:00:10. > :00:14.for trying to cover it up, the damning report into the health
:00:14. > :00:17.regulator's handling into the inquiry into deaths of babies at a
:00:17. > :00:23.Cumbria hospital. The Care Quality Commission admits it let people
:00:23. > :00:27.down. A father of one of the victims says the report is shocking.
:00:27. > :00:31.To actually accept and understand internally that they knew they'd
:00:31. > :00:36.done things wrong and to bury that report instead of learning from it
:00:36. > :00:40.is just absolutely appalling. examine how the regulator behaved.
:00:40. > :00:45.Also this lunch time: The Supreme Court rules families of soldiers
:00:45. > :00:48.killed in Iraq while using snatch Land Rovers can sue the Ministry of
:00:48. > :00:53.Defence for damages under the human rights agent.
:00:53. > :00:57.The deputy Speaker, Nigel Evans, is arrested again on further three
:00:57. > :01:02.counts of indecent asalted. The buck stops here, senior bankers
:01:02. > :01:05.guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed.
:01:05. > :01:09.Health campaigners, welcome proposals for clearer food
:01:09. > :01:14.labelling, but some manufacturers are still not prepared to sign up
:01:14. > :01:18.later on BBC London, how the lack of affordable homes means we are now
:01:18. > :01:21.waiting decades before buying. Anger at City Hall over the mayor's
:01:21. > :01:31.plans to close fire stations and plans to close fire stations and
:01:31. > :01:46.
:01:47. > :01:49.News at 1pm. The chairman of England's health care regulator, the
:01:49. > :01:53.Care Quality Commission has admitted the organisation was not fit for
:01:53. > :01:58.purpose when it came to hospital inspections and is still not fully
:01:58. > :02:01.up to standard. A report published this morning suggests the CQC might
:02:01. > :02:09.have deliberately covered up knowledge of its own failings in
:02:09. > :02:12.2010 following a series of deaths at David Furnish General hospital in --
:02:12. > :02:18.Furness General hospital in Cumbria. Today the chairman David Pryor said
:02:18. > :02:23.sorry. Sorry for what had happened and sorry to the families involved.
:02:23. > :02:28.Our health correspondent is outside the hospital now.
:02:28. > :02:33.The events that led to today's damning report started here at
:02:33. > :02:35.Furness General Hospital. In 2010 the regulator, the Care Quality
:02:35. > :02:39.Commission told patients this hospital was safe. We know now that
:02:39. > :02:43.wasn't the case. We know perhaps more shockingly, that the regulator
:02:43. > :02:48.then tried to cover up its own mistake.
:02:48. > :02:52.This report focuses on houp the Care Quality Commission handled its role
:02:52. > :02:55.as the regulator at Furness General Hospital which became mired in
:02:55. > :02:59.controversy after the death of a number of babies born in the
:02:59. > :03:03.maternity unit. Police are still investigating the death of baby
:03:03. > :03:07.Joshua, who died in 2008 after staff failed to spot an infection. Despite
:03:07. > :03:13.apparently well known concerns over the hospital, it was registered as
:03:13. > :03:18.safe by the CQC less than 18 months later. The father of Joshua, who led
:03:18. > :03:22.calls for the CQC to come clean over its role, is shocked by what the
:03:22. > :03:28.report says. Whilst I think I recognise that there were obviously
:03:28. > :03:33.failures in the regulation, I didn't realise the extent and it's no
:03:33. > :03:37.exaggeration, I felt physically ill when I read about the cover up. That
:03:37. > :03:42.was just such an outrageous thing to have happened. The report was
:03:42. > :03:45.written by an independent firm of consultants and it makes
:03:45. > :03:50.uncomfortable reading for the CQC. It talks of questionable decision
:03:50. > :03:54.making by the regulator, a disfunctional relationship between
:03:54. > :03:57.the CQC and other bodies like the Strategic Health Authority. Most
:03:57. > :04:02.worrying, evidence of a deliberate cover up to suppress a damaging
:04:02. > :04:05.internal report. The final report has been present to the Care Quality
:04:05. > :04:11.Commission, prompting a Frank apology for its failings. It's a
:04:11. > :04:17.damning report. We were a disfunctional organisation in 2010
:04:17. > :04:21.when we registered the hospital. I'm deeply disappointed and sorry that
:04:21. > :04:25.we performed so badly. Many seen quor figures running the CQC at time
:04:25. > :04:29.have now left, but still ministers want to make sure the organisation
:04:29. > :04:35.has learned some hard lessons. are some very impressive people who
:04:35. > :04:38.have come onto the board, but they have to demonstrate the onerous
:04:38. > :04:41.responsibility to rebuild publish confidence is very apparent. The
:04:41. > :04:45.public has to be confident in the patients' champion that it will
:04:45. > :04:49.expose wrongdoing. I'm confident that they will achieve that
:04:49. > :04:53.objective. Some of the weaknesses outlined in this report echo
:04:53. > :04:57.failures at Stafford Hospital. Seeing those mistakes repeated will
:04:57. > :05:01.greatly trouble ministers and patients.
