tv BBC News BBC News January 13, 2018 11:00pm-11:31pm GMT
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this is bbc news. i'm vicki young. the headlines at 11. officials from across government are holding talks this weekend to discuss the future of the troubled construction firm carillion. all personnel take shelter immediately. the governor of hawaii apologises after officials mistakenly issued an alert warning residents of an imminent ballistic missile attack. warnings of a tooth decay crisis amongst children in england — a record 43,000 operations to remove rotting teeth were carried out last year. also in the next hour we'll have another look at the sunday papers. joining me are anne ashworth, associate editor at the times, and the playwright and writer at the new european, bonnie greer. is darkest hour, the finest film
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from gary 0ldman. find out what we thought of top cinema releases as well is the latest film about winston churchill. the leader of the liberal democrats, sir vince cable, has warned the government not to agree to bailout the construction company carillion with taxpayers‘ money. there are fears the firm, which has debts of £1.5 billion, could collapse after creditors rejected a possible rescue plan. carillion employs about 20,000 people in the uk and is one of the government's main contractors. our business correspondent joe lynam reports. this is liverpool's newest hospital under construction. it will be the biggest single bed hospital in the uk, and it's being built by carillion. now there's concern that projects like these could be affected if the company collapses.
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from prisons to hospitals, to schools and rail, carillion is responsible for some of the uk's largest infrastructure and maintenance projects. so, should the government bail the debt—laden company out? i think what has to happen in this case — the contracts have to be kept going and supporting the supply chain and the tens of thousands of workers. that can be done by the government taking lots of this in—house, or re—tendering in other cases. the government can'tjust do a financial bailout. the shareholders and creditors — the big banks — have to take a hit. they can't just offload all the losses to the taxpayer. carillion is a major british company with hundreds of contracts running prisons, maintaining hospitals and mod facilities, with almost 20,000 employees here and tens of thousands more dependent on the company. but it has run up debts of £1.5 billion, including almost £1 billion to its banks, whose patience has run out.
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britain's biggest ever rail infrastructure project, high speed 2, starts major construction this year. and here at euston station, carillion is meant to build it. but given its mountain of debts there is a very real chance that the government might have to step in and give those contracts to other companies, or simply bail the company out — with all the moral hazards that comes with. the rmt union has called on the government to provide reassurances to thousands of workers who could be affected. also caught in the crossfire, are hundreds of smaller companies who carry out subcontracted work on behalf of carillion. potentially, it could be devastating. because many of them are owed millions by carillion. and if they don't get those monies, of course they are at risk as a business. the other thing is there will be thousands ofjobs, potentially, lost as a result. if carillion cannot be saved or restructured, the consultants ey have been put on notice to take over as administrators.
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it's a precautionary measure which the government and thousands of staff hope won't be needed. joe lynam, bbc news. earlier, joe explained to me the extent of carillion‘s financial problems. i think their appetite for contracts was bigger than their belly, to put it bluntly. basically, to apply for these giant contracts, uk wide, to run prisons and school and mod facilities and build hs2, you need to have scale. so they built up scale by being a genuine construction company and engineering giant. so smaller companies are kind of precluded from applying for those gigs. what happened is they bid for these massive contracts, won them, promising that they would do a certain amount of work within a certain amount of time to the government. but the income flow has been much less than they told their banks, so they borrowed money from their banks to apply for these contracts and franchises, and the income flow back through has not really been what they had expected and that is what got them into a situation where they now owe their banks £900 million. an investigation is under way
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in hawaii, after an alert was mistakenly sent to residents‘ phones, warning them of an imminent ballistic missile attack. the text message urged people to take shelter and added ‘this is not a drill‘. it was thirty minutes later revealed to be a false alarm. richard galpin reports. it‘s just after eight o‘clock in the morning local time and suddenly the broadcast of this basketball match is interrupted. hooter. the us pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. a missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. this is not a drill. if you are indoors, stay indoors. if you are outdoors, seek immediate shelter ina building. the chilling alert of what was apparently an imminent missile strike on hawaii was also sent out to everyone‘s mobile phones. when we got the alarm
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we were actually terrified, we were on the 36th floor of our hotel. and we didn‘t know what to do. i was just sleeping, my friend just woke me up. he says, hey, let's go, there's a bomb coming in hawaii. i didn't take it serious, but you know, i started running, eventually saw a place, a concrete building. people were just running on the street. but it turns out it was all a mistake. the us—pacific command confirming in a tweet there was no missile threat. this should not have happened. we are investigating the sequence of events that occurred. an error was made in emergency management, which allowed this false alarm to be sent. just last month, the hawaiian authorities decided to resume testing of the nuclear warning system for the first time since the cold war. these islands are the closest part of the united states to north korea. and over the past year,
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north korea has carried out a series of tests, proving it does now have nuclear weapons. so, no wonder people in hawaii were panicking today. richard galpin, bbc news. dentists have accused the government of not doing enough to tackle tooth decay in england. new figures indicate there were nearly 43 thousand operations to remove children‘s teeth last year — a 17% increase on four years ago. the british dental association says england now provides a second—class service compared to scotland and wales. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes has the story. tooth decay in children is distressing, painful and avoidable. dentists say sugary snacks and drinks are the biggest cause. british children drink more soft drinks than anywhere else in europe. and the number of multiple extractions, which have to take place in hospital under general anaesthetic, is continuing to grow.
