:00:00. > :00:07.Tonight at Ten: The Health Secretary orders an investigation into an NHS
:00:08. > :00:12.Trust in England after a number of babies die at birth.
:00:13. > :00:21.At least nine lost their lives, many because of a failure
:00:22. > :00:23.to monitor their heart rate during labour.
:00:24. > :00:27.They had four missed opportunities to deliver my girls and they didn't.
:00:28. > :00:35.So now I get to spend the rest of my life going what if, what if?
:00:36. > :00:37.The babies all died in the space of just over a year-and-a-half.
:00:38. > :00:43.Also on the programme tonight: A public show of unity but Russia
:00:44. > :00:47.and America remain at odds tonight over the Syria chemical attack
:00:48. > :00:52.Our view is that the reign of the Assad family
:00:53. > :01:04.They have brought this on themselves with their conduct in war
:01:05. > :01:08.America's First Lady, Melania Trump, wins damages and an apology
:01:09. > :01:12.from the Daily Mail after false claims that she worked as an escort.
:01:13. > :01:14.The Venezuelans who claim they've been forced into a life
:01:15. > :01:16.of crime to feed themselves as their country's
:01:17. > :01:22.And, Leicester City's European dream is dented.
:01:23. > :01:24.They're beaten by Atletico Madrid in the Champions League
:01:25. > :01:36.Dortmund lose their quarter-final first leg to Monaco, 24 hours after
:01:37. > :01:53.the attack on their team bus. In the space of just over
:01:54. > :02:01.a year and a half at least nine babies died during,
:02:02. > :02:04.or shortly after, birth at one NHS Five of the babies died following
:02:05. > :02:13.failures to monitor their heart rate Their deaths have prompted such
:02:14. > :02:18.concern that the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has now ordered a review
:02:19. > :02:20.of the Shrewsbury and But it says its mortality levels are
:02:21. > :02:26.in line with the national average. Our correspondent Michael Buchanan
:02:27. > :02:30.has this exclusive report. Basic errors at this Trust have
:02:31. > :02:33.caused healthy babies to die. I don't want another
:02:34. > :02:37.mum to feel this. I don't want another dad
:02:38. > :02:41.to have to put the lid Promises to learn lessons
:02:42. > :02:51.have not been kept. They were interpreting
:02:52. > :02:54.my heart rate as hers. They missed the opportunity to see
:02:55. > :02:58.that there was any distress. But now a family long denied justice
:02:59. > :03:01.themselves have prompted How many more babies need to die
:03:02. > :03:08.at this Trust before somebody A memory box is all that Kelly Jones
:03:09. > :03:24.has of her twin girls Ella and Lola. Her daughters were
:03:25. > :03:28.stillborn in 2014. The Trust admitted the deaths
:03:29. > :03:30.were avoidable but failed to spot their heart rates
:03:31. > :03:33.were deteriorating, so the twins That midwife come in crying, saying,
:03:34. > :03:45.oh, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. Hospital staff ignored Kelly's
:03:46. > :03:56.repeated calls for them to deliver the twins,
:03:57. > :03:59.leaving her now utterly bereft. They had four missed opportunities
:04:00. > :04:07.to deliver my girls and they didn't. So now I get to spend
:04:08. > :04:12.the rest of my life going Following the twins'
:04:13. > :04:22.deaths, the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust promised
:04:23. > :04:25.Kelly they'd improve how they monitored babies'
:04:26. > :04:27.heart rates during labour Errors with foetal heart monitoring
:04:28. > :04:33.contributed to the deaths of five healthy babies between September
:04:34. > :04:37.2014 and May 2016. The most recent of
:04:38. > :04:43.which was Ivy Morris. I never saw her smile. It was just
:04:44. > :04:51.something that she couldn't do. Ivy died last May,
:04:52. > :04:53.aged just four months. A brain injury at birth
:04:54. > :04:57.gave her little quality of life. The hospital had mistaken her
:04:58. > :04:59.mother's heartbeat for Ivy's and failed to spot the baby
:05:00. > :05:02.was in distress. I've had an apology
:05:03. > :05:06.from the hospital. I've had assurances that this
:05:07. > :05:12.won't happen again and I accept those but other families have had
:05:13. > :05:16.those assurances and those apologies and if they were followed up
:05:17. > :05:21.in the way that they said that they would, and in the way
:05:22. > :05:27.they had assured those families, then I wouldn't be sat here talking
