16/01/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten, Theresa May prepares to spell out her ambitions

for Britain's departure from the European Union.

On the eve of her long-awaited speech, we'll be reporting

on the likely shape of the Prime Minister's strategy.

And there's already an offer of help from Donald Trump,

he tells journalists he'll work on an early trade

Obama said you'll go to the back of the line

meaning, if it does happen, that was a bad statement.

And now we're at the front of the queue?

And we'll be reporting on reaction to Mr Trump's

criticism of Germany, of Nato, and the EU.

The inquest into the killing of 30 British tourists in Tunisia hears

that the security forces delayed their response

In Northern Ireland, the power-sharing

There'll be new elections to the Assembly on March the 2nd.

No one should underestimate the challenge faced to the political

institutions here in Northern Ireland, and what is at stake.

Rolls-Royce will pay nearly ?700 million to settle allegations

They're quite naughty, rebellious books, I suppose.

There are a lot of naughty, rebellious children around.

And tributes to the children's author and illustrator Babette Cole,

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:

Andy Murray gets off to a winning start in Melbourne

as the world number one sets his sights on the first

tennis major of the year, the Australian Open.

Theresa May has been finalising her long-awaited statement

on the government's ambitions for the forthcoming talks

In tomorrow's speech the Prime Minister's expected

to spell out what kind of Brexit deal she wants, and the future

Donald Trump says his promise to negotiate an early trade deal

between America and the UK should strengthen Mrs May's hand.

Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports

on what we might expect, based on the evidence so far.

Heard the one about leaving the European Union?

But despite what sounds like meaningless platitudes, the big

decisions on the European Union have been obvious since June.

There is clearly no mandate for a deal that involves accepting

the free movement of people as it has worked hitherto.

Unlimited EU immigration won't stay, nor the power of European judges.

Our judges, sitting not in Luxembourg, but in

Without them in charge, it means we'll be out

People talk in terms as if somehow we are leaving the EU

but we still want to kind of keep bits of membership of the EU.

And she's even dressed up to make plain how doing business

outside Europe will be more and more important.

And a thumbs up for Brexit from the man who in 91 hours will be

Promises of a quick trade deal given to one

Former minister, sometimes reporter Michael Gove.

But I do believe this, if they hadn't been forced to take

in all of the refugees, so many, with all the problems

that it entails, I think that you wouldn't have a Brexit.

Good cheer for Brexiteers ahead of the Prime Minister's speech.

It's very good news that the United States of America

wants to do a good free trade deal with us and wants to do it very

fast, and it's great to hear that from President-elect Donald Trump.

The Prime Minister may delight them, ready tomorrow to make plain what's

We're going to have the European Court of Justice no longer

We are also going to be outside the single market so we can

And probably outside the customs union so that we can

negotiate our own trade deals with the rest of the world.

This is the most crucial set of choices any Prime Minister

And although the fundamentals were clear before she moved in,

there's been precious little detail in public.

But Theresa May's opponents fear she'll disappoint

because she's juggling her party as well as the public.

Partly because she's had to overcompensate,

as a former Remainer, to prove herself to her own party.

Partly because she has no mandate of her own,

she has not been elected by anybody, so she's not in a very

But partly because she's chosen, really, only to listen to the 52%

of people who voted for Brexit, and not the almost half

of the remaining part of the voting public voted for a different future.

Some people might say that people on your side of the argument haven't

listened to people on the other side for too long and that's why the vote

I accept that unless something dramatic happens or there's a huge

change in public opinion, Brexit is likely to occur.

What I do not accept is that the Brexiteers have a mandate

Theresa May will tell us and them, the other European countries,

more about her decisions that will shape Britain

Her political hope, she and the country are not

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

Our business editor Simon Jack is in Davos,

where the World Economic Forum taking place this week,

and our deputy political editor John Pienaar is in Downing Street.

