11/08/2017 BBC News at One

Tata steel has announced a deal that would secure thousands of jobs

Although the workforce voted to accept the deal, it has left many

feeling cheated. All of a sudden, you're coming

to the end of your working life. You've got two years

left and you've got to work another seven years in order

to get what you've worked at your entire life without any penalties,

and they feel cheated. We'll have the latest

from Port Talbot. Donald Trump escalates his threat

towards North Korea as he warns military solutions to the stand off

are "locked and loaded" Of the ?18 miilion donated

since the Grenfell Tower fire only ?2.5 million has reached the people

who lost their homes and loved ones. Air passengers using easyJet

and Gatwick Airport suffered the longest summer delays,

according to BBC analysis. Friendship forged through football -

one month after the death of Bradley Lowery, Jermain Defoe

speaks for the first For me, there's no bigger motivation

than to think that he can go through that and fight,

then I could go through anything. Coming up in the sport on BBC News,

can Dina Asher-Smith add to Great Britain's medal tally in the World

Championships? She runs in the 200 metre final tonight.

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

Tata Steel, which employs about 8500 people across the UK,

has announced a new pension scheme to replace the British Steel one.

The deal should secure the pensions of tens

of thousands of steelworkers, after nearly three quarters

of union members backed the change earlier this year.

It should secure the pensions of 130,000 pensions and stop the

company becoming insolvent. Finalising the pension arrangements

is expeced to clear the way for a possible merger with a rival

German company. Our correspondent

Simon Gompertz reports. It is the deal designed to keep Port

Talbot running and salvage the amount from the pension protection

fund, the U:K.'s's pension lifeboat. You have to take the risk...

Personal circumstances. The first step is to get the ball rolling

before we transfer anything. Workers have been going to meetings briefing

them on their options, after Tata Steel pledged hundreds of millions

of pounds and a share of the business to head off the worst

damage to pensions. They see that amount and when they can retire

under threat. All of a sudden, you're coming

to the end of your working life. You've got two years

left and you've got to work another seven years in order

to get what you've worked at your entire life without any penalties,

and they feel cheated. They are very bitter about it. It

looks like the choice facing current and former steelworkers is to opt in

to a new pension scheme which may have lower annual increases, to

escape to the pension protection fund which pays some 10% less, or to

transfer the whole value of cash to a personal pension, giving it the

promise of an income for life. The future of workers' pensions is

wrapped up with the future of steel in Europe. This is opening the way

to a megamerger of Tata Steel in the UK with a bigger rival to try to

achieve economies of scale. In the immediate future are the prospects

for Port Talbot and all the satellite works in North Wales and

so on, they look very good, but in the long run a merger is likely to

lead to some rationalisation. There are still complains that workers who

have contributed to the company pension scheme in good faith should

not now be losing some of their retirement income. The pension

protection fund is there to protect the members, not the companies

themselves, so I think the issue everyone has is why should they be

allowed to join the fund, with Tata Steel worldwide having plenty of

cash, as we know? Plenty of questions as Port Talbot reaches a

new future. Well workers switched to the new scheme? Will they still have

support in future if needed? Simon Gompertz, BBC News.

Our Wales correspondent Tomos Morgan is outside the Tata

What sort of reaction is starting to come through, Tomos? Well, it has

been a year and a half of uncertainty in South Wales. It was a

little more than a year ago, this time last year, I was standing here

seeing this plant behind me may be closing. There is some positivity,

jobs safeguarded as we know, but there has been a sacrifice as well.

The detail we were looking for has come out today. Workers will now be

able to choose between transferring to a new modified scheme underpinned

by Tata, or to remain in the same scheme underpaid by the pension

protection scheme itself. However, there will be some disappointment

amongst the workforce, because they will lose out on the lucrative

pension scheme they originally signed up with when they first

worked here, but that was a sacrifice that had to be made

according to Tata because if they were not to make that places like

the planned behind me would have to close. As Simon alluded to in his

piece, this deal pushes for the prospect of a merger with the German

giant and many believe there will be some sort of rationalisation if

those two do join together and there could be some issues regarding the

long-term future of Port Talbot, so really there is some sort of hope

for the future with jobs in the long term. From the unions, they are

saying this deal was the lesser of two evils. Tomos, thank you very

much, Tomos Morgan there from Port Talbot.

