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A major U-turn as the government scraps its plans to raise | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
National Insurance payments for millions of | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
The Chancellor announced the tax rise in last week's Budget | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
but he now accepts it breached a Conservative election | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
We will consider the government's overall approach to employment | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
status and rights to tax and entitlements. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
We will bring forward further proposals but we will not bring | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
forward increases to NICs later in this parliament. | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
We have a government U-turn, we have no apology and we have a Budget that | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
falls most heavily on those with the least broad shoulders. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
We'll be asking how embarrassing this is for the government and how | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
much of a hole it will leave in their finances. | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
A Royal Marine jailed for killing an injured Taliban fighter | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
in Afghanistan has his murder conviction reduced to manslaughter - | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
We are delighted at the judge's decision to substitute manslaughter | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
This is a crucial decision and one that much better reflects | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
the circumstances that my husband found himself in during that | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
Three animal charities win an appeal against the estranged daughter | :01:19. | :01:28. | |
of a woman who left them half a million pounds in her will. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Identity theft reaches record levels and it's young people | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News, can Manchester City join | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
Leicester in the last eight of the Champions League? | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
City travel to Monaco tonight, while the Foxes | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:46. | :02:08. | |
The Chancellor has scrapped his plans, | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
announced in last week's Budget, to raise National Insurance | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
payments for millions of self-employed workers. | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
The tax rise was due to come into effect next year. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
But, in a major U-turn this morning, Phillip Hammond admitted | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
that the move would have broken an election manifesto pledge. | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
Our Political Correspondent, Ben Wright, reports. | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
Less than a week after Philip Hammond paraded his first Budget, he | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
has scrapped one of its central planks, Insurance rise for 1.6 | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
million self-employed workers. The measure broke a 2015 Conservative | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Party manifesto promise but the Chancellor insisted the measure was | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
there but the backlash from some Tory MPs, Labour and swathes of the | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
press was fierce. And this morning the Treasury made a dramatic | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
retreat, revealing in a letter to Tory MPs the tax rise would be | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
ditched. In the Commons this lunchtime, Tory MPs showed that | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
support for the government U-turn. I welcome the announcement from this | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
government that we will abide by the letter of our manifesto and also be | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
spirit. Would the Prime Minister agree with me that, as we move | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
towards balancing the books, we must ensure we have a fair and | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
sustainable tax system in place? We made a commitment not to raise taxes | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
and we put our commitment into the tax lock. The measures we put | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
forward in the budget last week were consistent with those locks. But | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
Labour MPs shouted down the Prime Minister as she confirmed the | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
National Insurance rise would not go ahead but a consultation would. On | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
the future of employment we will consider the government's overall | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
approach to employment status and rights to tax and entitlements, we | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
will bring forward further proposals but we will not bring forward | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
increases to NICs later in this Parliament. The Labour leader said | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
the government was in chaos. A budget that unravelled in seven | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
days, a Conservative manifesto with a very pensive Prime Minister on the | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
front page saying there would be no increase. A week ago and increase | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
was announced. And the SNP's Angus Robertson did not pull his punches. | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
We once had a Prime Minister who said the lady was not for turning. | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
My goodness, isn't it welcome that the Prime Minister today had | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
admitted she is for turning with her screeching, embarrassing U-turn on | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
national insurance? This national Insurance rise was due to raise ?1 | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
billion by the next election and some believe the U-turn is a | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
mistake. I think it is at its abutment that the Chancellor has | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
rowed back on that policy because it is about fairness, about closing | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
some of the tax discrepancies between employees and the | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
self-employed and it was about the public finances. The fact is this | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
tax rise proved unpopular, angered many Tory MPs and broke a manifesto | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
promise. The government has a very small majority and does not have the | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
political capital for a fight, despite the damage this will do to | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
