0:00:05 > 0:00:07Tonight at ten...
0:00:07 > 0:00:10Britain offers more money to unblock the Brexit negotiations -
0:00:10 > 0:00:13reportedly as much as 50 billion euros.
0:00:13 > 0:00:17The final figure has yet to be formally confirmed,
0:00:17 > 0:00:21but ministers now suggest they want to give a fair offer.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25We've been waiting for this for a long time, 18 months or so.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27Now's the moment to get the whole ship off the rocks
0:00:27 > 0:00:33and move it forwards.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35We'll have the latest on the Brexit process and the other obstacles
0:00:35 > 0:00:39still remaining before talks can move on to talk about trade.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Also tonight...
0:00:42 > 0:00:47Donald Trump shares anti-Muslim material on social media.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Downing Street says he was wrong to do so -
0:00:49 > 0:00:50the White House disagrees.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53The threat is real, and that is what the President is talking about.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56That's what the President is focused on, is dealing
0:00:56 > 0:00:57with those real threats.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00And those are real no matter how you look at it.
0:01:00 > 0:01:01A convicted Bosnian war criminal kills himself
0:01:01 > 0:01:08by drinking poison in court after his sentence is upheld.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Lawyers say the man jailed for murdering Lin and Megan Russell
0:01:11 > 0:01:14in Kent in 1996 should have his conviction reviewed
0:01:14 > 0:01:23following an alleged confession by another convicted killer.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26West or south...
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0:01:33 > 0:01:35there's an instant impact at Goodison Park as Sam
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0:02:01 > 0:02:02Good evening.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Ministers are expressing confidence that they can break the deadlock
0:02:05 > 0:02:09in the Brexit talks with an improved financial offer,
0:02:09 > 0:02:19which is understood to be around 40 to 50 billion euros.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22But the EU still says that no final agreement has been reached.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25The kind of sum being mentioned would be a considerable increase
0:02:25 > 0:02:27on the amount previously offered by Theresa May's government as
0:02:27 > 0:02:29a so-called Brexit divorce payment.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Critics said many who voted for Brexit would find any
0:02:31 > 0:02:32payment unacceptable.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg has more details.
0:02:34 > 0:02:41There is no substitute for personal diplomacy.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44The Prime Minister, the first major leader to visit Iraq since so-called
0:02:44 > 0:02:45IS were driven out of Mosul.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Thousands of miles away, dealings between Westminster
0:02:48 > 0:02:51and Brussels mean a broad offer to settle the UK's accounts has been
0:02:51 > 0:02:55hypothetically agreed.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57We are still in negotiations with the European Union,
0:02:57 > 0:03:00and I am very clear that I want us to move together
0:03:00 > 0:03:02onto the next stage.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Of course, we are working in the lead up to the
0:03:04 > 0:03:05December European Council.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08I want to see us able to move on to the trade talks
0:03:08 > 0:03:13and the security talks, but it means us moving together.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Surely a bill of around 40 to 50 billion euros is too
0:03:16 > 0:03:18much for Brexiteers, who promised we would
0:03:18 > 0:03:21get money back?
0:03:21 > 0:03:23After months of haggling, and handshakes - and,
0:03:23 > 0:03:26frankly, changes of heart - the Cabinet is pretty much on board.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29The Prime Minister is going to go forward to the December
0:03:29 > 0:03:34European Council with, I think, a very fair offer.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Now is the moment to get the whole...
0:03:36 > 0:03:41The ship off the rocks and move it forwards.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44The hope is that with more hypothetical cash on the table,
0:03:44 > 0:03:47talks about trade can start next month.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50REPORTER:Do you think the Brexit divorce bill is too large?
0:03:50 > 0:03:52But nothing is final, so no minister will publicly give
0:03:52 > 0:03:54an official seal of approval.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed about this whole package,
0:03:57 > 0:04:00but we accept that there are obligations that we have built
0:04:00 > 0:04:03up, and we will meet them, as the Prime Minister has said.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Weren't we all told there would be plenty of money back
0:04:05 > 0:04:07if we voted to leave?
0:04:07 > 0:04:10It seems the EU has won the argument, that the bill
0:04:10 > 0:04:14to settle our accounts runs into the tens of billions -
0:04:14 > 0:04:17whether paying for long-term projects we have already signed up
0:04:17 > 0:04:21to, or the pensions of Brussels staff in years to come.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24In the bigger picture, around 40 billion spread over many
0:04:24 > 0:04:28years is not big bucks for the Government.
