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Trouble at the White House, as President Trump's national | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Michael Flynn quits over his contacts with Russia - | :00:08. | :00:17. | |
We'll be getting reaction in Washington, and in Moscow. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
The rising cost of fuel helps to push inflation to its highest | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
rate for two-and-a-half years, to 1.8%. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
A bribery settlement and the fall in the pound push engineering giant | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
An investigation is underway at a Topshop store where | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
a ten-year-old boy was fatally injured by store furniture. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
Full-steam ahead - for the first timetabled | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
train service featuring a traditional locomotive. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News: | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Leicester sign England fly-half George Ford for next season, | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
after agreeing a deal to buy him out the final year of his | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :00:59. | :01:23. | |
It's got to be some kind of record, with Donald Trump facing his first | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
scandal and a top-level resignation just 24 days after his inauguration. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
His national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has resigned | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
He's alleged to have discussed US sanctions with the Russian | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
ambassador before Mr Trump took office, then misled officials - | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
including the vice-president - about the conversation. | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
The Kremlin has refused to comment on the resignation, saying | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
it was an internal matter for the United States. | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
Our correspondent Andy Moore reports. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
Just over three weeks into his presidency, | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
and Donald Trump has already lost one of his closest advisers. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
This was Mike Flynn at the White House just | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
A lonely figure on the front row of a press conference. | :02:01. | :02:09. | |
Then a cool handshake from Vice President Mike Pence - | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
the man he's been accused of misleading. | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
It was Flynn's close links with the Kremlin | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
Here he is in 2015, at a dinner in Moscow | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
with President Putin, but | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
it's illegal for a private citizen to conduct US diplomacy. | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
Mr Flynn denied he had spoken to the Russian ambassador about sanctions | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
before Mr Trump became president, and on that basis Mr Pence went on | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
national television to defend him. I can confirm, having spoken to him | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
about it, that those conversations that happened to a car around the | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
time that the United States took action to expel diplomats, that they | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. In his resignation | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
letter, Mr Flynn said he had held numerous conversations with foreign | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
counterparts. It went on, "Because of the fast pace of events, I | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
inadvertently briefed the vice president and others with incomplete | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador." Those | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
phone calls had been monitored by US security officials and some of the | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
details had been leaked to the press. Within the intelligence | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
community, this is how they fight back. They leaked material to the | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
press and that compromises Donald Trump's ambitions are around foreign | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
policy. Mr Flynn's resignation came after a series of contradictory | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
statements from the White House. Yes, General Flynn does enjoy the | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
full confidence of the President... Do you have full confidence in? But | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
soon after the White House spokesman said the president was evaluating | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
the situation. He is speaking to vice president Pence relative to the | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
conversation the vice president had with general Flynn. Since news of | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
the resignation broke, the official reaction from the Kremlin has been | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
muted. President Putin's spokesman said the affair had nothing to do | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
with Russia and was an internal matter for the Trump administration. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
But chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the upper house said... | :04:23. | :04:35. | |
Well, in a moment we'll speak to our correspondent in Moscow, | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
but first Gary O'Donoghue in Washington. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Trouble for the White House. Anything worse than that? Well, it | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
is clearly a huge blow. This man was loyal to Donald Trump, through the | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
campaign, he was at his right hand in national security matters, | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
clearly discussing matters day in day out multiple times a day, so it | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
is a huge blow to Donald Trump, but I think it became a choice between | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
honouring that loyalty and effectively humiliating the vice | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
president, and it looks like the vice president won that. The White | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
House is very keen to limit this to the issue of the vice president | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
being misled, and you can understand that for good political reasons, | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
because there are still wider questions about what make Flynn | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
actually said to the Russians, what promises he made to them, what he | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
said to them during the campaign and those are the sorts of areas where | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
the White House wants to be careful. Let's go to Steve Rosenberg in | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Moscow. Not much comment there, but what about privately? You know, we | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
often refer to these as extraordinary times, but this is | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
