20/04/2012 BBC News at Six

Formula One bosses insist the race in Bahrain will go ahead, despite

protests and political pressure. Police use tear gas and stun

grenades in clashes with opposition groups.

But the preparations for Sunday's race continue, with the backing of

Bahrain's Crown Prince. Cancelling the race just empowers extremists.

I think for those of us who are trying to navigate a way out of

this political problem, having the race allows us to build bridges.

We will be reporting live from the Bahraini capital.

Also tonight: The parents wrongly accused of

murdering their baby. They tell the BBC of the long fight to prove

their innocence. It's been a horrible, horrible two and a half

years, to go through this knowing that we are completely innocent and

to find really the hospitals didn't really know what they were doing.

The Wales striker Ched Evans jailed for rape. The judge tells him he

has thrown away a promising career. And, by boat, by train, and running

in the rain. The so-called dry run for the Olympic torch relay.

Coming up in sport: Andy Murray Good evening, welcome to the BBC

News at Six. The Bahraini government and Formula One bosses

have insisted this weekend's Grand Prix will go ahead, despite renewed

clashes between security forces and anti-government protestors and

political pressure to call the race off. The Crown Prince of Bahrain

said that cancelling the race would play into the hands of extremists.

Activists have threatened to disrupt the race, although

authorities have guaranteed the security of those taking part. From

the Bahraini capital, Manama, Dan Roan reports.

This is not the image of burning rubber that Formula One organisers

will have hoped for. Tyres alight on a street in the capital.

Bahrain's three days of rage have begun. These are the first clashes

in a threatened escalation of protests to coincide with this

weekend's Grand Prix. Used to a build-up of a different

kind the F1 roadshow has rolled into the heat of the desert. Even

here the reality of this divided island is finally catching up with

those that run the sport. And today the Crown Prince of Bahrain and the

undisputed King of F1, Bernie Ecclestone, were forced to justify

the most controversial race in recent years. In Britain

politicians are calling for this race to be boycotted, Amnesty

International thinks it shouldn't go ahead, given those comments why

should this race continue? This race should continue because it is

indeed a very big event for this country. It's important

economically, socially. I genuinely believe that this race is a force

for good. It unites many people from many different religious

backgrounds, sects and ethnicities under the roof of Formula One.

is nothing to do with us what happens in the country, - we have

people in all sorts of countries. We are people in England that's

Conservative and Labour that don't agree always on things. So, that's

how it is, how the world is. Bahrain has been in turmoil since

last year. Many of the Shia majority calling for the dishraougs

of the monarchy and release of a prisoned activist on hunger strike.

I strongly believe that we need to use this event to promote awareness

of the problems facing the country, human rights on the one hand, and

political issues on the other. Meanwhile, the wheels keep turning

on the track. Two sessions of practice now completed. But there

is unease here, Force India cancelled this afternoon's practice

after personnel were caught up in a petrol bomb incident and members of

another team also witnessed trouble last night. Often teams have a

problem, lose a session, it's not the end of the world and we will

cope with it. The most important thing is that we are here to

support the Bahrain Grand Prix. We are We are totally committed to the

Grand Prix. There will be no backing off from our point of view.

F1 cars aren't used to going into reverse, and there's no sign of a

you-turn now, but the pressure to raise the red flag and abandon this

race for the second year in succession will only intensify.

Dan joins me from the circuit now. As we seen protesters are gathering

on the main highway, what more can you tell us? Well, if the Crown

Prince of Bahrain and Bernie Ecclestone hope their joint unified

and somewhat defiant statement here this afternoon would suppress calls

for a cancellation of this prestigious sporting spectacle,

they'll be disappointed. There are reports reaching us that tens of

thousands of protesters are marching along one of Bahrain's

highways towards the Pearl Roundabout, in the capital. That

was the point for last year's uprising. Eventually it appears

this protest today was dispersed by personnel from the military and

police using tear gas and stun grenades. But it only goes to show

why the mood here tonight in this paddock is tense. The drivers say

the right things publicly, but privately they'll rather be

somewhere else. For almost three years they've

battled to prove their innocence, charged with killing their baby son.

Now Rohan Wray and Chana Al-Alas have been acquitted after it was

found that their son's injuries were probably caused by him having

rickets. The couple are now calling for an inquiry into the two

hospitals responsible for Jayden's care. Today, they spoke to the BBC

in their only broadcast interview. Our health correspondent Branwen

Jeffreys reports. A young couple walking away from

court and from a legal and emotional ordeal. Wrongly accused

of the death of one baby, they've also had to fight to get their

second child back. Jayden was Chana and Rohan's first baby. Fractures

were discovered. They found themselves facing a murder charge.

