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The worst single atrocity in Northern Ireland, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
and what looks like the last chance for a criminal trial has collapsed. | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
29 people died in the Omagh bombing 17 years ago, | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
including three generations of one family. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Seamus Daly, the last suspect charged with the attack, | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
The families of the victims voice their despair. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
I think most families have given up on Justice, they've given up on the | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
criminal justice system because they have been let down so many times. | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
The prosecution dropped the case after concluding a key | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
So can there ever be justice for Omagh now? | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Also tonight, as more migrants are trapped in Greece, | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
the UN says Europe is on the cusp of a largely self | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
We're with the Russian forces in Syria, from where many | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
Could this be the night Donald Trump all but wins the Republican | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
And the health survey of babies that started back in 1946, | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
70 years later, thousands are still taking part. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
In Sportsday, Leicester City have been in action, trying to extend | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
their lead at the top of the Premier League table. | :01:26. | :01:44. | |
The Omagh bombing was the worst, single atrocity of Northern | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
Ireland's Troubles, but now, 17 years on, what looks | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
like the last chance to put those allegedly responsible before | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
The case against the only remaining suspect | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
charged with the attack in 1998 has collapsed. | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
The prosecution said a key witness was unreliable. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Seamus Daly, who has always denied the murders of 29 people in the Real | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
IRA attack, has walked free from prison. | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
Our correspondent Chris Buckler is in Omagh for us tonight. | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
August 15, 1998, was unparalleled even in Northern Ireland's | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
A car bomb exploded on that busy Saturday afternoon, when Omagh was | :02:27. | :02:43. | |
full of families. Many were left grieving. | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
18 years later, shops have been repaired, the street rebuilt, | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
Families like the Gallagher family, who have sat through inquests and | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
investigations but today in court they learned that all charges were | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
to be dropped against Seamus Daly, including the murder of Michael | :03:01. | :03:01. | |
Gallagher's son, Aidan. You will notice there | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
are not many families. Most families have | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
given up on justice. They have given up on the criminal | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
justice system, because they have Seamus Daly has always | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
strongly denied any part I would like to ask | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
you some questions please In 2000, the BBC panorama programme | :03:22. | :03:38. | |
tried to present him with evidence which claims to show he was | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
involved. I would like to know how you came into possession of a mobile | :03:43. | :03:43. | |
telephone. The key to the prosecution case | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
was a mobile phone used The main witness said | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
he could connect Seamus Daly to the phone, but in court he gave | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
inconsistent evidence and contradicted his | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
earlier testimony. The prosecution against | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
the defendant, Seamus Daly, The town's Memorial Garden also | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
serves as a reminder that no-one has been held accountable | :04:02. | :04:18. | |
for their deaths. In 2007, Shaun Harvey was acquitted | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
of any involvement in the attacks and two years later, four including | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Seamus Daly were found guilty in a civil case made by some of the | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
families but they continued to push book and convictions and two years | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
ago, Seamus Daly was arrested and charged. Today the case against him | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
collapsed, the prosecutors admitting they didn't have enough evidence. | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
To bring it to that level, where it has even been | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
at a committal hearing was pointless, and I do not | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
understand why the families are put continually through it. | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
This afternoon, Seamus Daly left the prison where he has been held in | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
demand for nearly two years. He is no longer wanted in connection | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
with the murders of all those It seems no one will be prosecuted | :05:16. | :05:32. | |
for their murders. I spoke to prosecutors this morning who said | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
that they understood that families would be disappointed, and they are, | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
and in many cases they are upset and angry. Some relatives of those | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
killed want a full cross-border public enquiry into what happened in | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
the street behind me but for all of them, they are now resigned to the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
fact that tonight, it looks highly unlikely there will ever be a | :05:54. | :05:54. | |
criminal prosecution. Europe is on the cusp of a largely | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