quite extraordinary. Look at what happened today - the resignation of | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
an American national security adviser has got politicians here in | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
Moscow reacting furiously, actually, and jumping to Michael Flynn's | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
defence, so for example in the upper house of the Russian parliament one | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
senator this morning tweeted that Flynn was the victim of paranoia and | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
a witchhunt. At the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee, a message | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
was posted saying that either Donald Trump had been driven into a corner | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
or his administration has been permeated with Russiphobia from top | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
to bottom. The language is angry and colourful. They saw Mike Flynn as | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
someone who champion closer ties between Washington and Moscow. He | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
attended a gala dinner here a couple of years ago and sat at the same | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
table as Vladimir Putin, but I protect not only disappointment from | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
Moscow but also a little embarrassment, because as late as | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
yesterday the Kremlin was continuing to insist that before Donald Trump | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
stepped into the White House there had been no discussions, no | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
conversations between Moscow and Washington, about sanctions, and | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
today the Kremlin's comment on all of this was "No comment." Steve | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
Rosenberg from Moscow, thank you very much. | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Inflation has risen to its highest level since June 2014. | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
The rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
The Office for National Statistics says the increase was driven | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
by higher global oil prices and the fall in the | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
Our economics correspondent Andy Verity reports. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Prices may be up, but it is not yet the consumer who is being squeezed | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
hardest. It is the company that sells you the goods and even more so | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
the companies that produce them. Following the devaluation caused by | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
the Brexit fort, this east London brewery is being much more for the | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
same raw materials imported from abroad. It has boosted prices by 5% | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
but the costs have risen twice as fast. For all businesses but equally | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
so for us, we have pensions coming in this year, huge business rate | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
increase this year, we have leader are a London living wage employer so | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
that is significant -- we are a London living wage employer. We also | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
have the raw material prices going up and up for raw materials imported | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
so it is a real crunch point for us. Today's inflation rate is still | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
below the Bank of England target at 2% with prices rising 1.8% in the | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
shops, but pressure is coming through the pipeline. Prices at the | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
factory gate are up 3.5% and producers passing on the much higher | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
cost of raw materials, up by more than a fifth. Also driving prices up | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
is a 17% rise in the cost of petrol and diesel. With that come higher | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
transport costs, but the Government point out that inflation is still | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
comfortably within the target range. I would remind you that the | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
inflation figure announced this morning, 1.8%, is still below the | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
Bank of England's target. The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
is seeking to manage inflation to maintain itself at or around 2%. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
When inflation is at this level, the economy should be working well. The | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
economy is growing much more strongly than opponents of Brexit | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
predicted, and on financial markets in the City, the next move in | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
interest rates is expected to be up. The market sees a real possibility | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
rates may have to increase before the end of this year. Very much a | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
reflection of the fact that economic activity has been so strong coming | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
into 2017 and the consumer has held up relatively well. Until recently, | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
price rises for consumers were tamer than they had been since the 1960s. | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
The price of fish, for example, is only back to where it was three | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
years ago. So far consumers have been shielded from higher costs, but | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
inflation above the 2% target now looks inevitable. Andy Verity, BBC | :09:57. | :09:57. | |
News. Rolls-Royce has posted one | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
of the biggest corporate The British aircraft | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
engine manufacturer, which employs 23,000 people | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
in the UK, lost ?4.6 billion last year because of the instability | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
of the pound and penalties it had to pay UK and US authorities | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
for bribery and corruption. Well, with me is our | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
business editor Simon Jack. These figures look terrible. Yes, on | :10:15. | :10:24. | |
paper they are horrendous, the worst figures in the company's 133 year | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
history, but they are distorted by a couple of things. Rolls-Royce sells | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
its engines and crucially the service contract on those for 20 | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
years at the time and always or usually in dollars. The company's | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
big risk is that the dollar falls in value and that those revenues when | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
translated into sterling dwindle as the dollar falls. If the opposite | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
happens, because they insure themselves against that, those | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
insurance policies, and the pound has fallen sharply against the | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
