:00:00. > :00:07.President Trump says relations between the US and Russia may
:00:08. > :00:13.His comments follow Russia's continued support for
:00:14. > :00:17.President Assad after the chemical weapons attack - it led to the US
:00:18. > :00:26.So I felt we had to do something about it.
:00:27. > :00:30.I have absolutely no doubt we did the right thing.
:00:31. > :00:33.With tensions rising over Syria, we'll be asking what the US
:00:34. > :00:39.The Education Secretary defends her plans for new selective
:00:40. > :00:47.grammar schools in England, saying they'll be truly open to all.
:00:48. > :00:50.The terror attack on the Borussia Dortmund football team bus -
:00:51. > :00:52.there's criticism of UEFA for forcing players back
:00:53. > :00:56.I know we earn a lot of money and we have a privileged life.
:00:57. > :01:06.The Beslan siege in 2004 that ended with over 300 dead -
:01:07. > :01:09.a court rules that Russia failed to protect the hostages.
:01:10. > :01:16.And the landlords offering accommodation - in exchange for sex.
:01:17. > :01:20.Coming up in the sport later in the hour on BBC News...
:01:21. > :01:21.He's looking good for another Premier League
:01:22. > :01:25.And Chelsea's N'Golo Kante is also favourite for the PFA Player of
:01:26. > :01:48.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:49. > :01:51.President Trump has said relations between the US and Russia
:01:52. > :01:53.may be at all-time low, after Moscow refused
:01:54. > :01:57.to withdraw support for Syria's President Assad
:01:58. > :02:00.after last week's chemical weapons attack.
:02:01. > :02:04.The US blamed the Syrian government for the attack, and fired 59 cruise
:02:05. > :02:08.missiles at a government airbase in response.
:02:09. > :02:10.Russia has now vetoed a United Nations resolution
:02:11. > :02:11.demanding that Syria cooperate with investigators.
:02:12. > :02:18.What appear to be barrel bombs being dropped
:02:19. > :02:24.Other unverified pictures are said to show rebel
:02:25. > :02:30.The Syrian Civil War is no less vicious and indiscriminate
:02:31. > :02:37.US and Russia are on opposing sides in this Civil war.
:02:38. > :02:40.Their positions on this directly determine the state
:02:41. > :02:48.President Trump says they might already be at an all-time low
:02:49. > :02:51.following the US missile attack on a Syrian airbase which Russia
:02:52. > :02:54.called an act of aggression but the US said was in response
:02:55. > :02:58.to a Syrian chemical attack on innocent civilians.
:02:59. > :03:05.Babies dying, fathers holding children in their arms that
:03:06. > :03:10.There can't be a worse sight and it shouldn't be allowed.
:03:11. > :03:18.That's a butcher, so I felt we had to do something about it.
:03:19. > :03:22.I have absolutely no doubt we did the right thing.
:03:23. > :03:24.Last night, Russia vetoed a UN Security Council ruling
:03:25. > :03:27.which would have compelled Syria to cooperate with an investigation
:03:28. > :03:33.The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said this shows Russia
:03:34. > :03:39.is on the wrong side of the argument but he sought solace elsewhere.
:03:40. > :03:43.I think the most important thing is that it was once again
:03:44. > :03:45.only the Russians who were the significant
:03:46. > :03:50.Even the Chinese, who are normally their ally, abstained.
:03:51. > :03:53.I think the pressure on them is now very considerable
:03:54. > :03:59.At a news conference where President Trump very publicly
:04:00. > :04:02.changed his position on Nato, praising it, he gave his
:04:03. > :04:06.analysis on the state of US Russian relations.
:04:07. > :04:09.Vladimir Putin had earlier said they had deteriorated and it
:04:10. > :04:13.seems the two presidents agree on something.
:04:14. > :04:16.It would be wonderful, as we were discussing
:04:17. > :04:19.just a little while ago, if Nato and our country
:04:20. > :04:23.Right now, we're not getting along with Russia at all.
:04:24. > :04:27.We may be at an all-time low in terms of our
:04:28. > :04:31.This has built for a long period of time.
:04:32. > :04:34.At the centre of this global crisis, condemned by the US,
:04:35. > :04:38.supported by Russia, is Syria's President Assad.
