01/02/2018 BBC News at Six

The Finsbury Park terror attack -

a man's found guilty of murder

and attempted murder after ploughing

a van into a group of Muslims.

48-year-old Darren Osborne

deliberately killed one man

and injured several others

near a north London mosque

in an act of terrorism.

Radicalised online within weeks,

he wanted to kill as many

Muslims as possible,

and waved as he was arrested.

The online material played

a significant role in relation

to his mindset and how

he was radicalised.

Darren Osborne will be

sentenced tomorrow.

Also on the programme tonight:

Taking tea in China -

the Prime Minister holds talks

with the Chinese President as Brexit

troubles continue to brew at home.

A warning from England's chief

inspector of schools -

some parents and religious leaders

are trying to "actively

pervert" education.

Calls for more home visits to help

the elderly and vulnerable

trapped in an endless cycle

of avoidable hospital readmissions.

And making history -

Nigeria's bobsleigh team become

the country's first athletes

to qualify for the Winter Olympics.

Here in the East Midlands.

to qualify for the Winter Olympics.

A £10,000

reward's on offer to catch those

responsible for the death

of a Leicester jeweller.

And fears for hundreds of jobs

at one of Loughborough's biggest

Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six.

A man has been found guilty

of murder and attempted murder

after deliberately driving a van

into a crowd of Muslim

worshippers near a north

London mosque last June

in an act of terrorism.

He killed Makram Ali, who was 51,

and injured nine others.

Darren Osborne from Cardiff

was described as a loner who'd

become obsessed with Muslims

after watching a TV drama and

looking at far-right groups online.

The 48-year-old told the court

he was not mad but angry.

Daniel Sandford reports.

It was an act of terror.

A large van, its engine revving,

smashing into a group of Muslims

on a summer night during Ramadan.

Those he injured,

terrified the driver

was going to attack again.

There's a few people who were really

badly hurt and couldn't move.

I thought he was going to kill us.

What did you think he was

going to kill you with?

Maybe guns, maybe a knife.

This, a 999 call made at the time.

The driver was brought

to the ground by the angry crowd.

The local imam urging

them not to hurt him.

When police arrested Darren Osborne,

he waved as he was taken away.

Part and parcel of

living in a big city.

Later at the police station,

he ranted about previous

terror attacks on Muslims,

saying, "Have some of that,

have some of your own.

At least I had a proper go."

At almost exactly that time,

51-year-old Makram Ali

was declared dead at the scene.

He had been crushed by the van.

Darren Osborne's route to murderous

hate seems to have begun

with a BBC drama last May

about a Pakistani grooming

gang in Rochdale.

I buy you things and

you give me things.

His rage was further fuelled

by last year's attacks

in London and Manchester.

In the fortnight before his attack,

he started following this man,

Tommy Robinson, and other anti-Islam

activists on social media.

Osborne received a group e-mail

in Robinson's name saying "There's

a nation within a nation forming

beneath the surface of the UK.

Its a nation built on hatred,

on violence and on Islam."

Detectives believe material

like this had had a powerful

effect on Osborne.

The people around him

described it as having

a major impact on him,

brainwashing him, and as a result

we believe that was, if you like,

part of the main driver for why

he carried out this attack.

But Tommy Robinson accepts

no responsibility.

You don't think that there's

a chance that somehow

the way you were talking

about that was inflaming

hatred and driving people

like Darren Osborne to violence?

No, no.

Zero chance.

On Saturday, June 17th,

Darren Osborne decided to act

and went to hire a large box van.

And that evening he was recorded

in a pub in Cardiff,

writing a hate-filled note later

found by police in the van.

It caught my attention

when he shouted...

Callum Spence was in the pub

that night and remembers

what Osborne said to him.

Terrorists are all bad,

you know, I want to

kill terrorists and Muslims.

I'm going to take things

into my own hands.

The next day, Osborne

drove to London.

His original target,

this pro-Palestinian

march, where he says he hoped

to kill as many Muslims

as possible and Jeremy Corbyn.

But road closures meant

he couldn't get near

so he ended up in Finsbury Park

looking for a mosque.

Just after midnight he came down

the Seven Sisters Rd,

swerving across the bus lane

at speed and impacting the group

of worshippers just here.

His foot hard down

on the accelerator.

He ran three people down,

knocking several more to the side,

and then smashed into the bollards

at the end of the street.

His radicalisation complete,

he has achieved his aim, to kill.

Mohammed Mahmoud, the imam who saved

Osborne that night, says his

congregation were left fearful.

It left people wondering,

would there be more, what next?

