03/07/2017 BBC News at Six

Tonight at six: Children may still be at risk -

a report into seven decades of child abuse in Jersey.

A symbol of turmoil and trauma - the children's home at the centre

of the scandal should be demolished says the report.

AKA system is indefensible, if within it, insufficient effort is

made to prevent children from being abused, either physically,

emotionally or sexually. The death of seven-year-old

Katie Rough in January - a teenage girl has

admitted manslaughter. Public sector pay -

Downing Street says they're sticking to a 1% rise for doctors and nurse

despite mounting pressure. The scanner that reveals

the workings of the brain in more detail than ever before -

a huge medical advance. And Andy Murray shakes off injury

to begin the defence Coming up on BBC News,

we'll bring you all the action and reaction from day one

at the All-England Club. Join me for Wimbledon

Sportsday at 6.30pm. Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six. It's a report that is hundreds

of pages long and it catalogues the abuse and humiliation

of children in Jersey for decades. Crucially, the Independent Jersey

Care inquiry says children It recommends that the children's

home at the centre of the scandal - Haut de la Garenne -

should be demolished. More than 600 witnesses gave

evidence, describing a culture of indifference in which children

were abandoned in the care system. Robert Hall is in Jersey

for us this evening. George, hundreds of islanders have

waited today for a day when their suffering would be acknowledge it

and when in independent voices catalogued failure. This is a report

about children trapped in establishments with abusive carers

and little access to outside help. In the last half-hour, Jersey's

government has a knowledge those failures and apologised again. It

says it will act on every recommendation the report has put

forward. I used to be woken up some nights

with screaming from the boys. He hung himself. Don't say anything to

anybody. The island of Jersey, proud and independent, but according to

the report, an island whose attitude to children in the care system was

indefensible. Chair Frances Oldham said children had been abandoned in

a system with no regard to their rights and needs. The panel

identified what she termed the Jersey way. The expression is said

to refer to the maintenance of proud and ancient traditions and the

preservation of the island's way of life. Using the expression in a

pejorative way, it is said to involve the production of powerful

interests and resistance to change, even when change is pay to be

necessary. Allegations of abuse in Jersey came to public prominence

during police operations at this form are children's home. The search

for human remains at Haut de la Garenne was inconclusive, but the

images spurred islanders who had kept their secrets for so long to

come forward. Madeleine, who has written a book about her experiences

wants to remain anonymous. I was in care from the age of three months,

and it went on until I was nearly 17. Awful experiences. Abuse, being

locked in a cell for days on end, beatings, being forced down in the

bath. I thought I was going to guide them. The accounts of abuse involved

homes large and small throughout the island, but at this one house

parents beat children and filled children's mouths with soap. At

another house children were. To a vegetarian diet and punished for

eating meat. They did not report abuse as they did not think they

would be believed. The report said children had been powerless for

decades. How was it that an attitude or an

ethos was allowed to develop which enabled Slimani vulnerable children

to be abused while in care? It is a devastating read -- so many

vulnerable children. The panel said Eve in a new homes children were not

receiving the care and support they needed. The report acknowledges that

progress has been made, but it calls for urgent action to end fear and

mistrust. Haut de la Garenne, say the panel, should be torn down. Kids

who were in the home, are no longer here, disease, alcohol and drugs.

And for the ones who are remaining, I am very pleased.

A 16-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter

of seven-year-old Katie Rough in January.

Katie was found on a playing field in York with severe injuries

She died from her injuries in hospital.

The teenager can't be named because of her young age.

Seven-year-old Katie Rough, an innocent, much-loved schoolgirl,

killed by another child who heard voices in her head.

An older girl, who we can't identify for legal reasons, who told a friend

It was a school day afternoon and just getting dark

when Katie Rough was found fatally injured at the end of an alleyway

on the edge of a playing field here in York.

The seven-year-old died a short time later in hospital.

It then emerged that a 15-year-old girl had attacked her with a knife.

Immediately afterwards, the teenager told a man nearby

Katie's parents were quickly told what had happened

We found her at the same time as a police officer found her.

I saw her injuries, I knew she was gone.

I don't know, it's impossible to describe.

Today, the teenage girl who killed Katie admitted

She denied murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter

Katie's parents have been left with just memories. She was very loving.

She was shy with other people but with us she was sassy. She was loud

at times, just your typical seven-year-old girl.

Leeds Crown Court heard the teenager who killed this seven-year-old

believed people weren't human, and were robots.

