:00:00. > :00:09.Stock markets around the world see billions wiped off shares.
:00:10. > :00:12.From New York to London and beyond, markets are gripped by concerns over
:00:13. > :00:17.falling oil prices and slowing global growth.
:00:18. > :00:21.Here in Britain, fears over the global economy hold wages back.
:00:22. > :00:24.Many bosses say their hands are tied.
:00:25. > :00:30.Whether I will be able to do that this year or not is something
:00:31. > :00:32.that is going to take a lot of thought.
:00:33. > :00:34.We'll have the latest on the prospects for
:00:35. > :00:40.At least 19 people have been killed in a gun and bomb attack,
:00:41. > :00:48.The red doors in Middlesbrough, and a row over whether they prompted
:00:49. > :00:57.Sarah Palin gives her blessing to the billionaire tycoon's run
:00:58. > :01:06.The number of people in work in Scotland reaches more than 2.6
:01:07. > :01:13.The Government's own poverty adviser calls for an end to the council tax
:01:14. > :01:35.Good evening, and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:36. > :01:38.Billions of pounds have been wiped off stocks around the world,
:01:39. > :01:44.because of fears over global growth and plummeting oil prices.
:01:45. > :01:49.In London, the FTSE 100 index is now more than 20% below its peak.
:01:50. > :01:52.The chief executive of BP, Bob Dudley, has told the BBC
:01:53. > :01:54.he believes the volatility could continue for months,
:01:55. > :02:00.He was speaking to our Economics Editor, Kamaal Ahmed,
:02:01. > :02:03.who's at the annual meeting of world business leaders in the Swiss resort
:02:04. > :02:14.Another grim day for the global economy. The price of oil down
:02:15. > :02:19.again. The main UK market is falling. In New York, investors
:02:20. > :02:25.selling stocks, in Hong Kong shares down. Business leaders at Davos,
:02:26. > :02:29.worrying times. When you look at the oil price, the volatility of the
:02:30. > :02:32.market since the start of the year, what is it telling you about the
:02:33. > :02:40.health of the global economy? There is a lot of uncertainty in the whole
:02:41. > :02:47.financial markets. They are unsure. Uncertainty is really hard to find
:02:48. > :02:53.right now. The queries about China, the debate going on is creating a
:02:54. > :02:58.lot of uncertainty. It has been the price of oil that has raised most
:02:59. > :03:02.concerns. Falling as world demand slows. Mr Dudley says it will not
:03:03. > :03:07.last and predicts the price of oil could double by the end of the year
:03:08. > :03:11.as demand from China and America rose. Of course, low oil prices can
:03:12. > :03:16.be good for countries that import oil like the UK and fast-growing
:03:17. > :03:21.economies across Asia. Fuel becomes cheaper. There are a lot of emerging
:03:22. > :03:28.markets in trouble because of it and lots in great shape. Part of India's
:03:29. > :03:31.and if it at the moment is because India is an importer and not an
:03:32. > :03:37.exporter and it is doing well. There is another issue being talked about
:03:38. > :03:41.in the corridors and snowy streets of this business conference, the
:03:42. > :03:45.European Union and Britain's in it. David Cameron arrives here in Davos
:03:46. > :03:49.tomorrow and Europe will be high on the agenda. I am told that the Prime
:03:50. > :03:54.Minister has been speaking to business leaders and saying he wants
:03:55. > :04:00.them to come out in support of Britain remaining in the reformed
:04:01. > :04:05.European Union. In Bob Dudley, he certainly has one fan of that
:04:06. > :04:11.position. I asked him if Britain was better off staying in the EU. I
:04:12. > :04:15.would say, yes, most certainly. I would also say I am very supportive
:04:16. > :04:20.of the Prime Minister's efforts to talk with Europe to make it more
:04:21. > :04:25.competitive. Why is that? Why are still important that we remain in
:04:26. > :04:28.Europe? Many of the trade regulations and the things that
:04:29. > :04:38.would still apply if Britain were out of it and then it would be
:04:39. > :04:41.potentially worse being outside of it. I also think Britain's role in
:04:42. > :04:43.the world, in terms of influence, it would have more influence if it
:04:44. > :04:49.remained part of Europe. Many business leaders disagree with Mr
:04:50. > :04:52.blood -- Mr Dudley saying Britain could flourish outside the EU.