:05:01. > :05:05.Now the management of the Trust that runs this hospital, University
:05:05. > :05:08.hospitals of Morecambe Bay has changed completely as has the
:05:08. > :05:11.management of the Care Quality Commission. In the next hour we hear
:05:11. > :05:14.from the Health Secretary, who is making a statement in the House of
:05:14. > :05:17.Commons. He will be expected to answer some of the underlying
:05:17. > :05:21.questions, particularly - is the Care Quality Commission fit for
:05:21. > :05:25.purpose? Thank you very much.
:05:25. > :05:28.Our political correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster for us. The
:05:28. > :05:31.Prime Minister's already described it as deeply disturbing and
:05:32. > :05:34.appalling. As Dominic was saying, we're hearing from the Health
:05:34. > :05:38.Secretary later. No-one in Government is seeking in any way to
:05:38. > :05:42.play down the gravity of the failings by the Care Quality
:05:42. > :05:48.Commission. Equally, no-one is proposing another radical overhaul
:05:48. > :05:52.of the CQC or another package of NHS reforms. When Mr Hunt gets to his
:05:52. > :05:57.feet, he will argue that he has already put in place the necessary
:05:57. > :06:01.changes to address the failings. There will be, for example, an
:06:01. > :06:07.inspector of hospitals. There will be a duty of candour on NHS staff.
:06:07. > :06:10.There will be a new criminal offence of cover up within the NHS. In terms
:06:10. > :06:14.of the Care Quality Commission itself, he will stress the entire
:06:14. > :06:19.board has been cleared out. His difficulty is whether that will
:06:19. > :06:24.still go far enough for those -- for those directly involved who bluntly
:06:24. > :06:27.want heads to roll. As it stands we believe those involved have been
:06:27. > :06:31.able to walk away with their redundancy and pension entitlements
:06:32. > :06:35.in tact. They've not been named and shamed, apparently because of data
:06:35. > :06:38.protection reasons. We don't even know if they've been barred of
:06:38. > :06:43.working elsewhere in the NHS. Mr Hunt also will have to reassure the
:06:43. > :06:46.public. This is just the latest scandal to hit the NHS. His
:06:46. > :06:49.difficulty is turning round the culture in the NHS is a very slow
:06:50. > :06:53.process. Thank you very much.
:06:53. > :07:00.The BBC News channel will cover the Health Secretary's statement to the
:07:00. > :07:04.House of Commons following this programme just after 1. 30pm.
:07:04. > :07:07.The Ministry of Defence faces legal action after a landmark ruling that
:07:07. > :07:11.families of soldiers killed in Iraq can pursue damages under the Human
:07:11. > :07:14.Rights Act. The Supreme Court's decision follows a case brought by
:07:14. > :07:20.the relatives of servicemen killed and injured in Iraq, including three
:07:20. > :07:24.men who died while travelling in snatch Land Rovers.
:07:24. > :07:28.Caroline wiet is at the court now. This is the result that the MoD did
:07:28. > :07:33.not want. Its lawyers have fought hard for many years, through the
:07:33. > :07:38.courts, to limit the extension of human rights and negligence laws to
:07:38. > :07:42.the battlefield, which is an unpredictable place, which the MoD
:07:42. > :07:47.says is a place apart and where these sort of laws should not apply.
