08/01/2018 BBC News at Ten

The Prime Minister shuffles the deck

in her Cabinet

though most of the top jobs

remain unchanged.

The Education Secretary Justine

Greening quits though as she turns

down a move to Work and Pensions.

Former junior minister in that

department, Esther Mcvey,

walks into the job instead.

Rather than tightening he Theresa

May's grip around Westminster, the

reshuffle's not gone quite according

to plan.

We'll be looking at

who's in and who's out.

Also tonight...

The three-year-old Syrian child

pulled from the rubble

with her life but nothing else.

We report from an area under siege

for over four years.

The couple convicted of plotting

a devastating Christmas terror

attack in the UK

inspired by so-called IS.

Life's a daily struggle

for an education, health care,

The BBC's China Editor Carrie Gracie

quits her role in a dispute

about equal pay -

accusing the corporation

of breaking the law.

Fears of an environmental disaster

as a tanker continues

to burn and leak oil

into the East China sea.

And a new meaning

to the FA Cup replay -

with the first

video assistant referee.

Coming up on Sportsday later

in the hour on BBC News,

the last of the FA Cup third round

ties between Brighton and Crystal

Palace and details of

the fourth round draw.

Good evening.

The Prime Minister has been carrying

out a reshuffle of her Cabinet

with a few new faces

but the big beasts

mostly staying in post.

The Education Secretary

Justine Greening has quit

after refusing to move

to the Department for Work

and Pensions, a previous junior

minister in the department,

Esther McVey, has stepped

into the role instead.

The Immigration Minister,

Brandon Lewis, has been named

as the new Conservative Party

Chairman

while Jeremy Hunt continues

as Health Secretary

but has been given an expanded

role including social care.

Our political editor

Laura Kuenssberg's report

contains flashing images.

Are you confident of staying in

Government?

Two-and-a-half hours to

say I quit. The then Education

Secretary Justine Greening rushed

into Number Ten after 5.00pm. The

Prime Minister told her she wanted

to move her to look after welfare.

But after fraught discussions

between the two, Miss Greening said,

I'm off, dashing into the night

after more than six years in the

Cabinet. Justine Greening told the

BBC:

One of her frustrations to have a

move forced on her when others who

seemed likely to be shifted did not.

Are you in line for a new job? The

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt

followed by the Business Secretary

Greg Clark arrived at Number Ten but

both stayed until well after dark

emerging with virtually the same

jobs. The Health Secretary was, I

understand, told he was to move to

business but won the argument to

stay. Promotions for others did go

according to plan. Are you pleased

with your promotion minister

Delighted.

The new Culture Secretary

Matt Hancock skipping out of Number

Ten replacing Karen Bradley who's

off to the Northern Ireland Office.

Are you happy with the promotion?

Damian Hynes fills the gap at

education. When the Cabinet moose

tomorrow, there will be some new

faces at the table. But this was

what Theresa May really wanted you

to see. Will this broaden the

party's appeal? New faces to reboot

the Tory machine after its bungled

election campaign.

Honoured, looking

forward to getting on with the job.

A new chair and bigger team

appointed by Number Ten to take

charge at Tory HQ.

I've been asked

to lead a great party. Great teem,

grate volunteers and professionals.

We've a fantastic team. Really,

really looking forward to this.

Do

you think you can deliver the things

the Prime Minister wants?

Absolutely. Such a positive move.

Absolutely. We're ready for it.

There are always challenges, but

we're up to it.

You may not have

seen Tory HQ or seen some of the new

faces but this reshuffle's about

rebooting this party as well as

what's happening in Government. So

no huge new group of passengers for

the shiny ministerial cars. The

biggest names in Government stay the

same. Are you expecting to stay in

post Mr Johnson? The Foreign

Secretary, the Chancellor, the

Brexit Secretary and the Home

Secretary all keep their jobs. With

one Downing Street resident most

certainly determined not to budge.

What does this reshuffle tell us

about the state of play

in the government?

For months, Theresa May's been

mulling over the timing of this

reshuffle, should she actor wait.

