17/11/2017 BBC News at Ten

The Brexit Secretary says the UK

is making compromises but EU leaders

aren't being flexible in return.

As the Prime Minister

meets her European counterparts,

a call for them to take

a different approach.

We have been, actually, offering

some quite creative compromises.

We haven't always got that back.

Criticism from Ireland which demands

a written guarantee there won't be

a physical border with Northern

Ireland.

It's 18 months since the referendum,

it's ten years since people

who wanted a referendum started

agitating for one.

Sometimes it doesn't seem

like they thought all this through.

We'll be looking at the obstacles

stopping the UK from moving

on to crucial trade talks.

Also tonight.

Four people are killed

after an aircraft and a helicopter

collide in mid-air over

Buckinghamshire.

How much longer can Robert Mugabe

hang on as his own party in Zimbabwe

calls for him to go?

19-year-old Gaia Pope -

now the third person to have been

arrested on suspicion

of her murder is released.

And a dog so brave he's

been given a medal.

The story of Mali who fought

through bullets, explosives

and his own injuries

to save British troops.

Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News.

Chris Coleman's left his job

with Wales to take over as manager

of the Championship side Sunderland.

The deal should be

confirmed by Sunday.

Good evening.

The Brexit Secretary David Davis

says the UK has made compromises

in the Brexit negotiations

and hasn't seen the same

level of compromise back.

He's urged the other EU countries

to be more flexible.

But at a summit of EU Leaders

in sweden, the President of the EU

Council, Donald Tusk,

has insisted the UK has much more

work to do if talks on trade

are to start next month.

And the Irish Prime Minister Leo

Varadkar says without a guarantee

there'll be no physical border

with northern Ireland,

discussions on trade cannot begin.

Our political editor Laura

Kuenssberg reports from Berlin.

SIREN.

Here in Berlin, where

the decisions matter so much.

There in Dublin, this morning.

Thank you very much,

thank you very much.

And almost everywhere,

a government mission

to persuade the rest of the EU

to please move on.

The Prime Minister, in Sweden,

admits there's more to do.

We are agreed that good

progress has been made,

that there is more to be done,

but we should move forward together

towards that point where sufficient

progress can be declared.

But someone has to

budge to get there.

In the European capital that speaks

with the loudest voice,

the view is that Britain must shift.

But the Brexit Secretary does not

think it is down to him.

So far, in this negotiation, we have

made quite a lot of compromises.

On the citizens' rights front,

we have made all the running,

offering some quite creative

compromises.

We haven't always got that back.

But you have come to the powerhouse

of the European Union though

without an offer on what pretty much

everybody on the other side agrees

is the biggest problem.

EU politician after EU politician

has been crystal clear

that they are not going to move on,

in the way that you want to,

until the UK is willing to make

a promise, not to give a figure,

but to give a promise

that you are prepared

to write a bigger cheque,

as we leave.

Will of course they're saying that.

What is also clear is that

many of them do want to move on.

They see it is very

important to them.

Countries like Denmark,

Holland, Italy and Spain,

countries like Poland,

can see there are big benefits

in the future deal that

we're talking about,

the deep and special relationship

the Prime Minister refers

to, the strong trading

and security relationship.

They all have things

to benefit from that.

This is not a one-way street,

it's not something for nothing.

This benefits everybody.

So who's holding it up then?

Germany and France,

holding things up?

To be clear, Germany and France,

it's the open secret of Europe,

they're the most powerful players

on the European

continent, of course.

And so what they believe

is very influential,

sometimes decisively so.

But it's the whole

of Europe's decision,

it's a 27 country decision.

Why not just admit that at some

point in the next ten days,

or two weeks, you are going to have

to say the UK will put

a more generous financial

offer on the table?

Nothing comes for

nothing in this world.

With David Davis playing bad

cop in Germany, he left

Theresa May looking,

well, awkward Chief

Constable in Sweden.

