15/01/2018 BBC News at One

20,000 jobs at risk as one

of the UK's biggest construction

companies goes into liquidation.

The construction giant Carillion

is involved in major projects

like the HS2 high speed rail line

and the management of schools,

hospitals and prisons.

We will be asking what went wrong at

the company and what it means for

jobs and the services it provides.

Also this lunchtime...

Fears of disease spreading in

the world's biggest refugee camp -

almost half a million

Rohingha children are being

vaccinated in Bangladesh.

I'm in a refugee camp where people

are living in the most difficult of

conditions and a British medical

team is trying to bring a deadly

outbreak of diphtheria under

control.

Scotland's First Minister warns that

a hard Brexit could cut Scotland's

economy by more than

£12 billion a year.

What a great shot!

One of the goals of the season!

Tributes pour in for Cyrille Regis -

the man who led the way for black

footballers in Britain -

after he dies at the age of 59.

And coming up in the

sport on BBC News...

Ryan Giggs is set to be named

the new Wales manager later.

He'll replace Chris Coleman,

who stepped down after failing

to qualify for this year's

World Cup.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

The construction giant

Carillion has gone into

liquidation, putting 20,000

jobs at risk in the UK.

The company has huge debts and has

failed to secure a financial rescue

from either the banks

or the government.

Carillion is involved in major

projects such as the HS2

high-speed rail line.

It's responsible for many public

services including hospitals,

prisons and schools.

Now the government is facing

questions about why it handed public

sector contracts to the firm

after it had issued profit warnings.

Here's our business

correspondent, Simon Gompertz.

The bigger they are, be harder for

everyone when they fall. Carillion

was the new name for a huge business

taking in age-old constructs and

brands like Wimpy, Alfred McAlpine,

tarmac and more lame. They do not

just build, they manage hundreds of

operating theatres for the NHS,

maintain many prisons and Army

accommodation, and served and

provide school dinners. All that

with the wake of £900 in debt, the

deficit in the company pension fund

of 590 million.

It is a disaster.

There are thousands of

subcontractors, agency labour,

suppliers who won't get paid. We are

already being told people will not

get paid. There are fewer cards are

not working this morning. Staff

trying to get to work in Carillion

vans cannot fill up their vans. The

thing is collapsing around us. The

government has this lays a fair

attitude. They have to assure people

of their futures.

There were

desperate and fruitless rescue dogs

in Westminster. Then the

announcement just before seven this

morning, that the official receiver

had taken charge of the salvage

operation. Affected are 20,000 UK

staff. The government has said all

employees should keep coming to

work, promising they will continue

to get paid. There are 28,000 in the

pension scheme, who may get lower

pension even though the pension

protection fund will step in.

Customers, especially those using

public services, have been told the

government will keep funding going.

And there is an impact on the

creditors. Shareholders and lenders

likely to lose what they put in.

Carillion got involved in building

the infrastructure for the 2022

World Cup in Qatar, and has had

serious dispute over payments.

Ministers say they will not use

taxpayers money to bail out a

private sector company. But they

will give the official receiver

funds to maintain public services.

It will be managed in an orderly

fashion via the official receiver.

That means we can continue to

operate those key public services,

hospitals, schools, prisons etc,

without, I hope, much disruption.

A

Carillion company built the original

Battersea Power Station. The group

has put up much of the fabric of the

UK since then, including GCHQ, the

UK intelligence hub, and at

Liverpool's Anfield football

stadium, the new main stand. Now

there is an anxious wait to see

which jobs can be saved, how much

disruption there will be. Simon

Gompertz, BBC News.

Ministers say they'll provide

funding to maintain the public

services run by Carillion,

but a spokesperson for

the Prime Minister says taxpayers

cannot be expected to bail

the company out.

Jon Donnison reports on what went

wrong for one of Britain's biggest

construction companies.

Carillion has been in

trouble for some time.

It was in July of last

year that the company

issued its first profit warning.

The chief executive quit.

And the group pulled out of three

big Middle East projects.

