20/02/2012 BBC News at Ten

The big shake-up of the UK's border security after hundreds of

thousands of ID checks were not carried out properly. A damning

report concludes the agency suffered from a series of problems.

The Home Secretary says it is not good enough and must change.

Vine Report reveals a border force that suspended important cheques

without permission, spent millions on new technologies but chose not

to use them, was led by managers who did not communicate with staff.

She has hidden behind a report and not set out its consequences, just

as she blamed officials, just as she has header from the media, just

as she has hidden behind spurious statistics. We will be looking at

who is to blame. I have had enough of you! I have

had enough of veal and Cameron! NHS is not for sale.

uncompromising message of the Health Secretary on his way to

discuss the controversial NHS reforms. The south-east of England

is declared a drought zone with a warning that hosepipe bans could

follow. Losses at Lloyds are told they will

not now get �2 million in bonuses they have been promised. -- bosses.

And how one of the world's most feared diseases is close to being

eradicated in India with help from British volunteers. Now that India

is polio free, can the world sees the opportunity and get rid of this

ancient, disabling disease for good?

Coming up later in sport, retired boxer David Haye is still wanted

for questioning by German police following his brawl with Dereck

Chisora at the weekend. Chisora has been questioned and released

Good evening. The UK border agencies to be split in two after a

new report revealed hundreds of thousands of people were let into

the country without appropriate checks. -- the UK Border Agency is

to be split. The Home Secretary told the Commons that an

investigation into the relaxation of border controls found that

500,000 people arriving on Eurostar, for example, were not checked

against a watchlist for suspected criminals. Labour accused the Home

Secretary of failing to take responsibility for the problems.

Nick Robinson reports. The UK Board Agency, it is meant to

stop terrorists, criminals and illegal immigrants entering the

country, but today an official investigation found that the proper

checks had not been carried out on hundreds of different occasions

over several years, covering many hundreds of thousands of people.

The Vine Report reveals that security checks carried out at the

border have been suspended regularly and applied

inconsistently since at least 2007. In other words, the problem, she

was claiming, started when Labour were in power. The report of the

Independent's chief inspector of the UK Border Agency highlighted a

series of failures. Overall, it criticised poor communication, for

a managerial oversight and a lack of clarity. This led to the so-

called warnings index, extra checks on people with questionable

immigration status, being suspended on 350 separate occasions.

Fingerprint checks carried out on foreign nationals with visas were

suspended on a further 480 occasions. No records were kept of

how many people and should have been checked were not. Visitors to

Euro Disney may not seem to be top of any risk list, but the report

found that together with those on Eurostar's Ski Train, 500,000

people escaped proper border controls. The Vine Report reveals a

border force that suspended important cheques without

permission, spent millions on new technologies but chose not to use

them, was led by managers who did not communicate with staff, and

that they send reports to ministers which were not accurate and

excluded key information. I spoke to John Vine, the author of today's

report, after he watched the Home Secretary's statement and asked him

to sum up his verdict on the agency. Is it not fit for purpose?

agency has a long way to go in order to ensure that it is truly a

law-enforcement body which can be relied upon to ensure that it keeps

the border safe. The government is now splitting those in uniforms who

police the border, the UK Border Force, from those in suits who make

and run the rules. All of this is a reaction to the revelation that

last summer for the Czechs were suspended at Heathrow to avoid a

lengthy queues, and news that led the Home Secretary to suspend the

then head of the Border Agency, Brodie Clark, and him to resign in

protest and sue the Home Office. The opposition say that the

government is still blaming others for its mistakes. It is time for

her to stop hiding, to take responsibility for things that have

happened on her watch, for the unclear instructions from her

office, for the policy decisions to downgrade border controls. Perhaps

the biggest test of the border controls will come this summer as

huge numbers head here, most to watch the Olympics, but some for

reasons that ought to mean they are kept out.

Nick Robinson is at Westminster for us. The report lists some serious

security failures in the UK Border Agency. How worried should we be?