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figures compiled by the local government association showed there were nearly 43,000 multiple tooth extractions among under 18s in england last year. that‘s around 170 every day of the working week. 0verall, there‘s been an increase of 17% injust four years. dentists say children in england are suffering and are being offered a second—rate service when compared to scotland and wales. the department of health in england says the introduction of a tax on sugary drinks was part of its plan to reduce the number of extractions. we very much welcome the sugar tax, but we need the government to focus on other areas, for example like price promotions, all those discounts, and the level of marketing on unhealthy products. all those colours and animations are always enticing children to prefer those products, making the job of eating healthy products and healthier diet much more difficult for parents. with proper oral hygiene, good brushing and avoiding high sugar snacks and drinks, thousands of children could be
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saved from experiencing the pain of a rotten tooth. dominic hughes, bbc news. let‘s take a look at some of the other stories making the news this evening. a 25—year—old model has died after being stabbed in a street in west london. harry uzoka had recently done a photo shoot with gq magazine. friends and family have described him as an ‘inspiration to young black men‘. two men, aged 27 and 28, have been arrested on suspicion of murder. a murder investigation has begun after a woman was injured in a tui travel agents in southport. police were called to the store on chapel street, where the 28—year—old worked, just before 1.30 this afternoon. she died in hospital. a 30—year—old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. the chief constable of west midlands police says he‘s going to write to the courts every time one of his officers is attacked and demand tougher sentences.
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dave thompson has revealed nearly 700 officers and staff were assaulted in a nine month period last year — a new record. iran has said the us has crossed a "red line" by imposing sanctions on the head of itsjudiciary and vowed to retaliate. ayatollah sadeq amoli—larijani is among 14 individuals and bodies targeted. iran also rejected any changes to its nuclear deal with world powers. president trump has warned that he‘ll re—impose sanctions on iran in less than four months — a move that would undermine the agreement under which tehran curbed its nuclear programme. trita parsi is the president of the national iranian american council, and author of the book, ‘losing an enemy — 0bama, iran and the triumph of diplomacy‘. i asked him what the likelihood was of mr trump achieving his stated aim of renegotiating the nuclear deal. there is essentially zero chance for that happening,
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for the very simple reason that donald trump doesn‘t carry any credibility here. if he was perceived as someone who actually felt there was a way of making this deal better, perhaps there could have been a chance but he is correctly perceived as someone who is just looking for various ways of destroying and killing this deal, whether that is by not renewing the waivers or by claiming that he wants to renegotiate the deal, but if you actually take a look at what he‘s demanding, these are completely non—starter demands that he has. so it‘s a more clever way for him to try to kill the deal and that‘s precisely why you are seeing such resistance from europe and others. they don‘t want to enter into a game with donald trump, whose aim is to destroy this deal. iran says it will retaliate if he imposes sanctions, what could they do? i think the iranian rhetoric is likely to be a little bit different from what they actually will do. i think there‘s going to be a need, from their sense, to speak
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very tough right now, in regards to some of these individual sanctions that trump has imposed, but those are not violations of the deal. what i think their rhetoric is more aimed at is to put pressure on europe, so europe doesn‘t cave into trump‘s demands by essentially signalling that if this continues and donald trump continues to undermine the deal, there‘s going to be a point in which the iranians themselves will also start withdrawing from the deal and then there is no deal left. since this has been such a critical contribution to notjust regional stability but for europe‘s security, i think what the iranians are hoping to do is to ensure that the europeans don‘t cave into trump. as you say there, if the iranians withdrawal, no deal left, what are the dangers of that scenario? the danger is actually quite simple. before this deal was reached, there was a significant risk that the united states and iran would go to war with each other and also a risk that the iranians might actually move towards militarisation of their nuclear programme. those two risks were essentially eliminated as a result of this deal. if donald trump kills this deal,
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those will go back onto the table and we will once again constantly hear the drumbeats of a war between the us and iran. what is the role of europe in all of this? presumably they will try to have a role in bringing the two sides together again? well, i think their primary role right now is to make sure donald trump doesn‘t walk out of a deal, that all of them together negotiate it, that is working perfectly fine. the iea has now issued nine reports explaining that the iranians have lived up to their end of the bargain, so the question is why isn‘t donald trump living up to his end of the bargain? that is the primary problem. in a moment we‘ll get all the latest on the day‘s football action, and more, in the sports bulletin. but first, a quick look at some of tomorrow‘s front pages. the sunday times reports that the new justice secretary is preparing to intervene to halt the release of the so—called ‘black cab rapist‘, john worboys.
