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Thousands of Vauxhall workers seek assurances about their jobs, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The two plants in the UK have been bought by the French group that owns | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
Workers have been voicing their disquiet. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
Of course, we're all going to be worried | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
I mean, I myself have been here nearly 30 years. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Disbelief because no-one really knows what is going on. | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
The new owners are warning that British workers will have to reach | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
a benchmark of efficiency, and the future is up to them. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
I trust my Vauxhall employees in the UK. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
As long as we improve performance and we become the best, | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
And while some observers warn that Brexit will make things | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
even more uncertain, others say it presents | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
new opportunities for the British motor industry. | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
President Trump signs a new travel ban - | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
this time against six mainly Muslim countries. | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
The Department of Justice believes that this executive order, | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
just as the first executive order, is a lawful and proper exercise | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
A zoo in Cumbria, where nearly 500 animals have died, | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
In China, the government takes action against old, | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
It says it will make the skies "blue again". | :01:28. | :01:39. | |
And 30 years after the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, relatives, | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
survivors and rescuers return to remember the 193 people | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Chelsea are in action at West Ham, as they look | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
to restore their ten-point lead at the top of the Premier League. | :01:51. | :02:13. | |
Trade union leaders have demanded assurances about the future | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
of thousands of jobs at Vauxhall's two car plants in the UK, | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Vauxhall has been sold by General Motors to the French | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
car manufacturer, PSA, which owns Peugeot and Citroen. | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
Ministers say they are cautiously optimistic about the future but it | :02:36. | :02:49. | |
all depends on performance. According to the head of PSA. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Labour says the Brexit process adds a new layer of doubt, | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
as our industry correspondent, John Moylan, reports. | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
Vauxhall's plant at Elsner, the centre of GM's operations for years. | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
But now there is uncertainty for thousands of workers. We are all | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
worried, we have all got families, I've been here for nearly 30 years. | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
I have seen when Peugeot took over other plants and they didn't go as | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
well as people thought it would so we have to see what happens. It | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
doesn't sound like a terrible thing for us, he looks like he's looking | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
to keep our jobs and if he sticks to his word everyone should be happy. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
The deal creates Europe's second-biggest car-maker after | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
Volkswagen and redraws the map of the European car industry. Across | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
Europe the PSA group has 14 production sites with 139,000 | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
workers. It is buying GM Europe, known as Opal, for ?1.9 billion | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
including its eight plants outside the UK and 38,500 employees. The | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
deal includes Vauxhall's plants in Luton and Ellesmere Port and their | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
4500 staff. GM Europe have turned a profit since 1999 but its new owners | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
hope cars like this will change all that. The Crosland X is the result | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
of a four-year joint venture with Peugeot demonstrating that big cost | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
savings could be found. But what about job security at Vauxhall's | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
plants? Peugeot's boss Carlos Tavares has promised to honour | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
existing production guarantees. But today he said that after that | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
workers' futures were in their own hands. I trust my Vauxhall employees | :04:26. | :04:34. | |
in the UK. I trust them. I know that they are skilled. I know that they | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
are dedicated. I know that they are committed and I trust that they will | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
be in a very good situation by working in a constructive and open | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
manner and as long as we improve the performance and become the best | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
there is no risk they should fear. Here at Ellesmere Port the Vauxhall | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
Astra has been rolling off the production line since the 1980s. But | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
to secure its future unions know that the owners must commit to a new | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
vehicle from the plant in the coming year. If they want to sell cars in | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
the United Kingdom they will have to build cars in the United Kingdom, | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
that is Unite's position and we will fight tooth and nail to ensure that | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
happens. The conversations that I and the Prime Minister have had both | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
with GM and PSA tell me that they intend to safeguard the plants, | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
honour their commitments and look to increase the performance and sales | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
of cars. So we want to hold on to those commitments. But what will | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Brexit mean for Vauxhall's plants? The auto industry could face tariffs | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
when we leave the Single Market making trade more expensive. 60% of | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
