12/04/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

I'm Victoria Derbyshire and welcome to the programme.

Police are investigating a possible Islamist link to the three

explosions which hit the Borussia Dortmund

team bus last night - that's according to German media

We will have the latest on the investigation and speak

TRANSLATION: A letter was found near the blast scene. Due to the ongoing

investigation, I can't give more information. The authenticity is

being investigated. Also today, an exclusive

interview with Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey,

who tells us she's going to Sierra Leone where

she contracted ebola, a disease which, twice,

almost killed her. That's kind of where things started

for me and I've had a terrible couple of years since then so it

would be good to go back just for things to come full circle for me

and a little bit of closure and end up with something good.

That full interview coming up at 9.15am.

And the US government is turning up the heat on Russia over its support

America's top diplomat is in Moscow for talks with his opposite number.

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Police in Germany say they're investigating a possible Islamist

link to last night's attack on the Borussia Dortmund

Three explosions hit the bus, which was taking the club's players

to their Champions League quarter-final against Monaco.

Police say they believe the club was deliberately targeted.

Forensic teams have spent the night examining the blast site.

Three devices in what police described as a targeted attack

exploded as the players' bus left their hotel shortly after 7pm.

It's believed the explosives were hidden in a hedge and were

But two panes at the back shattered, injuring Spanish

international Marc Bartra, who has undergone surgery.

At a press conference held soon afterwards,

a spokesman for the team gave an update on his condition.

TRANSLATION: Marc Bartra is being operated on right now

for a broken bone in his right hand and he has got various glass shards

The team, through captain Marcel Schmelzer, just rang me.

They're still very shocked and thinking about Marc.

The police are still trying to establish who was behind

An official from the state prosecutor revealed that a letter

TRANSLATION: I can say a letter was found near the blast scene.

At the moment, due to the ongoing investigation, I can't give more

The authenticity is being investigated.

The devices exploded about ten kilometres

The match has been postponed until later today.

The world of football has come together in wishing Bartra a full

recovery and condemning the attack, which has unsettled

Our correspondent Gavin Lee is in Dortmund for us now.

So the police are looking at an Islamist link, but presumably,

far-right hooliganism too? Well, it is interesting Victoria. In the past

30 minutes most of the German media have suddenly come out with details

of what is purportedly in this letter which was found near the

scene. It is reported this was a letter that said in the name of

Allah. It went into detail about how German sports stars, how German

high-profile people would continue to be targeted because of the

tornadoes that were being flown and targeting so-called Islamic State in

Syria and also there was a suggestion that there was a link to

the Berlin attack and that was a reprisal from the arrest that

followed with the man who was shot dead, the lorry truck attacker later

on in Milan. He spent sometime here in Dortmund. The investigation stage

has moved from Dortmund police to the Federal Police which suggests it

is terrorism is the main theme of the investigation, however, at the

moment, the police are stopping short from saying that. What we know

officially from the police is this was a letter that purports to claim

responsibility, but they are checking authenticity. If the

contents, which is widely reported here is true, it maybe a first

attempt to deceive if it is another area of investigation that they are

looking at. So we are expecting another press conference later

today, but suggestions at this investigation is turning somewhat.

OK, that's interesting. In the meantime the game will be, has been

rescheduled for this evening. Swift rescheduling. What are people saying

about that? It is, a few minutes ago, there was some football fan

from Monaco walking past and I spoke to them. Interesting actually how

many people stayed in people's houses here in Germany. There was a

tweet that went out, a hashtag open door for away fans. A lot of people

took advantage of that. A lot of families put people up for the

night. We saw the same thing after the Brussels attacks and the Nice

attack, the Brussels attack. I was in the hotel where the Monaco team

are staying. I spoke to the coach driver. He said he was worried about

taking this journey tonight. The coach was surrounded by police.

There is a sense of security ahead of the game.

Annita McVeigh is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

The US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, is meeting his

Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow this morning, less

than a week after the United States bombed an air base in Syria.

He wants to persuade the Kremlin to drop its support for the current

Syrian regime and its President, Bashar al-Assad.

As a former oil executive, Mr Tillerson is more used

to arriving in Moscow for business deals.

This political mission may prove more difficult.

Russia, he said on Tuesday, bears a heavy responsibility

It is unclear whether Russia has failed to take this obligation

seriously or whether rush is incompetent, but this distinction

doesn't matter much to the dead. The US fired missiles at a Syrian

air base, an act condemned by Syria's ally, Russia. Vladimir Putin

appeared to harden his stance accusing opposition forces of

planning further attacks. TRANSLATION: We have information

from various sources that similar provocations, I can't call them any

differently, are being prepared in other parts of Syria too. Including

the southern suburbs of Damascus where they're preparing to release

some sort of substance again. Whilst G7 ministers couldn't agree on new

sanctions yesterday, they did endorse a joint call for Russia to

abandon Assad, but right now, it seems that message may fall on deaf

ears. President Trump's spokesman,

Sean Spicer, has apologised for saying that Adolf Hitler didn't

use chemical weapons. Mr Spicer made the remark

in a White House press briefing, as he answered questions

about the war in Syria. The Anne Frank Centre,

which campaigns for human rights, described Mr Spicer's comment

as an "evil slur" and said he now Britain's biggest supermarket chain,

Tesco, has reported a 30% rise It made more than ?1.2 billion

in the last financial year. Like-for-like sales,

which strip out the impact of new store openings,

grew 1% in the year to February. The company's chief

executive Dave Lewis said It's no surprise that the industry

has been under pressure, but it's been under pressure

for the last three Actually, I think that where we sit

as Tesco now is stronger than Our partnerships with our suppliers

have never been stronger. Actually, whilst we see

some of the challenges you are talking about,

we feel more confident about our ability to deal with them

and perhaps we did just The nurse Pauline Cafferkey,

who contracted ebola in Sierra leone in 2014,

has told this programme she's The 41-year-old says she has no fear

about returning to Sierra Leone, Ms Cafferkey told Victoria she hopes

the trip, which is to raise funds for orphaned children,

will give her closure after what she describes

as a "pretty tough couple of years". And you can see Pauline Cafferkey's

interview with Victoria shortly. The head of United Airlines has

apologised for what he called the "truly horrific" incident

in which a passenger was forcibly dragged,

screaming, from a flight. Footage of David Dao being removed

from the overbooked plane was posted on social media and sparked

a backlash against the company. The chief executive, Oscar Munoz,

said, "I deeply apologise to the customer forcibly removed

and to all the customers aboard. No one should ever be

mistreated this way." Originally he had maintained staff

had followed established procedures. A fashion advert for Selfridges has

been cleared by the advertising standards watchdog over a complaint

that the model looked A promotional e-mail showed

the woman standing side It prompted a reader

to complain she was too thin and question whether the advert

was socially irresponsible. However, the Advertising

Standards Authority judged that the model did not appear

to be "significantly underweight". A voter registration site that

crashed in the run-up to last year's EU referendum could have been

targeted by a foreign cyber attack, The "register to vote" site crashed

on 7th June last year just before the deadline for people to sign

up to vote. The Government and electoral

administrators blamed a surge But MPs on the Parliamentary Public

Administration Committee say a foreign cyber attack could not

be ruled out. In Nigeria a senior commander

at the country's road safety organisation has been disciplined

after he was pictured cutting female Photos showing the male

commander taking a pair of scissors to the women's hair

during an inspection parade have One female aide to the president

condemned the haircuts A shrimp which makes some

of the loudest sounds in the ocean has been named after

the rock band, Pink Floyd. It might not sound like it

but the pistol shrimp, synalpheus pinkfloydi can

use its claw to create a sound louder than a gunshot

and is powerful enough That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 9.30am. If you are getting in touch with us,

