26/06/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten, a deal is done, the DUP agrees to support

Theresa May's government, but it comes at a cost.

It's taken 18 days for the parties to agree as the Prime Minister

agrees an extra ?1 billion of investment for the province.

Today we have reached an outcome that is good for the United Kingdom,

good for Northern Ireland and allows our nation

to move forward to tackle the challenges ahead.

But critics say it hinders the search for a power-sharing deal

at Stormont where the executive was suspended six months ago.

And there's been strong criticism from the first ministers of Scotland

and Wales who say it's a case of cash for votes.

The number of high-rise buildings failing fire

safety tests rises to 75, and in Camden there are

Victory for President Trump as the US Supreme Court allow parts

of his travel ban against six mainly Muslim countries.

An inquest has heard how five friends drowned during a trip

to Camber Sands in East Sussex despite being competent swimmers.

And a report on the secrets of sleep and how too little leaves

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News...

Heather Watson wows at Eastbourne as she beats the world number

nine, Dominika Cibulkova, to reach round three.

The Democratic Unionist Party has agreed the terms of a deal

to support the minority Conservative government.

The deal involves more than a billion pounds of extra

spending in Northern Ireland, on health, education

The first ministers of Scotland and Wales have condemned the deal

in the strongest terms, calling it "cash for votes".

Theresa May has also been accused of undermining the search for stable

government in Northern Ireland, as our political editor,

18 days since the election, nearly three weeks of waiting,

a political lifetime for the Prime Minister.

But the DUP, power on their side, have been taking their time.

Not just friends but this a snap of a political family now.

A deal agreed at the Cabinet table no less.

We also share the desire to ensure a strong government that is able

The Northern Irish party promising their votes in parliament

Following our discussions, the Conservative Party has

recognised the case for higher funding in Northern Ireland,

given our unique history and the circumstances

Today we have reached an outcome that is good for the United Kingdom.

The Tories have promised the DUP an extra ?1 billion of taxpayers'

cash for Northern Ireland over the next two years to spend

on infrastructure, health or education projects.

And the Tories have had to drop the idea of means testing

Winter Fuel Payments for the elderly and making changes to pensions.

But in return the ten DUP MPs will back the Tories on big votes

like the Queen's speech or the Budget.

The election threw the Tory majority away.

As you see on her face, Theresa May would never have

But they have signed on the dotted line so they have

something to count on, knowing full well other parts

In two years' time the DUP will come back and ask for even more money.

What has happened here is that the taxpayers in England

and Wales and Scotland will continue to suffer austerity

This is not Northern Irish control of parliament.

It's about being able to make Westminster work at all.

Ministers knew this criticism would come - are they prepared?

I'm not against investment in Northern Ireland,

I welcome investment in infrastructure and public

services but there ought to be fairness.

If there's investment coming to Northern Ireland, Scotland should

You're paying ?100 million to the DUP for every

People in all parts of the country are benefiting from the fact

that we have a strong enough economy that we can afford to spend

We placed 8 billion on health around the country.

If you're cancelling austerity in Northern Ireland,

you're not cancelling it anywhere else and people in Scotland, Wales,

the North of England, haven't they got every right to feel

Well, people in Scotland, Wales and different parts of England

are getting money but this is separate from that.

This is the Northern Ireland block grant which, as I say,

has already existed so this is not unprecedented.

The extra cash might help resurrect joint rule in Northern Ireland

but it just would not have happened if they hadn't agreed

This small group might not be familiar faces yet but they are now

part of the power behind a shaky throne.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

As we've heard, the deal could have a significant impact

on the future of devolved government in Northern Ireland.

Sinn Fein has repeatedly said that in doing the deal the UK government

has abandoned its duty to remain impartial under the terms of

The latest deadline to restore the power-sharing executive

Our Ireland correspondent, Chris Page, has the latest.

Belfast is a much changed city. The conflict is receding into history,

thousands were heading to a concert thinking mainly of music and not

money is that they did talk about the deal in London which is bringing

more cash to this part of the UK. I think in terms of the economy it

will get us on a map. It is a fantastic deal for the people of

Northern Ireland, no question. How it goes down elsewhere we will see.