Ireland, clearly not satisfied over

the cash, or the issue

of the border after Brexit.

It's 18 months since the referendum,

it's ten years since the people

who wanted a referendum started

agitating for one.

Sometimes it doesn't

seem like they thought

all of this through.

Welcome to this press conference.

For now, the EU is publicly

and resolutely sticking together,

demanding more progress,

with just a couple of weeks to make

it, and suggesting Mr Davis' idea

that they should compromise

was a joke.

I made it very clear

to Prime Minister May that this

progress needs to happen

at the beginning of

December at the latest.

I appreciate David Davis'

English sense of humour.

LAUGHS.

I like jokes in speeches...

He probably doesn't like his ideas

being called "a joke",

but he has to compete with Tory

demands at home, too.

Ministers might have to back down

over their hope of putting

the date of Brexit into law.

Which is harder, dealing

with the Tory party

or the 27 other countries?

HE LAUGHS.

You only described about two

thirds of my job as well!

Look.

This is the most important

negotiation and transition

in our modern history,

in peace time anyway.

Of course it's difficult.

People have passionate views.

And which is harder?

HE LAUGHS.

I don't know the answer to that,

I think it varies day by day.

At home and away, this is no longer

about pressing the flesh.

As next month's deadline looms,

these talks are getting tough.

The journey to the next phase

of Brexit, a charm offensive,

perhaps a little short on charm.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Berlin.

As we've heard, the European Council

President said Britain needs to make

"much more progress" in the coming

weeks, to move the Brexit

negotiations forward.

So, what exactly are

the stumbling blocks?

Chris Morris, from the BBC's

Reality Check team, takes a look.

The negotiations at the moment her

about the terms of the UK's

withdrawal from the EU. Sorting out

the past and present, if you like.

It's complicated but the longer it

takes the less time there is to talk

about the future relationship. What

are the sticking points? Ireland

remains a tough one. Everyone agrees

there should be no hard border after

Brexit between Northern Ireland and

the republic. It would be a disaster

for the economy and potentially for

the peace process. What's the

alternative? Ireland, backed by the

EU, want the UK to set that out in

more detail. To avoid a hard border

for example, Ireland says you have

to have the same regulations for

things like food safety or animal

welfare on both sides. Is the UK

willing to follow EU rules? Then

there is the divorce bill. A

financial settlement. The EU says

the UK has to settle its accounts

before it leaves. That means money

that's been committed in past

budgets but not yet paid out. It

means the UK's share of pensions for

EU staff, and it means guarantees

the loans the EU has made countries

like Ukraine. So far the UK has

agreed to pay about £18 billion in

contributions which would cover the

two years after Brexit when it wants

a transition period. The EU says it

owes a lot more, and while the UK

says it will honour its commitments,

the EU still wants to know what that

means in practice. Briefly, there is

the third issue. Citizens rights

after Brexit. The EU citizens here

and UK citizens elsewhere in the EU.

Progress has been made but there is

no agreement yet on the future role

of the European Court of Justice. In

any negotiation people often say

things in public that don't always

capture everything that's going on

behind the scenes. It is clear

there's still plenty to do before an

EU summit next month which will

decide whether we can move on to

talk the future.

Police have confirmed tonight that

four people have died in a mid-air

collision between a light aircraft

and a helicopter in Buckinghamshire.

The accident happened close

to the village of Waddesdon.

From there, our correspondent

Ben Ando has the latest.

Working into the night,

the police and air investigators

trying to find out why this crash

happened and who was killed.

Police say a total of four people

were in the helicopter

and the light aircraft,

two in each.

And no-one survived.

Our priorities today remain

with investigating the next of kin,

finding out who they are,

informing them and supporting them

with specialist officers

as we progress the investigation

here on site.

The collision happened just after

midday in the skies over historic

Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire.

The tail plane of the light

aircraft, believed to be a Cessna,

could be seen lying in thick

woodland clearly detached

from the rest of the plane.

