up until this week it has been the responsibility of the bbc trust. y has now disappeared, and from monday, the independent regulator off, has taken over oversight of all bbc content. independent regulator 0fcom, has taken over oversight of all bbc content. what difference will that make? to answer that, i am joined by steven barnett, professor of communication at westminster and former chief executive of itm and communication at westminster and stuart pervis, former chief executive of itm and former partner at off com. stephen first, people say the bbc has been marking its own homework for years. what difference will make another .com has taken over? what difference will make another 0fcom has taken over? the difference is that once you have made a complaint to the bbc, which has always the case, if you then want to escalate it, up until the end of march, you would then go to the bbc trust. now you would go to come. now you would go to 0fcom. the question is, in practice, will it make that much difference. the bbc trust, despite the name, in my view a

up to this week it's the responsibility of the bbc trust but that body disappeared and from monday theependent regulator ofcom has ta ken and from monday the independent regulator ofcom has taken oversight of all bbc content. what difference will that make for viewers? well, to answer, that i'm joined by steven barnet, well, to answer, that i'm joined by steven ba rnet, professor of communications and by stewart purvis, to rmer chief executive of itn and a former partner of ofcom. steven, what difference will it make now that ofcom has taken over? the difference is that once you make your complaint to the bbc, which is a lwa ys your complaint to the bbc, which is always the case, you start with the bbc. if you want to escalate it, up until the end of march, you go to the bbc trust. now you go to ofcom. the question is, in practice is it going to make that much difference? the bbc trust despite the name, in my view at least, was a pretty independent body. and i think it was actually pretty good at looking after the complainants who felt they had not had justice from the bbc itself. the

up to this week it's the responsibility of the bbc trust but that body disappeared and from monday thewers? well, to answer, that i'm joined by steven barnet, professor of communications and by stewart purvis, to rmer chief executive of itn and a former partner of ofcom. steven, what difference will it make now that ofcom has taken over? the difference is that once you make your complaint to the bbc, which is always the case, you start with the bbc. if you want to escalate it, up until the end of march, you go to the bbc trust. now you go to ofcom. the question is, in practice is it going to make that much difference? the bbc trust despite the name, in my view at least, was a pretty independent body. and i think it was actually pretty good at looking after the complainants who felt they had not had justice from the bbc itself. the problem was that p perception was that this was just once again the bbc, so there will be a sense, i think on those kinds of grounds around impartiality in particular. and briefly... the independent regulator is looking after it. briefly, they are bringing in

at the audience trust the bbc to do with more than anyone else.ot of complaints, especially from pro brexit viewers, who feel the bbc is rerunning the referendum by always airing what might go wrong or what not work. how do you want about? there will be parts of the community who will have concerns about it and we should report that. i don't think everytime we find someone who is optimistic or pessimistic we should suddenly have to find the opposite view everytime. we are no longer in that situation ofa we are no longer in that situation of a mathematical balance. what we have to do is report it properly, so that the audience understands what the challenges are. that must be a broad range. it mustn'tjust be the people who are worried, it must be also the people who think there are opportunities. we heard a reference to the march last week, but the bbc goes to great lengths. can you give us an goes to great lengths. can you give us an insight as to how you do that and mesha impartiality? we have a lot of obligation on programmes to do that and part

the headlines on bbc news: president putin says trust between russia and the us has deteriorated since been sixed for threatening to kill the mp, caroline ansell. officials detain a suspect in connection with the explosions targeting the borussia dortmund football teamment the lead prosecutor says the man may have had islamist links. and in sport: leicester city manager craig shakespeare says the team will be out to get a result in their champions league quarter—final against atletico madrid tonight, despite being the underdogs. formula one mclaren driver fernando alonso will miss the monaco grand prix next month, so he can race in the indianapolis 500. elinor barker wins silver in the scratch race, on the opening day of the world track cycling championships in hong kong. i‘ll be back with more on those stories after 3.30pm. the chief executive of united airlines has appeared on american television, to apologise for what he‘s described as the truly horrific removal of a passenger from an overbooked flight and he promised it will never happen again. oscar munoz had been under growing pr

lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. the health trustvoidable deaths of babies was told by regulators a decade ago that its maternity services needed to improve. the health care commission told the shrewsbury and telford trust that its monitoring of babies' heart rates during labour wasn't good enough and that its training of staff was inadequate. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. she was very dependent on me. my life went round a clock. i had to give her medication at certain times, make sure herfeed was running ok. i was more of a nurse and a carer than a mum. abbey was born in 2004 with brain injuries, including severe epilepsy and cerebral palsy. staff at the royal shrewsbury hospital failed to promptly deliver her, despite foetal heart traces indicating abbey was in distress. the errors led to abbey dying aged just 17 months. her heart rate went down, down and down. they didn't intervene. obviously they tried to move me to see if they could find a trace. there wasn't anything there. if they would have done t

