02/03/2017 BBC News at One

Warnings of a national crisis in policing in England and Wales.

In a scathing report - the police watchdog warns

of a shortage of detectives and says victims are being let down

Also this lunchtime - calls for one of Donald Trump's

closest advisers to resign after he's accused of lying under

England's NHS is standing on a burning platform warns

the Chief Inspector of Hospitals and is unable to meet the needs

British Cycling bosses promise to make changes after accusations

of bullying and sexism at the top level of the sport.

And how research that began after Gordon and Sarah Brown

lost their premature baby, Jennifer, has helped

save the live of another Labour leader's grandchild.

And coming up in sport on BBC News - a true Celtic legend.

Tributes are paid the Lisbon Lion Tommy Gemmell,

who died aged 73 following a long illness.

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

Policing in England and Wales is in a "potentially perilous" state,

with victims being let down, criminal cases shelved

and suspects left untracked - that's the warning from

Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary says most of the 43

forces in England and Wales are providing a good service,

It says some forces are putting the public at an unacceptable risk

by rationing their response to crime as they struggle with cutbacks.

Our Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani reports.

The cornerstone of British policing - the bobby on the beat.

Part of the neighbourhood front line services that solve so many crimes.

One of the warnings contained in a stark report. Laura Beale was the

pride of Devon and Cornwall Police. After 14 years, she's had enough and

resigned and says she cannot deal any more with the workload. Her

patch went from 17 officers to six. We need to focus on the front line.

You want to see a police officer and if somebody came up to me and said,

officer I needs help, I'd be able to go and have the time to with it.

HMIC says after five years of cuts to the budget and workforce, some

chiefs are not making the right tough calls and in some areas,

inspectors found 999 calls being downgraded because they could not

manage the pressure with officers left behind. HMI is a also said some

domestic violence calls are not being treated seriously enough.

Other forces have ignored leads on organised crime and only Durham is

delivering outstanding results. Neighbourhood policing, that

proactive presence of police officers in communities, is eroding

even further so that means they are not stopping crime from happening in

the first place and that is what the public want to see. Domestic

violence is now a national priority, one of the modern demands on forces

long focused on burglaries, car crime and muggings. Officers need

new skills including finding and solving crimes with computers.

Experts warn forces will lose the trust of the public if they do not

modernise. If people don't have a response from the police force when

they call, what's going to happen when they actually see something

happening? What about when they get a piece of information that should

rightly be handed on to the police? They will think that they don't

care. I'm not going to, they'll think, they didn't care about me.

This report is a very clear message that police officers have work to

do. A clearance message from us and the HMIC that the police and crime

commissioners need to get a grip that look at what their are. This

report is a warning that some forces have been tipped over the edge in an

era of austerity. The nature of crime has been changing and that

means ministers, chief constables and the public need to think

carefully about what modern policing is for. HMIC says there is even a

national crisis in recruiting detectives. Just another of the

reasons why some forces are facing a difficult future.

One of Donald Trump's closest advisors -

the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, has been accused

of lying under oath to the Senate after it emerged he had two

undisclosed meetings with the Russian Ambassador during

The senior Democrat in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi,

Our correspondent Richard Galpin reports.

Sessions was already a controversial choice as Attorney General because

of allegations which he denies of racism. And now it's been revealed

that during the presidential election campaign last year, he had

two undisclosed meetings with this man. The Russian ambassador to

Washington. I endorse Donald Trump. That's potentially damaging for Mr

Sessions because Russia has been accused of running a cyber campaign

to skew the election in favour of Donald Trump. The whole truth and

nothing but the truth. During his confirmation hearing in the Senate

last month, to become Attorney General, Mr Sessions had been

directly asked about contacts with Russia. And if there is any evidence

that any one affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the

Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? I'm

not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a

surrogates at a time in that campaign and I did not have the

communications with the Russians. I'm unable to comment. Already,

there's been a furious response from senior Democrats including Nancy

Pelosi. She's tweeted that Mr Sessions is not fit to serve as a

top law enforcement officer of the country. And that he must resign.