Nearby, a wing.

In a small clearing further away,

the burnt remains of what's thought

to have been the helicopter.

Both aircraft had taken off

from Wycombe Air Park

about 20 miles away.

Eyewitnesses said they saw the two

come into contact with each other

and then spiralled downward hitting

the ground in front of a large rural

estate owned by the National Trust.

Why they hit each other will be

the focus of the air

accident investigation.

But what is known already is that

visibility was good and the weather

was clear and bright.

Much of the debris

is in small pieces.

It's scattered over a wide area.

This evening, the police have

cordoned off the crash site.

They say the searching will take

place during the hours of daylight

and that's expected to take

until at least Monday.

Ben Ando, BBC News, Buckinghamshire.

Pressure is growing

on President Robert Mugabe

with his own party Zanu PF

calling on him to go.

That's been echoed by the veterans

of the war against white rule

in Zimbabwe, who until now

have long been the president's

most ardent supporters.

Their leaders have called

for a mass demonstration

in the capital Harare tomorrow.

Today, Mr Mugabe appeared

in public for the first time

since the military takeover.

Our Africa Editor, Fergal Keane

reports from Zimbabwe.

Here in Harare, the sense of crisis

is swelling. After a day of the

surprising and the surreal. It began

with an appearance nobody expected.

The aura is gone, Robert Mugabe is a

man reduced. In stature and in

options. In disk who, unlike any

other coup, he emerged today to open

a graduation ceremonies -- in this

coup. The voice that once preached

revolution now reciting the mundane

requirements of the moment.

I

declare this congregation of the

Zimbabwe open University Julie

constituted as a graduation

ceremony.

APPLAUSE

In the passing of any error, there

are emblematic moments. Caught

napping, it's happened a lot to him

these days. That appearance

illustrated just how much Robert

Mugabe's world has shrunk. He was

effectively allowed out on licence

today by the army, briefly shown and

then taken away again. The fear with

which he ruled his people, the

patron itch with which he bought

loyalty, these have gone. But there

is growing disquiet at the fact he

remains president. By lunchtime the

pressure was intensifying. These are

war veterans, old allies now

publicly calling on him to go.

Between now and tomorrow we are

giving you a stark warning to Robert

Mugabe, to his wife and anybody who

still wants to be associated with

him. The game is up, finished, done.

We won't allow this to go on.

APPLAUSE

The workaday normality of the street

is only surface deep, and

expectations of real change growing.

It has been long overdue. We expect

things to improve economically,

socially and politically. People

should be freed to choose who their

next leader should be.

We just want

to be at peace. We don't want civil

war, we don't want anything to do

with us not having peace.

The

military has a dilemma. Hence these

photographs, smiles and handshakes.

Under pressure from regional power

than the international community,

they need a transition with a veneer

of legality, ideally with President

Mugabe agreeing to resign. So far,

he went.

That ambivalence has become

the problem, the albatross around

the military. Having to play the

legal constitution on one end. At

the same time they want him out.

By

early evening it was apparent to

most of his own party want him gone.

A majority of provincial branches

called on him to resign and there's

talk of impeachment. These moves

could be decisive.

Let's speak to Fergal now -

how long can Robert Mugabe hang on?

Not very long, is the answer to

that. We've had that extraordinary

vote tonight by eight out of ten

provincial party movements asking

him to go. Tomorrow, we'll have

demonstrations on the streets here.

The first real manifestation of

public anger over what's been going

on. Anger against his regime. Then,

on Sunday, Monday into Tuesday,

perhaps, we'll see more activity at

a political party level but also

possibly in Parliament. All amented

at removing him not just from the

leadership of ZANU-PF, the ruling

party, but also from the presidency

of the country. My expectation is by

early next week, matters will have

been resolved. It is still not

clear, negotiations are join going

about whether president mug mug will

stay here or be forced into exile.

He will be gone and replaced

probably by a transitional

Government with the promise of free

and fair elections next year.

