09/11/2015 BBC News at Six

Calls for Russia's athletes to be suspended

from all international competition by the World Anti-Doping Authority.

It names five Russian athletes it says should be banned for life

and accuses the Kremlin of state-sponsored doping.

We found destruction of samples in the laboratories, we found payments

of money in order to conceal doping tests.

It claims London 2012 was sabotaged by cheating Russian athletes

and attacks athletics' governing body for being too lax.

The scathing criticism of Russia and its athletes has sent shockwaves

A warning the climate is moving into unchartered territory

David Cameron defies hecklers, to tell business leaders he's

deadly serious when he says the UK could leave the EU.

And lurking behind the hay bales - the dream home built out

Now its owner is told, tear it down or face jail.

The arguments continue at Westminster as the Scotland Bill

makes its final journey through the Commons.

And the discovery of a woman's remains in Montrose.

a man and a woman appear in court charged with her murder.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

The world of athletics is in crisis tonight.

The World Anti-Doping Authority has called for all Russian track

and field athletes to be suspended from all international competition,

It's accused Russian athletes of widespread doping and says

the Russian government not only knew about it, but conspired in it.

It also points the finger at athletics' governing body,

the IAAF, currently headed by Lord Sebastian Coe,

claiming the London 2012 Olympics were sabotaged by an extraordinarily

laissez-faire attitude by the IAAF and Russia towards doping.

Our sports editor, Dan Roan, is live in Geneva.

The extent of the corruption exposed there by

the World Anti-Doping Authority is staggering.

It is. Sport and scandal seem to have gone hand in hand in recent

times. Federation Micro, the most obvious example, football's world

governing body brought to its knees thanks allegations of corruption.

Today, it was the turn of athletics. The signature event of

the Olympic movement and got in deplete the most serious doping

scandal sport has ever seen. -- engulfed. Sport has been no

stranger to controversial reports but today in Geneva we were handed

something akin to a crime novel, shocking revelations of

state-sponsored cheating along with bribery and extortion at the very

top of athletics. How would you feel personally about what you have

discovered during this investigation and where do you think it ranks in

the history of sports scandals? It is worse than we thought. It has

the effect on like other forms of corruption of actually affecting the

results on the field of play and athletes both in Russia and abroad

are suffering as a result of that. In a damning report, a world

anti-doping agency Commission found in widespread and deeply rooted

culture of cheating in Russia involving athletes, coaches, doctors

and laboratory personnel. The Russian government was accused of

direct intimidation of anti-doping officials by the country's Secret

Service. And the wrongdoing also went to the highest levels of the

governing body of athletics, the IAAF charged with corruption and

bribery. But 2016, our recommendation is that the Russian

Federation be suspended. The Commission investigated allegations

made in a German documentary last December accusing Russia of

state-sponsored doping. Earlier this year, the most powerful man in the

sport, Lamine Diack, said the governing body had not been

complicit. I did not make a cover up of the doping case. So no cover-up

of the IAAF? No. But last week, he was arrested by French police

investigating allegations of money-laundering. The man who

replaced him as the President of the IAAF, Lord Coe, has been criticised

for being too dismissive of media exposes into doping but tonight said

he would push for Russia to be punished. The enquiry recommended

five Russian athletes should be banned for life and said that London

2012 had been sabotaged. I feel devastated to think that our medals

I could have been awarded in my career and for all clean athletes

out there who work so hard at training and you want to feel you

are standing there on the start line and a level paying field.

The world's largest country has established itself as a powerhouse.

Its team among the most successful at the last Olympics. Whether

Russia's athletes will be allowed to compete at next year's games in Rio

is now in grave doubt. More from Dan in a moment, but first

to Sarah Rainsford in Moscow. Pretty vigorous rebuttal

from the Kremlin. That is right. Russian officials

have even busy defending their reputation ever since the report's

findings were announced. We have heard from the sports Minister

tonight who has that this report will need to be studied but he has

also dismissed any suggestion that the government was implicated in the

scandal. We have also heard from the director of the laboratory at the

centre of the scandal, which is alleged to have been handling fake

test results. He said that he will not be resigning despite the fact he

is accused of eliminating key evidence. And there has been a

stream of commentators on Russian state television tonight painting

all of this as an anti-Russian campaign. Patriotically instincts

here kicking in. But the strength and the detail of the claims we have

been cleaning -- we have been hearing is such that the sporting

world here is shaken and the suggestion Russia's athletics team

could be prevented from taking part in the Rio Olympics is something

that people are very worried about because that would be really quite

devastating. And the remit of this report was

very narrow, but people may well be wondering, does the doping spread to

Russian athletes in other sports The enquiry had, Dick Pound, said in

that press conference in Geneva that we had not heard all of it yet.