you're very welcome. Let's get some sport

from Jessica, we've been hearing about the Dortmund team bus

explosions, but the match It will be a really strange

atmosphere though? Despite the distressing scenes we saw yesterday,

the match will still go ahead at 5.45pm tonight and thousands of fans

were already in the stadium last night before the announcement was

made just 15 minutes before kick off of that rescheduled match. Many of

the Monaco fans, once the news started to come in, of the Prost

ponement and news of the team bus kind of being attacked, many of the

Monaco fans chanting support for the Dortmund team and the players and

that show of solidarity continued as Monaco fans opened, Dortmund fans

opened up their homes and greeted the Monaco fans who needed time to

stay in the German capital for another night and despite the chaos,

I think, it was good to see that the football world really came together

last night. And we know that incredibly only one

player was slightly injured? Yes, that was defender, Marc Bartra, who

went to hospital for minor surgery on a wrist injury. He is 26-year-old

old and one of the players that was sitting next to him on the coach,

the goalkeeper, he toll the Swiss paper after the bang, we all ducked

in the bus and those who could, threw themselves to the ground. We

were all shocked. Nobody thought of a football match in this moment. It

makes you wonder about the mentality of the players, Victoria and whether

they will be able to kind of shut out what happened and be able to get

on with that football match this evening. Yes. And we've got another

big night in Leicester's history? Yes, their first ever Champions

League quarterfinal. But they're up against a team that's been in the

final of this competition twice in the past three seasons, Atletico

Madrid. Now, their captain has travelled with the squad. But is not

thought to be fit enough to start the match. I think this will be an

experience that the Leicester players will truly relish as you can

see, they are on the pitch there taking selfies and videos of the

stadium. Extra police have been lining the streets of Madrid after

that attack on Dortmund. And Atletico's record, well, definitely

makes Leicester the under dogs, but you know of Leicester and the

fairytale football stories they have come up in recent seasons, you never

know, they could be on for a win. They could be, yeah and they like

being under dogs, thanks, Jess. In an exclusive interview

with this programme, Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey has

revealed that she is going back to the country where

she contracted Ebola - a disease which twice

nearly killed her. She says she hopes the trip,

which is to raise funds for orphaned children there,

will give her closure after It was in December 2014 that Pauline

became ill and suffered multiple organ failure having caught

the disease whilst helping ebola In our wide-ranging interview

she says that being subjected to a Public Health England

investigation after a relaps, was massively stressful and she also

reveals that she was so paranoid about Ebola coming back,

she carried a thermometer Really happy with how my

health is and things. What kind of lasting physical

effects has Ebola had on you? As a result of the meningitis,

certain parts of my body are a bit numb or a bit painful as a result

of the nerve damage. Even in the past couple

of months I've noticed small My health is not what it was before,

but it's pretty much as good as it's going to get,

and I'm really happy with that. What is the difference

between now and before you had In a physical sense I think

I was used to being so fit and doing It was a big part of my life

and then the first time round, the first time I had Ebola,

it was OK. I managed to get back to sort

of normal health and then obviously had a relapse with meningitis,

which badly affected me. There was a relapse

and then meningitis. The relapse was a result

of me having Ebola. The Ebola caused meningitis

and I had chronic meningitis What about the sort

of psychological side of things? Surprisingly, they've been

pretty good, actually. It's been a pretty

tough couple of years. I'm not particularly

a sentimental kind of person. I don't sit and analyse

things greatly which has And at one point, I think, you felt

so ill, you actually wanted to die. Is that right?

Yeah. Can you tell me a little

bit about that? It was the first time

when I was really, I think there was a lot

going on medical wise. I just remember people

being around me and having a lot of intervention at the time

and it was too much. I was in pain and probably suffering

at the time and after that I don't What did Ebola actually

do to your body? So, it's really

multiple organ failure. The vomiting and diarrhoea you have

is so profuse that the organs can't keep up with it

and the organs start failing. So it affects many parts

of the body in the acute stage. There are long-term

repercussions as well. I thought, well when I was first

told that I had it, I thought that my chances would be pretty good

and certainly more so than had I got it when I was in

Sierra Leone and been treated So I knew that having access

to the NHS and being treated by the NHS, my chances

would be much higher, a doubt, if I wasn't treated here,

I would be dead now. The after effects of the meningitis,

so the relapse that I had I was just destroyed,

my body was destroyed. I was in a wheelchair initially

when I got out of hospital and then I was on crutches and sticks

and it's been a long, long, slow process and I'm

still in a stage of healing really. You saw people dying in large

numbers of this disease as part 11,000 people died in total,

and now you're going back. I'm going back next

month with a small UK They're doing some great things

in Sierra Leone and every year they have a Sierra Leone marathon

and I'm going back there with them. I definitely wouldn't be

up for the marathon, but I plan to do 10K while I'm

there, help with some fundraising and Street Child's identified 1200

children who are particularly vulnerable and they were orphaned

as a result of Ebola. So it'll be great to go out

there and see Sierra Leone itself in a different state and also know

that I might be able to help as well I think psychologically it's

important as well that I go back. That's where things kind of started

for me and I've had a terrible So it'll be good to go back,

just for things to come full circle for me and a little bit of closure,

and end up with something good, Can you recall some

of the situations you were in when you were there

in 2014, trying to help families,

to treat patients? There's only one occasion

in particular where it was a boy that witnessed the death

of his mother. So in that situation,

how old was this boy? And his mother is dying from Ebola

and you're trying to presumably keep her comfortable

in her last hours. Yeah, because she was

end of life, yeah. He was just distraught,

as you would be. And he'd lost other members

of his family as well, so... I don't know what

happened to him after. Is he someone that you might be

able to try and seek It's Ebola free and has been

for some time now, Sierra Leone. There might who some who say,

what are you doing? Most people have been supportive

if they know I'm going back. I've had a few people,

like family and friends, who have said just be careful

when you get back there. I'm not going there with any

trepidation or anything like that. What do you think the public's

reaction will be to you going back? I think after everything that's

happened, the general public have So I think they would,

well, think the same, I'm going there for

a good cause as well. Physically, how will you find

running 10K do you think? I'm not a big fan of running at all,

so it's going to be hard. But like I said, this time last year

I couldn't even run and now I can, so it will be tough,

but I'm up for the challenge. I did, yeah, especially

after having a relapse, and it's not so long ago that

I was carrying a thermometer with me I guess from this year onwards,

I'm not thinking that way at all. I'm pretty positive

it's not going to happen. Not only did you come

close to dying twice, but you were then accused of putting

the public at risk by hiding your high temperature

at the Public Health England unit before being allowed to fly

to Glasgow from Heathrow, and accused of taking paracetamol

deliberately to reduce You were cleared after a two-day

hearing when the Nursing and Midwifery Council panel

ruled that you were in a diminished medical

state and merely swept along by events and found

there was absolutely no attempt to mislead anybody.

Certainly not the PHE doctors. How do you reflect on the fact that

you were investigated? I don't hold anything

against the Nursing They were just purely

doing their job. It kind of came

at a really bad time. It was very difficult for me

with my physical health, so it was a massive stress on me

when I was already going I have been, but I did

leave the screening area, You know, I was very annoyed

with myself at the time that I did leave it,

but that was rectified pretty fast. And I guess, if anything,

I just feel disappointed with Public Health England and how

they looked after me when I was in Heathrow,

and I can't really say a great deal about it because I think

things are still ongoing. You say you're disappointed,

why do you think they took Why do you think

they investigated you? Because I left the screening area

when I had a fever and didn't You said you felt guilty

about having left that screening area and you started

to question yourself. No, I don't, because I was really

unwell at the time under rather I'd been travelling for 24 hours,

and finished on night But no, I don't feel

guilty about that now. As I said, you were cleared

after that two-day hearing. There has been no public apology

from Public Health England. Is that the end of the

matter for you or not? I think going to Sierra Leone

will help with closure on that Is this trip to Sierra Leone

the start of you travelling again because you have done a lot of that,

a lot of volunteering in the past? Do you think this is

the start of a new phase? Travelling was a big part of my life

before and I've not really done a great deal since I've been unwell

just because I've not been able to. I'm not sure if I would go

and volunteer and do aid work again. I think after having Ebola the first

time I would have because I made a pretty fast recovery,

but after the relapse, no. How would you describe the last

couple of years in your life? Difficult, but a challenge and I'm

still smiling and I plan on just Morris has tweeted, I can't work out

if Pauline Cafferkey is brave or callous. Another communication asks

whether it's brave or irresponsible to put herself in that situation

again. The latest on the reports

from Germany that police are investigating a possible

Islamist link with an attack on the We'll be live at their training

ground where they're And we're live in Moscow

where the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is meeting

now with his Russian counterpart counterpart to urge the Kremlin

to abandon its support Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. Police in Germany are investigating