I think it is a waste, you need to get the executive working before we

get more money, it will be wasted. So where will the ?1 billion of new

money go? ?350 million is likely to be spent on health and education,

400 million will go to infrastructure, four example roads

and public buildings. 150 million is in marked for improving broadband

and a further ?100 million going towards deprived communities but the

stalemate here at Stormont is not about a cash crisis. The main

differences between the DUP and Sinn Fein are not over budgets, they are

about issues like legal recognition for the Irish language, whether

same-sex marriage should be introduced here and how to deal with

unsolved killings from the troubles. Sinn Fein had expressed concern

about the prospect is the main Unionist party having such a close

relationship with the government. But today they suggested the deal

could have some up sides. As always with these deal is the devil is in

the detail but any money coming in are given the history of austerity

and Tory cuts which hopes to offset the effect on public services is a

good thing. There are still big gaps to close in Northern Ireland is to

get a fresh agreement. The current breakdown in relations is the most

serious since the DUP and Sinn Fein went into power sharing ten years

ago. The Northern Ireland Secretary who brokered that breakthrough is

worried about the new arrangement in Westminster. The government can no

longer be seen as an evenhanded negotiator in the Northern Ireland

peace process. That is a very high price to pay to cling onto power

regardless. The government insists will remain impartial in the

Stormont talks. The power-sharing negotiations are going on into the

night, the pace is picking up with three days left to save devolution.

Chris Page, BBC News, Belfast. Live to Westminster now and our

political editor, Laura Kuenssberg. How much security is this deal going

to give Theresa May? I think her cultivation was in this case that

perhaps a bad deal was better than no deal -- her calculation. Despite

the obvious downsides, the activations that she has put forward

a straight bribe which has been put forward by the opposition parties, a

sense of unfairness we have already seen felt in other parts of the

devolved nations and I'm sure in other parts of England as well. And

the potential imprecations for the Good Friday Agreement and getting

power-sharing back on the table -- implications. There are significant

downsides, no question, but there is one very important upside and this

is what the calculation was about. Without this deal Theresa May simply

did not have a majority over there. This allows her at least to cover

the basics for now. Without it she would have been vulnerable in the

Commons every day it sat, every hour, always at risk from a big vote

that could have been sprung on her with her opponents ganging up on

each other. At least this way she can be sure she is able to get the

big pieces of business, the Queen 's speech, Finance bills, those things

through the House of Commons because without those that are government

has no confidence from parliament and without that they just can't get

anything done. But no mistake, this is a veneer of stability rather than

anything with deep foundations. It secures the position of Theresa May

for now but it does not restore her authority. Laura, thank you, Laura

Kuenssberg with the latest from Westminster.

In their latest statement on the aftermath of the fire

at Grenfell Tower in west London, ministers say that 75 high-rise

buildings in 26 local authority areas have failed fire safety tests.

The company which makes the cladding that's thought to have been used

on Grenfell Tower has now withdrawn the product from worldwide sale.

And Camden Council in north London has evacuated several tower blocks

after firefighters said they could not guarantee safety,

partly because of concerns over fire doors, as our correspondent

This growing fire safety crisis in social housing has been, until now,

about cladding, the sheet of aluminium that councils have been

fitting to tower blocks to improve their look and installation that it

has become apparent recently here in Camden that one of the reasons the

occupants of five tower blocks have been evacuated is not just to do

with cladding but also to do with a lack of fire doors.

This is the fire door leading to the fire exit. Roger Evans is staying

put in his Camden flat despite the mass evacuation of his neighbours.