:04:39. > :04:41.He is expected to release a TV interview later,
:04:42. > :04:45.reacting to the chemical attack which he says was not
:04:46. > :04:48.the fault of his air strikes but was due to rebels
:04:49. > :04:52.Whoever's to blame, the attack has been the catalyst which has brought
:04:53. > :05:12.US Russia relations appear to have nosedived rapidly. Where does the US
:05:13. > :05:15.go from here? It's an amazing transformation, isn't it, when you
:05:16. > :05:18.think of the warm words we had from both sides during the election
:05:19. > :05:23.campaign. Both sides are now saying it has not been like this since the
:05:24. > :05:29.Cold War, at an all-time low. I think what we are looking at here is
:05:30. > :05:32.a profound disagreement, obviously, over Syria itself. We are looking at
:05:33. > :05:38.other factors which are playing into this as well. For example, Donald
:05:39. > :05:42.Trump's U-turn on Nato. It was once obsolete, now he says it is not
:05:43. > :05:48.obsolete. That will upset the Russians. For example, countries
:05:49. > :05:51.like Montenegro, Donald Trump recently signed an order which
:05:52. > :05:57.allows Montenegro to join Nato, right on Russia's doorstep. This is
:05:58. > :06:04.all playing into the distrust on both sides. But as Rex Tillerson
:06:05. > :06:06.said in Moscow yesterday, the world's two foremost nuclear powers
:06:07. > :06:10.cannot afford to have this level of distrust, so there will be pressure
:06:11. > :06:14.for some sort of summit later this year perhaps between President Trump
:06:15. > :06:19.and Vladimir Putin to try to sort this out. Meanwhile, they disagree
:06:20. > :06:23.over Syria and we expect to hear very soon, very shortly from Bashar
:06:24. > :06:29.al-Assad, the Syrian president, his first interview since those strikes,
:06:30. > :06:32.since his country was hit by the US for the first time in the six and a
:06:33. > :06:37.half year war. Gary O'Donoghue, thank you.
:06:38. > :06:38.The Education Secretary, Justine Greening, has
:06:39. > :06:41.ahead with new grammar schools in England saying she wants
:06:42. > :06:43.to create schools that are "truly open to all".
:06:44. > :06:46.In a speech this morning, she said she wanted grammar schools
:06:47. > :06:48.to serve more children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
:06:49. > :06:50.Labour argues that poorer pupils won't be helped by new grammars.
:06:51. > :06:58.Our Education Correspondent, Gillian Hargreaves, reports.
:06:59. > :07:01.It's big business coaching children to pass the test for grammar school.
:07:02. > :07:04.There are only 163 such schools in England at the moment,
:07:05. > :07:07.but the Government plans to open more.
:07:08. > :07:11.Some parents, like these at a tuition centre in Kent,
:07:12. > :07:16.find such an education immensely appealing.
:07:17. > :07:19.My daughter has been in a grammar school for the past five
:07:20. > :07:21.years and I have found that she is really progressing.
:07:22. > :07:24.The girls of the grammar school, they are really behaving themselves,
:07:25. > :07:29.They do extracurricular activities, which can kind
:07:30. > :07:33.of polish their personality, and they are much more focused.
:07:34. > :07:38.It's about having more options for what schools my son can go
:07:39. > :07:42.There's a variety of schools open to him, but there's no guarantee,
:07:43. > :07:47.so it was just about us giving him more choices, more options.
:07:48. > :07:50.Critics say grammars only benefit wealthier families,
:07:51. > :07:53.which is why the Government says they must do more to appeal
:07:54. > :07:57.to what they describe as ordinary working families.
:07:58. > :08:00.This morning, they defined such families as those with a household
:08:01. > :08:10.36% of grammar school places are taken up by these families.
:08:11. > :08:13.But grammars are dominated by the most well-off families.
:08:14. > :08:18.More than half, 53% of places, are taken up by them.
:08:19. > :08:20.I want these new schools to work for everyone.
:08:21. > :08:23.This will be a new model of grammars, truly open to all.
:08:24. > :08:31.And it will reflect the choices of local parents and communities.
