0:00:06 > 0:00:07Tonight at Ten.
0:00:07 > 0:00:10Labour spells out its plans for leaving the EU and says Britain
0:00:10 > 0:00:14does need to be in a customs union.
0:00:14 > 0:00:15Speaking in Coventry, Jeremy Corbyn said it his aim
0:00:15 > 0:00:18was to protect British jobs and to secure tariff-free
0:00:18 > 0:00:21trade with the EU.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25We want to be able to develop the economy in this country
0:00:25 > 0:00:27for the benefit of all, to invest in those communities
0:00:27 > 0:00:29that are left behind, those areas that voted Leave
0:00:29 > 0:00:32as well as those areas that voted Remain and we develop an effective
0:00:32 > 0:00:38trade relationship with Europe in the future.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Mr Corbyn also argued that a customs union would avoid
0:00:40 > 0:00:42the creation of a hard border between Northern Ireland
0:00:42 > 0:00:43and the Republic of Ireland.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45We'll have detail and reaction.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Also tonight...
0:00:48 > 0:00:51The number of people known to have died in an explosion and fire
0:00:51 > 0:00:55in a building in Leicester has now risen to five.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Warnings in place across the UK, as bitterly cold weather sweeps
0:00:58 > 0:01:06in from eastern Europe.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12Tonight, hundreds of ploughs and critters are heading out onto the
0:01:12 > 0:01:16road networks to keep them open and ready for the morning. We will have
0:01:16 > 0:01:20the latest on where the heaviest snowfall is expected over the next
0:01:20 > 0:01:2124 hours.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Serious questions about standards in some unregistered schools
0:01:23 > 0:01:26in England following a BBC News investigation.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27And Team GB arrives home from Pyeonchang
0:01:27 > 0:01:32after a record-breaking Winter Games for Britain.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35And coming up on Sportsday on BBC News, could Scotland's Ryan Wilson's
0:01:35 > 0:01:36Six Nations be over?
0:01:36 > 0:01:40As the number eight is sited over alleged foul play during Saturday's
0:01:40 > 0:01:43victory over England.
0:02:02 > 0:02:03Good evening.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05Jeremy Corbyn has laid out Labour's approach to Britain's trade
0:02:05 > 0:02:08relations after Brexit.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11He says he wants the UK to enter into a permanent customs union
0:02:11 > 0:02:14with the European Union, a deal which he says would put
0:02:14 > 0:02:16people's jobs and living standards ahead of what he called
0:02:16 > 0:02:21the ideological fantasies of the Conservatives.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23He also said this would avoid the need for a hard border
0:02:23 > 0:02:26between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28But Theresa May has already ruled out staying in the single
0:02:28 > 0:02:30market or a customs union, as our political editor
0:02:30 > 0:02:34Laura Kuenssberg reports.
0:02:34 > 0:02:35CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Bit by bit, piece by piece.
0:02:38 > 0:02:44A clearer view on Brexit, if Jeremy Corbyn was in charge.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Labour wants to keep our customs deal with the EU
0:02:46 > 0:02:50essentially the same for good.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53So, Labour would seek to negotiate a new, comprehensive UK -
0:02:53 > 0:02:56EU customs union to ensure that there are no tariffs
0:02:56 > 0:02:58with Europe and to help avoid any need, whatsoever,
0:02:58 > 0:03:05for a hard border in Northern Ireland.
0:03:05 > 0:03:11But listen very carefully, there is a big if in there.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15The option of a new UK Customs union with the EU would need to ensure
0:03:15 > 0:03:20that the UK has a say in future trade deals.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23A new customs arrangement would depend on Britain being able
0:03:23 > 0:03:28to negotiate agreement on new trade deals in our national interests.
0:03:28 > 0:03:34Other countries with similar kinds of deals have very little control.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37We would have to have a meaningful say in how those negotiations went
0:03:37 > 0:03:39and what the agreement was.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43So we would not end up as simply passive rule takers.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45But what if they say no to your proposal,
0:03:45 > 0:03:51as is very likely, given what the European Union has said?
0:03:51 > 0:03:54Listen, we would want to make sure and would make sure that Britain had
0:03:54 > 0:03:59a say in our trade relations.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01By negotiation.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Negotiations require understandings of the strengths
0:04:03 > 0:04:06and weaknesses of both sides, by the degree of the manufacturing
0:04:06 > 0:04:09industry, of agriculture, food industries that operate on both
0:04:09 > 0:04:12sides of the channel and also, as I say, we are not going
0:04:12 > 0:04:16to undercut the whole of Europe.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18But what is your Plan B?
