27/01/2017 BBC News at One

Theresa May is to become the first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump,

hoping to open the way to a trade deal after Brexit.

But will, in Mrs May's words, opposites attract, after President

Trump's controversial support for waterboarding?

We'll be live in Washington and in Westminster asking what each

side hopes to achieve in this crucial first meeting.

Plans to ration knee and hip surgery in Worcestershire

to save money are described as alarming by surgeons.

Tesco's share price has risen sharply after the supermarket

chain said it was buying the food wholesaler Booker.

Six years in jail for the former judge and his assistant

who defrauded their firm out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

And could Rafa Nadal be the latest comeback kid -

as he fights for a place in the men's Grand Slam

Coming up in the sport on BBC News, Anthony Joshua's title fight

against Vladimir Klitschko at Wembley in April will be watched

by the biggest post-war British boxing crowd of 90,000.

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

Theresa May is preparing to meet Donald Trump in the White House

in a few hours' time - the first foreign leader to visit

Global security and a trade deal after Brexit are likely

In a speech to US Republicans last night, Mrs May said the UK

and America could not return to failed military interventions

Her visit comes amid ongoing controversy over President Trump's

support for the waterboarding of terror suspects and his war

of words with Mexico over the building of a border wall.

Here's our correspondent Richard Lister.

She will hope the blustery conditions aren't a portent for the

meeting to come. Washington has rolled out the red carpet for

Theresa May but the Prime Minister will have to tread carefully with a

controversial President who is used to getting his own way. Her priority

is to lay the groundwork for a trade deal with the US to counterbalance

Britain's departure from the EU. On the key side in Liverpool cars

bound for the United States and construction equipment too.

President Trump has promised a building boom and Britain wants a

part of that. For us as a company if we can get a slice of that we can

export the goods that he needs to carry on with that construction he

is looking at. Britain's trading relationship with

the United States is already a healthy one. The value of our

exports to the US is ?45 billion. That's a fifth of UK global exports

and we sell them more than we buy with imports totalling 35 billion,

we export more to the US than we do to any other country. But we are

only America's fifth biggest market. We need them more than they need us.

In his first week as President, Donald Trump has said repeatedly his

strategy will be buy American, hire American. And although he wants

bilateral trade deals they'll come with conditions attached. We want to

deal with the ones that treat us well and finance they don't treat us

well we terminate for give them a notice and if they want to negotiate

we get a better deal. Until we leave the EU only Brussels can make UK

trade deals. The Chancellor's there today and he accepted Britain's

hands are currently tied. We will continue to abide by the rules and

regulations and laws of the European Union for so long as we are members.

Of course we want to strengthen our trade ties with the very many trade

partners we have around the world but we are mindful of our

obligations anned the treaty and we will follow them precisely. For now,

the key players in Europe are wary of what MrTrump has to offer.

TRANSLATION: Let's speak frankly, there are challenges that the US

administration poses to our trade rules. So we of course have to talk

to Donald Trump, he was elected. But we also have to promote our interest

and values as Europeans. Back in Liverpool, this golden eagle

marks the US kons lat established here in 1790. A reminder of

long-standing Anglo American trade ties. Today, it's a French

restaurant. That's a reminder the relationship can't be taken for

granted. The assumption that everything will be fine with British

trade is assuming that the Trump and his administration are rationale

actors, they'll behave rationally but they might not. The picture may

become clearer later today. In a moment we'll get

the latest from Westminster, but first to Washington

and our correspondent Theresa May is the first foreign

leader to visit, does this mean that the special relationship does count

for something there? Well, I just asked Donald Trump's spokeswoman

that question and she said it's as important to America as to Britain,

she said Donald Trump would use this meeting to assure MrsMay of that and

she made the comparison with Brexit and his election, she said both

leaders have been propelled into power and leadership by a populous

wave that was to shake up establishment institutions, but,

frankly, it's obvious that there is much more at stake here from MrsMay

than MrTrump because Britain's other strategic relationship with the

European Union is in flux, she can't afford to have this relationship

look like it's getting weaker. She needs to show it's getting stronger,

to demonstrate that Britain has options outside of the EU. Whatever

MrTrump might say about similarities, he is quite different

in the sense that he is a protectionist, he is a hard

nationalist and MrsMay is not. She's already tried to encourage him not

to turn his back on the world. I think she will continue that today.