There followed two more such

warnings over the next six months.

At the same time Carillion

was allowed to take on hundreds

of millions of pounds worth

of comment contracts,

including with HS2 and Network Rail.

-- government contracts.

This company issued a three profit

warnings in the last six months.

Yet despite those profit warnings,

the government still continued

to grant contracts to this company.

Now this completely contravened

the government policy,

their strategic management of risks.

They were entitled to deem this

company as high risk if profit

warnings were issued.

They didn't do this.

So why not?

A perfectly legitimate

question to ask.

We are all going to enjoy being wise

after the event, I suspect.

People are asking these

questions much more now

than they were a week ago,

given those profit

warnings were out there.

Yes, it is the job of departments

and the health service

and the Prison Service and so on,

to be asking these questions.

Is this a safe company

to be contracting with?

And it should be asking that

about every company.

For Carillion, just a year ago

the answer might have been yes.

Then the company was valued

at over £2 billion.

On Friday though, it

was just £61 million.

So how did that happen?

They had too much debt.

Contractors are supposed to have net

cash for a rainy day, effectively.

But they also had some

very bad contracts.

And I think various companies,

you will know, in the past

were sailing along.

It only takes three or four really

serious construction overruns

to bring the companies to the brink.

And it now seems Carillion has

stepped over the edge,

leaving tens of thousands of workers

in Britain and around

the world facing uncertainty.

Jon Donnison, BBC News.

Norman Smith is at Westminster.

All these jobs and so many public

services involved. How much pressure

does the collapse of Carillion put

the comment under?

Huge pressure.

Real pressure to reassure those who

have worked for Carillion that they

will keep getting paid, they will

still have a job, but also to

reassure those schools, hospitals

and prisons who depend on Carillion

services, and to reassure taxpayers

that they will not be hit with an

almighty great big bill. Pressure

compounded by the fact that the

government's on relations with

Carillion are coming under the

microscope, with at least one select

committee to investigate why the

government continued to hand out

huge contracts to Carillion, even

after it got into difficulties and

was issuing profit warnings. But

there is another perhaps even more

fundamental pressure, it seems to

me, on the government, in that the

Carillion demise seems to have

opened up the whole debate about the

role of the private sector in

running public services. It has

expanded remorselessly over the past

20 years when there has been a

consensus among the different

political parties that the private

sector tends to be more innovative,

can get private capital investment

in, that it is less of a burden on

the taxpayer. Now the question is

whether the collapse of Carillion

marks a tipping point, a moment of

change when perhaps people begin to

ponder whether it would be better to

bring some of these services back

into public hands. And if that is

the case, then that would appear to

benefit Mr Corbyn, who has long

argued the case for

renationalisation and bringing back

some of these contracted out

services into public transport

Norman Smith, thank you.

Talks are under way

between officials from Myanmar

and Bangladesh, to decide how

to repatriate hundreds of thousands

of Rohingya Muslims who were forced

to flee violence against them

in Myanmar last year.

More than 650,000 Rohingyas are now

living in the world's

largest refugee camp

near Cox's Bazaar in Bangladesh,

and there are fears that

disease will spread.

Many of them are children.

Now the British government says it

will provide £2 million

towards the cost of vaccinating

children against diphtheria.

Mishal Husain is there.

Sophie, if you imagine that five

months ago, before the mass exodus

of Rohingya people from Myanmar into

Bangladesh the land around me was

largely a forest, some of it a

protected the nature reserve, now

569,000 people live in this one camp

alone and there are many others. You

can imagine the hardship of the

living conditions and the dangers.

One of those dangers is disease.

After an outbreak of diphtheria was

reported here last month, a team of

British doctors, nurses and

paramedics arrived here to set up

diphtheria clinics. Now there is a

vaccination programme beginning. I

have been seeing the work of the UK

emergency medical team.

Four-year-old Anwar has just been

diagnosed with diphtheria,

a respiratory disease that can kill.

He was brought in by his mother

to this clinic, set up from scratch

by the UK emergency medical team.

