:00:00. > :00:08.The worst single atrocity in Northern Ireland,
:00:09. > :00:16.and what looks like the last chance for a criminal trial has collapsed.
:00:17. > :00:18.29 people died in the Omagh bombing 17 years ago,
:00:19. > :00:21.including three generations of one family.
:00:22. > :00:24.Seamus Daly, the last suspect charged with the attack,
:00:25. > :00:28.The families of the victims voice their despair.
:00:29. > :00:34.I think most families have given up on Justice, they've given up on the
:00:35. > :00:36.criminal justice system because they have been let down so many times.
:00:37. > :00:38.The prosecution dropped the case after concluding a key
:00:39. > :00:43.So can there ever be justice for Omagh now?
:00:44. > :00:46.Also tonight, as more migrants are trapped in Greece,
:00:47. > :00:49.the UN says Europe is on the cusp of a largely self
:00:50. > :00:59.We're with the Russian forces in Syria, from where many
:01:00. > :01:06.Could this be the night Donald Trump all but wins the Republican
:01:07. > :01:12.And the health survey of babies that started back in 1946,
:01:13. > :01:17.70 years later, thousands are still taking part.
:01:18. > :01:25.In Sportsday, Leicester City have been in action, trying to extend
:01:26. > :01:44.their lead at the top of the Premier League table.
:01:45. > :01:51.The Omagh bombing was the worst, single atrocity of Northern
:01:52. > :01:53.Ireland's Troubles, but now, 17 years on, what looks
:01:54. > :01:56.like the last chance to put those allegedly responsible before
:01:57. > :01:59.The case against the only remaining suspect
:02:00. > :02:01.charged with the attack in 1998 has collapsed.
:02:02. > :02:05.The prosecution said a key witness was unreliable.
:02:06. > :02:09.Seamus Daly, who has always denied the murders of 29 people in the Real
:02:10. > :02:15.IRA attack, has walked free from prison.
:02:16. > :02:24.Our correspondent Chris Buckler is in Omagh for us tonight.
:02:25. > :02:26.August 15, 1998, was unparalleled even in Northern Ireland's
:02:27. > :02:43.A car bomb exploded on that busy Saturday afternoon, when Omagh was
:02:44. > :02:45.full of families. Many were left grieving.
:02:46. > :02:47.18 years later, shops have been repaired, the street rebuilt,
:02:48. > :02:55.Families like the Gallagher family, who have sat through inquests and
:02:56. > :03:00.investigations but today in court they learned that all charges were
:03:01. > :03:01.to be dropped against Seamus Daly, including the murder of Michael
:03:02. > :03:05.Gallagher's son, Aidan. You will notice there
:03:06. > :03:07.are not many families. Most families have
:03:08. > :03:09.given up on justice. They have given up on the criminal
:03:10. > :03:13.justice system, because they have Seamus Daly has always
:03:14. > :03:21.strongly denied any part I would like to ask
:03:22. > :03:38.you some questions please In 2000, the BBC panorama programme
:03:39. > :03:42.tried to present him with evidence which claims to show he was
:03:43. > :03:43.involved. I would like to know how you came into possession of a mobile
:03:44. > :03:45.telephone. The key to the prosecution case
:03:46. > :03:47.was a mobile phone used The main witness said
:03:48. > :03:51.he could connect Seamus Daly to the phone, but in court he gave
:03:52. > :03:53.inconsistent evidence and contradicted his
:03:54. > :03:57.earlier testimony. The prosecution against
:03:58. > :04:01.the defendant, Seamus Daly, The town's Memorial Garden also
:04:02. > :04:18.serves as a reminder that no-one has been held accountable
:04:19. > :04:27.for their deaths. In 2007, Shaun Harvey was acquitted
:04:28. > :04:33.of any involvement in the attacks and two years later, four including
:04:34. > :04:38.Seamus Daly were found guilty in a civil case made by some of the
:04:39. > :04:40.families but they continued to push book and convictions and two years
:04:41. > :04:45.ago, Seamus Daly was arrested and charged. Today the case against him
:04:46. > :04:49.collapsed, the prosecutors admitting they didn't have enough evidence.
