15/09/2011 BBC News at Six

Trapped underground, the race against time to save four miners

stranded in a flooded colliery near Swansea. Tonight a major rescue

operation is under way to save the workers.

Three other men managed to get out this morning following an accident

at the mine. It is a difficult rescue situation. It is dynamic but

everybody that needs to be there from the emergency services,

including the mine rescue teams are there.

Also tonight:. Jubilant scenes in Libya as David

Cameron and France's President Sarkozy become the first western

leaders to visit since Gaddafi was ousted.

It is great to be here. In free Libya.

The Prime Minister and French President also visited the capital

Tripoli, where they promised to help rebuild the country.

A 31-year-old man is arrested in London after the Swiss bank UBS

says a rogue trader ran up losses of more than �1billion.

Preparing for eviction next week, the travellers at Dale Farm in

Essex, we have a special report. Within the space of a generation

Irish travellers have become more assertive, and organised.

And what a waste. How the Government plans to stop us

throwing away billions of pounds worth of edible food every year.

In sport: Lancashire have won their first County championship title for

77 years. They beat Somerset while Warwickshire managed a draw with

Good evening, welcome to the BBC News at Six. A dramatic rescue

operation is under way to try to reach four miners who are trapped

underground in a colliery in South Wales. They were stranded after the

Gleison mine flooded near Cilybebyll this morning. Three

other men managed to get out. A short time ago the company, MNS

Mining Ltd, issued a statement saying: All our thoughts are with

the miners and their families. We are just waiting for news. Our

correspondent Sian Lloyd is at the scene now.

This is as close as we can get to the Gleison colliery, the narrow

track that leads up to the site was cordoned off when the rescue

operation began. Eight hours on, and four men remain trapped

underground. Hidden in the trees, the small

privately owned pit is one of only a handful left in South Wales.

They've been mining coal here for decades. This morning, seven men

who were working underground became trapped, three managed to escape,

and one was airlifted to hospital. Rescue teams were scrambled around

9.30am. They say they face a challenging situation underground.

Everybody that needs to be there from the emergency services,

including the mine rescue teams, are there. They've all the support

from the other emergency services, including the local authority.

Gleison colliery is a small drift mine bored straight into the ground

and running deep under a hill. One description from a few years ago

talks of severe water problems. We don't know what happened

underground today, but the four miners are trapped behind water in

the shaft. A few miles away relatives are

being looked after at this community centre where they wait

for news. The police are telling us the water caved in, and there's

four people still there. REPORTER: Where were you when this happened?

I was working somewhere else. were underground? No, I don't work

there. Friends of yours? My father. Alongside the rescue operation an

investigation into what happened is under way. Members of the team

working underground say they won't stop until they get the four miners

out. A desperate wait for the families

there, what is the latest? Well, we have been told that the miner who

was airlifted to hospital is in a critical condition. We have been

given some more information this evening about what is actually

happening at the mine as part of that rescue operation and that is

that four pumps are being used to suck water out of that shaft. We

have also been told that there is a lot of concentration down under the

ground and that we have been told that they're working desperately,

they will be working against the clock to bring those miners out. We

have also been told that a press conference will take place here in

the next five minutes and we will hope to have more information from

that. Thank you. There've been jubilant scenes in parts of Libya

today as David Cameron and the French President Nicolas Sarkozy

flew in for talks with the country's new acting government. In

Benghazi, the city in eastern Libya that was the rebel stronghold,

David Cameron told the cheering crowds that they'd showed the

courage of lions in standing up to Colonel Gaddafi. Earlier in the day

they visited the capital Tripoli, but he warned that the job of

defeating the Gaddafi regime wasn't entirely over. From Tripoli, Andrew

Harding reports. It's not quite mission accomplished,

but the French and British leaders arrived in Libya today inclined to

celebrate. A very good day for us. We are very proud to be here.

Britain played a role which I am very proud of but in the end this

was what the Libyans did themselves and I wanted to congratulate them

and work out how we can help next as they rebuild their country.

