01/09/2017 BBC News at Six

The security firm G4S suspends 9 workers for abusing detainees,

at an immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport.

A Panorama investigation found officers "mocking,

Nine people have failed my standards, the establishment's

standards and the company's standards, we need to reflect

on that, learn from that, and see what we're going to do.

It's also alleged there was "widespread self-harm

and attempted suicides" at the centre, and that

At least 1,400 people have now died after heavy monsoon rains,

More than 500 people have died just in this one Indian state, 17 million

affected. The former England football

captain Wayne Rooney, Two years after admitting rigging

emissions tests, Volkswagen is now offering a diesel scrappage

scheme for older models. There's more misery for householders

in Birmingham, as refuse collectors go back on strike,

in a dispute over jobs. And England's footballers play Malta

in a World Cup qualifier tonight, after a record final day

of business, in the summer Coming up in Sportsday later in the

hour, we will have the very latest from every nomination before their

World Cup qualifiers. And it could be must - when for Scotland. --

must- Win. Good evening, and welcome

to the BBC News at Six. The security company G4S has

suspended nine workers at an immigration removal centre

near Gatwick Airport, It follows an investigation

by the BBC's Panorama programme, claiming officers "mocked,

and assaulted" people. It's claimed there was "widespread

self-harm and attempted suicides" at the centre,

and that drug use was "rife". G4S says it's aware

of the allegations and "immediately" Those suspended include a female

nurse, six detention custody Brook House Immigration Removal

Centre sits a couple of hundred metres from the runway

at Gatwick Airport. It's run by the global

security firm G4S. Here foreign national

prisoners facing deportation at the end of their

sentence are detained alongside asylum seekers, illegal migrants

and those who have overstayed their Covert filming by the BBC's Panorama

programme shows a chaotic With self harm

commonplace among the men There are officers doing their best,

but the undercover investigation alleges some staff

mock, abus, or even assault The incidents picked up

by the hidden camera worn Callum Tulley has worked

at Brook House for two years. There is a culture of

violence at Brook House, when I started working

there, I was, I quite quickly became disturbed

by Last year another Panorama

investigation at Medway Secure Training Centre in Kent led to

allegations of the mistreatment of The company says

it is waiting to see the Brook House footage but has

suspended nine staff and put five My initial reaction is that I am

absolutely disgusted by the alleged It is totally unacceptable

to me, to the organisation, to anyone else

who would work in this What does that tell

you about the culture of Brook House and also of G4S because culture

comes from on high. My expectations are clear,

that we care for people, we look after people, on occasions we

challenge people, and we do so in a way that is accepted,

that is clearly laid down. It's the Home Office

who decides who is detained It says it condemns any

actions that put the safety or dignity of detainees

at risk, adding that G4S needs to ensure there is a thorough

investigation into the allegations The company says it has

alerted the police. Alison, this Panorama investigation

raises issues not only about abuse but the nature of the detention.

Absolutely, on Monday we will seek the full allegations, I'm sure many

points will arise from them. When you have a place like Gallowgate,

like Centre is holding people for deportation across the country -- a

place like Brook House, people who have reached the end of their

sentence, often hardened criminals, alongside people who have perhaps

overstayed visas, they may not have been in trouble for anything except

immigration offences. Add drugs, self harm and desperation and you

have a toxic mix. Brook House and other such centres were built to

house people for 72 hours, just a couple of days ready for their

departure from the country. The average length of stay according to

inspectors the moment is 48 days. Some people have been there for over

two years. If you look across other immigration detention places, the

latest figures show there is one person who has been in a centre for

about four years. So all of this raises very serious questions about

how well this system is working at the moment. Alison, any thanks.

