08/05/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello it's Monday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

An investigation by this programme discovers more than a thousand

mistakes are recorded by maternity staff in hospitals

I'm angry and I'm always going to be angry because they've taken my son's

life away from him. There's no reason why he shouldn't be with us

today and I have to look at that for the rest of my life. Everyday I have

to live with the fact that I am a of the NHS.

We'll bring you the full story in the next half hour.

He's 39, the youngest leader France has ever had -

and only formed his new party a year ago.

I'm really happy because Emmanuel Macron is a good solution, a good

choice, in France, we love Europe. I'm very happy about this result. It

means on buttons, he means the future, France is not dead, France

is not an old country dying, France has hope.

We'll tell you what his victory means for us in the UK.

And - these are some of the 82 freed Chibok schoogirls who've been

released by Boko Haram Islamist militants in Nigeria.

We'll bring you their story before 11.

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France's new President-elect, Emmanuel Macron, has promised

to heal the country's divisions, following his resounding

victory over the far-right leader, Marine Le Pen.

The pro-European candidate secured 66 percent of the vote

in yesterday's election and at just 39, he will

become the country's youngest ever President.

Addressing thousands of supporters in Paris last night,

he said he respected those who backed Ms Le Pen,

Our Europe Correspondent, Damian Grammaticas was at

the Macron Rally and has this report.

This is an election victory that will reverberate across Europe.

Emmanuel Macron, liberal, pro-EU, who supports

globalisation and immigration - France's next president.

Mr Macron created his political movement just a year ago to give

French voters tired of traditional parties a new choice -

not at the extremes, but in the middle.

TRANSLATION: What we've done for so many months,

there's no comparison, there's no equivalent to that.

Everybody was saying to us it was impossible.

But they didn't know anything about France!

His opponent, the far-right anti-EU Marine Le Pen, was soundly beaten.

She did, though, secure 11 million votes, a third of those cast.

And she said the fact that she made it to the run-off meant

that her party should now be seen as the official

But Mr Macron's vision is a repudiation of populist,

anti-establishment wave that brought Brexit and Donald Trump,

and which Marine Le Pen sought to harness, too.

Above all, this is a victory for Europe's centrists,

and a defeat for Europe's populists and Eurosceptics.

Mr Macron has already said he will work to strengthen the EU,

and EU leaders have rushed to congratulate him.

They see Mr Macron giving the EU new impetus.

So this win means the UK is about to negotiate Brexit facing

an EU starting to feel confident that the populist

Let's go to Paris and our correspondent Hugh Schofield is

there. What does this new President -- presidency mean to the UK and its

Brexit negotiations. Two things to say, the 1st, he will be seen as a

good thing by the British government because he is generally pro-

British, he speaks English, he knows the city, a former banker, his

instincts are free market, all of these things are good buttons to

press as far as London is concerned. The other side of the coin is that

he's firmly pro- European and his 1st instinct is going to be to patch

up the Franco German relationship and try to re-establish that as the

core of Europe and to make Europe a functioning, effective dynamic

organisation. And in that sense, and in that context, his furry opposed

to Brexit which he has said is a big mistake and he will not want to lend

any hostages to fortune by being too generous to Britain on the way out.

There are two sites to the coin and there is a 3rd aspect as well, I

would say. From a British perspective, Europe with the

election of Macron feels more confident, there is a sense of the

crisis is past, the populist wave has reached its crest and so on,

arguably it is it is with a more confident Europe, less worried about

setting a dangerous precedent for other countries, with that kind of

Europe, a more favourable deal, a better atmosphere at least can be

created in the negotiations ahead. Thank you. Hugh Schofield from

Paris. Joanna is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary The BBC understands

the Conservatives will once again commit to cutting net migration

to the "tens of thousands" Yesterday the Home Secretary,

Amber Rudd, refused to say whether the pledge -

which was also in the party's 2010 and 2015 manifestos -

would be repeated. Meanwhile, UKIP says it

would cut net migration Also in the election campaign -

a ban on television adverts for unhealthy food and sweets before

the nine o'clock watershed, It's part of a strategy

to tackle childhood obesity. The Conservatives say Britain's

advertising rules are already Our Political Correspondent,

Leila Nathoo, has all the details. Tempting treats - difficult

for children to resist. Bringing down high rates

of childhood obesity has long been Now Labour says it would tackle

the problem by banning junk food ads The party says in government,

it would stop adverts for unhealthy foods -

high in salt, sugar, or fat - It says that it would hope

to halve childhood obesity And it is promising

a new ?250 million annual fund The government has already announced

a tax on sugary drinks, and, in a strategy outlined last summer,

a voluntary target for the food and drinks industry

to reduce sugar content - but health campaigners say

the measures don't go far enough. The Conservatives have accused

Labour of making unfunded promises, and said that their plan to cut

childhood obesity was ambitious. This programme understands that

an NHS Trust facing a review into maternity errors has paid out

millions of pounds in compensation after similar mistakes led to babies

being born with brain injuries. Freedom of Information figures

obtained by the Victoria Derbyshire Programme found that at least five

babies died at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust

after problems monitoring Figures also reveal an average

of more than one thousand four hundred mistakes a week

being recorded in England's NHS maternity units

between 2013 and 2016. We'll have more on this

later on the programme. The head of the terror group

Islamic State in Afghanistan has been killed in a raid carried out

by Afghan and US forces. Military officials at the Pentagon

say Abdul Hasib died during a raid by special forces in the Eastern

part of the country. Two US army rangers were also killed

during the operation. North Korea says it's detained

a FOURTH American citizen on suspicion of hostile acts

against the state. Kim Hak Song is understood to have

worked for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology

and was detained on Saturday. No details of any alleged

offences was given. A 2 year old girl is being treated

in hospital after suffering serious injuries to her head and body

in what's been described Police say several animals managed

to get into the garden where she was playing in the Toxteth

area of Liverpool. Ten dogs have been seized

from a nearby house and a man living The bodies of two men have been

recovered during a search of the Irish Sea after a speedboat

disappeared off South West Police said the men

were aged 46 and 35, and had launched their speedboat

from Port Logan in The group representing hospitals

and other NHS trusts in England has called for an end to the cap

on pay rises. NHS Providers says the government's

policy of pay restraint over the last 7 years is preventing

employers from retaining the staff needed to deliver

safe patient care. We need to fund the NHS properly so

that we are not asking our staff to try and close the gap between the

demand going through the roof and the funding staying broadly stable

and that the way we are trying to close the gap is by asking staff to

do more and more and more and that means their jobs are becoming more

difficult, stressful, pressured. And in the next hour

Victoria Derbyshire will be looking at how concern about the NHS

is affecting voters Facebook has placed adverts

in national newspapers to provide advice about how to spot

fake news online. The initiative has been

designed to stop the spread of false stories during

the general election campaign. The company advises users to be

sceptical of headlines and to cross check reports. The move comes after

it was accused of helping to spread fake news during the US presidential

election last year. Kerry has textured, she works in a

maternity unit and she says maternity staff work hard, we have

limited staff, equipment and time but we work hard, it would be nice

if for once people said they do good work. Instead of being told we do

things wrong all the time. This text doesn't wish us to identify them,

giving birth within the NHS, excruciating, lonely, terrifying and

humiliating. Passers-by included unknown men in the Corredera looking

in at me. I wanted to die. Let's get some sport now

and chat to Olly Foster. We'll start with football Olly

and it was all about the race for A couple of teams saying yesterday

who would love to say they are in with a chance of winning the title

but it's about getting into the Champions League. The top four in

the Champions League, we sought to Michael former champions at the

Emirates stadium and Arsenal beating majesty united 2- 0.

a Jose Mourinho team in the Premier League.

The 13th time lucky for Arsene Wenger.

Granit Xhaka and Danny Welbeck against his former club United made

Jose Mourinho has written off a top four finish as a way

to reach the Champions League...resting players.

He knows the best way to get into the Champions League is by winning

the Europa League, they are halfway through their semifinal at the

moment. And this was his rather patronising

parting shot to the Arsenal. We want to try and win the Europa

League. More important for us than finishing 4th. We really want to try

to win it and go to the Champions League through winning a big trophy.