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the sunday telegraph has an interview with the new conservative party chairman. he tells the paper he wants to galvanise the party‘s digital campaigning. the observer reports claims by nigel farage that pro—europeans could overturn the result of the brexit referendum and that the leave side has ‘stopped fighting.‘ and the sunday express claims economists are warning the eu that failing to reach a brexit deal with britain could cost it 500 billion pounds. the headlines on bbc news: officials from across government are holding talks this weekend to discuss the future of the troubled construction firm carillion. an investigation is under way in hawaii after an alert was mistakenly sent to residents‘ phones, warning them of an imminent ballistic missile attack. dentists have accused the government of not doing enough to tackle tooth decay in england. new figures indicate
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there were nearly 43,000 operations to remove children‘s teeth last year — a 17% increase on four years ago. sport now, and for a full round up from the bbc sport centre, here‘s jessica creighton. harry kane‘s incredible season for tottenham continues. he scored twice in a comfortable home victory over everton to become spurs‘ record premier league goalscorer. tottenham, who are now unbeaten in six matches, remain fifth in the premier league, but are level on points with liverpool and 18 points behind leaders manchester city. before the game, we feel that the three points were massive for us to take, and now we‘ve taken them and it is so important, because for fourth, it so tough this season. today, for us, it was so important —
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a massive three points today. there were six other matches in the premier league today. it was goalless between the champions of the past two seasons, chelsea and leicester. crystal palace are up to 12th with a 1—0 win over burnley. the david moyes revival of west ham continues — they‘re 11 after a 4—1 win at huddersfield. bottom side swansea earned a point as they drew 1—1 at newcastle. watford and southampton shared four goals, while west brom beat brighton 2—0. england batsmanjoe root is fit to play in tomorrow‘s first one—day international against australia after recovering from a viral illness. he was taken to hospital with gastroenteritis on the final day of the fifth ashes test. root, of course, captained the test side as they suffered a 4—0 ashes series defeat. the players left in australia now have a big point to prove in the shorter format of the game. 0ne—day captain eoin morgan is confident they can do that starting in melbourne. understandably, they have been i
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suppose down with the defeat of the test tour which is disappointing but i think with the energy a lot of the quys i think with the energy a lot of the guys have brought in from, coming from the big bash, playing against bangladesh previously, think it is important to the squad and series and it always has been, given you play on the back of such a significant test match series and eyes know the responsibility that they carry, to feel fresh, to pick up they carry, to feel fresh, to pick up guys they carry, to feel fresh, to pick up guys along the way, so i think everybody within the group has sort of come together quite well in the last couple of days and we are really looking forward to it. in this series everyone went on about pace, australia has pace, england do not have any, now we have some fallout to throw back at them. does that make a difference? it's a good question. a lot of the time guys who can have pace can also come onto the back quite well in white ball
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cricket and we have seen that with some of our guys, cricket and we have seen that with some of oui’ guys, we cricket and we have seen that with some of our guys, we have pace with wood and plunkett playing the majority of the time, i suppose the last six months or so so the way that you use it is very important. the skill level obviously has to be up the skill level obviously has to be up there to maximise the potential. james haskell‘s six nations comeback has been thrown into doubt after he was sent off in the final minutes of wasps‘ 33—28 defeat at harlequins. his shoulder tackle onjamie roberts means his place in the england squad is uncertain. the 32—year—old had been part of the national team‘s recent training camp. haskell will appear before a european rugby disciplinary panel this week, with just three weeks to go until the six nations gets under way. lisa ashton has won her fourth bdo world title after beating anastasia dobromyslova 3—1 at lakeside. ashton was considered the underdog before the final, but the defending champion won eight straight legs in a row, finishing with a 62 checkout to seal victory. ashton is now second on the list of titles won behind the 10—time champion trina gulliver.
