11/04/2017 BBC News at One

G7 foreign ministers fail to agree on new sanctions

against Russia or Syria, in the wake of the chemical attack

The Foreign Secretary had been pushing for targeted sanctions.

He insists Russia still has to think hard about its support

They have a choice now. He has been exposed as a user of both gas and

chemical weapons. They have a choice of sticking with him like glue, or

deciding to work with the rest of the world towards a new political

solution. We have the latest from

Moscow and Westminster. as footage of one of its passengers

being forcibly dragged off New figures show 900 adult social

care workers left their job every day in England last year -

the UK Care Association says A revolutionary new treatment

for stroke patients in England, that could help save thousands

from lifelong disablity. Now I think this is where

I'm supposed to be. We investigate TV sound,

after all those complaints And coming up in sport on BBC News,

a former Arsenal player says it's time for Arsene Wenger to go -

another says he's lost the dressing room after their biggest league

defeat of the season. Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One. G7 foreign ministers have

failed to reach agreement on sanctions on Russia,

but have said Russia cannot be Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson have

been pushing for sanctions on senior Russian and Syrian figures following

Syria's suspected chemical weapons attack which killed more than 70

people. Ministers were trying

to agree a common position before the US Secretary of State

flies to Russia to try to persuade it to abandon its allegiance

to Bashar al-Assad. Our Diplomatic Correspondent,

James Robbins, reports The G7 foreign ministers meeting

ended without any agreement, to a public and Dortmund of possible

future targeted sanctions aimed at senior figures in Russia's and

Syria's Armed Forces. Boris Johnson had hoped for some form of explicit

support, but the final communique doesn't mention sanctions, although

the G-7 governments, key allies of the United States, do describe

President Trump's Retallick treat air strikes as a carefully

calibrated response to what they call a war crime. When I spoke to

the Foreign Secretary, he rejected any suggestion of a defeat over

sanctions. What we agreed is that we are going to put forward a

resolution in the UN Security Council on the chemical weapons

attack. We also want to see now the results of the investigation by the

OPCW, whose job it is to establish exactly what happened. There was a

very wide measure of agreement last night that notch just the Syrian

generals, but if we could show complicity by those Russian officers

who are helping the Syrian military operation, then they should also be

sanctioned as well. The Syrians will never allow a proper investigation

on what they see as their sovereign territory? The bigger picture is

that we are moving now into an environment where the Russians have

to make a choice. They basically changed the game in Syria a couple

of years ago, when they came in and saved Assad. It turns out the guy

that they have saved is a guy who has absolutely no compunction about

poisoning and murdering his own people with weapons that should have

been banned 100 years ago. They have a choice of sticking with him like

glue, or deciding to work with the rest of the world towards a new

political solution. This is further evidence of western failure in Syria

and the triumph of Russian might, isn't it? On the contrary. What you

have had in the last week, everybody... I think the Saudi

foreign minister said, and he spoke for many people around the table, he

said America is back. And thank goodness we have got American

leadership again. And what he meant by that was that the United States

had finally shown, after five years of doing nothing, after the tragedy

when we ignored what happened, the United States responded to the use

of chemical weapons, with force. That was James Robinson talking to

Boris Johnson in Lucca. In a moment, we'll get

the latest from Westminster. But first, Steve

Rosenberg is in Moscow. Steve, the US Secretary of State

arrives there very soon. What sort of reception will he get? The

Russians made it clear today they want cooperation with United. The

Russian Foreign Ministry issued a very long statement ahead of Rex

Tillerson's visit. This is the statement. It basically sets out

Russia's position. It says although Moscow is concerned about various

aspects of American foreign policy from Syria to Libya and North Korea,

the Russians want constructive cooperation, not confrontation. They

want productive negotiations and they want the most open dialogue

possible with America. But there is a but. The Russians also stressed

they don't want to give up what they regard as their legitimate

interests. Until now, they have seen that having President Assad in power

in Damascus is in their legitimate interests.

The Foreign Secretary really had been pushing his argument about

targeted sanctions. He didn't get them. How big a setback is that?

