tonight at ten, thousands ofjobs at risk following the collapse of the big construction and services firm carillion. the business is involved in major public building projects, as well as cleaning and maintenance for schools, prisons and hospitals and employs 20,000 people. workers are now facing great uncertainty. i am due wages that i would pick up this week in work, and i don't know if i'm going to get them. that's my rant, that's my food. —— rent. tonight ministers held an emergency meeting to discuss plans for maintaining essential services in the public sector. the government is working very hard indeed across all whitehall departments to ensure that the liquidation of carillion takes place in an orderly manner that does not disrupt public services. we'll be asking how a company in financial trouble was nonetheless able to secure major government contracts. also tonight... a coroner in cumbria concludes that 13—month—old poppi worthington had been sexually assaulted before she died of asphyxia. in bangladesh, fears for the safety of thousands of rohingya muslims

facing a return to possible violence in myanmar. they are living in what is now the world's largest refugee camp, amid what the united nations is calling a children's crisis. what a great shot! and many tributes to cyrille regis, the man who led the way for black footballers in britain. he's died at the age of 59. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news, manchester united go in search of a win against stoke tonight, while the potters begin a new era under paul lambert. good evening. ministers have held

an emergency meeting tonight following the collapse of carillion, the major construction and services company involved in some of the biggest public building projects in the uk. carillion employs 20,000 people in the uk and it sub—contracts work to thousands of small firms. the company has a50 government contracts, from work on the h52 rail link to cleaning and maintenance contracts for schools, prisons and hospitals. but carillion has now gone into liquidation with debts of £900 million and a pension deficit of more than £500 million. our business editor simon jack reports now on the collapse of carillion and its impact. this bypass near aberdeen is scotland's biggest construction project, with a price tag of £750 million. here's another one, around lincoln, cost, 100 million. just two of a50 contracts carillion has been awarded throughout the uk, but it did a lot more than build things.

through contracts to manage schools, prisons and hospitals, it touched the lives of millions. today, the government said it would not support the company with public money. this is, however, the failure of a private sector company and it is the company's shareholders and its lenders who will bear the brunt of the losses. taxpayers should not, and will not, bail out a private sector company for private sector losses. this was the scene the midlands that are put in hospital in sandwell. the cranes came to a standstill over the £600 million project. philip ellis was one of 500 workers told to leave. img wages i was due to pick up leave. img wages i was due to pick up this week and white, so i don't know if i'm going to get them. that is my rent and food, christmas, i found out my girlfriend was pregnant. i am stuck for money,

ringing around and trying to find jobs. everybody is in the same boat, ringing the same people for the same jobs. it is more than the second biggest construction firm, it delivers 32,000 school meals a day. it maintains nhs buildings, containing 11,500 hospital beds. it provides services to 50 prisons and as recently as november was awarded as recently as november was awarded a contract to help build the high—speed rail network. big contracts were added after it was known it was on the ropes, leading to angry exchanges in the commons. went to the 0tman bakkal realise it was in trouble? they have three ceos, three separate profit warnings and were already short selling stock exchange. where did it go wrong? big contracts like this went sour, profits had to be written off, blowing a hole in finances. with banks unwilling to lend any more

money without government support, its fate was sealed. company matter there was a company that until recently paid big salaries to bosses, and big dividends to shareholders, despite owing banks and its own pension scheme £1.5 billion. the wisdom of awarding public service contracts to a company like that will continue. today, the urgent concern is for the thousands of small businesses that rely on the big businesses like carillion for payments to pay their own bills. these are bills to them for goods and services we supplied. gordon stone supplies christmas lights to a city council through a subcontract. i have a dozen invoices dated back to november, when we supplied christmas lighting to birmingham city council, through carillion. these have not been paid. in total, they value about £17,500. what is the knock—on effect? in total, they value about £17,500. what is the knock-on effect? the consequences immediately are cash flow. we have to have a serious look at cash flow and business going