the components that go into the Vic Mauro van that is built in Luton | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
come from abroad and for the Astro built at Ellesmere Port it is 75%. | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Bits is more than four plants in mainland Europe and it puts the UK | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
at a disadvantage. The former boss of GM's European operations says | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
this could be a make or break issue for Vauxhall's plants if the new | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
group needs to make cuts. There will be excess capacity and the UK is in | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
a week, a relatively weak position, compared to other European | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
countries. Not because the plants are inefficient, they aren't, they | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
just don't have enough components purchased here so it puts the cost | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
of the car up because they have to import so many components. Britain's | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
auto sector has been a huge success story. But the creation of this new | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
European car giant could present major challenges. John Moylan, BBC | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
News, Luton. Live to Geneva where the annual motor show is taking | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
place. Many executives from the car industry get-together. Simon Jack is | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
therefore as. What are they saying about the prospect for these jobs? | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
The general view on the shores of Lake Geneva is this is a good one | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
for the industry, consolidation is the only way you will get rid of the | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
excess capacity in Europe and that ultimately means fewer factories and | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
fewer jobs. So ultimately it will be a fight for survival on the 24 | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
plants this combined company will have. Most people think that in the | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
fight for survival in the UK starts at a disadvantage because of the | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
devaluation of sterling making those components John talked about a bit | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
more expensive, and the uncertainty that Brexit creates. Not everyone | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
agrees. Carlos Tavares said something interesting today. He said | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
that if there is a hard border, a hard Brexit, between Europe and the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
UK it may make more sense rather than less to have some production on | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
that side of the fence. But for that to work you need to get more chain | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
into the UK, and that will require government help. We have already | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
seen the government score a win in convincing this and to increase | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
investment in the UK, and it did that mainly by saying we are going | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
to provide skills and training and a big focus on research and | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
development and technology, including things like electric cars | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
and batteries which are red-hot issues here. It worked with Nissan | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
and it might work with PSA. Extra incentive, if any were needed, for | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
the Chancellor on Wednesday to say some car friendly things around | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
those issues, and I'm betting that he will. Simon, thanks for the | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
latest in Geneva, Simon Jack. President Trump has signed | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
a new executive order banning people from six mainly Muslim countries | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
from entering the United It's a revised version | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
of the ban, which was blocked This time Iraq is not on the list, | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
and the wording has been changed The US attorney-general, | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Jeff Sessions, claimed all six countries were connected directly | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
or indirectly to terrorism. Our North America correspondent, | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
Nick Bryant, has the latest. There was applause when President | :08:37. | :08:51. | |
Trump signed the first executive order, but it caused anger, chaos | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
and confusion at America's airports as the travel ban on entrants from | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
seven mainly Muslim countries was hurriedly put into effect but the US | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
courts blocked it opening the borders, delivering an embarrassing | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
rebuke to President Trump. So today he signed a revised band with | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
unusually little fanfare. The Washington press corps not invited | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
to witness it and this photograph taken instead by a White House | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
staffer. He left it to a senior administration officials to sell one | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
of his signature policies. It is the President's solemn duty to protect | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
the American people and with this order President Trump is exercising | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
his rightful authority to keep our people safe. Whilst citizens from | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya and Yemen are still affected, Iraq, | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
unlike last time, is not on the list. People with legal residency in | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
the US who hold a green cards and those who already had visas will not | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
be subject to the ban. Syrian refugees originally banned | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
indefinitely are not singled out for harsher treatment. The Trump | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
administration claims some refugees pose a potential terror threat. In | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
fact, today more than 300 people, according to the FBI, who came here | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
as refugees, are under an FBI investigation today for potential | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
terrorism related activities. By delaying it simpler mentation until | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
later in the month the White House is hoping to avoid a repeat of the | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
