04/09/2017 BBC News at Six

America warns that North Korea is begging for war and urges

the United Nations to take the strongest possible measures.

The warning to Kim Jung-un comes after North Korea carried

out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test at the weekend.

At an emergency session in New York, America's Ambassador to the UN said

the United States didn't want war, but its patience was not unlimited.

His abusive use of missiles and his nuclear threats show

We'll be looking at the diplomatic and military options.

After ten staff are suspended at an immigration detention centre,

a former manager says G4S were warned about such

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce that they're

This woman made up bogus rape claims against 15 men.

Now one of her victims, who spent almost three years

And a Red Arrows flypast over the new Queensferry Crossing,

as the bridge is officially opened by the Queen.

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

An important night of World Cup qualifying, with England,

Scotland and Northern Ireland all looking to take another

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

The American Ambassador to the United Nations has urged

the UN Security Council to take the strongest possible measures

against North Korea in response to its most powerful nuclear test.

Nikki Haley told an emergency session that North Korea

was begging for war, and while the United States

didn't want war, its patience wasn't unlimited.

Today, South Korea has been strengthening its missile defences,

as they warned the North was preparing to carry out

Our correspondent, Yogita Limaye, reports from the capital

A day after North Korea's most powerful nuclear test. The South

displayed its might. Missiles were launched from the ground and the

air. It was a test drill, South Korea showing off how it could

attack Pyongyang's nucleoside. This is a strong reaction from a country

that for months now has been desperately trying to avoid conflict

in the Korean peninsular. Across the sea in Japan, the Government gave

worrying details about North Korea's latest test.

The evidence suggests that the North conducted a hydrogen bomb test. The

Government had to conclude that the test was a success, considering the

huge power it generated. Pyongyang has successfully tested a weapon

that poses a grave threat to Japan's security.

A hydrogen bomb is vastly more powerful than the bomb that

destroyed Hiroshima. And North Korea says that is what its leader is

looking at here. The country has conducted six nuclear test so far,

but the pace is really accelerating since intercontinental ballistic

missiles came to power. And in New York at a emergency UN Security

Council meeting, the US lashed out at the North Korean leader.

Nuclear powers understand their responsibilities, Kim Jong-un shows

no such understanding. His abusive use of missiles and his nuclear

threats showed that he is begging for war.

The people here in South Korea have dealt with the threat from the North

for a long time now, but perhaps never before has a nuclear test and

multiple missile tests, in such quick succession, really ratcheting

up the pressure on the Government here in Seoul and its allies.

This is America's latest anti-missile system, designed to

shoot down enemy rockets. It has now been deployed in South Korea. The

Allies might be able to defend themselves against an attack, but no

matter how North Korea provokes them, striking the country's nuclear

not easy option. This is mostly important, North

Korea will certainly retaliate in South Korea will be the main victim

of being sandwiched between hardline United States and recalcitrant North

Korea. And so for now, South Korea

continues to build up its Arsenal while hoping never to use it.

So what are the options left for the international community,

as it tries to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions?

Our diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins, has been assessing

President Trump insists the time for talking

to North Korea has passed, but most countries still hope

diplomacy might work, persuading the regime not to become

As part of that diplomacy, the UN Security Council has been

meeting to discuss additional sanctions, designed to turn tighter

For 24 years, the UN has been passing resolutions condemning

and then steadily increasing sanctions on North Korea,

but its weapons programme seems to be accelerating.

Present sanctions include bans on export sales

by North Korea of coal, iron, lead and seafood -

There's talk now of a ban on trade in North Korean textiles.

But the most devastating sanction would be if China cut oil

supplies, paralysing an already feeble economy.

Only the strongest sanctions will enable us to resolve this

We have kicked the can down the road long enough.

The United States will look at every country that does business

with North Korea as a country that is giving aid to their reckless

The United States will present a new sanctions resolution and push

It may well pass, but the Americans reject China's overall approach,

which is that both the United States and North Korea should wind

TRANSLATION: This joint initiative by China and Russia

is practical and feasible, aimed at addressing the most

urgent security concerns of the parties concerned,

easing the tension as soon as possible.

But what if talks and diplomacy fail?

That leaves the grim possibility of American military action.

The United States has made clear it could overwhelm North Korea.

The trouble with that is, the North Korean regime already

has its own massive conventional missiles and artillery just back

from the border and Seoul is within easy range.

