09/01/2017 BBC News at Six

Political turmoil in Northern Ireland, it is heading for a snap

election after Martin McGuinness quits. He's gone in protest,

accusing his power-sharing partner, unionist Arlene Foster, of refusing

to resign over an energy scandal. We in Sinn Fein will not

tolerate the arrogance A crisis triggered by the so-called

cash for ash scheme - hundreds of millions

of taxpayers' money wasted. We'll be asking if there is any way

out of the current crisis. It is clear we need

to have an honest discussion with the public about the purpose

of A departments. The Health Secretary says the four

our A target should only be for urgent health problems.

Piecing together Theresa May's vision for Britain -

does a major speech today fill in the gaps about her plans?

Tackling the hidden injustice of mental health and why ministers

say the classroom is a good place to start.

Commuting misery for millions of Londoners -

travel chaos in the capital after Tube staff go

And The Night Manager leads the British charge

Oh, and there was some politics as well.

Coming up in the sport on BBC News, we are in Zurich,

where Leicester's Claudio Ranieri could win manager of the year

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

Northern Ireland is in political crisis tonight after the shock

resignation of Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's Deputy First Minister.

Under the power-sharing agreement, this automatically means that

the First Minister Arlene Foster - of the Democratic Unionist Party -

The resignation comes after Ms Foster rejected Sinn Fein

calls on her to step aside while an investigation

into her handling of a controversial energy saving scheme ran its course.

As our correspondent Chris Page reports, Northern Ireland now faces

Martin McGuinness has been Deputy First Minister for a decade. He is

evidently suffering from ill health but says he's decided to stand down

because of bad relations with Sinn Fein's partners in Government, the

Democratic Unionist Party. I have tendered my resignation, effective

from five o'clock today. So I believe today is the right time to

call a halt to the DUP. This is the culmination of a seemingly

insurmountable rift that is developed between himself and Arlene

Foster. The crisis stems from a green energy scheme which has run

over half ?1 million over budget. Over generous subsidies were paid

and it didn't have payment caps. Mrs Foster was in charge of the project

when it was set up but she's repeatedly refused calls to

temporarily stepped down as First Minister. I'm not stepping aside.

I'm the First Minister, I'm the party leader of the DUP, I have a

job to do, I'm committed to doing it. The announcement could mean the

end of the career of one of the most significant figures in the peace

process. He was a paramilitary who became a political leader. In nearly

1970s, Martin McGuinness was the IRA's second-in-command in

Londonderry. As Sinn fans made electoral gains, his public profile

grow. We don't believe winning elections will bring freedom in

Ireland, at the end of the day will be... In the 1990s the IRA called a

ceasefire. After many years of talks, Martin McGuinness became the

joint head of the devolved government, along with the hardline

unionist leader Ian Paisley. They got on so well they were nicknamed

the Chuckle Brothers. But the partnership between the parties has

been tens. Mr McGuinness's decision to go means the Government at

Stormont is set to fall. Under the power-sharing system, the first and

Deputy First Minister 's work together. When one of them resigned,

the other cannot go on in isolation so in effect the devolved government

has now collapsed. The likely outcome is a fresh election, though

it is possible the Westminster government could bring the parties

together for talks. The leader of Stormont's biggest opposition party

says it's the end of a field administration. Ten years

characterised by disappointments, the bar calls and scandals, I don't

think the electorate need any more proof of the fact the DUP and Sinn

Fein are incapable of governing this country. The uneasy coalition

between the DUP and Sinn Fein has often been unstable. Several times

the downfall of devolution has looked likely. The text in Northern

Ireland has an uncertain future. -- politics in Northern Ireland has an

uncertain future. Our Northern Ireland Political

Editor Mark Devenport Politics in Northern Ireland always

presents a challenge, where would you put this on the scale of one to

ten? It is right up there as ten, a threat to the stability of the

institutions here in the decade since devolution was restored with

the dominant parties being DUP and Sinn Fein. It is an unlikely quarter

this has come from, a green energy scheme, but the row is very deep,

covering a number of other issues, and it is hard to see how they will

resolve their differences on the other side of what looks like being

a very polarising election campaign. All right, Mark, thank you very

much. Being attended to within four hours

of going to an A department has But today Jeremy Hunt,

the Health Secretary, suggested that may not apply

to everyone who turns He's called for an honest discussion

about the purpose of A Hers's our health

correspondent Elaine Dunkley. A departments struggling to cope

is a familiar story at this time of year. The NHS is under unprecedented

pressure. Today the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said hospitals on the

whole are coping, but warned that high numbers of people using A

unnecessarily was putting four our waiting times in jeopardy. It is

clear we need to have an honest discussion with the public about the

purpose of A departments. There is nowhere outside the UK that permits

to all patients that we will sort out any health need within four

hours. Since the targets were introduced in 2000, there were

nearly 9 million more visits to A departments. NHS England says that

this -- 30% of those attending shouldn't be there. If we are going

to protect our standard, we need to be clear it is to sort out urgent

problems within four hours, but not all health problems however minor.

