:00:00. > :00:00.In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court rules
:00:07. > :00:10.against a father who took his daughter on holiday
:00:11. > :00:16.The justices were unanimous that a school has the right to set
:00:17. > :00:24.the rules about attendance - the father who lost the case
:00:25. > :00:28.To attend regularly no longer means to attend frequently.
:00:29. > :00:32.It now means to attend on all the days and at all the times
:00:33. > :00:34.Also on the programme this lunchtime...
:00:35. > :00:37.The Syrian government has spoken for the first time since the gas
:00:38. > :00:40.attack that killed 70 people - and denies ever using
:00:41. > :00:48.Two former Barclays bankers walk free from court,
:00:49. > :00:51.after being found not guilty of conspiring to rig the Libor
:00:52. > :00:56.Jeremy Corbyn says a Labour government would add VAT
:00:57. > :00:59.to private school fees - and use the money to pay
:01:00. > :01:08.for free school meals for all primary pupils in England.
:01:09. > :01:14.All the evidence from those councils that do provide free school meals is
:01:15. > :01:16.that there is higher levels of attainment, better levels of
:01:17. > :01:18.concentration and better health for the children.
:01:19. > :01:21.On the eve of the Masters, the world number one Dustin Johnson
:01:22. > :01:24.has fallen down the stairs and injured his back.
:01:25. > :01:28.And coming up in the sport ? the referees' governing body has
:01:29. > :01:30.apologised after Keith Stroud misread the rules in last night's
:01:31. > :01:55.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:56. > :01:59.A father has lost a landmark case at the Supreme Court in a dispute
:02:00. > :02:03.about taking his child out of school without permission.
:02:04. > :02:06.Jon Platt, from the Isle of Wight, refused to pay a fine
:02:07. > :02:09.after he took his daughter to Florida, and successfully argued
:02:10. > :02:16.in the High Court that the law requires only that children attend
:02:17. > :02:18.school regularly, which his daughter does.
:02:19. > :02:21.But today, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that it IS disruptive
:02:22. > :02:24.to a child's education to remove them from school during term time.
:02:25. > :02:26.The Prime Minister, Theresa May, welcomed the ruling,
:02:27. > :02:28.saying it recognised the importance of children attending school.
:02:29. > :02:37.Our legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman reports.
:02:38. > :02:46.Arriving at the highest court in the land, a father, Jon Platt, about to
:02:47. > :02:49.find out whether taking his daughter on holiday in term time meant he had
:02:50. > :02:51.broken the law. In 2015, John Platt took his
:02:52. > :02:54.daughter out of school He was fined ?120 by his local
:02:55. > :03:09.council on the Isle of Wight. He refuse to pay and was prosecuted
:03:10. > :03:13.but argued successfully that his daughter, who had a more than 90%
:03:14. > :03:16.overall record, was wickedly attending school. Today, the Supreme
:03:17. > :03:24.Court unanimously disagree with that. Unauthorised absences have a
:03:25. > :03:28.disruptive effect. Not only on the education of the individual child
:03:29. > :03:35.but also on the work of other pupils and of their teachers. Outside
:03:36. > :03:41.court, Jon Platt was visibly upset by the ruling. This case now has to
:03:42. > :03:44.go back to the Isle of Wight magistrates and start all over
:03:45. > :03:47.again. I can tell you, I have absolutely no intention of pleading
:03:48. > :03:54.guilty to this offence when it goes back to the Magistrates' Court. Jon
:03:55. > :03:58.Platt has lost his case here at the Supreme Court but he remains
:03:59. > :04:01.defiant. For parents, however, the decision is now crystal clear, you
:04:02. > :04:06.have to obey the attendance policy of the school, or else you're
:04:07. > :04:12.committing a cruel offence. The Government says headteachers still
:04:13. > :04:16.have the ability to decide when exceptional circumstances allow for
:04:17. > :04:18.a child to be absent, but that today's ruling removes the
:04:19. > :04:24.uncertainty for schools that was created by the previous judgment.
:04:25. > :04:26.But many still believe that parents should be able to take their
:04:27. > :04:30.children on holiday during the school year. I think they should be
:04:31. > :04:35.taken out of school because they always did in our day and it never
:04:36. > :04:38.did us any harm, a week or two, they don't lose that much and they learn
:04:39. > :04:45.so much when they're on holiday, don't they. To take them on holiday
:04:46. > :04:49.during holiday times, the company is obviously wants to make money.
