03/01/2017 BBC News at Six

Just weeks before official Brexit talks begin,

and Britain's top EU diplomat quits.

Sir Ivan Rogers was due to play key role in negotiations, but Leave

campaigners say he was a Brexit pessimist.

Clearly the wrong man for the job, the only regret I've got

is that he didn't go the day after the referendum.

It is a spectacular own goal, cos the only way we're going

to deliver a successful, workable Brexit is precisely

with the expertise of people like Ivan Rogers.

We'll be asking where this leaves the Government's Brexit plans.

Also tonight, the police operation that ended

with a shooting off the M62 - Yassar Yaqub was killed

by a firearms officer, an investigation is under way.

Still on the run after the Istanbul nightclub terror attack -

Turkish police are hunting for this suspect.

The New Year's Day walk that could have ended in disaster -

the couple saved by a Cairngorm rescue team.

We didn't know really where we were going,

you couldn't see a hand in front of your face,

so we decided to get the survival bags out

and get down for the night in them.

MUSIC: Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin

vinyl sales hit a 25-year high in the era of streaming and downloads.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News, Swansea City have apointed

Bayern Munich's assistant coach Paul Clement as their new manager,

succeeding Bob Bradley, who was sacked last week.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six.

Britain's top diplomat to the European Union has resigned.

Sir Ivan Rogers leaves his job just months

before the Government is due to kick off formal Brexit talks.

Sir Ivan found himself at the centre of a political storm recently

when he told ministers a Brexit deal could take up to ten years.

Leave campaigners accused him of being unduly pessimistic,

while others said he was simply reporting sentiment in Brussels.

Carole. Thank you, well, Sir Ivan Rogers'

resignation caught Downing Street and the Foreign Office by surprise.

He was due to be our man at the EU until November to see through the

first opening phase of those crucial Brexit negotiations. But not

everyone is disappointed at his badge. -- his departure.

Behind the darkened windows, at the Prime Minister's side,

as she arrived at last month's EU summit, Sir Ivan Rogers tried

But his warning that it could take the UK ten years to get

a new EU trade deal overshadowed what was already a

Sir Ivan was one of Britain's most experienced negotiators,

he was a key member of David Cameron's team

when the former Prime Minister tried to get agreement

on a new relationship with the EU before the referendum.

believe his departure is a real loss to the Government.

The only way we're going to deliver a successful, workable Brexit

is precisely with the expertise of people like Ivan Rogers,

who's now been forced to the margins, forced to the side lines,

because of the angry zeal of Brexiteers who just won't accept

to what they so happen to believe in.

But leading Brexit campaigners are delighted he's gone.

Sir Ivan is part of the establishment that, frankly,

haven't accepted the referendum result

and are hoping that, frankly, it will never happen.

I'm sorry to say, but the Foreign Office

is stuffed full of these people, from top to bottom.

For decades, they've been taking Britain in completely the wrong

direction, and I hope Sir Ivan's departure is followed

In her New Year's message, the Prime Minister stressed her

commitment to getting a Brexit deal that works for everyone.

For we have made a momentous decision

and set ourselves on a new direction.

Whoever takes over as the UK representative to the EU

It's important that we have someone in the job, as Sir Ivan was doing,

and no doubt his successor will do as well, who will report back

to the British Government and, through the Government

to Parliament, about what the other member states

it really pays to know where the other side is coming from.

Theresa May has said she'll trigger Article 50 by the end of March,

and the official line is that Sir Ivan Rogers has decided to leave

now so a new appointment can be made before the start of those formal

negotiations for Britain's departure from the EU.

Now, whilst Downing Street is determined to convey a positive

Brexit message, sources who knows Sir Ivan well, and no Brussels well,

are concerned that his warnings simply did not fit the narrative so

were dismissed out of hand. And they are concerned that it will be very

difficult to find a replacement who knows Europe as well as he did, and

is prepared to carry through those negotiations to get the sort of deal

that Downing Street wants, whilst dealing with those EU leaders.