:04:53. > :04:56.Tomorrow it will be Mr Cameron's turn.
:04:57. > :04:58.Well, the falls in world stock markets are having a significant
:04:59. > :05:01.impact on jobs and wages here in Britain.
:05:02. > :05:02.Our Economics Correspondent, Andy Verity, sent this report
:05:03. > :05:11.At this Sheffield foundry, the global slowdown is coming home.
:05:12. > :05:13.It sells bespoke cast-iron products to
:05:14. > :05:18.the oil and gas industry, steelmakers and manufacturers.
:05:19. > :05:20.Last spring, orders started to dry up.
:05:21. > :05:23.With less money coming in, the company may not be able
:05:24. > :05:37.A lot of that looking after comes through what we
:05:38. > :05:49.Whether I will be able to do that the this year or not
:05:50. > :05:51.The average pay rise in the year to the
:05:52. > :06:00.That is in spite of the fact unemployment dropped to 5.1%,
:06:01. > :06:22.and unemployment is low enough, workers
:06:23. > :06:24.Instead, what has happened is, as our economy looked
:06:25. > :06:31.like it was reaching that critical point,
:06:32. > :06:32.In contrast to heavy industry, service
:06:33. > :06:35.industries like retail, are far less exposed
:06:36. > :06:44.Instead, lower energy costs have allowed customers to spend more
:06:45. > :06:47.In percentage terms, think it was about 6%.
:06:48. > :06:52.But it is only 20,000 a year anyway, now.
:06:53. > :06:58.I am hoping to pay a pay rise in April.
:06:59. > :07:08.What hits businesses like this one hard is the lack of confidence
:07:09. > :07:12.among customers, the big corporations.
:07:13. > :07:15.They have hundreds of billions of pounds saved up but amid
:07:16. > :07:17.growing uncertainty about the global economy, they are reluctant
:07:18. > :07:33.Our Economics Editor, Kamal Ahmed, is in Davos for us now.
:07:34. > :07:44.How bad could things get? I think it is interesting. We're probably into
:07:45. > :07:48.more of a correction and an absolute global, economic crisis. I remember
:07:49. > :07:53.being here this time last year. To be frank, the markets were probably
:07:54. > :07:56.overdoing the confidence. It seemed growth was back and the financial
:07:57. > :08:03.crisis was maybe a bit of a distant memory. This year, it does feel more
:08:04. > :08:07.gloomy. As we have seen, the markets are reflecting that. Let's remember
:08:08. > :08:10.there are still lots of positives and that is certainly something of
:08:11. > :08:15.the mood here. China is still growing. It is reform -- forming but
:08:16. > :08:21.it is still growing. The UK is still growing. There is better news and as
:08:22. > :08:27.Bob Dudley says, people believe it is a market issue that will last for
:08:28. > :08:31.a few months and not a global crisis because there are still some
:08:32. > :08:34.fundamentally positive things happening in the global economy and,
:08:35. > :08:40.ultimately, the oil price will recover because of that. Not so good
:08:41. > :08:41.for people buying fuel but a lot better for those countries that are
:08:42. > :08:47.exporting oil. Many thanks. At least 19 people have died
:08:48. > :08:50.in a gun and bomb attack The security forces say four
:08:51. > :08:53.suspected attackers were later killed in a gunfight,
:08:54. > :08:55.which lasted nearly three hours. The attack took place
:08:56. > :08:58.at the Bacha Khan University campus, 30 miles from Peshawar in the north
:08:59. > :09:15.west of the country. Arriving as the assault took place,
:09:16. > :09:20.Army commanders race across open fields surrounding the University of
:09:21. > :09:23.the militants ran loose inside. The attackers are believed to have
:09:24. > :09:31.scaled the walls of the back of this large university and -- under a
:09:32. > :09:34.cover of early morning thick fog. Becoming a full-scale military
:09:35. > :09:41.operation, this attack lasted for almost three hours. The only way for
:09:42. > :09:49.those inside to escape was through the main campus gates. Many seem
:09:50. > :09:53.still clutching their class books. TRANSLATION: There was so much panic
:09:54. > :09:56.and fear that a friend of mine jumped from the University building
:09:57. > :10:01.full it was very high that he jumped from it because he was so scared. We
:10:02. > :10:09.saw the militants chancing, Allah is the greatest. We heard firing from
:10:10. > :10:14.the back of the campus. We thought maybe some people were fighting.