this is the nhs trust whose mistakes keep causing the deaths of healthy infants. yesterday, bbcies died unnecessarily at the shrewsbury and telford trust in little over 18 months. the scale of the problems has prompted the health secretary to order a review of maternity services. jeremy hunt wants to ensure no more families suffer like this one. tamsin morris lost her daughter, ivy, last may, aged just four months, following mistakes at her birth. we all think that something like this won't ever happen, it won't happen to me. and it has. and i can only take it day—by—day, sometimes. if i'm lucky, week—by—week. how old would he be there, roughly? probably five hours old. other families are still pushing forjustice. hayley matthews' son, jack, died within hours of his birth in 2015. she says the trust never properly investigated the death. following her investigations, however, the local coroner is now considering holding an inquest. i was expecting a healthy baby. two years, i've been fighting. it's not going to bring my boy back, but hopefully it'll save other babies and parents

but it's clear it's causing some trusts and some patients clearly. jayne mccubbin, bbc news. ning. rosemary said she could not get her son in patient ca re she could not get her son in patient care and feared because of the shortage of beds. she said he rang a crisis line three years ago and though one called him back and he took his life that day and says mental health provision is in crisis and many families living with devastating consequences. stephen lives in high wycombe and his daughter has an eating disorder and the only bed was in glasgow and he agrees the threat of being recalled, the threat he says of having the rock taken from under her and being placed in an nhs unit has got in the way of recovery. we would love to hear more. carol, you have shown is the picture but it tells as it is cold. a frosty start with temperatures in parts of scotland below freezing. the frost means clear skies and sunshine. we have a weather front across parts of northern ireland. moving into scotland. high pressure is generally in charge of the weather is a lot of sunshine to start the d

but the audience trust the bbc to do it more than anyone else.iring what might go wrong or what not work. how do you answer that? there will be parts of the community who will have concerns about it and we should report that. i don't think every time we find someone who is optimistic or pessimistic we should suddenly have to find the opposite view every time. we're no longer in that situation of a mathematical balance. what we do have to do is report it properly, so that the audience understands what the challenges and issues are. that must be a broad range. it mustn'tjust be the people who are worried, it must be also the people who think there are opportunities. we heard a reference to the march last weekend, that the bbc supposedly goes to great lengths to ensure their coverage is impartial. could you give us an insight into how you do that, how you monitor and measure impartiality? we put a lot of obligation on individual programme editors to do that and part of what i do is to help them do that. but across time, it may not be an individual p

this is the nhs trust whose mistakes keep causing the deaths of healthy infants. yesterday, bbcand telford trust in little over 18 months. the scale of the problems has prompted the health secretary to order a review of maternity services. jeremy hunt wants to ensure no more families suffer like this one. tamsin morris lost her daughter, ivy, last may, aged just four months, following mistakes at her birth. we all think that something like this won't ever happen, it won't happen to me. and it has. and i can only take it day—by—day, sometimes. if i'm lucky, week—by—week. how old would he be there, roughly? probably five hours old. other families are still pushing forjustice. hayley matthews' son, jack, died within hours of his birth in 2015. she says the trust never properly investigated the death. following our investigations, however, the local coroner is now considering holding an inquest. i was expecting a healthy baby. two years, i've been fighting. it's not going to bring my boy back, but hopefully it'll save other babies and parents going through what we've gone through, a

the health secretaryjeremy hunt has ordered a review at an nhs trust, after concerns were raised over a cluster of baby deaths. the bbcaths over 20 months within the shrewsbury and telford hospital trust in shropshire. five of the deaths were contributed to by the same problem — a failure to properly monitor the baby's heart rate during labour. in response, the trust say their mortality levels are in line with the national average. 0ur correspondent, michael buchanan, has this exclusive report. basic errors at this trust have caused healthy babies to die. i don't want another mum to feel this. dad to have to put the lid on his daughter's coffin. promises to learn lessons have not been kept. they were interpreting my heartrate as hers. they missed the opportunity to see that there was any distress. but now a family long denied justice themselves have prompted the health secretary to act. how many more babies need to die at this trust before somebody somewhere says, "enough is enough, we need now to investigate"? it's all i've got left. bits of hair is not enough. a memory box is all kellyjones has of her twin girls ell

bbc news. our top story this evening: the health secretary orders an investigation, after a cluster of avoidable baby deaths at an nhs trusty prepare to take on atletico madrid. coming up in sportsday on bbc news, double formula one world champion fernando alonso will miss the monaco grand prix next month so he can race in the indy 500, and the spaniard has the full support of his mclaren team. threats and abuse on social media need to stop, and the likes of facebook and twitter must do more to police what is posted online — that's what an mp said today, after a man was sentenced to four months in prison for posting messages on social media, threatening to kill her. mark sands pleaded guilty to sending the grossly offensive messages on facebook to the eastbourne mp, caroline ansell. she's the latest female mp to be singled out for abuse online, as alex forsyth reports. with a brazen hand gesture, mark sands arrived in court. never in trouble with police before, now injailfor threatening to kill his local mp. when police found his facebook page, it was full of posts described as hateful and vitriolic, showing entrenched pol

