21/07/2017 BBC News at One

Two people are killed and more than 100 injured,

after a powerful earthquake off the Greek island of Kos.

The 6.8 magnitude quake struck last night.

More than 10,000 British holiday-makers are

Just dived on my son and the complete sense

I actually thought that was it, I really did.

Michael Gove says the Cabinet is agreed there should be a period

post-Brexit to allow British business access to the migrant

A man's admitted murdering his younger brother -

and attempted to murder his brother's girlfriend

At the start of the holiday season, air traffic controllers warn UK

skies are near capacity and the system needs modernising.

It's day two of the Open at Royal Birkdale, and Rory McIlroy

And coming up in sport: Chris Froome's nearly two hours

in to the longest stage of the Tour de France.

If he stays in yellow, there's just tomorrow's time trial

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

Two people have been killed, and more than 100 others injured,

after a powerful earthquake struck near the Greek island of Kos.

The 6.7 magnitude quake hit in the early hours of the morning

under the Aegean Sea, between Greece and Turkey.

Holiday-makers on Kos woke this morning to find parts

of the island turned to rubble, and there was also flooding

It's just after 1:30am in the morning, local time.

And holiday-makers who have been enjoying a night out are now

Security cameras captured the moment the powerful earthquake shook

Anyone inside at the time getting out as quickly as possible, fearing

But it was the nearby Greek island of Kos which was hardest hit.

There was significant damage in the main town.

Police say two tourists, one from Turkey and one

from Sweden were killed, when the roof of a

We were literally ripped from our sleep.

The bed shook uncontrollably, the room shook from side to side,

I actually thought that was it, I really did.

It was getting really, really loud and I thought

we were being attacked, but then bits of the walls

started falling off and our beds were shaking.

So we ran over to the door frame, to hide under it and it stopped,

and we heard everyone screaming in the hotel, running

Half-past one in the morning, we were woken by a tremendous

The fans were thrown around, the mirror came off.

It lasted approximately 10-15 seconds.

Myself and my wife and two children just got our stuff

as quick as we could, and as we were making our way out

All this at the peak of the tourist season.

Officials here say there are 200,000 holiday-makers on Kos at the moment.

With a series of strong after-shocks throughout the night,

many people in Bodrum and Kos decided they'd be much

And while many of the injured have been treated locally,

those badly hurt on Kos are being flown out

The Environment Secretary Michael Gove says the UK has to honour

-- will need continued access to workers from Europe. He said the

Cabinet was agreed on the need for an increment Asian period between

Britain formally leaving the EU under new trading relationship

coming into force. It's unclear if that would include continuing

freedom of movement for EU nationals. More from our Westminster

political correspondent, Chris Mason.

This week's Brexit negotiations concluded with an acceptance on both

side there's still a lot of work to do and the clock is ticking ever

closer to the UK's exit day in March 20 19. But the government wants a

transitional period after that, where the UK is out, but some

elements of EU membership remained. Could that include unlimited

immigration from the EU? The Prime Minister has made clear as we leave

the European Union we will have an implementation period which will

ensure we can continue to have not just access to Labour, but the

economic stability and certainty which business requests, and again,

that something around which the government and Cabinet are united.

The details, inevitably at this stage, are sketchy. The boss of the

bank Goldman Sachs says that means they are spending a lot on

contingency planning. If I knew today that we'd have a transition

period I could stop spending that money, taking out the assurance,

because I know I'd always have time to transition my business. If they

tell me in February of 2019 there will be a transition period, will --

well, I've already spent that money, it's not much use to me. Business

and others want certainty but the only thing certain right now is the

opposite, uncertainty, because no one, either here at Westminster or

in Brussels knows for certain what if any deal will be reached and so

what a transitional arrangement might look like and how long it

might last. The newest party leader at Westminster said... It's

encouraging that some of the more sensible and pragmatic members of

the government are beginning to exert themselves and look for a

compromise, but it's still the case that within a few years British

people are going to lose their right to move freely around the continent.

Ukip, the party that achieved its stream in the referendum, says the

government would be cheating those who voted out. We are seeing Brexit

betrayed because EU doesn't want us to leave. It's delaying, impeding,

in the hope of overturning, and it is assisted by quislings in both

Houses of Parliament over there. Pleasing bit business, pleasing

Brexit rotors, trying to do a deal. The government's big task is only

just beginning. Chris Mason, BBC News, at Westminster.

Our political correspondent Iain Watson is in Westminster.

