:00:00. > :00:07.A major U-turn as the government scraps its plans to raise
:00:08. > :00:09.National Insurance payments for millions of
:00:10. > :00:14.The Chancellor announced the tax rise in last week's Budget
:00:15. > :00:16.but he now accepts it breached a Conservative election
:00:17. > :00:24.We will consider the government's overall approach to employment
:00:25. > :00:28.status and rights to tax and entitlements.
:00:29. > :00:32.We will bring forward further proposals but we will not bring
:00:33. > :00:40.forward increases to NICs later in this parliament.
:00:41. > :00:44.We have a government U-turn, we have no apology and we have a Budget that
:00:45. > :00:49.falls most heavily on those with the least broad shoulders.
:00:50. > :00:52.We'll be asking how embarrassing this is for the government and how
:00:53. > :00:55.much of a hole it will leave in their finances.
:00:56. > :01:01.A Royal Marine jailed for killing an injured Taliban fighter
:01:02. > :01:03.in Afghanistan has his murder conviction reduced to manslaughter -
:01:04. > :01:09.We are delighted at the judge's decision to substitute manslaughter
:01:10. > :01:16.This is a crucial decision and one that much better reflects
:01:17. > :01:18.the circumstances that my husband found himself in during that
:01:19. > :01:28.Three animal charities win an appeal against the estranged daughter
:01:29. > :01:31.of a woman who left them half a million pounds in her will.
:01:32. > :01:33.Identity theft reaches record levels and it's young people
:01:34. > :01:41.And coming up in the sport on BBC News, can Manchester City join
:01:42. > :01:43.Leicester in the last eight of the Champions League?
:01:44. > :01:45.City travel to Monaco tonight, while the Foxes
:01:46. > :02:08.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:02:09. > :02:13.The Chancellor has scrapped his plans,
:02:14. > :02:15.announced in last week's Budget, to raise National Insurance
:02:16. > :02:17.payments for millions of self-employed workers.
:02:18. > :02:20.The tax rise was due to come into effect next year.
:02:21. > :02:23.But, in a major U-turn this morning, Phillip Hammond admitted
:02:24. > :02:25.that the move would have broken an election manifesto pledge.
:02:26. > :02:34.Our Political Correspondent, Ben Wright, reports.
:02:35. > :02:40.Less than a week after Philip Hammond paraded his first Budget, he
:02:41. > :02:46.has scrapped one of its central planks, Insurance rise for 1.6
:02:47. > :02:51.million self-employed workers. The measure broke a 2015 Conservative
:02:52. > :02:55.Party manifesto promise but the Chancellor insisted the measure was
:02:56. > :02:59.there but the backlash from some Tory MPs, Labour and swathes of the
:03:00. > :03:03.press was fierce. And this morning the Treasury made a dramatic
:03:04. > :03:10.retreat, revealing in a letter to Tory MPs the tax rise would be
:03:11. > :03:14.ditched. In the Commons this lunchtime, Tory MPs showed that
:03:15. > :03:17.support for the government U-turn. I welcome the announcement from this
:03:18. > :03:25.government that we will abide by the letter of our manifesto and also be
:03:26. > :03:30.spirit. Would the Prime Minister agree with me that, as we move
:03:31. > :03:34.towards balancing the books, we must ensure we have a fair and
:03:35. > :03:40.sustainable tax system in place? We made a commitment not to raise taxes
:03:41. > :03:43.and we put our commitment into the tax lock. The measures we put
:03:44. > :03:49.forward in the budget last week were consistent with those locks. But
:03:50. > :03:52.Labour MPs shouted down the Prime Minister as she confirmed the
:03:53. > :03:56.National Insurance rise would not go ahead but a consultation would. On
:03:57. > :04:00.the future of employment we will consider the government's overall
:04:01. > :04:04.approach to employment status and rights to tax and entitlements, we
:04:05. > :04:08.will bring forward further proposals but we will not bring forward
:04:09. > :04:16.increases to NICs later in this Parliament. The Labour leader said
:04:17. > :04:23.the government was in chaos. A budget that unravelled in seven
:04:24. > :04:28.days, a Conservative manifesto with a very pensive Prime Minister on the
:04:29. > :04:33.front page saying there would be no increase. A week ago and increase
:04:34. > :04:37.was announced. And the SNP's Angus Robertson did not pull his punches.
