andy verity, bbc news. now on bbc news, travel show. this week, we're injohannesburg.be taking a lesson with some of the most famous township dancers in south africa. so it's going to be — one, two, one, two. one, two, one, one, two, one, one, two, one. easy! we hit the ibiza clubs in a wheelchair. i feel myself on the dance floor. i'm not a chair, i'm not a person in a chair, i'mjust...|‘m me. and we had to scotland to catch a glimpse of some rare flying visitors to orkney. we're not entirely sure where the eagles have come from. there is an outside chance they've come direct from norway. first up on this week's programme, we head to ibiza. a balearic island known as much for its nightlife as its idyllic sunsets. but what's it like hitting the famous dance clubs there in a wheelchair? alex taylor agreed to take us for a spin to find out. alex: ibiza, home to a world—famous nightlife scene four decades strong, and a paradise for clubbers worldwide. as someone who lives for clubbing, parties and a good time, it's no wonder i've ended up here. the only difference is, i'm

andy verity, bbc news.ra £2 billion available to build more affordable and social housing in england. councils, housing associations and other bodies can bid for the money for new projects from 2022. the prime minister says she wants to remove the "stigma" surrounding social housing. here's richard lister. at this site in south london, they're building a mix of private and social housing, homes that are badly needed — notjust in the capital, but across the country, where demand for affordable housing far outstrips supply. today the prime minister announced an additional £2 billion for housing associations to build more homes. under the scheme, associations will be able to apply for funding stretching as far ahead as 2028—29, the first time any government has offered housing associations such long—term certainty. mrs may said it was time to end the stigma that many people still attached to social housing. many people in society, including too many politicians, continue to look down on social housing and, by

andy verity, bbc news.r homes in south carolina, as hurricane florence, a dangerous, category four storm heads towards the coast. it currently has sustained wind speeds of 140 miles per hour, and is expected to make landfall on thursday. richard lister has the latest. it could be the most powerful storm to hit the eastern usa in three decades. this footage of hurricane florence, ta ken over several hours, shows winds of up to 141mph. meteorologists are keeping a close watch on it from the sky, as evacuations are ordered on the ground. we got the hurricane and the surge which may be as high as 10 feet, maybe more, maybe less, we don't know, coming out of the ocean, and after that we have water coming down, flooding us. so we're in for a real episode here. more than a million people along the coast of the carolinas have been told to leave their homes. the outer banks, a chain of low lying islands, are particularly vulnerable. everyone here has been ordered out. people don't understand that when they say it's

andy verity, bbc news. ca rava n the time is 6.15pm/ .0ur top story this evening.ies are feared to have died or suffered life changing injuries because of mistakes made by maternity staff at one nhs trust. should five—year—olds be tested at school? scotland's parliament has voted against it. and coming up on sportsday in the next 15 minutes on bbc news, australia get their revenge. commonwealth champions england are beaten in the quad series. injust over six months‘ time, the uk will leave the european union. all this week, bbc news is answering some of the most common questions that are being asked about brexit and its impact. one of them is what brexit will mean for trade and for businesses who import and export goods. our business editor, simonjack, has been to felixstowe, to find out. will we be richer or poorer? will it definitely happen? why haven't we left yet? how will trade work after brexit? trade in action at the port of felixstowe. when we talk about trade, we simply mean the amount we buy from and sell to the rest of the world. how will it be affected

andy verity, bbc news. killing at least 55 people. the bus was returning from a hilltop temple. the driver reportedly lost control as he tried to avoid another bus on the route. police suspect failure of brakes was the cause of the accident. president trump's planned visit to the republic of ireland has been postponed due to scheduling reasons, according to the irish government. the white house says a final decision has not yet been made on the november trip, which was first announced earlier this month. the us president had been expected to visit his golf course in county clare before travelling to dublin. commemorative events are being held in new york and in washington to mark the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (bell rings) ceremonies are also being held at the 9/11 memorial plaza on the world trade center site in new york city. a us flag was unfurled from the roof of the pentagon in washington. it was deadliest foreign attack ever on us soil, killing 2,996 people. president trump has been speakin

andy verity, bbc news, romford.f a rare form of childhood cancer, and nhs patients in england will be the first in europe to benefit from it. car—t therapy uses the body's own immune cells to fight the particular form of leukemia in youngsters. its adoption by the nhs comes just ten days after it was cleared by the european medicines agency — one of the fastest funding approvals in the history of the nhs. dominic hughes reports. you're fine, i know you're fine. they're some of the most vulnerable patients the health service looks after. children with cancer require special care. targeting the disease, while protecting the patient from the side—effects of treatment. the chief executive of nhs england, simon stephens, was in newcastle to witness that care first hand. and to announce a ground—breaking treatment for children with leukaemia would now be available on the nhs. nhs patients are the first in europe to get this new treatment. and because we are at the beginning of a new era of personalised medicine, where cel