0:04:28 > 0:04:34So the anger you might have expected in there didn't really explode.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37If we are going to negotiate the comprehensive new trade
0:04:37 > 0:04:39agreement with the European Union, which we need for future
0:04:39 > 0:04:42jobs and prosperity, we do need to be seen as a country
0:04:42 > 0:04:46which can be trusted to comply with the deals we reach.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48So will my right honourable friend guarantee that there will be no
0:04:48 > 0:04:52legally binding commitment to spend money until our partners do agree
0:04:52 > 0:04:57to a serious free trade deal?
0:04:57 > 0:04:59She should not pay more than we owe, Mr Speaker,
0:04:59 > 0:05:02but she should be confident that, whatever that is, it's a bargain
0:05:02 > 0:05:05against the cost of staying in.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08REPORTER:Do you welcome Britain's decision to pay more, Mr Barnier?
0:05:08 > 0:05:11We are still working.
0:05:11 > 0:05:18The EU chief negotiator in no mood to declare it's done.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21The finer details of the bill will not be agreed for some time,
0:05:21 > 0:05:25and a deal to move onto the next phase of talks could still be
0:05:25 > 0:05:26scuppered by disagreement over the Irish border
0:05:26 > 0:05:28or the European courts.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30"We are still waiting for more from London," he said.
0:05:30 > 0:05:35"We are not there yet."
0:05:35 > 0:05:37After months of European hard talk, and sticking together,
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Britain has moved significantly towards their version
0:05:40 > 0:05:43of what we have to pay - the Government finding little
0:05:43 > 0:05:45success, perhaps, in the Brexit talks in trying
0:05:45 > 0:05:46to stay out on a limb.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Estimates for the size of the final Brexit divorce bill
0:05:54 > 0:05:56have varied widely, and although a broad framework has
0:05:56 > 0:06:00now reportedly been agreed between the UK and the EU,
0:06:00 > 0:06:03many details are still to be settled.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Chris Morris, from the BBC's Reality Check team,
0:06:05 > 0:06:10has been taking a closer look at the calculations.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12So, negotiators may have reached a broad agreement on the outlines
0:06:12 > 0:06:14of a financial settlement.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16But it's still got to be signed off politically,
0:06:16 > 0:06:21and everyone is understandably cagey about the detail.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24But why do estimates for the size of the bill vary so much?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Well, the figure we've been hearing about today could be up
0:06:26 > 0:06:28to 50 billion euros net.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31And these are the major components.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34The Prime Minister had already agreed to cover budget payments
0:06:34 > 0:06:37in 2019-20 so that no-one else would be out of pocket.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39That amounted to a pledge of about 20 billion euros.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42But the EU wanted more.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45If the UK has now agreed it will meet all its other
0:06:45 > 0:06:47financial commitments, as defined by the EU,
0:06:47 > 0:06:51that will have broken the logjam.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53But there could be plenty of technical haggling ahead
0:06:53 > 0:06:55about the exact UK share of the total.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58The biggest part of any bill will be money that's been
0:06:58 > 0:07:02committed to future projects, but not yet paid out.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05The EU has suggested that the UK should pay roughly a 13% share
0:07:05 > 0:07:10of total commitments, based on the size of its economy.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13The UK says it should be lower, partly because of the fall
0:07:13 > 0:07:14in the value of the pound.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Then there's the estimated liability for the pensions
0:07:16 > 0:07:20scheme for EU employees.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23The UK argues that the way it has been calculated is unfair and it
0:07:23 > 0:07:27hopes to reduce the bill by several billion euros.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29There's also a debate to be had about the EU's assets,
0:07:29 > 0:07:34especially cash and the timescale for future UK payments.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38Take an EU employee who is about 25 years old, for example.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41He or she may not draw their pension for another 40 years.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44So, in theory, the UK could be making small pension payments
0:07:44 > 0:07:47for decades to come.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50This would A, spread the load and, B, make it almost impossible
0:07:50 > 0:07:55for anyone to come up with a final figure now for the cost of divorce.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58But if the EU was initially hoping for a net figure
0:07:58 > 0:08:01of about 60 billion euros - and some Brexiteers were hoping
0:08:01 > 0:08:04to pay next to nothing - the outcome is going to be a lot
0:08:04 > 0:08:08closer to 60 billion than to zero.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11For its part, the Government always said there would be bills to pay
0:08:11 > 0:08:14and it wants to focus on the future - a new trading relationship
0:08:14 > 0:08:17with the EU and the rest of the world, affecting the overall
0:08:17 > 0:08:22health of the UK's £2.2 trillion economy.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25That means the toughest negotiations are yet to come.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31That was Chris Morris from the BBC's Reality Check team,
0:08:31 > 0:08:36and Laura Kuenssberg is at Westminster tonight.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38A few months ago Boris Johnson said the EU could go
0:08:38 > 0:08:41and whistle for the money - we seem to have moved
0:08:41 > 0:08:43some way from that?
