02/04/2016 BBC Weekend News

The government has dismissed China's move to impose a 46% tariff

on some types of steel - despite the crisis

Ministers say the new tariff, on high-grade steel,

The government remains under pressure after Tata announced it

planned to sell all its UK steel interests, including

the plant at Port Talbot, which has been running at a loss

of millions of pounds a week - partly because of cheap

Our Business Correspondent Joe Lynam reports.

This Tata owned plant in Newport in Wales makes the kind of specialist

steel which now faces tariffs of up to 46% in China. Like the

neighbouring factory in Port Talbot it's been put up for sale by its

Indian owners, something which could affect the livelihoods of thousands

of local workers. It's just another nail in the cough and if you ask me.

How much more can we take, how much more of the workforce going to be

able to take? How much more can they do? UK Steelworkers have been caught

up in much wider global trade patterns. Chinese overproduction has

halved the price UK producers get for steel and made them

unprofitable. Now Britain could be dragged into a trade war with China.

David Cameron raised the Chinese tariffs issue with President Xi

Jinping on Thursday. Britain has blocked efforts at EU level to

impose high emergency tariffs on Chinese steel. In its defence the

government says tariffs imposed a few years ago on some types of

Chinese steel have succeeded in cutting imports right up to 90%. How

important is steel in Britain's trade relationship with China? But

an exported ?14 billion of goods to China in 2014. Steel accounts for

?71 million, just half of 1% of those exports. Britain's total

exports to China have doubled since 2010 making China's Britain's sixth

biggest trading partner. Overall trade is worth a huge ?57 billion

each year. So is it worth risking Britain's relationship with China

over steel? I don't think the British government wants to go to

war with China, trade was certainly, on the issue of steel. Steel is too

small for us to realistically care about, we need the Chinese

investment in many areas especially the utility sector, we've seen heavy

investment coming through there. In terms of steel it's a very small

part of the equation for us. It's this backdrop Tata steel intends to

find investors for its business. If it fails some of these furnaces

If it fails some of these furnaces could go cold for ever.

Our Political Correspondent Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster.

The government has played down China's move, but it has other

reasons for not wanting to fall out with Beijing?

Yes, there are accusations the government isn't taking sufficiently

robust action against the flood of cheap Chinese steel because it's

more interested in wooing Chinese investment for projects like the

Hinkley point nuclear power plant. Critics suggesting the government is

putting its trade relationship with China ahead of the UK steel

industry. Ministers have defended their handling of this crisis,

saying that they opposed raising some EU tariffs because it could

have damaged other British industries like car manufacturing, a

big steel consumer. But this move by China is embarrassing for the

government, the Chinese slapped on this new tariff just hours after

David Cameron had raised his concerns over the steel crisis with

the Chinese president at a summit in Washington. And at the centre of all

this thousands of workers in the industry still unclear tonight,

still unclear tonight, still facing an uncertain future.

And the Business secretary Sajid Javid will be

President Obama has warned that the possibility of self-styled

Islamic State obtaining a nuclear weapon is "one of the greatest

Speaking at the end of a Nuclear Security Summit

in Washington, he insisted that concrete steps must be taken

to prevent nuclear terrorism, as Barbara Plett-Usher reports.

Good afternoon everybody, if we could get started?

This was President Obama's last big push for global nuclear security.

But the threat of nuclear terrorism looms

The Brussels attacks focussed the minds of

With growing concerns about the so-called Islamic State,

it's claimed the group has already used chemical

There is no doubt that if these madmen ever

got their hands on a nuclear bomb or nuclear material,

they most certainly would use it to kill as many innocent

That's why our work here remains so critical.

The single most effective defence against nuclear terrorism

is fully securing this material so it doesn't fall into the wrong

More conventional threats were also on

the agenda, especially North Korea's continued testing of nuclear

It defiantly fired a missile during the Washington

summit, but blamed the United States for the tensions on the Korean

United States is trying to turn white into black.

Describing, as if the countermeasures taken

They said it is a threat and it is a provocation.

Much will depend on the attitude of China's president Xi

He was urged by Barack Obama to increase the pressure on Pyongyang.

The meetings wound up with announcements of new steps

to secure or reduce nuclear stockpiles, but a key player,

Russia's president Vladimir Putin, was missing from the family photo

because of current political tensions.

A stark reminder of the summit's limits.

President Obama began these high-level

meetings six years ago to tackle the threat of nuclear material that

Much has been accomplished, but not enough.

And with the rise of groups like Islamic State, the fear

Barbara Plett Usher, BBC News, Washington.

The crew of a yacht taking part in a round the world race says it

will continue - despite one of its members being swept overboard

It's emerged that Sarah Young, who was from London,

wasn't attached to a safety line when a wave hit her

Because I want to know exactly why Sarah was not tied on,

because every single member of our crew has come

because every single member of our crew has

as part of their life jacket, which they wear on deck,

If that had been clipped on, she'd be alive now.

And I want to know why it wasn't clipped on.

Trouble is, the only person who can really answer that is Sarah herself.

The Syrian Army says it's discovered a mass grave with around 40 bodies

Palmyra was recently recaptured by government forces

A UK-based human rights group says IS executed nearly 300

people during its occupation of the ancient city.

Three employees of an Indian construction firm have appeared

in court charged in connection with the collapse of a flyover

At least 26 people died as a section of the flyover fell

Five other staff from the company are being questioned.

There was a hostile atmosphere at Villa Park this afternoon as Aston

Villa lost to Chelsea in the Premier League. Villa, who parted company

with manager Remi Garde this week, are 15 points away from safety with

six games of the season remaining. The Villa players were booed off the

pitch at the end of their 4-0 defeat to Chelsea. Norwich boosted their

hopes of staying up with a late 3-2 win over fellow strugglers

Newcastle. Sunderland remain in the relegation zone after a goalless

draw with West Brompton. At the top end of the table third and fourth

placed Arsenal and Manchester city both won with 4-0 scoreline. Problem

to bee Tottenham second, playing Liverpool at the moment. Celtic have

extended their lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership to seven

points after a 3-1 win over Hearts, who are third. Hearts took an early

lead but Patrick Roberts scored his first two goals for Celtic as they

came back to claim victory. Dundee moved into the top six with 5-2

victory over Ross County. Winds for Motherwell and Dundee United. Lewis

Hamilton will be on pole position for the Bahrain Grand Prix tomorrow,

the second race of this Formula 1 season. The Mercedes driver got the

fastest lap ever in Bahrain, edging out Nico Rosberg. Sebastian Vettel

will start in third place. For my golf and one Tiger Woods would play

in next weeks Masters because of a back injury that has kept him out of

the sport since August. Woods, who last won the Masters in 2005, says

he is not physically ready to compete again. The second time in

three years he has mist the first major of the season. 20-year-old

Charlie Hull is two shots off the lead at the halfway stage of the

first women's golf major of the year income for near. That is your sport

for now. That's it.