tonight at ten: the cap on public sector pay is to be lifted but only for police and prison officers in england and wales. the award of a 1% pay rise — and a 1% bonus to police officers — is part of a new approach, according to ministers. we feel now is the time to move to a more flexible approach to make sure we do deal with any issues we've got in the public services. there's 1.7% for prison officers, but the unions say that all public sector workers deserve a rise, after being capped for several years. the government is making a big mistake in thinking it can get away with just lifting the cap. people have waited seven long years. and this on the day news came that inflation has risen again to itsjoint highest level in more than five years. also tonight... after hurricane irma, we visit a corner of the british virgin islands, where they're already planning to rebuild the tourist industry.

our second special report on the plight of rohingya refugees — fleeing violence in myanmar — now in camps in bangladesh. i think she wants to be that side of the camera. tributes to sir peter hall, one of the giants of british theatre, who's died at the age of 86. and the experts wonder whether apple's new iphone design can replicate the huge success of the past. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: a tough night for celtic, as they faced paris saint germain‘s formidable forward line on the opening night of the champions league group phase. good evening.

the cap on public sector pay rises will be lifted, but the only groups to benefit, at this stage, will be police and prison officers in england and wales. some union leaders have responded angrily by demanding a pay rise for all public sector workers who've been affected by a combination of pay freezes and pay caps for the past seven years. prison officers in england and wales have been awarded a rise of 1.7%. while police pay will go up by 1% along with a bonus of 1%. the police federation says the offer is completely inadequate. downing street says ministers will show a more flexible approach to next yea r‘s settlement across the public sector, as our deputy political editor, john pienaar, reports. would you fancy theirjob? today routine duty at the tuc, but trouble‘s always round the corner. now it's come closer. police get a rise to attract new recruits, so do prison officers, and other workers will too

above the pay cap but onlyjust. today the government took the latest pay recommendations and shared the news the pay cap was finally ending, so more pay for public sector workers, where rises were judged necessary. we need to strike a balance between being fair to public sector workers, making sure that we recruit the best possible people and also that we hold onto them in the public services. what a change of tone and policy since theresa may tried to make a virtue of facing down calls for more generous public pay during the election. my wage slips from 2009 reflect exactly what i'm earning today — how can that be fair? i'm being honest with you in terms of saying that we will put more money into the nhs, but there isn't a magic money tree that we can shake. today, union leaders adapted their prepared attacks as news came in that seven years of pay constraint, a public pay freeze, then a pay cap were over.

they weren't impressed. the government is making a big mistake in thinking it can get away with just lifting the cap. people have waited seven long years. they've had real pay cuts to the tune of thousands of pounds for firefighters, midwives, nurses, across public services. and they want to make up the ground that they've lost. are you willing to support strikes for higher pay? the answer came soon enough. jeremy corbyn and labour were backing the union's struggle for more pay. the labour party totally rejects the tories‘ attempt to divide and rule, to play one sector off against another. a remember government will end the public sector pay cap and give all workers the pay rise they deserve and so desperately need. that is our policy. there's not much gratitude and plenty of anger on show here in brighton. teachers, nurses, you name it, want more pay, much more than the rises being dangled today.

strike action, it hurts the kids who need their schooling, parents aren't always in favour? parents are more in favour. they're in favour of teachers being happy and well paid and the well being of teachers. we come first as teachers. when we are well looked after, we look after the children. you're a mental health nurse, are you willing to strike? i'm absolutely willing to strike if it means looking after my own family. at the end of the day, i wouldn't leave patients. contingency plans will be put in place. you're a firefighter, can you see strike action coming down the track? i think if they don't end the pay cap, across the board for all workers, then yeah, there is justification for industrial action. the mood is sour and the unite union is threatening to take action whether or not workers‘ ballots deliver the kind of turnout and winning margin for strike action now required by law. unions haven't sounded

this war—like in years. labour's never been so militant. the party hasn't pledged to support unlawful action, but hasn't plainly refused that support either. this struggle is just beginning and it could get ugly. john pienaar, bbc news, brighton. the announcement on lifting the pay cap was made as official figures showed the cost of living had risen by more than expected in the month to august. inflation — as measured by the consumer prices index — increased to 2.9% up from 2.6% in july. the unions point out that any pay rise less than inflation leaves workers worse off. but where would the extra money come from? our business editor, simonjack, reports. sirens. the “if ef the :*"9—_ will pay with more tax.

