01/03/2016 BBC News at Ten

The worst single atrocity in Northern Ireland,

and what looks like the last chance for a criminal trial has collapsed.

29 people died in the Omagh bombing 17 years ago,

including three generations of one family.

Seamus Daly, the last suspect charged with the attack,

The families of the victims voice their despair.

I think most families have given up on justice. They've given up on the

criminal justice system because they've been let down so many times.

The prosecution dropped the case after concluding a key

So can there ever be justice for Omagh now?

As more migrants are trapped in Greece, the UN says Europe

is on the cusp of a largely self-induced humanitarian crisis.

We're with the Russian forces in Syria, where many of the migrants

Could this be the night Donald Trump all but wins the Republican

And the health survey of babies that started back in 1946,

70 years later, thousands are still taking part.

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Leicester City have been

in action tonight trying to extend their lead at the top

The Omagh bombing was the worst, single atrocity of Northern

Ireland's troubles, but now, 17 years on,

what looks like the last chance to put those allegedly responsible

The case against the only remaining suspect charged with the attack

The prosecution said a key witness was unreliable.

Seamus Daly, who has always denied the murders of 29 people in the Real

IRA attack, has walked free from prison.

Our Correspondent Chris Buckler is in Omagh for us tonight.

August 15, 1998 stands unparalleled. Even in Northern Ireland's history

of brutality. A car bomb exploded on Even in Northern Ireland's history

that busy Saturday afternoon when Omagh was filled with families. By

evening parents and families were grieving. 18 years later shots have

been repaired, this street rebuilt, but nothing is forgotten here. There

are families like the Gallaghers who have put their hopes in

investigations. But today in court they learned all charges were being

dropped against Seamus Daly, including the murder of Michael

Gallagher's son Aidan. Its soul destroying. If you noticed here this

morning there's not many families because I think most families have

given up on justice, they've given up on the criminal justice system

because they've been let down so many times. Seamus Daly has always

strongly denied any part in the 29 murders at Omagh. I'd like to ask

you some questions please about the Omagh bombing. In 2000 the BBC's

panorama programme tried to confront him with evidence they claimed

showed he was involved in the bombing. One thing I'd like you to

explain, Mr Daly, is how you came to be in possession of a mobile

telephone. Key to the prosecution case was a mobile phone used by the

bombers. Their witness said he could connect Seamus Daly to the phone but

in court he gave inconsistent evidence and contradicted his

earlier testimony. The prosecution against the defendant Seamus Daly

was based on a house of straw. In Omagh's memorial garden they

remember all of those killed. But the failure of this case means only

one man has been prosecuted for the killings in Omagh. In December 2007

Sean Hoey was acquitted and cleared of involvement in the attacks after

a lengthy criminal. Two years later for other men including Seamus Daly

were found liable for the bombing in a civil case brought by some of the

Omagh families but they continued to push for criminal convictions and

two years ago Seamus Daly was arrested and charged. However today

the case against him collapsed, with the prosecutors admitting they

didn't have enough evidence. For police to bring it to that level

where it's even been at a committal hearing was pointless, and I don't

understand why they put families continually through it.

understand why they put families afternoon Seamus Daly left McGaw

through prison where he has been held on remand for almost two years.

