06/05/2013 BBC News at One

speedboat accident in Cornwall is formally identified. Nick Milligan,

a senior executive at the broadcaster BSkyB, died along with

his eight-year-old daughter. Police continue to investigate.

They conflict in Syria, the UN human rights investigator points to fresh

evidence that rebel forces may have used chemical weapons.

Plans to stop people claiming a pension simply because they are

married to a British citizen. Have a good day! And a sizzling bank

holiday Monday, the UK could enjoy Cornwall are trying to establish the

cause of a speedboat accident yesterday in which a man and his

eight-year-old daughter were killed. Four people, including three

children, are being treated in hospital. The man has been named as

51-year-old Nick Milligan, a senior executive with BSkyB. Our

correspondence Sarah Ransome is in Padstow for us now.

Yes, this is a popular holiday is what both here and on the other side

of the estuary, and yesterday afternoon holidaymakers were out

enjoying this glorious bank holiday sunshine, but just before four

o'clock, they watched in horror as the drama began to unfold before

their very eyes. One person told me it was the worst thing they had ever

Nick Milligan was in Cornwall on holiday with his young family when a

sunny afternoon on the water turned into a tragedy. A major search and

rescue operation got under way after the senior BSkyB executive's

speedboat span out of control. turned sharply to one side, tipping

six people into the water. The vessel then circled around and

around, and on a number of occasions it hit the people in the water,

causing them significant injury. Local skippers went to help, and one

managed to get close enough to jump on board and cut the engine. Teams

of coastguards have been out this morning searching the coastline for

clues to help try and piece together exactly what happened, and with

thousands of holidaymakers flocking to the area, police want anyone with

more video footage to get in touch to help with their investigation.

This horrific incident has left this picturesque Cornish town in shock.

Various people that I've seen quite a lot in that time, and here, this

is a nasty accident that will live with us. Time, I am afraid. Mr

Gilligan and his eight-year-old daughter died. A 39-year-old woman

and three young children are currently being treated for serious

leg injuries in in Plymouth. -- Mr Milligan. Sky have issued a

statement, saying it is shocked and saddened at the news and says its

thoughts are with the Milligan family. It goes on to say, Nick

Milligan has been a great friend and colleague for many years, his loss

will be felt not just across the company but across the whole

industry, too. Sarah, thank you very much indeed.

The UN human rights investigator, Carla del Ponte, has said there is

evidence to suggest that rebel forces in Syria may have used

chemical weapons. She said the UN inquiry team had interviewed doctors

and victims in neighbouring countries which had resulted in

strong concrete suspicions but not incontrovertible proof that the

nerve agent sarin had been used. Some chemical weapons were used, in

particular nerve gas, and what appeared to our investigation that

was used by the opponents, by the rebels.

Carla del Ponte there. With me as our diplomatic correspondent Bridget

Kendall, what shall we make of her comments? Well, she is a senior UN

human rights official. Her commission is supposed to be looking

into human rights abuses, not chemical weapons, and she admits

that, but in the course of gathering evidence, they have come across

these testimonies which she thinks 2.2 sarin gas and two rebels having

used them. -- which she thinks dewpoint two. She does not rule out

the possibility that the Syrian government may have used chemical

weapons, too. These are informal comments, she was giving an

interview to television. It is not formally presented evidence. She

will no doubt pass this on to the UN team which is looking at chemical

weapons, the inspectors were waiting in Cyprus to be allowed to go into

Syria. That may be a long time that they have to wait, because President

Assad has not given them permission to go in, and in the meantime her

words, however informal, will play into the very acute political debate

going on around the world about these chemical weapons. It might

make it more difficult for the British government is to make the

case that the EU should lift their embargo to arm rebels. Some EU

countries are worried about this, and if they are using chemical

weapons, is that a good idea? It may also complicate matters for the US

government. The US Secretary of State is off to Moscow this week to

try to convince the Russian jet is time for them to shift their

position. They will also point to these comments, saying that Bassett

is not always the Syrian government that is the problem. -- perhaps.

The Government wants to stop people receiving a state pension based on

the work of a husband or wife. Today ministers highlighted the fact that

some of those claiming the married persons allowance never visited the

UK, but the change would affect both British and not British citizens. --

non-British. It will be part of an overhaul of the state pension which

will be included in the Queen's Speech on Wednesday. Robin Brant

reports. There are big changes coming in

pensions. From 2016, there will be a new single rate payment, the same

for everyone. The Government is urging people to put more in the jar

for when they retire. The coalition is also looking to save money by

cutting back what some British families abroad are untitled two.

