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for trying to cover it up, the damning report into the health

regulator's handling into the inquiry into deaths of babies at a

Cumbria hospital. The Care Quality Commission admits it let people

down. A father of one of the victims says the report is shocking.

To actually accept and understand internally that they knew they'd

done things wrong and to bury that report instead of learning from it

is just absolutely appalling. examine how the regulator behaved.

Also this lunch time: The Supreme Court rules families of soldiers

killed in Iraq while using snatch Land Rovers can sue the Ministry of

Defence for damages under the human rights agent.

The deputy Speaker, Nigel Evans, is arrested again on further three

counts of indecent asalted. The buck stops here, senior bankers

guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed.

Health campaigners, welcome proposals for clearer food

labelling, but some manufacturers are still not prepared to sign up

later on BBC London, how the lack of affordable homes means we are now

waiting decades before buying. Anger at City Hall over the mayor's

plans to close fire stations and plans to close fire stations and

News at 1pm. The chairman of England's health care regulator, the

Care Quality Commission has admitted the organisation was not fit for

purpose when it came to hospital inspections and is still not fully

up to standard. A report published this morning suggests the CQC might

have deliberately covered up knowledge of its own failings in

2010 following a series of deaths at David Furnish General hospital in --

Furness General hospital in Cumbria. Today the chairman David Pryor said

sorry. Sorry for what had happened and sorry to the families involved.

Our health correspondent is outside the hospital now.

The events that led to today's damning report started here at

Furness General Hospital. In 2010 the regulator, the Care Quality

Commission told patients this hospital was safe. We know now that

wasn't the case. We know perhaps more shockingly, that the regulator

then tried to cover up its own mistake.

This report focuses on houp the Care Quality Commission handled its role

as the regulator at Furness General Hospital which became mired in

controversy after the death of a number of babies born in the

maternity unit. Police are still investigating the death of baby

Joshua, who died in 2008 after staff failed to spot an infection. Despite

apparently well known concerns over the hospital, it was registered as

safe by the CQC less than 18 months later. The father of Joshua, who led

calls for the CQC to come clean over its role, is shocked by what the

report says. Whilst I think I recognise that there were obviously

failures in the regulation, I didn't realise the extent and it's no

exaggeration, I felt physically ill when I read about the cover up. That

was just such an outrageous thing to have happened. The report was

written by an independent firm of consultants and it makes

uncomfortable reading for the CQC. It talks of questionable decision

making by the regulator, a disfunctional relationship between

the CQC and other bodies like the Strategic Health Authority. Most

worrying, evidence of a deliberate cover up to suppress a damaging

internal report. The final report has been present to the Care Quality

Commission, prompting a Frank apology for its failings. It's a

damning report. We were a disfunctional organisation in 2010

when we registered the hospital. I'm deeply disappointed and sorry that

we performed so badly. Many seen quor figures running the CQC at time

have now left, but still ministers want to make sure the organisation

has learned some hard lessons. are some very impressive people who

have come onto the board, but they have to demonstrate the onerous

responsibility to rebuild publish confidence is very apparent. The

public has to be confident in the patients' champion that it will

expose wrongdoing. I'm confident that they will achieve that

objective. Some of the weaknesses outlined in this report echo

failures at Stafford Hospital. Seeing those mistakes repeated will

greatly trouble ministers and patients.

Now the management of the Trust that runs this hospital, University

hospitals of Morecambe Bay has changed completely as has the

management of the Care Quality Commission. In the next hour we hear

from the Health Secretary, who is making a statement in the House of

Commons. He will be expected to answer some of the underlying

questions, particularly - is the Care Quality Commission fit for

purpose? Thank you very much.

Our political correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster for us. The

Prime Minister's already described it as deeply disturbing and

appalling. As Dominic was saying, we're hearing from the Health

Secretary later. No-one in Government is seeking in any way to

play down the gravity of the failings by the Care Quality

Commission. Equally, no-one is proposing another radical overhaul

of the CQC or another package of NHS reforms. When Mr Hunt gets to his

feet, he will argue that he has already put in place the necessary

changes to address the failings. There will be, for example, an

inspector of hospitals. There will be a duty of candour on NHS staff.

