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Tonight at Ten - yet more pressure for the NHS in England, | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
with the worst-ever waiting times in accident and emergency. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
The latest figures show a record number of patients spent more | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
than four hours in A in December, and leaked figures suggest January's | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
It's really not a great patient experience for many of our patients | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
That's what the staff tell me as well. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
But NHS managers say staff are working flat out | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
to provide a good service, and the vast majority of patients | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
It's not acceptable and it's not what we want. | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
We have planned more this winter than ever before. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
That planning has worked in most places. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
But some places are under intense pressure. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
We'll be examining the latest figures - | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
and we'll be taking a look at the system in Germany, | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
where spending on health is the highest in the European Union. | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
The scheme to bring child refugees to Britain from Europe | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
The Archbishop of Canterbury says he's saddened and shocked. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
A vigorous welcome in the Oval Office for new US | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Attorney General Jeff Sessions - the most controversial | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
Chaotic scenes in the South African Parliament, | :01:15. | :01:24. | |
as President Zuma is accused of promoting rampant corruption. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
And we talk to the British sprinter who competed in Rio - | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
who's now hoping to rebuild his running career after | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Find out if the Leeds Rhinos | :01:34. | :01:43. | |
could hold onto the lead, and beat St Helens in | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
the first match of the new Superleague season. | :01:47. | :02:07. | |
Record numbers of patients spent more than four hours in accident | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
and emergency units in England in January, according | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
During a difficult winter for the NHS, January seems to be | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
the worst performing month in the past 13 years. | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
The figures also suggest record numbers of people waited longer | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
than 12 hours for a hospital bed, once they'd been seen. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
The doctors' union, the BMA, has accused the government | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
of failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation, as our health | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Scenes like this on BBC News this week have highlighted the immense | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
Here at Royal Blackburn Hospital, rated as good by inspectors, | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
some patients waited up to 13 hours in A | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Official figures have confirmed that it was the worst | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
December for waits since modern records began. | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
Today at Hillingdon Hospital in west London, things were a bit calmer, | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
but managers confirm that they've been stretched to the limits. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
It's been fairly relentless in terms of November | :03:12. | :03:12. | |
I'm confident that the safety of our patients is being maintained | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
at a high quality, but it's really not a great patient experience. | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
In December in England, 86.2% of patients were treated | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
or assessed in A within four hours, the lowest since | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
That was below Scotland, where 92.6% of patients | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
In Wales, the figure was 81%, and the percentage | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
in Northern Ireland was just under 70 - all below the 95% benchmark. | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
In England, the number of patients stuck on trolleys or chairs for more | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
than four hours before a bed could be found was nearly 61,800 - | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
It has been a steep climb this year, but the thing that has changed | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
the most has been not the 2% or 3% increase in demand, | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
but the 40% increase in the delays in moving patients, | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
helping them get back to their homes and back into the community. | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
With the A target being so badly missed, there's now a debate | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
about whether it should be dropped or amended. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
There's a certain art in setting the bar at the right level. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
The fact is that the NHS has been meeting, for example, | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
It's only recently that it started to go wrong. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
So we need to examine the reasons why it's | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Many hospitals like this one are running at 95% of capacity. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
That means they're nearly full, so with more emergency cases coming | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
in and difficulties discharging some patients back into the community, | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
some of those needing surgery are having to wait longer. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Even cancer patients like Martin are affected by delays. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Until this year, that's been very rare, as hospitals prioritise cancer | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
treatment even during the busiest weeks of winter. | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
His operation was cancelled minutes before it was due to take place. | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
He's now had the surgery, but he says it was a | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Very anxious not to go through all that again, | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
Your mind and that is going overtime. | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
December's A performance figures in England were poor, | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
but NHS documents leaked to the BBC suggest that they were | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
It's clear that hospital staff are working at full stretch. | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Winter is far from over, and the intense pressure seems | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
This week has brought many calls from staff and patients for more | :05:49. | :05:58. | |
But some experts insist that the current problems | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
are not being caused solely by financial factors. | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
Branwen Jeffreys has been to Germany, where spending | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
on health is the highest in the European Union, | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
