09/11/2017 BBC News at Six

Tonight at Six -

One out, one in -

Theresa May is forced into another

cabinet change after Priti Patel

resigns.

Penny Mourdaunt - who backed

the Leave campaign -

becomes the new International

Development Secretary.

I'm looking forward to working with

the team here, to continue building

a safer, more secure and more

prosperous world for us all, really

giving the British public pride in

what we do.

But with the government still under

pressure on multiple fronts,

Tories are hoping Theresa May can

get her ministers back on track.

Another challenge for Theresa May -

crunch talks on Brexit

are under way...

Also tonight...

Preventing extremism -

more than 2000 children under 15

have been referred to the official

anti-terror scheme.

"I acted by the book" -

the Welsh First minister

defends his sacking of a politician

who was later found dead.

The director's cut -

Kevin Spacey will be edited

out of his latest film

after the allegations

of predatory sexual behaviour.

Who in their right mind would take

on a massive wave like this?

One surfer did - and only just

survived to tell the tale...

And coming up on Sportsday

on BBC News...

We'll have the latest from a huge

night at Windsor Park

where Northern Ireland take

on Switzerland in the first leg

of their World Cup play off.

Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six.

For the second time in a week,

Theresa May has been forced

into a mini-reshuffle

of her cabinet.

Penny Mourdaunt has been appointed

as the new International

Development Secretary -

replacing Priti Patel

who resigned last night,

admitting she had not been

transparent enough about high level

meetings with Israeli politicians.

Like her predecessor, Ms Mourdaunt

backed the Leave campaign

in the EU referendum.

With Brexit talks at a crucial stage

Mrs May will be hoping that's

the end of her cabinet woes.

Here's our political

editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

One for sorrow, two for joy. One

Brexit minister departs through the

back door and another is about to

arrive.

Even the driver of the shiny

ministerial car was expecting Penny

Mordaunt as the favourite but

neither he all we knew for sure,

until gates opened up. So a little

bit before half past two, the

carefully choreographed arrival of

the newest recruit to Theresa May's

cabinet. A promotion for Penny

Mordaunt, another Brexiteer around

the Cabinet table. Her appointment

was not a surprise. Her Wikipedia

page was changed before the official

announcement. Unusually she arrives

at her new department with

experience.

Congratulations. Thank

you so much.

Not just as a junior

minister in government, but having

been an aid worker in Eastern

Europe.

It is my first day here and

I'm delighted to be here. I've

already met some of the staff and

they are doing a terrific job

building a safer, more secure and

more prosperous world for us all and

I want to continue to do that and

give the British public confidence

and pride in what we are doing.

You

might recognise her from a rather

unlikely TV diving competition, she

was also a magician's assistant in a

former life. As well as working for

charities and being a Navy

reservist, she ran for parliament

for the first time in 2005, elected

in 2010.

What do we want?

She backs

Andrea Leadsom, not Theresa May, for

Prime Minister. But crucially, she

campaigned to leave the EU. On the

stump alongside the woman she

replaced.

In terms of Brexit, whilst

I assume everyone is united behind

the Prime Minister's approach, it's

also helpful to have another person

who was an enthusiastic campaigner

for Brexit during the referendum.

How damaging is this for the

government?

With Brexit secretary

heading to Brussels for the sixth

round of troubled talks, Number 10's

decision preserves the almost 50-50

balance at the top table between

those who backed Remain and those

who backed Brexit. Welcomed by all

sorts at her new department further

up Whitehall, a move that Theresa

May hopes will keep political peace,

at least for now... Laura

Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

While Westminster has been

preoccupied by the multiple

challenges facing the government

the Brexit talks have

reached a crucial stage.

Our Europe Editor,

Katya Adler, is in Brussels.

Katya - what's the reaction there

to what's been happening here?

Well, George, there's a real sense

of incredulity here in Brussels

among those watching events unfold

at Westminster and Eurocrats are

watching, listening and reading

every twist and turn they think is

relevant to Brexit. Basically ever

since the general election there

have been thoughts in Brussels that

Theresa May's days at Number 10

could be numbered. What they really

wanted was a leader in London who

could do a deal, in Brussels, and

then sell it back home. They now

worry that there is no UK politician

who has the power to manoeuvre and

what they want will be a hard sell

back in the UK. That is more money.

