:00:00. > :00:09.This is BBC World News Today with me, Karin Giannone.
:00:10. > :00:12.A 27-year battle for justice ends with a jury
:00:13. > :00:14.deciding that the victims of the Briatin's worst sporting
:00:15. > :00:21.96 Liverpool football fans died in a crush
:00:22. > :00:32.at Hillsborough during the FA Cup semi-final in 1989.
:00:33. > :00:38.Oh come, O come, with hope in your heart...
:00:39. > :00:41.At last the families who fought to uncover the truth know
:00:42. > :00:42.what really happened and that their loved ones
:00:43. > :00:46.It's another Super Tuesday, with five states going to the polls.
:00:47. > :00:48.Voters could boost Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's campaigns
:00:49. > :00:55.A Dutch dentist who mutilated the mouths of more than 100
:00:56. > :01:15.It's taken 27 long years, but a jury here in Britain concluded today
:01:16. > :01:18.that the 96 Liverpool football fans, who died in the Hillsborough stadium
:01:19. > :01:25.disaster in 1989, were unlawfully killed.
:01:26. > :01:31.The jury in the longest-running inquest in British history also
:01:32. > :01:33.decided that the police officer in charge was responsible
:01:34. > :01:35.for manslaughter by gross negligence and that the fans themselves,
:01:36. > :01:40.who were crushed on the terraces, were not to blame.
:01:41. > :01:42.Families of the victims say the conclusion vindicates
:01:43. > :01:55.Let's go live to Warrington now to Ben Brown.
:01:56. > :02:02.Hello from Warrington. It has been an extraordinary day here, where
:02:03. > :02:12.legal history has been made. Because the jury of six women and three men
:02:13. > :02:18.decided that the 96 Liverpool fans who died at Hillsborough stadium
:02:19. > :02:24.back in 1989 were unlawfully killed. When that conclusion was read out in
:02:25. > :02:28.court hearing Warrington, there were cheers from family members. There
:02:29. > :02:33.was applause as well from them. They hugged each other and there were
:02:34. > :02:40.cries of alleluia. The jury blamed police preparations before the game
:02:41. > :02:43.for the disaster and they blamed police and ambulance services for
:02:44. > :02:50.the emergency response after the disaster as well. The jury decided
:02:51. > :02:53.that the Liverpool fans who were at Hillsborough, the lettings Lane end
:02:54. > :02:59.of the ground, were in no way to blame for the crash at that end
:03:00. > :03:05.which led to the death of 96 fans. The youngest was aged ten and the
:03:06. > :03:18.eldest, 67. Judith Moritz was in court to hear the jury's decisions.
:03:19. > :03:29.Basing it on the Kop and today they sang it in court. -- they sing it.
:03:30. > :03:35.Mothers in tears and weeping. Justice! This is what the decisions
:03:36. > :03:39.mean to the families. Now do they believe us? Unlawful. They have been
:03:40. > :03:46.haunted by Hillsborough for 27 years. We have been knocked back
:03:47. > :03:58.that many times. It is just, I do not know. I am overwhelmed. They
:03:59. > :04:02.still feel the pain of April 19 89. COMMENTATOR On a clear sunny day in
:04:03. > :04:07.Hillsborough the stage is set for a rerun of the classic last year. We
:04:08. > :04:12.were excited about the game and a couple of hours later, both my
:04:13. > :04:15.children were dead. Horrible scenes. I have no way of knowing how many
:04:16. > :04:20.casualties we have but they are considerable. We saw faces against
:04:21. > :04:28.the fence and people saying to you, Bruce, can you help us, they are
:04:29. > :04:33.killing us. We have people being carried away on stretchers. I
:04:34. > :04:40.remember saying over and over again, please breathe. I cannot stress
:04:41. > :04:46.enough the serious nature of what has happened today. Unfortunately we
:04:47. > :04:57.have witnessed a tragedy. James Gary Aspinall. Paul William Carlisle. 96
:04:58. > :05:01.lives ended and countless more were shattered. From one day of disaster
:05:02. > :05:08.came years of grief, trauma and anger. They called for justice. Now
:05:09. > :05:15.they have been heard. The families have always felt the match commander
:05:16. > :05:21.David Duckenfield failed to keep the fans saved and now the jury agreed,
:05:22. > :05:26.saying his mistakes were so serious that supporters were unlawfully
:05:27. > :05:32.killed. Outside the ground, thousands of fans gathered. The jury
:05:33. > :05:35.decided the police lost control. David Duckenfield ordered a large
:05:36. > :05:41.gate to be opened to let them in and the jury said commanding officers
:05:42. > :05:46.should have closed the tunnel to the terraces and because they didn't,
:05:47. > :05:49.people were crushed to death. Chief Superintendant Duckenfield later
:05:50. > :05:54.lied and said the fans forced the gate. It was more than one quarter
:05:55. > :05:59.of a century before he admitted his mistakes before these inquests.