Finally, today, she felt daring

enough to do it. It has not gone

entirely to plan. Of three of the

ministers she wanted to move, one of

them quit in protest. One pervaded

her to let them stay on and one

wasn't even asked to shift in the

end. Tomorrow, Number Ten is

promising we'll see junior ministers

coming forward. Many more ethnic

minority Tory MPs coming in. Many

more women coming into Cabinet.

Tonight, as things stand, two more

women will be attending the Cabinet.

Ten instead of eight. But there

won't are more full members. The

Cabinet doesn't really look very

different. The demographics have

stayed pretty much the same even

though part of the job of this

reshuffle was to show the Tory Party

more like the country they are

trying to govern. In Justine

Greening's departure, Theresa May's

lost an experienced minister in the

Cabinet since 2011. A Northern MP

who represents a London marginal.

Somebody, who as a strong remainer,

could well join that feisty group of

former ministers on the backbenches

who have been in some circumstances

making Theresa May's life rather

difficult. So, this has not gone

entirely to Number Ten's script.

Remember though, this was never

going to be a dramatic reshuffle.

The big names would always stay

untouched. Remember too, each Prime

Minister's at the peak of their

powers often find reshuffles end up

with a bit of a foulup because at

the end the day, just as today,

their colleagues don't always want

to cooperate. In terms of this being

a glorious return to the new year

after the tumultuous events of 2017,

this has not been an easy day for

Theresa May. Day two of the

reshuffle, Number Ten will hope that

goes more smoothly.

Syrian government forces,

backed by Russia,

have targeted ten hospitals in

northern Syria over the last ten

days according to

sources on the ground.

The British-based Syrian Observatory

for Human Rights says 126 people

have died in less than two weeks.

For nearly four-and-a-half years the

rebel stronghold of Eastern Ghouta

in the suburbs of Syrian capital

Damascus has been under siege.

The area's faced intensive bombing

and thousands are malnourished.

A plan to evacuate more than 400

of the most gravely ill collapsed

when fighting resumed.

Only 29 made it out for treatment.

Our Middle East correspondent

Quentin Sommerville has this report

which includes some

distressing images.

After almost seven years of war, the

Syrian regime knows how to break

people. In rebel-held eastern

Ghouta, regime bombs brought down

this building. Child after child is

brought out by the British-backed

rescuers, the White Helmets

brought out by the British-backed

rescuers, the White Helmets. With

bear hands, bloodied with effort,

they crawl through the collapse add

floors of the building. A hand

reaches out to this three-year-old.

She's safe but she's lost almost

everything. Her parents and four

brothers died here. These are regime

air strikes. Eastern Ghouta is close

enough for the rebels to harass the

capital Damascus. For more than 1600

days, the regime's laid siege to

them. One child in ten here is

malnourished. Amar is 13 months old

and has known only hunger since even

before she was born.

TRANSLATION:

She looked like this

since she was born. I couldn't eat

well when I was pregnant. She's

malnourished. She needs eggs and

milk. She's been crying for the

entire day today. The doctor says

she needs newt Ricks food.

There is

food in Ghouta but not on these

shelves. Prices of sugar, rice and

other basics have more than

quadrupled. The poorest suffer

because of the siege and rebel

pro-tearing. This is the worst

malnutrition Syria's seen since the

war began. Had And there's little

the doctors can do. The UN asked 500

of the most urgent medical cases,

including dozens of children, be

freed from the siege. But only 29

were allowed out S

They are watching

their child while he's suffering.

Maybe he will die. We can't help

them. They ask us to help them but

we tell them to wait. They are

waiting for evacuation or they are

waiting death.

Blockades and bombardments shatter

resolve. The regime in Syria uses

them mothers I willessly.

It wants

the world to believe it is close to

victory. But, despite the suffering,

eastern Ghouta on Bashar al-Assad's

doorstep is not broken.

A couple who met on an internet

dating website have been convicted

of planning a devastating

Christmas terror attack a year ago

inspired by so called Islamic State.