All right, Carole, thank you very much. Let's get more on this from

our Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas, who joins us from

Brussels. Most bus wouldn't have heard of Sir Ivan Rogers or the job

he was doing, how important a role is it? George, it was very important

and it will be even more so when those Brexit negotiations begin,

because the ambassador here is not just an ambassador who hosts dinner

parties. The way things work in this town, when the EU has to agree

something, ambassadors from 28 countries sit around a table, thrash

out the issues, then the ministers and leaders arrive to sign off on

the final agreements. Losing Sir Ivan at this stage he's a big hole.

Now, he had spent the last three years here doing exactly that, doing

David Cameron's renegotiation, so his supporters would say that he

knows what is politically Ozbilen for the UK to achieve. What you

heard the other side say is that what the UK needs is an optimist,

but in this town the talk about it taking possibly ten years to achieve

a trade deal was well known before the referendum, the UK Government

had said so itself, so there was no surprise about that. But this does

leave now Theresa May with only a few weeks to find a replacement who

knows that they will be in the spotlight, they will be scrutinised,

and we'll be having to take on those Brexit negotiations very soon.

Damian, thank you very much. West Yorkshire Police

were following up information about an illegal weapon when

they shot dead a man last night. Yassar Yaqub was driving off the M62

slip road at Huddersfield when a number of unmarked

police cars surrounded his vehicle. Police say it was

a pre-planned operation. Danny Savage is at the scene

of the shooting. and the cars involved remain exactly

where they stopped last night. and the silver Mercedes

are unmarked police cars. The two white cars are understood

to be the target of the operation. As they boxed in the cars

and stopped, armed officers were quickly out of their vehicles,

and shots were fired. Bullet holes can be seen in

the windscreen of a white Audi. have today been left

on the bonnet of that car. Forensics officers have been

examining the scene in detail. What was the exact

sequence of events which led to a man

being shot dead here? He was Yassar Yaqub, a 27-year-old

father from Huddersfield. Eight years go, he was cleared

of trying to shoot dead two people. "You were no angel

but did not deserve this." The incident happened just outside

Huddersfield as the cars came off the M62 junction 24. At around six

o'clock, they drove on to this slip road and were hemmed in by police

and Broadway stop. Shortly after that, shots were fired and Yassar

Yaqub or shot. At the same time in Bradford another vehicle was shot

and two people arrested. As the busy motorway junction

was closed down last night, many people were caught

up in the chaos. There were these rapid-response

vehicles that kept pulling up, big, large vehicles, then a couple

of ambulances turned up. As soon as the ambulance

pulled up, some of the policemen ran up

and told the ambulance they had to get down

as quickly as possible It looked like somebody needed

urgent medical help. armed police arrived

this afternoon making inquiries. Friends and relatives

who were visiting soon left. The operation related

to information received about a criminal possession

of a firearm, and I've been fully updated

by the Chief Constable. The incident is

not terrorism related. The Independent Police

Complaints Commission is now overseeing

the investigation. Among the questions they'll be

asking are, did Mr Yaqub pose an imminent threat to life,

what was he doing when he was shot, And one of those questions from the

Independent Police Complaints Commission has been answered within

the last few minutes in a statement from them. They say what appears to

be a non-police issue firearm was discovered in the vehicle in which

Yaqub was travelling, so in other words a gun was found in the vehicle

that he was in. At the scene recovery vehicles have moved in in

the last half-hour or so to begin taking those cars away. This is

still shut, 24 hours on. It won't open until later this evening,

causing quite a few traffic problems. But still a long way to go

in this investigation. George. Danny, thank you.

The main suspect in the New Year terror attack which left 39 people

dead in an Istanbul nightclub is still on the run.

Turkish police have detained more than a dozen people so far.

has been into the club where the massacre took place.

