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when you have a tragedy. a hole in the heart of the city has been filled but it will take time to heal. mark lowen, bbc news, genoa. time for a look at the weather. here's louise lear. good afternoon. a roller—coaster ride with temperatures at the moment. we closed out last week the extreme heat. through the weekend the ease, but they are just below parfor the ease, but they are just below par for early the ease, but they are just below parfor early august, but the ease, but they are just below par for early august, but as you can see, temperatures are set to build as we move through the week. not for all of us, i'll come to that in a moment. for the here and now, we started this beautiful sunshine this morning. cloud built up quickly and we have a few scattered, sharp showers. these will continue to drift eastwards as we go through the remainder of the afternoon. some of these across eastern england could be heavy, possibly with the odd rumble of thunder. but not all of us will see those showers. they will be very hit and miss, with some sunshine, we will see values of 22, cooler and more disappointing further north, 13—17 at best. low pressure moving in tonight will bring some rain and strengthening winds. high pressure just bring some rain and strengthening winds. high pressurejust being squeezed out of the way, but keeping some clear skies through the night and it will turn on the chilly side with single figures for some. the best of the sunshine tomorrow across central and southern england. cloudy with a drizzle along the west facing coasts, then that heavy a more persistent rain into northern ireland and south—west scotland in particular, accompanied by gusts of wind in excess of 45 miles an hour at times, so temperatures struggling into the far north and with the cloud and rain, looking at a maximum of 14-17, cloud and rain, looking at a maximum of 14—17, down to the south, highest values through the afternoon of 22. wednesday is a bit messy. through the middle part of the week we drag in more southerly winds, some warm air, but we have this week whether flat out to the west bringing outbreaks of cloud and rain so, where that plant is tending to linger, temperatures will be a little more subdued. 15—19 in scotland, temperatures peaking at around 22 degrees but eastern england with that southerly wind and the sunshine coming through will see temperatures into the mid 20s. that sets the trend towards the end of the week. more sunshine and more extreme heat, as temperatures in the south peak, into the mid 30s. the difference with this heat is it looks like it will be more confined to central and southern england, with a good deal of dry, sunny weather further north, and a few scattered showers in the north—west. that's all from us. now it's time for the news where you are. good afternoon. it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. ronnie o'sullivan has recorded the fastest win in crucible history, completing a 10—1 demolition of thepchaiya un—nooh in under two hours at the world snooker championship in sheffield. after racing into a very healthy lead last night, he took the two frames he needed this morning to reach the second round. he really earned his nickname ‘the rocket', with an average shot time of just 14 seconds. the pair were at the table for 108 minutes in all. it should be a very different match when the five—time champion faces ding junhui next. i actually prefer it because i haven't got to deal with the pressure of the crowd and the expectation, and just getting in and out of the venue, just being around, so much less is put on my shoulders, i suppose. it feels like i am on a bit of a holiday. it is the first timei bit of a holiday. it is the first time i have been able to stay at hotel close to the venue because normally it is for lives snooker fa ns normally it is for lives snooker fans so it is hard for me to get any peace and quiet, you know? on the other table, england's jack lisowski trailed scotland's anthony mcgill by three frames in their first session, but he fought back and it's 5—4 to mcgill now. they resume this evening. coverage continues on bbc two. fifa are holding a media conference today in response to the launch of a criminal investigation into president gianni infantino. football's world governing body has already stated that he will remain in his role, despite the legal proceedings started by prosecutors in switzerland. they are looking at alleged secret meetings between infa ntino and the swiss attorney general, michael lauber, during an investigation into corruption at fifa. lauber resigned last week, but he and infantino deny any wrongdoing. harrogate town manager simon weaver says he is incredibly grateful to the club's fans for the support they've shown, even though they weren't able to be at wembley to watch them reach the football league for the first time in their history. they beat notts county 3—1 in the national league final. that's harrogate's second promotion in three seasons and they have league two football to look forward to in around six weeks' time. it's a remarkable rise for a team that only turned professional four years ago. a combination of good people behind—the—scenes and young aspirational footballers that are all driven, in aspirational footballers that are alldriven, ina aspirational footballers that are all driven, in a good culture of the clu b all driven, in a good culture of the club that is pretty old school values. we all want the same thing at there are no egos allowed in the building, we don't stand for that. it isa building, we don't stand for that. it is a bit ofa building, we don't stand for that. it is a bit of a throwback at times, the culture, because everyone is honest, everyone is punctual. i think that is at the heart of it. i think that is at the heart of it. this year's delayed diamond league meeting in doha has been brought forward by a fortnight. it's usually the season—opener, but it was pushed back from april until october due to the coronavirus and it is now scheduled for 25th september the, although organisers say that's for 25th september, although organisers say that's still provisional because of the ever—changing regulations surrounding the ongoing covid—i9 pandemic. lewis hamilton has been reflecting on the tyre blow—out that almost cost him victory in the british grand prix and could, he says, have been much worse. his mercedes suffered a puncture on the final lap at silverstone and he had to battle to control the car, finishing on three wheels. he said that once the adrenaline had gone, he felt grateful that the tyre didn't go in a high—speed corner, which would have been a much different picture. he said it was his survival instinct that kept him calm and enabled him to bring the car home. after his seventh win in his home race, he leads the championship by 30 points. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. tributes have been pouring in forjohn hume. the irish taoiseach, michael martin, said mr hume was a great hero and a true peace—maker. prime minister borisjohnson paid tribute saying: "his vision paved the way for the stability, positivity and dynamism of the northern ireland of today and his passing is a powerful reminder of how far northern ireland has come. former prime minister tony blair descirbed mr hume as a "political titan". saying he was "a visionary who refused to believe the future had to be the same as the past." former ulster unionist leader lord trimble, who was jointly—awarded the nobel peace prize withjohn hume, paid tribute saying: "he was a major contribution to politics in northern ireland, and particularly to the process that gave us an agreement that we are still working our way through". simon coveney, deputy leader of fine gael party, said "all of us should bow our heads in respect and thanks. what an extraordinary man, peacemaker, politician, leader, civil rights campaigner". former prime minister sirjohn major paid tribute tojohn hume's drive for peace, saying: "few others invested such time and energy to this search, and few sought to change entrenched attitudes with such fierce determination". earlier, my colleaguejoanna gosling spoke tojonathan powell, who was tony blair's chief of staff and helped negotiate the good friday agreement. i think the most striking thing aboutjohn hume was his bravery. he was brave going into the civil rights movement and taken part in those marches are copied beaten up badly. he was brave and standing up to the ira despite living in the bogside in derry. he was brave in reaching out to derek —— gerry adams, and was denounced when the secret meetings were fine dates. he led to the first ira ceasefire. that bravery very much deserved the nobel prize that he received. bringing together people with such entrenched views is no mean feat. how was he when you dealt with him? how did that ability come across? he was very, very persistent! he would nobble you in the corridors, get you where ever he could, renew three times a day trying to push towards peace. he was determined to and violence. it was an extraordinary achievement. he could be quite a harassment when you are trying to do things, but he was right to do that. he was right to reach out to the ira when he did. he was right to push for peace, right to stand up against violence. he created the space for the good friday agreement. he sacrificed his politicalfuture and that of the sdlp, because sinn fein took over from them as the majority catholic party. it was a selfless commitment, as well as a brave one. almost a quiet character in the context of a time when there were some really loud and pretty vibrant characters. did everybody have a sort of reference for him? obviously, people were disagreeing with him at the time, but he did ta ke with him at the time, but he did take people. he was seen as a modern day sent by many international leaders. in the united states he was remarkable in stopping americans from supporting the ira financially. in europe also he was seen as a giant. at home, sometimes he turned people the wrong way. david trimble didn't get on with him terribly well. seamus mallon became the first minister rather than john hume well. seamus mallon became the first minister rather thanjohn hume when the institutions were set up. sometimes he did rob people of the wrong way, but he was so insistent in his pursuit on this. it is a remarkable achievement. tony blair has written a lovely tribute to him today. he said he was a remarkable combination of an open mind to the world and practical politics. in any party anywhere he would have stood tall. it was good fortune that he was born on the island of ireland. at the time, was there an awareness of seeing that? oh, yes. there really was. i saw of seeing that? oh, yes. there really was. i sanohn major issued a very nice statement as well. during that period ofjohn major, if we didn't have john during that period ofjohn major, if we didn't havejohn hume meeting gerry adams secretly and then being found out we wouldn't have got to the downing street declaration in 1993 and then the ceasefire in the downing street declaration in 1993 and then the ceasefire “119911. it 1993 and then the ceasefire in 1994. it was already clear that he was a giant of the peace process. he took big personal risks, both politically and in terms of his life, they paid off in the end. he started life as a teacher but went into politics because of his beliefs and pursued them doggedly, and it paid off in them doggedly, and it paid off in the end and that doesn't often happen in politics. it must feel like a privilege to have been involved. what did you take from it, working alongside people, individuals, humans, but who have transformed the landscape? lets take you to belfast now and to the sinn fein headquarters where gerry adams is speaking. that was john's life partner, perhaps his most consistent and co nsta nt perhaps his most consistent and constant advisor. father alec reid hooper set up the talks between myself and john said that he used to talk to pat many times, and a new that she always made me very welcome when i was going there to meet with john, so i want to thank pat, their children and the entire family. also to express solidarity with the sdlp and the people of derry. john was a giant in irish politics. he and i had many disagreements, and that is a very healthy thing to do and to have, but when we were able to talk and to actively promote the primacy of politics of dialogue, of inclusivity and so on, which then led to the talks between us. on this sad day, we wouldn't have the peace that we enjoyed today if it wasn't forjohn hume. how would you characterise john hume plasma contribution? well, his role was bigger than the peace process, although the peace process i would like to think was his huge achievement. although he has been ill for some time, i do think that he had a sense of that type assistance and by the way that he was prepared to look. this was put sometimes and quite simple terms. on the one hand you would hear that john hume sacrificed his party and sinn fein were too crafty and all of that. that isn't what this was about 01’ that. that isn't what this was about or what happens. he and ifrom different perspectives agreed, and he was singularly against the ira, let's be clear about that, but he was a dairy man so he knew that republicans who were involved in armed struggle or supported armed struggle were serious. he did think they were totally wrong, but he knew that they thought they were totally right. so the way to get that that wasn't to have the stand—off that we had, of communities like this being victimised and being, i suppose demonised. you probably couldn't have interviewed me on television for periods of that, but whenjohn pant is well along with me and others, to find an alternative way forward , others, to find an alternative way forward, that is what worked. i also think one of his great, and to his great credit, that when the news broke about a meeting with me and he was the victim of a tsunami of abuse and vilification, that he stuck with it. we must have met in secret, privately, for over a decade against a background and foreground of terrible atrocities and other events. at the end of it all it works, and at work not least because ofjohn hume. many others, but because this is the sad day of his passing, smart that it would not have happened withoutjohn hume or pat hume. i think he was generally a brave man, anyway. if you look at some of the old footage. look at mcgilligan strand. the water cannons and being in the middle of the tracker that occurred right some of those early civil rights marches. he was a brave man anyway. i think what was significant, he was a dairy man. —— derry. he wasn't in a bubble. he was presented by father alec reid that if we could shape an alternative, we could shape a new political dispensation. having been given the possibility, he then pant is well over a long time to create with me, and others, what we now have. do you have a personal memory of him? he had been ill, as everybody knows, for some time. i was conscious that he was getting older and so on, but i was still shocked when i heard. i thought of parts, that is the first person i thought of. a lot of the times when we were talking, it was very down to earth, it was very normal, trying to find solutions to problems and trying to make sure that others who have more power than us that others who have more power than us and governments and in other places could be part of all of that. he liked to sing, and it wasn't a bad singer! he probably thought he was perhaps a better singer than he was, but he was a very, very good singer, and he enjoyed the craic. for all of him being treated throughout the world, donegal, derry, that sense ofjust having a better craic, a bit of banter and a bit of massing. we have lost one of oui’ bit of massing. we have lost one of our leaders and it is a sad day for all that. what other qualities do you think single termites? persistence. also that he wasn't prepared just to talk about peace. when the likes of me was saying whatever i may have said to him, even though he may have disagreed, he had to take that into account and i had to take into account what he was saying to me. between us, we we re was saying to me. between us, we were given the shape of a way forward. remember, this was a jigsaw that we were fitting together. sinn fein was at that time engaged with father alex reed and des wilson with the irish government through father alex reed and des wilson with the irish government throuthohn, and the back channel with the british government. with john and the back channel with the british government. withjohn and irish america, whatever contacts we had within unionism and loyalism, all of these parts of the jigsaw had to be put together and there were many setbacks. i remember different times when we met and it was as if it was impossible because some terrible event had just occurred, and that happened quite a few times in the course of that ten or 12 yea rs, in the course of that ten or 12 years, but other times the political pressure from the establishment which was resisting dialogue and treating people in an inclusive way, so there were times when it looked almost impossible, but i suppose in all of that, if you have the hope that there can be a different way forward , that there can be a different way forward, and then if you have the will to try and shape that, we camp right the past but we can break the future, and i would like to think thatis future, and i would like to think that is whatjohn hume has done. he led the whole process credibility. i think there is a very lazy narrative thatjohn hume sacrificed the sdlp and that sinn fein were crafty and sneaky and so on. that is not the case. the sdlp withoutjohn hume just wasn't fit for purpose for the challenges that came up afterwards and sinn fein was, and it is as straightforward as that. i wouldn't walk around that too much now. the fact is we had the longest—running conflict in western europe anyway, and between us all we brought that to an end. that is the big achievement of this time. certainly not when it happened. i have always had the conviction and it is there in the public record in speeches and statements and so on over the years, that we had to have a negotiated settlement. i have a lwa ys a negotiated settlement. i have always had the conviction because i understood the strength of republicanism that that would come about if we could strategically and in an intelligent way to work towards it. come about withoutjohn accepting father read's invitation, it wouldn't have happened when it did happen. the politicians that came together, different ideologies, but have you lost a friend? came together, different ideologies, but have you lost a friend ?|j came together, different ideologies, but have you lost a friend? i hadn't been talking tojohn for some time because he hasn't been well. but we have all lost a friend. if you think back to the 1960s, you are much too young to think back to them, of course, but the progress that has been made, and it is a journey, and we still have a bit of a journey to go has been very, very significant and those of us who enjoy that should give credit tojohn hume for helping to bring that about. right, everybody, thank you. so, gerry adams talking about the death of john hume, and in particular that period in the late 1980s whenjohn hume took considerable risks for peace by holding talks with gerry adams, then leader of sinn fein. controversial at the time, of course because the ira were still heavily involved in violence. john hume's aim was get republicans to stick to solely democratic means. so gerry adams talking there aboutjohn hume and his wife, pat. we will have plenty more reaction to the death of john hume throughout the afternoon. first minister nicola sturgeon has been giving more details about the latest numbers of people affected by covid—19 in scotland. we have seen a few of these clusters now and unfortunately it is likely we will see more of them in the weeks ahead. this particular cluster in aberdeen is exactly what we feared when we reopen hospitality, and that is what i was talking about last week when i urged people to think carefully about just last week when i urged people to think carefully aboutjust how often you need to go to a pub or restau ra nt you need to go to a pub or restaurant right now, and also about the care you should be taken when you are there. of course it is not just this incident in aberdeen. across the country on social media we are seeing evidence of largely younger people gathering together with little or no physical distance in place. i have seen pictures on social media over this weekend that made me want to cry, not to put too fine a point on it. i know what a ha rd fine a point on it. i know what a hard slog it is every single day to try to keep this virus under control. that is a hard slog by people here in the scottish government, but even more so people working in test and protect and in a local public health teams across the country. it is a hard slog by the many businesses doing the right thing, and of course members of the public to continue to make art sacrifices. every time one person throws caution to the wind and floats the rules, the reality is they put all of us and risk and make they put all of us and risk and make thejob of they put all of us and risk and make the job of everybody working to control the virus that much harder. i knew this year has been really difficult, the most difficult most of us can remember. i know people have missed socialising and i know that as we exit lockdown in the summer when we can really travel, things can get frustrating, but i urge all of you to please follow the rules, not just for yourself, although it is for your own health and well—being, but it is also about your friends, and well—being, but it is also about yourfriends, members and well—being, but it is also about your friends, members of your family, and also about the good of the country and the economy overall, so we don't have to put restrictions on hospitality back in place, because be in no doubt, if we have to do that we will, because we will have no choice. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. we are in a roller—coaster ride of temperatures at the moment. last friday extreme heat, this afternoon subdued for the early part of august with temperature slightly below where they should be. the heat will return later on in the week. we started off today beautifully. sun chang coming through, clyde did develop, with some scattered showers. the shallow side to the west could drift further east through the day. they will be hit unless, but if you catch one could be hefty. sunny spells and scattered showers, temperatures 13 to 17 in the north, up to 22 in the south—east. this high pressure is being squeezed out of the way as low pressure m oves being squeezed out of the way as low pressure moves on from the atlantic. plenty of isobars to the southern flank of that louis anderson wins will strengthen. it will not be as chilly start to tuesday morning, but there will be a rainy run for south—west scotland, and that will push into northern ireland through the afternoon. the winds possibly strengthening to gale force at times. further west to north—west england, wales, south—west england, clyde and great drizzly nuisance rain. for the midlands, clyde and great drizzly nuisance rain. forthe midlands, eastern england, the south—east, the best of the sunshine and warmth. highest values here 23, 14—17 if you are caught under the cloud and rain. although the low pressure is drifting off to scandinavia, we will see this trailing weather front which will keep enhancing the wetter weather on wednesday to the west. it is also dragging up a south—westerly flow. the air will be warmer, as well. although the weather front will become slowly weaker through the afternoon, and the rain light and showery, underneath the cloud and showery, underneath the cloud and windows temperatures perhaps we are looking at mid to high teens, low 20s, but for the south and east where it stays dry we will drag up warmth and temperature is certainly responding, possibly to high 20s by the middle of wednesday afternoon. that trend is set to continue, so if you don't like it too hot and humid, it looks as though temperatures in the south—east could be back to the mid—30s. this is bbc news. the headlines... john hume, one of the architects of the northern ireland peace process, has died at the age of 83. he was awarded the nobel peace prize after a life devoted to bringing peace by making himself heard. you shot them with rubber bullets and gas. the crowd was marching over there. the leaders were going to speak to you. before we even got there, you opened fire. his contribution to peace in northern ireland was extraordinary. i don't think we would ever have really got the peace process going and implemented if he had not been there offering help and advice.|j have to say on this sad day that we would not have the peace that we enjoy today if it was not forjohn hume.

