this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 11:00pm: the government brings rail services on the troubled east coast main line from london to edinburgh back under public control. i think it is a good idea. i think the people that have run it in the past have been pretty useless. all everybody really wants is good service, and to pay something that you think is the right price for it. a corporate culture gone rotten. mps deliver withering criticism of the collapsed construction giant carillion. donald trump says he doesn't know if his planned summit with kim jong—un will go ahead. north korea has threatened to pull out over us pressure to give up its nuclear weapons. and on newsnight, what isjohn bolton trying to tell his boss, president trump, about the deal with north korea? we are live from the korean peninsula and from a close ally of donald trump. good evening and

welcome to bbc news. 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 is the third time that the line has been affected in this way. 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 has 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'd like to make a statement about the future of the east coast main line. i will terminate virgin trains' east coast contract on 24 june 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 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 has gone wrong again. it's not actually about the operation of the railway itself. the team that's running the railway have done a good job. their parent company got their sums wrong, and that's what caused today to happen. but that deal was overseen and done, of course, by the department for transport, under a conservative government in 2015, so the government surely bears responsibility for this too? well, the department for transport accepted a bid which proved not to be viable, so actually 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 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 is 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 just ludicrous in the extreme, and i think people understand that. that's why we're saying, yes, let's unite track and train, but let's bring it into a publicly owned company to run our railways. there is not much chance of ministers taking a dramatically different direction. getting rail right is not easy, whatever is ahead. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. 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 the joint 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. and 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 were conspicuously muted. we haven't seen anything, we haven't heard anything, we will see what happens. though, in the hubbub, he was asked whether 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. i think we're looking at the libyan model of 2003—200a. we're also looking at what north korea itself has

committed to previously. but look what happened to colonel gaddafi. without his weapons he had lost his insurance policy, and was ousted from power. north korea is not going to 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. i'm not aware that that's a model we're using, but i would... bolton said that this weekend. i have not seen that 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's going to run this as 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. so will we see an even more improbable handshake moment? in seoul, on a film set,

people queued to replicate it. president trump wants this to be his 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 that 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 that this actually goes on, and is 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 at breaking up the big four auditing firms, what they call a cosy club. it was very shocking... jay, who is 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, notjust us apprentices, but, you know, the lads who are working on site as well.

jay's city is left without its new hospital may be for years. there is 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. 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. the government has said it will pay for the removal and replacement of dangerous cladding on high—rise blocks owned by councils and housing associations, following the grenfell tower fire. theresa may said fire inspectors have visited more than 1,000 tower blocks since the blaze, and immediate action has been taken to ensure the safety of residents. the work is expected to cost £400 million. it is 75 years ago today that a 615

squadron took off to attack dams. it was the target and disable the industrial heartland. you probably know the story best as the story of the dambusters, and the film will be shown tomorrow at the albert hall. there is one of the real men with us, we there is one of the real men with us, we are there is one of the real men with us, we are speaking to the last surviving member of the squadron, and he has been speaking to robert hall about his memories of the operation and efforts to pass them on to future generations. past and present, side by side, the link which binds the raf‘s 617

squadron to aviation history. squadron leaderjohnnyjohnson is the last british member of the dambusters crews. he believes the full story of the operation has yet to be told and he's set out to put that right. there it is, boys. the iconic 1955 film did its best to capture the events of operation chastise and the destruction of the mohne and eder dams. but what about the third dam, the sorpe? i was a bombing man, and i can say i had the most comfortable place in the aircraft. idealfor a quick sleep, if you had the chance. you didn't have the chance very often, of course. when johnnyjohnson crawled into this cramped bomb aimer‘s position at the start of the operation, he and his fellow crew members already knew they would face extra dangers, because their attack on the sorpe dam would require completely different tactics. my concentration was on the bomb site and the target. and my object was to get our bombs

as close as i could to the target, and that was it. for the past three years, johnny has been piecing together that night with the help of a bristol film—maker. for weeks we had been practising for this operation, and now this was it. the sorpe was very different from the mohne and the eder. their line of attack was along the top of the dam. 0n the night, they had to work it out once they'd got there. i reckon it took us ten runs to attack the sorpe. because we couldn't — didn't get it right, it wasn't exactly right. go on a dummy run, go round again. johnnyjohnson hopes his film will draw fresh audiences into the story of the dambusters, and of the 52 crew members who didn't come home. really hit the people on the squadron. were you heroes?

no, that's a word i object to. we were aircrew with a job to do. it'sjust a question of being the lucky one. that is a summary of the news. now it's time for newsnight, with emily maitlis. i think we are looking at the libya model of 2003—200a... no wonder north korea's getting cold feet on the us deal — who wants to be the next libya? isjohn bolton trying to warn his own boss to be a little bit more hardline when dealing with a rogue state? we get the perspective of the white house,