06/09/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten, business leaders voice deep concern

at plans to restrict EU migration after Brexit.

The plans, still in draft form, would apply to low-skilled EU

workers, with firms told to give preference to British people.

Overall, immigration has been good for the UK,

but what people want to see is control of that immigration.

But the response to the leaked Home Office document in the business

world has been mainly negative, with warnings of economic damage.

Nationally, you know, coastal resorts struggle to recruit.

So recruiting from the European market is really important to us.

And tonight, further signs of business concern

about the government's Brexit approach.

One of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded is destroying houses

and flooding islands in the Caribbean.

A report on the growing humanitarian crisis as Rohingya Muslims flee

the violence in their native Myanmar.

You can see what a dangerous voyage it has been for them.

The boat is listing dangerously on its side.

The world's highest-paid actress, Jennifer Lawrence, talks to us

about the gender gap in pay that must be tackled.

But I think Trevor Brooking's next, well, he is next to me...

And the unmistakeable voice of football for half a century,

John Motson, decides to call it a day.

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News.

All the latest from Flushing Meadows where Karolina Pliskova's reign

Business leaders have expressed their deep concern

about plans to restrict the number of low-skilled workers who come

The plans are included in a leaked Home Office document,

which also urges employers to give preference to British

The hospitality industry said today it relied on EU workers

and warned the plans would be "catastrophic" if implemented.

But the Prime Minister told MPs the government was committed

Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports.

There in black and white, a plan for immigration

Leaked ideas to answer the demand the Prime Minister believes millions

Prime Minister, is your immigration policy going to hurt the economy?

A draft of a tighter system of control that

Overall immigration has been good for the UK,

but what people want to see is control of that immigration.

That is, I think, what people want to see as a result of coming

We are already able to exercise controls in relation to those

who come to this country from outside the countries

within the European Union and we continue to believe

as a government that it is important to have net migration

The document from August says freedom of movement,

where unlimited EU citizens can come here, will end when we leave.

New arrivals after 2019 would have to register to stay long-term.

There will be tighter rules for lower-skilled workers

to prioritise British employees, perhaps even with a cap on numbers.

And for EU citizens who do come to the UK, it will be harder

This Birmingham food factory is already losing one Italian chef

who is worried about Brexit, and boss Rosie is concerned

it will make it harder to attract new arrivals,

It will definitely hinder our job as an employer but actually,

So we do have chefs from all over the world.

It will impact our ability to recruit people.

Officially, Labour is rather silent on the leak, not

But prominent voices fear cutting off low skilled immigration

The idea that we stop EU citizens coming here,

the lower-skilled ones who are important for hospitality,

construction and social care, will somehow lead to us being more

That's why I'm hoping this leak isn't genuine government

policy and if it is, we are hoping the

Is it not time we took back control of our immigration policy?

But the government won't budge on its view the referendum

was an instruction from the public to control immigration.

Well, one minister admitted it won't be an easy job and says

since this draft was put together only last month, there have been six

more versions of the plan, with not just the Home Office,

but the Treasury, the Brexit department and Number Ten

And don't forget, whatever they decide here, they have

First signs from EU members don't bode well.

For us, it would go in the wrong direction and won't help at all,

neither the current negotiation nor the future negotiations.

Leaving the EU is not just about obscure negotiations

in the back rooms of Brussels but government departments right

now, engaged in rewriting the country's rules.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

So what effect could the plans have on the UK economy,

and on sectors such as health, social care and hospitality,

if far fewer low-skilled workers are allowed to come

Our home editor Mark Easton has been investigating.

For many, Brexit was about restricting EU immigration.

Here in Clacton, for example, there's support for an immigration

policy that deters low-skilled European workers from coming

to the UK unless it can be shown they make British people richer.

Britain should come first because it's broken

They shouldn't just come here and get jobs straightaway.

Brexit means the same rules we currently use for non-EU migrants

can be applied to those from the EU, for instance, discouraging

The Home Office document proposes low-skilled EU workers be limited

to staying a maximum of two years, that they meet a specific salary

threshold, with a cap on overall numbers.

For non-EU, it means a job paying less than ?30,000 a year.