:05:28. > :05:33.to you and I would have my daughter. Foetal heart monitors are commonly
:05:34. > :05:36.used in women in labour to ensure Mistakes are made but the repeated
:05:37. > :05:47.errors at the Shrewsbury and Telford Trust have prompted
:05:48. > :05:49.the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered a review
:05:50. > :05:53.of deaths and other maternity errors, a move prompted
:05:54. > :05:54.by the tireless Richard and Rhiannon have
:05:55. > :05:59.fought the Trust for years following the avoidable death
:06:00. > :06:02.of a daughter, Kate. Isabella's big sister died
:06:03. > :06:04.in 2009 following numerous After seven years of fighting,
:06:05. > :06:10.their determination eventually got them a full apology but they say
:06:11. > :06:14.the Trust could have avoided more They haven't just killed my
:06:15. > :06:22.daughter, but they have disregarded the value
:06:23. > :06:26.of her life, her memory. Her life had value and meaning
:06:27. > :06:30.because there was so much from it that they could have learned
:06:31. > :06:33.and improved from. The Shrewsbury and Telford Trust
:06:34. > :06:37.have promised they'll co-operate Their medical director admitted
:06:38. > :06:42.to me they'd made mistakes. Sadly, there are cases
:06:43. > :06:47.where losses occur. What families expect when a loss
:06:48. > :06:50.occurs, at an absolute minimum, I would acknowledge that in the case
:06:51. > :06:56.of foetal heart rate monitoring we've identified a number of cases
:06:57. > :07:01.where that hasn't been fully implemented and where we have
:07:02. > :07:05.learned both in terms of human error and in terms of analysis
:07:06. > :07:08.of monitoring. Too many families have been
:07:09. > :07:11.failed by this Trust. The upcoming review will hopefully
:07:12. > :07:26.stop such unnecessary heartache. Tragic for the families involved
:07:27. > :07:30.there. How hard is it to pinpoint blame, though? Very difficult. We
:07:31. > :07:34.certainly can't pinpoint at any individual. We have looked into
:07:35. > :07:38.deaths in which midwifes and doctors made mistakes, where doctors and
:07:39. > :07:42.midwifes in some cases made mistakes, jointly with some babies.
:07:43. > :07:45.I do think, however, there is a cultural problem at this Trust.
:07:46. > :07:50.There was an official report published last year by NHS England
:07:51. > :07:54.which found there was a lack of a safety at this Trust going back to
:07:55. > :07:59.2009 and the Trust's utter refusal to accept responsibility for years
:08:00. > :08:02.for the death of Kate, who you heard about there. There was a second
:08:03. > :08:06.review of all Trusts in England published last year as well looking
:08:07. > :08:09.at how they learned lessons from incidents and mistakes and this
:08:10. > :08:13.Trust again was one of the worst in England, described as having a poor
:08:14. > :08:17.reporting culture. The sad truth is that nobody we have spoken to
:08:18. > :08:19.expects that these are the only deaths avoidable deaths at this
:08:20. > :08:26.Trust and the families we have spoken to simply hope that this
:08:27. > :08:28.review will mean that other parents don't suffer as they have in recent
:08:29. > :08:32.years. Thank you. The US Secretary of State,
:08:33. > :08:35.Rex Tillerson, has spent two hours talking to President Putin
:08:36. > :08:37.at the Kremlin this evening. The meeting - behind closed doors -
:08:38. > :08:40.was described by the Russians Afterwards, at a press conference
:08:41. > :08:43.there was no hiding the differences between America and Russia
:08:44. > :08:47.with their foreign ministers poles apart on everything
:08:48. > :08:48.from President Assad's future after the chemical attack in Syria
:08:49. > :08:51.to whether Russia interfered From Moscow, our correspondent
:08:52. > :09:06.Steve Rosenberg reports. The last time he was in Russia Rex
:09:07. > :09:09.Tillerson wasp April oil man doing multimillion dollar deals with the
:09:10. > :09:16.Kremlin, drinking champagne with Vladimir Putin. He even got an award
:09:17. > :09:21.from him. But in Moscow today it was a political deal, Secretary of State
:09:22. > :09:25.Tillerson was seeking over Syria. Not easy with US-Russian relations
:09:26. > :09:31.at their worst since the end of the Cold War. He met his Russian
:09:32. > :09:35.counterpart, Sergei Lavrov. Then behind closed doors in the Kremlin
:09:36. > :09:42.President Putin. There was a lot to talk about. Including this.
