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Former bosses of the construction
giant Carillion apologise | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
for its collapse, but deny
they were asleep at the wheel. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:15 | |
Carillion executives have been
appearing before MPs to explain why | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
they let it slide into liquidation. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:21 | |
I too would like to say how deeply
saddened and how sorry I am | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
for what's happened to the business. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:29 | |
It was a great business,
it delivered hundreds and hundreds | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
of projects very successfully. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:37 | |
We'll have the latest
from our business editor. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
Also this lunchtime... | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
Stock markets around the world
plummet after big falls in America. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:47 | |
The IRA Hyde Park bombing -
relatives of the victims get legal | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
aid for a civil action
against the main suspect. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:55 | |
Clogged up Britain -
new research says we spend more | 0:00:55 | 0:01:02 | |
a day a year sitting
in rush hour traffic. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:09 | |
In 1918, votes for women became a
reality. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
And it's a hundred years | 0:01:12 | 0:01:13 | |
today that women got the vote -
but even then only if they were over | 0:01:13 | 0:01:17 | |
30 and owners of property. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:18 | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC
News, Chelsea captain Gary Cahill | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
has backed manager Antonio Conte,
saying the players need | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
to look in the mirror
after their 4-1 loss at Watford. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
Good afternoon and welcome
to the BBC News at One. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
Former bosses of the construction
and outsourcing company Carillion | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
have apologised for the firm's
collapse - but denied claims by MPs | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
that they were asleep at the wheel. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
The firm - which provided
services for schools, | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
hospitals and prisons -
went into liquidation | 0:02:01 | 0:02:02 | |
in the middle of January. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
It employed more than 40,000 people
worldwide. This morning MPs have | 0:02:05 | 0:02:10 | |
been cross the company's executives
about how they are loaded to | 0:02:10 | 0:02:15 | |
collapse with debts of over £1
billion and a huge pension deficit. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:19 | |
Our business correspondent
Simon Gompertz reports. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:25 | |
The senior figures in charge of
Carillion in its final months. Keith | 0:02:25 | 0:02:29 | |
Cochrane, chief executive during the
collapse. REPORTER: Would you say | 0:02:29 | 0:02:34 | |
sorry to employees?
And Zafar Khan, the finance director | 0:02:34 | 0:02:40 | |
ousted after commissioning an
internal investigation. Also among | 0:02:40 | 0:02:44 | |
them Richard Howson, he was sacked
as chief executive after having to | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
warn last year that profits were
plummeting. I too would like to say | 0:02:48 | 0:02:53 | |
how deeply saddened and how sorry I
am for what has happened to the | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
business.
Mr Harrison received £1.5 million in | 0:02:57 | 0:03:03 | |
2016 and continue to get his salary
after he left, even though the | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
company failed to get a key Middle
Eastern company to pay up for 18 | 0:03:06 | 0:03:11 | |
months.
If we had completed the contract... | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
How much were you owed. £200
million. I would like you to answer | 0:03:14 | 0:03:20 | |
the questions I'm asking, not the
ones you would like to answer. How | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
much to cut Ahn over the business
when you left it? Around £200 | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
million. -- how much did Kat Ahn oh
the business? The opening of the | 0:03:28 | 0:03:37 | |
Royal Liverpool Hospital is set to
be put off indefinitely. There was a | 0:03:37 | 0:03:41 | |
drastic shortage of cash coming in.
Despite that pressure, the man | 0:03:41 | 0:03:48 | |
brought in as caretaker chief
executive was accused of getting | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
priorities wrong by paying more to
shareholders than the stricken | 0:03:51 | 0:03:58 | |
pension scheme. I understood it to
be an agreed arrangements between | 0:03:58 | 0:04:04 | |
the pension funds... If I have to
children and I pay one of their £1 a | 0:04:04 | 0:04:09 | |
week and the other 50p a week in
pocket money, and the one who gets | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
50 Pete says I think your priority
is the other child, you are paying | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
her twice as much as me, and I say I
don't think that is the right way to | 0:04:16 | 0:04:22 | |
look at it, dear? Do you think the
child getting 50p has a point? Or do | 0:04:22 | 0:04:29 | |
you think they don't? That is an
interesting perspective. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:34 | |
With money leaking away, Carillion
desperately needed new contracts to | 0:04:34 | 0:04:39 | |
keep going. But former finance
director Zafar Khan said that new | 0:04:39 | 0:04:43 | |
work has begun to dry up. We had
some contracts we were the preferred | 0:04:43 | 0:04:50 | |
bidders for but they continued to
drift out to the right because of | 0:04:50 | 0:04:54 | |
the Brexit uncertainty. That was
amplified by the general election | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
announcement. Along the way MPs were
told by Carillion had in George | 0:04:58 | 0:05:03 | |
tenet 's final to McGrady is in
aggressive accounting, effectively | 0:05:03 | 0:05:08 | |
booking payments as income and they
had not commend -- were told that | 0:05:08 | 0:05:14 | |
Carillion had indulged in its final
two years in aggressive accounting, | 0:05:14 | 0:05:19 | |
effectively booking payments as
income and they had not come in. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
Our business editor
Simon Jack is here. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
How did a company which got a clean
bill of health from the executives | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
of the company and its auditors
suddenly almost collapse four months | 0:05:29 | 0:05:34 | |
after that in July? The executives
said today they were genuinely | 0:05:34 | 0:05:39 | |
surprised by how quickly some
contracts deteriorated. Some in the | 0:05:39 | 0:05:44 | |
Middle East, some in Canada and some
key ones in the UK. And given the | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
amount of debt the company had,
which they admitted was too hi, they | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
did not have the wiggle room. It was
a surprise to us, everyone today | 0:05:52 | 0:06:02 | |
said it was a complete surprise.
