08/01/2018 BBC News at Six

Guilty - the couple convicted

of plotting a devastating terror

attack in the UK inspired

by so-called IS.

They met on a dating website.

She's a pharmacist,

he's an asylum seeker who worked

at a food factory.

Together, they planned

a homemade bomb.

This was a plot inspired

by the Islamic State to carry out

an attack in the UK that would have

probably resulted in significant

loss of life and a significant

number of injuries.

Also on tonight's programme...

Who's in and who's out?

Theresa May carries out

a Downing Street reshuffle -

some new faces, but some big

names are staying put.

The BBC's China Editor Carrie

Gracie quits her role

in a dispute about equal pay -

accusing the corporation

of breaking the law.

Dressed in black at

the Golden Globes -

stars of stage and screen show

solidarity with victims

of the Hollywood sexual

harassment scandal.

And Australia celebrate winning

the Ashes after another crushing

defeat for England -

what now for the tourists?

And coming up on Sportsday

later in the hour on BBC News:

The deal is done.

Phillippe Coutinho has completed his

dream move to Barcelona.

Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six.

A couple who met on an internet

dating website have been convicted

of planning a devastating Christmas

terror attack inspired

by the Islamic State group.

Munir Mohammed, an asylum seeker

from Sudan who was living in Derby,

had stored up bomb-making components

with the help of a his girlfriend

Rowaida El-Hassan, a pharmacist.

The court heard the pair

were also researching how

to make the deadly poison,

ricin in the foiled

attack a year ago.

Here's our Home Affairs

Correspondent, June Kelly reports.

This is a story which stretches

to the streets of Sudan.

The couple now convicted

both had roots here,

but they linked up thousands

of miles away in the UK.

Munir Mohammed entered Britain

illegally and then sought asylum.

A couple of years later,

although married, he went

on a Muslim dating site,

singlemuslim.com, and found

his partner in crime.

He was attracted

to Rowaida El-Hassan

because she was a pharmacist.

He needed her scientific know-how

to mount a terror attack.

They were both wedded

to an extremist ideology.

They began sharing

IS execution videos.

Together, the couple plotted

a terror outrage in the UK

in the run-up to Christmas 2016.

Munir Mohammed would carry it out.

He was living in a bedsit in Derby.

Described as a bedroom jihadi,

here, over the internet,

he took instructions from a man

believed to be an IS commander,

and told him "I'm ready".

Munir Mohammed had been

picked up on CCTV in Asda.

He was shopping for everyday items

containing chemicals

he needed for his bomb,

all the time being guided over

the phone by his girlfriend

using her pharmacy experience.

In his bedsit, officers found

bomb-making components

and instructions on how to use

mobile phone detonators

and the poison ricin.

His IS commander had posted

an instruction on Facebook

which read "Place poison in food

like fruit and vegetables in markets

or inject poison in drinks and foods

that are prohibited in Islam".

At that time, Munir Mohammed

was working here at Kerry Foods

in Burton-on-Trent.

He was in the kitchens,

making sauces for ready meals that

are sold in Tesco and Morrison's.

Using fake ID with someone else's

name, he got the job through the GI

Recruitment Company.

Munir Mohammed was

planning a bomb attack.

There was no evidence

he ever had any poison.

But detectives say that

because of his interest in ricin

and his support for IS,

he did pose a threat

to this factory.

He certainly was a risk.

Had that food company known or had

we known of his interest in ricin

and his link to that food company,

we would have taken steps to protect

the public and to prevent him

from continuing

that employment there.

Kerry Foods, a global brand,

told us:

The GI Recruitment Company

which gave Mohammed

the job here said...

They had no idea the man they

recruited was also a recruit to IS.

This couple was stopped by

the police and security service MI5.

They will be sentenced next month.

June Kelly, BBC News.

The Prime Minister has been carrying

out a reshuffle of her Cabinet,

with a few new faces, but so far,

the changes appear limited.

The Immigration Minister,

Brandon Lewis has been named

as the new Conservative

party chairman, while

Jeremy Hunt continues

as Health Secretary.

The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

is also staying put.

Our Political Editor Laura

Kuenssberg has the latest.

Her report contains flashing images.

