11/07/2017 BBC News at One

The way we work - a major review looks at

worker's rights, the gig economy, and cash-in-hand working.

The report says workers need better protection and employers should

The Prime Minister puts the recommendations at the heart

Good work and plentiful work can and should go together.

The quantity of jobs remains vital but quality matters, too.

We'll have the latest on the proposals.

The Prime Minister orders an inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal

in which nearly 2,500 people died in the 1970s and 80s.

The New York Times says it has evidence that President Trump's team

knew the Russian government was involved

in the US Presidential election last year.

Funding for contraception in some of the world's poorest countries.

Bill and Melinda Gates pledge hundreds of millions of pounds,

Today, one in five girls in the developing world

under the age of 18 die, because of a pregnancy.

So we know this is one of the most important things we can do.

And, Britain's Johanna Konta will be on Centre Court later today,

in her attempt to make it to the Wimbledon semi-finals.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News:

Kyle Sinckler has apologised after being arrested on a night out

in Auckland following the Lions drawn series with New Zealand.

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

The author of a government review into working practices says

he'd like to see an end to the cash-in-hand economy.

Matthew Taylor, who's a former adviser to Tony Blair,

said cash jobs such as window cleaning and decorating are worth up

to ?6 billion a year, much of it untaxed.

His reports recommends that people in the gig economy should

have better protections, and that their employers should pay

National Insurance contributions, but doesn't say zero hours contracts

More details from our Economics Correspondent Andy Verity.

tackling exploitation at work, clarifying the law, and removing

distortions in the labour market created by the tax system, those are

the ambitious goals of the review of the world of work by the government.

Matthew Taylor says the economy has created a record quantity of jobs.

Too often, they are not good jobs. The bad work, insecure,

exploitative, controlling, is bad health and well-being, something

that generates cost of honourable he people, but also the wider society.

As the world of work changes, our factors is and laws must properly

reflect and accommodate those changes. Because good work is in the

interests of good business. These licensed cabs really are

self-employed, they own their cars and get work from anyone that books

them. What would change that, as if they were controlled and supervised

by a company? Report says, in that case, that company should pay

benefits, like sick pay and holiday pay, and pay national insurance, as

if they were employees. The report says an equal tax treatment creates

distortions. The government loses out on ?5.1 billion a year from

lower rates of national insurance paid on self-employed labour. By

2020, we will lose another 3.5 billion a year because people form

their own companies to avoid tax. So it calls for companies using

self-employed labour, who paid no national insurance, to pay more. The

government should look at new rights for this employer, like parental

leave. Some work isn't taxed at all, cash in hand, which deprives the

government and other taxpayers ?6 billion a year. Some cleaners,

decorators, or gardeners, are paid cash in hand. The others that aren't

evading tax are at a disadvantage, it is harder to compete on price.

Moving to electronic payments can tackle that. There is a huge black

market economy, where there are lots of crash transactions. Workers will

be going into people's homes on recommendation, but also we are up

against the new gig economy, which is digital platforms that link

customers to consumers, and also agencies, which I called grey

market, because they often subcontract and unregulated

workforce. That can keep costs down, because they don't have all of these

additional employment costs. The report says that workers like curry

is paid by the task, they have two proved they can come to be make a

fifth more than the minimum wage. Maggie took the courier firm that

she works for to caught. We have been fighting for two years, a bit

over two years to get to a point where we can access justice and make

things better for a whole new generation of people. And it seems

like they are rubber-stamping a lot of the awful operations that already

exist. The report has drawn a disappointed response from workplace

unions, who say it is not the Game Changers a hub for to end in

security at work. Less disappointed will be the Treasury, which if

recommendations are adopted stands to gain more from tax, so there is

less of a need to cut spending. With me is our Economics

Editor Kamal Ahmed. I suppose the big question is, is

anything actually going to change as a result of this? You are absolutely

right. Not many people would disagree with good work, it is like

disagreeing with apple pie. There are interesting ideas in the report,

which goes to the heart of how people work, not just in the gig

economy, not just zero-hour contracts, but generally, is your

work good work? Do you feel fulfilled in that work? I was at the

launch with the Prime Minister and Matthew Taylor, and I asked that

question, how can the Prime Minister, in a position where the

government doesn't have a majority, how can she drive through the

legislation on this issue to get these changes that Matthew Taylor

has recommended and Andy Verity was reporting on? That is the big issue.

