26/01/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten - Denmark becomes the latest European country to adopt

hardline measures to deter asylum seekers.

Danish MPs vote to allow police to confiscate the valuables

of asylum seekers while their cases are being considered.

If you can pay for yourself, well then you should pay

for yourself before the Danish welfare system does it.

But the measures have been described as 'mean-spirited' and 'a symbolic

It runs the risk of fuelling sentiments of fear and

discrimination rather than promoting solidarity with people

The measures have also been compared with the confiscation of Jewish

property during the Second World War.

We'll be looking at the significance of the Danish vote for

The serious failings by the NHS which contributed to the death

Tesco apologises for breaching the industry's code of conduct

We talk to a mother who delayed her cancer treatment

That should be able to inspire my children to know that whatever

is thrown at you, you can make the best of any situation.

And do Apple's latest sales figures - out tonight -

On BBC London - the mother of a teenager murdered after being

groomed online says his killer's now using the web to contact HER.

And Dame Judi talks to us about her career, insecurities

and why she doesn't want to be a national treasure.

Denmark has become the latest European state to take hardline

measures to try to discourage refugees from entering the country.

The Danish parliament voted today to confiscate asylum seekers' cash

and valuables while their cases are being considered.

It also decided to make asylum seekers wait three years before

they can bring family members to Denmark.

The United Nations Refugee Agency criticised the legislation,

while human rights groups compared it with the confiscation of Jewish

property during the Second World War.

Our Europe editor, Katya Adler, has the story.

Today's decision in Denmark has been called many things by its detractors

- contentious, controversial, amongst other

The idea of confiscating valuables from refugees and others has drawn

comparisons with Jews being robbed of their possessions by the Nazis.

The Danish government, and its political allies,

TRANSLATION: Can we crackdown on the suppression of women?

All this depends on the number of refugees and right now,

too many are arriving and to those who say we are going too far,

The confiscation of valuables won't include wedding rings or other

But today's vote does mean that migrants will

also have to wait at least three years before applying for relatives

A move clearly aimed at discouraging new arrivals.

The EU has failed spectacularly to find an effective,

immediate, comprehensive solution to the migrant crisis.

With voter concerns so high, they know this is an issue that can

bring down governments and so they have fallen over

themselves to change national legislation,

hoping to make themselves less attractive to

Fences have sprung up across the Continent and border

The warning here in Brussels is never mind governments,

the migration issue could bring down the EU itself.

The mass arrival last year of over a million refugees and others over

the Mediterranean has led to a closing of hearts,

minds and borders along their European

route from Greece and Italy, to richer countries further north

Far from European Union, this is a clear

illustration of how the migration crisis is leading to a sense

There's talk of the imminent collapse of

Schengen, Europe's treasured passport and border control free

agreement, first signed 30 years ago.

It's arguably the EU's biggest achievement,

boosting travel and trade across the Continent.

Schengen isn't dead in the water yet.

Its rules allows members to temporarily

suspend control free movement, as here on Germany's border

with Austria, for up to two years in exceptional circumstances.

Still, the bigger picture in Germany, as across

And there is huge public and political

pressure on Angela Merkel, who was first praised,

then berated for opening her country's doors to refugees

But Germany's Iron Lady is not for turning and

remains defiantly, some say desperately, positive.

TRANSLATION: We should not become pessimistic too quickly.

Of course we must significantly reduce the number of refugees

Debt-ridden Greece has proved a feeble gatekeeper to the EU

and Turkey shows no sign yet of stopping boats filled with asylum

And our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is here.

