16/08/2017 BBC News at One

The government says there must be an "unprecedented solution"

for the border between Northern Ireland

A position paper published in the last hour has proposals

As we look forward to Brexit, of course we do want to ensure

that we don't see a return to the borders of the past, we don't

see a return to a hard border, and that we're able to ensure

that the crucial flow of goods and people between Northern Ireland

and the Republic of Ireland is able to continue in the future.

We'll have reaction to the proposals from both

Another wave of criticism for President Trump as he goes back

to blaming both sides for the violence in Charlottesville.

You had a group on one side that was bad and you had

a group on the other side that was also very violent.

And nobody wants to say that, but I'll say it right now.

Unemployment at its lowest since 1975 - but real wages are falling.

RB live on Britain's biggest and newest warship, the new aircraft

carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth, as she arrives home in the home

Portsmouth. Daniel Craig, will you

return as James Bond? And Daniel Craig will be backas Bond

- he confirms he'll

play 007 one last time. Celtic are looking

to secure their place in the Champions

League group stages. They host Kazakh champions

Astana in their first Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One. The Government says there must

be an "unprecedented solution" for the border

between Northern Ireland Ministers have published

their proposals on the future They've called for a "seamless"

border - so that people and goods can continue to move across freely -

protecting The Irish government says the paper

is "timely and helpful", but critics say the plans

lack credible detail. Our Ireland correspondent

Chris Buckler reports. There is a political

dividing line on the But it is a border that

cannot be seen and many Soft toys and cushions

are the latest protest They have been placed

here between Belcoo in Northern Ireland and Blackline

in the Republic by people who don't barriers once one is inside the EU

and the other is outside. I crossed this border quite

easily 15, 20 times a day, moving goods sometimes,

sometimes just to manage staff, carry out, meet different people,

whatever is involved If there's any sort of checks that

slow that down or anything else, it is definitely

going to create a lot Customs posts were once a feature

of the Irish border. But these huts lie derelict now

and the British Government has made clear it wants them

to stay that way. Its position paper calls for no

new buildings or barriers And repeats calls for a temporary

customs union with the EU. Followed by a deal that

would avoid the need billions of pounds in trade carried

up and down these roads every year. As we look forward

to Brexit of course we do want to ensure

that we do not see a return

to the borders of the past. We do not see a return to a hard

border and we are able to ensure that the crucial flow

of goods and people between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

is able to continue in the future. Today's document also

calls for the protection Which allows people to travel

between the UK and Ireland Crossing time today is two

hours and 25 minutes. And the government says it has ruled

out the idea of a Customs border being placed between the islands

of Ireland and Britain as unconstitutional and not

economically viable. This position paper repeats

phrases that have been used by government ministers

countless times in recent months. Like "there should be no return

to the borders of the past, there "should be a frictionless

and seamless border." But there remain real

questions about how that can happen, particularly

as some within the EU have described the idea

of an invisible border as fantasy. I think it is important

to say this, this is welcome today, we have

more clarity than we had the British Government approach

towards Brexit as it relates to But there are still

unanswered questions. And we will be constructive,

in terms of trying to There is a will to find

solutions, because tied up with the politics and

practicalities are concerns about the potential impact to peace

and prosperity at this, what is Chris Morris from our Reality Check

team has been looking in more detail at why the Irish border

matters so much. The UK will suddenly have

a major land border with the EU. Here it is - between Northern

Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, During the Troubles,

there were just 20 official border crossings between Northern Ireland

and the Republic. The British Army shut down,

spiked or cratered the rest. But following the Good

Friday Agreement there's Now there are more than 260 public

roads that cross the border. The Centre for Cross Border Studies

has estimated that between 23,000 and 30,000 people cross

the border daily for work, while, each month,

around 170,000 lorries and 1.85 million cars are recorded

crossing the border. exports go to the Republic,

31% of Northern Ireland's and 27% of its imports

come from the Republic. Delays could lead to huge costs

for business, plus there's the risk of tax evasion, and various

types of smuggling - But above and beyond that there

are massive political issues. Creating any kind of hard

border would be incredibly and could do serious damage

to the peace process. The UK wants an invisible border

with no physical infrastructure anywhere at all.