:09:43. > :09:48.Last week, America launched kruz missiles, targeting a Syrian air
:09:49. > :09:52.base, an act of aggression said Russia against Moscow's ally.
:09:53. > :09:56.Washington claimed it was an appropriate response to the recent
:09:57. > :10:00.chemical weapons attack in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun.
:10:01. > :10:07.Today, America and Russia publicly disagreed about who was behind it.
:10:08. > :10:11.The facts that we have are conclusive, that the recent chemical
:10:12. > :10:19.weapons attack carried out in Syria was planned and it was directed and
:10:20. > :10:22.executed by Syrian regime forces. TRANSLATION: We saw no evidence of
:10:23. > :10:26.this and from TV pictures and eyewitnesss who were at the base
:10:27. > :10:32.when the planes took off, it's clear there were no signs of any chemical
:10:33. > :10:36.substances present there. There was disagreement too over President
:10:37. > :10:42.Assad. Moscow appears unwilling to do what America would like it to,
:10:43. > :10:47.stop supporting him. Today, Donald Trump called President Assad truly
:10:48. > :10:53.evil and criticised Russia for backing him. Clearly, our view is
:10:54. > :10:58.that the reign of the Assad family is coming to an end. They have again
:10:59. > :11:01.brought this on themselves with their conduct of the war these past
:11:02. > :11:05.few years. TRANSLATION: We have been through
:11:06. > :11:10.this before. This obsession with ousting dictators and we know only
:11:11. > :11:13.too well how it all ends. Rex Tillerson may in the past have
:11:14. > :11:19.drunk champagne with Vladimir Putin, he may even have got a medal from
:11:20. > :11:22.him but that was business. This is geeo-politics. The reality is that
:11:23. > :11:26.Russia believes it has nothing to gain and a lot to lose from
:11:27. > :11:33.abandoning President Assad and until that changes it's not going to do
:11:34. > :11:37.it. Later at the UN Security Council Russia vetoed a draft resolution on
:11:38. > :11:41.the chemical attack, one that would have required the Syrian Government
:11:42. > :11:44.to co-operate with an investigation. Tonight, Moscow and Washington
:11:45. > :11:49.acknowledged that relations must improve. But so deep are the
:11:50. > :11:55.divisions over Syria and other issues too it's hard to see how that
:11:56. > :11:58.improvement is going to happen. Steve Rosenberg, BBC News, Moscow.
:11:59. > :12:01.Within the last hour, President Trump has been speaking
:12:02. > :12:03.about Syria in a press conference with the NATO Secretary
:12:04. > :12:08.Let's join our North America editor Jon Sopel.
:12:09. > :12:14.Certainly more tough talking from Donald Trump. Yeah, very much so.
:12:15. > :12:19.Donald Trump described the Syrian President as a butcher in an answer
:12:20. > :12:23.that he gave me during that news conference and the tough talking
:12:24. > :12:28.about Syria goes on. But that's had a knock-on effect with relations
:12:29. > :12:33.with Russia as well because Russia is supporting the Syrian regime and
:12:34. > :12:36.continues to do so, despite protestations from America. And that
:12:37. > :12:41.has led to people talking about the relationship being at an all-time
:12:42. > :12:44.low, that trust is non-existent so I asked President Trump this question.
