13/02/2017 BBC News at Ten

New evidence of drug abuse and security failings at one

A BBC undercover investigation at Northumberland Prison reveals

chaos and unrest and the constant threat of violence.

Move away from me, unless you want me to use it on you.

Well, can you move away from me, then?

Amid calls for a reduction in the prison population,

ministers say there's no "quick fix" and that numbers will fall

The criminal justice system has got better at catching and convicting

criminals who've perpetrated some of the most appalling crimes

The Justice Secretary also called for a sharper focus on tackling high

The chief executive says its ethical stance

Donald Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn,

apologises for his discussions with Russians before

The new head of UK cyber security warns of a real and growing threat

And it's finally confirmed - the Yorkshire batsman, Joe Root,

is named as the new England Test captain.

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Could Manchester City move up

to second in the Premier League with victory over Bournemouth?

There is no 'quick fix' available to solve the problem of serious

That's the view of Liz Truss, the Justice Secretary,

who says that preventing more prisoners from re-offending

The scale of the problem has been shown by BBC Panorama,

which secretly filmed evidence of widespread drug use and a number

of security failings at one of Britain's biggest prisons,

as our special correspondent Ed Thomas reports.

Undercover in one of our biggest jails, BBC Panorama filmed the drugs

And the staff pushed to their limits.

HMP Northumberland is a private jail run

by the French company Sodexo, home to more

than 1300 inmates, and for

two months, BBC Panorama's Joe Fenton.

On his first day, 2.5 kilos of Spice, an illegal high with a

prison value of over ?250,000, was found in two cells.

Despite this, staff told the reporter there was no

lockdown so the block could be completely searched.

The BBC secretly filmed inmates high on

A prison officer on the floor, suffering a

Colleagues said he'd accidentally inhaled Spice.

CCTV cameras recorded an inmate being stamped on.

At one point, Panorama's reporter was threatened by an inmate.

And the BBC discovered a serious security

Here, they hold well-behaved inmates, but

nearby, officers found wire-cutters and a hole in an inner security

That meant drugs could have been smuggled inside.

The governer said the wrong type of inmate had

So, who will take responsibility for this jail's

Today, the Justice Secretary confirmed an investigation

Do you think Sodexo should be running this jail, Ms

We are conducting an investigation on this issue.

I take this issue very seriously, and

that's why we are investing in 2500 officers.

As for Sodexo, the company that runs the prison,

they said the safety of

staff and inmates is their top priority.

As we heard, the Justice Secretary, Liz Truss, has outlined her thinking

on tackling the problems in prisons in England and Wales.

And she focused on high rates of re-offending,

which she said was the biggest single factor in creating

Our home editor Mark Easton looks at the range of challenges faced

The prisons of England and Wales are struggling to keep control,

as these exclusive BBC News pictures from last year revealed.

Most jails are officially designated as overcrowded.

The number now locked up, at around 85,000, is among

If we take the long view and go right back to 1900,

we can see how the prison population has been rising for

In fact, it has doubled in the last quarter of a century.

Obviously, the population has risen, but the proportion jailed back

British incarceration rates are the highest in Western Europe.

France lock up far fewer, Italy and Germany lower still.

And in Scandinavian countries like Sweden,

So, is Britain more criminal than other parts of Western Europe?

And why have our prison numbers doubled in recent decades when crime

Commenting on the jail population figures, Labour's

Shadow Attorney General, Shami Chakrabarti, said

it was inconceivable that the sum of human wickedness could have

But today, the Justice Secretary, Liz Truss, said the real reason

for rising prison numbers is that we've exposed more of the wickedness

The criminal justice system has got better at catching and convicting

criminals who have perpetrated some of the most appalling

And sentence lengths now better reflect the severity of crimes

like domestic violence, rape and child abuse.

It's not the sum of human wickedness that has doubled,

it's that we're driving that wickedness out from

the shadows and we're putting it where it belongs

There are 3000 more sex offenders in jail than five

years ago, but actually, 3000 fewer violent offenders.

What really happened is that sentences have got longer,

the population has barely shifted, but the budgets have got smaller.

The number of front-line officers has fallen sharply,

and with fewer staff, assaults, self harm and suicide have

You could spend more money, but the Ministry of Justice

You could insist that fewer people are jailed,

but ministers today claimed that would endanger the public.

This Government, like many before it, is pinning its hopes on reducing

reoffending and cutting the prison population that way.

The Co-operative Bank is for sale, and its leadership says

that its strong ethical stance means it has the potential to succeed.