But today he was told this... Apparently all the doors need

replacing. Because last week Camden Council realised these towers were

covered with aluminium panels capable of burning in a fire and

with that in mind the advice from fire safety experts was that every

door needs to be a fire door. What you think the fact you are behind a

door that is not a fire door? Is I'd never thought about it, I assumed

everything was safe, it is a council property, meant to be well

maintained but evidently we have been living in a potential death

trap. The Communities Secretary told the Commons it was one of a number

of safety issues with the blocks. Most astonishingly there were

hundreds, literally hundreds of fire doors missing. The estimate by

Camden Council itself is that they need at least 1000 fire doors

because they were missing from those five blocks. The council leader has

been in the job a month. My understanding is that we are told

the council make a cost that by removing the fire doors from the

specification. You are new in the job but what does that make you

think about how the council has been run? Following Grenfell we need to

take a look, nationally, at our building regulations and fire safety

measures. We have seen across the country people availing these tests,

we acted swiftly in Camden to get the information right now and my

priority is the residents who need somewhere to sleep and I'm trying to

make sure they are safe and secure and following that I will be asking

those questions. I have the same questions and I will be on it but I

have to prioritise getting my residents back safely into their

blocks. Camden is worst affected but around the country councils are

removing the aluminium panels from their towers and sending them for

fire safety testing. The tests are happening so far in secret at this

research Centre. Samples from 75 towers have been sent, every single

one has failed. The building regulations are complex but they

start from a basic principle, the external walls of the building shall

adequately resist the spread of fire. The question is, how to meet

that requirement. There is another document, something called approved

document B which is a section which does not even mention cladding said

materials used should be of limited combustibility meaning they burn

slowly. Even that is not straightforward because designers

can instead turn to 2-mac or more documents which are set out other

ways to balance such as fire barriers can be added to cladding

which does burn to reduce a fire, including using a desktop study to

prove it is safe. It may well be the case that the regulations and the

related guidance need to be updated to take account of a change in

technology in the building industry but secondly we are concerned that

the current regulations and guidance are not being applied and enforced

strictly enough. The inquests into four more of the victims opens today

will stop a corner, the police and the public enquiry will eventually

consider why they died and what has gone wrong with fire safety. Tom

Symons, BBC News. Sabah Abdullah lost his wife

in the Grenfell Tower disaster, since when he's had to move

to different accommodation three times, and he's found it

extremely difficult to access His wife's body is due to be

flown back to Morocco He's been describing his

experience to our special Sabah Abdullah escaped the fire in

this dressing gown. He made it out from the 17th floor but his wife,

Khadija Khalloufi, didn't. Her hand slipping from his in the rush to get

out. From the 16th, went to the 15th... I looked behind me, she

wasn't there. I said to myself, God, what's happening? I looked here and

there. The retired lecturer sits in his hotel room, his third home since

the fire. Today his wife's body was prepared for burial. Tomorrow she is

being flown back to Morocco but he cannot go with her. His British

passport is in ashes. I've got no passport, my passport burned. I've

got no driving licence, it also burned. Everything I can think of is

gone, burned. I'm nobody. So you can't go to Morocco with your wife's

coffin? How can I do that? Of course it's my wife. It is part of me, it

is there. She should be never alone without me. I'm sorry to ask you

this but how do you feel that you can't accompany your wife back home?

This is really... I feel really very down. I feel I am nobody at all. As

soon as we interviewed Sabah Abdullah late this afternoon, we

called the Home Office to ask why he couldn't get a replacement passport.

They asked us to tell him that if he could get to the passport office

within an hour they would try to help him but it is just a sign of

how the Grenfell survivors don't know who to turn to and they are

left feeling helpless. And tonight, despite being originally told it

would take a week, Sabah Abdullah got his passport. I'm relieved, at

least I know I'm going to fulfil the wish of my late wife. The Home

Office said it had been doing all it could to help him. Now he can be

with his wife of 28 years as she makes her final journey home.

Theresa May has said that EU nationals living in the UK

will have the right to stay after Brexit and will be able

But Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator,

says the Prime Minister's plans lack clarity.

Mrs May told MPs she wanted to end the anxiety for the 3.2 million EU

nationals in the UK, and said those who had been

here for five years would be granted 'settled status',

giving them rights to benefits, pensions and the NHS.

Our political correspondent, Vicki Young, reports.

Theresa May says she's giving reassurance and certainty.

Is your offer to EU nationals good enough, Prime Minister?

Allaying their anxieties is a priority according

to the Prime Minister and she told MPs she had a serious

Under these plans, no EU citizen currently in the UK lawfully will be

asked to leave at the point the UK leaves the EU.

