:00:00. > :00:09.The Syrian government is accused of mounting a chemical attack,
:00:10. > :00:13.killing dozens of civilians - including children.
:00:14. > :00:16.Some are calling it a war crime by the Assad regime.
:00:17. > :00:18.The attack was focused on a rebel-held town
:00:19. > :00:23.What we understood, it was a chemical attack
:00:24. > :00:32.Local reports say a hospital treating the victims
:00:33. > :00:37.The events have provoked strong criticism around the world.
:00:38. > :00:40.If proven, this will be further evidence of the barbarism
:00:41. > :00:46.But Syria and its Russian allies deny any responsibility.
:00:47. > :00:50.The UN Security Council will meet in emergency session tomorrow.
:00:51. > :00:56.In St Petersburg, tributes to the 14 killed in yesterday's bomb attack
:00:57. > :01:02.People are often angry, but that doesn't make them anti-Semitic.
:01:03. > :01:05.Ken Livingstone is suspended from the Labour Party for another
:01:06. > :01:09.year for controversial comments about Adolf Hitler and Zionism.
:01:10. > :01:13.20 years after Diana launched her campaign against land mines,
:01:14. > :01:16.her younger son steps forward to take on the work.
:01:17. > :01:20.The sooner we are able to clear all remaining landmines,
:01:21. > :01:26.the less chance there is of innocent lives being lost or changed forever.
:01:27. > :01:29.And - the wonders of graphene, the British invention that
:01:30. > :01:37.And coming up in Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News,
:01:38. > :01:39.we'll have the results from tonight's four Premier League
:01:40. > :02:02.games, including Manchester United's match at home to Everton.
:02:03. > :02:07.There are many children among the victims
:02:08. > :02:10.of a suspected chemical weapons attack on a town in Syria.
:02:11. > :02:12.At least 58 people were killed and hundreds injured.
:02:13. > :02:16.The Prime Minister, Theresa May, described it as an act of barbarism.
:02:17. > :02:18.The White House said it was certain that the Assad
:02:19. > :02:25.Both Syria and its Russian allies have denied any involvement.
:02:26. > :02:27.The attack was focused on the rebel-held town
:02:28. > :02:36.The UN Security Council will meet tomorrow in emergency session.
:02:37. > :02:38.This report by our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen
:02:39. > :02:44.includes distressing images from the beginning.
:02:45. > :02:51.This boy was one of hundreds of victims of the attack. He is showing
:02:52. > :02:58.traffic symptoms of poisoning, perhaps by a military strength nerve
:02:59. > :03:03.agent. The victim's lungs were badly affected. Rescue workers did what
:03:04. > :03:07.they could to decontaminate the victims, that includes removing
:03:08. > :03:15.clothes, or where the poison can linger, and by spraying fresh water.
:03:16. > :03:18.The attack happened in Carroll, a place that has been heavily bombed
:03:19. > :03:26.by the regime and Russians in the last few days. It lip province -- it
:03:27. > :03:32.is in Idlib province. The hospital was overwhelmed by casualties.
:03:33. > :03:40.TRANSLATION: All our wounded, some are dead, there are many suffocation
:03:41. > :03:45.cases. There was intended unsystematic shelling.
:03:46. > :03:52.There doesn't seem to be much oxygen there that could have saved more
:03:53. > :03:57.people. TRANSLATION: I lost my son, my children, my neighbours, my
:03:58. > :04:02.daughter. They are all gone, I only have God left.
