News, leicester manager Claudio Ranieri denies there is a crisis at the club who have given him a vote of confidence ahead of the fa cup replay against derby. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Joining up health and social Care Services in england is one of the governments big ideas for easing the pressures on the health service. But according to a report out today, efforts to treat more patients in the community have neither saved money, nor taken pressure off hospitals. The scheme called the Better Care Fund was meant to save the nhs half a billion pounds in its first year. The Department Of Health insists its too soon to judge the success of its plans. Heres our health correspondent, dominic hughes. Bringing together the care received in homes like this one and the wider nhs is more complicated than it seems. The aim is to prevent people from being admitted to hospital in the first place, but when they are, get them home quicker. Some solutions are simple. This distinctive red bag contains patients notes, and it travels with them to hospital, meaning less confusion over their treatment. Weve been able to reduce length of stay for those Care Home Residents who Go Into Hospital by four days, which is massive when you think how the system is so stretched at the moment. Todays report says introducing joined up care has proved harder than the government anticipated. So far more than £5 billion of nhs and council money has failed to cut hospital admissions. In 2015, the aim was to reduce Emergency Admissions to hospital in england by more than 100,000. But the following year admissions actually went up by more than 80,000, costing an extra £300 million. And the number of days lost because people were stuck in hospital was meant to be reduced by nearly 300,000, but in fact went up by 185,000. Mps who looked at the plans two years ago say they warned then the scheme was flawed. They need to look at why this isnt working. What is it thats stopping the beds being available even when there is, at least in the short term, some money being thrown at the issue. Despite todays criticisms of the efforts so far, most Health Experts believe integrating care is the right way to go. I think in future the key will be managing people more effectively in the community. That will require more resources, but it also requires the way services are organised so that elderly people, for example, who have lots of different complex conditions, are more effectively managed in their own homes rather than having to be referred into hospital. The Department Of Health in england says its too soon to judge the impact of the Better Care Fund. But todays report shows bringing together Health And Social Care is a complex task that will take time. Dominic hughes, bbc news. 0ur assistant Political Editor norman smith is in westminster. It was the whole issue of social ca re it was the whole issue of social care that dominated the early part of Prime Ministers questions . Extraordinary developments this lunchtime. Because you may remember last month s Surrey County council announced they were going to hold a referendum to raise their local council tax by 15 to pay for social care, such was the underfunding of the service in the county. Now, that provoked alarm in government because it was profoundly politically embarrassing to have a tory, Solidly Tory Cou Nty embarrassing to have a tory, solidly tory county council, the chancellor and the Health Secretary both local mps, threatening to raise council tax by 15 . More than that, the referendum would risk reinforcing the growing sense of crisis over social care. Yesterday, however, surrey announced they werent going ahead with the referendum. This lunchtimejeremy ahead with the referendum. This lunchtime Jeremy Corbyn ahead with the referendum. This lunchtimeJeremy Corbyn suggested he knew why that was. He has obtained lea ked knew why that was. He has obtained leaked texts between the leader of surrey council, david hodge, and an official in the department for local government in which it seems there may have been some sort of secret Sweetheart Deal to avoid surrey going ahead with the referendum. Ive been given one of these texts, let me read it to you, this is from david hodge to this official in the department for local governor. He says nick, ive received clarification from my chief executive, who confirms, and there are two people named here, have spoken, and the numbers you indicated are acceptable for me to call off the r. No guesses to what the r stands for. He goes on, if its possible for that info to be sent through i can then revert back. Then, i really want to kill this off. It suggests that some along the Line David Hodge was given reassu ra nces Line David Hodge was given reassurances 01 even, who Line David Hodge was given reassurances or even, who knows, maybe there was some suggestion of extra funding which enabled him to decide not to go ahead with the referendum. Now, that would be a hugely politically toxic moment if it was true. I have to say mr hodge, in the last few minutes, has issued a statement denying that, saying that there was no secret deal. Although telling me he goes on to say that he is confident the government now understands and appreciates the real pressures on social care. Norman smith with the latest from westminster, thank you. 0ur social Affairs Correspondent alison holt is here. With an ageing population, social ca re with an ageing population, social care is one of the biggest problems facing the nhs and there seems to be no obvious solution. We are seeing that time and time again over