What does this tell us about the changing mood music within the

Cabinet? Lots of talk, soft Brexit, hard Brexit, clean Brexit, today,

the talk was of pragmatic Brexit, a phrase Michael Gove used, David

Davis used it as well. It was interesting, I asked Michael Gove

about Friedman -- freedom of movement. He had two opportunities

to say freedom of movement ends when we leave the EU in 2019, that it

wasn't going to be subjected transitional period, and he didn't

say that. He said migration would be determined by the needs of the

economy. What was also interesting was he insisted the whole Cabinet

was united on this idea of an implementation phase beyond Brexit,

in 2019 as well. So there has been changing mood music, suddenly

speaking to members of the Cabinet in the past few days, they believe

they have their leave colleagues on side for the transitional period,

but if the tectonic plates have shifted, the fault lines are over

how long that will last. Liam Fox says tee years, some say four years,

some say it would be a disaster if it lasted longer than the next

election. Thank you. Michael Gove was making

his first speech since returning to the Cabinet -

he also told environmental and countryside groups that Brexit

offered a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to reform Britain's

agriculture and fisheries. He announced farming subsidies

will in future be paid only to farmers who use their land

responsibly, by managing natural Our environment analyst

Roger Harrabin reports. The racehorse Frankel, owned by a

Saudi billionaire. He gets ?400,000 of EU money for his stud farm near

Newmarket. The Royals get more than ?0.5 million for the Sandringham

estate. The sums based on the amount of land you farm, basically, the

richer you are, the more you get. Mr Gove says that must change. The

leaving the EU gives us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to

reform how we manage agriculture and fisheries and therefore how we care

for our our rivers and seas. And we can recast our ambition for our

country's environment and for the planet. In short, leaving the

European Union should mean a green Brexit. That means payments for

owning land will be scrapped by Mr Gove. Subsidy will come instead for

protecting the soil and waterways, preventing flooding, and reducing

pollution from farm chemicals. Landowners have been braced for

reform. Farmers like me are both producers of food and

conservationists at the same time. You must remember that most farmers,

a small family owned businesses, hard-working, trying to produce food

for the nation but also trying to conserve a clean environment. The

key question will be how much of the total subsidy farmers retain when

reform happens. Mr Gove's speech stretches beyond farming. On

fisheries, he said the EU had allowed overfishing. The UK would

stick to tighter limits. On plastics, he said the 5p bag charge

had been a success, but he wanted to do more to cut plastic waste. On

animal welfare standards he said he wanted the UK to lead the rest of

the world in producing healthy food. Gove has been saying positive things

on the environment, re-purpose think the agricultural policy so the

environment is at the heart of that. The devil is in the detail and we

looking forward to seeing actually how this is going to be done. Mr

Gove's next big test is on air pollution from cars and planes. Will

the government favour business, or will it put air quality and public

health first? We'll soon find out. Roger Harrabin, BBC News.

Air traffic controllers are warning that UK skies

are nearly at capacity, because of a record

It comes on what is one of the busiest days for controllers,

who are anticipating nearly 9000 flights, as many families

A record number of flights are expected in UK airspace over

Air traffic building over the UK as the sun rises on a typical summer's

day. Today, the skies will be even more congested, the busiest ever day

at the beginning of the busiest ever summer. New technologies being used

all the time to increase the capacity of our airspace. This is a

virtual control for London City Airport will stop computers can see

more than the human eye. National Air Traffic Services are expecting

more than 770,000 flights to cross our skies this summer. That's 40,000

more than last year. But by 2030, there would be a predicted 8000

flight cancellations unless something is done. The current

system was designed for the plains of the 1960s. Modern aircraft are

much more sophisticated and that means a new plan can be created. The

effectively three drawing the air networks we have and airspace, to

accommodate that future growth. But it can mean more direct route, it

can mean continuous descents into airports, continuous climbs out of

airports, so there's potentially environmentally benefit as well as

addressing issues around noise pollution through modernising our

airspace. This morning Transport Secretary Chris Grayling launched a

?1 billion programme to double the size of Manchester Airport's

terminal two. He also announced a consultation on the government's

aviation plans for the next 30 years. This is all about asking the

country, people who use aviation, the businesses that use aviation,

the aviation sector itself, how should government work with you in

the future, what should our approach to regulation be, and decisions we

take about the future of the sector, what should those look like? But not

everyone is convinced we should keep on increasing the number of flights.

It's a very small minority of people who take the overwhelming majority

of flights. We need a common-sense approach. We can't go on expanding

aviation indefinitely, so we need a levy which penalises those that are

taking plots flights multiple times a year but respects people who need

to take a family holiday. Everyone accepts our skies are reaching

saturation point. The question is what to do about it.

Government borrowing rose to almost ?7 billion last month,

That's according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.

