08/05/2017

:00:00. > :00:07.Hello it's Monday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

:00:08. > :00:13.An investigation by this programme discovers more than a thousand

:00:14. > :00:15.mistakes are recorded by maternity staff in hospitals

:00:16. > :00:30.I'm angry and I'm always going to be angry because they've taken my son's

:00:31. > :00:33.life away from him. There's no reason why he shouldn't be with us

:00:34. > :00:38.today and I have to look at that for the rest of my life. Everyday I have

:00:39. > :00:39.to live with the fact that I am a of the NHS.

:00:40. > :00:41.We'll bring you the full story in the next half hour.

:00:42. > :00:46.He's 39, the youngest leader France has ever had -

:00:47. > :00:51.and only formed his new party a year ago.

:00:52. > :00:59.I'm really happy because Emmanuel Macron is a good solution, a good

:01:00. > :01:04.choice, in France, we love Europe. I'm very happy about this result. It

:01:05. > :01:09.means on buttons, he means the future, France is not dead, France

:01:10. > :01:11.is not an old country dying, France has hope.

:01:12. > :01:14.We'll tell you what his victory means for us in the UK.

:01:15. > :01:17.And - these are some of the 82 freed Chibok schoogirls who've been

:01:18. > :01:19.released by Boko Haram Islamist militants in Nigeria.

:01:20. > :01:30.We'll bring you their story before 11.

:01:31. > :01:33.Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11.

:01:34. > :01:36.This morning let us know you're experience of giving birth

:01:37. > :01:38.in a maternity unit - and also your experience

:01:39. > :01:41.Our excluisve investigation on errors recorded in maternity

:01:42. > :01:50.Use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and if you text, you will be charged

:01:51. > :01:54.France's new President-elect, Emmanuel Macron, has promised

:01:55. > :01:56.to heal the country's divisions, following his resounding

:01:57. > :02:01.victory over the far-right leader, Marine Le Pen.

:02:02. > :02:05.The pro-European candidate secured 66 percent of the vote

:02:06. > :02:07.in yesterday's election and at just 39, he will

:02:08. > :02:08.become the country's youngest ever President.

:02:09. > :02:10.Addressing thousands of supporters in Paris last night,

:02:11. > :02:13.he said he respected those who backed Ms Le Pen,

:02:14. > :02:17.Our Europe Correspondent, Damian Grammaticas was at

:02:18. > :02:23.the Macron Rally and has this report.

:02:24. > :02:27.This is an election victory that will reverberate across Europe.

:02:28. > :02:30.Emmanuel Macron, liberal, pro-EU, who supports

:02:31. > :02:34.globalisation and immigration - France's next president.

:02:35. > :02:42.Mr Macron created his political movement just a year ago to give

:02:43. > :02:47.French voters tired of traditional parties a new choice -

:02:48. > :02:56.not at the extremes, but in the middle.

:02:57. > :03:03.TRANSLATION: What we've done for so many months,

:03:04. > :03:08.there's no comparison, there's no equivalent to that.

:03:09. > :03:14.Everybody was saying to us it was impossible.

:03:15. > :03:18.But they didn't know anything about France!

:03:19. > :03:22.His opponent, the far-right anti-EU Marine Le Pen, was soundly beaten.

:03:23. > :03:27.She did, though, secure 11 million votes, a third of those cast.

:03:28. > :03:30.And she said the fact that she made it to the run-off meant

:03:31. > :03:32.that her party should now be seen as the official

:03:33. > :03:39.But Mr Macron's vision is a repudiation of populist,

:03:40. > :03:41.anti-establishment wave that brought Brexit and Donald Trump,

:03:42. > :03:43.and which Marine Le Pen sought to harness, too.

:03:44. > :03:46.Above all, this is a victory for Europe's centrists,

:03:47. > :03:49.and a defeat for Europe's populists and Eurosceptics.

:03:50. > :03:52.Mr Macron has already said he will work to strengthen the EU,

:03:53. > :04:00.and EU leaders have rushed to congratulate him.

:04:01. > :04:02.They see Mr Macron giving the EU new impetus.

:04:03. > :04:05.So this win means the UK is about to negotiate Brexit facing

:04:06. > :04:08.an EU starting to feel confident that the populist

:04:09. > :04:25.Let's go to Paris and our correspondent Hugh Schofield is

:04:26. > :04:31.there. What does this new President -- presidency mean to the UK and its

:04:32. > :04:34.Brexit negotiations. Two things to say, the 1st, he will be seen as a

:04:35. > :04:38.good thing by the British government because he is generally pro-

:04:39. > :04:43.British, he speaks English, he knows the city, a former banker, his

:04:44. > :04:47.instincts are free market, all of these things are good buttons to

:04:48. > :04:53.press as far as London is concerned. The other side of the coin is that

:04:54. > :04:58.he's firmly pro- European and his 1st instinct is going to be to patch

:04:59. > :05:04.up the Franco German relationship and try to re-establish that as the

:05:05. > :05:11.core of Europe and to make Europe a functioning, effective dynamic

:05:12. > :05:15.organisation. And in that sense, and in that context, his furry opposed

:05:16. > :05:21.to Brexit which he has said is a big mistake and he will not want to lend

:05:22. > :05:24.any hostages to fortune by being too generous to Britain on the way out.

:05:25. > :05:29.There are two sites to the coin and there is a 3rd aspect as well, I

:05:30. > :05:35.would say. From a British perspective, Europe with the

:05:36. > :05:40.election of Macron feels more confident, there is a sense of the

:05:41. > :05:45.crisis is past, the populist wave has reached its crest and so on,

:05:46. > :05:49.arguably it is it is with a more confident Europe, less worried about

:05:50. > :05:55.setting a dangerous precedent for other countries, with that kind of

:05:56. > :05:59.Europe, a more favourable deal, a better atmosphere at least can be

:06:00. > :06:00.created in the negotiations ahead. Thank you. Hugh Schofield from

:06:01. > :06:03.Paris. Joanna is in the BBC

:06:04. > :06:05.Newsroom with a summary The BBC understands

:06:06. > :06:11.the Conservatives will once again commit to cutting net migration

:06:12. > :06:14.to the "tens of thousands" Yesterday the Home Secretary,

:06:15. > :06:17.Amber Rudd, refused to say whether the pledge -

:06:18. > :06:20.which was also in the party's 2010 and 2015 manifestos -

:06:21. > :06:22.would be repeated. Meanwhile, UKIP says it

:06:23. > :06:24.would cut net migration Also in the election campaign -

:06:25. > :06:30.a ban on television adverts for unhealthy food and sweets before

:06:31. > :06:33.the nine o'clock watershed, It's part of a strategy

:06:34. > :06:37.to tackle childhood obesity. The Conservatives say Britain's

:06:38. > :06:40.advertising rules are already Our Political Correspondent,

:06:41. > :06:48.Leila Nathoo, has all the details. Tempting treats - difficult

:06:49. > :06:51.for children to resist. Bringing down high rates

:06:52. > :06:53.of childhood obesity has long been Now Labour says it would tackle

:06:54. > :06:58.the problem by banning junk food ads The party says in government,

:06:59. > :07:05.it would stop adverts for unhealthy foods -

:07:06. > :07:07.high in salt, sugar, or fat - It says that it would hope

:07:08. > :07:14.to halve childhood obesity And it is promising

:07:15. > :07:20.a new ?250 million annual fund The government has already announced

:07:21. > :07:26.a tax on sugary drinks, and, in a strategy outlined last summer,

:07:27. > :07:30.a voluntary target for the food and drinks industry

:07:31. > :07:33.to reduce sugar content - but health campaigners say

:07:34. > :07:37.the measures don't go far enough. The Conservatives have accused

:07:38. > :07:41.Labour of making unfunded promises, and said that their plan to cut

:07:42. > :07:44.childhood obesity was ambitious. This programme understands that

:07:45. > :07:52.an NHS Trust facing a review into maternity errors has paid out

:07:53. > :07:55.millions of pounds in compensation after similar mistakes led to babies

:07:56. > :07:59.being born with brain injuries. Freedom of Information figures

:08:00. > :08:01.obtained by the Victoria Derbyshire Programme found that at least five

:08:02. > :08:04.babies died at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust

:08:05. > :08:07.after problems monitoring Figures also reveal an average

:08:08. > :08:15.of more than one thousand four hundred mistakes a week

:08:16. > :08:17.being recorded in England's NHS maternity units

:08:18. > :08:20.between 2013 and 2016. We'll have more on this

:08:21. > :08:25.later on the programme. The head of the terror group

:08:26. > :08:27.Islamic State in Afghanistan has been killed in a raid carried out

:08:28. > :08:30.by Afghan and US forces. Military officials at the Pentagon

:08:31. > :08:33.say Abdul Hasib died during a raid by special forces in the Eastern

:08:34. > :08:36.part of the country. Two US army rangers were also killed

:08:37. > :08:42.during the operation. North Korea says it's detained

:08:43. > :08:44.a FOURTH American citizen on suspicion of hostile acts

:08:45. > :08:46.against the state. Kim Hak Song is understood to have

:08:47. > :08:49.worked for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology

:08:50. > :08:52.and was detained on Saturday. No details of any alleged

:08:53. > :08:59.offences was given. A 2 year old girl is being treated

:09:00. > :09:02.in hospital after suffering serious injuries to her head and body

:09:03. > :09:05.in what's been described Police say several animals managed

:09:06. > :09:10.to get into the garden where she was playing in the Toxteth

:09:11. > :09:13.area of Liverpool. Ten dogs have been seized

:09:14. > :09:16.from a nearby house and a man living The bodies of two men have been

:09:17. > :09:22.recovered during a search of the Irish Sea after a speedboat

:09:23. > :09:25.disappeared off South West Police said the men

:09:26. > :09:29.were aged 46 and 35, and had launched their speedboat

:09:30. > :09:31.from Port Logan in The group representing hospitals

:09:32. > :09:39.and other NHS trusts in England has called for an end to the cap

:09:40. > :09:41.on pay rises. NHS Providers says the government's

:09:42. > :09:44.policy of pay restraint over the last 7 years is preventing

:09:45. > :09:46.employers from retaining the staff needed to deliver

:09:47. > :10:00.safe patient care. We need to fund the NHS properly so

:10:01. > :10:04.that we are not asking our staff to try and close the gap between the

:10:05. > :10:07.demand going through the roof and the funding staying broadly stable

:10:08. > :10:11.and that the way we are trying to close the gap is by asking staff to

:10:12. > :10:13.do more and more and more and that means their jobs are becoming more

:10:14. > :10:15.difficult, stressful, pressured. And in the next hour

:10:16. > :10:17.Victoria Derbyshire will be looking at how concern about the NHS

:10:18. > :10:20.is affecting voters Facebook has placed adverts

:10:21. > :10:23.in national newspapers to provide advice about how to spot

:10:24. > :10:25.fake news online. The initiative has been

:10:26. > :10:27.designed to stop the spread of false stories during

:10:28. > :10:38.the general election campaign. The company advises users to be

:10:39. > :10:42.sceptical of headlines and to cross check reports. The move comes after

:10:43. > :10:43.it was accused of helping to spread fake news during the US presidential

:10:44. > :11:14.election last year. Kerry has textured, she works in a

:11:15. > :11:18.maternity unit and she says maternity staff work hard, we have

:11:19. > :11:22.limited staff, equipment and time but we work hard, it would be nice

:11:23. > :11:26.if for once people said they do good work. Instead of being told we do

:11:27. > :11:34.things wrong all the time. This text doesn't wish us to identify them,

:11:35. > :11:37.giving birth within the NHS, excruciating, lonely, terrifying and

:11:38. > :11:38.humiliating. Passers-by included unknown men in the Corredera looking

:11:39. > :11:50.in at me. I wanted to die. Let's get some sport now

:11:51. > :11:56.and chat to Olly Foster. We'll start with football Olly

:11:57. > :12:07.and it was all about the race for A couple of teams saying yesterday

:12:08. > :12:10.who would love to say they are in with a chance of winning the title

:12:11. > :12:14.but it's about getting into the Champions League. The top four in

:12:15. > :12:16.the Champions League, we sought to Michael former champions at the

:12:17. > :12:22.Emirates stadium and Arsenal beating majesty united 2- 0.

:12:23. > :12:28.a Jose Mourinho team in the Premier League.

:12:29. > :12:32.The 13th time lucky for Arsene Wenger.

:12:33. > :12:35.Granit Xhaka and Danny Welbeck against his former club United made

:12:36. > :12:38.Jose Mourinho has written off a top four finish as a way

:12:39. > :12:42.to reach the Champions League...resting players.

:12:43. > :12:48.He knows the best way to get into the Champions League is by winning

:12:49. > :12:48.the Europa League, they are halfway through their semifinal at the

:12:49. > :12:51.moment. And this was his rather patronising

:12:52. > :12:59.parting shot to the Arsenal. We want to try and win the Europa

:13:00. > :13:05.League. More important for us than finishing 4th. We really want to try

:13:06. > :13:10.to win it and go to the Champions League through winning a big trophy.

:13:11. > :13:19.So we needed to give rest to players, ask what is here... That

:13:20. > :13:21.wasn't a patronising parting shot at all, he had a pop at Arsenal. This

:13:22. > :13:24.is the Liverpool game. Liverpool are up to third after just

:13:25. > :13:27.a point against Southampton, mostly down to that great save from

:13:28. > :13:31.the Saints Fraser Forster Liverpool should have done enough

:13:32. > :13:41.for Champions League football but can finish no higher than third

:13:42. > :13:49.now This could be the week that

:13:50. > :13:54.Chelsea win the title, because they play Middlesbrough

:13:55. > :13:56.tonight and then West Brom on Friday, win both and they can't

:13:57. > :13:59.by caught and if they do win tonight then Middlesbrough

:14:00. > :14:11.will be relegated. They will join Sunderland in the

:14:12. > :14:12.Championships next season. The championship season was wrapped up

:14:13. > :14:14.yesterday. They've been struggling for

:14:15. > :14:19.a while now in the Championship.. Remember those heady

:14:20. > :14:21.days Champions in 1995. The great team spearheaded

:14:22. > :14:37.by Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. But was the captain Tim Sherwood.