:04:50. > :04:52.To bring it to that level, where it has even been
:04:53. > :04:55.at a committal hearing was pointless, and I do not
:04:56. > :05:02.understand why the families are put continually through it.
:05:03. > :05:08.This afternoon, Seamus Daly left the prison where he has been held in
:05:09. > :05:15.demand for nearly two years. He is no longer wanted in connection
:05:16. > :05:32.with the murders of all those It seems no one will be prosecuted
:05:33. > :05:34.for their murders. I spoke to prosecutors this morning who said
:05:35. > :05:40.that they understood that families would be disappointed, and they are,
:05:41. > :05:44.and in many cases they are upset and angry. Some relatives of those
:05:45. > :05:48.killed want a full cross-border public enquiry into what happened in
:05:49. > :05:53.the street behind me but for all of them, they are now resigned to the
:05:54. > :05:54.fact that tonight, it looks highly unlikely there will ever be a
:05:55. > :05:57.criminal prosecution. Europe is on the cusp of a largely
:05:58. > :06:01.self-induced humanitarian crisis, according to the UN,
:06:02. > :06:04.as a bottleneck of thousands of migrants and refugees continues
:06:05. > :06:08.to build on the border of Greece, trapped by Macedonia's decision
:06:09. > :06:15.to close its border. New figures from the UN show 131,000
:06:16. > :06:18.migrants have already crossed into Europe by sea in 2016,
:06:19. > :06:21.that's ten times more The most common route for those
:06:22. > :06:27.fleeing conflict in the Middle East continues to be from Turkey
:06:28. > :06:30.across to the Greek Islands and then onto mainland Greece
:06:31. > :06:32.and up through Macedonia. But further north, countries
:06:33. > :06:34.like Austria are defying pressure to relax their border restrictions
:06:35. > :06:37.and let more migrants in, as our Europe Editor Katya Adler
:06:38. > :06:42.reports now from Athens. Battered by the migrant crisis,
:06:43. > :06:48.struggling economically. In Greece, things aren't
:06:49. > :06:52.what they used to be. This is Athens' old airport,
:06:53. > :06:57.now a makeshift refugee camp. Filled with angry, frustrated
:06:58. > :06:58.migrants, denied entry Macedonia has slammed
:06:59. > :07:04.its borders shut. People here are going
:07:05. > :07:07.nowhere, for now. The situation here
:07:08. > :07:12.is pretty desperate. Some are threatening to go on hunger
:07:13. > :07:15.strike here if the border Pressure points are building
:07:16. > :07:22.across Greece and it's not even yet the start of what is cynically
:07:23. > :07:25.known by some Greeks Greece has come under international
:07:26. > :07:35.fire for the poor treatment of migrants, but now under pressure,
:07:36. > :07:37.the authorities here say They've appealed for EU
:07:38. > :07:46.help, and they need it. To patrol their poorest coastline,
:07:47. > :07:54.stop boats coming over from Turkey and deal with the bottleneck
:07:55. > :07:56.of asylum seekers on their islands, in Athens, and of course
:07:57. > :07:59.here on the Macedonian border. We are in Europe in 2016,
:08:00. > :08:05.it is frankly beyond belief that we are standing here,
:08:06. > :08:08.looking as if this is More than 25,000 people
:08:09. > :08:12.are now stranded in Greece. The fear is that number
:08:13. > :08:15.could double, even triple by the end Greece's defence minister
:08:16. > :08:19.told me his country's northern neighbours were naive
:08:20. > :08:23.to close their borders The root of the problem,
:08:24. > :08:31.he said, lies elsewhere. If they all should want
:08:32. > :08:34.really to find a solution, you don't press Greece,
:08:35. > :08:38.but press Turkey to operate, as we have agreed in Nato,
