09/05/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten: Jeremy Corbyn lays the foundations of Labour's election

campaign with strong criticism of the wealthy elite.

At the formal campaign launch in Trafford, he warns that

a Labour Government would change a system that was

When Labour wins, there'll be a reckoning for those who thought

they could get away with asset stripping our industry,

crashing our economy through their greed and ripping off

But later in the day, Mr Corbyn was accused

of throwing Labour's Brexit policy into confusion.

REPORTER: If you are Prime Minister we will leave, whatever happens?

I don't know any more than you do exactly what is going to happen

We'll have more from the interview where Mr Corbyn refuses to say

Energy companies don't like the new Conservative plan

to cap domestic bills and Theresa May denies she's just

Too many ordinary working families, too many vulnerable people find

themselves on tariffs that are above that that

A British man is jailed by a court in Turkey.

He's found guilty of being a member of so-called Islamic State.

A young girl has died in an accident on a ride at a theme

And, a visit to Venice to see the work of a British

artist who waited decades for global recognition.

Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Would Juventus complete the job

against Monaco after they took a 2-0 lead into the second leg

of their Champions League semifinal in Turin?

Jeremy Corbyn has laid the foundations of Labour's election

campaign with a relentless attack on greedy bankers, tax

cheats, and employers who rip off their workers.

At the party's formal campaign launch in Trafford,

Mr Corbyn presented Labour as the anti-establishment choice,

But Mr Corbyn was also accused of throwing Labour's Brexit policy

into confusion by repeatedly refusing to confirm that Britain

would leave the European Union if Labour won the election.

Mr Corbyn was speaking to our political editor Laura Kuenssberg,

Labour's had more drama in 18 months than some parties do in a decade.

The economy is still rigged in favour of the rich and powerful.

When Labour wins, there'll be a reckoning for those who've thought

they could get away with asset stripping our industry,

crashing our economy through their greed and ripping off

A dramatic call in front of his shiny new battle bus,

but since he's been in charge, Labour has gone backwards.

We have four weeks to ruin their party.

We have four weeks to have a chance to take our wealth back.

We must seize that chance today and every day until June the 8th.

He's brought multitudes of new members, but what

You said, rather dramatically, there would be a reckoning

Now, a reckoning doesn't sound like a few people at the very top

paying a little bit more, it sounds like something

What it is, it's a reckoning in our society that very big

Corporation tax should not be lowered, as the Conservatives

propose to give away more than ?60 billion in tax cuts over

Well, you'll have to wait for the manifesto for

You were expecting that answer, I know!

When you use language like promising "a reckoning" and talking

about people "taking back their wealth", to some voters,

to some of our viewers, that sounds like the politics of envy.

What I'm saying is that we all benefit when we all do better.

We are a very rich country, but unfortunately the riches are not

very fairly spread around the place and the levels of inequality

We need to understand the anger that many people feel in this country.

Six million earning less than the living wage,

Many on short-term jobs and short-term working,

in communities that have seen precious little

Why do you believe that you can now win a general election from the left

because the evidence so far, under your leadership,

is that the kind of things that you've been saying,

which go down like a storm in a room like this,

but the evidence is, in the wider electorate,

that the Labour Party has been going backwards.

All the evidence is - ask people the question on wages.

Ask people the question on education.

Ask people the question on social care.

Ask them all those questions, all of which are framed

in our policies, and you find people saying - yeah, I agree with that.

That's what he wants to take on the road,

Voters in Salford's sunshine were curious.

I don't think he is necessarily the individual, but certainly

where he's coming from, I think, really resonates

with so many people up here and other parts of the country.

There's that many people in the Labour Party who hate him -

I wouldn't say hate him - but don't get on with him, I don't

But it's been hard for Labour to settle on a position

This election isn't about Brexit itself, that issue has been settled.

The question now is what sort of Brexit we want and what sort

of country do we want Britain to be after that.

His aides are adamant - settled means settled -

But when I asked him several times, the answer was not quite so clear.

Does that mean, if you're Prime Minister, come hell or high

water, whatever the deal on the table, we will be

Look, there was a clear vote at the referendum a year ago,

but there is now the negotiations, which have already begun.

But that's not quite my question, my question is -

if you're Prime Minister, we will leave come hell or high

water, whatever is on the table at the end of the negotiations?

We win the election, we'll get a good deal with Europe.

Can you categorically say that we would definitely leave?

