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at 10 this is bbc news. the headlines... a doctor who was struck off over the death of a six—year—old boy wins her appeal to practise medicine again. jack adcock died of sepsis. dr hadiza bawa—garba was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence. i can't see myself being anybody else but i practising doctor serving the community. so of course when i got the news that i can be given the opportunity to work again i was very pleased trainer i'm disgusted, i'm devastated. i just cannot understand how someone can be charged with gross negligence manslaughter, struck off the register by the general medical council and then be reinstated. the murder of 25 —year—old model harry ozuka, two men are found guilty at the old bailey. the muslim council of britain calls on theresa may to ensure the inquiry into borisjohnson‘s burqa comments is not a "whitewash". after a year of rail misery, train travel is now one of the uk's
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least trusted consumer industries. ticketmaster is closing two of its secondary ticketing websites which allow people to off—load unwanted tickets. the move, which relates to websites seatwave and get me in, is to combat touts who hike up prices. west midlands police have been carrying out raids as they aim to close down the chopshops they say are fuelling an increase in car—thefts. good evening. a doctor who was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence after the death of a six—year—old boy has won the right to practise medicine again.
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dr hadiza bawa—garba was convicted in 2015 in connection with the death of jack adcock, who died after developing sepsis at leicester royal infirmary. a high court had ruled that she should be struck off. but thousands of doctors signed an open letter of support for dr bawa—garba, saying her treatment could discourage medics from being open when reviewing mistakes. the boy's mother said she was considering her own legal action. from the court of appeal, our health editor, hugh pym, reports. the death of this six—year—old boy and the conviction of a doctor provoked a debate which ran right across the medical profession. jack adcock developed sepsis in hospital, a court heard there was a catalogue of errors with his care. dr hadiza bawa—garba was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter. a medical tribunal ruled she should be suspended for a year but the general medical council went to court and she was
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barred from practising. today, that was overturned and she gave bbc panorama her reaction. i'm very pleased with the outcome, but i want to pay tribute and rememberjack adcock, a wonderful little boy that started this story. i want to let the parents know that i am sorry. dr bawa—garba was backed by some doctors in raising money to go to the court of appeal. now that's succeeded, she says the medical world should reflect on the outcome. my hope is that lessons learnt from this case will translate into better working conditions forjunior doctors, better recognition of sepsis, factors in place that will improve patient safety. her supporters at court today always argued she was doing her best under intense pressure at the hospital.
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after expressing sympathy to the adcock family, they spelled out what the lessons should be. if somebody is a trainee especially and making honest errors in a very challenging hospital, which was what happened that day, they absolutely should not pay with their career. so, many doctors and nurses tonight will be resting easier in their beds thinking, lam human, i can make mistakes and i will not lose my license. in a statement, the general medical council said it fully accepted the court of appealjudgment but said as a regulator responsible for patient safety it often had to take difficult decisions. it added, we are sorry for the anguish and uncertainty these proceedings may have caused the jack's family, dr bawa—garba and the wider medical profession. jack's mother who is currently abroad said she was left devastated by the ruling. what she did that day i will never, ever, ever, everforgive herfor. and i don't know how she can come back into this profession.
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she has shown no remorse, she has no guilt. dr bawa—garba says she is keen to practise again. sources have indicated that subject to a technical review, that could happen as soon as this autumn. hugh pym, bbc news. let's go live to edinburgh where we can speak to dr rob hendry, medical director at the medical protection society. thank you very much for being with us. thank you very much for being with us. what do you think are the wider implications for the health service of this case, because this particular doctor had the support of hundreds maybe thousands of other doctors who fear that it could have been them in a similar situation? absolutely. i think this has been a tragic case for all concerned and i think it's important we don't lose sight of the fact that a young boy lost his life here and i know that's been devastating for everybody, not least the family and of course the
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doctors involved in his care. i think the reason there was so much concern within the profession about the gmc‘s decision to appeal the medical tribunal‘s decision here was that for a long time we have been trying to promote a culture of openness when things go wrong to create an environment where people talk openly about how we can create a more patient safe environment and by reverting to a blame culture and by reverting to a blame culture and by threatening doctors with a loss of liberty through criminal prosecution or the loss of their career, from what was clearly honest, there was no suggestion of any wilfulness, i think it put a lot of fear any wilfulness, i think it put a lot offear in any wilfulness, i think it put a lot of fear in the profession and it was seen as something that would create a less safe environment for children in the future. what some doctors have also been saying is that this is because of pressures within the health service, overworked staff, not enough staff, too much to do —
