06/09/2017 BBC News at Six

Tonight at Six: Dire warnings from business over the Government's

Low skilled workers from the EU could face tighter border controls.

Theresa May says it will help low-paid workers here.

Overall, immigration has been good for the UK,

but what people want to see is control of that immigration.

From baking to agriculture, unions and restaurants,

critics say cutting immigration could hit their businesses.

It's going to make it much more difficult to recruit people,

and also the impact on ingredients' prices will mean that we have to

Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic storm ever,

makes landfall with gusts of over 180 mph.

The storm rips through one Caribbean island after another.

She won the Nobel Peace Prize, but now Aung San Suu Kyi is under

fire for not speaking out about the plight of

Motty is ready to hang up his commentator's mic.

How will football survive without him and his gags?

I did my first ever commentary for BBC television from this very

gantry, and in those days no one had ever heard of the internet,

although I can vouch that once upon a time I did say it's

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Andy Murray has confirmed he's

unlikely to play for the rest of the tennis season

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

It's a leaked document of an early draft, but the revelation

of the Government's thinking on immigration after Brexit has

produced both political opposition and business concern.

Today ministers have been explaining why they believe low-skilled

immigration from the EU should be restricted.

Theresa May said free movement hurt some of

But business leaders say EU workers are good for the economy.

Here's our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

There in black and white, a plan for immigration after we leave the EU.

Leaked ideas to answer the demand the Prime Minister believes millions

made when they voted to go. Prime Minister, is your immigration policy

going to hurt the economy? A draft of a tighter system of control that

could come with its own costs. Overall, immigration has been good

for the UK, but what people want to see is control of that immigration.

That is what people want to see as a result of coming out of the European

Union. We are already able to exercise controls in relation to

those who come to this country from outside the countries within the

European Union, and we continue to believe is a Government that it is

important to have net migration at sustainable levels. Document from

August says Freeman to movement where unlimited EU citizens can come

here will end when we leave. New arrivals after 2019 would have to

register to stay long term. There will be tighter rules for lower

skilled workers, to prioritise British employees, perhaps even with

a cap on numbers. And the EU citizens who do come to the UK,

it'll be harder to bring family along. This Birmingham food factory

is already losing one Italian chef who's worried about Brexit. And the

concerned it will make it harder to attract new arrivals, the staff she

needs. It will definitely hinder our job as an employer and food

manufacturer. We do have chefs from all over the world. It will impact

our ability to recruit people. Officially, Labour is rather silent

on the, not yet Government policy, but the theory is that stopping

immigration could choke off business. The lower skilled workers

who work in hospitality, construction, the idea that stopping

them coming here will lead to us being more prosperous is ridiculous,

so I hope that that is not genuine government policy, and if it is, I

hope there is a rethink. Is it not time we took back control of our

immigration policy? The Government is not budging on its view that the

referendum was about to control immigration. This draft was put

together only last month, and there have been six more versions of the

plan. With not just the Home Office but the Treasury, the Brexit

department and number ten all determined to chip in. And don't

forget, whatever they decide here, they have to try to persuade the EU.

Leaving the EU is not just about obscure negotiations in the back

rooms of Brussels, but Government departments right now engaged in

rewriting the country's rules. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

So if this draft document is anything to go by, the Government

wants to cut back the number of low-skilled workers coming

But what effect would that have on our economy and services

For many, Brexit was about restricting EU immigration.

Here in Clacton, for example, there's support for an immigration

policy that deters low-skilled European workers from coming

to the UK unless it can be shown that they make

Britain should come first, because it's broken

They shouldn't just come over here and get a job straightaway.

Brexit means the same rules we currently use for non-EU migrants

for instance, discouraging low-skilled workers.

The Home Office document proposes that low skilled

to staying a maximum of two years, that they meet a specific salary

threshold with a cap on overall numbers.

For non-EU, it means a job paying less than ?30,000 a year,

so many care workers, for example, teachers,

builders and nurses, are barred unless their occupation

This afternoon, nurses were demonstrating outside

Parliament, demanding better pay, but also warning that the NHS

in England is currently 40,000 nurses short.

One of the difficulties is, because of the low pay of nurses,

they don't fall into the category of the skilled workforce

So we have always been dependent on nursing

being on the shortage list, and we would encourage and demand

Inside the Houses of Parliament, MPs were today discussing how lower

immigration might hit key services like social care.

But those in favour of tougher controls say the UK must do more

to fill British jobs with British workers.

We want to encourage employers to train local people to make more

of an effort to look ahead and prepare for the time

when there won't be all these people coming in with ready-made skills,

Today's policy proposals also envisage tighter controls on family

members an EU worker can bring with them, a minimum

But official government advisers have said that post-Brexit,

low immigration would cost Britain ?113 million a week by 2021.

