03/05/2017 BBC News at One

Britain's EU divorce bill - claims it could be ?100 billion

euros are dismissed by the government.

But the man in charge of negotiating Britain's exit on behalf

of the European Union warned accounts must be settled and it

There is no punishment, there is no Brexit bill,

the financial settlement is only about settling the accords.

They've offered 50bn, 60bn, 100bn, we've not been given an official

number ...whilst we'll meet our international obligations,

we'll meet the legal ones, not the best guesses and wishes

We will have the latest from Downing Street and Brussels.

Police investigating the murder of a man shot during a burglary

at his home in Dorset have arrested two men and a woman.

The supermarket giant Sainsbury's announce a big fall in profits -

blaming tough market conditions and a fall in the value of sterling.

Ten years to the day since Madeleine McCann disappeared

from a holiday resort in Portugal, we speak to the first

And why the UK's last killer whales are under threat.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News.

After announcing her retirement, 11-time British javelin champion

Goldie Sayers says she leaves athletics feeling a "deep

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator has been setting

out his priorities for the talks, warning that they will be

Michel Barnier insisted that the UK would not be punished for leaving

but said that the accounts had to be settled.

It came after reports that the UK could be asked to pay up

to 100 billion euros to leave the EU.

Mr Barnier said the top priority was to establish the rights of EU

citizens living the in the UK and of Britons in the EU.

Here's our political correspondent Ben Wright.

In the Tories's sights this morning, Jeremy Corbyn's tax plans.

The Conservatives claim there is a huge hole and his sons, a charge

Labour strongly denies. There is an account to settle

and taxpayers will get the The numbers that have been bandied

around in the press, 50, 60, We certainly have not had

any indication of it. We have said throughout

that we will meet our international obligations and we

will enter negotiations in the best interests of us and

the European Union. And Mr Davies said Britain would

certainly not pay 100 billion euros, the amount suggested by the

Financial Times. That is not a figure

the EU's chief negotiator In fact, he did not put

any number on the bill. There is no punishment,

there is no Brexit bill. The financial settlement

is only about settling Mr Barnier said there

would have to be progress on the terms of divorce before any

talks about the future and trade. Some have created the

illusion that Brexit would have no material

impact on our lives. Or that negotiations can be

concluded quickly and painlessly. These are the EU's

negotiating guidelines that And Michel Barnier

said today he wanted everybody to keep a cool head

through the process. Not easy with pressure

building on both sides. Leaked reports of a very acrimonious

dinner in Downing Street last week. And with the general

election now in full flow. Campaigning on the health service

in Bedford, Jeremy Corbyn said the government's

Brexit strategy was wrong. Theresa May and David Davis

appeared to open with megaphone diplomacy, threatening

Europe that we will become some kind of tax haven on the

shores of Europe. Because yes, we are leaving

the European Union, but we have to have a good relationship

with them in the The Liberal Democrats said

the question mark over Britain's exit bill proved why a second

referendum on the final deal is This is what will happen

over the next two years. You will, I will, our

children will have a deal we have to live with

for the next several decades and none of us

will This will be stitched

up by politicians in Brussels and in London, the British

people will be carved out. But Ukip said there was

a simple solution to What we want to know

in Ukip is how much is the As far as Ukip is concerned

we should not be How we leave the EU

and on what terms will dominate politics after

the election, so in the weeks before polling day, parties are coming

under pressure to explain what they The EU's chief negotiator has no

legal mandate to talk about trade ties yet even if the UK which to do

so. Chris Morris has been looking at how

the exit bill will be worked out - and what kind of guarantees those

living here and on the The first two points will be

guaranteeing that the rights of British citizens in the European

Union and EU citizens in Britain and settling accounts before we leave.

First, citizens rights, incredibly complicated, involving health care

rights, pensions and the welfare of families decades into the future.