Munir Mohammed, an asylum seeker

from Sudan who was living in Derby,

had stored up bomb-making components

with the help of his girlfriend,

a pharmacist.

The court heard the pair were also

researching how to make

the deadly poison, ricin.

Our Home Affairs Correspondent,

June Kelly reports.

This is a story which stretches

to the streets of Sudan.

The couple now convicted

both had roots here,

but they linked up thousands

of miles away in the UK.

Munir Mohammed entered Britain

illegally and then sought asylum.

A couple of years later,

although married, he went

on a Muslim dating site,

singlemuslim.com, and found

his partner in crime.

He was attracted

to Rowaida El-Hassan

because she was a pharmacist.

He needed her scientific know-how

to mount a terror attack.

They were both wedded

to an extremist ideology.

They began sharing

IS execution videos.

Together, the couple plotted

a terror outrage in the UK

in the run-up to Christmas 2016.

Munir Mohammed would carry it out.

He was living in a bedsit in Derby.

Described as a bedroom jihadi,

here, over the internet,

he took instructions from a man

believed to be an IS commander,

and told him "I'm ready".

Munir Mohammed had been

picked up on CCTV in Asda.

He was shopping for everyday items

containing chemicals

he needed for his bomb,

all the time being guided over

the phone by his girlfriend

using her pharmacy experience.

In his bedsit, officers found

bomb-making components

and instructions on how to use

mobile phone detonators

and the poison ricin.

His IS commander had posted

an instruction on Facebook

which read "Place poison in food

like fruit and vegetables in markets

or inject poison in drinks and foods

that are prohibited in Islam".

At that time, Munir Mohammed

was working here at Kerry Foods

in Burton-on-Trent.

He was in the kitchens,

making sauces for ready meals that

are sold in Tesco and Morrison's.

Using fake ID with someone else's

name, he got the job through the GI

Recruitment Company.

Munir Mohammed was

planning a bomb attack.

There was no evidence

he ever had any poison.

But detectives say that

because of his interest in ricin

and his support for IS,

he did pose a threat

to this factory.

He certainly was a risk.

Had that food company known or had

we known of his interest in ricin

and his link to that food company,

we would have taken steps to protect

the public and to prevent him

from continuing

that employment there.

Kerry Foods, a global brand,

told us:

We take every possible measure to

ensure the safety and integrity of

products manufactured

at our facilities.

The GI Recruitment Company

which gave Mohammed

the job here said...

Our candidate vetting procedures

are rigorous and exceed

Home Office guidelines.

They had no idea the man they

recruited was also a recruit to IS.

This couple was stopped by

the police and security service MI5.

They will be sentenced next month.

June Kelly, BBC News.

Six people have been charged

with being members of the banned far

right group National Action.

The five men and one woman

were arrested last week

after raids in Cambridge,

Banbury, Wolverhampton,

Stockport and Leicester.

All six have been charged

under the terrorism act.

They'll appear at Westminster

Magistrates Court tomorrow.

A 17-year-old boy has pleaded guilty

to a string of acid attacks

on six moped riders in order

to steal their bikes.

Derryck John, from Croydon

in South London, appeared

at a North London court and admitted

targeting the riders last July.

He'll be sentenced in March.

The BBC journalist Carrie Gracie has

stepped down from her role as China

Editor because, she says, she

doesn't want to collude in a failing

pay structure which discriminates

against women.

In an open letter addressed

to licence fee payers,

Ms Gracie accuses the corporation

of breaking the law on equal pay

and failing to live up

to its values of trust,

honesty and accountability.

The BBC says an independent audit

of rank and file staff

found "no systemic

discrimination against women".

Our Media Editor

Amol Rajan has more.

The Chinese once called

Chairman Mao the great helmsman.

Carrie Gracis is one of the most

respected international

editors of her generation.

For more than 30 years,

she has broadcast about

other people.

This time she is the

centre of the story.

Miss Gracie resigned

from her position as China editor

because she is paid less than men

who are also international editors.