Then the question of how much she wants a personal special

relationship with this man who is criticised even reviled in Britain

for his positions from everything from Muslims and women, to torture.

So, that news conference later today will be an important test of how

she's going to handle this relationship.

And what has MrsMay got to do to come away from feeling this first

meeting was a success, Carole? Well, I think the Prime Minister will want

to establish that personal relationship, a rapport with the new

American President. She will want to build the basis for a future trade

deal. She will want to, frankly, navigate her way through this mine

field of different areas where she and the American President

profoundly disagree. As you heard there, they are two very different

characters but on the plane on the way over Theresa May said, well,

sometimes opposites can attract. I think she will want to look to

economic ties, to build on President trump's offer to put Britain at the

front of the queue when it comes to a future bilaterial trade deal, then

you come to these difficult contentious issues, torture,

President trump has said he would be prepared to allow waterboarding in

the fight against terrorism although some senior figures in his team

disagree. Theresa May has said that would cause huge problems for future

co-operation on defence and intelligence. It will be a real test

of Theresa May's diplomatic skills, whether she can build that personal

relationship without appearing too much to pander to a man with such

contentious views so she would face a backlash when she gets home. Thank

you both very much. You can see full coverage of that

visit to Washington on the BBC News channel, including that news

conference with Donald Trump which is expected around 6pm.

The Royal College of Surgeons says plans to cut knee and hip

replacement operations in Worcestershire are alarming.

Three commissioning groups in the county say

very obese patients - and those who are in

only moderate pain - will not qualify for the surgery.

They say the plan will save ?2 million a year,

and bring them into line with other parts of the country.

Here's our health correspondent Robert Pigott.

At five feet ten inches and weighing a little over 18 stone, Gordon from

Worcestershire can no longer expect swift access to the second hip

replacement he needs. The pain from his osteoarthritis wakes him up at

night and his mobility is badly compromised. But new restrictions on

surgery mean he would have to lose 10% of his weight before he could

qualify for surgery. It's a very sharp pain, very sharp pain. It's

not an ache. It's very, very sharp. Turn over in bed... I haven't really

been fully fit in terms of being able to walk properly, or go for a

walk, pre-2013. It would dramatically change my life.

More than 50 years on since the first operation, this revolutionary

procedure is widely rationed. The clinical commissions groups in

some areas will exclude from hip and knee replacement patients who rank

as more bid le obese or those whose pain is not sufficiently severe to

interfere with daily life. The Royal College of Surgeons says the

restrictions are not clinically justified and will often be a false

economy. The patient continues to be in pain, needs painkillers and

physiotherapy, he may be unable to work. By waiting the operation may

indeed become more difficult when he eventually gets it. The clinical

commissions groups said they were bringing Worcestershire into line

with what others do. They said if a patient feels they require this

surgery but do not meet the criteria, there is a clear appeal

system. Several other commissions groups in

England, including in Harrogate, the Vale of York and Kent are imposing

similar restrictions on non-emergency surgery. Demand for

hip and knee replacements is growing with an ageing population but the

money to pay for them is increasingly scarce.

The families of four people who were killed by a runaway

tipper-truck in Bath have been describing the impact the accident

Four people died when they were hit by a lorry,

The owner of the haulage company, Matthew Gordon, and a mechanic,

Peter Wood, were convicted of manslaughter last year

Jon Kay reports from Bristol Crown Court.

