07/03/2017 BBC News at Six

The Government is set for its second defeat in a week

Peers are expected to vote for MPs to have more than just a yes or no

We'll be looking at how embarrassing this is for the Government

and whether it's likely to make any difference to the final outcome.

Money for new grammar schools in England is expected to be

The car in which a British woman was found in Australia having been

held captive for two months - her alleged attacker

A BBC investigation finds Facebook is failing to remove many sexualised

images of children - even when alerted to them.

A coroner says the singer George Michael, found

dead on Christmas day, died of natural causes

And we speak to human rights lawyer Amal Clooney about her bid

to prosecute so-called Islamic state for genocide.

And coming up in sportday later in the hour on BBC News:

Arsenal have to make history in the Champions League if they are

They need to score at least four against Bayern Munich.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

The Government is facing the prospect of another defeat

in the House of Lords over the process of leaving the EU.

Peers are expected to vote for Parliament to be given

A legal guarantee of a vote on the final Brexit deal. That is, they

want MPs to have more than a simple yes or no on the final negotiation.

It will be the second defeat in a week for the Government

Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg has been

It is Theresa May's team... Do you think Parliament should have a

meaningful vote? Who do not want to give Parliament a promise in

writing, against the other team, in the Lords, where they are voting to

try to force the Prime Minister to give a foul in law that Parliament

will have the final say on the eventual deal on Brexit. -- vow. We

are taking a more principled stand in the House of Commons. Theresa May

said there would be a vote in both houses on the package she

negotiated. That is meaningful. I don't think there should be any plan

to try to overthrow Brexit. We must accept it. But they must accept the

Parliamentary system. The Prime Minister has already promised the

Commons and the Lords a say on the final terms of our exit from the

European Union. So what is the fuss? Frankly, not all peers believe the

promise. They want it in black and white, written into this bill. They

want it to be a legal and binding promise. This bill will be further

considered on report. But a majority of the Lords believed we should have

voted to stay in the European Union. So there is a suspicion in

government they are trying to cause trouble. Senior ministers are

keeping an eye on them today, and their Lordships are in rare

crotchety form. When it comes to our rights, Parliament is the place you

come to. The reason is simple, we don't trust the Government on this

matter. This country's future should rest with Parliament, and not with

ministers. But the government's supporters question the motive. Does

he agree that this new clause, in effect, gives this house a statutory

veto on the decision made by the Prime Minister, with the support of

the other place, to implement the decision of the British people to

leave the European Union? This house is absolutely full of people that

still have not come to terms with the results of the referendum. This

is a clever confection in order to reverse the results of the

referendum. Despite their detractors, in and outside

Parliament, the Lords, in their rather stately manner, will not let

their objections be pushed away. The Lords are now, in the last few

minutes of this debate, approaching what is it really crucial vote for

the government. I have just seen David Davis scurrying to the House

of Lords, maybe to keep an eye on them as they close things down. It

is very likely the Government will have the embarrassment of being

defeated again by the Lords on this Brexit bill. We are expecting quite

a hefty majority, maybe as much as a gap of 100. It doesn't seem right

now that Theresa May is ready to budge on the issue of giving a legal

guarantee to Parliament on the final terms of the EU exit steel. It feels

that, at this stage, she is more likely to test the will of the Tory

rebel MPs, the handful of them. Are they really courageous enough on

this issue to stand up to the Prime Minister? There is a lot at stake.

It is vital for Theresa May to get this legislation through the House

of Commons in the next week or so, to stick to her timetable of pushing

the button on Brexit at the end of March.

Money for new grammar schools in England is to be announced

They will be among 140 free schools set up using a budget

of ?320 million in this parliament and the next.

Grammar schools are a key education policy of the Government but Labour

has attacked the plans as a vanity project and says many schools that

Our education editor Branwen Jeffreys reports.

Before the number crunching of the budget, a visit

A little extra money for her education priorities,

a signal to schools generally not to hope for more.

We have protected the core schools budget, but, crucially,

what we are announcing is half a billion pounds

of investment in schools, 320 million of which

That will create around 70,000 new school places.

The way they learn here, the model for more maths schools -

something she wants as part of her industrial strategy.

They do select their pupils, but only at the age of 16.

This is not a grammar school, but a sixth form that pushes budding

We know that what we've done here for students who have this

interest in mathematics and mathematical sciences has

enabled transformation of those students.

Different futures, better futures for them, and therefore better

So, having more schools like that is exactly what we need.

Education is all about creating a sense of opportunity,

the hope that what your children learn will give them a better

And that's what the Prime Minister is trying to tap into at a time when

This is all about the politics now, and very little

The ?320 million will pay for 110 new schools after 2020.

