02/09/2016 BBC News at Six

A serving Royal Marine is charged with terrorism offences,

30-year-old Kieran Maxwell is also accused of storing

The police found purpose-built hides in England and Northern Ireland

containing antipersonnel mines and a rocket launcher.

The charges follow a police investigation into dissident

republican activity in Northern Ireland.

After some of Samsung's newest smartphones catch

fire while charging, all 2.5 million are recalled.

The Bradford woman murdered in Pakistan

The police there accuse her father and first husband.

Some of the most senior members of the medical profession say

the planned junior doctors' strikes will harm patients.

I'll be reporting on new research suggesting around a third of dogs

now carry ticks, with a warning of the diseases they can carry.

Three British men are in to the third round of the US Open

And Johanna Konta plays her third round match in New York soon.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

A serving Royal Marine has been charged with a series

of terrorism offences, including making bombs.

30-year-old Kieran Maxwell is also accused of storing

ammunition and weapons, such as an improvised rocket

and antipersonnel mines, in purpose-built caches in England

The charges follow a police investigation into dissident

Still a serving Royal Marine, Kieran Maxwell was driven into court

in a high security police convoy after being charged

with making explosive devices and hiding them,

along with weapons and ammunition, all for the purposes of terrorism.

The hearing was brief, lasting barely three

minutes and Kieran Maxwell, who grew up in Northern Ireland,

confirmed his name and home address in Axminster in Devon.

The police investigation followed the discoveries in March and May,

in Larne in Northern Ireland of barrels containing explosive

devices, including pipe bombs and antipersonnel mines,

timing devices, a handgun and ammunition.

Kieran Maxwell, who is based at Norton Manor camp in Somerset,

Since then, police have made further searches in Northern Ireland

and in these woods in Devon, where he is charged with having made

more hides, containing documents and electrical components.

Unusually, Kieran Maxwell is not being taken to prison,

but back to the police station while detectives continue

He will return here to court on Monday.

This is a very rare case of a current member of the Armed

Forces, from an elite unit, no less, being charged with terrorism.

One of the intriguing aspects of this case is that when police in

Northern Ireland found the weapons dumps in March and in May, they said

they were investigating suspected republican dissident republicanism.

Now we have a serving member, a British member of the Royal Marines,

from south-west England, charged with terrorism.

2.5 million have been sold in ten countries,

and on the day they were due to be launched in the UK,

the electronics giant Samsung is having to recall

all of its newest top-of-the-range smartphones.

A small number are reported to have exploded or caught fire

The Galaxy Note 7s were launched just a fortnight ago.

This report from Rory Cellan-Jones contains flash photography.

At Europe's biggest technology show, it's Korea's Samsung

And its star product this year is the Galaxy Note 7.

This super size smartphone has won rave reviews in the US

and Asia and was due to go on sale in the UK today.

This American man posted a video on YouTube claiming his Galaxy Note

Similar reports arrived from around the world.

Be careful out there everyone rocking the new Note 7.

Samsung held a press conference to announce a radical move.

The company was halting sales and recalling the Note 7.

A battery issue was behind the Note fires, although just 35 out

of 2.5 million customers had reported problems.

35 is a big number and I think Samsung is doing the right thing

in siding on caution and taking the device off the market,

figuring out why there is an issue with the cells in the battery,

This news could hardly come at a worse time for Samsung.

Not only does it overshadow the launch of the Note

7 and the many other products on display here,

but it comes just a week before its deadly rival

At an event in California next week, Apple is expected

Its sales have disappointed lately, allowing Samsung to pull ahead

But will such bad publicity affect the way the Samsung brand is seen?

We asked some phone owners in Leicester.

You don't know if it could happen again, or any other phone.

I am not opposed to Samsung products.

I think they make good TVs and even good cellphones, until I read

But I think that would put me off purchasing it, for sure.

It probably wouldn't put me off, and the reason being that large

In Berlin today, Samsung continued to show off the capabilities

of the Note 7, which even works underwater.

But customers will now need reassurance that they won't need

to take drastic action with a phone that catches fire.

A British woman who died in Pakistan in a so-called honour killing

was allegedly murdered by her father and first husband,

according to the police there who are investigating the killing.

