01/03/2016 BBC News at Six

The Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland -

the case against the only remaining suspect collapses.

More people were killed in the 1998 atrocity than in any other terror

Prosecutors accept their evidence against him is unreliable.

I think most families have given up on justice.

They've given up on the criminal justice system because

We'll be asking if this is the end of the road

New clashes at the Calais refugee camp

as the authorities try to move people to new sites.

Shares in Barclays plunge after it announces a drop in profits.

Can anyone stop Donald Trump's bid for the White House?

It's Super Tuesday in America's election season.

Notice the refreshing absence of traffic congestion.

That's because no vehicles are allowed in the shopping area,

That was the promise a generation ago.

Now the NHS says new towns should be about healthy living.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News, there's a big night

Leicester could go five points clear at the top of the table with a win

Hello, and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

The Omagh bombing was the worst, single atrocity of Northern

Ireland's troubles and today the prospect of justice

for the victims' families seems as remote as ever.

The case against the only remaining suspect charged with the attack

Seamus Daly has always denied the murders of 29 people

in the Real IRA attack and today he was released from prison.

The prosecution said it was withdrawing the charges

because a key witness was unreliable.

This report contains flash photography. August 15th 1998 was a

day unparalleled. Even in Northern Ireland's history of brutality. This

was a Saturday afternoon in a busy market town. It had been a day out

for families. By evening, children and parents were grieving because of

a massive car bomb left among the throng. 18 years later, shops have

been repaired, this street rebuilt but nothing is forgotten in Omagh

with the relatives of those who died still looking for justice. However,

they didn't find it when they went to court today. The cause against

Seamus Daly, the man accused of all 29 murders collapsed before it even

reached trial. Soul destroying. If you notice here this morning,

there's not many families. Most families have given up on justice.

They've given up on the Chris name justice system they've been let down

so many times. Seamus Daly's always strongly denied any part in the

explosion in Omagh. I'd like to ask you some questions, please,s with

Omagh bombing. However, in 2,000, panorama named him as one of the

Real IRA gang who was involved in the bombing. Key to the prosecution

case was a mobile phone used by the bombers. Their main witness said he

could connect Seamus Daly to the phone. However in court he gave

inconsistent evidence and contradicted his earlier testimony.

The prosecution against the defendant, Seamus Daly, was based on

a how of straw. The failure of this case to reach trial means only one

man has ever been prosecuted for the murders at Omagh. In December 2007,

Sean Howie was acquitted and cleared of involvement in the attacks after

a lengthy criminal case. Two years later, four other men, including

Seamus Daly, were found Abell in a civil case but they continued to

push for criminal convictions. Two years ago, Seamus Daly was arrested

and charged. However, today, the case against him collapsed with the

prosecutors admitting they didn't have enough evidence. To bring it to

that level where it's even been at a committal hearing was pointless. I

don't understand why they put families continually through it.

This afternoon, Seamus Daly left prison where he's been held on

remand for almost two years. He's no longer wanted in connection with the

murders of all those who are remembered in Omagh. But the town's

them otherial garden also serves as a reminder no-one's been held to

account for their deaths. As you can understand, different families here

in Omagh feel very differently here today. Some are still pushing for a

full cross-border inquiry. They believe there is information about

what happened in this street behind me in August 1998 that's not yet

come to light. However, as far as a criminal prosecution's concerned,

most of those hopes seem dashed. . I was told by prosecutors currently

the police have no ongoing lines of criminal inquiry. Thank you.

There have been new confrontations between migrants and police

at the Calais refugee camp - also known as The Jungle.

It follows a decision by the French authorities to move some

of the 4,000 migrants and refugees to new sites elsewhere.

As Lucy Williamson reports from the camp,

activists oppose the forced relocation.

This small white shack is where these people lived. Today, it was

marked for demolition. Take our house, they cried, and we'll take

our lives. It was a protest of the powerless ended in minutes by the

police. Around them, other figures watched defiant from their own

flimsy rooftops, wrapped against the cold. The irony is migrants are are

clinging on to makeshift shelters in a country most don't want to be.

Moving to official migrant camps with heat and electricity means

registering in France. These temporary shacks show their resolve

not to settle here. This road marks the Jungles new boundary. Everything

to the south of it will be cleared out and the people evicted.

Everything, that is, except for the communal buildings, the mosques,

schools, community centres, the churches. Many people facing

eviction today say rather than leave their community, those communal

buildings are where they'll sleep tonight. After yesterday's violence,

there's a sense of resignation among many migrants here. But as more

shelters burnt today, the Government directed its anger towards the

extreme and violent actions by some of the activists here. Police on the

ground told us off camera, most of the agitators are British.

