Transcripts For BBCNEWS BBC News At Six 20171212

World champion tyson fury is free to resume his career after accepting a doping violation. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Rising food costs, bigger electricity bills and higher air fares have all helped push inflation to its highest level for almost six years. The Consumer Prices index the measure the government uses hit 3. 1 last month. With the latest data showing that wages are growing at a slower pace, it means a squeeze on household budgets, just when those Christmas Shopping bills are coming in. Heres our economics correspondent, andy verity. At this baker on the outskirts of barnsley, its not just at this baker on the outskirts of barnsley, its notjust the bread rolls on the rise. Ingredients like butter and flour have shot up in the last year and a half so its hard to do everything it can to make sure its costs are covered. One of the things we have done with our suppliers, we have decided to take a radical approach which is pay all of oui radical approach which is pay all of our suppliers early and demand better terms from them because we are paying them early and thats helped mitigate some of the costs. If you are looking to warm yourself up if you are looking to warm yourself up in the cold weather, its not getting any cheaper. The price of food was up 4. 4 in the year to november. Hot drinks up 5. 6 and electricity costs 11. 4 more than it did last year. On high streets like this one in glasgow, your wages wont buy as much as they did last year. That renewed squeeze on Living Standards is starting to pinch. Very difficult to make ends meet, especially coming up to christmas. Everything is going up. Money, electricity, gas, everything is going up so we need someone to do something about it. If you are getting a few things, by the time you get to the cash desk you say how did it come to that, you know. The pressure on prices comes partly from the weakness of the pound since the brexit vote which means it takes more pounds to buy the same imported goods, and partly from a recent surge in the price of oil. The Interest Rate setters at the bank of england know it is above target but that doesnt mean there will be an Interest Rate rise any time soon. The confident prediction is that inflation will come down next year and in the city they are betting the next Interest Rate rise wont come until the summer of next year. The bank of england is navigating a pretty tricky course as its trying to work out how the economy will fa re to work out how the economy will fare through the Brexit Process so its being ultra cautious and for that reason it is unlikely they will make another rate move so soon after the november on so nothing until further into 2018 and probably one rate rise in 2018, and one in 2019. The hope is down the line the inflationary effect of Higher Oil Prices will fade. Inflation is now hitting its peak. If your wages by less tha n hitting its peak. If your wages by less than they did last christmas, thatis less than they did last christmas, that is no more than a crumb of comfort. With me now is our economics editor, kamal ahmed. We heard the shopper saying prices keep going up, have we reached a peak . The bank of england certainly believes next year the rate of growth in prices will start to come down. Why do they say that . The currency effect, the falling value of the pound since the referendum pushes through the economy quite quickly so by next year the effects of that on prices will start dissipating. Also as andy spoke about, there are some upward pressures on inflation the oil price, theres a lot of cold weather around at the moment so demand is going up, and also global growth. We are in an era now in europe, asia and america when growth is pretty quick and that means demand goes up and that can push up inflation. But the bank of england certainly believes as the currency effect comes out of the economy, that means the growth rate of inflation will come down and actually it does suggest Interest Rate rises are still a long way off. Thank you. Police say a mother and her three Year Old Girl are fighting for their lives in hospital following a suspected arson attack on a home in worsley, manchester, in which three children died. Three people remain in custody, held on suspicion of murder. Danny savage is outside Swinton Police station. Danny. In the last hour police have given an update on this ongoing murder investigation. They say some of those arrested over the last 2a hours have been released but others remain in custody. I think the saddest fact of the day if you like is the mother of the three children who died, herself seriously ill in hospital, still has no idea her son and two daughters are dead. A home Police Believe was deliberately set alight early yesterday morning. We have collected cctv from the area and now believe this to be a targeted attack on this house. We have a full team of detectives and specially trained officers working on this case. The victims were 14 year old demi pearson who died at the scene, her eight year old brother brandon and seven year old sister lacie died later in hospital. The head of their school says it was a senseless loss of precious life. Their 35 year old mother Michelle Pearson still doesnt know her children are dead. A fourth sibling, three year old lia, is still critical. Back at the scene a family friend told me how difficult it is for People Living here. What were they like . Nice, they were all good people. I think its a shock, it will affect the community for a long time. Ive cried loads of times when i think about it or drive past in the car. Last night a man and woman were filmed being arrested, three people remain in custody on suspicion of murder. Police officers are at work at other addresses as well as at the house where the pearson is lived. Its emerged extra security had been fitted to the family home including a special letterbox guard after previous incidents, so painstaking work is under way to try to establish how the fire was started. Details on trouble here before yesterday are sketchy though, police wont comment on previous contact with the family because those events will be looked at by the independent Police Complaints commission. Danny