The author of this report told me, look, we have to keep this in

proportion, and although there were failings, he said that they were

often a failure to have additional controls, in addition to the normal

passport checks. What is a problem, I think, is that those in the

agency, ministers in the Home Office, simply did not know what

each thought and what each was doing. There is an argument still

going on tonight about whether the Immigration Minister Damian Green

really did know about what was being done when border controls

were temporarily suspended. Some in the agencies say that he did, the

union representing Brodie Clark, the man who was suspended and then

resigned as head of the UK Border Force, say they do, and the Labour

Party are taking that up. The government say they have nothing to

apologise for. Everyone involved in this is clear, though, that you

cannot check everybody equally thoroughly all the time. You have

to dig you risk based Jacques, as they are called. What I am struck

by is that this is far from the first time we have had these

problems. Remember the UK Border Agency was only set up because of a

series of failures, not least the failure over foreign prisoners that

caused a former Home Secretary to have to resign. They got a new

agency, they got a new logo, now there is yet another organisational

restructuring and all politicians can do is this and hope things get

better. The Health Secretary, Andrew

Lansley, was heckled and jostled by a group of protesters today as he

tried to enter Downing Street for a meeting about his controversial

reforms of the NHS in England. Tonight more than 650 doctors,

nurses and other health professionals signed a critical

letter, branding today's meeting as a gathering of yes-men. Carole

Walker reports. It clearly was not what he was

expecting. The health secretary walked straight into a

confrontation with opponents of his NHS plans. One former union

official was emotional and she blocked his path. You can wait,

like people are waiting. Waiting times in the NHS have gone down. It

will not go private. I have had enough of you! I have had enough of

you and Cameron! The NHS is not for sale, there is no privatisation.

Codswallop! The made his way into Downing Street. Some of those

around the table with the Prime Minister believed the plans will

improve the NHS, although others had come to voice their concerns,

and those who opposed the plans outright, including the Royal

Colleges of doctors, nurses and midwives, were not invited. Downing

Street say that today's meeting is simply part of the ongoing

discussions about the bill, but by leaving out so many of their

critics, they have increased the hostility amongst many of the

healthcare professionals who will be expected to implement their

plans. They keep saying that because some GPs have got involved

in clinical commissioning, that means the majority supported. That

is not true. In some parts of England, as in Wigan, GPs already

have control over their own budgets and say that reforms to stroke

services have improved results and saved money. The key aspect of the

bill is about giving leadership to the clinicians on the front line.

We want that to be retained. It is not just those brandishing placards

that are worried about greater competition and private sector

involvement, but the Prime Minister wants to reassure them. There are

myths that we need to bust, but I have heard that on the ground where

these reforms are taking place, you are actually seeing better health

outcomes, GPs doing more for their patience, people leading healthier

lives as a result of these changes, so I am committed to the changes.

The Labour leader accused Mr Cameron of a bunker mentality.

say directly to David Cameron, I hope he will listen to the doctors,

nurses, midwives and patients, all of whom are saying to him, drop the

bill. Andrew Lansley made light of today's confrontation. Sticks and

stones, etcetera. He is still battling to get his bill through

the House of Lords, but the government insists there is no

questioning of abandoning its plans for the NHS now.

The south-east of England is officially in a state of drought

amid fears that water levels in reservoirs in parts of England are

at lower levels than they were in 1976, when there were widespread

shortages and rationing. As well as the south-east, East Anglia and the

East Midlands are the worst affected areas. Jeremy Cooke

reports. Take a look at the reservoir levels

in Kent, and you will probably have guessed but now it is official,

much of the south-east of England is in drought. In the East Midlands,

that has been the case for months now. Water levels here are

worryingly low. And all of this in February, when rain is usually a

reliable feature of the forecast. Here you get a real sense of how

low levels have dropped. This entire area should be covered with

water, but as you can see, vast areas of this reservoir are now

exposed, and it is not just a local problem. This picture is repeated

across the East and the south-east of England. The reason for all of

this is simple. Two dry windows in a row. Hard to believe if you are

watching in Scotland or north-west England, but what they want here is

rain and lots of it. We need months of torrential rain, to be quite

honest. It might not be a popular thing to say, but persistent

drizzle over weeks is what we need to get things back to normal. If it

does not come, and there is no sign of that on the horizon, there is

the possibility we will have restrictions. That brings back

memories of the epic drought of 1976 when for many the only water

supply was from standpipes. So just how bad are things today? Well,

parts of East Anglia and the East Midlands have been in drought since

June last year. Now add other regions from Hampshire to Kent,

London to Oxfordshire, and as far west as Gloucestershire. For

farmers, this is bad news. Lack of rain means they must rely on

irrigation to grow their crops, but groundwater and river levels are

low, and taking more out now may damage wildlife. And so farmers are

calling for a radical solution. Ultimately, a national grid of

water pipe networks so that we can get the water from the wetter west

part of the country over to the east and utilise it here. Obviously,

that is a major aspiration, but ultimately that is what we need.