The older girl didn't speak at all today, leaving others

to explain the consequences of her disturbed mind.

There was no dispute here at Leeds Crown Court about the goal's state

of mind when she killed Katie. A friend said she was nice but weird,

and liked to talk about death. But the court also heard that the

16-year-old had suicidal thoughts, had developed severe mental health

problems during 2016. She went on to kill in January this year. The judge

did not sentence had today. He has asked for more expert medical

opinion before he makes his final decision later this month.

Thank you. Theresa May has said there is no

difference in the line on public sector pay.

That's despite a succession of her ministers lining up

to say that it's time to remove the 1% pay cap in England.

Downing Street says it will listen to the recommendations

of the various independent pay review bodies.

But pay rises for millions of workers - including doctors,

nurses and the Armed Forces - has already been fixed

Here's our economics editor Kamal Ahmed.

There are two stap figures at the heart of this battle over public

sector pay. 1%, the pay cut proposed for nurses, teachers, firefighters

and other public sector workers, and 2.9%, the rate at which prices are

rising, inflation. For the 5% of people this effect, their real

incomes are falling. Alan Daly is a firefighter from Oxfordshire, like

so many others weary of the living standards squeeze. They don't expect

to be rich but they don't expect to ask for hand-outs. I hear time and

time again, they have second jobs. Some do because they have to put

food on the table. The pressure is growing. Cabinet heavyweights are

lining up to call for rethink on the public sector pay cap, much to the

irritation of the Treasury which says balancing the books is to the

vital part of the government's economic policy. Paying for public

sector workers is one of the biggest thing the government does.

We spend ?100 billion a year on doctors, nurses, teachers and

policemen and so on. Each 1% on but big number, itself costs quite a

lot. This is the public sector pay challenge. Well pay in the public

sector has been capped at 1%, in the private sector, average increases

are running at 3.3%. This is leading to recruitment problems. The private

sector is simply becoming more attractive. And then there is the

cost of any pay rise. That could be as high as ?1.5 billion. For every

1% extra paid to the 1.5 billion people employed in the public

sector. The Treasury says money will need to come from higher taxes, more

borrowing or a better performing economy. As we have seen with the

poor economic figures at the start of the year, relying on economic

growth can be dangerous. But how would economists tackle the public

sector pay challenge? It is perfectly straightforward to say you

can raise taxes to pay for this. I think the barrier there is

political. We have had a government who have been saying we want to at

least level of public any increases. We do not want to have tax

increases, we would rather give people tax cuts. This is now two

movable object pressing delete macro crashing into each other. Whether it

is the response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, or protests, the

government's decision is precarious making any decision it makes

politically and economically high risk.

Well, our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is at Westminster

Laura, whatever happened to Cabinet unity, it seems every day another

minister comes along and expresses his or her views? Well, there are

not many wallflowers around this place. Normally there is a sense of

discipline where Cabinet ministers will have big rows and discussions

about things in private but in public they all stick to the same

line. That is not the case on this issue. There is much more discussion

of this going on than we have seen over the airwaves in the last few

days. Privately, there are plenty of ministers who are saying they want

to see the cap lifted. They want to lift the lid on the pay limits of

millions of nurses, teachers, police officers and the rest of the public

sector. But don't let those public pronouncements in the last couple of

days make you think there are not plenty who are opposite arguing in

the opposite direction. One minister said to me the other day it would be

utter madness just to ditch the cap in the confusing aftermath of an

election, because it is part of the policy, the fiscal framework if you

like, to give it the technical term, that the government have built up

with care over recent years. There are clashing opinions on this and

the government is not at the stage of reaching a decision. They have

had the easier first part of the conversation with people accept and

that many public sector workers feeling frankly they are long

overdue a pay rise but I yet to get digging into the second part of the

conversation. If they make a political decision to do this, what

do they cut instead, or which taxes would be increased to pay for it?

Thank you. 18 people have been killed

in a coach crash in Germany. The vehicle collided with a lorry

on a motorway in Bavaria in the south of the country and then

burst into flames. Police say another 30 passengers

have been taken to hospital, Jenny Hill is in Bavaria

for us this evening. Yes, good evening. Investigators are

still at the scene of what is one of Germany's worst ever road traffic

accidents. Earlier this morning 46 German tourists and their two

drivers set off on a trip towards Italy. Within a few hours, everybody

on board that coach would be either injured or dead.