Thanks to the treatment

he has now been given,

he should soon recover.

It is for you to feel better.

If a patient who has

diphtheria coughs or sneezes

over another person,

and they inhale those droplets,

that then can set up

the infection in themselves.

And in a situation where people

are sleeping five or six

to a room beside each other,

a patient who has diphtheria can

spread it to all the people in that

cramped space very quickly.

This boy, who's 11, has just arrived

at the clinic and is being checked

at the triage point.

He has got really big

and large glands.

And he has got this membrane

extended from the tonsil right back

onto the back of the throat.

So with everything we've seen it's

pretty convincing front diphtheria.

He is taken through onto the ward,

where the team wants to start

treatment right away.

But there is a problem.

OK, let me get this right.

So the husband is working away?

She is here with the two children,

but there are three children also

in the camp and they are not

with any adults?

No.

OK.

We are doing it to protect him

from getting more ill.

Through a translator,

the doctor tries to explain why

staying to be treated

is so essential.

It's really life-threatening stuff,

and in this environment

it's really difficult.

So hopefully what will try and do

is calm things down a little bit

and just begin to at least explain

to the mothers so they understand

what treatment is required.

But it doesn't work.

His mother needs to get back

to her other children,

and he won't stay at the clinic

on his own.

You know, it's hard.

We know the treatment he needs

but it's very much feeling

at the minute he is out of the gate,

we've lost a bit.

So, yes.

It's not a good feeling.

In the end he did

return and was given

the anti-diphtheria medication.

The work of this clinic doesn't stop

with the patients who are treated

here for diphtheria.

They then try to identify everyone

who lives with that patient or has

come into contact with them.

And each of those people

are then treated with

a course of antibiotics.

That is what happened

with the family of little Anwar,

who is back of the clinic

for a checkup.

How is he doing?

He is one of 11 siblings.

His mother tells me he is fine

and she is relieved.

None of his brothers

and sisters fell ill.

But living conditions in the camp

mean the risk of any infectious

disease spreading at any time

will always be high.

The next step for diphtheria and

other diseases is to prevent them

occurring in the first place. The

vaccination programme UK aid is

helping to fund relies on teams of

community health workers going into

the camps and identifying children

and others who should be vaccinated.

Justin Rose that has been with them.

Yasin is his category red.

He has a serious

diphtheria infection.

It's the doctor's job to try

and stop the outbreak spreading.

He runs a team of outreach workers.

When a diphtheria case comes

in, their work begins.

They trek through this giant refugee

camp, now the biggest in the world,

trying to find people who might have

been exposed to the disease.

The outreach workers can see up

to ten cases every day.

That can mean a lot of walking.

So the challenge for this team

is to hunt down infection

and then stamp it out.

The hunt begins at his home.

Rita and Reepa need to take care.

Close contact can be dangerous,

even if you've had the vaccination.

Some members of the medical

team have been infected.

They explain how dangerous

diphtheria can be, and give everyone

in the family antibiotics.

That can stop the

disease developing.

Anyone who has been in close contact

with a patient for more than an hour

needs to be treated.

Listen, how dangerous is it

for us sitting out here?

It's not much dangerous for us

because we are vaccinated.

But it's dangerous for the Rohingya

community as they will not be

vaccinated when they arrive.

What is happening now?

Are you getting this

disease under control?

We hope that we can control it

through vaccination,

with preventive medicines

as well as documented in the cases.

The signs are that this disease,

long forgotten in countries

where vaccination is commonplace,

is now being brought under control.

But the hunt continues.

With more than 800,000

people packed together

in these vast refugee camps,

the team can't take any chances.

For more on the UK response to this

crisis I'm joined by Matt Benson,

the humanitarian response manager at

the Department for International and

and you have been here for several

weeks now. What was it that made you

think the UK could help, and in what

form?

