Touch. Further showers coming into the northwest. You can say will rain, sleet and snow. The northwest. You can say will rain, sleetand snow. C the northwest. You can say will rain, sleet and snow. C rain. Still going to feel with the wind like it is at or below freezing across northern england, Northern Ireland and scotland. A very similar day on friday. Frosty start. I see in places. More of these wintry showers in North Western parts, southern and eastern areas, though should state mainly dry. 0n southern and eastern areas, though should state mainly dry. On saturday a gap between weather systems. The next one will come in for part two of the weekend on sunday. Many of us will be dry, still chilly on saturday. Rain preceded by snow in places, heading across the uk on sunday. Goodbye for now. You are watching bbc news. The top stories. Work has been paused on construction sites run by the failed company carillion. Most of the private sector contracts such as catering and cleaning have continued. There are new warnings of heavy snow for many northern parts of the uk after hundreds of drivers spent last night stranded in vehicles. People are being urged to stay off major roads unless absolutely necessary as the met 0ffice issues and amber be prepared alert for tonight. More than one in ten nurses is leaving the nhs in england every year and more people are now leaving the profession than joining it. And a court has heard that gary speed was one of four men who took their own lives after working with the coach barry bennell. He denies 48 counts of child sexual abuse. Mps have approved a bill to sever ties with the eu, paving the way for the house of lords to have their say on the brexit bill. Lets go back to the top story, the official investigation ordered into carillions collapse, as questions asked about whether several warning signs were ignored. 0ur correspondent has been to one company in hampshire that decided did not want to continue working with carillion. With jobs worth up to half a million a year, carillion was this companys biggest customer, but when it came to paying up they became the biggest headache. Massively frustrating. It was the last thing we were talking about at night and the first thing in the morning, and that went on for weeks and months because youre waiting on such large amounts. Sometimes up to £200,000. For 10 years they were doing as many as 200 jobs a year at the 0a hospital in portsmouth. In hindsight, carillions reluctance to pay up finally makes sense. It was purely and simply to protect their own cash flow. They were obviously overstretching themselves in so many different areas and one way to deal with that was manipulating the smaller contractors. The work in offices and hospital wards was a sizeable part of their regular business but if you wanted the money within 100 days, carillion insisted that they were paid a percentage of that invoice. Eventually, amanda decided enough was enough and walked away. I think its fair to say that everyone in the business thought i was little bit crazy when i made that decision, but for me they made it easy with the rudeness that came from the management i spoke to. The complete and utter disregard when they spoke with you, and that, for me, made it quite easy. While others have been counting the cost of their continued dealings with carillion, last night amandas foresight was rewarded by a meal out with her husband and business partner. As much as i am glad we got out, there have been smaller contractors who have been caught out with carillion, so as pleased as i am for us it is dreadful to think they took so many people down. Brian berry is the chief executive of the federation of Master Builders and has been describing how some of his members have been affected by the collapse. I know for example one of our companies who is owed £230,000 from carillion. U nfortu nately, £230,000 from carillion. Unfortunately, the tools are locked on sites cannot get the tools to do work on the other sites. There was another company that was owed £20,000, a window fitting company. There were a number of apprentices that are now finding themselves not knowing what to do. There is a meeting tomorrow that we are going to have across the innocent victims in the tragedy. The innocent victims in the tragedy. Some good news today, the banks to tnfs sure g. Jfifi ff f ~ 7 7 7 continue to work . Ie continue to work . Ie conti on to work . The industrymet with thesefletai ycf we were state. We were aware that the banks we re state. We were aware that the banks were taking it very hard line towards small building companies. Today we got the announcement they would be much more lenient in terms of overdraft facilities. Good news from revenue and customs that they will adopt a more lenient approach in terms of tax bills. This is all very good news. We want to see it rolled out because lots of companies i wanted to know what to do now, and it is another day in, at extra cost. I think the government was moving quite swiftly. There are positive announcements today, but there is still much to do with the Construction Industry and the government working together. Did you see this coming, any of this coming, with profit warnings particularly last year . I suppose we are at the bottom end of the supply chain. Profit warnings being issued by the end of last year, i suspect the government was trying to keep them going, not understanding the full situation. There are other factors that they are owed money as well. There also seems to be an issue of poor governance. So, it has been the perfect storm. More now on the challenges facing nursing in the nhs as figures obtained by the bbc show as figures obtained by the bbc show a net reduction in the number of staff in the health service. Nearly a quarter of nurses leaving the profession were under 40. This is the paediatric intensive care unit. It is the largest of its kind in europe. There are 31 beds here and 30 are taken right now and this is with the most dreadfully Sick Children this hospital. Some would stay here for maybe two