The Government believes there are 220,000 people living outside the UK

who gets taxpayer funded pensions. They can claim up to �3500 PA, the

married person's allowance. It is estimated to cost the government

about �410 million per year. But this is a payment based solely on

the British work history and contributions of a spouse, not

because they paid in themselves. Going forward, your pension will

depend on what you put into the system. If you have paid national

insurance, you will get a pension. If you have been at home with

children, you will get credits. Most of this is about people who have

never paid into the system, most of whom are not in the country at the

moment. This is part of a bigger change to pensions which has been

trailed for some time. When the government unveils its pensions Bill

later this week, the centrepiece is a new system based on contributions,

what you individually put him through work or childcare, but some

predict a big bureaucratic headache when it comes to pensioners abroad.

The logistics of this could be quite challenging for the government,

because they are proposing to make a distinction between spouses who have

built up an expectation under the present system who live in England,

who have spent time in England, who may be British National's, and

spouses who perhaps have not lived in England or who have ended up

retiring abroad to the government now determined should not be allowed

to inherit any state pension based on the partner's contribution

history. The Government says this is about fairness, future pensioners

will get out what they put in, but the change will affect people,

mostly wives, in the UK as much as those abroad, because it is about

contributions, not nationality. And Robin joins us now from

Westminster. Is there a bit of politics going on with this?

Absolutely. This is a government which has come in for internal

criticism for benefit payments. Other entitlements for foreigners,

and this government wants to make it clear that it is doing what it can

to clamp down on that. But what we have here is a big change to

pensions which is about contributions. It is not about

foreigners, British people living in the UK, but ministers have decided

to emphasise this number 220,000 who are currently living abroad to

receive this allowance who in the future will not be allowed to do

that. What they are not saying so clearly is that, among that number,

there are some British National 's living abroad who will not included.

They cannot be precise on the balance. Also this change will apply

equally to British wives, mostly British wives who live here in the

UK. They will no longer receive this allowance either.

Police are appealing for help finding Ryan McDonald, one of two

men who escaped from a prison van in Salford last week. The other man,

Stevie McMullen, was picked up by police in Lancashire, along with two

men they suspect of helping him to escape. Police say 27-year-old Ryan

McDonald, who is still at large, poses a potential danger.

A high-profile trial has begun in Munich of a woman accused of being

part of a neo-Nazi group which killed ten people over six years,

almost all of Turkish origin. She faces life in prison if she is

convicted. She denies the murder charges. Stephen Evans is in Munich

for us. Stephen. Yes, two years ago she

walked into a police station and said, I am the person you are

looking for, and from that moment the police theory that these murders

were all the work of Turkish Mafia collapsed, and it became clear that

they were racist murders. So today, at this Court, everyone was waiting

to see what the woman accused looked like.

Beate Zschaepe ensures court in Europe, all eyes on the woman

accused of being the one survivor of a neo-Nazi cell which murdered ten

people. Outside the court, protesters accuse the police of

failing to stop a series of killings of people of Turkish origin. The

murderers have sent a bizarre video to the police, with pictures of the

victims intercut with the pink Panther movie. In the Turkish

community in Germany, there is outrage. I would like this trial to

trigger a public debate on right-wing extremism, neo-Nazi

movements in Germany. We do have a problem, but I have impression is

that parts of the political class are avoiding public debate on this

challenge for our democracy. Across Germany, there have been memorials,

like this one, led by a father mourning the murder of his son.

Police said that it was the Turkish Mafia, so family members were

interrogated as suspects. There is now a Parliamentary inquiry.

