12/06/2017 BBC News at One

Back to business in Westminster - but it's not business as usual.

The BBC understands next week's Queen's Speech will now be delayed.

The formal opening of the new parliament, when the Government's

legislative programme is announced, is expected to be put back by a few

days. After losing her Parliamentary majority on Friday, Theresa May

faces tough questions today when she meets with Tory backbenchers.

Brexit talks are due to begin next week, but Scotland's First minister

calls for a pause to allow a new four-nation

Business leaders warn of a drop in confidence

following the election result - saying political uncertainty

We will have the latest from Westminster. More than 100

protesters arrested across Russia as they defy authorities by taking to

the streets. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny is

among them A lucky escape for passengers on

this China Eastern Airlines plane - it makes an emergency landing

with a large hole in And the new French president -

his fledgling party looks set for a landslide

in the parliamentary elections. And coming up in the

sport on BBC News: As England's under-20s

celebrate their World Cup win, their manager says it's too soon

to predict they'll be Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One. The Queen's Speech next Monday

is now expected to be delayed by a few days -

following the turmoil caused Theresa May is insisting it's back

to business in Westminster, despite losing her majority

at last week's election. The Prime Minister is expected

to face tough questions from her backbenchers this afternoon

about her leadership style. She's also expected

to be pressed for more details of a possible pact

with Northern Ireland's Our political correspondent Chris

Mason reports from Westminster. One after another this morning, the

question for Cabinet ministers was this... Is Theresa May's time up?

One after another, her senior ministers rallied to her side.

Theresa May will continue as an excellent Prime Minister. First the

Home Secretary then the Brexit secretary said leadership talk

was... The height of self-indulgence. The British people

have given us an instruction, a result we wouldn't have chosen

ourselves but they have given us an instruction and it is our job to get

on with the work of Government, to organise arrangements so we can do

business with the House of Commons and run the country. She is very

good at that. And the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said it was

time to get a grip. This afternoon, Mrs May will meet Conservative MPs

to explain herself. I think it is a very good sign of Theresa May

recognising the importance of cohesion in the party, the

importance of us all working together, if we are going to make

Government work in these rather difficult circumstances. I don't

think there's any appetite in the country for a new general election

and I don't think there is any demand amongst my colleagues for a

leadership election either. Theresa May wanted to return here with a

majority that proved she could be the dominating political figure of

her age. Instead, she is diminished, bruised and weakened. She called the

election with the explicit intention of turbo-charging her authority.

