02/02/2018 BBC News at Six

Theresa May refuses to be drawn

on exactly what kind of trade

relationship she wants with the EU.

At the end of her trade visit

to China, she insists she's

the right woman to lead the country

with the challenges ahead.

I've served my country

and I've served my party.

I'm not a quitter.

I'm in this because there

is a job to be done here.

Theresa May is now flying back home.

We'll be looking at the mounting

criticism that awaits her

back at Westminster.

Also tonight...

The man who drove into worshippers

outside a mosque is sentenced

to life, with a minimum of 43

years.

Facing an uncertain future

with prostate cancer,

as it overtakes breast cancer

as the third biggest cancer killer.

The families fearful that local

authorities can't look

after their severely disabled

children when they no

longer can themselves.

And a polar bear's eye view

shows their struggle to find food

on the shrinking arctic ice.

Coming up later on BBC News it's

Six Nation Sportsday,

as we look ahead to this

year's championship.

It all starts here

tomorrow in Cardiff,

with Wales against Scotland.

Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six.

The Prime Minister is under

increasing pressure to be more

specific about what she wants

Britain's future trade relationship

with the EU to look like.

Theresa May is on her way back now

from a trade visit to China

and negotiations on Brexit are due

to resume with Brussels on Monday.

Mrs May said the UK should not face

a choice between a free trade deal

with the EU and striking deals

with the rest of the world.

She was speaking in Shanghai to our

Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

A few last glimpses,

then to China a final wave goodbye.

The Prime Minister on her way home,

business deals in Britain's pocket,

but she'll return to the next

round of much bigger deal making.

How, precisely, will she broker

Brexit, is she ready to decide?

What's happened here is that we have

seen the businesses that I've

brought with me on this trip,

signing deals which mean more jobs

for people back in Britain.

That's good news for Britain.

It's Global Britain in action.

But on top of doing business around

the world, your party,

the public, business,

they want to know -

do you favour a really close

relationship with the European Union

once we're out or a dramatic break?

What I favour is a deal,

an arrangement for trading

with the European Union,

which is going to be good

for trade between the UK

and the European Union and good

for jobs in Britain.

So there's a fundamental choice

still here, isn't there?

Your Chancellor has said he believes

the changes might be very modest.

One of your former Brexit ministers,

who's on your side, has said

the Government is yet to make clear

choices and you're risking ending up

with something that looks

like meaningless waffle.

The point is that that deal,

which many people said

would not be done, was done.

We got what we wanted,

we ensured that we dealt with those

issues in that first phase.

Now we start the negotiations

for the second phase.

Images for the Mays to treasure,

perhaps, but there might not be much

serenity when she's at home.

The decision over whether to bind

tightly to the EU after Brexit

or pull further apart is the line

right down the middle of her party.

Her supporters believe

she's the only person

who can hold it together,

but she's agonisingly pulled

by detractors on both sides.

If you are reluctant to explain your

priority, your big choice...

No, I'm not, Laura...

...Your big choice for what you want

next, can you stay on?

Because people are asking you again

and again to be clear

about your priorities.

How long can you stay

on, do you believe?

Well, let's be very

clear about this.

I've set out what my vision is.

I've set out and I've said

to people that at every stage

where we can fill in the detail,

we will do so, and that's exactly

what I have been doing.

Do you want to be the Tory leader

at the next general election?

Well, I've been asked this question

on a number of occasions.

I've said very clearly

throughout my political career,

I've served my country and I've

served my party.

I'm not a quitter.

I'm in this because there

is a job to be done here,

and that's delivering

for the British people and doing

that in a way that ensures

the future prosperity

of our country.

But our viewers see day after day...

Global Britain is a real vision

for the United Kingdom.

But our viewers see day after day...

I want the British people to see

a government that is delivering

for them around the world,

and that's exactly what we're doing.

Prime Minister, finally, if I may,

our viewers see day after day

the Tory party fighting amongst

itself, how do you

reassert your authority?

I am doing what the British people

want, which is delivering on Brexit,

but also getting out around

the world, ensuring that we bring

jobs back to Britain.

Companies will be selling more

Great British products to China

as a result of this trip.

They'll be more people in jobs

in the UK as a result of this trip.

That's Global Britain in action.

Number Ten hopes it's by seeing

and doing that the Prime Minister

can re-establish control,

but her and the country's

hardest set of decisions

will follow her around the globe.

Laura Kuenssberg,

BBC News, Shanghai.

Joining me is our deputy political

editor, John Pienaar.

Theresa May is caught in something

of a catch 22 when it comes

to talking about Britain's trade

relationship with

the EU post Brexit.