Alison Holt, there. And you can see that Panorama

programme Undercover: Britain's Immigration Secrets

on BBC1, on Monday The Brexit Secretary, David Davis,

says he's a "determined optimist" about Britain's future outside

the European Union. His comments on a visit

to Washington, come after the Trade Secretary,

Liam Fox, accused the EU of trying to "blackmail" Britain

into accepting a Brexit divorce bill as the price for

beginning trade talks. Here's our Political

Correspondent Eleanor Garnier. The Prime Minister,

showing how it's done. At a meeting with the Emperor

of Japan, But it seems her Trade Secretary

hadn't got the memo. Speaking in Japan, he accused

the EU of bullying the UK into agreeing a Brexit divorce bill

before it will start negotiating any We can't be blackmailed into paying

a price on the first part. We think that we should begin

discussions on the final settlement, The outcome of this week's

negotiations in Brussels revealed that money remains a key sticking

point in the talks. It's clear the UK doesn't feel

legally obliged to honour Nobody will pretend it was anything

but a tough exchange this week. But I think the British taxpayer

would expect nothing less. It's no surprise there

is a bit of rough-and-tumble It's significant Liam Fox didn't

repeat the word blackmail when asked A moment perhaps when frustration

got the better of him. But it's certainly not

a phrase you can expect Fresh from his talks in Brussels,

the Brexit Secretary gave a speech to business leaders

in Washington today. He tried to laugh away his

colleague's controversial comments. I never comment on other ministers'

views on these things. Look, we are in a difficult, tough,

complicated negotiation. I have said from the beginning

that it will be turbulent. What we're having at the moment

is the first ripple. And there will be many more

ripples along the way. Critics here claim Liam Fox's talk

of blackmail will only This is sabre-rattling

from a Trade Secretary who is twiddling his thumbs

because he cannot do anything until the trade position of the UK

has been resolved with the EU. The Prime Minister rounded

off her trip cheering on the GB But when it comes to Brexit,

the government is still searching for some big points and will be

hoping for more Eleanor Garnier, BBC

News, Westminster. It's now believed more than 1,400

people have been killed after catastrophic flooding

across several South The annual monsoon season runs

from June to September, but this people have been affected,

in Bangladesh, Nepal and India. Millions have been left homeless,

and more than 950,000 homes Bangladesh was first hit by flooding

in the middle of August, leaving roughly a third

of the country submerged. At its peak, almost a week's worth

of the average rainfall for this time of year

was dumped in the space of 24 hours, as Sanjoy Mujumdar

explained at the time... This is one of the world's largest,

and because of heavy monsoon rains it has breached its banks and the

entire area around it is flooded. These people have taken up the only

sliver of land that has been left untouched.

moved west to Nepal, killing hundreds more people,

and destroying at least 90,000 homes, mainly in the poorest parts

The rising waters and numerous landslides there

have left thousands of villages cut off, leading to shortages

Now the heavy monsoon rains have reached India,

where parts of the country's financial centre, Mumbai,

One of the worst affected areas is the eastern state of Bihar.

Those least able to cope far the hardest hit by the floods. This

woman says her life has been ruined. TRANSLATION: I have lost everything.

I had a cow and a goat. They were both killed. My house is totally

broken and I'm just left sitting here by the side of the road. I have

nothing left. I just don't know what to do. The people here are

subsistence farmers, some of the poorest and most vulnerable people

on earth. The floodwaters have began to drain back. Only to reveal the

wreckage of homes and of lives. More than 500 people have died just in

this one Indian state, 17 million affected, and now there are new

concerns, houses, schools, roads, they all need to be rebuilt and then

of course there is the danger of disease. Filthy water, hot weather,

and the lack of basic sanitation can be a deadly combination. People

remained in water three, four days, their homes submerged in they

remained in the water that they were drinking contaminated water, so it's

a huge risk. And this is a snapshot from just one tiny part of a

catastrophe that is unfolding across much of South Asia. The region

floods every year but this is different. Exceptional rains have

brought devastation across the foothills of the Himalayas, from

Bangladesh in the east across India and Nepal all the way to the West

coast of India and into Pakistan. The death toll from the collapse of

a single building in the Indian financial capital, Mumbai, rose to

33 today. Police suspect it was weakened by the torrential rains.

And 16 people have died in flash floods in Karachi, the largest city

in Pakistan. Eid one of the holiest days in the Muslim calendar is

tomorrow, it is typically one of the busiest days in the city as families

come together for the first of all but the fury of the monsoon is not

spent yet, more rain is forecast across the region. Justin Rowlatt,

BBC News, Brook House. Bihar. The former England football captain,

Wayne Rooney, has been The 31 year old retired

from international football last week, after rejoining his boyhood

club Everton over the summer. Well

Danny Savage is at their home Phyllis in on the background.