:12:45. > :12:47.Mr President, do you think it's conceivable, what's your instinct,
:12:48. > :12:49.was it possible that Syrian forces could have launched that
:12:50. > :12:54.attack in Idlib last week without the Russians knowing?
:12:55. > :12:56.And, have you been disappointed, surprised by Vladimir Putin's
:12:57. > :13:06.I think it's certainly possible, I think it's probably unlikely
:13:07. > :13:11.and I know they're doing investigations into that right now.
:13:12. > :13:15.I would like to think that they didn't know,
:13:16. > :13:16.but certainly they could have, they were there.
:13:17. > :13:23.General Mattis is looking into it with the entire Pentagon group that
:13:24. > :13:29.So, it was was very disappointing to see.
:13:30. > :13:35.It's disappointing no matter who does it,
:13:36. > :13:37.but when you get into the gases, specially that form,
:13:38. > :13:40.it's vicious and violent and everybody in this room saw it
:13:41. > :13:43.all too many times, over the last three or four days,
:13:44. > :13:47.young children dying, babies dying, fathers holding
:13:48. > :13:51.children in their arms that were dead, dead children.
:13:52. > :13:55.There can't be a worse sight and it shouldn't be allowed.
:13:56. > :14:01.So, I felt we had to do something about it.
:14:02. > :14:05.I have absolutely no doubt we did the right thing and it was very,
:14:06. > :14:07.very successfully done, as you well know.
:14:08. > :14:22.We don't know is what the wider strategy now is towards Syria. We
:14:23. > :14:24.have heard Rex Tillerson in his news conference talking about the Assad
:14:25. > :14:28.regime being near its end and they've brought it all on
:14:29. > :14:32.themselves. But does that mean that the US policy is now actively
:14:33. > :14:38.working towards regime change? And if that is the case, how are they
:14:39. > :14:41.going to pursue that? Where does it leave relations with Russia? We have
:14:42. > :14:45.heard President Trump talking about, he is still hopes it will be
:14:46. > :14:49.possible there will be a reset in the relations with Vladimir Putin,
:14:50. > :14:52.but with each day that passes sounding less and less confident
:14:53. > :14:55.that will be possible to happen. I think what's going to happen next is
:14:56. > :14:58.that we will see Rex Tillerson coming back to the United States and
:14:59. > :15:02.there being a full debrief on the talks that he had with the Russian
:15:03. > :15:07.Foreign Minister and the talks that he had with Vladimir Putin. Seeing
:15:08. > :15:12.if there is any way which is what the Americans would love to do of
:15:13. > :15:18.prising Russia away from backing Assad and the Syrian regime.
:15:19. > :15:20.Police in Germany say they've detained a suspected Islamic
:15:21. > :15:23.extremist after three explosions hit a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund
:15:24. > :15:27.They say they're treating the incident as a terror attack.
:15:28. > :15:30.The match against Monaco, which was moved to this evening,
:15:31. > :15:32.was marked by shows of defiance by both sets of fans.
:15:33. > :15:46.Our correspondent, Jenny Hill, is in Dortmund tonight.
:15:47. > :15:49.After an attack on home ground, this is how the world
:15:50. > :15:52.Dortmund's fans and their Monaco rivals in unison.
:15:53. > :16:03.Security fears put aside for a match which mattered.
:16:04. > :16:06.We want to show that we don't care for the terrorism,
:16:07. > :16:22.We want to see a good match and that's important, I think.
:16:23. > :16:26.This was, police believe, a targeted attack on the Dortmund team.
:16:27. > :16:31.Three explosive devices, packed with metal pins,
:16:32. > :16:34.planted along their route to the stadium.
:16:35. > :17:02.Explosives with a range of 100 metres.
:17:03. > :17:03.Investigators have yet to establish a motive,
:17:04. > :17:03.but they're examining letters found at the scene.
:17:04. > :17:04.TRANSLATION: Three letters were found at the site,
:17:05. > :17:06.they suggest a possible Islamist background.
