:00:08. > :00:11.Fears of job cuts at Vauxhall's UK plants as they're sold
:00:12. > :00:16.More than 4000 people are employed at two sites in the UK -
:00:17. > :00:19.the new owners say the future of the plants will come down
:00:20. > :00:29.We believe they understand that they need to build for themselves a
:00:30. > :00:31.sustainable future based on performance.
:00:32. > :00:34.A new travel ban from President Trump -
:00:35. > :00:37.he's expected to announce one today - but this time Iraq
:00:38. > :00:45.13 potential UK terror attacks have been prevented
:00:46. > :00:46.in almost four years say
:00:47. > :00:48.counter-terrorism police as they call on the
:00:49. > :00:51.The Cumbrian zoo whose future hangs in the balance after hundreds
:00:52. > :00:55.And 30 years after the Zeebruge disaster which killed
:00:56. > :00:57.almost 200 people - relatives of the dead and survivors
:00:58. > :01:11.We could hear the tick from three people and we took them out.
:01:12. > :01:13.And coming up in the sport on BBC News.
:01:14. > :01:16.The row between Alexis Sanchez and his Arsenal team mates that
:01:17. > :01:38.leaves the player's future at the club increasingly uncertain.
:01:39. > :01:41.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC news at One.
:01:42. > :01:44.There are concerns about the future of more than 4000 people who work
:01:45. > :01:47.at Vauxhall plants in the UK after the business was bought
:01:48. > :01:52.PSA - which already owns Peugeot and Citroen -
:01:53. > :01:55.has agreed a deal to buy Vauxhall in Britain and Opel in Germany
:01:56. > :02:02.Vauxhall has two factories - in Luton and Ellesmere Port -
:02:03. > :02:05.and many more jobs rely on the plants.
:02:06. > :02:07.The Business Secretary, Greg Clark, says he's "cautiously
:02:08. > :02:13.Our transport correspondent Richard Westcott reports.
:02:14. > :02:17.It's a deal to create a European car making giant.
:02:18. > :02:26.Fears the new setup could leave thousands of UK jobs vulnerable.
:02:27. > :02:35.I trust my Vauxhall employees in the UK, I trust them.
:02:36. > :02:45.And I trust that they will be in a very good position by working
:02:46. > :02:47.in a constructive and open manner with PSA group colleagues
:02:48. > :02:53.As long as we improve the performance and we become
:02:54. > :02:57.the best, there is no risk they should fear.
:02:58. > :03:05.They make Astras here at Ellesmere Port on Merseyside.
:03:06. > :03:08.Although the current deal runs out in four years' time.
:03:09. > :03:11.A deal to make Vivaro vans just outside London in Luton runs out
:03:12. > :03:16.30,000 people also rely on those factories.
:03:17. > :03:20.People working in car showrooms for example.
:03:21. > :03:23.The new combined group actually has 24 factories
:03:24. > :03:28.across Europe, all of them now fighting for survival.
:03:29. > :03:33.I'm asking the government to make certain they are at the table
:03:34. > :03:38.because the French and the German governments will be.
:03:39. > :03:41.Batting for our British plants and making certain that Peugeot
:03:42. > :03:46.The conversations I and the Prime Minister have had both with GM
:03:47. > :03:52.and PSA tell me that they intend to safeguard the plants,
:03:53. > :03:54.honour their commitments, and look to increase
:03:55. > :04:02.the performance and the sales of cars.
:04:03. > :04:05.So we want to hold them to those commitments but the message
:04:06. > :04:07.that we have had lead me to be cautiously optimistic.
:04:08. > :04:09.But the new group boss wants to cut costs.
:04:10. > :04:14.Almost certainly he's going to have to close plants.
:04:15. > :04:17.He has too many, running at undercapacity.
:04:18. > :04:23.Plants use huge amounts of money unless they are really operating
:04:24. > :04:29.at least 85% capacity and the average of his plants now
:04:30. > :04:34.is closer to 70% so he has got to make hard decisions and he has
:04:35. > :04:39.made it clear he will make the bulk of them by around 2020, 2021.
:04:40. > :04:42.Vauxhall's UK future relies on a strong post Brexit trade deal.