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continue their fight after the us refuses to extradite the woman accused of causing his death. she will come back. i don't care how long it takes. justice for harry. it will not waver, our determination is probably stronger now than it was before. if that is even possible. more than 200 private patients of a suspended surgeon who worked for spire healthcare are recalled. and i knew is what we look at the output of bbc trending. in—depth report or click bait about cats and celebrities? joiners at 7:45pm. —— join us. good evening. authorites are trying to trace 2000 people who have flown from wuhan in china into the uk in the past fortnight. it comes as the chief medical officer says that 14 people who've already been tested in the uk for coronavirus have been given the all clear. in china, travel restrictions have been widened as the death toll climbed to 26 and hundreds more were infected. people are being stopped from leaving the city of wuhan, where the virus originated, and there are also severe travel restrictions in several other cities. cases of the virus have been reported in neighbouring countries such as japan, thailand, south korea and singapore and two confirmed cases in the united states. here's our medical correspondent, fergus walsh. ten days from now, on this waste ground in wuhan will be a brand—new hospital. the extraordinary pace of building — a sign of how seriously china is taking the threat from the new coronavirus. the prefabricated building will have 1000 beds. it is urgently needed because hospitals in wuhan are overwhelmed with potential cases. the symptoms include cough, fever and breathing problems. a dozen cities have now been quarantined, affecting more than 30 million people. as you see, nobody here, it is absolutely empty. this should be the busiest time of year for travel and for hotels, but this one in wuhan is deserted. in downing street, borisjohnson hosted a reception to mark chinese new year. the government's emergency cobra committee also met to discuss the risk to the uk, which is considered low. we think that there's a fair chance we may get some cases over time. of course, this depends on whether this continues for a long time, but i think we should definitely see this as a marathon, not a sprint. there are still some key unknowns about this virus. how contagious is it? early case reports from china suggest people with no symptoms may be able to spread the virus. how deadly is it? so far, around one in four confirmed cases is severe, and most of those recover. it seems less deadly than sars, which killed nearly 800 people worldwide. and what is the source? we're confident the virus jumped from animals to humans, but until the source is pinpointed — perhaps bats or snakes — there is a risk of completely new infections. this is the first image of the coronavirus. work is already under way to develop a vaccine. we can, potentially, move from years to up to 16 weeks to get a vaccine developed and for very early clinical testing, as long as all goes well. for now, the world can only wait and see what impact china's control measures will have on the spread of this virus. fergus walsh, bbc news. josepjansa is the principal expert emergency preparedness and response for the european centre for disease prevention and control. great to have you with us. clearly the focus of attention is a wuhan and surrounding areas. but this is and surrounding areas. but this is an area of concern for europe as well. yes. this is a big area and there are flights back and forth, evenif there are flights back and forth, even if now the airports are being closed. this is for concern for the eu and for all over the world. how likely is it that you think we are going to get confirmed cases over the coming days and weeks here in europe? i think this is quite likely, especially from what has already been said. this is a particular time of the year where lots of people, millions of people, are travelling back and forth to china. therefore, the likelihood of some cases being seen in eu countries has to be considered high. in terms of what governments in europe should be doing, we have seen here in the uk are government meeting and talking about contingency plans and what to do it airports. what is the right approach? i think those measures that have already been taken and what we call the preparedness plans, how much we prepare in terms of the measures to try to contain as much as possible, the potential spread of that virus, are hygienic measures, some screenings in the airports, and also avoiding some contact with individuals that are coughing, or with respiratory diseases. i think those general measures make sense. and as far as things are moving forward , and as far as things are moving forward, the measures will be more specific also in parallel with the improvement of the knowledge of the ways of transmission, the likelihood of the virus to be transmitted from person to person, which is already there. but we still do not know the intensity or the exact mechanism of transmission. on that issue of trying to get greater knowledge of the virus, what is it that scientists will be trying with urgency to do now? they are working against the clock about the potential beginning of the outbreak, the measures, the origin, how it has been transmitted the first cases, how the first generation of cases, the second generation of cases. there are a lot of groups of scientists investigating that and i think that very soon we will start seeing the results as are some papers have already been published. how important is cooperation and communication between countries at this stage? this is an essential point. it is not only the communication itself but how do we communicate. what kind of messages do we pass and how we manage the balance between the normal preoccupation and the normal line between this population in the situation and the politicians and the real threat itself. so it has to be to find the point, the right point, you know, to pass the message that can help to prevent and to take a proper control and not to unnecessarily alarm when we still do not know exactly what is the impact of that epidemic. emulator that the search for balance, i do not know that in stockholm where you are, but we have had some quite lurid headlines here that may cause people to be worried. what do you think the tone should be for people in europe at the moment about the level of concern they should have? this is a very good point. i think the level of concern is that within the eu, we do not expect, and i am honest on that, i am do not expect, and i am honest on that, iam notjust do not expect, and i am honest on that, i am notjust passing a messagejust to, the population, is that it messagejust to, the population, is thatitis messagejust to, the population, is that it is of concern, but i think it is quite unlikely that there is highly widespread. we will see some cases, some transmission, but again it, in most of the eu countries, if not all, there are measures in place, hospitals infrastructure to contain atan place, hospitals infrastructure to contain at an early stage, so i think that even if some cases identified in the coming days, we need to take that as it is, some cases and not as a big issue that we do not know how to deal with. ok, thank you very much indeed for sharing your thoughts with us. and we'll find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 and 11:30 this evening in the papers. our guests joining me tonight are writer and broadcaster mihir bose and ruth lea an economic adviser for arbuthnot banking. a coronor has ruled that the death of a baby boy a week after he was delivered at a hospital in kent was wholly avoidable. harry richford died at the queen elizabeth the queen mother hospital in margate in 2017. the trust say they wholeheartedly apologise for the failings in harry's care. it comes after the bbc revealed yesterday that there have been at least seven preventable baby deaths at the east kent nhs trust. with more, here's our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan. a warning his report contains flashing images. we didn't get to hold harry until the day that he died. i'm so glad we got to spend those seven days with him and see him. it means he was a real, living human being for those seven days, and that means everything to us. tom and sarah should have their toddler son buzzing around them on their see sidewalk, but a catalogue of maternity —— seaside walk. but a catalogue of maternity failures are robbed at the young couple of harry within days of his birth. if harry had brain damage similar to what he had when he died, and he was under my care during those seven days, i would be held accountable for that, but nobody has at the hospital. it all went wrong in this maternity unit, over a two hour period one november night. first, a locum doctor, described as "out of his depth", delayed delivering the baby. the coroner said he should have never been in charge that evening. he never had his cv checked by a consultant, as was the process. it doesn't feel like a very safe culture or a safe environment, if that's the case. harry was born pale and floppy, but he would've survived and been healthy if a paediatrician hadn't failed for 28 minutes to properly resuscitate him. everyone in theatre was panicking. the anaesthetist came up to me and said to me "i'm going to put you under general anaesthetic", and i was glad that he was going to do that, because i didn't want to be in that room any more. i've had to live with that for a long time, because it meant that tom had to the room, having seen harry be resuscitated, because it was not a nice atmosphere to be in, and it was panicked. it didn't feel like anybody was really in control. gravely ill, harry was transferred to a nearby intensive care unit, but he never recovered, and his parents were advised to turn off his life support system. it is the worst week in our life, in some respect, because you don't want to make that decision for your baby, but at the same time, you don't want your baby to grow up not having a good quality of life. east kent hospital's trust today apologised for the care that was provided. they didn't address, however, why they initially recorded harry's death as expected, and had refused for months to tell the coroner of his case. both decisions would have meant they faced less scrutiny over the care they had provided, but they didn't account for the determination of harry's family to get to the truth. now personally vindicated, their focus today was to ensure other families don't suffer as they have. we don't want this to be like all other prior cases, which we heard about yesterday when the news broke, there were a number of cases which the bbc investigated and they found out all of those cases, had they learned from those cases, we wouldn't be stood here today, because harry would still be alive and well. over 200 private patients of a suspended surgeon have been asked to return to hospital over concerns about the operations he performed. spire healthcare suspended habib rahman injanuary last year and withdrew his operating permissions in may whilst a review was carried out. the patients identified were ones who had had shoulder operations. they have been invited to see an independent specialist to ensure their care has been as expected. none of mr rahman's nhs patients have been recalled. the uk's second—largest union has backed rebecca long bailey to be the leader of the labour party. unite's general secretary len mccluskey announced that it would endorse the shadow business secretary, as well as richard burgon for deputy leader. 0ur political correspondent helen catt is in westminster for us. tell us more. this is quite important. the backing of unions is more important than it has ever been in this particular leadership race and that is because there is a requirement to be able to get onto the final ballot that goes out to members to registered supporters. each candidate needs to get the backing from either enough unions are enough constituency labour parties to get them on that ballot. rebecca long—bailey getting the backing of unite pretty much guarantees that she is going to get onto that ballot along with lisa and andy who has already reached the required level and keir starmer who has already reached the required number. rebecca long—bailey getting the endorsement from unite is not really a surprise because she was widely expected to win it. unite's general secretary, len mccluskey, has been what corbyn's most vocal supporters and a rebecca long—bailey has been seen as the person who has the politics was close to mr corbyn. she has rejected this idea that she isa she has rejected this idea that she is a continuity corbynite. rebecca long— bailey rebecca long—bailey is notjeremy corbyn. she is a different type of individual. she has her own visions. she was incredibly good in there. i have to say, by the way, that the contributions of all the candidates, both in terms of the leadership and the deputy leadership, was of the highest quality. it makes me very proud to know that we have such tale nt proud to know that we have such talent in the labour party, but rebecca long— bailey's talent in the labour party, but rebecca long—bailey's was very insightful, she gave a detailed account of how she would try to win back the trust of the british people and it certainly captured the views of my executives. it was overwhelming that we should support rebecca long— bailey. support rebecca long-bailey. len mccluskey there. clearly as your expert and, in terms of numbers to get yourself on the ballot, it is important to have union backing, how significant is it going forward in the contest? union members at vote in the final ballot as well, and now you have weight, which is one of the largest unions in country and it will be recommending rebecca long—bailey to their members a —— unite. it is worth mentioning emily thornberry. she has no union backing so thornberry. she has no union backing so far, so she will have to rely on a —— below only different route if she is going to get onto that ballot. she will have to get labour constituency parties to back and thatis constituency parties to back and that is a tall order, she only has the at the moment. not impossible, but definitely a big ask. they have until february to get other requirements to make contact and expel it. we will not know until the final choice of leaders made early april. the timekeeping passed a quarter past seven. the headlines. chinese authorities confirmed that the corona death toll has climbed to 26 people. here officials tried to trace a 2000 and who had travelled to the uk from third make the last fortnight. a coroner has said that the death of a baby at a hospital in kent was wholly avoidable. and harry done's family say they will continue their fight for justice after the us say they will continue their fight forjustice after the us rejected an extradition request by the women accused of causing his death. day four of donald trump's impeachment trial in the us senate has begun. democrat prosecutors argue that the president should be removed from office for abuse of power and for obstructing congress. they say he's used foreign policy for his own personal, political gain. trump has dismissed the trial as boring. gary 0'donoghue is in washington. what has been happening today? they are aboutan what has been happening today? they are about an hour or an narrowing quarter into their case. dashing into this day's section of the case. they are focusing on the abuse of congress. they are going over a lot of detail they have already done in terms of the actual accusations around what was done to ukraine. but they are putting it in the light, if you like, of that second article. singh, there are all sorts of issues around not getting documents, not gating the preventers are telling us more of the story —— saying. tomorrow, the president has ‘s defence team will get their chance to begin at their chance to begin another 2a hours of putting their case at any tomorrow morning. not entirely sure that they will use all the time, if i was a betting man. on that point of them sitting tomorrow, that point of them sitting tomorrow, thatis that point of them sitting tomorrow, that is unusual for senators to be called in on a saturday. the conditions all round all of this are quite unusual. it is suggested some of the senators are breaking the rules. yes, some of them seem to be getting worse, some chatting going on. if your mother, they're not allowed to talk, on pain of impediment. —— if you remember. —— on pain of imprisonment. they are not allowed to get up and walk around, some of them are doing that. 0ne around, some of them are doing that. one was even seen around, some of them are doing that. one was even seen reading a bit yesterday. her excuse from that is that she is a mother and can multitask. that was her response when she was asked about that. all sorts of fidgeting going on, particularly on the republican side. i think particularly on the republican side. ithinka particularly on the republican side. i think a lot of that is designed to say, we have heard all this before, you're being repetitive, you're wasting your time, let's get on with it. fidgeting senators, donald trump to scraping it himself as boring —— describing it himself is boring. how much interest is there in the minutiae of the trail itself? they are getting shut down their throat, thatis are getting shut down their throat, that is for sure. in newspapers and on television. it is all over social media, of course. —— getting shoved down their throat. there are just over half the people who believe that the president should be removed from office as a result of this and that have very interested in this trial, no question about that. and we are in an election year, so both sides have a sort of heightened awareness of what is happening on the political stage. democrats believing that this could help them, come november. and it being a bit of a rallying cry for the present‘s supporters, saying that they are out to get him again, how to get him ever since he declared his candidacy for the republican nomination —— the president buzz ‘s supporters. and we need to use it as a motivational pitch to make sure that i turn out in november. thank you very much indeed. a reminder that you can follow president trumper‘s impeachment trial of my bunny bbc news website —— present trump's trial on the bbc news website. donald trump addressed america's biggest annual anti abortion rally, where he was hailed by campaigners as the "most pro life president in history". standing just blocks from congress, where senators are sitting in judgment at his impeachment trial, the us president said, "every child is a precious and sacred gift from god." the planned parenthood action fund, which supports abortion rights, described trump's administration as carrying out "a full out assault on our health and our rights". from the first day in office, i have taken a historic action to support america's families and to protect the unborn. cheering. and during my first week in office, reinstated and expanded the mexico city policy and we issued a landmark pro—life rule to govern the use of title ten taxpayer funding. donald trump there. ijust want donald trump there. i just want to bring in some breaking news, an update on the corona virus. clearly the focus of a love that has been china, but what is interesting is how that is potentially going to spread. we arejust how that is potentially going to spread. we are just hearing that france has declared their second case. this time around paris, the first case was in bordeaux. clearly, european countries, as we were hearing from a guest in stockholm earlier, taking a keen interest in all of this. france now declaring its second case of the coronavirus. hs2 is behind schedule and over budget because it's risk and complexity we re underestimated from the start according to the government's spending watchdog. the national audit office says neither the department for transport nor hs2 limited allowed for significant increases in the cost of the project which became clear when plans became more detailed and issues such as poor ground conditions emerged. a leaked review this week said it could be over a hundred billion pounds tens of billions more than original estimate. the former deputy first minister of northern ireland, seamus mallon, has died at the age of 83. he was one of the most influential figures in the peace process and was the first person to hold the post of deputy first minister in the power sharing devolved government set up after the good friday agreement. joseph mccann who's been described as one of the country's most dangerous sex offenders was jailed last month for at least 30 years for kidnapping and raping women and children last summer. after he was caught, it emerged that when he attacked them he should have still been in prison serving time for previous violent offences but he had been released by mistake. now the first of his victims to speak publicly has told the bbc that she has never received an official apology and she believes senior figures should be held to account for probation failings. she's been speaking to our home affairs correspondent, june kelly. held captive in this car is the first of the women joseph mccann kidnapped and raped. in the fortnight that followed, he targeted another ten victims. the youngest, boy of 11. the eldest, a woman of 71 who has now spoken to us. he said, "i've got a knife. "i've killed somebody this morning". like all rape victims, she has anonymity, but in this first interview by any of mccann's victims, she describes how he abducted her as she got into her car. i shouted "get out of my car!", and he punched me in the face and he said "i'm sorry, i'm sorry", and he shouted at me, "i wouldn't want to do that, i've got a grandma." mccann was already wanted for attacks in watford, london in lancashire when he turned up at this supermarket in greater manchester, hunting for his next victim. and it was in the car park that he punched and abducted the grandmother. he forced her to drive onto the motorway. she was kept a prisoner in her own car for four and half hours. mccann stopped the car and raped her. he also kidnapped a 13—year—old girl off the street, forced her into the car with them and sexually assaulted her. the older victim took her chance when mccann fell asleep. she pulled off into a service station. i was working out all the time i was driving, how am i going to get out of this situation? and i knew i wouldn't outrun him, and i knew i had to get to where there would be a lot of people. so i drove right up to a group of people, just got out and ran towards them and said i've been abducted. the little girl got out as well, and he ran after me and wrenched the keys out of my hand and drove off in the car. joseph mccann was eventually found hours later, hiding up a tree. it emerged, that at the time he was roaming around the country raping women and children, he should've been in prison. a man with a history of violence, he had wrongly released. joseph mccann's case represents a catastrophic failure by the criminaljustice system. but this victim says there's one thing she hasn't received. have you ever had an apology? i've never had an apology. it would've been nice to have had something a bit more personal, i think. for somebody to come and see me or send a letter or something, just something that recognises the victims, really, isuppose, yeah. hello? following mccann's mistaken release, two probation staff were sacked, one demoted. but all those who suffered at the hands of mccann have paid the price for a system in crisis, according to this victim. it's always the front—line workers who get disciplined, and that probation office was understaffed, it had low morale, and that was because of the changes that have been brought in by grayling. that's chris grayling ? chris grayling. who brought... who privatised part of the probation service, and i think people who made those decisions at high levels should be brought to account. in response, chris grayling, the formerjustice secretary, who was responsible for the part privatisation stressed that mccann was under the supervision of the national probation service, which remained in the public sector, and wasn't part of any privatisation programme. he said the problems in this case were down to the operational failure of a small number of staff. when it comes to the lack of an apology, the ministry ofjustice says it recently began making contact with the victims. i'm doing this interview because i know a lot of the victims are not in any state to do it. fortunately, i am. i'm older. i've had a good life, and i'm not letting it ruin my life. they are all young women and children, they have got that for the rest of their lives. june kelly reporting. we will see a gradual shift to more u nsettled we will see a gradual shift to more unsettled weather as we move through this weekend. 