a possible Islamic link after three explosions damaged a bus carrying

the football team, Borussia Dortmund One player was injured and Dortmund

Police believe the vehicle The match against Monaco has been

postponed until this evening. Shortly we'll be speaking

to a Borussia Dortmund fan and a sports journalist

for the German newspaper, Bild. The US Secretary of State,

Rex Tillerson, is meeting his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov

in Moscow, less than a week after the United States bombed

an air base in Syria. He wants to persuade the Kremlin

to drop its support for the current Syrian regime and its

president, Bashar al-Assad. However, the Russian President,

Vladimir Putin maintains that Assad's forces were not responsible

for the chemical attack which Britain's biggest supermarket chain,

Tesco, has reported a 30% rise It made more than ?1.2 billion

in the last financial year. Like-for-like sales,

which strip out the impact of new store openings,

grew 1% in the year to February. Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey who

contracted ebola fwh Sierra Leone in 2014 has told this programme that

she is going back to the country. The 41-year-old says she has no fear

about returning to Sierra Leone three years after she became ill.

Pauline Cafferkey said she hopes the trip, which is to raise funds for

orphaned children, will give her closure after what she describes as

a pretty tough couple of years. The head of United Airlines has

apologised for what he called the "truly horrific" incident

in which a passenger was forcibly dragged,

screaming, from a flight. Footage of David Dao being removed

from the overbooked plane was posted on social media and sparked

a backlash against the company. The chief executive, Oscar Munoz,

said, "I deeply apologise to the customer forcibly removed

and to all the customers aboard. No one should ever be

mistreated this way." Originally he had maintained staff

had followed established procedures. That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 10am. Board are yousia Dortmund will play

their match this evening following the attack on their team bus last

night. Leicester will be in action against Atletico Madrid. Leicester

captain Wes Morgan travelled to Madrid, but isn't fit enough to

start. Juventus' player reeked havoc

against Barca last night. The City of Liverpool want to host the 2026

Commonwealth Games as well as the 2022 event after the South African

city of Durban pulled out. The sports executive will chair the bid.

That's all the sport for now. German police are investigating

who was responsible for what's being called a targeted attack

on the football team Three explosive devices,

hidden in bushes, were detonated shortly after the team's bus left

the luxury hotel where They were on their way

to their Champions League It's still not clear

whether the devices were detonated One of the players, Marc Bartra,

was injured when the bus' We can go live to Dortmund

now where we're joined by Helge Doering, a Dortmund fan

who was at the stadium We've also got Sebastian Kolsberger,

a sports journalist He's outside the training ground

in Dortmund where the football team are due to arrive for training

in the next half an hour. And you expect them to turn up as

normal? We expect at 11am, between 9am and 10am and now they're having

breakfast with the team together and the trainer, the coach, and the rest

of the team, I think at 11am they will have training for the game

tonight. What frame of mind are they going to be in after what happened

last night and ahead of tonight's game? Yeah, it will be very

difficult for the players especially.

INAUDIBLE Yes, it will be a very difficult

game for them. Hopefully everything will be OK.

Hopefully, thank you very much. I'm going to leave it there because it

feels really windy and we're struggling to hear you, but we got

the gist of what you were saying. It will be difficult for the team in

terms of replaying this game tonight particularly when one of their own

is in hospital being treated. Helge you were close to the stadium when

it happened? I was on my way to the stadium. What was the atmosphere

like when the news started filtering through? I always take like a 20

minute walk to the stadium and I had two of my friends with me and we

were chatting along about the probable result of the game and what

tactics and so on and when we just were close to the entrance gates

like ten meters away we overheard somebody from the Dortmund team, he

was talking to someone and he said there had been a blast on the bus

and then I grabbed my phone and I already had like 20 messages from

friends and my brother warning me not to go to the stadium and then I

said well, we'll just leave the scene here and go to somewhere where

it's not crowded because yeah, in the wake of the of the Paris attacks

I thought maybe if there is another strike it will be here. So just

leave the scene and when we left, we already saw a calm at moss ferks but

like many people like one-third of the fans was also leaving the scene

and normally it's just a one way direction. They all go towards the

stadium and not coming from it and like half of the people were looking

in their mobile cellar phones or they were talking on it. It was a

hard situation and a strange feeling and we tried to yeah to avoid big

crowds and move to the city centre. Will you go to the game this

evening? I'm not quite sure. I have a friend coming over from Finland.

He wants to see the game, but I'm not sure if they should play today.

I think out of respect for Marc Bartra and for the wounded

policeman, I think there should be no game at all. I think they should

stop it and not play at all and it's out of respect for the players. They

have trauma. I don't know if, it will not be a game in normal

circumstances and I think even if we drop out of the competition right

now, I will still be proud of this team and yeah, I don't know. Out of

respect for the players and for the game I think Uefa should not start

the game today. So you would be happy to for the game, this match

between Dortmund and Monaco, not to go ahead and Dortmund forfeit their

place and let Monaco progress? If it is the way to protect the players,

yesterday they were witnesses, they were targets of massive blast. I

don't know how it could have killed them all. I think one day later you

expect them to play football like nothing happened, I think that's a

really, really strange view of the game. The games have to go on and

don't give in to those terror groups, but yeah, I would be

completely happy if they say we cannot play today. We just don't

feel right and this would be completely OK with me as a fan. I

would be proud if they did. Really interesting. Thank you very

much, Helge for their thoughts. Helge Doering who was close to the

stadium. Let's talk now to a security expert.

Lee Doddridge, director of Covenant, a security and risk company.

He was also involved in co-ordinating security

at London 2012 Olympics and was at the National Counter

German media are reporting that the letter found close to the scene

apparently said in the name of Allah, so the police are looking at

an Islamist link. That's been confirmed. That wouldn't be a huge

surprise, would it? From a security prospective and looking back on

previous attacks it would be a surprise if Isis were actually part

of this attack purely there is a number of reasons. The method in

which it was deployed, the remote, the remote IED being used and

actually leaving a letter. It is very speculative on that claim and

possibly could be a ploy by other groups to shift the blame on to Isis

and the migrant community. It might not be, you know, an Isis

organised explosion, but it could be an individual inspired by Isis? It

could well be. But also there is a significant change here is where we

have had lone wolf attacks using vehicles or other devices to make a

remote IED with a trigger whether it is a phone or some other mechanism,

there is a high level of training and sophistication which doesn't fit

with the current threats that we have seen in Europe. OK. You were

partly responsible for co-ordinating security at London 2012. Security

around any high-profile sporting event is a huge job, isn't it? It

is, but in the UK and throughout Europe, we are well rehearsed and

have held some fantastic tournaments. If we look at the

security operation at the Euros last year and the final moving into

Cardiff this June, Cardiff is no stranger to large sporting events

and the security. Obviously they will look at the current inquiry and

make appropriate measures if they need to.

In terms of the security surrounding the rescheduled game today, that

will be upped? Without a dausmt it is still early in the investigation.

So you would expect a higher security presence which the fans I

think would also welcome. And you know the event will probably go

ahead as planned for this evening, but with just additional resources

on the ground. Thank you very much. This morning, fresh figures

were published on how many people are employed in the UK and how

much they earn. Joining me now is our

Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed who can Good morning. Good morning,

Victoria. Quite a mixed picturement on employment strong figures.