There will be a new criminal offence of cover up within the NHS. In terms

of the Care Quality Commission itself, he will stress the entire

board has been cleared out. His difficulty is whether that will

still go far enough for those -- for those directly involved who bluntly

want heads to roll. As it stands we believe those involved have been

able to walk away with their redundancy and pension entitlements

in tact. They've not been named and shamed, apparently because of data

protection reasons. We don't even know if they've been barred of

working elsewhere in the NHS. Mr Hunt also will have to reassure the

public. This is just the latest scandal to hit the NHS. His

difficulty is turning round the culture in the NHS is a very slow

process. Thank you very much.

The BBC News channel will cover the Health Secretary's statement to the

House of Commons following this programme just after 1. 30pm.

The Ministry of Defence faces legal action after a landmark ruling that

families of soldiers killed in Iraq can pursue damages under the Human

Rights Act. The Supreme Court's decision follows a case brought by

the relatives of servicemen killed and injured in Iraq, including three

men who died while travelling in snatch Land Rovers.

Caroline wiet is at the court now. This is the result that the MoD did

not want. Its lawyers have fought hard for many years, through the

courts, to limit the extension of human rights and negligence laws to

the battlefield, which is an unpredictable place, which the MoD

says is a place apart and where these sort of laws should not apply.

The persistence of several bereaved families and their lawyers seems to

have paid off. Sue Smith arrived at the Supreme

Court this morning unsure what the country's highest court would make

of her long legal battle. For Sue, the fight began when her son Private

Phillip Hewitt was killed in Iraq in July 2005. Blown up as he travelled

in a Land Rover. She believed the MoD was neglect not providing better

protection for him. Last year, the Court of Appeal accepted the

Government's argument that soldiers on the battlefield were beyond the

reach of the Human Rights Act, which guarantees the right to life. But

today, Lord hope handed down this judgment: The Supreme Court holds

unanimously that in relation to the Snatch Land Rover claims private

Hewitt and private Ellis were t the United Kingdom jurisdiction. For Sue

and Colin, whose son Kirk was also killed in a Snatch Land Rover, today

marked a significant step forward in their legal battle with the MoD over

soldiers' rights. They can't just be out there with no equipment or it

doesn't matter. As an employer, they have to make sure they're safe at

work, which is what should have been happening from day one. A victory

for the families who fought so hard on behalf of their brothers, fathers

and sons. But it isn't the end of the story. What it means is they can

take their cases back to the High Court. There, though, the MoD is

likely to fight hard. Today the Defence Secretary issued this

statement: I'm very concerned at the wider implications of this judgment,

which could ultimately make it more difficult for our troops to carry

out operations and potentially throes open a wide range of military

decisions to the uncertainty of litigation. The Supreme Court's

ruling does extend the law's reach to the battlefield also allowing

negligence claims to be brought against the MoD, but the judges were

clear policy decisions and decisions made in the heat of battle will not

be open to legal challenge. All the claimants' cases can now go back to

the High Court where there are likely to be more legal skirmishes

on the exact application of the ruling today. Before it's clear,

exact lit impact this will have on the MoD, whether for procurement

decisions or training decisions or issuing orders ahead of sending

soldiers, sailors or air personnel onto the battlefield. Thank you very

much. The deputy Speaker of the House of

Commons, Nigel Evans, whose facing an allegation of rape, has been

rearrested on suspicion of three further counts of indecent assault.

Our political correspondent is at Preston police station. What

happened in court? Well, Nigel Evans is in Preston police station behind

me. He's being questioned by detectives on those three new

allegations of indecent assault. He was already facing one allegation of

rape and another of sexual assault. He was arrested last month by

detectives at Lancashire Police. These new allegations, we

understand, relate to incidents in Blackpool and London between 2003

and 2011. In total there are now five different individuals, all men

in their 20s, who are making allegations against the deputy

Speaker of the House of Commons. Now when last month, he was arrested, he

came out into his constituency and made a very strong defence of his

position. He said that the allegations were completely false

and I cannot understand why they've been made by two men who he regarded

as friends. He's had overwhelming support, he says he's had

overwhelming support in the constituency and in Parliament, but

I think, this must be having some political corrosive effect on his

political career. Thank you very much.

Senior bankers guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed, that's

one of the recommendations of a long awaited report on the banking

sector. The Parliamentary commission on banking standards also calls for

the bonuses of top staff working in high risk areas to be withheld for

up to ten years. The Treasury has welcomed the report.

The Libor scandal last summer, a tale of City traders trying to rig

interest rates, was the straw which broke the camel's back for banking.