be Chancellor's credibility. Ben Wright, BBC News, Westminster. | :05:30. | :05:30. | |
Our Assistant Political Editor, Norman Smith, is in Westminster. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
It is quite some U-turn and difficult could this be for the | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
government? Let's get this in perspective a grand government | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
U-turn is, it is a full-blown howling, screeching the Italian | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
Riviera hairpin bend slope bleeding from the tyres U-turn. In terms of | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
the speed, just seven days ago Philip Hammond announced this tax | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
rise and the scale of it, it is the complete abandonment of the tax | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
rise, not a nudge or a rebuke is out of the window. Why? Mr Hammond says | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
because it was not compliant with the party manifesto and more | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
accurately, the reality cloud broke over him. This is blindingly | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
obviously a breach of their manifesto, never mind the | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
technicalities of the legal opt outs, reality cloud number two was | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
that he was facing an almighty Tory backbench revolt which could have | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
made it extremely difficult to get this through Parliament anyway. And | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
perhaps most damaging of all with the impact it was having on brand | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
may also Theresa May has made much of being different to David Cameron | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
can not going for spin politics but straightforward and honest talking | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
politics. This tax rise, preaching a manifesto, risked profoundly | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
damaging her own pitch as Prime Minister but it also leads two key | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
questions. Who is to blame? Many fingers will be pointed at Phillip | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Hammond but is it really credible that Theresa May, who has an iron | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
grip on the government, was unaware? Secondly, where is the money going | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
to come from? Philip Hammond said that the up to ?2 billion raised | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
would largely go towards social care so where is the money for social | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
care going to come from? Thank you. With me is our Economics | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
Editor, Kamal Ahmed. It does leave quite a hole. It does, | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
and at the budget, the government announced to make a big spending | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
commitments one on social care that Norman has spoken about and also on | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
business rate relief is. They are expensive. To pay for it they | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
announced two big tax increases. One was on dividend tax, the taxes | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
people pay on their shares, and the other was the rise in taxes on the | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
self-employed, is NICs issue. That was going to raise over ?2 billion | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
by 2022. The fact is it has been scrubbed out and the government has | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
made a pledge they will not return to it at all so by the time of the | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
autumn budget in November, the government will have to say, how it | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
will raise that money. The problem they have is the manifesto | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
commitment which says no increases in income tax, no increases in VAT, | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
no increases in national insurance contributions. Those three taxes | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
raised over 60% of all government income. They are in a position where | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
they don't have much room to manoeuvre. I would suggest all | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
rolled viewers, when it comes to the autumn budget, look at the small | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
print because they were to nickel and dime in small areas of tax pot | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
like the dividend tax, maybe on probate or other areas, to raise | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
money otherwise there is this black hole in the budget which is U-turn | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
has only exacerbated. Thank you. And the statement from | :09:00. | :09:00. | |
the Chancellor will be live on the BBC News Channel along | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
with continued coverage A Royal Marine who shot dead | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan six years ago has | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
had his murder conviction quashed. Judges at the Court Martial | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
Appeal Court ruled that Sergeant Alexander Blackman | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
was instead guilty of manslaughter on the grounds | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
of diminished responsibility. The 42-year-old was originally | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
sentenced to life in 2013. He'll now face another hearing | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
to determine his sentence. Our Defence Correspondent, Jonathan | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
Beale, is outside the court. At his original conviction, | :09:31. | :09:45. | |
Alexander Buttner's defence was that he thought the insurgent was already | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
dead when he shot him -- Blackman. For manslaughter to be considered he | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
has had to change the story and except he was alive and that an | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
important new medical evidence about Alexander Blackman's mental health | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
at the time have paved the way for this conviction to be overturned. | :10:03. | :10:12. | |
This morning, Claire Blackman, who's led the fight for her husband's | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
murder conviction to be quashed, arrived at court | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
It's a campaign that's had the backing of former Marines. | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
In 2013, a military court found Alexander Blackman, | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
better known as Marine A, guilty of murdering a wounded | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
But today, the Appeal Court concluded it wasn't murder. | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
In court, Claire Blackman greeted the news with a tear in her eye. | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