So we needed to give rest to players, ask what is here... That

wasn't a patronising parting shot at all, he had a pop at Arsenal. This

is the Liverpool game. Liverpool are up to third after just

a point against Southampton, mostly down to that great save from

the Saints Fraser Forster Liverpool should have done enough

for Champions League football but can finish no higher than third

now This could be the week that

Chelsea win the title, because they play Middlesbrough

tonight and then West Brom on Friday, win both and they can't

by caught and if they do win tonight then Middlesbrough

will be relegated. They will join Sunderland in the

Championships next season. The championship season was wrapped up

yesterday. They've been struggling for

a while now in the Championship.. Remember those heady

days Champions in 1995. The great team spearheaded

by Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. But was the captain Tim Sherwood.

Heady days. This was yesterday. Relegated, classic nailbiter on the

final day of the championship, always going to have a big club go

down, Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, or Blackburn Rovers, all

former Premier League sites, all of them won yesterday, Blackburn

winning 3- 1 against Bradford not enough, they go down to League 1 on

goal difference, that group that bought Rover is massively unpopular,

important summer coming up for Rovers and wrapping up as Ms in the

championship, Newcastle winning the title yesterday, Brighton go up in

2nd place, Reading, Fulham and Huddersfield and Sheffield Wednesday

in the all-important play-offs. By Malaysian tennis, some needle

between two players in the Madrid open. Maria Sharapova former grand

slam champion, back on tour for a fewer week after a 15 month drug

ban, a lot of players don't like the fact she is then handed wild cards

to get back into tournament is to get ranking points. She's playing in

Madrid, won yesterday in 3 sets against a player, setting up a

2nd-round against Eugenie Bouchard, who has called Maria Sharapova a

cheater, says she should be banned for life, Maria Sharapova says she's

heard an awful lot worse and she is a win away from getting away into

Wimbledon qualifying, breaking into the top 200 if she wins today. Thank

you. An investigation by this programme

has discovered at least 1,000 mistakes are made in England's NHS

maternity units every week. The most serious incidents include

the avoidable deaths of mothers and babies as a result of errors

by midwives and doctors. The Royal College of Midwives says

maternity services are heading towards a crisis because of demands

on the services. Our reporter Divya Talwar

has been to meet some As an expectant parent,

you're excited to become I'm angry, and I'm always

going to be angry, because they've There is no reason why he shouldn't

have been here with us today, and I have to live with that

for the rest of my life. Every day I have to live

with the fact that I am You think you can trust these

people, and you are meant to, There were six hours

that my son suffered, and there were four opportunities

that were missed to save his life. When I found out I was pregnant

almost eight months ago, I did a lot of research looking

into the hospitals around me to try and find the best

place to have this baby. But all of the maternity units

in my area were either inadequate So I had to find a place outside

of my local area, which isn't ideal, but at least the maternity services

are meant to be a bit better Other mums-to-be may also find

themselves in a similar situation, with around one in three maternity

services in England rated "inadequate" or "requiring

improvement" by the regulator. Last month it was discovered that

at least seven babies had died in avoidable circumstances in less

than two years at Shrewsbury It led England's Health

Secretary Jeremy Hunt to order an investigation,

and the Trust has since paid out millions in compensation

after similar mistakes led to babies But we've found that in other

maternity units across England there are also cases where serious

mistakes are being made. This is Jade Penney,

she's 26 and a single Lucas has got cerebral palsy,

which means he can't walk, talk, Jade's lawyers argue

that Lucas' brain damage is due to a lack of oxygen

when he had his incubation The NHS Trust is

defending the claim. When did you find out that

something wasn't quite right? Pretty much straight away,

but we didn't know this obviously for a long time,

so a couple of days So, he was born on the fifth,

and on the seventh they were re-tubing Lucas,

so they had re-tubed him in the morning without any problems

at all, and then they re-tubed him As they re-tubed him,

Lucas basically put up a fight, Altogether it took them 20

minutes to re-tube Lucas. Imagine laying down and not

being able to breathe, but you can't tell someone

and you're awake. It must be the most horrible

thing ever to go through, And I think that's just

what upsets me the most. Jade's now taking legal action

against the NHS Trust. Yeah, emotionally it

plays on you a lot. It plays on me a lot when we're out

and I see kids his age, that's when I think it really

gets to me. Take, for instance, if I've gone

to the park with Lucas before and I've seen kids his age,

they'll kind of avoid Luke, not because they're being horrible

but there's not that much known to kids when they're

younger about disabilities, Sometimes they'll look at him

and they get a bit scared and they won't go up to him,

and all Lucas wants to do What's the hardest

aspect of all this? Knowing that he's got this

for the rest of his life. Because not only does it affect me,

it's affecting his life, Yeah, he's still alive,

but he hasn't got the quality-of-life other children

without disabilities his age have, And he knows himself

when he sees kids running around that he can't do that,

so it impacts him as well And it's not his fault,

and that's what's horrible. He is like the innocent party

in all of it, you know? An investigation by this programme

has found that at least 1000 mistakes are occurring in England's

NHS maternity units each week. Serious or adverse incidents

where an unexpected harm, It could be anything

from records being lost Last year alone, there were 220

mistakes recorded every day. We've also found that nearly

260 mothers or babies These deaths were either unexpected

or could have been avoided. Only 39 out of 81 Trusts

responded to this question, so the number of deaths

could be much higher. Some of the other incidents we've

heard about include staff shortages, wrong medicines being given

to patients, records being lost, It's those delays in care that

can be the difference Sarah Ellis and her fiance Adam

lost their baby in 2014. When I first fell pregnant,

everything was amazing, wasn't it? Couldn't wait to take him

to the football with me, and be a Huddersfield Town fan

like his dad. Sarah was left waiting for hours

on a busy maternity ward, despite telling staff

that she couldn't feel her baby moving, and there were warning

signs of infection. They just told us, well,

they just reassured us, didn't they? Everything, you know,

"Everything's OK." When a qualified midwife says

to you, "It could be that, maybe, possibly, we're not sure", I wasn't

really concerned because if there was anything alarming they would be

doing something more. The inquest later showed Sarah

should have had an emergency Medical staff failed

to act on warning signs, and their son Gino was severely

starved of oxygen. One of the doctors that was there

pulled me to one side and just said, "He's not in a good condition,

he was born in a really bad condition and if he does pull

through, he's going to be I was in the corridor

and I was with her mum and dad and I just said to her mum and dad,

I said... I said, "How am I going to tell

Sarah that he's not all right?" Gino was placed on a life support

machine, but just days later Sarah and Adam were advised

to withdraw treatment. The words that were used

was he was "unrecoverable". That was when we knew he wasn't

going to get any better. We had to make a joint

decision, yeah. We had to make a decision

for him that, you know, It's a conversation you never think

you're going to have to have, is it? How do you discuss how you're

going to end your son's life? The couple decided

to take legal action. A coroner's report found

the hospital missed four Everybody makes mistakes, I do,

we all do, but to see so many people make so many different mistakes

within six hours is just shocking. People who you put your trust in,

your life is in their hands, and Gino's life was in their hands

and they didn't take care of him. Every single day

I think, why, why us? We have to live with the fact

that we are a victim of the NHS. So many babies have lost

their lives, and so many families have been destroyed because they're

not doing their job right. Sarah and Adam got

compensation from the Trust. The NHS spends hundreds

of millions on compensation pay-outs for blunders made

by maternity staff. In 2015 it paid out

more than ?0.5 billion. Reviews into England's

maternity services have found So I've got just over three weeks

before this baby's due, and I had my latest check-up

with the midwife earlier today. Over the course of this pregnancy

I've been seen by different midwives at almost every appointment I've

had, and at times I've had to wait The Royal College of Midwives said

safety is being compromised because of the pressure our

maternity services are under. It's my view that we're

heading for a crisis The simple truth is,

we do not have enough midwives We're also seeing more midwives

heading for retirement, we're seeing more midwives leaving

the profession because of stress, and we're seeing a slight

reduction in the number Alongside that, we've got much more

complexity in pregnancy, which takes more care,

and we've got an increasing number So if you put all that together,

as opposed to only having one of these things going on,

we would say that's looking What do you think needs to be done

to make our maternity units safer? We need to reduce the number

of mistakes in our maternity And if we're going to do that,

our maternity services have We can't deliver the safest possible

care if we don't have enough midwives and enough doctors working

in our services. There's going to be lots of us doing

lots of things all at the same time, Libby is having excessive

bleeding from a haemorrhage What I'm going to do is just pop

a drip in the other side... This is a training exercise

here at Bristol Southmead Hospital. Libby's actually one of the doctors

at the hospital's maternity ward. I think we can call that a wrap,

as we say, and we'll just I think Libby stole

the show, very good acting! The hospital's pioneered this

training, known as PROMPT, where midwives, doctors and other

staff train together and simulate emergencies they may face

on their maternity wards. Everything else was very

clinically done in a very The Health Secretary's announced

a number of measures to improve the safety of maternity care

in the NHS. They include more money

for training courses like this, and a fund to pilot new ideas

for improving maternity. For Sarah and Adam, the mistakes

leading to Gino's death have left We do want more family,

but when that time comes I really Where do we go?

