12/02/2018 BBC News at Six

Oxfam's deputy chief

executive has resigned,

over the scandal surrounding aid

workers using prostitutes in Haiti.

Penny Lawrence stepped down

following allegations the charity

failed to reveal the full details

of what happened seven years ago.

One former Oxfam aid worker in Haiti

says claims of sexual

misconduct were well known.

There was a lot of rumours

on the ground, about management

and leaders exploiting the locals,

sexually and in ways.

and leaders exploiting the locals,

sexually and in other ways.

Charity's bosses have been meeting

the International Development

Secretary

Secretary today, amid fears the

Government funding may be cut

because of the scandal.

Also on the programme:

Three Britons killed

in a helicopter crash

in the Grand Canyon have been named.

They were Stuart Hill,

Becky Dobson, and Jason Hill.

Three other Britons

and the pilot were also injured.

It's not known what

caused the crash.

Theresa May is in Northern Ireland,

amid hopes of a new power sharing

agreement at Stormont.

We report from Tunisia, where UK

tourist flights will resume,

after the terror attack in 2015 that

killed 30 Britons.

And there's more weather trouble

at the Winter Olympics.

This time it's high

winds causing the chaos.

And coming up in Sportsday, seven

golds awarded in

golds awarded in Pyeongchang, but

the hopeful only manages to get a

bronze...

-- but the third female skater

to complete a triple

axel in Games history only

manages to get a bronze.

Good evening, and welcome

to the BBC News at Six.

The deputy chief executive

of Oxfam has resigned,

following allegations the charity

tried to cover up the full details

of a sex scandal in Haiti,

involving its aid workers.

Senior figures in the organisation,

have been meeting the International

Development Secretary,

after the Government threatened

to cut millions of pounds of funding

over the controversy.

The charity has been asked

to produce all its evidence relating

to what happened with some aid

workers after the Haitian

earthquake in 2010.

Our special correspondent

Lucy Manning has the details.

The allegations that the team knew,

about prostitutes being used not

just in Haiti, but in Chad, with

nothing done. She worked in human

resources in Haiti for Oxfam for two

and a half years, says she flagged

concerns and was ignored.

There was

a lot of rumours on the ground about

management and leaders exploiting

the locals, sexually and in other

ways, to get jobs, and to have good

standing. These were ongoing rumours

that would come to me through the

drivers and others. On many

occasions I would share those

rumours with my boss.

Now Oxfam's

Deputy Chief Executive has resigned.

Penny Lawrence was programme

director whether prostitution

allegations were made and ignored.

She said, "I am ashamed that

happened on my watch and I take the

responsibility." The

responsibility." The actions of

their director in Chad and arrow-mac

were never properly dealt with.

Bringing Oxfam into disrepute, Enda

Kenny wait abusing people who may

have been beneficiaries... There was

a discussion of how the organisation

should respond, but we didn't act on

it, and more significantly, because

there were not formal complaints, we

allowed him to move on to another

post, and that was our failing.

Oxfam's bosses were called in to

meet ministers this morning with

questions over the £32 million the

charity receives from the

Government. Ministers here at the

Department for International

Development no British charities do

good work overseas, but with Oxfam

half the story of what happened with

its staff in Haiti it has now put

pressure on the entire charity

sector. Oxfam says it investigated

87 allegations of sexual abuse or

exploitation last year, and Save the

Children looked into 31 cases of

misconduct. Christian Aide said it

had two cases, one of which was

reported to the Charity commission.

I don't think anyone can see in good

faith operating in an environment

like ours, that we can eliminate all

risk as a matter of 100% certainty.

What we can do is put on 100% best

effort to keep these people out of

our organisation.

The Charity

commission says it receives reports

of about 1000 incidents involving

safeguarding from charities each

year, but a culture of cover-up, not

the image charities want.

the image charities want. Lucy, how

damaging is this whole affair, not

just a Oxfam but the aid sector in

general?

Starting with Oxfam the

resignations following this really

don't look good. Allegations of

staff using prostitutes in Chad,

nothing done, then those staff

members are allowed to go and work

in Haiti, more allegations, some of

them allowed to just resign and get

other jobs, and the full details not

passed on either to the authorities

in Haiti or in the UK, and the chief

executive of Oxfam admitting

today that the disclosures you heard

from that woman in my report, who

said she raised them, they should

have been listened to, and what we

have had from him is an acceptance

that although we have at this

resignation from the Deputy Chief

Executive, that he will also go

Oxfam think he can't deal with this

issue. In the last few minutes from

the Government we have had details

of the meeting they had with Oxfam

today. A new unit is being set up

that charities will have to do

better, and also the Secretary of

State Penny Mordaunt has written to

all the charities telling them they

must refer all these allegations to

the relevant authorities.

