the woman at the heart of the post office scandal says she ll hand in her cbe but what s the plan for victims? on newsnight tonight, we hear from several former sub postmasters of south asian heritage who believe discrimination at the hands of the post office compounded their suffering. with my parents, because their english is very broken, people would get quite abrupt with them. so you re saying racism, in your mind, was at play? certainly with my parents. an mp who was also a sub postmasterjoins us does he see a plan forjustice for all the victims? also tonight, newsnight has seen nhs documents that say a student s life could have been saved had doctors at a brighton hospital acted sooner, yet an inquest concluded only yesterday there was nothing to trigger further investigation. we ll have an exclusive report. in washington, donald trump has been arguing that he should be exempt from prosecution. ifeel that, as a president, you have to have immunity, very simple. and if
describing it as despicable, and has called for a universal ban on surrogate pregnancies. pope francis said that unborn children should be protected and not turned into an object of human trafficking. in some countries it is still a controversial practice. the first known surrogate baby was born in 1885 and since then many thousands of children have been brought into the world this way. in britain, altruistic surrogacy where the surrogate is paid only expenses for carrying the baby is legal. in some but very few countries, commercial surrogacy is also legal. anne atkins, writer and novelistjoins me now in the studio, as does gina kinson, who has three children herself, and has carried three surrogates. first of all thank you both for coming in. gina, iwonderwhat she made of what the pope has said? i was quite disappointed with his comments. ifeelwhat
Kent University found 413 parental orders were issued in England and Wales last year, compared to just 117 in 2011. As many as two thirds of applicants were mixed sex couples.