:04:50. > :04:52.Parents have been warned. Some will inevitably choose to follow Jon
:04:53. > :04:54.Platt by taking their children on holiday in term time and facing the
:04:55. > :04:56.consequences. The Syrian Government has spoken
:04:57. > :04:59.about the chemical attack in the northwest of the country
:05:00. > :05:02.for the first time - denying it More than 70 people died
:05:03. > :05:06.in the attack in Idlib province. Turkey says the results of autopsies
:05:07. > :05:09.carried out on victims confirm that chemical weapons were used,
:05:10. > :05:11.and has blamed This report from Richard Galpin
:05:12. > :05:30.contains distressing images. This is the moment on Tuesday when
:05:31. > :05:34.the rebel held town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province was hit
:05:35. > :05:37.by an air strike. It soon became clear it was not a conventional
:05:38. > :05:44.attack. Dozens of babies, children and adults were left choking and
:05:45. > :05:48.foaming at the mouth. And today, tests on some of those taken to
:05:49. > :05:56.hospital in Turkey have proved it was a chemical attack. There's
:05:57. > :06:03.speculation it was the deadly nerve agent sarin. For US president Donald
:06:04. > :06:08.Trump, this was enough for him to make an abrupt U-turn on his
:06:09. > :06:11.comparatively lenient policy towards the Syrian regime. When you kill
:06:12. > :06:19.innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies, with a
:06:20. > :06:24.chemical gas that is so lethal, that people were shocked to hear what gas
:06:25. > :06:29.it was, that crosses, many, many lines beyond a red line, many lines.
:06:30. > :06:36.These heinous actions by the Assad regime cannot be tolerated. With
:06:37. > :06:39.hint try for that Washington is now even considering military action,
:06:40. > :06:48.the Syrian government has acted quickly to deny it used chemical
:06:49. > :06:52.weapons in Khan Sheikhoun. TRANSLATION: Our army has never used
:06:53. > :06:57.chemical weapons and will not use chemical weapons, not only against
:06:58. > :07:02.our civilians, our people, but also against the terrorists who are
:07:03. > :07:07.attacking civilians. But during the long civil war in Syria, have been
:07:08. > :07:14.accused of using chemical weapons on several occasions. Including a sarin
:07:15. > :07:19.gas attack near Damascus in 2013 ridge killed hundreds. Although this
:07:20. > :07:25.crossed a red line for the then President Barack Obama, there was no
:07:26. > :07:28.military intervention. Now, some experts think the Trump
:07:29. > :07:35.administration may do something more robust. Are we looking at some kind
:07:36. > :07:38.of limited air strike, with symbolic value, from the Trump
:07:39. > :07:44.administration, on the Assad regime installations? That would at least
:07:45. > :07:49.show that the Americans aren't willing to accept these kind of
:07:50. > :07:54.actions. But for now, focuses on diplomatic action at the United
:07:55. > :07:57.Nations. Britain and other countries want a resolution condemning this
:07:58. > :07:58.latest attack and calling for those responsible to be brought to
:07:59. > :08:02.justice. And our Washington correspondent
:08:03. > :08:12.Jane O'Brien joins me now. We have Donald Trump using the word
:08:13. > :08:16.heinous in that report - what response might we expect from the
:08:17. > :08:21.Trump administration? Well, we just don't know. Donald Trump himself
:08:22. > :08:26.says that even when he makes up his mind, he's probably not going to
:08:27. > :08:29.tell us. At the moment it is a bit like reading tea leaves. The strong
:08:30. > :08:32.list condemnation so far has come from the United States ambassador to
:08:33. > :08:38.the UN, who has also directly criticised Russia in all this. Mr
:08:39. > :08:43.Trump didn't do that last night. But what we are lacking in all of this
:08:44. > :08:48.is a clearly articulated foreign policy, and not just on Syria but
:08:49. > :08:52.also on North Korea. It gives the impression too many onlookers that
:08:53. > :08:56.this is a young administration that is still struggling to work out how
:08:57. > :09:02.it deals with these sorts of crises. Mr Trump says that the pictures
:09:03. > :09:06.helped him change his mind, but quite frankly, the situation on the
:09:07. > :09:09.ground offers him no better options than it did to his predecessor,
:09:10. > :09:15.Barack Obama. We also have criticism within his own party from Senator
:09:16. > :09:19.Marco Rubio, who was himself a White House contender, saying that there
:09:20. > :09:22.is no coincidence here in the timing of this gas attack, but the Trump
:09:23. > :09:29.administration had pretty much indicated to President Assad that
:09:30. > :09:33.the fight wasn't about him. So, we know that words matter. But we have
:09:34. > :09:36.to know what they mean before they matter and at this stage we just
:09:37. > :09:40.don't know what Donald Trump plans to do. Thank you.