botched roll out of the original travel ban. Removing Iraq, a key | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
ally, is designed to make it more politically palatable for Republican | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
critics. The Trump administration has tried to make it legally | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
watertight. But to constitutional scholars think they have succeeded? | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Distal grounds to challenge this executive order, the same grounds as | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
before, it will just be more difficult. None of this means that | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
courts could not strike this town or issue a restraining order, it's just | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
that it will be tougher. This has fewer edges. The Muslim | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
neighbourhoods of America such as this one in Michigan, the travel ban | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
affects family members and friends and many complain it also | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
marginalises them. It's really sad because it's affecting a lot of | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
people and it's going to hurt a lot of people. I think it's a wrong | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
decision. I wish he would teach us how to love each other more and be | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
more peaceful, do not say this group is bad, that group is bad. America | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
has long solar rated its welcoming tradition towards immigrants, | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
symbolised by the Statue of Liberty. But opinion on the travel ban | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
exposes deep divisions here between those who protest it's un-American | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
and those who believe it's necessary to protect the American homeland. | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
Tonight it was the state of New York that said it was ready to mount a | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
legal challenge against the new travel ban. All this, of course, a | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
massive conversation change after a weekend dominated by President | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Trump's extraordinary trip Twitter tyrant against Barack Obama accusing | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
him of ordering wiretaps at Trump Tower. Perhaps that's why the | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
President kept such a low profile today. Maybe he didn't want to be | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
exposed to questions from supporters who would have doubtless asked him | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
to provide proof to back up those explosive claims. | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
Nick, thank you very much, Nick Briant at the White House. | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
In Northern Ireland, the search is on for a new political deal, | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
which will allow the creation of a new power-sharing executive. | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
The Northern Ireland Secretary, James Brokenshire, has started talks | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
with the main parties, but the Democratic Unionists | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
and Sinn Fein are struggling to resolve the differences, | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
which led to the collapse of the old executive in January. | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
For the latest, let's join our Ireland correspondent, | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
As you say, the parties have spent the day negotiating at Stormont and | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
those talks will continue tomorrow but they face many challenges to | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
deal with all of those disagreements that became clear during a bitter | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
election campaign. There is the potential for a deal to restore | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
power-sharing but it needs to be done within three weeks to avoid the | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
need for potentially even the Westminster government taking over | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
control of Northern Ireland, at least for a period, or perhaps even | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
another election. Last week's vote saw a rise in support for | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
Republicans leaving some Unionists shocked. My report does contain some | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
flash photography. This is an island where | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
political battles have And Irish Republicans see this | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
election as a leap forward. In Sinn Fein's heartland | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
of West Belfast, the vote was presented as a chance | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
for nationalism to hit back at unionism, after the collapse | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
of power sharing and disagreements Identity and culture is deeply | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
important to listeners And the result of this vote | :13:34. | :13:45. | |
will have strengthened many of their aspirations | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
for a united Ireland. Brexit and this election have | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
started to open people's minds to the possibility of discussing | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
new relationships, a new way of structuring | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
relationships on this island. I think it's very early days to say, | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
yes, this will lead And even in these politically | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
turbulent times, all indications are that a referendum on Irish | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
unity would fail. But at Stormont it's last | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
week's vote that matters. And Sinn Fein have been celebrating | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
their success with selfies The political landscape | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
has shifted enormously. The message is very clear - | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
that people want equality for all, that they want | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
respect in institutions. The DUP leader Arlene Foster's | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
position is at the centre of the talks to try to | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
form a government. In order to go back into power | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
sharing, Sinn Fein are demanding that she steps aside | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
as First Minister, while an investigation takes place | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
into a financial scandal surrounding It's a matter which Sinn Fein seem | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