Severn Trent is one company which is already using pipelines to move

water around its region. Today's meeting between ministers and

industry leaders discussed doing The driver of a school coach which

crashed in northern France killing a teacher from Worcestershire has

been charged with involuntary manslaughter by French magistrates.

Police are investigating if Derek Thompson, 47, may have fallen

asleep at the wheel. The accident happened as he drove pupils and

staff from Alvechurch Middle School home from a ski trip.

Police have been given an extra 36 hours to question a man about the

murders of a vicar and a pensioner. Stephen Farrow, 47, was arrested

yesterday in Folkestone and is being held on suspicion of

murdering reverends John Suddards, who was found dead in south

Gloucestershire. And he is being questioned about the debt of 77-

year-old Betty Yates from Lloyds Banking Group has decided

not to pay out about �million in bonuses promised to 13 senior

executives. The bank said it was holding the money because of

compensation costs incured by the group over the mis-selling of PPI

protection payments. In what bankers think of as the

good old days when abonus was announced, it was theirs to keep

forever. Not anymore. Lloyds has retrieved more than 2 million

awarded a year ago to 13 executives. The mis-selling of PPI insurance

policies is costing Lloyds a staggering �3 .2 billion. The

losses are why it wants the bonuses back from executives it holds

accountable. The biggest bonus loser is to be Eric Daniels, the

former chief executive, losing �580,000 out of a bonus of under

�1.5 million. Four others are losing between �10,000, rand

�260,000, and a Firth ought up to �150,000 poorer than they thought

that they were. Lloyds is taking the lead for the

industry, that says if you make a mistake as a banking executive, you

can be punished by withdrawing the bonus in the future. That changes

the way that the industry thinks. Lloyds caused distress to many

thousands of customers, unable to make claims on the PPI credit

insurance they were mis-sold. Now the customers are being compensated,

the question eis whether a 40terz reduction in the bonus payable to

the former chief executive and a 25% reduction in bonuses for four

other directors, whether that represents adequate punishments?

have been campaigning for this for a year. It is good to see the first

step. The regulator must be tougher on stopping the rewards for failure,

ensuring that the banks are clawing back bonuses whether it is shares

or cash from people who presided over bad behaviour, bad for

customers and for us all as taxpayers.

Royal Bank of Scotland, when led by Sir Fred Goodwin, was also big in

the mis-selling of PPI insurance, but although he has had his

knighthood taken back, he will not have to hand back a bonus as he was

not paid one in a year when he departed.

Coming up: The dish of the day or dangerous

development? We speaking to scientist who wants to make burgers

from stem cells. Polio, one of the world's most

feared diseases, which has been causing paralysis an death for

thousands of years is a step nearer eradication. India once had more

cases than any other country, but it has been polio-free for over a

year. It has an historic opportunity to eradicate it

completely. We went to Delhi to see an immunisation programme in action.

Just two drops is all that it takes to prevent polio. Now imagine

repeating that 170 million times, tracking down every young child

across India. You then begin to get an idea of what it has taken to get

rid of polio here. The mark on the finger shows that they have

received the vaccine. What's been achieved here is remarkable. India

used to have more polio cases than anywhere else, but political will,

resources and dedication have finally wiped it out.

The volunteers here are from Britain. Members of the Rotary club,

the global network of professionals. Rotary has been at the forefront of

the fight against polio for a generation. Raising money and

awareness. My dream is to have a pole free

world. We have done it with smallpox, we should be able to do

it with polio. We are close now. We're on the last days, I hope.

a nurse clinician, I vaccinate babies on a daily basis, coming

here is an extension of that. I love people. I want to see healthy

children worldwide. This Delhi hospital still has a

backlog of patients paralysed by the virus.

He will have four operations. Mohammed caught polio as a baby. He

will need repeated surgery before he can walk with the aid of

calipers. I get patients from all over the

world. It is painful to see the family suffering for everyone to

suffer around it. If the world can stop polio it will

be the greatest thing that I can dream of.

Polio used to spread via contaminated water and raw sewage,

but the virus has disappeared because enough people are protected.

India has shown global eradication is possible, but the war is not

within won yet. India's polio-free status is under

threat. Neighbouring Pakistan, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria

all saw increases in cases last year. This virus respects no

borders. That is why it is vital, mass immunisation campaigns like

this need to continue until erchild in every country is protected.

Poorly run immunisation programmes and families who refuse the vaccine

are what's preventing those countries from matching India's

success. It will take unswerving commitment of the sorts seen here

if this disabling disease is to be consigned to history.