Real consequences from this | 0:06:02 | 0:06:04 | |
collapse, we are hearing more today?
The Royal Liverpool Hospital has | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
released a statement today saying
because of the problems with | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
subcontractors, many of whom face
financial difficulties, they cannot | 0:06:10 | 0:06:15 | |
get the work started on this major
hospital and it was meant to open in | 0:06:15 | 0:06:20 | |
February 2018, this month, they are
saying it would be very unlikely it | 0:06:20 | 0:06:23 | |
will be finished before the end of
the year. A critical bit of public | 0:06:23 | 0:06:28 | |
servers delayed by Carillion, in
addition to all the jobs we know | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
will be lost. Thank you, Simon Jack,
our business editor. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
Wall Street is bracing itself
for more turbulence today | 0:06:35 | 0:06:37 | |
after yesterday's near record
stock market falls. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:39 | |
This morning prices have been
tumbling in the Far East and Europe. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
The FTSE opened sharply down before
recovering slightly. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
Well, the sell-off began last week
when strong economic data in the us | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
sparked fears of an early rise
in interest rates. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
Yogita Limaye is at
the New York Stock Exchange. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:59 | |
The fall started in America, what do
we expect from the markets open? | 0:07:02 | 0:07:07 | |
Markets will open in about an hour
and 20 from now, that is the New | 0:07:07 | 0:07:12 | |
York Stock Exchange behind me. All
of this started on Friday. Traders | 0:07:12 | 0:07:17 | |
started worrying that interest rates
would rise rapidly on the back of | 0:07:17 | 0:07:21 | |
strong wage growth in the US. On
Friday you saw the Dow Jones | 0:07:21 | 0:07:25 | |
industrial average fell more than
650 points, yesterday it was the | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
worst fall in history in terms of
points. Even in terms of percentage | 0:07:29 | 0:07:35 | |
the worst since the financial
crisis. You have seen that impact | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
across markets across the world,
markets have been turned around 2% | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
but in the Far East, Japan, Hong
Kong, Taiwan, they have fallen as | 0:07:42 | 0:07:48 | |
much as four or 5%. When traders get
inside today they will be anxious, | 0:07:48 | 0:07:53 | |
but the word on Wall Street, even
after the closing yesterday, people | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
have said there is no need to panic
just yet. The fundamentals of the | 0:07:57 | 0:08:01 | |
economy remains strong, there is
still strong growth in America. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:06 | |
Unemployment is low. They are
essentially saying that the markets | 0:08:06 | 0:08:11 | |
were inflated and to some extent
everyone was expecting a correction. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:16 | |
When there was some trigger for the
correction, that is the reason you | 0:08:16 | 0:08:20 | |
have seen this kind of sell-off
happening. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
Here in America you have seen
President Trump repeatedly taking | 0:08:22 | 0:08:26 | |
credit for record stock market
highs. Yesterday he was out in Ohio, | 0:08:26 | 0:08:30 | |
he did not say anything about the
markets. The White House said the | 0:08:30 | 0:08:35 | |
president continues to focus on
long-term fundamentals, which remain | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
strong.
Many thanks indeed. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
Relatives of the victims of the1 982
IRA Hyde Park bombing have been | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
granted legal aid for a civil action
against the main suspect. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
The case against John Downey,
who denies involvement, | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
collapsed at the Old Bailey four
years ago when it emerged that | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
Government officials had mistakenly
given him a letter telling him | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
he would not face
arrest or prosecution. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:59 | |
Four soldiers of the Royal
Household Cavalry and seven | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
horses died in the attack. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
Keith Doyle reports. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:12 | |
Four soldiers of the Royal Household
Cavalry died when a car bomb | 0:09:13 | 0:09:17 | |
detonated as they made their way to
Buckingham Palace in July 19 82. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
Dozens were injured and seven
cavalry horses died. Another horse | 0:09:21 | 0:09:27 | |
was critically injured, but
recovered enough to return to | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
service. A recovery which was
closely followed by the public. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:36 | |
John Downey, who was convicted of
IRA membership in the 1970s, was the | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
prime suspect and was charged with
the bombing in 2014. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:45 | |
That case collapsed when it emerged
that government officials had | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
assured him in writing in 2007 that
he would not face arrest or | 0:09:48 | 0:09:54 | |
prosecution.