:06:00. > :06:04.David Duckenfield sat in the witness box next to the families bereaved by
:06:05. > :06:08.Hillsborough. The man paid to protect the fans and who chose
:06:09. > :06:11.instead to blame them. For the first time he admitted his lie and
:06:12. > :06:15.apologise for his mistakes will stop some relatives sobbed. Finding it
:06:16. > :06:20.too much to bear after so many years. My name is Charlotte Hennessy
:06:21. > :06:25.and I lost my dad Jimmy in the disaster. Charlotte was six when she
:06:26. > :06:31.lost her father at Hillsborough. No parent herself, after the apology
:06:32. > :06:37.she recorded her reaction on a video diary for the BBC. I can
:06:38. > :06:41.categorically say now that I do not accept your apology, David
:06:42. > :06:50.Duckenfield. I do not accept it will stop you live a life or 26 years.
:06:51. > :06:55.That is beyond cruel. One grieving father waited outside court that day
:06:56. > :07:03.to seize the chance to confront the commander himself. Today he said he
:07:04. > :07:10.had achieved justice for his son. I went with him that day and I took my
:07:11. > :07:13.mobile and this may sound daft but I sat on the stone next to him and I
:07:14. > :07:19.played you will never walk alone to him. Today some families call for
:07:20. > :07:24.the resignation of the current Chief Constable of South Yorkshire and.
:07:25. > :07:31.The force failed the victims and failed their families. Today, as I
:07:32. > :07:36.have said before, I would like to apologise unreservedly to the
:07:37. > :07:41.families and those affected. The jury said lives were lost because
:07:42. > :07:45.the ambulance service did not declare a major incident. Today the
:07:46. > :07:48.service apologise. Tony Edwards was one of the only medics to make it
:07:49. > :07:54.onto the pitch without back-up support. If it had been dealt with
:07:55. > :07:57.properly I would not have been alone, there would have been other
:07:58. > :08:00.ambulance crews there, we could've stayed on the pitch and it could
:08:01. > :08:05.have been completely different and we have said that for years and now
:08:06. > :08:08.we are looking at properly. There was a vindication for survivors and
:08:09. > :08:13.fans who the jury say played no part in causing the disaster. They died
:08:14. > :08:16.around us and sadly some of them beneath us. We carried them on the
:08:17. > :08:20.pitch, we were there with them in their final moments. We were
:08:21. > :08:27.predominantly trying to save their lives. 96 men, women and children as
:08:28. > :08:34.young as ten lost their lives. The coroner told their families they
:08:35. > :08:38.could have done no more. Before today, Justice for the 96 was a
:08:39. > :08:45.battle cry and now it is being sung in victory.
:08:46. > :08:53.That campaign for justice for the 96 has been a very long one. 27 years
:08:54. > :08:57.is how long the families of the dead have waited for the findings they
:08:58. > :09:04.got today at Warrington coroner 's court. Very different from the
:09:05. > :09:08.original inquests back in 1991 when the verdict was accidental death.
