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The Government loses its appeal at the Supreme Court - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
only parliament has the power to trigger the Brexit process. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Eight of the eleven judges agreed that MPs and peers, | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
not the Government, should be responsible | :00:16. | :00:15. | |
The Government cannot trigger Article 50 without Parliament | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
Outside the court, the ruling was welcomed | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
by Gina Miller, the woman who'd challenged the Government. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Today's decision has created legal certainty based on our democratic | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
process and provides the legal foundations for the Government | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
David Davis tells MPs that there is no going back on Brexit and | :00:41. | :00:55. | |
legislation seeking their approval will be introduced quickly. We will | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
within days introduce legislation to give the government legal power to | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
trigger article 50 and begin the formal process of withdrawal. | :01:04. | :01:04. | |
We'll be examining the significance of the Supreme Court ruling | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
and asking what impact it will have on Brexit. | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
President Trump tells car manufacturers, put your | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
The massacre on a Tunisian beach - an inquest into the deaths of 30 | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
British tourists hears from a woman who played dead to survive. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
On the up - speeding fines for motorists driving well over | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
In sport on BBC News, Bernie Ecclestone says | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
he was forced out as chief executive of Formula One | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
after 40 years following a takeover by Liberty Media. | :01:39. | :02:03. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
In a landmark ruling, the government has lost its appeal | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
at the Supreme Court over who has the authority to start the process | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
of taking the UK out of the European Union. | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
Eight of the eleven supreme court judges ruled that | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
only MPs and peers, not the Government, | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
have the authority to trigger Article 50 and begin two | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
The president of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, said that leaving | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
the EU would change UK law and the rights of UK citizens - | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
which meant parliament must be consulted. | :02:37. | :02:37. | |
A short time ago, MPs were told the government would introduce | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
legislation within days to stop the formal process of leaving the EU. | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
Our political correspondent Carole Walker reports. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
This was a case with profound implications. Who should decide the | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
process for taking the UK out of the EU? The decision, taken by 11 of the | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
most senior judges in the land, was delivered to the hushed courtroom. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
Today, by a majority of 8-3, the Supreme Court rules that the | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
government cannot trigger Article 50 without an act of Parliament | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
authorising it to do so. Article 50 begins the formal negotiations for | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
leaving the EU, a process which the judges said would fundamentally | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
change UK law. The referendum is of great political significance, but | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
the act of Parliament which established it did not say what | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
should happen as a result. So any change in the law to give effect to | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
the referendum must be made in the only where permitted by the UK | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
constitution, namely by an act of Parliament. The verdict was clear - | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
the judgment spells out why the court had rejected the government's | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
case. The government will comply with the judgment of the court and | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
do all that is necessary to implement it. The woman who brought | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
the case said the ruling reaffirmed that Parliament is sovereign. This | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
ruling today means that MPs we have elected will rightfully have the | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
opportunity to bring their invaluable experience and expertise | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
to bear in helping the government select the best course in the | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
forthcoming Brexit negotiations. Is this a blow to the government's | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Brexit timetable, Sir? But the government will be relieved that the | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
court ruled that there is no legal requirement for it to consult the | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
devolved nations, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. So the focus | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
now switches to Parliament. MPs and peers will not try to block the | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Brexit process, but they could delay it. Opposition parties are already | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
setting out the changes they will try to make to the coming | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
legislation, changes which could affect the government's whole | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
approach to the negotiations over Britain's departure from the EU. We | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
are very clear. We will hold them to account to protect jobs. We will | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
hold them to account to make sure British industry does have market | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
access, and we will not allow ourselves to become some kind of | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
offshore tax haven. That is not what people voted for. Unless the | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
government concedes a new deal for the British people so that the | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
British people have a say over the final arrangements between the UK | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
and the EU, I will vote against article 50. The SNP say they will | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
table 50 amendments. The Prime Minister set out last week a path | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
towards the hardest of hard Brexits. I don't believe there is a majority | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
for that in the House of Commons. I certainly don't believe there is a | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
majority for that across the country, so this is an opportunity | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
for the House of Commons to assert itself and to have a say not just on | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
the narrow question, but on the broader terms of the negotiation as | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