What's needed on the Irish border is unprecedented.

Which is why the UK says it's to discuss the Irish issue

and a future customs relationship at the same time

Chris Page is on the Irish border at Narrow Water in County Down.

So what are the proposed solutions to avoiding

When it comes to preventing new border checks, there are two issues.

One, the movement of people, the other the movement of goods. Looking

at the government position paper suggests the government thinks the

movement of people is easier issue to resolve with lots of common

ground already between London, Dublin and Brussels. The government

says it must put in place an immigration system after Brexit

which will still allow people to move freely between the UK and

Ireland, because they have a range of immigration controls at their

disposal, not just checking people as they enter or leave the country

but monitoring access to the labour market, so the more difficult issue

is set to be customs, how the EU voice customs checks when you have

the EU leaving the customs union and Republic of Ireland staying in. The

government outlines two approaches, first, and you customs partnership

as they call it with the EU, which means there was no need for any

customs checks at also the border continues in its open state at the

moment. If that doesn't happen, they say they would like what they call

highly streamlined customs arrangement, a culmination of

exemptions for some companies and technological solutions. More than

80% of cross-border trade is currently done by small and

medium-sized businesses. It is proposing that small and medium-size

businesses could be exempt from customs arrangements altogether.

Larger companies could make goods declarations online. What they are

what proposing is to have CCTV cameras at the border, or set back

from it. They think that they'd be too close to a recognition of the

hard borders of the past. Donald Trump is facing

a fresh wave of criticism after he again blamed both sides

for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one protester

dead and others injured. In a carefully scripted

statement on Monday, he HAD condemned white supremacists

and far right groups. But yesterday he said left-wing

protestors were also to blame. This was the biggest protest

by white supremacists, including It soon turned into

a violent confrontation And an antiracism

campaigner was killed. Since then, Donald Trump whose

supporters include members of the far right, has caused

further outrage. First, arguing both sides

were equally responsible for the violence and then just two days

later, after coming under pressure, finally condemning

the white supremacists. Last night at yet another

conference, he was asked why I wanted make sure,

unlike most politicians, The statement I made

on Saturday, the first And honestly, if the

press were not sick -- fake, and it was honest,

the press would have said what I said was very nice

but unlike you, excuse me. Unlike you and unlike

the media, before I make a statement I like

to know the facts. The president then repeated his

much-criticised statement that responsibility for the violence in

Charlottesville also lay with those I watched those very closely,

right extremists. much more closely than you

people watched it. And you have, you had a group

on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other

side that was also very violent. And nobody wants to

say that but I will Do you think what you call

the alt left is the same as Excuse me, I have

condemned neo-Nazis. I have condemned many

different groups. But not all of those people

were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people

were white supremacists Senior Republican politician

Paul Ryan tweeted... But from the white

supremacists who have been at the protests,

a very different response. Praise for what the former

leader of the Ku Klux Klan described as Mr Trump's honesty

and courage to tell Gary O'Donoghue is in

Washington for us. Some of the president's

fiercest critics from his Yes, indeed. Although it has to be

said that whilst there has been some of that on Twitter, the morning

shows in the US are completely absent of Republican voices. CNN

told viewers they could get just one freshman Republican house

representative to come on, no one else would. There is a certain

holding back. When he spoke on Monday, we said, how long with this

last? Would this be the real view of the president and what would happen

when he went off piste? It became a slanging match. Nothing short of a

slanging match between him and the press, because he appeared to draw

that moral equivalence between the neo-Nazi protesters and those who

were there, to demonstrate against them. Were the fistfights between

both sides? Yes, there was. There was even some pepper spray between

both sides. But what you did not have on the side of those

campaigning against the neo-Nazis was people marching down the street

saying, and this is what they said, marching down the street saying, we

will not be replaced by dues. Blood and soil, that Nazi slogan for the

1930s. And they did not have a car driven into protesters, killing one

young woman. The problem is that the president appears to be drawn

