28/11/2017 BBC News at One

The Pope urges Myanmar

to respect human rights

and different ethnicities -

but stops short of naming

the Rohingya Muslims -

on a visit to the country.

Pope Francis met Myanmar's de facto

leader Aung San Su Chi

during his visit to the country,

which has been widely accused

of ethnic cleansing.

TRANSLATION: I would like my visit

to embrace the entire population of

Myanmar and to offer a word of

encouragement to all those who are

working to build a just, reconciled

and inclusive social order.

And I am

at the Kutupalong refugee camp in

Bangladesh, where the continuing

cramped and sanitary conditions are

leading to the increased spread of

disease.

Also this lunchtime:

New measures are announced

to try to reduce the number

of deaths and serious

injuries during childbirth.

More details of Harry and Meghan's

wedding are due to be

released this afternoon,

as the Duchess of Cambridge

adds her good wishes.

William and I are absolutely

thrilled, it is such exciting news.

It is a really happy time for any

couple and we wish them all the best

and hope they enjoy this happy

moment.

Thousands of tourists remain trapped

on the Indonesia island of Bali

as a volcano threatens to erupt.

And the photographer

from Coventry who's finally found

fame for his photographs

at the age of 95.

On the BBC News Channel, we will

have all the latest reports,

results, interviews and features

from the BBC Sports Centre.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

Pope Francis has urged Myanmar

to respect human rights,

justice and different ethnicities,

but he stopped short

of specifically referring

to the Rohingya Muslims,

many of whom have

fled to Bangladesh.

The Pope was delivering a keynote

speech in Myanmar, where he met

the country's de facto leader,

Aung San Suu Kyi.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas

fled a military crackdown in Myanmar

that began in August.

Many of them are now living

in vast makeshift camps

across the border in Bangladesh.

Reeta Chakrabarti is in Kutupalong

camp that's sprung up about 20 miles

from the city of Cox's Bazar.

Sophie, the hundreds of thousands of

Rohingya refugees living here in

conditions of desperation and

absolute squalor luck on world

leaders to highlight their plight,

but while the Pope did talk to

Myanmar's leaders about the need to

respect ethnic differences, he

followed the advice of Catholic

leaders in that country and didn't

talk about the Rohingya directly, as

my colleague Tom Burridge no

reports.

It is possibly Pope Francis's most

sensitive trip, to a country whose

powerful military stands accused of

ethnic cleansing. The Armagh, a

majority Buddhist country, today

keen to show off its cultural and

ethnic diversity as he arrived

alongside Aung San Suu Kyi --

Myanmar. In previous public

occasions, she has failed to

acknowledge the widespread human

rights abuses against Myanmar's

Rohingya people. With some military

leaders listing, not an admission

this time but a nod to what has been

going on in Rakhine state.

As we address long-standing issues,

social, economic and political,

that have eroded trust

and understanding, harmony

and cooperation between different

communities in Rakhine.

communities in Rakhine,

the support of our people

and our good friends who only wish

to see us succeed in our endeavours

has been invaluable.

From Pope Francis, no mention of the

Rohingya. Instead, a more subtle

plea.

TRANSLATION: The future of Myanmar

must be peace, a piece based on the

respect and dignity of rides for

each member of society, respect for

each ethnic group and its identity.

In recent weeks, hundreds of

thousands of Rohingya Muslims have

fled over the border into

Bangladesh. Their stories, chilling.

Women raped, children killed.

Labour's baroness Uddin was recently

there.

I think what is happening is

beyond human endurance. I hope his

Holiness the Pope will understand

the magnitude of Aung San Suu Kyi's

complicity to this.

The Pope would

never criticise a leader in public.

The expectation that their

conversation in Private will have

been more frank about people who are

suffering and dying.

Our correspondent Jonathan Head is

in Yangon.

How significant do you think it is

that the Pope didn't use the word

"Rohingya"?

Well, there was so much

expectation put on this one word.

