01/09/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at 10:00pm, the security firm G4S suspends nine workers,

over claims detainees had been abused at an immigration

The Panorama programme went undercover at the facility

Officers are alleged to have mocked and assaulted

I'm absolutely disgusted by the alleged behaviour.

It's totally unacceptable to me, to the organisation,

to anyone else who would work in this kind of location.

to anyone else who would work in this kind of vocation.

Tonight a Home Office official, who used to work for G4S,

A historic day for Kenya, as the country's Supreme Court

declares last month's Presidential election was rigged

At least 1400 people have now died after heavy monsoon rains

rains across large parts of South Asia, including India.

More than 500 people have died just in this one Indian state.

The former England captain Wayne Rooney has been

And a flurry of late goals sees England convincingly beat Malta

while there were also good wins for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News...

No more Brits left in the US Open, after Kyle Edmund retired

from his third round match with an injury.

Nine employees, including two managers, at the security company

G4S, have been suspended following allegations

detainees were abused at an immigration removal centre

It follows an investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme,

claiming officers "mocked, and assaulted" people,

and that there was "widespread self-harm and attempted suicides"

G4S says it's aware of the allegations and "immediately"

began an investigation, and tonight a Home Office employee,

who used to work for the company, has also been suspended.

Here's our Social Affairs Correspondent Alison Holt.

Brook House Immigration Removal Centre sits a couple of hundred

metres from the runway at Gatwick Airport.

It's run by the global security firm G4S.

Here foreign national prisoners facing

deportation at the end of their sentence are detained alongside

asylum seekers, illegal migrants and those who've

Covert filming by the BBC's Panorama programme shows a chaotic place

awash with drugs with self harm commonplace

amongst the men held there.

There are officers doing their best, but the undercover

investigation alleges some staff mock, abuse or even assault

The incidents picked up by the hidden camera worn by another

Callum Tully has worked at Brook House for two years.

There's a culture of violence at Brook House.

When I started working there I was just...

Quite quickly became just disturbed by what I was seeing and

Last year, another Panorama investigation at

Medway Secure Training Centre in Kent led to allegations of the

mistreatment of some teenagers held there.

The company says it's waiting to see the Brook House footage, but

has suspended nine staff and put five others on restricted duties.

My initial reaction is I'm absolutely

It's totally unacceptable to me, to the organisation, to anybody else

who would work in this kind of vocation.

What does that tell you about the culture of Brook House,

That we care for people, we look after people.

And we do that in a way that is accepted, that is clearly laid down.

It's understood an ex-G4S officer who now works for the Home

The Home Office decides who is detained

It says it condemns any actions that put the

safety or dignity of detainees at risk.

Adding that G4S needs to ensure there is a thorough investigation

The company says it has alerted the police.

STUDIO: Allison, there are wider questions tonight beyond the alleged

abuse raised in the Panorama film concerning how those people who are

awaiting a final decision on their immigration status are treated. When

the programme goes out on Monday we will know the full details of the

allegations themselves. There are broader issues here, as you say. In

a place like Brook House you have nearly half of the detainees,

foreign national offenders, people who have reached the end of their

prison sentence. Then you have in the mix asylum seekers and visa over

stayers. People who may never have been in trouble in any way apart

from immigration offences. And then you have self harm and drugs. As

well as the desperation of a lot of the people in there. It's a really

toxic mix. It's worth saying that while some of the people in places

like Brook House may not want to go and may resist going, there are also

people who do want to go, and they find that there are delays and

bureaucracy gets in the way. But places like Brook House were built

to house people for 72 hours in those days just before departure

from the country. But inspectors say the average length of stay at Brook

House is 48 days, and some people there have spent months, and some

people have been there more than two years. That's something we are

seeing across detention centres, people staying longer. And that, in

the end, has to raise issues about how well the immigration detention

centre system is working. Indeed, thank you Alison Holt.

And you can see that Panorama programme

"Undercover: Britain's Immigration Secrets" on BBC1,

In a historic ruling, Kenya's Supreme Court says last

month's presidential election was flawed, and the judges

The victor, President Uhuru Kenyatta, says

the decision is political, but he will accept the judgement.

He'd won the closely fought ballot by just over a million votes,

but the opposition claimed there were widespread

It's the first time a legal challenge to a presidential vote

has been successful anywhere in Africa.

Veteran politician Raila Odinga gets one more chance

A last-minute decision to challenge the result

of the presidential election paid off.