andy verity, bbc news.rs, cab drivers and delivery workers — shouldn‘t have to live with the levels of insecurity they currently experience with zero—hour contracts. that‘s the view of the shadow chancellor, labour‘sjohn mcdonnell, who told the trade unions in manchester that a future labour government would make casual staff eligible for sick pay, maternity leave and other benefits. our political correspondent, iain watson, has more details. take just a short car ride across manchester and you‘ll see just how much this so—called gig economy touches our everyday lives. if you have a snack, order a takeaway, see a new building going up around you, you‘re probably seeing someone who‘s in insecure employment. for some people, irregular hours work. you can start any time you want, you can stop any time you want. the flexibility and freedom is really good. had one person‘s flexibility is another‘s insecurity. the unions say nearly 4 million people don‘t have a regular, full—time employment contract. labour is co

continued to fall remaining at its lowest level for over 40 years, as our economics correspondent andy verityrd has no shortage of work. but a shortage of skilled workers is a growing problem. until this year, its subcontractors could find the staff they needed easily, mostly from the rest of the european union. we've got albanians working on here now but the dry liners, joiners, tilers tend to be eastern european. so, in some instances, when they leave, it gets very, very difficult to entice the british workforce back on to the sites. from the construction firms' point of view, the labour market is on fire. even though profits are tight, they have to fight to keep their workers with pay rises of 10% or 20%. if they don't, they may leave before the work is complete. mid—contract, people come along waving their chequebook and we lose tradesmen. there's a lot of tradesmen work on a building contract. it's an old—fashioned business. and keeping those people on site, on a tight programme, on tight margins, that's the challenge. last year, pay rises fell behind price rises, meaning your money brou

andy verity, bbc news.aldi and lidl. it's named after the founder of tesco, sirjack cohen and will operate alongside the supermarket‘s existing stores. the launch comes at a time when tesco is being squeezed, notjust by budget rivals, but by a possible merger between giants sainsbury‘s and asda. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. it's tesco, but not as you know it. this new chain is called jack's, after tesco's founder and we've got the first glimpse. and with me is tesco ceo dave lewis to show me around the store. morning, emma. welcome. dave, talk us through it. well, we are 100 years old in 1919, so as a team what we wanted to do in commemoration ofjack was do what he did best, which was think about what customers want and bring it to them in the most cost—effective value orientated way possible. so that's what you have here in chatteris. it's a discount store? it's a food orientated store. the thing that's really unique about this store is that eight out of ten food and drink products that

andy verity reports. the firm that runs this construction site in salford has no shortage of work.tractors could find the staff they needed easily, mostly from the rest of the european union. we've got albanians working on here now but the dry liners, joiners, tilers tend to be eastern european. so, in some instances, when they leave, it gets very, very difficult to entice the british workforce back on to the sites.

andy verity reports. a crawl, callous swindler counts his ill gotten gains.ael nascimento ran a so—called boiler room, a call centre where high pressure tactics are used to get investors to buy shares in companies with plausible sounding names like morgan forbes. some lost everything. i put in about 45,000 between me and my mother. my mother sold the family home. dave, not his real name, was conned out of his life savings and his mother was also a him. he was great lying, that was one thing. really good at lying. they were promising investors a property development involving 20 villas opposite nick faldo designed golf course and supported by global banks and global hotel chains, none of which was true, a pack of lies, and investors fell for it. glossy brochures promise to double your money, sent from a real address. docklands business centre sounds respectable, doesn't it? like canary wharf whether well—known banks are. in fact the docklands business centre is here in a modest residential area 15 minutes walk from canary residential area 15 minutes walk from

our economics correspondent andy verity is here.l the sunshine. the world cup cheered people up, got them out spending money on food and drink. the economy did quite well. we are talking about everything we buy and sell, every good, service, haircut, bus ride, every car that is made. add that all up, you've got the economy. injuly add that all up, you've got the economy. in july it add that all up, you've got the economy. injuly it grew by 0.3%. that's more than twice as much as the average grade that we've had over the last year. also, there were bright spots in places which have been gloomy. example construction, which didn't do well during the beast from the east. it was cold, they couldn't get the work done. in these months it went up injuly by 0.5% there are re fuse slightly gloomy spots. manufacturing, the activity there slipped by 0.2%. that's not so great. you've got petrol prices making people spend a bit less at the pumps. although there are economic clouds on the horizon, it's definitely not want to get a brolly out yet.

