27/02/2017 BBC News at Six

There are sincere apologies after the most spectacular blunder

First the favourite was given the Best Picture Award.

Moonlight. Best Picture.

A mix-up of envelopes kept in matching briefcases was blamed,

as millions watched around the world.

The British firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers has taken

The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse,

It's first case, the post-war British children sent abroad,

Parents say schools in England aren't getting enough funding,

as a new report warns of cuts to come.

And a warning that the cost of insuring your car

And more protests in rugby that Italy were a little too clever

After Claudio Ranieri's sacking, Craig Shakespeare leads

the champions who are in the relegation zone into their match

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

It's a moment that will live long in Oscars history, when at the 89th

annual awards in Los Angeles, the actors Warren Beatty

and Faye Dunaway read out the wrong winner of the Best Picture award.

While the team behind the favourite, the musical

La La Land, were handed the Oscar, in fact the gritty drama Moonlight

A mix-up of envelopes is being blamed,

and the organisers have issued a sincere apology.

Our arts editor Will Gompertz reports on a night of

It was supposed to be the grand finale of a wonderful Oscars night.

Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, Bonnie and Clyde 50 years ago, came

to present the prestigious Best Picture Academy Award. The veteran

actor opens the all-important envelope and pulls out the card on

which the winner's name is written. He seems unsure. The Academy

Award... And then a bit perplexed. The drums are rolling. For Best

Picture. Faye Dunaway thinks he is playing is the laughs. La La Land.

And read the name on the card. So it is hugs all round for the Lala Land

crew. An emotional Jordan Horowitz, the producer, profusely thanked

friends and family. Thank you to my parents. As the speeches continue, a

small commotion develops. There is a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won

Best Picture. This is not a joke. Moonlight has won Best Picture.

Moonlight. Best Picture. The team from Moonlight, a coming-of-age

drama set in the mean streets of Miami are delighted and bemused. I

want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope and it said Emma

Stone, La La Land. That is why I took such a long look at Faye and at

you, I wasn't trying to be funny. He had been given the wrong envelope.

There are duplicate sets of envelopes produced by the two

auditors from accountancy practice PwC, a firm that has overseen the

Academy Awards are more than 80 years. They released a statement

saying they apologise to Moonlight, La La Land, Warren Beatty, Faye

Dunaway and Oscars view is that the error. They said they had been

mistakenly given the wrong envelope and when discovered it was

corrected. They are investigating and deeply regretted it occurred.

Things happen, you make a movie. It is human error. Whatever happened, I

don't know what happened, it happened, but the result was the

same. We are good, the two camps. We will wake up tomorrow... We won't go

to sleep but tomorrow we will figure out what happened. The night was

memorable for other less calamitous reasons. Moonlight's success was not

just limited to Best Picture. Mahershala Ali was recognised his

supporting role and became the first Muslim to win an Oscar. Damien

Chazelle won Best Director, becoming the youngest person to win that

category. Emma Stone won actress. Viola Davis' supporting actress

Triumph for Fences was another win that helped the Oscars feel a little

less white. Are there longer term fallout from this? This is a show

produced to within an inch of its life. It is an extraordinary thing

to happen. They stand on either side of the stage, with the cases, you

saw in the image, the two from PwC. There is a duplicate set of cards.

There were two given out and I am sure they will do all they can to

ensure it does not happen again but the fact is it happened, it was seen

by hundreds of millions of people and it overshadowed an evening that

was historic in other ways. I talked about Mahershala Ali, winning

supporting actor role for Moonlight, the first Muslim actor to win that

award. Given the state of this country and the anxiety, the

presidential comments, the travel ban, that was a big deal. Viola

Davis wins Best Supporting Actress. It felt the Oscars were less white

this year. Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the president of the academy, has tried

hard to change the shape of the voting structure and it seems to

work. Whether it is a shift and change in the Academy Awards, we

will see, but if a mistake like that happens again, my goodness, they

will make a movie out of it. Many thanks.

More than two-and-a-half years after being set up,

the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse

in England and Wales has begun holding its first hearings.

The inquiry was prompted by the Jimmy Savile scandal,

and is expected to take five years to complete.

Today's sessions focused on the abuse of British

children sent abroad after the Second World War,

but the hearing has been marred but a serious data breach.

Our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds is in central London.

This enquiry has been accused of concentrating too much on the past

and not enough on the protection of children here and now. But it says

that those children sent abroad after the Second World War for a

better life are now reaching their elderly years and still suffering

from the effects of what happened to them. The inquiry says they deserve

an investigation into what happened after waiting 60 years.

It is a cruel detail that some of Britain's child

migrants were falsely told their parents had died.