:08:39. > :08:43.and to accept back all of these And don't give the blame
:08:44. > :08:47.game to Greece. But there's many an EU country that
:08:48. > :08:54.does blame Greece. Unlike them, though,
:08:55. > :09:05.Greece can't put up a fence to stop migrants entering its thousands
:09:06. > :09:07.of mile-long island-dotted maritime With the EU in disarray and ahead
:09:08. > :09:11.of a crucial EU Turkey summit, the president of the European
:09:12. > :09:13.Council is now zooming round the continent,
:09:14. > :09:24.beginning today in an attempt If he fails there is rising panic
:09:25. > :09:33.in Europe this country could turn This isn't just about small Greece
:09:34. > :09:37.struggling financially, powerful Germany is under
:09:38. > :09:38.huge political pressure. Neither country can afford another
:09:39. > :09:44.year with another million refugees and others landing
:09:45. > :09:45.on their doorstep. But EU cohesion and
:09:46. > :09:47.credibility are crumbling. The migrant crisis, or better put,
:09:48. > :09:50.the clumsy handling of it, Demolition of parts of the sprawling
:09:51. > :09:58.migrant camp in Calais that's become known as the Jungle
:09:59. > :10:01.has been continuing. Officials say migrants can either
:10:02. > :10:05.move into converted containers in another part of the camp,
:10:06. > :10:08.or similar accommodation centres But some migrants fear they'll be
:10:09. > :10:12.forced to claim asylum in France, instead of trying to claim
:10:13. > :10:16.in Britain instead. Key to reducing the flow of migrants
:10:17. > :10:19.into Europe is an end The temporary ceasefire brokered
:10:20. > :10:36.by Russia and America is largely holding for now, though so-called
:10:37. > :10:39.Islamic State and the al-Nusra linked to Al Qaida,
:10:40. > :10:41.are excluded from it. Our Correspondent Steve Rosenburg
:10:42. > :10:44.has been embedded with Russian forces in the Northern Syrian
:10:45. > :10:46.province of Latakia, he was taken to the villages
:10:47. > :10:48.of Kinseeba and Gunaymiyah and sent The Russian army is taking us
:10:49. > :10:52.into the hills of western Syria. The Russians say they are using
:10:53. > :10:55.a pause in the fighting to encourage But judging by the armoured vehicle
:10:56. > :11:10.we are in, progress is slow. First stop is Gunaymiyah,
:11:11. > :11:12.five years of civil war left Now we are told people
:11:13. > :11:16.are starting to return home. Do you believe there
:11:17. > :11:18.will be peace in Syria, It was Russian air power that helped
:11:19. > :11:29.the Syrian army retake this But today the Russian
:11:30. > :11:36.military has brought aid, Today Moscow accused Turkey
:11:37. > :11:54.of smuggling weapons into Syria for rebel fighters,
:11:55. > :11:56.and of a provocative military build-up that
:11:57. > :11:58.could damage Syria's fragile peace. What happens next fits
:11:59. > :11:59.the Kremlin's narrative. A Russian general radios
:12:00. > :12:15.for an armoured personnel carrier. It's supposed to provide us cover
:12:16. > :12:18.as we and the other journalists "Now run for it,"
:12:19. > :12:34.shouts the general. After five years of civil war,
:12:35. > :12:37.you can understand why many people here are sceptical about
:12:38. > :12:43.the chances of peace. As we've seen, the halt
:12:44. > :12:46.in fighting is only partial, Later the general claims
:12:47. > :12:54.that the blasts were artillery shells fired by terrorists
:12:55. > :12:57.from close to the Turkish border. But we cannot confirm
:12:58. > :13:00.what those explosions were, Today Syria's president accused
:13:01. > :13:08.rebels of violating the agreement As the Syrian army we refrain