Because if you won't, there is a chink of a possibility

that things could change and we might end up looking

The danger is, of the approach the Conservatives are taking

in their megaphone diplomacy with Europe, our view

is you have to talk to them, negotiate with them and recognise

there's actually quite a lot of common interest, particularly

But for all the leaders in this merry dance, every word,

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Trafford.

The energy industry is unhappy with Theresa May's new policy

of proposing a cap on domestic fuel bills if the Conservatives

One of the big suppliers, E.ON, said it was concerned

the idea was being proposed for political reasons.

Mrs May said it was part of her efforts to support working

families and she denied that she was simply copying

an old Labour policy which David Cameron had

Our deputy political editor Jon Pienaar reports.

Election pledges don't get closer to home, today's big offer -

a promise from Theresa May to cap your fuel bills,

the standard tariff paid by millions if they're judged too high.

But this Tory campaign is about her - her team, her way.

Policies like capping energy prices to support working families.

Some Tories, some ministers had doubted this meddling in the market,

but she's the boss and one report had said the Big Six energy firms

charged ?1.4 billion over the odds in a year.

I think, in those circumstances, it is right, as does everybody

sitting around the Cabinet table, for Government to take action

And later, to factory workers in Leeds, she admitted

she was running against classic Tory thinking.

Sometimes people say to me that doing something like that doesn't

sound very Conservative, but actually my response to that is,

when it comes to looking at supporting working people,

what matters is not an ideology, what matters is doing

If we win that election, in 2015, the next Labour Government

will freeze gas and electricity prices until the start of 2017.

Ed Miliband promised a price freeze and Labour was also

The reaction today has been anything but the same.

Approval from Tory leaning papers, compared to outrage when Labour

If they were going to copy my idea, Theresa May should have done a much

better job of it than she's done because, looking at the detail

and the fine print, they're not guaranteeing that there won't be

a rise in prices, as we did, they're saying somebody else has got

So she certainly can't be promising money off bills or even actually

Well, it's good politics because it sounds great,

but it's rubbish policy because it'll actually lead to less

So it'll harm and damage the very people, those on low incomes,

Some ministers may have had their doubts, but as one Cabinet

member put it to me, Theresa May's ideology

She's out to show people, who feel they're getting a raw deal,

So sometimes she sounds right-wing, on migration, on Brexit,

but on some pieces of policy, like this latest piece

of intervention, she leans to the centre.

Theresa May's after votes from every political direction.

She's campaigning as if the result's on a knife-edge and she's

As we said, some of the biggest names in the energy industry have

criticised the plans to cap prices arguing the move would stifle

Our business editor Simon Jack is here to look at what effect

The stubborn problem is people could pay less if they shopped

around but for some reason they don't and they end up

Two thirds of people, 17 million households are still on the standard

tariff, that's usually the most expensive. People like the

Broughtons. Adam and Margaret from Eccles

near Manchester have been with the same supplier for 30 years

so why haven't they switched? It's just impossible to compare

like with like because the tariffs are all so confusing deliberately

so, you know, so people can't After about two hours ploughing

through, I just gave up and thought better the devil I know,

get a bill, go and pay Now competition authorities reckon

the non-switchers are collectively The Tories think a cap

could save them up to ?100 Something consumer protection groups

broadly welcomed today. The energy market's

clearly not working. Too many people are stuck

on standard variable tariffs paying up to ?300 a year more

than they need to for their energy. One of the things we've been calling

for is a price cap to protect the most vulnerable,

those on low income who can least afford to pay too

much for their energy. Perhaps unsurprisingly,

the energy industry doesn't think The market is actually changing

in quite a dynamic fashion and I think it's really important

that we don't damage that and we keep competition there,

we bring in some of these fantastic new entrants in the market

who are bringing out innovation and challenging the big players,

that's got to be right. But many households do shop around,

8.5 million of them, and there are concerns the switchers

could lose out as cheaper And there so some evidence

that is already happening. Remember, the competition watchdog

probed this market for two years and decided a cap was not

a good idea. This is also unusual territory

for Tories but when it comes it appealing to 17 million energy

customers, if the cap fits, politically at least,

Theresa May has decided You can find information

on the party's energy policies along Our political editor,

Laura Kuenssberg, is here. Let's talk about that Labour launch

today and your interview with Jeremy Corbyn, what did you make of the

approach he set out? Here is Labour's hope, we saw it absolutely

today, their aim is to make this campaign about his ideas, not his

image. You heard in that interview him almost pleading in a way to say

when I talk to voters, when I ask about social care, when I ask them

about housing, and explain my ideas, they think yeah, I agree with that.

