25/01/2018 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten:

Building bridges in Davos

as Theresa May and Donald Trump hold

talks at the World Economic Forum.

The President flies in to join

the world's political and business

elite, predicting a "tremendous

increase" in trade

between the UK and USA.

And he moved to reject talk

of growing differences

between Britain and America -

not least on the global

terror threat.

I have tremendous respect

for the Prime Minister

and the job she's doing.

I think the feeling is mutual

from the standpoint

of liking each other a lot.

We had a great discussion today

and we continue to have that really

special relationsohp between the UK

and the United States.

Standing shoulder to shoulder

because we're facing the same

challenges across the world.

We'll have the latest from Davos

as plans are now being made

for a visit by President Trump

to the UK later this year.

Also tonight...

A rise in recorded crime in England

and Wales and the highest number

of killings and murders

for a decade.

The number of people sleeping rough

in England has increased

for the seventh year in a row.

The United Nations warns that one

and a half million people

are on the brink of famine in South

Sudan.

And a glimpse of the works of art

gathered by the greatest royal

collector in British history.

Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News,

the Manchester United manager

Jose Mourinho commits his future

of the club, signing a new deal that

will run until 2020.

Good evening.

President Trump - attending

the World Economic Forum in Davos -

has predicted a "tremendous

increase" in trade

between the UK and the USA.

He spoke after he held

talks with Theresa May

the President dismissed talk

of growing differences

between Britain and America,

not least on the global terror

threat.

Mr Trump's trade policies

and his America first approach

are under scrutiny at the gathering

of the world's political

and business elite.

Jon Sopel reports from Davos.

In a blur of rotor blades and snow

and an avalanche of expectation,

Donald Trump flew into Davos. Not

his natural environment.

It is

exciting to be here, we are happy to

be here.

The United States is doing

well. He came with the message, he

had come to spread peace and

prosperity. This is not Daniel into

the lion's den. Donald Trump and

Davos not exactly natural soul mates

but the World Economic Forum has

come to a virtual standstill. Mr

President, are you looking forward

to your meeting with Theresa May?

After their spat over the

anti-Muslim Britain first videos and

cancels trip to London they were

falling over themselves to be nice.

Problems in the relationship, A

false rumour said the president.

We

have had a great discussion. We are

on the same wavelength. I have every

respect. The Prime Minister and

myself have a great relationship,

although some people do not

necessarily believe that but I can

tell you I have tremendous respect

for the Prime Minister and the job

she's doing.

And the Prime Minister

beamed. We had a great discussion

today and we continue to have that

special relationship between the UK

and United States, standing shoulder

to shoulder because we face the same

challenges across the world and we

are working to do gather to defeat

those challenges.

Downing Street

confirmed officials are finalising

arrangements for a working visit to

the UK by Donald Trump later this

year but no mention of an invitation

for a state visit Theresa May

extended a year ago. This evening

the president had dinner with

business leaders, some more

important to Mr Trump personally

than others. The makers of aspirin.

I believe you take it? I do. I only

take one aspirin a day.

His purpose

of the trip to South America.

When I

decided to come to Davos I did not

think in terms of the leaders, I

think in terms of lots of people who

want to invest, lots of money and

they are coming back to the United

States, to America, and I thought of

it more in those terms.

Tomorrow

comes his keynote address. The

protectionist among the free

traders, the America first president

amid globalists. It might not be a

meeting of minds. But say it

quietly, Donald Trump seems to be

enjoying himself.

In a moment, we'll speak

to our political editor

Laura Kuenssberg at Westminster.

But first to Davos and our economics

editor Kamal Ahmed.

Can we pick up on the importance for

the UK of establishing a

comprehensive trade deal with the

USA?

I think today Theresa May had

to execute a delicate balancing act

between the politics and economics

of Donald Trump's time in Davos. The

politics might suggest a slight

coolness, we have the clash over

tweets about Britain first and

Muslim terror, and the fact the

president cancelled a possible trip

to London. Frankly this place is

about economic and the facts are

pretty brutal. Britain is...