The presidential election held on the 8th August 2017 was not

conducted in accordance with the constitution

and the applicable law, rendering the declared result

The judges did not limit themselves to what happened on election day

Rather they looked at the electoral process in its totality from voter

registry on to civic education as well as the campaigning and

In a sense this judgment sets a strong precedent for election

disputes globally and a high threshold for the

Outside the court, celebrations erupted among opposition supporters.

It's now back to the drawing board for presidential candidates.

As much as I disagree with it, I respect it.

I disagree with it, because, as I have said,

millions of Kenyans queued, made their choice, and six people

have decided that they will go against the will of the people.

The court directed the electoral commission

But the opposition says it has no confidence

Most of them actually belong in jail.

And therefore we are going to ask for prosecution,

of all the electoral commission officers who have caused

this monstrous crime against the people of Kenya.

The constitution states a new election must be

For now though, opposition supporters across the country

are basking in the glory of the court victory.

International observers including former US Secretary of State John

Kerry declared the election largely free and fair. So this Supreme Court

decision really is momentous. That's right. The international observers

were criticised for rushing to endorse a process even before the

final result was announced. But they did also emphasise the importance of

seeking legal means of dispute resolution, and we believe that

pressure is what led to the petition that was decided today. The judges

made a radical decision. It was against the norm, even in the

Commonwealth, where judges generally tend to show restraint. But by so

doing, they have demonstrated their independence. Thank you.

It's now believed more than 1400 people have died after catastrophic

flooding across several South Asian countries.

This year's annual monsoon season has been particularly heavy.

In all around 41 million people have been affected,

Millions have been left homeless, and more than 950,000 homes

Parts of India's financial centre, Mumbai, are under several feet

of water, and in the eastern state of Bihar, more than 500

Our South Asia Correspondent Justin Rowlatt is there

Those least able to cope are the hardest hit by the floods.

Villages and fields were transformed into great lakes here in

Bihar, one of the poorest states in India.

Budhia Devi says her life has been ruined.

My house is totally broken and I'm just left sitting

The people here are subsistence farmers, some of the poorest

The floodwaters have begun to drain back.

Only to reveal the wreckage of homes and of lives.

More than 500 people have died just in this one Indian state,

17 million affected, and now there are new concerns -

houses, schools, roads - they all need to be rebuilt and then

of course there is the danger of disease.

Filthy water, hot weather, and the lack of basic sanitation can

People remained in water three days, four days.

Their homes were submerged in the water.

They remained in the water but due to waterborne diseases,

they were drinking contaminated water, so it's a huge risk.

And this is a snapshot from just one tiny part of a catastrophe

that is unfolding across much of South Asia.

The region floods every year, but this is different.

Exceptional rains have brought devastation right

across the foothills of the Himalayas, from Bangladesh

in the east, across northern India and Nepal, and now up into Pakistan.

The death toll from the collapse of a single building

in the Indian financial capital, Mumbai, rose to 33 today.

Police suspect it was weakened by the torrential rains.

And 16 people have died in flash floods in Karachi,

But the monsoon's fury is not spent yet.

More rain is forecast across the region.

Well, it's not just South Asia that's suffered

From the US to Japan, lives have been lost due

Chris Fawkes from the BBC Weather Centre is here

with his analysis of what's been happening across the globe.

The monsoon season runs from June to September and brings rains vital

for the well-being of over a billion people, but the rains

Floods this year have been particularly bad in north India,

But it's not the only part of the world hit by severe

In early July, unprecedented rains hit southern Japan's Kyushu Island

with an astonishing 77cm of rain falling in just nine hours.

Floods and landslides killed over 30 people with 500,000

Africa's Sierra Leone was hit by torrential rain on the night

of the 14th August with ensuing severe floods and mudslides

killing over 1,000 people in the capital, Freetown.

Then tropical storm Harvey dumped the largest amount of rain ever seen

from a single storm in the mainland United States with a record-smashing

132cm of rain recorded at Cedar Bayou to the east

of Houston, an unprecedented amount of rain.

Are there any links with these floods around the world?

Well, they all involved storms fed by rich tropical moist air.

This air, in all cases, had come over oceans that

were unusually warm, with temperatures in the Indian

Ocean, the East China Sea, the Eastern Tropical Atlantic

and the Gulf of Mexico all warmer than normal.

