26/02/2017 BBC Weekend News

Jeremy Corbyn accepts some responsibility for Labour's

by-election defeat, but says this is not the time to give up.

Are you the solution to Labour's problems?

Losing Copeland to the Conservatives was deeply disappointing, he says,

but the party and its policies are needed more than ever.

I'm carrying on as leader because I'm determined

that we will deliver social justice in this country.

We'll be assessing where Labour stands after a difficult few days.

Sir Mo Farah insists he's a "clean athlete who's never broken

the rules" after new allegations involving his coach,

Victory in the League Cup for Manchester United after a late goal.

And which films will be winners on Hollywood's big night?

The 89th Academy Awards are just a few hours away.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he accepts

a share of the responsibility for losing the Copeland constituency

to the Conservatives in Thursday's by-election,

telling the Scottish Labour conference it showed the scale

He said he'll remain as leader and that Labour must unite to win.

Critics, though, say the defeat shows Labour is failing

Our political correspondent Carole Walker reports.

Mr Corbyn, do you still think you're the man to rebuild Labour?

Jeremy Corbyn insists he won't give up the struggle.

We're campaigning for a just and fair society.

He said his party's defeat at the hands of the Conservatives

in the Copeland by-election underlined the scale of the task

ahead, and he urged his party to stand together to turn back

The result in Copeland was deeply disappointing

and of course, I take my share of responsibility for it.

We haven't done enough yet to rebuild trust with the people

who've been ripped off and sold out for decades and don't always

But now is not the time to retreat, to run away or to give up.

Labour in Scotland is already battling to recover after losing

all but one of its MPs at the last election.

The party's Scottish leader echoed Mr Corbyn's call for unity,

but had an ominous warning on the problems they must confront.

In many respects, what's happening in the north-east of

to the Scottish Labour Party two years ago.

We were the canary down the mine, so to speak, in terms of losing

the faith of working-class communities across the country.

Jeremy Corbyn says he has a huge mandate from his party

and is clearly a little tired of the repeated questions

I'm carrying on as leader because I'm determined

that we will deliver social justice in this country.

I've given you a very, very clear answer - yes!

And amongst party delegates, there's little appetite

for another leadership contest, despite all the problems.

He's got a mission to make Labour electable in the United Kingdom.

Our next test is the Scottish local government elections.

I would have liked him to have indicated more how we are to help

Jeremy Corbyn's team are making it clear that there'll be no change

of leadership and no change of direction either.

They will be stepping up their campaigns on jobs,

But none of that worked in Copeland and they're up

against a Conservative Party with policies and a message designed

to appeal directly to many of Labour's core supporters.

Carole Walker, BBC News, Westminster.

Britain's four-time Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah has insisted

he is a "clean athlete who has never broken the rules" after allegations

in a leaked report that his coach may have broken rules

against boosting athletes' performance.

Alberto Salazar has been under investigation since allegations

about drugs use at his American training base were made by the BBC's

Mark Daly, who originally broke that, has this report.

Can there be a one-two for the Salazar group?

It looks like it as Mo Farah takes gold for Great Britain.

He's the coach and mastermind behind Britain's Sir Mo Farah and his four

But Alberto Salazar and his Nike Oregon Project has been under

investigation by the US Anti-Doping Agency, or Usada,

since a BBC Panorama programme in 2015 revealed claims of doping

High-profile US athletes Kara Goucher and her husband Adam

made a series of allegations against their former coach.

He's sort of a win at all costs person.

Today, the first glimpse of Usada's findings.

An interim report by the agency has been leaked by the Russian hacking

group Fancy Bears and passed to the Sunday Times.

The report alleges Salazar used banned or unethical methods

to boost performance, including infusions of supplements

over the legal limit of 50 millilitres, untested

and potentially unlawful medical procedures and medications.

And the report states that Farah's alleged use of an infusion in 2014

Usada continues to investigate, but serious questions

now for UK Athletics, who were, according to this leaked

report, warned about Salazar and his methods by one

of their own doctors as far back as 2011.

UK Athletics said all of their key medical staff had fully co-operated

with Usada and the UK's own anti-doping body.

Alberto Salazar strongly denied the allegations,

saying "I believe in a clean sport and will never permit doping."

He called the allegations false and disturbing,

desperate and a denial of due process.

Earlier today, Sir Mo Farah released a statement saying:

He said it was clear that he had done nothing wrong.

But questions will persist over Farah's continuing loyalty

to a controversial coach the doping authorities seem so

The new independent reviewer of terrorism laws has warned that

Britain faces a level of threat not seen since the IRA

Max Hill told the Sunday Telegraph that plots by Islamist

extremists to attack UK cities were "an enormous risk."

