17/04/2017 BBC News at Ten

threatening the United States with a pre-emptive nuclear strike

if the US plans military action against it.

The comments came as the US Vice President, on a trip to South Korea,

warned the North not to test the United States.

We'll be asking what Washington can do

Also tonight, Prince Harry opens up about the grief he suffered

after the death of his mother, Princess Diana.

I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12,

and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years,

has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life

Turkey's President Erdogan brushes off criticism by election observers

of a referendum giving him sweeping new powers.

And after over 30 years away from top-flight football,

earn a place in next season's Premier League.

North Korea has stepped up its hostile language

against the United States, warning there will be

all-out war if the US uses military force against it,

and that it would be willing to use a pre-emptive nuclear strike.

The comments to the BBC by the North Korean Vice Foreign Minister

came as the US Vice President, Mike Pence, who's visiting South Korea,

warned the North not to test President Trump's resolve.

John Sudworth reports now from Pyongyang in North Korea,

where his movements are being monitored and tightly controlled.

North Korea is all about shows of strength.

The first today came in this taekwondo demonstration.

The next, in Kim Il-sung Square, close to the centre of power,

TRANSLATION: If the US is reckless enough to use military means,

it would mean, from that very day, an all-out war.

Our nuclear weapons protect us from that threat.

We will be conducting more missile tests

on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis.

Today, the US Vice President, Mike Pence,

was in South Korea, visiting the demilitarised zone

that separates the two halves of this divided peninsula.

There was a period of strategic patience,

but the era of strategic patience is over.

President Trump has made it clear that the patience

of the United States and our allies in this region has run out.

But despite the posturing on both sides, the risks are limited.

For the US and its allies, war would be far too costly.

And North Korea's threats, although deeply alarming,

If you could send one message to Donald Trump today,

that if the US encroaches on our sovereignty,

then it will provoke an immediate counter reaction.

If the US is planning a military attack against us,

we will react with a nuclear pre-emptive strike

Tonight, although all options apparently remain on the table,

the US appears to be signalling that diplomacy and toughened sanctions

It's yet unclear how, having failed before,

they will persuade this most totalitarian of states to disarm.

beyond the gloom of this city lie vast political prisons,

gulags in which all dissent, however mild, is crushed.

the vice minister called that accusation a lie.

Militarised, isolated and repressive,

North Korea has the right to follow its own path

and, he insisted, no-one will be able to stop it.

Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue is outside the White House.

in the face of this apparent defiance from Pyongyang?