President Trump has again stepped up the rhetoric against North Korea -

warning that US military options were "locked and loaded" should

The United States and North Korea have been engaged in a war of words

for days with Pyongyang threatening to fire missiles towards

the American island of Guam in the Pacific.

Earlier China urged both sides to be cautious

As the war of words between America and North Korea continues,

the US Defence Secretary this week with his Vietnamese counterpart,

at a time when security in Asia feels more fragile.

The man in charge at the Pentagon is emphasising the 'D' word.

I didn't expect all of you to come out here!

You can see the American effort is diplomatically-led,

it has diplomatic traction and is gaining diplomatic

results, and I want to stay right there right now.

The tragedy of war is well-enough known.

It doesn't need another characterisation beyond the fact

But the tone from the President was very different.

His message to North Korea's leader feels personal.

He has said things that are horrific, and with me he's not

He got away with it for a long time, between him and his family.

In a tweet this morning, President Trump said military

solutions were locked and loaded should North Korea act unwisely.

Hopefully, he said, Kim Jong-un will find another path.

North Korea has carried out missile test after missile test this year.

The latest type could possibly hit Alaska.

Each an act of defiance towards America and its allies.

Japan's missile defence system is more relevant now.

The Japanese government sees pressure via

We are currently trying to have as much and

strongest possible pressure to the North Koreans

so that we will have a way out in a peaceful way.

Recent tests of American air defence systems in South Korea.

The island of Guam, which Pyongyang identified

as a possible target, is also protected.

But for all the hot language, the atmosphere on this tropical

US territory in the western Pacific is cool.

Our correspondent Yogita Limaye is in the South Korean capital Seoul.

No sooner does James Mattis try to talk about diplomacy again, that now

President Trump comes out again and uses more bellicose language? That's

right. In many ways it puts this country, South Korea, in quite a

difficult position. As one analyst told me today that government

perhaps prefers that the US president does not make such strong

remarks. The top national security adviser here spoke to his US

counterpart today about how to contain the threat from North Korea,

and during that conversation it is reported that America agreed that it

would not launch any preventative strike on North Korea without

informing Seoul, and what this country has been following, you

know, on one hand ramping up its defence capabilities along with the

US, but on the other hand because of how much it has to lose, in a way,

it perhaps has the most to lose, because if there is any kind of a

war that breaks out here and therefore the second track it is

pursuing is that of diplomacy. It has always said a Channel 4 dialogue

is open with North Korea, and offered it has reiterated this week

-- a channel for dialogue is open with North Korea. On the streets of

Seoul you would not notice anything different or anything is, but I have

to see people here are now getting a bit worried about when this

rhetoric. But when it all started on Sunday people were saying, we have

heard these threats so many times before, so they were ignoring it,

but now it continues and they are a bit worried. I think it would be

fair to say they believe there is no reason to panic just yet. Yogita

Limaye there in Seoul, thank you very much.

Nearly two months after the Grenfell Tower fire,

public donations aren't reaching survivors quickly enough.

Figures from the Charity Commission show that less than 15%

of the money raised has so far been distributed, although it says

that the early difficulties in identifying and contacting people

who need help are now being overcome.

The response to the fire at Grenfell Tower was unprecedented. Close, food

and money was donated from all over the world, but with so many

organisations collecting funds, the Charity Commission stepped in to

help coordinate efforts, with some of the biggest charities. But two

months on, figures from the commission shall only ?2.5 million

of the ?80 million collected has been distributed to those affected.

This whole country and beyond has donated a large and of money to all

the victims of Grenfell Tower, yet on the ground there is nothing,

these people are not getting the revenue. Grants were announced for

residents including ?20,000 for people who lost their homes when

moving into a new one. Another ?20,000 to the next of kin of those

who died in the fire, and ?10,000 to people who spent a week or more in

hospital. With less than 15% of some of these donations making it to

those affected by the fire at Grenfell Tower, frustration is

building and questions are being raised as to whether this system is

actually working, and why it is taking so long for the money to make

it to those who need it most. ?2.6 million has flowed out of the funds

so far, and also in the next phase charities wanted to engage with the

survivors and the communities to understand their views and wishes

for what they expected funds to be used for. It comes as residents of a

nearby estate in south-east London have been told they will have to

move out. Cracks in the walls have been found so if there was a gas

explosion of the building could collapse. We are shocked. We feel

angry, we feel very upset. And quite confused as well because we are not

getting any further answers at the moment. I kind of expected it for a

while, because we had doubts about the structural safety of the blocks,

relating to gas as well, which was one of the issues apart from the

fire, one of the safety issues. But I can't really take it in, really. I

think we basically have to move. It is somewhere I have lived for 15

years. The council says it is doing all it can to help and is putting

residents' safety first, but now there are concerns about the cost of

fixing buildings here and across the country. Many now questioning who is

going to foot and ever-growing bill. Frankie McCamley, BBC News.

