21/03/2018 BBC News at Six

After years of a pay cap or pay

freeze, the Government gives pay

rises to over a million NHS staff.

Over the next three years, wages

will increase between 6.5% and 29%.

It's nice for us to be recognised

for all that hard work.

But obviously, it doesn't detract

away from the last few

years, where we actually

haven't had anything.

Now it's up to staff

to agree to the deal.

We'll be looking at the detail

of what's on offer.

Also tonight...

This summer's World Cup -

the Foreign Secretary compares

Russia's staging of it to Hitler

hosting the Olympics.

The academic at the centre

of the row over harvesting personal

Facebook data tells the BBC he's

been made a scapegoat.

The new scanner that,

for the first time, can track

within the brain a person's

movements as they happen.

And coming up on BBC News:

Scotland scuppered by the rain.

They failed to qualify for next

year's Cricket World Cup -

after they were beaten

by the West Indies and the weather.

Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six.

More than a million NHS workers

can expect pay rises,

if they agree to a deal struck

between most unions and ministers.

It follows a pay cap imposed

for the last five years

and a pay freeze before that.

The deal will see wages increase

between 6.5% and 29% over

the next three years -

with the exception of doctors,

dentists and senior leaders.

The biggest rises will go to those

on the lowest end of the scale -

cleaners, porters and catering staff

- who will see an immediate

£2,000 added to their pay

packets this year.

The salary increases

are expected to cost around

£4 billion, but won't come out

of the NHS budget.

They will come from

the Treasury instead.

Our political editor,

Laura Kuenssberg, reports.

Porters. Paramedics. Nurses who care

for millions of patients. The staff

who keep the NHS going finally to

have a bigger pay rise.

It is nice

for us to be recognised for all that

hard work. But obviously, it doesn't

detract away from the last few years

where we actually haven't had

anything.

Most of us live on eight

strict budget.

The future will look

better and brighter. I have two

young children and having this pay

rise will help with childcare and

things like that, I will be able to

do more things.

For five years,

there have been calls to do just

that. Aside from automatic rises,

the limit on public sector pay

increases of 1% meant wages fell

behind. And the election left the

Tories in no doubt about the

rotation.

So... Today's agreement on

a new pay deal reflects public

appreciation but just how much they

have done and continue to do. Rarely

has a pay raise been so

well-deserved for NHS staff who have

never worked harder.

When a

nosebleed it with the Prime Minister

for a pay rise on national

television, she was told there was

no magic monetary -- when a nurse

pleaded with. So can he tell us how

this pay rise will be paid for? Has

the Prime Minister's horticultural

skills grown said monetary?

Rises

will come from the Treasury to start

with, not existing health budgets,

so the big unions are on board.

It

has not solved the problem is, it is

a start and we would expect to be

the start menu process that

recognises the hard work of our

nurses and people who work in our

health service, that recognises the

value and that we value those people

for what we do.

Staff still have to

approve the deal and with inflation,

it might not make the difference.

I

think the devil is in the detail and

other members that might yesterday

were going through the details and

could not see how this was going to

claw back years of pay cuts.

Perhaps

for NHS staff in England, these

rises cannot come fast enough.

Remember, limits on pay have been in

place for years. Part of the

Conservatives efforts to balance the

nation's box. But public money will

still be tight. This is an easing of

the squeeze, not the end. Scotland

and Wales are likely to follow the

Westminster move. And it adds volume

to calls for rises in other parts of

the public sector. Money around here

is still tight, but the cap no

longer fits.

The Foreign Secretary has compared

Russia's staging of the World Cup

this summer to Hitler hosting

the Olympics in Nazi Germany.

Boris Johnson also says

that he is "deeply concerned"

about how British fans may be

treated at the World Cup.

Our diplomatic correspondent,

James Landale, reports.

In Salisbury, the investigation into

the nerve agent attack on Sergei

Skripal and his daughter continued

as the diplomatic row between

Britain and Russia threatens to

damage sporting relations as well.

This summer, England's football team

will travel to Russia for the World

Cup companies by thousands of

British bands and the Government is

worried about their safety.

We're

watching it very, very closely. At

the moment, we are not inclined

actively to dissuade people from

going because we want to hear from

the Russians what steps they are

going to take to look after our

fans.

So far, he said, only 24,000

British bands had applied for

tickets, far fewer than normal.