0vernight unsettled weather as we move through this weekend. overnight in it, we will hold onto plenty of cloud, mist and hills thug as well. there will be one to spots of rain or drizzle where cloud are thick enough. perhaps some feeding into the early hours into the south. it could turn chilly here. elsewhere, it looks like a fast free night. tomorrow, not a great deal of change —— a frost—free night. some mist and hill thug could beef slow to clear and potentially some shares are wetter areas, a breezy day. temperature setting at around nine celsius. the rain in the north pushes its way south east has been most recently, bringing a spell of wet and windy weather. brightening up behind it, for northern ireland and western parts of scotland, with some sunshine and one or two showers, it will turn noticeably cooler here. temperature sitting in the mid—single figures. holding onto double figures in the south—east. hello, you are watching bbc news with me rachel schofield, here are oui’ with me rachel schofield, here are our top stories. chinese authorities confirmed that the corona death toll has climbed to 26 people. tonight, france has confirmed two cases there. meanwhile, here officials are trying to trace 2000 visitors who have flown to the uk from wuhan in the last fortnight. a coroner has said that the death of a baby at a hospital in kent in 2017 was wholly avoidable. harry dunn because my family say they will continue theirfight because my family say they will continue their fight for justice after the us rejected an extradition request for the woman accused of causing his death. she will come back, i don't care how long it takes, ourfight will come back, i don't care how long it takes, our fight forjustice for harry will not waiver, you know, oui’ for harry will not waiver, you know, our determination is probably, if anything, stronger now than it was before. if that's even possible. uk's second largest union, unite, has backed her back along bailey to be the leader of the labour party. tesco has removed the plastic wrap from its multi pack tends in an effort to reduce plastic. well, let's return to one of our top stories, the foreign secretary dominic raab has accused the us government of a denial ofjustice. after it refused an extradition request for the woman accused of killing teenage motorcyclist, harry done. the 19—year—old died in august after a collision with a car driven by an sacoolas. the wife of a us intelligence officer. after the accident, she left britain for the united states, claiming diplomatic immunity. duncan kennedy's report contained some flash photography. it was last august harry dunn died here, and today the scene was still framed by the caring tributes of those who loved him. anne sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day, is the american woman who's been charged with causing harry's death by dangerous driving. there was no sign of her today at this house in washington dc, where she was living. she flew to america after the accident, claiming diplomatic immunity. this afternoon, harry's family gathered to give their reaction to the news that the american government has now refused to extradite mrs sacoolas to britain — a decision harry's mum says is difficult to believe or accept. what does this do to your fight to get anne sacoolas back? just gives us more determination to carry on. it's just another hurdle. we've come across lots of them since the 11th of october and it's just another one that we will get over, eventually. this is just a setback, not the end? absolutely. it certainly is. it won't be the end, it never will be the end, we're not going anywhere. the decision to block the extradition was taken at the highest level, with mike pompeo, the secretary of state, formally telling the british government. the americans insist mrs sacoolas was covered by diplomatic immunity at the time of the accident. it is now nearly five months since harry died here, and his parents had been expecting that it would be for the american courts to decide whether to extradite anne sacoolas. now that the american government has stepped in, they do see that as a setback, but say their fight will go on. tonight, the dunns' local mp, business secretary andrea leadsom, met the family and said they had the full support of boris johnson in their fight. the prime minister is very much on the side of the family in their desire to see justice done for harry and all of us in government are working towards that end. harry dunn's family have already started a series of protests outside the raf croughton, the american base anne sacoolas left moments before the accident. the family say they have set aside their grieving in order to garner support for their cause — one, they say, that will not be silenced. duncan kennedy, bbc news, northamptonshire. the metropolitan police is to start using facial recognition cameras on london's streets. they will be operating for 5—6 hours at a time to identify suspects wanted for a serious and violent crimes. police say the cameras correctly identify 70% of suspects. privacy campaigners maintain they are a threat to civil liberties. thousands of people have marched on the streets of baghdad to demand that all us troops be expeued demand that all us troops be expelled from iraq. temp in the neck tensions have been heightened by the american ‘s militaries and assassination of the armenian general of sola money in baghdad. the march was called for by the influential scheer cleric, and received support from iraqi scheer militia groups. the prince of wales has called for unity and tolerance amongst different faiths on his first formal visit to the occupied palestinian territories. during a speech in bethlehem, prince charles said he would pray for a just and lasting peace in the middle east. he's also held talks with the palestinian presence to the main president. 0ur royal correspondent, johnny dimon, has this report. a palestinian welcome for the prince. this is his first time setting foot in the occupied palestinian territories. he did not travel far, but it is a different a diplomatically delicate day started at the only mosque in the old city. charles, he wrote — once in english, then again, in arabic. after the mosque will come the church of the nativity, and it's the proximity of the two that brings charles here — part of his decades—long effort to bring faiths together. inside the church, a first—hand of the struggle of christians in the middle east. we are doing our best to survive, to fight against every difficulty at this situation. more meetings, more greetings, and a time to express his concern for the challenges palestinians face. the prince and the spoke for a0 minutes. he spoke directly to the situation of the palestinians under israeli occupation. it is my dearest wish that the future will bring freedom, justice and equality to all palestinians will stop enabling you to thrive and to prosper. and on this first official visit to the region, a personal moment. a visit to his grandmother's grave, princess alice asked to be buried at the mount of olives overlooking the holy city. to date, prince charles paid his respects. jonny dymond, bbc news, bethlehem. you are watching bbc news. multipack tends are a staple of most supermarket shopping, and it does mean you save a bit of money. but multipack some wrapped in plastic, and that is doing nothing to save the planet. now, tesco is to ditch all its plastic wrapping from multipack tends in an effort to eliminate an estimated 67 million pieces of plastic in the uk every year. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. multipacks — we love ‘em. buy more, save more, from baked beans and tinned tomatoes to pasta, tuna and soups. they're a big seller — we buy more than 200 million multipacks a year at our main supermarkets alone. tesco is now getting rid of this wrapping from every single tin, saving 350 tonnes of plastic waste a year. it will require you and i to change the way we shop, because we've got used to the convenience of picking one six—pack of tuna, and now we'll have to pick up the number of tins that we want. same tuna, same value, but with no plastic. goodidea? very good idea. i really do get upset about the amount of plastic i take home. when it's as bad as that, that isjust ridiculous. it's useful when you're grabbing it, i've only got to grab one thing instead of three. but yes, it does annoy me and i suppose it's bad for the planet as well. it takes the whole supply chain for a change on this scale to happen. this is europe's largest food factory. heinz here in wigan churns out a billion tins a year, many wrapped in this non—recyclable plastic film. making the move with tesco will obviously help ensure that we are having those conversations with other retailers and that we open the doors to the possibility of eliminating shrink—wrap from all of our multipacks. getting rid of all this plastic wrapping seems such an obvious thing to do. of course, it's just a tiny fraction of the plastic that still ends up in our shopping trolleys. but the pressure is now on to remove it. this is an easy place to start. it will happen from march, another step by our supermarkets in ditching the plastic we don't need. emma simpson, bbc news. robots could soon be taking care of more patients at the biggest hospital in western england. south meet in bristol is already thought to use the most robotics in the nhs, and now it is teaming up with the bristol robotics laboratory at the university of the west of england. matthew hale went to see how they work. those tablets should be taken on an empty stomach. meat pepper, the latest in a line of robots designed at the university of the west of england. pepper is programmed to make sure patients are taking the right medication. with an ageing population, the gap between the care required and the carers available, it's going to get wider and wider. so that's why academics here are looking to intelligent robots like pepper, working alongside smart sensors in people's homes, even social robots to try to fill that ca re social robots to try to fill that care gap. hi, it's tim from south meet hospital, how are you today? surgeons here are now working with people on a mobile two way video screen to allow doctors to communicate with patients who have just been discharged. technology like this may allow us to monitor patients, to do some of the observational tasks. you can say some of the more mundane and menial tasks, which allows doctors, nurses, health care assistance to get on with doing what they really do well. these prototypes cost millions, and could take years before affordable technology like this can help patients live independent lives. syste m patients live independent lives. system like this means that if you wa nt system like this means that if you want to get up and go to the toilet out want to get up and go to the toilet our practice standing and sitting four or five times a day, you are not having to wait. they have teamed up not having to wait. they have teamed up with south meet hospital to pioneer robotics in the health and ca re pioneer robotics in the health and care setting. the hospital was already ahead of the field in this area. it was designed with robots in mind, witha area. it was designed with robots in mind, with a fleet of 12 automatic guided vehicles. when it comes to surgery, guided vehicles. when it comes to surgery, it's a european leader in the use of robots to help surgeons remove prostate cancer in a minimally invasive way. the medication drawer has been open. this unique partnership between doctors and robotic engineers could also be setting the scene for how patients are cared for around the world. matthew hill, bbc news. cricket now, on the first day of the fourth test, england are 192 for fourth test, england are 192 for four against south africa in johannesburg. ben stokes was the last week it with the england all around getting involved in expo expletive attack on someone in the crowd. joe wilson reports. 6000 feet above sea level injohannesburg, england were making good progress. through zach crowley and then don sibley. england in fact got past 100 ru ns sibley. england in fact got past 100 runs without losing a wicket. then the collapse came. a series of wickets fell, a series of wickets fell, a series of catches were taken... both openers gone, and then joe denly followed. now this time, ben stokes could not assist. he was dismissed forjust two. naturally, he would be disappointed. but after these pictures, the television coverage next showed him aggressively addressing someone in the crowd. we've bleeped out the worst of the language. now, that footage inevitably sped through social media as at the sports personality of the year sat on the dressing room balcony. stokes knows how attention follows him. he also knows the behaviour expected of him. well, england closed the day 192—a. joe root and ollie pope survived. there is nowhere to hide in a test match and the cameras capture every emotion, as ben stokes is aware. and you can see him with the fans at the close of play here — a different interaction, all part of the same man. joe wilson, bbc news. staying with sports, japan ‘s air force are practising sky rating the 0lympic rings ahead of the tokyo games. it's six months to the day until the opening ceremony, the torch will be at the 0lympia site in greece on march the 12th. arriving injapan on the 20th. i will be back with you at eight, but now it is time for news watch, this week we ask if some stories on bbc online are ask if some stories on bbc online a re really ask if some stories on bbc online are really news? 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joseph mccann, speaks out barely an hour it was all over. on behalf of those who can't. the death of harry dunn. after reaching the last 16 at wimbledon that she had done it the foreign secretary says america's refusal to extradite the woman again. the biggest win of her life. charged is a denial ofjustice. she was crazy she said later but i the massive swarms of desert locusts threatening the food to show itjust might get even supply in east africa. crazier. golf wasn't even evening at and it's just not cricket. barnet when serena williams won her caught in the slips, first australian title. she was england's ben stokes lets rip. searching grandstand. as you won't bleep. find it here. china's wang long sunk and coming up on sportsday on bbc news, the 15—year—old tennis beat her into straight sets. sensation coco gauff knocks out williams later described her the defending champion at the australian open. performance as unprofessional i can't play like that again she added. the one defeat today it was particularly poignant farmer number one. they to herfinal particularly poignant farmer number one. they to her final mass particularly poignant farmer number one. they to herfinal mass —— match before retiring. she ended up being embraced unquote by herfather. if you have a dream and work hard, anything is possible. and a dream good evening. and work hard, anything is possible. andy space bbc news. after her incredible win over the death of a baby boy a week naomi osaka, coco gauff admitted after he was delivered at a hospital she was struggling to take in what she'd just done: in kent was wholly avoidable, on the court i was definitely a coroner has ruled. harry richford died like yeah, all of these people are at the queen elizabeth clapping for me. the queen mother hospital that is really every time in margate in 2017. the trust has apologised i think people think, i guess, you get used to it. for the failings in harry's care. i mean, i'm still new to this, but i'm sure i'm not used to it, and i'm sure the bbc revealed yesterday that there have been at least seven some of the players who are kind of preventable baby deaths, including that of harry, already won a bunch of slams, i'm at the east kent nhs trust to which the hospital belongs. sure every time that's post—match walk out when you waved to here's our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan, the crowd, i'm sure they feel like and his report contains flashing unbelievable in that moment. images. we didn't get to hold harry yeah, definitely, that's definitely the mood for today. until the day that he died. what is my life? i'm so glad we got to spend those seven days with him and see him. there was nearly another "very significant" moment it means he was a real, at the australian open today, with the six time champion roger living human being for those seven days and that federer surviving a huge scare as he fought back from the brink means everything to us. to beat the unseeded john millman tom and sarah should in a deciding set tie—break. have their toddler son buzzing around them patrick geary reports: on their seaside walk. but a catalogue of maternity failures robbed the young couple very few people get warm welcomes when playing australians in australia. of harry within days of his birth. roger federer is one of them. if harry had brain damage similar he and melbourne had a global icon to what he had when he died against their own local curio, and he was under my care during those seven days, i would be held accountable for that. but nobody has at the hospital. it all went wrong on this maternity unit over a two—hour period one november night. first, a locum doctor, described as out of his depth, delayed delivering the baby. the coroner said he should never have been in charge that evening. he never had his cv checked by a consultant, as was the process. it doesn't feel like a very safe culture or a safe environment, if that's the case. harry was born pale and floppy, but he would have survived and been healthy if a paediatrician hadn't failed for 28 minutes to properly resuscitate him. everyone in theatre was panicking. the anaesthetist came up to me and said to me, "i'm going to put you under general anaesthetic," and i was glad that he was going to do that because i didn't want to be in that room any more. i've had to live with that for a long time because it meant that tom had to leave the room having seen harry being resuscitated because it was not a nice atmosphere to be in and it was panicked. it didn't feel like anybody was really in control. gravely ill, harry was transferred to a nearby intensive care unit, but he never recovered, and his parents were advised to turn off his life—support system. it was the worst week in our life in some respects, because you don't want to make that decision for your baby, but at the same time, you don't want your baby to grow up not having a good quality of life. east kent hospitals trust today apologised for the care it provided. they didn't address, however, why they'd initially recorded harry's death as "expected" and had refused for months to tell the coroner of his case. both decisions would have meant they faced less scrutiny over the care they had provided. but they didn't account for the determination of harry's family to get to the truth. now personally vindicated, their focus today was to ensure other families don't suffer as they have. we don't want this to be like all of the prior cases which we heard about yesterday when the news broke. there were a number of cases which the bbc investigated and they found out all of those cases, had they learned from those cases, we wouldn't be stood here today because harry would still be alive and well. that was tom richford ending that report there. michael is with me now. compare this trust to others in england. should mothers expecting to give birth there be worried? the first thing to say is that for the vast majority, the overwhelming majority of women in this country, labour and giving birth is a safe and healthy experience and they walk out of the hospital with a child they were expecting, if indeed they go to hospital in the first place. there are lots of initiatives under way at the moment to try to improve maternity outcomes in the uk. the reason for that, however, maternity outcomes in the uk. the reason forthat, however, is maternity outcomes in the uk. the reason for that, however, is because we are not as good as many of our european neighbours. we have heard about failures at places like morecambe bay, shrewsbury and telford. there is undoubtedly a problem at east kent, there is national data on death rates, both stillbirths and neonatal births, that indicate this trust is higher than similar trusts across the uk. as we reported last night, there has been at least seven preventable deaths there since 2016. the care quality commission went in this week foran quality commission went in this week for an unannounced inspection because they had concerns about ongoing maternity services. they have also started a criminal investigation into the care that the trust provided in harry's case. what the trust are saying is that if there is a pregnant woman in that area that has any concerns, they should contact their midwife. michael, many thanks. there have been two confirmed cases of coronovirus in france this evening, the first to be identified in