14/10/2013 BBC News at One

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madam McCann are

trying to identify a man seen carrying a child towards the

harbour on the night she went missing. They have issued an e-fit

image of the individual seen with a small, blonde child. They describe

the child as being a 3-4 year-old child with blond hair wearing

pyjamas. Due to the time and the location and the physical

description it bears a striking resemblance to that of Madden

McCann. The three-year-old disappeared on holiday in May, 2007,

while her parents were eating dinner with friends.

Also this lunchtime: A report into Jimmy Savile's alleged abuse of

patients at NHS hospitals is delayed as the enquiry is widened

to include more hospitals. The UK Government is relaxing the

visa rules to make it easier for Chinese nationals to come to the UK.

A ten-year-old boy is arrested in connection with the death of a 79

year-old man in Leeds. And it sounding the siren 100 years

on. Commemorations to mark Britain's worst mining disaster

which curled 439 miners. Coming up: BBC London exposes letting agents

who are prepared to discriminate against would-be tenants on the

grounds of race. And NHS bosses warned London's

hospitals are at breaking point. Good afternoon. British detectives

have given more details about a man they want to trace in connection

with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann six years ago. They have

issued e-fits of a man aged between 20 and 40 who was seen heading

towards the harbour at Praia da Luz at about 10pm. The family who saw

him say he was carrying a blond child in pyjamas, but the child did

not seem distressed. The appeal will feature in Crimewatch tonight.

Bob two images of one man police are trying to trace, generated from

descriptions from two different witnesses. They said they saw the

man carrying a child on the night three-year-old Madeleine McCann

disappear. They described the child as being of three to four years old

with blond hair and possibly wearing pyjamas. Again due to the

time and location and physical description it bears a striking

resemblance to that of Madeleine McCann. This is the resort in Praia

da Luz in Portugal where Madeleine was holidaying with her family.

Witnesses said they saw the man with a child around 10pm that night.

A reconstruction shows her parents leaving the apartment where she was

sleeping to go out for dinner. When her mother came back to check on

her, she was gone. We are not the ones who have done something wrong.

It is the person who has gone into that apartment and taken a little

girl away from their family. This is an image of how Madeleine might

look now. Police say thanks to a review of all the evidence around

the holiday apartment they have made massive progress and have a

far better understanding of the time I'd of events that night.

Scotland Yard's investigation has not just become more focused, but

it is also growing, fanning out across Europe. Praia da Luz is a

holiday destinations for many different nationalities and today

police will take their appeal to Ireland, Holland and Germany.

Detectives hope somebody will identify this man. The effect

images are being seen as significant progress, but it is

still some way of discovering who abducted this little girl.

Our correspondent is in Praia da Luz for us now. Six years later how

much hope is there that we will ever know what happened to this

little girl? That is such a difficult question. There is a bit

more hope today because of the attention. I have spoken to people

and Portugal and they have said it has been six years, but why not? It

is attempting to get people to trawl back through their memories

to see if they can come up with a clue. They do not think there is a

problem with it being a British S - - investigation, they can handle

that. It has generated an awful lot of attention. There are teams from

Portugal and the States. It is a long time ago, it is a long time to

remember an incident on this street in one night. But they would say

one memory might be one clue which will make the difference. In

fairness to the British police they say this case is a long slog, but

it is an important step forward. Police have issued these two images

of the individual they are looking for. What do people there make of

them? An e-fit after such a long time is very difficult for people

here to try to remember. There have been a series release in this

country, although this is the first by the British police will stop the

significance is the time line because this places Madeleine's

disappearance at around 10pm, which is a lot later ate that the 9:15pm

that the police worked on because of a sighting at the top of this

street. That has been discredited. That is the significance, the

importance, the police can look at that night in a different way. You

can see that appeal on tonight's Crimewatch programme at 9pm tonight

on BBC One. The investigation into Jimmy

Savile's alleged abuse of patients is to be extended to include more

NHS hospitals. The Health Secretary says a new information has come to

light. The inquiry is looking at 13 hospital trusts, with the majority

of allegations thought to be at Stoke Mandeville, Leeds General

Infirmary and Broadmoor. Once a family entertainer Jimmy

Savile is now remembered as a sexual predator. He used any

opportunity to defend, not just in the BBC, but in a string of NHS

hospitals. At Stoke Mandeville hospital he had an office and a

flat, one of 13 hospitals where investigations are under way

looking into at least 50 allegations against Jimmy Savile.

The Metropolitan Police has been sharing information with the NHS.

