.Promises of a quick trade deal given to one
:03:44. > :03:46.Former minister, sometimes reporter Michael Gove.
:03:47. > :03:58.But I do believe this, if they hadn't been forced to take
:03:59. > :04:02.in all of the refugees, so many, with all the problems
:04:03. > :04:07.that it entails, I think that you wouldn't have a Brexit.
:04:08. > :04:10.Good cheer for Brexiteers ahead of the Prime Minister's speech.
:04:11. > :04:14.It's very good news that the United States of America
:04:15. > :04:18.wants to do a good free trade deal with us and wants to do it very
:04:19. > :04:29.fast, and it's great to hear that from President-elect Donald Trump.
:04:30. > :04:31.The Prime Minister may delight them, ready tomorrow to make plain what's
:04:32. > :04:35.We're going to have the European Court of Justice no longer
:04:36. > :04:39.We are also going to be outside the single market so we can
:04:40. > :04:43.And probably outside the customs union so that we can
:04:44. > :04:46.negotiate our own trade deals with the rest of the world.
:04:47. > :04:48.This is the most crucial set of choices any Prime Minister
:04:49. > :04:52.And although the fundamentals were clear before she moved in,
:04:53. > :04:55.there's been precious little detail in public.
:04:56. > :04:59.But Theresa May's opponents fear she'll disappoint
:05:00. > :05:01.because she's juggling her party as well as the public.
:05:02. > :05:03.Partly because she's had to overcompensate,
:05:04. > :05:08.as a former Remainer, to prove herself to her own party.
:05:09. > :05:10.Partly because she has no mandate of her own,
:05:11. > :05:13.she has not been elected by anybody, so she's not in a very
:05:14. > :05:17.But partly because she's chosen, really, only to listen to the 52%
:05:18. > :05:22.of people who voted for Brexit, and not the almost half
:05:23. > :05:25.of the remaining part of the voting public voted for a different future.
:05:26. > :05:30.Some people might say that people on your side of the argument haven't
:05:31. > :05:33.listened to people on the other side for too long and that's why the vote
:05:34. > :05:37.I accept that unless something dramatic happens or there's a huge
:05:38. > :05:39.change in public opinion, Brexit is likely to occur.
:05:40. > :05:42.What I do not accept is that the Brexiteers have a mandate
:05:43. > :05:54.Theresa May will tell us and them, the other European countries,
:05:55. > :05:56.more about her decisions that will shape Britain
:05:57. > :06:01.Her political hope, she and the country are not
:06:02. > :06:04.Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.
:06:05. > :06:07.Our business editor Simon Jack is in Davos,
:06:08. > :06:10.where the World Economic Forum taking place this week,
:06:11. > :06:16.and our deputy political editor John Pienaar is in Downing Street.
:06:17. > :06:26.We'll come to jump in a moment. What our business leaders saying about
:06:27. > :06:30.their hopes, ambitions, even fears before tomorrow's speech? I think
:06:31. > :06:34.that the writing has been on the wall for some time that we are
:06:35. > :06:38.leaving the single market. What is new is that we are more than likely
:06:39. > :06:42.to leave the customs union which is a perimeter around Europe which
:06:43. > :06:46.governs what stuff comes in but then things can move freely within so you
:06:47. > :06:51.don't have to open every palate and inspect every lorry-load. Looks and
:06:52. > :06:56.we'll be leaving that to make the most of trade deals around the
:06:57. > :07:01.world. They are holding more cards than you thought, you had Donald
:07:02. > :07:04.Trump endorsing the UK approach, senior EU negotiators admitting it
:07:05. > :07:09.would be very disruptive for the EU if the UK was to leave on bad terms.
:07:10. > :07:12.Even mild mannered Philip Hammond has said he might take the gloves
:07:13. > :07:17.off and lower taxes if we didn't get a good deal. All of that has added
:07:18. > :07:24.to their confidence that they can thrash out a good deal. What is
:07:25. > :07:28.being said here is that we don't want to be overconfident here, we
:07:29. > :07:33.don't want to get to a position where we thought we were going to
:07:34. > :07:35.get a good deal and did not in fact get one and fall onto WTO
:07:36. > :07:44.regulations which means tariffs, and businesses worry could damage trade.