TRANSLATION: We've arrested four people, mostly British. These are

people who use others but are never on the frontline themselves. They

use the migrants inciting them to start fires and throw stones. But

the shrinking of Calais's migrant camp hides truth. Suggest the rate

of any arrivals across the Med has almost tripped since last year. The

buildings might be cleared, but as for their owners, many are still

waiting for their chance in England and many more are on their way.

is only part of a much wider migrant crisis facing Europe.

Official figures from Europe's border control agency

show that the number of migrants crossing into Europe

was 30 times higher than the levels reached at the same time last year.

Next week, European leaders will meet once more

to try and find a way out of the crisis.

Our Europe Editor Katya Adler is in Athens.

Katya, what chance of any kind of solution?

This is not the first time they have' discussed this issue. Slim

from where I'm standing, George. Greece remains the main point of

entry into Europe for refugees and other migrants arriving this knows

large numbers you mentioned. Numbers which are predicted to rise now

spring's comings. The weather's gets warmer and the sea's calmer. The key

to stopping that flow of people into Europe lies in Turkey. That's where

most of the asylum seekers and others are jumping on those people

smugglers' dinghies and making that short but dangerous hopover to the

Greek island. That meeting on Monday is between the EU and Turkey. There

is a problem. Turkey has little incentive to stop people leaving its

shores. It's having a hard time looking after well over two million

Syrian refugees who fled their civil war. The EU is not speaking with one

voice. Here in the south, Greece feels abandoned and resentful.

Further north, Germany is struggling to accommodate the asylum seekers it

took in last year. Slovenia have taken matters into their own hands.

Slammed their borders shut. Reducing the number of migrants they are

letting through for their own protection, they say. The clumsy

handling of this migration is weakening and destabilising Europe.

Can a meeting on Monday solve all that? It is extremely unlikely

though it may make some baby steps of progress. Thank you.

Shares in Barclays dropped sharply today

after the bank reported a fall in profits.

Barclays also announced, plans to sell its controlling stake

in the bank's Africa operations - ending its presence on the continent

Here's our Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed.

It's been travelling in one direction and that's downwards.

Barclays share price, a barometer of its financial health has been sickly

for a year. Today, it sank by 8% as it was struggling to make profits

and was quitting the emerging committees of Africa. Geoff told me

the heart of Barclays, the UK business and Barclaycard, was still

strong. There are clearly challenges in running a bank begin the

regulatory response to the financial crisis and the conduct issues banks

were facing. If you look inside of those numbers, a lot of what I'll

focus on today, Barclays has had a core franchise, a terrific set of

businesses. We are eight years after the financial crisis. Your results

are sfil littered with conduct issues. You've new provisions for

payment protection misselling, when will banks, when can the public

trust banks are behaving better? I do believe the banks lost their way

ten or 15 years ago. We lost a lot of trust through the financial

crisis. We have an obligation to return that. I interviewed Jez daily

on the top floor of Barclays' steel and glass headquarters here in

Canary Wharf. This building, almost from a different era, a time when

bangs were swashbuckling global businesses making billions of pounds

of profit and Suing the seeds of the financial crisis. Jess daily made it

clear to me this was a different time, a time of lower profits, a

time of smaller bonus payments, a time for a smaller Barclays. It will

be smaller here, Kenya, one of the countries affected by Barclays

decision to pull out of Africa. It's a very difficult decision. You go to

places like Uganda and Kenya, the brand of Barclays is as strong there

as it is in the UK. We have to make some very difficult decisions if

we're going to get Barclays into a focussed clear, compelling business

model that generates returns for our shareholders. Those investors will

need some persuading, not constantly changing the person at the top might

help. It's not good for any bank to have four VEOs in five years. More

like a Premiership football club than a financial institution. We had

a CEO last year who was a lifetime banker. The markets have been

worried about that. Not the towering giant it once was but with 110,000

employees and as a major contributor to our pensions, Mr Staly's rescue

effort matters. He is the new broom. Can he sweep the?

Details of a review into the state pension age have just been announced

The news prompted pension experts to warn that the government

could accelerate rises in the state pension age.

Our political correspondent Ross Hawkins joins us

Ross, are we all going to be working for longer?

We will. There's a plan for that age to rise to 66 and 67 over the next

12 years. None of that will change. This review will look at whether the

system is sustainable in the longer term. It is a ?90 billion bill for

the state pension. We are all living longer. While ministers say just

because there's a review it doesn't mean it is inevitable the state

pension age will rise, many younger people entering the jobs market now

will look at any prospect of a state funded rye tirement for them

receding further and further into the distans.

The only remaining suspect in the Omagh bombings,

Seamus Daly, is released after the case against him is dropped.

A top international award for three British scientists

Professional boxers, like Anthony Joshua here,

have been told they will be allowed to compete at this years Olympics,

as long as the International Boxing Federation approves the change.

