12/05/2016 BBC News at Six

A warning from the Bank of England - leaving the EU could

The Governor of the bank says an exit could affect both jobs

If there were a vote to leave, that would have material

consequences for both growth and inflation.

We'll be examining his comments and hearing from those who disagree.

The Government's plans for the future of the BBC -

concerns over just how independent it will be.

The NHS misses targets again - the worst ever performance

Adrift in the Mediterranean - we're with the migrants who're

changing their route as Europe tries to keep them away.

The final day of Prince Harry's Invictus Games -

and the special message this athlete asked him to deliver.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News.

Roberto Martinez is sacked by Everton.

He leaves less than halfway through a six-year contract,

with the club 12th in the Premier League.

Hello and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

The Bank of England has issued its strongest warning yet

about the possible risks of leaving the European Union.

Its Governor, Mark Carney, said a vote to leave

The remarks were seized on by the Chancellor,

who argued that it was further evidence that quitting the EU

would be what he called a lose-lose for Britain.

But Leave campaigners have accused Mr Carney of bias,

with one of them, the former Chancellor, Lord Lamont,

Our Economics Editor, Kamal Ahmed, has more.

Today, the Bank of England said that if Britain left

the European Union, things could become worse.

In his strong warning yet, Mark Carney said that all nine

members of the bank's Monetary Policy Committee

spoke with one voice about

Material growth slowdown and growth, notable

increase in inflation, that

Not on a whim, it is based on rigorous analysis and

Given the gloominess of your forecast and the

data, can you rule out Britain's economy being tipped into recession?

If we were to leave the European Union?

Of course, there is a range of possible scenarios around those

directions. Which could possibly include a technical recession, it

could possibly. A warning on the risks of an EU exit, 3-part stash

growth could be substantially lower, inflation could rise and

unemployment could increase as investment falls. The bank said the

value of sterling could fall sharply as markets reacted to the referendum

result. Many economists agree with this gloomy prognosis. A recession

is possible if the UK leaves the European Union, in the short term

you would have a lot of uncertainty and we advise clients at the moment

to factor in between .5 and 1.5% lower growth in the event of an exit

in the first few years. The Bank of England Governor has certainly moved

significantly today. The warnings about the risks of leaving the

European Union far stronger than before, the use of the recession

word significant and I am told deliberate. Mark Carney knows it is

controversial territory. A central bank Governor in the spotlight. His

response, that the Bank of England Governor has a duty to be

transparent. We have a responsibility, if we have done

analysis and if it has been a preoccupation, and if it is in our

judgment the biggest risk to the forecast, to talk about it. And that

is what we have done. Blue skies over the bank at storm clouds for

the Governor as leave campaigners accuse him of making hysterical

comments. One MP called for his resignation and the former

Chancellor warned him against intervening in the European Union

debate. The Governor ought to be very careful with what he says. Is a

real danger he could have a self fulfilling crisis, warning of a

crisis that need not the but there is no need for any crisis. Britain

can trade and prospered just like any other independent country

outside the EU. It is not Mark Carney's first morning on the risks

of leaving the European Union and it is likely to be his last. The

question is what influenced today's strong words will have on the

referendum outcome. Let's go live now to our Political

Correspondent, Alex Forsyth. Alex, the Governor's comments have

sparked controversy. This is a highly charged political

debate. The intervention of Mark Carney is undoubtedly a boost to

those who want the UK to remain in the EU. A senior, credible figure

once again warning in no uncertain terms of the economic risks of

leaving. This plays into the central theme of the remaining campaign that

we're better off in but the Governor is independent and should be outside

of politics. Number 10 say he is within his remit to one of economic

risks but this intervention has left those who want the UK to leave

incensed. They say he has overstepped the mark, he is

venturing into political territory and they have called his claims

hysterical, one said he has undermined the reputation of the

Bank of England and another even called for him to be sacked. It is

six weeks today until this crucial vote and both sides of this campaign

have taken the gloves off. Thank you.

The Government has announced plans for a major shake-up

The Culture Secretary, John Whittingdale, wants to scrap

the body that oversees the BBC and replace it with a board

on which several members would be government appointed.

That's led to concerns that the BBC's independence

Our Political Editor, Laura Kuennsberg, reports

on a proposal that could have far reaching consequences

for the BBC's future and the content of its programmes.

On the pitch... In the bag. -- bake. On the dance floor. On air. The BBC

has been everywhere for all of our lifetimes but what is coming up?

