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The latest on the path of Hurricane Irma - | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
as it brings death and destruction to the eastern Caribbean. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Images from the island of St Martin show buildings flattened, | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
widespread damage and people desperate for help. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
The island of Barbuda is described as 'barely habitable' | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
after suffering the full force of the storm. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
We had cars flying over our heads, 40ft containers | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
and all we had to do was pray and call for help. | :00:28. | :00:42. | |
As it moves north and west, urgent preparations are under way | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
We're in as well prepared a state as we can be, | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
but in the face of Irma, having seen what it's done elsewhere | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
we are far from complacent and people are naturally anxious. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
We'll have live reports from Antigua and from Miami, | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
where many Britons are trying to get flights out of Florida tonight. | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
Westminster starts debating the government's plans | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
to convert thousands of European laws and regulations | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
A special report on the inhumane conditions in a detention camp | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
I just need to go home, you understand, because | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
And England bowl out the West Indies for 123 | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
but then struggled on a remarkable first day | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Premier League clubs vote | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
to close next summer's transfer window before the season starts, | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
with players still allowed to be sold up until the end of August. | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Hurricane Irma, one of the strongest storms ever | :01:50. | :02:16. | |
recorded in the Atlantic, is sweeping across the eastern | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
At least 10 people are known to have died. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
The British overseas territory of Anguilla has | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
been badly affected a Royal Navy helicopter carrier | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
The islands of Barbuda and St Martin were the first to feel | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
Then came Puerto Rico and next in line are Cuba and Florida. | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
With phone lines down roads, destroyed by flooding | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
and airports damaged, communication is difficult. | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
Our correspondent Laura Bicker sent this report from Puerto Rico. | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
Hurricane Irma, a storm the size of France, has carved a destructive | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
In Puerto Rico, three people were killed as winds | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
As daylight came and the clear-out began, most felt lucky to have | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
This family told me they felt blessed to be alive | :03:03. | :03:22. | |
and that the only damage was a downed power line and fallen | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
They have kept eight-month-old Aaron safe. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
There is a collective sigh of relief in Puerto Rico. | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
Up to 30-foot waves threw up debris and downed trees. | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
But when it comes to that catastrophic eye of the hurricane, | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
that only skirted this island, unlike others in the Caribbean. | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
On the tiny island of Barbuda, barely a building | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
Hundreds of families now find themselves homeless. | :03:43. | :03:56. | |
And right now, I don't have nowhere to go to sleep. | :03:57. | :04:06. | |
We had containers, 40 foot containers, flying left and right, | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
and the story that you are getting from most of the residents | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
here is that the eye of the storm came just in time. | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
Persons were literally tying themselves to their roofs with ropes | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Barbuda's Prime Minister said the island was now barely habitable. | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
I would say that about 95% of the properties would have | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
In neighbouring St Martin, the full force of the hurricane's | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
Winds of 185 mph hammered the island. | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
More than 70,000 people live in this area, which is made of Dutch | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
Shipping containers were tossed around like Lego bricks. | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
Moored boats were smashed in the harbour and there | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
are warnings that the death toll is likely to rise. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
France has sent three emergency teams to help with the clear-up | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
and has already set up a reconstruction fund. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
In the British territory of Anguilla, there was criticism | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
from residents to the UK response to the hurricanes. | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
It was labelled "pathetic" and "disgraceful". | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
A British task force is now on its way there, | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
including the Royal Marines and Army engineers, although it could take | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
Efforts are also underway to try to get supplies | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
The French government say their priority is making sure | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
And the British Virgin Islands, a sought-after holiday destination, | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
She has maintained her wind speeds and is barrelling | :05:58. | :06:18. | |
towards another British territory, the low-lying Turks | :06:19. | :06:19. | |