If a car can be turned

into a weapon and cause

multiple casualties in one go,

in an instant, then could this be

expected again in the future?

The jury rejected

Darren Osborne's bizarre

excuse that a mysterious man called

Dave was driving at the time

of the attacks and vanished, and he

now joins the growing list of white,

far-right terrorists

in Britain's prisons.

Darren Osborne never really looked

worried throughout this trial. At

one point, he was asked if he

understood how serious the situation

was, and he said he did but he

wasn't really concerned, and he let

the court notes that he was quite

determined to kill as many Muslims

as possible. The judge said she will

pass sentence tomorrow. Because he's

been found guilty of murder, a life

sentence is inevitable. The only

question remaining, what the minimum

term will be and whether he will

ever be released.

The Prime Minister has held talks

with China's President,

Xi Jinping, in Beijing.

On the second day of her trade

mission, Theresa May said

she hoped her visit would strengthen

the "global strategic partnership"

between the UK and China.

Downing Street says the issues

of North Korea, protecting

the environment and human rights

were also discussed.

From Beijing, here's our political

editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

Watch what I do,

not what others say.

Theresa May wants you to judge her

actions, not her critics words.

Taking tea with her husband

and one of the most

powerful men in the world.

Lapsang Souchong, no less.

Maybe that's what they

drink in Number Ten.

Her journey of thousands of miles

has been for more than a cup of tea,

but a shake on billions'

worth of business deals.

Despite frank talk on Hong Kong

and North Korea too.

I've been pleased to bring a very

large business delegation here.

We've had a very successful visit.

The convoy held up the traffic,

a big charm offensive to help

business sign on the dotted line.

A Brexit-friendly diplomatic visit,

complete with bags.

There's a real success story here.

We've signed agreements

on financial services,

BP have signed a £750 million deal.

One of the biggest Chinese

e-commerce sellers has signed a deal

to sell £2 billion worth of UK goods

over the next two years.

All of this adds up.

We've got to get away in Britain

from our obsession with Europe

in terms of its relation

to the global economy.

Is that enough to make our economy

roar after we leave the EU?

There's menace at home from those

who believe are too timid,

too slow to decide.

What do you say to colleagues

who are frustrated either

because they think Theresa May

is backsliding on Brexit

or they think because she's

somehow a hostage to people

on the other side?

Well, I heard some of these

arguments back in December.

"We'll never get a deal

on how we move forward".

We did get a deal and now I hear

people saying, well,

we will not get an agreement

on our trading relationship.

Yes, we will get an agreement

on that and we've got to see that

against the Government's wider

programme of Britain's relationship

with the rest of the world.

People have doubts about her ability

to though, don't they?

What do you say to those people?

When I've been talking

to Chinese leaders here,

they're looking at performance.

They're looking to see

what the UK is doing,

and they look at the Prime Minister

in a different way than some of,

let's say, the internal tea room

discussions in the UK do.

Some of your colleagues

are too obsessed with

themselves, do you think?

Too obsessed with Westminster?

I think in Britain there is always

a tendency to focus on Britain.

Inside Europe there's

a tendency to focus on Europe.

Both should be focusing on the big

world that's outside.

But while Mr and Mrs May were

roaming Beijing's Forbidden City

someone who was a crucial part

of the Tory empire was urging those

MPs to make her listen.

The Conservative Party must offer

to the country a big

plan for the future.

Big ideas, big vision.

Whether it's transforming schools

in the north of England or a plan

to engage with the rest

of the world, like China, or a

form of Brexit which is not

as economically damaging as some

of the forms being proposed,

I would suggest that's

what's required.

It suits the Prime

Minister's allies to

present the ructions at home

as parochial difficulties or a few

petty disputes, but the divisions

matter because before too long she

has to make big decisions that will

shape all our futures and Britain's

place in the world.

With plenty of others

competing to drive, the back

seat is getting pretty crowded.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Beijing.

The Prime Minister has signalled

that she will fight a demand

by the European Union that EU

citizens who move to the UK

during the transition period

after Brexit in March 2019

will still be given

full residency rights.

Theresa May argues that there has

to be a difference between those

arriving after the UK leaves

and those who came before.

Here's our home editor, Mark Easton.

EU migrants arriving

in the UK today enjoy

all the rights of free movement,

but what will happen

after Brexit in March next year?

The Prime Minister says that moment

should mark a real change,

and new EU migrants should no longer

be guaranteed their right

to live in Britain.

We'll have left the European Union

and the EU can't expect the same

provisions to prevail

after we've gone.

The UK proposal applies

to the hundreds of thousands of EU

migrants expected to arrive

during the so-called

transition phase that follows

Brexit in March 2019.