Lucy

Manning, many thanks.

Three British tourists killed

in a helicopter crash

in the Grand Canyon,

have been named

by police in America.

Becky Dobson, Jason Hill

and Stuart Hill, died

on Saturday evening.

Three other Britons,

and the pilot, were injured.

Our North America correspondent

James Cook reports.

This is the moment a dream holiday

for three British couples turned

into a nightmare. The helicopter

came down just before sunset in

rugged terrain near the West rim of

the Grand Canyon. Explosions and

fire followed with three passengers

apparently trapped inside. They were

Stuart Hill, celebrating his 30th

birthday, and his girlfriend, Becky

Dobson, a receptionist from Worthing

in West Sussex. She was 27. His

brother Jason Hill who was a lawyer

in Milton Keynes also died. He was

32 years old. His girlfriend,

Jennifer Barham, survived. Also on

board were newlyweds Jonathan Udall

and Ellie Milward, seen here on the

left at their wedding with Becky and

Stuart. They had been saving up for

their holiday for a year and three

who died had been attending Worthing

College.

They had gone with their

passions to enjoy their young lives,

going through their careers as they

had wanted, to get to this stage in

their live and die so young, it is

just devastating.

In the minutes

after the crash passengers and crew

from other helicopters in the area

rushed to help. They included a

nurse.

When we finally got some

medical equipment down there I

started helping with putting in IV

lines, then another crew came with

medication, so I started

administering that, give them fluids

to help prevent them from going into

shock, kept a really close eye on

them and did what I could do.

A dust

storm meant rescue teams had to walk

to the site using night vision

goggles. It was more than eight

hours before they could be taken to

hospital.

We could not extract

everybody from the crash site until

two o'clock this morning. High

winds, rugged terrain, and as you

know, when you fly in treacherous

conditions like this, you have to

have special training and special

people.

The Grand Canyon is

attractive because it is untamed,

drawing visitors from all over the

world. The tour

world. The tour company Papillon,

Airways, flight every year and this

crash is the firm's second fatal

accident here. The three British

survivors and the pilot are being

treated at this hospital in Las

Vegas. All four are said to be in

critical condition. The cause of the

crash in the canyon, and the deadly

fire, is not yet known.

And we can speak to James

Cook in Las Vegas now.

More details are emerging about the

victims?

Yes, that's right. Some

pretty heartbreaking tributes being

paid to these victims. Becky

Dobson's Father Peter for example

said his daughter was full of life

and always happy. Her friends speak

about our beautiful person who loved

animals and had a dream of becoming

a veterinary nurse. Friends of the

two brothers who died, Stuart and

Jason Hill have also been paying

tribute, describing them as popular

and great fun. As for here, the

survivors are still being treated in

this hospital for these very serious

injuries, but the focus at the crash

site, which is very remote, is on

what exactly happened, why this

helicopter crashed. It appears the

impact was survivable, so why did

the fire followed? Why were those

trapped unable to get out of that

helicopter? Questions for the tour

company, for the local authorities

which regulate that

which regulate that company as well,

and also perhaps questions for the

manufacturer of this helicopter.

OK,

James, many thanks. James Cook, live

in Las Vegas.

Theresa May and the Irish Prime

Minister have been meeting

Northern Ireland's political

leaders, amid speculation that

a deal to restore the devolved

government at Stormont

could be close.

But negotiations between

the Democratic Unionists

and Sinn Fein have stalled several

times in recent months

since the power sharing executive

collapsed more than a year ago.

Here's our Ireland

correspondent Chris Page.

His report contains some flash

photography.

The Prime Minister began her visit

to Belfast at a place

which was recently the scene

of an unexpected victory,

hundreds of jobs had been under

threat at the aircraft manufacturer

Bombardier.

They are safe now after the firm

won a trade dispute

against Boeing in the US.

But Mrs May came here looking

to help find another breakthrough.

Northern Ireland has

been without a devolved

government for 13 months.

Several rounds of negotiations have

failed to break the deadlock between

the Democratic Unionist Party

and Sinn Fein.