:09:41. > :09:43.Two former Barclays bankers have been found not guilty
:09:44. > :09:45.of conspiring to rig the Libor inter-bank interest rate.
:09:46. > :09:48.Stelios Contogoulas and Ryan Reich were cleared in this second trial,
:09:49. > :09:51.after a jury failed to reach a verdict last year.
:09:52. > :09:59.Our business correspondent Andy Verity is at Southwark Crown Court.
:10:00. > :10:07.Explained what's happened in court. Well, first, I might give you a two
:10:08. > :10:12.explanation of what Libor rigging is. Libor is supposed to measure the
:10:13. > :10:15.real cost of borrowing money. Every bank each day would say what
:10:16. > :10:18.interest rate they thought they would have to pay to borrow money.
:10:19. > :10:23.They would take an average and that average is Libor. At the same time,
:10:24. > :10:27.the banks had big money staked on which way Libor went, up or down.
:10:28. > :10:30.And traders would get in touch with the people at the banks who
:10:31. > :10:35.submitted the rates and make requests for hire or lower Libors
:10:36. > :10:40.according to what was in the bank's commercial interests. Back in 2012,
:10:41. > :10:44.when Bob Diamond resigned, those requests were frowned on as corrupt
:10:45. > :10:47.and dishonest. But the traders defended those requests, saying they
:10:48. > :10:51.were not against the rules and they were not dishonest. I have a
:10:52. > :10:55.statement from one of the traders who has been acquitted, Ryan Reich,
:10:56. > :10:59.who says, I am saddened that it has taken so long to expose the case
:11:00. > :11:03.against me. A 23-year-old trader just doing my job over a decade ago
:11:04. > :11:07.has been totally without foundation, it is based on a fundamental
:11:08. > :11:11.misunderstanding of the facts. The juries in previous trials, it is
:11:12. > :11:15.important to say, had a lower burden of proof, they did not have to show
:11:16. > :11:17.that the traders in those previous trials were deliberately
:11:18. > :11:21.disregarding the rules. When the burden of proof was set up it
:11:22. > :11:23.higher, as it was in this trial, the prosecutors failed to prove their
:11:24. > :11:25.case. Labour has proposed adding VAT
:11:26. > :11:28.to private school fees, and using the money raised to pay
:11:29. > :11:31.for free school meals Critics say the plan would force
:11:32. > :11:35.less wealthy families to remove their children
:11:36. > :11:37.from private education, at the same time as subsidising
:11:38. > :11:40.the better off in the state sector. Our political correspondent
:11:41. > :11:55.Ellie Price reports. Soggy Brussels sprouts and lumpy
:11:56. > :11:59.mashed potato are as a general rule a thing of the past in school
:12:00. > :12:03.dinners these days. In fact, they're healthier and more appealing. Labour
:12:04. > :12:08.now want free school meals to be available to every primary school
:12:09. > :12:12.pupil in England, and they will pay for it by imposing VAT on private
:12:13. > :12:16.school fees. We want all children to get its. All the evidence from those
:12:17. > :12:20.councils that do provide free school meals is that there is higher levels
:12:21. > :12:24.of attainment, better concentration and better health for all of the
:12:25. > :12:28.children. Launching the policy this morning, Labour estimates it would
:12:29. > :12:32.cost up to ?900 million a year, while introducing VAT on private
:12:33. > :12:37.school fees would raise around ?1.5 billion annually. Critics say the
:12:38. > :12:41.sums don't add up. This would put up the fees of independent schools, so
:12:42. > :12:44.these hard-working parents who are working really hard to pay the fees,
:12:45. > :12:48.they would no longer be able to afford them. So smaller schools
:12:49. > :12:52.would have to close and that would move pupils out of our system into
:12:53. > :12:56.the state system. At the moment, all children up to the age of about
:12:57. > :13:01.eight are eligible for free school meals. After that, eligibility
:13:02. > :13:07.depends on whether a family receives certain benefits. The latest figures
:13:08. > :13:12.show that just under 14.5% of pupils in year three to year six are known
:13:13. > :13:17.to be eligible for and claiming free school meals. I would much rather
:13:18. > :13:20.see the extra money, any extra money, being derived from taxation,
:13:21. > :13:26.whether it is on private schools or other sources, given to the poorest
:13:27. > :13:28.children in our country, and not necessarily subsidising those
:13:29. > :13:33.parents who can afford free school meals. The policy may sound
:13:34. > :13:37.familiar. That's because it was in the Lib Dems' election manifesto in
:13:38. > :13:40.2015, although they did not suggest putting VAT on private school fees.
