the national audit office has described the hinkley point development as ‘risky and expensive'.un of relative success at the moment, with the u21s side reaching the semi—finals of the european championship. it follows the u20s who lifted the world cup and the u17s, who made the final of the euros back in may. not often it happens right across the board all at once, but fair to say, it‘s all going well for the young lions. the under 21s reached the last four, after a pretty comfortable win over the hosts poland. demarai gray hit a cracking opener, with jacob murphy and lewis baker, also scoring in a 3—nil win. and to think it‘s only two weeks since the under 20s won the world cup. we‘re definitely getting stronger. obviously, the higher we get, the more important the games are. the boys have been in important games before, because we had that tournament we won, so used to playing in important matches. it‘s fantastic for us. we are through to the semis now and peripherally focused. —— we are fully focused. a lot of rugby at the moment — away from the british and irish lions in new

the national audit office says ministers have locked consumers into paying for hinkley point throughdy on electricity bills that's risen from £6 billion to £30 billion. the government says the plant will provide clean electricity for six million homes. our science editor david shukman reports. each scoop of this digger lifts 30 tonnes of earth. look down at the driver of the truck below for a sense of scale. this is where one of two nuclear reactors will stand at hinkley point. 1,600 people work here now. soon, it will be 5,000. it's an immense and controversial project, and even now, the national audit office has weighed in, attacking the costs. the government has committed consumers to a risky and expensive deal with uncertain economic and strategic benefits. the government's case for proceeding with the deal last september was not clear—cut. the concern is not so much the £18 billion to build the power station — that's covered by edf of france and cgn of china — it's the estimated £30 billion in subsidies paid to the two companies on top of the market price for electricity. that's

the national audit office believes more than 1700 people may be affected.e which did not reach its intended destination includes blood tests, cancer screening and child protection notes. the health secretary explained what happened. the backlog arose from the primary care services gp mail redirection service that sbs was contracted to run. none of the documents were lost and all were kept in secure storage. but my immediate concern was patient safety had been compromised by the delay in forwarding correspondence. so a rapid process was started to identify whether anyone had been put at risk. to date no harm has been confirmed to any patients as a result of this incident. today's national audit office report confirms that patient safety was the department and nhs england's primary concern. the minister said transparency was his priority. i was advised by my officials not to make the issue public last march until an assessment of the risks to patient safety had been completed and all relevant gp surgeries informed. is it not an absolute scandal that 709,000 l

the national audit office says ministers have locked consumers into paying for hinkley point through6 billion to 30 billion. the government says the plant will provide clean electricity for six million homes. 0ur science editor david shukman reports. each scoop of this digger lifts 30 tonnes of earth. look down at the driver of the truck below for a sense of scale. this is where one of two nuclear reactors will stand at hinkley point. 1,600 people work here now, soon it will be 5,000. it's an immense and controversial project, and even now, the national audit office has weighed in, attacking the costs. the government has committed consumers to a risky and expensive deal, with uncertain economic and strategic benefits. the government's case for proceeding with the deal last september was not clear cut. the concern is not so much the £18 billion to build the power station, that's covered by edf of france and cgn of china. it's the estimated £30 billion in subsidies paid to the two companies on top of the market price for electricity. that is set to add £10—15 to the average consumer el

the national audit office says ministers have locked consumers into paying for hinkley point througho £30 billion. the government says the plant will provide clean electricity for six million homes. 0ur science editor, david shukman, reports. each scoop of this digger lifts 30 tonnes of earth. look down at the driver of the truck below for a sense of scale. this is where one of two nuclear reactors will stand at hinkley point. 1,600 people work here now, soon it will be 5,000. it's an immense and controversial project, and even now, the national audit office has weighed in, attacking the costs. the government has committed consumers to a risky and expensive deal with uncertain economic and strategic benefits. the government's case for proceeding with the deal last september was not clear cut. the concern is not so much the £18 billion to build the power station — that's covered by edf of france and cgn of china. it's the estimated £30 billion in subsidies paid to the two companies on top of the market price for electricity. that's set to add £10 to £15 to the average consumer electri

