10/08/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten, victims of modern slavery in every large town

The National Crime Agency says tens of thousands

of people are being held against their will and exploited.

It's horrible, I tell you it's just horrible.

Even now I just feel like, my heart starts beating a little bit.

I'm arresting you on suspicion of modern slavery.

The scale of modern slavery in Britain is much bigger

than previously thought, say the authorities,

with hundreds of police investigations under way.

They're getting limited finances that are coming

from and controlled by the boss, their living accomodation

is being controlled by the boss, and the boss has taken their ID

We have a special report on the teams trying to rescue

the victims and track down the perpetrators.

President Trump steps up his warnings to North Korea

as he spells out the consequences of any plans to attack.

Because things will happen to them like they never thought possible.

Supermarkets withdraw some products after 700,000 potentially

contaminated eggs get into the British food chain.

Badly injured in the Manchester bombing, the couple who've spent

And no fairytale ending for Botswana's star sprinter -

as he finishes short of the mark in the 200m final.

He made it to the 200 metres final despite illness. Coming up in

Sportsday, we'll have a full round-up from the World Athletics

Championships including battery and a Johnson-Thompson in the high jump.

-- including Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the high jump.

Slavery, trafficking and sexual exploitation can be found in every

major city across the UK and the scale of the crime is much

That's the warning from the National Crime Agency.

It says the number of people affected by modern slavery

across Britain is thought to be in the tens of thousands,

and people may encounter victims in everyday life without realising.

More than 300 police operations are currently targeting

the criminals involved, and in the months of May and June,

Our UK affairs correspondent Jeremy Cooke has been given

exclusive access to teams working to combat modern slavery.

I should warn you that his report contains flashing images.

Martin is an investigator with the charity Hope

for Justice, a team dedicated to fighting modern slavery.

It looks like they've been exploited for a period of time.

You're looking at the first moments of freedom for a Polish couple

desperate enough and brave enough to run from those who trafficked

Tonight we report on how modern slavery destroys lives.

Those dedicated to stopping the traffickers know the road

Some of the individuals have been through horrific experiences.

They're living in horrendous conditions and all this is to keep

them in line so that they don't even think about escaping.

The police and Hope For Justice investigators find trafficking

and slavery across the country, from building sites to brothels,

What's happened to you is not OK and it's actually a crime.

An ancient crime, in Britain, in 2017.

Filthy living conditions, long hours, slave wages.

I do, yeah, just purely from what's happening to them.

They're getting limited finances, they're controlled by the boss.

Their living accommodation is controlled by the boss

and the boss has taken their ID and passport documents,

so they have no means of leaving even if they wanted to.

Some victims are constantly on the move, used as objects

for backbreaking work, controlled by fear.

This man is being supported by the Palm Cove charity

after suffering four months of hard labour, for ?140.

It's just horrible, I tell you, it's just horrible.

Even now I just feel like my heart starts beating a little bit.

You could have opened the door and walked out.

I don't know, I don't know, I was scared, scared.

What was going to happen if he comes after me.

So they've got the pin code and the card.

Back in Bradford our Polish couple are finally into safety,

just beginning to find the confidence to tell the team

Of his long hours on the building sites, of her endless shifts.

It's the traffickers, tracking them down.

When we're going to see each other, we're going to have a talk.

I'm giving you my word of honour that we will see each other

and when we see each other we're going to talk.

We've heard them making indirect threats to them over the phone.

What we're doing today is recovering human beings.

And for those who can't run, the best hope is rescue.

Simultaneous raids on two backstreet brothels.

The modern slavery unit, acting on intelligence that young,

Eastern European women are being exploited as prostitutes.

The priority is to get to the women, to reassure them.

We can help safeguard you and see if there's anything else we can do.

And then they're led away to a place of safety,

perhaps to the beginning of something better than this.

This is people's lives that it's affecting,

so it's essential that we get it right in how we investigate

We have seen an increase in these offences.

We're not afraid to tackle it and go and take it on.

I'm arresting you now on suspicion of modern slavery...

Taking it on means that as well as rescues there are arrests.

So a successful operation, arrests have been made and victims

But in many ways all of this is just the beginning.

The women from the brothel have now arrived at a safe location,

specialists from the Palm Cove charity piecing

They can choose to enter the national referral

mechanism, which offers safe housing and support.

But it only lasts 45 days and there are warnings that victims

emerge still vulnerable, at risk of re-trafficking.

If we are not breaking that cycle then all that work goes to waste,

so it's really crucial to concentrate on the long-term

sustainable support for victims and survivors of human trafficking

It's that vicious cycle which can be so damaging.

In a secret location we meet a young woman who's escaped a life

of prostitution several times - only to be re-trafficked.

The life now, this time it's much better.

