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The chief executive of Oxfam says

sorry for the damage done

by the charity

to people it should

have been helping.

And to the aid sector. He said

thousands of people had cancelled

their charity subscriptions

following allegations that Oxfam aid

workers had used prostitutes in

Haiti.

I am sorry,

we are sorry, for the damage

that oxfam has done,

both to the people of Haiti

and to the wider efforts of aid

and development.

Oxfam revealed that thousands

of people have stopped giving

money to the charity

since the scandal broke.

Also this lunchtime.

Macro He said thousands of people

He said thousands of people had

cancelled their charity

subscriptions following allegations

that Oxfam aid workers had used

prostitutes in Haiti. COMMENTATOR:

Christie goes down before they reach

the very first corner. Don't fear a

Mad Max style dystopia after the UK

leaves the EU - that's the Brexit

Secretary's message to European

businessmen. KFC stays closed in

many areas, as its chicken delivery

problems continue.

We did everything

we could to turn this around, it was

not meant to be.

And third time

unlucky for Elise Christie - she's

disqualified from her short-track

speed skating race at the Winter

Olympics. Police and the Football

Association investigating a pitch

invasion at Wigan after their FA Cup

win against Manchester City.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

The chief executive of Oxfam has

said sorry for the way he defended

the charity after allegations

of sexual misconduct

by some of its employees.

Mark Goldring had accused people

of "gunning" for the organisation,

declaring that no-one had "murdered

babies in their cots."

Appearing before MPs, he revealed

that there've been 26 new reports of

misconduct since the Haiti

revelations emerged. The scandal has

taken its toll on the charity, With

7000 people cancelling their regular

donations in ten days. Here's our

correspondent Matt Cole - and a

warning - there is flash photography

in his report. If there was any

doubt

that the senior Oxfam leaders were

going to face a tough time, it was

dispelled by the very first

question.

In your interview with the

Guardian published on Saturday, you

appear to be downplaying the

scandal, using the parallel with the

murder of babies in their cots,

which many people regarded as

grossly inappropriate, can I give

you the opportunity to apologise?

Certainly, chair man, I do

apologise.

Over and over, perhaps a

dozen times in the hearing, the

apologies kept coming.

Please allow

me to begin by saying how sorry I am

about what has happened.

On behalf

of the Council of Oxfam, we are

ashamed of what has happened in

Haiti.

In 2011, Oxfam sacked three

staff and allowed four others to

quit their roles in Haiti, so why

was it not reported to the

authorities?

Oxfam leaders, made a

report that there was no existing

press interest, it was not public, a

report was made to press, that

serious misconduct had happened,

they did not describe that in

explicit terms, they did not

describe the sexual misconduct and

the use of prostitutes.

Later came a

tough question, why was one of the

sacked men later rehired by Oxfam?

These men were predators.

I quite

agree, I am not excusing it.

That is

why we have now set up a database of

accredited referees of Oxfam.

When

was that started? When did you start

that?

We have just started that.

Only because you were found out.

Oxfam now promises transparency,

which brought an admission that new

claims have come to light.

Across

Oxfam Great Britain, we have had

about 26 stories, reports, come to

us, which were either new reports

come out as a result of the stories,

or earlier stories where people

said, I did not necessarily report

this at the time.

The committee

announced it will now investigate

the whole sector amidst concerns

Oxfam is not the only charity

affected by abuse.

It feels a little

bit like a potential moment for you,

but isn't the truth that this is a

cross sector issue and if it had not

been Oxfam, it could have been a

different organisation?

If any good

can come out of the horror of both

Haiti and the last couple of weeks,

it is a more intensive commitment

across the whole sector.

Oxfam says

it now has better safeguarding

measures in place, but this was a

bruising encounter, and will by no

means have complete the

organisation's difficult task of

restoring its reputation.

Have been watching all morning,

where does this go?

