:00:09. > :00:15.Tonight at 10 o'clock: New evidence of abuse in children's homes in
:00:15. > :00:18.North Wales that spanned four decades. The latest inquiry
:00:18. > :00:24.catalogue delegations from 140 people who say they were assaulted
:00:24. > :00:27.in as many as 18 care homes. There are 13 people but I know of that
:00:27. > :00:32.have committed suicide. If this had been done earlier, we could have
:00:33. > :00:36.stopped that. Police say the abuse was more widespread than previously
:00:36. > :00:40.reported. Three British men jailed in Dubai
:00:40. > :00:45.for drugs offences. They allege they were tortured by police.
:00:45. > :00:50.Major welfare changes get under way. The universal credit is introduced
:00:50. > :00:53.in part of Greater Manchester. The declining bee population and
:00:54. > :01:02.why the EU is banning some farming pesticides.
:01:02. > :01:08.And after the stunning double last year, Sir Bradley announces he his
:01:08. > :01:12.after another stunning success this year.
:01:12. > :01:22.Aston Villa and Sunderland hope to move a step closer to Premier
:01:22. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:40.Good evening. A police investigation has found significant
:01:40. > :01:45.new evidence of abuse at care homes in North Wales. Detectives say that
:01:45. > :01:51.140 people have come forward naming 80 allege abuses. There is also
:01:51. > :01:57.evidence that the abuse continued from much longer than previously
:01:57. > :02:00.thought. It is a scandal that refuses to subside. Despite a
:02:00. > :02:06.police investigation, an independent inquiry, and a full
:02:06. > :02:09.public inquiry led by a judge, today we learnt that child abuse in
:02:09. > :02:14.North Wales children's homes was far more widespread than previously
:02:14. > :02:18.thought. The investigation has been given what it calls significant
:02:18. > :02:23.evidence of systemic and serious physical and sexual abuse of
:02:24. > :02:30.children at 18 different care homes across North Wales, in a period
:02:30. > :02:33.from 1963 right through to 1992. Today at North Wales Police
:02:33. > :02:37.headquarters in Colwyn Bay, the media gathered to hear what happens
:02:37. > :02:42.next in this long-running saga. The Chief Constable told reporters that
:02:42. > :02:45.the passage of time did not reduce his resolve for achieving justice.
:02:45. > :02:49.People who commit serious and sexual offences should live with
:02:49. > :02:53.the knowledge that we were always examine new information and
:02:53. > :02:56.evidence, and seek to bring them to justice for their crimes. Offenders
:02:56. > :03:02.quite rightly should have to look over their shoulders for the rest
:03:02. > :03:07.of their lives. Watching today's events, Keith Gregory. One of those
:03:07. > :03:11.who said he was abused as a young boy in care in North Wales. For him
:03:11. > :03:15.in has been a day of hope and regret. There are 13 people I know
:03:15. > :03:19.of that have committed suicide. If this had been done earlier, we
:03:19. > :03:24.could have stopped that. For everybody's sake, I hope that
:03:25. > :03:32.everything is done properly and arrests are made. Yet these people
:03:32. > :03:36.off the streets, really. The new investigation was ordered by
:03:36. > :03:42.Theresa May after a BBC Newsnight report last November led to a Tory
:03:42. > :03:46.peer being falsely accused of paedophilia. But the BBC also
:03:46. > :03:51.alleged that far more people were involved than had been acknowledged
:03:51. > :03:57.since allegations were first made about this children's home in
:03:57. > :04:01.Wrexham. 140 allegations of abuse have been made to police and 76
:04:01. > :04:04.victims have never spoken out before. Detectives have been given
:04:04. > :04:08.84 names of people said to have abused children as young as seven.
:04:08. > :04:13.People need to be aware that regardless of the passage of time,
:04:13. > :04:19.people will be held to account. say held to account, at 50 years
:04:19. > :04:25.after the fact can you really get a case? We need to investigate his
:04:25. > :04:30.allegations thoroughly and we will go where the evidence takes us.
:04:30. > :04:40.Turning allegations into court convictions often hinges on in back
:04:40. > :04:42.