Instead, it is acting as a wheel clamp on her future. And so, after a

turbulent few years, Labour Arab League. We are just going to make

sure we hold their feet to the fire. So where we can, for example, on the

Queen's Speech, we will be trying to ensure we hold them to account,

where there are things we profoundly disagree with them on, where we

think we will be able to defeat them, we will put out amendments and

do our best to keep harrying them. The Queen's Speech, whether

Government sets out its programme, was due to happen next Monday but we

understand will now be delayed by a few days. Like never before, Theresa

May will be reliant on others to prop her up. The votes of Northern

Ireland's Democratic Unionist in the Commons and the support of ambitious

colleagues like Boris Johnson. Politics, with its twists and turns

has left us again with its capacity to leave us

all out of breath. Norman Smith is in Westminster. The

Queen's Speech doesn't have to be nine days after an election but how

significant is this delay? Well, I can't recall a time in recent

history when the Queen's Speech has been delayed in this way. It's

usually pretty much set in stone in the Royal diary, come what may. What

it tells us, I think, is the real difficulties the Government is

having in nailing down this deal with the DUP, because there is a

fear that without it, if a Queen's Speech was presented, there is a

danger that could be voted down and that would be tantamount to a vote

of no confidence and we would be into a general election. The signs

are getting that agreement with the DUP is proving much harder than Mrs

May thought, in part because of a reaction against some of the DUP's

positions on social policy around marriage, gay rights, abortion, but

above all, I think, because of concern about the possible impact on

politics in Northern Ireland and whether being in alliance with the

DUP will mean Sinn Fein will be unwilling to go into any

power-sharing agreement. It also suggests that ministers are

pondering what on earth to put in their legislative agenda in the

Queen's Speech because we know key manifesto commitments are going to

have to be dropped. And it is also being suggested that because the

Queen's Speech has to be written on vellum, which is goat skin, there

simply isn't the time to put it on goat skin, hang the goat skin out

for a week to be dry on time for the Queen to read it and all this at a

time when we know the whole debate about Brexit is being reopened,

there are questions about whether Mrs May can survive as Prime

Minister, and you just sounds that huge waves of uncertainty are

coursing across the country and crashing down on Westminster. Norman

Smith in Westminster, thank you. The Brexit secretary, David Davis,

has insisted that talks on leaving the European Union will begin next

week - though not necessarily on Monday as planned,

because it's the day of the Queen's Speech

at Westminster. It comes as MEPs and European

commissioners head for meetings at the EU Parliament in Strasbourg

to discuss the way forward. This report from our political

correspondent contains some flash photography.

The vote to leave the EU almost a year ago, but the debate on exactly

how we accept, the terms and the priorities, has been reopened just

days before Brexit negotiations begin. Some Tory MPs are demanding

Theresa May has a rethink. And in Scotland, where the Conservatives

had their best election result for more than 30 years, are promising to

pile on the pressure. We will be looking to make sure that our

influence is felt. We played a significant part in ensuring there

is a Conservative majority Government after this general

election, with a fantastic result in Scotland, winning all those seats,

getting the second in the popular vote and putting our vote up so

significantly. And manifesto to see us through Brexit and beyond.

Theresa May had wanted a much bigger mandate from voters for her vision

of Brexit, to take Britain out of the single market, have control over

EU migration to the UK and to get new free-trade deals with the EU and

other countries. But left without a majority, she is facing calls for

compromise. This isn't new. Just before Christmas, the Scottish

Government put together a pan UK compromise document, to put

independence to one side, to look at the document, remaining members of

the single market. That is what we need to get behind. It is perfectly

possible to stay within the single market, to keep the benefits of that

and it is possible to have a degree of management of migration,

countries like Switzerland do it, so that is the kind of compromise you

should be looking at. Buoyed by their relative success, Labour stand

in a rare moment of unity and are adding to Mrs May's problems. For

her to get through any legislation relating to Brexit, never mind the

macro vote on the deal, she will need a degree of cross-party

support, simply getting the DUP support is not enough. But the

Government maintains its Brexit strategy has not changed and is

sticking to its tactics, insisting no deal is still better than a bad

deal. You have got to plan for that, even if you don't intend it. It is

not the central aim, it is simply what we will go for if it doesn't

work out. And that doesn't change. What we will be doing, of course, as

I have said through the last ten months, is listening to all the

contributors and say if you have better ideas, tell me and we will

consider them. For many Britons, Brexit was about taking back control

but now it is Mrs May who has been left without the control.

Nevertheless, those around her are holding their nerve, insisting it

will go ahead as planned. Theresa May might still be in power, but she

is no longer pulling the strings. All the while, Brussels is waiting

to negotiate and the two-year clock is ticking.

Our Europe Correspondent Kevin Connolly is in Brussels.

So what are they expecting in Brussels, that these talks begin

next Monday? I'm not sure they know what they are expecting themselves

as the honest truth. I would say Monday, or around Monday, because it

is now pretty clear that there is a degree of slippage in the British

political timetable and, of course, that is very likely to have knock-on

effects for the process that Britain is intimately involved in, those

Brexit talks. So what you will hear, if you ask European officials, which

of course we do all the time, what exactly is happening is they will

simply say, look, we are ready, we are waiting, we are well prepared on

our side and the implication is that all this chaos on the other side,

they don't really know what is going on, they don't really have

ideological favourites in British politics, although they are a bit

warmer towards those parties that are warm towards the European Union.

