10/06/2017 World News Today

Scotland. Northern Ireland having a dry day. Goodbye for now.

Theresa May's efforts to form a working government -

a deal, in principle, with Northern Ireland's

After the poor showing in the general election,

the first casualties: two of the Prime Minister's

Its what now for Cuban - US relations as official said Donald

Trump is to announce a new change in policy towards the country next

week? Drama at sea - the Queen Mary 2

cruise liner gets involved in a major rescue after yachts

are overcome by a storm. The original Caped Crusader Adam

West, Batman from the 1860s TV series, has died. -- from the 1960s

TV series. Hello and welcome

to World News Today. Theresa May's efforts to form

a working government - despite losing her majority

in the UK general election - A minor party from Northern Ireland

is reported to have agreed to help her party get

their programme through parliament. According to Downing Street,

they have reached the outline of an agreement with

the Democratic Unionist Party, or DUP, who are pro-Brexit

and socially conservative. Earlier, it was announced

that the prime minister Theresa May's two top advisers had

resigned, following pressure They've been replaced

by one of the losing Conservative candidates,

the former housing Our political correspondent -

Alex Forsyth reports. They were at the heart of power,

the Prime Minister's But Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill

were accused of having too much control over policy and tactics,

costing Theresa May her majority They're brilliant street fighters

and terrible political leaders, because what you need at the heart

of government is a few grey-haired people who have been around

the block a bit and say "Don't do Mistakes acknowledged

by Nick Timothy today. Today,

as the consequences of the campaign sunk in,

reflection and recrimination, some Tory MPs saying Theresa May had

to heed calls to change. There were plenty of voices

in the Conservative Party that reminded her you can't run

the government like you run the Home Office and there have been

plenty of calls to make sure that the circle around her was wider

and more inclusive, to prevent anyone believing that the two

principal advisers The Prime Minister is under

pressure from all sides. With no majority, her plans

for things like grammar schools and social care will be hard

to get through Parliament. And the Queen's Speech,

her programme for government, In order to lead a minority

government, she'll have to balance competing demands on almost every

front, considering not just the position of the DUP on some

issues, but that of her own MPs too. In Scotland, there are now 13

of them, their backing essential to the Prime Minister,

the party leader here already suggesting a revised

approach to Brexit. What's clear is that

the Conservative Party, having failed to win a majority,

now needs to work with others, again at what it is we hope

to achieve as we leave the EU and I want to be involved

in those discussions. The Prime Minister may

be back in number 10, but in a position far

from what she'd hoped. She has lost her two most trusted

aides, she has lost her majority in the House of Commons,

and the job of leading has Joining me now from central

London is our political What is your understanding of this

outline deal done with the DUP? We are told by Downing Street that it

is what they call a confidence and supply arrangement. That means that

it stops way short of a formal coalition, where two parties develop

a joint programme for government. This effectively means that the DUP

have agreed to back Theresa May when it comes to two Keatings -

confidence measures, in other words those votes in parliament like the

Queen's Speech coming up the week after next which, if you lose, then

you are effectively out. And supply measures, another word for money. So

things like the Budget. If you can't get a Budget through, you are

finished as a government. So they have effectively given her the

ability to survive as a viable government. It's a bit more than

life but not much more. After that, if Theresa May wants to do anything

issue by issue, other bits of legislation, be it health or

education or or security, anything including some of the Brexit

legislation, it is likely that she will have to get agreement with the

DUP each time for those pieces. That means that the DUP will have an

ongoing, continuing permanent influence over the government's

agenda and what it can and can't do for the foreseeable future. So they

will be able to leverage their ten MPs out of 650 to exert enormous

influence, given their numbers. What price do you think Theresa May would

have had to pay to get this deal done? Apart from the humiliation of

it, there are a couple of prices she will have to pay. One is that it

will absolutely narrow her horizon in terms of what she can do, because

she will have to get that agreement bit by bit. It will also mean she

has to concede on measures where she will have to compromise with them to

do certain things. What we don't know at this stage is what the price

has been for agreeing to do the basic deal. I am sure the DUP will

have asked for a couple of things in return, probably some money for

Northern Ireland, infrastructure money. Maybe some guarantees on the

position of Northern Ireland farmers when it comes to Brexit. Maybe they

will have asked for the government to commit some sort of soft border

with the South as a negotiating line when it goes to the EU Brexit

negotiations. We don't know any of that at the moment, but the DUP

would be an extraordinary political party if it didn't demand some of

those things upfront, because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

for them to exert some pressure on the nationwide stage. Thank you.

Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.

Iran's intelligence minister has said that the mastermind

behind Wednesday's attacks at the parliament and mausoleum

of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran has been killed.

The attack on Wednesday killed 17 people.

The so-called Islamic State group claimed

which was carried out by suicide bombers and gunmen.

American-backed rebel fighters in Syria have moved

into western parts of Raqqa, the de-facto capital

An alliance of Syrian Arabs and Kurds has been slowly tightening

its grip around the city for several months.

They've been helped by US air strikes and took part of the eastern

But IS is said to have beaten back an attack from the north.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised the US

president, Donald Trump, while on a visit to Mexico.

She said putting up walls would not solve the problem of migration -

a reference to Mr Trump's repeated promises to build a wall

Mrs Merkel also backed Mexico's free trade position,

the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Let's go to the Philippines - where US special forces are helping

the military there to dislodge militants allied

to so-called Islamic State in the city of Marawi.

Philippine troops have struggled to oust the rebels, who took

The US involvement comes despite months of hostility towards

Washington by the Philippines president, Rodrigo Duterte.

More from our Asia-Pacific regional editor, Michael Bristow.

After nearly three weeks of fighting,

Until insurgents took over, this lakeside city had

Most have fled, and now the streets are largely empty.

The Philippine army is having to battle through every house.

13 Marines were killed in a 16 hour clash with rebels on Friday.

Government soldiers are now, though, getting some help

from a long-standing ally, the United States.

To invite them in represents a change of heart by the Philippine

leader Rodrigo Duterte, who's spent most of his presidency

According to an Army spokesman, US troops are not

fighting on the street, but providing technical support.

The presence of the US counterparts facilitates

the exchanges of intelligence, facilitates subject matter

expert exchanges, and also provides training exchanges.

Despite government bombardment, the mounting insurgents have

managed to hold out, even though there were unconfirmed

reports that the two brothers who lead them have been killed.

Government deadlines for retaking the city have all come and gone.

Hundreds of civilians are still trapped.

The militants hiding in bunkers and tunnels

Even with American help, the battle to recapture this

It's been revealed that the ringleader

had tried to hire a seven and a half tonne lorry, instead of a van,

Police say the number of injured would have been much higher.

Eight people died in the knife and van attack almost

Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent, Daniel Sandford.

On the edges of Borough Market, they were repairing the damage

today, replacing the doors that had been shot off by armed police

in the desperate hunt to find the killers.

The police are gone, but the market where five

victims were stabbed to death remains sealed off.

We have stories of people who came out armed with chairs, other items,

were throwing bottles and anything they could get their hands

on with a view to try to prevent the attackers coming into pubs

and bars but more importantly, to scare them off to stop other

The weapons the attackers used were 12-inch pink ceramic knives

of the Ernesto brand, possibly bought at Lidl.

They were found tied onto the men's hands with leather straps

Minutes earlier, they had killed three other people on London Bridge

In the van, police found 13 petrol bombs made with lighter fluid

and cloth cut from tracksuit bottoms and two blowtorches.

Detectives believe behind this green door in East Ham

In a top floor bedsit rented by Rachid Redouane two months ago,

detectives discovered items that had been used to make their petrol bombs

And an English-language copy of the Koran left open at a page

The ringleader of the gang, Khuram Butt, had tried

tonne truck that morning which would have made the attack

worse, but fortunately, his payment did not go through.

He was also being investigated by counterterrorism detectives

for fraud and was still on police bail, although the case

At the present time, I do not regard what I have seen

But everybody would expect us to look at what has happened

and to ensure we learn whatever we can from what has happened

and secondly, that we continue to improve and improve

always done in this country in the face

The men killed three of their victims as they drove

across London Bridge and stabbed five more to death

It was the third attack on Britain in ten and a half weeks.

