06/09/2017 BBC News at One

One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded

has hit the Caribbean, causing major damage.

Hurricane Irma is a life threatening category 5 storm,

with winds of up to 185 miles per hour.

There are warnings of catastrophic effects.

It hit land a few hours ago, knocking out power

The biggest cause for concern right now, is we seem to have completely

lost contact with our sister island of Barbuda.

They are getting the full force of this right now.

All Floridians, keep a close eye on this incredibly dangerous storm.

We'll have the latest live from Cuba as the hurricane approaches.

The Government insists it won't shut the door on EU migration,

but says the current system can't continue after Brexit.

Overall, immigration has been good for the UK,

but what people want to see is control of that immigration.

Fears of an emerging crisis in dentistry,

as research finds half of dentists in England are not accepting

And the unmistakeable voice of football for 50 years,

John Motson, says he's hanging up his sheepskin coat

I did my first-ever commentary for BBC television from this very

gantry, and in those days nobody had heard of the Internet,

although I can vouch for the fact I did say once upon a time,

And coming up in the sport on BBC News...

Andy Murray says he'll be back challenging for Grand Slams in 2018.

He'll miss the rest of the season to recovers from a hip problem.

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

One of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic has been

battering the Caribbean islands of Antigua, Barbuda and Anguilla

The category 5 storm - with sustained winds of 185 mph

and gusts of up to 225 mph - is now heading towards the British

Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and then may hit Florida by the end

Airports have closed on several islands and people have

flocked to shops for food, water, and emergency supplies

Officials have been warning of potentially catastrohpic effects.

The Leeward Islands of the Caribbean are now being battered by this huge

storm. This unverified video, apparently showing winds of more

than 180 mph, hitting the tiny island of Saint Martin. In the sky

above, this special US research plane also takes a battering as it

flies right through the hurricane, collecting vital data. For the crew,

it's a wild ride. From higher up, a satellite captures the seething,

churning power of this, one of the biggest Atlantic storms on record.

And from the International Space Station, a sense of how big an area

the storm clouds cover. Knowing that the islands of Antigua and Barbuda

would be amongst the first to be hit by the hurricane, people here

started moving to safety yesterday. Here we are, this is market Street,

usually a very, very busy street in St John's. Not busy today, it's a

ghost town. While Antigua may not have been hit too badly, the

situation in Barbuda is not known. The biggest cause for concern right

now is we seem to have lost complete contact with our sister island of

Barbuda. They are getting really the full force of this right now. I

think they are currently in the eye and that should be coming to a close

soon. And then they will get those 185 mile winds happening again

shortly. So we will be very grateful when we hear and finally get news

back from Barbuda. Hurricane Irma is steadily moving west. According to

latest reports its already caused major damage. So now, even as far

away as Florida, people are stuck in up with supplies. The hurricane is

expected to make landfall here by the weekend. The storm is massive,

and the storm surge predicted will go for miles and miles. It's

incredibly important that all Floridians keep a close eye on this

incredibly dangerous storm. Do not sit and wait to prepare. Get

prepared now. And already, the US authorities have ordered everyone

living in the very vulnerable area of Key West to leave. Richard

Galpin, BBC News. Our correspondent Will Grant

is in the Cuban capital Havana. It certainly looks like the calm

before the storm now, but is Cuba expected to field a full force of

the hurricane? It's a calm and very quiet day in Havana but that belies

the fact that Irma is on her way. Cubans, as people across the

Caribbean, know that, and are taking steps to prepare for it. Here

particularly people are focusing on getting enough clean drinking water,

getting fuel for their homes, cars and obviously trying to batten down

the hatches, literally, get hardware to board up their homes. There is a

feeling that particularly here, the winds that would be so devastating

elsewhere in the Caribbean, it might be worse in terms of rain here. Vast

amounts of rainfall in a short space of time, and that will cause those

storm surges everyone is so worried about. As you see, Havana is a

coastal city. If those storm surges come rushing onto the streets, it

will make flooding extremely widespread, not just here in the

capital but across the island. The government are taking steps, trying

to make people aware of just how serious the storm is. They have a

good track record of hurricane preparedness, but we will wait to

see how devastating the storm is when it moves through the rest of

the Caribbean and comes to Cuba here.

