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tonight: seven people are shot dead in a synagogue in eastjerusalem on international holocaust memorial day. a number of other people were injured. the attacker was killed by security forces as he tried to flee the scene. witnesses have told me about the terrifying moment they saw the gunman run away shooting into the air as he went. is this region experiences one of its worst flare—ups in violence in years. also on tonight: the biggest ever fine for hospital maternity failings. a trust in nottingham must
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pay £800,000 after a baby girl lived just 23 minutes. the death of tyree nichols, assaulted by five police officers in memphis. president biden has spoken to his parents tonight as they prepare to release police body cam footage. the chancellor says he wants the uk to become a technology superpower as he lays out his strategy for boosting the economy. and he is only 16 but he's already the best flat jockey and he is only 16 but he's already the best flatjockey in britain. we meet the teenager who is the and coming up on the bbc news channel: england's cricketers collapse in bloemfontain. they looked set for the win against south africa, but lose crucial wickets to go one down in the series.
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good evening. seven people have been shot dead tonight in a synagogue in eastjerusalem. a 14—year—old boy is among the dead, and a number of other people were wounded. local media have been reporting that the attacker was killed by the security forces as he fled the scene. tensions have been high since nine palestinians, both militants and civilians, were killed during an israeli military raid injenin in the occupied west bank yesterday. it was one of the deadliest raids in years, as tensions rise in the region. the us and uk have condemned tonight's synagogue shooting. here, the foreign secretaryjames cleverly described it as a horrific attack coming on holocaust memorial day. 0ur middle east correspondent tom bateman reports from eastjerusalem. they came to pray as thejewish sabbath had just got under way.
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tonight police are counting their bodies in the street. security forces say the gunman arrived at the synagogue and opened fire. some people were hit in the panic to get out, say witnesses, before the attacker managed to escape and drove off. then the security forces shot him. this isjust a off. then the security forces shot him. this is just a few metres from where the shooting took place close to the synagogue. forensics teams and police are now looking at this car. you can clearly see the bullet holes on the driver side. witnesses told the bbc the driver managed to get out and run before being shot dead. translation: i dead. translation: ., , ., , translation: i heard shots. there were flashes- _ translation: i heard shots. there were flashes. then _ translation: i heard shots. there were flashes. then i _ translation: i heard shots. there were flashes. then i saw _ translation: i heard shots. there were flashes. then i saw the - translation: i heard shots. there were flashes. then i saw the body l translation: | heard shots. there| were flashes. then i saw the body of the terrorist down. there is no security in the streets. we need to go down and find these terrorists, ruin their houses, take them out of israel. fist ruin their houses, take them out of israel. �* ,. ., ., israel. at the scene the head of the jerusalem police _ israel. at the scene the head of the jerusalem police said _ israel. at the scene the head of the jerusalem police said the _ israel. at the scene the head of the jerusalem police said the attack- israel. at the scene the head of the| jerusalem police said the attack was jerusalem police said the attack was one of the worst israel have seen in
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years. translation: . ., . ~ , years. translation: . translation: the attack is a resident of — translation: the attack is a resident of east _ translation: the attack is a resident of east jerusalem. i translation: the attack is a | resident of east jerusalem. we translation: the attack is a - resident of east jerusalem. we are resident of eastjerusalem. we are completing operations at the scene. right now unfortunately we are talking about seven people killed and another three seriously wounded. as the wounded are taken to hospital police have closed off nearby areas searching to see if anyone else is involved. a deadly attack on a jerusalem synagogue as the world marks international holocaust memorial day. it comes as tensions flare in the region. yesterday nine palestinians were killed by israeli forces during a raid in the occupied west bank refugee camp. at least two civilians died according to health officials. israel said it had reacted news about a terrorist
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attack. in the aftermath the group vowed to respond. air strikes were launched. the escalating violence follows the most deadly period in years in israel and the west bank. security forces start to piece together who was behind tonight's deadly attack. the police are now saying they believe the perpetrator in this attack, the man they shot dead, is a 21—year—old palestinian from east jerusalem. while the militant group hamas has praised the attack there has been no claim of responsibility leading to some believing this may be a lone wolf kind of attack but no confirmation of that at this stage. an indication of the seriousness with which the israeli government is treating this, there will be a security assessment tomorrow by the israeli prime minister, and the israeli prime minister, and the israeli defence minister is cutting short his trip to the us to come
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back and deal with this. we already had calls for calm here after what had calls for calm here after what had happened this week. the us secretary of state was already due in the region on monday so i expect those calls for a de—escalation to continue but clearly what's happening on the ground at the moment makes fears of a further flare—up much greater. failings in the care of a baby who died 23 minutes after being born has led to an nhs hospital trust being fined a record £800,000. wynter andrews died from a loss of oxygen to her brain, which could have been prevented if staff had delivered her sooner. nottingham university hospitals trust pleaded guilty to two charges, after being prosecuted by the regulator. but a districtjudge said she was "acutely aware" the fine would be paid for out of money that would usually be used for patient care. 0ur midlands correspondent navteonhal reports.