The US Sunshine State of Florida will be next in her sights. | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
They are nervous, after watching others endure her wrath. | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
Hurricane Irma is now the longest-lasting Category 5 | :06:28. | :06:44. | |
hurricane ever recorded, surpassing the record set | :06:45. | :06:45. | |
by Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines in 2013. | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
So how and why has it gathered so much energy? | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
And are these types of storm becoming more frequent? | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
Our science editor David Shukman explains. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
A menacing swirl of cloud stretching over the Caribbean. | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
This view from space of Hurricane Irma | :07:01. | :07:01. | |
A brave research team flies right inside the eye to gather vital | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
information about temperatures and pressures inside the towering wall | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
of cloud to help forecast where it's heading next - | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
and already there's a | :07:22. | :07:22. | |
new record for dangerous winds for the longest time. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
On the ground the effect is shattering. | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
This part of the world knows all about hurricanes | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
and early warning has definitely saved lives but this one is stronger | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
So how do hurricanes become so destructive? | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
Well the strongest like Irma form off | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
Warm waters cause the air to rise, industryingering thunder storms, | :07:44. | :07:56. | |
Warm waters cause the air to rise, triggering thunder storms, | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
As the weather system crosses the Atlantic, | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
If the wind is moving in the same direction at all levels, as | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
with Irma, they reached devastating speeds. | :08:07. | :08:07. | |
But then closer to the Caribbean, the hurricane gets | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
another boost as it passes over yet more warm water and ocean | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
temperatures are unusually high this year, making the winds even more | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
On top of all this, the low pressure inside the hurricane | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
creates a storm surge, a huge wave that strikes | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
climate change is raising the level of sea, the impact is all the | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
As the people of the Caribbean cope with the terrible | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
aftermath, many are asking if climate change was behind this? | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Well, hurricanes have always happened but scientists do think | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
that our warming world may be making them more violent. | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
One of the things we know about climate change is that a warmer | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
That means when a hurricane does hit, more rain can come out of that | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
hurricane and cause a lot more flooding. | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
This comes as the people of Texas are still recovering from | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
There are plenty of quiet years but this one is | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
shaping up to be one of the | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
This sequence shows how right behind Irma | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
there is another distinctive swirl of clouds, Hurricane Jose. | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
The research patrols have been kept busier than ever before. | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
Let's go to our colleague, Aleem Maqbool. | :09:19. | :09:39. | |
What can you tell us about the preparations in Florida and the | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
impact it is having on people? Tens of thousands of people have been | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
issued evacuation orders in this part of Florida. You can imagine | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
what this airport, Miami Airport was like today, chaos as people | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
scrambled to get on flights before the hurricane hits. Amidst all of | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
this, we have come agenetically modified crops British tourist, some | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
of whom are supposed to be here until next week but in limbo as they | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
have been told by hotels to evacuate, and then come to the | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
airport but there are no seats on flights left to the UK before the | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
hurricane hits. We found one man who paid more than ?6,000 so desperate | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
he was to get a first-class seat as he was told that was the last one to | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
the UK. The others don't know what to do and are full of anxiety about | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
what the coming days will bring. But of course, there are tens of | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
thousands of people in this area and beyond, millions across the state, | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
who are now being told to prepare this weekend FORCEDCYAN yeah, OK for | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
that once in a lifetime storm. Thank you very much. | :10:47. | :10:57. | |
The House of Commons has started to debate the bill | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
which will reverse the decision taken 45 years ago to join | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
the European Economic Community, as it was called then. | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
The Brexit Secretary David Davis told MPs not to defy | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
But there are deep divisions in the Commons. | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
Some Conservatives who strongly support Brexit want a clean | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
break with Brussels, while others are reluctant | :11:13. | :11:13. | |
to back the legislation, because they say it will give far | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
From Brussels to Westminster, laws have landed here | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
Today's government bill will use 66 pages to try to transfer it all. | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