Americans began voting today in what's dubbed Super Tuesday,

a day when voters in nearly a dozen states get to pick who will end up

It's widely expected that Donald Trump will get enough support

For the Democratic Party, this is Hillary Clinton's chance

to open up a credible gap with her rival, Bernie Sanders.

Our correspondent, James Cook, is in Houston, Texas.

James. Well, George, eight months to go and the field seems to be

narrowing at last. Hillary Clinton forging ahead in the polls. Donald

Trump trying to see off his main rivals, the Senators, Ted Cruz and

Marco Rubio. This Super Tuesday, may well be the moment when we find out

who is all hat and no cattle. In Houston, it's the

biggest show in town. Not Super Tuesday, but the annual

livestock fair and Rodeo. They've come to Texas from all over

the United States for this event and when it comes to politics,

folk here, like everywhere, Donald Trump is stating exactly

and what this country needs is a leader in business and not

I don't really care for Trump because I feel like he attacks

people when he's trying to make a point.

to point out everyone else's flaws and not really focus

It's kind of crazy right now, if I can go-ahead and say it -

I dislike, kind of, what he stands for.

Whatever he tells you, he does what he tells you.

In 11 states, Democrats and Republicans are doing just that

today - picking the person they want to stand for President.

Here in Texas there are local elections, too.

But in the White House race the votes will be counted,

who will confirm their choice at party conventions in the summer.

For everyone involved in the presidential race this

is the biggest test so far, but here in Texas there's particular

If he loses here, his campaign will be in real trouble.

Polls suggest the Texas Senator is on course for victory

Almost everywhere else though Donald Trump is the favourite.

Illegal immigration has turned out which votes in a fortnight.

Illegal immigration has turned out to be one of the big factors in this

entire campaign. You wouldn't even be talking about it. You had

wouldn't be hearing about it if I didn't take take all that heat.

As for the Democrats, Bernie Sanders left-wing challenge

to Hillary Clinton seems to be fading.

Secretary Clinton stands out in a very positive way and I think

Mr Trump is an embarrassment to our country.

Bernie Sanders, he makes the most sense, he has the most experience

and he's really making a change for America.

The presidential election isn't until November,

James Cook, BBC News, Houston in Texas.

A head teacher has told a murder trial how she found a 16-year-old

pupil bleeding to death after he was stabbed

The court heard how Bailey Gwynne was involved in a fight

at Cults Academy in October last year.

The 16-year-old accused, who cannot be named for legal

Steven Godden is outside the High Court in Aberdeen.

Over to you, Steven. It was lunchtime at school school, a school

in the west of the city, what started an argument over a biscuit,

ended with one pupil, 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne, dead, stabbed through

the heart, and another 16-year-old who can't be named for legal

reasons, in the dock charged with you ared mer. Today, Bailey Gwynne's

family were in court to hear what was at times highly charged

evidence. One friend of both boys broke down as he spoke, he wered the

fight. He told the jury that he saw the accused reaching into his blazer

and pulling out a knife. The head teacher of the school gave evidence

much she spoke of seeing Bailey lying on the corridor seriously

injured, bleeding and very, very pale. She said she had an exchange

with the accused in which he was distraught and he gestured towards

Bailey suggesting this was my fault. Now the 16-year-old denies

murdereder and two other charges of having weapons on school property.

The trial here at the High Court in Aberdeen continues. All right,

Steven, thank you. The Home Office has tightened up

privacy safeguards in new legal proposals allowing police

and intelligence services to monitor electronic

communications. The legislation will give police

more powers to see internet browsing Service providers will need to store

browsing history data for 12 months. The NHS is getting involved

in the planning for 10 It's part of a plan to put healthy

living at the heart of the design. Some of the options being looked

at include special zones free of fast-food outlets

and dementia-friendly streets. Our health editor,

Hugh Pym, has the details. How they used to w build a new town

with convenient access to the shopping centre. But now it's not

short steps but longer walks which the planners want to encourage.

Here, close to the Thames, Barking and Dagenham council are encouraging

development with walking and cycling right at the centre. The idea is We

don't want people thinking they have to go to a gym. We want people

having nice walks out with the family. The leader told me why he

signed the council up with NHS England as a healthy new town for

the next round of house building. We have to make sure we are the friends

of the walker, cyclist, not of the car. That is what we will look at,

making sure we make the development as friendly as possible for people

that want to use their own steam. The council's planning 10,000 new

homes on this site and will follow the advice of NHS leaders. One in

five children is regularly out playing outside. We know that fewer

are getting to walk to school or cycle. We know it's harder for older

people to walk down to the local shops if there aren't benches or

other facilities, pavements where one in ten old people fall each

year. We can design in health to make healthy living the easy choice

for people. Fast-food outlets are part of the inner city landscape you

don't have to go too far from the propose newed development in Barking

and Dagenham to find them. That is a challenge for all policy makers

trying to promote healthier environments. While health

campaigners welcome the announcement they point out the Government's

childhood and antiobesity policy has been postponed it looks like a lack

of joined up thinking. I'm not against making it a healthy

environment, walk and all that. That is a good idea. The idea it will

solve a vie Russ of public health in the UK is ridiculous. The healthy

towns plan includes help for people with dementia. Staff could be

trained and more understanding when appointments are missed. After

having the training it made us understand the problem. We don't get

stressed now. We put plans into action to help those people when

they come in so they feel more comfortable. The staff feel mo

confident. Building it is now the challenge. Hugh Pym, BBC News.