The

numbers are well down, but that does

not mean we are not deeply concerned

about how they may be treated.

The

great day dawns with the arrival of

the Olympic flame at the end of its

2,000 mile journey from Greece.

One

said Vladimir Putin would use the

World Cup in the same way Hitler

used the Berlin Olympics, to gloss

over what the MP called a brutal and

corrupt regime. The Foreign

Secretary did not disagree.

I think

the comparison with the 1936 is

certainly right. And I

certainly right. And I think it is a

prospect to think of Putin glorying

in the sporting event.

In Moscow,

senior officials summoned foreign

diplomats for an extraordinary

briefing to suggest that Britain

itself had orchestrated the attack

in Salisbury.

The British

authorities are either unable to

ensure protection from such a

terrorist act on their territory or

they themselves directly or

indirectly are not accusing anyone,

have directed this attack against a

Russian citizen.

My name is Emma

Nottingham and I am from the British

Embassy.

You cannot see her, but the

British diplomat gave as good as she

got.

Sergei Skripal and his

daughter, Yulia, or poisoned with a

military grade Novichok nerve agent

of a type developed by Russia in

what we see as an attempted

assassination attempt. The UK

concluded it was highly likely that

Russia was responsible.

It is now

clear the nerve agent used in

Salisbury is poisoning Britain's

relations with Russia as well. With

no letup in the war of words.

An academic who created an app

which harvested data from 50 million

Facebook users says he has been

made "a scapegoat".

Dr Aleksandr Kogan has told the BBC

he didn't know his work for the data

company Cambridge Analytica in 2014

violated Facebook's policies.

Cambridge Analytica is accused

of gathering data from millions

of people without their knowledge.

Here's our business

editor, Simon Jack.

The pressure on Mark Zuckerberg is

growing to give his version of how

the personal data of 50 million

Facebook users ended up with a

consultancy that worked on the

successful election campaign of

Donald Trump and was secretly filmed

boasting of their influence.

The Cambridge academic who came up

with the original app says he is

stunned by the controversy.

Never in

our wildest dreams did we think

anything we did would be used in the

Donald Trump campaign. This is 2014.

Well before anybody would think Mr

Trump would be a serious candidate.

So at the time, I didn't know who

their clients were going to be and I

did not know the specific case. I

did know it was going to be used for

political purposes but beyond that,

yes, it was well above my pay grade.

I should have asked! Although he did

sign an undertaking that is

migratory was from research only and

would never be used for commercial

purposes. The implication and

aligning the story is democracy has

somehow been undermined and that

drew a political response today.

The

allegations are clearly very

concerning and it is absolutely

right that they should be

investigated, it is right that the

Information Commissioner is doing

exactly that, because people need to

have confidence in how their

personal data is being used.

So how

much are we, as consumers, to blame

for surrendering the facts of our

lives?

The conservation we should be

having is, what happens to our data,

how much are we comfortable to

share, who with, and what we think

about how that is done? So this

feels to me like a real light bulb

moment where people are

understanding that it is not just

clicking like on Facebook, you are

giving data away.

So far, this

scandal has cost Facebook, whose

London headquarters there, $50

billion in market value and untold

reputational damage. The Chief

Executive Mark Zuckerberg has been

silent and he will speak tonight in

college for new, but how much

responsibility could he and should

he take for the misuse of his own

customers data? Cambridge Analytica

have always denied they used the

harvested data in the Trump campaign

and deny any wrongdoing. Mark

Zuckerberg will need a better

statement than that.

We can talk to our economics editor,

Kamal Ahmed, in Brussels.

But first, let's go to our media

editor, Amol Rajan,

who's in San Francisco,

where Facebook has its headquarters.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of

Facebook, he's going to break his

silence about the scandal, what is

he likely to say?

It is about time

too because the silence from

Zuckerberg and chief operating

officer Sheryl Sandberg has been

deafening. We do not know for

certain he will speak today and

there is still doubt about that, we

don't know when and how he will

speak. He has put long posts on his

Facebook page in the past, it could

be that or video post. If as we

expect he does speak today, he will

have three key messages. The first,

it will be his account of what

happened. There are people at the

company who feel they are getting

the blame for the misdeeds of

individuals and companies who may

have misled them. Interesting to

hear what Zuckerberg has to say

about that. He is also going to

acknowledge public concern around

the world about data, companies

growing very powerful by holding

large amounts of data and he will

talk about that directly and try and

reassure Facebook's huge global

unity of 2 billion users that he

takes his responsibilities towards

them very seriously. But he has

multiple audiences, the staff here

who look to him as a deity who want

reassurance. The lawmakers and

regulators in Washington and Europe

who have their claws out and want a

piece of Facebook. And the members

of the public around the world who

are increasingly concerned. I

suspect it would be easier for him

to persuade staff than it is for him

to persuade the public that he takes

their concerns over data seriously.