here's our economics correspondent, andy verity.has no shortage of work, but a shortage of skilled workers is a growing problem. until this year, its subcontractors could find the staff needed easily, mostly from the rest of the european union. we have got albanians working here now, the dry liners, joiners, tylers, they tend to be eastern european, so when they leave it gets difficult to retain the british workforce on the site. from the construction firm's point of view, the labour market is on fire. even though profits are tight, they have to fight they —— to keep their workers would pay rises of ten or 20%. they don't, they may leave before the work is complete. mid—contract, people come along waving the cheque—book and we lose trades men. there's a lot of trades men working on a building contract. it's an old—fashioned business. and keeping those people on site on a tight programme, on tight margins, thatis tight programme, on tight margins, that is the challenge. last year, pay rises fell behind price rises meaning your money

our economics correspondent andy verity is here. well, tell us more about what she had to say?national monetary fund is that we gather economic growth of i.5%. what does that mean? all of the goods and services we produce, the economy, grows by just goods and services we produce, the economy, grows byjust i.5%. that is well below the g7 average for the top seven industrialised nations, and also below the global average, about half the global average. that is even if we get a deal. the thinking is if you have impediments to trade, customs barriers, tariffs, nontariff barriers to trade, anything that stops goods flowing freely across borders, you have less economic activity and that means less economic growth. as christine lagarde spelled—out earlier. all the likely brexit scenarios will have costs for the uk economy and, to a lesser extent as well, for the eu. the larger the impediments to trade in the new relationship, the costlier it will be. this should be fairly obvious. but it seems that sometimes it is not. it is interesting there that she is also talking about problems ev

andy verity, bbc news.spected poisoning at a restaurant in salisbury on sunday which led to a major medical response are likely to examine whether the incident was a hoax. 0ur correspondent tom symonds is in salisbury tonight. yes, this street was cordoned off when a couple, alex king and anna shapiro, appeared to have been taken very seriously ill. she is russian, which led to concerns among diners nearby, and he spent a few days in hospital. we understand the tests found no evidence of any poisoning. despite that, anna shapiro gave an interview to a newspaper in which she said she had been poisoned on the orders of vladimir putin. police are investigating, and sources say the possibility this was a hoax is a likely line of inquiry. we have also found out that alex king was involved in a widely publicised incident in 2006, when he talked his way onto a reception line at a film premiere and ended up shaking the hand of the prince of wales. he said he did it for a bet. there is going to bea he did it for a b

andy verity, bbc news.with north korea over its nuclear weapons programme following commitments made by its leader, kimjong—un. at a summit in pyongyang, mr kim promised his south korean counterpart he'd permanently close a missile launch facility, overseen by international experts. 0ur correspondent laura bicker reports from seoul. pyongyang's games are meant to awe and inspire. usually it's because of their elaborate routines. but tonight, a special guest from the south earned the applause. president moonjae—in, the son of north korean refugees, has spent decades dreaming of this moment. translation: we have lived together for 5000 years and been separated for 70 years. i propose that we should completely end the past 70 years of hostility and take a big stride of peace, to become one again. cheering and applause the visit has brought a bit of a breakthrough. north korea has agreed to let experts watch a missile launch site being dismantled. mr kim said he would do more if the us also made concessions. tr

our economics correspondent andy verity has more. town with five shopping centres. in a country where unemployment is at its lowest since the 70s, it is is expected to be the worst decade for living standards in 200 years. do you feel better off or worse off than you did ten years ago? worst. it is more expensive, everything. than you did ten years ago? worst. it is more expensive, everythinglj think on the whole, this country is very there. so many people are struggling. the commission on economicjustice says in the last a0 yea rs economicjustice says in the last a0 years that only 10% of the growth by the economy went to us in the bottom half. it says from across the political spectrum we now need the biggest economic reforms since the second world war. we have this enormous challenge of saying can we reimagine the future of this country so its foundations are in hope based onjustice and so its foundations are in hope based on justice and fairness? the commission's descriptions include holding down house price inflation, spreading

andy verity, bbc news.ruck by the vehicle in cricklewood in north—west london, with reports that those inside the car were making "anti—islamic taunts". our correspondent, keith doyle is in cricklewood and he sent this report. at around half past midnight this morning, was full of hundreds of people who were leaving the commemorations which were taking place in the building behind me. some stewards from the centre approached a car that was parked nearby with four people in it and then there was some sort of altercation. the police said the stewards were subjected to a thai raid of islamophobic and racist abuse. the car then drove off and mounted the payment and drove into a number of the people on the street. the police have said that two people we re the police have said that two people were seriously injured but they are not ina were seriously injured but they are not in a critical condition. here is the account of one eyewitness. i saw the car driving at a crazy speed. i was concerned about the people. i

