26/07/2017 BBC News at One

A drive towards cleaner air - the sale of new petrol and diesel

The government wants to reduce emissions -

and encourage the use of electric vehicles.

We have to get rid of petrol and diesel to help health

problems from emissions and meet our climate change targets.

But environmental campaigners says the move won't address current

We'll ask whether towns and cities are ready to adapt

Thousand people in the south of France, including many

British holiday makers, have been moved to safety

The fire was very close to the campsite.

Very strong winds, it could've spread very, very quickly.

the UK economy grew by 0.3% in the second quarter of the year, driven

by retail and a booming film industry.

The Supreme Court rules that charging to bring an employment

tribunal case is unlawful - the government says it will now

And, the funeral is being held of the youngest victim

of the Manchester Arena bombing - Saffie Roussos was 8 years

old and was at the concert with her mother.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News, record-breaker Adam Peaty says

he cannot believe how fast he is swimming as he aims

to defend his 50 metre breaststroke title at the World Aquatic

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

New diesel and petrol cars and vans are to be banned from 2040,

under government plans to try to combat air pollution.

The proposals include a fund of more than ?250 million

for local councils, to speed up efforts to combat

emissions from diesel vehicles - though there is no commitment

At the end of March this year, there were 37.5 million cars

licensed in the UK - fewer than 100,000

Around the country, there are just over 4,000

charging locations - which compares with more

Our first report, about what the government hopes

to achieve, is from our Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin.

Air pollution is linked to 40,000 premature deaths a year.

The government was ordered by the court

to publish a full strategy to clean up the air this month.

The biggest problem is toxic NO2 emissions

I go down the gym every day of the week, but I

would not dream of running down here.

I see guys and women running, etc., smog levels are too much.

But there is nothing I can do about it personally.

There is data coming out showing the effect on

respiratory health, mortalities, in newspapers all the time.

Electric vehicles are seen as the long-term solution.

The government confirmed today its policy of banning the sale

of new diesel and petrol cars by 2040.

We have to get rid of petrol and diesel cars from our roads if we

are going to make sure not only do we deal with the health problems air

pollution causes, but also that we meet our climate change targets.

The good news is the car industry is already

moving in this direction, so Volvo and indeed just yesterday,

It is critically important we provide

encouragement from government to help the car industry

In the short-term, local roads will be altered

With a ?255 million additional package for cleaner transport.

London has deterred cars from coming into town with its

In the autumn that will become a toxic charge for

We may see zones like that in other towns and cities in the country

is councils cannot sort out their own problems.

But neither councils nor government want to take the rap for

charging diesel drivers for using cars that the government originally

To reduce emissions that fuelled climate change.

What we need now is some robust action taken by governments and not

just relying on local authorities to make unpopular decisions.

Paying drivers to scrap old diesel cars is another idea

but the Treasury said it is bad value for money.

It will not happen, at least for now.

So how useful is the government's new air strategy?

vehicles, it is too long in the future to do anything

about the air quality crisis we have now.

It seems we have another Secretary of State

failing to grasp what even he calls a public health emergency.

We should've seen the Environment Secretary

announcing today a paradigms shift, a system shift to put people at

the heart of towns and cities and not more cars,

And we need him to talk about a massive investment in public

transport, about a proper network of clean air zones.

Much more investment is needed in cleaner

They will be looking to the Chancellor and his

Autumn Statement to see how much the government is willing to spend

-- Norman Smith is with me. This is a bold headline. How dramatic is

this politically? It sounds like there should be a

drum roll with this announcement, the end of an era, the end of the

internal combustion engine on our roads. When you strip it down this

is a much more cautious and careful and calibrated announcement. For a

start, there will not be the big, great, Bonanza giveaway of a

scrappage scheme to help all of us trade in our old. In part because

ministers take the view that it tends to benefit people who are

better off, those who are more likely to have a second-hand diesel

as they ran around. Secondly, the hard work, the heavy lifting will be

left to local authorities who are already under huge financial

pressure. They are the ones who will have to introduce new transport

systems to minimise congestion where most of the pollution is caused.