Who do we trust? We went in with a baby seat and came

out with a death certificate. You think you can trust these

people, and you are meant to, For the rest of my life

I'm going to be angry, and I'll never, ever forgive anyone

for that, you know? And I know there are mistakes out

there, but you can't make mistakes with little babies'

lives, you know? You may have noticed a different

voice in that report and that's because Divya gave birth to a baby

girl before completing the film. Texter says working in maternity can

be amazing. We strive to give our women and babies the best possible

care. However, poor senior management and ridiculous computer

systems are taking away from this and making the environment unsafe

for users. Staff are leaving in droves meaning the remaining workers

are under an impossible workload with antenatal clinics stretched to

bursting, labour care impossible with midwives caring for multiple

women and documentation poorly designed making it dangerously easy

for busy staff to miss information that can be vital for safe care.

Lisa says, "The NHS midwifery team at Epsom Hospital were fantastic for

the birth of my first baby 11 weeks ago. Brilliant care and fantastic

facilities. I feel very lucky and incredibly grateful." Helen says, "I

can't praise the NHS staff who looked after me and my baby enough.

Everyone from healthcare and cleaning and catering staff was

amazing. I received a comprehensive and personal service. They were

fantastic. There maybe faults, but there are also some great examples

of exemplary world-class services and staff." Keep those coming in. In

a moment, we will talk to a father whose son died at just aged 9 days

old. NHS Providers,

the group representing health trusts and hospitals,

say politicians must address rapidly growing concerns

over the NHS workforce We hear from a group

of NHS workers on this. More than 80 Nigerian schoolgirls

were released yesterday after being held for three years

by the Islamist group Boko Haram. And we'll speak to a father whose 2

daughters are still being held by the group.

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

France's newly elected President, Emmanuel Macron, has promised

to heal the country's divisions following his resounding

victory over the far-right leader, Marine Le Pen,

The pro-European candidate secured 66 percent of the vote

and at just 39 years old, he will become the country's

Speaking at a victory rally outside the Louvre museum in Paris,

he said the task ahead was "immense" and made a plea for unity.

TRANSLATION: Row TRANSLATION: I will respect and be faithful to the

commitment taken, I will respect the Republic.

The BBC understands the Conservatives will once again

commit to cutting net migration to the "tens of thousands"

Yesterday the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, refused to say

whether the pledge - which was also in the party's 2010

and 2015 manifestos - would be repeated.

Meanwhile, UKIP says it would cut net migration

Staying with the election campaign - Labour says it would extend the ban

on television adverts for unhealthy food and sweets until the nine

The Conservatives say Britain already has the strictest

But Labour says its strategy aims to halve the number of overweight

The head of the terror group Islamic State in Afghanistan has

been killed in a raid carried out by Afghan and US forces.

Military officials at the Pentagon say Abdul Hasib died during a raid

by special forces in the Eastern part of the country.

Two US army rangers were also killed during the operation.

Facebook has placed adverts in British newspapers to provide

practical advice on how to spot fake news online.

The website has also closed thousands of accounts linked

to false stories ahead of the general election.

The company advises users to "be sceptical of headlines"

The move comes after it was accused of helping to spread fake news

during last year's US Presidential election.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.00.

Here are the morning's sport headlines now with Olly Foster.

These are our headlines this morning, Arsene Wenger

saw his Arsenal side beat a Jose Mourinho team for the first

They won 2-0 at the Emirates but remain in sixth, six points

Former Premier League Champions Blackburn Rovers have been relegated

to League One on the last day of the Championship.

Newcastle won the title yesterday and Reading, Fulham,

Huddersfield and Sheffield Wddnesday will contest the play-offs.

And a fortnight after returning from a 15 month doping ban Maria

Sharapova will book a spot in Wimbledon qualifying if she wins at

the Madrid open today. She faces Eugenie Bouchard who has called for

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

date. The last year has seen

shock election results with Brexit, Trump and now

the new French President Emmanuel Macron - a political novice who has

never held elected office before and formed his new party

only a year ago. The 39 year old has promised he'll

use his victory to unite a divided Elected with two-thirds of the valid

votes, he admitted the task facing him was daunting

and that he would need to build A third of French voters either

abstained in Sunday's second round, chose neither candidate

or spoiled their ballot. Let's talk now to our correspondent

Karin Gianonne who is in Paris. Good morning. Hello and welcome to

Paris. There is a double sense of Natcho -- national occasion, France

has woken up to a new President-elect in the form of

Emmanuel Macron but it's also a public all date nationwide. Victory

in Europe Day and in just a few minutes behind us, there will be a

huge military parade in commemoration. Emmanuel Macron will

be there alongside the outgoing President Francois Hollande, we come

to that in a few moments. With me is Hugh Schofield, the BBC's Paris

correspondent and we have a member of the Emmanuelle Macron campaign

team, who was in charge of gender equality. What do you make of what

happened? How we did this night? Can you believe it? No, it's amazing, a

year ago no 1 knew him and no 1 could imagine he would be President

of France and now he is, he did it, it's amazing and it's a historical

day. You are in charge of gender equality, France missed out on a

female President! My God, we are happy we did, Marine Le Pen is not a

feminist, she is against every single woman's writes, she is

against abortion, the rights of women and it's a good thing we have

this man for President today stop tell me why you think that

unfortunate objective is, I note you are in charge of selecting the

people who will be put forward to stand in the forthcoming

parliamentary elections to be prospective MPs, how are you

selecting them? It's a really hard job, we have a President to say

Minister and we are 9 members and the commission in charge to select

the deputy, people who have spent 5 years and he will spend 5 years with

Emanuel Macron, we want half men and half women and 410 people you have 8

old men and two women and we want that change, we want to have half

women and half men. You mentioned all male, are you saying this is an

opportunity for young people? Of course not, the goal is to have

mixes and we want different people to make the world together. We have

to have people with experience working hand-in-hand with young

people and new people together. Emmanuel Macron has topped lot about

equality, talked about different kinds of families, how ready do you

think France is ready for his vision, especially socially

conservative pockets of France, Marine Le Pen got more than

10,000,000 votes? Of course, I think France is red, ago now we voted,

waiting for everyone and I think the majority of people have chosen

Emmanuel Macron for President and I think there should be a kind of

Coronation now. You think he has a realistic chance at uniting the

country behind? Of course it can. I think what he did was he had people

from right and left, are preferred together, for the country. Thank

you. Our guest there in charge of putting together a list of

prospective MPs, we can hear this starting up behind us, a big event

for France, in national holiday to commemorate victory in Europe day,

my colleague Hugh Schofield is with me looking down on the events

beginning behind us. Tell us the significance of May the 8th for

France? It was the end of the war in Europe and it was a national

holiday, declared so, not at the time but in 1981, Francois

Mitterrand and it was a way of recognising the great event which

was victory in Europe. Oddly, though, it's not a holiday which is

really I would say part of people's mental make-up. I've been out asking

people what they are celebrating on this bank all of and B team puzzled,

they don't know, and in fact my taxi driver coming here this morning had

no idea it was a holiday. -- tank holiday and people were puzzled. The

popularity of this is not what it should be and its declining, you

would not see huge crowds of people, not like to live the 14th, this is a

modest... Because that is Bastille Day. This is a modest military

parade, very significant and important and I don't want to

downplay that at all, President Francois Hollande world lay a wreath

at the statue of Charles de Gaulle and down the Champs-Elysees he will,

normally in a slow-moving vehicle with blind by the Republican guard

and the jingle jangle of whatever it is they have! And they will arrive

at the top and he will rekindle the flame over the Tomb of the Unknown

Soldier and in all of this he will be accompanied by Emmanuel Macron, I

think, that's what's happened before when we've had this 5, 10 years ago,

the outgoing and incoming do it together as a civil of transition.

