17/02/2018 BBC Weekend News

The Prime Minister calls on the UK

and the EU to continue to cooperate

on security after Brexit.

Theresa May said a new treaty

on foreign and defence policy should

be effective by next year.

The challenge for all of us today

is finding the way to work together

through a deep and special

partnership between

the UK and the EU.

No more at the centre of his party -

Henry Bolton is ousted

as leader of UKIP.

Lizzy Yarnold, she goes to the

front, and how!

Lizzy Yarnold leads the way,

on a historic day for Team GB

at the Winter Olympics.

And the Olympic scandal

of 1994 turned into

a BAFTA nominated biopic.

Good evening.

The Prime Minister has called

for a new security treaty

with the European Union

after Brexit, warning that

lives could be at risk

without full co-operation.

In a speech in Germany,

Theresa May said new arrangements

over working together should be

effective by next year.

The President of the European

Commission, Jean Claude Juncker,

agreed that a post-Brexit security

alliance was necessary -

but said it should be negotiated

separately from other issues,

such as trade.

Our political correspondent

Vicki Young reports from Munich.

In defence and security the UK

is a significant player.

The Prime Minister hopes that

will get her a special deal.

She arrived in Munich keen to lay

out Britain's contribution.

Generous spending on defence

and expertise it wants

to share even after Brexit.

Theresa May urged the EU to take

a practical approach.

This cannot be a time when any of us

allow competition between partners,

rigid institutional restrictions

or deep-seated ideology

to inhibit our cooperation

and jeopardise the security

of our citizens.

She's calling for a new security

treaty so that the close

partnership can continue.

Failure to agree one would have

damaging consequences, she said.

We must do whatever is most

practical and pragmatic

in ensuring our collective security.

Those who threaten our security

would like nothing more

than to see us fractured.

Some listening to this

were left bewildered.

The Brexit decision from the point

of view of us inside the EU

is extremely regrettable.

Things would be so much

easier if you stayed.

So here comes the question...

APPLAUSE Mrs May pointed out that

Brexit was a democratic decision

politicians should respect.

One senior Brussels

figure seemed to agree.

The commission President Jean-Claude

Junker said the EU wasn't at war

with the UK and didn't want to take

revenge on the British people.

He said the security bridge

would be maintained,

but you couldn't mix it up

with other issues.

Conservative MPs attending

the conference here believe

the speech is a good starting

point for talks.

We've got to start getting

into the detail of this.

One thing we can do is improve our

offer around defence and security,

and I do think we need to have

another look in the UK as to how

we prioritise security.

So it's a pretty familiar

message from Theresa May.

The UK is leaving the European Union

but that doesn't mean close

cooperation needs to end.

And it's a blunt message, too,

saying to EU leaders,

don't let your ideology get

in the way of the safety

of our citizens.

The government hopes today's speech

will show it's acting responsibly,

not wanting to drag the important

issue of security into fraught

Brexit negotiations.

Vicki Young, BBC News, Munich.

Our political correspondent

Susana Mendonca is here.

We've had two big

speeches this week on Brexit -

are we any clearer

on the way forward?

Well I think we'd still a long way

to go before we know what Brexit

going to look like but if you look

at the speech as we've had so far

they seem to be about building

bridges. Theresa May talking about

that cooperation, unconditional

cooperation between Britain and the

EU. Certainly the EU Commission

president made it clear that

cooperation on security doesn't mean

cooperation on trade. But it went

down well with the Europeans, went

down well with her Brexiteers. When

you look at Boris Johnson's speech

last week he was talking about

bringing together Remainers and

Brexiteers and looking at the

positives but there wasn't much in

the way of substance. In terms of

what we'll get over the next week we

understand there will be a series of

speeches in this road to Brexit

theme we're getting from number ten.

We'll have speeches from David

Davis, we understand David Lidington

will give a speech where he talks

about devolution. Something from

Liam Fox, also talking about the

positives. We are expecting a lot of

speeches, whether or not we get the

detail we are after remains to be

seen.

Thank you.

Ukip has voted to remove its leader,

Henry Bolton, following controversy

over racist messages sent

by his former partner

about Prince Harry's

fiancee, Meghan Markle.

Mr Bolton had refused to stand down

- but today over 60% of members

backed a motion of no

confidence in him.