So the South Korean capital, as well as large parts of Japan,

could be devastated and military action rapidly escalated

Amidst all this tension, what is Kim Jong-un -

North Korea's dictator - actually trying to achieve?

Well, he desperately wants to join the elite club of nuclear nations,

Not having nuclear weapons makes dictators vulnerable to regime

Kim has looked at the fate of both Saddam Hussein in Iraq

So it's highly likely he will press on and try to complete an arsenal

And maybe even bet the fate of his country and his people

The security firm G4S was warned three years ago about problems

with the behaviour of some of its staff towards detainees

at an immigration detention centre near Gatwick Airport,

according to a former senior manager.

Undercover filming for tonight's BBC Panorama has already led

to the suspension of ten staff, after allegations of

The company says there's no place for such behaviour in its workforce.

Our social affairs correspondent, Alison Holt, reports.

Detainee custody officer Callum Tulley -

wearing a hidden camera - captures life inside Brook House

Immigration Removal Centre, near Gatwick Airport.

It's a volatile mix of hardened former prisoners,

alongside asylum-seekers, Visa over-stayers and others.

The undercover filming for Panorama shows drugs are rife.

Self-harm is common, and officers struggle to cope,

many doing their best with detainees in real mental distress.

But others reacting with abuse, bullying and threats.

21-year-old Callum has worked at the centre for two years.

He became so worried by what he was seeing,

When you feel like you've been a cog in that machine,

you need to have some level of closure.

I mean, I don't think I could have just walked away

And on one day, whilst wearing a hidden camera,

he called other offices in to help him restrain a detainee

And this officer comes in and just chokes him, basically.

And he just exerts all his pressure from his hands and arms

You see his eyes roll to the back of his head.

I had to try and look as if I wasn't disturbed by what I'd just seen.

It was just immediately, it was messing me up.

The officer involved has told Panorama he can't think

of anything he's done which would get him into trouble.

G4S says it's investigating all the allegations at Brook House

and will take appropriate action once it's seen the evidence.

But three years ago, Nathan Ward says he warned G4S

bosses about the attitude of some Brook House staff.

He's now a priest, but used to be a senior G4S manager.

So, for example, there's this one - "Poor culture amongst

And it's as though they're protected and that their behaviour

These are the notes he read out at his resignation meeting.

There is a group that actually concerned me on their

It was around language that they used.

A sense of roughness and a use of force.

G4S says it investigates all complaints and has

The Home Office decides who spends time in immigration detention

People were only meant to be held for a few days before deportation,

but some spend months, even years, in such places.

Mustapha Zitouni was in Brook House for nearly a year after

This is him protesting on the suicide-prevention netting,

His flight home has been cancelled because his papers weren't

Now back in Algeria, he says the uncertainty over how

long detainees will be held made him and others desperate.

In the detention centre, you never know how long you're gonna be.

One day, one year, or three or four years.

The Home Office says it's increasing the number of former prisoners it's

removing from the country, and that the dignity and safety

of those in its care is of the utmost importance.

And you can see the full Panorama investigation tonight

A major search is under way off the coast of North Cornwall after

Lifeboats and a coastguard helicopter are involved

One man has been rescued and taken to hospital,

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have announced they're

The Duchess is again suffering from a severe form

of morning sickness - as she has done with her

previous pregnancies - which meant she had to cancel

Our Royal correpsondent, Nicholas Witchell, reports.

The Duchess of Cambridge last week, with her husband and Prince Harry.

No hint then of the announcement of a third baby for

Kensington Palace was forced to disclose the pregnancy this

morning because the Duchess had had to pull out of a public engagement

because of acute morning sickness, the condition she experienced

She's now resting at Kensington Palace.

According to the statement, the Queen - opening

the Queensferry Crossing near Edinburgh this morning -

and other members of the Royal Family are

The baby will be the Queen's sixth great-grandchild and will be fifth

It's more than four years now since the birth

This is an important week for him - he is due to start at his new school

in London, something his mother certainly won't want to miss.

The couple's second child, Princess Charlotte,

She's fourth in the line of succession and she will retain

that position even if the new baby is a boy.

On a visit by the Cambridges to Poland a few weeks ago,

Catherine joked about having another baby when she was presented

It didn't seem significant at the time.

Today, Prince Harry said he was delighted at the prospect

I haven't seen her for a while, but I think she's OK.

The news that there's to be a third child for the Cambridges comes just

as William is beginning full-time Royal duties.

Soon, the team of four will become five.