I think it will be seen by many people as quite a significant

reverse, because, let's be honest, Mr Johnson went into these talks

hanging the drums for those sanctions. That option has in effect

been rejected for Mac booted into a long, dark, damp piece of diplomatic

grass. There is no question of sanctions until an investigation

into the chemical attack. That may never happen. The Syrians may not

allow the inspectors in. Even then it may be possible to identify who

was responsible, let alone Russian complicity. On top of that, Mr

Johnson was only arguing for a limited sanctions on named military

officials in the Russian and Syrian military. He couldn't even achieve

that. You sense he is pushing from a different direction. He wants a

carrot and stick approach. The others in the G-7 say, don't push

President Putin into a corner. Norman Smith and Steve Rosenberg.

United Airlines has begun an investigation, after footage

emerged of a passenger being forcibly removed

The airline had asked for passengers who were prepared to leave

the over-booked flight in exchange for payment, but not enough

The video shows a man being pulled from his seat and dragged

The world's leading airline. Flyer friendly.

You couldn't have a bigger contrast if you tried. The flyer friendly

airline dragging a man, days, down the aisle, seemingly with a cut

phase. Oh, my God! Look what he did to him. His fellow passengers,

clearly angry. All because he wouldn't volunteer to get off the

overbooked plane to make room for a united airlines staff member.

Minutes later, he manages to run, pleading, down the aisle. I have to

go home. I have to go home. There was another

officer who came on, and then another man U saw in the video, the

man with the hat and the jeans. He had a badge. But it is probably

helpful to say who you are as an authority figure before you start

yanking people out of seats. He didn't do that. In high overage,

global backlash growing of this video. Risking more bad lines around

the world, the airline boss seems to be blaming the passenger. In an

it is common to overbooked plane is to allow for passengers that don't

turn up. Volunteers are offered money to catch the next flight. It

sounds really brutal, they way that this guy was treated, and of course

the whole idea of overbooking might sound brutal to some people. But

ultimately, an airline ticket is only a vague promise to get you from

A to B at the time of the airline's choosing. If they want your seat

back, they will take it. Bad news spreads fast on social media. Look

at these posts piling into United Airlines.

Today, when everybody has got a smartphone, I think that a brand

dollars which is in the public view, even if it's only a couple of

people, can actually explode into a Twitter incident around the world.

They have to be very cautious about what they are doing in terms of

perceptions. This man was not a security threat. He says he was a

doctor trying to get home to treat patients. The airline says it is

time to contact him. Richard Westcott, BBC News.

More than 900 adult social care workers left their job every day

in England last year, according to new figures.

Care providers say that growing staff shortages mean vulnerable

people are receiving poorer levels of care, and the UK

Care Association claims the system is close to collapse.

The government says an extra ?2 billion is being

invested in social care. Carla Fowler reports.

The start of the morning shift at St Cecilia's nursing home in

Scarborough. It is a mid-sized 42 bed home and it is full. Call bells

ring constantly. Conditions range from dementia to stroke survivors

and those needing end of life care. It is a constant battle for health

care assistants to meet everyone's needs quickly. There should also be

two nurses on shift today, but Sue Gregory is on her own. What's the

matter, Winnie? What's the matter? I feel dry. I think the hardest thing

is keeping the consistency, because it does have a knock-on effect if

you are having a great turnover of staff. It doesn't make for a happy

home. 1.3 million work -- people working adult social care.

60% left social care completely. It is high pressure, demanding and

stressful work. Most care workers are paid just above the minimum

wage. The can't always get to everyone on time. It's upsetting and

disheartening when you find out that people get more stacking shelves

when you are looking after people for 24-hours a day. Only to carers

are on shift overnight. Tonight, an agency nurse has had to be drafted

in. Is this the cupboard for medication? She is the clinical lead

in a home she has never set foot in before. On the 12 hour night shift,

the bedridden need moving at least once every two hours. This woman is

from Portugal. We still have this washing, laundry, washing, trying,

and start putting people in bed. So if we get late now, we finish really

late. It's not good for them as well. She has worked here for a

year. There are concerns that carers like her will become increasingly

scarce as Brexit progresses. Every resident here is somebody's mother,

father, love them. But often those closest to them are the workers who

care. What does all of that tell us about

the pressure on the system is under? I think it puts cold, hard numbers

on a problem that those providing care have been warning us about four

some time. The real difficulty they face recruiting and retaining staff.