to want to draw red lines about. We want negotiations to work | :14:59. | :15:10. | |
for the people of Northern Ireland. The DUP walk into these negotiations | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
still Stormont's biggest party. But they used to have ten more | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
Assembly members than Sinn Fein. That's been reduced to just | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
a single seat advantage. Unionism no longer has a majority | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
in Northern Ireland's Assembly. The likes of Sinn Fein, saying | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
they're there for both sides... They're only there for | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
their own community. If they want a united Ireland, | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
that's not what we want. This has long been a place of peace | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
walls and divided identities. Stormont has just three weeks | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
to come up with its latest cross A brief look at some of the day's | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
other other news stories. Security services have prevented 13 | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
potential terror attacks in Britain since 2013, | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
that's according to the UK's most Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
also said there were 500 live investigations at any one time | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
and appealed for help Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
will face prosecution over alleged It's the first time the regulator, | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
the Care Quality Commission, has launched a prosecution | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
against a Trust. Southern Health has been widely | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
criticised over its failure to investigate the deaths | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
of hundreds of patients in its care Fund managers Aberdeen Asset | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Management and Standard Life have agreed on a merger today, | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
that would make it one of the The deal would put the group value | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
at around ?11 billion, overseeing assets | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
worth ?660 billion. The deal is subject | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
to shareholder approval. A zoo in Cumbria, where nearly 500 | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
animals died within four years, The owner of South Lakes Safari | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Zoo, where a tiger keeper was mauled to death in 2013, | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
was refused a new licence to operate He now has four weeks to appeal | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
against the decision, as our correspondent, | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
Danny Savage, reports. Conditions for some | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
of the animals here have been so bad it's now been | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
ordered to close. An inspection in January | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
found poor accommodation, uncontrolled breeding, and exotic | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
animals living in unheated, We've had reports from | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
the public over many years that we've obviously chased up | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
with the council with animals having head injuries, from feeding | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
experiences where people have been absolutely disgusted | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
at the state of them. It's just been an ongoing issue | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
with animal welfare, really, and neglect for even | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
the most basic needs. The zoo has been dogged | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
with trouble for years. A keeper, 24-year-old | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
Sarah McClay, was killed Her brother believes it | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
should have closed them. All the reports over | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
the past week have said 500 animals died in the | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
past four years. So if you'd closed the zoo down | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
after an employee had died, them all this mistreatment | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
of animals wouldn't have come out. I think it should have been closed | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
down four years ago. It wasn't and now look | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
what's happened to all The man refused a licence | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
to run the zoo today is David Gill, described by inspectors | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
as being desperate to keep control And it was David Gill's | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
attitude towards the number of animal deaths | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
which concerned inspectors. They say he didn't seem | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
to have a problem with it, and a keeper told | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
the inspection team that their instructions | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
were to dispose of bodies and not David Gill says he no longer | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
wants to operate the zoo, but without his license | :19:04. | :19:15. | |
the new company now running it can't So the site is now facing closure | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
and the animals may need new homes. Danny Savage, BBC | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
News, South Cumbria. The Chinese government has | :19:23. | :19:23. | |
declared its aim of making the skies blue again by introducing plans | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
to tackle the country's air The authorities | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
say they want to reduce reliance on coal and invest billions | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
in renewable energy, such as solar, As part of our series | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
on tackling air pollution, called So I Can Breathe, | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
our China editor, Carrie Gracie, reports from Beijing on the impact | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
of these latest measures. Everything in China | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
is on a massive scale. Cars are to blame for about | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
a third of China's air So it's scrapping | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
the worst offenders. But this ritual in the wrecker's | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
yard is a losing battle against 30 million new cars taking | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
to the roads this year. If these people want | :20:14. | :20:31. | |
clean air, then, from transport to heating and lifestyle, | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
