09/02/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten - investigators look for the cause of a serious rail

accident in Germany which killed ten people and injured more

Two commuter trains collided head-on.

It happened on a stretch of single track in the state of Bavaria.

One passenger recorded the chaos and confusion inside the carriages

when the accident happened in the morning rush-hour.

There was blood everywhere because some people flew away

and some hit their head on the chairs, or windows,

The official investigation has started.

It's hoped the black boxes from both trains will reveal the cause

There were some reports this evening that the crash was caused

We'll have the latest from the scene.

The patients in England needing mental health care but sent

for treatment far away from home - an official report says

Heavily-armed police on the streets on Dublin -

amid fears of more gang warfare and revenge shootings.

Age UK is to stop offering a controversial energy deal

following the controversy about its partnership with E.ON.

And, for the first time since the days of Henry VIII,

the chapel of Hampton Court Palace echoes to the sounds

A teenager on a moped dies and another is seriously injured

after a police chase through east London.

And the parents of a seven-year-old killed in the Surrey floods say

More details have emerged in the past few hours

about the train crash in the state of Bavaria in which ten people

were killed and more than a hundred injured.

German investigators have started investigating the head-on collision

between two commuter trains during the morning rush-hour.

They're trying to establish whether it was the result

of a technical problem, or, as some reports are suggesting

The crash happened some 40 miles south-east of Munich on a part

Our correspondent, Jenny Hill, is in Bad Aibling with the latest.

Yes, you can probably just make out some activity behind me at the crash

site where teams of investigators are still working, despite the

deteriorating weather conditions, which are hampering their

investigation. It was here this morning that an ordinary commuter

journey turned into a scene of horror.

On a quiet commuter line, the violence of a head-on collision.

Inside the carriages, chaos. This footage was taken moments after the

trains slammed into each other. The man who took this video escaped

unhurt. There was blood everywhere because some people flew away and

some hit their head on the chairs, or windows, or armrest or something.

A difficult rescue. The train line runs between a wooded hillside and a

river. Easier to carry the dead and injured away by air or even water.

TRANSLATION: The collision was head-on and at high-speed. At the

accident site, the speed limit is around 100 kilometres per hour.

There is a bend in that stretch of track so you have to assume the two

train drivers had little if any eye contact before the collision. Many

of those who survived the crash suffered serious injuries. Nearby

hospitals cancelled scheduled operations. We have four hospitals

in the region and we have about 54 patients here and eight were

severely wounded. We are not sure that all of them will be alive

tomorrow. Investigators have recovered two of three black-boxes

from the wreckage. The crash happened on a single track, trains

use a nearby station where there is a double track as a passing place.

There is an automatic braking system here, too, designed to halt any

train which crosses a stop signal. Joe, who is a regular commuter, told

us his train usually stops and waits for the oncoming train to pass. This

morning, he said, was different. Normally, the train has to wait for

five minute for the oncoming train and three minutes, while we are

waiting, the guy just set off. This has horrified Germany. A country

where rail crashes are relatively rare. The German Chancellor, Angela

Merkel, has said she's saddened and shocked by what's happened. Bear in

mind, too, that it is the school holidays, people here tell us that

on a normal morning, these trains would have been full of

schoolchildren. This is one of the worst rail disasters in Germany for

many years. It's feared the death toll may yet rise. Jenny Hill, BBC

News, Bad Aibling. With me now is our transport

correspondent, Richard Westcott. Can you make sense of these reports

that human error might have been responsible? It is possible. It is

still very puzzling. Basically, these trains are fitted with systems

specifically designed to take over if human beings make mistakes. I

have watched one in action recently. I watched drivers being trained up,

it was similar to the German system. If you go too quickly towards a red

light, alarms are going off, the train starts slowing down if you

don't respond. If you go past a red light, more alarms, if you don't

respond, the brakes come on automatically. You can override

these systems, but it is not an easy thing to do and why would you do

that? From what we can gather from this crash, the drivers didn't seem

to have any warning from each other, they were both going quickly, no-one

seemed to put the brakes on. They will be desperate to find out what's

gone on to prevent it happening again. One further point, Jenny

mentioned how shocked the Germans are. The safest place for years to

catch a train in Europe has been Great Britain! Thank you very much.

