afford to keep it running, having over—bid for the current franchise. it's the third time in a little over a decade that the east coast franchise has been ended early. the route has its challenges, but it is not a failing railway. however, as i explained in february, mr speaker, stagecoach and virgin trains got their bid wrong and they are now paying the price. no amount of tinkering can solve the failings of a broken privatised system, where the public takes the risk and the train companies take the profits, aided and abetted by the transport secretary. the failure of the latest franchise is already being investigated by mps — we'll have the latest. also tonight... president trump raises doubts about the much—anticipated summit with north korea, meant to happen next month. calls for radical reform of the audit industry in a critical report on the collapse of the engineering firm carillion. stakes at fixed—odds betting machines could be drastically reduced under new plans to be announced tomorrow. and the liverpool teenager

trent alexander—arnold is among those called up for england's world cup squad. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news, everton and west ham are looking for new managers after sam alla rdyce and david moyes move on. good evening. rail services on the east coast main line are to be brought back under public control until the year 2020. the current private operators, stagecoach and virgin, have been losing hundreds of millions of pounds, and they were accused of overbidding for the franchise and of misjudging the revenue potential of the business. the franchise is being ended, five years early, and it's the third time, that the line has been affected in this way. that isn't just

that isn'tjust over a decade. that acrobat is in just over a that isn'tjust over a decade. that acrobat is injust over a decade. labour said the government's rail policies had been calamitous, and called for the entire network to be renationalised. our political editor laura kuenssberg has more details. ajourney, in many ways. 393 miles from edinburgh to london and back into public hands. when it was before, it worked. the private companies, the trains can be a bit of a nightmare. the trip that glides down the coast to northumberland, the line that's gone from public to private, then failed. whether it's nationalising it or no, i would argue that something definitely needs to be done, and sorted. arriving in london where, after another public to private mess, the decision has been made for government to take it on again. the public has been kind of messed about by all this. government shouldn't manage business, government should regulate business. an embarrassment for a tory administration that is committed to privatisation.

secretary chris grayling. mr speaker, first of all i would like to make a statement about the future of the east coast main line. i will terminate virgin trains‘ east coast contract on the 24th ofjune 2018. in other words, you and me will own it again. and the old name is back, too. london and north eastern, the line of the flying scotsman, taken into public hands in the 40s. after decades of british rail, gner then failed. -- gner —— gner ran the line, then failed. then so did national express two years later. so state run, directly operated rail ran the line successfully until 2015. virgin won the deal then, but billions later, it's gone wrong again. it's not actually about the operation of the railway itself. the team that's running the railway has done a good job. their parent company

got their sums wrong, and that's what's caused today to happen. but that deal was overseen and done, of course, by the department for transport, underage conservative government in 2015, so the government surely bears responsibility for this too? —— undera —— under a conservative government. well, the department for transport accepted a bid which proved not to be viable, so all of those involved got their sums wrong at the time, i fully accept that. many of our viewers will think time and again they hear things go wrong with the rail franchising system, private companies come in and take the money when it works, and when it goes wrong the taxpayer ends up having to step up. i think it's time to move to a new period, and that's why my focus is on the reintegration of track and train. it's not about whether the government owns it, it's not about whether a private company owns it, it's actually about how you run it. but what this isn't going to be is just another round of franchising on the east coast main line. it hasn't worked, i'm not doing it again. so the old model is dead, then? this is the new model? this is where i want much of the railway to evolve to. the joining up of track and train. i don't want to kind

of tear everything up and start again in one go, because what matters is keeping a coherent service for passengers, but this is, in my view, a start of a period of big change for the railways. that still means a hefty private involvement, though. ready to go, in theory, by 2020. in the meantime, services — and prices — should stay roughly the same. but as virgin says goodbye to this contract, labour says it's time for a much bigger change. the only nation on the face of the planet that's not able to run the railways in this country is our own, and that's ludicrous in the extreme. and i think people understand that. that's why we're saying, yes, unite track and train, but let's bring it into a publicly owned company to run our railways. there's not much chance of ministers taking a dramatically different direction. getting rail right is not easy, whatever is ahead. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. 0ur transport correspondent victoria fritz is outside kings cross station for us now.