We have had lots of reports that gather dust on long forgotten

Whitehall shelves, how do we make sure this isn't one of those? She

did this open armed approach, working with other parties to the

get this through Parliament. We will only know in the autumn when the

government does a specific was once, and what do labour and the Liberal

Democrats do? Do they agree to come together to push this through

Parliament or not? There is already disagreement, the TUC say they

haven't gone far enough. It is difficult to see how we can make

sure the good ideas in this report become reality. Thank you.

The Prime Minister has ordered an inquiry into the contaminated

blood scandal that left 2,400 people dead.

Those affected include many haemophiliacs who died

from hepatitis C and AIDS-related illnesses after receiving

contaminated blood products from the NHS in the 1970s and 1980s.

Our Health Editor Hugh Pym is in Westminster.

Remind us more about what happened and what has been announced today.

It has been called the worst disaster in the history of the NHS,

because these were patients treated, in the case of haemophiliacs, they

needed blood clotting products. These were imported from the United

States, and they came into the UK tainted with hepatitis C and HIV.

2400 patients, receiving treatment in good faith, contracted these

diseases and died. Thousands more were infected. It has been seen as a

burning injustice by the victims, and the families, and it has been

acknowledged now by ministers as an injustice. What happened is the

government is set, there is a debate in the Commons right now on the

subject, the history of contaminated blood, the government will confirm

details of a full enquiry, which will be UK wide. The interesting

thing is, we have already had an enquiry paid for by the victims, a

private enquiry headed by a judge, which covered largely England. There

has been an enquiry by a Scottish judge, Lord Penrose, reported just

over a year ago. But the victims have never felt, and the families,

have never felt that the enquiries got to the heart of the matter. Was

there a cover-up in Whitehall? There have been admissions of documents

going missing about who knew what when in the civil service. Senior

health officials, did they know the products were tainted and take no

action to stop it happening? That is the thing the enquiry will have to

get to the heart of, following a letter from opposition leaders to

the government early on Sunday to call for justice. Thank you.

The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has agreed

with a Conservative MP that the European Union can "go

whistle" for any final payment from the UK when it leaves.

Speaking in the House of Commons, he also said there was no plan

for what to do in the event that Britain fails to strike

Our Political Correspondent Chris Mason is in Westminster.

Using some colourful language here, Chris. Yes, indeed. Boris Johnson is

the chief diplomat as the Foreign Secretary, and we use to him using

colourful language on his poncho for dashing the odd splash for colourful

vocabulary around. If there was a diplomat's dictionary, there will be

plenty of words in there, but not the ones he decided to use in the

Commons in the last hour. The sums that I have seen

that they propose to demand from this country seem to me to be

extortionate, and I think "to go whistle" is

an entirely appropriate expression. There was no plan to no deal. You

may remember that the Prime Minister to the general election campaign

said that no deal was better than a bad deal when it came to the Brexit

negotiations. Boris Johnson offering an alternative perspective on that.

And disputing a suggestion from Labour that the Chancellor and the

first Secretary of State were the view that there could be a long

period after Brexit where the remained under the remit of the

European Court of Justice. Some interesting reflections there from

the Foreign Secretary. He also suggested that in the fullness of

time, as he put it, there will be a subtle nurse that descends on

negotiations to come. Not much subtlety from him today. Thank you.

President Trump's state visit to Britain is likely to be

He had accepted the Queen's invitation for a state visit

when Theresa May visited Washington in January.

But the president may have other issues on his mind,

a US newspaper says it has evidence that Donald Trump's election team

knew the Russian government was trying to help him

The New York Times says his eldest son was told that a Russian lawyer

he met during the campaign was acting on behalf

of President Putin. Wyre Davies reports.

The flamboyant British publicist, the Russian lawyer with reportedly

close links to the Kremlin, and the American

According to American media reports, all part of a Russian plan

to help Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign.

Rob Goldstone is the former tabloid journalist and globetrotting music

promoter with close links to Moscow, who also represents Russian

Agalarov is well-known to the Trump family.

His father brought the Miss Universe pageant to Russia in 2013,

and Donald Trump even appears in this video of his.

What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you, Emin?