self-induced humanitarian crisis, according to the UN, | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
as a bottleneck of thousands of migrants and refugees continues | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
to build on the border of Greece, trapped by Macedonia's decision | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
to close its border. New figures from the UN show 131,000 | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
migrants have already crossed into Europe by sea in 2016, | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
that's ten times more The most common route for those | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
fleeing conflict in the Middle East continues to be from Turkey | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
across to the Greek Islands and then onto mainland Greece | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
and up through Macedonia. But further north, countries | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
like Austria are defying pressure to relax their border restrictions | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
and let more migrants in, as our Europe Editor Katya Adler | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
reports now from Athens. Battered by the migrant crisis, | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
struggling economically. In Greece, things aren't | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
what they used to be. This is Athens' old airport, | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
now a makeshift refugee camp. Filled with angry, frustrated | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
migrants, denied entry Macedonia has slammed | :06:58. | :06:58. | |
its borders shut. People here are going | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
nowhere, for now. The situation here | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
is pretty desperate. Some are threatening to go on hunger | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
strike here if the border Pressure points are building | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
across Greece and it's not even yet the start of what is cynically | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
known by some Greeks Greece has come under international | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
fire for the poor treatment of migrants, but now under pressure, | :07:26. | :07:35. | |
the authorities here say They've appealed for EU | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
help, and they need it. To patrol their poorest coastline, | :07:38. | :07:46. | |
stop boats coming over from Turkey and deal with the bottleneck | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
of asylum seekers on their islands, in Athens, and of course | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
here on the Macedonian border. We are in Europe in 2016, | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
it is frankly beyond belief that we are standing here, | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
looking as if this is More than 25,000 people | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
are now stranded in Greece. The fear is that number | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
could double, even triple by the end Greece's defence minister | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
told me his country's northern neighbours were naive | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
to close their borders The root of the problem, | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
he said, lies elsewhere. If they all should want | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
really to find a solution, you don't press Greece, | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
but press Turkey to operate, as we have agreed in Nato, | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
and to accept back all of these And don't give the blame | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
game to Greece. But there's many an EU country that | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
does blame Greece. Unlike them, though, | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
Greece can't put up a fence to stop migrants entering its thousands | :08:55. | :09:05. | |
of mile-long island-dotted maritime With the EU in disarray and ahead | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
of a crucial EU Turkey summit, the president of the European | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
Council is now zooming round the continent, | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
beginning today in an attempt If he fails there is rising panic | :09:14. | :09:24. | |
in Europe this country could turn This isn't just about small Greece | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
struggling financially, powerful Germany is under | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
huge political pressure. Neither country can afford another | :09:38. | :09:38. | |
year with another million refugees and others landing | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
on their doorstep. But EU cohesion and | :09:45. | :09:45. | |
credibility are crumbling. The migrant crisis, or better put, | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
the clumsy handling of it, Demolition of parts of the sprawling | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
migrant camp in Calais that's become known as the Jungle | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
has been continuing. Officials say migrants can either | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
move into converted containers in another part of the camp, | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
or similar accommodation centres But some migrants fear they'll be | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
forced to claim asylum in France, instead of trying to claim | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
in Britain instead. Key to reducing the flow of migrants | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
into Europe is an end The temporary ceasefire brokered | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
by Russia and America is largely holding for now, though so-called | :10:20. | :10:36. | |
Islamic State and the al-Nusra linked to Al Qaida, | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
are excluded from it. Our Correspondent Steve Rosenburg | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
has been embedded with Russian forces in the Northern Syrian | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
province of Latakia, he was taken to the villages | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
of Kinseeba and Gunaymiyah and sent The Russian army is taking us | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
into the hills of western Syria. The Russians say they are using | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
a pause in the fighting to encourage But judging by the armoured vehicle | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
we are in, progress is slow. First stop is Gunaymiyah, | :10:56. | :11:10. | |
five years of civil war left Now we are told people | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
are starting to return home. Do you believe there | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