bbc news with reeta chakrabarti and simon mccoy. the headlines at 2:30pm. vladimir putin has said trust talks on syria. german police have detained a suspect with "islamist links" following a bomb attack on the bus of the borussia dortmund football team. the head of united airlines has publicly apologised on american tv for an incident where a passenger was dragged off an overbooked flight. you saw us at a bad moment and this can never, will never happen again on a united airlines flight, that‘s my premise and that‘s my promise. president trump‘s wife, melania, has accepted undisclosed damages and an apology from the daily mail, following allegations about her work as a model. let‘s ta ke let‘s take a look at the sport and go over tojess at bbc sports centre. good afternoon. after that attack on the dortmund team bus the players we re the dortmund team bus the players were back in training this morning. the postpone quarterfinal will go ahead. thousands of fans were in the stadium when news began to filter in about the attack and the opposing monaco fans seen here chanting their support

bbc news. more families have accused the nhs trust at the centre of an investigation into its maternity services ofjack burn, who died in 2015, said their concerns were dismissed by the shrewsbury and telford hospital trust. the trust says it has learned lessons from all the deaths and is aware that it needs to improve its communication with families. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports from shropshire. kayleigh and colin lost their daughter last april, but were forced to fight for justice. pippa died just a day after being born at home. hours earlier, kayleigh had called the local hospital worried about her daughter's vomiting. so this is the babygro that pippa went to bed in that night. as you can see, it's got splodges of dark brown mucus. the midwives offered no real help. the family struggled on, but pippa's infection killed her. weeks later, the trust told the family the death was unavoidable. members from the trust sat here, on this seat, and said nothing could have been done to save pippa. that wasn't true? no. the family fought for an investigation. last week, a co

bbc news. the russian president, vladimir putin, has said trust between moscow and washington has deterioratedonald trump took office. mr putin's comments came as his foreign minister, sergei lavrov, was holding talks on syria with his us counterpart, rex tillerson, in the russian capital. opening the talks, mr lavrov warned the us not to adopt an "us or them" approach regarding russia's support for syria's president assad. mr tillerson wants russia to withdraw that support following last week's chemical attack on a rebel—held town which killed more than 80 people. our north america correspondent barbara plett—usher is travelling with mr tillerson and she sent this report from moscow. this is not the kind of meeting that once seemed on the cards. long gone is talk of a grand resetting of relations with russia, previously encouraged by donald trump. that has been replaced by over tensions over the chemical weapons attack in syria and russian anger over the american military response. translation: it is important for us to understand your intentions, the intentions of the us and and the real int

bbc world news. and the top story here in the uk: the health secretary has ordered an investigation into failings at the shrewsbury and telford hospital trustin shropshire, after it emerged that the deaths of seven babies injust over 18 months could have been avoided. now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. after months of tough talk, president trump now says he will not label china currency manipulator. and we are tracking this food delivery service on the streets of san francisco. welcome to asia business report, i am sharanjit leyl business report, i am sharanjit leyl. us president donald trump says his administration will not label china currency manipulator. it is a stunning reversal from one china currency manipulator. it is a stunning reversalfrom one of his key election campaign promises. mr trump told the wall streetjournal that he changed his mind because china has not been manipulating its currency recently, and that doing so jeopardise talks with beijing about how to deal with north korea. earlier i spoke to an economist about whether the us president was softening his trade stance on china. in the pas

the health secretaryjeremy hunt has ordered a review at an nhs trust, after concerns were raised over a cluster of baby deaths. the bbcleast 7 avoidable deaths over 20 months within the shrewsbury and telford hospital trust in shropshire. five of the deaths were contributed to by the same problem — a failure to properly monitor the baby's heart rate during labour. in response, the trust say their mortality levels are in line with the national average. 0ur correspondent, michael buchanan, has this exclusive report. basic errors of this trust have caused healthy babies to die. as a mother i do not want to feel this, i do not want any other mother or father to put the lid on gotham. promises to learn lessons have not been kept. they were interpreting my heart rate as her heart rate. they missed the opportunity to see that there was any distress. but now a family long denied justice themselves have prompted the health secretary to act. how many more babies need to die at this trust before someone somewhere says enough is enough. we now need to investigate. it is all i've got left. bits of hair is not enough. a memory box

