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Tonight at Ten: A stark warning that the Zika virus will spread

to most countries in South, Central and North America.

It's already been blamed for thousands of birth defects

in Brazil and so far there's no vaccine or treatment available.

The virus is spead by mosquitoes and the World Health Organisation

The explosive spread of the virus to a geographical areas is another

cause for concern. We'll be reporting from Brazil

and we'll be looking at the latest scientific evidence

about the Zika virus. Also tonight: At the Hillsborough

inquest the coroner tells the jury they must ask whether the 96 victims

were killed unlawfully. A British explorer has died just 30

miles from finishing the first solo A special report from eastern

Afghanistan where so-called Islamic State is trying

to extend its influence. And all three panels of Monet's

famous Water Lily work will be displayed together in public

for the first time in Europe. Later, on Reporting Scotland: Safety

on the West Coast railway line. A high-speed train was allowed

to cross this viaduct And after a series of landslips

force repeated closures of the A83 - extra cash to try to keep

the road open. The World Health Organisation has

issued a warning that the zika virus, which is being blamed

for thousands of birth defects in Brazil, is likely to spread

to almost every country in South, There's no vaccine against the virus

and pregnant women have been advised to avoid travelling to countries

where it's present. The virus is carried by mosquitoes,

but experts admit they know very For the latest, let's

join our South America In just over a year this

little-known virus has arrived here in Brazil, it's out of control

taking root here in Brazil and across the Americas. The Zika virus

has been linked to debilitating birth defects in children, and as

we've been finding out in Rio de birth defects in children, and as

Janeiro and in the worst hit areas of northern Brazil, the authorities

here are not very well placed to deal with it.

Cared for and loved as much as any other child but an increasing number

of babies in Brazil are being born with a condition that will affect

them for the rest of their lives. Chris Ivory is driving fear into the

hearts of thousands of resilient families -- microcephaly. And in

many cases mothers may not be aware of it until their baby is born.

Linked to the mosquito borne Zika virus the virus is having worldwide

repercussions. The explosive spread of Zika virus

to new geographical areas with little population immunity is

another cause for concern. Especially given the possible link

between infection during pregnancy and baby is born with small heads.

In the Brazilian city of Salvador, gentle physiotherapy helps ease the

pain of muscular problems associated with microcephaly. In addition to

smaller than average head size zika may be responsible for a range of

debilitating conditions affecting a generation of children and their

families. TRANSLATION: It's really hard, he's our first child and we

never expected to have a baby that needs special care. His father was

still shocked and wanted to remain anonymous and added it was not his

fault and the doctors still don't know how the condition will develop.