:08:32. > :08:34.Labour changed the law in 1998 to prevent any new grammar
:08:35. > :08:37.schools being built, saying they only helped
:08:38. > :08:43.Unfortunately, grammar schools are not open to everyone
:08:44. > :08:46.and they are selective in their nature, and all
:08:47. > :08:47.the evidence suggests that people from working-class backgrounds don't
:08:48. > :08:52.You have to pay for private tuition to get into them.
:08:53. > :08:55.And they are a closed shop for most children,
:08:56. > :08:58.and actually a comprehensive system is the best way forward.
:08:59. > :09:01.A new generation of grammar schools would be controversial,
:09:02. > :09:04.but the Education Secretary says she wants them open to all children,
:09:05. > :09:09.She is, in effect, rebranding grammar schools in the hope
:09:10. > :09:17.Plans for new grammar schools are still being drawn up,
:09:18. > :09:18.but are expected to be published before the summer.
:09:19. > :09:26.The families of two more babies who died under
:09:27. > :09:28.the care of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust
:09:29. > :09:30.want their deaths to be part of the investigation announced
:09:31. > :09:37.It follows the avoidable deaths of seven babies
:09:38. > :09:39.in just over 18 months, five of whom died after failures
:09:40. > :09:42.to monitor their heart rate properly during labour.
:09:43. > :09:45.The trust says its mortality levels are in line with
:09:46. > :09:51.Our social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan, reports.
:09:52. > :09:52.This is the NHS Trust whose mistakes keep causing
:09:53. > :09:58.Yesterday, BBC News revealed that seven babies died unnecessarily
:09:59. > :10:03.at the Shrewsbury and Telford Trust in little over 18 months.
:10:04. > :10:05.The scale of the problems has prompted the Health Secretary
:10:06. > :10:08.to order a review of maternity services.
:10:09. > :10:13.Jeremy Hunt wants to ensure no more families suffer like this one.
:10:14. > :10:15.Tamsin Morris lost her daughter, Ivy, last May,
:10:16. > :10:24.We all think that something like this won't ever happen,
:10:25. > :10:33.And I can only take it day-by-day, sometimes.
:10:34. > :10:45.Other families are still pushing for justice.
:10:46. > :10:47.Hayley Matthews' son, Jack, died within hours
:10:48. > :10:54.She says the Trust never properly investigated the death.
:10:55. > :10:57.Following her investigations, however, the local coroner is now
:10:58. > :11:08.It's not going to bring my boy back, but hopefully it'll save other
:11:09. > :11:09.babies and parents going through what we've gone
:11:10. > :11:14.The Trust say they have investigated all maternity deaths,
:11:15. > :11:18.and say they will contact Hayley about her case.
:11:19. > :11:19.They also say they are learning lessons from incidents,
:11:20. > :11:29.German prosecutors investigating three explosions which hit
:11:30. > :11:33.the Borussia Dortmund football team bus on Tuesday night say the suspect
:11:34. > :11:35.being questioned was a member of the Islamic State group in Iraq.
:11:36. > :11:39.Meanwhile, the manager of the club has criticised Uefa for disregarding
:11:40. > :11:44.the feelings of his shaken players by staging their Champions League
:11:45. > :11:47.game against Monaco less than 24 hours after the attack.
:11:48. > :12:05.Three explosions, devices packed with metal pins. 18 left in shock.
:12:06. > :12:09.But less than 24 hours after a targeted attack, Borussia Dortmund
:12:10. > :12:14.walked out to play their postponed Uefa Champions League quarterfinal
:12:15. > :12:17.against Monaco. Despite their usual passionate support, they lost the
:12:18. > :12:21.game, with players expressing afterwards how the emotion of the
:12:22. > :12:25.incident made it difficult to focus on what was ultimately just a game
:12:26. > :12:31.of football. Until I was on the pitch, in the second half, I didn't
:12:32. > :12:35.think about football, to be honest. Because last night I didn't realise
:12:36. > :12:40.what happened and when I was at home, my wife and son were waiting
:12:41. > :12:43.in front of the door, and there I felt how lucky we were. I know we
:12:44. > :12:50.earn a lot of money, we have a privileged life, but we are human
:12:51. > :12:56.beings and there is so much more than football in this world.