:17:07. > :17:06.Among others things, they demand the withdrawal of German
:17:07. > :17:07.tornados from Syria and the closure of Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
:17:08. > :17:07.These letter are being investigated by Islamic experts.
:17:08. > :17:08.The Dortmund team arrived earlier tonight without one
:17:09. > :17:12.Marc Bartra posted this picture earlier following
:17:13. > :17:17.A policeman was also injured in the attack,
:17:18. > :17:26.TRANSLATION: We were all appalled yesterday when we heard
:17:27. > :17:29.about the attack on the bus of the BVB players in Dortmund.
:17:30. > :17:31.We sincerely wish the injured, the player Marc Bartra,
:17:32. > :17:34.and also the policeman full recovery and we all agree that we are dealing
:17:35. > :17:43.Dortmund's defeat tonight may have disappointed some,
:17:44. > :17:46.that the match was played at all was, for most
:17:47. > :17:59.Let me bring you up-to-date with the investigation. Police have arrested
:18:00. > :18:06.one man and they say they've identified another suspect, both are
:18:07. > :18:10.said to have Islamist connections. There are unconfirmed, though
:18:11. > :18:14.widespread reports in the German media, that the arrested man is an
:18:15. > :18:18.Iraqi national and the other suspect a German man. That investigation is
:18:19. > :18:23.continuing. Tonight, here in Dortmund, there is rather a sense of
:18:24. > :18:27.relief, I think, that the match passed off peacefully and without
:18:28. > :18:30.interuption. As you expect there was a huge security presence here. There
:18:31. > :18:33.is though I think still a degree of certain. That, of course, is
:18:34. > :18:39.primarily because we still don't have the answers to those two very
:18:40. > :18:42.big questions - just who was it who attacked the Dortmund team and why?
:18:43. > :18:48.Jenny Hill, thank you. America's First Lady, Melania Trump,
:18:49. > :18:50.has accepted damages and an apology from the publishers
:18:51. > :18:53.of the Daily Mail after it printed The paper had suggested that work
:18:54. > :18:57.undertaken by Mrs Trump in the 1990s Today, it accepted that those
:18:58. > :19:02.suggestions were untrue and will reportedly pay out
:19:03. > :19:07.in excess of ?2 million. Our media editor,
:19:08. > :19:10.Amol Rajan, reports. The Daily Mail is arguably
:19:11. > :19:19.Britain's most powerful newspaper and its website,
:19:20. > :19:21.which often includes headlines too salacious even for the paper,
:19:22. > :19:24.is the most widely read English language newspaper
:19:25. > :19:25.website in the world. But the Mail's owner, Associated,
:19:26. > :19:28.may have met its match in the form of US First Lady,
:19:29. > :19:32.Melania Trump. The former Slovenian beauty queen
:19:33. > :19:49.sued the Mail titles The cause of her ire -
:19:50. > :20:18.allegations printed in both the paper and online that she worked
:20:19. > :20:19.not just as model prior to meeting Donald Trump,
:20:20. > :20:20.but as an escort. Here at the Royal Courts of Justice,
:20:21. > :20:24.a statement was read out this morning which said that the claims
:20:25. > :20:25.about Mrs Trump's professional work As a result, both the Mail
:20:26. > :20:27.and the Mail Online have agreed to publish both a retraction
:20:28. > :20:28.and an apology. They accepted an article
:20:29. > :20:29.which questioned the nature of her work as a professional model
:20:30. > :20:30.had no evidence to The Mail Group will now pay damages
:20:31. > :20:31.and costs close to $3 million. But, of course, we have to remember
:20:32. > :20:31.she was claiming about, well, So a settlement of around 1%
:20:32. > :20:33.of that, at $3 million, including costs and damages,
:20:34. > :20:35.is not an enormous victory, but it still has a chilling
:20:36. > :20:35.effect on free speech. Newspapers make expensive
:20:36. > :20:36.errors all the time, but rarely do they lead
:20:37. > :20:37.to such high-profile settlements. Today will go down in
:20:38. > :20:38.Fleet Street history as the day In South America, the President
:20:39. > :20:50.of Venezuela has been pelted with eggs as protests grow over
:20:51. > :20:52.the country's deepening Opposition activists say
:20:53. > :20:58.the left-wing leader is becoming increasingly authoritarian
:20:59. > :21:02.and are demanding early elections. The oil rich country has been hit
:21:03. > :21:04.by the slump in the price of oil Inflation has rocketed,
