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The government orders a fast-track
investigation into the directors | 0:00:05 | 0:00:08 | |
of the collapsed construction giant
Carillion. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:12 | |
A growing number of businesses
who worked on projects with the firm | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
say they are already
having to lay off staff. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
Others fear closure. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
Well, accruing debts
of about a million pounds, | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
we're not a business of a size
who can trade through that | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
without some form of support
from the government. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:31 | |
We'll be hearing from some
of the business facing | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
an uncertain future. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
Also this lunchtime. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
A couple are arrested after police
discover 13 emaciated | 0:00:38 | 0:00:42 | |
brothers and sisters,
some chained to beds, | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
in a house in California. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
The four-time Olympic
champion Simone Biles says | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
she she was sexually abused
by the former Team USA | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
gymnastics doctor. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
Hundreds of fires caused
by defective tumble dryers. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
Now MPs say Whirlpool's response
to the problems was woeful. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:09 | |
The British number one Johanna Konta
is through to the second | 0:01:12 | 0:01:16 | |
round of the Australian Open,
with a straight sets win over | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
American Madison Brengle. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
Coming up in the sport on BBC News,
Roger Federer reaches round two | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
in Melbourne but isn't expecting
another fairy tale year after two | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
grand slams aged 35 in 2017. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:34 | |
Good afternoon and welcome
to the BBC News at One. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
A growing number of businesses
are saying they are facing big | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
losses and have already had to lay
off staff because of | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
the collapse of Carillion. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
Firms working on private sector
deals for the construction giant | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
have been told they'll receive only
two days of government support. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:11 | |
One industry group estimates
that up to 30,000 firms | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
are owed money by Carillion. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:19 | |
The government has ordered
a fast-track investigation | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
into the company's directors. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:22 | |
Our correspondent
Simon Gompertz reports. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:28 | |
This is the sort of work, painting
offices in newly built flats that | 0:02:28 | 0:02:35 | |
the Carillion collapses putting in
question. A London decorating | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
company which had 30 people turn up
for a job to find suddenly there was | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
nothing to do and £2 million of
orders had disappeared. Carillion | 0:02:43 | 0:02:48 | |
took on the contract then farmed
them out to subcontractors. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:54 | |
Re-employ everyone, carry out the
work, by the materials, train the | 0:02:54 | 0:02:58 | |
people, all on that level down. The
stock market has had its money and | 0:02:58 | 0:03:03 | |
the investors have had their money,
and I'm sure they've had good times | 0:03:03 | 0:03:09 | |
in the past and we find it
unbelievable how business can lose | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
£1.5 billion. That anger amongst
many who were depending on | 0:03:12 | 0:03:18 | |
Carillion, the Royal Liverpool
Hospital now expected to be delayed, | 0:03:18 | 0:03:22 | |
is beginning to focus on what it was
paying its top people. And the fact | 0:03:22 | 0:03:27 | |
it changed its policy on bonuses so
that it was much harder to claw the | 0:03:27 | 0:03:31 | |
money back if the company hit the
rocks. There will have to be an | 0:03:31 | 0:03:36 | |
investigation. You can't say for
certain exacting what happened yet, | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 | |
but certainly, if you were an
employee of the company, one of the | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
many small contractors whose future
is now very uncertain because of | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
what happened at Carillion, you
would be very surprised looking at | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
what the company has done with its
bonus scheme and ask why has this | 0:03:50 | 0:03:53 | |
change happened? The former chief
executive Richard Harrison was paid | 0:03:53 | 0:03:59 | |
£1.5 million in 2016 in salary and
bonuses and after he left last | 0:03:59 | 0:04:04 | |
autumn following a series of
warnings that profits were | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
plummeting, he was still promised
his £660,000 a year of regular pay | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
would carry on until October this
year. Now there is concern the | 0:04:11 | 0:04:17 | |
emphasis on quick returns may also
have affected the 28,000 staff in | 0:04:17 | 0:04:22 | |
the stricken company 's pension
scheme. The huge hole in the pension | 0:04:22 | 0:04:27 | |
fund was slowly being filled by the
company but a higher priority was | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
going to bonuses for top executives
and dividends for shareholders and | 0:04:30 | 0:04:34 | |
I'm not convinced the regulator
should have allowed that balance to | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
be as it was. So today the Business
Secretary Greg Clark has asked the | 0:04:36 | 0:04:42 | |
official receiver in charge of
Carillion to investigate not only | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
the conduct of the directors at the
point of its insolvency, but also of | 0:04:45 | 0:04:50 | |
any individuals who were previously
directors including detriment to any | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
employees who might be owed money
and the pension schemes. Given the | 0:04:55 | 0:04:59 | |
level of salaries and bonuses
awarded to senior management at | 0:04:59 | 0:05:04 | |
Carillion, as well as improving
corporate tax evasion, what the | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
government to ensure better
corporate governance? This point | 0:05:06 | 0:05:11 | |
about the money for bosses was put
to ministers in Parliament. This | 0:05:11 | 0:05:17 | |
country has amongst the most robust
corporate governance in the world | 0:05:17 | 0:05:21 | |
and that is something about this
government will continue. Rail, | 0:05:21 | 0:05:27 | |
health, schools, it those essential
services where the work is being | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
done by Carillion that it will carry
on and people will still be paid, | 0:05:30 | 0:05:36 | |
but the bulk of the business,
services or construction, is in the | 0:05:36 | 0:05:41 | |
private sector and their staff will
be finding out over the next day or | 0:05:41 | 0:05:46 | |
so whether their jobs will continue.
