31/03/2014 BBC News at Six

UN says no nation will be left untouched. Scientists warn crops,

health, and homes are all likely to be threatened. The world has too

adapt. The sooner we do that, the less the chances of some of the

worst impacts of climate change. We'll be asking how the world can

learn to live with the effects of climate change. Also tonight... The

murder of an 11-month-old baby by his mother could have been

prevented, according to a serious case review. Families of those who

lost their lives in the Hillsborough football disaster attend new

inquests which opened today. The search for flight MH370, new

information on the last recorded words from the flight deck. And

dredging of rivers on the Somerset Levels begins to avoid a repeat of

this winter's flooding. On BBC London. Looking to the US for

solutions. Could body cameras help boost public trust in the Met? And

the Mayor of Tower Hamlets denies he's given funding to charities to

gain electoral support. The impacts of climate change are

likely to be "severe, pervasive and irreversible" - that's the stark

warning in a major report by the United Nations. The report suggests

rising global temperatures are likely to cause a higher risk of

flooding, more extreme weather like heatwaves, as well as changes to

crop yields causing food shortages. Scientists say the document is the

most comprehensive assessment of the impacts of climate change to date

and conclude that people may be able to adapt to some of these changes,

but only within certain limits. There is some criticism that the

report is too alarmist. Our science editor David Shukman reports. A

consignment of animal feed from South America, brought ashore in

Belfast Harbour. The food industry is now so global and so dependent on

international trade that if crops are struggling in one part of the

world, impacts will be felt in another. So how the climate changes

in countries very different -- distant from our own can have

serious implications. This is soya from Brazil, where they've just had

a heatwave. So the prices have gone up. Because this stuff is used for

chicken feed, the prices of chicken will also rise. What the UN climate

panel is saying is while some plants in some regions may do better with

climate change, overall the yields are likely to go down. The

scientists say the most severe impacts, like this record drought in

Texas two years ago, are more likely if temperatures rise steeply during

the course of the century. And they want the world to start adapting to

a changing climate. At the launch of the report in Yokohama this

morning, there was a warning of the need for urgent action. The one

message that comes out very clearly is that the world Haass to adapt and

mitigate. And the sooner we do that, the less chances of some of the

worst impacts of climate change being faced in different parts of

the world. The report says that climate change is now being felt

across the continents and the oceans, warming the Arctic. And, as

we've been reporting in recent years, melting the ice, which raises

the level of the sea. There is also changing the oceans. The water is

becoming more acidic. The BBC was in Papua New Guinea last week to report

on the threat that is happening to Corels. And scientists warn coastal

areas are at risk. We filmed these scenes in Bangladesh five years ago,

a struggle to cope with extreme conditions. The most vulnerable, the

report says, are the poorest cities. Within the slum areas they do not

have the proper facilities. When you add on the impact of climate change

or extreme events, people become more vulnerable. The report does

offer a message of hope that, just as the Dutch build defences against

the rising sea, people can adapt to a changing climate. The question is

how serious the impact will be. One scientist withdrew his name from the

report because he said it was going too far. People live on the equator

and on the polls. Humans are very adaptive to very diverse climate. We

have very well developed technology to deal with it. There will be

impacts, I just don't think they will be dramatic. Here, the chief

government scientist says climate change will mean more intense rain

and more flooding. That is in line with what is expected for Russ.

Global warming will mean different things to different parts of the

world. But according to this new report, we will all be affected. And

David Shukman is with me now. Is that what makes this report

different from so many others? We get these reports from the UN

roughly every seven years. I think there is a change of tone. Going

back to 2007, when I covered the publication of that report, it was

very doom laden. It seemed to focus on all the bad things that could

possibly happen with global warming. The report today does more of the

same. It lays out very starkly the bad things that could happen. But it

also provides, very importantly, a recognition of context. That climate

change isn't always a factor on its own. If you have more and more

people living along coastlines and they get flooded, is that the Fort

of climate change and rising sea levels, or is it because there are

more people in harm's away? There's the focus to try and be upbeat, for

people to adapt, to get ready for the kinds of changes that will come

down the track. In Britain, with the memory of the past winter, thinking

about better flood defences. The emphasis is not just on warnings but

also solutions. The death of an 11-month-old baby, blinded and

beaten by his own mother, could have been prevented, according to a

serious case review into his murder. The highly critical report concluded

that professionals missed chances to intervene before Callum Wilson's

death in Windsor three years ago. His mother was jailed for life

earlier this year. Daniela Relph reports. Killed by his own mother.