That's on top of the 500 already promised before 2020.

So, ?7 billion is already allocated for new places in this Parliament.

What's new is that some could now be grammar schools.

It's not a lot of extra money, and won't help with the financial

pressures facing most schools in England.

The Government spending plans don't begin to address the real

We have buildings that are falling down, we've got a teacher

We can't get enough teachers into the classroom and we can't

Traditional values and excellence - for some, that's what

But others fear this is opportunity for the few, not the many.

A British woman is being treated in hospital in Australia

after she was allegedly raped and assaulted while being held

Police say the woman - who was backpacking

across Queensland - was found when police stopped

the vehicle she was driving and discovered her attacker hiding

Moments before her ordeal would end, this CCTV footage shows the woman

at a petrol station, her face bruised,

She left without paying for her fuel.

When the police then pulled over the 4x4

she was driving, they could tell there

She told them how for weeks she had been violently abused.

Officers say they found the man accused of holding

At this point, we don't want to speculate, but it is fair

A lot of the areas where she would have been would have

been unknown to her, and she wouldn't have known anyone

there, so it would have been difficult for her to make an escape,

and if she had, then to try and link up with people.

From the information we've been provided,

she had very limited opportunity to try and do that, anyway.

Officers believe her passport was destroyed.

The man has been charged with multiple counts of rape,

The woman is receiving hospital treatment.

She's spoken to her family back in the UK but may need to remain

here to give more evidence so the police can piece together

An investigation by BBC News has found that Facebook is failing

to remove many sexualised images of children - even

Facebook says nudity or other sexually suggestive content is not

But of 100 such images and content that the BBC

reported to Facebook, only 18 were deleted.

A senior MP now says he has grave doubts about the effectiveness

of Facebook's ability to monitor its content.

Our correspondent Angus Crawford has the story.

The rules are meant to be simple - Facebook says it removes nudity

But our investigation last year found paedophiles using secret

groups to swap obscene images of children.

We informed the police, and this man was sent

Facebook told us it had improved its systems.

So, a year on, we put that to the test.

But we still found whole groups dedicated to sexualised images

of children, where men posted obscene comments.

In every single one of these images, there is a real child

who is out there today - at school, probably -

and they don't know that their image is being used in this way.

We also found users discussing how to share more serious

We reported 100 posts that appeared to break Facebook's own guidelines.

They didn't breach of Facebook's community standards.

I find that content unacceptable, and this report, this investigation,

it casts grave doubt on the effectiveness of the measures

One former insider says moderation is a huge task.

I think the biggest challenge here is one of scale.

No-one has ever policed a site as large as Facebook.

The company is effectively running the largest police

Facebook asked us to send them examples of what we had

The company then reported us to the police.

Facebook issued a statement, saying:

the content referred to us and have now removed all the items that were

It is against the law for anyone to distribute images

This matter is now in the hands of the authorities.

So, where does this leave concerned parents?

It sends a very clear message that, actually, you can't trust Facebook's

reporting mechanism, and I think parents get

Even now, groups with inappropriate images and comments about children

Questions about how the company moderates

The head of BMW UK has cast further doubt over whether it

will build an electric version of the Mini in Britain.

Peter Schwarzenbauer says the impact of Brexit will be a factor

Our business editor Simon Jack reports from the Geneva car show,

where he has been speaking to the bosses of some of the UK's

The car industry's newest and flashest models were on display

in Geneva today, trying to catch the eye of a global audience

But, in the here and now, it's more familiar models that

Vauxhalls are made at Ellesmere Port and Luton, and their fate will soon

be down to this man, who already runs

He says Vauxhall has a future, even if Brexit results in trade

If we were talking about this scenario, a hard Brexit,

with customs duties and all that stuff, then it would be, of course,

an opportunity for us to have a UK sourcing to source for the UK.

Of course, for that to happen, we also need to have the supplier

base being developed in the UK so that the cost structure would be

in pounds, the revenue structure would be in pounds,

and for that to happen, we would need the support

BMW makes Minis in Cowley near Oxford.

It will start production of an electric version in 2019.

It has to decide where to do that very soon.

We want to see a tariff-free environment where goods,

services and in fact people could move freely across borders.

And somewhere around the middle to third quarter of the year,

we will actually make the decision as to where the Mini is produced.

The most important fact about these cars is not really how fast they go,

or how many miles they do to the gallon.

The most important fact is, where are they made?