the treasury insists there will be no additional borrowing, and these pay hikes will have to come from departmental budgets. so, a loosening of the cap won't necessarily mean any release of the pressure some public services are under. simon jack, bbc news. john pienaar is at westminster. tell us more about the way that you see the thinking within government behind this policy change today. the writing's been on the wall for the pay cap since the election, which came as such a shock to the government and also showed that public patience with austerity in general and the pay cap in particular was wearing so thin. that left the government facing a very difficult balancing act. on the one side — having to reassert itself as the party of fiscal responsibility, the party of fiscal responsibility, the party of fiscal responsibility, the party that gets in theresa may's famous words "there's no magic money tree". and at the same time, showing sensitivity to the public mood and

addressing very real problems in retaining and recruiting key public sector workers. the struggle ahead is going to be a defining one, obviously crucial for many public sector workers and their families struggling get by. but for the government, they desperately need to regain ground, after that election and prepare the public for more austerity, stretching years into the future. for labour, they are hoping they can decisively win an argument against austerity and more than that, establish themselves as a party in the minds of many more people as an alternative government. and an alternative government of the kind we've really never seen in british politics before. john, thank you very much. the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, has arrived in the caribbean to visit the overseas british territories affected by hurricane irma. the government has been criticised for being slow in responding to the disaster. but 1,000 british troops have now been deployed to help with the relief effort and more aid supplies are on the way. our correspondent, laura bicker, has been to the remote

island ofjost van dyke, in the british virgin islands, and sent this report. the idyllic shores and secluded bays ofjost van dyke were no match for hurricane irma's wrath. she tore through the island, stripping away years of hard work in just a few hours. this would normally be a place to escape to. some may now describe it as a place to escape from. but not those who live here. this was the bar here. this man has lost everything he built. his bar, his restaurant, and his home. and yet he is determined to start again. first have to get it cleaned up. first have to clean it up. take out all this stuff. a lot of work. do you think you have the money to do it? no, but i've got the... those picking through the remains of their lives need the tourists to come back. nearly one million visitors

spend $150 million a year —— $450 million a year in the british virgin islands. white sands is one of the most exclusive beaches in the whole of the british virgin islands. every decimated building that you see was a bar, a restaurant. someone's main income. and they will need to be rebuilt if this island is to survive. at fox's bar, they have been feeding locals rather than visitors. they have already managed to get some things back up and running. a sign that there is the spirit to rebuild. have you got the determination to do this? do we have the determination to... you ask a very simple question. no, we have the determination and actually, when everybody who needs to leave, or that has to leave, gets off the island, which will happen pretty soon, i think the rest of us can really refocus our efforts on what needs to be done. before the storm, the biggest marino on tortola would welcome yacht owners from around the world.

cash and jobs flowed from here. but hurricane irma has beached millions of dollars' worth of boats into a tethered, tangled mess. it will take some time. the owners know hundreds of livelihoods depend on a quick recovery. there are so many people here, invested 20 years of their life and more into this and we can't see it go away. so it is obviously a daunting prospect, but it is literally day at a time, right now. optimism in the face of overwhelming task. having survived such a horrific storm, the focus now is on how to live in its aftermath. laura bicker, bbc news, tortola. almost 400,000 rohingya muslims have now fled across the border — from myanmar to bangladesh — since the latest upsurge in violence which began at the end of august. the prime minister of bangladesh, visiting one of the refugee camps, called on myanamar to take the refugees back.