The Chancellor set up a commission on changing the culture of an

industry, which let down customers, and was so reckless it had to be

bailed out. At the moment bankers are incentivised sometimes to take

huge risks. It's a one-way bet in a sense. If things go well, they pick

up huge bonuses. If things go badly, they don't have their shirts on the

line, they can more or less walk away. That has to stop.

commission wants to deter senior bankers from allowing wrongdoing by

deforing their bonuses for up to ten years. Those bonuses could be

cancelled if a bank needed to be rescued by the taxpayer. There

should be an offence of reckless misconduct by senior bankers

punishable by a prison sentence. Labour says put this in place. The

Government is making a start. an impressive piece of work. We will

respond to all of its 500 pages within the next four weeks, at pace.

The report seeks to keep top bankers under control by putting their

bonuses out of reach for years and by threatening them with more

painful sanctions if they behave badly. It's not just the bankers who

get a going over, more stringent regulation is called for and more

surgery on the banking industry. The commission says RBS, owned bit

taxpayer, could be split in two - a bad bank, to hold problem debts and

a good bank, free to lend more and eelsier to sell off again to the

private sector. Plus, there should be a study into giving customers

portable account numbers, a bit like mobile phone numbers, which don't

change to stir up competition. part is to make it ease dwror switch

between banks. A suddeny into the costs and benefits of that, more

delay, it doesn't mean we'll see easier switching any time soon.

Banks say they recognise the need for reform but there's worry that

controls on pay will hold the industry back. That's what's

happening with British banks. If the British banks can't pay what the

Americans and Asians can pay, they will lose the best people. The aim

is to banish mis-selling, manipulation and costly failures,

bringing in a new generation of bankers. The question - will this be

enough? Our chief economics correspondent,

Hugh Pym, is here with me. The banking sector under the spotlight

and will remain so tonight because the Chancellor is giving his Mansion

House speech. Yes, a major event for the City of London. The Chancellor

will deliver a speech and he's likely to give his first indication

of where he sees things going after this commission report. Broadly

supportive as we've been hearing there. But crucially, he'll set out

his vision for the future of Lloyds an RBS, the big banks where

taxpayers still have a major stake. He may well say yes, he wants to

start a sale of shares as early as earlier next year in Lloyds. That

could be a major privatisation in the run up to the election, possibly

to retail investors as well as institutions. �20 billion worth, a

big event for the City. As regards RBS, more work has been demanded in

terms of should it be split or not? That will take a few months. It

seems unlikely they can sell any of RBS before the election. We'll hear

a bit more, possibly from the Chancellor tonight. It is the final

speech as governor by Sir Mervyn King, who knows what he has up his

King, who knows what he has up his King, who knows what he has up his

sleeve? The Afghan Government is suspending talks with the United

States on security arrangements in the country after international

troops withdraw next year. A spokesman for President Hamid Karzai

said the decision was taken in protest over proposed direct talks

between America an the Taliban. Just hours before the announcement, four

US soldiers were killed in a Taliban US soldiers were killed in a Taliban

US soldiers were killed in a Taliban US soldiers were killed in a Taliban

attack at an air base. Our correspondent joins us now. How

angry does President Karzai appeared to be? Yesterday we had cautious

optimism about those talks with the Taliban, and today we have the harsh

reality. Firstly, the Taliban are far from giving up the fight.