The heat was so intense, there was no chance of rescue. Nothing

firefighters could do, they said, to help the people left inside. It is

thought the coach ran into the back of a lorry, before bursting into

flames. There were 48 people on board. Those who got out in time,

were all injured, some critically. Everyone else, all of them

pensioners, died on the bus. TRANSLATION: The heat must have been

so intense, that nothing in flammable is left on the bus. All

that is left of steel parts, so one can imagine what this must have

meant for the people inside the bus. This afternoon, recovery of the

dead, and the beginning of an investigation. The crash happened

during an early morning traffic jam. The speed and ferocity of the

ensuing fire has shocked many. motivation we know are very large

number of victims and a large number of injured. Our thoughts are with

police say they have now recovered all of the victims from the

wreckage. It's emerged they were German tourists on their way to

Italy. What should have been the start of a holiday ended in one of

the worst road accidents in this country's history. Jenny Hill, BBC

News, Bavaria. A report into decades of child abuse

on Jersey says children could still be at risk and the home

at the centre of the allegations Andy Murray sprinting, Venus

Williams in tears. We will have the news from Wimbledon, where else?

And coming up on BBC News, join me for Wimbledon

We'll bring you all the latest action and

reaction from the All England Club, including how Andy Murray

booked his place in round two with a comfortable win.

The world's most detailed scan of the brain's internal wiring has

been produced by scientists at Cardiff University.

The MRI machine reveals the fibres which carry

Doctors hope it will help increase understanding of a range

of neurological disorders and could be used instead

Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh volunteered to be scanned -

The human brain, all thought, memory, consciousness is here. In

unprecedented detail, these images of my brain show the white matter,

fibres called axons, the brain's wiring, which carry billions of

electrical signals. Those colour-coded green travel between

front and back. In red, left and right. In blue, up and down. The

scan was done at Kubrick, the Cardiff University brain research

imaging centre. I have had my brain scan for TV reports many times, but

never in this level of detail. OK, John. Using this special MRI

scanner, there are just three in the world, the team could map the wires,

the axons, in my brain, so thin it would take 50 of them to match the

thickness of a human hair. You might feel a little bit more vibration and

the scan should last about 15 minutes. The team at Cardiff worked

with engineers from Siemens in Germany and the US to create the 3-D

images. If we go up and we can see... This has been the most

exciting development in my career in MRI. It's similar to being handed a

Hubble telescope when you have only had binoculars. We can look in far

more details than ever before. We can get measures that for the first

time will help us address what I call the missing link between

structure and function. This woman is one of the research volunteers.

She has multiple sclerosis which causes neurological damage will stop

relapses and attack of symptoms can come on suddenly. It's scary. You

can go from being absolutely normal one day to not being able to walk or

move, being in a wheelchair and having to go through a recovery

process that can take anywhere from three months to a year. One of the

areas of damage we can see here. This is a conventional scan image

showing a lesion, an area of damage in her brain. Just a contrast with

that... But the new scan reveals another level of detail, including

the density of the brain's wiring, which scientists have colour-coded.

Deep in the brain, where the cabling is thickest, is shown in white, but

the red and green bull's-eye is an area of less density and clearly

indicates a brain lesion, that can trigger her movement problems and

extreme fatigue. Those symptoms are only partially explained by what we

see on conventional scans. What this technique allows us to do for the

first time is look at the density in exquisite detail along each pathway

of the brain and we hope it will allow us to uncover a lot more about

the explanation for a wide range of symptoms in MS. Researchers are

using the technique to investigate schizophrenia, dementia and

epilepsy, and it might even have a role in cancer, allowing virtual

biopsies, examining tumours without touching the brain. Fergus Walsh,

BBC News, Cardiff. Four ex-Barclays bankers,

including former chief executive John Varley,

have appeared in court charged The case relates to the way

in which Barclays raised emergency funds from Qatar

during the 2008 financial crisis. All were bailed to appear

again in two weeks' time. A teenager has been jailed

for a minimum of 16.5 years for planning a terror attack

on the anniversary The Old Bailey heard Haroon Syed

was plotting to bomb Two men have been charged

after Border Force officers based The weapons had been hidden

in engine blocks on a trailer which was about to be taken

through the Channel Two men from Poland

and the Czech Republic were arrested A price cap on energy bills could be

extended to many more households on low incomes,

under plans being considered Labour said the plans represent a

U-turn because the Conservatives said in the election campaign they

would bring in an even wider price cap for 17 million customers.

Our personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz is here.