With 28 clauses, the Withdrawal Bill cuts and pastes the European | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
rule book onto ours - but if the Government | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
riles just six rebels, they'd face defeat. | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Ministers say it's nothing to worry about, just a paper exercise. | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
Their opponents fear on these harmless looking | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
pages there is a power grab on a huge scale. | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
European Union Withdrawal Bill, second reading. | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Put simply, this bill is an essential step. | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
Whilst it does not take us out of the European Union - | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
that is a matter for the Article 50 process - | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
it does ensure that on the day we leave, businesses | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
know where they stand, workers' rights are upheld | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
This bill is vital to ensuring that as we leave, we do | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
But there is so much to sort out that affects all of our lives | :12:15. | :12:30. | |
the Government says there is not time for MPs to take over every | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
detail, so ministers will be able to make | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
That gives them the same powers as medieval monarchs, says Labour. | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
The combined effect of the provisions of this bill | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
would reduce MPs to spectators as power poured into the hands | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
It is an unprecedented power grab - rule by decree is not | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
It's an affront to Parliament and accountability. | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
There'll be arguments aplenty, in the Commons | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
Ministers privately concede they will have to give some ground, | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
but they also know that it is far from the only scrap they face, | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
If talks about the overall Brexit deal are going well, | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
the official negotiator in Brussels did a good job of hiding | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
Complaining about the British unwillingness | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
TRANSLATION: I have been very disappointed | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
Closer to home, a letter doing the rounds among Tory MPs has | :13:26. | :13:37. | |
Dozens of Brexit supporters demanding the Prime Minister sticks | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
to a crisp exit and not a longer, softer transition - | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
warning ministers they must not allow the country to be kept | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
And it was circulated, if not signed, by a junior | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
The letter states very explicitly that we are in favour of leaving | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
the Single Market and the Customs Union. | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
We want to take back control of our laws. | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
We want a strictly time-limited transition | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
period, that we want to be able to strike free trade agreements | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
All of that is consistent with government policies. | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
Remainer Tory MPs don't buy that, fearing Conservative | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
In the Tory Party, in Parliament and in the power | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
There's not much chance of keeping the peace. | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster. | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
In Brussels, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
he was worried by slow progress and by some of the UK's proposals. | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
He told a news conference in Brussels it was Britain that had | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
chosen to leave and so it was up to Britain to come up | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
Our Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas is | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
Tell us more about that and indeed the other things being said there | :14:58. | :15:11. | |
today? You are right, what Michel Barnier told us today was that he | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
does not believe there's been enough progress in the talks. He wanted to | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
send that stern message, obviously. Now on money, he identified that as | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
the biggest issue. He believes that the UK has both moral and legal | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
obligations to the EU. Moral obligations, he said as there were | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
decisions taken as 28 countries, which could not be left to 27 to | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
pick up the bill for. Things like funding for science and research | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
project, for development for universities. And legally as the | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
budgets were approved, signed by David Cameron, approved by the UK | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
Parliament, that those obligations must be met. So he accused the UK of | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
backtracking, having agreed earlier in the process it had obligation it | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
is would meet, now going through picking everything through line by | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
line. On Ireland, the issue of the border, he was worried as the UK | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
proposals were not good enough, that they had to come back with something | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
better there. And concerns too that arose earlier, Michel Barnier, | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
Jean-Claude Juncker worried about David Davis, whether he was fully | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
committed to the talk, if he would be here for all of them. Today they | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
did not repeat that but laid out about the substance, that they don't | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
believe enough is being done. Thank you very much. | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