Mrs May and the Irish prime

minister Leo Varadkar told

the parties they were committed

to bringing back devolution.

After the meetings, Stormont

politicians struck a positive note.

Good progress has been made,

we will continue to work

to look for more progress.

And it's about finding

an accommodation that

recognises the need to respect

all languages and all cultures

in Northern Ireland.

We don't believe that there

is anything now that is

insurmountable left to resolve.

There are matters of

clarity and some detail.

The main sticking point has been

whether there should be a new law

to protect and promote

the Irish language.

For speakers of the tongue,

Irish is about identity,

culture and history,

and they believe it

needs legal recognition.

It needs equality and it needs to be

on the same level as Gaelic

in Scotland and Welsh in Wales.

And obviously English here as well.

It needs to be on an equal

footing with the rest

and that's all we're asking.

But in Unionist areas

there is suspicion and even

hostility towards the idea.

Here in Shankill Road

in West Belfast people

are strongly opposed

to an Irish language law.

Wouldn't have my children going down

schools, you know, learning it,

letting the kids learn it.

This is British, it isn't Irish.

Always stick to British...

This is a British country,

not an Irish country.

I think it's terrible.

I think our crew's letting us down.

That strength of feeling shows how

sensitive and symbolic the issue

of the Irish language has become

during this long and deep political

crisis but there are other

disagreements separating the parties

including whether same-sex

marriage should be allowed

in Northern Ireland and how

the hundreds of unsolved

killings from the Troubles

should be dealt with.

The power-sharing executive has been

in the deep freeze as the issue

of the Irish border has become one

of the most significant

in the Brexit negotiations.

The Stormont stalemate isn't over,

but there are signs

relations are warming.

Chris Page, BBC News, Belfast.

The

London City Airport remains closed

after an unexploded bomb

from World War Two was

found in the Thames, not

far from the runway.

It was discovered in the early

hours of Sunday morning,

forcing the evacuation

of neighbouring buildings.

Work to dispose of the device should

be completed by tomorrow.

The Serious Fraud Office

is to prosecute Barclays Bank

over a loan of more than £2 billion

it gave to the Gulf state of

Qatar during the financial crisis.

Investigators claim the money

was used to buy shares

in the bank, which amounts

to unlawful financial assistance.

Barclays' parent company was charged

with the same offence

last year and both firms

will contest the allegations.

In South Africa, leaders

of the governing ANC party

are meeting to decide the fate

of President Jacob Zuma.

Mr Zuma has been resisting

calls to stand down,

but over the weekend the party's

new leader Cyril Ramaphosa

said the question of his position

would be finalised today.

Our Africa Editor Fergal Keane

is in Johannseburg.

We've been here quite a few times in

the last few weeks but is there any

sign of a final decision as to

President Zuma's fate?

Not yet but

there will be. I wish I could tell

you when. They've been talking for

over six hours. That's not unusual

with the ANC and especially the

National Executive Committee, which

has 90 members and everyone is

entitled to their say. They should

reach a consensus and avoid a

divisive vote. The scenario that has

been sketched out is that they will

agree to recall President Zuma, in

other words ask for his resignation

and in a carefully choreographed

move he will agreed to resign. It

isn't confirmed or guaranteed. The

doubt is moving onto the floor of

Parliament where you may have a vote

of no-confidence or impeachment

which would see ANC members voting

against their own leader. Cyril

Ramaphosa once to have leadership

and avoid a gift to the opposition.

It is hoped they will reach a

decision that will see President

Zuma, perhaps tomorrow morning,

agreeing to resign.

The top stories

Oxfam's deputy chief executive has

resigned over the sex scandal

involving aid workers in Haiti.

Coming up, more details are revealed

about the royal wedding day.

Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News,

Britain's Aimee Fuller can only

finish 17th after being one

of the snowboarders to struggle on a

windswept day at

the Winter Olympics.

Tourist flights to Tunisia

will resume tomorrow,

two and half years after 30 British

holidaymakers were killed

in a terror attack at a beach

resort in the coastal

city of Sousse.

A travel ban later imposed by the UK

was lifted last summer

and now Thomas Cook will operate

flights from Manchester

and Birmingham.

Our Security Correspondent Frank

Gardner has travelled to Tunisia

to assess what security

measures have been taken

to reassure visitors.

Tunis by night, and a National Guard

unit prepares to raid

a suspected terrorist hideout.

Their commander tells us they know

of 500 Islamist extremists

living in just three

square kilometres here.