He was one of around 180 | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
Republicans, so called on the runs,
suspected of involvement in | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
terrorist crimes, but who had never
been charged. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
As part of the Good Friday Agreement
they received letters from the | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
Government assuring them they were
not being sought by police. There | 0:10:08 | 0:10:12 | |
was severe criticism of this scheme,
which was described as secretive and | 0:10:12 | 0:10:17 | |
a catastrophic mistake. Tony Blair,
whose government implemented it, | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
sought to defend it. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:30 | |
sought to defend it. Without having
to Matt, we would not have a | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
Northern Ireland peace process in
place today. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:33 | |
Well John Downey was not wanted by
police in Northern Ireland, he was | 0:10:33 | 0:10:36 | |
wanted by the Met Police. But a
judge ruled that even though his | 0:10:36 | 0:10:38 | |
letter was sent by mistake it would
be an abuse of process for him to | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
stand trial for the Hyde Park
bombing. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:45 | |
While the families of those killed
in the Hyde Park bombing can now | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
pursue a civil case, there is no
guarantee that it will be | 0:10:48 | 0:10:53 | |
successful.
It is great news for them, they have | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
gone through all the agonies of the
original bomb and then waiting to | 0:10:55 | 0:11:00 | |
see if anyone would ever be caught
for it, then someone has been put | 0:11:00 | 0:11:04 | |
forward as possibly being the bomb,
to see that collapse, to then have | 0:11:04 | 0:11:09 | |
five different types of legal aid
agency. It has been a roller-coaster | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
and a really hard one for them, it
does not show up our legal system | 0:11:12 | 0:11:17 | |
particularly well.
35 years on a Northern Ireland is | 0:11:17 | 0:11:22 | |
still trying to come to terms with
the violence of the past. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:29 | |
the violence of the past. Pressure
is mounting on President Jacob Zuma | 0:11:29 | 0:11:31 | |
to step down after the Speaker of
Parliament and adds that the state | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
of the nation address, which the
president was due to deliver on | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
Thursday, had been postponed. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:44 | |
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has
called on South Africa's President | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
to step down,
saying he has abused | 0:11:46 | 0:11:48 | |
the trust of South Africans
and is not fit to govern. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:51 | |
His deputy has replaced him as the
leader of the African National | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
Congress, but he remains the
president of the country. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:59 | |
The Health Secretary has announced a
review of the legal treatment of | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
errors by doctors. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:07 | |
The doctor was convicted after the
death of a six-year old boy in her | 0:12:14 | 0:12:18 | |
care, but it provoked anger in the
medical profession because it said | 0:12:18 | 0:12:22 | |
she had been under intense pressure
due to understaffing. What has the | 0:12:22 | 0:12:26 | |
Health Secretary had to say?
A short time ago Jeremy Hunt told | 0:12:26 | 0:12:30 | |
the Commons that was very widespread
concern about this whole situation. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:34 | |
Just to remind you, it was a very
tragic case, the death of | 0:12:34 | 0:12:41 | |
six-year-old Jack Adcock which
resulted in the conviction of | 0:12:41 | 0:12:53 | |
resulted in the conviction of Doctor
Dr Bawagaba. A tribunal met last | 0:12:53 | 0:12:56 | |
year to decide her future as a
doctor following the conviction, | 0:12:56 | 0:12:58 | |
they said she should be suspended
for just 12 months. The General | 0:12:58 | 0:13:03 | |
Medical Council decided to appeal
against that. They went to the High | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
Court and a couple of weeks ago a
house Democrat High Court ruling was | 0:13:06 | 0:13:11 | |
she should be struck off the
register completely, she should not | 0:13:11 | 0:13:15 | |
practice again -- and a couple of
weeks ago the High Court ruling was. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:21 | |
The doctor was under intense
pressure because of understaffing, | 0:13:21 | 0:13:27 | |
Jeremy Hunt has responded to that
statement and says there will be a | 0:13:27 | 0:13:30 | |
review of where you draw the line
between gross negligence, | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
manslaughter and how you treat
doctors who have committed errors | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
and mistakes, and secondly how you
should allow them to be open in | 0:13:36 | 0:13:42 | |
their reflections in the paperwork
that they do. And finally any | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
lessons to be learned by the General
Medical Council. What has been the | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
reaction from doctors to this? They
have said it is exactly the right | 0:13:50 | 0:13:54 | |
thing. One campaigner who worked
with this doctor told me she thought | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
it was exactly the right thing to
do. It was a very tragic case, a | 0:13:57 | 0:14:02 | |
young boy died, careers were ruined
by this and there were of lessons to | 0:14:02 | 0:14:08 | |
be learned. This review could reach
some answers on bar. Thank you very | 0:14:08 | 0:14:13 | |