:04:43. > :04:45.And most of the components come from Europe.
:04:46. > :04:48.A good deal will leave the UK better off.
:04:49. > :04:50.Any new tariffs or red tape could make it harder to compete.
:04:51. > :04:58.Our industry correspondent John Moylan is at Luton.
:04:59. > :05:05.The Business Secretary says he is cautiously optimistic. What about
:05:06. > :05:10.the people who work there? Well it is now a shift change, we are about
:05:11. > :05:13.to talk to them. They will be concerned because since news of the
:05:14. > :05:18.deal broke two weeks ago, frantic telephone calls and meetings between
:05:19. > :05:23.the government and her show and Opel and trade unions all trying to get
:05:24. > :05:32.guarantees and assurances. We know existing production is safeguarded
:05:33. > :05:37.until 2022. Reduction of Astra boast two until 2020. But asked me to make
:05:38. > :05:41.a decision on a new car for that plant very soon. Today the new boss
:05:42. > :05:46.of this huge group said the futures of the workers were in their own
:05:47. > :05:49.hands. He will set productivity and efficiency targets for all workers
:05:50. > :05:54.across the group at it will be down to workers to meet them. But some
:05:55. > :05:59.analysts think the UK is a weak link in this new group because we import
:06:00. > :06:07.so many of the parts that they use. 60% of parts come from abroad and
:06:08. > :06:11.that is a weakness. And some of the other car groups in mainland Europe
:06:12. > :06:15.do not face that. In the short term we have guarantees and reassuring
:06:16. > :06:20.words from politicians and to an extent from Peugeot today. In the
:06:21. > :06:23.longer term I think Alice think there are risks about how the UK
:06:24. > :06:30.production plants will fit into this wider group. -- analysts think.
:06:31. > :06:32.Well, let's speak to our assistant political editor, Norman Smith,
:06:33. > :06:43.Does this have anything to do with Brexit? I think it may be wishful
:06:44. > :06:48.thinking to say so because ministers stressed the economic case for
:06:49. > :06:52.continued production after 2020, naming ceremony Vauxhall cars being
:06:53. > :06:56.sold in the UK, but there is no getting away from the fact that
:06:57. > :07:00.decisions about future lines will have to be made in the middle of
:07:01. > :07:04.next year which will be slap bang in the middle of the Brexit
:07:05. > :07:08.negotiation. Of course there will be uncertainty and particularly over
:07:09. > :07:12.trading relationships. It is possible, that it might be
:07:13. > :07:17.advantageous to maintain car in the UK but equally it could be hugely
:07:18. > :07:21.problematic with tariffs and administrative burdens. But the real
:07:22. > :07:24.difficulty it seems to me is the politics because we will essentially
:07:25. > :07:29.be in a wrestling match with the French and German governments. And
:07:30. > :07:33.the French government which partially own PSA Peugeot will not
:07:34. > :07:38.want to close French plants and Angela Merkel the German Chancellor,
:07:39. > :07:44.the big beast of the EU, she will call in absolutely every favour to
:07:45. > :07:47.protect German plants. The issue is whatever the economic arguments,
:07:48. > :07:51.politically will we have lost our leverage, will be have lost our
:07:52. > :07:54.muscle to protect those plants post Brexit?
:07:55. > :07:57.President Trump is expected to sign a new travel ban today to prevent
:07:58. > :07:59.temporarily citizens from six predominantly Muslim countries
:08:00. > :08:03.But Iraq has been left off the original list
:08:04. > :08:06.after his controversial first attempt was blocked by the courts.
:08:07. > :08:09.And it's thought it also won't apply to green card holders.
:08:10. > :08:16.Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue is in Washington.
