30/11/2017 BBC News at One

More calls for President Trump's

state visit to the UK to be

cancelled, as a Twitter row

intensifies.

Donald Trump rebuked Theresa May

on Twitter for saying he was wrong

to share anti-Muslim videos -

but the Home Secretary's

repeated the criticism.

I think we all listen more carefully

perhaps to criticism

from our friends than from people

who we don't have

a relationship with.

So I hope that the Prime Minister's

comments will have some impact on

the president.

But Amber Rudd says the state

visit will go ahead,

and urged critics to remember

the importance of the

trans-Atlantic alliance.

Also this lunchtime...

A sharp fall in immigration

since Britain voted to leave the EU,

as net migration

drops by almost a third.

The Chennai Six freed

after more than four years

in an Indian prison -

one former soldier tells the BBC

of his joy after an appeal

against his conviction.

Cloud nine, woah!

Can't wait to get home.

It's going to be like four

Christmases that I've missed rolled

in one.

It's going to be the best Christmas

my family could ever wish for.

Warnings from NHS leaders in England

that they cannot meet waiting

time targets next year

because of funding.

And hope for some of the eight

million migraine sufferers in the UK

after trials of new drugs.

And coming up in the sport

on BBC News, Big Sam is back.

Everton are set to announce

the former England manager

as their new boss

to replace Ronald Koeman.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

There's been widespread condemnation

in Parliament of President Trump,

after he shared anti-Muslim videos

on twitter that had been posted

by a British far right group.

The Home Secretary Amber Rudd told

MPs that Donald Trump was wrong

to spread the messages posted online

by an organisation that seeks

to divide communities.

The row has prompted more calls

for President Trump's state visit

to the UK to be cancelled.

Iain Watson reports.

I'd like to start by saying how

delighted I am that as the leader of

the free world you took the time to

tweet out three of my videos on

Twitter today.

This is Jayda

Fransen, deputy leader of Britain

First, an organisation established

by former members of the far right

BMP. Donald Trump re-tweeted footage

that a Dutch man was attacked by a

Muslim. In fact, the assailant was

born in the Netherlands. All this

while the Prime Minister was

visiting countries in the Middle

East, where the majority of their

populations are Muslim. A spokesman

said Donald Trump was wrong. She

probably wasn't expecting a reaction

quite like this. Addressing the

Prime Minister directly on Twitter,

the president said...

There was widespread condemnation in

Parliament. This is how the Home

Secretary reacted.

President Donald

Trump was wrong to re-tweet videos

posted by far right group Britain

First. The unparalleled sharing of

intelligence between our countries

is vital. It is undoubtedly -- it

has undoubtedly saved British lives.

That is the bigger picture. I would

urge people to remember that.

Using

the President's preferred method of

communication, Communities Secretary

Sajid Javid was even more robust.

Labour say it was a strategic error

of a Theresa May to have got so

close, so quickly to the new US

president at the start of this year.

A state visit to the UK should not

have been on the agenda.

She should

never have invited him within a few

weeks of him being elected. Every

other American president has have to

wait for years, they have had to

settle down, and we have to be sure

about who we are inviting, with the

Queen is inviting.

The Home

Secretary didn't seem certain about

when he would come.

An invitation

for the visit has been extended and

accept that, but the dates and

precise arrangements have yet to be

agreed.

The Prime Minister has been

backed into a corner. She wants a

post Brexit trade deal with the US,

but she will face huge criticism at

Westminster if she hadn't distanced

herself from a president who has in

effect distributed British far right

material to his 43 million followers

on Twitter. It is difficult to see

how you can defuse a diplomatic,

perhaps I should say on diplomatic

row like this. Tensions between the

two traditional transatlantic allies

are rather more restrained than when

President and Prime first met.

Ian Watson, BBC News.

In a moment, we can cross

to Washington and our

State Department Correspondent,

Barbara Plett Usher.

But first, the reaction

from Westminster, and our Assistant

political editor, Norman Smith.

He's the Prime Minister likely to

bow to this pressure to cancel the

visit?