much, Hugh Pym, our health editor. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
Our top story this lunchtime: | 0:14:16 | 0:14:20 | |
Former bosses of the construction
giant Carillion apologise for its | 0:14:20 | 0:14:24 | |
collapse but denied they were asleep
at the wheel. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:26 | |
And still to come: Changing weather. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:27 | |
We'll take a sneak peek at the BBC's
new weather graphics. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:32 | |
Coming up in sport: Leeds United
have announced the appointment | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
of Barnsley boss Paul Heckingbottom
as their new Head Coach. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:36 | |
He's their tenth manager
in the last five years. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:44 | |
It's 100 years ago today that women
first got the right to vote, | 0:14:51 | 0:14:55 | |
provided they were over 30
and owners of property. | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
To mark the centenary
of that historic reform, | 0:14:58 | 0:15:01 | |
campaigners are calling
for posthumous pardons to be given | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
to women who were jailed
in the fight for universal suffrage. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister
will mark the anniversary by warning | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
that online intimidation of women
is threatening democracy. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
Jane Hill is in Westminster. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:21 | |
Hello, Ben. Welcome to Central
Lobby, to the absolute heart of | 0:15:21 | 0:15:27 | |
parliament he won this very, very
significant day. The lobby is | 0:15:27 | 0:15:31 | |
particularly noisy and busy. There
is an awful lot of school groups | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
around here today on this very
significant anniversary. Boys and | 0:15:34 | 0:15:40 | |
girls, I should stress, being
reminded of what today is all about. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:44 | |
Our correspondent Adina Campbell
takes a look first ball and gives us | 0:15:44 | 0:15:47 | |
this reminder of the suffragette
movement -- first. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:56 | |
White the campaign started off with
peaceful intentions, but progress | 0:15:56 | 0:16:00 | |
was slow, and after years of
conflict free campaigning, some | 0:16:00 | 0:16:04 | |
women were not prepared to wait any
longer. Emmeline Pankhurst, along | 0:16:04 | 0:16:10 | |
with her daughter Christabel,
founded the women's social and | 0:16:10 | 0:16:13 | |
political union in 1903. Otherwise
known as the suffragettes. It seemed | 0:16:13 | 0:16:20 | |
like a mad idea then. And I think it
took a long time, that's why the | 0:16:20 | 0:16:24 | |
campaign was so long, because they
had to change people attitudes | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
towards women and what they could
do. But this new wave of | 0:16:27 | 0:16:31 | |
suffragettes were bowled. Women were
seen chaining themselves to | 0:16:31 | 0:16:35 | |
railings, smashing windows, and
shouting at politicians, all | 0:16:35 | 0:16:39 | |
unprecedented behaviour. Some were
arrested. But rather than pay a | 0:16:39 | 0:16:45 | |
fine, they were sent to prison. But
their protest didn't stop there. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:48 | |
Some of those locked up refused to
eat, whilst others on the outside | 0:16:48 | 0:16:54 | |
continued the violence, vandalising
churches and burning down buildings. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:57 | |
They said, there's a suffragette
round the corner speaking. So, I | 0:16:57 | 0:17:01 | |
went round the corner and I thought
myself, those so my quiz woman is | 0:17:01 | 0:17:06 | |
talking sense. When I actually
joined, I went to an open-air | 0:17:06 | 0:17:11 | |
meeting and heard the speaker say,
lunatics, criminals, paupers and | 0:17:11 | 0:17:16 | |
women may not vote. Well, I hadn't
joined before then although all of | 0:17:16 | 0:17:20 | |
my instincts had been that way, but
I joined them and then. Dawai | 0:17:20 | 0:17:27 | |
charming women who were in it, and
they were absolutely smothered with | 0:17:27 | 0:17:31 | |
eggs, rotten tomatoes, and you never
saw anything like what we looked | 0:17:31 | 0:17:37 | |
like at the end. But this was one of
the most shocking and memorable | 0:17:37 | 0:17:42 | |
moments of the campaign. In 1913,
Emily Davison, one of the leading | 0:17:42 | 0:17:47 | |
suffragettes, was knocked down by
the King's was at Epsom racecourse. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:51 | |
And she died of her injuries four
days later. Then came a | 0:17:51 | 0:17:57 | |
breakthrough. On February the 6th
1918, some women were given the | 0:17:57 | 0:18:01 | |
right to vote for the very first
time. But at this stage, women were | 0:18:01 | 0:18:06 | |
only allowed to vote if they were
over the age of 30 and owned | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
property. During the First World
War, we did a man's job, we worked | 0:18:09 | 0:18:17 | |
in the factories, we worked in the
fields, we did a man's drop. So why | 0:18:17 | 0:18:21 | |
can't we have a vote? As with equal
rights, why cold we have a vote? But | 0:18:21 | 0:18:27 | |
men are, by nature, control freaks.
It wasn't until 1928 when all women | 0:18:27 | 0:18:34 | |
had the same voting rights as men.
And, over time, we've seen a growing | 0:18:34 | 0:18:40 | |
number of women in Parliament and
become Prime Minister. Harriet | 0:18:40 | 0:18:45 | |
Harman is the longest continuing
serving female MP, first elected in | 0:18:45 | 0:18:50 | |
1982. I was one of only 23 MPs out
of 650 when I started. Now over 200. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:59 | |
But we are still outnumbered by men
2-1. But 100 years on, women women | 0:18:59 | 0:19:04 | |
are still fighting. Most recently,
the gender pay gap, sexual | 0:19:04 | 0:19:09 | |
harassment, and the Me Too movement
have all made headlines around the | 0:19:09 | 0:19:12 | |
world. And the campaigns continue.