in march the national audit office warned there were too few new civil service recruits to deal withoined now by the general secretary of the union which represents senior and middle management civil servants, thank you for joining management civil servants, thank you forjoining us. is the civil service ready for brexit? of course we are ready for brexit? of course we are ready to deliver the government ‘s agenda once it determines what it is. but what is clear is that the government has not given the civil service the resources necessary to cope with the surge in demand that inevitably comes from brexit both in terms of the legislation may have set out today and also to support the government ‘s negotiations and cope with the consequences of whatever deal is ultimately delivered. what resources do you want? the government has only given one government department any extra money, they put resources into the two new departments because they had to, creating two new departments but every other department has had to cope with the consequences are preparing for brexit on top of the agend

a report by the national audit office says that more than 1,700 nhs patients may have been potentially. every bit of correspondence, they are looking through to see whether there was any harm. they are letting patients know and getting expert to look at it. in 1700 cases, they have identified potential harm. in those cases, they are looking more deeply to find out, has there been actual harm? this is bbc news. the latest headlines: president trump has said a us supreme court ruling to revive parts of his controversial travel ban is a victory for national security. the united states says it has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the syrian government. the white house has warned that the assad regime would pay a heavy price if it conducted another chemical strike. the british prime minister theresa may says she wants three million eu citizens living in britain to stay after brexit. she said they would have the same rights to health, education, benefits and pensions as british people. testing carried out as a result of the grenfell tower block fire in

the national audit office has questioned whether the project will be good value for money. reactor. rob young has more. it will be written‘s new nuclear plant for a generation. hinkley point c has been plagued by delays. —— written‘s. but building workers are ready started. when it is up and running, it should produce 7% of written‘s power, replacing older planes which have gone off—line. hinkley has been given a guaranteed price for its electricity, which could cost bill payers as much as £30 billion. the public spending watchdog is critical. what we have found is that the government has committed consumers to a risky and expensive deal with uncertain benefits. the case for proceeding with the deal is not clear. and while it will be seven decades before it is known if the deal is value for money, what we have concluded is that the government did not do enough to consider the costs and risks of the deal for consumers. the government maintains that nuclear should be part of a diverse energy mix, pointing out that it provides clean, reliable electricity. the project's majorit

that‘s the damning verdict from the national audit office on plans for a new nuclear power station at impact will it have on our energy bills? mark todd is from energy helpline and hejoins us now. thank you forjoining us. i will talk to you about the energy bills ina talk to you about the energy bills in a moment. can you explain why hinkley point is so expensive? someone said it is the most expensive project on the. that is correct. the most expensive man—made object on earth when it is built. effectively the government don‘t wa nt to ta ke effectively the government don‘t want to take the risk to decommission their nuclear power station. that is why it is costing a huge amount of money with old power stations. they ran an auction process and the only french company, at edf, were left. we will pay double the price for electricity now for nuclear power. edf are taking on all the risk of decommissioning the plant and that is what the government didn‘t want to take on. how is that translated into us paying more money through electricity bills? i thought this was supposed to generate mor

a report by the national audit office says that more than 1,700 nhs patients may have been harmed byer. for every bit of correspondence, they were looking through to see whether there was any harm. they are letting the location know and getting experts to look at it. 1700 odd cases they have identified potential harm. for those cases, they are looking at it more deeply to see if there has been actual harm caused by the delay. the white house has accused the syrian government of preparing for a chemical weapons attack — similar to one in april, in which dozens of people died. that attack led to an american missile strike against a syrian airbase. in a statement issued last night, the us state department said president assad and his military would pay a heavy price if chemical weapons were used again. 75 high rise buildings, in 26 local authority areas in england, have now failed fire safety tests ordered after the grenfell tower disaster. of those examined — so far — every single sample has failed. urgent fire testing is continuing on buildings. concerns over external cladding — combi

the national audit office says costs and risks to consumers haven‘t been properly thought out.ich found hackers could access the super hub to route are giving access to people isa to route are giving access to people is a smart devices like some toys and security cameras. virgin says the risks are small but says customers using the root password should change them right away. could it be a case of a return journey for the former boss of uber. travis kalanick was forced out earlier this week after a series of scandals . but now more than a thousand employees are calling for him to come back. tell us what is going on. you would think that the internal investigation, the review was put out, the board of directors adopted all of the recommendations, he resigned from his position at a bar and you would think all of those moves would allow the company to start rebuilding their reputation and rebuilding internally but now we are seeing there are more than a thousand uber employees that want to see travis comeback and what they are saying is he has his faults, yes, lots of people have

