:00:10. > :00:13.in Cumbria and the alleged cover-up that went right to the top.
:00:13. > :00:23.The former head of the health watchdog and her deputy, along with
:00:23. > :00:25.
:00:25. > :00:28.seven others, accused of suppressing a report into its failings.
:00:28. > :00:30.A number of babies died here, but an internal review criticising the Care
:00:30. > :00:31.Quality Commission for not investigating properly was
:00:31. > :00:35.suppressed. There has to be accountability
:00:35. > :00:38.inside the NHS for people's actions. And people have to know where the
:00:38. > :00:42.buck stops when something goes wrong.
:00:42. > :00:44.We'll be asking where this leaves public trust in such watchdogs.
:00:44. > :00:47.Guilty of child abduction - the 30-year-old maths teacher who ran
:00:47. > :00:49.away to France with a 15-year-old pupil.
:00:49. > :00:52.The Taliban raise their flag in Qatar, upsetting the Afghan
:00:52. > :01:00.government and halting talks with the Americans before they have
:01:00. > :01:08.begun. The Sopranos star James Gandolfini
:01:08. > :01:11.dies suddenly in Italy at the age of And Estimate brings sheer delight
:01:11. > :01:21.for the Queen, as she becomes the first reigning monarch to win the
:01:21. > :01:28.
:01:28. > :01:38.will play England in the Champions Trophy final on Sunday after bidding
:01:38. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:54.should anchor by eight wickets in Good evening. Former managers
:01:55. > :02:00.involved in an alleged cover-up at England's health watchdog, the Care
:02:00. > :02:06.Quality Commission, have been named. This was a day after the CQC said
:02:06. > :02:10.they could not identify them for legal reasons. They include the top
:02:11. > :02:13.three individuals in charge of the organisation at the time. They have
:02:14. > :02:17.been accused of suppressing a report which revealed that it should not
:02:17. > :02:19.have given a hospital in Cumbria the all clear after a number of babies
:02:19. > :02:24.died. At the heart of this, failing at
:02:24. > :02:30.Furness General Hospital maternity unit. It was given a clean bill of
:02:30. > :02:35.health by the regulator at those failings led to the death of some
:02:35. > :02:40.babies, including Joshua Titcombe, dead at nine days old from it
:02:40. > :02:46.treatable infection. The report published yesterday found a decision
:02:46. > :02:49.was made to delete a report into what went wrong. It described a key
:02:49. > :02:55.meeting but what happened was disputed. The officials that
:02:56. > :03:02.attended were only given with initials, but today they have been
:03:02. > :03:11.revealed by Cynthia Bower, Jill Finney, her deputy. She is alleged
:03:11. > :03:16.to have added, " Read my lips". Anna Jefferson said she did not say that
:03:16. > :03:23.this could never be in the public domain. You weave in these simply
:03:23. > :03:26.attended the meeting. The new chief executive of the CQC told me despite
:03:26. > :03:33.these different versions, the report had found some evidence to support
:03:33. > :03:37.the claim that the review had been deleted. We are putting all the
:03:37. > :03:41.information in the public domain. One of my members of staff was that
:03:41. > :03:46.lyrically clear she was given an instruction to delete the report.