:07:47. > :07:50.The persistence of several bereaved families and their lawyers seems to
:07:50. > :07:53.have paid off. Sue Smith arrived at the Supreme
:07:53. > :07:59.Court this morning unsure what the country's highest court would make
:07:59. > :08:08.of her long legal battle. For Sue, the fight began when her son Private
:08:08. > :08:11.Phillip Hewitt was killed in Iraq in July 2005. Blown up as he travelled
:08:11. > :08:15.in a Land Rover. She believed the MoD was neglect not providing better
:08:15. > :08:20.protection for him. Last year, the Court of Appeal accepted the
:08:20. > :08:23.Government's argument that soldiers on the battlefield were beyond the
:08:23. > :08:28.reach of the Human Rights Act, which guarantees the right to life. But
:08:28. > :08:35.today, Lord hope handed down this judgment: The Supreme Court holds
:08:35. > :08:41.unanimously that in relation to the Snatch Land Rover claims private
:08:41. > :08:45.Hewitt and private Ellis were t the United Kingdom jurisdiction. For Sue
:08:45. > :08:49.and Colin, whose son Kirk was also killed in a Snatch Land Rover, today
:08:49. > :08:55.marked a significant step forward in their legal battle with the MoD over
:08:55. > :08:59.soldiers' rights. They can't just be out there with no equipment or it
:08:59. > :09:03.doesn't matter. As an employer, they have to make sure they're safe at
:09:03. > :09:08.work, which is what should have been happening from day one. A victory
:09:08. > :09:12.for the families who fought so hard on behalf of their brothers, fathers
:09:12. > :09:16.and sons. But it isn't the end of the story. What it means is they can
:09:16. > :09:21.take their cases back to the High Court. There, though, the MoD is
:09:21. > :09:26.likely to fight hard. Today the Defence Secretary issued this
:09:26. > :09:29.statement: I'm very concerned at the wider implications of this judgment,
:09:29. > :09:34.which could ultimately make it more difficult for our troops to carry
:09:34. > :09:40.out operations and potentially throes open a wide range of military
:09:40. > :09:43.decisions to the uncertainty of litigation. The Supreme Court's
:09:43. > :09:47.ruling does extend the law's reach to the battlefield also allowing
:09:47. > :09:51.negligence claims to be brought against the MoD, but the judges were
:09:51. > :09:57.clear policy decisions and decisions made in the heat of battle will not
:09:57. > :10:01.be open to legal challenge. All the claimants' cases can now go back to
:10:01. > :10:05.the High Court where there are likely to be more legal skirmishes
:10:05. > :10:09.on the exact application of the ruling today. Before it's clear,
:10:09. > :10:13.exact lit impact this will have on the MoD, whether for procurement
:10:13. > :10:18.decisions or training decisions or issuing orders ahead of sending
:10:18. > :10:22.soldiers, sailors or air personnel onto the battlefield. Thank you very
:10:22. > :10:25.much. The deputy Speaker of the House of
:10:25. > :10:28.Commons, Nigel Evans, whose facing an allegation of rape, has been
:10:28. > :10:31.rearrested on suspicion of three further counts of indecent assault.
:10:31. > :10:38.Our political correspondent is at Preston police station. What
:10:38. > :10:42.happened in court? Well, Nigel Evans is in Preston police station behind
:10:42. > :10:47.me. He's being questioned by detectives on those three new
:10:47. > :10:52.allegations of indecent assault. He was already facing one allegation of
:10:52. > :10:56.rape and another of sexual assault. He was arrested last month by
:10:56. > :11:03.detectives at Lancashire Police. These new allegations, we
:11:03. > :11:07.understand, relate to incidents in Blackpool and London between 2003
:11:07. > :11:11.and 2011. In total there are now five different individuals, all men
:11:11. > :11:16.in their 20s, who are making allegations against the deputy
:11:16. > :11:20.Speaker of the House of Commons. Now when last month, he was arrested, he
:11:20. > :11:25.came out into his constituency and made a very strong defence of his
:11:25. > :11:29.position. He said that the allegations were completely false
:11:29. > :11:34.and I cannot understand why they've been made by two men who he regarded
:11:34. > :11:37.as friends. He's had overwhelming support, he says he's had
:11:37. > :11:41.overwhelming support in the constituency and in Parliament, but
:11:41. > :11:46.I think, this must be having some political corrosive effect on his
:11:46. > :11:49.political career. Thank you very much.