BBC News has witnessed around 1,000 migrants, mostly African, | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
being held in detention in Libya in inhumane conditions. | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
The medical charity Doctors Without Borders said today that | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
migrants and refugees who want to cross the Mediterranean | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
to Italy are being detained in nightmarish conditions. | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
But the EU is still encouraging Libya to prevent migrants | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
leaving its shores and wants the Libyan coastguard | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
The BBC's Orla Guerin has gained rare access to the main | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
Trapped in Libya, a country in chaos, that | :17:05. | :17:21. | |
Most travelled from sub Saharan Africa. | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
Some were stopped at sea, others on dry land. | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
Now they are in Triq al Sika, the largest | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
We were given unfettered access to those suffering here. | :17:35. | :17:43. | |
I just need to go back home. You understand? | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
Because here, it is like, you know, in hell. | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
It is like in hell for me. That's how I feel. | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
Well, this is the reality for those being held in detention in Libya. | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
The men here have asked us to show these conditions. | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
They are very anxious for all of this to be seen. | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
The only hope of release for these men is to be deported back | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
to their home countries, but that can take time to arrange. | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
Some of those here have been languishing in this | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
It's really hot and they close the door, so it really gets that | :18:17. | :18:26. | |
People faint sometimes. It's pretty hot in here. | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
My guide, Hennessy, is 18 and from South Sudan | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
but for three years, he was a London schoolboy | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
Hennessy paid traffickers to get back to London but was kidnapped | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
He escaped by leaping from a moving truck. | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
The time we jumped off, there was a Chad man, an old Chad man. | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
He was shot, so blood went all over my T-shirt | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
I was so scared. I just ran away. | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
Grim as things are here, Hennessy says conditions were far | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
worse in another detention centre where there were daily | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
If people make noise, or if people rush for food, you get beaten. | :19:09. | :19:19. | |
If people want to use the bathroom, or if people want to drink water, | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
they just make you lie down on your stomach, the whole jail, | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
Everyone gets beaten? Everyone gets beaten. | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
And that's only one risk on the migrant trail through Libya. | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
The men are pawns, to be bought and sold by militias. | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
Emmanuel was beaten by a gang linked to the traffickers. | :19:43. | :19:52. | |
But what pained him most is what he heard them do | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
They went into the second room and they raped the girls. | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
And we couldn't do anything because we didn't have anything | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
Staff here call them broken men, starved of hope and nourishment. | :20:06. | :20:15. | |
For breakfast, just bread and butter. | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
Officials tell us they have no funds to pay food suppliers | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
And among those going hungry, women and children, held | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
He was at the mercy of the Mediterranean | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
"Police arrested us", said his mother, Wasila. | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
"Since then, we have been in five prisons". | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
Outside, the latest arrivals, weary, barefoot, turned around | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
Instead of a new life in Europe, returned to the nightmare of Libya. | :20:59. | :21:12. | |
The green paint daubed on by their traffickers, | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Is the conclusion of your report that the EU is so determined to stop | :21:16. | :21:37. | |
the flow of people that it is in effect turning a blind eye to the | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
conditions you were reporting on there? The European Union says its | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
main priority in relation to the migrant is to protect them in Libya. | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
Aid agencies say the EU is so blinded by the single goal of | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
keeping people out of Europe that it is turning a blind eye to the abuses | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
and actually perpetuating them. There's no doubt European and | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
British policy is that Libya must do more to stop the exodus from its | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
shores. It is now the main departure point for people going to Europe. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Just last week, the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was in | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
Tripoli, meeting senior officials and emphasising the need for the | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
coastguard to control the departures and the Royal Navy is actually part | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
of the effort to retrain the Libyan coast guard. But the reality of all | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
of that, if you stop people at sea, rescue them at sea, even if you are | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
saving their lives, you are returning them to the kind of | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
conditions that we saw, conditions that have been described by the | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
United Nations, for example, as inhumane. They have complained about | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