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is that the case, do you think, in this situation? was that part of the reason? that was certainly part of the reason in this case and indeed it was one of the issues that were taken into it was one of the issues that were ta ken into account it was one of the issues that were taken into account by the tribunal service when they decided that an appropriate sanction in this case was a year's suspension for this doctor rather than having her career terminated. the fact of the matter is that medical care is always delivered in a complex environment. we have cash restraints and other resource difficulties which we know of, with increased demand and precious on, particularly systems like the it system which can fail or there are gaps in the rotor due to ill health or inability to appoint staff. and i think this was part of the recent, there was so much anxiety within the profession, people are working in incredibly difficult circumstances, doing their best and when things go wrong it can
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best and when things go wrong it can be tragic, because one of the sad things about medical care is that even innocent mistakes can have awful consequences, as in this sort of situation. so, to create a climate of fear and anxiety by bringing to the attention the limits of april working within was incredibly counter—productive to an already difficult circumstance the junior doctors. and yet we have heard just tonight from the mother of jack adcock, expressing what she said was her disgust at this ruling today, she said she was devastated, disgusted that she could never forgive this doctor, and that actually she had made more than 20 m ista kes actually she had made more than 20 mistakes and only one of the m ista kes mistakes and only one of the mistakes was down to the system, the others where this particular doctor's mistakes, that is what the mother has been saying? this was a tragic case as we have, but along and there were mistakes made which the doctor has been very open and clear about. the fact of the matter
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is, taking it through criminal courts and onwards through the military environment has taken many yea rs, military environment has taken many years, it hasn't given any closure to the family who suffered this awful bereavement. and i think we have to find much better ways of helping people come to terms with things like this, when things have gone wrong. and that has to be within a culture of openness and candour, being clear with families and loved ones of what has gone wrong and i think if we can create that sort of approach, we may not see some of the pain which clearly this wee boy's parents have had to go through. thank you very much for being with us. a model has been found guilty of murdering his fashion rival in a row over a girlfriend. george koh stabbed harry uzoka in the heart over the dispute. he was accompanied by two others, one of whom was found guilty of murder and other of manslaughter. adina campbell reports. moments after the violent attack,
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these are the men responsible for killing harry, seen here running off after being stabbed three times. before his death harry was enjoying a successful modelling career with some of the biggest high—street brands, including... before his death, harry uzoka was enjoying a successful modelling career. he'd already made a name for himself with some of the biggest high—street brands, including river island, levi's and top man. but the 25—year—old's life was cut short earlier this year. a growing feud with one of the defendants, fellow model george koh, had led to a fight. the pair fell out over claims george had slept with harry's girlfriend. heated messages were then sent on social media, leading to a fight, and on the day of the fight in west london, harry and friends decided to arm themselves with dumbbell bars. the fight itself lasted just a couple of minutes. harry's friend managed to escape but the harry that wasn't the case, he was stabbed in
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the chest several times. he was able to stumble back to his home nearby but his injuries were so serious and the emergency services couldn't save him. two men have been found guilty of murdering harry, george koh and merse... a third man has been found guilty of manslaughter. the men will be sentenced next month. 0ne guilty of manslaughter. the men will be sentenced next month. one of harry's be sentenced next month. one of ha rry‘s closest be sentenced next month. one of harry's closest friends says he was surprised to find out he had been involved in a fight, something he believes was out of character. that pa rt believes was out of character. that part of the story was the most shocking. that is not heavily. i think i probably stopped crying like the day after and anything may be a couple of weeks went by and then... how would you like people to
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remember harry? he was a light, he truly was a light. if anyone can look at getting anything from harry's life, forget the modelling, forget what he attained, really look at how he made people feel. the muslim council of britain has published the full text of its letter to the prime minister, calling on her to ensure the investigation into borisjohnson is not a whitewash. it follows boris johnson's comments in a newspaper article where he said women in burqas looked ”letter boxes" and "bank robbers". 0ur correspondent in westminster is tom barton. so, more pressure on theresa may i supposed to make sure that this is a proper inquiry into what boris johnson said? proper inquiry into what boris johnson said? that's right. this row about boris johnson's johnson said? that's right. this row about borisjohnson‘s column last week rumbles on. of course, complaints about those comments
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about women wearing the full—face veil and comparing them to letterboxes and bank robbers, those complaints have triggered a disciplinary process within the conservative party as part of their code of conduct procedures. and now, the muslim council of britain has written to theresa may urging her to ensure that any investigation which follows on from that code of conduct is not a whitewash. now, they are actually broadly supportive of theresa may's previous stance on islamophobia and it urges her to continue her leadership. it also says that the party needs to launch an independent and transparent inquiry into alleged allegations of islam phobia in the party. the tom, we have talked about the tory party, stalker that the labour party, jeremy corbyn has been criticised tonight by the israeli prime minister? yeah, you're right, ben.
