12/04/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten: The Health Secretary orders an investigation into an NHS

Trust in England after a number of babies die at birth.

At least nine lost their lives, many because of a failure

to monitor their heart rate during labour.

They had four missed opportunities to deliver my girls and they didn't.

So now I get to spend the rest of my life going what if, what if?

The babies all died in the space of just over a year-and-a-half.

Also on the programme tonight: A public show of unity but Russia

and America remain at odds tonight over the Syria chemical attack

Our view is that the reign of the Assad family

They have brought this on themselves with their conduct in war

America's First Lady, Melania Trump, wins damages and an apology

from the Daily Mail after false claims that she worked as an escort.

The Venezuelans who claim they've been forced into a life

of crime to feed themselves as their country's

And, Leicester City's European dream is dented.

They're beaten by Atletico Madrid in the Champions League

Dortmund lose their quarter-final first leg to Monaco, 24 hours after

the attack on their team bus. In the space of just over

a year and a half at least nine babies died during,

or shortly after, birth at one NHS Five of the babies died following

failures to monitor their heart rate Their deaths have prompted such

concern that the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has now ordered a review

of the Shrewsbury and But it says its mortality levels are

in line with the national average. Our correspondent Michael Buchanan

has this exclusive report. Basic errors at this Trust have

caused healthy babies to die. I don't want another

mum to feel this. I don't want another dad

to have to put the lid Promises to learn lessons

have not been kept. They were interpreting

my heart rate as hers. They missed the opportunity to see

that there was any distress. But now a family long denied justice

themselves have prompted How many more babies need to die

at this Trust before somebody A memory box is all that Kelly Jones

has of her twin girls Ella and Lola. Her daughters were

stillborn in 2014. The Trust admitted the deaths

were avoidable but failed to spot their heart rates

were deteriorating, so the twins That midwife come in crying, saying,

oh, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. Hospital staff ignored Kelly's

repeated calls for them to deliver the twins,

leaving her now utterly bereft. They had four missed opportunities

to deliver my girls and they didn't. So now I get to spend

the rest of my life going Following the twins'

deaths, the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust promised

Kelly they'd improve how they monitored babies'

heart rates during labour Errors with foetal heart monitoring

contributed to the deaths of five healthy babies between September

2014 and May 2016. The most recent of

which was Ivy Morris. I never saw her smile. It was just

something that she couldn't do. Ivy died last May,

aged just four months. A brain injury at birth

gave her little quality of life. The hospital had mistaken her

mother's heartbeat for Ivy's and failed to spot the baby

was in distress. I've had an apology

from the hospital. I've had assurances that this

won't happen again and I accept those but other families have had

those assurances and those apologies and if they were followed up

in the way that they said that they would, and in the way

they had assured those families, then I wouldn't be sat here talking

to you and I would have my daughter. Foetal heart monitors are commonly

used in women in labour to ensure Mistakes are made but the repeated

errors at the Shrewsbury and Telford Trust have prompted

the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered a review

of deaths and other maternity errors, a move prompted

by the tireless Richard and Rhiannon have

fought the Trust for years following the avoidable death

of a daughter, Kate. Isabella's big sister died

in 2009 following numerous After seven years of fighting,

their determination eventually got them a full apology but they say

the Trust could have avoided more They haven't just killed my

daughter, but they have disregarded the value

of her life, her memory. Her life had value and meaning

because there was so much from it that they could have learned

and improved from. The Shrewsbury and Telford Trust

have promised they'll co-operate Their medical director admitted

to me they'd made mistakes. Sadly, there are cases

where losses occur. What families expect when a loss

occurs, at an absolute minimum, I would acknowledge that in the case

of foetal heart rate monitoring we've identified a number of cases

where that hasn't been fully implemented and where we have

learned both in terms of human error and in terms of analysis

of monitoring. Too many families have been

failed by this Trust. The upcoming review will hopefully

stop such unnecessary heartache. Tragic for the families involved

there. How hard is it to pinpoint blame, though? Very difficult. We

certainly can't pinpoint at any individual. We have looked into

deaths in which midwifes and doctors made mistakes, where doctors and

midwifes in some cases made mistakes, jointly with some babies.