Britain's biggest trading partner is

the European Union and of course

Theresa May is leaving the European

Union. The second largest trading

nation for Britain's exports is

America. The last thing Theresa May

wants is to be fighting trade

battles on two France, to the east

with the European Union and to the

west with America. Today she will

welcome mood music about the

possibility of a free-trade deal.

Let's not say she has got it over

the line, these deals take years.

Yes positive noise welcomed by the

government but these negotiations

are incredibly tough and will take

years and years to execute.

Many

thanks. Laura, we heard the

effusively words, the president met

the Prime Minister. The tone at

Westminster slightly different?

Almost as the flashbulbs were going

off as they met in Davos, another

war of words was breaking out at

Westminster over Brexit with the

Chancellor, who by chance happen to

be speaking in Davos, saying after

Brexit he was hopeful the two

economies, the EU and UK would only

be different in a modest way, and

that suggestion once we are out of

the EU, we will be tightly together,

was a red rag to many Brexit bulls,

very upset by the remarks by the

Chancellor on the night when a

leading voice of theirs, Jacob

Rees-Mogg, the leader of a powerful

group in the back benches, accused

the government of being cowed by the

EU, accusing them of somehow

managing to climb rather than grasp

the opportunities of Brexit, and yet

again we have the two sides of the

Tory party is slipping into a

damaging bust up. You might think so

what? We know the Tories are divided

on this issue, but it matters not

just because Theresa May has to

stick the sides together to deliver

a complicated project of taking is

out of the EU, but also because of

the level of grumpiness in the Tory

party has such a bearing on whether

or not she can manage the Tory party

at all. There has been a sour mood

at Westminster in the past

at Westminster in the past couple of

mutterings, someone suggesting today

it might be time for a regime

change. It is important to say the

majority of MPs and ministers think

they have little choice but to carry

on with Theresa May. Number 10

believes the fundamentals have not

changed but rather than enjoying the

Kodak moment with the American

president, Theresa May back home

tonight is dealing again with having

to confront divisions and discord in

her own political party.

Thank you.

There's been a sharp rise

in the number of serious violent

crimes and six offences recorded

by police in England and Wales.

And official figures show cases

of murder and manslaughter

are at their highest level

in almost a decade.

But a separate survey -

based on people's experiences rather

than official data

recorded by police -

suggests that overall

crime is continuing to fall.

Our home affairs correspondent

Tom Symonds reports.

Behind the statistics, wasted lives.

A decade after Meschak Cornelio

first tried out the bike he'd

been given as a present,

he became one of the four young

men stabbed to death

in London on New Year's Eve.

Leaving his father

confronting a nightmare.

The doctor said to me, Mr Cornelio,

sorry about Meschak.

When he came here...

A couple of minutes, he is dead.

So he came into hospital

and within a couple

of minutes, he was dead?

Yes.

He tells us in his native Portuguese

he has no idea why it happened,

what might have been

going on in Meschak's life.

TRANSLATION:

My advice

for other parents would be

to talk more to your kids.

Try to find out, even if you think

they have secrets away from home.

Today's figures set out the rise

in violent crime recorded by police.

Knife crime went up by 21%.

Knife crime went up by 21%.

Gun crime up by 20%.

Manslaughter and murder

went up by 10%.

Now the official survey of crime

shows the number of people who say

they have been a victim is falling

steadily, but police records

are seen as an accurate measure

of serious violent crime.

And despite schemes like these bins,

where knives can be handed

in no questions asked,

it is rising steadily.

He said, I didn't mean to kill him,

that wasn't my intention.

I just wanted to wet him up,

slash him, cut him across the arm,

take photos and uploaded

onto social media.

This is Alison Cope

and she is talking about

the murder of her own son.