Callum Wilson, just 11 months old when he died. A death today's

Serious Case Review says could have been prevented. His mother, Emma

Wilson, lied repeatedly to doctors, nurses and childcare workers. She

had given her son a brain injury from which you would never recover.

Every time agencies reached out to her to ask her and to probe her, she

came back with what was deemed plausible at that point, plausible

rationale for their questions. We all now know that they were

consistent lies. The deceit began early. Callum Wilson was born on the

23rd of April 2010, his mother had kept her pregnancy secret. She then

chose to place with foster parents at birth, but changed her mind and,

in November, he was returned to his mother. Less than six months later

he was taken to Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, suffering serious

injuries. He was transferred to Oxford where he died three days

later in March 2011. He attended a playgroup at this children's Centre

in Windsor. Staff did notice bruises and scratches, but their concerns

were not properly reported. Cal lived his final days on this estate

in Windsor. The authorities say they have done all they can to ensure

mistakes in this case will not be repeated. The unambiguous approach

to bruising, if bruising like that was found on him today, it would be

expected to be a referral to a paediatrician, regardless of the

explanation. Those safeguards are in place. His death has brought change,

but it came too late to save Callum Wilson.

New inquests have begun into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans who were

killed in the Hillsborough disaster 25 years ago. The original verdicts

of accidental death were overturned at the High Court in 2012, after a

campaign by the victims' families. Our correspondent Judith Moritz is

in Warrington for us. Yes. Nearly a quarter of a century

since Hillsborough, those bereaved by the disaster have been asking

questions about what happened. Today, as they came here to

Warrington, many of them told me they hoped these new inquests would

provide them with the answers. They lost their loved ones 25 years ago.

Today, they came to court to find out what happened at Hillsborough.

These families have spent years campaigning for new inquests. They

know the months ahead will not be easy. I think there will be quite a

few shocks as we progress over the next six, eight, maybe 12 months.

Quite a few shocks and the truth will out. You can't underestimate

how difficult it is going to be for everybody. All we can do is do our

best and trust in the judge and everything else. Sheffield

Wednesday's Stadium has long been associated with the disaster which

happened here. It is where Liverpool came to play an FA Cup semi-final in

1989, and where the terraces became so overcrowded that 96 people

eventually lost their lives. What happened here in Sheffield many 25

years ago has defined the lives of many people post at most directly,

of course, the Barisic and survivors. But arguably, across the

Pennines and Liverpool, the entire reputation of the city has been

affected, too. We haven't got a life anymore. In 1991, Donna Miller spoke

to reporters about her brother, Paul, who died at Hillsborough. The

jury at the previous inquest had delivered accidental death verdict.

They were quashed two years ago and today Donna came to court again

today. Back for second time. It's something we've got go through, the

evidence. As hard as it is, we've got to do it for the 96. They

deserve it. They were taken away from their families needlessly. We

will continue and we've got each other. God knows how we are going to

get through the next nine, 12 months. The new inquests are housed

in a purpose-built courtroom and sitting with a coroner and jury. The

hearing will cover areas including cause of death, crowd management and

the response of the emergency services. There's thousands and

thousands of pages of documents, hundreds of witnesses coming and

there are hours and hours of footage that has never been seen before. All

the work that has gone into this before the inquest starting today is

huge. The youngest to die at Hillsborough was ten, the oldest 67.

Most were under the age of 30. The story of every one of the

disaster's 96 victims will be told through the course of these

inquests. Judith Moritz, BBC News, Warrington. The Chancellor, George

Osborne, has declared he will fight for full employment in Britain,

making job creation a central part of the Government's economic plan.

Mr Osborne said he wanted Britain to have the highest employment rate of

any of the world's leading economies. Our political editor Nick

Robinson listened to the speech at Tilbury Port in Essex. Getting

Britain back to work. It's not the sort of slogan you'd normally

associate with the Tory party. That, of course, is precisely why George

Osborne made it today and made it here, at Tilbury docks. That's why

today I'm making a new commitment. A commitment to fight for full

employment in Britain. Making jobs a central goal of our economic life.

In case you forgot his script, the Chancellor's colleagues had written

it up behind him. They want to highlight tax cuts for people and

businesses, which take effect this week. To those who ask why, let me

tell you. If our businesses include more of the money they've earned,

because the rates and taxes are lower, then they can hire more

people and invest in the future. It is all about jobs. So why did they

pledge long associated with Labour cross George Osborne's lips? Full

employment is quite a phrase but it begs a question. What do you

actually mean? What we mean by full employment is this is the best place

in the world to create a job, to get a job. We are saying explicitly we

want to have one of the highest employment rates of the world 's

leading economies. In Britain, more people are already in jobs than in

many countries overseas, even America. The Chancellor is setting

the aim of overtaking Germany. So what did this group, all apprentices

at Tilbury and or listening to date, make of that? Do you believe him?

