despite living here legally. ministers say they've known about the problem for months. i bitterly, deeply regret that i didn't see it as more than individual cases that had gone wrong that needed addressing, i didn't see it as a systemic issues until very recently. we visit jamaica — to report on some of those affected, as labour increases the pressure on the home secretary and the prime minister. the current home secretary inherited a failing policy and made it worse. isn't it time she took responsibility and resigned? but the bbc understands that both the home office and number 10 were told about the problems in 2016. we'll have the latest. also tonight: a rousing welcome for france's president macron in the us congress — after his undisguised criticism of president trump's policies. the parents of little alfie evans have lost their latest legal

challenge, which means they cannot take him abroad for treatment. inside one of facebook‘s content centres. we report on conditions for those viewing extreme web material. and on anzac day, prince harry and meghan markle honour the war dead of new zealand and australia. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news: a champions league semifinal of two european giants. find out if bayern munich or real madrid could come out on top in the first leg. good evening. the home secretary has spoken of her ‘bitter regret‘ at failing to grasp the scale of the problem

involving the status of caribbean migrants in the uk. amber rudd — and her predecessor, theresa may — are under intense pressure, after it emerged that long—term residents who came here in the decades after the second world war were being challenged, despite living here legally. the bbc understands that the home office and number 10 were both told about the problems in 2016. labour says the home secretary should now resign, as our political editor, laura kuenssberg, reports. home secretary, will you resign over windrush? who knew, and when? the home secretary, number 10, everyone around here says they're sorry now. foreign secretary, is the cabinet united on immigration? but how did the windrush scandal slip the government's notice? her department is taking most of the strain. i bitterly, deeply regret that i didn't see it as more than individual cases that had gone wrong, that needed addressing.

i didn't see it as a systemic issue until very recently. but what about how immigration officers behaved? were they looking for easy targets? the chair had been told... local managers, under pressure to meet those targets, would instruct staff to go looking for the easiest targets — "the low—hanging fruit". what do you say to that? i think that's extraordinary language to use. who would refer to anybody as low—hanging fruit? you know, there is nothing wrong with trying to remove people who are here illegally. what we talked about earlier was people who are here legally. but does she think — as many in westminster do — that the problems are a by—product of the government's overall approach? do you agree that the net migration target has distorted the decision—making and lead us to a lot of these problems? no, i don't. i don't think that's got anything to do with it. have you asked the prime minister to get rid of the net migration target? i've not discussed that

with the prime minister. you've not discussed the net migration target with her at all? i think i'm not going to be drawn any further on private conversations i might have with the prime minister. you said — when you were initially asked by the chair — that you had not discussed the net migration target with the prime minister, and then you said you were not going to be drawn on private conversations, which answer? in the context of what we're here to discuss, which is the whole windrush saga, the whole, erm, windrush sadness really, i have not discussed the net migration target with the prime minister — what the chair was asking me about. the empire windrush brings to britain 500 jamaicans... those who made britain their home were failed by the government, the government itself has admitted, treated as if they'd had no right to live here because they didn't always have the paperwork to prove it. ministers are trying to make amends now, but there's no escaping from the mess round here. the windrush generation are not illegal.

they are not illegal! they are here legally! that is... that is why... that is why we are providing support to enable them to get the documents for their, er, for their status. jeremy corbyn. the current home secretary inherited a failing policy and made it worse. isn't it time she took responsibility and resigned? and just as commonwealth tradition was celebrated on whitehall today, some of the government's top brass are arguing for bigger changes to the british welcome for people from other countries, the foreign secretary suggesting in cabinet yesterday there should be an amnesty for those who have come here illegally, but have lived in britain for more than ten years. are you at odds with the prime minister on immigration? that idea was about as welcome in number 10 as the hailstorm later. but the windrush scandal has not just embarrassed the government, but has underscored the differences with it.

laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. earlier today, the prime minister insisted the government was taking action to help those of the windrush generation, who'd left britain to return to their country of origin, but had subsequently been refused entry back into the uk. 0ur correspondent, chichi izundu, has been to jamaica and spoken to one man who, despite living more than 50 years in the uk, is now unable to return. kingston harbour. it's here in 19118 the ship windrush set sail with hundreds of jamaicans heading to the uk to work. long time to keep angry. kingston harbour. clayton barnes took up that call. he's spent 51 years working a roofer in the uk. but he's been living here, in ruraljamaica, since 2013, after being refused entry back into britain. i feel bad about it. very bad. very, very, very, very bad.

in fact, they all do. very bad. i, me personally, feel very bad. all that money spent, it's a waste of time. i could've been told before. clayton did overstay his visit, but says too much time has passed for him still to be angry. he hopes his case will be resolved. happy and a conversation and an apology. all together in one package. because i think i deserve it, after 50 years. i think i deserve that. nearby, in mandeville, a town popular with manyjamaicans who once lived in the uk, the returned residents association are having a meeting. the weather a reflection of their mood — stormy, angry at how the british government has behaved. i would have thought, well, i went there when jamaica was a british colony. so i don't think i should have to go and look for a british passport, lam british! i was born british injamaica! we went there and we built

the country, and they treat us very, very bad. workers from jamaica are still in demand, even today. migration isn'tjust a historical issue. in fact, nurses like these are being asked to go to the uk and work in the nhs as part of a recruitment drive. this time, they won't be offered british citizenship. skilled nurses going from jamaica to the uk benefits the nhs, but it does leave gaps in the workforce here. it is bad for the country, because what we find is that the ones that they're recruiting are our knowledge—based workers. critical—care nursing, operating theatre, accident and emergency. the british government has apologised and made promises of compensation, but for some here in jamaica, the wounds run deep and will linger. 0ur political editor, laura kuenssberg, is at westminster for us. how significant is it in your view that the home office and number 10

knew about some of these problems in 2016? before today, for the last couple of days, we have known the government was warned before they tightened these rules that there could be problems. what we can report tonight is that when those problems began to emerge, they were told about them at the highest level of government. we know that the then foreign secretary, philip hammond, 110w foreign secretary, philip hammond, now the chancellor, theresa may's next—door neighbour in downing street, was told in 2016 by caribbean ministers that this was a problem. crucially, we know what he did with that information was to pass it onto his colleagues in number 10 pass it onto his colleagues in number10 and of pass it onto his colleagues in number 10 and of course, in the home 0ffice, number 10 and of course, in the home office, and he was in charge them? theresa may herself. it is important to say we do not know at what level these warnings were made, we also don't know how serious they were expressed by those caribbean governments, but it is certainly an inconvenient truth for theresa may that we now know that two years ago,

this issue was being flagged as something that other governments we re something that other governments were worried about. there is also confusion tonight over whether targets at the home office for removing illegal immigrants either existed or did not exist at the home 0ffice. mps had evidence today that they did, but amber rudd, the home secretary, appeared not really to have heard of them. and the home 0ffice have heard of them. and the home office has not really gone far to com pletely office has not really gone far to completely current fire that night, telling is only that targets are not used arbitrarily to make decisions. the comment has been trying to get a hand on this fiasco in the last few days —— the government. but it seems that each time they do so, more fa cts that each time they do so, more facts emerge and this slips once again from their grasp. many thanks, with the latest at westminster tonight. president macron of france — on a state visit to the us — has taken aim at some of president trump's policies, in an address to both houses of congress.

he warned of the dangers of nationalism and the threat to global prosperity, and he urged america not to retreat from the international stage. and despite the reservations expressed by his host, mr macron said he stood by the international deal to limit iran's capacity to produce nuclear weapons. 0ur north america editor, jon sopel, has more details. his report contains flash photography. the social high point of a state visit is the white house banquet and, last night, once again, that entente oh, so cordiale between the odd couple of global politics was on show again. mr speaker! the president of the french republic! cheering and applause today, in congress, the french president had a twinkle in his eye. in 1778, the french philosopher voltaire and benjamin franklin met in paris. john adams tells the story that after they had shaken hands, they embraced each other by hugging one another in their arms and kissing each other‘s cheeks.