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this boils down to accusations which actually emerged during the general election campaign last year, it emerged thatjeremy corbyn had attended a commemoration at the palestinian martyrs cemetery in tunisia, remembering people who had died in support of the palestinian cause. now, when that story emerged, jeremy corbyn said that he had laid a wreath at the graves, at a plaque which remembers the victims of an israeli airstrike on the headquarters of the hellerstein in liberalisation organisation in 1985 in which many people died. the accusation now, though, is that he also took part in a ceremony where a wreath was laid at the graves of those accused of taking part in the massacre at the munich 0lympics those accused of taking part in the massacre at the munich olympics in 1972, where 11 israeli athletes
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died. today, jeremy corbyn was asked about those accusations. a wreath was indeed laid to some of those who we re was indeed laid to some of those who were killed in paris in 1992. were you involved in that wreathlaying?” was present when it was laid i don't think i was actually involved in it. i was there because i wanted to see a fitting memorial to everyone who has died in every terrorist incident everywhere, because we have to end it. you cannot pursue peace by a cycle of violence. you only end violence with a cycle of dialogue. saying he doesn't think he was involved is of course not going to satisfy involved is of course not going to satisnyeremy corbyn‘s critics of. the jewish labour mp satisnyeremy corbyn‘s critics of. thejewish labour mp luciana berger today said that being present is the same as being involved in her view and asked him, where is the apology? this afternoon the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has also got involved in this argument, tweeting that the name of a fleet by jeremy corbyn on the graves of the
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terrorists who perpetrated the munich massacre deserves unequivocal condemnation from everyone. of course a spokesman forjeremy corbyn has insisted that he was not involved as benjamin netanyahu says he was, in laying a wreath on the graves of the people who were accused of being involved in the munich massacre. a spokesman says he did not play any wreath at the graves of those accused of being involved in those killings. the headlines on bbc news... doctor who had been struck off over the death of a sit boy wins her appeal to practise again. the muslim council of britain calls on theresa may to ensure the inquiry into boris johnson's burka comments is not a whitewash. the government has announced
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a multi—million pound drive to tackle rough sleeping, in a bid to eradicate it altogether by 2027. the communities secretary james brokenshire has denied that government cuts have seen homelessness more than double since 2010. it follows criticism from labour — who say new money is needed. areas with the highest numbers of rough sleepers include parts of london, brighton, bristol, bedford and manchester — from where frankie mccamley reports. a chance to get a hot meal, a shower and, for some, just somewhere they feel safe. around 80 people every day come here to get help, including ian, who was sleeping rough in manchester for three years. i've been stomped on, kicked in the face whilst i've been asleep. you've got drunken people coming past, you've got drug addicts coming past, you've got people who'll pour their drink over you, people try weeing on you, just for a laugh.
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his partner catherine, also helping out here, was made homeless after her landlord wouldn't deal with an infestation. there were rats and everything and he wasn't getting rid of them. ijust had enough of them crawling all over me. and what was it like after living in a tent for 12 months and then coming in here? i was scared at first of coming in, because i've got depression and i've got mental health problems. because i got to know them, i ended up enjoying coming here. both catherine and ian are no longer struggling on the streets trying to stay safe, warm and dry, using whatever they can, but for those still here, the government's reallocating £100 million to tackle the problem. none of the money is new, but the hope is to eradicate rough sleeping by 2027. rough sleeping numbers have gone up. i know that there are challenges that we need to meet, which is why our strategy today focuses on how we prevent, how we intervene and how we ensure that people recover. the pledge for some,
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though, isn't enough. this is a crisis and it's a moral crisis. we've got to deal with it. the government has given it no new money, very limited aspirations. we will deal with it. for the first decade of this century, the number of rough sleepers fell, and according to official data remained low. but since 2010, there's been a steady increase. last year in england, more than a700 people were sleeping rough on our streets on one night. it's fantastic that there's money being made available. it's not enough, but it's a good start. amanda croome runs the centre in manchester and cautiously welcomes the government's announcement. we need a lot more homes to be built because we have a massive shortage of accommodation and that's really what's fuelling the homelessness problem. and we also need changes to legislation, particularly around the private rented sector and the insecurity and the high costs of that. the money will be distributed over the next two years, but the reality for now is this,
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a plea for someone to stop and help today. frankie mccamley, bbc news, in manchester. the lawyers in the case of england cricketer ben stokes, accused of affray outside a nightclub in bristol last year, have been summing up their cases. the 27—year—old, and another man, ryan ali, deny the charge. andy moore is at bristol crown court for us. so, the prosecution started this morning by reminding thejury of what the charge of affray was. he said it was an act of violence were any reasonable person would fear for their safety. he said in this case ben stokes may have started out replying to an act of aggression, a bottle was waived in his direction. but then he said the video footage demonstrated plainly and clearly that ben stokes moved from defence and became the aggressor himself. he