They never worry about a lack of beds. | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
Germany has almost three times as many as the UK. | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
One day after the operation, I can walk. | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
For George, that means almost no waiting. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
In England, patients wait several months. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
For George, it's been just a few weeks since the decision was made. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
I have to decide when I want to take the operation. | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
Normally, it takes three or four weeks to get | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
All of this paid, for by health insurance, 14% of George's salary, | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
Germany's health system is convenient, but expensive. | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
And that worries doctors like Martin Wetzel. | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
So in order to save money in the long term, they're | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
putting more effort now, and more time with patients, into convincing | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
It's a lot of time to convince him to try another way, that it would be | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
better to lose ten kilograms of weight to solve | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
the problem with his diabetes instead of taking pills. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
Do you have the time now under this new system? | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
Doctors here in the Black Forest have been given a financial | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
incentive to make patients healthier overall by joining up care. | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
Many parts of the NHS are trying to do the same. | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Here, there are cheaper gym sessions, | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
It's subsidised by health insurance, and it's saving money. | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
As a result, they're spending 6% less on looking after patients. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
So I asked the health manager running it all, | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
why isn't the rest of Germany worried about cost? | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
The economy runs so well in Germany, so their social health institutions | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
and the insurance funds have no problems. | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
But everybody knows it is just a question of time. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
It may result in five years or it may result in eight or ten years, | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
The rolling countryside of Thuringia, hundreds of miles | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
villages where there are more old faces than young. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
There is more money in the German system, but that doesn't mean | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
Here in what they call Germany's green heart, | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
they have a terrible shortage of GPs. | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
And it's because of that that they are finally beginning | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
Many doctors still work alone in Germany, but here they are having | :08:56. | :09:07. | |
to use nurses more to help GPs provide home visits | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
They don't have relatives, so doctors have to make home visits. | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
There's often not enough time in the day to do that. | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
That's why we enabled a few years ago nurses to make home visits. | :09:25. | :09:34. | |
A visit from the nurse keeps these older patients well. | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Germany's population is one of the fastest ageing in the world. | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
They have the money now to make the changes needed in the future. | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
Branwen Jeffreys, BBC News, Thuringia. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
And tomorrow on BBC News, the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
will be responding to the issues raised by our coverage this week | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
There'll be more details online at bbc.co.uk/health. | :09:59. | :10:15. | |
Ministers have been forced to defend their decision to abandon | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
a scheme to bring vulnerable refugee children to Britain from Europe. | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
The Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the project, devised | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
by the Labour peer Lord Dubs, risked encouraging people | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
traffickers, which is why it would close next month - | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
Campaigners had hoped to bring in 3000. | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
Labour said the decision was shameful, and the Archbishop | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
of Canterbury said he was saddened and shocked. | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford has the story. | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
Stranded at a hostel in Athens, this 17-year-old Afghan refugee | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
He wants to come to Britain and was being helped | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
But the government scheme to assist unaccompanied child refugees | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
in Europe with no family in the UK, which has taken 200 so far, | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
If I am stuck here, it's really hard to me to achieve my aims, | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
to achieve my goals, because here there is no | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
perfect school or perfect college for the refugees. | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
NEWSREEL: 200 girls and boys wave a greeting to England. | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
It was the Kindertransport that saved thousands of Jewish children | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
from the Nazis that inspired those who persuaded the government last | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
year to take in more of today's child refugees crossing Europe. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
It's a comparison ministers think is unfair. | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
Well, I'm a refugee and I came to England at the age of six. | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
Among those saved in the '30s was Lord Dubs, who led the push | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
This afternoon he told me the government had | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
When there is something that calls on humanitarian action, | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
and when as I believe the majority of British people support that | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
humanitarian action, I think the government are behaving | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
very shamefully by saying, no, we don't want any more of this. | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
I think it's disappointing and shabby, and I don't think | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
Those who want to help more child refugees, | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
including the Archbishop of Canterbury, said today | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
that the government was going back on commitments it made last year. | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
But ministers say to that that there's no point in inviting | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
thousands of children here if the local councils, | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