dollar, there is a big charge on paper which is called a loss, but it | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
is not actually cash they are handing out. To strip that and look | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
at the underlying earnings, they are not great. Profits have halved, old | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
engines being phased out quicker than they are selling new ones to | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
aliens and they have had real problems with their North Sea | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
business and offshore oil, so looking at it it looks horrendous, | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
but in detail not quite so bad and the future looks a little brighter. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
This could have a big impact on the British car industry? A real game | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
changing story. The company that owns usual and Citroen are in talks, | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
they have said in the last hour, to acquire the owners of Vauxhall. This | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
is General Motors's entire European business. They say they are pushing | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
ahead with that and if that goes ahead it will mean this company will | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
leapfrog Renault and go into second place in Britain behind Foakes | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
wagon, so a lot of interest their for the 4500 people who work for | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
foxhole in Luton and the other side -- work for As many as are of the | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
opinion, say 'aye'. To the contrary, 'no'.. Simon Jack, thank you very | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
much -- that work for Vauxhall. The chairman of Toshiba has resigned | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
after the electronics giant announced it expected to post a full | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
year loss of ?2.7 billion. The company was forced to write | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
off around ?5 billion following problems with its | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
American nuclear business. Shares in the company | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
have fallen sharply. Let's speak to our correspondent | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
in Tokyo, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes. What doesn't mean for their | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
ambitions in this country? It has serious implications for Toshiba's | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
project in the United Kingdom. The nuclear power station which Toshiba | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
is a major shareholder in, the company or consortium planning to | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
build the new power plant in Cumbria is 60% owned by Toshiba, and also | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
the nuclear reactors, the three nuclear reactors they are supposed | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
to build in Cumbria, are Toshiba designed. In a statement today the | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
company said it will not consider participating in the project | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
carrying out actual construction work any more, and it will seek to | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
sell its shares to interested parties. The consortium itself in | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
the UK has released a statement saying that Toshiba remains | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
committed to the project, but that seems to be contradicted by the | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
statement here released by Toshiba in Tokyo and puts in doubt that'll | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
contract if Toshiba pulls out. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, thank you | :13:35. | :13:35. | |
very much. Police are investigating the death | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
of a ten-year-old boy at a branch He suffered serious head | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
injuries in an incident involving store furniture - | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
and died later in hospital. The death is being treated | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
as unexplained but not suspicious. Our correspondent Duncan | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Kennedy is in Reading. Yes, Topshop has been closed all | :13:54. | :14:02. | |
morning, understandably. The shutters are down. In the past hour | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
or so Reading Borough Council extended a statement saying they | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
offer their sympathies to the family of the ten-year-old boy involved and | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
say its own inquiry is now underway along with that of the police | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
investigation. This was the scene at Topshop this morning. These pictures | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
show it shattered and security guards outside. Inside the lights | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
were on and it was not clear if any staff or investigators were there. | :14:31. | :14:40. | |
Police were called there after reports of a ten-year-old boy being | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
injured. They say it involved what they called shop furniture. They | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
were not any more specific and say it involved shop furniture. All they | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
see is the boy was taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital and later | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
died from serious head injuries. The reaction of local people who use the | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
shopping centre was universally one of sadness. It is just horrible. You | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
just feel for his family. I really do. Yes, my thoughts go out to them, | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
really. Very sad. Very sad. For the mother, the parents. I feel quite | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
bad for the parents because they are... It is my daughter's age, so I | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
think it is very sad. In a statement Reading Borough Council said... | :15:33. | :15:42. | |
Police say the boy's death is being treated as unexplained but not | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
suspicious. Their inquiry into how a child could die in a shop involving | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
shop furniture is continuing. Well, that shop is expected to | :15:53. | :16:01. | |
remain closed for the rest of today. We've just noticed in the past few | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
minutes that a bouquet of flowers has been put outside in the shopping | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
centre here. The council themselves are sending a safety expert at some | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
point today to start their investigation into just how this | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
ten-year-old boy could die under these extraordinary circumstances. | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
President Trump's National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, resigns | :16:20. | :16:33. | |
over his contacts with Russia, just weeks after taking office. | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