The biggest problem may be jurisdiction, where those rights

guaranteed. The British government says the rights of EU citizens here

will be guaranteed under EU law. The EU says that isn't acceptable,

Michel Barnier pointed out today that their rights are guaranteed by

the European Courts of Justice and wants that to continue. He's as

anything else would be just an illusion, just a promise. The second

point is this single settlement. The EU once a clear agreement on the

method of calculating the bill before it says that sufficient

progress has been made on this first phase of negotiation. The problem is

how do you make that calculation. The EU seems to be going for the

broadest possible interpretation, financial obligations resulting from

the entire period of UK membership of the EU should be taken into

account. Potentially even money that gets spent after we have left. The

attitude of many countries in the EU has hardened in the last few weeks

which is why some estimates of the bill are as high as 100 billion

euros. I don't think it will end up there but economists say even if it

is tens of billions of euros then economically that amount is

insignificant compared to the challenge of rebooting our entire

trade relationship with the rest of the EU and the rest of the world.

But politically though the financial settlement will be incredibly tough.

Michel Barnier says it is not meant to be a punishment that to some in

the UK it may feel like that. Chris Morris there.

In a moment we'll talk to our Assistant Political Editor

Norman Smith in Downing Street, but first let's speak to

Kevin Connelly who is outside the European Commission in Brussels.

Some tough talking from Brussels today making it clear that this will

not be without pain. That's right, it was a smooth and softly spoken

performance from Michel Barnier and he is far too experienced and wily

politician to get trapped into a game of putting a figure on what all

of this is ultimately going to cost Britain. But underneath it all the

message was quite steely. You heard it spells out, it won't be quick and

it won't be painless. And ultimately of course, if you are being asked to

pay many it doesn't matter whether it is called a settlement of

accounts or a bill or a punishment, what you are interested in, what the

UK Government will be interested in is what the figure is. We still have

no indication on that other that estimate of 100 billion euros is

washing around in Brussels and does appear to have a bit of credibility

to it. There are problems for Britain as well in the prospect of

continued jurisdiction for the European Court of Justice and also

this. No trade talks, we know, until the immediate priorities have been

sorted out, and in Europe it is Michel Barnier will decide when

satisfactory progress has been made and not the British government.

Norman Smith in Downing Street, the response from the British government

in this? A collective shrug of the shoulders as if to say to pull the

other one Michel Barnier because he's an old sparring partner of the

British government from previous Euro tussles and they view his

demands as part of the early rough and tumble of negotiations. Brexit

secretary David Davis this morning gave as good as he got saying forget

the idea that we might pay 100 billion euros, it's not happening.

And if there is no deal by the way we want pay you anything. There is a

risk from this ratcheting up of the rhetoric. Risk number one is that it

makes it much harder to get a deal because it makes it much harder for

both sides to compromise. The second risk is that if money is the first

item on the agenda, it simply soaks up all the time as both sides

wrangle over pounds commissioning is and pens, leaving no time for other

issues like trade. So the danger with the tough talk is that it is

harder to strike a deal. Let me ask you about the election campaign

trail which continues, claim and counterclaim today between Labour

and the Tories of tax and spending plans. Yes, following from Diane

Abbott's difficult day yesterday when she struggled to explain how

Labour would pay for its plans to recruit more police officers the

Tories have piled in and produced a report listing what they say are all

Labour's spending commitments. They've gone through various policy

announcements by senior Labour figures since Jeremy Corbyn became

leader and said this will cost voters ?45 billion. Labour has said

that is alive. That many of these policies are simply not Labour

policies. What does it tell us? It tells us that after Brexit taxing

and spending is perhaps going to be the crunch issue in the election and

secondly we won't be able to get at the calculators and work out how the

different parties will cost us until they produce their manifestos.

Norman Smith and Kevin Connelly Brussels, thank you both.

Labour says it would suspend the planned closures of hospital

services across England - if it wins the general election.

The party says a reform process aimed at treating more patients

in the community has created "mistrust and confusion".

But the Conservatives say the NHS modernisation programme has been

There have been protests against some of the reform plans

including this demonstration outside a hospital in Oxfordshire

where campaigners say services are under threat.

Last year NHS England called on local health and council leaders

to draw up plans for joined-up care with the aim of treating more

patients in their communities rather than in hospitals.

These sustainability and transformation plans

Some involve hospital bed cuts with resources switched

Labour's Jon Ashworth today at a meeting with activists

in West Yorkshire, argues the process has been

pressures and has caused widespread concern and confusion.

Let's just halt them, let's just have a moratorium on them

of them and when we reiew them let's involve the clinicians,

but let's involve the people as well, the public,

been cut out of the decisions and we don't think that's fair.