According to Goldstone, it was Agalarov who asked him

to broker the meeting between Donald Trump Jr

Trump Jr sarcastically made light of the fact he might be

offered compromising information about Hillary Clinton

at the meeting, saying he was obviously the first person

in the campaign to ever hear information about an opponent.

But the New York Times is now reporting he was told before

the Trump Tower meeting that the Russian government

With Congressional committees and a special prosecutor investigating

possible collusion between the Trump team and the Russians,

the new details have been dismissed as much ado about nothing by lawyers

For the President's supporters, this is more evidence of an American

media establishment obsessed with Russia and trying

to consistently undermine his authority.

And as Donald Trump still tries to establish,

himself on the world stage, news that a controversial state

visit to Britain is now likely to be delayed until next year,

after concerns that a trip before then could be disruptive.

It's believed that more than 200 million women worldwide

who want family planning services still don't have them.

Today, a conference in London is aiming to improve access

to contraception for millions of women in the poorest countries.

Among the international donors involved are Bill and Melinda Gates,

who are pledging 290 million pounds of additional funding.

A patient having a consultation at an abortion clinic in Nepal. Nearly

half of all pregnancies in this country are run planned. And

worldwide, there is an estimated 82 million unintended pregnancies every

year. That's why today health ministers and global charities are

getting to get the at a summit in London to look at how they can get

more contraceptives to women and girls in the poorest countries. The

philanthropist co-hosting the conference believes special

attention needs to be given to teenagers. The biggest population of

adolescence we have ever had in the history of Europe is now coming to

the developed world. If we don't offer them contraceptives, you are

basically putting them into a life of destitute poverty, whereas if you

can offer a girl contraceptives, she will stay in school. She will tell

you, I want to stay in school, I don't want to have a baby until I am

ready. Earlier this year, Donald Trump announced controversial plans

to cut America's aid budget for family planning and plays tough

restrictions on how the remaining money gets used. Britain is one of

the countries worried about the impact of those changes. There are

many areas where we work with America. We will continue to work

with America. But obviously, this is an area where we are not seeing eye

to eye. We believe this is not an area where we can stand still,

because the human consequences are enormous, there are too many women

and girls, 214 million women and girls don't get access to modern

family planning measures. The UK is already the second biggest country

donor in family planning. Today, it is announced more money, ?225

million will be spent until 2022. The government hopes the money will

empower more women to have kids when they want. And to stay in education

and employment if they wish. A major review looks at workers'

rights, the gig economy, It says workers need better

protection and employers should Wake up and smell the coffee -

could an extra cup a day actually Johanna Konta will today

try to become the first British woman since 1978 to reach

the semi-finals of Wimbledon - she takes on Simona

Halep on Centre Court. Veterans who flew and worked on RAF

aircraft during the Second World War have been meeting Prince William

on his visit to the Battle Today is the flight's

60th Anniversary. Our correspondent Danny Savage

is at RAF Coningsby near Lincoln. Over the last six decades, the

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight has gathered together quite a

collection of aircraft. You can see them here at RAF Coningsby now,

there's a Lancaster, a couple of Spitfires and hurricanes as well,

and in the last hour or so they have been airborne, giving a display in

front of the Duke of Cambridge and veterans as well as part of a very

special display. For 60 years they RAF Cosford a special squadron of

preserved World War II planes. It remembers the veterans who flew in

these aircraft and those killed in action. I was a pilot and engineer,

in the front, so I took care of the engineering aspect of the aircraft,

yes. Would you still love to go up again? I would! Grab your parachute,

open the doors and dropout. This veteran is thrilled such a plane is

still flying. Great, it's a real memory. I actually flew Tiger moths,

and out of the planes I flew this is the best one. It has got character,

it was a joy. The Battle of Britain took place in the summer and autumn

of 1940, fought in the skies over southern England it was won by a

handful of RAF pilots. Such was the achievements of the RAF that in the

late 1950s, a small flight of Spitfires and hurricanes was formed

to preserve the memory of the service's finest hour. In later

years the ever popular Lancaster bomber was added to what had become

known as the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. Today Prince

William, the patron of the flight, came to RAF Coningsby to mark 60

years of displays by the vintage aircraft. The Prince, himself a

former RAF pilot, spent time talking to the veterans and this afternoon

will watch a display. Lovingly preserved flying machines that will

hopefully educate and inform for many more years yet. This

commemorate everybody who has lost their lives in service with a RAF

and in fact go further than that to our predecessor, so from 1914 to

today, everybody who has lost their lives in service with the RAF and

that has got to be important. The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is

described as a museum without Walls. It will be seen in the skies this

summer. It's priceless artefacts aim to inspire future generations and

remember those who gave their lives for freedom.