So many care workers, for example, teachers,

builders and nurses are barred unless their occupation

This afternoon, nurses were demonstrating outside

Parliament, demanding better pay but also warning the NHS in England

One of the difficulties is, because of the low pay of nurses,

they don't fall into the category of the skilled workforce

we want to bring in so we've always been dependent on nursing

being on a shortage list, which we would obviously

encourage that demand, that it stays on the shortage list.

Inside the Houses of Parliament, MPs were today discussing how lower

immigration might hit key services like social care.

But those in favour of tougher controls say even though the UK

is close to full employment, the country should do more to fill

What we want to do is encourage employers to train local people,

actually, to make more of an effort to look ahead and prepare

for the time when there won't be all these people coming

in with ready-made skills, prepared to work for lower wages.

Today's policy proposals also envisage tighter controls on family

members an EU worker can bring with them, a minimum income

But official government advisers have said post Brexit,

low immigration would cost Britain ?113 million a week by 2021.

Employers including the creative industries, construction,

agriculture and the hospitality industry have been warning of dire

Recruiting from the European market is really important to us and it

adds another skill base to our workforce and that skill

base is often something we just can't get locally.

Today's policy proposal document may well enjoy public support but it

also highlights the swings and roundabouts of the journey

So on the day that business leaders voiced their disquiet about aspects

of the government's Brexit planning, let's talk to our business

This is all coming at a time when ministers are trying to get business

on board. Yes, get them back on board after a slightly frosty

relationship during the election and these proposals did not go down well

and they come precisely at a time when the government is trying to

demonstrate business supports their approach to Brexit, but in fact,

they've been circulating a letter to some of the UK's biggest companies,

they want them to sign a letter, saying the leaders of some of the

UK's most dynamic businesses, even though some of them supported Gabi

Maine and some supported Leave, but 15 months later, we share an

understanding Brexit is happening and believe this is a good time for

the government and employers to work together and we look forward to the

government negotiating an interim period, basically asking business do

endorse the government's general approach. I've spoken to several

business leaders today and white -- while they understand and want to

work closely with government, they feel uncomfortable about endorsing

an approach to Brexit that many of them think lacks clarity. One said

they would not sign this letter in a million years. As you say, that is a

setback for government that was trying to rehabilitate its

relationship with business. I can tell you the CBI, the employers

group, is trying to circulate a letter of its own and will probably

have more success with getting signatories so business won't be

told about what it is about the government policy they support, they

want to tell the government for themselves. Thank you for joining

us. Simon Jack, our business editor. Hurricane Irma, the second

most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic,

has now made landfall as it sweeps across a number

of Caribbean islands. This evening, President Macron has

warned about casualties in the French Caribbean territories,

saying the impact had The Category 5 storm is now heading

towards the British Virgin Islands Our correspondent Laura

Bicker is there tonight. We are about one hour away here in

Puerto Rico from experiencing, almost experiencing the eye of

Hurricane Irma. She is expected to brush the northern half of the

island with 185 mph winds. I have to tell you, we have picked a sheltered

place to broadcast from but outside here, the wind is already gusting up

to 120 mph. There is debris flying through the air. There are no

flights in and out of the island and people are sheltering and have been

told to stay indoors. Hurricane Irma has already travelled across the

eastern Caribbean, causing major devastation and two people have lost

their lives which has made people here fearful of what could be to

come. This is what it sounds like to be

at the heart of one of the strongest The winds, like a jet engine, roared

through the eastern Caribbean. The Category 5 hurricane ripped

roofs off homes and devastated parts of the French territories

of St Barts and St Martin. TRANSLATION: I want,

firstly, to say a few words to express our profound compassion

and solidarity to our fellow citizens who today were affected

by Hurricane Irma on St Martin These pilots flew into the eye

of the storm, a unique view of the sheer scale of this hurricane

and, at its core, are those catastrophic 185 mile an hour winds,

and that is what they fear The aim is to try to save

as much as possible. Neighbours are handing out wood