Unemployment is at a 12 year low. People are able to find jobs and

that is good news for the economy. But what's interesting is the

earnings figure. More interesting, we know we have been having

increased inflation since the fall in the value of sterling after the

referendum. That's meant that import prices of food and fuel are getting

more expensive. Yesterday the Office for National Statistics announced

that inflation was 2.3%. Today, average incomes are rising by 2.2%.

So they have fallen below that monthly inflation figure. That means

that the income squeeze is back. What's incredible Victoria, since

the financial crisis incomes have hardly risen since 2008. If you take

average weekly earnings from 2008 and look at them today, people are

still ?26 a week on average worse off than they were in 2008. This

income squeeze has returned for a period we had low inflation,

although wages weren't going up fast, we had very low inflation. Now

the inflation is coming back. The income squeeze is starting. People

are realising that food prices are going up, and clothing prices are

going up. This is one of the problems for the UK economy for this

year. Our economy is very much based on consumer confidence and consumers

spending and continuing to spend if they find their spending power is

reduced, they stop spending and that could mean economic growth could

slow. We will see what happens. Thank you very much. Thank you.

President Trump's foreign policy chief Rex Tillerson is in Moscow

holding crucial talks about the situation in Syria

with his Russian opposite number, Sergei Lavrov.

The US Secretary of State is trying to persuade Russia to stop

supporting President Assad's regime following last week's suspected

chemical attack on a rebel-held town in which 89 people died.

But Mr Tillerson's prospects of success do not look huge.

Ahead of the meeting the Kremlin repeated that the deaths

were a consequence of Syrian government forces bombing a storage

facility where chemical weapons held by the rebels were being stored.

The meeting has got underway with an uncompromising statement from the

Russian Foreign Minister. Let's hear what he said.

TRANSLATION: We have raised multiple times that we are prepared for a

constructive equal footing. This is our consistent policy and it

is completely in line with the international law and it is not

influenced by the current politically mat with the complicated

choices and wrong choices either with us or against us.

We believe in collective actions and we do not think it's effective to

have the hind closed doors alliances. -- to have the Hind

closed doors alliances. We have given our position, we have got our

message across to Washington and to you as well multiple times.

It is important for us to understand your intentions and the intentions

of the US and the real intentions of this Administration. We hope we can

clear those things up today. Welcome. And this was Rex

Tillerson's response. Our meetings today come at an important moment in

the relationship so that we can further clarify areas of common

objectives and common interests, even when our tactical approaches

might be different. And to further clarify areas of sharp difference so

we can better understand why these differences exist. And what the

prospects for narrowing those differences might be. I look forward

to a very open, candid and frank exchange so we can better to find

the US- Russian relationship from this point. -- better define.

Live to Moscow and our correspondent Sarah Rainsford.

Can you draw out the significance of those comments? It's clear this will

be a tough conversation that these two men are sitting down to. I think

what's important from what Sergei Lavrov said is that Russia doesn't

take kindly to being told to choose, are you with us or against us? His

main point was to say that Russia has made its position clear for a

long time and acts in its own national interest. When it comes to

Syria that has always been about supporting President Assad so far.

Russia is heavily politically and militarily supporting Assad in

Syria. It seems from what Sergei Lavrov says, that it will not change

under pressure from Washington. But he says he's open to dialogue and

what he's underlining is that this is a meeting where Russia wants to

know really what the US foreign policy, and what its policy towards

Russia and towards Syria is. There was a slight snort from Sergei

Lavrov when he said, we want to know your real intentions. He said people

are not even in post in the State Department and we don't know where

you are coming from. That was the implication of what he was saying.

Rex Tillerson has come here with a strong position saying that basher

al-Assad is not part of the solution for Syria and he will have to go. I

think it will be a difficult dialogue today. When we look back a

few months to when Donald Trump and his team took over the White House,

there was a hopeful mood in Moscow, but now I think we are back to a

very difficult relationship. The Foreign Ministry here has described

it as one of the most complex times for relations since the end of the

Cold War. But there hadn't been a chemical attack then on killing 89

Syrian people. Really tough conversations. I wonder what can be

achieved. Clearly Rex Tillerson came here with very strong language

accusing Moscow of either being complicit or incompetent as regard

the attack. He made the point Russia had committed to making sure Syria

had handed over its chemical weapons and it didn't use or maintain any

for the future. Rex Tillerson says Russia either knew about what was

happening or was complacent in allowing it to happen. Russia has

said very strongly, and we heard again from President Putin in an

interview he gave overnight, that the Syrian government denies its

responsibility for the attack. Sergei Lavrov called it illegal.

That the United States launched missiles into Syria to the base

where the attack was allegedly carried out from. It's hard to see

where the two sides come together. It's early days relationship.

Whether those sides can look for positive cooperation and move

forward, it's difficult to see. Is President Putin only forced to care

about what the US says because of those missile strikes? I think the

President Putin domestically feels pretty stronger at the moment. I

don't think that missile strike has changed much there. It's acted in a

way, on the contrary, it has allowed President Putin once again to return

to the position of showing Russia has an external enemy, a country

whose interests don't coincide with Russia's and to present Russia as

the victim in this. Russia will argue it has been unfairly accused

of actions in Syria. Russia will use this, to a domestic audience at

least, to prop up its current position. I think Putin is not too

worried by what's happened. I think there is a sense of confusion about

what US foreign policy is and where the US stands because there have

been conflicting messages. This is the first chance to clarify

positions face to face around the table at the Foreign Ministry and

see where things go from here. Thank you, Sarah Raynsford.

From Moscow, Alexander Bovdunov, a journalist with the website

Jan Halper Hayes is a member of President Trump's transition team.

And Xenia Wickett is head of US and the Americas Programme

at policy institute, Chatham House.

