01/06/2017 BBC News at One

President Trump prepares to announce whether he'll pull the US

out of the Paris global climate change deal.

He says his decision will "Make America great again".

He's coming under increasing international pressure

to honour the commitment to cut greenhouse gases.

We'll have the latest from Washington.

Theresa May has promised that Britain will become more

prosperous after Brexit, with enormous opportunities leading

I am confident that we can fulfil the promise of Brexit together,

and build a Britain that is stronger, fairer, and even

Tickets for Sunday's concert to raise money for the victims

of the Manchester attack have sold out within 20 minutes

And the actor Roy Barraclough, best known for his role

in Coronation Street, has died at the age of 81.

And in sport, ahead of their first test on Saturday, British

and Irish Lions head coach Warren Gatland says there'll be

a battle for the number 10 shirt, with Jonny Sexton set

Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at One.

The US President Donald Trump is coming under growing

international pressure to honour the Paris global

He's expected to announce this evening whether the US

will withdraw from its commitment to reduce carbon emissions.

China's Premier said this morning that they will honour the agreement,

and urged other countries to do the same, but Donald Trump has

previously described climate change as a "hoax",

Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin reports.

Its coal that striving President Trump away from the global climate

deal. Before his election he promised jobs for American minors.

We are going to cancel the Paris climate agreement. The president is

now scrapping rules to clean up coal fired power stations, but will that

work? His economic adviser Gary Coen says it won't. Cole doesn't even

make that much sense any more, he said recently. The president

disagrees. My Administration is putting an end to the war on coal.

And the climate deal signed in Paris represents exactly the sort of

liberal internationalist and his supporters despise. But the

likelihood he will project but Paris deal has been met with worldwide

dismay. At the Hay book Festival, children are learning how solar

power transforms African villages. President Trump has scrapped funding

for this sort of thing. As he promised, he is putting America

first. After years of working together to get a consensus, when

all the country is finally working together, we are now in a situation

where the richest economy in the world is abandoning its obligations

to the poorest people. It is those very poor people who will suffer.

Support for the Paris climate deal stretches far beyond this tent. If

the US pulls out, it will be on a list of just three nations not doing

their bit for the climate, including tiny Nicaragua and war-torn serious.

It is obviously a very important decision as the United States is the

biggest economy in the world. Independently of the decision of the

American government, it's important all other governments stay the

course. China, with its massive investment in renewables, is set to

take over global leadership on climate, in partnership with the EU

at their summit tomorrow. India says it won't back down either.

Overnight, President Trump said he would announce his decision on the

Paris deal today. But even in the President's own backyard, there is

defiance on climate change. President Trump cannot command

science. He can't command the weather, he can't command the

climate. The rest of the world is getting it. Here at the Hay

Festival, this installation is lit by solar power, clean energy is all

around us. And if President Trump turns his back on the Paris climate

agreement, he won't just be in raging other world leaders, he'll be

potentially undermining America's own clean energy jobs for the

future. Our correspondent

Barbara Plett-Usher joins He talked about this an awful lot

during his election campaign, this is something he says he's promised.

That's exactly right. It was a campaign promise to bring back jobs,

especially coal mining jobs as we heard, the coal industry has been

targeted by environmental regulations. It is a key part of his

voting based, so that is the strongest argument for pulling out

of the agreement by his advisers in the White House. There are other

advises those who are making the other argument, saying the United

States needs to keep the seat at the table, if it pulls out its going to

damage credibility, and diminish its leadership. Also, that business is

moving in another direction, in the direction of renewables. Mr Trump

says he is listening to both sides and later today we will hear what he

decided. It's worth bearing in mind that if he decides to withdraw from

the agreement, that is a long process that could take 3-4 years.

By that time we might have someone else in the White House who can

again reverse this. In that period, the United States, the world's lard

just economy and second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, going

into the opposite direction of the rest of the world.

With me is our science editor David Shukman.