What they wanted from the British election I think more than anything

else was clarity and certainty and there is a feeling they have got

neither and they aren't going to get either of those things for the

foreseeable future from London, so in the meantime, at least, basic

preparations are now starting. Very senior official for the Department

for exit in the EU is here in Brussels today from London. He is

not talking to us, I should say, but he is talking to officials in the

European Commission. That is going to be the basic stuff, how many days

a month they will be in talks, who will be in the room, how much will

be published about what is said in those talks, those basic things are

important, they can be sorted out at the moment. Frankly, there is very

little clarity about what else can be done in the coming weeks and

months. Kevin Connelly, thank you. Business leaders are

warning of a dramatic drop in confidence following

the general election result. A poll of 700 members

of the Institute of Directors suggests there's concern

that the political uncertainty But the organisation

says there's no desire Here's our economics

correspondent Andy Verity. No industry needs to know more

urgently than the car industry what Brexit will mean, in detail. 80% of

the cars here at Aston Martin's headquarters in Warwickshire sold

abroad. Without free-trade, tariffs could be imposed, boosting the price

of cars that go to Europe and making them less competitive. Aston Martin

had hoped the election would bring greater certainty about Brexit.

Instead, it brought the opposite. That's naturally creates a degree of

stress for us, a degree of worry. If you think about the typical car, a

typical car requires about $1 billion of investment to create a

car of this nature and you are making a ten year bet. When you are

making those big dollar bets, doing it in an environment when you don't

know next week whether or not trade barriers will exist or not just

makes the whole thing more stressful. Before the election, 700

directors were asked if they were optimistic or pessimistic about the

economy. 37% were pessimistic. But today, a majority, 57%, were

pessimistic. Uncertainty has gone right up the Richter scale and that

does matter, it matters for all of us, because it makes companies put

the pause button on investment and investment today is jobs in the

future. Uncertainty can have a deep economic effect. If businesses don't

have the clarity and the confidence they need to inch backlit invest

large sums in technology and training, productivity, the amount

we produced per person, doesn't improve and without those

improvements, employers can't afford to pay as inflation beating pay

rises. Businesses can also no longer count on the supply of Labour,

skilled or unskilled, to be as free-flowing as it has been. They

are by no means ready for the change. The onus should be on the

Government not just wait for the Brexit conclusions back of the late

negotiations to conclude that are set out where they want to get on

migrations, where they will rely on things like temporary workers to

keep migrants coming into those sectors and which won't, because the

ones that won't be able to need to be investing now in training other

staff, paying more to recruit British workers or investing in

machines. The Brexit uncertainty is already having an affect on one

industry which relies on skilled workers from abroad, health. A

number of nurses registered to work in the UK is then 90% on a year ago.

It is not just work is already here but also those thinking of coming

who can't know what the future holds.

Theresa May is due to meet the DUP leader Arlene Foster

tomorrow, as talks continue between the two parties.

A spokesman for the Prime Minister says the talks aim to work

towards "a stable government", and it's clear the two parties

The leader of Sinn Fein Gerry Adams said any deal between the DUP and

the Conservative Party cannot be a good thing.

Let's go live now to Stormont and our Ireland

It is clear this new relationship is causing concern across the political

spectrum? That is right. The DUP find themselves in a position few

expected. They are involved in two sets of negotiations. One T-shirt up

the government at Westminster and the other tissue up the government

-- the Assembly at Stormont. Today, the British and Irish Dortmunds and

the five main parties in Northern Ireland are resuming discussions

after the break for the general election campaign. The question

being asked is, how will negotiations in London and affect

negotiations here? Gerry Adams has given a news conference. He is not

at all happy at the prospect of a deal between the Conservatives and

the DUP. We don't believe that any deal between the DUP here and the

English Tories would be good for the people here. And any deal which

undercuts in any with the process here, or the Good Friday agreement

or other agreements, is one that has to be opposed by progressives. One

of the main issues for Sinn Fein is that they would save the

Conservatives hedge their Westminster wagons to the DUP, it

proves that James Brokenshire can't act as an impartial broker in the

Stormont talks. Mr Brogan shura says he doesn't see the need for an

independent chair. The 22nd of June is the final deadline for a deal to

bring back power-sharing. If that doesn't happen, Westminster will

take over running Northern Ireland, what is known as direct rule.