0:04:18 > 0:04:20The Plan B is to continue negotiating in order
0:04:20 > 0:04:24to achieve Plan A.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Whether it is A or B, it is seemingly tilted
0:04:27 > 0:04:29towards after Brexit, even though most Labour seats
0:04:29 > 0:04:36in Coventry and around the country voted to Leave.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39But some Brexit-backing Labour MPs questioned whether it is real.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42There is no way they are going to agree that we would have
0:04:42 > 0:04:45our own customs union, that we would stick our noses
0:04:45 > 0:04:48into any trade agreements they want to do and that Jeremy has
0:04:48 > 0:04:50kept faith with his long-term objective that we must be
0:04:50 > 0:04:56free to negotiate our own trade agreements.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59For many voters, there has been enough dancing around the details.
0:04:59 > 0:05:00A clean break.
0:05:00 > 0:05:01A total clean break.
0:05:01 > 0:05:02Yeah.
0:05:02 > 0:05:03Why do you say that?
0:05:03 > 0:05:06Because, like, we need to get Great Britain back to Great Britain.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09And how it used to be.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11They say we should stay as close as possible,
0:05:11 > 0:05:13I don't think we should stay as close as possible,
0:05:13 > 0:05:16because I don't think it is a good idea to be in the EU.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19It is not beneficial to everybody, really.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22I could speak to these two guys now and they would tell me one thing
0:05:22 > 0:05:24and the people behind them would...
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Everyone is the same, mixed up, we just want
0:05:26 > 0:05:28an end to it now, I think.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31If a Labour voter said to you, I'd back Brexit, and I did not think
0:05:31 > 0:05:33that would mean still having a trading relationship
0:05:33 > 0:05:36with the European Union, they wanted something more dramatic,
0:05:36 > 0:05:39a more dramatic break, what would you say them?
0:05:39 > 0:05:41I would say...
0:05:41 > 0:05:44I would say to them, think this thing through.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47We have a lot of jobs that depend on sales back and forth,
0:05:47 > 0:05:49across the North Sea or across the Channel and we have
0:05:49 > 0:05:53to ensure those jobs.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55This isn't Jeremy Corbyn tearing up Labour's plans for Brexit,
0:05:55 > 0:05:58it is a more powerful step along the way, trying to contain
0:05:58 > 0:06:03the tensions inside his own party, those on both sides of the argument
0:06:03 > 0:06:08and the many Labour voters who backed Brexit in 2016.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10It does also, though, politically conveniently
0:06:10 > 0:06:12draw a clear difference between the Labour position
0:06:12 > 0:06:14and the Conservative plans.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15Thanks a lot.
0:06:15 > 0:06:20Thanks for coming, guys.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23It is not just his fans, but some Tory MPs want to keep
0:06:23 > 0:06:26our customs links, too.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Labour's firmer position in Parliament could cause
0:06:29 > 0:06:31trouble for Number 10.
0:06:31 > 0:06:36Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Coventry.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39So what difference could it make to trade if Britain stayed in some
0:06:39 > 0:06:41kind of permanent customs union with the EU?
0:06:41 > 0:06:49Chris Morris, of the BBC's Reality Check, is here to explain more.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Being in a customs union with the EU after Brexit would mean
0:06:51 > 0:06:54there would still be a common external tariff -
0:06:54 > 0:06:56in effect the same tax - on goods being brought
0:06:56 > 0:06:59in from elsewhere in the world.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02But it would also mean - like now - that there would be no tariffs
0:07:02 > 0:07:07for goods crossing borders between the UK and the EU.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10That is important for companies based in the UK, which operate
0:07:10 > 0:07:15complex manufacturing processes across Europe.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17This is the BMW factory in Oxford, mentioned by Mr Corbyn,
0:07:17 > 0:07:21where they make the Mini.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25Its components cross EU borders multiple times.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27A crank shaft cast in France crosses to a plant in
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Warwickshire to be finished.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31It then goes back to Austria to be built into an engine,
0:07:31 > 0:07:36which then comes back to Oxford to be put into a completed car.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40Half the cars built in Oxford are then exported back to the EU
0:07:40 > 0:07:42and it is all tariff free.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45But the government argues that the problem with the customs
0:07:45 > 0:07:47union is that you cannot negotiate your own trade
0:07:47 > 0:07:49deals around the world.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53A key part of taking back control.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55It is true that you are constrained, you cannot alter
0:07:55 > 0:07:58those tariffs on goods.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02You can still do some deals on services.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05Banking or insurance or tourism, for example.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Now, Labour insist that they would still want to be involved alongside
0:08:08 > 0:08:13the EU in negotiating all trade deals in the future anyway.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17So, is it trying to have its cake and eat it?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Business leaders have been broadly positive about Labour's proposal,
0:08:19 > 0:08:23but are still looking for a little more clarity.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Being in a customs union is a hassle-free
0:08:25 > 0:08:27solution for businesses.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30But there are different types of customs union and all we have
0:08:30 > 0:08:33heard from Jeremy Corbyn today, was not all of the details
0:08:33 > 0:08:36for businesses to know.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40It's also worth remembering that being in a customs union wouldn't
0:08:40 > 0:08:42entirely solve the problem of maintaining an invisible
0:08:42 > 0:08:44border in Ireland.