A helicopter ride into the heart of Tripoli, the tightest security and

the country is still at war with Colonel Gaddafi's dwindling band of

loyalists. But listen to the adulation at this

hospital. It's genuine, without NATO air

support they know their unlikely revolution would have stumbled.

It's a honour to be here, are you getting everything you need here?

Some of the injured will now come to British hospital thes, Bart of

of -- part of a plan to nudge Libya back on its feet. Need support, not

from England and France, all the world to help us. They're helping

us from the beginning for our revolution and I hope they continue

helping us until we get to normal. It's seven years since Tony Blair

first came here to try to bring Colonel Gaddafi in from the cold.

Today, David Cameron is visiting what feels in many ways like a

completely different country, there's still serious fighting here

and plenty of political instability. But in many ways this is a country

that's stablising every day. What I have seen is impressive.

This is people who want to take the lead, to sort out their country.

It's very important that we help them, rather than try and lecture

them. Swapping gifts with the Libyan team now trying to fill the

political vacuum here. There were strong hints today that Britain and

France might be rewarded with oil contracts by a grateful nation. Mr

Sarkozy insisted no deals had been done. And Mr Cameron stressed that

Libya's war isn't over. This work isn't finished yet. There are still

parts of Libya under Gaddafi control and the message I think to

Gaddafi and all those still holding arms on his behalf is, it is over.

Give up. The mercenaries should go home. No sign of that, though. The

frontlines outside Gaddafi's home town, his loyalists could still

destablise Libya. And yet in Benghazi this afternoon

it felt like a victory parade. Colonel Gaddafi said he would hunt

you down like rats, but you showed the courage of lions and we salute

your courage. A moment of elation in Libya's

messy end game. Andrew Harding is in Tripoli now.

Extraordinary scenes there in Benghazi, but it is very clear

there is still a lot of work to be done? Exactly. In practical terms

Britain is now pushing for a UN Security Council resolution perhaps

as early as tomorrow, that will help to normalise relations with

the new Government, allow it to start importing arms and give it

access to, for instance, in Britain �12 billion worth of frozen Gaddafi

assets which will help in the reconstruction process here

enormously. As for Colonel Gaddafi, the hunt for him goes on. David

Cameron today said NATO would help in that hunt. The air strikes

continue, but from what I have seen on the frontlines around Tripoli in

these four towns that Colonel Gaddafi still controls, very hard

to tell at this stage whether we are looking at a few more days

before they're captured or perhaps many, many weeks.

Thank you. A British soldier, serving with 1st Battalion, The

Rifles, has been killed in Afghanistan. The Ministry of

Defence says he was shot while on patrol in in the Nahr-e Saraj

district of Helmand province. His family have been informed. Here a

soldier has died during a training exercise in Kent. Dean Griffiths,

who was 21, was shot at a Ministry of Defence training base yesterday.

Kent Police have started an inquiry into his death.

Police in London have arrested a 31-year-old man after a rogue

trader ran up more than a billion pounds in losses at the Swiss bank,

UBS. Kweku Adoboli was taken into custody in the early hours of this

morning. The losses at the bank's investment arm could now tip it

into the red. Our business editor Robert Peston reports.

Kweku Adoboli, a new entrant to the bankers' Hall of Fame or should

that be hall of shame? The London- based trader at the bank UBS is

alleged to have racked up unauthorised thoss of �1.3 billion.

He was arrested. At 1.00am this morning the City of London police

were contacted by UBS about an allegation of fraud by one of their

employees. At 3.30am detectives from our force arrested a 31-year-

old man on suspicion of fraud by abuse of position. Here at UBS

sprawling network of offices in the heart of the City of London it's

where the alleged trader worked. His losses are likely to tip this

giant bank back into loss for the latest three-month period but it's

not the money, but the embarrassment that is likely to

prove most painful, because this is a bank that after the great crash

of 2008 claimed it was taking much, much less risk.