The short answer is no, she

is not. This is despite the

widespread anger among MPs on all

sides, some suggesting that the

president is giving soccer,

pandering to the far right Britain

First group. And despite also

probably the genuine dismay and

distaste in Downing Street for the

President's conduct. The reason the

visit will be cancelled is hard

faced political reality. That

reality is we cannot afford to

compromise our relationship with the

United States, particularly in the

post Brexit world, when we need

those close ties if we are going to

get those -- that trade deal we are

so anxious to secure. However, there

is a big but. It is this. Do not

expect that state visit to happen

any time soon. If you listen to the

Home Secretary in the Commons twice

she said, yes, we have issued an

invitation, it has been accepted,

but the date, the arrangements, no.

That has not been agreed. People in

government are quite clear they can

put away their diaries, it will be

happening soon. I surmise when the

visit does eventually take place it

would probably be on a wet and windy

Thursday morning in the middle of

the school holidays when everybody

is away. The state visit has not

been cancelled, but don't expect it

to happen any time soon.

Norman, thank you.

And Barbara Plett Usher

is in Washington.

President Trump's decision to

re-tweet these videos has been

roundly condemned here and

elsewhere. What does he stand to

gain from doing it? Why does he do

it?

Well, first of all in terms of

the aftermath of it, his tweet about

Theresa May, it is consistent with

his Twitter Padron and it is also

consistent with his personality. E

can't seem to help himself. He sees

any criticism is personal and lashes

out the matter what the

international consequences. It is

also part of his brand, he likes to

speak bluntly. His followers believe

he is speaking truth to power. In

terms of the inflammatory videos,

that is also consistent with his

national security policy. He sees

migrants as a threat, Islam as a

threat. He says Europe is not

dealing with either very well. Look

out America, that could happen here

as well. We don't want that to

happen. Theresa May, look after your

own backyard, don't bother with

mine. All of those things are part

of why he did what he did. In terms

of the relationship with Britain and

what has come out that from this

tweet issue, that doesn't change the

fact there is strong bipartisan

support for the transatlantic

alliance. But it is a new low for

the diplomatic and foreign policy

community. Their general reaction

is, really, this is the fight you

chose to pick you macro you pick a

fight with our closest ally. Enough

is enough.

Thank you.

Net migration to the UK has

seen its biggest fall on record.

It dropped by almost a third -

that's more than 100,000 -

from June 2016 to June this year.

Net migration is the difference

between people coming to the UK

for more than a year,

and the number of people leaving

the UK for a year or more.

Most of the fall is due to fewer

people coming from other

European Union countries.

Richard Lister has more.

At the Royal Lancaster Hotel in

central London, more than half the

employees are foreign nationals.

Most from the EU. They are at every

level, from making the beds to

running the business. There aren't

enough British workers to fill the

positions available. Managers are

worried.

The open borders policy we

have always had has been critical.

We are the fourth largest industry

for UK GDP. We need 200,000 EU

nationals are year just to stand

still.

The new figures cover the

years since the Brexit vote. They

show that 230,000 more migrants came

to live in the UK than left it. But

that is more than 100,000 fewer than

before the Brexit vote. Most of that

decline is due to EU nationals.

Fewer are coming and more are

returning home.

Immigration has been

on a roller-coaster rise. We had a

record rise leading up to the

referendum. Then we have a record

decline in net migration in the year

following. It is the largest single

year fall in net migration since

records began in 1964.

Builders and

other tradesmen from across the EU

have been part of British life for

years. But the latest figures

suggest the UK is becoming less

attractive to them as the pound gets

weaker and other European economies

get stronger.

Work is the main

reason why EU nationals come to the

UK. We are seeing very similar

numbers coming in who are arriving

for a definite job. I see no change

there. Where we have seen a change

is a full of 43% in those coming to

look for work. -- fall.

At the Royal

Lancaster, Francesco -- Francesca

from Italy has noticed foreign

colleagues leaving the UK. But she

is hoping to stay.

For me it will

never change because I am still

working here. I would like really to

stay here and to improve my career.

In fact, the figures show the number

of EU nationals applying for British

citizenship has doubled since

Brexit.

Richard Lister, BBC News.

One of the so-called Chennai Six,

who was released from an Indian

prison on Monday, has

spoken of his relief and delight

at regaining his freedom.

Nick Dunn, a former soldier,

was among six Britons

acquitted of weapons charges

by an Indian court.

He said his family would

have the best Christmas ever

after missing the last four.

He was talking to our India

Correspondent, Sanjoy Majumder.