0:08:44 > 0:08:51You'd also need something like a new free trade agreement,
0:08:51 > 0:08:54to deal with regulations on things like food safety or animal welfare.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Still, it's been a big day for Labour's position on Brexit.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59But whatever policy emerges in London -
0:08:59 > 0:09:02all of it still needs to be negotiated with the other 27 EU
0:09:02 > 0:09:10countries, and all of them have opinions of their own.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Chris Morris. Thank you.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20The number of people known to have died in an explosion and fire
0:09:20 > 0:09:22in a building in Leicester yesterday has risen to five.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Search and rescue teams recovered a body from
0:09:24 > 0:09:25the rubble earlier today.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Five people remain in hospital, one is critically ill.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30Emergency crews have been continuing to search the ruins of the property,
0:09:30 > 0:09:33as our correspondent Sima Kotecha reports.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36The damage, fully exposed, in daylight.
0:09:36 > 0:09:42Last night, just after seven, an explosion.
0:09:42 > 0:09:48A shop and the flat above it were destroyed.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Flames shot up into the air, around seven metres high.
0:09:51 > 0:09:56Towering over the surrounding buildings.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58I just heard a big bang.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00The owner of the shop was inside at the time.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02I didn't know, what was that?
0:10:02 > 0:10:04I found myself on the floor.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Eyes open.
0:10:06 > 0:10:07Looking up.
0:10:07 > 0:10:12Half of my body was under, how to say?
0:10:12 > 0:10:13Rubble?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Under the bricks and rubble.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17How are you feeling at the moment?
0:10:17 > 0:10:20I don't know how to tell you.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24Never I feel how I am now.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26The shop was a Polish supermarket.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29It had only been open since January.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Today, firefighters spent hours inside, wading through the rubble,
0:10:31 > 0:10:37trying to find survivors.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Police have confirmed that five people died inside the building,
0:10:39 > 0:10:41and several are in hospital with injuries, but
0:10:41 > 0:10:45there could be more.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48We can't confirm exact numbers so we are working on the possibility
0:10:48 > 0:10:50that there could be people still within the building
0:10:50 > 0:10:53and we will sweep through, with our search and rescue teams,
0:10:53 > 0:10:57with the help of a search dog, to make sure that we have located
0:10:57 > 0:11:03everybody that could possibly be in there.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Investigators will now begin looking for the cause of the explosion,
0:11:05 > 0:11:08once the search and rescue effort is concluded and the area
0:11:08 > 0:11:09is declared safe.
0:11:09 > 0:11:17Sima Kotecha, BBC News, Leicester.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19An inquest has heard how a five-year-old girl,
0:11:19 > 0:11:20suffering from asthma, died after being turned
0:11:20 > 0:11:23away from an emergency doctor's appointment,
0:11:23 > 0:11:26because she was a few minutes late.
0:11:26 > 0:11:27Ellie May Clark arrived
0:11:27 > 0:11:29at a clinic in Newport, South Wales, but was told
0:11:29 > 0:11:30the doctor wouldn't see her.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34She returned home but was taken to hospital later that night and died
0:11:34 > 0:11:36after a severe asthma attack.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38The coroner said the opportunity to provide potentially life-saving
0:11:38 > 0:11:45treatment had been missed.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47The outgoing head of counter-terrorism policing in the UK
0:11:47 > 0:11:49has warned of the growing threat from far-right terrorism.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, who will retire next month,
0:11:52 > 0:11:54revealed that four extreme-right terrorist attacks were disrupted
0:11:54 > 0:12:02last year, as well as ten Islamist-inspired plots.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05A fifth Briton has died following a helicopter
0:12:05 > 0:12:07crash in the Grand Canyon earlier this month.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Ellie Udall was on honeymoon with her husband Jon
0:12:09 > 0:12:13when they were involved in the crash.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14He died last week.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16A preliminary report into the accident failed
0:12:16 > 0:12:19to establish a cause.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24It's been one of the coldest days of the winter so far
0:12:24 > 0:12:27for much of the UK, and weather experts say the freezing
0:12:27 > 0:12:30conditions will continue for the rest of the week.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32There are yellow and amber warnings of snow in Scotland,
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Wales and central, eastern and southern parts of England.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Some rail companies have already taken the decision
0:12:36 > 0:12:37to cancel services tonight.
