03/07/2017 BBC News at Ten

Decades of child abuse in Jersey, and children

could still be at risk - the conclusion of an

It reveals how hundreds of vulnerable children in care

Beatings, being forced down in the bat. I thought I was going to die.

They've been getting away with it for so long.

And people's lives have been ruined ? because of not

The report recommends that a notorious children's home

at the centre of the scandal be demolished.

Downing Street says it's sticking to a 1% rise for doctors

and nurses in England despite mounting pressure.

The death of seven-year-old Katie Rough - a teenage girl has

Bankers in the dock - four senior directors at Barclays

are charged with conspiracy to commit fraud.

The scanner that reveals the workings of the brain

as never before - it could revolutionise treatment.

And Andy Murray shakes off injury to begin a solid defence

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News - away from Wimbledon,

Everton continue their spending spree, signing Burnley and England

defender Michael Keane for a fee which could rise to ?30 million.

An inquiry into seven decades of abuse of children in care

in Jersey says children there may still be at risk.

More than 600 witnesses have given harrowing evidence

about the systematic mistreatment of vulnerable young people such

as being sexually abused, tortured with electrical wires,

locked in confined spaces or simply abandoned.

The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry recommends that the children's home

at the centre of the scandal - Haut de la Garenne - be demolished.

It has also found failings in Jersey's child care system even

now and says the lessons of the past have not been learned.

Robert Hall is in Jersey for us tonight.

Robert, this is a day that so many survivors of abuse

Yes, a very difficult day for many of them. But this was a day when

their suffering was acknowledged, when independent voices identified

the failures that led to physical, sexual and mental abuse. This is a

weighty report which accuses Jersey of letting down its children,

children trapped in establishments with abusive carers and little

chance of outside support. Tonight, Jersey's chief minister said he

accepted every one of the panel's recommendations.

The island of Jersey, proud and independent,

according to the report, an island whose attitude

to children in the care system was indefensible.

Chair Frances Oldham said children had been abandoned in care with no

Her panel had identified what she termed

In its most favourable light, this expression is

said to refer to the maintenance of proud

and ancient traditions and the

preservation of the island's way of life.

Using the expression in a pejorative way, it is said to

involve the protection of powerful interests and resistance to change,

even when change is patently necessary.

Allegations of abuse in Jersey came to public prominence

during police operations at this former children's home.

The search for human remains at Haut de la

Garenne was inconclusive, but the images spurred islanders who had

kept their secrets for so long to come forward.

He said he and his friends were frightened to tell their

Everyone had a story but no one wanted to say it.

Some did try to, and it was just brushsed aside.

And it became like a little gang, that you would just sit

there and you know, you would talk between yourselves but you were

During a three-year investigation, police

recorded more than 500 alleged offences at homes throughout the

Madeline spent her early years at Haut de la Garenne.

I was in care from the age of three months, and it went on

Awful experiences - of abuse, being locked

practically, I thought I was going to die, then.

The panel said children of all ages had been

There seems to be a common thread throughout,

that wherever the States of Jersey were involved in the care of

children, they failed to meet their responsibilities.

There was a lack of political will and a lack of

The report said lessons had not been learned and

Jersey's children were still at risk.

were not receiving the care and support they needed.

The island's chief minister had listened with

colleagues and he said Jersey had to act.

We failed children who needed our care, who needed to be protected

Unpalatable truths were swept under the carpet because

The report says Haut de la Garenne should be torn down, a

symbol of fear, mistrust and the weaknesses of the Jersey way.

They've been getting away with it for so long.

And people's lives have been ruined - because of not listening

Theresa May says there's no change in the Government's position

on public sector pay - that's despite a succession

of ministers lining up to say it's time to remove the 1% pay

Downing Street says it will listen to the recommendations

of the various independent pay review bodies.

But pay rises for millions of workers, including doctors,

nurses and the armed forces, have already been fixed at 1%

Here's our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed.