:04:38. > :04:44.We once had a Prime Minister who said the lady was not for turning.
:04:45. > :04:48.My goodness, isn't it welcome that the Prime Minister today had
:04:49. > :04:53.admitted she is for turning with her screeching, embarrassing U-turn on
:04:54. > :04:56.national insurance? This national Insurance rise was due to raise ?1
:04:57. > :04:59.billion by the next election and some believe the U-turn is a
:05:00. > :05:06.mistake. I think it is at its abutment that the Chancellor has
:05:07. > :05:09.rowed back on that policy because it is about fairness, about closing
:05:10. > :05:12.some of the tax discrepancies between employees and the
:05:13. > :05:16.self-employed and it was about the public finances. The fact is this
:05:17. > :05:21.tax rise proved unpopular, angered many Tory MPs and broke a manifesto
:05:22. > :05:25.promise. The government has a very small majority and does not have the
:05:26. > :05:29.political capital for a fight, despite the damage this will do to
:05:30. > :05:30.be Chancellor's credibility. Ben Wright, BBC News, Westminster.
:05:31. > :05:35.Our Assistant Political Editor, Norman Smith, is in Westminster.
:05:36. > :05:41.It is quite some U-turn and difficult could this be for the
:05:42. > :05:46.government? Let's get this in perspective a grand government
:05:47. > :05:49.U-turn is, it is a full-blown howling, screeching the Italian
:05:50. > :05:55.Riviera hairpin bend slope bleeding from the tyres U-turn. In terms of
:05:56. > :05:59.the speed, just seven days ago Philip Hammond announced this tax
:06:00. > :06:04.rise and the scale of it, it is the complete abandonment of the tax
:06:05. > :06:09.rise, not a nudge or a rebuke is out of the window. Why? Mr Hammond says
:06:10. > :06:13.because it was not compliant with the party manifesto and more
:06:14. > :06:18.accurately, the reality cloud broke over him. This is blindingly
:06:19. > :06:22.obviously a breach of their manifesto, never mind the
:06:23. > :06:27.technicalities of the legal opt outs, reality cloud number two was
:06:28. > :06:31.that he was facing an almighty Tory backbench revolt which could have
:06:32. > :06:34.made it extremely difficult to get this through Parliament anyway. And
:06:35. > :06:41.perhaps most damaging of all with the impact it was having on brand
:06:42. > :06:46.may also Theresa May has made much of being different to David Cameron
:06:47. > :06:51.can not going for spin politics but straightforward and honest talking
:06:52. > :06:55.politics. This tax rise, preaching a manifesto, risked profoundly
:06:56. > :07:00.damaging her own pitch as Prime Minister but it also leads two key
:07:01. > :07:04.questions. Who is to blame? Many fingers will be pointed at Phillip
:07:05. > :07:08.Hammond but is it really credible that Theresa May, who has an iron
:07:09. > :07:13.grip on the government, was unaware? Secondly, where is the money going
:07:14. > :07:17.to come from? Philip Hammond said that the up to ?2 billion raised
:07:18. > :07:19.would largely go towards social care so where is the money for social
:07:20. > :07:22.care going to come from? Thank you. With me is our Economics
:07:23. > :07:33.Editor, Kamal Ahmed. It does leave quite a hole. It does,
:07:34. > :07:37.and at the budget, the government announced to make a big spending
:07:38. > :07:42.commitments one on social care that Norman has spoken about and also on
:07:43. > :07:47.business rate relief is. They are expensive. To pay for it they
:07:48. > :07:51.announced two big tax increases. One was on dividend tax, the taxes
:07:52. > :07:57.people pay on their shares, and the other was the rise in taxes on the
:07:58. > :08:04.self-employed, is NICs issue. That was going to raise over ?2 billion
:08:05. > :08:07.by 2022. The fact is it has been scrubbed out and the government has
:08:08. > :08:13.made a pledge they will not return to it at all so by the time of the
:08:14. > :08:19.autumn budget in November, the government will have to say, how it