forward , at cash flow and business going forward, and potentially it might mean that we have to reduce staffing levels by one or two. we are not sure. furthermore, we are not sure if we will get paid any of this money. speaking after a meeting of the cobra committee, david liddington tried to put a positive spin on the day's events. the message today was that they want had gone pretty well. people were turning up to work. we had not had reports of any serious disruption to service delivery. it is unlikely workers going home today will see things the same way. in a moment we'll be talking to our deputy political editor john pienaar at westminster but first to simon jack who's outside carillion‘s headquarters in wolverhampton. simon, what have we learned today about the way this company was actually being run? well, the recriminations here have really intensified during the day, with

even a leading business group, the institute of directors, joining labour and the unions, issuing a stinging rebuke to the former managers. the ex—chief executive who left last year will enjoy his £665,000 salary until october. year after yea r, £665,000 salary until october. year after year, dividends were increased, even as the pension deficit ballooned. 0nce increased, even as the pension deficit ballooned. once again, the reputational business is taking a real beating today. this come in a way, is worse, because it is felt, rightly or wrongly, the government's fingerprints were all over this. they might argue that they tried to support the company by giving extra work to reassure its banks. that didn't work. the banks were not reassured, and without them on board, the company's fate was sealed. and tojohn pienaar at westminster what is being said at westminster about the reasons why the government was still putting business to carillion when the financial problems were known? the government anticipated that question from early on. ministers are saying if those

contracts had been pulled, it would have amounted to pulling the plug on comedy much sooner. we might have seen ministers taking more of the kind of heat we have seen today. ministers are also keen to get across that the taxpayer will not be bailing out a private company or private shareholders. but that is about the only thing that they can agree on. we have seen them opening up agree on. we have seen them opening upa agree on. we have seen them opening up a wider agree on. we have seen them opening upa widerand agree on. we have seen them opening up a wider and deeper ideological chasm that we have seen at any time since margaret thatcher first set out to roll back the frontiers of the state in the 1980s. it is now an enormous argument and a new scale altogether. tony blair, gordon brown, they were happy to see private involvement in the public sector. before jeremy private involvement in the public sector. beforejeremy corbyn there was a general acceptance that was 0k. was a general acceptance that was ok. but those days have now gone. that consensus has pretty much disappeared. this week, we will see a labour spokesman, after labour spokesman, attacking private involvement in public services in prisons, health, in hospitals,

across the board. it is a glaring example of the kind of startling polarisation we are seeing in british politics. john pienaar, many thanks. in cumbria, an inquest into the death of 13—month—old poppi worthington has concluded that she was sexually assaulted before she died of asphyxia. cumbria's senior coroner said her father's account of what had happened at their home in december 2012 did not stand up to scrutiny. paul worthington had declined to answer more than 250 questions during the inquest, and has consistently denied any wrongdoing. he's never been charged, as our correspondent danny savage reports. for five years, the death of poppi worthington has been unexplained. now it is much clearer how she died and what happened to her beforehand. this 13—month—old suffocated after being left in an unsafe sleeping position by herfather. she died in this bed where a coroner believes paul worthington also sexually assaulted her. he had taken herfrom her cot before the assault which the coroner ruled,

on the balance of probabilities, took place hours before she died. this statement was made today on behalf of poppi's mother. she is disappointed that poppi's father chose to rely on his right not to answer questions which might incriminate him. while she understands he is entitled to do this, she considers he should have given the coroner the crucial evidence of poppi's last few hours. the coroner said that paul worthington's accounts of what happened the night poppi died were not complete or truthful and his evidence did not stand up to scrutiny. mr worthington was bundled in and out of the inquest by police because of concern over his safety. he lives in hiding. in court, he refused to answer questions 252 times. i don't blame him. he was advised not to. he's gone through all this process over the last four years, five years with all the case and that and everything that's been dumped on him... no. go with the solicitor's advice. his sister, tracey worthington,

has stood by him throughout. how convinced are you that your brother is innocent? i'm not convinced — i know. i don't have to be convinced he's done nothing. i know. you know, i wouldn't protect him, trust me, i would not protect him if he'd done anything wrong. i'd be the one dragging him down the cop shop and he wouldn't be a pretty sight by the time he got there. the first inquest into poppi's death was quashed by the high court after lasting just seven minutes. the cumbria police investigation was botched and vital evidence was lost. two senior officers had cases to answer for gross misconduct. both have since retired. poppi and her family deserve a better standard of investigation than the one that was conducted five years ago. but no—one is ever likely to be charged over poppi's death because of a lack of evidence. many people will view this as an unsatisfactory end to years of investigations into poppi worthington's short life. danny savage, bbc news, cumbria. a brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.