:14:38. > :14:40.Heady days. This was yesterday. Relegated, classic nailbiter on the

:14:41. > :14:46.final day of the championship, always going to have a big club go

:14:47. > :14:48.down, Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, or Blackburn Rovers, all

:14:49. > :14:53.former Premier League sites, all of them won yesterday, Blackburn

:14:54. > :14:57.winning 3- 1 against Bradford not enough, they go down to League 1 on

:14:58. > :15:01.goal difference, that group that bought Rover is massively unpopular,

:15:02. > :15:05.important summer coming up for Rovers and wrapping up as Ms in the

:15:06. > :15:11.championship, Newcastle winning the title yesterday, Brighton go up in

:15:12. > :15:15.2nd place, Reading, Fulham and Huddersfield and Sheffield Wednesday

:15:16. > :15:18.in the all-important play-offs. By Malaysian tennis, some needle

:15:19. > :15:23.between two players in the Madrid open. Maria Sharapova former grand

:15:24. > :15:27.slam champion, back on tour for a fewer week after a 15 month drug

:15:28. > :15:31.ban, a lot of players don't like the fact she is then handed wild cards

:15:32. > :15:39.to get back into tournament is to get ranking points. She's playing in

:15:40. > :15:45.Madrid, won yesterday in 3 sets against a player, setting up a

:15:46. > :15:49.2nd-round against Eugenie Bouchard, who has called Maria Sharapova a

:15:50. > :15:53.cheater, says she should be banned for life, Maria Sharapova says she's

:15:54. > :15:57.heard an awful lot worse and she is a win away from getting away into

:15:58. > :15:58.Wimbledon qualifying, breaking into the top 200 if she wins today. Thank

:15:59. > :16:03.you. An investigation by this programme

:16:04. > :16:06.has discovered at least 1,000 mistakes are made in England's NHS

:16:07. > :16:10.maternity units every week. The most serious incidents include

:16:11. > :16:13.the avoidable deaths of mothers and babies as a result of errors

:16:14. > :16:16.by midwives and doctors. The Royal College of Midwives says

:16:17. > :16:18.maternity services are heading towards a crisis because of demands

:16:19. > :16:22.on the services. Our reporter Divya Talwar

:16:23. > :16:24.has been to meet some As an expectant parent,

:16:25. > :16:34.you're excited to become I'm angry, and I'm always

:16:35. > :16:41.going to be angry, because they've There is no reason why he shouldn't

:16:42. > :16:52.have been here with us today, and I have to live with that

:16:53. > :16:55.for the rest of my life. Every day I have to live

:16:56. > :16:58.with the fact that I am You think you can trust these

:16:59. > :17:05.people, and you are meant to, There were six hours

:17:06. > :17:13.that my son suffered, and there were four opportunities

:17:14. > :17:21.that were missed to save his life. When I found out I was pregnant

:17:22. > :17:25.almost eight months ago, I did a lot of research looking

:17:26. > :17:28.into the hospitals around me to try and find the best

:17:29. > :17:32.place to have this baby. But all of the maternity units

:17:33. > :17:35.in my area were either inadequate So I had to find a place outside

:17:36. > :17:41.of my local area, which isn't ideal, but at least the maternity services

:17:42. > :17:44.are meant to be a bit better Other mums-to-be may also find

:17:45. > :17:49.themselves in a similar situation, with around one in three maternity

:17:50. > :17:52.services in England rated "inadequate" or "requiring

:17:53. > :17:56.improvement" by the regulator. Last month it was discovered that

:17:57. > :18:01.at least seven babies had died in avoidable circumstances in less

:18:02. > :18:03.than two years at Shrewsbury It led England's Health

:18:04. > :18:10.Secretary Jeremy Hunt to order an investigation,

:18:11. > :18:12.and the Trust has since paid out millions in compensation

:18:13. > :18:15.after similar mistakes led to babies But we've found that in other

:18:16. > :18:23.maternity units across England there are also cases where serious

:18:24. > :18:31.mistakes are being made. This is Jade Penney,

:18:32. > :18:37.she's 26 and a single Lucas has got cerebral palsy,

:18:38. > :19:03.which means he can't walk, talk, Jade's lawyers argue

:19:04. > :19:13.that Lucas' brain damage is due to a lack of oxygen

:19:14. > :19:15.when he had his incubation The NHS Trust is

:19:16. > :19:19.defending the claim. When did you find out that

:19:20. > :19:23.something wasn't quite right? Pretty much straight away,

:19:24. > :19:25.but we didn't know this obviously for a long time,

:19:26. > :19:27.so a couple of days So, he was born on the fifth,

:19:28. > :19:33.and on the seventh they were re-tubing Lucas,

:19:34. > :19:35.so they had re-tubed him in the morning without any problems

:19:36. > :19:38.at all, and then they re-tubed him As they re-tubed him,

:19:39. > :19:44.Lucas basically put up a fight, Altogether it took them 20

:19:45. > :19:51.minutes to re-tube Lucas. Imagine laying down and not

:19:52. > :19:54.being able to breathe, but you can't tell someone

:19:55. > :19:56.and you're awake. It must be the most horrible

:19:57. > :19:59.thing ever to go through, And I think that's just

:20:00. > :20:04.what upsets me the most. Jade's now taking legal action

:20:05. > :20:08.against the NHS Trust. Yeah, emotionally it

:20:09. > :20:11.plays on you a lot. It plays on me a lot when we're out

:20:12. > :20:15.and I see kids his age, that's when I think it really

:20:16. > :20:17.gets to me. Take, for instance, if I've gone

:20:18. > :20:20.to the park with Lucas before and I've seen kids his age,

:20:21. > :20:23.they'll kind of avoid Luke, not because they're being horrible

:20:24. > :20:26.but there's not that much known to kids when they're

:20:27. > :20:28.younger about disabilities, Sometimes they'll look at him

:20:29. > :20:33.and they get a bit scared and they won't go up to him,

:20:34. > :20:36.and all Lucas wants to do What's the hardest

:20:37. > :20:43.aspect of all this? Knowing that he's got this

:20:44. > :20:46.for the rest of his life. Because not only does it affect me,

:20:47. > :20:48.it's affecting his life, Yeah, he's still alive,

:20:49. > :20:54.but he hasn't got the quality-of-life other children

:20:55. > :20:56.without disabilities his age have, And he knows himself

:20:57. > :21:03.when he sees kids running around that he can't do that,

:21:04. > :21:06.so it impacts him as well And it's not his fault,

:21:07. > :21:12.and that's what's horrible. He is like the innocent party

:21:13. > :21:18.in all of it, you know? An investigation by this programme

:21:19. > :21:27.has found that at least 1000 mistakes are occurring in England's

:21:28. > :21:31.NHS maternity units each week. Serious or adverse incidents

:21:32. > :21:34.where an unexpected harm, It could be anything

:21:35. > :21:40.from records being lost Last year alone, there were 220

:21:41. > :21:45.mistakes recorded every day. We've also found that nearly

:21:46. > :21:48.260 mothers or babies These deaths were either unexpected

:21:49. > :21:57.or could have been avoided. Only 39 out of 81 Trusts

:21:58. > :22:00.responded to this question, so the number of deaths

:22:01. > :22:05.could be much higher. Some of the other incidents we've

:22:06. > :22:08.heard about include staff shortages, wrong medicines being given

:22:09. > :22:10.to patients, records being lost, It's those delays in care that

:22:11. > :22:17.can be the difference Sarah Ellis and her fiance Adam

:22:18. > :22:21.lost their baby in 2014. When I first fell pregnant,

:22:22. > :22:26.everything was amazing, wasn't it? Couldn't wait to take him

:22:27. > :22:33.to the football with me, and be a Huddersfield Town fan

:22:34. > :22:37.like his dad. Sarah was left waiting for hours

:22:38. > :22:39.on a busy maternity ward, despite telling staff

:22:40. > :22:41.that she couldn't feel her baby moving, and there were warning

:22:42. > :22:49.signs of infection. They just told us, well,

:22:50. > :22:56.they just reassured us, didn't they? Everything, you know,

:22:57. > :22:59."Everything's OK." When a qualified midwife says

:23:00. > :23:08.to you, "It could be that, maybe, possibly, we're not sure", I wasn't

:23:09. > :23:11.really concerned because if there was anything alarming they would be

:23:12. > :23:14.doing something more. The inquest later showed Sarah

:23:15. > :23:16.should have had an emergency Medical staff failed

:23:17. > :23:24.to act on warning signs, and their son Gino was severely

:23:25. > :23:29.starved of oxygen. One of the doctors that was there

:23:30. > :23:35.pulled me to one side and just said, "He's not in a good condition,

:23:36. > :23:39.he was born in a really bad condition and if he does pull

:23:40. > :23:42.through, he's going to be I was in the corridor

:23:43. > :23:46.and I was with her mum and dad and I just said to her mum and dad,

:23:47. > :23:49.I said... I said, "How am I going to tell

:23:50. > :23:56.Sarah that he's not all right?" Gino was placed on a life support

:23:57. > :23:59.machine, but just days later Sarah and Adam were advised

:24:00. > :24:03.to withdraw treatment. The words that were used

:24:04. > :24:07.was he was "unrecoverable". That was when we knew he wasn't

:24:08. > :24:10.going to get any better. We had to make a joint

:24:11. > :24:18.decision, yeah. We had to make a decision

:24:19. > :24:21.for him that, you know, It's a conversation you never think

:24:22. > :24:27.you're going to have to have, is it? How do you discuss how you're

:24:28. > :24:36.going to end your son's life? The couple decided

:24:37. > :24:38.to take legal action. A coroner's report found

:24:39. > :24:43.the hospital missed four Everybody makes mistakes, I do,

:24:44. > :24:53.we all do, but to see so many people make so many different mistakes

:24:54. > :25:00.within six hours is just shocking. People who you put your trust in,

:25:01. > :25:03.your life is in their hands, and Gino's life was in their hands

:25:04. > :25:09.and they didn't take care of him. Every single day

:25:10. > :25:13.I think, why, why us? We have to live with the fact

:25:14. > :25:17.that we are a victim of the NHS. So many babies have lost

:25:18. > :25:20.their lives, and so many families have been destroyed because they're

:25:21. > :25:25.not doing their job right. Sarah and Adam got

:25:26. > :25:31.compensation from the Trust. The NHS spends hundreds

:25:32. > :25:33.of millions on compensation pay-outs for blunders made

:25:34. > :25:52.by maternity staff. In 2015 it paid out

:25:53. > :25:54.more than ?0.5 billion. Reviews into England's

:25:55. > :25:57.maternity services have found So I've got just over three weeks

:25:58. > :26:01.before this baby's due, and I had my latest check-up

:26:02. > :26:03.with the midwife earlier today. Over the course of this pregnancy

:26:04. > :26:06.I've been seen by different midwives at almost every appointment I've

:26:07. > :26:09.had, and at times I've had to wait The Royal College of Midwives said

:26:10. > :26:14.safety is being compromised because of the pressure our

:26:15. > :26:16.maternity services are under. It's my view that we're

:26:17. > :26:18.heading for a crisis The simple truth is,

:26:19. > :26:21.we do not have enough midwives We're also seeing more midwives

:26:22. > :26:24.heading for retirement, we're seeing more midwives leaving

:26:25. > :26:27.the profession because of stress, and we're seeing a slight

:26:28. > :26:29.reduction in the number Alongside that, we've got much more

:26:30. > :26:37.complexity in pregnancy, which takes more care,

:26:38. > :26:40.and we've got an increasing number So if you put all that together,

:26:41. > :26:47.as opposed to only having one of these things going on,

:26:48. > :26:50.we would say that's looking What do you think needs to be done

:26:51. > :26:58.to make our maternity units safer? We need to reduce the number

:26:59. > :27:02.of mistakes in our maternity And if we're going to do that,

:27:03. > :27:07.our maternity services have We can't deliver the safest possible

:27:08. > :27:13.care if we don't have enough midwives and enough doctors working

:27:14. > :27:23.in our services. There's going to be lots of us doing

:27:24. > :27:34.lots of things all at the same time, Libby is having excessive

:27:35. > :27:37.bleeding from a haemorrhage What I'm going to do is just pop

:27:38. > :27:43.a drip in the other side... This is a training exercise

:27:44. > :27:45.here at Bristol Southmead Hospital. Libby's actually one of the doctors

:27:46. > :27:48.at the hospital's maternity ward. I think we can call that a wrap,

:27:49. > :27:52.as we say, and we'll just I think Libby stole

:27:53. > :27:56.the show, very good acting! The hospital's pioneered this

:27:57. > :28:01.training, known as PROMPT, where midwives, doctors and other

:28:02. > :28:04.staff train together and simulate emergencies they may face

:28:05. > :28:08.on their maternity wards. Everything else was very

:28:09. > :28:10.clinically done in a very The Health Secretary's announced

:28:11. > :28:14.a number of measures to improve the safety of maternity care

:28:15. > :28:17.in the NHS. They include more money

:28:18. > :28:20.for training courses like this, and a fund to pilot new ideas

:28:21. > :28:23.for improving maternity. For Sarah and Adam, the mistakes

:28:24. > :28:26.leading to Gino's death have left We do want more family,

:28:27. > :28:33.but when that time comes I really Where do we go?

:28:34. > :28:39.Who do we trust? We went in with a baby seat and came

:28:40. > :28:43.out with a death certificate. You think you can trust these

:28:44. > :28:46.people, and you are meant to, For the rest of my life

:28:47. > :28:52.I'm going to be angry, and I'll never, ever forgive anyone

:28:53. > :28:54.for that, you know? And I know there are mistakes out

:28:55. > :28:57.there, but you can't make mistakes with little babies'

:28:58. > :28:59.lives, you know? You may have noticed a different

:29:00. > :29:15.voice in that report and that's because Divya gave birth to a baby

:29:16. > :29:28.girl before completing the film. Texter says working in maternity can

:29:29. > :29:32.be amazing. We strive to give our women and babies the best possible

:29:33. > :29:36.care. However, poor senior management and ridiculous computer

:29:37. > :29:40.systems are taking away from this and making the environment unsafe

:29:41. > :29:44.for users. Staff are leaving in droves meaning the remaining workers

:29:45. > :29:49.are under an impossible workload with antenatal clinics stretched to

:29:50. > :29:52.bursting, labour care impossible with midwives caring for multiple

:29:53. > :29:57.women and documentation poorly designed making it dangerously easy

:29:58. > :30:03.for busy staff to miss information that can be vital for safe care.