Her audience - students

at Coventry College.

Josh Ribera was better known

as the grime artist Depzman

to his thousands of fans.

A single slash of a knife

took his life in 2013.

His eyes flicker, they

close, hits the floor.

It is a tough listen.

Alison tells them these

are the consequences but carrying

a knife is your choice.

She believes telling them not

to does not work and says

that is how the government's current

policy comes across.

They are standing up

and doing their token gesture.

It is not working.

How many young people have to die

for them to admit that

what we are doing is not correct?

True, government policy recently has

centred on enforcement.

Tough rules on knives,

tough policing, tough sentences.

But today ministers

appeared to signal a change

towards Alison's way.

We have to get to the root

causes and we have to work

as a society, government,

police, and civil society,

to try and get to the root of this

cultural issue and try to steer

young people away from violence.

But serious proposals for work

with young people are not

going to come cheap and,

by the way, police numbers

are now at their lowest

level for two decades.

Tom Symonds, BBC News

in the West Midlands.

A brief look at some of the day's

other other news stories...

Health officials in England say

the outbreak of winter flu

appears to have peaked.

Although the number of people

with the flu is still rising,

the rate of the increase

is slowing down.

Rates have also risen

in Wales but fallen slightly

in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Government league tables show more

than one in eight secondary schools

in England is now falling below

the minimum standard.

They're the first tables

since the introduction of new GCSEs

in Maths and English.

The Association of School

and College Leaders said

the new tables should not be

compared with previous years

because of complex changes

in the way schools are assessed.

The decision to release the serial

sex attacker John Worboys has led

to the Mayor of London lodging

an application for judicial review.

The Mayor said the Parole Board's

ruling to release Worboys "simply

could not go unchallenged".

The former taxi driver was jailed

for a minimum term of

eight years in 2009.

The Prime Minister says

she will continue to work to ensure

women are "accepted and respected

as equals" as the fallout

from the men-only charity dinner -

the Presidents Club -

continues.

An undercover reporter says women

employed as hostesses at the event

last week were groped

and sexually harassed.

Theresa May says it wasn't just

the event that worried her -

but what it said about the wider

issue in society and

attitudes to women,

as our correspondent

Sarah Campbell reports.

The invite was for men only,

a chance to network,

raise money for charity and interact

with more than 100 young

women, all told to wear

short, tight dresses.

The allegations of sexual harassment

have shocked many, but not,

it seems, women who have worked

at previous Presidents Club dinners.

One hostess who was employed at two

of the dinners in 2014 and 2015,

was so uncomfortable at the second

occasion that she refused

to work at the event again.

There were girls sat

on people's laps and, you know,

being fondled and groped,

and that was very early

on in the evening.

And the fact that we were hired

for entertainment, people thought

it was OK and that sort

of behaviour was permissible.

There are reports of the latest in a

six workers arrived at some point in

the evening, was that something you

were aware acting as attended?

Yes.

I can't confirm whether

they were sex workers,

but a group of women arrived around

midnight, and that was when the

party atmosphere really kicked off.

It was definitely people wanting

to enjoy themselves,

and these sex workers,

if they were sex workers,

turned up to facilitate that.

The repercussions for those who

attended the dinner have continued.

Nadhim Zahawi, the Minister

for Children and Families,

was reprimanded by his party.

He says he left early

because he felt uncomfortable

and has condemned what he described

as the horrific events reported

by the Financial Times.

The Labour peer Lord Mendelsohn said

he hadn't witnessed anything

untoward at the dinner,

but tonight agreed to step back

from the Labour Party front bench.

This is Moni Varma,

one of many attendees

unsettled by what is now emerging,

having not been aware himself of any

inappropriate behaviour.

That doesn't mean things

couldn't have gone wrong.

It's too large a crowd.

Things could have gone wrong

and there's no justification.

If anybody felt uncomfortable,

if a young lady felt

uncomfortable, it's completely,

you know, unpardonable.

