10/07/2017 BBC News at Six

The legal battle to keep the terminally ill baby Charlie Gard

alive continues as his case returns to the High Court.

A judge has heard claims of "fresh evidence" about a therapy trial

in America his parents say could help him.

CHANTING: Save Charlie Gard! Save Charlie Gard!

Emotions run high outside and in court, as Charlie's parents

accuse the hospital of lying about their son.

But specialists at Great Ormond Street insist

A Conservative MP is suspended after using racist language

Police say around 255 people survived the Grenfell Tower fire,

the first time they've given such figures.

A self-confessed IRA bomb maker finally admits being part

of the group that killed 21 people in the Birmingham pub

I apologise for all of the Republicans who had no

President Trump says he didn't know his son had met a Russian

lawyer with links to the Kremlin during the American

And two Brits in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon for the first time

since 1973, as Andy Murray and Johanna Konta

And coming up on BBC News, we'll have the latest on a big day

for both Andy Murray and Johanna Konta.

And we hear from Wayne Rooney who has spoken to the media following

his return to Everton for Manchester United.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

There were heated scenes in the High Court this afternoon

as the parents of the terminally ill baby Charlie Gard returned

with lawyers to present new evidence of an experimental treatment

in America that they say could help him.

Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, which is treating the boy,

But Charlie's parents both interrupted the hearing, shouting

11-month-old Charlie is suffering from a rare genetic condition

Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh reports.

Vocal, passionate and determined. Charlie Gard's parents have

considerable support, including the Pope and Donald Trump. Let us pray.

And noticed pro-life -- now this pro-life evangelical preacher who

was once jailed for anti-abortion protest in the US and has been

praying by Charlie's bedside. If a court, if a judge, if a hospital

official can come and tell a parent that they don't have the right or

the authority to provide the kind of medical care that their child's

needs, then parental rights are under attack and around the world,

the fabric of our society unravels. It is well established in UK law

that where parents and doctors cannot agree, a judge must decide

what is appropriate. Charlie is so weak, he can't move and has serious

brain damage. Four different courts have ruled he should be allowed to

die with dignity. In court, lawyers for Charlie's parents said there was

new information which showed an experimental treatment on offer in

America might help their son. The judge said there wasn't a person

alive who did not want Charlie to get better and he would be delighted

the changes ruling but it had to be on the basis of clear evidence. He

said he had to consider the hospital's view that every day that

passed in flick did more suffering an Charlie. Charlie has a rare

inherited condition, mitochondrial depletion syndrome. Mitochondria are

found in nearly every cell and provide energy to the body but

Charlie's don't function, so his muscles and organs are wasting.

Nucleoside Verratti is a powder given in food which contains some of

the building blocks of DNA and could help mitochondrial function. Animal

studies suggest a modest 4% improvement. So far, 18 patients

have been treated but crucially, none has Charlie's genetic mutation

or his severe brain damage. But the High Court was told that unpublished

data showing dramatic clinical improvement and claims the therapy

could improve brain function. The experimental therapy has never been

tried in humans or animals with Charlie's exact condition.

Paediatricians say Great Ormond Street would be concerned it could

do him harm. There's a lot of unknowns here and I think the

doctors and nurses looking after him, colleagues really will have

considered all of these processes because that is what they do, that

is their day job and they are some of the most expert people in the

world in this area. The judge said he would consider the merits of any

new evidence on Thursday. Meanwhile, Charlie continues to receive

round-the-clock care at Great Ormond Street Street Hospital.

What will it take for the judge to change his mind? The parents will

have to come up with significant new evidence that this experimental

therapy can be of benefit to Charlie. The judge was clear, he's

not going to rake over old facts. There was really immense frustration

on both sides in court. Lawyers for the hospital said they had tried

repeatedly over the weekend to find out what was this alleged to new

evidence and got nowhere. Then at one point, a text was read out from

Charlie's mon's phone from an American doctor that there was a 10%

chance of improvement to Charlie but we don't know what the source of

that information is. On the parents' side, they cried out to the judge

that the hospital was lying to him and really they should have the

chance to take their son abroad. But the parents and the doctors can

agree on nothing at this stage. The hospital says, for example, that

because Charlie's brain is no longer growing, his head circumference has

not increased in the past three months but then Charlie's mum cried

out that it has so the judge said he wanted a tape measure taken to

measure his head and on Thursday, tell him the truth. It has got to

that level of dispute between the sides. Thank you for joining us.

The Prime Minister's offer to opposition parties to work

with the government on major issues has been rebuffed by Labour,

who said her party "had completely run out of ideas".