well. Downing Street said today's ruling will not affect the timetable | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
for Theresa May to begin negotiating with other EU leaders. The | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
government will introduce a bill in the Commons within days. This will | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
be the most straightforward bill possible to give effect to the | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
decision of the people and respect the Supreme Court's judgment. The | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
purpose of this bill is simply to give the government the power to | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
revoke Article 50 and begin the process of leaving the European | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Union. But the scene is set for some tough parliamentary clashes before | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
the bigger battles with the rest of the EU can even begin. Carole | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
Walker, BBC News, Westminster. Well, in a moment we'll talk | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
to our assistant political editor Norman Smith - | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
but first our legal How much of an impact could this | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
ruling have on Brexit? Well, as you heard, this is a ruling | :06:30. | :06:45. | |
which removes power from the government and gives power to | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
Parliament. The government didn't want it this way, but they have got | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
it this way. Now they have to introduce a bill to parliament that | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
could be subject to a number of amendments. The real significance of | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
today is that this ruling has really defined the limits of executive | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
power, the power of ministers and government. And it has underscored | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
the foundation of our unwritten constitution. We don't have a | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
written constitution in this country, but we have one founding | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
principle to our constitution, which is that Parliament is sovereign. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Parliament creates the law and only Parliament has the power to change | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
the law. And it was that that came through in the ruling of the eight | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Supreme Court justices who ruled against the government today. The | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
government now has a much more difficult task ahead of it, and far | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
less control over the process. Norman Smith is in Westminster. The | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
government lost today. How confident is the Prime Minister going to be | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
that they can still stick to the timetable, this date in March? It is | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
a funny old paradox. You are right, the government was defeated, and yet | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
frankly, ministers are oozing with confidence that they can get Article | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
50 triggered and yes, by Mrs May's self-imposed deadline of March. The | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
reason for that above all is because Parliamentary opposition in this | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
place to triggering Article 50 is by and large crumbled. Tory rebels | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
don't want a fight now. Peers in the House of Lords don't want to be seen | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
to be defying the result of the referendum, and crucially, the | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
Labour leader has said his party will not stand in the way of | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
triggering article 50, even though some of his MPs will rebel against | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
that. And on top of that, the court decided that the Scottish Parliament | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
did not have a right to have a vote. So ministers are extremely | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
confident, and the expectation is that a pared down bill will be | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
introduced in the next few days. A word of warning, though. One thing | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
we have learned from the whole Brexit process and successive prime | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
ministers have learned in our relations with Europe - nothing ever | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
goes smoothly. Parliamentary trapdoors can still open without | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
warning. Norman Smith, thank you. Six months after the EU referendum, | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
what the voters make of today's ruling? Our correspondent Danny | :09:15. | :09:15. | |
Savage has been finding out. When it came to the decision on | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
whether to leave the EU or stay, Leeds voted to remain, but only | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
just. Months later, what do the 49.7% who voted to leave think now | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
that the issue is going back to Parliament? Reverted to get out, so | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
why can't we get our? It is simple. We voted for the Prime Minister come | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
in, the Prime Minister comes in. We look to leave, and a store and | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
stall. It's wrong. A lot of countries want to do business with | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
England, Trump for starters. We don't like the guy, but that's not | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
the point. Let's get back for us. Never mind other people, let's get | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
this country going again. But remember, the majority in this city | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
voted to stay and many haven't changed their mind. Shamal is from | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
Iraq and thinks Europe should stick together. I don't know what is going | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
to happen. Would you rather they stopped Brexit now and kept in | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
Europe? Yeah. I was totally opposed to Brexit and I voted against | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
leaving the EU. At a nearby butchers, Jim believes things would | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
be different if we had known then what we know now. I know people who | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
voted for Brexit who did not understand the circumstances and | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
consequences of what we were voting for. I think before the referendum, | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
we were not totally told what it implied with Brexit and what it | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
means to stay in the EU or to leave. Do you wish Brexit would just go | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
away? If I could turn the clock back 12 months and start all over again, | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
I think the lead up to the referendum should be different. | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
Broadly speaking, those who voted for Brexit just want the government | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
to get on with it unhindered. Those who didn't are still against it, but | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
see it as inevitable. Danny Savage, BBC News, Leeds. | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Let's get reaction from the rest of Europe with our correspondent Damian | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Grammaticas, who is in Brussels. What have they made of the ruling | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