:12:57. > :13:02.Dortmund's fans made their feelings known about the hasty rearrangement
:13:03. > :13:06.while the team's head coach accused Labour of ignoring them when
:13:07. > :13:11.deciding the new kick-off date. Nobody asked us for our opinion. We
:13:12. > :13:16.were informed of the Uefa decision by text message. The fact it was
:13:17. > :13:22.decided in Switzerland after what happened to us affected us greatly.
:13:23. > :13:28.But speaking to the BBC before the game kicked off, a senior Uefa
:13:29. > :13:33.official insisted all parties had been consulted. All decisions were
:13:34. > :13:36.made in full agreement with the two clubs. I guess this was done in full
:13:37. > :13:40.conscience and knowledge of the situation and also knowing that a
:13:41. > :13:49.different option would be quite difficult. Uefa has since reiterated
:13:50. > :13:54.it was in contact with the clubs and it received no indication of
:13:55. > :13:57.reluctance to play. Meanwhile, one of Dortmund's former coaches spoke
:13:58. > :14:02.of his admiration for his former club. Everyone would have understood
:14:03. > :14:10.if they had said, we wait to play it, we will find a salute your next
:14:11. > :14:14.week, whatever. I saw the game and I was really proud of Borussia
:14:15. > :14:20.Dortmund, how they handled it. Borussia Dortmund are keen to look
:14:21. > :14:25.to the future and to the return game against Monaco but with shock
:14:26. > :14:31.subsiding, there is now a mix of regret and some simmering anger.
:14:32. > :14:33.Young, vulnerable people are being targeted by adverts online
:14:34. > :14:35.which offer accommodation in exchange for sex,
:14:36. > :14:37.The deals, which are legal, are on classified ad sites.
:14:38. > :14:39.Charities have called them exploitative.
:14:40. > :14:47.I had no idea what I was getting into.
:14:48. > :14:51.He took me into his living room and got me drinks,
:14:52. > :14:57.and then after that it was straight upstairs and go for it.
:14:58. > :15:01.Vulnerable and desperate for a roof over her head.
:15:02. > :15:06.Gemma answered a sex-for-rent online advert.
:15:07. > :15:09.He would do what he wanted to do, forcefully.
:15:10. > :15:15.And I just sort of, yeah, went along with it.
:15:16. > :15:20.And, after the third time, I started feeling physically unwell.
:15:21. > :15:23.These are some of the offers we found openly placed
:15:24. > :15:29.Free accommodation, but with strings attached.
:15:30. > :15:31.I was thinking once a week, something like that.
:15:32. > :15:35.I'm happy as long as there's sex involved.
:15:36. > :15:37.I spoke with several men posting adverts.
:15:38. > :15:42.All were clear how the arrangement would work.
:15:43. > :15:47.These are real conversations, voiced by actors.
:15:48. > :15:50.Well, you know, you agree sort of a couple of times a week,
:15:51. > :15:54.There's a girl staying here now who's done the same.
:15:55. > :15:56.Two or three times a week, basically.
:15:57. > :16:02.Some say those agreeing to those deals could be getting into a very
:16:03. > :16:07.But, disturbingly, this is all perfectly legal.
:16:08. > :16:10.I think these adverts go as close to the edge of the law
:16:11. > :16:13.as they possibly can without breaking the law.
:16:14. > :16:15.They would argue that they have chosen voluntarily to
:16:16. > :16:20.The trouble is, when you have a vulnerable person that
:16:21. > :16:22.then becomes exploited, the concept of choice
:16:23. > :16:29.I contacted Craigslist for comment, but they didn't get back to me.
:16:30. > :16:31.I'm really grateful to the BBC for uncovering some of this,
:16:32. > :16:37.There is an onus on the owners of these platforms to root this out
:16:38. > :16:40.and to deal with it, and I'm being very explicit because,
:16:41. > :16:42.if they don't stand up to this, and accept
:16:43. > :16:44.their responsibility, I will be pushing for
:16:45. > :16:50.More adverts are appearing every day.
:16:51. > :16:53.I was under quite a bit of pressure to keep him happy.