The strategy is being seen as a an attempt by Theresa May

The strategy is being seen as an attempt by Theresa May

to reassert her authority since losing her parliamentary

But tonight, she's having to deal with a problem

with one of her own MPs, who's been suspended for making

Here's our political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

Monday morning at the market. Not any old shoppers. How are you? The

Prime Minister and her Australian counterpart, here to meet people

caught up in a terror attack. But Prime Minister Turnbull happens to

be an old friend of Theresa May. She does not seem to have many in

politics these days. Thank you, Prime Minister, Malcolm, for

visiting us today and the excellent discussions we've had. It's always a

pleasure to welcome our Australian friends to London and even more so

when you've just beaten them at cricket. With fears about her

authority in her own party, she is making an appeal for others to work

with her. You want the opposition to contribute as well as to criticise,

you are expected to say tomorrow. What do you say to your own critics,

including in your own party, who say it is you that needs to change? The

government has got an ambitious agenda. It is an ambitious agenda

which is there to address the big challenges the country faces. Of

course, one of those is getting the Brexit negotiations right but there

are other challenges we face as the country, too. I think the public

will rightly want us to get the broadest possible consensus in

looking at those issues. Jeremy Corbyn. Her offer was mocked by the

Labour leader. The government is apparently now asking other parties

for their policy ideas and so if the Prime Minister would like it, I'm

very happy to furniture with a copy of our election manifesto. A

difficult afternoon got worse. Annemarie Morris is duly elected...

While she was on her beat, a recording emerged of Tory MP

Annemarie Morris talking at a private event about Brexit, using

offensive language. She said the phrase was

unintentional and has apologised unreservedly if offence was caused.

The comments emerging on the day the Prime Minister called for an end to

abuse and MPs were quick to seize on it. She agree that where that where

that happens, organisations should take decisive and swift action?

Offensive behaviour by backbenchers is one thing. Asking the opposition

for help with another. But with no majority to call her own, the Prime

Minister can barely afford for anything to go wrong. With her

authority cracked, there are no easy days for this Prime Minister. And in

the last 15 minutes, Theresa May has now suspended that MP, Annemarie

Morris, condemning her remarks. What is not clear is for how long she is

going to be out of the Tory party. While there may be calls for her to

quit altogether, to stand down, in this the bra political atmosphere at

the moment, the Conservatives would be very nervous of any by-election.

By suspending have some time, though, it means Theresa May's

narrow current advantage in the Commons has slipped by one and this

is an era where every vote will matter. Laura, thank you.

The Metropolitan Police now say they believe around 255 people

managed to escape the fire at Grenfell Tower last month.

The official estimate of the dead and missing remains

Our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds is at Scotland Yard.

The first time we've had such a figure.

There's been a lot of dispute about how many were there that night.

There has. I mean, here is the context. On the night of the fire or

just afterwards, it was acclaimed about 500-600 people were living at

Grenfell Tower. The police today have said they think it is nearer

350 and some of them were not in on the night. Their figure for the

number who escaped injury or escape from the fire with their lives is

about 255. Crucially, the number of dead and missing remains at about

80, which is going to be controversial. Some people just

don't believe the figure. But the police investigation continues,

sifting through every bit of debris inside a tower where the temperature

reached 1000 degrees and also investigating 60 or so companies

involved in the maintenance and refurbishment of Grenfell Tower.

Stuart Cundy, the Metropolitan Police commander, said, "You can't

listen to the families and the 999 calls and not want to hold people to

account for a fire that should not have happened". Thank U.

The High Court has ruled that government arms sales

to Saudi Arabia are lawful and shouldn't be halted.

It follows a case brought by a pressure group,

It argued that the UK had broken international humanitarian law

by selling weapons that had been used to kill civilians in Yemen,

where the Saudis have conducted air strikes against rebels.

President Trump says he did not know that during his presidential

campaign last year, his eldest son and his son-in-law met a Russian

lawyer who claimed to have damaging information about his rival,

Donald Trump Jr insists "no meaningful information" was provided

Our chief correspondent Gavin Hewitt reports from Washington.

This is Donald Trump's eldest son. I am Donald Trump Jr. Last June, after

the Republican convention, he met with a Russian lawyer who promised

damaging material on Hillary Clinton's campaign. The meeting was

here at Trump Tower in New York. Until this weekend, Donald Trump Jr

had not mentioned it but it was not a casual encounter, he brought along

Tromp's campaign manager and his son-in-law and then his story has

changed. On Saturday, he said they primarily discussed a programme

about the adoption of Russian children. By the following day, he

said, "The woman lawyer stated she had information that individuals

connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National committee and

supporting Mrs Clinton". He was told there would be information that may

be helpful to the campaign. There was no such information but again, I

want to ask your question, if we're going to keep using the word

pollution, where is the evidence of collusion. On Friday, President

Trump met President Putin and asked him directly about meddling in the

American election campaign. President Putin denied it denied it.