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talked, the prosecutor, about ben stokes in the witness box and he said he was trying to explain and justify himself and he said it was plain that ben stokes was lying. he said he acted deplorably as the red mist came down. we heard from the defence ben stokes, he said there we re defence ben stokes, he said there were big holes in the prosecution case. he said his client had acted to defend himself and others, he was trying to protect two gay men he said from homophobic abuse. the defence of ben stokes said that what he did was to take reasonable actions, the defence want on, a person cannot wait to a nicety the exact measure of their defensive actions in such an adrenaline filled incident. now, thejudge has been edged his summing up so the case is effectively closed for the day. the jury effectively closed for the day. the jury have been sent home and they will start their deeper orations to
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find ben stokes guilty or not guilty at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. —— so, so deliberations. 41 people were left injured after a coach overturned on the m25 near swanley in kent. three people with more serious injuries were taken to hospital, while 38 were treated for minor injuries. my colleague mark norman sent this report from the scene. you can see behind me the m25 is bound looking towards the dartford tunnel. that is junction three, the swa nley tunnel. that is junction three, the swanley interchange. from that junction you can head south or north but the slip road tonight is com pletely but the slip road tonight is completely closed. lying on its side, a coach that was carrying 44 passengers, 110w side, a coach that was carrying 44 passengers, now surrounded by emergency vehicles. i'm pleased to say all 44 passengers have walked away from the coach. we understand the coach was run by a company based in walthamstow in east london and that the passengers were returning from the isle of wight along the m25. but as you can see tonight, the
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crushers caused traffic chaos. heading towards the dartford tunnel there are some miles of standing traffic. if i look west the traffic extends as far as the eye can see some motorists are being warned there could be delays of some considerable time and the emergency services tonight have told us that that slip road will remain closed for a number of hours. the turkish president recep tayyip erdogan has accused the united states of stabbing his country in the back. it's the latest in a diplomatic row between the two countries and has contributed to the value of the turkish currency falling to historic lows. the row centres on turkey's arrest and detention an american preacher on terror charges. the president said his country is under economic siege and he blamed the crash of his currency on what the blame on a donald trump plot. translation: on
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the one hand you are a strategic partner, on the other, you should yourself in the foot. you are a strategic partner with as in afghanistan and somalia. you are a partner in nato. and on the other hand you stab your ally in the back. is this acceptable? well we can now speak to steven cook, who's an author, and senior fellow of middle east studies at the council on foreign relations. he joins us live now from our washington studio. how has it cost to this stage when you've got these two nato allies and a warof you've got these two nato allies and a war of words, the tariffs being slapped on turkey by president trump, the turkish currency plummeting, it is an extraordinary situation, isn't it? it is in a sense but it is also long in coming. turkey has been masking economic mismanagement for many years through low interest rates. and the day of reckoning for the turkish lira was
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likely to come. in addition, relations between the united states and turkey have been difficult as also quite time. this war of words thatis also quite time. this war of words that is under way between ankara and washington has been long in coming. notice that president erdogan mentioned the fact that they were strategic partners but that is really in name only. if you look at the conduct of turkish foreign policy over the course of the last five years at least, it has been countered to american priorities and interests. how dangerous, then, is this for president erdogan of turkey? could the economy imploded and what would be the applications for him if that happened? well, there are certainly fears that we are witnessing the beginning of a turkish economic meltdown. are witnessing the beginning of a turkish economic meltdownm strikes me that he is calculating that with all of this rhetoric blaming the united states, blaming foreign forces for turkey's economic
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troubles, he can withstand significant, significant economic problems. and turks will willingly accept this pain, because of a narrative that many of them actually believe, that the united states is in fact waging economic warfare against turkey. and from donald trump's point of view and the white house, what is in it for them, this war of words with turkey? it seems to be over this american pastore who has been arrested but is it more than that? well, pastor brunson is of course a flashpoint and he is very important to president trump's evangelical base. but there are important issues. i think president trump's change of approach to turkey is actually a welcome change to the us—turkey relationship after the turks have started to undermine the
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united states in syria and complicated the us effort to fight the islamic state, purchasing hi—tech weaponry from the russians, the list goes on and on and on. i do think, however, at the imposition of ta riffs think, however, at the imposition of tariffs on turkish steel and aluminium last friday just tariffs on turkish steel and aluminium last fridayjust as the lira was sliding was perhaps ill timed and somewhat a function of president trump's view of the world that he is going to exact as we say a pound of flesh from president erdogan. and from day to's point of view, this is pretty disastrous, isn't it, to have two key allies not that war with each other but certainly economic water and a war of words with each other? of course, no—one wants to see a rift in they can but one that's to wonder whether turkey is committed to the atlantic alliance in the first place. there are enormous changes going on in turkey, turkey is looking for alternatives to its foreign policy.