:30:04. > :30:07.Lisa says, "The NHS midwifery team at Epsom Hospital were fantastic for

:30:08. > :30:12.the birth of my first baby 11 weeks ago. Brilliant care and fantastic

:30:13. > :30:17.facilities. I feel very lucky and incredibly grateful." Helen says, "I

:30:18. > :30:24.can't praise the NHS staff who looked after me and my baby enough.

:30:25. > :30:28.Everyone from healthcare and cleaning and catering staff was

:30:29. > :30:32.amazing. I received a comprehensive and personal service. They were

:30:33. > :30:37.fantastic. There maybe faults, but there are also some great examples

:30:38. > :30:52.of exemplary world-class services and staff." Keep those coming in. In

:30:53. > :30:55.a moment, we will talk to a father whose son died at just aged 9 days

:30:56. > :30:56.old. NHS Providers,

:30:57. > :30:59.the group representing health trusts and hospitals,

:31:00. > :31:01.say politicians must address rapidly growing concerns

:31:02. > :31:03.over the NHS workforce We hear from a group

:31:04. > :31:06.of NHS workers on this. More than 80 Nigerian schoolgirls

:31:07. > :31:08.were released yesterday after being held for three years

:31:09. > :31:19.by the Islamist group Boko Haram. And we'll speak to a father whose 2

:31:20. > :31:20.daughters are still being held by the group.

:31:21. > :31:23.Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:31:24. > :31:25.France's newly elected President, Emmanuel Macron, has promised

:31:26. > :31:27.to heal the country's divisions following his resounding

:31:28. > :31:29.victory over the far-right leader, Marine Le Pen,

:31:30. > :31:32.The pro-European candidate secured 66 percent of the vote

:31:33. > :31:35.and at just 39 years old, he will become the country's

:31:36. > :31:38.Speaking at a victory rally outside the Louvre museum in Paris,

:31:39. > :31:46.he said the task ahead was "immense" and made a plea for unity.

:31:47. > :31:57.TRANSLATION: Row TRANSLATION: I will respect and be faithful to the

:31:58. > :32:00.commitment taken, I will respect the Republic.

:32:01. > :32:02.The BBC understands the Conservatives will once again

:32:03. > :32:04.commit to cutting net migration to the "tens of thousands"

:32:05. > :32:09.Yesterday the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, refused to say

:32:10. > :32:11.whether the pledge - which was also in the party's 2010

:32:12. > :32:13.and 2015 manifestos - would be repeated.

:32:14. > :32:15.Meanwhile, UKIP says it would cut net migration

:32:16. > :32:28.Staying with the election campaign - Labour says it would extend the ban

:32:29. > :32:30.on television adverts for unhealthy food and sweets until the nine

:32:31. > :32:34.The Conservatives say Britain already has the strictest

:32:35. > :32:38.But Labour says its strategy aims to halve the number of overweight

:32:39. > :32:42.The head of the terror group Islamic State in Afghanistan has

:32:43. > :32:45.been killed in a raid carried out by Afghan and US forces.

:32:46. > :32:48.Military officials at the Pentagon say Abdul Hasib died during a raid

:32:49. > :32:51.by special forces in the Eastern part of the country.

:32:52. > :32:56.Two US army rangers were also killed during the operation.

:32:57. > :32:58.Facebook has placed adverts in British newspapers to provide

:32:59. > :33:01.practical advice on how to spot fake news online.

:33:02. > :33:04.The website has also closed thousands of accounts linked

:33:05. > :33:07.to false stories ahead of the general election.

:33:08. > :33:10.The company advises users to "be sceptical of headlines"

:33:11. > :33:15.The move comes after it was accused of helping to spread fake news

:33:16. > :33:20.during last year's US Presidential election.

:33:21. > :33:24.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.00.

:33:25. > :33:27.Here are the morning's sport headlines now with Olly Foster.

:33:28. > :33:29.These are our headlines this morning, Arsene Wenger

:33:30. > :33:32.saw his Arsenal side beat a Jose Mourinho team for the first

:33:33. > :33:40.They won 2-0 at the Emirates but remain in sixth, six points

:33:41. > :33:43.Former Premier League Champions Blackburn Rovers have been relegated

:33:44. > :33:46.to League One on the last day of the Championship.

:33:47. > :33:48.Newcastle won the title yesterday and Reading, Fulham,

:33:49. > :33:54.Huddersfield and Sheffield Wddnesday will contest the play-offs.

:33:55. > :34:00.And a fortnight after returning from a 15 month doping ban Maria

:34:01. > :34:04.Sharapova will book a spot in Wimbledon qualifying if she wins at

:34:05. > :34:08.the Madrid open today. She faces Eugenie Bouchard who has called for

:34:09. > :34:10.the Russian to be banned for life. I'll be back after 10 AM with a full

:34:11. > :34:12.date. The last year has seen

:34:13. > :34:14.shock election results with Brexit, Trump and now

:34:15. > :34:17.the new French President Emmanuel Macron - a political novice who has

:34:18. > :34:20.never held elected office before and formed his new party

:34:21. > :34:22.only a year ago. The 39 year old has promised he'll

:34:23. > :34:25.use his victory to unite a divided Elected with two-thirds of the valid

:34:26. > :34:29.votes, he admitted the task facing him was daunting

:34:30. > :34:32.and that he would need to build A third of French voters either

:34:33. > :34:39.abstained in Sunday's second round, chose neither candidate

:34:40. > :34:40.or spoiled their ballot. Let's talk now to our correspondent

:34:41. > :36:49.Karin Gianonne who is in Paris. Good morning. Hello and welcome to

:36:50. > :36:52.Paris. There is a double sense of Natcho -- national occasion, France

:36:53. > :36:55.has woken up to a new President-elect in the form of

:36:56. > :37:00.Emmanuel Macron but it's also a public all date nationwide. Victory

:37:01. > :37:06.in Europe Day and in just a few minutes behind us, there will be a

:37:07. > :37:10.huge military parade in commemoration. Emmanuel Macron will

:37:11. > :37:13.be there alongside the outgoing President Francois Hollande, we come

:37:14. > :37:22.to that in a few moments. With me is Hugh Schofield, the BBC's Paris

:37:23. > :37:28.correspondent and we have a member of the Emmanuelle Macron campaign

:37:29. > :37:36.team, who was in charge of gender equality. What do you make of what

:37:37. > :37:41.happened? How we did this night? Can you believe it? No, it's amazing, a

:37:42. > :37:47.year ago no 1 knew him and no 1 could imagine he would be President

:37:48. > :37:51.of France and now he is, he did it, it's amazing and it's a historical

:37:52. > :37:56.day. You are in charge of gender equality, France missed out on a

:37:57. > :38:01.female President! My God, we are happy we did, Marine Le Pen is not a

:38:02. > :38:07.feminist, she is against every single woman's writes, she is

:38:08. > :38:10.against abortion, the rights of women and it's a good thing we have

:38:11. > :38:14.this man for President today stop tell me why you think that

:38:15. > :38:18.unfortunate objective is, I note you are in charge of selecting the

:38:19. > :38:20.people who will be put forward to stand in the forthcoming

:38:21. > :38:25.parliamentary elections to be prospective MPs, how are you

:38:26. > :38:32.selecting them? It's a really hard job, we have a President to say

:38:33. > :38:41.Minister and we are 9 members and the commission in charge to select

:38:42. > :38:45.the deputy, people who have spent 5 years and he will spend 5 years with

:38:46. > :38:52.Emanuel Macron, we want half men and half women and 410 people you have 8

:38:53. > :38:57.old men and two women and we want that change, we want to have half

:38:58. > :39:01.women and half men. You mentioned all male, are you saying this is an

:39:02. > :39:07.opportunity for young people? Of course not, the goal is to have

:39:08. > :39:12.mixes and we want different people to make the world together. We have

:39:13. > :39:16.to have people with experience working hand-in-hand with young

:39:17. > :39:19.people and new people together. Emmanuel Macron has topped lot about

:39:20. > :39:29.equality, talked about different kinds of families, how ready do you

:39:30. > :39:31.think France is ready for his vision, especially socially

:39:32. > :39:36.conservative pockets of France, Marine Le Pen got more than

:39:37. > :39:43.10,000,000 votes? Of course, I think France is red, ago now we voted,

:39:44. > :39:47.waiting for everyone and I think the majority of people have chosen

:39:48. > :39:51.Emmanuel Macron for President and I think there should be a kind of

:39:52. > :39:54.Coronation now. You think he has a realistic chance at uniting the

:39:55. > :40:00.country behind? Of course it can. I think what he did was he had people

:40:01. > :40:10.from right and left, are preferred together, for the country. Thank

:40:11. > :40:13.you. Our guest there in charge of putting together a list of

:40:14. > :40:17.prospective MPs, we can hear this starting up behind us, a big event

:40:18. > :40:20.for France, in national holiday to commemorate victory in Europe day,

:40:21. > :40:26.my colleague Hugh Schofield is with me looking down on the events

:40:27. > :40:30.beginning behind us. Tell us the significance of May the 8th for

:40:31. > :40:34.France? It was the end of the war in Europe and it was a national

:40:35. > :40:41.holiday, declared so, not at the time but in 1981, Francois

:40:42. > :40:48.Mitterrand and it was a way of recognising the great event which

:40:49. > :40:53.was victory in Europe. Oddly, though, it's not a holiday which is

:40:54. > :40:57.really I would say part of people's mental make-up. I've been out asking

:40:58. > :41:03.people what they are celebrating on this bank all of and B team puzzled,

:41:04. > :41:08.they don't know, and in fact my taxi driver coming here this morning had

:41:09. > :41:15.no idea it was a holiday. -- tank holiday and people were puzzled. The

:41:16. > :41:22.popularity of this is not what it should be and its declining, you

:41:23. > :41:28.would not see huge crowds of people, not like to live the 14th, this is a

:41:29. > :41:32.modest... Because that is Bastille Day. This is a modest military

:41:33. > :41:35.parade, very significant and important and I don't want to

:41:36. > :41:40.downplay that at all, President Francois Hollande world lay a wreath

:41:41. > :41:47.at the statue of Charles de Gaulle and down the Champs-Elysees he will,

:41:48. > :41:53.normally in a slow-moving vehicle with blind by the Republican guard

:41:54. > :41:58.and the jingle jangle of whatever it is they have! And they will arrive

:41:59. > :42:03.at the top and he will rekindle the flame over the Tomb of the Unknown

:42:04. > :42:07.Soldier and in all of this he will be accompanied by Emmanuel Macron, I

:42:08. > :42:14.think, that's what's happened before when we've had this 5, 10 years ago,

:42:15. > :42:19.the outgoing and incoming do it together as a civil of transition.

:42:20. > :42:23.The significant part of today is the President elect Emmanuel Macron will

:42:24. > :42:27.appear for the 1st time effectively alongside President Francois

:42:28. > :42:32.Hollande. It's a chance for France to see the 2 men together, they may

:42:33. > :42:37.which other very well indeed, rather thrown in Emanuel Macron's says that

:42:38. > :42:42.he was very close to Francois Hollande and he was and is they will

:42:43. > :42:46.be together throughout this ceremony which is furry importance and

:42:47. > :42:49.Bollettieri. It will be a way to begin to take on the mantle. Tell us

:42:50. > :42:54.about their relationship and how it evolved and how it became, some say

:42:55. > :43:02.it's a strange, some say this was the plan. Indeed. Certainly, the

:43:03. > :43:10.critics on the right will always say this about him. It was a brilliant

:43:11. > :43:17.ploy by the Socialists to ensure continuity. That Francois Hollande

:43:18. > :43:22.knew his time was up. His ratings were terrible and so some work in a

:43:23. > :43:30.room in the Elysee Palace they cooked up a plan they would arrange

:43:31. > :43:32.a break, Emmanuel Macron would split away representing social Democrat

:43:33. > :43:40.reformists and by breaking away he would become legitimate and come to

:43:41. > :43:47.power and assure a continuity for the Socialist party. You know, of

:43:48. > :43:51.course, if you are not a supporter -- if you are a supporter of

:43:52. > :43:54.Emmanuel Macron, he says everything he did was his own personal choice,

:43:55. > :43:58.his conscience prevailed and this is what he did but there is no question

:43:59. > :44:02.they were very close. Just reading the other day than Francois Hollande

:44:03. > :44:06.was inaugurated exactly 5 years ago 1 of the 1st things he did was fly

:44:07. > :44:12.to Germany to see Angela Merkel who was in the plane with him on that

:44:13. > :44:17.trip? Emmanuel Macron. They had been together very close for the past 5

:44:18. > :44:19.years. Not to say that Emmanuel Macron doesn't criticise a lot of

:44:20. > :44:25.what Francois Hollande did and I think Emmanuel Macron genuinely felt

:44:26. > :44:29.constrict dead and his liberal pro-business tendencies were

:44:30. > :44:35.constrained and kept down and thwarted by Francois Hollande. But,

:44:36. > :44:41.I think Macron has great feelings for Aransas Holland and he is at

:44:42. > :44:45.heart, I think a man of the left, in a social sense. We are just seeing

:44:46. > :44:52.Emmanuel Macron has arrived there, in the midst of the crowd, he will

:44:53. > :44:56.be attending the ceremony and this completely standard procedure, this

:44:57. > :44:58.coincides with the aftermath of the presidential election for the

:44:59. > :45:14.outgoing to attend with the incoming. Yes. Famously, Nicolas

:45:15. > :45:17.Sarkozy... I can see him down there. Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois

:45:18. > :45:23.Hollande did it 5 years ago, that was the occasion when Francois

:45:24. > :45:27.Hollande, was soaked by a downpour, it was seen as a terrible symbol of

:45:28. > :45:33.the beginning of his presidency. Yes, all the great and the good come