Katya, this unilateral action by Denmark, how is that being seen in

Brussels? Well, there is no unity at all. We are hearing from insiders

that EU meetings on migration at the moment are the most fractious and

divided that they have ever sat through. Some, including Austria and

others, are speaking of wanting to isolate Greece, to grab control of

its borders, replacing them with an EU border guard to prevent refugees

and other migrants marching north across Europe. By now, most

acknowledge to prevent more refugees wanting to come here, Europe needs

to improve conditions in the Middle East. That is neither an easy nor a

short-term solution. In the meantime, we have seen a dramatic

European role reversal. Back in the summer, Hungary was ostracised by so

many for building a fence to keep migrants out. Angela Merkel was

feted for her generous open-door policy. Fast forward a few months,

Hungary is feeling vindicated, while Angela Merkel is feeling the chill

wind of increasing isolation abroad and at home. Katya, thank you very

much. Laura, there is a different aspect of this as well. We have a

warning from the Foreign Secretary that the migration crisis is clearly

at the top of the agenda, British concerns about our membership terms

are not at the top. What do we read into that? That is right. Listening

to Katya, it is clear the UK can't be the number one priority, that is

true. That doesn't mean that David Cameron is not going to get a deal

that he wants to change our relationship with the EU because it

is also true that nobody in the EU nor in the UK Government wants to

talk about Britain's demands for a moment longer than is absolutely

necessary. In a funny kind of way, that's the easier problem to fix.

There is a temptation to get shot of it to get done so they can get on

with the bigger things. Are we saying next month, when the summit

happens, are we heading for some referendum date in the summer? It is

not inevitable, but it is certainly not impossible. It is moving that

way. Today, the Government published the ballot paper that we will all be

presented with up-and-down the country. I'm told the Plan A for the

Government, if it goes according to plan, is a date of June 23rd, for a

possible referendum on whether we should stay or leave the European

Union. And it is highly likely, not inevitable - we must be careful

about this - that a deal can be sealed in the next three weeks

before the crucial political summit in the middle of February in

Brussels next month. The question isn't whether or not David Cameron

can come back with a piece of paper, it is what is on that piece of paper

and whether he believes he has a deal that he can sell that matches

up to anything like the kind of promises that he's made of what can

really be achieved. Laura, thank you. Laura Kuenssberg there.

The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has apologised to the parents

of a baby who died in 2014 saying they were "let down in the worst

William Mead - a one-year-old boy from Cornwall - died of sepsis,

Mr Hunt said that "serious failings" which led to William's death had

"significant implications" for the rest of the NHS,

as our health editor, Hugh Pym, reports.

He was a happy, healthy baby, but, despite repeatedly being seen

by doctors, William Mead died leaving his family struggling

to comprehend how the NHS failed them.

As a family, we have to live with that life sentence for the rest

But we're at least able to sit here and suffer that.

William lost his life and he was just one

It's not acceptable and it's not something that can be understood.

They're trying to understand how William contracted sepsis,

where an infection gets out of control triggering organ failure.

An official report suggests it should never have happened

and if there hadn't been a series of mistakes,

it's likely he'd still be alive today.

Mistakes shouldn't happen on multiple occasions,

and every time that we went with William, whether it be a phone

call, whether it be a visit, whether it be 111, or a different

agency, there was an error, a failing, or a missed opportunity.

The catalogue of errors set out in the NHS England report started

A GP didn't note all the relevant information about his condition.

Symptoms weren't recognised as serious.

The advice given to William's parents was said to be inadequate.

When they called the 111 helpline, a tool used by advisers was too

crude to spot tell-tale signs and, on the day before he died,

an out-of-hours GP couldn't get access to William's records.

Following the demand by Labour for a full explanation,

the Health Secretary said sorry to William's mother and her family.

Quite simply, we let her, her family and William down

in the worst possible way through serious failings

And I'd like to apologise to them on behalf of the Government

New training for 111 staff is being put in place

along with changes to protocols guiding advisers.

But the biggest issue is raising awareness of sepsis.

There are more than 35,000 deaths a year in the UK,

The campaigning group Sepsis Trust says Scotland and Wales now

have a better record than England in preventing deaths.

For Melissa Mead, getting doctors, nurses call handlers and patients

better to understand sepsis is her priority.

We have now established what went wrong, we now know how to implement

change and what we need to do is actually driving that forward

That's the message that I need to get across.

I need to make sure that William's legacy lives on.

Britain's biggest supermarket chain, Tesco, has been found to have

seriously breached the industry's code of conduct.

The ombudsman said Tesco had delayed paying money to suppliers for up

to two years in order to improve its own financial position.