It is not clear how forcefully President Trump pursued this but

there was an agreement between the two leaders that it was now time to

move forward. News of Trump Jr's Russian meeting does not put

President Trump in immediate jeopardy. He says he has no

knowledge of it. What it does do is keep open the central question that

has dogged the administration. Was there collusion between the Trump

campaign team and the Russians? It promises months of further

investigations. Trump Jr called the latest revelation is a big yawn but

it is the first public indication that some in the Trump campaign were

willing potentially to accept Russian help. For the president, it

is a reminder that not everything goes his way. Gavin Hewitt, BBC

News, Washington. The legal battle to keep

the terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard alive continues,

as his case returns A pay gap on teachers will stay but

there are warnings that is putting off new recruits.

Coming up on BBC News, the latest on a big day for Andy Murray and

Johanna Konta, at 6:30pm. The Birmingham pub

bombings in 1974 - it was one the worst IRA attacks

in England during the many 21 people were killed

and almost 200 were injured. Now, decades later -

a self-confessed IRA bomb maker has finally admitted that he was part

of the group responsible In an exclusive interview

with the BBC, he has apologised to the families of those

who were killed. But he has refused to say

exactly what role he played Today, a relative of one

of the victims called him a coward. Here's our Ireland

correspondent Chris Buckler. The bombs were left in the heart

of Birmingham on a Thursday night. Placed inside pubs

to cause destruction. In the same year - 1974 -

Mick Hayes took part in this funeral He was a well-known Republican,

an admitted IRA bomb-maker who was convicted of paramilitary

offences in the Republic of Ireland. And now, four decades

after the murders in Birmingham, Mick Hayes has emerged again

to admit he was part of the group Was a participant in the IRA's

activities in Birmingham - I was a participant in the IRA's

campaign in England. But you're not answering

the question - did I'm giving you the only

answer I can give you. Mick Hayes has in the past been

questioned and named as a suspect in the bombings,

but he's never been charged. Even now, he won't say what role

he played in the IRA attack, but he says he takes "collective

responsibility" for it. And I apologise,

not only for myself. I apologise for all Republicans,

who had no intention of hurting And the relatives, again,

the relatives will say that you have I know they'll say that,

and from their point of view, I don't shirk my responsibility

in that direction. A group of men were charged

and found guilty of the bombing, but it was a famous

miscarriage of justice. And the convictions

of the men who became known as the Birmingham Six

were eventually overturned. For 16.5 years, we have been used

as political scapegoats! Today, the families of those

murdered in the pub bombings watched Mick Hayes' apology,

and were angered by it. He reckons that he'd rather die

than be an informer. But he's more than happy to take

"collective responsibility" for the murder of 21

innocents in Birmingham. Mick Hayes avoided many questions,

but he claims mistakes led the IRA to give bomb warnings too late,

and that he personally defused a third bomb left in Birmingham

city centre that night. When they found out what had

happened, we defused the third one. In the Hagley Road.

Who defused it? Many in modern-day Birmingham

will question why Mick Hayes has come forward now,

particularly as no-one has ever been held legally responsible

for murdering the 21 people who died The independent pay review

of teachers has recommended how teachers pay should be divided,

within the Government's 1% further, or are the days of 1% pay

rises numbered? Schools are beginning to feel the impact took -

not enough people training as teachers, others leaving after just

a few years. Can schools afford to give them any more? The people

coming out of university, they looked at the Hay of various

different jobs, and it is producing our ability to recruit. The review

body said last year that if there is not a pay rise of more than 1%, and

I think they meant quite a bit more than that, then there will be a

problem in teacher recruitment. Teachers pay in England has been

held down. First, a two-year pay freeze meant no increase in 2011 and

2012. Then, a 1% average paid cap rise has been in place, just like

the rest of the public sector. It would cost around ?1.6 billion for

schools in England to increase pay in line with inflation. Teachers'

pay isn't what parents talk about in the playground, but school budgets

are, and the two are connected, because page, national insurance and

pensions all come out of what schools have to spend. And it is the

concern around the budget pressures on schools which can shift the

political compass in the debate about public sector spending.

Ministers have been singing very different tunes on public pay. But

the Education Secretary has not called for the pay cap to be lifted.

Justine Greening is facing bigger pressures on school budgets. Rising

costs already mean real terms cuts per-pupil. So today, no promise of

more money for teachers but a warning this can't go on forever.

The Government made it very clear to all the pay review bodies that they

should be looking at limiting increases overall to 1%, within the

Government's paid targets and spending targets. Politics may have

changed more recently, but the work of this review body will have

happened over the last several months, and they're still working

within the instructions which were even to them a year ago. Schools

face growing pressures on their budgets, they'd need enough

teachers, too. It is a problem today's report warns won't go away.