So EU citizens will be able to apply for something

called settled status - that is the right to live

in the UK permanently, accessing public services

Applicants will have to have lived in Britain for at least five

continuous years and will need to have come here before

a certain cut-off date which is yet to be agreed.

In Brussels last week, Mrs May said that could

be as early as March this

year, when she triggered the formal Brexit negotiations, but EU leaders

say the deadline should be the date the UK leaves,

The Prime Minister's offer is conditional on EU

countries offering British citizens similar rights.

The Labour leader said all this should have been

The Prime Minister has dragged the issue of citizens and families

deep into the complex and delicate negotiations of our future trade

relations with the European Union, which she herself has been willing

This is confirmation the government is prepared to use people

And another row is brewing over who sorts out any legal disputes

Would my right honourable friend give due assurance that any pressure

to allow the European Court of Justice any role in immigration

or future ILR status of EU citizens within this country

I believe that in terms of assuring the rights of EU citizens living

here in the United Kingdom, we believe that should be

done through our courts, and not through the

Theresa May is promising a smooth and streamlined process to make it

as easy as possible for EU citizens to secure their rights after Brexit.

The Home Office will have to set up a whole new system,

potentially dealing with millions of applications.

It's a huge challenge, and officials hope it will be up

But before that, there will be tough talks.

The EU's Brexit negotiator has already called for more ambition,

As we heard, there are 3.2 million EU nationals living in the UK

and around a million British nationals living elsewhere

Our correspondent Jeremy Cooke has been finding out how some

of them have reacted to today's announcement.

In a quiet corner of London, German voices raised in song.

Many of these singers have been here for decades.

The government's announcement today is meant to offer them reassurance.

It could just change any time, that's my feeling,

What's slightly uncomfortable certainly is the fact

I'm still the eternal optimist and I hope that, ultimately,

The choirmaster is Barbara, a professional singer,

shaken by the Brexit vote and its consequences.

I just don't see why suddenly because of issues of, the NHS,

we want money for the NHS, or issues of, we don't like

foreigners, suddenly we are treated like second-class citizens.

What Theresa May and David Davis would say

is that the evidence of today will be that they want

you to stay, that you will be given settled citizen status.

Over in Berlin, the Brits in full voice.

Most here are confident they can stay after the UK leaves the EU.

As someone who kind of personifies free movement having come here 20

years ago and reaped all the benefits, I'm very concerned

that a whole generation and generations after that

At the moment I don't have to choose between British and German,

and I think that would have been very hard.

Since the Brexit vote and what you hear about that

happening in the UK at the moment, actually it would make it easier

for me to become a German and give up my British citizenship.

The choirmaster here is Andrew Simms, who moved to Berlin in 1988.

Maybe when people see the real costs of Brexit,

of leaving what I believe is the greatest peace project

in the history of humanity, which has given us peace in Europe

for the last 70 years, I hope people will reflect.

Theresa May is determined to deliver on the Brexit vote,

and also to reassure those most directly impacted.

It is proving a difficult balance to strike.

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

There's been a minute's silence for victims of the terror attack

on Muslim worshippers in Finsbury Park

A man's been charged with terrorism related murder

The former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has

resigned from his last remaining formal role in the church.

Lord Carey was criticised in an independent review

of the Church's handling of abuse carried out by Bishop Peter Ball.

Ball was jailed in 2015 for historic offences against young men.

The Royal Navy has a new aircraft carrier,

the first since the Ark Royal was decommissioned six years ago.

HMS Queen Elizabeth has set sail on sea trials.

The vessel cost ?3 billion and is the size

In Washington, the US Supreme Court has approved parts

of the controversial travel ban signed by President Trump while it

considers whether the policy should be fully upheld or struck down.

The measure bans entry to travellers from six mainly Muslim countries

for 90 days and suspends the US refugee programme for 120 days.

Our North America editor Jon Sopel is at the Supreme Court.