And, Kamal in Brussels,

the other issue that has dogged

the big social media companies

is the amount of tax

they pay - or do not pay.

And the EU tightening

the rules on that today.

Absolutely. I think digital

companies like Facebook, like

Google, have had two controversies.

One on data and the other on tax.

Today, the European Commission said

it wanted to completely terror

attacks rules it came up with a

really stock figure. Traditional

businesses operating across Europe

pay and effective tax rate of 23%,

companies like Google and Facebook,

their active tax rate is 9.5%. It

has been a controversy for many

years, the European Commission's

proposals today say they want to

start taxing the activity based on

advertising revenues, the number of

users these companies have across

Europe. The companies themselves say

they paid the majority of their tax

in America, where they invented the

products we all use so eagerly. Will

it happen? Aim to beat the

Commissioner who put forward the

proposals and he said he wanted

agreement across the EU 28 by the

end of the year. Will the UK be

involved? The Treasury has said it

wants, its preferred option is a

revenue tax. This could be as

significant a moment on tax as the

organ is on data for Facebook

themselves.

From Brussels and San

Francisco, thank you.

With six people stabbed to death

this past week in London,

a senior police officer has told BBC

News the big rise in knife crime

isn't causing the outrage it should.

He fears it's because many victims

are from the black community that

not enough is being done.

Our special correspondent,

Lucy Manning, has been speaking

to the family of one victim.

Seven days, six murders,

all by knives.

Police in East London

investigate another last night.

Knives now being used too

often, killing too many.

Just a few miles away,

this bedroom was full of life,

but that life is gone.

They are parents who lost

their son last month.

Now it's empty.

Nothing is here.

He died for nothing.

When I come into this room,

Hasan's smell comes in my nose.

Everywhere, it has that smell.

Hasan's mother, Amina,

can now only stroke his picture.

Everyone is lost too much, Hasan.

A lot of people loved him.

He was handsome.

He was very honest.

And he was 19 years old.

He had a plan for the future.

Hasan was a student,

studying Criminology,

when he was stabbed.

It's two minutes that

changed Hasan's life,

my life, my family's life.

Police!

Police!

Stay where you are!

Police!

Police!

Police!

5am., West London, police

burst through the doors.

Officers are stepping up trying

to stop knives being used,

but admit they haven't been able

to stop knife crime rising.

Knuckle-dusters and drugs

are removed from the house

and a sword is recovered.

There has been a significant

increase of knife crime and that's

what we are tackling and have been

tackling over the last year or so.

So it's gone up, and I think we

should all be concerned about that.

26 people murdered by knives

in London so far this year,

including six teenagers,

prompting this frank admission.

I do fear sometimes that

because the majority of those that

are injured or killed are coming

from certain communities -

and very often, the black

communities in London -

it doesn't get the sense

of collective outrage that it ought

to do and really get everyone

to a place where we all are doing

everything we can to prevent

this from happening.

The BBC's obtained the latest

provisional NHS figures for England,

showing more than 4,000 stabbing

victims treated in the ten months

until the end of January this year.

That's 520 more people and a 14%

increase on the same

period the year before.

London hospitals like Barts,

Imperial and King's College

treated the most.

213 were treated in Birmingham, 181

in Manchester and 133 in Liverpool.

What would you like to see

the police and the Government doing

to stop so much knife crime?

They're not doing good enough.

This is a serious problem, honestly.

There's a lot of people that

are dying that's 17 years old,

18 years old, 20 years old.

They're dying for nothing.

After the stabbings,

the flowers, but they don't

last, and everyone -

but the families - move on.

I don't want anyone

else hurt any more.

I don't want...

any mothers and fathers

crying any more.

Lucy Manning, BBC News.

Our top story this evening...

After years of having their pay

capped, millions of NHS staff

in England are set for a pay rise

of at least 6.5%.