:08:20. > :08:23.will raise that money. The problem they have is the manifesto
:08:24. > :08:29.commitment which says no increases in income tax, no increases in VAT,
:08:30. > :08:34.no increases in national insurance contributions. Those three taxes
:08:35. > :08:37.raised over 60% of all government income. They are in a position where
:08:38. > :08:42.they don't have much room to manoeuvre. I would suggest all
:08:43. > :08:47.rolled viewers, when it comes to the autumn budget, look at the small
:08:48. > :08:51.print because they were to nickel and dime in small areas of tax pot
:08:52. > :08:56.like the dividend tax, maybe on probate or other areas, to raise
:08:57. > :08:59.money otherwise there is this black hole in the budget which is U-turn
:09:00. > :09:00.has only exacerbated. Thank you. And the statement from
:09:01. > :09:02.the Chancellor will be live on the BBC News Channel along
:09:03. > :09:05.with continued coverage A Royal Marine who shot dead
:09:06. > :09:11.an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan six years ago has
:09:12. > :09:14.had his murder conviction quashed. Judges at the Court Martial
:09:15. > :09:18.Appeal Court ruled that Sergeant Alexander Blackman
:09:19. > :09:20.was instead guilty of manslaughter on the grounds
:09:21. > :09:24.of diminished responsibility. The 42-year-old was originally
:09:25. > :09:27.sentenced to life in 2013. He'll now face another hearing
:09:28. > :09:30.to determine his sentence. Our Defence Correspondent, Jonathan
:09:31. > :09:45.Beale, is outside the court. At his original conviction,
:09:46. > :09:49.Alexander Buttner's defence was that he thought the insurgent was already
:09:50. > :09:52.dead when he shot him -- Blackman. For manslaughter to be considered he
:09:53. > :09:58.has had to change the story and except he was alive and that an
:09:59. > :10:02.important new medical evidence about Alexander Blackman's mental health
:10:03. > :10:12.at the time have paved the way for this conviction to be overturned.
:10:13. > :10:15.This morning, Claire Blackman, who's led the fight for her husband's
:10:16. > :10:17.murder conviction to be quashed, arrived at court
:10:18. > :10:20.It's a campaign that's had the backing of former Marines.
:10:21. > :10:22.In 2013, a military court found Alexander Blackman,
:10:23. > :10:25.better known as Marine A, guilty of murdering a wounded
:10:26. > :10:33.But today, the Appeal Court concluded it wasn't murder.
:10:34. > :10:39.In court, Claire Blackman greeted the news with a tear in her eye.
:10:40. > :10:42.Outside, clearly relieved, this was a moment to savour.
:10:43. > :10:45.We are delighted at the judge's decision to substitute manslaughter
:10:46. > :10:52.This is a crucial decision and one that much better reflects
:10:53. > :10:54.the circumstances that my husband found himself in during that
:10:55. > :11:02.We must now wait for the sentencing hearing and hope to secure
:11:03. > :11:05.a significant reduction in Al's sentence.
:11:06. > :11:12.The incident in Helmand in 2011 was all filmed on a helmet camera.
:11:13. > :11:15.This, the moment the Royal Marine patrol called in a helicopter
:11:16. > :11:22.to target two Taliban insurgents, one of whom was wounded.
:11:23. > :11:25.We are not allowed to show the moment Blackman shoots
:11:26. > :11:28.the injured insurgent, the court has only
:11:29. > :11:30.released this audio as Blackman fires the fatal shot.
:11:31. > :11:47.But three leading psychiatrists told the court that tough tour in Helmand
:11:48. > :11:51.had taken its toll on Alexander Blackman.
:11:52. > :11:54.They agreed he'd been suffering a severe form of combat stress.
:11:55. > :11:56.Sergeant Blackman was suffering from a mental disorder at
:11:57. > :11:59.the time, which impaired his ability to make rational judgments.
:12:00. > :12:03.And in my view, the court have taken the
:12:04. > :12:06.right view in accepting that he had the disorder and that disorder
:12:07. > :12:09.affected the way he thought and affected his actions.