Outside, clearly relieved, this was a moment to savour. | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
We are delighted at the judge's decision to substitute manslaughter | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
This is a crucial decision and one that much better reflects | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
the circumstances that my husband found himself in during that | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
We must now wait for the sentencing hearing and hope to secure | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
a significant reduction in Al's sentence. | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
The incident in Helmand in 2011 was all filmed on a helmet camera. | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
This, the moment the Royal Marine patrol called in a helicopter | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
to target two Taliban insurgents, one of whom was wounded. | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
We are not allowed to show the moment Blackman shoots | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
the injured insurgent, the court has only | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
released this audio as Blackman fires the fatal shot. | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
But three leading psychiatrists told the court that tough tour in Helmand | :11:31. | :11:47. | |
had taken its toll on Alexander Blackman. | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
They agreed he'd been suffering a severe form of combat stress. | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
Sergeant Blackman was suffering from a mental disorder at | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
the time, which impaired his ability to make rational judgments. | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
And in my view, the court have taken the | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
right view in accepting that he had the disorder and that disorder | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
affected the way he thought and affected his actions. | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
While his murder conviction has been quashed, | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
his wife will still have to wait for his release and to be reunited. | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
And Alexander Blackman, in the eyes of | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
Alexander Blackman has served more than three years of an eight year | :12:21. | :12:34. | |
minimum sentence for murder and the expectation is the sentence will be | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
reduced for manslaughter but we will have to wait for a few more weeks to | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
find out when he will be freed. You can see more on that story | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
tonight on BBC One in a special Panorama in which some of the men | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
who served with Alexander Blackman It's called Marine A: | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
The Inside Story, and it's on at When Melita Jackson died, she left | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
most of her half-a-million-pound fortune to three animal charities, | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
and not to her estranged daughter. Her daughter contested | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
the will and eventually was awarded more than ?150,000 of it, | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
despite her mother's wishes. Today that was reduced to ?50,000 | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
when the three animal charities, who rely on wills for around 50% | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
of their income, took the case to the country's | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
highest court and won. Here's our Legal Correspondent, | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
Clive Coleman. For generations, families have been | :13:21. | :13:35. | |
falling out over wills. When Heather Ilott's mother died in 2004, she | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
made it crystal clear that she did not want her daughter to get a | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
penny. The pair had become estranged when, aged 17, Heather ran off with | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
a man her mother disapproved of. But nearly 30 years later she remained | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
married to him and the couple have five children. Animals cannot sell | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
anyone about the cruelty they suffer... Melita Jackson left her | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
entire half million pound fortune to three animal charities which she had | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
no direction to also Heather Ilott challenged the will and was | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
initially awarded ?50,000, but that was raised by the Court of Appeal to | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
?160,000 on the basis that her mother had not made reasonable | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
provision for her daughter. For the charities involved, that represented | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
a potential serious loss of income. They appealed to the Supreme Court. | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
In a really powerful judgment, seven justices here at the highest court | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
in the land have reaffirmed a fundamental principle of English | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
law, that anyone, you or I, can leave our money to whoever we want | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
them even if that means our children getting little or nothing at all. | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
The Supreme Court acknowledged that charities do an enormous amount of | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
good work and a lot of that is funded by the generosity of people | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
like Melita Jackson choosing to leave them money in her will. That | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
key point, the right to choose, I want to leave my money to that | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
charity and I don't have to explain why that was, my decision will be | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
respected. The ruling was welcomed by Don Day, his wife suffered from | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
dementia before her death and he has decided to leave estate to the | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
Alzheimer's Society and not his daughter. We haven't been very well | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
treated by my children. In my wife and I's hours of need, I'm afraid. | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
And we both felt that this was what we wanted to do. In this battle of | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
wills, daughter has lost out to an estranged mother. Charity may have | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
been the winner but it certainly begin at home. Other parents at odds | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
with their children will take note. Clive Coleman, BBC News. | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
The UK's unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