The fact that we know how much we love him, we love him so much and

the fact that we have been accused, the fact that this has happened is

the worst thing ever. Knowing that we are innocent and to be facing a

trial, not knowing what the outcome could be, is actually the scariest

thing I think anyone could ever go through. The death of Jayden was

the beginning of a legal nightmare. While they waited for the murder

trial, their second baby was taken into care, moments after birth.

was horrible really. I was thinking when am I going to see her again

after I have just given birth and I wasn't allowed to hold her.

wasn't there for the birth, I wasn't present through any of the

labour or anything like that. I couldn't be with her to support her

and I felt really terrible. Last year they were cleared of Jayden's

murder at court. Their daughter has now been returned to them after

another hearing. The judge said Jayden was a very much wanted baby.

A postmortem had found Jayden's rickets was extremely severe for a

child of his age. Rickets blighted some childhoods a few generations

ago. It almost disappeared but cases are now increasing. It's

caused by vitamin D and calcium deficiency. That can lead to

fragile or deformed bones. There's a greater risk with darker skin, it

reduces the vitamin D absorbed from sunshine. It's thought that up to

25% of people are vitamin D deficient, making it more important

rickets is recognised. It's essential that all doctors consider

it as one possible reason why a child's bones may fracture. There

are simple blood tests that one can measure that child's vitamin D

level and calcium level and other indicaters in the blood as to how

significant that vitamin D stke fish especially -- deficiency is as

one of the reasons bones may break. Two leading London hospitals missed

Jayden's rickets. University College and Great Ormond Street say

they regret the distress caused. Jayden's parents now want to

rebuild their family life. The trial of the Norwegian gunman

Anders Breivik has heard harrowing testimony about how he carried out

the massacre of scores of young people at an island youth camp last

July. Survivors and victims' relatives sobbed in court as the

killer spared no details about how he shot panicked teenagers at point

blank range, even as some pleaded for their lives or were paralysed

with fear. Our Europe correspondent Matthew Price was in court. Some

may find his report upsetting. The atmosphere at court changed

today as a country braced itself, though few could imagine what was

to come. Throughout it's been Breivik's

detachment, his cold, unemotional responses that have been most

disturbing. Today, he talked us through his killing spree as if he

were describing a day at work. Under normal circumstances I am a

night person, he said. -- nice person, he said. As he reached the

island and prepared for the massacre, I was thinking, I don't

want to do this. Then I thought, this is now or never.

He killed 67 on the island. Two others drowned trying to escape.

Inside the courtroom Anders Breivik took us through a moment by moment

account of what he did, from one victim to the next. It was for many

exceedingly difficult to listen to, but impossible to ignore. It was

horrific. At one point he said people were paralysed with fear in

He tricked people, asking if they had seen the terrorist. Some looked

sceptical, while some moved towards me. When they got closer, I lifted

the gun and shot the first one in the head.

Many who survived his attacks left the courtroom in shock. It's really

hard and I want to get angry with him, but I just... Just feel empty,

emptiness inside me. I really can't explain the feeling. Norway's

newspapers choose today not to put the trial on the front page. Some

want to hear no more from Breivik, for others it's important he speaks.

I think it's necessary. Necessary for my daughter, it's necessary for

me. I think it's necessary for Norway to hear and to learn.

nine more anguished weeks they will pick apart what happened here and

throughout they will be haunted by the man in the dock.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, says the UK is

willing to make a loan of slightly less than �10 billion to the

International Monetary Fund. The size of the loan means Mr Osborne

won't need it to be rubber-stamped by Parliament and comes on top of

previous funds already committed to the IMF.

Retail sales for last month are up, boosted, in part, by panic buying

at the petrol pump last month. The figures rose by 1.8% and the price

of petrol is continuing to rise. New figures suggest refilling the

average car's 50-litre tank now costs more than the average

family's weekly food bill. Our correspondent Danny Savage reports

from West Yorkshire. Yet again the average price of

petrol has hit a new high. With diesel just short of its record

price set a week ago. Prices are at such a high that many families are

now spending more on petrol than food. The average weekly food bill

for a family with two children is �70.10. But the average petrol bill

to fill a 50-litre tank is now around �71.24. Jenny and Alan, who

have two young children, are just one couple feeling the squeeze.

much have you spent? �98 today. This shopping cost almost the same

as they spend each week on filling up their two cars. We don't use the

car as much. We try to use public transport, but it's still too dear.