equivalence between all that happening on one side and those who

were there to disagree with them. At least 600 people are still

believed to be missing after a mudslide engulfed dozens

of homes on the outskirts of the The country's President has declared

seven days of mourning and said entire communities have

been wiped out. The United Nations is preparing to

deal with the outbreak of diseases Martin Patience sent this

update from Freetown. The families of those that have been

buried by the mudslide have gathered here at the main

mortuary in Freetown. Since we've been here,

a fleet of ambulances have arrived. The stench of corpses

is overpowering. Workers in the mortuary say

there are too many bodies, they need to bury them

as quickly as possible. There's concerns about a possible

outbreak of typhoid or cholera. There is a real sense

of grief as well as tension. They feel that the authorities

haven't been quick enough They've declared a week of national

mourning here in Sierra Leone. There has been a lot of criticism

of the authorities because many families believe that this

was a preventable disaster. The number of people out of work

is now its lowest since 1975. UK unemployment fell slightly

in the three months to June, bringing the jobless rate

down to 4.4%. The Office for National Statistics

also reported a slight rise in average earnings,

which rose by 2.1% But there was a slowdown

in the number of foreign nationals Our economics correspondent

Andy Verity reports. For eight years the British economy

has been a job creation machine and figures today showed little signs of

that slowing down. Low unemployment means a tight labour market so it is

harder for places like this mode of cycle manufacturer to get the staff

they need. The upside for workers is pay rises could improve in the

second quarter of the year. The downside is companies with full

order books cannot go as fast as they might. At the moment you cannot

drive growth as fast as we are able not because of a lack of orders or

finance but people. It is super frustrating that we cannot get

skilled staff to come in and take advantage of the orders we have or

prototype design work for the next models and next generation of

models. Low unemployment makes economists worried that workers will

bid up their paper pushing up inflation. So far about that fear of

wage price spiral is far from realised. We hope that means we can

run this economy permanently with lower unemployment and let's hope

unemployment keeps falling as I think it will until wage inflation

starts to pick up. The figures today tell us something interesting about

the supply of workers from abroad. Over the past 20 years this yellow

line shows you the number of workers from abroad from outside the EU. The

blue line is the number of workers from within the EU so sharply

increasing over the past seven years. Then this number is the

increase in non-UK nationals working here in the first quarter of the

year, up 200 but then in the second quarter of the year it was up by

much less, 100 9000. A sharp slowdown. Until the financial crisis

investment in skills and machinery meant each year each worker could

produce more per hour. That growth in productivity meant that companies

could afford bigger pay rises. But today we have learned productivity

fell for the second quarter in a row. Inflation beating pay rises may

take some time to return. The government says there must be

an 'unprecedented solution' for the border between

Northern Ireland and Are pink balls and floodlit action

the future of test cricket? Jo Pavey says she will look

to defend her ten thousand metre title at the European Championships

in Germany next year - just a month

before her 45th birthday. She insists she has

no plans to retire. The biggest warship ever built

for the Royal Navy - the aircraft carrier,

HMS Queen Elizabeth - has sailed into her home port

of Portsmouth for the first time. She weighs 65,000

tonnes and cost more Well in Portsmouth this morning,

huge crowds started gathering before sunrise to watch

the Queen Elizabeth arrive. Duncan Kennedy is onboard

and joins us now. This is a vessel and this

is a day that redefines Squeezing into the home

port of the Royal Navy, this is the 65,000 tonne Queen

Elizabeth. Eight years to complete,

10,000 people to build. And one enormous milestone

in our defence history. For families of the crew

the excitement of seeing their loved ones after its two-month sea trials

was matched by the novelty I think it makes the country

feel a lot safer. It puts you, you know,

above everybody else, A stressful day for the 679

crew began in the early As she navigated the final few

miles of the Solent. She will eventually be

able to travel 10,000 Projecting what the government

and the Navy says is I think the nation should be really

proud of what they have done in purchasing this ship

and of course Prince of Wales. For the 10,000 people who have been

involved in the build, you know, Today the Prime Minister went

on board and said this was a ship to help protect Britain's future

for decades to come. Britain truly has the best sailors,

Marines and officers in the world and you deserve the best commitment.

