But its still in manchester citys hands. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Women suffering traumatic experiences in childbirth have prompted mps to call for a Major Overhaul of maternity and post natal care. A report led by a group of Cross Party Mps refers to harrowing evidence given by more than a thousand women of still births and life changing injuries. The Birth Trauma Inquiry said poor Maternity Care was all too frequently tolerated as normal and women treated as an inconvenience. Katy hunter reports. They didnt really believe that i was such a final stage. I ended up having to be moved across the hospital when i was ten centimetres delighted. find hospital when i was ten centimetres deliahted. � u, hospital when i was ten centimetres deliahted. � ,. , delighted. And it caught his head as he was filling delighted. And it caught his head as he was filling out delighted. And it caught his head as he was filling out and delighted. 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What came through very strongly was there does seem to l very strongly was there does seem to be a Postcode Lottery for Maternity Care in this country and that is something i dont think is acceptable but depending on where you live, you will literally be offered a different level of care in terms of how you are given support during childbirth and afterwards. The report from the all Party Parliamentary group calls for urgent changes, including ending the Postcode Lottery in perinatal care, a new Maternity Commissioner to be appointed and for the government to publish a new National Maternity strategy. We publish a new National Maternity strate . ~ , publish a new National Maternity strate . ~ , strategy. We absolutely recognise birth trauma strategy. We absolutely recognise birth trauma is strategy. We absolutely recognise birth trauma is an strategy. We absolutely recognise birth trauma is an issue. Strategy. We absolutely recognise birth trauma is an issue. With strategy. 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The first thing is if you are a the first thing is if you are a pregnant woman at the moment or a woman thinking of having a baby, please do not be put off by this report because the overwhelming likelihood is both you and your baby will be fine. That really is going to be the case. In the vast majority of cases. But the reason this report has struck a chord is because these injuries are happening too often to too many women and a lot of them are preventable. Having looked at Maternity Scandals across the country for a number of years and i have spoken to a good number of women who have unfortunately been harmed in this way and the two things that happen is they have to recover from the physical pain or the physical injury that they have been impacted by and that can last a lifetime in some cases. But there is also the psychological impact, whether that is the loss of faith in the medical profession, whether that is an unwillingness to perhaps have a planned second or subsequent child. And there is something called mother blame, where a lot of professionals over the years have blamed the mother herself or whatever has gone wrong in that moment and that can have a huge psychological impact as you can imagine as well. As to why it has not been sorted out so far, two reasons seem to be emerging. 0ne not been sorted out so far, two reasons seem to be emerging. One is that while these issues have been spoken about, they havent had the same attention this report has given them and that has been hugely welcomed by a lot of women who have suffered this way. There is also a feeling there has been a lack of accountability so far and within the health service, unless there is a penalty for doing something bad, it doesnt improve. So a lot of women are saying there has to be accountability when things go wrong, the nhs has to accept it and it has to improve and change performance. A lot of discussions in Parliament Take place about topics that dont affect real peoples lives. The reaction to this report shows it has struck a chord. Struck a chord. Michael, thank you very much. Struck a chord. Michael, thank you very much, michael struck a chord. Michael, thank you very much, michael buchanan. For details of organisations which offer advice and support with some of the issues raised, go online to bbc. Co. Uk actionline. The Prime Minister has said that the next few years will be both dangerous and transformational for the uk, and referred once again to a general election in the second half of this year. In a wide ranging speech, rishi sunak said he will protect people from insecurity, but also embrace new technology. The labour leader, sir keir starmer, has also been speaking about his plans to increase regional prosperity. Henry zeffman has the story. A new election battleground. Security. Rishi sunak made his name as chancellor. As Prime Minister, his priority has been the economy. Today, something different. A gloomy warning about the state of the world. I warning about the state of the world. ,. ,. , ,. , world. I feel a profound sense of urren world. I feel a profound sense of urgency because world. I feel a profound sense of urgency because moore world. I feel a profound sense of urgency because moore will world. I feel a profound sense of. Urgency because moore will change world. I feel a profound sense of urgency because moore will change in the next five years than in the last 30. I am convinced that the next few years will be some of the most dangerous, get the most transformational that our country has ever known. This transformational that our country has ever known. Transformational that our country has ever known. This speech was not ust about has ever known. This speech was not just about defence has ever known. This speech was not just about defence and has ever known. This speech was not just about defence and foreign just about defence and Foreign Policy. Mr sunak define Security Something broader, talking about immigration, Artificial Intelligence and climate change. Indeed, he touched briefly on almost every single area of government policy. He said labour would leave britain less secure and accused them of being the real pessimists. Real pessimists. When labour ignores the achievements real