:13:09. > :13:14.from retaliating in order to give the chance for that
:13:15. > :13:18.agreement to survive. But at the end, everything
:13:19. > :13:22.depends on the other side. Syrians are tired of war,
:13:23. > :13:24.but real peace still seems Shares in Barclays dropped sharply
:13:25. > :13:33.today after the bank reported Barclays also announced plans
:13:34. > :13:39.to sell its controlling stake in the bank's Africa operations,
:13:40. > :13:42.ending its presence on the continent Here's our economics
:13:43. > :13:47.editor Kamal Ahmed. It's been travelling in one
:13:48. > :13:50.direction, and that's downward. Barclays' share price,
:13:51. > :13:53.a barometer of its financial health, Today, it sank by 8%, as the bank
:13:54. > :14:00.said it was cutting its dividend to investors, was struggling to make
:14:01. > :14:03.profits and was quitting Jes Staley is the bank's
:14:04. > :14:08.new Chief Executive, he told me the heart of Barclays,
:14:09. > :14:11.the UK business and Barclaycard, There are clearly challenges
:14:12. > :14:17.in running a bank given the regulatory response
:14:18. > :14:20.to the financial crisis and the conduct issues
:14:21. > :14:24.that banks are facing. But if you look inside of those
:14:25. > :14:27.numbers, and a lot what I'm going to focus on today,
:14:28. > :14:30.is Barclays has got a core franchise, which is a terrific
:14:31. > :14:32.set of businesses. We are eight years after
:14:33. > :14:36.the financial crisis, your annual results are still
:14:37. > :14:40.littered with conduct issues. You've got new provisions
:14:41. > :14:44.for payment protection mis-selling. When will banks, when can
:14:45. > :14:46.the public trust that banks I do believe the banks
:14:47. > :14:54.lost their way, 10, 15 years ago, and we lost a lot of trust
:14:55. > :14:57.through the financial crisis. We have an obligation
:14:58. > :15:01.to return that. I interviewed Jes Staley on the top
:15:02. > :15:06.floor of Barclays' steel and glass This building is almost
:15:07. > :15:12.from a different era, a time when banks were swashbuckling
:15:13. > :15:17.global businesses making billions of pounds of profit and sowing
:15:18. > :15:21.the seeds of the financial crisis. Jes Staley made it clear to me
:15:22. > :15:24.that this was a different time. A time of lower profits,
:15:25. > :15:28.a time of smaller bonus payments, It will be smaller here, Kenya,
:15:29. > :15:38.one of the countries affected by Barclays' decision
:15:39. > :15:41.to pull out of Africa. Mr Staley said that regulatory rules
:15:42. > :15:44.made it too expensive, despite the economies being some
:15:45. > :15:46.of the fastest growing in the world. You go to places like Uganda
:15:47. > :15:55.and Kenya and the brand of Barclays is as strong there as it is in
:15:56. > :15:59.the UK, but we have to make some very difficult decisions if we're
:16:00. > :16:01.going to get Barclays into a focused, clear,
:16:02. > :16:04.compelling business model that generates returns
:16:05. > :16:08.for our shareholders. Those investors will need some
:16:09. > :16:10.persuading, not constantly changing It's not good for any bank to have
:16:11. > :16:18.four CEOs in five years. It's more like a Premiership
:16:19. > :16:21.football club than a major financial We had a CEO last year
:16:22. > :16:25.who was a lifetime retail banker, a CEO this year who's
:16:26. > :16:27.a lifetime investment banker. So I think the markets have
:16:28. > :16:30.been worried about that. Not the towering giant it once was,
:16:31. > :16:33.but with 110,000 employees and, as a major contributor
:16:34. > :16:38.to our pensions, Mr Staley's He is the new broom,
:16:39. > :16:43.can he sweep the bank clean? Britain's most senior civil servant