:07:45. > :07:49.Many thanks. John, I said this speech was long-awaited, how much
:07:50. > :07:52.detail are we likely to get? Theresa May is being egged on by a chorus of
:07:53. > :07:59.enthusiastic Brexiteers in her party, in the press, some in her
:08:00. > :08:03.Cabinet to promise as clean a break as one can imagine from all EU
:08:04. > :08:09.obligations and ties. Theresa May is, above all else, a pragmatist. He
:08:10. > :08:18.has not played her cards as closely as she has done to tip them now. She
:08:19. > :08:21.is not an ideological committed Brexiteer. She will be clear on
:08:22. > :08:26.driving as hard bargain as she has two to achieve laws made here in
:08:27. > :08:30.Britain by British lawmakers and enforced by British judges and
:08:31. > :08:34.within borders managed by an immigration policy made in Britain.
:08:35. > :08:39.There are expected to be maybe a dozen points she will touch on for
:08:40. > :08:43.the coming negotiations in the week ahead. Will that satisfy the clamour
:08:44. > :08:48.for more clarity? Not much chance of that. Will it give us a clear idea
:08:49. > :08:53.of where we end up? Even less chance. That will be up to long
:08:54. > :08:54.negotiations in many months ahead and nobody knows the details of that
:08:55. > :08:59.yet. Thank you both. Some of Europe's political leaders
:09:00. > :09:01.have hit back at Donald Trump after he accused Chancellor Merkel
:09:02. > :09:04.of making a 'catastrophic' decision to accept hundreds
:09:05. > :09:06.of thousands of migrants, He also threatened high tariffs
:09:07. > :09:13.on German car imports. Mrs Merkel responded by saying that
:09:14. > :09:16.Europe would continue to fight And President Hollande
:09:17. > :09:19.of France said Europe did not need "outside advice",
:09:20. > :09:21.as our diplomatic correspondent They have rehearsed the inauguration
:09:22. > :09:32.in Washington with a stand-in for President Trump,
:09:33. > :09:36.but no one knows quite what to expect at Friday's
:09:37. > :09:48.ceremony, still less The President-elect
:09:49. > :09:52.continues to amaze, now accusing Germany's Chancellor
:09:53. > :09:54.Merkel, more than 11 years in office, of a very catastrophic
:09:55. > :09:56.mistake with her open-doors approach I think it's not good,
:09:57. > :10:00.I think it was a big Germany's Chancellor
:10:01. > :10:02.did not return fire, except to argue that
:10:03. > :10:04.genuine refugees cannot be sacrificed in the fight
:10:05. > :10:06.against terrorism. TRANSLATION: I would separate this
:10:07. > :10:08.from the task The majority of refugees have left
:10:09. > :10:13.Syria because of their And here's the latest
:10:14. > :10:17.Trump on President Putin. We can make good
:10:18. > :10:19.deals with Russia, he One good deal could involve
:10:20. > :10:28.reducing both sides' nuclear Some fear Mr Trump easing sanctions
:10:29. > :10:41.against Russia. There's talk of an early summit in
:10:42. > :10:46.Iceland's capital echoing the famous Reykjavik encounter between Reagan
:10:47. > :10:49.and Gorbachev 30 years ago. That summit may have failed but it did
:10:50. > :10:54.open the way for eventual arms reduction. Now the man tipped as
:10:55. > :11:00.Trump's pic for ambassador to the EU says history can be repeated. I
:11:01. > :11:07.think there will be a summit in Rakitic which is quite interesting,
:11:08. > :11:11.not unlike the summit between Reagan and Gorbachev some decades ago where
:11:12. > :11:17.people were equally pessimistic and yet what resulted? Frankly the end
:11:18. > :11:24.of the Cold War. And we need an end to this Cold War. Donald Trump is
:11:25. > :11:28.still calling the Western military alliance of Nato obsolete, so what
:11:29. > :11:32.could that mean for the new deployment of heavy armour to Poland
:11:33. > :11:39.to deter any Russian threat? Could it be reversed? Francois Hollande
:11:40. > :11:46.expressed his frustration. TRANSLATION: Europe will already be
:11:47. > :11:49.ready to pursue transatlantic operation. Europe does not need
:11:50. > :11:58.outside advice to tell it what it has to do. Those staging the
:11:59. > :12:01.inauguration may be anxious to learn lessons from their rehearsals but