boarding and supplies. This shop owner describes

them as "angels." You know, we've been

through this before, so... You know, it's a lot

of emotions going on, you know. The governor has been inspecting one

of the shelters set up for the thousands who are expected

to evacuate low-lying areas. We are hopeful that it'll skid off

somewhere north-east of Puerto Rico, but we're prepared

for the worst as well. We can't leave anything to chance,

and our priority right now is to make sure that the people

of Puerto Rico are safe. These families hope

they will be safe here. The full force of Hurricane Irma

is still several hours away and already you can see

and feel its effect. The preparations have been made over

the last few days and the governor says that could be the difference

between lives lost and lives saved. In Florida they're taking no

chances, evacuations The storm could hit

the Sunshine State this weekend. President Trump has declared

a state of emergency, freeing up relief funding

for Florida and Puerto Rico. We have a lot to discuss,

including the fact that there's a new and, seems to be,

record-breaking hurricane heading right toward Florida

and Puerto Rico, and other places. We'll know in a very

short period of time, but it looks like it could be

something that will be not good. Hurricane Irma has proved to be

a terrifying, unstoppable force. All those in her path can do

is hunker down and hope. So for the latest on the path

of Hurricane Irma and where it's heading, we're joined by Nick Miller

of the BBC Weather Centre. Huw, this hurricane season

is turning the astonishing First, Hurricane Harvey's record

and devastating rain and now This is breathtaking -

a view taken from space today of the eye of Hurricane Irma passing

directly over Barbuda. That means the island went

from catastrophic winds to almost dead calm in the eye,

then back to catastrophic Amazing to think about but remember,

there are people who lived this. From Barbuda, Irma is now

battering the Virgin Islands, then quickly on to Puerto Rico,

the Dominican Republic tomorrow After that, the current forecast

takes it close to Cuba on Friday and then Florida at the weekend,

but exactly where in Florida But importantly, by the weekend,

Irma is still forecast to be a major That is why the necessary

preparations are already underway in Florida.

If it does hit Florida, it will the first time

in the same season that two at least Category 4 hurricanes have made

Another reason this hurricane season is cementing its place in the record

There is now another hurricane in the Atlantic, Jose Canas this

weekend it may also come close to Barbuda is a major hurricane. --

Jose, and this weekend. In Myanmar, the government has

rejected accusations that the armed forces are conducting a campaign

of indiscriminate violence, Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's

leader, said the situation in Rakhine State was being distorted

by what she called a "huge It's the first time she's

spoken since the crisis erupted two weeks ago,

leaving hundreds dead and thousands 146,000 people have arrived

in Bangladesh in the past 12 days, some travelling over land,

others arriving on boats The UN says that figure

could rise to 300,000. Our correspondent Sanjoy Majumder

sent this report from the port city of Cox's Bazar,

near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, These are Myanmar's boat people

dazed, confused after an exhausting Stepping on shore with their

possessions, whatever This boat carrying Rohingya refugees

has just arrived on the south You can see what a dangerous voyage

it has been for them, the boat is lifting

dangerously on its side. But it's the only way

they could have made their way here. They've been frightened,

running for their lives. On the beach they collapse

in a heap, many of them severely dehydrated and sea sick

after an eight-hour voyage. Some can scarcely believe they're

alive, others let their loved A brother and sister united

after days, separated after their village was attacked,

Unsure if they would But some, like Dilbar,

continue to relive the horror TRANSLATION: It has taken us

20 days to come here. Our village was attacked

by the army and Buddhist mobs. They burned our house

and my aunt was killed. Her grandson was shot, his injured

arm now encased in homemade splint. TRANSLATION: We hid in the mountains

for 12 days from where we could hear the sound of bombing,

of rockets being fired. People were being slaughtered

by the army and Buddhist mobs. It's hard to independently verify

what's happening inside Myannmar, But this unverified video, shot

by one of the escaping Rohingyas, appears to show thousands of others

waiting to leave, fleeing what they And many of those who do make it

across to Bangladesh bare This teenager shows us

what he says are gunshot wounds. "When my village was attacked

I tried to run", he says. "The soldiers fired

indiscriminately. They are sometimes described

as the world's most persecuted minority, driven from their homes,

the Rohingyas now have to find a way Sanjoy Majumder, BBC

News, Bangladesh. In her comments today,

Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, made no mention of the tens