:03:46. > :03:51.She kept notes of that. That has now been published and it is right we
:03:51. > :03:57.bring that out into the open. the Health Secretary said publishing
:03:57. > :04:02.all the information was a welcome step towards openness. That is so
:04:02. > :04:07.important. There has to be accountability inside the NHS for
:04:07. > :04:13.people's actions and people have to know where the buck stops. Some who
:04:13. > :04:18.worked for the CQC are still angry. Heather was a senior inspector and
:04:18. > :04:23.she says the culture became secretive and defensive. In my view
:04:23. > :04:26.it was clear that CQC were in the business of suppressing bad news. I
:04:26. > :04:31.believe they were dancing to the tune of the Department of Health and
:04:31. > :04:38.that there was at least a tacit agreement that there would be no
:04:38. > :04:42.more exposures like that at Mid-Staffs. The CQC has a new
:04:42. > :04:47.management team running it. A chief inspector of hospitals is to lead a
:04:47. > :04:52.bigger team. At the last couple of days have not helped its efforts to
:04:52. > :04:56.move on. This has done further serious damage to an organisation
:04:56. > :05:05.that was already beneath the water. It has been through a torrid time
:05:05. > :05:09.recently and this will do nothing to re-establish its reputation. The CQC
:05:09. > :05:13.wants to leave behind its problems and focus on its job of making sure
:05:13. > :05:20.that all care meets minimum standards, and hardest of all, to
:05:20. > :05:25.win back public confidence. And Branwen is with me now. That is
:05:25. > :05:29.the key. Where does this leave public trust in the NHS and its
:05:29. > :05:34.watchdog? For the families who suffered losses
:05:34. > :05:37.at Furness General Hospital and those at Mid-Staffs, they may never
:05:37. > :05:42.recover their confidence in the regulatory system. There is clearly
:05:42. > :05:46.a big job to be done in convincing the public that the systems are in
:05:46. > :05:51.place to make sure minimum standards are being met. What has happened in
:05:51. > :05:55.the last couple of days is part of a wider picture in the last six
:05:55. > :06:00.months, where we have heard claims of gagging clauses, senior managers
:06:00. > :06:05.trying to raise concerns in the NHS, the failings at Stafford Hospital
:06:05. > :06:10.laid bare, the difficulties a whistleblower there had as well.
:06:10. > :06:14.What needs to happen now is a real sense that if something goes wrong
:06:14. > :06:18.in the NHS, that patients and their families are listened to
:06:18. > :06:21.straightaway, the regulator act immediately and is entirely open
:06:21. > :06:25.about what it does. A teacher who ran away to France
:06:25. > :06:28.with a 15-year-old pupil has been found guilty of child abduction.
:06:28. > :06:32.Jeremy Forrest, who is 30, was described as a paedophile by the
:06:32. > :06:35.prosecution. They said he had groomed the vulnerable teenager
:06:35. > :06:39.before starting a sexual relationship with her. The girl was
:06:39. > :06:47.in court and broke down in tears as the verdict was read out. Forrest
:06:47. > :06:52.mouthed "I love you" to her as he was led away.
:06:52. > :06:58.Jeremy Forrest, grinning on his way to prison tonight. The teacher who
:06:58. > :07:02.broke the first rule of teaching. There we even signs of his continued
:07:02. > :07:09.accession with the girl in the courtroom, because as he was found
:07:10. > :07:15.guilty of abducting her, she turned to her and said" I love you" . She
:07:15. > :07:20.mouthed" I'm sorry" . Outside the court, Sussex police read a
:07:20. > :07:25.statement on behalf of the girl's mother. The last nine months has
:07:25. > :07:30.been like living out your worst nightmare. Every aspect of our lives
:07:30. > :07:36.has been affected to some degree. The Crown Prosecution Service added
:07:36. > :07:40.that it brought disgrace to his profession. Jeremy Forrest's love
:07:40. > :07:45.affair deepened as his marriage disintegrated. Yards from the
:07:45. > :07:49.courtroom is one of the hotels where the teacher and the pupil met to
:07:49. > :07:53.carry out their Indesit sexual encounters. It was last September
:07:53. > :07:58.Jeremy Forrest agreed to go on the run when the girl had threatened to
:07:58. > :08:02.kill herself, first driving her to Dover and then porting a ferry to
:08:02. > :08:08.Calais. They headed to Paris where they dumped the car and her school
:08:08. > :08:14.uniform. They took a train to Bordeaux, where they died their head
:08:14. > :08:17.to escape capture. But this bar owner recognised them from
:08:17. > :08:23.television news bulletins and alerted the police. I looked for his
:08:23. > :08:33.photo online and when I saw that he was definitely the same person,
:08:33. > :08:35.
:08:35. > :08:41.there was no doubt. It was Jeremy Forrest's musical talent that also
:08:41. > :08:46.seemed to seduce the 15-year-old. But experts say, as the authority
:08:46. > :08:50.figure in the partnership, he should have rejected her. I think it has
:08:50. > :08:55.got to be wrong where the person concerned is a child and the man
:08:55. > :09:00.concerned is a teacher in school in a position of responsibility. It is
:09:00. > :09:07.different if we are talking students and university tutors, it may be,
:09:08. > :09:13.but here we have to say that this relationship of trust is absolute.