During that period, they will have

to register with the Home Office

but they won't necessarily know

what rights they'll have at the end

of transition, sometime in 2021.

Today in Brussels, EU citizens

living in the UK were telling

the European Parliament they didn't

want to be bargaining chips

in the negotiations,

and were alarmed that future

migrants were having their rights

traded away in Brexit talks.

If I was still living

in the Netherlands, where I am from,

and I wanted to move to the UK,

I'd wait until everything is clear

because, at the moment,

there is still nothing agreed.

Time is ticking and we

are in the front line,

as EU nationals of this Brexit saga.

After transition, EU migrants

will have to apply to stay

in the UK, but the details of how

that will work are not finalised.

There is uncertainty

about what that means for those

who no longer qualify.

Will they be deported?

There's also uncertainty around

what the rights will be for those

that are successful.

Will they go to bed on the last day

of transition with a certain set

of rights and wake up in the morning

with something very different?

For employers, like the NHS,

the prospect of EU migration falling

further has led to concerns

about their ability

to recruit skilled nurses.

I think, if you are a nurse in an EU

country, in France or Germany,

you're not going to want to come

to this country and put down roots,

because it's uncertain.

And therefore we won't

have the workforce with our current

vacancy rate of 40,000 to look

after the needs of our people.

Let's decide to have more people

from the European Union to come

and work in the National Health

Service, by all means.

But let us decide that

for ourselves, don't let's be

dictated to by the European Union

after we've left.

The politics of Brexit means

the Prime Minister is looking

for ways to demonstrate her

determination to take control

of our borders at the point

we leave the EU.

The practicalities make it harder

to avoid unintended consequences.

Mark Easton, BBC News.

England's Chief Inspector

of Schools, Amanda Spielman,

has warned that some parents

and religious leaders are trying

to "actively pervert" education.

She says inspectors are worried

about some people using faith

to try to narrow children's horizons

and they mustn't be allowed

to dictate school policy

on dress or behaviour.

Sima Kotecha reports

from Birmingham.

You just wrap it around

like a long, long scarf.

These teenage Muslim girls have

been wearing a headscarf

for a few years now.

Their reasons are varied.

This is one way I feel modest

because I'm not showing

off my hair or worrying

about my makeup or whatever.

People who see me, they instantly

recognise me as a Muslim and also

if I see other people then I know

that they're Muslim

if they're wearing a hijab.

But in recent weeks there's been

a row over whether schools should be

allowed to ban the hijab.

In London the head teacher

of St Stephen's Primary School

was heavily criticised for banning

girls under the age

of eight from wearing it.

She then reversed her decision

because of the uproar.

Now Ofsted has intervened.

Today, its Chief Inspector called

on head teachers not

to give into pressure

from religious conservatives.

There is a difficult line

between respecting religious

requirements, and for some wearing

hijab post-puberty is seen

as a religious requirement.

There's a difference between that

and cultural preferences and wearing

lipstick and high heels might be

one of those.

The Koran, the holy book

of Islam, says women should

guard their modesty.

The text is open to interpretation.

Some Muslim women choose to wear it,

others don't, but there are strong

feelings around whether young girls

should be allowed to

cover up in schools.

Here in Birmingham it's not uncommon

to see girls who are four

and five wearing the hijab

with their uniform.

Critics say that, if its purpose

is to guard modesty, it should only

be worn after puberty.

If not, Ofsted says that it

could be interpreted

as the sexualisation of young girls.

All of our lives and

all of our cultures...

At one school here the head teacher

is calling for more debate.

It's not an equal practice.

Girls wear a headscarf

or are expected to or they can when

they hit puberty, but boys are not.

So it's not an equal practice

and you can't say that it is.

So you have to be able

to expect to have a

really clear and open debate

about these kind of things.

Some here argue that

banning the hijab could

itself undermine the right

to religious freedom.

One mother says sometimes daughters

want to imitate their elders.

Children can be quite stubborn and

fixed in their ways. What can you

do? Rather than have tantrums, you

have to give in sometimes. If they

want to do it, you know, and the

school doesn't have any objections,

I don't have a problem with them

wearing it.

In cosmopolitan Britain,

where different faiths come

into contact with western views,

rules in schools can provoke

controversy, anger and resentment.

Sima Kotecha, BBC News.

Our top story this evening:

The Finsbury Park terror attack -

a man's found guilty of murder

and attempted murder after ploughing

a van into a group of Muslims.

And still to come:

We're the Nigerian

women's bobsleigh team.