The EU's food safety commissioner has called for an end to countries

blaming and shaming each other, after eggs were found to contain

traces of an insecticide, Fipronil, which can be dangerous

The commissioner called for an urgent meeting of EU

The contaminated eggs came from the Netherlands.

Our correspondent Anna Holligan is at a poultry farm in Dalfsen.

Anna? There are 25,000 hen in this barn and it might look and sound

like a lot but this is just a tiny fraction of what is a vast industry,

and the fact that the contaminated eggs spread as far and as fast as

they did is a reflection of the Netherlands status as Europe's

largest producer. What started out as a crisis in the Dutch poultry

industry is now engulfing politicians, and it has been about

what the authorities in the Netherlands and Belgium knew before

they went public with that information. As well as that,

companies associated with supplying, producing and using this band

chemical, Fipronil, has been discussed, and two directors of a

Dutch company had been arrested. In terms of the risks, the Food

Standards Agency say the amount of Fipronil detected in the

contaminated eggs which reached the UK is so low it is very unlikely to

pose any risk at all to our health. Anna, many thanks.

Air passengers were most likely to be delayed over the last two

summers if they flew from Gatwick Airport

Data from the Civil Aviation Authority for those periods have

been analysed by the BBC, and show that among the ten biggest

airlines, Easyjet travellers suffered an average delay

Gatwick and Easyjet say many of the delays

Our business correspondent Emma Simpson is at Gatwick Airport.

It is the time of year of course when the holidays are in full swing

and where the airlines and the airports make most of them money,

because when the demand goes up, so do the slots, and that is fine as

long as there are not any problems. Up, up and away, but how often do

they take off on time? The BBC has been

looking at the data. Gatwick Airport had

the longest delays with Doing much better, Leeds Bradford

and Belfast City airports, both with average delays

of ten minutes. The summer season can

be a pinch point. Gatwick has the single

busiest runway in the world with planes often taking off

and landing every minute. Things are going smoothly

here today, but if this schedule slips it can have

big knock-on effects. We absolutely recognise

the inconvenience caused to our passengers, but most

of the time our flights are ready to go, but they simply cannot

depart because we are up against the challenge of congested

airspace over our heads, bad weather across the whole

European region and European We fly to Europe more than anyone

else and, as a result, we are disproportionately more

affected. As for the airlines,

EasyJet had the longest delays It said having the biggest number

of flights was a factor. The shortest delays

were at Aer Lingus, with 12 minutes. I think airports like Gatwick need

to think about building I think airlines like EasyJet

should have, perhaps, more resources for the schedule

they are hoping to deliver, but, ultimately, it's

us passengers saying, "We want loads of cheap

flights, please." The Government reckons 30 minute

delays could be the norm unless the airspace above London

and Europe is redesigned Here at Gatwick, congestion really

seems to me to be the main driver of the delayed. They have been

developing new tax six to try to minimise disruption, -- new tactics.

A rapid response team can be deployed if a plane is arriving late

to get passengers and bags off as quickly as possible. It seems every

little helps to get things on the move.

Emma Simpson there at Gatwick. And you can find out the chances

of your flight being delayed using the flight delay calculator -

it's on the business homepage on the BBC

News website, bbc.co.uk/business. The pensions regulator has approved

a plan by Tata Steel to give thousands of its workers in the UK

less generous pensions but safeguard their jobs.

Still to come, Moeen Ali's father tells the BBC why he thinks cricket

is a great way of keeping young men away from crime and radicalisation.