:13:41. > :13:46.Before that, the Labour government under Gordon Brown had promised to
:13:47. > :13:50.pilot the idea at the 2010 election. What's new about today's policy is
:13:51. > :13:53.the idea of raising the money to fund it through private school fees.
:13:54. > :13:58.Jeremy Corbyn's pitch is that it's taxing the rich to feed the poor. He
:13:59. > :14:01.says it is about fairness, a message he hopes will appeal beyond Labour's
:14:02. > :14:04.base. For the first time since his
:14:05. > :14:06.election, Donald Trump will meet the leader of the world's other
:14:07. > :14:08.economic superpower, Mr Trump has said he believes
:14:09. > :14:12.the summit in Florida Relations have become fraught,
:14:13. > :14:15.with the US president taking a confrontational stance on trade
:14:16. > :14:18.and the North Korean Our correspondent
:14:19. > :14:37.Barbara Plett-Usher Yes, President Trump likes to do
:14:38. > :14:41.business at his club here in Florida. But this is the most high
:14:42. > :14:45.stakes meeting yet between the two leaders. The setting is informal but
:14:46. > :14:49.probably, the meetings will be quite formal, because that is the style of
:14:50. > :14:54.the Chinese leader. This is supposed to open a new chapter in relations
:14:55. > :14:58.between the US and China. But President Xi Jinping actually has
:14:59. > :14:59.quite long-standing ties to America, and it began in a rather unlikely
:15:00. > :15:03.place. Muscatine, Iowa,
:15:04. > :15:06.the pearl of the Mississippi. It's an old industrial town
:15:07. > :15:08.in the American heartland, a brief stopping point for Mark
:15:09. > :15:10.Twain... And more recently,
:15:11. > :15:11.for another famous visitor. He met them during an agricultural
:15:12. > :15:17.research trip as a young man 30 years ago, and returned
:15:18. > :15:19.for a reunion shortly before Yes, and I think he had
:15:20. > :15:24.not home-stayed before. I'm certain he hadn't
:15:25. > :15:26.home-stayed before! And he ate around
:15:27. > :15:31.the breakfast table... with a local family.
:15:32. > :15:37.of American life by staying Then, the bedroom was filled
:15:38. > :15:39.with Star Trek toys. Now, the house has been
:15:40. > :15:42.turned into a museum aimed I think Xi Jinping has great
:15:43. > :15:46.presence, and when he comes ino the room, shakes his hand,
:15:47. > :15:50.you know, I believe Donald Trump... Well, I hate to say it
:15:51. > :15:53.this way - this is a guy We can't continue to allow China
:15:54. > :16:01.to rape our country... But Donald Trump's brand is bashing
:16:02. > :16:03.China, particularly on trade. Could a dose of Iowa
:16:04. > :16:08.hospitality fix that? Ask the Chinese businessman behind
:16:09. > :16:11.this museum project. Maybe President Trump,
:16:12. > :16:14.I think maybe needs some time Maybe Donald Trump needs
:16:15. > :16:20.to visit Muscatine? If he know the story
:16:21. > :16:26.about Muscatine to China, The story is bigger
:16:27. > :16:34.than friendship - it's business. There's no trade deficit in Iowa -
:16:35. > :16:37.it exports a lot to China, This town and this state
:16:38. > :16:47.voted for Donald Trump, but that doesn't mean Iowa
:16:48. > :16:50.buys his approach to China. Here, they see China as a business
:16:51. > :16:55.opportunity, not a threat. In fact, this estate does
:16:56. > :17:00.so much trade with China, that it would have a lot to lose
:17:01. > :17:02.if Mr Trump started a trade war. There's no sense
:17:03. > :17:04.of uncertainty here. An established, family-run business
:17:05. > :17:06.pounding out steel stamps But the new owner has branched out
:17:07. > :17:09.to tap new markets - now looking vulnerable
:17:10. > :17:11.to trade disputes. I am concerned about it,
:17:12. > :17:13.I think the chance of that happening on a large scale is pretty small,
:17:14. > :17:17.so I don't lose any sleep over it. Obviously I'm exporting a lot
:17:18. > :17:21.of goods to China and I know about the import taxes I pay
:17:22. > :17:23.on my products going in, so I think there does need
:17:24. > :17:25.to be some rebalancing. Rebalancing a complex
:17:26. > :17:26.and crucial relationship - that will take more
:17:27. > :17:39.than cornfield diplomacy. Trade is definitely on the agenda.