The Ethiopian government and humanitarian agencies say

emergency food aid for nearly 8 million people affected

by drought will run out at the end of the month.

The drought has been blamed on a succession of failed rains.

Other parts of the Horn of Africa are also affected by drought.

John Graham, the country director for Save the Children,

The government has been doing its best to fill in the gap, that it's

not a rich government. It is still a poor government, but they are doing

their best. But I really think we have a responsibility as an

international community to step in. Some of the other emergencies around

the world are deservedly getting attention, like Somalia and Yemen.

But what we have in Somalia is a large number of people, more than 8

million, almost larger than any other country affected, with no

resources because we are not getting attention. The basic food ration is

not coming in insufficient amounts. Now we are looking at the food

pipeline braking. The food is running out in about a month. After

that, we don't know what is going to happen. Without that basic food, you

have the problem of falling into severe malnutrition because people

are not getting food. These children will become malnourished and that is

a very dangerous situation. Stay with us on BBC

World News, still to come... the tournament's first unseeded

champion for more than 80 years. As Theresa May tries to form a

working government, Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists have

agreed to support the Prime Minister.

Two top aides to Mrs May have resigned following pressure from

Conservative MPs in the wake of the poor election results.

Officials in the US say President Trump is expected

to announce a change in policy towards Cuba during a speech

when he visits Miami at the end of next week.

Our correspondent in Havana is Will Grant.

We don't know the fine detail, but the expectation is that this

will be a rollback, or at least a partial rollback of one

of President Obama's key legacies, which is the warming

We expect to see, for example, some kind of partial reverse

of the relaxation of travel restrictions which has

done so much to allow US citizens to come to Cuba,

opening the doors of Cuba to Americans who were not

able to visit the island for so many decades.

Obviously, there is still a US economic embargo in place on Cuba,

so it's not like there are huge amounts of trade already,

but what there is may now find it very difficult,

because we're expecting President Trump to say that US

entities cannot work with the Cuban state, specifically

the commercial and tourism wings of the Cuban military.

And given that they are so ubiquitous to the Cuban economy,

Sailors taking part in a transatlantic race have been

involved in a dramatic rescue halfway across the ocean.

A number of yachts put out mayday calls last night

after what organisers described as once in a lifetime storms.

A passenger cruise ship was among boats that were drafted

We have a competitor, Mervyn Wheatley, who has done

He was rescued by the Queen Mary, who was diverted to the

We have another boat from Hungary which was sunk.

We don't know the full reasons for that.

We have a yacht from Holland called Happy.

So over the 36 hours, five boats were seriously affected.

Three boats sunk and two boats retired.

But everybody is well, safe and presently recovered.

We had emergency beacons going off. 60 or 70 knots of wind were

reported. Those conditions are pretty intense. The reaction to that

is from the Halifax coastguard. They immediately look at the information.

They try and contact the vessels, and then they put in place ship

support and air cover to see what is going on in the fleet.

The World Cup qualifier between Scotland and England

A match that had been largely forgettable for 70 minutes

then burst into life in the closing stages.

It was substitute Alex Oxlade Chamberlain who put England ahead.