Whilst the Government warned nonemergency cases from going into

hospital, Labour Place the problem at the door of Number Ten. This

crisis could have been averted. Hospital bosses, council leaders,

patient groups, MPs from across the house urge the Chancellor to give

the NHS and social care extra money in the Autumn Statement. Those

requests fell on deaf ears and we are now seeing the consequences. The

Government says it is committed to maintaining that patients are seen

within the four-hour waiting time but they must be urgent cases.

Theresa May has used her first policy speech of the year to say

she wants to make government a force for good, and use the opportunity

of Brexit to fundamentally change Britain and create,

The Prime Minister also set out a series of measures on mental

health in England as the first part of what she called real reform

Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg has more.

Six months since she walked into the famous street, six months she has

been your Prime Minister but piecing together what Theresa May really

stands for isn't always easy. But today she made clear she believes

for millions live doesn't feel fair and her government can be part of

the answer. When you see others prospering while you are not, while

you try to raise concerns but they fall on deaf ears, when you feel

you're very identity and all that you hold dear is under threat,

resentment grows so our responsibility is great. It is to

show that mainstream centre ground politics can deliver the change

people need. A plain attempt to appeal to middle England. She has

that ambition in common with her predecessor, but David Cameron's

dream of a big society is gone, the new slogan - is it a vision - in its

place. The shared society focuses on the responsibilities we have to one

another. It's a society that respects the bombs we share as a

union of people and nations. The bonds of family, community,

citizenship and strong institutions. And government will step up to

support, and where necessary, enforce the responsibilities we have

to each other as citizens. But although there were promises of more

help for housing in weeks to come, controversial plans for schools, the

only new commitments today were the mental health in England. Made with

passion, but no extra taxpayers' cash. For too long, mental illness

has been something of a hidden injustice in our country, shrouded

by a completely unacceptable stigma and dangerously disregarded as a

secondary issue to physical health. Left unaddressed, it destroys lives,

separates people from each other, and deepens the divisions within our

society. But as with all prime ministers, whatever they say on the

steps here or anywhere else quickly rubs up with reality. But Theresa

May has an extra dilemma, as she starts to manage the most obligated

project any leader has faced in decades, there is a risk her

government becomes simply consumed with how we leave the European Union

and her political enemies say her words ring hollow. If only we could

believe she actually meant it. She's been part of the Government now for

the last six years which has cut back on public expenditure, savaged

the NHS, and she's making these speeches with the backdrop of people

literally dying on trolleys while waiting for care in our hospitals so

I think there is a credibility gap here. It's only six months but those

days of summer already seen long ago. Few prime ministers in the end

choose how they are remembered. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News,

Westminster. Well, as we've just heard,

Theresa May has signalled a new approach on tackling mental

health in England. Ministers say three children

in every classroom are likely to be living with a mental health

condition and they have plans As part of a series of reports

looking at mental health for this programme,

our Health Editor Hugh Pym has been taking a closer look

at the Prime Minister's plans. It has been nearly two years since

Steve... Son took his own life after a short and severe episode of

depression. Today visiting his grave he could reflect on a personal

campaign to get politicians to take mental health more seriously. A

coroner ruled that Edward Mullen was let down by the system. I stood next

to my son in this church and made him a promise that I would

investigate his tragic end, and at the same time investigate the whole

mental health sector in this country. Like many people, I didn't

know a great deal about mental health prior to this appalling

tragedy, and when you look at the current state of affairs it is an

indictment on our system. To see the primaries to come forward is very

welcome. One of the key messages from the Prime Minister is that

mental health is a challenge for the whole of society and not just the

NHS, that's why one of the key initiative focuses on schools and

what more they can be doing to spot problems in pupils before they reach

crisis point. Schools like this one in Hertfordshire already employ a

therapist and train sixth formers as mental health mentors looking out

the students who may be struggling. It's about relationships but also

schoolwork... The school has welcomed the announcement, but says

more resources are needed. In order for other schools to do something

similar to us and have in-house therapists, there needs to be

funding, especially if councillors are expected to identify vulnerable

students. The question is what you do with them once you have

identified them. You need to do something with them immediately. The

reality is that mental health trusts in England are under severe

financial pressure. Analysis by the fund think tank said 40% have

budgets cut last year, six were cut three years in a row. It is very

worrying because we have had a number of commitments in the past

around increasing spend on mental health but that doesn't seem to be

translated into extra spending on the ground and it is great having

ministers make commitments to mental health but if it's not translated

into extra spend, to be frank they are worthless. For this family

today, it is an important step on a journey leading towards high-quality

mental healthcare and fewer tragic losses of life, but Steve says his

campaign is far from over and there is still much more work to be done.