Quite the act of

contrition by some of the most

senior figures in Oxfam, although at

times MPs had to remind them they

were not the victims in this, it is

potentially the women, the children,

in developing countries, where there

have been disasters, who could yet

be victims if this loses to Oxfam

losing significant funding and

trust. 7000 donors have withdrawn

their funding from the charity, but

Oxfam says it admitted in the

hearing it has a cultural problem

within its management but they are

trying to improve that, improves

safeguarding measures, they also

said that in Haiti, in 2011, they

had 500 staff, seven were sent home.

They tried to put context to it but

they have now said, yes, 26 new

claims have come forward, how they

handle those could be critical to

how they restore their reputation,

get back that most precious

commodity, trust and faith in their

organisation.

The United Nations has demanded

an immediate end to the targeting

of civilians in Syria,

as government forces intensify

their bombardment

of eastern Ghouta,

the enclave held by

rebels near Damascus.

Activists say over 100 people have

been killed in the last 24 hours.

The upsurge in violence

is part of a wider

escalation of the civil war

as President Bashar al-Assad

pushes to end

the seven-year

rebellion against him.

Viewers amy find some images in this

report from Tom Burridge disturbing.

Fear and chaos after an air and

there is no warning when the next

missile will hit. EXPLOSIONS

SHOUTING

And this, the desperate scramble,

the aftermath of trauma that the

bombs bring.

bombs bring. Children trapped in the

nightmare that is eastern Ghouta,

activists who support the rebels say

the bombardment is as intense as it

has ever been.

has ever been.

You can hear the

shouting of women and children

through their homes. Dropping on us

like rain.

like rain. There is nowhere to hide

from this nightmare.

Surrounded by

Syria's army, eastern Ghouta has

been under siege for five years.

Surrounded by Syria's

army, Eastern Ghouta

has been under siege for five years.

It is the last rebel held enclave

near Damascus and now the

Assad regime appears

intent on taking it back.

Many other images of children

in this hospital are too

distressing to show.

The United Nations has

demanded an end to the

targeting of civilians,

something Syria denies.

Life goes on nearby

in neighbouring Damascus.

Where the Syrian government

is firmly in control.

TRANSLATION: This man said he just

wants an end to the situation

in any way possible.

He said shelling day and night means

people are too scared

to send their children to school.

But in Eastern Ghouta lives often

hang in the balance.

After declaring victory over

the so-called Islamic State,

the Syrian regime with help

from Russia and Iran

is focused on rebel forces.

Once an enthusiastic backer of some

rebel groups seem unwilling or

unable to respond.

The Brexit Secretary David Davis has

told business leaders

in Vienna that the UK doesn't

want to undermine its neighbours

when it leaves the EU.

In the latest of a series

of speeches by Cabinet ministers,

Mr Davis said the UK wanted to lead

the way on rights and on standards,

claiming Britain wouldn't be plunged

into a "mad Max-style world borrowed

from dystopian fiction."

Our Political Correspondent

Iain Watson reports.

Is this really some people's vision

of life outside the EU, a world

deregulated to the point of

lawlessness, vehicles that almost

certainly would not meet EU

emissions and safety standards(!)

the spectre was raised by David

Davis, but then he went to reassure

business leaders that this meant

nothing to him, in a speech in the

end of.

We will continue the track

record of meeting high standards

after we leave the European Union.

Now, I know that for one reason or

another, there are some people who

sought to question if these are

really our intentions, they fear

that Brexit could lead to and

Anglo-Saxon race to the bottom, with

Britain plunged into Mad Max style

world borrowing from disturbing

fiction.

These fears are based on

nothing. His argument is that while

we may have some different

regulations of the Brexit, to keep

trade flowing, the EU and UK should

recognise each other's high

standards but in Brussels, where the

EU's -- were a finance ministers

convinced? -- -- were the finance

ministers convinced.

In this day and age you can't be

selfish and go it alone,

it's impossible and so I think each

side would realise that.

Of course we trust David Davis but

we do not know who will come after

him.

David Davis has made clear that

written could raise standards, not

just maintain, on animal welfare and

climate change, for instance, if we

exceed EU minimum, could that be

problems as well?