He is no longer wanted in connection with the Omagh bombing, and it's

understood police have no ongoing elites. For the families of all 29

people killed, among them babies, children, a woman pregnant with

twins, today leaves them with little prospect of anyone being prosecuted

for their murders. I spoke to prosecutors this morning,

they said they understood families would be disappointed, and they are,

and in many cases they are both upset and angry. There are some

relatives of those who were killed who want a full cross-border enquiry

into what happened in the street behind me. But they are all resigned

tonight that it looks highly unlikely there will ever be a

criminal prosecution. Europe is on the cusp of a largely

self-induced humanitarian crisis, according to the UN,

as a bottleneck of thousands of migrants and refugees continues

to build on the border of Greece, trapped by Macedonia's decision

to close its border. New figures from the UN show 131,000

migrants have already crossed into Europe by sea in 2016,

that's 10 times more The most common route for those

fleeing conflict in the middle east continues to be from Turkey

across to the Greek Islands and then onto mainland Greece

and up through Macedonia. But further north countries

like Austria are defying pressure to relax their border restrictions

and let more migrants in, as our Europe Editor Katya Adler

reports now from Athens. Battered by the migrant crisis,

struggling economically. In Greece things aren't

what they used to be. This is Athens' old airport,

now a makeshift refugee camp. Filled with angry, frustrated

migrants, denied entry Macedonia has slammed

its borders shut. People here are going

nowhere, for now. The situation here

is pretty desperate. Some are threatening

to go on hunger strike here if the border to

Macedonia doesn't open. Pressure points are building

across Greece and it's not even yet the start of what's

cynically known by some Greeks Greece has come under

international fire for the poor treatment of migrants,

but now, under pressure, the authorities here say

they are doing their best. They've appealed for EU

help, and they need it. To patrol their poorest coastline,

stop boats coming over from Turkey, and deal

with the bottleneck of asylum seekers on their islands,

in Athens, and of course We are in Europe in

2016, it is frankly beyond belief that we are standing

here, looking as if this is a third More than 25,000 people

are now stranded in Greece. The fear is that number

could double, even triple by the end Greece's defence minister

told me his country's northern neighbours were naive

to close their borders The root of the problem,

he said, lies elsewhere. If they all should want

really to find a solution, don't press Greece,

but press Turkey to operate, as we have agreed in

Nato, and to accept back all of these people

rescued in the Aegean Sea. And don't give the blame

game to Greece. But there's many an EU country

that does blame Greece. Unlike them, though,

Greece can't put up a fence to stop migrants entering

its thousands of mile long island With the EU in disarray

and ahead of a crucial EU Turkey summit, the president

of the European Council is now zooming round the continent,

beginning today in irate Austria in an attempt

to attempt to mediate. If he fails there is rising panic

in Europe this country could turn This isn't just about small Greece

struggling financially, powerful Germany is under

huge political pressure. Neither country can afford

another year with another million refugees and others

landing on their doorstep. But EU cohesion and

credibility are crumbling. The migrant crisis, or better put,

the clumsy handling of it, Demolition of parts of the sprawling

migrant camp in Calais that's become known as the "jungle"

has been continuing. Officials say migrants can either

move into converted containers in another part of the camp

or similar accommodation centres But some migrants fear they'll be

forced to claim asylum in France - instead of trying to claim

in Britain instead. Key to reducing the flow of migrants

into Europe is an end The temporary ceasefire brokered

by Russia and America is largely holding,

for now, though so-called Islamic State and the al

Nusra Front, linked to Al Qaida, Our Correspondent Steve Rosenburg

has been embedded with Russian forces in the Northern Syrian

province of Latakia. He was taken to the villages

of Kinseeba and Gunaymiyah The Russian army is taking us

into the hills of western Syria. The Russians say they are using

a pause in the fighting to encourage But judging by the armoured vehicle

we are in, progress is slow. First stop is Gunaymiyah,

five years of civil war left Now we are told people

are starting to return home. Do you believe there

will be peace in Syria, It was Russian air power that helped

the Syrian army retake this But today the Russian

military has brought aid, Today Moscow accused Turkey

of smuggling weapons into Syria for rebel fighters,

and of a provocative military build-up that could damage

Syria's fragile peace. What happens next fits

the Kremlin's narrative. A Russian general radios

for an armoured personnel carrier. It's supposed to provide us cover

as we and the other journalists "Now run for it!"