will be peace in Syria, It was Russian air power that helped | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
the Syrian army retake this But today the Russian | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
military has brought aid, Today Moscow accused Turkey | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
of smuggling weapons into Syria for rebel fighters, | :11:37. | :11:54. | |
and of a provocative military build-up that | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
could damage Syria's fragile peace. What happens next fits | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
the Kremlin's narrative. A Russian general radios | :11:59. | :11:59. | |
for an armoured personnel carrier. It's supposed to provide us cover | :12:00. | :12:15. | |
as we and the other journalists "Now run for it," | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
shouts the general. After five years of civil war, | :12:19. | :12:34. | |
you can understand why many people here are sceptical about | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
the chances of peace. As we've seen, the halt | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
in fighting is only partial, Later the general claims | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
that the blasts were artillery shells fired by terrorists | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
from close to the Turkish border. But we cannot confirm | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
what those explosions were, Today Syria's president accused | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
rebels of violating the agreement As the Syrian army we refrain | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
from retaliating in order to give the chance for that | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
agreement to survive. But at the end, everything | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
depends on the other side. Syrians are tired of war, | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
but real peace still seems Shares in Barclays dropped sharply | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
today after the bank reported Barclays also announced plans | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
to sell its controlling stake in the bank's Africa operations, | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
ending its presence on the continent Here's our economics | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
editor Kamal Ahmed. It's been travelling in one | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
direction, and that's downward. Barclays' share price, | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
a barometer of its financial health, Today, it sank by 8%, as the bank | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
said it was cutting its dividend to investors, was struggling to make | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
profits and was quitting Jes Staley is the bank's | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
new Chief Executive, he told me the heart of Barclays, | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
the UK business and Barclaycard, There are clearly challenges | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
in running a bank given the regulatory response | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
to the financial crisis and the conduct issues | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
that banks are facing. But if you look inside of those | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
numbers, and a lot what I'm going to focus on today, | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
is Barclays has got a core franchise, which is a terrific | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
set of businesses. We are eight years after | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
the financial crisis, your annual results are still | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
littered with conduct issues. You've got new provisions | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
for payment protection mis-selling. When will banks, when can | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
the public trust that banks I do believe the banks | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
lost their way, 10, 15 years ago, and we lost a lot of trust | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
through the financial crisis. We have an obligation | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
to return that. I interviewed Jes Staley on the top | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
floor of Barclays' steel and glass This building is almost | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
from a different era, a time when banks were swashbuckling | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
global businesses making billions of pounds of profit and sowing | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
the seeds of the financial crisis. Jes Staley made it clear to me | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
that this was a different time. A time of lower profits, | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
a time of smaller bonus payments, It will be smaller here, Kenya, | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
one of the countries affected by Barclays' decision | :15:29. | :15:38. | |
to pull out of Africa. Mr Staley said that regulatory rules | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
made it too expensive, despite the economies being some | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
of the fastest growing in the world. You go to places like Uganda | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
and Kenya and the brand of Barclays is as strong there as it is in | :15:47. | :15:55. | |
the UK, but we have to make some very difficult decisions if we're | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
going to get Barclays into a focused, clear, | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
compelling business model that generates returns | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
for our shareholders. Those investors will need some | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
persuading, not constantly changing It's not good for any bank to have | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
four CEOs in five years. It's more like a Premiership | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
football club than a major financial We had a CEO last year | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
who was a lifetime retail banker, a CEO this year who's | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
a lifetime investment banker. So I think the markets have | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
been worried about that. Not the towering giant it once was, | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
but with 110,000 employees and, as a major contributor | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
to our pensions, Mr Staley's He is the new broom, | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
can he sweep the bank clean? Britain's most senior civil servant | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
has sought to reassure ministers who want the UK to leave | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