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there is a lot of discussion about saving the us—turkey relationship but really there isn't as much to that relationship as the legacy of the cold war might suggest. thank you very much for being with us. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good evening. a very changeable week of weather with no two days the same. today we had sunny skies but also gathering storm clouds across eastern and northern areas of england. they will be fading away as we go through this evening. some patchy rain across scotland and northern ireland. clouding over generally for the western coastal areas, where it will get quite misty and murky. temperatures overnight
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between 12—15 degrees. but quite a muqqy between 12—15 degrees. but quite a muggy feel, especially down towards the south—east. tomorrow across england and wales there will be some spells of sunshine. but generally fairly large amounts of cloud. the small chance of a shower across east anglia. for scotland and northern ireland, thicker cloud, some outbreaks of rain, much of it light and patchy. a range of temperatures as well. up to 25 degrees in the south—east. for wednesday, more yeah. in the north—west. dry and muqqy yeah. in the north—west. dry and muggy further south—east. toulon and fresher for all of muggy further south—east. toulon and fresherfor all of us on muggy further south—east. toulon and fresher for all of us on thursday. —— cooler and fresher. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines... a doctor who was struck off over the death of a six—year—old boy has won her appeal to practise medicine again. dr hadiza bawa—garba was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence in 2015 over the death ofjack adcock, who died of sepsis. two men are found guilty at the old bailey of the murder
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of 25 year old model harry uzoka, who died in a fight over a girlfriend in january. the muslim council of britain is calling on theresa may to ensure the investigation into borisjohnson is not a whitewash. it follows his comments that women in burkas look like "letter boxes" and "bank robbers". ticketmaster is closing two of its secondary ticketing websites seatwave and get me in, which allow people to offload unwanted tickets. the move is to combat touts who hike up prices. let's return now to our top story. a doctor has won the right to return to practice, to return to practise, after being struck off the medical register, because of the death of a child in her care. doctor hadiza bawa—garba was in charge of treating six—year—old jack adcock, who died after developing sepsis in 2011. the court of appeal said an earlier decision to suspend her for a year should stand.
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a short while ago, the mother of jack adcock, nicola, has been giving her reaction to the court of appeal ruling. i was absolutely gobsmacked. i could not believe the phone call i received. it's just beyond belief. i'm disgusted, i'm devastated. i just cannot understand how someone can be charged with gross negligence manslaughter, struck off the register by the general medical council, and then be reinstated. she's now been in front of nine high courtjudges. what are those otherjudges saying, that the other six didn't do theirjobs right? i think it is a mockery of the justice system. i tell you what, i also think it is a precedent to the doctors to be able to do whatever they want. might as well give them a
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green card and say, go on. she did not make one mistake, two mistakes or three mistakes — she made 21 mistakes that day. there were all human errors, except one, which was a system error. people keep forgetting that. ijust cannot believe that no one is interested in... the nhs — we are the people who had to go to these hospitals. everybody knows about this case, it is a high profile case. everyone will lose trust and faith in the nhs. i'm sure i have. you can'tjudge all doctors and nurses with the same brush, i understand that but i do now think, it doesn't matter. they can go and do exactly what they want. but i also think it is all now probably giving others the chance who have probably been struck off before, the chance to appeal because they are probably thinking, she has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter. mine is not as bad as that
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and i'm going to appeal. sol so i think they've opened a can of worms. let's speak to james laddie, dr bawa—garba's barrister, who joins me from the south of france. you heard nicola adcock saying she is disgusted and devastated and saying that the doctor in this case didn't make just one mistake, saying that the doctor in this case didn't makejust one mistake, she may 21 mistakes that day, they were all human errors, she says, except for one? i'm not sure where she has got bad figure of 21 from. it is true to say that dr bawa—garba made m ista kes true to say that dr bawa—garba made mistakes on the day in question. her principal mistake was failing to spot the diagnosis of sepsis, which is notoriously difficult to spot and many doctors will agree with me about that. but i am not trying to pretend that dr bawa—garba didn't make any mistakes, she plainly did and the jury's verdict of gross negligence manslaughter proves that to be the case. but the point is that she didn't make her mistakes in
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isolation. she was one element in a complicated machine. 0ther isolation. she was one element in a complicated machine. other people made mistakes, there were systemic failings, the computers weren't working properly, there were problems with the rotor system at the hospital. and so, very sadly, to pinjack‘s the hospital. and so, very sadly, to pin jack's death on the hospital. and so, very sadly, to pinjack‘s death on dr bawa—garba's shoulders would be a mistake and thatis shoulders would be a mistake and that is what the court of appeal recognised through this successful appeal. the original tribunal decided weather or not she was fit to practise and decided that she was, subjects to a one—year suspension. she then found her case before the high court, where two high courtjudges, before the high court, where two high court judges, not before the high court, where two high courtjudges, not six, decided that the mpt got it wrong and that the only appropriate sanction was to be struck off. it was that that we successfully appealed against in the judgment that was released today. it's really important, thejudgment, for two particular reasons. it restates the importance of expert