:16:44. > :16:52.has sought to reassure ministers who want the UK to leave
:16:53. > :16:55.the European Union that they will not be discriminated
:16:56. > :16:57.against in the run-up Some Eurosceptic MPs had argued
:16:58. > :17:01.that it was unfair that access to certain material would only be
:17:02. > :17:04.given to ministers who backed But appearing before MPs,
:17:05. > :17:07.Sir Jeremy Heywood said that was merely official
:17:08. > :17:12.government policy. By tomorrow morning,
:17:13. > :17:14.Donald Trump may have all but won what many in his own party once
:17:15. > :17:16.considered unthinkable, the Republican nomination
:17:17. > :17:20.for president. Americans are voting now in what's
:17:21. > :17:23.known as Super Tuesday, when nearly a dozen states get
:17:24. > :17:26.to pick who will end up fighting If Trump secures enough votes,
:17:27. > :17:31.his momentum may prove unstoppable. For the Democratic Party,
:17:32. > :17:33.it's Hilary Clinton's chance to open up a credible gap
:17:34. > :17:37.with her rival, Bernie Sanders. Our North America editor
:17:38. > :17:40.Jon Sopel has more. Across 11 states, from Alaska
:17:41. > :17:44.in the far north-west to Vermont in the east, and across a vast
:17:45. > :17:47.swathe of the American south, voters are choosing who should
:17:48. > :17:50.be their candidate as president. If this was decided by media
:17:51. > :17:55.coverage alone, Donald Trump would already be in the White House
:17:56. > :17:58.and he was on typically pugnacious You're going to win so much,
:17:59. > :18:05.you're going to call and say - please, Mr President,
:18:06. > :18:07.we're so tired of winning, And I'm going to say,
:18:08. > :18:14.no way, no way. We're going to make
:18:15. > :18:17.America great again. When Donald Trump arrives
:18:18. > :18:20.here later this evening, he's likely to have won 10 of the 11
:18:21. > :18:25.states up for grabs. In any other election cycle,
:18:26. > :18:28.that would have him referred But in the Republican high command,
:18:29. > :18:33.such is the fear over his divisiveness, he's seen
:18:34. > :18:37.as the problem. Over the weekend, Donald Trump
:18:38. > :18:42.sparked a whole news storm by refusing to disavow the support
:18:43. > :18:44.of the former grand wizard of the white supremacist
:18:45. > :18:47.group, the Ku Klux Klan. Would you just say, unequivocally,
:18:48. > :18:49.you condemn them and you don't I mean, I don't know what group
:18:50. > :18:57.you're talking about. Today, without naming Mr Trump,
:18:58. > :19:01.the country's most senior Republican, the Speaker
:19:02. > :19:03.of the House, Paul Ryan, Today, I want to be very
:19:04. > :19:07.clear about something. If a person wants to be the nominee
:19:08. > :19:10.of the Republican Party, there can be no
:19:11. > :19:13.evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause
:19:14. > :19:20.that is built on bigotry. Donald Trump's rival, Ted Cruz,
:19:21. > :19:25.who was voting in his home state of Texas today, was
:19:26. > :19:28.quick to seize on this. If Donald is the nominee,
:19:29. > :19:32.Hillary Clinton, in all The Bill of Rights is
:19:33. > :19:37.lost for a generation. We're buried in debt and the future
:19:38. > :19:40.of our kids and grandkids He built Trump Towers with illegal
:19:41. > :19:44.immigrants from Poland. It's a theme the other Republican
:19:45. > :19:46.frontrunner, Senator Marco Rubio, On the Democratic side,
:19:47. > :19:53.Hillary Clinton is poised to do equally well, finding time to stop
:19:54. > :19:57.for coffee in Minnesota. Her campaign seems transformed
:19:58. > :20:00.in the past 10 days. Which isn't to say that her
