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The Chancellor Philip Hammond defends raising taxes | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Mr Hammond said the government was facing new spending challenges | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
What I did yesterday was address the basic continuing unfairness | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
in the current system, the benefits available | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
to the self-employed have significantly improved. | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
This is not the time to do it when consumer spending is just dipping | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
and at the front line are the effects of the sole traders, the | :00:36. | :00:36. | |
self-employed. We'll be asking just how | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
much political pressure Jeremy Hunt says the NHS has | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
to improve its performance now that social care is being given | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
an extra ?2 billion. John Lewis cuts its staff bonuses | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
in the face of what it calls A university lecturer has been | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
arrested in Australia on child sex abuse charges after he impersonated | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
the pop star Justin Bieber online. Made this memorial can read the | :01:00. | :01:13. | |
lives in service of all who took part in the operations in Iraq and | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Afghanistan. And the Queen unveils a memorial | :01:17. | :01:17. | |
dedicated to those who served in conflicts in Iraq, | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Afghanistan, and in the Gulf War. And the Queen unveils a memorial | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
dedicated to those who served And coming up in the | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
sport on BBC News. England and Scotland | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
name their teams for Saturday's Calcutta Cup match | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
in the Six Nations, with Billy Vunipola on the bench | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
for Eddie Jone's side at Twickenham. Good afternoon and welcome | :01:32. | :01:53. | |
to the BBC News at One. The Chancellor Philip Hammond has | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
defended his plan to raise National Insurance Contributions | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
for the self-employed, saying the government | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
faces "new challenges." Mr Hammond is facing criticism | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
of the Budget announcement for apparently going against a 2015 | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
manifesto pledge on tax rises. The change, due to come in next | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
year, will mean 1.6 million self-employed people paying | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
on average ?240 more every year. Labour has accused the government | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
of breaking its promise. Here's our political | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
correspondent Eleanor Garnier. Learning to solve technical problems | :02:24. | :02:35. | |
at a college in Dudley in the West Midlands this morning, and after | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
yesterday's budget, the Chancellor is the one looking for answers after | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
criticism over his plans to hike up national insurance. I think the | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
decision we have made is a fair decision. To ask self-employed | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
people to pay just a little more contribution for the services they | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
receive. This is not in any way an attack on business, hugely | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
supportive of business, I want people to have choices about the way | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
they work, but I want them to make those choices on the basis of what's | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
right, not on the basis of what tax advantages they bring. But this is | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
the row he woke up to. Accusations the Tories had broken a manifesto | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
promise made by Mr Cameron back in 2015. If you elect me as your Prime | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
Minister there will be no increase in VAT, no increase in National | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
insurance, no increase in income tax. And there is criticism from | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
some Conservative MPs. My leave iPod through people's doors who voted for | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
me said we will not put up VAT, income tax and national insurance | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
contributions and it didn't say only class one or anything else, it | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
didn't say that. That's what people believed in an I don't think we | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
should break that promise. The government says the policy will make | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
the system fairer. The new changes plus others already planned mean 2.6 | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
million people will gain around ?115 a year. At 1.6 million will have to | :03:59. | :04:08. | |
pay more, on average ?240 a year. Labour is hoping Tory rebels will | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
help them oppose the plans. And represent the constituency with a | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
large number of self-employed and I'd tell you, at the moment, they | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
are on the edge because the dip in consumer spending, what's happening | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
in the economy at the moment. This is not a time to be penalising them. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
We want a fair system so let the planet so those self-employed are | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
treated fairly, but also lets end this exploitation. But others are | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
clear the change will make things fairer. The world of work is | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
changing, 45% of the increase in employment in the last few years has | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
been done by self-employment and he's realised more people are | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
self-employed, the less taxi is getting in because the self-employed | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
pay significantly less and he's right to adjust that. The Treasury | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
say Philip Hammond is privately bullish about the changes. But they | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
do admit privately the initial explanation of the measures may have | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
fallen short. The government insists its plans are fair. But Philip | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Hammond said no Chancellor can rule out future tax changes. Adding that | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
the golden rule. The independent economics | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
think tank, the Institute of Fiscal Studies, has been looking | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