Liverpool say they will not accept any offers for Brazilian Philippe

Coutinho and have already turned down a ?19 million offer from

Barcelona. It's just over a month

since six-year-old football fan Bradley Lowery died after battling

a rare form of cancer. The Sunderland fan won a legion

of supporters across the country - including the footballer Jermain

Defoe. In his first interview since Bradley

died, Defoe has been telling Juliet Ferrington how

he was inspired by the litte boy It was in September last year

when Jermain first walked out with Bradley and,

from that moment on, That story of Brad's

is just special. I've got a nice picture in the house

of me and Brads at the England game. I walked him out and we sang

the national anthem. But, yeah, it's a special

story, you know? I mean, he was a kid,

all he knew is... I don't know, he just

loved his football. But I could see in his eyes

it was genuine, because as a child, there was nothing I could give him

apart from just being a friend. They were best friends

and it was a friendship that It was an instant connection

and one that continues Even towards the end

when he was really struggling and he was in bed, he couldn't

really move, I would walk into the room and he'd jump

up and his mum's like, So, yeah, for me every time

I saw him it was a special feeling. The emotion is still raw,

but the impact the little boy has had on Defoe has been

a positive one. The Bournemouth striker calls it

"a gift" and says he will both be forever grateful that Bradley came

into his life. In a funny sort of way I wake up

and I think, I don't know, if you've got a headache

or you don't feel well or feel If I can see a little kid suffer

like that and still fight, then... I mean, for me, there is no bigger

motivation to think, "Well, if he can go through that and fight,

then I can go through anything." You walked out with him

so many times, but was I remember being down the tunnel

and he was looking for me, like he does, and I came down

the tunnel and gave him a cuddle and Joe Hart said to me, "J,

will you walk the team out?" For Hart to do that,

that was special. Then we walked out and just standing

there singing the national anthem with Brads on Mother's Day,

and being back involved in the England squad

and actually playing at Wembley. For me, yeah, it was one of the best

moments of my career. And you can see the full

interview with Jermaine Defoe on Football Focus tomorrow -

that's on BBC One at midday. A man who murdered his brother

by setting fire to him has been ordered to spend at least 20

years in prison. Cameron Logan, who was 23,

died in a fire at the family home His girlfriend Rebecca Williams

was seriously injured. Last month, 27-year-old Blair Logan

admitted murdering his brother and attempting to murder Ms

Williams. Our Scotland correspondent

Lorna Gordon reports. Blair Logan, a young man

who murdered his brother in an horrific attack at the family

home on New Year's Day. The 27-year-old had spent weeks

planning his violent actions. He stored petrol in preparation,

researched injuries What is very clear is that

your stated intention, Your motivation was malice,

and you planned this attack I accept your violence

here was out of character. This was nonetheless

an exceptionally serious crime. In the early hours of January 1st,

Logan, wearing a mask, had entered the room

where his brother Cameron and girlfriend Rebecca

Williams were sleeping. He poured petrol over his brother

and then set fire to him. It took him 12 days

to admit his crime. Rebecca Williams, seen

here to the right of her father, suffered devastating injuries

for which she's undergone She also now has a tracheostomy,

which may be permanent. The horror of what happened in that

room will haunt me forever. It was a calculated

and intentional attack. Cameron died in the most cruel way

in front of my eyes. The judge, Lady Scott,

said she could not imagine the pain Logan's parents would endure,

losing in effect both of their sons. In sentencing the 27-year-old,

she said that while she accepted he had a limited ability

to appreciate the consequences of his actions, he acted with wicked

recklessness and was fully criminally responsible

for what he had done. Lorna Gordon, BBC News,

at the High Court in Edinburgh. Britain's top counterterrorism

police officer, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley,

has said there's been a change of tempo in Islamist terrorism

and that it's becoming His comments follow a warning

from the former head of MI5, Lord Evans, that the threat

from extremists would remain Our home affairs correspondent

Daniel Sandford is with me. Mark Rowley in essence it seems

saying that tackling this or dealing with it is a responsibility that

forced everybody now? Yes, saying it simply can no longer

be just the job of the police and security service, MI5. It has become

too big for that. He used the phrase a whole system affect, it means all

of society to work to protect against the threat of terrorism. Of

course he speaks during a very difficult year. In the four years

there have been 13 attempted attacks, this year alone there have

been four attacks and speaking this morning he expresses disappointment

at those successful attacks. We join policing because we want

to protect the public. The events of the last six