Richard Westcott for us. Thousands of patients needing mental

health care in England are being sent for treatment far

away from their homes because local hospitals don't have the facilities

to deal with them. has called the practice

'unacceptable' and in some It says that from October 2017 no

acutely ill patient should have to travel long distances

to receive care. I knew I needed help,

I wasn't myself at all. I had a newborn baby and I couldn't

even look after myself, Three months after Daniel's

birth, Sinead Willis She felt overwhelmed,

hopeless; she sought help. No hospital beds were available

locally in York, so Sinead was sent And just really stunned why

I was there. So I knew if I had have been

in York, I would have had family and friends to come and visit,

to support me, to encourage You say you almost felt as though

you were being punished I felt that, you know,

we are going backwards Why are we sending our mothers 100

miles away to get treatment in this The mother and baby unit in York

closed in 2010, before Last October, the whole

hospital was shut down. Inspectors closed it

in a matter of day, finding it Across England since 2011,

more than 2,000 psychiatric beds The closure of this hospital means

that there are now no acute NHS Since October, nearly 100 patients

have had to go elsewhere to get essential care,

forced to travel in Today's report estimates that each

month 500 patients travel more Research carried out last year found

one patient had been taken from Bristol to Livingston -

370 miles - another from Cumbria to London -

a distance of 270 miles. Too many people are taken too far

to receive treatment. If somebody had a stroke

or had a heart attack, and this is the sort of physical

equivalent of some of the severely mentally ill people I'm talking

about, then they would be treated locally and they would

be treated quickly. For decades, the NHS has been

closing psychiatric wards. The demand for help is on the rise

so patients are being Ministers haven't committed

to ending the practice within 18 months, as today's report

recommends, but in the Commons today We want to reduce out of area

placements - and the NHS has committed and is already working

on that to move to a definitive target to reduce that and hopefully

eventually scrap it. Sinead Willis has fully recovered

and now campaigns for local mother and baby units,

committed to ensuring no other families are split by poor

mental health provision. No matter how low you can be,

you do recover. But I do look back and think

it was a terrible time. Sinead Willis ending that report

by Michael Buchanan. Units of heavily-armed police

are patrolling the streets It follows another

shooting yesterday - the latest in what police

believe is warfare between Last Friday a man was murdered

by masked men who opened fire Our correspondent, Ed Thomas,

is in Dublin and sent this report. The body of Eddie Hutch,

shot dead in his own home. This city has seen two

murders in four days. Police are investigating a feud

between two organised gangs It could be anybody,

you just don't know. You just don't know

who is going to be next. They are going round killing people

and they seem to be walking away She says it feels like the guns

and gangs are taking over. They need to tackle the big main

drug lords because it is destroying So who has been caught

up in this violence? There is the Hutch family

and Gerry Hutch, a reformed criminal And Ireland's most notorious

gangster, multi-millionaire In September, Gary Hutch

was murdered in Marbella. Then hit men, disguised

as police with AK-47s, stormed the Regency Hotel

and killed David Byrne, Last night, Eddie Hutch was shot

nine times in his home. We are on the verge of probably

the most dangerous Michael O'Toole has investigated

Dublin's gangs for decades. He believes they are more

powerful now than ever. They outgrew Ireland,

they are a pan-European operation and they are a target of several

European police forces. Their empire is probably

worth one billion euro. They supply most of

the drugs to Ireland - This is a dangerous moment

because nobody here knows Killings are being ordered

without fear, a sense that those at the top do not care and believe

that they are untouchable. Tonight, Irish police said this

hotel attack represented a new low for Dublin's criminal gangs

and many fear more violence. People don't feel safe now

with the way things are carrying on, This man was friends with Eddie

Hutch. Too scared to show his face,

his concern is that more There might be another murder,

you know what I mean? You know what I mean,

there might be three more, To take on that threat,

police say this is now an international investigation,

to face the guns and gangs. Shares in Germany's biggest