:45:34. > :45:37.together and I think, is that Nicolas Sarkozy? Yes, I think I can

:45:38. > :45:43.see him, in the monitor we have feared and admits the brightening

:45:44. > :45:45.Paris light. Because it tends to fall, obviously the election run

:45:46. > :45:52.slightly differently every 5 years but it's around this time. And so

:45:53. > :45:58.the ceremony tends to fall just at a time when we can see the symbolic

:45:59. > :46:04.handing over of power and the 2 men, the last time, it was much more

:46:05. > :46:10.tense, Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy did not enjoy each other's

:46:11. > :46:15.company and on the handover of power is, officially, at the Elysee

:46:16. > :46:19.Palace, Francois Hollande was almost rude to his face by not accompanying

:46:20. > :46:24.him down the is to say goodbye, but was a delicate moment. This is not,

:46:25. > :46:28.two people who broadly feel very close together under the same side

:46:29. > :46:29.of French politics who have a warm relationship. There won't be any of

:46:30. > :46:38.that tension. We talk about Emmanuel Macron as the

:46:39. > :46:41.newcomer, never held elected office, but he was appointed economy

:46:42. > :46:47.minister by Francois Hollande. He has been inside in that sense of the

:46:48. > :46:51.political scene and he was very much part of Francois Hollande's

:46:52. > :46:58.Government? He cast himself as an outsider brilliantly. I'm not saying

:46:59. > :47:02.it's not genuinely felt. He feels that he's an outsider because he

:47:03. > :47:05.feels he has a mission to reconfigure French politics and he

:47:06. > :47:10.believes the old left-right division is out of time and out of place and

:47:11. > :47:16.has stopped the reforms that the country needs, but to describe him

:47:17. > :47:23.as an outsider is ridiculous. He is almost the emblem of the perfect

:47:24. > :47:28.product of the French administrative educational system. He is someone

:47:29. > :47:33.who has come up from nowhere, a modest background and plucked where

:47:34. > :47:36.obscurity and because of his brilliance was selected and given

:47:37. > :47:41.the fast-track treatment and came up and did all the top jobs thaw do if

:47:42. > :47:44.you're someone of that background. He was an inspector of finance which

:47:45. > :47:55.is the top job in the administration. He was in the big

:47:56. > :47:58.school in Strasbourg where the administrative elite are trained, he

:47:59. > :48:06.has got his network. This is where he built up his network and this

:48:07. > :48:13.figure from the past this great figure on the left of French

:48:14. > :48:22.politics spotted him and said, "Come into my group." He was adorned and

:48:23. > :48:25.anointed as someone who had a future in socialist politics. He had

:48:26. > :48:29.identified as being on the left. It was naturally towards that side of

:48:30. > :48:32.politics that he gravitated. He could have taken another choice and

:48:33. > :48:38.gone down a different road, but it was to the left, and that's how he

:48:39. > :48:42.came to be so close to Francois Hollande when Francois Hollande was

:48:43. > :48:46.elected and was in his team as his economics advisor and then a couple

:48:47. > :48:49.of years later when he, there was a reshuffle, he was promoted even

:48:50. > :48:53.further and became his economy minister, but as I say, he doesn't

:48:54. > :48:58.want to play that up too much because he always wanted to, you

:48:59. > :49:05.know, keep his distance, but it's a fact that he was very much alined

:49:06. > :49:12.with Francois Hollande and with the reformist side of the Hollande

:49:13. > :49:16.presidency was blocked by Francois Hollande, but there was a will there

:49:17. > :49:20.and that will was receipted by Emmanuel Macron. We have seen the

:49:21. > :49:23.outgoing president, Francois Hollande greeting people. That's a

:49:24. > :49:28.man with a week left in the job, perhaps less. It will be on Sunday

:49:29. > :49:33.which the hand-over of powers happens. It goes down to mandates.

:49:34. > :49:40.He a five year mandate, he was elected on the 14th, so he has to be

:49:41. > :49:44.out by the 14th. By next Sunday Francois Hollande will have to have

:49:45. > :49:47.stepped down. So the hand-over could happen before then, but we're told

:49:48. > :49:52.it will happen on Sunday which is unusual because it doesn't normally

:49:53. > :50:01.happen on a weekend. At that point we will or around that time, we will

:50:02. > :50:03.have to have had Emmanuel Macron's version what his next Government

:50:04. > :50:09.will be and that's what everybody has been waiting for. He has been

:50:10. > :50:14.able to bask in this ambiguity. It mant he has been able to appeal to

:50:15. > :50:18.the soft left and everyone said we can see ourselves somewhere in the

:50:19. > :50:21.mix, but as soon as he names this Government and particularly his

:50:22. > :50:24.Prime Minister, he is going to have to make a choice and this is the

:50:25. > :50:26.beginning of governing, making choices and that's where his

:50:27. > :50:34.problems and difficulties will start. If he names a Prime Minister

:50:35. > :50:37.from the left, from the outgoing Government, the outgoing Defence

:50:38. > :50:42.Minister, his name is a possibility, people will say, "Hang on a sec, you

:50:43. > :50:46.said you're the candidate of renewal." If he names the other

:50:47. > :50:59.possibility, a woman from civil society, a couple of names are out

:51:00. > :51:03.there a big trade union leader, or Christine lee guard, these are

:51:04. > :51:07.possibilities, people will say, "Hang on a sec, they're not

:51:08. > :51:11.politicians." These people have to build up the party. Run an election

:51:12. > :51:15.campaign in six weeks time and they don't know Parliament. They don't

:51:16. > :51:19.know the political system. There is to ideal candidate and this is what

:51:20. > :51:22.happens when you get into power. You've got to make choices and you

:51:23. > :51:27.start annoying people and he has been able to get awithout doing that

:51:28. > :51:32.until now. Already, speaking to members of the Emmanuel Macron team

:51:33. > :51:36.in the last few hours, you get that sense that even they didn't have a

:51:37. > :51:41.feeling this honeymoon was going to last long. The party is over, we

:51:42. > :51:45.have got to get to work? They are aLewisive about that which is a wise

:51:46. > :51:50.position to take. They have got their fingers burned after the first

:51:51. > :51:55.round when Emmanuel Macron and this has thrown in his face a bit went

:51:56. > :52:00.out and celebrated at a restaurant and this was seen as not good form.

:52:01. > :52:05.Personally, I can't see why it was such a bad thing to do, but France

:52:06. > :52:16.is getting very puritanical these days. It was nothing extravagant.

:52:17. > :52:19.Anyway, it was thrown in his face that he was celebrating early and

:52:20. > :52:22.out there and that France was suffering and here he was

:52:23. > :52:25.celebrating. So, I mean, and clearly last night you saw that his first

:52:26. > :52:30.appearance on television was incredibly sober, not the one at the

:52:31. > :52:36.Louvre, but this one, there was no audience and no one clapping, it was

:52:37. > :52:42.just him talking to the camera, very sober. At the Louvre, he came out

:52:43. > :52:48.solemnly, looking serious, as if the gravity of the moment was really on

:52:49. > :52:53.his shoulders. Very much aware that if he comes out looking like he's

:52:54. > :52:57.too happy, too jolly, celebrating too much he won't have caught the

:52:58. > :53:01.moment. And the moment is defined by the fact that even though he won

:53:02. > :53:06.this big majority, most people, you know, don't feel a huge affinity

:53:07. > :53:11.towards him. He has got to and great fan club in the aspiring middle

:53:12. > :53:16.classes of Paris and the other big cities, but you know, what's that?

:53:17. > :53:20.That's 20% of the population. It's not the whole population and he

:53:21. > :53:23.knows that and in his addresses last night he did acknowledge that and I

:53:24. > :53:29.thought it was significant and rather noble of him to reach out at

:53:30. > :53:33.Republican, and Marine Le Pen, but acknowledging that she is part of

:53:34. > :53:37.the Republican camp now, which I think is very, very important. That

:53:38. > :53:44.party has to be brought into French politics or else it just becomes a

:53:45. > :53:48.joke politics. So his language is, it does recognise that there is a

:53:49. > :53:55.large part of the population which does not really feel any great

:53:56. > :53:59.warmth towards him and his cheery optimistic pro-business

:54:00. > :54:02.international side and he is going to hope that he produces results

:54:03. > :54:06.quickly enough and that he brings them with him.

:54:07. > :54:10.How big a problem do you think it will be for him, Hugh, that more

:54:11. > :54:15.than 10.5 million people voted for Marine Le Pen yesterday? Well, I

:54:16. > :54:19.mean, that's what I'm saying. In a way he was lucky that it wasn't

:54:20. > :54:28.more. He had a dynamic at the end of that campaign in the run-up to

:54:29. > :54:31.yesterday which allowed him to breach the 66%, two-thirds. That was

:54:32. > :54:37.important. It meant there was a switch by many people in the last

:54:38. > :54:41.days, particularly after the debate, which was a car crash for Marine Le

:54:42. > :54:46.Pen. There was a switch to him and that meant he it elevated him from

:54:47. > :54:50.being purely the default candidate, the one that was not Marine Le Pen

:54:51. > :54:56.to being someone who could claim to have brought more people into his

:54:57. > :55:01.camp and there were people, I think, who in the end said we're not going

:55:02. > :55:07.to abstain, we're going to vote for him because we don't really like

:55:08. > :55:11.Marine Le Pen, but Marine Le Pen's presence in French politics is such

:55:12. > :55:15.a curse, not because she is bad or anything like that, but because it

:55:16. > :55:20.defines everything else. Everything is defined around whether or not

:55:21. > :55:25.you're with the National Front. Like with Chirac in 20002, we have people

:55:26. > :55:30.elected whose only merit is they are against Marine Le Pen and the Front

:55:31. > :55:33.National which means there isn't a proper consensus around the

:55:34. > :55:41.programme of Government of that elected leader. That's what blocked

:55:42. > :55:46.Chirac in 2002 and unless he's careful it is going to be a burden

:55:47. > :55:50.for Emmanuel Macron as well. Hugh, we are looking at the events that

:55:51. > :55:55.are taking place. The military parade marking 8th May. This is a

:55:56. > :55:59.significant daishghts but across France, do people think of what it

:56:00. > :56:05.means when they take the day off on 8th May? I really don't think they

:56:06. > :56:12.do. A few years ago there was talk of uniting the war holidays of

:56:13. > :56:17.France because there is a 11th November as well and turning 11th

:56:18. > :56:20.November into a memorial of all recent wars which would include the

:56:21. > :56:24.First World War and the Second World War and wars of Algeria and China

:56:25. > :56:28.and so on. That never happened because there was resistance to

:56:29. > :56:34.losing holidays, not surprisingly in France and so 8th May remains a

:56:35. > :56:40.public holiday. You ask people and they're puzzled about what it is all

:56:41. > :56:45.about and as time goes by and memories fade, of course, that will

:56:46. > :56:49.become more pronounced and 11th November, First World War, not the

:56:50. > :56:54.poppies, but the equivalent poppy idea here is still very strong.

:56:55. > :56:58.That's seen as the war to end all wars and the Second World War and

:56:59. > :57:03.the end of that, funny enough, even though it is closer in history, it

:57:04. > :57:09.doesn't have the same repunch as the First World War obviously because

:57:10. > :57:19.the First World War was a personal catastrophe for French families and

:57:20. > :57:25.the Second World War was not quite so cataclysmic and it was also the

:57:26. > :57:30.group, the group allied forces in the Second World War which led to

:57:31. > :57:35.the end of it and the ambiguous part that France played in the Second

:57:36. > :57:41.World War, all that made the Maria Millerry slightly more complicated.

:57:42. > :57:42.Hugh, thank you very much. You're watching BBC News with special live

:57:43. > :57:48.coverage from Paris. Let's get the latest

:57:49. > :57:59.weather update with Carol. We have got an east-west split in

:58:00. > :58:03.the weather today. This is from one of our Weather Watchers. A beautiful

:58:04. > :58:07.picture from Cumbria. You can see it nicely on the satellite picture.

:58:08. > :58:11.Northern and eastern areas and some central areas still have a fair bit

:58:12. > :58:14.of cloud. We've got sunshine further west, but where we have got the

:58:15. > :58:18.cloud across the Midlands, here today, that will break up and we

:58:19. > :58:23.will see sunshine. But if you're in the east, we have a cold, northerly

:58:24. > :58:27.wind. So today, it is going to feel cold here. Now, across north-east

:58:28. > :58:30.Scotland, that scenario holds true. There will be more cloud. Come

:58:31. > :58:34.south, a lot of sunshine. For Northern England, a lot of sunshine,

:58:35. > :58:38.but once again some eastern coastal counties, not just the wind, but the

:58:39. > :58:41.cloud will remain for much of the day and we have got the cloud

:58:42. > :58:45.through East Anglia and down into the South East, but it should stay

:58:46. > :58:48.dry. Drifting further west from Hampshire over towards Devon and

:58:49. > :58:52.Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, we're back into the sunshine and we

:58:53. > :58:59.stay in it too across Wales with temperatures getting up to around 15

:59:00. > :59:05.Celsius in Aberystwyth. Aberystwyth. For Northern Ireland, not as warm as

:59:06. > :59:08.it was today. Yesterday you had the highest temperature which was 21.1

:59:09. > :59:12.Celsius. Today, we're looking at 13 Celsius to 16 Celsius. This evening

:59:13. > :59:15.and overnight the winds starts to ease and becomes more of a breeze so

:59:16. > :59:19.not particularly strong. There will be areas of cloud thick enough to

:59:20. > :59:22.produce drizzle and in the countryside, it will be cold enough

:59:23. > :59:25.here and there for a touch of frost. These temperatures you can see

:59:26. > :59:29.represent towns and cities. So not as low. High pressure still very

:59:30. > :59:37.much in charge of our weather tomorrow. Look at the distinct lack

:59:38. > :59:42.of isobars. So if you're along the East Coast, you will notice the

:59:43. > :59:45.wind. Hardly a breath of wind. Still cloud at times and tomorrow will be

:59:46. > :59:49.a cloudier day than it will be today, but nonetheless, there will

:59:50. > :59:55.be sunshine around. Temperature wise, we are looking at nine to 16

:59:56. > :59:59.Celsius. As we move from Tuesday and into Wednesday, there will be clear

:00:00. > :00:02.skies by night. Temperatures fulling to two Celsius, maybe lower, some of

:00:03. > :00:05.us higher. Again, there will be a touch of frost under the clear

:00:06. > :00:09.skies. A lot of dry weather on Wednesday. However, as the wind will

:00:10. > :00:12.have changed direction, there will be more cloud coming this across

:00:13. > :00:19.northern and central parts of Scotland with rain. Hardly a breath

:00:20. > :00:21.of wind down the East Coast. As we move further west, we're back into

:00:22. > :00:27.the sunshine once again. Hello.