Such is the scale of the problem in the city of Recife, the Army has

been deployed to battle the mosquito borne virus. Going door-to-door,

soldiers check homes and water supplies amid fears that zika may

already be out of control. Indeed, zika has spread like wildfire. Here

in Colombia there have been thousands of reported cases and the

outbreak covers more than 20 countries. Colombia is even advising

women to delay any plans they may have to get pregnant. But it's in

Brazil where the health system is already under strain and the added

pressure of thousands of visitors coming for this year's Olympics that

zika is having the biggest impact. While some countries have issued

very strict travel advice, the real question is whether Brazil itself

can cope with the scale of the zika out-braked. This is the favela on

the edge of the Olympic Park with open sewers and lots of stagnant

water, perfect mosquito breeding ground. But all the authorities have

said they might do so far as fumigate these areas in the run-up

to the Games. This house was demolished and now I'm stuck with

this standing pool of water, risking zika and dengue fever, says this

woman who has lived here for 20 years. Haven't given us any

information about how to prevent zika, except to put on insect

repellent. Would-be mothers across Latin America are scared. If they

have contracted zika it's not until late in a pregnancy that any foetal

deformities will show, so it's a race against time. A vaccine for

zika may not be found for three years and this is developing into a

major health crisis. As we heard, the zika virus

is carried by mosquitoes, and there's currently no vaccine

or treatment available. So what causes it, how does

it spread, and who's Here's our medical

correspondent Fergus Walsh. When infected with the zika virus,

it can pass it to humans which also spreads dengue

fever. The zika virus was identified way

back in 1947 in Uganda. But until a few months ago the zika

virus was not thought to be a public 80% of those infected

have no symptoms. In the rest it can cause a mild

fever and headaches, In less than a year it's spread

from Mexico, the Caribbean, to South America, 21 countries

in all, most notably There doctors believe it represents

a major health threat to women infected in the early

stages of pregnancy. They think zika may cause a normally

rare condition in infants born with unusually small

heads and damaged brains. The only serious risk

to public health is to pregnant women and pregnant women,

if they get infected, they could have babies

with microcephaly. So pregnant women should

consider very seriously whether to travel to places where

there is zika infection going on. Zika is quite unlike the deadly

Ebola virus, which has killed more Ebola is highly contagious,

whereas Zika does not pass This is not Ebola, this

is a disease that is transmitted from mosquitoes so it

will only be a problem in areas where there is this

the same mosquito that But like Ebola it is an emerging

infectious disease, It's too cold in the UK

for the mosquito that carries the zika virus,

so it's not a public But global health officials believe

in time it will spread to many more countries, including parts

of the United States. At the inquests into the deaths

of 96 football fans at the Hillsborough Stadium

in Sheffield in 1989, the coroner has started summing up

260 days of evidence. He's asked the jury to answer

a series of questions, including whether the Liverpool

supporters who died Our north of England correspondent

Judith Moritz has more details. Hillsborough took away

the lives of 96 men, They were mothers and fathers,

brothers and sisters, The youngest was just ten,

the oldest a pensioner of nearly 70. Their families have spent more

than a quarter of a century For the last two years they have sat

through hours of harrowing The coroner's speech today marks

the beginning of the end. I don't know what I am

going to do when this is over, I really, truly don't know

what I am going to do. Hillsborough is all

I have ever known. The inquests have examined every

aspect of what happened at Britain's worst stadium disaster,

when the fans were crushed Now the jurors have been given

a questionnaire based Amongst the 14 questions they'll

have to answer is whether the 96 people who died were

unlawfully killed. They will also be asked

whether the police and ambulance services made any errors

which contributed to And they will consider topics

including the design of the stadium Former Chief Superintendent David

Dukinfield was in charge More than 25 years later,

he came to the new inquests Was he responsible for manslaughter

by gross negligence? The jury have to be sure of that

if accepting the fans It is nearly two years since

the jurors came to Hillsborough. They saw for themselves

where the crowd built up here outside the ground

and they went through the tunnel, under the Sheffield Wednesday

sign, towards the pitch. Since then, they have sat

through many months of often very harrowing evidence and their task

will be to find answers She is pleased the jury

is being asked for more than just What the narrative does is give

the opportunity to expand on what is ultimately going out

to the public so it isn't just a finding and a one line

statement that the people can The coroner is expected to take

three weeks to sum up the evidence. The jury will be

sent out next month. Tributes have been paid

to the British explorer Henry Worsley, who's died

in his attempt to become the first person to cross the Antarctic

without support. The former army officer had walked

more than 900 miles and was only 30 miles from his goal

when he was taken ill and airlifted He was attempting a 1,000-mile

unsupported trek across the continent, following in

the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton a century ago,

as our science editor Nowhere on Earth is more

hostile to human life. So crossing the icy,

vast and dangerous continent of Antarctica alone and unaided

was always going to be Henry Worsley was trying something

no one had managed before, and he nearly did it,

but ill and exhausted I have run out of time,

physical endurance, and simple sheer ability to slide

one ski in front of the other to travel the distance required

to reach my goal. After a trek of 900 miles with just

30 to go he called for a pick-up. He was flown to Chile

and after complete Henry Worsley was someone who knew

the dangers of the Polar world. Before a previous expedition

to Antarctica he trained in Greenland and seemed to remain

calm, whatever happened. Henry?

Yes? How are you?

Are you OK? Yeah, I'm all right.

