14/09/2016 BBC News at Six

She contracted ebola and survived, now the Scottish nurse

Pauline Cafferkey has been cleared of professional misconduct.

She'd been accused of not reporting she had a raised temperature,

on her return to the UK from Sierra Leone in 2014.

Pauline has been motivated by a genuine desire to help other

people, even if this meant putting her own life at risk.

She would never have knowingly put anyone in danger.

Now questions have been raised about screening procedures

described as disorganised and chaotic, when Ms Cafferkey

But the Nursing and Midwifery Council has been defending it's

decision to bring the case, we'll have the latest.

MPs strongly attack Britain's intervention in Libya five years

ago, saying it was an "opportunist policy of regime change"

that helped the rise of so called Islamic State.

Lucky for some, it's thirteen Paralympic golds

in all now Dame Sarah Storey, victorious once again in Rio.

Great Britain's now won more medals than at London 2012.

And, it'll be the most accurate guide of the night sky ever made.

A complete map of the Milky Way, complete with one billion stars.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News, Leicester

make their Champions League debut tonight, but their manager

Claudio Ranieri says it's impossible for them to win the competiton.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

A nurse who almost died from ebola after volunteering in Sierra Leone,

Pauline Cafferkey was accused of failing to declare

she had a high temperature, on arrival at Heathrow Airport

She denied the allegation before the Nursing and Midwifery Council

in Edinburgh, and said in a statement she was "relieved"

During the hearing it was suggested airport screening of those returning

from ebola-hit countries was "disorganised and chaotic."

Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon reports from Edinburgh.

It's almost two years since Pauline Cafferkey Court ebola and almost

died from it. For much of the time since she's been fighting to recover

from ill health and fighting to clear her name. Today, finally,

relief that the disciplinary process has come to an end. Pauline has been

motivated by a genuine desire to help other people even if this meant

putting her own life at risk. She would never have knowingly put

anybody in danger. The Pennetta see disciplinary process has been

upsetting for Pauline. However, she is delighted the panel has made the

decision she has no case to answer. It had been claimed Pauline

Cafferkey put the public at risk when she allowed an incorrect

temperature to be recorded at Heathrow. The screening process

demonstrated here which was described in the misconduct hearing

as chaotic and disorganised. It was run by the very organisation, Public

Health England, who complained about the behaviour of the Scottish nurse.

A woman whose judgment was impaired, say experts, because she was in the

early stages of ebola. The body governing nursing said they had no

alternative after the complaint had been made. This was a highly unusual

set of circumstances, and it was incumbent upon us to do a proper

investigation and allow the panel to decide the best outcome, which is

what they've done today. Pauline Cafferkey was treated in isolation

three times for a disease sheep caught while trying to help others.

And she has talked of the additional anguish caused by the misconduct

allegations. Speaking after her first hospitalisation, she described

how slow her recovery has been. I do get joint pains, I have done for

several months. And my hair fell out. You just don't know, long-term,

either. One-man among her former patients in Sierra Leone says he's

grateful for everything Pauline Cafferkey did to save her life. We

listened to her and her colleagues and because of that we survived.

Pauline Cafferkey has sacrificed much but with her reputation finally

cleared, all she wants to do now is continue helping others through

working as a nurse. Public Health England this evening

responded to comments made about their role in this process in a

statement. They said that the ebola outbreak in West Africa was

unprecedented and that they were hugely grateful to all volunteers

who contributed at great personal risk. They said they supported the

judgment that the panel he made today and that they wish Pauline

Cafferkey well with her ongoing recovery and her future.

A committee of MPs has strongly criticised Britain's military

intervention in Libya in 2011, accusing David Cameron of pursuing

an "opportunist policy of regime change," in removing Colonel

The Foreign Affairs Select Committee said the intervention,

and the lack of a coherent strategy, left Libya in chaos

and gave a foothold to so-called Islamic State.

But ministers and officials involved in the decision have

defended the intervention, as James Landale reports.

Libya is an unstable country. A place where militias compete for

power. Where the Islamic State group has a foothold. Where migrants pour

across unprotected borders en route for the sea. It is a chaotic picture

which, MPs say, is the result of David Cameron Rose decision five

years ago to sending warplanes to support rebels fighting against

Colonel Gaddafi. We were not prepared for the consequences of a

regime change in Libya. And all the analysis being done here was based

on a frankly limited understanding of what the situation in Libya was.