Who is going where? This was more a

reshuffle where ministers into doubt

or moved along a little. No huge

group of brand-new passengers for

the glossy Downing Street cars. The

most powerful stayed more or less in

place. Are you expecting to stay in

post, Mr Johnson? The Foreign

Secretary, the Chancellor, Brexit

secretary and the Home Secretary all

still the same. Thank you very much.

David Lidington, who had been in

charge of the legal system, was

promoted to become an enforcer

across government. Sajid Javid, the

Communities Secretary, had housing

added to his title, but stays in

place. Some of Downing Street's

decisions were not anyone's choice.

The Northern Ireland Secretary James

Brokenshire has stood aside for

health reasons.

My intent is to get

on with surgery, get on with

recovery and get back to my duties

as an MP and also backed a

front-line political duties.

By

standing alongside them, this is

what the Prime Minister really

wanted you to see today. Will this

broaden the party's appeal? New

faces to reboot the Tory machine

after its bungled election campaign.

Honoured and looking forward to it.

A new chair and a bigger team

appointed by Number Ten to take

charge at Tory HQ.

I have been asked

to lead a great party. Great team.

Looking forward to it.

We have a

fantastic team.

Do you think you can

really deliver the kind of thing the

Prime Minister hopes for?

Absolutely. This is a positive move.

There are always challenges, but we

are up for it.

You might not

recognise Tory HQ. You may never

have seen some of the new faces, but

this reshuffle is about rebooting

this party as well as about what

happens in government. But watch

this. Those who seemed likely to

move, like the Health Secretary

Jeremy Hunt... Followed the Business

Secretary, Greg Clark, both arrived

into Number Ten... And stayed until

after dark and emerged with

virtually the same jobs.

Are you

pleased with your new job?

But a

colleague, David Gauke, did move to

justice. Karen Bradley, the new

Northern Ireland Secretary. And

Justine Greening, expected to switch

from schools any moment now. And

with more move is expected in the

next couple of hours, there will be

new faces around this table

tomorrow. Reassuringly, though,

neither a move nor a vacancy exists

for the Downing Street cat.

And Laura joins us now. Has the

Prime Minister got what she wanted

in this reshuffle?

It would not be a

reshuffle if there weren't bits of

confusion around the edges or

expectation is that turned out to be

wrong. I understand that Jeremy Hunt

stayed in his position at the

department for help because he made

it strong and passionate argument to

the Prime Minister that he was the

man to do so and to take on

responsibility for the future of

social care in England. So things

were perhaps a bit fluid around Mr

Hunt and he talked himself into

staying in his own job, having

persuaded the Prime Minister. So

far, this reshuffle is still going

on. So far, this is a set of moves,

a slight change, people moving in

and out. But the four most senior

jobs in government, the Foreign

Secretary, the Home Secretary, the

Chancellor and the Brexit secretary

David Davis, they have all stayed in

their post. So in terms of a grand

big new year clear out, it is not

that. From Number Ten's point of

view, they say by the end of

tonight, we will have a new look

cabinet and by the end of tomorrow,

there will be many more new

appointments, more women and more

ethnic minority MPs coming into

government. They are clear that this

is a significant reshuffle. It's not

just a few tweaks around the edges.

For any Prime Minister, getting

through one of these without a

mistake or a huge big mess up is

something of an achievement. But

Downing Street are adamant that this

is a new look. But as I say, without

huge changes at the top table, it's

not necessarily the kind of big

reshuffle that will go down in

history.

Laura Kuenssberg, thank

you.

The BBC's China editor,

Carrie Gracie, has stepped down

from the role because of what she's

called an "indefensible pay gap

between men and women" at the BBC.

In an open letter addressed to

licence fee payers, Carrie Gracie -

who is remaining at the BBC -

accused the corporation

of "breaking equality law".

But the BBC says an independent

audit of rank and file

staff found "no systemic

discrimination against women".

Here's our Media Editor Amol Rajan.

Chinese once called Chairman Mao

the great helmsman...

Carrie Gracie is one of the most

respected international

editors of her generation.

For more than 30 years,

she has broadcast about other

people, but this time,

she is the centre of the story.

Ms Gracie resigned from her

position as China editor

because she is paid less than men

who are also international editors.

This morning, she presented

the Today programme on Radio 4.

It's been very moving, actually...

The news of her resignation leaked

out online last night.

Six months after the BBC was forced

to reveal the salaries of some

highly paid on air staff,

Ms Gracie has been infuriated

by the response to her grievance.