Eurozone leaders are locked in talks this evening in Brussels to

try to secure a deal with Greece to allow them to approve �130 billion

-- a 130 Euro billion bail out package. Gavin, what is the latest?

For all of the words going into the meeting, we are optimistic. There

is the expectation that a massive second bail out for Greece will be

agreed and the country avoids bankruptcy, but it is worth being

cautious. The finances ministers have been meeting for eight hours

now. They've been arguing how precisely Greece will reduce its

debt burden to the agreed target. They've been arguing also, how to

ensure that Greece lives up to its commitments to implement the

austerity cuts. One minister when he came to the meeting said he

wanted to station monitors in Athens to ensure that they lived up

to their promises. That, of course, would be highly controversial in

Greece. If during the hours of darkness there is a new bail out

agreement, there would be a huge sigh of relief in the eurozone, but

the outcome is far less certain for Greece, they will have to implement

new austerity measures at a time when the economy is shrinking fast.

Thank you very much. Tomorrow, the people of Yemen go to

the polls to elect a new President, but there is own one candidate, the

current Vice-President. Despite a year of street protests and the

departure of President salyar, the yem -- Yemen is deeply divided. On

the eve of voting we have been looking to see what Yemen's next

leader must address and whether the country's battle against Al-Qaeda

is any closer to being won. In the streets of SANA, they are

drumming up support for the Yemen presidential election. After 33

years in power, the old President, President Ali Abdullah Saleh is

finally going. By Tuesday night, this man, Abed

Rabbo Mansour Hadi will be Yemen's new President. It is a strange

election for anybody to be getting excited about. There is one

candidate. If only one person votes for him he will still win, but this

is not really an election about choosing a new leader for Yemen, it

is an election about getting rid of the old one, but getting rid of the

old President's family is not easy. Sitting beneath a portrait of his

uncle in the central military command is President Ali Abdullah

Saleh's enough ue. He is the head of the Head of the Central Security

Forces, he said that he is going nowhere.

Why should we leave? What is the problem that we are to leave? If

this the reason for us to leave? were taken to see the troops that

he commands. Their job is to track down Al-Qaeda militants. The rapid

spread of Al-Qaeda across Yemen is why the West is worried about this

place, why it is supplying and training the troops.

But Al-Qaeda, they are thriving on poverty. Yemen is now one of the

poorest country's in the world. We travelled to see for ourselves. Out

here hundreds of thousands of children live on the edge of

starvation. This child is severely malnourished

with 1075 centimetres. 10.5 centimetres? That implicates

he has severe, acute malnutrition. Half a million children in Yemen

are dying from malnutrition. There is a huge problem here. If we

don't address it now, it will be severe later.

The new President needs to start here in Yemen's villages if there

is a problem and none of the problems here can be solved with

guns. The comment by Jeremy Clarkson that

striking public sector workers should be taken out and shot did

not breach broadcasting rules according to Ofcom.

The comments sparked more than 30,000 complaints. Ofcom said when

taken in context, it was clear that the comments were not an expression

of seriously held beliefs. Now, when is a burger not a burger?

Well, you may think if it does not contain meat, but now a Dutch

scientist has created a burger grown in a laboratory. He promises

it tastes as good as the real thing. As we can see, it has a serious

purpose. This is a strip of muscle grown from stem cells taken from a

cow. It will be used to make the world's

first synthetic burger. The strip is one of thousands grown in a lab

in the Netherlands. Researchers mix them with layers of fat, also grown

in the lab, to make a burger. It will cost more than �200,000 to

make. For now, though, the scientists

behind the project will have to make do with today's fast food.

My dream is to produce meat that tastes an looks exactly like this.

So that you will not be able to distinguish it from the livestock

meat, but you know now that it is produced in an environmental

friendly animal-friendly and resource-friendly way.

Dr Mark Post grows stem cells in a dish, they are then clumped

together and grown into muscle. It is real meat so it should look and

taste like the real thing. Researchers say it is more

efficient than farming. One animal could make 1 billion burgers. A

point that has been welcomed by animal welfare groups, but locals

at a nearby hot dog restaurant are wary.

I don't think it is a good idea. REPORTER: Why is that? It just

doesn't make sense to me. There is nothing better than

natural meat. This is why we've been raised our whole lives here.

We know where the farming comes from, who is processing it for us,

how good it is. But in the future natural meat is

likely to become too expensive. Buying meat in supermarkets is

something that we take for granted nowadays, but not for very much

longer. They believe that because of rising demands in India and

China, meat prices are set to soar. We have about 1 billion people

under nourished on the planet as we push to 9 billion, we will have to