:08:17. > :08:23.He is expected to announce this today. You wonder what could stop
:08:24. > :08:26.this also ended up in the courts. I think it is pretty inevitable it
:08:27. > :08:30.will end up in the courts whatever he says today because the liberal
:08:31. > :08:36.groups and people who oppose him are going to challenge this in a sense
:08:37. > :08:40.whatever he says. But we are expecting, no confirmation at this
:08:41. > :08:44.stage that Iraq will be taken off the list after lobbying from the
:08:45. > :08:49.secular state, but also expect more clarity on green card holders,
:08:50. > :08:52.people who have the right to live and work here in the United States
:08:53. > :08:56.and potentially existing Visa holders from those countries that
:08:57. > :09:00.are on the banned list. There's lot of confusion when the ban was
:09:01. > :09:03.initially introduced about whether they were covered and it looks like
:09:04. > :09:08.the White House might be heading towards new Visa applications. There
:09:09. > :09:14.may also be movement on the question of refugees, of course you remember
:09:15. > :09:17.Syria, refugees from Syria were indefinitely banned and there could
:09:18. > :09:20.be some movement on that as well. And meanwhile the row over
:09:21. > :09:24.allegations about phone tapping in the run-up to the presidential
:09:25. > :09:29.elections continue with the FBI firmly denying it happened. The FBI
:09:30. > :09:32.denying through various sources, nothing official from them at the
:09:33. > :09:38.moment, suggesting that the Justice Department should make that clear
:09:39. > :09:41.publicly. We have the former director of National intelligence
:09:42. > :09:48.also saying he would know if there was a court order to tap the phones
:09:49. > :09:52.of Donald Trump during the campaign and there was no such order. So the
:09:53. > :09:57.moment we have an allegation was nothing to back it up. That is not
:09:58. > :10:00.stopping the White House of course, Donald Trump believes it is true and
:10:01. > :10:05.he is calling on Congress to investigate it. So pressure on those
:10:06. > :10:09.Republican shares of those committees in Congress to open an on
:10:10. > :10:12.something for which at the moment there is no evidence at all.
:10:13. > :10:14.There's been international condemnation of the test launch
:10:15. > :10:15.of four ballistic missiles by North Korea.
:10:16. > :10:17.The Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said three
:10:18. > :10:20.landed in waters close to the country's north-west coast.
:10:21. > :10:23.He described the launch as "an extremely dangerous action".
:10:24. > :10:25.South Korea's acting president has asked for the swifter deployment
:10:26. > :10:28.of a US-made missile defence shield - due to be installed
:10:29. > :10:35.BT Sport has paid ?1.1 billion to retain the rights
:10:36. > :10:38.to show Champions League and Europa League games.
:10:39. > :10:41.The deal - which will run until the end of the 2020 -
:10:42. > :10:43.2021 season - gives the broadcaster exclusive rights to show
:10:44. > :10:54.Police say thirteen potential terror attacks have been thwarted
:10:55. > :11:02.The UK's most senior counter-terrorism police officer has
:11:03. > :11:04.also revealed that more than 500 investigations are being
:11:05. > :11:09.He disclosed the figures as he launched an appeal that aims
:11:10. > :11:11.to get members of the public to report any suspicious behaviour.
:11:12. > :11:15.Our home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford reports.
:11:16. > :11:24.Checking on a huge bag of fertiliser he planned to use for an Al-Qaeda
:11:25. > :11:28.bombing campaign against nightclubs and shopping centres. Kiam in 2000
:11:29. > :11:33.unaware he was being watched by police. A woman working at the
:11:34. > :11:37.storage warehouse had tipped off detectives. Potentially saving
:11:38. > :11:40.hundreds of lives. If you have a concern about something you have
:11:41. > :11:44.seen or heard that could identify a terrorist threat, report it. A new
:11:45. > :11:48.police campaign reminds the public of the important role but they have
:11:49. > :11:53.in fighting terror. It could be anything but strikes you is unusual.