0:12:37 > 0:12:45Our science editor David Shukman has the latest.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47The first wave of the storm.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Norwich this afternoon, blanketed in white.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53Not enough to stop the postmen or the rubbish collection,
0:12:53 > 0:12:57but this is just the beginning of what is forecast.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00London had an icy start this morning, and the bands of dark
0:13:00 > 0:13:03clouds are a hint of heavy snow to come, along with
0:13:03 > 0:13:05plummeting temperatures.
0:13:05 > 0:13:10Already, some areas have felt a wind of minus 15.
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Would you like soup?
0:13:11 > 0:13:15So, busy times at the largest emergency shelter in London.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18The charity Glass Door has decided that it's too cold to turn
0:13:18 > 0:13:20anyone away tonight.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23The homeless are at greatest risk.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25You feel more vulnerable.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29You've got to have two sleeping bags, or...
0:13:29 > 0:13:31This morning I was waking up with a snowflake
0:13:31 > 0:13:35just dropped in my eye.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38I'm just dreading what it's going to be like tonight.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41At least there's been plenty of warning.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Nearly a dozen rail companies in east and south-east
0:13:43 > 0:13:45England announced early on that they would be limiting
0:13:45 > 0:13:48or stopping services altogether.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51At this station, which this evening looks almost abandoned, this is how
0:13:51 > 0:13:55the disruption was announced.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57During the night, some empty trains will be run
0:13:57 > 0:13:59to try to keep lines open.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01So, what's behind this icy blast?
0:14:01 > 0:14:05Well, it's all about the circulation of the winds high above the Arctic -
0:14:05 > 0:14:09moving in a way that means warm air is descending towards the North Pole
0:14:09 > 0:14:11- and that's why temperatures in Greenland have been
0:14:11 > 0:14:15slightly above zero.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Now, this pattern in the weather also affects the jet stream.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Normally it flows from west to east bringing us mild weather.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23But now it's reversed, which is like opening
0:14:23 > 0:14:26a door of a freezer, allowing extreme cold from Siberia
0:14:26 > 0:14:30winter to flow our way.
0:14:30 > 0:14:31KNOCKING.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33Hi, David!
0:14:33 > 0:14:35In Lincolnshire, Meals on Wheels went smoothly today,
0:14:35 > 0:14:39but the elderly are warned to get ready.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42It doesn't bother me unduly.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45Provided you are prepared for it, you've got stuff in the fridge
0:14:45 > 0:14:47and everything of that nature.
0:14:47 > 0:14:52You've got your boots ready.
0:14:52 > 0:14:53In Essex, gritters are being deployed.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56If the forecasts are right, they will be even busier
0:14:56 > 0:14:58at the end of the week.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Today has been a taste of what's on the cards.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02The real challenges come overnight and in the days ahead.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05David Shukman, BBC News.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Our correspondent Danny Savage is at a Highway England
0:15:11 > 0:15:14depot in West Yorkshire.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23Tell us about the preparations there tonight.This is one of the areas
0:15:23 > 0:15:27where the heaviest snow is expected over the next 24 hours. This is the
0:15:27 > 0:15:31last of the gritters to leave the deep bow tonight, the rest have gone
0:15:31 > 0:15:38out across the network across West Yorkshire and beyond, getting ready
0:15:38 > 0:15:44for tomorrow. -- leave the depot tonight. This is one region where
0:15:44 > 0:15:48there are amber weather warnings in place at the moment. It's where the
0:15:48 > 0:15:52heaviest snowfall is expected. We are talking about a large chunk of
0:15:52 > 0:15:56northern England, east of the Pennines and north of the Humber up
0:15:56 > 0:16:00to Newcastle. Also parts of south-east England tomorrow morning
0:16:00 > 0:16:04up to about 2pm, through Kent, Essex and Suffolk, more snow expected
0:16:04 > 0:16:09there. They are expecting it to start falling across the early hours
0:16:09 > 0:16:13across eastern Britain and for it to be a real problem through rush hour.