Changes and you will know what the top stars get paid. This is not

rocket science, if I was in charge I would have a word about what we get

paid! The Culture Secretary, who once said he was tempted to abolish

the BBC, sounded different today. Mr Speaker, the BBC is and must always

remain at the heart of British life. You want the BBC to thrive and make

fantastic programmes for audiences and act as an engine for growth and

creativity. What has changed? The BBC Trust will be replaced with a

new, independent board. As many as half of the members will be

appointed by the government. There will be new rules on diversity and

impartiality. And Ofcom, the broadcasting watchdog, will regulate

the BBC for the first time. The government will not stick its nose

into schedules and the 93-year-old licence fee survives for at least a

decade. One of the big issues, the future of the licence fee and how

the BBC competes with rivals, you have ducked the big questions? I

think the changes we are making are substantial, they will have a

significant effect. I think they would ensure the BBC excels even

more on the things that the BBC does, which are prized by audiences

across the country. And we put in place a completely different

government doctor. It will be a stronger board, more involved in

day-to-day running, why should half of them be appointed by the

government? The BBC benefits from ?3.7 billion of government money and

I think the government is entitled to have representation. But there is

a fear of the BBC would have to doff its cap to the government. The idea

that the government of the day, whichever it is, can put six

political supporters onto the editorial board of a Public Service

Broadcasting is anathema to me. But if you get your drama fix only

through iPlayer, you will have to pay the licence fee. And for new

services, there might be a subscribe share. I think the main message of

the White Paper about distinct of, high-quality programming is exactly

what I think the BBC is about and should be doing. If you are honest

with yourself, do you have any tiny inkling that somehow the BBC got

away with it? I don't think the BBC got away with it! If you look back

at where we were one year ago, the debate and discussion is which have

been had involving the CMS and other parts of government, some in public

and some behind closed doors, are exactly the discussions and debates

you should have. This is BBC television... But with the days of

huddling around the television set disappearing fast, should the BBC

change more quickly? There will be disappointment in the commercial

sector that the BBC has not been reduced in scope and size. This, my

sweet... Is a letter from my solicitor. At times it seemed that

the BBC could have been served and ultimate. It will face more

pressure. Happy Christmas! That these talks have come to a less

dramatic end. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

For the first time, foreign companies that already have,

or want to buy, property in the UK will have to reveal

David Cameron announced the measure at the anti-corruption summit he's

But he's faced criticism for failing to take stronger action

against tax havens in British Overseas Territories

Our Diplomatic Correspondent, James Landale, reports.

Tonight on Panorama, we expose the secret world of tax havens...

Belleek of the so-called Panama Papers revealed that financial

corruption is nothing if not global. With the illicit money flowing

unchecked around the world. Today, presidents and ministers gathered in

London to discuss how they could tackle a problem that David Cameron

said how so many consequences. Corruption is the cancer at the

heart of so many problems we need to tackle in our world. If you want to

defeat terrorism and extremism, we have to recognise that corruption

and lack of access to justice can often be the way that people are

driven towards extremism. The Prime Minister began by promising to deal

with London's reputation as a haven for money-laundering. Announcing

that he would force all sure firms that own property in the NUT Wales

to reveal their ultimate owners in a publicly available register. Foreign

firms bidding for government contracts would have to be just as

open. By being more transparent it will deter people who want to park

corrupt money in London property and if you have money there, you will be

exposed and you will know if your neighbour is the son of Colonel

Gaddafi, for example. That would not have been clear before. But

campaigners want the Prime Minister to go further and put pressure on

Britain's overseas territories and Crown Dependencies to be more

transparent. Today, some of those territories, like Cayman Islands,

agreed to share more information about company ownership amongst

themselves and the authorities but crucially, not the public. They

think they have been treated unfairly. Those countries with real

political clout on the world stage, if they continue to focus on

jurisdictions that smaller in size while ignoring obvious jurisdictions

which ought to be part of the conversation, the result will be

continued failure. If you were countries at the conference did

agree to follow the lead of Britain and set up public registers of all

company ownership. But crucially, the United States was not one of

them. Even if it did agree that something had to be done.

Corruption, writ large, is as much of an enemy because it destroys

nation states as some of the extremists we are fighting. The test

for this summit will be how many countries and organisations follow

the lead. It has not gone without notice that Panama, the British

Virgin Islands and Fifa were not represented today. James Landale,

BBC News, Lancaster house in London. The NHS in England has

recorded its worst performance Figures for March showed a failure

to achieve targets in several areas, including ambulance response times,

emergency call handling Our Health Editor, Hugh Pym,

is outside the University The details. -- give us the details.