The charity which runs this place knows the danger

and unlike the official programme it offers refuge for as

Finally the support she needs - counselling, a vital

The way she's been treated is like she's not a human.

Physically being used and physically assaulted, sexually abused,

being used like she's a piece of meat - and repeatedly,

you know, day in, day out, multiple times throughout the day.

When you think about those people who did that to you and may be doing

that to other people today, what do you think of them?

All of the painstaking police work is about bringing

Any particular reason why you have their passports?

The Prime Minister calls it the greatest human

Modern slavery, a widespread crime, behind closed doors,

And if you want to contact the Modern Slavery Helpline,

the number is at the bottom of the screen now.

President Trump has again ramped up his warnings

to North Korea tonight, saying his threat to unleash "fire

and fury" if Pyongyang threatened the United States may not have

He said North Korea should "very, very nervous" if it attacked

the United States, or any of its allies.

His latest warning came after North Korea said

it was working on plans to fire four missiles over Japan

which would land off the coast of the US territory of Guam.

From Washington, our North America correspondent Nick Bryant reports.

It's from his golf club in New Jersey during his working

vacation that Donald Trump is managing this stand-off.

And this afternoon he was back in his trademark suit and tie,

and using his trademark tough talk, his response to the latest

I will tell you this, if North Korea does anything

in terms of even thinking about attack, of anybody

that we love or we represent or our allies or us,

And they should be very nervous, because things will happen to them

Earlier this week he warned North Korea of fire and fury,

raising the chilling spectre of nuclear confrontation.

Maybe that fiery rhetoric wasn't incendiary enough.

The people that were questioning that statement, was it too tough,

They've been doing this to our country for a long time,

for many years, and it's about time that somebody stuck up

for the people of this country and for the people of other

countries, so if anything, maybe that statement

Earlier, on news bulletins in North Korea, the customary

martial music and also an unusually specific military threat.

The Hwasong 12 rocket will be launched by the North Korean

People's Army and will cross Japan and fly 3356 kilometres for 1065

seconds, before hitting the waters 30 to 40 kilometres away from Guam.

This is the Hwasong 12 missile on parade in Pyongyang in spring.

Kim Jong-un can back his fiery words with weaponry.

Today, on the tropical island of Guam, it wasn't so much

a case of fire and fury, as wet and wild.

The news crews converging there producing what looked

like tourist advertisements, people heading to the beach

Locals not particularly concerned at the threat that North Korea

We're used to the whole ebb and flow of hearing that we're going to be

bombed and then it not happening, and hearing about it again, so it's

He never follows through, so I wasn't really concerned.

I think it's probably like a distraction maybe,

maybe a political kind of move on the US and Korea,

Guam is in the firing line because it is American territory

that is home to two big US military bases.

An attack here would be an attack on America.