:09:13. > :09:16.Jeremy Forrest's school said it remained shocked by its actions. The
:09:16. > :09:21.teacher had crossed the line from propriety to betrayal and will be
:09:21. > :09:25.sentenced tomorrow. BBC News has been told that local
:09:25. > :09:27.councils in England are facing a 10% cut in the funding they receive from
:09:27. > :09:31.central government, as part of the coalition's spending plans for
:09:31. > :09:40.2015/16. Our deputy political editor James Landale has the story and
:09:40. > :09:45.joins us from Westminster. Another big slice of council budget.
:09:45. > :09:50.It is. The government wants to cut the deficit and has promised to take
:09:50. > :09:56.�11.5 billion out of its spending in 2015 and some of it will have to
:09:56. > :10:01.come out of the money it gives to local councils. It is a lot. More
:10:01. > :10:05.than �20 billion a year. I am told that Eric Pickles is willing in
:10:05. > :10:10.principle to accept a 10% cut to that funding but in return he is
:10:10. > :10:17.expecting to agree a deal that would see his department take
:10:18. > :10:20.responsibility for potentially as much as �3 billion worth of spending
:10:20. > :10:24.from other departments. No final deal has been agreed. But note
:10:24. > :10:29.this. The local government Association said a 10% cut means the
:10:29. > :10:34.average council having to find another �30 million. They say that
:10:34. > :10:38.would mean less for children centres, museums, sports centres and
:10:38. > :10:42.the like. Councils may be facing cuts already but there is clearly a
:10:42. > :10:45.lot more to come. Face to face talks between America
:10:45. > :10:50.and the Taliban over the future of Afghanistan have run into trouble
:10:50. > :10:54.before they have even begun. The controversial discussions involving
:10:54. > :11:04.US officials were supposed to have got under way in the Gulf state of
:11:04. > :11:04.
:11:04. > :11:06.Qatar today. But after the Taliban set up an office in Qatar and flew
:11:06. > :11:08.their own flag, the Afghan government was so incensed, it
:11:08. > :11:13.pulled out of talks with the Americans.
:11:13. > :11:17.The controversial Taliban flag, still flying this afternoon outside
:11:17. > :11:22.their new office in Qatar. It was supposed to be taken down following
:11:22. > :11:30.few reads complaints from the Afghan government. The Caliban plaque has
:11:30. > :11:34.been removed at Afghanistan remains deeply suspicious. US and Afghan
:11:34. > :11:44.governments have been scrambling to come up with a joint statement
:11:44. > :11:47.
:11:47. > :11:53.today. Raising the Taliban flag on Tuesday in Joe -- in Doha is a
:11:53. > :12:00.reminder of our bloody past from which the country still struggles.
:12:00. > :12:05.The office must not be treated as an embassy representing the Afghan
:12:06. > :12:10.Taliban as an emirate, government is sovereign. The argument is in stark
:12:10. > :12:14.contrast to the ceremonial opening this week. After two years of
:12:15. > :12:19.delicate diplomacy, the Taliban had a public address for negotiations.
:12:19. > :12:24.Hopes were high that peace talks could find a way to end the war in
:12:24. > :12:28.Afghanistan. The new Taliban office that opened here on Tuesday is
:12:28. > :12:35.already looking rather different. There was no sign of life here today
:12:35. > :12:38.and most importantly the plaque on the ward that read" the Islamic
:12:38. > :12:43.emirate of Afghanistan", that enraged the Afghan government, has
:12:43. > :12:49.been taken down. But this is a sign of how difficult the peace talks
:12:49. > :12:51.with the Caliban will be. In Afghanistan, the fighting goes on.
:12:51. > :12:58.America and the Afghan government will be negotiating with an enemy
:12:59. > :13:05.still hell-bent on killing them. think that they have not understood
:13:05. > :13:11.fully how sensitive the issue to do with talking to the Caliban in an
:13:11. > :13:17.official capacity is and how this undermines Hamid Karzai -- that live
:13:17. > :13:25.bands. The US Secretary of State has been scrambling to assure the Afghan
:13:25. > :13:31.government that they have not been sidelined. Here in tranquil Qatar,
:13:31. > :13:38.the Taliban has largely gone to ground. The peace talks are due to
:13:38. > :13:43.start soon but no one is expecting them to be easy.