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0n the men‘s side of things, the final will be played between defending champion glen durrant and mark mcgeeney. mcgeeney came through tonight‘s semifinal against germany‘s michael unterbuchner, six sets to four. the englishman, who is the bdo world number one, came back from 3—2 down to set up a chance to win his first world title. that‘s all the sport for now. enjoy the rest of your evening. consumers can no longer be charged extra simply because they‘re paying for something using a credit or debit card. but the ban, which came into force today, has been criticised by some retailers, who say they‘ll have to raise overall prices in response. adina campbell reports. they are the small fees added at the very end of the buying process. in percentage terms, it may not be that much, but these card surcharges add up. not any more. under new eu rules, retailers
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on or offline can no longer charge customers for paying with a credit or debit card. the treasury says these surcharges cost consumers £166 million every year. but some companies, such as concert venues, can still charge a booking or service fee. no longer will they be penalised just for paying by credit or debit card. now, with the end of surcharges, you are comparing like for like. the price you see is the price you pay. you don‘t get a nasty sting at the end. but some shoppers are not convinced. they can do it very sneakily, can‘t they, and just hide that 2% or whatever it‘s going to be in the cost of what you‘re going to purchase. i don't see why we should have to pay that for actually using a means of payment that's kind of, you know, universally acknowledged. at the end of the day, they'll end up passing it onto the consumer, so it doesn't make that much difference, to be quite honest.
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traders could feel the effects, too, because card companies will still charge for their services, but can no longer pass that fee to customers. vin vara runs a group of small businesses and is also president of the british independent retailers‘ association. nearly 63% of our sales are by credit card and debit card, so it will affect us in the long—term if rates and increased rates do go up. for retailers like this hardware store, today‘s ban throws up several options. they may decide to suck up the cost of processing a debit or credit card. alternatively, they could simply put up their prices, or they may decide to re—brand these fees as a service charge. 0ne business that‘s already been criticised is the delivery company just eat, which has said it will impose a new service charge for card payments. there are now calls for the new changes to be closely monitored to ensure consumers are not punished for paying by plastic. adina campbell, bbc news. in south africa, the new leader of the ruling anc party has given his first speech since being elected last month.
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cyril ramaphosa gave a damning assessment of the party, saying it‘s been beset by infighting and corruption. 0ur africa editor fergal keane was at the rally. if you want to know how the wind has changed in south africa, then listen to this. jacob zuma... booing. booed by his own party, jacob zuma is increasingly isolated. even supporters acknowledge his days as the country‘s president are numbered. the crowds have a different hero now — the new anc leader cyril ramaphosa. a businessman and skilled negotiator who‘s promised to end the capture of the state by a corrupt elite. we are going to confront corruption and state capture in all its forms. the investigation and prosecution of those who are responsible will be given top priority.
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we are resolute in our commitment to make this the year in which we build our movement and turnaround the economy of south africa. not since the end of apartheid in 1994 have i seen such a hunger for change in south africa. we‘ve heard a lot of promises from politicians. do you believe him? yeah, we have to believe him, he‘s our president, our new president. hopefully, they can fix everything is broken. that‘s a big, big hope. yeah, it's my hope, and the hope of all south africans. hope springs, in part, from desperation. the corruption of the zuma era dragged the economy intojunk status. not far from the stadium, this woman washes cars to earn cash. she‘s ten years out of school and unemployed. we have voted for anc but we don‘t see any changes. we want cyril ramaphosa,
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we wantjobs. if cyril ramaphosa can root out corruption and rescue this country‘s economy, he will be seen as a worthy inheritor of nelson mandela‘s legacy. but more than that, given the importance of south africa on this continent, he could emerge as one of the most important politicalfigures in the history of post—colonial africa. that is the prize. the challenges are immense. fergal keane, bbc news, east london. four british friends have broken the world record and become the fastest ever to cross the atlantic ocean in a rowing boat. the amateur crew, dubbed the four 0arsmen, made history when they reached the island of antigua just after 1:30 this morning, having spent 29 days at sea and beating the previous record by six days. dan johnson has more. and here they go! cheering.