the un said yesterday that the treatment of the rohingya by myanmar, a mainly bhuddist country, amounted to ethnic cleansing. the un is holding an urgent meeting tomorrow to discuss the crisis. my colleague reeta chakrabarti is at the kutu—palong refugee camp. she has the latest for us. we join her now. we're at the edge of this huge, sprawling camp in which people are enduring a really degraded existence, sleeping on tarps on top of the monsoon mud. aid has been slow to come. with so many people packed into such miserable conditions, it has the potential to get much worse. my colleague, justin rowlatt, reports. roshida is nine months pregnant. she is expecting any day. but this is where she's living with 15 other family members and it is almost certainly where she'll have to give birth. translation: i'm worried.

there is no help. nobody‘s getting any food. here, there is no rice, no vegetables, nothing. i'm starving. i first met her a few days back. she'd hiked for seven days through the hills and jungle to get here. she says her village had been burned to the ground. we've seen her and herfamily moved on by the authorities and driven off the land by fellow refugees. many nights she's had to sleep under the skies, despite the monsoon rain. now her baby is sick and her husband has jaundice. and tens of thousands of other refugees are, like roshida, living in these filthy, make shift cities that are mushrooming on the muddy hill tops here. they arrive bewildered.

if they want a plastic sheet or bamboo to make a shelter, they pay. they soften have to fight just to get food. these guys are well meaning bangladeshis trying to help out. just look how chaotic this is. it's so demeaning for these people to have to beg for food. there is growing criticism of the way bangladesh is handling this crisis. we have to give them shelter so that they can live and get some food, medication. all the big international aid agencies are here. but the government restricts what they can do. for example, the un's main refugee body, the unhcr, is not allowed to work with the vast majority of the refugees. we're discussing with the government to see how we can provide assistance. what needs to happen next is for us to work closer together to make sure that land is allocated,

that temporary shelter is provided so that things can be a little more organised. while that discussion takes place, what these people really need is food and fresh water. somewhere clean to live and sleep. roshida needs medical care and a safe place to have her baby. what she and all the refugees need is a home. justin rowlatt, bbc news. last night you were at a hospital. today at this refugee camp. tell us about the range of practical needs these people have there. the conditions people are living in our really pitiful. it's very

uncomfortable and its unsanitary. clea n uncomfortable and its unsanitary. clean water, access to clean water, isa clean water, access to clean water, is a major problem. and with so many exhausted and malnourished people living in such close proximity to each other, the danger is that illness may spread. in one of these little shelters behind me, you can probably see a father tending to his little four—year—old son, who is running a fever. the little boy's older brother, five years old, has beeniu older brother, five years old, has been ill for five days. older brother, five years old, has been ill forfive days. there older brother, five years old, has been ill for five days. there are severalfamilies been ill for five days. there are several families living in that shelter, so you can see the danger. the visit of the bangladeshi prime minister today to this camp may signal that the government is finally acknowledged in there is a crisis and they have to get to grips with it. given the situation in myanmar it's very unlikely these refugees will be returning home any time soon. reeta chakrabarti for us with the latest in bangladesh. sir peter hall — one of the greatest names in the history of british theatre —

has died at the age of 86. sir peter had founded the royal shakespeare company when he was 29, and then spent 15 years leading the national theatre. his pioneering work also encompassed film, opera and television, and he directed some of the greatest actors of the age. our arts editor will gompertz looks back at the life and achievements of a man described as a colossus. we, oursad we, our sad buzz we, oursad buzz and is empty... it's all about emptiness and weeping. . peter hall, the text was a lwa ys weeping. . peter hall, the text was always paramount. his job weeping. . peter hall, the text was always paramount. hisjob as director was commonly thought, to get the playwright to speak. you wa nt to get the playwright to speak. you want to get to the centre of the play, he said, not me. iwill employee the back again. i find thee must fit for business. it was an approach that had the finest theatrical talent in the land making a beeline to work with him. peter is