The aim of the intervention was to protect people living here in

Benghazi who were threatened by Gaddafi's forces. The foreigners can

fit -- the Foreign Affairs Committee says the case was overstated. As

fighting continued over the summer, the aim of the operation changed

from protect King civilians to getting rid of Gaddafi. The conflict

he said this was an opportunist policy of regime change. In

particular MPs say more should have been done to use Tony Blair's

contacts to see if a political deal was possible which could have left

Gaddafi in power. Is it better to allow a dictator who may be

appropriate to the country and to the times in which we are living to

remain in power to ensure stability rather than risk the chaos of an

unstable country such as Libya? In September 2011 after the Gaddafi

regime had fallen, Mr Cameron and the then French president visited

Libya and told the people they had shown the courage of Lions. Your

friends in Britain and in France will stand with you as you build

your democracy and build your country for the future. And yet the

Foreign Affairs Committee says that this did not happen and David

Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a

coherent Libya strategy. Diplomats and ministers involved in the

decision to intervene said it was backed by MPs and the United

Nations. And was responding to a real fight. It wasn't clear that

leaving Gaddafi in place would have ensured a better outcome. In Iraq we

went in with major forces, it did not turn out well. In Syria we chose

not to get involved, that also catastrophic. In Libya we went in in

a targeted weight in support. The situation is bad but I wouldn't rule

out that in five years the various parties will have got together and

began to build something. The situation on the ground makes such

optimism Roef. In Libya politics still comes second to violence.

The President of the European Commission says the EU

is in crisis, but not at risk, as a result of Brexit.

In his State of the Union speech, Jean Claude Juncker,

warned of the dangers of what he called "galloping

populism" in Europe, and condemned attacks on migrants

in the UK, in the wake of the vote to leave the EU.

Here's our Europe Editor, Katya Adler.

Is this the man who can save the EU? His annual State of the union speech

is designed to be visionary, full of goals and ideals. But this year the

main EU a is survival. TRANSLATION: All too often we see splits and

disagreement instead of European union, leaving the door open for

galloping populism. He said the EU was, to a degree, in a stench of

crisis. The EU is crawling with crises. Think migration, Eurozone

wobbles and cross-border terror. The UK's vote to leave is probably the

biggest body blow yet. But Brexit was given little mention today by Mr

Jonker. His intended message, we'll be fine without you. The European

Parliament's Brexit negotiator put this point even more forcefully.

Stop the politics of division and choose this opportunity not to kill

Europe as some of you want, but to reinvent Europe's. When the EU and

UK do thrash out their new relationship, Mr Juncker insisted

European principles were not up for negotiation. The UK would not get

good access to the European single market, he said, if it imposed entry

limits on EU workers. Q Nigel Farage. The two men are famous here

for their testy relationship. If you stick to the dogma of saying that

for tariff free access, reciprocal tariff free access to the single

market, we must retain the free movement of people, then you will

inevitably drive us towards no Deal. Jean-Claude Juncker's state of the

union speech today was supposed to mark new, invigorated EU beginnings

following Britain's vote to leave. Instead it highlighted the EU's

biggest headaches. No start date and a lack of clarity surrounding Brexit

on the one hand, and on the other a real fear inside the EU Parliament

that voters out there across Europe no longer trust or believe in the

EU. But perhaps that's also part of a bigger process. The problem is the

trust of ordinary citizens. How do you change that? Ordinary citizens

working hard and playing by the rules don't feel respected. Not only

by the European Union. This is a worldwide phenomenon on. Look to the

election campaign in the United States. Bustles bureaucrats,

bankers, politicians from traditional parties, growing numbers

distrust what they see as a self-serving elite. EU needs reform

to appear relevant but there is little agreement in these corridors

as to how. The latest unemployment figures,

which include the first month after the Brexit vote,

show a continuing improvement The number of people

unemployed in the three months to July was down by

39,000 to 1.63 million. That's an unemployment rate of 4.9%,

more than half a percentage point With me now is our Economics

Editor, Kamal Ahmed. Kamal, more data which seems to show

that post Brexit the I think a lot of people who

predicted an economic calamity after the vote to leave the European Union

have had to revise those forecasts. As you say, employment figures today

show that there is still some pretty good momentum in the UK economy.