:11:54. > :11:58.Detectives say in one third of the most high risk recent
:11:59. > :12:02.investigations, information from the public has helped. In the background
:12:03. > :12:06.are the devastating attacks in mainland Europe. The trucks driven
:12:07. > :12:13.into crowds in Berlin and Nice. The mass shooting combined with suicide
:12:14. > :12:16.bombs in Paris and Brussels. Also called Islamic State or Daesh
:12:17. > :12:24.attacks inspired or even controlled from a distance. We have to go
:12:25. > :12:28.outside. We see increasing use of encrypted communications which can
:12:29. > :12:34.instantaneously linked terrorists across the world. That brings about
:12:35. > :12:38.a greater danger across communities that someone in our community could
:12:39. > :12:42.be influenced by someone working in a terrorist stronghold on the other
:12:43. > :12:47.side of the world. Counterterrorist police are working with the threat
:12:48. > :12:52.level of severe. Which means that an attempted terrorist attack is
:12:53. > :12:55.considered to be highly likely. It has been like that since the end of
:12:56. > :13:02.2014 and there is no sign of the level coming down in the coming
:13:03. > :13:06.months or even years. An analysis of where most convicted terrorist lived
:13:07. > :13:10.has identified London and the West Midlands. One tenth of all those
:13:11. > :13:15.convicted in the whole of the UK came from just five wards in
:13:16. > :13:20.Birmingham. It is not surprising that big cities like London and
:13:21. > :13:26.Birmingham which a large diverse populations, pockets of deprivation,
:13:27. > :13:29.will have a significant number of terrorists but that should not take
:13:30. > :13:34.away from the fact that a terrorist attack can take place anywhere in
:13:35. > :13:38.the country. Police said today they slaughtered 13 terrorist attacks on
:13:39. > :13:41.the UK in the past four years and there are currently running around
:13:42. > :13:45.500 counterterrorist investigations at any one time. Daniel Sandford,
:13:46. > :14:03.BBC News at New Scotland Yard. Pressure continues to grow on French
:14:04. > :14:05.presidential candidate Francois Fillon.
:14:06. > :14:07.Mr Fillon is being investigated after allegations that he paid his
:14:08. > :14:10.family out of public funds, for little or no work.
:14:11. > :14:14.Our correspondent Hugh Schofield is in Paris.
:14:15. > :14:21.The latest twist is his rolling out of Alain Juppe, he delivered the
:14:22. > :14:26.declaration this morning in quite a better fashion. Clearly he is very
:14:27. > :14:30.embittered and angry and he held Francois Fillon responsible for the
:14:31. > :14:32.mess the centre-right is in now in France. He said there was no way
:14:33. > :14:38.that he would stand as this alternative candidate and would not
:14:39. > :14:41.be the Plan B. So now does that mean it is inevitable but Francois Fillon
:14:42. > :14:46.is the candidate and the party more or less has got to rally around him.
:14:47. > :14:50.Well, maybe or maybe not because things are still going on, there are
:14:51. > :14:56.still negotiations behind closed doors. And the key figure is
:14:57. > :14:59.emerging, someone we all know, Nicolas Sarkozy, who also fancied
:15:00. > :15:03.himself as something of a kingmaker in this. Of course he also lost in
:15:04. > :15:09.the primaries but is still very much there and we understand he is
:15:10. > :15:12.reading his web as we speak. And meeting -- a meeting is planned of
:15:13. > :15:16.the political committee of the party this evening and then a meeting with
:15:17. > :15:22.Nicolas Sarkozy is going to happen tomorrow. He is looking for a three
:15:23. > :15:26.May -- the three way meeting to try to get some semblance of unity
:15:27. > :15:31.either behind Francois Fillon or maybe another candidate whose name
:15:32. > :15:34.we just do not know. An extraordinary position to be in for
:15:35. > :15:41.France so close to the elections. Absolutely unprecedented. Bizarre.
:15:42. > :15:45.And for Republicans, the most depressing thing they could have
:15:46. > :15:49.imagined, that this selection was there is on a plate after five years
:15:50. > :15:53.of very popular Socialist candidates. But everything that
:15:54. > :15:57.could go wrong has gone wrong and the two people rubbing their hands
:15:58. > :16:00.with glee are of course Marine Le Pen on the far right and Emmanuel
:16:01. > :16:03.Macron who has, from the centre and finds the door is wide open for him.
:16:04. > :16:07.Fears of job cuts at Vauxhall's UK plants as they're sold
:16:08. > :16:12.The rising problem of "idling" - pollution caused by cars
:16:13. > :16:20.keeping their engines running when parked.