The significant part of today is the President elect Emmanuel Macron will

appear for the 1st time effectively alongside President Francois

Hollande. It's a chance for France to see the 2 men together, they may

which other very well indeed, rather thrown in Emanuel Macron's says that

he was very close to Francois Hollande and he was and is they will

be together throughout this ceremony which is furry importance and

Bollettieri. It will be a way to begin to take on the mantle. Tell us

about their relationship and how it evolved and how it became, some say

it's a strange, some say this was the plan. Indeed. Certainly, the

critics on the right will always say this about him. It was a brilliant

ploy by the Socialists to ensure continuity. That Francois Hollande

knew his time was up. His ratings were terrible and so some work in a

room in the Elysee Palace they cooked up a plan they would arrange

a break, Emmanuel Macron would split away representing social Democrat

reformists and by breaking away he would become legitimate and come to

power and assure a continuity for the Socialist party. You know, of

course, if you are not a supporter -- if you are a supporter of

Emmanuel Macron, he says everything he did was his own personal choice,

his conscience prevailed and this is what he did but there is no question

they were very close. Just reading the other day than Francois Hollande

was inaugurated exactly 5 years ago 1 of the 1st things he did was fly

to Germany to see Angela Merkel who was in the plane with him on that

trip? Emmanuel Macron. They had been together very close for the past 5

years. Not to say that Emmanuel Macron doesn't criticise a lot of

what Francois Hollande did and I think Emmanuel Macron genuinely felt

constrict dead and his liberal pro-business tendencies were

constrained and kept down and thwarted by Francois Hollande. But,

I think Macron has great feelings for Aransas Holland and he is at

heart, I think a man of the left, in a social sense. We are just seeing

Emmanuel Macron has arrived there, in the midst of the crowd, he will

be attending the ceremony and this completely standard procedure, this

coincides with the aftermath of the presidential election for the

outgoing to attend with the incoming. Yes. Famously, Nicolas

Sarkozy... I can see him down there. Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois

Hollande did it 5 years ago, that was the occasion when Francois

Hollande, was soaked by a downpour, it was seen as a terrible symbol of

the beginning of his presidency. Yes, all the great and the good come

together and I think, is that Nicolas Sarkozy? Yes, I think I can

see him, in the monitor we have feared and admits the brightening

Paris light. Because it tends to fall, obviously the election run

slightly differently every 5 years but it's around this time. And so

the ceremony tends to fall just at a time when we can see the symbolic

handing over of power and the 2 men, the last time, it was much more

tense, Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy did not enjoy each other's

company and on the handover of power is, officially, at the Elysee

Palace, Francois Hollande was almost rude to his face by not accompanying

him down the is to say goodbye, but was a delicate moment. This is not,

two people who broadly feel very close together under the same side

of French politics who have a warm relationship. There won't be any of

that tension. We talk about Emmanuel Macron as the

newcomer, never held elected office, but he was appointed economy

minister by Francois Hollande. He has been inside in that sense of the

political scene and he was very much part of Francois Hollande's

Government? He cast himself as an outsider brilliantly. I'm not saying

it's not genuinely felt. He feels that he's an outsider because he

feels he has a mission to reconfigure French politics and he

believes the old left-right division is out of time and out of place and

has stopped the reforms that the country needs, but to describe him

as an outsider is ridiculous. He is almost the emblem of the perfect

product of the French administrative educational system. He is someone

who has come up from nowhere, a modest background and plucked where

obscurity and because of his brilliance was selected and given

the fast-track treatment and came up and did all the top jobs thaw do if

you're someone of that background. He was an inspector of finance which

is the top job in the administration. He was in the big

school in Strasbourg where the administrative elite are trained, he

has got his network. This is where he built up his network and this

figure from the past this great figure on the left of French

politics spotted him and said, "Come into my group." He was adorned and

anointed as someone who had a future in socialist politics. He had

identified as being on the left. It was naturally towards that side of

politics that he gravitated. He could have taken another choice and

gone down a different road, but it was to the left, and that's how he

came to be so close to Francois Hollande when Francois Hollande was

elected and was in his team as his economics advisor and then a couple

of years later when he, there was a reshuffle, he was promoted even

further and became his economy minister, but as I say, he doesn't

want to play that up too much because he always wanted to, you

know, keep his distance, but it's a fact that he was very much alined

with Francois Hollande and with the reformist side of the Hollande

presidency was blocked by Francois Hollande, but there was a will there

and that will was receipted by Emmanuel Macron. We have seen the

outgoing president, Francois Hollande greeting people. That's a

man with a week left in the job, perhaps less. It will be on Sunday

which the hand-over of powers happens. It goes down to mandates.

He a five year mandate, he was elected on the 14th, so he has to be

out by the 14th. By next Sunday Francois Hollande will have to have

stepped down. So the hand-over could happen before then, but we're told

it will happen on Sunday which is unusual because it doesn't normally

happen on a weekend. At that point we will or around that time, we will

have to have had Emmanuel Macron's version what his next Government

will be and that's what everybody has been waiting for. He has been

able to bask in this ambiguity. It mant he has been able to appeal to

the soft left and everyone said we can see ourselves somewhere in the

mix, but as soon as he names this Government and particularly his

Prime Minister, he is going to have to make a choice and this is the

beginning of governing, making choices and that's where his

problems and difficulties will start. If he names a Prime Minister

from the left, from the outgoing Government, the outgoing Defence

Minister, his name is a possibility, people will say, "Hang on a sec, you

said you're the candidate of renewal." If he names the other

possibility, a woman from civil society, a couple of names are out

there a big trade union leader, or Christine lee guard, these are

possibilities, people will say, "Hang on a sec, they're not

politicians." These people have to build up the party. Run an election

campaign in six weeks time and they don't know Parliament. They don't

know the political system. There is to ideal candidate and this is what

happens when you get into power. You've got to make choices and you

start annoying people and he has been able to get awithout doing that

until now. Already, speaking to members of the Emmanuel Macron team

in the last few hours, you get that sense that even they didn't have a

feeling this honeymoon was going to last long. The party is over, we

have got to get to work? They are aLewisive about that which is a wise

position to take. They have got their fingers burned after the first

round when Emmanuel Macron and this has thrown in his face a bit went

out and celebrated at a restaurant and this was seen as not good form.

Personally, I can't see why it was such a bad thing to do, but France

is getting very puritanical these days. It was nothing extravagant.

Anyway, it was thrown in his face that he was celebrating early and

out there and that France was suffering and here he was

celebrating. So, I mean, and clearly last night you saw that his first

appearance on television was incredibly sober, not the one at the

Louvre, but this one, there was no audience and no one clapping, it was

just him talking to the camera, very sober. At the Louvre, he came out

solemnly, looking serious, as if the gravity of the moment was really on

his shoulders. Very much aware that if he comes out looking like he's

too happy, too jolly, celebrating too much he won't have caught the

moment. And the moment is defined by the fact that even though he won

this big majority, most people, you know, don't feel a huge affinity

towards him. He has got to and great fan club in the aspiring middle

classes of Paris and the other big cities, but you know, what's that?

That's 20% of the population. It's not the whole population and he

knows that and in his addresses last night he did acknowledge that and I

thought it was significant and rather noble of him to reach out at

Republican, and Marine Le Pen, but acknowledging that she is part of

the Republican camp now, which I think is very, very important. That

party has to be brought into French politics or else it just becomes a

joke politics. So his language is, it does recognise that there is a

large part of the population which does not really feel any great

warmth towards him and his cheery optimistic pro-business

international side and he is going to hope that he produces results

quickly enough and that he brings them with him.