:04:03. > :04:06.This morning it looked just like their chemical attacks in 2013 near
:04:07. > :04:12.Damascus. Confronted with seems just like this President Obama threatened
:04:13. > :04:19.military action, and then pulled back when Syria gave up its chemical
:04:20. > :04:24.weapons. If this latest mayhem was caused by a regime attack, it
:04:25. > :04:28.suggests some chemical weapons were held back. Condemnation is coming in
:04:29. > :04:31.from around the world. I'm appalled by the reports that
:04:32. > :04:36.there's been a chemical weapons attack on a town south of Idlib,
:04:37. > :04:40.allegedly by the Syrian regime. We condemn the use of chemical weapons
:04:41. > :04:44.in all circumstances. If proven, this will be further evidence of the
:04:45. > :04:49.barbarism of the Syrian regime. We have understood it was a chemical
:04:50. > :04:53.attack and it came from the air. We will be stimulating all those who
:04:54. > :04:58.have the capacity of finding out technically what happened. President
:04:59. > :05:03.Assad's regime has denied it launched the attack, but if that's
:05:04. > :05:06.not true, what's in it for them? This Idlib is one of the last rebel
:05:07. > :05:11.strongholds in Syria. Perhaps someone in the regime thought it was
:05:12. > :05:16.time to increase the pressure. President Assad's regime is much
:05:17. > :05:21.stronger than it was when the last big chemical attack happened in
:05:22. > :05:25.2013. Perhaps the way the president faced down American threats back
:05:26. > :05:30.then makes him think he can get away with it again.
:05:31. > :05:31.When local activists were still reporting what happened, the
:05:32. > :05:47.hospital was hit by air strikes. Jerry Smith supervise the removal of
:05:48. > :05:51.the Syrian weapons arsenal after the 2013 attack. Everything they
:05:52. > :05:57.declared left the country, we can absolutely guarantee that. The issue
:05:58. > :06:02.then becomes, is this new stuff? If it is indeed a warfare agent. Or is
:06:03. > :06:08.it undeclared? What's happened in Khan Sheikhoun
:06:09. > :06:12.shows once again that the Syrian war is far from over and the long list
:06:13. > :06:15.of war crimes committed in this war has another entry. Jeremy Bowen, BBC
:06:16. > :06:17.News. In a moment we'll speak to Jeremy,
:06:18. > :06:20.but first let's join Jon Sopel, our North America editor,
:06:21. > :06:29.who's at the White House tonight. This very confident assertion by the
:06:30. > :06:33.White House that the Assad regime is responsible... Is that likely to
:06:34. > :06:37.lead to any action? The simple answer to that is we don't know. The
:06:38. > :06:41.White House said it was a reprehensible act and that the
:06:42. > :06:44.civilised world must act against it. There has also been condemnation
:06:45. > :06:49.from President Trump of Barack Obama. The statement went on to say,
:06:50. > :06:53.these Venus actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of
:06:54. > :06:57.the last administration's weakness and he resolution. You will remember
:06:58. > :07:01.Barack Obama said that a red line would be the use of chemical
:07:02. > :07:05.weapons. Chemical weapons were used and he didn't do anything about it.
:07:06. > :07:09.In no small part down to parliament having also voted to reject it
:07:10. > :07:13.before he was about to make a decision here in the United States.
:07:14. > :07:17.But in answer to your question, Donald Trump hasn't said there is a
:07:18. > :07:22.red line over which we will do X while Z. He has pulled back from
:07:23. > :07:27.Saint Bashar al-Assad must stand down as the Syrian leader. It has
:07:28. > :07:30.all be made more computer aided by his relationship with Russia. This
:07:31. > :07:34.time yesterday he was on the phone to Vladimir Putin saying, offering
:07:35. > :07:39.condolences for the St Petersburg terrorist attack and saying, we must
:07:40. > :07:43.stand united in the face of terror. But look what happened. You have a
:07:44. > :07:48.situation where the Assad regime may have done this and Russia is
:07:49. > :07:56.assisting the Syrian regime. How do you stand united in that situation?