who will have to look after them, can't cope. | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
These are children who need looking after over a period. | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
When we accept them here, it is not job done. | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
It is making sure that we work with local authorities, | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
that we have the right safeguarding in place. | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
Called to the Commons to defend her decision, | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
the Home Secretary even found opposition from a few | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
But councils warned that caring for refugee children is expensive. | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
It costs on average ?50,000 to support a child in the UK care | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
system, and every unaccompanied refugee child is entitled to exactly | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
the same care and support as a child from the UK. | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
We need to make sure that where those costs are rising | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
There are tens of thousands of refugee children still in limbo | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
in Europe, but ministers prefer schemes that take children | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
who are even more vulnerable, from camps near to Syria. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
And the Home Office said that in all, 8000 children | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
were given refuge of some sort in the UK last year. | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court has described | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
the President's attacks on the judiciary as "demoralising" | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
The comments by Neil Gorsuch were made in a private conversation | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
with a Democratic senator, but later confirmed | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
During the day, one of the President's most | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
controversial cabinet nominees, Jeff Sessions, was sworn | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
Our North America editor Jon Sopel has the latest. | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
I, Jeff Sessions, do solemnly swear... | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
It hasn't been neat, it hasn't been easy, | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
but Senator Jeff Sessions, a hugely controversial choice | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
over an allegedly racist past, has finally won approval to be | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
And it's clear that he and the president are on the same page. | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
We have an increased threat, since I was United States | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
Mr President, you have spoken firmly on that. | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
You have led this nation, to say we're going to respond | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
effectively to the threat of terrorism, and you can count | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
on your Department of Justice to do so in an effective way. | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
But Donald Trump's plan to ban migrants from seven mainly Muslim | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
countries isn't going to be decided by the Justice Department. | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
It is going to end up here, at the Supreme Court. | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
And his recent denunciation of federal judges involved in that | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
Astonishingly, even his pick for the Supreme Court | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
has called the move "disheartening and demoralising." | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
Judge Gorsuch, who has been touring Capitol Hill offices to win | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
support for his nomination, wouldn't express those | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
He did reveal this in a series of private meetings. | :15:19. | :15:38. | |
You misrepresented his comments totally. | :15:39. | :15:39. | |
His comments were misrepresented, and what you should | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
do is ask Senator Blumenthal about his Vietnam record. | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
It didn't exist, after years of saying it did, so ask | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Senator Blumenthal about his Vietnam record. | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
He misrepresented that, just like he misrepresented Judge Gorsuch. | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
There is no question that Judge Gorsuch said | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
that these attacks on | :16:03. | :16:03. | |
the judiciary are disheartening and demoralising. | :16:04. | :16:04. | |
There were White House staff in the room, and his own spokesman | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
The judiciary and executive are two separate branches of government | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
that are meant to keep their distance. | :16:18. | :16:18. | |
Judge Gorsuch, when he was unveiled at the | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
White House last week, seemed determined to do that quite | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
literally, though it seems to be something to president is struggling | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
President Trump is continuing to defend his travel ban | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
against seven mainly Muslim countries, as the courts | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
Mr Trump is claiming that American public opinion | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
He made immigration one of his main campaign themes. | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
One of the states where Mr Trump gained particular | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
Our correspondent Aleem Maqbool has been there, to find out what people | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
make of the argument over travel and immigration. | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
Beautiful Alpine Montana is the size of Germany. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
It's got a population of just 1 million, but fewer than 20 refugee | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
families have been resettled in the entire state | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
And yet this is where some of the strongest views | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
I believe that what we have seen with our president | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
This is a man who couldn't be happier. | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
Hollis is heavily involved in local politics and he's a preacher. | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
His Christian compassion, though, does not extend to those he feels | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
There you go, kids, that will keep you warm. | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
If they come among us and then try to enact something, | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
If groups of radical Islamic people begin to show up who will eventually | :17:56. | :18:10. | |
attempt to harm our women, those militant people need | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
to understand that the women of Montana are armed. | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
Hollis says those who are protesting against Donald Trump's immigration | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
policies do not represent the real America. | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
This is a local rally in support of the refugees. | :18:24. | :18:33. | |
Not a bad turnout for a weekday lunchtime in the snow, perhaps. | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
But these are certainly not the loudest voices on this issue | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