the European Union that they will not be discriminated | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
against in the run-up Some Eurosceptic MPs had argued | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
that it was unfair that access to certain material would only be | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
given to ministers who backed But appearing before MPs, | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
Sir Jeremy Heywood said that was merely official | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
government policy. By tomorrow morning, | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
Donald Trump may have all but won what many in his own party once | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
considered unthinkable, the Republican nomination | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
for president. Americans are voting now in what's | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
known as Super Tuesday, when nearly a dozen states get | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
to pick who will end up fighting If Trump secures enough votes, | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
his momentum may prove unstoppable. For the Democratic Party, | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
it's Hilary Clinton's chance to open up a credible gap | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
with her rival, Bernie Sanders. Our North America editor | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
Jon Sopel has more. Across 11 states, from Alaska | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
in the far north-west to Vermont in the east, and across a vast | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
swathe of the American south, voters are choosing who should | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
be their candidate as president. If this was decided by media | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
coverage alone, Donald Trump would already be in the White House | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
and he was on typically pugnacious You're going to win so much, | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
you're going to call and say - please, Mr President, | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
we're so tired of winning, And I'm going to say, | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
no way, no way. We're going to make | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
America great again. When Donald Trump arrives | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
here later this evening, he's likely to have won 10 of the 11 | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
states up for grabs. In any other election cycle, | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
that would have him referred But in the Republican high command, | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
such is the fear over his divisiveness, he's seen | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
as the problem. Over the weekend, Donald Trump | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
sparked a whole news storm by refusing to disavow the support | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
of the former grand wizard of the white supremacist | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
group, the Ku Klux Klan. Would you just say, unequivocally, | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
you condemn them and you don't I mean, I don't know what group | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
you're talking about. Today, without naming Mr Trump, | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
the country's most senior Republican, the Speaker | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
of the House, Paul Ryan, Today, I want to be very | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
clear about something. If a person wants to be the nominee | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
of the Republican Party, there can be no | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
that is built on bigotry. Donald Trump's rival, Ted Cruz, | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
who was voting in his home state of Texas today, was | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
quick to seize on this. If Donald is the nominee, | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
Hillary Clinton, in all The Bill of Rights is | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
lost for a generation. We're buried in debt and the future | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
of our kids and grandkids He built Trump Towers with illegal | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
immigrants from Poland. It's a theme the other Republican | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
frontrunner, Senator Marco Rubio, On the Democratic side, | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
Hillary Clinton is poised to do equally well, finding time to stop | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
for coffee in Minnesota. Her campaign seems transformed | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
in the past 10 days. Which isn't to say that her | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
socialist rival, Bernie Sanders, is sinking, but he is going | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
to struggle to stay afloat if Hillary Clinton does as well | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
tonight as the polls are predicting. Jon Sopel, BBC News, | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
Florida. Will people have to work | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
until their mid-70s before they can draw a pension | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
in the years to come? A review of the state pension | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
age has been announced, prompting experts to warn people | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
to expect to work for longer before Our Business Editor | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
Simon Jack is here,. until our mid seventies, | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
is that really what lies ahead? For some of us, no, but for others, | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
almost certainly. We are living longer, which is fantastic news but | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
in the future it is going to get very expensive to provide a state | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
pension so the law mandates that in every parliament they review the age | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
at which you qualify for a state pension. Will that mean me, people | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
will ask. It depends how old you are. Relax if you are born in 1961, | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
or before, the review won't affect you. If you were born in the 70s you | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
may be nudging 69 before you qualify and if you were born in the 80s, | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
possibly the only 70s and people entering the workforce now may have | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