Why? There's a pretty simple fact here. Nothing has actually changed

yet. We are still members of the European Union. Brexit hasn't

happened. We are members of the single market. With a weaker

currency, which means our exports are more competitive, which has

meant an economic boost. Secondly, the Bank of England has cut interest

rates which many economists did not model for before the referendum. So

that is good for the UK economy and confidence. I would urge some

caution. The data post-referendum is still sparse, these employment

figures only have five weeks post-June one, and there is evidence

of inflationary pressure is growing in the economy which could mean

higher prices for consumers, because we are paying more for food and fuel

that we import. We are waiting to see the direction of travel from the

government over tax and spending, will they back the Hinkley power

station? A new runway? Once we see that, investors will decide whether

to invest in the UK and keep those employment numbers as strong as we

have seen today. Pauline Cafferkey, the nurse

who almost died of Ebola, has been cleared of

professional misconduct. the difficulties facing

young people leaving care. Cyclist Dame Sarah Storey has

won her 13th Paralympic gold as Great Britain passed

the total haul of gold medals There's also been success elsewhere

on the track and in the pool. So with four days left,

Great Britain has 38 golds, beating the 34 in London 2012 -

remembering though that Russia For all of the day's

action, here's Andy Swiss. It was a day when Britain raced past

yet another milestone. On the streets of Rio, Dame Sarah Storey

winning the team's 35th gold medal here, more than they won at the

whole of London 2012. Having reached that landmark, they roared on

through. Kadeena Cox hurtled into history in the 400 metres. Cox, who

has multiple sclerosis, had already won a gold in cycling. Now she is

the first Briton to win two titles in two sports at the same games for

more than 30 years. There was still more to come for a. Karen Darke took

gold in the hands cycling, despite her chain falling off. Sophie Wells

conjured a title winning performance in the dressage. But the entire

team, having beaten the London tally, this was a day to celebrate.

Nobody was more disappointed than the athletes with only winning 34

medals in London. We thought it was an underperformance. Our athletes

have performed fantastically in Rio. 50% of medals have been gold. It has

been sensational. Another golden night had set the tone, not least

for a Libby Clegg, the sprinter who is visually impaired, running her

second title with guide runner Chris Clarke in the 200 metres. The pair

only training together six months ago. On and off the track, theirs is

a special chemistry. He is a bit of a joke as well. The first guiding

session we did, we just ran pretty much in sync. You Pretty much

happened ready. In the pool, that same spirit of success. Stephanie

Millward with a kiss for her mum as, at 34, she finally ended her long

wait for a Paralympic title. And in the splash and dash of the 50 metres

freestyle, Matt Wylie had the touch. Another victory, and other gold,

another moment for the family album. Yes, it has been another great day

for the British team. Their target now is to beat their overall medal

tally from London 2012. They won 120 medals in London. They have got 80

year. With four days remaining, they will be full of confidence. Andy

Swiss on the continuing success for Great Britain in Rio.

The United Nations says it still hasn't been able

to deliver vital humanitarian aid to besieged areas of Syria,

Later today, America and Russia, will deliver their assessment

of the first 48 hours of the truce, and announce

The northern city of Aleppo has been at the centre of fierce fighting,

between government troops who hold the west, and rebels controlling

Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been affected

Our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen,

is in Aleppo, and sent us this report from the suburb of Bedi Zaid.

Now this place is Bedi Zaid, to the west of Aleppo.

And it has been absolutely pulverised.

I suspect a lot of this must have been

Now rebels, the Army is telling me, held this place until July of this

year. And then, in what was a huge display of firepower, they were

From the government's point of view, this was an important moment,

because from this area, rebels were able to fire down into

You can only guess what happened to people

who originally lived in these houses.

The remains of the school over there.

I suppose they've swelled the numbers who have lost their

Half the pre-war population of Syria is either refugees

outside the country, or displaced within it.

Now the Middle East is in the process of

It is the result of a century of misrule, disastrous foreign

interventions, stagnation and repression, and this war is part of

all of that. No wonder it is so hard to stop.

And you can see Jeremy's full report from the city

Thousands of young people in England are being set up to fail,

because councils aren't preparing them for life after care.

That's the stark warning from the Children's Society, which says

many vulnerable teenagers end up suffering debt and homelessness

once they leave care system at the age of 18.

Between 2013 and 2015, more than 3,000 care leavers,

had their benefits stopped or reduced.

They're also three times more likely to lose benefits or have them

on the difficulties facing so many young people.

Leaving home and stepping out into the world today can be tough

But for teenagers who have been in care, it can trigger a

I've been homeless basically since I left care.

You have to fend for yourself, basically, and it's really hard.

For people like Michael, a child of the care system, a young

man already with a history of homelessness, addiction and prison.