:04:42. > :04:46.of the -- often hinges on DNA. But that will be difficult to find half
:04:46. > :04:53.a century later. It will not be easy, but the hope is that finally
:04:53. > :04:57.justice can now be done. Three British men have been found
:04:57. > :05:01.guilty of drugs offences in Dubai. They were each jailed for four
:05:01. > :05:06.years. The men were all from London and claim they were tortured by
:05:06. > :05:09.police after they were arrested. David Cameron has confirmed that he
:05:09. > :05:15.will discuss the allegations with the President of the United Arab
:05:15. > :05:18.Emirates, who arrives on a state visit tomorrow.
:05:18. > :05:21.More than nine months after arriving on holiday here in Dubai,
:05:21. > :05:28.Grant Cameron, along with his friends Karl Williams and Suneet
:05:28. > :05:32.Jeerh, a finally found out what their fate would be. Inside this
:05:32. > :05:38.court, they were convicted of taking illegal drugs and were
:05:38. > :05:43.sentenced to four years in prison. Grand Cameron's mother had little
:05:43. > :05:48.hope that they would be released, despite the allegations that they
:05:48. > :05:51.had been tortured by the Dubai police. She told me how Karl
:05:51. > :05:57.Williams had been singled out for the worst treatment. He was laid
:05:57. > :06:03.out on the bed. His trousers were stripped down. Electric shocks were
:06:03. > :06:07.administered to his testicles while he was blindfolded. I believe all
:06:07. > :06:14.the boys had guns held to their head. They were told they were
:06:14. > :06:17.going to die. The holiday last July went wrong within a few days. The
:06:17. > :06:23.police in Dubai arrested the three men, accusing them of having more
:06:23. > :06:26.than one kilogram of synthetic cannabis inside their car. But
:06:26. > :06:31.human rights campaigners say their convictions should be overturned
:06:31. > :06:34.because there is evidence backing up the torture allegations.
:06:34. > :06:37.position remains that the men should have been released and the
:06:37. > :06:42.prosecution against them was grossly unfair. There is no way
:06:42. > :06:46.someone can get a fair trial in these circumstances, where police
:06:46. > :06:52.torture has been used. At the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates
:06:52. > :06:57.they are making final preparations for the visit of their President,
:06:57. > :07:01.Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, to Britain which starts tomorrow. The
:07:01. > :07:05.torture allegations could cast a shadow over the state visit of what
:07:05. > :07:09.is an important trade partner for Britain. Because while the
:07:09. > :07:13.authorities in the United Arab Emirates deny the allegations, the
:07:13. > :07:17.Prime Minister seems determined to get to the bottom of what happened.
:07:17. > :07:21.Well, we have said that we want to see a proper, independent inquiry
:07:21. > :07:25.into this and we will raise that during the visit. That could lift
:07:26. > :07:35.the hopes of these three men. They could soon be pardoned instead of
:07:35. > :07:38.spending years in prison. Reports from Syria say the
:07:38. > :07:43.country's Prime Minister Wael al- Halqi has survived an assassination
:07:43. > :07:47.attempt. A car bomb exploded at his convoy drove through Damascus.
:07:47. > :07:50.State television said he escaped unharmed and then showed him at a
:07:50. > :07:53.Government meeting some hours after the attack.
:07:53. > :07:58.Nelson Mandela is in good shape according to Jacob Zuma, the South
:07:58. > :08:01.African President, who visited him today. He was discharged from
:08:02. > :08:06.hospital three weeks ago looking frail and sensitive to the camera
:08:06. > :08:11.flashes. The 94 year-old is being treated for recurrent lung
:08:11. > :08:15.infection. The clothing retailer Primark says
:08:15. > :08:19.that will compensate some of the victims of the collapsed textiles
:08:19. > :08:23.factory in Bangladesh. 380 people lost their lives when the building
:08:23. > :08:31.came down last week. Rescue workers are giving up hope of finding any
:08:31. > :08:38.more survivors. There is an angry surge running
:08:38. > :08:45.through Bangladesh after this disaster. Clothing workers have
:08:45. > :08:49.attacked other garment factories. And now there is extra security
:08:49. > :08:56.around the site of the ruined building. The remains of hundreds
:08:56. > :08:59.are still buried inside. Photographs of missing relatives
:08:59. > :09:07.tell some of those terrible stories at the entrance to the nearby
:09:07. > :09:13.hospital. Inside, survivors are still traumatised by memories of
:09:13. > :09:20.being trapped in the ruins for days. People were so desperate for water,
:09:20. > :09:24.she tells me, they were drinking their own urine. We saw cracks in
:09:24. > :09:31.the building the day before it fell, she says. We complained, but the
:09:31. > :09:35.bosses told us if we did not return to work, we would not get paid.