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winter andrews, the baby girl whose parents were never able to take her home. today, three and a half years on from her death, nottingham university hospitals nhs trust was fined a record £800,000 after admitting failings in the care of winter and her mother. it was only the second prosecution brought against an nhs maternity unit by the regulator, the care quality commission, and comes amid a wider review into maternity care across the trust. no financial penalty will ever bring winter back. sadly, we are not the only family harmed by the trust's failings. we feel that this sentence isn'tjust for winter, but it's for all the other babies that have gone before and after her. the issues began on 10th september 2019. sarah andrews, at a0 weeks pregnant, went to the labour ward
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at nottingham's queen's medical centre after experiencing painful contractions. however, she wasn't examined and was sent home with aromatherapy oils and told to have a bath instead. four days later, she was admitted to the hospital, but her care didn't follow local and national guidance, leading to multiple missed opportunities. the next day, winter andrews died from a loss of oxygen flow to the brain just 23 minutes after she was born by caesarean section. a year later, an inquest ruled winter's death could have been prevented if staff had delivered her earlier. the chief executive of the trust apologised to winter's parents today and says lessons have been learned since her death. i would like to offer my sincere apologies to mr and mrs andrews for the failings in care that led to the tragic death of their baby winter.
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are mums and babies safe in nottingham hospitals today? i want to reassure local mums and families that we're doing absolutely everything we can for our improvement programme day in, day out to make our services as good and as safe as they can be. despite those assurances, maternity services at the trust have been rated inadequate by the qc since 2020 and are also the subject of a wide ranging review led by the independent midwife donna 0ckendon. since we started the review on the 1st of september, more than 900 families have come forward to the review. i'm also pleased that more than 400 staff working in and around maternity services at nottingham have come forward to the review. i am pleased with the response, very pleased with the response, but of course knowing that so many families have suffered does leave me with a terrible sense of sadness. it's a sense of sadness being felt acutely by parents who in the last few days have had to relive the most
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painful experience of their lives. people in the us city of memphis are bracing themselves for the release of the police video is said to show five offices viciously beating a black no tourist, tyre nichols. mr nicholls died three days later and the officers, who were all black, each face multiple charges, including murder. his family say the video shows him being kicked like a football. president biden has spoken to his family by phone this evening and appealed for calm in the city. the death of tyre nichols has prompted americans yet again to look at the reality of police brutality and its consequences. this 29—year—old loved skateboarding and was on his way home from a local park when a traffic stop by five black police officers turned into a deadly confrontation. he was tased
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and beaten for three minutes. this was his condition after in the hospital, bruised and swollen in a critical condition. he died three days later from his critical condition. he died three days laterfrom his injuries. now anotherfamily is asking days laterfrom his injuries. now another family is asking how this keeps happening despite worldwide outrage and public demands for police reform following the killing of george floyd. i police reform following the killing of george floyd.— of george floyd. i want to say to the five police _ of george floyd. i want to say to the five police officers _ of george floyd. i want to say to the five police officers that - the five police officers that murdered my son... you also disgrace to your own families. but you know what, i'm going to pray for you and yourfamilies because at what, i'm going to pray for you and your families because at the end of the day this shouldn't have happened. the day this shouldn't have happened-— the day this shouldn't have ha ened. ., h, . happened. the five former police officers are _ happened. the five former police officers are now _ happened. the five former police officers are now facing _ happened. the five former police officers are now facing charges . happened. the five former police | officers are now facing charges of second—degree murder and other crimes. they were fired last week after an investigation found they were all responsible for mr nichols's death. police chief cj