We have talked a lot about this embattled president but how much of

a victory is this one for him? It is not maybe the complete slam dunk

Donald Trump would have hoped for but it is a partial and significant

victory nonetheless. If you think about where we were, the ban had

been struck down completely by the lower courts until it could be

considered by the Supreme Court. Now they have decided that from now on

people will no longer be allowed to come to the US from those six

countries unless they have a bona fides relationship with a person or

entity in the United States. That's interesting but there are completely

difficult questions about their implementation. Who will decide

this? Will it be the customs officer who will decide on the day? But

there is an irony in all of this. This is the revised travel ban we

are talking about. Donald Trump only earlier this month derided it as

being politically correct and watered down. Now he's saying it is

a clear victory for our national security at an important -- and an

important tool for protecting the nation. It may be watered down, it

may be revised but it has given Donald Trump of victory. Thank you.

In Hastings an inquest has opened into the deaths of five friends

who drowned on a trip to Camber Sands in East

The men aged between 18 and 27 all lived in the London area

The circumstances surrounding the deaths of two other swimmers

at the same beach a month earlier are also being taken into account,

as our correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports.

This was Camber Sands this afternoon.

Its stunning beach drawing thousands of people.

No sign of what one lawyer today called its hidden dangers.

But last summer, this was the same beach shortly

Today the men's families, some of who escaped the Civil War

in Sri Lanka, came to their inquest hoping others won't

We're just hoping to learn that at least there will be more safe...

secure and safe, you know, lifeguards and how do you say

What have the last ten months been like for you and your family?

Tragic is the word because it's been helpless.

Nitharsan Ravi was one of the five men to drown.

The others were Kobi Saththiyanathan, his brother

Kenugen, Inthushan Sriskantharasa, and Guru Srithavarajah.

The inquest heard they were all fit and all of them could swim,

but one month earlier Mohit Dupar and Gustavo Silva Da Cruz also

The fact that seven men drowned here in the space of one month has

made this double inquest not just about personal tragedy

The coroner in this case said today that he wanted to make sure that it

At the time of both incidents, there were no permanent

The families of the men who died said they want lessons learned so no

one else has to suffer this appalling tragedy.

Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, on Camber Sands.

In Canada a team of scientists is embarking on what's set to become

the world's most comprehensive study into the effects of lack

They want hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to take part

in tests online to see how much the amount of sleep affects

Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh has the story.

We spend nearly a third of our lives asleep.

It is vital for our physical and mental health.

But we're getting less sleep than ever before.

His visual cortex, his eyes are open but there's actually

British neuroscientist Adrian Owen, based in Ontario, Canada,

believes sleep deprivation may be having a serious effect

Every day we make hundreds of decisions, we remember

We make difficult decisions like should I buy a house

But we also have to remember many simple things like where I parked

the car or what I intended to buy on the way home from work.

All of these things can be affected by lack of sleep.

You go to sleep for four hours, and then I am going to personally

He's begun a major study of the effects of lack

So I joined volunteers at Western University Ontario,

trying out his test, which anyone can sign up for online.

They're designed to reveal how our brains are functioning -

reasoning, memory, and decision-making.

To demonstrate how tiredness may affect that, we stayed up until 4am,

We were about to repeat the brain tests we'd done the previous night.

Most of our scores went down compared to the night before.

Oh, kisses for your sister, that's really nice.

But Sylvie, whose daughters wake her several times a night,

Maybe I've just gotten used to functioning on very little sleep.

I have to be on as soon as my kids wake up.

I finished and I've done quite badly!

I also did the tests while having my brain scanned.

After a normal night's sleep, my brain was functioning well.

The bright orange blobs are areas of increased activity.

And this is the scan done after four hours' sleep.

It's pretty clear there is much less activity in these areas of the brain

that we know are crucial for things like decision-making,

So, our 24-hour culture could be having a serious impact on society.

Those signing up to the world's biggest sleep study will help show

the extent of the problem and reveal how much sleep we need

Fergus Walsh, BBC News, Ontario, Canada.

Tonight after Grenfell we reveal the failures at the heart of the system

which is meant to keep our homes safe from fire. But to a former

housing minister. Join me now on BBC Two.

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