But the bank, which has 4 million customers,

has struggled to meet new rules on the amount of capital reserves

It is still losing money, despite efforts to rebuild

the business after a financial crisis in 2013.

Our business editor Simon Jack has the story.

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Well-known for its ethical stance, the actions of the

Co-op Bank over the last four years have in fact given it a rather

different reputation, one for financial weakness and management

The ethical policy is embedded into how we do business.

Co-op Bank's problems really started with an ill-fated merger with

Britannia Building Society in August 2009.

By June of 2013, that had helped punch a ?1.5 billion hole

That prompted the departure of the then

chairman, Paul Flowers, who in November of that year

In April 2014, it reported a ?1.3 billion loss.

That required an emergency rescue in May, which saw the Co-op Group's

stake cut to just 20%, as lenders and US hedge funds took control.

Lower-for-longer interest rates, which

have constrained our earning ability.

The scale of the transformation challenge that we

took on in 2013 being bigger than we expected.

And fixing conduct issues from the past as we've undertaken

those across the last three or four years.

Since it's near-death experience in 2013, the Co-op Bank

has never really regained full financial health.

A combination of superlow interest rates and the

problems of the past have meant it's been very

difficult for banks - big, and especially small -

The only options open to it are for the current

owners to put in more money, or to put itself up for sale.

The Co-op itself is a classic bank caught in

It's too big to be nimble, and it's not big

And there are other banks out there in

a similar position - names like TSB and Virgin

If you put together the Co-op with a bank of that size,

you could start to make the kind of cost savings,

sharing IT, which maybe could make a viable business.

Getting that fit right is important to Co-op

Whoever they sell to, they've got to have the same sort of

They seem to have gone downhill somehow.

Are they going to close more branches, and is

It's business as usual for the bank's

customers, but for the bank's identity, it could be the end of a

President Trump and the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau,

have emphasised their shared interests on trade and immigration

after their first summit meeting at the White House.

It's been another hectic day for the Trump team

as the National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, has apologised

for his discussions with Russian diplomats before the inauguration.

Let's join our North America editor Jon Sopel at the White House.

What happened was that Michael Flynn phoned repeatedly the Russian

ambassador here in Washington, and what he told people was that the

call was purely about arranging another call between Vladimir Putin

and Donald Trump, but last week, intelligence intercepts emerged

which showed that he had discussed lifting sanctions that Iraq Obama

had imposed just before he left office, leaving Mike Pence, the vice

president,, furious. -- that Barack Obama. Today, it was the Donald

Trump and Justin Trudeau show. This is the neighbour just dropping by,

but whether ever two elected leaders so different in style and substance

than Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau? On one particular issue,

they are thousands of miles apart: Whether to let those fleeing

persecution into the country. On the day after President Trump signed his

controversial executive order banning refugees and travellers from

seven mainly Muslim countries, Justin Trudeau tweeted this: So, how

will they deal with this obvious policy difference at their joint

news conference? Yeller might we cannot let the wrong people in, and

I will not allow that during this administration. And people, the

citizens of our country, want that, and that is their attitude too, I

will tell you. There have been times when we have differed in our

approach, and that has always been done respectfully. The last thing

Canadians expect is for me to come down and lecturer another country on

how they choose to govern themselves. Astonishingly, no

questions were either asked or allowed about this man, who was in

the room for the news conference. He is Michael Flynn, the President's

National Security adviser and a key White House figure. This was him two

weeks ago after rerun had tested a ballistic missile. Instead of being

grateful, Iran feels emboldened. As of today, we are officially putting

a run on notice. But it is he who is on notice after not being entirely

candid about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador prior to

Donald Trump taking office, and he may well have lied to the vice

president about it. So, does he still enjoy the President's full

confidence? White House staff could not or would not say. I don't have

any information to change anything that has previously been said on

this matter. General Flynn has served this country admirably. There

was one piece of news on Michael Flynn's future. He does enjoy the

President's confidence. You can see we're not talking about all the

things that got done at the weekend. He flew back to Washington last

night with the president and was at the news conference today. He is

still national security adviser, though with a high degree of

insecurity. Well, it seems that the piece has been bought by Michael

Flynn dart-mac there is always palace entry, whether is it -- it is

here at the White House, or elsewhere. But just how much

intrigue that has been so soon after taking office.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will arrive

shortly in Washington, ready for his first summit meeting

The talks are expected to set the tone for Israel's relationship

with the USA in the coming years, and it's unclear whether the two

leaders will agree on the contentious issue of Israeli

settlements and the road to establishing

Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen has sent this report,

which starts in the village of Jalud on the West Bank.