a court has heard how khalid masood — the man who killed five people in westminster last march — took steroids in the days and hours before the attack. he was shot dead in the grounds of the palace of westminster after driving into four people on westminster bridge and fatally stabbing a police officer. two rafjets have intercepted a pair of russian bombers over the north sea which were approaching uk airspace. the ministry of defence says the planes were not responding to air traffic control, making them a hazard to other aviation. part of a floor inside the stock exchange in the indonesian capital jakarta has collapsed injuring more than 70 people. a group of some a0 visiting students were on a balcony section as the floor gave way. remarkably, nobody was killed. police say the collapse was due to an accident, not an explosion. the leader of ukip, henry bolton, says he has no intention of resigning in the light of racist remarks made by his girlfriend about meghan markle,

prince harry's fiancee. henry bolton said he had now ended the relationship withjo marney — who was suspended from ukip after saying meghan markle would taint the royal family. 0ur political correspondent vicki young has the story. her report contains some flash photography. forced to choose between his job and his controversial new girlfriend, today henry bolton announced his romance with jo marney was off and he wasn't going anywhere. i am absolutely not standing down. the reason is because it's crucially important that ukip has a loud voice in the discussions leading up to exiting the european union. mr bolton was ukip's fourth leader in a year. he was supposed to get the party onto the front foot and the front pages — but not like this. he's been forced to act after reports of racist text messages from miss marney, in which she called black people ugly and said prince harry's fiance meghan markle would "taint the royal family". she's apologised for the remarks, which she claims were

taken out of context. and today tweeted that... "we all make mistakes, it's how you deal with them and conduct yourself in the future that matters." henry bolton's come out fighting, but ditching his girlfriend may not be enough to save his leadership. irrespective of these texts thatjo marney sent, which are absolutely disgraceful, people were calling for him to resign before they came to light. the fact is, i think he's become a bit of an embarrassment to the party now and he really has to go. can our party really survive an ineffectual, useless leader, whose only public fame is for having a scandal? quite frankly, we don't need another leadership election, we shouldn't have had one, but the situation is untenable. he has to go. henry bolton's critics say that since taking over he's failed to make an impact, that his lack of political experience shows. he's also surrounded by colleagues who think they could do a betterjob. but that doesn't, apparently, include nigel farage. he's having a busy day, henry.

very busy indeed. who insists, really, he's not planning another comeback. since the brexit vote, ukip has struggled to find a purpose. the popularity it enjoyed under nigel farage has plummeted, and this latest fiasco won't have helped. but activists deny that their party is finished as a physical force. bitter infighting continues to plague the party. its ruling body will hold an emergency meeting at the weekend, and could decide mr bolton's time is up, plunging ukip into yet another leadership crisis. vicki young, bbc news, westminster. # a parliamentary committee has expressed grave concern about plans to begin repatriating hundreds of thousands of rohingya muslims from bangladesh back to myanmar — from where they fled violence last year. the international development committee has warned that rape and sexual violence are still weapons of war used by the military in myanmar. around 570,000 rohingyas are now living in the world's

largest refugee camp, kutupalong, near the port city of cox's bazar in bangladesh. my colleague mishal husain is in kutupalong with the latest. it was a mass movement of people unmatched in recent years that created this camp in the space of just five months. today, the small shelters dot the landscape here, stretching right up to the border with myanmar a few miles away. living conditions are very difficult. nevertheless, the idea of going back to myanmar is unthinkable at the moment for most of the refugees — many say their security would need to be guaranteed first. in a camp where hundreds of refugees are still arriving every week, there is much to be done. new wells, new shelters, all part of providing for growing