financial institution, Deutsche Bank, have fallen sharply

for the second day amid concerns It's just one example

of the volatility on global financial markets, including

the UK's FTSE Index, where billions have been wiped

off company values. Our economics correspondent,

Kamal Ahmed, is here. Kamal, talk us through what's

happened on the markets today? Another volatile day, fear, a bit of

worry about global economic growth. Let's take the main markets around

the world. Starting off with the FTSE 100, down 1%, that represents

the biggest companies in the UK. That index has fallen 18% in the

last year. That matters for our pension funds, our savings that are

invested in that index. The fall followed the Nikkei in Japan, which

fell 5.4%, big concerns about the Japanese economy and its strength.

But a bit of better news in America, the Dow Jones, their main index

there, about flat, so buyers matching sellers, a bit more

confidence about the American economy. I mentioned Deutsche Bank,

why are banks bearing the brunt? Banks are bellwethers of economic

performance and in a very low interest rate world that we are now

in, banks find it hard to make profits and as you said at the

beginning, Deutsche Bank itself has really been hit by a lack of

investor confidence, its shares have fallen 40% this year. Today, the

Chief Executive said the bank was totally secure. The German Finance

Minister said there was nothing to worry about. The last thing that

investors want to hear is the Finance Minister reassuring about a

bank's security. It is restructuring, and investors are

waiting to see how strong that restructuring is going to be.

The charity Age UK and the energy company E.ON are suspending a fixed

two-year energy tariff for new customers.

The energy regulator, Ofgem, is looking at their partnership

after it was claimed that Age UK was paid ?6 million a year

Both organisations say that they are reacting to continued

speculation and deny doing anything wrong.

Our personal finance correspondent, Simon Gompertz, has more details.

It's the charity which makes millions of pounds for its work

from selling, including insurance, computers and energy,

but after allegations that customers were overpaying,

it's called a halt to its gas and electricity offer.

The head of Age UK's commercial activities told me his critics

were wrong to say his two-year fixed rate energy deal was too expensive

Every Age UK customer moves to E.ON and has a full description

of all the tariffs available to them.

So you're not sorry that they might have got a cheaper deal elsewhere?

In terms of a cheaper deal, you cannot compare a one-year

fixed-term deal with a two-year fixed-term deal.

This point seems to have been lost in the media.

The two-year deal from energy giant E.ON had the average user paying

The Sun newspaper calculated that was ?245 more for some users

than E.ON's cheapest rate, and Age UK received ?6 million

from working just with E.ON, including ?10 per sale.

They're completely free to choose any other tariff from any other

supplier and there is no exit fees from an Age UK deal.

You can move away from any Age UK two-year tariff at no cost.

But people will say that I were cosying up to one

company, so it was just one company's products.

We chose carefully E.ON as an organisation with

We will still be with E.ON today if they're able to provide that same

But customers have been complaining and the company behind the Sun's

claims, which negotiates big energy purchases, says Age UK

They shouldn't squander the position and the trust they have

because if they start to show every deal on the market and encourage

people to move, they could really transform the British energy market

E.ON revealed it was going to raise its two-year fixed price tonight,

so new Age UK customers would have paid more for their energy if sales

Junior doctors in England will stage their second strike tomorrow.

The latest talks have failed to reach agreement on how doctors

should be paid as the Government tries to reform weekend hospital

The Health Secretary has claimed that thousands of deaths occur

at weekends because staffing is lower - a charge consistently

denied by doctors' leaders, as our health editor,

It's a long-running and bitter dispute between the Government

and junior doctors over how they're paid for working unsocial hours

and today both sides were blaming each other for the break

Regrettably, 2,884 operations have been cancelled ahead of tomorrow's

industrial action which will affect all non-emergency services.

I urge the BMA to put the interests of patients first.

So we've presented to the Government a fully worked up solution that

allows junior doctors to be retained in this country in the long-term.