the last winter and in the summer months you could see the page on the nhs. The Better Care Fund which the National Audit office was critical of is meant to be part of the answer, getting health and care working together better so they free up working together better so they free up money to be used elsewhere. I have to say, where ive been into places where this is happening, staff are often evangelical about it because they can see that it makes a difference, makes life simpler for patients. At the fundamental problem is that we do have an ageing population, and also people are living longer with complex needs and that means that they need more support. Either in hospital or, preferably, in their own homes. And thats coming at the same time as local authorities who pay for social ca re are local authorities who pay for social care are having their budgets squeezed, and thats. Care are having their budgets squeezed, and thats. Councils have been warning for a long time that this is coming down the track and we seem that in terms of increased admissions and delayed discharges. Delayed discharge is something we will look at in more detail on the news at six this evening. The government, of course, will say that the Better Care Fund is the first step, one of the elements to getting the whole system to work much better for the needs of the population. Thank you. Mps will vote this evening on giving the Prime Minister the power to trigger article 50 the start of the formal process to leave the european union. Jeremy corbyn is facing a possible revolt in the labour ranks after imposing a three line whip on his mps to back the bill. 0ur Political CorrespondentCarole Walker reports from westminster. Have you seen off the rebels, Prime Minister . The Prime Minister hopes that by tonight she will be a significant step closer to beginning the formal brexit negotiations. Last night the government comfortably won a series of votes on the bill to trigger article 50. The ayes to the right, 293. There are more votes later but ministers hope the legislation will complete all its commons stages tonight. Good morning. For once the Labour Leader wants to support the government. He has ordered all his mps to vote for the bill. But that has already led to three resignations from his Shadow Cabinet, and there could be more. The shadow business secretary clive lewis said he has yet to decide how he will vote. It is a really tough call and i think lots of mps are really having a tough time at the moment on this one. One final thought, if you defy the whip tonight, will you resign your position in the Shadow Cabinet . I think if you defy the whip, you do resign. Questions to the Prime Minister. In the commons, the Prime Minister was challenged by the snp leader who said she did not have support in scotland to press ahead with the brexit negotiations. So given that the Scottish Parliament has voted overwhelmingly against her approach, and all bar one mp representing a scottish constituency in this House Of Commons has voted against her approach, she does not have an agreed uk wide approach. Theresa may insisted she would negotiate for the whole of the uk. The Supreme Court was very clear that the Scottish Parliament does not have a veto on the triggering of article 50. The bill that is going through the house obviously is giving the power to the government to trigger article 50. The bill also has to be considered by the lords but ministers are confident they will get it through parliament in time to start the formal brexit negotiations by the end of march as planned. Of course that will be just the start of the much bigger battle with other european leaders over the terms of our departure from the eu. Carole walker, bbc news, westminster. The entertainer, rolf harris, has been cleared of three sex offences by a jury at Southwark Crown court. But the jury couldnt reach verdicts on four other counts. Lets speak to our correspondent at the old bailey, sangita myskar. Tell us what happened in court. Thats right, rolf harris, in this trial, Faced A Total of eight counts. Today the jury took just over 26 hours to return three of those verdicts. They told the judge that he was going to be cleared of three counts but that they could not reach a verdict, even a Majority Verdict in five of those counts. The prosecution then stood up and asked for seven days to consider whether 01 for seven days to consider whether or not it wanted to ask for a retrial on those five counts. Now, rolf harris has maintained his innocence throughout this trial. And those accusations and allegations came from seven women in total and they dated back a0 years. But of course rolf harris will not be walking free from this court today because he is already serving time at stafford prison for assaulting four other women and girls. Thank you. A woman who was denied payments from her long term partners pension after he died suddenly has won a landmark Supreme Court appeal which could affect millions of other people who are co habiting. A2 year old Denise Brewster challenged a ruling that she was not automatically entitled to his local government pension because they werent married and he hadnt filled in the appropriate form. 0ur personal finance correspondent, Simon Gompertz is with me. Just explain what happened. Well, disease had been living with lenny, her partner, for ten years, before her partner, for ten years, before he died suddenly at the age of a3 denise had. And he had been working in the Northern Ireland public transport system. And through that he was earning a salary linked pension and she had the right