30/07/2013 BBC News at One

The High Court dismisses a claim by ten disabled people and their

families that cuts to housing benefit for those with spare rooms

are discriminatory. Families say they are bitterly

disappointed and vow to fight on in the Appeal Court. Taliban militants

- some dressed in police uniforms - free more than 240 prisoners in a

violent assault on a prison in north-west Pakistan.

Would you recommend your hospital to patients and friends? Only four prer

The survey that shows events like the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the

London Olympic and Paralympic Games have made us happier than we were a

year ago. Later on BBC London, a man is

arrested on suspicion of murder after a triple stabbing in Brixton.

Two cors after being dismantled, King's Cross gets back one of its

News at 1.00pm. The High Court has dismissed a

challenge by ten families of disabled people that cuts in housing

benefit discriminate against them. Their lawyers had argued that the

extra space was necessary to cope with their health needs. The

families have said they will appeal. Richard is a disabled council tenant

who lives in a three-bedroom bungalow. His stepdaughter, who is

also disabled, stays there when not at university. The third bedroom is

used to store equipment, inclouding a hoist and an electric wheelchair,

but his housing benefit has been cut, and this morning he watched as

a judge dismissed his and nine other cases. My local council has already

started possession proceedings against me because I can't afford to

pay the shortfall. And by the same token, they've got no-where for me

to go either. I have to move. They have no-where for me to go. So it's

not a case of I choose not to - I've got no choice. They're giving me no

choice. In April the Government introduced the housing benefit cut,

which opponents dubbed a bedroom tax. Social tenants with one spare

room had a 14% reduction. For those with two extra bedrooms it was a 40%

cut. Disability campaigners have led the opposition to the policy saying

it discriminates against those who need the extra space or who can't

move because of their disability. But today the High Court rejected

their claim that the Government had acted illegally. This was perhaps

the most significant legal challenge so far to the Government's welfare

changes and for the campaigners who have opposed them it's a significant

setback but Ministers welcome today's ruling ands say additional

money will now be made available to councils to help those who really

need it. We have trebled the discretionary housing payments. Can

I also say there are two million people nearly on housing waiting

lists. They too will have disabled people who will be waiting. There

are a quarter of a million people in overcrowded homes. Those two will

have disabled people there and their children, so we have to look at it

in the round. And despite the bitter disappointment of those hoping to

overturn the policy, the Government says its reform is needed to save

the taxpayer money and make the Our political correspondent Norman

Smith is in Westminster for us, and with this High Court decision, a

sigh of relief in Government? Absolutely, Simon, and although

Government are saying there is no triumphalism, no gloating I am

absolutely sure if you were standing outside MrDuncan Smith's office you

would hear a long whistling sigh of relief because this was a bunch mark

benefit change which the Government had invested a huge amount of

political capital and credibility into pushing through. It has been

one of the most politically charged benefit changes even down to the

language around it with Labour insisting it's a bedroom tax and the

Government insisting it's simply removing a, quote, spare room

subsidy, so defeat would have been a significant setback. It would have

also unpicked the give's plans to rein in the housing benefit budget.

It would have made it harder to shake up the housing waiting list,

the Government arguing this will make it easier for families in

overcrowd overcrowded accommodation to get larger homes but above me it

seems to me defeat would have sent a legal shudder through his benefit

agenda because as we know there are other court cases pending and I

suspect he'll draw huge comfort today it appears the courts are not

going to listen too sympathetically to those citing human rights

legislation to try to unpick benefit changes. Norman Smith, thank you

very much. There is more information on the changes to benefit change and

background on the court cases on our website.

Shares in Barclays are falling this lunch time after the bank announced

it had to raise nearly �6 billion from shareholders to plug a more

than �12 billion pound hole in its balance sheet. Chief Executive

Anthony Jenkins says he's "certain" the action will leave the bank

stronger. He has the backing of the Bank of England, which described the

measures as "credible". Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports.

The mighty Barclays needs to raise more money. Today we find out just

how much, an eye watering �5.8 billion from its shareholders.

That's to fill a hole of nearly �13 billion on its balance sheet. It has

been under pressure from regulators to bolster its finances. If you look

at Barclays in particular there have been two concerns that have affected

our investor base. One is concern about regulation. Another is concern

about conduct costs. We've decisively addressed both of those

issues today. Why does this delobl investment bank, which didn't need a

taxpayer bail-out, need the extra money now? The Bank of England's

Prudential regulation authority demanded all UK banks build up a

bigger cushion of capital to protect themselves against future shocks.

Barclays wasn't able to meet that specific target. I think it's

unfortunate that Barclays has been pushed into raising capital today.