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tribunal ‘s deciding for themselves what the appropriate sanction is for doctors who have missed conducted themselves. the second reason it is so important is because it casts imported light on how we treat people who make m ista kes on how we treat people who make mistakes in health care. doctors are not like you and me, they run the risk every day of making a mistake that could cause serious injury or as in this case, even death. everybody makes mistakes. to err is human. that would be wrong and this is what the court of appeal agreed with, to assume just because somebody has been convicted of gross negligence manslaughter therefore they are not fit to practice as a doctor. gross negligence manslaughter comes in all shapes and sizes and what the jury found and the court of appeal recognised was
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in this case she was at the very lowest end of the scale in terms of personal cop ability. what was critically important what she recognised her mistakes, remediated them, gone through courses and instruction and supervision so doctors and colleagues were satisfied she would not repeat them again and that's why they found she posed no worse a risk than any other doctor. it's that which is so important in this case. and we get the point and this is why it's a story we are leading west because it has huge implications for other in the health service and some may say they are but for the grace of god go i but, at the same time the mother is saying this sets a precedent for doctors to be able to do whatever they want, she says you may as well give them a green card and say it does not matter how many
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m ista kes and say it does not matter how many mistakes you make. that is what she is saying. i do not agree, you would be hard pressed to find the doctor whose natural instinct would be to ta ke whose natural instinct would be to take the view they can do whatever they want, that is not my impression of doctors i have met. but although it sets a precedent in saying you cannot automatically apply the sledgehammer of stroking off to doctors convicted of gross negligence manslaughter the court of appeal recognised it was unusual because of the number of systemic scaling is an because of the effort the doctor made to improve herself asa the doctor made to improve herself as a doctor after the mistakes. yes, it does set a precedent but it does not offer doctors they get out of jail free card to get away with whatever they want. thank you forjoining us. thank you so thank you forjoining us. thank you so much. heathrow airport is calling on the government to relax passport
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controls for certain passengers arriving in the uk — in a bid to reduce delays. last month, visitors from outside the european economic area were left queuing for up to two and a half hours, according to new figures. 0n only one day last month did the uk border force achieve its aim to see 95% of visitors within 45 minutes. 0ur transport correspondent, tom burridge reports. eurogroup's busiest airport has struggled to keep pace with rising passenger numbers this summer. there have been long queues at immigration and some have been waiting for hours. this man complained i was only one desk open for eu passengers when he arrived at terminal five last week. this woman said she chewed for three hours with her crying children. and eric said there
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we re crying children. and eric said there were only four border agents working to clear a queue of thousands. taxi driver picks passengers from heathrow all the time and he says the situation is getting worse. sometimes denigrating shoes are long and there are —— immigration queues are long and there are 12 desks but only five working at once so there are empty desks. how long are your passengers waiting? up waiting? up to two hours. those travelling into heathrow from outside europe have been waiting the longest, now major airlines are describing the situation as a farce. 0ur describing the situation as a farce. our customers have been typically on and a tub of flights and when they are confronted with long queues —— eight hour flight. these queues sent the wrong message about the uk,
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welcome to the uk, you get to stand in line. heathrow says there has not been enough water staff to cope with increasing numbers. those coming from europe can go through the automatic gates. the government —— they say the government should allow those from low risk countries such as the usa to use them as well. to allow those passengers that reform offers agree are low risk to use these eu gates. the home office said it understood frustrations but also said it would not compromise essential border checks which were needed to keep britain say. the government put 200 additional water staff at heathrow the summer but the airport described the summer but the airport described the situation as a crisis. if there are more border controls after brexit them more resources will be needed to avoid long queues. satisfaction in the rail network has dropped sharply
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in the past decade — with train travel now one of the uk's least trusted consumer industries, according to a survey by the consumer group which? in the past year, passengers have voiced concern about the introduction of new timetables, cancelled services, and rising fares. here's our business correspondent joe lynam. it has not been a happy time for many rail users and it is evident in satisfaction surveys. 0verall satisfaction surveys. 0verall satisfaction with rail punctuality has fallen from 79% a decade ago to 73%. regular commuters satisfaction fell further, to 62%. on top of that, rail fears could fell further, to 62%. on top of that, railfears could increase by 3.5% next year. that is because they