Politicians are back behind the talks table today. But they will be

thinking about events on the other side of the Irish Sea. Chris Page,

thank you. One of the biggest surprises

of Theresa May's post-election reshuffle was the appointment

of Michael Gove as It's just under a year

since Mrs May sacked the former Justice Secretary -

and her rival for the Conservative Mr Gove has referred

to himself as a "shy Green" But campaigners say that's at odds

with his record of opposing measures to combat climate change,

as our environment analyst The Highlands of Scotland, Michael

Gove has sunk their praises. He has called himself a shy grin.

Conservatives, he said, intend -- tend instinctively towards

conservation. That instinct was tested in his own constituency. He

said the EU's strict laws protecting places like this had forced up the

cost of housing, so those laws should be relaxed. Environmentalists

oppose his appointment. This is a really concerning appointment for

young people. Michael Gove tried to take climate change out of the

national curriculum for schools. Young people are really concerned

about the environment. If this is an attempt to engage with the youth

vote, it is a bad start. It was over climate change Mr Gove most enraged

environmentalists, not just by 20 Y bit off the geography curriculum,

but by trying to prevent a colleague from attending climate change talks.

He has voted against amendments to reduce emissions. Yet within weeks

he will have to deliver a clean air strategy. It is a tremendous

opportunity to do a job at the heart of government which will ensure we

enhance one of our greatest assets, our countryside. I want to do

everything I can to make sure we pass on the environment in a

stronger condition to the next generation. He will face formidable

challenges over the countryside and farming as the UK withdraws from the

EU. Farmers are hopeful. He is a big hitter. I am looking to Michael to

champion British food and British farming. We have got the Brexit

negotiations. The farming industry have got the most to lose through a

bad deal. Michael Gove faces the unenviable task of negotiating

Britain's countryside, wildlife and farming, through the thicket of

Brexit. He seems to be doing it facing two directions at the same

time. On the one hand, in favour of conserving nature, on the other

against laws which do exactly that. It will be an interesting path

ahead. Roger Harradine, BBC News. And tonight on BBC One at 8:30pm,

you can see a Panorama special. The BBC understands next week's

Queen's speech will now be delayed, following Theresa May's failure

to win a parliamentary The Brexit secretary insists talks

on leaving the European Union will still start next week as planned.

Coming up in sport, a reprieve for Leyton Orient -

a winding-up petition has been dismissed at the High Court,

as the owner, Francesco Becchetti, pays off some of his debts.

More than 200 people have reportedly been

arrested across Russia, as protestors defy the authorities

by holding a demonstration against corruption.

It's been organised by the leading Russian opposition figure,

Alexei Navalny, who has called on protestors to attend

Latest reports say pepper spray is being used against protestors. We

will be live in Moscow in a moment. In Vladivostok they came to protest

against what they believe is government corruption. But soon

there were scuffles and clashes with the security services. And

protestors fleeing, fearing arrest. The leading anti-corruption

campaigner, Alexei Navalny, was detained by police at his home in

Moscow this morning. The authorities say his detention is due to breaking

rules around the organisation of rallies and for disobeying the

instructions of a police officer. Alexei Navalny has become the face

of the anti-corruption campaign in Russia. Harnessing the anger of

young activists on social media, streaming protest online. He served

a 15 day jail term after being detained at a rally in March. But

that has just energised the campaign of a man who says he will run for

president next year. Alexei Navalny was due to be at a rally in Moscow

today. It is one of a number of demonstrations across Russia.

Instead of addressing the crowds with his accusations of corruption

in the Putin government, he is instead in a Moscow police station.