Here at an office in Cambridgeshire, | 0:05:46 | 0:05:53 | |
two empty chairs already at a
company which offers landscaping, | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
office plants and does snow clearing
in the winter. And the money | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
Carillion owes could finish the
business completely. It's about £1 | 0:06:01 | 0:06:06 | |
million of debt, and we are not a
business of the size that can trade | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
through that without some form of
support from the government. If it's | 0:06:09 | 0:06:14 | |
not forthcoming, I think lots of
businesses will probably go out of | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
business. Unions are calling on the
government to coordinate a maximum | 0:06:17 | 0:06:25 | |
state and banking help for
businesses like this under pressure. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
And to clarify which jobs they are
willing to protect. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
Let's speak to our Assistant
political editor Norman Smith. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:39 | |
We had a sense that there, Norman,
an awful lot of questions it seems | 0:06:39 | 0:06:43 | |
to be answered? Yesterday the
overriding emotion was one of shock | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
at the sheer scale of the Carillion
collapse and the emotions today are | 0:06:47 | 0:06:52 | |
ones of anger and anxiety, anger at
the fact that former Carillion | 0:06:52 | 0:06:57 | |
bosses seem to be walking away with
very large salaries and bonuses, in | 0:06:57 | 0:07:02 | |
particular former chief executive,
who was at the helm when the company | 0:07:02 | 0:07:07 | |
ran into difficulties and then
resigned. He still receiving a | 0:07:07 | 0:07:12 | |
salary of around £660,000, prompting
Greg Clark the Business Secretary to | 0:07:12 | 0:07:18 | |
say to the insolvency service, take
a look at this and see whether | 0:07:18 | 0:07:22 | |
there's any of misconduct. The
insolvency service this lunchtime | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
say it's too early to say whether or
not we could recover any of those | 0:07:26 | 0:07:32 | |
payments but anxiety too because we
simply do not know who is going to | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
be able to keep their jobs. The
government has said they were | 0:07:35 | 0:07:39 | |
protect those in the public sector
and the unions will say how do you | 0:07:39 | 0:07:43 | |
define who is working in the public
sector and who isn't so for example, | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
if a cleaner cleaning a government
department is going to be safe, | 0:07:47 | 0:07:50 | |
that's great news, but why shouldn't
a cleaner cleaning a railway | 0:07:50 | 0:07:55 | |
carriage be safe? Similarly, small
businesses are saying smaller | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
companies in the supply chain are
now at risk and therefore employees | 0:07:58 | 0:08:03 | |
working for them, their jobs are at
risk so there is huge anxiety and | 0:08:03 | 0:08:09 | |
uncertainty, not just about who is
going to lose their jobs, but the | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
sheer scale of potential job losses
we may now be facing. Norman, thank | 0:08:12 | 0:08:17 | |
you, at Westminster. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
13 brothers and sisters,
aged from two to 29, | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
have been found dirty
and malnourished at their | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
home in California. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
Some were chained to their beds. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:29 | |
Police carried out the rescue
after one girl managed to escape | 0:08:29 | 0:08:32 | |
13 brothers and sisters,
aged from two to 29, | 0:08:32 | 0:08:37 | |
and raise the alarm. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:38 | |
Their parents have been arrested
and charged with torture | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
and child endangerment. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:42 | |
James Cook reports from California. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:43 | |
They look like a big, happy family. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:46 | |
The children a little pale,
perhaps, but smiling. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:50 | |
Photographs on Facebook show
the Turpins visiting Disneyland, | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
and in Las Vegas as their apparently
proud parents renewed | 0:08:53 | 0:08:55 | |
atheir wedding vows. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:56 | |
their wedding vows. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
Now, David and Louise Turpin
are under arrest, charged | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
with torture and child endangerment. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
Their children are in hospital. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:07 | |
In the time we live in,
it is unfortunate to see this. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:11 | |
It is actually heartbreaking
for the staff, and it is | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
unbelievable what you see. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
The horror on Muir Woods Road
was uncovered early on Sunday | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
morning when a 17-year-old girl
escaped with a mobile phone | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
and called the police. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:28 | |
At the home, officers found 12
siblings and were shocked | 0:09:28 | 0:09:30 | |
to discover that seven were adults,
the eldest 29. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
The captives were dirty
and malnourished, say police, | 0:09:34 | 0:09:38 | |
shackled to their beds with chains
and padlocks in dark | 0:09:38 | 0:09:40 | |
The horror on Muir Woods Road
was uncovered early on Sunday | 0:09:40 | 0:09:46 | |