That could see

costs to adhere to it, that could

interfere with competitiveness. But

it should not raise new trade

barriers with the EU.

The government

vision of a post-"Brexit" Britain is

becoming a little clearer, and on

Thursday, Prime Minister will take

the cabinet away from Westminster to

the seclusion of a country retreat

to try to resolve any outstanding

disagreements and the "Brexit"

secretary David Davis says she will

keep them under lock and key until

they do.

We have been here before it

suppose crunch meeting. But no

outcome. David Davis is saying one

thing, Boris Johnson is saying

another. That has not been resolved.

I do not have confidence this Prime

Minister can resolve that.

Ministers

could not find a way forward in

Whitehall today, the Prime Minister

will be looking form or movement

from some of them add this week 's

cabinet meeting. -- at this weeks

cabinet meeting.

In a moment we'll hear from our

reporter Adam Fleming in Brussels -

but first Vicki Young is in Vienna.

Are we getting any clearer about

what the government will ask for in

the final settlement?

I think we

might be, today, with David Davis,

this was very much about

reassurance, it seemed really a far

cry from some of the argument is

made by people in the Conservative

Party and in the cabinet, over the

years and decades when they have

made the case for leaving the EU,

saying, we have got to break away

the red tape, stifling British

competitiveness, was not what was

being said today, raising some

rules, saying that Britain had

helped shape them. The message from

him, and from Theresa May, when she

made a security speech, was very

much about continued cooperation.

They both say things will change but

you are getting the impression that

things will not change too much.

Question from David Davis, saying to

EU partners, this is about trust, we

will have two trust each other's

different rules and regulations, the

question is, will that be enough for

people in Brussels to accept, and

more crucially will other cabinet

ministers go along with it. -- we

will have to trust.

How does this

message go down you are, Adam

Fleming?

Conveniently EU finance

ministers were here for a regular

meeting.

I got a chance to ask them about the

kind of thing David Davis was

talking about but they were broadly

welcoming but they make two points,

this is just what the EU does anyway

with all its international partners,

saying, if you follow the rules, you

will get good access to the markets.

If you try to undercut the EU rules

or do something less safely, then

the EU wants you to do it, then you

will get less access to the EU

market. -- ban. -- than. They want

things that are written down, very

detailed and legally enforceable,

they do not operate on promises,

expanding this speech with detailed

proposals about how this would work

in practice and what authority would

you have that checks that both sides

were playing by the same rules and

has the same standards, how would

you settle disputes between the two

sides? What punishments and

sanctions would be available if the

UK was not sticking to the rules?

Easier said than done, and still a

lot to talk about. Introduce you to

a new bit of Brussels jargon, all

grouped together here as something

called the "LPF", that means level

playing field, we will be hearing a

lot more about the "LPF" in the next

few months!

Thank you very much.

Many Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets

across the UK remain closed today

because of a continuing lack

of their key ingredient, chicken.

The fast food chain,

which has nearly 900 outlets,

blames problems after switching

to a new delivery firm DHL.

It's encouraging staff to take leave

while restaurants are closed.

But the majority of

outlets are franchises,

which means many workers could be

hit hard,

as our correspondent

Sima Kotecha reports.

For chicken lovers and fast-food

fans it is another day of sadness.

Hundreds of KFC stores closed across

the country because of a shortage of

Britain's most popular bird meat.

This KFC in the centre of Birmingham

is open but it has a limited menu.

It serves only chicken popcorn. The

chain says almost 600 remain closed

around the country and it is not

clear when they will be back open.

KFC says it has happened because it

has changed distributors. It used to

use South African owned company

Bidvest two transported chicken but

recently changed to DHL, and that is

why they say they have had some

teething problems.

We saw this

coming weeks ago, people last week

were earning money, working on a

good product, providing good

customer service and today they will

struggle to put food on the table.

Then looking at the people working

in the 900 KFC stores, they have

been sent home with no pay.

DHL says due to operational reasons

a number of deliveries in

recent days have been incomplete.