This morning she presented

the Today Programme on Radio 4.

It's been very moving actually.

The news of her resignation leaked

out online last night.

Six months after the BBC was forced

to reveal the salaries of

some highly paid on air staff,

Miss Gracie has been infuriated

by the response to her grievance.

She was offered a pay

rise of £45,000 but

declined it, saying

equality is what she wants.

She wouldn't be drawn

on whether she wanted male

colleagues to take a pay cut.

When I started the China job,

I said I will only do this

job if I'm paid equally.

In July 2017, I discovered

the enormous gap

that the two men who were

international editors were earning

50% more, at least, than the two

women who were

international editors.

The BBC has completed two

of the three pay audits it announced

last year and found no

evidence of discrimination.

The final one will report

in a matter of weeks.

The corporation

declined to put anyone

up for an interview but,

in a statement they said...

The BBC talks about

a gender pay gap.

What I'm talking about is not

the gender pay gap,

where sometimes men and women

are in different roles,

which explains the

differences in pay.

What I'm talking about is pay

discrimination, which is

when men are paid more

for doing the same job,

or a job of equal value.

That is illegal.

There is tremendous anger among

many female staff at all

levels of this corporation.

Senior figures at the BBC say

they take this issue very, very

seriously but many

employees have found the

process of fighting for equal pay

completely unbearable.

The salience of this

story however arises from

its implications beyond this place

because it's happening in a climate

in which many women across several

industries say they have suffered

injustice and inequality

for far too long.

Where pay is shrouded

in secrecy or in some

complicated structure, it's

inevitable that it is going to be

bound up with biases or other types

of decisions being made which can't

be properly analysed or justified.

Pay transparency is absolutely key

because it will set out clearly why

an employer is choosing to pay

certain types of people certain

amounts of money.

Equal pay for equal work

is a legal requirement.

But who decides what equal work is?

Ultimately, it's

usually the employer.

This is what makes tackling

gender pay issues so

difficult because, obviously,

we will want people to be treated

equally and given equal

opportunities in the workplace but

employers also need

to have the capacity to offer

people flexible payments,

so bonuses and that kind of thing,

to reward and incentivise people

to do well in their job and

work hard.

The BBC's public ownership

and obligations means it

has to set unique standards

and face unique scrutiny.

With 200 formal complaints

and the possibility of

legal action, this

story will run and run.

Stars of stage and screen gathered

in Los Angeles last night

for the 75th Golden Globe Awards.

And almost all of them dressed

in black to show solidarity

with victims of the sexual

harassment scandal that has gripped

Hollywood in the last few months.

The night belonged to Oprah Winfrey

who received a standing ovation

when she used her acceptance speech

to pay tribute to all women

who had suffered abuse and assault.

From LA, James Cook reports.

The bright lights of Hollywood

are shining into dark corners,

exposing shameful secrets.

At the Golden Globes,

they turned the red carpet black

to demonstrate a determination

to force change.

There is no way I am ever

going to be in a room and be treated

in the way people have been treated

ever again, and not stand up and say

"I don't agree with that".

The whole reason why

that was able to take place,

like any abuse of power, is silence.

Meryl Streep was one of several

actresses who arrived

with an activist as her guest.

We're standing up together

and drawing a big black line

between yesterday and tomorrow,

and the way things used to be done,

the way business used to be done.

It's not going to be

that way any more.

It's important in our business

and it is important in any business

that people in power don't get

to bully people, and especially not

bully them in a sexual way

and get away with it.

Do you think the

industry is changing?

Yes, it'll have to.

There is no way it can't now.

Hurrah!

From the moment the ceremony

began, its tone was set.

Good evening, ladies

and remaining gentlemen.

And here are the all-male nominees.

Natalie Portman highlighted

the failure of the Golden Globes

to recognise female directors.

And star after star gave

voice to a movement now

known as Time's Up.

Oprah Winfrey led the charge.

For too long, women have not

been heard or believed,

if they dared to speak their truth

to the power of those men.

But their time is up.