There are two stark figures at the heart of this battle

1% - the pay cap imposed for nurses, teachers, firefighters and the many

And 2.9%, the rate at which prices are rising - inflation.

For the 5 million people this affects, their real

Alan Daly is a firefighter from Oxfordshire -

like so many others, weary of the living

Firefighters don't expect to be rich, but they don't expect to be

I hear time and time again, oh, they've got second jobs.

Yes, some do have second jobs, because they have

Has the Government been underpaying nurses and teachers,

Or by bike, the message was the same from Cabinet heavyweights.

The Treasury was not amused, pointing out that balancing

the books is still central to economic policy,

and the Government is still spending ?47 billion a year more

Paying for public sector workers is one of the biggest things

We spend ?180 billion a year on the doctors and nurses

and teachers and policemen and so on.

So, each extra 1% on that big number itself costs quite a lot.

This is the public sector pay challenge.

Whilst pay in the public sector has been capped at 1%,

in the private sector, average increases are

This is leading to those recruitment problems.

The private sector is simply becoming more attractive.

And then there is the cost of any pay rise - and that could be as high

as ?1.5 billion for every 1% extra paid to the 5 million people

Well, here, the Treasury says that money will either need

to come from higher taxes, more borrowing or a

As we have seen with the poor economic figures at the start

of the year, relying on economic growth can be dangerous.

Yes, some public sector workers do receive automatic pay

But economists say there is a bigger issue here, and it's

It's perfectly straightforward to say, you can raise

I think the barrier there is political, and we've had

a government that for a very long time now has been saying,

we want to at least level off public spending and not have any increases,

we don't want to increase taxes, we'd rather give people tax cuts.

And this is now two immovable objects crashing into each other.

Whether it's the response to the Grenfell fire tragedy,

the heightened terror threat or today's public sector pay

tensions, difficult choices on spending lie ahead.

The Government's position in Parliament is precarious,

making every decision it makes politically and

Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, is at Westminster.

So, ministers saying one thing about this 1% pay cap,

What are the chances that this pay cap

Well, you would never know that government ministers are meant to

stick to the same line in public, would you? In the last hour, the

Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has made some more comments which play into

this public discussion. Philip Hammond has told the CBI in the City

tonight that the Government wants to strike a fair balance in terms of

public sector pay, but at the same time, in the big picture of the

Government's ambition to sort out the debt, that they must hold their

nerve. So if you like, that is a very public back knowledge meant

that there is a lot of intense discussion going on about the

political wisdom of lifting the pay cap, but at the same time, his

allies will knowledge that as well as the political damage from

sticking to the cap, there might be political damage from raising taxes,

for example, to get rid of it. It is clear to me that both privately and

publicly, ministers are yet to find a common position on this. One

minister said this morning, it was obvious they had to scrap the cap

and show that they had listened to the electorate. In the other corner,

someone said it would be complete madness to do so, why would they

publicly pull away the threads which have held the Tory party's economic

merge together for the last few years? In this slightly chaotic

aftermath of the general election, a locked is potentially up for grabs.

A 16-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter

Katie Rough was found on a playing field in York with severe injuries

She died from her injuries in hospital.

Her mother described her as a beautiful girl who liked

Her teenage attacker can't be named because of her young age.

Seven-year-old Katie Rough - an innocent, much-loved schoolgirl,

killed by another child, who heard voices in her head.

An older girl, who we can't identify for legal reasons,

who told a friend she had dreams of killing someone.

It was a school day afternoon and just getting dark,

when Katie Rough was found fatally injured at the end of an alleyway

on the edge of a playing field here in York.

The seven-year-old died a short time later in hospital.

It then emerged that a 15-year-old girl had attacked her with a knife.

Immediately afterwards, the teenager told a man nearby

Katie's parents were quickly told what had happened

We found her at the same time as a police officer found her.

I saw her injuries, I knew she was gone.

I don't know, it's impossible to describe.