Convergent winds locked the storms over the same location

and concentrated the extreme rain over just that area.

Then, of course, there's climate change.

This graph of rain in the United States using American

national weather service data shows that extreme rainfall has become

The International Panel on Climate Change expects such

events to become a little more common in a warmer world.

It's well known that warmer air holds more water,

so as the planet warms up, these rare but extreme rainfall

events have the potential to give even more rain than they would have

The UN has warned of a looming humanitarian catastrophe,

after nearly 40,000 refugees from Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim

minority fled into neighbouring Bangladesh in the past week.

It follows weeks of communal violence in Rakhine state,

which military sources say have left more than 350 people dead.

Both the Burmese military, and Rohingya militants have been

accused of atrocities, including mass murder and rape.

The Brexit Secretary, David Davis, says he's a "determined optimist"

about Britain's future outside the European Union.

His comments on a visit to Washington, come

after the Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, accused the EU,

of trying to "blackmail" Britain, into accepting a Brexit divorce

bill, as the price for beginning trade talks.

Here's our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier.

The Prime Minister showing how it's done.

At a meeting with the Emperor of Japan, a lesson

But it seems her trade Secretary hadn't got the memo.

Speaking in Japan, he accused the EU of bullying the UK into agreeing

a Brexit divorce bill before it'll start negotiating any

We can't be blackmailed into paying a price on the first part.

We think that we should begin discussions on the final settlement

It's no surprise there is a bit of rough and tumble at this stage

in the talks and it's significant Liam Fox didn't repeat the word

blackmail when asked exactly what he meant.

A moment perhaps when frustration got the better of him.

But it's certainly not a phrase you can expect

Fresh from his talks in Brussels this week,

the Brexit secretary gave a speech to business leaders in Washington

today and tried to laugh away his colleague's controversial comments.

I never comment, I know what you're doing, I never comment on other

Look, we are in a difficult, tough, complicated negotiation.

I have said from the beginning it will be turbulent.

What we're having at the moment is the first ripple.

And there will be many more ripples along the way.

Critics here claim Liam Fox's talk of blackmail will only

This is sabre rattling from a trade secretary

Because he cannot do anything until the trade position of the UK

The Prime Minister rounded off her trip cheering on the GB

But when it comes to Brexit the government is still searching

for some big points, and will be hoping for more

Eleanor Garnier, BBC News, Westminster.

Let's take a look at some of the day's other top stories.

Refuse workers in Birmingham have gone back on strike,

in a long-running dispute with the city council

Industrial action was suspended last month after seven weeks

of stoppages, which left rubbish piling up in several areas,

but the unions now claim the council has gone back on a deal not

A man's been jailed for attempting to rob the Premier League

footballer Andy Carroll, when he pulled up beside him

The West Ham striker was driving home from training

in north east London, when 22-year-old Jack O'Brien

O'Brien was sentenced to six years in prison,

and another five years for a string of other offences.

The former Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac

Leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales

for nearly a decade, he was created a Cardinal

Our Religious Affairs correspondent Martin Bashir

May also keep us faithful to our Lord Jesus Christ forever.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor served as the head of

the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales from 2000 until 2009.

He was a man of great faith and of great fun.

He had an infectious laugh, and just loved to be cheerful

And it's that very, very positive attitude to life,

which he saw as a gift of God, and to the challenges

His theological acumen was recognised early and he served

as rector of the English College in Rome before becoming Bishop

And it was in Sussex that he faced his greatest public challenge.

A local priest, Michael Hill, had been accused of child sexual abuse.

Then Bishop Murphy-O'Connor decided to redeploy him

Hill went on to abuse children and was jailed in 1997.

Cormac Murphy-O'Connor refused to resign, but described

his management of Hill as a grave mistake.

Out of that terrible case came his decision to ask Lord Nolan

to help him rethink how the Catholic Church in this country

dealt with child abuse issues, to try and avoid such terrible

Although he did not engage directly in politics,

it was his careful nurturing that led Tony Blair to convert

to Catholicism in 2007, after he had stepped down as Prime

A year later, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor published a book entitled

Faith in the Nation, in which he argued against

the erosion of religious values in public life.

It was this assertion, that the Christian faith must play

a role in the public square, that Cormac Murphy-O'Connor had

The former Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal

Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, who's died, at the age of 85.

The former England football captain, Wayne Rooney, has been

charged with drink-driving, after being arrested in Cheshire

The Everton striker was released on bail this afternoon.