of thousands of Rohingya Muslims Today the United Nations Secretary

General, Antonio Guterres, said he feared a "humanitarian

catastrophe." So why has Aung Sang

Suu Kyi remained silent Our special correspondent,

Fergal Keane, who's interviewed her several

times over the years, has this report, which does contain

flashing photography. Against the tyranny of dictatorship,

she was the perfect symbol - a compelling voice, articulating

the language of Great prizes followed,

a Nobel Laureateship for Peace. But house arrest, the destruction

of her family life were the price for what seemed an unbending

commitment to human rights. And yet she defends a brutal

military crackdown that has uprooted Today she was welcoming India's

supportive Prime Minister and denouncing terror attacks

on police and border posts So we believe that together we can

work to make sure that terrorism is not allowed to take root

on our soil or on the soil Decades of discrimination

and anti-Rohingya violence helped create the animosity out

of which militant violence grew. In a place where most

of their Buddhist neighbours live in extreme poverty,

the Rohingya exist at the bottom Stigmatised as foreigners,

though many have lived Five years ago, I made my first

journey to report on the violence against the Rohingya,

100,000 were displaced back then. Denied citizenship, many

were corralled into camps, The world looked to Aung San

Suu Kyi to intervene, Over several encounters,

I pressed this devout Buddhist about the violence

against the Rohingya Muslims. Can you promise that

if your party wins this election, the human rights, the civil

rights of all people who live in this country,

whatever their religion, that those human rights

will be respected? So if we are able to form

a government, certainly we'll abide by our commitment to human rights

and democratic values. What hope can you give to those

people in this country who have been discriminated against,

targeted on the basis It's not going to be easy,

that they must understand, because prejudice is not removed

easily and hatred is not going to be removed easily,

but we can work at it together. Do you ever worry that

you will be remembered as the champion of human rights,

the Noble Laureate who failed to stand up to ethnic

cleansing in her own country? No, because I don't think there's

ethnic cleansing going on. Aung San Suu Kyi doesn't control

the powerful military elite, but her words provide the army

with political cover. Her diplomats are working

with Russia and China to prevent It's a stance that prompts

an unsettling question - is her longstanding commitment

to human rights partial, never to embrace the beleaguered

Rohingya Muslims? The importance of science

and innovation to the UK economy has been repeatedly highlighted

by ministers as they consider Britain's future outside

the European Union. So how could Brexit affect

the scientific community here? It receives EU funding and it does

collaborate with European scientists on many important

projects. Today, the Government

outlined its vision for science and Brexit and our science editorm

David Shukman, has been European funding underpins

much of British science. It supports the search for a new,

clean source of energy, with this experimental fusion

reactor near Oxford. It helps the exploration

of graphene, an astonishing material with huge industrial potential,

and it contributes to research into flooding and how

best to predict it. And because of links like this,

a new Government paper recognises that a deep relationship should

continue after Brexit and research It's very encouraging in both

its tone and its aspirations, but it's clear that there's

going to be a lot of work that needs to be done to hammer out the details

of an eventual agreement. Over the years, British

scientists have done well Between 2007 and 2013,

they received ?8 billion in grants, and that's ?3 billion more

than the UK paid to At Imperial College in London,

mosquitoes are used to investigate a vaccine for malaria,

part of a multinational Dozens of teams here and literally

thousands across the UK The Government hopes

that this can continue, What scientists are desperate

to find out is exactly what kind of future relationship there'll be

with the European Union. Will it be like Norway

and Switzerland, which are outside the EU, but in its science

programme? For that, they have to pay

and accept freedom of movement. Or will there be some other unique

arrangement for Britain? Whatever it is, it's going to take

some serious negotiation. A key issue is freedom

of movement for scientists. Of this team of 12 at

the Francis Crick Institute, 10 are from EU countries,

and they feel uncertain. It is a concern and it is one that

plays on all of our minds, and that is possibly leading

to at least some people beginning to contemplate offers

elsewhere which they may not From researching the jet stream

and how it affects our weatherm to investigating the deep ocean,

British science is integrated Unpicking that, or adjusting

it, won't be easy. A brief look at some

of the day's other news stories. Five men charged in connection

with the investigation into the Hillsborough disaster have