Our weather presenter, Chris Fawkes is here -

This is a brute of a storm. We have talked about it being a powerful

hurricane, a category five, the top category. The second strongest

hurricane on records, and those records go back a long time. Only

Alan had sustained winds of stronger, 199 mph. Irma has a

sustained wind of 185 mph. Irma made landfall right in the wrong place,

Barbuda. This was the centre, the eye of the storm right over the top

of Barbuda, so it went straight across the island. From there, just

in the last hour or so we have seen secondary landfall as it worked

across Saint Martin with Anguilla just to the north. The second most

powerful hurricane in the series. What sort of damage can we expect

from the storm? With wind gusting to around 225 mph, that will bring

catastrophic damage in its own right. As well as that, there will

be a storm surge near to the centre of the storm which in places could

beat 11 feet high. I am six foot three, imagine two of me in a wall

of water coming in from the seat and coupled with torrential rain. Where

is the storm going next? It's going straight across Saint Martin and

from there it moves to the British Virgin Islands. It will affect

Puerto Rico with torrential rain. Perhaps the strongest winds just

offshore but close enough to do damage. And then we are looking to

Florida, that may well be hit as well as we move into the second half

of the weekend, Sunday night into Monday. This storm still has a long

way to run. The Prime Minister has told

the Commons that people want to see She was speaking after a leaked

draft Home Office document suggested that heavy restrictions should be

placed on the number of low skilled workers coming to the UK,

and that employers should be encouraged to hire

British people first. But the Government's insisting it

won't shut the door on EU migration. Our Home Affairs Correspondent

Daniel Sandford reports. For many voters it was the key issue

on which they made their choice in the Brexit referendum. What should

Britain's immigration policy before EU citizens? Today a government

document, lead to journalist from Guardian newspaper but I do some

answers, the key issue being immigration should benefit not just

migrants themselves, but also make existing residents better off. Those

who have campaigned for years follow immigration are delighted. It's

broadly on the right lines. It's to be welcomed. If implemented as

proposed then we see a considerable, significant reduction in the sort of

numbers coming from the EU, which is what people broadly voted for a year

and a bit ago. The document is clearly a recent draft of the Home

Office's long-awaited White Paper on immigration after Brexit. Officials

here insist it's not the latest draft, it's very much a work in

progress and the Cabinet is still arguing over it. That said, it's not

back of the envelope stuff either, more than 80 pages of proposals. One

of the key phrases in the draft says that where ever possible UK

employers should look to meet their labour needs from resident labour.

But businesses insist they are already doing that. They will do

everything they can to employ British workers, it's just very

difficult. Sometimes you have skills gaps you need to fill from outside

the UK. That's just how it is. The draft proposes that any EU citizen

already living here before a certain not yet specified date would be

allowed to stay. And even after Brexit there would be a transition

period of at least two years. But at that point, the key proposals

suggest that free movement for EU citizens ends, they would need

passports, not ID cards at the border, and two-year work permit

would be available for EU citizens, although highly skilled workers

could get longer permits. For the holiday and hospitality industry,

like Butlins in Bognor Regis, the future could be a real challenge.