they have to change their behaviour. China has to kick its | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
addiction to fossil fuels. For this Beijing couple, | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
the morning commute is a his Meet Little Blue, | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
harmful emissions zero. To beat the petrol heads, | :20:42. | :20:58. | |
China subsidises electric vehicles and makes them | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
much easier to licence. On smoggy days Little Blue doesn't | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
face restrictions like other cars. And she's proud to do | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
her bit for clean air. TRANSLATION: We all have | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
to live in this city and the pollution is terrible for our | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
health and for Beijing's image. But driving Little | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
Blue I don't have to I tell my friends they | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
should get one too. To beat the smog, all the villages | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
surrounding Beijing have banned And this 70-year-old farmer is | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
forced back to the old ways. The government did give | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
them an electric heater. But on their pensions they can't | :21:50. | :21:59. | |
afford to switch it on much. But he tells me he's more worried | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
about his electricity bill He's wearing thick | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
layers of longjohns. Beijing can clean the air | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
when it wants to. Like now, for the annual session of | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
its rubber-stamp parliament. But it can't do it for long because, | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
despite the push for cleaner vehicles and cleaner | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
heating, the Chinese economy is And in the one-party | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
state, there's little the public can do to force | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
the politicians here And there's more on the issue | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
of pollution, as part of our special series, | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
on the BBC News website. In France, leaders from the main | :22:48. | :23:06. | |
centre-right party have backed Francoise Fillon as their candidate | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
in next month's presidential election, despite his troubled | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
campaign. Mr Fillon has been accused of misusing public funds, but this | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
evening, his party colleagues unanimously renewed their support | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
for his candidature following a discussion about the allegations, | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
which have clouded the Fillon campaign. | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
They've backed him despite all the troubles. What kind of impact will | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
that have on the rest of this campaign? It possibly won't make | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
things any easier for Marine Le Pen. She might have hoped to inherit some | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
of Mr Fillon's loyal supporters, if he were forced to stand down. The | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
parties have a lot of work to do to draw back some of its more centrist | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
voters who might have drifted towards Macron. Mr Fillon is still | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
under investigation and is still something of a gamble. The party | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
tonight found itself somewhat hemmed in between two major problems, the | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
first is that they're running out of time. They have to confirm their | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
candidate by the end of next week. The other more fundamental problem | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
is that Mr Fillon simply wouldn't go, no matter how bad things got, | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
over the past few weeks, he simply said he wouldn't stand down. That | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
has forced the party's hand. That's something he repeated again tonight, | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
before going into that meeting. It looks as if he's won that war. But | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
the presidential race is still wide-open. | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
Lucy, again, thanks very much for the latest there in Paris. | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
As the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, prepares for this week's Budget, | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
the BBC understands he's been told that the economy is predicted | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
to grow by more than was previously thought since the EU referendum. | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
The Government's financial watchdog is expected | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
to upgrade its forecasts, and the Government is | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
expected to borrow less, but as our economics editor, | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
Kamal Ahmed, reports, there are still significant risks ahead. | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
Blue skies over Hart in southern England, | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
place of low unemployment and consumers still spending, pretty | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
Hampshire Hills, a pretty healthy economy and a pretty good canvas on | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
which the Chancellor will paint his budget. | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
With little discernible Brexit effect, what is behind the | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
sun continuing to shine on the UK's finances? | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
Consumer confidence has bounced back since the referendum. | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
We're still spending, and that's good for the economy. | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
And after the referendum the value of sterling | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
They're up 4.1% since the referendum, positive for business | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
The unemployment rate is now just 4.8%. | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
We haven't seen a figure that low since August 2005. | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
So, the economic waters at the moment are | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
not too treacherous for Philip Hammond. | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
Expect the Office for Budget Responsibility, the | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
Government's official economic watchdog, to upgrade its growth | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