and foul-smelling surroundings. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:47 | |
As reporters arrived in the quiet
suburb east of Los Angeles, | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
neighbours said they were stunned. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:51 | |
The kids were not sociable at all,
they did not want to look at people. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
They were just doing
what they were doing and no | 0:09:54 | 0:09:57 | |
contact with society. | 0:09:57 | 0:09:58 | |
You would never see anyone visit,
you would never see | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
anyone come outside. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
All you would really see
is that they would go out | 0:10:02 | 0:10:06 | |
and maybe make a grocery run
and that was about it. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
I have a daughter. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
It is very horrifying that it can
happen in this community. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:15 | |
There is no hint at
all here of the grim | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
conditions inside this home. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
The questions about what
happened are mounting. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
Not least, how long were
the siblings held captive, and why? | 0:10:23 | 0:10:28 | |
James Cook, BBC News,
Perris, California. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:34 | |
The UK's inflation rate has fallen
for the first time since June, | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
mainly because of the impact
of air fares. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
The inflation rate dipped
to 3% in December, down | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
from November's rate of 3.1% -
a six-year high. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:46 | |
The Office for National Statistics
said that a drop in the price | 0:10:46 | 0:10:50 | |
of toys and games also contributed
to December's fall. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:52 | |
Our economics correspondent
Andy Verity reports. | 0:10:52 | 0:11:00 | |
It's the jump in the cost of raw
materials imported from abroad and | 0:11:00 | 0:11:04 | |
that's been the biggest factor
driving inflation up. But companies | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
like this online maker of designer
furniture want customers looking | 0:11:08 | 0:11:12 | |
round the showroom is not to be made
uncomfortable. So they have been | 0:11:12 | 0:11:19 | |
trying to contain any price rises.
18 months after the Brexit vote, the | 0:11:19 | 0:11:25 | |
weaker pound is still pushing up the
cost of imported goods like the | 0:11:25 | 0:11:30 | |
furniture in this store. But
retailers like this are in a highly | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
competitive business and want to
grow their sales so they don't | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
necessarily want to pass on the fall
higher cost of what they are buying. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:40 | |
It is a fact like that, competition
which helps curb the rise in the | 0:11:40 | 0:11:46 | |
cost of living. We feel customers
should not have to take on the | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
additional costs, really important
for us, we are about affordable | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
design and that's what we are set up
to do eight years ago and today that | 0:11:53 | 0:11:56 | |
is still relevant to our business.
While furniture prices for example | 0:11:56 | 0:12:03 | |
are relatively stable, up 3.6%, some
goods rose much faster like coffee | 0:12:03 | 0:12:09 | |
and tea, up 11.1%, or Alnwick to 30,
11 inflation peaked? -- electricity. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:18 | |
Yes, I do think it will get worse.
Literally, if I buy ahead of | 0:12:18 | 0:12:23 | |
broccoli or something, it's gone
from I think 2017, it was like 39p | 0:12:23 | 0:12:29 | |
and now it's about 60 p. When you
get to the checkout, you just think, | 0:12:29 | 0:12:34 | |
oh my goodness, that is
significantly more and individual | 0:12:34 | 0:12:36 | |
items are getting that bit more. The
easing of inflation means there's a | 0:12:36 | 0:12:40 | |
little less pressure on the Bank of
England to raise interest rates | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
again, at least for the next few
months. Even though the economy is | 0:12:43 | 0:12:47 | |
relatively weak at the moment, we do
have a tight labour market and some | 0:12:47 | 0:12:52 | |
evidence of wages beginning to peak
and therefore it may be necessary | 0:12:52 | 0:12:58 | |
for the Bank of England to raise
rates a little bit this year, | 0:12:58 | 0:13:03 | |
particularly in the second half of
this year. While shoppers are being | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
protected from higher import prices,
the average wage studies at keeping | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
up with a cost of living. Only if
inflation slows down much more | 0:13:10 | 0:13:15 | |
sharply will that squeeze on living
standards loosen its grip. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:19 | |
The supermarket chain, Iceland,
says it will scrap all plastic | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
from its own brand products
within five years. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:25 | |
The retailer said plastic would be
replaced with paper and pulp trays | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
along with paper bags which can
all be recycled and are less | 0:13:29 | 0:13:31 | |
harmful to the environment. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:37 | |
A man has gone on trial
at the Old Bailey accused | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
of planning terrorist attacks
on some of the capital's | 0:13:40 | 0:13:42 | |
best known landmarks. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:43 | |
Prosecutors say Umar Haque,
from east London, was | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