30% of their workforce are EU citizens and they may find

themselves applying for lots of work permits. I think nationally, you

know, coastal resorts struggle to recruit, so recruiting from the

European market is really important for us. Today's leaked document will

only fuel the debate about Britain's future immigration policy. Daniel

Sandford, BBC News. There's been a mixed

reaction to the leaked draft In the Commons this afternoon,

the Prime Minister told MPs that overall immigration has been good

for the economy. But migration needs to be controlled

to ease the impact on infrastructure and to protect those at the lowest

end of the income scale. But businesses have been warning

of the impact heavy restrictions Here's our political

correspondent Ian Watson. When Britain leaves the European

Union, the government wants to reassure businesses that the economy

won't, as they put it, fall off a cliff edge. So there won't be

massive changes to EU migration for at least a couple of years. But the

leaked document points to a sea change in attitudes after that, with

far more restrictions on unskilled workers. In the Commons today, the

SNP asked the Prime Minister to restate the benefits, rather than

the burdens, of immigration. Overall immigration has been good for the

UK. But what people want to see is control of that immigration. That

is, I think, what people wanted to see as a result of coming out of the

European Union. We are already able to exercise controls in relation to

those who come to this country from outside the countries within the

European Union. And we continue to believe as a government that it's

important to have net migration at sustainable levels. Theresa May

knows the only way she can get net migration down to the tens of

thousands is if she cuts EU immigration significantly. That

said, non-EU migration is way above that level, even with tighter

controls. So some leave campaigners are hoping the government will

officially adopt some of the ideas in this document for further

restrictions. People were fed up with people just coming in from the

EU into this country, putting public services under pressure. That was

the number one issue are people voted to leave, I would say. The

covenant is acting on a promise to end free movement. The document is

marked sensitive. But restrictions on immigration are far more

sensitive in some parts of the country than others. This extreme,

hard Brexit is a blueprint for strangling the London economy. Why

do I say that? On a regular basis I speak to chief executives and

employers, speak to businesses in London, and I know the positive

impact EU workers make. This summer the Home Secretary commissioned

research into the impact of immigration, so, some MPs say, she

shouldn't be floating the idea of new restrictions until she sees the

result. They really must wait for the evidence from the advisory

committee about the overall impact and what the needs are in different

sectors of the economy before they take decisions. The Cabinet is yet

to finalise what restrictions it wants to see on immigration. But

critics say it's important that skilled workers who might benefit

the economy will still feel welcome. Iain Watson, BBC News.

Let's speak to Norman Smith, who's at Westminster.

This is a draft document but does it give us a good idea of how

immigration will look in the future? It is just a draft document,

apparently it has already been rewritten about half a dozen times.

What's striking is that nobody around Theresa May is going out of

their way to play down or dismissed the thrust of the thinking. In fact

one source said to me, we are not going to apologise for trying to

bring down immigration. And in the Commons as well, listen to Theresa

May against dressing the way immigration can drive down the wages

of the lowest paid in public services. So this document probably

does reflect or chime with Mrs May's thinking. The difficulty is, there

are others in the Conservative Party, including in the Cabinet, who

are much more uneasy, particularly on the impact on business. Business

saying that they're simple isn't the pool of British Labour out there to

do all these jobs, and we have to recruit from abroad if we want to

grow our companies. And that division is reflected in exactly the

same way in the Labour Party. It means broadly we may have to wait

some time before a post Brexit immigration regime is finalised.

Norman Smith in Westminster, thank you.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever

recorded, has hit the Caribbean with winds of up to 185 miles per

It hit the islands of Barbuda, Saint Barts and St Martin where it knocked

out power and damaged buildings. It could sweep into Florida by the

weekend. At the age of 37, Venus Williams

becomes the oldest semi-finalist She beat Petra Kvitova overnight,

in a thrilling final set tie-break Tens of thousands more

people are streaming over the border between Myanmar -

formally known as Burma - The Rohingya Muslims are escaping

what they say is a bloody campaign by the Burmese military

against insurgents. But Myanmar's leader

Aung San Suu Kyi says fake news is fuelling the crisis

in Rakhine State - where most Rohingya Muslims live,

and she made no mention Caroline Hawley's report

contains flash photography. The human toll of this crisis

is growing by the day. More and more Rohingya's

are fleeing from Burma for There is little for them

in Bangladesh but even less The terror they have

endured, the difficulty of reaching safety is

written on their faces. We were hiding in

the hill for two days. We were there in rain without food

and with my children. When we heard the sound

of shooting, we took a boat across the sea to come

here to Bangladesh. Aung San Suu Kyi is under

international pressure to use her moral authority to speak out,

but today during a visit by the Indian Prime Minister,

the former human rights icon instead appeared

to back the military We would like to thank India

particularly for the strong stand it has

taken with regard to We believe that together we can work

to make sure terrorism is not allowed to take root on our soil

or on the soil of any of the other In a phone call with

Turkey's President, she reportedly spoke of a huge iceberg of

misinformation calculated to create problems between different

communities with the aim, she said, of promoting the interest

of terrorists. It is a line that has been

echoed by other government I am deeply disappointed

and saddened by the campaign being waged around the world with regard

to the situation in Rohingya. These fabricated news

items are written and published with the intent

to mislead the public. They cannot be accepted

and it will only But the Burmese

government has denied the The latest military

campaign that has forced so many people to flee began

after insurgent attacks last month The response has been

collective punishment of the Rohingya, a people described

as the world's most persecuted The UN is warning that the situation

in Myanmar could spiral into a "humanitarian catastrophe"