:11:49. > :11:53.Senior bankers guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed, that's
:11:53. > :11:57.one of the recommendations of a long awaited report on the banking
:11:57. > :12:00.sector. The Parliamentary commission on banking standards also calls for
:12:00. > :12:09.the bonuses of top staff working in high risk areas to be withheld for
:12:09. > :12:13.up to ten years. The Treasury has welcomed the report.
:12:13. > :12:17.The Libor scandal last summer, a tale of City traders trying to rig
:12:17. > :12:20.interest rates, was the straw which broke the camel's back for banking.
:12:20. > :12:24.The Chancellor set up a commission on changing the culture of an
:12:24. > :12:31.industry, which let down customers, and was so reckless it had to be
:12:31. > :12:36.bailed out. At the moment bankers are incentivised sometimes to take
:12:36. > :12:39.huge risks. It's a one-way bet in a sense. If things go well, they pick
:12:39. > :12:44.up huge bonuses. If things go badly, they don't have their shirts on the
:12:44. > :12:48.line, they can more or less walk away. That has to stop.
:12:48. > :12:54.commission wants to deter senior bankers from allowing wrongdoing by
:12:54. > :12:58.deforing their bonuses for up to ten years. Those bonuses could be
:12:58. > :13:03.cancelled if a bank needed to be rescued by the taxpayer. There
:13:03. > :13:06.should be an offence of reckless misconduct by senior bankers
:13:07. > :13:10.punishable by a prison sentence. Labour says put this in place. The
:13:10. > :13:15.Government is making a start. an impressive piece of work. We will
:13:15. > :13:19.respond to all of its 500 pages within the next four weeks, at pace.
:13:19. > :13:24.The report seeks to keep top bankers under control by putting their
:13:24. > :13:28.bonuses out of reach for years and by threatening them with more
:13:28. > :13:33.painful sanctions if they behave badly. It's not just the bankers who
:13:33. > :13:40.get a going over, more stringent regulation is called for and more
:13:40. > :13:44.surgery on the banking industry. The commission says RBS, owned bit
:13:44. > :13:49.taxpayer, could be split in two - a bad bank, to hold problem debts and
:13:50. > :13:54.a good bank, free to lend more and eelsier to sell off again to the
:13:54. > :13:59.private sector. Plus, there should be a study into giving customers
:13:59. > :14:05.portable account numbers, a bit like mobile phone numbers, which don't
:14:05. > :14:09.change to stir up competition. part is to make it ease dwror switch
:14:09. > :14:13.between banks. A suddeny into the costs and benefits of that, more
:14:13. > :14:17.delay, it doesn't mean we'll see easier switching any time soon.