And still to come, could you live

without plastic, as the concern

grows of the trip to the

environment, a family ties to break

the habit.

Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News,

Manchester City Women

resume their hunt for the one major

trophy they've never won.

The opening leg of their

Champions League quarterfinal

is tonight, against Linkoping.

Scientists in Nottingham have

invented a new type of brain scanner

which for the first time allows

patients to move

while being scanned.

It shows exactly which part

of the brain are responsible

for movements as they take place.

The researchers believe it has

the potential to revolutionise

the field of brain imaging

of children and patients

with movement disorders.

Fergus Walsh reports.

Conventional brain

scanners are big, bulky...

OK, if you could keep still.

...And to get a good image,

patients mustn't move in them.

This device, which looks like a prop

from a budget sci-fi movie

or Phantom of the Opera,

is in fact the latest

thing in brain scanning.

Because you can do this

whilst wearing it -

play bat and ball, or even drink

a cup of tea.

The scanner records the magnetic

field produced by brain activity,

and can show precisely

where in the brain these movements

are being controlled.

So, nobody's ever been able

to do this before...

The area of the brain shown in blue

is where wrist and arm movements

are controlled whilst playing

bat and ball.

I think in terms of mapping brain

activity, brain function,

this represents a step change.

Neuroscientists will be able

to envisage a whole new world

of experiments where we try and work

out what the brain's doing,

but whilst a person is behaving

naturally, is moving around.

This is the conventional

image scanner...

Recording magnetic fields

from the brain is usually done

with huge scanners called MEG.

You have to keep perfectly still.

The wearable MEG will be especially

helpful in scanning children.

So, children with epilepsy,

this technology is going to be

tremendously beneficial.

And the reason is that doctors can

now scan these children

as they're moving around,

and that's never been done before.

And it will make it easier to scan

people with movement

disorders like Parkinson's.

It was here at Nottingham University

in the early 70s that MRI

was first developed.

Now, this wearable MEG system has

the potential to open a whole

new field of brain scanning.

The research, in the journal Nature,

should lead to new discoveries

about the brain, and there

is so much still to learn.

Fergus Walsh, BBC News, Nottingham.

The TV presenter Ant McPartlin

has been charged with

drink-driving and will appear

at Wimbledon Magistrates'

Court next month.

He was arrested after an accident

involving three vehicles

in London on Sunday.

Leila Nathoo joins me in now.

What more can you tell us?

As you

say, it comes after eight collision

on Sunday. Ant McPartlin was driving

his Mini and there was a collision

with two other cars. He was arrested

after failing a roadside

breathalyser, he has been

interviewed by police and charged

with drink-driving. If he is found

guilty, he could face six months in

prison, a driving ban and a fine. We

know he is taking time out from his

TV commitments. His long-time

co-presenter and friend Dec, say the

two remaining episodes of Saturday

Night Takeaway will go ahead without

him. What the future holds will

clearly depend on what happened in

court. Ant McPartlin is due to

appear at Wimbledon magistrates

after Easter.

Tributes have been paid

to the Red Arrows engineer who died

in a crash on Anglesey on Tuesday.

Corporal Jonathan Bayliss's

colleagues described him

as a "generous, kind and caring man

who could always be relied upon".

The pilot of the aircraft,

flight lieutenant

David Stark was injured

in the accident.

The Archbishop of Canterbury says

three weeks of revelations of child

abuse by clergy have made him

ashamed of the Church of England.

Justin Welby has been giving

evidence at the independent inquiry

into child sexual abuse.

Here's our religion

editor Martin Bashir.

Nestled along the south

coast, Chichester is one

of the Church of England's

most picturesque diocese.

It's also been the setting

for a multitude of child abusers,

and there have been dozens

of convictions, including

Canon Gordon Rideout,

Father Robert Coles,

the Reverend Jonathan Graves,

Bishop Peter Ball.

Nursing a heavy cold,

the Archbishop of Canterbury arrived

to give evidence after almost three

weeks focused on the Church

of England, where the inquiry heard

that cover-ups were commonplace,

evidence was burned, and priests

routinely abused their power.

I swear by Almighty God...

I swear by Almighty God...

Answering questions for almost

three hours, Counsel

to the Inquiry Fiona Scolding asked

the Archbishop what he'd

learned from the process.

He appeared to choke back tears.

I've learned to be ashamed

again of the Church.

Phil Johnson was abused by a priest

in the Diocese of Chichester.