They are the ones who are going to have to ban diesel cars from town

centres. They are the ones who might have to look at charges for diesel

cars. In other words they are the ones who motorist will be fuming at

for doing all of these things. But above all, it isn't happening any

time soon. It is 25 years away. That, when some countries like

Norway are looking at introducing this ban by 2025. Put all that

together and it seems like going on on the M6 in second gear. You will

get there in the end but it is going to take a long time and you are

probably going to upset a lot of motorists along the way.

Thank you. So what do these proposals mean

for the car industry? Is it ready to produce electric cars

only in less than 25 years? Our correspondent Theo Leggett has

been examining whether the motor Anglo-American Corporation has

resulted in a new small car... The internal combustion engine has

been powering cars for more than 100 years, but is it nearing the end of

the production line? The government wants to ban petrol and diesel cars

by 2040, and make electric vehicle is the norm. Major manufacturers,

such as Volkswagen, BMW, and Renault already have big plans for

battery-powered models. But they still make up a small share of the

market. Last year we sold 10,000 pure electric battery-powered

vehicles in the UK out of a market of 2.7 million. It is a huge shift.

That is what you need a good framework to encourage that shift.

Britain isn't alone in planning a ban. France also wants to get rid of

petrol and diesel cars by 2040. India wants to phase them out by

2030. And Norway is even more ambitious, its target is 2025. If

the government want us all to be one-day driving electric cars like

these that it will have to give some thought as to how to provide more of

these, charging points. There are 37 million cars on the road today. If

all of them will one day be electric powered we are going to need a lot

more places to plug them in. Can it be done? Industry insiders have

their doubts. It is an incredibly vicious target. One that will be

hard to hit. Car-makers are a long way down the road, they have

electric cars on sale today and many more in the pipeline. We are getting

the infrastructure together to allow people to use these cars as a

potential will be incredibly difficult. Here is a car that does

not need gas... Electric cars have had a bright

future for many years but they are still a rare sight. There is little

doubt that will change. But the road to complete infrastructure change

will be a long way ahead. As we've heard, many of the measures

announced today will require major changes to infrastructure

and transport policies. Our correspondent Sima Kotecha has

been to Dudley to find out whether the area is able

to implement the changes. There are currently only three

charging points there. Wet weather, a day many need their

car the most. What you think that diesel cars not being on sale in

2040? What were they doing ten years ago? Trying to get people to buy

them. Why do that and now decide it is wrong. What do you think about

those cars that you have to plug in? Clean. They need to get plenty of

power points. We can't keep using diesel. There is evidence that it is

medically bad for us. It is the way forward, really. The government's

plans are about improving air quality. Those who need to drive for

work have passion these. This man describes himself as a handyman and

uses his diesel van to transport all of his materials. Drills, hammers,

wood, plasters, bags of sand. It is quite a lot. In 2040 diesel vans

went beyond sell any more. How do you feel about that? Good News for

me. It makes things cheaper. Diesel prices are going up. Anything that

is electric, plug it in, then I am away for the day. Ministers say it

is up to councils to decide what steps they take in their area to

make the air cleaner. Councils say their plans depend on how much money

they get from government. There are just three of these charging point

into the town centre. The council says it wants to increase that

number significantly over the next few years. Every new housing

development that is done in Dudley has to have an electric power point

to charge cars on every property. I know there are 100 going through the

present time in planning and we've been doing that for 18 months. Some

of the council ideas are unpopular, like charging certain vehicles were

travelling on the busiest roads. But they are being told action must be

taken now. That is why they are already implementing significant

changes. More than 10,000 people

in the south of France, including many British holiday

makers, have been moved to safety to escape rapidly

spreading wildfire. A new blaze overnight has

spread over a vast area, France has asked its EU neighbours

for more help to fight the fires. The latest fire devouring swathes

of forest in southern France. Firefighters overnight

have been trying to keep More than 40 square kilometres

of land has been affected Around midnight we were woken up

and I went down to the station at our site and there

was an emergency news I just looked up and it

was like an inferno. It was amazing and a very,

very scary sight to see. Holiday-makers staying close

to the popular St Tropez holiday Including British tourists

on a nearby campsite where some have There would have been a good

thousand people on the beach. They had to stay there