That is what we have with HMS Queen Elizabeth.

The Queen Elizabeth itself has cost more than ?3 billion.

An investment in British world influence, says the government.

But a drain and a strain on the resources of a middle ranking

Ships were never going to be as cheap as originally advertised but

they should not have been expensive as they turned out. A number of

culprits are involved in that, politicians, the way the design

changed over time. With HMS Queen Elizabeth due to be

in service until at least 2067, its last captain may not yet

have been born. This is a symbol of British power

for decades to come. Duncan Kennedy, BBC News,

in Portsmouth Harbour. A homeless man - who was described

as a hero for helping victims of the Manchester bombing -

has been charged in connection with the theft of a bank card

in the Arena that night. Chris Parker - who's 33

and of no fixed abode - He has pleaded not guilty. He was

remanded in custody and will appear next month.

A hospital trust being investigated over the deaths of babies has been

criticised for failing to learn the lessons of past mistakes.

There were at least seven avoidable deaths of newborn babies

at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital, between 2014 and 16.

The trust claims it's made improvements, but the NHS

standards watchdog, the Care Quality Commission,

says there are deficiencies in maternity services.

Our health correspondent Dominic Hughes reports.

For years, Richard Stanton and Rhiannon Davies have been

campaigning for safe maternity services following the avoidable

death of their first daughter, Kate, just hours after she was born.

A review of their case found the trust had failed to investigate

Now a new report finds that eight years on,

the Shrewsbury and Telford trust is still failing to learn

It is still failing on the basics, to this day.

From our point of view, it makes you want to bang your

It is worrying that eight years from Kate's death,

change is so slow and so chaotic that the CQC deem this to be a trust

that still requires improvement and one that is questionably unsafe.

An inspection by the hospital regulator found that safety

in maternity services needs improvement and that patients

are still not receiving the proper standard of care.

We have seen some improvements in some areas but some ongoing

areas such as maternity, which is not what we would expect,

and we have made it very clear to the trust that we need to see

these improvements made in a much more robust manner

In a statement the trust says things are changing and serious

But the question will be asked why so many years after families

first raised concerns, issues around safety and culture

A wider NHS investigation into a cluster of deaths among

newborn babies at the trust, ordered by the Health

But despite the long-running campaign by those parents

who have lost children, the NHS regulator clearly

believes that safety at the trust needs to improve.

The long running bin strike in Birmingham has been suspended

after a breakthrough in talks between the city council

The strike began in June in a row over working conditions and pay.

Birmingham city council, which is using agency staff

and contractors to clear the backlog, had accused the refuse

workers of holding the city to ransom and said the dispute

It's an evolutionary mystery that's baffled the experts for years -

how a fossil of a dinosaur could consist of body parts

from both meat eaters, like T-Rex, and plant eaters,

Well that puzzle may just have been solved after scientists said

they now believe the so-called "Frankenstein Dinosaur",

could provide the missing link between carnivores and herbivores.

Our Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh explains.

In the mountains of Chile, researchers discover a dinosaur,

the like of which has never been seen before.

Back in their lab in Buenos Aires, they carefully cut through

the sandstone to find a bizarre skeleton.

They named their dinosaur Chilesaurus.

This animal had a real mix of features from different

It's hip bones were like those of plant eaters such

And its arms and body were like those of meat eaters such

And so, Chilesaurus became known as the Frankenstein dinosaur.

But now a British researcher who studied the skeleton believes

Chilesaurus has been revealed to be the missing link

between one group of dinosaurs, which includes things

like Stegosaurus and Triceratops, and another group of dinosaurs

which includes things like Tyrannosaurus Rex.

It really is the missing piece of the puzzle.

Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus were thought to be in different

branches of the dinosaur family tree.