Political turmoil in Northern Ireland as it is heading for a snap

election after Deputy first meant the -- Minister Martin McGuinness

quits. And still to come... Hollywood is crawling with outsiders

and foreigners and if we take them all out you will have nothing to

watch but football! Meryl Streep sparks off a war of words with

Donald Trump after her comments at the Golden Globes. Coming up in the

sport, Chris Robshaw will miss the Six Nations. He will have surge on a

shoulder injury which will keep him out of action for about three

months. It's just over a year and half

since a gunman opened fire on a beach in Sousse,

Tunisia, killing 38 people, It was the worst act of terror

on Britons since the 7/7 attacks. Next week the inquests

into the deaths get underway amid claims that tour operators

misled customers about Panorama's Jane Corbin has been back

to Tunisia and sent this report. The Imperial Hotel is now closed,

the beach deserted. 18 months ago it was packed with

British tourists. When a gunman opened fire,

killing 30 of them. They had come despite a terrorist

attack at the Bardo Museum in the capital, Tunis,

three month earlier. Some say they were

misled about the risks. Nikki and Andy Duffield booked

with tour operator Thomson. I was constantly asking the

question, are we going to be safe? We were told there would be

increased security. But British holiday-makers say

security wasn't increased. Alyson Kane and her husband

also booked to go to We called them on the 23rd

of March after Bardo to make sure it was

still safe to travel. Everything was fine,

it was safe to travel. They were not doing any

refunds or transfers. So if you had tried

to cancel, you wouldn't have The giant travel company Tui,

which owns Thomson, told us it is cooperating to make sure

the deaths are investigated, the facts determined

and the lessons learned, but they said it would be

inappropriate to comment further The so-called Islamic State

recruited the gunman, He was killed at the scene,

but he didn't plan the attack alone. Panorama has discovered

he worked closely with the IS cell that planned

the Bardo Museum attack We have obtained confessions

from suspects involved in both attacks, which show he met

with the Bardo gang He even claimed with one

of the museum gunmen in Libya. The confessions also name

the man who allegedly The suspects say he recruited them,

paid for them to go to Libya for military training and gave

them their orders. If the confessions are accurate,

then he is responsible for the deaths of 60 people

from around the world, including 31 British tourists

at Sousse and Bardo. I told the lawyer representing

many of the families about him. If that is right and the families

see that, they will be shocked to see the face of the man

who caused them such Those who lost loved ones

on the beach and those who survived can only hope the inquests

will answer some of the many And you can Jane's report in full

on tonight's Panorama, Terror on the Beach,

at 8.30pm on BBC One. A brief look at some of the day's

other other news stories. The Government has sold off more

shares in the Lloyds banking group meaning it is no longer the largest

shareholder with only 6%. Ministers spent ?20 billion on a 43%

stake in Lloyds at the height It's says it's already recovered

?18 billion pounds of it's original outlay and intends to sell it's

remaining stake this year as well. French police investigating

the theft of jewels worth millions of pounds from the reality

television star Kim Kardashian Detectives say DNA left by the armed

robbers in Paris in October led them to well-known figures

in the criminal underworld. Millions of Londoners have faced

travel misery today as a strike by London Underground staff shut down

the Tube network. Some took to bicycles,

others walked, but most took to crowded buses in an effort

to get in. "Totally unnecessary"

was Mayor Sadiq Khan's But unions say jobs

and safety are at stake. Daniel Boettcher is

at Piccadilly Circus. This strike is now officially over,

it ended about 20 minutes ago. The station behind me is still closed

and London Underground has said it has been focusing its efforts on its

key daytime services which means there will be continued disruption

this evening. It has been a miserable start to the week before

Tube travellers. -- for Tube travellers.

This is what happens when up to 4 million

With few Underground trains running this

morning, the bus network took much of the strain.

Even with extra services laid on, there were still

long queues and added frustration for passengers.

There are no London Underground connections at Finsbury

At the start of the day around a third of Tube stations were

closed, gates locked, ticket halls empty.

And although almost all lines were running, there was a limited

So busy, all the roads are blocked, the buses have come past

I've tried to get on three buses this morning so far

The way I see it, it kind of is what it is really.