:09:09. > :09:13.Today the decision of the jury was unlawful killing and they found the
:09:14. > :09:15.mistakes in judgment made by the police commander, the match
:09:16. > :09:23.commander, Chief superintendent David duck and field on the day
:09:24. > :09:30.amounted to gross negligence. The South Yorkshire 's fourth admitted
:09:31. > :09:33.their policing today, on that day on April 15, 1989 had gone
:09:34. > :09:37.catastrophically wrong. Lucy Manning reports.
:09:38. > :09:43.Like today's fans they were going to a game and then home but too many
:09:44. > :09:49.Liverpool supporters did not make it. Let down by the police who
:09:50. > :09:53.should have protected them. The emergency services could have saved
:09:54. > :10:02.them and the ground was supposed to be safe. By opening that date, they
:10:03. > :10:06.were... Tony was a steward inside the ground and this is his first
:10:07. > :10:11.interview about what happened at Hillsborough. What did you make of
:10:12. > :10:19.police behaviour on the day? They were disorganised. Nobody knew who
:10:20. > :10:22.was in charge to start with. I saw police stood there talking about
:10:23. > :10:29.people laid on the floor. I saw police not do nothing. The failures
:10:30. > :10:34.started early on outside. Not enough turnstiles and police officers were
:10:35. > :10:37.here. Radios were not working and inexperienced match commander and a
:10:38. > :10:44.ground without a valid safety certificate. As the fans started to
:10:45. > :10:49.be crushed outside the ground, the disastrous fateful decision was
:10:50. > :10:55.taken to open the gate. That situation got out of hand early
:10:56. > :10:59.doors. A responsible police officer would have looked at it, assessed
:11:00. > :11:08.the situation and done something about it prior to the build-up.
:11:09. > :11:12.William Crawford was a police sergeant working by the lettings
:11:13. > :11:16.Lane end. All it needed was someone to pass me a message and say, we are
:11:17. > :11:28.going to open the gate, close the tunnel. We were overwhelmed that
:11:29. > :11:31.day. Despite a clear view from the police control box, senior officers
:11:32. > :11:38.did little. The commander called for police dogs for ambulances. The jury
:11:39. > :11:42.found not only did the police caused the tragedy but then they did not do
:11:43. > :11:49.enough to save fans. I really felt mad. Because I had actually seen
:11:50. > :11:55.police pushing people back into the crowd. And I told police I have seen
:11:56. > :12:00.this and saw them hitting them with truncheons as they were climbing.
:12:01. > :12:06.They said, it was a mistake and I must have been seeing things. That
:12:07. > :12:09.had eaten me up for a long time. Some police did help. Doug Earlswood
:12:10. > :12:15.one year out of training when he tried to rescue fans and others
:12:16. > :12:25.failed them. How do you feel senior officers behaved? I did see two at
:12:26. > :12:32.the fence. But they had just frozen. And I shouted, I do not remember...
:12:33. > :12:36.Some police stood still, lined across the police -- pitch to stop
:12:37. > :12:41.any violence. But fans were not fighting. They were dying. I thought
:12:42. > :12:47.we were very light on manpower at this end. More than 200 April raised
:12:48. > :12:55.concerns afterwards and found their account had been changed. -- people.