Well, Reeta, there was a previous president to use to say he liked to

speak softly but carry a big stick. Donald Trump likes to speak very

loudly and still carry a big stick, and so he has been upping the

rhetoric today, telling North Korea that it has got to behave, he has

already sent that aircraft carrier and two destroyers to sail up and

down the Korean Peninsula. His vice president standing on the border

today, going eyeball to eyeball with those North Korean guards. But the

monetary options are limited for the US. They know that if they hit North

Korea, the South Korean capital, Seoul, with its 10 million

inhabitants, just 30 miles from those North Korean artillery

positions. So they aren't lying on China to put new, renewed pressure,

economic and political pressure on the North, to stop taking its coal

and starts taking its oil. The problem is that China is still not

very keen on doing that, so for President Trump, the moment of the

test will come in the North Koreans decide whether or not to detonate a

six nuclear weapon. When they do that, the rhetoric will be tested,

and we will see whether he is prepared not to carry but to use

that big stick in these circumstances. Gary O'Donoghue,

thank you. Prince Harry has revealed

that he has had counselling to help him come to terms

with the death of his The Prince, who was 12

when she died in a car crash, told the Daily Telegraph that

he'd spent 20 years not thinking about her death and eventually

got help after two years Mental-health charities have

welcomed the Prince's decision Our royal correspondent

Peter Hunt has the story. Prince Harry, who's embraced

his mother's humanitarian causes, like landmines, is behaving in a way

that's rare for royals. He's the most

high-profile person yet to talk about the mental

anguish he's suffered. In 1997, as the world

quite literally watched, the child Prince walked behind the

coffin of Diana, Princess of Wales, who was killed in

a car crash in Paris. about the devastating impact

of his mother's death. I can safely say that losing my mum

at the age of 12, and therefore shutting down all of

my emotions for the last 20 years, has had a quite serious effect

on not only my personal life My way of dealing with it was

refusing to ever think about my mum, It's only going to make you sad,

it's not going to bring her back. Harry's failure to confront

the loss of his fun-loving mum has meant he suffered from anxiety

and came close to a breakdown. who encouraged him

to see a counsellor. All of a sudden, all of this grief

that I'd never processed I was like, "There's actually a lot

of stuff here I need to deal with." It was 20 years

of not thinking about it And as I'm sure you know, some of

the easiest people to speak to is a shrink or whoever,

the Americans call them shrinks, someone you've never met before,

you sit down on the sofa and say, "Listen, I don't actually need

your advice, can you just listen?" And you just let it all rip.

And you've done that, have you? I've done that a couple of times.

I'm not surprised. More than a couple of times,

but it's great. For somebody in the public

eye like Prince Harry, who has such a big reach,

to do that and feel comfortable doing that, this is

a significant step forward in terms of tackling the stigma

around mental health. when she spoke about self-harming

and her eating disorder. A generation on, the stiff upper lip

is once again being abandoned. Harry is a privileged prince who

lives here, at Kensington Palace. His position didn't protect him

from ill-health. He now wants to use his status

to encourage others suffering in silence to follow his example

and seek help. It's a campaign championed

by Kate, William and Harry. it's being supported

by the London Marathon. The racing royals

with influence hope it'll be

a mental-health marathon. Peter Hunt, BBC News,

Kensington Palace. International election monitors

have strongly criticised Turkey's referendum,

which gave the country's They've condemned

last-minute changes to the way the vote was counted,

and said there was state interference and media bias

against the No campaign. But President Erdogan has

dismissed the criticism, telling the monitors

to know their place. Our world affairs editor,

John Simpson, reports. Mr Erdogan was out in the streets

of Istanbul this morning, of some of his more

fervent supporters. He only won yesterday's

referendum by a whisker, after staging the most expensive

electoral campaign In Ankara, the capital,

leaders of the OSCE, the international monitoring team

who had observed the election, about the way the No campaign

had been treated. The campaign rhetoric was tarnished

by some senior officials equating No supporters

with terrorist sympathisers. In numerous cases, No sympathisers

faced police intervention and violent scuffles

at their events. What effect is the referendum result

going to have on Turkey? We went to the magnificent

Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Let me sell you something

that you don't need. But, jokes aside, there is one

important thing missing here - Wandering round,

I couldn't spot a single one. The reason there are no

Western tourists, says this businessman from the bazaar,

is the terrorist attacks during the last one and a half

years, and after that the crisis between Turkey and Europe over

the referendum campaign. And given that tourism makes up 12%

of Turkey's economy, that's serious. But these are worries

for the future. For now, huge crowds greeted

Mr Erdogan as he headed back to his capital,

Ankara. Then, at the presidential palace,

with his wife beside him, he didn't trouble to be diplomatic

when he spoke to the crowd about the OSCE's criticisms

of the referendum. "We won't accept their report,"

he says, "We won't hear it,

you can't convince us." He goes on, "The EU are threatening

us with a freeze on negotiations." "It's not important to us,

let them do it." But defiance alone doesn't make

for a strong economy. Here, two men are in a serious

but stable condition in hospital this evening,

and ten others have suffered burns after a suspected acid attack

at a nightclub in east London. Police believe the men,

in their 20s, were targeted

in the Mangle club in Hackney. This summer, some GCSE grades

in England are changing, with A*-G being replaced by grades

9-1 - a move that's creating "huge uncertainty", according

to the teachers' union the NASUWT, who are holding their annual

conference in Manchester. The Government says standards

will go up because the content is more rigorous, and that bright

pupils will have Our education editor

Branwen Jeffreys reports. The new system has more grades

and replaces letters with the numbers 9 to 1 -

with 9 being the highest grade. It's all change for GCSE maths

and English this year. Numbers, not letters,

for grades, and new, tougher

content for the exams. So Umi is getting extra help

from her tutor, something many

families can't afford. Even so, she's anxious

about the exams. It's quite daunting,

because lots of my teachers don't... They've never taught it before,

so they're not used to the new syllabus

that's coming in. Her mum, Kelly, is trying

to get her head round it all. A grade 4 will be the

same as a C or above, and a top grade of 9

will be higher than an A*. She doesn't mind the exams'