Tesco has apologised and promised to try to rebuild trust

with the suppliers, as our business correspondent,

Remember the headlines - Tesco in turmoil after

the revelation it had massively overstated its profits.

It was all to do with how it dealt with its suppliers.

Today it was found that Tesco didn't treat them fairly.

What I found most shocking was how widespread the practice

All sizes of supplier, own label and branded,

everywhere in the UK, including overseas, and it was clear

that the pressure on buyers to hit their margin targets

The ombudsman found it knowingly delayed payments to suppliers.

Tesco made unilateral deductions, in other words it held money

from suppliers without their agreement.

The sums were significant, one supplier was owed several

million pounds after prices were wrongly charged and it took two

The sums were much smaller for this chocolate business.

A delay in payment of less than ?10,000, but it cost them dear.

The report found exactly what happened to us,

happened to many other suppliers and it was a deliberate act as well.

It nearly bankrupted our company when they didn't pay

We had to take a personal loan out to cover the staff Christmas

Tesco did apologise, saying an administrative

Tesco has around 3,000 suppliers keeping these shelves full,

Some of the delays and payments were down to poor administration,

but others were deliberate, driven by the need to improve

The new boss says Tesco is already a different company from the one

The report covers a period in history from the middle of 2013

We drew a line under that, we changed our business and have

continued to change our business in the 15 months since then.

The adjudicator recognises that and you can see the progress

Tesco has avoided a fine because the ombudsman didn't

have the necessary powers at the time, but still coming down

the aisles is the criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud

That could lead to prosecutions as well as a big financial penalty.

In the last hour, Apple has announced its results

for the Christmas period with global sales of the iPhone barely

increasing at all on the previous festive season.

Although overall profits were slightly up,

analysts are now worried that it's key product,

the iPhone, may have reached it's peak

as our technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, tells us.

Yes, I'd like to order 4,000 lattes to go, please.

It was the moment the mobile industry was changed forever

unveiling by Steve jobs the iPhone has fuelled Apple's transformation

into the world's most valuable company.

Nearly two-thirds of its revenue now comes from the phone

and while others are competing by cutting prices, Apple has managed

You can't under state how important the iPhone has been to the company,

It's been the most profitable consumer electronics

It's carried the company for the last nine years and it's

brought it into new markets, including China and other emerging

markets where the company had no presence before.

But Apple now depends on China to keep much of the growth in iPhone

sales going and knowledgeable consumers aren't all convinced

TRANSLATION: I think China is a big market for Apple but Chinese brands

are advancing fast with increasingly mature software so they'll pose more

I started from the first generation iPhones.

TRANSLATION: This iPhone is someone's present to me.

Lots of my friends use iPhones, but I think they simply want to be

Apple believes that iPhone innovations like the live photo

feature, which turns any still into a moving picture,

will keep sales and profits rising, but investors are increasingly

concerned that its best days may be over before the company finds

a new blockbuster product to replace it.

It's in Apple's first quarter, covering the holiday season,

that iPhone sales peak each year.

They've leapt ever higher to 74.5 million a year ago.

But while the latest figures do show sales up again,

the tiny increase to 74.8 million will concern investors.

Apple still reported record profits, but analysts were taken aback

I was expecting the numbers to be up a little bit,

but they're basically flat year-on-year.

That creates a headache for Apple because the iPhone is a big chunk

of the business and they need it to grow.

If iPhone's not growing, where's the growth going to come from?

Apple also reported what it called "softness" in China's economy,

a worrying sign from the market where so many firms hope

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

The director of a young offenders' unit in Kent has resigned

following allegations that staff mistreated

The Chief Inspector of Prisons said he had "significant concerns"

about the Medway Secure Training Centre, which holds

Trevor Monk, from south-east London, has been sentenced to more than 19

years in prison after admitting travelling to the Philippines

to abuse children as young as eight-years-old.