it can remind you of something. laughter but then something unexpected — a full—on assault of virtually every policy that donald trump holds dear. forget bromance, this was bromide. we can choose isolationism, withdrawal and nationalism. this is an option. but closing the door to the world will not stop the evolution of the world. it will not douse, but inflame, the fervour of our citizens. and on free trade, support for multilateral institutions, inequality, science, the iran nuclear deal, they were an atlantic ocean apart. then the french president rounded on donald trump over climate change. forget ‘make america great again', it was time to make

the earth great again. by polluting the oceans, not mitigating co2 emissions and destroying our biodiversity, we are killing our planet. let's face it, there is no planet b. laughter applause this was an audacious speech. 0n the floor of congress, where the us president delivers the state of the union address, the keynote moment of the political year, a foreign visitor used his platform to lambast his host's policies — but with a smile and bonhomie. forget the attacks on the policy, what emmanuel macron was doing was trying to pitch himself as the world leader to rally round if you want an alternative vision to trump. he had one of the target which would have made people choke on their tea in

downing street and the foreign 0ffice, downing street and the foreign office, he spoke about our very special relationship. france and the us. that will not have gone down well with those who think the special relationship is between britain and the united states. many thanks once again come up with the latest at the white house tonight. the parents of the critically—ill boy alfie evans have lost their latest legal attempt to take him abroad to italy for life supporting treatment. alfie, who has a degenerative brain condition, was taken off a ventilator at alder hey children's hospital in liverpool on monday. this evening, the hospital released a statement saying its staff had been the target of "unprecedented personal abuse" in relation to the case. 0ur correspondent, judith moritz, is there with the latest. enter yes, huw, emotions have been running high now for several weeks, both here at the hospital, and also online were one account, in support of alfie evans, has nearly 400,000

followers. they are battling through the courts. today it emerged that the courts. today it emerged that the family have tried to launch a private prosecution previously against doctors for the criminal offence of conspiracy to murder. 0ne lawyer today told the court that the family were now clutching at straws. the little boy at the centre of a big battle. alfie evans' plight is now attracting world attention, as his parents continue to fight the hospital where he's been treated for most of his life. on monday night, alfie's father told reporters that doctors had withdrawn his son's life support. earlier today he appeared on tv, saying alfie was defying the odds by surviving for days without artificial ventilation. at the moment, he's shown that he's still fighting and he's proved all the doctors wrong and all the courts wrong. we were told he wouldn't last more than five minutes and now here we are, 36—hours down the line, and he's doing absolutely amazing. alfie's short life has been

the subject of a long legal fight. he was admitted to alder hey hospital in december 2016 with a rare, undiagnosed degenerative brain condition. a year later, alfie's doctors said life support should end, but his parents warranted to take him to a hospital in rome. however, by february, a high courtjudge ruled that life support should be stopped. since then, various appeals at the court of appeal, supreme court and the european court of human rights have all failed. and on monday, alfie's ventilation was turned off. this afternoon, lawyers for alfie's parents went to the court of appeal to argue again for the right to airlift the little boy to rome. the court ruled against them, preferring medical opinion that he should not travel. we are now almost a day—and—a—half on and he is alive. he's struggling, but he's alive and, given that, it's a change of circumstances, which at least dictates further testing to be done.

i don't understand why they're rushing the end of life plan. support for alfie has been widespread, especially on social media, but tonight alder hey said some of it had been completely unacceptable. in an open letter, the hospital said... those supporting the family call themselves alfie's army, they've been a presence outside the hospital for several weeks. inside, away from the courts and the campaigning, there still lies the little boy, unaware of the fight over his future. judith moritz, bbc news, liverpool. a brief look at some of the day's other news stories. the leader of the unite union, len mccluskey, has accused some