As well as refusing to back down from the threat of fire and fury,

Donald Trump did say that he would consider negotiations with North

Korea. He also spoke of his ambition, as he put it, to de-nuke

the world. But there is this fear of a terrible miss calculation that

could turn this war of words into a military confrontation. Nick Bryant

in Washington, thank you. A number of supermarkets have taken

products containing eggs - like sandwiches and salads -

off the shelves, after it emerged that 700,000 eggs,

potentially contaminated with pesticide, have made their way

into the UK's food chain. But officials say any risk to public

health is very unlikely. The eggs came from Holland, where

police raids were carried out today. This Belgian farmer has had

to destroy not just his The produce contaminated

with Fipranol, an insecticide which is banned for use

in the food chain. But that's where it's ended up,

on a potentially massive scale. TRANSLATION: You cannot put your

eggs on the market for three months. And so I took the decision

to kill the animals, More than 100 farms are affected

in the Netherlands too, And millions of eggs have now been

pulled from supermarket The reason - Fipranol may be popular

for getting rid of fleas on pets, Here in the UK, we produce our own

eggs, but also import them. Here in the UK, we produce our own

eggs, ubt also import them. And some of the eggs from affected

farms have ended up here too. We're not talking about the kind

of fresh eggs like these, The affected eggs went

into processed foods, Just a few days ago

the Food Standards Agency said Sounds a lot, but that's just 0.007%

of all the eggs we eat every year. There's no reason why people

should avoid eating eggs. Our assessment is, it is very

unlikely there is any But we think people deserve food

they can trust, and that means not having food that has in it

a substance that simply Four supermarkets are

withdrawing a limited number But others will already

have been consumed. Yet another food scare,

highlighting just how complex supply chains can be,

and how easily problems can spread. Two months after the devastating

fire at Grenfell Tower in West London, it has emerged that

only a small amount of the ?18 million raised to help survivors

has been handed out. The figures have come

from the Charity Commission. Our news correspondent

Frankie McCamley is here. well want the Charity commission say

is that this is one of the most complex fundraising operations and

has had to deal with. It is working with a number of charities that have

raised more than ?18 million. Audits figures have shown today is that of

that amount just 2.5 million has been distributed. Speaking to local

residents, people who lived in the tower, there is anger and

frustration building. People questioning whether money is, why

they haven't seen it. The charities commission does say there were

initial teething problems. They couldn't identify some of the people

who needed this money. Say that some people haven't come forward yet,

perhaps because they are traumatised and they want to respect that. It

also says it wants to look at a long-term plan and that is what some

of the charities are doing, they are holding some money back. They want

to speak to the local community to plan for the future. Frankie

McCamley, thank you. A brief look at some

of the day's other news stories. Police looking for a runner

who appeared to push a woman into the path of a bus as she

crossed Putney Bridge in West London A 50-year-old man was arrested

in Chelsea on suspicion of causing Relatives of some of the 29 people

killed in the Omagh bombing in 1998 are to sue Northern Ireland's police

chief constable for alleged failings The group believes mistakes

were made by police, allowing The attack, carried

out by the Real IRA, UK industrial production

shrank in the second quarter of the year,

according to the latest Production fell by 0.4%,

mainly due to a drop The figures underline the economy's

dependence on the service sector, which makes up about four-fifths

of the UK's economic output. The number of people

waiting for routine surgery in England in June, was

at its highest for nearly ten years. NHS England has admitted that more

than 4 million people Other key targets missed include

urgent referrals for cancer care, as our Health Editor Hugh Pym

reports. He's had his operation but he had

to wait a long time for it. Andy waited more

than 40 weeks before going in for surgery on his foot

to relieve serious arthritis. During that long delay,

everyday life became I couldn't walk great

distances, and it was to sort of try and keep

the pain down. And although I do IT

work and sit at a desk all day, I was finding

the middle of the afternoon I had to stop, lie down,

and put my feet up just because it was too painful

to sit any longer. The total waiting list

for routine surgery in England fell back a decade ago

after government investment. But in recent years,

it's crept back up again, and in June, it's estimated to have

gone above 4 million. Most worrying of all

perhaps is that this is the sign of a trend that is going

in the wrong direction. Progressively we are seeing

more and more people And with continuing

austerity there is no end Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn,

campaigning at a hospital today, said the NHS could not go

on like this and had The party also said cancer patients

were being let down, with sharp increases in waiting

times for treatment. But NHS England argued that more

operations are carried out A spokesperson said "more

than nine out of ten patients We're working hard to

cut long waits and the number of patients waiting over

a year for treatment has dropped." Key waiting time performance targets

have been missed again but NHS England's leaders are stressing

today that in an important aspect of emergency care,

progress has been made. That is the treatment of patients

with heart failure after A new report shows

fewer lives were lost in England and Wales

after heart failure, partly because more

specialists and new medicines Scotland, Wales and Northern

Ireland have also seen rising waiting lists

for surgery, though with Andy's 10-month wait

was unusual but more patients around the UK are experiencing

longer delays, more More than two months

after the Manchester bombing, which left 22 people dead and more

than 100 injured, nine people They suffered terrible injuries

when a suicide bomber detonated his device

at the Manchester Arena in May. Robbie Potter and his partner

Leonora Ogerio were waiting to collect their daughters

from the Ariana Grande concert. They were standing right

next to the bomber. Judith Moritz has been talking

to them about their long You may find parts of her

report distressing. It's probably only a 20, 30-second

thing, but it feels like an hour. This was Robbie Potter

with his girlfriend, Leonora, after the Manchester Arena