A written promise by the UK that it

will honour specific financial

commitments it made while an EU

member and the EU want that because

if the UK does not pay, the EU will

lose out. When David Davis comes to

the European Commission here

tomorrow, he will be put under

pressure tomorrow and old, make a

big move over money by the end of

the month or risk the EU not talking

about the relationship trade, and a

transition deal, until at least

February of next year. That is why

now in Brussels there is talk of a

Brexit crisis brewing to match the

upheaval right now in Westminster.

Katya Adler, thank you.

It's called Prevent,

the government's programme to deal

with the spread of extremist views.

Well, for the first time official

figures have been published

and they give a startling insight

into just who's been flagged up

for inclusion in the scheme.

Just under 8,000 people

were referred to Prevent programme

in the year 2015 to 16.

Of those, almost a quarter -

more than 2000 - were children

under the age of 15.

Our Midlands Correspondent Sima

Kotecha has been looking

at the impact of the Prevent

strategy.

Five terror attacks in Britain, just

this year alone. Preventing any

further attacks is a top priority

for the government. That is why it

has something called Channel, a

programme designed to stop people

from being drawn into violent or

extremist behaviour. This man was

radicalised in prison, by the time

he was released just months ago, he

was ready to go to Syria to become a

suicide bomber. His words are voiced

by an actor to protect his identity.

I was told I would have all of my

sins washed away. The only way to do

it is to become a martyr and

everything will be forgiven and you

will go to heaven. For me, it was

the easiest way out.

To kill myself and blow someone else

up.

If you believe in something you will

do anything.

He has changed his

views now but he is the kind of

person the government would like to

help. Figures today show that over

the last year, out of nearly 8000

people referred to the government's

counterterror strategy, more than

300 went on to receive specialist

support including therapy.

Four out of five were judged to have

their vulnerability to terrorism

reduced but one in six withdrew from

the bottom voluntary process,

despite concerns about their

ideology.

A lot of youngsters as

well.

Thousands of children have

been referred to the programme...

We are so sorry, we've had a problem

with that report.

Carwyn Jones, the First Minister

of Wales, has defended his decision

to sack Carl Sargeant,

the government minister,

facing misconduct allegations,

who was found dead on Tuesday.

It's believed he took his own life.

Mr Sargeant's family say he'd been

denied natural justice

because he wasn't given details

of the allegations against him.

In the last hour, Carwyn Jones

insisted he'd acted "by the book" -

our Wales Correspondent

Sian Lloyd reports.

Anything to say about Carl Sargeant,

first Minster?

Carwyn Jones was not

giving any one thing away leaving

home this morning, he was going to

face fellow Labour assembly members

for the first time since the death

of their collie, Carl Sargeant, who

he sacked and suspended from the

Labour Party on Friday, amid claims

of harassment. Facing criticism from

Mr Sargeant's family and from within

his own party, there were questions

over Carwyn Jones's position. He

promised a statement but it wasn't

the time for him to resign.

We were

all very shocked by what happened

last week. There is great hurt,

anger, and bewilderment. Carl was my

friend, in all of the years that I

knew him, I never had a crossword

with him.

But he defended his

conduct in how he responded to the

allegations against Carl Sargeant.

There is a legal process to go

through. I am obviously acting

within that, but I welcome the

scrutiny of my actions in the

future, and it is appropriate for

that to be done independently.

Carl

Sargeant's body was found at his

home on Deeside on Tuesday. Today, a

family friend gave an insight into

what Mr Sargeant and his family had

been going through.

Messages were

put out to the media, interviews

were given, where he did not know

they were about to happen. The

additional details will be placed

into the public domain. It is,

umm... It broke him.

And Carwyn

Jones's statement tonight is

unlikely to appease Carl Sargeant's

family.

That was Sian Lloyd reporting there.

The father of a man who died

after his ex girlfriend allegedly

threw acid over him has wept

in court as he described

the injuries his son suffered.

Cornelius Van Dongen said his son

Mark felt he had no reason to live

after being paralysed from the neck

down and blinded in one eye.

The 29-year-old later

took his own life at

a euthanasia clinic in Belgium.

Berlinah Wallace denies murder

and claims she thought the liquid

she threw at him at their home

in Bristol was water.

The trial continues.

A woman has been arrested

on suspicion of neglect and fraud

by detectives investigating

the deaths of 12

care home residents.

At least nine homes run by a private

company called Sussex Health Care

are under investigation.