:00:28. > :00:28.It's Monday. It's 10am.

:00:29. > :00:30.I'm Victoria Derbyshire. An investigation by this programme

:00:31. > :00:32.discovers more 1,400 mistakes are recorded by maternity staff

:00:33. > :00:35.in hospitals in England every week - some of these errors have

:00:36. > :00:47.life-changing consequences I'm angry and always going to be

:00:48. > :00:50.angry because they've taken my son's life away from him. There's no

:00:51. > :00:55.reason why he shouldn't be here today and I have to live with that

:00:56. > :00:56.for the rest of my life. Every day I have to live with the fact that I'm

:00:57. > :00:59.a victim of the NHS. Let us know your stories

:01:00. > :01:01.about giving birth in a maternity unit and also your experiences

:01:02. > :01:05.if you work in one. Emmanuel Macron will be the next

:01:06. > :01:07.president of France after defeating At 39 - he will be the youngest

:01:08. > :01:13.leader France has ever had. He says there is an enormous task

:01:14. > :01:24.ahead. I'm really happy because Emmanuel

:01:25. > :01:28.Macron is a good solution, Aidid choice, to keep up live in France.

:01:29. > :01:32.We love Europe. I'm happy about this result. It means confidence, it

:01:33. > :01:39.means the future, France is not dead, France is not an old country

:01:40. > :01:47.dying, France has hope. We be live in Paris as the President-elect

:01:48. > :01:48.attendance a victory in Europe commemoration day.

:01:49. > :01:51.We'll tell you what his victory means for us in the UK

:01:52. > :01:55.And - after nearly three years in captivity, more than 80 Chibok

:01:56. > :01:57.schoogirls have been released by Boko Haram Islamist

:01:58. > :02:01.We'll bring you their story before 11.

:02:02. > :02:08.the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:02:09. > :02:10.France's newly elected President, Emmanuel Macron, has promised

:02:11. > :02:12.to heal the country's divisions following his resounding

:02:13. > :02:14.victory over the far-right leader, Marine Le Pen,

:02:15. > :02:17.The pro-European candidate secured 66 percent of the vote

:02:18. > :02:20.and at just 39 years old, he will become the country's

:02:21. > :02:29.This morning he will attend his 1st public event in Paris.

:02:30. > :02:31.The BBC understands the Conservatives will recommit

:02:32. > :02:33.to cutting net migration to the "tens of thousands"

:02:34. > :02:36.Yesterday the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, refused to say

:02:37. > :02:39.whether the pledge - which was also in the party's 2010

:02:40. > :02:45.and 2015 manifestos - would be repeated.

:02:46. > :02:47.Meanwhile, Ukip says it would cut net migration

:02:48. > :02:52.Labour says it would extend the ban on television adverts

:02:53. > :02:55.for unhealthy food and sweets until the nine o'clock watershed.

:02:56. > :02:58.The Conservatives say Britain already has the strictest

:02:59. > :03:02.But Labour says its strategy aims to halve the number of overweight

:03:03. > :03:09.An investigation by this programme has discovered at least 1,000

:03:10. > :03:12.mistakes are made in England's NHS maternity units every week.

:03:13. > :03:15.The most serious incidents include the avoidable deaths of mothers

:03:16. > :03:21.and babies as a result of errors by midwives and doctors.

:03:22. > :03:23.North Korea says it's detained a FOURTH American citizen

:03:24. > :03:27.on suspicion of hostile acts against the state.

:03:28. > :03:30.Kim Hak Song is understood to have worked for the Pyongyang University

:03:31. > :03:32.of Science and Technology and was detained on Saturday.

:03:33. > :03:37.No details of any alleged offences was given.

:03:38. > :03:40.A 2 year old girl is being treated in hospital after suffering serious

:03:41. > :03:43.injuries to her head and body in what's been described

:03:44. > :03:46.Police say several animals managed to get into the garden

:03:47. > :03:49.where she was playing in the Toxteth area of Liverpool.

:03:50. > :03:52.Ten dogs have been seized from a nearby house and a man living

:03:53. > :04:06.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30.

:04:07. > :04:14.Thank you Coleen who has e-mailed detailing her experiences about

:04:15. > :04:20.giving birth. I was an induced labour, my baby was left stuck for

:04:21. > :04:27.10 hours, I was rushed into theatre, I lost a litre of blood post birth,

:04:28. > :04:32.after giving Earth, my husband, my new baby daughter and I were left

:04:33. > :04:34.waiting in a storage room. -- after giving birth.

:04:35. > :04:36.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

:04:37. > :04:39.use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and If you text, you will be charged

:04:40. > :04:45.Jose Mourinho made 8 changes to his Manchester United team that

:04:46. > :04:47.lost to Arsenal at the Emirates yesterday as they prioritse

:04:48. > :04:50.the Europa League as a route into the Champions League next season.

:04:51. > :04:53.It's the first time that he has lost to Arsene Wenger

:04:54. > :04:55.in the Premier League, either at United or in his

:04:56. > :04:59.Granit Xhaka and Danny Welbeck scored the goals.

:05:00. > :05:02.The Gunners are still 6 points outside the Champions league places,

:05:03. > :05:07.United have written off a top four finish, so Mourinho didn't seem too

:05:08. > :05:20.It is the 1st time... I left the Emirates, they were crying, they

:05:21. > :05:25.were walking the streets with their head low so finally today, they

:05:26. > :05:32.sing, the scarves, it is nice for them! That will while the Gunners

:05:33. > :05:34.fans a little bit. after a goalless draw

:05:35. > :05:37.at home to Southampton. Fraser Forster saved James Milner's

:05:38. > :05:40.second half penalty - the first time in 8 years that he's

:05:41. > :05:43.failed to score from the spot The 1995 Premier League Champions

:05:44. > :05:46.Blackburn Rovers will be League One side next season after a nailbiting

:05:47. > :05:48.final day in the Championship. All the drama was down

:05:49. > :05:52.at the bottom with one big club It was between Rovers,

:05:53. > :05:55.Birmingham City and Nottingham Forest for the final relegation spot

:05:56. > :05:58.and all of them won, Rover's 3-1 win against Brentford

:05:59. > :06:01.not enough to stop them slipping into the third tier

:06:02. > :06:06.of English football. They finished level on points

:06:07. > :06:08.with Forest but go down Manager Tony Mowbray says

:06:09. > :06:14.he would like to stay and help Rovers try and get back up next

:06:15. > :06:17.season The automatic promotion spots

:06:18. > :06:19.to the Premier League had already been settled

:06:20. > :06:21.but it was Newcastle United who clinched the Championship

:06:22. > :06:25.title on the final day. A three-nil win over Barnsley

:06:26. > :06:28.was enough to clinch the trophy after rivals Brighton conceded

:06:29. > :06:33.a late equaliser at Aston Villa. Reading, Sheffield Wednesday,

:06:34. > :06:42.Huddersfield and Fulham will contest the final Premier League place

:06:43. > :06:44.through the play-offs. Remember that tragic story

:06:45. > :06:47.of the Brazillian club who lost 19 of their players in an aeroplance

:06:48. > :06:49.crash last year. Well seven months on,

:06:50. > :06:54.Chapecoense are celebrating a title. The team had won the State

:06:55. > :06:57.Championship last season - and with a team made up

:06:58. > :07:15.of youngsters and loan players - We did a great job, we are very

:07:16. > :07:20.happy for our work and we are very happy we can honour the Warriors,

:07:21. > :07:22.they are not here any more but we can honour them with this title. It

:07:23. > :07:25.is for them. And just a fortnight after returning

:07:26. > :07:28.from a 15 month doping ban Maria Sharapova will book a spot

:07:29. > :07:30.in Wimbledon qualifying if she wins her second round match

:07:31. > :07:33.at the Madrid Open today. She beat Mirjana Lucic-Baroni to set

:07:34. > :07:36.up what could be a prickly encounter The Canadian has called for

:07:37. > :08:06.the Russian to be banned for life. Let's talk to Norman Smith, we are

:08:07. > :08:17.continuing with our election coverage.

:08:18. > :08:24.I think the Prime Minister will be pressed today about the issue of

:08:25. > :08:27.immigration, she will recommit to this target of getting net migration

:08:28. > :08:34.down to the tens of thousands, a target which they have missed again

:08:35. > :08:37.and again and again. What Theresa May seems determined to stick with

:08:38. > :08:42.it because it's all an issue of trust, I think is her view. If she

:08:43. > :08:46.is to convince voters she is serious about getting the number of migrants

:08:47. > :08:50.coming to Britain down then she cannot abandon this pledge,

:08:51. > :08:54.particularly when she's having to negotiate Brexit and also it's

:08:55. > :08:59.become a sort of personal thing for her I think. As Home Secretary she

:09:00. > :09:03.was so closely identified with this pledge if she was to give it up now

:09:04. > :09:07.it would be viewed almost as a personal defeat. However, Ukip this

:09:08. > :09:12.morning trying to pile on the pressure, saying they want a

:09:13. > :09:21.migration policy which is a sort of 1 person in, 1 person out policy, so

:09:22. > :09:24.there would be 0 net migration and their leader Paul Nuttall, in the

:09:25. > :09:29.past few minutes, in effect said you cannot trust Theresa May on

:09:30. > :09:34.immigration. I can announce today that Ukip will go into the selection

:09:35. > :09:47.with a policy of balanced migration which means 0 net immigration over

:09:48. > :09:51.the next 5 year period. We have to wait until we get the Tory manifesto

:09:52. > :09:54.until we see exactly what the commitment will be because it will

:09:55. > :09:59.be interesting frankly to see whether there is a specific yet to

:10:00. > :10:02.meet this tens of thousands target or whether it disappears off into a

:10:03. > :10:05.long ambition some work down the line in never never land. Norman,

:10:06. > :10:08.thank you. Okay - also this general election,

:10:09. > :10:11.back, not by popular demand, but because we couldn't think

:10:12. > :10:13.of anything else - every day until June 8th we'll be

:10:14. > :10:16.highlighting the best cock-up, gaffe or highly amusing moment

:10:17. > :10:22.from the campaign, with Norman. We need a general election and we

:10:23. > :10:49.need 1 now. Take it away, Norman... This, the

:10:50. > :10:53.humble selfie stick is pretty much ubiquitous on the campaign trail.

:10:54. > :10:57.Wherever you go you will see politicians with 1 of these being

:10:58. > :11:01.thrust in front of politicians, the modern day equivalent of having to

:11:02. > :11:04.kiss the baby, politicians have to have that selfie moment. Some of

:11:05. > :11:08.them are getting a little bit familiar with these selfie moments,

:11:09. > :11:09.here is Jeremy Corbyn when he was out at Leicester University over the

:11:10. > :11:42.weekend. Someone else came up for a selfie

:11:43. > :11:58.and he started mothering them. Concentrate! Yes, that's better!

:11:59. > :12:00.Yes! Showing his best side! And then there was a curious moment when

:12:01. > :12:04.another bloke came up and I think said to him, the last time I met you

:12:05. > :12:06.was in a toilet in Leicester! Charming.

:12:07. > :12:09.We met in the gents' toilets at Leicester University.

:12:10. > :12:12.Although I don't think we should say that on-air!

:12:13. > :12:25.To give Jeremy Corbyn his credit, he seems to go with it remarkably good

:12:26. > :12:30.spirits, doesn't necessarily mean it will do him any good at the

:12:31. > :12:33.election. Do you remember the many found on moment when Ed Miliband

:12:34. > :12:42.came off the boss and he was grabbed by that hen party? Before we go. Let

:12:43. > :12:45.me give you another classic what the... Moment. You're never going to

:12:46. > :12:53.believe this. Iain Duncan Smith doing Eminem. Remind us of these

:12:54. > :12:59.words. I only said that, you were talking about Eminem -- Eminem, lose

:13:00. > :13:04.yourself lyrics, from Diane Abbot. Can we have some? It's halfway down,

:13:05. > :13:08.he says, he opens its mouth but the words don't come out, he's joking

:13:09. > :13:18.now, everybody is talking now, the clocks run out! LAUGHTER amazing.

:13:19. > :13:19.Whatever next? Theresa May does Beyonce. That would be good.

:13:20. > :13:35.We're taking our programme on the road - visiting

:13:36. > :13:37.forgotten Britain during the general election campaign.

:13:38. > :13:39.Tomorrow we're in Camborne in Cornwall - one of the most

:13:40. > :13:42.deprived areas in England where 7% of people have no central heating.

:13:43. > :13:44.We'll be asking people there what election issues

:13:45. > :13:49.The NHS is one of the issues that you tell us will influence your vote

:13:50. > :13:52.the most in next month's general election - second only

:13:53. > :13:55.A group which represents health trusts and hospitals says

:13:56. > :13:57.politicians must address rapidly growing concerns over

:13:58. > :13:59.the NHS workforce in the general election campaign.

:14:00. > :14:01.NHS Providers says a combination of pay restraint, the impact

:14:02. > :14:04.of leaving the European Union and the lack of a decent

:14:05. > :14:08.long-term workforce strategy are taking their toll.

:14:09. > :14:11.NHS Providers say lower paid workers are leaving the sector to stack

:14:12. > :14:17.Let's talk to a group of people who all work for the NHS and also

:14:18. > :14:22.Dr Mark Porter, a consultant anaesthetist and chair

:14:23. > :14:29.Professor Geeta Nargund, a senior fertility consultant.

:14:30. > :14:31.Dr Zeshan Qureshi, a paediatric registrar, Sandy Wright,

:14:32. > :14:35.a medical graduate, starting as a junior doctor in August.