The Health Secretary says the inquiry needs to be extended. The

material includes information about hospitals where investigations are

already under way and reference to other hospitals. The information

will be passed on to the relevant trusts or investigations. Many

abused by Savile helped the NHS inquiries and some are now dismayed

at a delay according to their lawyer. They have given heart-

wrenching tales and they have been traumatised again by having to give

their evidence and they want closure, they want it to be over.

The lawyer overseeing the health service inquiries will not report

until next June. Charities hope Kate Lampard will give a full

account of what happened any NHS where children should have been

protected. What is shocking is that Jimmy Savile had no qualms about

targeting and abusing a very vulnerable, sometimes sick,

children and young people. The NHS gave Jimmy Savile access to

vulnerable adults and six children. What was known and how that

happened are questions still to be fully answered. Police are

continuing to question four men arrested under the Terrorism Act in

a series of raids across London last night. The Metropolitan Police

said the arrests were made during a pre-planned, intelligence led

Operation. Our Home Affairs correspondent his outside New

Scotland Yard for us now. What more can you tell us about the men being

questioned. A few more details have emerged. All the arrests were

carried out by counter-terrorism officers supported by firearms

officers. Two men were arrested in east London after their car was

stopped. Firearms officers fired special rounds at the tyres of the

car to disable the car. One man was arrested in West London and one end

south London. Or are being held in south London. This followed a joint

investigation involving Ossa -- officers here and the Security

Service, MI5. There are no details on what it is alleged these men

were involved in. The police can hold them up to 14 days, but we are

waiting for further details. 6 addresses are being searched, two

cars are being searched and the searchers are ongoing. Police in

Leeds have arrested a ten-year-old boy in connection with the death of

a pensioner. The man who was 79 suffered a head injury in the

Harehills area of the City yesterday evening. Our

correspondent is in lease for us now.

It was about 6:20pm yesterday evening that ambulance crews were

called here. It seems there was some kind of altercation between a

child or a group of children and the gentle man who lived here for a

start he collapsed here yesterday evening and was taken to hospital

with serious head injuries, but was pronounced dead a short time later.

After that happened a ten-year-old child was detained by the police

will stop he is being questioned about the death of the 79 year-old

pensioner. He has been named locally as Victor hep worse. People

say he was known to children in the area and would often give out

sweets. What we understand his it does not seem there was any

physical altercation between the youngsters and Mr Hepworth. There

was some verbal confrontation and he collapsed a short time later and

he was taken to hospital and a 10 year-old was taken into custody.

The ten-year-old is still being questioned by the police. We may

get a post-mortem results later today.

Up the amount of money saved by a controversial housing benefit

change may be a third less than expected according to new research.

The spare room subsidy which was introduced in April was intended to

save nearly ?500 million, but a study by York University indicates

as much as 160 million of expected savings may not be realised.

It is one of the Government's key welfare reforms, cutting housing

benefit for social housing tenants of working age who have spare

bedrooms. Ministers hope it will free up under occupied homes and

save money, but research suggests they may be succeeding in their

first game at the expense of the second. Predicting reaction to any

benefit change is not an exact science, but it seems the

Government over estimated the number of people who would stay.

Because more people are moving it seems ministers are not going to

save as much money as they hoped. From the experience of tenants and

housing associations they found more are moving often driven by

mounting debts. Often people have got to do something about it and

downsize. Because of the limited supply of small accommodation we

have, that will lead to displacement to the more expensive,

private rented sector. Amanda Smith moved. She could not afford the ?18

a week she was contributing towards her rent, so she downsized. They

were paying more to stay in a three-bedroomed house than in a

four-bedroomed house. Thinking about it, logically, they are

paying out more money originally. This year the Government predicted

savings of ?480 million, but an increase in support to people to

cope with the benefit change could see that reduced to ?190 million.

Ministers remain confident, however, that savings will be met. This

report is not a credible report, it is very limited in the number of

people who have taken part. Four out of 1000 housing associations.

The housing associations have got a vested interest in this report, so

it is not credible. Ministers ads they are carrying out their own

impact assessment of the policy. Our top story: Detectives

investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are trying to

identify a man seen carrying a child towards the harbour on the

night she went missing. Still to come: The letting agents willing to

select tenants for landlords by their race. On BBC London, a

revealing a look at life on our streets as hundreds of people share

their experience through a lens. And we talk to James Gordon about

his latest film role. They're the middle class Chinese who

descend on Europe looking to snap up luxury goods. But at the moment UK

visa rules mean it's difficult to lure them here with their big

shopping budgets. But now the Chancellor, George Osborne, who is

in China with the London Mayor Boris Johnson, has announced that those

rules are going to be relaxed to encourage more high spending

visitors and to help business. Our correspondent John Sudworth reports

from Beijing. APPLAUSE

Two men on a mission to charm China, the purpose the same, the

style different. More jobs and investment in China means more jobs

and investment in Britain and that means better lives for us all.