Our social affairs correspondent

Alison Holt is here.

Just give us the background, I know

that you have some details?

Yes, we

had a brief statement from Sussex

Police, they say the woman, who

lives in West Sussex, is in custody

and being questioned about fraud and

neglect. This is part of an ongoing

investigation which first started

with the police in May this year.

They are looking into nine care

homes run by a private company,

Sussex Health Care. Sussex Health

Care provide support for older

people, some with dementia, but also

young adults with severe physical

and learning disabilities. At home

is mainly in the Horsham area of

West Sussex. The investigation is

focusing on allegations of a lack of

care and safeguarding of 43

residents since April 2015 and 12 of

those people have since died. The

company Sussex Health Care has

itself put out a short statement,

saying they continue to cooperate

fully with police and the county

council to support the current

investigation. It also says on its

website that it has long history as

a respected care provider in the

area.

Alison, thank you very much.

Our top story this evening...

Penny Mordaunt is the new

International Development Secretary

- Theresa May's second reshuffle

in as many weeks.

And still to come: They're calling

it a superpower love-in -

how Donald Trump has

changed his tune on China.

Coming up on Sportsday

on BBC News...

We'll have the action from sydney

where England failed to capitalise

We'll have the action from Sydney

where England failed to capitalise

on a good start with the bat on day

one of their Women's Ashes Test

against Australia.

Now, do you feel like your part

of the UK is a green and pleasant

land or a concrete jungle?

It obviously depends

on where you live,

and what you see around you.

But how many of us have an accurate

picture of how much of the UK

is actually developed?

Using the most detailed

satellite and mapping data,

the BBC has produced a land-use map

for every local authority

- and the results may surprise you.

Here's our Home Editor, Mark Easton.

The concrete jungle.

Roads, buildings, stone and tarmac

with barely a blade of grass.

In geography jargon, this is called

continuous urban fabric,

where more than 80% of the ground

is covered by artificial surfaces.

But how much of the UK do

you think is classified

as continuous urban fabric?

Have a guess.

The answer is on the other

side of this card.

I will reveal all in a minute.

Using satellite images

and details local maps,

the land use of every corner

of the UK is revealed.

The City of London, for example,

is 98% continuous urban fabric,

and perhaps that comes

as no surprise.

Nearly all the land around here

is covered in roads and buildings,

but this is actually quite unusual

in the UK,

and I think people might be

surprised just how little

of the land in the country

is actually covered

with buildings and roads.

So, the official answer

to the question, "how much

of the UK is continuous

urban fabric" is...

0.1%.

Looking at the whole of the country,

more than half of it is farmland.

Most of it pastures.

Forests, woodland and natural

landscape account for

a third of all the land.

Urban green space -

parks and gardens - make up 2.5%,

with the area actually built on -

roads, buildings,

ports and airports -

accounting for just 5.9%.

Take a council like Bradford

in west Yorkshire.

Your mental picture is probably

of a bustling urban centre,

but the aerial mapping reveals that

continuous urban fabric

accounts for just 0.3%

of the local authority.

Overall, just a quarter of the land

surface is artificial.

Indeed 10% is this.

I'm standing in a peat bog.

Surprisingly perhaps,

about 10% of the UK landscape

is covered in ground like this.

In fact there is almost twice

as much peat bog in the UK

as the land that we built on.

The top area for peat bog

is the Outer Hebrides,

where it covers 61% of the land.

Number one for pastures is Armagh

city in Northern Ireland,

covering 85% of the local authority.

The area with the highest

proportion of natural

grasslands is Blaenau Gwent,

in industrial South Wales.

So, how much space is given over

to buildings, offices,

factories and homes?

We have been crunching the numbers

and our best estimate for the whole

of the UK is that 1.4%

of the country is

covered in buildings.

That equates to about 2%

for England, just less than 1%

for Wales, and less than half of 1%

for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

A tiny proportion of the UK

is the concrete jungle

of our imagination.

Indeed, the entire area covered

by buildings is smaller

than the land revealed

when the tide goes out.

Most of us, it seems,

have a very confused

idea of what our country

actually looks like.

Mark Easton, BBC News.

If you want to find out how much

of your area is concrete

jungle or green space,

you can use the BBC land use

calculator at bbc.co.uk/news.

Exactly one year ago, Donald Trump

was elected US President.