To be clear, it's not raising capital because the capital ratios

were inadequate. It's raising capital to meet the new leverage

ratio which was only introduced by the PRA last month. Not only does

Barclays have to raise billions of pounds of new money, it's still

paying for past mistakes. Today's half-year profits were less than

expected partly because the bill for mis-selling continues to rise.

Barclays is setting aside another �2 billion for compensation to

customers. Much of this is for payment protection insurance claims.

This means the total compensation bill is now at more than �5 billion.

Barclays has been trying to clean up its tarnished image. It's paying a

high price for a series of scandals. Not only is it having to change its

culture, it's now transforming its balance sheet as well.

With me now is our business correspondent Ben Thompson. These

figures were a bit of a surprise. Shareholders don't like it. Markets

were expecting a figure of about �4 billion. This is substantially more.

We should say, these will be new shares, so it won't dilute the value

of existing shares if you already have shares in Barclays. I'd also

crucial - if you're a shareholder, you'll be able to buy them at a

discount, about 40% cheaper than the price they were trading at this

morning, but nonetheless, the share of Barclays is currently down about

7%. That's because shareholders, since 2008, since the financial

crisis, Barclays has paid out more than �8 billion in bonuses, paid �6

billion in fines yet it's paid just 2 billion in dividends, the

dividends are the payment normally awarded to shareholders and in

response to being tapped yet again this morning from Barclays, Barclays

said it will start to increase the amount it pays in dividends. This

raises nearly 6 billion. The gap is nearly �12 billion. How do they fill

that? 6 billion will be from these new shares. They'll also issue bonds

worth �2 billion. This still leaves a big gap. They have also said

they'll rein in the business, shrink the balance sheet. That means it

will stop doing certain activities. That raises fears it will limit

credit in the economy, something the Government has been trying to hard

to prevent, but nonetheless, Anthony Jenkins, the boss, says this will

have no wider impact on the economy. Thank you very much.

The results of a survey of hospital patients in England appear to show

that most people were satisfied with the care they received. Four hundred

thousand people were asked to rate their experiences on the wards and

in A&E departments over a three month period. Patients on 36 of

4,500 hospital wards in England said they would NOT recommend them to

relatives. The NHS says direct patient and citizen feedback is

vital to improving its services. Here's our health correspondent,

Jane Dreaper. She's coming out. It's the start of

the biggest effort so far to find out patients' views. This ward in

war Saul was among the first to try out the Friends and Family Test. Now

many thousands of patients who have staid overnight or been to A&E since

April have given their opinion. The fact that I'm still alive and

filling in this form is testament to the care I've received, said one

grateful patient. Others were less grateful patient. Others were less

happy: "Dirty room, blood on bed." You would give this to a patient as

they leave the hospital? The organisation running the NHS in

England says it's a ground-breaking attempt to shine a light on where

change is needed. One of the key causes of the tragedy at mid staffs

was the fact that the patients were not listened to. This initiative sat

heart designed to guarantee for patients a National Health Service

that is listening and is driving high-quality health care. More than

400,000 patients have given their views. That's 13% responding.

Patients were more likely to answer on wards than in A&E. Just 36 wards

out of 4,500 showed a negative score, with many patients positive

about their care. It does make changes as well. I know that because

me and my friend come in here a lot. Before, it didn't, years ago, but it

does now. I mean, I listen to what they say. I wouldn't tell them not

to come. I would advise them to come here. These are places nobody wants

to come to anyway, but if you got to, you do. I was more than

satisfied to get out. Hospitals in England have been the first part of

the NHS to use the Friends and Family Test. Eventually, all

patients will be asked for their views, but there has been criticism

that the test itself is too narrow and won't give meaningful results.

It produces one number - a score - a single number for each service, and

that doesn't in any way communicate the complexity of what's going on

inside that service. You cannot rate a service by one number. The results

of the new test will be published every month, with separate research

today showing nurses are having to ration the care they offer because

they're stretched, the NHS will be under pressure to maintain good

levels of satisfaction. Tal Tal fighters have stormed a prison in

north-west Pakistan releasing almost 250 inmates. The gunmen used loud

hailers to call for some prisoners by their names. 30 of the freed

prisoners are described as hard core militants by Government officials.

James Robbins reports. This was a major assault, but the

prison's defences proved to be completely inadequate. Dozens of Tal

iban militants came in a convoy to free their top leaders. They were

armed with grenades and rocket-propelled weapons. Locals say

explosions rattled every house in the neighbourhood. The militants

knocked out power supplies before blowing open the wall of the prison

and storming into the jail where officials say they used a loud

hailer to call for some prisoners by name. Both the Taliban and Pakistani

authorities say around 250 prisoners escaped including some 30 militant

leaders. Dera Ismail Khan, where the attack took place is, meant to be

the settled area. This is the north of Pakistan which is meant to be

fully controlled by the Government. Militants have gone to the settled

area and done what they wanted to do. Pakistani authorities are said

to have received intelligence about an impending attack two weeks ago. A

prison official said they didn't expect it to come so soon. It all

adds to embarrassment for the Government as scores of people post

messages in social media expressing disbelief and anger. After a similar

attack on a prison last year, many are wondering how the militants were

able to do the same thing all over again.