I'm on cloud nine. There is not a

word in that English dictionary that

can describe how I feel at this

minute. Can't.

Former paratrooper

Nick Dunn has just been released

from an Indian prison. One of six

Britons arrested four years ago and

charged with smuggling weapons. He

has now traded his squalid prison

cell for a plush hotel room. His

sister has come out to India to take

him back home. Andy just can't wait.

It's going to be like four

Christmases that I have missed

rolled in one. It will be the best

Christmas. The best Christmas my

family could ever wish for.

It has

been a long, desperate wait for

justice inside this chain I prison.

Nick and his friends were part of a

crew of 35 on board an American ship

seized of the Indian coast. On

Monday, an Indian court threw out

all the charges. The men were

finally freed.

I was out training.

One of the guys shouted us over. I

could hear it in his voice. It was

excitement. He went, full acquittal.

And I stopped in my tracks. It was

like someone just slapped us. It was

a shock. You know? It was an amazing

feeling.

Well they rotted in prison,

the men's families led a massive

campaign back on to press for their

release. They petitioned the

government, including the Prime

Minister. They are delighted and the

men overcome with gratitude.

You

know, knowing there's lovely people

out there, lovely, amazing,

supportive people. I will never be

able to thank them as much as what I

am trying to do now.

Senior health service leaders

in Englnad have been meeting

to discuss what level

of service they can deliver

to patients next year with the money

they have available.

They've concluded that

waiting times standards -

the length of time it takes

for patients to receive treatment -

will just not be met.

Our Health Editor Hugh Pym

is outside the meeting venue.

Are they just holding up their hands

and saying, we can't do it?

In

effect they are saying that is the

case as things stand at the moment.

But after the budget allocation of

more money for the NHS in England,

1.6 billion, announced by the

Chancellor, even after that this is

what we think we can and can't do.

They say they want to prioritise

cancer treatment, mental health and

also primary care. That is GP

services. And stick to already

announced commitments on that front.

When it comes to waiting time

standards, that means commitments,

for example, with routine surgery,

that patients have their procedures

within 18 weeks, even the A&E, 95%

of patients being treated within

four hours, those are very much up

in the air. A key phrase in a board

-- word paper discussed this morning

says this. Without offsetting

reductions in other areas of care,

NHS Constitution waiting time

standards in the round will not be

fully funded and make next year.

This is now all up for discussion

with the government in the next few

months. Fairly fraught discussions.

Before the so-called NEH mandate.

What they have to do next year is

agree.

Thank you.

Russia has rejected a call

by the US for all countries

to cut their diplomatic and trade

ties with North Korea.

Washington's appeal came in response

to Pyongyang's latest test

of an intercontinental ballistic

missile.

But Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei

Lavrov called it a negative

move and a provocation.

Our Diplomatic Correspondent

Paul Adams reports.

BEEPING.

BLAST.

North Korea says it is

now a nuclear power.

Yesterday's launch hailed

by Pyongyang as a milestone.

But what do the pictures, released

a day later, actually tell us?

The rocket is huge.

Look at Kim Jong-un

in the black coat.

He is five foot seven.

Experts say the engine

technology is new and the

transporter longer than ever.

But it is what we can't see

that really matters.

Was the tip heavy enough

to simulate a nuclear warhead?

North Korea says it was.

Donald Trump has made

thwarting the North Korean

leader a top priority.

It's not going so well.

Little rocket man...

He is a sick puppy.

At the UN last night,

fresh condemnation and more

dire warnings.

The dictator of North Korea made

a choice yesterday that brings

the world closer to war.

And if war comes,

make no mistake - the

North Korean regime will

be utterly destroyed.

The North Korean leader seems

less than intimidated.

This latest rocket

flew longer and higher

than ever, with a range thought

to be in excess of 8000 miles.

Kim Jong-un says he has

achieved his nuclear ambitions.

Most experts believe

there's lots of difficult

testing still to be done.

But it's just possible

that in the next 12

months or so, everybody,

including Donald Trump,

is going to have to get used

to the fact that North Korea does

indeed have usable nuclear weapons.

Paul Adams, BBC News, Seoul.

Our top story this lunchtime.

More calls for President Trump's

state visit to the UK to be

cancelled, as he rebukes Theresa May

on Twitter for saying he was wrong

to share anti-Muslim videos.