Our business correspondent Jonty Bloom is here with the details.

Why has borrowing risen in this way? Borrowing is ?2 billion higher this

year than it was last year for the month of June. That's down to

several factors. As inflation goes up, so does the cost of financing

borrowing. The government has to find more in interest payments. The

government is spending a bit more and some tax receipts are down, so

corporation taxes coming in a bit lower than expected full stop on top

of all that, last year was a very good year. This year there aren't so

many one off factors that would bring in money. Lots of analysis for

all of those details I assume. In essence, what does it mean for

government finances? It means the government is borrowing more and the

Treasury are saying basically look at these figures, we don't have any

more cash. This is turning into a political debate, because the

Treasury are saying we haven't got room to be generous to public sector

workers or to weaken austerity. However, if you look at the figures

and a bit more detail the total for the year is expected to be ?58

billion worth of borrowing. Even with the figures this month the

government could get under that total, which means when it comes to

the Autumn Statement the Treasury and Chancellor could say, we do

actually have a little bit more money. We don't know yet but that is

what could happen. Thanks. A man has admitted murdering his

brother, and attempting to murder his brother's girlfriend,

by setting fire to their family home The court heard that

Blair Logan, who's 27, had a "hostile relationship"

with his younger brother Cameron. Catriona Renton reports

from Glasgow High Court. Mrs Blair Logan. For years, he had

not got on with his younger brother, Cameron. Today, he admitted he

murdered him. It was just after 7am on New Year's morning. The brothers'

mother Cathy was the -- woken by the family dog barking. She went down to

the living room where she heard screams and saw a man in dark

clothes throwing something. Her son, Blair Logan, had poured petrol over

his brother Cameron, who was sleeping with his girlfriend,

Rebecca Williams. She was injured. He died. The parents were treated

for smoke inhalation. An extensive search was carried out and appeals

made to the public. Blair Logan had been thinking about doing this for a

month and a half beforehand. He'd bought petrol, he'd looked at the

effects of severe burns on the Internet. He told police he'd wanted

to maim or cripple his brother, but he said it was not my intent to kill

him, but I did do it. Leaving court today, Rebecca Williams, seen here

in the red blouse, who sustained permanent injuries to her throat and

may never work again as a radio broadcaster. David and Cathy Logan

have now effectively lost both their sons. Catriona Renton, BBC News, at

the High Court in Glasgow. The parents of Charlie Gard have

begun the latest stage of their legal fight over treatment

for their terminally ill baby. Chris Gard and Connie Yates want

a High Court judge to rule that their 11-month-old son,

who suffers from a rare genetic condition, should be allowed

to undergo a therapy trial overseen by a specialist

in the United States. Our correspondent Laura Trant

is at the High Court. What did the court here today? We

have heard that Charlie Gard, who is 11 months old, has undergone further

scans this week. The results of one of those MRI scans are not

available. In this morning's procedural hearing, we heard from Mr

Justice Francis who referred to the words of great -- to work Great

Ormond Street Hospital for Charlie and other terminally ill children

and he urged protesters campaigners outside the hospital to respect the

needs and wishes of those children and their parents. He said that

Charlie's parents, Chris God and Connie Yates, could also give

further spoken evidence next week if they wished to and he said that an

American neurological specialist also give more evidence, but the

judge stressed he would also need to know what the new evidence was and

the difference that it would make to Charlie. He said that in a clinical

meeting that took place earlier this week, it amounted to evidence from

leading world experts who mainly came to agreement. There is a

further hearing on Monday, Mr Justice Francis is keen for a

judgment by Tuesday in the High Court in London. Back to you. Thank

you. Two people are killed and more

than 100 injured after a powerful earthquake off the Greek

island of Kos. And still to come:

Completing the treble. Britain's Hannah Cockroft

takes a third gold medal in front of a home crowd

at the World Para Coming up in sport: We'll

have the latest from the Open golf. It was all about the Americans

yesterday, but could the Brits be the best on day two at Royal

Birkdale? Tolls on the two bridges

over the Severn - between England and Wales -

will be scrapped for all vehicles A study commissioned

by the Welsh Government suggests the decision could boost the Welsh

economy by ?100 million, but there are also concerns the move

could lead to increased congestion. Here's our Wales

correspondent, Sian Lloyd. 25 million vehicles use

the two crossings over Charges - currently ?20 for lorries

and ?6.70 for cars - have been levied since the first

bridge opened 50 years ago. With the crossings returning

to public ownership next year, the UK Government announced this

morning that the tolls This haulage company

in Newport sends trucks Its Operations Manager welcomes

the news, but as a first step. Well, specifically,

it is a cost saving to us. We use the bridge probably ten,

12, 15 times a day. But we have to make sure

that the infrastructure to support the increase in traffic that we're

likely to see is in Just six months ago,

the UK Government had plans Just six months ago,

the UK Government had planned to reduce the tolls,

retaining funding to pay Well, that will come

from general taxation. Of course, we're going to work

with the Highways Agency, we'll work with the Welsh

Government, but ultimately, this is the UK taxpayer that's

looking after an important It's a strategic piece

of infrastructure that binds Wales Congestion and slow-moving traffic

costs businesses dearly. Infrastructure in South Wales

is currently under review. The UK Government has accused

ministers in Cardiff of dragging their feet over plans

for a new motorway. But it was only yesterday

that the UK Transport Secretary announced that rail electrification

from Cardiff to Swansea Removing these barriers

is designed to keep the Welsh economy moving forwards,

but there are concerns that without further

infrastructure changes, Sian Lloyd, BBC News,

on the Severn Crossing. More than 80,000 migrants have

landed in Italy so far this year - a 16% rise over the same

period last year. Over the last four years,

the country has received The government wants

to disperse them in towns James Reynolds has travelled

to Castell' Umberto, The Italian government's aim

is to scatter groups of migrants across the country,

in order to avoid migrants building up in ports here in Sicily and also

in other big cities. And that policy means

that these migrants have been sent right up here -

to the hills of Sicily - Around 50 of them arrived in this

village of Castell'Umberto The residents of this village -

around 3,000 people - didn't know that they were coming,

and they've been put up here. The trouble is, a few years ago,

this hotel was deemed unsafe And so the Mayor has gone to speak

to the central government and the Mayor said that this place

is simply not a home It's not safe and that the town

hasn't been properly prepared for their arrival,

and that there are simply So now the local authorities have

talked to the central government and there's been an agreement

that these people - many of them from West Africa -

will soon be taken out of here by bus to another town

somewhere here in Sicily, where possibly some of the same

problems will begin again. And it reveals that the Italian

government is simply trying to do whatever it can to stop people

accumulating in one place. But there are real problems when it

picks a place due to safety James Reynolds

reporting from Sicily. Palestinian worshippers and Israeli

police have clashed. Israel has banned men under 50

from entering the Old City of Jerusalem to attend Friday

prayers, amid rising There's a heavy police presence

in the area after Israel installed metal detectors at another holy

site, after two policemen Palestinians strongly object to the

new security measures. It's day two of the Open,

and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy has found some form,

moving up the leader board Our sports correspondent,

Andy Swiss, is at the Yes, welcome to Royal Birkdale. And

the wind is really starting to blow. Tricky conditions for the golfers

out there. But it has been a good morning for you McIlroy after a

terrible stop to his round yesterday, he is back in his -- he

is back in contention. It was bring a brolly day

at Birkdale, as fans arrived Tough for watching,

just imagine playing. Well, the man at the top

didn't seem to mind, as America's Matt Kuchar picked up

where he left off. Yesterday, Rory McIlroy

had one of the worst A trio of early birdies,

as he continued a quite A man who'd seemed down and out

suddenly just three off the lead. But the morning's most magical

moment belonged to Lee Westwood - some way behind the leaders,

but this will certainly help. For others, though, the worsening

conditions were taking their toll. World Number One Dustin Johnson

getting a close-up view He wasn't the only one

struggling with the wind. Charl Schwartzel's

ball being blown away. It will be some test this afternoon,

but for the fans at least, The latest is that three Americans

still sharing the lead, Matt Kuchar, Jordan Spieth and Brooks Koepka.

Rory McIlroy is still going nicely, just four shots Isil the pace, his

hopes very much alive. -- four shots from the pace. Thank you very much.

It was a triumphant evening for the British team

at the World Para Athletics Championships.

Georgie Hermitage stormed to victory in the T37 400-metre category,

setting a new world record in the process.

Her team mate, Hannah Cockroft, made history by taking her third

gold medal of the Championships, winning the T34 400 metres

They call her hurricanes and, and never has that name been more true.

Last night, in front of a home crowd, she stormed to victory in the

400 metres swing hurt health world title. Her third gold of the

championships. The rest of the field unable to get close, despite the

fact she was feeling a little under the weather. That is what makes a

champion when you know you are not quite at jewel best. At the moment,

I don't really feel like... Did not feel too confident I was going to do

it. I did not really think about what it would mean at the end, I

just went for it and I just wanted to make sure I got those ten World

Championships titles. Her first taste of glory was at the 2011

championships in Christchurch. But it was here at the London stadium

where she shot to fame, becoming double Paralympic champion in 2012,

and has since been unbeaten at every major championships. Leeds city

athletic clubs is where she has trained from an early age and thanks

to her success, it has become a hub for aspiring wheelchair racers.