I do think, however, there is a cultural problem at this Trust.

There was an official report published last year by NHS England

which found there was a lack of a safety at this Trust going back to

2009 and the Trust's utter refusal to accept responsibility for years

for the death of Kate, who you heard about there. There was a second

review of all Trusts in England published last year as well looking

at how they learned lessons from incidents and mistakes and this

Trust again was one of the worst in England, described as having a poor

reporting culture. The sad truth is that nobody we have spoken to

expects that these are the only deaths avoidable deaths at this

Trust and the families we have spoken to simply hope that this

review will mean that other parents don't suffer as they have in recent

years. Thank you. The US Secretary of State,

Rex Tillerson, has spent two hours talking to President Putin

at the Kremlin this evening. The meeting - behind closed doors -

was described by the Russians Afterwards, at a press conference

there was no hiding the differences between America and Russia

with their foreign ministers poles apart on everything

from President Assad's future after the chemical attack in Syria

to whether Russia interfered From Moscow, our correspondent

Steve Rosenberg reports. The last time he was in Russia Rex

Tillerson wasp April oil man doing multimillion dollar deals with the

Kremlin, drinking champagne with Vladimir Putin. He even got an award

from him. But in Moscow today it was a political deal, Secretary of State

Tillerson was seeking over Syria. Not easy with US-Russian relations

at their worst since the end of the Cold War. He met his Russian

counterpart, Sergei Lavrov. Then behind closed doors in the Kremlin

President Putin. There was a lot to talk about. Including this.

Last week, America launched kruz missiles, targeting a Syrian air

base, an act of aggression said Russia against Moscow's ally.

Washington claimed it was an appropriate response to the recent

chemical weapons attack in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun.

Today, America and Russia publicly disagreed about who was behind it.

The facts that we have are conclusive, that the recent chemical

weapons attack carried out in Syria was planned and it was directed and

executed by Syrian regime forces. TRANSLATION: We saw no evidence of

this and from TV pictures and eyewitnesss who were at the base

when the planes took off, it's clear there were no signs of any chemical

substances present there. There was disagreement too over President

Assad. Moscow appears unwilling to do what America would like it to,

stop supporting him. Today, Donald Trump called President Assad truly

evil and criticised Russia for backing him. Clearly, our view is

that the reign of the Assad family is coming to an end. They have again

brought this on themselves with their conduct of the war these past

few years. TRANSLATION: We have been through

this before. This obsession with ousting dictators and we know only

too well how it all ends. Rex Tillerson may in the past have

drunk champagne with Vladimir Putin, he may even have got a medal from

him but that was business. This is geeo-politics. The reality is that

Russia believes it has nothing to gain and a lot to lose from

abandoning President Assad and until that changes it's not going to do

it. Later at the UN Security Council Russia vetoed a draft resolution on

the chemical attack, one that would have required the Syrian Government

to co-operate with an investigation. Tonight, Moscow and Washington

acknowledged that relations must improve. But so deep are the

divisions over Syria and other issues too it's hard to see how that

improvement is going to happen. Steve Rosenberg, BBC News, Moscow.

Within the last hour, President Trump has been speaking

about Syria in a press conference with the NATO Secretary

Let's join our North America editor Jon Sopel.

Certainly more tough talking from Donald Trump. Yeah, very much so.

Donald Trump described the Syrian President as a butcher in an answer

that he gave me during that news conference and the tough talking

about Syria goes on. But that's had a knock-on effect with relations

with Russia as well because Russia is supporting the Syrian regime and

continues to do so, despite protestations from America. And that

has led to people talking about the relationship being at an all-time

low, that trust is non-existent so I asked President Trump this question.

Mr President, do you think it's conceivable, what's your instinct,

was it possible that Syrian forces could have launched that

attack in Idlib last week without the Russians knowing?

And, have you been disappointed, surprised by Vladimir Putin's

I think it's certainly possible, I think it's probably unlikely

and I know they're doing investigations into that right now.

I would like to think that they didn't know,

but certainly they could have, they were there.