:14:36. > :14:38.Charlotte Wilson, an anaesthetic nurse.

:14:39. > :14:44.Dr Rishi Dhir, an orthopaedic registrar.

:14:45. > :14:50.Welcome to all of you and thank you somewhat for your patience, I

:14:51. > :14:56.appreciated. How short-staffed or certain parts of the NHS? Very

:14:57. > :15:00.short-staffed, talk to any junior doctor, the experiences of rotor

:15:01. > :15:04.gaps, you have on-call rotors with emergency staff and ships designated

:15:05. > :15:09.that there are gaps for people should be. Go to emergency

:15:10. > :15:12.departments, short staffing is rampant, vacancies in general

:15:13. > :15:17.practice 5 times higher than they were some years ago, individual

:15:18. > :15:20.practices running out of GPs to be able to give services. Do you know

:15:21. > :15:23.people who have left the NHS to stack shelves? I know people who

:15:24. > :15:28.have gone abroad because there are better pay offers... But not to

:15:29. > :15:33.stack shelves, is that true? I have no doubt Chris has a few examples of

:15:34. > :15:36.bad but the thing you must remember, the stability of employment, the

:15:37. > :15:40.stability of what people see as their commitment to the NHS is

:15:41. > :15:45.affected by long-term pay restraint, pay restraint is also known as pay

:15:46. > :15:51.cut, an average of 12% pay cuts while the restraint policy has been

:15:52. > :15:55.running... Over the last 7 years? Scheduled to carry on for another 3

:15:56. > :16:00.years, that has a long-term effect on morale and commitment to the NHS.

:16:01. > :16:03.You can, I spoke to the Chief Executive of the trust recently and

:16:04. > :16:07.she says she is show short-staffed they are sending people out to

:16:08. > :16:13.Spain, the Philippines, to recruit doctors and nurses, it is happening.

:16:14. > :16:17.It is, trusts send out to Spain, Greece, the countries in Europe and

:16:18. > :16:19.further afield, there have been many nurses over the years and care

:16:20. > :16:23.workers coming from the Philippines and other countries, the UK needs

:16:24. > :16:27.workers from around the world to come here and do the Surrey

:16:28. > :16:32.important jobs in the NHS and social care. Just on this issue of people

:16:33. > :16:35.leaping to stack shelves in supermarkets, Chris and represents

:16:36. > :16:39.NHS providers, representing the trusts in England says the trusts

:16:40. > :16:43.and saying that, employers are saying they are aware of staff who

:16:44. > :16:46.have left because of pay. The government reaction to it, the

:16:47. > :16:49.conservative reaction I should say in this election campaign is it

:16:50. > :16:55.needs a strong economy to deliver at the money to pay out the staff in

:16:56. > :16:57.the public sector but we haven't heard yet for the parties want to do

:16:58. > :17:05.about funding for the NHS. You say you're cancelling three hip

:17:06. > :17:09.or knee operations a week. Why? The reason we're doing this because we

:17:10. > :17:13.don't have beds availablement to bring a patient in safely for an

:17:14. > :17:17.operation, you not only need to have the staff available to do the

:17:18. > :17:20.operation, you need to recover them appropriately afterwards for to or

:17:21. > :17:24.three or however many days it takes. The beds have been cut year upon

:17:25. > :17:27.year in the NHS. I wanted to go back to what you said about staff

:17:28. > :17:30.shortages. There is a massive problem with morale in the NHS.

:17:31. > :17:37.There is a recruitment and retention problem at the moment and I think a

:17:38. > :17:40.lot of this comes to not only competency and trust. Doctors have

:17:41. > :17:44.lost massive trust in this Government. We have seen the first

:17:45. > :17:47.junior doctors strikes in a generation and nurses balloted and

:17:48. > :17:53.accessing foodbanks for the possibility of strikes and we saw a

:17:54. > :17:56.landmark case last Friday on whistle-blowing, junior doctors have

:17:57. > :18:00.been cheated out of whistle-blowing protection from this Government

:18:01. > :18:03.since 2015 after the Francis Report into Mid-Staffordshire and that was

:18:04. > :18:07.thrown out at one of the highest courts of appeal on Friday. This is

:18:08. > :18:10.worrying me as a doctor who is near the end of his training about that.

:18:11. > :18:15.What's the best and worst thing about your job at the moment as a

:18:16. > :18:20.paediatric registrar? Well, the worst thing that I have seen

:18:21. > :18:24.recently is that for the first time since 2003 the death rate amongst

:18:25. > :18:28.children under one is going up. That's going up in a country that's

:18:29. > :18:35.the fifth biggest economy in the world. We have an under one

:18:36. > :18:39.mortality rate that is 15th out of 19 in western countries. Why do you

:18:40. > :18:47.say that's happening? What Mark and the BMA talk about in terms of an

:18:48. > :18:51.under funded, under-resourced NHS is important. We need the Government to

:18:52. > :18:55.look at every policy through the prism of does this harm children?

:18:56. > :19:00.One in five children now are living in poverty. In the fifth biggest

:19:01. > :19:03.economy in the world and all party Parliamentary group stated that

:19:04. > :19:07.three million children are at risk of hunger during the school

:19:08. > :19:16.holidays. They get free meals during term time and for me, I'm diagnosing

:19:17. > :19:20.children with scurvy. How often does that happen? That happened a few

:19:21. > :19:24.weeks ago. One child? I haven't seen it before in my career and children

:19:25. > :19:29.are going into hospital with malnutrition. Scurvy and

:19:30. > :19:38.malnutrition are being diagnosed more commonly. Charlotte Wilson, you

:19:39. > :19:42.are an anaesthetic practitioner. They are not scrabbling around for

:19:43. > :19:47.money there, are they? I'm glad to say I have had a good experience in

:19:48. > :19:53.my trust and because of their sort of charity that they have, they do

:19:54. > :19:59.have a lot of extra income that many trust would not benefit from. So,

:20:00. > :20:05.perhaps not in my immediate experience at the moment, but

:20:06. > :20:09.certainly, in previous posts, you know, there are struggles. Your

:20:10. > :20:14.message to politicians from whichever party would be in this

:20:15. > :20:18.election campaign? I think training up future healthcare professionals

:20:19. > :20:24.is really important. That's our sort of long-term vision. Bursaries were

:20:25. > :20:28.cut a few years ago now and personally, without a bursary, I was

:20:29. > :20:33.one of the last to go through with a bursary scheme, I could not have

:20:34. > :20:38.afforded to train and I would not have qualified and be in working for

:20:39. > :20:46.an NHS Trust if that wasn't the case. And in sort of the last year

:20:47. > :20:51.there has been a 23% drop in nursing applications across-the-board and

:20:52. > :20:55.that's also overseas students applying to come and train here so

:20:56. > :20:58.that's really concerning especially... What's the knock on

:20:59. > :21:03.effect of that going to be, do you think? That drop in nursing

:21:04. > :21:06.applications? Well, I think it will have a knock on effect. Quite

:21:07. > :21:11.clearly, I think there are a couple of general points here that the

:21:12. > :21:17.doctors, the healthcare professionals, nurses included, they

:21:18. > :21:23.need to be empowered and they need to feel that they are appreciated.

:21:24. > :21:27.OK. And it's quite important that we can't just rely on goodwill all the

:21:28. > :21:30.time because the doctors and the nurse love the National Health

:21:31. > :21:34.Service and they are there could do a great job for this institution, we

:21:35. > :21:38.can't just rely on the goodwill and we need to make sure they are

:21:39. > :21:42.partners in the NHS and the second point is that what Hugh said, we

:21:43. > :21:47.need people from outside and I think we have more than 50,000 European

:21:48. > :21:51.nationals working in the NHS at the moment as doctors, nurses and

:21:52. > :21:56.researchers and we need to think about that when we're talking about

:21:57. > :21:59.Brexit and how we retain them. Just on that first point. I think it's

:22:00. > :22:05.really important to pay and value our staff well, but going further,

:22:06. > :22:11.the NHS is actually making its staff sick which I find quite frightening.

:22:12. > :22:14.Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety is rife. Doing

:22:15. > :22:17.paediatrics and looking after sick and vulnerable children is very

:22:18. > :22:21.difficult, but having a 12-and-a-half hour shift where you

:22:22. > :22:25.have to break, people fall asleep at the wheel, it's really quite scary.

:22:26. > :22:29.No wonder people are being scared off. Has that happened to you, 12

:22:30. > :22:34.hour shift, driving home, falling asleep? I felt too tired getting

:22:35. > :22:42.into my car andnded up having to get a taxi home and a few hours

:22:43. > :22:47.previously I was making life and death decisions with sick children.

:22:48. > :22:49.You're going to become a junior Government two months after the next

:22:50. > :22:53.Government gets in. What are the challenges for you Speaking to

:22:54. > :22:57.friends who are starting as junior doctors, maybe they've done one or

:22:58. > :23:00.two years, the sentiment coming from them is they're holding off applying

:23:01. > :23:05.for further training. They're going to take time out and maybe locum and

:23:06. > :23:08.it is a combination of things which we've talked about, morale issues

:23:09. > :23:11.and the pay issues and so they want to sort of just wait and see what

:23:12. > :23:15.the effect is going to be before they commit themselves to ten years

:23:16. > :23:20.of training and that's one of the reasons that's leading to these gaps

:23:21. > :23:23.in the rota is you're not getting these professionals through on to

:23:24. > :23:26.the training programmes that could provide the support to probably

:23:27. > :23:30.people like myself as new junior doctors coming into the system and

:23:31. > :23:37.it's going to be a... Employing locums is costly. The rate is much

:23:38. > :23:40.higher for a freelance stand-in. I don't think you can blame these

:23:41. > :23:45.individuals for taking a step. If I'm to the going to get paid very

:23:46. > :23:50.well, I'm not going to get valued, the morale is low, maybe I should

:23:51. > :23:53.take time out and consider an alternative career. Hugh, we know

:23:54. > :23:58.about what some parties are saying they would do with the NHS and with

:23:59. > :24:03.social care? Well, Labour, last week, said they would raise the cap

:24:04. > :24:07.on public sector pay. Currently 1%, set by the Conservative Government

:24:08. > :24:10.to go through to 2020. They would raise it to allow pay increases of

:24:11. > :24:15.above that, more in line with inflation. They say they would pay

:24:16. > :24:18.for that by raising corporation tax after cuts over the last few years.

:24:19. > :24:23.But actually they weren't very clear about how much money it would cost

:24:24. > :24:26.and whether corporation tax receipts had been pledged to other policies.

:24:27. > :24:31.The Liberal Democrats said at the weekend they would put a penny on

:24:32. > :24:37.income tax, a penny in the pound, that raises in total ?6 billion over

:24:38. > :24:43.the next, by 2020, you get there. The trouble is, how far will that go

:24:44. > :24:48.given the pressures of keeping up with demand and this raises a bigger

:24:49. > :24:52.question - does the NHS and social care need rather more than what the

:24:53. > :24:56.parties are talking about? We spend just under 10% of national income on

:24:57. > :25:00.health, France and Germany is just over 11, but that difference could

:25:01. > :25:04.be around ?20 billion a year. So I think there is a big debate about

:25:05. > :25:07.all these issues about sustaining the NHS and social care and paying

:25:08. > :25:12.staff. The Conservatives haven't said what they would do about

:25:13. > :25:15.spending. They did say they'd try to get 10,000 more professionals in

:25:16. > :25:18.mental health over the next few years, but that would have to come

:25:19. > :25:23.from existing planned NHS budget increases.

:25:24. > :25:28.Dr Mark Porter, is it simply a lot more money? Is it as simple as that?

:25:29. > :25:37.The key thing underlying alling the stories we heard about the NHS being

:25:38. > :25:40.at breaking point. We spend less than leading European economies with

:25:41. > :25:44.whom we compare ourselves. Compared to the long-term trend in the NHS,

:25:45. > :25:48.the spending increase each year are lower than they have been in the

:25:49. > :25:52.history of the NHS. At the moment, the amount of money spent per

:25:53. > :25:56.patient in the NHS is going down in real terms and those spending

:25:57. > :25:58.decision which are actual decisions taken by successive governments are

:25:59. > :26:02.what is driving the NHS to its breaking point at the moment. The

:26:03. > :26:07.key message here is that the general election, everybody says it's about

:26:08. > :26:09.Brexit and about giving ourselves a negotiating position, that's

:26:10. > :26:13.completely wrong. The general election is the moment when public

:26:14. > :26:18.services are reset for the next five years. Where we look at where we

:26:19. > :26:21.want to be in five years time with the NHS that we have now and the one

:26:22. > :26:27.that we want then and at the moment it is hard to see any party that's

:26:28. > :26:29.taking that long-term step back view to give a proper investment in the

:26:30. > :26:35.nation's health. Thank you. More than 80 Nigerian schoolgirls

:26:36. > :26:38.freed in a prisoner swap deal with the Islamist group Boko Haram

:26:39. > :26:41.are expected to be reunited The girls from the town of Chibok -

:26:42. > :26:47.who were among more then 200 kidnapped three years ago -

:26:48. > :26:50.met their President Muhammadu Buhari Let's speak to two people now

:26:51. > :26:57.who say there's more work to be done Reverend Enoch Mark

:26:58. > :27:00.joins me on the phone. Two of his daughters were kidnapped

:27:01. > :27:29.in Chibok and Aisha Yesufu is Tell us your reaction to the 80

:27:30. > :27:39.girls being released. Presently the Government have tried but I know the

:27:40. > :27:43.Government can do more than this. We are hoping - we asking the

:27:44. > :27:59.Government to release the whole girls. I can't quite hear you. I'm

:28:00. > :28:04.going to talk to Aisha Yesufu. Your reaction to when you heard that the

:28:05. > :28:10.80 girls were released. The first reaction was one of joy, happiness

:28:11. > :28:15.and elation that 82 girls of our girls have been rescued. The last

:28:16. > :28:22.time we had any negotiation was in October 2016 when the Government

:28:23. > :28:28.then said to us that the girls would be brought out very soon. So when we

:28:29. > :28:35.heard the 82 were brought back, it was a joyous moment. There was a

:28:36. > :28:48.tinge of... We have 113 that are out there and they are waiting to come

:28:49. > :28:56.back home. We have to continue... Each and every one of them must be

:28:57. > :29:00.accounted for. Yes, 113 girls left out there. What do you want the

:29:01. > :29:06.Government to do to try and negotiate their release? Well, we

:29:07. > :29:13.want the Government to put in obthe front burner. To give it the maximum

:29:14. > :29:24.priority that it needs. There should be intelligence gathering. We've

:29:25. > :29:30.always said to rescue our Chibok we need military operation. So the

:29:31. > :29:34.Government needs to put this as a priority and need to ensure that the

:29:35. > :29:40.Chibok girls, each and everyone of them is accounted for, put

:29:41. > :29:44.everything in place to ensure that. We want our girls to get education

:29:45. > :29:49.and not left behind. The Chibok girls are no longer Nigerian

:29:50. > :29:54.citizens, they are world citizens. They represent the girls that are

:29:55. > :30:01.trying it get education. They represent the repressed people.