the national audit office say the case for the hinkley point c plant as "marginal".d french energy firm edf and chinese company cgn to build the plant is "not value for money". the 3a largest banks in the us have enough money on hand to withstand a severe recession, according to the us central bank. the finding comes from an annual "stress test" conducted by the federal reserve. the tests were put in place after the financial crisis to strengthen financial capacity in the event of a downturn. american airlines has received an "unsolicited" approach from qatar airways which wants to buy 10% of the us carrier. in a regulatory filing, american airlines said qatar intended to buy at least $800 million of its shares — and it would respond "in due course". analysts say qatar could be trying to strengthen its relations with the us amid the diplomatic crisis with its gulf neighbours. to asia now — and the industrial and commercial bank of china — known as icbc — has moved to calm fears about the health of loans to some of the country's biggest companies. mariko oi is in sing

the national audit office has found that over five years hundreds of thousands of documents — including instead of being sent to hospitals or gps. here's our health editor hugh pym with the story. they were important letters from hospitals to gps with test results and other vital information. but they piled up in a warehouse and hundreds, possibly thousands of patients could have been harmed. this situation is a scandal. for something like this to happen on such a scale, and to be so prolonged, is completely unacceptable. in january 2014, the company handling the letters became aware of a risk to patients, but didn't reveal it. in august 2015, a member of staff raised concerns some records were being destroyed. in march 2016, the company finally informed nhs england and the department of health — but neither parliament or the public were told at the time. we are shocked on behalf of patients, that such a scandal has occurred. and, to add to that, the lack of transparency is extremely worrying. all the letters have been recovered. doctors are going through them to check whether patient c

the national audit office says there is not enough support to families like this to avoid a crisis.e. and he ended up miles down the line. and he ended up miles down the road at st andrews, two years after winterbourne view, not an u psta rt, after winterbourne view, not an upstart, not enough training, not enough care. we had an emailto say he dedicated a seclusion room. discovered he had been in the seclusion room for 21 hours and there is no access to a toilet in there is no access to a toilet in the seclusion room. in a saint andrews say: the saint andrews unit is now rated good by the sea 0c. eddie, though, has moved on to another unit where dell says he is doing better but it is in newcastle. his family lived 300 miles away in bristol. they want him back. we wished we —— we wish we had never asked for any help. i don't want to —— i don't want this to happen to any more autistic young people. nhs england told is clear, hospitals should not be seen as homes. new high—quality community services are essential and are being created. the department of health tell us £25 million is b

a report by the watchdog the national audit office said a backlog of 709,000 letters built up. bit of correspondence, they're looking to see if there was harm and they're letting the patients know and getting experts to look at it. they have identified potential harm. for those cases they're looking into it to find out has there been actual harm caused. patients' representatives are angry that the programme was allowed to continue for so long and some people may find their care was affected. we are shocked on behalf of patients that such a scandal has occurred. and to add to that, the lack of transparency is worrying. for everyone. and patients will have their confidence in the system dented even further. the department of health said no cases of harm to patients had been identified so far. and that work was continuing with nhs england to ensure that this didn't happen again with officials mindful of the need for transparency. the issue was raised by labour in the house of commons. isn't it a scanned that will 709,000 letterses were failed to be delivered, left in an unknown wa

the national audit office says the project is "risky and expensive," and that the risks for consumersll be financed by france and china. the population of somerset will soar this weekend, as the 35th glastonbury festival gets into full swing. more than a 100,000 music lovers have been arriving at worthy farm, where radiohead will headline the pyramid stage tonight. there is extra security at this year's festival, which opened with a minute's silence, to remember those affected by the recent terror attacks, and the grenfell tower fire. here's our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba. the festival began with a minute's silence. musicians and fans remembering those who died at grenfell towers and in the terror attacks in london and manchester. recent events mean already significant security here has increased even further. as thousands of people have come come into the festival, bag searches and body searches. and it's notjust at entry points. across the festival site, random checks as well as a police presence that's hard to miss. the organisers try to make sure festivalgoers feel sa