labour mps of trying to undermine jeremy corbyn over the issue of anti—semitism in the party. during the day, dozens of labour mps marched in support of theirjewish colleague, ruth smeeth, as she prepared to give evidence against a suspended party member who's accused of anti—semitism. sean cox, from county meath in ireland, is in a critical condition after he was attacked outside anfield before liverpool's champions league semi—final against roma last night. two men from rome have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. the bbc‘s director of news and current affairs, fran unsworth, has told the high court that journalists had a responsibility to cover a police search of sir cliff richard's home in 2014. she said she approved the broadcast of helicopter footage after carefully weighing up its impact on the singer and considering the public interest. sir cliff, who was never arrested or charged, is suing the corporation, claiming a serious invasion of privacy. our special correspondent, lucy manning, reports. sir cliff richard heard

the final bbc witness today, the woman who gave the go—ahead for the news reports he claims caused him emotional and physical pain. fran unsworth, then deputy head of bbc news, was the person who made the decision the bbc should run the story. she told the court there were strong arguments for doing so, that although she was aware it would cause him serious distress, she had to weigh up the public interest. sir cliff richard's barrister asked ms unsworth, "what about personality and reputation? " "it must have occurred to you that to associate a famous person with an allegation of that kind is likely to leave, notjust a cloud, but possibly an indelible stain on their character." ms unsworth replied, "it certainly occurred to me that we were doing a fairly momentous thing in relation to a high—profile figure, but i also felt," she said, "there were strong reasons as to why

the bbc should do so — strong public—interest reasons for naming a suspect in a police investigation." south yorkshire police have confirmed that they're searching a property in berkshire owned by sir cliff richard... ms unsworth denied these helicopter pictures of police searching the flat were intrusive, but she accepted, with the benefit of looking back four years and, she said, listening to sir cliff in court, it's clear the footage now seemed intrusive to other people. she claimed, because the bbc had accurate information from south yorkshire police about a high—profile figure, it was right to report. ms unsworth said... but the singer's barrister told her, "no serious investigative

journalist could possibly have regarded your broadcast as complying with the bbc‘s guidelines." reporter: sir cliff, how was your first day? very good. with the evidence almost finished, the singer has been in court every day. he's claiming substantial damages from the bbc, who deny invading his privacy. lucy manning, bbc news. facebook has published new guidelines for the kind of content allowed on its site and created a process for individuals to launch appeals. facebook is trying to repair levels of trust following an alleged breach of data privacy by the british firm cambridge analytica. the release of facebook‘s new rules has drawn attention to the difficult work of thousands of its content moderators, who review millions of complaints every day about extreme material uploaded to the social media platform. angus crawford reports on life for those who often have to view some of the worst material online.

report something you don't like on facebook, and it ends up at a place like this. behind the door, facebook‘s content moderators, looking at the worst the internet can offer, so you don't have to. they're people like laura... i remember i cried. ..who'd only talk to us anonymously. i realised how bad people can be. she doesn't work there any more, it was too difficult, too distressing. every day you will see things that shock you, traumatising stuff — beheadings, child pornography, like even a six—month—old baby being raped. you see very graphic images of blood and terrorist attacks. she says there was a constant pressure to hit targets, hundreds of actions, ortickets, per day, each one potentially traumatic content. you become like a machine.

it's about five seconds per ticket or less. next, decide. i think we complained almost every day. almost every day, because we had problems. we didn't like the things we were looking at. facebook actively promotes its community standards, urging users to click and report bad content, for people like laura to review. its founder, mark zuckerberg — underfire for alleged data breaches and a lack of transparency — has now published internal guidelines on how it decides what content‘s accepted acceptable and what's not. 700 moderators work in this office in berlin. facebook insists they're all carefully chosen. we weren't allowed to interview them and find out what they really thought, but were assured there's psychological support available 24—hours a day.