There's so much that still needs to | 0:19:12 | 0:19:18 | |
be done, I think they would be
urging us on and saying, you know, | 0:19:18 | 0:19:22 | |
don't just accept where we are at,
we can be so much better, so much | 0:19:22 | 0:19:26 | |
richer as a society and an economy
if women and men were allowed to do | 0:19:26 | 0:19:30 | |
whatever they want to, if the
genders were not divided up in this | 0:19:30 | 0:19:35 | |
progress, outdated idea about what a
man is and what a woman is. There | 0:19:35 | 0:19:38 | |
are now calls for the Government to
pardon suffragette who committed | 0:19:38 | 0:19:46 | |
crimes such as arson during their
fight for the right to vote. 100 | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
years may have passed, but some say
there is still a long way to go. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:52 | |
Adina Campbell, BBC News. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:57 | |
Vicky Young is with me here in the
lobby. It would have been an awful | 0:19:57 | 0:20:01 | |
lot more rowdy than this, this is
the real heart of where some of | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
those protests would have taken
place. It was noisy and sometimes | 0:20:04 | 0:20:09 | |
violent as well, women like Emmeline
Pankhurst used to come here and | 0:20:09 | 0:20:13 | |
stand on the streets shouting, votes
for women. It is incredible that | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
women, even to watch proceedings in
malls of common tag, had to watch it | 0:20:17 | 0:20:21 | |
behind these grills, they had to
peer through, they said | 0:20:21 | 0:20:32 | |
peer through, they said it was
smelly and dark and disgusting. They | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
chained themselves to those in
protest. The grills were removed, | 0:20:34 | 0:20:36 | |
and around the House of Commons here
in the Central Lobby they are now | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
adorning the windows around here. It
definitely was a place where they | 0:20:39 | 0:20:41 | |
came off, they were blacklisted and
eventually banned from coming here | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
for 11 years until it all changed.
This rather remarkable act of | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
Parliament was brought in, it is on
display here today in Central Lobby. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
We normally don't see it. It's
incredibly precious, of course. It | 0:20:49 | 0:20:54 | |
is many inches thick, it's worth
pointing out. This was for men as | 0:20:54 | 0:20:58 | |
well as women, it wasn't all women,
but it did make a big difference, of | 0:20:58 | 0:21:03 | |
course. In terms of where we are
today, Theresa May might not do this | 0:21:03 | 0:21:08 | |
in her speed and a little while,
this is not just about women in | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
public life -- Theresa May might nod
to this. We have to refer at an all | 0:21:11 | 0:21:17 | |
women, across all professions and
walks of life -- we have to reflect. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:21 | |
Theresa May will talk about that in
particular. Here, there are fewer | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
than 500 women who have ever been
elected to be an MP. At the moment, | 0:21:24 | 0:21:29 | |
one third of the holes of Commons is
female. Things have obviously | 0:21:29 | 0:21:32 | |
changed. When I first came here,
there were hardly any women in | 0:21:32 | 0:21:36 | |
newspapers or in the House of
Commons. It is changing. But the day | 0:21:36 | 0:21:42 | |
Theresa May will also block about
social media abuse. She is concerned | 0:21:42 | 0:21:45 | |
that is putting off not just men but
women from going into public life. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:50 | |
We will have to see whether that
encourages more women to go into | 0:21:50 | 0:21:54 | |
public life. For now, that is all
from here on a very significant day | 0:21:54 | 0:21:57 | |
here in the House of Commons. Ben,
back to you. | 0:21:57 | 0:22:05 | |
The trial of three former senior
managers at Tesco who are accused | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
of accounting fraud has been
discontinued after one of the | 0:22:08 | 0:22:10 | |
defendants suffered a heart attack. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:11 | |
The jury at Southwark Crown Court
has been discharged | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
and the Serious Fraud Office
is considering whether | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
a retrial is appropriate. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:16 | |
Our business correspondent Emma
Simpson is at Southwark Crown Court. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:24 | |
British drivers wasted more than 30
hours in rush-hour traffic last | 0:22:26 | 0:22:29 | |
year, according to new research. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:30 | |
The report from traffic information
company Inrix found the UK | 0:22:30 | 0:22:32 | |
is the tenth most congested country
in the world, while London | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
is Europe's second
most gridlocked city. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:36 | |
The study's authors are calling
for new technology to be used | 0:22:36 | 0:22:39 | |
to tackle congestion. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:44 | |
They say congestion is harming the
economy. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:45 | |
Charlotte Gallagher reports. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
There is nothing more frustrating
for drivers than being stuck in | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
this. The bad news is, those delays
are getting worse. British motorists | 0:22:51 | 0:22:56 | |
spent an average of 31 hours stuck
in congestion last year. London is | 0:22:56 | 0:23:02 | |
Europe's second most congested city
after Moscow. With drivers spending | 0:23:02 | 0:23:07 | |
the government of three days every
year in traffic jams. Something | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
these drivers headed into central
London no wall about. Two hours per | 0:23:10 | 0:23:16 | |
day, I come to London every day, so
it's about ten hours per week, 40 | 0:23:16 | 0:23:20 | |
hours per month, you do the maths.