sublime at directing. when we did antony and cleopatra he had them actually beating out the line, our royal lady's dead, dead, dead. it took us ages to do. the end of the morning we got to, our royal lady's dead... there was a pause and peter said, thank christ! i think she wa nts to said, thank christ! i think she wants to be that side. give me a stage and three actors and a text, andi stage and three actors and a text, and i have the confidence to know instinctively what should be done. he was from the outset a confident, precocious, risk—taking director. with some luck and plenty of good judgment, it was he who brought samuel beckett's waiting for godot to london. it was a sensation that changed the game and made his name. idid find changed the game and made his name. i did find it startlingly original. first of all that it turned waiting into something dramatic. second that

waiting became a metaphorfor living. what are we actually living for, what are we waiting for? will something come? will something come to explain why we are here and what we are doing? having blown the cobwebs from london's postwar west end, he made his way to stratford to give shakespeare the same treatment. my lovely edward's death, their kingdom's loss, my woeful banishment can all but suffer that. still only 29 years old, the visionary director turned impresario in 1960, found in the royal shakespeare company. turned impresario in 1960, found in the royal shakespeare compa nylj think we need the plates. his radical approach of mixing and classics by with new work by unknown playwrights, such as harold pinter, at first raised eyebrows, then standards and then the reputation of the company and the bard. when sir laurence olivier stepped down as the artistic director of the national theatre in 1973, it was peter hall

who took over, transforming it from a small company based in an old building intoa a small company based in an old building into a globally respected theatrical giant with a modern home on the london south bank. all peter's successes at the national theatre would acknowledge without petered out might be no national to i’ufi. petered out might be no national to run. it's easy to forget how hostile the reception was when the national moved to the south bank. it wasn't a popular place. he loved opera, and delighted in his time as a director at glyndebourne, making, in the eyes and ears of many, some of his finest work. sir peter hall will be remembered as one of the most significant figures in british theatre. he was the man who, by developing a model of public subsidy and private finance, created the landscape for today's golden age of british theatre. he was, as the director trevor nunn has said, the man who changed theatre from ancient

to modern. today's tributes to the great peter hall, who has died at the age of 86. a brief look at some of the day's other other news stories... three men — including two serving soldiers — have appeared before magistrates, charged with terrorism offences. they're accused of being members of the banned neo—nazi group, national action. they're due to appear at the old bailey later this month. police say a man arrested in connection with the death of 25—year—old louella eve fletcher—michie at the bestival festival in dorset, has been released under investigation. he was being questioned on suspicion of supplying a class a drug. the public relations agency bell pottinger has gone into administration. it's been unable to find a buyer since it was accused of stirring up racial tensions in south africa during an advertising campaign. nine members of a traveller family have been jailed for between six and 15 years, for running a slavery network in lincolnshire. the rooneys forced eighteen vulnerable men to work as labourers

for little or no pay. their victims were beaten and kept in squalid conditions. apple is hoping that its latest smartphone design will allow it to repeat the huge success of the iphone so far by pushing technology to a new level. the iphone x features a facial recognition id system, but at a time when customers are growing reluctant to upgrade their phones so regularly, this latest handset is apple's most expensive yet, as our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones reports. it's the world's most valuable company and its vast new headquarters speaks of its ambitions to grow even richer. and in the stevejobs theatre, named after its founder, apple unveiled the latest versions of the device which has made it so wealthy. we have huge iphone news for you today. two iphone 8 models will look like modest upgrades to all but dedicated apple fans, but a decade after the first version, it's the iphone x which is meant to showcase how far

the device has come. the standout feature is face recognition technology, allowing you to unlock the phone with just a glance. but it's the fact that it starts at an eye watering $999, or the same in pounds, which may stand out for those wondering whether to upgrade. apple is rarely first with new technology. face recognition, for example, is already available on this samsung phone. but its reputation for quality and the loyalty of its fans means more than1 billion iphones have already been sold. now though, with customers showing a bit of a reluctance to upgrade quite so frequently, retailers need these new models to be huge hits. but one technology investor says building on its success gets ever harderfor apple. apple has become the master of psychologically instiling need and desire in people to buy new phones. because unlike other manufacturers, their prices keep going higher and higher and higher. so not only are you trying to convince consumers to change or upgrade their phone,