How bad would you say relations are between Russia and the US? I can

only say that our feelings about this visit can be described in one

word, frustration. Today we have no hopes and no big expectations

because those missile strikes, they really damaged the situation. Before

then there had been certain hopes that Rex Tillerson might improve the

US - Russia relations and might restore mutual cooperation is in the

sphere of fighting terrorism. Today we see that he can't do that. The US

administration tries to negotiate from a position of strength. I think

it's not the best way to talk with Russia. Bringing in a member of

President Trump's transition team. Do you know what the US foreign

policy is at the moment? Are we talking about the whole US foreign

policy or the situation with Syria? In general he cares about defeating

Isis. His other concern was to work with our eyes to focus on cyber

security and working to share intelligence. I don't think his

position has changed that much. -- work with our allies. What happens

with Trump is that he says one thing and then you put him in a box and

you don't allow the other aspects. That's one of the reasons he was

voted in. The foreign policy was always there. It was always

non-interventionist. I think we need to look at the parallel between

Trump and Ronald Reagan in 1981 with the Gulf of Citra. They both took

over after their world very weak Democratic presidents who had a

really reduced the military. What they needed to do was say that there

is a strong player in town and we are not going to take this. This was

a marked, strategic strike. A one-off? Very much so. As Nikki

Haley said at the UN, if you do it again, we will react. This is

blowing it out of proportion and think it leads to boots on the

ground and that's unrealistic. What should America's top diplomat's what

should his approach be? I think we should be optimistic. And we should

take the same approach as when President Trump met the Chinese

president last week. It's too early right now in the days of Donald

Trump for the State Department to have figured out what their policy

is. It doesn't have the personnel. It didn't spend months or years

figuring out what their position would be if they took office,

perhaps because they were not expecting it. And they were not

expecting a chemical attack on the Syrian people as well. Exactly. We

need to rein in expectations. This is about getting to know one

another. We shouldn't expect they will suddenly be steps forward in

the US and Russia relationship. I agree with Jan, I think this is a

one off rather than a strategy. Perhaps where I disagree is that

this was not a strategic attack against Syrians, this was a

responsive attack against Syrians. But I think the foreign policy

Donald Trump laid out during the campaign, which is one of America

first, which is one of directly focusing on US national interests,

is the one we will see over the longer-term. With the occasional act

like this. What is the US national interest when it comes to Syria? A

great question. Donald Trump and his team have laid it out, is to

counterterrorism, it's IS, that's where it is. This was a reactive

event. More outrage, perhaps. In many cases many would argue that it

was actually a very positive act. To assume from this one act that

America's foreign policy is suddenly changing from what Donald Trump laid

out in his campaign is vastly misguided. You also have to take

into consideration that the Egyptian president and King Abdullah had been

at the White House in the days preceding this. And the focus was on

the Syrian chemical attack. At the Rose Garden, with King Abdullah in

the press conference, Donald Trump said that we were getting more money

to Jordan because they were the only country really taking care of the

refugees. Both leaders reiterated that those refugees wanted to return

to their country. An Associated Press representative asked Donald

Trump if he had taken responsible Defour the red Line Obama had put

down. He said, yes, it's my responsibility. He was very moved

and upset by this because it was a chemical attack. Not for anything

other than that. That was the strategic strike. I think we have to

be a little careful. And President Trump needs to be careful. Because

having an emotional response to something is not how you conduct

foreign policy. I think we need to be careful. I agree with you in that

we should not take this response, this attack on Syria is a

manifestation of where American foreign policy is going. If I am in

the footsteps, and I wouldn't want to be, of President Trump, I would

be careful of taking emotional responses, because that will tie you

win and cause challenges, as he has seen with the media response. Thank

you both very much and 22 Alexander in Moscow.

Coming up, we'll bring you the latest on those bombs

targeting the Borussia Dortmund team bus and speak to a fan

who was just metres away when the attack happened.

German media reports this morning that police are investigating an

Islamist link. Let's get the latest weather

update with Philip Avery. A very good morning to you. At no

little expense, I will start off with three weather watcher pictures

that give an indication of the varied conditions. In the far south,

it's as glorious as that, and moving further north you go into a cloudier

zone. At its worst, the weather really is that bad. It all comes

thanks to a weather front that's sat over the north of the British Isles

yesterday that has now spread its cloud and rain further southwards to

the extent we have seen a wet morning across parts of Northern

Ireland, southern Scotland, and rain across the Pennines getting as far

down as the Wash. There is no great speed about the retreat of the

weather front for south. The good news is, if you happen to get

tangled up with it, as it comes further south it will show less and

less rain. The odd spot of rain might get down to Pembrokeshire and

the South Midlands, and maybe a spot in East Anglia. The Southern

counties getting away with in essentially dry day. 11-16 covers

the temperatures for most of us. Going into Thursday, the big

picture, we have quite a few isobars on the chart, especially in the

north-eastern quarter of Scotland. A chilly start and a bright one for

the greater part of the East and two thirds of the British Isles. Cloud

from the word go in the north-west and filling in all the while.

Increasing chances of showers if not longer spells of rain in the

north-west quarter of Scotland. I'm afraid you will lose sunshine

perhaps on the eastern side of the British Isles. Not completely but it

will cloud up. Into Good Friday, and there is a chance of quite a bit of

cloud around. Temperatures not bad for the time of year. Nowhere near

the weekend, but that's was always the plan. Some rain out West that

will break forward to the east. That sets us up for the holiday weekend.

The main message is, it's not a write off anywhere across the

British Isles. I will show you Saturday, Sunday and on into Monday

quickly. Weather fronts coming through, one in the northern half of

the British Isles on Sunday, high pressure in the south, still settle.

A great deal of uncertainty into Monday at the moment. The whole

system is quite mobile and if it rains on you for a wee while, don't

despair, it will not do it right through the course of the holiday

weekend. Our top story Police

are investigating a possible Islamist link to the three

explosions which hit the Borussia Dortmund

team bus last night - that's according to

German media reports. Juanfran believes the rescheduled

game shouldn't go ahead today. I think they shouldn't play today, out

of respect for Marc Bartra and the wounded policeman, I don't think

there should be a game at all. -- one fan believes.

We have the latest on the investigation.

We'll get the latest on the investigation and speak

to one fan who was moments from the scene of the blast.

Also, the Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey tells us,

in an exclusive interview, she has no trepidation

about returning to Sierra Leone - the country where she contracted

the virus Ebola, which twice nearly killed her.

It's really multiple organ failure - the vomiting and diarrhoea

is so profuse that the organs can't keep up with it, and the organs

start failing, so it affects many parts of the body.

And you can read more about Pauline Cafferkey

One woman tells this programme how her council knew

she was being abused by her school teacher, but did nothing.

Now the Victims' Commissioner says teachers and social workers should

be prosecuted if they fail to alert the authorities to allegations

On several occasions he tied me to a radiator with a dog collar

and told me not to move and made me sit there naked.

Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

Police in Germany say they're investigating a possible Islamist

link to last night's attack on the Borussia Dortmund

There are reports in the German media that an antifascist group

claimed it carried out the attack. Three explosions hit the bus,

which was taking the club's players to their Champions League

quarter-final against Monaco. Police say they believe the club

was deliberately targeted. Forensic teams have spent the night

examining the blast site. Three devices in what police

described as a targeted attack exploded as the players' bus

left their hotel shortly after 7pm. It's believed the explosives

were hidden in a hedge and were But two panes at the back

shattered, injuring Spanish international Marc Bartra,

who has undergone surgery. At a press conference

held soon afterwards, a spokesman for the team gave

an update on his condition. TRANSLATION: Marc Bartra

is being operated on right now for a broken bone in his right hand

and he has got various glass shards The team, through captain

Marcel Schmelzer, just rang me. They're still very shocked

and thinking about Marc. The police are still trying

to establish who was behind An official from the state

prosecutor revealed that a letter TRANSLATION: I can say a letter

was found near the blast scene. At the moment, due to the ongoing

investigation, I can't give more The authenticity is

being investigated. The devices exploded

about ten kilometres The match has been postponed

until later today. The world of football has come

together in wishing Bartra a full recovery and condemning the attack,

which has unsettled The US Secretary of State,

Rex Tillerson, is meeting his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov

in Moscow this morning. He's expected to call

for the Kremlin to withdraw its support for the Syrian regime

after last week's Ahead of the talks Mr Tillerson said

he was looking forward Mr Lavrov said US airstrikes

in Syria were a "violation of law". We have given our position. We have

got our message across to Washington and to you as well multiple times.

And it is important for us to understand your intentions and the

intentions of the US and the real intentions of this administration,

but we hope that we can clear up today these things.

President Trump's spokesman, Sean Spicer, has apologised

for saying that Adolf Hitler didn't use chemical weapons.

Mr Spicer made the remark in a White House press briefing,

as he answered questions about the war in Syria.

The Anne Frank Centre, which campaigns for human rights,

described Mr Spicer's comment as an "evil slur" and said he now

Britain's biggest supermarket chain, Tesco, has reported a 30% rise

It made more than ?1.2 billion in the last financial year.

Like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact

of new store openings, grew 1% in the year to February.

The company's chief executive, Dave Lewis, said he was

The head of United Airlines has apologised for what he called

the "truly horrific" incident in which a passenger

was forcibly dragged, screaming, from a flight.

Footage of David Dao being removed from the overbooked plane was posted

on social media and sparked a backlash against the company.

The chief executive, Oscar Munoz, said, "I deeply apologise

to the customer forcibly removed and to all the customers aboard.

No one should ever be mistreated this way."

Originally he had maintained staff had followed established procedures.

A voter registration site that crashed in the run-up to last year's

EU referendum could have been targeted by a foreign cyber attack,

The "register to vote" site crashed on 7th June last year just before

the deadline for people to sign up to vote.

The Government and electoral administrators blamed a surge

But MPs on the Parliamentary Public Administration Committee say

a foreign cyber attack could not be ruled out.

The Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted ebola

in Sierra leone in 2014, has exclusively told this

programme that she's going back to the country.