inspired by Islamic State. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:46 | |
He denies the charges. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:48 | |
Our correspondent Dominic Casciani
is at the Old Bailey. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:55 | |
Explain what the court has heard so
far, Dominic. Yes, Jane, there's is | 0:13:55 | 0:14:02 | |
Umar Haque, and occasional teacher
from East London, he and three of | 0:14:02 | 0:14:06 | |
his friends are accused of
effectively working together to | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
further his plans, two allegations
of acts of terrorism which involve | 0:14:09 | 0:14:18 | |
2016 and work to come to fruition
during 2017 and in essence, what | 0:14:18 | 0:14:23 | |
happened was prosecutors said he was
inspired by the Islamic State group | 0:14:23 | 0:14:26 | |
and told police after his arrest
that he was a loyal follower and he | 0:14:26 | 0:14:31 | |
wanted to carry out attacks and had
a range of targets at his home. Let | 0:14:31 | 0:14:36 | |
me go through that list, it included
the Queen 's guard, transport, | 0:14:36 | 0:14:42 | |
tanks, a shopping centre,
Parliament, Shia Muslims, the media, | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
embassies and that is just a view of
the alleged targets, but the other | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
part of this case against Umar Haque
is that he was involved in the | 0:14:48 | 0:14:55 | |
radicalisation of children here in
the capital and worked as an | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
occasional teacher at a secondary
school but also was accused of | 0:14:58 | 0:15:02 | |
grooming children at a mosque in
east London. He denies those charges | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
and this will be and compensated
trial. Dominic, thank you. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:11 | |
The American gymnast Simone Biles,
who won four gold medals | 0:15:11 | 0:15:13 | |
at the Rio Olympics,
has said she was sexually abused | 0:15:13 | 0:15:16 | |
by the former USA team
doctor, Larry Nassar. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:19 | |
He was jailed last month for 60
years for possessing images of child | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
sexual abuse and is awaiting
sentencing for assaulting | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
other athletes. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:29 | |
Our Sports Correspondent
Natalie Pirks reports. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
And this is really very special. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
One clip, two flips. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:36 | |
Full twisting double back. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:37 | |
So easy... | 0:15:37 | 0:15:39 | |
She's a four-time
Olympic champion whose | 0:15:39 | 0:15:40 | |
megawatt smile and will to win
propelled her to gymnastic greyness. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:47 | |
to gymnastic greatness. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:48 | |
Only one American woman has ever
won Gold on the vault. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:51 | |
But last night the self
proclaimed happy, giggly | 0:15:51 | 0:15:53 | |
and energetic girl admitted to
feeling broken, saying she too had | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
been a victim of one of sport's
most predatory abuses. | 0:15:55 | 0:16:01 | |
Physician Larry Nassar was part
of the US gymnastics | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
programme from the '80s to 2015. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
He is accused of
sexually abusing more | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
than 130 women under the guise
of medical treatment and is serving | 0:16:09 | 0:16:13 | |
60 years in jail for possessing
images | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
of child sexual abuse. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
In a lengthy statement last
night, Biles said it | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
had been impossibly difficult
to relive her experience, but says | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
she's not afraid to tell
her story any more. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:31 | |
I love the sport too much and I have
never been a quitter, she said. I | 0:16:31 | 0:16:35 | |
won't let one man and the others
that enabled him to steal my love | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
and joy. Some of her limpid
team-mates also say they were abused | 0:16:38 | 0:16:44 | |
by Larry Nasser. She has accused
authorities of a cover-up and | 0:16:44 | 0:16:49 | |
believes more should have been done
to protect the girls in his care. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:53 | |
What did USA gymnastics do to
manipulate these girls so much that | 0:16:53 | 0:17:00 | |
they are so afraid to speak up? USA
gymnastics said it was absolutely | 0:17:00 | 0:17:06 | |
heartbroken, sorry and angry that
any of their athletes had been | 0:17:06 | 0:17:10 | |
harmed by the horrific acts of Larry
Nasser. It said its support for | 0:17:10 | 0:17:15 | |
Simone Biles and others is
unwavering. His crimes have | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
parallels to the current climate in
British football and in Hollywood. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:22 | |
Similar stories of power and access
have played out with horrifying | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
consequences. Simone Biles used the
hash tag me too, also used by | 0:17:25 | 0:17:33 | |
thousands on social media to raise
awareness of sexual harassment and | 0:17:33 | 0:17:35 | |
abuse. Used to making the
spectacular look effortless, | 0:17:35 | 0:17:41 | |
disclosing the special treatment
inflicted on her, has been a painful | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
process but through witnessing the
coverage of other survivors, Simone | 0:17:44 | 0:17:48 | |
Biles has finally felt able to share