Activists and indeed those who have

been arguing for proper recognition

of the Rohingya and of their rights

wanted the word used because it

carries so much weight. This is how

the Rohingya describe themselves,

here and in Myanmar, there is a very

different view. They don't recognise

the stories of horrendous abuses

that you are hearing over there in

Bangladesh. They feel their country

has been unfairly attacked and they

just don't recognise the wrecking

year, this belief has spread that

they don't belong, and so it was a

very weighted word and the Pope was

strongly advised that he shouldn't

use it. Had he used it, I think,

there could have been tensions and

maybe angry reactions from hardline

Buddhist monks who have a very big

influence here, but he did make a

lot of references in that speech to

the very problems surrounding the

Rohingya, the need for tolerance, to

include all ethnic groups, all

those, he said, that called Islam

home. So I think people will

recognise he was talking about the

Rohingyas but has avoided a

diplomatic incident. Remember, he is

also representing a vulnerable and

quite small Catholic minority who

were worried about what would happen

to them had there been a negative

reaction to the Pope's visit.

Jonathan, thank you. Well, Sophie, I

am standing here in the moment --

middle of Kutupalong camp, one of

several sprawling camps in

Bangladesh and you can see one or

two shelters behind me and the camp

extends a long way back there.

People are living in very close

quarters in very squalid conditions

and it is, of course, an ideal

breeding ground for disease. I have

been speaking to medics here who are

worried about a significant rise in

the number of cases of measles.

The middle of one of the Rohingya

camps where people are crammed in,

living in basic shelters

with poor sanitation.

Ideal conditions for

the spread of disease.

Emergency clinics have

been coping with a

significant rise in the number

of cases of measles with over 600 in

two months, the vast

majority of them children.

This is a population especially

vulnerable to measles and

additionally what we have also

realised is that there are a few of

these people have been vaccinated

before, so when they arrived here

they had no protection

at all and so it's a perfect

environment for very rapid

spread of the disease.

This clinic has seen

such a significant

rise in the number of measles

patients that it's had to open its

own unit specifically for that.

I haven't had measles

but my colleague

Annie has and she's

going to take you inside.

She's going into the isolation

area,

where the worst

affected patients are kept.

Everyone here is under five.

Jubera's 11-month-old

baby is not taking foods,

since yesterday she said

she hasn't even breast-fed.

They are given medication, vitamin A

and in the worst cases, oxygen.

Some have died but so far most

have pulled through.

With this crisis still being

described as an acute emergency,

the fear remains

that in these

conditions a more serious

disease could take hold.

Well, Sophie, I was here in these

camps ten weeks ago and on the

surface, things have changed for the

better. There is more organisation,

you don't see people sleeping by the

roadside, the camps are better

organised and the conditions are

very slightly better, in that we are

not in monsoons, so people are not

sleeping in the mud. However, you go

into the heart of the camps and

conditions are still very poor.

People are living in very close

quarters, there is not enough food,

the shelter is inadequate and the

sanitation is bad. And the thing is,

there seems to be very little end in

sight to people's plight.

Thank you.

New measures have been announced

to try to reduce the number

of deaths and serious

injuries during childbirth.

The UK has some of the highest

levels of stillbirth and early

deaths among small babies

in western Europe -

around 1,000 die every year.

The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt

says all cases of serious harm

or death during childbirth

in England, will in future be

or death during childbirth

in England will in future be

independently investigated.

Our Health Correspondent

Dominic Hughes reports.

Losing twins during pregnancy and

then having baby Hugo very

prematurely means Rachel understands

all too well the challenges

childbirth can present. Her

experience has taught that both

parents and medical staff need to be

aware of when things could go wrong.

I think it is education pregnant

women should never be afraid to ask

questions and raise concerns and it

is also the medical establishment in

encouraging them to do so and having

the staff available to put their

minds at rest and investigate if

they are having problems. I feel

that I was very well looked after

but I know that is very much a

postcode lottery, it depends on your

doctor and the resources available

and I was one of the lucky ones.

Now

the Health Secretary in England is

announcing that rather than

hospitals carrying out their own

investigations when mistakes are

made, an independent review will be

carried out instead.