:12:56. > :13:00.I had been assured that paragraph had been deleted and it was removed
:13:01. > :13:05.because there was criticism. But serious criticism from the jury and
:13:06. > :13:10.also South Yorkshire and is the. 'S errors cost lives. Only three
:13:11. > :13:17.ambulances made it onto the pitch, one, one hour after the disaster and
:13:18. > :13:21.most queued up outside. Peter Wells was one of the volunteers with the
:13:22. > :13:26.St John's ambulance. What about South Yorkshire ambulance and their
:13:27. > :13:30.staff? They were there but I never saw them on the ground. When I got
:13:31. > :13:35.to the fence it was so obvious people were in trouble. I think
:13:36. > :13:38.anybody trained or otherwise, anybody who saw it would have seen
:13:39. > :13:46.instantly they were in trouble and needed treatment. As Peter on the
:13:47. > :13:48.left was pictured running down the pitch to save people, professional
:13:49. > :13:52.ambulance staff failed to immediately declare a major
:13:53. > :13:57.incident. This was a ground, the jury decided, that even before the
:13:58. > :14:03.game just was not safe. Sheffield Wednesday said football grounds have
:14:04. > :14:11.now changed. Rod Smith was part of the safety investigation team after
:14:12. > :14:15.the disaster. Within half an hour of walking around the ground, I saw so
:14:16. > :14:20.many obvious deficiencies that did not need rules to tell you it was
:14:21. > :14:25.deficient, because common sense would have told you, that is
:14:26. > :14:30.dangerous, that needs to be, something needs to be done about
:14:31. > :14:37.that. Those there that day who did help, it stays with them. There were
:14:38. > :14:40.two guys at the front and I was convinced they had died. Their eyes
:14:41. > :14:45.rolled up into their heads and I thought they had gone. It was not
:14:46. > :14:49.until I went to Warrington afterwards I found out they both
:14:50. > :14:55.survive. You only found out at the inquest? I went 25 years without
:14:56. > :14:59.knowing. A lot of people are injured and some are very concerned for
:15:00. > :15:02.their friends. Tony Romo as those they help, more than one dozen and
:15:03. > :15:09.those he could not save. -- remembers those. I picked him up and
:15:10. > :15:14.carried him in my arms. I was pinching his ear and talking to him
:15:15. > :15:22.and telling him I hope someone is waiting for him up in heaven. I
:15:23. > :15:29.never found out where they were. It was so upsetting to know, because
:15:30. > :15:39.most of the people, I know their names. The inquest at Warrington
:15:40. > :15:43.coroner 's Court lasted for two years, the longest legal proceedings
:15:44. > :15:47.in British legal history. As well as the inquest there are two separate
:15:48. > :15:52.criminal investigations now into the Hillsborough disaster. After the
:15:53. > :15:56.decision by the jury the 96 fans were unlawfully killed very and
:15:57. > :16:02.expectation now there will be criminal charges. -- killed
:16:03. > :16:07.unlawfully and there is an expectation now.
:16:08. > :16:09.It's another "Super Tuesday" of voting in the United States.
:16:10. > :16:11.Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are expected to increase
:16:12. > :16:13.their respective leads in the Democratic and Republican
:16:14. > :16:15.races for the presidential nominations in the latest
:16:16. > :16:21.Voting is taking place in five north-eastern states,
:16:22. > :16:22.Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut
:16:23. > :16:28.Polls close in just under six hours time, with results
:16:29. > :16:31.Let's go to a polling station in Maryland.
:16:32. > :16:38.Laura Bicker is at Westland middle school in Bethesda.
:16:39. > :16:48.All north-eastern states. First, the Democratic race, how soon might this
:16:49. > :16:53.all be sewn up? In the next 24 hours for Hillary Clinton she will hope
:16:54. > :16:57.that it will certainly be clear that she will be on a path to the
:16:58. > :17:01.nomination. Bernie Sanders, his language in the last few days has
:17:02. > :17:05.changed ever so slightly. He said at the start he was going to take this
:17:06. > :17:10.all the way to the Democratic convention floor in July. The other
:17:11. > :17:16.day he said, we will take it to the all the primaries at the end of
:17:17. > :17:20.June. He talked about the effect he has had on Hillary Clinton's
:17:21. > :17:27.campaign. For example, in the last two Daisy has brought in a new
:17:28. > :17:31.campaign advert, similar to Bernie Sanders, it has music and talks
:17:32. > :17:37.about her with love and kindness. It sees in a more human light, hugging
:17:38. > :17:43.and talking to voters. That is the kind of image she is trying to
:17:44. > :17:46.project. And as she goes up against the Republican Dominik Kohr whoever
:17:47. > :17:52.that is, that is what she will try and get across. -- Republican
:17:53. > :17:57.nominee, whoever that is. Hillary Clinton can come across as quite
:17:58. > :18:01.unpopular. Certainly among Bernie Sanders voters. They will say, maybe
:18:02. > :18:07.we will not vote rather than vote for Hillary Clinton. She could have
:18:08. > :18:12.a battle ahead even if she gets the nomination in the next 24 hours. And
:18:13. > :18:19.Mr Trump's path remains a little more uncertain for the Republicans.