UBS was among the banks worst hit by the last crisis incurring losses

of more than �35 billion. Bailed out by the Swiss Government it

changed its management and the way it does business. So what went

wrong? You can put in these technological systems that limit

how much people can trade, but in the end the problem is if you are

employing intelligent people and they want to get around these

systems, there is sa chance they will find a way. That is why what

is needed is a moral compass from the top of the organisation so

people know what's right, know what's wrong and they don't even

think of doing these sort of things in the first place.

So if it turns out that Kweku Adoboli is a big-time rogue trader

how would his loss of �1.3 billion rank against others? The biggest

loss ever, �4.3 billion was in 2008 by the French dealer Jerome Kerviel,

at Societe Generale. That's rather more than the �827

million loss of Britain's most famous rogue trader Nick Leeson who

destroyed the bank Barings. After Jerome Kerviel was arrested

in France the British regulator the Financial Services Authority, put

pressure on banks to tighten up their scrutiny of traders. If that

hasn't worked, what might? Unless you separate out that wild west

casino operation from the world of banking inhabited by ordinary men

and women in the high street and ordinary businesses we are in real

trouble and that's what Sir John Vickers proposed this week and why

we have to get on with implementing that report as fast as possible.

This advert is how UBS likes to see itself, a virtuoso in the global

world of banking. It's been humiliated by the attempt to forge

a solo career by one of its bankers. Five of the world's leading central

banks say they will take coordinated action to try to ease

fears gripping the financial system over the eurozone debt crisis. Our

economics editor Stephanie Flanders is here.