The Conservatives said Labour had previously backed the plans

which were supported by senior doctors and nurses.

The Lib Dems said the purpose of the process was good

but the Conservatives had starved the plans of the required funding.

The Green Party has called on ministers to do more to tackle

The government is due to publish its air quality plans

within the next week, after it decided not to appeal

The co-leader of the Green Party, Jonathan Bartley, said air pollution

was linked to 40,000 early deaths every year, and any delay

in tackling the issue was unacceptable.

Political parties are taking to the streets in the last day

of campaigning ahead of tomorrow's local elections.

for grabs across England, Wales and Scotland.

The poll will give voters a chance to deliver their verdicts

on the main parties before the general election next month.

There are also eight mayoral elections.

And you can find out lots more about the local elections

and the general election campaign on our website -

Police investigating the murder of a man during a burglary

at his home in Dorset have arrested three people.

Guy Hedger was killed in the early hours of Sunday morning

after intruders broke into his home in the village of St Ives, near

Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy is there.

Duncan. Police have allowed the media to move closer to the scene

this morning. You can see Guy Hedger's has just over my shoulder.

He was shot in the early hours of Sunday morning and taken to hospital

where he later died of his wounds. A postmortem has confirmed that those

wounds were inflicted by gunshot. In the last couple of hours Dorset

Police have put out a statement saying they have made three arrests

of people in Bournemouth, the arrests were made yesterday, the

information has only come out in the last couple of hours. A

41-year-old Bournemouth man arrested on suspicion of murder and

aggravated burglary, a 44-year-old Bournemouth man and a 40-year-old

Bournemouth woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit

murder and to commit aggravated burglary. All three people we are

told are being questioned by detectives. Those detectives say

they are still looking for information from the public and if

anyone has that information they should contact the police as as soon

as possible. Britain's EU divorce bill -

claims it could be 100 billion euros Scientists have discovered why Lulu,

one of the UK's few killer Former long jump World

Champion Mike Powell says it would be 'disrespectful' and 'a slap

in the face' if world records set before 2005 are erased, under

proposals from a European Athletics It is 10 years ago today that

three-year-old Madeleine McCann went missing from a holiday apartment

in the Portuguese village Her disappearance sparked a huge

police search and worldwide attention which cast a shadow

on the resort. But a decade later -

despite extensive international inquiries - there've been no firm

leads and the investigation Ten years ago tonight Kate McCann

walked along there to the family apartment from restaurants to check

on her children and relies to daughter had disappeared. Since then

so much has been said and written, investigated, about the little girl

who was known around the world just as Madeline. And nothing really has

changed. I've been catching up with the mother and son who live around

the corner, Jenny and Robert. Things that Jenny is all right here that

night are now being reported to be a significant potential part of the

investigation. Robert Murat you might remember was the first person

to be treated as an official suspect although he has since been told he

has absolutely no case to answer. Ten years since

everything changed here. Ten years since a little girl

vanished on a holiday It's unbelievable that nothing,

there has been nothing. They haven't found the child,

they haven't found anything. Jenny Murat remembers it

like it was yesterday. She only lives a few

yards from the block Back then she set up a stall

outside, appealing for information. She never imagined that the case

would still be unsolved a decade on. Everything you look at and you see

all around you is... It connects somehow to the fact that

a poor little girl disappeared. This week it has been claimed that

on the night Madeleine disappeared a mystery woman was seen outside

the family's apartment. Jenny told me she saw this woman,

who is now reported to be a significant part

of the investigation. I noticed her and she kind of looked

as if she was trying to hide. I do remember that she was wearing

a plum coloured top. For the first time,

Jenny has also told us about a car she saw that night

speeding towards the McCann's apartment, heading the wrong way

down a one-way street. It was one of the small cars,

like a rental car, the normal We just looked at each other

and I think he had a very Ten years of

unprecedented publicity. Ten years of appeals,

but no answers. It has had a huge impact

on my personality... Jenny's son Robert was the first

to be named a suspect in the case. A decade on, his name may have been

cleared, but he still cannot I just want to know

why that was the case. It didn't only lead

to me being destroyed, it led to my whole family