:16:54. > :16:57.Because they could basically just come over to you and say,
:16:58. > :17:00.I want sex now, and you really don't have much of a choice
:17:01. > :17:03.because you know it's their home and you want to just
:17:04. > :17:08.With an increasing number of young homeless people,
:17:09. > :17:11.it's feared these adverts will only continue to exploit
:17:12. > :17:20.Viewers in Kent and Sussex can see more on that story on
:17:21. > :17:26.BBC South East Today after this programme here on BBC One.
:17:27. > :17:42.President Trump says relations between the US and Russia may be at
:17:43. > :17:44.an all-time low. Still to come, the continuing appeal of the
:17:45. > :17:46.roller-coaster. 200 years after it first took to the tracks for the
:17:47. > :17:47.first time. Coming up in sport
:17:48. > :17:49.at 1:30pm on BBC News: We'll have the latest
:17:50. > :17:51.from the World Track Cycling There are more British medal
:17:52. > :17:55.chances on the second 13 years ago, more than 1,000
:17:56. > :18:05.people were taken hostage by Chechen rebels at a school
:18:06. > :18:10.in Beslan in Russia. 331 people were killed
:18:11. > :18:12.after Russian forces eventually Half of those who died
:18:13. > :18:17.were children. Today, the European Court
:18:18. > :18:20.of Human Rights has ruled that the Russian government should
:18:21. > :18:22.have done more to prevent the bloodshed, and it awarded
:18:23. > :18:37.compensation of around You may find some of these images
:18:38. > :18:40.upsetting. When rebels stormed school number
:18:41. > :18:46.one in Beslan and forced more than 1100 children, parents and teachers
:18:47. > :18:52.into the gym, more than 330 people died. 186 of them were children. The
:18:53. > :18:55.attackers wanted Russian troops to leave the nearby republic of
:18:56. > :19:02.Chechnya. The terror inside and around the school lasted for 52
:19:03. > :19:06.hours. There were bombs taped to the walls and hanging from the ceiling.
:19:07. > :19:12.Children were forced to stand by the windows as human shields. Some, like
:19:13. > :19:16.this little girl, managed to escape. For them, and for those forced to
:19:17. > :19:21.wait three days, terrified, listening to gunshots, this ruling
:19:22. > :19:30.is the result they had hoped for. TRANSLATION: The court said that
:19:31. > :19:34.Russia failed to take reasonable steps to protect the lives of the
:19:35. > :19:37.hostages, that critical intelligence wasn't acted on adequately to
:19:38. > :19:41.prevent the attack and that, once the siege had begun, Russian
:19:42. > :19:46.officials failed to minimise the loss of life. Russian security
:19:47. > :19:50.forces had surrounded the school when they stormed the building. They
:19:51. > :19:56.used tanks and flame-throwers, when hundreds of children were still
:19:57. > :20:01.inside. Some survivors say they will continue their fight or justice.
:20:02. > :20:05.Zarina Dzampaeva was eight at the time and she lost her mother in the
:20:06. > :20:12.attack. Still guilty people are not punished, and we can't say that
:20:13. > :20:20.guilty people are punished already, so, as for me, there should be taken
:20:21. > :20:26.extra measures to investigate it because still nobody is responsible.
:20:27. > :20:30.The Kremlin have said the ruling is absolutely unacceptable. But the
:20:31. > :20:33.court awarded $3 million in compensation and underlined that
:20:34. > :20:45.there should now be a new, objective investigation. A survivors group,
:20:46. > :20:48.Mothers Of Beslan, say they will push for that. They say they owe it
:20:49. > :20:49.to their children to make sure the people responsible for their deaths
:20:50. > :20:51.are held to account. Let's talk to Sarah
:20:52. > :21:00.Rainsford in Moscow. Sarah, tell us more about the
:21:01. > :21:04.reaction there to this ruling. Well, there has been a strong reaction
:21:05. > :21:10.here in Moscow to the ruling in Strasbourg. I asked the President's
:21:11. > :21:15.spokesman what he made of the ruling and he told me it was utterly
:21:16. > :21:18.unacceptable, particularly against a country which had suffered a large
:21:19. > :21:23.number of terrorist attacks. We also heard from the justice ministry, who
:21:24. > :21:27.say they will appeal the ruling. They say that the conclusions of the
:21:28. > :21:31.court don't match the evidence presented by the Russian government.