content being made harder. But to bring in a new grading system

and make the whole exam structure tougher as well means that there's

a lot that people have to deal Teachers have been debating

the changes today. Their union, Nasuwt, says ministers

are moving the goalposts. Headteachers move goalposts

for yourself individually. But I think the Government

have just taken them away. And we might actually

be playing snooker. Generally, we are just very,

very confused about and, actually, were they even

necessary in the first place? In a system where everyone

understands, A* to G, It's only England

that's making these changes, starting with maths and English

this year. Wales and Northern Ireland

are sticking with letters. GCSEs are an important milestone

in students' lives... Ministers say that's

why high standards matter. They insist the new

system will be fair, a grade 4 just as good as a grade C,

but all that takes some explaining. It's one of France's

most closely-contested Presidential elections ever -

and candidates have just a few days The first round of

voting is on Sunday. If - as expected -

no candidate wins a majority, there'll be a run-off election

between the top two contenders. And for the first time there

are four candidates who Centrist Emmanuel Macron

and far-right leader Marine Le Pen remain the front runners,

but only narrowly. Conservative Francois Fillon

is following closely behind. And now, after a last minute surge

in support, far-left politician Jean-Luc Melenchon

could make it too. Our correspondent Lucy

Williamson sent this report. Jean-Luc Melenchon has been enjoying

a different kind of political party, the kind which comes with a big

group of people Once seen as the protest vote,

the communist backed candidate has surged to within a couple of points

of the presidential favourite, with his lively way of speaking

and his anti-elitist TRANSLATION: This campaign has

become more than a campaign, it is huge populist mobilisation

which rings in a new dawn. Mr Melenchon wants to pull

France out of EU treaties, ramp up public spending

and introduce a top rate tax of 90%. Frederick hasn't voted for anyone

in more than a decade. TRANSLATION: I am a worker

and most workers today vote for the right or the far right,

it is not in their interests. Camille says she is 80%

sure of voting for him and that her friends are leaning

towards him too. All my friends are going to vote

Melenchon, all of them. I think there is really a big

change among people my age The Trump election made me realise

that I need to take a position. Campaigners for the liberal

favourite, Emmanuel Macron, are now targeting underprivileged

areas where his far-left rival is expected to do well,

with specially written leaflets and instructions to target

Melenchon supporters, Nobody knows what will happen,

that is why we are here today, because we have to convince more

and more people to vote for him. This is now becoming a four-way race

with three of the candidates seen as political outsiders and a third

of voters still undecided. Analysts say France is in uncharted

territory and the election Mr Melenchon first drew attention

to his campaign by appearing He is planning to appear

simultaneously If this election has shown anything,

it is that the constraints of one candidate or another,

can turn out to be just Brighton and Hove Albion

fans are celebrating tonight after making it

into the Premier League next season. Their victory over Wigan Athletic -

and results elsewhere - mean they will return to the top

flight of English football Our correspondent Andy

Swiss has the story. A day for the so-called seagulls to

make some noise, and when you have waited 34 years, who could blame

them? In that time, Brighton have tumbled to the brink of oblivion but

when they sealed a 2-1 win, their remarkable rise was complete. At the

final whistle, the fans flooded onto the pitch for an impromptu promotion

party, in golfing the players and in Lewes dunks' case, removing pretty

much all of his clothes. Celebrations on the set, for the

fans, the Premier League finally awaits. More money, better players,

the whole thing is fantastic, best day ever. We have been waiting 34

years and finally we are here now. Unbelievable. It is the best day of

my life, apart from my wife and kids. In 1983 Brighton also reached

the FA Cup final and might have won it. But after that last blast this,

they lost a replay to Manchester United and went into freefall. In

1997 they were nearly liquidated. They had to play at a local

athletics track. But now with a gleaming new stadium, how those

frustrations have faded. An amazing day and one that we will remember

for the rest of our lives. To do with this group of players, the

chairman and fans, it is an unbelievable football club. For the

fans and the players, once again the big time beckons.

That's all from me tonight, stay with us on BBC One,