What are they going to do and how significant is it? They're trying

to tackle what's been a worrying side effect of the eurozone crisis

over the last few weeks, which is that banks, particularly the big

French and German banks which lent a lot of money to governments like

the Greek Government and Italy and Spain, people have started worrying

whether they're going to get their money back and they've actually

been putting pressure on these banks, taking their money out so

shares have fallen and the banks have been finding it hard to fund

themselves in the market. We know from when this happened in 2008

that can have a terrible effect on the real economy, because if banks

can't borrow easily they can't lend on themselves so businesses and

consumers. In effect,ed Bank of England, the euro Central Bank and

the US Central Bank and the bank of Japan were not going to let that

happen today, they said they'll make as much money available to

these banks as they need in the next few months. That has reassured

the markets. Bank shares have gone up, the key key French and German

bank shares and the euro has strengthened but it's a short-term

measure, it doesn't tackle the long-term problems affecting the

eurozone causing this crisis because only politicians acting

together can resolve those. Thank you. The Royal College of Midwives

is warning that the safety of mothers and babies is being put at

risk in some parts of England by staffing shortfalls. It says rising

birth rates and increasing numbers of complicated deliveries mean

5,000 more midwives are needed. The Government says record numbers are

now being trained. Our health Three days old and getting ready to

go home for the first time, his mother has stayed in hospital to

make sure she gets the hang of breast feeding. She is lucky to be

able to. Northumberland is one of the areas are the country with the

highest rate of midwife care, but a rising birthrate are putting

pressure on services across the country. Mothers here are very

happy with the level of care they get, but it is a different story in

other parts of the country. The Royal College of Midwives says

there are significant variations in the level of care depending on

where you live. It says the shortage stretches right across

England but his greatest in the East Midlands and East of England,

where they need 41% more midwives. The south-east needs 35% off and

the West Midlands 19%. Pressures are much less in the UK because of

different priorities in the health services of Scotland, Wales and

Northern Ireland. Suzanne knows how bad it can be when midwives are

overstretched. When she had her son, she was left for hours without

being checked and eventually had Anna Merson -- emergency Caesarean

section after his heart stopped beating. I felt like I was just on

a production line, they just wanted me to come in, have the baby and go

home. There was no care. college wants the 5,000 extra

midwives in England and says shortages beans mother's missing

out on choice and more serious consequences. -- means. Safety goes

if you do not have one-to-one care. In labour, something might be

missed. Once we get to a critical point, our maternity services will

not be safe. The Department of Health says all women should be

able to expect an excellent maternity care and that record

numbers of midwives are being trained, but training does not

guarantee work. Individual health trusts decide on staff numbers, and

as Lehane knows, many are not hiring. She cannot find a job

within an hour of home. It is soul destroying, it is quite distressing,

the fact that we are willing to fill those vacancies, but because

of the powers that be, they will not release jobs for us. She has

just been born into a health service that is being squeezed as

never before, leaving many midwives asking whether pressures are about

to get worse. Our top story tonight: A major

rescue operation is under way to save four miners stranded in a

flooded colliery near Swansea. Coming up, have plans to erect

thousands more electricity pylons in the countryside have angered

conservationists. Later on the BBC News Channel, I

will have all the business, including five central banks

offering more cash to kick-start the economy. And B&Q owner

Kingfisher unveils plans to create Preparations have started to affect

hundreds of travellers living illegally at Dale Farm in Essex.

The eviction is expected to start on Monday following a ten-year

legal battle. During their campaign, the travellers won the support of a

United Nations committee and activists from around Britain and

Europe. Fergal Keane has this report from inside the community at

Dale Farm. After weeks in which this

claustrophobic camp has become the unlikely object of international

scrutiny, some families are now leaving. Among the majority, there

is no desire for physical confrontation, and there is already

a sense that travellers have achieved unprecedented attention

for their cause. What is happening here at Dale Farm has a

significance beyond immediate events. Growing up in Ireland were

the traveller is he was and still is a constant social problem, it

would have been impossible to imagine a campaign like this. --

travel or issue. But within the space of a generation, Irish

travellers have become more This was the Irish travel a world

of old, of roadside camps and constant movement. The people kept

to themselves, feared and resented by the settled community. In the

1960s and 1970s, then began to emerge from the shadows and

organise. Today, this morning... Candy Sheridan, of Irish roots but

raised in England, is a symbol of change, the first in her family to

get a formal education, she entered politics and was elected as a

Liberal Democrat councillor. It is the women in the community, she

says, there were the agents of change. They do not want to know

the poverty of Roadside living. They want their children to stay in

school and have an education. It has politicised the mothers. They

know they can go to meetings and hold their own now. It is a world

in a state of flux between old ways and new, the symbols of modern

prosperity for some, alongside icons of our older religious

devotion. The desire to educate the next generation set against the

fall of the nomadic lifestyle. And the traveller tradition of living

in large extended plans is a challenge to any authority trying

to accommodate them. -- clans. What would it mean to give up travelling

and settle in one area? I would not give up being a traveller. What

not? No oak, we are very close, tight community. Like you moving to

a house, you would never see your family. Travelling up these leafy

lanes near Dale Farm, and the concerns of local residents are the

same you will hear from settled communities in Ireland. There is

anger over what is seen as flouting of planning laws and antisocial

behaviour. We have had rubbish dumped in a lane. Len says he has

received death threats for his opposition to the camp. They want

everything and asked to give everything. Unfortunately, no, we

have had enough. They will take me out in a body bag out of my home,

and I am not moving. preparations are made for the

eviction, feelings on both sides are running high. Shame on you!

Whatever success they have had been lobbying internationally, the fact

remains that the cause is profoundly unpopular in Britain,

and scenes like this are certain to be repeated as other councils move

Every year, billions of pounds of perfectly good food ends up in a

bin in Britain because consumers are confused about sell-by dates

and thin food has gone off. Now the government has issued new

guidelines which they hope will clear up the confusion. Danny

Savage reports. Millions dollars do it every time

we go shopping, pick up the item and check the date. -- millions of

us. Different dates mean different things, used by, best before. Some

items even have two their aides. This is display until tomorrow but

best before Sunday. It is causing confusion. I cannot really

understand it, no. And if it said display until a certain day, would

you be inclined not to use it after that? Yes. If it said display until

yesterday, what would you do? would throw it away. New guidelines

are being proposed to do away with the display until and sell-by dates,

which are mainly to do with stock control. And this is why the

government wants the label's changing. They say misunderstanding

day sounds as part of the reason we waste so much food. -- Date stance.

Around �12 billion of edible food is thrown away in the UK each year.

