A second cinema chain pulls the gang themed film blue story after a brawl at a complex in birmingham at the weekend. And an apology from new zealand for englands jofra archer, who says he was subjected to racist abuse at the end of the first test. And coming up on bbc news today is the day that we are finding out who is up for this years bbc Sports Personality of the year. The six nominees for the public vote are being revealed throughout the day. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. A lorry driver who is accused of the deaths of 39 migrants found in a refrigerated lorry in essex has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to assist illegal immigration. Maurice robinson, from craigavon, is accused of being part of a larger plot to bring people into the uk illegally. He was not asked to plead to 39 charges of manslaughter, which he also faces. The bodies of 39 people from vietnam, including children, were discovered last month in the back of a lorry in essex. Daniel sandford reports. It was on the 23rd of october that police were called to an Industrial Park in grays in essex after 39 people had been found dead in the back of a sealed lorry trailer. This morning, mo robinson, the 25 year old lorry driver from Northern Ireland arrested at the time, appeared by video link at the old bailey and pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to assist illegal immigration. He was not, at this stage, asked to enter pleas to the 39 charges of manslaughter he faces, nor to one of people trafficking or one of money laundering. Of the 39 people found dead in the lorry, eight were female, ten were teenagers two of them were 15 year old boys. They all came from vietnam and leave behind grieving families. Sealed inside an unaccompanied lorry trailer, theyd crossed the English Channel from zeebrugge on this cargo ferry, the clementine, and arrived at the port of purfleet on the river thames, just east of london. The trailer had been dropped off at zeebrugge some 12 hours earlier by this lorry cab. Eamon harrison, also from Northern Ireland, is accused of being the driver on the belgian side, and is fighting extradition from dublin. And with the investigation into the lorry deaths still continuing, a third man from Northern Ireland, 23 year old christopher kennedy, was due to appear in court in chelmsford today, charged with people trafficking and assisting illegal immigration. Daniel sandford, bbc news. Students at almost half of all uk universities are facing disruption to their classes, as lecturers and support staff started an eight day strike over pensions, pay, and working conditions. This latest action follows strikes in february and march last year, meaning some students are being affected for the second time. Universities say theyll do all the can to minimise the affect on students. Our education correspondent lisa hampele reports. Across the country, around i million stu d e nts across the country, around i Million Students are being affected by the strike. Union members say they have reached breaking point. Now they are striking over pay, workload, equality and job security as well as pensions. It is thought more than 43,000 members of the university and couege 43,000 members of the university and College Union are on strike today. The union is angry that members now have to pay 9. 6 in pension contributions, up from 8 . They want universities to pay the full increase instead. Employers say they are paying an extra £250 million to pensions each year. By eroding our pensions, which is deferred pay, by giving us less money and expecting us giving us less money and expecting us to do more and more work, they are making it hard for us to deliver the quality education and research we wa nt the quality education and research we want to do, and it will not contribute to society. For some students, this is the second time they will be affected by industrial action. Universities say they were doing as much as they can to mitigate the impact on students. Last time, thousands signed petitions asking for compensation, but few were successful. Many stu d e nts but few were successful. Many students support the strike but are worried. It happened in my undergrad. I had no dissertation for six weeks, which i think affected my final mark considerably, so for it to be happening again. It is important for us to support the people who teach us. Their demand for better working conditions will basically lead to better learning conditions for us. Grate having it affect our exam week, ijust dont think thats fair. Eight days of strikes are planned, with Union Members working to contract, too, refusing to cover for absent collea g u es refusing to cover for absent colleagues or to reschedule loss lectures. I believe we will continue to talk. And i do believe that weve got a lot of shared interest around things that we can do in order to get some agreement around pensions. The union is warning of a second wave of strikes in the new year if talks fail. Well, our education correspondent Sean Coughlan is here. This could be very disruptive for students what picture are you getting of how the strike is going . Do so far, the Lecturers Union say support for the strike has been solid, and there have been woke out in the 60 universities involved. Employers say that they are doing all they can to minimise disruption and they are making alternative arrangements, putting on lectures elsewhere and putting resources online so that students can study from home. This is the first morning of the eight day strike, so it is ha rd to of the eight day strike, so it is hard to gauge the impact yet. No sign of either side budging or even compromising, so perhaps when the dust settles a little, we will know where this is going to go. In the background, the other question is tuition fees. Students pay a lot of money to go to university now, and they might say that if they are not being taught they should not have to pgy being taught they should