Oh, hours, I was. Per week? Hours. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:27 | |
Manchester, Birmingham, Luton and
Edinburgh have also been singled out | 0:23:27 | 0:23:31 | |
as gridlock hotspots. That extra
time behind the wheel is costing | 0:23:31 | 0:23:35 | |
drivers more than £1000 per year.
Not just in wasted fuel, but also | 0:23:35 | 0:23:40 | |
because some household goods are
becoming | 0:23:40 | 0:23:48 | |
becoming more expensive, as higher
freighting fees are passed on to | 0:23:49 | 0:23:51 | |
consumers. Inrix, which carried out
the research, says the cost to the | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
UK economy is astonishing. It's
really a big concern. Ultimately, | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
this means there is a decrease in
productivity from the business side. | 0:23:56 | 0:24:00 | |
But also quite a big cost is being
passed down to the driver, whether | 0:24:00 | 0:24:04 | |
that is through direct costs like
fuel wasted sitting in traffic, or | 0:24:04 | 0:24:07 | |
just the time you are losing. There
is also cost on businesses which | 0:24:07 | 0:24:12 | |
ultimately get passed to household.
And there are implications for our | 0:24:12 | 0:24:15 | |
health. We not just concerned about
the time and money that drivers are | 0:24:15 | 0:24:19 | |
wasting stuck in traffic, but also
the potential damage to their | 0:24:19 | 0:24:23 | |
health. Drivers are spending time
behind other vehicles and breathing | 0:24:23 | 0:24:28 | |
in dangerous levels of air
pollution, which can actually be | 0:24:28 | 0:24:32 | |
higher inside vehicles than outside.
The Department for Transport says it | 0:24:32 | 0:24:36 | |
has invested £23 billion on road
schemes, which will help reduce | 0:24:36 | 0:24:40 | |
traffic jams, and is giving local
councils record amounts of funding | 0:24:40 | 0:24:44 | |
to upgrade roads. Charlotte
Gallagher, BBC News. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:48 | |
21 people have been arrested
in raids aimed at disrupting | 0:24:48 | 0:24:50 | |
a people-smuggling network run
by suspected Kurdish gangsters. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:52 | |
Police raided around 20
addresses across England, | 0:24:52 | 0:24:55 | |
including in Middlesbrough,
Hartlepool, Newcastle and London. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
The gang is suspected of charging up
to £10,000 per head to smuggle | 0:24:58 | 0:25:03 | |
migrants in the back of lorries
across the Channel. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:08 | |
Public Health England says it wants
e-cigarettes to be prescribed | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
on the NHS within the next 2-3 years
because they're an effective way | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
to help smokers quit.
It says vaping poses | 0:25:15 | 0:25:18 | |
only a small fraction
of the risk of smoking tobacco, | 0:25:18 | 0:25:21 | |
and it's calling for the UK's drug
regulator to help manufacturers | 0:25:21 | 0:25:25 | |
get their products approved. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:30 | |
The NHS is trying hard to recruit
more staff from abroad, | 0:25:30 | 0:25:33 | |
but an Egyptian doctor says she's
devastated after being refused | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
a visa for her daughter
to join her in the UK. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:41 | |
Amany Abdel-Meguid came to Britain
over a year ago to work | 0:25:41 | 0:25:43 | |
in a hospital in Birmingham,
but the Home Office | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
won't let her daughter
join her on the grounds her husband | 0:25:46 | 0:25:51 | |
wasn't in the UK when
the application was made. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:53 | |
Our correspondent
Sima Kotecha reports. | 0:25:53 | 0:26:01 | |
Amany Abdelmeguid and her
three-year-old daughter, Lily. Amany | 0:26:06 | 0:26:11 | |
came to Britain after she heard
there was a shortage of doctors in | 0:26:11 | 0:26:14 | |
the UK. Now she's struggling to get
a visa for her daughter, who is | 0:26:14 | 0:26:18 | |
currently living with her
grandparents in need of. I graduated | 0:26:18 | 0:26:22 | |
in Egypt, and I wanted to train as a
doctor in the UK to -- her grand | 0:26:22 | 0:26:26 | |
parents in Egypt. I took certain
exams and I got to the GMC for | 0:26:26 | 0:26:30 | |
registration, then I got recruited
to fill in a gap. She came on a tear | 0:26:30 | 0:26:37 | |
two visa. Workers. A husband is in
Saudi Arabia practising medicine. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:40 | |
But the Government will not give the
daughter permission to come here, | 0:26:40 | 0:26:46 | |
saying her application will not be
the criteria. It would be very | 0:26:46 | 0:26:51 | |
irresponsible of the Government not
to make checks and balances. What | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
would you say to that argument? I
need somebody to explain to me, why | 0:26:53 | 0:26:58 | |
am I allowed to be a doctor in the
UK and are not allowed to bring my | 0:26:58 | 0:27:02 | |
child? While I'm perfectly capable
of funding her care, it's not a | 0:27:02 | 0:27:05 | |
burden at all on the British
Society. The immigration rules say | 0:27:05 | 0:27:10 | |
both parents must be living in the
UK or have permission to live in the | 0:27:10 | 0:27:14 | |
UK when the child arrives. Amany
says her husband is planning to move | 0:27:14 | 0:27:19 | |
here later this year. The Royal
College of GPs recently wrote to the | 0:27:19 | 0:27:24 | |
Government asking for doctors
trained outside the EU to be given | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
extra help to tackle the doctor
shortages. I talk to her every day, | 0:27:27 | 0:27:30 | |
but I miss the details. It's just
too hard to bear... | 0:27:30 | 0:27:41 | |
I don't understand the reason for
it. Like, why? It's not clear | 0:27:42 | 0:27:47 | |