:12:02. > :12:06.signs are world leaders remain worried about the real president
:12:07. > :12:06.Trump. How will he translate sometimes baffling words into
:12:07. > :12:11.action? China has also reacted strongly
:12:12. > :12:13.to Mr Trump's latest pronouncements. State media in Beijing said China
:12:14. > :12:16.would 'take off the gloves' and take strong action if Mr Trump
:12:17. > :12:18.continued to provoke Mr Trump broke with decades
:12:19. > :12:21.of precedent last month by taking a telephone call
:12:22. > :12:25.from the Taiwanese president, a move that angered Beijing,
:12:26. > :12:27.which regards Taiwan Our correspondent John Sudworth
:12:28. > :12:40.reports from Beijing. Not everyone in China is taking
:12:41. > :12:45.Donald Trump too seriously. His inauguration this
:12:46. > :12:48.week comes just ahead of the Chinese New Year
:12:49. > :12:53.of the Rooster. And this factory is making, well,
:12:54. > :12:55.giant Trump lookalike The orders are flowing in, we can
:12:56. > :13:05.barely cope, the boss tells me. But increasingly Mr Trump
:13:06. > :13:12.is becoming a target of anger. Mock-ups of Taiwanese ships provide
:13:13. > :13:23.shooting practice at this While US presidents have long
:13:24. > :13:29.avoided challenging Beijing's claim to sovereignty,
:13:30. > :13:31.the so-called one China policy, "China's military,
:13:32. > :13:40.especially our Navy, is growing stronger,
:13:41. > :13:42.we don't fear US provocation", "We want peace, but if they cross
:13:43. > :13:50.our red line we have to take Last week, in a move seen by some
:13:51. > :14:00.as intended to make that very point, China sent its aircraft carrier
:14:01. > :14:03.through the Taiwan Strait. And China's Communist Party run
:14:04. > :14:06.newspapers have issued a stark warning, telling Mr Trump that
:14:07. > :14:13.if he changes US policy, Beijing will have no choice
:14:14. > :14:18.but to take off the gloves, and that China will mercilessly
:14:19. > :14:20.combat those who advocate These Chinese workers make luxury
:14:21. > :14:34.marble products for the US market. For them, the biggest fear
:14:35. > :14:39.is not rising military Their American boss believes
:14:40. > :14:47.Mr Trump's threatened tariffs will do nothing to change
:14:48. > :14:49.the basic market reality. Hiring one worker in
:14:50. > :14:51.the states, that could hire So moving our business to the states
:14:52. > :14:58.would impinge into our margins which would then reflect
:14:59. > :15:01.on consumer pricing. And it would be very difficult
:15:02. > :15:07.to run a business that way. The world is about to find out
:15:08. > :15:12.whether one of the most vital and complex bilateral relationships
:15:13. > :15:16.is to undergo a profound change. Before his election,
:15:17. > :15:19.China could simply dismiss Donald Trump's rhetoric
:15:20. > :15:22.as the overinflated blast And China is making it
:15:23. > :15:31.increasingly clear that while it has a lot to lose,
:15:32. > :15:34.so, too, does America Our North America editor
:15:35. > :15:50.Jon Sopel is in Washington. This latest interview, what does it
:15:51. > :15:54.tell us, do you think, about Mr Trump's likely approach to foreign
:15:55. > :16:00.policy? I think it tells us there is not an
:16:01. > :16:07.overarching philosophy. In the Bush- Blair era we had liberalist
:16:08. > :16:11.interventionism and some have posed Trump as an isolationist but I don't
:16:12. > :16:14.think that's right. As everything with trouble you have to view him as
:16:15. > :16:18.a businessman and deal-maker. If you look at the transcript of the
:16:19. > :16:21.interview he gave, it is peppered with remarks I'm going to deal with
:16:22. > :16:24.this one, we are going to do a deal with that one and he talks about
:16:25. > :16:29.cabinet choices, what makes them good? They are good deal-makers, he
:16:30. > :16:32.wants to do a deal with Britain on trade and a deal with Nato companies
:16:33. > :16:37.getting them to spend more, deals with China, Russia and the Middle
:16:38. > :16:42.East and that's the way he thinks. The worry of the diplomatic immunity
:16:43. > :16:46.in Washington is if you do one deal it has a consequence somewhere else.