She was offered a pay rise

of £45,000 but declined it,

saying equality is what she wants.

She would not be drawn

on whether she wanted male

colleagues to take a pay cut.

When I started the China job,

I said I will only do this job

if I'm paid equally.

And in July 2017, I discovered

the enormous gap, that the two men

who were international editors

were earning 50% more,

at least, than the two women

who were international editors.

The BBC has completed two

of the three pay audits it

announced last year,

and found no evidence

of discrimination.

The final one will report

in a matter of weeks.

The corporation declined to put

anyone up for an interview,

but in a statement, they said...

The BBC talks about a gender pay

gap, but what I'm talking

about is not a gender pay gap,

where sometimes men and women

are in different roles,

which explains the differences

in pay, what I'm talking

about is sex discrimination,

which is when men are paid more

for doing the same job

or a job of equal value.

That is illegal.

There is tremendous anger among many

female staff at all levels

of this corporation.

Senior figures at the BBC say

they take this issue very seriously,

but many employees have found

the process of fighting for equal

pay completely unbearable.

The salience of this

story, however, arises

from its implications beyond this

place, because it's happening

in a climate in which many women

across several

industries say they have suffered

injustice and inequality

for far too long.

Equality legislation doesn't work.

We need to make it work.

We make it work by forcing

companies to be honest,

which is still not happening,

and by forcing companies

to examine their hiring, promotion

and parental leave policies.

Equal pay for equal work

is a legal requirement.

But who decides what equal work is?

Ultimately, it's

usually the employer.

This is what makes tackling gender

pay issues so difficult,

because obviously, we want

people to be treated

equally and given equal

opportunities in the workplace,

but employers also need

to have the capacity to offer

people flexible payments,

bonuses and that kind of thing

to reward and incentivise people

to do well in their job.

The BBC's public ownership

and obligations means it has

to set unique standards

and face unique scrutiny.

With 200 formal complaints in train

and the possibility of legal action,

this story will run and run.

Amol Rajan, BBC News.

Two men have died after

a small plane crashed

in a field near the village

of Overbury, in Worcestershire.

The single-engine aircraft was

heading for Gloucestershire Airport

when it came down at Bredon Hill.

The conditions were foggy

at the time of the crash

early this afternoon.

Vauxhall is cutting another 250 jobs

at its Ellesmere Port car plant in

Cheshire. The firm is now owned by

France's PSA group. The company

announced the loss of 400 jobs in

October. It is costs at Ellesmere

Port and are higher than other

plants in the group.

The former football coach

Barry Bennell has pleaded

guilty to seven offences

of child sexual assault.

The 63-year-old, who is now

known as Richard Jones,

admitted the charges before

the start of his trial

at Liverpool Crown Court.

The ex-Crewe coach is charged

with a total of 55 offences

between 1979 and 1991.

His alleged victims were all

between the ages of 8 and 15.

Our Sports Editor Dan Roan reports.

A successful former coach

of the 1980s, Barry Bennell worked

with some of the most promising

young footballers

in the north-west of England.

Youth team coach at Crewe Alexandra,

he also had links with

Manchester City and Stoke City.

This is Bennell speaking

to the BBC when at Crewe.

We do a lot of talking to them

as well as showing them the skills

and explaining the game to them.

But there's more to it than just

coming here one hour a week.

We need to give them homework.

But today at the start of his trial

here at Liverpool Crown Court,

Bennell admitted

preying on young boys.

Appearing via video link and wearing

a grey jumper, Bennell,

now known as Richard Jones,

admitted six counts of indecent

assault on two boys

aged between 11 and 14 at the time.

Judge Clement Goldstone QC

also lifted reporting restrictions

on a further charge

that the 63-year-old

had previously pleaded guilty to,

involving a third victim.

Bennell is pleading not guilty to 48

further charges, including 11 counts

of serious sexual assault.

All the charges relate to 11

complainants between 1979 and 1991.

The trial is expected

to last eight weeks.

This all comes as the FA

continues its year-long

investigation into historical

sexual abuse in English football,

with 285 suspects now identified.

Dan Roan, BBC News, Liverpool.

Our top story this evening.

A couple have been convicted

of plotting a devastating

terror attack in the UK inspired

by so-called IS.