In the end of this sector is about people. If you want a kind,

compassionate care system, you need to be able to recruit good start and

then keep them. The annual turnover rate of staff in this sector is 27%.

That is nearly double the average for most other professions. There

are two clear effects. One is, it is pretty miserable if you are the

person getting the care, because you are asking them to do intimate

things, like help you go to the toilet, help you dress. You want to

know that person, you want to build a relationship. For the care

providers, they are constantly having to find new staff and train

them. That is an expensive business in a sector where money is tight. I

was speaking to one care provider who told me how they had a bigger

recruitment drive, spent ?28,000 on it, and got precisely five

applicants. It underlines the difficulty. When they do train

people in the hope it will keep them, they also find that they are

tempted away, for instance, to the NHS, where pay and ours are better.

Alisson hold, thank you. And viewers in Yorkshire can see

more on this story at 6:30 The lawyer for the main suspect

in the Swedish lorry attack, says he has admitted carrying out

"a terrorist crime". Rakhmat Akilov, who's 39

and from Uzbekistan, appeared before a custody

hearing in Stockholm. He's accused of hijacking

a lorry and using it people on a busy shopping

street last Friday. What happens next? Rakhmat Akilov

will be detained for another month as the questioning and the

investigation continues. We got a first glimpse of him this morning as

he shuffled into the courtroom in handcuffs, with a blanket over his

head. The judge told him to remove that as the charges were read out.

Akilov only spoke quietly to his lawyer, who then told the judge she

admits terrorist crimes committed in this city on Friday. He will now be

questioned as this investigation continues. The police are trying to

work out if anybody else was involved, or a FAQ a lot was part of

a wider terrorist organisation. Thank you.

G7 foreign ministers fail to reach an agreement on imposing

new sanctions on Russia - following the chemical

Why you may have you watched a TV drama recently -

but given up because you couldn't hear all the dialogue?

Coming up in sport in the next 15 minutes on BBC News:

New York rolls out the green carpet for the new Masters champion.

Sergio Garcia celebrates his first major title on top of the world.

Doctors in the United States are warning that a new commission

set up by President Trump to investigate claims that vaccines

can injure children's health could lead to a fall

Vaccines save millions of lives around the world every year -

and vaccination rates in the US remain high overall.

Our Global Health Correspondent Tulip Mazumdar reports

from Vashon Island in Washington state - which has some of the lowest

Welcome to Vashon Island, a few miles off the

It's a small, affluent community that embraces natural,

These children's parents want the absolute best for

Like any medication, vaccines can cause mild and in very

But the scientific consensus on them is clear - they are safe,

These mums however are still unconvinced.

We live in a society that values profit over public health.

And so we really have to do our own research to find

There was a huge amount of evidence that it was harmful,

even if they weren't ways we could scientifically prove it,

it was just talking from one mother to another.

Here on Vashon Island like many other parts

of the United States parents can opt out of vaccinating their children

But the issue has caused deep divides in this

Four-year-old twins Lilani and Scarlet are getting right up to

There has never been any doubt that that is the right thing to do.

It may be painful but these shots protect against deadly

diseases including measles, which before vaccines used to kill

hundreds of children every year in the US.

Whooping cough is also a major concern.

If we don't immunise enough of the children in the school,

then on a fairly regular basis whooping cough epidemics can come

through and grow in the school, and the most dangerous part is those

infections can be taken home and little babies can be infected

This is the man who wants to chair a vaccine safety committee

He completely dismisses the scientific consensus on vaccines.

I don't believe government officials, I don't believe -

I have to be sceptical and we all ought to be sceptical.