:07:57. > :08:06.Many thanks. Jeremy Zuttah with me. -- is with me. I suppose the
:08:07. > :08:09.question is is president Assad making an assumption he can get away
:08:10. > :08:14.with it, if he has done a question mark is allegations, we haven't got
:08:15. > :08:18.proof circumstantial evidence points in that attempt direction. If it was
:08:19. > :08:23.an error attack, regime planes and Russian planes were in the air at
:08:24. > :08:27.that time. Yes, they have been here before. 2013I was in Damascus, and
:08:28. > :08:29.along with the rest of the population there I was essentially
:08:30. > :08:35.waiting to be bombed. It didn't happen. After that I felt the regime
:08:36. > :08:39.was reinvigorated, it was almost like they felt they'd stared Barack
:08:40. > :08:43.Obama down and he'd blinked first. And once the Americans had
:08:44. > :08:47.threatened and then not taken it through, I felt the regime was more
:08:48. > :08:52.confident and felt stronger after that. It could well be that they
:08:53. > :08:56.simply think that this is an option they've got, they will use it, the
:08:57. > :09:00.world didn't do anything last time, maybe the world won't do anything
:09:01. > :09:04.last time. And if they do what do something, they also have big
:09:05. > :09:05.friends in their corner of the ring as well, particularly President
:09:06. > :09:09.Putin. Jeremy, thank you. Our Middle East editor,
:09:10. > :09:11.Jeremy Bowen, there. In Russia, investigators have named
:09:12. > :09:13.the man they suspect of carrying out the bomb attack on a metro train
:09:14. > :09:16.in St Petersburg yesterday. They say Akbarzhon Jalilov,
:09:17. > :09:20.who was 22, was a Russian citizen originally from Kyrgyzstan
:09:21. > :09:23.in central Asia. Investigators say he detonated
:09:24. > :09:26.a device that killed 14 people They also believe he left a second
:09:27. > :09:31.bomb at another station. Our correspondent Steve
:09:32. > :09:43.Rosenberg has the latest. This is what chaos looks like,
:09:44. > :09:47.underground. This mobile phone footage was shot seconds after the
:09:48. > :09:53.bomb. There is a mad scramble to get out of the train alive.
:09:54. > :10:00.Smash it, break it down, says a voice. Some passengers were helped
:10:01. > :10:08.to safety. Give me your hand... At that moment someone cries, mum,
:10:09. > :10:15.mum. The injured are pulled away.
:10:16. > :10:24.This man was on the train, one carriage down. TRANSLATION: There
:10:25. > :10:27.was a flash, then panic. People screaming, crying. At moments like
:10:28. > :10:32.this, you think about your parents. How will they live without you? When
:10:33. > :10:37.I got out of the carriage, I could hardly stand. I was in shock, I was
:10:38. > :10:42.shaking. I saw blood, body parts, a horrifying scene.
:10:43. > :10:51.And here's the station today, wreckage cleared, service back. St
:10:52. > :10:56.Petersburg trying to be normal. It is astonishing how quickly a
:10:57. > :11:00.scene of chaos and carnage can be replaced by an air of normality. As
:11:01. > :11:04.you can see, the Metro is up and running again today. But look over
:11:05. > :11:07.here and you see a reminder of yesterday's drama.
:11:08. > :11:16.People are normally rushing by in the metro, not today. Some here said
:11:17. > :11:19.prayers for the dead. But returning to normal isn't easy. More metro
:11:20. > :11:27.stations were shut today because of bomb threats. One hero from this
:11:28. > :11:30.tragedy is the driver of the bombed train, for keeping calm and not
:11:31. > :11:38.stopping in the tunnel. TRANSLATION: I was just doing my job.