being destroyed and affected And you are adamant that

you were not there that night? Ten years ago this was just

another sleepy village. Now it is the place where

Madeleine disappeared. Panorama will be on BBC One

at 9pm this evening. I just want to know

why that was the case. You can see more on that story -

on a special Panorama programme - Madeleine McCann: Ten Years On -

Tonight at nine o'clock on BBC1. The supermarket giant Sainsbury's

says its profits have fallen by more than eight percent in the past year

as it warns of a 'challenging' trading market as well as

unpredictability in the value The supermarket chain says

it is trying not to pass on the increases to customers

by putting up prices. Our Business Correspondent,

Emma Simpson reports. Sainsbury's, these days there's more

than the traditional deals. Last year, it bought Argos,

delivering a big boost to earnings. It is doing well with sales up

by more than 4.1% for the year but Sainsbury's sales were down

by 0.6% and so too It has been an incredible year

where we have seen lots and lots of changes and I expect

the next year will show As I say, our job is to make sure

we do all we can to mitigate Profits are down because we have

seen pressures in our prices but we have also given our

colleagues a 4% pay rise It has been a challenging year

for all supermarkets, especially due to the fall

in the pound. That's meant a big increase

in the cost of getting our Supermarkets say they are doing

the best to keep the lid on price rises but our food bills

are on the up. What we are already seeing

is shopping prices increasing for goods and services that we buy

every week and that is tricky When they do we just go

and shop somewhere else. The last time there was loads

of price increases we stopped shopping in the main supermarkets

and started shopping at discounters. Over the last couple of years,

the big four retailers have worked hard to win those shoppers back

and do not want to lose them now. Sainsbury's reckon these

Argos stores will help. It has already got 59 of them

in its main supermarkets and are rolling out several hundred

more, a business that has taken a big change in direction

to try to attract more shoppers. Mobile 4G connection

in the UK varies wildly according to new research -

with smartphone users only having access to it two thirds

of the time on average. And it very much depends

where you are in the country Our Technology Correspondent,

Rory Cellan-Jones is here. It really depends from city to city.

This data was collected for the consumer body Which. Measuring

connections around the country. It found variations, they looked at the

top 20 cities and at the top game Middlesbrough with 83% productivity

and right at the bottom came Bournemouth where 60% was the

figure. And London came pretty far down the list conveyed with

Middlesbrough, at 74%. Overall putting in all the cities and the

countryside the average amount of time people were connected to 4G was

65%. So around two thirds, one third of the time people could not get a

connection. It is annoying but why does it matter? We're trying to

become an advanced, connected nation. Ofcom has set a target of

90% coverage in peoples homes by the of 2017. Oft, has a slightly

different method of measuring this, from that used by Which but it said

there are currently about 71% on the way to that target. A long way to go

and businesses will say that 4G connectivity is vital if we are to

have a prosperous economy in the next decade.

One of the UK's few killer whales - which died last year -

was contaminated with "shocking" levels of a toxic

The animal, called Lulu, was found dead on the Isle of Tiree.

Tests revealed her body contained high levels of PCB,

Our Science Correspondent, Rebecca Morelle reports.

They are the UK's last killer whales.

Found off the west coast of Scotland, today this pod

Lulu was found dead on the shores of the inner Hebrides.

She had become caught up in fishing line.

This is Lulu's skull, this is the head...

Her skeleton is now stored at the National museums Scotland.

Tests showed she was heavily contaminated with man-made

The levels that we found in Lulu were 20 times higher than the levels

we would expect in citations that weren't suffering

That puts her as one of the most contaminated animals on the planet.

In killer whales the chemicals can stop the animal from bearing young.

They harm the immune system and also the brain.

For Lulu one theory is that PCBs may have severely

impaired her intelligence, perhaps leading to her deadly

Here in the laboratory, securing effective heat is shown...

PCBs were once man-made wonder chemicals.

Used in everything from plastics to electrics.

But it was later discovered they were toxic and from the 1970s

a series of bans around the world were put into place.

Especially in landfill sites that contain the materials

The chemicals are long-lasting, they do not break down easily.

And it is estimated that there is still more than a million tonnes

of contaminated material in Europe and this is leaching

Some scientists say more needs to be done to clear PCBs

But UK officials say levels are declining.

The controls we have in place are working,

it is just that they take a very long time to disappear.