:17:40. > :17:43.Also, North Korea, how to deal with its nuclear threat. And everybody is
:17:44. > :17:46.going to be watching how the two men get on. It's expected President
:17:47. > :17:51.Trump will be cordial in public but in private or press the president
:17:52. > :17:55.quite aggressively on these issues. Barbara Plett Usher.
:17:56. > :17:59.In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court rules
:18:00. > :18:01.against a father who took his daughter on holiday
:18:02. > :18:07.And still to come: On the eve of the Masters, the world number one
:18:08. > :18:13.Dustin Johnson has fallen and injured his back.
:18:14. > :18:17.Coming up in Sport: The Republic of Ireland women's team reach
:18:18. > :18:19.an agreement with their governing body, after allegations
:18:20. > :18:35.Serious questions have been raised about why a paedophile
:18:36. > :18:39.who admitted his crimes to police has never been prosecuted.
:18:40. > :18:44.An historical abuse inquiry heard last year that Henry Clarke abused
:18:45. > :18:47.three boys when he worked in children's homes
:18:48. > :18:50.in Northern Ireland during the late 1960s and 1970s.
:18:51. > :18:54.A BBC investigations team travelled to Canada to confront Henry Clarke -
:18:55. > :18:58.where they discovered he'd set up a children's home and worked
:18:59. > :19:01.at several churches after emigrating to the country.
:19:02. > :19:05.And, as Chris Buckler reports, the Canadian authorities were never
:19:06. > :19:14.It's no secret that some children were abused under
:19:15. > :19:20.Earlier this year an enquiry into historical abuse
:19:21. > :19:23.in Northern Ireland published its final report, which detailed
:19:24. > :19:26.the failings of institutions and the crimes of individuals.
:19:27. > :19:33.But some escaped prosecution and the BBC has discovered that one
:19:34. > :19:36.former children's home worker was able to start a new life
:19:37. > :19:40.in a new country - and the Canadian authorities
:19:41. > :19:45.were never informed of his admission that he'd sexually abused boys.
:19:46. > :19:49.I'm admitting, yes, I abused three boys back in my past,
:19:50. > :19:56.But yes, there's feelings within me, but...
:19:57. > :20:01.And again, I'm not trying to make an excuse to say
:20:02. > :20:04.I'm not a paedophile, but it's a strong word
:20:05. > :20:11.Not only was Henry Clarke able to move to Canada.
:20:12. > :20:16.In the early 1980s he set up a children's home in Ontario.
:20:17. > :20:19.He only left that post having been questioned by police
:20:20. > :20:24.while on holiday back in Belfast in 1985.
:20:25. > :20:28.The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry was told that after those
:20:29. > :20:32.interviews he admitted to detectives that he'd abused three boys at three
:20:33. > :20:37.different care homes where he worked in Northern Ireland.
:20:38. > :20:40.Yet he was never prosecuted and it's believed that information wasn't
:20:41. > :20:46.After making the admission to police, he left the children's
:20:47. > :20:50.home he'd set up in Ontario and went on to become a pastor
:20:51. > :20:56.He insists he was never involved in further abuse and that no
:20:57. > :20:59.allegations have been made against him in the country.
:21:00. > :21:02.I enjoyed caring for young people and...
:21:03. > :21:05.But you enjoyed it because you were getting access to children.
:21:06. > :21:13.That's not the reason I did it at all.
:21:14. > :21:16.I did it because I enjoyed looking after them, I enjoyed the work.