:10:15. > :10:20.Then the firing increased. Then we said, get into the rooms, do not go
:10:21. > :10:25.out. Inside, total devastation. Walls covered with bullet holes as
:10:26. > :10:30.the gunmen fired at anyone they saw. The wounded were rushed to hospital.
:10:31. > :10:39.Some traumatised. Others inconsolable. It is unclear whether
:10:40. > :10:43.the Pakistani Taliban militants are responsible for this latest violence
:10:44. > :10:48.but the attack is reminiscent to the one they carried out in Peshawar
:10:49. > :10:52.where they killed 132 schoolchildren more than a year ago. In a
:10:53. > :10:53.statement, the Government here says it is determined to wipe out
:10:54. > :10:55.terrorism. This day started with a poetry
:10:56. > :10:58.recital, honouring a secular activist who advocated non-violence,
:10:59. > :11:00.but it quickly turned into carnage. Today's attack will raise questions
:11:01. > :11:02.about why the militants are still able to strike
:11:03. > :11:04.soft targets like this university and how effective
:11:05. > :11:08.the military operation has been this last year, especially with a mix
:11:09. > :11:12.of militant networks that is evolving on the
:11:13. > :11:26.Pakistani/Afghan border. As relatives bury their dead, it is
:11:27. > :11:30.unclear whether the death toll will rise. This will be a sleepless night
:11:31. > :11:31.for many families across the country as they again fear sending their
:11:32. > :11:43.chosen to school the next day. Now, yesterday we brought
:11:44. > :11:46.you the story of Poppi Worthington. She was 13 months old when she died,
:11:47. > :11:49.and a family court judge ruled she'd been sexually assaulted
:11:50. > :11:51.by her father in Barrow-in-Furness Paul Worthington, who's 48,
:11:52. > :11:54.has denied sexually Today his sister - Poppi's aunt-
:11:55. > :12:08.defended him, as Ed Thomas reports. Three years after she died and
:12:09. > :12:12.nobody knows exactly what caused Poppi Worthington's death. The judge
:12:13. > :12:17.ruled she has suffered a violent, sexual assault by her father. Paul
:12:18. > :12:21.Worthington was arrested but never charged after a police
:12:22. > :12:25.investigation, described as astonishingly incompetent.
:12:26. > :12:28.He lived with me for two years and looked after my kids.
:12:29. > :12:30.Do you think he would still be walking this
:12:31. > :12:32.planet if I thought he was a paedophile?
:12:33. > :12:34.No, he wouldn't, because I would make sure he wasn't.
:12:35. > :12:38.This was Paul Worthington's sister. What is your reaction to the police
:12:39. > :12:46.investigation? It has been a joke
:12:47. > :12:53.from start to finish. This has been going
:12:54. > :13:03.on for three years. Nobody knows how she died. The first
:13:04. > :13:06.pathologist to examine her body warned detectives she had been
:13:07. > :13:10.abused. It took the police seven months to arrest Paul Worthington.
:13:11. > :13:15.The court heard of a series of police errors. Vital evidence went
:13:16. > :13:21.missing. Her nappy, clothing and bedding were all lost. The DNA could
:13:22. > :13:31.have proved to be innocent of Paul Worthington or guilt. -- the
:13:32. > :13:34.innocents. The pathologist said she suffered a serious, sexual assault.
:13:35. > :13:41.You read the rest of the paperwork and it is not that at all. Today,
:13:42. > :13:46.they warned Cumbria police and the county council to stop failing
:13:47. > :13:50.children. Without new evidence, Paul Worthington will not face
:13:51. > :13:53.prosecution. If he were a child abuser, digging I would let him
:13:54. > :13:59.walk? Do you really think I would back him up if I thought he were a
:14:00. > :14:08.child abuser? Is he a danger still on these streets? Is he heck! Don't
:14:09. > :14:12.be stupid. I will try to get to the truth of how Poppi died.