:20:01. > :20:06.socialist rival, Bernie Sanders, is sinking, but he is going
:20:07. > :20:09.to struggle to stay afloat if Hillary Clinton does as well
:20:10. > :20:13.tonight as the polls are predicting. Jon Sopel, BBC News,
:20:14. > :20:22.Florida. Will people have to work
:20:23. > :20:24.until their mid-70s before they can draw a pension
:20:25. > :20:26.in the years to come? A review of the state pension
:20:27. > :20:29.age has been announced, prompting experts to warn people
:20:30. > :20:32.to expect to work for longer before Our Business Editor
:20:33. > :20:35.Simon Jack is here,. until our mid seventies,
:20:36. > :20:43.is that really what lies ahead? For some of us, no, but for others,
:20:44. > :20:47.almost certainly. We are living longer, which is fantastic news but
:20:48. > :20:51.in the future it is going to get very expensive to provide a state
:20:52. > :20:54.pension so the law mandates that in every parliament they review the age
:20:55. > :20:59.at which you qualify for a state pension. Will that mean me, people
:21:00. > :21:05.will ask. It depends how old you are. Relax if you are born in 1961,
:21:06. > :21:10.or before, the review won't affect you. If you were born in the 70s you
:21:11. > :21:15.may be nudging 69 before you qualify and if you were born in the 80s,
:21:16. > :21:18.possibly the only 70s and people entering the workforce now may have
:21:19. > :21:23.to work into their mid-70s before they qualify for the state pension.
:21:24. > :21:29.The DWP thinks one third of the people born today will live to 100,
:21:30. > :21:32.so it's going to be very expensive in the future. That's what the
:21:33. > :21:36.government is trying to get a grip on. We will know whether it applies
:21:37. > :21:39.to you by May, 2017. I can hardly wait! Thank you for joining us.
:21:40. > :21:42.The tech giant Apple has warned a committee of the US House
:21:43. > :21:44.of Representatives, that there is more that can be
:21:45. > :21:46.stolen from your phone than from your house.
:21:47. > :21:49.The company is under pressure to comply with a government request
:21:50. > :21:51.to produce software that can unlock any iPhone.
:21:52. > :21:54.The FBI wants Apple to unlock the phone of a man who carried
:21:55. > :21:56.a terrorist attack in California last December.
:21:57. > :22:02.Aleem Maqbool reports from Washington.
:22:03. > :22:08.14 people died and many more were injured in the terrorist attack in
:22:09. > :22:12.St Bernard eena. The killers, who opened fire at an office party,
:22:13. > :22:16.later died in a shoot out and with their later many of their secrets --
:22:17. > :22:21.San Bernardino. They left behind a phone, one that was locked. Apple
:22:22. > :22:27.has refused the FBI requests to help unlock it. This very public battle
:22:28. > :22:30.between one of the world's biggest companies and one of its most
:22:31. > :22:34.powerful intelligence agencies was today fought before Congress. It is
:22:35. > :22:41.a battle that may have implications for all of us. This case in San
:22:42. > :22:44.Bernardino is not about the FBI, Apple, Congress, anything other than
:22:45. > :22:51.trying to do a competent investigation in an ongoing case.
:22:52. > :22:56.Any decision by a judge in any form is going to be potentially
:22:57. > :23:01.presidential. What is the FBI trying to demand of Apple? At the moment if
:23:02. > :23:06.your iPhone is locked you have ten attempts to put in the past work and
:23:07. > :23:10.after that, all data is erased. The FBI would like Apple to write new
:23:11. > :23:13.software to disable that function, so you can bombard a phone with
:23:14. > :23:19.thousands of passwords until one of them opens it. Apple isn't happy.
