11/07/2017 BBC News at Six

UMPIRE: Let, first service. That looked like it was about six inches

over the net. That's what she explained about in the first point

of the tie-breaker I think. APPLAUSE

That was a point that Halep desperately wanted.

Contaminated blood - the worst treatment scandal

in the history of the NHS - the government orders an inquiry.

More than 2000 people died after being given blood products

in the 70s and 80s contaminated with HIV and hepatitis C.

They deserve to be told what went wrong, why it went wrong

and who is responsible for what happened.

Andy Evans, who was infected when he was five and

diagnosed with AIDS at 16 - he's campaigned for this for years.

At the very minimum we were let down.

At the worst, I think there are people to blame for a lot of the

We'll be asking why it's taken so long to bring about this inquiry

President Trump's son releases e-mails appearing to show

he was offered information on Hillary Clinton as part

of Russia's support for Trump's election campaign.

Making work fair and decent - short-term contracts should qualify

for sick and holiday pay says a government commissioned report.

The UN says almost 3000 civilians remain trapped

in the Iraqi city of Mosul, despite claims of victory over

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

An appalling tragedy that should never have happened -

that's what the Prime Minister called the contaminated blood

The government today announced an inquiry into the worst treatment

At least 2,400 people died and 7,500 patients were infected with viruses

such as hepatitis C and HIV, after being given blood

It's been called the worst disaster in the history of the NHS.

Patients trusted the service to deliver safe treatments,

including haemophiliacs needing blood clotting treatments,

but they were given products tainted with life-threatening viruses.

I take one of those in the morning and one of these, both

Andy has had a life on medication because he was given

he was infected with HIV and hepatitis C.

Since then, all he is wanted is answers.

I'm very worried there was deliberate acts

At the very minimum, we were let down.

At the worst, I think there are people to blame for a lot

Much of the enquiry is focused on Whitehall and what was happening

Victims and their families have long argued that senior government

officials were aware of the dangers with contaminated blood

products and allow patients to continue receiving them.

And after that, they say, there was a cover-up.

A Scottish enquiry by Judge Lord Penrose,

was dismissed by victims as a waste of time and they showed

An earlier enquiry in England was privately funded

Today, a Labour MP who's campaigned on the issue told the Commons those

affected by the scandal were owed a debt of justice.

They deserve to be told what went wrong.

Why it went wrong and who is responsible for what happened.

The story of the injustice they have suffered also needs to be set out

And a minister citing allegations that medical records were tampered

In light of these concerns, and a report of new evidence

and allegations of potential criminality, we think

it is important to understand the extent of what is claimed

The former Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, who alleged

there was a criminal cover-up cover says victims were failed

All political parties have let down those who've suffered as a result

And all parties must now put differences aside,

work together and give them truth and justice without any further

And for this campaign, who has hepatitis C,

there's only one thing which really matters.

Nobody here is going away, we are staying, we're going to fight

Whether that full truth emerges after this long campaign,

will depend on what sort of enquiry is convened and its powers.

And our Health Editor Huw Pym is with me now.

This is decades later. Why has this inquiry been announced now and what

can it achieve? Government sources have made clear that the evidence

has emerged in the last week, including some published in the

newspaper, and Andy Brennan was about to publish stumbles about is

their stated reason. But there is a political aspect. Only on Sunday,

the opposition parties at Westminster or signed a letter

calling for just the sort of inquiry, and today, there was a

debate scheduled in the House of Commons called by a Labour MP to

debate the issue, and there was a possibility that the opposition

parties might have voted on it. And of course, we have new Parliamentary

arithmetic stops just before the debate began, Downing Street sources

indicated the Government was minded to set up this inquiry. It will come

as a surprise to the Scottish Government, it will be a UK wide

exercise, they say they have had no warning and needed about it.

Whatever the reasons, whatever the timing, victims and their families

are saying they are pleased with it is happening, but would be content

must it really does get to the truth. Thank you.

President Trump's eldest son has published a chain of e-mails

about his meeting last year with a Russian lawyer who's been

Donald Trump Junior is told that the Russian government wants

to offer official documents that would "incriminate" Hillary Clinton

and be "very useful" to his father's presidential campaign

The information was said to be part of Russia and its government's

support for Donald Trump. Our Chief Correspondent Gavin Hewitt

is in Washington for us tonight. Tell us more, Govan. For months,

there has been a shadow hanging over the Trump administration over

whether there has been a collision between the trouble election

campaign and the Russians. Today, the story got a lot more serious.