I think that is the approach they're going to try to take. They know they

need to get their policies across because of all the controversy there

is about his personality. Tomorrow they're focussing on education. Some

viewers might remember back in his leadership campaign in August 2015

he promised a national education service, something that he said

could be on the same scale as the NHS. There will be more information

and promises on that tomorrow. They've already made a big promise

about free school meals for every child in England. I understand

tomorrow they'll also promise to scrap fees for adults who go on to

further education. People who go back to college and retrain. Of

course that's the kind of policy that could have lots of appeal on

the doorstep. I think in the course of the next few weeks there won't be

a shortage of big sounding ideas from the Labour Party, but I think

they will be challenged again and again about how they work. Of course

how they will be paid for, although they'll be trying at every step to

say everything is being costed. But here is also an unusual thing,

sometimes in an election campaign the problem that an opposition

leader faces is that people haven't really heard of them, they're a

blank sheet, they don't know what to make of them, it's about punching

through to the public consciousness at all. But when you talk to people

inside the Labour Party, in a funny way the problem with Jeremy Corbyn

is the opposite. They fear somehow people have already made their minds

up about Jeremy Corbyn because of the controversial things he said in

the time since he has been in charge. Thank you.

Later in the programme, find out what happened

when the Mays' appeared together on The One Show.

It was the Prime Minister's first joint television interview

with husband Philip, we'll have a report.

A court in Turkey has convicted a British man of terrorism offences.

Aine Davies, who's 33, was suspected of belonging

to a kidnap gang that beheaded western hostages.

He was found guilty of being a member of the Islamic State

group and was jailed for seven-and-a-half years.

The BBC understands that he was one of four British men,

including the fighter known as Jihadi John,

Our home affairs correspondent, Daniel Sandford,

Aine Davis posing with a fighter in Syria.

Today, he became the first of the suspected Beatles -

the infamous Islamic State gang from Britain - to be sent to prison.

At this Turkish courthouse, three judges found him

guilty of being a member of IS and sentenced him

As he was led from court, flanked by prison guards,

I asked for his reaction - he just swore at me.

He's the second alleged member of the gang to be

His friend, Mohammed Emwazi, Jihadi John, was killed in a drone

strike two years ago after beheading two British hostages

Aine Davis was captured 18 months ago at this luxury

seaside villa complex, 40 miles outside Istanbul.

He had risked secretly crossing the border from IS-controlled parts

of Syria and travelling hundreds of miles to meet up with fellow

IS supporters here, but the Turkish Intelligence Services were watching,

they moved in, and at last one of the suspected so-called Beatles,

had been captured in this, the most unlikely of locations.

The well-known Spanish newspaper journalist, Javier Espinosa,

was one of the hostages held and tortured by the

He was released before the beheadings began,

but today was hugely relieved that Aine Davis was finally,

I think he should face justice, whatever it is, it doesn't matter

if it's in England or Turkey or whatever, he should

Aine Davis is suspected to be one of the four branded The Beatles,

because of their English accents, by the captives they

The most infamous was the killer, Mohammed Emwazi, or Jihadi John.

The others have been named by the US State Department as Alexanda Kotey

and El Shafee Elsheikh, both alive and still in Syria.

Javier Espinosa remembers how one of the men, nicknamed George,

always talked about how much he despised the West.

I mean, it was a very common phrase that he used.

That hatred developed when all four men were radicalised in West London.

Davis, a small time drug dealer, was once jailed for having

an illegal gun, now he's serving seven-and-a-half years

in a Turkish prison for being a member of Islamic State.

A man arrested close to the Houses of Parliament last month has been

Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali, who's 27 and from North London,

is accused of preparing acts of terrorism.

He's also been charged with two counts of possessing

explosives related to activity in Afghanistan back in 2012.

Scores of convictions, including rapes and murders,

could be called into question after allegations that thousands

of blood samples may have been manipulated.

The National Police Chief's Council says that forensic experts

are identifying any cases which may require retesting.

An 11-year-old girl, thought to be from Leicester,

has died after an incident at the Drayton Manor Theme Park

It's thought she was on a school visit and fell into the water

Our correspondent, Phil Mackie, reports from the scene.