How big a problem do you think it will be for him, Hugh, that more

than 10.5 million people voted for Marine Le Pen yesterday? Well, I

mean, that's what I'm saying. In a way he was lucky that it wasn't

more. He had a dynamic at the end of that campaign in the run-up to

yesterday which allowed him to breach the 66%, two-thirds. That was

important. It meant there was a switch by many people in the last

days, particularly after the debate, which was a car crash for Marine Le

Pen. There was a switch to him and that meant he it elevated him from

being purely the default candidate, the one that was not Marine Le Pen

to being someone who could claim to have brought more people into his

camp and there were people, I think, who in the end said we're not going

to abstain, we're going to vote for him because we don't really like

Marine Le Pen, but Marine Le Pen's presence in French politics is such

a curse, not because she is bad or anything like that, but because it

defines everything else. Everything is defined around whether or not

you're with the National Front. Like with Chirac in 20002, we have people

elected whose only merit is they are against Marine Le Pen and the Front

National which means there isn't a proper consensus around the

programme of Government of that elected leader. That's what blocked

Chirac in 2002 and unless he's careful it is going to be a burden

for Emmanuel Macron as well. Hugh, we are looking at the events that

are taking place. The military parade marking 8th May. This is a

significant daishghts but across France, do people think of what it

means when they take the day off on 8th May? I really don't think they

do. A few years ago there was talk of uniting the war holidays of

France because there is a 11th November as well and turning 11th

November into a memorial of all recent wars which would include the

First World War and the Second World War and wars of Algeria and China

and so on. That never happened because there was resistance to

losing holidays, not surprisingly in France and so 8th May remains a

public holiday. You ask people and they're puzzled about what it is all

about and as time goes by and memories fade, of course, that will

become more pronounced and 11th November, First World War, not the

poppies, but the equivalent poppy idea here is still very strong.

That's seen as the war to end all wars and the Second World War and

the end of that, funny enough, even though it is closer in history, it

doesn't have the same repunch as the First World War obviously because

the First World War was a personal catastrophe for French families and

the Second World War was not quite so cataclysmic and it was also the

group, the group allied forces in the Second World War which led to

the end of it and the ambiguous part that France played in the Second

World War, all that made the Maria Millerry slightly more complicated.

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

coverage from Paris. Let's get the latest

weather update with Carol. We have got an east-west split in

the weather today. This is from one of our Weather Watchers. A beautiful

picture from Cumbria. You can see it nicely on the satellite picture.

Northern and eastern areas and some central areas still have a fair bit

of cloud. We've got sunshine further west, but where we have got the

cloud across the Midlands, here today, that will break up and we

will see sunshine. But if you're in the east, we have a cold, northerly

wind. So today, it is going to feel cold here. Now, across north-east

Scotland, that scenario holds true. There will be more cloud. Come

south, a lot of sunshine. For Northern England, a lot of sunshine,

but once again some eastern coastal counties, not just the wind, but the

cloud will remain for much of the day and we have got the cloud

through East Anglia and down into the South East, but it should stay

dry. Drifting further west from Hampshire over towards Devon and

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, we're back into the sunshine and we

stay in it too across Wales with temperatures getting up to around 15

Celsius in Aberystwyth. Aberystwyth. For Northern Ireland, not as warm as

it was today. Yesterday you had the highest temperature which was 21.1

Celsius. Today, we're looking at 13 Celsius to 16 Celsius. This evening

and overnight the winds starts to ease and becomes more of a breeze so

not particularly strong. There will be areas of cloud thick enough to

produce drizzle and in the countryside, it will be cold enough

here and there for a touch of frost. These temperatures you can see

represent towns and cities. So not as low. High pressure still very

much in charge of our weather tomorrow. Look at the distinct lack

of isobars. So if you're along the East Coast, you will notice the

wind. Hardly a breath of wind. Still cloud at times and tomorrow will be

a cloudier day than it will be today, but nonetheless, there will

be sunshine around. Temperature wise, we are looking at nine to 16

Celsius. As we move from Tuesday and into Wednesday, there will be clear

skies by night. Temperatures fulling to two Celsius, maybe lower, some of

us higher. Again, there will be a touch of frost under the clear

skies. A lot of dry weather on Wednesday. However, as the wind will

have changed direction, there will be more cloud coming this across

northern and central parts of Scotland with rain. Hardly a breath

of wind down the East Coast. As we move further west, we're back into

the sunshine once again. Hello.

It's Monday. It's 10am.

I'm Victoria Derbyshire. An investigation by this programme

discovers more 1,400 mistakes are recorded by maternity staff

in hospitals in England every week - some of these errors have

life-changing consequences I'm angry and always going to be

angry because they've taken my son's life away from him. There's no

reason why he shouldn't be here today and I have to live with that

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

a victim of the NHS. Let us know your stories

about giving birth in a maternity unit and also your experiences

if you work in one. Emmanuel Macron will be the next

president of France after defeating At 39 - he will be the youngest

leader France has ever had. He says there is an enormous task

ahead. I'm really happy because Emmanuel

Macron is a good solution, Aidid choice, to keep up live in France.

We love Europe. I'm happy about this result. It means confidence, it

means the future, France is not dead, France is not an old country

dying, France has hope. We be live in Paris as the President-elect

attendance a victory in Europe commemoration day.

We'll tell you what his victory means for us in the UK

And - after nearly three years in captivity, more than 80 Chibok

schoogirls have been released by Boko Haram Islamist

We'll bring you their story before 11.

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

France's newly elected President, Emmanuel Macron, has promised

to heal the country's divisions following his resounding

victory over the far-right leader, Marine Le Pen,

The pro-European candidate secured 66 percent of the vote

and at just 39 years old, he will become the country's

This morning he will attend his 1st public event in Paris.

The BBC understands the Conservatives will recommit

to cutting net migration to the "tens of thousands"

Yesterday the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, refused to say

whether the pledge - which was also in the party's 2010

and 2015 manifestos - would be repeated.

Meanwhile, Ukip says it would cut net migration

Labour says it would extend the ban on television adverts

for unhealthy food and sweets until the nine o'clock watershed.

The Conservatives say Britain already has the strictest

But Labour says its strategy aims to halve the number of overweight

An investigation by this programme has discovered at least 1,000

mistakes are made in England's NHS maternity units every week.

The most serious incidents include the avoidable deaths of mothers

and babies as a result of errors by midwives and doctors.

North Korea says it's detained a FOURTH American citizen

on suspicion of hostile acts against the state.

Kim Hak Song is understood to have worked for the Pyongyang University

of Science and Technology and was detained on Saturday.

No details of any alleged offences was given.

A 2 year old girl is being treated in hospital after suffering serious

injuries to her head and body in what's been described

Police say several animals managed to get into the garden

where she was playing in the Toxteth area of Liverpool.

Ten dogs have been seized from a nearby house and a man living

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30.

Thank you Coleen who has e-mailed detailing her experiences about

giving birth. I was an induced labour, my baby was left stuck for

10 hours, I was rushed into theatre, I lost a litre of blood post birth,

after giving Earth, my husband, my new baby daughter and I were left

waiting in a storage room. -- after giving birth.

Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and If you text, you will be charged

Jose Mourinho made 8 changes to his Manchester United team that

lost to Arsenal at the Emirates yesterday as they prioritse

the Europa League as a route into the Champions League next season.

It's the first time that he has lost to Arsene Wenger

in the Premier League, either at United or in his

Granit Xhaka and Danny Welbeck scored the goals.