Today, the teenage girl who killed Katie admitted

She denied murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter

Katie's parents have been left with just memories.

Shy at first, but then once she knew you, she was...

Yeah, she was shy, you know, with other people,

She was...loud at times, she was just your typical

Leeds Crown Court heard the teenager who killed this seven-year-old

believed people weren't human, and were robots.

The older girl didn't speak at all today, leaving others

to explain the consequences of her disturbed mind.

Kensington and Chelsea Council have elected a new leader

to replace Nick Paget-Brown, who resigned last week

following criticism of the authority's handling

Elizabeth Campbell apologised to the community, saying it had been

Meanwhile, a group of lawyers, acting for some

have written to the Prime Minister outlining concerns about

Our special correspondent Lucy Manning reports.

This isn't the home they had, and it won't be filled with old family

photos and mementos, for they now lie in the ashes.

But this will be where some from Grenfell will live.

Council officials invited the media to this two-bedroom flat.

About 126 families have been offered this type of housing.

There are about ten more, as we stand here today,

There are a number of families who are not yet ready

Although housing will be offered, only a few of the Grenfell residents

Already, some are telling us that flats they have been offered are not

Others don't want to move if they are going to have to move again.

And so far, only eight families have taken up the offer of new,

After the protests about Kensington and Chelsea Council, tonight,

a new leader was elected, her message perhaps

This is our community, and we have failed it

So no buts, no ifs, no excuses, I am truly sorry.

And the second thing I'm going to do is to phone up Sajid Javid,

the Secretary of State, and ask for more help.

But the Government is facing more calls for the judge leading

the inquiry into why homes burned down, and why families

A group of lawyers representing some survivors writing

to the Prime Minister with 12 demands, including the removal

He stated that his remit would be extremely narrow,

so people are thinking, well, this is going to be

a bit of a whitewash, we don't have confidence in it.

But the Government is now suggesting his inquiry

He will set out the terms of the inquiry and he is not there yet.

He should take the right amount of time necessary and make sure

the inquiry is very broad and it's to the satisfaction

of the victims and their families and friends.

Today at the inquest, two more victims were identified,

Ali Jafari's wife and two daughters escape from the tenth floor

26-year-old Italian Gloria Trevisan died with her partner, Marco.

She called her parents as the flames spread, telling them,

"I'm sorry I could never hug you again.

A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.

18 people have been killed in a coach crash in Germany.

The vehicle collided with a lorry on a motorway in Bavaria

in the south of the country, and then burst into flames.

Police say another 30 passengers have been taken to hospital,

The French energy supplier EDF says the cost of building a new nuclear

power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset could go

The total bill is now likely to be ?19.6 billion,

Police in France have seized a haul of guns from a car

about to enter the UK through the Channel tunnel.

The 79 weapons had been hidden in engine blocks.

Two men, of Polish and Czech nationalities,

have appeared in court and been remanded in custody.

Four former Barclays bank executives,

including former CEO John Varley, have appeared in court,

The men are the most senior UK banking figures to face criminal

The case centres on allegations that Barclays improperly raised emergency

funds from Qatar in 2008 to avoid a Government bailout.

All deny the charges, as our business editor,

One by one, they arrived, former Barclays chief

executive John Varley, and former senior executives

Roger Jenkins, Tom Kalaris, Richard Boath, made their way

through a thick press pack, here to catch a rare sighting

Inside, they sat next to each other in the dock as the charges

Roger Jenkins and John Varley face additional charge each.

Barclays came to Qatar in 2008 to raise emergency cash

at the height of the crisis, rather than accepting

State-owned funds from Qatar invested over ?5.3

It is alleged that Barclays lent them ?2 billion of that money

and paid them ?322 million in fees as a sweetener, fees

Just a few moments ago, the four defendants from Barclays

sat stony-faced in the dock here at Westminster

Magistrates' Court, as charges were read out to them.