:16:21. > :16:27.In the sport, the BBC secures the rights to broadcast the women's
:16:28. > :16:31.World Cup in France in 2019. Coverage of every game will be shown
:16:32. > :16:36.across TV, radio and online. The Zeebrugge ferry disaster
:16:37. > :16:38.was Britain's worst peacetime 193 people died when the Herald
:16:39. > :16:43.of Free Enterprise capsized within minutes of setting sail
:16:44. > :16:46.for Dover in 1987 - all because the ship's staff had
:16:47. > :16:51.failed to close the bow doors. Today events are being held
:16:52. > :16:54.in the UK and in Belgium to mark the thirtieth anniversary and this
:16:55. > :16:57.morning, some of the survivors, rescuers, and families
:16:58. > :17:03.of the victims went out to see -- to sea to drop flowers in the
:17:04. > :17:27.water where the ferry overturned. Diane Bunker. Nadine Bunker... It is
:17:28. > :17:31.one of the iconic, tragic images of Britain's time in history. The
:17:32. > :17:41.upturned hull of the Herald of Free Enterprise, ship, people, too.
:17:42. > :17:46.First, the plates slipped gently off the restaurant tables. With the
:17:47. > :17:50.poignancy of poetry, Kate Adie captured the unfolding horror. Then
:17:51. > :17:54.suddenly, the tables, the chairs and people crashed sideways and
:17:55. > :18:00.downwards. The windows were under water, the water burst in. The ship
:18:01. > :18:03.was in darkness. It was that darkness that those on board
:18:04. > :18:12.remember most. All the lights went out. It was completely pitch black,
:18:13. > :18:18.dark. We could hear the rushing water. Brian Gibbons was that lorry
:18:19. > :18:24.driver on his first very trip. He was the last to be rescued. With the
:18:25. > :18:29.screams, the shouts and everything else. Unfortunately, some people did
:18:30. > :18:35.not make it. The reason I am talking to you today is, I think, people
:18:36. > :18:50.need to know it happened because of those who did not make it. Sorry.
:18:51. > :18:54.Today, in Dover, three decades of memories and regrets work on the
:18:55. > :19:07.collective minds of 200 relatives and friends. Peter Martin...
:19:08. > :19:19.Catherine Mason... John Millgate... Either Mosley. The sheer number. It
:19:20. > :19:25.took six weeks for many relatives to learn their loved ones had died.
:19:26. > :19:29.Agonising enough for adults and an eternity for children, like Kim
:19:30. > :19:35.Spooner who was eight, and who lost her aunt and uncle. Oh, my goodness!
:19:36. > :19:41.I remember so vividly from sitting in my front room, hearing something
:19:42. > :19:45.terrible had happened in Belgium and my mother saying, I think Billy and
:19:46. > :19:49.Mary were on that ship. I did not really process what it meant at the
:19:50. > :19:53.time, to be honest. Sitting up all night waiting to hear them all and
:19:54. > :19:58.hoping they would get in touch and it did not happen. The Herald of
:19:59. > :20:05.Free Enterprise had sailed with her bow doors open. An attempt to
:20:06. > :20:10.prosecute crewmembers on the company later collapsed. The victims may
:20:11. > :20:20.have been British but the horror was universal and profound. In Zeebrugge
:20:21. > :20:25.today, wreaths for Belgian shared a prolonged anguish. The bell was
:20:26. > :20:29.brought to its final resting place in Dover. An artefact to go with
:20:30. > :20:32.recollections of a maritime disaster, whose wake and jaws.
:20:33. > :20:43.Clearly a difficult day for the families of those who died and for
:20:44. > :20:46.the survivors as well. Very much so. An incredibly poignant service in
:20:47. > :20:51.Dover today and another one taking Place in Belgium as well. The key
:20:52. > :20:56.thing that everybody keeps saying to us, it is hard to believe that all
:20:57. > :21:03.these events unfolded exactly 30 years ago tonight in these waters of
:21:04. > :21:07.the Channel here behind me. 193 people, mostly British, day-trippers
:21:08. > :21:16.and lorry drivers, they perished in those waters. The Herald did go down
:21:17. > :21:18.and help to change the course of British maritime history. Ship
:21:19. > :21:21.design has changed, the law of safety has changed. Many changes
:21:22. > :21:25.came out as a result of this. One thing that does an jaw, that for the
:21:26. > :21:30.relatives and friends of those who died, is their pain. That was on
:21:31. > :21:33.show again today, three decades after she went down. Duncan, thank
:21:34. > :21:46.you. A zoo in Cumbria has just lost its
:21:47. > :21:48.licence. Government inspectors have criticised it for overcrowding and a
:21:49. > :21:52.lack of proper welfare for the animals.