:11:39. > :11:43.Russian investigators now say that yesterday's attack on the train was
:11:44. > :11:46.carried out by 22-year-old man from Central Asia, who'd been living in
:11:47. > :11:53.St Petersburg. They are searching for clues to explain why. That's a
:11:54. > :11:59.question that people of St Petersburg are asking. This has been
:12:00. > :12:03.a day of mourning here, a day for paying respects to the victims, to
:12:04. > :12:06.the passengers of a Metro train who never made it home. Steve Rosenberg,
:12:07. > :12:09.BBC News, St Petersburg. Ken Livingstone, the
:12:10. > :12:10.former mayor of London, has been suspended from
:12:11. > :12:13.the Labour Party for two years, for asserting that Hitler
:12:14. > :12:15.supported Zionism. He has already served one
:12:16. > :12:17.year of the suspension. The National Executive
:12:18. > :12:19.Committee found him guilty Speaking after the decision
:12:20. > :12:24.was announced this evening, Mr Livingstone said no one should be
:12:25. > :12:27.suspended for stating the truth. Some Labour MPs said
:12:28. > :12:29.he should have been expelled, as our political correspondent
:12:30. > :12:48.Alex Forsyth reports. Waiting to hear the fate of one over
:12:49. > :12:52.Labour's biggest figures. In here, a disciplinary panel decided. Ken
:12:53. > :12:56.Livingstone did bring the party into disrepute, but he's not been booted
:12:57. > :13:00.out. Still a member but he's been suspended for a year from holding
:13:01. > :13:05.office or representing the party. What's your reaction? I expected
:13:06. > :13:10.them to expel meats, so I've now got to consider whether I challenge this
:13:11. > :13:14.legally or just live with it. -- expel me. Comments made on a BBC
:13:15. > :13:19.interview last year started the controversy. While defending a
:13:20. > :13:26.colleague allegations accusations of anti-Semitism, Ken Livingstone said
:13:27. > :13:30.this... When Hitler won his election in 1932 it was that the dues should
:13:31. > :13:35.be moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism before he went
:13:36. > :13:43.mad and ended up killing 6 million Jewish people. Some Labour
:13:44. > :13:46.colleagues were furious, accusing him of anti-Semitism. Divisions
:13:47. > :13:50.again laid bare, with some supporting him. Everybody in the
:13:51. > :13:54.Labour Party, and particularly Democrats throughout the country,
:13:55. > :13:58.should read resist the attempt to have free speech on Israel closed
:13:59. > :14:02.down in the Labour Party. Debate is the essence of democracy. And again
:14:03. > :14:05.tonight Mr Livingstone stood by his comments.
:14:06. > :14:10.I know you've consistently said you are not anti-Semitic, but do you
:14:11. > :14:13.recognise the offence your comments have caused this?
:14:14. > :14:17.He said they'd been misreported and used to undermine Labour's
:14:18. > :14:24.leadership. D chairman of the board of Jewish people said for me to have
:14:25. > :14:27.said Hitler was a Zionism is deeply offensive... He believed it. That
:14:28. > :14:34.was seven weeks after what I said. And even then he didn't know. This
:14:35. > :14:38.is what's so wrong about the fake news and the rubbish level of our
:14:39. > :14:43.media these days. Do your comments have helped Labour's cause? Anything
:14:44. > :14:48.that tells people the truth, helps. Ken Livingstone's comments fuelled a
:14:49. > :14:51.wider row about the Labour Party and anti-Semitism. Jeremy Corbyn was
:14:52. > :14:55.accused by some are failing to do enough to stamp it out. That's
:14:56. > :14:59.something he has consistently denied this, insisting there is no place
:15:00. > :15:05.for anti-Semitism within the Labour Party. But some think this decision,
:15:06. > :15:09.a partial suspension not an expulsion, sends a different
:15:10. > :15:13.message. It sounds like some kind of revolving door system, where you are
:15:14. > :15:19.OK to revise the history of the Holocaust, cause pain and anguish to