They also say Samia Shahid, who was 28 and from Bradford,

Mrs Shahid had divorced and remarried in the UK

A bride's happiness on her wedding day but it was this marriage

She came to this village in July because she was told her father

was ill but this was far from the truth.

Findings are that two persons, the girl's father and her

ex-husband, they have been charged with murder.

There were also reports of rape, that she was raped.

We took the suspect for DNA test, Shakeel, and he later

confessed that he did rape her before she was murdered.

We understand from the police that a day before she was meant to leave

Pakistan, Samia Shahid was in this house, which belonged

We don't know why she was there but the police tell us they have

enough evidence to show that Shakeel had raped Samia

Samia was once married to her cousin in Pakistan before

she returned to the UK, filed for divorce and got married

to her second husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim.

Initially her father said she had died of a heart attack

but her second husband dismissed the claims and accused the family

of killing her because they did not approve of their marriage.

The police say they are now seeking the extradition of Samia's mother

and sister from the UK for questioning in relation

Her father and ex-husband had appeared in court a number of times

The police will now present the final report to the court

and a date will be decided on when the two men will be indicted

For the first time, a Parliamentary party is job sharing its leadership.

Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley have been elected co-leaders

of the Green Party of England and Wales.

They saw off competition from five others to succeed Natalie Bennett,

who is stepping down after four years.

At the party's autumn conference in Birmingham,

the two said the joint election showed the party was "not

Man has appeared in court charged with the death of a mother and her

child. Joshua Davey, 23, is accused of causing their death by dangerous

driving. Some of the most senior members

of the medical profession have urged junior doctors in England to cancel

plans for a series of five-day strikes over the Government's

imposition of a new contract. The Academy of Medical Royal

Colleges said the action was not proportionate

and would harm patients. The doctors' union, the BMA, says it

has been left with no choice. This is a big moment for the medical

profession. The decision by junior doctors to escalate strike action in

England is unprecedented in the NHS, and at the highest levels there are

fears and differences of opinion about the indications. Leaders of

the profession at the Academy of medical welcome is, while noting the

doctors' concerns about working conditions, have made clear that the

strike action is a step too far. The Academy has said that particularly

in the current context of the pressure facing the NHS, that five

days of industrial action is not a proportionate response. We believe

that five days of action, particularly with such short notice,

will cause real difficulties for patience, for the NHS and for the

profession. But two out of 20 medical College leaders did not sign

up to the statement. One of them told me what she thought of the

proposed strikes. We are not taking sides in this argument. We are here

to support our members and speak on behalf of children. Do you think it

is a reasonable action to take? It is a decision for every individual

doctor to take and I know that every one of our members will have thought

long and hard about whether they will strike or not. On the doctors'

agenda, some items have been resolved, such as preventing

excessive hours and protecting whistle-blowers, but they say issues

like we can pay and provisions for women and part-time workers have not

been resolved. -- weekend pay. The BMA says it is backing junior

doctors and the strike plans and that the action could be halted if

the government stopped imposing a new contract. But the latest

escalation has made some doctors think hard about the walk-out plans.

For patients it will mean inconvenience. What we are hoping to

try and get is our message, really, is five days of inconvenience for

patients to prevent a lifelong inconvenience. The BMA seems

committed to further industrial action and a lengthy process of

industrial action. I did not vote for that process when I voted to

reject the contract, so my question would be to ballot members about a

lengthy process of further industrial action. The Patients'

Association said the strike was catastrophic news and the scale of

the action was unforgivable. But even with thousands more cancelled

operations, it remains to be seen what level of public support there

will be when the five days of walk-outs take place.

A serving royal marine is charged with terrorism offences

following an investigation into dissident

The Paralympian once tipped for a professional football

career, now going to Rio after battling head injury.

Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News...

We'll be looking ahead to this weekend's 2018 World Cup qualifiers

and seeing what lessons can be learnt from the summer's European

A government advisor has warned more children could die at the hands

of their carers if existing guidelines aren't strengthened.

Special guardianship orders are used as an alternative to adoption

or fostering where a child can be looked after by existing

But there have been cases where children have died or been

Playing happily at home, but the question of who should

care for this brother and sister was contested

A relative had offered to look after them.