They moved what looked like a

relatively uncomplicated supply

chain to a more complicated one and

they do not seem to have pressure

tested it at all. For any

organisation to do that seems

bizarre at best.

Customers have

complained and social media. The

chain says some staff will still be

paid but many of its outlets are

franchises, so it is likely they

will make losses. Fry chicken is not

everybody's favoured but for those

who love it, patience is wearing

thin. KFC says more deliveries are

being made each day but it expects

disruption at some restaurants for

the rest of the week.

Our top story... Oxfam's chief

executive Mark Goldring says sorry

for the damage done by the charity

following accusations that aid

workers used prostitutes in Haiti.

The greatest moment of his career -

Wigan's Will Grigg describes

the goal that put Manchester City

out of the FA Cup.

Coming up in sport in the next 15

minutes on BBC News, a round-up of

Day 11 at the Winter games in South

Korea, including wins for British

men and women in the curling.

More detail has emerged today

about how farming subsidies

in the UK are set to be

overhauled after Brexit.

The Environment Secretary

Michael Gove, in a speech

to the National Farmers Union

conference, outlined his plans

to replace the present system

of subsidies with funding for issues

such as conservation

and animal welfare.

At present, payments amounting

to £3 billion a year to UK farmers

are based on the amount of land

that they own.

Our environment and rural

affairs correspondent

Claire Marshall reports.

They have travelled here from all

over the UK and they have many

questions for Michael Gove.

Is he

going to do a better job in the

agriculture sector than in

education?

Brexit, what will go one

in Brexit?

At the moment farmers are paid

around £3 billion a year in EU

subsidies. Take that away and around

half of them would go out of

business.

Please give the Secretary

of State, Mr Michael Gove, a very

warm welcome.

The Environment Secretary's message,

let's make the

let's make the most of it. He

believes the problem of rural

broadband could be sold.

Universal

broadband and 4G coverage for all,

paid for by the money we no longer

have to give the EU. That is what I

mean by taking back control. That is

not the limit of my ambition for

rural Britain and the farming

sector. I have argued we should not

compete on a race to the bottom but

argue the high ground of strong

environmental welfare and quality

standards.

Mr Gove suppose Brexit more money

should be used to help farmers

invest in more technology. This farm

in Leicestershire is using it to

better housed animals and grow

crops.

We always investing in

technology, animal handling systems,

animal welfare systems, crop

production, innovative ways of

growing crops. We are doing it all

the time as farmers but any helping

hand could only increase

productivity. We must not forget

that productivity does not mean more

yield, it means doing it with less

input.

Another issue was on the agenda, who

will read the NFU for one of its

most turbulent periods since the

Second World War? Minute but it is

chairing the first session, by the

end of tomorrow she could be the

first woman president in the whole

110 year history of the National

Farmers' Union. The winner will be

announced tomorrow afternoon.

Claire Marshall, BBC News,

Birmingham.

The Supreme Court is

considering an appeal that

could have a major impact

on the so-called "gig economy."

Pimlico Plumbers is challenging

a ruling that entitled

one of its plumbers,

Gary Smith, to basic workers'

rights, such as paid holiday -

even though he was first hired

on a freelance basis.

Our correspondent Simon Gompertz

is outside the court.

Simon, what are the implications of

this case?

It is being seen as

important just because the way

workers going nowadays, more jobs

becoming self-employed. More toe one

estimate that nearly 3 million

people work as drivers, careers and

suchlike as self-employed and not

getting basic employment rights like

holiday pay, the minimum wage and

sick pay. Arriving here this

morning, the boss of Pimlico

Plumbers turned up in a mini convoy

of two blue Bentley is that he owns

that he was here to see the argument

put, that he wants, which is to say

his plumbers do quite well, some are

earning over £100,000 a year as

self-employed. On the other side of

it, Gary Smith, the plumber who

worked for him for around six years,

he has won his employment tribunal

case at the Court of Appeal that he

is not an employee but should be

viewed as a worker, which brings

some of those rights. The argument

has been gone over again in the

Supreme Court and has been watched

closely by the likes of the takeaway

delivery company Deliveroo which

uses that a model of self-employed

people, and also the right hailing

app Uber. Some of their drivers have

won a case and Uber is referring to

the Supreme Court. The Pimlico

Plumbers case is likely to take

around two weeks.