0:08:43 > 0:08:47Well, nothing is final until it is final. But there has been a really
0:08:47 > 0:08:52big shift in this thinking at Westminster. If a year ago you had
0:08:52 > 0:08:57said to me that a Government that was full of Brexiteers at the top
0:08:57 > 0:09:01table, that has lots of Eurosceptic Tories on the backbenches, worth at
0:09:01 > 0:09:05the point of agreeing a bill of tens of billions without much rage,
0:09:05 > 0:09:09without there being venom, with a relatively acquiescent atmosphere
0:09:09 > 0:09:15around it, I would have said to you, frankly, pull the other one. The
0:09:15 > 0:09:18political atmosphere around the Brexit bill has changed
0:09:18 > 0:09:20significantly over the recent months. I think there are a couple
0:09:20 > 0:09:23of months for that. First of all, it has been clear for some time that
0:09:23 > 0:09:29the EU was not going to budge that far. Second, because the figures,
0:09:29 > 0:09:33the territory we are talking about, 40 billion or so, that has been
0:09:33 > 0:09:37knocking around for some time, it wasn't a huge surprise to people.
0:09:37 > 0:09:42So, it wouldn't have been very plausible if there had been white
0:09:42 > 0:09:46hot shock. Third, I think talking to Brexiteers in the last couple of
0:09:46 > 0:09:50weeks about the money and other issues, there is a sense now that
0:09:50 > 0:09:55what they want, above all else, is for this to be a success, for this
0:09:55 > 0:09:59to work they are keeping their eyes on the prize, rather than stumbling
0:09:59 > 0:10:04or throwing a strop over any particular issue. The priority for
0:10:04 > 0:10:09Brexiteers in the Tory party and in the Government is to make this
0:10:09 > 0:10:13process work, rather than to see, for some of them, their life's
0:10:13 > 0:10:17political work fail in front of them. I think, over the last couple
0:10:17 > 0:10:21of months, it has become clear that meant that UK had to budge on the
0:10:21 > 0:10:25bill. That is how Theresa May managed to get her ministers and
0:10:25 > 0:10:30most of her party into this place. The public, many of whom believed
0:10:30 > 0:10:34that we were going to get some money back immediately when we voted to
0:10:34 > 0:10:38leave, what voters make of it, that is a different question. But, in
0:10:38 > 0:10:42terms of the political agreement in Westminster, for this to be viable
0:10:42 > 0:10:46for Theresa May to get that progress next week, it seems there are still
0:10:46 > 0:10:52issues that could scupper it. But money isn't going to be one of them.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Many thanks, Laura Kuenssberg with the latest analysis at Westminster.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58Downing Street has criticised President Trump for using social
0:10:58 > 0:11:00media to share anti-Muslim videos from the far-right
0:11:00 > 0:11:01organisation Britain First.
0:11:01 > 0:11:07The footage claims to show Muslims committing acts of violence.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Mr Trump's decision to share the material led to sharp criticism
0:11:09 > 0:11:11here and in the United States.
0:11:11 > 0:11:16But the White House insisted Mr Trump was keen to highlight
0:11:16 > 0:11:18genuine threats, regardless of whether the footage was real,
0:11:18 > 0:11:20as our correspondent Nick Bryant reports.
0:11:21 > 0:11:22Britain First!
0:11:22 > 0:11:23Fighting back!
0:11:23 > 0:11:24Britain First!
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Fighting back!
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Britain First is a far right anti-Muslim group with a small
0:11:29 > 0:11:31membership that often engages in publicity stunts to try
0:11:31 > 0:11:34to raise its profile.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37And early this morning it received a huge propaganda
0:11:37 > 0:11:41gift from Donald Trump, the "America First" president.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44On his Twitter feed, he retweeted three inflammatory
0:11:44 > 0:11:47videos from the group's deputy leader, Jayda Fransen,
0:11:47 > 0:11:49the first claiming incorrectly to show a Muslim migrant attacking
0:11:49 > 0:11:53a man on crutches.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56You think you can take over towns and tell us that it's your country?
0:11:56 > 0:11:57This is Jayda Fransen in action.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Earlier this month, she was charged with using threatening,
0:12:00 > 0:12:01abusive or insulting words or behaviour during speeches
0:12:01 > 0:12:09she made in Belfast.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12For her, these presidential retweets are manna from heaven.