The 41-year-old says she has no fear about returning to Sierra Leone,

Ms Cafferkey told Victoria she hopes the trip, which is to raise funds

for orphaned children, will give her closure

after what she describes as a "pretty tough couple of years".

I think psychologically it is important as well that I go

back and that's where things kind of started for me and I've had

a terrible couple of years since then so it would be good to go

back just for things to come full circle for me.

A little bit of closure and end up with something good. Something

positive as well. A shrimp which makes some

of the loudest sounds in the ocean has been named after the rock band,

Pink Floyd. It might not sound like it,

but the pistol shrimp, synalpheus pinkfloydi,

can use its claw to create a sound louder than a gunshot

and that is powerful enough That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 10.30am. Thank you very much.

Gillian has e-mailed from Wimbledon. I'm furious listening to your cat

with Pauline Cafferkey this morning. My daughter was on the same flight

flying in December 2014 to Heathrow. We had to monitor our temperature

for 21 days following this flight. She had no punitive punishment over

her behaviour and I resent your soft touch interview without getting to

the core of the issue which is complete lack of concern about the

people who travelled at the same time as her." Helen says, "This Lady

Is nothing short offer responsible to go back to Sierra Leone." Audrey

says, "She is brave. Fantastic that she has recovered from Ebola twice?"

Is this brave? It is a question quite a few of you are raising.

Coming up, the Russian journalist who broke the story that gay men

are being held in camps in the Chechen Republic,

where they are subjected to torture and beatings,

tells us that she has had to go into hiding because of her report.

The Borussia Dortmund players are back in training this morning.

The Champions League quarter-final between Borussia Dortmund and Monaco

It was postponed yesterday evening after the Dortmund

team bus was attacked 90 minutes before kick-off.

Thousands of fans were already in the stadium when news began

to filter in about the attack, and the opposing Monaco fans

chanted their support for the Dortmund players.

The football world has joined together in wishing defender

Marc Bartra a speedy recovery after he was admitted to hospital

for surgery on his wrist after being caught up

This morning, the Dortmund president praised the fans.

I was very lucky when I heard how the fans reacted and called,

"Dortmund. Dortmund." It is solidarity that we have like this

only in sport and that's the only positive thing we learned yesterday.

In sport, it is possible to make solidarity and to make respect, to

help each other. I'm sure that the people are discussing the whole day

what happened yesterday. But when they come to the stadium, we will

have a fantastic atmosphere. That's what I feel.

In the other quarter-final, Juventus put Barcelona

through another embarrassing Champions League defeat.

That's three in their last four games on the road now.

Paulo Dibala scored twice in Juve's 3-nil win.

Uefa has said security measures will be tight around

all the European ties this week, including Leicester's

quarter-final first leg against Atletico Madrid tonight.

The Leicester players will have to focus on matters

ON the pitch though as they embark on one of the biggest

Last year's Premier League winners are the only English club

Captain Wes Morgan has travelled with the team but won't start,

BBC Radio Leicester's Ian Stringer is in Madrid this morning,

and says the players will relish the occasion.

I think it's the biggest game in the club's history. I have been watching

Leicester City, my dad took me when I was four or five years. I'm

privileged to work for BBC Radio Leicester now. I think it is the

biggest game in the club's history. So I think this is an enormous game

and if they can keep the game alive, keep it alive for next week, they

won't want to come to the King Power stadium.

Liverpool has put its bidding team together to host either the 2022

Former FA chief executive, Brian Barwick, will chair the city's

bid which was initially just for the 2026 Games.

But Durban's withdrawal from hosting the 2022 event,

Birmingham and Manchester have also expressed interest,

with Manchester potentially being part of a joint

That's all the sport for now. Victoria.

A series of explosions, three in total.

Police are studying a letter found near the scene which apparently says

in it in the name of Allah. They are looking at investigating a claim of

responsibility from an antifascist groupment one player treated in

hospital when the bus' reinforced windows shattered and a police

motorcyclist was hurt. The team were off to their Champions League game

at the stadium against Monaco. The game is rescheduled for this

afternoon. He was close to the scene of

the blasts when the attack happened. Chris Phillips is Former Head

of the National Counter Are you going to go to the game

today? No, I'm not going there. I think it's too dangerous and on

the other side it is a mark of respect not to go there. I think you

shouldn't go there, no. It is not safe. But your team will be there.

Your team will be running out to play that rescheduled game? I think

Borussia Dortmund will play tonight, but I think I'm going to stay at

home. Right. Even though security is being increased? Yeah, even though

security has been increased because I think it is just 24 hours ago or

even less now so I don't go there, no. Right. That's really

interesting. Stay with us if you can. Chris Phillips, so, you know,

people are afraid. Quite rightly. Which is when others say well, that

means the terrorists win? It is it is pointing because actually we as a

public have a duty really to carry on business as usual or else we do

let the terrorists win. That's really interesting. You think we

have a duty to carry on as normal? Absolutely. Because these are

individualsment there is no doubt this is a pretty amateur style of

terrorism. Anyone could do something similar to this if they really

ranted to. The same as we saw in Sweden and the same as we saw in

London. Pretty much anyone can do that if they had the desire to do

it. What we've got to do is say OK this is happening. We in London and

the UK have faced terrorism for 100 years and the best reaction is

actually business as usual. Do you judge people who are aid

frayed and who want to stay at home and stay safe? No, I don't judge

them at all. I think people have got to make their own decision, but we

have to as a population say look, one person who has dropped these

very small devices next to a team bus cannot be allowed to impact the

rest of our lives. What do you say to our former

counter-terrorism expert? I'm with you. I agree. Terrorism does not

have to have such an impact on the people, that's right. We should not

be afraid, but I think, you know, it's just 20 hours ago. It's a bit

too fast to keep on like nothing happened, but you're right, we

should not be afraid at all and I think in one week, everybody is not

shocked at all so much. It is not so shocked anymore and then everything

is OK. I don't think the period of just 20 hours, that's too less time.

Tell me what the atmosphere is like there. We can see officers behind

you. It's not business as usual, is it? No, of course. Many cars are

usually drying along with this street. There is usually a lot of

traffic. -- driving along this street. The police have closed the

whole street. Over there is the hotel where the team bus starts to

go to the stadium, usually. Yesterday there were three bombs on

the side of the road that made the bus explode. I think people in

Dortmund are relaxed because we know the police are doing a good job, and

the fans are relaxed. Everybody knows what to do. Is it true that a

similar kind of explosion took place in the area last week? Yes, that's

right. I just live 800 metres away. That's what I was thinking, because

one week ago there was someone who made a gas explosion and destroyed

his whole house with that, a crazy guy. Or maybe it's not a crazy guy,

maybe he's making some gas experiments. But then I went to the

road, saw all the police cars and the Borussia Dortmund bus sat there

and I thought it must be something different. As former head of

National counterterrorism security office, where would you be

investigating now? They have to find the person responsible. The letter

will give them lots of clues. Ironically, this game we are looking

at and the area will probably be the safest that Dortmund have ever held

because of the security presence. I think the important thing is to

catch the individual. There are different kinds of terrorism now.

Individuals who are basically amateurs, and this appears to be one

of those who are intent on causing damage. We also have to really worry

about the more professional people who are coming back from Syria and

Iraq. Why do you say the person behind this is amateur? It's not

very good, the thing is easy to do. It wasn't a big explosion, very

small and we do not know what explosives they used yet. If it was

a bigger explosive we would have been talking about a lot of people

dying. The thing we have to face, unfortunately, is that explosives,

we haven't really seen explosive is being used recently in terrorist

attacks. Those things are really scary. What we have to double our

efforts at is preventing terrorists from being able to get hold of

explosive material, whether its explosives or the component parts.