And still to come -

we find out why women are twice

as likely as men to die

after suffering the most serious

kind of heart attack.

Coming up in Sportsday in the next

15 minutes on BBC News:

Murray says his hip surgery is a

success but he faces another

five months out of the game.

Stars of stage and screen gathered

in Los Angeles last night

for the 75th Golden Globes awards.

And almost all of them dressed

in black to show solidarity

with victims of the sexual

harassment scandal that has gripped

Hollywood in the last few months.

Oprah Winfrey received a standing

ovation when she used her acceptance

speech to pay tribute to all women

who had suffered abuse and assault.

From LA here's our North America

correspondent, James Cook.

The bright lights of Hollywood are

shining into dark corners, exposing

shameful secrets. At the Golden

Globes, they turned the red carpet

black to demonstrate it

determination to force change.

There

is no way I am ever going to be in a

room and be treated like people have

been treated ever again, and not

stand up and say identical really

that. The whole reason that was able

to take place, like any abuse of

power, is silence.

Meryl Streep was

a one of a number of actresses who

arrived with an activist.

We are

drawing a big black line between

yesterday and tomorrow, the way

things used to be done, the way

business used to be done.

It is

important in our business and it is

important in any business that

people in power don't get to bully

people and especially not bully them

in a sexual way and get away with

it.

Do think the industry is

changing?

Yes, it will have to.

There is no way it cannot.

From the

May make the ceremony began, the

tone was set.

Good evening ladies

and remaining gentlemen.

And here

are the all-male nominees.

Natalie

Portman highlighted the failure of

the Golden Globes to recognise

female directors. And star after

Starr gave voice to a movement now

known as time's up. Oprah Winfrey

led the charge.

For too long women

have not been heard and believed if

they dared to speak the truth to the

power of those men. But their time

is up.

The speech was so powerful,

that it fuelled immediate

speculation of a run for president.

The time is up.

This all began with

the downfall of the mogul who abused

his power. The spotlight is now on

Harvey Weinstein's accusers,

standing side by side.

We have an

opportunity nationally and

internationally so everyone

everywhere can work safely, earned

the same money for the same work,

and we can finally put sexual

harassment in the way past where it

should have been a long time ago.

Is

it happening?

It is happening. Four

months ago you could not have

dreamed of the night like this.

Time

and again on the red carpet we have

heard the same word and that word is

change. The stars walking down here

are insisting that this is not just

a moment, this is a process which

they say will continue.

Rescue workers trying

to reach a burning tanker

in the East China Sea

are being beaten back

by toxic clouds, according

to Chinese authorities.

The vessel has been on fire for two

days after colliding with

a cargo ship and there are fears

it could explode.

South Korean planes and an American

aircraft have joined the search

for missing crew members.

Andy Murray said it would be a last

resort, but he's announced

that he has undergone hip surgery

in Melbourne today,

after being forced to pull out

of the Australia Open.

The three times grand slam champion

hasn't played competitively

since Wimbledon last year.

He says he now hopes to be back

playing again in time for this

summer's grass court season.

Women who have the most serious form

of heart attack are twice as likely

as men to die in the year

after the attack -

according to a major new research.

The decade-long study in Sweden

found that they were less likely

than men to receive recommended

treatments, such as clearing

blocked arteries and using statins.

Here's our medical

correspondent, Fergus Walsh.

AMBULANCE SIRENS WAIL.

Every minute counts

after a heart attack.

But too many women are being

misdiagnosed and wrongly treated.

When Jules Conjoice had a heart

attack aged just 45,

she displayed classic symptoms,

but these were initially

dismissed by paramedics.

Overwhelming pain in my chest,

the pain went up from my jaw,

and sort of spread, then

it was going down my left arm.

And then I had this overwhelming

feeling of going to be sick,

and this clamminess.

The paramedics said, oh,

have you got pins and needles?

I said, yeah.

She said, I think

it's a panic attack.

And I remember thinking,

this isn't a panic attack.

This is something more.

A new study looked at more

than 60,000 women in Sweden who

had the most serious type of heart

attack, when there is

a total blockage of one

of the major arteries.

It found that compared to men

they were roughly twice as likely

to die from their heart

attack within a year.

They were less likely to have

treatment, to clear blocked

arteries, to be prescribed statins

or given aspirin.