overnight, some of them with sleeping bags and it was quite

a precarious situation. The fire was very

close to the campsite. It could have spread

very, very quickly. These wildfires have

been raging here in They've also affected

parts of Corsica where hundreds of homes

have been evacuated. France has already asked

for Europe's help to 4000 firefighters and troops backed

with water bombers have been Officials say at least 12

firefighters have been injured and 15 police officers affected

by smoke inhalation. The head of the Fire Service

in the south-east of France has said extra firefighters have been drafted

in to keep the flames at bay. The British economy grew by 0.3%

between April and June, according to the Office

for National Statistics, boosted by retail and

a booming film industry. But this is the economy's weakest

six-month period for 5 years. Our Business Correspondent Joe

Lynam has more details. This building company

in Buckinghamshire is busy. But the future pipeline

of confirmed work is starting to dry up as budgets

tighten for its customers. We have been given

orders for jobs and at the last minute the clients have

pulled away from us. GDP is the sum of all goods

and services in Britain, that number grew by 0.3%

from April to the end of June. But the figure for the

construction sector was down Thankfully the services

sector which includes all our shopping and dining

out, was up half of 1%. It is a good thing we're

still growing but of course we are Interestingly if you look

at the first half of the year, it is the slowest growth in five

years for the first half. What is more is the position

of GDP is concerning. All the growth has come from

the consumers spending more and very And the Chancellor

acknowledged that Brexit may have played a role in

the sluggish economic performance. We always knew that

this was going to be a year in which there

was a certain amount of uncertainty around the economy as we go

through the EU exit negotiations and

businesses and consumers perhaps unsurprisingly

are What our future relationship with

the European Union is going to look But Labour said that the weak GDP

figures exposed the last seven years of Conservative economic

failure which it says showed that working families

were being squeezed. One of the best performing parts

of the economy during the Film production here as well as box

office receipts from the cinemas, grew much faster than

the rest of the economy. After a relatively weak first

quarter, it looks as if consumers returned to the shops

between April and June. That meant the weakness

in manufacturing and construction was balanced by

an uptick in retail spending which The sale of new petrol and diesel

cars will be banned from 2040. The government wants to reduce emissions

and encouraged the use of electric vehicles.

We have to get rid of petrol and diesel to help health

problems from emissions and meet our climate change targets.

England have been boosted by the return of defender

Casey Stoney from a hamstring injury, ahead of their final group

game of the European Championships against Portugal tomorrow.

The funeral of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing

is taking place this lunchtime at the city's Cathedral.

Saffie Roussos was eight years old, and had been given a ticket

to the Ariana Grande concert as a Christmas present.

She'd gone to the show with her mother, who was seriously

Our correspondent Judith Moritz is at Manchester Cathedral.

As you say the last of the funerals for the 22 people who died in the

Manchester attack, the last in part because the family of savvy results

have had to wait until her mother Lisa was well enough to attend. We

understand she will be brought here today from hospital. She is still

recovering from very serious injuries and has had multiple

operations. I spoke to the family a few weeks ago and they told me they

were staying strong for Lisa was also believing for Saffie. That she

was a fun loving child who love singing and dancing and they really

want the service today to be a celebration, that it will come

across in the service and also that we will hear from those who knew her

best. The eulogy from headteacher and tributes from her classmates

will take place, some of whom have already been arriving here. And the

family have chosen to have the service here at Manchester

Cathedral, not an easy decision for them, they say. Just yards away from

the arena where the bomb claimed her life. But this is a venue in which

they want as many people as possible to attend. They invited the public

to come, they said anyone who felt they had been affected by the death

of their daughter should come to the Cathedral and they also have asked

people to bring arose in memory of Saffie, personal name was Saffie

rose. Just a few minutes ago the mayor of Greater Manchester came

along and the Chief Constable and we expect the family to arrive in the

next few minutes themselves. Then after the public service at

Manchester Cathedral there will be a Private service. Judith, thank you.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the government's decision

to introduce fees for bringing employment tribunal claims

The Court said the practice of charging up to ?1,200

The government says it will now halt the charges -

Our Legal Affairs Correspondent Clive Coleman reports.

A massive victory for Unison at the highest court in the land.

