zoe conway, bbc news.— the second contest to decide who will be the republican nominee in this november's presidential election. he beat his last remaining rival, former us ambassador to the un, nikki haley, securing 54% of the vote. but she has vowed to fight on, despite the defeat. sarah smith sent this report. nikki haley... cheering and applause when is defeat really a victory? nikki haley thinks it's when you lose by a bit less than the polls predicted. this race is farfrom over... despite losing in the state she had the best chance of winning, she insists she will battle on. well, i'm a fighter. cheering and i'm scrappy. and now, we're the last one standing next to donald trump. cheering and to the victor, sour grapes. donald trump is angry that nikki haley will not drop out, and that she's claiming credit for being his sole remaining competitor. this is not your typical victory speech, but let's not have somebody take a victory when she had a very bad night. she had a very night. as the campaign con

zoe conway, bbc news. the bbc he was acting on his own when he called for rishi sunak to be ousted as prime minister. today, he has been speaking exclusively to our political editor chris mason who joins us now. chris, is there momentum behind sir clarke? the question stop sir simon clarke said his party is heading for annihilation but he said he understands why some of his comments today have really criticised him. no—one likes the guy who is shouting, "iceberg!" but i suspect that people will be even less happy if we hit the iceberg. let's be clear — you think rishi sunak is so bad that the better option would be another round of the conservative pantomime of whose turn is it next? we need to look in the mirror as a political party, as professional politicians, and recognise the reality of what is likely to happen unless we act. but if you look in the mirror and the alternative is a fourth prime minister in a parliamentary term, i mean, people would just say that is a joke, wouldn't they? i totally accep

thank you. —— zoe conway.o be a general election year, the snp's humza yousaf said it marks a "huge opportunity for scotland". mr yousaf said votes for labour are effectively votes against scottish independence. he also said he aims to "wipe the tories from scotland's electoral map". we didn't vote for this tory government. austerity and cuts. we didn't vote for brexit. we didn't vote to leave the world's largest trading bloc. we didn't vote for the disastrous mini budget. constant attacks on social security. we didn't vote for the hostile environment on immigration. yet every single one of these disastrous decisions and more has weakened scotland's economy, damaged our public services, and led to the cost of living going through the roof. walkers wanting to enjoy the network of footpaths in the countryside are being obstructed in nearly 32,000 places across england and wales, according to a bbc investigation. it found councils had 4,000 more problems on public rights of way last year than the year before. cam

zoe conway, bbc news. speaking to the bbc in davos, mrvaradkarsaid he had not wanted to take the uk to the european court of human rights over last year's troubles legacy act. but, he said he had to stand by victims and survivors of violence in northern ireland. 0ur economics editor, faisal islam, began by asking him about the new brexit deal for northern ireland, known as the windsor framework. i think the windsor framework is working. it marked a real improvement in relations between the uk and the european union. working if you like with the protocol and it is working effectively on the ground. i think the issues that arise now in northern ireland are really matters between the dup, and the british government. and if they are involved in bilateral talks about what concessions can be made or what can be done. ., ., , , done. you have suggested in the ast few done. you have suggested in the past few months, _ done. you have suggested in the past few months, and _ done. you have suggested in the past few m

here's our business correspondent zoe conway.you thought any more about making a hole in the wall... allison and chris young _ making a hole in the wall... allison and chris young have _ making a hole in the wall... allison and chris young have been - making a hole in the wall... allison and chris young have been married for 52 years. for their anniversary their daughter sent them a card. it was found a nearby street, two weeks late. are you quite upset about that? , , , late. are you quite upset about that? y ,, ,, that? very upset, because when you aet that? very upset, because when you net to m that? very upset, because when you get to my age _ that? very upset, because when you get to my age and my— that? very upset, because when you get to my age and my husband's - that? very upset, because when you | get to my age and my husband's age, anniversaries are very significant. to actually hold and have something she's gone out and bought with above, that's what oostende letters and cards is all about.— and cards is all about. ali

