23/06/2016 BBC News at Six

Referendum day - a vote on Britain's membership of the European Union.

A record 46 million people are eligible to take part -

Overnight thunderstorms and torrential rain in London

and southeast England - with more on the way.

Water started gushing in out of the toilet, both toilets at about half

past two in the morning. Homes have been flooded

and transport disrupted Does this undercover footage show

fox cubs being taken into a barn As players prepare for Wimbledon,

officials are trying And coming up in the Euro 2016

sports day the whole nations are back in training as they plan for

their upcoming last 16 matches. We will hear from the England, Wales

and Northern Ireland camps. Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six. A record 46 million people

are eligible to vote today in a referendum on whether Britain

should remain in the European Union Polling stations will stay

open until 10pm tonight. The first results are likely to be

announced in the early hours of tomorrow morning with the final

outcome expected Here's our political correspondent

Iain Watson. After an intense four monthlong

campaign it perhaps hardly surprising that David Cameron and

his wife Samantha working to vote early this morning. Even so, Michael

Gove the Justice secretary had beaten into it. He had already voted

by post but during his wife at a polling station in London. Many

people throughout the United Kingdom have been casting their ballots

since 7am this morning. The last referendum on EU membership was four

decades ago in 1975 so many people voting on this issue for the first

time. In south-east England some were so determined they didn't let a

little bit of rain put them off. More than 46 million of us are

eligible to vote, that's a record number and in a referendum every

vote counts. There are no safe seats, no marginal constituencies.

Your vote matters every bit as much as any of political leaders, polls

are open until 10pm tonight so you still have time to have your say.

The question on the ballot paper is clear, should the United Kingdom

remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage of Ukip have already

cast their votes. As soon as the polls close tonight election

officials in 382 areas across the UK and Gibraltar will begin tallying

votes. Then 12 regional counting centres such as Falkirk will send

the results to Manchester where the official outcome will be announced,

probably around 7am. But the result may become clearer earlier. What

ever a decision we finally make it will have far-reaching consequences.

And there's a special programme here on BBC One from 9.55pm

tonight with live coverage with David Dimbleby as the results

Heavy rain and flooding overnight have caused disruption in London

There have been severe delays on some rail and London

With more rain this afternoon some areas could see a month's worth

One of the worst affected areas is Romford in Essex -

our correspondent Sarah Campbell is there.

At its height the water here was around one metre deep and for the

small numbers of properties in Romford which were actually flooded

the effects have been catastrophic. This family has spent the entire

afternoon taking every single item out of the house all completely

ruined. And the rain keeps coming. Everyone here hopes it can possibly

be as bad as last night. -- cannot possibly be.

1000 strikes an hour lit up the night sky

in spectacular fashion, as the storm system moved

Its after effects were rather less impressive.

The torrential rain was too much for the plumbing in this house

We had the water gushing in out the toilets, both toilets,

at two o'clock, half past two in the morning,

and as you can see it rapidly spread everywhere.

This was the scene in Romford early this morning. Crews from across

London battling through the day to pump the water away from flooded

streets and homes. 82-year-old June was strapped up stairs when the

water poured on -- was trapped. Her daughter should be around for

mothers now ruined house. Swimming. I just want to cry. I just want to

cry. Because it's going to take so much again to get it back to where

it was. There is a really long road ahead. This is the second time...

The second time and it was as bad last time and I just feel really

sorry for my mom. Some parts got the months of rain in just six hours.

London Fire and has dealt with more than 400 separate incidents. The

advantage we have with floods over traditional fires is we are able to

predict situations are current and we work closely with our partners to

use various intelligence tools to help us predict rainfall and areas

we need to concentrate our resources. Flooded tracks have meant

a miserable day for commuters with huge queues building up at stations

across the region. Drivers didn't fare much better in many areas with

some having to wade to their waterlogged cars. And disruption is

being reported already again this evening, and miserable morning for

commuters and a miserable evening as well. Rail services including South

West Trains reporting problems, the major railway stations in London

reported to be very busy indeed. They are sandbagging here, crossing

their fingers but still the rain keeps coming.

Teachers in England are to stage a one day strike on July 5th

The National Union of Teachers said it wants to see school funding

increased and measures taken to tackle what it

calls "unmanageable and exhausting workloads".

The government described the walkout as unnecessary and damaging.

With me now is our education correspondent Gillian Hargreaves.