Workers fees for bringing claims to Employment Tribunals gone.

Tribunals hear a wide range of claims by workers including unfair

dismissal, pay disputes and discrimination.

Bringing a claim was free until July 2013 when the

coalition government introduced fees.

A claim for things like unpaid wages would cost a total of almost

For more serious crimes such as unfair dismissal, this rises to

Appeals against decisions can cost a further ?1600.

Fees faced by people like Ronnie, a courier

taking his employer to task over his employment status, they are

He could only pay to bring it with the help of his

I do not earn a lot of money at the moment and I think I would

never have gone to court if it wasn't for the help I received.

I do think there are a lot of people in

Unison argued that the fees were discriminatory and denied

The fees order is unlawful under both domestic and EU law.

Because it has the effect of preventing access to justice.

It means that not only the order which

introduced tribunal fees back in 2013 is quashed, it also means

everyone who paid those fees, a sum amounting

to some ?32 million, will

After a four-year legal struggle, Unison

We knew from day one this was not just unlawful but

That low-paid workers should be put in this position, that

Small amounts involved but it may include racial discrimination, sex

Obviously we're disappointment to get a

judgment against us but we respect the judgment.

We're going to take it fully on board, and comply with it

and already today we are taking immediate action.

Workers across the country will be delighted that they

can now bring claims without paying a fee.

The brother of Diana Princess of Wales, Earl Spencer,

has told the BBC that he still has nightmares about being part

of the public procession behind his sister's coffin

He described the walk - alongside his nephews,

Princes William and Harry - as the most horrifying

Our royal correspondent Peter Hunt is with me.

Watmore has he been saying in this interview # in the war, that has

been in the public domain recently because Prince Harry also questioned

why a 12-year-old should be made to walk behind the Coffin. And in this

interview Earl Spencer said he was lied to and Palace officials

suggested to him that the young princes wanted to walk behind the

coffin. We now know that Harry did not and other suggested, including

Alastair Campbell, the spin doctor for Tony Blair, but they were there

to give protection to their father Prince Charles, there was concern

that he could be booed. There is also the issue of the eulogy, seen

by many as a criticism of the Royal Family. He insists in the interview

it was not, he said everything he said was true and he was trying to

celebrate Diana. And this coming at a time when there is enormous focus

on the late Princess because of the passage of time now. Yes, it is the

20th anniversary, we also heard that ITV documentary where Prince Harry

Prince William spoke about their mother and the impact of her death.

And a BBC documentary in August will look at the week between the death

and the funeral and perhaps we will get more insight into why the two

princes walked behind the Coffin. And they believe they were too young

to protect her life and now they are very much about protecting her in

death, protecting her memory 20 years on. Thank you.

A judge will decide this afternoon whether the terminally-ill baby

Charlie Gard should be allowed to leave Great Ormond

Street Hospital to die at home with his parents.

The hospital's lawyers say a hospice would be more appropriate.

Our Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh is at the High Court.