:09:35. > :09:40.Every bed in his ward is occupied by injured survivors and it is the
:09:40. > :09:46.same story next door in this ward, and in every other walk in his
:09:46. > :09:49.hospital for seven floors beneath me. There are people recovering
:09:49. > :09:53.from their injuries after being caught in the collapse of the
:09:53. > :09:57.factory complex and this hospital has never seen anything like it.
:09:57. > :10:00.Questions are growing over how the disaster could have happened. The
:10:00. > :10:05.Bangladeshi Prime Minister is feeling the pressure. Visiting the
:10:05. > :10:10.site for the first time a week after the building collapsed.
:10:10. > :10:16.Making cheap clothes is crucial the Bangladesh, accounting for 80% of
:10:16. > :10:20.its exports. British retailers are among its biggest customers. But
:10:20. > :10:25.this disaster has been an earthquake for the industry. As the
:10:25. > :10:29.clear up gets under way, it has emerged that Bangladesh turned down
:10:29. > :10:35.British offers of specialist help and equipment to search the ruins,
:10:36. > :10:42.which could perhaps have saved more lives. Even now, mothers and
:10:42. > :10:47.sisters prey in hope. They struggle to comprehend how their relatives
:10:47. > :10:51.died. Two men have been found guilty of
:10:51. > :10:55.raping a teenage boy in a department store in Manchester city
:10:55. > :11:00.centre. The assault took place last June, after the men approached the
:11:00. > :11:06.14 year-old one he was visiting the Arndale Centre. Our correspondent
:11:06. > :11:10.was in court. Outside court, they tried to hide.
:11:10. > :11:20.42 year-old Alex Wilson-Fletcher and this man, applecart Alger Nabis,
:11:20. > :11:21.
:11:21. > :11:25.55, could not avoid CCTV cameras of the day they wrote to a schoolboy.
:11:26. > :11:29.-- Abdul Qayyum Downton Abbey. They cornered the teenager and
:11:29. > :11:34.threatened him before forcing him out of the Arndale Centre and
:11:34. > :11:38.across the be the street and into Debenhams. Upstairs in a toilet he
:11:38. > :11:43.was attacked and warned not to run all they would come after him.
:11:43. > :11:48.fact that two grown men can go into a city centre and prey upon a 14
:11:48. > :11:52.year-old boy, and careers him into going with them to another location,
:11:52. > :11:56.in order to attack him in the way they have attacked him, beggars
:11:56. > :12:01.belief, to be honest. It is absolutely abhorrent. The attack
:12:01. > :12:05.happened last June, close to one of the busiest streets in Manchester.
:12:05. > :12:10.On Saturdays, Market Street is packed full of shoppers and covered
:12:10. > :12:16.with CCTV cameras. Police used as many as they could to try to track
:12:16. > :12:19.down the attackers. Abdelkader El- Janabi and Alex Wilson-Fletcher
:12:19. > :12:24.will be sentenced in June. The police told both men to expect long
:12:24. > :12:29.prison terms. Radical changes to the benefit
:12:29. > :12:32.system have been initiated in one region of Greater Manchester.
:12:32. > :12:36.Universal credit has been introduced in Ashton-under-Lyne, a
:12:36. > :12:46.new credit paid monthly which is meant to be simpler and will ensure
:12:46. > :12:52.