:21:05. > :21:09.as high as 475% last year, There are severe shortages
:21:10. > :21:18.of food and medicine. The BBC's Stephen Sackur has been
:21:19. > :21:21.to the capital Caracas Caracas, capital of the country
:21:22. > :21:34.with the biggest oil reserves in the world and yet,
:21:35. > :21:36.a city where people queue all day hoping for bread,
:21:37. > :21:38.nappies or baby milk. We had to film these
:21:39. > :21:40.scenes undercover. Journalists aren't welcome,
:21:41. > :21:42.as Venezuela sinks deeper Filming inside supermarkets
:21:43. > :21:45.is a crime, here's why - The government is drowning in debt,
:21:46. > :21:53.imports have dried up, The people suffering
:21:54. > :21:58.the most are the poor, I'm in one of the Jeeps
:21:59. > :22:09.which specialises in transporting people up-and-down the mountain
:22:10. > :22:12.and the principle here in the slum is pretty straight-forward -
:22:13. > :22:15.the higher up the hill you live, This barrio used to be a stronghold
:22:16. > :22:24.of the late Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution,
:22:25. > :22:25.not any more. People here are desperate,
:22:26. > :22:27.struggling to find Caracas has become the world's most
:22:28. > :22:36.dangerous capital city. I met a heavily armed kidnap
:22:37. > :22:44.gang, nervous young men, As Venezuela's crisis deepens,
:22:45. > :22:55.political tension rises. This a voter registration
:22:56. > :22:59.drive-by the opposition, Why don't they let
:23:00. > :23:07.us have elections? They just put more obstacles and
:23:08. > :23:10.more obstacles and more obstacles. That's why we have to do
:23:11. > :23:12.all this for and many people They've been weeks of clashes
:23:13. > :23:23.between protesters and police since the socialist government tried
:23:24. > :23:25.to abolish the powers of the opposition-controlled
:23:26. > :23:33.national assembly. Opposition leaders called it a coup
:23:34. > :23:35.against democracy and they want The last time the street violence
:23:36. > :23:42.was this bad was three years ago. The leader of the anti-Maduro
:23:43. > :23:47.protest back then was Leopoldo Lopez, who was imprisoned
:23:48. > :23:53.for 14 years. I met Lopez's mother, a tireless
:23:54. > :23:55.campaigner for his release Something's going to happen,
:23:56. > :24:01.and it's not going to be only for Leopoldo's cause,
:24:02. > :24:05.it's for Venezuelans. She took me to the military prison
:24:06. > :24:08.where her son is held. A Jeep has just come
:24:09. > :24:23.out of the prison. As we filmed, guards
:24:24. > :24:26.emerged from the prison. We managed to conceal
:24:27. > :24:28.the camera in our car, The Venezuelan government
:24:29. > :24:35.doesn't want the world You can see the full report
:24:36. > :24:44.from Venezuela on HARDtalk on the Road on the BBC News Channel
:24:45. > :24:52.and the BBC iPlayer tomorrow. Tomorrow, the Education Secretary,
:24:53. > :25:06.Justine Greening, is expected to give a speech outlining
:25:07. > :25:08.her vision for a school puts ordinary working
:25:09. > :25:11.families at its heart." It follows criticism
:25:12. > :25:13.of Theresa May's controversial plans to expand the number of grammar
:25:14. > :25:15.schools in England, which some Our education editor,
:25:16. > :25:20.Branwen Jeffreys, joins me now. This idea of a system with ordinary
:25:21. > :25:23.working families at the heart can the Government make work? Families
:25:24. > :25:27.in work but finding it difficult to make end meet are her political
:25:28. > :25:32.priority. The problem is that there is no definition of what an ordinary
:25:33. > :25:42.working family is. And that's what they've been trying to address with
:25:43. > :25:48.analysis they've published. They need to do this yore wise they have
:25:49. > :25:53.a problem in justifying their grammar plans. They say in a grammar
:25:54. > :25:56.school you're just as likely to find children from these ordinary working
:25:57. > :25:58.families as in a comprehensive school. Countering the perception
:25:59. > :26:02.they are full of middle-class children. If you look further into
:26:03. > :26:04.their own report, it shows that more than half the children in existing
:26:05. > :26:07.grammar schools are from above averagely wealthy families and
:26:08. > :26:10.that's an argument they are going to have to tackle head on before they
:26:11. > :26:17.bring their plans forward. Branwen, thank you.