One statistic that may surprise

you is that women in the UK

are more than twice as likely to die

from coronary heart disease

than from breast cancer.

Often it seems women present

with unusual symptoms,

and researchers say that helps

explain why, in the UK, like Sweden,

they are not always getting

the right treatment.

Women may well present

with other symptoms,

such as breathlessness,

fatigue, palpitations or pain,

that is more atypical in nature such

as stabbing or sharp.

And these findings can be

misinterpreted, both by the patient

and health care professionals.

But if more women are to get rapid

access to treatment like this,

to clear blocked arteries,

there needs to be greater awareness

that they, like men,

are at risk of heart attacks.

Fergus Walsh, BBC News.

Cricket, and it's been

a disappointing end

to a disappointing Ashes

aeries for England.

They lost the final Test to give

Australia a 4-0 victory overall.

Bowler James Anderson acknowledged

that the visitors had lost

to a far better side, and said

England were now

looking to the future.

Joe Wilson reports.

Scorched in Sydney.

At least the morning torture of

hearing the Ashes score is now over.

England 180 all-out

in their final innings.

Nothing left except

the hows and whys?

We know we've got to

improve in a lot of areas.

I know the management will be

thinking exactly the same,

there's improvements

everyone can make.

You're always looking to improve,

but particularly after a loss.

So what next?

Well, the big issue

for English Cricket is to prepare

players for Australia

in a very different hemisphere.

Never mind 40 degrees, it's

about four here in Loughborough.

The future might just be behind me.

This is England's Pace Programme.

Promising youngsters

in winter training.

Australia had a group of 90 mile

an hour men in the Ashes,

but England don't have fast bowlers.

Do they?

We are hurting, and we will

review ourselves here.

I know I'm already doing that with a

fast bowling programme anyway.

But I'm absolutely convinced that

what we're doing is right,

and people may say,

where are the fast bowlers then?

We've got them.

Will they get in the team?

James Anderson and Stuart Broad have

led England's bowling for a decade.

They can't go on indefinitely.

Jamie Porter was County Cricket's

leading wicket taker last summer.

He's skilful more than

quick, and that's not

enough, some will say.

Some of the stuff that's

said frustrates me

because I don't agree with it.

It just motivates me more to go

and show them that, you know,

I'm ready for my chance

and when I get it I want to prove

to people that there is some talent

around,

there is room for a bowler like me

in international cricket.

English summers can chill

English cricketers.

A season's grind rewards stamina not

speed, and fast bowlers can be lost.

But if these images don't

add a few miles an hour

of motivation, nothing will.

Joe Wilson, BBC News, Loughborough.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

have released two new photographs

of Princess Charlotte at Kensington

Palace.

The photos were taken

by the Duchess this morning -

shortly before Princess Charlotte

left for her first day of nursery

at the Willcocks Nursery School

in South West London.

Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Chris Fawkes.

Hello. We have some more beautiful

pictures, this time of the weather.

It was a freezing cold start to the

day in Scotland and this helped

these things do form. They are

called ice pancakes. They are caused

by AD is causing foam which freezes.

On the satellite picture you get

this sense of the lump of cloud

creeping its way northwards. The

wind is starting to blow in from the

south-easterly direction. That will

push the cloud northwards. For many

areas, it will tend to turn cloudy

overnight. Across the Highlands of

Scotland, here we will keep some

clear skies and temperatures could

get down to minus eight Celsius.

There will be some hill fog patches

dotted around the UK. For most of us

it is a cloudy, grey start to the

day. The best sunshine across

Scotland, parts of West Wales and

England. Later in the afternoon we

will see a band of rain encroaching

from the West and bringing some damp

weather into the far south-west of

Wales and England. That wet weather

will continue to push its way

northwards and eastwards tomorrow

night. Along with that again there

will be some low cloud around and

missed and hill fog patches. Cold

enough for some snow in the

mountains of Scotland but generally

temperatures in the towns and cities

holding a few degrees above

freezing. That takes us into

Wednesday which is a decent weather

kind of day. The skies will brighten

up with some sunshine coming

through. In the sunshine it is

turning milder across the south-west

with temperatures reaching double

figures but cooler further north.

A reminder of our main story:

A couple who met on a dating website

have been found guilty of plotting

what the judge called a potentially

devastating terror attack in the UK,

inspired by so-called Islamic State.

That is all from the