:14:13. > :14:17.Billions have been wiped off global shares, over falling oil prices
:14:18. > :14:27.The small Shropshire cottage with the big secret.
:14:28. > :14:29.And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 6.30...
:14:30. > :14:49.We meet the Syrian refugees who've been adjusting
:14:50. > :14:51.2015 was the hottest year since records began,
:14:52. > :14:57.according to NASA and the UK Met Office.
:14:58. > :14:59.New figures show the Earth's temperature
:15:00. > :15:01.was 1 Degree Celsius higher than a century ago.
:15:02. > :15:06.Our Science Editor, David Shukman, has the story.
:15:07. > :15:17.It was a year of violent extremes. Record heat found massive fires in
:15:18. > :15:25.California and Indonesia. Intense rain storms triggered widespread
:15:26. > :15:32.floods. From the Caribbean to Japan, which was hit by an unprecedented
:15:33. > :15:37.downpour. And punishing drought has left millions hungry in Africa. And
:15:38. > :15:41.behind all this is a rise in global temperatures. Scientists say that is
:15:42. > :15:47.partly driven by our greenhouse gases and partly by a natural cycle
:15:48. > :15:51.in the Pacific where water releases heat and disrupts weather around the
:15:52. > :15:56.world. The main reason we have such warm temperatures is she read it and
:15:57. > :16:01.climate change and that is the main factor. El Nino is contributing a
:16:02. > :16:06.small amount on top. Let's see the context for this new record. This
:16:07. > :16:09.graph from the Met office shows temperatures since 1850 foot Drake
:16:10. > :16:15.and compared to the long-term average, gradually rising right up
:16:16. > :16:19.to the record high set last year, an increase of 1 degrees over that
:16:20. > :16:23.time. Halfway to the 2 degrees limit world leaders agree should be the
:16:24. > :16:27.maximum for global warming when they met in Paris last month. 1 degrees
:16:28. > :16:33.does not sound like very much but if you think about the differences on a
:16:34. > :16:37.planetary scale, the last ice age was only 5 degrees colder than it is
:16:38. > :16:41.today. So 1 degrees is actually a very significant number and we
:16:42. > :16:47.already see an impact in the Arctic, Mt models, heat weight and
:16:48. > :16:52.visitation associated in that temperature. Areas marked in red and
:16:53. > :16:55.Orange were warmer than average last year, there were lots, including
:16:56. > :17:01.Orange were warmer than average last Bill UK were last year it will
:17:02. > :17:06.in December. The flooding that struck Northern England
:17:07. > :17:06.in December. The flooding that always warned warmer air can hold
:17:07. > :17:12.more moisture and can always warned warmer air can hold
:17:13. > :17:15.for another global temperature always warned warmer air can hold
:17:16. > :17:22.that everyone A company which houses asylum
:17:23. > :17:25.seekers in Middlesborough has been accused of inadvertently
:17:26. > :17:27.highlighting where they live by painting all their
:17:28. > :17:31.doors bright red. Some residents say they've had
:17:32. > :17:33.stones and eggs thrown at windows. The security firm G4S,
:17:34. > :17:43.whose sub-contractor owns behind red doors, and
:17:44. > :17:45.they'll now be repainted. Well, Danny Savage
:17:46. > :17:54.is there for us now. This appears to be a classic case of
:17:55. > :17:59.the law of unintended consequences. Some asylum speakers we spoke to
:18:00. > :18:03.today want their doors painted a different colour, others say, it
:18:04. > :18:07.does not matter, people know where we live anyway. We have
:18:08. > :18:10.does not matter, people know where alarming accounts of the abuse
:18:11. > :18:11.suffered by asylum seekers here in Middlesbrough.
:18:12. > :18:14.The colour of the front doors in most streets generally goes
:18:15. > :18:15.unnoticed, but not here in Middlesbrough.
:18:16. > :18:18.A housing company called Jomast has painted many of its front doors red.
:18:19. > :18:29.They believe they're being targeted by thugs and racists because a red
:18:30. > :18:34.This Iraqi Kurd didn't want his identity revealed.
:18:35. > :18:36.They know we are the foreign nationals, that's why.
:18:37. > :18:39.They knock on the door, they are painting the windows.
:18:40. > :18:42.They knock on the door and swear at us.
