12/01/2018 BBC News at One

President Trump abandons

plans to come to Britain

to open the new US embassy.

But Downing Street says that

an invitation for a state

visit has been accepted,

and the "strong and deep

partnership will endure."

Also, after apparently using foul

language during Oval Office

discussions about immigration,

the President's comments

are condemned by the UN.

These are shocking and shameful

comments from the president

of the United States.

I'm sorry but there is no other word

I can use other than racist.

We'll have the latest

from Washington.

Also this lunchtime...

A surgeon who marked his initials

on the livers of two patients has

been fined £10,000 and given

a 12 month community order.

Nottingham railway station

will remain closed for the rest

of the day, after a large fire

early this morning.

A new study suggests younger women

with the BRCA breast cancer gene

have the same survival rates

as women who don't.

And the Queen's memories

of her coronation 65 years ago.

Plus her advice about

how to wear a crown.

You can't look down to read

a speech, even have

to take the speech up.

If you did, your neck

would break, it would fall off.

And coming up in the

sport on BBC News...

Ahead of the start of

the Australian Open,

tennis great Billie

Jean King has once again called

for the Margaret Court Arena

to be renamed.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

President Donald Trump will not be

visiting Britain next month.

He had been due to attend

the official opening of the new US

embassy in south London.

He tweeted that he had cancelled

the trip because he's "not a big

fan" of the new embassy,

which he said had been commissioned

by his predecessor, Barack Obama.

Downing Street says an invitation

for a state visit has been accepted

but there is no firm date set

and insists the "strong and deep

partnership will endure."

The president is also under fire

from the United Nations which

criticised his reported crude

comments about some countries as

shocking and racist, although Donald

Trump now denies using foul

language.

£1 billion of futuristic

architecture with a moat for

security. Now after a lot of will

he, 20, Donald Trump will not be

opening America's new London embassy

next month. As ever, the president

took to Twitter, claiming he had

cancelled his trip here because the

Obama administration had sold the

old US embassy for peanuts, only to

build a new one in an off location

for more than $1 billion. Wanted me

to cut ribbon. No. Perhaps the

prospect of this on a much larger

scale during the visit put the

president. The Mayor of London said

they would have been mass, peaceful

protests. Other Labour politicians

agree.

He had the head of state of

another country who has not only

promoted hatred and division in his

own country that has surely given

his online activity guilty of doing

the same in the country too.

Nigel

Farage, the first British politician

to meet Donald Trump after he was

elected US president, to assist is

bad for Britain.

An arrogant

president, the most pro-British for

many years, it is an important

relationship. -- an American

president. I would like to see him

deal with his critics in open,

proper, public debate.

What about

the President's a that the sale of

the soon-to-be former US embassy in

Grosvenor Square in Mayfair was a

bad deal? We don't know what Qatari

investors have paid for a long

leasehold on the building. The fact

it is a great two listed building

would have dropped the price. If

President Trump is offended by some

in Britain, many millions in Africa

and elsewhere are potentially

outraged. During a meeting at the

White House, Donald Trump reportedly

made offensive comments about

developing countries when discussing

a deal on immigration. These are

shocking and shameful comments from

the president of the United States.

I am sorry but there is no other

word you can use but racist. You

cannot dismiss entire countries and

continents as Beep. The entire

populations are not white and

therefore not welcome.

He or it got

a very friendly reception this

morning. At times the real Donald

Trump has provoked anger in Britain.

For some, this is about the office

he holds and are very close

relationship between our two macro

countries.

Let's speak to our Washington

Correspondent Gary O'Donoghue.

In terms of those comments, there is

very strong words from the United

Nations. I think Donald Trump has

been talking about this in the last

few minutes.

We have had what I

think is a denial, that he used

these terms he has just tweeted

this. The language used by me was

tough but this was not the language

used. If that is a denial, it goes

against what is said last night at

the White House who did not deny he

used that obscenity during the

meeting. In fact they defended his

sentiment during that meeting. We

will see during the day whether or

not he did actually say that. In

multiple sources, it has been said

he did. What is interesting also is

a senior Republicans here have not

come out in numbers to condemn this.