0:12:12 > 0:12:13"God bless you, Trump," she tweeted.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14"God bless America."
0:12:14 > 0:12:16From the family of the murdered MP Jo
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Cox, there has been a despairing response.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21She was killed by a right-wing extremist who shouted
0:12:21 > 0:12:22"Britain First."
0:12:22 > 0:12:26I have to say, I thought it was a horrendous thing to do.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Britain First is a well known hate group.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31It drives hatred against Muslims, and Donald Trump is the president
0:12:31 > 0:12:33of our nearest ally, and the fact that he didn't check
0:12:33 > 0:12:36first, or didn't even think about the content of those tweets
0:12:36 > 0:12:42before doing it, I think suggests his judgment is hugely lacking.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Merry Christmas, said the president, as he ignored questions
0:12:48 > 0:12:50about his tweeting.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52But Downing Street has spoken out, saying it was wrong
0:12:52 > 0:12:54for the president to have done this.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57It added that his invitation to make a state visit to Britain
0:12:57 > 0:12:58next year still stands.
0:12:58 > 0:13:03As for the President's spokeswoman, she was unapologetic.
0:13:03 > 0:13:04The threat is real.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06The threat needs to be addressed.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08The threat has to be talked about, and that is what the president
0:13:08 > 0:13:12is doing in bringing that up.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Previous US administrations have liked to think of themselves
0:13:14 > 0:13:17as beacons of democratic values, but that's not been a high priority
0:13:17 > 0:13:20for the Trump White House.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23Many people around the world will be saddened and sickened to see
0:13:23 > 0:13:26the President of the United States appearing to validate tweets
0:13:26 > 0:13:28from a far-right group.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32Ten months into this unorthodox and provocative presidency,
0:13:32 > 0:13:36Donald Trump still has the capacity to shock.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40Nick Bryant, BBC News, New York.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44One of the most prominent figures in the Bosnian civil war
0:13:44 > 0:13:46has killed himself in court after he was convicted
0:13:46 > 0:13:48of crimes against humanity.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Moments after judges had upheld his conviction
0:13:50 > 0:13:53at the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague,
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Slobodan Praljak said he rejected the verdict
0:13:56 > 0:13:58and drank what he said was poison.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen, who testified
0:14:00 > 0:14:02at the tribunal about his experiences reporting
0:14:02 > 0:14:03the conflict, has the story.
0:14:03 > 0:14:15His report contains some distressing images.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Slobodan Praljak and his co-defendants were told their
0:14:17 > 0:14:23appeals against long jail sentences has... Had failed, when Praljak kept
0:14:23 > 0:14:28standing to insist one last time that he was innocent. TRANSLATION:
0:14:28 > 0:14:33Slobodan Praljak is not a war criminal, I am rejecting the court
0:14:33 > 0:14:39ruling.He drank from a vial of liquid.I have taken poison.The
0:14:39 > 0:14:47court, dealing with its final case after 24 years, was stunned.
0:14:47 > 0:14:53The emergency services arrived. Praljak died later in hospital.
0:14:53 > 0:14:59In 2007 I was a prosecution witness in the trial of Praljak and his
0:14:59 > 0:15:03co-defendants in the Hague. He cross-examined me, outrage that he
0:15:03 > 0:15:09was being prosecuted for, as he saw it, doing his duty.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12I testified, because in 1993, in the depths of the Bosnian war,
0:15:12 > 0:15:14I'd seen what they've done in Mostar, in the south
0:15:14 > 0:15:15of the country.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18This was the 400-year-old Ottoman bridge, then under fire
0:15:18 > 0:15:23from Praljak's forces.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26It was a symbol of the old Bosnia that they wanted to dismantle.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29The destruction of the old bridge was just one item on a long
0:15:29 > 0:15:33list of war crimes.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36In 1993, Bosnian soldiers who were besieged on the east side
0:15:36 > 0:15:38of Mostar, along with thousands of civilians, were fighting back
0:15:38 > 0:15:47against Bosnian Croat forces, led by Slobodan Praljak.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54He was convicted of the murder of civilians, then like this,
0:15:54 > 0:15:56with his wife and his neighbours, I tried to help them,
0:15:56 > 0:16:03but he was already dead.