:18:43. > :18:50.They are clear to the red door means foreign people live in the red door.
:18:51. > :18:53.He says this paint on his window was left by people targeting him
:18:54. > :19:00.In another part of town, the initials of the far-right
:19:01. > :19:03.National Front group have been scratched into the red door
:19:04. > :19:07.And you're here and the people here are asylum seekers as well?
:19:08. > :19:11.Another asylum seeker says fires are always being started
:19:12. > :19:15.behind his home because of his red door.
:19:16. > :19:19.Would painting your front door make a difference?
:19:20. > :19:25.It will make me not worry that other people may think that I'm
:19:26. > :19:30.They've been targeted, they don't know how far it's
:19:31. > :19:34.One local campaigner says she's raised the red door issue
:19:35. > :19:37.It's been to the Home Affairs Select Committee.
:19:38. > :19:38.It's been to the National Audit Office.
:19:39. > :19:41.It's been to the Public Accounts Committee.
:19:42. > :19:43.So it's been to all these parliamentary committees and G4S
:19:44. > :19:45.actually said, at that Parliamentary Committee,
:19:46. > :19:48.that they were going to go away and look into it.
:19:49. > :19:56.G4S, which is responsible for the contract, says there's
:19:57. > :19:59.categorically no policy to house asylum seekers behind red doors.
:20:00. > :20:03.And the company it contracts out to, which owns the houses,
:20:04. > :20:07.says the seriousness is news to them.
:20:08. > :20:10.There has been mention of the fact that our properties might have red
:20:11. > :20:14.doors, on occasion, but it was never regarded as the paramount issue.
:20:15. > :20:18.We're going to repaint the front doors to make sure that there is no
:20:19. > :20:22.preponderance of any particular colour.
:20:23. > :20:25.Asylum seekers hope a different coloured door will make a difference
:20:26. > :20:32.Danny Savage, BBC News, Middlesbrough.
:20:33. > :20:38.In America, the billionaire businessman Donald Trump was out
:20:39. > :20:40.campaigning again today, hours after winning the backing
:20:41. > :20:42.of the former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin,
:20:43. > :20:44.in the race for the Republican nomination for November's
:20:45. > :20:47.Mr Trump said he was proud to have her endorsement.
:20:48. > :20:51.Here's our North America Editor, Jon Sopel.
:20:52. > :20:56.I would like to bring up, if I might, Governor Sarah Pailin.
:20:57. > :20:59.I would like to bring up, if I might, Governor Sarah Palin.
:21:00. > :21:04.It's not often that Donald Trump is out-trumped for brazenness,
:21:05. > :21:08.chutzpah and brass neck, but last night, he was,
:21:09. > :21:11.as Sarah Palin announced her arrival on his campaign stage
:21:12. > :21:16.Are you ready for a Commander in Chief?
:21:17. > :21:23.Are you ready for a Commander in Chief who will let our warriors
:21:24. > :21:34.It wasn't so much a speech as a series of small explosions,
:21:35. > :21:38.taking aim at the President and also the Republican establishment.
:21:39. > :21:41.You guys are all sounding kind of angry, is what we are hearing
:21:42. > :21:48.Playing up Donald Trump as the outsider.
:21:49. > :21:51.He is from the private sector, not a politician.
:21:52. > :21:56.In the private sector, you actually have to balance budgets
:21:57. > :21:58.in order to prioritise, to keep the main thing,
:21:59. > :22:05.For the past few years, Sarah Palin has been out
:22:06. > :22:06.of the political front line, concentrating instead
:22:07. > :22:13.She is still a darling of the Tea Party right
:22:14. > :22:15.and the evangelical wing of the Republican Party.
:22:16. > :22:22.But she is gaffe-prone, as was seen when she ran
:22:23. > :22:40.You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit
:22:41. > :22:48.You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.
:22:49. > :22:54.Donald Trump will have weighed up the risks.
:22:55. > :22:57.The danger is that whilst Sarah Palin might help now to win
:22:58. > :22:59.over the disaffected right in Iowa, she will alienate mainstream voters
:23:00. > :23:02.when it comes to the critical presidential election in November.
:23:03. > :23:05.And that will be almost as big a disaster as it was when the two
:23:06. > :23:08.of them were filmed eating pizza together in New York.