The strike involves two unions, the RMT and the TSSA, and is part of

a continuing row over jobs and staffing levels which the unions

We would much rather have avoided this but we

were left with no other alternative because the offer we have been given

was wholly unacceptable and wholly unsafe.

The London Underground has described this strike as unnecessary

although it says that it accepts that more staff are needed.

While London's Mayor, Sadiq Khan, says he

is taking action to address the unions' concerns.

I know that this strike could have been avoided, I

know this strike is unnecessary and I'm imploring the trade unions to

come back and talk to the management team about resolving this so there

aren't further days of industrial action.

But for some this will be the start of a week of strikes.

Tomorrow 2500 British Airways cabin crew belonging to the Unite union

will start a two-day strike over pay although the airline insists all

passengers will be able to fly to their destinations.

At the same time, commuters in the south-east

will face three more days of strikes on the troubled Southern franchise.

Today's industrial action has not involved Overground services though

some trains were struggling to cope with the extra demand from Tube

Clapham Junction, one of the country's busiest stations,

was evacuated for a short time because of overcrowding.

And many roads have seen extra congestion as

commuters tried to find other ways to get to and from work.

London Underground warns things will not

get back to normal until tomorrow morning.

British talent may have triumphed at this year's Golden Globes

but once again Donald Trump appears to have stolen the headlines.

He's called Meryl Streep "overrated" - that's despite her holding

the record for the most Academy Award nominations, ever.

The actress had accused Mr Trump of "divisive rhetoric" at last

night's awards in California, from where James Cook reports.

Yet again Hollywood has been invaded by British acting royalty.

In film and in television, stars from the UK

are wowing audiences and impressing critics.

And what could be more British than the Queen?

She has been at the centre of the world for the

past 63 years and I think the world could do with a few more women at

There were three awards for the cast of the BBC co-production, The Night

It's star, Tom Hiddleston, told us he couldn't believe it.

I did not expect to win a Golden Globe tonight and I was sat

next to Hugh Laurie when he won and I

And then when it came to my category, I

Another British winner was absent, Olivia Colman is preparing to start

But Hugh Laurie was there to pick up his award from

the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with a dig at Donald

I suppose made more amazing by the fact that I will be able to

say that I won this at the last ever Golden Globes.

I don't mean to be gloomy, it's just that it has the

words Hollywood, foreign and press in the title,

Receiving a lifetime achievement award, Meryl Streep also lambasted

Disrespect invites disrespect, violence

When the powerful use their position to bully others,

In the most predictable plot twists, Donald Trump responded

Meryl Streep was one of the most overrated actresses in

Hollywood, he said, calling the three-time

Oscar winner a Hillary flunky who lost big.

On the night, though, it was not politics which

There were a record seven Golden Globes for the

old-fashioned musical La La Land, including acting awards for its

And I think that hope and creativity are

two of the most important things in the world and that is what this

Hollywood can be fun and frivolous but it also prides

itself on tackling serious subjects and many stars here on the red

carpet are predicting a surge in political

year following the most divisive of elections.

James Cook, BBC News, at the Golden Globes

From California to Britain, let's look at the weather.

This is what we had earlier, a low pressure system driving this cold

front South with some pretty wet and blustery weather but behind it a

good scattering of showers coming in on the wind at its strongest in the

north and west of Scotland. That is where it will be wettest as well and

it will be quite chilly, three or 4 degrees in towns and cities and

lower than that in the countryside so a definite chill in the first

thing Tuesday. It should be a bright start for many central and eastern

areas, at least in the morning, some more clout the afternoon as patchy

rain drifts from west to east. In the afternoon, most of us stay in

single figures but in the far south and west, maybe ten or 11 degrees.

In the evening, some wetter weather for a time in East Anglia and the

south-east and more rain in the north-west and that is in

association with a weather front which will bring some rain in

northern and western part and this cold front sweeps south. It will be

a blustery day on Wednesday, strong winds coming in from the north-west,

always fairly chilly. That will bring some showers, mainly in the

north and west and not just rain showers, some snow as well, mainly

over higher ground. It will be told as well in the wind. The further

south and east you go, it should State dry and mild. It will stay

cold in the south in the next few days, parts of Germany and Poland

are becoming less cold but for us on Thursday, the winds are still coming

from the north or north-west, the air coming from Greenland or I stand

so really cold later this week and with that the risk of some snow

showers, northern and eastern and western part or at risk of some snow

and Met Office warnings have already been issued.

There is political turmoil in Northern Ireland which is heading

for a snap election after Martin McGuinness resigned.

That's all from the BBC News at Six so it's goodbye from me

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