Automotive jobs, creating them, preserving them, is important

to politicians all over the world, and no more so than in

The car companies know that, and in the to keep jobs,

some goverments have been prepared to go to great lengths

Nissan makes 500,000 cars a year in Sunderland.

In October last year, it committed to increasing

investment after reassurance the Government would

ensure the plant remained competitive after Brexit.

Since then, the Prime Minister has said no deal would be better

That raised concerns in the car industry that the UK would fall back

on international trade rules, which could mean high tariffs.

So, how solid is Nissan's commitment today?

Governments in the UK have a tradition to honour

their commitments, so we believe it, and we feel good about it.

This being said, we will have to wait until Brexit has been

negotiated and we see the conditions of the new status before giving

The effects of global competition are felt locally.

According to the boss of PSA, it's a competition where there

Everybody is asking for protection, and the only honest answer

If you increase your level of performance, you become the best.

If you become the best, there is no risk.

A simple guide to survival in the car industry.

The Government is facing another defeat in the House

Coming up: I'm with English cricket's new fast-bowling,

We are at Lord's, but it's not a Test match.

Coming up in Sportsday in the next 15 minutes

It's a three match ban for Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

The Manchester United striker accepted a charge of violent conduct

after elbowing Bournemouth's Tyrone Mings in the head.

As so-called Islamic State fighters are gradually being driven out

of their stronghold in Iraq, the scale of their atrocities

is being revealed against one ethnic group in particular.

The Yazidi people are ethnic Kurds whom IS have given two

The UN Human Rights Commission has called it genocide.

5000 people so far are believed to have been killed.

Over 3000 mostly women and children are being held captive,

Thousands of men and boys are missing.

Some Yazidis have managed to escape and seek sanctuary in Germany.

Naomi Grimley reports from one refuge hidden deep in a forest

A secret location in south-west Germany.

80 Yazidi women and children now live in this safe house

after being violently persecuted by so-called Islamic State

These two boys were captured by the extremists and

sent to a military training camp, aged just 14 and 16.

TRANSLATION: The training was about weapons.

We learned how to load and fire a weapon.

We would do exercises, crawling under barbed

TRANSLATION: To learn how to fire a gun on human

beings, they took us to big graves where they had the dead bodies of

Muslim traitors, spies of the regime, or those who took drugs.

They said we have to fire on the bodies to get used to it.

They quickly changed your mind and made

I bet, not just me, even a man's mind would have

After a year, a smuggler helped them escape the camp.

TRANSLATION: By God, I knew it was dangerous,

but there was nothing left to be afraid of.

When you lose everything, you have nothing left.

More than 1000 Yazidis have been given refuge

by the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg.

Here, they can get counselling to help overcome their

And, should they wish to stay, they are also given a chance

Nothing replaces home, but at least it's far

away from those religious zealots who are trying to wipe them out.

Naomi Grimley, BBC News, south-west Germany.

Tomorrow, the lawyer acting on behalf of the Yazidis

will address the UN in New York and call for a formal investigation

Amal Clooney, whose husband is the Hollywood film

star George Clooney, told me why she has decided

to represent the Yazidis, and why their cause

I've been to refuges in Germany, like the one you showed

in your piece, and I've interviewed former child soldiers and young

girls who were raped and enslaved by Isis.

It's been the most harrowing testimony had ever heard.

In other words, Isis is trying to destroy them as a group.

We are allowing it to happen without actually calling Isis to account.

So, what do you think can be done, practically, to bring

The first step that should be taken is for evidence to be

collected on the ground, because we know that

So, there are mass graves that are being discovered.

Just a few days ago, in Mosul, a huge mass grave

that is thought to have 4000 bodies in it was discovered.

There are other types of evidence as well.

You know, Isis is actually a big bureaucracy, believe it or not,

and they are leaving behind documents.

You need to collect DNA, you need to collect phone records.

None of that is being done at the moment.

You are going to the UN this week, what are you going to be saying?

I'm addressing the UN on the issue of accountability and saying

So, why do you think they're not doing it?

This is exactly the question that I'll be posing to member states.

I'm going to ask them, are the crimes not serious enough

You know, do you think there is no evidence for you to collect?

That's not right either, there are mass graves whose

locations are known, you can start there.

The fact that you are now not just a human rights lawyer, but known

obviously because of your marriage to one of Hollywood's biggest stars,

does that help in terms of giving you a bigger platform and getting

There is lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors,

I think if there are more people who now understand what is happening

about the Yazidis and Isis, if there can be some action that

results from that that can help those clients,

then I think it is a really good thing to give that case the extra

But, you know, if you don't have a good case and you don't

have a good message, shining a light on it is not

The singer George Michael died of natural causes according

He was found dead at his home on Christmas Day.