the arbitrary detention, the fact people have no access to a legal | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
process, and that they face a long list of abuses. And Libya, let's not | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
forget, is a fragile and unstable country with no central authority, | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
three competing governments and a collapsing economy and there are | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
powerful militias that are heavily involved in the smuggling industry | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
will stop Libyan officials said to us, they are struggling to provide | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
for their own people and they can't cope with the 5000-6000 migrants | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
they currently have in detection and one of them also said they are tired | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
of being your's policeman. -- they currently have in detention. Thank | :23:18. | :23:18. | |
you for joining us. A brief look at some | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
of the day's other news stories. Britain's biggest carmaker, | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
Jaguar Landrover, has announced all its new cars will be available | :23:24. | :23:24. | |
in electric or hybrid The company's first fully electric | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
vehicle will go on sale next year. The government says it wants to ban | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
the sale of new petrol One in five people who are gay, | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
lesbian or bisexual have experienced hate crime in the past year, | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
according to new figures. But the vast majority don't | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
report it to the police. The charity Stonewall says three out | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
of five gay men don't feel comfortable holding their partner's | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
hand in the street. Universities in England could be | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
fined if they fail to justify paying their Vice-Chancellors more | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
than the Prime Minister, The average basic salary | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
for a Vice-Chancellor, in effect the university's chief | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
executive, is ?246,000, A new regulator for students | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
will also force universities to publish details of all senior | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
staff earning over ?100,000 a year. Our education editor | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
Branwen Jeffreys reports. Student loans pay for | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
most of this, so today, High pay for your bosses | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
has to be justified. Higher education has | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
to be accountable. It's really important | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
that there is confidence that resources allocated to it | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
by the taxpayer are being used efficiently and for the purposes | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
for which they are primarily intended and that is the provision | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
of great teaching, and a generation Students are applying to university, | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
or will be very shortly. When are you going to | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
confirm the higher tuition We have already | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
confirmed the policy. There is no new policy | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
to be announced. With inflation, fees would rise | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
next year to ?9,500. Universities have spent money | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
on facilities but average Vice-Chancellor pay is ?250,000 | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
and a few earn as much as ?400,000. Vice-Chancellors' salaries | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
are a tiny fraction of the budget of a university, but with living | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
costs going up and tuition fees continuing to rise, | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
it just makes universities look out of touch with the | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
concerns of students. It clearly looks extraordinary | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
and it's really difficult It would be a major mistake for us | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
not to understand the public mood. There's a lot of noise about this | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
and we clearly need to be able I don't want to read about VC pay | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
in the newspapers any So the minister told them | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
a new office for students Obviously, we welcome more | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
scrutiny on Vice-Chancellor pay and in many ways, | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
these proposals don't go far enough but you've got to look at the timing | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
of these announcements. The government has been under a lot | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
of pressure since the election over student funding and student debt | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
and these proposals will do absolutely nothing to change | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
the reality for students On campus, students | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
are asking more questions. A sculpture celebrates | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
this university's past. The question now, what will secure | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
its financial future? This week, we've been | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
reporting from Bangladesh, where more than 160,000 | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
Rohingya Muslims have been fleeing the violence in the mainly | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
Buddhist country of Myanmar. The authorities there have | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
blamed the Rohingya people for provoking the crisis | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
by attacking police stations. Our correspondent | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
Justin Rowlatt has been to a refugee camp in Teknaf, | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
near the border with Myanmar. They arrive barefoot, | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
their shoes lost in the mud This is an exodus on a | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