Today the Prime Minister

gave her reaction to

what's allegedly gone on.

Well, I'm not happy

with an event of that type

taking place.

I was appalled by

the reports I read.

What worries me is it's not

just about that event,

it's about what it says about this

wider issue in society, about

attitudes towards women.

We have made progress.

Sadly, I think that showed

we still have a lot more

progress to make.

Last week's dinner will be

the last, as the Presidents

Club has now closed,

but the event is being seen

as further evidence of how far women

still have to go to be treated

as equals in the world of work.

Sarah Campbell, BBC News.

The number of people sleeping rough

in England has increased

for the seventh year in a row.

Official figures show nearly 5000

people were sleeping

on the streets last year.

That's an increase of 15%

on the previous year.

The figures are the highest

since current records began -

up 169% since 2010.

The government says it's investing

more than a billion pounds

to address the issue.

Our social affairs correspondent

Michael Buchanan has been

looking at the problem,

and potential solutions.

Freezing cold, shivering,

rain battering down on you.

They kick you, punch you and chuck

bricks at you while you are asleep.

They think it's fun.

I don't think it's fun.

I learnt the hard way

it can happen to any

of us at any given time.

Rough sleepers have long

been visible in London,

probably always will be,

but the rising numbers has

made the problem visible

in many more places.

Milton Keynes is a new town

dealing with a new problem.

Within metres of the station

is Tony, he is 72.

He was evicted from his

flat last February.

He won't say why.

Every time I wake up,

I class it as a bonus,

it's another day I have got

to get through.

The town is struggling to

accommodate its residents, despite

some of its homeless having jobs.

I've paid for my mortgage,

paid for my daughter's

nursery fees and absolutely right

after Christmas I've

got absolutely nothing.

Isaac is an assistant

project manager with

accountancy firm Deloitte.

A domestic incident left him

spending two freezing

nights in a garage.

He hasn't told his

employers he's homeless.

I go through the night sometimes

rough and I have to go

through the day without showing

that this is the situation

throughout the night.

I continued my journey

north, heading for Crewe.

Two years ago, there were officially

no rough sleepers in the area.

There are now 21.

I nursed my mother

for about 12 years.

In the last four years,

she got diagnosed with cancer

and she died, so I just lost it.

In a nearby car park,

an increasing phenomenon.

People homeless in their hometown.

Devastated.

To sit there on corners,

when people walk past who know you,

who you grew up with, and they look

down their nose at you.

Today's figures only apply

to England, but Scotland too has

a problem with rough sleeping,

so I'm heading to Glasgow now

to see their very different

approach to the problem.

This is the kitchen area.

This flat has been bought

specifically for a homeless man.

The initiative is

called Housing First.

The idea is to give every

rough sleeper in Glasgow

a home and a support worker.

If whoever ends up in this flat

struggles to cope and goes

back to rough sleeping,

we will hold this flat for them

for a period while we engage with

them while they are on the street.

Given Glasgow's needs,

the scheme won't be cheap,

but evidence from abroad suggests it

works and is far less

expensive than doing nothing.

It must be very dangerous to be

a woman on the street.

It is, it is, aye.

That's true, very true, dear.

Michael Buchanan, BBC News.

The United Nations is warning

that 1.5 million people

are on the brink of

famine in South Sudan,

with half the country facing

severe food shortages.

Armed conflict is fuelling

the crisis, many people

are unable to grow food

and dozens of aid workers

have been kidnapped

and murdered in recent months.

After years of civil war,

a peace deal was signed

three years ago

between South Sudan's

government and rebel fighters.

But it's been largely

ignored by both sides.

From Juba, our chief Africa

correspondent Anne Soy reports.

A troubled beginning

for the world's youngest nation.

Tens of thousands have been killed.

One in three here is

displaced, and now they face

the threat of famine.

The youngest suffer most.