:12:52. > :12:56.people are better off in work than A benefits system which encourages
:12:56. > :13:00.work, not dependency, is the stated work, not dependency, is the stated
:13:00. > :13:05.aim. But if this is to be a welfare revolution, it started very slowly,
:13:05. > :13:09.with just a few claimants and only one JobCentre, in one town. An
:13:09. > :13:13.early test of a benefit which will ultimately be claimed by millions.
:13:14. > :13:17.It is a big change, a big positive, and it saves money through fraud
:13:17. > :13:24.and error, and by getting people back to work and making them
:13:24. > :13:33.taxpayers. The Government's plan is to combine six benefits,
:13:33. > :13:39.including... The first claims under the new single payment are being
:13:39. > :13:45.made here in Ashton-under-Lyne. In October, new claimants across
:13:45. > :13:49.England and Wales will start using the system. By 2017, eight million
:13:49. > :13:54.households will be getting universal credit. What is starting
:13:54. > :13:58.here is rather different to most of the welfare policies. Overall
:13:58. > :14:03.spending is forecast to increase as a result of this change. Ministers
:14:03. > :14:09.say it is about making sure people are always better off in work. A
:14:09. > :14:15.single mother and benefits, Kelly Parsons agrees with that. And am
:14:15. > :14:18.glad that they can put it all into one and get people into work.
:14:19. > :14:24.most claims will have to be made online, which is a worry for this
:14:24. > :14:29.unemployed father. I have only just managed to go online. It is not
:14:29. > :14:32.something I have been interested in. Concerns have been raised about
:14:32. > :14:37.whether the Government's computer system will be able to handle the
:14:37. > :14:41.enormous complexity of universal credit. Labour says the scheme is
:14:41. > :14:46.already late, over budget and not as radical as ministers claim.
:14:46. > :14:51.were promised a great big welfare shake-up, but what we have got is a
:14:51. > :14:57.small scheme, three years into this Parliament, and meanwhile, the
:14:57. > :15:01.social security budget is up �20 billion more than forecast of for
:15:01. > :15:05.the plans have also led to concerns about budgeting. But the Government
:15:05. > :15:14.thinks universal credit should be paid in the same way as salaries,
:15:14. > :15:24.preparing those on benefits for a life of work.. You can find out
:15:24. > :15:31.
:15:31. > :15:36.more about the new universal credit The the world's bee population is
:15:36. > :15:42.in sharp decline, and pesticides are probably responsible, according
:15:42. > :15:46.to the European Commission. It has proposed a two-year ban across the
:15:46. > :15:53.EU. The bee population has been falling for a decade, but the
:15:53. > :15:57.scientific case linking it to pesticides is hotly disputed. Tough
:15:57. > :16:02.times for Britain's bees. Last summer's washout killed off huge
:16:02. > :16:09.numbers. Years of attack by a deadly parasite have also taken a
:16:09. > :16:13.heavy toll. These, then, are the survivors. This is a very, very
:16:13. > :16:17.small colony. As we are opening up hives this year, we are finding
:16:17. > :16:21.they are weak, they have not come through the winter very well a tall.
:16:21. > :16:31.Some beekeepers also believe pesticides are no major threat, in
:16:31. > :16:34.particular, a group called neonicotinoids. You might think
:16:34. > :16:38.that the industry would be delighted by this ban, but it is
:16:38. > :16:42.not necessarily the case. Farmers, in their search to produce the food
:16:42. > :16:49.that everybody wants, at a price which people are prepared to pay,
:16:49. > :16:55.will have to use other pesticides, older, more dirty chemistry.