The President's own scientifically unfounded comments in the past

The beautiful child went to have the vaccine and came back

and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very

He appealed to emotion, he appealed to fear. We know vaccines don't

cause autism and we are frightened statements like this could deter

families from getting vaccines. Back at the clinic, Lilani

and Scarlet are getting But for their parents the greater

good for the health of the island Tulip Mazumdar, BBC

News, Vashon Island. The rate of inflation remained

at 2.3% in March, the highest level A jump in the cost of food

and clothing was offset Our economics editor

Kamal Ahmed is with me. People watching might have thought

it was going to go up further? Yes, I think this is a positive and what

has been a rise in inflation for the last six months. Two main reasons

for that, firstly Easter last year was in March, air fears rise rapidly

over the holiday period. This year it is a month later, April, so we

had to wait from the inflationary pressure. The second thing is the

oil price has been slightly lower this year compared to last year so

fuel prices for viewers will have come down slightly. But there are

still inflationary pressures, clothing prices going up, food

prices are going up as well and also this month at the end of the month a

number of the big energy firms are going to put in place price rises

they have already announced so we are likely to see quite a jump when

the April inflation figures come out. The big issue is the income

squeeze, inflation is only a problem if incomes are not going up faster

than inflation and what we are seeing is a tightening gap between

wage growth which is at 2.3% and inflation is at 2.3%, wage growth is

coming down and inflation is going up, people will start feeling the

income squeeze on the amount they are able to spend. Thank you.

Thousands of stroke patients in England could benefit

from a new programme to train more doctors in a complex procedure

which can save lives and help reduce disability.

It involves doctors catching and removing a clot

which is causing the stroke - to help restore the flow

Our health correspondent, Jane Dreaper, explains.

Back on her feet, Margaret had a stroke just three weeks

ago at the age of 50 - but she's benefited

I was very, very lucky, because I probably should have

You know, I could have been paralysed and taken months

and months of therapy and everything else, rehab.

Margret's doctors at this London hospital have led the way

It's called thrombectomy and has a much higher success rate

than conventional treatments using clot-busting drugs.

Patients can be completely weak down one side and not have any speech,

and as soon as you take the clot out, they can start talking to you

Other times, it takes several hours or by the end

of the evening or the next day, they can have recovered

With thrombectomy, doctors use this incredibly delicate piece of wire

to fish the clot out of a patient's brain.

They sometimes use another piece of wire, like this

8,000 patients across England will benefit from this treatment

every year once the program is rolled out.

Not all patients will have the treatment, as some strokes

are caused by a bleed rather than a clot, and it will take time

to train the doctors and nurses needed to expand services,

but NHS England says it's making this investment because patients

An inquest into the death of a woman who died after being restrained

while suffering from postpartum psychosis has been

hearing from her husband about the circumstances

34-year-old Alice Gibson-Watt had given birth to her first

daughter five weeks before, in October 2012.

Daniela Relph is at West London Coroner's Court.