These four families sitting together in the courtroom here holding hands,

supporting one another, taking it in turns each to read out victim impact

statements and some of the words extremely moving, difficult to

listen to some of them, very emotional, very honest. In the dock

a few feet away the two men who were convicted of manslaughter just

before Christmas, Matthew Gordon and Peter Wood who will be sentenced

this afternoon. They all lost their lives

in a matter of seconds. Four-year-old Mitzi Steady,

chauffeur Steve Vaughan and businessman Philip Allen

and Robert Parker, killed by a 32-ton truck, its brakes had

failed while coming down a steep Just before Christmas,

these men were found guilty on four On the left, Matthew Gordon, who ran

the Grittenham Haulage company. On the right, Peter Wood,

a mechanic whose job Pictures of the vehicle's brakes

were shown in court. The jury was told they

were badly worn, rusty, The trial heard the company

was a shambles, failing to carry out Today, relatives of those

who were killed have told the court The mother of Mitzi Steady

said her family is bereft and she finds it a struggle to go

on without Mitzi's laughter Mitzi's grandmother, who was also

hit by the truck, needed to have She described the physical

and emotional pain she's been left with, saying life

has changed completely. The wife of Steve Vaughan told

the court about the moment she went She said as she held him she played

songs they had only recently At the end of the trial she told me

about the void now in her life. We were only married for six months

and especially having to spend your first wedding

anniversary alone was just so far removed from the one

that we had planned. It's just been

absolutely horrendous. The widow of Phil Allen said she had

been robbed of her soulmate in an horrific accident that should

never have happened. She said those responsible had

shown a total disregard And Robert Parker's widow said

she had thought of nothing else since the moment he was killed

by the runaway truck. She said the wreckless actions

of mothers means her life She said the wreckless actions

of others means her life Matthew Gordon, who ran that haulage

company will be sentenced this afternoon. He had said during the

original trial last year that he was dyslexic and that caused him

problems in running the company. But perhaps one of the most poignant

moments was when Shaun Vaughan who you heard speaking in that report,

looked him in the eye talking about the death of her husband and said I

am dyslexic too but I have never made that an excuse for many of my

actions. Matthew Gordon and Peter Wood sentenced here this afternoon.

A former judge and his assistant have been jailed for six years

for defrauding their own law firm out of more than ?600,000.

The pair syphoned off the money to pay for a lavish lifestyle.

Let's speak to our our correspondent Dan Johnson who's

Tell us more about the details of what they did. Well, homes, holidays

to Barbados, a Range Rover, even a log cabin with a hot tub, some of

the luxuries bought with this money Simon Kenny and Emma Coates took

from their own law firm in Sussex. The judge said that they had used

the firm as their own personal piggy bank. This began as a way of

propping up the firm, of keep solvent, it extended to treating the

solicitor and his assistant who he was having an affair with at the

time, the judge said that Emma Coates was drawn to excess and

extravagance and if there was money there for the taking she took it.

The judge said it was difficult to imagine a more spectacular breach of

trust. One theft involved ?85,000 being taken from the will of an

elderly woman. They told colleagues in the law firm they were moving the

money offshore because of the banking crisis, to keep it safe. One

particularly sad aspect of this case has been that the company accountant

belatedly realised what was going on and he had been duped by the pair,

he then took his own life. The judge in sentencing the pair said they

would to deal with that for the rest of their lives. There is a third

employee called Steven Heis man yet to be sentenced for his part in this

fraud and the deputy district judge that Simon Kenny was in his previous

life and a solicitor, the judge said that meant that he had brought shame

on the entire legalal -- legal profession. He has had to be kept in

special protection at the jail because word got around about what

he used to do. Thank you. Theresa May is preparing

to meet Donald Trump, the first world leader to meet

the new president. The profoundly deaf boy whose

family escaped Iraq, Coming up in the sport at 130 can

Rafa Nadal reaches first grand slam final since 2014 comment he faces

Grigor Dimitrov in the last four at the Australian Open, Roger Federer

awaits the winner. Tesco, the UK's largest retailer,

has agreed to buy Britain's largest food wholesaler -

Booker - in a deal worth It would mean Tesco

gaining a massive share in supplying restaurants,

pubs, and convenience News of the deal sent shares

soaring in both companies. Here's our business

correspondent, Emma Simpson. Tesco already has the lion's share

of the UK's grocery business. Now it has its sights on serving even more

customers. It has struck a deal to buy Booker. You may not have heard

of it but this Wholesalers applies thousands of pubs, restaurants,

caterers and corner shops. This market is growing faster than

selling groceries in supermarkets and Tesco wants a slice of it. What

we do see is... The two company bosses side-by-side for a

webcast this morning to explain why the surprise ?3.7 billion deal makes

sense. The ability to improve the core offer of both the retail

operation but also the Independent and small business operation that

Charles is currently serves is definitely going to drive growth,

better choice, better range, better value, better price. What will the

wider impact be? Booker does not only is convenience stores but they

own the brands and they supply the goods to the independent retailers

who run them. Tesco has 10% of the convenience food market today in our

estimates, Booker has a similar share, probably bigger of the

convenience markets and Tesco supplying both will make it a bigger

force in convenience retail. That may prompt some concerns including

from the competition authorities who are likely to scrutinise this deal.