through the Chancellor's Budget and has been giving its initial | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
analysis of it to our economics correspondent Andy Verity | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
who's in central London. What do they say? As well as | :05:25. | :05:36. | |
analysing the National Insurance changes we've talked about, they've | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
also looked about earnings, and that's a very concerning picture | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
because they have identified official recognition that we are not | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
now going to get back all the economic growth that we lost after | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
the financial crash. Here is what Paul Johnson said to me. What really | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
struck me was that we have got confirmation that we are in the | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
middle of the worst decade for earnings growth in more than 100 | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
years and yet the Office for Budget Responsibility things the economy is | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
above trend, in other words doing better than it can continue to do | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
into the future, so all of that growth we have lost over the last | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
few years, we're not going to get back again. We are still getting | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
used to this idea. The Autumn Statement in 2016. But actually, | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
normally after recession you do expect a recovery, you expect to get | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
back that productive capacity. The fact we are now not going to get it | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
back and with it the pay rises which would have gone with it, means this | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
is a decade without precedent in modern times. The worst pay rises in | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
a decade for more than a century. OK, Andy, thank you. | :06:48. | :06:48. | |
Our Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith is in Westminster. | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
Norman, the ISS with a gloomy assessment of pay rises and this row | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
going on with National Insurance contributions. How much pressure | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
does this mean Philip Hammond is now under? He is under huge humongous | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
pressure to climb down because for many Conservative MPs there is tax | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
rise goes against everything they believe it is to be a conservative, | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
involving in the first place putting up taxes on people's basic income, | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
something which is anathema to many Tories, but more than that, they | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
view it as an attack on their people, people who go out on their | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
own, take a risk, start a business, grow a company, and, yes, they do | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
accept it is a breach of their party 's election manifesto. And the | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
difficulty for Philip Hammond is there is going to have to be a vote | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
on this, they will have to be legislation to bring about these tax | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
rises. This morning the Treasury were not running up the white flag | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
and say Mr Hammond is bullish and are confident they can make a better | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
job of selling the policies for the basing your argument is about | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
fairness will gain traction. My sense is at the end of the day, Mr | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Hammond may yet be saved by Brexit and the reason for that is real Tory | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
MPs, do they want to inflict more hardship and difficulty on the | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
government when they are already having to navigate the fraud to | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
reign of Brexit? So we may not get a climb-down. It could be a review | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
and, significantly, Downing Street this morning repeatedly not ruling | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
out a review of the tax rises. Norman, many thanks. | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said it is essential that A | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
departments in England hit their target for waiting times | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
now that extra money has been put into social care, | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
If we are leaving people too long in A departments, | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
if we're not getting the flow right through hospitals, it | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
is bad for patient safety, and that's why it's absolutely | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
essential that we do get back to the 95% target. | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
This one is critical for patient safety, and that's why, | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
yesterday, you saw the Chancellor announcing a ?2 billion short-term | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
Well, 95% of patients should be dealt with in four hours, | :09:02. | :09:12. | |
but the latest figures for January show a new record low, | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
with only 85% of people being seen in that time. | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
Our health correspondent Nick Triggle is here. | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
The Health Secretary wants to get back to this 95% target, how? | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
Clearly it's a big ask, but he is hoping the investment announced in | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
the budget for social care will have a knock-on impact for hospitals for | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
the best winter one of the big problems we have seen is the large | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
numbers of patients who finished their treatment but have been unable | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
to be discharged from hospital because care is not available in the | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
community. If councils are in charge of social care and are able to | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
provide more help in the home tasks whitewashing and dressing, more care | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
home faces, those delays in theory should reduce and the NHS has issued | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
guidance this morning saying that they hope the investment will free | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
up between 2000-3000 bed to reduce the delays by a half and expectation | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
now is the NHS will hit target by March next year but hospital bosses | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
I have spoken to have said that if unrealistic. OK, Nick, thank you. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
John Lewis has cut its staff bonus to 6% this year, | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