europe. in the uk, authorities are trying to trace 2,000 people who have flown from wuhan in china, where the virus orginated, into the uk in the past fortnight. the chief medical officer says that 1a people who've already been tested in the uk for the illness have been given the all—clear. in china, travel restrictions have been widened as the death toll climbed to 26, and hundreds more were infected. here's our medical correspondent fergus walsh. ten days from now on this waste ground in wuhan will be a brand—new hospital. the extraordinary pace of building, a sign of how seriously china is taking the threat from the new coronavirus. the prefabricated building will have 1,000 beds. it is urgently needed because hospitals in wuhan are overwhelmed with potential cases. the symptoms include cough, fever and breathing problems. a dozen cities have now been quarantined, affecting more than 30 million people. as you see, nobody here, the hotel is absolutely empty. this should be the busiest time of year for travel and for hotels, but this one in wuhan is deserted. in downing street, borisjohnson hosted a reception to mark chinese new year. the government's emergency cobra committee also met to discuss the risk to the uk, which is considered low. we think that there's a fair chance we may get some cases over time. of course, this depends on whether this continues for a long time, but i think we should definitely see this as a marathon, not a sprint. there are still some key unknowns about this virus. how contagious is it? early case reports from china suggest people with no symptoms may be able to spread the virus. how deadly is it? so far, around one in four confirmed cases is severe. and most of those recover. it seems less deadly than sars, which killed nearly 800 people worldwide. and what is the source? we're confident the virus jumped from animals to humans, but until the source is pinpointed, perhaps bats or snakes, there is a risk of completely new infections. this is the first image of the coronavirus. work is already under way to develop a vaccine. we can, potentially, move from years to up to 16 weeks to get a vaccine developed and for very early clinical testing, as long as all goes well. for now, the world can only wait and see what impact china's control measures will have on the spread of this virus. fergus walsh, bbc news. joseph mccann, one of the country's most dangerous sex offenders, was jailed last month for at least 30 years for kidnapping and raping women and children last summer. after he was caught, it emerged that he should have still been in prison for previous violent offences. now, the first of his victims to speak publicly has told the bbc that she's never received an official apology, and that senior figures should be held to account for probation failings. she's been speaking to our home affairs correspondentjune kelly. held captive in this car is the first of the womenjoseph mccann kidnapped and raped. in the fortnight that followed, he targeted another ten victims. the youngest, a boy of 11. the eldest, a woman of 71, who has now spoken to us. he said, "i've got a knife, i've killed somebody this morning." like all rape victims, she has anonymity. but in this first interview by any of mccann's victims, she describes how he abducted her as she got into her car. i shouted, "get out of my car!" and he punched me in the face. and he said, "i'm sorry, i'm sorry. it's because you shouted at me. i wouldn't want to do that. i've got a grandma." mccann was already wanted for attacks in watford, london and lancashire when he turned up at this supermarket in greater manchester, hunting for his next victim. and it was in the car park that he punched and abducted the grandmother. he forced her to drive onto the motorway. she was kept prisoner in her own carforfour and a half hours. mccann stopped the car and raped her. he also kidnapped a 13—year—old girl off the street, forced her into the car with them and sexually assaulted her. the older victim took her chance when mccann fell asleep. she pulled off into a service station. i was working out all the time while we were driving, how am i going to get out of this situation? and i knew i would not outrun him and i knew i had to get to where there would be a lot of people. so i drove right up to a group of people, just got out and ran towards them and said, "abducted" and whatever. the little girl got out as well. and he ran after me and wrenched the keys out of my hand and drove off in the car. joseph mccann was eventually found hours later, hiding up a tree. it emerged that at the time he was roaming around the country raping women and children, he should have been in prison. a man with a history of violence, he had been wrongly released. joseph mccann's case represents a catastrophic failure by the criminaljustice system. but this victim says there's one thing she hasn't received. have you ever had an apology? i've not had an apology. it would have been nice to have had something a bit more personal, i think. for somebody to come and see you? see me or a letter or something, you know? just something that recognises the victims, really, isuppose, yeah. hello! following mccann's mistaken release, two probation staff were sacked, one demoted. but all those who suffered at the hands of mccann have paid the price for a system in crisis, according to this victim. it's always the front line workers that get disciplined and that probation office was understaffed, had low morale and that was because of the changes that had been brought in by grayling. that's chris grayling ? chris grayling, who privatised part of the probation service. and i think people that made those decisions at high levels should be brought to account. in response, chris grayling, the formerjustice secretary, who was responsible for the part privatisation, stressed that mccann was under the supervision of the national probation service, which remained in the public sector and wasn't part of any privatisation programme. and he said the problems in this case were down to the operational failure of a small number of staff. and when it comes to the lack of an apology, the ministry ofjustice says it recently began making contact with the victims. i'm doing this interview because i know a lot of the other victims are not in any state to do it. fortunately, i am. i'm older. i've had a good life and i'm not letting it ruin my life. they're all young women and children. they've got that for the rest of their lives. 0ne ofjoseph mccann's victims ending that report by our home affairs correspondentjune kelly. more than 200 private patients of an orthopaedic surgeon have been contacted over concerns about operations he performed. spire healthcare said it had alerted 217 people whose shoulder operations were carried out by orthopaedic consultant habib rahman. 0ur health editor hugh pym is with me. what more can you tell us about this? this relates to habib rahman's work at spire parkway hospital in solihull. it's not clear how the concerns first came to light. a lawyer says she was contacted by a small number of patients alleging unnecessary and inappropriate shoulder surgery. spire suspended him, in the light of that his right to practice at the hospital was withdrawn last year. he is doing some work for the nhs with restrictions. spire contacted the 217 patients offering them an independent review. coincidentally it's the same hospital where ian paterson worked, he was convicted of wounding patients because of unnecessary breast surgery under review is going to be published on lessons learned after the ian paterson saga. lessons learned about the accountability, oversight and scrutiny of surgeons across all private hospitals. thank you. boris johnson has signed the withdrawal agreement sealing britain's departure from the european union. the prime minister called it a fantastic moment, and said it brought to an end "far too many years of argument and division." the uk is due to leave the european union at 11pm on the 31st january. britain's biggest trade union, unite, has backed rebecca long—bailey in the labour leadership contest. the shadow business secretary now needs just one more union or group to endorse her to reach the final stage of the race to replace jeremy corbyn. sir keir starmer and lisa nandy are already through. survivors and bereaved families from the grenfell tower fire say they may oppose the opening of the second phase of the public inquiry into the tragedy, which is due start next week. they dispute the appointment of an engineer, benita mehra, whom they claim has a conflict of interest, as a charity she ran received a donation from a us metals company which produced the cladding on the tower. the government says it's listened to their concerns and may respond over the weekend. the foreign secretary dominic raab has described america's refusal to extradite a woman charged with causing a british teenager's death as "a denial ofjustice". harry dunn died after his motorbike collided with a car being driven on the wrong side of the road by anne sacoolas in northamptonshire last august. duncan kennedy's report contains some flash photography. it was last august harry dunn died here and today, the scene was still framed by the caring tributes of those who loved him. anne sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day, is the american woman who's been charged with causing harry's death by dangerous driving. she had left this nearby american intelligence base moments before the collision, but two weeks later, left britain, claiming diplomatic immunity. now the united states has refused to send her back, something harry's mum says is difficult to accept. itjust gives us more determination to carry on. it's just another hurdle. we've come across lots of them since the 11th of october and it's just another one that we will get over, eventually. this is just a setback, not the end? absolutely. the decision to block the extradition of anne sacoolas was taken by mike pompeo, the american secretary of state, who insisted mrs sacoolas was covered by diplomatic immunity at the time of the accident. it's now nearly five months since harry died here and his parents had been expecting that it would be for the american courts to decide whether to extradite anne sacoolas. now that the american government has stepped in, they do see that as a setback, but say their fight will go on. tonight, the dunns' local mp, the business secretary andrea leadsom, said the family had the full support of borisjohnson in theircampaign. the prime minister is very much on the side of the family in their desire to see justice done for harry and all of us in government are working towards that end. harry's family say they have had to set aside their grieving to pursue this cause and insist they won't be silenced. duncan kennedy, bbc news. at least six people have died in a powerful earthquake in eastern turkey. the magnitude 6.8 tremor also damaged buildings, and was felt in neighbouring countries. turkish aid agencies have sent teams to the affected area. the prince of wales has called for "unity and tolerance" among different faiths on his first formal visit to the occupied palestinian territories. during a speech in bethlehem, prince charles said he would pray for "a just and lasting peace" in the middle east. he has also held talks with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas. 0ur royal correspondent jonny dymond has this report. a palestinian welcome for the prince. this is the first time he's set foot in the occupied palestinian territories. a diplomatically delicate day started at the only mosque in bethlehem's old city. "charles," he wrote, in english, then in arabic. after the mosque will come the church of the nativity, and it's the proximity of the two that brings charles here, part of his decades long effort to bring faiths together. inside the church, a chance to hear first—hand the struggles of christians in the middle east. we are doing our best to survive, to fight against every difficulty of this situation. more greetings, more meetings. the prince and the palestinian president talked for 45 minutes. and he spoke directly to the situation of the palestinians under israeli occupation. it is my dearest wish that the future will bring freedom, justice and equality to all palestinians, enabling you to thrive and to prosper. and on this first official visit to the region, a personal moment. a visit to his grandmother's grave. princess alice asked to be buried on the mount of 0lives, overlooking the holy city. and today, prince charles paid his respects. jonny dymond, bbc news, jerusalem. thousands of people have been marching in the streets of baghdad — demanding that all us troops be expelled from iraq. tensions have been heightened by the american military‘s assassination of the iranian general, qasem soleimani in the city earlier this month. one of iraq's most powerful and influential shia clerics — muqtada al—sadr — had called for a million people to join today's march, close to the us embassy. the marchers chanted anti—us slogans, and some carried effigies of president trump. around 5,000 us soldiers are in the country as part of the international coalition against the islamic state group. huge swarms of desert locusts are posing an alarming and unprecedented threat to crops in east africa, says the united nations. high rainfall at the end of last year created ideal conditions for the insects to spread after crossing the red sea from yemen — with ethiopia, kenya and somalia struggling with the impact. 0ur senior africa correspondent anne soy reports from kenya. from a distance, it looks like northern kenya is burning, but these are swarms of desert locusts, spreading like wildfire across the horn of africa. just one swarm can have more than 200 million insects. these are tiny creatures flying above me. they look harmless, but if you consider that hundreds of millions of them are flying at the same time, the amount of destruction they can cause is unimaginable. ali bila waqo tells me this is the second invasion of locusts he's witnessed in about 60 years. this time, he's lost nearly all his maize and bean crops. translation: it's painful. we had no rain for several years. when it did finally rain last year, we were so happy, but then these insects have come and destroyed our crop. we've incurred huge losses. he says he brought dozens of people here to help ward off the invasion. elsewhere, gunshots, tear gas and whistles. people and governments across the region are desperate to save plants from being devoured. which way are they moving in? they're moving this way. yeah? conservation groups are helping track the movement of the swarms. the kenyan and ethiopian governments are using aerial spraying to try and kill the insects, but with little success. a region devastated by years of drought seemed to have recovered when it received unusually heavy rains, but that has now brought this misery, leaving communities on the edge. anne soy, bbc news, moyale. the former deputy first minister of northern ireland, seamus mallon, has died at the age of 83. he was one of the most influential figures in the peace process — and the first person to be deputy first minister in the power—sharing devolved government set up after the good friday agreement. ben stokes says he "sincerely apologises" after an argument with a spectator was filmed and aired during england's test match in south africa today. stokes admits he was unprofessional. but england say repeated abuse was aimed at their team — and they've asked for security to be improved at the ground injohannesburg. joe wilson reports on an eventful first day of the fourth test match. things seemed serene for england injohannesburg — for a while. they got past 100, in fact, without losing a wicket. then the collapse. when batsmen fall like this, the situation so often calls for ben stokes. however, on this occasion he was out for just two. gone. naturally he would be disappointed, but after these pictures the television coverage next showed him aggressively addressing someone in the crowd. we've bleeped out the worst of the language. come and say it to me outside the ground, you bleep four-eyed bleep. now, that footage inevitably sped through social media, as the sports personality of the year sat on the dressing room balcony. stokes knows how attention follows him. he also knows the behaviour expected of him. well, england closed the day 192—4. joe root and ollie pope survived. there's nowhere to hide in a test match and the cameras capture every emotion, as ben stokes is aware, and you can see him with the fans at the close of play here — different interaction, all part of the same man. joe wilson, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. bye— bye. a very good evening to you. i'm sonja jessup. for the first time, live facial recognition cameras could be coming to a street near you. but will they help keep us safe from crime, or are they a threat to our privacy? 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after testing positive for coronavirus. the government launches a consultation on decriminalising the non—payment of the tv licence fee. more than a0 people are arrested as police crackdown on courier fraud, with thousands of victims in the last two years. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. i'm joanna gosling. in dramatic scenes in the us congress overnight, president trump has set out his case for another four years in office, and hailed what he called "the great american comeback". republicans chanted in support at the annual state of the union address. but the democrat speaker nancy pelosi was seen ripping up her copy of the speech. the economy was at the core of the president's speech. he cited deregulation, tax cuts and new trade agreements as his recipe for prosperity. he also highlighted his success on immigration, saying that the wall along the south border continued to be built. and he outlined how his policies had helped minority groups. it was night of a tension and drama, nancy pelosi ripping up her speech, president trump refusing to shake her hand — and a number of democrats either walking out or not showing up at all. from washington, our correspondent ben wright reports. even before president trump spoke, this felt more like a republican party rally than a solemn state of the union address. "four more years," chanted republican lawmakers, while democrats looked angry and glum. in a striking snub of the most senior democrat in the chamber, president trump refused to shake nancy pelosi's hand, someone who pushed hard for his impeachment. donald trump then fired out lines that will form the crux of his re—election campaign. jobs are booming. incomes are soaring. poverty is plummeting. crime is falling. confidence is surging. and our country is thriving and highly respected again. applause. the speech was bombastic, boastful, and partisan. my fellow americans, the best is yet to come. thank you. and then, at the end — this. nancy pelosi ripping up the president's speech in disgust. washington has rarely looked so bitter. because it was a manifesto of mistruths. and what do you think about him not shaking your hand? we always extend the hand of friendship. if he takes it, that's up to him. and the partisan divide will only deepen later on today when, as everybody expects, the republican—led senate clears president trump of abusing his power and obstructing congress. in this election year, the next nine months will be fiercely fought and this may not be president trump's last state of the union address. ben wright, bbc news, washington. meanwhile, democrats are finally getting a clearer understanding of who won the first caucus of the primary season that will decide who runs against president trump in november. the first stage, the iowa caucuses, has been a fiasco with results delayed more than 2a hours. with about 71% of the vote in iowa declared, the youngest candidate, 38—year—old pete buttegieg, is leading, closely followed by left—winger bernie sanders. mr buttigieg is the first self—identified gay candidate to try and win the presidency. our correspondent nick bryant has been in iowa and has this analysis of the results. these returns are very good news, of course, for pete buttigieg, the former mayor of south bend, indiana, a man who is hoping to become the first openly gay occupant of the white house. the youngest candidate in the field. but a candidate with a very strong cv. a graduate of harvard, a graduate of oxford. a man who was in the us military as well. it has sometimes felt like he has been preparing for this moment all of his life. the other leader in the polls right now is bernie sanders, the left—wing candidate in the field. the 78—year—old. a man who only in october had a heart attack. he has appeal for the young. he offers them free college tuition, to legalise marijuana, free health care for everyone. that is a very compelling message, especially for young people. the person who has had a very disappointing iowa caucus, clearly, whatever the rest of the results is, because they won't significantly improve his standing, isjoe biden, the former vice president for 8 years, of course, the deputy to barack obama. the moderate in this race. the man who says he is the man capable of beating donald trump in november. he has always claimed this electability is linked to his likeability. but he has performed very poorly. and for those who have seen joe biden here delivering his speech in a very halting way, he often doesn't finish sentences, he often doesn't finishes thoughts, they will think whether he will have the capability to really mount a serious and viable long—term challenge. he will move on to states where he stands a better chance in terms of the demographics. he is popular among african—americans, such a key constituency in the democratic party. he knows he will be better in states like south carolina. but a lot of veteran and seasoned commentators looking atjoe biden here in iowa, as the iowans will themselves, will be wondering, hasjoe biden done his dash? well a little earlier — i spoke to our washington correspondent ben wright, who gave us the latest on the reaction to president trump's state of the union speech. it is a remarkable day, a week of crunched political drama, you are right, joanna. the state of the union speech was pretty extraordinary. we are used to talking about the polarisation of american politics, but this was completely toxic. and it was surreal, in many ways, that donald trump was there in the same chamber, the house of representatives, that had impeached him only seven or eight weeks ago. he didn't actually mention impeachment at all. instead, this was an absolutely brazen re—election pitch from donald trump, who knows that in a few hours, here, the senators on capitol hill will acquit him, they will throw out the charges, the house have sent over of abusing his power and obstructing congress. the republican—led senate will give him the all clear. and then he hopes to bounce on into full throttle real relection campaign mode. and you heard all of the themes he is going to be relying on over the next nine months. spelt out today. at the centre of it, the economy. america does have a pretty buoyant economy, the unemployment rate is at a 50 year low. he talked about a blue—collar boom. a pitch directly to his base. he thinks the economy will get him a second time in the white house. and how much of an advantage does the incumbent have particularly when you see that he has this platform to talk about the record of his last four years and what is happening in iowa with the democratic campaign, obviously, coming a bit unstuck at that point and it will be some time before we know who will be taking on president