increasing questions, victoria, about the viability of this franchise setup. what do you make bid? the political landscape has clearly changed for the railways as a result of this announcement. the business model has also come under fire. the profit margins for running a line of vulnerable, subject to the winds of economic fortunes of a country, changes in consumer behaviour and investments on the tracks on which these trains operate, which is already under public ownership through network rail. any private business, for them to be able to accurately predict that seven or eight years out for the life of a franchise, it is tough. and so for a government to accurately assess competing bids when they come in. clearly both got it wrong. the rail delivery group,

representing the providers on the train operating companies, have urged for a fresh new approach to writing franchises in the future. but there will be questions for politicians and four train operating companies, but for passengers going on the london to edinburgh line, not much will really change. the trains will look a bit different on the outside but they will be running the same services for the same prices and she will be even able to buy tickets for journeys operated and she will be even able to buy tickets forjourneys operated by london and north—eastern railway through the website until the operation ownership switches over. thank you, victoria fritz, our transport correspondent, at king's cross. president trump has hinted that the much—anticipated summit between him and the north korean leader, kim jong un, might not go ahead next month. he was speaking after the authorities in pyongyang threatened to cancel the talks if the us continued to push for an end to its nuclear weapons programme. north korea has already pulled out of this week's talks with south korea in protest at thejoint military

exercises with the us. 0ur north america editor jon sopel has more details. it is an annual event, and each year it upsets the north. a military training manoeuvre involving 100 warplanes from the us and south korea. last night pyongyang engaged in their own live fire exercise with a threat to shoot down next month's planned summit. but if this was provocation, donald trump was doing his best not to react. his comments in the oval office work conspicuously muted. we haven't seen anything, we haven't heard anything, we will see what happens. in the hubbub he was asked if he was still insisting on north korea getting rid of its nuclear programme. yes, he says. but this is the thorniest issue. denuclearisation means one thing to the us and something completely different to the north. the us national security adviser has

said disarmament must be complete, verifiable and irreversible. he says it should be what colonel gaddafi did in libya. we are looking at the libyan model of 2003/4 we are looking at the libyan model of 2003/11 and looking at what north korea itself has committed to previously. but look at what happened to colonel gaddafi, without his weapons he lost his insurance policy and was ousted from power. north korea will not go down that route. what was noticeable this morning was the white house press secretary seems to put quite a distance between the president and mr bolton's libya model. distance between the president and mr bolton's libya modellj distance between the president and mr bolton's libya model. i am not aware that as a model we are using, but i would... i have not seen that thatis but i would... i have not seen that that is a specific thing, i know that is a specific thing, i know that comment is made but there is not a cookie cutter model on how this works. this is the president trump model, he will run this how he sees fit. donald trump has invested heavily in making the summit a success and

there is no doubt there is determination in the white house that it should go ahead. but not at any price. and there are some intractable issues which could still derail it. will we see any even more improbable handshake moment? in cell on a film set, people queued to replicated. —— in seoul on a film set. president trump wants this to be his friend ‘s moment in history, but we are not there yet. two parliamentary committees at westminster have published a highly critical report into the collapse of the construction and services company carillion. they said senior executives had presided over a "rotten corporate culture" and accused them of "greed and recklessness". they also called for a potential break—up of the big four audit firms after they allegedly "waved through" the company's accounts. our business correspondent simon gompertz reports. birmingham's new super hospital, construction at a standstill. this is the continuing blight from carillion, which today's report says was a giant and unsustainable

time bomb, condemned by a rotten corporate culture and led by directors too busy stuffing their mouths with gold. the longer this lies abandoned, the more the weather gets in, the higher the cost of restarting. it could be delayed by three years. it was heartbreaking more than anything, because i had to tell guys they had to go home that day... james was a subcontractor at the hospital, who lost £200,000 to carillion. seeing the report, he fears for the industry he works in. it's very upsetting to think this actually goes on, and it's probably still going on. in other companies? in other companies, which is obviously going to make us very wary and it's going to make other companies very wary of working for bigger companies in the future. blamed by mps for what happened to james and others, richard howson, the chief executive with a strategy described as "doomed to fail". finance director, richard adam, called the architect of aggressive accounting policies — an accusation he rejects. and chairman philip green, said to be delusional —

which he says is inaccurate. they had more concerns for their own pay bonuses and dividend pay—outs than they did for running the company in a way that would generate jobs and investment and growth. the mps are scathing about the auditors. kpmg, which signed off the accounts, was complicit and complacent. deloitte, didn't identify terminal failings. ey was paid millions for failed turnaround advice. criticisms they all reject. the standstill at this hospital project, the lay—offs, the losses for suppliers, they have prompted mps to demand tougher regulation and a look up breaking up the big for auditing firms, what they call a "cosy club". it was very shocking... jay, who was 17, lost his apprenticeship in birmingham when carillion went under. we're always going to be thinking now, is this going to happen to us again? are we just going to be completely

