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 have been let down so many times.

The prosecution dropped the case after concluding a key

So can there ever be justice for Omagh now?

Also tonight, as more migrants are trapped in Greece,

the UN says Europe is on the cusp of a largely self

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

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.

In Sportsday, Leicester City have been in action, trying to extend

their lead at the top of the Premier League table.

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 before

The case against the only remaining suspect

charged with the attack in 1998 has collapsed.

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, was unparalleled even in Northern Ireland's

A car bomb exploded on that busy Saturday afternoon, when Omagh was

full of families. Many were left grieving.

18 years later, shops have been repaired, the street rebuilt,

Families like the Gallagher family, who have sat through inquests and

investigations but today in court they learned that all charges were

to be dropped against Seamus Daly, including the murder of Michael

Gallagher's son, Aidan. You will notice there

are not many families. Most families have

given up on justice. They have given up on the criminal

justice system, because they have Seamus Daly has always

strongly denied any part I would like to ask

you some questions please In 2000, the BBC panorama programme

tried to present him with evidence which claims to show he was

involved. I would like to know how you came into possession of a mobile

telephone. The key to the prosecution case

was a mobile phone used The main 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, The town's Memorial Garden also

serves as a reminder that no-one has been held accountable

for their deaths. In 2007, Shaun Harvey was acquitted

of any involvement in the attacks and two years later, four including

Seamus Daly were found guilty in a civil case made by some of the

families but they continued to push book and convictions and two years

ago, Seamus Daly was arrested and charged. Today the case against him

collapsed, the prosecutors admitting they didn't have enough evidence.

To bring it to that level, where it has even been

at a committal hearing was pointless, and I do not

understand why the families are put continually through it.

This afternoon, Seamus Daly left the prison where he has been held in

demand for nearly two years. He is no longer wanted in connection

with the murders of all those It seems no one will be prosecuted

for their murders. I spoke to prosecutors this morning who said

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

and in many cases they are upset and angry. Some relatives of those

killed want a full cross-border public enquiry into what happened in

the street behind me but for all of them, they are now resigned to the

fact that tonight, 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 ten 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 Pressure points are building

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

here on the Macedonian border. We are in Europe in 2016,

it is frankly beyond belief that we are standing here,

looking as if this is 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, you don't press Greece,

but press Turkey to operate, as we have agreed in Nato,

and to accept back all of these 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-dotted maritime 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 an attempt 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 linked to Al Qaida,

are excluded from it. 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 and sent 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, 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, 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 financial We had a CEO last year

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

a lifetime investment banker. So I think the markets have

been worried about that. 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 will not be discriminated

against in the run-up 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 Hilary 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, Ted Cruz,

who was voting in his home state 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. Will people have to work

until their mid-70s before they can draw a pension

in the years to come? 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,. until our mid seventies,

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

almost certainly. We are living longer, which is fantastic news but

in the future it is going to get very expensive to provide a state

pension so the law mandates that in every parliament they review the age

at which you qualify for a state pension. Will that mean me, people

will ask. It depends how old you are. Relax if you are born in 1961,

or before, the review won't affect you. If you were born in the 70s you

may be nudging 69 before you qualify and if you were born in the 80s,

possibly the only 70s and people entering the workforce now may have

to work into their mid-70s before they qualify for the state pension.

The DWP thinks one third of the people born today will live to 100,

so it's going to be very expensive in the future. That's what the

government is trying to get a grip on. We will know whether it applies

to you by May, 2017. I can hardly wait! Thank you for joining us.

The tech giant Apple has warned a committee of the US House

of Representatives, 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 and many more were injured in the terrorist attack in

St Bernard eena. The killers, who opened fire at an office party,

later died in a shoot out and with their later many of their secrets --

San Bernardino. They left behind a phone, one that was locked. Apple

has refused the FBI requests to help unlock it. This very public battle

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

powerful intelligence agencies was today fought before Congress. It is

a battle that may have implications for all of us. This case in San

Bernardino is not about the FBI, Apple, Congress, anything other than

trying to do a competent investigation in an ongoing case.

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

presidential. What is the FBI trying to demand of Apple? At the moment if

your iPhone is locked you have ten attempts to put in the past work and

after that, all data is erased. The FBI would like Apple to write new

software to disable that function, so you can bombard a phone with

thousands of passwords until one of them opens it. Apple isn't happy.

The FBI has asked the court to order us to give them something that we

don't have, to create an operating system that doesn't exist. The

reason it doesn't exist is because it would be too dangerous. Some of

you have an iPhone now and if you think about it, there is probably

more information stored on that device than a thief could steel pipe

breaking into your house. -- by breaking in. The only way to break

the data -- secure the data is with strong encryption. Some ask of them

about Apple, thinking that the grandstanding is about getting us to

buy more phones from them, thinking they are secure but others have

genuine concerns that if the FBI forces them to comply, that makes

iPhones around the world much more vulnerable to attack.

The threat of the Zika virus reaching the US has come a step

closer as America's Centers 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 battling Zika inside Puerto Rico.

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.

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 focusing 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 with 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 become 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. Allen what the hell is that? Many

people reported seeing what looked like a fireball and a bright flash,

others reported hearing the rumbling sound caused by a sonic boom.

It's the biggest and oldest survey of its kind in the world.

And in the next week all the surviving participants turn

It started in March 1946 when scientists began to monitor

the health and development of more than 5,500 newborn babies.

And 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 are all sitting

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.

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.

Its success has spawned many other inquiries.

It's now estimated that one in 30 British people

Newsnight is coming up on BBC two. Tonight, we have a special

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

south London children's homes? Starting now on BBC Two, 11pm in

Scotland. Meanwhile, here on BBC One, it's

time for the news where you are. Bye-bye.