01/02/2018 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten: An act of terrorism

- the man who deliberately drove

a van into a crowd of Muslims

in North London is found guilty

of murder and attempted murder.

Darren Osborne carried out

the Finsbury Park attack last

June, killing one man

and injuring several others.

Radicalised online within weeks,

he wanted to kill as many

Muslims as possible -

and waved as he was arrested.

The online material played

a significant role in relation

to his mindset and how

he was radicalised.

He'll be sentenced tomorrow.

Also on tonight's programme.

The government and Brussels

are in dispute over the rights of EU

citizens to live and work

in Britain after Brexit.

The Prime Minister holds talks

with the Chinese President -

they discuss trade, the environment,

and North Korea.

Human rights was also on the agenda.

We have a report from China's

troubled western region,

where a security crackdown

is under way.

China is building a total

surveillance state.

It's a place where saying, doing,

or even thinking the wrong thing,

can get you locked up

in an internment camp.

A warning from England's Chief

Inspector of Schools -

some parents and religious leaders

are trying to "actively

pervert" education.

We're the Nigerian

women's bobsleigh team.

And making history -

Africa's first bobsleigh team

to compete in the Winter Olympics.

And coming up on

Sportsday on BBC News:

28 Russian athletes get their

Olympic life bans overturned,

but what does that mean

for the fight against doping?

Good evening.

A man who deliberately drove a van

into a group of people near a mosque

in North London to try to kill

as many Muslims as he could has been

found guilty of murder

and attempted murder.

Darren Osborne, from Cardiff,

killed Makram Ali, who was 51,

and injured several others

in an act of terrorism.

He was described as a loner who'd

become obsessed with Muslims

after watching a TV drama

and looking at far-right

groups online.

Our home affairs correspondent

Daniel Sandford reports.

It was an act of terror.

A large van, its engine revving,

smashing into a group of Muslims

on a summer night during Ramadan.

Those he injured,

terrified that the driver

was going to attack again.

There's a few people who were really

badly hurt and couldn't move.

I thought he was going to kill us.

What did you think he was

going to kill you with?

Maybe a gun, maybe a knife.

This, a 999 call made at the time.

The driver was brought

to the ground by the angry crowd.

The local imam urging

them not to hurt him.

Everyone back!

When police arrested Darren Osborne,

he waved as he was taken away.

Part and parcel of

living in a big city.

Later at the police station,

he ranted about previous

terror attacks on Muslims,

saying, "Have some of that,

have some of your own.

At least I had a proper go."

At almost exactly that time,

51-year-old Makram Ali

was declared dead at the scene.

He'd been crushed by the van.

Darren Osborne was born

in Singapore, but grew up

in Weston-Super-Mare,

where friends remember

a violent young man.

He'd just stand like that and stick

a glass in your face.

He did that numerous times.

Osborne moved here to Cardiff

with his partner and children,

but the relationship was failing

and recently he'd

tried to kill himself.

His rapid route to murderous hate

only began last May,

with a BBC docudrama

about a Pakistani grooming

gang in Rochdale.

I buy you things and

you give me things.

His rage was further fuelled

by last year's attacks

in London and Manchester.

In the fortnight before his attack,

he started following this man,

Tommy Robinson, and other anti-Islam

activists on social media.

Osborne received a group e-mail

in Robinson's name saying,

"There's a nation within a nation

forming beneath

the surface of the UK.

It's a nation built on hatred,

on violence and on Islam."

Detectives believe material

like this had had a powerful

effect on Osborne.

The people around him

described it as having

a major impact on him,

brainwashing him, and as a result

we believe that was, if you like,

part of the main driver for why

he carried out this attack.

But Tommy Robinson accepts

no responsibility.

You don't think that there's

a chance that somehow

the way you were talking

about that was inflaming

hatred and driving people

like Darren Osborne to violence?

No, not at all.

Zero chance.

On Saturday, June 17th,

Darren Osborne decided to act

and went to hire a large box van.

And that evening he was recorded

in a pub in Cardiff,

writing a hate-filled note later

found by police in the van.

It caught my attention

when he shouted...

Callum Spence was in the pub

that night and remembers

what Osborne said to him.

Terrorists are all bad,

you know, I want to kill

terrorists and Muslims.