her story. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:55 | |
The time is 17 minutes past one. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
Our top story this lunchtime... | 0:18:01 | 0:18:09 | |
A growing number of businesses
who worked on projects with the firm | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
say they're already laying off
staff; others fear closure. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:15 | |
And coming up... | 0:18:15 | 0:18:16 | |
A transport revolution for the north
of England but at least one critic | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
has ridiculed the proposals. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:21 | |
Coming up in sport, Wales take
a chance on injured players | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
for the Six Nations including
Taulupe Faletau and George North | 0:18:23 | 0:18:26 | |
in their 39-man squad,
despite both struggling | 0:18:26 | 0:18:27 | |
with knee problems. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
The French President,
Emmanuel Macron, is to put pressure | 0:18:36 | 0:18:38 | |
on Britain to take in more refugees
from northern France. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:41 | |
He's visiting Calais today,
with French ministers saying | 0:18:41 | 0:18:43 | |
he will also ask the UK to increase
funding for security and | 0:18:43 | 0:18:46 | |
the development of the port city. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:50 | |
At stake is a 2003 agreement
between Britain and France, | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
which effectively moved the UK
border onto French territory. | 0:18:53 | 0:18:58 | |
Our diplomatic correspondent
Paul Adams is in Calais. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:06 | |
There were once thousands of
migrants camped out here in Calais, | 0:19:10 | 0:19:14 | |
now there are as many as 700 at any
one time, living rough in utterly | 0:19:14 | 0:19:20 | |
miserable conditions, having of
course to make it across the Channel | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
to England. They are read small part
of a much bigger immigration problem | 0:19:22 | 0:19:29 | |
the French government is grappling
with. Last year there were more than | 0:19:29 | 0:19:33 | |
100,000 applications for asylum, a
new record, and it is clear | 0:19:33 | 0:19:37 | |
President Macron is about to ask
Theresa May for more help in dealing | 0:19:37 | 0:19:41 | |
with the situation here. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
They are harder to find
but they are still here. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:46 | |
Under the trees, cold and wet,
desperate to move on. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:50 | |
From Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Afghanistan and Iraq. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:54 | |
They walk miles every day for food,
shelter and opportunities to leave. | 0:19:54 | 0:20:00 | |
For security reasons... Just James.
Yes, just James. Ok. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:04 | |
James is from Cameroon,
unwilling to show his face. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
He's been in Calais for six months,
bitter about his treatment. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:12 | |
I have my own reasons why
I left my country to come to Europe. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
So the way they treat
us here is not good. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:18 | |
I don't believe there
is humanity in France. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:20 | |
Humanity does not exist in Calais. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:25 | |
So today we have about 600,
700 refugees who are in Calais | 0:20:25 | 0:20:31 | |
and who live in absolutely
treacherous conditions, you know. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
Every few hours, every few days,
everything is taken away | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
and they find themselves
with absolutely nothing | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
to survive with. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
President Macron has come to see
the situation for himself, | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
stopping first visit migrants
in the regional capital. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:50 | |
He's about to unveil
a new immigration bill, and when it | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
comes to Calais his officials say
he's going to ask Britain | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
to do more to help. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
The camp they call The Jungle
was demolished 15 months ago, | 0:20:59 | 0:21:07 | |
It was essential to draw the
conclusions before meeting with | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
Theresa May. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:18 | |
The camp they call The Jungle
was demolished 15 months ago, | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
its residents sent to reception
centres all over the country, | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
but Calais is still a magnet. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:24 | |
You can burn a camp down
but you can't stop people | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
trying to reach Britain. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
The rail and ferry terminals
are now heavily fortified. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:33 | |
British money paid for a lot of this
but lorries and smugglers | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
still offer ways across the Channel. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:41 | |
Calais' migrant problem
seems perpetual. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
Governments have tried
and failed to fix it. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
When President Macron crosses
the Channel on Thursday, it seems | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
he will be carrying demands. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:51 | |