Thank

you.

BBC News has learned that tens

of thousands of people who claim

the main sickness benefit -

Employment and Support Allowance -

have had their benefits

wrongly calculated,

and haven't been paid the

full amount they are entitled to.

It's understood the Department

for Work and Pensions

owes up to half a billion pounds

in back payments.

Ministers say they

are aware of the problem

and have started

making the repayments.

Our social affairs correspondent

Michael Buchanan

has this exclusive report.

welfare has replaced work.

In many of Britain's

former mining communities,

welfare has replaced work.

Horden in County Durham has high

levels of benefit dependency,

much of it triggered by ill health.

Old manufacturing jobs

maim the body - lack

of opportunities maim the mind.

Peter Cartwright has any

number of health problems,

from osteoarthritis to depression.

He used to get incapacity benefit

but is now on employment

and support allowance.

He's astonished the Government have

been underpaying the benefit.

It's not as if you can go

and get loads of luxuries

when you're on this benefit.

You have enough to get through,

and if people are getting

underpaid for it, I mean,

that means they're not getting

through, they're having to make

the choice of either

food or heating.

A disproportionately high number

of people here get ESA,

and some are now in for a windfall

after an extraordinary error.

Between 2012 and 2015,

the Government miscalculated.

They underpaid the benefits due

to people moving off incapacity

benefit and onto ESA.

We've been told officials

estimate that claimants

are owed £500 million.

The error could affect

around 75,000 people.

Based on those figures,

the average repayment will be close

to £7,000 per person.

There will be people

who will be angry about it,

but I think a lot of people

will just see it as a bit

of a windfall and be grateful that

they're getting that.

I think they would just see

it as a welcome break

from the austerity that we go

through on a daily basis.

The benefits system is absolutely

crucial in communities like this.

It is, in many ways,

a backbone of the local economy.

And in recent years it has become

harder to get a benefit and harder

to live on benefits.

And so the least that people expect

is that when they do qualify,

the Government pays them everything

they're actually due.

Backwards and forwards...

Employment and support allowance,

which tests fitness for work,

is paid to about 2.5 million people.

Brought in to cut the benefits bill,

it hasn't - but has created

stress for many claimants.

The Labour MP Frank Field has

charted the benefit's many problems.

This latest failure, he says,

is of historic proportions.

I'm gobsmacked at the size and

the nature and the extent of people

that have been wrongly impoverished.

Horden's Welfare Park affectionately

commemorates the village's

old mining heritage.

But the present matters more

than the past, and for many that

means adequate benefit payments.

Ministerial promises

to correct this error,

to repay everyone in full,

must be kept.

Michael Buchanan, BBC

News, County Durham.

Police in Dorset have released a man

they were questioning in connection

with the disappearance

of 19-year-old Gaia Pope who was

last seen in Swanage ten days ago.

He is the third person the police

have arrested on suspicion of murder

and then released.

Jon Donnison has more.

The beautiful Dorset coast.

Now the focus of an ugly search.

More than 50 officers

from the police, Fire Service

and coastguard, are combing the area

above and below the cliffs

just outside Swanage.

But it's ten days since

Gaia Pope was last seen.

The search moved to this clifftop

area after police found

women's clothes similar,

they say, to what Gaia was wearing

when she was last seen.

It was shortly after that discovery

that officers arrested

49-year-old Paul Elsey.

This evening, he's been released

under investigation.

Paul Elsey lives in one of these

flats in this complex

on Morrison Road in Swanage.

His 71-year-old mother

and 19-year-old nephew were arrested

earlier this week but have also been

released while the

investigation continues.

This CCTV footage shows Gaia running

up Morrison Road just

before she disappeared.

Earlier, she'd bought an ice cream

at a petrol station outside

Swanage and her family want

the search to intensify.

Whatever you're doing,

if you're planning on being in this

area over the weekend,

please do get in touch

via the Find Gaia Facebook group.