:16:55. > :17:01.pesticides which are proposed to be under the ban be long to a group of
:17:01. > :17:06.neonicotinoids. They are toxic to pests such as aphids, supposed to
:17:06. > :17:09.be less harmful to bees than some other pesticides. The challenge is
:17:09. > :17:13.to strike a balance between protecting the bee population and
:17:13. > :17:19.food production. It is an issue which has split opinion across
:17:19. > :17:25.Europe, and amongst some British beekeepers. The Soil Association is
:17:25. > :17:32.among the groups which support the ban. Many scientists are saying
:17:32. > :17:37.there is a huge problem in terms of the impact of neonicotinoids on
:17:37. > :17:41.honey bees, but also wild pollinators as well. The ban is a
:17:41. > :17:44.triumph for those who have campaigned for it, but the UK
:17:44. > :17:48.Government, and many beekeepers here, believe it may do more harm
:17:48. > :17:54.than good. The National Farmers' Union warns it could be
:17:54. > :17:57.catastrophic for food production. The alternatives to neonicotinoids,
:17:57. > :18:01.they are less effective than the neonicotinoids, and we know that is
:18:01. > :18:06.going to be the case. So, it is going to have an impact upon the
:18:07. > :18:10.ability to produce food in the UK. All sides say there should be more
:18:10. > :18:17.research into how damaging these chemicals are to our bee
:18:17. > :18:20.populations. Nick Clegg says he will not rule out the possibility
:18:20. > :18:28.of the Lib Dems forming a coalition government with Labour, after the
:18:28. > :18:31.next general election. He was speaking three days ahead of the
:18:31. > :18:35.local elections in England and Wales. In the last of his reports
:18:35. > :18:43.meeting the main Westminster partitas, Nick Robinson asked Mr
:18:43. > :18:47.Clegg about his party's hopes for Thursday. Slice of cake for the
:18:47. > :18:53.Prime Minister... Do not adjust your set, Whitehall has not created
:18:53. > :18:56.a new government ministry. It is instead election time, and the real
:18:56. > :19:01.Deputy Prime Minister has come to speak to factory workers in Taunton
:19:01. > :19:05.about how to slice up the national cake. Would this be an opportunity
:19:05. > :19:13.for the Lib Dems to differentiate themselves slightly from the George
:19:13. > :19:19.Osborne austerity? I think this idea of the nasty Plan A, and this
:19:19. > :19:22.lovely, uncontroversial shudder, it is not like that. Cuts to the Fire
:19:22. > :19:26.Service here in Somerset are being opposed by the Lib Dems, even
:19:26. > :19:32.though they follow on from budget cuts made by the coalition back in
:19:32. > :19:35.London. The fire authority here have lost �5.5 billion, 10% of
:19:35. > :19:39.their budget this year, thanks to the decisions of your government,
:19:39. > :19:44.not a Tory government, your government. So, you cannot oppose
:19:44. > :19:48.cuts, can you? Of course you can, if you think they are not being
:19:48. > :19:51.applied fairly. I think it is a source of pride to the Liberal
:19:51. > :19:57.Democrats that where Liberal Democrats are in charge, we will
:19:57. > :20:02.not be closing a single public library this year. Your opponents
:20:02. > :20:07.say something very simple - typical Liberal Democrats, imposing cuts
:20:07. > :20:15.nationally, and locally, making hay by opposing them. It is hypocrisy.
:20:15. > :20:18.No, it is not. This is a big question in British politics. We
:20:18. > :20:22.all know that however is in charge will need to continue to take
:20:22. > :20:26.difficult, tough decisions to repair the economy, and to make it
:20:27. > :20:32.strong again. The question is, who can do both, making the economy
:20:32. > :20:36.strong, but doing so as fairly as possible? As another Whitehall
:20:36. > :20:39.battle over the next spending cuts begins, Nick Clegg rejected the
:20:39. > :20:46.suggestion that defence cuts might be avoided by cutting into the
:20:46. > :20:50.school's budget. The heads of departments will be seeking to come
:20:50. > :20:54.up with reasons why their budgets should not be cut over the next few
:20:54. > :20:58.weeks. That is the nature of the Whitehall bunfight. But that simple
:20:58. > :21:04.principle, which I fought for, I was Adam Ant within government,
:21:04. > :21:07.that we should protect the school's budget, will remain. Nick Clegg is
:21:08. > :21:14.fighting these elections not just to hold onto councils controlled by
:21:14. > :21:18.the Lib Dems, but to hold on to third place nationally. UKIP, or
:21:18. > :21:24.work it critics see as the known of the above party, is ahead of many
:21:24. > :21:28.of the opinion polls. They are, he says, proving seductive... But I
:21:28. > :21:32.think people will be struck when they discover that UKIP want to cut
:21:32. > :21:37.money for your local schools and hospitals. They want poor people to
:21:37. > :21:41.pay the same taxes as it rich people. They want to jeopardise up
:21:41. > :21:45.to 3 million jobs in this country by turning our backs on the huge
:21:45. > :21:49.export markets on our European doorstep. Whatever the results this
:21:50. > :21:54.week, Nick Clegg believes his party may still hold the balance of power
:21:54. > :21:58.after the next general election. So, could he be Deputy Prime Minister
:21:58. > :22:03.under Ed Miliband? He said it was a hypothetical question, a decision
:22:03. > :22:07.for the country, but when pushed, listen to what he said...