What's also been shown up

through his evidence,

and the evidence throughout

the inquiry, is just how little

power that he actually has.

And, you know, he can

use his authority and influence

to try and affect change,

but can't actually direct it.

This is not how Justin Welby

would have chosen to mark the fifth

anniversary of his installation.

But he assured the inquiry that

safeguarding remained a priority.

Martin Bashir, BBC News.

We keep on hearing about the rising

concern about plastic -

today a major study has warned

that the quantity of plastic

in the world's seas will treble

in a decade unless we use

or throw away less of it.

In the first of a three-part series,

we've set one family

from Bristol a challenge -

to see if they can live without

single-use plastic for ten days.

Jon Kay has been to visit them.

So, what's for tea in

the Evans household tonight?

Plastic, and plastic, and plastic.

And more plastic.

Liz, Andy and their girls

want to live with less of this.

But how?

Plastic, plastic, plastic...

Plastic, plastic.

They're going to try

living without single-use

plastic for ten days.

We're up for it but...

I can't see how you can do it,

as a modern family.

The bottles of lemonade

that we like.

Tomorrow is bin day.

We're doing well at recycling.

But where does it go from us?

They were inspired by

watching Blue Planet 2.

It will take years,

and years, and years.

It will probably still be that

same bottle when you're

Mummy and Daddy's age.

Shower gel, for Chloe.

Shower gel for Ella.

Shampoo for the puppy.

Going plastic free...

Moisturisers...

Is going to mean some big changes.

We're just plastic weirdos!

I don't think you are weird.

I think this is pretty

typical of most households.

Yeah, but when you start to think

about it, that's when you realise

how reliant on it we are.

We make our own toothpaste.

How do you do that?

To get some tips, they've come

to meet the Williams family,

who have been living without plastic

for two years.

We are so used to being told

we need a spray for this,

a bottle for that...

They use bars of shampoo,

home-made deodorant.

They have a little wooden

stick in the middle.

Even special earbuds.

Just keeps anything fresh.

And waxed paper

instead of clingfilm.

I work on a fairly tight budget.

Liz wants reassurances won't break

the bank when they try doing it.

We think it's probably

a bit cheaper, don't we?

We haven't done a complete

comparison, but our gut feeling

is that it's cheaper.

So windscreen wash now is water,

a little bit of detergent, vinegar,

and it works a treat.

But will the Evanses

grind their coffee instead of buying

pods, and use a strainer,

rather than tea bags

containing plastic?

I think it's brilliant.

Absolutely brilliant.

You're quite blown away by this?

Yes, I am.

Well, there's the fruit and veg.

Tomorrow, we'll follow

their ten day challenge.

I've got a stinking cold.

And it's not easy.

I've just been up to the chemist.

Everything is packaged

in blinkin' plastic!

Jon Kay, BBC News, Bristol.

Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Tomasz Schafernaker.

We are going to be frost free

tonight, which will make a nice

change to what we have been

experiencing for such a long time

now.

We will feel a big difference

tomorrow morning. Most will be frost

free. There will inevitably be one

two spots that will be freezing, the

towns and cities will be mild. The

area is coming from southern climes,

weather systems in the Atlantic.

That means we will see whether

chopping and changing over the next

few days, pretty much business as

usual for this time of the year.

There was a plume of milder air

which will be in place across the UK

tonight and tomorrow. This is what

we have in the forecast tomorrow.

Some clear spells around, not

necessarily here in Scotland. Quite

damp here. Despite the clear skies,

temperatures are not going to get

low at all. If you look at 5am on

Thursday, they will be hovering

around six or 7 degrees. That is in

the morning. When you step out of

the front door, on your way to work,

it will feel pleasant. If the sun is

out, a beautiful star to a lovely

spring day. Through the course of

the afternoon, the weather will

admittedly go downhill in western

parts. The cloud will increase.

South-westerly wind. With that comes

milder air. Despite the rain, 10

degrees in Belfast in the afternoon.

The Western Isles of Scotland get

rain. The best of the weather will

be across England and Wales. Eastern

and southern areas getting up to 12

or even 13 degrees. On Friday, the

weather changes a little bit. The

wind is swinging more from a

north-westerly direction. A little

bit cooler. Even wintry showers

across the hills of Scotland.

Temperatures will range from eight

in the North, to about 12 in the

South.

That's it.