The leadership of the Republican

Party has been absolutely silent.

Even the only African-American

senator, Republican Senator, Tim

Scott, he said it was disappointing

to say the least. The criticism from

the Republican side was quite muted,

even though you have the UN and

Democrats condemning out right this

use of language and I think

poisoning potential negotiations

that are going on at the moment

between Republicans and Democrats,

to fight -- to try to find a fix for

the young people who are here

through no fault of their own.

Thank

you.

The role played by the media

is to be examined by the Manchester

Arena bombing inquiry.

22 people were killed at the end of

an Ariana Grande concert last May.

Some families who used social media

to appeal for information

about missing relatives found

themselves subjected

to intrusive attention.

Judith Moritz reports.

The Manchester Arena explosion

shattered countless lives. 22 were

lost and many more were changed

forever. The attack made

international headlines. That meant

there was huge media interest in the

stories of those most closely

affected. They included the family

of Martyn Het. He had previously

been on TV, possibly as a result his

family found themselves in the

spotlight from almost the very

moment they heard about the

explosion and before they knew that

Martin had died.

People were coming

around, knocking on the door and

ringing the bell and saying, sorry

for your loss. Would you like to

comment? He was not even officially

dead yet. How can anyone be so cruel

and say, sorry for your loss? We did

not find out officially till that

evening that he was dead.

The way

the emergency services responded to

the attack is already being reviewed

by an independent panel. Now it will

also examine the role in which the

media played during the aftermath.

We want to say what we need to learn

is that much of the media handled

families in a very respectful way.

We have heard examples where that

was not the case and we think this

needs to be explored and understood.

The families of those who died in

the 1989 Hillsborough disaster lost

their relatives in very different

but equally public circumstances.

Their experience has inspired a

charter for families bereaved

through public tragedy.

Give them

the truth as early as possible.

The

Manchester Arena review team want

organisations to sign up and put the

needs of such families for their own

reputations.

What happened 30 years

or so ago is still, in many cases,

there are echoes of it still today.

We have seen that possibly with the

Grenfell Tower incident. It is an

instinct to look internally at

issues before telling the wider

truth about what happened.

In March,

the full review into the city's

response to the attack will be

published, eight months after these

22 people died, their families lives

are still dominated by the tragedy.

A study of women with breast cancer

suggests that having a double

mastectomy doesn't increase

the chances of survival in younger

patients who have the BRCA gene.

The research also found that women

treated for breast cancer had

the same survival rates,

irrespective of whether they had

the BRCA gene mutation.

Our Medical Correspondent

Fergus Walsh is with me.

This is quite reassuring news. More

than 2700 British women were

followed over a decade for that it

found that no matter what treatment

they had, if they had a double

mastectomy or if they had, or did

not

not have, the BRCA gene mutation,

survival chances were very good up

to 80% over ten years. A lot of

young women, and this is young women

aged between 16 and 40, if they are

carrying this faulty BRCA gene, they

are offered the chance of having a

double mastectomy for Tbilisi is

getting it young and they had this

faulty genes it could be a very

aggressive form of breast cancer.

This will give them more treatment

choices because it will not be

necessarily in that interests to

have a double mastectomy that early

on in their treatment.

What is being

said about prevention?

What does

this tell us? Completely separately

from that, about one in 800 women

carry this faulty BRCA gene for that

they often find out because they

have a mother, an aunt or a sister

who has gone on to get breast

cancer. They get tested and find

they have the BRCA gene and do not

have breast cancer. Many, like the

actress Angelina Jolie, decide to

have a double mastectomy. This is

totally separate from that. That

will probably continue. There is one

limitation on this study. Only about

5% of breast cancer cases occur in

that very young age group. We do not

know about the long-term survival of

women with breast cancer who get it

at a much older age are more

commonly say at the menopause or

later.