obvious failure of our security forces is, at the least, based on

underestimating the threat of neo- Nazism in Germany, prejudice to the

investigation, and certainly a lot of miscommunication between

different security institutions. There is intense media interest in

this trial about the charges against Beate Zschaepe, of course, but a

wider interest about the allegation that the authorities were blind in

the right eye, as it is put, that the police failed to see crimes

committed by the far right. Beate Zschaepe, film deal for a police

identity parade, is the face of a bigger issue. How much did the

authorities know about the operation of a neo-Nazi cell going about its

murderous business in freedom? Now, when she appeared in court this

morning, she looked very businesslike, like a businesswoman

in a black jacket and white blouse. She maintained her silence, but it

is legal argument at the moment. There will be some days before we

get into the full hearing of evidence and her chance to make a

case. Thank you very much indeed, Stephen

Evans, reporting from Munich. Britain will host an international

conference on Somalia tomorrow to try to build on progress made in the

war-torn country over the last year. The UK already gives �63 million per

year in aid to the country, and at the conference it will push for more

direct funding for the Somali security forces, but some will be

asking where the money goes. Gabriel Gatehouse reports now from

Mogadishu's Seaport, where business is flourishing, but where corruption

is a serious problem. These sacks of dried lemons are on

their way to the Gulf. Decades of war and piracy almost destroyed this

once powerful trading hub, but in recent months better security has

seen the number of ships docking here more than double. Mogadishu

Seaport represents more than just a return to business for Somalia. It

could be the engine of its economic resurrection. Well, all of this

activity is, of course, great news for people trying to gain some

money. For these porters and loading the bags to the wholesalers, to the

lorry drivers, to the farmers who grow the lemons. They can all start

to earn a living. The problem is, very little of this money is

actually making its way into Somali government pockets. Somalia doesn't

have an income tax. Most of the federal budget comes from foreign

aid. What little revenue the government collect it does here at

the country's ports. But even the people who work here say corruption

is rife and it goes all the way to the top. Our money is being stolen

by the management and by the businessmen, this Porter told us. A

recent report prepared for the Somali government found that most of

the revenue generated by the Seaport was going missing. 75% is an

accounted for, so I think the international community have a say

in this regard is to say, you know what, since we are paying for that,

we need to understand that money we have donated, we need to find out

exactly what you are doing with it, and they have a right to do so.

Unless the international community demands that, nothing is going to

change in my view. The port authorities deny the allegations of

corruption, and these truckloads of goods are emblematic of a city

rising up out of the rubble of war. But for all the improvements, the

gun is often still the ultimate arbiter. Foreign aid is paying for

militiamen to join a fledgeling national-security course, but the

old clan loyalties can still trump the nascent sense of the greater

national good and he who controls the Gates also controls the revenue

Andy Gorum protesters in the United States have declared alarm and a

group announced it had created the world's first working at gun to be

produced by 3 D technology -- anti- gun protesters. Our science

correspondent saw the gun test- fired in Texas.

Many thought this could not -- many thought this could not be done. A

moment to celebrate for its maker but could this plastic file on have

grave implications for gun-control around the world? -- plastic fire

arm. The major part have been created with this $8,000.30 D

Printer. Computer-designed of fed in and the machine built each

component from layer upon layer of plastic. It cannot be traced and

potentially is undetectable and this man plans to make the

blueprints available online. Their estates all over the world that say,

we are a gun-control state, that is not true any more. Are you worried

about the people using this? This could be used to harm other people,

that is what it is, it is a gun, that is not a reason to not do it

or put it out. But today's successful test and the aim to make

this as easy to replicate as possible, 3 D printing is on the

radar of law enforcement agencies around the world.

Criminals were still able -- still be able to access guns more easily

off-line but some risks will emerge and that could include sectors of

society that have not traditionally been able to get hold of weapons

like younger people. 3 D printing is being hailed as the future of

manufacturing, but with all new technology, along with benefits

Now, forecasters say today could be the hottest day of the year so far.

For once, the good weather is falling on a Bank Holiday, so lots

of us should be able to enjoy it. Daniela Relph is at Ruislip Lido.

Daniela, plenty of people enjoying the sunshine there?

They really are, it is absolutely glorious! The first beach deck

chairs were down at 9am. At after waiting so long for summer to

arrive, everybody's making the most It has been a long time coming but

on Hyde Park's voting lake, at last some decent weather. Most of the UK

has seen temperatures rising. Also in Snowdonia, a hint of some at! In

Margate, the more adventurous could take to the water. And in a corner

of west London, there was a distinctly Mediterranean feel. The

beach created here, by midday, there was barely a space. Finally

some proper sunshine after the long winter gloom! Could not wait for

this day, I have been waiting for the weekend! It has been a long

winter so we are going to enjoy it while it lasts! You get everything

together and get out of the front door on a day like this.

crucially, the good weather has come on a bank holiday when

everybody can enjoy it. Has a good day! But the long winter and spring

has been felt hard by businesses dependent on good weather and they

hope this really is the start of summer. And we enjoy it, everybody

enjoy is set and we made a lot of ice-cream! But for many here, there

was a definite sense of making the most of it. Bitter experience of

British weather has shown it often does not last!

There is no doubt everybody here is enjoying themselves but the mood is