:26:18. > :26:19.Britain's biggest supermarket chain reported its first annual sales
:26:20. > :26:23.But the supermarket giant's pre-tax profits fell by nearly a third
:26:24. > :26:25.to ?145 million because of fines and compensation related
:26:26. > :26:32.The head of United Airlines, Oscar Munoz, has said he felt "shame
:26:33. > :26:35.and embarrasment" over the forceful removal of a passenger
:26:36. > :26:40.In his first TV interview since the incident, Mr Munoz vowed
:26:41. > :26:42.it would never happen again, but said he would not
:26:43. > :26:56.Threats and abuse on social media need to stop and the likes
:26:57. > :26:59.of Facebook and Twitter must do more to police what is posted online.
:27:00. > :27:02.That's what an MP said today after a man was sentenced to four
:27:03. > :27:04.months in jail for threatening to kill her.
:27:05. > :27:06.Mark Sands pleaded guilty to sending the grossly offensive messages
:27:07. > :27:08.on Facebook to the Eastbourne MP, Caroline Ansell.
:27:09. > :27:11.She's the latest female MP to be singled out for abuse online,
:27:12. > :27:14.as our political correspondent, Alex Forsyth, reports.
:27:15. > :27:18.With a brazen hand gesture, Mark Sands arrived in court.
:27:19. > :27:21.Never in trouble with police before, now in jail for threatening
:27:22. > :27:25.When police found his Facebook page, it was full of posts described
:27:26. > :27:31.as hateful and vitriolic, showing entrenched political views.
:27:32. > :27:33.He referred to himself as a trainee murderer.
:27:34. > :27:35.He wrote, "End poverty, kill a Tory now."
:27:36. > :27:39.And the one for which he was jailed, "If you vote to take my money,
:27:40. > :27:45.I'll come round your house and personally stab you to death."
:27:46. > :27:48.Just because it's online, it doesn't mean it's not real.
:27:49. > :27:52.The Eastbourne MP received a call from police last year saying
:27:53. > :27:55.there was a credible threat against her life.
:27:56. > :27:58.Seeing it on the front page of your local newspaper,
:27:59. > :28:04.and then seeing it in every cafe in the town and the supermarkets
:28:05. > :28:06.and the newsagents, it was very powerful.
:28:07. > :28:10.I sat with my 12-year-old son and his eyes widened,
:28:11. > :28:14.as you'd imagine, as he sort of read that message and saw my
:28:15. > :28:19.photograph alongside the man who'd been charged.
:28:20. > :28:22.In her Eastbourne constituency, she's had to tighten security,
:28:23. > :28:24.wanting to stay accessible to constituents, but now more
:28:25. > :28:40.The very nature of an MP's job - public facing, openly political -
:28:41. > :28:41.means they've always been subject to criticism, not least from local
:28:42. > :28:44.people they represent who may not agree with them.
:28:45. > :28:46.But police say, in the past two to three years, there's been
:28:47. > :28:48.a substantial increase in the level of online abuse that's been
:28:49. > :28:50.reported and the nature of it can be very personal,
:28:51. > :28:57.highly offensive and sometimes threatening and violent.