savage, bbc news, walkden in manchester. Last night was the coldest this winter and if you live in shropshire youll have known all about it it was down to minus 13 celsius in one place. The freeze has led to fresh disruption for travellers and hundreds of schools are closed for a second day running. From shawbury in shropshire, sima kotecha sent this report. A bed of snow with freezing conditions. Across parts of midlands its not been easy icy roads, school closures, but for the children another day off school. We have been sledging, building a snowmans. In shropshire more than 200 schools were closed and in gloucestershire and herefordshire almost 100 remain closed. It is difficult trying to find things for them to do and keep them occupied. When you have childcare issues and you are working full time, obviously it would be disruptive to you because the schools are closing on a day to day basis and youre not knowing until the last minute. Day to day basis and youre not knowing until the last minutem day to day basis and youre not knowing untilthe last minute. It is bitterly cold here, the temperature is around minus four celsius and theres no sign of this snow melting any time soon. As night falls, the temperatures are expected to plunge even further. In the West Midlands it was a similar story, more schools closed and open. Some councils have been criticised for advising them not to reopen even though many roads have been cleared. The initial advice last friday was for all schools to close, we have changed that advice to save the decision should be made locally depending on whether you can get School Transport to the school and whether it is safe to the school and whether it is safe to do so in consideration of the roads and other conditions. Yes or no answer, do you think its a necessity to close all schools . Its not a necessity to close all schools, some will need to close. More than 200 homes in the region we re more than 200 homes in the region were without power this morning. Tomorrow will present its own challenges. With rain coming in from the west, some of the snow will turn to ice making pathways even more slippery. The met office has issued a yellow warning for ice from today until 11 oclock tomorrow morning with the worst affected areas expected to be in scotland and the north of england. In shropshire the conditions seem to be improving, more roads have cleared today, the grifters have been out and more schools are scheduled to reopen tomorrow. The gritters. We know Organ Transplants can save lives and we know that there arent enough organ donors out there. The government wants to change that by re writing the rules so that well all be considered as potential donors unless we opt out its called presumed consent. The number of donors is rising but not fast enough to meet the need. Ten years ago there were just under 800 donors. This year that figure has risen to over 1,400. But there are still 6,500 people currently waiting for a transplant in the uk. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes has met one patient who knows just how vital an increase in donors is. Just hanging the tubes up here. Keeping going, but going nowhere. Very honestly, i dont have a life, that is what i do at the moment, 24 hours a day. This is how odette stays alive while she waits for a pancreas and kidney transplant. Every night, hooked up to a dialysis machine. Nearly two litres of fluid repeatedly pumped in and out of her body. Theres days that it actually feels as if ive swallowed a demon and obviously, on those days, ijust cant sleep, i double over sometimes in pain. Good boy. Odette is marking time. On four occasions shes been called to hospital for a transplant, each time the organ wasnt suitable. The emptiness is just very, very, very, very big. Its just like. Theres nothing that anybody can do about it, i understand that. And there is nobody to blame, basically. So itsjust like what do you do . Shes one of 6,500 people waiting for a transplant of one kind of another, around a50 of them die each year. Transplant teams know they need more organs, so the government in england wants to assume we are all willing to donate. An approach already adopted in wales two years ago, with scotland also planning to follow suit. But already the way teams identify donors and how they approach grieving families has been transformed, thats seen the number of operations increase by more than 50 . The story of transplants in the uk over the past decade has been one of success more people are having operations and more people are willing to donate their organs. But there are those who worry that if we move to a system of presumed consent, well, that could actually do more harm than good. Its a quick fix for politicians. You pass a law, automatically everyone is presumed to be a donor and youve got more organs, but in real life it doesnt happen that way. A lot of people who would potentially become organ donors object to it so strongly that theyjoin the opt out register. So far in wales more than 200,000 people, 6 of the population, have chosen to opt out of organ donation. But after their own death, a donor offers a stranger a new life. And just over a fortnight ago, in manchester, that stranger was odette. After being so sick for such a long time and to wake up and youre 0k and thats all gone, its just like magically disappeared. I can see it in you, from the last time we spoke, you seem very different in yourself . I feel different, i feel totally different. Extremely grateful. Actually feeling as if youre alive. Its just overwhelming. Odette de sa ending that report by Dominic Hughes. Time is quarter past six. Our top story this evening rising food prices and higher air fares help push inflation up to its highest level for six years. And coming up the new Star Wars Film, the lastjedi were at the star studded premier tonight in london. Coming up in sportsday on bbc news whos responsible for milkgate . The managers of Manchester United and Manchester City have their says on the melee after last Sundays Premier League derby match. Yesterday, we brought you some Shocking Stories about the kind of behaviour young women and some men have to put up with at work. It came from a survey commissioned by the bbc, one of the