What's happening here this afternoon is they are lining the planes up so

the veterans can have their pictures taken in front of them, and the sad

reality is that every time this happens there are fewer veterans

here to come to these events so that's why it's so special for the

squadron and most people here today. Those events are expected to

continue throughout the afternoon and see many more planes flying.

New technology is helping people with dementia to stay

A scheme being trialled in the UK means people with the condition can

be monitored remotely by a team that can track physical activity,

John Maguire has been to find out how it works.

For Phil and June Bell, the home they've lived in for 30

years is very definitely where there hearts are.

They're trialling technology that should help June

She was diagnosed with dementia a year ago.

One of our aims has always been to stay as long

as we can within the home, our home.

And what the technology's done is enable us to do that.

Because we intend to die in our beds, so to speak!

You said it makes you feel safer, doesn't it.

Yeah, to think that somebody's out there, concerned about me,

and I think that's, you know, quite touching, really.

Various sensors in the house monitor June's movements and activity.

Phil also regularly checks her health,

blood pressure and oxygen levels, for example.

The information is then immediately sent to this clinical monitoring

team and staff here can combine June's medical and environmental

data to build up a fuller picture of her health.

You can look at some of the motion data here,

Also, we see how often she was in bed.

We can get some body temperature, and all the data,

suggest if she's becoming agitated or not, is there

Putting everything together could give us a good picture

There are currently 200 patients with mild or moderate

dementia on the trial, based in the Surrey

And they're looking for more volunteers.

A red stethoscope and an on-screen alert warns the team

They may then call the household, enlist help from medical teams,

or ask staff from the Alzheimer's Society to pay a visit.

The results of the trial, the first of its kind in the UK,

won't be known until next year, but early indicators are positive.

These gadgets are helping people stay longer in their homes,

safe and secure in the knowledge that help, if needed,

is just a phone call or a mouse click away.

We drink 55 million cups of coffee every day in this country,

but there is still confusion about the impact it

Two international studies released today suggests coffee drinkers have

longer life expectancy but others have urged caution,

saying there's no proof coffee drinking is good for you.

Our Health Correspondent Sophie Hutchinson reports.

It is estimated that more than 2 billion cups of coffee are drunk

each day around the world, but is it good for you? Today two studies

published in the journal claimed an association between drinking more

coffee and living longer. Sounds like good news? If these effects

were relieved you to the coffee and carried on throughout your life,

they would estimate that every extra cup a day would extend a man's life

by about three months and a woman's life by about one month. But the

larger of the two studies which examined data from half a million

Europeans excluded people who had had heart attacks, cancer and

diabetes, and both studies which lasted 16 years only asked people

once how much coffee they drank. Just because people who drink coffee

live longer, that doesn't mean it is the coffee that's causing it. There

may be other explanations like their income, physical activity, and the

studies try to take these things into account. So what do we know

about coffee? Some studies have linked it to heart risk factors such

as raised cholesterol, while others suggest it may offer some protection

for the heart, but there is no conclusive evidence either way.

Confused? Well, too much coffee is bad and pregnant women are advised

to limit their intake. Otherwise it seems drinking coffee is fine, but

so is abstaining. The British Grand Prix comes

to Silverstone this weekend, but could it be one of the last

at the historic track? Silverstone's owners are expected

to announce that they will activate a break clause in their contract,

that will cancel the British a break clause in their contract,

that will cancel the British Our Sports News Correspondent

Natalie Pirks is with me now. What is happening? It all boils down

to cash and they cannot seem to make the sums add up despite it being one

of the best attended races of the season. The hosting fee is so high,

70 million at the moment and rising, and to give you an idea this Sunday

even with a full house the owners can expect to make ?4 million loss

so clearly not viable, and it doesn't receive government support.

If they cannot renegotiate, we might lose it all together. There is no

alternative to Silverstone at the moment, that is why there is a

stand-off between them and Liberty media, the owners of F1, they have

told the BBC that priority is to find a solution with Silverstone.