:18:20. > :18:25.We are still watching and waiting. We have pens and paper 's and it is
:18:26. > :18:34.like sitting a maths exam. That is what it comes down to. Donald Trump
:18:35. > :18:37.needs 1237 delegates in his pocket. He is getting closer to the finish
:18:38. > :18:43.but it is not clear he will get there. In the next 24 hours he might
:18:44. > :18:48.edge a little closer. That is because polling suggests he is way
:18:49. > :18:53.ahead in all five states. But as we have seen, Ted Cruz, John Basic,
:18:54. > :18:59.they are trying to pull resources and look at states where they might
:19:00. > :19:02.persuade voters who may go one way or the other to vote for the
:19:03. > :19:10.candidate who has the most chance of winning. Will it work? It plays into
:19:11. > :19:15.the narrative of Donald Trump. He said the contest, the Republican
:19:16. > :19:21.contest is rigged. And by colluding together, in his words, certainly it
:19:22. > :19:26.looks like it plays into his hands. We will have to watch and see how
:19:27. > :19:30.any delegates he gets and how much closer it gets into the magic
:19:31. > :19:41.number. Laura, thank you very much, in Melligan. -- Maryland. We will
:19:42. > :19:44.bring it all together for you live from Washington and then we will
:19:45. > :19:54.have the results on our bulletins from midnight tonight.
:19:55. > :19:57.30 years ago today, a disaster was unfolding on the western edge
:19:58. > :20:01.A meltdown at the Chernobyl reactor in what is now Ukraine,
:20:02. > :20:03.blew off its roof and sent a cloud of radioactive
:20:04. > :20:06.About 30 people died in the initial accident,
:20:07. > :20:09.but the United Nations estimates that thousands could ultimately be
:20:10. > :20:16.Chernobyl isn't just a historic event for Ukraine.
:20:17. > :20:19.The disaster for which the president led tributes today still affects
:20:20. > :20:30.And it has shaped government policy and our opinions of nuclear safety.
:20:31. > :20:33.Anger is growing in the West over the way the Russians
:20:34. > :20:38.The picture showed damage to the corner of only one
:20:39. > :20:40.building and no evidence of any continuing fire.
:20:41. > :20:42.The Soviet authorities' attempt to cover up
:20:43. > :20:45.the leakage of radioactive material ultimately failed.
:20:46. > :20:50.And probably sped up the downfall of the Soviet Union.
:20:51. > :20:57.Andrei, a worker at Chernobyl, heard the explosions.
:20:58. > :20:59.But he only knew it was something serious when he saw
:21:00. > :21:03.You could see the bright light in the place where
:21:04. > :21:15.And I realised it was the glowing core of the reactor.
:21:16. > :21:18.Then I think I fully realised that it was not an accident,
:21:19. > :21:28.Even now the city next to the plant, built for the workers
:21:29. > :21:32.and their families, is an eerie reminder.
:21:33. > :21:42.And toys and shoes at the nursery, left behind when a whole population
:21:43. > :21:50.You can see the beds where the children could sleep
:21:51. > :21:55.And then round here is the play area.
:21:56. > :21:58.The fact that so many things in an entire city have barely been
:21:59. > :22:01.touched for 30 years gives you a sense of how unique
:22:02. > :22:07.But 180 people, including Valentina, and her dog Dana,
:22:08. > :22:16.still live in Chernobyl's 30 kilometre exclusion zone.