For decades there had been efforts to reunite them

Now an inquiry, with many of the powers of a court,

is sitting down to the job of understanding why it happened.

Child migration programmes were large-scale schemes,

in which thousands of children, many of them vulnerable, poor,

abandoned, illegitimate or in the care of the state,

were systematically and permanently migrated to remote parts

The liner Asturias arrives at Fremantle from Great Britain

with 931 new migrants for this country.

We anticipate that you will hear evidence that these children

were put on board ships departing from England and Wales without being

given any real understanding of where they were going,

what they were doing, or why they were being sent.

More than 4,000 ended up in farm schools or remote

religious institutions, mainly in Australia.

Physical labour, poor food, mistreatment.

This is what they'll tell the inquiry.

We were sent to what we can only describe as labour camps.

Where we were starved, beaten and abused in despicable ways.

Sexual abuse, worst at religious institutions like this one,

is what this inquiry is really about.

This man in a suit came to see me and said,

"Your mother's dead, you know, so, how'd you like to go to Australia?"

In 2011, the story of a Nottinghamshire social worker,

Margaret Humphreys' battle to uncover the scandal was made

She has campaigned for 30 years for today's hearings.

We want to know what's happened, we want to know who did it

and we want to know who covered it up for so long.

There are consequences for children, today.

But this is just the start of something bigger.

This inquiry will cover abuse in Lambeth and Nottinghamshire

children homes, schools in Rochdale, custodial institutions,

residential schools, and both the Anglican

Yet resignations and controversy have delayed this work.

And today, there was another untimely embarrassment,

the inquiry sent out an e-mail in which it was possible to read

the e-mail addresses of everyone who received it,

including some people who have been sexually abused

The inquiry has had to report itself to the Information Commissioner.

These are the very people that we are supposed to be relying

Especially the details about our abuse.

And so it has made some survivors very worried.

And it distracts from the inquiry's real work.

..And are permanently afflicted with guilt, shame, diminished

Tom Symons, BBC news at the child abuse inquiry.

The former Prime Minister, Sir John Major, is warning

Theresa May that voters are being given unreal

and over-optimistic expectations about Brexit and that the costs

of leaving the EU will be substantial and unpalatable.

He's making a speech in central London right now and James Landale

What more can you tell us? His point is simple. Namely in his view the

British people have been given too much of a rosy picture of the

consequences of Brexit and talks about the substantial and very

unpalatable costs of the divorce deal and Bill we might have to pay

when Britain leaves. He said there is only a slim chance of Britain

getting a trade deal with the EU that would match the current single

market and says if there is not a deal, relying on basic trade deals

would be the worst possible outcome. He talks about the political costs

of Brexit, having to rely on what he says is an unreliable and less

predictable American president and what he calls the serious threat to

peace in Northern Ireland, about border restrictions there. His

critics will say it is a case of a guy who campaigned for remain and

has not got it, in denial about the result. I think Sir John's response

would say it is about the government not managing expectation correctly.