:22:07. > :22:12.Absolutely. If the public say that the only way in which this country
:22:12. > :22:15.could be governed in a sensible, centre-ground, stable way, would be
:22:15. > :22:19.a coalition of a different combination, still involving the
:22:19. > :22:23.Liberal Democrats, I would, just as last time, and the Liberal
:22:23. > :22:29.Democrats, would do our duty to the country. Whether decorating cakes
:22:29. > :22:33.for the cameras, bricklaying, or standing on a soapbox, it is clear
:22:33. > :22:37.our political leaders already have their eyes firmly set on the next
:22:37. > :22:47.general election. For Nick Clegg, another slice of power really would
:22:47. > :22:51.The British Horseracing Authority has confirmed it is investigating a
:22:51. > :22:56.second Newmarket trainer over claims that anabolic steroids were
:22:56. > :23:06.administered to horses. The trainer claims he used a treatment
:23:06. > :23:08.
:23:08. > :23:12.containing a prohibited substance on vets' advice. A powerful
:23:12. > :23:18.explosion has damaged a building in Prague. At least 35 people were
:23:18. > :23:24.injured. The area, popular with tourists, was sealed off. Emergency
:23:24. > :23:27.workers believe a gas leak could have caused the explosion. Sir Brad
:23:27. > :23:31.Wiggins says he has hopes of repeating last year's historic
:23:31. > :23:35.triumph in the Tour de France, rather than playing a support role
:23:35. > :23:41.for his teammate Chris Froome. Sir Bradley says his goal is to be in
:23:41. > :23:51.condition for the Tour de France. His Sky team's management must make
:23:51. > :23:52.
:23:52. > :23:56.a big decision on who is the best cyclist to be Team Leader. He is
:23:56. > :24:02.Britain's knight in shining Lycra, Sir Brad Wiggins, for many, the man
:24:02. > :24:12.who defined 2012, an unstoppable blend of speed, sideburns and rock
:24:12. > :24:17.stars swagger. So, how on earth do you follow that? Answer? You go for
:24:17. > :24:22.road cycling's other big prize, the Giro d'Italia. For Brad Wiggins, it
:24:23. > :24:26.is a relief to get back to racing. My saving grace is that I have not
:24:26. > :24:30.gone out and tried to cash in on the Olympics and got my face
:24:30. > :24:35.everywhere, gone on game shows and everything, like most of them have
:24:35. > :24:41.done, dancing programmes... I have gone back to trying to do what we
:24:41. > :24:44.do best, which is trying to win by crisis. So, once again, all eyes
:24:44. > :24:48.are on Sir Brad Wiggins. In Italy, he will be the man to beat, but it
:24:48. > :24:52.is just the start of what could be an intriguing summer. Because then,
:24:52. > :24:56.of course, there is the Tour de France. Normally, each team has a
:24:56. > :25:00.designated leader, and this year, we thought it would not be Brad
:25:00. > :25:04.Wiggins, but fellow Briton Chris Froome. Wiggins was expected to
:25:04. > :25:11.support him rather than challenge him, but Wiggins says he wants to
:25:11. > :25:18.win again himself. Two teammates battling for one ambition. My goal
:25:18. > :25:23.is to be in condition to win the Tour. After that, a decision will
:25:23. > :25:28.be made on the leadership of that. Can you say that it will not cause
:25:28. > :25:32.friction? I do not think so. We have been there before. We are in
:25:32. > :25:36.the same team, and at the end of the day, we are both professionals,
:25:36. > :25:42.but we know what needs to be done. So, he is no understudy. For