15/01/2016 BBC News at Six

History is made as Tim Peake becomes the first astronaut to take

Tim, it is really cool seeing the Union Jack go outside.

It's explored all over the world and now it has explored space.

Tim Peake spent over five hours outside the International Space

But the mission was halted early, after his American colleague

reported water building up inside his helmet.

Claims against the deceased Labour peer Lord Janner of sexual abuse

by former residents of children's homes in Leicester are uncovered

But I've got to learn to live with it.

In France, one man is declared brain-dead and another five

are in hospital after a clinical trial goes wrong.

A warning from a teaching union that the system for opening

new schools in England is piecemeal and confusing.

And the Welsh village where it's rained daily since October.

are found at Gogar Mount House near Edinburgh airport.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

Major Tim Peake has become the first astronaut representing Britain

He stepped outside the International Space Station just after 1pm this

afternoon with an American colleague Tim Kopra,

But the mission was brought to abrupt end when Colonel Kopra

reported a potentially dangerous fault.

Live pictures have been coming in from space all afternoon.

We have no control over them, but here's what's

The two astronauts have come back into the international space

extension and are being removed from their suits, a laborious process,

with the help of colleagues. To bring us up-to-date

with the events of this historic day, let's go to this report

by Editor David Shukman. It will be his first space walk. A

moment of exploration history, as Tim Peake prepares to venture

outside the space station. Weightless, but jammed into a bulky

space suit, he needs colleagues to guide him into the airlock. We hear

him go through final checks. There have been plenty of space walks

before, but they are always hazardous. At about one o'clock it

was time to float out. It was dark when he emerged, a tiny figure

against the vast space station. It is really cool seeing the union Jack

outside. It has explored all over the world and now it has explored

space. It is great to be wearing it, a privilege, a proud moment. Hand by

hand, Tim Peake and a fellow astronaut inched along outside.

Filmed by his American colleague, Tim Peake is perched at the very

edge of the space station, in position to help carry out a key

repair. But look how hard it is managing tools in space. This is the

view from Tim Peake's camera. Everything is weightless and wants

to float away. Stepping outside the International Space Station is

always risky, but space walks are essential to build and fix things.

The astronauts emerge through an airlock here. If we take a closer

look, we can see how they had to make their way 60 metres to replace

what is called a sequential shunt unit, part of the power supply

connecting solar panels. So how do they stay safe out there? Well,

they're space suits have 14 layers of material, to give protection from

the vacuum of space and temperatures ranging from below 100 Celsius,

right up to plus 120. Backpacks contain oxygen, power supply and

water for life support. And in case they drift away, small thruster jets

can manoeuvre them back to safety. The main task was to replace the

power unit, and they had to get it done within 31 minutes because that

is how long night lasts on the space station. If sunlight hit the solar

panels, they could have been electrocuted. In the event, all went

well. Then, a problem. We know it is a small amount of water. I don't

know if you can move it around and get to it, or try to drink it? It is

three inches above my head. The spacewalk was brought to an end a

couple of hours early. The astronauts were ordered back into

the airlock. There was no alarm but this is a reminder of the dangers of

working in space. And cue very much, you have done a great job. -- thank

you very much. This is a live shot from the space

station. Tim Peake has just come in. On the left, obscured by the

astronaut in the blue shirt, is Colonel Kopra, whose helmet reported

the leak. The suits operate with a network of pipes carrying water

through the suit. That is how they regulate temperature. Clearly, there

was a leak. An Italian astronaut on a previous spacewalk had a more

serious flow of water in his helmet and had to come back in a hurry.