He said Theresa May has to listen to Parliament more. He has to be

able... To face down her critics in Parliament especially what Sir John

calls hard-core Brexiteers who want total divorce from Europe at any

cost. The Shadow Chancellor,

John McDonnell, has warned there's what he calls a "soft coup" under

way to oust Jeremy Corbyn. He says the Labour leader

is being undermined by elements within the party, in an alliance

with Rupert Murdoch's Mr Corbyn was today welcoming

Gavin Snell to Westminster, after his victory in last week's

Stoke Central by-election. Crewe Alexandria's director

of football, Dario Gradi, is to appeal against his suspension

from working in the game. He was suspended by the FA

in November, following claims he'd "smoothed over" an allegation

of sexual abuse, involving a youth team player while he was coaching

at Chelsea in the 1970s. Gradi has always

denied any wrongdoing. Schools in England are

facing their biggest cuts The Institute for Fiscal Studies

says despite money from central government being frozen until 2020,

inflation means that amounts to a real terms

cut of 6.5% per pupil. The Department for Education

says school funding And it is also planning

a shake-up in the way money is shared out across

schools in England. Market towns like Nantwich

don't see many demos. This morning, hundreds

turned out in the cold. Parents wanting a better

funding deal for schools. Why should children in other areas

of Britain receive more I'm a single parent

with three children. Without the schools, they wouldn't

have those opportunities. I think the fact that they would

have things cut like the arts and music, things that will make

a well-rounded education, to have teachers that maybe it's

not their subject that's going to have to teach

mainstream subjects as well, it's just really shocking in this

day and age that they There's a strong sense of injustice

amongst the parents here. But in an area that was already one

of the lowest funded in England, they face getting even less cash

under this new deal. We are using subject terminology,

present participle... They have to pass the same exams,

but there's less money here for each That will get a little worse

under government plans. The bills the school has

to pay are going up. Altogether, it means

losing ?450,000. Performance, music, drama, PE,

all these subjects... Should you have the same

money as an inner city? Where there are lots of children

with difficulties and problems? Where we are at the moment

is in Crewe, a very deprived area. With many children with English

as an additional language, with lots of high-needs children

and lots of issues that you would You guys were lucky,

you got some expert tuition. But do the winners under

the new deal feel lucky? The other end of England in Yeovil,

teachers' pay is similar. Somerset would get a bigger

share but still faces We welcome any additional

funding that we are Our major concern is the amount

being proposed is minor, compared to the gaps that we face

in many areas in And schools aren't used to tearing

strips off their budget. They've had increases

for two decades. Ministers argue funding is at record

levels but when money is tight, Fiasco at the Oscars. Best picture

award given to the wrong film. Still to come, the government is under

pressure over plans to limit access to a new disability benefit. And

coming up, clever Clever tactics or is rugby union

in need of a rule change? How Italy's approach against England

in the Six Nations yesterday People liable for compensation

for personal injuries will get bigger pay-outs,

under new rules. However the changes could cost

the NHS as much as ?1 billion, because of claims over

negligent treatment. Insurers say the new rules

are "crazy," and are warning premiums for car owners

will have to rise. Here's our Personal Finance

Correspondent Simon Gompertz. Compensation is a lifeline

for people like Tom, awarded ?1.5 million after losing

a leg in an accident at work. Tom thinks it's right that victims

should get more to pay This prosthetic's amazing,

but it's nowhere near a human leg. These legs are top of the range

legs at ?70,000 each. Whether it's from an industrial

accident or from a car accident, insurers have been able to keep down

the lump sum they pay victims by saying well,

they can invest it and make Now the government's saying in these

days of very low interest rates, they will have to assume that people

will make less than nothing from year to year out

of their compensation, and that means insurers having

to pay out much more upfront. They've known this was

coming down the track. They failed to put the money aside

and anticipate that risk, and they are now suffering

the consequences of that. Instead of putting

the money to one side, they paid it out in dividends,

profits and salaries. Insurers gave an example

of a 30-year-old who needed to be looked after permanently,

who would get a ?3.4 million payment now, a sum which would more

than double under the new formula To cover the cost, the typical

comprehensive motor policy of ?450 would rise by ?75,

with bigger increases The insurers Association said

the move from the Lord Chancellor This is a crazy decision

by the Lord Chancellor, which is likely to lead

to significantly increased premiums for motorists

and businesses through no fault of their own because of her use

of a broken formula which needs It will have to pay ?1 billion each

year more in compensation for medical negligence,

billed the government So, should drivers, hospitals

and employers pay more so that Ministers have promised

a consultation before Easter on whether the rules

should be reformed. Let's take a brief look at some

of the day's other top stories. The government says so far

there's no evidence that the safety of patients has been

put at risk, because more than 700,000 NHS documents

have been mislaid. Letters between GPs and hospitals

were mistakenly stored in a warehouse by a private company,

instead of being redirected when a patient changed

doctor, or moved away. The BBC has ordered an investigation

into the conduct of TV licence fee collectors,

following reports they targeted The Director General Tony Hall,

has written to the company which collects fees, Capita,

expressing "serious concern." A judge has heard how a man

described as a "gentle giant" stabbed his former girlfriend

and her new partner to death outside the shop where

they worked in Cardiff. Andrew Saunders has pleaded guilty

to the murder of Zoe Morgan, who was 21, and Lee Simmons,

who was 33, near the Matalan store One of Theresa May's key policy

adviser's has said he regrets any offence caused by comments

in which he appeared to suggest people suffering from

anxiety were not disabled. George Freeman had suggested

Personal Independence Payments, or PIPs, should go to "really

disabled people" rather than those Here's our Disability Affairs

Correspondent Nikki Fox. this is an issue about support and

who needs it the most. Personal Independence Payments, that's the

money given to help cover the extra costs of having a disability, that

is once again back in the spotlight. It's a benefit that would help

someone like Dean, who's had severe anxiety for most of his life. I've

had 35 years suffering from this. I've worked for 30 of those years

and I never really realised it was a disability. But in the last year,

absolutely. When you are too scared to go outside your front door and

just do basic things, then yes. Having lost his job in November,

Dean has been unable to work since, so he's applied for the benefit and

is waiting to find out whether he will be eligible. But he's not

hopeful. Two independent tribunal 's have decided that more people should

be eligible for PIP, but the government disagrees. Yesterday,

Theresa May's chief of policy said this on the BBC.