Our arts correspondent David Sillito is here.

There were all sorts of rumours that swirled around

George Michael's death, but it was natural causes.

A man as famous as George Michael is being found dead, in his 50s, on

Christmas Day, of course, there would be questions asked. The

answers today, well, dilating cardiomyopathy, card rightists and a

fatty liver. That is what --... The heart was weakened and inflamed.

Many possible causes, viral infection, most probably. Fatty

liver, the liver issues - there could be lifestyle issues there,

drink, drugs, whatever. The essence is, after all the stories and

comments on social media, some closure here. Natural causes, and

for the family, a chance at last, after more than ten weeks, to

finally have a funeral. Thank you very much.

Poachers have hooking into a zoo in Paris and killed a white rhino. This

do is west of the capital. It is believed to be the first time that

poachers have broken into a European zoo to kill a rhino for its horn.

Team Sky have admitted mistakes were made around the delivery of a

medical package to Bradley Wiggins, but denied breaking rules. The team

have been unable to provide records to back up the claim that Wiggins

was given a legal decongestant at a road race in France in 2011.

A 24-year-old cricketer is about to become a millionaire

even though he has never played a Test match and almost

You may not have heard of Termal Mills, but around

the world, he's one of the hottest properties in cricket.

Our sports correspondent Joe Wilson has the story.

Tymal Mills is 24 and about to become a millionaire.

Royal Challengers Bangalore desperately want to win

They've already got the Indian captain and other superstars,

but paid almost ?1.5 million in the auction for Mills.

Now, bowlers in county cricket may toil for 20 years and never make

what he should earn in six and a half weeks.

Just enjoy it, not be too brash with it and hope I get a few more

You are a sensible guy, though, aren't you?

I mean, your mum will make sure of that, I reckon?

Yeah, Mum tells me off if I pay too much for a pair of trainers!

Tymal plays for England in Twenty20 cricket,

but a chronic injury restricts him, so he plots his own course.

Rather than touring the world in Test matches, he bowls four

over spells in Twenty20 leagues - everywhere.

Played for the Chittagong Vikings in Bangladesh, from there,

for the Auckland Aces in New Zealand, and then

on to Brisbane Heat for the Big Bash, then

Then just finished now playing for the Quetta Gladiators in the PSL.

Do you think you represent a complete change in the whole

philosophy of the way that cricketers will try

My change was forced upon me through injury.

There's definitely an opportunity now, where there once wasn't.

The great thing about Twenty20 cricket is that there is always

a league about to start somewhere around the world.

Next up for Tymal, Bangalore and the IPL.

Joe Wilson, BBC News, at an old-fashioned Lord's.

A fine day for most of us. Cold-weather lovers need to look

away because mild air is coming in for the rest of the week, and

temperatures will be widely into double figures. By Friday, not a

huge amount of sunshine. Here is a view of today, sunshine in

Scarborough, making for a pleasant afternoon. In Cornwall and other

western parts, the cloud moved in. Some of us have seen some rain, in

Cornwall, Northern Ireland, parts of Scotland, and it will get heavier

this evening as the wet weather pushes right across the UK. A spell

of writing for us all. Snow on the hills of northern England and

Scotland for a time, the wind picking up as well. It will be

milder than last night, feeling different as you head out of the

door in the morning. It will be windy across northern Scotland, with

gales and plenty of showers rattling through. Outbreaks of rain in

southern and south-western England at times. Elsewhere, sunny weather

to be had. Gusty winds in northern Scotland. Not many showers in the

central belt and southern Scotland. Northern Ireland, northern England,

breezy, dry, with good sunshine, and temperatures up a few degrees on

today. Norfolk should see some sunshine into the afternoon. South

of that, cloudy and rain moving in towards the east. Showers continue

on Wednesday evening in northern Scotland, and still some on

Thursday. They will begin to ease. Still some cloud in southern

England. Many places have a fine, mild day on Thursday, with sunny

spells. By the time we get to Friday, there will be more cloud

around. The weekend looks unsettled. Details online.

The vote in the House of Lords over the Brexit bill, we have live

pictures. The vote is now taking place. A reminder, the Lords are

voting on whether or not they can have a legal guarantee of a say in

the final Brexit deal, by which they mean more than just saying yes or

no. It is expected to go against the Government. They are expected to

vote to have a say, and it will then go back to the House of Commons, and

we shall see what happens from there. The vote will take place very

shortly. You can follow updates over on the BBC News Channel.

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

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