:12:10. > :12:14.While his murder conviction has been quashed,
:12:15. > :12:17.his wife will still have to wait for his release and to be reunited.
:12:18. > :12:20.And Alexander Blackman, in the eyes of
:12:21. > :12:34.Alexander Blackman has served more than three years of an eight year
:12:35. > :12:37.minimum sentence for murder and the expectation is the sentence will be
:12:38. > :12:39.reduced for manslaughter but we will have to wait for a few more weeks to
:12:40. > :12:42.find out when he will be freed. You can see more on that story
:12:43. > :12:45.tonight on BBC One in a special Panorama in which some of the men
:12:46. > :12:48.who served with Alexander Blackman It's called Marine A:
:12:49. > :12:56.The Inside Story, and it's on at When Melita Jackson died, she left
:12:57. > :13:03.most of her half-a-million-pound fortune to three animal charities,
:13:04. > :13:06.and not to her estranged daughter. Her daughter contested
:13:07. > :13:08.the will and eventually was awarded more than ?150,000 of it,
:13:09. > :13:13.despite her mother's wishes. Today that was reduced to ?50,000
:13:14. > :13:15.when the three animal charities, who rely on wills for around 50%
:13:16. > :13:18.of their income, took the case to the country's
:13:19. > :13:20.highest court and won. Here's our Legal Correspondent,
:13:21. > :13:35.Clive Coleman. For generations, families have been
:13:36. > :13:39.falling out over wills. When Heather Ilott's mother died in 2004, she
:13:40. > :13:44.made it crystal clear that she did not want her daughter to get a
:13:45. > :13:49.penny. The pair had become estranged when, aged 17, Heather ran off with
:13:50. > :13:52.a man her mother disapproved of. But nearly 30 years later she remained
:13:53. > :13:58.married to him and the couple have five children. Animals cannot sell
:13:59. > :14:02.anyone about the cruelty they suffer... Melita Jackson left her
:14:03. > :14:07.entire half million pound fortune to three animal charities which she had
:14:08. > :14:11.no direction to also Heather Ilott challenged the will and was
:14:12. > :14:18.initially awarded ?50,000, but that was raised by the Court of Appeal to
:14:19. > :14:23.?160,000 on the basis that her mother had not made reasonable
:14:24. > :14:26.provision for her daughter. For the charities involved, that represented
:14:27. > :14:33.a potential serious loss of income. They appealed to the Supreme Court.
:14:34. > :14:37.In a really powerful judgment, seven justices here at the highest court
:14:38. > :14:42.in the land have reaffirmed a fundamental principle of English
:14:43. > :14:46.law, that anyone, you or I, can leave our money to whoever we want
:14:47. > :14:51.them even if that means our children getting little or nothing at all.
:14:52. > :14:54.The Supreme Court acknowledged that charities do an enormous amount of
:14:55. > :14:57.good work and a lot of that is funded by the generosity of people
:14:58. > :15:02.like Melita Jackson choosing to leave them money in her will. That
:15:03. > :15:07.key point, the right to choose, I want to leave my money to that
:15:08. > :15:12.charity and I don't have to explain why that was, my decision will be
:15:13. > :15:16.respected. The ruling was welcomed by Don Day, his wife suffered from
:15:17. > :15:19.dementia before her death and he has decided to leave estate to the
:15:20. > :15:30.Alzheimer's Society and not his daughter. We haven't been very well
:15:31. > :15:37.treated by my children. In my wife and I's hours of need, I'm afraid.
:15:38. > :15:43.And we both felt that this was what we wanted to do. In this battle of
:15:44. > :15:46.wills, daughter has lost out to an estranged mother. Charity may have
:15:47. > :15:51.been the winner but it certainly begin at home. Other parents at odds
:15:52. > :15:54.with their children will take note. Clive Coleman, BBC News.
:15:55. > :15:57.The UK's unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level
:15:58. > :16:03.with a record number of people in work.