0:16:03 > 0:16:04-- men like this.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07Civilians were dying because Praljak and his co-defendants were trying
0:16:07 > 0:16:09to establish an ethnically uniform state the Bosnian Croats,
0:16:09 > 0:16:15which the court decided was a joint criminal enterprise.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Their war crimes included the persecution of civilians,
0:16:17 > 0:16:21mainly Muslims they wanted to kill or expel.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24At night, I saw civilians under fire being forced over the front
0:16:24 > 0:16:27line in the east Mostar.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29These pictures were evidence in Praljak's trial.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32I heard many first-hand accounts of the murder,
0:16:32 > 0:16:36rape and ethnic cleansing at the hands of Bosnian Croat forces
0:16:36 > 0:16:46from a traumatised people arriving in East Mostar.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51After the war, the old bridge was rebuilt, but Mostar
0:16:51 > 0:16:53and all of Bosnia-Herzegovina is still divided on ethnic lines.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56At least the war's victims, thousands of whom have been
0:16:56 > 0:16:58to the Hague, have had some justice, thanks to the international criminal
0:16:58 > 0:17:00tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02Its work to convict the worst war criminals Europe has seen
0:17:02 > 0:17:05since the Nazis should not be overshadowed by the suicide
0:17:05 > 0:17:09of Slobodan Praljak.
0:17:09 > 0:17:15Jeremy Bowen, BBC News.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17The highest-paid university vice-chancellor in the UK,
0:17:17 > 0:17:18who announced yesterday she was taking retirement,
0:17:18 > 0:17:19has been defending her salary.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell of Bath University says she's not
0:17:22 > 0:17:25embarrassed by her annual pay packet of £468,000,
0:17:25 > 0:17:27and she insisted the university hadn't been damaged
0:17:27 > 0:17:30by the controversy.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34Dame Glynis has been speaking to our education
0:17:34 > 0:17:35editor, Branwen Jeffreys.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38Cold winter sun on the campus.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42The University of Bath hoping to move on.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44The vice chancellor, in her first interview,
0:17:44 > 0:17:47told me her pay was justified.
0:17:47 > 0:17:53You seem unembarrassed by the controversy.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56I think that the controversy has been something that
0:17:56 > 0:18:01I would have wished to avoid, but I'm not embarrassed by the fact
0:18:01 > 0:18:03that those people who actually have determined my salary did
0:18:03 > 0:18:09so in the way that they did.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell will be paid £468,000 a year
0:18:12 > 0:18:18until February 2019.
0:18:18 > 0:18:23She'll stay in the university flat in Bath until August 2018.
0:18:23 > 0:18:29And a car loan of £31,000 will be written off.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Your pay has been one element of the controversy,
0:18:32 > 0:18:35so has the house, the housekeeper that goes with it, the car loan
0:18:35 > 0:18:38that is being written off, the fact, indeed, that you will now be paid
0:18:38 > 0:18:41until February 2019.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44Do you think that's going to do further damage
0:18:44 > 0:18:47to the university's reputation?
0:18:47 > 0:18:49I don't actually think that the university's reputation
0:18:49 > 0:18:52is being damaged by this.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54I think that we recognise the value and the significance
0:18:54 > 0:18:57of the university.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59The cost of being a student has risen.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Rents in Bath are high.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05Few today regretted her departure.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Students had no trust in her any more, so I think
0:19:07 > 0:19:09that it was probably the right thing to do.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11She's done a good job, though.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14It was a huge thing in the House of Lords as well.
0:19:14 > 0:19:15And so, it was just...
0:19:15 > 0:19:16She needed to go.
0:19:16 > 0:19:17It was bad press.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20It's good that now we are doing something to sort it out, I think.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Isn't there something fundamental, though, in this,
0:19:22 > 0:19:27where students feel - and the wider public -that vice
0:19:27 > 0:19:30chancellors' pay just looks excessive now?
0:19:30 > 0:19:34Yes, I think that has been argued.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37But do you accept it?
0:19:37 > 0:19:40I think that we have a situation where we are in a globally
0:19:40 > 0:19:44competitive market.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47This is no longer just about Bath.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50There are far wider questions about who decides on senior
0:19:50 > 0:19:51pay in universities, with calls for greater
0:19:51 > 0:19:56transparency and fairness.
0:19:56 > 0:20:00You have over 50 vice chancellors who are paid over £300,000.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02You have two thirds of them who are on remuneration committees
0:20:02 > 0:20:07that never actually tell us how their decisions are made.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10So what's happened here may be a tipping point,
0:20:10 > 0:20:14with universities forced to justify high pay.