with a record number of people in work. | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
But official figures for the three months to the end of January show | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
the number of people on zero-hours contracts increased | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
Our Economics Correspondent, Andy Verity, reports. | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
Few industries reveal the tightness of the labour market better | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
At this site near King's Cross in north London, about two thirds | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
of the skilled workers come from the new EU states such | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
as Romania and there is growing anxiety about what might happen | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
There is still uncertainty whether they will be | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
We need these people to be in our jobs, they make up labourers, | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
they make up trades, they make up engineers, | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
They are a very key part of the process. | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
We don't have any UK nationals to fill these roles. | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
Ahead of the Brexit negotiations, the stakes are particularly high | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
for the construction industry with up to 176,000 jobs that | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
could be in jeopardy if we don't have access to the EU labour supply | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
and half a trillion pounds of construction | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Recruitment agents say that while unemployment is dropping, | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
in areas which voted to stay in the EU such as Scotland | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
and London, companies are getting less and less confident about taking | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
Small businesses are concerned around Brexit but it isn't only | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
It is the rise in the National Living Wage, the rise in rates, | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
And this uncertainty is actually stopping them from hiring. | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
They are at their lowest level since 2014 in their confidence to hire. | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
If employers are struggling to find the staff, it's fair to expect | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
But, on average, pay rises have slowed down, | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
up just 2.3% in the three months to January. | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
That's faster than price rises but only just. | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
The Chancellor has scrapped plans announced in last week's budget to | :17:50. | :18:07. | |
raise National Insurance payments for millions of self-employed | :18:08. | :18:08. | |
workers. The lorry drivers sleeping | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
in their cabs for months on end because they can't afford to live | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
in the countries could the two top ranked rugby union | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
nations in the world England are understood to be | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
interested in playing A major fund-raising campaign has | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
been launched to help 16 million people facing starvation in East | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
Africa. 13 UK aid agencies who make up | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
the Disasters Emergency Committee say they urgently need money | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
to provide food, water The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
is in Somalia where a national Viewers may spined some of the | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
images in this report disturbing. Northern Somalia and | :18:47. | :19:00. | |
the riverbeds here, bone dry. And with their crops failing | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
and cattle dying in the drought, people, however frail, | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
are now on the move This makeshift camp in the capital | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
Mogadishu is growing at the rate They are desperate for food, | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
particularly for their children. This lady, dressed in brown walked | :19:15. | :19:28. | |
for six days with the children to reach this camp, but not | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
all of them made it. TRANSLATION: I had four children, | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
two died on the journey I'm eight months pregnant, | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
I don't have shoes, water or food. The red marker on the band put | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
around this child's arm indicates It is estimated around | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
360,000 children under the age of five in Somalia | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
are now acutely malnourished. And beyond Somalia, the fear | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
of famine hangs over Ethiopian, And beyond Somalia, the fear | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
of famine hangs over Ethiopia, Millions of people in this region, | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
now at risk of starvation. This situation that these countries | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
now face is unprecedented. These are four countries the size | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
and the scale and the need has There are people obviously | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
in desperate situations. We have famine, we have drought, | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
we also have a man-made conflict. So British aid agencies, | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
already helping on the ground, are now appealing for a lot more | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
money, which they need quickly. But the impact of drought | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
and conflict it is affecting people But the impact of drought | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
and conflict is affecting people This is Yemen, also engulfed | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
in a profound humanitarian crisis The people of the Netherlands are | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
voting in their General Election, which has been dominated | :20:54. | :21:03. | |
by the issue of immigration. Early indications are that there is | :21:04. | :21:16. | |
a higher turnout than the last election in 2012. | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
From the Hague, Damian Grammaticas, reports. | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
The magnet for the TV cameras today is the man hoping | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
the mantle of Donald Trump and Brexit II. | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
Geert Wilders, Holland's far right leader aiming | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
He wants to ban the Koran, ban mosques, close borders, | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