:16:04. > :16:06.But official figures for the three months to the end of January show
:16:07. > :16:08.the number of people on zero-hours contracts increased
:16:09. > :16:14.Our Economics Correspondent, Andy Verity, reports.
:16:15. > :16:16.Few industries reveal the tightness of the labour market better
:16:17. > :16:21.At this site near King's Cross in north London, about two thirds
:16:22. > :16:25.of the skilled workers come from the new EU states such
:16:26. > :16:28.as Romania and there is growing anxiety about what might happen
:16:29. > :16:36.There is still uncertainty whether they will be
:16:37. > :16:40.We need these people to be in our jobs, they make up labourers,
:16:41. > :16:42.they make up trades, they make up engineers,
:16:43. > :16:45.They are a very key part of the process.
:16:46. > :16:47.We don't have any UK nationals to fill these roles.
:16:48. > :16:50.Ahead of the Brexit negotiations, the stakes are particularly high
:16:51. > :16:52.for the construction industry with up to 176,000 jobs that
:16:53. > :16:55.could be in jeopardy if we don't have access to the EU labour supply
:16:56. > :16:59.and half a trillion pounds of construction
:17:00. > :17:06.Recruitment agents say that while unemployment is dropping,
:17:07. > :17:09.in areas which voted to stay in the EU such as Scotland
:17:10. > :17:12.and London, companies are getting less and less confident about taking
:17:13. > :17:18.Small businesses are concerned around Brexit but it isn't only
:17:19. > :17:25.It is the rise in the National Living Wage, the rise in rates,
:17:26. > :17:30.And this uncertainty is actually stopping them from hiring.
:17:31. > :17:34.They are at their lowest level since 2014 in their confidence to hire.
:17:35. > :17:36.If employers are struggling to find the staff, it's fair to expect
:17:37. > :17:45.But, on average, pay rises have slowed down,
:17:46. > :17:47.up just 2.3% in the three months to January.
:17:48. > :17:49.That's faster than price rises but only just.
:17:50. > :18:07.The Chancellor has scrapped plans announced in last week's budget to
:18:08. > :18:08.raise National Insurance payments for millions of self-employed
:18:09. > :18:10.workers. The lorry drivers sleeping
:18:11. > :18:13.in their cabs for months on end because they can't afford to live
:18:14. > :18:15.in the countries could the two top ranked rugby union
:18:16. > :18:21.nations in the world England are understood to be
:18:22. > :18:23.interested in playing A major fund-raising campaign has
:18:24. > :18:31.been launched to help 16 million people facing starvation in East
:18:32. > :18:35.Africa. 13 UK aid agencies who make up
:18:36. > :18:38.the Disasters Emergency Committee say they urgently need money
:18:39. > :18:41.to provide food, water The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
:18:42. > :18:46.is in Somalia where a national Viewers may spined some of the
:18:47. > :19:00.images in this report disturbing. Northern Somalia and
:19:01. > :19:02.the riverbeds here, bone dry. And with their crops failing
:19:03. > :19:04.and cattle dying in the drought, people, however frail,
:19:05. > :19:06.are now on the move This makeshift camp in the capital
:19:07. > :19:14.Mogadishu is growing at the rate They are desperate for food,
:19:15. > :19:28.particularly for their children. This lady, dressed in brown walked
:19:29. > :19:31.for six days with the children to reach this camp, but not
:19:32. > :19:34.all of them made it. TRANSLATION: I had four children,
:19:35. > :19:36.two died on the journey I'm eight months pregnant,
:19:37. > :19:42.I don't have shoes, water or food. The red marker on the band put
:19:43. > :19:51.around this child's arm indicates It is estimated around
:19:52. > :19:57.360,000 children under the age of five in Somalia
:19:58. > :20:03.are now acutely malnourished. And beyond Somalia, the fear
:20:04. > :20:08.of famine hangs over Ethiopian, And beyond Somalia, the fear
:20:09. > :20:10.of famine hangs over Ethiopia, Millions of people in this region,
:20:11. > :20:15.now at risk of starvation. This situation that these countries
:20:16. > :20:19.now face is unprecedented. These are four countries the size
:20:20. > :20:22.and the scale and the need has There are people obviously
:20:23. > :20:27.in desperate situations. We have famine, we have drought,
:20:28. > :20:32.we also have a man-made conflict. So British aid agencies,
:20:33. > :20:37.already helping on the ground, are now appealing for a lot more
:20:38. > :20:41.money, which they need quickly. But the impact of drought
:20:42. > :20:46.and conflict it is affecting people But the impact of drought
:20:47. > :20:48.and conflict is affecting people This is Yemen, also engulfed
:20:49. > :20:53.in a profound humanitarian crisis The people of the Netherlands are
:20:54. > :21:03.voting in their General Election, which has been dominated
:21:04. > :21:16.by the issue of immigration. Early indications are that there is
:21:17. > :21:19.a higher turnout than the last election in 2012.