If approved it is a big bold deal by Tesco extending its already

formidable reach. Emma Simpson, BBC News.

The Church of England should not change its teaching on marriage

as "the lifelong union of one man and one woman," according

to the House of Bishops, which forms part of the General

It said there was "little support" for same-sex

marriage inside the Church, but urged a "fresh tone...of

welcome and support" for lesbian and gay people.

It acknowledged its findings could cause

Here's our Religious Affairs Correspondent Martin Bashir.

ancient institution three years of so-called shared conversations about

same-sex relationships were not expected to radically altered church

doctrine and today's report from the house of Bishops lands on the status

quo, that marriage is a lifelong union between a man and a woman. The

bishop who led the working group says that while the doctrine does

not change, the Church must adapt its tone. It is not against the

impact of cultural change. We uphold the authority of Scripture, the

tradition of the Church in common with the fast and overwhelming

majority of churches around the world. But what we want to do is

engage with the culture of which we are apart, and that has changed

radically. Lesbian and gay members of the church are disappointed,

accusing the bishops to do nothing to acknowledge the sanctity of

lesbian, Gay, bisexual and transgender relationships. No change

in the doctrine of marriage, a little warmth, a little

tilt in the direction of great inclusion but we are a long way from

that yet. I think that's what most people expected, a classic Anglican

fudge, a sideways step and emerging to a different patch of the long

grass perhaps. Conservative evangelicals have expressed relief

that the bishops of uphold the authority of Scripture against the

impact of cultural change. I want the church to stand with the

teaching of Jesus and my understanding is that Jesus taught

clearly that successful marriage and marriages a man and a woman so I

want the church to continue to teach what Jesus taught on that issue,

find ways of commending that living be to the world around us. This

report will be debated at General Synod which begins in just over two

weeks' time. Martin Bashir, BBC News, Church house in London.

There's been a big increase in the number of people

The figures for England and Wales show there were more

than 90-thousand insolvencies last year, an increase of more than 13

Our Personal Finance Correspondent Simon Gompertz is with me.