One of his persistent targets

on the campaign trail was China.

He accused the country of stealing

US manufacturing jobs and even,

in his words, of "raping

the United States".

What a difference a year makes.

President Trump is in China

on a state visit and,

as our China Editor Carrie Gracie

reports, he's been been striking

a very different tone.

The real estate billionaire

and the career communist,

making an odd couple.

But both see themselves as men

of destiny, with a mission

to make their nation great again.

President Trump once raged that

China was a jobs thief.

But in Beijing, he was all

smiles and gratitude.

President Xi, now a very special man

who makes his people proud.

I just want to thank

you for the very warm welcome.

My feeling toward you is

an incredibly warm one...

They did eventually talk

about the hard things.

The North Korean nuclear crisis

and a massive US trade

deficit in China's favour.

But Donald Trump blamed that

on previous American

presidents, not on his host.

I don't blame China.

Who can blame the country

for being able to take

advantage of another country,

for the benefit of its citizens?

I give China great credit.

And America's deal-maker in chief

got some big sales in return.

China needs to keep stable

access to US markets.

TRANSLATION:

The common interests

of our two countries are far greater

than the differences.

With constructive attitudes,

we can look for common ground.

This is not a real news conference.

There are no questions from

the media, either on North Korea,

nor on whether the business deals

are worth celebrating

in the absence of a major move

to open Chinese markets.

Instead, the US president

is starring in a show put

on by his host to give

the impression of openness

while maintaining an iron

grip on the message.

Charm and disarm -

but when the toasts

are over, the trade

deficit will still be big

and North Korea still a crisis.

President Xi hopes this personal

bond will convince Americans that

China's rise does not

mean US decline.

Carrie Gracie, BBC News, Beijing.

Now we are going to go back to a

story we tried to bring you earlier.

It's called Prevent,

the government's programme to deal

with the spread of extremist views.

Our Midlands Correspondent Sima

Kotecha has been looking

at the impact of the Prevent

strategy.

Five terror attacks in Britain,

just this year alone.

Preventing any further

attacks is a top priority

for the government.

That is why it has

something called Channel, a

programme designed to stop people

from being drawn into violent or

extremist behaviour.

This man was radicalised

in prison, by the time

he was released just

months ago, he was ready

to go to Syria to become

a

suicide bomber.

His words are voiced by an actor

to protect his identity.

I was told I would have

all of my sins washed away.

The only way to do it is

to become a martyr and

everything will be forgiven

and you will go to heaven.

To me, it was the easiest way out.

To kill myself and blow

someone else up.

If you believe in something

you will do anything.

He has changed his views now

but he is the kind of

person the government

would like to help.

Figures today show that over

the last year, out of nearly 8000

people referred to the government's

counterterror strategy, more than

300 went on to receive specialist

support including therapy.

Four out of five were judged to have

their vulnerability to terrorism

reduced but one in six withdrew

from the bottom voluntary process,

despite concerns

about their ideology.

Thousands of children have been

referred to the programme...

That's likely to be down to more

pressure on teachers and doctors to

identify vulnerable individuals. A

charity partly funded by the Home

Office reaches out to men outside

mosques.

We are hoping to attract

people to come here and talk about

vulnerabilities they might have and

that might be radicalisation or

homelessness, or drug dependency.

That is something we are trying to

reach out to them so they can get

help.

Channel hasn't been without

its critics. Some argue it targets

specific communities and create

suspicions about them. There's also

concern about how effective it

really is and how those put through

the programme later monitored.

Participation is voluntary, raising

concerns about what happens to those

who refuse help.

One of the big

challenges is for people who already

have really violent extreme views

but who might not be committing

crime, how do we engage them. It's

highly unlikely someone in that

state of mind will willingly engage

with programmes because it goes

exactly against what their ideology

may be.

It is stopping hundreds of

people from violence, diverting them

away, and teachers and professionals

are engaging in the policy and we

are managing to help keep the

country safe.

The UK threat level

remains severe and that means the

effectiveness of the Government's

strategy is crucial.

The actor Kevin Spacey is to be

edited out of a completed Hollywood

film, six weeks before its release,

following allegations

of sexual assault.

He'll be replaced in the thriller

"All The Money In The World"

by the Canadian actor,

Christopher Plummer.

Here's our entertainment

correspondent Lizo Mzimba.