explosion. They stood next to the attacker

and lived to tell the tale. I actually looked at

the idiot, the bomber. I will never ask his name,

I don't want to know his name. There's no point hating a man

that's already dead. They had gone to collect

their kids from the concert. The children were safe inside,

but their parents were in the lobby The brightest flash I have

ever seen in my life. It was like a cloud

of mercury exploding. You see bits of silver flying

everywhere, which was obviously the bolts and nuts he'd packed

into his bag and his body. My girlfriend went

flying, hit the floor. There was a group of four or five

kids, I think there were. I just jumped in front of them

and told them to follow me, She dived, where she obviously

collapsed and fell on the floor, but I found out I'd punctured my

lung and had a couple of bolts You came very close

to not surviving. The doctor called me

the miracle lad. Even after the operation,

I don't think they thought. This bolt fired from the bomb

straight into Robbie's heart. He cheated death

by a hair's breadth. You can see the two ribs here,

that's the back of the ribs... The bolt was removed with incredible

precision by this surgeon It was wedged between the back

wall and the front wall of the two blood vessels,

so a millimetre either way Thankfully it didn't,

but we wouldn't be having this One, two, three, four,

I declare a thumb war. Robbie's daughter Tegan

was separated from her dad Next time she saw him,

he was in a coma. She called him names

to try and wake him up. It's just hard to see, with him just

lying there, not talking. Tegan said "Come on

Fathead, it's Peahead." Obviously that's our names

we call each other. And as soon as that happened,

the eyes just lifted. Robbie's girlfriend Leonora was also

badly hurt and sedated in hospital. Waking up, she didn't know

what had happened to him. The first question I asked was,

where is he, and they said Leonora has multiple fractures

to both of her legs. She and Robbie each face many

months of rehabilitation. We want to look after each other

but we can't do that. We can't do that because we

are both on the mend. Before the blast,

Robbie played rugby. Now every step is an effort,

but he says he's determined that Now there was no fairy tale ending

for Isaac Makwala of Botswana, the star sprinter, in the final of the

men's 200 metres in the World Championships in London, he had

fought hard to get there after being banned from the stadium this week

after an oral virus outbreak. In the end it wasn't to be, as our sports

correspondent Andy Swiss reports. He has become the and heralded hero of

these championships so after beating illness could Isaac Makwala Beatties

rivals, among them Wayde van Niekirk of South Africa following his 400

metres victory? Isaac Makwala burst out of the blocks but would the

extraordinary last couple of days catch up with him? Berdych hopes lay

with Mitchell- Blake but as they rented the bend it was too close to

call. Wade fan Nick charged but it was an unexpected name that grabbed

the headlines. COMMENTATOR: It's Guliyev! Turkey's Guliyev taking

gold ahead of Wayde van Niekirk with Mitchell- Blake Forth and Isaac

Makwala six. For the Botswana runner after such hope, disappointment. I

had a good day yesterday, I think it boosted me a lot. Earlier there had

been hopes of a British medal for Eilidh Doyle, that Carter of America

took gold, while Doyle, the British team captain, came last. In the

women's 5000 metres Laura Miller is back on track after just missing a

medal in the 1500 -- Laura Muir. It's a chance to make a mark. She

seemed to be cruising in her heat but by the end Laura was struggling,

trailing in seventh, exhausted. She's scraped through to the final

but has a disappointment in the 1500 metres taken its toll? The might

ultimately to this man. Isaac Makwala may have taken the pundits

but it is Guliyev who has the title. Andy Swiss, BBC news.

Our Sports Editor Dan Roan is in the London Stadium.

So it wasn't to be for Isaac Makwala. That's right, but I think

it will still be the greatest story of this Championships, he came here

relatively unheralded and by tonight he is one of the worst won most

well-known athletes in the world. It has become a saga, visitors forced

withdrawal through illness and then this remarkable scenes when he was

denied access to the stadium by the IAAF officials and then his

reinstatement. He's received great sympathy and affection. A shame he

could not finish with a win. A rather embarrassing episode for the

IAAF, the way it was handled. Wayde van Niekirk was also denied an

historic double gold. It just underlines that once again the

scripts which perhaps the organisers would like to see happen don't

always come to pass in sport. Dam, thank you.

Sir Alan Ayckbourn is one of Britain's most successful

playwrights, best known for his comic portrayals

But now at the age of 78 he's entering the world of science

His new play, The Divide, premieres at the Edinburgh

It's set one hundred years from now, in an England where a deadly

contagion has separated men from women.

Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz, asked the playwright what prompted

It was, I think, an attempt by me to bridge my ageing writing

personality to a younger generation, and the way to do that, I thought,

was through the medium of science fiction.

It gives you an even playing field, where you say to your younger

audience, "Now this is a world that I don't know but I have

created, and you don't know, and you can inhabit it."

I can't enter their world, which is for me as a 78-year-old,

I mean, most of what my grandchildren say is

And anything I say is beyond their comprehension.

Is it a concern of yours that the theatre is failing

If you look in the average audience, maybe because of money but they seem

The sort of people I want in there...

You can get the very young, you can catch them before they are

ten but after that they are a lost tribe.

We've now reached the age where we are considered mature

enough to be possible carriers, and therefore a danger to men.

How do you keep on challenging yourself?

How do you make sure, you know, after all these plays

you don't find yourself repeating past ideas?

That is a real problem, because I keep thinking I must have

I had a stroke a few years back, and for the first time in my life

Then a little germ arrived and I go, wow, they're

still manifesting and of course now manifesting furiously.

I feel very excited but a little bit nervous.

I've written next year's play as well.

It's a play called Better Off Dead, I hope that

, speaking to our Arts Editor Will Gompertz.

Here is Evan. From rubber hand to Newcastle and well established

pattern now of Muslim-led gangs grooming and vulnerable women. We

stand Basque to ask why and how that pattern can be broken. Joining me

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