These are the first criminal charges ever filed against any senior

executives at a bank for their conduct during

In London's tranquil legal enclaves, experts warned

It's always difficult to prove that people are dishonest

as opposed to simply mistaken, or that they misunderstood.

That is what you have got to show, that they were really acting in bad

faith, and in relation to people in a professional context,

that is often a very difficult thing to establish.

The BBC understands all four will contest the charges.

Roger Jenkins, who lives in the US and Tom Kalaris,

who has dual nationality, were asked

The case now moves on to the Crown Court on July the 17th.

The world's most detailed scan of the brain's internal

workings has been produced by scientists at Cardiff University.

The MRI machine reveals for the first time the fibres

which carry all the brain's thought processes.

Doctors hope it will help increase understanding of a range

of neurological disorders and could be used instead

Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh volunteered to be scanned -

All thought, memory, consciousness is here.

In unprecedented detail, these images of my brain

show the white matter, fibres called axons,

the brain's wiring, which carry billions of electrical signals.

Those colour-coded green travel between front and back.

The scan was done at Cubric, the Cardiff University Brain

I have had my brain scanned for TV reports many times,

Using this special MRI scanner - there are just three in the world -

the team could map the wires, the axons, in my brain,

so thin it would take 50 of them to match the thickness

You might feel a little bit more vibration and the scan should

The team at Cardiff worked with engineers from Siemens

in Germany and the US to create the 3D images.

If you go up, you can actually see...

This has been the most exciting development

in my personal research career of 22 years in MRI.

It's similar to being handed a Hubble telescope when you have

In other words, we can look in far more details than ever before.

We can get measures that for the first time will help us

address what I call the missing link between structure and function.

Sian Rowlands is one of the research volunteers in Cardiff.

She has multiple sclerosis, which causes neurological damage.

The relapses, attack of symptoms, can come on suddenly.

It's devastating, it really is scary.

You can go from being absolutely normal one day to not

being able to walk or move, in a wheelchair and having

to go through a recovery process that can take anywhere from three

One of the areas of damage we can see here...

This is a conventional scan image showing a lesion,

But the new scan reveals another level of detail,

including the density of the brain's wiring, which scientists

Deep in the brain, where the cabling is thickest, is shown in white,

but the red and green bull's-eye is an area of less density

and clearly indicates a brain lesion, which can trigger Sian's

movement problems and extreme fatigue.

Those symptoms are really only partially explained by what we see

What this technique allows us to do for the first time is look

at axonal density in exquisite detail along each

We hope it will allow us to uncover a lot more

about the explanation for the wide range of symptoms in MS.

Researchers are using the technique to investigate schizophrenia,

dementia and epilepsy, and it might even have a role

in cancer, allowing virtual biopsies, examining tumours

Donald Trump has offered to help the parents of a British

terminally ill baby who have lost a legal fight to take him

In a tweet, the US president said he would be delighted

to help Charlie Gard, whose parents wanted him to undergo

a therapy trial in the US to treat a rare genetic condition.

It comes after Pope Francis called for Charlie's parents to be allowed

to "accompany and treat their child until the end".

Let's talk to our North America editor, Jon Sopel, who's

This is a tragic case involving a British child.

Why has it caught the attention of the US president?