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david said she was appalled by how inhumanely the police officers acted and hasn't been able to make sense of the situation. would you say that there is a racist culture in policing?— there is a racist culture in olicinu? ., ~ ., ~' there is a racist culture in holicin ? ., 4' ., ~' ., there is a racist culture in olicinu? ., ~ ., «a, ., ., policing? you know, i think a lot of this is character. _ policing? you know, i think a lot of this is character. it _ policing? you know, i think a lot of this is character. it doesn't - policing? you know, i think a lot of this is character. it doesn't matter| this is character. it doesn't matter what colour these officers were. it doesn't matter what colour the driver is. when you see this video, i think you will be able to eliminate race had anything to do with it. ., ., . ., , with it. footage of the incident was ca tured with it. footage of the incident was captured from _ with it. footage of the incident was captured from several _ with it. footage of the incident was captured from several angles, - captured from several angles, including security cameras on utility poles and police warn body cameras. soon the public will get a first—hand look at what happened here when videos of the incident are released. the police chief now says they have no evidence mr nichols was driving recklessly. the alleged reason for this fatal traffic stop. and many other questions remain, why did the police officers used excessive force, and why did so much
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time passed before he was given medical help? memphis and other cities across the us are now bracing themselves for protests and officials all the way up to the presidentjoe biden have urged the public to remain peaceful. the chancellor has set out his long—term plan for boosting the economy. in a speech in london, jeremy hunt ruled out tax cuts, saying that the best thing for the public would be to halve inflation. his comments came after a week in which the government has faced accusations of having no long—term plan for growth — with some mps continuing their calls for lower taxes. but the chancellor said his focus was on making the uk a technology superpower, as our economics editor faisal islam reports. whether it's robots that can sort your waste, bots that can author human—sounding scripts, essays, poems even, or programmable versions of yourself. every aspect of the economy, even farming and medicine, is being transformed thanks to the use of ai and the world's
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most powerful computing. at this leading technology business in london, they use computing power to simulate anyone saying anything in almost any accent — even tv reporters. they think there's a massive opportunity here for them and for the uk generally. it will change how we work and there might be some jobs that are less relevant in ten years' time, right. i think there's this saying that ai will not replace yourjob — a person using ai will. after months of firefighting, the chancellor today revealed his plan for growth, also arguing for optimism rooted in technology. it is going to transform humanity. it's going to be as big a change as the arrival of google search engines, and arguably, two of the three most important ai companies on the planet are british—based, so it is a massive opportunity for the uk. the idea is to use post—brexit freedoms to come up with friendly regulation for these industries.
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0ne top uk tech ceo says more detail is required. we need specific deliverable government policies- to get those right. does this look like a plan to you? i don't think we're there yet - for a plan, but one can be hopeful that in the coming months we'll see something concrete coming out. - this was the government and the chancellor's vision of a high—tech future for the uk economy, from green industry, to financial technology, and of course artificial intelligence, but every country in the world is trying to do the same thing, and the bread and butter issues around the cost of living are never far away from the conversation. you talk about declinism, but it's disposable income that's declining. it's business investment that has declined, despite what you say about that survey. these are real issues. what are you doing to deal with them? faisal, you can choose statistics. i could also say to you that last year we became only the third trillion dollar tech economy in the world.
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foreign investment went up to over £2 trillion for the first time. £83 billion alone in the last year. so we can find statistics that make one case or the other, but if you look at the long—term prospects, this is an economy with enormously exciting opportunities. can you deliver some tax cuts to help boost the economy in the way you say? well, it's unlikely we'll have the headroom for any significant tax cuts. what i would say is we are the sixth—largest economy in the world. we are going through a difficult period. you will always be able to point to things that are going wrong or not going as well as people would like. the government keen to show it has ideas on how to grow the economy long—term, but short—term challenges still loom large. faisal islam, bbc news. a man has died after being crushed by a street you your vinyl that he was working on in london's west end.