Come and pick up some fliers and get

out there looking for her.

And tomorrow, it is expected large

numbers of local people will join

police on this coast continuing

the simp for Gaia.

The US electric carmaker, Tesla,

has unveiled its

first articulated lorry.

It's designed to travel 500 miles

after just half an hour's charging

and will compete in a market

dominated by diesels.

But with the firm already struggling

to meet demand for its cars,

some are asking whether Tesla's

billionaire boss is promising more

than he can deliver.

Dave Lee was at the

launch in Las Vegas.

By bringing some of its trademark

speed and style to trucking,

Tesla thinks it can unseat diesel

as king of the road.

The thing that looks

like it's not moving...

Is a diesel truck.

Elon Musk has promised it will be

able to travel up to 500

miles on a single charge,

and when dragging the heaviest

trailer on American roads it

will still accelerate to 60mph

in just 20 seconds.

than diesel, claims that

were met with considerable

He wouldn't say how much the vehicle

will cost but when fuel

and maintenance are factored in,

it will be more efficient

than diesel, claims that

were met with considerable

scepticism by some.

It is very much an

economics-driven industry.

The diesel has proven to be

unmatched in that combination

of features of being very fuel

efficient, very

reliable and durable.

Tesla isn't the first

to unveil an electric lorry.

Here's an effort from US

truck builder Cummins,

though its range is only 100 miles.

Ever one for theatrics,

Elon Musk also had a secret

in the back of one of his trailers,

a surprise new roadster

capable of doing O-60

in less than two seconds.

What was your first impression?

No way.

It's just nuts.

You said it, it's stupid cool.

It is just stupid awesome.

But there is a cloud hanging over

Tesla that has investors worried.

Right now, it's unable to build cars

quickly enough to make pre-orders

of its more affordable Model 3,

a car it unveiled in 2016.

Mr Musk said he was going

through production hell and was even

camping on the roof of his battery

factory in order to save time

getting there each day.

The astronomical value

of Tesla relies very much

on this cult of Elon Musk,

a strong belief he's on course

to change the world.

But, he is running out of time

to start producing results.

Dave Lee, BBC News in Los Angeles.

Football, and Chris Coleman

has resigned as the Wales manager

this evening after

nearly six years in charge.

Coleman and his team returned

to a hero's welcome after he guided

them to the Euro 2016 semi-finals

but a disappointing campaign

for next year's World Cup

in Russia saw them fail to qualify

when they lost at home

to the Republic of Ireland.

A military dog who helped save the

lives of British and Afghan troops

has received the animal equivalent

of the Victoria Cross this evening.

Mali was seriously wounded in 2012,

when he entered a building in Kabul

under fire, to sniff out

explosives and insurgents.

Our reporter Chi Chi

Izundu has the story.

This is Mali, the eight-year-old

Belgian malinois who's been

awarded the Dickin Medal,

the highest honour

for an army animal.

In 2012, he was helping British

troops in Afghanistan

when they came under attack.

While searching for insurgents,

Mali came under direct fire

as he sniffed out explosives

in search of a safe exit.

His special forces handler

during the operation remains

anonymous for security reasons.

From operations we've

been on previously,

he had shown his metal,

built a reputation

amongst all the guys.

By the time we'd launched

on to this operation,

we really felt we had a guardian

angel amongst us.

The mission lasted

seven-and-a-half hours.

Mali's contribution

to its success is undeniable.

The amount of noise,

dust and smoke must have

overloaded his senses.

He received blast injuries from two

grenades which were thrown

down the stairs at him.

He received multiple injuries

to his face, body and his hips.

Again, he still carried

on after that.

The military uses around 500 dogs

in a variety of roles

from sniffing out explosives

to hunting down insurgents.

Mali's made a full recovery.

As for the medal, he'll

get a miniature version

to wear around his collar,

so in his new job teaching other

jobs and their handlers

about their roles in the military,

he can pass on his heroic skills.