Certain findings have not been revealed because they have now been

passed to Interpol, they are the subject of criminal investigation.

He said it was the tip of the iceberg in his opinion. The Fort

this was restricted merely to Russia and buttocks was naive. -- the

thought. Cheating, doping, systematic cheap is nothing new in

sports -- systematic cheating. It happened with East Germany in the

Cold War and we saw in cycling with Lance Armstrong's team more

recently. What makes this so shocking as it did not just involve

cheating through doping, it also involved the very people at the top

of the sport whose job it was to protect clean athletes. It appears

they profited by blackmailing Lopez and taking payments from them to

cover up the cheating. It is shocking for athletics and sport as

well, and the way athletics response to this crisis will be how Lord Coe,

the man who now runs the sport, is judged in the future. He has taken

criticism in recent weeks and months, Lord Coe. He now meets the

sport and he must decide how on Earth he repaired the damage with

its credibility lying in damage. Global average temperatures are set

to cross a significant threshold this year,

rising by 1 degree Centigrade since the Industrial Revolution,

according to the Met Office. It says the Earth's climate is now

moving into unchartered territory. And the UN has warned that

the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has reached

a new high and is rising Our Science Editor, David Shukman,

reports. Icebergs in the waters off

Greenland. The Arctic is one of the fastest

forming regions on the planet. The first sign, say scientists,

of the impacts climate change could And today came news

of another milestone. A news conference in London

confirmed that the global average temperature has

risen one Celsius over the past So this is really reinforcing

the scientific conclusion that as we increase carbon dioxide

concentrations in the atmosphere, So this is another piece of evidence

that that is happening right now. These latest figures show how much

temperatures have risen since Victorian times, in the heyday

of the Industrial Revolution. So this graph from the Met Office

tracks the global average And it's now on the point of

reaching an increase of one Celsius. That's significant because it is

halfway to the two-degree threshold of warming that's widely accepted

as a relatively safe limit. But even that is likely to

bring all kinds of impacts. More flooding is one possible

effect and researchers say even what sounds like mild warming

could prove very serious. So two degree world would mean more

floods, more heatwaves, less land that's available

for crops, more water stress, the drying of areas that we

currently use for growing food. Even two degrees would impact

hundreds of millions of people. Warmer air can hold more moisture,

so rainstorms may well become more But there are, of course,

a lot of uncertainties about exactly It feels like a long time ago now,

but last summer in Britain saw That doesn't prove anything

on its own. But scientists say there is

a pattern of rising temperatures. Four government departments have

provisionally agreed to spending cuts of about 30% over

the next four years, according to It's part of his bid to bring the

country's budget back into surplus. But one council has told the BBC

the cuts will mean the end of valuable services for some

of the most vulnerable. Here's our Economics Editor,

Robert Peston. Not the great Victorian building

that these two, the Chancellor and Justice Secretary, normally get

locked inside but Brixton prison, which may be one of the 19th-century

jails to be redeveloped for housing and replaced by nine brand-new

prisons which George Osborne said to be redeveloped for housing and

replaced by nine brand-new prisons which George Osborne said today it

would this show is not all spending cuts are about weakening the fabric

of the state. I will be no opportunity if borrowing goes up and

up, if debt goes up and up, businesses go bust, parents whose

work and families whose homes, there will be no opportunity if we lose

control of the public finances and have to cut the National Health

Service. Where is the opportunity in spending the same on debt interest

as we do on our schools? And today, the Chancellor boasted the Treasury

was one of four departments, with transport, local government and

environment, which have agreed a big 30% reduction in their day-to-day

running costs, well ahead of the deadline for the big spending review

later this month. Since George is on first took up residence at the

Treasury in 2010, the curative cuts for the four departments that have

settled including his own will be 50% or a half height 2020 which

means either that there was grotesque waste in the public sector

or that there will be massive deterioration in public services, or

a bit of both. Trampoline therapy in Liverpool. A

care centre for adults with physical or learning difficulties. Waiting to

hear how it will be affected by this -- I expected cuts to local grounds.

These cuts have not yet been announced and Liverpool rate is less

from council tax than it spends just an adult social care, let alone the

other services the Town Hall is expected to survive. So the Mayor of

Liverpool is anxious. We expect the government to impose further cuts on

you and other local authorities, what would that mean?