not have to pay. Shown, many thanks. After Massive Gains by pro democracy candidates in local elections in hong kong, the territorys leader carrie lam has said she will listen and reflect seriously on the message sent by voters. Pro democracy councillors now control 17 out of 18 district councils. Its being seen as stinging condemnation of the leadership, and a show of support for the anti beijing protests that have been going on for months. Jonathan head reports. They queued in record numbers and delivered an unmistakable message. As the votes were tallied, seat after seat fell to an Opposition Alliance which had previously held only a handful. For hong kongs government, this was a humiliation. Today Office Workers in the city centre used their lunch break to heckle a prominent pro government politician, who had to be hustled out by riot police. And then turned that into an impromptu protest, chanting the mantra of the movement which has thrown down an unprecedented challenge to chinese rule in this territory. Five demands, not one less. They still want full democracy and an independent enquiry into the violence of the past five months. The Hong Kong Government must have been hoping that after this election perhaps the protests might die down. But the stunning opposition victory seems to have given the movement and its supporters new momentum. Newly elected councillors visited the university campus, where a handful of activists are still holed up after last weeks battles with the police symbolically linking the protests with their election win. China now faces an acute dilemma. What does it do about a defiant hong kong . For the moment, it can only trot out a familiar official script. Translation no matter what happens in hong kong, it is chinese territory, and special Administrative Region of china. Any attempt to destabilise hong kong or even to damage its prosperity and stability will never succeed. China is blaming foreign interference for this political setback. Many hong kongers would say its been the strategy of relying on an increasingly Unpopular Police force to contain popular anger which has prolonged the crisis. Now they must wait to see whether china is willing to change course. And Jonathan Head joins us live from hong kong now. Elation for the pro democracy supporters, but will this result actually change anything . They hope it will, and they have reiterated their message today to the Hong Kong Government that you must now respond. I think what they are hoping the government will understand now is that the protests arent going to go away. I think that has always been chinas calculation, particularly as those protests became much more violent, the confrontations with the police, and there was much more destruction and there was much more destruction and damage, that lots of ordinary people in hong kong would be put off the protest movement. The vote on sunday tells a different message. Those opposition candidates explicitly tied themselves to the protest movement and voters backed them in huge numbers. They are saying the government must respond. They want the resignation of carrie lam, the chief executive. I think we could start to see people shifting away from the protest movement, but if the government sticks to its position, the protests will restart. Labour says it will bring in rent controls and improve conditions for tenants in privately owned accommodation in england if it wins the general election. Private rents would go up by no more than inflation, and landlords would face hefty fines for poor quality housing. Jeremy corbyn said landlords should support the plans. What were doing is ensuring that all tenants have somewhere that is safe and secure in which to live. And i cant imagine that any landlord would object to their property being inspected to make sure it is up to standard to be put on the rental market. Surely thats a reasonable basic thing to do in society. We dont want People Living in substandard accommodation. Our economics correspondent andy verity is with me now. You have been looking at this proposal. Tell us more detail. Two basic problems with renting one is that you may be in squalid housing, housing that is not up to scratch, and according to government figures, there is one in four operatives where they are not decent. In other words, they can be cold, damp, in disrepair. The other problem is, families, people in their 30s and 40s with kids who are renting, dont have much security. A landlord can say, i want you to pay more rent, bump up the rent, and if you dont like it, you are out. There are no fault evictions at the moment, which both parties are promising to get rid of. The labour proposals to deal with this problem of insecurity and sometimes on affordability, the first one is to have a property mot. So, rather as you put your car in to check it is up to scratch, you would do that with your property if you we re do that with your property if you were a landlord. And if it is not up to scratch, you could have rent clawed back or you could be subject to fines. And the no fault eviction will go away completely. The third thing they are proposing is capping rents. The last rise was i. 3 . There isa rents. The last rise was i. 3 . There is a whole history behind the idea of controlling rents. 