We deploy teams around the

world to respond to humanitarian

crises. In Bangladesh as well we

have a permanent office. Looking at

the scale of the crisis you have

witnessed whilst you have been here,

it is relatively unprecedented from

my experience. I have worked in

various different camps around the

world. We are looking at a large

number of people coming and living

in a densely populated refugee camp

so with our capabilities it made

logical sense for the UK to take the

lead in responding to this

emergency.

And the focus for the UK

team has been diphtheria and now the

vaccination programme but as you

look around a camp like this, what

are the biggest challenges you can

foresee?

There has previously been a

measles outbreak, we are now in

control of the diphtheria outbreak

hopefully, but that might not

necessarily be the next... There

might be another public health

outbreaks. Also there is the cyclone

season coming up and the monsoon

rains. The camp is quite hilly, a

lot of it is under the sea level

line so it is quite prone to

flooding. That is one of my main

concern is, how we would respond to

the floods and how we can best

respond to the future

challenges we can face.

Thank you,

and that point Matt makes about the

weather is a worry for everyone here

because there may be cyclones in the

months ahead, there will certainly

about three months of monsoon rain

to come and it wouldn't take much

for the flimsy shelters to be washed

away or to have the roofs blown off

them so people are living in very

fragile conditions in a very

precarious way.

Our top story this lunchtime:

20,000 jobs are at risk

as the construction giant

Carillion

goes into liquidation.

The company is in involved

in everything from the HS2 high

speed rail line to the management

of schools and hospitals.

Coming up...

footballer Ryan Giggs,

capped 64 times by Wales,

is about to take over the top job

as Wales manager.

Coming up in sports...

British number two, Kyle Edmund,

is celebrating the best win

of his career.

He beat 11th seed Kevin

Anderson over five sets to

reach the second round

the Australian Open.

The former West Bromwich Albion

and England footballer

Cyrille Regis has died

at the age of 59.

In the 1970s and 1980s he led the

way for Black footballers in

Britain.

In his early career

he faced racial abuse

and even received a bullet

through the post before making his

debut for England in 1982.

In 2008 he was honoured by the Queen

for services to football. He was

taken ill last night and thought to

have suffered a heart attack.

What a great shot!

When it comes to

making an impact, few can match

Cyrille Regis. His talent emerged at

West Brom in the 1970s, a time when

there were a few high-profile black

players, but with Laurie Cunningham

and Brendon Batson, Regis set about

changing that with pinpoint

precision.

Has he got the power and

poise? He has!

But not everyone was

cheering, Regis was often subjected

to racist abuse, and even received a

bullet through the post, but nothing

would stop him.

We were used to

10,000 people shouting racist abuse,

throwing bananas on the pitch and

monkey chants and that sort of

stuff. I just took it as if someone

was trying to intimidate me.

After

becoming a West Brom legend, he

moved to Coventry and helped them

lift the FA Cup, but even after

retiring as a player his influence

continued. He was awarded an MBE, a

role model for a new generation of

black footballers, inspired by his

dignity and determination.

Cyrille

was the first real footballer I've

looked at and felt that could be me.

I think if you spoke to anybody in

the neighbourhood where I grew up,

it was the same. Here was this big

strong black athletic Centre

forward, everybody wanted to be him.

At West Brom this morning the flag

was at half-mast as the fans paid

their respects. His widow Julia said

the world had lost a precious

treasure.

treasure. Cyrille Regis, a

footballing pioneer.

It's emerged the perpetrator

of the Westminster terror attack had

taken anabolic steroids in the days

or hours beforehand.

The details were released

during a pre-inquest hearing

into the death of Khalid Masood

and his victims.

Our home affairs correspondent

Daniel Sandford is at

the Old Bailey for us.