Just how much disruption could this cause? The potential is huge because

about a third of a million people are members of this particular

teaching union. They are going out on strike on Tuesday 5th of July

with further strikes threatened for the autumn term. The government says

it is damaging and unnecessary, they are perfectly happy to talk to the

union about things like pay and conditions. But one thing, the

turnout was quite low, only about a quarter of teachers eligible to vote

did so so it may be the case that on the day head teachers are able to

keep schools partially or fully open. One other thought, it would

affect the exams going on at the moment, things like GCSEs and

A-levels because by the 5th of July they will be completed. Thank you.

The UK's population grew by half-a-million last year.

New figures show it's just over 65 million.

The Office of National Statistics says the increase is in line

with average population growth over the last 10 years.

An armed man has been shot dead by police in Germany.

It's thought he'd taken a number of hostages after firing

several shots in a cinema complex in the town of Veirnheim

No one else was injured in this afternoon's incident.

A British man who was preparing to carry out a knife attack -

inspired by so-called Islamic State - on the streets of London has

23-year-old Nadir Syed - from West London -

was arrested in November 2014, just days before Remembrance Sunday.

Three people have been arrested on suspicion of causing

It follows video footage - seen by the BBC - which shows foxes

being carried into kennels linked to the South Herefordshire Hunt

and afterwards their dead bodies being dumped in a bin.

The Countryside Alliance said it was potential animal

cruelty, and nothing to do with legal hunting.

Tom Symonds has more - you may find some of the images

In a rear yard at headquarters of the South Herefordshire Hunt, this

man was secretly filmed taking young foxes to and from a cage.

Anti-hunting investigators went in at night.

But later the hidden cameras, twice, captured this -

the fox is curled up, behaviour suggesting it is

Inside the shed is the hunt's pack of hounds, and

the soundtrack suggests something has attracted their attention.

This happened twice, and the man appeared with a dead fox.

The investigators removed two bodies and gave them to the police,

Their spokeswoman, who asked us not to name her to protect her safety,

claims to have uncovered the training of hounds

They don't naturally hunt foxes - they have to be taught

to recognise foxes as prey, and also not only to hunt

You know, we believe this evidence shows that fox cubs were actually

thrown to the hounds, or given to the hounds,

But hunting foxes with packs of hounds has been

Well, the hunting ban prevented intentional hunting of foxes, but

these guys from the League Against Cruel Sports say that what the

hunts are doing is finding foxes and placing them in the path of the

hunt, so they can be unintentionally and legally hunted.

We are in another part of the country,

where they have discovered a fox's earth with a difference.

This is one of the three entrances...

It started off with some dry stonewalling but further in it

If this was done just for wildlife that would be one thing,

but let's be very clear - what they are doing,

they have a canned fox-hunting operation going on here,

so they bring the foxes here or they breed them

here specifically and solely for the purposes

The Countryside Alliance insists this is about managing

animals which can be pests, and it helps to know

Back in Herefordshire, police have arrested three people.

The body representing Masters of Hounds has also

Democratic Party politicians in Washington have ended

their sit-in in America's House of Representatives.

It was part of their campaign to get gun-control legislation passed -

despite opposition from the Republican Party which has

As Aleem Maqbool reports, it follows the mass shooting

in which a gunman killed 49 people in a Florida club

It is one of the most rheumatic demonstrations in Congress in modern

history. The house speaker stood little chance of getting order. It

was all started hours earlier by a man who stood beside Martin Luther

King in America's civil rights battle. John Lewis. We are calling

on the leadership of the house to bring commonsense gun control

legislation to the house floor. Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here

to do our job, we came here to work! You can help us win this battle

America. Win the TV cameras were turned off in the house, the

politicians streamed events live on social media. No bill, no break was

the chant and they wanted Republicans to agree to holding

votes on gun control and said they wouldn't leave until it happened.

Late into the night as TV networks started to broadcast feeds from the

phones are protesting politicians the chaos continued. One Republican

representative rushed at Democrats shouting it was radical Islam and

not guns that were the problem. Almost coming to blows. They decided

to do a set in, it's an inappropriate use of time, they

should be reprimanded for breaking the house rules. Pillows, blankets,

pizza and doughnuts were brought into the chamber as Democrat settled

in for the night but as extraordinary as the scenes have

been the question is how effective will all of this PE in helping end

the appalling scourge of gun violence here? -- will all this be.

We have just heard in the last ten minutes that the setting has ended

and will be a vote later today but let's look at what it is, it's about

stopping people who are suspected terrorists already on the no-fly

list from getting guns as well. That's why we had this titanic

battle and it tells you a lot about where the gun debate and the efforts

to stop massacres like the one in Orlando are right now in America.