clearly the content, some of it, is deeply distressing. how much do you value these young people, these young content moderators? we value them so much. this work is so important. it is at the cornerstone of everything we do in keeping our community safe. the moderator we spoke to said this was the worse job she'd ever done. we know it's difficult. we're committed to giving them what they need to do this job well. if they‘ re ever uncomfortable at work, there are counselling resources for them and they can be shifted to work on a different type of content. it's important to us to keep our community safe, but it's also very important to us to support our employees and keep them healthy. laura is one of thousands, a growing army of young people, hidden from view, protecting us from the very darkest parts of social media. a couple of times i imagined mark zuckerberg coming up to the office and i imagined just telling him — how are you allowing this to happen? that young people, like us, are having to see these things? angus crawford, bbc news, berlin. the biggest cable tv company

in america, comcast, has made a bid for the british broadcaster sky. it raises the prospect of a bidding war with rupert murdoch, whose 21st century fox group also wants to buy sky. 0ur media editor, amol rajan, joins me. how does this change thing in serve seven how does this change thing in serve seve n years how does this change thing in serve seven years ago rupert murdoch 21st century fox bid for full control of sky that was scupper by the phone—hacking scandal. they have been mired with regulators. disney swooped for fox, including its stake in sky. cast came in with a juicy cash offer, which could face regulatory hurdles. effectively forces rupert murdoch into a bidding warfor forces rupert murdoch into a bidding war for the company he set up forces rupert murdoch into a bidding warfor the company he set up in 1989 which nearly bankrupted him. three immediate conclusions. the first is that sky plc is an

attractive commercial proposition. it's not too dependent on advertising at a time when advertising at a time when advertising is going to google and facebook. the wave of consolidation across global media were the makers of co nte nt across global media were the makers of content is getting together with distributors is accelerating. this story is part of that trend. comcast, fox, disney and netflix, the ultimate disru pter comcast, fox, disney and netflix, the ultimate disrupter here are us companies. it's the american giants who are making the weather in british television. intriguing, again. amol rajan there for us, our media editor. a danish inventor who fantasised about killing women has been given a life sentence for murdering a swedish journalist on board a submarine he'd built. a court in copenhagen heard that peter madsen killed kim wall after she accepted an invitation to interview him. jenny hill reports. the story was too good to miss. setting sail to interview an inventor, kim wall had no idea

this would be her last assignment. a successful journalist, she was about to move to china. instead, her dismembered body washed up on the danish coast. she'd been tortured, killed, dumped at sea. today, a life sentence for her killer. peter madsen, said the judge, cynically planned a particularly brutal murder. translation: of course this trial has affected me personally. i have to be as professional as i can but, undoubtedly, this case has got under my skin. peter madsen was a bit of a celebrity in denmark, few of his fans knew he had a taste for sexual violence and what investigators describe as ‘psychopathic tendencies'. i know he was a weird person and i liked the weirdness in him, but i think all the elements that were confusing to me,

i just assumed that there was goodness in those parts, where there wasn't. it's notjust the brutality of this case which has left many danes feeling profoundly disturbed. peter madsen, with his projects and stunts, after all had captured the public imagination here. the man danes thought they knew, the harmless eccentric, the folk hero, turned out to be a calculating and violent killer. madsen's expected to appeal. the authorities preparing to destroy his submarine. once a symbol of ambition and adventure, now a terrible reminder of one of this country's most gruesome crimes. jenny hill, bbc news, copenhagen. prince charles, the duke of cambridge and prince harry have taken part in a number of services to pay tribute to the war dead of australia and new zealand. prince harry and his fiancee,

meghan markle, began the day with a dawn service to mark anzac day, which commemorates the first major battle involving australian and new zealand forces in the first world war. 0ur royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, has this report. first light, at the australia and new zealand war memorials in london on anzac day. a commemoration attended this year by prince harry and meghan markle. in particular, remembrance of the thousands of troops from australia and new zealand who lost their lives in the gallipoli campaign in the first world war, 103 years ago. # abide with me...#. the losses at gallipoli were severe for two countries, many thousands of miles from europe, which had sent their young men to fight for britain. they helped to forge australia and new zealand's national identities, hence the importance of this annual commemoration. in london, prince harry laid a wreath in tribute.

in france, at the australian national memorial near amiens, the prince of wales led the tributes to australian forces who fought with the british, in april 1918, to free a french town from the germans. the prince recalled that all the australian troops were volunteers. one in five of them would never return home. today, as we mark a century since they gave their lives, let us resolve to continue to fulfil their trust,