:21:32. > :21:34.But, in all of this, I think the people who brought the case were the
:21:35. > :21:39.victims of the siege, and they have a strong argument. They feel that
:21:40. > :21:42.their years of fighting to get somebody held responsible for what
:21:43. > :21:46.happened have been vindicated, and I was down in Beslan this week talking
:21:47. > :21:50.to some of them as they were waiting for the verdict, and this is what
:21:51. > :21:53.they were hoping for, a strong statement from the court that Russia
:21:54. > :22:00.not only failed to take enough steps to prevent the attack happening but
:22:01. > :22:03.particularly, the court found, it used disproportionate force when
:22:04. > :22:09.that siege came to an end on the third day. Russia argues it was the
:22:10. > :22:11.terrorists inside the school who set off the whole chain of explosives
:22:12. > :22:15.and the events leading to the loss of so many lives, but there hasn't
:22:16. > :22:22.been an independent enquiry into that, and that is exactly what the
:22:23. > :22:25.Mothers Of Beslan want and they say that is what they will push for for
:22:26. > :22:26.the sake of the children who died there.
:22:27. > :22:28.The number of people trespassing on railways across the UK
:22:29. > :22:32.More than 8,000 incidents were recorded last year -
:22:33. > :22:36.Our correspondent John Maguire has been speaking to Paralympian
:22:37. > :22:38.Simon Munn, who lost his leg crossing a train track
:22:39. > :22:44.when he was 22, and is anxious to warn others of the risk.
:22:45. > :22:47.The passing train serves as a timely reminder of the dangers of Simon
:22:48. > :22:51.Munn's fateful decision that night 27 years ago.
:22:52. > :23:03.And I literally waited for the train to come along and take my leg
:23:04. > :23:08.It seemed like it was a fortnight, but it was
:23:09. > :23:12.Having lost his leg, Simon, always a keen
:23:13. > :23:14.sportsman, took up wheelchair basketball.
:23:15. > :23:18.And it's been a major part of his life ever since.
:23:19. > :23:22.He has represented Great Britain in seven
:23:23. > :23:24.Paralympics, travelled the world, and won a whole host of medals.
:23:25. > :23:26.But still he wishes he'd gone nowhere
:23:27. > :23:34.My life since then has been, you know, really good.
:23:35. > :23:42.But right now, yeah, absolutely, I'd have my leg back, 100%.
:23:43. > :23:48.Simon realises that night he was both lucky and unlucky.
:23:49. > :23:53.Unfortunate to get hit by the train in the first place, but incredibly
:23:54. > :24:01.Last year, there were 8000 trespass incidents.
:24:02. > :24:05.That's an increase over the year before, and
:24:06. > :24:13.So, at Bellevue Bees in East Manchester, in common
:24:14. > :24:17.with sports clubs and 100 schools across Britain, there are schemes
:24:18. > :24:27.The train takes how many football pitches to stop, can you remember?
:24:28. > :24:30.20 football pitches, OK, that's a mile and a quarter.
:24:31. > :24:35.It's never, ever turned off, OK, we all remember that.
:24:36. > :24:38.And that by going on it, it's also illegal, up to a ?1000 fine.
:24:39. > :24:41.The numbers almost double in the Easter and summer holidays.
:24:42. > :24:42.So, Nick, despite your best endeavours,
:24:43. > :24:48.I think there's more we can do, not only as Network Rail but as a
:24:49. > :24:52.Projects like this, if we all get involved and educate each
:24:53. > :24:55.other on railway safety, and make sure we have
:24:56. > :24:57.that conversation with our friends and family, people can stop
:24:58. > :25:01.Warnings are consistent, frequent, and, for some, deeply personal.
:25:02. > :25:05.Just stay away from the tracks, because
:25:06. > :25:14.Joe Maguire, BBC News, Milton Keynes.
:25:15. > :25:16.The latest NHS figures, for February, show a small
:25:17. > :25:18.improvement in performance in A units and waiting times in England,
:25:19. > :25:23.But, over the three months of winter, the figures show a big
:25:24. > :25:26.increase in the number of A patients waiting at least four
:25:27. > :25:28.hours, against the same period a year ago.
:25:29. > :25:33.Our health correspondent, Jane Dreaper, reports.