According to JK Rowling, Harry Potter's first girlfriends was who?

That is right! It was a Chinese overseas students at the school. The

aim is to drum up support in Britain and promote exports to China which

lagged behind those from Germany and France. Like the architects behind

this building, companies in the UK might do well out of China's

emerging economy. And Britain is a world leader in TV formats. The

Prime Minister was plugging this sector today although it is one that

China is buying in bulk or ready. Harry Potter, Sherlock and others. A

lot of young people watched those programmes? Yes. In some perfectly

timed PR, George Osborne used this trip to simplify these applications

for Chinese visitors to the UK. The tourism industry has long argued

that it is losing these customers to Europe. David Cameron's meeting with

the Dalai llama cause a rift with China so this week's trade mission

marks a four, and this university was at the heart of the uprisings

connected with Tiananmen Square. There was no mention of that today.

How'd you like sharing a stage with Boris? The emphasis is on

understanding and cooperation, something that applies equally to

the internal party politics of this trip.

Our correspondent is in Coventry now. What is the feeling? How can

British businesses he helped by investment from China? They think

here that it can be helped enormously. If it was not for the

investment, this factory would be closed down. This factory was only

brought back into production because of the Chinese investor who was

running a refrigerator plants. They now own Volvo and London taxis. A

lot of the input comes from China. It is a complex relationship. These

wheels and the chassis all come from China. The engine is from Italy, and

somewhere in there is a steering box from the UK. There are jobs here as

a result of the investment from China, and many more are promised.

It is also the tourists and the shoppers who are looked at as well,

how to lure them here to the UK so they spend their money here rather

than on the continent. Absolutely. The government 's all research that

suggested that a lot of Chinese shoppers were heading to the other

countries in Europe where they could get in on one Visa and doing all

their luxury shopping in Paris. Now, of course, the pressure is on for

the British government to make the opportunities for Chinese shoppers

to come here in larger numbers than ever. I should say that it is not

just be shoppers with the Beazer 's at the investors as well. -- Visa.

You want people to come in and make investments without the hassle of

standing in a queue at the embassy. You can find out more on our

website. The European Commission is asking the government to publish any

evidence they have of so called "benefit tourism." It follows a

series of high profile Government initiatives to tackle health and

benefit tourism. The Commission says they've found no evidence to suggest

that benefit tourism is a significant "pull factor." How

serious a row is this proving to be? It is serious. It is precisely

because the government has invested time and effort and rhetoric into

addressing the issue of benefit tourism because ministers believe it

is costing richest taxpayers dearly, and is a burden on key

public services like the NHS. In recent weeks we have seen moves such

as the charging of the levy before they come into the country. Perhaps

saying that EU migrants have to be here for maybe a year before they

can claim benefits. The commission said this morning that it is not an

issue and there is no evidence to support claims of benefit tourism.

That matters because not only is it our direct challenge to the

government's agenda, but because there is an implication and

insinuation that the government is making bogey men out of ten of its

tourists, and fuelling fears. An undercover BBC investigation has

exposed letting agents willing to select tenants for landlords by

their race. Secret filming in London reveals the illegal and underhand

techniques many of them say they use. A new survey by anti-racism

charity, the Runnymede Trust, reveals more than 25% of black

people they asked had suffered discrimination in the private

housing market. Guy Lynn reports. I am undercover in a flat, posing as

a landlord. These are some of the many agents that the BBC discovered

were unwilling to select tenants by race. Without openly advertising

its, we would understand that it is not available. That is not a

problem, there is nothing wrong in saying that. The race relations act

outlawed this. It outlawed adverts stopping black people renting

houses. Today it is possibly more subtle. Would any of them do it in

practice? To researchers, one black and one white, will try to get a

viewing of a flat on the market. First, this agency, the black

researcher is fobbed off. Compare it with the white researcher. What sort

of time on Wednesday? At a second place, the white researcher gets an

appointment straightaway. But when our black researcher asks to view

the same flat, definitely still available, it is gone. I thought,

why should we be discriminating because of the colour of my skin? I

left at their very angry. The sort of practices we have seen in the

programme are not only worrying, they are disgraceful and unlawful,

and they need driving out. After getting no response from any of the

agents, we wanted answers. Hello, we often the BBC. Can I ask you if you

know it is known that you cannot show a flat... This one refused to

open the doors when he saw us arise. Can I ask you a question? Can

you talk to me, please? We saw many more prepared to act in the same

way. Whatever economic pressures they may be under, they should never

agree to discriminate. As a result of the findings, the equality of

human rights commission has said to the BBC that they would investigate.