The party is now looking

for its fifth leader in 18 months -

as our political correspondent

Alex Forsyth reports.

Therefore Henry Bolton has been

removed by the democratic decision

of the membership...

And with that, Ukip bid farewell

to another short-lived leader.

Henry Bolton had put his fate

in the hands of the party

members and five months

after they elected him

they voted him out.

You don't embark on something

like this, obviously,

hoping to win through,

and then find that you don't win

through, without feeling, you know,

some disappointment, of course.

But hey, you know, take it

on the chin and move on.

It was his relationship

with Jo Marney that led

to questions over his future.

She sent a series of offensive

messages leading Ukip's ruling

body to demand he quit.

Today, party members voted

and they endorsed that decision.

So the MEP, Gerard Batten,

has taken over temporarily.

Before the fourth leadership

contest in 18 months.

Costly for a cash-strapped party.

Ukip has to continue

because we are the only opposition.

This party was riding high

after the Brexit referendum,

but since then it's been in turmoil,

struggling for direction

and leadership.

And there is a risk today's result

could only deepen divisions.

I think it's a big mistake

and I think there are very few

people within the party

who potentially could be leader.

Can Ukip survive another

leadership contest now?

Of course it can, of course it can.

We're like, we're like vampires,

you stake us, we come back to life,

you can't get rid of us,

I'm sorry.

Plenty here believe

in Ukip's future, its role

in the Brexit debate.

But many fear the turmoil at the top

means it will never again be

the influential force it once was.

Alex Forsyth, BBC News, Birmingham.

Team GB is celebrating

its most successful day

in Winter Olympic history.

Lizzy Yarnold won Gold

in the women's skeleton -

becoming the first Briton ever

to retain a Winter Olympic title.

There was a Bronze too in the event

- for her team-mate Laura Deas,

and a Bronze in the ski slopestyle

for Izzy Atkin.

David Ornstein reports

from Pyeongchang.

Guiding Great Britain

to unprecedented glory,

Lizzy Yarnold and Laura Deas turning

dreams into reality,

rewriting the record books.

COMMENTATOR:

Lizzy Yarnold next,

the Olympic champion,

can she make history

and win it again?

Yarnold went into her final

slide in second place,

but conjured an imperious display,

and the fastest time any woman has

produced on this track,

to enter sporting folklore.

COMMENTATOR:

That is a gold medal

winning run, I'm sure of it.

So it's gold for Lizzy Yarnold.

She's defended her title

and become the most decorated

British Winter Olympian in history.

She was joined on the podium

by team-mate Laura Deas.

The pair rounding off the most

successful day their nation has ever

seen at a Winter Games.

As Yarnold jumped into the crowd

to join the celebrations,

how did she feel?

I feel exhausted!

Now a back-to-back champion,

the 29-year-old couldn't

hide her delight.

I'm just so relieved

that I've done the race,

been consistent, and Laura

and I are on the podium together.

For her parents, Judith and Clive,

another moment to savour.

From the mixed season that she's

had, to come and win

the gold medal here today -

and we have a bronze medal

as well through Laura -

is absolutely mind-boggling.

The success story was started

by the youngest member of Team GB,

19-year-old Izzy Atkin

saving her best until last to take

bronze in the slopestyle and become

Britain's first official

Olympic skiing medallist.

COMMENTATOR:

Great Britain's Izzy

Atkin takes a bronze!

Mum and dad, Winnie and Mike,

overcome with joy.

I'm still kind of speechless.

I can't...

I'm really excited, really happy.

I'm stoked with how I skied and also

stoked to win the bronze.

The day was however tinged

with disappointment

as Elise Christie crashed out

of the 1500 metres short track speed

skating and was later disqualified.

COMMENTATOR:

Christie has crashed

again now in the semifinal!

She went to hospital as a precaution

but was given the all clear and may

yet race in the 1000 metres

as she bids to avoid

a repeat of her nightmare

in Sochi four years ago.

Bronze medallist, Great Britain!

But that will do little to dampen

the British euphoria

as they delivered on snow and ice

a Super Saturday to live

long in the memory.

David Ornstein, BBC

News, in Pyeongchang.

Survivors of the shooting

at a Florida school this week,

which left 17 people dead,

have been taking part in a rally

demanding tighter gun control laws.