The Government have rejected it and, once again, played politics

Pickets and demonstrators will be outside hospitals like this one

tomorrow as the key arguments in this dispute

One of them focuses on the Government's claim that

doctors' contracts need to be reformed to improve Saturday

and Sunday services, including controversial references

to weekend death rates to back that up.

A study of deaths, within 30 days of hospital admission in England

in the 2013-14 year, suggests there were 11,000 excess

deaths between Friday and Monday compared to mid-week.

For Saturday admissions, there was a 10% higher risk of death

than those on a Wednesday and for Sunday, a 15% higher risk.

The study adjusts for the fact that patients tend to be

The 11,000 is the headline number that says, you know,

we've really got a problem and we have got a problem.

But although the report's co-author says it is a problem,

he doesn't say doctors staffing levels are to blame.

We say quite clearly in the paper that it would be rash and misleading

to think that we could prevent all of these deaths.

What we need to do is to understand their cause and ensure that people

are not being disadvantaged by being admitted to hospital

Another statistic used by Ministers in this dispute

Research suggests there's a 20% higher risk of death for patients

admitted at weekends than in mid-week.

Stroke experts, though, say that since that research care

has been reorganised at hospitals like this one,

Charing Cross in London, and at these centres there's no

longer a weekend effect on survival rates.

We've introduced a system where patients are admitted at any

time of the day or night directly to a specialist stroke unit,

We no longer have a difference in mortality at the weekends

compared to the week days and this is without changing the junior

There are many possible reasons for higher deaths for general

weekend admissions, including availability of equipment

Consultants are in talks over weekend working arrangements.

It's all part of the bigger debate over a seven-day NHS.

Well, voting has begun in the US state of New Hampshire

round to choose the Democratic and Republican candidates

for the presidential election in November.

Opinion polls suggesting Donald Trump has a strong lead

for the Republicans, while Bernie Sanders seems to be way

ahead of Hillary Clinton in this Democratic race.

Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, sent this report from Manchester,

I hear we're going to do well, but the snow is out there.

But in the blizzard of predictions about New Hampshire,

the one constant has been the real estate mogul in the lead.

In the polls no-one is even close, which makes the battle all the more

intense for which mainstream Republican is going to take him on.

Senator Marco Rubio, young, emerged from Iowa as that man.

On the streets of New Hampshire he's faced protesters.

But at the weekend, in the final televised Republican debate,

he was subject to a brutal political mugging.

You see everybody, I want the people at home to think about this.

The drive-by shot at the beginning, with incorrect and incomplete

information, and then the memorised 25-second speech.

That is exactly what his advisers gave him.

The kicking came from the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie.

I spoke to him last night about what impact his

It makes a big change to the entire race.

There was a march by the media towards Senator Rubio,

that march is now over because they know he's not ready.

Has it risen for Governor Christie then?

Welcome to the New Hampshire primary, thank you for voting.

But all that is now in the hands of these people

Donald Trump has led here in New Hampshire in every poll

His challenge today is to turn a poll lead into actual votes,

something he failed to do in Iowa last week and,

on the Democrat side, Bernie Sanders has a similar challenge.

But this is a state that has a history of springing surprises.

This is the fervour that you find at a Bernie Sanders rally,

young people, and the not so young, believing that a different type

of politics is possible from Vermont's veteran socialist

Some taking their devotion a good deal further for the man

with the wild had white hair and the glasses.

All of which has left Hillary Clinton, the runaway

favourite from six months ago, realising the support she had

She's on the defensive, lowering expectations and looking

to future battles down South where there might be

Jon Sopel, BBC News, Manchester New Hampshire.

Well, as David Cameron prepares for the all-important summit

of leaders later this month, on renegotiating the terms

of Britain's membership of the EU, there are questions being asked

in other member states about the state of the union

In the first of a series of reports, on the road to that summit,

our correspondent, Lucy Williamson, examines the state of opinion

in France, the country that fuelled the drive to closer

The old industrial town of Lille is about as close as you can get

What the map's don't show is the distance felt in its heart.