The Gunners are still 6 points outside the Champions league places,

United have written off a top four finish, so Mourinho didn't seem too

It is the 1st time... I left the Emirates, they were crying, they

were walking the streets with their head low so finally today, they

sing, the scarves, it is nice for them! That will while the Gunners

fans a little bit. after a goalless draw

at home to Southampton. Fraser Forster saved James Milner's

second half penalty - the first time in 8 years that he's

failed to score from the spot The 1995 Premier League Champions

Blackburn Rovers will be League One side next season after a nailbiting

final day in the Championship. All the drama was down

at the bottom with one big club It was between Rovers,

Birmingham City and Nottingham Forest for the final relegation spot

and all of them won, Rover's 3-1 win against Brentford

not enough to stop them slipping into the third tier

of English football. They finished level on points

with Forest but go down Manager Tony Mowbray says

he would like to stay and help Rovers try and get back up next

season The automatic promotion spots

to the Premier League had already been settled

but it was Newcastle United who clinched the Championship

title on the final day. A three-nil win over Barnsley

was enough to clinch the trophy after rivals Brighton conceded

a late equaliser at Aston Villa. Reading, Sheffield Wednesday,

Huddersfield and Fulham will contest the final Premier League place

through the play-offs. Remember that tragic story

of the Brazillian club who lost 19 of their players in an aeroplance

crash last year. Well seven months on,

Chapecoense are celebrating a title. The team had won the State

Championship last season - and with a team made up

of youngsters and loan players - We did a great job, we are very

happy for our work and we are very happy we can honour the Warriors,

they are not here any more but we can honour them with this title. It

is for them. And just a fortnight after returning

from a 15 month doping ban Maria Sharapova will book a spot

in Wimbledon qualifying if she wins her second round match

at the Madrid Open today. She beat Mirjana Lucic-Baroni to set

up what could be a prickly encounter The Canadian has called for

the Russian to be banned for life. Let's talk to Norman Smith, we are

continuing with our election coverage.

I think the Prime Minister will be pressed today about the issue of

immigration, she will recommit to this target of getting net migration

down to the tens of thousands, a target which they have missed again

and again and again. What Theresa May seems determined to stick with

it because it's all an issue of trust, I think is her view. If she

is to convince voters she is serious about getting the number of migrants

coming to Britain down then she cannot abandon this pledge,

particularly when she's having to negotiate Brexit and also it's

become a sort of personal thing for her I think. As Home Secretary she

was so closely identified with this pledge if she was to give it up now

it would be viewed almost as a personal defeat. However, Ukip this

morning trying to pile on the pressure, saying they want a

migration policy which is a sort of 1 person in, 1 person out policy, so

there would be 0 net migration and their leader Paul Nuttall, in the

past few minutes, in effect said you cannot trust Theresa May on

immigration. I can announce today that Ukip will go into the selection

with a policy of balanced migration which means 0 net immigration over

the next 5 year period. We have to wait until we get the Tory manifesto

until we see exactly what the commitment will be because it will

be interesting frankly to see whether there is a specific yet to

meet this tens of thousands target or whether it disappears off into a

long ambition some work down the line in never never land. Norman,

thank you. Okay - also this general election,

back, not by popular demand, but because we couldn't think

of anything else - every day until June 8th we'll be

highlighting the best cock-up, gaffe or highly amusing moment

from the campaign, with Norman. We need a general election and we

need 1 now. Take it away, Norman... This, the

humble selfie stick is pretty much ubiquitous on the campaign trail.

Wherever you go you will see politicians with 1 of these being

thrust in front of politicians, the modern day equivalent of having to

kiss the baby, politicians have to have that selfie moment. Some of

them are getting a little bit familiar with these selfie moments,

here is Jeremy Corbyn when he was out at Leicester University over the

weekend. Someone else came up for a selfie

and he started mothering them. Concentrate! Yes, that's better!

Yes! Showing his best side! And then there was a curious moment when

another bloke came up and I think said to him, the last time I met you

was in a toilet in Leicester! Charming.

We met in the gents' toilets at Leicester University.

Although I don't think we should say that on-air!

To give Jeremy Corbyn his credit, he seems to go with it remarkably good

spirits, doesn't necessarily mean it will do him any good at the

election. Do you remember the many found on moment when Ed Miliband

came off the boss and he was grabbed by that hen party? Before we go. Let

me give you another classic what the... Moment. You're never going to

believe this. Iain Duncan Smith doing Eminem. Remind us of these

words. I only said that, you were talking about Eminem -- Eminem, lose

yourself lyrics, from Diane Abbot. Can we have some? It's halfway down,

he says, he opens its mouth but the words don't come out, he's joking

now, everybody is talking now, the clocks run out! LAUGHTER amazing.

Whatever next? Theresa May does Beyonce. That would be good.

We're taking our programme on the road - visiting

forgotten Britain during the general election campaign.

Tomorrow we're in Camborne in Cornwall - one of the most

deprived areas in England where 7% of people have no central heating.

We'll be asking people there what election issues

The NHS is one of the issues that you tell us will influence your vote

the most in next month's general election - second only

A group which represents health trusts and hospitals says

politicians must address rapidly growing concerns over

the NHS workforce in the general election campaign.

NHS Providers says a combination of pay restraint, the impact

of leaving the European Union and the lack of a decent

long-term workforce strategy are taking their toll.

NHS Providers say lower paid workers are leaving the sector to stack

Let's talk to a group of people who all work for the NHS and also

Dr Mark Porter, a consultant anaesthetist and chair

Professor Geeta Nargund, a senior fertility consultant.

Dr Zeshan Qureshi, a paediatric registrar, Sandy Wright,

a medical graduate, starting as a junior doctor in August.

Charlotte Wilson, an anaesthetic nurse.

Dr Rishi Dhir, an orthopaedic registrar.

Welcome to all of you and thank you somewhat for your patience, I

appreciated. How short-staffed or certain parts of the NHS? Very

short-staffed, talk to any junior doctor, the experiences of rotor

gaps, you have on-call rotors with emergency staff and ships designated

that there are gaps for people should be. Go to emergency

departments, short staffing is rampant, vacancies in general

practice 5 times higher than they were some years ago, individual

practices running out of GPs to be able to give services. Do you know

people who have left the NHS to stack shelves? I know people who

have gone abroad because there are better pay offers... But not to

stack shelves, is that true? I have no doubt Chris has a few examples of

bad but the thing you must remember, the stability of employment, the

stability of what people see as their commitment to the NHS is

affected by long-term pay restraint, pay restraint is also known as pay

cut, an average of 12% pay cuts while the restraint policy has been

running... Over the last 7 years? Scheduled to carry on for another 3

years, that has a long-term effect on morale and commitment to the NHS.

You can, I spoke to the Chief Executive of the trust recently and

she says she is show short-staffed they are sending people out to

Spain, the Philippines, to recruit doctors and nurses, it is happening.

It is, trusts send out to Spain, Greece, the countries in Europe and

further afield, there have been many nurses over the years and care

workers coming from the Philippines and other countries, the UK needs

workers from around the world to come here and do the Surrey

important jobs in the NHS and social care. Just on this issue of people

leaping to stack shelves in supermarkets, Chris and represents

NHS providers, representing the trusts in England says the trusts

and saying that, employers are saying they are aware of staff who

have left because of pay. The government reaction to it, the

conservative reaction I should say in this election campaign is it

needs a strong economy to deliver at the money to pay out the staff in

the public sector but we haven't heard yet for the parties want to do

about funding for the NHS. You say you're cancelling three hip

or knee operations a week. Why? The reason we're doing this because we

don't have beds availablement to bring a patient in safely for an

operation, you not only need to have the staff available to do the

operation, you need to recover them appropriately afterwards for to or

three or however many days it takes. The beds have been cut year upon

year in the NHS. I wanted to go back to what you said about staff

shortages. There is a massive problem with morale in the NHS.

There is a recruitment and retention problem at the moment and I think a

lot of this comes to not only competency and trust. Doctors have

lost massive trust in this Government. We have seen the first

junior doctors strikes in a generation and nurses balloted and

accessing foodbanks for the possibility of strikes and we saw a

landmark case last Friday on whistle-blowing, junior doctors have

been cheated out of whistle-blowing protection from this Government

since 2015 after the Francis Report into Mid-Staffordshire and that was

thrown out at one of the highest courts of appeal on Friday. This is

worrying me as a doctor who is near the end of his training about that.

What's the best and worst thing about your job at the moment as a

paediatric registrar? Well, the worst thing that I have seen

recently is that for the first time since 2003 the death rate amongst

children under one is going up. That's going up in a country that's

the fifth biggest economy in the world. We have an under one

mortality rate that is 15th out of 19 in western countries. Why do you

say that's happening? What Mark and the BMA talk about in terms of an

under funded, under-resourced NHS is important. We need the Government to

look at every policy through the prism of does this harm children?