:28:58. > :29:00.The murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox last year has heightened awareness
:29:01. > :29:06.about the potential consequences of public anger towards politicians.
:29:07. > :29:08.Prosecutors say even online threats are taken seriously
:29:09. > :29:16.When you see some of the impact it has on individuals who have
:29:17. > :29:18.suffered online abuse, it is quite devastating
:29:19. > :29:20.for their lives and, if threats are made,
:29:21. > :29:23.they are concerned for their own safety and for others that they may
:29:24. > :29:30.Caroline Ansell welcomed today's sentence as a deterrent.
:29:31. > :29:34.She said internet companies and wider society must make clear
:29:35. > :29:36.there's a line between political debate and personal abuse.
:29:37. > :29:47.Football now, and Leicester faced Atletico Madrid in the first leg
:29:48. > :29:48.of their Champions League quarter-final.
:29:49. > :29:55.They lost 1-0 after conceding an early penalty.
:29:56. > :29:57.Away from the stadium, there was trouble as some Leicester
:29:58. > :29:59.fans clashed with police, as our sports correspondent,
:30:00. > :30:10.Leicester supporters enjoying an occasion they'd never imagined.
:30:11. > :30:13.That was one story in Madrid, sadly it was not the only one.
:30:14. > :30:15.As the afternoon progressed in Plaza Mayor, in the city
:30:16. > :30:17.centre, so the clashes with police increased.
:30:18. > :30:19.There were reports of provocation on both sides.
:30:20. > :30:21.There's a couple of people that probably antagonised
:30:22. > :30:23.the police over there, but then they took
:30:24. > :30:27.There was people with children and they came with their batons
:30:28. > :30:31.and just hit a 70-year-old man, there was kids.
:30:32. > :30:34.Some supporters were reportedly heard shouting pro Gibraltar
:30:35. > :30:39.slogans, while police action in the square was there to see.
:30:40. > :30:41.As kick-off approached at the ground there was increased security
:30:42. > :30:45.searches, this was all expected in the wake of what happened
:30:46. > :30:49.But these fans had tickets in the allocated Leicester
:30:50. > :30:52.section of the stadium, others had bought tickets in the home areas,
:30:53. > :30:54.thousands more just wanted to be here.
:30:55. > :30:56.Well, let's remember there is a reason why they're here,
:30:57. > :30:58.why we're all here - a football match.
:30:59. > :31:00.Reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League,
:31:01. > :31:01.it may be almost routine for Atletico Madrid,
:31:02. > :31:06.but for Leicester City it certainly isn't.
:31:07. > :31:09.Atletico want to be the best team in Europe, not just the second
:31:10. > :31:13.Four minutes, first warning for Leicester.
:31:14. > :31:15.COMMENTATOR: Back off the post for Koke.
:31:16. > :31:17.The home side star is Antoine Griezmann,
:31:18. > :31:22.Albrighton's challenge was cynical, sure, but timed to happen
:31:23. > :31:32.Well, no, said the ref, the way I saw it - penalty.
:31:33. > :31:46.Kasper Schmeichel has saved Leicester from
:31:47. > :31:46.these before, not this time - 1-0.
:31:47. > :31:52.Second-half, now Mahrez dashing forward for Leicester.
:31:53. > :31:53.That was in the penalty area, undoubtedly.
:31:54. > :31:54.Yeah, but it was not a penalty, said the referee.
:31:55. > :31:55.Fernando Torres is a striker famous in Spain and in England and here,
:31:56. > :31:59.Leicester had to resist, persist, concentrate, they did.
:32:00. > :32:05.Parts of this trip have been disturbing, but the 1-0 final score
:32:06. > :32:07.means the tie is still open for the second leg in Leicester.
:32:08. > :32:12.Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two, here's Evan.
:32:13. > :32:15.The Education Secretary is using the school Easter holiday
:32:16. > :32:17.to make a big speech about education in England tomorrow.
:32:18. > :32:20.We'll ask if she's got a strategy or just a few sketchy ideas.
:32:21. > :32:24.And, are we reading too much into the United Airlines saga?