The inquest into all those people

who died on March the 22nd,

including the attacker Khalid Masood

himself, will take place on

September the 10th and the chief

coroner will be in charge. This

pre-inquest review hearing today, we

learned some new facts, not least

that the attacker Khalid Masood did

have in his urine evidence he had

taken anabolic steroids before the

attack. We heard the officers who

confronted him at the gates of the

Palace of Westminster will be given

anonymity for the course of the

inquest hearings, known only by the

letters SA74 and SB73. Khalid

Masood's inquest will follow

directly after the inquests of those

people that he killed, and they are

of course Curt Cochrane, Lesley

Rhodes, Andrea Christie and PC Keith

Palmer. We heard from lawyers

representing the victims at the

hearing today and gathered what it

is they will be looking to from

these hearings. Not least of all,

according to their lawyer, we do not

understand why radicalising material

remains freely available on the

internet, we don't understand why

it's necessary for Whatsapp and

other applications to have end to

end encryption.

Daniel Sandford, thank you.

Scotland's First Minister,

Nicola Sturgeon, has warned that

a hard Brexit could cut

Scotland's economy by more

than £12 billion a year.

She's pledged to make the case

for keeping the UK in Europe's

single market "more loudly

than before" after publishing the

analysis by the Scottish Goverment.

The UK Government insists

it is seeking a Brexit deal that

will work for the whole of the UK.

Here's our Scotland

correspondent, Lorna Gordon.

New Year and on our high streets

there are still steal -- still deals

to be hard. The deal on Brexit top

of the political agenda going

forward, and today an attempt by the

Scottish Government to set out what

that could mean for the money in

Scottish pockets. Scotland's First

Minister Nicola Sturgeon arguing her

government's analysis and estimates

are more detailed than anything

provided by the Government at

Westminster.

This paper provides a

far more comprehensive assessment of

the different post Brexit options

than anything so far offered by the

UK Government. It demonstrates

beyond doubt that if Brexit is to

proceed, staying in the single

market is the only option that makes

sense.

The analysis looks at three

possible outcomes for a future

relationship between the UK and the

EU. Single market membership could

see Scotland's GDP cut by 2.7%,

equivalent to £700 per person in

Scotland. The projection suggests a

free trade Canada style agreement

would reduce GDP by 6%, £1600 per

person, while a hard Brexit would

see GDP by 2030 cut by 8.5%,

equivalent to £2300 per person in

Scotland.

Yes, there will be huge

challenges ahead but most people

understand we are seeking to get a

pragmatic and acceptable solution

for the UK, and one which gives

opportunities in the future as well

as having to face the challenges we

know exist as well and that's what

we want to be engaged in. We need

the Scottish Government to be part

of that instead of throwing stones

on the negotiations from outside.

The figures set out in the speech

today are estimates but Nicola

Sturgeon insists this is a golden

opportunity to bring those together

who believe Scotland and the UK

should stay in the single market,

and says the next few months of

Brexit negotiations will be crucial

for jobs and opportunities for

generations to come. Lorna Gordon,

BBC News, Edinburgh.

The Ukip leader, Henry Bolton, has

insisted he won't stand down over

racist comments made

by his girlfriend.

Mr Bolton says his romance

with Jo Marney is over

after she sent texts saying

Prince Harry's fiancee Meghan Markle

would taint the Royal Family.

Jo Marney has been suspended

from Ukip over the comments,

which she has apologised for.

Our Political Correspondent

Iain Watson has been

following this for us.

He says he won't stand down but

there is huge pressure on him to do

so, isn't there?

That's right,

another year, another Ukip leader

crisis. Henry Bolton seems to be

digging his heels in but the

question is all about his political

judgment. Some people in the party

are suggesting that either he gives

up his girlfriend or his job. When I

spoke to him earlier it was clear he

was distancing himself from Jo

Marney's racist remarks but less

clear how much he's distancing

himself from her.

She's absolutely

devastated by the impact of the

messages that have now come out.

Without in any way defending them

because they are appalling and the

words used are offensive and quite

rightly she has been suspended by

the party.

So what kind of

relationships do you still have?

We

have ended the romantic element of

the relationship but I'm supportive

of her and her family's prefatory

build her life.

So this is not a

matter of political convenience

then?

Far from it. The priority in

this respect is to get the party

back on its feet.