100 years ago, nine out of Ten Properties were rented, and the biggest landlord was legal in general, so it is institutional investment. After world war i, they introduced rent controls to stop people profiteering, and over the decades, the private rented sector shrank, the private rented sector shrank, the argument being it was on economic. That is the argument from the residential landlords association. If you can make money from it, landlords would still want to be in it. If they could not make money, lots of landlords would want to sell their homes, which ironically could make Home Ownership more affordable. These are labours proposals to tackle this. The landlords dont like it and the conservatives say it could end up with higher rents. Labour say it could end the problem of unaffordability and insecurity. Lets take a brief look at some of todays other election news. The lib dems say if no one party has a majority after the general election, their priority will be to force a peoples vote on brexit. The lib dem treasury spokesman chuka ummuna said the party was best placed to take seats from the conservatives. He also criticised the labour leaders neutral stance on brexit and said it was right for the lib dems to offer a remain alternative. So i simply do not understand how any political activist in our country can be neutral on this, like the leader of the opposition. And im proud to be led by a leader who is resolute in saying our country is stronger, safer and better off in the eu. Throughout the election campaign, we are looking closely at the places where the final result could be won and lost, and asking people in those places what questions they may have. Tomorrow, we will be reporting from pembrokeshire in west wales, all day, on tv, radio and online, starting with bbc breakfast, and radio 5 live. A second cinema chain has cancelled screenings of the british film blue story after a mass fight broke out at a cinema in birmingham where it was being shown. Showcase has followed the move by vue in removing the film, which is about gang violence, from its cinemas. West Midlands Police said the force didnt ask for or recommend the film be pulled but that it would investigate whether the violence was linked. Tolu adeoye reports. Thats my son in there. Im his mother and no one aint come here to tell me nothing blue story, a tale about two friends and postcode gang culture in london. The director has called it a film about love not violence. But this is what the film has been linked to. A mass brawl at an Entertainment Complex on saturday night in birmingham. Seven Police Officers were injured, there have been six arrests, including a 13 year old girl. The violence led to vue cinemas pulling blue story, showcase cinemas soon followed. Across social media, many have questioned the decision, including this podcaster. A lot of people online have been saying there is some institutional racism going on around it. For me, ive been quite clear when ive sent out my letter to the vue cinema. There are a number of points which theyd still yet to address in terms of what their Decision Making process is, are there any precedents for what theyve done and how are they going to address that . Because there are a lot more violent films that are out there. Thejoker is out at the moment. Blue story can still be seen at cinemas across the country. The odeon is one of the chains thats not withdrawing the film. It says there will be security measures in place at screenings though. West Midlands Police have said its not asked for or recommended for the film to be pulled following saturdays violence. Hey, timmy. Are you going to the party . Both vue and showcase say the safety of customers is paramount. It is rare for a film to be withdrawn in this way. One Industry Expert says the chains have acted too quickly. I think they are very worried that hoards of youth will turn up and scare away the frozen 2 cash cow audiences. But thats having a multiplex. Youve got to put on all cinema culture at these places and let it all percolate together. I think blue story is a really important british film. The films director and writer andrew onwubolu, also known as ratman, has described the disturbance linked to his film is truly unfortunate. He says he hopes the blame will be placed on individuals and is not an indictment of the film itself. Tolu adeoye, bbc news. The time is 1 15, our top story this lunchtime. A lorry driver charged over the deaths of 39 vietnamese migrants has admitted plotting to assist illegal immigration. Maurice robinson still faces 39 counts of manslaughter. And coming up uber hits a bump in the road transport for london refuses the Ride Hailing Company a new licence. Coming up on bbc news, Great Britain and england hockey player sam ward says he will do everything he can to return to hockey, after losing the sight in his left eye. He was struck in the face by a ball earlier this month. The treatment by china of hundreds of thousands of muslim people kept in a network of high security prison camps has been exposed by a leak of documents, seen by the bbc. China has consistently claimed the camps in the xinjiang region in the west of the country offer education and training. But the leaked documents show how inmates are locked up until they change their beliefs, behaviour and language. Chinas uk ambassador has denied the bbcs claims, saying the camps are popular and have prevented terrorism. Richard bilton reports. Until now, this is all weve seen. Snatched footage of high walls and rows of cells. Our documents detail what happens inside. These are the instructions, sent to those who run the camps. Nine pages, brutal and clear. Never allow escapes. Increase discipline and punishment. Promote repentance and confession. This is how they issue orders, implement policies. Everything that weve been hearing from the witnesses, from the survivors, everything that weve been told is consistent with this document. It looks like a nazi playbook to me. In the last three years, china has built hundreds of camps across the remote province of xinjiang. Around a Million People, mainly uighur muslims, have been detained. Gulzeera was one of them. Translation each woman gets two minutes to go to the toilet. They tell you to be quick, quick, quick. If youre not quick enough, they shock you with an electric baton on the back of your head. It really hurt and they did it a lot. Even after being shocked, we had to say, thank you, teacher. We will not be late next time. The Chinese Ambassador to the uk dismissed the bbcs claims as fake news and said xinjiangs population supported and applauded the measures. But some believe china can no longer defen