The state has one of the most high-profile anti-immigrant | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
campaigns and before the election, had one of the biggest anti-refugee | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
The anger for many is directed mainly at Muslims, something local | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
politicians are tapping into - some would say even fuelling. | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
After days of debate, the State Senate has just passed | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
a bill to say Sharia law can't be applied in Montana. | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
This woman and her family arrived here just a couple of months ago. | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
They fled Eritrea with no choice about where the UN sent them. | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
After more than four years of vetting, they landed in Montana - | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
nervous, shy about talking on camera, adjusting to a different | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
world, and to this storm of anti-immigrant sentiment. | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
But as far as many here and across America are concerned, | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
there is simply no room for new immigrants, to whom the door | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
There were chaotic scenes in the South African Parliament, | :19:44. | :19:56. | |
as President Jacob Zuma tried to deliver his annual state | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
Opposition MPs called the president a "scoundrel" | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
and "rotten to the core" because of corruption allegations. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
The president ordered the deployment of troops around | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
the parliament building to deal with thousands of protestors. | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
Mr Zuma and his government have faced allegations | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
of corruption for over a decade, as our Africa correspondent | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
The gloom here in Port Elizabeth can feel relentless. | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
It's a rough city, worn down by corruption and neglect, | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
and a revealing place to judge South Africa's future. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
This place has become known as Toilet Valley. | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
The neighbourhood was supposed to house thousands of poor families. | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
Somehow, the toilets got built, but no homes. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
They tell us we're going to get houses in three months' time. | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
Three years that you've had this beautiful toilet | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
No wonder people are losing patience. | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
As the poor struggle here, | :21:03. | :21:03. | |
the powerful are looting with impunity. | :21:04. | :21:04. | |
It's negligence from those who have been entrusted to deal | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
Well, it boils down to corruption. You can't run away from it. | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
It's the same story with these buses, which have sat unused | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
in a depot since they were brought in for the 2010 World Cup. | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
The corruption here is quite breathtaking. | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
This one bus scandal alone has cost the city more than ?100 million, | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
and that's just a fraction of what has been | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
To many in South Africa, the blame goes all the way | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
to the top with the example set by President Jacob Zuma, | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
arriving this evening to address parliament in Cape Town. | :21:46. | :21:56. | |
Tighter security is becoming something of a habit here. | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
Inside, opposition MPs interrupted the President's speech... | :21:59. | :21:59. | |
An incorrigible man, rotten to the core. | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
..Reminding him that he'd broken his oath | :22:03. | :22:03. | |
of office in relation to a corruption scandal. | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
Eventually, political theatre turned into something more violent, | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
security guards called in to eject the protesting MPs. | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
get his chance to celebrate his government's achievements. | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
We are building a South Africa that must be free from poverty, | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
But the political mood here is sour, and likely to get worse. | :22:26. | :22:40. | |
But as gloomy as things may seem here, there's change in the air. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
Here in Port Elizabeth and in other key cities, | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
the opposition has been winning power in local elections, | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
nudging South African democracy in the right direction. | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
The result, a frenzy of initiatives in Port Elizabeth, | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
the former opposition now keen to show it can fix the city and, | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
who knows, maybe win power nationwide in 2019. | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
The result, a frenzy of initiatives in Port Elizabeth, | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
the former opposition now keen to show it can fix the city and, | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
who knows, maybe win power nationwide in 2019. | :23:18. | :23:18. | |
is this the way out of trouble for South Africa? | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
This is the only way out of trouble for South Africa. | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
That is why it is so critical for us to have achieved | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
what we did in the last local government elections. | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
We are steadfast that by 2019, we will put a coalition government | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
together that will govern South Africa | :23:34. | :23:34. | |
where we bring all people together. | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
That's a message that has begun to gain momentum. | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
If they keep on being competent and they don't lose motivation | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
as time goes, then South Africa is set to boom. | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
Perhaps, but in Toilet Valley, they're still waiting for homes. | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
South Africa's economy remains stagnant, and the challenges | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
Andrew Harding, BBC News, in Port Elizabeth. | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
Four men who were part of a gang that sexually exploited teenage | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
girls in Rochdale are facing deportation to Pakistan. | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
The men - British nationals of Pakistani origin - | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
were jailed for between six and 22 years. | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
Immigration judges have rejected appeals against plans to strip them | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
The City of Edinburgh Council says it'll examine all | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
the recommendations of a report which found poor quality control | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
was to blame for a wall collapsing at a primary school a year ago. | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