Clearly there will be an investigation into what has gone

wrong this time, because spacewalks are a critical part of running the

space station. To have this particular walk cut so short will

raise a lot of questions. But the main thing is that no one is in

danger. Both astronauts are back inside safely, but they will want a

very close look at what went wrong before the next astronauts get sent

out again. Criminal proceedings

against Lord Janner have been formally dropped,

following his death last month. The former Labour MP had been

accused of committing sexual offences against children

dating back to the 1960s, But today, in a separate

investigation, the BBC can reveal that 12 former residents

of children's homes claim that they were sexually

abused by Greville Janner. A political veteran,

a member of the Magic Circle, Lord Janner went to his grave

pursued by those who claimed You thought it was black

and white, didn't you? Obviously it was

touchy-feely kind of stuff. At least nine men were to have

accused Lord Janner of child abuse here at the Old Bailey this year,

but it's just been confirmed that his death means criminal

proceedings can't continue. Instead, the national child abuse

enquiry will take But solicitors representing alleged

victims say they have been deprived These are people who gave

their statements, some There have been so many missed

opportunities for this case to come to trial when Janner

was alive and well. We've discovered evidence that

Greville Janner, as Leicester MP, regularly visited the city's

children's homes and one The Beaches is no ordinary

residential unit for difficult In 1981 the BBC filmed at this

children's home where the manager He promoted a technique

called regression therapy. Difficult children would be

treated like babies. But that allowed him

to viciously abuse them. He was jailed for life in 1991

and died three years later. You recognise that something

is right or wrong. Former detective Graham Peene

reported Frank Beck in the late 70s, after seeing him rubbing

a boy's groin. But he was to make another

visit to The Beaches. As I walked in, sat in an armchair

was Greville Janner. What's an MP doing there and what's

a boy doing sitting on the arm And he's actually being too tactile

with a young boy who was obviously Being a detective, it was an unusual

occurrence, and therefore it's something that I felt ought

to be reported. And what happened after

you put the report in? Well, I never heard

anything more about it. A second police officer also

reported his concerns, We spoke to dozens of men and women

who lived and worked Eight identified the MP as one

of Beck's regular visitors. Greville Janner was one

of them, definitely. How can you be sure

who that man was? Because when I was 14, 15,

I saw him in papers, leaflets. And what did people say

about Janner in the home? They were friends, Beck

and Janner were friends. A former official at Leicestershire

council told us when he raised concerns about Frank Beck's

methods, Beck said he had Beck used Janner's name to achieve,

he said, whatever Beck Yet during Beck's trial,

he and a former children's home resident sensationally accused

Greville Janner of child abuse. Responding in the Commons,

the MP did not mention his visit to children's homes

but he did say this. There was, of course,

not a shred of truth in any of the allegations of criminal

conduct made against me But there is now a thick file

of allegations against We understand at least 20 men

and one woman have accused him. 12 at least are former residents

of children's homes. One says he was forced to have sex

with Greville Janner while staying There are claims of sexual abuse

at different locations, including a school, a former

swimming pool at this Leicester Prosecutors are understood to regard

the allegations as serious It stands in stark contrast

to Lord Janner's public service, including work to remember

the victims of Nazi death camps, His family have steadfastly

defended him as an entirely innocent And Tom Symonds is at

the Old Bailey for us. People will have been watching your

report and wondering why is it that the claims against Lord Janner were

never tested in court. He was investigated in 1991, 2002, and 2006

but there were never any charges. At least he would have been able to put

his own side of the story. During that period, that man, Mark, he put

his own side of the story each time to the police investigations. Why

were they never charged? There were possible reasons. Firstly, these

were children from difficult backgrounds and it is possible based

on B1 believed. It is possible there was too much deference to a major

local MP. And also, the fact that Frank Beck, a convicted paedophile,

had accused him, may have clouded the issue. But now with more victims

coming forward it is too late. His dementia started in 2009 onwards. It

will be for the independent child sexual abuse enquiry to consider why

the investigations happened the way they did, why there were no

prosecutions, and the facts of the case itself. They will be able to

question alleged victims and they will look at the role of the

council, police and other authorities. Crucially, they will

start that quickly. The first hearing will be in March and it is

expected the work will take some of this year. Thank you.

In France, six people taking part in the clinical trial of a new drug

Officials said the worst of those affected is brain-dead.

What details are emerging of what went wrong? These six men were

healthy volunteers aged 28-49, all of them men, who volunteered to test

a new drug which works on the mood and pain receptors in the brain.

This is in Rennes, Brittany, north-west France. They were given

the drug last week and three days later the first of them was admitted

to hospital with a catastrophic brain injury and he is now brain

dead. The others have neurological problems, three of them may have

irreversible brain damage. This drug trial actually began in July of last

year. 84 other people have been taking part in the trial and they

have been gradually escalating the dose. These men got the largest

dose. All the others who took part are now being traced and offered

tests. This has echoes of the Northwick Park Hospital ranks

scandal ten years ago in London, where six men became dangerously ill

within minutes of being offered a drug. In that case, it was the first

trial, whereas this trial had been going on for months.

The Archbishop of Canterbury today apologised to the gay and lesbian

community for the "hurt and pain" caused by the Anglican Church.

Justin Welby was speaking at the end of a meeting of senior bishops

The Episcopal Church in the United States has been

suspended from the Anglican communion for three years,

because of its support for same-sex marriage.

Gayot lesbian protesters in places where being actively gay is still a

crime gathered outside Canterbury Cathedral -- gay and Lesbian.