I'm going to take things

into my own hands.

Things like that.

The next day, Osborne

drove to London.

His original target,

this pro-Palestinian march,

where he says he hoped to kill

as many Muslims as possible

and Jeremy Corbyn.

But road closures meant

he couldn't get near,

so he ended up in Finsbury Park

looking for a mosque.

Just after midnight he came down

the Seven Sisters Road,

swerving across the bus lane

at speed, and impacting the group

of worshippers just here.

His foot hard down

on the accelerator.

He ran three people down,

knocking several more to the side,

and then smashed into the bollards

at the end of the street.

His radicalisation complete,

he had achieved his aim - to kill.

Mohammed Mahmoud, the imam

who saved Osborne that night,

says his congregation

were left fearful.

It left people wondering,

would there be more, what next?

If a car can be turned

into a weapon and cause multiple

casualties in one go,

in an instant, then could this be

expected again in the future?

The jury rejected Darren Osborne's

bizarre excuse that a mysterious man

called Dave was driving at the time

of the attacks and vanished,

and he now joins the growing list

of white, far-right terrorists

in Britain's prisons.

Daniel is in Finsbury Park,

near the scene of the attack now.

One of striking element of this

case is just how quickly

Darren Osborne was radicalised.

Yes, Darren Osborne went from being

a functioning alcoholic with a

history of violence, to a terrorist

with a cause, who mowed down a group

of Muslims in this street in about a

month. His partner doesn't remember

him having any interesting race or

religious issues until he watched

that Three Girls docudrama. Then he

joined Twitter and two weeks after

that he was driving to London with

the intention, as he put it, to kill

as many Muslims as possible. When he

was writing that note in the pub the

night before the attack, and when he

was talking to police officers in

the van in the hour after the attack

and even when he was giving evidence

in court this week, it was striking

how similar the seams and language

that he was using Word to the themes

and language being used by those

anti-Islam activists that he was

following online. Even some tweets

that they posted on the day before

the attack. A focus on a particular

councillor in the Rochdale grooming

scandal, a focus on the words Sadiq

Khan used on the London Bridge

attack, on the al-Quds March, a

fairly obscure march, a focus on the

don't look back in anger song being

used after the Manchester attack, in

the month they got into his head and

had given him a reason to kill.

Watching him in court this week the

only thing he regrets about the

whole affair is that he didn't kill

many more.

Daniel Sandford, thank

you.

The Prime Minister has held talks

with China's President

Xi Jinping in Beijing.

On the second day of her trade

mission, Theresa May said

she hoped her visit would strengthen

the "global strategic partnership"

between the UK and China.

The two leaders also

discussed North Korea,

protecting the environment,

and human rights.

From Beijing, here's our political

editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

Watch what I do,

not what others say.

Theresa May wants you to judge her

actions, not her critics' words.

Taking tea with her husband

and one of the most

powerful men in the world.

Lapsang Souchong, no less.

Maybe that's what they

drink in Number Ten.

Her journey of thousands of miles

has been for more than a cup of tea,

but a shake on billions' worth

of business deals.

Despite frank talk on Hong Kong

and North Korea too.

I've been pleased to bring a very

large business delegation here.

We've had a very successful visit.

The convoy held up the traffic,

a big charm offensive to help

business sign on the dotted line.

A Brexit-friendly diplomatic visit,

complete with bags.

There's a real success story here.

We've signed agreements

on financial services.

BP have signed a £750 million deal.

One of the biggest Chinese

e-commerce sellers has signed a deal

to sell £2 billion worth of UK goods

over the next two years.

All of this adds up.

We've got to get away in Britain

from our obsession with Europe

in terms of its relation

to the global economy.

Is that enough to make our economy

roar after we leave the EU?

There's menace at home from those

who believe are too timid,

too slow to decide.

What do you say to colleagues

who are frustrated either

because they think Theresa May

is backsliding on Brexit

or they think because she's

somehow a hostage to people

on the other side?

Well, I heard some of these

arguments back in December -

"we'll never get a deal on how

we move forward".

Then we did get a deal.

And now I hear people saying, well,

we'll not get an agreement

on our trading relationship.