Businesses that deal with the component parts, and they know who

they are, have to redouble their efforts to make sure they sell to

the right people only. Could those devices have been operated from a

distance, remotely, or would somebody have to be in sight of the

bus to explode them at the moment? Almost certainly, unless there was a

specific time, it would have been dealt with by somebody close by. But

there are options. You can use mobile phones to detonate. We have

seen it many times in the past. There are a lot of options for

terrorists who are quite good. Unfortunately nobody -- fortunately,

nobody has been seriously injured. That was because of the reinforced

glass on the coach. And nine out of ten people killed in explosions are

killed because of flying glass. All businesses have to make sure they

have protective glazing. Thank you for coming on the programme. That

Dortmund fan, not going to the game later.

Documents uncovered by this programme show

Cambridgeshire County Council failed to protect a 15-year-old

girl from being sexually abused by her teacher.

Social services had previously written to warn the council

about the teacher - who cannot be named -

but he was allowed to continue teaching.

Noel Phillips has this exclusive report, and just to warn

you there are graphic descriptions of the abuse suffered

It's every parent's worst nightmare - a shocking betrayal of trust.

He was in a position of responsibility, authority

Jeremy Forrest was more than a maths teacher,

he was a sexual predator who abused a 15-year-old student

Tell us how it was you managed to keep those children silent?

He filmed himself sexually abusing young girls on school premises.

Serious case reviews found that teaching staff ignored

Currently there is no law to say a school must report sexual abuse.

But the Victims Commissioner wants the government to make it a criminal

offence for teachers and social workers not to report

We send children to schools, we send children to social workers

and everybody and you think the essence of their core training

If we don't ensure we protect them when something goes horrendously

wrong, then we need to encourage more strategy and more

The abuse happened, say, four or five times a week.

It would be in the classroom store cupboard.

Abigail, which is not her real name, was just 15 when she says

she was groomed and raped by her teacher.

A man who she claims used his profession as a cover

On several occasions he tied me to a radiator with a dog collar

You believe a few teachers at the time in your school suspected

Yeah, but he was as careful as he could have been.

I was getting extra tuition after school.

He would tell me afterwards to go and wait in the store cupboard.

There I would wait until he knew most of the teachers had gone home

And this would happen in the classroom?

For the first three years, it would happen in the classroom.

And after say, four, five months, he started

To do that, he would get me to jump into the back of the car,

sit behind the seats and be covered up by a blanket, so that

when we got to his house, nobody would see me go in the house.

He would drive into the garage and then I would have to get out.

For legal reasons, we cannot name the teacher, but documents we have

seen shows he was arrested in the early 80s after being accused

of sexually abusing two vulnerable girls at a secondary school

in Cambridgeshire, but was found not guilty.

Shortly afterwards, in the early 90s, a number of chances were missed

by Cambridgeshire County Council to monitor him before

he went on to abuse Abigail at a school in Whittlesey.

It's all very well that he was found not guilty in a criminal court,

but it was deemed that there was sufficient evidence for him

to be criminally charged with the most serious offences

against children and he's in a

position of responsibility as a teacher.

He has then moved to the school where Abigail is.

If that had been in place, this would never have happened.

A social worker involved in the case was so concerned that she wrote

a report to Cambridgeshire County Council.

Despite this, he was still given a full-time job.

I mean, it's either a conspiracy or a cock-up.

Colin Shaw was a labour county council at the time.

Colin Shaw was a labour county councillor at the time.

He says he believes there was a cover-up by the council that

allowed a teacher to carry out the abuse.

I cannot see how somebody would have missed it.

There certainly seems to have been a cover-up,

given the amount of evidence there was at the time.

I think there seems to be, actually, appalling failures by the Council,

Now there are questions that remain unanswered.

How much was known about exactly what was going on behind these gates

at the community college two decades ago?

Cambridgeshire County Council were made aware of the teacher's history,

but yet he was still offered a job here.

When Abigail reported the abuse to police in 1998, the teacher told

detectives their relationship was sexual after she was 18

and that it ended because he was in love with another pupil

I would like the government to consider mandatory reporting.

We hear of so many things that happen to victims.

If they don't feel they have proper redress...

The Victims Commissioner, Baroness Newlove, says in order

to prevent similar cases, the government should introduce

mandatory reporting and make it a crime for anyone who suspects

If you have some inclination that something is not quite right,

you have been given some information that supports what you think,

It's not right to say, I had suspicions, when actually

those suspicions are happening to that individual.

Would mandatory reporting prevent serious failings that we have seen

I think by having mandatory reporting it gives confidence

to victims that if they do go to people, go to organisations

to say they have been abused, and the severity of the bees

to say they have been abused, and the severity of the abuse

is still not listen to, if we have mandatory reporting,

They go to an individual who they hope believes them.

And if they don't believe them, they walk away.

Baroness Newlove says it's time for Britain to adopt a system

to that of Australia and the US, where reporting sexual

No one here from Cambridgeshire County Council would speak to me

on camera, but in a statement they have apologised and agreed

an out-of-court settlement of more than half a million pounds.

They go on to say that the school itself and the whole vetting

and checking process is very different from the systems

Abigail still bears the scars of her ordeal.

The abuse she suffered has led to a life of self harming,

depression and mental health problems.

I wanted to have children, which I have not been able to do,

because I don't have a sexual relationship with my husband.

But I'm not able to have children and I feel that's been robbed of me.

A teacher has been banned from teaching for life.

Campaigners say mandatory reporting would improve child protection

and that's why the law needs to change.

The Home Office has told us a consultation is now taking place

on how to reform the child protection system when it comes to

But for Abigail, she just hopes her story will encourage other

Schools are getting so desperate for cash they have money to help plug

the gap in funding. Police in Germany are investigating

a possible Islamist link after three explosions damaged a bus carrying

the football team, Borussia Dortmund One player was injured and Dortmund

Police believe the vehicle The match against Monaco has been

postponed until this evening. The US Secretary of State,

Rex Tillerson, is meeting his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov

in Moscow this morning. He's expected to call

for the Kremlin to withdraw its support for the Syrian regime

after last week's chemical weapons attack Ahead of the talks

Mr Tillerson said he was looking forward to a "frank

and open exchange". Mr Lavrov said US air strikes

in Syria were a "violation of law". Britain's biggest supermarket chain,

Tesco, has reported a 30% rise It made more than ?1.2 billion

in the last financial year. Like-for-like sales,

which strip out the impact of new store openings,

grew 1 per cent in The company's chief

executive Dave Lewis said The head of United Airlines has

apologised for what he called the "truly horrific" incident

in which a passenger was forcibly dragged,

screaming, from a flight. Footage of David Dao being removed

from the overbooked plane was posted on social media and sparked

a backlash against the company. The chief executive, Oscar Munoz,

said, "I deeply apologise to the customer forcibly removed

and to all the customers aboard. No one should ever be

mistreated this way." Originally he had maintained staff

had followed established procedures. The Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey

- who contracted Ebola in Sierra leone in 2014 -

has exclusively told this programme that she's

going back to the country. The 41-year-old says she has no fear

about returning to Sierra Leone, Ms Cafferkey told Victoria she hopes

the trip, which is to raise funds for orphaned children,

will give her closure after what she describes

as a "pretty tough couple of years". That's a summary of the latest

news, join me for BBC Borussia Dortmund are back

in training this morning and will replay their Champions League

quarter final, this evening The match was postponed

following that attack Meanwhile Leicester will be

in action against Atletico Madrid, who have reached the final

of the competition twice Leicester captain Wes Morgan has

travelled to Madrid but isn't Great Britain's Fed Cup team

for next week's World Group II qualifier against Romania has been

named this morning. World number seven Johanna Konta

will lead the side. She's joined by Heather

Watson, Laura Robson, The city of Liverpool want to host

the 2026 Commonwealth Games, as well as the 2022 event,

after the South African city Sports executive Brian Barwick

will chair the bid. Reports from Germany say a letter

found near the scene of last night's attack on the Borussia Dortmund

football team suggests But police have stressed it

could be a false lead. Uefa says security at matches

is being stepped up. He's a freelance journalist

based in Dortmund. He was at the police press

conference last night That's one of the lines of inquiry,

clearly? Yes, that's been the latest news, various German newspapers have

reported on the possible Islamist content of this letter. The

newspaper reported that the letter starts with the words, "In the name

of Allah the merciful." And refers to the Berlin Christmas market

attacks as well as the German Army's involvement in the anti-Isis

coalition in Syria and is referring to Germany as a crusader nation that

is a target for Islamists. The police are investigating whether

this letter is actually authentic or not. Yes, one theory is it could be

a hoax to frame somebody else, to frame another group or organisation

or whatever? Exactly. There is actually a second letter claiming

responsibility that popped up online which is obviously a fake written

from the prospective of far leftists. The police are also

investigating this, but it reads as a clear utter fake. OK. Can I ask

you separately about far-right hooliganism? My understanding is

there has been a clamp down on such hooligans recently, is that right?