This is the face of starvation.

Christine Jackson weighs half

as much as she should

at almost two years.

She's now on life-saving treatment,

but her father worries

that he won't be able

to feed her well when

they get discharged.

Jackson should be one of the better

off South Sudanese; he has

a full-time job and a farm,

but four years of civil

war and high inflation

have left him destitute,

and there are many

families like his.

The doctor in charge here tells me

this ward is always busy.

So roughly how many children

do you see in a month?

In a month we receive

around 80-100 cases.

Right, and that is just

in the capital, Juba.

This is the hospital that

takes care of children

from outside the capital,

and this ward, really, is the one

that takes care of the severely

malnourished children.

In Juba, one in ten children

has been found to be

severely malnourished,

but then the statistics are higher

outside the capital,

where life is way more difficult.

It is a harsh terrain and security

has resulted in the death of more

aid workers than anywhere else

in the world.

They are forced to use air

transport, particularly

in rebel controlled areas.

We are not heading in with much

food, and the violence has meant

that many of the farmers have

fled their farms and this

will occur through July,

when the next harvest begins

to come in.

So this is a crucial

time in South Sudan.

This is when we have do

save the lives of the children.

EXPLOSION.

After decades of civil war,

South Sudan gained independence

from its northern neighbour,

but its troubles were far from over.

Fighting broke out between

supporters of President Salva Kiir

and the now expelled former vice

president, Riek Machar.

A number of ceasefire deals have

been struck and broken -

sometimes in a matter of hours.

There was a peace process...

Was violated by them.

It was violated as soon

as it was signed...

It was violated by the Liberals.

-- the rebels.

By both the Liberals

and government were to blame.

No, because the rebels find

themselves like a spoiled child

and they can just do

anything they want.

With no end in sight

to the fighting, these people

are at the mercy of donors,

and the youngest generation

here suffers most.

Anne Soy, BBC News, Juba.

The former Labour cabinet

minister Tessa Jowell

has been given a very rare standing

ovation in parliament,

after making an emotional plea

for a greater range of cancer

treatments to be made

available on the NHS.

Baroness Jowell told peers

of her treatment for brain cancer

after her diagnosis last year,

as our correspondent

Helena Lee reports.

Baroness Jowell...

Hear, hear!

Thank you very much indeed...

In front of a captivated House,

Baroness Jowell said today was not

about politics but patience.

She spoke frankly about her own

cancer diagnosis last year.

I got into a taxi

but I couldn't speak.

I had two powerful seizures.

I was taken to hospital.

Two days later, I was told that

I had a brain tumour.

A glioblastoma multiforme, or GMB.

Today, she appealed on behalf

of all cancer patients

for new treatments to be made

available on the NHS.

The speeding up of clinical trials

and better medical cooperation.

They need to know that they have

a community around them,

supporting and caring,

being practical and kind,

while doctors look at the big

picture and we can all be a part

of the human sized picture.

Tonight, the Government agreed

to look at her suggestions

and at the end, she made

a final appeal.

What gives a life meaning is not

only how it is lived,

but how it draws to a close.

I hope that this debate

will give hope to other

cancer patients like me,

so that we can live well

together with cancer,

not just dying of it.

All of us, for longer.

Thank you.

APPLAUSE

Today's events in the House of

Lords. Moving scenes after that

speech by Baroness Jowell.

Researchers have identified

the remains of the earliest-known

modern humans to have left Africa.

A new dating of fossils found

in a cave on Mount Carmel

near Haifa in northern Israel,

indicates that they left Africa up

to 100,000 years earlier

than previously thought.

Our science correspondent

Pallab Ghosh has the details.

In the distant past, the first

of our kind evolved in Africa.

Our ancestors then left

the continent and spread

across the globe.

Just when and how that happened

is one of the biggest

questions in human evolution.

This fragment of a jawbone has

shattered the current theory.