But hundreds of people supporting his call for change have continued

to protest without him. Danny Araf, BBC News. As Mike Daniela Ralph.

Let's go live now to Moscow and our correspondent Sarah Rainsford.

It sounds like tensions are rising in Moscow? Well certainly there are

huge numbers of protestors pouring into central Moscow. There have been

large numbers of riot police as well in the last hour or so. We have

heard a lot of shouts from just behind me, the beginning of the main

street down to the Kremlin. There are hundreds of thousands of people

who have been trying to walk down the Main Street and express their

protest, to voice their anger and their frustration at the corruption

here in Russia, and that the government and the authorities.

There has been a lot of people arrested. We have seen several

ourselves. The reporter of dozens of people being detained by police. We

saw one truck taking people wait a moment ago. You can see more police

coming in now. Certainly by bringing protestors onto the streets in the

centre of Moscow, Alexei Navalny did set the scene for this

confrontation, because this is not an authorised protest. He was given

permission to hold a rally elsewhere. He said conditions were

not right and he called people into the centre of Moscow instead. He was

detained as he tried to leave his house. People say that doesn't

matter. They say they wanted to come out to voice their protest and call

for a better Russia, a different Russia, and to stand up against

corruption. Sarah Rainsford, thank you.

Police in Manchester have arrested a 31-year-old woman

on suspicion of murder, after a man was hit by a tram

The incident, at Victoria Station, happened yesterday evening.

An investigation has begun into an incident that forced

a Chinese plane to make an emergency landing in Sydney, with a large hole

Passengers on board the China Eastern Airlines flight,

bound for Shanghai, described a burning smell and a loud noise

The Airbus A330 managed to land safely and there were no

reports of injuries, as Richard Galpin reports.

The plane which was due to fly to Shanghai, back down on the tarmac at

Sydney airport after a major emergency. And this was the problem.

Part of the lest engine -- left engine ripped away, leaving a gaping

hole. For the passengers, everything had been normal until suddenly about

an hour into the flight, it became clear there was a major problem. It

took off as normal and then all of a sudden some of our friends smelt

burning. I didn't think anything of it really but all of a sudden it got

really loud. I heard a noise and I'm not sure what is the noise, but the

cabin crew went out and they were very light, they told us too fast in

our seat belts and tried to calm us down. But we were actually very

panicked because we had no idea what was happening. It was a little

shocking. I couldn't tell what it was a first and then I realised

there was a hole in the engine. What could have caused such serious

damage to the engine? The plane is an Airbus 330 like this one. It has

Rolls-Royce engines and the company says it will help with the

investigation, which is likely to look at all potential factors,

including maintenance records and whether some kind of object got

inside the engine. And meanwhile, there are reports that this kind of

engine damage on the China Eastern Airlines plane has also occurred on

other aircraft. Richard Galpin, BBC News.

Nearly five months after President Trump took office,

his wife, Melania, and son Barron have moved into the White House.

They had stayed behind in New York, so that 11-year-old Barron

Mrs Trump said she was "looking forward to the memories" she'd

Emanuel Macron's political party was only established a year ago,

and many of its candidates have little or no political experience.

Yet the new French President's party - La Republique En Marche -

looks on course to win a landslide victory following the first

The final outcome will be decided in the second

Let's speak to our Paris Correspondent, Hugh Schofield.

Yes, it looks like Emmanuel Macron has done the double. Having won the

presidential election in five weeks ago, becoming the youngest ever

French president, he has now pulled off this second clue. If the results

are borne out next weekend, he will have a party with as many as 450

seats in the 500 and 70 set -- in the Assembly. That is coming from

nothing. An extraordinary achievement which will rewrite the

face of French politics. What it means is that he will first of all

be able to see through his programme of reforms unimpeded by having to

make deals inside the National Assembly. That is very important for

the French economy. It also means that we have now in France a man who

is emblazoned with this aura of optimism and confidence. Everything

he has touched so far has turned to gold. Contrast that with Theresa

May, who years meeting here tomorrow, by the way, a woman who

called the election last week and had a rather different outcome.