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are not tied to the —— tied to the higher measure of inflation. i understand our passengers have had a very tough time, i am a regular commuter myself but we have to work together with a long—term plan, that plan will make journeys better and improve the economy, better connecting communities around the country. to compel things for some, another strike by rmt rail workers is set for next month about the long—running dispute about the guards and trains. yesterday was the twelfth of august — otherwise known as the glorious twelfth — the start of the grouse shooting season. but shooting game birds on a sunday is illegal in england so the season started today on the thirteenth instead. for those involved in the sport it really is an unlucky day. the weather has hit the grouse populations so hard the majority of shoots have been cancelled. cathy killick‘s been on the moors today where it's unseasonably quiet. just
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today where it's unseasonably quiet. listen to that. deafening. just listen to that. the silence is deafening. i cannot hear grouse and i cannot hear on guns and that is not a good sign for the local economy. today is the first day of the grouse shooting season but 70% have been cancelled. the reason is there is nothing to shoot. why are there so few grouse? the weather hasn't done for them, they eat the heather so the heather got hammered by the cold weather and then baked by the sun and the the nutrition in the heather the grouse have not done well. they would go for these little fresh bits here and take the top of what with the snow on top followed by the
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baking sun and the nutrition was not in there. that is why the moors are so quiet and local businesses are as well. the car park here should be fooled today but instead the hanging baskets blue unnoticed. we have so far lost a round about 180 room rates here, around about 30 or £40,000. 180 room rates here, around about 30 or £110,000. and there is a fruit on top of that which can double up. —— food. it is a huge loss. in a good year it can bring hundreds of thousands of pounds into the rural economy but is not welcomed by all. there were protests in hebden bridge at the weekend and campaigners want it banned. it is about taking a stand against illegal wildlife persecution and killing animals for sport. there are
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many illegal practices that must end and can be ended. away from the protest the moors remained silent, it will allow the grouse numbers to recover and those on both sides of this perennial argument to the group until next season. the headlines on bbc news. a doctor who was struck off over the death of a six—year—old boy wins her appeal to practise medicine again. the murder of 25 year old model harry 0zuka — two men are found guilty at the old bailey. the muslim council of britain calls on theresa may to ensure the inquiry into borisjohnson's burka comments is not a "whitewash". the website ticketmaster is to shut down its secondary resale sites, seatwave and get me in, later this year in a bid to tackle touts. the sites, along with other similar outlets, have been criticised by fans and artists, because tickets were often sold
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for an inflated price. lizo mzimba has more. it is notjust concertgoers who have been unhappy with the activities of ticket touts. artists like ed sheeran have long campaigned for a fairer deal for fans from secondary sites when it comes to tickets for their tours. today's announcement from ticketmaster that it is closing down the two secondary sites it owns has been seen as a major step forward. in a statement the company said... there has been a crackdown on touts selling in person outside venues recent yea rs. at the same time, online touting has appeared to flourish.
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ticketmaster has come in for particular criticism, as one of the first places where tickets appearfor sale. with artists like britney spears, tickets quickly sold out with tickets quickly appearing for resale on sites like seatwave, owned by ticketmaster. some of the tickets being sold with huge mark—ups of hundreds of pounds. instead ticketmaster will set up a new exchange system where tickets cannot be sold more than the original price. that is what the website twickets has been doing for some time. should ticketmaster have done it years ago? in our view, yes. we welcome any change and the change today is great news but ideally everybody should operate in the way we have done over the last six years. protect the consumer, protect the fans, who are constantly being ripped off by the secondary market, whether that be through the excess of ticket prices or the fees
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they are charged to trade. this move will not stop touts completely. tickets are still sold for increased prices for profit on sites like viagogo. the news has been welcomed but say moore has to be done to avoid fans from being exploited over the love of their favourite artists. let's talk to reg walker, a ticket security expert. what do you make of what ticketmaster have done today, shutting down these second and b cell sites. i think it has to be welcomed. it should have been done some years ago. there has been a clear conflict of interest between ticketmaster as a primary, as
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tickets being harvested from their main site and then reappearing on these other sites. is there a wider problem in terms of inflated prices? this will do nothing to solve the problem of ticket touting. the underlying problem is how they are being acquired from primary ticket agents such as ticketmaster in vast numbers which this is simply shutting down two roots from which a very small number of touts have been getting tickets. so tickets go on sale and ticket touts by potentially dozens or hundreds of tickets? i have seen two shows this year from one tout alone harvested it hundred pounds. what is the way to tackle that?”