hours, others the average is six days, but some are here more about a year. Im joined by the lead nurse, jill campbell. Jill, nursing is a toughjob at the best of times, but this must be an emotionally tough job to do . It is a very difficult job because we have the sickest children in the country that are in our intensive care unit and the difficult journey for our families and parents, but it is an amazing job as well. The Job Satisfaction one gets from being able to make a difference to our families and parents is second to none. It is so great to hear you talk about Job Satisfaction, but you told me there are two to three deaths on this unit every week. How do you cope with that . We have a fantastic Team Approach here and it is multidisciplinary approach and it is about working together, we have team briefs and we have a fantastic staff nurse who works with us and she is accessible to all our staff and we have a Multidisciplinary Team where we can have a debrief and an opportunity to have a chat, have a conversation and just share one anothers emotional journey, how we are all feeling. Most of the children have at least one nurse looking after them at any time and it is striking how young a lot of your nurses are. One of the things that came out in the figures is more than half the nurses leaving the nhs are under40. Why do you think that is and have you experienced that kind of thing here . Like all of the nhs, we are, there is obviously, an ongoing shortage of nurses. We have nurses that are leaving, they are not leaving the profession though, they are going out to work in the community. They will be continuing to work in health care. What we have noticed over the last few months is we have lost nurses to the middle east, and thats, you know, there is a big new hospital out there. People want to go and have another opportunity to be able to learn different cultures and things like that, so thats something we have noticed in the last few months. The other reason people are leaving or moving out of the acute settings and working in the community is theyjust want a better Work Life Balance and although, you know, you get the most amazing Job Satisfaction in acute medicine and working in intensive care, unfortunately with the job comes nights and weekends and for some of the nursing staff, they want to be able to have their Work Life Balance and thats what is more important for them. Thank you very much, jill. To give you a bit more context of the figures, 33,000 nurses leaving the nhs in england every year, Birmingham Childrens hospital employs over 1300 nurses. So that means that those 33,000 leavers could staff this hospital 25 times over. Russia has been accused of an orchestrated disinformation campaign, interfering in western democracies. A report from the European Parliament says that the meddling is extremely successful, with the russians apparently sending out thousands of items of fake news. They include claims that france has banned christian symbols and that denmark is feeding family pets to the zoo and fools. To the zoo animals. A Senate Report found that the kremlin backed a coup in montenegrin unsupported right wing groups in germany, and left wing ones in italy and greece. It also concluded there had been meddling in the brexit referendum and Catalonian Independence referendums, and that Vladimir Putin had ordered the killing of a number of russian opposition figures across europe, not to mention the invasion of crimea and ukraine. The us senator who commissioned the report said that the tactics have worked. We know that we have caused a slowing down of serbias integration into europe because Russian Troops are in georgia and ukraine, and it is much more difficult to see that those countries are getting ascended into nature. Nato. We know that they we re nature. Nato. We know that they were active in the brexit referendum. They have seen some success from their operations and European Countries have recognised that and ta ken European Countries have recognised that and taken precautions. We saw in the german and French Election that the impact of russia was much more minimised because they took steps to prevent that kind of influence. Hundreds of the most vulnerable victims of crime are being denied the help of a trained intermediary in giving evidence in criminal cases in england and wales. That is one of the findings of a report from the victims commissioner. Clive coleman has more details. Giving evidence in criminal cases can be intimidating for ordinary adults. But for the young and vulnerable, it can be truly daunting. That is where registered intermediaries come in. There are specialist in communications, and they work in some of the most distressing cases. We worked with a boy that was really reluctant to speak. But he loved anime. We made a body map that was anime figures, he was able to show different parts of his body that had been touched, and i dont think he would have been able to do that verbally. A report by lady new love has uncovered deep concerns about the continued scheme. It sounded to do than 50 cases each year Vulnerable People were not getting an intermediary. Getting an intermediary is five times more likely in cumbria than in london. It risks a postcode lottery. There are delays averaging four weeks in matching victims with intermediaries. Registered intermediaries. Registered intermediaries can make the difference betweenjustice delivered and justice denied. That is why some believe that what has thus far been a scheme should now be built into the criminal justice a scheme should now be built into the criminaljustice system as a full blown national service. The criminaljustice system as a fullblown national service. This is professionalising their role. If we had a National Lead that would gain all of that information, would match them, we would not find that in what it is finding, people could recognise the role even further. If they need more, we would have the data to prove it. The government says intermediaries are vital in helping vulnerable victims and witnesses, that is