after almost 140,000 people fled Our correspondent, Sanjoy Majumder,

is near Cox's Bazaar on the Myanmar Bangladesh border

from where he's sent this report. All these boats are carrying

Royingya refugees fleeing persecution in Myanmar and they have

been coming through I am told there are several other

boatloads of refugees just waiting This is one fresh lot of refugees

who have just arrived. They have come off this boat

here, and you can see how they are carrying with them

their household belongings, things that they have just managed

to grab as they ran. Several of them have

told me that their villages There are some people

here with gunshot wounds, some people with other injuries,

but most of all, they This is a really dangerous voyage,

and it has taken them From here, they will move on to one

of the many refugee camps that have and there are more

coming in every hour. That was our correspondent,

Sanjoy Majumder on the Bangladesh A 14-year-old boy has died

after two teenagers were shot Corey Junior Davis -

and another boy, who's 17 - were found with gunshot injuries

in Forest Gate. The second victim is said to have

"life-changing injuries". Police have launched

a murder investigation. Over the past ten years,

scientists in the UK have received ?8 billion in funding

from the European Union to help fund their research

into all kinds of projects. But since the Brexit vote last year,

there've been serious concerns that Now though, the government has said

that it wants to negotiate continued membership of the European Union's

main research funding British science is among

the best in the world. Much of its funding comes

from the European Union. The decision to leave the EU left

that funding uncertain but now the government has said it wants

to negotiate to have access I think it's very encouraging

in both its tone and aspirations but it's clear that there's

going to be a lot of work that needs to be done to hammer out the details

of an eventual agreement. The Francis Crick Institute

in London is one of the most prestigious research centres

in the world and attracts top The government has said it values

the relationship the UK has with European research funders

and it wants that to continue. That's obviously been

welcomed by the researchers here but many of them are concerned

about restrictions on immigration This group has received

?3 million from the EU. Their work could lead

to much better vaccines. There are 12 researchers working

on the project, ten of them It is a concern and it is one that

plays on all of our minds and it is possibly leading

to at least some people beginning to contemplate offers

elsewhere which they may not Full membership of the main EU

research funding body requires That's been ruled out

by the government so campaigners are calling for a quick and simple

Visa system that will make it easy A big concern is the future

of our migration system. It's very important to our

scientific companies and universities to be able

to attract people from the EU and the rest of the world to work

and study in science in the UK. There are also uncertainties over

Britain's nuclear research. The government wants to withdraw

from the body that regulates it. Ministers want to negotiate

a special status for the UK so that it can continue to have

access to EU funds for research The BBC has announced

that it is launching three wide-ranging reviews into pay

following the controversy over Two will look into equal pay

across the corporation - the other will be a review of pay

and diversity for on-air stars. Our Media Editor,

Amol Rajan is here. What exactly will it look like?

Sophie, Tony Hall made a significant announcement today, the first big

response to the fear Rory earlier this summer over BBC pay. There are

three responses, they will look at gender pay, an internal

investigation that will be reported back on after six weeks and an

independent audit. An external audit from PricewaterhouseCoopers will

look at pay across the whole of the BBC, whether or not people doing the

same job are paid different amounts. A third review, led by the news

operation, looks at on-air talent and issues beyond the gender pay gap

and diversity. It's a classic way of buying time before making difficult

decisions, and the BBC faces difficult decisions on the issue of

equal pay. If it raises the salary of those at the bottom, it could be

accused of spending licence fee payers money. At the top, and it

could face legal action. The announcement today says it is easy

to find the problems, and much harder to find the solutions. The

speech from Tony Hall was more about the direction of travel rather than

an answer on this issue of equal pay. Thank you.

Half of dentists in England are not accepting new adult NHS patients

and two-fifths are not accepting new child NHS patients -

according to research carried out by the BBC.

The British Dental Association says it is evidence of an 'emerging

But NHS England says 95% of patients do manage to

This is a familiar sight for Fozia, who's been trying to find an NHS

I was absolutely gobsmacked in a sense, I

was quite devastated there are none locally.

A mum of two on benefits, she needs a local NHS dentist for

her son Mansoor, who has an overcrowded mouth and a mineral

I tried calling up, going through the Yellow

Pages, using the Internet, and then I used 101,

where they find you the

They said there wasn't one in Bradford.

The BBC has analysed the data of 2500 dental

practices across England, and provided information about whether

they were accepting new NHS patients.

48% stated that they were not accepting new adult patients,

while 40% were not accepting new child patients.

There is an emerging crisis about more and more dentists

not accepting new patients, simply because they are not allowed to see

enough dentistry to treat about half the

adult population, which is an absolute disgrace.

People that need an NHS dentist should be able to get

NHS England says the latest patient survey found that 95% of

people seeking a dental appointment were able to get one, and overall,

care is now 3800 higher than a decade ago.

Andy Murray says he's likely to miss the rest of the season,

as he looks to find ways to overcome his hip injury.

The three-time Grand Slam Champion hasn't played since his Wimbledon

quarterfinal defeat in July and has lost his world number one ranking.