Last autumn, the OBR predicted that economic | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
growth for 2017 would be a rather modest 1.4%. | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
In the Budget, it's likely to be more optimistic, saying | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
High levels of economic growth mean higher tax receipts and lower levels | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
The OBR is now set to say the Government could undershoot | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
its own borrowing target by as much as ?12 billion. | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
Does that mean Mr Hammond might have more money to spend? | :26:45. | :26:46. | |
The bulk of any extra spending will be saved in | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
case that Brexit risk to the economy materialises. | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
Consumers spoken to by the Bank of England believe | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
inflation could hit 2.8% by the end of the year. | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
That could mean a squeeze on living standards. | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
The price of fuel has already hit an 18-month high. | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
It costs now ?9 more to fill up the average family car than | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
And what about that all-important issue, | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
Well, the latest surveys suggest that confidence | :27:24. | :27:32. | |
And if it declines that could be bad for economic growth. | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
Social care and schools could see increases, | :27:37. | :27:45. | |
but this will not be a budget full of big giveaways, despite the | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
In the Premier League this evening, leaders Chelsea returned | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
to being ten points clear of their title challengers | :27:53. | :27:54. | |
Can anyone stop the march of Chelsea? The league leaders arrived | :27:55. | :28:04. | |
with only four defeats to their name in all competitions. Although one of | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
them came here. It was a result that had West Ham bubbling with belief at | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
the start, building the pressure on their rivals, before Chelsea flicked | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
the switch. Like a well-oiled machine they surged forward for Eden | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
Hazard to score. Though the celebrations were very nearly | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
ambushed. Security at the London stadium once again in the spotlight. | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
Throughout the first half, all the pressing came from Chelsea. The only | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
thing missing, precision. Those in claret and blue offered little. | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
After the break, they gave Diego Costa the simplest of chances to | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
stretch Chelsea's lead. The margin would have been wider but for the | :28:40. | :28:48. | |
fingertips of the keeper. With seconds remaining, Lanzini pulled a | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
goal back. The win leaves Chelsea ten points clear with 11 games to | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
go. Antonio contoy's side will take some stopping -- Conte's side will | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
take some stoppingment - stopping. | :29:04. | :29:05. | |
30 years ago, 193 people died, when a cross-Channel ferry, | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
heading for Dover, capsized outside the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. | :29:09. | :29:10. | |
It was Britain's worst peacetime disaster at sea, | :29:11. | :29:12. | |
The Herald of Free Enterprise got into difficulties | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
within minutes of setting sail, because the crew had failed | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
Ceremonies and services have been held in south-east | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
England and in Belgium, involving survivors, rescuers, | :29:22. | :29:22. | |
Our correspondent, Duncan Kennedy, reports. | :29:23. | :29:33. | |
In the choppy waters of the North Sea not far | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
from where the Herald went down the residents of Belgium | :29:37. | :29:38. | |
reached out to the people of Britain in the day's first | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
It was 30 years ago tonight The Herald of Free Enterprise | :29:43. | :29:58. | |
capsized just outside Zebrugge harbour. | :29:59. | :30:00. | |
A crew member had left the bow doors open and water surged in. | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
She took just 90 seconds to roll over. | :30:04. | :30:05. | |
A cross-Channel sailing became a mid-Channel disaster. | :30:06. | :30:07. | |
Below there was chaos, people clawing and fighting their way up, | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
In the grim night of horror and loss that followed, 193 people died. | :30:12. | :30:22. | |
Brian Gibbons used his watch to tap on water pipes to alert rescuers. | :30:23. | :30:39. | |
With the screams and the shouts and everything else, | :30:40. | :30:48. | |
unfortunately some people didn't make it, and the reason I'm talking | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
to you today is I think people need to know what happened | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
because of the 193 that didn't make it. | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
Three decades on, the legacy of the Herald's loss | :30:59. | :31:09. | |
is its capacity to fill a church with family and friends. | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
Among them the aunt and uncle of Kim Spooner, then | :31:15. | :31:26. | |
an eight-year-old girl, but still able to recall her | :31:27. | :31:28. | |
Oh, my goodness, I remember it so vividly. | :31:29. | :31:37. | |
I didn't really process what it meant at the time, to be honest. | :31:38. | :31:40. | |
But sitting up all night waiting to hear them called, waiting, | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
hoping they would get in touch and it didn't happen. | :31:44. | :31:46. | |
To the lasting regret of Kim and many families no-one was ever | :31:47. | :31:49. | |
But the impact was so great, entire fleets of ships | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
were redesigned to make them more stable. | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
Today the Herald's salvage bell was finally returned to the harbour | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
that she had set sail for but never reached. | :32:04. | :32:05. | |
Recalling the terrible events of 30 years ago tonight was Duncan Kennedy | :32:06. | :32:16. | |
reporting there. Newsnight is getting | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
under way on BBC Two. Tonight we're visiting the | :32:21. | :32:29. | |
Netherlands, famous for its tolerance, liberalism and funny | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
coffee shops. But an election next week could get the right-wing | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
populist vote, a shock to the system. | :32:38. | :32:39. | |
Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :32:40. | :32:41. |