:22:17. > :22:20.TRANSLATION: Our family was scattered all over Ukraine.
:22:21. > :22:26.But my husband and I decided that staying here was best.
:22:27. > :22:29.This multi-million pound international project to build
:22:30. > :22:32.a giant shield over the reactor, so a huge amount of radio
:22:33. > :22:35.material still inside can be removed, continues.
:22:36. > :22:49.The legacy of the Chernobyl disaster is very real 30 years on.
:22:50. > :22:56.Now a look at some of the day's other news...
:22:57. > :22:59.Mitsubishi Motors has said it has used fuel consumption tests that
:23:00. > :23:01.broke Japanese rules, for the past 25 years.
:23:02. > :23:03.The admission follows last week's revelation that it had falsified
:23:04. > :23:06.fuel economy data for four "minicar" models, sold only in Japan.
:23:07. > :23:09.It means many more models may have used fuel tests that did not comply
:23:10. > :23:14.The sister of the musician Prince has said that he has
:23:15. > :23:19.Tyka Nelson has requested that a special administrator be appointed
:23:20. > :23:22.to oversee his estate in order to manage the late star's
:23:23. > :23:26.Prince died at the age of 57 on Thursday at his estate
:23:27. > :23:33.A Dutchman who became known as the "horror dentist"
:23:34. > :23:37.in the French media has been jailed for eight years, for deliberately
:23:38. > :23:40.mutilating the mouths of more than 100 patients.
:23:41. > :23:42.Jacobus van Nierop ripped out healthy teeth and left dozens
:23:43. > :23:44.of patients with injuries including broken jaws, abscesses
:23:45. > :23:47.His victims from the small central town of Chateau-Chinon came together
:23:48. > :23:53.From Paris, Lucy Williamson has more.
:23:54. > :23:59.For years he was hiding behind a white coast. The man nicknamed the
:24:00. > :24:06.dentist of horror entered court for the last time, still hiding. He had
:24:07. > :24:10.been sent to save the teeth of villagers and instead he drugged his
:24:11. > :24:16.patience and mutilated them while they slept in his chair. Among these
:24:17. > :24:21.villagers he spread pain and injury, ripping out healthy teeth, breaking
:24:22. > :24:27.jaws. One woman said she lost eight teeth in a single appointment and
:24:28. > :24:34.was left gushing lard. Nicole led the campaign to bring him to court.
:24:35. > :24:42.She went in for a simple filling and left without two teeth. TRANSLATION:
:24:43. > :24:47.There were various different cases, including burst glands, sinuses,
:24:48. > :24:51.cheeks stitched the guns and dressings and dentist tools left
:24:52. > :24:57.inside guns. When we checked we were under anaesthetic for up to six
:24:58. > :25:01.hours and we were unconscious. Nicole was among those at the
:25:02. > :25:07.hearing to hear the verdict. Guilty of aggravated assault and fraud. The
:25:08. > :25:14.sentence of eight years in prison and a fine of 10,000 euros. He
:25:15. > :25:19.believed he was above the law, a lawless man. Now he learns French
:25:20. > :25:22.law exist, as he has been sentenced to eight years. We are happy because
:25:23. > :25:30.we thought he would get less. Prosecutors said that Jacobus van
:25:31. > :25:33.Nierop enjoyed causing pain but also he was financially motivated,
:25:34. > :25:38.claiming insurance for procedures is patients did not need. At his trial
:25:39. > :25:42.he said he was not interested in people and could not remember his
:25:43. > :25:45.patients. As one of them remarked after the verdict today, he will
:25:46. > :25:56.have time to think about us now. Lots more on all of those stories on
:25:57. > :25:59.the BBC website and I am on Twitter. From me and the rest of the team,
:26:00. > :26:00.thank you for being with us.