It's rewritten the story of how

we emerged on this planet.

The jawbone was discovered,

along with stone tools,

in the Misliya Cave in northern

Israel.

A study, published in

the General Science,

shows that it's around

200,000 years old.

That's tens of thousands of years

older than scientists thought that

modern humans first left Africa.

I think that the whole biological

history of our own species should be

revised, because if we have modern

humans here in Israel

around 250,000 years,

it implies that the origin

of our species go back in time not

to 250,000 or 200,000 years ago

but probably much earlier,

to around half a million years.

Theories about how modern humans

first evolved and spread may

now have to be changed.

The previous view that our species

began to leave Africa 100,000 years

ago, but the new discovery in Israel

suggests it was much earlier,

possibly 250,000 years ago.

That means our species may have

lived alongside other kinds

of more primitive humans,

who lived outside of Africa

at the time, and that contact may

have helped to shape our culture

and the way we look.

It changes, really,

our understanding of the interaction

between other populations,

such as Neanderthals,

if we say that we have modern Homo

sapiens in our area in these dates.

We have to reconsider all our

knowledge regarding the environment,

the ecology, the culture

and our interbreeding

with other populations.

The current view is that we evolved

relatively recently,

just as other types

of humans were dying out.

But the new study suggests that

we're a more ancient species that

shared the planet with primitive

humans for tens of

thousands of years.

Pallab Ghosh, BBC News.

Tennis, and Kyle Edmund's brilliant

run at the Australian Open

came to an end this morning.

He was overpowered in his first-ever

grand slam semifinal

in straight sets.

The British number two

was beaten 6-2, 7-6,

6-2 by the sixth seed Marin Cilic.

Charles I was the greatest royal

collector of art in British history.

Among the masterpieces he acquired

were works by Van Dyke,

Rubens and Holbein.

A major exhibition,

opening this weekend,

brings together around 150

of his most important

paintings for the first time

since the 17th Century.

From the Royal Academy

in London our arts editor

Will Gompertz reports.

The show starts

by setting the scene.

We meet the main protagonist,

Charles I, King of England,

Scotland and Ireland from 1625-1649.

He had a great eye for art,

as did his Mrs, Henrietta Maria.

Both portraits were painted

by this fella, the Flemish

artist Anthony van Dyck,

who Charles I hired as his court

painter, or what we'd call nowadays

as his artist in residence.

He has two main focuses

for his collection.

That's Mantegna's Triumphs

of Caesar, by the way.

His first passion was for German,

Flemish and Dutch artists

of the Northern Renaissance,

hence we have this wonderwall

of Hans Holbein portraits,

at the end of which is this absolute

cracker of Robert Cheeseman,

the Royal Falconer.

His other great love was the artists

of the Italian High Renaissance,

people like Pisano and here,

people like Tintoretto, who painted

this dramatic, biblical scene.

In just two decades,

Charles and Henrietta amassed an art

collection to rival any court

in Europe, but it all came to a very

abrupt end when Charles has his head

chopped off and Oliver Cromwell

flogs the lot.

The collection was scattered

to the four winds, which is

the point of this exhibition.

The Royal Academy is uniting,

for the first time since 1649,

as many of those famous artworks

as it possibly can, including this

hunting portrait of Charles I,

which is now owned by the Louvre.

In a way, this exhibition

is a tragedy, a story

of what could have been.

Great masterpieces which were once

owned by this country

but are now owned by others.

Take this wall of

Titians, for example.

The one on the left now belongs

to the Prado in Madrid and the other

two are the Louvre's in Paris.

Still, that's the nature

of things, I suppose.

But this exhibition

does make you wonder...

What if Charles I hadn't

lost his head and continued

to collect at the same sort of rate?

Britain would own, surely,

the greatest collection

of Renaissance art in the world.

Mind you, he probably would have

bankrupted the country.

Will Gompertz, BBC News,

the Royal Academy.

That's