If we get this announcement tonight, what does it mean? If he decides to

take America out of this agreement, politically it will be a blow. If

you think that America is the world's biggest economy, under

President Obama, America and China together provide the nucleus, the

twin pack at the middle of the Paris climate agreement. If one of those

is to leave, it's bound to have an effect and the risk would be that

other countries who are a bit wobbly about it, like Russia for example,

could think it's time for them to leave as well. But actually in

practical terms what might it mean? For some of the countries taking

part, like China, they have their own logic for taking part in

disagreement. In China, the middle class are fed up with dirty air. The

obvious answer to that is to move to renewables. One of the consequences

is that renewables are now far cheaper than they used to be. For

many countries it makes sense to go green, regardless of the Paris

agreement. I think even in America you're seeing more people employed

industry than the coal industry, you're starting to see a shift

regardless of the Paris agreement. Some people say it doesn't matter

what Trump does, this process of moving to a low carbon world will

happen anyway. Thank you. Theresa May has tried to move

Brexit back to the heart of the election campaign,

saying the UK will be more In a speech in Teesside,

the Conservative leader emphasised that Brexit would lead to more jobs

and opportunities for the country. While this afternoon Labour leader

Jeremy Corbyn is expected to warn that Mrs May's approach to Brexit

is "wreckless" and could harm jobs. Here's our political correspondent

Leila Nathoo on how the parties She wants to move on, to dig herself

out of the whole of last night's debate no-show, and on to the safer

ground of Brexit. A brighter future awaits, she says, but only she can

get us there. I want us to work together to fulfil the promise of

Brexit too. Because if we get Brexit right, then together we can do great

things. We can build a Britain beyond Brexit, that is stronger,

fairer and even more prosperous than it is today. But the Liberal

Democrats think she would be taking Britain down the wrong path. They

claim the economy has already suffered, and there would be worse

to come. I think what people want to know is why on earth the

Conservatives want to pursue such an extreme version of Brexit, which

will not just take account of the EU but also harm our economy by taking

us out of Margaret Thatcher's single market as well. Had the party's

approaches to Brexit compare? After last night's debate, Labour

also want to talk about Brexit today. Jeremy Corbyn says Theresa

May's approach would risk a jobs meltdown. I'm very clear that we

will negotiate tariff free trade access to European markets so our

manufacturing industry jobs are defended unsupported, and we have a

growing economy as a result of that. Brexit is the backdrop to this

election and we've had plenty of sound bites and slogans from all the

parties about what they would do. But there are still a number of

unanswered questions on all sides, like how much of a divorce bill we

would pay, what would be the consequences of not agreeing a deal.

Britain's future outside the EU is beckoning, there's just a week left

to decide who will be in charge. And let's speak to our assistant

political editor Norman Smith. A sense that Theresa May is really

trying to get her key message across here? The area she is feeling

comfortable within Brexit? There is no surprise Mrs May wants to crank

this election back to Brexit. But I think is significant about today is

a very different tone and approach from Mrs May, a more optimistic,

confident, upbeat vision of what life in Britain will be like after

Brexit. Suggesting will be better off and more prosperous, there will

be more jobs, there will be more opportunities and we will be set

free to become a great global trading nation again, and suggesting

we will be a nation more at ease with ourselves. We'll be more

confident, more united, a country she says life with opportunities.

What is going on? I think Mrs May wants to give people a sense of

better times ahead. Of sunlit uplands beyond Brexit. To date, her

campaign has been a bit dour, there's been a lot of talk of hard

choices, difficult decisions, huge challenges. Inevitably people's

shoulders tend to slump. It sounds as if we are going to have to spend

time in the salt mines. Now, Mrs May trying to walk on the sunny side of

the street. One other thing, almost no mention in her speech of Jeremy

Corbyn. In previous speeches there has always been a remorseless focus

on his lack of leadership qualities, or his personality or his past

political affiliations. Today, almost nothing. What does that tell

us? I think it tells us team May fear their remorseless attacks on Mr

Corbyn may have actually backfired. Thank you.

90 people are now believed to have been killed in yesterday's

bomb attacks in Kabul, one of the highest-ever death tolls

in the country since the Taliban were overthrown in 2001.

A suicide bomber, driving a truck filled with what police believe

was around 1,500 kilograms of explosives, blew himself up close

Willie Walsh, the chief executive of British Airway's parent company,

IAG, has defended the airline's handling of the computer

failure which caused chaos for passengers worldwide.

In his first television incident since the Bank Holiday

incident he praised the way the crisis was handled.

It was not an IT failure, it was a problem caused

by the failure of electrical power to our IT systems.

We understand what happened, we are still investigating why it

happened, and that investigation will take some time.

Richard Westcott, our transport correspondent, is with me.

What have we learnt from this interview?