a report by the national audit office says that more than 1,700 nhs patients may have been harmed byive blunder. for every bit of correspondence, they were looking through it to see whether there was any harm. they're letting the patient know and getting experts to look at it. i700—odd cases they have identified potential harm. for those cases, they are looking into it more deeply to find out if there has been actual harm caused by the delay. downing street and the democratic unionists have said their deal to secure support for theresa may's minority conservative government makes the restoration of power sharing in northern ireland more likely. the prime minister has been accused by sinn fein ofjeopardising the good friday peace agreement by promising the dup £1 billion of extra funding for northern ireland. a deal to revive power sharing at the stormont assembly has to be agreed by thursday. the mother of murdered soldier lee rigby has told this programme the ministry of defence has failed to support her family. lyn rigby says only her son's next of kin — his partner — received help

planned nuclear power plant at hinkley point is both risky and expensive, according to the national audit office it will be britain's first new nuclear place in a generation, hinkley point c has been plagued by delays but work has started on the somerset coast. when up and running, this plant will produce a 7% of britain's power, replacing older and 30 offline plans. they should give a guaranteed price for electricity, which would cost up is as much as £30 billion. the public spending watchdog is critical. what we found is that the government is committing consumers to a risky and expensive deal with uncertain economic and strategic benefits. the government's case in the review last september was not clear—cut, and it will be several decades before it is known whether this is value for money, but we have concluded the government did not do enough to consider the costs and the risks of the dealfor consumers. the government maintains nuclear should be part of a diverse energy mix, pointing at a provide clean, reliable electricity. the project's majority shareholder, edf, insists it is good value c

the national audit office says costs and risks haven't been properly thought out.ir passwords to protect against being hacked. an investigation by which found that hackers could access the super hub two router. this could give them access to people's smart devices — like some toys and security cameras. virgin says the risk is small — but says customers using default network and router passwords should change them right away. the experts and the rest of us are trying to work out the exact ramifications of brexit so what do we think of brexit 12 months on? our reporter alistair fee went to the isle of wight which voted 62 percentage leave to find out. life outside the eu means britain will set a course away from mainland europe and for the first time in over a0 yea rs europe and for the first time in over a0 years truly be an island again. i have come to the isle of wight, a part of the sadc used to being out on a limb and were 62% of people voted to leave the european union. i voted to leave. people voted to leave the european union. ivoted to leave. ivoted people v

the national audit office says there is not enough support for families like this to help them avoided a seclusion room. we discovered that he been in this seclusion room for 24 hours and there is no access to a toilet. st andrew's say: are objective criteria set out the st andrew's unit is rated good by the cqc, eddie has moved on to another unit where he is doing better, but it is in newcastle. his family live 300 miles away in bristol. they want him back. we wish we never asked for any help. i don't want this to happen to any more autistic young people. nhs england told us they are clear, hospitals should not be seen as homes. new high quality community services are essential and are being created. the department for health tell us £25 million is being spent on this to improve outcomes, but the national audit office warns this is all happening far too slowly. syrian refugees in leven on continue to face difficult living conditions and access to medical care is a big issue. the un covers 75% of the cost promote medical issues but for the majority of refugees, the remaining balance

the national audit office says ministers have locked consumers into a risky and expensive project withte—controlled firms in france and china will run the plant and are paying the £18 billion construction bill. a senior police officer has warned forces in england and wales would face a real challenges in dealing with large—scale face a real challenges in dealing with la rge—scale outbreaks face a real challenges in dealing with large—scale outbreaks of disorder because of budget cuts. the chief constable of the west midlands, dave thompson, said neighbourhood street patrols would disappear unless there was fresh investment. home secretary amber rudd has acknowledged police resources a re very rudd has acknowledged police resources are very tight but said she wouldn't rush into releasing extra money. there is an urgent appeal to find more black blood donors for sickle cell patients. the nhs blood and transplant campaign follows a rise in the number of people with an african or caribbean background being diagnosed with the disease. it's caused by a faulty gene that effects how red blood

a report by the watchdog the national audit office said a backlog of 709,000 letters built up.being checked in a process which will cost £6.6 million or more. for everyone, every bit of correspondence, they're looking to see if there was harm and they're letting the patients know and getting experts to look at it. they have identified potential harm. for those cases they're looking into it to find out has there been actual harm caused? patients' representatives are angry that the programme was allowed to continue for so long and some people may find their care was affected. we are shocked on behalf of patients that such a scandal has occurred. and to add to that, the lack of transparency is worrying for everyone. and patients will have their confidence in the system dented even further. the department of health said no cases of harm to patients had been identified so far. and that work was continuing with nhs england to ensure that this didn't happen again with officials mindful of the need for transparency. the issue was raised by labour in the house of commons. isn't it a sca