You crack on. And last year he told us

what worried him most. The biggest threat really

will be from the weather, and possibly from crevasses

on the final 100 miles as I come down the

Shackleton Glacier. His hope was to follow

in the footsteps of the great polar explorer Ernest Shackleton,

who tried and failed to cross the captain of the expedition ship

Endurance. Travelling alone was the ultimate

test. Going solo with no resupply

and being unassisted in all shapes and forms is the purist form

and the hardest form of travel quite possibly on the surface

of the Earth. Only a week ago he believed

he was still on course. I'm jolly hungry, I'm

jolly tired and I've got a deadline to meet for a pick-up

on somewhere around the 24th. He never made it,

but his friends Princes William and Harry, said

he'll be an inspiration, and he'll be remembered

for coming so close to making David Shukman reporting

on the explorer Henry Worsley, President Ashraf Ghani

of Afghanistan has called on the international community

to help his government tackle the growing threat of so-called

Islamic State in the east It means that, one year

after the end of the Nato combat mission, the Afghan authorities

are struggling to cope with threats From Afghanistan, our correspondent

Justin Rowlatt sent Refugees put up rough shelters

on a patch of wasteland outside These aren't victims of the Taliban,

but of so-called Islamic State. The Islamist militants have seized

territory in the remote eastern provinces of Afghanistan,

driving local people The refugees tell stories

of horrific violence. She says IS, Daesh they call it

here, attacked her village. I don't know where my

father is, she tells us. Rahman Wali's brother was one

of more than 100 men IS abducted TRANSLATION: At first we had no idea

what happened to him. They said everyone was being held

in a small room and IS was torturing Wali recognised his brother Rahman

Gul in an Isis propaganda video. The video showed Gul being led

with nine other villagers to where a row of bombs

had been buried. Each man was forced

to sit on a bomb. IS has struck within

an hour of Kabul. The police say it's only a matter

of time before it attacks the Afghan capital, and the threat isn't just

here in Afghanistan. It says Isis is openly fighting

the Taliban to create a safe haven in the mountains in

the east of the country - potentially a second stronghold

from which to launch attacks So how serious a threat

is IS in Afghanistan? To answer that, you

need to leave Kabul. An IS commander has agreed to talk

to an Afghan colleague. This man struggles

to assemble his AK-47. You must fight to the

bitter end, he says. These are disaffected former Taliban

who now want to fight a global jihad The commander says

they plan more attacks. TRANSLATION: At the moment,

we exist in three provinces In the others, we are waiting

for orders from our leader, IS is reckoned to have hundreds,

not thousands, of fighters. Not a huge force, but enough

to bring mayhem and misery. The Afghan army has

struck back against IS. It says IS has little

support from locals But the Defence Minister warns that

eliminating IS in Afghanistan will require an

international response. The key question is from where

they are getting all this funding and how they are transferring this

funding and how this movement of goods and money and everything

else is happening. So that is why Afghanistan alone

cannot deal with all these challenges, because it is

coming from outside. This isn't the first foreign

terrorist organisation to try and establish a base

in the mountains of eastern The Tora Bora cave complex

is in the province where Tora Bora is of course

where Osama Bin Laden A brief look at some

of the day's other news stories. Europol, the EU's law enforcement

agency, has warned that IS militants have set up a specialist command

which aims to plot attacks in major Europol has set up a new

counter-terrorism unit to improve the sharing of intelligence

between national police forces. A week after the lifting

of economic sanctions, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani

is in Italy this evening at the start of the first state

visit to Europe by an Iranian leader He's due to meet the Pope before

moving on to France, where an order for more than 100

Airbus aircraft is The body of a fifth sperm whale has

washed up on the east coast of England close to where four

others have been found since Friday. The whales are believed to be

from a pod that was spotted off The latest whale was found

on a former weapons range. The public have been warned

to stay away. Cecil Parkinson, one of the most

prominent Conservative politicians of the 1980s and a close ally

of Margaret Thatcher, Lord Parkinson served in several

ministerial departments when Mrs Thatcher won her landslide

election victory in 1983. As James Landale reports,

Lord Parkinson's career was undermined by a scandal

when his affair with His report does contain flash

photography from the start. Cecil Parkinson was the charming

face of Margaret Thatcher's Government, a friend as much

as an ally who flattered her, believed in her and above all

helped to win elections. What we do now is going to shake

the future for our children. The young businessman was cut

from the same cloth as Mrs Thatcher, both self-made, both

of humble origins. And in the early 1980s

she rewarded him with a seat And in 1983 he paid her back

with a thumping majority. But within months of those scenes

of triumph here at the old Tory party headquarters,

Cecil Parkinson snatched defeat He was out of office

and in disgrace. It emerged that he'd

been having a long affair with his secretary, Sara Keays,

who was now pregnant. At the Tory conference

in Blackpool in 1983 he fought But after Keys claimed that he'd

broken a promise to marry her, The Right Honourable Cecil Parkinson

has tendered his resignation as Secretary of State

for Trade and Industry. He was mocked in public

but missed in Downing Street. And four years later Mrs Thatcher

gave him a second political life as Energy Secretary,

with a brief to privatise more national industries,

just as years earlier he'd opened up He was part of the great political

generation that did really extraordinary things

for our country. He'll be hugely missed

by many on all sides Cecil Parkinson was one of the few

ministers who stayed loyal And when she resigned

in 1990 he went too, for a peerage and a more private

life, apart from a brief return as party chairman to advise a young

William Hague after the Tories' Cecil Parkinson was once talked

of as Mrs Thatcher's successor. Instead, he was the courtier

who stood by her until the last. Lord Parkinson, who has

died at the age of 84. In Egypt, on the fifth anniversary

of the uprising that ousted President Mubarak, there

are extra security measures across the country, and especially

in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the focal point of

the protests of 2011. There's a warning from

the new regime that demonstrations will not be tolerated against

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. The president stands accused