Not really. No. Yes. Encouraging, yes. I asked him, what do you

actually mean, what do you think of his answer? I think they are empty

words. If there are enough jobs for everybody in Britain, I definitely

agree with George Osborne at what they are doing to try and help is

definitely the start. What jobs are being created on the coast here but

most of them don't go to people just down the road at the Tilbury flat.

You know what it's like and people look at the telly and say, she could

get a job that she wanted. What is your message to those people who

think it's easy to get a job? Come and stand in our shoes, live out our

life for a day. Is it difficult to find jobs? It's hard, you put the

CVN but you don't get anything round here. George Osborne try to come up

with an economic goal that people can enact with emotionally, not the

dry statistics of talking about the deficit. The test is not the words

but whether he can make a difference to people who live in areas like

this who are still struggling to find work. Labour say a jobs

guaranteed for any young person unemployed for more than a year is

better than any words the Tories might use. A lot of this rhetoric

from the Chancellor doesn't match the reality. He should tell it to

the 900,000 young people who've been out of work for 12 months or more.

Long-term youth unemployment has doubled under his watch. It's an

apology he should have been giving so far. For decades, politicians

must full employment. For decades they struggled to deliver it.

For most of the winter, this was how the Somerset Levels looked. These

flooded landscapes brought despair to hundreds of homes and businesses

who were inundated by the waters. Many locals blamed a lack of river

dredging for the severity of the crisis. Today, dredging began on

five miles of the Rivers Parrett and Tone - part of a 20-year flood

action plan that will cost ?100 million. Other measures include a

tidal barrage and extra pumping sites. Jon Kay is in Burrowbridge in

Somerset. Yes, during the flooding, the one thing people around here

kept telling us they wanted to see was the dredging of the rivers.

Under pressure, the Government agreed it should happen. And it has

begun today. But tonight, there are still questions about how necessary

this really is, how effective it is going to be, and long-term, who is

going to pay for it. It is not very pleasant looking, but

for people living on the Somerset Levels, this mud is a glorious

sight. Over the next few months, nearly half 1 million tonnes of it

be removed. The aim is to take away all of the silk and sludge which has

built up over the last few decades and take the rivers back to the way

they were in the 1960s. So, this stretch of Burrowbridge would go

back to looking like this, when the river had much more room to flow.

Many people here blame clogged up rivers for causing the worst

flooding in living memory. They think much of it could've been

avoided if the water had taken away faster. This farm was among those so

badly hit, and they hope dredging means it never happens again. It is

a big boost to morale, to know that those diggers are there. It gives

you that little bit of extra confidence and hope that your book

but dredging is controversial. The Environment Agency stopped the

practice here 20 years ago. And those who made that decision ain't

bringing it back is just a way of appeasing local people. I do not

think it will make any difference at all. My main concern is the fact

that it is a false hope to those people that have been affected, who

now have to plan the rest of their life. The Government has given ?5

million to clear this five mile stretch. After that, the case for

more funding will have to be made. The tide brings in silt twice a day

into the river. It will silt up again within 5-10 years if we do not

do that regular maintenance. The disastrous winter in Somerset life

is slowly returning to normal here. But recovering from all this and

planning for the future are going to take time. It is quite a slow

process doing this. We have been watching them all day and they have

done about 80 metres or so. It will take them seven months to go up one

bank and down the other side. One way it has been suggested it might

be paid for is local people paying a surcharge on their council tax. The

real test will be during the rain next winter.

The first ever annual assessment of the police service in England and

Wales says a series of controversies has left the service damaged, but

not broken. The Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor, says

public trust and police morale have both been shaken. But he says the

great majority of officers are honest and brave. Our home editor,

Mark Easton, is at the Home Office for us. How will this assessment be

received, Mark? Well, actually, Tom Winsor was a pretty controversial

appointment as chief is off police, particularly within the police

service. This was traditionally the job of a police officer, and he was

the man be a sweeping changes to police terms and conditions. But

this report I think is pretty supportive of officers. -- the man

do. It does list the many enquiries and scandals which has dominated

headlines in the last few years. It makes the point that public

confidence has been severely shaken, and notes that the public feel badly

let down, and perhaps afraid, when police officers are exposed as

having failed. But Tom Winsor defends undercover police officers,

controversially used in the Stephen Lawrence inquiry. He notes how

honest officers have been dismayed by the way they can be tarred with

the same brush. So I think generally this report will be welcomed by

those in the police service. Now let's have a look at some of the

other stories making the news today. For the first time ever, solicitors

and probation officers jointly walked out of courts across England

and Wales today, at the start of a two-day strike. Members of the

National Association of Probation Officers are protesting against

government plans to privatise up to 70% of the service. Criminal defence

solicitors meanwhile are walking out over cuts in legal aid fees.