Usually you would expect in the spring the pressure on hospitals to

ease off but not this time, the performance of March was worse

throughout the winter months and a key figure today was a percentage of

patients seen or assessed in four hours in Temple units, 87.3%. The

worst since records began more than one decade ago. One of the reasons

was the sheer numbers of extra patients coming through the front

door of A, an extra 500,000 patients in the latest financial

year compare to the previous financial year. That gives you some

indication. As to the reasons, a lot of different ones have been offered,

they be people are losing faith in GPs because practices are so

overdone it is hard to get appointments. They beat there were

problems with social care and people in hospital vision at either in the

first place. The government says the NHS is coping well in the

circumstances, given this higher demand but the view of Labour is

that the targets missed, including cancer waiting times, the NHS is now

in constant crisis. A warning from the Bank of England -

a vote to leave the EU The American athlete

at the Invictus Games and her gift for the NHS

doctors who saved her life. We've got reaction from a dramatic

night in the Premier League. Sunderland survive, but Newcastle

and Norwich are relegated. More than 2,000 migrants have been

rescued off the coast of Italy This year has seen an increase

in those taking the long and perilous central Mediterreanean

migrant route from Libya. In the first three months this year,

Italy registered 18,000 new migrants - that's 80% more

than in the same period last year. Christian Fraser is on a rescue boat

which went out to help migrants from international

waters near Tripoli. Hello, George, we are en route from

the Libyan coast to Sicily, with 233 rescued migrants. The weather is

gusting and there is a big swell and we are lashed on. That goes to

underline why it is a ridiculous idea to leave Libya in a rubber

boat. But hundreds are doing that and if it wasn't for search and

rescue operations like this, they would be dieing in greater numbers.

An early-morning call on the bridge of the Aquarius.

In Europe's epic migration story, part of the rescue operation has

Aquarius is chartered by SOS Mediterranee,

an international charity trained in dangerous marine rescue.

Already this year they have saved 900 lives.

The chart tells us we are almost upon them.

And then we see it, in the haze, a streak of grey balanced

In Libya, people-smuggling is a low-risk, high-profit business.

Rubber boats from China are cheap and quickly inflated.

The safety of the paying cargo is incidental.

The smugglers give them a phone to call the Coast Guard,

a compass and just enough fuel to leave Libyan waters.

This particular boat had drifted 24 miles in ten hours, a huddle

of humanity at the whim of the sea and the people who save them.

The first to arrive are the children.

On Aquarius it is the medical charity MSF that takes charge.

The migrants are exhausted, some have injuries,

but there is relief they have finally escaped Libya.

You know, Libya is not a free country.

It is very, very crime, you know, killing, shooting.

They don't want to see black, they don't want to see black at all.

But would they really come if these rescue boats weren't here?

The determination to relieve the danger is so huge

that they are not afraid to step on the rickety boat and basically

They already have 120 migrants on board the Aquarius,

we are now picking up another 140 that the Italian Navy

The Italians tell us they expect a record number of people to make

this journey from Libya to Europe this year, perhaps

An hour after everyone was safely transferred the weather turned,

a force-six squall that would surely have destroyed their boats.

On the stern of the Aquarius they slept soundly, but had

we arrived just in hour later they would certainly be dead.

An inquiry has found that the Youth Justice Board ignored

at least 35 complaints going back seven years about how the G4S

security company managed three youth offenders' institutions.

The details emerged in a report published into failures at

the Medway Secure Training Centre, where the BBC's Panorama programme

secretly filmed staff assaulting children.

The Conservative Party has produced documents about its spending

during the general election after the Electoral Commission

The watchdog applied to the High Court to force the party

to disclose the documents as part of an investigation into an alleged

The Brazilian Senate has voted overwhelmingly to impeach

She'll be tried for concealing the size of the country's budget

deficit - an allegation she stroingly denies.

Her removal ends 13 years of left-wing government.

The Office for National Statistics says the big difference

between official immigration estimates and much higher figures

for EU citizens getting National Insurance numbers

is due to the movements of short-term workers.

Its assessment comes after a growing debate among experts

and campaigners about levels of EU migration -

which some say has been underestimated.

With me now is our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds.