Well, there have been some clashes between Dortmund supporters and

supporters of a team from another area in Dortmund that did draw a lot

of media attention. There are hooligans in Dortmund. There are

right-wing hooligans in Dortmund, but everything in that direction at

this moment is nothing more than speculation I'd say. Sure. I've

spoken to two Dortmund fans, it is only two, thousands have got tickets

for the rescheduled game and neither is going to that match. They don't

feel safe? Yes, I think the police are giving their best to ensure

safety at the match this evening. Last night at the press conference

Dortmund's chief of police stressed that the police is deploying

additional forces to the match, to secure the match, to secure the

players and the fans and to do all they can, but of course, there can

never be 100% security at any football match and especially what

happened last night. A lot of people probably won't feel safe.

Thank you very much. Thank you for talking to us.

This news, President Trump's wife has accepted damages and an apology

from The Daily Mail newspaper and Mail online, publisher of Associated

Newspapers at the High Court in London. Melania Trump accepted

damages from The Daily Mail and Mail Online at the High Court in London

over allegations about her work as a professional model.

Damages and an apology from The Daily Mail and Mail Online,

Associated Newspapers because of allegations they made about her

works a professional model. Last week we reported that more

than 100 gay men had been rounded up by authorities in Chechnya

and subjected to torture. Now there are now allegations

that they are being kept in secret prisons described by some

as concentration camps. Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta,

and human rights campaigners claim gay people are being tortured

and beaten - sometimes Earlier I spoke to the journalist

who broke the story, who told me Two of them in the capital

of Chechnya, Grozny, one of them in Argun,

this is the first secret prison we got to know,

where LGBT people were detained, We announced an emergency

line for those people, we got this information about three

or four weeks ago, It's pretty hard in Chechnya,

especially with LGBT people, The region is very

hard on those people. You would expect that the Chechen

and Russian governments would deny that this is happening,

and that is what they have done. Although they do not deny the fact

that if they found this kind of people in Chechnya,

they should be killed. They deny the secret camps

and that they have detained more than 100 people and killed

some of them. You cannot tell us exactly where

you are now because you have had to leave Moscow and go into hiding.

Why? They reacted in a very terrifying

manner, because on 3rd April, in the biggest mosque in Grozny,

15,000 religious people got together and announced a jihad on us,

not just me only, but on the people, and they said they

should be prosecuted. Elena Milashina there,

the journalist who first Kheda Saratova is

a prominent member of Chechnya's Human Rights Council

which advises the government. After the initial reports emerged,

she told a Russian radio station they could not be true because gay

people did not exist in Chechnya. She told me - via her sister Asa -

that she had personally investigated the site of one of the alleged

camps, but found nothing. We went there, so we talked

to the people living around. We tried to find out more about that

place, but actually, we could not get any information,

it is not confirmed. You have previously said that gay

people did not exist in Chechnya. I was shocked, the first

time when I heard that. There are 300

gays in the republic, They are moving out of Chechnya,

so I was shocked to hear about this situation and to hear

about those numbers. What are yo as a human

rights adviser going to do about the reports of gay people

being tortured and killed? In this case, I need to receive

an application from the person that Do you think it is likely,

considering you have said in the past that homosexuality

was evil and does not Why would a gay person who has been

badly treated come to you for help? These people appeared

before I said anything. According to our traditions,

our society's opinion, Are you promising to help any gay

people that need help in Chechnya? I just promise that I will help any

person, any human being, that will approach me,

so I will not ask about his I will do the utmost,

I will help this person. One of Chechnya's most prominent

members of the Human Rights Council promising to represent

all those in need. As always we'll keep you updated

with what happens on that story. In an exclusive interview,

the Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey tells us she's going back

to the country where she contracted Ebola -

a disease which twice She says she has no trepidation

about returning to Sierra Leone, three years after she became ill

and suffered multiple organ failure. 41-year-old Ms Cafferkey hopes

the trip, which is to raise funds for orphaned children there,

will give her closure after I thought, well when I was first

told that I had it, I thought that my chances would be pretty good

and certainly more so than had I got it when I was in

Sierra Leone and been treated So I knew that having access

to the NHS and being treated by the NHS, my chances

would be much higher, a doubt, if I wasn't treated here,

I would be dead now. You saw people dying in large

numbers of this disease as part 11,000 people died in total,

and now you're going back. I'm going back next

month with a small UK They're doing some great things out

in Sierra Leone and every year they have a Sierra Leone marathon

and I'm going back there with them. So it'll be good to go back,

just for things to come full circle for me and a little bit of closure,

and end up with something good, I did, yeah, especially

after having a relapse, and it's not so long ago that

I was carrying a thermometer with me How do you reflect on the fact that

you were investigated? I don't hold anything

against the Nursing They were just purely

doing their job. It kind of came

at a really bad time. It was very difficult for me

with my physical health, so it was a massive stress on me

when I was already going And I guess, if anything,

I just feel disappointed with Public Health England and how

they looked after me when I was in Heathrow,

and I can't really say a great deal about it because I think

things are still ongoing. Is this trip to Sierra Leone

the start of you travelling again because you have done a lot of that,

a lot of volunteering in the past? Do you think this is

the start of a new phase? I'm not sure if I would go

and volunteer and do aid work again. Difficult, but a challenge and I'm

still smiling and I plan on just And you can watch that interview

again on our programme page - It was a key policy

of the last government - special funding targeted to help

poorer school pupils by paying for things like extra tuition,

breakfast and after school clubs, But head teachers say that money -

the pupil premium as it's known - is actually being used to plug gaps

elsewhere in the budget That's according to a survey of more

than 1000 heads and classroom teachers by the Sutton Trust,

an education charity, which says this is yet more evidence

that the squeeze on funding is having a detrimental

effect on schools. Let's talk to David Laws,

the man who was responsible for delivering the pupil premium

policy when he was schools minister in the last government,

the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition. He now heads up the

Education Policy Institute. Next to him is the Conservative MP

and chairman of the Education Select And in our Suffolk studio

is Geoff Barton, head teacher of King Edward VI school in Bury St

Edmunds. Tell us what kind of things

the pupil premium helps your school I think everybody working in

education are welcome to the pupil premium because of the way it

allowed us to do things for students whose parents might not be able to

afford things. You mention some, like after-school clubs. We increase

the numbers of maths and English teachers, giving one to one tuition.

It's all try to close the gap. It's frustrating if some of those funds,

which includes ?200,000 at our school, are being lost from being

targeted to those youngsters. According to the survey, two thirds

of head teachers like yourself are using the money to plug gaps

elsewhere. You haven't yet but you might if things continue to be

stretch next year? It's inevitable. I was speaking to a good friend of

mine who is a headteacher in the north-east and needs to make a

saving of ?170,000 this year. The only way to do that is not by not

buying textbooks, is by reducing class sizes and teachers. Everybody

will be disadvantaged. Its pragmatism over principles. That's

what we need to do to make sure every child benefits from having a

teacher in the classroom. The 200,000 you get from the pupil

premium money, how much do you reckon you will spend on other