Protestors in Fort Lauderdale

chanted 'no more guns'

and attacked politicians.

It comes as pressure mounts

on the FBI over the agency's failure

to act on a tip-off that

Nikolas Cruz, the suspected gunman,

might carry out an attack.

A court in Pakistan has sentenced

a man to death for the murder

and rape of a 6-year-old girl.

Zainab Ansari's body was found

on a rubbish dump in the city

of Kasoor in January.

24-year-old Imran Ali confessed

to the killing and to attacks

on other young girls.

Secunder Kermani reports.

These are the last images

of 6-year-old Zainab alive,

being led away by the hand by

the man who would rape and kill her.

Her body was found on a rubbish

dump five days later.

Zainab's attacker was

24-year-old Imran Ali,

an acquaintance of her family.

He was identified on the

basis of DNA evidence.

After a trial lasting

just four days, today

he was sentenced to death.

Today the court has

announced the judgment.

He has been convicted on four

different counts and has

been sentenced to death.

The discovery of Zainab's body

led to angry protests

in her hometown Kasoor.

At the trial, her killer admitted

to having assaulted or murdered

eight other young girls here over

the past two years.

Many believe he could have

been stopped sooner.

Zainab's family, though,

welcomed today's verdict.

TRANSLATION:

We are satisfied

with this verdict of the death

sentence, but we also want for him

to be punished publicly.

The murder of Zainab has

sparked unprecedented

discussion of child abuse,

normally a taboo topic in Pakistan.

But campaigners believe more needs

to be done to educate both children

and parents about the dangers,

and to ensure the authorities

properly investigate cases.

The families of these victims now

have some semblance of justice.

But, for many, it may feel

too little too late.

Secunder Kermani,

BBC News, Islamabad.

A mini-earthquake has shaken Wales

and parts of west England.

You can see the large red lines here

from The British Geological Survey -

they show the tremor

which was a magnitude of 4.4.

The epicentre was around 12 miles

outside Swansea and tremors

could be felt as far

as Chester and Bournemouth.

Tremors on this scale

are only felt in the UK

every two to three years.

While all eyes are focused on this

year's Winter Olympics,

one of the most hotly-tipped films

for tomorrow night's

BAFTA awards is I, Tonya,

based on events linked

to the Winter Olympics of 1994.

It's a biopic about the American

figure skater Tonya Harding,

who became notorious for her link

to an attack on a fellow skater.

Margot Robbie plays

the disgraced Tonya,

and Allison Janney her mother -

and both have received

BAFTA nominations.

Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz

has been to meet them.

I was the best figure skater

in the world at one point in time.

4.8.

How do I get a fair shot here?

It wasn't about telling

the Tonya Harding story.

The haters always say,

Tonya, tell the truth.

We have all these unreliable

narrators telling completely

contradictory versions

of the exact same event.

I mean come on, what kind

of friggin' person bashes

in their friend's knee?

The juxtaposition of everyone's

different point of view and story

is where the dark comedy comes in.

Where you see my character

throw a knife at Tonya.

And then you cut to me saying,

you know, what family doesn't

have their ups and downs?

I made you a champion!

Knowing you'd hate me for it.

That's the sacrifice a mother makes.

I wish I had a mother

like me instead of nice.

You cursed me.

In the movie, you assault your

daughter on more than one occasion,

and yet her mother in real life

denies it happening.

I told her side of

the story very well.

I think I, I understood, I had

to make her a three-dimensional

character, she was just a monster.

character, she wasn't

just a monster.

How old are you honey?

She's a soft four.

Having been a figure skater myself,

I know how expensive

it is to have custom skates

and have the skating costumes.

I know what it took for my parents

to get up at five in the morning.

I felt like I could tell

her side of the story.

What can you tell us

about Tonya Harding?

I don't know a Tonya Harding.

Aren't you her bodyguard?

As a young producer

and actor in the business,

do you think the game

is still rigged against women?

There's far more female driven

content, female lead films now

than even when I started,

and I haven't even been

doing it this long.

Still, is it enough?

No.

We still have...

The statistics are so imbalanced.

I think it's going to take a while.

But yeah.

Margot Robbie talking to our Arts

editor Will Gompertz there.

You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel.

That's all from me.

Goodnight.