A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.

A timber storage warehouse was destroyed and several vehicles

badly damaged when a huge fire broke out at an industrial yard

Over 70 firefighters were needed to put the blaze out.

This winter was the wettest recorded in Scotland since records

Met Office statistics show that an average of two-and-a-half foot

of rain fell across the country in December, January and February.

There's more bad weather on the way with a warning of snow and ice

being issued for large parts of Scotland overnight.

Tim Peake has sent Wales a St David's Day message

from the International Space Station.

Wales is an important part of our UK space community and from up

here it's also beautiful looking down on Snowdon,

the Brecon Beacons and the Valleys and so I'd like to wish

you all a very happy St David's Day, iechyd da.

Three British researchers have won one of the world's most coveted

science awards for their work on the brain.

They were praised for making significant advances into finding

And guess what - it's called the Brain Prize.

Here's our science editor, David Shukman.

Throughout our lives we collect memories,

some remaining clear, others fading, they're part of a system that allows

Without it, we'd never advance and everyday tasks,

like driving, would be simply impossible.

Until recently, no-one knew how the brain could store information,

but researchers at this lab in Edinburgh, together with teams

in Bristol and London, have found ways to explain

Memory we've now got a good handle on because we know about the events

that occur when memories are laid down.

We know more or less where it happens and we know at the level

or connections between nerve cells what's happening.

How the brain actually holds memories was for years something

that was too difficult to understand, but scientists then

realised that one part of it, called the hippocampus,

Inside it there are billions of connections between the brain

cells and, when those links become stronger,

that's the key mechanism allowing us to remember.

So one crucial discovery is that the brain can change,

creating new connections and breaking them.

Another is that faults with this process can be linked to conditions

including depression, autism, addiction and Alzheimer's.

An image of some of the billions of connections inside the brain.

One hope with this research is to fight Alzheimer's

If we could zero in on this connection process between brain

cells and understand why that connection process is,

as it were, under stress, and making it difficult for people

to keep a record of their daily events, then maybe we could develop

new kinds of drugs that could help that process.

As the scientists delve into the mechanism of memory,

That some day in the future people who are suffering from trauma,

like soldiers after battle, might be helped by having their bad

memories deleted, a whole new world of possible treatments has

The skies above north-east Scotland were alight last night.

It was probably caused by a meteor shower.

Many people reported seeing what looked like a fireball

and a bright flash, others reported hearing the rumbling sound caused

Most meteors aren't seen by the naked eye, this one

was thought to have been about 10 centimetres wide and travelling

Plenty of interesting facts. It's only Tuesday and I'm exhausted. We

had frost and sun yesterday. Mild and wet today. Snow tomorrow,

believe it or not! If we look at today in detail. The cloud and rain

cleared to the south-easterliy on. Brightening skies, scattering of

showers to the north-west. A mild afternoon, temperatures peaking 15

degrees, felt almost spring-like. All that is set to change as we move

through tonight. Colder air filters in from the argue Arctic it will

turn showers in the north-west from rain to sleet and snow. Across

Scotland, Northern Ireland, northern England as temperatures fall below

freezing ice could be an issue. I wouldn't be surprised if we see

lying snow first thing in the morning. There is the potential

maybe for two to five centimetres, maybe more to higher ground to

south-west Scotland into Northern Ireland as well. Accompanied by

strong winds. That will be blowing any lying snow around, potential for

snow across north-west England and North Wales first thing in the

morning. There could be some disruption for your early morning

commute, tune into your BBC local radio stations for updates. It' tied

into this system which has been called Jake. It will bring strong to

damaging gusts of winds across the south-west first thing in the

morning. We are concerned about this cluster of wintry showers moving

across north-west England, Wales and through the Midlands. As it pushes

into the south-west wet snow and sleet. Behind it brighter, but still

colder weather, there will be a scattering of winter showers to the

far north and west. A disappointing day. Thursday will be quieter, I'm

pleased to say, dryer, brighter and a little bit milder, six to nine

degrees. We do it all again into Friday. There is the potential for

another system to draw in some colder air and there is a potential

maybe for some sleet and some snow as