Yes, we will get an agreement

on that and we've got to see that

against the Government's wider

programme of Britain's relationship

with the rest of the world.

People have doubts about her ability

too though, don't they?

What do you say to those people?

When I've been talking

to Chinese leaders here,

they're looking at performance.

They're looking to see

what the UK is doing,

and they look at the Prime Minister

in a different way than some of,

let's say, the internal tea room

discussions in the UK do.

Some of your colleagues

are too obsessed with

themselves, do you think?

Too obsessed with Westminster?

I think in Britain there's always

a tendency to focus on Britain.

Inside Europe, there's

a tendency to focus on Europe.

Both should be focusing on the big

world that's outside.

But while Mr and Mrs May were

roaming Beijing's Forbidden City,

someone who was a crucial part

of the Tory empire was urging those

MPs to make her listen.

The Conservative Party must offer

to the country a big

plan for the future.

Big ideas, big vision.

Whether it's transforming schools

in the north of England or a plan

to engage with the rest

of the world, like China,

or indeed a form of Brexit

which is not as economically

damaging as some of the forms

being proposed, I would humbly

suggest that's what's required.

It suits the Prime Minister's allies

to present the ructions at home

as parochial difficulties or a few

petty disputes, but the divisions

matter because before too long

she has to make big decisions that

will shape all our futures

and Britain's place in the world.

With plenty of others competing

to drive, the back seat

is getting pretty crowded.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Beijing.

Meanwhile the Prime Minister has

signalled that she will fight

a demand by the European Union that

EU citizens who move to the UK

during the transition period

after Brexit in March next year

will still be given

full residency rights.

Theresa May argues that there has

to be a difference between those

arriving after the UK leaves

and those who came before.

Here's our home

editor, Mark Easton.

EU migrants arriving in the UK today

enjoy all the rights of free

movement, but what will happen

after Brexit Day in March next year?

The Prime Minister says

that moment should

mark a real change -

new EU

migrants should no longer be

guaranteed their right to live

in Britain.

They will be treated properly,

we will not do anything

that will undermine our economy.

The plan is opposed

by EU negotiators,

but was greeted enthusiastically by

the most vocal supporters of Brexit.

We will have left the European Union

and the EU can't expect the same

provisions to prevail

after we've gone.

The UK proposal applies to the

hundreds of thousands of EU migrants

expected to arrive during

the so-called transition phase that

follows Brexit in March 2019.

Now, during that

period, they will have

to register with the Home Office,

but they won't necessarily know

what rights they will have

at the end of transition

some time in 2021.

Today, in Brussels,

EU citizens living

in the UK were telling

the

European Parliament

they didn't want to be

bargaining chips in

the

negotiations and were alarmed that

future migrants were having their

rights traded away in Brexit talks.

If I was living still

in the Netherlands, where I'm from,

and I would want to move to the UK,

I would wait.

Just wait until everything is clear.

Because at the moment

there is still nothing agreed.

Time is ticking and we are in

the front line, as EU nationals, of

this Brexit saga.

After transition, EU migrants

will have to apply to

stay in the UK, but the details

of how that will work are not

finalised.

There's uncertainty about what that

means for those who no

longer qualify - will they be

deported and what will the rights

be for those that are successful?

Will they go to bed on the last day

of transition with a certain set of

rights and wake up in the morning

with something very different?

For employers like

the NHS, the prospect

of EU migration falling further has

led to concerns about their ability

to recruit skilled nurses.

I think if you're a nurse

in an EU country,

in France or Germany, you're not

going to want to come to this

country and put down roots,

because it's uncertain.

Therefore, we won't have

the workforce, with our

current vacancy rate of 40,000, to

look after the needs of our

people here.

For some though, more important

is for Britain to control

who is allowed in to

work for the NHS.

Let's decide to have more people

from the European Union to

come and work in the

NHS, by all means.

But let us decide that for

ourselves, don't let's be dictated

to by the European Union

after we've left.

The politics of Brexit means

the Prime Minister is looking for

ways to demonstrate her

determination to take control of our

borders at the point

we leave the EU.

The practicalities make it hard to

avoid unintended consequences.

Mark Easton, BBC News.

John Pienaar, our deputy political

editor, is in Westminster.

