Transcripts For BBCNEWS BBC News At Ten 20180131 : compareme

Transcripts For BBCNEWS BBC News At Ten 20180131

In an Israeli Military court. And the rare super blue blood moon that has been wowing people around the world. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news as that clock ticks on transfer deadline day, the premier league witnessed its fastest goal this season, as tottenham took an early lead against manchester united. Good evening. Theresa may has defended her leadership at the start of a three day trade visit to china. She insisted to reporters that she wasnt a quitter, following days of criticism from within her own party. Speaking in beijing, the Prime Ministerforecast a golden era in trade relations between the two countries, but admitted that her government had to do more to advance its domestic agenda. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg is travelling with the Prime Minister. Even the most carefully planned entrance can go a touch awry. A bit of pushing and shoving, not the political kind this time. Asias red carpets, though, hardly provide a rest. Theresa mays here to do business, but the tories are trading in her future at home. She, envious perhaps of that kind of discipline, is trying, well, as she might say, to get on with the job. Although i may be visiting in winter, i have had the warmest of welcomes, for which i am very grateful. But to get things done, leaders have to be able to lead. The Prime Minister says she will fight on but concedes something has to shift. Prime minister, on the journey here you acknowledged that you and your government have to do more to be convincing. What is it that you plan to do differently and will you stand up to your critics . I think that there are many people in the United Kingdom who want to ensure that they and their families can achieve the british dream, of ensuring that each generation has a Better Future than the past. And, yes, we do need to do more, and we do need to ensure that we are talking about what we have already achieved. But her chinese counterpart provided cheer. Dangling the prospect of a future trade deal after brexit, with the start of formal conversations to scope it out. She is not a naturalfan of chinese opera, perhaps, or the diplomatic schmooze there were some tricky moments today. Conversations turned to human rights, north korea and the brute force of chinas steel industry. But these are very excited students could be joined by many others. Deals for universities, Exchange Programmes and others were announced. Have a nice stay in china. Thank you, thank you, well done to you. Nice to see you thank you, hello. And this group used their high tech skills to make a model of number ten, helpfully pointing out it had an emergency button, if ever there was a need for a swift escape. There is an emergency button, put there, call the police. Right, very good. The Prime Minister made very deliberate stops here, though, one to the banks of the yangtze river, to share her partys new found focus on all things green. And she hopes by the end of the week to have guaranteed british beefs on its way back to chinas table after 20 years, and there will have been handshakes on at least £9 billion of deals. China and britain not best friends, perhaps, but serious colleagues. This place reeks of power a commodity theresa may has been grappling to hold onto in recent days. Its clear the Prime Minister is in no mood to quit, but she does seem to acknowledge she has to up her game at home, and abroad, to be sure of staying on. The historic bling, the flags, the ceremony. Delicately choreographed, but easily dismantled. The Prime Minister travels with the trappings of office, but shes vulnerable not accompanied by reliable Long Term Support from her own side. Laura is in beijing tonight. An important trade mission for the Prime Minister, how much are questions about her leadership overshadowing it all . There is certainly no escape from it at all. They say it is lonely at the top, maybe theres nothing as lonely as a foreign leader thousands of miles from home whilst all sorts of shenanigans going on in their party, not just while they are out shenanigans going on in their party, notjust while they are out of sight but also while they are asleep in a completely different time zone and somehow very cut off from what is going on. Theresa may has made it clear she wants people to know she gets set, she understands that things havent been perfect but more than anything else, i think she wa nts to than anything else, i think she wants to try and show she is cracking on. Number ten believe and believe very much they have had Good Progress so far in those important talks on trade this week. They are pushing on to see president li today, one of the most important politicians of the world and have made it clear on this trip that theresa may is in the mood to push back at some of the European Unions latest proposals on that transition period, believing what they are asking for, in terms of residency rights after we leave the eu, is basically not on. There is no sense theresa may is somehow trying to retreat, on the contrary, she is trying to pull the levers, get on with things, show on this trip that every minute she is busy and it is packed full of events. But the difficulty in all of that is she can look busy, she can look like shes doing everything, but there is a danger she looks like shes going through the motions and somehow she doesnt really understand the extent of the despair some parts of her party feel while she is thousands of miles away. On this trip she is trying to carve out britains place in the world but there is no question her immediate priority is still carving out and preserving her own place in the party. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg in beijing, thank you. The police and the Crown Prosecution Service have been heavily criticised for the second time in a week after the collapse of a trial. This one concerned people trafficking. One of the women accused of being involved had been locked up in custody for more than a year and had even given birth in prison. The trial collapsed when thousands of mobile phone messages, that were disclosed late, cast doubt on the case. It comes after a number of rape cases were also abandoned because of disclosure issues. Clive coleman reports. I was scared, i was in shock. Cristina bosoancas story shows the devastating effect that failure to disclose evidence can have. After 13 tough months in prison, she can finally relax with the son she bore there. They were bullying me. It was difficult when i saw them going to the visits of. The prosecution case was based on the evidence of a female complainant who claimed Cristina Bosoanca trafficked her into the country to work as a prostitute. She also alleged she was raped by a client and became pregnant as a result. Christinas lawyers repeatedly told the police that there were phoned messages which undermined the womans story. At the beginning, i asked for the phone, i asked for the pictures, cctv, i asked for everything. But they were like, they dont care. It was only on the second day of the trial that 65,000 phone messages were disclosed to cristinas team. They fundamentally undermined the claimants account and medical evidence also proved the woman was pregnant before coming to the uk. The case collapsed on friday, thejudge demanding police and prosecutors come to court today to explain. In court, thejudge said there had been a wholesale failure of disclosure, and serious and repeated errors by both the police and the Crown Prosecution Service. Under oath, a senior crown it apologised and said a full review was taking place and a report would been sent to the director of public prosecutions. This is not an isolated case and whatever the findings are in this case, they are symptomatic of a problem that has been developing over the last 6 8 years. The government brought in a series of cuts which have resulted in underfunding and under resourcing for the metropolitan police, the cps, and the criminal Justice System as a whole. What do you think of british justice, having been through the process that youve been through . I really dont know. I dont want to Say Something rude. If they think someone needs to be punished for something, they need to be sure. Cristinas experience shows disclosure failures go beyond recent highly publicised rape cases, there are likely to be more examples, each one affecting the lives of those charged, and their families. Clive coleman, bbc news. Nearly £1 billion has been wiped off the value of the out sourcing company, capita, which provides services to both the public and private sectors, after it issued a profits warning for the coming year. The company, which employs 50,000 people in the uk, has also announced a drastic overhaul of the business. Our Business Editor simon jack is here. Simon, are we looking at another carillion here . Some things feel eerily similar, dont they . For example, big profit warning, crash in the share price, nearly 50 today, 80 over the last year. Big public outsourcing contracts that it has, then it looks and feels the same. But there are major differences. It doesnt have those very risky Construction Contracts which can go wrong and today some of the measures that the company took, while painfulfor shareholders, is precisely what carillion should have done two or three years ago. They have cut the dividend while they still have plenty of money in the bank, £1 billion, they are raising £700 million in new equity capital, which means you dont have to pay it back and they are going to go through all those contracts won by one. So very painful, looks a bit scary but a very different animal, i would say, to carillion. One thing i would say it is given the fact that government got the continuing to award contracts got the continuing to award co ntra cts to got the continuing to award contracts to carillion after a profit warning, will they be able to get Public Sector contracts just as easily . I think those conversations will be a lot more tricky post carillion than they were before but i would say a different beast for now. Jack, thank you. z; 2. 2131 f. , f f f less than her male counterparts had been an insult. The director general, lord hall, who also appeared, said it was wrong that she had been underpaid. Our media editor amol rajan reports. A united front. Several of the most high profile female presenters on bbc news were in westminster today to support their colleague, carrie gracie. Reporter do the bbc need to do more on equal pay for women . Thats why were here to support carrie. Thank you. I was appointed china editor. She resigned her post as china editor in protest at unequal pay. In blistering testimony to a select committee of mps, she accused the bbc of institutionalised discrimination when it had paid her less than other international editors. We knew there was inequality. We didnt know the details, because the bbc is extremely secretive on pay, but we knew we were underpaid. I was determined at this point, where i knew i would give the china job every last ounce of my skill and stamina, i knew i would do that job at least as well as any man. The corporations dealing with her grievance was, she said, insultingly shambolic. And she added that shed be declining nearly £100,000 in back pay. I have said i dont want that money. Thats not what its about for me. I feel my salarys a good salary, its public money. Thats not what it was about. They are still not giving me a quality. Equality. And in a concerted attack against bbc management, she said that for years it had £1. 