:14:17. > :14:22.Banks say they recognise the need for reform but there's worry that
:14:22. > :14:25.controls on pay will hold the industry back. That's what's
:14:25. > :14:29.happening with British banks. If the British banks can't pay what the
:14:30. > :14:33.Americans and Asians can pay, they will lose the best people. The aim
:14:33. > :14:37.is to banish mis-selling, manipulation and costly failures,
:14:37. > :14:43.bringing in a new generation of bankers. The question - will this be
:14:43. > :14:46.enough? Our chief economics correspondent,
:14:46. > :14:50.Hugh Pym, is here with me. The banking sector under the spotlight
:14:50. > :14:54.and will remain so tonight because the Chancellor is giving his Mansion
:14:54. > :14:59.House speech. Yes, a major event for the City of London. The Chancellor
:14:59. > :15:03.will deliver a speech and he's likely to give his first indication
:15:03. > :15:06.of where he sees things going after this commission report. Broadly
:15:06. > :15:10.supportive as we've been hearing there. But crucially, he'll set out
:15:10. > :15:15.his vision for the future of Lloyds an RBS, the big banks where
:15:15. > :15:19.taxpayers still have a major stake. He may well say yes, he wants to
:15:19. > :15:24.start a sale of shares as early as earlier next year in Lloyds. That
:15:24. > :15:29.could be a major privatisation in the run up to the election, possibly
:15:29. > :15:35.to retail investors as well as institutions. �20 billion worth, a
:15:35. > :15:40.big event for the City. As regards RBS, more work has been demanded in
:15:40. > :15:43.terms of should it be split or not? That will take a few months. It
:15:43. > :15:47.seems unlikely they can sell any of RBS before the election. We'll hear
:15:47. > :15:51.a bit more, possibly from the Chancellor tonight. It is the final
:15:51. > :15:53.speech as governor by Sir Mervyn King, who knows what he has up his
:15:53. > :15:56.King, who knows what he has up his King, who knows what he has up his
:15:56. > :16:00.sleeve? The Afghan Government is suspending talks with the United
:16:00. > :16:03.States on security arrangements in the country after international
:16:03. > :16:06.troops withdraw next year. A spokesman for President Hamid Karzai
:16:07. > :16:11.said the decision was taken in protest over proposed direct talks
:16:11. > :16:15.between America an the Taliban. Just hours before the announcement, four
:16:15. > :16:16.US soldiers were killed in a Taliban US soldiers were killed in a Taliban
:16:16. > :16:26.US soldiers were killed in a Taliban US soldiers were killed in a Taliban
:16:26. > :16:30.attack at an air base. Our correspondent joins us now. How
:16:31. > :16:35.angry does President Karzai appeared to be? Yesterday we had cautious
:16:35. > :16:39.optimism about those talks with the Taliban, and today we have the harsh
:16:39. > :16:43.reality. Firstly, the Taliban are far from giving up the fight.
:16:43. > :16:48.Yesterday, they killed those for Americans nearby grand airbase. We
:16:48. > :16:53.also heard of a second attack in Helmand in which five policemen were
:16:53. > :16:58.killed. The Taliban again claimed responsibility. But the bigger issue
:16:58. > :17:03.is President Karzai's reaction to the way those talks were handled,
:17:03. > :17:06.the announcement made by the Americans. He claimed he had an
:17:06. > :17:10.agreement with the Americans that there would be preconditions for
:17:10. > :17:14.those talks, including recognising his government, or are recognising
:17:14. > :17:19.the Afghan constitution and ending the violence. And those have not
:17:19. > :17:24.been met, so he feels betrayed. His response has been to suspend those
:17:24. > :17:30.talks with the Americans about their long-term military presence in the
:17:30. > :17:34.country. We have just heard that the body he set up to negotiate with the
:17:34. > :17:38.Taliban are now refusing to go to go hard to talk with the Taliban. The
:17:38. > :17:43.ayes have it, the ayes have it said there would be bumps in the road in
:17:43. > :17:46.these talks -- President Obama said there would be bumps on the road. We
:17:46. > :17:55.have got a massive pothole before they have even begun, so not the
:17:55. > :17:58.greatest start. Barack Obama has held talks with the
:17:58. > :18:01.German chancellor Angela Merkel on his first visit to Berlin since
:18:01. > :18:05.become a US president. Later, he will make a speech at the famous
:18:06. > :18:10.Brandenburg Gate, where he will call for a large reduction in American
:18:10. > :18:13.and Russian nuclear weapons. It is almost 50 years to the dais and
:18:13. > :18:18.spasms and Kennedy delivered his famous speech in the then divided
:18:18. > :18:25.city. Our correspondent is in Berlin. What were they talking about
:18:25. > :18:28.this morning? They were talking about real issues. A lot of warmth
:18:28. > :18:31.about the relationship, but then chancellor Merkel raised the issue
:18:31. > :18:38.of the surveillance by the American Secret Service of the internet. She
:18:39. > :18:44.grew up in East Germany, where spying was very real, so she voiced
:18:44. > :18:48.concern about that. She said there had to be proportionality. President
:18:48. > :18:52.Obama responded for some minutes, saying it was a limited programme,
:18:52. > :19:00.that lives had been saved, and tried to reassure her. After his speech,
:19:00. > :19:07.she said questions remained. So a real disagreement over a real issue,
:19:07. > :19:13.with her voicing discontent. And a hugely symbolic speech to come at
:19:13. > :19:22.the Brandenburg Gate. How important could that proved to be? A very
:19:22. > :19:28.important speech for President Obama. The setting is historic. He
:19:28. > :19:32.is making a resonance with President Kennedy's speech 50 years ago, where
:19:32. > :19:38.Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Berliner". So the backdrop will be in macula.