months have been tragic, and they hurt us because we haven't

succeeded as much We're going to have to improve

what we do, but it's going to take a whole system effect,

not simply counterterrorist specialists and MI5,

but local policing, councils and the public to be able to deal

with something which is becoming more of a cultish movement and less

of a small terrorist organisation. Mark Rowley was pointing out that it

used to be in the IRA era or Al-Qaeda era there was a group of

small but wicked violent men plotting these attacks but now this

cultish movement, much wider in society, that is why he is saying we

need society's help and at the same time as saying that we have got the

director-general of MI5 who retired in 2015 saying that it will not just

be another year or two but 20, 30 more years of this and that is why

everybody has to focus on the long-term efforts to try to prevent

further attacks. All right, thank you, Daniel

Sandford. There are three days

of competition left at the World Athletics

Championships, and British Athletics has just one gold medal,

thanks to that remarkable UK Sport's target of between six

and eight medals now looks There was more drama

in the stadium last night, with Turkey's Ramil Guliyev

a surprise winner of Our sports correspondent Olly Foster

reports from the London Stadium. He had been promised a national

holiday in Botswana if he won But in a week in which he had

spent 48 hours in quarantine with the norovirus, it wasn't to be

Isaac Makwala's day. Apart from the euphoria

of Ramil Guliyev delivering a first world title for Turkey,

it was a final laced Take Wayde van Niekerk,

so close to a second gold medal. He said he had let

Great Britain down. The team captain, Eilidh Doyle,

was last in her 400m hurdles final. She has defended British

performances here, saying this is a team for the future,

but with just three days to go, these are some

of the defining images. Medal hopefuls tearful,

wondering what might have been. That said, you are measured

in medals and Mo may well end up being our only gold medalist,

maybe double gold medalist, but he's leaving and

going to the road. So five years on from London,

when you think about legacy, you would have to say it's

probably not great. At least Edwards' world

record still stands. Christian Taylor said he would break

it, but the USA now have six golds A few nations have underperformed

here and that makes these championships wide open,

but of course the hosts But that medal target of six

looks increasingly unrealistic. They can still make up ground but,

as Laura Muir discovered in qualifying for the 5000m final,

it is going to be hard. There is still hope,

and how about this for 2012 legacy? Dina Asher-Smith carried

Jessica Ennis-Hill's Five years on, she is carrying a lot

more in tonight's 200m final. How is it going as we gradually get

to the weekend? Not looking too bad at all, a little

on the cloudy side, as shady day. Nice pictures coming in nonetheless,

look at this beautiful one from John O groats, the very far north of the

British Isles, and a stunning one from Norfolk because this is where

the best of the weather is today across East Anglia and the

south-east. A huge chunk of clear sky across the south-east extending

into parts of the Midlands as well but many parts of the West have

shady cloud and bits and pieces of rain. All of us will be shrouded

with cloud by the time we get to the evening but let's have a look at

4pm. Scotland and Northern Ireland pretty overcast, a bit of Brighton

around Aberdeenshire and Fife which will come and go but some spots of

rain there in the south-west and the West, windy as well. Rain at times

across Wales, south-western England, the Midlands as well, basically the

further east you are the better the weather is. We have already had

temperatures up to about 22 in Norwich, a pleasant day. Look at

this band of mostly like rain, that we choose the south-east later on

and then tonight it will be a pretty cloudy night for most of us, a few

showers. There will be some clear spells and what we have got for the

next couple of nights is the Perseid meteor shower so given that we get

some lengthy clear spells overnight you might just about catch a meteor

or two. Not literally, hopefully! Across the weekend, mostly dry, some

sunny spells on the way, not looking too bad. The morning might start

cloudy particularly across eastern and southern areas, but eventually

the sun should be out, scattered clouds, maybe a few showers here and

there on Saturday. Overall not a bad day. Sunday is looking a little bit

better. This is Saturday night, first of all, if you want to catch

the meteor showers this is the night to do it, Saturday night into Sunday

we have got clear weather. He is Sunday, looking pretty good, fewer

showers, lots of sunshine around, but noticed the blobs of blue, rain

from the Atlantic, a quick outlook to Monday, so after a fine weekend

it looks like early next week there are still no signs of summer. I

don't know what else to say, it is just not happening. The outlook for

next week, there you go, Monday looks a little bit unpleasant but

hopefully a little bit of sunshine on Tuesday. But the weekend is

looking good. Thank you, I think! Tomasz

Schafernaker with the latest weather prospects. That is just about it

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