0:16:13 > 0:16:18Talking about 12 hours of snowfall in places. It's not just overnight
0:16:18 > 0:16:22tonight, the people working here are looking forward to Wednesday and
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Thursday for possible more heavy snowfalls as well. They are getting
0:16:25 > 0:16:29on with it tonight, but it will be a round-the-clock operation for the
0:16:29 > 0:16:34next few days until there is a sign of this cold weather letting up, and
0:16:34 > 0:16:38there is no sign of that yet.Danny Savage, with the latest from West
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Yorkshire.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43A BBC News investigation into unregistered schools in England
0:16:43 > 0:16:45has found "huge safeguarding issues", according to
0:16:45 > 0:16:46the Children's Commissioner.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48The schools watchdog, Ofsted, has identified more than 350
0:16:48 > 0:16:50of these suspected unregistered schools - places that offer more
0:16:50 > 0:16:53than 18 hours a week of teaching, which by law should be registered
0:16:53 > 0:16:58as a school.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Secret filming by the BBC appears to raise serious questions
0:17:00 > 0:17:03about the way some of the schools are run, as our special
0:17:03 > 0:17:08correspondent Lucy Manning reports.
0:17:08 > 0:17:13Inside our secret schools, unregistered, hidden
0:17:13 > 0:17:19from the authorities, operating out of offices and houses,
0:17:19 > 0:17:23even a disused building on an industrial estate.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26We've obtained photos of the inside of other suspected
0:17:26 > 0:17:28unregistered schools.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32They show shocking conditions, squalor, appalling food
0:17:32 > 0:17:34hygiene, dangerous wiring.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Schools need to be registered if five or more pupils are educated
0:17:38 > 0:17:42for at least 18 hours a week - many aren't.
0:17:42 > 0:17:47Ofsted has identified more than 350 suspected unregistered schools.
0:17:47 > 0:17:54Only half have been inspected.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57We were able to find two that haven't been.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59One is here in Southend, Essex.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03It's 9:40am and children from the ultraorthodox Jewish
0:18:03 > 0:18:05community have started learning.
0:18:05 > 0:18:09On one day, a young boy appears to be crying.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13There is a child here who clearly is upset.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Minutes later, the teacher seems to use force.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18There is a physicality about that.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20They're manhandling the child.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22The child remains very distressed.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24That raises immediate concerns.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26I wouldn't expect to see that in the classroom.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29Any parent watching that would be very, very worried
0:18:29 > 0:18:33about what's going on.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35On a different occasion, a boy appears to cower
0:18:35 > 0:18:37away from the teacher.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40What you've got there is clearly a child who seems to be quite wary
0:18:40 > 0:18:43of the adult that's there.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46When the adult turns around, the child steps back.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49And the adult clearly strikes the child.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51On all counts, that is completely unacceptable.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53There are huge safeguarding issues about the well-being
0:18:53 > 0:18:54of those children.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Are you surprised that this can happen in the UK
0:18:57 > 0:18:58in this day and age?
0:18:58 > 0:19:00I am.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Parents throughout the land will be so surprised that schools of this
0:19:03 > 0:19:08scale are operating outside the legal system.
0:19:08 > 0:19:12The synagogue denies this is an unregistered school.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15It says education is provided here within the 18 hour limit,
0:19:15 > 0:19:19but when we observed it, it was operating for longer.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23It also says it's not aware of any assaults,
0:19:23 > 0:19:27but asked for more information.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30We've learned there have been more than 50 safeguarding alerts
0:19:30 > 0:19:32about unregistered schools across England and Wales
0:19:32 > 0:19:34in the past four years, according to our Freedom
0:19:34 > 0:19:37of Information request.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39These are primarily physical abuse concerns, but include
0:19:39 > 0:19:42sexual abuse allegations.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45Not all unregistered schools are religious.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48Of those that are, half are Muslim.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52The BBC has obtained the copy of a book from a suspected
0:19:52 > 0:19:56unregistered school in Birmingham that is now closed.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59In one section it openly advocates the murder of homosexuals.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02Another chapter warns a wife against refusing
0:20:02 > 0:20:04sex with her husband.
0:20:04 > 0:20:10Elsewhere, it says a woman wearing perfume is an adulterer.
0:20:10 > 0:20:15Another suspected unregistered school was run here in East London.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18A broad and balanced curriculum...