:21:20. > :21:21.From the Hague, Damian Grammaticas, reports.
:21:22. > :21:27.The magnet for the TV cameras today is the man hoping
:21:28. > :21:29.the mantle of Donald Trump and Brexit II.
:21:30. > :21:31.Geert Wilders, Holland's far right leader aiming
:21:32. > :21:35.He wants to ban the Koran, ban mosques, close borders,
:21:36. > :21:38.And uncompromising again today, saying Muslims who don't
:21:39. > :21:43.I say, if you don't like the idea, don't come to Holland.
:21:44. > :21:46.You are free people, you can decide where to go
:21:47. > :21:51.I hope we have less Islam in Holland.
:21:52. > :21:57.I think Islam and freedom are not compatible.
:21:58. > :22:01.He is the man hoping to stop Geert Wilders in his tracks.
:22:02. > :22:15.He warned today as he cast his vote, that this ballot in the Netherlands
:22:16. > :22:18.will set the tone for big elections to come in Europe this year.
:22:19. > :22:20.In France and Germany, party lists are also challenging
:22:21. > :22:28.The Dutch Prime Minister has framed this election between a choice
:22:29. > :22:33.between him and Geert Wilders, his Liberal party and the rising tide of
:22:34. > :22:38.populism. There is much at stake in this poll, he says. So he has told
:22:39. > :22:47.Dutch voters that the world is watching.
:22:48. > :22:52.One of the things I have asked voters to take into consideration.
:22:53. > :22:57.What would it mean? The rest of the world will see after Brexit, after
:22:58. > :23:03.the American elections again, populism has won the day. But there
:23:04. > :23:07.are a total of 28 parties contesting this election, a huge list to pick
:23:08. > :23:12.from for voters at this polling station at The Hague's modern art
:23:13. > :23:18.museum. Some are worried about Geert Wilders winning. People across
:23:19. > :23:23.Europe, people shouting a lot without having solutions to what
:23:24. > :23:29.they say are big problems. If we get together, problems are not that big.
:23:30. > :23:33.Even if Geert Wilders does well, you won't win a majority. He is likely
:23:34. > :23:37.to be left out of power, as no other party wants to work with him.
:23:38. > :23:40.Identity fraud has reached a record high in the UK.
:23:41. > :23:46.There were almost 173,000 last year, 3,000 more than in 2015.
:23:47. > :23:49.The data, from more than 270 banks and businesses,
:23:50. > :23:52.also shows that the number of victims under the age of 21
:23:53. > :23:55.Here's our home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw.
:23:56. > :23:57.Stolen identity, civil servant Luke Croydon was the victim of one
:23:58. > :24:03.His name, address, date of birth and banking details were obtained
:24:04. > :24:05.by a thief who pinched post from his letterbox.
:24:06. > :24:10.Armed with the information, the fraudster applied for a bank
:24:11. > :24:12.card and then used it to go on a spending spree.
:24:13. > :24:15.When you first find out that it has happened,
:24:16. > :24:20.And then you get very worried because you wonder what else
:24:21. > :24:28.they might have done with that personal details If it is only
:24:29. > :24:31.opening bank accounts that is one thing, but you worry what else
:24:32. > :24:34.Have they signed up to websites, have they got passport applications?
:24:35. > :24:36.So it is a very troubling experience.