Explain more about what the court has been hearing? Anthony Gibson

Watt spoke movingly to the court about what he saw happen to his

wife, he said Alice had seem enthralled by motherhood and wanted

to be the best mother possible to the baby. About four weeks in she

started to show signs of anxiety. He then described how one evening at

their home in Fulham west London she dramatically became not of sound

mind as he put it. He said it had been dramatically traumatic

experience. He said his wife had been in bed and suddenly started and

wailing and she started to crawl around the bedroom. She picked up

their daughter and started shaking her believing their daughter was

dead. He said it was a dramatic experience for him, she was

eventually admitted to hospital and moved to a mental health unit but

Chic suffered a cardiac arrest and an injury to her liver and died a

few days later. He said he hoped to this in quest to get to the truth of

her death. Thank you. The Ukip leader, Paul Nuttall,

will set out his party's campaign for local elections in England,

Scotland and Wales later today. Mr Nuttall, who last night met party

activists in Lincolnshire, will say that 'open door EU

immigration' is stretching The party is campaigning in Kent,

in advance of the council Ministers have been accused of not

having a proper plan for the future Publication of the official 25 year

Strategy for Nature has been repeatedly delayed -

and isn't now expected But critics complain

it's devoid of policies, English woodland in

its springtime glory. The report aspires for everyone

to be able to enjoy nature. It admits to serious problems

with the countryside. European farm policies have driven

away birds, it says. Environmentalists welcome

its vision, but say policies In fact, it's got no weight at all,

and that is really disappointing given how long we have been waiting

for it we still may have to wait before the Government

tells us how it's going to achieve its noble ambition

to have the environment in a better The report outlines vision of a

beautiful land. Our water will be cleaner it says, our plans and

wildlife will be healthier. Our seas will be cleaner. But where the

policies? The document says that by far

the best best place to plant new woodlands is near cities

where people can enjoy them - eight times better than planting

them in the countryside, So what is the policy

recommendation to ministers? Brexit has made strategy much more

complicated, the government 's environment Department is already

struggling with another 25 year plan on farming. And farmers themselves

are nervous about expanding woodland. There is no doubt if we

were to turn a large tracts of land into forestry yes it would have a

detrimental effect on our ability to produce high-quality affordable food

for British public. Ministers are still promising to leave the

environment better than the inherited it. Their critics want to

see the proof. Now, have you watched a TV drama

recently but given up, because you couldn't hear

all the dialogue? There have been complaints

from viewers about poor sound and mumbling in a number

of programmes, including Jamaica Inn Our Media Correspondent David

Sillito has been been to take part in an experiment

at the Science Media Museum in Bradford, which assesses

what viewers can and can't hear. TV sound, why has it become such an

issue? We have conducted an experiment, two actors, one scene,

different styles, modern and naturalistic and something more old

school. Sort of, I am doing a little bit of unpaid work. I was not

expecting to see you here, are you at college? What happens if you

change the sound effects, the level of noise around us? And how about

music? And the results?? Nobody could agree. Hearing is very

subjective. Did you get any of it? Odd bits of it. Quickly this diction

was the elevator. It is either too quickly spoken or they do not speak

clear enough. I only had about three words which were not quite clear and

I am 85 in May! I have been washing out my Laura Coles! Even amongst our

group of teenagers have struggled. Some got every word. We tried

different TV's. Most did not hear much difference at all but in a

choice between modern flat screen and old-style TV it was the ?15

second-hand TV which was the winner. That one. That one. Definitely that

one. The biggest impact was not the background stand. It was when our

actors went from this... MUMBLING. To this... Sort of. Doing a little

unpaid work. It is higher than I would like. Watching the result is a

professional sound recordist. I would say there is too much

mumbling, I come across it an awful lot. On is go up to the director and

say Governor, I am not sure what that person said and I am reading it

from a script at the same time as I am recording it. But it is complex,

what sound modern and natural to some is to others indecipherable.

Can you make this out? MUMBLING. No! And we definitely want to hear

the weather. Glorious sunshine, high cloud in the

sky at Twickenham making the sunshine a bit on the hazy side, on

the satellite picture you can see the extent, different story further

north where in England's Northern Moorestown Berwick-upon-Tweed the

skies look like this. Weather front going to be bringing wet weather

today, this is going to be hardly moving at all, more rain coming

across the Western Isles, into the Highlands where it is windy and over

the tops of the Cairngorms gusts of 85 mph so very blowy with strong

winds. England and Wales is a different story, breezy, quite a

cool and fresh feel in the breeze but in the sunshine I think it feels

pretty pleasant. Temperatures of the 16 degrees, Northern Ireland will

brighten up, I think there will be an improvement in the weather in

Shetland, the morning cloud and rain. Overnight tonight the weather

front stays very slow-moving initially but then starts to move

south, bringing the rain across Northern Ireland, pushing it into

Cumbria and Lancashire towards the end of the night, to the south it is

dry with clear spies, called in the countryside, temperatures could get

low enough for frost in the coldest areas. Wednesday the front moves

south taking the rain band across Northern England and Wales, by the

time it reaches the Midlands barely anything left of it, many areas of

eastern England will be dry, a lump of cloud working into the afternoon.

16 degrees in London, fresh to the north and west, Thursday another

quiet day coming up, cloud reticular across western areas and that could

be thick enough an occasional shower turning cooler. Good Friday and on

into the weekend and low pressure is in charge, westerly winds, no great

change in temperature but there will be usable whether through Friday

Saturday and Sunday, bright spells and a few passing showers, not write

off but we could see a spell of brain working into Northern Ireland

as we go into the latter of Sunday. A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime: G-7 foreign ministers fail to reach

an agreement on imposing new sanctions on Russia following the

chemical attack in Syria. That's all from the BBC News at One

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