10/05/2014 BBC Weekend News


10/05/2014

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Good afternoon. The First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama

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has described the kidnap of more than 200 girls from their school in

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Nigeria as an "unconscionable act". In an unusual move, Mrs Obama gave

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her husband's weekly radio address, to draw attention to their plight.

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She said as parents of two daughters, she and the President

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were "outraged and heartbroken" at what had happened. From Abuja, Mark

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Doyle reports. It is several weeks since more than

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200 schoolgirls were taken by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

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It is the latest incident in a bitter war with the Nigerian

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authorities. For the families of the teenage girls, the agony continues.

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Condemnation for the crime is growing daily, inside Nigeria and in

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the wider international community. Michelle Obama, who today presented

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her husband's weekly address to the nation, used the occasion to

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highlight the plight of the girls. Like millions of people across the

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globe, my husband and I are outraged and heartbroken over the kidnapping

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of more than 200 Nigerian girls from their school dormitory in the middle

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of the night. Today, let us all pray for their safe return, let us hope

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their families in our hearts during this very difficult time. -- hold.

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Let us show just a fraction of their courage in fighting to give every

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girl on this planet the education that is her birthright. Offers to

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help find the girls have come from several countries. The United States

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has a small team on the ground and a team of British experts have also

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flown to Nigeria to give help. In any hostage situation, time is at a

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premium. We are racing against the clock here. Last night, there were

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claims that this tragedy might have been avoided. Amnesty International

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said the authorities were warned of an impending attack on the boarding

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school hours before it happened. Some of the teachers are reported to

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have sent their own children home. The Nigerian government said it will

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investigate the reports of warning but the allegations have already

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increased the sense of frustration felt by the families, who are

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waiting and desperately hoping for some good news.

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Gary Barlow and two other former members of the band Take That face

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having to pay back millions to the tax authorities after a court

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ruling. A tax judge found a scheme they'd put money in that purportedly

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invested in the music industry was in fact designed for tax avoidance.

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With me now is our Business Correspondent Andrew Verity. So what

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was this scheme supposed to do? Officially, what the Rangers of the

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scheme said was this was about harnessing the tax relief that has

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been designed to encourage creative industries, so in theory it is their

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to promote bands, exploit their rights, but what it was found to be

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is a tax avoidance scheme. Back in 2010, three members of the band and

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their former manager put money into a scheme arranged, and it suddenly

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lost money, it lost ?25 million as soon is they put the money on. The

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reason that happened is it generated losses, which could then be offset

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against tax in other places, so they would pay less tax. They have argued

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vociferously that it was not a tax avoidance scheme but now a judge has

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concluded fairly definitively that it was, it was understood by all

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concerned to be a tax avoidance scheme. They have the option to

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appeal, we have not had word from them yet. The BBC has learned that

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senior council officials in Birmingham have seen no evidence of

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an alleged plot by Islamic extremists to take control of

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schools in the city. They told teachers and governors at a meeting

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that the problems were more to do with governance and leadership. The

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education watchdog, Ofsted, is due to publish an inquiry next month

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into the so-called 'Trojan Horse' allegations investigating more than

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20 schools. Patients are at risk of harm if a nurse has to care for more

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than eight people on a ward during the day. That's according to the

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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence which is setting out

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draft guidelines for hospitals in England. Here's our health

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correspondent Branwen Jeffreys. How many nurses should there be on our

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hospital wards? Experts say that depends on how ill or frail the

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patient is, but if each nurse is looking after more than eight

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patients the risks are higher. Today's report says there are other

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warning signs as well. Nurses too busy to help patients to the

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bathroom, delay in giving out medicine. Hospitals do not need to

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meet minimum staffing levels. This advice tells them when they should

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be concerned. They should look at what is happening in terms of the

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care being delivered, whether there are any red flag markers of things

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going wrong, because it does not necessarily mean things will be a

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problem, so we don't think it is appropriate to set it as a minimum

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level, but they appropriate to set it as a minimum

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this hospital they put the number of staff up for display,

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this hospital they put the number of patients and families to check. By

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June, every hospital patients and families to check. By

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need to do this. Hospitals have recruited more nurses in the last

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year but there are still calls for greater transparency. What we want

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to see is every hospital and clinical setting to have a properly

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based evidence -based approach to assessing what is the requisite

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number of staff needed and to publish that and to be compelled to

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stick with that. The government says these guidelines are a major step

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forward, the real test will be the experience of care on the ward. That

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is it for now. The next news is at 6:10pm. Goodbye.

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If it is sunny where you are and you are planning to head outside it is

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certainly worth taking the wet weather gear with you because we

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will see plenty of showers today. weather gear with you because we

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They will be heavy and thundery. It will be windy across southern parts

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of England and Wales. The rain has cleared away from eastern England,

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with it clearing slower in

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