whether there is more to why the
application was rejected, but what | 0:27:47 | 0:27:51 | |
is clear is how much I Amany misses
her daughter. Sima Kotecher, BBC | 0:27:51 | 0:27:57 | |
News, Birmingham. | 0:27:57 | 0:27:59 | |
The actor John Mahoney,
best known for playing Martin Crane | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
in the American sitcom Frasier,
has died at the age of 77. | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
He was being cared for in
a hospice in Chicago. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:07 | |
John Mahoney, who was born
in Lancashire, starred | 0:28:07 | 0:28:09 | |
in Frasier for 11 years -
playing a grumpy retired policeman | 0:28:09 | 0:28:14 | |
who often outwitted his
two pretentious sons. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:19 | |
Hey, look who I found
at the airport. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
Oh! | 0:28:21 | 0:28:22 | |
Welcome home, Dad. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:23 | |
So, how was Florida? | 0:28:23 | 0:28:25 | |
Oh, it was a whirlwind. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
Duke and I hit the dog track
and then we met the Michael Jordan | 0:28:28 | 0:28:34 | |
of jai alai players at the Red
Lobster. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
But the place I went back to most of
all was Captain Peter's Gator Farm. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:41 | |
Ah. | 0:28:41 | 0:28:42 | |
Did you go and see
the Hemingway home? | 0:28:42 | 0:28:44 | |
Well, you know, Fras',
you can't squeeze everything in. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:46 | |
John Mahoney, who has died aged 77. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:52 | |
Starting this lunchtime,
there's a new look to BBC Weather. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:54 | |
MeteoGroup will be providing us
with the latest data, | 0:28:54 | 0:29:01 | |
and there's a fresh design
to the way our forecasts | 0:29:01 | 0:29:04 | |
are displayed on TV,
online and in the BBC's weather app. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:06 | |
Sarah Keith Lucas explains. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:09 | |
It's here in the BBC Weather Centre
where the new look forecasts have | 0:29:10 | 0:29:13 | |
been developed over recent months. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:16 | |
We know how important clear
and accurate forecasts are for you, | 0:29:16 | 0:29:19 | |
so we've been working closely
with our partners MeteoGroup | 0:29:19 | 0:29:26 | |
to bring you the new graphics using
more data, as well as the latest | 0:29:26 | 0:29:29 | |
innovations in design technology
and forecasting science. | 0:29:29 | 0:29:31 | |
Simon Hunt is our creative director. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:32 | |
Now, Simon, talk us
through what the viewers can expect | 0:29:32 | 0:29:35 | |
to see with our new graphics? | 0:29:35 | 0:29:37 | |
What they will notice straightaway
is that the map looks different. | 0:29:37 | 0:29:41 | |
It's a high-resolution
map, and it's green. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:48 | |
If you go in closer on that, you can
see we've also got high-resolution | 0:29:48 | 0:29:51 | |
data for the weather. | 0:29:51 | 0:29:52 | |
We also have the ability to show
a 3D globe with weather on it, | 0:29:52 | 0:29:56 | |
which the presenters can move around
quite easily to create the editorial | 0:29:56 | 0:29:59 | |
story that they want to tell. | 0:29:59 | 0:30:00 | |
Some of the graphics
as well we're using, | 0:30:00 | 0:30:02 | |
so the outlook, for instance,
here shows quite clearly that | 0:30:02 | 0:30:04 | |
temperatures rise to the weekend
and then fall away afterwards. | 0:30:04 | 0:30:07 | |
So how's it all going
to look on the big screen? | 0:30:07 | 0:30:09 | |
Well, it'll look clean and fresh. | 0:30:09 | 0:30:11 | |
And one of our main concepts
when developing these graphics | 0:30:11 | 0:30:13 | |
was the idea of a window
on the weather, so behind this | 0:30:13 | 0:30:16 | |
window you can see not only
the weather in the distance, | 0:30:16 | 0:30:19 | |
you can also see drops of rain
sitting on the pane of glass, here. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:23 | |
And as Simon was showing us,
we can now look at the weather | 0:30:23 | 0:30:26 | |
on a very localised scale. | 0:30:26 | 0:30:27 | |
For instance, let's zoom
into northern England, | 0:30:27 | 0:30:29 | |
and in this example you can see
quite clearly the showers falling | 0:30:29 | 0:30:32 | |
as rain, but also of snow over
the higher ground, too. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:34 | |
And it's not only on a smaller scale
that things are changing, | 0:30:34 | 0:30:38 | |
but also on the global scale, too. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:40 | |
We can now look at satellite data
from right around the world. | 0:30:40 | 0:30:44 | |
We can also add on pressure fields
and frontal systems, too. | 0:30:44 | 0:30:48 | |
We can even give you an indication
of when and where you might be | 0:30:48 | 0:30:51 | |
likely to see the Northern Lights. | 0:30:51 | 0:30:53 | |
And, of course, it's not only on TV
that things are changing. | 0:30:53 | 0:30:55 | |
We've also redeveloped our weather
app and our website, too. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:58 | |
Now, one of the main changes
is that our ten day forecast has | 0:30:58 | 0:31:01 | |
been replaced by a 14 day forecast. | 0:31:01 | 0:31:03 | |
We've also introduced the percentage
chance of rain by the hour. | 0:31:03 | 0:31:10 | |
This is going to help you keep up
to date with the latest weather, | 0:31:10 | 0:31:13 | |
and we hope you enjoy our new look. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:20 | |
So, it is all change with our
weather graphics, but the weather in | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
itself is not changing in a hurry.