Three days ago, this place was full of joy, of life, of celebration.

Today, Reina nightclub is a crime scene, scarred by terror.

We were the first British broadcasters allowed in, briefly.

A rare glimpse of where 39 people were killed on New Year's Eve.

Imagine the horror as 180 bullets were sprayed here,

people jumping into the freezing Bosporus to escape.

The owners of Reina say they will reopen the nightclub.

It's a sign of the defiant mood here.

Yes, people are sombre, yes, they're fearful,

but Turks have lived with the terror threat for decades,

and they're determined not to let it defeat them.

Watch the right-hand side of this footage from the attack.

A man jumps over a low fence outside the nightclub

Then the gunman runs up to the door, shooting his way into Reina.

That man on the right of the video was the nightclub manager,

TRANSLATION: I felt bullets explode next to me,

the bullets went centimetres over my head.

When I fell, he must have thought he had hit me,

so he went inside, and I heard the terrible sounds.

New pictures have been released of the suspect,

So-called Islamic State called him their brave soldier.

Turkish authorities have given no information about him.

Overnight, an area of Istanbul was raided.

Reports say the gunman travelled from there

to the nightclub for the attack, but no arrests were made.

There have, though, been others detained,

including two foreigners at Istanbul airport.

they're thought to have had with the attack.

Those tired of terror went to the scene of the massacre today,

Tributes were laid and thoughts gathered about how their country can

rebuild and how the next generation can regain a sense of safety.

I don't want to cry any more while I am watching

the news, you know? It makes me really sad.

to grow up in this kind of environment, you know?

With this news in the background and everything.

And so a nervous wait to see if those

who protect this country are really closing in

on the man who brought horror to New Year's Eve.

A British soldier who died in Iraq yesterday has now been named.

Lance Corporal Scott Hetherington, who was 22 and serving

with the 2nd Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment,

had only recently become a father to a baby girl.

It's believed he was killed in an accidental shooting,

Activity in the UK's manufacturing sector hit

according to a survey of purchasing managers last month.

It found that a weaker pound has helped

but that cost pressures faced by firms remained high.

Another day, another tweet from President-elect Donald Trump.

His latest comments on the social-media site

accused the American car maker General Motors of building

vehicles abroad but importing them tax-free for sale in the US.

Getting manufacturing jobs back to the US was a theme he returned

to again and again during last year's election campaign.

Let's get the latest from our North America editor, Jon Sopel.

Jon, he isn't president yet, but already these remarks he makes on

Twitter, it has people jumping. Yeah, if you want to get an example

of the new style of politics that will be heralded with the Donald

Trump era, it is this - if you are a businessman, politician, diplomat or

journalist, the first thing you have to do each morning is checked Donald

Trump's Twitter feed. This morning it was General Motors in the cross

hairs with this tweet. General Motors is sending Mexican made model

of Chevy Cruze to US car dealers across the border, make in USA or

pay big border tax. That, of course, left General Motors grumbling for a

response, they have pointed out that of 180,000 cars they sell in the US,

only 4000 come from Mexico, most of the global market, but it has put

them on the defensive. And listen to this, Ford, the subject of previous

aggressive tweet by Donald Trump, announced today that they are

abandoning plans to build a $1.6 billion plant in Mexico and instead

are going to create 700 new jobs in Michigan. The CEO of Ford saying,

this is a vote of confidence in Donald Trump's business friendly

policies. It seems for the moment that politics by intimidation on

Twitter is working for Mr Trump. OK, Jon, thank you very much.

A couple in their 50s, who narrowly escaped death

after a night in the Cairngorm mountains, have been

Bob and Cathy Elmer, from Lincolnshire, were caught out

after miscalculating the length of their walk and had to shelter

from blizzard conditions using a light survival bag.

Our Scotland correspondent, Lorna Gordon, has the story.