the national audit office has found that over five years, hundreds of thousands of documents, includingtor, hugh pym, with the story. they were important letters from hospitals to gps with test results and other vital information. but they piled up in a warehouse and hundreds, possibly thousands of patients could have been harmed. this situation is a scandal. for something like this to happen on such a scale, and to be so prolonged, is completely unacceptable. in january 2014, the company handling the letters became aware of a risk to patients, but didn't reveal it. in august 2015, a member of staff raised concerns some records were being destroyed. in march 2016, the company finally informed nhs england and the department of health — but neither parliament or the public were told at the time. we are shocked on behalf of patients that such a scandal has occurred. and, to add to that, the lack of transparency is extremely worrying. all the letters have been recovered. doctors are going through them to check whether patient care was affected. a department of health spokesperson said no ca

a report by the watchdog the national audit office said a backlog of 709,000 letters built up.f there was harm and they're letting the patients know and getting experts to look at it. they have identified potential harm. for those cases they're looking into it to find out, has there been actual harm caused? patients' representatives are angry that the problem was allowed to continue for so long before action was taken, and that some people may find their care was affected. we are shocked on behalf of patients that such a scandal has occurred. and to add to that, the lack of transparency is worrying for everyone, and patients will have their confidence in the system dented even further. a department of health spokesperson said no cases of harm to patients had been identified so far and that work was continuing with nhs england to ensure that this didn't happen again with officials mindful of the need for transparency. the issue was raised by labour in the house of commons. isn't it a scandal that 709,000 letters were failed to be delivered, left in an unknown warehouse and many

planned nuclear power plant at hinkley point is both risky and expensive, according to the national audit officee britain's first new nuclear plant for a generation. hinkley point c has been plagued by delays, but building work has already started on the somerset coast. when finished, it will produce 7% of britain's power, replacing older, dirtier plants which have gone off—line. hinkley has been given a guaranteed price for its electricity, which could cost bill—payers as much as £30 billion. the public spending watchdog is critical. what we found is that the government has committed a very risky and expensive deal, with uncertain economic benefits. the government's case for proceeding with the deal last september wasn't clear cut and while it will be several decades before it is known whether this deal is value for money, what we've concluded is the government didn't do enough to consider the costs and risks of the deal for consumers. the government maintains nuclear should be part of a diverse energy mix. it points out it provides clean and reliable electricity. the project's majority shareho

the national audit office found that the company had become aware of a risk to patients in january 2014ars and action could have been taken and wasn't. that is an absolute scandal. why do you think this situation developed? well, the scale of this is astounding and the fact that it went on for so long is equally astounding. i think what happened was this was a private company who didn't really appreciate the importance of the information that they were expected to pass on to gp practises around the country and didn't have a mechanism in place to identify the problem early enough and then to swiftly deal with it. this is basic information. a private company though, part owned by the department of health. so was there a conflict of interest? yes, well clearly, the department of health, you know, had a share in this company and they should have been performance managing the contracts ina performance managing the contracts in a better way and ensuring that the service that they commissioned and the nhs commissioned delivered on the expectations on the contract. was anyone managing the perfo

office. the assault an the other agencies. larry o'brien, the chairman of the democratic national committee was in fact audited and it was dones on the enemies list. there were a number of other people put in similar situations. so watergate was a much, much broader assault on our democracy. it related to illegal campaign contributions. it involved nixon cheating on his own taxes. it involved other assaults on other other demonstrators and other parts of the country. so it was -- i think what this shows is watergate was am major major issue. >> if this was such a clear plot and the memo documents interviews you and staff did, why is ellsberg alive and why was it unsuccessful? >> they were unable to reach them. i talked to almost every one of the cuban americans that were brought up from miami that were involved in that, and for all the planning they did, for all the advance work they did bringing people up from miami, having a whole slew of counter demonstrators involved from the republican national committee to act as a wedge between the cuban americans that were brought up and the rest of the demonstrators, they just were u