Henry Bolton's

political future is by no means

certain, the body will be discussing

his leadership on Thursday and

already a senior MEP has suggested

the party might not be able to

survive unless he resigned, and

Suzanne Evans has suggested he has

to go but frankly the problem seems

to be this - there is no shortage of

people willing to lead Ukip but

there does appear to be a shortage

of followers.

Thank you.

Ryan Giggs is set to be announced

as the new manager of the Welsh

national football team.

Giggs was capped 64 times by Wales,

scoring 12 goals, but this

would be his first permanent job

as a manager.

Let's speak to Tomos Morgan,

who's in Hensol outside Cardiff.

A big job for him, but not that much

of a surprise now?

No, I think when

Chris Coleman stood down as the

Welsh manager in November to take

the Sunderland job, I think Ryan

Giggs was seen as the favourite to

take it. It has been confirmed in

the last half-hour he is the new

manager for Wales and will be

unveiled here in the next 20 minutes

or so. There has been some criticism

among some of the fans in Wales,

some saying they are questioning his

commitment to the Welsh national

team. When he played for Wales,

maybe not committing to every single

friendly, but players who played

with him during that period said it

wasn't down to Ryan Giggs whether he

could play in those games, it was

down to Sir Alex Ferguson, his

manager at the time at Manchester

United. It would be seen as a huge

marketing coup, who was one of the

class of 1992 alongside David

Beckham, Paul Scholes and the

Neville brothers but this is his

first full-time post as manager. He

worked as assistant under Louis van

Gaal, and was interim manager for

four games at Manchester United.

This is seen as Wales' golden years

so there will be big expectations

that Wales can qualify once more and

do well again in the next euro

Championships.

Thank you, and a bit

of tennis news as well...

The British number two, Kyle Edmund,

is through to the second

round of the Australian Open

after the biggest win of his career.

He beat 11th seed Kevin Anderson

in five sets to win the match

in Melbourne, saying afterwards

he was "really happy"

with the result.

The only thing he said he wasn't

so sure about was his rather

vivid pink and black kit.

Definitely noticed him!

Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Ben Rich.

Here's Ben Rich.

Quiet weather last week, this week

far from quiet. Some damp scenes in

Northampton for our weather watcher.

You can see the main band of rain

clearing away but behind it a lot of

showers packing in. Packing in from

the north-west on a strong

north-westerly wind, bringing cold

air in our direction over the next

few days. The showers will

increasingly turn wintry, some show

was in the north could see snow, and

it will be cold with strong winds

too so it will feel chilly out

there. Through the rest of the

afternoon the showers packing in

from the west, some heavy ones and

especially over high ground in

Scotland, you've got showers

beginning to turn wintry as the

temperatures dip away as the

afternoon goes on.

During this a lot of showers packing

in relentlessly on this strong

westerly or north-westerly wind.

Notice more snow starting to show up

on the chart, even to lower levels

in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

We've also got the potential for

some ice with that. This is how the

commute will look, with lots of

these wintry showers across

Scotland, Northern Ireland and

northern England, increasingly

falling as sleet and snow to lower

levels. In Wales it will be mostly

rain at lower levels, but sleet and

snow over the hills and wherever you

are will be a windy start of the

day. As we go through the day we

keep the strong winds which will

make it feel cold, lots of showers

increasingly turning wintry but

there will always be strong spoils

of sunshine, most of these found

across the east of England. For many

northern areas it will feel subzero.

A similar day on Wednesday, some

sunshine and wintry showers, still

strong winds and temperatures

struggling at around three - 8

degrees but behind me you can see

the beginnings of a change. This is

the weather we are expecting through

Wednesday night. Unsure about the

detail but we could see an area of

deep pressure pushing across the

country and to the south of that

there is the potential for gales and

snow on the north of that weather

system. A spell of rough weather for

the middle of the week, followed by

sunshine and wintry showers.

A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime:

20,000 jobs are at risk as the

construction giant Carillion goes

into liquidation. The company is

involved in everything from HS2

high-speed rail line to the

management of schools and hospitals.

That's all from the BBC News at One

so it's goodbye from me -