The brutal conditions of a Scottish winter -

out on the hills, 50 mile an hour winds, freezing

Experienced walkers, Bob and Cathy Elmer,

had become disorientated in the appalling weather

and had realised their only option was to hunker down

This the moment Mountain Rescue teams found them and then

The snow was at times up to our waist.

We eventually got out onto the plateau with the intention

of trying to find the summit of Cairngorm, then my head lamp gave

up, so we decided that we couldn't go on any further because we didn't

You couldn't see a hand in front of your face,

so we decided to get the survival bags out and get down

It was a move rescuers believed saved their lives

and that of their dog, Meg, who had her own

Conditions were Arctic and in the area they were, you know,

no matter which way they walked there was steep ground

there and in the dark, with one head torch and disorientated,

it would have been so easy to take a very, very serious tumble.

This is one of Scotland's highest mountains and conditions further up

towards the summit can close in quickly, catching out even

The couple's close call underlines just how dangerous

It's like they say, if we hadn't had the right equipment,

It is a grim place up there in the winter time, especially

You know, you can - if you're not prepared for it -

you can seriously run into some serious situations.

Willie's a very careful driver, he'll look after you.

The Elmers' say they will return to the mountains,

although they added not to this one, where their New Year's Day walk

Lorna Gordon, BBC News, Cairngorm mountain.

Britain's top EU diplomat quits, just weeks before the start

Still to come. Oh, it goes in the thing that goes around in a circle.

Vinyl sales on the rise, but not with all music lovers.

World Number One, Sir Andy Murray, begins his warm-up for

the Australian Open later this month by beating Frenchman

The Government initiative on starter homes for first time buyers -

first announced last year - is due to get underway this year.

But the housing backlog is so big that it could take

Back in 1981, almost a third of English households

Today, that number has dropped to less than one in ten.

Jeremy Cooke asks whether it's possible to start building

New homes for housing crisis Britain, and not

just any new houses, these are council houses.

They're a rare sight, but this is Birmingham,

where they've built more council houses in the past seven years

than any other local authority - on a mission to tackle a housing

waiting list that stands at 18,000 people.

The Osmonds' have been in their flat for eight years,

but the family has long outgrown the space available.

If we want to play, we have to just like play there for 10 minutes

Now, they've heard it's their time to move into one

We've been trying and trying and trying to get a house.

We never expected to get a new house.

Cambridge is one of a handful of local authorities who've just

qualified for Government money to start building council houses,

but there are warnings that it will take 20 years to fix a problem

that's already been around for decades.

The fundamental problem is that Government stops us

The total value of all of our housing is ?1.5 billion,

if they just gave us the freedom to borrow against that,

we could build 10,000 homes over the next 20-30 years.

The Government insists that the number of council houses

being built today is at its highest rate since 1996 and that there

are billions of pounds available to fund them.

But the numbers are creeping back from an all-time low in 2004,

when the UK built just 130 council homes.

Hard to believe that in 1953, that number was a high of 245,000.

Homes for the baby-boomers and beyond.

NEWS REEL: ARCHIVE: Even by present standards,

The dinette has a serving hatch to the kitchen.

Ageing tower blocks, once the future, are being torn down,

clearing the way for a new approach to modern, social housing.

There are people living in these already?

New council houses and new houses for sale.

Now, in Birmingham, it's back to the future -

We're also bringing empty properties back into use

in the city and we're also, where necessary, using

So we're using all the tool kit, really.

But when council homes are built, they do change lives.

The Osmonds get a first look at their house and,

But for most of the 1.4 million on England's council

house waiting lists, this is still a distant dream.

British Airways cabin crew are to stage a 48-hour strike next

week after rejecting an offer aimed at resolving a dispute over pay.

Unite, the union representing the striking crew, have described

The strike will start on the 10th January.

Commuters unhappy about the cost of rail travel have protested

at railway stations in England and Wales.

Ticket prices went up yesterday by an average of 2.3%.