:19:38. > :19:43.He was welcomed by 200,000 people when he was in Berlin, seeking the
:19:43. > :19:47.presidency. Today will be much more controlled, but it will be a big
:19:47. > :19:56.speech about international affairs, with the right backdrop for the
:19:56. > :20:00.folks back home. Our top story this lunchtime: The
:20:00. > :20:02.Care Quality Commission is accused of a cover-up over its report into
:20:02. > :20:07.the deaths of babies at a Cumbria hospital.
:20:07. > :20:14.Still to come, protest spread across Brazil, with thousands of
:20:14. > :20:17.demonstrators taking to the streets. On BBC London News, the man at the
:20:17. > :20:22.heart of a campaign to get reparations for victims of Chile's
:20:22. > :20:32.Pinochet regime. And how a mum from Berks has won the
:20:32. > :20:36.acclaimed art prize for a portrait of her son.
:20:36. > :20:39.Now, when you are buying food, how much attention do you pay to the
:20:39. > :20:43.nutritional guidelines on the packets? Recently, shoppers have
:20:43. > :20:48.been given a range of different labels and colour codes explaining
:20:48. > :20:51.how much fat, salt and sugar is contained in an item. Today the
:20:51. > :20:55.government is introducing a new system which it hopes will stop the
:20:55. > :20:59.confusion. But while all the major supermarkets have signed up, some
:20:59. > :21:04.big firms like Coca-Cola, Cadburys and United Biscuits are not taking
:21:04. > :21:09.part. Some foods already say on the front
:21:09. > :21:13.how much salt, sugar or fat they contain. There are labels using
:21:13. > :21:18.numbers showing how much of your daily intake that might be, and
:21:18. > :21:24.others using a traffic light colours red, amber and green. Foods with
:21:24. > :21:27.mainly green are the healthiest. Read on the label is a warning to go
:21:27. > :21:31.easy. Under the new voluntary system, food companies are being
:21:31. > :21:36.asked to use both numbers and colours, which has been welcomed by
:21:36. > :21:39.big retailers. Some people who are shopping quickly, like a mother who
:21:39. > :21:43.might be looking for healthier choices, she might be whizzing
:21:43. > :21:48.through the store and looking for things that are green and amber.
:21:48. > :21:50.Someone who might be interested in certain nutrients, like a person
:21:50. > :21:54.suffering from high blood pressure, they might interrogate the packaging
:21:54. > :21:57.more. Health campaigners say using traffic light colours and numbers
:21:57. > :22:03.will help shoppers, allowing them to pick out which foods are healthiest
:22:03. > :22:07.at a glance. What we eat has a real effect on our health. How much salt,
:22:07. > :22:12.sugar or saturated fat is in our food 's but it is hard to make
:22:12. > :22:16.healthy choices without clear labelling on all the products. But
:22:16. > :22:20.charities say it is to pointing that some big-name brands, including
:22:20. > :22:26.Kellogg's, Cadburys and Coke, have not signed up to adding the traffic
:22:26. > :22:30.light colours to labels. It is untenable for any company that
:22:30. > :22:33.claims to be socially responsible not to sign up to the traffic light
:22:33. > :22:38.labelling scheme. There is a responsibility on the government
:22:38. > :22:43.name and shame any company which its feet. Unless we have widespread
:22:43. > :22:46.adoption, the whole scheme is undermined. Ministers say public
:22:46. > :22:54.pressure might persuade other companies to join the voluntary
:22:54. > :22:59.scheme. They argue that getting all the main food grade -- retailers to
:22:59. > :23:03.agree is a step forward. Some of the big manufacturers have signed up, so
:23:03. > :23:08.when the other manufacturers see that their rivals have signed up,
:23:08. > :23:11.they will see that they should follow suit. Giving people the
:23:11. > :23:18.information to make decisions is one thing, but as doctors point out,
:23:18. > :23:21.getting us all to change our behaviour is more complex.