And we don't go as far. We don't - when everyone goes on a bank

holiday, we go to friends' houses. The children play together, rather

than going off driving when you were younger. Many people now shop

around the supermarkets to find the best prices. At the pumps though

it's not always so easy. Petrol is up just over 10p a litre since the

start of the year and diesel has gone up by about 7p. That's adding

�21.72 to the monthly outgoings of a two-car family. Some supermarkets

have reduced prices today, but there's still great uncertainty in

the Middle East with the tanker drivers' dispute and indeed a 3p

tax increase due for August. It's still not looking great for

motorists. Of course when cars were first produced they were really

only ever driven by the wealthy. Then came mass production and many

people got their own car. And now many families have two or more cars.

So is it time now to hit reverse and rethink our attitudes towards

them because of fuel prices? car family now, not two cars. So

yeah, you have to take a different attitude. I am thinking of getting

a smaller car. The petrol in this car is ludicrous. I want something

cheaper for me. It doesn't matter how much they put fuel up we will

keep buying it. That reality means we either have to absorb the price

rises, or change our habits. The Wales and Sheffield United

striker Ched Evans has been jailed for five years after being found

guilty of the rape of a 19-year-old woman. The court was told that he

took advantage of a vulnerable young woman who was in no fit state

to consent. From Caernarfon Crown Court, Hywel Griffith reports.

Star striker for club and country, Ched Evans is an international

footballer with fans across the game. Today the judge told him he

had thrown away a successful and promising career. Evans listened

and wept in the dock. Anything you want to say about Ched's sentence?

His family were left stunned, and silent. Evans is already

considering an appeal. The footballer found his victim

after a night out with former timemate Clayton McDonald. The men

met a 19-year-old woman who was drunk on a mixture of wine and

double vodkas. She fell over herself several times. At 4.00am

she took a a taxi with McDonald to a hotel. The receptionist that

night remembers the woman was slurring and stumbling as she went

to the room 14, where she was raped by Ched Evans. Outside the bedroom

window two other men looked on, one tried filming events on his mobile

phone. The following morning the victim

woke to find her clothes scattered across the room. She had no idea

how she had arrived there. Ched Evans has been his club's

player of the season, scoring 35 goals. He told police footballers

like him could have their pick of the girls. The jury cleared Clayton

McDonald of rape. He left court to return to his football career at

Port Vale. But Ched Evans is tonight beginning a five-year jail

term after taking advantage of a Our top story tonight:

As protests continue in Bahrain, the organisers say this weekend's

Grand Prix will go ahead. Coming up:

A new Bob Marley film, with unseen footage and candid assessment of

Now, picture the scene. It is July 3rd, and the Olympic torch is

making its way through the East Midlands. By that date, it will

have reached day 46 of its 70 day journey, and today hundreds of

volunteers took part in a dry run for that part of the route, from

Leicester to Peterborough. Our correspondent was with them. How

did it go? Every dress-rehearsal is pretty tense. This was no exception.

But in just under an hour, the last of the runners will make their way

through the centre of Peterborough at the end of a journey which began

at sun rise in Leicester. They will not be alone. Will them -- with

them will be more than 300 support staff and dozens of escort vehicles,

combining to come up with an event which they hope will run like

clockwork for a start sunrise at the Space Centre, and the wheels of

the machine that is the Olympic torch relay are beginning to turn.

19-year-old Jasmine had been selected to run the first leg of

the 80 mile trip across three counties. Whether carried by

runners or in a vehicle, the torch travels in a protective envelope,

with roads closed around it to ensure that it stays on time.

Commuters and communities had been warned, but many had not

anticipated the scale of the disruption. The amount of traffic

going through the town, I am not happy. Why are waiting for our bus

now. It is late. It is ridiculous. It is a waste of time. It will only

happen once in my lifetime, so why not? The torch's journey will take

it to more than 1000 places throughout the UK, travelling 8000

miles. From the thousands who applied to carry it, 8000 torch

bearers will run the route at a speed of four miles an hour. This

will be day 46 of that journey, chosen for its particular

challenges. This is a rigorous test, and it will allow us to do what we

have done in all our testing, which is to go away and look at the

things we may need to modify or refine. It is the elusive chase for

perfection. In this village, sealed off to allow the convoy's passage,

they are expecting 2000 people to watch the real thing. It is a real

carnival atmosphere, with the open- top buses. It is great. Priority

number one - even on a choppy crossing of Rutland Water, will be

to keep the flame alight, whether in the torches or in the specially

designed London. Another challenge on a long list, but despite the

disruption, today's dry run has whetted local appetite for the

summer can down ahead. Perhaps there are better ways of helping us

navigate around and perhaps better ways of reducing disruption, but

the sense I am getting tonight is that the planning has paid off.

The Scottish National Party has launched its manifesto for next

month's council elections. Alex Salmond said his party was looking

to implement policies in local councils that it had already

introduced at a national level to protect jobs and create opportunity.