It's exactly 1. 15pm. Our top story: A group of disabled people have lost

the High Court challenge to housing benefit cuts for residents with

spare bedrooms. And still to come: As the sun draws

visitors to our beaches, has it also brought some visitors to our waters

as researchers find more jellyfish during the heat wave. Later on BBC

London: Why businesses are hoping to benefit from the cycling equivalent

of the London Marathon this weekend. Reformed and ready for chart

domination once again, we catch up with the original Sugababes ahead of

to be celebrated, and with events such as the Olympics and Paralympic

Games, we were apparently happy. Despite everything else going on, a

nationwide survey into well-being is showing a small improvement in

happiness. Those questioned by the Office for National Statistics also

reported high levels of life satisfaction.

The Olympic and Paralympics feel-good factor of the summer. An

event that enhanced a sense of national pride. Latest figures say

it may have also boosted our own sense of personal happiness. Add to

that the celebrations to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, an event of

national significance which included an extra bank holiday and may well

have helped to improve the nation's mood. The well-being survey showed a

slight rise in most people's general happiness in the last year and a

small drop in anxiety levels in the UK in the same period. There were

signs of a midlife crisis for 45 to 49-year-olds, and those between 65

and 79 were found to be most satisfied. Some of the key drivers

of well-being are being in employment, personal relationships,

and over 2012 we saw unemployment go down, they can see. While many other

European Union countries have seen their well-being levels fall, the UK

levels have stated that the country that appears to be the happiest and

most satisfied is Denmark. Denmark is happier than us but where

do we fare? Denmark is slightly less happy than it was! If you look

across the 27 EU countries, we have pretty much maintained our happiness

despite the recession but other countries have fallen back, and

notably France. That has been for a long time having higher levels of

well-being than Britain and they are now behind us. One country has shot

up, for reasons no one seems to understand, is Austria! What on

earth is the point of this survey? This is a project that won the Prime

Minister's seal of approval a couple of years ago. He said, I want to

make sure this is used to shape government policy. He said he wants

to know what works, what will make people feel better about their

life. A number of government departments have already started to

use some of the early data, and this is very early date, to start shaping

their policy, the business department, local government,

health. They are already starting to look at well-being data to decide

how we should govern ourselves. The UK is losing the war against

Internet crime. That is a warning from MPs, as they published their

first ever report into e-crime. It is calling for more police to be

trained in digital crime detection. David is an expert in digital

marketing but that did not stop him becoming one of the thousands of

people who are defrauded online. I paid a large amount of money to

something I did not recognise. payments that occurred over eight

months and added up to nearly �2000. Obviously that was worrying

because I knew I had not used that card. A new report says the UK is

failing to win the war on e-crime. It says there is a black hole where

online fraud is not being reported and investigated, tougher sentences

are needed for criminals and an espionage team should be

established. David said he is surprised that police apparently did

not investigate his case. I thought the credit card company would ask me

to report a crime but they did not. I never involved the police. It was

all dealt with so quickly that it was never taken any further with the

police. Some police say the failure to adequately report and record

e-crime is evidence that recent figures showing a fall in crime are

misleading. It is simply moving online. The issues of e-crime is

something we feel has gone unreported for a long time.

government needs to understand we need the resources in order to deal

with e-crime. Many online Forster 's are based within the EU and Eastern

Europe. It is easier to steal online and off-line and the chances of

getting caught are much lower. When I was a police officer, criminals

were local. Now crimes can be conducted from anywhere in the

world. We need to be making new attacks on them in order to detect

who they are and to bring them to prosecution. The Home Office says it

is investing �850 million for a National cyber Security programme

and admits it needs to keep pace with the criminals.

Since he was ousted from power almost four weeks ago, there has

been virtually no information about Egypt's former president. Now

Catherine Ashton has met Mohammed Mercy in Cairo, the first foreign

correspondent to do so. She said she found the former president in good

health and spirits. More than three weeks after his

arrest, Mohamed Morsi supporters are still camping out around the clock

at their protest camp, demanding his return to power. Since the army

stepped in to remove him this month, he has not been seen in public and

nobody knows where he is. Catherine Ashton is the first outsider to see

him. They met for two hours at a military facility, she does not know

where, after a night-time helicopter ride. He is in good health and good

humour, he was told half an hour before I arrived I was coming.

seemed pleased to see me. It is a military place. The people around

him do care for him. More than 70 of Mr Morsi's supporters were killed in

clashes with police on Saturday and there are fears of an even worse

bloodbath if the interim government tries to clear out the Morsi protest

camp by force. That is what Baroness Ashton is trying to avert by looking

for common ground. There is a very strong and common desire to find a

way through this. The situation remains explosive. There is a lot of

mistrust. Baroness Ashton has been trying to identify competence

bolting steps that could locate dialogue. She was very discreet

about the details of any compromise that may be being explored. EU

officials will begin tinkering to follow up ideas after she leaves. In

the meantime, Lady Ashton said she is ready to come back if that helps.