:23:21. > :23:24.A teacher who was in a relationship with one of his pupils and fled to
:23:24. > :23:29.France with her wept in court as a former colleague described him as
:23:29. > :23:32.one of the most gifted teachers he had ever met. Lewes Crown Court has
:23:33. > :23:36.heard that the pupil was aged 15 when she started a sexual
:23:36. > :23:41.relationship with Jeremy Forrest. The court heard this morning that he
:23:41. > :23:46.will not be giving evidence in his trial. He denies child abduction.
:23:46. > :23:51.This was the last full day of evidence in Jeremy Forrest's trial,
:23:51. > :23:54.the 30-year-old teacher accused of abducting a 15-year-old pupil and
:23:54. > :23:58.taking her to France. His parents and sister were in court as the
:23:58. > :24:04.prosecution and defence wound up their cases. Jeremy Forrest wept as
:24:04. > :24:08.his defence barrister read out witness statements praising him as a
:24:08. > :24:13.teacher, with one colleague saying he was one of the most gifted
:24:13. > :24:17.teachers he had ever met. But summing up for the prosecution, they
:24:17. > :24:21.said Jeremy Forrest had told a pack of lies and betrayed everyone. He
:24:21. > :24:25.said he had betrayed his wife, his school colleagues, the girl's mother
:24:25. > :24:29.and the girl herself, and that he caused heartache to all those he had
:24:29. > :24:33.left behind. Police officers told the court how they used CCTV
:24:34. > :24:38.pictures to track Forrest and the girl on their way to France last
:24:38. > :24:42.September. The jury was told they went to Bordeaux, that Forrest
:24:42. > :24:50.booked the ferries and hotels. Without that, the prosecution said,
:24:50. > :24:53.the girl would not have been able to leave. Jeremy Forrest was said to
:24:53. > :24:58.having gauged pupils with his love of teaching and music. The
:24:58. > :25:04.prosecution said he could have said no before taking the girl away. The
:25:04. > :25:08.jury is expected to go out tomorrow. An emergency security force is being
:25:08. > :25:11.deployed on the streets of Brazil to try to control a series of protests.
:25:11. > :25:17.Thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations against the high
:25:17. > :25:21.cost of living and the expense of next year's World Cup.
:25:21. > :25:27.Another night when a tide of people, not traffic, blocked the
:25:27. > :25:31.streets of Sao Paulo. A rise in bus fares was the spark, but that has
:25:31. > :25:38.unleashed a range of long-held grievances over how Brazil is
:25:38. > :25:44.governed. Our politicians are not interested in taking care of the
:25:44. > :25:49.country. They are taking care of themselves. TRANSLATION: It is for
:25:49. > :25:52.the corrupt Brazil we are living in. Health, education, everything is
:25:52. > :25:58.wrong. A small group turned violent. They grabbed barricades and
:25:58. > :26:05.tried to invade the City Hall. The police had to beat them back. In the
:26:05. > :26:10.chaos, a TV satellite truck was set on fire. The air was thick with
:26:10. > :26:16.smoke and pepper spray. Elsewhere, the march went on peacefully, fears
:26:16. > :26:18.over security has led the government to dispatch special police units to
:26:18. > :26:24.the cities hosting the Confederations Cup soccer
:26:24. > :26:30.tournament. Brazil's president, herself a former left-wing guerrilla
:26:30. > :26:36.fighter, says she is sympathetic to the protests' complaints, but she is
:26:36. > :26:40.not so far offering solutions. She said the people must be heard. The
:26:40. > :26:45.message from the streets is to improve civil society for better
:26:45. > :26:49.schools, hospitals and public transport. A more confident young
:26:49. > :26:53.generation is flexing its political muscle for the first time, angry
:26:53. > :26:57.that Brazil's rising economy has not translated into better public
:26:57. > :27:06.services. They have no clear leader, nor detailed demands, but
:27:06. > :27:09.through social media, many more demonstrations are planned.