We'll come to jump in a moment. What our business leaders saying about

their hopes, ambitions, even fears before tomorrow's speech? I think

that the writing has been on the wall for some time that we are

leaving the single market. What is new is that we are more than likely

to leave the customs union which is a perimeter around Europe which

governs what stuff comes in but then things can move freely within so you

don't have to open every palate and inspect every lorry-load. Looks and

we'll be leaving that to make the most of trade deals around the

world. They are holding more cards than you thought, you had Donald

Trump endorsing the UK approach, senior EU negotiators admitting it

would be very disruptive for the EU if the UK was to leave on bad terms.

Even mild mannered Philip Hammond has said he might take the gloves

off and lower taxes if we didn't get a good deal. All of that has added

to their confidence that they can thrash out a good deal. What is

being said here is that we don't want to be overconfident here, we

don't want to get to a position where we thought we were going to

get a good deal and did not in fact get one and fall onto WTO

regulations which means tariffs, and businesses worry could damage trade.

Many thanks. John, I said this speech was long-awaited, how much

detail are we likely to get? Theresa May is being egged on by a chorus of

enthusiastic Brexiteers in her party, in the press, some in her

Cabinet to promise as clean a break as one can imagine from all EU

obligations and ties. Theresa May is, above all else, a pragmatist. He

has not played her cards as closely as she has done to tip them now. She

is not an ideological committed Brexiteer. She will be clear on

driving as hard bargain as she has two to achieve laws made here in

Britain by British lawmakers and enforced by British judges and

within borders managed by an immigration policy made in Britain.