largest ever conducted on Sexual Harassment. Today were looking at the experiences of older women, those over 55. It turns out theyre half as likely to report inappropriate behaviour as younger women. In her second report, lucy manning has been to whitley bay, in northumbria, where shes been hearing from an older generation. Waking into the light. Into the light the groping, the harassment and the assaults faced by women at work. Waking into the light. In whitley bay they sing, but the mostly retired choir members are also starting to talk some for the first time. He started to put his hand on my knee and then it went further and further up. Every time i went into work, when he was there, i was terrified to go in. Did i misunderstand . But i knew hed touched my bottom and then hed stroke the side of my breast. He thought he had Nothing Better to do than to slap me hard on the bottom, and it stung. My husband doesnt even know. Mine didnt, no. No. The bbcs poll on Sexual Harassment reveals the older generation are only half as likely to have reported harassment as younger people. Just 16 of those now aged 55 or over have reported an incident, compared to 30 of those aged 18 34. Can you put your hands up if you didnt report to your boss or to someone senior the Sexual Harassment or the Sexual Assault that happened to you . My boss was actually in the room. Can ijust say, it was my boss. So why didnt you report it . Because i thought i might lose my job. I loved myjob. Yeah, same with me. I could have lost myjob. This was the man i worked for, i had to stay on the right side of him. But nobody would have believed me either. There was no idea about reporting it and there was no idea about taking it into a formal complaints procedure. Older people are now more likely to reconsider behaviour they witnessed in their careers. More than 40 of over 55s would now describe incidents they saw as Sexual Harassment. We didnt have the vocabulary. I would now be saying hang on a minute, i think thats some kind of assault. But i would never have said it 20 years ago, never, because i didnt think it was. No. I thought it was just the way you were if you were a woman. Were of a generation where women were onlyjust beginning to be encouraged to speak out. Overall, the poll found most people were optimistic recent events will lead to change. Nearly 70 think the revelations will cause sustained improvements in behaviour. What do you think about all these stories about Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault in the workplace that have come out now . There are some brave women who have started the ball rolling. It will always continue. Men will always feel that theyre superior to women. And you dont think that the massive publicity that weve had recently will in anyway change that . I dont think so. Oh, i think it will. I think its hopeful. Its been changing for a while now. It will never stop. They cant put the lid back on the box now. Im sure its educating men. I wasjust going to say that, annie, absolutely. Do you think its something that all women of your generation had to put up with, when you speak to friends and relatives . Oh, yeah. When you talk to just about everybody. There were lots of people in the choir who didnt want to come into a public forum whove said things to me oh, that happened to me, but i dont want to discuss it with anyone. This is the generation who had to put up with harassment at work, who cant believe its still happening today. Lucy manning, bbc news, whitley bay. A womans been jailed for four years after her dangerous dog attacked 12 children in a playground. Claire neals staffordshire bull terrier escaped from her home before it carried out the attack in blyth, northumberland. Peter harris is outside newcastle crown court. Sounds awful, peter, give us the details . Well, the judge described it as details . Well, the judge described itasa details . Well, the judge described it as a truly terrible situation as the dog chased those children through the playground. Some of them went up on to the climbing frames to try and escape. Others were dragged along the floor and bitten before the dog could be brought under control. The injuries were nasty skin graphs and stitches for some, bearing in mind one of the victims was only six years old. It turned out in court claire neal should never have had the dog in the first place. Just a month before a court had made an order that she should hand the dog over to be destroyed because of previous attacks. She failed to comply with that order, leading to these attacks just a few weeks later. Thejudge injailing her told her its not the dogs fault, its yourfault. Her told her its not the dogs fault, its your fault. Peter, thank you very much. A woman has died following a massive gas explosion that destroyed her house in leicestershire. It happened in birstall, near leicester. The home of janet jasper, who was understood to be in her late 70s, was reduced to rubble by the blast and other houses nearby were badly damaged. An investigation is under way to find out what happened. Police are appealing for witnesses and any dash cam footage as they investigate the death of a woman who was struck in a suspected multiple hit and run in south london. The 29 year old victim was struck by a lorry on a Pedestrian Crossing before she is thought to have been struck by another lorry and two cars. None of the drivers stopped after the incident in tulse hill yesterday. In a couple of days time, it will be six months since the horror of the Grenfell Tower fire. This week were hearing from some of those affected by the disaster whether theyre survivors or one of the many people who are helping the community on its long and challenging process of recovery. Tonight, its the turn of david bailey, who manages child and adolescent Mental Health services in the area. People in the early days were presenting with very disturbed sleep. That they had images and thoughts in their head that they didnt want and people were feeling quite numb and just quite overwhelmed by the whole scale of what theyd seen. Were dealing all the time with children who have experienced bereavements, who have experienced escaping from the building on that night. People are trying i think to get on with