The protests were organised by the campaign group,

Action for Rail, which wants train services returned

Commuters in Scotland will return to work tomorrow

Daniel Boettcher's at King's Cross station in central London.

As I understand it, Daniel, they weren't huge protests, do they

represent wider sentiment among passengers and commuters? Well,

certainly, many people that we spoke to here today were not happy that

they will be paying more. This was their first day back at work since

these increases came into force. 1.9% for regulated fares. That

includes most commuter season tickets and overall an average

increase of 2.3%. That doesn't apply to Northern Ireland. Action for Rail

which organised the provide test here, and at other stations, say UK

commuters spend more of their salary on rail fares than other European

countries, including Germany, French and Italy and sometimes six times as

much. The Government says more money is needed for investment. It says

it's delivering the biggest rail modernisation for more than a

century. 97p of every ?1 goes into providing and improving the rail

service. OK. Daniel, thank you very much.

Sales of vinyl records are at their highest for 25 years,

boosted by a new generation of record collectors

who buy the albums, but may not even play them.

Most people these days listen to music via streaming

But increasingly they're also buying records in their physical format,

MUSIC: Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin

For Phil Barton of Sister Ray Records, there is no debate -

music just sounds better when it comes on a 12-inch disc.

However, things have begun to change.

Listen, ten years ago, I'd have given you the keys to the shop

and said, "Look, I can't make any money out of this."

I didn't realise this stuff was still going to be hanging around.

David Bowie was the biggest seller last year.

Prince was also in the top ten, along with Amy

Winehouse, Fleetwood Mac and and the Beatles.

Over the last ten years, sales have grown by 1,500%.

However, a recent survey found that nearly

Of course, it's worth putting this into some sort of context

because just imagine that each of these records

The BPI says if you add in streaming, digital downloads, CDs,

about 123 million albums were sold last year.

The number of vinyl albums sold last year - 3 million.

But both were dwarfed by the real music

Stream is a totally different beast, really, 45

It is at the other end of the spectrum.

It's not really recorded music in the physical

A lot of people at uni buy them. Do they? For some it was an entirely

new experience. What is that? It's massive. Look at it. What is that 12

inches. It's like a pizza. Oh, it goes in the thing that goes round.

The circle. You really have never touched or handled this ever before?

No, never. It's a first. Even Drake, the world's most

streamed artist, has issued his back catalogue on vinyl after discovering

they were being bootlegged but most fans of Justin Bieber and other

kings of streaming this way of listening is ancient history. David

Sillito, BBC News. Beautiful blue sky and sunshine for

Cornwall. Plenty of cloud gradually drifting down from the north

throughout the afternoon. That cloud is thick enough for the odd spot of

showery rain in Scotland. We will see gales or severe gales to the

northern isles and a cluster of showers. The weather front will sink

south. Preventing temperatures falling too low. Maybe light frost

to the south-west for a start and a colder start to the north. We start

off with that weather front sitting through Northern Ireland, through

North Wales across the Midlands into's Anglesey Leah. Not as cold a

morning, svrps seven or eight degrees. The cloud thick enough for

light rain. An improving picture for northern England and Scotland,

beautiful start to the day. Windy and a risk of scattering of showers

to the north and east stretching down through the coast. A glorious

day. Once that weather front sinks south we could see late afternoon

sunshine into North Wales and the Midlands. Not a bad day in prospect

for many of us. Not too cold, four to eight or nine degrees. However,

the temperatures are really going to drop off like a stone. It will be

another bitterly cold night to come Wednesday into Thursday morning.

Towns and city centres may see temperatures dropping below freezing

inch rural spots minus five, minus six degrees. That will lead to a

frost, but it will lead to a glorious day in prospect on

Thursday. Plenty of sunshine coming through. A bit more of a breeze and

cloud out to the west, an indication of what's to come for Friday. Enjoy

it. Thank you.