this is the nhs trust whose mistakes keep causing the deaths of healthy infants. yesterday, bbct the shrewsbury and telford trust, in a little over 18 months. the scale of the problems has prompted the health secretary to order a review of maternity services. jeremy hunt wants to ensure no more families suffer like this one. tamsin morris lost her daughter ivy last may, aged just four months, following mistakes at her birth. we all think that something like this won't ever happen, it won't happen to me. and it has. and i can only take it day by day, sometimes. if i'm lucky, week by week. how old would he be there, roughly? probably five hours old. other families are still pushing forjustice. hayley matthews' sonjack died within hours of his birth, in 2015. she says the trust never properly investigated the death. following their investigations, however, the local coroner is now considering holding an inquest. i was expecting a healthy baby. two years, i've been fighting. it's not going to bring my boy back, but hopefully it'll save other babies and parents going through what we'

bbc news. more families have accused the nhs trust at the centre of an investigation into its maternity servicesack burn who died in 2015 said their concerns were dismissed by the shrewsbury and telford hospital trust. the trust says it has learned lessons from all the deaths and is aware that it needs to improve its communication with families. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports from shropshire. kayleigh and colin lost their daughter last april but were forced to fight for justice. pippa died from an infectionjust 30 hours after being born at home. staff at the shrewsbury and telford trust told the family that the death was unavoidable. members from the trust sat here, on this seat, and said that nothing could have been done to save pippa. that wasn't true? no. kayleigh had called the local hospital during the night, concerned about her daughter's vomiting. it's got splodges of dark brown mucus all over it. nothing was done. hours later, pippa died. the family fought for an investigation. last week, a coroner ruled that the death was preve nta ble. they weren't going to d

the man hired to reset barclays' position on trust knows his bank is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. kamal ahmed, bbcer other news stories. a drug called prep which dramatically reduces the chances of being infected by hiv is to be offered as a preventative medicine to nhs patients in scotland. it costs a50 pounds a month and isn't currently offered by the nhs england because of concerns about the cost — but medical trials are being conducted later this year. a londonderry teenager, who was shot dead by the army almost 45 years ago, was ‘totally innocent‘ and did not pose a threat to anyone, a coroner has said. 15—year—old manus deery was with a group of friends when he was shot by a soldier in 1972. the soldier has since died. the fashion chain, jaeger, has gone into administration, threatening 700 jobs. the brand was founded in 1884 and once dressed audrey hepburn and marilyn monroe — but has struggled on the increasingly competitive british high street. the business, which has 46 stores, had failed to find a buyer. the funeral of pc keith palmer, who was killed in last month's westminster attack,

bbc news at one. the russian president, vladimir putin, has said trust between moscow and washington has deterioratedald trump took office. mr putin's comments come as his foreign minister, sergei lavrov, holds talks with his us counterpart, rex tillerson in the russian capital. opening the meeting, mr lavrov said he wanted to clear up what moscow regards as america‘s ‘ambiguous and contradictory‘ position on syria. rex tillerson is hoping to persuade russia to stop supporting syria‘s president assad — after last week‘s chemical attack which killed more than 80 people, including children. barbara plett—usher reports from moscow. she is travelling with mr tillotson. this is not the kind of meeting that once seemed on the cards. long gone is talk of a grand resettling of relations with russia. that has been replaced over tensions over the chemical weapons attack in syria and russian anger over the american military response. it is important for us to understand your intentions, the intentions of the us aid and the real intentions of this administration. the secretary of state said both sides had some e

bbc world news. and the top story here in the uk: the health secretary has ordered an investigation into failings at the shrewsbury and telford hospital trust

this is the nhs trust whose mistakes keep causing the deaths of healthy infants. yesterday, bbcfamilies suffer like this one. tamsin morris lost her daughter ivy last may, aged just four months, following mistakes at her birth. we all think that something like this won't ever happen, it won't happen to me. and it has. and i can only take it day by day, sometimes. if i'm lucky, week by week. how old would he be there, roughly? probably five hours old. other families are still pushing forjustice. hayley matthews‘s son jack died within hours of his birth, in 2015. she says the trust never properly investigated the death. following their investigations, however, the local coroner is now considering holding an inquest. i was expecting a healthy baby. two years, i've been fighting. it's not going to bring my boy back, but hopefully it'll save other babies and parents going through what we've gone through, and other people. the trust say they have investigated all maternity deaths, and say they will contact hayley about her case. they also say they are learning lessons from incidents,

trusted. he just seems like he doesn't know what he's doing. well, david atkinson, among many others, felt that jeremy corbyn is getting a rough dealfrom the bbc,ng us this message. i've been disgusted to see that once again the bbc are allowing people to be interviewed who are calling jeremy corbyn an idiot. i can almost guarantee that nobody would be saying the same thing about mrs may, or mr farron, or mr nuttall, any of the other leaders. it's absolutely disgraceful that the bbc are so anti—corbyn. they should show him the respect they show theresa may. it's no surprise that jeremy corbyn‘s political opponents are not holding back from the personal attacks either. on thursday, the foreign secretary borisjohnson unleashed his own — at the same time introducing many of us to a new term of abuse. in the sun newspaper today, borisjohnson launched a personal attack on the labour leader, calling him a mutton—headed old mugwump who would be calamitous in downing street. campaigning in essex, mr corbyn said they were focused on serious debate, not name—calling. well, a mugwump, in case you're wondering, is a mid—19th century word from the algonquia