This morning, Mr Sessions denied lying under oath. I have not met

with any Russians at any time to discuss any political campaign and

those remarks are unbelievable to me. I don't have anything else to

say. According to his spokesperson, Mr Sessions had many meetings with

foreign ambassadors last year but these were in his capacity as a

senator, not in connection with the presidential campaign. Therefore, he

argues, he did nothing wrong. But just two weeks ago, questions about

connections with Russian officials led to the resignation of Michael

Flynn, Trump's national security adviser. Mr Sessions may face

another problem now. As Attorney General, he oversees the Department

of Justice and the FBI. Both are currently investigating Russia's

alleged meddling in the US election and any alleged links with Trump's

associates. Let's speak to our correspondent

Jane O'Brien who's in Washington. Mr Sessions denying the allegations

but the pressure is continuing to grow on him. It is but I don't think

we can expect any resignations at this point. This is a story at the

moment primarily about nuanced context and perception. These are

things that Washington doesn't do very well under this toxic

atmosphere that we are in. Jeff Sessions clearly believed that the

question directed to him was about, did he have any conversations with

the Russians as a member of Trump's campaign team? He says no. There is

nothing wrong or illegal or criminal in having contact with a Russian

ambassador. As a Senator. That's what he's basically saying he did,

in the course of his duties as a Senator, of course he spoke to the

Russians and a number of foreign diplomats. That's what he would be

expected to do. But given the backdrop of these continuing

investigations into whether or not the Russians hacked the Democratic

national committee, which the broad conclusion from the intelligence

agency is that they did. Whether or not they influenced the outcome of

the election and there is no evidence of that. Given that

backdrop, this looks bad. It's a massive distraction for the Trump

administration going forward. The Chief Inspector of Hospitals

in England has given a stark warning about the state of the NHS saying it

stands on a "burning platform" with most Trusts needing

to improve patient safety. Professor Sir Mike Richards says

the traditional model of caring for patients is "no longer capable"

of delivering the needs Our health correspondent

Dominic Hughes reports. This comprehensive review of all 136

hospital Trusts in England paints a very mixed picture. The regulator,

the Care Quality Commission found many examples of excellent care and

some hospitals improving services despite extreme pressure. But plenty

of areas also where the NHS is struggling. You can get a very good

service within a Trust that is struggling or you can get an

individual service not doing so well in an otherwise good Trust. What we

are trying to do is to shine a spotlight so that the Trusts

themselves know what it is they need to improve. This is my local

hospital in Stockport. I've been here a couple of times myself and

with the family. The report today allows us to see how hospitals like

this one are performing, not just the whole hospital but individual

departments such as accident and emergency or children's services,

and what the report shows is real concerns over staffing, safety,

levels of overcrowding and hospitals facing unprecedented pressure.