:23:09. > :23:15.A planet, ten times the size of Earth, may have been discovered
:23:16. > :23:18.Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology say
:23:19. > :23:20.they have no direct observations to confirm its presence just yet.
:23:21. > :23:24.But they make the claim based on the way other far-flung objects,
:23:25. > :23:33.From the outside, it looks like any other
:23:34. > :23:36.But Dracups Cottage, in the Shropshire town
:23:37. > :23:46.of Bridgnorth, is definitely not a typical home.
:23:47. > :23:49.It's just gone on the market, and Sian Lloyd has been
:23:50. > :23:52.It looks like a traditional property in a terraced street.
:23:53. > :23:55.A typical two-up, two-down, built 150 years ago.
:23:56. > :24:02.A living room and kitchen, with two bedrooms above.
:24:03. > :24:05.But step this way and you get a sense of the unusual.
:24:06. > :24:07.This room was once a sandstone cave in the back garden.
:24:08. > :24:09.It's the result of years of excavation, carried out
:24:10. > :24:20.Here, we've got beams and Gothic arches.
:24:21. > :24:22.And they're all made from the sandstone that was excavated
:24:23. > :24:28.itself, all done by hand, to create about 650 square feet
:24:29. > :24:29.of room really, which is incredible,
:24:30. > :24:32.Antony Dracup was an artist and inventor.
:24:33. > :24:38.He liked to put his own stamp on every home he owned.
:24:39. > :24:40.But in Dracups Cottage, he went further, spending 20 years
:24:41. > :24:50.Some of his former neighbours in Railway Street remember
:24:51. > :24:55.Most of the houses have got a cave each.
:24:56. > :24:58.My house is two houses knocked into one, so we've got two caves.
:24:59. > :25:04.Our caves go back two, three metres at the most.
:25:05. > :25:09.He was hammering and chiselling for years.
:25:10. > :25:12.It's certainly a tight squeeze, isn't it, through the door?
:25:13. > :25:17.Antony Dracup persistently chiselled away at the cave in his garden
:25:18. > :25:22.His work has created a unique legacy.
:25:23. > :25:25.The present owners have been using it as a holiday cottage,
:25:26. > :25:34.but it's largely unchanged since the artist lived here.
:25:35. > :25:46.Change is on the way. I look on weather and do not like the brass,
:25:47. > :25:52.it is out of the way over the next 24 hours. You still have frost
:25:53. > :25:56.overnight but overall, the next 24 hours, a gradual warming across the
:25:57. > :26:02.UK. The cloud in the Atlantic, ready and waiting to go away. Bringing
:26:03. > :26:09.some rain unfortunately so the unsettled weather is coming again
:26:10. > :26:12.over the next 24 hours. Still cold across eastern areas and central
:26:13. > :26:16.areas for a time tonight but in many Western areas, temperatures rise
:26:17. > :26:21.through tonight as the southerly winds set in. 5 degrees by the end
:26:22. > :26:24.of the night implements, some frost and Fog across the East of the
:26:25. > :26:29.country for top and like in the last couple of nights, which Trudi across
:26:30. > :26:35.some of those roads. In the East of the country. Potentially freezing
:26:36. > :26:39.rain in south-western parts of Scotland. It could be quite
:26:40. > :26:44.hazardous, especially on roads in the south-west Scotland. Wet weather
:26:45. > :26:48.sets in during the afternoon for many areas of the North West but
:26:49. > :26:53.should state dry across East Anglia and the South East. This is tomorrow
:26:54. > :26:58.night. Cloud and outbreaks of rain and mild, southerly winds. On
:26:59. > :27:01.Friday, we all get rain, a weather front sweeps in and milder
:27:02. > :27:06.conditions behind it. So the cold gets pushed back into Central parts
:27:07. > :27:10.of Europe. This is the weather front crossing the country during the
:27:11. > :27:13.morning and afternoon. By the end of Friday, we should get sunshine. It
:27:14. > :27:17.will be windy in the North West. Double-figure temperatures for the
:27:18. > :27:21.end of the working week but still for a time chilly in Norwich, I'd
:27:22. > :27:27.degrees. The summary for the weekend, milder, some sunshine and
:27:28. > :27:30.rain from time to time. Many thanks.