to work into their mid-70s before they qualify for the state pension. | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
The DWP thinks one third of the people born today will live to 100, | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
so it's going to be very expensive in the future. That's what the | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
government is trying to get a grip on. We will know whether it applies | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
to you by May, 2017. I can hardly wait! Thank you for joining us. | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
The tech giant Apple has warned a committee of the US House | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
of Representatives, that there is more that can be | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
stolen from your phone than from your house. | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
The company is under pressure to comply with a government request | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
to produce software that can unlock any iPhone. | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
The FBI wants Apple to unlock the phone of a man who carried | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
a terrorist attack in California last December. | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
Aleem Maqbool reports from Washington. | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
14 people died and many more were injured in the terrorist attack in | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
St Bernard eena. The killers, who opened fire at an office party, | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
later died in a shoot out and with their later many of their secrets -- | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
San Bernardino. They left behind a phone, one that was locked. Apple | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
has refused the FBI requests to help unlock it. This very public battle | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
between one of the world's biggest companies and one of its most | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
powerful intelligence agencies was today fought before Congress. It is | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
a battle that may have implications for all of us. This case in San | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
Bernardino is not about the FBI, Apple, Congress, anything other than | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
trying to do a competent investigation in an ongoing case. | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
Any decision by a judge in any form is going to be potentially | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
presidential. What is the FBI trying to demand of Apple? At the moment if | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
your iPhone is locked you have ten attempts to put in the past work and | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
after that, all data is erased. The FBI would like Apple to write new | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
software to disable that function, so you can bombard a phone with | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
thousands of passwords until one of them opens it. Apple isn't happy. | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
The FBI has asked the court to order us to give them something that we | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
don't have, to create an operating system that doesn't exist. The | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
reason it doesn't exist is because it would be too dangerous. Some of | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
you have an iPhone now and if you think about it, there is probably | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
more information stored on that device than a thief could steel pipe | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
breaking into your house. -- by breaking in. The only way to break | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
the data -- secure the data is with strong encryption. Some ask of them | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
about Apple, thinking that the grandstanding is about getting us to | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
buy more phones from them, thinking they are secure but others have | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
genuine concerns that if the FBI forces them to comply, that makes | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
iPhones around the world much more vulnerable to attack. | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
The threat of the Zika virus reaching the US has come a step | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
closer as America's Centers for Disease Control is warning that | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
hundreds of thousands of people in the US territory of Puerto Rico | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
could become infected in the coming months, | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
leading to thousands of brain damaged babies, | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
and the possible spread of infection in America itself. | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
Our Global Health Correspondent, Tulip Mazumdar has been given rare | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
access to the Centre's 'Situation Room' in Atlanta | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
and its scientists battling Zika inside Puerto Rico. | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
It might not look like it, but this tropical island | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
Welcome to the front-line of the US's fight against Zika. | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
Millions of American tourists come here every year, | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
a major concern though is what they're taking | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
These are the Zika-transmitting Aedes aegypti mosquitoes | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
On the menu, pig's blood, served at skin temperature. | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
These are the Zika-transmitting Aedes aegypti mosquitoes | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
On the menu, pig's blood, served at skin temperature. | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
They're being bred in this lab for research into insecticides. | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
These tiny creatures have been here in Puerto Rico spreading dengue | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
Then, a couple of years ago, they started transmitting | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
After that, at the start of this year, Zika came along, | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
with that link to babies being born brain damaged. | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
Worryingly, the insecticides used to kill these mosquitoes are no | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
longer working as well as they used to. | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
These mosquitoes are resistant to one of the most commonly used | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