In a few hours, a judge will announce the verdict in the

court-martial of Bradley Manning, the soldier who disclosed thousands

of secret documents to Wikileaks. Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty

to ten offences but denies the most serious accusation of aiding

America's evidence. If found guilty, he could face life

imprisonment. Is Bradley Manning a young and naive

whistle-blower or a calculated, fame hungry traitor? Two very different

accounts of the four me -- former Army intelligence analysts have been

presented before the judge during the eight week military trials. The

25-year-old was posted in Iraq where he was given access to classified

information. He admits disclosing more than 700,000 government

documents to the Wikileaks website between 2009 and 2010. That included

reams of confidential messages between US diplomats. And key

military intelligence, like this video, of a US at patchy helicopter

attack -- Apache helicopter. It showed a strike of unarmed civilians

in Iraq. Bradley Manning denies that by putting this in the public

domain, he knew it could end up in the hands of America's enemies.

think he should be punished because we cannot afford to let the message

go out to people who work for our government that their

confidentiality agreements and their swearing to secrecy is an utterly

meaningless act. Bradley Manning supporters see him as a hero, who

simply wanted to expose the truth. He expose war crimes and he is being

punished for it as if he were a terrorist and I think that is wrong.

The defence say Bradley Manning leaked the information to spark

worldwide discussion about US foreign policy. The prosecution say

he craved notoriety. Either way, his actions have opened up a wider

debate about the sharing of classified data in the Internet age.

People visiting UK beaches this summer are being warned to watch out

for jellyfish after the recent spell of hot weather. The Marine

Conservation Society said numbers increased in June and July after the

cold snap, including Lou jellyfish and lion 's mane in North Wales and

north-west England. -- blue jellyfish.

Yes, plenty of people enjoying Swansea's seaside on this sunny day

but the recent warm weather has also drawn other visitors to the British

coastline. A surge of jellyfish have come in during the heatwave. Let's

speak to a marine biologist. What could be behind this recent increase

in numbers? A number of reasons. is probably a good year for

jellyfish. There are populations tend to go up and down in different

years. We have onshore winds, which tend to blow them into the coast and

you can see them in shallow water. The late spring, we had some very

odd weather and things turning up at slightly wrong times of year. And

then of course this fantastic weather, more people encountering

them. Do they pose any danger? Mostly not. Most of the jellyfish

around the UK coast will not cause any harm. One species in

particular, the lion 's mane jellyfish, has a large, frilly red

mass, and they can sting. It is like a nettle sting, and pleasant. But

for most people that would not cause any problems. The Marine

Conservation Society are asking people who spot the jellyfish to

report them to them. To not touch. It could help them to understand

what is causing this fluctuation in numbers.

Is there a sting in the tail of the weather?

particularly today, tomorrow and Thursday. It will turn hot in the

south briefly and that could bring the risk of thundery downpours. The

satellite picture from earlier today shows a big lump of cloud. Further

north, speckled cloud. A mixture of sunny spells and showers. A bit like

yesterday but the showers are a little less widespread than

yesterday. Still the potential for very heavy showers across northern

England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with thunder mixed in. We

will still have persistent rain for most of the afternoon in the

South-East corner but that will clear. Gusty winds at the coast.

South-west England is becoming one of the brighter places. The cloud

should break up in the afternoon. This evening most of the showers

will fade away. By the end of tonight, another lump of rain coming

in. This could be quite heavy. Warm and humid in the south, a little

fresher further north. Tomorrow is dominated by this warm front. Things

will be starting to turn humid in the South as it pushes north. The

band of rain will work through many areas of England, Wales and

eventually Northern Ireland. Much fresher in the north and fewer

showers than we have had over recent days. Tomorrow night into Thursday,

the warm front will continue to progress northwards, taking the rain

with it. Thursday is the day where the warm air really arrives,

particularly central and eastern areas of England and Wales. Always

fresher to the north and the West but we will have more cloud and

outbreaks of rain. The fresher air will try to push down into the

South-East by the time we get to Friday. But as the fresh air tries

to arrive, that is where we have the risk of some thundery showers. Lots

of whether going on! If full forecast for where you are online.

A reminder of the main story: The High Court dismisses a claim by ten

disabled people and their families that cuts to housing benefit for