Kensington Palace hasn't said when the new baby is due,

but it must be assumed that it will be around March of next year.

America warns that North Korea is begging for war and urges the UN

to take the strongest possible measures.

Fit for the Queen - crossing the Firth of Forth

with the Duke of Edinburgh, as the new bridge

Coming up in Sportsday in the next 15 minutes on BBC News, the latest

from Flushing Meadows. And the second week of the US Open where

there are places in the quarter finals at stake.

For years, there've tensions between Muslims and Buddhists

living in Myanmar - formally known as Burma.

Those tensions erupted 10 days ago, as violence broke out,

sending tens of thousands of Muslims fleeing over the border

The Rohingya - a Muslim ethnic minority - live in Rakhine state

But now they are fleeing a military crackdown that began after attacks

The UN estimates that 87,000 Rohingya have now fled

And the UN Refugee Agency says their camps near the border

From there, Sanjoy Majumder reports.

She is two days old, born inside a refugee camp. Her parents are

Rohingya, ethnic Muslims from Myanmar, denied citizenship and now

fleeing persecution. The baby's mother left after their village was

attacked, alleged by the Myanmar army.

TRANSLATION: We fled and crossed the river by boat and then came here. We

were very scared about what the military would do to us. After

coming here, we heard that our house has been burnt down. Do you think

you'll ever be able to take your baby back home, back to Myanmar?

TRANSLATION: Everyone has left. There's no-one there. We cannot go

back. Their home is now a vast refugee camp, along with tens of

others Rohingyas now living in these squalid conditions. Many of them

eating their first proper meal in days. Just four days ago, there was

nothing here. It was just the side a hill with a clump of trees on it.

But now look at it. It's a vast settlement, a temporary home for all

the Rohingya refugees who've come over from Myanmar and have nowhere

to go. Even this place is going to reach its limit in a few days.