And uncompromising again today, saying Muslims who don't | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
I say, if you don't like the idea, don't come to Holland. | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
You are free people, you can decide where to go | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
I hope we have less Islam in Holland. | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
I think Islam and freedom are not compatible. | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
He is the man hoping to stop Geert Wilders in his tracks. | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
He warned today as he cast his vote, that this ballot in the Netherlands | :22:02. | :22:15. | |
will set the tone for big elections to come in Europe this year. | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
In France and Germany, party lists are also challenging | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
The Dutch Prime Minister has framed this election between a choice | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
between him and Geert Wilders, his Liberal party and the rising tide of | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
populism. There is much at stake in this poll, he says. So he has told | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
Dutch voters that the world is watching. | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
One of the things I have asked voters to take into consideration. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
What would it mean? The rest of the world will see after Brexit, after | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
the American elections again, populism has won the day. But there | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
are a total of 28 parties contesting this election, a huge list to pick | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
from for voters at this polling station at The Hague's modern art | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
museum. Some are worried about Geert Wilders winning. People across | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
Europe, people shouting a lot without having solutions to what | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
they say are big problems. If we get together, problems are not that big. | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
Even if Geert Wilders does well, you won't win a majority. He is likely | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
to be left out of power, as no other party wants to work with him. | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
Identity fraud has reached a record high in the UK. | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
There were almost 173,000 last year, 3,000 more than in 2015. | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
The data, from more than 270 banks and businesses, | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
also shows that the number of victims under the age of 21 | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
Here's our home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw. | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
Stolen identity, civil servant Luke Croydon was the victim of one | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
His name, address, date of birth and banking details were obtained | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
by a thief who pinched post from his letterbox. | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
Armed with the information, the fraudster applied for a bank | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
card and then used it to go on a spending spree. | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
When you first find out that it has happened, | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
And then you get very worried because you wonder what else | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
they might have done with that personal details If it is only | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
opening bank accounts that is one thing, but you worry what else | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
Have they signed up to websites, have they got passport applications? | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
So it is a very troubling experience. | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
According to the fraud prevention service Cifas there were almost | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
173,000 cases of identity fraud last year, the highest total ever. | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
The number of victims under the age of 21 increased | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
by more than a third, with the Midlands and the north-east | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
of England registering the highest identity fraud increases | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
There has been a spike in the number of young people who have become | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
We've put that down to the fact that they spend so much | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
But not just that, they are putting so much of their personal | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
information online and our appeal would be to only put out | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
there what you really want people to know. | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
Cifas has produced a film warning people to be careful about how much | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
We know everything about you, Martin. | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
Fraudsters are adept at exploiting information on social media sites. | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
It advises people to use passwords, privacy settings and antivirus | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
Lorry drivers moving goods for Ikea and other retailers | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
in Western Europe are camping out in their cabs for months at a time | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
because they can't afford to live in the countries they're working in. | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
The East European drivers are being paid at the levels they would | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
A judge has described as "inhumane" the practice | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
where companies are able to exploit loopholes in European law. | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
In a trailer on the edge of Copenhagen, these two men have | :25:52. | :26:08. | |
created their own pop-up fiction. Cooking from scratch saves them | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
money. Is this how you want to have your breakfast? No, I don't want to | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
live like this, but these are the conditions. He is moving goods for | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
Ikea, but they don't employ him. His employer is a Slovakian firm. He is | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
paid Slovak wages. European union employment rules state, a driver | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
temporarily posted away from home should be guaranteed the host | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
nation's minimum rates of pay and conditions. But companies are | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
exploiting loopholes in the law. A Danish driver can expect to take | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