pessimists. When labour ignores the achievements of real pessimists. When labour ignores the achievements of the real pessimists. When labour ignores the achievements of the last the achievements of the last 1a years, or try to reduce the last 1a years, or try to reduce the last 1a years to 49 days, remember what they are actually doing. It is trying to distract you from the thing that matters most, the future. Now i am clear enough to admit that, yes, maybe they can depress their way to victory. Maybe they can depress their way to victo. ,. , , maybe they can depress their way to victo. , , victory. This was rishi sunaks first speech victory. This was rishi sunaks first speech since victory. This was rishi sunaks first speech since those victory. This was rishi sunaks first speech since those dire. Victory. This was rishi sunaks i first speech since those dire local Election Results which hammered home how serious the conservativess political predicament is. He is trying to find a way to persuade the British Public to stick and not twist. But he is up against Reassurance Job of sir keir starmer met a man who has spent much of his labour leadership trying to repair what he sees as the damage done to labours brand byjeremy corbyn. The labours brand byjeremy corbyn. The Labour Leaderjabbed back at labours brand byjeremy corbyn. The labour leader jabbed back at the Prime Minister this afternoon. This government Prime Minister this afternoon. This government talks about National Security, government talks about National Security, but what is its record . It has hollowed out our armed forces. It has hollowed out our armed forces. It has has hollowed out our armed forces. It has wasted billions of pounds on procurement and doesnt have a Credible Procurement and doesnt have a credible plan for the future. We are much credible plan for the future. We are much more credible plan for the future. We are much more serious than that. Sir keir much more serious than that. Keir starmer much more serious than that. F. keir starmer was meeting much more serious than that. S keir starmer was meeting labours victorious mayors today, that is every elected mayor in england exceptjust every elected mayor in england except just one, every elected mayor in england exceptjust one, a reminder of the top political terrain on which rishi sunak is fighting. It is tempting and perhaps too tempting to see absolutely everything that happens in this place at the moment through the prism of the general election which we know is coming, most likely this autumn. But in this case, the Prime Minister and his team explicitly advertise this speech as his assessment of the battle lines in that election. I think thats why he ranged so widely beyond conventional ideas of security, Foreign Policy and defence onto other parts of government policy. So whatever you thought of the arguments that rishi sunak made today, prepare to hear them again and again and again. 0k, henry, thank you. Henry zeffman. Riot police in tbilisi, the capital of georgia, have moved in to try to clear thousands of demonstrators whove spent the night protesting outside the parliament building. They are opposing a new law being put forward by the pro russian government, which targets foreign owned organisations and media. They say it will suppress critical voices. In russia itself, more than two years into the war in ukraine, President Putin has announced andrei belousov, an economist, will become the new defence minister. Hes taking overfrom sergei shoigu, who has become the new secretary of russias powerful security council. 6,000 people have been evacuated so far. From North Eastern ukraine. Russia intensifies its attacks in the kharkiv area. They have entered the border town of vovchansk. President zelensky says Ukrainian Forces are involved in heavy fighting there. The russian incursion has made kharkiv ukraines second largest city more vulnerable. James waterhouse is in kyiv. Is ukraine able to slow this advance . James. Well, there is an increasing contradiction emerging. At the moment, they are saying, yes, we can contain it and we will eventually be able to take territory that has recently been taken back. But at the same time, they admit they are worried about the Fighting Spilling into other settlements. We are talking about the town of vovchansk you mentioned, somewhere that has been heavily bombarded, somewhere where people are still trying to escape all rescuers are trying to evacuate as the russians claim to be on the outskirts of the city, ukraine disputes that and says there is still heavy fighting. So it is clearly a desperate situation there. And then you have this simmering frustration whether bbc has heard from some commanders who say the russians are essentially walked across the border almost unchallenged, where they did not encounter many ukrainian fortifications. And then there is a broader fear here because at the moment, they are making two main incursions on a new axis of this front line. If they were to get within 20 miles of kharkiv city, the second biggest city in ukraine, that would bring them within Artillery Range and air defences can do little about that. And i think for the thousands of People Living there, they know what happens next. It is a blueprint of love blueprint to russias invasion we have seen countless times further south where cities sustained major damage. Although for now, it is not but they are able to capture it as a whole. Thank you very much. James waterhouse reporting. A teenager who stabbed a british mother to death, after breaking into her home in australia, has been jailed for 1h years. Emma lovell, who was a1, was killed when confronting two intruders in brisbane on boxing day 2022. She emigrated from suffolk in 2011 with her daughters and her husband, lee. The offender cannot be named because he was 17 at the time. Evidence that the government was warned by its own embassy in washington about the risk of hiv from contaminated blood in the early 1980s has been seen by the bbc� s panorama programme. Its now thought more than 1,200 nhs patients with the Blood Disorder haemophilia were infected with the virus many after being given treatment made from american blood plasma. 0ur health correspondent, jim reed, reports. From the 1970s