Across the major hospital Trusts in England, 68% have been rating as

inadequate or requiring improvement. 81% are said to need to improve

safety but 93% were rated as good or outstanding for the caring attitude

of staff. University hospital in Bristol is one of those Trusts that

has made significant improvements. The first to go directly from

requiring improvement to outstanding between two inspections. The report

was very positive for us and I think in the report, it acknowledges a lot

of the hard work this department does. The very positive culture for

providing patient care we have. There are concerns over the pressure

of staff right across the NHS of coping with an older and sicker

populations. They become the shock absorbers in an NHS that doesn't

have sufficient staff or resources. I worry about the long-term

consequences, staff cannot carry on working in this way without their

own health and well-being being affected. The Department of Health

says these inspections play a key role in making the NHS in England

the safest and most transparent health care system in the world but

they will also remind ministers the NHS continues to face serious

challenges. The Prime Minister is making clear

that she is disappointed by the defeat in the House of Lords

last night over Brexit. Peers voted by a sizeable majority

to give European Union nationals already living here the right

to stay in the UK. The government will seek to overturn

it when the bill returns The Prime Minister's official

spokesman says Theresa May expects Our political correspondent

Carole Walker reports. A resounding defeat for the

government in the House of Lords. After hours of passionate debate,

they voted overwhelmingly for ministers to guarantee

the rights of more than 3 million EU Seven Tory peers voted

against the government. We are being illogical and immoral

in refusing to unilaterally guarantee the rights of those people

who are already here, who came here in good faith,

who are part of our communities. Theresa May says she does

want to give that guarantee, but she'll only do so if she can do

a deal with other EU leaders to safeguard the rights of British

citizens in other EU countries too. I am optimistic that a reciprocal

agreement on the status of each other's citizens can

indeed be achieved. I think that is in the rational

interests of the United Kingdom MPs have already voted to approve

the government's approach and ministers will seek to reverse

last night's defeat. I do think this amendment will be

overturned when the bill comes I think the vast majority of MPs

on the government side certainly accept the Prime Minister's argument

about the need to clarify arrangements for EU nationals

in the UK at the same time as we clarify arrangements

for British expats on the continent. The government could face

further defeats as the bill continues its passage

through the Lords, There's lots more complex

and controversial legislation to come, to disentangle British law

from EU law, and set new rules Last night's defeat

could be a foretaste For the Prime Minister,

the immediate priority is to get the bill triggering Article 50

into law in time for her to start formal negotiations as planned

by the end of March. Then the hard bargaining

will really begin. Carole Walker, BBC

News, Westminster. Our Assistant Political Editor

Norman Smith is in Westminster. Is the Prime Minister likely to get

her way in the end? I think she is because although many peers had

hoped the scale and ferocity of last night's defeat would embolden

critical Tory MPs in the Commons to define Mrs May and thwart her plans,

I have to say, I can't see much evidence of that. So if there is a

revolt, I expect it will be a tiddler, a mini chocolate egg of a

rebellion. The reason for that I think is because most Tory MPs, even

critical ones, seem to trust Mrs May on this issue and they do believe

she wants to guarantee the rights of EU nationals as swiftly as possible

and the only reason she hasn't been able to do so so far, is because

other EU countries are not willing to talk about it until the

negotiations begin. But all that said, one clear consequence of the

vote last night is that here, peers have got a bit of swagger, a bit of

self-confidence about themselves now and they do seem poised to inflict

further defeats, including on the critical issue of ensuring

Parliament gets a meaningful vote before Mrs May signs on the dotted

line for the final Brexit deal. And on that issue, all the indications

are, Mrs May's critics in the comments might be willing to cause

her a lot more trouble. British Cycling bosses will make

changes in order to be more caring to riders after accusations

of bullying and sexism. An investigation into the culture

at British Cycling was launched last year with a report

on the findings imminent. But the governing body says work

on an action plan to address any Our sports correspondent

David Ornstein reports. Over the last decade, cycling has

become symbolic of Britain's Olympic success, but at what cost? The

governing body has been hit by allegations of bullying and sexism,

while its anti-doping structures are being investigated. Today, the new

chairman of British Cycling admitted to serious failings. A current of

issues into -- occurrence of issues in terms of behaviours and

harassment, bullying, is unacceptable. The report has

highlighted some issues that we as an organisation needs to address.

We've already met with our groups of both riders on staff, and we've made

it very clear that where there's been failings we apologise for

those. Well, this is the national cycling Centre, home of the

so-called medal factory, but concern over the way those medals have been

won has led to a rethink. And that takes the form of a 39 point action

plan, which includes training in governance, leadership and

diversity, an annual staff appraisal system, and a complete overhaul of

procedures around athletes' welfare. It all stems back to April, when

Sprint cyclist Jess -- Jess Varnish complained of sexism, discrimination

and bullying. UK Sport is demanding reform act's most successful best

funded and most successful Olympic sport. There are a number of fires

that seem to be going off in difficult areas and it's difficult

at this point in time. The most important thing as an investor in

British Cycling, the most important thing is we see that the information

that is being revealed is accepted by British Cycling and acted upon.

This morning, Britain's most decorated Olympian, Sir Bradley

Wiggins, refused to speak about the contents of a medical package

delivered to him in France in 2011. Questions remain for British Cycling

to answer on a range of fronts. COMMENTATOR:

And it will be Britain in a world record time. They hope today will

begin the process of doing that. David Ornstein, BBC News, in

Manchester. Warnings of a national crisis

in policing in England and Wales - a scathing report warns

of a shortage of detectives and says Coming up: Snapchat -

you'll know what this Now the company's been

valued at ?20 billion. I'll be asking our

technology correspondent Coming up in sport at 1:30pm: UK

Sport and British Cycling have outlined the next steps that

are being taken as part of the independent review

into the culture of British At some point in our lives,

one in four of us will experience But many people hide their problems

from their employers for fear of it Now the government's trying

to encourage businesses to improve mental health support

in the workplace. And today, the Institute

of Directors has launched its first-ever mental health

strategy to help those affected. Our business correspondent

Ben Thompson reports. No matter where you work, tough days

are often part of the job, but for construction worker Lee,

difficult days turned I just felt down one day and I stood

at the top of the building and just went to the edge of the building,

to about six storeys high and unhooked my harness and just

stood there and thought, And new figures suggest Lee's

experience is much more common Nearly a sixth of the UK workforce

faces mental health problems. And it's here, on building sites,

that the problem is all too evident. More construction workers

lose their lives through suicide than serious accidents at work,

and it's something the industry We need to do something

now and actually raise awareness within our industry

with our workers, and actually get people trained up in the same way

that you would treat an injury with a first aider,

to actually help people, before you get to the stage

where the worst-case scenario is But it's not just industries

like construction that Aside from the personal impact

on staff, it costs the UK economy around ?26 billion a year in lost

work and productivity. So businesses paying attention,

like the department Its chairman told me of his personal

experience dealing with mental health problems and why he wants

to do more to help staff. I've had family members,

including one of my sons, who's had a real, very specific

challenge, and I find myself being hesitant talking about it,

whereas if I said he's broken his leg or got a bad

infection, that would have been fine and we could have

all talked about it. I thought if I can't talk

about it this is ridiculous, and I've got to find ways and means

of making this a more normal, more everyday conversation,

and not something you have That's the basis of schemes

like this one at the Royal Mail. It encourages staff to talk

about their worries with trained For Lee, who is now

managing his depression, talking is part of the answer,

but he says simple changes can A few months after I actually

came off my medication, one of the site managers

where I was at the time came up and asked me how I was doing

and if everything was OK. She's the first person who's

ever actually asked. That's what I feel will make

the biggest difference I think Voting has begun in the second

election in ten months Ninety members will be elected -

18 fewer than previously. Around 160 million

people use Snapchat - the social media messaging service -

and the vast majority The company that owns it has been

valued at $24 billion. It sold all 200 million

shares on offer to big But since it was created five

years ago, Snapchat has With me is our technology

correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones. It's definitely my first time on

Snapchat, but the thing is it's all about young people. Is that why it's

worth so much money? Yes, despite that picture Snapchat is not aimed

at people of my age and dare I say it, not even of yours. It's

incredibly popular amongst 15-25 -year-olds. 150 million use it on a

daily basis. That audience is highly valued by advertisers because they

are not watching the television, they are probably not watching right

now, it's sad to say. They are immersed in their phones on Snapchat

is the way they communicate. That very visual means of communication,

that fun way of communication, is increasingly popular with

advertisers. Here's the problem. They are valued as if they are going

to go on growing up the question is, can they grow beyond that age? Can

they attract older people? Can they be like Facebook has been? Are they

a Facebook, which was also seem rather overvalued when it was

floated and has gone up and up and up, or are they more like Twitter,

whose shares have languished as people have decided it's not going

to grow much further. The other problem they face is increasing

competition, from Facebook, which owns Instagram, which is copying

many of the features of Snapchat and doing pretty well. It's a pretty big

gamble, if you are going to buy Snapchat shares. Rory, thank you.

Lost meadows, landscapes dug up for garden compost,

communities made more vulnerable to flooding - it's just some

of the damage that man has done to the environment

The government's been drawing up a 25 year plan

for improving England's nature - but it's been long delayed.

And now MPs are calling for it to be published immediately.

Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin reports.

To the west of Manchester, a landscape devastated by digging

So many wildlife sites degraded in England and the government's

Row on row of tiny sphagnum moss plants

Planted out, they're helping to recreate a peat bog, that stores

The government has promised to safeguard them, but its nature

Cities are supposed to benefit from the government's

I'm in south London, standing on top of the lost River Effra.

Lost, because it's encased beneath my feet in a Victorian sewer.

The ghost of the river still gets its revenge sometimes though.

On a nearby housing estate, they've smashed up the concrete

and laid bark chippings to let rainwater soak in,

The garages have been given a green roof.

This garden gives people a place to come to in the middle of a really

urban part of London, where they can be in nature,

they can learn about food growing, learn about wildlife,

and also just sit in a more natural space in the middle

People of this country love their natural environment,

whether it's the green spaces in our cities, the seaside,

the rivers, the forests, and they are unfortunately

in decline and we need to see ambitious government

Wildlife round the seas should be enhanced by the nature strategy.

MPs have now joined the chorus demanding for it to be

Celtic has paid tribute to the man known as the Lisbon Lion,

Tommy Gemmell, who has died aged 73 following a long illness.

They've called him a true Celtic giant.

The former defender scored in the 2-1 victory

against Inter Milan in 1967, when Celtic became the first British

When the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife

lost their baby Jennifer after she was born prematurely at 33

weeks, Sarah Brown decided to set up a charity to look at ways to help

Now, 15 years later, she says it is very uplifting

to discover that the research has helped to save the life

of the grandchild of another Labour leader, John Smith.

