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repeatedly targeted. and 100 years after some women won the right to vote, we look back at their extraordinary campaign and its legacy. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news. chelsea will not be sacking manager antonio conte, despite mounting pressure following back to back league defeats. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. former executives at the failed construction and services giant carillion have apologised for the compa ny‘s collapse. but they denied claims by mps that they were asleep at the wheel. the firm which employed 20,000 people in the uk went into liquidation last month. today the company s former directors faced a committee of mps to explain what they d known about its financial position. our business editor simonjack reports. summoned to westminster carillion‘s top brass. philip green was chairman of the board when the company collapsed, and he started with an apology. i would say i am deeply sorry for the impact that the coll ....
the health secretaryjeremy hunt made the announcement over the case of a doctor found guilty of manslaughter, after one of her patients died at leicester royal infirmary. dr hadiza bawa garba was also struck off the medical register. hundreds of doctors signed a letter of protest about the way she d been treated, as our health editor hugh pym reports. a six year old boy, jack adcock, died as a result of a catalogue of errors at a leicester hospital. a serious infection was not diagnosed. a doctor, hadiza bawa garba, was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter and later barred from practising. a nurse at the hospital was also convicted and struck off. colleagues say dr bawa garba was working under intense pressure and low staffing was partly to blame. the decision to stop her working, so ending her career as a doctor, generated anger across the profession. today, the government announced a review of how doctors‘ mistakes should be handled. it is fair to say that the ....
social service, criminal justice, health care. all these systems have to be held accountable to ensuring equity. even to that extent, we have to have conversations about how we recognize injustice. i would like to add the name of tanisha anderson to the list of those killed at the hands of police. we mention, tamir rice, eric gardner, michael brown, and we have to uplift the name of women who have experienced disproportionate abuse or had died at the hands of police. the conversation has to happen every day in every setting in order for us to move past as a move past hour past as a country and our present. i have heard people say we just have to get over it. but we have iterations of disproportionally and racism today. these are conversations that have to happen. we all have to be collectively a part of that. in the same way that we have many people of various races and ethnicities and ages uplifting the black lives matter movement. you will see black and white people ....
her remarks sparked outrage, cries of discrimination and calls for her to resign. now a bay area school official is apologizing. good evening i m julie haener. and i m frank somerville. it was a heated debate tonight over air-conditioning at schools in martinez. that after a board member suggested that an elementary school of predominantly white students needed air- conditioning more than a school of latino students. new developments now from ktvu s heather holmes who s in martinez where that board member made a public apology but the question is, is that enough. reporter: feeling the heat, that board member tearfully apologized saying she hopes people will look at her 20 some years of history instead of some poorly chosen words. two elementary schools don t have air-conditioning, and when temperatures rise classrooms can become uncomfortable. it is hot. it is stuffy. the air does not circulate. reporter: participants and teachers have noticed the conditions and ....
By Norman Williams | Special to The OBSERVER - Sacramento State University has been chosen to lead the California State University's new Statewide Central Office for the Advancement of Black Excellence, which will coordinate and support efforts to build and sustain Black students' success. ....