Every SNP councillor elected across Scotland will introduce the same

policies. No compulsory redundancies and introduction of a

living wage. Even at tough times, you can have efficiency in

government leading to protection of jobs and establishing fairness for

all. It is the last full day of

campaigning in the first round of the French presidential elections.

The polls show President Sarkozy still trailing his Socialist rival

Francois Hollande, and the gap appears to be widening. The vote is

on Sunday, and there is a sense of real change in the air.

Not since 1981 has a Socialist challenger won the French

presidency, but in Bordeaux last night, they dared to believe.

Francois Hollande knows that the first round vote will be close on

Sunday, but polls suggest he will beat Nicolas Sarkozy in the run-off

in two weeks' time, and by some margin. On Sunday, the president

appealed to the revolutionary spirit. Rise up against the opinion

polls, he said, and the soft left that detest success. The problem is,

unemployment has risen. The working class resent the wealthy elite

whose around the president, and his sensitive to accusations that he is

the bling-bling President. He has been promising that the more you

work, the more money you get. But unfortunately, many do not see it

that way. They work a lot and do not get money. He did more things

for the rich people. In a frenetic door-to-door campaign, Mr Hollande

has promised to profoundly changed France and preserve the cherished

welfare state. Critics say both candidates have dodged the

fundamental debate on cuts that will be needed, whoever is elected.

When the real plan will be issued, you can bet that there will be a

strong protest coming from any part, from the left or the right. Which

perhaps explains why many will vote for two political extremes. On the

left, and Jean-Luc Melenchon, a Trotskyist who promises to increase

the minimum wage. On the right, Marine Le Pen, who stands against

Europe and immigration. It is unlikely that either of the two

fringe candidates will reach the run-off, but they do influence the

debate. Marine Le Pen has already dragged Nicolas Sarkozy to the

right and conversely, Jean-Luc Melenchon could pull Francois

Hollande to the left. Come Monday morning, and the race for the

second round vote, the supporters of these two camps will be up for

grabs. If the Left were to win on May 6th, it could change the

political narrative in Europe. Francois Hollande wants to rewrite

the Eurozone treaty for which Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy

fought so hard. He is a global icon and the voice

of reggae, who introduced the music to millions. Now the first ever

authorised film about Bob Marley's life has been released. It

premiered last night in front of thousands in Jamaica's capital,

Kingston. Bob Marley, a Jamaican pop star,

peace broker and to many of his fans, something of a profit. Last

night, a new film about his life opened in Jamaica, at which his

widow, Wheater, spoke. Yes, bless! It is good for us as Africans and

Jamaicans to be here to watch this memorable programme tonight.

died over 30 years ago, but remains an everyday presence in the lives

of millions across the globe through his music and his lyrics.

# Get up, stand up. The Oscar- winning director of the documentary

came to the project as a Marley fan, but with the intention of revealing

the man. Yes, he has human faults, but so does everyone. I really

believe that he was not a hypocrite, that he believed what he was saying.

He did give a lot of his money away. I do not have that type of richness.

My richness is life. The film highlights the tension that Bob

Marley felt about having a white father and a black mother. His

mixed race made him feel like an outsider. He found his identity in

music and religion. This is my identity. It is said in the Bible

that all music will befall people to play and dance. That music is

reggae. Bob Marley became a hero in Jamaica and a target for the

island's politics. He survived that assassination attempt, only to die

a few days -- a few years later from cancer. Regardless of the

film's future commercial success, it has already been a hit with the

11 children Bob Marley had during his short life, giving them an

insight into a father they barely Now the weather. How is it looking?

Go to the cinema, and at least you will be dry! We have more of the

same right the way through the weekend. There will be spells of

sunshine and it will feel pleasant, but but don't be fooled, because

the heat from the sun will trigger more showers, frequent and heavy as

well. We have had a lot of showers today. Storms, lightning, Hale,

particularly in the south-east. The storms are not as bad now, but it

will not be dry everywhere overnight. Clear skies in land,

though, and it will be particularly cold in Wales and the West Midlands.

Then the sun shines tomorrow, the cloud builds, showers develop and

become extensive in the afternoon, with slow-moving and heavy

downpours. In the south-west of England, there will be some

sunshine and fewer showers. Quite breezy, though. We have had a few

thunderstorms in Northern Ireland today. There is a risk tomorrow

again, but there will be sunshine between the showers. The best of

the sunshine in Scotland will be along the west coast again. Lots of

heavy showers, may be a bit of snow over higher ground. Some slow-

moving downpours across northern England, particularly east of the

Pennines, into the Midlands and the south-east of England. Those

showers will be dropping the temperatures as well. For the

marathon, it will start off dry and chilly. There will be a risk of

seeing some showers. That story is mirrored across the UK on Sunday. A