These tweaks to do with running back some bizarre decisions from the

tribunal said now mean benefits being given to two people who take

pills at home who suffer from anxiety. We want to make sure to get

the -- money to the people who deserve it. He expressed his regret

over any offence his comments may have caused. Ministers showed no

sign of budging on this. They want to undo the court ruling saying it

would cost them ?3.7 billion. It isn't based purely on money. If you

think about what is Personal Independence Payments, they are just

one part of a very sophisticated and broad welfare package. What we are

trying to do is create as much of a tailored support for individuals as

possible. When you have millions of people applying for it, living with

all kinds of different conditions, you do need to draw some rules and

some distinction somewhere. Jo has rheumatoid arthritis and used it

disability living allowance but when that changed to PIP, she was told

she was no longer eligible. I was able to use that money to pay for a

care worker agency and they held with things like shopping, basic

things like cooking a meal, washing and bathing. For Jo the goalposts

have shifted already but the definitive line of what is

considered a disability is still up for debate.

World Rugby is considering whether to review the laws of the sport,

after tactics Italy used against England in yesterday's

The Italians have been accused of gamesmanship,

after their refusal to engage in a particular part of the match.

But others have praised their cleverness, as our

Sports Correspondent Richard Conway reports.

To the uninitiated, rugby's rules can at times be slightly confusing.

Yesterday, well, it was the turn of the players to ask the questions.

I just wanted to do what the rule was, what the exact rule is.

England's coach went as far as to question what sport

You know, you've got to have an offside line to play the game.

The issue stemmed from what's known as a ruck.

As seen in Scotland's game against Wales on Saturday,

it's formed after a tackle, when at least one player from each

side on their feet close around the ball on the ground.

When that happens, imaginary lines are drawn through the foot

Players on the wrong side of those lines are offside.

But if one team doesn't compete for the ball,

then a ruck is not formed and no offside line exists.

That meant Italy could block England's passing route.

That meant Italy could block England's passing routes.

At Twickenham, there's even a statue that embodies sportsmanship,

but there are those who believe there wasn't much of it on display

here yesterday from the Italians, and questions persist.

Was what happened against the game's cherished code of fair play?

Or was it simply tactical innovation at its most ruthless?

If there's a law within the game and Italy exploited the law,

and it's completely legal, then there's absolutely nothing

Actually, Italy did what they had to do.

In 1981, Australia's Trevor Chapple bowled underarm to deny New Zealand

And in 1999, this goal forced a rematch after Arsenal took

advantage of Sheffield United putting the ball out

The record books will show England won this match,

but with World Rugby considering a clariification

on how the law is applied, it may prove in time to have

Everything except the kitchen sink. Beautiful rainbows taken on by some

of our weather watchers. But you need sunshine and rain for rainbows.

It's been pouring down across some parts of the UK and in others, a

real taste of late winter with heavy snowfall and for many, we settled

into a fine evening with clearing skies. Still snowing across the

highest ground of North England and the Borders. That will clear away.

Further wintry showers will push in on the breeze across western part of

Finland and Wales in particular and the odd one further east. Watch out

for ice -- Eastern Western parts of England. Damages could get below

freezing. Another clutch of rain fringing

western Scotland and Northern Ireland over high ground. Through

the Irish Sea. Elsewhere, bright and crisp and a sunny start of the day

for many but it will be called despite the sunshine. It will cloud

over across west Wales and some showers on the way. Further east,

not ruling out the odd shower from the word go across eastern England.

Plenty of sunshine across central and eastern areas in the morning. It

won't last forever. Wintry showers, with snow on highest ground. Moving

slowly west to east. The rain and hill snow lodged across northern

England in the afternoon. Best of sunshine across central and northern

parts of Scotland and wintry showers in the far north. It will be cold,

particular when those showers come on. That chap clears eastwards,

which allows temperatures to fall again as we go through the night.

First thing Wednesday, a touch of frost in northern areas and this

chap arrives across the south-west with some rain and some uncertainty

about how far north it gets. The brightness by the North. Another

chilly feeling day. Drops and changes this week. Some rain, some

sunshine and ongoing risk of snow across more than northern areas.

An investigation into the biggest blunder in the history of the Oscars

after the award for Best picture was given to the wrong film.

Just time to tell you that coming up in the BBC News at Ten.

We look at why it's ten times more likely children will become part

of the child protection system if they live in the poorest

When you have to choose between putting gas on the meter

or eating, which I've had to do, it's difficult.

If you haven't been there, you can't possibly understand

But it's goodbye from me, and the Six O'Clock News team.

And now on BBC One, it's time for news where you are.