For the first time in 44 years, a British man and a British woman are

both through to the last eight at Wimbledon. Andy Murray and Johanna

Konta will play in the quarterfinals. Joe Wilson is there

for us. Yes, two British champions, it is still on! The second week of

Wimbledon, in some ways you're relieved just to still be going,

like the Grand National, but then your mind turns towards the

finishing line, and today is a special day. Monday morning, keep

moving, if you want to see everything. The umbrella? Your

choice. What unites everyone here is what Wimbledon calls the pursuit of

greatness. It has been expect it of him, motivates her and still entices

him. Johanna Konta was up against Caroline Garcia in a match of small

margins. The first set was tight. The tie-break was tight. Johanna

Konta won it. Back came Darcey to win the second set. Garcia had

served brilliantly, but this was match point, this was Wimbledon and

this was a critical mistake. Give Johanna Konta an occasion, she will

rise to it. It is those situations that I dreamt of when I was a little

girl, and to be part of those battles on big stages, that's really

what it's about to be a professional athlete. Now, the first British

woman into a quarterfinal at Wimbledon since 1984 and Jo Durie -

what does that mean to you? That's pretty special. When Andy Murray is

doing his own running commentary, there is concern. But he got through

it today. He was up against Benoit Paire, number 46 in the world. At

Wimbledon, Murray has never lost to a player ranked so low. Murray was

getting there. Tie-break in the first, 6-4 in the second. In the

third set, Murray got heated with the umpire over a challenge. Centre

Court sympathised. A challenge to immediately! No matter, Murray said

it was the best he had hit the ball so far in the tournament, and

ultimately, Benoit Paire couldn't match it. Two British players

through today, two French players made way. Meanwhile, close by,

Rafael Nadal walked on to No. 1 Court, limbering up - without

Headroom! Ouch! He soon found himself two sets down against Gilles

Muller, of Luxembourg. Nadal has made a comeback, and they are into

the fifth set. Meanwhile, Roger Federer is two sets up on Centre

Court. For Johanna Konta and Andy Murray, for a day at least, the hard

work is done. Thomas Gainsborough was one

of the most famous portrait and landscape painters

of the 18th century - but despite his fame,

25 of his sketches have for decades been wrongly

attributed to another artist. The pictures, which he drew

as a young man, have been discovered in the Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle. Our arts correspondent

Rebecca Jones reports. Gainsborough's most famous portrait,

The Blue Boy, painted in 1770. He was the most important British

artist of the second half of the 18th century,

yet few of his early drawings They've lain undiscovered in this

album, here in the Print Room at Windsor Castle, since the reign

of Queen Victoria. She wanted some drawings

by Landseer, and this but little did she know

that the drawings inside are actually by a different

artist altogether. It was only when the historian

Lindsay Stainton was sent a box of photos of the drawings

that the mistake came to light. I was looking at boxes

and boxes of photographs and I thought, "Oh, I'll just

have a look through these". and I thought, "Oh, I'll just

have a look through these." And I just jumped up from my chair

and said to myself, "Good God, that's a study for Cornard Wood

and all of these are early And this sketch of Cornard Wood

near Sudbury in Suffolk would appear to be the compelling evidence that

proves the drawings When it is laid over the finished

picture, it matches exactly. This was his preparatory study,

and it's as if we're present in the studio with him,

which is a rather wonderful thought. But the discoveries

didn't end there. A drawing of the head of a young

woman was found on the back It could even be

Gainsborough's future wife. All the pictures can

now be viewed online Time for a look at the weather. And

there is some change ahead, is that right? Changeable is the word we

could use, yes. A mixed week as we head through the next few days. One

thing we will all feel is a cooler and fresher feel to the weather,

compared to what we have had of late. This was the scene, a

beautiful landscape at Lerwick in Shetland. It was a different story,

though, this afternoon in East Anglia, storm clouds gathering in

Felixstowe. On the radar picture, you can see some showers scattered

across the country, particularly heavy ones breaking out across East

Anglia this afternoon. Some of those will continue into the evening. They

will tend to ease, and things will be clouding over from the west.

There will be some rain, particularly across western areas.

It will be feeling cooler tonight than it has been of late. Tomorrow,

this low pressure wobbling in from the west. A bit of uncertainty still

about which track it will take. But it's southern areas which will get

the wettest weather. A bit of uncertainty about how much rain will

get into the likes of north Wales, the north Midlands and northern

England. For Scotland and Northern Ireland, it is another day of

sunshine and showers. Temperature is, way down on where they were,

particularly in the south-east. There is a chance of seeing some

rain on and off at Wimbledon tomorrow, which could interrupt

play. Wednesday, the low will clear away, that means some drier and fine

weather, still feeling cooler. For the end of the week, mainly dry with

some rain at times. That is all from the BBC News at