:21:53. > :21:55.Danny Savage is in Barrow in Furness.
:21:56. > :22:01.This result has just come through. Councillors have been meteor morning
:22:02. > :22:09.to decide whether or not to grant a licence to the zoo, the South Lakes
:22:10. > :22:13.Zoo zoo, about four, five miles from here. People who visited, many
:22:14. > :22:17.posted positive reviews of it in the past but had a very damning
:22:18. > :22:21.inspection by government appointed vets in January of this year.
:22:22. > :22:28.Reading their report, well over 130 pages long, it is no surprise really
:22:29. > :22:38.that the councillors here have now decided to refuse permission for
:22:39. > :22:42.this zoo to continue. 486 animals died up until September last year.
:22:43. > :22:46.They included Tigers, drafts, lemurs. The owner of the zoo was
:22:47. > :22:51.singled out for criticism and basically he saw no problem with
:22:52. > :22:57.what was going on there with the number of deaths. The inspectors say
:22:58. > :23:04.they were dismayed. An employee at the zoot them, he was told just to
:23:05. > :23:09.dispose of any dead bodies and not tell anybody about them. It was an
:23:10. > :23:14.appalling catalogue of criticism singled out by the inspectors in
:23:15. > :23:21.January. The zoo will no longer have a licence to operate. What happens
:23:22. > :23:24.to the animals who are still there? Technically, the local authority may
:23:25. > :23:30.have to pick up their care and sort out what happens to them next.
:23:31. > :23:34.Equally, the owner of the zoo can now appealed this decision so things
:23:35. > :23:37.can continue for some things have, they say, improved now at the zoo
:23:38. > :23:43.for the people who own it say things are better. It is animal welfare
:23:44. > :23:48.which is at the heart of this. What happens to them? Do they get taken
:23:49. > :23:53.into local authority care and get dispersed to other zoos? Will the
:23:54. > :23:56.new company come in and run the side from now on? Thank you.
:23:57. > :23:59.A former British soldier has been shot dead by
:24:00. > :24:02.Tristan Voorspuy served as an army officer in the 70s
:24:03. > :24:05.and had spent nearly 30 years as a rancher and safari operator.
:24:06. > :24:08.The killing is part of continuing unrest over the invasion of large
:24:09. > :24:11.They say drought has forced them to find land
:24:12. > :24:14.on which to graze their cattle but ranch owners have accused local
:24:15. > :24:17.politicians of inciting the violence in the run up
:24:18. > :24:31.Friends have described Tristan Voorspuy as a true of that and a
:24:32. > :24:36.gentleman. He was shot dead yesterday as he went to check the
:24:37. > :24:42.remains of a lodge which had been burnt down. For almost 30 years, he
:24:43. > :24:48.and his wife had run a luxury safari company and branch in the Northern
:24:49. > :24:53.region in Kenya, one of the most important conservation areas in the
:24:54. > :24:58.country. Recently, this beautiful region has been turned into a battle
:24:59. > :25:02.ground for resources. Cattle herders driving their livestock tens of
:25:03. > :25:09.thousands of them onto private farms and branches. The herders armed and
:25:10. > :25:14.desperate have pushed owners of their land. Already it is estimated
:25:15. > :25:19.at least a dozen people have been killed in clashes. Last month, a
:25:20. > :25:24.group of foreign tourists were evacuated by helicopter. At the root
:25:25. > :25:32.of this conflict is one simple thing. The need for water to keep
:25:33. > :25:40.both cattle and people alive. Kenya is in the midst of the drought which
:25:41. > :25:46.could soon affect 4 million people. TRANSLATION: We are very scared
:25:47. > :25:49.because our animals are dying. We are losing entire herds if this
:25:50. > :25:55.continues, we feel we will die as well. As you can see, there is
:25:56. > :26:00.nothing here. We have no food. But it is also alleged this movement of
:26:01. > :26:06.cattle is being encouraged by some politicians to secure votes in the
:26:07. > :26:10.election in August. The conflict in which Tristan Voorspuy lost his life
:26:11. > :26:14.may well intensify in the coming months.