shouts the general. After five years of civil war,

you can understand why many people here are sceptical

about the chances of peace. As we've seen the halt in fighting

is only partial, it's Later the general claims

that the blasts were artillery shells fired by terrorists

from close to the Turkish border. But we cannot confirm what those

explosions were, or Today Syria's president accused

rebels of violating the agreement As the Syrian army we refrain

from retaliating in order to give the chance for that

agreement to survive. But at the end everything

depends on the other side. Syrians are tired of war,

but real peace still seems Shares in Barclays dropped sharply

today after the bank reported Barclays also announced plans

to sell its controlling stake in the bank's Africa operations,

ending its presence on the continent Here's our economics

editor, Kamal Ahmed. It's been travelling in one

direction, and that's downward. Barclays' share price,

a barometer of its financial health, Today, it sank by 8%, as the bank

said it was cutting its dividend to investors, was struggling to make

profits and was quitting Jes Staley is the bank's

new Chief Executive, he told me the heart of Barclays,

the UK business and Barclaycard, There are clearly challenges

in running a bank given the regulatory response

to the financial crisis and the conduct issues

that banks are facing. But if you look inside of those

numbers, and a lot what I'm going to focus on today,

is Barclays has got a core franchise, which is a terrific

set of businesses. We are eight years after

the financial crisis, your annual results are still

littered with conduct issues. You've got new provisions

for payment protection mis-selling. When will banks, when can

the public trust that banks I do believe the banks

lost their way, 10, 15 years ago, and we lost a lot of trust

through the financial crisis. We have an obligation

to return that. I interviewed Jes Staley on the top

floor of Barclays' steel and glass This building is almost

from a different era, a time when banks were swashbuckling

global businesses making billions of pounds of profit and sowing

the seeds of the financial crisis. Jes Staley made it clear to me

that this was a different time. A time of lower profits,

a time of smaller bonus payments, It will be smaller here, Kenya,

one of the countries affected by Barclays decision

to pull out of Africa. Mr Staley said that regulatory rules

made it too expensive, despite the economies being some

of the fastest growing in the world. You go to places like Uganda

and Kenya and the brand of Barclays is as strong there as it is in

the UK, but we have to make some very difficult decisions if we're

going to get Barclays into a focused, clear,

compelling business model that generates returns

for our shareholders. Those investors will need some

persuading, not constantly changing It's not good for any bank to have

four CEOs in five years. It's more like a Premiership

football club than a major We had a CEO last year

who was a lifetime retail banker, a CEO this year who's

a lifetime investment banker. Not the towering giant it once was,

but with 110,000 employees and, as a major contributor

to our pensions, Mr Staley's He is the new broom,

can he sweep the bank clean? Britain's most senior civil servant

has sought to reassure ministers who want the UK to leave

the European Union that they Some eurosceptic MPs had argued

that it was unfair that access to certain material would only be

given to ministers who backed But, appearing before MPs,

Sir Jeremy Heywood said that was merely official

Government policy. By tomorrow morning,

Donald Trump may have all but won what many in his own party once

considered unthinkable - the Republican nomination

for President. Americans are voting now in what's

known as Super Tuesday, when nearly a dozen states get

to pick who will end up fighting If Trump secures enough votes,

his momentum may prove unstoppable. For the Democratic Party,

it's Hillary Clinton's chance to open up a credible gap

with her rival, Bernie Sanders. Our North America editor,

Jon Sopel, has more. Across 11 states, from Alaska

in the far north-west to Vermont in the east, and across a vast

swathe of the American south, voters are choosing who should

be their candidate as President. If this was decided by media

coverage alone, Donald Trump would already be in the White House,

and he was on typically pugnacious You're going to win so much,

you're going to call and say - please, Mr President,

we're so tired of winning, And I'm going to say -

no way, no way! We're going to make

America great again. When Donald Trump arrives

here later this evening, he's likely to have won 10 of the 11

states up for grabs. In any other election cycle,

that would have him referred But in the Republican high command,

such is the fear over his divisiveness, he's seen

as the problem. Over the weekend, Donald Trump

sparked a whole news storm by refusing to disavow the support

of the former grand wizard of the white supremacist

group, the Ku Klux Klan. Would you just say, unequivocally,

you condemn them and you don't I mean, I don't know what group

you're talking about. Today, without naming Mr Trump,

the country's most senior Republican, the Speaker