Paul Adams, BBC News, Calais. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:57 | |
We have been hearing a bit about
that in the course of the | 0:21:57 | 0:22:01 | |
President's speech which ended a few
minutes ago. He said he would be | 0:22:01 | 0:22:05 | |
looking for what he called a
specific response from his British | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
partners on the subject of
unaccompanied minors and said he | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
would be talking to Theresa May
about money. Thank you. Paul Adams | 0:22:12 | 0:22:18 | |
in Calais. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:20 | |
The President of the European
Council has again insisted | 0:22:20 | 0:22:22 | |
that the EU remains open to the idea
of Brexit being abandoned. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
Donald Tusk told MEPs in Strasbourg
that it's not too late | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
for Britain to change its mind. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:29 | |
Our Europe Correspondent Adam
Fleming is at the European | 0:22:29 | 0:22:31 | |
Parliament in Strasbourg. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:36 | |
Tell us more about what was said,
Adam. Donald Tusk is the man that | 0:22:36 | 0:22:43 | |
chairs the all-important summit of
EU leaders and has said things like | 0:22:43 | 0:22:47 | |
this before. Remember last summer
when he channelled John Lennon to | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
say imagine there was no Brexit but
he's never said it quite strongly as | 0:22:51 | 0:22:56 | |
this. He said the EU's heart was
open if UK voters decided to change | 0:22:56 | 0:23:02 | |
their mind. Then used an old quote
from David Davis saying the | 0:23:02 | 0:23:06 | |
democracy wasn't a democracy any
more if it couldn't change its mind, | 0:23:06 | 0:23:10 | |
and that was backed up by
Jean-Claude Juncker, who spoke | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
afterwards saying he hoped this
message was heard loud and clear in | 0:23:13 | 0:23:18 | |
London. I don't know if this is part
of some big campaign to get the | 0:23:18 | 0:23:22 | |
Brexit vote reversed, I think it is
more a tactic to make sure all | 0:23:22 | 0:23:26 | |
options are still on the table no
matter what happens in the next 14 | 0:23:26 | 0:23:32 | |
months of the Brexit process. There
was plenty of other Brexit chap | 0:23:32 | 0:23:35 | |
today but what MPs really want is
more detail from Theresa May about | 0:23:35 | 0:23:39 | |
what the UK wants from its future
relationship with the EU before | 0:23:39 | 0:23:43 | |
talks on that start in March. Thank
you. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:49 | |
There's fewer than 40 miles
between Manchester and Britain's | 0:23:49 | 0:23:51 | |
fifth biggest city Bradford,
but the journey takes almost an hour | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
on even the fastest trains. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:55 | |
Well this morning, Transport
For The North published its plan | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
to modernise rail and road links,
as our correspondent | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
Danny Savage reports. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
The hills of the north. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:03 | |
Beautiful, but a physical barrier
between the conurbations | 0:24:03 | 0:24:05 | |
either side of the Pennines. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:08 | |
Travelling by car can be painful,
the few routes over the top | 0:24:08 | 0:24:11 | |
are often congested. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
As for the trains, they are frequent
but relatively slow | 0:24:14 | 0:24:16 | |
and can be overcrowded. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:20 | |
Because there's always
delays on the train, | 0:24:20 | 0:24:21 | |
we want this train service to be
quicker than what it usually is. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:26 | |
Most of the trains between Halifax
and Bradford, and Halifax | 0:24:26 | 0:24:31 | |
to Leeds are like this,
like an old bus. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
Draughty, hot, old. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:37 | |
Improving transport links
across the Pennines is nothing new. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
This is the Leeds-Liverpool canal
build more than 200 years ago. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:43 | |
But instead of taking
a few days by water, | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
the hope is for example getting
Leeds to Manchester by train down | 0:24:45 | 0:24:49 | |
to about half an hour. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:53 | |
After years of discussion
about improving things | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
on the twisty hilltop roads,
there is now a plan the | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
northern cities agree on. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:00 | |
There used to be a train tunnel
between Sheffield and Manchester. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:03 | |
That's long gone, but a new road
tunnel like this one in Norway | 0:25:03 | 0:25:06 | |
is proposed and could halve
the current journey | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
between South Yorkshire
and Greater Manchester. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:13 | |
And a new trans-Pennine
line will link Leeds | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
and Manchester via Bradford. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:18 | |
I think we all need to make
sure that we cover Hull, | 0:25:18 | 0:25:24 | |
Sheffield, Newcastle,
and Manchester of course, | 0:25:24 | 0:25:26 | |
so all of our major city regions. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:27 | |
This is vitally
important for the north. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:30 | |
Today's launch of the plan
was about helping businesses | 0:25:30 | 0:25:33 | |