zoe conway, live outside of that inquiry.oking at all of the testimony that comes out of that inquiry and some of the insight into the implications it has for those who are caught up in the scandal. as you can see there, the boss of fujitsu saying it was well known that there were bugs, errors, defects. he says it was known to all parties and the problems existed for nearly two decades. full details on the bbc news website. well, let's come back to a little bit more on those proceedings. i am tanya beckett, this is bbc news. the inquiry is still under way and let's return to today's session in which paul patterson, european director of fujitsu, continues to give evidence. data extraction for an internal crime — data extraction for an internal crime manager in the 30 in relation to aro _ crime manager in the 30 in relation to arq request number eight. data was held _ to arq request number eight. data was held on four of the types, it appears — was held on four of the types, it appears. and then if we go over the page. _ appear

for more on this we go live now to our correspondent zoe conway, who is outside the inquiry in centralput the main themes that emerged during this morning session? what paul patterson was being asked about was the role of fujitsu in the prosecutions of sub—postmaster is because over many years for gypsy employees were giving evidence in court cases that led to sub—postmaster is going to prison. they were signing with the statement saying that the horizon system is operating properly, but those statements did not contain any mention of errors, bugs, faults in the system that fujitsu staff knew about. we know they knew about it because that is what has been coming out of the inquiry in the last few days. what paul patterson said about that was that it was shameful and appalling that the witness statements didn't reflect what was going on with the system. he also talked about the quality of the day said that was being presented in those court cases. let me give you a real—life example. lee castleton was wrongly accused of stealing £26,000 and he went to court and was bankrupted because he

convicted after the faulty software made it look as if money had gone missing. 0ur correspondent zoe conwayn at the inquiry. today's hearing, so far, has been very technical, very dry, but it's also been incredibly important because it's been about the late disclosure of documents by the post office. the post office has been accused of obstructing this inquiry by producing evidence very late in the day. to give you an example, lastjuly, on the eve of an important evidence session, it announced that it had discovered 4,000 documents that it hadn't shared with the inquiry. as a result, the evidence session had to be delayed. the lead counsel to the inquiry, jason beer kc, today said that has happened several times. in fact, the chair of this inquiry, sir wyn williams, has become so concerned by this that he's threatened criminal sanctions against the post office if it doesn't produce evidence in a timely manner. this morning giving evidence was chris jackson. he's a lawyer with burgess salmon and he's been brought in by the post office to help them to speed up the delivery of evidence. he sta

live now to our correspondent zoe conway who's outside the inquiry in central london what can we expectember, they had their own investigation and prosecution process separate from the police and crown prosecution service and one of those investigators is stephen bradshaw and we know he was involved in investigating at ten cases. in total the kinds of lines of questioning to stephen bradshaw i think one of the things that could well come up is that several of the sub—postmasters in very powerful testimony and witness statements have accuse these investigators of threatening, intimidating and cruel behaviour towards them when they were being investigated. we have one witness and pardon the language that she says in a phone call stephen bradshaw called her a pitch. we have testimony for someone called lisa brennan, another sub—postmaster and she said she was interviewed by stephen bradshaw as well, she said the interview was insulting throughout. they said to her you are a bit of a big girl, throughout. they said to her you are a bit ofa big girl, do throughout. they said to her you are a

zoe conway has the details. i swear by god...is a lawyer acting for the post office. it's accused of repeatedly delaying the work of the inquiry by failing to produce evidence on time. the inquiry was told thatjust last week more than 900 documents were suddenly produced by the post office, even though they related to a witness who appeared only a few days later. if i can say it with a degree of understatement, he's not the only witness in respect of whom it has happened. and for a period, it was every witness, every day of the week, twice on sundays. chris jackson said he agreed that the ongoing delays were suboptimal. he was also asked why the whatsapp messages of post office staff, such as the former chief executive paula vennells, hadn't been collected when they could reveal conversations about horizon. chris jackson said it was his understanding staff only used whatsapp for administrative purposes. it may be a surprise to a member of the public that nobody in the post office used whatsapp to discuss issues of substance relat

inquiry said the post office had provided "inaccurate and misleading" information. 0ur correspondent zoe conwaypost office without the post office has been accused of obstructing by producing evidence late in the day. to give you an example, lastjuly on the eve of an you an example, lastjuly on the eve ofan important you an example, lastjuly on the eve of an important evidence session and announced that it discovered 4000 documents that it hadn't shared with the inquiry. as a result the evidence session had to be delayed in the lead counsel to the inquiry today said that has happened several times. in fact, the chair of this inquiry has become so concerned by this that he's threatened sanctions against the post office if it doesn't produce evidence in a timely manner. this morning giving evidence was chris jackson, he's a lawyer who has been brought in by the post office to help them to speed up the delivery of evidence. he started his evidence session by apologising for the delays. really what this session has been about has been about trying to work out what the post office intends to do to m