:16:47. > :16:50.It's like three-dimensional chess. You can't move one piece without the
:16:51. > :16:55.other pieces on the board being affected. There is a feeling Donald
:16:56. > :16:58.Trump doesn't get that. That said, Donald Trump's focus come if he can
:16:59. > :17:03.help it, is not to be on international affairs, it is to
:17:04. > :17:07.focus on US issues, jobs, health care. That's where he wants the
:17:08. > :17:11.first few months of his administration to focus on. Jon
:17:12. > :17:15.Sopel, thank you, with the latest from Washington.
:17:16. > :17:17.The inquests into the deaths of 30 British tourists
:17:18. > :17:20.who were killed in Tunisia 18 months ago have started in London.
:17:21. > :17:25.They were shot dead by a gunman at a beach resort near Sousse.
:17:26. > :17:28.It was the deadliest terror attack on Britons since the July 7th
:17:29. > :17:33.The inquest has been told that some of the victims
:17:34. > :17:35.might still be alive, had local security forces
:17:36. > :17:38.Our correspondent Daniela Relph reports.
:17:39. > :17:42.For them, the inquests matter so much.
:17:43. > :17:46.The families of those killed, still looking for answers.
:17:47. > :17:50.As the hearing began, the names of those who died were read out
:17:51. > :17:56.The inquest heard they had needlessly lost their lives.
:17:57. > :18:06.Mobile phone footage shows the chaos and confusion during the attacks.
:18:07. > :18:10.Listening to the sound of gunfire and the sense of panic.
:18:11. > :18:17.The gunman was Seifeddine Rezgui, a 23-year-old who was eventually
:18:18. > :18:24.But he'd been intent on killing tourists.
:18:25. > :18:29.CCTV footage has traced his movements that day.
:18:30. > :18:35.An unknown person dropped off by car near the hotel.
:18:36. > :18:37.As he walked away he hid his gun beneath a
:18:38. > :18:41.The sounds of gunfire were heard, those on the
:18:42. > :18:45.beach run for their lives, confused about what was happening.
:18:46. > :18:46.On the beach was Rezgui, shooting systematically
:18:47. > :18:53.He can then be seen inside the hotel,
:18:54. > :18:57.roaming around, looking for his next victims.
:18:58. > :19:00.At no point do the police or security guards appear to
:19:01. > :19:05.Samantha Leek QC, counsel to the inquests,
:19:06. > :19:07.referred to a statement from a Tunisian witness.
:19:08. > :19:18."He said the security units that should have intervened deliberately
:19:19. > :19:23.and unjustifiably slowed down to delay their arrival at the hotel.
:19:24. > :19:28.They had the ability to put an end to the attack before the police
:19:29. > :19:32.arrived." This is a map of the gunman's movements put together by a
:19:33. > :19:37.British police team. The red arrow indicates where Rezgui started
:19:38. > :19:40.shooting may the sun lounges before moving to the terrace and outdoor
:19:41. > :19:45.pool area and into the hotel. He killed everywhere he went.
:19:46. > :19:47.This 3-D graphic was also shown to the inquest.
:19:48. > :19:49.The name and photo of each victim marks the place
:19:50. > :19:53.There was also evidence today from a senior
:19:54. > :19:56.She said at the time of the killings Tunisia
:19:57. > :19:58.was ranked as high risk with
:19:59. > :20:06.But at that stage British tourists were not advised to
:20:07. > :20:10.It has been a difficult day for the families.
:20:11. > :20:14.But they want to know how their loved ones came to die in such
:20:15. > :20:23.Daniela Relph, BBC News, at the High Court.