General Mattis is looking into it with the entire Pentagon group that

So, it was was very disappointing to see.

It's disappointing no matter who does it,

but when you get into the gases, specially that form,

it's vicious and violent and everybody in this room saw it

all too many times, over the last three or four days,

young children dying, babies dying, fathers holding

children in their arms that were dead, dead children.

There can't be a worse sight and it shouldn't be allowed.

So, I felt we had to do something about it.

I have absolutely no doubt we did the right thing and it was very,

very successfully done, as you well know.

We don't know is what the wider strategy now is towards Syria. We

have heard Rex Tillerson in his news conference talking about the Assad

regime being near its end and they've brought it all on

themselves. But does that mean that the US policy is now actively

working towards regime change? And if that is the case, how are they

going to pursue that? Where does it leave relations with Russia? We have

heard President Trump talking about, he is still hopes it will be

possible there will be a reset in the relations with Vladimir Putin,

but with each day that passes sounding less and less confident

that will be possible to happen. I think what's going to happen next is

that we will see Rex Tillerson coming back to the United States and

there being a full debrief on the talks that he had with the Russian

Foreign Minister and the talks that he had with Vladimir Putin. Seeing

if there is any way which is what the Americans would love to do of

prising Russia away from backing Assad and the Syrian regime.

Police in Germany say they've detained a suspected Islamic

extremist after three explosions hit a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund

They say they're treating the incident as a terror attack.

The match against Monaco, which was moved to this evening,

was marked by shows of defiance by both sets of fans.

Our correspondent, Jenny Hill, is in Dortmund tonight.

After an attack on home ground, this is how the world

Dortmund's fans and their Monaco rivals in unison.

Security fears put aside for a match which mattered.

We want to show that we don't care for the terrorism,

We want to see a good match and that's important, I think.

This was, police believe, a targeted attack on the Dortmund team.

Three explosive devices, packed with metal pins,

planted along their route to the stadium.

Explosives with a range of 100 metres.

Investigators have yet to establish a motive,

but they're examining letters found at the scene.

TRANSLATION: Three letters were found at the site,

they suggest a possible Islamist background.

Among others things, they demand the withdrawal of German

tornados from Syria and the closure of Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

These letter are being investigated by Islamic experts.

The Dortmund team arrived earlier tonight without one

Marc Bartra posted this picture earlier following

A policeman was also injured in the attack,

TRANSLATION: We were all appalled yesterday when we heard

about the attack on the bus of the BVB players in Dortmund.

We sincerely wish the injured, the player Marc Bartra,

and also the policeman full recovery and we all agree that we are dealing

Dortmund's defeat tonight may have disappointed some,

that the match was played at all was, for most

Let me bring you up-to-date with the investigation. Police have arrested

one man and they say they've identified another suspect, both are

said to have Islamist connections. There are unconfirmed, though

widespread reports in the German media, that the arrested man is an

Iraqi national and the other suspect a German man. That investigation is

continuing. Tonight, here in Dortmund, there is rather a sense of

relief, I think, that the match passed off peacefully and without

interuption. As you expect there was a huge security presence here. There

is though I think still a degree of certain. That, of course, is

primarily because we still don't have the answers to those two very

big questions - just who was it who attacked the Dortmund team and why?