trump? yes, there is clearly some chaos within the democratic party, it is not at all clear which way they're going to go. whether they will go for a candidate on the left — a bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, buttigieg, or a biden. even a bloomberg. there is so much uncertainty on the democratic wing of this and i think that is a degree of chaos and uncertainty that president trump will exploit. the view is that for an incumbent president fighting an election with an economy in the state it is in the moment, which is very good, and americans feeling optimistic about the economy, it is a pretty hard election to lose in normal circumstances. but nothing in american politics is very normal at the moment. presidents trump's approval rating has never got more than 50%, it is about 48 at the moment. he hasn't really increased his base of support very much at all. to guarantee victory, he needs to find new supporters. he attempted to with some of the themes he was talking about here. he talked about african—americans and help he said he has given to hispanic workers in the economy. i think it is going to be more than that to broaden his base. but i think he does feel that going into this election year he is in a relatively strong position and he certainly looked confident today. the state of the union will be remembered for nancy pelosi tearing up the speech and donald trump refusing to shake her hand. absolutely symbolising the polarisation running through american politics. and don't forget you can join christian fraser and katty kay for a bbc news special this evening live from capitol hill in washington as the impeachment trial of us president donald trump concludes with a final vote in the senate. that's live on the bbc news channel from 8:30pm this evening. how should the bbc be funded? at the moment, tv services are covered by the licence fee and if you don't pay, you could be fined or even sent to prison. but this morning, the government is looking at whether that should change. our assistant political editor norman smith is in central london where the culture secretary has been speaking in the past hour. what was said, norman?” what was said, norman? i think nicky morgan's basic message was for the bbc was change or die. the bbc has to rethink in this new broadcasting environment, she thinks, with massive digital streaming services like netflix and amazon and part of that, she believes, is decriminalising the licence fee. she thinks it cannot be sustainable or a cce pta ble thinks it cannot be sustainable or acceptable to prosecute people for not having a licence fee, she think it is unfairand not having a licence fee, she think it is unfair and takes up to much court time. there is no book support for it. so the bbc has got to think of other ways, alternative mechanisms. that includes an alternative to the licence fee itself, which he made clear. —— she made clear. but even with this help from the government, there remain legitimate concerns that the criminal sanction for tv licence fee evasion is unfair and disproportionate. the licence fee will remain in place until 2027, however, we must all be open—minded about the future of the licence fee beyond this point. they we re licence fee beyond this point. they were a flurry of questions given the tension between downing street and the bbc over whether the real purpose here was to inflict a punishment beating on the bbc for its alleged misdemeanours, as the government sees it, during the brexit referendum and the general election. lady morgan vehemently denied that political payback was what was going on here. she insisted that she was trying to ensure the bbc was placed to cope with a changing media environment. that said, the bbc say if you deacon the licence fee, that will cost an extra £200 million extra as avoidance increases. in other words, from the bbc‘s point of view, far from strengthening the position amongst these giants, it weakens the bbc. decriminalisation obviously doesn't mean the licence fee immediately becomes an optional thing for people to decide. there would still be punishment if someone didn't pay. well, that is a very good question. it isn't entirely clear in the sense that if you decriminalise it, what is going to be the sanction that you impose upon people who choose not to pay it? one option, and the easy option, which is open to netflix, amazon etc, is to turn off their servers. the bbc cannot do that. nicky morgan was talking about the bbc taking civil action and pursuing people through the courts and the bbc is not keen on doing that at all. in just bbc is not keen on doing that at all. injust a bbc is not keen on doing that at all. in just a few moments i will be talking to the national chair of the magistrates association for the respective from magistrates‘ court on how many cases involving licence fee going through magistrates courts. right now we say goodbye to viewers on bbc two. more than a0 people have been arrested during a crackdown on courier fraud. it‘s where people are tricked into withdrawing large sums of money to then hand it over to someone posing as a courier or police officer. city of london police say there have been 3000 victims over the last two years, many of them elderly people. our home affairs correspondent, danny shaw reports. early morning in central london, police are out in force for a raid on a flat in king‘s cross. shouting. it‘s part of an operation targeting criminal gangs involved in courierfraud. a sniffer dog is brought in to find items that may be hidden like mobile phones, sim cards, and memory sticks. carol norton was a victim of courierfraud. she was tricked into handing over £4,000 in cash after being phoned by a man who said he was a detective and needed her help on an undercover investigation. i believed every word he said. he really sounded... he was concerned about me. he did say he was concerned about my husband and he just seemed a genuine police officer. when you learned that it was a scam, how did you feel? what was your reaction? i just cried, it was awful. i really felt upset because i‘d let my husband down. police believe courier fraud is a growing problem across england and wales. in the past two years, there‘ve been over 3,100 victims. £12 million has been stolen, with some people losing hundreds of thousands in pensions and savings. in police raids since november, 44 people have been arrested, including two men at the flat in london. they‘ve since been released while investigations continue. 14 others have been charged as police continue to tackle what they say is a despicable crime. danny shaw, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news... president trump makes his state of the union speech and hails ‘the great american comeback‘, just hours before he‘s expected to be acquitted in his impeachment trial. the democrat house speaker, nancy pelosi, clashes with president trump — she‘s seen ripping up her copy of his speech. in japan, ten passengers are taken off a quarantined cruise ship after testing positive for coronavirus. and positive for coronavirus. in sport, liverpool‘s young ever and in sport, liverpool‘s youngest ever side not shrewsbury out of the fa cup. despite heavy criticism, the video assistant referee is going nowhere according to the premier league chief executive. richard masters has told the bbc that improvements are needed, though. and england skipper eoin morgan said they were outplayed in every department as the world champions were beaten by seven wickets by south africa in the first one—dayer in cape town. i‘ll have a full round up after half past. british citizens are once again being urged to leave wuhan, the chinese city at the centre of the new coronavirus outbreak. the foreign secretary says a second and final flight is being chartered to help those wishing to leave. 94 uk nationals and family members have already been evacuated. the death toll has risen to 490 with over 20,000 people infected. in japan, 10 people on a cruise ship have contracted the virus. hong kong have announced that all visitors from mainland china will be quarantined for 14 days. let‘s take a closer look at the decision to instruct britons to leave china due to the spread of the virus. the foreign office estimates there are just under 30,000 britons living in china, with 600,000 visiting each year. and in nearby hong kong, 35,000 britons currently live there — with 570,000 brits visiting each year. the hong chief executive carrie lam has confirmed this morning. there are 21 confirmed cases of coronavirus. well this morning health secretary matt hancock has said the government is doing all it can to prevent the spread of virus in the uk. the principle we are taking is that we want to take no chances with this virus. we want to take a science—led approach. the approach we have been taking has been very much driven by the advice of the chief medical officer. and this is a very serious virus and having a very serious impact in china. as you say, there are two cases here in the uk. but we do expect more and so we are taking no chances. wuhan is the epicentre of this epidemic. and for those who we have brought back from wuhan, we‘re putting them into quarantine. there are almost 100 people in arrowe park on the wirral and i want to thank the staff there who have done an amazing job in supporting those. but the current likelihood of getting a case of coronavirus in wuhan itself is much, much higher than in the rest of china. so, because of that difference in risk, we think it is appropriate that if you are brought back by the government, because there because there are no flights out of wuhan, then you need to go into quarantine. but we recommend that people come back from the rest of china and that they don‘t go to china unless it is absolutely essential, because... and then they should self isolate, if they have symptoms, and make sure that, as i say, anybody with a concern should dial 111. let‘s get more on that cruise ship injapan where ten passengers have tested positive for the virus. british tourist david abel remains on—board the ship where a strict quarantine is being enforced. the last 2a hours has changed quite considerably. having enjoyed a wonderful cruise, when we arrived in okinawa four orfive days ago, we had to go through a quarantine procedure and since then, it has been really downhill with regard to what is happening to passengers on the ship. 6:30am this morning japanese time, so nine hours ago, we were informed by the captain that every passenger had to remain in their cabin — i would imagine in the next five days, every passenger is going to be tested again to see whether anyone is proving positive to the virus. until then, we are all confined to our cabins. we are one of the fortunate folk, or one of the many fortunate folk, that we have a cabin with a balcony, so we can open the door, get fresh air, enjoy the view. the people that i am feeling really bad about are the passengers who have inside cabins. they have got no natural light, no windows to look out of, and all they‘re got is the air conditioning. for them, it must be hell on earth. i think there is a wee bit of anxiety, because what i don‘t want to hear is that another passenger has come down with it, certainly not me or my wife. so there is the anxiety over that, the ten passages that got off that were infected, have they pass anything onto any people on board? we just don‘t know yet. that is why i think there will be more testing. so there is anxiety, i think there will be quite a bit of boredom coming up. if you were to talk to me in 14 days‘ time, you would perhaps not see the same smile as today. more on the news that the culture secretary, nicky morgan, has said the bbc needs to move with the times or it could become obsolete. lady morgan has given a speech on the future of broadcasting in which she launched a public consultation on whether failing to pay the tv licence fee should continue to be a criminal offence. she said the increasing availability of channels and platforms meant the current system of funding the bbc needed to be looked at. many cases go through the magistrates‘ court. john bache is the national chair of the magistrate‘s association and joins me now. how many cases how many cases go how many cases go through the magistrates‘ court? how many cases go through the magistrates' court? something like 130,000 a year. it is something like that. quite a significant number. but they are dealt with very quickly by what is called a single justice procedure. they are only seen by one magistrate, not three. and although there are a lot of cases, approximate 9% of the total workload of the magistrates‘ court is tv licences, the actual time spent is fights more than that. probably less than 1%, with magistrates taking a bedtime with tv licences. what is the outcome in most of those cases? about 99% of dealt with by way of a fine. the fine is a maximum of £1000, but most well below that. it depends on certain factors, including the income of the defendant, whether he or she has been without a licence for a significant length or time, and those are the main factor that taken into account when deciding the length of the fine. we have sentencing guidelines, which guide us as sentencing guidelines, which guide us as to the appropriate level of the fine. they can be sent to prison for this, how often does that happen? i think, i have for this, how often does that happen? ithink, i have never for this, how often does that happen? i think, i have never known anybody to be sent to prison for nonpayment of a tv licence. what does happen is that occasionally, people accumulate fines for various reasons, not only tv licences, and the ultimate deterrent is to send them to custody. that is very rare for any fines and particularly for nonpayment of tv licence. that would be disproportionate, not having a tv licence really shouldn‘t involve a custodial sentence. in itself, licence really shouldn‘t involve a custodialsentence. in itself, it licence really shouldn‘t involve a custodial sentence. in itself, it is not custodial. you cannot send them to custody. but if they were to be sent to custody, it would be because of nonpayment of fines rather than from the tv licence. the you have a view on whether it should be a custodial offence? it is not up to me to have a view. magistrates administer the law and parliament decides the law. it wouldn‘t be right for me to have a view on that. not having a tv licence is a non—imprisonable offence. the usual sentence is a fine. nonpayment of a fine, ultimately, can result in a custodial sentence. but as i said before, it is probably notjust due to just two nonpayment. before, it is probably notjust due tojust two nonpayment. they probably have fines for other reasons. we rarely send people to custody for nonpayment of fines. it is extremely rare. you said in terms of the amount of time it takes in magistrates‘ court it is around about 1% of total time, but that is because of the way these cases are candle. the actual workload is about 10% of the total workload with these 130,000 cases each year. what a difference would it make to magistrates courts functioning if that‘s workload were to be taken away? it would make a minimal difference. it is less than 1% of the time spent. it would be an insignificant difference. we would hardly notice it. in terms of imposing fines when somebody... before a magistrate... they have not paid their licence because they can‘t afford to pay it when a magistrate hands—on and fine over something like that, does it feel at the right thing to do? you have no option. there has to be some kind of sanction and it is a totally disproportionate thing to send them into custody or give them a community sentence. you are left with the fine. the problem we have there is that if they had the money, they wouldn‘t pay the tv licence or whatever it is in the first place. what you usually do is, although the fine is payable in theory, what you actually do is ask them what they cannot and settle on a payment which must be made to the court, perhaps £5 or £10 a week or deducted from benefits if they are on that. if we go out of our way to make sure that the defendants campaign, but also to make sure the state gets the money it is due. national chair of the magistrates association, thank you. the former prime minister, david cameron, has rejected an offer to lead preparations for the international climate change conference in glasgow in november. the decisions follows the sack of claire o‘neill, an ex—minister, who was told by downing street that she couldn‘t chair the glasgow meeting because she was no longer a minister. but sources close to mrs o‘neill say they think she was fired for criticising government failings. mr cameron has been speaking this morning about why he turned down the job. it was an honour to be asked to do thatjob and i was very grateful to be asked. but i think it is best in these situations if you have a government minister doing thejob. you then have one line of command rather than two people doing the same thing. i thought that was best but it was an honour to be asked. i‘ve also got a lot of things i‘ve already agreed to do this year, not least the work i do for alzheimer‘s research uk, so i thought it was important that i carry on with that work. but i wish the government well and i wish the climate change conference well because it‘s absolutely vital. and i‘m sure there will be a government minister or someone who will be able to do the job and do it very well. the government has my backing as they go forward. the metroplitan police has confirmed that an officer has been taken off operational duties and is being investigated after it emerged that a gun was left in an airplane‘s toilet by a bodyguard for the former prime minister david cameron. our correspondent nicola morrison is with me now. it wasn‘t just a it wasn‘tjust a gun, it was a fully loaded gun and also, david cameron‘s passport and the passport of the production officer. yes, find by the passenger. we don‘t know if that has served as some kind of reassurance, the fact there was a passport or a former prime minister, did that reassure them in thinking it wasn‘t a terror attack? still quite a harrowing experience and quite an embarrassing situation for the metropolitan police as well. people might be surprised that a loaded gun is allowed on a plane. what are the rules ? is allowed on a plane. what are the rules? well, we don't know specifically what the airline rules are around close operatives. we know that essentially no loaded guns are allowed on airlines. but we don‘t know specifically around close detection for public figures. although i am sure they will now be concerns around is that practical with acid is on board miss safe is it when the security is that easy to be breached? now it‘s time for a look at the weather. it is fairly quiet out there weather—wise today. some of us have started off with sunshine but there has been fog around as well. that is stubborn to go away. the fog may just lift up into low cloud and it will stay quite cloudy where we have had fog this morning. sunny spells across eastern scotland, to the east of northern ireland and these western areas will have the cloud and showers moving in. maximum temperature is around seven to nine celsius, but chillier where there is cloud and fog. through this evening we keep light wins and that means there will be some fog reforming across south and southern areas. they will be frost around in the morning as well. further north—west they will not be as cold temperatures. friday will have dry weather again and sunny spells and fog will lift up into low cloud. stay tuned for the weekend because storm hero is set to —— storm hero is set to bring some damage over the weekend. hello, this is bbc newsroom live. the headlines: president trump makes his state of the union speech and hails ‘the great american comeback‘ just hours before he‘s expected to be acquitted in his impeachment trial. jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging and our country is thriving and highly respected again. the democrat house speaker, nancy pelosi, clashes with president trump. she‘s seen ripping up her copy of his speech behind him. injapan, ten passengers are taken off a quarantined cruise ship after testing positive for coronavirus in the port of yokohama. according to a local broadcaster, all ten cases are in those over the age of 50. the government launches a consultation on decriminalising the non—payment of the tv licence fee. more than a0 people are arrested as police crackdown on courierfraud, with thousands of vicitms in the last two years. sport now, and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. good morning. he might not have been in the dugout but liverpool managerjurgen klopp was still sending messages of encouragement and congratulations to their young players as they beat shrewsbury1—nil in their fa cup fourth round replay. neil critchley took charge of their youngest ever side, with ro—shaun williams‘ own goal deciding the match. the manager and first team skipped the game due to the winter break, although critchley said klopp was still being influential. some words of advice and some support, which is fantastic. again, a little bit at half—time and at the end as well. i think he is delighted with the performance and the result. now, that was a little bit of a message to the players before the game that chelsea away could be an opportunity for one or two of you to play any game like that. elsewhere, wayne rooney will face his old side manchester united in round five. he scored a penalty as derby beat northampton 11—2 in their replay. newcastle scraped through against league one oxford united. 