numbers and preparing the camp for the monsoon rains. the more construction and expansion that takes place at this last camp, the more permanent it starts to feel. but, at the same time, the talk of repatriating refugees is causing deep alarm. after the circumstances in which they fled myanmar less than six months ago, who really trust that things have changed enough for them to go home? that's because the destruction of their homes and villages continued even after myanmar said military operations had come to an end. these pictures were filmed by the bbc from the bangladeshi side of the border on the 10th of september last year, five days after the supposed ceasefire. this was your house? this is my house. that was also the day that irfan lost everything. a father of four, he was the secondary school teacher back in myanmar and lived

here with his extended family. who is that? that is my brother. the authorities told them they'd be safe, and then the soldiers came. translation: the military surrounded the whole area and they had weapons. they opened fire as people were trying to leave. some escaped, but others were killed. my brother was at home that day, but he went out to check on his shop. he never came back. we don't know if he was burned alive. we still haven't heard anything. away from the main camp, another area is home to hindus from myanmar, who were caught up in the violence. they have been identified as among the first to be repatriated. but even they are not ready to go without international protection. translation: if the united nations goes with us, the hindus, we hope we will get security and be happy.

if they are there, and we face any problems, the whole world will know about it. for now, it seems most likely that the children of these camps will grow up here without a country to call their own. the un's access to their old home, rakhine state, is severely restricted. they too call for change and for the rohingya to be doubly recognised. at this stage, i think it is premature to talk about returns in large numbers until three conditions exist. number one, the issue of citizenship and legal identity must be addressed. number two, there has to be a safe and secure environment for refugees to return to. number three, reconstruction and the re—establishment of services must occur. services here are more organised. but it's a precarious existence. a community who have been marginalised and persecuted are now entirely dependent on aid,

and on what others decide for theirfuture. the aid agency unicef is calling this ‘a children's crisis' because of the large numbers of children who live in these camps. it's also voicing concern about the 25,000 refugee babies who will be born here this year and will lack any legal papers. last september, our correspondent justin rowlatt met one rohingya woman who crossed the border heavily pregnant. he's been back to see how she and her new baby are. mohammed is three and a half months old now. hello mohammed. hello. but right from birth, he's faced discrimination. the bangladeshi authorities won't issue birth certificates to rohingya babies, so officially mohammed does not exist.

we first met his mother the day she escaped from myanmar. she was nine months pregnant. she told me how the myanmar army and local buddhists had attacked her village. but their troubles were far from over. guards moved her and herfamily on. they said there was land over the hill. but not enough for everyone. rishida's husband tried to stake out a plot, but he was driven off my other refugees. her family had to sleep in the open, despite the rains. finally, they found space to build a rickety shack. her baby was born on the soggy muddy floor. translation: he was born right here. there was no midwife, no medicine, no mat, no wood to light a fire.

it was so painful, but by god's grace a girl from next door came and cut the umbilical chord and then i picked him up from the mud. that is how my baby came into this world. luckily, mohammed hasn't caught cholera or diphtheria — two of the deadly diseases that have broken out in the camps. but not having any official identity will be a real problem. it will be hard for him to get into school, to registerfor services and may make getting back into myanmar even more difficult for his family. so, like the rest of the refugees, he will have to eke out an existence here in bangladesh — stateless, with just a shack for a home, denied even the dignity of an official identity. there were talks between bangladesh

and myanmar about beginning the process of people returning, but those talks are hard to reconcile with the fact that the refugees are still crossing the border and arriving here in bangladesh and they say violence against them is continuing. some of those i met are resigned to spending the rest of their lives here. but others say if their lives here. but others say if their rights are guaranteed, they will will go home. thank you. the first minister of scotland, nicola sturgeon, has warned that a hard brexit could take more than £12 billion a year out of scotland's economy. she's pledged to make the case for keeping the uk in the eu single market, after publishing the analysis by the scottish government. the uk government insists it is seeking a brexit deal that will work for the whole of the uk, as our scotland editor sarah smith reports. will brexit leave us better off or worse? the scottish government today published figures they say show what leaving the eu might cost each and every scot.