29;ng. §gs~§~g¢zz ggs ngfsgfsfg rf. ,. ~~ anyway. Then i thought, no, i have to fight. Gracies grilling went on for two and a half hours. When said management emerged in the afternoon, he went on to explain for the first conversations happening today. Carrie gracie spoke powerfully about the wider implications of her own case and also the accumulated failures of the past. But the bbc management wanted to focus on the future. They want to shift this story from the injustices faced by carrie gracie, to their new framework for greater transparency. The trouble is, many staff here have other ideas. The bbc has a clear plan and is largely ahead of the industry on gender inequality. Though Carrie Gracies case remains far from resolved, or unique. Amol rajan, bbc news. President trump has used his first state of the Union Address to call on republicans and democrats to Work Together to rebuild American Industries and to fix the countrys immigration system. He said hed advanced his mission to make America Great again with record tax cuts, a booming stock market and a fall in unemployment. But democrats say he has left the nation fractured. Our north america editor, jon sopel, reports. Applause the pugilist president last night wearing a different guise. Forget the street fighter, donald trump had come to congress as father of the nation there to bind wounds, a message of unity, wanting to help everyone. This in fact is our new american moment. There has never been a better time to start living the american dream. So to every citizen watching at home tonight, no matter where youve been or where youve come from, this is your time. If you work hard, if you believe in yourself, if you believe in america, then you can dream anything. You can be anything and together we can achieve absolutely anything. Applause republicans loved it. He did a victory lap on the growth of the economy. He called for measures to rebuild americas infrastructure. And in washingtons highly polarised politics, he called for a new spirit of co operation. I want our youth to grow up, to achieve great things. I want our poor to have their chance to rise. So tonight i am extending an open hand to work with members of both parties, democrats and republicans, to protect our citizens of every background, colour, religion and creed. But though he appealed for the parties to Work Together on immigration, there was little of substance that would win over democrats, who sat stony faced through much of the speech. Hundreds of miles north, in massachusetts, a young ambitious congressman was giving the democratic partys response. Joseph kennedy iii, grandson of bobby, great nephew of president john f kennedy. Bullies may land a punch, they may leave a mark, but they have never, not once in the history of our United States managed to match the strength and spirit of a People United in defence of their future. Joe kennedy is seeking to broaden the democratic partys appeal, to bring in more young people and minorities. Donald trump is trying to widen the base of his support. What both republicans and democrats are engaged in is a battle for novembers midterm elections, which could fundamentally alter the trajectory of this presidency. Jon sopel, bbc news, washington. Is a slap an act of terrorism . Next week, a 16 year old palestinian girl will go on trial in an Israeli Military court for a range of security offences after she was filmed slapping an israeli soldier. The video of the palestinian teenager, ahed tamimi, which was filmed by her mother, went viral and they were both arrested. Our middle east editor, jeremy bowen, reports from their home village nebi saleh, on the Israeli Occupied west bank. Any peace in nebi saleh on a cold winter day is an illusion. Its a small palestinian village on the west bank, a sharp thorn in the side of its occupier, israel. The people here refuse to give in to israels overwhelming power. For some israelis, that makes them terrorists. An israeli soldier shot mohammed tamimi, 15 years old, in the face with a rubber coated metal bullet. Surgeons took the bullet out of mohammeds brain, along with part of his skull. The tamimifamily lead the protests in the village, many of them have been imprisoned by israel for security offences. Mohammed was jailed for three months last year. He was rushed to hospital after he was shot during a demonstration in nebi saleh, on the 15th december. The village was protesting against president trumps decision to recognise jerusalem as israels capital. Ahed tamimi, his cousin, a seasoned activist at 16 years old, told two Israeli Soldiers to get off her familys property, shed just heard, wrongly, that mohammed had died. After one soldier swatted her away, she slapped him. Once the video had gone viral, ahed with arrested with her mother nariman, who did the filming. Theyre charged with security offences and face jail. Aheds father, bassem tamimi, an activist whos also served time in prison, has been taking to her to demonstrations since she was small. Lots of people would say that if you slap a soldier, in any country, youll get into trouble. So its no surprise that the israelis have put her on trial. She cant accept a hard man to come to her field. This is the occupier law, and we are resisting. Thats our duty and responsibility. We cant give our enemy a rose when he come to kill us. So this is where it happened, in the driveway of the tamimis house. The incident says a lot about the conflict. The imbalance of force, the way its invaded the lives of yet another generation and the bleakness of a future with no prospect of peace. Very close to nebi saleh is a jewish settlement, illegal under international law. Last summer, a palestinian from another village killed three members of a family there. This area is always tense and the armys mainjob is to guard the settlers. Like all west bank palestinians, ahed tamimi is being tried in a military court, which usually convicts. More than 300 palestinians, under 18, are serving time as security prisoners. Some israelis are horrified by the imprisonment of children, but most feel that she should be punished and perhaps her

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