why it recently doubled the size of the scheme. But it welcomes the report, which it says it will carefully consider. It has been announced that north and south korea have agreed to march together under a single unified korean flag at next months winter 0lympics, korean flag at next months Winter Olympics, the result of the first to dramatic talks between the neighbours for more than two years. They have also agreed to form a unified womens Ice Hockey Team for the games. I spoke to the former British Consul general in the north korean capital pyongyang, who established the first British Embassy there. He told us what he thought might happen now. |j embassy there. He told us what he thought might happen now. I think having, as they see it, develop the means to preserve the regime, to provide it with security, so that nobody will easily undertake an attack on them, they may feel that they can relax a little bit and reach out. The first and obvious target to reach out to is south korea. They are brothers, they all speak the same language. They have the same cultural background and so on. It is understandable that south korea is the target. The trouble is, many in the united states, notjust in the administration, but more widely, they dont trust north korea under any circumstances whatsoever. They say the only way you can deal with these people is either by force, by isolation. Both of which seem force, by isolation. Both of which seem to have the opposite effect of what is intended. They make the north koreans more belligerent, more aggressive, certainly more rhetorically loud and offensive to many. But there is cause and effect. The olympics are a cautious moment of optimism, i think. We have been at this point a number of times in the past, when north and south seem to be cooperating. In 2000, they marched into the summer olympics, under the same flag that they intend to use. They never fielded a joint team. This is the first time there has been a joint team, which is to do with logistics. North korea, as i understand, has not qualified for any of the Winter Olympics sports in its own right. If they combine with the south korean team, north korean athletes can take part. But these things, we have got to remember that these things have got to the stage before, and sometimes it has fallen apart. I hope it doesnt. I think it is positive. But i think one should not build too much on it, as a sign that everything is going to be ok from now on. It defuses tension but it does not solve the problems. Now on the news channel, it is time for the delayed 10 0clock news. Thousands of workers facing uncertainty after the collapse of carillion are told theyll continue to be paid. But ministers confirm that carillions directors have not been paid since the business went into liquidation. Labour says the governments handling has been deficient. It looks like the government was handing carillion public contracts, either to keep the company afloat, which clearly hasnt worked, or it was just deeply negligent. We were a customer of carillion, not the manager of carillion, and thats a very important difference. Well be reporting from liverpool, where a Major Hospital building project is one of many put on hold around the uk. Well have the latest on the fallout from carillions collapse and the questions still being asked about the governments approach. Also tonight warnings of more heavy snow overnight for southern scotland and the north east of england, with a met Office Amber Alert now in place. The gritters are out tonight, but with more treacherous weather on the way, drivers in affected areas are being asked to stay off the roads. A court hears that gary speed the former wales football manager was one of four men who took their own lives, having been coached at one point by barry bennell, whos on trial on sex abuse charges. The challenge of recruiting and retaining nurses in nhs england more people are now leaving the profession thanjoining it. And for the first time in nearly a thousand years, the bayeux tapestry could be on display in britain. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news well show you what happened in the last of the fa cup third round replays. Good evening. And we start with the continued fallout from the collapse of carillion, the Major Construction group, which has put thousands ofjobs and companies at risk. There are hopes today that many workers working on private Sector Service contracts such as cleaning and catering will continue to be paid. That was the message from the insolvency service, which also confirmed that severance pay outs to former executives would not be made. Labour has urged theresa may to end what it called the costly racket of contracting out Public Services to private firms, as our Business Editor simonjack reports. After shutting up shop yesterday, work at highfields park in nottingham resumed today, a government promise to keep paying for work on carillions Public Sector contract was good enough for one stonemasons company. Weve held the project for a day, pulled off the project, but now were actually back on the project. But our main concerns is making sure that those payments are made because small contractors and other peoples livelihoods are the biggest thing in all of this is, is theyre going to suffer from this obviously impact of this severe problem thats been caused by carillion. Private sector customers, like nationwide, were givenjust 48 hours to decide if they wanted to keep paying for services carillion was providing. Nationwide was among 90 of customers who said yes, for now. Great news for thousands of workers not according to union leaders. Im encouraged that these clients want the work to continue, but i think its just a stay of execution for the people that i represent. Were not looking for short termism. Were not looking for protection today. Were looking for protection long term. This is a stay of execution and, frankly, thats not good enough. The Banking Industry promised today it would extend overdrafts, waive fees and give payment holidays to firms owed