Murray says he'll begin the 2018 season in Brisbane ahead

For 50 years he has been the voice of football.

But now John Motson has decided to hang up his microphone

'Motty' - as he's famously known - has covered ten World Cups,

200 England games and 29 FA Cup finals.

His final BBC commentary will be for the FA Cup final in May.

Our Sport's Editor Dan Roan went to meet him.

The Crazy Gang have beaten the Culture Club.

It's dramatic, it's delightful, it's Denmark!

What was, for you, the secret, the key, to be able to call those

It's like saying to your postman, how do you prepare the letters?

You know, people don't have do know that, do they?

And people didn't need to know that I was spending two days in this

office banging myself over the head with who the substitute was going

They were only concerned with the end product,

and I had to make that as good as I could.

That's John Motson, reporting for us tonight of course on the Southend

and Liverpool match, looking there rather

Your big breakthrough was the '72 cup match?

Newcastle winning 1-0 with five minutes to go.

Now Tudor has gone down for Newcastle.

When I see Ronnie Radford, I always say "You changed my life, Ronnie!"

And he said, well, "That goal changed my career", which it did.

And when I see it again, as I have hundreds of times,

I still think to myself, please go in.

Because if that had not nestled in the Newcastle net,

I'm afraid that Mark West and Martin O'Neill are going to have

to wait a few days longer if they are to add another chapter

The sheepskin coat, it has sort of entered folklore now.

Did you ever think at the time it would become a trademark?

I bought it for the warmth, because you could not buy

It was only a jacket that you could get in the shops, so I started

People started saying "Oh, you are the bloke in the sheepskin."

"Where were you when you were in the snow?"

I didn't set out to make that a trademark, honestly.

So we can't get down there to actually find

But I think Trevor Brooking's is next to...

from this very gantry, and in those days, nobody had

heard of the Internet, although I can vouch for the fact

that I did say once upon a time, it's in the net.

What do you think made you a great commentator, looking back now?

I think you've got to be passionate about it.

I also feel you've got to remember as well that it's only

I mean, while people are listening to football matches

or commentating on them, there are people going

to the theatre, and the cinema, and reading books.

I think one or two people tend to forget that.

I was going to say it was like being paid for your hobby,

that's what people always say to me, but there is a little bit

You know, the preparation and the homework, and watching

players and going to see games so that you could do the one that

It was a challenge, but it was a challenge

Our Sports Editor Dan Roan talking to Match of the Day

Time for a look at the weather, here's Chris Fawkes.

A quick reminder about Irma, the second strongest hurricane on

record. It has made two landfalls already, at seven o'clock at

Barbuda, that I of the storm in the wrong place. Since then it has moved

north-west, moving across St Martin at the moment. This storm will bring

catastrophic damage, only hurricane Allen has been stronger in terms of

sustained winds, they were files mild -- five miles per hour stronger

than this brood. The British Virgin Islands are in danger in the next

few hours, some strong winds over quota Rico. The bar Hamas will

-- there is some patches of cloud around, sunny spells going. The

cloud is big enough to squeeze some showers out. Across north-west

England and North and West Scotland, away from these areas, you have a

small chance of a shower. Most areas stay dry. It feels pressure, if you

have been outside. Highs at 16-20d for most. Tonight, overnight,

initially clouds break a little, some clear spells but later in the

night, thick cloud works into Northern Ireland, Scotland, north

and west England and Wales. Then we see patches of rain in the north and

west by the end of the night. In the forecast tomorrow, a cloudy start

for north-western areas. A band of rain sweeping in across Scotland and

Northern Ireland, reaching north-west England and Wales as we

had through the afternoon on Thursday. In the Midlands, a largely

dry and bright day with cloud building up through the day. 20

degrees in London, not bad in September sunshine but cooler in

Glasgow at just 14 degrees with strengthening winds. A blustery day

on Friday, this band of rain moves into southern England. Some

uncertainty as to how far north or south it will get but in the north,

a mix of sun and showers. Some of those showers are blustery. Hail and

Thunder is possible, cooler in the north-west of the UK, an autumnal

chill in the air for some, and in the south-east, temperatures falling

away. A sign of things to come, low pressure over the British Isles,

widespread showers, it will often be cloudy and become increasingly

windy, especially through Sunday. On the BBC Weather website, you will

not be surprised to hear that we are keeping a close eye on Hurricane

Irma, keep up-to-date on the Twitter feed, and there is an explanation of

how a hurricane forms. That is by my colleague Tomasz Schafernaker.