there? Here, what we have heard from the European Commission is that they | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
will not comment on internal legal matters of a member state. They are | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
waiting for that article 50 negotiation. But they did make clear | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
in their view, once the 50 trigger happens, there will then first beer | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
negotiation about separating. Only after that, negotiations on a trade | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
deal. The EU commission said if you spit and want to remain on good | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
terms, you have to settle things first and then your future | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
relationship. One thing the ruling today has not clarified as whether | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
once Article 50 is triggered, it can be revoked. Can you go back on that? | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
The assumption in the ruling is that you trigger article 50 after two | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
years you are out of the EU am a good deal, bad deal, whatever. There | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
is a question that some are raising in the UK and was raised to date | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
singer that can be revoked? Here, they would not be drawn on it, but | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
expect more challenges through European courts, perhaps, on that | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
issue. Damian Grammaticas, thank you. | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
President Trump is meeting American car manufacturers today in a bid | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
He's going to tell them that if they want to sell cars | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
in the states, they need to build their new car | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
Yesterday one of his first acts as President was to withdraw | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
the United States from a major Asia pacific trade agreement - | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
Our correspondent Richard Lister reports. | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
If there was one thing that lifted Donald Trump to power, | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
it was his pledge to create jobs, and the way to do that, he says, | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
is to rip up some trade agreements and start again. | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
He began by pulling America out of a deal with 11 other | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
In truth, it had long been stalled in Congress, | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
and President Trump said he would have a different approach. | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
We're going to have trade, but we're going to have one-on-one. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
And if somebody misbehaves, we'll send them a letter | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
of termination and they'll either straighten it out or we're gone, | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
not one of these deals where you can't get out | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
But some of those like Japan who signed up to the deal Mr Trump | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
has rejected argue that it would have balanced Chinese | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
Others say if Washington won't join their trade | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
We want to have more opportunities with more markets. | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
We already have a China-Australia free trade agreement. | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
Certainly, there's the potential for China to join the TPP. | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
Tackling China's economic influence is a priority for the Trump team, | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
so now it has to try to fill the potential trade vacuum | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
And it's worried about the South China Sea too. | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
It carries 40% of the world's trade and is being fortified by Beijing | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
If those islands are in fact in international waters and not | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
part of China proper, then yeah, we are going to make sure we defend | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
international territories from being taken | :14:30. | :14:30. | |
China responded bluntly today that its policy wouldn't change. | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
The Foreign Ministry warned Washington to act cautiously. | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
Donald Trump's focus on putting business first went down well | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
with these American union officials yesterday, but it's a strategy | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
which will have a major impact abroad as well as at home. | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
Well, let's speak to our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue, | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
We know from his Twitter feed that he has been up for a while, but | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
President Trump's first on his agenda are the car manufacturers. He | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
certainly has a busy day ahead. Yeah, he is hauling in Ford, Fiat | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
Chrysler and also General Motors into the Oval Office this morning. | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
Effectively, they were on the receiving end of some of his | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
harshest criticism during the campaign for shipping jobs and | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
manufacturing out of the United States to Mexico in particular. He | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
has also claimed credit for some of those jobs coming back subsequently, | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
and those big manufacturers have announced some investments in the US | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
as a result of Donald Trump's win. But there are still a lot of | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
manufacturing going on outside. Ford employs something like 8000 people | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
in Mexico and is building a new plant there. Donald Trump is | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
threatening to impose huge terrace if they continue to assemble those | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
cars and bring them in, 35% tariffs. Of course, he has got the unions on | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
his side on this one and he will know that. The other thing to | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
remember is that the American people know that the auto industry was | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
bailed out big time after the financial crisis. So they have a lot | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
of pressure on them at the moment to deliver what Trump once. Gary, thank | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
you. A woman who was on holiday | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
with her husband in Tunisia to celebrate their 30th wedding | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
anniversary has been describing what happened when a gunman | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
started shooting at tourists Allison Heathcote | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
was shot five times. She told an inquest that | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
she played dead as she lay next to her | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
husband's body. Our correspondent Richard Galpin | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
is at the Royal Courts of Justice. We are in a very important phase of | :16:33. | :16:44. | |