And they're probably disappearing into the sediment at the bottom

of the sea and occasionally when that sediment is stirred up it

So it is going to take a very long time for them

PCBs are of global concern, but with so few killer

whales left in the UK, it is a problem

It is likely the rest of Lulu's pod is also heavily contaminated,

Back now to the General Election - the campaign officially begins today

after Paliament was dissolved at Midnight -

which means every seat is now vacant until a new parliament is elected.

The Prime Minister's in Downing Street at the moment

but in just over an hour's time Theresa May will leave number 10

and make the short trip to Buckingham Palace for an audience

with the Queen to mark the dissolution of Parliament.

So with just over a month now until the snap General

Election on June 8th - what do people make of it and is it

the issues or the personalities that will win their vote this time?

Our correspondent Danny Savage has been to the Labour

constituency of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford

This could accurately be described as a traditional Labour voting area.

But will this part of west Yorkshire stick with

I'm voting for the Labour Party because I always thought

they were best for the working class and people in need.

And Jeremy Corbyn, I think he could do with a bit more backbone,

but I think he's a good man and he needs to be given a chance.

If they get rid of him, then I'll vote for them,

I'll still vote Labour, yes, definitely.

Ukip came second in this area in the 2015 general election.

Its leader Paul Nuttall says where Ukip is strong

So what do voters in Pontrefact today think?

Last time I voted Ukip and personally, now,

I think things are moving on and I don't think

Do you think Ukip are a spent force now?

And I personally think that it is only Theresa May that can

It's not just a two-party contest, others will of course get votes too.

This woman is going to vote for the Lib Dems.

Their views, I tend to think that they are more stronger

for the common person, let's say the working class person.

Because I think we should start thinking more about the planet

He's not like media savvy enough to get into power.

So I think it's going to be a wasted vote if somebody does vote Labour.

The runners and riders in the forthcoming general election

here cannot officially be nominated until this Friday.

But people are engaged, they are thinking hard,

and they're not necessarily going to support the same party

Our Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith is in Downing Street.

Theresa May is off to see the Queen this afternoon. What will happen?

Well most people probably thought the election was already underway.

But officially at least the election does not get underway until Her

Majesty announces the dissolution of parliament. That will happen this

afternoon when Theresa May emerges and makes the short trip to

Buckingham Palace to ask Her Majesty to dissolve parliament. She will

then return to make a statement in Downing Street and from that moment

on MPs are no longer MPs, they're simply candidates vying for your

vote. Parliament has already shut up shop, no longer any debates

legislation, civil servants will be barred from doing or saying anything

which might in any way be interpreted as political. The

election officially will have begun. With five weeks to go. Thank you.

The weather is not treating as equally today, some of you may feel

it is a little bit unfair. Across Scotland blue skies and sunshine but

further east, the Wall Enda Brady all, a lot of cloud and some rain as

well. The cloud has been marching on across South eastern areas. We had

some Midlands through Wales, the Midlands and the South West but that

tends to disappear this afternoon. The best of the brightness across

northern England and especially Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Although rather windy across the tops of the Pennines. And even with

the sunshine temperatures of ten or 11 degrees along that eastern

coastline. Some splashes of rain around and even inland,

disappointing the cool as we go through the rest of the afternoon.

But further west we have 20 degrees. But where we had the sunshine by

day, we get clear skies overnight so some places could be cold enough for

some frost. Further south but temperatures will hold up a little

bit more, eight or 9 degrees in the town. Across Scotland in rural areas

it could get down to freezing or attached below. A similar story

tomorrow, the best of the sunshine in North areas. Further south,

Wales, commit East Anglia, the South Coast, more in the way of cloud and

the odd shower. Not quite as chilly as it is today perhaps. Friday looks

similar with more clout in the south and brighter skies further north.

But the wind really starts to pick up towards the South West, the sign

of a change that will try to happen as we start off the weekend. Low

pressure trying to come in from the South but high pressured to the

north is pretty strong and will hold firm. So during the weekend

especially after the North West of Scotland, plenty of sunshine.

Further south Moor in the way of cloud and generally more cloud

further south again. Generally dry and not feeling quite so chilly

across the South East. Things turning just a little bit less

unfair. A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime. The EU chief negotiator Michel

Barnier has warned the process will not be quick or easy and