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Good afternoon. The First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
has described the kidnap of more than 200 girls from their school in | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
Nigeria as an "unconscionable act". In an unusual move, Mrs Obama gave | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
her husband's weekly radio address, to draw attention to their plight. | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
She said as parents of two daughters, she and the President | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
were "outraged and heartbroken" at what had happened. From Abuja, Mark | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
Doyle reports. It is several weeks since more than | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
200 schoolgirls were taken by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram. | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
It is the latest incident in a bitter war with the Nigerian | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
authorities. For the families of the teenage girls, the agony continues. | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
Condemnation for the crime is growing daily, inside Nigeria and in | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
the wider international community. Michelle Obama, who today presented | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
her husband's weekly address to the nation, used the occasion to | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
highlight the plight of the girls. Like millions of people across the | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
globe, my husband and I are outraged and heartbroken over the kidnapping | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
of more than 200 Nigerian girls from their school dormitory in the middle | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
of the night. Today, let us all pray for their safe return, let us hope | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
their families in our hearts during this very difficult time. -- hold. | :01:53. | :02:01. | |
Let us show just a fraction of their courage in fighting to give every | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
girl on this planet the education that is her birthright. Offers to | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
help find the girls have come from several countries. The United States | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
has a small team on the ground and a team of British experts have also | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
flown to Nigeria to give help. In any hostage situation, time is at a | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
premium. We are racing against the clock here. Last night, there were | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
claims that this tragedy might have been avoided. Amnesty International | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
said the authorities were warned of an impending attack on the boarding | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
school hours before it happened. Some of the teachers are reported to | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
have sent their own children home. The Nigerian government said it will | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
investigate the reports of warning but the allegations have already | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
increased the sense of frustration felt by the families, who are | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
waiting and desperately hoping for some good news. | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
Gary Barlow and two other former members of the band Take That face | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
having to pay back millions to the tax authorities after a court | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
ruling. A tax judge found a scheme they'd put money in that purportedly | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
invested in the music industry was in fact designed for tax avoidance. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
With me now is our Business Correspondent Andrew Verity. So what | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
was this scheme supposed to do? Officially, what the Rangers of the | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
scheme said was this was about harnessing the tax relief that has | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
been designed to encourage creative industries, so in theory it is their | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
to promote bands, exploit their rights, but what it was found to be | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
is a tax avoidance scheme. Back in 2010, three members of the band and | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
their former manager put money into a scheme arranged, and it suddenly | :04:01. | :04:10. | |
lost money, it lost ?25 million as soon is they put the money on. The | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
reason that happened is it generated losses, which could then be offset | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
against tax in other places, so they would pay less tax. They have argued | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
vociferously that it was not a tax avoidance scheme but now a judge has | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
concluded fairly definitively that it was, it was understood by all | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
concerned to be a tax avoidance scheme. They have the option to | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
appeal, we have not had word from them yet. The BBC has learned that | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
senior council officials in Birmingham have seen no evidence of | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
an alleged plot by Islamic extremists to take control of | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
schools in the city. They told teachers and governors at a meeting | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
that the problems were more to do with governance and leadership. The | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
education watchdog, Ofsted, is due to publish an inquiry next month | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
into the so-called 'Trojan Horse' allegations investigating more than | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
20 schools. Patients are at risk of harm if a nurse has to care for more | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
than eight people on a ward during the day. That's according to the | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence which is setting out | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
draft guidelines for hospitals in England. Here's our health | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
correspondent Branwen Jeffreys. How many nurses should there be on our | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
hospital wards? Experts say that depends on how ill or frail the | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
patient is, but if each nurse is looking after more than eight | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
patients the risks are higher. Today's report says there are other | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
warning signs as well. Nurses too busy to help patients to the | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
bathroom, delay in giving out medicine. Hospitals do not need to | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
meet minimum staffing levels. This advice tells them when they should | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
be concerned. They should look at what is happening in terms of the | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
care being delivered, whether there are any red flag markers of things | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
going wrong, because it does not necessarily mean things will be a | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
problem, so we don't think it is appropriate to set it as a minimum | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
level, but they appropriate to set it as a minimum | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
this hospital they put the number of staff up for display, | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
this hospital they put the number of patients and families to check. By | :06:23. | :06:23. | |
June, every hospital patients and families to check. By | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
need to do this. Hospitals have recruited more nurses in the last | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
year but there are still calls for greater transparency. What we want | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
to see is every hospital and clinical setting to have a properly | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
based evidence -based approach to assessing what is the requisite | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
number of staff needed and to publish that and to be compelled to | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
stick with that. The government says these guidelines are a major step | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
forward, the real test will be the experience of care on the ward. That | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
is it for now. The next news is at 6:10pm. Goodbye. | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
If it is sunny where you are and you are planning to head outside it is | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
certainly worth taking the wet weather gear with you because we | :07:22. | :07:22. | |
will see plenty of showers today. weather gear with you because we | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
They will be heavy and thundery. It will be windy across southern parts | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
of England and Wales. The rain has cleared away from eastern England, | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
with it clearing slower in | :07:36. | :07:37. |