This is quite a complicated, can you try and explain what is happen

something It turns out that answering the question about how

many people are coming into the country is not easy. But the first

figure is the number of EU migrants staying for more than a year, that

is more than a million people. The second number is the number coming

and applying for national insurance numbers. It is a much higher number,

2.2 plus million. A big difference and euro sceptics say because that

figure is higher, we are underestimating the number of people

coming here. Now the nation's number crunchers have said if you add in

short-term migrants to the one million, the numbers look about the

same, that is partly because people come for a month to work and still

need a national insurance number to work and that is registered. Euro

sceptics say that is a sign we need to be more careful about counting

short-term migrants, because they use public services and compete for

jobs. The government said the short-term figure is not as

important as the long-term one. Thank you.

Now all week we've been trying to cast a light

on the European Union and its workings, ahead

For his final report, our Europe Correspondent

Damian Grammaticus looks at the EU's legal powers -

how they work, how far they extend, and how

This is where Europe's laws take shape.

20 languages simultaneously spoken as decisions affecting up to

It is about railways - pretty good example.

new regulations to bring more competition to

Europe's railways, make it easier for people to travel across borders

But like all EU laws, it will only take effect if

the EU member states, the UK included, also approve it.

Producers must put EU-approved labels so people know what they're

Products must meet EU standards and carry safety labels.

Countries are bound by energy efficiency targets.

Workers full and part-time must be paid the same hourly rate

In the EU though they can opt to work more than the standard

Banks have to hold enough capital to cover their risks.

The EU though doesn't govern some things.

Contrary to myth, there is no specific EU law governing the

All these regulations impose cost and every country has to

This is where it gets most controversial -

the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights.

The EU's highest court has used it to say prisoners

should have the right to vote in European elections,

unless they're inside for serious crime.

And it is considering whether prisoners with

terrorist convictions can avoid being deported if they have

The final decisions in such cases are made by

In the Uk we have always looked to Parliament and

our Supreme Court to make and interpret legislation.

Being in the EU adds another layer of law-making.

Since we joined the EU more than 40 years ago,

what has been clear is

that EU law - where it applies - takes precedence over

But what is clear is it doesn't bind us forever.

That is what this referendum is about.

In Florida, it's the final day of the Invictus Games -

One of the American stars of the event handed back one

of her gold medals to Prince Harry, asking him to give it

to the Cambridgeshire hospital that saved her life two years ago.

Aleem Maqbool looks back at this year's tournament for injured

For many here, this has been the week of their lives.

They have often gone through the toughest of

times - some of them getting injured in combat, or losing friends.

Now, they have competed with athletes

Lieutenant Kirsty Wallace broke her back while

The spirit of the games are just amazing.

Everybody's got smiles on

their faces, the banter between all the different teams

getting to know all the other countries, all the

Prince Harry is such a huge ambassador for this

event, the banter he has between him and us the team is fantastic.

He is willing to come up and give sweaty hugs at the end

And Prince Harry, who served in the army for ten years and

came up with the idea of these games, has been a huge

American swimmer Elizabeth Marks handed back a gold medal he

had presented to her, asking Harry to give to it

Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, which saved her

life during the first Invictus Games.

Olympic stars have been offering their support for

I think that the ability that the athletes here have to inspire

kids, but also the wider community, is a tremendous gift that they have

and this is when sport is at its very best.

The hope is this also inspires other sick and injured

soldiers everywhere, fighting their own personal battles.

Not too dissimilar. We were talking of temperatures of 25 in Porthmadog.

But it has been cloudy in the Channel Island and showers have been

developing in the south. In fact not just showers, thunder storms!

They're range down in parts of Hampshire, Dorset and heading into

Devon. But to show you the sunshine, this was Chatsworth in Derbyshire. A

fine evening and a fine night and we change the weather script and pick

up a northerly breeze and some rain in the far north. The clearest

weather to the west. Not cold. Not just yet any way. Not as muggy as

recent nights. But on Friday there is still a lot of dry weather, but

behind the cold front, colder air. Ahead of it more cloud first thing

tomorrow. More cloud in Scotland and some showers. The temperatures will

drop. From 23 more like 13 tomorrow. Sunshine in Northern Ireland, so we

start to get higher temperatures the further south we come, with the

legacy of the warm air is still with us. Still some cloud and there some

rogue showers. A lot of dry weather and strong sunshine. Unusually

strong this early in the season. In Northern Ireland we are into the

high cot Gair. So -- category. High pressure builds again and that means

with clear nights will be chilly and we could have some ground frost

towards the weekend. But otherwise the weekend does look like largely

fine, but chilly nights. That's all from the BBC News at Six,

so it's goodbye from me