Well, they've just gone

into a house here.

We can hear some shouts.

We're in a tiny little backstreet,

and they're looking for members

of an Isis cell that has been

in Libya, they suspect, so the whole

street is flooded with these armed

National Guard soldiers.

Three years ago on this beach

near Sousse, an Isis gunman

shot dead 38 people,

30 of them British.

Now, Tunisia is getting training

from Royal Navy instructors

in maritime security,

while Met police detectives have

been training up hotel staff.

At four key airports,

British aviation experts have

installed new screening equipment,

so I asked Britain's ambassador,

how safe is it now?

Well, no country is 100% safe,

as we saw with the tragic attacks

in London and Manchester last year,

but it is safer here than it was in

2015 because the Tunisians'

capability has improved.

In the resort town of Hammamet,

where Thomas Cook is taking

the first returning British

tourists, I asked the hotel manager

what precautions he's taking.

We have around 60 cameras

all around the hotel.

The exterior cameras

are all monitored 24 hours

by people behind the screens.

But Tunisia sits in

a dangerous neighbourhood.

Across this border, Libya

is in chaos, and Isis has bases.

The Manchester bomber trained in

Libya, and so did the Sousse gunman.

Back in the capital, Tunis,

the night raid yields results.

Suspects were arrested

and will now face trial.

Tunisia has made huge

progress against terrorism,

but if its tourist industry

is to recover fully,

it will need to stay vigilant.

Frank Gardner, BBC News, Tunisia.

Friends and family are searching

for a Scottish man who's

gone missing in Hamburg

after a stag party.

Liam Colgan was last

seen in the early hours

of Saturday morning,

in a bar in the city.

He'd organised the trip

for family and friends,

ahead of his brother's

wedding next month.

Catrina Renton has the details.

Liam Colgan, on the right,

doing what he loves,

music with his band.

On Friday, he and 17

friends were out in Hamburg

celebrating his brother

Eamonn's stag weekend.

Liam is the best man

and had organised it all.

His friends last saw him at 1:30am

in the Reeperbahn area of the city.

We knew that his phone battery had

died on Friday evening

so we might not have just heard

of him overnight.

But it was really strange

when he didn't turn up the next

morning and we became increasingly

concerned when he didn't turn up

for the 5-a-side football match

that we had planned for one o'clock

on Saturday afternoon.

That's when we really knew

something wasn't right.

Some of Liam's family and friends

have stayed in the city

hoping to help trace him.

German police say they are

planning to launch a public

appeal for information.

Back in Scotland, Liam's friends

are doing everything they can,

they want as many people as possible

to share this page on social

media, hoping someone,

somewhere knows something.

It's totally out of character and

that's why we need people's help.

Don't assume that this is just a guy

on a night out that's not come back

because he's on some kind

of mad night out.

That's not him.

The wedding is in three weeks' time.

Liam's family and friends

just want him home.

Catrina Renton, BBC News.

Kensington Palace has released more

details of Prince Harry

and Meghan Markle's wedding plans.

The ceremony will take place

at Windsor Castle on May 19th.

Our Royal Correspondent

Nicholas Witchell reports.

Three months to go,

and so much to do, but Harry

and Megan are said to be

involving themselves closely

in details of the

wedding arrangements.

The venue we know will

be the magnificent

setting of St George's Chapel

inside Windsor Castle.

Dating from the 15th century

and rich in history, it's

here that the banners of the Knights

of the Garter are displayed above

the choir stalls.

It will be the setting

for a ceremony which will be

very much more a family wedding

than a state occasion.

We now know the timetable

for the day.

At noon, the wedding

ceremony will begin,

well-timed for American

breakfast television.

At 1pm, the carriage

procession will begin.

At around 2pm, there

will be a wedding

reception inside the castle.

Then in the evening,

there will be a private

dinner and reception for the couple,

their families, and close friends.

In terms of the carriage procession,

this is the route they will take.

At 1pm, from Windsor

Castle, they will

go down Castle Hill

and Windsor High Street,

and then out to the south

of Windsor along King's

Road, before returning

to the castle along

the Long Walk.

A processional route

which Kensington Palace hopes

will give people a chance

to feel part of what

they call, "This special

day."

One problem which hasn't been

resolved is whether Prince William,

the president of the

Football Association,

will be able to get to the FA

Cup final, which is due

to kick off at Wembley

late that afternoon.