And still to come, I will be reporting from the Carlisle line | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
here in Cumbria with some wonderful pictures of the first steam train in | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
England for nearly 50 is. Coming up in the sport at 1:30pm, Great | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
Britain's Fed cup team have been drawn away to Remainiac, the wait | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
for a home tie goes on, 1993 the last time that they played on home | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
soil. The Queen has opened a new national | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
centre designed to improve Britain's The Government says | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
hackers are increasing in their frequency, their severity | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
and their sophistication, and the National Cyber Security Centre | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
will make the UK the safest place Our Security Correspondent | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
Gordon Corera reports. A high-tech tour for the Queen | :17:19. | :17:29. | |
today, as she formally launched the country's | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
new National Cyber Security Centre. She was shown round the new centre | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
in London, whose mission is to protect the country | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
against a growing tide Cyber attacks, it | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
seems, are everywhere. Russian involvement in efforts | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
to hack information... The worst case is that | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
all of our customers' China's activities in cyberspace | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
is a significant source of concern. Hacking that could | :17:49. | :17:58. | |
hamper vote counting. Hackers targeting governments, | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
businesses, ordinary people. The head of the new centre | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
told me the threat is real. The head of the new centre told me | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
the threats are real. We've had significant | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
losses of personal data, significant intrusions by hostile | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
state actors, significant reconnaissance against critical | :18:15. | :18:15. | |
national infrastructure. And our job is to make sure we deal | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
with that in the most So, what we've done here is create | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
a room of the near future and we've got some devices that | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
are all connected to the internet. The new centre is not just | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
there to protect government, Its technical director showed me how | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
internet-connected items like lamps and coffee makers could be | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
vulnerable, even a child's toy doll. More and more of our | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
life is moving online. The UK is one of the most | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
digitally-dependent A strength, but also | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
a vulnerability. And protecting it online | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
in the future will be vital for economic as well as national | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
security. It's called the gig economy - | :18:58. | :18:58. | |
the growing number of people who Well, today an inquiry's been | :18:59. | :19:08. | |
launched into how they're treated by employers, | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
and who should pay their tax. And with one in seven people saying | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
they work for themselves, the potential loss to the Treasury | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
could be worth millions. Our Economics Editor, | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
Kamal Ahmed, reports. They are the poster children | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
of the new economy. The companies that drive | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
us where we want to go Zero hours contracts attacked | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
for exploiting workers who have I think if we strengthen | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
the voice of employees, Matthew Taylor has been tasked | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
by the Prime Minister to come up with a plan | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
for the new world of work. He says that the amount of tax | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
raised by the Government has fallen because of | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
the rise in self-employment. It is it's clear that to a certain | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
extent what is actually going on is that people are creating | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
forms of work for themselves, or businesses are creating forms | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
of work, to try to avoid tax. Now, I think what should drive | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
businesses is efficiency, So if we can make the system one | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
where those incentives are slightly less strong than I think that | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
would be an improvement. A new study by the union says | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
the Government could be losing up to ?4 billion a year | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
in lower tax payments. That is made up of ?2.1 | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
billion lost from the rise in the self-employed, | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
who pay less tax. And then there is the ?1.9 billion | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
lost from those on zero hours contracts, who tend | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
to be lower paid. Workers are losing out on basic | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
rights, the taxpayer is losing out on funding for the Exchequer, | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
to fund our schools and hospitals. But of course the taxpayer is also | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
having to fund a higher in work benefits bill because very often | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
the self-employment, Theresa May has pledged not only | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
to protect the rights of people often with multiple jobs | :20:51. | :20:59. | |
but to enhance them. When Matthew Taylor's report | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
comes out in the summer, expect new rights to decent | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
employment and a duty put on businesses to | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
treat people fairly. The Chancellor has already | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
said he is looking at In the Budget next month, | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
expect changes, as the old world of how much we are taxed tries | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
to catch up with the The father of a British soldier | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
killed in Iraq in 2007 has criticised proposals | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
by the Government to scrap the legal duty of care to service | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