Charlie Brooks, the husband of the former News of the World Editor

Rebekah Brooks, has told a court he hid pornography from the police

because he feared embarrassing details would be leaked to the

press. The racehorse trainer put the DVDs in a padded envelope and placed

it behind some bins in an underground car park. He denies

conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

The Malaysian authorities have revealed that the last words from

the crew of the missing plane were, "Good night, Malaysian 3-7-0" and

not "All right, good night," as previously reported. The new, more

formal, final words could suggest that there wasn't a problem in the

cockpit as had first been thought. Ten aircraft and 11 ships from ten

nations are scouring an area of 245,000 square kilometres west of

Perth. Jon Donnison is in Perth and has the latest.

Back to base, but still no breakthrough. Planes are now

scouring the Southern Indian Ocean. But they are no closer to knowing

where the airliner crashed. For the moment, no question of giving up. I

am certainly not putting a time limit on it. We owe it to everyone

to do whatever we reasonably can, and we can keep searching for quite

some time to come. Setting off from Perth today, an Australian Navy ship

which we were given access to. It is carrying a device called a pinger

locator, which will be dragged through the water to try to pick up

signals from the missing black box flight recorder. But the locator

only has a short range. Despite the state-of-the-art technology on board

this ship, it is only really of any use if they know where the plane hit

the water. And at the moment, they have no idea. Research teams admit

that finding the black box is a long shot. First they need to work out

which direction to look, which finding some debris. It all depends

upon how effect if we are at reducing that search area. Right

now, the search area is basically the size of the Indian Ocean, which

would take an untenable amount of time to search. Progress at the

moment is slow. It is more than three weeks since the Malaysian jet

disappeared over the ocean. Investigators are warning the

recovery could take years. Cricket - England's miserable winter

has ended after they were resoundingly beaten by the

Netherlands at the World Twenty20 in Chittagong. With neither side able

to reach the semi-finals, the Dutch made 133-5. In reply, England were

all out for just 88. England's highest score, 18, was made by Ravi

Bopara. Riley Ward may only be two years old

but he knew exactly what to do when his mother collapsed at home - he

dialled 999 and told the operator, "Mummy's on the floor." Today, the

toddler was given a bravery award from East Midlands Ambulance Service

for his quick thinking. Sian Lloyd has the story. Only two years old,

but when Riley's mother collapsed, he knew who to call. He was amazing,

I am so proud of him. A little superstar. He remembered what his

mum had taught him, and tiled 999 to save her when she suffered a blood

clot. But the emergency services did not have much information to go on.

It was enough for the police to trace the call to their home. And

today, Riley's bravery was rewarded with a special certificate. He is

absolutely a life-saver, a very important part of the team. Do you

think he might be joining the Ambulance Service one day? I would

be light -- I would be happy to have him as my crewmate. But for now, he

is just a happy to-year-old, who cannot work out what all the fuss is

about. Time for a look at the weather, with Tomasz Schafernaker.

A reminder of our main story... There is some fairly decent weather

around over the next couple of days. This is the satellite picture from

today. I want to focus mainly on the direction of the cloud. You can see

it is coming in from the south. These winds have been coming all the

way from the Sahara desert. So, this morning, if you thought your car was

a bit dirty, it is the Saharan dust. We made the dust particles a bit

bigger for comedy value. There are other pollutants in the atmosphere

as well. From the Sahara, back to the UK. This is the weather front,

which is affecting western parts of the UK through this evening. The

rain will be quite heavy for a time in Northern Ireland, and will end up

in Scotland by the early hours of Tuesday morning. To the south, there

will be some mist and fog. Tomorrow, I think there will be a

bit of a smile on our faces, for England and Wales, anyway. But as

far as Scotland goes, the rain will be easing, but it will be a damp

day, and still chilly. 11 degrees in Newcastle, no more than that. In the

middle part of the week, the area of low pressure is still within the

neighbourhood, so, still cloud and rain circling around it. But this

central portion of the country could be warming up.

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