:13:43. > :13:47.The UK and Europe risk being left behind as the rest of the world
:13:47. > :13:51.begins to accept genetically modified food. That was the warning
:13:51. > :13:54.from the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson today. He claims that GM
:13:54. > :14:00.products are even safer than conventional food, and says in
:14:00. > :14:03.motion rather than evidence is putting people off them. Last year,
:14:03. > :14:09.about 170 million hectares of GM crops were cultivated in 28
:14:09. > :14:13.countries. Apart from the US, the world's leading growers are Brazil,
:14:13. > :14:19.Argentina, Canada and India. But across the whole of the European
:14:19. > :14:25.Union, only one GM plant is grown commercially.
:14:25. > :14:30.Under lock and key, one of the most closely guarded fields in Britain.
:14:30. > :14:35.This is a research centre in Hertfordshire. Today, we were
:14:35. > :14:39.allowed in to film the trial crop of genetically modified wheat. The
:14:39. > :14:43.plants here look normal, but they have extra genes added to give the
:14:43. > :14:49.wheat a particular smell which is meant to scare tearaways greenfly.
:14:49. > :14:55.It is a sign of the controversy about GM that this small field needs
:14:55. > :15:00.so much security. But trials like this have attracted the hostility of
:15:00. > :15:03.a few and made a fair number of people uneasy. For that reason,
:15:03. > :15:12.ministers over the years have preferred not to speak up the GM,
:15:12. > :15:16.until now. Today, the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson came here to
:15:16. > :15:21.see the genetic research. Britain has pioneered major innovations in
:15:21. > :15:25.plant science, but progress is slow on GM full stop supermarkets will
:15:25. > :15:33.not stock GM food because there is no demand for it, and many European
:15:33. > :15:37.governments are posed as well. a safe, proven... Speaking to a
:15:37. > :15:39.selected audience of GM supporters, Mr Paterson said growing in a food
:15:40. > :15:47.was so important that there was a moral case to turn to genetic
:15:47. > :15:51.technology. Europe will just slip further behind. That will damage our
:15:51. > :15:59.farming industry, our environment and also, down the road, it will not
:15:59. > :16:02.help those millions who are hungry in developing countries. When GM was
:16:02. > :16:06.first introduced, protesters tried to destroy the crops. Since then, it
:16:06. > :16:14.has flourished in many other countries. But campaigners here say
:16:14. > :16:17.it is risky and not worth it. benefits that they claim to deliver
:16:17. > :16:22.like less pesticides and less chemical sprays, after a few years
:16:22. > :16:25.of doing that, things get worse, not better. You get super weeds and
:16:25. > :16:31.insects which are resistant to the crops, and you end up using more
:16:31. > :16:35.sprays. The government faces a battle on this. GM was once called
:16:35. > :16:40.Frankenstein food. The image stuck, so there is deadlock in Europe. Even
:16:40. > :16:47.though the European Commission's top scientist says GM food is safe,
:16:47. > :16:52.would she eat it? Yes. There is no difference between eating GM food
:16:52. > :16:55.and conventionally farmed food. I don't have a concern about that.
:16:55. > :17:03.Today the government launched its most concerted efforts so far to
:17:03. > :17:07.convince people that GM has a future. There is a long way to go.