trust. all that and more coming up in brea kfast all that and more coming up in breakfast in about 15 minutes. this is bbcaid relations with russia may be at an all—time low. his secretary of state failed to persuade russia to stop backing president assad, despite nearly two hours of talks about last week's syrian chemical attack. a state of emergency has been declared in some parts of new zealand, as the country braces itself for tropical storm cook, just days after cyclone debbie. authorities say it could be the worst storm in 50 years. now it is time for our newspaper review. the wall streetjournal online is covering the visit to moscow by us secretary of state rex tillerson. the article says both the us and russia have been trying to reduce rapidly rising tension, clashing over a range of issues. a warning against trade protectionism. the gulf news has international monetary fund chief christine lagarde saying that after years of disappointing growth, the global economy is finally gaining momentum. but she said restricting trade flows would be a "self—inflicted wound". the new york magazine has donald

the man hired to reset barclays's position on trust knows his bank is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. kamal ahmed, bbcbf, which specialises whistleblowing cases. she explained to me a little earlier how she believes the system should work. a whistle—blower should be protected, because they have to have confidence in the process. they have to know that when the process starts, they should feel reassured that they're not going to be exposed and they're not going to live in fear of retaliation. that's what anonymity provides, the first step of reassurance towards. and do most whistle—blowers want to keep that anonymity? some start with an anonymous whistleblowing disclosure, but not all remain anonymous. so the next step for reassurance is the confidentiality of the process. so whistleblowers might become involved in the investigation, but must be reassured of the confidentiality of that investigation, so that they are not exposed. and the law has been beefed up, to keep that level of confidence on the part of whistleblowers, that if they do come forward with malfeasance or something that they see being

the man hired to reset barclays's position on trust knows his bank is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. kamal ahmed, bbcousands of police officers have lined the streets of london for the funeral of pc keith palmer — who was murdered in the westminster attack. and still to come: 74th time lucky — sergio garcia wins his first major golfing tournament coming up in sportsday in the next 15 minutes on bbc news: one of arsenal's biggest shareholders say arsene wenger can't take all the blame for a poor season. the gunners face crystal palace tonight. australia's great barrier reef is one of the seven natural wonders of the world. you can see it from space. but scientists say rising water temperatures have stripped the colour from around two thirds of it and it's in danger of being destroyed. mass bleaching happens when the coral gets stressed — it makes it fragile and can kill it. the reef is home to more than 130 species of shark and 1,600 varieties of fish. our science editor, david shukman, reports. a world of brilliant colour, teeming with life. this is the great barrier reef at its best. the largest sin

years after the trust was told to improve care, their son is one of several babies who need not have died. michael buchanan, bbcopshire. now it's time for the travel show. on this week's travel show, we are exploring a secret corner of spain full of places that time forgot. really beautiful round here. it's really quiet. we are tackling the great wall of china, one step at a time. and we're tracking down a wild and secretive creature that's learned to steer well clear of humans. we're looking out at the bottom of the valley here. and that's where the wolves are most likely to get a good breakfast. hello and welcome to the travel show with me, christa larwood, coming this week from palencia in spain. now, this country is one of the world's biggest tourism destinations. each year over 60 million people arrive on these shores. but they often head for the mediterranean coast and cities like barcelona or madrid. but here in rural spain, many struggling communities are pinning their hopes on becoming the next big holiday hotspot. i've travelled fairly widely in spain, but on this trip i'm heading to a region in the n

bbc south east understands that the qeqm has rejected some of the measures drawn up by staff to deal with the shortage of locums. in a statement the trustr has been mooted for locums, an increase of more than 10%. the deputy chief executive of east kent hospitals told us it is considering the local rate, but has not yet agreed one. helen catt, bbc south—east today. a minute's silence has been held at charlton athletic football ground in memory of pc keith palmer, the policeman who was killed in the westminster terror attack two weeks ago. the match against mk dons was dedicated to the memory of the 48—year—old officer, who was killed in the westminster terror attack last month. pc palmer was a lifelong fan of charlton athletic. now on bbc news kirsty wark with newsnight. i should warn you that the programme includes distressing images. the finger of blame is pointed at bashir al assad for a suspected chemical weapons attack on the syrian opposition town in idlib killing more than 50 people. with russia on his side and the white house stating that defeating is, not regime change in syria, is their aim, we'll ask obama's chemical weapons