John Lewis has cut its staff bonus to 6% this year, | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
Despite rising profits, the partnership, which also owns | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
Waitrose, is warning of an "increasingly | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
It comes after John Lewis announced it was cutting | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
Our Business Correspondent Emma Simpson reports. | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
These were the good old days, a stonking | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
John Lewis is owned by its staff, and they cherish | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
This year, a different story, just 6%, the lowest | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
for 63 years, despite reporting healthy pre-tax profits. | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
The reason we've done that is because it gives | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
us more firepower to accelerate our plans for the future. | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
It basically means we can maintain our investment | :11:07. | :11:07. | |
this year and absorb the cost of change, even if the market gets | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
tougher in the year ahead, and that's very | :11:12. | :11:12. | |
The reason we've done that is because it gives | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
A revolution in shopping habits is under way. | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
Nearly half of all John Lewis's sales are now online, but | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
they still have to pay the costs of all the stores. | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
How to make money and give the customers what they | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
want - it's something all retailers are trying to figure out. | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Now matter how good a retailer you are, you are | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
not immune to the challenges that all retailers face now. | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
Costs are rising in the supply chain because | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
You also have higher costs for staff because wages | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
are rising, and then, of course, there's business rates on top of | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
And then you have to invest heavily in the business to keep | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
But as the spring season gets under way, what | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
the chairman of this business is worried | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
about is the impact of the | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
falling pound, and how that could affect prices and profits. | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
The main uncertainty in the market this year | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
I said in January that it was the dog | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
that hadn't barked, and I think what we can | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
now see is, or hear, is the | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
sort of low rumble of a bit of a growl. | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
And will consumers start to rein back as a result? | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
John Lewis is preparing itself for a tough year | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
The founder of a charity which supports people | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
who as children were forcibly sent abroad without their parents has | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
been giving evidence at the independent inquiry | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
Margaret Humphreys said the deportation of thousands | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
of children was the most catastrophic child abuse legacy | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent, Tom Symonds. | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
Margaret Humphreys has worked most of her life | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
Her offices are covered with the pictures of those she's helped. | :12:58. | :13:06. | |
Today, 30 years after founding the Child Migrants Trust, | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
she finally got to give evidence to a British public inquiry, | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
Without doubt this is the most catastrophic child-abuse legacy | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
Kidnapping, sexual abuse in the UK before they were sent - | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
Between 1945 and 1974 Britain accelerated the migration of poor | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
children, in particular to Australia. | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
The idea - to reduce the impact on British | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
social services, and bring what was called "good white stock" | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
This man in a suit, he came to see me, and he | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
says, "Your mother's dead, you know, so how'd | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
The story of Margaret Humphreys' fight for the migrants was made | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
She was particularly horrified about the way it stripped them of their | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
It is a chilling fact of the scandal that many were told they | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
That was in my view I think the greatest betrayal of all, | :14:06. | :14:15. | |
because it took so much hope from them. | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
The inquiry has heard seven days of evidence, | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
from migrants in their later years, remembering their lives. | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
Deprived of good education, love and support. | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
Once in Australia I walked with no shoes, and dare I | :14:28. | :14:44. | |
say it, I no underwear and believe me - you need to do that | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
walk to know how it feels to be nobody. | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
When your feet hurt and they bleed, and nobody, but nobody, | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
The British Government has apologised | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
for what happened, but this inquiry is looking at the legacy it has | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
left, and former child migrants have told me they want more compensation | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
to ease the impact it is still having so late in their lives. | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
Tom Symonds, BBC News, at the child-abuse inquiry. | :15:05. | :15:14. | |
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, defends raising National Insurance | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
on the self-employed, saying there are new spending challenges that | :15:26. | :15:26. | |
have to be faced. And coming up: Was this the greatest | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
comeback in sporting history? We'll have all the reaction to that | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
amazing Barcelona fightback Coming up in sport at | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
1.30: Arsene Wenger says the opinion of Arsenal fans | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