Employers including the creative industries, construction,

agriculture and the hospitality industry have been warning of dire

The European market is really important to us

and adds another skill base to our workforce.

That skill base is often something we cannot get locally.

Today's policy proposal document may well enjoy public support,

but it also highlights the swings and roundabouts of the journey

Hurricane Irma, the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic,

has now made landfall as it sweeps across a number

The Category 5 storm, with sustained winds

of 185 mph, is now heading towards the British Virgin Islands,

Puerto Rico and then may hit Florida by the end of the week.

Our correspondent Laura Bicker is in Puerto Rico.

You can see the effect of the hurricane already, and it is already

quite a bit away. We believe it is over the Virgin Islands, and it was

last recorded with wind speeds of 185 mph. They have not seen a storm

in the region of this strength since 1928. All the preparations have been

made on this island now, and the only thing they can do is wait and

see what the next few hours will bring.

This is what it sounds like to be in the heart of one of the strongest

The winds, like a jet engine, roar through the eastern Caribbean.

The category five hurricane ripped roofs off homes,

devastating some of the oldest buildings in Saint Martin.

And all communication was lost to 2000 people stuck on the island

of Barbuda where there are reports of a 20 foot storm surge.

And as she barrelled towards the Virgin Islands,

hundreds tried to get to safer ground.

This rare view from the air gives you an idea of the sheer

Around the eye are catastrophic 185 mile an hour winds.

And this is what they fear on the island of Puerto Rico.

The aim is to try to save as much as possible.

Neighbours in this area are handing out wood boarding and supplies.

This shop owner describes them as angels.

We are a strong island, you know, we have been through this before.

It's a lot of emotions going on, you know?

The Governor inspects one of the shelters set up

for the thousands who are expected to evacuate low-lying areas.

He says the next few hours of preparation could be

the difference between life and death on this island.

A big impact, should those hurricane winds hit Puerto Rico.

We are hopeful that it will skid off somewhere

north-east of Puerto Rico, but we are prepared

We can't leave anything to chance and our priority right now

is to make sure the people of Puerto Rico are safe.

These families hope they will be safe in this school.

This woman tells us her house is already filled with water.

Irma is closing in and all people here can do now is watch and wait.

Our weather presenter Chris Fawkes is here.

Hurricane Irma is the second strongest hurricane on record,

with the winds gusting to an astonishing 225mph.

In harm's way, Barbuda found itself in the wrong place

with the hurricane's destructive core mowing straight

Irma's trail of devastation then moved to St Maarten and Anguila

The first signs of Irma's power are beginning to emerge.

The French interior minister Gerard Collomb,

quoted by AFP news agency, said government buildings

on Saint Maarten, the most sturdy there,

Hurricane Irma will remain as an extremely dangerous

Category 5 storm, with another direct landfall

expected across the British Virgin Islands in the next hour or two.

Winds are just one of the threats to life in this storm's arsenal.

Low pressure in the eye of the storm will cause the ocean to bulge

upwards, with the resulting wall of water slamming

into coastal areas, seen here with devastating

I'm six foot three, but the storm surge due

in the British Virgin Islands is expected to reach

up to 11 foot high - nearly twice my height.

The resulting inundation is also likely to be catastrophic,

and in addition there's colossal falls of rain.

Irma will then extend its swathe of destruction to Puerto Rico,

the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas before turning

sharply to batter Florida around Sunday night.

There is no question that this storm will bring catastrophic damage,

but it will take many days before we truly know the full extent

Five men charged in connection with the investigation

into the Hillsbrough disaster have appeared at Preston Crown Court.

They included the former Chief Constable, Sir Norman Bettison,

who is charged with misconduct in a public office.

The hearing was taken up with procedural matters and no pleas

were entered although all the men have previously indicated

This time yesterday we reported the plight of Rohingya Muslim is fleeing

violence in Myanmar. One of the country's leaders,

Aung San Suu Kyi, said the crisis in Rakhine state was being distorted

by what she called a "huge Iceberg of misinformation. Many

accuse Myanmar's military of murder and rate. Caroline Hawley reports.

Terrified Rohingyas are fleeing from Myanmar however they can.

Several children are said to have drowned today trying

We were hiding near a hill for two days.

We were there in the rain without food and with my children.

When we heard the sound of shooting, we took a boat across the sea

The refugees bring with them new reports of atrocities that have

The world had hoped the country's de facto leader would use her moral

Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991

for her nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights.

She had spent 15 years under house arrest during

But today, at a press conference with the Indian Prime Minister,

Aung San Suu Kyi was conspicuously silent on the victims

She said misinformation was distorting reality,

and she blamed terrorists for the crisis.

We believe that together we can work to make sure that terrorism is not

allowed to take root on our soil or on the soil of any

They are Muslims who've faced discrimination and persecution

for decades in mainly Buddhist Myanmar, which

considers them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

But Bangladesh denies they are its citizens.