The bookmaker William Hill has

been fined £6.2 million

by the Gambling Commission.

The fine is for not doing enough

to prevent money-laundering,

or to protect its customers.

Our business correspondent

Theo Leggett joins us.

Tell me more about what William Hill

did wrong? Gambling companies and

have procedures in place to prevent

criminals from using the industry

for money-laundering purposes and to

protect vulnerable people who might

have a gambling problem. The

accusation against William Hill is

senior managers did not do enough to

address these problems and did not

employ enough people to implement

the processes they had in place. The

Gambling Commission has come up with

a list of ten cases in which stolen

money or the proceeds from crime was

used to gamble. In one case, for

example, one individual deposited

more than half £1 million over 18

months in his William Hill account.

When this was checked up on he

claimed to be earning £365,000 a

year, he was on a salary of £30,000

and with stealing from his employer.

Lots of the other cases are broadly

similar. Even when red flags were

raised, it was in an ineffective

manner, which is why William Hill

has been fined. This is the

second-largest imposed by the

gambling position -- Gambling

Commission. There was a fine imposed

last year on another firm, 888, for

not doing enough to prevent problem

gambling.

The greatest moment of his career

is how Wigan's Will Grigg

described his winning goal last

night which knocked

Manchester City out of the FA Cup.

It was Wigan's only shot on target,

but the striker made recanted.

-- it counted. It was the goal that

beat Britain's best team. Manchester

City's multi-million squad knocked

out by Wigan, which had a starting

11 featuring eight players signed on

free transfers. For Wigan fans are

brought back memories of their 2013

FA Cup final triumph over City. The

morning after the night before their

goal-scorer describes it as the

biggest achievement so far.

It is

definitely the highlight of my

career, how the night panned out.

For myself to get the goal was

something special.

While the Wigan fans celebrated last

night, it was like they had won the

cup. A memorable match but one full

of incident. The trouble began with

a straight red card the Fabian

Delph. It left City ten men. Tempers

frayed in the tunnel at half-time

with the two managers squaring up.

After the game, some Wigan fans made

it onto the pitch, one in a tussle

with City Straker Sergio Aguero.

City fans clashed with police. An

unsavoury end to another forgettable

night.

It is disappointing because

it takes away the limelight of the

game. Emotions are running high but

it is not something I will comment

on, I will leave the club to deal

with it.

Police confirmed they may two rests

on the Football Association will

look into the behaviour of fans and

players last night.

Regardless of the outcome of the

investigation, this is a night that

Wigan and the FA Cup will never

forget.

Elise Christie's hopes of winning

a medal at the Winter Olympics

are over after she was disqualified

in her 1,000 metre short track heat.

It was a dramatic few

minutes for Christie.

She had forced a restart

after falling on the ice,

but judges then deemed her to have

caused an offence during the race.

Our sports correspondent

David Ornstein is in PyeongChang.

David?

Elise Christie arrived at these

games as a triple world champion and

one of Team GB's leading medal

contenders. Having crashed out of

her 500 and 1500 metre races it all

came down to her third and final

event. Her favourite distance, the

1000 metres.

Just three days after leaving the

ice on a stretcher Elise Christie

was back, her Olympic hopes on the

line.

Away they go. Christie goes

down before they reach the very

first corner.

Christy's bid for 1000 metres gold

got off to the worst possible start,

but having been tripped she earned a

reprieve. The heat would be rerun.

Clearly still troubled by an ankle

injury, Christie trailed her rivals.

Others she fought back impressively

to finish second to qualify for the

quarterfinals. -- although she

fought back. As she was carried away

and discomfort her night would take

another turn for the worse, the

judges spotting two infringements

and disqualifying biscotti.