We have got the Prime Minister in

China having talks, looking to the

future and more immediate questions

surrounding her leadership continue

at home?

Yes, the Prime Minister is

under more pressure to get a grip of

Brexit and give more of a lead. And

her reminder of the British position

on migrant policy was clearly

delivered with a nervous glance to

the Brexiteers she is wary of

upsetting. They could turn against

here and some have made clear they

already have privately. I'm told

they have been invited for regular

meetings with the Government Chief

Whip. The former Remain side of the

party, you hear from them the idea

the sense of drift can't go on for

long and the former Chancellor,

George Osborne was on the BBC saying

most of Parliament did not like the

hard of a hard break from the

customs union and the single market,

that is also the view of business

leader. It leaves the Prime Minister

on a political tightrope, a step to

either side could mean danger. A

senior Brexit-supporting MP said to

me he saw no sign of a challenge to

Theresa May, but in the same breath

said of course everything could

collapse at any moment. These calls

for Theresa May to take a lead will

get louder, although as things stand

the party may be becoming

unleadable.

Thank you.

England's chief inspector

of schools, Amanda Spielman,

has warned that some parents

and religious leaders are trying

to "actively pervert" education.

She says inspectors are worried

about some people using faith

to try to narrow children's

horizons, and they mustn't be

allowed to dictate school policy

on dress or behaviour.

Sima Kotecha reports

from Birmingham.

You just wrap it around

like a long, long scarf.

These teenage Muslim girls have

been wearing a headscarf

for a few years now -

their reasons are varied.

This is one way I feel modest,

because I'm not showing

off my hair or worrying

about my makeup or whatever.

People who see me, they instantly

recognise me as a Muslim and also

if I see other people,

then I know that they're Muslim

if they're wearing a hijab.

But in recent weeks,

there's been a row over

whether schools should be allowed

to ban the hijab.

In London, the head teacher

of St Stephen's Primary School

was heavily criticised for banning

girls under the age

of eight from wearing it.

She then reversed her decision

because of the uproar.

Now, Ofsted has intervened.

Today, its Chief Inspector said

school leaders must have the right

to set uniform policies,

in order to promote cohesion.

For some, wearing hijab post-puberty

is seen as a religious requirement.

There's a difference between that

and cultural preferences,

and wearing lipstick and high heels

might be one of those.

We don't say that all schools must

respect cultural preferences,

and we try and find a balance that

makes the school a community

for everybody in it.

The Koran, the holy book

of Islam, says women should

guard their modesty.

The text is open to interpretation.

Some Muslim women choose to wear it,

others don't, but there are strong

feelings around whether young girls

should be allowed to

cover up in schools.

Here in Birmingham, it's not

uncommon to see girls who are four

and five wearing the hijab

with their uniform.

Critics say that if its purpose

is to guard modesty, it should only

be worn after puberty.

If not, Ofsted says that it

could be interpreted

as the sexualisation of young girls.

In all of our lives

and all of our cultures...

At one school here, the head teacher

is calling for more debate.

It's not an equal practice.

Girls wear a headscarf,

or are expected to, or they can

when they hit puberty,

but boys are not.

So it's not an equal practice

and you can't say that it is.

So you have to be able to expect

to have a really clear and open

debate about these kind of things.

Some here argue banning the hijab

could itself undermine the right

to religious freedom.

One mother says sometimes daughters

want to imitate their elders.

Children can be quite stubborn

and fixed in their ways,

then what can you do?

Rather than have tantrums,

you have to just sometimes give in.

But if they want to do it, you know,

and the school doesn't

have any objections,

then I don't have a problem with it,

with them wearing it.

In cosmopolitan Britain,

where different faiths come

into contact with western views,

rules in schools can

provoke controversy,

anger and resentment.

Sima Kotecha, BBC News.

A young father broke down in court

today after hearing that further

treatment for his seriously ill

20-month old son was "futile".

This is Alfie, with his

father, Tom Evans.

Doctors say the child was born

in a semi-vegetative state.

He has a neurological condition

that's still not been

definitively diagnosed.

Lawyers acting for Alder Hey

Children's Hospital in Liverpool

argue that more treatment would be

unkind and inhumane.

But Alfie's parents want doctors

to continue treating him.

The hearing continues tomorrow.