Despite the French government's insistence on European principles

and integration, there's a lot more sympathy here for David Cameron's

In Lille's Old Town, Jean Baptiste has chosen this week

He's a firm believer in the EU, but when it comes to issues

like immigration, he says Mr Cameron has a point.

TRANSLATION: When it comes to immigration we need to be

We need to choose only the kind of people we need for our economy.

Europe needs to give back power to national governments to do that.

The far-right Front National is the only main party calling

It won 40% of the vote in this region last year,

but its support is down to frustration with Paris, not

In Lille's old covered market, competition from the single market

is a daily reality, but is anyone here ready to take the FN's medicine

TRANSLATION: We can no longer go back to the franc.

We find it reassuring to say the past was better,

TRANSLATION: I want our borders to be more controlled,

like they were a decade ago, but to leave Europe today

In 1940 German soldiers marched through this square.

70 years on, the national memory of wartime occupation has kept

people here loyal to the idea of a united Europe,

even if their connection with Brussels itself is fraying.

A generation ago, Francois Mitterrand sold the idea

of the European Union as a way of keeping peace and containing

But with Europe expanding, French power declining and border

controls reappearing, what's it vision now?

What European citizens, including the French now want out

of the EU, is basically to put a one euro coin in the machine and get one

The problem with this vision is it simply doesn't work because 28

people can't put a one euro coin into a slot machine and all get one

France's passion for Europe has waned even here,

in Mitterrand's old socialist constituency.

Farmers were once enthusiastic about the European project,

says Eric, now they're ruled by an economic machine that

regulates everything down to the length of his lambs' tails,

but many farmers would disappear without EU subsidies and he says

it's not a choice between France and Europe.

TRANSLATION: I belong to France and to the region.

So I think I can be French and European, at least I hope I can.

It's the promise French leaders have made for years,

but Britain's own debate comes at an uncomfortable time.

France may still be wedded to Europe, but it's no longer clear

For the first time in more than 450 years, the chapel

of Hampton Court Palace has been echoing to the sounds

King Henry VIII spent much of his time at Hampton Court

as he promoted the split with Rome which was achieved by 1534.

Our religious affairs correspondent, Caroline Wyatt,

Well, Huw, you can almost feel the restless ghost of King Henry VIII

pacing the corridors of Hampton Court Palace behind me here as he

realises in the very chapel that he called his own came the sounds of

Catholic worship again, even if only for just this one special night.

The service of Solemn Vespers celebrated at the Chapel Royal.

Hampton Court Palace itself was built for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey,

And this is the first time in more than four centuries that Catholic

worship has been heard in this Anglican chapel, a sign of just how

There is such a historic resonance about this moment,

but in this place, where so much of the impetuous

of the reaffirmation was created, was provoked, I think now we can

find ourselves side by side with a musical tradition

that we share, I think is a great impetuous to our Christian mission.

Cardinal Wolsey had to surrender this palace to King Henry VIII

after he failed to secure an annulment for the King

from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon,

could marry his mystery, Anne Boleyn, in 1533.

Henry VII created himself, rather than the Pope,

the Supreme Head of the Church of England so he could divorce.

Most of the time he had a chapel in his bedroom,

So he heard matters as it were in bed, but on high days

he would have come to the chapel and sat up there in the Holy Day

closet and come down to hear the holy sacrament

At this altar here. The Supreme Governor of the Church of England

today, the Queen, gave her permission for tonight's vespers

some Protestants are unhappy about it but the Dean of the Chapel Royal

say they have nothing to fear. Two strands

say they have nothing to fear. Two tradition of these islands are

meeting together to celebrate an inheritance we have in common. I

think people ought to inheritance we have in common. I

pleased really. This evening is not inheritance we have in common. I

reunite, but they can have a meeting now their differences are not quite

so raw. Caroline Wyatt, BBC News at Hampton Court.

Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two, with James O'Brien.

Tonight, as the European Union staggers under the weight