personnel in combat. It means they'll no | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
longer be able to sue The Ministry of Defence says | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
the new scheme will mean more generous payments to anyone injured, | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
or the families of those Our legal correspondent | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
Clive Coleman reports. How old was he when he first | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
started playing the drums? In 2007, Colin Redpath's son, | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
Lance Corporal Kirk Redpath, a keen drummer in the Irish Guards, | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
died when a roadside bomb exploded next to his lightly-armoured | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
Snatch Land Rover in Iraq. Colin fought a six-year legal battle | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
against the Ministry of Defence, eventually winning the right | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
at the Supreme Court to bring an action against the Government | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
under human rights law. The MoD's new proposals cover battle | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
and the preparations for it. They include stopping legal | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
claims for negligence against the MOD in the courts, | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
a no-fault compensation scheme for injured service personnel | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
and families of those killed, assessors to value injuries | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
and loss based on expert Nobody disputes that it's a really | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
good idea for service personnel injured in the course of combat, | :22:43. | :22:52. | |
and the families of those who been killed, to be spared long | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
and frustrating legal battles through the courts, | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
but there are real concerns about the Ministry of Defence | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
scrapping the duty of care The Fire Brigade, the Police, | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
the Ambulance Service, they all have to go out | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
with equipment that works, And that should be | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
the same for a soldier. And lawyers worry that bypassing | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
the courts creates unfairness. You've suffered injury, | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
you think that the lawyer, the organisation, the MoD, | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
is at fault, and yet you are asked to rely upon the MoD | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
to assess the compensation that it should pay you for the damage | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
that it has caused you. But the MoD and Defence Secretary | :23:35. | :23:46. | |
remain convinced of the need for change. What we are working on is a | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
way of getting them faster and better compensation so that if the | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
ministry has done something wrong with a piece of equipment they don't | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
have to spend years suing us through the courts. The MoD's consultation | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
on its proposals ends in just over a week. | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
Colin Redpath hopes that for the injured, | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
and families of the fallen, the new system ensures maximum | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
Around 200,000 people living close to America's tallest dam have been | :24:11. | :24:24. | |
told it's still not safe for them to return home. The area around the dam | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
in Northern California was evacuated, after fears that it could | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
collapse. They still don't know how long it could be before residents | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
are allowed back. Rising damp, holes in the front door | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
and water coming through the roof - just a few of the problems that | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
an investigation by BBC Yorkshire has found in some social | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
housing in England. Councils have paid out | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
more than ?35 million in compensation and legal fees over | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
the last five years. It's completely mouldy and the wall | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
underneath is completely wet. And even our shoes | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
are mouldy as well. Katrina pays Leeds City Council | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
around ?270 a month to live in Although she hasn't taken | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
the council to court, She says he and his brother sound | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
like this all the time, She claims it is because their | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
rented house in Leeds is so damp. Social housing in Leeds has such | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
a bad reputation that claims management companies are now | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
targeting the city, encouraging tenants to take | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
the council to court. These firms identify | :25:43. | :25:54. | |
properties which are in a poor state of repair, and then, | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
for a finder's fee, pass on the tenant's details | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
to a solicitor, who takes In a statement, Leeds | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
City Council said... At a time when services | :26:03. | :26:27. | |
are being cut, many will question why councils are spending millions | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
on compensation instead of fixing The half brother of the North Korean | :26:30. | :26:43. | |
leader Kim John and has been killed in Malaysia. The BBC understands | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
that the man, who was 45, is said to have been targeted at the airport in | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
the capital, Kuala Lumpur. He was the eldest son of Kim Jong-il, who | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
ruled North Korea until his death in 2011. | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
Steam power returned to the railways this morning for the first time | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
A timetabled steam train service will run between Appleby in Cumbria | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
and Skipton in North Yorkshire for the next three days - | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
and the first one left a few hours ago, with our correspondent | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
Danny, how was it? Simon, it was great to be on the train this | :27:15. | :27:23. | |
morning with about 500 other people, they had all made a special day out | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
to join this service. I would say that the scene behind us probably | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
hasn't changed much since the 19th century when this line was built. | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
There was that other traditional site on this line today and the | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