:21:17. > :21:20.The opportunity arose and I took the opportunity,
:21:21. > :21:23.which again is what we're agreeing today is wrong, but I didn't take
:21:24. > :21:31.Until now, Henry Clarke's past wasn't known in the relatively
:21:32. > :21:35.remote part of Canada where he now lives.
:21:36. > :21:37.But thousands of miles away in Northern Ireland,
:21:38. > :21:41.one of his victims, whom he abused decades ago, has given up his right
:21:42. > :21:44.to anonymity to call for him to be prosecuted.
:21:45. > :21:47.Of course you want him brought to justice.
:21:48. > :21:49.Why should he live his happy life and I've lived in hell,
:21:50. > :21:55.Why does he sit there, "I turned to God" -
:21:56. > :22:01.So forgive me, I want you to forgive me."
:22:02. > :22:05.How can I forgive a monster like that there?
:22:06. > :22:08.In Canada, questions will also be asked -
:22:09. > :22:11.about how Henry Clarke managed to continue to work in the church
:22:12. > :22:15.and with children, hiding away in small towns from the truth
:22:16. > :22:27.An inquest has opened into the death of a British Airways pilot.
:22:28. > :22:30.43-year-old Richard Westgate had complained for years of severe
:22:31. > :22:33.headaches and vision problems - and was convinced he was being
:22:34. > :22:37.poisoned by toxic fumes leaking onto planes.
:22:38. > :22:49.Duncan Kennedy is at Salisbury Coroner's Court for us.
:22:50. > :22:57.Richard Westgate was a dedicated pilot, a long-standing commercial
:22:58. > :22:59.pilot over many years. He flew many sorts of aircraft. His family
:23:00. > :23:03.believe he was the victim of breathing in this toxic cabin air
:23:04. > :23:07.fumes as a result of being in a pilot in a cabin over many years.
:23:08. > :23:12.They also believe this issue could potentially be dangerous for major
:23:13. > :23:14.aircraft, airlines all over the world and therefore tens of millions
:23:15. > :23:21.of passengers, though airlines themselves insist cabin air is safe.
:23:22. > :23:25.This is a British Airways A320, just one of a type of aircraft
:23:26. > :23:27.Richard Westgate flew for many years, and one of the
:23:28. > :23:31.But when the 43-year-old pilot died in 2012, it came after he complained
:23:32. > :23:33.of long-term health problems that he said were due
:23:34. > :23:38.His mother and brother, who came to his inquest today,
:23:39. > :23:41.also believe he was the victim of toxic cabin air, having
:23:42. > :23:44.breathed it over many years whilst flying,
:23:45. > :23:47.which they say affected his nervous system.
:23:48. > :23:51.This 2015 flight from Florida to New York shows a visible example
:23:52. > :23:53.of what the industry calls "a cabin fume event".
:23:54. > :23:56.Richard Westgate was not involved with this flight.
:23:57. > :24:01.The pictures appear to show what can happen when oil vapour
:24:02. > :24:06.from the engine is sucked into the aircraft itself.
:24:07. > :24:11.Tristan Loraine, who says he also suffered air toxicity as a pilot,
:24:12. > :24:14.showed me the kind of pipe that links an engine to the cabin.
:24:15. > :24:18.He says nearly all commercial aircraft could be affected by this
:24:19. > :24:22.problem and the industry must accept what's happening.
:24:23. > :24:24.You assume everything is safe, you board a train,
:24:25. > :24:26.you assume it's safe, and the airline industry
:24:27. > :24:30.is an incredibly safe industry, you know, it is.
:24:31. > :24:33.But the reality is on this particular issue, this
:24:34. > :24:36.is the Achilles' heel of aviation - contaminated air.
:24:37. > :24:39.This doesn't just affect British Airways.
:24:40. > :24:43.Both BA and the Civil Aviation Authority have denied there's
:24:44. > :24:47.BA has said it wouldn't operate an aircraft
:24:48. > :24:52.It says there's been substantial research into cabin air and none
:24:53. > :25:01.of it shows there's a risk to long-term health.
:25:02. > :25:07.The coroner in this inquest made clear that this wasn't a public
:25:08. > :25:11.enquiry into cabin air fumes and the industry has made clear that cabin
:25:12. > :25:15.air is safe will stop but the Westgate family and others do
:25:16. > :25:18.believe there is an issue here is the airline industry must treat it
:25:19. > :25:23.seriously. Duncan Kennedy, thank you.