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Mohammed Umair, a former headteacher, was issued
0:20:20 > 0:20:23with a warning notice by Ofsted for running it.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26We've learned he is facing prosecution for racially
0:20:26 > 0:20:30abusing Ofsted inspectors.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34It is alleged he shouted "Britain First paedophiles" at them.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36We understand the registered school Mr Umair ran previously,
0:20:36 > 0:20:39featured here in online footage, faced an extremism complaint.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41He denies all the allegations.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45He maintains he wasn't operating an unregistered school and says
0:20:45 > 0:20:50the centre was being run by somebody else.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54Louise Casey warned about the problem of unregistered
0:20:54 > 0:20:58schools in her 2016 report into community cohesion.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01The Department for Education really need to wake up
0:21:01 > 0:21:04to their own research, their own evidence, and what Ofsted
0:21:04 > 0:21:07is telling them, and take action.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11It brings up kids that are anti a British way of life.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Sometimes in these environments they feel they have more in common
0:21:14 > 0:21:19with some of the extremists, and some of the terrorists.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23Run out of a basement of a church in south-east London, we've also
0:21:23 > 0:21:25learned of an unregistered school that even had its own
0:21:25 > 0:21:28logo and uniform.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31The problem - four months after it opened, headteacher Kay Johnson
0:21:31 > 0:21:35was banned from teaching for allegedly hitting
0:21:35 > 0:21:38a five-year-old pupil with learning difficulties at a previous school.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40She denies the allegation.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43And also says she never set out to do anything illegal
0:21:43 > 0:21:45by running the school.
0:21:45 > 0:21:50We have this little hidden universe of tiny schools...
0:21:50 > 0:21:54Ofsted says it needs a change in the law to close these schools.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Why have there been no prosecutions of those running
0:21:56 > 0:21:57unregistered schools?
0:21:57 > 0:21:58There is a chain to this.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00It starts with Ofsted preparing a case.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03It goes to the Secretary of State to approve taking it
0:22:03 > 0:22:05forward, and then it goes to the Crown Prosecution Service.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09We've prepared a number of cases, none of them have yet been approved.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13We believe many of these cases could and should
0:22:13 > 0:22:14have been taken forward.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17Why can't you just go in and shut the schools down?
0:22:17 > 0:22:18My hands are tied.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20We have no power to shut down.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22We have the power to enter and report.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24That is as far as our powers go.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26We can't even pick up evidence that we find there.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28The BBC understands ministers have known about the presence
0:22:28 > 0:22:31of unregistered schools for nearly a decade.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Documents we've seen show that in 2009, then
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Education Secretary Ed Balls was warned some schools
0:22:36 > 0:22:41were operating illegally without the most basic health,
0:22:41 > 0:22:46safety, and welfare checks.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50And this confidential advice note reveals Ofsted warned
0:22:50 > 0:22:52Education Secretary Nicky Morgan urgent action was needed.
0:22:52 > 0:22:57That was in 2015.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01Shortly after, then Prime Minister David Cameron made a promise.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05I can announce this today.
0:23:05 > 0:23:10If an institution is teaching children intensively,
0:23:10 > 0:23:13then whatever its religion, we will, like any other school, make
0:23:13 > 0:23:15it register so it can be inspected.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18The Department for Education declined to be interviewed
0:23:18 > 0:23:21about our investigation.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24It said it jointly agrees with Ofsted if cases should be
0:23:24 > 0:23:25recommended for prosecution.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27And it says where a school is operating illegally
0:23:27 > 0:23:30action must be taken.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32Meanwhile, hundreds of these schools are still running and thousands
0:23:32 > 0:23:35of children are left at risk of extremism, uninspected teaching,
0:23:35 > 0:23:43Lucy Manning, BBC News.
0:23:45 > 0:23:50A man has admitted killing three teenage boys in a car crash
0:23:50 > 0:23:53in west London last month.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56The court heard Jaynesh Chudasama was more than two and a half times
0:23:56 > 0:23:58over the alcohol limit, and speeding, when his car hit
0:23:58 > 0:24:00the three teenagers, who were on their way
0:24:00 > 0:24:03to a birthday party.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Russia's President Putin has ordered a daily ceasefire to enable
0:24:05 > 0:24:09civilians to leave the rebel-held area of Eastern Ghouta in Syria.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12The area has been subject to an intense bombardment by Syrian
0:24:12 > 0:24:19government forces backed by Russia for more than week.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23Our chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet is here.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28What's your reading of what the Russians are trying to do here?I
0:24:28 > 0:24:33suppose if you are the main foreign military power in Syria then you
0:24:33 > 0:24:38must feel you can literally call the shots. What Russia is doing is
0:24:38 > 0:24:43unilaterally rewriting what had been a rare Security Council resolution
0:24:43 > 0:24:48on Syria at the weekend which called for a 30 day, 24-hour ceasefire.