their lives, but are constantly reminded of what happened on that, and that i think is really difficult. Its not just that you see the tower, its that you actually feel something when youre close to the tower. Its hideous to look at because of what it reminds you of. So its hard for people who, you know, havent been in the area to know what it feels like to walk down the road and to look up and to see the tower, or to be in a playground and to look up and to see the tower. Its hard for people. I understand that its hard for people who arent in this area to understand the impact it has on a daily basis to the residents. This is there all the time and were constantly looking at it and were constantly dealing with the impact of it. We are going to be actively going out, knocking on doors, going into schools. We want people to know that whenever they need that help and support, they can get access to it. Whenever they need us, well be there is the message that we want them to very clearly hear. That was david bailey, who manages the local child and adolescent Mental Health services in the area. Hard to believe, but it was a0 years ago that the first Star Wars Film hit the cinemas, spawning one of the most successful film franchises in history. The latest instalment the eighth film is called the lastjedi and it has its european premiere in london tonight. Lizo mzimbas on the red carpet for us. Lizo. Yes, im here on the red carpet joined by lizo. Yes, im here on the red carpetjoined by a familiar face to star wars fans, one of the stars, perhaps the star of the star wars saga. Mark hamill who plays luke skywalker. What is it like for you emotionally returning to the franchise that did so much for you . Well, it was surreal. We had no idea. We had a beginning, middle and end. I thought if they are going to do further Star Wars Films they wouldnt need us, they had new characters. I can assure you my part in the lastjedi is twice as big as it was inth force awakens. Star wars is an important movie to fans. How important is the way it has expanded its recipation of all kinds to the cinema audience . Well, the films we re cinema audience . Well, the films were originally made for children. We never expected it to be embraced by the adult world. I guess we hit that sweet spot its for children of all ages, but its basically escapism. People need that when reality is too harsh. Whether they go to hogworts middle earth or the land of oz its comforting to go to a galaxy far away, i guess. I thought it more of a fairytale than science fiction. We had a princess, farm boy and a wizard. Its a continuation of all of that. Thank you for your time from the premier of star warser, here at the royal albert hall, back to you. Thank you very much. Time for a look at the weather. Heres darren bett. Not as cold tonight as it was last night by any means. There has been a little bit of a thaw for some areas. Still very tricky conditions out and about on the roads and there is still the chance of some icy stretches too with the greatest risk of disruption coming across scotland and northern england. There has been ice around the glasgow area because coming into the cold air we have seen all this cloud spilling its way eastwards. It is bringing with it wet weather, too. There is a good chance that wet weather will fall on frozen surfaces bringing the risk of ice for the next few hours. Everything is moving eastwards. Wet weather will gather in the west. In between the cloud will break up and those temperatures could be low enough to bring the risk of icy patches later in the night as well. Tomorrow, we will find the thickening cloud, strengthening winds and outbreaks of rain pushing eastwards a cross winds and outbreaks of rain pushing eastwards across all areas. The rain could be heavy at times. It cheers up could be heavy at times. It cheers up more in the afternoon. More sunshine following on and some showers. Those showers turning increasingly wintry in scotland and northern ireland. Temperatures five degrees at best. Further south you could get nine or ten for a while in southern england and south wales. Keep an eye on this snow. Snotjust across scotland and northern ireland, we may get snow at lower levels briefly tomorrow evening in wales, midland and northern england, to top things up and keep that ice risk going. As we head into thursday, we are left with sunshine and showers. The showers will be wintry, snow more likely over the hills and particularly in scotland where the winds are lighter. We will have stronger, blustery winds and temperatures beginning to fall away. Three in the central belt, seven in southern england and south wales. More wintry showers around coastal areas as we head into friday. The wind direction changing. More colder airon the wind direction changing. More colder air on the way. Not as cold as it has been recently. Darren, thank you very much. Before we go, just time to tell you about a special report coming up at10. 00pm. Fergal keane will have a special report on a new humanitarian crisis unfolding in the democratic republic of congo in central africa. We lost our children, they were killed. Such suffering isnt the natural condition of these people, its man made. Thats coming up at 10. 00pm. But for now its goodbye from me and on bbc one we join the bbcs news teams where you are. Hello. This is bbc news with vicki young. The headlines. Inflation jumps to 3. 1 , its highest level for nearly six years. Wages arent keeping pace with the higher cost of living, which is bad news for the high street and the economy. Very difficult to make ends meet these days, especially coming up towards christmas. Everythings going up. Money, rent, electricity, gas. Hundreds of schools remain closed for a second day, following the coldest night of the year so far. Forecasters warn of more icy conditions to come. Three people are being questioned by police, over the suspected murder of three children, in a house fire in the worsley area of salford. The childrens mother and their three year old sister are fighting for their lives in hospital. The government considers plans to introduce presumed consent, for organ donations in england. The proposed scheme involved people opting out of being a donor rather than opting in