A huge fire engulfed a section

of Nottingham railway

station this morning.

Around 60 firefighters

tackled the blaze,

which began at about 6.30am.

No-one was injured, but trains

are still not stopping

at the station and travellers

are being warned to avoid the area.

Phil Mackie reports.

The severe fire rapidly spread

through the recently renovated

station at the start of this

morning's rush-hour.

60 firefighters were called

to deal with the blaze

while passengers and staff

were safely evacuated.

Our crews were in attendance

very quickly and managed

to put in place measures to, A,

protect lives, and, B, do everything

they can to protect the building.

I've got firefighters here that have

served 20-plus years and have said

the heat they were exposed to heat

the likes of which they had never

experienced before.

It was a significant fire.

It spread into an area

difficult to get to,

meaning it took several hours to get

the fire under control.

This is where the fire

started at 6:30am

this morning, in the main concourse.

You can still smell the smoke

in the air right now.

The fire station is quite

close by so they got here

quickly and they

evacuated very fast.

It is still causing knock-on effects

for the rail network, not

just in the Midlands, but elsewhere

in the country, too.

The station is closed until further

notice, rail and tram

services continue to be

affected in Nottingham.

And the disruption is causing

problems over much wider area.

Obviously I have come down,

speaking to the officer, the train

station is still closed

and he diverted me here

and now I'm going to find out

if I can actually

get a coach to Lincoln.

Thousands of people

are affected by this.

It's not a little village

station, it's the main station

for the Midlands,

basically, isn't it?

So loads of people

have been affected.

Crazy.

The fire is now under

control, the joint police

and fire investigation

has been launched.

A surgeon, who marked his initials

on the livers of two patients, has

been fined £10,000 and given

a 12-month community order.

Simon Bramhall pleaded guilty

to two counts of assault

in December.

The organs were branded

in 2013 while the patients

were undergoing liver transplants

at the Queen Elizabeth

Hospital in Birmingham.

Sima Kotecha reports.

Simon Bramhall, once the respected

surgeon, now a convicted criminal.

Today he was given a £10,000 fine

and a community service order after

pleading guilty to assaulting two

macro patients by marking his

initials on their livers. His

victims were undergoing liver

transplants at the time. It was

here, at the Queen Elizabeth

Hospital in Birmingham, where he

committed his offences. He marked

the livers in 2013 and a year later,

after a disciplinary hearing, he

resigned from his post. The hospital

says it can reassure his patients

they suffered no harm because of

what he did. One of his other

patients, who also underwent a

transplant by him more than ten

years ago, is adamant the surgeon

should not be punished.

When all is

said and done, and artist finds his

work. That is what he has done. The

difficulty in surgery and everything

you have to do with it, 13 plus

hours of standing in concentrating

on something, it is amazing. So,

signing his work is just his way of

showing the artwork done.

Simon

Bramhall branded SB on the organs

with an Aga and beam, he'd injecting

procedure usually used to stop any

bleeding. This is compared with a

minor external burns. The fact there

is the high level of trust, the

abuse of the trust and the

vulnerability of patience and harm

and distress caused by his actions

and the importance the public have

confidence in their surgeons, that

trust will be respected, which it

invariably is. It is important the

message goes out when that is

breached, as it is here, action will

be taken to hold him to account. He

was caught after other surgeons

found markings on livers he had

transplanted. He betrayed the trust

of patients and took advantage of

them when they were at their most

vulnerable. Now it is up to the

General medical Council to decide

whether he will be struck off or

allowed to continue doing the job he

loves.

Its 16 minutes past one.

Our top story this lunchtime:

President Trump abandons

plans to come to Britain

to open the new US embassy,

but Downing Street says

the invitation for a state visit

has been accepted.

And still to come:

Hailed as the new princess

of pop, and at just 21,

meet Sigrid from Norway, who's been

taking the airwaves by storm.

Coming up in sport,

after 12 years at Arsenal -

Theo Walcott could well be

on his way out of

the club this January.