We'll meet the so-called

Ice Blazers - Nigeria -

and Africa's first bobsleigh team

to compete in the Winter Olympics.

And here on East Midlands

Today at 6.30pm.

The Nottingham woman

who plotted to kill a king.

A dramatic re-enactment

of the sufragette era.

And if you think the police

are looking younger these

days, well, they are!

We'll meet Nottinghamshire's

newest recruits.

Why do so many older and vulnerable

people find themselves

going in and out of hospital several

times a year, sometimes

returning within just days

of being discharged?

A new report by the British Red

Cross says one reason is that

many of them don't feel safe

in their own homes when they return.

It's thought that over

the past five years,

hospital readmissions in England

have risen by nearly 23%

to more than 457,000.

And the number readmitted

within 48 hours

now accounts for one in five

of all emergency admissions.

Our Social Affair Correspondent,

Alison Holt, reports.

I'm a lot more pain today

than it was yesterday.

Cheryl McNulty has

chronic lung disease.

In the last few months she's been

taken to her local Ipswich Hospital

as an emergency five times.

She's then returned to a home

where she clearly isn't coping.

I get so frustrated

because I can see what needs

doing and I can't do it.

You, like, have panic attacks

because you think that you're

going to stop breathing, you see.

Over the months, dust

and dirt have built up,

aggravating her condition.

She also spent three years

sleeping upright on her sofa

because she couldn't get

up the stairs.

I was stopping halfway,

with my inhaler.

I just couldn't do it any more.

Hi, Cheryl.

Hello, love. How are you.

Today's report by the Red Cross

calls for automatic home checks

for patients who regularly

end up in hospital.

Their visit to Cheryl picked up

the difficulties she was having,

and as a result work

is about to start to make this

a healthier home for her.

She will have a dust-free

environment.

She will be able to

keep on top of it all.

We could help her get

somebody in to do the cleaning

and stuff like that.

Then it will brighten up her life

and make her feel valued.

With accident and emergency

departments such as this one

here at Ipswich Hospital under huge

pressure, it's become increasingly

important to tackle the underlying

issues that mean some people

are admitted as emergencies

time and again.

This was where Cheryl

was turning up regularly.

Now a special team works

with frail older people

are soon as they arrive.

I started looking into the history

of why they are here,

what's at home and what we might

need in making sure they can go home

if they are not acutely unwell,

and what measures we need to put

in place so they stay home safely.

It's five months that

we've had the community

division within the trust...

In the busiest winter

the hospital has seen,

the medical director says

they have managed to reduce

the number of people

being readmitted to hospital.

If anybody becomes unwell

in the community, we can react

and respond in that community

setting, using the emergency

department when it's needed

but only when it's needed.

And as such, it's a much

more efficient setting.

Over ten days, Cheryl's home

is redecorated, de-cluttered,

and she has a bed downstairs.

My breathing was so bad, when I go,

and I'm hoping it's now

going to be a lot better.

Councils who provide people

who are eligible with care say

support like this is vital,

but the increasing squeeze

on their budgets is making it harder

to meet the demand for help.

Alison Holt, BBC News, Ipswich.

The former Chancellor,

George Osborne, is calling

on the government to spend

more money on education

in the north of England

to boost British growth.

Mr Osborne, who launched

the Northern Powerhouse project

while he was in government,

says it's vital for the economy.

His comments come as a new report

says that northern pupils

are on average one GCSE grade

behind their southern counterparts.

Nina Warhurst reports.

Can you find whereabouts

we live in England?

See if you can point to it.

Six years old and

a future mapped out.

Children in Darlington do

well at primary level,

but come GCSEs and getting

jobs, their life chances

slide dramatically.

If building a powerhouse means

making the north a global,

economic force, something isn't

quite adding up.

Today, this former Chancellor

was hitting out at the current one,

asking him for new money and saying

every northern business should be

stepping into schools.

What we're trying to do

here is tackle a problem that has

bedevilled this country

for 100 years.

Which is, the South has done

better than the North.

Now I would say there's nothing

inevitable about that.

Let's talk about today's report

because you're asking

for £300 million of new money

for early years.

People will say that's pretty rich

coming from the man who decided

to close down hundreds

of Sure Start centres.

When I was Chancellor, we turned

this country around to a place

where lots of people in the North

got jobs who previously

were unemployed and we generated

the money that is required to pay

for your investment in your schools.

Can you see why people will say,

"Isn't it ironic coming from the man

who slashed public services"?

You can see we turned around

the economy, improvement in schools

happened across the north

of the England and the

rest of the country.

But is that job done?

Of course not.

That's because almost 21%

of schools in the north-east

are under-performing.