Not a great deal more about what actually happened. They are sticking

with this line that there was a local power surge, not an IT problem

but a power problem. Why is that interesting? All of the IT experts

I've spoken to over the last few days, some of them former workers at

BA, had said they are sceptical about that. They are sceptical

whether a local power surge could wreak this kind of havoc. They know

there are back-up systems in place but clearly didn't work. We aren't

going to know for a while why this happened and they may never make it

public. Secondly, what was interesting, he defended the boss of

British Airways. This is a man who was criticised because he didn't do

an interview for three days. He was criticised because virtually

everyone I spoke to who was stranded, then number one complaint

was, we don't know what's going on, no one is telling us anything. He is

being defended their by his boss. Bear in mind this happened on

Saturday, there are still people on holiday now who don't have their

bags. Thank you. Tickets for this weekend's

One Love Manchester concert, organised to raise money

for the victims of last week's terrorist attack,

have sold out in less Performers including Take That,

Katy Perry, and Justin Bieber are due to appear alongside

Ariana Grande, whose show at the Manchester Arena was targeted

by a suicide bomber. Our correspondent

Frankie McCamley reports. A concert that less than two

weeks ago didn't exist. But now acts from across the world

are making their way to the Old Trafford Cricket Ground

in Manchester to raise money for those affected by last

Monday's bomb attack. Preparations are well under way

here, getting the stage ready for Ariana Grande,

who is going to be joined by some of the biggest pop stars

in the world. And with around 50,000 people

expected here on Sunday, it's hoped the concert will raise

more than ?2 million. Which is looking likely,

after tickets sold out within minutes of going

on sale this morning. Stars took to social media to say

they'll be performing, While tickets are being reserved

for fans who were at last Monday's concert, Susan and her daughter

Chloe said they won't be going. I haven't registered

for the tickets. Chloe was saying, "My dad

says he will take us, But deep down I know

she doesn't want to go, If she doesn't come back

then I've missed that opportunity to see her again,

but it's like, I want to go but I don't want

to in case anything happens. Despite Vina's reservations,

she says she will attend. I think it's definitely very brave

of all the artists that are coming. It's a great thing to show respect

to the ones who unfortunately passed away and also to their families,

and even people who were there. I mean, you never know

what's going to happen. When I was there on Monday I was

like, well, nothing's While security is being stepped up,

with those going asked not to bring bags, it will no doubt be

an emotional event following Frankie McCamley, BBC

News, at Old Trafford. President Trump is coming under

increasing international pressure, as he prepares to announce

whether he'll pull the US out of the Paris global

climate change deal. Bangladesh are turning the screws

on England's bowlers at the Oval, in the opening match

of the Champions Trophy. And coming up in the sport

on BBC News: It looks like Antoine Griezmann

won't be going to Manchester United after all.

Sources say the clubs' interests have cooled.

Now, we probably all know we should be paying

into a pension these days - the picture has changed dramatically

since pensions were introduced for men in this country

As part of our election coverage, we're looking at The Bigger Picture

A report earlier this year suggested that a worker who is under the age

of 30 today might not get a pension until they're 70.

As the cost of pensions - and the number of pensioners -

continues to rise, what will be the impact of living longer?

Our personal finance correspondent, Simon Gompertz, is at a retirement

I am at the Hagley Road retirement village in Edgbaston in Birmingham.