:26:15. > :26:16.Talks are beginning in Belfast to try to form
:26:17. > :26:20.The two largest parties, the Democratic Unionists
:26:21. > :26:23.and Sinn Fein, are still divided over a green energy scheme
:26:24. > :26:25.that led to the collapse of the previous administration.
:26:26. > :26:27.Our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler is in Stormont.
:26:28. > :26:33.How much progress are they likely to make in these talks?
:26:34. > :26:38.That is a very good question. They do not have a lot of time to make
:26:39. > :26:42.progress. In three weeks' time they will have to elect a first and
:26:43. > :26:46.Deputy First Minister otherwise it could be a case of Westminster
:26:47. > :26:49.having to step in for a time and run government in Ireland were
:26:50. > :26:52.potentially even a new election. They do not want to think about
:26:53. > :26:56.that. They want to get on with the business of trying to negotiate a
:26:57. > :27:04.deal. The assembly members arrived at Stormont to be shown their new
:27:05. > :27:06.offices but actually getting into the business of government depends
:27:07. > :27:09.on a deal between DUP and Sinn Fein. As she were reflecting, the amount
:27:10. > :27:13.of things they disagree on our considerable. Brexit, education, the
:27:14. > :27:18.Irish language and most difficult and divisive of all, the question as
:27:19. > :27:22.to whether Arlene Foster would be prepared to step aside during an
:27:23. > :27:27.investigation into a botched energy scheme. They are a very long list of
:27:28. > :27:30.things indeed. Sinn Fein says it is essential Arlene Foster steps aside
:27:31. > :27:36.and the DUP says it is totally unacceptable and say they will not
:27:37. > :27:39.be dictated to by Sinn Fein. It is against that backdrop that James
:27:40. > :27:42.Brogan Shire, the Northern Ireland Secretary, is meeting party leaders
:27:43. > :27:46.today that something is to be done to focus minds if they are to get an
:27:47. > :27:52.agreement within three weeks an independent panel that looked after
:27:53. > :27:58.the pay of MLAs here have said today in a letter that perhaps the page
:27:59. > :28:03.should be cut after three months. Just give them three months of pay
:28:04. > :28:07.and then stop it if they cannot come to an agreement. That may be one way
:28:08. > :28:10.to focus minds but given the agreement it will be difficult to
:28:11. > :28:13.get the deal in the three-week window.
:28:14. > :28:16.It's estimated that 40,000 people in the UK are dying
:28:17. > :28:18.prematurely due to health problems linked with air pollution.
:28:19. > :28:20.The World Health Organisation says more than 90 percent
:28:21. > :28:22.of people worldwide are breathing polluted air.
:28:23. > :28:24.One problem is the pollution caused by cars keeping their engines
:28:25. > :28:26.on when they're parked or waiting in bad traffic.
:28:27. > :28:31.At schools right across the UK there is a quiet revolution under
:28:32. > :28:39.The problem is idling, parents leaving their engines
:28:40. > :28:42.running while they wait at the school gates,
:28:43. > :28:54.so now they are being targeted by and people and controls.
:28:55. > :28:57.Obviously we are trying to educate people.
:28:58. > :28:59.It's yet another success for this anti-idling patrol.
:29:00. > :29:02.These volunteers in Islington have been trained in what to say
:29:03. > :29:05.to drivers to persuade them to switch off and to deal with some
:29:06. > :29:08.Campaigners say this is about local people cleaning
:29:09. > :29:13.Today it's about this street in this area,
:29:14. > :29:17.trying to reduce pollution levels for the pupils at the school.
:29:18. > :29:20.So just how much difference can switching off your engine make?
:29:21. > :29:22.Testing in one location saw that by stopping idling pollution
:29:23. > :29:29.The bigger message is that it helps people understand
:29:30. > :29:35.the impact of small actions on the larger problem.
:29:36. > :29:41.I'm sorry to bother you but your engine's running.
:29:42. > :29:47.For the past six years as he walks to work in the theatres
:29:48. > :29:51.of the West End of London, the actor Nigel Havens
:29:52. > :29:57.A lot of the drivers don't know who the hell I am.