you're trying to convince them to spend even more than they did the time before. what is exciting software developers is that the new phones make it easy to create augmented reality apps, like this game, where virtual pigeons suddenly appear in a london office. the technology before would have taken years to create and hundreds of people in a team. and now small studios like me, four people, and suddenly create four people, can suddenly create games in just a couple of months. unlocking it is as easy as looking at it. back in california, not everything was going smoothly with the facial recognition system. 0h, let's go to back up here. but apple will be hoping that this, its most expensive phone yet, will prove it hasn't lost the knack of delighting consumers. rory cellan—jones, bbc news. football, and the england women's manager, mark sampson, has denied allegations of bullying and discrimination, which were made by one of his players.

striker eni aluko claimed the manager had been racist, but sampson was cleared of any wrongdoing following two investigations. today he also received the support of players. mr sampson has been speaking to the bbc‘s sports editor dan roan. with his team preparing for their opening world cup qualifier, mark sampson is trying to focus on football. but with racism and bullying allegations hanging over him, the england manager has been under intense scrutiny. today, at the squad's training camp, he told me just how tough the controversy had been. it's been difficult for everyone. of course, it's been difficult for myself and my family, but everyone involved in this, it's not been easy for anyone. this is a situation that has to be respected and dealt with in the right way. last month, striker eni aluko, one of england's top players, told me that sampson had made racist comments, and that she may have been dropped as retaliation for her original complaint last year. he had been fully cleared by an fa review and an independent investigation. since then, otherformer players have criticised the culture under sampson,

and there have been calls for a new enquiry. but he insists he's innocent. did you ever belittle, victimise or bully eni aluko when she was a member of your squad? absolutely not. my intention, in working with all our players, eni included, was to support them, to give them the best chance to perform well for england. that's always been the intention of myself and the staff. so why is she saying it, then? what do you think her motive is? i can't answer the question for someone else. i respect that people have made allegations, and i respect that since they have been made i have gone through a thorough process. i have answered every question that has been asked of me. i've done everything that has been asked of me to make sure that i have answered those questions as well as i possibly can. she has made some pretty serious allegations about what appears to be racial comments. are you a racist? absolutely not. for several weeks now, the claims of former players against mark sampson have hung over england. the manager has always insisted he retains the full support of the current squad, and today, for the first time, they had their say.

i have to be honest, i think it really has hit the squad, the staff, very hard. we want to be behind mark. every time i have set foot in this environment since mark has been in charge, i've really enjoyed every moment. i feel as though this environment, as a team, has allowed us to be open, has allowed us to be individuals, and really be ourselves. on the pitch, sampson has been a big success, leading england to two semifinals, and he retains the fa's backing. but next month the governing body will be asked to explain its handling of the affair to a parliamentary select committee. moving on from this dispute is proving difficult. dan roan, bbc news. roy hodgson has been appointed the new manager of crystal palace. the former england manager has replaced frank de boer, who was sacked after just four the games in charge of the south london club. roy hodgson has been given a two—year contract. more football, and celtic tonight

suffered their heaviest home defeat in european competition against the stars of paris st germain, while there were straight forward victories for manchester united and chelsea. our sports correspondent, natalie pirks, watched the action. when your opponents' squad is worth more than £500 million more than yours, it's a fair sign you might be in for a torrid night. psg have made big moves over the summer to mount a major champions league challenge. it tookjust 19 minutes for their headline act to show celtic how serious they are. that's what you get for nearly 200 million. brilliant finish. their other huge summer deal was monaco's wunderkind kylian mbappe. imagine being the coach with those two up front. but don't forget cavani. just minutes later, when he was felled in the box, psg's third star striker also got in the act. an own goal made it 4—0 before cavani's sublime flying header made it five and capped off a terrible night for the scottish champions.

over at old trafford, champions league football is back. so too it seems is marouane fellaini. towering headers were clearly the order of the day against basel.