3—2, oxford levelled the match to take it to extra time before allan saint maximin fired newcastle into the fifth round for the first time since 2006. also through are birmingham and reading. former tottenham playmaker christian eriksen feels that he was blamed for their slump in recent months and paid the price for being honest about his desire to leave the club. he made no secret of his desire to move away from tottenham and, after being linked with real madrid and manchester united, completed a £16 million move to inter milan at the end of the january transfer window. if you have a short contract, you will be the black sheep, and of course i did the interview. i was very honest. i felt that i had to be honest. i did not want to hide stuff like a lot of players do, and they work in their own way, everybody is different. but i was honest, i wanted to try something new and i said that out loud. i did get the blame for a lot of stuff, for being the bad vibe. i didn't read all of the bad vibe. i didn't read all of the bad vibe. i didn't read all of the bad stuff, i did read something that the bad person in the changing room and ever since he said he wanted to leave he is no good. yesterday, a yougov survey found the majority of fans aren‘t enjoying var, but don‘t want to scrap it. well, the man in charge of the premier league says it is here to stay. richard masters was appointed as the new chief executive on a permanent basis in december and told our sports editor dan roan that they‘ll be working hard to improve the video assistants. obviously there are issues. there are issues with consistency of decision—making, delay, which people don‘t like. decision—making, delay, which people don't like. should you scrap the whole system, do away with it and go back to the old system? no, i don't think that is an option. what we have to do is try to make ve are better. we have discussed that with clu bs, better. we have discussed that with clubs, ptm or under a certain things that we have already done. for example, we have tried to improve the munication in stadium by using different methodologies to munich a kid with fans about what is going on under going to have a debate with clu bs under going to have a debate with clubs in april about what sort of video assisted referee they would like season. mo farah has withdrawn from next month‘s london half marathon with an achilles injury. he‘s won the race for the last two years but after sustaining a minor injury in training, he‘s opted to continue his preparations for the summer in africa. he said he hoped to be back in the race next year. super league clubs are meeting this morning to discuss the controversial signing of israel folau by catalans dragons. several clubs have backed a letter from the hull kr owner to the dragons, warning them of potential legal action if they suffer financially as a result of the signing. the former union star was sacked by rugby australia for his homophobic comments. after losing their first one day international since becoming world champions, england captain eoin morgan conceded they were way off the mark in their seven—wicket defeat to south africa. morgan was one of a number of batsmen who struggled as england posted 258 in their innings. morgan‘s opposite number quinton de kock led by example for the home side in cape town. he made 107 as south africa reached their target with more than two overs to spare. their second of three games is in durban on friday. that‘s all the sport for now. more throughout the afternoon. the leaders of the three largest parties in ireland have clashed in a tv debate before this weekend‘s general election. the current prime minister, leo varadkar, is behind in the polls in spite of having had a major profile in the brexit negotiations. our ireland correspondent, chris page, reports. ireland is a nation on the edge of europe, and the frontline of brexit. it is the only country which has a land border with the uk. after a financial crisis a decade ago, it has recovered strongly, and now has the fastest growing economy in the eu. but opposition parties are highlighting issues like housing issues, hospital overcrowding, and the cost of living. in the last major tv debate before the election, the prime minister emphasised his role in the brexit talks, and claimed a change of government would be a risk. it‘s only half—time. brexit isn‘t done yet. the next big step is to negotiate a trade deal between the uk and the eu. that‘s absolutely essential for the 200,000 people who work in export industries in ireland, our rural economy, our agri—food sector, and our fishermen. but the leader of the main opposition party said he was up to the task, because all parties had the same approach to brexit. the idea that you can't change a government because of brexit, i think, makes absolutely no sense. governments change all of the time in europe, and there's always many key issues facing the european union and member states. both mr martin and mr varadkar‘s parties are in the political centre ground. they have dominated irish politics for many decades. but they are being challenged by a left—wing party, sinn fein, which is performing strongly in opinion polls. the theme of this election that has emerged is a thirst for change. i am very clear what that change means. everywhere that i have gone, people have said to me that they recognise that fine gael and fianna fail are essentially identical parties, have had it all their way now for almost a century. the other leaders said they would not go into a coalition with sinn fein, mainly because the party had links to paramilitary violence during the conflict in northern ireland. sinn fein emphasises its role in the peace process. no group is expected to win an overall majority of seats in the irish parliament. complex negotiations to form a government are set to follow the general election, which will be held on saturday. more than 340,000 primary school children are in ‘literary poverty‘, research shows. that‘s a term used by the charity booktrust for children who are read to for less than 15 minutes a week. the study conducted by the charity reveals that1 in 7 parents say they never read to their children before bed. the research also shows that around just1 in 3 children are reading for more than one hour a week. former children‘s laureate anne fine described reading as "the bedrock of education in all subjects", encouraging parents to share books with their children. however, many parents and carers do still consider reading with their child to be important, with nine in ten valuing their child reading for pleasure. earlier i spoke to the director of the book trust gemma malley. the benefits of shared reading and then reading for enjoyment are so huge to children. it is notjust educational attainment, although it is important for that. it is also confidence, communication skills, empathy, resilience, all the things that as they grow up will become more and more important and if we do not get that reading habit in when they are young, it will not happen when they are older. is that right? it is not something that can be picked up at any point? we know that children that are redwell are much more likely to become readers, and if they read when they are young they are more likely to when they grow up. if you see yourself as a reader, if books are the thing you turn to and they become the fun thing at the end of the day, you are much more likely to have that same relationship with books as you grow older. the worry is that more and more families, as children go to school, the lovely, cuddly bedtime story is being replaced by phonics homework. which is very important. learning to read is really critical but, if we only do that, reading goes from being something we enjoy to something we have to do, which is very hard. then it is very easy to pushit very hard. then it is very easy to push it away and go for, you know, the screen —based activities which area the screen —based activities which are a lot easier. so, what is your advice on somebodyjuggling, a household juggling work, homework, all of the different out devotees that need to happen, to set aside that need to happen, to set aside that time for it being pleasurable? when something becomes a chore in homework, it is quite hard to see it necessarily is something to do for pleasure as well. of course. our advice is always try to find that ten minutes. bedtime is a really great time, partly because reading is also very soporific. if you have young children and want them to get to sleep, reading is a good way of doing that, which is the extra incentive. the ten minutes a day can be any time. we are really big on the bedtime story. we are launching a massive event in skill where we wa nt a massive event in skill where we want children to wear their pyjamas, come to skill and celebrate the bedtime story. we hope that if children are demanding the bedtime story, that will make it easier for pa rents, story, that will make it easier for parents, who get so many demands for screen time orjust the rest of this tv programme. if the children are asking for a bedtime story, it will probably incentivise us to give one. at what age should you be reading to your children until? there is really no stop age, but we find that as children get older, that is often when children stop reading. children might develop the reading ability but will not always have the understanding of what they are reading. sometimes, they will be reading. sometimes, they will be reading books and don‘t quite understand what is going on and it is so great for parents to dip in and out. when they‘re little it might be reading to them every day, as they get older, you mightjust sit and read a chapter of their book with them or have them read it to you so that you can talk about the themes and it becomes a really shared activity. in a moment, we‘ll have all the business news. but first, the headlines on bbc news. president trump makes his state of the union speech and hails ‘the great american comeback‘ just hours before he‘s expected to be acquitted in his impeachment trial. the democrat house speaker, nancy pelosi, clashes with president trump. she‘s seen ripping up her copy of his speech behind him. in japan, ten passengers are taken off a quarantined cruise ship after testing positive for coronavirus. now, the business news. hong kong‘s flagship airline cathay pacific has asked staff to take three weeks of unpaid leave to help it cope with the impact of the coronavirus. the airline intends to cut services by about 30% over the next two months, including a 90% reduction in flights to mainland china. passenger numbers are already down following months of anti—government protests in hong kong. and, sticking with airlines, claims made by ryanair about its carbon emissions have been banned by the uk‘s advertising watchdog. europe‘s biggest airline by passenger numbers had billed itself as the region‘s "lowest emissions airline" and a "low co2 emissions airline". but it‘s been ruled that ryanair‘s claims could not be backed up. sign—ups for disney‘s new streaming service have exceeded expectations with about 28.6 million people signing up for disney plus since it started in november. the on—demand video service, which costs $6.99 per month, is an attempt to challenge industry leader netflix. ryanair is not the only company getting rapped on the knuckles by the advertising standards authority today. an advert for fashion retailer pretty little thing which featured women wearing exposing lingerie has been banned for being "offensive". according to the asa, the youtube ad presented the firm‘s products in an "overly—sexualised way" and depicted women as sex objects. pretty little thing said it "in no way meant to cause any offence" but the retailer is just one of several online fast fashion companies to have been called out for their racy marketing. joanne yulanjong is the founder of yulan creative, a fashion brand consulting agency. many thanks for joining many thanks forjoining me on the programme. do you think that the asa was right to ban this advert?|j was right to ban this advert?” think it is very unregulated territory, one of many cases that i am sure will come up in the future. i think it was right because it is actually borderline offensive, and whilst fashion companies are using different media, like video for instance, and it is broadcasting to such a broad audience, i mean, there is2 such a broad audience, i mean, there is 2 billion youtube users per month. this is a very wide message on social media and i think there needs to be regulations. interestingly mention that because past fashion brands, of which pretty little thing is one, they are much more likely, research suggests, to use celebrities, influencers, these new sorts of media, well, sort of knew, to advertise their wares, as opposed to a traditional high street retailer. is there is an area, i know you have written about this, that requires greater regulation or is this simply that the regulation that currently exists is out of date? it is completely out of date. i would say that there is a real difference in the fashion industry to influencers and fast fashion businesses as to the wider fashion business. when it comes to influencer businesses and past fashion, they use sexualisation in a fast and loose, and at times it really does cross the lines and can be offensive. really, they are outdated. this whole movement, the # media movement, and the empowerment of women, and their impairment of sexuality is refreshing and wonderful to see but just sexuality is refreshing and wonderful to see butjust as sustainability is used in companies to greenwashing through messaging, so as the words empowerment of women and their sexuality is overused and misused in this sense. but eli between empowerment and the objectification of women, it is a subjective one, is it not? —— the line between. it differs according to what all you are, what background you are from. it begs the question as to whether, as you say, the rules are simply outdated when it comes to these newer sorts of fashion brands and the audiences that they are trying to target. yes, i think it really is outdated in the sense that, when you look at the feet of fashion influencers and musicians, they are highly sexualised it works, drives traffic and it pulls leavers in terms of advertising and marketing clicks, which is all that is affected now. it is the online interaction and engagement under that does drive engagement and sales. if you look at the fact that we are now, as i have written in my book, communicating with four different generations online and they all have different opinions and different expectations, as i said, this is going to be one of many complaints of a similar problem, that we are communicating across so many different mediums with so many different generations. there is bound to be grey areas across the business. as you said earlier, regulation clearly needs to catch—up because pretty little thing is by no means alone in getting wrapped on the knuckles by the asa. a previous advert by pretty little thing was also banned in 2017. rival, misguided, as did boo—hoo, which owns pretty little thing. in their defence, the company does time said, asi defence, the company does time said, as i said earlier, they by no means meant to cause offence and instead what they were trying to do was celebrate all women and body types. we are due think they went wrong? where do you think other retailers can learn to keep the right side of the law? i think with the whole fashion business looking at the metoo and what clothing means, and how to exploit sexuality and sensuality including, there is that fine line between what is sexual and what isn‘t. the influencers use that to their advantage very well, but when you look at a musician who is perhaps doing a very kind of overt music video, that is creative direction, expressing their brand personality, their personal brand personality. but when you transpose that imagery into fashion, without any kind of other layer of creative thought, it can just become tacky and overt and offensive. such an interesting area of discussion. in other business stories, we‘ve been following... over 11,000 euros cars were registered in january over 11,000 euros cars were registered injanuary during the same month in 2019. confusion over diesel and cleaner zones is being, along with consumer confidence. alternatively fuelled vehicles reached a record market share of nearly 12% in january. reached a record market share of nearly 12% injanuary. also, the co—founder of rockstar games is leaving the firm that he started with his brother back in 1998 for sub he was aiming creative force between two behind two of the firm‘s biggest series, grand theft auto and red dead. it comes after an extended rake, according to their parent company. and lastly, let‘s flag up an agreement to share network equipment to try to improve on coverage a cross equipment to try to improve on coverage across the uk‘s rural areas. it has hit a stumbling block over costs. rival operators are unhappy at the price that bt owned ee as asking them to pay insurance equipment. bbc has learned that a key meeting is due to take place on wednesday to try to out some details. london‘s blue chips ftse 100 index staying strong in mid—morning — although some stocks were hit by those disappointing new car sales figures. but sentiment is still being bouyed by a morning caffeine shot provided by data on the uk‘s crucial service sector showing a post—election boost. that‘s all the business news. let‘s return to the story that police in britain have confirmed that an officer has been taken off operational duties and is being investigated after reports that a gun was left in an airplane‘s toilet by a bodyguard for the former prime minister, david cameron. the pistol — reportedly loaded — was found by a passenger just before take—off, along with mr cameron‘s passport. we have just had a statement through from british airways saying, we follow caa rules, civil aviation authority, which allow uk police to carry firearms on and specific controlled circumstances. our crew dealt with the issue quickly before departure and the flight continued as normal. it seems some of those on board were not happy about their being a loaded gun and it was taken off the flight. let‘s speak now to former head of royal protection, dai davies. thank you forjoining us. if billy loaded gun, the passport of the person carrying it, the protection officer, and the passport of the person they are protecting. —— a fully loaded gun to what was your reaction when you find those heard these things were found in a toilet question mark obviously i was concerned about the lack of discipline of the fact that this officer, per some reason, forgot. your bisley was doing his business at one point and for some reason to his gun away from whatever he was doing andi his gun away from whatever he was doing and i am just astonished that ina very doing and i am just astonished that in a very small confined such as a toilet on an aeroplane that this could have happened. clearly, it did. it is concerning and no doubt my colleagues, orformer did. it is concerning and no doubt my colleagues, or former colleagues, in the met will be investigating it. it is fairto in the met will be investigating it. it is fair to say. we are all human but, unfortunately, being a police officer and be inhuman to not always go together when you‘re carrying a gun. —— and being human. clearly this is unacceptable. it has happened at least once or twice in the past. it obviously is embarrassing, particularly after his collea g u es embarrassing, particularly after his colleagues on the other side of surveillance that such a magnificent job tackling the terrorist. -- did such a magnificentjob. obviously, it can make the mind wonder as to what might have happened if it got into the wrong hands, but it did not. somebody picked it up, handed it in. according to reports, the pilot explained what was going on and some of the passengers on the plane were really uncomfortable about travelling with a loaded gun, so it was taken off the plane. we have not had confirmation of that in the british airways statement. they say it was dealt with before the departure. the flight continued as normal. how unusual is that for a loaded gun to be allowed on a plane. is that something that you have done in your work previously?” is that something that you have done in your work previously? i have never carried a gun on a plane, that is pressure, and certainly, when i was responsible, at that time, guns we re was responsible, at that time, guns were normally handed over to the captain. again, each airline has a different policy. my understanding isn‘t different policy. my understanding isn't 9/11 that different policy. my understanding isn‘t 9/11 that policy has been amended by the caa, and clearly now they are allowed to carry guns. clearly the passengers would be even more upset had there been a terrorist on board and somehow somebody was attacking mr cameron and there was no defence mechanism. you cannot have it both ways. clearly, this was a mistake. it will be looked at, and i would be looking at who the officer was. his experience, has he got problems? all manner of things would go into it before i hung him out to dry, frankly. what is the potential sanction? again, it is a discipline offence to lose any item of equipment, but particularly so if you lose a glock 19, equipment, but particularly so if you lose a glock19, as i understand it. it is a lethal weapon. my understanding also was it was fully loaded. again, these factors, as you said in your earlier report, we are still awaiting confirmation whether a not the captain authorised the gun to go off. that would leave mr cameron, and let‘s face it all ex prime ministers are at risk, because of the action they have taken whilst in office. i would be very surprised that was the case and if there was just one officer. i would have thought there would be at least a tea m thought there would be at least a team of officers accompanying him. the former head of royal protection, thank you. my pleasure. now it‘s time for a look at the weather. mixed fortunes today across the uk. for some of us, started off with some fog which has been a bit stubborn to clear away for for others, started with some sunshine and still have some sunny spells in herefordshire. high pressure in charge. that is why things won‘t change a great deal for light winds for many full stops still breezy across the far north of scotland and you‘re just across the far north of scotland and you‘rejust dragging in across the far north of scotland and you‘re just dragging in some cloud. one or two showers in the west of scotland. further east, some sunny spells. a bit of sunshine for northern ireland and much of england and wales. where you have had the fog, still lingering around the london area, mightjust lift up. chilly elsewhere. through tonight, because of those light winds, some fog returns. but more so towards east anglia, parts of the south midlands into southern areas of england. that is where there will also be risk of some frost going into some in the morning. temperatures close to if not below freezing. that will continue throughout the day on thursday. it should be a little bit drier, not too many showers around here. elsewhere, some sunny spells. very similar conditions today. fog in the morning, starting to —— stubborn to clear, might lift up into low cloud. chilly beneath that. elsewhere, temperatures on thursday around about 7—9 celsius. into friday, this area of high pressure moves a bit further eastwards. it will start to allow one or two weather fronts moving away in across the west. we will see the cloud just gradually increase but plenty of sunshine. more of a breeze on friday so fog will not be so much of an issue but eventually, some patchy rain moving through northern ireland, western scotla nd through northern ireland, western scotland into the isle of man for the maximum temperatures around 10 degrees. during saturday, for the bulk of the day, largely dry. some sunshine. rain moving its way into northern and western areas in the wind will start to pick up later on saturday. that is all linked into a storm. that one weather system moves through on saturday and it is this area of low pressure that moves in. look at the right lines across the uk, very, very windy conditions. saturday night into sunday. we could see severe gales, heavy rain, disruption is likely to travel over the weekend and damage is certainly possible as well it is well worth staying tuned to the forecast over the next few days as we firm up the details of where we will see the strongest of those winds and the most impact, and some warnings perhaps being issued. one brought warning for the uk, finer details to be worked out. borisjohnson will face questions from mps at midday. norman smith is standing by in the houses of parliament. we by in the houses of parliament. can join we by in the houses of parliament. canjoin him, what expecting? maybe a little bit of brexit stuff. we had boris johnson‘s maybe a little bit of brexit stuff. we had borisjohnson‘s plans for a new trade, trade deal with the eu for we are not going to abide by eu rules, some of the labour folk might ta ke rules, some of the labour folk might take that up. we might get mr johnson being pressed for more details about is new counterterrorism plans in the week of that terrible attack in streatham. we have not really had much detail about the longer prison sentences and how that is going to be implemented for people already in prison. we may get some stuff on andy, the bbc being told this morning that there will be a consultation about decriminalising the licence fee. there is also bit ofa the licence fee. there