There are expected to be maybe a dozen points she will touch on for

the coming negotiations in the week ahead. Will that satisfy the clamour

for more clarity? Not much chance of that. Will it give us a clear idea

of where we end up? Even less chance. That will be up to long

negotiations in many months ahead and nobody knows the details of that

yet. Thank you both. Some of Europe's political leaders

have hit back at Donald Trump after he accused Chancellor Merkel

of making a 'catastrophic' decision to accept hundreds

of thousands of migrants, He also threatened high tariffs

on German car imports. Mrs Merkel responded by saying that

Europe would continue to fight And President Hollande

of France said Europe did not need "outside advice",

as our diplomatic correspondent They have rehearsed the inauguration

in Washington with a stand-in for President Trump,

but no one knows quite what to expect at Friday's

ceremony, still less The President-elect

continues to amaze, now accusing Germany's Chancellor

Merkel, more than 11 years in office, of a very catastrophic

mistake with her open-doors approach I think it's not good,

I think it was a big Germany's Chancellor

did not return fire, except to argue that

genuine refugees cannot be sacrificed in the fight

against terrorism. TRANSLATION: I would separate this

from the task The majority of refugees have left

Syria because of their And here's the latest

Trump on President Putin. We can make good

deals with Russia, he One good deal could involve

reducing both sides' nuclear Some fear Mr Trump easing sanctions

against Russia. There's talk of an early summit in

Iceland's capital echoing the famous Reykjavik encounter between Reagan

and Gorbachev 30 years ago. That summit may have failed but it did

open the way for eventual arms reduction. Now the man tipped as

Trump's pic for ambassador to the EU says history can be repeated. I

think there will be a summit in Rakitic which is quite interesting,

not unlike the summit between Reagan and Gorbachev some decades ago where

people were equally pessimistic and yet what resulted? Frankly the end

of the Cold War. And we need an end to this Cold War. Donald Trump is

still calling the Western military alliance of Nato obsolete, so what

could that mean for the new deployment of heavy armour to Poland

to deter any Russian threat? Could it be reversed? Francois Hollande

expressed his frustration. TRANSLATION: Europe will already be

ready to pursue transatlantic operation. Europe does not need

outside advice to tell it what it has to do. Those staging the

inauguration may be anxious to learn lessons from their rehearsals but

signs are world leaders remain worried about the real president

Trump. How will he translate sometimes baffling words into

action? China has also reacted strongly

to Mr Trump's latest pronouncements. State media in Beijing said China

would 'take off the gloves' and take strong action if Mr Trump

continued to provoke Mr Trump broke with decades

of precedent last month by taking a telephone call

from the Taiwanese president, a move that angered Beijing,

which regards Taiwan Our correspondent John Sudworth

reports from Beijing. Not everyone in China is taking

Donald Trump too seriously. His inauguration this

week comes just ahead of the Chinese New Year

of the Rooster. And this factory is making, well,

giant Trump lookalike The orders are flowing in, we can

barely cope, the boss tells me. But increasingly Mr Trump

is becoming a target of anger. Mock-ups of Taiwanese ships provide

shooting practice at this While US presidents have long

avoided challenging Beijing's claim to sovereignty,

the so-called one China policy, "China's military,

especially our Navy, is growing stronger,

we don't fear US provocation", "We want peace, but if they cross

our red line we have to take Last week, in a move seen by some

as intended to make that very point, China sent its aircraft carrier

through the Taiwan Strait. And China's Communist Party run

newspapers have issued a stark warning, telling Mr Trump that

if he changes US policy, Beijing will have no choice

but to take off the gloves, and that China will mercilessly

combat those who advocate These Chinese workers make luxury

marble products for the US market. For them, the biggest fear

is not rising military Their American boss believes

Mr Trump's threatened tariffs will do nothing to change

the basic market reality. Hiring one worker in

the states, that could hire So moving our business to the states

would impinge into our margins which would then reflect

on consumer pricing. And it would be very difficult

to run a business that way. The world is about to find out

whether one of the most vital and complex bilateral relationships

is to undergo a profound change. Before his election,

China could simply dismiss Donald Trump's rhetoric

as the overinflated blast And China is making it

increasingly clear that while it has a lot to lose,

so, too, does America Our North America editor

Jon Sopel is in Washington. This latest interview, what does it

tell us, do you think, about Mr Trump's likely approach to foreign

policy? I think it tells us there is not an

overarching philosophy. In the Bush- Blair era we had liberalist

interventionism and some have posed Trump as an isolationist but I don't

think that's right. As everything with trouble you have to view him as

a businessman and deal-maker. If you look at the transcript of the

interview he gave, it is peppered with remarks I'm going to deal with

this one, we are going to do a deal with that one and he talks about

cabinet choices, what makes them good? They are good deal-makers, he

wants to do a deal with Britain on trade and a deal with Nato companies

getting them to spend more, deals with China, Russia and the Middle

East and that's the way he thinks. The worry of the diplomatic immunity

in Washington is if you do one deal it has a consequence somewhere else.

It's like three-dimensional chess. You can't move one piece without the

other pieces on the board being affected. There is a feeling Donald

Trump doesn't get that. That said, Donald Trump's focus come if he can

help it, is not to be on international affairs, it is to

focus on US issues, jobs, health care. That's where he wants the

first few months of his administration to focus on. Jon

Sopel, thank you, with the latest from Washington.

The inquests into the deaths of 30 British tourists

who were killed in Tunisia 18 months ago have started in London.

They were shot dead by a gunman at a beach resort near Sousse.

It was the deadliest terror attack on Britons since the July 7th

The inquest has been told that some of the victims

might still be alive, had local security forces

Our correspondent Daniela Relph reports.

For them, the inquests matter so much.

The families of those killed, still looking for answers.

As the hearing began, the names of those who died were read out

The inquest heard they had needlessly lost their lives.

Mobile phone footage shows the chaos and confusion during the attacks.

Listening to the sound of gunfire and the sense of panic.

The gunman was Seifeddine Rezgui, a 23-year-old who was eventually

But he'd been intent on killing tourists.

CCTV footage has traced his movements that day.

An unknown person dropped off by car near the hotel.

As he walked away he hid his gun beneath a

The sounds of gunfire were heard, those on the

beach run for their lives, confused about what was happening.

On the beach was Rezgui, shooting systematically

He can then be seen inside the hotel,

roaming around, looking for his next victims.

At no point do the police or security guards appear to

Samantha Leek QC, counsel to the inquests,

referred to a statement from a Tunisian witness.

"He said the security units that should have intervened deliberately

and unjustifiably slowed down to delay their arrival at the hotel.

They had the ability to put an end to the attack before the police

arrived." This is a map of the gunman's movements put together by a

British police team. The red arrow indicates where Rezgui started

shooting may the sun lounges before moving to the terrace and outdoor

pool area and into the hotel. He killed everywhere he went.