money by carillion to help limit the knock on damage down the supply chain. Tonight, then, a reprieve for thousands of private Sector Service workers, and the banks are promising to help limit the fallout. But here at this Carillion Construction site in kings cross, activity has come to a standstill and im told workers are disgruntled because they cant get onsite to get their tools so they can get on with otherjobs. Im also hearing tonight that talks are advanced on the creation of a task force across industry and government to help limit the damage done by this construction bust. The pressure on transport secretary Chris Grayling didnt let up today. Why did carillion land big contracts after multiple profit warnings . When hs2 awarded the contract last summer, a lot of work was done to make sure that if carillion ran into problems, then the contract was covered, and thats whats happened. Over the years, there have been many uk construction firms that have had ups and downs and issued profit warnings, and theyve come through those and continued to deliver excellent work. Deep ideological differences on the role of private companies in the Public Sector frothed over at Prime Ministers questions today. Between government and some of these companies . Theresa may reminded Jeremy Corbyn that a third of carillions public contracts were awarded under labour and that the model was still valid. What we want is to provide good quality Public Services, delivered at best value to the taxpayer. Were making sure in this case that Public Services continue to be provided, that the workers in those Public Services are supported and taxpayers are protected. There was also outrage expressed that the owner of this chalet, former carillion boss richard howson, was due to collect his £660,000 salary till 0ctober. All severance payments to former directors will now be stopped. That may not be enough to cool tempers back in the uk. Simon jack, bbc news. The collapse of carillion has led to many projects across the uk to be put on hold. 0ne project run by carillion was the £335 Million Contract to build the new Royal Liverpool hospital. It was one of the firms biggest deals, and it first ran into difficulties last march, as our correspondent Judith Moritz explains. Brick by brick, floor by floor, the new £335 million Royal Liverpool hospital has been taking shape, Building Work ongoing. Until this week. Since carillions collapse, subcontractors here have stopped work. Some are owed money and have downed tools for now. Meanwhile, next door at the hospital its due to replace, theres frustration for staff, who are waiting for the new building to be ready. But until things are clearer, hospital bosses know itll be difficult to get the builders back to work. I would say to contractors, please come on site, you will get paid for the work youre doing now. We recognise there is an issue with the money you are owed by carillion, but there are guarantees about future payments. We will work with the Hospital Company and with the receivers to try and ensure that there is some compensation for the work that youve done up to now. Is there anger about this . I wouldnt say its anger because obviously we feel sorry for the staff and the subcontractors of carillion. So its not anger. Its empathy with the situation theyre in, really. The old hospital was built in the 70s, and is showing its age crumbling concrete and rusting pipework. The new building was privately financed, but its progress was slow for various structural reasons, and it was cited at the time of carillions first profits warning. The new hospital should have been completed last march, but carillion missed that deadline and for every month it was delayed, the company faced a bill of £1. 5 million. Despite the carillion chaos, the trust says its confident that work will restart soon. Although it cant say exactly when the city will get its new hospital. Judith moritz, bbc news, liverpool. 0ur deputy political editor, john pienaar, is at westminster. John, how has this collapse changed the shape of the political debate about the way that government p rocu res about the way that government procures these things . We saw the red versus blue, public versus private argument that we thought had been settled many years ago. If theresa may thought that argument was over, she knows better now. We saw a Prime Minister who came in wishing to take on corporate greed facing anger in the commons over former executives of a Failing Company agreeing big pay outs before the company collapse. We saw the Prime Minister who promised a more fair britain under attack for being pa rt fair britain under attack for being part of tory government that was cosy with business. We wait for detailed policy proposals. There has been talk that may be future contractors will have to show that they can deal with the crisis, but they can deal with the crisis, but the government has to win this argument about the role of private firms like carillion show that tough margins of the type that carillion had to deal with are good value for the taxpayer. Otherwise, the watershed moment the Jeremy Corbyn said may be upon us, he may be right about. It could be a turning point and a big setback for the government. John, many thanks. There are warnings of more heavy snow tonight for southern scotland and the north east of england with a met Office Amber Alert now in place. Police scotland is advising drivers in much of the southern and central belt areas to avoid travelling. The alert came after hundreds of drivers were stranded overnight on the m74 the main west coast route between scotland and england. Our correspondent lorna gordon is in lanarkshire with the latest tonight. This time last night, vehicles on this stretch of motorway had ground toa this stretch of motorway had ground to a halt. The snow is falling once again, but so far, the traffic here is still moving. The Scottish Government says the country is experiencing the most challenging weather conditions it has placed in a number of years. Out in force and preparing for the worst