Figures tell us that people are putting more on their credit cards,

personal loans, overdrafts, there is a feeling that is fuelling the

shopping boom at the moment, perhaps not sustainably. It could be one

reason, something that the governor of the Bank of England has warned we

be vigilant about, if people get into serious debt and the result is

formal insolvency, those are the figures, 91,000 in the last year, a

rise of 13%, as he said. And within that this 23% rise in what are

called individual voluntary arrangements, which are the most

flexible form. So a lot of people are moving into that. On the other

hand, though, it went to a low after the recession which followed the

financial crisis and we are still about 30% below the numbers of that

time. So it's not the worst it's been. Also bankruptcy,

debt relief orders and other arrangements, they have all become

easier to do and debt advisers have been pushing people in those

directions so some of it could be not as much people getting into debt

but people doing something about it, which is not necessarily a bad

thing. Simon, thank you. The Hamadamin family fled Iraq

in 2015 because they were afraid their profoundly deaf son would be

killed by so-called Islamic State. He's now at a British school,

learning sign language. But the family are facing

deportation to Germany, because they entered

the UK illegally. He had a cochlear implant

fitted when he was Now, for the first time he's able

to communicate how he After learning it here

at the Royal School for the Deaf in He's had to go right back

from scratch, learning English, to learn to read and to write and then

learn sign language as well and he's gone from reading nothing

to being of an age four. The family fled Iraq

after so-called Islamic State threatened to kill

disabled children. They then spent one year living

in a camp in Germany before making their way to France and then

to England on the back of a lorry. TRANSLATION: My life and my family's

lives were in danger so we had no other option but to leave Iraq

and travel to Europe. So when you see your son

communicating so fluently now in sign language how

does that make you feel? TRANSLATION: I'm happy that my child

is making progress in Whatever I can do I will do it

for him and I feel ecstatic when I see he has

progressed so dramatically. They were going to be sent back

to Germany last week. Ministers had argued they should

apply for asylum in the first European country they had entered

but at the last minute, their manner that they wish to do

so, to go to Germany in another language would be

detrimental to his progress. The Home Office says

the family has an existing asylum claim

in Germany, so it is only right, they say,

their claim is considered

by the German authorities. Now Lawand's future lies

in the hands of a High Court judge A 900-year-old skeleton found

in Hampshire has revealed important Researchers say the

remains of the man, thought to be a religious pilgrim,

were excavated at a burial Scientific detective work suggests

he caught the highly-contagious skin disease on his travels to a shrine

in Spain and brought it Many survivors of genocide

are still facing discrimination because of their religion

or ethnicity, according to research Across the world, there've been

ceremonies to remember the millions of people who died

in the Second World War, Our correspondent Holly Hamilton

went to meet one survivor The door opened, three

German soldiers came in. He took out his revolver

and put it to my head. And people ask me,

what does it feel like This wasn't the first

time Gabor Lacko came This was all around

us, all the time. Nothing was surprising,

we were prepared for everything. It's made from bits

and pieces of material His first yellow star,

worn to identify him as a Jew, was A piece of history he

has kept to this day. The first day I was wearing

it, I had a medical At the top of the road,

a lady who saw me trying to hide it Like many survivors Gabor waited for

more than 20 years before talking about his experiences, motivated by

a desire to help people I don't think young people

appreciate how lucky they are. They worry about their mobile

telephone, and their game consoles. They don't know what problems

are, they don't know what it is when bombs fall

from the sky and you don't know if you'll

survive it and an occupying It wasn't until 1956 that Gabor

decided to move to England. In those days people

looked at refugees with different eyes,

and they tried to make us welcome. I started a new life

and I got on with it. With friends who went

through the same. Whatever is the conversation,

after a while, it always It's been a week of comebacks

at the Australian Open this week. The Williams sisters will meet each

other in the women's final. Roger Federer is through to

the men's final, and he could be facing his old rival,

Rafa Nadal. So would it be another day to roll

back the years? At 30, Rafael Nadal's pomp, like Roger Federer's,

seemed to have passed, yet now an almost fantasy final between them

back and if Nadal could beat Dimitrov. The Spaniard had only

recently returned from a wrist injury. You would scarcely have

guessed it. Nadal cruised through first set but his opponent, once

nicknamed Baby Fed, played like the grown-up version. The fans seemed to

prefer Dimitrov, but Nadal held his nerve urging a third set tie-break.

But Grigor Dimitrov was far from done. Another tie-break and this

time he took it, dragging an hour marathon match into a decider.

Earlier in Melbourne that had been British success in the wheelchair

doubles, Gordon Reid's victory alongside his Belgian partner

meaning that he has now won all four grand slam titles but for

Nadal and Dimitrov the battle for Glory continues. After more than

four hours of enthralling drama a place in the final is still there is

for the taking. Andy says, BBC News. We've been freezing, this picture

says it all but things are about to change. It is not cold and grey

everywhere right now. We do have some sunshine but it will be

replaced by thick clouds coming off the ocean over the next few days.

That means temperatures will rise and even this evening if you take

the walk the temperatures won't be as low as they have been in the last

day or so. The clouds in the Atlantic are ready and

waiting to come our way and with this also we have much milder

conditions, compared to what we have had because it still won't be that

desperately warm, at least in the short-term. As far as this afternoon

is concerned those temperatures are still single figures, 7 degrees in

the South, still nippy in northern and central areas with freezing fog

although this evening and overnight that process begins where we

introduced that less cold air coming in off the ocean, it is a frost free

night across southern areas, in the north just about cold enough with

that rain, sleet and snow mixing in but as we head into Saturday morning

start to see that Atlantic weather is so we are pushing in that was

Yannick air those temperatures touched that OC Alnwick air. It

won't feel anywhere near as dry and better as it has done. This is the

scene around midday, eastern areas still cloudy, going through that

transition into the milder air, western areas already in the

sunshine but also some showers coming in.

So not a desperately mild stay on the way tomorrow but better if you

don't like the cold. And through Saturday night that process

continues, those winds off the Atlantic bringing in milder air with

showers. Sadly we must pay for it because we want get the milder air

for nothing. It means weather fronts coming in,

temperatures are already reaching double figures in some of these

southern areas, in the North still frost, still crispy but on balance

not that bad. As we go through Monday and into next week it looks

as if these weather fronts and this Atlantic air will be winning, it's

all about the double figures. Those double figures is what many of us

care about because it will feel much less cold.

A reminder of our main story this lunchtime.

Theresa May is preparing to meet Donald Trump, the first