The Everton boss Sam Allardyce has

confirmed the teams have

entered negotiations over

a permanent transfer.

The Queen has been talking

about some of the challenges

she faced at her Coronation in 1953,

including the weight

of the Imperial State Crown.

She's been speaking to the royal

commentator Alastair Bruce for a BBC

programme marking the 65th

anniversary of the ceremony.

A key piece of advice

from Her Majesty -

just in case you ever need to know -

is don't look down;

as our Royal Correspondent

Nicholas Witchell reports.

She famously doesn't do interviews.

This is probably as

close as she'll get.

A conversation with questions

about the Coronation, the Crown

Jewels, and the Imperial State Crown

worn by her and her father,

King George VI.

Fortunately, my father and I have

about the same sort of shaped head.

Once you put it on, it stays.

It just remains itself.

You have to keep

your head very still?

Yes.

It was huge then.

Yes.

Very unwieldy.

You can't look down to read a

speech, you have take the speech up

because, if you did, your neck

would break, it would fall off.

It is difficult to always remember

that diamonds are stones,

there are so very heavy.

Yes.

There are some

disadvantages to crowns.

But, otherwise, they are

quite important things.

She rode to her coronation

in the Gold State coach.

It weighs four tons.

It's not built for comfort.

Horrible.

It's not meant for

travelling in at all.

It's only sprung on leather.

So, it rocks around a lot.

It's not very comfortable.

Were you in it for a long time?

Halfway round London.

Really?

We must have gone about

four or five miles -

we can only go walking pace.

Horses couldn't

possibly go any faster.

It's so heavy.

65 years after the event,

a monarch talking about

her coronation -

the Crown - the real one.

Nicholas Witchell, BBC News.

You can watch more about

what the Queen had to say in the BBC

documentary 'The Coronation' -

which will be shown on Sunday

evening, at 8 o'clock on BBC One.

There's been a breakthrough

in marathon talks aimed at reviving

a grand coalition in Germany

between the Chancellor,

Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats

and their rivals, the Social

Democrats.

The two sides have reached

a preliminary deal and are now

expected to discuss a detailed

programme for government.

Jenny Hill is in Berlin.

Very lengthy talks, do we think

there is an absolute deal now,

explain what has happened.

After

marathon overnight talks fuelled

largely we are told by Currie burst,

Angela Merkel emerged looking

exhausted but triumphant to brief

reporters. She has clinched this

deal, achieving compromise on sticky

policy areas like health, finance

and rather predictably refugee

policy. But she knows she's not out

of the woods yet. That is because

these were just exploratory talks.

This success means that now formal

coalition negotiations can go ahead

but before they do, and this is the

problem, would-be coalition partners

the social Democrats have two as a

party vote on if they want to let

that happen. The problem with that

is that many within the part,

bearing in mind they were in

coalition with the Conservatives in

the last term, blame Angela Merkel

for an appalling election result in

September and did not want to go

back into coalition with her, they

think it would be disastrous for the

party now. There is a lot of

persuading to do, Angela Merkel this

morning admitting that tricky times

lay ahead. And the social Democrats

also reserve the right to veto at

the very end of this process any

coalition agreement. So a short-term

success for Angela Merkel but this

whole period has left weakened. Her

party is looking at potential

successors. I'm not saying it is the

end of Angela Merkel but there is a

sense that we are looking at the

beginning of the end of the Angela

era.

The Government is being urged

by unions to bring contracts

from the construction giant

Carillion back into public control,

amid fears that the company

is close to collapse.

Carillion, which employs nearly

20,000 people in the UK,

has issued a number of profits

warnings in the last few months.

It's a major supplier

to the Government and has contracts

in the rail industry,

education and the NHS.

Our business editor,

Simon Jack, is with me.

Just how much trouble is Carillion

in?