This 3-D graphic was also shown to the inquest.

The name and photo of each victim marks the place

There was also evidence today from a senior

She said at the time of the killings Tunisia

was ranked as high risk with

But at that stage British tourists were not advised to

It has been a difficult day for the families.

But they want to know how their loved ones came to die in such

Daniela Relph, BBC News, at the High Court.

Rolls-Royce has agreed to pay ?670 million

to the authorities in Britain, the US and Brazil - to settle

The British company - which makes engines for jets, ships,

and nuclear submarines - said the agreements related

to offences involving its intermediaries overseas.

Our industry correspondent John Moylan is here.

What happened here? In 2012 the Serious Fraud Office

said it was looking into allegations of corruption involving Rolls-Royce

in China, Indonesia and other markets. The US open their own

investigation into this two years later. You may recall Panorama did

its own investigation last year with similar claims regarding Rolls-Royce

in India and Brazil and what all of this was about was Rolls-Royce's use

of intermediaries or agents in countries around the world and

claims that payments or bribes were being used to win contracts. This

afternoon after markets closed Rolls-Royce issued a statement

confirming it had reached agreement with these authorities in the UK, US

and Brazil. Under the agreement it escapes prosecution, but it admits

wrongdoing and will pay this huge fine, almost ?700 million come at a

time it can ill afford it, after a number of profits warnings in recent

years. Rolls-Royce said it co-operated fully with the

authorities and reduced its use of agents around the world in recent

years but you have to say this saga is hugely damaging for the

reputation of what is one of Britain's most important companies.

John Moylan, thank you. power-sharing executive

in Northern Ireland has collapsed - and new elections to the Assembly

have been announced - for 2nd March. Earlier today, Sinn Fein

refused to nominate a new Deputy First Minister -

following the resignation Sinn Fein are blaming

the First Minister - the DUP's Arlene Foster -

for mishandling a controversial energy scheme - which could cost

the taxpayer ?500 million. Our chief correspondent

Gavin Hewitt reports. For ten years power has been shared

in Northern Ireland. It was one of the foundation

stones of peace. Today that power-sharing

government collapsed. I propose that a draft Order

in Council be brought forward shortly to set an election date

of Thursday 2nd March. No one should underestimate

the challenge faced to the political institutions here

in Northern Ireland and what is The trigger for the breakdown

was a row over a controversial green energy scheme drawn up

by Unionist minister Arlene Foster. But the bitter arguments

over the scheme exposed growing tensions

between nationalist and I think it's both

parties, personally. I find it very disappointing

and very, very sad. It's the tribal politics, you know,

I feel like we're back in the 80s and I was really hopeful that

for the future generations that they There's no appetite

for a return to any sort of violence at any stage

I think that possibly what will happen is we

will be led through another couple of years of political insecurity.

At Stormont the Northern Ireland Assembly depends on unionists and

Today both main parties were asked to

submit a name for one of the two top posts.

First up, the Democratic Unionist Party.

And they backed their current leader.

..Nominate Arlene Foster to be the First Minister.

There can be no return to the status quo.

If something is broke you stop and you fix it.

But they refused to put forward a name, so ending the

Without an executive, key areas of government

will be stalled and then, most importantly, there's Brexit.

voice when crucial decisions are taken?

We are in a very grave situation going into this election

and the timing of it when Northern Ireland

we are facing Brexit and when we are also

coming to the end of the

financial year is possibly the worst time that we could be entering into

Recent years have changed Northern Ireland, but

the shadows of the past still make compromise difficult.

Some campaigning for this snap poll have already begun with voters going

to the polls on March the 2nd. Then what will happen will be a period of

negotiations, perhaps lasting three weeks when they will try and hammer

out whether there is a basis for future power-sharing. What happens

if they can't reach an agreement? Then they could be further elections

in the future, or they could be direct rule from Westminster.