Every time I speak to somebody, they are like, I watched Hannah and I

just want to try it. I was totally inspired by what she achieved. Would

not be inspired, really. Just a huge influence. I got influenced into the

sport and watching Hannah. Every single race she does, she goes

quicker. So it just proves that she is not at her potential yet. It

would be great to see what happens when she does actually pushed to the

fast as she can and is really where she can be. Such an influential and

unprecedented career, I just 24 years old, Hurrican Hannah shows no

signs of stopping. The state rooms of Buckingham

Palace are set to open This year, there's a special

exhibition dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales -

which includes rarely-seen personal belongings to commemorate the 20th

anniversary of her death. The other state rooms will display

more than 200 gifts presented to the Queen throughout her reign,

as Jon Ironmonger reports. Over her 65-year reign,

The Queen has been lavished with more than a few exotic gifts,

from baby crocodiles in the Gambia to five tonnes

of Australian dried fruit. Now those more suited to the display

cabinet have been curated to mark the summer opening

of the State rooms. They include a strip of French

lace from the official And these VIP passes,

should she need them, to the Commonwealth Games in

Glasgow. The Queen is the most travelled

monarch in British history and there are priceless gifts

here from more than 100 overseas There's even a little something

from Nowhere on Earth. This badge was presented

by the astronaut Tim Peake, it's the first Union Jack to be worn

in the vacuum of space. Her other famous admirers

include Nelson Mandela, And from President John F.

Kennedy, a signed photograph of John F.

Kennedy. The Queen, of course,

has one obvious passion, and visitors will quickly notice

a theme emerging. Well, there have been several

gifts of live horses during The Queen's reign,

clearly none of which are shown in the exhibition, but also objects

relating to horses. So, porcelain horses,

an example of her riding From grand gifts to personal

belongings, but for the first time, one of the displays has been

dedicated to Princess Diana, with items chosen by her sons

to mark the 20th anniversary Among them, her ballet shoes

and a suitcase full of cassette John Ironmonger, BBC News,

at Buckingham Palace. A bag used by Neil Armstrong

to bring back lunar soil from the first ever trip to the Moon

has been sold at an But it was a giant leap

for the anonymous bidder who bought it, sealing the deal at Sotheby's

for a cool ?1.4 million. The bag is no longer full,

but it does still contain I am starting with the woodpecker in

the rain, I think that is a woodpecker. We have all sorts of

other across the country. We have got rain, rain showers, quite heavy.

And very dark clouds in the Vale of Glamorgan. Very threatening. And

thunderstorms. And we have got nice Fairweather cloud in Cambridgeshire.

So a mix of weather brought by this low-pressure which has made some

grains to a halt for the time being. You could argue this is the British

summer and it does change, that is normal. You can see this cloud. The

winds, pretty strong, the rain heavy. Especially across

south-western England and Wales, and a chance of disruption. For

holiday-makers across this part of the world, it is not a pretty

picture. This heavy rain is quite slow-moving and it is coming with

quite a punch with the heavy rain. And the winds are approaching in

some spots up to 50 mph. Some of that rain is moving to the Irish Sea

later in the afternoon. Eastern parts of Northern Ireland getting

spots of rain and the West of Scotland. The North of Scotland

faring much better. The rest of the country, particularly eastern areas,

the weather is fine, but going downhill. This band of rain is

trying to move northwards, and also eastwards at the same time, so it is

calling slowly in one direction. Not everybody will get rain tonight, but

some will do. The showers are heading our way tomorrow and this is

slow-moving. The low pressure is moving very slowly. So the weather

pattern through the weekend is not going to change a lot. It is going

to change locally, with sunshine and showers and sunshine and showers,

but this area of disturbed weather is here to stay. The winds will not

be desperately strong tomorrow, but a lot of showers around. But because

they will be light, in the sunshine, it is not going to feel that bad. A

mixed day, a mixed weekend for the Open. Showers around and a good risk

of heavy showers at at times. This Sunday's weather forecast. The rain

moving North into eastern Scotland. To the South, have showers.

Temperatures up to around 22 Celsius. So a mix, and settled,

showers on the way, and the last bit is some sunshine, that is it.

Thank you very much indeed. A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime: Two people are killed and more than

100 injured after a powerful earthquake of the Greek island of

Kos. That's all from the BBC News at One,

so it's goodbye from me.