:23:20. > :23:24.The FBI has asked the court to order us to give them something that we
:23:25. > :23:29.don't have, to create an operating system that doesn't exist. The
:23:30. > :23:33.reason it doesn't exist is because it would be too dangerous. Some of
:23:34. > :23:36.you have an iPhone now and if you think about it, there is probably
:23:37. > :23:41.more information stored on that device than a thief could steel pipe
:23:42. > :23:45.breaking into your house. -- by breaking in. The only way to break
:23:46. > :23:49.the data -- secure the data is with strong encryption. Some ask of them
:23:50. > :23:52.about Apple, thinking that the grandstanding is about getting us to
:23:53. > :23:56.buy more phones from them, thinking they are secure but others have
:23:57. > :24:01.genuine concerns that if the FBI forces them to comply, that makes
:24:02. > :24:05.iPhones around the world much more vulnerable to attack.
:24:06. > :24:08.The threat of the Zika virus reaching the US has come a step
:24:09. > :24:12.closer as America's Centers for Disease Control is warning that
:24:13. > :24:19.hundreds of thousands of people in the US territory of Puerto Rico
:24:20. > :24:21.could become infected in the coming months,
:24:22. > :24:23.leading to thousands of brain damaged babies,
:24:24. > :24:25.and the possible spread of infection in America itself.
:24:26. > :24:28.Our Global Health Correspondent, Tulip Mazumdar has been given rare
:24:29. > :24:30.access to the Centre's 'Situation Room' in Atlanta
:24:31. > :24:32.and its scientists battling Zika inside Puerto Rico.
:24:33. > :24:38.It might not look like it, but this tropical island
:24:39. > :24:46.Welcome to the front-line of the US's fight against Zika.
:24:47. > :24:49.Millions of American tourists come here every year,
:24:50. > :24:51.a major concern though is what they're taking
:24:52. > :25:00.These are the Zika-transmitting Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
:25:01. > :25:07.On the menu, pig's blood, served at skin temperature.
:25:08. > :25:14.These are the Zika-transmitting Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
:25:15. > :25:17.On the menu, pig's blood, served at skin temperature.
:25:18. > :25:20.They're being bred in this lab for research into insecticides.
:25:21. > :25:22.These tiny creatures have been here in Puerto Rico spreading dengue
:25:23. > :25:26.Then, a couple of years ago, they started transmitting
:25:27. > :25:29.After that, at the start of this year, Zika came along,
:25:30. > :25:32.with that link to babies being born brain damaged.
:25:33. > :25:34.Worryingly, the insecticides used to kill these mosquitoes are no
:25:35. > :25:36.longer working as well as they used to.
:25:37. > :25:43.These mosquitoes are resistant to one of the most commonly used
:25:44. > :25:48.Permethrin is an insecticide that has been used in Puerto Rico
:25:49. > :25:51.but also in the rest of the Americas for many years.
:25:52. > :25:53.Scientists are now racing to find other chemicals that
:25:54. > :26:03.The insects can breathe and thrive in just a few drops of water.
:26:04. > :26:08.Permethrin might not be 100% effective, but fumigators are out
:26:09. > :26:10.on the streets spraying entire neighbourhoods,
:26:11. > :26:19.Here, we're talking about, if you're pregnant, what to do
:26:20. > :26:21.about the Zika and how to protect your baby.
:26:22. > :26:26.Zika isn't considered particularly harmful to most people,
:26:27. > :26:27.authorities are focusing on protecting pregnant women
:26:28. > :26:30.because of that link to babies being born
:26:31. > :26:43.As I told you, I use repellent every day.
:26:44. > :26:51.I'm very worried about this because any woman doesn't want
:26:52. > :26:53.a baby with microcephaly because it's a very sad disease.
:26:54. > :26:55.This is the emergency operation centre.
:26:56. > :26:59.1,500 miles away, at the Centers for Disease Control headquarters
:27:00. > :27:02.in Atlanta, the man who's advising the President on this global health
:27:03. > :27:06.emergency is preparing for the worst.
:27:07. > :27:09.In Puerto Rico, we expect that there will likely be hundreds
:27:10. > :27:19.of thousands of infections and potentially hundreds
:27:20. > :27:21.or thousands of women who are pregnant who become infected.