Monk was arrested as part of an investigation into British

nationals who pay to watch child abuse being live-streamed

HMRC have dismissed criticism of the settlement with Google

which will see the American multi-national pay ?130 million

Ministers say the deal is a major success, but Labour says Google

should be paying much more and they're demanding more details

The partner of the former EastEnders actress Sian Blake says he's agreed

return to the UK from Ghana to be questioned about her death and that

Arthur Simpson-Kent said he wouldn't fight extradition and is expected

Britain's airports are increasingly being used by major trafficking

gangs as a gateway to the European Union.

Spanish police, who've been investigating one of the biggest

trafficking rings in Europe, have shared some of their findings

The gangs - which operate in Africa, North America, the Middle East

and in Europe - have trafficked many thousands of people,

including hundreds of women who've been forced into prostitution.

From Barcelona, where the investigation is being

co-ordinated, our correspondent, Orla Guerin, reports.

Sunrise in Barcelona, the city of dreams, standing proud

with its rich heritage and architectural jewels.

But after night fall, in the back streets,

This is where undercover police have been monitoring a trafficking ring

and its victims, watching every move.

We joined the assault teams as they prepared to strike

at locations in Barcelona and several cities nearby.

Around 250 officers taking part in the biggest operation yet

against Nigerian crime bosses who call themselves,

Around 8.00am, they close in on an apartment block.

In seconds they're inside, hunting for one of the targets

Well, the police are inside now, questioning suspects.

While they were carrying out the raid here, more than 20 other

buildings were being hit simultaneously.

This has been a long time in the planning,

the investigation into this criminal network began a year-and-a-half ago.

Police detained the group's main leaders and gathered evidence

The gang charges its victims about ?28,000 to get to Spain,

then forces them into prostitution to pay off the debt.

Police say those arrested are part of a sophisticated criminal

enterprise that spans the globe with representatives in cities

in the Middle East, Africa, the US and the EU.

The Head of the Anti-Trafficking Unit told us a key figure is based

in London, bringing women into the UK on fake

He says the gang is looking more and more to Britain

One of the main new ways to enter victims is through the airports

It's a different system to traffic people and it needs always forgeries

and is more expensive, but is more secure and we have

Here, in down town Barcelona, the Nigerians are believed to have

made millions from women working the streets in the shadows.

They are kept in line by threats to their families back home

and by physical abuse from Madames who act as enforcers.

We met one young woman who was trafficked from Nigeria

She says she and her child were brutalised by her Madame.

TRANSLATION: I have scars all over my body.

She hit my face and my eyes and beat me until blood came

One day, when she came for the money, I couldn't pay.

She hit me on the head with a bottle.

Police hope more women will be able to escape the streets here now

the Nigerian traffickers have been rounded up,

but they say their barbaric trade in human beings will continue

Schools in England have been warned they could be marked down

by inspectors or even classed as inadequate if it's judged that

face veils worn by teachers and pupils hinder the learning process.

The Chief Inspector of Schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw,

says he's concerned that some Head teachers are coming under pressure

to relax the rules on wearning the niqab.

Our education editor, Branwen Jeffreys, is here.