It is home to around 300 mostly pensioners in 240 flats. Some of

them are owned, some are rented. Amongst those people most of them

will have reached state pension age at 60 for women and 65 for men and

that is all changing. There is talk about it being 70, as you say, for

today's young people. I've been around Birmingham looking at the

state pension age issue and it has involved looking at the very

beginnings of pensions. This was the first time people

picked up the state pension, 1909. We're not going back to that,

but the talk is we will return to another feature, you had

to be much older. We've managed to track down,

in the West Midlands, a very rare example of an old-age

pension order from You take this in each

week to the post office, But you'd only qualify

if you were over 70 years of age. That's what we could

be going back to. So, could people now in their 20s,

and their kids after them, have to wait until 70 as well

to get the pension? That's a projection which was made

for ministers in March by the Government Actuary's Department,

because lifespans are growing I think everyone's living

longer now, aren't they? So they're pushing it out,

getting people to work a bit longer. His generation are probably

going to have to work even I'm a nurse, and I know that

I wouldn't have worked on the wards I'm quite conscious that I'm paying

as much into my pension currently as I possibly can,

because, like you say, I might have to wait until I'm a lot

older before I actually get that. The projection was that someone

like Louise, who is 27, could have a pension age of 70,

yet still be likely to get the pension for the same proportion

of her life as people who've retired Gemma, who's 32, would

be waiting until 69. Karen, a 51-year-old grandmother,

is already set to have It's entirely realistic that today's

20-year-olds won't get a state I think the problem

is that some people There has to be some mechanism

which allows them to work part-time, and there has to be some mechanism

which allows them to take a pension earlier than the state pension age,

albeit a smaller, reduced pension. So, the younger you are, the more

the pension age is on the move. The Conservatives say

they'll ensure it reflects Labour rejects changes beyond 66,

it'll have a review. The Lib Dems stick with current

policy, which means There's a law which forces

the government to reassess when future generations can

get their pension, so whoever wins the election will have to decide

whether they dare make people The way that law is framed, every

government of a normal length has to look at state pension age. That was

underway before the election was called and ministers were going to

make an announcement about it. It's been conveniently forgotten and put

on one side because no politician wants to talk about the idea of

making people wait until they are 70 for their pension but once the

election is over and in the months afterwards, ministers, whoever they

are, will have to look at the issue again at decide whether 70 really is

an age they are willing to look at. Thank you very much, Simon Gompertz.

More of us than ever are shunning the traditional 9-5 job in search

of greater flexibility and, perhaps, control over our life.

In the last ten years there's been a 50% increase in the number

of women who've become self-employed, and many of those

are setting up small creative businesses.

Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports on the changes

I left school at 18, went straight into being a receptionist, front of

house girl, but after having my daughter it just became impossible

to kind of job will work and home life. Sound familiar? She managed to

find a creative solution, she's just started her own business at her home

in Ilkley selling imitation flowers online. We want to be there for the

school run and we want to be there for the parties and the playgroups

and play dates and everything. But we also want to work as well and

have a sense of self and to give our skills back into the workforce.

Small creative businesses like this one may often start on the kitchen

table, but they're flourishing. According to new research they make

up one in 40 businesses in the UK and women on nearly a third of them

generating some ?3.6 billion for the UK economy.

There are thousands of women just like Dani turning their back on the

traditional 9-5 job in search of flexibility and to gain more control

over their working lives. And technology is a big help.

It allows Laura Hutton to work where ever she may be. She's learned new

digital skills too to become a self-employed social media manager.

Yeah, well, I've never actually met my boss. I work within the marketing

department and I don't know the head of the Department. That is a bit

unusual. I've had the office job and I'm just not interested any more, I

like the fact it doesn't matter what I wear, or whether or not I brushed

my hair that morning. For us to be able to shoot their products and put

them in front of customers... This boss says traditional workplaces

need to adapt and he runs an online marketplace for small businesses,

which has grown 50% in the last ten years. These are life choices. Last

year we had 20 businesses that made more than ?1 million with us and 17

of them were founded by women so this is a genuine way to make a

business. Dani has not regretted her choice. It's early days but she

hopes she is finally managed to get the balance right.