will influence his decision over whether to remain in charge next | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
season, but he says he hasn't made up his mind yet, or told | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
the players his plan. The Queen has unveiled a memorial | :15:49. | :16:00. | |
honouring the British military personnel and civilians who served | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
in Afghanistan and Iraq since 1990. The deployments to three wars over | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
a 24-year period were the longest and most intense since World War | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
Two. In total, 682 British service men | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
and women lost their lives. Members of the public donated | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
more than ?1 million Yes, Rita, many of the invited | :16:21. | :16:44. | |
guests, about 2000 of them, queueing up to have their pictures taken by | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
the new memorial. Twin pillars of stone linked by a bronze medallion, | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
which captures the beauty and service of all those who took part | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan over that very long | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
period. This is a day that many people have waited for a very long | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
time. There have been many accounts of | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
individual sacrifice during the longest continuous period of combat | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
operations since the Second World War, but today's ceremonies had at | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
their heart stories that weren't told, stories of the duty and | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
service shown by thousands, in and out of uniform. Mark Stone likened | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
his wife Donna had travelled from Cornwall. Mark rebuilt his life | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
after losing a leg to a roadside bomb. He was here to remember all of | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
those who serve. It symbolises the hard work that the British forces | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
have done in the Gulf region, in Iraq and Afghanistan. Everyone has | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
their own unique take on the war and what happened, but it is nice to | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
share with people that been through similar situations to myself. We | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
meet in the presence of God to commemorate and give thanks for all | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
those civilians and members of the military who have served on | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
operations in the Gulf region, Iraq and Afghanistan. | :18:09. | :18:19. | |
The operations being commemorated today divided public opinion as to | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
their merit. No one ever doubted the dedication of every man and every | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
woman who travelled to that troubled region. Tony O'Donnell lost her | :18:31. | :18:41. | |
husband Gary in Afghanistan. It is definitely not just about widows. I | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
am happy to be here and I have seen some of the other widows, so there | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
are a few of us here. It is a pity we couldn't all come, but this is | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
about everybody, not just those who died. This unveiling might not have | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
been possible without the generosity of the public. The Queen was the | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
first to inspect a structure which captures the complexity of the | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
events spanning a quarter of a century. The memorial itself is | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
left, and in a way, there is an unfinished site, which is a nod to | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
the fact that we live in an ongoing situation in both of those | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
countries. One day, this Sergeant and his wife will pass on their Iraq | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
experiences to their son, Alfie, not on his best behaviour this morning. | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
Now, he and generations to come will have a permanent reminder of a | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
chapter in our history that remains unfinished business. | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
I wanted to show you some of the detail on the reverse side of the | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
medallion, this idea then with charities, Government agencies. You | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
can see a water pump in the top right. Young girls at school, and | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
supplies being delivered. From people we are speaking to, the signs | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
are that they are well pleased with all this work. | :20:08. | :20:07. | |
Robert, many thanks. Theresa May is in Brussels this | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
lunchtime to attend what's expected to be her final EU summit before | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
triggering the UK's departure But on the agenda is whether to | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
extend the term of Donald Tusk as President of the European | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
Council. Our political correspondent | :20:20. | :20:20. | |
Ben Wright is there. Are they talking about Brexit | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
at all, and if not, why not? Rita, EU leaders are arriving here | :20:23. | :20:35. | |
for their summit now, and even though Brexit is one of the biggest | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
challenges facing the EU, the issue is not on the formal agenda at all, | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
and it is not expected to be talked about in the margins of these | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
meetings. It will not be chewed on over dinner tonight. The reason is | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
that the EU is emphatic that there can be no negotiations of any sort | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
until the UK has formally asked to leave the EU, triggered Article 50 | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
of the Lisbon Treaty. Until that happens, until that notification is | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
given, there can be no talks, so it is quite a bizarre situation, that | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
it is the big issue here, but it will not be talked about. Theresa | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
May has insisted for many months that she will trigger that, | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
beginning Brexit, by the end of March, a couple of weeks. Despite | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
the need for Parliamentary approval, number ten insist that timetable | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
remains in place. In the meantime, the EU continues to discuss other | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
things, including the future of the union, and that is a discussion that | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Theresa May will not be at tomorrow. She is leaving tonight. The other | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