One in five children now are living in poverty. In the fifth biggest

economy in the world and all party Parliamentary group stated that

three million children are at risk of hunger during the school

holidays. They get free meals during term time and for me, I'm diagnosing

children with scurvy. How often does that happen? That happened a few

weeks ago. One child? I haven't seen it before in my career and children

are going into hospital with malnutrition. Scurvy and

malnutrition are being diagnosed more commonly. Charlotte Wilson, you

are an anaesthetic practitioner. They are not scrabbling around for

money there, are they? I'm glad to say I have had a good experience in

my trust and because of their sort of charity that they have, they do

have a lot of extra income that many trust would not benefit from. So,

perhaps not in my immediate experience at the moment, but

certainly, in previous posts, you know, there are struggles. Your

message to politicians from whichever party would be in this

election campaign? I think training up future healthcare professionals

is really important. That's our sort of long-term vision. Bursaries were

cut a few years ago now and personally, without a bursary, I was

one of the last to go through with a bursary scheme, I could not have

afforded to train and I would not have qualified and be in working for

an NHS Trust if that wasn't the case. And in sort of the last year

there has been a 23% drop in nursing applications across-the-board and

that's also overseas students applying to come and train here so

that's really concerning especially... What's the knock on

effect of that going to be, do you think? That drop in nursing

applications? Well, I think it will have a knock on effect. Quite

clearly, I think there are a couple of general points here that the

doctors, the healthcare professionals, nurses included, they

need to be empowered and they need to feel that they are appreciated.

OK. And it's quite important that we can't just rely on goodwill all the

time because the doctors and the nurse love the National Health

Service and they are there could do a great job for this institution, we

can't just rely on the goodwill and we need to make sure they are

partners in the NHS and the second point is that what Hugh said, we

need people from outside and I think we have more than 50,000 European

nationals working in the NHS at the moment as doctors, nurses and

researchers and we need to think about that when we're talking about

Brexit and how we retain them. Just on that first point. I think it's

really important to pay and value our staff well, but going further,

the NHS is actually making its staff sick which I find quite frightening.

Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety is rife. Doing

paediatrics and looking after sick and vulnerable children is very

difficult, but having a 12-and-a-half hour shift where you

have to break, people fall asleep at the wheel, it's really quite scary.

No wonder people are being scared off. Has that happened to you, 12

hour shift, driving home, falling asleep? I felt too tired getting

into my car andnded up having to get a taxi home and a few hours

previously I was making life and death decisions with sick children.

You're going to become a junior Government two months after the next

Government gets in. What are the challenges for you Speaking to

friends who are starting as junior doctors, maybe they've done one or

two years, the sentiment coming from them is they're holding off applying

for further training. They're going to take time out and maybe locum and

it is a combination of things which we've talked about, morale issues

and the pay issues and so they want to sort of just wait and see what

the effect is going to be before they commit themselves to ten years

of training and that's one of the reasons that's leading to these gaps

in the rota is you're not getting these professionals through on to

the training programmes that could provide the support to probably

people like myself as new junior doctors coming into the system and

it's going to be a... Employing locums is costly. The rate is much

higher for a freelance stand-in. I don't think you can blame these

individuals for taking a step. If I'm to the going to get paid very

well, I'm not going to get valued, the morale is low, maybe I should

take time out and consider an alternative career. Hugh, we know

about what some parties are saying they would do with the NHS and with

social care? Well, Labour, last week, said they would raise the cap

on public sector pay. Currently 1%, set by the Conservative Government

to go through to 2020. They would raise it to allow pay increases of

above that, more in line with inflation. They say they would pay

for that by raising corporation tax after cuts over the last few years.

But actually they weren't very clear about how much money it would cost

and whether corporation tax receipts had been pledged to other policies.

The Liberal Democrats said at the weekend they would put a penny on

income tax, a penny in the pound, that raises in total ?6 billion over

the next, by 2020, you get there. The trouble is, how far will that go

given the pressures of keeping up with demand and this raises a bigger

question - does the NHS and social care need rather more than what the

parties are talking about? We spend just under 10% of national income on

health, France and Germany is just over 11, but that difference could

be around ?20 billion a year. So I think there is a big debate about

all these issues about sustaining the NHS and social care and paying

staff. The Conservatives haven't said what they would do about

spending. They did say they'd try to get 10,000 more professionals in

mental health over the next few years, but that would have to come

from existing planned NHS budget increases.

Dr Mark Porter, is it simply a lot more money? Is it as simple as that?

The key thing underlying alling the stories we heard about the NHS being

at breaking point. We spend less than leading European economies with

whom we compare ourselves. Compared to the long-term trend in the NHS,

the spending increase each year are lower than they have been in the

history of the NHS. At the moment, the amount of money spent per

patient in the NHS is going down in real terms and those spending

decision which are actual decisions taken by successive governments are

what is driving the NHS to its breaking point at the moment. The

key message here is that the general election, everybody says it's about

Brexit and about giving ourselves a negotiating position, that's

completely wrong. The general election is the moment when public

services are reset for the next five years. Where we look at where we

want to be in five years time with the NHS that we have now and the one

that we want then and at the moment it is hard to see any party that's

taking that long-term step back view to give a proper investment in the

nation's health. Thank you. More than 80 Nigerian schoolgirls

freed in a prisoner swap deal with the Islamist group Boko Haram

are expected to be reunited The girls from the town of Chibok -

who were among more then 200 kidnapped three years ago -

met their President Muhammadu Buhari Let's speak to two people now

who say there's more work to be done Reverend Enoch Mark

joins me on the phone. Two of his daughters were kidnapped

in Chibok and Aisha Yesufu is Tell us your reaction to the 80

girls being released. Presently the Government have tried but I know the

Government can do more than this. We are hoping - we asking the

Government to release the whole girls. I can't quite hear you. I'm

going to talk to Aisha Yesufu. Your reaction to when you heard that the

80 girls were released. The first reaction was one of joy, happiness

and elation that 82 girls of our girls have been rescued. The last

time we had any negotiation was in October 2016 when the Government

then said to us that the girls would be brought out very soon. So when we

heard the 82 were brought back, it was a joyous moment. There was a

tinge of... We have 113 that are out there and they are waiting to come

back home. We have to continue... Each and every one of them must be

accounted for. Yes, 113 girls left out there. What do you want the

Government to do to try and negotiate their release? Well, we

want the Government to put in obthe front burner. To give it the maximum

priority that it needs. There should be intelligence gathering. We've

always said to rescue our Chibok we need military operation. So the

Government needs to put this as a priority and need to ensure that the

Chibok girls, each and everyone of them is accounted for, put

everything in place to ensure that. We want our girls to get education

and not left behind. The Chibok girls are no longer Nigerian

citizens, they are world citizens. They represent the girls that are

trying it get education. They represent the repressed people.

Girls should get education and that's what the Chibok girls did.

They have spent over three years in captivity for doing just that.

Actions speak louder than words. Sometimes we look at Chibok... Thank

you very much. Thank you for your time.

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

France's newly elected President, Emmanuel Macron, has promised

to heal the country's divisions following his resounding

The pro-European candidate is attending his first

public event in Paris, after receiving two-thirds

of the vote in the run-off against the far-right's Marine Le

At 39, he's the country's youngest president.

He will attend at the commemoration with the current President Francois

Hollande. The BBC understands

the Conservatives will recommit to cutting net migration

to the "tens of thousands" Yesterday the Home Secretary,

Amber Rudd, refused to say whether the pledge -

which was also in the party's 2010 and 2015 manifestos -

would be repeated. Meanwhile, UKIP says it

would cut net migration Labour says it would extend the ban

on television adverts for unhealthy food and sweets

until the nine o'clock watershed. The Conservatives say Britain

already has the strictest But Labour says its strategy aims

to halve the number of overweight A 2 year old girl is being treated

in hospital after suffering serious injuries to her head and body

in what's been described Police say several animals managed

to get into the garden where she was playing in the Toxteth

area of Liverpool. Ten dogs have been seized

from a nearby house and a man living Facebook has placed adverts

in British newspapers to provide practical advice on how to spot

fake news online. The website has also closed

thousands of accounts linked to false stories ahead

of the general election. The company advises users to "be

sceptical of headlines" The move comes after it was accused

of helping to spread fake news during last year's US Presidential

election. That's a summary of the latest news,

join me for BBC Newsroom Here are the morning's sport

headlines now with Olly Foster. These are our headlines this

morning, Arsene Wenger saw his Arsenal side beat

a Jose Mourinho team for the first They won 2-nil at the Emirates

but remain in sixth, six points Former Premier League Champions

Blackburn Rovers have been relegated to League One on the last day

of the Championship. Newcastle won the title yesterday

and Reading, Fulham, Huddersfield and Sheffield Wddnesday

will contest the play-offs And just a fortnight after returning

from a 15 month doping ban, Maria Sharapova will book a spot

in Wimbledon qualifying if she wins her second round match

at the Madrid Open today. She faces Eugenie Bouchard,

who has called for the Russian That's your sport, I'll be back with

more on BBC News after 11 AM. Emmanuel Macron isn't yet 40,

had never before run for public office and only

founded his political He's now the new

President of France. Making him the youngest

since Napolean and the first not to be from either of the two main

parties. A few moments ago the outgoing

President Francois Hollande and Emmanuel Macron embraced before

laying a wreath at a victory in Europe commemoration in the centre

of Paris. It was Mr Macron's 1st official function as the new French

President elect and he has bin grading veterans during

commemorations marking the end of the Second World War in Europe along

with the man he replaced at the end of the week, Francois Hollande.