Sharing it, splitting it, taking it, keeping it,

is at the heart of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

The hilltops around the village of Jalud, in the northern

West Bank have been taken for Jewish settlements.

Some have been built on land owned by this man - an olive farmer.

A new Israeli law legalises settlements built on

privately-owned Palestinian land in return for compensation.

TRANSLATION: We would never take compensation.

Compensation means selling to settlers and we would never do that.

The Israeli President says it makes Israel look wrongly

The chief Palestinian negotiator says that is what it is already.

All the Israeli leaders, who don't believe in a two-state solution,

and cannot even hear the term secular democratic state,

where Jews, Muslims and Christians live together.

So they believe they can impose on me, I one state,

Do you really think the Israelis, who pride themselves,

as they always say, on being the only democracy

in the Middle East, do you really think they would preside over

Lost in bodyguards, Israel's Prime Minister visited

Candidate Trump backed Prime Minister Netanyahu's policies

But, in the last week, President Trump has said settlements

Perhaps America's self-styled deal-maker believes he can seal

the hardest one of all - between Israel and the Palestinians.

His change of mood wrong-footed Israeli ministers, who had hoped

they might have American backing for annexation, incorporating

the occupied territory they want into Israel.

We're not going to wait for the Palestinians for ever.

It's a possibility but we need to do it together with the Americans,

after seeing the regional options, and after opening all

Israel has settled around 600,000 Jews in the West Bank,

The UN Security Council resolution calls that a flagrant violation

of international law and a major obstacle to peace.

The settlements have been planned to allow for expansion.

This is Ma'ale Adumim, one of the biggest

So, Ma'ale Adumim is big and it's growing, but it

because its municipal boundaries have been zoned, to take in great

You can get some idea of the size of Ma'ale Adumim

It takes quite a while to go along its boundary.

Palestinians worry that this settlement, on its own,

could cut the West Bank in two, making their hopes for a state

In this troubled land, more than 20 years of peace talks,

sponsored by the last four American presidents, have failed.

But the conflict cannot be ignored, whoever is in the White House.

Because Jerusalem, and its hinterland, sit like a time

A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.

At least four people have died in an avalanche at the ski resort

The group of snowboarders, including an experienced guide,

was buried after the wall of snow swept across an off-piste area.

The identity of those in the group is still not clear,

but it was said to include two teenage boys.

Police in Pakistan say at least 11 people have been killed,

and 70 injured, in a bomb attack in the eastern city of Lahore.

Hundreds of people had gathered in the street to protest

about new rules governing the sale of medicines in pharmacies.

A faction of the Taliban militant group has said it was responsible.

Around 200,000 people in northern California are waiting to hear

if they can return to their homes after the area surrounding America's

Engineers had found a hole in one of the Oroville dam's

emergency overflow channels, and feared it could collapse,

sending a massive wall of water into the towns below the lake.

The authorities say the threat is receding.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has described

the language of public life in the wake of last year's EU

referendum as 'deeply divided' and warned it could get worse.

Addressing the governing body of the Church of England,

the General Synod, he called on Anglicans to help 'reimagine

The language of public life at present is deeply, savagely divided,

Our example in response is crucial to the

Our religious affairs correspondent Martin Bashir is here.