is also bit of a story around downing street‘s relations with the media for we had an urgent question on the other day. my an urgent question on the other day. my top tip is climate change. i say that because as we know, jeremy corbyn, it is a big issue for him andi corbyn, it is a big issue for him and i would not be at all surprised if he hones in on that planned climate change conference in glasgow. cop26 seems to be in total shambles that has not got anybody running it after the former tory minister was sacked and then said some buried as obliging things about borisjohnson, in some buried as obliging things about boris johnson, in effect that some buried as obliging things about borisjohnson, in effect that he does not really care about climate change, and doesn‘t get it. we now know that david cameron has said he does not want the job. it is a real headache for boris johnson does not want the job. it is a real headache for borisjohnson to try does not want the job. it is a real headache for boris johnson to try to get somebody in place. it is viewed as a big event as wheeze parade ourselves as global britain. let‘s go into the chamber. this appalling incident makes plain the case for immediate action and we will shortly introduce emergency legislation to make sure we do everything to protect the public. mr speaker, this morning i had meetings with colleagues and others and in addition to my duties in the house, i will have further meetings today. mr speaker, on behalf of my constituents in bridgend, may i warmly congratulate the prime minister for delivering on the promise made to the british people that we will leave the european union? will he reassure my constituents that now that we are taking back control of our money, borders and laws, that every effort will be made to bring jobs and investment to areas such as bridgend, which feel left behind?” can give him that assurance and i can give him that assurance and i can tell him that with better education, infrastructure, high technology, we will unite and level up technology, we will unite and level up this country and deliver, as he is doing, for the people of bridgend. is the speaker, we were all appalled by the terror attack on sunday and i want to join the prime minister in paying tribute to the bravery and dedication of the police, said security services and the other emergency response staff in the way they dealt with a terrifying and terrible situation. last friday this country left the european union, britain‘s place in the world is at a crossroads. while there are different views across this country, we will be holding this country, we will be holding this government to account as the negotiations begin. but i hope is that we now truly come together to shape our that we now truly come together to shape our common that we now truly come together to shape our common future and build an internationalist, diverse and outward —looking country. indeed, we will get an opportunity to do that when britain hosts the un climate change conference later this year. despite the fact that we are the 11th hour to save the planet, the former tory minister and now ex—president of the conference, claire o‘neill, said and i quote, there has been a huge lack of leadership and engagement from this government. what on earth did she mean? mr speaker, ithink if government. what on earth did she mean? mr speaker, i think if you look at what this government is achieving and has achieved on climate change, it is quite phenomenal. he will know, mr speaker, last year was the first year on record that renewables produced more of the energy of this country than fossil fuels. he will know that since this government got in power in 2010, 90 9% of all of the solar panels that miracle were installed under this government. we are delivering for the people of this government elite might country. what you are producing is a load of hot. the problem is that the government‘s own figures show it is missing the carbon budget, let alone by 2050, it will be 2099 before this country meets net zero. we discovered this morning that two former conservative leaders have also turned down the job formally done by his minister. maybe he could be third time lucky. maybe we could make a third approach for another member. he is here in the chamber already for it. his own former tory minister said we should have clear actions and an agreed plan, a road map for the year of action. but we do not. so why is the prime minister failing so spectacularly to measure up failing so spectacularly to measure up to the scale of the climate crisis that this country and planet is facing? this is beyond satire. this is the first country, the first major economy in the world to have set a target of carbon neutral by 2050. it is an absolutely fantastic thing, we are leading the world in our ambitions and we will have a wonderful summit in glasgow, one of the most fantastic cities in our country at the end of the year. this country at the end of the year. this country isn‘t meeting its targets. it isn‘t due to meet its target and i think the prime minister should recognise that. even the paris targets a re recognise that. even the paris targets are not enough. the un says we have just a targets are not enough. the un says we havejust a decade targets are not enough. the un says we have just a decade to change because if we are to avert a climate catastrophe. let‘s look at something else his ex minister said. the prime minister promised to lead from the front and guarantee there would be money and people. these promises are not close to being met. what on earth could she have been talking about? as so often, i'm not entirely sure what the right honourable gentleman is talking about. if you look at what this government has actually delivered and our conservative policies have backed, green tie, innovation and supporting a dynamic market economy which is the solution to these problems, we have cut co2 emissions in this country since 2010 on 1990 levels by 4296. 4296! country since 2010 on 1990 levels by 42%. 42%! that is an astonishing achievement. at the same time, the economy has grown by 73% thanks to dynamic one nation conservativism. that is our approach, what is his? his former minister said my advice... well, you might not like it, but i‘m going to read it. my advice to anyone to whom the prime minister is making promises, whether it is voters, world leaders, and esters, employees or family members, is get it in writing, make a lawyer look at it and make sure a money is in the bank. not my words, hers. the prime minister‘s failure in government means this country will not meet its net zero target until 99. this government has banned offshore wind and is funding billions on fossilfuel offshore wind and is funding billions on fossil fuel projects abroad. is this what his minister means by the absence of leadership? mr speaker, i think the grotesque failure of the leader of the opposition to understand what is happening in this country‘s economy and let alone in the fight against climate change is quite mind—boggling. ican climate change is quite mind—boggling. i can inform him today that this country is leading in notjust reducing the technology to generate offshore wind, but the north—east of this country leads the world, the world in producing and designing those fantastic turbines. and it is because of that technological innovation that we are able to expand massively our renewables. i can tell him, and i think you may know this, in 1990, this country was 70% dependent on coal power. we are now, today, and by the way, he wanted to reopen the coalmines, today we are down to 3%. by coalmines, today we are down to 3%. by 2024, it will be zero. that is our plan, what is his? it was the labour party that proposed the climate change emergency motion that this house on the first. and the prime minister is quoting things that happened in 1990 and afterwards, during that time, of course, he was a climate sceptic you didn‘t say anything about this at all. full leadership is nothing new to this prime minister. when he was foreign secretary, he cut the number of climate attaches across the world by 60% in our embassies and reportedly said, are you not going to spill out this to the media, are you, to his staff. considering his monument of failure in advance of the climate conference, is it not a continuation of his climate change denial statements that he was regularly making up until 2015? denial statements that he was regularly making up until2015? the right honourable gentleman is talking nonsense. this government is delivering a fantastic agenda in tackling climate change. we lead the world in going for a zero carbon approach. his own approach is utterly, utterly unclear. it has been condemned by the gmb is my disaster for the been condemned by the gmb is my disasterfor the uk. been condemned by the gmb is my disaster for the uk. he been condemned by the gmb is my disasterfor the uk. he would confiscate people‘s cars and prevent them from having foreign holidays. we have a plan that will allow the uk economy to continue to grow, can create jobs and tackle climate change. i admire the prime minister‘s very vivid imagination. u nfortu nately, minister‘s very vivid imagination. unfortunately, his vivid imagination seems to have taken over from his memory. he might recall saying that climate change is a primitive fear without foundation. the prime minister of bangladesh said any consequence of failure to deliver a climate action plan must fall equally on every country. the cost of our inaction is devastating to every living person. but our prime minister is failing on the big stage on the most important issue of our time. his former minister is describing preparations in whitehall as whitehall not tying and inviting, obfuscation, petty political squabbles and black ops briefings. no wonder the prime minister is shutting out newspapers from number ten because he doesn‘t like the briefings. when will he face up to the climate emergency and take the action necessary to turn glasgow into the turning point when this world will stop the levels of pollution and climate change we are having and go forward to a sustainable future? because his policies simply don‘t take us there. this government is showing world leadership in tackling climate change and we are going to have a fantastic summit at glasgow. i look forward to it. he mentions the media. they did an inquest about what having the general election and they discover that any labour party it wasn‘t the leadership at fault. it wasn‘t brexit. it was the media. they the media. i don‘t blame them. i‘m a journalist and i love journalism and i think that people of this country, mr speaker, don‘t blame the media, they can see the media doing their best to represent the reality and the reality is that this government is delivering 40 new hospitals, 20,000 more police, tackling climate change, £30,000 starting salaries for every teacher in the country. it is not about the presentation of the facts, mr speaker, it is about the reality. he can‘t cope with the reality. speaker, it is about the reality. he can't cope with the reality. as mp4 broxtowe, i‘ m can't cope with the reality. as mp4 broxtowe, i‘m delighted that the funding has started to build new hospitals. such as the funding for nottingham university hospitals. does the prime minister agree with me that this conservative government is committed to fulfilling its ma nifesto is committed to fulfilling its manifesto pledges and will deliver for the nhs? indeed i do passionately with my honourable friend and i congratulate him on all he has done to campaign fully redevelop and of queens health centre and nottingham university hospital and i‘m delighted the money is flowing through to those projects. can i add my great -- grateful thanks to the police who had to react to the terrible terrorist incidents. in the first few days of brexit britain, this prime minister has sacked an official, taken an isolationist approach to trade, and banned the press from a downing street briefing. is he intentionally trying to impersonate donald trump? mr speaker, i don‘t think anybody listening to my speech, i think it was on monday, could mistake it for anything but the most passionate, internationalist, global, open, outward —looking approach. there is only one party in this country that has nationalist in their name, mr speaker, that is them. that is there! they would break up the most successful political partnership of the last 300 years. he and his party should concentrate on the dayjob and doing a betterjob for the people of scotland. mr speaker, the prime minister doesn‘t even know the name of our party. the prime minister is on a dangerous trajectory. is it any wonder that poll after poll shows majority support for scottish independence? mr speaker, ourformer support for scottish independence? mr speaker, our former us support for scottish independence? mr speaker, ourformer us ambassador has made clear the threat of a tory trump trade deal, one that prices could so. this would see increased pressure on our front line services. it is clear than ever that this government, this prime minister is a threat to our nhs. mr speaker, this afternoon, the snp will present our nhs protection bill to remove very real threat of tory privatisation. we‘ll be prime minister commit right now to supporting our legislation? mr speaker, i think it is very odd that he should denounce this country‘s wish to have trade deals around the world. i understand that their proposal is to try to rejoin their proposal is to try to rejoin the european union and therefore have a different currency, whose name they are yet to identify, perhaps they can elucidate to the house, to have a border at berwick and just after this country has taken back control, its outstanding marine world, to hand it back to brussels. that is their policy and i really think should concentrate on doing a betterjob for the people of scotland. a strong society needs strong families, as our manifesto rightly said. it went on to say that we will champion family hopes to serve vulnerable families. we‘ll be prime minister prioritise family hopes and ensure that family hopes are linked to our early years strategy and the children services reform? indeed. that is why we have given another 106 the £5 million to extend the troubled families programme this year. in the past ten yea rs, programme this year. in the past ten years, violent crime has risen 152% across the towns of warwickshire. in the past two weeks of my constituency, two weeks have been killed in two separate events and others remain seriously ill or injured. the government has promised to reinstate 20,000 police officers, but isn‘t it a simple truth that it is now our residents, through hikes in council tax of 12% last, 6% this year, who are picking up the whole bill for the old bill and it is the party opposite that are no longer be party opposite that are no longer be party of law and order but the party of disorder? he is making an important point about violent crime andi important point about violent crime and i share his anger. that is why we are putting an extra 20,000 police officers on our streets. that is why we are now tackling the cou nty is why we are now tackling the county lines drug gangs that are behind so much of this rise behind crime. the prime minister's conscious of widespread concern about involving huawei in our 5g network and france are not including huawei in building their 5g network. australia are also doing it. can my right honourable friend confirm he wa nts to right honourable friend confirm he wants to reduce huawei‘s involvement over time? we are going to be reducing the involvement of huawei below the 35% market cap. he is also writing as general vision which i share, what is happened is that there is a failure on like—minded countries to come up with a alternative 5g network. that is why we are doubling the science budget and we will be working with the countries he mentions in order to produce exactly that diversification in the market. in november last year, the personal independence payment assessment centre was moved to real and no notice was given of that change. the bus to get there from my constituency takes one hour and 44 minutes. the bus from barmouth hill takes five hours and 15 minutes. mr speaker, this is the reality in the prime minister‘s sordid global britain. will he amend this? i thank the honourable gentleman and we need to improve our bus services across the whole country and that is why we are investing another £220 into improving the services and my right honourable friend, the chancellor has many more such investments in the pipeline. sometimes we are the train, sometimes we are the track. just last week, we have taken control back and does the prime minister agree with me that now is the time for us to be the track for a metrolink between manchester and bolton? yes, indeed stop that is why we have given the ok thanks to his campaign. we have given the mail campaign. we have given the mail campaign of bolton £300 million plus the local transport fund. we have given them the tools, let‘s hope that they follow his urgings and bill be metrolink e once. last friday i visited a school in my constituency and in 2020, the state of the school buildings was dickensian. leaking roofs, rusty shower rooms, multi changing rooms, when will this government understand that the cost of education is high, but it is a worthy investment in the future of our schools? whether a child is a whizz kid, whether a child is a whizz kid, whether a child is a whizz kid, whether a child is needy, every child deserves to be at school in an excellent and inspiring school building. that is exactly why this government is investing £14 billion, a record £14 billion more in education, raising funding for primary schools to £4000 per head and £5,000 for every secondary school in the country. we can only do that because we are running a strong and dynamic marketer, and that is what we are going to do. to help spread opportunity across our country, can i encourage my right honourable friend to have a prebudget chat with his chancellor about extending the government‘s welcome plans to increase national insurance contributions for employees of ex service personnel to other groups who find it difficult to get a good job, including care leavers, ex offenders, those with a disability, and the long—term unemployed?” thank him and his family for everything they do to encourage ex offenders into work. i will take up that suggestion with my right honourable friend, the chancellor. we cut national insurance, they would hike taxes and key people in welfare. it has been two years since the windrush scandal exposed wrongful detention and deportation of citizens. whilst we wait for the publication of the review, the government plans to deport 50 people to jamaica by charter flight next week. will be prime minister immediately suspend the flight until the lessons learnt review is published and the recommendations can be reflected on? the whole house will understand the people of this country will think it‘s right to send back foreign national offenders stop. the incident last week reminds us stop. the incident last week reminds us that the rule of law remains a foundation of our democratic constitution. but the explosion of judicial review and judicial activism have led to a censorious nose and litigious and is in our society and distorted questions that ought to have remained political. how will my right honourable friend ensure that parliament remains the sovereign and legitimate source of law as we take back control? my right honourable friend is a distinguished lawyer and she is right to stick up for the immense value of our legal system. we must protectjudicial review. it is a vital part of our system. we should also ensure that it is not abuse, mr speaker, to conduct politics by other means or create a needless delay. for many years, we have been promised a new inpatient mental health facility, especially since a wing was closed in 2017. yet patients are still travelling 20 miles to access services. will be prime minister explain how this demonstrate the parity of esteem in mental health care that his party promised in 2012? we are putting record investment into the nhs. £33.9 million and a total of £12 million going into health care. that isa million going into health care. that is a record sum. i would like to follow on my right honourable friend‘s question on huawei. the australian agencies have analysed the involvement of any of huawei and any involvement would lead to the risk of sabotage and espionage. can he give a reassurance that we will lead and greater alternative to huawei over the next five years? yes, we of course will do nothing to endanger either our critical national security infrastructure or to prejudiced organisations orfive eyes partners as he has suggested. we will work to ensure that high risk lenders cannot dominate our market. the prime minister will know that under his government there has been a massive shortage of co nsulta nts been a massive shortage of consultants over the uk leading to a strain on our a&e services. how will he ensure, especially now we have left the eu, that consultants from overseas are encouraged to apply for nhs visas to work in hospitals across the uk? mr speaker, of course we have introduced nhs visas in order to attract talent from around the world, but i would remind her andi the world, but i would remind her and i think she speaks from a welsh seat, that is a devolved matterfor the welsh labour government. the prime minister has rightly put keeping our country safe and the nhs at the heart of this government‘s lands. will he support my campaign for two new gp surgeries in my town and remind him that he is always welcome for a pork pie, a bitter, or some stilton. the short answer is yes and yes. last week, it was revealed that my constituent started to death after the dwp stopped as benefits. his body was only discovered when bailiffs woke down his front door to evict him. the first priority of government is to keep its citizens safe. —— broke down his front door. how many more benefits claimants will have to die before his government starts to value their lives? this is a tragic case and she is right to raise it we have added £36 million including the creation of a new serious case panel so we can creation of a new serious case panel so we can scrutinise and learn lessons from tragic cases like this. as well as improving guidance for staff involved. will my right honourable friend join with me and on behalf of the whole house extend our sympathies and best wishes to those who were injured in the attack last week? may i welcome his attention to legislate as a consequence of this attack and will he agree that her majesty‘s government now has no option but to legislate to try to contain the threat of x terrorist offenders where they still pose a threat to our country? i think my right honourable friend is entirely right and most of the people in this country would agree that the system of automatic early release of terrorist offenders has run out of road and it is time to find a way, as we are, to make sure they are properly scrutinised by a parole board or by an equivalent. thanks to the tireless work of my predecessor, the tireless work of my predecessor, the late great paul flynn, and my right honourable friend, the member for gower, and members of with children with epilepsy, medical cannabis is now legal. so can the government and the calls of who need medical cannabis as to when this medicine will be available and will they come to meet these family is and personally assure them he will do all he can to help? it was this government and i right honourable