:15:20. > :15:22.Holocaust survivors, said quietly for 12 months and re-emerge as a
:15:23. > :15:25.political figure. They should have shown Ken Livingstone the door
:15:26. > :15:28.because if they had done, that would have been a golden opportunity for
:15:29. > :15:33.the Labour Party and its leadership to send a clear message that Labour
:15:34. > :15:38.is genuinely opposed anti-Semitism. So his immediate future may be
:15:39. > :15:42.decided but the debate rumbles on foot up to my's decision is unlikely
:15:43. > :15:44.to end what's been a difficult and divisive issue for Labour. Alex
:15:45. > :15:51.Forsyth, BBC News, Westminster. A couple from Craigavon,
:15:52. > :15:53.in County Armagh, have been jailed for holding a woman captive
:15:54. > :15:56.for years and sexually abusing her. Keith Baker was sentenced
:15:57. > :15:58.to 15 years, his wife The police officer who led
:15:59. > :16:08.the investigation described it as the "most depraved crime" that
:16:09. > :16:10.he'd ever encountered. The worst-polluting cars could be
:16:11. > :16:14.forced to pay up to ?24 a day to drive in central London under
:16:15. > :16:16.plans outlined by the The new charge will come into effect
:16:17. > :16:21.in 2019 and will cover the same area It will apply to diesel cars over
:16:22. > :16:31.four years old in 2019 and to petrol cars more than 13 years
:16:32. > :16:33.old at that time. In Colombia, the first funerals have
:16:34. > :16:36.been held for the victims of the devastating landslide
:16:37. > :16:37.which happened on Saturday. At least 260 people were killed
:16:38. > :16:40.when a wave of mud destroyed an extensive area in the south-west
:16:41. > :16:43.of the country. The President has declared
:16:44. > :16:46.an "economic, social He spent the night
:16:47. > :16:51.in the town of Mocoa, Our correspondent, Laura Bicker,
:16:52. > :16:57.is there and sent this report. In Mocoa they are finding
:16:58. > :17:02.their missing, but after days of desperate searching,
:17:03. > :17:11.there are no comforting reunions. Those who have survived pick
:17:12. > :17:13.through the remaining possessions. This man has lost family
:17:14. > :17:17.and friends, but he saved many lives in the worst hit neighbourhood
:17:18. > :17:19.of San Miguel with just TRANSLATION: I was the only one
:17:20. > :17:23.who had a flashlight. The darkness was everywhere
:17:24. > :17:30.and people everywhere were shouting/ I tried to shine light
:17:31. > :17:34.on them, when they shouted, They're doing all they can to try
:17:35. > :17:39.to reclaim their homes from the mud. The people who settled
:17:40. > :17:41.here were already displaced after years of conflict and now,
:17:42. > :17:44.once again, they have nowhere to go. Columbia has endured 52 years of war
:17:45. > :17:48.and now its president says they must prepare for another battle,
:17:49. > :17:52.one against a changing climate. He believes warmer and wetter
:17:53. > :17:54.conditions are on the increase and he says it's turning this
:17:55. > :17:59.mountainous landscape into a killer. But, for now, there is a more
:18:00. > :18:07.immediate problem - no clean running water and,
:18:08. > :18:09.with so many dead bodies still to find, this is a breeding
:18:10. > :18:11.ground for disease. And still they search,
:18:12. > :18:13.but with little hope. Over 300 people are still missing,
:18:14. > :18:16.many of them young children. Work is already under way
:18:17. > :18:20.to try to repair and rebuild the scar this torrent of water has
:18:21. > :18:24.left on the town, but the wounds it has inflicted on its
:18:25. > :18:26.people may never heal. Laura Bicker, BBC News,
:18:27. > :18:38.Mocoa, Columbia. Prince Harry has paid
:18:39. > :18:40.tribute to his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales,
:18:41. > :18:42.for her work in raising awareness of landmines and the dangers