Despite Labour's reservations, on the face of it it sounds like good

news for millions. If you are one of those that benefits. The

Conservatives said in their election campaign they would bring in a price

cap for people on standard tariffs, which tends to be more, that's two

thirds of customers and where 17 million comes from. In the Queen's

speech, that precise number and policy didn't appear. The job of

dealing with the problem was passed to Ofgem. Today we have heard what

they are considering doing. They are planning to expand that to another

group of poorer pensioners, families, around 2 million people

who already get something called the warm home discount. That's why

Labour say it's a U-turn, it's a watered-down price cap, it's a few

million instead of 17 million. When the Business Secretary Greg Clark

came to the House of Commons to answer questions on it today, he

left open the possibility of legislation if there wasn't the

effect of people paying more, perhaps ?100 less on their bills as

a result of the changes. It might appear a narrower price cap, but

there is the possibility of more drastic action in the future.

Strawberries, a bit of rain and a straight sets

win for Andy Murray - yes, it's Wimbledon.

This year's championships got under way today with the defending men's

champion overcoming a hip injury to beat Alexander Bublik.

Joe Wilson has been watching all the action at the All-England Club.

You know when a sports person has reached a certain level of

prominence when an injury concern takes on almost a national

significance. And so we became consumed by Andy Murray's hip. He

was on court today for one hour and 44 minutes. By the end of the match

any sign of a lip had largely been replaced by a swagger.

The hoping, the queueing, the watching.

There was the defending champion, but how would he move?

Making his opponent scamper was all part of the plan,

but Andy Murray would have to run too at some point.

The first set went to Murray simply enough, 6-1, against the tattooed

Alexander Bublik was taking it all in.

On his first Centre Court appearance, he certainly forced

There were two breaks for rain in the third set.

Murray and Bublik spent the weather delay chatting

Murray's straight sets victory ended with another dash towards the net.

With the adrenaline and stuff, it's sort of helps, numbs some

And, yeah, thought I did pretty well for the first match.

White kit, clenched fist, all very familiar.

And tickets are still sold on the day for those

But tradition can only operate in today's world,

and in the light of current security concerns, this year

the queue is protected from potential vehicle attack

Plan for any circumstance - there will always be the unexpected.

Petra Kvitova was back at Wimbledon today still learning her game again

after she was stabbed by an intruder in December.

Kvitova still can't fully grip a racket, but here's the power that

Johanna Larsson beaten in straight sets.

That's the Kvitova Wimbledon remembers.

My motivation was a big motivation to come back and play. It was a

dream come true and I was able to play here again. Venus Williams at

Wimbledon today, 20 years after her debut. Last month she was involved

in a fatal car accident in Florida. She won her first-round match and

then came to speak, described the situation as devastating, and

then... She couldn't continue. That's a glimpse of what has

happened here so far. Play is ongoing. Heather Watson and Johanna

Konta both set up in their first-round matches. A dominant

straight sets victory for Rafa Nadal here earlier today. Seven years

since he last won Wimbledon, don't rule him out this year.

What about the Wimbledon weather for the next few days?

Things should stay mostly dry for the next few days but there is the

chance by Thursday we could see heavy showers interrupting play at

Wimbledon. Today has been glorious across many parts of the country.

This was in Devon. We have some late sunshine, clear skies to be enjoyed.

Through the evening and overnight it. To cloud over from the west and

we will see rain for Northern Ireland, and then creeping east

through southern Scotland and north-west England. Most other parts

of the country dry tonight and it will feel warm and muggy in the

south with temperatures overnight holding up at 15 or 16 degrees.

Through the day tomorrow, the weather dominated by a slow-moving

front. Three zones of weather. In far north and northern Scotland,

fresh with some sunshine. Then we have the rain sitting under the

system for southern Scotland and the far north of England. Under that it

is looking dry with some sunshine. 13 in the north, and highs in the

south of a pretty warm 25 degrees. Thing is continuing to warm up into

the middle of the week. At Wimbledon, mostly dry in the next

few days. Quite a lot of sunshine on Wednesday but by Thursday the cloud

building could bring some sharp showers. Until Wednesday, a front

moving its way gradually north across the UK, introducing pretty

warm air coming from the south. Perhaps a light shower or two across

that frontal system across parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. For

the bulk of the country, a dry day with plenty of sunshine.

Temperatures ranging between 14 in Aberdeen down to a warmer 28 degrees

on Wednesday. It can't last for ever. By the time we hit Thursday,

some thunderstorms. That's all from the BBC News at Six

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