Voting's under way to decide whether the UK should remain

A record 46 million people are eligible to take part.

A peak inside Donald Trump's

latest Scottish venture, as protesters say they'll be

there when the billionaire arrives tomorrow.

In Euro 2016 Sportsday. Wayne Rooney says Roy Hodgson was right to rest

him against Slovakia. The England players say the players respected

the manager's decision to make six changes during their final group

game. It's that time of year -

the Wimbledon championships It may be the most prestigious

tennis tournament in the world and the organisers want to keep

it that way. This has been a year

of intense scrutiny over Back in January a report

from the BBC and Buzzfeed made widespread revelations

about match fixing. So what has tennis done

to address the problem? In the world of tennis,

playing at Wimbledon So, at the qualifying tournament,

here in Roehampton, For the first time, cameras have

been installed here by Wimbledon to gather evidence,

in case a suspicious Where there is tennis,

there is gambling and that Wimbledon cannot afford any

association with corruption. Unquestionably you can believe

in it and if you couldn't We are monitoring everything that

goes on in terms of gambling I'm confident at this year's

Championships we will not have problems but equally, we,

as the organising body, are geared up if there

is and we can deal with it. The task of monitoring and policing

tennis right around the world, is the responsibility

of the Tennis Integrity Unit. Now, by its very nature it has

to remain confidential, but, So, for the first time we were

allowed to film inside the TIU. It's expanded, although staff

numbers are still in single figures. It basis its work on flexibility

and intelligence. Here, for example, mobile phone data

is being analysed to make links between a potential

chain of corruption. This is a sign every player will see

in their changing room. The confidential e-mail service

is monitored 24-hours a day and I was told it was receiving

fresh information on a weekly basis. Every professional player is also

required to watch and completed Potential scenarios

of corruption are recreated. In April, Australian tennis player,

Nick Lindahl pleaded guilty to a match fixing charge

in a low ranking tournament. The case was uncovered

by the integrity unit, picked up by law enforcement

in Australia, but in court there, Many in the sport feel

the opportunity to make Wimbledon told me they

believe in the work Their cameras, they've paid for,

are another visible deterrent, even if they believe nobody

at Wimbledon plays A man who tried to murder

his pregnant girlfriend in a "horrifying" street attack,

has been jailed for 18 years. Babur Karamat Raja, who's 41,

attacked 40-year-old Natalie Queiroz in Sutton Coldfield town

centre in March this year. Our correspondent Phil Mackie

is outside Birmingham Give us the background to this case.

Well, Babur Raja and Natalie Queiroz had been in relationship for 18

months and she was pregnant. But his mother days proved of the

relationship because she is a non-Muslim and she had been sending

him text messages saying he was living a sinful life. He cracked. He

arranged to meet her but ambushed her. He stabbed her and nearly

killed her and their unborn child. If it hasn't been for the

intervention of four men passing by, she possibly would have been dead

now. Her life was saved and the baby was delivered by Caesarean section.

It has suffered brain damage but otherwise is developing normally. We

heard that Babur raming Raj has amol jiesed to Natalie Queiroz and

apologised to the men who were injured in the adabbing. -- we heard

that Babur Raja has apologised. She was in court today. We heard how she

thought he was a sweet, kind man with whom she would spend the rest

of her life but now feels, deceived and betrayed.

The end of the world's longest-running armed conflict -

the civil war in Colombia - is being marked by a

It follows a ceasefire between the government

More than 200,000 people have been killed and around

7 million displaced during half a century of conflict.

Our Correspondent, Will Grant, gained rare access to a camp

in eastern Colombia where he met some of the fighters.

These heavily-armed guerrillas lead us to their camp,

deep in the jungle, before they talk.

Because, despite an impending peace deal, they're still considered

an enemy of the state, until they lay down their weapons.

The FARC in the 21st century is a strange beast.

Most of its original leaders have been killed and after the Cold War,

many ordinary Columbians rejected their radical ideology.

For decades these guerrillas have been primed and ready for war.

But the truth is, now they're preparing for peace and many

have their doubts about exactly where they fit into a post-conflict

Some are worried the guerrillas will refuse to give up their guns.

But their leaders are busy briefing the rank and file and

TRANSLATION: They know what they must do.

We have a hierarchy in the FARC and we comply with orders

We know we are about to take a very important step.

Breakfast before dawn - the discipline and rules,

Many are ready to trade the monotony of the camp for new horizons.

Now 27 years' old, Camillo joined the FARC as a teenager,

"I'd like to be a civil engineer", the explosives expert tells me.