:24:37. > :24:39.According to the fraud prevention service Cifas there were almost
:24:40. > :24:41.173,000 cases of identity fraud last year, the highest total ever.
:24:42. > :24:44.The number of victims under the age of 21 increased
:24:45. > :24:46.by more than a third, with the Midlands and the north-east
:24:47. > :24:48.of England registering the highest identity fraud increases
:24:49. > :24:52.There has been a spike in the number of young people who have become
:24:53. > :24:57.We've put that down to the fact that they spend so much
:24:58. > :25:01.But not just that, they are putting so much of their personal
:25:02. > :25:04.information online and our appeal would be to only put out
:25:05. > :25:06.there what you really want people to know.
:25:07. > :25:13.Cifas has produced a film warning people to be careful about how much
:25:14. > :25:18.We know everything about you, Martin.
:25:19. > :25:21.Fraudsters are adept at exploiting information on social media sites.
:25:22. > :25:25.It advises people to use passwords, privacy settings and antivirus
:25:26. > :25:34.Lorry drivers moving goods for Ikea and other retailers
:25:35. > :25:37.in Western Europe are camping out in their cabs for months at a time
:25:38. > :25:43.because they can't afford to live in the countries they're working in.
:25:44. > :25:45.The East European drivers are being paid at the levels they would
:25:46. > :25:49.A judge has described as "inhumane" the practice
:25:50. > :25:51.where companies are able to exploit loopholes in European law.
:25:52. > :26:08.In a trailer on the edge of Copenhagen, these two men have
:26:09. > :26:12.created their own pop-up fiction. Cooking from scratch saves them
:26:13. > :26:18.money. Is this how you want to have your breakfast? No, I don't want to
:26:19. > :26:25.live like this, but these are the conditions. He is moving goods for
:26:26. > :26:32.Ikea, but they don't employ him. His employer is a Slovakian firm. He is
:26:33. > :26:38.paid Slovak wages. European union employment rules state, a driver
:26:39. > :26:43.temporarily posted away from home should be guaranteed the host
:26:44. > :26:47.nation's minimum rates of pay and conditions. But companies are
:26:48. > :26:55.exploiting loopholes in the law. A Danish driver can expect to take
:26:56. > :27:01.home 2200 euros, or 109 -- ?1900 a month in salary. But this man has
:27:02. > :27:10.been taken home 477 euros of ?418 a month. This is my farm, this is how
:27:11. > :27:14.I live. This is my bed. Danish drivers go home every couple of
:27:15. > :27:22.weeks, but this man spends up to four months on the road. The company
:27:23. > :27:32.says he can go home whenever he likes. He has just driven some Ikea
:27:33. > :27:36.stock from Denmark into Sweden. He only ever works in western Europe,
:27:37. > :27:40.sometimes it might be Germany or Norway. But he is being paid as if
:27:41. > :27:46.he is driving in Slovakia, yet he never works there. This is the
:27:47. > :27:51.biggest Ikea distribution centre in the world. It is in Germany. In
:27:52. > :27:55.front is a truck parked, turned campsite. Trade unions accused Ikea
:27:56. > :28:01.of turning a blind eye to how haulage companies treat their
:28:02. > :28:04.drivers. Ikea would say, this is in many different layers of companies
:28:05. > :28:12.operating these contracts, they can't be expected to know. But the
:28:13. > :28:16.Moldovan, the Polish guys, remove the furniture from IKEA. They touch
:28:17. > :28:22.the furniture. How can you deny this. They don't know what they are
:28:23. > :28:32.being paid. In a statement, Ikea said...
:28:33. > :28:40.It's not just Ikea and the big retailers that are in the firing
:28:41. > :28:44.line. Europe's politicians are under pressure to act, to stop any further
:28:45. > :28:49.deterioration in the working conditions of Europe's drivers.
:28:50. > :28:52.It was supposed to be a quick interview on BBC World News
:28:53. > :28:54.about South Korean politics, but Professor Kelly's two young
:28:55. > :28:56.children managed to turn it into a global event,
:28:57. > :28:59.at least one that's been viewed more than 100 million times
:29:00. > :29:17.What appeared to be a cute accident on live television.