Permethrin is an insecticide that has been used in Puerto Rico | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
but also in the rest of the Americas for many years. | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
Scientists are now racing to find other chemicals that | :25:52. | :25:53. | |
The insects can breathe and thrive in just a few drops of water. | :25:54. | :26:03. | |
Permethrin might not be 100% effective, but fumigators are out | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
on the streets spraying entire neighbourhoods, | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
Here, we're talking about, if you're pregnant, what to do | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
about the Zika and how to protect your baby. | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
Zika isn't considered particularly harmful to most people, | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
authorities are focusing on protecting pregnant women | :26:27. | :26:27. | |
because of that link to babies being born | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
As I told you, I use repellent every day. | :26:31. | :26:43. | |
I'm very worried about this because any woman doesn't want | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
a baby with microcephaly because it's a very sad disease. | :26:52. | :26:53. | |
This is the emergency operation centre. | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
1,500 miles away, at the Centers for Disease Control headquarters | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
in Atlanta, the man who's advising the President on this global health | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
emergency is preparing for the worst. | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
In Puerto Rico, we expect that there will likely be hundreds | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
of thousands of infections and potentially hundreds | :27:10. | :27:19. | |
or thousands of women who are pregnant who become infected. | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
What's new and different and frightening is this rate | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
of birth defects and there's a lot we don't know. | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
Back at the lab scientists continue the fight against | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
They need answers fast to stop the spread of this | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
Tulip Mazumdar, BBC News, Puerto Rico. | :27:32. | :27:51. | |
The skies above north-east Scotland were alight last night. It was | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
probably caused by a meteor shower. Allen what the hell is that? Many | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
people reported seeing what looked like a fireball and a bright flash, | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
others reported hearing the rumbling sound caused by a sonic boom. | :28:04. | :28:14. | |
It's the biggest and oldest survey of its kind in the world. | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
And in the next week all the surviving participants turn | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
It started in March 1946 when scientists began to monitor | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
the health and development of more than 5,500 newborn babies. | :28:32. | :28:33. | |
And there are still more than 3,000 taking part in regular checks | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
and surveys to track the many changes they've experienced | :28:37. | :28:38. | |
As our social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan reports there have | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
They are perhaps the most studied people on earth. | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
Since they were born, their lives have shaped how | :28:48. | :28:49. | |
Over the coming days, every one of them will celebrate | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
All were born within a week of each other in 1946. | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
Margaret Allen has been weighed and measured her entire life. | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
As she's aged, the tests have changed, less reading and writing, | :29:07. | :29:08. | |
more mental and physical health assessments. | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
A wholly rewarding experience, she says, particularly | :29:12. | :29:13. | |
You just felt that, oh, OK, so the others are all sitting | :29:14. | :29:24. | |
there getting on with whatever it was we were doing and I was taken | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
out and I was chatted to and did various tests and things like that. | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
These cards contain the details of the first survey | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
Nearly 3,000 are still being studied, work funded | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
To thank the participants, each year they're sent | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
So what is the key lesson after seven decades of research? | :29:49. | :29:55. | |
We need to invest in child health and wellbeing much more in this | :29:56. | :29:58. | |
country, in terms of health and education and it's that | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
investment, as a society, that will make us all richer | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
The study has, however, already changed our lives over | :30:06. | :30:16. | |
The original survey led to all women being offered pain | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
Comprehensive schools were introduced after data showed | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
bright but poor children were failing to get into grammar | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
schools and the creation of Sure Start centres can be traced | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
to evidence showing the importance of children being supported | :30:30. | :30:31. | |
As participants like Ken Ashton have aged, | :30:32. | :30:38. | |
they're now studied for different reasons. | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
Questions about a child's growth and diet, replaced by research | :30:43. | :30:44. | |
into dementia and Parkinson's disease. | :30:45. | :30:46. | |
Information is fine, but information with a context, | :30:47. | :30:54. | |
particularly over a broad stretch of people, and all within the same | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
Today's party celebrated a remarkable research project. | :30:58. | :31:08. | |
Its success has spawned many other inquiries. | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
It's now estimated that one in 30 British people | :31:12. | :31:13. | |
Newsnight is coming up on BBC two. Tonight, we have a special | :31:14. | :31:25. | |
investigation into what put a stop to a police inquiry into abuse in | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
south London children's homes? Starting now on BBC Two, 11pm in | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
Scotland. Meanwhile, here on BBC One, it's | :31:36. | :31:37. | |
time for the news where you are. Bye-bye. | :31:38. | :31:43. |