04/09/2016 BBC Weekend News

The Prime Minister has said Britain will seize the opportunities that

Brexit presents as it forges a new global role.

Theresa May was speaking after arriving in China

She's been meeting with President Obama, who said that

while he hoped Brexit wouldn't damage Britain's special

relationship with the US, he would continue to put securing

a trade deal with the EU ahead of negotiating with Britain.

Here's our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

And after a journey through a city that's more like a ghost town,

the first time Theresa May's walked this red carpet.

And for the first time, the Prime Minister has really

had to explain what happens next to the rest of the world.

The people in the UK voted for the UK to leave

The Government respects that decision.

So there will be no second referendum, no attempt

no attempt to try and get out of this.

The UK will be leaving the European Union.

Yet the world's most powerful politician,

for another few months at least, stood by his warning that Britain

would be at the back of the queue for trade.

The world benefited enormously from the United Kingdom's

But I also said at the time that, ultimately, this was a decision

for the British people, and the British people

And I never suggested that we would "punish" Great Britain,

but, first things first, and the first task is going to be

figuring out what Brexit means with respect to Europe,

and our first task is making sure we get the first TPP done,

but also that we move forward on in the TTIP negotiations,

in which we have already invested a lot of time and effort.

Those trade discussions aren't so pretty, and other talks

There's serious tension behind the carefully-prepared backdrops

The Prime Minister delayed the building of a nuclear station

expect difficult talks with her host away from the cameras tomorrow.

Just as at home, the Prime Minister faces demands here to

explain what leaving the EU will really mean.

The world's most powerful are gathered here in China

and ready to listen, but frank remarks from a political

friend like America suggests there's a lot to do.

won the Prime Minister her place in this line-up.

Few here expect Britain's departure from the EU will be as smooth

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Hangzhou.

The Labour MP Keith Vaz is reportedly standing down as chairman

of the Home Affairs Select Committee following allegations in a Sunday

newspaper that he paid for the services of male escorts.

Our political correspondent Ben Wright is here.

Keith Vaz is the Labour MP for Leicester East, a very high-profile

politician. For the last decade he has been the chairman of the home

affairs select committee in the Houses of Parliament, which

scrutinises crime and drugs policy, currently reviewing prostitution

laws, and I think that's why this matters politically. The allegations

are in the Sunday Mirror newspapers and they allege Keith Vaz paid for

two male prostitutes to visit him at a flat last month and according to

the paper they discussed using the party drug poppers, which are not

illegal to use and there is nothing to

suggest Keith Vaz has broken any laws. In a statement he said it is

deeply disturbing a national newspaper should have paid

individuals to act this way. He has referred these allegations to his

solicitor. The Sunday Mirror say they are standing by his story, and

in a separate statement he gave to the Mail on Sunday, Keith Vaz said

he is sorry and is standing down as chairman of the select committee,

but we haven't had that confirmed from him yet. Thank you.

Pope Francis has declared the Roman Catholic nun

Mother Teresa a saint in front of a vast crowd in the Vatican.

Mother Teresa, who died in 1997, founded her Missionaries of Charity

order to care for the needy in the slums of India.

Here's our Religious Affairs Correspondent Caroline Wyatt.

Mother Teresa's face beamed out over St Peter's Square,

where the faithful gathered from early this morning,

including many nuns from the Missionaries Of Charity,

an order she founded in 1950 with just 12 followers.

Its aim - to care for the poorest of the poor in India,

Pope Francis praised the example set by Mother Teresa to all

Christians, as he declared the Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

a saint to be venerated by the whole Roman Catholic Church.

Later, the Pope said St Teresa's mission of

serving the poor and the needy, the elderly and the unwanted,

was a way of shining a light in the darkness,

and showing divine mercy here on earth.

Despite the heat and the tight security here at the Vatican here

today, the pilgrims came in their tens of thousands

to celebrate the canonisation of this extraordinary woman,

Even 19 years after her death, St Teresa remains

figure for her work in the slums of Calcutta, where she set up

Her work still inspires many today. Pilgrims came here this weekend from

around the world, including this group from the blessing Mother

Teresa primary School in Stafford. I have great respect and admiration

for everything she did. We have been to Kolkata, we have seen what she

has done, working with the poor and needy. Saint Teresa's critics say

her hospices were not hygienic and she took money from dictators from

her charity, but those here say her life remains an example to all

Christians. Caroline Wyatt, BBC News, Rome.

The government has announced how it will spend the ?10 million set aside

to help settle 20,000 Syrian refugees in the UK by 2020.

It says 170 councils have come forward to say

Ministers say 2,800 Syrians had arrived

A home, a neighbourhood, a community, no longer recognisable.

Hussain, with his mother and sister, are one of the few families that

have stayed in this part of Aleppo, in Syria.

In all, the UN estimates that 4.5 million Syrians have now

A year ago, David Cameron made this pledge.

We are proposing that Britain should resettle up to 20,000 Syrian

refugees over the rest of this Parliament.

The Home Office says it's on course to meet that target.

It has now confirmed that 170 councils across the UK have agreed

between them to provide 20,000 places to re-home Syrian

More than 2,800 have already been resettled in the UK.

The Government will provide ?8,500 per refugee in the first year,

tapering down to ?1,000 in the fifth year.

Clearly, the more refugees that we're going to resettle,

We need to make sure that the resources are there,

so that the NHS, schools, that local communities,

when it comes to things like housing, policing,

the infrastructure that we need, are not bearing an unfair burden.

In the meantime, tens of thousands remain stranded in camps like this

one, on the border between Syria and Jordan.

Charities like Refugee Action want the UK to go further,

There will be a refugee crisis for as long as the conflict in Syria

continues, and there is no sign of it ending soon.

The funerals have taken place this morning of the five friends who died

after getting into trouble in the water at

The men were buried in a ceremony in Plumstead in East London

Mourners gathered from first light to pay their respects and say a last

farewell to five young men who lost their lives

Their funerals were held together to reflect their close

It has just hit our community, not just our

south London community, but also other communities across London

very, very strongly, and that's why you see

The five friends died at Camber Sands a week and a half ago.

They were Ken Saththiyanathan and his older brother, Kobi,

Inthushan Sriskantharaja, Nitharsan Ravi, and Gurushanth Srithavarajah.

The beach had no lifeguards, that has been criticised by some of the

families and the local council says it is considering all options for

next summer including permanent lifeguard service. Friends and

relatives of the men invited the media to attend the funerals today

in the hope it may save others from the pain of losing loved ones to the

sea. We wanted to use this opportunity to raise awareness of

beach safety, raise the importance of lifeguards, and the fact that us

as young people need to know the measures that could be life saving

because we believe these could have been prevented. The coffins were

born by horse-drawn hearse to private cremation.

That's it from us, have a good afternoon.

The weekend has been very mixed weather but over the week ahead

there will be some changes. The summer just gone has been described