Rumours circulate and this morning that he had been arrested for

drink-driving, it was a few hours later that Jetta Bliss confirmed

that just after 2am this morning the 31-year-old footballer was arrested

by officers in Wilmslow after they stopped him driving a black VW

beetle. He was arrested them. Pictures appeared on social media

during the evening before hand of him having pictures taken with

friends and supporters but he was arrested some hours later. What

happens next? It appears before Stockport magistrates on September

18. Then he can either admit to the charge or he could contest it. He is

England's highest profile footballer, now charged with

drink-driving, it is undoubtedly going to attract a lot of publicity.

Clive. Danny Savage, many thanks, at Goodison Park.

The former Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal

Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, has died aged 85.

He was created a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2001.

As archbishop, he was the leader of the Roman Catholic Church

in England and Wales for nearly decade.

Martin Bashir looks back on his life.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor served as the head of

the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales from 2000 until 2009.

His theological acumen was recognised early and he served

as rector of the English College in Rome before becoming Bishop

And it was in Sussex where he faced his greatest public challenge.

A local priest, Michael Hill, had been accused of child sexual abuse.

Then Bishop Murphy-O'Connor decided to redeploy him

Hill went on to abuse children and was jailed in 1997.

Cormac Murphy-O'Connor refused to resign but described

his management of Hill as a grave mistake.

Out of that terrible case came his decision to ask Lord Nolan

to help him rethink how the Catholic Church in this country

dealt with child abuse issues, to try to avoid such terrible

Although he did not engage directly in politics,

it was his careful nurturing that led Tony Blair to convert

to Catholicism in 2007 after he'd stepped down as Prime Minister.

A year later, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor published a book entitled

Faith In The Nation, in which he argued against

the erosion of religious values in public life.

It was this assertion that the Christian faith must play

a role in the public square, that Cormac Murphy-O'Connor had

The former Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal

Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, who has died aged 85.

The security firm G4S suspends 9 workers, after the BBC uncovers

assaults and abuse on detainees, at an immigration removal centre.

Coming up, I'm in Malta where England fans are expecting the World

Cup qualifying. In sports day, we will look ahead to the start of the

domestic rugby union season including the Premiership champions,

Exeter, who played tonight. Two years after the car

manufacturer Volkswagen, admitted rigging diesel emission

tests, the company's Several manufacturers are now

offering incentives, to trade in old models registered

before 2010, for newer It comes as the "toughest ever"

new-car emissions tests Richard Westcott has been

looking into the scheme. Now they're all piling in. Four car

manufacturers launched scrappage schemes today. One was the company

caught cheating emissions tests, Volkswagen. They are offering

thousands of pounds for your old car as long as you buy a new one. Is

this really about cleaning the or boosting sales? We are very serious

about our responsibility for our quality. We are bringing out the

scrappage scheme and we have launched an electric vehicle, a

plug-in car and a range of hybrid cars which will have a serious

impact on air quality. The emissions scandal two years ago put the car

industry under pressure to clean up vehicles. Manufacturers say this

will make a significant difference, especially in our biggest cities,

but experts are not convinced. Most of these scrappage schemes are aimed

at removing private vehicles. Given these private vehicles only

contribute 4% of the emissions, if they are successful it means there

will only be a 0.4% reduction. It is very small indeed. If you do scrap

your car there is a big chance it will come out here. This big pile

behind me is thousands of cars being minced up by a giant machine. 90% of

the car is reused for something else. How many cars might come off

the road? S we saw scheme just after the financial crisis and it threw up

an extra 250,000 cars a year. I would imagine this will have the

same effect again. A quarter of a million old car is potentially gone,

but it still leaves around 19 million driving on our roads.

Kenya's Supreme Court has overturned the results of last

month's presidential election, saying the poll was flawed.

The news was greeted with jubilation by opposition supporters.

The judges ruled a new election must be held in 60 days.

Well, our correspondent is in Nairobi.

It was a stunning decision. Not even some on the opposition side saw this

coming. Election monitors said the vote was credible but the opposition

disputed it. They said the process was fraudulent and that is why they

took case to the court. The winner said he disagrees with the Supreme

Court but respects the decision. Next there are fresh elections

within 60 days under intense scrutiny. How unprecedented is this?