:18:43. > :18:45.of unexploded munitions. In a speech at Kensington Palace
:18:46. > :18:48.this evening, Harry said he wanted help to "finish the job and rid
:18:49. > :18:55.the planet of landmines." As our Royal correspondent,
:18:56. > :18:57.Nicholas Witchell, reports. It was one of the many
:18:58. > :18:59.images of her that caught Diana, Princess of Wales,
:19:00. > :19:03.a matter of months before her death, visiting a mine clearance
:19:04. > :19:06.operation in Angola. She met people, many of them
:19:07. > :19:09.children, who'd lost limbs to this She couldn't understand why
:19:10. > :19:13.the world wasn't doing I am committed to supporting
:19:14. > :19:21.in whatever way I can... Her intervention upset some
:19:22. > :19:23.politicians who called But the world had heard,
:19:24. > :19:31.a treaty was passed, Forward now to 2017
:19:32. > :19:37.and it is her son, Harry, who is challenging the world
:19:38. > :19:42.to finish his mother's work. His speech tonight was
:19:43. > :19:44.personal and heartfelt. He recalled that his mother had been
:19:45. > :19:48.a voice for all those She knew she had a big spotlight
:19:49. > :19:54.to shine and she used it to bring attention on the people that others
:19:55. > :19:56.had forgotten, ignored In August 1997, one
:19:57. > :20:04.month before her death, There she'd met two boys,
:20:05. > :20:13.both of whom had lost To one of them, a boy called Zarco,
:20:14. > :20:17.Harry said she'd made a promise. When my mother said goodbye
:20:18. > :20:20.to Zarco that August, just weeks before her untimely
:20:21. > :20:24.death, she told him Please, help me keep her word
:20:25. > :20:30.to Zarco and Malic and other people like them throughout the world
:20:31. > :20:33.who still need us to finish the job Harry met Zarco and his friend
:20:34. > :20:45.Malic, both grown men now, both though still struggling
:20:46. > :20:51.with the life-changing effects of weapons of war which,
:20:52. > :20:53.as Diana pointed out 20 years ago, kill and maim without discrimination
:20:54. > :20:56.long after the wars are over. Nicholas Witchell, BBC News,
:20:57. > :21:07.at Kensington Palace. Theresa May has been meeting senior
:21:08. > :21:10.officials in Saudi Arabia on the second day of a visit
:21:11. > :21:19.to develop closer trading and security links
:21:20. > :21:21.with the Gulf states. The Prime Minister rejected
:21:22. > :21:23.criticism of her visit from those who draw attention to Saudi Arabia's
:21:24. > :21:32.record on human rights. She said she'd have no
:21:33. > :21:34.difficulty in raising including Saudi involvement
:21:35. > :21:37.in the war in neighbouring Yemen. Our deputy political editor,
:21:38. > :21:39.John Pienaar, is travelling A warm welcome for Theresa May,
:21:40. > :21:43.and this time no-one Her day started with a visit
:21:44. > :21:46.to this UK-supported secondary school in Oman,
:21:47. > :21:51.where these children, Jordanians and Syrian refugees,
:21:52. > :21:53.learn and dream, some told her, The smiling face of British
:21:54. > :21:59.policy in the region. Next stop, Saudi Arabia and down
:22:00. > :22:06.to business, boosting trade, Earlier, she'd brushed aside those
:22:07. > :22:10.who say it's wrong to support and sell weapons to a country
:22:11. > :22:13.so criticised for its Well, the important thing
:22:14. > :22:20.for the United Kingdom, when we meet people and we want to raise issues
:22:21. > :22:27.about human rights, is if we have the relationship
:22:28. > :22:30.with them, then we are able So rather than just standing
:22:31. > :22:33.on the sidelines and sniping, War across the border
:22:34. > :22:40.against rebels in Yemen British weapons sales
:22:41. > :22:44.to Saudi Arabia were worth over ?3 billion in the first year
:22:45. > :22:47.of the fighting up to last March. Planes, arms and target training -
:22:48. > :22:49.Britain's contribution There's famine, mounting
:22:50. > :22:52.civilian casualties. Britain joins the aid effort