What a night for Wayne Rooney -

as that spectacular goal rounds

off his hat-trick for Everton.

Coming up in sport, James Anderson

expects the war of words

to continue ahead of the second

Ashes Test this weekend.

England's record wicket taker says

he's happy when someone tries

to get under his skin.

The Northern Ireland border is one

of the major sticking point in the

Brexit talks. The EU won't allow

drop talks to move on to trade

unless it gives guarantees there is

no hard border.

The government is refusing

to comment on reports that it's

looking at the possibility

of allowing Northern Ireland

to stick to some EU trading

rules post-Brexit -

even if regulations change

in the rest of the UK.

Chris Buckler is on the Fermanagh

Donegal border and joins us now.

This is one of the bridges that

connects the Republic of Ireland to

Northern Ireland and it's one of the

places where there is concern about

what Brexit will mean. Some fear it

could mean a return of customs posts

to roads like this, but today, there

are indications that the British

government is prepared to do a deal

that will have certain dispenses for

Northern Ireland and that will be

welcome news to the Irish

government, who have been hardening

their language about the potential

of the hard border.

For many months now politicians have

been huddled in Brexit negotiations.

The UK and the EU both

pushing their priorities,

and what's decided on one of the key

issues will have

quite an impact here.

The Derry Donegal Vipers

are an Irish American football team

and their players come from both

Northern Ireland and the Republic.

Our whole team is split

almost down the middle

from either side of the border,

which is great.

A key question is what will happen

to that border after Brexit.

In the future is it possible

that people will have

to negotiate their way

through customs posts,

as they once did in the past?

That's a journey many

make on a daily basis,

and some are wondering

what their morning commute

will be like in the future.

Everybody says they do not want

a hard border, but the detail

of what not having a hard border

would look like has never been

clearly defined for me.

Marie Lindsay lives

in County Donegal and every day

she crosses into Northern Ireland

to go to her job as principal

of a school in Londonderry.

This is the old customs post,

right here, and that was the place

where you were stopped.

It's a 15 minute drive

and her concerns about a hard border

go beyond potential traffic delays.

The communities now

are quite seamless.

What has been a lot of talk

about the economy and what impact it

would have on the economy,

much less so about the social fabric

of a society of a border people.

Many cross that border to go

to school, even hospital,

and to avoid customs on these border

roads the British government

is understood to be looking

at the possibility that

Northern Ireland could stick

to some EU trading rules -

the likes of agriculture

and electricity.

Even if that meant being different

to the rest of the UK.

The Prime Minister has been very

clear in saying that as we leave

the European Union we leave

the single market and we leave

the customs union, but we know

that there need to be specific

outcomes to meet the unique

circumstances of Northern Ireland

and the island of Ireland

as a whole.

That sounds like a desire to deal,

particularly as the Irish government

have the ability to block Brexit

talks from moving on.

They want guarantees

about the border and that means

there could be more clashes to come.

Just one word of caution about this

suggestion that there could be a

breakthrough in these Brexit

negotiations over the border. The

DUP are deeply against anything that

would mean different regulations in

Northern Ireland to anywhere else in

the UK, and that matters, because

the Conservative government relies

on their support at Westminster.

Nonetheless, all agree that yet on

land or at sea, they don't borders

if they can avoid them.

Chris Morris, from the BBC's

Reality Check team, is here now

to explain why the Northern Ireland

border has become an issue

of such pressing concern

in the Brexit negotiations.

So let's just remind ourselves

what we're talking about here.

The Irish border is one of three

issues on which sufficient progress

needs to be made before the Brexit

negotiations can move on.

And if no one thinks it's a good

idea to reimpose a hard border

with checks and inspections,

why can't we all agree

that - come what may -

it simply won't happen?

Well, it's because the UK has

announced that it is leaving the EU

single market and the customs union.

At the moment all rules

and regulations, north and south,

are exactly the same,

on food safety, animal

welfare - you name it.

It's a relationship based in large

part on agreements covered by joint

membership of the EU.

As soon as that changes, border

checks may have to begin again.

That's why the Irish government

wants a written guarantee

from the UK that Northern Ireland

will continue to follow EU rules -

so goods can continue to move

freely across the border.