:27:22. > :27:23.What's new and different and frightening is this rate
:27:24. > :27:26.of birth defects and there's a lot we don't know.
:27:27. > :27:28.Back at the lab scientists continue the fight against
:27:29. > :27:31.They need answers fast to stop the spread of this
:27:32. > :27:51.Tulip Mazumdar, BBC News, Puerto Rico.
:27:52. > :27:54.The skies above north-east Scotland were alight last night. It was
:27:55. > :28:00.probably caused by a meteor shower. Allen what the hell is that? Many
:28:01. > :28:03.people reported seeing what looked like a fireball and a bright flash,
:28:04. > :28:14.others reported hearing the rumbling sound caused by a sonic boom.
:28:15. > :28:20.It's the biggest and oldest survey of its kind in the world.
:28:21. > :28:23.And in the next week all the surviving participants turn
:28:24. > :28:31.It started in March 1946 when scientists began to monitor
:28:32. > :28:33.the health and development of more than 5,500 newborn babies.
:28:34. > :28:36.And there are still more than 3,000 taking part in regular checks
:28:37. > :28:38.and surveys to track the many changes they've experienced
:28:39. > :28:42.As our social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan reports there have
:28:43. > :28:47.They are perhaps the most studied people on earth.
:28:48. > :28:49.Since they were born, their lives have shaped how
:28:50. > :28:54.Over the coming days, every one of them will celebrate
:28:55. > :29:01.All were born within a week of each other in 1946.
:29:02. > :29:06.Margaret Allen has been weighed and measured her entire life.
:29:07. > :29:08.As she's aged, the tests have changed, less reading and writing,
:29:09. > :29:11.more mental and physical health assessments.
:29:12. > :29:13.A wholly rewarding experience, she says, particularly
:29:14. > :29:24.You just felt that, oh, OK, so the others are all sitting
:29:25. > :29:29.there getting on with whatever it was we were doing and I was taken
:29:30. > :29:33.out and I was chatted to and did various tests and things like that.
:29:34. > :29:39.These cards contain the details of the first survey
:29:40. > :29:43.Nearly 3,000 are still being studied, work funded
:29:44. > :29:48.To thank the participants, each year they're sent
:29:49. > :29:55.So what is the key lesson after seven decades of research?
:29:56. > :29:58.We need to invest in child health and wellbeing much more in this
:29:59. > :30:02.country, in terms of health and education and it's that
:30:03. > :30:05.investment, as a society, that will make us all richer
:30:06. > :30:16.The study has, however, already changed our lives over
:30:17. > :30:19.The original survey led to all women being offered pain
:30:20. > :30:23.Comprehensive schools were introduced after data showed
:30:24. > :30:26.bright but poor children were failing to get into grammar
:30:27. > :30:29.schools and the creation of Sure Start centres can be traced
:30:30. > :30:31.to evidence showing the importance of children being supported
:30:32. > :30:38.As participants like Ken Ashton have aged,
:30:39. > :30:42.they're now studied for different reasons.
:30:43. > :30:44.Questions about a child's growth and diet, replaced by research
:30:45. > :30:46.into dementia and Parkinson's disease.
:30:47. > :30:54.Information is fine, but information with a context,
:30:55. > :30:57.particularly over a broad stretch of people, and all within the same
:30:58. > :31:08.Today's party celebrated a remarkable research project.
:31:09. > :31:11.Its success has spawned many other inquiries.
:31:12. > :31:13.It's now estimated that one in 30 British people
:31:14. > :31:25.Newsnight is coming up on BBC two. Tonight, we have a special
:31:26. > :31:30.investigation into what put a stop to a police inquiry into abuse in
:31:31. > :31:35.south London children's homes? Starting now on BBC Two, 11pm in
:31:36. > :31:37.Scotland. Meanwhile, here on BBC One, it's
:31:38. > :31:43.time for the news where you are. Bye-bye.