thing you mention, the re-elections of Donald Tusk, the president of the | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
European Council, a big job, his election was thought to be a | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
formality, but Poland seems to be agitating for a vote, saying that | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
Donald Tusk, they think, is meddling in politics. They don't think he | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
should be in the job. We will see this afternoon if they succeed in | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
causing a rumpus over this and getting a vote. My hunch is, he will | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
be re-elected for another two and a half year term. | :22:05. | :22:05. | |
Ben, many thanks. A man who allegedly posed online | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
as Justin Bieber to solicit explicit images from children has been | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
charged with more than 900 sex Gordon Chalmers - a 42-year-old | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
university law lecturer - faces charges dating back | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
a decade, including rape. 20 of the 157 victims are thought | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
to have been British. Our correspondent | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
Anisa Kadri reports. An idol to millions, Justin Bieber, | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
the pop star with an adoring young But now, a 42-year-old | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
law professor in Brisbane is accused of sexually | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
abusing children by pretending to be Gordon Douglas Chalmers | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
allegedly used social media to win the trust of Bieber fans, | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
including up to 20 in the UK, and got them to send him | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
explicit images. He was already facing charges | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
of grooming children, but after police went through his | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
computer, more than 900 new charges They include three of rape, | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
five of indecent treatment of children, and hundreds of making | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
child exploitation material. Justin Bieber is | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
touring Australia, and some of his teenage fans, | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
like Priscilla Hadad, say they can understand why young people may be | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
tempted to speak with a fake Sometimes, maybe their | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
excitement might get them I'm going to go with it and I'm | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
going to keep talking. Queensland police say | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
the arrest was made after tip-offs from the US | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
and German authorities, and they are warning parents | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
to protect their children It's my rules, it's my house | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
and there's a lot out there. And for me, I really, | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
really want to be on top A United Nations report is to call | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
for an independent investigation into the potential health impact | :23:50. | :24:02. | |
of the UK's largest Residents living near | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
the Ffos-y-Fran site in South Wales have led a long campaign against air | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
and noise pollution. The mine's operator, Miller Argent, | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
says the company has a 'proud record Our Wales environment correspondent | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
Stefan Messenger reports. It's taken over his living | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
room, and he says, it's Campaigning against the giant | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
coalmine on his doorstep. So, this is the back | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
of your car, basically, Yes, you think, well, | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
you know, that's going in my mouth, like, that's | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
going up my nose. Outside, there's more coal | :24:32. | :24:32. | |
dust on his windowsills. Terry Evans claims it's | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
being blown from just beyond this ridge, 37 metres | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
from his front door. From the air, you can see why - | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
cut into the side of the valley, east of the town | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
of Merthyr Tydfil, this is the UK's largest opencast mine, | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
Ffos-y-Fran, the size of some 400 Since 2007, a private | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
company's been digging here, turning old industrial land back | :24:55. | :25:04. | |
to open moorland as they go. That's why it was allowed | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
to happen so close to The community were told that | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
modern mining methods would protect them from pollution, | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
but ten years on, some here say All of us were well aware | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
of people's concerns and real problems of washing | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
being dirty, of kids being disturbed because they couldn't | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
get to sleep at night. Since then, the mine has got | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
a bit deeper, the noise pollution has got less, but nobody | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
believes that the air pollution has For more than a decade, | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
there have been protests and petitions, attempted | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
legal action, complaints to the local council, | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
the Now, BBC News has | :25:43. | :25:43. | |
learned that the United Nations is set to make | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
a surprising intervention. A report by its Special | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
Rapporteur on the human rights of communities at risk | :25:58. | :25:59. | |
of pollution will call for an independent investigation into | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
claims this mine could be harming He had met local | :26:03. | :26:04. | |
campaigners as part of an I came across a number | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
of pressing issues, but this was definitely | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
at I heard allegations | :26:14. | :26:14. | |
of very high rates of childhood asthma, cancer clusters | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
among the community. I didn't hear any | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
evidence of a strong intervention by the | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
Government to investigate. Merthyr Tydfil Council | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
said its findings were based on unsubstantiated claims | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
by the community. The mine's operator, Miller Argent, | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