Yes, she is. At the end of a very

busy week, the impatience among

Conservative MPs has grown so

intense that it is calling Mrs May's

future as Prime Minister into

question. Some Conservative MPs

sound a bit like angry fans of the

struggling football team, wanting

something, anything to give their

side more purpose, more of a plan.

But the impatient ones will just

have to go on waiting. The EU's

chief negotiator is meeting the

Brexit Secretary in Downing Street

next Monday. There are more Cabinet

meetings to discuss strategy but no

expectation of any big developments

in the Brexit plan, let alone a

breakthrough capable of calming the

party. It's very hard to imagine

anything Theresa May could do or say

to calm the party. She's in a mess

because she had said to little about

the future after Brexit, that with

frustrated Brexiteers on one side

and angry Remainers on the others,

things could get worse. I imagine is

no comfort to Mrs May to know her

party has form on this issue. We've

never seen a Conservative try

minister under this kind of pressure

over Europe, except for the last

Prime Minister and the one before

that, and the one before that.

John,

thank you.

The man who drove his van

into muslim worshippers outside

a mosque in north London has been

sentenced to life with a minimum

of 43 years in prison.

Darren Osborne killed Makram Ali,

who was 51, and injured 12 other

people in the attack

in Finsbury Park last June.

Our Home Affairs correspondent

Daniel Sandford is at

Woolwich Crown Court.

The length of the sentence reflects

the motive and that Osborne intended

to kill as many people as he could.

Yes, and of course it reflects this

was a terrorist murder, one that was

motivated by politics and religious

hatred. The judge remarking today at

how rapidly Darren Osborne was

radicalised on the Internet by

people who claimed to be leaders,

but in fact were determined to

spread hate.

Darren Osborne was seized at the

scene of the Finsbury Park attack

after ploughing his van into a group

of Muslims trying to kill as many as

possible.

Just have a seat up there

for us.

Convicted of murder and

attempted murder yesterday, his 102

previous convictions for violence,

dishonesty and drugs offences were

outlined to the court today. As was

the devastation caused to the family

of Makram Ali, the man he murdered.

Outside court, his daughter, with

his tearful wife by her side, spoke

of the family's love for him.

He

will never be forgotten. He will

always stay in our hearts. His

laughter will echo the walls of our

home, his smile will be reflected in

our eyes and his memory will be

alive in our conversations.

Darren Osborne's absurd defence that

a man called Dave was driving during

the attack was scorned by the judge.

Addressing him directly, Mrs Justice

Cheema-Grubb said an intelligent

British jury saw through your

pathetic last-ditch attempt to

deceive them. She then jailed him

for life, saying the appropriate

minimum term for this terrorist

murder is 43 years, which means he

can't be released until he is at

least 90 years old.

Today, the judge also chose to

praise the imams who protected

Osborne after the attack. He said he

had the strength to do the right

thing under pressure, to respond to

evil with good. Daniel Stanford, BBC

News, at Woolwich Crown Court.

Prostate cancer has overtaken breast

cancer to become the the third

biggest cancer killer in the UK.

According to new research,

the number of men dying

from the disease is now greater

than the number of women

who die from breast cancer.

There are calls for more investment

in research into prostate cancer

to improve treatment and outcomes.

Our health correspondent

Dominic Hughes has the details.

Prostate cancer does

not discriminate.

Last year, keen runner Tony Collier

discovered he had the disease

while training for an ultramarathon.

His diagnosis was late and he knows

cancer will eventually

take his life, so Tony

is using the time he has left

to warn other men about the dangers.

I think it's really important

that people are aware

of what the symptoms are,

and I would actually urge men

to talk to their doctors

if they have any urinary

issues at all.

My issue is that I didn't

actually have any symptoms

and they think I'd had the cancer

for ten years beforehand.

More men are living to an age

where they have a greater chance

of developing prostate cancer.

So, in 2015 more than 11,800 men

died from the disease.

That compares with just over 11,400

deaths in 2015 due to breast cancer.

And while the proportion of people

dying from prostate cancer,

the mortality rate, has fallen over

the past decade, down by 6%,

the decline in deaths from breast

cancer has been even greater,

at more than 10%.

Prostate cancer haven't had as much

investment and has therefore

tended to lag behind.

It's now time, realising it's

the third biggest cancer killer,

it is the most common cancer in men,

it really is time to actually get

behind this and to realise

that we need to get on top of it

now, because it's just

going to become more common and it's

actually going to kill more men

if we aren't able to do that.