:17:07. > :17:12.At least nine people including five children have been injured after a
:17:12. > :17:14.car overturned outside aid primary School in south Wales. The injured
:17:14. > :17:19.include a nine-year-old girl, who remains in intensive care. The
:17:19. > :17:26.driver, who is ex-D1, is thought to have lost control after suffering a
:17:26. > :17:31.coughing fit. Just yards from the school gate, a
:17:31. > :17:37.car lights flicked on its roof, surrounded by all the signs of a
:17:37. > :17:41.terrifying accident and those it harmed. It is believed the driver,
:17:41. > :17:46.named locally as Robert Bell, had a coughing fit, causing him to hit the
:17:46. > :17:50.accelerator pedal and mounted the curb. There was a hell of a bank,
:17:50. > :17:56.and then all the children were screaming and shouting. We just took
:17:56. > :18:02.the children into the classroom. I just know that three children were
:18:02. > :18:08.injured, and also the lollipop lady. The lollipop woman was Karen
:18:08. > :18:12.Williams, who patrolled the school for nearly 20 years. She is one of
:18:12. > :18:18.three women being treated for broken bones and fact is. The youngest of
:18:18. > :18:22.the children was a five-year-old. A nine-year-old girl is being treated
:18:22. > :18:25.in intensive care. The driver was also injured. He has been helping
:18:25. > :18:32.the police with their investigation, but they believe this was an
:18:32. > :18:35.accident. At this stage, it is important to emphasise that this is
:18:35. > :18:44.a rare, but distressing incident, and we are not treating it as a
:18:44. > :18:46.deliberate act. It is the end of the school day, but the feeling here is
:18:46. > :18:50.still far from normal. There are lots of extra staff and police to
:18:50. > :18:55.make sure everything passes off normally. Parents are anxious to get
:18:55. > :19:01.their children home. An educational psychologist has been helping the
:19:01. > :19:06.pupils and supporting families here. I have seen some mothers quite
:19:06. > :19:10.upset, crying. That sense of shock will take some time to fade as
:19:10. > :19:17.everyone here waits the news of friends and classmates who remain in
:19:17. > :19:21.hospital. Stock markets around the world fell
:19:21. > :19:25.sharply today after America's Federal reserve signalled that a key
:19:25. > :19:29.policy aimed at stimulating economic growth could be scaled back within
:19:29. > :19:36.months. The prospects of an end to quantitative easing in the US helped
:19:36. > :19:39.push down Wall Street's Dow Jones by more than 2%. In London, the FTSE
:19:39. > :19:43.100 closed down 3%. Now, it is bigger than eBay and
:19:43. > :19:46.Amazon combined, but you may never have heard of it. Ali Barber is
:19:46. > :19:56.Chinese and the world's largest e-commerce company. Now it is
:19:56. > :20:01.helping British companies break into the world's second-largest economy.
:20:01. > :20:08.Afternoon tea in Shanghai. With rising incomes, the new middle class
:20:08. > :20:13.in China is beginning to enjoy some of the luxuries of life, getting a
:20:13. > :20:17.taste of a truly British tradition. This team may have been grown in
:20:17. > :20:27.China, but it is blended and packaged by a UK company and then
:20:27. > :20:28.
:20:28. > :20:33.sold back to China. We create spoke lens using a range of hundreds of
:20:33. > :20:37.teas and spices. Because of the size of the economy there, we are set for
:20:37. > :20:41.a good future. One way for small businesses to access the Chinese
:20:41. > :20:48.market is online. You have probably heard of eBay and Amazon, but
:20:48. > :20:50.believe it or not, this company is bigger than both of those combined.
:20:50. > :20:56.This is the European headquarters of Chinese e-commerce company Ali
:20:56. > :21:02.Barber. Ali Barber operates in almost every country and region in
:21:03. > :21:08.the world. 240 markets. They have over 500 million registered users on
:21:08. > :21:14.their website, and there are 800 million products on offer. No wonder
:21:14. > :21:20.this company selling its shares on the stock market is the most
:21:20. > :21:24.anticipated event since faced. is Marks & Spencer's storefront.
:21:24. > :21:29.is not just small businesses. Each one like M&S and Mothercare are
:21:29. > :21:36.trying to get into China as well. The rise in Chinese consumption is
:21:36. > :21:41.incredible. Between 2015 and 2017, Chinese total retail online
:21:41. > :21:47.consumption will surpass the US and Europe combined. This is a
:21:47. > :21:52.tremendous shift, where the Chinese consumer probe provides a great
:21:52. > :21:55.opportunity for businesses around the world. But there are challenges,
:21:55. > :22:01.especially in selling online. not for the faint of heart, and it
:22:01. > :22:04.is not for everyone. I do not want to portray China as a dangerous
:22:04. > :22:11.jungle for foreign investment. If you do the deals happily, in
:22:11. > :22:14.accordance with Chinese law, with due diligence, you will eliminate a
:22:14. > :22:20.lot of trouble is, but not all of them. There are certainly obstacles
:22:20. > :22:25.in tapping the fastest growing consumer market in the world. But if
:22:25. > :22:30.a British company can sell Peter China, surely anything is possible
:22:30. > :22:33.-- if a British company can sell tea to China.