of betraying the hopes of those who took to the streets five years

ago, as our correspondent In Tahrir Square, a show of devotion

to Egypt's latest strongman, The security forces were there

in numbers to prevent any new stirrings of unrest

in the birthplace of the revolution. The familiar face of

a police state on display. The authorities have

done their utmost to ensure only supporters of President

al-Sisi are here today. In the past two weeks,

they have raided about 5000 homes in central Cairo looking

for anyone who might be Five years on, protests

are virtually banned in Egypt. Many icons of the revolution that

took place here in Tahrir Square It was a very different picture

in 2011, when people power swept away Hosni Mubarak and

freedom was in the air. Some who were in the square then

are facing new threats today. Among them, one of Egypt's most

respected human rights campaigners. He has already been detained

because of a story he wrote How many people do you know

who are now in jail? Those who are not are either living

in exile or are on the run or counting the days before

they land there, like I did. Is it a risk now just doing

an interview like this? Doing an interview like this

is a risk to both of us. Noor knows the risks

here only too well. The student shows me a photo

of his time in Tahrir Square Both he and his brother have been

detained in recent years. Noor says he himself was held

for three months and tortured. TRANSLATION: They started giving me

shocks, here and here, They also put out cigarettes

on my hand and on my shoulder. I was subjected to a whole day

of torture before my interrogation. Back in Tahrir Square,

the skies darkened as the revolution There is little trace

of the uprising here now. Or of the hopes it brought

for a different future. Tennis news, and Johanna Konta has

become the first British competitor since 1984 to reach the quarterfinal

of a Grand Slam tournament. And with Andy Murray also winning,

it means that for the first time in 39 years Britain is represented

in the men's and women's quarterfinals of a Grand Slam,

as our sports correspondent A place in the quarterfinals

and her best ever performance For a player who was ranked 150th

in the world just over a year ago I'm just incredibly happy

to still be here in the tournament. The fact that it's the quarterfinal

of the Australian Open Johanna Konta was carrying the hopes

of British women's tennis At first there were nerves

as she handed the opening set to her Russian opponent,

Ekaterina Makarova, However, Konta's surge

through the rankings has coincided And then, after three hours and four

minutes of attrition, For Australian tennis,

Konta was the one that got away. Born in Sydney to Hungarian parents,

she moved to Eastbourne at the age of 14, and became

a British citizen in 2012. Her win brings to an

end a 32-year wait. The last British woman to reach

a grand slam quarterfinal was Jo Durie back in 1984,

who beat a 15-year-old Steffi Graf That was seven years

before Konta was born. It's great for the game,

it's great for British tennis, it's great for the girls' game

in Great Britain because we now have somebody in the back end of slams,

and that gets them talking Konta will now meet Chinese

qualifier Zhang Shuai for a place So far she's gone under the radar

in Melbourne but now the world is waking up to the

name Johanna Konta. One of the most eagerly-anticipated

art exhibitions of recent years opens later this week

at the Royal Academy in London. It will bring together some

of the world's best-known works, examining the role that gardens have

played in the development of art The work of Monet will be

the starting point, and the exhibition will include

all three panels of the famous water lily work displayed together

in public for the first time in Europe, as our arts editor

Will Gompertz reports. A vast landscape without land. Or

sky. A view not so much from Monet's Japanese bridge but floating

somewhere in his famous water garden. You are immersed in and

disoriented by the artist's sensory world. Here we have Monet's great

Agapanthus Triptych, one of the major works that preoccupied him for

the last ten years of his life. Apparently he would sit for long

hours almost every day by his water lily Pond, looking at the shifts of

light, reflection, the movement of these rafts of water lilies on the

surface of the water, and then go away and distil it all in the

studio. Monet created gardens to enjoy and paint wherever he lived.

He saw himself as an artist gardener, as did his friends, like

when well, who depicted him at work. It was when he moved to northern

France that he made a garden to equal one of his paintings. He

treated the garden as an artwork in itself. Yes, he designed it with an

artist's eye. He went around with pots of paint to work out the colour

harmonies in the garden. Perhaps not everyone knows what an extraordinary

knowledgeable gardener Monet was. He knew a tremendous amount about

horticulture and botany. So does this man. How do these paintings

make you feel as a gardener? They make me feel like I want to be

painting. They are just so beautifully observed. The colour is

so rich, being able to get very close to these paintings and see the

colour come out of one thing over the next over the next, it's a very

similar process to planting. Sometimes there is moments of

incandescents. It's marvellous. There are over 120 paintings in this

show, made by late 19th and early 20th century avant-garde artists who

studied light effects and colour relationships. Matisse and Kandinsky

feature, but for me it is Monet's flowers that stand out.

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