:25:24. > :25:26.A brother and sister from Birmingham have appeared in court in London
:25:27. > :25:28.It's alleged that 21-year-old Ummariyat Mirza bought
:25:29. > :25:32.a knife and other items, while planning an attack in the UK.
:25:33. > :25:34.His sister, Zainub, is accused of sending him links
:25:35. > :25:40.Both were remanded in custody until the end of the month.
:25:41. > :25:42.In the last few minutes it's been confirmed
:25:43. > :25:45.that the Ukip Welsh Assembly member Mark Reckless has quit the party
:25:46. > :25:48.Mr Reckless, who represents South Wales East, will vote
:25:49. > :25:53.with the Conservative group in the Assembly.
:25:54. > :25:56.It's another blow to the party following the departure of Douglas
:25:57. > :26:01.Carswell as its only MP last month. Theresa May has launched
:26:02. > :26:03.the Conservatives' local election campaign, saying there are no "no-go
:26:04. > :26:05.areas" for the party. She's promised "competence"
:26:06. > :26:08.for voters, and accused the other More than 2000 seats
:26:09. > :26:12.are up for grabs - mostly on county councils -
:26:13. > :26:14.as well as number A flagship tax-free account
:26:15. > :26:24.for people saving for a first home It's called the Lifetime ISA -
:26:25. > :26:29.but no bank or building It's one of a number of important
:26:30. > :26:35.changes which have kicked Our personal finance correspondent
:26:36. > :26:48.Simon Gompertz is with me. The Lifetime ISA was meant to be a
:26:49. > :26:53.really big deal. What's going on? Why is no one offering it? The point
:26:54. > :26:58.of the Lifetime ISA is you could save both a deposit for your first
:26:59. > :27:01.home and for your retirement in the same account, but banks are worried
:27:02. > :27:07.that it too conjugated and that possibly some people would miss out.
:27:08. > :27:14.-- complicated. You get a ?1 bonus for each ?4 that you put into the
:27:15. > :27:17.account, and that ?1 bonus can add up to a maximum of ?1000 a year. So
:27:18. > :27:21.it's a lot of money, very attractive. But on the other side
:27:22. > :27:25.there's the danger if you take the money out the wrong time that you
:27:26. > :27:31.will be subject to a penalty, which would be 25% of the money that you
:27:32. > :27:35.take out, so that's a big penalty, and the worry has been people will
:27:36. > :27:39.be hit by that penalty unawares. Also that some people would invest
:27:40. > :27:44.in this Lifetime ISA in preference to putting money into a valuable
:27:45. > :27:47.workplace pension scheme where you get employers' pensions
:27:48. > :27:51.contributions and that would be a bad thing. So there are only a
:27:52. > :27:53.handful of Lifetime ISAs being launched by some specialist
:27:54. > :27:58.investment companies at the moment, although the Treasury does hope that
:27:59. > :28:03.over the coming months more bodies will launch them. So it's a new tax
:28:04. > :28:06.year. What else is changing today? Another instalment of the clamp-down
:28:07. > :28:10.on tax breaks that buy-to-let investors have. The latest one is a
:28:11. > :28:15.restriction on the amount of their mortgage interest that they can
:28:16. > :28:21.offset against their profits and so pay less tax. Another important one
:28:22. > :28:25.is to do with inheritance tax. The allowance for inheritance tax of
:28:26. > :28:31.?325,000, that you can pass on without paying 40% inheritance tax,
:28:32. > :28:34.that is being expanded. A ?100,000 element is being added on top,
:28:35. > :28:38.related to the value of your home. That you can pass on. That's
:28:39. > :28:42.important, that's going to be rising. The amount that you can earn
:28:43. > :28:55.before you start paying income taxes rising from ?11,000 to ?11,500. That
:28:56. > :29:21.represents a ?100,000 game -- that represents a gain for a basic
:29:22. > :29:22.The Masters has just teed off - but on the eve of the tournament
:29:23. > :29:25.at Augusta the world number one Dustin Johnson fell down the stairs
:29:26. > :29:38.add to his usual practice, Dustin Johnson slipped on the stairs at his
:29:39. > :29:41.house and landed hard on his lower back. His agent said he'd been
:29:42. > :29:46.advised to remain immobile and was taking anti-inflammatory medicine,