:25:34. > :25:36.Unprecedented pressure in the NHS means nurses have
:25:37. > :25:37.never worked harder, and for so little,
:25:38. > :25:43.The Royal College of Nursing says due to pay freezes,
:25:44. > :25:47.and then a pay cap, nurses have seen the money they take home cut in real
:25:48. > :25:53.It says that's why it has decided to ask staff
:25:54. > :25:57.whether they would be prepared to strike.
:25:58. > :26:00.270,000 NHS nurses will be able to vote in the online survey
:26:01. > :26:10.So, most nurses are unhappy with their income.
:26:11. > :26:12.So they're working harder than ever, but there's been years now
:26:13. > :26:18.Some of our nurses are telling us they absolutely love being a nurse,
:26:19. > :26:21.it's a fantastic job, but they just don't think they can
:26:22. > :26:26.Last year, junior doctors in England staged six one-day
:26:27. > :26:30.strikes in a bitter dispute over their new contract.
:26:31. > :26:34.Those were the first all-out stoppages in the history of the NHS.
:26:35. > :26:36.If nurses are balloted, they might consider stopping
:26:37. > :26:43.A health think tank says it's another sign of pressure
:26:44. > :26:49.We are seeing this in growing vacancies, in people switching
:26:50. > :26:52.to part-time work and working for agencies, and it's becoming
:26:53. > :26:55.increasingly difficult to recruit from overseas because of Brexit.
:26:56. > :26:59.The result of all of this I think is that we should be as concerned
:27:00. > :27:02.about the workforce problems the NHS faces as we are about
:27:03. > :27:09.There's never been an all-out nurses strike, but new figures have today
:27:10. > :27:11.confirmed how difficult the winter was.
:27:12. > :27:16.Almost 200,000 A patients in England who needed a hospital bed
:27:17. > :27:21.had to wait at least four hours - a record number.
:27:22. > :27:22.The Department of Health says front line services
:27:23. > :27:24.are being protected, with more nurses on
:27:25. > :27:35.The Queen has given money to pensioners in Leicester
:27:36. > :27:37.to mark Maundy Thursday, a tradition dating back
:27:38. > :27:41.She was with the Duke of Edinburgh as she distributed money
:27:42. > :27:44.to 91 men and 91 women - representing each of her 91 years.
:27:45. > :27:46.Hundreds of well-wishers lined the streets outside
:27:47. > :27:54.Leicester Cathedral to welcome them for the service.
:27:55. > :27:57.200 years ago in Paris, a wooden cart with wheels was fixed
:27:58. > :27:59.to a track and sent down a steep slope.
:28:00. > :28:02.Since then, they have made countless stomachs churn
:28:03. > :28:10.The roller-coaster story began in Paris in 1817.
:28:11. > :28:13.The French put like a wooden cart onto a track that they built
:28:14. > :28:17.Roller-coasters generally, and this is a great feature
:28:18. > :28:20.of roller-coasters, haven't changed all that much, really.
:28:21. > :28:22.In the 1920s and 30s, roller-coasters
:28:23. > :28:27.But in America, it became clear their appeal could go
:28:28. > :28:32.Many theme parks closed during the Great Depression.
:28:33. > :28:38.After the war, roller-coasters recaptured people's imaginations,
:28:39. > :28:44.If we're thinking about subjecting the body to different
:28:45. > :28:48.physical sensations, the extremes, if you like,
:28:49. > :28:51.the 3Gs or 4Gs that you get on roller-coasters, there is nowhere
:28:52. > :28:54.else in life that you can do that other than riding
:28:55. > :29:04.An accident at Alton Towers in 2015 which left four seriously injured
:29:05. > :29:07.was a reminder that riding a roller-coaster is not risk-free,
:29:08. > :29:10.although generally the safety record is very good.
:29:11. > :29:18.In many theme parks, virtual reality is the latest big thing.
:29:19. > :29:22.This is Derren Brown's Ghost Train at Thorpe Park.
:29:23. > :29:26.Thanks to a special headset, what you see is not what you get.
:29:27. > :29:33.Brendan Walker advises attractions on what gets punters' blood pumping.