The speech was so powerful that it

fuelled immediate speculation

of a run for president.

Their time is up!

This all began with the downfall

of a mogul who abused his power.

The spotlight is now

on Harvey Weinstein's accusers,

standing side by side.

We have a bit more of

an opportunity to lead nationally

and internationally,

so that everyone everywhere can work

safely, earn the same

money for the same work,

and we can finally put sexual

harassment in the way past where it

should have been a long time ago.

Is that happening?

It is happening.

Four months ago, you could not have

dreamed of a night like this.

The women of Hollywood and many of

the men said they will ensure this

is not just one night, not just a

moment but a process that will

continue.

It is an unprecedented show of

female solidarity. Does it mark a

turning point?

Determination is

there to ensure it does. That does

not mean it will be easy. A lot of

the structural power in Hollywood

still resides in the hands of old,

white men in terms of casting,

commissioning and so on. There has

been a significant shift in

attitude. Women are simply, they

say, and I am sure this is right to

not going to put up with this kind

of behaviour anymore. What is more

important is when they speak out the

presumption will be to believe them.

That is not all. There is practical

help which is being put in place as

well, including people who have been

sexually harassed or sexually

abused. The fund that has been set

up in Hollywood has raised millions

of dollars to support people not

just in this industry but in other

industries which might take legal

action. Coming back to it is that

determination again. Could you

really look at Oprah Winfrey last

night and those that support and so

you think they will put up with this

any longer? I don't think so.

Vauxhall is cutting another 250 jobs

at its Ellesmere Port

car plant in Cheshire.

The firm is now owned

by France's PSA Group.

The company announced the loss

of 400 jobs in October.

It says costs at Ellesmere plant

are higher than at other plants.

The former football coach

Barry Bennell has pleaded

guilty to seven offences

of child sexual assault.

The 63-year-old, who is now

known as Richard Jones,

admitted the charges before

the start of his trial

at Liverpool Crown Court.

The ex-Crewe coach is charged

with a total of 55 offences

between 1979 and 1991.

Our Sports Editor Dan Roan reports.

A successful former coach

of the 1980s, Barry Bennell worked

with some of the most promising

young footballers

in the north-west of England.

Youth team coach at Crewe Alexandra,

he also had links with

Manchester City and Stoke City.

This is Bennell speaking

to the BBC when at Crewe.

We do a lot of talking to them

as well as showing them the skills

and explaining the game to them.

But there's more to it than just

coming here one hour a week.

We need to give them homework.

But today at the start of his trial

here at Liverpool Crown Court,

Bennell admitted

preying on young boys.

Appearing via video link and wearing

a grey jumper, Bennell,

now known as Richard Jones,

admitted six counts of indecent

assault on two boys

aged between 11 and 14 at the time.

Judge Clement Goldstone QC

also lifted reporting restrictions

on a further charge

that the 63-year-old

had previously pleaded guilty to,

involving a third victim.

Bennell is pleading not guilty to 48

further charges, including 11 counts

of serious sexual assault.

All the charges relate to 11

complainants between 1979 and 1991.

The trial is expected

to last eight weeks.

This all comes as the FA

continues its year-long

investigation into historical

sexual abuse in English football,

with 285 suspects now identified.

Dan Roan, BBC News, Liverpool.

There are fears of an environmental

disaster in the East China Sea

as a tanker continues to leak oil,

two days after it hit a cargo ship.

Chinese officials say the vessel

is in danger of exploding.

One body has been recovered but 31

crew members are still missing.

The Sanchi had left port

in the Persian Gulf,

bringing 136,000 tonnes of oil east.

It passed through the Malacca

Straits and was heading up

the East China Sea to South Korea

when the collision happened.

Robin Brant reports from Shanghai.

Since Saturday night,

the fire has burned.

Dark black smoke feeding off

the cargo of almost a million

barrels of oil inside the Sanchi.

The intense heat and the threat

of an explosion is hampering

an already difficult search

and rescue operation.

It's not clear at this stage how

these two huge vessels collided.