this inquest is now, it began this week, this particular phase, looking | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
into the evidence relating to the deaths of each of the 30 British | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
tourists who were attack back in 2015. This morning we heard a very | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
moving statement by the daughter of a couple who were killed, this was a | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
Raymond and Angela Fisher. She, the daughter, read out the statement | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
itself in court. It was a very brave thing to do, spoke about how her | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
parents had been planning their 50th wedding anniversary during their | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
holiday in Sousse. And also said that they had never been able to see | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
their first grandson, who was born, actually, just before this inquest | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
began earlier this month. And she then went on to ask the court to | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
read out the very graphic details of the postmortem is carried out on | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
both her parents so that everybody would know what the impact those | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
high velocity rounds would be on the body, and everyone would know, | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
therefore, what the gunman had done to her parents. Also, we've heard | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
some critical evidence coming from some witnesses, who have talked | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
about, really, the absolute pandemonium at the hotel, the fact | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
that the staff were panicking, had no idea what to do to try and help | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
the people who were running, and trying to escape from the scene. And | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
also saying how there had been absolute no lockdown procedure at | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
the hotel, so some very damning evidence of what the staff should | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
have been doing but were not capable of doing at this critical time. | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
Richard Galpin, thank you. The Government loses its appeal | :18:20. | :18:20. | |
at the Supreme Court - only Parliament has the power | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
to trigger the Brexit process. And coming up, | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
how much is your signature worth? Here at a unique auction, | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
1000 signatures are going under the hammer from some | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
of the most famous names in history. In sport, Roger Federer | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
is through to the semifinals of the Australian Open after beating | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
Misha Zverev in straight sets. He'll face his Swiss compatriot | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
Stan Wawrinka People caught driving | :18:48. | :18:48. | |
well above the speed limit will now face much bigger fines | :18:49. | :19:03. | |
in England and Wales. Those found to be travelling | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
at more than 50 mph in a 30 limit could be hit with a penalty | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
of up to ?1000. are being issued to magistrates | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
by the Sentencing Council. It follows concerns | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
by road-safety campaigners. Our correspondent | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
Daniel Boettcher has more. Thousands of motorists are fined | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
for speeding every year, and the penalties already vary | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
depending on how bad but under changes | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
to sentencing guidelines, exceeding the limit | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
by a large margin Magistrates will set a sentence | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
from a starting point that's up from the current | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
starting point of 100%. The increase will apply to those | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
cases judged to be the most serious, and that means on motorways, | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
where the speed limit is 70, In a 20 zone, | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
it would apply after 41 mph. There is, though, as now, | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
and other limit for fines - ?2500 on motorways and ?1000 | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
on all other roads. The changes have been welcomed | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
by safety campaigners The prospect of higher fines | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
may change behaviours. What it will do is act | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
as a deterrent, potentially, but what we also need is | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
effective enforcement on our roads, and we have fewer | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
road-traffic police officers The tougher penalties | :20:25. | :20:25. | |
are part of broader guidelines set out by | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
the Sentencing Council for magistrates | :20:31. | :20:31. | |
in England and Wales. These guidelines were last updated | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
in 2008, and while there are significant changes | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
for motorists caught speeding, they also cover a whole range | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
of other offences That includes the non-payment | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
of the TV licence fee. There'll be a new option | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
for magistrates for cases judged to be at | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
the lowest level of offending. The Sentencing Council | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
says the changes should help magistrates sentence | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
fairly and proportionately. They're very important | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
to ensure consistency, so whether you're in Hackney | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
or Halifax, you'll have the same | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
approach, the same starting point, the same range being looked | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
at for a similar offence. The changes for speeding | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
and the other offences covered by the new guidelines will be | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
brought in towards the end of April. A barrister defending | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
the veteran entertainer Rolf Harris has told Southwark Crown Court | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
that the jury in his first trial in 2014 got it wrong when they found | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
him guilty of indecent assault. The 86-year-old, | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
who's pleaded not guilty, is being tried on seven charges | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
of indecent assault and one of sexual assault against | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
seven victims between 1971 and 2004. Our correspondent Dan Johnson | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
is at Southwark Crown Court. Yes, this was the day when Rolf | :21:43. | :21:54. | |
Harris' defence team started putting the case on his behalf, but we were | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
told we will not hear from Rolf Harris himself, his defence | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
barrister saying that his memory isn't good enough to recount events | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
30 or 40 years ago. He told the jury, if the defendant can say no | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