left out to hang in the dry again? so yeah, it's worrying for all of us, not just us apprentices, but the lads who are working on site as well. jay's city is left without its new hospital, maybe for years. there's now a challenge to build safeguards so people like him can work with confidence in the industries where carillion is history. simon gompertz, bbc news, birmingham. a brief look at some of the day's other other news stories. the chief executive of 0xfam, mark goldring, is to resign at the end of this year. the charity has been criticised after allegations of sex abuse by its staff in haiti. _by —— by some of its staff. in a statement, mr goldring said 0xfam needed to, "rebuild and renew for the future" and it was time for new leadership. the government will fully fund the removal and replacement of dangerous cladding on high rise blocks owned by councils and housing associations in england. the bill for the work could be £400 million. an 85—year—old woman has been

murdered at her home in romford in east london. police have named the victim as rosina coleman, who lived on her own. she was discovered with serious injuries. a deputy governor of the bank of england has apologised after he described britain's economy as menopausal. ben broadbent used the term in a newspaper interview, saying that uk productivity was "past its peak". mr broadbent said he was sorry for his "poor choice" of words. with three days to the royal wedding at windsor, it's been announced that princess charlotte and prince george will be among the bridesmaids and page boys — ten in total — who'll accompany meghan markle at st george's chapel. but there's still no update on whether ms markel‘s father, thomas, will attend, following reports that he needed heart treatment. 0ur royal correspondent nicholas witchell has the latest. on her way to her daughter's wedding — meghan markle's mother doria ragland left her home in california for the flight to london.

good luck with the wedding! conspicuously not travelling was markle's father thomas, who, according to reports, is in hospital in mexico — possibly undergoing surgery, probably not attending the wedding. though kensington palace has still said nothing officially. leading the page boys and bridesmaids on saturday will be prince george and princess charlotte, who played the roles at pippa middleton's wedding last year. harry and meghan will have ten young attendants — six bridesmaids and four page boys — ranging in age from two to seven. and while the leading players prepare, so too does the supporting cast. the harmlessly fixated, who attend all major royal events, have already bagged their places just outside windsor castle, to the fascination of foreign broadcasters. is this level of interest representative of the country as a whole? well, of course it's not. indeed, according to some polls, among a good many people there is, well, polite indifference to it all. but not here in windsor,

a town whose identity is aligned with royalty, whose rooftops have been commandeered by international broadcasters, and from where this saturday this royal wedding, with its international twist, will be broadcast to audiences around the world. nicholas witchell, bbc news, windsor. this weekend, the voters of venezuela will take part in a presidential election. 0pposition parties are calling for a boycot, so president maduro is widely expected to win a second term. with its huge oil reserves, venezuela should be one of the richest countries in the world, but a collapse in oil prices, and economic mismanagement, has caused a crisis, and food and medicines are in short supply. as the situation worsens, its estimated that 5,000 people a day are fleeing the country. among them are many pregnant women looking for somewhere safer to give birth. 0ur south america correspondent katy watson has been to boa vista near venezuela's border with brazil, where many of the women are arriving.

meet baby max, a brand—new life and, for his mum, a brand—new start. back home in venezuela she rarely ate more than one meal a day. and with a packet of nappies costing four months‘ wages, she had little choice but to leave. "there's nothing like my country, i really miss it," she tells me, but admits with the prices in venezuela decent medical help was hard to come by. so there's 64 beds in this hospital, and they say that every day they are full. it's the only maternity hospital in the state. later i found karina and her friends waiting on the street, unsure where to go. eight months pregnant, karina tells me she had to sell the baby milk she'd brought with her from venezuela to pay for her transport here. translation: in venezuela you have to buy everything for the birth, and it is all so expensive.