It was just after 2.20pm this afternoon, the Air Ambulance arrived

Staff and paramedics tried to save her,

but she was pronounced dead after being airlifted to hospital.

The 11-year-old was on the Splash Canyon ride

The Air Ambulance came within a couple of minutes and then

They closed the whole section of the park off

The Park describes the ride as wild, unpredictable and thrilling.

Small boats carry up to six passengers, including children,

who must be at least three feet tall, on a journey that mimics

The same family has owned Drayton Manor since it became

For 67 years, it's had an excellent safety record.

This was its first ever serious accident.

The grandson of the founder and the son of the current boss

was visibly upset as he read a short statement.

It is with great sadness that we have to report

a young girl's passed away at Birmingham Children's Hospital

following an incident on one of our rides this afternoon.

We're all truly shocked and devastated and our thoughts,

excuse me, are with her family and friends at this

This is the first fatality at a British theme park

Staffordshire Police are keeping the Health and Safety Executive

Drayton Manor says the park will be closed tomorrow a mark of respect

Phil Mackie, BBC News, Staffordshire.

The CPS will announce tomorrow whether any Conservative campaigners

are to be prosecuted for breaching election spending rules in 2015. We

can join our Home Affairs Correspondent at Westminster. Tom,

what are you hearing there? The CPS, the Crown Prosecution Service, has

been working its way through a pile of files. The results of a dozen or

so police investigations into these allegations of problems and

irregularities in election expenses from the 2015 general election. The

allegation is that the Conservative Party bussed supporters to

constituencies around the country, put them up in hotels while they

campaigned for candidates in those constituencies. The allegation is

that the cost of that was not put on the bill for the local campaign, but

for the national campaign. If it had been on the local bill, it would

have taken the spending allowed in those constituencies over the

permitted level. That's the claim. It's an offence to do that

intentionally. Tomorrow, we understand the Crown Prosecution

Service will decide whether there is enough evidence to prosecute and

whether it's in the public interest for the Crown Prosecution Service to

press charges. There are two tests before the prosecution can go-ahead.