appeared at Preston Crown Court. They included the former Chief

Constable, Sir Norman Bettison. Although no pleas were entered

today, all the defendants have previously indicated

that they will plead not guilty. The BBC has announced that

it's conducting three wide-ranging reviews into pay

following the controversy over Two will look into equal pay

across the Corporation, the other will be a review of pay

and diversity for presenters. The actress Jennifer Lawrence has

been speaking about the gender The 27-year-old Oscar winner has

been critical of the industry in the past after finding out that

she'd been paid less The premiere of her new film -

a psychological thriller called Mother - has brought her to London

and she's been sharing her views Jennifer Lawrence is the film's

eponymous mother, she's houseproud and devoted to her husband -

a much older literary man, But their domestic bliss turns

into a living nightmare in a metaphor-rich, effects-laden

horror movie which the critics have been slamming and

lauding in equal measure. There will be no "meh"

with anybody who sees the movie. It's not enjoyable

while you're watching it. You know, if I was writing a review

while I was watching it, Don't go!

Argh!" If you sit with it a little bit

and give yourself 30 minutes, 45 minutes when you get home

and you sit with it, He's a stranger, we're just

going to let him sleep in our house? What would happen if we treated our

planet with care, with humanity? What would happen if we stopped

raping and pillaging our only home and we actually cared

about where our children Until we start politically making

changes, there's not much we can do. Pulling out of the Paris climate

deal was not a good step. The actress has spoken

out about gender pay inequality in Hollywood,

citing information gleaned from the 2014 Sony Pictures email

hack which revealed she was paid considerably less than her male

co-stars for appearing Can me and the man talk

about business here? Do you think it's still

deeply unfair, the game I think there's still

a lot of unfairness. The gap is very slowly closing,

but there's still work to be done. Did you make sure, for instance,

that you got paid the same amount, or even more than Javier Bardem

in this movie? I didn't, I didn't look

at what Javier was getting, I just knew what I deserved

and I fought for that. And if you found out

he was being paid more? The actress Jennifer Lawrence

speaking to our arts Now, after a career spanning five

decades in which he's covered 29 FA Cup finals, ten World Cups and

thousands of matches, the BBC football commentator, John Motson

has decided it's time to set down that microphone at the age of 72.

He'll retire at the end of this season he says he doesn't want to

wait until he's going down hill. He's been speaking to our sports

editor, Dan Roan. For half a century, he's been a true

footballing fixture. Oh, yes!

Oh, yes! His commentary's as much a part

of the game as the many moments he's But finally, John Motson has decided

to hang up his mic and he told me why this season will be his last

at the BBC. Lots of water's gone under

the bridge in all the years I've The challenge I still love,

but it has got more difficult. I just think it might

be the moment to say - thank you very much and leave it

to somebody else. Motson's big breakthrough came

in 1972 at Hereford versus Newcastle when he conveyed the emotion of one

of the FA Cup's greatest shocks. When I see Ronnie Radford,

I always say, "You know, you changed my life,

Ronnie." When I see it again,

as I have hundreds of times, I still think to myself -

please go in, don't hit the post because if that hadn't nestled

in the Newcastle net, The Crazy Gang have

beaten The Culture Club. As well as countless iconic

commentaries of course, there's also been plenty of humour

along the way. COMMENTATOR: But I think

the Trevor Brooking is next - And then there's the most famous

sheepskin coat in sport. I didn't set out to make that

a trademark, honestly, Motson's biggest regret -

never commenting on English success COMMENTATOR: And England are out

of the World Cup on penalty kicks. What was the biggest problem that

prevented England from ever I think it was the fact

there wasn't a mid-winter break. We subject our players to a 10-month

slog and when it gets to the World Cup Finals

or the European Championship Finals, Motson's preparing for this

weekend's match with the same attention to detail he's applied

throughout his career and it's that, along with an undimmed

passion for the game, that's helped him become one

of the host renowned commentators It was like being paid

for your hobby, that's what people always say to me,

but there is a little bit You know, the preparation

and the homework and watching players and going to see games,

so that you could do the one It was a challenge,

but it was a challenge The great John Motson calling it

a day as a football commentator, speaking to our sports editor,

Dan Roan. Newsnight's about to begin over

on BBC Two in a few moments, Tonight, will the latest crisis over

the Muslim Rohingya destroy the reputation of Nobel Prize

winner, Aung San Suu Kyi? We speak to one man

shielding his family