A lot, it is £1.5 billion in

debt, it is running out of cash and

need hundreds of millions more. It's

a very hard company to sell as one

of its competitors told me when I

asked if they fancy buying it, they

said if we wanted a loss-making

contract we can write our own. And

it has over half £1 billion pension

deficit. There have been talks all

week, that is the focus today, the

pensions regulator talking to

creditors of the company to figure

out if it does collapse how much

money the pension scheme which has

20,000 people will get. We had

ministers from all over government

converging to talk about this,

people from justice and health, the

Department for Transport of course,

the Business Secretary and the

Treasury, it shows how sensitive

this company is, everyone trying to

figure out a way out of this mess.

There is a possibility it could end

up with the government having to

support some of these contract in

the short term because the banks

which are owed £1.5 billion and are

being asked for more are reluctant

to put more money in and they are in

control and at any point could put

it into administration. Some would

argue that it was not quite a

sensitive company they would have

already done that.

Facebook has announced what it says

is a major change to its news feed -

prioritising posts from family

and friends, over those from media

organisations and businesses.

Our media correspondent

David Sillito reports.

Facebook's founder Mark

Zuckerberg had a New Year's

resolution for 2018.

Fix Facebook.

So what is he trying to fix?

To understand what this

is all about, let me log

into my own Facebook here.

So this is my personal feed

and when I scrolled down

what have we got here?

Some BBC science news.

Bathrooms advert.

More news.

Some local news.

And, oh, more video news.

I'm sure I do have some friends and

family but I haven't seen them yet.

The algorithm, the computer

programme that selects what you see

pushes news stories and sponsored

content and viral videos

to the top of your news feed.

Your cousin's holiday snaps can

often end up being buried.

What created Facebook,

what made Facebook huge,

was that it became the venue

for social interaction,

it became the one place

you could talk to your friends,

your parents, your grandparents

even and you could share

those important photos,

those moments in life.

And I think it started to lose that.

It's going back to that,

which almost accidentally created

such an enormous business model.

I think that's what it's got to do.

We are the goose that

lays the golden egg.

Of course some newspapers and media

companies are furious that

their content and the advertising

money they make off the back of it

of it will not be pushed

at you quite so aggressively.

But there's also another issue.

Facebook's been seen as enemy number

one in spreading fake news.

Some of those stories and videos

you see are completely fabricated.

Others have sent people down

a rabbit hole of extremist content.

The Facebook brand has

taken a bit of a knock.

I think part of the problem

with Facebook is that saying

which comes to mind,

with great power comes

great responsibility.

I think this is a great example

of them trying to show

that they are up to the challenge.

They have been burned

because of the issues with things

like the Trump elections

and interference with the Russian

advertisers and things like that.

And there is also the other issue.

The more you sit and watch rather

than type and share,

the less Facebook knows about us.

And that information

is worth billions.

David Sillitoe, BBC News.

An amateur boxer who's

represented England six times

is facing deportation,

after being told he has no leave

to remain in the UK.

After winning several amateur titles

Bilal Fawaz was offered the chance

to turn professional but instead

he's fighting to stay

in the country he calls home.

Azi Farni went to meet him.

As an amateur boxer Bilal Fawaz has

enjoyed great success but his

biggest fight so far has been

outside of the ring. Born in Nigeria

his life was turned upside down when

as a young child his mother was

killed. He was sent to the UK and

told he was meeting his father. But

when he arrived in London he

realised he'd been tricked.

I was

kept in a house and I wasn't allowed

to go to school, I was not allowed

to go out. For a significant amount

of time I contemplated running away

and I finally summoned the courage

to actually do that.

He was put into

foster care, at 18 he started making

asylum applications to stay in the

UK. He was arrested for minor

offences then turned his life

around.

I made a beautiful lady and

she changed me, she changed my

perspective on life. I went to

college, I studied, I got national

diploma in sports science, three

days at A-level. I find boxing and

boxing helped me.

His success in

amateur boxing legend to an

invitation to train at the Team GB

boxing headquarters in Sheffield.

They told me they would like to

represent them and fight for them.