of the House, Paul Ryan, Today, I want to be very

clear about something. If a person wants to be the nominee

of the Republican Party, there can be no

evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause

that is built on bigotry. Donald Trump's rival,

Senator Ted Cruz, who was voting of Texas today, was

quick to seize on this. If Donald is the nominee,

Hillary Clinton, in all The Bill of Rights is

lost for a generation. We're buried in debt and the future

of our kids and grandkids He built Trump Towers with illegal

immigrants from Poland. It's a theme the other Republican

frontrunner, Senator Marco Rubio, On the Democratic side,

Hillary Clinton is poised to do equally well, finding time to stop

for coffee in Minnesota. Her campaign seems transformed

in the past 10 days. Which isn't to say that her

socialist rival, Bernie Sanders, is sinking, but he is going

to struggle to stay afloat if Hillary Clinton does as well

tonight as the polls are predicting. Jon Sopel, BBC News,

Florida. How long before people will have

to work until their mid-70s before A review of the state pension

age has been announced, prompting experts to warn people

to expect to work for longer before Our business editor,

Simon Jack, is here. Simon, working until our mid-70s,

is that really what lies ahead? For some of us, no, for some other

of us, almost certainly, depends how old you are. We are living longer.

That is fantastic news. It means in the future it's going to get

expensive to provide a state pension. So the law mandates that

every Parliament they have a review of the age at which you qualify for

a state pension. Will that mean me, many people will ask? Depend with

me. It depends how old you are. If were born 1961 or before the review

will not affect you. If you were born in the 1970s you could be

nudging 6 # before you qualified. Born in the 1980, early 7 o 0s.

People entering the workforce now may well have to work into their mid

70s before they qualify for a state pension. One third of all people

born today will live to 100 it will be very expensive many years in the

in the future. That is what the Government is trying to get a grip

on. We will know the results whether it applies to you by May 2017. I can

hardly wait. Thanks very much. The tech giant Apple has warned

the US congress that there is more that can be stolen from your phone

than from your house. The company is under pressure

to comply with a government request to produce software that

can unlock any iPhone. The FBI wants Apple to unlock

the phone of a man who carried a terrorist attack in

California last December. Aleem Maqbool reports

from Washington. 14 people died, many more were

injured in the terrorist attack in San Bernardino. The killers, who had

opened fire at an office party, later died in a shoot-out. Withle

them, they took many of their secrets. They did leave behind a

phone. One that was locked. Apple has refusedlet FBI's request to help

unlock it. Do you swear the testimony... This public battle

between one of the world's biggest companies and one of its most

powerful intelligence agencies was fought today before Congress. It's a

battle that could have implications for all of us. This case, in San

Bernardino, is not about the FBI. It's not about Apple. It's not about

Congress, it's not about anything other than trying to do a an

investigation in an ongoing active case. That said, of course any

decision by a judge in any form is going to be potentially press

Denningsal. What exactly is the FBI demanding of Apple? If your iPhone

is locked you have ten attempts to put in a password. After that all

data is erased. The FBI wants Apple to writ new software to disable that

function so you can bombard a phone with thousands of passwords until

one opens it. Apple is not happy. O... To order us to give them

something we don't have. To create an operating system that does not

exist. The reason it doesn't exist is because it would be too

dangerous. Some of you may have an iPhone in your pocket right now. If

you think about, it there's probably more information stored on that

device than a thief could steal by breaking into your house. The only

way we know to protect that data is through strong encryption. There are

those who are sceptical about Apple's stance. Others have genuine

concerns that if the FBI forces them to comply, that makes iPhones around

the world more vulnerable to attack. Aleem Maqbool, BBC News, whack

tonne. -- Washington. The threat of the Zika virus

reaching the US has come a step closer as America's Centre

for Disease Control is warning that hundreds of thousands of people

in the US territory of Puerto Rico could become infected

in the coming months, leading to thousands of brain

damaged babies and the possible spread of infection

in America itself. Our global health correspondent,

Tulip Mazumdar, has been given rare access to the Centre's Situation

Room in Atlanta and its scientists It might not look like it,

but this tropical island Welcome to the front-line

of the US's fight against Zika. Millions of American tourists

come here every year, a major concern though

is what they're taking These are the Zika-transmitting

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes On the menu, pig's blood,