Emma Simpson, BBC News, Ilkley. The Ulster Unionist Leader Robin

Swann says his party is strongly opposed to granting special

status to Northern Ireland He said such a move would be a "back

door" to a united Ireland. Launching the party's manifesto,

Mr Swann said special status would weaken Northern Ireland's

place in the union. He also dismissed nationalist calls

for a border poll as "nonsense". I nor my party will tolerate any

attempt to undermine the principle of consent. There can be no border

in the middle of the Irish Sea. There can be no passport checks for

citizens of Northern Ireland arriving. All of our energy should

be focused instead on the Brexit negotiations and getting the best

for our people. England are taking on Bangladesh

at the Oval, in the opening match of the Champions Trophy

one-day international tournament. After winning the toss England put

Bangladesh into bat. Here's Patrick Gearey

with the latest. Getting into big sporting

events is, by necessity, Well, England actually hosted

the first international one-day tournament back in 1975,

and this is their 19th attempt But there's enough buzz

about this side that maybe, But Bangladesh ended

England's last attempt at the Cricket World Cup just

two years ago. If anyone needed a reminder of that,

they'll fill you in. Eventually, England found

a cure for the flashbacks, Not long after Bangladesh lost that

wicket, England lost a bowler - More work for those who remained,

so Liam Plunkett had reason to thank Mark Wood for going out of his way

to help rather spectacularly. For the most part, England's

fielders spent their time chasing, and sometimes even

that was pointless, once This is where captains

earn their money. The challenge, to dismantle the

platform Bangladesh were building. But nobody said it would be easy,

or particularly friendly. Patrick Gearey, BBC

News, at the Oval. The actor Roy Barraclough has

died, at the age of 81. He was best known for playing

the Rovers Return landlord Alec Gilroy in Coronation Street -

and for performing Our arts correspondent David Sillito

looks back at his life. I will have it seemed to. Roy

Barraclough was Alec Gilroy for more than 30 years, the tightfisted

theatrical agent. Elizabeth and Alexander... And running Britain's

best-known northern pub, the Rovers Return. Alec was good at looking

after the pennies and a bit short on romance. Go on, kiss me. Julie

Goodyear who played his wife said she was devastated, she treasured

the lives they shared, they were, she said, just like a married

couple. I can't take you anywhere. I nearly had a flush. His other

long-running TV role was another on-screen double act in which he

played Cissie, the slightly more refined friend of Les Dawson's Ada.

New Guinea, New Jersey, New York, New Zealand, where do you want to

go, Chuck? New Brighton! He left Coronation Street in the late 90s

but continued to act, here in Last In Halifax. Delhi Verran of but I'm

with Ali, disappointed. Only last year as Mr Granger in a

one-off return of Are You Being Served? . Mr Granger, are you free?

Not at the moment, Captain Peacock, but I've just heard there's and

under 21s Italian football team on the ground floor, so I'm just

rearranging my underwear. LAUGHTER

Roy Barraclough will be remembered best for his many years on

Coronation Street. He brought many laughs and even Alec Gilroy had his

heartfelt moments. I love you, Rita. Alec... And I want you to marry me.

I know I have no right for you to feel the same especially after what

was said tonight. After all, I'm just elderly man with any good years

left in him long since gone. The actor Roy Barraclough,

who's died at the age of 81. Let's turn our attention to the

weather now at Tomasz Schafernaker. The weather has turned across

north-western parts of the UK, the great sky behind me is coming in

from our weather watcher in the Highlands in Nairn. Gloomy skies on

and off through the day and there is rain around. The weather is not so

bad across Wales, some sunshine here, a bit hazy, though, the best

of the weather clear blue skies in Essex. Today, the 1st of June, marks

the first day of meteorological winter, we start sooner. The weather

front running in our direction, two things happening I mentioned

yesterday, fresher weather in the north-west but warmer air wafting in

from France and will continue to do so through the whole day. That means

that across most of England and Wales it is a very pleasant and warm

day. Temperatures get up to 25 or 26, two hot for some. Fine weather

across Yorkshire, 21 degrees, but look at Northern Ireland, south-west

Scotland, western Scotland, and it is only in the teens, outbreaks of

rain, bit of a breeze there as well. Big contrasts across the country

today. This weather front will move sluggishly through this evening. By

the time we get to Friday morning it is only just nibbling on western

parts of Wales and just about nudging into the Lake District. The

bulk of England is dry and warm, 15, 16 degrees this coming night.

Finally the weather front makes a move, shimmy and further towards the

east and fresher air comes in behind but ahead of it still the warm air

wafting in from France meaning temperatures could get up to about

26 or 27. You saw some flashes of lightning, so they could be storms

around across the south-east and East Anglia and they may rumble on

into the evening as well. That corner here feeling more stormy and

humid. The rest of us will be in the fresher at Atlantic air force as we

head into the weekend, here is Saturday, the low pressure pretty

much stays where it is in the North Atlantic, but what it is doing is it

is pushing weather fronts ever so further towards the East. That means

by the time we get to Saturday we are all in this oceanic air mass,

fresh conditions, quite a few showers and maybe the odd crack of

thunder across north-western parts of the country and a similar day on

Sunday, spot the difference. The best of the weather probably eastern

and south-eastern areas during the weekend. Let's summarise this. Your

plans for the weekend: fresher breeze, some sunshine certainly, the

weather will probably look like this picture behind me. Back to you.

Thank you, Tomasz Schafernaker. A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime. Present tramp comes under increasing

international pressure as he prepares whether to pull the US out

of the Paris global climate change deal.

That's all from the BBC News at One, so it's goodbye from me -