:30:02. > :30:08.Girls should get education and that's what the Chibok girls did.

:30:09. > :30:15.They have spent over three years in captivity for doing just that.

:30:16. > :30:19.Actions speak louder than words. Sometimes we look at Chibok... Thank

:30:20. > :30:34.you very much. Thank you for your time.

:30:35. > :30:37.Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:30:38. > :30:38.France's newly elected President, Emmanuel Macron, has promised

:30:39. > :30:40.to heal the country's divisions following his resounding

:30:41. > :30:43.The pro-European candidate is attending his first

:30:44. > :30:45.public event in Paris, after receiving two-thirds

:30:46. > :30:47.of the vote in the run-off against the far-right's Marine Le

:30:48. > :30:54.At 39, he's the country's youngest president.

:30:55. > :31:00.He will attend at the commemoration with the current President Francois

:31:01. > :31:02.Hollande. The BBC understands

:31:03. > :31:04.the Conservatives will recommit to cutting net migration

:31:05. > :31:06.to the "tens of thousands" Yesterday the Home Secretary,

:31:07. > :31:10.Amber Rudd, refused to say whether the pledge -

:31:11. > :31:12.which was also in the party's 2010 and 2015 manifestos -

:31:13. > :31:14.would be repeated. Meanwhile, UKIP says it

:31:15. > :31:16.would cut net migration Labour says it would extend the ban

:31:17. > :31:20.on television adverts for unhealthy food and sweets

:31:21. > :31:22.until the nine o'clock watershed. The Conservatives say Britain

:31:23. > :31:24.already has the strictest But Labour says its strategy aims

:31:25. > :31:28.to halve the number of overweight A 2 year old girl is being treated

:31:29. > :31:36.in hospital after suffering serious injuries to her head and body

:31:37. > :31:38.in what's been described Police say several animals managed

:31:39. > :31:42.to get into the garden where she was playing in the Toxteth

:31:43. > :31:45.area of Liverpool. Ten dogs have been seized

:31:46. > :31:49.from a nearby house and a man living Facebook has placed adverts

:31:50. > :31:55.in British newspapers to provide practical advice on how to spot

:31:56. > :31:57.fake news online. The website has also closed

:31:58. > :32:00.thousands of accounts linked to false stories ahead

:32:01. > :32:03.of the general election. The company advises users to "be

:32:04. > :32:06.sceptical of headlines" The move comes after it was accused

:32:07. > :32:12.of helping to spread fake news during last year's US Presidential

:32:13. > :32:17.election. That's a summary of the latest news,

:32:18. > :32:20.join me for BBC Newsroom Here are the morning's sport

:32:21. > :32:25.headlines now with Olly Foster. These are our headlines this

:32:26. > :32:27.morning, Arsene Wenger saw his Arsenal side beat

:32:28. > :32:30.a Jose Mourinho team for the first They won 2-nil at the Emirates

:32:31. > :32:34.but remain in sixth, six points Former Premier League Champions

:32:35. > :32:38.Blackburn Rovers have been relegated to League One on the last day

:32:39. > :32:41.of the Championship. Newcastle won the title yesterday

:32:42. > :32:45.and Reading, Fulham, Huddersfield and Sheffield Wddnesday

:32:46. > :32:52.will contest the play-offs And just a fortnight after returning

:32:53. > :32:55.from a 15 month doping ban, Maria Sharapova will book a spot

:32:56. > :32:57.in Wimbledon qualifying if she wins her second round match

:32:58. > :33:00.at the Madrid Open today. She faces Eugenie Bouchard,

:33:01. > :33:03.who has called for the Russian That's your sport, I'll be back with

:33:04. > :33:14.more on BBC News after 11 AM. Emmanuel Macron isn't yet 40,

:33:15. > :33:16.had never before run for public office and only

:33:17. > :33:19.founded his political He's now the new

:33:20. > :33:21.President of France. Making him the youngest

:33:22. > :33:23.since Napolean and the first not to be from either of the two main

:33:24. > :33:42.parties. A few moments ago the outgoing

:33:43. > :33:45.President Francois Hollande and Emmanuel Macron embraced before

:33:46. > :33:50.laying a wreath at a victory in Europe commemoration in the centre

:33:51. > :33:56.of Paris. It was Mr Macron's 1st official function as the new French

:33:57. > :33:58.President elect and he has bin grading veterans during

:33:59. > :34:01.commemorations marking the end of the Second World War in Europe along

:34:02. > :34:04.with the man he replaced at the end of the week, Francois Hollande.

:34:05. > :34:06.Our correspondent James Reynolds is in Paris where the ceremony

:34:07. > :34:20.James... The Tory, Francois Hollande and Emmanuel Macron just a few

:34:21. > :34:25.metres beneath me, in the stand, going to greet various guests are

:34:26. > :34:29.not the 1st indication that Emmanuel Macron has had of the job he

:34:30. > :34:37.inherits, 1 of the most powerful in Europe. He stands alongside Francois

:34:38. > :34:41.Hollande in this morning's ceremonies, at the Arctic Triomphe

:34:42. > :34:47.behind me, this was built to remember some of Napoleon's battles

:34:48. > :34:50.and Emmanuel Macron becomes the youngest French leader since

:34:51. > :34:55.Napoleon. A reminder of the weight of the task he faces. They are

:34:56. > :34:58.commemorating victory in Europe Day, victory against Nazi Germany and it

:34:59. > :35:04.was the alliance that France and Germany formed in the years after

:35:05. > :35:07.the Second World War which led to the creation of the European Union a

:35:08. > :35:11.little later, that union is struggling but Emmanuel Macron

:35:12. > :35:16.downgrading people behind me has promised to try to report that

:35:17. > :35:19.project, to work with Angela Merkel to bring back the strength of the

:35:20. > :35:24.European Union which has been damaged since the Brexit vote last

:35:25. > :35:28.year. He sees himself as a pro- European, pro- immigration but he

:35:29. > :35:30.will have a huge task ahead of him. Thank you, James.

:35:31. > :35:33.It's probably fair to say that quite a few French people were uninspired

:35:34. > :35:37.by the two candidates for President - a third of French voters either

:35:38. > :35:39.abstained, chose neither candidate or spoiled their ballot.

:35:40. > :35:42.Turnout was the lowest in 50 years - though at 74% far higher than in

:35:43. > :35:46.We can speak now to some people who say they've reluctantly voted

:35:47. > :35:50.Amelie Turgis, a French mum and accountant

:35:51. > :35:54.Arthur Gerard, a French citizen living in London

:35:55. > :35:58.And Ines Seddiki, who is a youth worker

:35:59. > :36:13.Welcome to you. Why were you a reluctant footer for Macron? Good

:36:14. > :36:22.morning. I wasn't really convinced by his programme, I'm more on the

:36:23. > :36:27.left-wing of the political scene but I decided to vote for him because I

:36:28. > :36:31.didn't want Marine Le Pen to be our next President, that's the reason

:36:32. > :36:38.why. What about you, and Millie? Similar, really. I voted for the

:36:39. > :36:45.Socialist candidate in the 1st round and I didn't really like Macron's

:36:46. > :36:49.programme because he didn't have anything about ecology or anything

:36:50. > :36:56.like that which matters to me. Arthur, for use? For you it's going

:36:57. > :37:03.to be Macron? There is no question about that but I have to say, I feel

:37:04. > :37:08.pretty much in line with the other persons, exactly. And I think he

:37:09. > :37:12.also doesn't really represent any sort of renewal of the political

:37:13. > :37:17.landscape, to me, he feels like someone who has been growing in that

:37:18. > :37:26.same sort of political environment. And I don't feel like he will be

:37:27. > :37:30.able to deliver the promise of having a brand-new way of doing

:37:31. > :37:37.politics, really. IU per per to give him a chance? I wish him luck, of

:37:38. > :37:42.course! We are not savages. But what I want to say is that I think he was

:37:43. > :37:47.troubled to get a majority because... That's his next challenge

:37:48. > :37:50.and to explain that to our audience, next month Parliamentary elections,

:37:51. > :37:55.he's got to try and get some sort of majority if you can. He has no

:37:56. > :38:01.party, it's a movement, there is no party, no base there. Yes, and

:38:02. > :38:05.actually, I think, this is recent news, I think he said he was

:38:06. > :38:11.actually not so much in favour of forcing people out of their

:38:12. > :38:15.traditional parties but he has to compose with a Labour people coming

:38:16. > :38:17.from traditional parties, how do you make you politics when you have

:38:18. > :38:23.people who had been in this same kind of environment for decades. How

:38:24. > :38:28.do you think he's going to, as we said, plenty of people didn't hope

:38:29. > :38:31.or spoiled their ballot papers and 11,000,000 people voted for Marine

:38:32. > :38:38.Le Pen so how will Emmanuel Macron unite France? It's very important

:38:39. > :38:43.what you said. We've been running around like we are giving lessons to

:38:44. > :38:48.the UK, to the United States because we didn't vote for the far right but

:38:49. > :38:53.11,000,000 people voted for Marine Le Pen and it's too much. And so

:38:54. > :38:58.what he tried to do yesterday in his speech, he tried not to point

:38:59. > :39:06.fingers at them, to include them in his presidency, the way he did with

:39:07. > :39:11.all French people during the campaign, he was, what's good with

:39:12. > :39:17.Emmanuel Macron as he has a very inclusive way of campaigning and of

:39:18. > :39:20.doing politics, he doesn't point fingers at anyone and I think that's

:39:21. > :39:26.what he tried to do yesterday and he said he respected the foot of the

:39:27. > :39:34.11,000,000 people, he has heard them, as much as he has heard the

:39:35. > :39:39.people who abstained. -- the vote. Just to prevent Marine Le Pen from

:39:40. > :39:43.being the next President and I think it was important to say that because

:39:44. > :39:48.the people who didn't want to vote in the 1st place because they feared

:39:49. > :39:52.there would be a Labour but tensions, the people who didn't want

:39:53. > :39:58.to hope for Emmanuel Macron use the argument he would take the votes for

:39:59. > :40:03.him and think 65% of the population voted for his programme and I think

:40:04. > :40:07.he did the right thing yesterday, what he said will be acknowledged,

:40:08. > :40:16.he knows that people, a lot voted for him just to put an end to Marine

:40:17. > :40:18.Le Pen. Thank you all so much, we will leave it there. Thank you all.

:40:19. > :40:21.Nice to meet you. An investigation by this programme

:40:22. > :40:24.has found there are at least 1,400 mistakes made in England's NHS

:40:25. > :40:26.maternity units every week. The true figure could be much higher

:40:27. > :40:29.because only 81 out of 132 Trusts in England responded to our Freedom

:40:30. > :40:32.of Information request. The most serious incidents include

:40:33. > :40:34.the avoidable deaths of mothers and babies as a result of errors

:40:35. > :40:39.by midwives and doctors. The Royal College of Midwives says

:40:40. > :40:41.maternity services are heading towards a crisis because of demands

:40:42. > :40:47.on the services. We played you our

:40:48. > :40:48.full report earlier. While hundreds of thousands of women

:40:49. > :40:56.give birth safely in maternity units across England,

:40:57. > :40:59.there are cases where serious Sarah Ellis and her fiance, Adam,

:41:00. > :41:06.lost their baby in 2014. We were left for six hours,

:41:07. > :41:11.we didn't really know anything. They just told us, well,

:41:12. > :41:15.they just reassured us, didn't they? The inquest later showed Sarah

:41:16. > :41:17.should have had an emergency Medical staff failed

:41:18. > :41:23.to act on warning signs, and their son Gino was severely

:41:24. > :41:28.starved of oxygen. I was in the corridor,

:41:29. > :41:32.I was with her mum and dad, and I just said to her mum and dad,

:41:33. > :41:35.I said... I said, "How am I going to tell

:41:36. > :41:44.Sarah that he's not all right?" Gino was placed on a life-support

:41:45. > :41:47.machine but, just days later, Sarah and Adam were advised

:41:48. > :41:52.to withdraw treatment. It's a conversation you never think

:41:53. > :41:56.you're going to have to have, is it? How do you discuss how you're

:41:57. > :41:59.going to end your son's life? The couple decided

:42:00. > :42:01.to take legal action. A coroner's report found

:42:02. > :42:03.the hospital missed four Everybody makes mistakes, I do,

:42:04. > :42:10.we all do, but to see so many people make so many different mistakes

:42:11. > :42:19.within six hours is just shocking. People who you put your trust in,

:42:20. > :42:23.your life is in their hands, and Gino's life was in their hands,

:42:24. > :42:27.and they didn't take care of him. We have to live with the fact that

:42:28. > :42:34.we're a victim of the NHS. So many babies have lost

:42:35. > :42:37.their lives, and so many families have been destroyed because they're

:42:38. > :42:41.not doing their job right. Sarah and Adam got

:42:42. > :42:44.compensation from the Trust. An investigation by this programme

:42:45. > :42:48.has found that at least 1000 mistakes are occurring in England's