Anglican leaders have been discussing their deep divisions

between the minority who approve of same-sex marriage and the majority

who do not. They reiterated that marriage within the church remained

between a man and a woman with a telling off for the Episcopal Church

in America for allowing same-sex marriage. The strength of feeling at

this demonstration right outside the press conference is unmistakable

with gay and lesbian Anglicans saying they feel abandoned. The

primates' resolution, they say, condones homophobia in Africa,

especially in countries where being gay or lesbian is still a criminal

offence. Inside at the press conference the Archbishop of

Canterbury was flanked by three other Anglican leaders, although not

the most conservative. When Justin Welby began he offered an apology to

lesbian and gay Anglicans. I want to take this opportunity

personally to say how sorry I am for the hurt and pain in the past and

present that the church has caused. And that the love that we have at

times completely failed to show. If you condemn homophobic prejudice

as you have done just now, why was it not mentioned in the joint

resolution that you put out? Because, the protesters outside have

been saying they feel abandoned by the Anglican Communion. It wasn't

mentioned, there is a simple answer it wasn't mentioned in the joint

resolution that was done yesterday because that was going to be put in

a communique today but somebody leaked it.

What do the more traditionalists Inc?

Even though we propounded disagree we still love each other but part of

the love is telling the truth, and sometimes we have to argue, but it

is not done without love. The Archbishop of Canterbury says

the next conference will come in 2020, and by then the differences

between the growing but Conservative churches of the South and liberal

but shrinking, with nations of the North will not have gone away.

Our top story this evening: Canterbury.

And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 6:30pm:

I'm in Britain's wettest village, Eglwyswrw, in Wales can where people

want to avoid winning a place in the record books after 81 days of rain.

And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 6:30pm:

It's only a matter of time before a football fan is injured

by a flare, according to the officer in charge of policing football

And the Scottish Government's denying it's ditched plans

for a high speed rail link between Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Today is the final day for parents to apply for primary school places

in England next year - and with it comes a warning

from the head teachers union the NAHT.

They say the system for creating new school places in England

is fragmented, confusing and even risks harming children's education.

But the Government insists it wants a good school place for every child.

Our education editor Branwen Jeffreys has more.

Baby-boom is hitting our primary schools. Cannon Lane school now has

four reception classes, 500 children applied for the 120

four reception classes, 500 children This is the old part of the building

built in the 1930s. You can see that from the radiators. They've had to

build bigger with the help of the council. Extra pupils mean more

classrooms and the rest. Hot lunches, of course, are important

with how to feed this number of children in this period of time, you

have to have enough toilet facilities and leisure facilities

and playground space for the children. The local authority has

invested heavily in the new classrooms and spaces for us. To get

a primary school place for this coming September parents have too

applied by midnight tonight. In England, the local council has to

find a place for your child when they are ready to start school.

That's the law. But the law also says that while councils can expand

existing schools like this they are not allowed to open up new schools.

That has to be done by a group wanting to open a free school, or an

Academy chain that wants to expand. wanting to open a free school, or an

And that, say headteachers, has led to a lack of local planning.

Councils warn they are running out of solutions. A small chink of a

clue into this building's past. In Bristol, a former police station is

now being used as a primary school. Parents in the city are all too

aware of the pressures. The schools that people want to get into our all

oversubscribed. I've got friends where they are almost next door to

the schools, they have 500 metres away and they know they will not get

into the school. Whether we will get our first was second choice we just

don't know, it is a lottery of sorts. We did apply for the three

closest schools and we didn't get any of them. But ministers say most

parents will get their first choice, and more money will be spent on new

schools. Over the next five or six years we

are going to be spending ?23 billion creating 600,000 new school places

and 500 new schools, so that's how we tackle this problem.

With some existing schools already full up the test will be whether new

ones are opened where the demand is greatest. Branwen Jeffreys, BBC

News. A brief look at some

of the day's other news stories. David Cameron's hopes of reforming

the European Union received a boost today from the President

of the European Commission. Jean-Claude Juncker says

he is 'quite sure' that a deal can be struck in time for next month's

summit of EU leaders. Three women have pleaded guilty

to assaulting an elderly resident The care workers were charged

following an undercover investigation by the BBC's Panorama

programme into the Old Deanery care They'll be sentenced

at a later date. BT, which controls a third

of the UK's landline phones market, has been given the go-ahead to take

over Britain's largest mobile The deal is worth

?12.5, and will bring According to the industry regulator,

the merger won't 'significantly harm competition, or the

interests of consumers'. The BBC understands there are plans

to cut several hundred steel jobs around Wales and that details

could be made public Let's speak now to our

correspondent Brian Meechan We expect somewhere in the region of

500 to 800 job losses to be announced early next week at this

site alone in Port Talbot and Tata are expected to make other

announcements in Wales. Huge investment has gone on here,

including a huge new blasts Bell blast furnace, however Tata is

losing ?1 million a day and that is why decisions are having to be made.