And you can watch a longer report of that investigation tonight. Viewers

in London can watch it at half past six, and for those in other parts of

the country - it will be available on the BBC website. A cancer charity

says some carers are being asked to carry out health care tasks, such as

giving injections, without adequate training. MacMillan Cancer Support,

says the NHS needs to do more to help people caring for cancer

patients. Our health correspondent Jane Draper reports.

Chanel has spent the past six years caring for her mother. She has

beaten lung cancer twice but still needs to take lots of tablets. Her

daughter helps sort out the medicine and has had to give her injections

as well. It was nerve wracking having to put a needle into my

mother. It was painful because you could see in their face her pain. It

was hard because you do not know if you are doing it right. I only

watched someone doing it and it was not explained to me. More than 2000

people answered questions about caring for a cancer patient. 22%

said they had hat to perform tasks like giving medicine. More than a

third had given injections or even managed a catheter. Fewer than half

said they had been trained by a health professional. They are

worried about what may happen if something goes wrong at night when

no one is there to call. They worry that their loved one may have to go

into hospital or into emergency admissions. That is the last thing

that they want. They want to provide care for their loved ones at home

where they want to be cared for. Campaigners want the NHS to have a

specific duty to help cancer carers. The government says that GPs, nurses

and local councils all have a role to play in working together to

support carers. A siren has been sounded in the Aber

Valley in South Wales this morning to mark the 100th anniversary of

Britain's worst ever mining disaster. 439 people lost their

lives in the explosion at Senghenydd colliery in 1913. A bronze statue

depicting a survivor being rescued was unveiled. Our Wales

Correspondent Hywel Griffith has more.

I could see the flame in my lamp getting dimmer, and I can hear a

voice shouting, where is my father, I want my father! One of 18

survivors remembers the first moments of the Senghenydd disaster.

An electrical spark ignited methane gas and caused a wave of explosions

underground. Newsreels captured the outpouring of grief that followed.

For three weeks, rescue teams tried to recover all of the bodies. Some

could only be identified by their boots. A century on, the original

pit hooter sounded at 8:10am, the moment of the disaster, and the

moment that lives changed. You can see all of the terraced houses

there. In some of the houses there were three or four people. A father

lost his two sons, absolutely horrific. It was not the first time

that Senghenydd had suffered. 12 years earlier, 81 men were killed in

the same minor. What happened on October 14, 1913, touched every

family. Even now, it is difficult to take in the scale of the disaster.

500 children were left without fathers. 40 men were killed in this

street. Their lives and the 400 others will now be remembered with a

new statue. It is in a garden dedicated to the thousands killed in

mining tragedies. You cannot imagine the tremendous horror that went on

underground, as well as aboveground. These communities

survived and carried on and it is inspirational, really. Senghenydd

has a forgotten history, overshadowed by the First World War.

Today its loss and spirit will be remembered.

Let's have a look at the weather. Good afternoon. Lots of cloud around

and showers for some. A bit of brightness elsewhere, there will not

be complained across Northern Ireland. In the heart of the British

Isles, you get the sense that there was a bit of low pressure around. A

lot of showers around and some bands of cloud. In the North West corner

of Scotland, it is faring nicely. Northern Ireland, though, a pretty

cheery fare here. In the heart of that load that is where we have

those heavier showers and you may hear the odd rumble of thunder. Less

intensity about those showers towards East Anglia. I am hopeful

that some of the showers will fade away across Wales and south-west

England. Low pressure easing its way towards the near continent and that

allows the clouds to clear across the Midlands and South West where

there may be some mist and fog around. There may be some frost as

well. More cloud and breeze towards the east. It will be a great start

to the day and there will be no rush to improve things. Notice how we

still have that cloud over eastern parts. There may be some hill fog

around as well. Tuesday, a pretty reasonable day once it gets going.

Temperatures, nothing to write home about, only 12 or 13 degrees. On

Wednesday, a weather front near Cornwall will be invigorated by

another weather front. A band of significant rain works its way

across gradually, but brighter skies following on behind, with maybe one

or two showers. That boundary indicates a difference in the

temperatures. Nine or ten across the northern British Isles, but still 15

or 16 across the southern UK. We are going to keep fairly cloudy

conditions across the North but it will turn milder from the

south-west, and there will be some rain at times.

Thank you very much. Detectives investigating the disappearance of

Madeleine McCann are trying to identify a man seen carrying a child

towards the harbour on the night try to identify a man seen carrying

a child on the night she went missing. Now, it is time for the

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