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think the primary ticket agencies need to do more in blocking the ticket touts and ticketmaster certainly knows who many of them are because they have given them favourable terms of sale on these other reselling sites. the other primary ticket agent need to do more to block these bad actors, that is the solution. we also have seen people saying they will not let people into their consort with tickets that have been sold tickets from ticket touts essentially. is that a way forward? it is part of the way forward the ed sheeran so sold over1 million tickets and only several thousand we re tickets and only several thousand were sold by ticket touts, and they we re were sold by ticket touts, and they were cancelled off and refunds were given so it was the most effective anti—ticket that operation so far and we should hopefully see more of
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those operations. artificial intelligence can diagnose eye disease as accurately as some of the world's leading experts. research by moorfields eye hospital in london and the deepmind — a company linked to google — found that a machine could learn how to read complex eye scans and detect more than 50 types of disease. 0ur medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. 0n the brink of going blind, elaine's sight was saved by doctors at moorfields hospital. this scan showed she needed urgent treatment. there's a growth of abnormal blood vessels under the retina... now artificial intelligence — machines — have learned how to interpret these complex images. a computer looked at 1000 patient scans using a set of rules, an algorithm, and was able to detect over 50 eye conditions and did not miss a single urgent case.
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this is a jaw—dropping result and i think most eye specialists will gasp, because we have shown that this algorithm is as good as some of the world's leading experts in interpreting these scans. using artificial intelligence to diagnose eye disease could be a game changer. that's because at present, doctors are swamped by the number of scans they have to read and some patients go blind before they get treated. i can see the leaves, the detail isn't sharp... 200 people a day in the uk, like elaine, develop the blinding form of age—related macular degeneration. she only has vision in her right eye and welcomes the advent of artificial intelligence in health care. it's extraordinary. it's absolutely brilliant.
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people will be empowered, because their sight will be saved through this artificial intelligence, this algorithm, and they won't be disabled by not having sight at all. google's london headquarters is home to its artificial intelligence company deepmind. they developed the algorithm to read eye scans and are researching al's use in other health conditions. we're looking at eye disease but we're also looking at how you would plan radiotherapy treatment, because it can take a specialist up to eight hours to plan a treatment currently for complex cancers, and also whether we can use artificial intelligence to identify breast cancers more effectively and potentially earlier through mammography screening. artificial intelligence is set to have a profound impact in health care, speeding up diagnosis and freeing up clinicians to spend more time with patients. but not everyone will be happy with a tech giant like google having access to their health data.
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so the people at deepmind will need to ensure that patient confidentiality and data protection are embedded in everything they do. the eye research results, published in the journal nature medicine, are so promising that artificial intelligence looks likely to play a key role in the nhs within just a few years. fergus walsh, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good evening. it is turning into the sort of week where we can wheel out the old weather cliche, a mixed bag. there is a bit of everything. today brought sunny skies at times but also gathering storm clouds, particularly the northern and eastern parts of england. this is the earlier radar picture. you can see how the storms developed in northern england into parts of lincolnshire, east anglia and the south east. heavy downpours with flashes
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of lightning and rumble of thunder. cloud across northern ireland and scotland producing rain. tending to fizzle away this evening and tonight. cloudy, misty and murky in the west. clears bells in the east one showers have died away. temperatures between 12 and 15. muggy for many. tomorrow we're looking at a day of sunny spells but generally large amounts of cloud particularly in the middle parts of the day. for northern ireland and scotland, different weather here. outbreaks of rain staggering south eastwards and a cooler, fresher feel. south—eat still into some humid, muggy air. the cloud will melt away as we go into tuesday evening. patchy rain will stagger its way further south eastwards. into wednesday, split fortunes. high—pressure trying to dominate in the south, low pressure
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in the north west which will bring frontal systems across northern ireland and scotland into the north and west wales as we go on through wednesday. further south and east, patchy cloud and sunny spells. a breezy for us all. quite a range of temperatures — across the north west of scotland we're looking at the mid—teens, mid 20s down towards the south—east of england. the changeable theme continues. on wednesday night into thursday, this band of rain, this weather front, will sink south and east. behind that some cooler, fresher airfor a time. as we look towards friday another area of low pressure winds its way up bringing wet and windy weather into the north and west. fresher feel for us all on thursday and looking pretty unsettled, particularly in the north—west, as we head towards the end of the week. a doctor who
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her appeal to practice medicine again. jack adcock died of sepsis.” can't see myself being anybody else but a practising doctor saving the community so of course when i got the news that i can be given an opportunity to work again, i was very pleased. i'm disgusted, i'm devastated. ijust very pleased. i'm disgusted, i'm devastated. i just cannot very pleased. i'm disgusted, i'm devastated. ijust cannot understand how someone can be charged with gross negligence, manslaughter, struck off the register by the general medical council and then be reinstated. the murder of 25—year—old
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