Bangladesh is now struggling to cope with the growing numbers of

Rohingyas streaming in every day. Especially as many more are waiting

at the border. To accommodate them, I don't have enough land. That is

the important thing. From this we don't have enough shelters so we can

accommodate them here. There is actually the food problem, hygiene,

water, the health problems and actually, they're occupying forest

land. That's causing huge tensions for the host community. This set off

the exodus, satellite images obtained by Human Rights Watch show

entire villages burned down inside Myanmar. More than 400 Rohingyas

have been killed in ten days. The worst violence in a generation. It

is hard to independently verify the situation, access is severely

restricted. But in the refugee camps, it is apparent that the

Rohingyas are here to stay and the next generation may never get to

know their homeland. The Northern Ireland Secretary,

James Brokenshire, has said that if the current political deadlock

continues at Stormont, he will have to step in and pass

a budget at Westminster. The devolved government collapsed

in January primarily over a botched Mr Brokenshire says a deal

between the DUP and Sinn Fein remains achieveable but that

pressures on public services He says he may be forced

to legislate from Westminster to make sure services

have the budgets they need. The Policing Minister has told

the Police Superintendents Conference that the Government

is not deaf to their concerns over Nick Hurd said in the light

of recent budget cuts he realised there was a limit to how much more

officers could do. A survey of superintendents

found half were suffering from work-related anxiety,

and a quarter had Staff at two branches of McDonald's

have gone on strike - the first time a walkout has hit

the fast food chain in the UK. Workers in Cambridge

and south-east London began the disruption at midnight,

demanding higher pay and more McDonald's say only 14 workers took

part and say the action is related to internal grievance procedures

and not pay. A man, who served almost three years

in prison for a rape that never happened,

has given his first Mahad Kassim was one of 15 men

who were falsely accused by a 25-year-old of raping

or assaulting her. Jemma Beale is now serving a prison

sentence for perjury. Mr Kassim has told the BBC

that she is evil and a "monster" who's damaged the chances of justice

for women who really Daniel Sandford has

this exclusive report. Jemma Beale, jailed for ten years

last month for falsely accusing 15 men of either rating her or sexually

assaulting her over a period The court heard she did

it to make her partner jealous and for the ?14,000

compensation she received. It had a devastating effect

on the men she accused. One of them, Mahad Kassim,

who asked us not to show his face, has now given his first television

interview. He spent almost three years

in prison convicted of rape before My heart was burning

for three years with anger. This alleyway is where Jemma Beale

accused him of raping her, but in fact, she'd asked him

to have sex. I mean, she can't be

a normal person. I mean, if you're going around

trying to destroy an innocent person's life, I don't see that

person is normal. The day Mahad was sentenced

to seven years in prison, after being wrongly found guilty

by a jury, is etched on his memory. I felt being let down

from the justice system, not being believed, the way

I was treated by the police. He wonders whether women who really

have been raped will be less likely Let's say for instance, a real human

being is going through the same situation who has been raped

genuinely, who's going Because she's making hard for other

females, or women out there. It's a fear supported by her judge

at her trial who said: People like Jemma Beale

are incredibly rare, but a recent study found

there are 160 times more prosecutions for rape than for false

allegations of rape. It's Britain's tallest bridge and

has taken six years to build. The Queen has officially opened

the new Queensferry Crossing over the Firth of Forth -

53 years to the day since she opened She was accompanied

by the Duke of Edinburgh, who was making his first official

appearance alongside her since There's been a week of events to

mark the opening of this billion-pound bridge. There was a

spectacular light show. This past weekend, 50,000 people got to walk

across it in what was described as a once in a lifetime opportunity. Then

today, it received a royal seal of approval.

This newest of bridges across the Forth has had plenty of attention

since it was completed. Today it was the turn of the Queen to meet some

of the workers who built it and see for herself the finished crossing.

CHEERING There to greet her and the Duke of

Edinburgh, hundreds of local school children, who've grown up watching

the new structure stretch out over the water. This is a bridge that

celebrates the skills of hand and heart and mind. A small group,

chosen from the many thousands involved in this construction, on

hand as the Queen officially opened the new crossing. Then for the royal

visitors, a short drive over the bridge. This reminiscent of an

earlier visit by the Queen more than half a century ago. In front of

large crowds, she officially opened the Forth Road Bridge, which sits

just to the east. Concerns over corroding cables on that older

bridge led to the decision to build this new one, which the Queen today

described as a feat of engineering. The queens ferry crossing joins its

historic neighbours to create not only a breath taking sight over the

Firth of Forth but to provide an important link for so many in this

community and the surrounding areas. Those who live nearby excited to be

part of this special day. It was just amazing, like seeing the Queen

come and everything and all the marching bands. Oh, my gosh. It's

absolutely amazing that she was here to open it today and for us as

locals, to be allowed to be so close to her. That was absolutely

fantastic. Celebrating this occasion from the

Forth a flotilla of boats, while above the Red Arrows, these now

three bridges standing side by side from the water, land and air, a

unique and unmistakable Scottish vista.

Not a million miles away from the queens ferry crossing in Edinburgh

we've had rain today. This was one of our weather watcher pictures. The

rain has been working in across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Ahead

this afternoon across England and Wales a lot of cloud, mist and foggy

weather. It was murky for much of the day in Guernsey, until a few

hours ago, when the sunshine burst through the clouds. This was the

scene we had. Now a lot of cloud around at the moment. Looking out in

the Atlantic, a bump on this weather front that's coming in. That's an

extra push of energy that's going to boost the rain as it comes in across

Northern Ireland. Then it moves into Scotland, parts of northern England

and across Wales through the night. The rain turning increasingly heavy.

To the south-east, fog patches around coasts and hills. Drizzly and

damp, humid too. 15 to 17 degrees. In Northern Ireland and Scotland,

about 13 degrees overnight. Looking at tomorrow then, a wet and breezy

start to the day. Outbreaks of rain for much of the day across Wales and

northern England, where the rain will be heavy at times. Not too much

in the way of rain getting down towards south-east England. There

will be a lot of cloud here and temperatures-wise, if we don't see a

great deal of sunshine, still into the low 20s across Eastern

counteries of England. For Scotland and Northern Ireland, it brightens

up. Here we see sunshine, but it feels a bit fresher. Now the weather

for the rest of the week really, not a bad day on Wednesday, most of us

dry with sunny spells. But through Thursday and Friday, fairly

widespread showers, turning blustery and cool at times, particularly

towards the North West of the UK. Before I go, I wanted to show you

this. A massive hurricane, which will have wind gusts of 160mph as it

mows across Barbuda, close to the British virgin aisles. It could head

into Florida this weekend. If you know anyone going that way, stay in

touch with the forecast. America has warned that North Korea

is begging for war and has urged the UN to take the strongest possible

measures, following the regime's latest and most powerful nuclear

test. That's all from the BBC News at Six,

so it's goodbye from me. And on BBC One, we now join

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