When I talk to

parents whose hearts have been

broken by something that has gone

wrong, in those very small numbers

of cases, what they say is it is not

about the money, they just want to

know that the NHS has learned from

what went wrong so that that same

mistake isn't ever going to happen

again.

The UK lags behind many other

European countries when it comes to

preventing baby deaths and premature

births. There are around nine

stillborn babies everyday. Roughly

50 women still die every year in

England from issues related to

pregnancy and around 50,000 babies

are born prematurely. At Southmead

Hospital in Bristol, they have made

big advances in reducing harm by

learning from those mistakes that

can leave babies and mothers with

lifelong injuries.

It is not really

about training for knowledge so much

as training to use the right system

and I always say, why not make the

right way be easy way? Why not make

it easier.

To do the right things?

But across the NHS, the shortage of

staff to provide safe care remains a

problem.

We have a real concern

about staffing levels. We have been

saying for some time there are not

enough midwives. We really need more

staff and more capacity in order to

safely care for mums and babies.

Progress is being made but there are

concerns that difficult lessons are

not being learned. Dominic Hughes,

BBC News.

More details of Prince Harry

and Meghan Markle's

wedding are expected to be

announced this afternoon.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has

indicated the couple

will have a church wedding,

saying the pair had "chosen

to make their vows to God"

in a religious ceremony.

Some MPs have urged Theresa May

to call a Bank Holiday to mark

the occasion, after the idea

was initially dismissed

by Downing Street.

Our Royal Correspondent

Nicholas Witchell reports.

After all the excitement of making

the excitement comes the rather more

down-to-earth task of planning the

wedding. Harry and Meghan are a

couple involved in a wide range of

activities and with a wide circle of

friends, so a small wedding is

probably out. They certainly won't

be short of advice. Harry's family

are rallying round with good wishes.

William and I are absolutely

thrilled, it is such exciting news.

It is a really happy time for any

couple and we wish them all the best

and hope they enjoy this happy

moment.

America's loss is our game

and we are all absolutely delighted.

As you can see, they are so happy.

Sometimes, you know, in a climate

where we are surrounded by a lot of

bad news, it is a real joy to have a

bit of good news for once.

But back

to the planning and, first, a date.

It will be in the spring. March

feels rather too wintry. April is

the month William and Catherine's

first babe -- third baby is due,

which could be awkward. The Princess

Charlotte will be three on the 2nd

of May, a good age for a bridesmaid,

perhaps, alongside Prince George.

And then there is the venue. St

Paul's Cathedral is certainly big,

it is where Harry's mother and

father were married. That might

count against it. Westminster Abbey

would be the traditional choice. It

was the venue, of course, chosen by

William and Catherine but as a

future king, his choice was

constrained. Harry has more freedom.

St George's Chapel within Windsor

Castle, where the Earl and Countess

of Wessex were married, is a strong

candidate. Rich in history, it would

lend the occasion a greater sense of

intimacy. Alongside the wedding

planning, Meghan must map out a new

role within the British Royal

family.

Very early out of the gate,

I think once you realise you have

access or a voice that people are

willing to listen to, with that

comes a lot of responsibility, which

I take seriously.

As for any

bride-to-be, it is likely to be a

busy few months.

The UK's banks could cope if Britain

leaves the European Union

in a "disorderly Brexit".

That's the finding of the Bank

of England's so-called stress tests.

For the first time since

the financial crisis,

all of the UK's biggest lenders have

passed the Bank's criteria to cope

with an economic downturn.

Our Personal Finance Correspondent,

Simon Gompertz reports.

Could our banks deal with another

financial crisis or a big recession

or a chaotic Brexit? The answer is

yes, though with some reservations.

The Bank of England look at what

would happen if our economy shrank

by nearly 5%, if its interest rate

was put up to 4% and it has prices

plummeted by a third. Banks would

still be able to carry on lending.