0:20:14 > 0:20:18Branwen Jeffries, BBC News, Bath.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23Theresa May has said she will use a visit to Saudi Arabia to express
0:20:23 > 0:20:25concerns about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28She said she would urge the Saudi King and the Crown Prince
0:20:28 > 0:20:30to lift a blockade which has prevented the delivery
0:20:30 > 0:20:32of aid supplies.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35The United Nations estimates that 20 million people in Yemen
0:20:35 > 0:20:37are in need of help.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44The father of a 13 month-old girl who is suspected of sexually
0:20:44 > 0:20:46assaulting her before she died has begun giving
0:20:46 > 0:20:47evidence at her inquest.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Paul Worthington, who's 49, refused to answer many
0:20:49 > 0:20:51of the questions put to him in court.
0:20:51 > 0:20:59Poppi Worthington died suddenly five years ago.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01The cab service Uber has revealed that 2.7 million
0:21:01 > 0:21:04of its British customers and drivers were victims of a major
0:21:04 > 0:21:05security breach last year.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Personal details including names, email addresses and phone numbers
0:21:07 > 0:21:09were stolen in the hack, which Uber kept secret
0:21:09 > 0:21:12until earlier this month.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Lawyers for Michael Stone, who was twice convicted
0:21:21 > 0:21:24of the murders of Lin Russell and her daughter Megan in Kent
0:21:24 > 0:21:27in 1996, say they have new evidence of his innocence.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29They believe the murderer of Lyn and Megan Russell
0:21:29 > 0:21:32was a convicted serial killer, Levi Bellfield.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34They say a confession made by Bellfield to another prisoner
0:21:34 > 0:21:38is backed up by other evidence from a witness.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41Bellfield told the BBC he denied the murders and denied
0:21:41 > 0:21:42making a confession, as our correspondent
0:21:42 > 0:21:45Wyre Davies reports.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49It was a shocking murder, a vicious attack in July 1996
0:21:49 > 0:21:54on a family walking home from school in rural Kent.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan were killed
0:21:57 > 0:22:00in the frenzied hammer attack.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02That was quite heavy.
0:22:02 > 0:22:06But nine-year-old Josie survived, despite suffering terrible injuries.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Michael Stone, a known criminal and drug addict,
0:22:09 > 0:22:11was arrested and found guilty of the Russell murders, but has
0:22:11 > 0:22:15always protested his innocence.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17We intend first to read a statement...
0:22:17 > 0:22:20And today, dramatic new evidence from Stone's lawyers -
0:22:20 > 0:22:24what they say is a detailed confession to the Russell murders
0:22:24 > 0:22:27by this man, Levi Bellfield.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30The Russell murders, by Levi Bellfield, fit perfectly
0:22:30 > 0:22:33with his modus operandi.
0:22:33 > 0:22:39He is a man known to attack and murdered women.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42Already serving two full life terms for the murders
0:22:42 > 0:22:45of Milly Dowler, Amelie Delagrange and Marsha McDonnell,
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Bellfield has now allegedly told a fellow prisoner in considerable
0:22:47 > 0:22:51detail that he also murdered the Russells.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54The prisoner's words have been re-voiced.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57He said, "I've never told anyone this before.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00I killed another child and got away with it."
0:23:00 > 0:23:02He said he approached them with his hammer in hand,
0:23:02 > 0:23:05and the mother screamed and begged not to hurt her children.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07He struck her first, and then Josie.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10The dog was killed, followed by Megan.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14What gives this alleged confession even more credibility is that,
0:23:14 > 0:23:16as far as we can tell, it contains certain details that
0:23:16 > 0:23:19would have been known to only very few people,
0:23:19 > 0:23:24like police investigators or the killer himself.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27None of Stone's DNA was ever found at the murder scene,
0:23:27 > 0:23:29but his legal team said today there was potentially new forensic
0:23:29 > 0:23:32evidence against Bellfield.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34They also said a new eyewitness had come forward, identifying
0:23:34 > 0:23:39Levi Bellfield driving a car near the scene.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Speaking from prison, Stone acknowledged his own violent
0:23:41 > 0:23:44past but told me that, unlike Bellfield, he had no
0:23:44 > 0:23:47history of attacking women.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49You've got a track record of violence, you hit
0:23:49 > 0:23:52a man with a hammer.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Just desperate to link me to the crime, but it's not even
0:23:55 > 0:23:58similar, because I went to the house of someone who I found out was,
0:23:58 > 0:24:01like, messing about with people, and I went to his house to warn him
0:24:01 > 0:24:06not to do it, and he grabbed my throat.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09And I picked a mallet - it wasn't a hammer, it was a mallet -
0:24:09 > 0:24:13I picked it up to strike him with it to get him off my neck.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16It's nothing like attacking a child, or a mother and a child.
0:24:16 > 0:24:17There's no similarity, really.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Levi Bellfield tonight denied making a confession,
0:24:19 > 0:24:22and Kent Police said they stood by Stone's conviction.