Yesterday, they killed those for Americans nearby grand airbase. We

also heard of a second attack in Helmand in which five policemen were

killed. The Taliban again claimed responsibility. But the bigger issue

is President Karzai's reaction to the way those talks were handled,

the announcement made by the Americans. He claimed he had an

agreement with the Americans that there would be preconditions for

those talks, including recognising his government, or are recognising

the Afghan constitution and ending the violence. And those have not

been met, so he feels betrayed. His response has been to suspend those

talks with the Americans about their long-term military presence in the

country. We have just heard that the body he set up to negotiate with the

Taliban are now refusing to go to go hard to talk with the Taliban. The

ayes have it, the ayes have it said there would be bumps in the road in

these talks -- President Obama said there would be bumps on the road. We

have got a massive pothole before they have even begun, so not the

greatest start. Barack Obama has held talks with the

German chancellor Angela Merkel on his first visit to Berlin since

become a US president. Later, he will make a speech at the famous

Brandenburg Gate, where he will call for a large reduction in American

and Russian nuclear weapons. It is almost 50 years to the dais and

spasms and Kennedy delivered his famous speech in the then divided

city. Our correspondent is in Berlin. What were they talking about

this morning? They were talking about real issues. A lot of warmth

about the relationship, but then chancellor Merkel raised the issue

of the surveillance by the American Secret Service of the internet. She

grew up in East Germany, where spying was very real, so she voiced

concern about that. She said there had to be proportionality. President

Obama responded for some minutes, saying it was a limited programme,

that lives had been saved, and tried to reassure her. After his speech,

she said questions remained. So a real disagreement over a real issue,

with her voicing discontent. And a hugely symbolic speech to come at

the Brandenburg Gate. How important could that proved to be? A very

important speech for President Obama. The setting is historic. He

is making a resonance with President Kennedy's speech 50 years ago, where

Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Berliner". So the backdrop will be in macula.

He was welcomed by 200,000 people when he was in Berlin, seeking the

presidency. Today will be much more controlled, but it will be a big

speech about international affairs, with the right backdrop for the

folks back home. Our top story this lunchtime: The

Care Quality Commission is accused of a cover-up over its report into

the deaths of babies at a Cumbria hospital.

Still to come, protest spread across Brazil, with thousands of

demonstrators taking to the streets. On BBC London News, the man at the

heart of a campaign to get reparations for victims of Chile's

Pinochet regime. And how a mum from Berks has won the

acclaimed art prize for a portrait of her son.

Now, when you are buying food, how much attention do you pay to the

nutritional guidelines on the packets? Recently, shoppers have

been given a range of different labels and colour codes explaining

how much fat, salt and sugar is contained in an item. Today the

government is introducing a new system which it hopes will stop the

confusion. But while all the major supermarkets have signed up, some

big firms like Coca-Cola, Cadburys and United Biscuits are not taking

part. Some foods already say on the front

how much salt, sugar or fat they contain. There are labels using

numbers showing how much of your daily intake that might be, and

others using a traffic light colours red, amber and green. Foods with

mainly green are the healthiest. Read on the label is a warning to go

easy. Under the new voluntary system, food companies are being

asked to use both numbers and colours, which has been welcomed by

big retailers. Some people who are shopping quickly, like a mother who

might be looking for healthier choices, she might be whizzing

through the store and looking for things that are green and amber.

Someone who might be interested in certain nutrients, like a person

suffering from high blood pressure, they might interrogate the packaging

more. Health campaigners say using traffic light colours and numbers

will help shoppers, allowing them to pick out which foods are healthiest

at a glance. What we eat has a real effect on our health. How much salt,

sugar or saturated fat is in our food 's but it is hard to make

healthy choices without clear labelling on all the products. But

charities say it is to pointing that some big-name brands, including

Kellogg's, Cadburys and Coke, have not signed up to adding the traffic

light colours to labels. It is untenable for any company that

claims to be socially responsible not to sign up to the traffic light

labelling scheme. There is a responsibility on the government

name and shame any company which its feet. Unless we have widespread

adoption, the whole scheme is undermined. Ministers say public

pressure might persuade other companies to join the voluntary

scheme. They argue that getting all the main food grade -- retailers to

agree is a step forward. Some of the big manufacturers have signed up, so

when the other manufacturers see that their rivals have signed up,

they will see that they should follow suit. Giving people the

information to make decisions is one thing, but as doctors point out,

getting us all to change our behaviour is more complex.

A teacher who was in a relationship with one of his pupils and fled to

France with her wept in court as a former colleague described him as

one of the most gifted teachers he had ever met. Lewes Crown Court has

heard that the pupil was aged 15 when she started a sexual

relationship with Jeremy Forrest. The court heard this morning that he

will not be giving evidence in his trial. He denies child abduction.

This was the last full day of evidence in Jeremy Forrest's trial,

the 30-year-old teacher accused of abducting a 15-year-old pupil and

taking her to France. His parents and sister were in court as the

prosecution and defence wound up their cases. Jeremy Forrest wept as

his defence barrister read out witness statements praising him as a

teacher, with one colleague saying he was one of the most gifted

teachers he had ever met. But summing up for the prosecution, they

said Jeremy Forrest had told a pack of lies and betrayed everyone. He

said he had betrayed his wife, his school colleagues, the girl's mother

and the girl herself, and that he caused heartache to all those he had

left behind. Police officers told the court how they used CCTV

pictures to track Forrest and the girl on their way to France last

September. The jury was told they went to Bordeaux, that Forrest

booked the ferries and hotels. Without that, the prosecution said,

the girl would not have been able to leave. Jeremy Forrest was said to

having gauged pupils with his love of teaching and music. The

prosecution said he could have said no before taking the girl away. The

jury is expected to go out tomorrow. An emergency security force is being

deployed on the streets of Brazil to try to control a series of protests.

Thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations against the high

cost of living and the expense of next year's World Cup.

Another night when a tide of people, not traffic, blocked the

streets of Sao Paulo. A rise in bus fares was the spark, but that has

unleashed a range of long-held grievances over how Brazil is

governed. Our politicians are not interested in taking care of the

country. They are taking care of themselves. TRANSLATION: It is for

the corrupt Brazil we are living in. Health, education, everything is

wrong. A small group turned violent. They grabbed barricades and

tried to invade the City Hall. The police had to beat them back. In the

chaos, a TV satellite truck was set on fire. The air was thick with

smoke and pepper spray. Elsewhere, the march went on peacefully, fears

over security has led the government to dispatch special police units to

the cities hosting the Confederations Cup soccer

tournament. Brazil's president, herself a former left-wing guerrilla

fighter, says she is sympathetic to the protests' complaints, but she is

not so far offering solutions. She said the people must be heard. The

message from the streets is to improve civil society for better

schools, hospitals and public transport. A more confident young

generation is flexing its political muscle for the first time, angry

that Brazil's rising economy has not translated into better public

services. They have no clear leader, nor detailed demands, but

through social media, many more demonstrations are planned.

England's cricketers made dominant start of their semi-final in the

Champions Trophy against South Africa at the Oval. The tournament

features the best eight teams in the world, and England have never won

it. But their bowlers put them in an excellent position to reach the

weekend's final before a African fightback.

Like a picking between diamonds, James Anderson's wrap depends on his

raw material. The ball is round, his stage was the Oval. A semi-final is

naturally a big deal, and it helps that this tournament has featured

intrigue. England dodged that Australian punch in Birmingham. They

dodged the rain in Cardiff and dealt with renewed richly about the way

they treat the ball. England deny any suggestion that they pamper with

it to help their bowlers. Whether the ball is red or white, what is

agreed is that James Anderson uses it with enormous skill. A wicket for

Anderson with his fifth ball. And Steve Finn struck in his first

over. Big wicket, too. Hashim Amla was gone. The score was four for

two. Peterson was deceived by Anderson. South Africa already in

deep trouble, and the captain played a shot which hardly suited the

seriousness. Now a novel dismissal, Brian McLaren stumbling out of his

crease, Jonathan Trott alive to it. It was soon 80 48. James Treadwell

bowled. But South Africa summoned some late slogging. So when they

bat, England will have something to Now the weather.

It is glorious out there, a real summer's be. We saw thunderstorms

earlier in eastern parts of England. But over the last few hours, that

cloud has melted away. But we also have high UV levels and high pollen

levels if you are hayfever sufferer. We are not seeing high pollen levels

in the north-west corner of Scotland, because we have a weather

front here, bringing outbreaks of rain. Quite cool as well for the

Hebrides, but for most of Scotland, a fine afternoon, as it will be

across northern England, Northern Ireland and the Midlands. Feeling

very warm and humid. A few showers pushing into the central and

southern Midlands and into Hampshire, and bits of cloud across

the south-east. Feeling very warm and muggy at Ascot. This evening,

many areas will have a perfect evening to set out in the garden. We

will start to see showers gathering across southern areas. Some of these

could be heavy and thundery. It will remain warm and muggy across the

north-west corner, where we will see rain and showers pushing into

Northern Ireland and north-west Scotland. Tomorrow, there will be

dry and bright weather across Scotland and northern England. Some

of the rain will be heavy and persistent, but brightness turns up

across the Midlands and the south-east. Still feeling quite

warm. But it is all change as we had towards Friday. This low pressure

has the weekend's name on it, to bring some wet and windy weather. An

outbreak of rain will spread from west to east on Friday. On Saturday

and Sunday, that area of low pressure arrives, so it will be

showery and breezy and much cooler. If it is warmth you love, today is

the day. A reminder of our main stories: The

Care Quality Commission is accused of a cover-up over its report into