the scottish government analysis suggests that by 2030 staying in the eu single market will cost the scottish economy £a billion, or £688 per person. a free trade agreement similar to canada's deal with the eu would cost the scottish economy £9 billion, or £1,610 per person. while reverting to wto trading rules if there is a hard brexit could cost nearly £13 billion, or over £2,000 per person. these figures relate specifically to the scottish economy, but they're very much intended to persuade people and politicians across the whole of the uk that the united kingdom could stay in the eu single market once we've left the european union itself. staying in the single market is the only option that makes sense. theresa may has been incredibly clear from the beginning that she believes the uk has to leave the single market.

do you really think you'll change her mind? i don't want to be facetious, who knows whether theresa may will even be prime minister by the time these negotiations conclude? the house of commons can if it chooses to decide not to allow theresa may to go down the road that is in her narrow party political interest to go down and instead force a path that is much more in the interests of the country overall. the uk government dispute the figures. anybody can make end of the world—type predictions, but rather than focussing on the most negative scenario, what we should be doing is working together to get the best possible deal. cathy and alistair cunningham represent the great brexit divide. she voted to leave, he to remain. what do they make of today's figures? the snp is making the case for scotland and trying to get as good a deal as possible for scotland and the rest of uk, but particularly for scotland. i don't think it would be a good deal if you're half in and half out. in five year's time,

we'll all be laughing about the fact that we all said we were going to hell in a hand cart. many leave voters will share cathy's scepticism about any economic predictions over brexit, while alistair of course disagrees. and so the debate goes on in the cunningham family and far beyond. dolores 0'riordan, lead singer of the irish rock band the cranberries, has died suddenly at the age of a6. she'd been involved in a recording session in london when she died. the cranberries dominated the 1990s album charts — selling a0 million records around the world, as our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba reports. # do you have to let it linger? linger was the first song dolores 0'riordan ever wrote with the cranberries. it turned her and the band into stars.

# i just want to be with you.# linger was about teenage rejection. # i'm such a fool for you... folks, do me a favour please welcome and just in time for thanksgiving — the cranberries. their rapid success particularly in america soon saw the young singer song writer move on to weightier topics. # with their tanks and bombs... zombie was a powerful protest song written after two young children were killed by an ira bomb. # in your head # zombie # zombie last year the band were ready to tour once more, but it was cut short by health problems. i have had health issues a lot in the last few years, but one

of the worst problems is i had a disk problem my back and i had stopped playing guitar. today the irish prime minister said that for anyone who grew up in ireland in the nineties, dolores 0'riordan was the voice of a generation. # you got me wrapped around yourfingers... a generation tonight mourning the loss of one of music's great talents. # do you have to let it linger? # the singer dolores 0'riordan — who passed away suddenly earlier today. the england cricketer, ben stokes, has been charged with affray, along with two other men, after an incident outside a nightclub in bristol last september. the 26—year—old was ruled out of the ashes series in australia following his arrest. he says he's keen to have an opportunity to clear his name. the former manchester united footballer, ryan giggs, has been unveiled as the new manager of wales. he's signed a four—year deal and this is his first permanentjob as a manager.

as a player giggs was capped 6a times by wales. countless tributes have been paid to cyrille regis — the former west brom and england footballer, who's died at the age of 59. he was among the first black players to compete at the highest level in england in the late 1970s and was regularly subjected to racist abuse from the terraces. his wife said he'd come into football the hard way and never lost his passion for the game, as our sports editor, dan roan, reports. commentator: regis taking it well on the chest and a lovely piece of control by regis. and, oh, what a great shot. what a goal! cyrille regis didn't just lead the line, he led the way. known for his pace and power, he broke through at west brom in the 1970s — a time when there were few black players. it made the situation at the hawthorns all the more unique, where regis, brendan batson and lawrie cunningham — together nicknamed the three degrees

— were at the heart of one of the era's most exciting teams. at a time of high racial tension, they were subject to relentless abuse. commentator: the booing of the black players... we were used to 3 or a, 10,000 people shouting racist racist abuse at you, throwing bananas on the pitch and monkey chants and that stuff. so ijust took it as if it was somebody trying to intimidate me. just the third black player to represent england, not everyone welcomed his debut. i got a letter through the post, which said, you know, "if you put your feet on that wembley turf, you'll get one of those for you knee. " and it was a bullet. asa kid, as a kid, i didn't know what was going on, but you could hear the monkey chants...