as well as individuals. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:35 | |
We want to work more
with our near neighbours, | 0:25:35 | 0:25:37 | |
that's both sides of the Pennines,
and further north. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:40 | |
At the moment that's a little bit
harder than it should be. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:45 | |
But remember, this is a 30-year
plan and is still only | 0:25:45 | 0:25:48 | |
at the ideas stage. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:49 | |
Former Transport Secretary John
Prescott walked out of the launch | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
in Hull today, unconvinced. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:55 | |
It will have no powers. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:56 | |
It can talk to the Treasury along
with the strategic bodies | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
but it can't make a decision. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
It doesn't get any money. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:02 | |
It's a bloody fraud. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
The planners will have
to pitch their ideas to the Treasury | 0:26:06 | 0:26:08 | |
to get the money for these ambitious
projects to upgrade the north, | 0:26:08 | 0:26:13 | |
which at the moment feels left
behind when it comes to transport. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
Danny Savage, BBC News, Leeds. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:24 | |
The white goods manufacturer
Whirlpool hasn't done enough | 0:26:24 | 0:26:26 | |
to deal with defective tumble dryers
which have caused hundreds of fires. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
The Commons Business Committee says
the firm's response to the problem, | 0:26:29 | 0:26:36 | |
discovered in 2015, has been woeful. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:41 | |
Our Business Correspondent,
Emma Simpson, reports. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:43 | |
A burnt out wreck. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:44 | |
Fire engulfed this flat
in Llanrwst in Wales in 2014, | 0:26:44 | 0:26:46 | |
claiming the lives of Doug McTavish
and Bernard Hender. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
The coroner said it was most
likely caused by a fault | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
in the tumble dryer,
owned by Whirlpool, | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
and that the company needed
to take further action | 0:26:53 | 0:26:55 | |
to prevent future deaths. | 0:26:55 | 0:26:59 | |
MPs are now demanding changes too. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:03 | |
Well, the evidence was woeful. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
Since 2004, they admit there have
been 740 fires in people's homes | 0:27:06 | 0:27:09 | |
caused by these tumble dryers
and yet still today, in 2018, | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
there are million of these tumble
dryers in people's homes. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:20 | |
there are a million of these tumble
dryers in people's homes. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
They need to take much stronger
action to get those tumble dryers | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
out of people's homes. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:27 | |
Her Parliamentary committee has been
looking into the safety | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
of electrical goods. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:30 | |
Among its recommendations,
it wants... | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
Whirlpool to deal with any faulty
machines within a fortnight | 0:27:32 | 0:27:35 | |
of being contacted by customers. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
All manufacturers should make risk
assessments available as soon | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
as defects are identified. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:44 | |
Safer materials to replace
plastic-backed fridge | 0:27:44 | 0:27:47 | |
freezers, which appear to be
a significant risk. | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
And it wants the Government
to actively explore the creation | 0:27:50 | 0:27:53 | |
of a single national product safety
agency to improve a system | 0:27:53 | 0:27:57 | |
which the MPs claim is fragmented
and under resourced. | 0:27:57 | 0:28:04 | |
Whirlpool says it's helped the vast
majority of customers who've | 0:28:04 | 0:28:06 | |
come forward so far,
and promises it will now resolve | 0:28:06 | 0:28:08 | |
reported problems within a week. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:13 | |
The Government says Britain's
product safety requirements | 0:28:13 | 0:28:14 | |
are among the highest in the world
and it's already taken steps | 0:28:14 | 0:28:17 | |
to improve the current regime. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:21 | |
Emma Simpson, BBC News. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:25 | |
Britain's Johanna Konta
is through to the second | 0:28:25 | 0:28:27 | |
round of the Australian Open. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
The British number one made
swift work of her match | 0:28:30 | 0:28:32 | |
against American Madison Brengle
at Melbourne Park. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:40 | |
Our sports
correspondent Joe Wilson reports. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:44 | |
Johanna Konta - concentration,
focus, a force of willpower. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:46 | |
Well, all of that was
there in Melbourne. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:49 | |
She overwhelmed Madison Brengle,
ranked 90th in the world, | 0:28:49 | 0:28:51 | |
Konta only lost four games
in their first-round match. | 0:28:51 | 0:28:55 | |
Her Australian upbringing
has left her with an | 0:28:55 | 0:28:57 | |
appreciation for the heat
of battle and the heat of the sun. | 0:28:57 | 0:29:00 | |
But this is the new playful Konta. | 0:29:00 | 0:29:04 | |
When she addressed the media,