We've still got this cold and wintry | 0:31:23 | 0:31:27 | |
theme that has been with us since
the beginning of the month. We've | 0:31:27 | 0:31:31 | |
had some great pictures in from all
weather watchers today. This comes | 0:31:31 | 0:31:35 | |
from Penrith in Cumbria, where there
has been about four centimetres of | 0:31:35 | 0:31:38 | |
snow, and it is edging further south
across the country. This afternoon, | 0:31:38 | 0:31:42 | |
we will continue with the cold
theme, and there will be some | 0:31:42 | 0:31:53 | |
theme, and there will be some more
wintry flurries. Let's start with | 0:31:53 | 0:31:55 | |
the satellite image, this is the
view from space looking down at the | 0:31:55 | 0:31:57 | |
club UK, you can see this band of
cloud is a slow-moving weather | 0:31:57 | 0:31:59 | |
front. That is producing quite a bit
of snow. This is the recent snowfall | 0:31:59 | 0:32:03 | |
radar showing where we have had snow
over the past few hours, tracking | 0:32:03 | 0:32:05 | |
south across parts of northern
England into Wales and the West | 0:32:05 | 0:32:08 | |
Country. We will continue to see
this band of cloud and snow showers. | 0:32:08 | 0:32:13 | |
It will feel cold if you are
underneath that frontal system, with | 0:32:13 | 0:32:16 | |
temperatures struggling to get much
above freezing. Either side of the | 0:32:16 | 0:32:19 | |
front, it is a bit milder. There is
still a mix of bright | 0:32:19 | 0:32:30 | |
still a mix of bright spells and
wintry showers. If we zoom in and | 0:32:30 | 0:32:31 | |
take a look at the regional detail,
first across Scotland you can see | 0:32:31 | 0:32:34 | |
the snow showers packing in from the
North West. Watch out for the icy | 0:32:34 | 0:32:37 | |
conditions, and a similar picture
across Northern Ireland. Sunshine in | 0:32:37 | 0:32:39 | |
southern Scotland, cloud from
northern England down towards the | 0:32:39 | 0:32:41 | |
Midlands, Wales and the south-west
of England, with snow showers likely | 0:32:41 | 0:32:45 | |
here and icy conditions. It is dry
and clearer towards the south-east. | 0:32:45 | 0:32:49 | |
You could see one or two flurries of
snow almost anywhere. In the | 0:32:49 | 0:32:53 | |
evening, the main bulk of cloud and
snow shift across East Anglia and | 0:32:53 | 0:32:58 | |
the south-east, a couple of
centimetres in East Anglia and a | 0:32:58 | 0:33:01 | |
dusting in London. Look at those
temperatures, as low as -6 or minus | 0:33:01 | 0:33:06 | |
seven degrees, even in the towns and
cities. Colder in the front that | 0:33:06 | 0:33:09 | |
brought us choose they's snow eases
towards the near continent -- | 0:33:09 | 0:33:16 | |
Tuesday's snow. A very cold, icy
start to your Wednesday morning. | 0:33:16 | 0:33:21 | |
Sunshine for England and Wales, but
sky is clouding over Fort Scotland | 0:33:21 | 0:33:27 | |
and Northern Ireland, we will see
rain and hill snow here. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:30 | |
Temperatures a degree or so less
cold than they are today, but | 0:33:30 | 0:33:33 | |
certainly that wintry theme days
with us towards the end of the week. | 0:33:33 | 0:33:36 | |
It's going to be cold, there will be
further rain and Hillsdale and a | 0:33:36 | 0:33:41 | |
little but of sunshine. Remember,
you can keep up-to-date with the | 0:33:41 | 0:33:44 | |
weather by checking our updated
weather website and by attacking the | 0:33:44 | 0:33:47 | |
BBC weather app. | 0:33:47 | 0:33:49 | |
weather website and by attacking the
BBC weather app. Very snazzy new | 0:33:49 | 0:33:53 | |
graphics, Sarah, | 0:33:53 | 0:33:54 |