The governor Mark Carney said they

would also cope if the UK crashed at

the EU without agreement though

people would feel it. There will be

an economic impact on households, on

businesses, there will be lost

markets for a period before new

markets are found and there will be

some pain associated with that. And

despite getting through the tests

come over borrowing on credit cards

is a concern. So to stay safe banks

are being told to have more money on

hand to cover any losses. The

government is planning to sell off

its controlling stake in RBS

NatWest, a bank of which failed to

withstand a real financial crisis so

passing the stress tests, that's a

relief for ministers. But there is a

potential nightmare scenario, for

the Bank of England calls a series

of highly unfortunate events, that

there is a serious recession, big

fines for the banks and a disorderly

Brexit all happened at the same

time. The bank says financial

institutions would be helped by a

Brexit transition period and more

work to make sure cross-border or

border insurance and banking

continues. I'm confident the Bank of

England knows what it is doing in

forecasting turns.

What I'm not

confident about is their ability to

foretell the future. They are not

soothsayers, they don't have crystal

of sand we are in a very uncertain

situation.

Some might also look at

and say if only banks had these

tests in place before the 2008

financial crisis been years of

difficulties might have been

avoided.

The Irish Deputy Prime Minister has

resigned in a move which will mean

a snap general election before

Christmas is avoided.

Frances Fitzgerald had faced a vote

of no confidence tonight

after questions were raised

about how much she knew about a plan

to discredit a police whistleblower.

The affair had threatened to bring

down the fragile deal which kept

the Fine Gael government in power

for the last 18 months.

The Brexit secretary David Davis has

been summoned to a House

of Commons Select Committee

to explain his decision not

to release full details

of the Government's assessment

of the economic impact

of Brexit to MPs.

It comes after Mr Davis provided

the committee with only an edited

version of the Government's

assessment of the potential

impact of Brexit on 56

sectors of the economy.

Our Assistant Political Editor

Norman Smith is in Westminster

How much trouble is he in then? Even

senior Tory MPs have said to me he

is in difficulties because we have

the extraordinary prospect of a

government minister potentially been

found to be in contempt of

Parliament. There's a long way to go

to that, we would have to have such

a move approved by the Speaker,

there would have to be a vote in

parliament but I can't recall in

recent history any minister being

found guilty of in effect, defying

this place and what adds edge to it

in this context is that because exit

campaigners made much of taking back

control and empowering this place so

for the Brexit Minister himself

potentially, to be accused of

ignoring parliament, floating the

will of Parliament would be

profoundly awkward but points to

fault is at the heart of this row,

it's not just a tussle over

paperwork, at its heart is a

confrontation between the government

and parliament over who's calling

the shots when it comes to Brexit.

And I was just saying a moment ago

about the Deputy Prime Minister in

Ireland resigning, what impact could

that possibly have on Brexit

negotiations?

I would think

privately there will be a huge sigh

of relief in government circles

because that appears to have avoided

the possibility of a snap election

before Christmas in Ireland which

would have created further

instability on top of the

instability surrounding Angela

Merkel, the German Chancellor, ahead

of that crucial EU summit in a

fortnight's time to decide whether

we move on to trade talks. On top of

that Ireland is emerging as a key

sticking point so some relief that

there is not going to be the

uncertainty created by an election

in Ireland.

Norman, thank you. The

time is 20 past one.

Our top story this lunchtime.

The Pope urges to respect the rights

of Rohingya Muslims. Word on the

glamorous Matt sees Spike, secret

files reveal the love life of John

Profumo.

Coming up in sport, as England

continue their preparations

for Saturday's rugby league

World Cup final against Australia,

they bring veteran forward Chris

Heighington back into the squad.

Thousands of tourists remain trapped

on the Indonesian island of Bali

after the airport was closed

for a second day.

Huge plumes of dark ash and smoke

continue to rise from the summit

of Mount Agung amid growing fears

the volcano may have a full scale

eruption at any time.

An exclusion zone around the volcano

has been widened

and people living there have been

told to leave.

40,000 people have

already had to abandon their homes.

From Bali, Rebecca

Henschke reports.

Mount Agung is showing

signs of moving towards

a full-scale eruption -

Indonesian authorities

ordering the remaining

people near the volcano

to move to safety...