Many were forced from their villages by communal violence

The latest refugee crisis has been caused by what the military

is calling "clearance operations", following attacks by Rohingya

150,000 Rohingyas have fled Myanmar in the last two weeks alone.

More than 230,000 have escaped to Bangladesh since last October.

Malala Yousafzai, a fellow recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize,

this week called on Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn what she called

the tragic and shameful treatment of the Rohingyas.

Aid agencies haven't been allowed into the areas

they are fleeing from, and the UN Secretary-General has

warned this crisis could spiral into a humanitarian catastrophe.

The Government's rejected suggestions it will turn its back

on EU workers after Brexit - but says the current

And still to come, we hear from Jennifer Lawrence,

the world's highest paid actress, about the gender pay gap in

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, a tough day for Chris Froome

He's hoping to win both the Vuelta

and Tour de France in the same year.

For decades now, British scientists have been receiving billions

of pounds for research from the European Union.

Since the referendum they've been worried

Well, the Government's answer came in the form

Ministers hope to negotiate a special status for the UK's

membership of the European Union's science funding bodies.

Here's our Science Editor David Shukman.

European funding underpins much of British science.

It supports the search for a new, clean source of energy,

with this experimental fusion reactor near Oxford.

It helps the exploration of graphene, an astonishing material

with huge industrial potential, and it contributes to research

into flooding and how best to predict it.

And because of links like this, a new Government paper recognises

that a deep relationship should continue after Brexit.

It's very encouraging in both its tone and its aspirations,

but it's clear that there's going to be a lot of work that needs

to be done to hammer out the details of an eventual agreement.

Over the years, British scientists have done well

Between 2007 and 2013, they received ?8 billion in grants,

and that's 3 billion more than the UK paid to

the EU research budget. So where does this go?

At Imperial College in London, mosquitoes are used to investigate

a vaccine for malaria, part of a multinational

Dozens of teams here and literally thousands across the UK

The Government hopes that this can continue,

What scientists are desperate to find out is exactly what kind

of future relationship there will be with the European Union.

Will it be like Norway and Switzerland, which are outside

the EU, but in its science programme?

For that, they have to pay and accept freedom of movement.

Or will there be some other unique arrangement for Britain?

Whatever it is, it will take some serious negotiation.

A key issue is freedom of movement for scientists.

Of this team of 12 at the Francis Crick Institute,

ten are from EU countries, and they feel uncertain.

It is a concern, and it is one that plays on all of our minds

and that is possibly leading to at least some people beginning

to contemplate offers elsewhere

which they may not have contemplated before.

From researching the jet stream and how it affects our weather...

To investigating the deep ocean, British science is integrated

Unpicking that, or adjusting it, won't be easy.

The BBC has announced that it's conducting three

wide-ranging reviews into pay following the controversy over

Two will look into equal pay across the corporation -

the other will be a review of pay and diversity for on-air stars.

Our Media Editor, Amol Rajan is here.

There was an outcry at the time. What is the BBC's response? As you

say, the speech by the director-general today, Tony Hall,

was significant, because it was his first big speech since the outcry.

There are three things going on. There is an internal audit looking

addenda Bay, an external audit looking at all BBC staff and the

issue of equal pay, whether people doing the same job at being paid the

same. On top of that is that there is the

issue of talent, a big issue that caused ceremony headlines in the

summer. Lots of people have identified the problems facing the

BBC. That doesn't make it easy to identify the solutions. If you are

trying to get equality in a public sector organisation, you can either

do it by raising the salaries of those who are lower down, which

could be inflationary, or you reduce the salaries of those at the top,

but that could prove controversial because you get lots of legal action

and big p ublic there is an attempt to address the lack of equality at

the BBC so there is an attempt to address the lack of equality at but

we are a long way from finding concrete solutions these reviews are

going on. Knowing this care of the problem, and that is why these

reviews are going on. Thank you. A test carried out on DNA taken

from the body of the dead Spanish artist Salvador Dali has shown that

a woman was wrong to His body was exhumed in July

from a crypt in Figueres so that samples could be taken

to settle the paternity claim. Maria Pilar Abel Martinez,

a tarot card reader, had maintained that her mother had

had an affair with More than 400 pupils

at a comprehensive school in Aberystwyth were given detention

on their first day back from the summer holidays

for breaking school uniform rules. Ysgol Penglais changed

its uniform policy for the new school term,

but a third of pupils, the ones who were given detention,

are believed to have been wearing clothes or shoes that didn't comply

with the new policy. Some parents have started a petition

saying their children have been Jennifer Lawrence was the highest

paid actress in the world last year. She's made her name and her fortune

playing gritty roles and her new part in the dark,

psychological thriller, Mother!, Our Arts Editor, Will Gompertz,

has been to meet the 27-year-old Oscar winner ahead of

the film's UK premiere. Thank all our we spend all our is

the eponymous mother, house-proud and devoted to her husband, a much

older literary man played by Javier Blanco. What do they want? There.