He singled out the issue of British people returning from abroad

after fighting for so-called Islamic State.

Tens of thousands of people in South Sudan are starting to see

food aid arrive in the region where the United Nations has

Many of those affected have been facing starvation after trying

to escape the country's civil war by seeking refuge in the marshes of

Our Africa Correspondent, Alastair Leithead, has travelled

to a rebel-held town in Unity State, where people have been

They came in their thousands as word spread that help was on its way.

Most were women and children, hungry, tired and waiting

They'd fled into the marshlands of the Nile to escape the civil

war which is destroying the world's youngest country.

But now they're desperate, and despite the risks,

This is the heart of the area that has been declared in famine.

Thousands of people have gathered in the central area to be registered

They've come from the marshes and the swamps where they've been

hiding from the fighting and where there's no food.

And there are thousands more people who can't even reach here,

Each card entitles them to a month of food rations, which will be

airdropped in over the next few days.

Everyone tells a similar story of hunger on the islands,

surviving off wild honey and water lilies.

People are dying of starvation, she said.

That's why we're here, lining up for help.

And she talked about how hard the war has been,

particularly for old women who can't run to the river fast enough

People loot their possessions, stealing cattle and goats, she said.

This is what's left of a Medecins Sans Frontieres clinic,

destroyed when government troops briefly took the town in November.

And this was the market, now back in rebel hands.

Leer is the rebel leader's birthplace, which is why

many suspect it's being targeted so harshly.

The government militia kill and abduct people, he said.

They've burned houses and the church.

The UN needs both sides to agree to a ceasefire before they can bring

That lack of access has contributed to the famine.

For many months, humanitarian agencies have not been able

This is the first time that we're doing so,

We need people to understand that without safety,

without assurance of security for the people in need

we'll be having a catastrophic situation down the line.

Malnutrition is manageable here, despite the famine.

But it's the places that the help can't reach

Alastair Leithead, BBC News, in Thonyor, South Sudan.

Two and a half years after it was set up by the Government,

the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse begins

Its scope is vast - covering 13 different subject areas.

The first to be investigated is the mistreatment of thousands

of British children sent abroad after the Second World War.

The BBC has been told the inquiry will hear new evidence

about abuse that took place, and claims that it was covered up.

Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent Tom Symonds.

NEWSREEL: They arrive at Fremantle from Great Britain with 931

I've lived for 60-odd years with this hate.

They sent us to a place that was a living hell.

All we did was do as we were told, and suffered immensely for it.

They've been called Britain's lost children.

Clifford Walsh was nine when he arrived here at Fremantle,

near Perth, one of thousands in care or from poor families, promised

He ended up at Bindoon, run by the Catholic Christian Brothers,

where barefoot children built their own accommodation

We were 60 miles from Perth. We had no parents.

We had no relatives. There was nowhere we could go.

These Brothers, these paedophiles must have felt they were in heaven.

Australia, Britain, the Christian Brothers

But from tomorrow, the UK's public inquiry will begin examining

the scale of the abuse, which has brought David Hill back

to Britain to Tilbury Docks, from where he left 58 years ago.

He's a successful public figure in Australia,

who grew up at the Fairbridge Farm School and interviewed its former

children, who've only relatively recently disclosed sexual abuse.

I've put the figure at over 60% of the kids that went to Fairbridge

And I think if you look at the conditions that prevail

in the other child migrant institutions, I'd be

isn't equally high or even higher in some of the Catholic boys' homes

Files in the National Archives show that in 1956, British inspectors

There were no mentions of sexual abuse, but there

were serious concerns about standards of childcare.

Officials drew up this blacklist of institutions that should

But the files show that the charities and religious

organisations running the schemes successfully put pressure

on the government to keep them going until the 1970s.

Fairbridge has become part of the Prince's Trust,

which says the public inquiry will have access to all

Should this inquiry bother with what's becoming history?

It will examine new claims of a cover-up, and that paedophiles

Many of the lost children are still alive and demanding answers.

The greater the evil, the stronger the conspiracy to keep

So if this inquiry is capable of opening some of that truth,

Nokia, once the world's biggest mobile phone brand,

has been relaunched with a number of new models.

Among them is an update of its famous 3310,

which sold more than 120 million units worldwide.

The new phone won't connect to the internet,

and has a battery that lasts - on standby - for up to a month.

Tributes have been paid to the American actor Bill Paxton,

He was best known for his role in the science fiction classic,

Aliens, and also starred in Apollo 13 and Twister.

He died after complications following an operation.

We're live in LA for the Oscars in a moment, but first,

here's Katherine Downes with the sport.