For an almost unrecognisable

Kevin Spacey, it was meant to be a

potential Academy Awards contender.

How much would you pay to release

your grandson if not $70 million?

Nothing.

Now, Christopher Plummer

is to replace him in an

intense few weeks.

of reshoots following sexual assault

allegations against Spacey.

It's a huge undertaking,

but helped by the

fact that Kevin Spacey only appears

in a relatively small number of

scenes and other performers are

thought to be willing to return to

reshoot their roles in scenes that

originally featured them alongside

the now sidelined actor.

The film's director,

Sir Ridley Scott, may also

take advantage of techniques he used

when Oliver Reed died during the

The making of gladiator more than 15

years ago. They allowed him to still

feature the actor in scenes filmed

after his death. An actor who

appears in the movie says the

decision to reshoot must have been a

complex, difficult one.

I think

everything is going a little bit

crazy right now so probably if they

took this decision, it is good for

the movie.

It all underlies the

determination of the studio to

protect a piece of work potentially

worth a significant amount.

Studios

are so intent on their calendar and

finding their huge product, which

are worth millions of dollars, so to

remove them would have cost so much

money that it would have been a

financial disaster to the studio.

Rather than be associated with the

name of Kevin Spacey, they will do

anything to get something over the

line.

It's being seen in Hollywood

as Ridley Scott 's earning what

would have been damaging publicity

for the film into a welcome and

positive move.

Now, it's a surfer's paradise,

an area off Portugal's coastline

known for waves as high

as an eye-watering hundred foot.

And one British surfer has had

a very lucky, if very painful,

escape trying to ride one of these

mammoth waves at Nazare.

Andrew Cotton from Braunton in Devon

suffered a total wipe-out.

Jon Kay picks up the story.

It was all going so well.

Andrew Cotton had been waiting

for this moment, and here it came.

The perfect wave, all

60 feet of it, and...

wipeout.

Andrew was thrown off his board

and crushed by the water.

This footage captured

by a documentary team.

The 38-year-old from Devon

was treated by Portuguese

rescue teams and found

to have a broken spine.

It was a storm from a long way away

and the waves were really...

This afternoon he spoke to us

from his hospital bed

and described what had happened.

It was a different

sort of wave, really.

It was a lot heavier and I...

I sort of just faded a bit deep

and sort of mistimed it, really.

Yeah, it was just

one of those things.

It could have been like the best

wave of my life or the worst

wipeout and, unfortunately,

it was the worst wipeout.

This latest wipeout comes three

years after Andrew was hit

by another massive wave off

the coast of Portugal.

He says he's not been put off

and wants to be back in the water

as soon as possible,

but will his wife and children

back in Devon let him?

Yeah!

No.

No, obviously they're

concerned and, you know,

the kids make a joke about it,

really, like I've managed

to make a career out

of surfing, like falling off.

So they think it's hilarious.

Andrew might owe his life

to a special vest he was wearing

over his wetsuit to protect

him from impact.

As a former plumber, he's used

to being up to his neck in it,

but he hopes he'll never get

a soaking like this again.

Jon Kay, BBC News.

Incredible. Time for a look at the

weather now.

Some of us got to 16 degrees today,

don't be

Some of us got to 16 degrees today,

don't be expecting that as we head

towards the weekend. There's a

change on the way. This cold air

will sink southwards, reaching just

about all parts of the British Isles

by the end of the weekend. It's

already beginning to make its

presence felt across Scotland, this

from a weather watcher on the Isle

of Lewis. Further south it has been

my older. We see this band of cloud

with outbreaks of rain sinking

southwards and eastwards through the

night. Clear skies behind it,

showers in the north, wintry showers

over high ground in Scotland where

there could also be some icy

stretches to take us into tomorrow

morning. A cloudy start in the south

with outbreaks of patchy rain but

things should perk up here and

generally speaking it will be a day

of sunny spells. Showers blowing

into sports exposed to this

north-westerly breeze, and quite a

range of temperatures. That is your

afternoon hike. Things will cloud

over with rain later in the day in

Northern Ireland, this weather

system will clear away during

Saturday and behind it we get into

the cold air coming from the Arctic.

It will be a struggle to clear

things across the south and

particularly the south-west. Wet

weather through Armistice Day here.

Further more, some showers into the

west, and on Remembrance Sunday it

switches to a more northerly wind

which will bring showers not only in