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police, firefighters and air ambulance workers mounted a rescue operation to winch the man from underground, but he was critically injured and died at the scene. six members of a child trafficking gang have been sentenced to a total of 27 years in prison. the gang was uncovered after a 14—year—old boy was arrested for selling class a drugs in rhyl, in north wales, in 2021. the police decided to treat the teenager as a victim, and used his phone records to help track the criminals directing his movement around the country. it's the largest case of its kind and has been hailed as a model for dismantling gangs that use children to sell drugs. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. ponce! _ come to us with your hands up, mate. gareth jones may have feared being arrested for drug dealing, but not this. i'm going to arrest you on suspicion of modern day slavery offences. - modern day slavery? yeah. child trafficking... his detention was the result of an unusual police investigation centred on one
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of britain's poorest towns. rhyl, on the north wales coast, has been repeatedly targeted by out—of—town criminal gangs. in february 2021, a11t—year—old boy arrived here after running away from a care home. working with five adults, he came to rhyl to sell drugs. he was soon arrested, however, after dealing to an undercover police officer. the boy was carrying over 200 small bags of heroin and crack cocaine, worth around £2500. the obvious thing for the police to do was to charge him with drug dealing. but instead, they decided to treat him as a victim of trafficking. this was a young boy who had been trafficked across the north west, a very vulnerable young person, and finds himself at the behest of organised criminals. the boy wouldn't answer any questions, so officers turned to his phones and others they'd seized. the child had texted
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a contact called main man. he got an immediate response with the promise of a new phone. main man was wesley hankin, an inmate at portland prison in dorset, over 200 miles away. already convicted of drugs offences, he was directing the teenager using mobile phones smuggled into his cell. over a fortnight, the boy was moved around england and wales. he recorded videos, bragging about his new life — weapons, money from his dealing, and drugs he was still to sell. he hasn't cooperated all the way through and we recognise that sometimes people in these cases won't support prosecutions. given the boy was caught with £2500 worth of drugs and willingly engaged in this world, why wasn't he treated as a criminal? i think we see him as a child. he was having to hold onto a weapon for his own protection. he was probably at more risk than he understood himself, i guess.
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police couldn't prove the prisoner knew he was controlling a child, but he was convicted of drug dealing. six of the gang were, however, jailed for a total of 27 and a half years for trafficking a child — the largest case of its kind. this charity supports the approach the police have taken. if we just target and we just criminalise young people who are involved in drug dealing, we are not going to get to the root or the source of the problem. and actually, when a young person is found with a significant amount of drugs or cash or weapons, for example, we have to be thinking about how did that young person get that? police hope the boy, who's now 16, will eventually realise they acted in his best interests and that drug dealers will fear being convicted of child abuse. michael buchanan, bbc news, rhyl. one of the uk's most notorious murderers could be freed from prison this weekend, after thejustice secretary dominic raab tonight decided not to challenge his parole. russell causley killed his wife,
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carole packman, in 1985. she was a0 years old. he's never revealed what he did with her body. the couple's daughter, sam gillingham, has criticised the decision to release him, and says rules allowing victims to attend parole hearings for the first time are still denying them a voice. she's been speaking to our home and legal correspondent, dominic casciani. for 38 years, sam gillingham has lived with a question tearing at her soul. how did her father kill her mother, and why won't he say what he did with the body? today, she is preparing for 79—year—old russell causley to leave jail, even though he's never told the full truth about the fate of his wife, carole packman. i don't have an inquest, i don't have a death certificate for my mother, i don't have any of those things, you know. she's literallyjust...doesn�*t exist any more. over a succession of trials and appeals, he said nothing,
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adding to sam's pain. i want to find my mother's body still. it's been very difficult and i'm hoping if there's anybody out there who will tell me where my mother is, if you know, then please come forward and tell me. last december she finally heard him speak at the first—ever public parole hearing assessing whether he was safe to leave jail and as his daughter listened he said he'd burned her mother's remains. if anything, it opened up more questions for me. what do you think he was trying to do in that hearing? deflect the reality of the sort of person that he actually is. that was the most frustrating thing that i found — to listen and not have somebody from my side to be able to actually challenge from, directly from, the victim's side. the former victims�* commissioner for england and wales says the process needs to be more clearly thought through. you must have good quality —
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you must know that that's going to happen — good quality victim support, specialist counselling to be with you before, after, to see you through it, and i don't think that any of that is available now. the parole board says causley is a liar, but safe to be released. that will happen in days. sam is resigned to that but wants officials to make her father meet her. what would you ask him? why? you know, why, why are you continuing to just play these games of control still? should he ever be released? no. why not? because i do not think that he is safe to be released. he still is manipulative and controlling. i think that they're wrong. i think theirjudgement is wrong. i still don't feel that my mother has had justice and that's a difficult pill to swallow.