:20:24. > :20:25.Rolls-Royce has agreed to pay ?670 million
:20:26. > :20:28.to the authorities in Britain, the US and Brazil - to settle
:20:29. > :20:32.The British company - which makes engines for jets, ships,
:20:33. > :20:36.and nuclear submarines - said the agreements related
:20:37. > :20:37.to offences involving its intermediaries overseas.
:20:38. > :20:43.Our industry correspondent John Moylan is here.
:20:44. > :20:50.What happened here? In 2012 the Serious Fraud Office
:20:51. > :20:53.said it was looking into allegations of corruption involving Rolls-Royce
:20:54. > :20:57.in China, Indonesia and other markets. The US open their own
:20:58. > :21:02.investigation into this two years later. You may recall Panorama did
:21:03. > :21:05.its own investigation last year with similar claims regarding Rolls-Royce
:21:06. > :21:08.in India and Brazil and what all of this was about was Rolls-Royce's use
:21:09. > :21:12.of intermediaries or agents in countries around the world and
:21:13. > :21:15.claims that payments or bribes were being used to win contracts. This
:21:16. > :21:19.afternoon after markets closed Rolls-Royce issued a statement
:21:20. > :21:23.confirming it had reached agreement with these authorities in the UK, US
:21:24. > :21:28.and Brazil. Under the agreement it escapes prosecution, but it admits
:21:29. > :21:35.wrongdoing and will pay this huge fine, almost ?700 million come at a
:21:36. > :21:37.time it can ill afford it, after a number of profits warnings in recent
:21:38. > :21:39.years. Rolls-Royce said it co-operated fully with the
:21:40. > :21:42.authorities and reduced its use of agents around the world in recent
:21:43. > :21:46.years but you have to say this saga is hugely damaging for the
:21:47. > :21:47.reputation of what is one of Britain's most important companies.
:21:48. > :21:49.John Moylan, thank you. power-sharing executive
:21:50. > :21:55.in Northern Ireland has collapsed - and new elections to the Assembly
:21:56. > :21:58.have been announced - for 2nd March. Earlier today, Sinn Fein
:21:59. > :22:00.refused to nominate a new Deputy First Minister -
:22:01. > :22:02.following the resignation Sinn Fein are blaming
:22:03. > :22:05.the First Minister - the DUP's Arlene Foster -
:22:06. > :22:08.for mishandling a controversial energy scheme - which could cost
:22:09. > :22:11.the taxpayer ?500 million. Our chief correspondent
:22:12. > :22:22.Gavin Hewitt reports. For ten years power has been shared
:22:23. > :22:24.in Northern Ireland. It was one of the foundation
:22:25. > :22:26.stones of peace. Today that power-sharing
:22:27. > :22:28.government collapsed. I propose that a draft Order
:22:29. > :22:32.in Council be brought forward shortly to set an election date
:22:33. > :22:38.of Thursday 2nd March. No one should underestimate
:22:39. > :22:45.the challenge faced to the political institutions here
:22:46. > :22:48.in Northern Ireland and what is The trigger for the breakdown
:22:49. > :22:53.was a row over a controversial green energy scheme drawn up
:22:54. > :22:57.by Unionist minister Arlene Foster. But the bitter arguments
:22:58. > :23:01.over the scheme exposed growing tensions
:23:02. > :23:02.between nationalist and I think it's both
:23:03. > :23:09.parties, personally. I find it very disappointing
:23:10. > :23:11.and very, very sad. It's the tribal politics, you know,
:23:12. > :23:17.I feel like we're back in the 80s and I was really hopeful that
:23:18. > :23:20.for the future generations that they There's no appetite
:23:21. > :23:25.for a return to any sort of violence at any stage
:23:26. > :23:29.I think that possibly what will happen is we
:23:30. > :23:33.will be led through another couple of years of political insecurity.
:23:34. > :23:36.At Stormont the Northern Ireland Assembly depends on unionists and
:23:37. > :23:45.Today both main parties were asked to
:23:46. > :23:47.submit a name for one of the two top posts.
:23:48. > :23:48.First up, the Democratic Unionist Party.
:23:49. > :23:53.And they backed their current leader.
:23:54. > :23:58...Nominate Arlene Foster to be the First Minister.
:23:59. > :24:04.There can be no return to the status quo.