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the end of an epicjourney rowed in record time. four men who had not even been in a rowing boat 18 months ago, now not only challenge winners but the first to cross the atlantic in under than 30 days. it feels overwhelming. the challenge, as we said before, is just relentless, never—ending pain, just rowing, just the whole thing, and coming first is something that is beyond our wildest dreams. they left the canary islands 3,000 miles away and faced 40—foot waves, scorching sun and howling winds — not quite the apocalypse but a test of endurance for the four 0arsmen. surviving on rations, producing their own water, taking it in turns to eat, to sleep, and to row. it‘s amazing to complete the row. we set out as a charitable initiative for two charities,
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mind, and spinal research. for me personally, the mind research is commemorative of my mum and her struggle with her mental health. to do it in such justice and in such style and with such great support and great success is amazing. just making it to the caribbean is a fantastic achievement but they have raised more than a quarter of a million pounds and have rowed their way into the record books. dan johnson, bbc news. now it‘s time for the weather with phil avery. it is going to get colder the sun, phil? all of us, eventually, and there is no escape from that. i‘ve been telling you that it has been on the cloudy side and i tell you that kirkwall was the lead on saturday
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with 0.6 of an hour of sunshine which was good enough to romp away with a prize. it has been went through the western end of cornwall, over 30 millimetres of rain in the last 24 hours, and it is still raining, and through the course of the night i think some of the rain will begin to peter away at last, at last. and not particularly cold and was the cloud pops. if it breaks will end up with a touch of frost and maybe a little bit of fog as well. early rises will still see the re m na nts of well. early rises will still see the remnants of saturday‘s rain across the western areas at a much more dry day, and a brighter day for some. still a lot of clout around. temperatures a fraction back perhaps the england and wales were to have been of late, maybe one degree or too high a further north. none of which should get in the way of the football. perhaps the pick of the match their depending on your colours, but liverpool versus sydney catches the eye. it and windy later
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because our head of the weather front we have strong winds especially across scotland, but even as the front comes south later, just of wind around 60 miles an hour, and very wet indeed anywhere near the weather front as it wants its way down into the south. although it hasn‘t been deeply warm of late there is relatively mild air with us because you see what i mean, we are all going to turn much colder times the weather front, and all going to turn much colder times the weatherfront, and behind all going to turn much colder times the weather front, and behind the persistent rain we then drop into some really quite violent thunderstorms for retirement and then the show was just kicking and there will be plenty of them. see what i mean about the temperatures? these are set to fall wildly across the british isles. this could be the last double temperature —— double—figure temperatures you see for the week. on tuesday the cold wind will win out, five, six, seven, eight as tops in the south on the show is turning wintry notjust on the high ground, increasingly at lower levels, and wednesday night into thursday it is wet and windy on
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its northern flank for a time and there could well be some snow, we will keep you updated because it could be tricky for thursday morning. the week to come—it will be colder, windy, and there will be some snow in the forecast as well. all of the details of this of course can be found on our website. hello. this is bbc news. we‘ll be taking a look at tomorrow morning‘s papers in a moment — first the headlines. talks are being held over the future of troubled engineering giant, carillion, which battling against debt and a pensions shortfall. the firm, which is trying to reach an agreement with creditors, is a key government contractor for projects including hs2. hawaii‘s governor apologises after an emergency alert was sent out warning people of an incoming ballistic missile threat. people were urged to seek shelter and told it was not a drill. president trump has been briefed. dentists are warning
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of a tooth decay crisis among children in england. it‘s after figures revealed a record 43,000 operations to remove rotting teeth were carried out last year. is darkest an hour gary 0ldman‘s finest? find out what we thought about the new film about winston churchill in the film review. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are anne ashworth, associate editor at the times, and the author, playwright and columnist in the new european, bonnie greer. the sunday times reports that the new justice secretary is preparing to intervene to halt the release of the so—called ‘black
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