To put it another way -

Northern Ireland would have to stay

in the single market

and the customs union.

But if that were to happen,

it would in effect push the customs

border out into the Irish Sea.

An internal customs

border, if you like,

between Northern Ireland

and Great Britain.

Would that be acceptable

to the UK Government,

or to its Unionist political allies

in Northern Ireland, the DUP?

In a word, no.

So what happens next?

The UK side has spoken

of technological fixes -

prescreening, trusted trader

schemes.

The EU side says it's nowhere

near enough to avoid the return

of some border checks.

Irish officials argue

that there are already cases

of rules and regulations

being different in Northern Ireland

than in the rest of the UK,

and they point to other examples

such as Hong Kong,

where there are different

regulatory arrangements

within sovereign states.

The search is on for a solution,

with no divergence of

regulations in key areas.

And the creation of some form

of customs partnership on the island

of Ireland which doesn't threaten

the constitutional order of the UK.

But if a fix emerges that seems

to turn Northern Ireland into a back

door route into the single market,

then other EU countries

will cry foul.

So even if "sufficient progress"

on Ireland is agreed next month,

there will be a long way to go.

Police helicopters take so long

to reach crime scenes that more

than 40 % of incidents are over

before the air support has arrived,

according to a watchdog.

Inspectors have called

for the service in England and Wales

to be urgently reformed or replaced,

as our home affairs correspondent

Daniel Sandford reports.

Air support has become

an essential part of policing.

For tracking criminals

during crimes in action,

for monitoring crowds,

and for searching and

filming from the air.

But since the National Police

Air Service replaced

individual force helicopters,

the number of aircraft

has dropped by a third,

the number of bases has halved.

There's no doubt in the country

where your proximity to a base

really counts about how quickly

a helicopter gets to you, that's

created some winners and losers.

So in London, for example,

the Metropolitan Police still gets

a really fast response time

when they call for a helicopter.

It's there in a few minutes.

In other parts of the country

they are waiting over an hour.

There are concerns too

about the helicopters themselves.

No new ones have been bought,

there are no plans to do so,

and the maintenance bill is rising.

The National Police Air Service

was set up five years ago

with the encouragement

of the Home Office,

principally to save money.

Well, it has saved money,

but the inspectors found

it's no more efficient

than the previous system.

It simply does less.

There's been a 45%

reduction in flying hours.

In 2016, there were still over

57,000 call-outs of police

helicopters, but almost 25,000

of those were cancelled

in mid-flight because

the helicopter was too late -

the incident was over

before it arrived.

Clearly if I had more helicopters

and more bases I could provide

an even better service,

but I think they do pretty

well with what we have.

But I also recognise that we very

definitely have to make

some difficult decisions

about which priority calls

we attend, and sadly on occasions

which ones we don't.

After considering all the options

for the future of police helicopters

in England and Wales,

the inspectors came

to a stark conclusion -

it may be better to simply tear up

the current arrangements

and start again.

Daniel Sandford, BBC News,

at the Home Office.

More than eight million people

suffer from migraines every year.

The headaches can be

completely debilitating.

But now new drugs have been tested

which appear to help people

who suffer from migraines.

They use antibodies to reduce

the number and severity of attacks.

Our health and science

correspondent, James Gallagher,

has more details.

Imogen Smith started

having migraines two years

ago when she was 16.

Imogen was having attacks every week

and they forced her to take

a year out of college.

It was really scary, so for me,

when they were happening,

I had no clue what they were

because I thought a migraine

was just a headache,

so we had to keep looking

into more serious things.

One in seven people in the UK live

with the agony of migraine.

Scientists have now developed

new treatments that target

a chemical in the nervous system

to prevent a migraine developing.

Two trials have now been published.

One gave 955 patients a monthly

injection of antibodies.

Before the trial, they were having

migraines eight days

every month on average.

Around 50% of patients

were able to cut their number

of migraines in half.

Four drug companies are all

developing similar treatments

and scientists say a new therapy

could give patients their life back.

These treatments are the first

migraine-specific preventives ever

for the most substantial

neurological cause of

disability on the planet.

That is a huge advance

for all of us.

Imogen's migraines are under

control and she's now

studying to be a nurse,

but currently available drugs

do not work for everyone

and can cause side-effects.