One of the big areas of interest

to researchers at hospitals,

like the Christie here

in Manchester, is the development

of a reliable way of screening

for prostate cancer.

There is a blood test

that is available but it's a bit

of a blunt tool and it can lead

to further tests, like

biopsies or uncomfortable

physical examinations.

It's better screening,

faster diagnosis and improved

treatments that have really played

a big role in bringing down

the overall number of cancer deaths.

Cancers of the lung and bowel remain

the biggest killers,

but even here there has

been significant progress.

Improved treatments and years

of research are now showing results.

The more that we know

about individual cancers,

the more personalised we can make

treatments, and that's where

we think we can make real progress,

in developing new treatments

and helping more people survive.

Meanwhile, Tony has joined those

calling for increased funding

for prostate research

and the development of a reliable

screening programme,

so the gains seen in the fight

against other cancers can be matched

when combating the disease he knows

will eventually claim his life too.

Dominic Hughes, BBC News.

A 51-year-old man has pleaded not

guilty to the murder of two

schoolgirls in Sussex more

than thirty years ago.

The bodies of Nicola Fellows

and Karen Hadaway, both aged nine,

were found in bushes at Wild Park

near Brighton in 1986.

Russell Bishop, who appeared

via video link from prison,

will stand trial in October.

337 people who worked

for the collapsed company Carillion

President Trump says he has approved

the river release of a report that

cruises the FBI of irregularities

into possible Russian interference

of the US election. He said the

4-page memo told a disgraceful story

and that a lot of people should be

ashamed of what it revealed. The FBI

has already warned against

publication of the document, saying

it contains material inaccuracies.

Chaotic scenes in Michigan at the

sentencing of a former teen

sentencing of a former teen doctor

of

Larry Nassar,

who's been found guilty of sexually

found guilty of sexually

abusing girls in his care.

Standing alongside his three

daughters who were preyed

on by the doctor, their father asked

for some time alone with Nassar.

I would ask you to,

as part of the sentencing,

to grant me five minutes in a locked

room with this demon.

I have a...

Would you do that?

That is not how...

Yes or no?

No, sir, I can't do that.

Would you give me one minute?

You know that I can't do that,

that's not how our legal system...

Well, I'm going to...

GASPS

Stay down, stay down.

The dramatic intervention brought

Nassar's final sentencing

hearing to an abrupt halt.

The judge said Randall Margraves

would not be charged with contempt

of court after he apologised

for losing control.

Nassar has already been sentenced

to up to 175 years in prison

at an earlier hearing,

after pleading guilty

to sexually abusing girls.

Two weeks ago, 16 Syrians,

including several children,

died trying to travel

across the mountains

from Syria into Lebanon.

They used a route taken

by thousands before them,

but they were caught

in an icy blizzard.

Only a few survived -

our Middle East correspondent

Martin Patience has been to meet one

of them, a three year old girl.

Meet little Sarah,

just three years old.

The black marks on her face

are caused by frostbite.

Smugglers abandoned

Sarah during a blizzard

as she was crossing the mountains

from the war in Syria

to join her dad.

She only survived because the man

who dumped her was forced

at gunpoint to go back and get her.

But Sarah's mum, big sister

and granny all froze to death.

Now, in a Lebanese hospital,

Sarah's dad watches over

her day and night.

TRANSLATION:

I do my best to be

a mother and a father to Sarah.

I'll do everything I can

to help her get over this.

She's all I have now.

16 Syrians died trying

to reach safety that day.

For the rescuers, it was the worst

thing they'd ever seen.

But there is some good news...

A couple of days after first

meeting Sarah and her dad,

we went to see them again.

Sarah's had an operation

on her face.

She's got her appetite back.

Her doctor says the

surgery was a success.

So you're hopeful there

won't be too much scarring?

Yes, yes, I hope.

That her face will be...?

Yes, will be normal,

like a normal baby.

Fantastic, it will looked normal?

Yes.

Sarah's dad captured her first

moment after the operation.

She's got a long way to go,

but she still smiling.

Martin Patience, BBC News, Lebanon.

The time has just gone quarter past

six.

Our top story this evening:

After her trade visit to China

the Prime Minister comes under more

pressure to spell out the UK's

post-Brexit future.

Coming up we are talking Six Nations

rugby in Cardiff but is a Scottish

renaissance heading this way?

Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News:

Can Great Britain find a way

to conquer Spain in the opening

Davis Cup singles without

Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund?

Families looking after sons

and daughters with complex

disabilities say they have no

confidence in their local authority

to look after their loved ones

if they no longer can themselves.