the man hired to reset barclays' position on trust knows his bank is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. kamal ahmed, bbcprep, which dramatically reduces the chances of being infected by hiv, is to be offered as a preventative medicine to nhs patients in scotland. it costs £450 a month and isn't currently offered by the nhs england because of concerns about the cost, but medical trials are being conducted later this year. a londonderry teenager, who was shot dead by the army almost 45 years ago, was totally innocent and did not pose a threat to anyone, a coroner has said. 15—year—old manus deery was with a group of friends when he was shot by a soldier in 1972. the soldier has since died. the fashion chain, jaeger, has gone into administration, threatening 700 jobs. the brand was founded in 1884 and once dressed audrey hepburn and marilyn monroe but has struggled on the increasingly competitive british high street. the business, which has 46 stores, had failed to find a buyer. police in manchester say the number of people abusing a drug called spice has reached epidemic proportions and it's putting press

years after the trust was told to improve care, their son is one of several babies who need not have died. michael buchanan, bbc affected much of the financial district. many shops were closed, and there were chaotic scenes in the streets after traffic lights went out. the city's cable car loa ns lights went out. the city's cable car loans stopped running. —— lines. the duke and duchess of cambridge have made a surprise appearance on bbc radio one. while promoting a mental health charity, kate and wills also gave an insight into their social lives, revealing a love of takeaways and box sets. 0ur royal correspondent peter hunt reports. please welcome to radio 1 the duke and duchess of cambridge. with a destiny to fulfil, some dj—ing in the meantime. these are royals bringing their message about mental health to a young audience, and a confession about listening habits. i have texted in, yeah. under a different name? obviously, i wouldn't tell you who i was. definitely not! what are you doing texting in your car? obviously i stopped in a lay—by. i have not texted while driving, because that is illegal. the prince

the nhs trust and the private hospitals where ian paterson worked have apologised, but legal action has been launched by some victims of the rogue surgeon. more may yet come forward. hugh pym, bbcice investigating an active terrorist plot carried out an armed raid in london last night. 0ne terrorist plot carried out an armed raid in london last night. one woman was shot and seriously injured. six others have been arrested. the metropolitan police say they are trying to contain a growing number of threats. 0ur trying to contain a growing number of threats. our home affairs correspondent reports. just before 7pm last night... gunshot. ..masked armed police officers at a north london flat... gunshots. ..firing cs gas canisters into the front window. i ran to my partner in the kitchen and was like, "quick, quick, there's armed officers outside, armed officers. at that point you heard another bang, and another bang. video obtained by the sun shows some of those arrested in the flat being led away, and then a woman who was shot by police during the counter—terrorism raid being treated on the pavement. there was a woman brought out of the house. she was on the ground, face down, offic

years after the trust was told to improve care, their son is one of several babies who need not have died. michael buchanan, bbcheresa may declines to say whether she'll continue with the tories‘ policy of pension increases, while the chancellor hints that the conservatives may leave open the possibility of tax rises. as voting gets under way in france, parisian officials say the gunman who shot dead a policeman was known to them as karim cheurfi, a convicted criminal. a new report into the deaths of three soldiers during an sas exercise in the brecon beacons says it could happen again. the world of football has reacted with shock to the death of the former england and aston villa defender, ugo ehiogu, at the age of 44. he collapsed yesterday after suffering a cardiac arrest at tottenham hotspurs' training ground, where he worked as a coach. he was capped four times for england. here's our sports correspondent, joe wilson. ugo ehiogu was a rock. the stock goals, sometimes he scored them. ended at ehiogu. a central defender, as strong and imposing as any footballer and now at the age of just 44, he's died. his p

years after the trust was told to improve care, their son is one of several babies who need not have died. michael buchanan, bbche general secretary of the uk's biggest trade union, unite. mr mccluskey beat his nearest rival gerard coyne byjust over 5,500 votes. but onlyjust over 12% of unite's million—plus members voted. following the result, mr coyne, who was suspended from his position in the union yesterday, said he's considering a legal challenge. britain is on course to see its first full day generating electricity without using coal. so far the national grid's records show the country has been powered without the use of the fossil fuel since just before 11pm last night. if that remains the case for the next 30 minutes or so then it'll be the first continuous 24—hour coal—free period since the industrial revolution. a ministry of defence report on the deaths of three sas reservists in the brecon beacons has found that there were multiple failures and that it could happen again. corporaljames dunsby, lance corporal edward maher and lance corporal craig roberts died of heat exhaustion during a recruitment e

the row between the church, the national trust and cadbury about the omission of the word easter from their egg hunts. and coming up in the sport on bbc news... the football association will ask sunderland boss david moyes to explain remarks in which he told a female reporter she might get a slap. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. at least 58 people have been killed in a suspected chemical attack in the rebel—held province of idlib in northern syria. emergency services who arrived in the area shortly after a series of strikes said they found people choking in the street. the syrian government has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons. the dead are mostly civilians, and include at least 11 children. in the last hour, france has called for an emergency meeting of the un security council to discuss the attack. our correspondent ben james reports from beirut. this is some of the footage opposition activists posted online after the attack on the town bauer a town here. it was said that the symptoms, the difficulty breathing and foaming at the mouth were consistent with a gas attack. witnesses talked about people choking