:22:33. > :22:36.The award-winning American actor James Gandolfini, best known for his
:22:36. > :22:41.role as a Mafia boss in the television drama The Sopranos, has
:22:41. > :22:51.died at the age of 51. He suffered a suspected heart attack while on
:22:51. > :22:56.holiday in Italy. This report contains flash photography.
:22:56. > :23:01.The Sopranos is recognised as one of the all-time great TV shows. James
:23:01. > :23:06.Gandolfini was its staff. He was known to millions as the New Jersey
:23:06. > :23:11.mob boss juggling his criminal empire with the demands of family
:23:11. > :23:21.life. I teach him love and respect and to appreciate his mother.
:23:21. > :23:23.
:23:23. > :23:31.about your mother? It ran for six seasons, won him three Emmys and
:23:31. > :23:35.made him world-famous. He had been on holiday in Italy, where he was
:23:35. > :23:41.due to attend a film festival, when he had a suspected heart attack at
:23:41. > :23:47.his hotel. The hotel notified the emergency crews, who responded and
:23:47. > :23:53.first aid was and ministered before James Gandolfini was taken to
:23:53. > :23:58.hospital, where he died of a heart attack. Our prayers and can --
:23:58. > :24:01.condolences go to his family and friends. James Gandolfini's
:24:01. > :24:05.popularity in The Sopranos did not just underline his status as a major
:24:05. > :24:11.star, the success of the series both on TV and especially in box set
:24:11. > :24:15.sales helped the show's network HBO, become one of the most powerful in
:24:15. > :24:20.broadcasting. He was more than a TV performer, though, enjoying a
:24:20. > :24:24.successful film career. His breakthrough role was in cult hit
:24:24. > :24:32.True Romance. This imposing physical presence meant he was often cast in
:24:32. > :24:36.authority roles. Earlier this year, he played the CIA director in the
:24:36. > :24:42.hunt for bin laden movie, zero Dark 30. Today, other Hollywood stars pay
:24:43. > :24:50.tribute. The beautiful thing about Jim is that he was a people person
:24:50. > :24:55.first, and then work. He was a consummate actor, but apart from
:24:55. > :24:59.that, a generous and good man. was only last October that his wife
:24:59. > :25:03.gave birth to his second child. He will be remembered as a larger than
:25:03. > :25:12.life figure who brought sympathy and humanity to even the most violent of
:25:12. > :25:16.characters. Now, the horse is called Estimate.
:25:16. > :25:19.It is owned by the Queen and this afternoon, they both made history as
:25:19. > :25:26.the horse turned the Queen and to the first reigning monarch to win
:25:26. > :25:32.the Gold cup at Royal Ascot, to the obvious delight of the royal party.
:25:32. > :25:36.Few punters arrived at Royal Ascot like this, but then Queen Elizabeth
:25:36. > :25:40.is not your average racegoer. Apart from anything, Her Majesty owned the
:25:40. > :25:44.favourite for the Gold cup, Estimate. The four-year-old filly
:25:44. > :25:49.was well backed, but in another sense, the odds were against the
:25:49. > :25:54.Royals did. No reigning monarch had won this race is its darted. George
:25:54. > :25:57.III was on the throne then. Racing pays no heed to history, though. It
:25:57. > :26:07.is a question of meticulous timing. Jockey Ryan Moore got everything
:26:07. > :26:12.set, now for the big finish. A Royal Winton! No matter who you are or how
:26:12. > :26:15.old you are, there is something about backing a winner that makes
:26:15. > :26:20.you forget everything else. The Queen wished the celebrations with
:26:20. > :26:23.her racing and adviser, John Warren, and went to meet her jockey. Vista
:26:23. > :26:28.more will not be racing again for a couple of days. He has been banned