Cellan-Jones, BBC News. Why has Sir Michael decided to toughen his

approach in this way? Huw, it's certainly a provocative step. Ofsted

says it's taking it because schools have come under pressure to change

their uniform policies. Every school in England can decide what its

pupils should wear and many that have a majority or many Muslim

pupils allow girls to cover their hair with a hijab, but don't allow

the niqab, the face covering that Sir Michael is objecting to. He says

he wants to take a stand against the inappropriate use of the veil, as he

describes it. He say it is can, in some circumstances, get in the way

of teaching and learning, but Muslim organisations have already said that

he's resorting to the politics of fear, was one expression used. More

strikingly, all the teaching unions are united in their opposition to

this. They've described it as an extreme and unhelpful move and said

that it could alienate some pupils and parents and they are asking -

where is the evidence that Ofsted has that this can really get in the

way of learning? OK. Branwen, thank you very much. Branwen Jeffreys

there, our education editor. A mother who delayed her cancer

treatment to try to protect her unborn baby, has been

describing her experience and the personal

challenges she faced. Heidi Loughlin discovered she had

an aggressive form of breast cancer Her daughter Ally,

who was born prematurely, died when she was

just eight-days old. Heidi has been speaking to the BBC's

Fiona Lamdin about the choices She left us on the Saturday

which is, you know, the darkest time of our lives ever and then,

three days later, I had to go back through the motions of starting

treatment for myself. Heidi, mum to Noah and Tate,

was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer whilst pregnant

with their sister. Doctors suggested a termination,

but she decided to delay her own life-saving treatment

and keep her baby. When they realised the cancer

was spreading, they had to deliver her daughter

three months early. When she was born, she was amazing,

just breathing on her own. She was the most

beautiful little girl. She wass like my little beacon

of light really because I thought, well, I have to start this really

aggressive treatment and while Ally's in neonatal,

I will be able to have treatment So we would do it together

and everything would be amazing, For five days she was

absolutely brilliant. But overnight baby Ally

became critically ill You've faced some incredibly

difficult dilemmas, I don't regret for one second

that I kept Ally and, yeah, when I heard that

I had lung nodules I, you know, thought -

OK, so it looks like my cancer has spread, but I knew that was the risk

I was taking when I decided to keep her, but I don't regret

having those days with her. It is hard to be facing, you know,

looking at the cancer. There's a good chance it's spread,

and that kind of thing, but I knew all those risks

when I made that decision. If Heidi had known that her little

girl was going to die, she would have kept her

pregnancy going for longer, giving her daughter the best chance,

but decreasing the possibility I would never know that information,

but if I'd of known that, What's changed about the way

you're living each day? How are you living life

now with your boys? Little trips and bigger trips

that we kept saying - oh, we'll do that when the kids

are eight or nine. We're going to do them now

and I want the boys to be able to remember me and go -

although mum wasn't always here for a long time,

I have these amazing memories of the things that

I did with her. Heidi doesn't know how long she'll

have left, but while she is here, she's determined to spend every

moment with her family while raising Two women who've read it

have already been given If I can come out of this

and still be fighting, that should be able to inspire my

children to know that whatever is thrown at you, you can make

the best of any situation. Ally is with me every

step of that way. You know, she's in my mind

all the time and I want her to be proud of me and, yeah,

I'm, you know... She'll always be my little girl and,

you know, she is doing this with me, That was Heidi Loughlin speaking

to the BBC's Fiona Lamdin. The storm that saw record amounts

of snow in North America is now bringing heavy rain and strong winds

to many parts of the UK. Scotland's been

particularly affected. High winds upturned lorries

on the A1 in East Lothian and Scottish authorities have

issued 50 flood warnings. The Isle of Man is one

of many places with weather Football news -- and there's been

late drama in the Capital One Cup semi-final -- where Liverpool have

been playing Stoke City at Anfield. Liverpool were one-nil up

from the first leg -- but the visitors scored the only

goal in normal and extra-time this evening -- taking

the tie to penalties. A Cup semi-final has a way of

rousing Anfield, amplifying it beyond its usual level. Liverpool's

manager hoped this could spur his side to something special. Stoke

haven't won here in more than 50 years. Jon Walters was in a hurry to

change that. His timing just wide of the mark. But, after scoring five

goals in their last game, Liverpool's attack seemed out of

ideas. Can tried to give them something to work with. A dreary

first half sparked into life. Bojan pulled the strings. Arnautovic

guided it in. A goal brilliantly simple and probably offside. Anfield

had been subdued. While Firmino tried to engineer the perfect

response, Liverpool were stuttering. Frustrated, viewing would not get

much easier for Klopp in extra-time. It was as close as either side would

come to a winner. Now the way to Wembley would be paved with

penalties. Katie gornal, BBC News. In the past few minutes Liverpool

have in fact clinched that a. They beat Stoke 6-5 after that penalty

shoot-out. Newsnight is about to begin over

on BBC Two in a few moments. Lots tonight, including

the zika virus. We're looking at whether it can be

transmitted sexually. We'll hear from a man who appears

to have passed it on to his wife. Join me now on BBC Two,

11.00pm in Scotland.