Jennifer Lawrence is the eponymous mother, house-proud and devoted to

her husband, a much older literary man played by Javier Blanco. What do

they want? Distance into a living which effects laden horror movie

which critics are slamming and lauding in equal measure. I'm so

sorry a metaphor which effects laden horror movie which critics are

slamming and lauding in equal measure. I'm so sorry. There will

anyone who sees the movie. It's hard to watch. It's an assault. If I was

writing a review while watching it, I would be like, meh for anyone who

sees the movie. It's hard to watch. It's an assault. If I was writing a

review while watching it, I would be don't go! If you sit with it a bit

and 45 minutes when you realise how important it, you realise how

important it going to let him sleep in our house? Hello. Did you know he

had a wife? What was in it that was important here's a stranger and we

are going to let him sleep in our house? Hello. Did you know he had a

wife? What was in it that was was great about it is that everyone will

me, it was what had with something that resonates with them. For me, it

was what happened we treated our planet with care we treated our

planet with care, with humanity. Pulling out of the Paris climate

deal was not a good step. That's what keeps a marriage going. This is

all just... . Pulling out of the Paris climate deal was not a good

step. That's what keeps a marriage going. This is all just... Oh, you

do want them. What about gender in Hollywood, something you have talked

a lot about? Do you think it is still? . I think there is still a

lot of, yeah. I think there is still a lot of unfairness we are making

changes. The gap is very slowly closing, but there is still work to

be done. Did you make sure, for instance, that you got paid the same

or even more than Javier Bardem in this movie we are making changes.

The gap is very slowly closing, but there is still work to be done. Did

you make sure, for instance, that you got paid the same or even more

than Javier Bardem in this you would have a word! Jennifer Lawrence,

speaking to our arts editor, I didn't look at what he was getting,

I just knew what I deserved and I fought for that. And if you found

out he was being paid more? There would be a phone call. You would

have a word! Jennifer Lawrence, speaking to our arts editor, Will

Gompertz. For 50 years, he has been

the voice of football. But now John Motson has decided

to hang up his microphone Motty - as he's famously known -

has covered ten World Cups, 200 England games

and 29 FA Cup finals, Well, I'm afraid that Mark West

and Martin O'Neill will have to wait a few days longer

if they are going to add another chapter to Wycombe's famous

Cup history because, as you can see, this part

of Buckinghamshire is absolutely snowbound and there is a bit

of a gale hurtling Now Tudor has gone down

down for Newcastle. The Crazy Gang have

beaten the Culture Club. Wimbledon have destroyed Liverpool's

dreams of the double. Brian, you're just saying anything,

just to be awkward. Certainly not, I'm saying, the hills

are alive with the sound of music. The last time you and I were seen

doing an interview on television, I'm not sure if that's a compliment

or whether it just shows how long He's going to be out of the final

if England get there. It's Denmark who are

the European champions. Chris Fawkes is back

again, this time with Will we will take a quick look and

their reminder about the yes, we will take a quick look and their

reminder about the Irma as well Irma as landfall on Barbuda, the second

most powerful hurricane that has ever been. It then impacted directly

on Saint Irma made landfall on Barbuda, the second most powerful

hurricane that has ever been. It then impacted directly on. As well

as those incredibly powerful winds, a massive storm surge will cause

inundation, heavy. We have had reports of damage here and it is

currently mowing its way into the British Virgin Islands. As well as

those incredibly powerful winds, a massive storm surge will cause

inundation, but we did see cloud ringing flooding and from there,

Puerto Rico is the next place that will get impacts. Closer to home, it

was a decent day here. Most of us saw some brighter spells today, but

we did see cloud building in the afternoon for the for the rest of

work into Northern Ireland, those thick clouds will work into Northern

Ireland, there could be a few patches of light, the rest of

England and Wales and there could be a few patches of. For much of

England, it will Scotland, where it will turn quite chilly for

Aberdeenshire. Tomorrow, a downward slide weather-wise into a more

unsettled spell of weather. Outbreaks of rain working in quickly

into Northern Ireland and Scotland. Though stronger winds will blow the

rain, as will eastern Scotland, where it will turn quite chilly for

Aberdeenshire. Tomorrow, a downward slide weather-wise into a more

unsettled spell of weather. Outbreaks of rain working in quickly

into Northern Ireland and Scotland. Though stronger winds will blow the

rain into of England and Wales. For much of spell East Anglia were

feeling cool. Feeling cool conditions. Friday sees a band of

rain threatening southern England with those blustery conditions.

Friday sees a band of rain threatening southern sunshine and

showers that will be with us, I'm afraid,

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

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