Last year, last June, there was a meeting between Trump's Sun, Donald

Trump Jr, and a Russian lawyer. Today, we got to read the e-mails

leading up to that meeting. And it is worth quoting. The offer was to

provide the Trump campaign with some official documents that would

incriminate Hillary Clinton, which would be very useful to your father.

That is Donald Trump. And it goes on, this is obviously very high

level and sensitive information that is part of Russia and its

government's support for Mr Trump. And then there is an insight into

what Donald Trump Jr felt about this offer to dish dirt on Hillary

Clinton. He said, if it is what you say, I love it. How damaging is it,

Gavin? Well, of course, it is damaging. And particularly that

Donald Trump Junior was prepared to go to this meeting having received

these e-mails beforehand. It also establishes the Russian interest in

influencing the American election. But I think there are questions as

to the credibility of this impresario, what were the levels of

his contacts in Moscow, and of course, the open question as to what

Donald Trump himself knew. But after today, if you read these texts, I

think they are devastating and what they will do is deep in this

investigation into what is really now a very serious matter for the

trumpet ministration. Thank you. Workers on short term contracts

in the UK should qualify for sick pay and holiday pay

and their employers should make Those are some of the

recommendations in a major report, commissioned by the government

which is calling for changes to the running

of the so-called "gig economy". Theresa May has welcomed the report,

saying it makes a major contribution to the debate

about work practices in Britain. But she says she doesn't

want to stop the clock. Here's our economics

editor Kamal Ahmed. It was the Prime Minister he made

the point, the vast majority of us spend more than half are waking

hours doing one thing, work. Whether steady or insecure, full-time or

self-employed, single job or multiple, the world of work has

changed. Appearing alongside Theresa May, Matthew Taylor said it was time

for a reset. He said that the country has been very good at

creating work, employment levels are at Iraq, but it was time to focus on

quality. Quantity alone is not enough for a thriving economy and a

fair society. So we believe that now is the time to complement that

commitment to creating jobs with the goal of creating better jobs. This

man likes his job for Labour. Flexible, no guaranteed hours, and

few benefits. -- his job for Uber. I love to chat, interesting people,

and the money, racial with my time is decent. For this woman, a very

different story from the world of zeros contracts. It's really

insecure. The problem I found was sometimes there was a lot of work, I

would work too much and get really, really tired. So what is this new

world of work with like? One big point is that the majority of us,

63%, actually in full-time work. About a quarter of us, 26% are in

part-time work, and 15% are self-employed. There are certainly

many new ways of working and the inquiry focuses on two. The gig

economy, that is delivery drivers, minicab drivers, 1.3 million people

in that part of the economy. And people with no guaranteed hours of

work, and zeros contracts, there are about 905,000 people on those. Then

there is what the report calls the hidden economy. That is those cash

on hand payments to your window cleaner that avoids tax and official

record. The report says that is worth ?6.2 billion a year and should

be brought to an end. Mr Taylor says in his review that much of this new

world of work is good work, but for those being exploited, some

solutions. Sick and holiday pay benefits. A right to an enhanced

minimum wage. Because the work does not guarantee hours. And there is

talk of better enforcement of the present laws and higher taxes for

those gig firms, paying national insurance for the first time, which

many of them avoid at the moment. The big question, will any of this

ever happened? Given the Conservatives like one important

thing, a majority. You can't, Franco, give any guarantees that you

will be able to pass a report and the recommendations it has made to

Parliament. I would have, as I said in my speech, that people will see

across the political world, will see the importance of addressing this as

an issue. This is not just a sort of here and now. It is up about the

future of our economy. There seems little chance of consensus. Labour

said the report was a huge missed opportunity, particularly when it

came to not banning zeros contracts. We have to get rid of zeros

contracts. Of these, we have to get rid of the gig economy and bogus

self-employment which actually is a wonderful way for a minority of

employers to evade paying national insurance contributions. Member this

guy? Sir Philip Green, who published a Government report on efficiency.