:42:49. > :42:54.NHS maternity units each week. We've also found that nearly

:42:55. > :42:57.260 mothers or babies These deaths were either unexpected

:42:58. > :43:03.or could have been avoided. Only 39 out of 81 Trusts

:43:04. > :43:08.responded to this question, so the number of deaths

:43:09. > :43:11.could be much higher. The Royal College of Midwives said

:43:12. > :43:14.safety is being compromised because of the pressure our

:43:15. > :43:18.maternity services are under. We're heading for a crisis

:43:19. > :43:20.in our maternity services. The simple truth is,

:43:21. > :43:23.we do not have enough midwives We can't deliver the safest possible

:43:24. > :43:27.care if we don't have enough midwives and enough doctors working

:43:28. > :43:36.in our services. When you go in to have a baby,

:43:37. > :43:40.you expect, you go in with a baby But we went in with a baby seat

:43:41. > :43:48.and came out with death certificate. Let's talk now to James Titcombe

:43:49. > :43:51.whose nine day old son Joshua died as a result of mistakes

:43:52. > :43:53.in the maternity unit Rachelle Mahapatra, a solicitor

:43:54. > :44:01.who specialises in cases where babies have been left

:44:02. > :44:03.with brain damage. Dr Pat O'Brien, a consultant

:44:04. > :44:15.at the Royal College Welcome all of you, James, firstly,

:44:16. > :44:17.your reaction to our investigation that over a thousand mistakes are

:44:18. > :44:24.being recorded in England paternity units over the next week. We need to

:44:25. > :44:28.encourage organisations to report incidents and we need to be careful

:44:29. > :44:30.how we report this but we need to find out why they're happening, are

:44:31. > :44:37.there any themes that represent systemic risks? Pat O'Brien, how do

:44:38. > :44:40.you respond? It's a terrible tragedy from a couple lose a baby like this

:44:41. > :44:47.and I heart goes out to them. I think it's 1 of the reasons why the

:44:48. > :44:50.Royal Oak at has set up each baby counts campaign, and it aims to

:44:51. > :44:56.reduce the number of stillbirths by 50% over the next few years and we

:44:57. > :44:58.do that by looking at the investigations in Morkel hospitals,

:44:59. > :45:01.look at the lessons learnt and roll them out across the nation and I

:45:02. > :45:06.think that will make a big difference. The most common thing

:45:07. > :45:11.that you see in cases of mistakes in maternity units, what would you say?

:45:12. > :45:14.I would say basically the main concern is that the investigation

:45:15. > :45:19.procedures within hospitals are not deriving enough information and that

:45:20. > :45:24.is the only way that hospitals can learn to actually plug the gaps.

:45:25. > :45:27.There used to be consistency of completion of the investigation of

:45:28. > :45:32.reports... It's not thorough enough, diligent... They are diligent enough

:45:33. > :45:36.in some of the trusts but it's not consistent and James inquiry,

:45:37. > :45:41.following the sad death of his son found that it's not been implemented

:45:42. > :45:44.and so we are in a situation, if there's going to be a national

:45:45. > :45:49.training scheme, which is going to help to improve the experience for

:45:50. > :45:56.patients and may cause people safer, and stop these people dying,

:45:57. > :46:02.unnecessarily or 129 average annual admitted brain injuries in children

:46:03. > :46:06.that we are seeing from the NHS statistics, then things are not

:46:07. > :46:11.going to improve. We need to basically have as much transparency

:46:12. > :46:16.as possible. Absolutely, 1 of the 1st reports of the each baby counts

:46:17. > :46:20.programme find that, for the serious incident investigations were not

:46:21. > :46:23.thorough and a large proportion were failing to involve the parents and I

:46:24. > :46:29.think that was your major point. Absolutely. Joshua died in 2008, of

:46:30. > :46:33.a preventable infection that could have easily been treated at what

:46:34. > :46:37.happened afterwards was even more hard for us because critical records

:46:38. > :46:41.went missing, the investigation report that was done wasn't worth

:46:42. > :46:45.the paper it was written on and very sadly after Joshua died, mothers and

:46:46. > :46:50.babies continue to be at risk up that trust and a number of other

:46:51. > :46:53.babies died for similar reasons. And looking back even before that, the

:46:54. > :46:57.that that unit that unit that should have been an opportunity to learn

:46:58. > :47:01.was in 2004, that wasn't investigated properly and the whole

:47:02. > :47:05.cascade of events carried on. The point about needing to properly

:47:06. > :47:06.investigate and learn and share that learning across the system is

:47:07. > :47:14.important. So if 25% of cases aren't

:47:15. > :47:17.investigated is that a lack of skills amongst those carrying out

:47:18. > :47:21.the investigation, is it a lack of will because they don't really want

:47:22. > :47:25.to know? I don't think it is trying to hide things, I think it is a lack

:47:26. > :47:31.of training and a lack of rigour in the process. Within of the major

:47:32. > :47:35.benefits of this each baby counts campaign will be to look at this and

:47:36. > :47:39.point out that rigour isn't uniform and the first step will be to make

:47:40. > :47:42.sure the serious incident investigations are being carried out

:47:43. > :47:49.in a thorough and open and inclusive way throughout the country. When it

:47:50. > :47:54.comes to compensation for brain injuries, for example, some of the

:47:55. > :48:01.pay-outs can be between ?10 million and ?15 million, can't they? Yes.

:48:02. > :48:07.How is it assessed to that level? We have a cohort of children who have

:48:08. > :48:10.preserved intelligence, but they are very physically disabled so there

:48:11. > :48:16.are short bursts of brain damage and they can't speak and they have no

:48:17. > :48:20.physical movement, but they will have quite a normal life expectancy

:48:21. > :48:25.so they cost a lot of money to care for. That's the way we calculate the

:48:26. > :48:28.claims. They can go to school and go to university and they want to

:48:29. > :48:32.actually engage in normal life and independence as much as they can.

:48:33. > :48:40.Technology costs a lot of money. So to be able to operate a speech

:48:41. > :48:46.system we are looking at ?25,000 every time you renew that piece of

:48:47. > :48:49.equipment. The wheelchairs are expensive, it is right that people

:48:50. > :48:56.should have an independent and fulfilled life as possible. I want

:48:57. > :49:01.to ask you James how you, so many years on, reflect on the loss of

:49:02. > :49:05.your son? Well, it still affects us every day. We are not finished of

:49:06. > :49:09.all the investigation processesment even though it's nine years later,

:49:10. > :49:13.we have got hearings happening. The saddest thing for me is the themes

:49:14. > :49:17.that happened in Joshua's case which was midwives and doctors not working

:49:18. > :49:23.together as one team, failure to risk assess properly, those themes

:49:24. > :49:28.delayed intervention. Families still contact me today having recent

:49:29. > :49:31.tranlg daorks I can't emphasise teamwork, working together, training

:49:32. > :49:34.together and learning from things that go wrong are so important and

:49:35. > :49:38.we have not made enough progress in those areas. Why are hearings still

:49:39. > :49:42.going on nine years later? Well, unfortunately this is what the

:49:43. > :49:46.process does and things get in the way so after Joshua died there was a

:49:47. > :49:49.police investigation, the NMMC processes got put on hold and then

:49:50. > :49:53.there was an investigation and everything got put on hold and when

:49:54. > :49:58.that happens things cascade and there is one case relate to go

:49:59. > :50:01.Joshua that's still on-going and it's traumatic for everybody. It is

:50:02. > :50:04.desperately sad for us and desperately sad for the staff

:50:05. > :50:07.involved. We have got to get to the point where we can learn quickly and

:50:08. > :50:10.be open and honest and understand what went wrok and put things in

:50:11. > :50:13.place to stop that from happening again. Thank you very much for

:50:14. > :50:18.coming on the programme. Thank you very much.

:50:19. > :50:22.Phillip tweeted us, "You read out comments about voting or not

:50:23. > :50:26.but please run a short video showing how to register by 22nd May."

:50:27. > :52:53.It looks like the new Conservative manifesto will re-commit

:52:54. > :52:56.to the target of reducing net migration to the tens of thousands.

:52:57. > :52:58.Though the exact wording is yet to be published,

:52:59. > :53:03.it is a pledge the party has previously failed to meet.

:53:04. > :53:09.In fact Theresa May is talking about it right now. Jeremy Corbyn, who

:53:10. > :53:16.just wants to carry on with free movement as it always has been.

:53:17. > :53:20.ITV... REPORTER: Hello, Emily Morgan from

:53:21. > :53:23.ITV News, NHS service providers say staff are leaving to go and stack

:53:24. > :53:29.shelves this supermarkets because of poor pay and that's leading to risks

:53:30. > :53:34.in safety. Will you commit to ending the 1% pay cap and if so, when?

:53:35. > :53:39.Well, it is right that the public sector as a whole has had to play

:53:40. > :53:43.its part in dealing overall with what we were left by the last Labour

:53:44. > :53:53.Government which was the worst deficit position that we have seen

:53:54. > :53:56.in peace time and we've had success in bringing the deficit down by

:53:57. > :54:02.two-thirds, but there is more to be done. In relation to NHS pay,

:54:03. > :54:07.actually, if you look at the, not just the basic pay NHS staff get an

:54:08. > :54:12.annual increase of 3% to 4% in their pay, but, of course, we want to see

:54:13. > :54:15.more staff and good staff in the NHS and that's the record we've got as a

:54:16. > :54:19.Conservative Government. More doctors, more nurses, more midwives.

:54:20. > :54:22.It is because we've put the extra funding into the NHS, we have been

:54:23. > :54:28.able to do that, you can only put extra funding into the NHS if you've

:54:29. > :54:29.got a strong economy. STUDIO:

:54:30. > :54:42.Meanwhile, Labour is pledging to tackle what it called

:54:43. > :54:45.the "scandal" of poor health in children by axing all junk food

:54:46. > :54:48.ads before 9pm so they would no longer be shown in prime time

:54:49. > :54:50.programmes like X Factor and Britain's Got Talent.

:54:51. > :54:52.Let's talk now to David Lammy, Labour candidate for Tottenham.

:54:53. > :54:54.And in Blackburn is Nigel Evans, the Conservative candidate

:54:55. > :54:59.Mr Evans, for a third time the Conservatives are going to promise

:55:00. > :55:01.to cut net migration to the tens of thousands. Some voters might be

:55:02. > :55:03.forgiven for thinking you're taking the mick? Well, no. I'm not in

:55:04. > :55:06.Blackburn, but I'm in the heart of Lancashire and I'm delighted that

:55:07. > :55:10.that promise st going to be restated in our manifesto. Why should voters

:55:11. > :55:13.believe you this time. It's the third time you would potentially

:55:14. > :55:18.fail to deliver on it? We've missed the targets in the past, but a lot

:55:19. > :55:22.of that is due to the incredibly strong economy where people clearly

:55:23. > :55:27.want to come and live and work in the United Kingdom and the

:55:28. > :55:29.north-west of England too and we've got ma make sure as we leave the

:55:30. > :55:35.European Union we're going to institute a system on controlled

:55:36. > :55:38.immigration, that is actually going to be applicable to 220 countries

:55:39. > :55:41.and not just those outside the European Union. It has got to be one

:55:42. > :55:48.that reflects the needs of the country as well. In Lancashire, in

:55:49. > :55:52.west Lancashire particularly, where there are people grow cabbages and

:55:53. > :55:55.lettuces, there is demand for seasonal labour from Eastern Europe.

:55:56. > :56:00.We have got to have a system that's flexible enough to meet those

:56:01. > :56:03.demands. David Lammy, what's Labour's policy on immigration?

:56:04. > :56:07.Labour have not announced its policy. That's to come in the

:56:08. > :56:11.manifesto. No, seriously, has Labour got one? Well, we will see in the

:56:12. > :56:15.manifesto in ten days time. So you're not sure? I think Jeremy

:56:16. > :56:20.Corbyn said that he accepts there has to be curbs on free movement...

:56:21. > :56:25.I'm not sure he has. Keir Starmer said there has to be changes, but

:56:26. > :56:30.I'm not sure Jeremy Corbyn said. He did repeat what in a speech, but

:56:31. > :56:34.let's see in ten days time what we put in our manifesto. Do you think

:56:35. > :56:37.it is a failing that you haven't talked about immigration when so

:56:38. > :56:40.many Labour voters voted to leave the European Union? Look, I don't

:56:41. > :56:45.think it is surprising to be honest and say the Labour movement has been

:56:46. > :56:49.split on immigration. There have been people within the Labour tribe

:56:50. > :56:52.in a place like London that are very welcoming of those who come into our

:56:53. > :56:56.country, who recognise the contribution that they make, but it

:56:57. > :57:00.is true that in parts of the country, particularly the north,

:57:01. > :57:03.there are deep concerns about immigration and people want to see

:57:04. > :57:06.an end to free movement. But in the end, when you look at what the

:57:07. > :57:10.Conservatives are saying today, they have not met their targets in the

:57:11. > :57:14.past, why would they meet them in the future? When they talk about new

:57:15. > :57:20.free trade deals what would be the first thing about the Indians ask

:57:21. > :57:27.for with their new free trade deals, they will say they want visas and

:57:28. > :57:33.Indians to come to Britain. There is no point in being dishonest not not

:57:34. > :57:36.meet again. When you strike the deals with India, with Brazil and

:57:37. > :57:39.other countries, they will want people to be able to come to this

:57:40. > :57:42.country as we are able to go there. That's a fair point, isn't it,

:57:43. > :57:46.nibblingle Evans that David Lammy makes? Yes, if the Indians have got

:57:47. > :57:49.the right skills that we need in this country then clearly, they will

:57:50. > :57:54.be treated the same as everybody else including those from the 27

:57:55. > :57:58.other countries. Part of the problem as David has intimated is the Labour

:57:59. > :58:02.Party don't have a policy. It really a tail back to when Tony Blair had a

:58:03. > :58:07.free-for-all. It seemed to be an open door policy and the number of

:58:08. > :58:12.people coming in from all over the world was just unsustainable. You

:58:13. > :58:16.really can't have a system whereby for instance when Tony Blair said

:58:17. > :58:20.only 16,000 were galloning... I'm going to stop you because it's

:58:21. > :58:24.coming to the end of the programme and no other reason.

:58:25. > :58:26.Tomorrow we'll be in Camborne in Cornwall asking voters

:58:27. > :58:29.there what issues they care about the most ahead of next