:29:47. > :29:51.but his participation is now in doubt. Golf is no stranger to
:29:52. > :29:55.untimely injuries. Rory McIlroy missed the opening 2015 after
:29:56. > :29:58.injuring his ankle playing football, whilst Sam Torrance had to withdraw
:29:59. > :30:02.from a Ryder Cup match after sleepwalking into a pot plant. And
:30:03. > :30:09.only on Tuesday, Johnson himself spoke about the unpredictability of
:30:10. > :30:15.his sport. Ulf is a funny game, you know, it doesn't matter how good the
:30:16. > :30:22.player. You can still not win. I have a lot of confidence in my game
:30:23. > :30:25.right now but... If Johnson does tee off, he will have to dethrone the
:30:26. > :30:30.champion, Danny Willett. Returning to the scene of his triumph. Since
:30:31. > :30:34.then he's not won a single tournament, but he's determined to
:30:35. > :30:40.cling onto his title. It would be a shame potentially if you have to
:30:41. > :30:45.give it back on Sunday. But to have the 12 months I've had has been
:30:46. > :30:49.amazing. It will be incredible to do it again sometime. So golf's most
:30:50. > :30:53.famous garment is once again up for grabs. But for some, just getting to
:30:54. > :30:59.the start will be a victory in itself. Andy Swiss, BBC News.
:31:00. > :31:13.The sun is shining. It's a beautiful day. A beautiful sunrise. It was
:31:14. > :31:18.nippy in some places, temperatures just two or three above freezing but
:31:19. > :31:21.the sun was beautiful. What have we in store for the next few days, for
:31:22. > :31:26.the rest of the week, into the weekend? Some sunshine is on the
:31:27. > :31:28.cards but also warming up and potentially warming up quite
:31:29. > :31:32.significantly across some southern and central areas of the UK. The
:31:33. > :31:36.sunshine isn't absolutely everywhere, certainly north-western
:31:37. > :31:41.parts of the country, a bit of cloud here which is stuck in the area of
:31:42. > :31:46.high pressure. One thing that is hard to forecast is the amount of
:31:47. > :31:49.cloud. In some areas it breaks up, in others, it doesn't. One thing we
:31:50. > :31:53.are sure today is the pollen levels in some southern and central areas
:31:54. > :31:59.are pretty high. Some others are feeling sneezy. This is the forecast
:32:00. > :32:04.for about 4pm. There are areas of the country that are stuck under the
:32:05. > :32:08.cloud. Western Scotland, Northern Ireland and north-western parts of
:32:09. > :32:12.England and Wales, here, the sunny spells come and go but overall a
:32:13. > :32:15.fair bit of cloud. But the South, Central areas and in the east,
:32:16. > :32:19.that's where we have the best weather. Some areas in southern
:32:20. > :32:23.parts of Wales could nudge up to 15-17 C this afternoon. Very little
:32:24. > :32:26.changes to the cause of this evening and overnight. This high pressure
:32:27. > :32:30.that is stuck over Rose isn't in a hurry to go. When you have high
:32:31. > :32:35.pressure sitting on top of us there's very little wind to stir the
:32:36. > :32:39.weather about so what you get one day is more or less what you get the
:32:40. > :32:44.next day. As long as the high pressure doesn't move, the weather
:32:45. > :32:46.doesn't change a lot. That's what's going to happen tomorrow, again,
:32:47. > :32:50.more or less the same temperatures and whether. It of cloud, a bit of
:32:51. > :32:55.sunshine. The high-pressure will finally shift a bit as we go into
:32:56. > :33:00.the weekend, with winds blowing round. The high-pressure is going to
:33:01. > :33:04.draw up some warmth, significant warmth, as far as this weekend is
:33:05. > :33:08.concerned. We are going to feel those temperatures rising. We could
:33:09. > :33:12.get up to 20 Celsius possibly in southern areas. High teams through
:33:13. > :33:15.the Midlands and northern parts of England. Great weather for the Grand
:33:16. > :33:21.National, like winds, some sunshine, and then the real warmth reaches us
:33:22. > :33:25.on Sunday. The Northwest has to be said not quite so warm, even some
:33:26. > :33:27.spots of rain here. Look at these temperatures. This is typical for
:33:28. > :33:37.June! We're not doing bad on Sunday. On BBC One we now join the BBC's
:33:38. > :33:38.news teams where you are.