Jenny Hill, thank you. America's First Lady, Melania Trump,

has accepted damages and an apology from the publishers

of the Daily Mail after it printed The paper had suggested that work

undertaken by Mrs Trump in the 1990s Today, it accepted that those

suggestions were untrue and will reportedly pay out

in excess of ?2 million. Our media editor,

Amol Rajan, reports. The Daily Mail is arguably

Britain's most powerful newspaper and its website,

which often includes headlines too salacious even for the paper,

is the most widely read English language newspaper

website in the world. But the Mail's owner, Associated,

may have met its match in the form of US First Lady,

Melania Trump. The former Slovenian beauty queen

sued the Mail titles The cause of her ire -

allegations printed in both the paper and online that she worked

not just as model prior to meeting Donald Trump,

but as an escort. Here at the Royal Courts of Justice,

a statement was read out this morning which said that the claims

about Mrs Trump's professional work As a result, both the Mail

and the Mail Online have agreed to publish both a retraction

and an apology. They accepted an article

which questioned the nature of her work as a professional model

had no evidence to The Mail Group will now pay damages

and costs close to $3 million. But, of course, we have to remember

she was claiming about, well, So a settlement of around 1%

of that, at $3 million, including costs and damages,

is not an enormous victory, but it still has a chilling

effect on free speech. Newspapers make expensive

errors all the time, but rarely do they lead

to such high-profile settlements. Today will go down in

Fleet Street history as the day In South America, the President

of Venezuela has been pelted with eggs as protests grow over

the country's deepening Opposition activists say

the left-wing leader is becoming increasingly authoritarian

and are demanding early elections. The oil rich country has been hit

by the slump in the price of oil Inflation has rocketed,

as high as 475% last year, There are severe shortages

of food and medicine. The BBC's Stephen Sackur has been

to the capital Caracas Caracas, capital of the country

with the biggest oil reserves in the world and yet,

a city where people queue all day hoping for bread,

nappies or baby milk. We had to film these

scenes undercover. Journalists aren't welcome,

as Venezuela sinks deeper Filming inside supermarkets

is a crime, here's why - The government is drowning in debt,

imports have dried up, The people suffering

the most are the poor, I'm in one of the Jeeps

which specialises in transporting people up-and-down the mountain

and the principle here in the slum is pretty straight-forward -

the higher up the hill you live, This barrio used to be a stronghold

of the late Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution,

not any more. People here are desperate,

struggling to find Caracas has become the world's most

dangerous capital city. I met a heavily armed kidnap

gang, nervous young men, As Venezuela's crisis deepens,

political tension rises. This a voter registration

drive-by the opposition, Why don't they let

us have elections? They just put more obstacles and

more obstacles and more obstacles. That's why we have to do

all this for and many people They've been weeks of clashes

between protesters and police since the socialist government tried

to abolish the powers of the opposition-controlled

national assembly. Opposition leaders called it a coup

against democracy and they want The last time the street violence

was this bad was three years ago. The leader of the anti-Maduro

protest back then was Leopoldo Lopez, who was imprisoned

for 14 years. I met Lopez's mother, a tireless

campaigner for his release Something's going to happen,

and it's not going to be only for Leopoldo's cause,

it's for Venezuelans. She took me to the military prison

where her son is held. A Jeep has just come

out of the prison. As we filmed, guards

emerged from the prison. We managed to conceal

the camera in our car, The Venezuelan government

doesn't want the world You can see the full report

from Venezuela on HARDtalk on the Road on the BBC News Channel

and the BBC iPlayer tomorrow. Tomorrow, the Education Secretary,

Justine Greening, is expected to give a speech outlining

her vision for a school puts ordinary working

families at its heart." It follows criticism

of Theresa May's controversial plans to expand the number of grammar

schools in England, which some Our education editor,

Branwen Jeffreys, joins me now. This idea of a system with ordinary

working families at the heart can the Government make work? Families

in work but finding it difficult to make end meet are her political

priority. The problem is that there is no definition of what an ordinary

working family is. And that's what they've been trying to address with

analysis they've published. They need to do this yore wise they have

a problem in justifying their grammar plans. They say in a grammar

school you're just as likely to find children from these ordinary working

families as in a comprehensive school. Countering the perception

they are full of middle-class children. If you look further into

their own report, it shows that more than half the children in existing

grammar schools are from above averagely wealthy families and

that's an argument they are going to have to tackle head on before they

bring their plans forward. Branwen, thank you.

Britain's biggest supermarket chain reported its first annual sales

But the supermarket giant's pre-tax profits fell by nearly a third

to ?145 million because of fines and compensation related

The head of United Airlines, Oscar Munoz, has said he felt "shame

and embarrasment" over the forceful removal of a passenger

In his first TV interview since the incident, Mr Munoz vowed

it would never happen again, but said he would not

Threats and abuse on social media need to stop and the likes

of Facebook and Twitter must do more to police what is posted online.