I expect that two o'clock Mr Justice Francis will rule that Charlie

should be transferred to a hospice where his life support will be

withdrawn. One of the key issues then will be how long before that

life support is withdrawn. His parents Connie and Chris still want

him to go home with them and have a period of days outside of hospital

so they can build some memories together with him. But there were

concerns from Great Ormond Street hospital that Charlie has complex

needs and they are intending to provide an intensive care team who

would take him to a hospice where there would be a period of hours. It

is that period, how long he spent at the hospice, before his ventilator

is switched off, that will be something for discussion this

afternoon. The owner of Sports Direct,

Mike Ashley, has won a legal case against an investment banker,

in connection with an alleged ?15 million deal made

in a London pub. Jeffrey Blue told the court that

Mike Ashley reneged on a promise to pay him a multimillion pound sum

if he increased the Our business correspondent

Emma Simpson is here. Explain a bit more about this. Well

the case is centred around a conversation in a pub four years

ago. Jeffrey Blue was a corporate financier, working for Mike Ashley

at the time and he said Mike Ashley promised him ?15 million if he could

double the share price of Sports Direct in three years. He walked

away from the pub that night thinking he had a deal. Well Mike

Ashley had a different version of events saying this was just a few

drinks and nothing more, that the talk was banter and he dismissed the

claim as nonsense. It has been a pretty colourful few days of

evidence including a night down at the pub itself, drink fuelled. Mike

Ashley, one of the wealthiest controversial bosses in retail had

drunk so much that night that he could not remember the next puppy

went to but today the judge ruled in his favour comprehensively. He

concluded that no one would have thought that what was said in the

pub that night was serious. Adding the fact that Jeffrey Blue had

convinced himself that it was and legally binding agreement had been

made, showed only that the human capacity wishful thinking you no

bounds. So he faces an uphill struggle in this case and I think

the moral of is get it in writing. Thank you.

From finding bombs to catching drug smugglers, a dog's sense of smell

has long been used to help people do difficult jobs.

Now a trial has begun to see if it could help doctors diagnose

Parkinson's Disease earlier by detecting subtle changes

in a person's smell triggered by the symptoms of the condition.

The degenerative disease affects over 10-million people worldwide,

but is often only identified years after symptoms appear.

Tim Muffett has been to see the dogs in action.

Kiwi is demonstrating a remarkable skill.

The ability of dogs to sniff out cancer has been

But now Kiwi and other medical detection dogs

What we're hoping to do is to train them to find the odour associated

If they can do this, they could revolutionise the way

Parkinson's can cause body tremors and leave sufferers

But as there's no diagnostic test, in its early stages sufferers often

miss out on medication that can help.

We didn't understand what was happening.

Joy, however, has a highly developed sense of smell.

She noticed something different about Les ten years before doctors

I started complaining about his smell.

So what was this smell like you could detect on your husband?

It was, I describe it as a very strong musky smell.

Joy's sense of smell is so strong doctors say

For dogs, however, it's a different story.

Some breeds of dog have more than 200 million scent

receptors in their nose, that's compared to around

And many believe that by harnessing that incredible sense of smell,

more medical conditions could be sniffed out earlier.

These medical detection dogs live with families and come

to the testing centre during the daytime.

Backed by the charity Parkinson's UK, swabs from Parkinson's sufferers

will be introduced to see if the dogs can identify them.

People might present at a neurological clinic

or they might go to casualty because they have had a fall.

Or because they have had some other event not usual for them.

And very rarely would they would they think

But if we could develop an early test, it really improves

the patient's well-being if they know what's going on.

The research and training will take six months.

But 200 years after the condition was identified, it is hoped that

dogs will soon help doctors diagnosed Parkinson's earlier.

Quite a bit of rain so far today but not all doom and gloom. This was

taken a little bit earlier in North Wales. But for many of you is a bit

more like this. Here is the satellite sequence showing an

extensive band of cloud right across the UK and belief that there has

been quite a bit of rain so far. All moving west, from west to east and

some of the heaviest rain so far has been across more northern parts of

England and Scotland. It will continue to move north and east.

Brighter skies following on behind. Some brighter weather developing in

Scotland but showers coming through as well. Dry and bright for a time

in Northern Ireland but showers developing major. Some patchy rain

through the afternoon across southern parts of England. Quite

breezy as well, the breeze blowing that rain away from the south-east

this evening. By the end of the night it will be quite fresh. A

pretty unsettled look to the day tomorrow with low pressure in charge

of the lots of white lines, that means it will be quite a blustery

day. And the wind coming in from the West once again. Breezy start for

the eastern side of the UK but further west from early on some

showers around which spread to pretty much all parts through the

day. So breezy with some sunshine and also some sharp showers. Top

temperatures around 16, 17 degrees across Scotland, 17 in Cardiff and

Belfast, 21 in the London area. And the third test gets off to a

promising start but we could see some showers moving through on the

breeze. And it stays breezy towards the end of the week with no pressure

still in charge. And this feature brings yet another spell of heavy

rain. Further north it is windy with scattered showers and then wetter

weather spreading in from the south-west. So pretty unsettled and

that continues for the weekend, cool and breezy with some showers but

also a little bit of sunshine. A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime. The sale of new petrol and diesel

cars will be banned from 2040, the government wants to reduce emissions

and encourage the use of electric vehicles.

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