That works out at around �680 for each household with children. But

some people seek out bargains to buy on their best before or use-by

dates. There is so much food that goes to waste, supermarkets

throughout so much. Morally and ethically, I think it is worthwhile

taking advantage. This is what the health experts say. It is very much

have tea with the best before date, to use your judgment and eat it if

you feel comfortable. -- it is very much up to you. For the use-by date,

you should go by the manufacturers date. You cannot necessarily tell

if something is going to poison you. The purpose of the labels should be

all about food quality. The National Grid says it is

thinking of directing thousands more electricity pylon is to

connect a new generation of power stations and a wind farms to the

grid. Conservationists say it will have a massive visual impact on the

countryside and the cables should be buried underground. Rural

affairs correspondent Jeremy Cooke is at Ratcliffe-on-Soar near

Nottingham. This is what we are talking about,

pions. There are thousands across the country, and with this new

generation of power stations, solar energy and wind farms coming on

stream, there will be demand for thousands more. They have been with

us since before the Second World War, and they have always been

controversial. They stand as icons of an

industrial age, pylon spring power from where it is generated into the

National Grid. -- pylon as brain. They keep the lights on, and now

there is a demand for thousands more. In a bid to get us all too

low pylons, there are new state-of- the-art designs, but for many the

pylon will always remain essential but and loved. -- In a bid to get

us all to lock nylons. The ideal solution is to bury the cables in

the ground. They have always been controversial. How about this for a

bit of direct action 1940s style? By the 1950s, the network was

almost complete, even if health and safety still needed some work. All

along way from the hard hats and high visibility of today, but the

one constant is that moving 440,000 volts of electricity across the

countryside is hard work. So what is the alternative? Well,

conservationists insist more cables should be put underground, like

here in the Wye Valley. Burying cable may sound easy, but in

reality it looks like this, a 65 metres wave cut through the

countryside. On each side of this temporary road there will be

trenches dug to take the cables themselves. And all of it, of

course, comes at an immense cast. Indeed, the National Grid says the

price tag for burying cables is �22 million per kilometre, some 10

times the cost of pylons. The cost of underground cables are very high,

and that does go through to consumers in their bills. It is a

question of how much we want to pay for electricity against the visual

impact of the power lines. Conservationists argue it is a

price worth paying, but persuading hard-pressed consumers to agree may

prove a tall order. We got a glimpse there are some of

the entries in his national competition to come up with a

potential successor for this classic old design, but can we ever

learn to love the pylon? That is a question.

They look at the weather now with Alex Deakin, lots of lovely

sunshine today which I have a Absolutely right, it is all change

with the weather, going downhill. One consolation is that it will not

be as cold tonight as it was last night thanks to a thickening

blanket of cloud that is gathering out in the Atlantic. A beautiful

swirl of cloud is heading towards Northern Ireland and will

eventually provide some rain here. For most, it will be a dry night.

Some clear spells across eastern England and northern Scotland, and

it could still drop down to single figures there, but for most that

cloud will make for a milder night, double digits to start Friday. We

start with quite a lot of cloud, outbreaks of rain across Northern

Ireland, widely across northern Britain. Hazy sunshine across the

south, not a bad day for southern counties of England, but for the

Midlands and northern England, expect outbreaks of rain which will

be quite heavy. It turns wet and wet across Scotland, rain spreading

into the far north, where we should at least start dry and bright.

Northern Ireland starts with rain, sunny spells in the afternoon, but

still showers. As a result, it will be cooler. Outbreaks of rain across

North Wales, dry in the afternoon. Sunny spells in the south, but

showers as well, which may affect Cardiff and the cricket. Showers in

the south-west, but a decent chance it will be dry and bright. The

southern counties of England will be generally fine, a touch warmer

than today, reaching 21 Celsius in London. Cooler for all of us on

Saturday, showers across the country, maybe not so many across

eastern and southern areas, but lots of showers across Wales and

the south-west. Try in the north on Sunday, but there will be sunshine

and a whole host of showers. Not quite as many as last weekend.

Chilly and breezy for the Great North Run.

A reminder of the main news: A major rescue operation is under way

to save four minor stranded in a flooded quarry near Swansea. In the