That's three times

the proportion of London.

Children from poorer backgrounds

in the north on average score

a grade lower in every GCSE

than children who are better off.

How are you finding the

communications time on a Wednesday?

Businesses were today

asked to follow the lead

of Barclays who have more

than 500 northern apprentices.

Why?

To retain talent in

places like Teesside.

I think it was an opportunity that

I was quite surprised to find that

I didn't have to move away

for because I think my kind

of preconception was -

you would probably have to move

to have a really good career.

The Government says it has

stepped up by increasing

investment, but they're also

pleading for patience.

This has to be a long-term project.

It's about creating a strategic plan

for the north of England, which over

a long period will close

all of those health,

wealth and productivity gaps.

We're going to do more division.

George Osborne says

the equation is simple -

more government cash,

plus more business investment,

equals £100 billion of new money

by 2050 and for families

in the north it matters

that the maths adds up.

Nina Warhurst, BBC News, Darlington.

Nigeria has never competed

in the Winter Olympics.

But next week the country will make

history by entering a female

bobsleigh team for the Games

in South Korea.

They are the first Nigerian athletes

to qualify for the Winter Olympics

and they've had to raise their own

money to get there.

Alex Capstick reports.

We are the Nigerian

women's bobsleigh team.

We are the first team

from the country of Nigeria...

The first team from

the continent of Africa...

And the first team to be represented

in the Winter Olympics

in the sport of bobsleigh...

..In Pyeongchang.

They're known as the Ice

Blazers, going where no

African has gone before.

Heading to a bobsleigh

track at the Olympics.

The opening ceremony,

that would be really cool.

We were just like, gosh,

we are carrying the Nigerian flag

in a Winter Olympics.

Gosh!

Born in America, like her

team-mates, Seun Adigun qualifies

for Nigeria through her parents,

and it all began in her

garage in Houston with

a home-made wooden sled.

Cool running!

The exploits of the Jamaican men's

team at the Calgary Olympics in 1988

inspired a Hollywood movie.

Comparisons are inevitable.

It's really honourable,

to say the least, that

30 years later people

are still singing their praises,

and to say that we are along that

same path of what people

consider to be legendary.

It's really humbling and it's

an honour to receive.

Just over a year ago,

Seun recruited two team-mates

who take it in turns to sit

behind the driver.

They knew nothing about

the sport and its risks.

After going to Whistler,

that's the fastest track

in the world, it was like,

OK, this sport is actually

pretty dangerous.

You know, like people

can get seriously hurt.

Behind all the excitement, the fun,

the global exposure,

is a group of women who have no

desire to be considered

a novelty act.

Rank outsiders, yes,

but they also want to be taken

seriously in their bid to set

a new benchmark for Africa

at the Winter Olympics.

People didn't think we had a chance

to make it into the Olympics

so I think when you talk

about things like that, anything can

happen and we are here to compete.

The team know they are unlikely

to become the first Africans

to stand on the podium at a Winter

games but they also know

the Olympics is about

more than just medals.

Alex Capstick, BBC

News, Lake Placid.

Time for a look at the weather...

Here's Chris Fawkes.

And

And that the moon last night. Yes,

this was an amazing picture scent of

a super blue moon in a shade of

burnt orange. This taken from the

Richmond Park area, you can see the

London skyline hiding beneath the

supermoon. Today our weather has

been a mixture of sunny spells and

showers and it's been a cold day. A

clump of rain has been working in

from Lincolnshire, further into East

Anglia, close to the London area and

will be clipping into Kent before

long as well. Showers will continue

broadly speaking in the same kind of

areas where we have seen them by

day. There the risk of icy stretches

developing on on treated roads where

we see in the frost developing but

in towns and cities temperatures

typically overnight between one and

four degrees. Showers for eastern

Scotland and England, but they will

ease off as the day goes by. Some

showers clipping western Wales and

running into Cornwall, but for most

it is a dry day with sunshine. With

the winds light it won't be quite as

chilly. Looking ahead to the weekend

prospects, we have rain and snow

coming our way for Saturday. It will

often be cloudy with a bitter wind

developing across south-east

England. Saturday's forecast,

outbreaks of rain moving in. Snow

across the high ground of Scotland

and Wales and the Peak District.

What starts off as cold rain could

switch to sleep, maybe some flakes

of snow coming down as well but it

is going to be one of those cold and

dank days with temperatures

struggling. Into Sunday, the weather

becomes drier with cloud for England

and Wales, bitter

becomes drier with cloud for England

and Wales, bitter winds in the

south-east and the best of the

sunshine across Scotland and