Or him, Sir Andrew Dom, a full review of social care. Reports

published with a fanfare of publicity that then gather dust on a

Whitehall shell. The few with Mr Taylor is that his report could

suffer a similar fate. A 24-year-old British man has

been killed fighting against the so-called

Islamic State in Syria. He's said to have died five days ago

during the campaign to capture He's the fourth British man to be

killed while fighting The United Nations say as many

as 3,000 civilians remain trapped in the Iraqi city of Mosul,

despite government forces declaring Skirmishes continue between Iraqi

troops and so-called Islamic State. Those trapped are mostly young

or elderly and are thought to have become separated

from their families. From Mosul, our Defence

Correspondent Jonathan This is an orphan of the battle for

muscle. A baby whose parents are missing. He was just left at this

clinic, malnourished and without even a name. They have called him

Mourinho, after the doctor kept him alive. The Iraqi army says there are

many more like him. This is not new for us. We actually receive a lot of

orphans. I don't know what is going on out there but I think I Isis,

after the wives lose their husband, they run away empty-handed and leave

their babies behind. Be a rock per minister may have declared victory

but there are still pockets of resistance and streams of civilians

trying to make their way to safety. -- the Iraqi Prime Minister declared

victory. They often collect others along the way. There are dozens of

women and children here waiting to be taken to safety, and they are not

just war weary, they are weak through lack of water and food. And

if you listen, the only sound you can hear is babies crying. At west

Mosul's main hospital, they are just about coping full stop there are

still having to treat the wounded as well as the week. This man is barely

alive after being found in the rubble. And there are more often

here too. This child is crying out, where is my father? He only stops

when they managed to distract him with a game. It is difficult to

manage him come he is crying, asking for his father, mother. This is

something that I can't... I can't be as Father, I can't be his mother.

What do I do? Even trying to identify the dead is proving

difficult. Search and rescue teams are looking out for any forms of

identity as they sift through the debris of war. Iraq will not just

have to rebuild the city, but mend broken lives too.

Too many people with learning disabilities in England are not

getting good enough healthcare or being found

the homes they need to keep them in the community.

That's according to an influential charity leader who was so moved by

the plight of one man that he wrote to the Prime Minister calling for an

independent commissioner who can speak for people with learning

difficulties. More than 2500 remain in secure units, despite running

promises that they would close. In one year alone, 50% of all deaths of

people with a learning disability were recorded as avoidable,

converted 23% for the general population. Our correspondence has

been to meet Ian Shaw and his family, his distressing case has

prompted the letter. In the front room of the family home

in Essex, 34-year-old Ian Shaw lies quietly,

comforted by having his Ian can't speak for himself,

he has learning disabilities, He also has terminal cancer,

which his parents believe should I was told there was no treatment,

because it had been there a long time and they couldn't treat it

because it would be too much. It just wouldn't work,

it had gone too far. The family asked us to tell Ian's

story because they believe it shows how the system still fails people

with learning disabilities. As he grew up, Ian's

behaviour became challenging. When in pain, he'd throw things

and bang his head, scarring himself. In 2007, he was sent to the first

of three secure units. The problem being with epilepsy

the secure units were Because things became out

of control, the secure So once he was there it felt

like you couldn't get him back out? This weighty family file tells

the story of Ian's life It shows his mum raising numerous

concerns about levels of medication There are records of Ian

being restrained, as well as family letters fighting to get him moved

to a supported home It took nine years, but Ian left

the last secure hospital in 2016. Within months, testicular

cancer was found. The family believes in the secure

unit early signs were first missed, Bernadette Adams provided the family

with support in meetings Jan has been saying for many,

many months that Ian was in pain or Ian had infections and she was,

you know, on many occasions, In a statement, the

Department of Health says. "For too long people with learning

disabilities have not been treated equally by the health service

and we're determined It, and NHS England,

also insist they are making progress in improving care

and closing secure units. But not fast enough

for Sir Stephen Bubb, author of two reports

examining the problems. He's written to the Prime Minister

calling for an independent commissioner to speak up

for people like Ian. It's scandalous and very sad the use

of physical restraint, overmedication, seclusion

and a serious neglect of health It's all too typical and it has

led me to believe that institutional care is at root abusive and we must

close these institutions The Government says it has no

plans for an independent But Ian's family want his legacy

to be that in future others A man has appeared in court over an

acid attack on a woman and her cousin on 21st in London last month.

The 24-year-old is accused of throwing acid at Resham Kham and her

cousin. A man who wrote Facebook messages calling for businesswoman

and campaigner Gina Miller to be run over has been convicted of sending

menacing communications. Viscount St Davids wrote the messages for days

after Gina Miller won her legal challenge against the Government. He

claims the comments were satire but faces a custodial sentence. Tell us

more about what happened in court? Well, remember, it was just four

days after the businesswoman Joon O'Muilleoir had won her historic

victory, forcing the Government -- Gina Miller had won a victory

forcing the Government to vote on Article 50. Viscount St Davids, who

also holds the title Lord Hungerford among others, posted on Facebook the

words, ?5,000, for the first person to... Excuse me, may phone is...