Go through qualification where I

would be picked for the Olympics. I

was gutted, I was devastated because

I knew I couldn't go further. Not

because I didn't want to but because

I didn't have a country, I didn't

have a passport.

With his asylum

applications denied he was arrested

last month by immigration officers

at his gym and is currently out on

bail with his case ongoing. The Home

Office says he has no leave to

remain in the UK. Immigration rules

are set in stone and anyone can read

them so why should you be any

different?

I should be treated any

different because I am just like any

other asylum seeker or any other

person trying to survive. So I'm not

special, I don't think am special.

But I work hard. I work really hard.

And at times working hard is enough

to give someone a second chance.

Don't Kill My Vibe,

Strangers, Plot Twist.

Some of the biggest pop

songs of the last year.

And the young voice behind them,

Norwegian singer Sigrid,

has just been named winner

of the coveted BBC

Music Sound Of 2018.

# Just like in the movies #

The smooth soothing sound of Sigrid.

# Broken beauties #

So composed and in control.

# When the curtain drops

Greene. Most of the time. In the BBC

Sound of 2018 lest you are the

winner.

What?

Number one. LAUGHTER

What does it mean to you to have won

this?

Of course you are asking that

question when I am about to cry! How

do you describe that? It means a

lot.

We welcome Sigrid!

She's been

steadily gaining support for the

last 12 months gathering fans from

Jools Holland.

# Don't kill my vibe #

# Don't kill my vibe #

. To thousands at Glastonbury.

# Would you stay with me #

Previous winners include the likes

of Sam Smith and Adele who were also

relatively unknown when the won. No

Sigrid is following in their

footsteps. She is also another huge

talent to emerge from Scandinavia.

I

think Scandinavian musicians are

good at melodies. Because English is

our second language and I think that

creates that barrier where you have

to concentrate a lot about the

melody.

Melodies which have helped

win this industry accolade.

I am

very lucky and happy and it's a

great way to start this year.

Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Helen Willetts.

I am fed up of the gloomy weather, I

don't know about you, I am glad of

the change which is coming, the

process as it does is wet and windy

weather so get through that first

but then as we go into next week

we'll see sunshine again. It will be

much colder and we start to worry

about and ice but some sunshine

eventually. We had some in Norfolk

today, not much all week but we

still have the fog problems. More so

for Northern England and parts of

the Midlands, you can see the weak

weather front run down the spine of

the country so either side of that

we see the best of the sunshine. The

fog has cleared. Why? The winds

strengthening ahead of this weather

front which will start the changes

to our weather or the process at

least as we go through tonight and

the weekend. It's a slow process, we

have to live with the grey weather

through the weekend, touch and go,

there will be fog returning in

parts, perhaps Scotland and across

Eastern and central parts of the UK

but for the West by Don we have

spots of rain in Devon and Cornwall.

Different from the sunshine we are

seeing at the moment and also across

the West of Wales. Graver different

reasons for the East, the rain with

strong wind on and off Match of the

Day Northern Ireland. For Northern

Scotland once the Foston frock

clears we should have the lines

share of the sunshine. We have a bit

more breeze hopefully the Clyde will

be about high and it won't be so

gloomy and the Faugheen will lift

more readily but again not expecting

an abundance of sunshine. Cabbage is

on a par with recent days. As we go

through tomorrow evening and

tomorrow night little rain left by

the time they get to Sunday morning

and by that time we might have the

fog returning to Northern Ireland.

Again a bit chilly, by and large a

lot of cloud, we have got the

remnants of two week weather fronts,

drizzly rain, this is the main

player late in the day, the next

weather front sweeping up the week

weather front and moving south

during Sunday night. Wet weather for

virtually all of us and look at the

tightly packed isobars. It's behind

that the Arctic air moves southwards

right across the country and we

start to worry about ice and snow.

Look at the wind, it will feel much

colder but at least we will see some

sunshine.

Before we go, just to tell you

Scotland Yard says a 27-year-old

female UK national has been arrested

at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of

preparing terrorist acts. More on

that on