more micro to Uihlein, I cannot remember being there, the evidential | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
importance is quite weak. -- can say no more to you. They have been | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
picking up hard evidence given when he was convicted previously, and a | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
number of witnesses have been saying that they could not remember him | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
being at a community centre in Portsmouth where he was convicted of | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
assaulting an 18-year-old girl, questioning his previous convictions | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
and whether the prosecution can rely on those convictions to show a | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
pattern of defending in this trial as well. His defence barrister said, | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
in short, we say the jury got it wrong in the first trial, we have | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
enormous faith in the system, but it is not infallible. Well, Rolf | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
Harris, appearing via video link, denies the seven counts of indecent | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
assault. Dan, thank you. | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
Thousands of migrants, including children on their own, | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
are sleeping rough in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
Some of the children are as young as eight. | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
The Serbian government says many are refusing shelter | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
Our Europe correspondent Gavin Lee sent this report. | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
This is how migrants are living in the Serbian capital, Belgrade - | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
sleeping rough with temperatures dropping as low | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
But the people here have a choice - the Serbian government says | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
warmth and food is available in official shelters. | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
But many fear deportation and keep trying instead | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
to cross illegally into Hungary and on to other EU countries. | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
6,000 migrants are housed in official centres across the country, | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
waiting for a chance to be among 20 people a day | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
On the Belgrade streets, eight-year-old Aziz is alone, | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
his brother detained on the Croatian border. | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
I mean, Aziz, you don't sound well - is he OK? | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
Yeah, he's OK, he has a little problem of flu, | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
he have a flu and chest problems, cough problems. | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
He would at least be, like, safe and warm... | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
Extremely ill, we alert aid workers to Aziz's case, | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
We've seen, over the last few days, children that are eight, nine, ten. | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
I was speaking to a 12-year-old Afghan boy yesterday | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
in this warehouse that's been here for three months. | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
He's waiting for a call from a smuggler, | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
because he thinks that's his best option. | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
With older migrants looking out for him, saying their chance | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
of crossing the border is greater with him in tow, | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
two days on, Aziz is still sleeping rough in the warehouse | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
where there are dozens of other unaccompanied children. | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
The head of BT Europe is to resign over an accounting scandal in Italy | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
that will dent the parent company's profits. | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
Well, with me is our business editor, Simon Jack. | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
Shares in the company have fallen sharply, what is going on? Really | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
sharply, down 20%, the worst day they have had since they were | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
privatised, and that is bad news for the 1 million small shareholders who | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
still own shares since then. This has been an Italian accounting | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
scandal, they thought it was going to cost ?140 million. Now they think | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
it is to cost ?500 million, and the head of BT Europe will be out of | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
post, let me put it this way, by later this afternoon, I am told. | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
Believe it or not, it is not the worst of their problems, they also | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
said that their revenue from their biggest customers, those are public | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
sector bodies, big international customers, which stomach will be | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
much weaker than they thought, and that is what investors even more. | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
What be blasting to me is that when a coming as big as BT says it's | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
biggest customers have stopped spending money, it can be a bad sign | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
for the economy. -- what people are saying to me is that when a company | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
as big as BT. It is a bit of a canary in a coal mine. | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
Bernie Ecclestone's 40-year reign as the head of Formula One is over, | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
after it was sold to a company called Liberty Media | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
Mr Ecclestone, who's 86, said he'd been forced out. | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss reports. | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
He's the former used-car salesman who came to rule | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
But for Bernie Ecclestone, it's finally the end of the road. | :26:25. | :26:33. | |
Over 40 years, he turned Formula One from a niche interest | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
into a multi-billion pound powerhouse. | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
But now it has new owners - American company Liberty Media. | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
They believe the sport can promote itself better, | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
and so they put a new man, Chase Carey, in the driving seat. | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
I would expect this is difficult for Bernie, | :26:56. | :26:57. | |
it's a big change for him, he's run the sport, | :26:58. | :26:59. | |
he's run the sport as a one-man... | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
he's run it as a one-man dictator for a long time. | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
I think the sport needs a fresh perspective. | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
Tough and uncompromising, Ecclestone's business brain | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
brought him famous friends and huge personal fortune, | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
but it's also brought controversy. | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
Off the track, he had to settle a bribery case in Germany, | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
while on it his decisions have raised eyebrows - taking races | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