Manchester United have lifted the first trophy of the season -

they beat Southampton 3-2 at Wembley to win the EFL Cup.

Our sports correspondent David Ornstein reports.

In 1976, the same clubs made the same journey

Then Southampton stunned Manchester United to win the FA Cup.

41 years on, they came back to repeat the feat in the League Cup.

Opposing sides with opposite projects, United,

the big spenders, Saints, the heavy sellers,

But to win often, you need the big decisions to go your way

and when this effort by Gabbiadini was ruled out for offside,

Already peeved, they were soon punished, Ibrahimovic

before Lingard put United on course for the cup.

Southampton, though, had other ideas and there

was no denying Gabbiadini, who struck at half-time.

Shortly after, the Italian swivelling and scoring a sublime

The tables had turned, but there would be one final twist.

Ibrahimovic towering to secure the trophy,

So, for Southampton it is heartbreak, surely one

of the cruellest cup final defeats in many a year.

Jose Mourinho becomes their first manager to win a major trophy

in his first season and this one will live long in the memory.

Meanwhile, in the day's only Premier League game,

Harry Kane scored his third hat-trick in nine games,

as Tottenham thrashed Stoke City 4-0 at White Hart Lane.

The win lifts Spurs up to second in the table.

England are top of the Six Nations table after a bonus point win over

Italy at Twickenham, but the 36-15 scoreline doesn't

Our sports correspondent Joe Wilson was watching.

England's coach said that their get out of jail free

First game at home, victory was rescued against the French.

Then to Cardiff, where England won a game that they'd virtually lost.

Eddie Jones wanted to take Italy to the cleaners, in Monopoly terms,

England barely got started in the first half, this was a kind

But there was a fundamental issue in this game - who knew the rules?

Offside, England thought. The referee didn't. Let's stop and try

to clear it up. Well, what happens when Italy missed a penalty? It can

become a try. Half-time, and no hope Italy led 10-5. England to escape

again. Watch out, Danny Care saw a glimpse of the line. Headdown,- -

made it. England finally broke free in the last ten minutes. But after

late tries, Eddie Jones was left to interpret Italian tactics. Italy

were smart. Regulations to their coaching staff and the players. But

it wasn't rugby. If I were the BBC, I would be asking the RFU for their

money back because you haven't had a rugby game. The real -- if the

ambition was to frustrate England, they certainly achieved that. The

home side got the bonus point, but Italy certainly made their point.

Joe Wilson, BBC News, at Twickenham. And England and Ireland

are tied at the top of the Women's Six Nations table -

after Ireland beat France 13-10. It's that time of the year,

the Oscars are upon us. Amid the glamour, there's also

plenty of grit in this year's films. And there's expected to be a bit

of politics too at tonight's Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz

is already on the red carpet - Limbering up, yeah. The stars are

limbering up. They are starting to come up the red carpet and make

their way into the theatre for tonight's Oscars, which could be

historic. After last year's controversy, it is possible, that

all four winners of the big categories will be non-white.

Possible but probably not probable, but it is entirely possible that

Terry Jenkins would win the best director Oscar for Moonlight. If he

does, he will become the first black person to win the Oscar. If he

doesn't, it is likely to be Damien Chazelle, who will be the youngest

person to win the Oscar for La La Land, and that is before we get onto

all the speeches in what is a politically charged atmosphere. It

is going to be an interesting night. There is more than one

side to the Oscars. Yes, there is the frivolous,

showbizzy side of things, the over-the-top-ness of the red

carpet and the million after party the over-the-top-ness of the red

carpet and the million What is the most extraordinary

request you've ever had Well, I think I had one

of our guests, he loved the baked potato with caviar so much

that he came into the kitchen He took his spoon and ate

the caviar with the spoon. It might be the stars that

shine on Oscar night, but the craft categories reveal

a different side to the business. Film-making is at heart a cottage

industry, as demonstrated by these two brothers from London,

who are against each other There's four brothers

that do special effects, I've got two sons that work

for me and two daughters. And then I've got three daughters

that work for me and my son as well. We've got the next generation

and probably the generation So you're just going to have

Corbould Oscars for decades? Great films, award-winning films,

should tell stories that matter, I'm very encouraged,

because I do think the diversity of the line-up this year reflects

the industry I work in The biggest thing for me is that

people back home see this stuff happening to Moonlight

and they think things are possible, that the ceiling for a kid

where I grew up is raising. What you doing in bed

with that woman? This year's Oscars feel

a little different, more politically charged,

more diverse, more connected. But then...

they'll always be in La La Land. Will Gompertz, BBC

News, Los Angeles. And rolling coverage starts in half

an hour on the BBC News website.