New options for people

living with migraine

are desperately needed.

James Gallagher, BBC News.

The Everton captain

Wayne Rooney had quite a night

at Goodison Park yesterday.

He rolled back the years,

scoring his first Premier League

hat trick in six years,

including one extraordinary goal

from the halfway line.

Afterwards he admitted himself

it was probably one of the best

goals he has ever scored.

Everton beat West Ham 4-0

on what was the caretaker manager

Olly Foster has the story.

COMMENTATOR:

And Rooney!

Oh, my word!

Wayne Rooney was just 16

when he scored a Goodison Park

for the first time.

In the last 15 years,

for Manchester United,

England and now back at Everton,

he has over 300 goals to his name.

But as he beat the stranded

Joe Hart, Rooney thinks

this was his best yet.

It fell to me, obviously Joe

was out his goal and I just thought

I'd have a go and I cuaght it sweet.

Yeah, I saw you celebrating almost

as soon as you hit it.

You knew it was going in,

you knew you'd caught

it right, didn't you?

Yeah, I think as soon as I caught

it, but it's one of them,

it could slice off and I tried

to hit it hard enough to go in.

It's been done before, Beckham

from the halfway line in 1996.

COMMENTATOR:

Oh!

That is absolutely phenomenal!

That remains a yardstick for

the long-range wonder goal debate.

Xabi Alonso did it

twice for Liverpool.

But finding an empty net

against Luton in the FA Cup wasn't

quite in the same league.

Rooney's was, though.

Sometimes these things happen,

sometimes it falls for you right

to take that shot on.

It's not every game you'll

obviously be shooting

from there but it was the right time

and the perfect moment.

The goalkeeper was out,

and it felt perfect for me.

And what makes it all the sweeter,

doing it in front of the new boss.

Sam Allardyce begins

work today on a rescue

mission to keep Everton up.

It didn't look like they were

struggling last night, though.

A Rooney hat-trick

topped by that goal.

If he stays fit and firing,

they might just be all right.

Olly Foster, BBC News.

Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Tomasz Schafernaker.

There was great amusement in London

when there were about three

snowflakes, but that's not the case

elsewhere, where there's more snow.

Absolutely, we had some snow on the

beach in Scarborough, it shows how

cold that area is. This is from

Scarborough. Another one from

Hartlepool. We've seen lots of snow

coming in from Gotland for quite a

few days now. As far as this evening

and tonight is concerned, more snow

showers on the way, at least the

chance of them around eastern areas

of the UK. For Northern and eastern

Scotland, Eastern counties of

England, possibly into East Anglia,

perhaps even getting into the Home

Counties and the south-east as well.

But we are only talking about

flurries of snow. This is what it

looks like around 6pm this evening,

temperatures more or less what they

were yesterday, at least that's the

forecast, around freezing. A couple

of degrees above freezing across

Yorkshire, cold enough for some

smoke. But notice we often mention

the word wintry. Wintry means a

little bit of rain with sleet,

sometimes snow, and it chops and

changes from hour to hour. We're not

talking about vast amount of -- vast

amounts of pure snow, it's a wintry

mix. A lot of clear whether in

central and western areas of the UK

but the main hazard overnight and

into the morning will be the ice

risk, from eastern Scotland all the

way down into the south-east and

particularly East Anglia. As the

temperatures outside town dipped

below freezing, so some of the snow

that perhaps fell last night and

this morning will melt during the

day and re-freeze, so there will be

slippy patches around. Take it

steady, nothing unusual, but there

it in mind. Tomorrow, a few snow

flurries may be around eastern areas

but we are starting to see ever so

slightly milder air coming in off

the Atlantic as we head into the

weekend. The winds change direction,

that's the crucial thing. They are

coming in from the North more or

less now, then they are coming in

from the Atlantic, so we are losing

but twos and threes, back to six or

seven, maybe ten by Sunday. With

that, a lair of grey drizzle, so

that will not feel warm, that's for

sure.

A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime.

In the last few minutes the Prime

Minister has repeated her criticism

of President Trump's decision to

show anti-Muslim videos on Twitter

after he publicly rebuked her

online.

The fact that we work

together does not mean that we are

afraid to say when we think the

United States have got it wrong and

be very clear with them, and I'm

very clear that re-tweeting from

Britain First was the