zoe conway, bbc news. there are plenty of lines on this story coming in all the time.ax by deducting payments to victims of the horizon it scandalfrom its profits. they say this could be a possible breach of tax law. here's our business editor simonjack to explain. what they have been doing is deducting compensation due to victims of the scandal from their reported profits, thereby lowering — in some cases wiping out — their tax bill. now, tax experts have told us that may be a breach of tax law, that you are not normally allowed to deduct fines or compensation for unlawful acts from your profits, they're non—tax—deductible, and as a result the post office may owe over £100 million in unpaid tax. now, in effect the government willjust have to step in and support it as it has in the past. but there is another dimension to this, whereas they have included those payments out when it comes to reporting profits, they've stripped them out when it comes to executive pay and bonuses, ignoring those payments, which means they �*ve been boosting the salary and the bonuses of tho

we can go live now to our employment correspondent zoe conway in central london.appening this morning? the reason wh we are happening this morning? the reason why we are going — happening this morning? the reason why we are going to _ happening this morning? the reason why we are going to be _ happening this morning? the reason why we are going to be hearing - happening this morning? the reason why we are going to be hearing fromj why we are going to be hearing from robert daley this morning is because he was part of a team of investigators at the post office, who investigated cases across the uk. what the inquiry is focusing on this week is the cases of sub—postmasters and sub—postmistresses from northern ireland that were prosecuted. what is interesting about scotland is that the system there is different. whereas the post office was carrying out its own prosecutions of branch office managers in england, in scotland, the prosecutions were carried out by the crown office. we know that 73 prosecutions took place, and robert daly was involved in investigating some

were convicted after faulty software made it look as if money had gone missing. 0ur correspondent zoe conwayause it's been about the late disclosure of documents by the post office. the post office has been accused of obstructing this inquiry by producing evidence very late in the day. to give you an example, lastjuly, on the eve of an important evidence session, it announced that it had discovered 4,000 documents that it hadn't shared with the inquiry. as a result, the evidence session had to be delayed. the lead counsel to the inquiry, jason beer kc, today said that has happened several times. in fact, the chair of this inquiry, sir wyn williams, has become so concerned by this that he's threatened criminal sanctions against the post office if it doesn't produce evidence in a timely manner. this morning giving evidence was chris jackson. he's a lawyer with burgess salmon and he's been brought in by the post office to help them to speed up the delivery of evidence. he started his evidence session by apologising for the delays. really, what this session has been about has been about trying t

for more on this we go live now to our correspondent zoe conway who's outside the inquiry in centraln. let's ta ke let's take this in stages because it was extraordinary evidence in part from the european boss talking about it being shameful that witness statements had been edited. tell me more about that and the exchanges around that. it more about that and the exchanges around that-— around that. it was striking. just how damning — around that. it was striking. just how damning paul— around that. it was striking. just how damning paul patterson - around that. it was striking. just | how damning paul patterson was around that. it was striking. just - how damning paul patterson was about the behaviour of fujitsu employees. because those staff members, for years were giving evidence in court cases that led to sub—postmasters going to prison. in their witness statements they were saying that the horizon software system was operating properly, when in fact, behind—the—scenes, fujitsu staff knew that there were errors, bugs and flaws in the system. what he was calling appalling and shame

zoe conway, bbc news.ore areas of the uk — unless there is urgent action to increase uptake of the mmr vaccine. more than 200 cases have been confirmed in the west midlands in recent months, mostly in birmingham. here 5 our medical editor fergus walsh. measles is back. the highly—contagious viral disease is spread through coughs and sneezes. it can cause serious complications, like pneumonia and brain swelling and, in rare cases, be fatal. those most at risk are infants and the immunocompromised. measles should be a disease of the past. two doses of the mmr jab give almost complete protection, but coverage is at its lowest in the uk for more than a decade. parts of the west midlands have very patchy mmr uptake and the measles outbreak there has prompted the uk health security agency to declare a national incident, which enables more resources to be given to laboratory and data teams. since october, there have been 216 confirmed and 103 probable measles cases in the west midlands, mostly in birmingham. mmr