The family of Khader Saleh -

the prisoner stabbed to death

in Wormwood Scrubs in

west London yesterday -

have told the BBC he had complained

to them about violence in the jail,

in the days before he was attacked.

Four men - who are also inmates -

have been arrested

on suspicion of murder.

28 Russian athletes given lifetime

bans for doping have

had their suspensions

overturned by the Court

of Arbitration for Sport,

because of insufficient evidence.

In total, 43 Russians were banned

for life from the Olympics,

following an International Olympic

Committee investigation

into state-sponsored Russian

doping at their home Games

in Sochi in 2014.

The IOC warned the decision "may

have a serious impact on the future

fight against doping".

Elderly and vulnerable people

who are in and out of hospital

should be given automatic home

checks to stop

needless re-admissions.

That's according to a new report

by the British Red Cross.

It says one reason is many of don't

feel safe in their own homes.

It's thought that over

the past five years

hospital readmissions in England

have risen by nearly 23%

to more than 457,000.

The number re-admitted within 48

hours now accounts for one

in five of all emergency admissions.

Our social affairs correspondent

Alison Holt reports.

I'm in a lot more pain today

than it was yesterday.

Cheryl McNulty has

chronic lung disease.

In the last few months, she's been

taken to her local Ipswich Hospital

as an emergency five times.

She's then returned to a home

where she clearly isn't coping.

I get so frustrated

because I can see what needs

doing and I can't do it.

You, like, have panic attacks

because you think that

you're going to stop

breathing, you see.

Over the months, dust

and dirt have built up,

aggravating her condition.

She also spent three years

sleeping upright on her sofa

because she couldn't get

up the stairs.

I was stopping halfway,

with my inhaler.

I just couldn't do it any more.

Hi, Cheryl.

Hello, love.

How are you?

Today's report by the Red Cross

calls for automatic home checks

for patients who regularly end

up in hospital.

Their visit to Cheryl picked up

the difficulties she was having,

and as a result work

is about to start to make this

a healthier home for her.

She will have a dust-free

environment.

She will be able to

keep on top of it all.

We could help her get somebody

in to do the cleaning

and stuff like that.

Then it will brighten up her life

and it will make her feel valued.

With accident and emergency

departments, such as this one

here at Ipswich Hospital,

under huge pressure,

it's become increasingly

important to tackle the underlying

issues that mean some people

are admitted as emergencies

time and again.

This was where Cheryl

was turning up regularly.

Now a special team works

with frail older people

as soon as they arrive.

I started looking into the history

of why they are here,

what's at home and what we might

need in making sure that they can go

home if they are not acutely unwell,

and what measures we need to put

in place so that they

stay home safely.

It's five months that

we've had the community

division within the trust...

In the busiest winter

the hospital has seen,

the medical director says they have

managed to reduce the number of

people being readmitted to hospital.

If anybody becomes unwell

in the community, we can react

and respond in that community

setting, using the emergency

department when it's needed -

but only when it's needed.

And as such, it's a much

more efficient setting.

Over ten days, Cheryl's home

is redecorated, de-cluttered,

and she has a bed downstairs.

My breathing was so bad,

when I do anything, and I'm hoping

that now it's going

to be a lot better.

Councils who provide people

who are eligible with care say

support like this is vital,

but the increasing squeeze

on their budgets is making it harder

to meet the demand for help.

Alison Holt, BBC News, Ipswich.

On the day that the Prime Minister

raised the issue of human rights

with China's President,

her government has expressed

concern about the treatment

of Muslims in China's western

region of Xinjiang.

The area has seen an unprecedented

rise in police numbers

and security controls.

In the last few months,

there have been increasing reports

of ethnic minorities being held

without trial in detention camps.

The Chinese authorities say

their strategy is about combating

terrorism, following

violent attacks.

Our China correspondent,

John Sudworth, travelled

to Xinjiang, where all filming

and reporting by foreign media

is tightly controlled.

In looks and in distance,

it's closer to Baghdad than Beijing.

But this is China, it's far

Western Province of Xinjiang and now

the target of one of world's most

intense security crackdowns.

The Uighurs, a mainly Muslim

minority, have a long history here.

Today, fear is everywhere.