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off you go. dominic casciani, bbc news, northamptonshire. survivors of the holocaust have been lighting candles across the country for international holocaust memorial day — to honour the six millionjewish people and members of minority groups murdered by the nazis during the second world war. today, the director of the auschwitz museum condemned russia's invasion of ukraine as being driven by the same "lust for power" as nazi germany. 0ur religion editor aleem maqbool reports. witnesses to the horrors of the holocaust were among those who gathered today. to light candles in remembrance. the piccadilly lights reflected the moment through the faces of those touched by the devastating impact of genocide. often, of course, the atrocities
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were perpetrated by ordinary people. the ability to turn people against each other is unbelievable, and through mass hysteria and dehumanising people, and blaming people for all of the problems that were going on, the hyperinflation, it led to the camps. it was 78 years ago today at the auschwitz nazi death camp in southern poland, soviet red army troops liberated the thousands of surviving prisoners. this anniversary became the day when the 6 millionjewish men, women and children murdered in the holocaust are commemorated. but it's also meant to be a moment to remember notjust the other groups killed by the nazis, but those murdered in genocides elsewhere, too. unusually, at auschwitz itself
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today, no russians were invited to the commemoration. far away, vladimir putin was using the day to repeat claims ethnic russians are being cleansed from ukraine by neo—nazis. but the director of the auschwitz museum likened russia's aggression in ukraine to the horrors of the holocaust. that was my number, given in auschwitz. lily ebert still bears her prisoner number, and she worries about the possibility that dark days could return. i hope, for the sake of humanity, that humanity can survive where nothing like that happens again, to anybody. aleem maqbool, bbc news.
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the actress sylvia syms, a star of stage and screen for six decades, has died at the age of 89. she found fame in the 1950s in the war film ice cold in alex, and continued to work across film, theatre and television, portraying, among others, margaret thatcher and the queen mother and working into her 80s. billy loughnane is a name you probably aren't familiar with, but the horse—racing world is talking of no one else. he's won more than 20 races this year and added another one, his 23rd, this evening, making him the best flat jockey in britain — and he's still only 16. laura scott has been to meet him. he is too young to drive a car but 16—year—old billy loughnane doesn't need wheels. he rides racehorses at a0 mph and is taking the flat racing world by storm, with more than 20 winners this month alone.
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it is extraordinary. it has just kind of taken off really and, look, none of us expected it to happen so it is amazing. loughnane's blistering form included three winners last night at newcastle, and he is currently top of the flat jockeys�* standings. since his first ride in november, he has earned more than £100,000 in prize money. i got back at 12 o'clock from newcastle last night so i was up about six this morning but usually i would probably be up a bit earlier. so is six a lie—in? yeah! i started riding out when i was ten or 11 and then, since i've been about 13, i've been riding out before school. i used to have racing ponies so i was probably up at 5:30, 6:00, ride a racing pony in the dark, then go and ride out two or three race horses for dad before school. quite a different life to a lot of people your age. yeah, it's a bit different but, look, i was always driven and it's what i always wanted to do so it's just part of the plan really. all right?
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is he 0k, billy? most of his winners have been for his dad mark, a racehorse trainer in worcestershire. first christmas present was a rocking horse and then i bought him a pony on his second one and he's not been off them since. but his rapid rise has got the biggest names in the sport circling. has the phone been ringing off the hook? yeah, which is a good complaint because when the phone stops ringing, you get worried. but for a young chap who is only riding 12 weeks, to get rides like this, it's unheard of, really. for us as a family, watching him doing what he's doing, it's just unbelievable. billy, i know you are onlyjust starting out, but what are your ultimate ambitions as a jockey? this year my main goal is to be champion apprentice and for the future, champion jockey. i know it's a long way off, it's going to take a lot of hard work and then, if the right horse comes along, to win a derby as well would be amazing to. but look, a lot of luck has to happen for that. despite the hype, the teenager is somehow keeping his feet on the ground. well, when they are not
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in the stirrups. but while the winners keep coming, billy the kid is riding the crest of a wave. laura scott, bbc news, worcestershire. remarkable! finally, football, in the fa cup manchester city are through to the fifth round after a narrow victory against arsenal. nathan ake broke the deadlockjust after the hour mark with an accurate finish into the bottom corner to secure a 1—0 victory had put city through. that takes us to look at the weather prospects. ben rich has joined me. we are getting the weekend off to a calm, tranquil start in most places. something livelier on the way particularly in the north of the country as we move into sunday but right now we've got some areas of cloud. most spots are dry but this band of cloud is bringing some outbreaks of rain southwards across scotland, northern ireland, into the far north of england, where it stays cloudy temperatures will stay above freezing, any clear spells will
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allow for a touch of frost and we could see fog patches towards the south first thing tomorrow morning. for tomorrow, still this band of cloud bringing a little

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