Research by the disability charity,

Sense, suggests only one in three

authorities know how many disabled

adults are being cared

for at home by their families.

Our Disability news correspondent

Nikki Fox has been speaking to one

mother about her concerns.

Are you ready?

You're so close to them.

You get scared to think that

you can't look after them any more

and what will happen if you're not

around any more.

It is a terrifying thought.

Lovely, look at you...

Inge is in her late 60s.

Nice, strong walking.

Her daughter, Noreen, is blind,

quadriplegic and unable to speak.

You're such a good darling girl.

It's Nikki, will you say hello?

Hi, Noreen.

Lovely to meet you.

She's 35.

And although Noreen has other

family, no one can give her the same

level of care as her mum.

Inge is terrified of a future

when she'll no longer be there.

The fear is that I'll not be

prepared, that I haven't got

somewhere for Noreen where I think

she might be happy.

What if they leave her

sitting in the corner?

What if she is ignored, you know?

If they don't meet

her needs enough...

It's a terrible

thought, it really is.

It terrifies me.

Inge is not alone

in feeling like this.

Today's survey by the charity Sense

shows an overwhelming lack of trust

in local authorities

to provide adequate care.

It also says three quarters

of family carers have no long-term

plan in place for their loved ones.

We're calling for greater emphasis

on planning and more

investment in social care,

and I think we owe that to carers,

for their peace of mind

and for the disabled children

and adults that they've

supported all their lives.

Good quality care does exist,

but it comes at a cost.

At this specialist centre

in Yorkshire, it's not about looking

after someone in the most basic way,

it's about having the right support

to live a happy and fulfilled life.

I think that deserves a cup

of tea, what do you think?

I think it does.

But with pressure on local authority

budgets, can councils afford

to provide quality care like this

for everyone who needs it?

We're currently serving some

168,000 people with very

profound disabilities.

The growth in the number of people

up to 2025 will be another 25%.

That demands more resource.

The Government says carers

are invaluable and it knows

the social care system

is under pressure.

It says it's put in an extra

£2 billion and plans

to reform social care will be

published this summer.

You're very good

at this, aren't you?

Inge is one of more than a million

family carers over the age of 60.

What matters to her is Noreen's

happiness, and, at the moment, that

means looking after her daughter

for as long as she possibly can.

That is lovely, sweetheart.

Nikki Fox, BBC News.

90 migrants are believed to have

drowned after their boat capsized

off the coast of Libya.

Only three people are

known to have survived.

Ten bodies have been

recovered so far.

The UN's migration agency says

the number of people trying to cross

the Mediterranean to Europe has gone

up from last year.

337 people who worked

for the collapsed company Carillion

are being made redundant.

But the official receiver announced

today that it had saved nine hundred

and 19 jobs by transferring them

to new companies who are taking over

Carillion's contracts.

Detectives investigating a fire at

Nottingham Railway station last

month have arrested a woman on

suspicion of arson. The fire damaged

the roof of the recently renovated

building and caused severe

disruption.

Police investigating the death

of one of the most famous stars

from the golden era of Hollywood,

Natalie Wood, back in 1981

have named her husband,

the actor Robert Wagner,

as a "person of interest".

The actress was found dead

after going missing from a yacht off

the coast of California.

Our Los Angeles correspondent

James Cook reports.

# I feel pretty

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In life Natalie Wood captivated the

camera. In death mystery Rangers. By

the age of 25 she had three Oscar

nominations including one for this

classic, Rebel without a cause. But

in 1981 on her body was found in a

call off California's Catalina

Island. She had been selling with

her husband Robert Wagner, co-star

Christopher Walken and the captain.

I believe Robert Wagner was with her

up until the moment she went into

the water.

Originally the death was

ruled an accident. Natalie Wood

always said her greatest fear was of

dark water. And yet that first

official explanation for how she

drowned off the coast here was that

she slept from the yacht as she

tried to climb into an inflatable

dinghy, alone in the middle of the

night. 30 years on in 2011 the

enquiry was reopened.

Any questions?

Is Robert Wagner a suspect?

No.

And

now?

I think it's suspicious enough

to make us think something happened.

I don't think she got in the water

herself or fell in the water. As we

have investigated the case of the

last six years I think he is more of

a person of interest. He was the

last person with her before she

disappeared.

There was always talk

of a blazing argument between them

on the night she disappeared. No

witnesses on other boats have

corroborated that story including a

woman who says she saw the couple

arguing.

Saw figures, male and

female, whose voice is a recognised

as being Robert Wagner and Natalie

Wood. Arguing at the back of the

boat.