But many are reluctant to do so.

What happens is in the hands of God.

Business is very quiet.

It's very hard.

But if I go to a shelter,

it'll be even worse.

Even primary schools

are still open here,

inside the danger zone.

Students are still learning

but today they've been

given surgical masks,

simple ones, and they're

being taught how to use them

to protect themselves

from volcanic ash.

The masks stop the volcanic ash

from making it hard to breathe.

It protects their health.

Tens of thousands of people

have evacuated the area,

though many of these people did

so months ago.

They went back briefly

to their homes when things calmed

down but now they're being forced

again back into this

makeshift shelter.

For many, it's been a very

tough and uncertain time.

It's been months and now I've found

out my house is covered in ash.

I have two young children.

What will we do?

Rivers are swelling with cold lava,

coming off the volcano and bringing

with it fertile soil.

The Balinese revere Mount Agung,

now they're watching calmly to see

what it will do next.

Six former British soldiers

who were held in prison in India

for four years have been released.

The so called "Chennai Six"

were guards on a ship,

had their convictions for weapons

offences overturned yesterday.

Their lawyers say they will have

to remain in India a little

while longer, before

they can return home.

The family of a soldier who died

at an army barracks 16 years ago

have won their High Court action

for a fresh inquest.

17 year old Private Geoff Gray

was found with two gunshot wounds

to his head in September 2001

at the Deepcut Army

Barracks in Surrey.

An inquest six months after his

death recorded an open verdict.

Fresh evidence now means

there can be a fresh inquest.

The former Coronation Street

actor Bruno Langley,

has pleaded guilty to sexually

assaulting two women at a Manchester

music venue in October.

The 34 year old who played

Todd Grimshaw for 16 years left

the ITV soap after an internal

inquiry last month.

The court heard he had groped two

women while drunk and was told

he may face a custodial sentence.

Newly declassified MI5 files have

revealed that John Profumo -

the former Conservative Minister

of War - had a long affair

with a glamorous Nazi spy.

The files detail his relationship

with Gisela Winegard -

and suggest she may have tried

to blackmail him.

Mr Profumo was forced to resign

in 1963 after he was found

to have shared a mistress -

Christine Keeler -

with a Soviet spy in London.

David Silito reports.

NEWSREEL: War Minister Profumo

hadn't been five minutes

at the Army Catering Corps training

centre before he knew that any young

man wishing to sample top-class

cooking must enlist without delay.

It was in the 1960s

the great political scandal.

John Profumo, Secretary

of State for War, the man

in charge of the nation's security

was forced to resign after it was

revealed he'd had

an affair with a woman

who was also involved

with a

Soviet intelligence officer.

What's now emerged

is that it wasn't the

first time he'd been involved

with a woman perceived

to be a security risk.

These documents from MI5

have just been released.

Revealing he was in the 1950s

at risk of blackmailing

from another former girlfriend.

This is Gisela Winegard, a German

model who he met in Oxford in

the 1930s.

They remained close for many years

however during the war

she was also involved

with high-ranking Nazis.

Is she a spy?

Certainly looks like it.

There was some discussion

about whether she

had an emotional attachment with

the military attache, how did that

develop but later documents make it

very clear she was involved in some

sort of intelligence network.

We're not quite clear

how, whether she was

a runner or what she

actually did as part

of that but certainly,

yes, it

was more than just an acquaintance,

definitely she was a strong pro-Nazi

and was involved in some

level in espionage work.

But none of this became

public at the time of the

scandal.

Had we known this at the height

of the Profumo affair it

would probably have

pulled the establishment

below the water line.

Had that come out at

the time one could imagine

what the tabloids would

have made of it.

Back in the 1960s Lord Denning

went through the files

and concluded there to

be no security breach

but more than 50 years

on

it's clear the full picture

of John Profumo and the secret files

was far from public.

David Silitto, BBC News.

There can't be many people who reach

the peak of the career

at their age of 95.

But a photographer from Coventry

called Masterji has done just that.