bbc news. hospitals in england were forced to turn away ambulances almost twice as often this winter than in the previous three years. the nuffield trustressure than nhs hospitals. our health correspondent, jane dreaper, has the details. a grieving brother. sam has suffered from an ambulance service under strange. his brother died in december after a six—hour wait and he feels he's had to battle to get a nswe rs. he feels he's had to battle to get answers. we believe the ambulance arriving late, very late, had a direct result, so it's absolutely devastating and i'm not sure that myself and other members of the family really quite believe what's happened. it's like a really bad dream. emergency services are under increasing pressure, with ambulances sometimes being sent to hospitals further away as a temporary measure. today's report shows hospitals are diverging ambulances more often. during the three winters beginning in 2013, this happened on average 249 times. but in the most recent winter, the number of diverts jumped, to almost 500. you may say that's not a big numberfor stopping the tip of the iceberg. they have doubled. they rev

trust. professor, thank you very much. thank you. you're watching breakfast from bbc news.'s caught their eye. what have you got from the newspapers this morning? house obsession. and nationwide is reporting the first fall for nearly two years. it's only a month before so two years. it's only a month before so it puts it into perspective. the average price of a home in the uk, £207 news, gone up significantly. just a small fall. the south still strong. northern ireland saw a slight increase. it was the only pa rt slight increase. it was the only part of the uk which had a crash in 2008. -- £207,000. this little graph, it has some huge rises in it? monthly changes, yes. they are going up. but it's a strange level they have on here. what looks like dramatic falls are 2.3% and the rises, so it's over—emphasising it but it's basically seeing something that's slowly slowing down. really we are seeing the ownership rates coming down. hardly surprising, 35-aa, that coming down. hardly surprising, 35—aa, that was at 7a%, now down to 56%. we were talking about landlords earlier, man

the trust says its mortality levels are in line with the national average. a bbctruction faults, similar to those which led to the closure of 17 schools in edinburgh on safety grounds, have been found at 71 other schools across scotland. although most have been repaired, work has yet to be completed on six of the buildings. the scottish futures trust, which oversees public—private finance projects, says it is reviewing its guidance. coastal areas in parts of new zealand's north island have been evacuated ahead of what's expected to be the most powerful storm to hit the country in 50 years. tropical storm cook is forecast to bring more than a—hundred millimetres of rain and winds of up to a—hundred—miles an hour. some areas are already under a state of emergency. a missing link in the evolution of dinosaurs has been discovered at the national history museum in london. on discovering a lost fossil, scientists realised it was from an early cousin of the dinosaur. they found that while it had a long neck and tail, it also walked on all fours more like a modern monitor

welcome to bbc news. a public show of unity, but russia and america failed to resolve their differences over the syrian chemical attack and president assad's future. there is a low level of trustuclear powers cannot have this relationship. we report from pyongyang as donald trump talks about north korea with china. new zealanders brace themselves for another tropical storm, just a week after being lashed by cyclone debbie. 100 years of history. we meet chairman mao's secretary, who ended up defying the communist

. -- on they determined bbc the other day they actually weren't sure who's chemicals they are. i want congress to do their job because we can't trusthis white house to do it. comparisons between what members of congress said in 2013 . here's a few of those statements. republicans who opposed the plan in 2013 supported president trump's action. here's marco rubio in 2013. i have never supported the use and i remainorce unconvinced the use of force proposed here will work. here is senator marco rubio today. president trump has made it ssad that the days of committing war crimes with impunity are over. 2013 said aell in vital national security risk is clearly not at play. says he supports president trump's actions. democrats calling for more congressional oversight. others remain skeptical of any military intervention in syria. senator bernie sanders. you can see the run down of all the members of congress and their reactions today compared to 2013. in las vegas, nevada. what role should congress play? i believe that congress should play a role in something other than just shutting it down. that's all they are doing right now in the g

trust the technology? i don't know, can we. we will get the inside track. from intel was, heading up the new driverless car division. you are with business live from bbcofit to £238 million. the company said that its sport fashion division had an exceptional year. joining us is george macdonald, executive editor, retail week. good morning to you. let's talk first of all the results as we said, they look pretty good, but this comes they look pretty good, but this co m es after they look pretty good, but this comes after a damning investigation, one that looked at the conditions in its warehouse. the warehouse in rochdale and it was found to be a pretty tough place to work. just explain it for us. yes, there was various allegations made several months ago including for instance that workers could be sacked on—the—spot. jd said at the time that it disagreed with the various claims and it mounted a review since which it makes brief reference to this morning. it got deloitte in to have a look at conditions and says that the report was not balanced in its view. so it will hope to draw a line under those claims. george, it is aaron here, what's the differenc