But the match swung back in Scotland's favour due

to Leigh Griffiths, who scored two goals -

to put the home side within touching distance of a first win over England

Then Harry Kane scored in the third minute of stoppage time to break

Scottish hearts and maintain England's unbeaten

Before the game, we obviously wanted to win the game. But the way the

game panned out in the end, Scotland were scoring two goals late on. We

had four minutes left in stoppage time to get anything. So we have

come away fairly happy with it. It puts us in a good position to

qualify for the World Cup. The unseeded 20 year-old

Latvian Jelena Ostapenko has beaten Romania's Simona Halep

in the French Open final. Ostapenko, who had never even won

a tour title before today, lost the first set, but produced

a remarkable comeback She is the first unseeded woman

to win at Roland Garros since 1933. I was losing and then in my mind I

was like, OK, I'm just going to enjoy the match and trite to the

last point. I still cannot believe it because it was my dream and now

it came true. I think I will only understand that in maybe a couple of

days or a couple of weeks. England again underlined

their status as tournament favourites as they knocked Australia

out of the ICC Champions Trophy England - who had already qualified

for the semi finals - were set a target of

278 for victory. Both of Australia's previous matches

were washouts and they needed a win to stand any chance

of qualifying for the last four. again affected by rain,

England were comfortable winners Lewis Hamilton has equalled

Ayrton Senna's total of 65 pole positions ahead

of the Canadian Grand Prix. And the Briton did it in style,

clocking the quickest qualifying lap He was a third of a second

clear of championship After the qualifying session,

Senna's family presented Hamilton with one of Senna's helmets

to mark the achievement. Late on Saturday evening local time,

Usain Bolt will run his last competitive race in his

home country Jamaica. The 100 metre event is being called

a "Salute to a Legend". Bolt is going to retire

from athletics after this year's Just a warning - there's some flash

photography coming up 15 years ago, 15-year-old Usain Bolt

made history here in the national stadium in Kingston when he became

the youngest athlete to win a world junior title. He would go on to

become an icon of the sport and the face of the sport, breaking world

records and winning numerous world and Olympic titles. But he has

always maintained that winning gold here in 2002 as a junior is one of

the highlights of his career because of the pressure of competing in

front of a home crowd. So it is perhaps fitting that the final race

on Jamaican soil should be here on the track where he shot to

prominence. It will be a great reception. I am home and the amount

of people calling me to get tickets... ! I know the stadium is

going to be full, I know it will be high energy and I know it is going

to be one big party. It will be emotional, but I am looking forward

to it. Usain Bolt also spoke about the warm bond he shares with his

coach, the man who helped guide his career. Glen Mills tends to stay out

of the limelight, but I did catch up with him and he told me he believes

that Bolt could have gone for a few more years, but he respects his

decision to retire. Physically, yes, he is only 30. But for 12 years, he

has achieved at the highest level. It takes a lot out of you and

mentally, if he feels it is time for him to retire, I support it

wholeheartedly. If that is where he has reached now, he has more than

earned it. Bolt rule race over 100 metres. There will also be a number

of Olympic medallist in action, the likes of Mo Farah and David Rudisha.

On a night when the nation celebrity career and achievements of Usain

Bolt. Good luck to him.

Adam West, star of the 1960s hit TV series Batman, has died.

His family said he had been suffering from leukaemia.

Although Batman ran for just two years, repeats of the show

made Adam West an icon, and his career after

Batman often saw him play characters based on himself.

It is said to be brighter and warmer tomorrow. The overall story is for

sunny spells at some point, but the rain is still around. The rain we

have seen to finish the day across the Midlands and parts of south-east

England works its way towards the south-east. Light and patchy by the

morning. Away from that, we will see showers across Northern Ireland and

parts of central and western Scotland. The temperatures will be

holding up, given the breeze. It will be a muggy night. In the

morning, the showers become more widespread across Scotland and

Northern Ireland. Not everyone will see showers to start the day. One or

two may avoid the showers, but it will become harder to avoid them in

the afternoon. Much of England and the south-west, compared to what you

saw today, a much brighter start. A bit of a breeze, one or two showers,

but a great start to the day for the Midlands. Cloud in the south-east

will break up. Elsewhere, showers become heavy with and thunder in

Scotland and Northern Ireland, and showers become more abundant across

the Midlands, Wales and the south-west. Some areas will avoid

them altogether. It should still feel pleasant in the breeze. We

finished today with those showers across Scotland, Northern Ireland

and northern England. The further south and east you are, you should

go into Monday on a drying out, but it will be a fresh start compared

with Sunday morning. For the Monday morning rush-hour across parts of

Scotland, the central belt could see winds gusting at 50 miles an hour.

The showers are not as plentiful on Monday. Northern Ireland will avoid

most of them. Further south and east, you should stay dry. Sunny

spells. Temperatures will be down on what we saw through Saturday.

Through the rest of the week, high pressure builds from the south. We

will see a few bits of rain across Scotland and Northern Ireland, but

temperatures will be on the up from mid week onwards and with it across

southern parts of the country, lots of sunshine.