Simple, but job losses, more service reductions, libraries and leisure

centres closing, cleaning being reduced. But we having to move to

monthly bin collections. All of those things are on the agenda. We

have cut the fact, we have cooked flesh and we are now into cutting

bone and that is just not acceptable and government have to wake up. A

great Victorian city, Liverpool, proud of its past, hopeful it can be

great again but nervous about how to support a population

disproportionately disadvantaged and poor.

The Prime Minister has told business leaders he has no emotional

attachment to the EU and is deadly serious when he says

David Cameron says the issue is not whether the UK could survive

outside the EU, but whether it would be more successful.

Here's our Deputy Political Editor, James Landale.

David Cameron came to sell his EU reforms to British business today

They were from a group campaigning to leave the EU and they don't

like the Confederation of British industry, which wants to stay in.

Come on, guys, if you sit down now, you can ask me a question.

What he wants, he told them, is a flexible EU, one that protects

countries outside the euro, gives new powers to parliaments and

We need to fix these challenges, fix these problems.

That's what the negotiation's about, and then we can throw ours

elves headlong into keeping Britain in a reformed Europe.

But if the talks fail, he doesn't rule out leaving the EU.

Most people here and most people in Brussels believe that you will

end up leading the campaign to stay in the EU.

How can you succeed in a negotiation where everybody

If these things can't be fixed, then Britain would naturally ask,

I think people in Europe know I'm deadly serious about that.

He had, he said, no emotional attachment to the EU's

institutions and the UK could survive outside them.

David Cameron is walking a narrow path.

He wants to threaten leaving the EU to squeeze concessions out

of Brussels, but he also wants to reassure pro-EU business groups that

he wants to stay in a reformed EU, and that can lead to mixed messages.

But for now, he's looking for support from EU leaders.

And in some capitals, he's getting it.

Where the UK seeks reasonable and achievable adjustments, we will

But if the EU backpedals on reform, others want David Cameron to

I think that the Prime Minister is being very strong

in what he's saying to our friends and partners, and he's really making

that they should not underestimate the seriousness of Britain wanting

Tomorrow, the Prime Minister will reveal more

detail of how he wants the EU's institutions to change, and then the

James Landale, BBC News, Westminster.

Russian athletes are found to have been involved in widespread doping

and cheating - there are calls for them to be banned from the next

And still to come - the farmer called Fidler who faces jail for

hiding his mock Tudor dream home from the planners.

And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 6.30:

star whose success in Shanghai has rocketed him up the world rankings.

And the astronaut who's become the first to play the bagpipes

She's a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, kept for 15 years

under house arrest and tonight Aung San Suu Kyi has taken her

In Myanmar's first openly contested national election for a quarter

of a century, her party says it expects to win by a landslide.

It would be a remarkable feat for a woman who became one of the

world's most prominent political prisoners, barred from any contact

But even if - as is looking likely - her party wins,

Aung San Suuu Kyi will be barred from becoming President

From the capital Yangon, our Special Correspondent Fergal

This report contains some flashing images.

It isn't often an entire nation waits for that moment when

The first hint of confidence came when we saw the pro-democracy leader

emerge to address her supporters at 20 minutes to midday.

Counting had been under way less than three hours,

The results are not yet official, she said,

It was time to remember the dignity of the defeated,

This for Aung San Suu Kyi the moment of truth.

Now all day the election results announcements

have been coming forward and this a certain impatience here

to know whether they have got the mandate they were seeking.

To win freedom from fear, that was the key, she always said.

If we stay afraid the country will never change.

To achieve change we have to be brave.

The last time Aung San Suu Kyi won 25 years ago

But even with an NLVD victory, the army still holds a quarter

of all parliamentary seats and controls key security ministries.

By late afternoon, the heavens had opened.

There were still no official results, but rumours

Everybody here is soaked the rain has been coming down.

But it doesn't matter, the sense of joy the sense

And then flashing into the night - win after win.

It didn't seem to matter a definitive verdict was some way off.

Tonight a bold and precarious new landscape is revealing are itself.

The former Secretary of State for Scotland has told an election court

he thought it was "politically beneficial" to leak a memo about the

SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon during the general election campaign.

Alistair Carmichael has been giving evidence at a hearing

into claims he misled the public in the run-up to his re-election

Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon has more.

What more can you tell us? This is the first election court hearing to

be held in Scotland for 50 years. One lawyer said it wasn't a court of

morals or honesty, but a legal court dealing with specific legal issues.