The incident led to the temporary closure of 17 other schools | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
which were built as part of the same private finance agreement. | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
New data from the Department for Transport shows record levels | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
There were over 320 billion vehicle miles travelled last year. | :24:47. | :24:58. | |
This is the most ever recorded and is 2% more | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
than the pre-recession peak, in the year ending September 2007. | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
Four of Labour's newest MPs have been promoted | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
The mini-reshuffle was necessary after a number of the Shadow Cabinet | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
defied the leader's order to support the Government's Brexit Bill. | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
There are now 14 women in Mr Corbyn's 29-member Shadow Cabinet. | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
In Egypt, the only centre for treating victims of torture has | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
been closed without warning by the authorities. | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
The security forces of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
are accused of regularly torturing detainees as they try to crush | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
It's an allegation his government denies. | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
From Cairo, our correspondent Orla Guerin reports. | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
Here in the shadows, in a rundown apartment block, | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
But today, therapists and doctors sat idly outside | :25:49. | :25:57. | |
after police shut down the El Nadeem Centre - | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
the only refuge in Egypt for victims of torture. | :26:01. | :26:10. | |
One of the co-founders told us their services are crucial | :26:11. | :26:12. | |
When it comes to police stations and prisons, | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
the map of torture in the country is the map of the country. | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
There isn't a hamlet, a village, town, city, | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
That's denied by the authorities, who speak only of isolated cases, | :26:22. | :26:36. | |
but the centre has treated thousands since 1993. | :26:37. | :26:46. | |
Now for the first time ever, there's no entry. | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
Well, other doors here may soon be closed. | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
More human rights organisations are being targeted - | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
they've been accused of illegally receiving foreign funding | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
Campaigners say the aim is very clear - to silence anyone who dares | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
But some torture victims continue to speak out, | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
Recently, he told us what happened after his arrest in 2014. | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
TRANSLATION: I was abused at the checkpoint where I was arrested. | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
Then they transferred me to the police station. | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
I was electrocuted on my private parts. | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
They kicked me with their military boots and hit me with sticks. | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
Having spent more than two years in jail, yesterday | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
he was detained again, snatched off the street along | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
He says he was blindfolded and interrogated for hours. | :27:37. | :27:46. | |
Mahmoud used to turn to the El Nadeem Centre for help. | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
Now he, and many others, have nowhere to go. | :27:51. | :28:00. | |
There is more pressure on the Football Association tonight, this | :28:01. | :28:10. | |
time from MPs. They have passed a motion of no-confidence in its | :28:11. | :28:12. | |
leadership and have called on Parliament to step in and reform the | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
organisation. While the vote was largely symbolic, ministers have | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
warned that the FA needs to modernise or it might lose millions | :28:20. | :28:20. | |
of pounds public funding. Two of Britain's best sprinters - | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
James Ellington and Nigel Levine - were involved in a road accident | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
last month, and their injuries were described | :28:30. | :28:31. | |
as "career threatening." They're now back in the UK | :28:32. | :28:33. | |
receiving treatment, and one of them, James Ellington, | :28:34. | :28:34. | |
has been discussing what happened with our correspondent | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
David Ornstein. James Ellington is one | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
of Britain's finest sprinters, But today, he's | :28:44. | :28:45. | |
learning to walk again. Three weeks ago, Ellington | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
was involved in a head-on collision as a passenger on a motorbike | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
during a training camp in Tenerife. I was on the floor and there | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
was blood everywhere, and I looked at my leg and my leg | :29:00. | :29:01. | |
was in pieces I lost six pints of blood, | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
so I was kind of laying there, thinking to myself "What the hell | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
is going on?" This was the x-ray | :29:11. | :29:12. | |
of his right tibia. Ellington's surgeon | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
described the injuries He suffered an open fracture | :29:19. | :29:19. | |
of his right leg, a broken left ankle and damage to his pelvis | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
and an eye socket. The crash was so horrific that | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
I don't think most people would have survived, | :29:31. | :29:32. | |
to be honest. So when I was laying | :29:33. | :29:34. | |
in the hospital bed in Tenerife and I saw my team-mates coming | :29:35. | :29:36. | |
to visit me, they looked pretty emotional but I was saying | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
to them "It's cool", because I knew I was lucky | :29:40. | :29:41. | |
to be alive. 2016 was Ellington's | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
best year to date. He competed against the likes | :29:46. | :29:47. | |
of Usain Bolt at the Rio Olympics. Four years earlier, | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
he auctioned himself on eBay, just to fund his journey | :29:52. | :29:53. | |
to the London Games. What is your outlook | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
for your future as a sprinter? Being an athlete and a determined | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
person, I think this is going to be Imagine that, being on the track | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
after what you've been through. That belief is familiar | :30:07. | :30:14. | |
to Ellington, but success now Tonight, we will be speaking to | :30:15. | :30:40. | |
Britain passed by top cop, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe. He has been the | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
Metropolitan Police Commissioner for over five years, but is about to | :30:45. | :30:47. | |
step down so that he can give us an honest view of how well the police | :30:48. | :30:56. | |
are doing. Join me now on BBC Two. And in the next few hours, we are | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
expecting the federal appeals court in California to release the | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
judgment on the travel ban ordered by President Trump and to declare | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
whether that is legal or not. Full coverage for you online and on the | :31:09. | :31:10. | |
BBC News Channel. | :31:11. | :31:12. |