:24:05. > :24:07.If something is broke you stop and you fix it.
:24:08. > :24:14.But they refused to put forward a name, so ending the
:24:15. > :24:23.Without an executive, key areas of government
:24:24. > :24:31.will be stalled and then, most importantly, there's Brexit.
:24:32. > :24:36.voice when crucial decisions are taken?
:24:37. > :24:40.We are in a very grave situation going into this election
:24:41. > :24:43.and the timing of it when Northern Ireland
:24:44. > :24:46.we are facing Brexit and when we are also
:24:47. > :24:47.coming to the end of the
:24:48. > :24:50.financial year is possibly the worst time that we could be entering into
:24:51. > :24:53.Recent years have changed Northern Ireland, but
:24:54. > :25:01.the shadows of the past still make compromise difficult.
:25:02. > :25:08.Some campaigning for this snap poll have already begun with voters going
:25:09. > :25:12.to the polls on March the 2nd. Then what will happen will be a period of
:25:13. > :25:16.negotiations, perhaps lasting three weeks when they will try and hammer
:25:17. > :25:19.out whether there is a basis for future power-sharing. What happens
:25:20. > :25:24.if they can't reach an agreement? Then they could be further elections
:25:25. > :25:28.in the future, or they could be direct rule from Westminster.
:25:29. > :25:30.Tonight there was a telephone call from Downing Street to the Irish
:25:31. > :25:38.Prime Minister expressing real concern that this election here
:25:39. > :25:39.could be divisive. STUDIO: Gavin Hewitt, our chief correspondent at
:25:40. > :25:41.Stormont, thank you. A brief look at some of the day's
:25:42. > :25:44.other other news stories. Reports from Turkey say the gunman
:25:45. > :25:47.suspected of killing 39 people at a nightclub in Istanbul
:25:48. > :25:50.on New Year's Day has been captured. Local media say he was found
:25:51. > :25:52.in a district of the city. So-called Islamic State has said it
:25:53. > :25:56.carried out the attack at the club. In his first major
:25:57. > :26:00.speech of the New Year - the Bank of England Governor Mark
:26:01. > :26:02.Carney has warned families about spending on credit -
:26:03. > :26:04.and ignoring the uncertainty He said rising prices
:26:05. > :26:10.could hit spending power as the year goes on -
:26:11. > :26:12.leaving people with less The former youth football coach -
:26:13. > :26:16.Barry Bennell - has pleaded not guilty to eight charges
:26:17. > :26:20.of child abuse. The allegations all involve a boy
:26:21. > :26:23.under the age of 15 in the 1980s when Bennell worked at Crewe
:26:24. > :26:26.Alexandra. Police in South Yorkshire say
:26:27. > :26:28.they're treating the death of a 16-year-old girl
:26:29. > :26:31.in Rotherham as suspicious. Her body was found in an alleyway
:26:32. > :26:34.in the Dinnington area NHS doctors in England are warning
:26:35. > :26:40.that some patients face 'dangerous' delays getting specialist treatment
:26:41. > :26:45.through their GPs. The British Medical Association says
:26:46. > :26:49.referral management centres - create barriers and take decisions
:26:50. > :26:52.away from GPs. But supporters of the system
:26:53. > :26:54.say it's a good way Our health editor Hugh
:26:55. > :26:59.Pym has more details. If a GP refers you for a hospital
:27:00. > :27:02.checkup or treatment you might think it would happen automatically but in
:27:03. > :27:09.some areas the decision has to be vetted by another organisation,
:27:10. > :27:11.sometimes a private company, and that's the subject of
:27:12. > :27:13.a growing controversy. Tracy used to find everyday
:27:14. > :27:19.household chores a nightmare, in constant pain
:27:20. > :27:22.because of her varicose veins. I was in so much pain
:27:23. > :27:25.with my leg 24 hours a day. I wasn't sleeping properly, I was
:27:26. > :27:31.struggling to get through my work. Her GP recommended an operation
:27:32. > :27:36.on the NHS but this was barred by the referral centre
:27:37. > :27:39.so she had to get it done privately. If a GP feels that
:27:40. > :27:43.a specialist needs to look at you then the NHS should