served at skin temperature. They're being bred in this lab

for research into insecticides. These tiny creatures have been

here in Puerto Rico spreading dengue Then, a couple of years ago,

they started transmitting After that, at the start of this

year, Zika came along, with that link to babies

being born brain damaged. Worryingly, the insecticides used

to kill these mosquitoes are no longer working as well

as they used to. These mosquitoes are resistant

to one of the most commonly used Permethrin is an insecticide that

has been used in Puerto Rico but also in the rest

of the Americas for many years. Scientists are now racing to find

other chemicals that The insects can breathe and thrive

in just a few drops of water. Permethrin might not be 100%

effective, but fumigators are out on the streets spraying

entire neighbourhoods, Here, we're talking about,

if you're pregnant, what to do about the Zika and how

to protect your baby. Zika isn't considered particularly

harmful to most people, authorities are focussing

on protecting pregnant women because of that link

to babies being born As I told you, I use

repellent every day. I'm very worried about this

because any woman doesn't want a baby microcephaly because it's

a very sad disease. This is the emergency

operation centre. 1,500 miles away, at the Centers

for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta, the man who's advising

the President on this global health emergency is preparing

for the worst. In Puerto Rico we expect

that there will likely be hundreds of thousands of infections

and potentially hundreds or thousands of women who are

pregnant who welcome infected. What's new and different

and frightening is this rate of birth defects and there's

a lot we don't know. Back at the lab scientists

continue the fight against They need answers fast

to stop the spread of this Tulip Mazumdar, BBC

News, Puerto Rico. The skies above north-east Scotland

were alight last night. It was probably caused

by a meteor shower. Many people reported seeing

what looked like a fireball and a bright flash, others reported

hearing the rumbling sound caused Most meteors aren't seen

by the naked eye, this one was thought to have been about 10cm

wide and travelling It's the biggest and oldest survey

of its kind in the world. In the next week, all the surviving

participants turn 70. It started in March 1946,

when scientists began to monitor There are still more than 3,000

taking part in regular checks and surveys to track the many

changes they've experienced As our social affairs correspondent,

Michael Buchanan, reports there have They are perhaps the most

studied people on earth. Since they were born,

their lives have shaped how Over the coming days,

every one of them will celebrate All were born within a week

of each other in 1946. Margaret Allen has been weighed

and measured her entire life. As she's aged the tests have

changed, less reading and writing, more mental and physical

health assessments. A wholly rewarding experience,

she says, particularly You just felt that -

oh, OK, so the others there getting on with whatever

it was we were doing and I was taken out and I was chatted to and did

various tests and things like that. These cards contain the details

of the first survey Nearly 3,000 are still being

studied, work funded To thank the participants,

each year they're sent So what is the key lesson

after seven decades of research? We need to invest in child health

and wellbeing much more in this country, in terms of health

and education and it's that investment, as a society,

that will make us all richer The study has however already

changed our lives over The original survey led

to all women being offered pain Comprehensive schools

were introduced after data showed bright, but poor children

were failing to get into grammar schools and the creation

of Sure Start centres can be traced to evidence showing the importance

of children being supported As participants like

Ken Ashton have aged, they're now studied

for different reasons. Questions about a child's growth

and diet replaced by research into dementia and

Parkinson's disease. I'm very proud to be

part of this study. Information is fine,

but information with a context, particularly over a broad stretch

of people, and all within the same Today's party celebrated

a remarkable research project. It's success has spawned

many other inquiries. It's now estimated that one

in 30 British people Tonight, we have a special

investigation into what put a stop to a police inquiry into abuse

in South London childrens' homes. Starting now on BBC Two,

11.00pm in Scotland. Here, on BBC One, it's time

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