the nhs trust and the private hospitals where ian paterson worked have apologised, but legal action has been launched by some victims of the rogue surgeon. more may yet come forward. hugh pym, bbcn active terrorist plot carried out an armed raid on a house in north—west london last night. one woman was shot and seriously injured. six others have been arrested. the metropolitan police say they are trying to contain a "growing number of threats". daniel sandford reports. just before 7pm last night... gunshot masked armed police officers at a north london flat. gunshots firing cs gas canisters into the front window. i ran to my partner in the kitchen and was like, "quick, quick, "there's armed officers outside, armed officers". at that point you heard another bang, and another bang. video obtained by the sun shows some of those arrested in the flat being led away, and then a woman who was shot by police during the counter—terrorism raid being treated on the pavement. there was a woman brought out of the house. she was on the ground, face down, officers on top of her, ambulance officers around. she was screaming incredibly loud. it was quite awful. and the police were just saying,

trust anybody, be suspicious of everything. and you can hear more about this on money box on bbc radio a at midday.ple, as the national living wage rises to £7 50, an hour. —— £7.50, an hour. weather this weekend is going to be a little bit all over the place, and friendly fair weather clouds may be for a moment this morning, but then, those clouds will go into something a little more ugly. this is rain, the sun is beginning to poke through the clouds in one or two places. those clouds are also going to be growing through the morning into the afternoon. plenty of showers on the way, hit and miss, some of us get them, some do not, 50/50 chance of catching rain, certainly a chance across south—western england, through wales, western parts of the uk, this is where they will be at their heaviest and fall earlier in the day. eastern parts of the country will tend to get the showers later on. if you live in lincolnshire, the east midlands, the south—east, those showers will brew later on, and also a chance of hail and thunder. 0nce the sun sets, the energy is lost from the sun, the showers can sustain th

trusted. she says it's about leadership yet is refusing to defend her record in televised debates. the bbcs not want to get in a position where a party leader stops us acting in the public interest. with me is sebastian payne, the political leader writer and digital comment editor at the financial times. i think tv debates are generally a good thing. the precedent has been set, there should be tv debate but if you look at that from theresa may's perspective, you were 36 points ahead from your nearest rival, even don't know is ahead of jeremy corbyn and her danger is if she had a tv debate with third, jeremy corbyn and tim farron, she could make tim farron look quite prime minister real. in terms of democracy it is something she should look at and i think this is her opening position, once other politicians going up around her the pressure will grow. the balance is the risk of not appearing, which one broadcaster is threatening. it's quite a tough position for itv to say they will go ahead that the debate of people realistically be prime minister. even jeremy debate of people realistically

trusted. itjust seems that he doesn't know what he's doing. this battle has just begun, but today, theresa may signalled she is ready to challenge the labour party on their own turf. vicki young, bbcolton. the prime minister says she won't take part in any tv election debates. theresa may insists campaigning should be about getting "out and about" meeting voters. labour has accused her of running scared, and itv has announced it intends to host a leaders' debate nonetheless. our home editor mark easton has more. election debate. since the first uk tv debates in 2010, they've proved a popular addition to election campaigns, particularly with young voters. i agree with nick and i think he agrees with me about the new house of commons. a boyish nick clegg stole the show in the first—ever, a reminder that under the tv lights, poll ratings and political experience can melt away. the prime minister revealed her views about tv debates on bbc radio this morning. we won't be doing the television debates... so you won't faze jeremy corbyn on any stage at any time? i will face him later in the house of commons. and when she did come his attack was swift and predictable. she says it is about

the row between the church, the national trust and cadbury, about the omission of the word easter from their egg hunts. good afternoon and welcome to bbc8 people have been killed in a suspected chemical attack in the rebel—held province of idlib in northern syria. emergency services who arrived in the area shortly after a series of strikes, said they found people choking in the street. the syrian government has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons. the dead are mostly civilians, and include at least 11 children. france has called for an emergency meeting of the un security council to discuss the attack. our correspondent ben james reports from beirut. this is some of the footage opposition activists posted online after the attack on the town of khan sheikhoun. medical sources told the monitoring group, the syrian observatory of human rights, that the symptoms — the difficulty breathing, the foaming at the mouth — were consistent with a gas attack. witnesses talk about people choking and fainting after the early morning air strike. other pictures too graphic to broadcast show what appear to be the seminaked bodies of the dead, many

today the trust that runs it said the name has become ‘toxic‘ and declared that it will change. tracey miller from bbca 17th century merchants who made a huge amount of money from slavery. he spent some of it on charitable causes in the city and this statute inscription describes him as virtuous and wires. but the truth behind this world which had links to the slave trade led to over 2000 to sign a petition to change the name of colston hall, the campaigners were thrilled with the campaigners were thrilled with the decision today but changing the name ofa the decision today but changing the name of a place that has been there for roentgen 50 years could be tricky. it'll be a massive change because hall has always been called colston hall. it's the big gold building. it's quite a big impact in msomi after someone which is seen as a crime now so it depends on the change the name too. it's a good change. i could see why people would complain because people don't like change. over the years big names have played here including the beatles, david bowie and bob dylan. the bristol band massive attack have a