Heartbreak for Elise Christie yet

again. After failing to win a medal

at the last Olympics four years ago,

history has repeated itself in the

PyeongChang. Her dreams ending in

bitter disappointment.

I am a bit

shell-shocked. I worked so hard to

come back from this injury. I think

1000 people would not have skated

with my ankle the way it was. I can

barely move my knee. The only thing

I can say is I can promise Britain I

will fight back from this and I will

come back for Beijing. And hopefully

I can do Britain proud then.

For the skater and her team it was a

huge blow.

Clearly she is massively

disappointed. To come here as double

world champion and go away with a

fourth place, ultimately, that is

hugely disappointing. If that

happens in sport, there is high

jeopardy. Short track, as everyone

knows at home now.

Better news for the curlers, as the

British men produce their best

performance of the competition so

far, as dazzling the colourfully

dressed in 2014 world champions

Norway. Like the victorious women,

they close in on a semifinals place.

It was not to be for ice dancers

Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland,

finishing 11th in the free dance

final. But given Coomes was

returning from a career threatening

injury it was a respectable results.

But the headlines will be dominated

by Elise Christie. She has entered

six races across two Olympic Games

and been disqualified for or crashed

out of all of them. Her ankle injury

meant the decision to compete here

tonight was only taken in the our

leading up to her heat, and it was a

risk that, sadly for Christie and

Team GB, did not pay off.

Thank you, David.

Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Susan Powell.

Here's Susan Powell.

We look at the satellite picture

first, you can see a good, clear

slot. Lots of sunshine to be found.

In the east, a line of cloud, a

weather front which to this

afternoon will produce more drizzly

outbreaks of rain and maybe

something heavier across East Anglia

and the far south-east for a time in

the next few hours.

Temperatures pretty healthy in some

sunshine towards the south-west,

maybe about 11 or 12 degrees.

This weather fronts in the East will

keep the temperature overnight.

Across a good portion of central and

eastern England, that will be,

thanks to a covering of cloud.

Temperatures made it close to

freezing, but with a clearer skies

towards the west, the south-west of

England, Wales, Northern Ireland and

Scotland we will see frost

developing and lows of minus two or

three.

That is probably the last

significant weather fronts pushing

into the British Isles for perhaps

over a week.

High pressure building for

Wednesday, Betty Rhodes the weather

fronts. Get used to seeing Bataille,

it will be with as well into next

week and it will really dominate the

weather.

A legacy of cloud from the weather

fronts perhaps squeezing out the odd

bit of light rain or drizzle.

Particularly to the north and west,

some decent spells of sunshine.

Already just starting to feel a bit

more chilly, temperatures down in

single digits, still hanging on at

around eight or 9 degrees at this

mark.

By Thursday, high-pressure still

doing its job to the west of the

Atlantic. Lots of fine weather

again, most others seeing a few

bright sunny spells but the easterly

wind kicking in. The temperature

coming down in Norwich. Adding on

the effect of the wind and it will

already feel more like winter rather

than spring.

Easterly winds that this

particularly across the southern

half of the British Isles through

Friday and Saturday.

Lots of dry weather and spells of

sunshine thanks to the area of high

pressure. Here is a centre by

Saturday, parked over Scandinavia.

Follow the isobars to see where the

area is

area is coming from will head our

weight and it starts all the way in

Siberia. Cold enough at any time of

the year but particularly so at the

moment. That's called aye will

plunge towards the British Isles by

Monday and Tuesday. -- that cold and

macro will plunge. It will come as

quite a shock to the system. It will

look pleasant, bright sunny spells

but widespread frosts, some Mac

could linger, and I think we will

all notice the very cool winter.

could linger, and I think we will

all notice the very cool winter.

A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime...

Oxfam's chief executive Mark

Goldring says sorry for the damage

done by the charity following

allegations that aid workers used

prostitutes in Haiti.

I am sorry, we

are sorry for the damage Oxfam has

done. Both to the people of Haiti

but also to wider efforts for aid

and development.

That's all from the BBC News at One,

so it's goodbye from me -

and on BBC One we now join the BBC's

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