to countries like Bahrain, with questionable human rights | :27:32. | :27:33. | |
records, tinkering with the rules, and skewing prize money | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
After so long in power, many feel a change in direction is overdue. | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
I think the most important thing is getting back | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
to the basics of outright racing, engaging with the fans, | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
engaging with the public, and perhaps de-complicating the cars | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
a little, and going back to man and machine | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Ecclestone will still have an advisory role, but a man | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
so used to being the puppet master is no longer pulling the strings. | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
At 86, his reign is over, and Formula One, indeed sport, | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
will surely never see his like again. | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
A signature on a cheque from Charles Dickens, | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
a lock of hair from the Duke of Wellington, | :28:20. | :28:21. | |
a postcard from the great train robbers | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
They're just part of a huge collection of autographs, | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
letters and historic documents that are going under the hammer today. | :28:33. | :28:34. | |
Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports. | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
Which Royal do you think this is? Does this help? How about this | :28:39. | :28:47. | |
writer? And does this help? This ruler is probably more recognisable, | :28:48. | :28:55. | |
but what about this? In fact, they are Queen Victoria, Rudyard Kipling | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
and Napoleon, but it is their signatures, not their faces, that | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
often travel better through history. They are part of a unique single | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
collection of 1000 signatures being auctioned today. There is the mark | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
of everyone from mad King George III to the Duke of Wellington, and from | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
Gordon of Khartoum to Ronnie Biggs, the great train robber. Some of the | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
signatures are connected, like these three men, who all took part in the | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
charge of the light Brigade in 1854. There is Lord Lucan, who gave the | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
order, the Earl of Cardigan, who led the charge, and Private William | :29:35. | :29:41. | |
Bird, one of the 600 who survived. ... Daisy, Daisy... # | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
You might not recognise Francis Warwick, the mistress of the future | :29:47. | :29:55. | |
Edward VII, who inspired the song. Others speak for themselves. That is | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. It was the late | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
John Evans, a post-war British magician who conjured up this | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
collection, but in a world where signatures seem to be giving way to | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
selfies, is the intimacy of handwritten names being lost? | :30:16. | :30:18. | |
Collecting signatures in days gone by, and I think it will continue, is | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
on a park with selfies today. What we do today with selfies is only the | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
same as collecting a bit of excitement decades or centuries ago. | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
Today's auction in Worthing attracted local and international | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
buyers. Neil Armstrong's signature went for ?2500. Ronnie Biggs' 564. | :30:40. | :30:46. | |
There is still money in a moniker, especially from those fashioned by | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
the hand of history. Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, in Worthing. | :30:51. | :30:52. | |
Time now for a look at the weather with Chris Fawkes, lots more fog | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
around today. Yes, once again causing problems for | :30:57. | :31:04. | |
the airport in south-east England, and in the Wembley area, rather | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
foggy conditions, the sun just trying to peep through the low | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
cloud. There is Wembley, out in the fog banks, sunshine across good part | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
of England, cloudy and to the north-west, a beautiful to the | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
morning in Staffordshire. Temperatures overnight dropped like | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
a stone to leave icy conditions, a pewter. Still today. -- a beautiful | :31:25. | :31:38. | |
view. A few fog patches linger on to the Vale of York and the Salisbury | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
Plains, cloudy for Wales and north-west England. Damp weather | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
getting into Scotland. Northern Ireland should stay dry, and for the | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
north of Scotland, sunny spells, both having relatively mild weather, | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
10-11d. Overnight and night, risk Atlantic winds over the north and | :31:58. | :32:00. | |
west of the UK will keep the frost and fog at bay across the north-west | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
of the country. Indeed, a mild night here, ten or 11 degrees in the | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
mildest spots. Cold air in central and eastern England, and again we | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
will see a sharp overnight frost forming. Temperatures probably as | :32:15. | :32:20. | |
low as minus four degrees Celsius, so again some icy stretches on | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
untreated roads, and the fog will be back again, particularly across | :32:25. | :32:30. | |
south-east England and East Anglia. There is a risk of further | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
disruption. It will clear through the morning as low cloud comes in | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
from the near continent, bringing drizzle, even snow is possible, | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
don't be surprised by a bit of wintriness. Sunshine into Wales and | :32:43. | :32:47. | |
north-west England, cloudy for Northern Ireland and western | :32:48. | :32:52. | |
Scotland, mild weather in the West, ten or 11 degrees. Through Thursday, | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
we started to squeeze the isobars closer together across the UK, so | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
although the weather should stay largely dry, the winds will be a | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
major feature through Thursday, and quite a cloudy start to the day, but | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
things should brighten up with sunny spells coming through. Temperatures, | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
we are looking at highs of 5 degrees or so in London, but feeling | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
significantly colder in the wind, feeling below freezing for some. | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
Things will change towards the end of the week and on into the weekend. | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
We will see the temperatures generally rising, and in London by | :33:26. | :33:28. | |
Saturday temperatures up to 10 degrees. | :33:29. | :33:30. | |
A reminder of our main story this lunchtime. | :33:31. | :33:32. | |
The Government loses its appeal at the Supreme Court - | :33:33. | :33:34. | |
now only Parliament has the power to trigger the Brexit process. | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
That's all from the BBC News at One, so it's goodbye from me, | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :33:45. | :33:47. |