I just felt like that was me, brush him out of the way -

it's OK, it's only Michael. Do you know what I'm saying, like?

I don't really have friends. I'm always on my own.

The Lifeshare charity are doing all they can

Young people who leave care are supposed to get council support.

But here they know that that system is struggling.

Young people can get very frustrated because they're

ringing up to speak to the care workers, but unfortunately a care

worker might have 35 other young people on their books, so hasn't got

that time to give perhaps that emotional support the young person

# Being in care is like the dumping ground...

Callum has been out of care for two years.

# I started off as zero, but look at me now...

Now he's got his music, his girlfriend and his daughter.

The Children's Society says care leavers are three times

more likely to have their benefits stopped or sanctioned than other

people of the same age. Callum was one of them.

When my girlfriend were pregnant, we got sanctioned.

Some nights I would literally sit there and make sure

that she had a meal, even if I didn't eat,

because I know she needed it more than me because she was not

only feeding herself, she was feeding my daughter.

Parents these days know that kids need support well after

But for those coming out of care, there is no more mum

or dad to help with those basic life skills.

Like using the washing machine, preparing a meal or

The local authorities need to be doing more to

support them when they do leave care, when they do turn 18.

Councils acknowledge there is a problem.

Councils have a difficult job in this area.

It's made a lot harder by the enormous scale of

government funding cuts to councils, which are really stretching many

What I hope for the future is that I can better myself and just move

The government says it wants to help, and that

new reforms means that those who have left care will now

Now, it will be one of the most extraordinary maps ever made.

The most accurate guide of the night sky, charting the whereabouts

and brightness of more than a billion stars in our galaxy.

The Gaia space telescope has been scanning the heavens for three years

and all the data has been put together by the European space

agency. I you were flying through it in a

spacecraft, this is This is a three-dimensional map

of stars created from real data, just released by the

European Space Agency. The release is the first step

towards a complete revolution in our knowledge of the structure, the

origin, the evolution and what the I'm in the library of the Royal

astronomical Society. It's full of books about where

the stars in the galaxy are. But new results from the Gaia space

telescope will mean that many of them will have to be rewritten.

We show you why. It is one of eight planets that make

up the solar system. With our stars,

the sun and its centre. But the sun is just one of billions

of stars in our galaxy called the Milky Way,

which the textbooks Astronomers think that we are here,

on one of the spiral arms. But all of this is

based on guesswork and the observation of just

a few hundred stars. But over the past three years,

Gaia has been scanning the skies and mapped

the position of more So very soon we will

have a more accurate picture of what the Milky Way

is really like and where we are. This may well be completely

different to The telescope has collected so much

data that the European Space Agency has invited schools all

across the world to help them, by sifting through the information

and letting them know if they discover

anything interesting. They have discovered a star that has

exploded at the end of its life. We discovered that

the supernova, which is in the data that we have been

looking at from stars, and what we You don't discover

a supernova everyday? It's different because you don't see

these kind of things every day. It feels really proudto think that

I discovered a supernova Astronomers also hope

to discover a completely new object in our galaxy that are

currently beyond our imagination. Time for a look at the weather.

Here's John Hammond Normal service will resume, the

weekend but it has been another bizarre mid-September day, a day

full of contrast. East Anglia had the highest temperatures. 31

degrees. Mind you, running up the east coast it was a different story.

Temperatures knocked on the head under the cloud cover. 13 degrees in

eastern Scotland with leaden skies for much of the day. This was a

typical scene on the east coast of Scotland. Showery rain in the far

north-west of Scotland. The odd sharp shower across the heart of the

Midlands. We could see a thunderstorm in Wales. Most of us

will be dry overnight. Cloud creeping inland. You could wake up

to low cloud and missed first thing in the morning. A steamy night in

the large towns and cities across southern Britain. One more day of

heat. Particularly when you make up -- wake up to sunshine. A murky

start further north. Inland, the sun will come through and the

temperatures will rocket into the 20s. Possibly the low 30s across the

south-east. Thunderstorms erupting. The potential for some nasty storms

initially across southern England, through parts of the Midlands,

Wales, northern England and eastern Scotland. It could be a very wet

start to the day in eastern part of the UK on Friday. Fresher conditions

coming off the Atlantic. Temperatures in some places down by

10 degrees on Friday. Some sunshine at West. That gradually eases away.

A ridge of high pressure building in on Saturday. The start of the

weekend looks pretty good with some sunshine. Temperatures are a lot

lower than they have been. And on BBC One we now join the BBC's

news teams where you are.