home 2200 euros, or 109 -- ?1900 a month in salary. But this man has | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
been taken home 477 euros of ?418 a month. This is my farm, this is how | :27:02. | :27:10. | |
I live. This is my bed. Danish drivers go home every couple of | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
weeks, but this man spends up to four months on the road. The company | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
says he can go home whenever he likes. He has just driven some Ikea | :27:23. | :27:32. | |
stock from Denmark into Sweden. He only ever works in western Europe, | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
sometimes it might be Germany or Norway. But he is being paid as if | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
he is driving in Slovakia, yet he never works there. This is the | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
biggest Ikea distribution centre in the world. It is in Germany. In | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
front is a truck parked, turned campsite. Trade unions accused Ikea | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
of turning a blind eye to how haulage companies treat their | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
drivers. Ikea would say, this is in many different layers of companies | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
operating these contracts, they can't be expected to know. But the | :28:05. | :28:12. | |
Moldovan, the Polish guys, remove the furniture from IKEA. They touch | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
the furniture. How can you deny this. They don't know what they are | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
being paid. In a statement, Ikea said... | :28:23. | :28:32. | |
It's not just Ikea and the big retailers that are in the firing | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
line. Europe's politicians are under pressure to act, to stop any further | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
deterioration in the working conditions of Europe's drivers. | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
It was supposed to be a quick interview on BBC World News | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
about South Korean politics, but Professor Kelly's two young | :28:53. | :28:54. | |
children managed to turn it into a global event, | :28:55. | :28:56. | |
at least one that's been viewed more than 100 million times | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
What appeared to be a cute accident on live television. | :29:00. | :29:17. | |
I think one of your children has just walked in. | :29:18. | :29:19. | |
I mean, shifting sands in the region, do you think | :29:20. | :29:22. | |
But Professor Robert Kelly, who is now being dubbed #bbcdad, | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
received so much attention, he felt compelled to | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
So here we are, finally meeting him in person in South Korea. | :29:32. | :29:47. | |
It's fairly amazing, it's basically just a family blooper. | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
It sort of went wild, there were more journalists | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
there than have ever asked me questions before about my expertise. | :29:56. | :29:58. | |
It then generated a second wave of Internet discussion. | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
There was a lot of social analysis of it, sort of racism | :30:04. | :30:05. | |
Regardless of some negative reaction, his students | :30:06. | :30:14. | |
TRANSLATION: When he was giving a serious interview about a very | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
sensitive subject, I was surprised to see the interruption. | :30:21. | :30:22. | |
And when I found out he is a professor here, | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
TRANSLATION: It was a very serious interview, but when I saw | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
I felt they were the hope to what is a gloomy story. | :30:33. | :30:40. | |
Professor Kelly describes the episode as a family blooper, | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
but it certainly touched many hearts, especially | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
Today could be the warmest day of the year so far. Lovely blue skies. | :30:49. | :31:14. | |
Temperatures have been rising rapidly. Hardly a breath of wind. | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
Not as windy across northern part of Scotland. Not as sunny either. In | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
general, where we had a sunnier skies yesterday, we are seeing more | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
cloud today. There are some stubborn areas of low cloud that are pegging | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
back the temperatures, but in general, sunshine underneath the | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
high pressure and around the high pressure we have a moist air flow, | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
hence the cloud affecting the Northern Isles also affecting | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
Scotland where we will see some patchy, light rain or drizzle coming | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
in across northern part of the country. Probably drive to the | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
south. Cloud from the north of England may wandering into the far | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
south-west of Wales, the West Country. But for most of England and | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
Wales it will be lovely and sunny. Temperatures of 80 degrees and | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
possibly higher. A beautiful day at Cheltenham. -- 18 degrees. Tomorrow | :32:09. | :32:14. | |
will be cloudy and cooler. Temperatures dipping away and | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
turning misty across parts of England and Wales during the course | :32:18. | :32:22. | |
of the night before low cloud arrives. Further north for Scotland | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
and Northern Ireland, stronger wind. Another weather from bringing | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
outbreaks of rain overnight. It shouldn't be to cold overnight. We | :32:30. | :32:36. | |
will find this band of rain, heavy at times over the hills, coming down | :32:37. | :32:41. | |
across Scotland, Northern Ireland into northern parts of England and | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
Wales. Maybe brightening up but not as sunny and warm as today. We have | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
some colder air coming into Scotland and Northern Ireland with showers. | :32:51. | :32:52. | |
Those could be wintry in Scotland and continue that way overnight on | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
Thursday night. It is going to be quite chilly on Thursday night. | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
Colder than it has been for a while. Maybe a touch of frost. Coming into | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
the cold air, we will replace the showers with longer spells of rain | :33:09. | :33:11. | |
coming in from the Atlantic. Snow possible over some of the Scottish | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
hills. The wet weather arrives in the South East. The wet weather | :33:16. | :33:22. | |
originating from storm Stella. The weekend is unsettled and will feel | :33:23. | :33:25. | |
colder with the wind is picking up and there will be rain at times. | :33:26. | :33:31. | |
Goodbye from me, on BBC one we now join the BBC's news | :33:32. | :33:32. |