As you say, a terrible case, where there are no easy choices. You are

right to raise the question of why the president has got involved,

because this has been all the way through the British courts, to the

European Court of Human Rights, and it is legally settled, so why has

the president got involved? The White House says, it is just out of

sensitivity. They say he does not want to pressure the family in

anyway. Members of the administration have spoken to the

family in calls facilitated by the British Government, and the

president is just trying to help, if at all possible. But, of course,

this is a very difficult thing for them to do. Downing Street response

was interesting, saying, this is a very sensitive time, our thoughts

are with him and Charlie's family. I think that could be interpreted as

saying, you know what, this is really sensitive and we don't need

an intervention like this now, even though your motives may be for the

best. The new French President,

Emmanuel Macron, has proposed a radical overhaul of the country's

government by cutting the number The French president -

in a special parliamentary session of the National Assembly

and the Senate - said he hopes to pass legislation to that effect

swiftly, but that he'd call a referendum if

politicians oppose it. His opponents boycotted

the event, accusing Mr Macron Our correspondent Hugh Schofield

reports from Versailles. The dignity of the presidential

office is something about which Emmanuel Macron

feels very deeply. He came to Versailles,

a place of regal pomp and awe, He called and they came -

900 deputies and senators Newcomers to the Assembly,

like the mathematician and Macron loyallist Cedric Villani,

who saw nothing wrong with the president's

unconventional summons. It's an exceptional,

critical moment. The nation has gone through

a terrible lack of trust recently. I find it perfectly normal

and reassuring that the president An exhortation to lawmakers

to understand the appetite He said he wants to make

government more efficient, cutting the number of MPs

by a third, and Europe was, TRANSLATION: It is no longer

the time to paper over the cracks. We need to take Europe

back to its beginnings, to its very origins and,

in that way, give life again Earlier in the day, there had

been a security alert. An alleged plot to shoot

the president on Bastille Day. It would appear that Emmanuel Macron

would like a new kind of presidency from that practised

by his immediate red predecessors. of presidency from that practised

by his immediate predecessors. He would like to restore

to the office some of And what greater symbol

than to address the joint Houses of Parliament here in Versailles,

home of the old monarchy? But not everyone likes this

new-look French presidency. The far left boycotted Versailles

and held a symbolic meeting of its own on left-wing republican

turf in eastern Paris, where views He portrayed himself

as a sort of a god. Well, we're a republic and we have

something against gods and we have something against kings,

since we cut their heads off. So, no, we don't want

that again, honestly. Macron the monarch, Macron

the Jupiter on Olympus. Expect a lot more of

that from the left-wing opposition, especially if -

no, when - things start to go less majestically well for France's

young head of state. Plenty of strawberries,

a little bit of rain The first day of Wimbledon saw

Andy Murray begin the defence of his men's title with a straight

sets victory, despite struggling Joe Wilson was watching all

the action at the All England Club, A solid start for Murray,

which is something of a relief Yes. Where does your mind turn

chairs darkness falls at Wimbledon? So much has happened. Rafa Nadal

went through, so did Heather Watson. But I'm sure you're wondering about

Andy Murray. He finish with more of a swagger, I would say, than

Olympic. The dignified march

through the entrance to expectation. But from the back of the queue

to the front of the Royal Box, this year, Wimbledon began with one

unifying tension - is he fit? You never truly know

until the balls hit the court. Sure, he'd serve, but how

would Andy Murray move? One thing to make

the other guy scamper, but the defending champion

would have to sprint His opponent stopped

for mid-match fist bumps. The tattooed arm belongs

to Sasha Bublik. The young man from Kazakhstan

was taking it all in, and on his first Centre Court

appearance, he forced There were two breaks

for rain in the third set. Murray's straight sets victory ended

with another dash towards the net. You know, with the adrenaline

and stuff, it sort of helps numb I moved well today and, yeah,

I thought I did pretty well And tickets are still sold

on the day for those But tradition can only

operate in today's world, and in the light of current security

concerns, this year, the queue is protected

from potential vehicle attack Refocusing after a nasty

slip in Eastbourne, on court at Wimbledon,

Konta was in full flow against Su-Wei Hsieh, an opponent

who had beaten her before. 6-2, 6-2 for Britain's

number six seed. OK, so how does she deal with people

thinking she could win it? Obviously, I'm training very hard,

working very hard to be And I'm hopefully

going to be involved Venus Williams won today,

20 years after her debut here. Last month, she was involved

in a fatal car accident in Florida. She came to speak,

described the situation as devastating, and then, well,

she couldn't continue. Petra Kvitova is still learning how

to hold a racket again. Remember, she was stabbed in her

hand by an intruder in December. To play again, to win again here,

dream come true, she said. Here on BBC One, it's time

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