:29:18. > :29:19.I think one of your children has just walked in.
:29:20. > :29:22.I mean, shifting sands in the region, do you think
:29:23. > :29:27.But Professor Robert Kelly, who is now being dubbed #bbcdad,
:29:28. > :29:31.received so much attention, he felt compelled to
:29:32. > :29:47.So here we are, finally meeting him in person in South Korea.
:29:48. > :29:51.It's fairly amazing, it's basically just a family blooper.
:29:52. > :29:55.It sort of went wild, there were more journalists
:29:56. > :29:58.there than have ever asked me questions before about my expertise.
:29:59. > :30:03.It then generated a second wave of Internet discussion.
:30:04. > :30:05.There was a lot of social analysis of it, sort of racism
:30:06. > :30:14.Regardless of some negative reaction, his students
:30:15. > :30:20.TRANSLATION: When he was giving a serious interview about a very
:30:21. > :30:22.sensitive subject, I was surprised to see the interruption.
:30:23. > :30:27.And when I found out he is a professor here,
:30:28. > :30:32.TRANSLATION: It was a very serious interview, but when I saw
:30:33. > :30:40.I felt they were the hope to what is a gloomy story.
:30:41. > :30:45.Professor Kelly describes the episode as a family blooper,
:30:46. > :30:48.but it certainly touched many hearts, especially
:30:49. > :31:14.Today could be the warmest day of the year so far. Lovely blue skies.
:31:15. > :31:19.Temperatures have been rising rapidly. Hardly a breath of wind.
:31:20. > :31:24.Not as windy across northern part of Scotland. Not as sunny either. In
:31:25. > :31:29.general, where we had a sunnier skies yesterday, we are seeing more
:31:30. > :31:33.cloud today. There are some stubborn areas of low cloud that are pegging
:31:34. > :31:37.back the temperatures, but in general, sunshine underneath the
:31:38. > :31:41.high pressure and around the high pressure we have a moist air flow,
:31:42. > :31:46.hence the cloud affecting the Northern Isles also affecting
:31:47. > :31:50.Scotland where we will see some patchy, light rain or drizzle coming
:31:51. > :31:55.in across northern part of the country. Probably drive to the
:31:56. > :31:59.south. Cloud from the north of England may wandering into the far
:32:00. > :32:03.south-west of Wales, the West Country. But for most of England and
:32:04. > :32:08.Wales it will be lovely and sunny. Temperatures of 80 degrees and
:32:09. > :32:14.possibly higher. A beautiful day at Cheltenham. -- 18 degrees. Tomorrow
:32:15. > :32:17.will be cloudy and cooler. Temperatures dipping away and
:32:18. > :32:22.turning misty across parts of England and Wales during the course
:32:23. > :32:25.of the night before low cloud arrives. Further north for Scotland
:32:26. > :32:29.and Northern Ireland, stronger wind. Another weather from bringing
:32:30. > :32:36.outbreaks of rain overnight. It shouldn't be to cold overnight. We
:32:37. > :32:41.will find this band of rain, heavy at times over the hills, coming down
:32:42. > :32:45.across Scotland, Northern Ireland into northern parts of England and
:32:46. > :32:50.Wales. Maybe brightening up but not as sunny and warm as today. We have
:32:51. > :32:52.some colder air coming into Scotland and Northern Ireland with showers.
:32:53. > :32:57.Those could be wintry in Scotland and continue that way overnight on
:32:58. > :33:03.Thursday night. It is going to be quite chilly on Thursday night.
:33:04. > :33:08.Colder than it has been for a while. Maybe a touch of frost. Coming into
:33:09. > :33:11.the cold air, we will replace the showers with longer spells of rain
:33:12. > :33:15.coming in from the Atlantic. Snow possible over some of the Scottish
:33:16. > :33:22.hills. The wet weather arrives in the South East. The wet weather
:33:23. > :33:25.originating from storm Stella. The weekend is unsettled and will feel
:33:26. > :33:31.colder with the wind is picking up and there will be rain at times.
:33:32. > :33:32.Goodbye from me, on BBC one we now join the BBC's news