That's what an MP said today after a man was sentenced to four

months in jail for threatening to kill her.

Mark Sands pleaded guilty to sending the grossly offensive messages

on Facebook to the Eastbourne MP, Caroline Ansell.

She's the latest female MP to be singled out for abuse online,

as our political correspondent, Alex Forsyth, reports.

With a brazen hand gesture, Mark Sands arrived in court.

Never in trouble with police before, now in jail for threatening

When police found his Facebook page, it was full of posts described

as hateful and vitriolic, showing entrenched political views.

He referred to himself as a trainee murderer.

He wrote, "End poverty, kill a Tory now."

And the one for which he was jailed, "If you vote to take my money,

I'll come round your house and personally stab you to death."

Just because it's online, it doesn't mean it's not real.

The Eastbourne MP received a call from police last year saying

there was a credible threat against her life.

Seeing it on the front page of your local newspaper,

and then seeing it in every cafe in the town and the supermarkets

and the newsagents, it was very powerful.

I sat with my 12-year-old son and his eyes widened,

as you'd imagine, as he sort of read that message and saw my

photograph alongside the man who'd been charged.

In her Eastbourne constituency, she's had to tighten security,

wanting to stay accessible to constituents, but now more

The very nature of an MP's job - public facing, openly political -

means they've always been subject to criticism, not least from local

people they represent who may not agree with them.

But police say, in the past two to three years, there's been

a substantial increase in the level of online abuse that's been

reported and the nature of it can be very personal,

highly offensive and sometimes threatening and violent.

The murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox last year has heightened awareness

about the potential consequences of public anger towards politicians.

Prosecutors say even online threats are taken seriously

When you see some of the impact it has on individuals who have

suffered online abuse, it is quite devastating

for their lives and, if threats are made,

they are concerned for their own safety and for others that they may

Caroline Ansell welcomed today's sentence as a deterrent.

She said internet companies and wider society must make clear

there's a line between political debate and personal abuse.

Football now, and Leicester faced Atletico Madrid in the first leg

of their Champions League quarter-final.

They lost 1-0 after conceding an early penalty.

Away from the stadium, there was trouble as some Leicester

fans clashed with police, as our sports correspondent,

Leicester supporters enjoying an occasion they'd never imagined.

That was one story in Madrid, sadly it was not the only one.

As the afternoon progressed in Plaza Mayor, in the city

centre, so the clashes with police increased.

There were reports of provocation on both sides.

There's a couple of people that probably antagonised

the police over there, but then they took

There was people with children and they came with their batons

and just hit a 70-year-old man, there was kids.

Some supporters were reportedly heard shouting pro Gibraltar

slogans, while police action in the square was there to see.

As kick-off approached at the ground there was increased security

searches, this was all expected in the wake of what happened

But these fans had tickets in the allocated Leicester

section of the stadium, others had bought tickets in the home areas,

thousands more just wanted to be here.

Well, let's remember there is a reason why they're here,

why we're all here - a football match.

Reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League,

it may be almost routine for Atletico Madrid,

but for Leicester City it certainly isn't.

Atletico want to be the best team in Europe, not just the second

Four minutes, first warning for Leicester.

COMMENTATOR: Back off the post for Koke.

The home side star is Antoine Griezmann,

Albrighton's challenge was cynical, sure, but timed to happen

Well, no, said the ref, the way I saw it - penalty.

Kasper Schmeichel has saved Leicester from

these before, not this time - 1-0.

Second-half, now Mahrez dashing forward for Leicester.

That was in the penalty area, undoubtedly.

Yeah, but it was not a penalty, said the referee.

Fernando Torres is a striker famous in Spain and in England and here,

Leicester had to resist, persist, concentrate, they did.

Parts of this trip have been disturbing, but the 1-0 final score

means the tie is still open for the second leg in Leicester.

Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two, here's Evan.

The Education Secretary is using the school Easter holiday

to make a big speech about education in England tomorrow.

We'll ask if she's got a strategy or just a few sketchy ideas.

And, are we reading too much into the United Airlines saga?