to share in it if he died. However, as you say, there was a form to be filled in called a nomination form, and he hadnt done it. Now if you are married or in a Civil Partnership you didnt have to fill in the former. And what the Supreme Court found was that it was against her human rights according to the European Convention on human rights which lay down that you have the right to enjoy your possessions but crucially that should be secured without the scrum and eight, and they said that this was an unlawful discrimination. And it could affect an awful lot of cohabiting couples. There are 12 Million People who are members of Public Sector pension schemes, a lot of those nurses, teachers, civil servants, police schemes, a lot of those nurses, teachers, civilservants, police and fire officers, they have these Nomination Forms if they are cohabitees rather than married partners. The indication is they will be affected by this. Of those 12 Million People, some are working, some are already retired, so thats two groups. Its very likely these Nomination Forms will be got rid of, people dont tend to fill them in any way and thats why the problem occuis. Any way and thats why the problem occurs. What about those who have reached the age of retirement and have not been receiving a pension they might have been entitled to. The treasury say they are examining duplications carefully. Three federal appeal judges in california have been Hearing Arguments for and against reinstating president trumps temporary travel ban on people from seven mainly muslim countries. President trump says hes trying to keep america safe. But two us states have argued that the order discriminates against muslims as Richard Lister now reports from washington. Behind these walls, lawyers were doing battle in the biggest test of the trump presidency. Should his travel ban be reinstated or thrown out . The proceedings were streamed on the internet. First came the governments lawyer. The Executive Order at issue puts a temporary pause on entry for individuals from seven countries that congress and the last president determined in a similar context pose special risks in terms of Terrorist Infiltration into our country. How many federal offences have we had, been committed by people who came in with visas from these countries and. Ican. The answer was that there havent been any. But those alleging the Ban Harms People in the us were also challenged. Whats the irreparable harm to the state of washington . From the Executive Order . We detailed a number of irreparable harms, your honour. We had students and faculty at our State University who were stranded overseas, families separated, people from universities stranded overseas. We had families that were separated, we had long term residents who were not able to visit their relatives without knowing they would be able to come back. President trump will have to wait a little longer for the courts verdict. It should come this week. He made clear he will take the case to the Supreme Court if he loses. We are going to take it through the system. Its very important. Very important for the country, regardless of me or whoever succeeds at a later date. We have to have security in our country. He did win one important victory, though. Confirmation of his embattled nominee for education secretary, betsy devos. So help me god. But only after the Vice President voted to break a deadlock in the senate after two republicans rejected the president s choice. That has never happened before. These Law Enforcement officers joked that mr trump was the new sheriff in town but with his full cabinet still not in place and his Immigration Policy stalled, he is finding limits on his power. Richard lister, bbc news, washington. 0ur correspondent kim ghattas is in washington. How long could this legal battle go on . We expect the court to rule by the end of the week possibly. It was quite extraordinary to hear those arguments being made over the phone into the court, very unusual. But this case has gripped the nation and more than 150,000 people tuned in to this conversation which was being streamed on line, on the court website. Thousands more watching live on television, all the News Channels carried it live as well. It was a very lively technical discussion and one that showed the importance and the weight of the Judicial Branch at this time in this country. As we heard Thejustice Department making the argument about National Security and almost saying that the president . Decision in this Executive Order should not be put in question. The Attorney General of the Washington State which brought the Washington State which brought the case arguing on the constitutionality of this saying it discriminates against muslims. Donald trump the president is making clear how he feels about this, again on twitter this morning saying the us should win the case otherwise he says we can never have security or safety in our country. He will be criticised for that in for splitting the people against the courts and also deflecting any responsibility for any potential future terrorist attacks in this country. Thank you. Our top story this lunchtime. Attempts to ease the pressure on englands nhs by integrating Health And Social Care arent working according to the governments spending watchdog. And Birds Of A Feather Flock together. Were in the Lake District to witness one of the natures great spectacles. Coming up in sport at 1. 