Namely, whether Alistair Carmichael broke election law in denying and

lying about his knowledge of a leaked civil service memo. My report

does contain flash photography. He is the only Liberal Democrat MP left

in Scotland. I won't be talking to you at this stage. Now fighting for

his political survival not in a Parliamentary chamber, but in a

court. It started with a newspaper article giving details of a leaked

civil service memo claiming Nicola Sturgeon would prefer to see David

Cameron as Prime Minister, a claim Nicola Sturgeon denied. Alistair

Carmichael at first said he had no involvement with the leak. I told

you the first time and this is on record is when I received a phone

call on Friday from a journalist making me aware of it. An official

investigation into the leak found otherwise. He told the election

court: The court here heard it wasn't until

five days after he won his seat at the general election that he

admitted his role in the leak. Four of his constituents say this cover

up calls into question his integrity and brought the action. One of them

said she was shocked that a politician she trusted and respected

would do such a thing as lie to the constituents of Orkney and Shetland.

Lie though he did. That is not disputed. But if it is proved that

what he said relates to his character or conduct and that it

helped him win his seat, it could end Mr Carmichael's political

career. A brief look at some of

the day's other other news stories. The Chief Executive of

the troubled steel company, Caparo, has died after falling from his

penthouse flat in central London. Police say they are not treating

the death of Angad Paul, who was 45, Administrators had been called

into try to salvage the firm which The Government is to delay

controversial changes to the way police forces are funded

after conceding errors were made Six forces and London's Deputy Mayor

for Policing had threatened legal action, saying the process was

unjustified and deeply flawed. The Policing Minister, Mike Penning,

has apologised for what he said was He built a mock Tudor castle without

planning permission, moved his family into it and then hid it for

four year behind bales of straw. Now Robert Fidler, a farmer

from Surrey, has been told he'll go Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy is

in the village of Salfords where Duncan,

they say an Englishman's home is his No sadly not for him. You may be

able to make out the castle. It is that light across the field. This is

a castle living on borrowed time. Because today Mr Fiddler lost an

epic 15-year battle with the planners and if he doesn't demolish

it now he will be going to jail. It's the castle

in the countryside, but tonight the man who built it is facing jail

if he doesn't pull it down. Robert Fiddler has lost

his long fight to keep it after the High Court ruled he put it

up without planning permission Tonight, the High Court gave him

a three-month suspended prison sentence for failing to comply with

planning laws Oh, well, I mean, I told you

before and I told you over and over again I never broken any laws,

I've never done anything wrong. All I have done is look after

my family and look after my cattle. And that is where I have got to

go now and look after them. Will you be demolishing your house

now that the court has ruled? The story began in 2000 when Robert

Fiddler used these bales of hay to It went up behind them in secret

for four years. The local council said they had

been deceived and he didn't Well Mr Fiddler has been fighting

this battle for 15 years to keep his house, but as you can see it's right

in the heart of Green Belt land. His argument all along is

as nobody has objected, He also claimed it couldn't be

demolished, because it had bats and newts and that he had

since sold it to someone else. This has been depicted as an

epic David and Goliath battle over In the end, the council

and the courts have prevailed. Castles of stone cannot be

built behind walls of hay. Now the weather. Matt is here. What

a start for the week. Rain in Wales and northern England and rivers

bursting their banks in North Yorkshire and not only has it been

wet, it has been windy as you can see from the Wirral. And it stays

that way in Wales and northern England with winds up to 50mph. It

could cause problems for transport. The heaviest rain is in western

Scotland and further rain around western coasts and the incredible

thing is how mild it is. It could be one of the mildest November nights

on record. But tempered by the strength of the wind in the morning

and cooler in northern Scotland. Here we should see some sunshine to

start the day. Still rinse raining to -- still raining to the

north-west of Glasgow. Still gla in northern England. In the South West

some heavy rain first thing and the rain will work towards the south

Midlands and East Anglia during the day. Some dry weather either side in

the west. The rain in western Scotland and Northern Ireland just

inches further south and fizzles a touch. Some sunshine in the north of

Scotland between the showers. But temperatures while above average

only around 12. In the south and east itself could be up to 19

degrees. Another mild one into Wednesday and the same areas getting

the same heavy rain. Part of north-west England and Wales and

south-west Scotland and bright and breezy to the north. Temperatures

still above where they should be. Thank you. Before we go, an update

on our top story, the inter national anti-doping has called for Russian

athletes to be suspended after allegations of doping. Lord Coe has

been giving his reaction to our correspondent. It

been giving his reaction to our correspondent. It is very important

That you recognise that there are you know, our sport has to be clean.

It has to be seen to be clean and you do whatever you can to do that.

If there are lessons to be learned, if there are failings in our

systems, if there are internal governances thoub in place. So they

have failed? So, I am saying we to understand the full-scale of the

allegations, but you know we will look at ourselves. We are not hiding

from that. You can follow that story on the News channel.