This is a first for Kenny and indeed Africa. It's a major statement of

the strengthening of democracy here. It shows the increasing independence

and respect for the rule of law but there is still a fresh election to

come and that is where canyons will be watching closely. Thank you.

Refuse collectors in Birmingham are back on strike, in a long

running dispute with the city council over job losses.

Industrial action was suspended last month after seven weeks

of stoppages, but unions now claim the council has gone back on a deal

Well, Sima Kotcha is in Birmingahm for us.

When we came here a few weeks ago this pile of rubbish was high today,

it has got bigger and the stench is unbearable. Bin workers said if they

don't get what they want they could continue the strike till early next

year. It looks bad and it

smells even worse. A bin strike that's been

going on for weeks and people I mean, there's bags

just dumped everywhere. Rubbish bags which have opened

up and just scattered all across the road and we have

to walk through it every single day. That smell, it's so awful that

you would rather do this to yourself than smell

it, really, ugh. The council and the refuse workers

are arguing about shift patterns, The owners of this fish

and chip shop say it's If the bins get ripped then it's

a big invite for the rats. And that can smell really bad

and it's unhygienic for everybody. People having to walk around

and go around, you know. This strike started

at the end of June. The council claims that it's been

costing them around ?40,000 per day to hire agency staff to clean up

all this rubbish. Then the industrial action

was suspended in the middle of August as the two sides held

talks to figure out what to do next. Then at 7:30am this morning

the strike was back on. And that's because the council

confirmed last night it The Unite union says they won't let

that happen and will carry on striking for three

hours every day. It's been taken out on the low paid

by faceless paid officials who earn, ?180,000 a year, and they are asking

people on ?19,000 to take a cut. The council's leader had said

there would be no redundancies but he's come under pressure

from his Cabinet to change his stance because some of them say no

job losses are unaffordable. Everyone still has a job, who has

been given those redundancy notices. They can either have a job

at exactly the same level, somewhere else in the council,

or they still have Birmingham City Council

is the largest local The longer this dispute goes on,

the more expensive it gets for them England's footballers take on Malta,

in a World Cup qualifier tonight. And in the squad is

the new Liverpool player Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain,

who's transfer from Arsenal went through on a dramatic final day

of the summer transfer window, with Premier League clubs spending

more than ?210 million. Well Natalie Pirks is in

the Maltese capital Valetta... The matches taking place in the

capital and we've been getting the reaction. It is a fiasco, the

transfer window, every year, the prices go stupid. The money is

ridiculous. The transfer window has been one of the best but moneywise,

interesting, but I would disagree with the spending and how much you

pay for players. With England you don't have the deal with the

big-money transfers, for me, personally, it is obscene but I

understand that is the way the game is going. The views of some of the

England fans. Great weather over there. It is up and down. All the

details to come. A lot of sunshine in your weather pictures today. A

struggle to find anything other than that but here's an example from

Kent. There have been thundery downpours. There still are. We've

seen some into East Anglia. This strip of whether fading. The odd one

might pop up. For much of the UK it is dry and clear. Just like last

night, temperatures drop away. Sunspots will be flirting with

freezing. A chilly start. There will be some patchy cloud. You might find

an isolated shower but even these will be lighter. The vast majority

will avoid those. I will stay dry. In the sunny spells that continue it

will feel pleasantly warm. The breeze freshens and the West.

Heading out into Northern Ireland it might be drier but it may well be

raining when you come back in. Saturday night and into Sunday this

is the change. There is a weather front coming in from the Atlantic.

There will be Gayle through the Irish Sea. A wet start in the West.

The rain leaves Northern Ireland behind it will track. Some in

eastern England will hold onto a dry day until quite late on but even

here, the cloud increases and the wind picks up as well. Saturday's

view is there but the change her Sunday, there will be rain moving

east and most of us will see that at some stage of the day. A weekend of

two halves. There's a forecast through the app and online.

A reminder of the top stories. The security firm G4S suspends nine

employees. 1400 people have died after heavy monsoon rains across

parts of South Asia. That is it. I will be back with the late news at

ten.