andy verity, bbc news.uk vicki young joins me from westminster. mix views, brexiteers are not happy. yes, today there has been lots of speculation about the future of mark carney, the governor of the bank of england. they have never been particularly fond of him. they think he was part of so—called project fear during the referendum, predicting doom and gloom because of brexit, so they won't be particularly delighted that he has decided to stay on. mark carney had rejected the idea of doing a full eight—year term. clearly there was a lot of discussion going on, he hinted at it over the summer, that he might extend that a little bit more and today they came this announcement from the chancellor, philip hammond. i have been discussing with the governor his ability to be able to serve a little longer in the post, in order to ensure continuity through what could be quite a turbulent period for our economy in the early summer of 2019. i can tell the house today that the governor has agreed, despite various perso

andy verity reports. a cruel and callous swindler counts his ill gotten gains.ife savings and his mother was also a victim. he was great at lying. he was really good at lying. they were promising investors a property development involving $20 and nick faldo designed golf course for four years michael neser men to run a so—called boiler room, a call centre or high—pressure tactics are used to get investors to buy shares in companies with plausible sounding names like morgan forbes or morgan dilley and read. there were promising investors involvement in cillas opposite a nick faldo designed golf course. and supported by local banks and global hotel chains. none of which was true, it was a pack of lies. and investors fell for it. glossy brochures promised to double your money, sent from a real address. docklands business centre, that sounds respectable? by canary wharf, where all those well—known banks are. in fact, the business centre is here. in a modest residential area 15 minutes walk from ca nary wharf. four years ago the regulators raided the offices and why

andy verity reports. my mother sold the family home.ving him and his mum ruined. he was great at lying, that was lying, really good at lying. this is one of the criminalswho conned dave and others, counting his ill gotten gains. for four years michael neser men to run a so—called boiler room, a call centre or high—pressure tactics are used to get investors to buy shares in companies with plausible sounding names like morgan forbes or morgan dilley and read. there were promising investors involvement in cillas opposite a nick faldo designed golf course. and supported by local banks and global hotel chains. none of which was true, it was a pack of lies. and investors fell for it. glossy brochures promised to double your money, sent from a real address. docklands business centre, that sounds respectable? by canary wharf, where all those well—known banks are. in fact, the business centre is here. in a modest residential area 15 minutes walk from ca nary wharf. four years ago the regulators raided the offices and why they rehear the fraudste

andy verity is at southwark crown court. what happened ? verity is at southwark crown court. in the eye. nassamento was given at in the eye. nassamento was given a sentence of 13 years. thank you very much, andy verity. you‘re watching afternoon live — these are our headlines... hurricane florence makes landfall on east coast of the united states, with high winds and torrential rain. 5 million people are in the direct path of typhoon mangkhut, due to make landfall in the philippines. "distressing" and "vivid" footage of the moment pc keith palmer was stabbed outside parliament during last year‘s westminster attack has been shown at an inquest into the victims‘ deaths. and we will hear from economic researchers who have won the ignoble is for work on the use of voodoo dolls! —— ignoble as. kimi raikkonnen clocks fastest time in the second practice session of the singapore grand prix. championship leader lewis hamilton was second quickest. britain‘s davis cup tie against uzbekistan is under in glasgow, dan evans taking the first set but he trails 2—1 against denis istomin. grea

here's our economics correspondent, andy verity.r off or worse off than you did ten years ago? worse, definitely. it's more expensive, everything is. yeah, it isjust harder. it's harder. i think, on the whole, this country is still very, very fair. so many people are now struggling. fair for people with a bit of money. romford, in essex. like most of the country, it's spoilt with shopping centres and unemployment‘s low. yet few people feel prosperous living through what is expected to be the worst decade for living standards in 200 years. in the past 30 years, we've developed some unhealthy economic habits — like an addiction to rising house prices that make us feel better off, so we borrow more and spend more than ever before. but servicing those addictions over the years has made us feel the effects — like house prices that are unaffordable to young people, who can now expect to be worse off than their parents' generation. the commission is saying the only way to restore the economy to good health is to break those habits. its mem