He arrived in the UK from India

in the 1950s to work in a factory

and began taking photos

of the city's Asian

community over a 30 year

period from the 1950s to the 1980s.

But they only really

came to light last year.

Now his photographs have finally

been published and his book

is being feted around the world.

Phil Mackie reports.

After more than half a lifetime

as a photographer Masterji has never

had a higher profile.

His fame came late.

Hello, Masterji would you like to

have a look at your book?

Yes, thank you.

It's a very nice photo.

He was only discovered

when he was 94, now a

year later his work is being

published for the first time.

His work will document

a time of change

in his home city of Coventry, he

photographed the families who like

him had moved here from India and

Pakistan but his pictures also evoke

a moment in modern British history

and also show a wry sense of humour.

When I came here in this country

I got only one camera, start from

there.

I was a passport

photographer in Coventry.

In the Asian community.

So know me everybody.

Everybody knows you.

This is where all the magic

happens, this is the

studio in Coventry,

where the family lives as well

and where generations

of

people came together

for those all important

photographs and now aged

95, Masterji is getting

recognition he never expected.

Last year thousands

of people turned out

to see an exhibition of Masterji's

photographs which prompted the

organisers to produce a new book.

In Coventry is a sense

of familiarity

and people were telling stories

that they are building

on the collection that Masterji has

himself, people

coming up with their own family

photographs and stories about their

own family photographs

and a real depth of

meaning and feeling

for the

communities in Coventry

Masterji recorded.

I can see my father in another

light, not just as my dad

but as a photographer that had skill

and talent and knew what he

was doing.

It's a wonderful way

to remember his legacy as well.

Last week Masterji

received an honorary

degree in recognition of his

outstanding contribution to the

photographic heritage

of Coventry and after

appearing on BBC News

a

year ago he's had calls

from all over the world.

People know you now

because of your photography.

Yes.

Is that nice?

It's very nice.

I'm famous.

Very nice that you're famous.

People appreciate a picture.

That's what I like very much.

At the grand old age of 95

there is another new

chapter in the Masterji story.

Phil Mackie, BBC News, Coventry.

A 14-carat vivid pink diamond

could fetch in excess

of thirty million pounds.

In fact, it has just sold for £24

million.

The "pink Promise" is the most

expensive piece of jewellery ever

offered by Christie's in Hong Kong,

and has been described as "the

Picasso of the pink diamond world".

Good afternoon. A mixture of sunny

spells and showers, especially in

the North, and West, dry and bright

weather, we see a mixture of sunny

spells and showers which means some

photographs of rainbows. As we move

through the next few days, despite

some brightness that will turn

colder, we drag in some cold

northerly air from the Arctic.

Temperatures dropping over the next

few days, scattering of showers in

the north and east this afternoon,

some form Northern Ireland. Wintry

over higher ground especially in the

north. Rush-hour, a scattering of

showers, in the north and east of

Scotland, largely dry forward the

south-west, some showers for North

East England. Drier for the

north-west of England. Some showers

into Wales and the Northwest

temperatures not too much, mid

single figures. Dry weather for much

of central and southern England.

Some breezy as well. As we go

through this evening and overnight,

we continue to seek showers down

East Coast, extending further south,

summer showers persisting for

Northern Ireland and southern parts

of Wales and western parts of the

south-west. Dry weather around,

clear skies, feeling cold, Patti

Frost developing improved spots, one

or two patches of ice where we see

showers passing through. Showers for

eastern coastal regions tomorrow, a

lot of brightness around, the best

of that south-west Scotland, Wales

and south-west of England.

Scattering of showers for Northern

Ireland, parts of Wales and

elsewhere, temperatures in single

figures, feeling a little bit cooler

than today. The setup, moving into

Thursday, high-pressure out to the

west, continuing to Dragon calls

from the north, moving into

Thursday, turning a little bit

cooler, a Coast art to the day,

similar setup with showers still

running down the Euston Coast,

showers for the south-west, dry and

bright weather around especially for

central and southern parts of

England as we move through Thursday.

Temperatures largely in single

figures, once we add in the wind,

feeling colder than