:29:34. > :29:35.It's one of the drawbacks that they are so experimental
:29:36. > :29:38.you don't know what people are going to respond to.
:29:39. > :29:41.When this attraction opened last year, there were complaints it
:29:42. > :29:46.It had to be redesigned and relaunched.
:29:47. > :29:49.Generation upon generation are constantly seeking novelty.
:29:50. > :29:52.And what was novel for, you know, my parents or their grandparents,
:29:53. > :29:56.now is like a walk in the park from me, so we need new things.
:29:57. > :30:01.At Blackpool Pleasure Beach, the European Coaster Club are doing
:30:02. > :30:03.what they love best, convinced thrill-seeking
:30:04. > :30:09.is most effective when it's a physical feeling.
:30:10. > :30:11.200 years of twisting, turning, spinning and spiralling.
:30:12. > :30:16.The appeal of the roller-coaster shows no sign of falling away.
:30:17. > :30:35.Things have been telling a bit cooler in the last few days, but
:30:36. > :30:39.we've still got some glorious spring sunshine. We've had some great
:30:40. > :30:44.pictures sent in. This is Garforth in Leeds, with some patchy
:30:45. > :30:48.bellwether cloud around. A similar picture across much of the country.
:30:49. > :30:55.Down towards the Cornish coast, a bit more cloud pushing in. The best
:30:56. > :30:57.of the sunshine towards the east. Things are still looking dry, if
:30:58. > :31:03.fairly overcast for holiday-makers in Cornwall. For the rest of today,
:31:04. > :31:08.for many of us, things are looking dry. Some sunshine in southern and
:31:09. > :31:11.eastern parts. Further north-west, slightly cloudy conditions through
:31:12. > :31:15.the afternoon, but it should remain largely dry for the bulk of
:31:16. > :31:18.south-west England and Wales. Perhaps just the odd light shower in
:31:19. > :31:23.the Midlands, but looking dry towards the south-east. Temperatures
:31:24. > :31:27.in England and Wales, about 9-13. A bit fresher further north,
:31:28. > :31:33.especially if you are exposed to that westerly wind. Some cloud in
:31:34. > :31:37.Northern Ireland and Scotland. We will continue to see showers towards
:31:38. > :31:42.the north-west, filtering east. Through this evening and overnight,
:31:43. > :31:45.we will see the cloud increasing, bringing with it further patchy
:31:46. > :31:50.rain. For Northern Ireland, southern Scotland and Wales, that is. To the
:31:51. > :31:54.south, largely dry. A bit milder than it has been in recent nights.
:31:55. > :31:59.For the Easter weekend, things are staying on the cool side, but there
:32:00. > :32:02.will be some sunshine. A bit of rain around, but not all of us will see
:32:03. > :32:06.it. Quite a bit of dry weather, especially towards the south. Good
:32:07. > :32:12.Friday, some patchy rain affecting parts of Wales, northern England,
:32:13. > :32:16.Northern Ireland. That will pop up in the afternoon, especially in
:32:17. > :32:20.parts of Wales and northern England. Mostly drive further south. We could
:32:21. > :32:25.see 16 degrees also in the sunnier spells towards London. Moving
:32:26. > :32:29.through the weekend, as we see those cold fronts slipping south, during
:32:30. > :32:34.the day on Saturday, not a bad picture. Most of us are dry again
:32:35. > :32:39.and there will be some sunshine for southern and eastern parts in
:32:40. > :32:41.particular. One or two showers towards the north-west and
:32:42. > :32:47.temperatures around 9-15. Not a bad day. Easter Day on Sunday, bit of
:32:48. > :32:50.rain. Some uncertainty on the detail, but probably through
:32:51. > :32:54.Northern Ireland and northern England. Either side of that, some
:32:55. > :32:58.drier and brighter weather on the cards. Temperatures around 14. A bit
:32:59. > :32:59.of a mix in the next few days, but many of us should see some dry
:33:00. > :33:01.weather and a bit of sunshine. A reminder of our main
:33:02. > :33:09.story this lunchtime. President Trump says relations
:33:10. > :33:11.between the US and Russia may be at an all-time low.
:33:12. > :33:14.That's all from the BBC News at One, so it's goodbye from me.
:33:15. > :33:17.On BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.