i also have two brothers who are dying because they can't get the medicines they need. my mum didn't want me to come here in my condition, but i can't stand by and watch my brothers the way they are. i have to try and help them. i ask how she'll do that with a new baby. translation: here i thinkl can help more than back home. you can get more here. if you sell something here, it's worth something. there, you can sell a thousand things and it's not worth anything. back at the hospital and demand for health services in this city has soared more than 3,000% in the last couple of years. doctors say it's reached crisis point. translation: we're running out of supplies, basic medicine and beds. we are seeing cases of anaemia in pregnant women and urinary infections, because there is no medicine to treat them in venezuela, and people there aren't vaccinated. we're trying to fix all these problems, and i think this situation is going to get worse. but each new day brings new people, packing their whole life

into a couple of suitcases. at this un camp, families are given priority, but there's no room for eight months pregnant karina, who we met on the street. little max, though, is heading home to meet his family. his big sister is excited to see the new addition. "home sweet home," says his mum. but she and her husband richard tell me they are worried about the mosquitoes and the heat in these tents. the family arrived in brazil with nothing. they still have very little. not even any clothes for baby max. but with a worsening crisis in venezuela, returning is not an option. katy watson, bbc news, in boa vista. the findings of a long—awaited review of the uk's £14 billion gambling industry will be published tomorrow. there's been growing concern about the money gambled on fixed—odds betting machines

at high street bookmakers. with maximum stakes of up to £100, they've been described as the "crack cocaine" of the gambling world. it's expected the government will recommend drastically reducing the stakes, perhaps as low as £2. but bookmakers say that could cost thousands ofjobs in the industry, as our media editor amol rajan explains. gambling is an ancient industry — the very aim of which is to create winners and losers. but these days it is the bookies who feel increasingly out—of—pocket. 0utside parliament recently they issued a loud warning about the peril facing their trade. like so many industries, this one is shifting online. a drastic reduction in how much can be spent on fixed odds betting terminals, is expected to accelerat this trend. we think reducing it by 98% to £2 will decimate our business and other independents like us. we're a fourth generation family business and we don't think we'll survive the cut. but many former and current addicts would love nothing more.

tony became a gambling addict while still at school and has lost over £1 million. over three decades, he lost his home and family and left a trail of debt. even though i'm supposed to be excluded from every bookmaker in this country, i was able to step into a bookmaker's and lose £2,740 in 42 minutes. the speed at which that all happened... i wasn't able to step back enough to say, "what am i doing here?" gambling is on a journey — much like nicotine a generation ago. at first, many addictive behaviours are commonly accepted. then awareness of the costs — both social and individual — begins to grow. victims speak up, campaigns are launched. but those who benefit from the status quo resist change.

and then finally new laws catch up with public sentiment. book him in, i'll see him and have a conversation, but i can't promise, because it depends on whether he's drinking a lot of alcohol... this doctor runs britain's only gambling clinic funded in part by the nhs. the rest comes from the industry. everybody who comes through these doors is desperate. and i'm not exaggerating. people are either suicidal, or they were recently suicidal. they are at the rock bottom of their lives. what makes someone go from being a responsible gambler to being a problem gambler? some of our patients tell us stories about starting to gamble compulsively from primary school age. other people we treat use gambling as an escape. figures from the gambling commission show there are 430,000 problem gamblers and a further 1.9 million at risk in britain. you can find us in every corner of the world. public opinion against this ancient

habit seems to be hardening, but with more than £1.4 billion spent on advertising by the industry since 2012, the exchequer and parts of the media have an incentive to see it balloon further. there's no escape. there is frankly no escape, you can never go anywhere and be free from the opportunity to gamble. there's no respite. more than 300 women who were sexually abused by the former us olympic gymnastics team doctor larry nassar are to share $500 million in compensation. many of the women gave moving testimony during his trial — which resulted in nassar being jailed for life. the payment has been made by michigan state university, where nassar was based and where many of his victims studied or trained. mps have blocked an investigation into allegations that the commons speaker,

john bercow, bullied members of staff. mr bercow has always denied the allegations. the commons standards committee decided by three votes to two against allowing the parliamentary commissioner for standards to look into the claims. the leader of the unite union, len mccluskey, has made a strong attack on those labour mps who oppose the party leadership — accusing them of being "corbyn haters". he urged local activists to remove them as parliamentary candidates. in a bbc interview, mr mccluskey also insisted it was grossly unfair to suggest thatjeremy corbyn had been slow to confront anti—semitism in the party. he was speaking to our deputy political editorjohn pienaar. a diet coke, you have got to keep fighting fit. you never know where the next fight‘s from. fighting fit. you never know where the next fight's from. len mclusky is upfora the next fight's from. len mclusky is up for a scrap with mps who won't back their leader. there is a small