30. Greg clarke says hell quit as the fa chairman if the organisation cant win Government Support for its reform plans. A motion of No Confidence in the fa will be debated in the House Of Commons tomorrow. For over a week now hundreds of thousands of romanians have taken to the streets in nightly demonstrations to protest over plans to decriminalise some forms of corruption. The Romanian Parliament has been debating a vote of No Confidence in the government this morning. 0ur correspondent nick thorpe is in bucharest. Just in the last few minutes the Romanian Parliament has defeated that vote of No Confidence. So the government has survived. But this leaves the basic problem and what has brought these people onto the streets still very much on the agenda. The government certainly would like to move on, it was only elected two months ago and has only beenin elected two months ago and has only been in place for one month. It wa nts to been in place for one month. It wants to move on to its largely economic agenda. But lets take a look at those protests from the last few days. Chanting. These have been the biggest demonstrations since the revolution of 1989. The people are angry about a government which would have softened the penal code and allowed many Public Officials jailed for corruption to walk free. The decree was cancelled at the weekend, but now the protesters want the government to resign. We will keep coming every night until they resign. We dont mind if the same parties that won the election appoint another government. But we want to make the point that you cannot abuse the people like this and stay in power. It is not going to happen any more in this country. We want our government to resign because we cannot trust this government. Because they come in in the middle of the night, passing laws for corrupt politicians. Today the focus shifted to parliament and a No Confidence vote in the Social Democrat liberal coalition government. On paper they are still strong, they have only been in power a month. But in practice they have been badly wounded by the size of the protests against them. This is a country where demonstrations are often successful. Only two years ago a previous Social Democratic government was brought down, also after a corruption scandal. Protesters are well organised, with excellent communications. The protesters have an important ally in president klaus iohannis. When he accused the governing Social Democrats of defending their own corrupt interests, their mps left the chamber. All eyes in romania are now on what the government will do next. So the government now has survived this No Confidence vote but the president has made clear to them that they simply cannot carry on with business as usual. The government then well try to shrug off the protests, it will be interesting to see in the coming days how many more people turn out especially at the weekend and hold the government and indeed the president of romania takes this board to try to get the country out of the current very deep political crisis. The United Nations is warning that yemen is facing a catastrophic famine, with more than three Million People facing acute malnourishment. Its launched an appeal for a billion pounds. For more than two years, theres been fighting between government forces, and houthi rebels. Frank gardner is with me. A terrible position for so many people, what has brought this about, the fighting . Yemen was already the poorest country in the arab world for the civil war but the situation has deteriorated worse than anyone could have imagined. The statistics are appalling, 90 Million People, more than two thirds of the population in need of eitherfood aid or some kind of protection. 3. 3 Million People are at risk of acute 01 Million People are at risk of acute or diagnosed as having acute malnourishment. Two thirds of those are children. What has caused this primarily is the ongoing fighting. It is complicated, there are not just in the two sides, we have alqaeda but the primary battle is between the rebels who took over the government and ousted the legitimate government and ousted the legitimate government to eat half years ago and the forces loyal to that legitimate government backed by saudi led air strikes. Those air strikes have caused a lot of damage to the infrastructure and you also have the ports that are partly blockaded to stop iranian Weapons Communion to reach the houthi rabble. And then the Houthi Rabble Sporting some of the Houthi Rabble Sporting some of the food meant to go to the people. Soa the food meant to go to the people. So a perfect storm of bad things that have conspired to make yemen in a desperate state. The uk has a sta ke a desperate state. The uk has a stake in this because it supplies arms and munitions to the Saudi Air Force which has been accused of war crimes where some of the bombs have gone astray and hit civilians. Thank you. A leading russian Opposition Leader who has mounted Anti Corruption campaigns against senior officials close to the kremlin has been found guilty of embezzlement. Alexei navalny had announced he would challenge Vladimir Putin for the presidency next year but his conviction now prevents him from doing so. Mr navalny says the case is politically motivated. A prominent commander of russian backed Separatist Rebels has been killed in the ukrainian city of donetsk. Mikhail tolstykh also known as givi was blown up in his office. The self proclaimed donetsk peoples republic described his killing as a terrorist act. Around 15,000 people have been evacuated as a fire destroyed a shanty town in the philippine capital, manila. Around 1000 homes in the Parola Compound were burnt down but no one was reported to have been killed. The fire was put out this morning