0:24:48 > 0:24:54They still Russian offer of a five hour daily, that would still give a
0:24:54 > 0:24:57desperately needed residents of Eastern Ghouta, including those who
0:24:57 > 0:25:01are living in basements to avoid the intense bombardment. Russia has made
0:25:01 > 0:25:05it clear, as it has in the past when there has been a rare pause, that
0:25:05 > 0:25:10certain groups would be excluded. In the case of Eastern Ghouta, it means
0:25:10 > 0:25:13an Al-Qaeda linked group with hundreds of fighters. This time
0:25:13 > 0:25:16Russia says it will include the partners of this group. By
0:25:16 > 0:25:23definition, this pause will not be perfect. As for the humanitarian
0:25:23 > 0:25:25corridors, Russia made the same offer in Aleppo in the last stages
0:25:25 > 0:25:29of a brutal battle there in 2016, we saw it on the ground. Many people
0:25:29 > 0:25:34were too afraid to leave, many did not have anywhere to go. In some
0:25:34 > 0:25:39cases, rebel groups stopped them from going. In Eastern Ghouta now
0:25:39 > 0:25:43there are more people, more fear, more at stake on the outskirts of
0:25:43 > 0:25:47Damascus. In a war that some like to say is over, it's just getting worse
0:25:47 > 0:25:51for many Syrians.Lyse Doucet, chief international correspondent, thank
0:25:51 > 0:25:53you.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56In China, President Xi Jinping is all set to stay in power
0:25:56 > 0:25:58for decades to come following a decision
0:25:58 > 0:26:00by the Communist Party to remove the limits on presidential
0:26:00 > 0:26:03terms in office.
0:26:03 > 0:26:07Mr Xi had been due to leave office in 2023, after a decade in the post.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10The decision will cement his status as the most powerful leader of China
0:26:10 > 0:26:12for the past four decades, as our Beijing correspondent
0:26:12 > 0:26:15John Sudworth reports.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17CHANTING.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21It's no secret that Xi Jinping has been tightening his grip on power.
0:26:21 > 0:26:29This is just the most recent display of tubthumping military loyalty.
0:26:31 > 0:26:36But now, a defining moment has been reached.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40State media reports of closed-door party meetings confirmed
0:26:40 > 0:26:43that the two-term limit is to be scrapped.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47There's nothing to fear, his supporters argue.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50Mr Xi, the benevolent father figure, is staying
0:26:50 > 0:26:53on for the good of the nation.
0:26:53 > 0:26:59China has become such a developed country,
0:26:59 > 0:27:02the middle-class is increasing in size, as well as in the number
0:27:02 > 0:27:03of wealth they command.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06I don't think anyone in China, either in the party or outside
0:27:06 > 0:27:09the party, would sit tight to allow the return of a despot or tyrant
0:27:09 > 0:27:12back onto the political stage.
0:27:12 > 0:27:19But one ruler still casts a long shadow here - Chairman Mao.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23The two-term limit was introduced after his death
0:27:23 > 0:27:27to keep tyranny at bay.
0:27:27 > 0:27:33Zhang Bao Cheng, an activist jailed for mild dissent in the past,
0:27:33 > 0:27:39is one of the few daring to publicly criticise the change.
0:27:39 > 0:27:44TRANSLATION:If a leader stays in office too long,
0:27:44 > 0:27:48and if power becomes too concentrated, then eventually
0:27:48 > 0:27:52power becomes evil.
0:27:52 > 0:27:58For most people, though, criticism is best kept in the shadows.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02The striking of just a few words from China's constitution marks
0:28:02 > 0:28:05the biggest political shift in decades, with far
0:28:05 > 0:28:09reaching implications.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12Out go regular, orderly transitions, as the world's second-largest
0:28:12 > 0:28:16economy finds itself in the hands of a man with total,
0:28:16 > 0:28:20unfettered power, indefinitely.
0:28:20 > 0:28:26Behind the appearance of strength lies the risk of instability.
0:28:26 > 0:28:31A rising superpower has just torn up its rule book.
0:28:31 > 0:28:37John Sudworth, BBC News, Beijing.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40Theresa May's offer to redraft the flagship
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Brexit legislation, to address the concerns
0:28:42 > 0:28:44of the devolved administrations, has been dismissed by the Scottish
0:28:44 > 0:28:46and Welsh governments.
0:28:46 > 0:28:49At stake is the way powers would be returned
0:28:49 > 0:28:51from Brussels after Brexit.
0:28:51 > 0:28:55Ministers at Westminster claim that the "vast majority" of powers
0:28:55 > 0:28:58would go to Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00But the Scottish government says the current legislation
0:29:00 > 0:29:01is an "attack on devolution".