Our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon reports.

Two and a half -year-old Ella, healthy and happy. But she was born

12 weeks premature. Birth, she weighed ten oz. And was the size of

an adult's hand. I wasn't sure she was going to survive at all. To me,

it seemed impossible. She seemed so utterly vulnerable. It seemed she

had nothing within herself to fight with, because she was so tiny. The

granddaughter of one labour leader, John Smith, alive, her mother says,

thanks to a research set up in the memory of the daughter of another.

Gordon and Sarah Brown lost their daughter Jennifer when she was just

ten days old. We knew what has happened but we didn't know why it

had happened, so in wanting to try and work out what we could do to

make sense of this, what I wanted was more needed to happen to unlock

that understanding. One of the things we felt we could most

usefully do was invest in the science for it. The research done at

the Jennifer Brown laboratory has focused on understanding the causes

and consequences of premature birth. Some good has come from tragedy. 15

years on, the memory of her daughter is still strong. What I really

treasure is the ten very, very precious days that we had with our

daughter, because thanks to the care of the doctors, nurses, midwives

around us, we were able to have an extraordinary amount of time really

being able to be with our daughter. All of that I have inside me and all

that love you have for your daughter is still all there. For little Ella

there are now no more hospital visits ahead. Absolutely brilliant.

Absolutely brilliant. She now been signed off from our consultant.

They've told us not to darken their door with a child quite so well as

Ella, so we are the luckiest people in the world. It's thought that up

to a quarter of babies born in the UK need extra care, but the ongoing

research that helps save Ella will continue helping others also born

prematurely survive and thrive, just like her. Lorna Gordon, BBC News,

Edinburgh. The lovely Northern lights.

An incredible shot. I'm very jealous, I've never seen the

Northern lights just yet. At the other end of the country the day has

turned into a lovely sunny one. This is a picture again a weather watcher

in East Sussex, blue skies, it feels a bit more like spring out there,

especially as the wind is beginning to drop. Further north in the

Staffordshire Hills early this morning it was a win to receive. The

showers giving some snow up over the hills in this part of the country.

Those showers are moving away. They are certainly much fewer now. Most

of us are enjoying sunshine through the rest of the day, though there's

more cloud coming into Northern Ireland, threatening to bring a

change in the weather here. We'll had further south, where we could

see one or two showers arriving in the south-west of England, South

Wales. It's just a threat really through the afternoon. One or

offshore just now. Most of England and Wales will be dry and quite

sunny, top temperature about 12 Celsius in the south-east. We still

got a few showers in the north-west of England, they should fade away

this afternoon. More cloud in Northern Ireland threatening rain

later. We have wintry showers and snow over the hills in Scotland,

some sunshine as well. It's feeling colder, especially in northern

Scotland whether winds die down last of all. This evening it turns wet in

Northern Ireland, some rain and hail snow. It pushes into the soup --

into southern Scotland and in southern Wales and we have rain

arriving, that will keep temperatures but quite chilly night

in Scotland, especially the North of Scotland. Maybe a pinch of frost but

some sunshine here. Elsewhere the sunshine is a reluctant visitor

tomorrow. There will be brighter for a while in south-east Scotland and

North East England but we have rain moving northwards. It becomes

lighter. It turns dryer for the south-east of England, boosting

temperatures here. Across Northern Ireland the rain could be setting in

for most, if not all, of the day. Into the weekend, whilst there will

be some dryer and brighter slots, rain is never going to be too far

away. In fact, it's going to be raining this weekend across the

whole of Western Europe, not just rain. There will be some very heavy

snowfall for the Alps this weekend. There could be a metre or more of

snow. It was a slow start of the season. Things have changed quite

considerably. At home weeks -- this weekend we are dominated by low

pressure." Pressure is where we will see most of the rain on Saturday.

This rain could be rather reluctant to clear away from Northern Ireland

and around some edges of England and Wales we could see some showers or

long spells of rain and those are the temperatures. As we head into

the second half of the weekend we are going to find it turning windy

across England and Wales. Here, we could see heavy bursts of rain for a

time but by contrast a bit further north for Scotland and Northern

Ireland, it shouldn't be quite as wet.

A reminder of our main story this lunchtime.

Warnings of a national crisis in policing in England and Wales -

a scathing report warns of a shortage of detectives and says

So it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's