:27:44. > :27:46.be supporting that and they're not. Research by the BBC has revealed
:27:47. > :27:49.an increase in the use There are about 13.5 million
:27:50. > :27:53.referrals for treatment by GPs Last year, about 2 million
:27:54. > :27:57.were screened by referral More than 84,000 were rejected
:27:58. > :28:01.for clinical reasons, or Really
:28:02. > :28:07.it is a form of rationing. That's not to say
:28:08. > :28:13.that we don't need to perhaps ration within the NHS
:28:14. > :28:16.but I would rather it was done explicitly and that the public
:28:17. > :28:18.were involved rather than every purchasing authority
:28:19. > :28:20.making its own individual decisions and sometimes using private
:28:21. > :28:24.companies to do that. The logic of the system is that
:28:25. > :28:30.at a time of rising patient demand and stretched resources local health
:28:31. > :28:32.commissioners have a mechanism for scrutinising decisions which could
:28:33. > :28:34.lead to expensive Though they acknowledge that once
:28:35. > :28:46.you've taken on board the cost of the centres there's no way yet
:28:47. > :28:49.of assessing whether they do provide Some local health bodies
:28:50. > :28:53.are limiting certain types of The referral centres
:28:54. > :29:00.are reinforcing those decisions. We don't want to
:29:01. > :29:02.squander any money, we have limited resources, so it's
:29:03. > :29:05.really important resources we have we spend most effectively and get
:29:06. > :29:07.the best value our population. Best value for money,
:29:08. > :29:09.or bad news for patients? There's limited use
:29:10. > :29:12.of this system in Wales. health service in Scotland
:29:13. > :29:15.and Northern Ireland. In England it's certainly
:29:16. > :29:17.generated a lively debate. Tributes have been paid
:29:18. > :29:22.to the children's author and illustrator Babette Cole -
:29:23. > :29:26.who's died at the age of 67. She created more than
:29:27. > :29:28.70 picture books - She also worked on BBC children's
:29:29. > :29:33.programmes including Bagpuss There were only two things ever that
:29:34. > :29:51.I could do in my life. One was ride a horse and the other
:29:52. > :29:54.was tell a good tale. You could say she was eccentric.
:29:55. > :29:57.It ran in the family. On my mother's side they were circus
:29:58. > :29:59.people and pirates. And on my father's side
:30:00. > :30:03.they were painters. When she wasn't riding horses or
:30:04. > :30:06.playing with her dogs, Babette Cole wrote and illustrated books that,
:30:07. > :30:09.like her, were funny and rather Princess Smarty Pants
:30:10. > :30:12.was her feminist take on stories Princes queue up to
:30:13. > :30:15.marry Smarty Pants but when she kisses one
:30:16. > :30:18.he turns into a toad. Dr Dog aimed to teach children
:30:19. > :30:26.about dirt and disease. Mummy Laid an Egg was sort
:30:27. > :30:36.of a really ground-breaking book because nobody had done
:30:37. > :30:38.a sex education book Turning it around, so it's actually
:30:39. > :30:43.the children that are teaching the parents,
:30:44. > :30:45.which is what made it She produced books about slime
:30:46. > :30:55.and smells, about puberty, about coping with divorce, about
:30:56. > :30:57.handling troublesome family members. There were more than
:30:58. > :31:00.70 titles in all. Children liked the whimsical
:31:01. > :31:04.pictures, they liked her often anarchic stories and the way she saw
:31:05. > :31:07.the world from a child's point But as she once said,
:31:08. > :31:11.she never really grew up herself. The children's author
:31:12. > :31:26.Babette Cole who's died aged 67. Time for me to remind you Newsnight
:31:27. > :31:30.is about to begin on BBC Two. Here's Evan.
:31:31. > :31:33.Tonight we will try to make sense of what we know about the big Brexit
:31:34. > :31:38.speech tomorrow. Closer to a full English than a continental Brexit,
:31:39. > :31:42.we think. We will hear from Michael Gove and Labour's Brexit Secretary
:31:43. > :31:44.Kier Starmer as well. Join me now on BBC Two. That's Newsnight with Evan.
:31:45. > :31:46.Here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.