Either way, it's going to be quite a moment because we are just a day

from Thursday which is the date at which candidates can either come

forward or drop out of the general election campaign. So the

Conservative Party, if there are prosecutions, will have some big and

complex decisions to make. Huw. Tom, again, thank you very much for the

update there at Westminster. Tom Symonds, our Home Affairs

Correspondent. There's been a sharp rise

in the number of migrants making the dangerous journey by sea

from Libya to Europe, The numbers attempting the crossing

are already 50% higher than last year and attitudes to this influx

in Europe also seem My colleague, Reeta Chakrabarti,

was with some of the migrants being brought ashore in Italy

to face an uncertain future. After days on the deck

of this rescue ship, it's the first glimpse of Europe

for people who left the shores of Libya unsure they'd

survive to see this. Trying to cross continents

in these dinghies felt Like this young Nigerian man,

who said he'd been working in Libya as a welder until his foot was blown

off by an explosive. Everybody don't have a choice,

nobody have a choice. Even me I think this water,

I'm going to cross, if I am He said he couldn't return home

because of Boko Haram. Now, first off the ship,

he's helped to safety. On shore, there's chocolate

and panettone for breakfast and, as people are checked and processed,

a warm welcome Italian style. The contrast with what they've

come from is stark. This is the end of

the long sea journey. The injured came out first, then

women and children and now the rest. But they're arriving

in a Europe where attitudes are hardening against them,

the future for many is uncertain. All humanity is present on these

treacherous crossings and the rescuers make no distinction

between the persecuted and the poor. But Europe does, existing fears

about migration and the fact that over 43,000 people have arrived this

way this year, mean the reception For those who have arrived,

another journey has started. They may have reached their longed

for goal, but admission here in Europe and acceptance might

still elude them. Reeta Chakrabarti, BBC News,

in Calabria, southern Italy. The Liberal candidate

in South Korea's presidential Moon Jae-in favours greater dialogue

with North Korea in a change The early election was called

after a corruption scandal led to the impeachment

of the former president. Official results there

have yet to be released. The Health and Safety Executive

is to prosecute a Mental Health Trust in connection with the death

of a teenager in Oxford. Connor Sparrowhawk, who was 18,

drowned in a bath at a residential Tonight, the Trust has apologised

again to his family. Our social affairs correspondent,

Michael Buchanan, He was affectionately

known as Laughing Boy, but Connor Sparrowhawk's love

of life was cut short While a patient at this

Southern Health unit in 2013, the 18-year-old, who had learning

disabilities, drowned in a bath Now we've learned the Health

and Safety Executive are to take the unusual step of prosecuting

the Trust for failings Connor's mother, Sara Ryan,

told me she welcomed the news, but it's a hollow victory

for the family's We've just been put

through the mill. We have been treated appallingly

and he should never have died, Connor's death can was initially put

down to natural causes by Southern Health, but in 2015

an inquest jury disagreed and found neglect by the Trust had

contributed to his death. This prosecution could now

see them heavily fined. Safety expert, Mike Holder,

used to work for Southern Health, but he actually urged the Health

and Safety Executive I just felt that Connor himself

should not have been left That doesn't mean you can have

somebody there in the room all of the time, but certainly

should have been under observation. It was totally foreseeable that

somebody with his condition could drown in a bath and he should

never have been left unattended. Following Connor's drowning a wider

review of deaths found major failures at the Trust which prompted

the Chief Executive, In a statement today,

Southern Health told us... Connor's death could have been

prevented, but they said significant changes had taken places since 2013

and the organisation continues to do everything it can to improve

the quality and safety of services. He's left an unimaginable hole

in our lives, really. I mean, he was enormously

loved, incredibly He had so much to contribute

that was never acknowledged. Chris Froome, three-time winner

of the Tour de France, says he was deliberately knocked

off his bike by a car The 31-year-old posted a photograph

on social media of his damaged bike, Team Sky say that they have reported

the matter to the police. The Venice Biennale has been called

the Olympic Games of the art world, an international event in which 86

countries compete to win the award Representing Britain this

year is Phyllida Barlow, a sculptor who had to wait until her

mid-60s for proper recognition. She gave our arts editor,

Will Gompertz, a tour of her latest work, which is made

of recycled materials, OK, Phyllida, let's have a look

at the show, and starting in room And these huge structures

you've put in here. They're about the

dimension of the space. They're about using

the dimension of the space. I like the adventure

of being able to make the sculpture do what I can't do,

which is to climb up So this piece is much more

colourful, in this room, Vthat It feels slightly threatening,

the way it's sort of leaning over towards us, as if it might fall

and crush us. I'm trying to use a lot

of drama in this show. I think maybe I want the drama

to almost overwhelm the, in a way, the quite ordered spaces that make

up the British Pavilion. I don't want to appear

in anyway rude or dismissive, but if I was to describe this,

this seems to be your This work has a history,

in the sense that all these elements here are abandoned components

of a work that was going to go outside, but it became too difficult

to use them and it was just left as a great stack in the studio, and

I started to really like it as that. I mean, maybe this sounds very

pedantic, I think there's beauty in apparently things that have

ugliness about them. To be able to reveal great beauty

in things that are quite abject. I suppose I think I'm that kind

of artist, you know, who wants to look at things that

are condemned to the rubbish tip, both literally and metaphorically,

and give them a fresh start. The artist Phyllida Barlow talking

to Will Gompertz in Venice. Theresa May and her husband Philip

have appeared on the BBC's The One Show this evening as part

of the general election campaign. Their aim was to offer an insight

into life in Downing Street. Our correspondent, Sophie Long,

who is following the Conservative It was their first joint

television interview. This is how Theresa May decided

to show voters what makes her tick. She says she believes the public

should have the chance to see do Not in a Prime Ministerial debate,

but on The One Show sofa I try to give her as much support

as I can, very important. A lot of things you have

to work hard at, as PM. I'm there to give her

as much support as I can. I get to decide when I take

the bins out, not if I... There were no difficult political

questions, it is fair to say A rare opportunity to hear from him,

at this event together. I was taught by my parents,

whatever job you are doing, That is how I approach

everything in my career. I never heard Theresa say she wanted

to be Prime Minister until she was well-established

in the Shadow Cabinet. That would mean Theresa May had

prime ministerial ambitions much They weren't told what the questions

would be in advance. As with many of the Prime Minister's

appearances in the campaign so far, This one was beamed into the home

of aobut three and a half A rare and jovial moment

about a European institution. Eurovision, we're not

leaving that, as well? In current circumstances,

I'm not how many votes will get.