:22:53. > :22:55.while supporting its Saudi ally. What is the May doctrine
:22:56. > :23:07.of foreign policy? Well, the May doctrine of foreign
:23:08. > :23:10.policy is that everything we do It is in our British national
:23:11. > :23:14.interest to have good relations around the world,
:23:15. > :23:16.so we can trade around the world, that brings jobs
:23:17. > :23:18.and prosperity to the UK. It's also in our national interest
:23:19. > :23:21.to ensure that we are working with others around the world
:23:22. > :23:23.to maintain our safety and security and, yes,
:23:24. > :23:26.it is in our national interest to ensure that the values that
:23:27. > :23:29.underpin us as Britons are values that we promote around the world,
:23:30. > :23:33.and that's what we do. So today she was a house
:23:34. > :23:36.guest at a Saudi palace, meeting the Crown Prince,
:23:37. > :23:38.the kind of relationship she's keen to cultivate
:23:39. > :23:44.for post-Brexit Britain. The Prime Minister needs
:23:45. > :23:46.to strengthen political and trading links beyond Europe if Britain
:23:47. > :23:48.is to remain a strong, No-one knows how well Britain
:23:49. > :23:55.will come out of its EU divorce. A committee of MPs said today that
:23:56. > :23:59.ministers had no idea and needed to work out the cost of Brexit
:24:00. > :24:02.if negotiations end up with no deal. Maybe, but that deal's
:24:03. > :24:13.for the future and her mission She dropped by the Saudi
:24:14. > :24:16.stock exchange, too. She's been busy, but ahead
:24:17. > :24:19.of Brexit, business is business. Millions of people will be affected
:24:20. > :24:25.by new welfare changes coming into force this week relating
:24:26. > :24:28.to taxes and benefits, the first to be introduced
:24:29. > :24:30.since Theresa May became Child tax credits
:24:31. > :24:36.restricted to two children. A freeze on benefits,
:24:37. > :24:40.including working tax credits and an increase in the living
:24:41. > :24:43.wage to ?7.50 an hour. Our home editor, Mark Easton,
:24:44. > :24:52.has been to Blackburn to try to measure the impact
:24:53. > :24:54.of all of these changes. Blackburn is going to be more
:24:55. > :24:57.affected by this week's welfare tax and wage changes than almost
:24:58. > :25:00.anywhere else in the country. More than half the town's
:25:01. > :25:02.children live in low income, working households receiving tax
:25:03. > :25:04.credits, help being progressively Child benefit's frozen and parents
:25:05. > :25:13.who have a third or subsequent child no longer receive tax credit
:25:14. > :25:16.support, worth ?2,700 a year. How does that go down with this mum,
:25:17. > :25:20.pregnant with her third baby? In this day and age,
:25:21. > :25:23.you should be able to get the help regardless and be free
:25:24. > :25:28.to expand your family Well, I just mean, I wouldn't
:25:29. > :25:38.have a third child because I know that I couldn't afford
:25:39. > :25:42.to have a third child. As things stand, the tax and welfare
:25:43. > :25:45.changes will see a low earning couple with two children,
:25:46. > :25:47.living here in Blackburn, For some families, it
:25:48. > :25:57.will be seven times that. Overall, the welfare reforms
:25:58. > :26:00.will take ?50 million a year out But the Government argues public
:26:01. > :26:08.spending must be reduced and the changes will encourage
:26:09. > :26:10.people to become less It's wrong that people
:26:11. > :26:16.have to go out to work. Like, we go out to work,
:26:17. > :26:19.you have to come home and look after your kids and other people
:26:20. > :26:22.just get paid to sit They're struggling with food
:26:23. > :26:28.as it is now because the cost of living is going up,
:26:29. > :26:30.but the benefits are staying more They're cutting them more
:26:31. > :26:34.and I think it's all wrong. One in eight of Blackburn's workers
:26:35. > :26:38.earn the minimum wage, many of them in the health