after raging for most of the night. It is not clear what started the blaze. Tornadoes have wreaked havoc across The American State Of Louisiana injuring dozens of people. A State Of Emergency was declared after six twisters hit around new orleans and baton rouge. Louisianas governor said hed never see devastation like it. Frankie mccamley reports. A tornado running for cover, Quickly Finding Shelter where they could as a tornado hits. When we looked up in the air we could see debris in the distance and before we knew it it was just bearing down on us, then we just heard glass shattering, doors. We thought we were not going to make it. Elsewhere roofs ripped off and just watch the vehicle in the distance. Werent expecting this. I didnt think it would be this bad. This particular area, this path right here, just, its pretty bad. Its thought at least six tornados tore through louisiana yesterday leaving businesses flattened, livelihoods destroyed and homes now just memories between the rubble. I was in it. Although some made a lucky escape, this man had no time to get out. Im all right, im alive. At least 20 people have been injured and with power lines torn down thousands are without electricity. Rescue teams are continuing their search for people trapped as the full extent of the damage is becoming clear. Frankie mccamley, bbc news. Victim support groups have told the bbc people who say they have been raped are afraid to report the crime because of fears of the way they will be treated in court. Today a bill was presented to mps in parliament are going more should be done to protect possible rape victims as they give evidence. These are the places where justice is served. But today claims that in some cases it is where rape victims feel violated all over again. It was awful, to be degraded in such a way, to be so totally humiliated. This rape trial ended with a conviction at the end of 2015 but ivy says the grilling she received felt as bad as the physical assault. The specific questions they asked where, how many previous sexual partners have i had. They accused me of being someone who was promiscuous. It is appalling. I was promiscuous. It is appalling. I was told that line of questioning was told that line of questioning was not allowed, it was consigned to the dark ages, it did not happen. But it happens. The Charity Voice for victims tells me this is happening too often. We are hearing from victims being questioned about the numberof from victims being questioned about the number of sexual partners they have had in the past. 0rthe the number of sexual partners they have had in the past. Or the colour of the dress that they were wearing at the time of the attack. What it is doing is shaming and blaming. Protection for victims already exists. Under section a1 of the Youth Justice and exists. Under section a1 of the youthjustice and criminal evidence act. References to sexual history should be heavily restricted and only rarely allowed but new Research Carried out in courts in newcastle suggest this might be happening in around one third of all cases. |j fear were going back to the bad old days of the 19805 and 19705 when victim5 effectively wear Them5elve5 Put in the dock and interrogated. Victim5 effectively wear Them5elve5 Put in the dock and interrogatedm today the people present a private members bill to parliament to offer better protection for victims. If you had known then how you were going to be treated, would you have proceeded . Definitely not, it was a total character annihilation. Campaigners say we need to redress the balance back in favour of the victim but others say defendants are equally entitled to a fair trial. The balance cannot shift too far. A murmuration its known as one of the most stunning free shows on earth and right now cumbria is one of the best places to see the tens of thousands of starlings performing their nightly ritual. Dave guest reports. Its an aerial ballet with a cast of thousands, a mass of starlings flying in mesmerising harmony. The dictionary tells us this is called a murmuration. It also tells us the words been in use for hundreds of years, but why murmuration . Nobody really knows the reason why its called a murmuration. Its an interesting word, because they dont really murmur. Its a very old word. Short answer no one knows why its called that. Why do they form these patterns that move together in harmony . Again, nobody really knows. There is some suggestion that they come together at dusk in a big group because it protects them from predation from the likes of buzzards or kestrels, but why they do this amazing aerial ballet before they settle down for the night, no one knows. And why this spot . Why would they pick this spot . Well, obviously, its a stunning landscape why wouldnt anyone want to spend the night here . And so, an audience gathers at Sunbiggin Tarn in cumbria for one of the greatest free shows on earth. This, one of several Murmuration Viewings hosted by the friends of the Lake District, who own this stunning stretch of land midway between kendal and penrith. Im a reporterfor my school magazine. You are a reporter . Yes. Sort of. Like me. Yeah so you are going to report on this . Yeah, im going to write it up on a computer. Are you going to be taking some pictures and film as well . Well, yes, hopefully if my mums remembered her phone. The thing is, i have to try and capture it on my camera over there and if i miss anything, can i borrow your shots . Yeah. And so, as dusk gathers, so, too, do the stars of the show. And they dont disappoint. Absolutely beautiful, the noise and the commotion