:27:09. > :27:12.England's cricketers made dominant start of their semi-final in the
:27:12. > :27:18.Champions Trophy against South Africa at the Oval. The tournament
:27:18. > :27:21.features the best eight teams in the world, and England have never won
:27:21. > :27:25.it. But their bowlers put them in an excellent position to reach the
:27:26. > :27:30.weekend's final before a African fightback.
:27:30. > :27:35.Like a picking between diamonds, James Anderson's wrap depends on his
:27:35. > :27:39.raw material. The ball is round, his stage was the Oval. A semi-final is
:27:39. > :27:45.naturally a big deal, and it helps that this tournament has featured
:27:45. > :27:48.intrigue. England dodged that Australian punch in Birmingham. They
:27:48. > :27:54.dodged the rain in Cardiff and dealt with renewed richly about the way
:27:54. > :28:01.they treat the ball. England deny any suggestion that they pamper with
:28:01. > :28:07.it to help their bowlers. Whether the ball is red or white, what is
:28:07. > :28:13.agreed is that James Anderson uses it with enormous skill. A wicket for
:28:13. > :28:19.Anderson with his fifth ball. And Steve Finn struck in his first
:28:19. > :28:27.over. Big wicket, too. Hashim Amla was gone. The score was four for
:28:27. > :28:30.two. Peterson was deceived by Anderson. South Africa already in
:28:30. > :28:37.deep trouble, and the captain played a shot which hardly suited the
:28:37. > :28:43.seriousness. Now a novel dismissal, Brian McLaren stumbling out of his
:28:43. > :28:51.crease, Jonathan Trott alive to it. It was soon 80 48. James Treadwell
:28:51. > :29:01.bowled. But South Africa summoned some late slogging. So when they
:29:01. > :29:08.bat, England will have something to Now the weather.
:29:08. > :29:12.It is glorious out there, a real summer's be. We saw thunderstorms
:29:12. > :29:19.earlier in eastern parts of England. But over the last few hours, that
:29:19. > :29:25.cloud has melted away. But we also have high UV levels and high pollen
:29:25. > :29:27.levels if you are hayfever sufferer. We are not seeing high pollen levels
:29:27. > :29:32.in the north-west corner of Scotland, because we have a weather
:29:32. > :29:37.front here, bringing outbreaks of rain. Quite cool as well for the
:29:37. > :29:41.Hebrides, but for most of Scotland, a fine afternoon, as it will be
:29:41. > :29:49.across northern England, Northern Ireland and the Midlands. Feeling
:29:49. > :29:53.very warm and humid. A few showers pushing into the central and
:29:53. > :30:03.southern Midlands and into Hampshire, and bits of cloud across
:30:03. > :30:08.
:30:08. > :30:14.the south-east. Feeling very warm and muggy at Ascot. This evening,
:30:14. > :30:19.many areas will have a perfect evening to set out in the garden. We
:30:19. > :30:25.will start to see showers gathering across southern areas. Some of these
:30:25. > :30:30.could be heavy and thundery. It will remain warm and muggy across the
:30:30. > :30:34.north-west corner, where we will see rain and showers pushing into
:30:34. > :30:41.Northern Ireland and north-west Scotland. Tomorrow, there will be
:30:41. > :30:47.dry and bright weather across Scotland and northern England. Some
:30:47. > :30:53.of the rain will be heavy and persistent, but brightness turns up
:30:53. > :31:03.across the Midlands and the south-east. Still feeling quite
:31:03. > :31:03.
:31:03. > :31:11.warm. But it is all change as we had towards Friday. This low pressure
:31:11. > :31:19.has the weekend's name on it, to bring some wet and windy weather. An
:31:19. > :31:22.outbreak of rain will spread from west to east on Friday. On Saturday
:31:22. > :31:27.and Sunday, that area of low pressure arrives, so it will be
:31:27. > :31:35.showery and breezy and much cooler. If it is warmth you love, today is
:31:35. > :31:40.the day. A reminder of our main stories: The
:31:40. > :31:44.Care Quality Commission is accused of a cover-up over its report into