Tonight there was a telephone call from Downing Street to the Irish

Prime Minister expressing real concern that this election here

could be divisive. STUDIO: Gavin Hewitt, our chief correspondent at

Stormont, thank you. A brief look at some of the day's

other other news stories. Reports from Turkey say the gunman

suspected of killing 39 people at a nightclub in Istanbul

on New Year's Day has been captured. Local media say he was found

in a district of the city. So-called Islamic State has said it

carried out the attack at the club. In his first major

speech of the New Year - the Bank of England Governor Mark

Carney has warned families about spending on credit -

and ignoring the uncertainty He said rising prices

could hit spending power as the year goes on -

leaving people with less The former youth football coach -

Barry Bennell - has pleaded not guilty to eight charges

of child abuse. The allegations all involve a boy

under the age of 15 in the 1980s when Bennell worked at Crewe

Alexandra. Police in South Yorkshire say

they're treating the death of a 16-year-old girl

in Rotherham as suspicious. Her body was found in an alleyway

in the Dinnington area NHS doctors in England are warning

that some patients face 'dangerous' delays getting specialist treatment

through their GPs. The British Medical Association says

referral management centres - create barriers and take decisions

away from GPs. But supporters of the system

say it's a good way Our health editor Hugh

Pym has more details. If a GP refers you for a hospital

checkup or treatment you might think it would happen automatically but in

some areas the decision has to be vetted by another organisation,

sometimes a private company, and that's the subject of

a growing controversy. Tracy used to find everyday

household chores a nightmare, in constant pain

because of her varicose veins. I was in so much pain

with my leg 24 hours a day. I wasn't sleeping properly, I was

struggling to get through my work. Her GP recommended an operation

on the NHS but this was barred by the referral centre

so she had to get it done privately. If a GP feels that

a specialist needs to look at you then the NHS should

be supporting that and they're not. Research by the BBC has revealed

an increase in the use There are about 13.5 million

referrals for treatment by GPs Last year, about 2 million

were screened by referral More than 84,000 were rejected

for clinical reasons, or Really

it is a form of rationing. That's not to say

that we don't need to perhaps ration within the NHS

but I would rather it was done explicitly and that the public

were involved rather than every purchasing authority

making its own individual decisions and sometimes using private

companies to do that. The logic of the system is that

at a time of rising patient demand and stretched resources local health

commissioners have a mechanism for scrutinising decisions which could

lead to expensive Though they acknowledge that once

you've taken on board the cost of the centres there's no way yet

of assessing whether they do provide Some local health bodies

are limiting certain types of The referral centres

are reinforcing those decisions. We don't want to

squander any money, we have limited resources, so it's

really important resources we have we spend most effectively and get

the best value our population. Best value for money,

or bad news for patients? There's limited use

of this system in Wales. health service in Scotland

and Northern Ireland. In England it's certainly

generated a lively debate. Tributes have been paid

to the children's author and illustrator Babette Cole -

who's died at the age of 67. She created more than

70 picture books - She also worked on BBC children's

programmes including Bagpuss There were only two things ever that

I could do in my life. One was ride a horse and the other

was tell a good tale. You could say she was eccentric.

It ran in the family. On my mother's side they were circus

people and pirates. And on my father's side

they were painters. When she wasn't riding horses or

playing with her dogs, Babette Cole wrote and illustrated books that,

like her, were funny and rather Princess Smarty Pants

was her feminist take on stories Princes queue up to

marry Smarty Pants but when she kisses one

he turns into a toad. Dr Dog aimed to teach children

about dirt and disease. Mummy Laid an Egg was sort

of a really ground-breaking book because nobody had done

a sex education book Turning it around, so it's actually

the children that are teaching the parents,

which is what made it She produced books about slime

and smells, about puberty, about coping with divorce, about

handling troublesome family members. There were more than

70 titles in all. Children liked the whimsical

pictures, they liked her often anarchic stories and the way she saw

the world from a child's point But as she once said,

she never really grew up herself. The children's author

Babette Cole who's died aged 67. Time for me to remind you Newsnight

is about to begin on BBC Two. Here's Evan.

Tonight we will try to make sense of what we know about the big Brexit

speech tomorrow. Closer to a full English than a continental Brexit,

we think. We will hear from Michael Gove and Labour's Brexit Secretary

Kier Starmer as well. Join me now on BBC Two. That's Newsnight with Evan.

Here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.