Police say Robert Wagner has

refused to speak to them since the

case reopened.

Let's meet Natalie's

husband, ladies and gentlemen,

Robert Wagner.

Now 87 years old he

has always denied involvement in his

wife's death. Which despite these

developments remains a mystery.

Rugby's Six Nations

tournament is about to begin

with hopes high in Scotland

that they have their

best team in decades.

Defending champions England

are playing in Rome on Sunday.

But it all begins tomorrow

in Cardiff - Joe Wilson is there.

2:15pm for Wales versus Scotland

here, if Scotland and up lifting the

trophy next month it will be some

story, they have never won the Six

Nations. What does it take to win in

professional rugby? Muscle and

money, sure. But what about the soul

of the sport? It is important in

Wales but it is in Scotland as well,

so let's go there.

The Scottish Borders.

This is working land.

But embedded deep in this

region's history - rugby.

Galashiels - one small Borders town

which has produced 46

Scotland internationals.

They fill the clubhouse walls.

This man is better

known by another pose.

That's Peter Dods.

COMMENTATOR:

Peter Dods,

with this vital conversion kick...

In 1984, Scotland beat everyone.

Five Nations grand slam.

Dods kicked the points.

In the Border culture

we are fighters.

You could put us into a dogfight

and the strongest dog wins.

I think that culture is still there.

I think with Gregor Townsend

being the coach now,

he will bring that culture

into the national team.

Gregor Townsend.

Famous son of Gala, now the coach

of a resurgent Scotland team.

Exciting, attacking, they've

recently beaten Australia twice.

COMMENTATOR:

Huw Jones

trying to make it...

Yet Scotland do this with just two

professional rugby clubs.

How?

This is a good question.

I believe being small

has its advantages.

It has its advantages in that

you can recognise and identify

players quicker that

are maybe standing out.

Small means we can

work together closer.

Well a coach can only

pick players who are fit

and injuries are everywhere.

As Wales completed their

preparations here they can think

of a dozen players they could have

had in their squad,

but they are out injured.

Against Scotland, Wales

will have to be experimental.

Look closely at Ireland and you'll

spot some newer faces

with the old ones.

Good mix, they start in France.

England are defending champions.

They play Italy on Sunday.

Here's a simple question.

Is it possible you

could lose to Italy?

Is that possible?

Well, no.

Because we'll be very

well-prepared and

we'll be physical and will be brutal

and we'll take it to them.

Back in Gala, rugby has

returned to amateur status.

Training under lights

after work for the love of it.

The more this sport changes the more

important that spirit seems.

Joe Wilson, BBC News.

It's a polar bear's eye view

as you've never seen before.

Scientists working in the arctic

have released video footage

from high-tech tracking collars

fitted to the bears.

It's part of a study into how hard

the bears have to work

in order to find food.

By collecting all the data together

they've concluded that -

on the diminishing arctic ice -

the bears are struggling to catch

enough prey to give them

the energy they need.

Great pictures.

Great pictures.

Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Lucy Martin

Staying cold as we move through the

weekend, sunshine today but the

cloud starting to increase already,

through this evening and overnight

that will come in from the West

courtesy of this weather front, the

cloud increasing and some outbreaks

of rain. Where we have clearer skies

that will allow temperatures to ball

away, frost to form, cloud

increasing, could fall as snow over

the hills and potential for patches

of ice where we see the rain. Cold

night to come, these are the

temperatures in towns and cities but

River Lea it will be colder than

that. A few patches of frost, it

will be cloudy with outbreaks of

rain in the West and it will spread

its way east as we move through the

day. The rain increasingly becoming

liked and patchy, the far south and

east staying driest for longest.

Brightening up in the north and west

as we move through the afternoon,

temperatures struggling, maximum 5-6

and it will feel cooler than that in

the wind. The weather front will be

with us as we move through into

Sunday, it will work its way back

towards the West but that does mean

that for England and Wales it will

be a brisk north-easterly breeze.

Cold start across the board on

Sunday, there will be a lot of dry

and bright weather, good spells of

sunshine, those developing in the

West but with the north-easterly

breeze there is the potential for

wintry showers and south and east.

Temperatures not up to much again,

maximum seven Celsius. As we start

the beginning of the next working

week it will stay cold, and with

that we will see some dry weather on

Monday but the next weather front

moving from the North West does

bring the potential to see some snow

again by the time we get to Tuesday.

A reminder of our main story.

After her trade visit to China

the Prime Minister comes under more

pressure to spell out the UK's

post-Brexit future.

That's all from the BBC News at

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