It is very big week for the Church. A huge week. The Archbishop preach

from Luke's spore, urging Christians to turn away from self indulgence

and towards self sacrifice in the light of the sense of uncertainty

and fear he says has been caused by populist movements across Europe and

the election of Donald Trump. But, the fireworks for this week's Synod

will be lit on Wednesday because that is when the will debate the

house of Bishops report on same-sex marriage. That report says, it

maintains that marriage in church is a lifelong union between a man and a

woman. Thank you very much. The Government's new head of cyber

security has warned of a real and growing threat to the UK's

critical national infrastructure. GCHQ's National Cyber Security

Centre will be opened In a BBC interview, its director has

spoken of a number of significant intrusions by hostile states

in recent months, and highlighted a new willingness by

Russia to take part. Our security correspondent

Gordon Corera has more details. A Russian involvement in efforts

to hack information. The worst case is that

all of our customers' China's activities in cyberspace

is a significant source of concern. Hacking that could

hamper vote counting. Cyber attacks are,

it seems, everywhere. Hackers targeting governments,

businesses, ordinary people. Now a new organisation

is being formally launched. At its new headquarters for the head

of the National Cyber Security Centre told me

the threat is real. We've had significant

losses of personal data, significant intrusions

by hostile state activists. Significant reconnaissance

against critical national infrastructure and our job

is to make sure we deal with that The most high-profile recent event

was the best, and leaking, of US Democratic Party e-mails,

attributed by American And Russia is high up the list

of worries in the UK. I think there has been

an identifiable trend in Russian attacks in the West in terms

of focusing on critical national industries and on political

and democratic processes. So it follows from that

that we will look to make sure What we have done here is create

a room of the near future, and we've got some devices that

are all connected to the internet. The new centre is not just

there to protect government Its technical director showed me how

internet-connected items like lamps and coffee makers could be

vulnerable, even a child's toy doll. Over here, we've got a door that has

got an internet connected lock, so I can open the door for my kids

if they forget their keys, The problem is, Cayla isn't

very security sensitive. So, Cayla will accept commands

from absolutely anybody that's So, I've got a friend

over there who is now going to hack Cayla and try

to open my front door. More and more of our

life is moving online. The UK is one of the most digitally

dependent economies in the world, Protecting it online in the future

will be vital for economic The Yorkshire batsman,

Joe Root, has been named as the new England Test captain

by the England and He said today he was "privileged,

humbled and very excited." The appointment follows

the resignation of Our sports correspondent,

Katie Gornall, has more details. Joe Root has long been considered

England's prize asset. He is the boy wonder

who quickly matured into one As his promotion was confirmed,

Root said in a statement... Today they spoke of their pride

at Yorkshire County Cricket Club, the place where the baby-faced

batsman came of age. I remember him making

his one-day debut here. The little lad who looked

like the Milky Bar kid could not hit Since then he's gone

on to bigger and better things. I think the best thing about Joe,

he never gets overawed by the occasion or the big stage

and he is thrives on the pressure. That will stand him in good stead

as the captain of England. It was here in county cricket that

Joe Root warmed up for England. He has gone on to score 11 Test

centuries for his country and excel

in all three forms of the game. Here in Yorkshire, they don't

doubt Joe Root's ability. Away from Headingley,

there will naturally be some concerns about his

lack of experience. He's only captained his county

a handful of times. Such things have never

held him back in the past. The best players they say are born

with a bat in their hand. It all began for him down the road

at Sheffield Collegiate, a club he still visits,

and where his brother, Billy, In fact his family

are everywhere here. Even upstairs where Grandma

Barbra plays Bridge. Those that know him best are not

getting too worked up about it all. Yes, I think it should be OK

but you can only really tell It's very much learning on the job,

being a cricket captain. A lot of onerous responsibility

of being England cricket captain. There is a feeling that the Root era

will be more dynamic, His first Test will be

against South Africa in July as England look to a new generation

to drive them forward. British musical talent dominated

at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, thanks to Adele and the late David

Bowie. Adele made history becoming

the first person to win But she didn't want to accept

the Grammy for Best Album, saying that should have gone

to the American star, Beyonce, as our correspondent

James Cook reports. This was about much more

than a battle of two divas. Adele looked far from

comfortable with her sweep. This was the ninth year

in a row when a white This album for me,

the Lemonade album, was just so monumental

and so beautiful and soul-bearing. The way that you make

me and my friends feel, the way you make my black

friends feel, is empowering. The performance by the proudly

pregnant megastar was stunning. But this most consequential

of artists really For the second year in a row,

she had performance problems. I'm sorry for swearing and I'm

sorry for starting again. The second take of her tribute

to George Michael was flawless. David Bowie won more Grammys

in death Host James Corden poked fun

at himself and at President Trump. What I'll say is any negative tweets

that you see are fake tweets. "Persist" was the word

on Katy Perry's arm. A political statement from an artist

who campaigned for and even A Tribe Called Quest

and Busta Rhymes were even less subtle,

urging resistance. I just want to beg

President Agent Orange for perpetuating all of that evil,

that you have perpetuated throughout This was billed as a battle

between Beyonce and Adele. Behind that simple summary

was a deeper layer of questions. Not least about race and a country

where cultures continue to clash. James Cook, BBC News,

at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Tonight - battle

between the generations. We'll ask if the baby boomers have

snaffled all the pies or, at least,

the pensions and homes. Should the young feel aggrieved,

or grateful for smartphones and music streaming,

things the old never had? Here on BBC One, it's time

for the news where you are.