:29:58. > :29:59.They've said some pretty choice things to me.
:30:00. > :30:01.But generally speaking people are really aware, they go, "Oh, no,
:30:02. > :30:04.I hadn't thought of that, OK," and they turn it off.
:30:05. > :30:08.Admittedly, this is a drop in the ocean, or a particle
:30:09. > :30:10.in the air if you like, when compared to the global
:30:11. > :30:13.problem of air pollution, but new research shows changing
:30:14. > :30:15.habits, switching off engines, can make a difference
:30:16. > :30:25.in protecting our most precious resource.
:30:26. > :30:32.Time for a look at the weather. Hello. Most of us have got away with
:30:33. > :30:37.a decent start to the new week as captured by one about weather
:30:38. > :30:40.watchers. This beautiful picture sent into us from Douglas on the
:30:41. > :30:47.Isle of Man. Beautiful blue skies and sunshine. That was not the case
:30:48. > :30:51.for all. This was the scene in North Somerset. Pretty breezy as well. It
:30:52. > :30:55.could've been a whole lot worse for the look at this area of low
:30:56. > :30:58.pressure diving just to the south of us and the very tightly squeezed
:30:59. > :31:03.isobars that developed earlier this month. That brought some
:31:04. > :31:07.exceptionally strong winds into coastal parts of north-western
:31:08. > :31:11.France. The wind gusts of 190 miles an hour. They are not too far away
:31:12. > :31:14.from the west of the weather. The worst for us were clouds, blustery
:31:15. > :31:19.winds and rain across the south-west. Still rain here and more
:31:20. > :31:24.clouds bringing across Northern Ireland as well. That will bring
:31:25. > :31:27.heavy downpours of rain and showers merging it long spells of rain at
:31:28. > :31:30.times. Pretty hefty Shasta Northern and eastern parts of Scotland. In
:31:31. > :31:36.western Scotland and northern England, one or two showers and
:31:37. > :31:39.sunshine as well. Better afternoon the West Wales and south of England.
:31:40. > :31:42.A scattering of showers in the East of England is sunshine between the
:31:43. > :31:45.temperature is about where they should be for the time of year.
:31:46. > :31:48.Through this evening and overnight we will keep some showers for
:31:49. > :31:52.eastern Scotland, perhaps fringing into eastern England. Northwest got
:31:53. > :31:55.them keep the showers as well stop as whether showers will tend to fade
:31:56. > :32:03.away with light winds and clear skies. It would be quite a chilly
:32:04. > :32:05.night. Temperature is low enough for a touch of Frost, especially across
:32:06. > :32:11.northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. A chilies start to
:32:12. > :32:16.tomorrow. A few showers in the east. -- a chilly start. We will see rain
:32:17. > :32:19.throwing its way across Northern Ireland, West of Scotland and into
:32:20. > :32:24.Wales, eventually the Midlands for the temperatures around nine to 11
:32:25. > :32:28.degrees. The band of rain associated with the frontal system could give
:32:29. > :32:31.some hill snow for a time to stop generally speaking, as these weather
:32:32. > :32:35.fronts, bands of rain continued to move towards us join the middle part
:32:36. > :32:40.of the week, they will also bring a south-westerly wind I have some
:32:41. > :32:44.pretty mild air. Mild weather does not waste means sunny weather. That
:32:45. > :32:49.will not be the case on Wednesday. A lot of clout with areas of rain
:32:50. > :32:53.moving through quite breezy. Heavy showers and blustery and on the cold
:32:54. > :32:57.side. In the South East, 15 degrees in London. We will stick with the
:32:58. > :33:02.milder theme as we get towards the end of the week. To sum things up we
:33:03. > :33:07.will see some rain at times but try spells and sunshine. The milder feel
:33:08. > :33:13.for a time. As we get into next weekend and beyond, things. To cool
:33:14. > :33:16.off again. As I said at the start clashes with the start, compared
:33:17. > :33:20.with the winds across France today, things could be a lot worse.
:33:21. > :33:24.A reminder of our main story this lunchtime.
:33:25. > :33:28.Fears of job cuts at UK plasma Vauxhall plants as they are sold to
:33:29. > :33:29.a French owner.