A special guardianship order was made but their foster mother,

whose identity we're protecting, had concerns about them moving

to live abroad with a woman they barely knew.

I saw lots of things that gave me doubts.

11 years ago special guardianship orders were introduced

as an alternative to adoption and fostering, seen as a way

for existing family carers or foster parents to take on more

They are viewed by many as a positive development

but in some cases their use, which is continuing to rise,

Some children have died or been abused by their special guardians,

The toddler was murdered within nine months of Kandyce Downer applying

for a special guardianship order for the baby she had never met.

A serious case review is being carried out.

Concerns about how some special guardians were being assessed

and supported were investigated in this government review published

in December, which found evidence of some rushed assessments

Within two months the Department for Education had issued

The government says the law has been strengthened to make assessments

more robust but there are fears it doesn't go far enough.

John Simmons helped advise the government

You feel there could be more tragic cases like Keegan Downer?

Yes, I don't have confidence at the moment that the system

is organised and delivered in such a way where we can hand on heart say

This experienced social worker didn't want to be identified

in case her future job prospects are affected.

She told us there are still concerns about special guardianship

We have no training on how to conduct those assessments

and we are expected to work it out ourselves and I think when you're

very busy and under a lot of pressure, that

But these children are now facing a secure future.

Their foster mother took the case to the Court of Appeal,

where the special guardianship order was overturned.

People say to me, they're lucky to have you -

We're lucky to have each other and the winners really

are the children because they have their life secured as opposed

Critics say the assessment of special guardians is still less

rigorous than adoption or fostering without the safety net

of ongoing monitoring once an order has been made.

Some fear councils see them as a cheaper option.

The government says it has found no evidence of that but acknowledges

that as an order lasts until a child is 18,

it is critical the correct placement is made.

Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has called

for a new national conversation on Scottish independence.

At a gathering of the SNP in Stirling, she's announced

the party plans to contact two million people over

the next three months to get their views on the issue,

two years after it was rejected in a referendum.

Our Scotland Editor Sarah Smith looks at why the SNP leader is

In Stirling, the monument to Braveheart himself, William Wallace,

celebrates historic struggle for Scottish independence. But in more

recent times, just two years ago, the people voted to remain part of

the UK. These are the voters Nicola Sturgeon says, her party must listen

to if they are to remake the case for independence. It will be a new

debate. It will not be a rerun of 2014. The arguments may have changed

since Britain voted to leave the EU, but they have not got any easier.

And if the SNP thought the Brexit result would result in a surge of

support for Scottish independence, it would have been very disappointed

by recent opinion polls, which showed little change. There are no

short cuts, if we want to be independence, and I think it is the

best future for Scotland, we must persuade the majority of people and

we must start, before we start talking to them, listening to what

they have got to say. Every MP, MSP and every ordinary party member will

be asked to survey at least 15 voters, adding up to 2 million

conversations in the next three months. Sending SNP members out

across Scotland to listen to concerns about independence, might

not necessarily change the mind of any sceptical voters, but that isn't

the point. But it will keep the momentum going wide the party try to

come up with the answers to some tough economic questions. Figures

published last week showed Scotland spends nearly ?15 billion more than

it raises in taxes. That deficit will make a new case for

independence and even harder sell than it was in 2014. If Nicola

Sturgeon was listening to the people of Scotland, she would know they

don't want to be dragged back to another divisive referendum. What

the people of Scotland want is the government to do the job they were

elected to do The largest ever study of ticks

in dogs has found a third of dogs The small parasites can carry

a range of diseases, including Lyme disease that can be

fatal to both humans and dogs. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy

is at Dearleap in the New Forest, a third of dogs is an

unexpectedly high number. They were surprised by the figures.