:26:39. > :26:41.and social care sector. Michelle will gain from this week's
:26:42. > :26:43.increase in the national living wage, but loses from the freeze
:26:44. > :26:46.on her working tax credits. We go out to work to earn money,
:26:47. > :26:52.to provide to for our children and provide for our families and,
:26:53. > :26:56.ideally, that's where we want to go, so we're actually earning income
:26:57. > :26:57.without actually relying But your tax credits
:26:58. > :27:03.are going to be frozen, But Michelle's boss warns that wage
:27:04. > :27:09.levels set in Whitehall may not make A lot of companies are working
:27:10. > :27:14.within very fine profit margins. I know there's a trend
:27:15. > :27:16.to go towards ?9 by 2020. If people aren't able
:27:17. > :27:18.to charge more and people aren't able to pay more,
:27:19. > :27:23.that's going to be How Blackburn responds to this
:27:24. > :27:35.week's reforms will have a profound Football, and in the Premier League
:27:36. > :27:48.tonight Manchester United had to rely upon a late goal to salvage
:27:49. > :27:51.a 1-1 draw against Everton were 1-0 up for most
:27:52. > :27:55.of the match until a penalty in injury time gave
:27:56. > :27:57.United the equaliser. They've now drawn nine games
:27:58. > :27:59.at home in the league, while Everton have missed the chance
:28:00. > :28:03.to climb above them in the table. The British-based team of scientists
:28:04. > :28:05.who developed graphene, the world's thinnest material,
:28:06. > :28:08.have announced a new breakthrough which could have a significant
:28:09. > :28:10.impact for millions of people Researchers at Manchester University
:28:11. > :28:18.have used graphene to create a sieve which is capable of sifting salt
:28:19. > :28:22.from sea water. Our science correspondent, Pallab
:28:23. > :28:26.Ghosh, has been finding out more. It's three times the strength
:28:27. > :28:32.of steel, incredibly flexible and a sheet of it can be
:28:33. > :28:35.the thickness of a single atom. And that's not all -
:28:36. > :28:37.graphene has been described Here in Manchester, graphene oxide
:28:38. > :28:43.has been used to create a filter The aim is to convert sea water
:28:44. > :28:51.into a form that's drinkable. The potential of this technology
:28:52. > :28:54.is giving clean water to millions of people around the world and we're
:28:55. > :28:57.sure that this technology will be available in a couple of years' time
:28:58. > :29:00.to sell to people around the world. Like any sieve, this graphene paper
:29:01. > :29:03.has tiny holes in that lets the water through,
:29:04. > :29:07.but not the salt. In the past though, it's
:29:08. > :29:10.not worked properly. That's because the graphene weakens
:29:11. > :29:13.and the holes get bigger. So the researchers here have coated
:29:14. > :29:17.it with a chemical that stop So the water here is
:29:18. > :29:24.completely salt-free. According to the UN,
:29:25. > :29:28.drinking water will be scarce It's hard to believe that countries
:29:29. > :29:43.don't have water at the moment. If you don't have it, it compromises
:29:44. > :29:46.everything that you do - your health and the ability
:29:47. > :29:48.to educate your children. A lot of things rest
:29:49. > :29:50.on this basic human right, Current desalination
:29:51. > :30:06.plants, such as this one It costs ?270 million to build
:30:07. > :30:10.and they use a lot of energy, The graphene based filter could be
:30:11. > :30:14.a much cheaper and greener solution, but the big question is whether it
:30:15. > :30:17.works just as well in real Pallab Ghosh, BBC News,
:30:18. > :30:20.at the National Graphene Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two.
:30:21. > :30:24.Here's Kirsty. Ken Livingstone will be
:30:25. > :30:26.here in the studio following his suspension for two years
:30:27. > :30:39.from the Labour Party after he said That's Newsnight with Kirstie coming
:30:40. > :30:41.up.