truly massive scale. Rohingya Muslims have been pouring | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
into Bangladesh from Myanmar. They say the military | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
and local Buddhists are destroying their villages, | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
after Rohingya militants attacked The current estimate is that | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
164,000 have crossed over, but the truth is no one knows | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
for certain how many have come. So we've just joined this kind | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
of river of humanity, because we've been told a refugee | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
camp has sort of erupted in the fields here, and thousands | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
and thousands of people have A UN official was told | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
there were 15,000 people here. She told the BBC she couldn't say | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
how many refugees have Everyone needs food, | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
everyone needs water. And everyone has | :28:14. | :28:25. | |
a horrific story to tell. TRANSLATION: My three | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
sons were taken. Villages burning, allegedly torched | :28:31. | :28:32. | |
by soldiers from the Myanmar army. TRANSLATION: Lots, lots, | :28:33. | :28:49. | |
lots of people died. First they set it on fire, and then | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
they shot us from helicopters Mr Shafiq saw some appalling | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
scenes on his long trek. Bodies floating in the river, | :28:58. | :29:05. | |
Rohingya refugees drowned the barbed wire fence that marks | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
the border with Bangladesh. The BBC cannot verify | :29:09. | :29:20. | |
any of this footage, but the stories the refugees tell | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
are remarkably similar. They have been driven | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
from their homes into this, into what is a rapidly | :29:29. | :29:35. | |
escalating humanitarian disaster. Prince George had his first | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
day at school today. The four-year-old is attending | :29:42. | :29:56. | |
Thomas's School in Battersea, South London, where fees | :29:57. | :29:58. | |
are ?17,000 a year. He was dropped off by | :29:59. | :29:59. | |
Prince William, but the Duchess of Cambridge missed the occasion | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
as she's suffering from severe morning sickness | :30:03. | :30:04. | |
due to her pregnancy. The prince will be known | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
to classmates as George Cambridge. Cricket, and the wickets have | :30:08. | :30:13. | |
tumbled at Lord's today in the third Test between England and the West | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
Indies. With the series level at 1-1, | :30:17. | :30:18. | |
England bowled the West Indies out for 123 before struggling | :30:19. | :30:21. | |
to 46-4 in reply. James Anderson began | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
the match trying to reach 500 wickets in Test matches, | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
needing just three more, This man prepared for the match | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
with no plans for retirement. This man arrived at Lord's knowing | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
it was his final Test. Henry Blofeld of Test Match Special, | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
dressed to stop the traffic Will you hope for something of | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
a West Indies revival to continue? It would be lovely if | :30:46. | :30:54. | |
they won the series. It would do their cricket | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
so much good, wouldn't it? There's widespread goodwill | :30:58. | :30:59. | |
towards sportsmen representing the Caribbean, especially at this | :31:00. | :31:01. | |
time, but runs in a Test match are hard earned, especially | :31:02. | :31:04. | |
with James Anderson bowling. Test wickets number 498 | :31:05. | :31:06. | |
and 499 came before lunch. The thing is, there were other | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
England bowlers excelling. Ben Stokes was making the ball | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
swerve and swing like never before. As wickets fell to others, Anderson | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
was desperately trying to get one. Anderson helped Stokes - | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
nice catch - but before he could bowl again, | :31:28. | :31:34. | |
West Indies were all out for 123. The biggest compliment was that it | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
reminded Lord's of Anderson. Very good but now it was England's | :31:39. | :31:46. | |
turn to bat and in conditions which were floodlit and autumnal, | :31:47. | :31:49. | |
you had to watch England lost four wickets in reply, | :31:50. | :31:52. | |
including Cook and Captain Joe Root. They will resume 77 runs behind | :31:53. | :32:01. | |
but guess who's now batting? Before we go, let's try for a quick | :32:02. | :32:20. | |
update on the damage caused by Hurricane Irma. Laura Bicker has | :32:21. | :32:23. | |
managed to travel to Antigua, one of the islands affected. Tell us what | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
the situation is there? In Antigua, they have managed to keep the | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
infrastructure intact but the real worry is the island that lies just | :32:33. | :32:39. | |
off the coast, Barbuda. When it came to Hurricane Irma, for many hours, | :32:40. | :32:42. | |
people could not get in contact with the island and when finally they | :32:43. | :32:48. | |
did, they heard of tales of massive destruction, 95% of the buildings on | :32:49. | :32:51. | |
the island have been destroyed. People are now suffering without | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
food, shelter and clean water. Today, the Red Cross has managed to | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
get some supplies in. They have been aired dropping it with helicopters | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
and getting some boats in but they badly need more at the moment. They | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
are trying to get people off the island but in your aftermath of the | :33:10. | :33:11. | |
hurricanes, the weather has been too bad. -- in the aftermath of the | :33:12. | :33:17. | |
hurricane. But the problem is still out in the Atlantic basin. While | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
they are still recovering, and other hurricane is forming, pose a is on | :33:22. | :33:28. | |
his way -- Jose is on his way and they are trying to get people into | :33:29. | :33:30. | |
shelter before that happens. Thank you for joining us. Laura Bicker, | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
there, who has managed to travel to Antigua with the latest on the | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
hurricane. More on the BBC News Channel | :33:40. | :33:41. |