The CF Crystal, carrying grain,

was damaged at its bow,

but all on board were rescued.

TRANSLATION:

The Chinese Government

takes maritime accidents like this

very seriously and has already

despatched many search

and rescue teams to the scene.

Shanghai's port is the busiest

in the world and the coastal waters

to the east of this city are vast.

But in the last decade China has had

eight reported collisions similar

to this involving foreign ships.

The Chinese authorities are leading

the search and rescue effort

but there is help from South Korea

and the United States.

The focus, though, is increasingly

turning to the environmental

threat to the ocean,

about 200 miles off the coast

of this city in that direction.

With a volume of oil on board this

has the potential to be the worst

spill of its kind since 1991.

If it sinks, then we're looking

at inimpact of seepage from this

light crude into the ocean

which could last many months

and that would mean exclusion zones

in terms of fishing around the area

and quite a big impact

on the local flora and fauna.

The last time a tanker lost oil

on this scale was the Prestige off

the coast of Spain in 2002.

But this time it's not the thick

black crude oil that's causing such

problems off the coast of China.

The Sanchi is carrying condensate,

a refined form of oil that is far

less dense but more explosive.

Described as a floating bomb,

the cargo can be odourless

and colourless which means the job

of trying to see the extent

of the spill and trying to contain

it is far more difficult.

Robin Brant, BBC news, Shanghai.

Cricket, and England captain

Joe Root got out of his hospital bed

where he was being treated

for dehydration to bat

but he couldn't save them

from defeat in the fifth Ashes test.

Australia won the series 4-0

after winning the last match

by an innings and a 123 runs

to retain the Ashes urn.

Andy Murray has undergone surgery

on a troublesome hip injury.

The 30-year-old withdrew

from the Australian Open and

went under the knife in Melbourne.

He says he hopes to be back in time

for this summer's Wimbledon.

English football took a step

into the unknown tonight.

A Video Assistant Referee was used

for the first time in a competitive

club match with Brighton hosting

Crystal Palace

in the FA Cup third round.

Richard Conway was at the game

to find out how it all works.

After over 150 years of relying

on their own judgment,

tonight help finally arrived

for the man in the middle.

A global experiment

with Video Assistant Referees

has been ongoing now

for nearly 18 months.

The FA Cup game between Brighton

and Crystal Palace was the first

time the system has been operational

in a competitive

English club fixture.

A video official based in this

operation centre on the outskirts

of London was in constant contact

with the on the pitch referee,

helping him to make the right calls.

This is designed to try and make

the game of football perfect,

it's designed to look at instances

where there is a clear

and obvious error.

In those cases, this will intervene.

We're not talking 50/50 decisions

where some people might

think it's a penalty,

some people won't.

If we have that type of situation

we stay with the on field decision.

The video assistant referee can only

be called upon in four

specified situations.

To decide if the goal should stand,

when awarded a penalty,

straight red card offences

and to clear up confusion

if the wrong there is punished.

Now, the referee can also come

here to the side of the pitch

if he wants to view different angles

on this monitor.

But there are those within the sport

who fear that the natural ebb

and flow of the game may be

disrupted, especially if multiple

viewings are needed.

They have been quite sensible

where they have drawn the line.

They have been quite sensible

in giving the referee the final say.

There will be one or two

things, I am sure, that

will need ironing out.

As it goes on, people become aware

of what really is important,

what needs referring

and what does not.

With all 15 cameras inside

Brighton's Stadium at his disposal,

the referee made full use

of the technology available to him.

Dale Stevens's opening goal

was checked by Andre Marriner

with his colleague monitoring

the game some 75 miles away.

A nod of the head signalling that

Brighton had taken the lead.

It finished 2-1 to Brighton but did

Glenn Murray handle the ball

when scoring?

The referee and his video

assistant decided it came off

his knee, a decision hotly

contested by Crystal Palace.

Technology may have arrived

in football but the

controversy is far from over.

Newsnight is coming up on BBC two.

Here on BBC One, it's time

for the news where you are.