He is arguably England's highest profile footballer.

Wayne Rooney captained the national team and holds the goal-scoring

He had many successful years at Manchester United and has had

a promising start to this season, after returning to Everton.

But it's off-pitch activities that sees Wayne Rooney

In the early hours of this morning, he was arrested

A few hours earlier, he was pictured on social

He was stopped by police whilst driving a black

Cheshire police say the Everton footballer

31-year-old Wayne Rooney will appear before magistrates in Stockport

on the 18th of September, where he can either admit

He made no comment to reporters, as he arrived back home this

afternoon, driven by his agent, Paul Stretford.

After just retiring from international football

and making a new start at Everton, this will be an unwelcome

distraction for Rooney, his club and his fans,

as he starts a new chapter of his career.

With the outcome of the Brexit negotiations being uncertain,

some financial institutions based here are establishing

outposts on the Continent, to help manage any possible

disruption when the UK leaves the European Union.

And Amsterdam is proving a favourite destination, with RBS,

and Japan's biggest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ, among

Our business editor Simon Jack reports from the Netherlands.

Amsterdam, home of the world's oldest stock exchange,

mounting a new challenge to post-Brexit London.

I think it's very young, the cost of living is very

And also being part of the Continent.

After the Brexit outcome, we see companies moving to Amsterdam,

especially the more tax heavy companies, which need

The passport means companies in the UK can service

That may not be possible after the UK leaves,

which is why this company is setting up shop in Amsterdam.

Europe represents around half of our business, the EU 27.

So as there isn't clarity yet, of course, on the outcome

of the negotiations, we need to be prepared

So what awaits those looking for a new European home?

Harder to pronounce, but easier to afford,

the cost of living and working in Amsterdam is half that of London.

You can cycle to work, or even fly back to the UK in under an hour.

You may well be thinking, who cares if a few bankers leave the UK?

Well, apart from the jobs and the tax revenue they bring in,

doing business under one roof, the one roof that is London,

If you splinter all that business to the capitals of Europe,

it becomes much less efficient, and that increases the costs

of banks and insurance companies, and they pass that

on to their customers, and that means you and me.

He collected ?70 billion in taxes from financial services last year.

It helps explain why the French Prime Minister didn't

mince his words to me earlier this year.

Mr Philippe, do you have a message for London?

But in Amsterdam, typically, they have a more laid-back approach.

We haven't done any aggressive campaigning.

First of all because I don't believe that companies are persuaded by just

And secondly because London is our partner city,

and I think a strong London is good for Amsterdam, and vice versa.

Aggressive, no, but they are considering loosening

the bonus cap and adding 1500 international school places.

In the post-Brexit beauty parade, this city means business.

It's been a good night for the home nations,

playing in their latest World Cup qualifying matches this evening.

Scotland were convincing 3-0 winners away to Lithuania,

with James McArthur getting their third.

While in Malta, England took a while to get the measure

of the 190th ranked side in the world, but eventually

ran out 4-0 winners, as Natalie Pirks reports

Samar may be over at home but the last drops of sunshine can still be

found, if you are willing to travel. Gareth Southgate's focus has been on

his players understanding what it means to play for their country, but

identity has never been an issue for England fans, who hoped to night for

a vintage performance in the heat. The fans have reason to be

confident. Malta the whipping boys of the group, with six games played,

six games lost. Anything less than a convincing win for England would

leave difficult questions for Gareth Southgate. The match was a sell-out.

The Maltese were here to enjoy themselves, and with Jordaan

Henderson handed the captains armband, England were quick to try

to join the party. Harry Kane with a great ball to sterling. The Maltese

keeper, quick to spot the danger. Half chances came and went, and with

no meaningful effort before half-time it was inevitable that the

booing would ring out instead. Just one day after the transfer window

closed, it was time for England's players to show their worth. Fleet

of foot and quick of thought, Ali Delhi found Harry Kane and he found

the net, a palpable sense of relief. Danny Welbeck was on hand for the

third, and Malta's resilience was broken entirely when Harry Kane

scored England's fourth, in a scoreline that more than flattered

the group leaders. The World Cup may be within their sites, but

convincing the public they are world class is another matter.

And there was successful Northern Ireland in San Marino with a penalty

from captain Steve Davis sealing a 3-0 victory, leaving them second in

their group. Now on BBC One, it's time

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