When they emerge from the jungle, these young people

may finally rejoin Columbian society, but some of them fear life

outside and the threat of retribution from

once the world's longest civil war is over.

England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have

all made it through to the knockout stages at Euro 2016.

The Republic will play hosts France, on Sunday.

England face Iceland on Monday, but it's Wales and Northern Ireland

Olly Foster is in Chantilly where the England team are based.

After having a couple of days off, the England players went back to

work today, training, mentally preparing for that match down in

Nice on Monday night against Iceland but the round of 16 actually gets

under way this weekend. And one of the standout ties is in Paris, as

those two home nations go head-to-head.

Between them they had been waiting 88 years to see their teams play

Win or lose, their fans have been incredible in France.

The Wales and Northern Ireland players have given their all and

A match against each other, and knockout in every way.

As good as maybe any atmosphere at the tournament, you know.

You have seen what we have all seen, how they have

been in the three games so far, and the Welsh fans have been very

Northern Ireland found out they would be playing Wales after

The Republic of Ireland's late winner against

Their fans' unwavering support has been a tournament highlight.

National pride is certainly something that will be driving on

the Welsh as they get ready for the Northern Irish.

We are all happy to be here, all happy to be playing for

Wales, and honouring the nation, trying to do everybody proud, and

for us that is I suppose the biggest responsibility we have got, to make

our country proud of us and give everything we have got.

That match in Paris on Saturday of course

guarantees there is going to be a home nation in the quarterfinals.

Here at their training camp in Chantilly, England should be

feeling much happier about their chances of

That is because they are facing Iceland, the

lowest ranked team in the tournament.

With a population the size of Leicester, this is how

the commentator on national television described their injury

England's job will be to keep him quiet.

They have done well so far, but we know it is going

to be a tough game for us to break them down and it is important we

play with a really high tempo and make them work,

try and tire them out, and then take the chances

We have to be ruthless and try and punish them

England's punishment for finishing behind

Wales in their group is a

path towards the final fraught with danger.

European giants lie in wait beyond the next round.

The trouble is Iceland won't be scared either.

US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump touches down in Scotland tomorrow,

to open his revamped ?200 million golf resort.

Police and security teams in Ayrshire are preparing

for protests against the controversial billionaire.

Our Scotland correspondent, Lorna Gordon, reports

The chandeliers are sparkling, the champagne's on ice,

Donald Trump likes being the centre of attention.

His visits here have never been low-key.

Is it good to be back in Scotland again?

And while Donald has always courted publicity,

his rhetoric has ramped up since he launched his

Security is already tight at Turnberry, and

hundreds of demonstrators are expected here tomorrow to protest

against the comments Mr Trump has made about Muslims and Hispanics

Controversial as he is, many locals welcome the money

he has pumped into this Ayrshire golfing resort, and the hundreds of

I doubt if there is a single political view that Mr

Trump has that I would agree with, but he has invested in this

constituency and those jobs are important.

Mexican flags are flying in Scotland in protest

against Donald Trump's views, but this is unlikely to faze

a politician who has never shied away from confrontation

during the race to reach the White House.

Time for a look at the weather with John Hammond.

Deja vu, more pyrotechnics in sky across the south-east. An amber

warning in force. This behalf of storms has been

crossing the Channel through the afternoon and made landfall and

locally some torrential rain. Weather watchers have been accepting

in pictures. This is from Surrey. Symptomatic of the conditions across

the south-east T won't be the same as last night. No two events are but

the potential is there for further flooding downpours over the next few

hours. The worse will still be over across the London area. But the

storm is rumbling into East Anglia and eastern counties overnight. We

have had sharp showers out west across Northern Ireland and some

will make across to the mainland and later on through the night.

Otherwise settling down. A muggy night across eastern-most counties

but fresher air easing eastwards into tomorrow morning. A completely

different day across south-east England. Blue skies, sunshine, a

fresher feel. A welcome change for many. Sharp showers out west will

become heavy and widespread. Hit and miss the showers, if you catch one

you will know all about it. One or two thunderstorms. Not the severe

downpours you have had across the south-east but sharp showers

nonetheless dotted across Scotland and Northern Ireland and a good

chunk of England and Wales. Some of the best of the sunshine through

tomorrow afternoon could be around the coastal fringe but inland some

slow-moving heavy downpours and Glastonbury will not be immune

there. Could be one or two heavy showers throughout the day but south

east England and East Anglia, sticking out in the sunshine T

should be a nice day. A reminder, some nasty storms across the

south-east and East Anglia for the next few hours.