Composed essentially said, ?5,000 for the first person to accidentally

run over Gina Miller. He referred to her as an effing boat jumper, and

said that if this is what happens with immigrants, they should be sent

back to their stinking jungles. In another post, you referred to an

immigrant and again offered money, ?2000, for a man who turned down the

offer of a cancel house to be carved into pieces. In court, the Viscount

argued that this is all a joke, it was satire, it was political debate.

He said the phrase effing boat jumper was in fact a statement of

fact and he really tried to brush the whole thing off as something

rather light-hearted. That didn't impress the Chief Magistrate, who

found him guilty of the offence of sending menacing communications that

were racially aggravated and said he should expect a custodial sentence

on Thursday. Battling torrential rain there in central London, thank

you. Meanwhile, at Wimbledon, Johanna

Konta is athletic become the first British woman in use to make the

Wimbledon semifinal. Meanwhile, Novak Djokovic is due to the men's

order finals. On Centre Court, a British woman

anyone that quarterfinal. Never mind the rest of Korea, Johanna Konta's

progress here had taken her life to a different level. Where every move,

every move description eyes. She first played at Wimbledon as a

junior, Robson to Australia. When her Hungary and Bonn parents moved

to Britain, she gained citizenship. She's not the product of one nation,

but of intense tennis. When I first met her, she think she had six

layers on on artificial core, it easier than, I thought it was great.

I said to her father, this is the top 5% in the world material.

Wimbledon noticed this year a lighter mood. Konta brought baked

treats to practice. She seemed to be in a good mood. But that can change

very quickly. Simona Halep had her eye on becoming world number one as

well as winning Wimbledon. But on centre court, roof closed, Konta

found her range. Into a tie-break, and the standard ever higher. What

would separate the players? Well, almost nothing. Look at. But Halep's

point, and since, Halep's set. Well, first it is just an opportunity for

resilience, as they say on the hill. In the second set, Konta kept

running and kept her composure. But there was no closure and so another

tie-break, 6-5, deep breath, deep breath. Now, exhale. One set all and

on it went. Yes, into the third set, can tell you that Johanna Konta is

just managing to hold serve in her first serve in this game. So it is

at 1-1. Waiting on the semifinals, the superb Venus Williams, through

to another semifinal. Novak Djokovic did get his fourth-round match

eventually, straight sets, but he was annoyed afterwards that

Wimbledon didn't schedule has much to finish last night. This evening,

forget the rain, we're going to finish under the roof on Centre

Court. And just to repeat, Halep versus Konta is into the third set,

1-1. It literally couldn't be tighter.

We don't need to ask what the weather is like in London.

The rain has set in for the rest of the day. And it is not just across

the Wimbledon area. We have seen rain pouring down across south

Wales, where this picture is from. And as the raider picture shows, the

rain has been pushing its way eastwards steadily through the

afternoon, some really bright colours on the pictures showing

where there's heavy breasts are heading, particularly inches at

least England. But it has not been raining everywhere. -- heavy bursts.

It isn't nice in north-west Scotland, with just some showers in

the distance. Tight, the rain band having reached parts of Yorkshire,

it is going to sink its way southwards through the night, but

will become stranded across south-east England, heavy bursts

around by Don. The north-west, the weather becomes a bit drier. Quite a

chilly night into parts of Scotland, temperatures down into single

figures. Tomorrow, the rain band will clear away pretty smartly and

then we see this area of high pressure building in across the

British Isles and that means the early morning rain clears away from

south-east England quite quickly through Wednesday morning and then

sunshine will, and we will see a lot more sunshine and we have seen

today. Better Fairweather bubbling up, temperatures higher than

average. So, at Wimbledon tomorrow, what a different story. Sunny spells

across the board, with light winds, it will feel pleasant in that

sunshine as well. On Thursday, more of the same, really. Is chilly start

in rural parts, through the day, if you're isolated showers possible,

but it is the north-west of Scotland were the greatest risk of showers.

Temperatures again breaching a high of about 23.

Our main story, the Government orders an inquiry into the

contaminated blood scandal. More than 2000 people died after being

given the products in the 1970s and 80s. That is all from the BBC News

at six. I will be back at ten with the latest over on BBC One but from

all of us here, goodbye.