0:29:01 > 0:29:04Our Scotland editor, Sarah Smith, is in Peterhead -
0:29:04 > 0:29:09the largest fishing port in the UK.
0:29:09 > 0:29:16Tell us more about the concerns of the devolved administrations.
0:29:16 > 0:29:20Fisheries is one of the policies that will be coming back from
0:29:20 > 0:29:24Brussels after Brexit, along with things like agriculture and the
0:29:24 > 0:29:28environment. And these are policy areas that already devolved to
0:29:28 > 0:29:32Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. That's why the devolved
0:29:32 > 0:29:35administrations accuse the UK Government of a power grab when they
0:29:35 > 0:29:38said that initially these powers would be returning to Westminster.
0:29:38 > 0:29:42Today they have reversed that position and say the presumption is
0:29:42 > 0:29:46these powers, when they come back to the UK, will reside at a devolved
0:29:46 > 0:29:53level. That should have taken us closer to agreement. But, and there
0:29:53 > 0:29:56is always a but, the UK Government say they need to retain some control
0:29:56 > 0:30:02because they need to make sure there are common, UK wide legislation
0:30:02 > 0:30:07around things like food hygiene, hygiene standards and food
0:30:07 > 0:30:09labelling. That's unacceptable to the Scottish Government and Nicola
0:30:09 > 0:30:12Sturgeon has said it's an effective veto over the Scottish Parliament
0:30:12 > 0:30:17and it is not something she will agree to.Sarah Smith, Scottish
0:30:17 > 0:30:20correspondent at Peterhead, thank you.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22Britain's athletes have returned from their most successful
0:30:22 > 0:30:23Winter Olympics ever.
0:30:23 > 0:30:25Team GB brought back five medals from South Korea -
0:30:25 > 0:30:28one gold and four bronze - beating their previous record,
0:30:28 > 0:30:29as our sports correspondent Joe Wilson reports.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31Flags at Heathrow for everyone.
0:30:31 > 0:30:32A calm welcome home.
0:30:32 > 0:30:36CHEERING.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38But Olympic medallist means a new status, even
0:30:38 > 0:30:39amongst old friends.
0:30:39 > 0:30:43COMMENTATOR:Lizzy Yarnold next.
0:30:43 > 0:30:46The record investment at £28 million of lottery funding from UK Sport
0:30:46 > 0:30:48brought five medals, including Lizzy Yarnold's
0:30:48 > 0:30:49memorable gold.
0:30:49 > 0:30:52I wondered what her legacy could be.
0:30:52 > 0:30:54There are many escalators in Britain, but no skeleton
0:30:54 > 0:30:56courses to slide down.
0:30:56 > 0:31:00We are not a snow nation, we're not an ice nation.
0:31:00 > 0:31:04So the inspirational message I take to schools is that I grew up in Kent
0:31:04 > 0:31:10and I loved sport and I just wanted to be an Olympian.
0:31:10 > 0:31:13But I ended up going, doing my best, and coming home with a gold medal.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15And I was a normal kid from Kent.
0:31:15 > 0:31:17COMMENTATOR:Absolutely stratospheric.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20The fact remains, if you want to excel in winter sports,
0:31:20 > 0:31:22you have to travel abroad.
0:31:22 > 0:31:25There are some Olympic sports which are far easier to play
0:31:25 > 0:31:27in every town and city in Great Britain.
0:31:27 > 0:31:31Like this one.
0:31:31 > 0:31:33British basketball has even been discussed in the House
0:31:33 > 0:31:36of Commons recently.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39It has mass participation amongst young people but isn't considered
0:31:39 > 0:31:43likely to win Olympic medals, and so doesn't get UK Sport funding.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45We are in danger of losing national teams.
0:31:45 > 0:31:49It's got to be looked at now.
0:31:49 > 0:31:52It's not just re-evaluating, not just talking about my sport,
0:31:52 > 0:31:55talking about all sports, the way they are funded.
0:31:55 > 0:31:58We are at a crucial point.
0:31:58 > 0:32:02Some sports are given huge amounts of money and it is a very low
0:32:02 > 0:32:03participation sport.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05UK Sport exists to turn lottery money into medals,
0:32:05 > 0:32:06which everyone enjoys.
0:32:06 > 0:32:08But, like sliding on ice, the secret to funding
0:32:08 > 0:32:09may well be balance.
0:32:09 > 0:32:14Joe Wilson, BBC News, Heathrow.
0:32:14 > 0:32:16That's it from me.
0:32:16 > 0:32:39Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.