said he'd been taken in by fake news, | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
accusing him of being biased and a disgrace | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
to his The Welsh Government said | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
it was supporting local authorities The UK Government | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
will respond after Mr Tuncak's official report has been | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
published in September. The British artist Sir Howard | :26:49. | :27:06. | |
Hodgkin has died, aged 84. He was widely regarded as a central figure | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
in contemporary art for over half a century and served as a trustee of | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
the Tate and National Gallery during his long career. Our arts editor | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
joins us. Sum up his importance for us. I think he was a vital component | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
in modern and contemporary art in the second part of the 20th century, | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
not just from a British point of view but from a global one. He | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
bought together the inventions of Matisse and Degas with the | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
innovations of the abstract expressionist in America. He brought | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
colour, form and expression into these beautiful paintings, normally | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
on a wood panel, highly colourful. He always said that for him, a | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
painting was a way of remembering something. He never made any | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
sketches and painted directly onto the panel. He took ages in doing it, | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
but when he eventually produced a result, they were always very | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
moving. You could sense the emotion he was trying to present to you, | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
whether that was anger or sadness, but always this sense of deep | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
empathy, and those paintings, for me, are some of the most beautiful | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
paintings created in Britain in the second half of the 20th century. | :28:21. | :28:22. | |
Many thanks. Now, was this the greatest comeback | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
in football history? Barcelona produced a stunning | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
victory in the Champions League to knock out Paris St Germain | :28:29. | :28:30. | |
to reach the quarter finals. They secured a 6-1 win on the night | :28:31. | :28:32. | |
to overturn a 4-0 deficit, Our sports correspondent | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
Olly Foster reports. There's extraordinary about | :28:36. | :28:46. | |
Barcelona reaching the quarterfinals of the Champions League, but last | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
night's celebrations were the biggest giveaway that something | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
extraordinary had happened at the Nou. When substitute Roberto scooped | :28:54. | :29:01. | |
the ball past the Paris St Germain keeper, their sixth on the night | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
with seconds to spare, there was delirium. A comeback to rival any | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
other in the history of European football. It was a joyous riot on | :29:10. | :29:18. | |
the Ramblas. The supporters never saw this coming. They needed at | :29:19. | :29:27. | |
least four goals last night. There was a debatable Messi penalty early | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
in the secondary half -- the second half. This strike silence them. | :29:32. | :29:39. | |
Barcelona needed at least three. The odds lengthened, the clock was | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
ticking. Neymar curled a beauty, but there were only two minutes left. | :29:45. | :29:53. | |
Neymar was no less from the spot. -- had no nerves from the spot. That is | :29:54. | :30:02. | |
the coach Tom Luis Enrique, who had joked before the game that they | :30:03. | :30:09. | |
could score six. TRANSLATION: It was a difficult night to describe with | :30:10. | :30:16. | |
words. It had a spectacular ending in the Nou Camp. The ability of | :30:17. | :30:25. | |
sport to amaze has been proved many times. It was true of Ian Botham's | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
ashes in the 80s, Rory McIlroy winning five years ago. Barcelona | :30:32. | :30:40. | |
won no trophy last night, just a match and a place in the record | :30:41. | :30:43. | |
books, but don't tell them that's not worth shouting about. | :30:44. | :30:56. | |
Here is a nice picture from Cambridgeshire. A very different | :30:57. | :31:11. | |
story off the tip of Cornwall, look at that. Land 's end looks like the | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
end of the world - grey skies, very gloomy. It is really just the | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
south-west where we have the cloud. The rest of us are enjoying this | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
beautiful spring weather. It is quite warm as well, temperatures | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
already getting up to 17 Celsius in London. For most of us, typically | :31:28. | :31:35. | |
around 10-15dC. It is sunny, but there is a bit of a breeze, so it | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
feels a bit on the cool side, a bit fresh in one or two mac places. 11 | :31:40. | :31:44. | |
Celsius in Sheffield. There is that warm spot, as it often is, in | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
London, 15 Celsius, then we swing down to the tip of Cornwall, to | :31:50. | :31:59. | |
where the pirates are. This cloud stretches from the Channel Islands | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
into Cornwall, stall for the day, then later on in the evening, the | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
clouds roll in the Atlantic and bring some damp weather, relatively | :32:10. | :32:17. | |
mild to, -- relatively mild, to western parts. Eastern areas will be | :32:18. | :32:24. | |
free of club at Chile. Tomorrow, mist and drizzle rolling in, nothing | :32:25. | :32:26. | |
like what we have got today. Thicker cloud tomorrow. In one or two | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
locations, the client will break, so you will get a little bit of | :32:33. | :32:34. | |
brightness. The temperatures are lower. At the weekend, the weather | :32:35. | :32:43. | |
fronts line-up in the Atlantic. There is a whole trail of them, and | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
that will introduce some fresh air. Things will cool off a little bit | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
will stop at least across some of these northern and western areas. | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
Saturday, some spots of rain across the North, temperatures in the low | :32:55. | :33:03. | |
teens, 12-13dC. Sunday, it looks like some of that rainbow push | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
across more southern areas as well, so a bit of a mixture this weekend. | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
In the south this weekend, particularly Saturday, if the clouds | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
do break, you could see 17 Celsius. In summary, some sunny spells, rain | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
at times, and turning a little bit cooler. Not bad. | :33:21. | :33:27. | |
That's all from the BBC News at One, so it's goodbye from me. | :33:28. | :33:31. |