0:24:22 > 0:24:27But Michael Stone's family described this as a moment of hope.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30Mick's been in prison now for 20 years, and that's 20 years too long
0:24:30 > 0:24:33for somebody who hasn't committed a crime.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37They say his case must now be sent to the Court of Appeal.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Wyre Davies, BBC News.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43And to see more on this, BBC Wales Investigates has a special
0:24:43 > 0:24:45programme tomorrow night at 8:30pm on BBC One Wales,
0:24:45 > 0:24:49and on the BBC iPlayer.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55This draw for the World Cup in Russia takes place this week.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58Three quarters of a million tickets have already been sold
0:24:58 > 0:25:00for next year's tournament, which will see 32 teams
0:25:00 > 0:25:02hosted in 11 cities.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04But controversy still surrounds the competition, as the football
0:25:04 > 0:25:09world deals with issues of integrity and security.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12The Russian Deputy Prime Minister told the BBC
0:25:12 > 0:25:13the criticism was unfair.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16From Moscow, our sports editor Dan Roan reports on the challenges
0:25:16 > 0:25:18for the tournament.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Russia has a proud footballing heritage, but it had
0:25:22 > 0:25:23to wait to play host.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27Now, however, the first World Cup to be staged here is on the horizon.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29The countdown, reaching a crucial moment this week when the draw
0:25:29 > 0:25:31takes place in Moscow.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33The man in charge of organising the £9 billion showpiece,
0:25:33 > 0:25:37telling me today it would help improve his country's image.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40It will show a new Russia, it will show a democratic Russia.
0:25:40 > 0:25:46It will show how serious we are about our place
0:25:46 > 0:25:49in the world of football, how much effort we can invest
0:25:49 > 0:25:53into being a hospitable, welcoming nation.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55For a long while, it was uncertain whether Russia
0:25:55 > 0:25:592018 would even happen, given Fifa's corruption crisis.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02But it's on, and the fact that Friday's draw is happening
0:26:02 > 0:26:04here, at the Kremlin, underlines its political importance.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07But the build-up to this tournament has had to deal
0:26:07 > 0:26:09with a host of challenges, from concerns over racism,
0:26:09 > 0:26:14hooliganism and homophobia to a major doping scandal.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17Russia's on the brink of sporting isolation.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Next week, the country could be banned from the Winter Olympics
0:26:19 > 0:26:22for a conspiracy that has seen a host of athletes
0:26:22 > 0:26:24stripped of their medals.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Three more were sanctioned today.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29World Cup chairman Vitaly Mutko's denied allegations linking
0:26:29 > 0:26:32him to the scandal, but the questions keep coming.
0:26:32 > 0:26:33Deputy Prime Minister, BBC.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Is it a shame that this event could be overshadowed
0:26:36 > 0:26:40by the controversy over anti-doping?
0:26:40 > 0:26:43TRANSLATION:It is a huge disappointment that we have to pay
0:26:43 > 0:26:45so much attention to such problems.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47The same situation happened with the Sochi Olympics.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51Now it's happening again, right before the World Cup.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53We are building infrastructure for the games and that is seen
0:26:53 > 0:26:56as a bad thing because they say it's expensive, full of corruption,
0:26:56 > 0:26:59human rights abuse.
0:26:59 > 0:27:00But we're doing this for the development
0:27:00 > 0:27:05of football and our country.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08The shocking violence that marred Euro 2017 saw Russian hooligans go
0:27:08 > 0:27:11on the rampage in Marseille.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13England fan Stewart Gray was so badly beaten
0:27:13 > 0:27:14he ended up in a coma.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18His brother, Neil, told us the suspects have evaded justice.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21The message that the Russian authorities have tried to tell us
0:27:21 > 0:27:24is that it will be safe to travel to next year's World Cup
0:27:24 > 0:27:26for any football fan, from anywhere around the world.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30But how can it be when we have four individuals that are wanted for two
0:27:30 > 0:27:32extremely serious crimes just at large on the streets, possibly
0:27:32 > 0:27:36intent on causing further trouble?
0:27:36 > 0:27:38Russian authorities claim a crackdown on hooligans
0:27:38 > 0:27:40has proved effective.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42This week's match here between arch rivals Spartak Moscow
0:27:42 > 0:27:47and Zenit St Petersburg, for instance, passed off peacefully.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49The policing of the visits of both Liverpool and Manchester United
0:27:49 > 0:27:53in the Champions League in September was also hailed a success.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56Everyone who comes to Russia will want to be sure that it comes
0:27:56 > 0:27:57in a secure environment, and the environment
0:27:57 > 0:28:01is and will be secure.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03The authorities are putting 200% of their efforts to make
0:28:03 > 0:28:08sure that this happens and this will happen.