Dogs like this, ten years old, getting a little excited by all of

this TV activity. But it was in places like this that they carried

out their studies, places like the new Forest, where there are lots of

texts from Dors and the like. The scientists who carried out the study

were keen to point out that for dogs and most humans, it is not a problem

with ticks, but if they are taken out in the wrong way, as you will

see, and also if they are carrying a certain type of bacteria, then it

can be extremely serious. But in grass and woodland,

there is a growing The bloodsucking parasites that now

affect one in three British dogs. When you hear of a survey that says

about a third of dogs have ticks, I'm not surprised,

not in this area, no. I think it's quite well-known

to ticks, there's a lot of deer around here,

so I think they carry them a lot. I've had my first one

this year on my leg, Ticks carry a range of nasties,

including Lymes disease. Sarah Bignall is

a vet, who picked up It affected my heart,

which is still recovering. My kidneys went into failure,

my gut was affected. So yeah, it's a multi-systemic,

multi-organ problem. Today's big tick campaign aims to

inform the public of those dangers A change in climate

means they are surviving They are active in

the spring earlier. In fact, they are active throughout

the year now, And it's not just

dogs that get ticks. This bunny has a nose

full love them. Although you will remove

the majority of the tick. If you leave those mouthparts

behind, the body will react to them as a foreign object and they could

potentially become a focus for infection, so you'll get swelling

and that's what causes pain. Scotland, East Anglia

and the south-west are Whilst only 3% carry the Lymes

disease bacteria, the advice today In the last of our profile

of Britain's Paralympians, Sean Highdale was once one

of football's most promising talents, he played for Liverpool's

youth team and was even selected But a serious car accident

left him with a brain injury and ended his hopes

as a professional footballer. Now 8 years on he will represent his

country again at the He's been talking to our sports

correspondent Andy Swiss. Soon as I could run,

my dad had a football at my feet. As a youngster, he'd seemed

destined for stardom. Sean Highdale first played

for his home club Liverpool and then At 17 years old, the big time

beckoned. But in 2008, he was

involved in a car crash. Two of his friends died and Highdale

was left in a coma with a bleed on the brain

and a catalogue of injuries. My right knee was ruptured,

broke my ankle, broke my neck. When I was in hospital,

Jamie Carragher came in to see me. To see someone like him,

he's one of my heroes, And then Steven Gerrard,

my idol, I was all excited. So my mum and dad took me down

and I had my dinner with them and had a good chat with Steven

and then from that, it gives It was two years before

I could even run. Highdale's professional

career never recovered, but his skills have now found

a new stage. The 7-a-side football in Rio

is for athletes with cerebral palsy, or who have experienced a brain

injury, as Highdale did. And the British team face some

opening match against the hosts, It's going to be a sell-out,

15,000 people. When my Liverpool days were over,

I thought playing at the nice pitches, playing at the top

and with the top people was gone. But now playing for Great Britain,

brings it back for me and I am Back at the club which nurtured his

talent, he told me Liverpool to Rio Bearing in mind everything you've

been through, how would it be It's going to be a proud moment

for myself and my family, to know It's going to be a very good

experience and I can't wait to grab it with both hands and give it

everything I've got. Nearly a decade on from the moment

which changed his life, This is what we saw in the last few

hours. A cold, weak front with scattering of showers. But most of

the showers overnight will be in the western part of the UK. By dawn,

most places will be fine and dry with clear spells. Major towns and

cities, 13, 14 degrees. But it is the rain gathering in the south and

West moving swiftly northwards. By mid-morning it will be wet in

Northern Ireland and the rain into Scotland. But up to Aberdeen, it

should be a decent start to the day. Rain just beginning to set in in

North Wales. But for much of the Midlands, eastern England, it is a

reasonable start. Make the most of that, because the rain will be

moving quickly northwards and eastwards. By the afternoon many

will be quite wet and windy, particularly down towards the south

and west around the coasts, some very gusty winds. 15 degrees under

the rain in Newcastle. Might get 21, 22 in the south-east. More rain in

the evening the South Wales and Southern counties of England. Clears

away towards the new continent but it may stick around in eastern

Scotland until dawn on Sunday. Sunday itself looks a better day.

Still a few showers around, mainly for Scotland and northern England,

but the further south and west, it looks a decent day with spells of

sunshine and light winds. 18 of the Cardiff and Belfast. 22, 23 in the

London area. Next week, a southerly breeze. It will drag in some warm

and maybe hot air from the near continent. Quite humid so from

Tuesday onwards, temperatures will be on the rise and back could stick

around for a while. A serving royal marine is charged

with terrorism offences including making bombs

following an investigation into And Samsung has recalled all of its

newest smartphones after some have caught fire.