It could be tricky.

The problem would be

getting William back

to the castle in time for that

family dinner in the evening.

If the cup final went

into extra time, he'd

have a problem.

So Windsor may well win

the day over Wembley.

And at the centre of things

at the big match in

Windsor will be these two, a bride

and groom becoming, well, not

exactly a Mr and Mrs,

more probably a Duke and Duchess.

Nicholas Witchell, BBC News,

Windsor.

The minister responsible

for maternity and paternity leave,

Andrew Griffiths, who has been

promoting shared parental

leave for new parents,

has told the BBC that he's not

actually eligible for the leave.

He and his wife are expecting

their first child in April,

but he said that as a minister it's

against the rules for him to take

advantage of the policy.

The legendary singer Vic Damone had

died at the age of 89.

# I hear music when I look at you.

#

Best known for the hits

"You're Breaking My Heart"

and "On the Street Where You Live,"

he was part of the golden

age of lounge singers,

who came to fame after World War II,

including Frank Sinatra,

Tony Bennett and Dean Martin.

Strong winds have disrupted

the Winter Olympics in South Korea.

The final of the women's giant

slalom had to be postponed.

But the final of the women's

snowboard slopestyle did go

ahead in conditions some

described as "dangerous".

From Pyeongchang, our

Sports Correspondent Andy

Swiss has the details.

Just getting to the

start was a struggle.

Howling winds for the women's

snowboarders and soon

a blizzard of controversy.

Instead of postponing, they went

ahead, with calamitous results.

COMMENTATOR:

Goodness me!

Quite how no one was injured,

especially Slovakia's Klaudia

Medlova, almost defied belief.

As one after another,

their hopes crash landed.

All of the 25 riders fell

at some point, including

Britain's Aimee Fuller.

The wind forced her to pull out

of a jump on her first run,

which meant on the second

it was all or nothing,

and agonisingly it was the latter.

Fuller finished 17th,

but more importantly, intact.

The conditions, she said,

where simply brutal.

It felt like I had

a sailboat under my board.

The wind ripped me sideways.

There wasn't a chance

I was going to land.

So, yeah, devastated.

Amidst the chaos, America's Jamie

Anderson kept her balance

and her Olympic title.

Organisers felt it had been safe

to start the final, but was it?

The coaches and judges,

they all have a chat together

and make a decision at the top

of the slope.

I wonder what went on in that

conversation, why somebody didn't

say, let's postpone this.

These biting winds have already

blown the schedule of course.

Today's women's giant slalom

had to be postponed,

and with more high winds forecast

tomorrow there could

be more disruption.

For now though, there will be relief

no-one was badly hurt,

on a day when extreme sport

certainly lived up to its name.

Andy Swiss, BBC News, Pyeongchang.

Looks pretty bad in South Korea,

what about here?

Here's Chris Fawkes.

Here's Chris Fawkes.

For some of us it is the winter that

keeps giving in terms of snow, some

having more than their fair share.

This was taken in the Peak District.

Looking at the satellite picture you

can see the next weather system that

is racing across the Atlantic and

this will cause problems overnight

and into tomorrow for some of us in

terms of heavies know. Before that,

very windy over England and Wales,

gusts around 70 mph around coastal

areas and that's enough to cause

issues. You can't help but notice

the blue turning into white further

north. Rain turning to snow in

higher parts of Northern Ireland,

Scotland and northern England. How

much, 5-10 centimetres. It could be

riding towards morning rush-hour in

Scotland, coming down heavily, so

difficult conditions, a risk of

disruption and even lower down there

will be a few centimetres. The snow

moving away from Northern Ireland

but leaving thick cover over the

higher ground. Through the rest of

the Davie Provan that nation is

slowly moving over East Anglia and

south-east England so it will feel

particularly cold. Sunny spells for

the rest of us but it will be cold,

temperatures struggling, four, 5

degrees. On Tuesday night, icy

stretches and then a weather system

racing from the Atlantic and it will

do more of the same, strong wind,

then a band of rain, turning to snow

over the higher ground, leading to

further significant accumulations.

Some snow at lower levels in eastern

Scotland but things will turn milder

from the West with temperatures up

to double figures late in the day.

We could see some problems overnight

and tomorrow, with heavy snow in the

North.

A reminder of our main story.

Oxfam's deputy Chief Executive has

resigned over the sex scandal

involving aid workers in Haiti.

That's it.

So it's goodbye from me.