she explained she was suffering | 0:29:04 | 0:29:06 | |
from a shopping mishap. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:07 | |
The blueberry blues. | 0:29:07 | 0:29:10 | |
I went to the supermarket
to buy blueberries. | 0:29:10 | 0:29:14 | |
I only bought blueberries,
two punnets of blueberries. | 0:29:14 | 0:29:17 | |
I left two punnets
of blueberries there. | 0:29:17 | 0:29:19 | |
It's $5 that I will not get back but | 0:29:19 | 0:29:23 | |
it's more the betrayal of my own
mind that I felt so upset about. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:26 | |
Yeah, I was so sad! | 0:29:26 | 0:29:27 | |
Ah, where's the smile? | 0:29:27 | 0:29:30 | |
There, all fun. | 0:29:30 | 0:29:32 | |
Novak Djokovic has more
than just $5 on his mind. | 0:29:32 | 0:29:35 | |
It has been suggested he's
organising a male players' | 0:29:35 | 0:29:37 | |
battle for more prize money. | 0:29:37 | 0:29:41 | |
Nothing so shadowy, he insisted,
after winning his first-round match. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:45 | |
COMMENTATOR: There it is. | 0:29:45 | 0:29:46 | |
UMPIRE: Game, set
and match, Djokovic. | 0:29:46 | 0:29:52 | |
Sure, there was a routine
players' meeting but there | 0:29:52 | 0:29:54 | |
won't be a tournament
boycott, he says. | 0:29:54 | 0:29:56 | |
A straight sets win over
Donald Young made his sore elbow | 0:29:56 | 0:29:58 | |
seem less significant. | 0:29:58 | 0:29:59 | |
Djokovic just one player here
looking for a post-surgery surge. | 0:29:59 | 0:30:03 | |
Roger Federer has led the way
in proving age and operations | 0:30:03 | 0:30:06 | |
are no barrier to success,
of course he has. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:08 | |
UMPIRE: Game, Roger Federer. | 0:30:08 | 0:30:13 | |
COMMENTATOR: The champion
is on his way. | 0:30:13 | 0:30:16 | |
1 hour 39 minutes to beat
Aljaz Bedene, that is | 0:30:16 | 0:30:24 | |
Slovenia's Aljaz Bedene by the way -
formerly, briefly, known | 0:30:25 | 0:30:27 | |
as Britain's Aljaz Bedene. | 0:30:27 | 0:30:28 | |
Britain's Heather Watson
had her moments in the first round, | 0:30:28 | 0:30:31 | |
that's her winning
the point at the net here. | 0:30:31 | 0:30:33 | |
COMMENTATOR: Good anticipation
on that backhand volley. | 0:30:33 | 0:30:34 | |
But Watson lost
the first set 7-5 and | 0:30:34 | 0:30:36 | |
the second on a tie-break,
her opponent Yulia Putintseva | 0:30:36 | 0:30:38 | |
celebrating as if she had just found
a free box of blueberries. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:42 | |
COMMENTATOR: There it is. | 0:30:42 | 0:30:45 | |
That is what it means. | 0:30:45 | 0:30:46 | |
Joe Wilson, BBC News. | 0:30:46 | 0:30:54 | |
Time for a look at the weather. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:56 | |
Here's Susan Powell. | 0:30:56 | 0:31:00 | |
Here's Susan Powell. | 0:31:00 | 0:31:00 | |
Some challenging weather across the
British Isles at the moment, here is | 0:31:00 | 0:31:05 | |
the scene in Northern Ireland and
the Met office have issued a number | 0:31:05 | 0:31:09 | |
warning for Northern Ireland and
Scotland for snow and ice through | 0:31:09 | 0:31:12 | |
the Remainer of today and into
tomorrow morning. Take a look at the | 0:31:12 | 0:31:16 | |
satellite picture and you can see
where the showers have been piling | 0:31:16 | 0:31:20 | |
in thick and fast. The amber
triangles remind you of the areas | 0:31:20 | 0:31:24 | |
that will possibly be most
treacherous but not exclusively as | 0:31:24 | 0:31:27 | |
we go through the Remainer of today.
Snow showers affecting many | 0:31:27 | 0:31:36 | |
Snow showers affecting many parts of
northern Scotland, eastern areas | 0:31:41 | 0:31:42 | |
enjoying sunshine, more snow showers
for Northern Ireland and some | 0:31:42 | 0:31:44 | |
pushing into northern England too.
Further south, showers also wintry | 0:31:44 | 0:31:46 | |
but tending to be a mixture of more
rain, sleet, snow and hail as we get | 0:31:46 | 0:31:50 | |
into southern England. I forgot to
mention as well that some of those | 0:31:50 | 0:31:54 | |
snow showers coming into western
Scotland will also be accompanied by | 0:31:54 | 0:31:59 | |
rumbles of thunder. Overnight,
heavier bowls of snow for Scotland, | 0:31:59 | 0:32:04 | |
Northern Ireland and northern
England, and by the end of the night | 0:32:04 | 0:32:07 | |
we could see a frost just about
anywhere, and certainly looks like | 0:32:07 | 0:32:10 | |
ice will be a big issue. Taking the
road first thing in the morning, | 0:32:10 | 0:32:16 | |
there will be difficult conditions.
Another windy day to come on | 0:32:16 | 0:32:20 | |
Wednesday as well. Still showers to
come for Scotland and Northern | 0:32:20 | 0:32:24 | |
Ireland, but fewer than we have seen
today. A lot of sunshine across | 0:32:24 | 0:32:28 | |
England and Wales. Temperatures, on
the face of it not looking so | 0:32:28 | 0:32:35 | |
severe, but adding in the wind chill
and for the northern part of the | 0:32:35 | 0:32:39 | |
British Isles will feel subzero. Not
much better for the south. Wednesday | 0:32:39 | 0:32:45 | |
night into Thursday, here comes this
deep area of low pressure which | 0:32:45 | 0:32:48 | |
could be nasty as we go into
Thursday morning. Deepening away, we | 0:32:48 | 0:32:52 | |
could see a widespread swathes of
scales, snow across northern parts | 0:32:52 | 0:32:56 | |
of England and heavy rain, perhaps
causing snow to melt quickly and | 0:32:56 | 0:33:01 | |
there could be localised flooding.
Again for Thursday morning, some | 0:33:01 | 0:33:09 | |
difficult conditions, particularly
if you are travelling. On a slightly | 0:33:09 | 0:33:11 | |
positive note it looks like the low
will clear away but then it looks | 0:33:11 | 0:33:14 | |
like we are back to square one with
chilly winds to close out the week. | 0:33:14 | 0:33:19 | |
Here is a brief summary - cold,
windy, particularly stormy on | 0:33:19 | 0:33:24 | |
Wednesday night and | 0:33:24 | 0:33:25 | |
windy, particularly stormy on
Wednesday night and more wintry | 0:33:25 | 0:33:27 | |
showers to come. Susan, thank you.
An investigation has been ordered | 0:33:27 | 0:33:32 | |
into the directors of the collapsed
company Carillion. That is all from | 0:33:32 | 0:33:42 | |
the BBC News | 0:33:42 | 0:33:42 |