rump of right—wing mps, they want to criticise jeremy corbyn rump of right—wing mps, they want to criticisejeremy corbyn on everything and anything, it is like they wake up and say what can we have a go on today. it is though they have thatjob for life and don't need to respond to anyone. now, injeremy corbyn‘s labour people have to respond to their local party members. if the local members decide they don't represent them any more, and use the appropriate procedures, then they should leave and you know, i won't cry over it. you would say good riddance? yes. in the union's office, fighting talk from jeremy corbyn‘s ally and he was just warming up. emotions run high over claimsjeremy warming up. emotions run high over claims jeremy corbyn‘s warming up. emotions run high over claimsjeremy corbyn‘s been soft on anti—semitism and now len mclusky said the row was inflamed by his enemies in party head quarters.

said the row was inflamed by his enemies in party head quartersm is my personal belief, i don't want to be too offensive, but i i believe that was deliberate by forces in the labour party who slowed down the process so jeremy corbyn labour party who slowed down the process sojeremy corbyn could be blamed. there is another internal struggle in a party with with a lot of new recruits. some say that the labour party should be about the mass membership, the new members who flooded in and the days of union's power is a thing of past? trade unions created the labour party and will always have the labour party as their political voice. will always bea their political voice. will always be a powerful group. of course we will, because we represent millions of working people and we represent labour. unites handed labour party £11 million underjeremy corbyn and he is the tory‘s favourite bogey man. you love it. in a way, i wear

it as man. you love it. in a way, i wear itasa man. you love it. in a way, i wear it as a badge of honour if right—wing newspapers are attacking me, i must be doing something right for my class, my members and my people. the footballer ray wilson — who was a member of england's world cup winning team in 1966 — has died at the age of 83. he played at left—back in all six of england's games in the tournament and was the oldest member of the team in the final. along with geoff hurst, he famously lifted captain bobby moore to show the trophy at the end of the game. the manager of the england football team, gareth southgate, has announced his 23—man squad for the world cup — which begins in russia next month. many of the selections are young, less experienced players — including the 19—year—old liverpool defender, trent alexander—arnold, who is called up for first time. 0ur sports editor dan roan has the story. 0fficial england world cup squad announcement! let's go!

a video released on social media may not be the traditional way of unveiling a world cup squad — young fans across the country enlisted to reveal who made the cut for russia. but this is a new way of doings things for a new look england. manager, gareth southgate, putting his faith in youth as he named one of the least experienced groups in the national team's history — saying he believed it was a selection the country could be excited about. the 23 men set to board the plane next month have an average ofjust 19 caps each. there are three young goalkeepers — with everton‘sjordan pickford the favourite to start as the team's no 1. in defence, 32—year—old gary cahill is recalled — with 58 caps, by far the squad's most experienced player. in midfield, 22—year—old reuben loftus—cheek is rewarded for a fine season on loan at crystal palace. up front, the most settled part of the squad, harry kane is the principal striker and favourite for the captaincy — one of five tottenham hotspur players named. it's a team that will go far, not the

individuals in the team, we have been there before, 2004 in the euros, 2006, where if you look at some of the players on view, great players, really good players, but it didn't gel as a team, as a squad. and i think gareth‘s gone about it the right way of gelling that team. the standout selection is teenager trent alexander—arnold after his breakthrough season at liverpool. the defender telling me just last week how much being pick would mean to him. it's a dream to be able to represent your country and hopefully one day i'll get the honour of doing that. he joins burnley goalkeeper nick pope as the two uncapped members of the squad. there's a good balance to the squad in terms of being away for four to six weeks, whatever it may be, having young lads who have got that exuberance and that youthful energy to the squad really helps. some big names have missed out. commentator: joe hart should save that. goalkeeper, joe hart, and midfielder, jack wilshere, both surplus to requirements, along

with adam lallana — although the liverpool man is one of five players on stand—by. as the fa here at wembley are all too aware, the player pool that gareth southgate had to choose from is shallow. he has few world class players and for once there is not too much hype or expectation surrounding this england squad. but the manager has at least remained loyal to his principles — he's chosen on form, rather than reputation and if the progress shown in recent matches continues, perhaps, just perhaps, england could surprise a few people. but the harsh reality is that england haven't won a knockout match at a major tournament for 12 long years. most of this latest squad were just watching such disappointments — now it's their turn to try and succeed where others have failed.