0:28:08 > 0:28:12A dress rehearsal earlier for Friday's glittering draw ceremony.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14The teams competing for football's greatest prize
0:28:14 > 0:28:16are about to take centre stage.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19But the focus will remain on Russia's suitability to play host.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Dan Roan, BBC News, Moscow.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26The Shipping Forecast, a notable feature of BBC Radio 4,
0:28:26 > 0:28:29is celebrating its 150th anniversary tomorrow - and it's believed to be
0:28:29 > 0:28:34the longest-running weather forecast of its kind in the world.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36It provides weather reports and forecasts for the seas around
0:28:36 > 0:28:39the coasts of the United Kingdom, and is produced by the Met Office
0:28:39 > 0:28:43on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46This year marks 80 years since the BBC began broadcasting
0:28:46 > 0:28:48the Shipping Forecast, and our weather presenter
0:28:48 > 0:28:51Sarah Keith-Lucas reports.
0:28:54 > 0:28:55There's a chance that leaving those seasickness pills
0:28:55 > 0:28:58at home was a mistake.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00The weather impacts the power of the ocean...
0:29:00 > 0:29:03The shipping forecast for the next 12 hours.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06A disturbance near the Hebrides...
0:29:06 > 0:29:09And after a major storm back in the mid 19th century that led
0:29:09 > 0:29:12to hundreds of deaths and the loss of dozens of ships, the Shipping
0:29:12 > 0:29:16Forecast was introduced.
0:29:16 > 0:29:19Like then, today the forecast is a vital tool that saves lives
0:29:19 > 0:29:22at sea, and the RNLI say that forward planning is the key
0:29:22 > 0:29:26to safety on the water.
0:29:26 > 0:29:29We want people to respect the water as much as possible.
0:29:29 > 0:29:31It's particularly important for small boats and for
0:29:31 > 0:29:36vessels who may not have computerised apps available.
0:29:36 > 0:29:37The traditional use of the Shipping Forecast
0:29:37 > 0:29:43through the radio is what they have as their forecasting model.
0:29:43 > 0:29:44That crucial forecast data is produced daily,
0:29:44 > 0:29:48here at the Met Office.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50There was just a feeling that there was too much
0:29:50 > 0:29:51risk of loss of life.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54Catherine Ross, the chief archivist, showed me the very first weather
0:29:54 > 0:29:56charts from 150 years ago.
0:29:56 > 0:29:58What they did, rather cleverly, was basically put pins
0:29:58 > 0:30:01through the paper, and so you can kind of see just about these
0:30:01 > 0:30:03little pinpricks here, and that meant they were always
0:30:03 > 0:30:07plotting the same information in the same place.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10And you can see how they changed from having no maps to very detailed
0:30:10 > 0:30:14maps, and it was known as the storm warning service to start with,
0:30:14 > 0:30:17but it became known as the iconic Shipping Forecast.
0:30:17 > 0:30:19Before radio broadcasts, storm warnings were communicated
0:30:19 > 0:30:24by using drums and cones hoisted up masts.
0:30:24 > 0:30:27It is a complex job to forecast accurately what the weather will do.
0:30:27 > 0:30:30And, of course, technology has dramatically changed over the years.
0:30:30 > 0:30:33They've even got computers to do some of the figuring out.
0:30:33 > 0:30:35Computers were first used in weather forecasting in the 50s,
0:30:35 > 0:30:39had have become much more sophisticated ever since.
0:30:39 > 0:30:43Humber, west or south west, five or six, occasionally four later.
0:30:43 > 0:30:49The Shipping Forecast is not just for mariners,
0:30:49 > 0:30:52but it's also listened to by hundreds of thousands of us
0:30:52 > 0:30:53every day on Radio 4.
0:30:53 > 0:30:54South west, five to seven.
0:30:54 > 0:30:55Occasional rain, good, occasionally moderate.
0:30:55 > 0:31:01And that's a flavour of the bulletin which is broadcast four times a day.
0:31:01 > 0:31:05However you get your Shipping Forecast, it is still essential,
0:31:05 > 0:31:07and its melodic and rhythmic qualities mean it remains an iconic
0:31:07 > 0:31:11sound of British radio.
0:31:11 > 0:31:13Sarah Keith-Lucas, BBC News.
0:31:13 > 0:31:17Moderate or fresh, extensive fog.
0:31:19 > 0:31:20Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two.
0:31:20 > 0:31:21Here's Evan.