But when we should be talking about Lewis Hamilton, with are talking

about maybe losing a British Grand Prix for the first time since 1950.

If you're backing the Brits at Wimbledon, today

is another big day as Johanna Konta continues her

attempt to become the first British woman to win the singles

She takes on the world number two, Simona Halep, on Centre Court

Our sports reporter David Ornstein is in SW19:

Renowned for her focus, now her form is coming to fruition.

And as the racket went up, for just one moment,

her guard came down as Johanna Konta continued her Wimbledon charge.

It's those positions, those situations that you...

That I dream of... when I was a little girl and even

now to be a part of those battles on big stages.

So I think that's really what it's about to be a

Before this year, Konta had only managed

to win one match in five visits to Wimbledon, but victory today

would take her a step closer to the ultimate aim -

becoming the first British woman to win the singles

Johanna Konta into sporting superstardom.

Expectations are, of course, high this year and so far,

she is controlling her emotions in a very positive way.

I think it is a result of her mental hard work in the past.

Konta's journey actually began in Australia where she was

born to Hungarian parents before moving to the UK, aged 14.

There was one time I came in from the courts

outside, I think it was freezing cold, I think she had six layers

on, outside on an artificial clay-court and her enthusiasm and

hard work, I just thought it was great.

And I came in and said to her father, I said, "This is top 5%

Konta is now turning that potential into reality.

Three more wins and her dreams will come true.

And David joins us live from Wimbledon now.

Such an exciting day, David. The weather has taken a turn for the

worse, but fortunately Centre Court has a roof so Johanna Konta will

play, and delighted to be joined by the last British woman to reach the

quarterfinals of Britain 33 years ago, what will Johanna Konta be

going through today? She will be so excited and a little bit nervous of

course because it is a very big match, but she is playing well. To

get to the quarterfinal of a grand slam you are playing well so you

have that confidence riding with you. How did you feel that day? What

was your recollection? When I walked on court I couldn't believe the roar

of the crowd and I started giggling. I was disappointed I didn't get

going in my first set but at the end of the match I was playing well and

I wanted it to keep going really. I think she will have a good match

today, it will be tough. She will be hoping to emulate you, how far can

she go? If she gets passed this match, she could win it because

she's in the mix of the eight left. Jane, we hope the weather clears up

but Johanna Konta will play regardless. OK, thank you.

Today will be the wettest day of this year's Wimbledon Championships,

and what a contrast we have had weather-wise compared with the sunny

skies we had yesterday. It was another warm day across south-east

England with the temperatures surging to 27 Celsius, the 80s in

Fahrenheit. Today it is a different story, good news for gardeners. For

those without a garden, it is probably not such exciting news is

that we will see this heavy rain. And it has already started to come

down pretty heavily across parts of southern Wales. It will move

eastwards as we go through the rest of the afternoon. A few showers at

the moment but we will see them merging into lengthy spells of rain

this afternoon. Staying wet across the Midlands, much of Wales and

south-west England to take us through the rest of the afternoon.

Cumbria and Northumberland just about missing out, staying dry in

Northern Ireland with sunny spells, and we will see sunshine and showers

in Scotland. It could be slightly slower moving because the winds are

not particularly strong. For the Wimbledon forecast, a few showers

for the next hour so on and frame, but later the rain will be set in.

Overnight tonight, this band of rain will be with us for most of the

night, perhaps poking back into Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire

before it becomes restricted to south-east England. Overnight these

are the temperatures in towns and cities, cooler than that in Scotland

and Northern Ireland in the countryside. Tomorrow we have this

band of rain to start the day, a soggy start in south-west England

but the rain pulls away and high pressure moving in so long spells of

sunshine across the country. It is not particularly humid at the moment

so in the sunshine it will feel pleasant with temperatures near the

average for the time of year. What about Friday on the weekend? Well,

it looks like we will see this area of high pressure still with us is go

into Thursday so another dry day with sunshine, and a few isolated

showers possible western areas and later in the day for western

Scotland where the wind will pick up. Looking at highs between 17 in

Glasgow to 24 in the London area. Through Friday on the weekend, there

should be a fair amount of dry weather although probably a spell of

rain to take us through Friday night. We should see the highs

pushing into the low 20s in London. Reminder of our main

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rights, the gig economy, It says workers need better

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