But the researchers have shown that they are both

The Frankenstein dinosaur now fits in perfectly,

as an earlier animal that came before them, which is why

This reassessment is important, because it will radically change

the theory of how dinosaurs evolved and split into different groups.

Chilesaurus is there at the beginning of one

And hopefully, by understanding more about its biology,

it will tell us what the kinds of driving factors leading to those

The Frankenstein skeleton was once a puzzle, but now it

could be the key to explain how dinosaurs evolved.

It will be test cricket - but not as we know it.

At Edgbaston tomorrow, England play the West Indies under

It's the first ever day/night test match in England as our sports

Correspondent Joe Wilson reports from Edgbaston

In Birmingham this week, play will start at 2pm,

Schedule a match when the crowds can come to watch it.

Very excited, a few things unknown and that is a good challenge for us

as a team. It will be interesting to see how it is viewed from people and

fans across the country. There is particular scrutiny on the new pink

ball. Cricketers spend their lives

absorbed in that little Normally, traditionally in a Test

match you play with a red ball like this which starts off nice

and shiny and deteriorates through the day and that is so much

part of a Test match. But under floodlights,

it is too dark. Now a white ball against white

Test match kit, well, it doesn't really stand out

and in any case it deteriorates too quickly, gets too

dirty for a Test match. Some reckon the pink ball moves

differently under floodlights, Well, England favour the Dukes,

the company is based in London where they've worked hard to develop

the pink ball they In realistic terms about 18 months

of research and batches being made and then rejected,

then another batch, and so on, The ball is fundamentally the same

as all the balls that we make. It is fundamentally the colour

and the surface finish and we are aiming to make the ball

as near as possible to all Which team will use

the pink ball better? West Indies still have

fast bowlers but lack Motivated in this series in fact

by being written off. Alongside tradition, Test cricket

knows it needs innovation. After months of speculation,

Daniel Craig has finally confirmed he will return as James Bond

in the next film But he told an American television

show that this appearance It has been a closely guarded secret

as to whether he would return. Daniel Craig, will you

return as James Bond? Thanks so much,

Daniel Craig, everybody! We have something of a sky fall on

the way this afternoon! Cloud and rain on the way to the north-west of

the British Isles and that has already arrived across Scotland,

Northern Ireland and will slowly move into parts of West of England

and Wales. Ahead of that still some decent soundtrack through the rest

of the afternoon. So through the afternoon things cloud over across

West Wales and South West England. But much of the rain arriving

towards the evening. Staying wet in Northern Ireland and western

Scotland with some strong wind around the coast and hills. Not

feeling too bad further south and east. Overnight the rain pushes east

across the British Isles with some heavy rain mixed in as it pushes

across the Midlands and into eastern England. A mild night than we have

seen for the last couple of nights, 13, 16 degrees. Some of the rain

could be slow to clear on Thursday. But otherwise sunshine develops

along with the showers. Most widespread across the West. Some of

those heavy but with some brighter spells and a little bit warmer for

both Glasgow and Belfast. Heavier breasts of rain across Northern

Ireland and Scotland on Thursday night, sunshine and showers followed

for Friday and feeling a bit cooler across the North West with some

blustery wind. Looking ahead to the weekend weather, we have to leave

the British Isles for a moment and head across the Atlantic towards the

United States. This area is a hurricane. Just in the north of that

we have another area of low pressure across eastern parts of Canada and

these weather systems are going to do battle over the next few days. By

the time we get to Friday they merged together, low-pressure and

that contains that moist air. We will get the heavy rain working into

the north-west in the second half of the weekend. So the weekend,

sunshine and showers, blustery wind on Saturday, in the sunshine

temperatures around 21 degrees in London. Showers frequent across the

North West and some of them heavy. On Sunday heavy rain moving in a

lovely across Northern Ireland, Scotland and North West England,

associated with the remnants of the hurricane. So pretty intense rain

and some surface water flooding possible.

A reminder of our main story this lunchtime.

The government says there must be an unprecedented solution for the

border between Northern Ireland and the Republic after Brexit.

That's all from the BBC News at One - so it's goodbye from me -

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