Our correspondent James Reynolds is in Paris where the ceremony

James... The Tory, Francois Hollande and Emmanuel Macron just a few

metres beneath me, in the stand, going to greet various guests are

not the 1st indication that Emmanuel Macron has had of the job he

inherits, 1 of the most powerful in Europe. He stands alongside Francois

Hollande in this morning's ceremonies, at the Arctic Triomphe

behind me, this was built to remember some of Napoleon's battles

and Emmanuel Macron becomes the youngest French leader since

Napoleon. A reminder of the weight of the task he faces. They are

commemorating victory in Europe Day, victory against Nazi Germany and it

was the alliance that France and Germany formed in the years after

the Second World War which led to the creation of the European Union a

little later, that union is struggling but Emmanuel Macron

downgrading people behind me has promised to try to report that

project, to work with Angela Merkel to bring back the strength of the

European Union which has been damaged since the Brexit vote last

year. He sees himself as a pro- European, pro- immigration but he

will have a huge task ahead of him. Thank you, James.

It's probably fair to say that quite a few French people were uninspired

by the two candidates for President - a third of French voters either

abstained, chose neither candidate or spoiled their ballot.

Turnout was the lowest in 50 years - though at 74% far higher than in

We can speak now to some people who say they've reluctantly voted

Amelie Turgis, a French mum and accountant

Arthur Gerard, a French citizen living in London

And Ines Seddiki, who is a youth worker

Welcome to you. Why were you a reluctant footer for Macron? Good

morning. I wasn't really convinced by his programme, I'm more on the

left-wing of the political scene but I decided to vote for him because I

didn't want Marine Le Pen to be our next President, that's the reason

why. What about you, and Millie? Similar, really. I voted for the

Socialist candidate in the 1st round and I didn't really like Macron's

programme because he didn't have anything about ecology or anything

like that which matters to me. Arthur, for use? For you it's going

to be Macron? There is no question about that but I have to say, I feel

pretty much in line with the other persons, exactly. And I think he

also doesn't really represent any sort of renewal of the political

landscape, to me, he feels like someone who has been growing in that

same sort of political environment. And I don't feel like he will be

able to deliver the promise of having a brand-new way of doing

politics, really. IU per per to give him a chance? I wish him luck, of

course! We are not savages. But what I want to say is that I think he was

troubled to get a majority because... That's his next challenge

and to explain that to our audience, next month Parliamentary elections,

he's got to try and get some sort of majority if you can. He has no

party, it's a movement, there is no party, no base there. Yes, and

actually, I think, this is recent news, I think he said he was

actually not so much in favour of forcing people out of their

traditional parties but he has to compose with a Labour people coming

from traditional parties, how do you make you politics when you have

people who had been in this same kind of environment for decades. How

do you think he's going to, as we said, plenty of people didn't hope

or spoiled their ballot papers and 11,000,000 people voted for Marine

Le Pen so how will Emmanuel Macron unite France? It's very important

what you said. We've been running around like we are giving lessons to

the UK, to the United States because we didn't vote for the far right but

11,000,000 people voted for Marine Le Pen and it's too much. And so

what he tried to do yesterday in his speech, he tried not to point

fingers at them, to include them in his presidency, the way he did with

all French people during the campaign, he was, what's good with

Emmanuel Macron as he has a very inclusive way of campaigning and of

doing politics, he doesn't point fingers at anyone and I think that's

what he tried to do yesterday and he said he respected the foot of the

11,000,000 people, he has heard them, as much as he has heard the

people who abstained. -- the vote. Just to prevent Marine Le Pen from

being the next President and I think it was important to say that because

the people who didn't want to vote in the 1st place because they feared

there would be a Labour but tensions, the people who didn't want

to hope for Emmanuel Macron use the argument he would take the votes for

him and think 65% of the population voted for his programme and I think

he did the right thing yesterday, what he said will be acknowledged,

he knows that people, a lot voted for him just to put an end to Marine

Le Pen. Thank you all so much, we will leave it there. Thank you all.

Nice to meet you. An investigation by this programme

has found there are at least 1,400 mistakes made in England's NHS

maternity units every week. The true figure could be much higher

because only 81 out of 132 Trusts in England responded to our Freedom

of Information request. The most serious incidents include

the avoidable deaths of mothers and babies as a result of errors

by midwives and doctors. The Royal College of Midwives says

maternity services are heading towards a crisis because of demands

on the services. We played you our

full report earlier. While hundreds of thousands of women

give birth safely in maternity units across England,

there are cases where serious Sarah Ellis and her fiance, Adam,

lost their baby in 2014. We were left for six hours,

we didn't really know anything. They just told us, well,

they just reassured us, didn't they? The inquest later showed Sarah

should have had an emergency Medical staff failed

to act on warning signs, and their son Gino was severely

starved of oxygen. I was in the corridor,

I was with her mum and dad, and I just said to her mum and dad,

I said... I said, "How am I going to tell

Sarah that he's not all right?" Gino was placed on a life-support

machine but, just days later, Sarah and Adam were advised

to withdraw treatment. It's a conversation you never think

you're going to have to have, is it? How do you discuss how you're

going to end your son's life? The couple decided

to take legal action. A coroner's report found

the hospital missed four Everybody makes mistakes, I do,

we all do, but to see so many people make so many different mistakes

within six hours is just shocking. People who you put your trust in,

your life is in their hands, and Gino's life was in their hands,

and they didn't take care of him. We have to live with the fact that

we're a victim of the NHS. So many babies have lost

their lives, and so many families have been destroyed because they're

not doing their job right. Sarah and Adam got

compensation from the Trust. An investigation by this programme

has found that at least 1000 mistakes are occurring in England's

NHS maternity units each week. We've also found that nearly

260 mothers or babies These deaths were either unexpected

or could have been avoided. Only 39 out of 81 Trusts

responded to this question, so the number of deaths

could be much higher. The Royal College of Midwives said

safety is being compromised because of the pressure our

maternity services are under. We're heading for a crisis

in our maternity services. The simple truth is,

we do not have enough midwives We can't deliver the safest possible

care if we don't have enough midwives and enough doctors working

in our services. When you go in to have a baby,

you expect, you go in with a baby But we went in with a baby seat

and came out with death certificate. Let's talk now to James Titcombe

whose nine day old son Joshua died as a result of mistakes

in the maternity unit Rachelle Mahapatra, a solicitor

who specialises in cases where babies have been left

with brain damage. Dr Pat O'Brien, a consultant

at the Royal College Welcome all of you, James, firstly,

your reaction to our investigation that over a thousand mistakes are

being recorded in England paternity units over the next week. We need to

encourage organisations to report incidents and we need to be careful

how we report this but we need to find out why they're happening, are

there any themes that represent systemic risks? Pat O'Brien, how do

you respond? It's a terrible tragedy from a couple lose a baby like this

and I heart goes out to them. I think it's 1 of the reasons why the

Royal Oak at has set up each baby counts campaign, and it aims to

reduce the number of stillbirths by 50% over the next few years and we

do that by looking at the investigations in Morkel hospitals,

look at the lessons learnt and roll them out across the nation and I

think that will make a big difference. The most common thing