Under the watchful eye of Government

minders, there's only

ever one correct answer.

"I know nothing," he tells me,

"life is good here".

Moments later, armed police show up.

This is the China visiting

Prime Ministers never get to see.

Police power here is

all-pervasive and growing.

Millions of residents are being

forced to give DNA samples.

Mobile phones are searched

for sensitive religious content,

using hand-held plug-in devices.

And for those suspected of even

the mildest disloyalty to Beijing,

there's now a network of secretive

detention camps in which thousands

of Uighurs have been

locked up without trial.

Close to what we believe is one of

them, we are stopped from filming.

China is building a total

surveillance state.

Its is a place where saying,

doing or even thinking the wrong

thing can you get you locked up

in an internment camp.

As you can see, it is a place

where foreign journalists

are certainly not welcome.

Wherever we go in Xinjiang,

we are constantly hassled, detained,

monitored and followed.

Like thousands of Uighurs,

Abdurahman Hassan

has fled to Turkey.

He thought his wife and mother

would be safe at home -

he has since heard, he says,

that they have been

taken to the camps.

TRANSLATION: From early

morning to late evening,

she is only allowed to sit

on a hard chair.

My poor mother has to endure this

punishment every day.

My wife's only crime was to be born

a Uighur and, because of that,

she lives in a re-education camp

where she has to

sleep on the ground.

I don't know whether

they are alive or dead.

I can't bear it any more.

I would rather they were executed

than abused to death

by the Chinese Government.

He says he has no idea what's

happened to his children.

Today, the British Government

raised its concerns

about the treatment of Muslims here,

including restrictions

on religious practice.

Such a frank statement in the middle

of a Prime Ministerial visit

will not go down well.

China is seeking the UK's backing

for a plan to use Xinjiang's desert

highways as a new economic corridor

to central Asia and beyond.

It insists the threat

of Islamic terrorism -

with a number of attacks in recent

years - is a real one.

Can I ask you the question?

Is it difficult to answer questions?

But a police state breeds fear.

They're busy, they say.

And can stoke the very resentments

China says it's trying to stamp out.

John Sudworth, BBC News, Xinjiang.

Nigeria has never competed

in the Winter Olympics.

But next week the country will make

history by entering a female

bobsleigh team for the Games

in South Korea.

They are the first Nigerian athletes

to qualify for the Winter Olympics

and they've had to raise their own

money to get there.

Alex Capstick went to meet them

at their training camp in America.

We are the Nigerian

women's bobsleigh team.

We are the first team

from the country of Nigeria...

The first team from

the continent of Africa...

And the first team to be represented

in the Winter Olympics

in the sport of bobsleigh...

..In Pyeongchang.

They're known as the Ice

Blazers, going where no

African has gone before.

Heading to a bobsleigh

track at the Olympics.

The opening ceremony,

that would be really cool.

We were just like, gosh,

we are carrying the Nigerian flag

in a Winter Olympics.

Gosh!

Born in America, like her

team-mates, Seun Adigun qualifies

for Nigeria through her parents,

and it all began in her

garage in Houston with

a home-made wooden sled.

Cool running!

The exploits of the Jamaican men's

team at the Calgary Olympics in 1988

inspired a Hollywood movie.

Comparisons are inevitable.

It's really honourable,

to say the least, that

30 years later people

are still singing their praises,

and to say that we are along that

same path of what people

consider to be legendary

is really humbling and it's

an honour to receive.

Just over a year ago,

Seun recruited two team-mates

who take it in turns to sit

behind the driver.

They knew nothing about

the sport and its risks.

After going to Whistler,

that's the fastest track

in the world, it was like,

OK, this sport is actually

pretty dangerous.

You know, like people

can get seriously hurt.

Behind all the excitement, the fun,

the global exposure,

is a group of women who have no

desire to be considered

a novelty act.

Rank outsiders, yes,

but they also want to be taken

seriously in their bid to set

a new benchmark for Africa

at the Winter Olympics.

People didn't think we had a chance

to make it to the Olympics

so I think when you talk

about things like that, anything can

happen and we are here to compete.

The team know they are unlikely

to become the first Africans

to stand on the podium

at a Winter Games but they also know

the Olympics is about

more than just medals.

Alex Capstick, BBC

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