That really is a concern, because later on this month the headquarters

in India will look at what has been called the survival plan, and they

may say that does not go far enough. So, really up to 800 people losing

their jobs here, but the concern is that it may not go far enough for

the headquarters in India. It is more bad news for a company and an

industry that really has been struggling in recent years.

Thank you very much, Brian. Now, there can't be many of us

who've not been affected by the heavy rain

in recent weeks. But spare a thought for the people

of a village in Pembrokeshire. It's rained every day in Eglwyswrw

since October 26 last year. Our Wales correspondent

Hywel Griffith is there. Yes, here in the hills above the

brick shaped coastline people are used to a bit of wild weather at

this time of year but this winter has been an awful lot milder and

arguably much bleaker than most, with day after day of drizzle. Early

this morning it rained once again. Soon, begrudgingly, Eglwyswrw could

win its place in the Met Office's record books.

Spare a thought for the parents of Britain's wettest village,

where it's been too rainy for Georgian to play out

where it's been too rainy for children to play out

The endless days of drizzle have taken their toll.

Very wound up and very difficult, I have to admit.

Because, we did have a bit of sunshine last week.

You can remember that? I can remember that, yes.

We live on a farm so actually we just muck in, get our overalls

on and get out on the farm regardless of what the weather is.

Nestled on the edge of the Preseli Mountains,

But since its only pub closed last year it's had nowhere for people

But not everyone's spirits have been dampened.

Brian Llewellyn runs the village stores.

We sell waterproofs and wellington boots.

And you couldn't survive, or get about anyway,

without a good pair of wellington boots in the last two months.

And those wellies have been put into action.

John Davies is the fourth generation of his family to farm this land.

With lambing just a few weeks away his sheep are being kept

They say maybe, maybe this is coming to an end,

If that's the case there will be a party in Eglwyswrw tonight

because it's one record we don't want to be famous for.

And 81 days is enough, that's what the villagers

The record for continuous rainfall is 89 days,

which fell on the Isle of Islay back in 1923.

Here they are keeping their eyes on the skies in the hope that record

Hywel Griffith, BBC News, Eglwyswrw.

Time for a look at the weekend weather.

Sarah Keith-Lucas, Kanpur Eglwyswrw expect more rain?

Fingers crossed they should have a dry day tomorrow during the day but

intermittently dry weather and further rain and sleet and snow in

fact over the next week or so. Things have been turning drier funny

parts of the country and colder, more typical for the time of year

after the mild start. Here is the view from Perth and Kinross taken by

one of our weather Watchers, glorious picture showing the skies

and sunshine. Many places still seeing some of the white stuff on

the ground during the course of the weekend. Here is the radar picture

that shows we have had some showers over the past few hours motoring

through parts of Wales, the Midlands, North West England, and

the showers continue their journey south overnight so we could see a

flurry of snow, perhaps some sleet in Southern counties and eastern

areas once again prone to seeing sleet and snow showers with the

breeze coming in from the North Sea but ice is likely to be a problem on

untreated roads and pavements during Saturday morning. Take care first

thing. Temperatures could be as low as -10 degrees in the snow cover in

Scotland, so a cold start with a hard frost. Saturdays shaping up to

be a hard day -- sunny day. Eastern areas with the wind coming in from

the North Sea will feel quite raw with sleet and snow showers in land

can probably falling as rain around the coast. Temperatures around 1-3

for northern areas and further south we could see highs of six or seven.

It will feel chilly but at least we have the sunshine to compensate.

Three Saturday evening and overnight we will see a mix of rain, sleet and

snow arriving in the north-west and some considerable uncertainty about

how that develops through the day on Sunday. Because season further

wintry flurries across parts of Wales, north-west England and the

Midlands. Cloudy day on Sunday competitors Sunday Li Saturday, two

or three degrees in the east and turning a bit milder in the

south-west. Most of us should see some sunshine on Saturday. -- cloudy

day on Sunday compared to Saturday. In a moment the news

where you are but we leave you tonight with some of the most

striking images from Tim Peake's Tim, it's really cool seeing

the Union Jack go outside after it's It's great to be wearing

it, a huge privilege. The first British

citizen to fly on the International Space Station taking

the first spacewalk of his career.