andy verity, bbc news. there is a really bad pun coming up ina minute.elevision on need right now. space exploration has led to countless, ground—breaking discoveries, and now a team of british scientists wants to send worms to the international space station, to help us understand how our muscles can waste away. we've been given special access to the scientists as they prepare to launch the worms into space. you could call it one giant wiggle for mankind. john maguire went to see them at their laboratory in switzerland. when tim peake spent six months on board the international space station, regular exercise was vital. floating in zero gravity means astronauts stop using their muscles to stand and those muscles then start to waste away. now, a team of scientists from british universities is working to find out more. they've come to switzerland and, on the shore of lake lucerne, this lab that specialises in space biology. we're hoping to prevent muscle loss with astronauts when they go into space, so this will allow them to undergo really long space fli

continued to fall and remains at its lowest level for over a0 yea rs as our economics correspondent andy verityecent european so in some instances when they leave it is very difficult to get the british workforce back onto the site. from the construction firm ‘s point of view the labour market is on fire. even though profits are tight they are to fight to keep workers with pay rises. mid-contract people come along waving a cheque book and we lose tradesmen. there is a lot of tradesmen working on a building contract. it is an old—fashioned business and keeping those people on site on a tight programme on tight margins, that is the challenge. here is what that pay rise looks like in pounds. that brings the average wage to £a89. before you get to excited about the pay rise, put it in a spectre. he is is what has happened to wages over the last ten or 15 yea rs. to wages over the last ten or 15 years. like now they are not much higher than they were a long time ago. there has been a persistent puzzle white workers haven't been able to demand higher wages despite the fact that unemployment has falle

let's get more on this with business correspondent, andy verity. it sounds like a good picture. a dip in pay rises, not rising as fast earlier in the year but we have been this high before with a 2.9% rise in pay early this year. you have not had 3% and you have to go back to 2015 for back. the interesting thing is to work out whether this has anything to do with the fact we have a slightly tighter labour market which means if there are fewer available to work, people have to compete harder to hire people with higher pay, for examples. it is not only the low unemployment figure that indicates the labour market might be getting tighter, it is also the fact there are fewer migrant workers from there are fewer migrant workers from the rest of the eu in the uk's and that figure dropped for the first time recently. indicating the supply of workers from the accession states such as poland and the czech republic, overall that supply of workers on average, there is an outflow now. the other place where we we re outflow now. the other place where we were getting the rising employment, ex

andy verity is here, our economic correspondence. the boss of the imf, what is that?n the event of brexit. we know brexit will happen and what christine lagarde is saying is that in any brexit scenario, our academy saying is that in any brexit scenario, ouracademy will saying is that in any brexit scenario, our academy will be worse off. your brexiteers will say they don‘t give the imf much credibility. they got it wrong the first time round, they said before the referendum there might be huge swings in markets, falls in house prices, that didn‘t happen. here‘s what christine lagarde 5aid prices, that didn‘t happen. here‘s what christine lagarde said about the potential danger from any particular brexit option. all the likely brexit scenarios will have costs for the uk economy and, to a lesser extent as well, for the eu. the larger the impediments to trade in the new relationship, the costlier it will be. this should be fairly obvious, but it seems that sometimes it is not. that's on the ba5i5 sometimes it is not. that's on the basis that any impediments to trade, any

christine lagarde of the imf. 0ur economics correspondent andy verity is here.tches them. it's cheese saying regardless of whether there is a deal or not wigan to worse off under brexit than now. she was also saying if there is no deal that would be a substantial cost. bushis that would be a substantial cost. bush is any further is a deal where only having one and a half percent growth this year and next year. she talks about how it is already affect the economy as well. for example, business investment, investment in plant machinery, the sort of thing that would improve productivity and allow companies to pay their workers more has not been as you would expect given what is happening in the rest of the world. you have robust conditions out there, that should mean it is easy for our exporters to put our guts out there, especially the pound is weak because that makes our goods more competitive. they're that makes our goods more competitive. they‘ re cheaper for foreign buyers to buy. that is all quite gloomy. brexiteer though might say that i render them being ve

england‘s performance at the world cup helped boost consumer spending. 0ur economics correspondent, andy verityl picture is interesting. we had gloomy stories about house of fraser and others, and for non—food retailers these three months were a really tough time. but not because we are spending less, it‘s mainly a shift from shopping in stores to the internet, which is something like 18% of our spending. spending as a whole is going up. this will vindicate those on the bank of england‘s monetary policy committee who say we were right to raise interest rates in august, the economy is speeding up, we have to get ahead and cool it down. we also need to realise the internet is not going away, this is how we‘re going to be in future and indeed that figure willjust going up. yes, and even the retailers that have suffered like debenhams and house of fraser increased their online sales. that‘s a broader trend. 0n the other hand, petrol prices were up by 12 present in this period, and that cat people‘s spending. if you think it is £1 34 people‘s spending. if you think it is £134 per gallon you might sp