response from people has been phenomenal. | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
At Skipton Station this morning, the sights and sounds of yesteryear | :27:47. | :27:48. | |
It's a long time since the mid-morning service on a weekday | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
People turned out in their hordes to see the first timetabled steam | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
train in England for nearly half a century. | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
Standard fares and discounts applied. | :28:06. | :28:07. | |
You would normally pay a hefty premium for a steam trip but not | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
I think it's wonderful, I've just been watching | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
all the steam and smoke going past the window and it's just fantastic. | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
I thought I would treat my wife for Valentine's Day, | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
What do you make of the Valentine's present? | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
Mark Rand was one of the on-board guides. | :28:32. | :28:46. | |
I know a lot of this has been done within | :28:47. | :28:48. | |
the railway industry by a huge lot of goodwill and a huge lot | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
of mates' rates for things that are normally very, very expensive. | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
What price can you put on a day like this? | :28:55. | :28:56. | |
But we might have to wait another 50 years for the next one! | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
This is not just about a trip on a steam train. | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
For lots of people, it is a ride through the Yorkshire Dales | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
countryside as well, and crossing the Ribblehead Viaduct. | :29:07. | :29:08. | |
It was the picture opportunity of the day. | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
Yes, you see this occasionally with special charter trains, | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
but this was really special, because it was not | :29:18. | :29:19. | |
Talking to some customers on the train who had | :29:20. | :29:30. | |
travelled from Essex, Norfolk, just for the whole sort of romance | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
of this, Valentine's Day, Settle and Carlisle railway | :29:35. | :29:35. | |
on a steam train, how much better does it get? | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
Many people lined the route to see the train pass through. | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
This may be the start of something special on Britain's railways, | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
the possibility of other timetabled steam services elsewhere. | :29:49. | :29:55. | |
At the moment, the train is up the line at Appleby and it will be | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
passing back through here at about 3:15pm. There were some disappointed | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
people at Skipton who just couldn't get on. There are something like | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
6000 seats available on this steam service over the next couple of | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
days, so the hope is that anyone who wants to get on it will get on it. | :30:15. | :30:16. | |
Danny, thanks very much. Aberdeenshire Council has | :30:17. | :30:23. | |
apologised, after trees were planted Unsurprisingly the new trees sparked | :30:24. | :30:25. | |
a huge reaction on social media. One person wrote: "Are | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
they playing tree-a-side?" A council spokeswoman said they'd | :30:31. | :30:32. | |
been planted to boost biodiversity in the area, | :30:33. | :30:41. | |
but they have admitted they were, and they did say this, | :30:42. | :30:44. | |
"barking up the wrong tree with Changes for today, the cloud is in a | :30:45. | :31:01. | |
different position as well. This was a snapshot of lunchtime yesterday. | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
Move things on 24 hours and the cloud is moving up across the UK | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
from the south-west. Still some sunshine ahead of that and some | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
areas of low cloud too. With the sunshine and it being less windy, | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
you shouldn't feel too bad here in North West Lincolnshire but not too | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
bad if you are here in Gloucestershire. Not too much rain, | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
mind you. That cloud is moving away from the south-west of England, so | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
Cornwall getting more sunshine and possibly eventually into Devon as | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
well. Not quite so good through the West Country and Wales, a few bursts | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
of showery rain here and there but hit and miss. Limiting the sunshine | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
across eastern and northern England and a lot of cloud for Northern | :31:45. | :31:51. | |
Ireland. Dry for Scotland, the best of the sunshine in the West. Still | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
rather grey cloudy the Grampians. As we run through this evening and | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
overnight, we will find what is left of this showery band of rain pushing | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
into Scotland and eastern England for a while and then it turns misty | :32:04. | :32:06. | |
with some low cloud and another band of rain arriving in Wales and the | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
south-west later on. A much milder night to night under the cloud | :32:12. | :32:15. | |
except in Gotland where there could be clearer skies and a touch of | :32:16. | :32:17. | |
Frost. Generally the team through the rest of the week is milder, but | :32:18. | :32:23. | |
there will be a little rain from time to time. We've got some rain to | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
come as we head into tomorrow, initially across Wales and the | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
south-west. Further north in the rain is not amounting to very much. | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
After a dull start, there may not be a huge the best of that comes after | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
the rain in Wales and the south-west, where we will see the | :32:43. | :32:45. | |
highest temperatures. It will be a warmer feel for most of us, | :32:46. | :32:48. | |
temperatures widely into double figures. Here is the bigger picture | :32:49. | :32:51. | |
as we head towards the latter part of the week. Everything coming in | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
from the Atlantic, hence it being milder. This area of low pressure | :32:56. | :33:02. | |
will bring some wetter weather into Northern Ireland. A bit of a chilly | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
start and some mist and fog patches, but a largely dry day. We may see | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
some improvements in Scotland and Northern Ireland and those | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
temperatures are ten or 11 degrees. No weather warnings at the moment. | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
How long is this mild weather going to last? Go online for our ten day | :33:21. | :33:22. | |
weather forecast. A reminder of our main | :33:23. | :33:24. | |
story this lunchtime... President Trump's National Security | :33:25. | :33:31. | |
Advisor Michael Flynn resigns over his contacts with Russia, | :33:32. | :33:33. | |
just weeks after taking office. That's all from the BBC News at One, | :33:34. | :33:35. | |
so it's goodbye from me. | :33:36. | :33:39. |