Thank you. While we've been on air,

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been addressing her SNP

members of parliament in Westminster for the first

time since the election. She is calling for a pause

in the Brexit negotiations, to allow for a cross-party approach

for the whole of the UK. Vicki Young is at Parliament

Square in Westminster. What does she have to say? Nicola

Sturgeon was here with her 35 newly elected SNP MPs. They did lose more

than 20 seats. But she is still hoping as the third party at

Westminster they will have real influence. She was very critical of

Theresa May, saying there were real doubts about whether the Prime

Minister could get together a functioning comment. Nicola Sturgeon

also very concerned about any kind of backroom stitch up with the DUP.

I spoke to a couple of moments ago and this is what he said about the

kind of influence she wants her party to have, particularly when it

to Brexit. The approach the government was

taking too hard Brexit is dead in the water and cannot stand. I am

calling today for a process that is open up to include more voices, all

parties and all four nations of the UK, an approach that has continued

membership of the single market at its heart. The Prime Minister has to

recognise she asked for a strengthened mandate for a hard

Brexit and voters refused to give that. She cannot sing the carry on

though nothing has changed. Her argument is that the UK or Scotland

at least should stay in the single market. She once the emphasis to be

on the Okonomiyaki on jobs rather than cutting immigration. She thinks

all four nations should be involved. Whether that is Labour or those

conservatives who feel the same as she does. Vicky Young, thank you.

Time for the weather with Ben Roach. Divided fortunes in our weather this

week. It is never as simple as drawing a line on the map and saying

one place will get one thing and another something different. The

boundary will be blurred. Northern and western areas will see rain at

times, it will be breezy further south and east. There will be some

sunshine and at times it will be pretty humid. High pressure to the

south is bringing the largely dry conditions in southern areas.

Towards the north and west, the threat of rain. We do have something

of a split today. Generally a lot of clout across the country. Towards

the south-east, some good sunny spells. Some showers across

Scotland. And across northern areas of the country, Northern Ireland,

Scotland and northern England, it is pretty blustery. Maybe the odd

shower in northern England. Mostly dry through the afternoon. As we

come in to South Wales, south-western England, the Midlands,

East Anglia and the south-east, the cloud beginning to break up.

Temperatures still at 20 or 21 degrees in the south-east. This

evening and overnight we will seek cloud thickening up. One frontal

system will spill into Northern Ireland and northern Scotland.

Further east and further south, largely dry with clear spells.

Particularly the countryside, where it is chilly. Northern Ireland,

Scotland, northern England and North Wales a lot of clout tomorrow. There

could be the odd heavy shower in north-east Scotland. Further south,

dry weather, sunshine. The best of that close to the coastline.

Temperatures creeping up. For the middle part of the week, this low

pressure will try to squash its way in. But it runs into high pressure.

That will force this warm air up from the south, quite humid air.

That will waft its way in many southern areas. Split fortunes on

Wednesday. Strong sunshine on Sunday -- in the south. Patchy rain for

Northern Ireland and western Scotland. A contrast in

temperatures. Maybe 27 degrees in the south-east. Cooler and fresher

to the north-west. It is in the humid air on Wednesday night into

Thursday that we could see some thunderstorms clipping into South

eastern areas. Into Thursday, a band of rain pushes in, introducing

cooler, fresher conditions. The end of the week still brings some

contrast. The North seeing affirmative cloud. Some outbreaks of

patchy rain. Further south, cool and fresher. Temperatures still in the

20s. Plenty of dry weather and some sunshine. Divided fortunes.

A reminder of our main story. It is back to business in Westminster but

it is not business as usual after the election result. The BBC

understands that the Queen 's speech will now be delayed following

Theresa May's failure to win a parliamentary majority. But it is

not expected to be delayed for more than seven days.