friend these health secretary who did legalise medicinal cannabis. i can undertake that he will certainly be happy to meet your constituents this afternoon. buses are a vital lifeline for my constituents, but too often the buses are letting down the people of south yorkshire. will my prime minister confirmed that he will back buses to connect towns and cities across the north but also to unlock the potential of the valley and south yorkshire? this government is passionate about buses and i can assure him that we are massively going to improve our bus network in the valley above all and i thank him for the lobbying he is doing. we know the prime minister has form in looking democratic scrutiny at any opportunity and his party is no stranger to receiving russian donations, but his refusal to publish the report into russian interference into british democracy is unjustifiable and unacceptable. can the prime minister tell us clearly, without bluff and bluster, when the report into russian interference will be published, wired has been delayed so long and when he will reconvene with the intelligence committee? the report will be published when the euro still, when the intelligence and security committee is reconstituted, and i think his conspiratorialframe of is reconstituted, and i think his conspiratorial frame of mind is like mike likely to be thoroughly disappointed by the results. commuters in watford are fed up with pure rail services making them late for work in the morning and late at home at night to see their families. about the prime minister agree with me that even new rail franchises that do not deliver cannot assume that do not deliver cannot assume that they will keep their contract if they do not sort out the issues as soon as if they do not sort out the issues as soon as possible? absolutely, which is why we are putting £48 billion into improving our railways, but never forget, that a lot would renationalise the railways, and when the railways were nationalised, one quarter of railway users deserted the network after privatisation, real use doubled. last week, we lost a political giant in seamus mallon. he was an outstanding parliamentarian and a seeker of justice for everyone full to one injustice that burned with him until his dying day was the murder of paul quinn. paul was beaten to death by nra gang in 2007. they broke every single bone in his body. so much so that his mother could not place rosary beads in his hands in his coffin. in the aftermath of that, the finance minister conor murphy said that paul was linked to criminal. that was a lie. but the prime minister agree with me that that lie, and that conor murphy should retract that lie, publicly apologise and give any information he has two the psni about paul‘s murder? mr speaker, i... i hear the honourable gentleman and think the whole house will hear the passion with which he spoke about that injustice. i can tell... i can tell him that we will implement the stormont house agreement in such a way as to provide certainty for vetera ns way as to provide certainty for veterans and of course justice for victims as well. we now come to points of order, butler. mr speaker, the home office press team told journalists that everybody on the deportation flight to jamaica. .. done and dusted in 32 minutes, as we are getting used to. let‘s go to norman smith, for his thoughts on what we had full subnormal, you said climate change and whatever happened with cop26. climate change and whatever happened with co p26. questions climate change and whatever happened with cop26. questions about journalism is as well. it isa journalism is as well. it is a rare day, i managed to predict what was going to happen.” don‘t think we got far with the spat over premature end. that may climate change. jeremy corbyn challenging him over the sacked head of the cop26 conference, him over the sacked head of the co p26 conference, claire him over the sacked head of the cop26 conference, claire o‘neill. the prime minister confirmed that the conference would go ahead in glasgow. claire o‘neill yesterday suggested such was the acrimony between the premised on the scottish government there was a? about whether it might move to england. borisjohnson whether it might move to england. boris johnson saying whether it might move to england. borisjohnson saying oh, it will be fantastic and will happen in glasgow. —— mike no. the two amusing things, maybe, we got confirmation that the government will introduce emergency legislation to beef up counterterror laws in the wake of that counterterror attack —— make terror attack in streatham. the idea of automatic release for some terror prisoners had run its course. clearly, we‘ re prisoners had run its course. clearly, we‘re going to be to refund system were automatic release will no be applicable. the other thing i found interesting, far away. two politicians from the tory party is both unhappy about the role of huawei and 3g and that there had to be some sort of movement to ensure that the british government could have an alternative in time to huawei. why does it matter? because the government is going to have to introduce legislation to set up a new ofcom regime to police the new telecoms system. legislation provides critics with the opportunity to amend, repel, cause difficulties. i think there is quite a bit of trouble brewing for mr johnson when it comes to huawei for a lot of senior tories, like damian green and david davis, clearly unhappy about his decision to give the go—ahead to huawei. thank you very much, norman. let‘s have a look at the weather. good afternoon. all calm on the weather front at the moment, fog for some of us this morning but generally, dry weather, spells of sunshine. staying calm for the next couple of days and then, for the weekend, a significant change. through the rest of this afternoon, largely dry weather, some spells of sunshine, the best across england and wales but also in eastern scotla nd and wales but also in eastern scotland doing quite nicely. further west, more cloud in some spots of rain and drizzle. temperatures generally 7—9dc. this evening, dry for most but keeping the feet of cloud into northern ireland and scotland. patchy drizzle in the far north—west. the old south patch in the south on what will be another fairly chilly night. through thursday and friday, the weather staying calm. fog to contained within southern parts. more sunshine on friday as the breeze picks up. a quick word about the weekend. if you are travelling or have outdoor plants, it is worth staying tuned to the forecast. the met office has named storm keira. the threat of damaging winds for just about all parts of the uk. hello this is bbc newsroom live. the headlines: president trump makes his state of the union speech and hails ‘the great american comeback‘ just hours before he‘s expected to be acquitted in his impeachment trial. jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging and our country is thriving and highly respected again. the democrat house speaker, nancy pelosi, clashes with president trump. she‘s seen ripping up her copy of his speech behind him. injapan, ten passengers are taken off a quarantined cruise ship after testing positive for coronavirus in the port of yokohama. according to a local broadcaster, all ten cases are in those over the age of 50. the government launches a consultation on decriminalising the non—payment of the tv licence fee. more than 40 people are arrested as police crack down on courier fraud, with thousands of vicitms in the last two years. the trial of the brother of the manchester arena bomber continues old bailey today. yesterday, the jury was told that hashem abedi is just as guilty of the murders of 22 people in may 2017 as his older sibling. he denies the charges. dan johnson is outside the old bailey. i understand that the case has come to an end for the day? it has. there was a short break about half—an—hour ago and after that break, the judge told the jury that break, the judge told the jury that hashem abedi was feeling unwell this morning. he said that following about an hour of the prosecution opening continuing today, hashem abedi was feeling worse, not better, and is in some painful stop he said the defendant was not able to carry on listening to the prosecution opening, so that would be the end of the case for today. he told the jury to return here tomorrow. before that break, thejury to return here tomorrow. before that break, the jury heard to return here tomorrow. before that break, thejury heard more evidence about the ways in which the prosecution alleges hashem abedi assisted and encouraged his brother in gathering the necessary equipment and chemicals, the components that we re and chemicals, the components that were needed to build that bomb which he detonated at manchester arena in may 2017. the jury heard that the brothers had approached friends and relatives to buy chemicals on their behalf because they knew that if they did it themselves, that would raise suspicion. different friends and relatives used various online shopping accounts to buy the chemicals, including hydrogen peroxide and sulfuric acid. some friends, work colleagues bought those chemicals, had them delivered, and then there was evidence of money been deposited in their accounts to repay them for making those purchases. sometimes more than £100 ata time, purchases. sometimes more than £100 at a time, sometimes ten litres of chemicals. one friend had not been able to make a purchase because he did not have any funds in his account and went to his father and said he had been asked to buy severe acid and his dad said, that could be used to build explosives. he essentially warned his son off and after that, his son, who has not been named in court, did not have any further contact with the brother, didn‘t make any purchase on their behalf. that is as far as the evidence has got it today. this is not even relieve the official start of the evidence, just the prosecution laying out their case against hashem abedi, who denies all of the charges against him. some breaking news — and a 23—year—old man has pleaded guilty to the murder of a pensioner in north london. he pleaded guilty on the third day of his trial, to a pensioner who had been beaten to death in august last year. he also pleaded guilty to 210 dumb accounts of sexually assaulting dorothy. the court formally found him guilty of murder and sexual assault on direction of the judge also be a previously considered guilty to manslaughter and the burglary of a purse but had denied other charges. on the third day of his trial, he has now pleaded guilty and found guilty of the charges of murder and sexual assault on the direction of thejudge. murder and sexual assault on the direction of the judge. there will be sentencing at a later date. also a serious avalanche in turkey, on the border with iran. reports that 13 people have been killed. a lot of people on the mountainside, basically what happened was there was an earlier avalanche that had killed two people and a large rescue operation was dispatched. many rescue workers went to the highway near the mountain, on the border with iran, after, actually, it was five people killed in that initial avalanche yesterday, but while they we re avalanche yesterday, but while they were responding to that, around noon today the team were struck by another avalanche. the local mayor has said that eight rescuers‘ bodies have been recovered from the slopes, and emergency teams are searching forup to 15 and emergency teams are searching for up to 15 colleagues who are still buried 30 emergency workers have either been rescued or escaped from under the snow and have been taken to hospital. no further information on their conditions. this unfolding... an awful avalanche there in turkey, on the border with iranfor there in turkey, on the border with iran for the rescue efforts still ongoing. now, all the business news. hong kong‘s flagship airline cathay pacific has asked staff to take three weeks of unpaid leave to help it cope with the impact of the coronavirus. more on this injust a moment. and sticking with airlines — claims made by ryanair about its carbon emissions have been banned by the uk‘s advertising watchdog. europe‘s biggest airline by passenger numbers had billed itself as the region‘s "lowest emissions airline" and a "low co2 emissions airline". but its been ruled that ryanair‘s claims could not be backed up. sign—ups for disney‘s new streaming service have exceeded expectations with about 28.6 million people signing up for disney plus since it started in november. the on—demand video service, which costs $6.99 per month, is an attempt to challenge industry leader netflix. as fears around the coronavirus intensify, the airline industry is just one of many that‘s being hit hard. not only has cathay pacific asked staff to take unpaid leave — it‘s also said it intends to cut services by about 30% over the next two months, including a 90% reduction in flights to mainland china. passenger numbers are already down following months of anti—government protests in hong kong. airbus also says its closely monitoring the spread of the virus following the world health organization travel advice. sally gethin is the editor of gethin‘s inflight news. sally, good to talk to you, how serious could this virus be for the airline industry? as we all know, airlines have to deal with a lot of economic uncertainty, but this is something completely out of left field that often appends them and will put a real dent into their profits, and also their turnover going forward. however, it is not unprecedented because they also had to deal with the sars virus. that is a long time ago now. obviously, they are caught on the back foot. as the virus spreads, it is notjust the practical aspect of the virus itself but it is the sense of panic and the sense of a deterrent to actually wa nt to sense of a deterrent to actually want to fly. this is something that airlines will have to deal with on those two fronts. you reference the sars virus. since that time, the chinese economy has grown considerably. as has the number of routes and international planes going into china. how important is china itself to the global airline industry? china is very important, and actually, in terms of its own domestic market share, america, the united states, is only ahead of it. so, it is second in that sort of global market. it has seen steady growth. in november, for example, it saw traffic climb 3.1%, which is very good set against the backdrop of other airlines. so, very good set against the backdrop of otherairlines. so, it very good set against the backdrop of other airlines. so, it is very important. the asia—pacific region asa important. the asia—pacific region as a whole accounts for more than one third of all the global air traffic. bisley, china sits within that and it is really integral and important. to see big target market for most commercial airlines today, especially long haul, intercontinental, international airlines. another result of the coronavirus is we have had this meeting of the oil producing countries and their allies today, talking about putting forwards a more aggressive cuts to oil production following a decrease in demand, led by what is happening in china at the moment, which then could lead to a spike in the price of oil. that will be another headwind for the airline industry. do you think as a result of all of this we could start to see major global airlines getting injury financial trouble? well, they will be any position now in many meeting rooms and boardrooms whether to take preventative action already. for example, virgin atlantic flies to shanghai and has entered that the chinese market. where an airline has a spread of different routes and destinations they will be looking to possibly put a hold on that one and concentrate on the rest of their portfolio. where an airline, for example cathay pacific, is right at the seat of the core of all of the activity, that is going to be very difficult to medicate because it could supported crisis management. —— to mitigate. some airlines are more viable and sustainable financially, they have a big history behind them, for example the two airlines that we have named, virgin and cafe. there will be other airlines that will be more original, short—haul. —— virgin atlantic and cathay pacific they will be just making a turnover or profit on a much more marginal way than those larger airlines. we may see a shake—out in the coming weeks. larger airlines. we may see a shake-out in the coming weeks. watch this space. sally, good to talk to you. in other business stories we‘ve been following: demand for new cars fell by 7.3% last month — so says the society of motor manufacturers and traders. over 11,000 fewer new cars were registered injanuary than during the same month in 2019. the smmt blamed confusion over diesel and clean air zones, and weak consumer and business confidence. sales of diesel and petrol models were both down, while alternatively—fuelled vehicles reached a record market share of nearly 12% injanuary. the co—founder of rockstar games, dan houser, is leaving the firm he started with his brother sam in 1998. mr houser was a main creative force behind two of the firm‘s biggest series, grand theft auto and red dead. his departure comes after an "extended break" — that‘s according to rockstar‘s parent company ta ke—two interactive. an agreement to share network equipment in order to improve phone coverage in rural areas has hit a stumbling block over costs. rival operators, including 02, are unhappy at the price bt—owned ee is asking them to pay to share its equipment. the bbc has learned that a key meeting is due to take place on wednesday to hammer out the details. london‘s blue chips ftse100 index staying strong in mid—morning — although some stocks were hit by those disappointing new car sales figures. but sentiment is still being bouyed by a morning caffeine shot provided by data on the uk‘s crucial service sector showing a post—election boost. that‘s all the business news. let‘s return to the story that police in britain have confirmed that an officer has been taken off operational duties and is being investigated after reports that a gun was left in an aeroplane‘s toilet by a bodyguard for the former prime minister, david cameron. the pistol — reportedly loaded — was found by a passenger just before take—off, along with mr cameron‘s passport. earlier we were joined by former head of royal protection dai davies, who reacted through the lens of his experience in security. obviously, like everyone else, i was concerned at the lapse in discipline, if you like, of the fact that this officer, for some reason, forgot... he of history was doing his business at one point, for some reason to his gun away from whatever he was doing and i am just astonished, really, that any really small confined such as a toilet on an aeroplane that this could have happened, but clearly it did. it is concerning and no doubt my colleagues, orformer colleagues, in the met will be investigating it. it is fairto the met will be investigating it. it is fair to say we are all human, but u nfortu nately is fair to say we are all human, but unfortunately been a police officer and being human don‘t always go together when you‘re carrying a gun. clearly, this is unacceptable. it has happened, in my understanding, at least once or twice in the past, but it is obviously embarrassing, particularly after his colleagues on the other side of the surveillance did such a magnificentjob tackling the terrorist in streatham. it can make the mind wonder as to what might have happened if it got into the wrong hands but it didn‘t. somebody picked it up, handed it in, and according to reports, the pilot explained what was going on and some of the passengers on the plane were really u nco mforta ble of the passengers on the plane were really uncomfortable about travelling with a loaded gun, so they can was taken off the plane for we have not had confirmation of that in the british airways statement but they say it was dealt with before they say it was dealt with before the departure. the flight continued as normal. how unusual is it for a loaded gun to be allowed on a plane? is that something that you have done and your work previously? well, i have never carried a gun on a plane, thatis have never carried a gun on a plane, that is for sure, and certainly, when i was responsible, at that time, guns were normally handed over to the captain. again, each airline has a different policy but my understanding is since 9/11, that policy has been amended by the civil aviation authority and clearly now they are allowed to carry guns, and clearly the passengers would be even more upset if there had been a terrorist on—board more upset if there had been a terrorist on—boa rd and more upset if there had been a terrorist on—board and somehow somebody was attacking mr cameron and there was no defence mechanism. you cannot have it both ways. clearly, this was a mistake, it will be looked at, and i will be looking at who the officer was, his experience, has he got problems? all kind of manner of things would go into it before i hung him out to dry, frankly. what is the potential sanction? well, again, it is a discipline offence to lose any item of equipment, but particularly so if you lose a glock19, as i understand it. it is a leaf or weapon. my understanding also as it was fully loaded. but, again, these factors as you have said in your earlier report, we are still waiting confirmation whether not the captain authorised the country go of. that would leave mr cameron, and let‘s face it, all experiments are at risk because of the actions they have taken whilst in office. i would be very surprised that was the case. i would also be surprised if there is just one officer. i would have thought there would be at least 18 of officers him. the leaders of the three largest parties in ireland have clashed in a tv debate before this weekend‘s general election. the current prime minister, leo varadkar, is behind in the polls in spite of having had a major profile in the brexit negotiations. our ireland correspondent, chris page, reports. ireland is a nation on the edge of europe, and the frontline of brexit. it is the only country which has a land border with the uk. after a financial crisis a decade ago, it has recovered strongly, and now has the fastest growing economy in the eu. but opposition parties are highlighting issues like housing issues, hospital overcrowding, and the cost of living. in the last major tv debate before the election, the prime minister emphasised his role in the brexit talks, and claimed a change of government would be a risk. it‘s only half—time. brexit isn‘t done yet. the next big step is to negotiate a trade deal between the uk and the eu. that‘s absolutely essential for the 200,000 people who work in export industries in ireland, our rural economy, our agri—food sector, and our fishermen. but the leader of the main opposition party said he was up to the task, because all parties had the same approach to brexit. the idea that you can't change a government because of brexit, i think, makes absolutely no sense. governments change all of the time in europe, and there's always many key issues facing the european union and member states. both mr martin and mr varadkar‘s parties are in the political centre ground. they have dominated irish politics for many decades. but they are being challenged by a left—wing party, sinn fein, which is performing strongly in opinion polls. the theme of this election that has emerged is a thirst for change. i am very clear what that change means. everywhere that i have gone, people have said to me that they recognise that fine gael and fianna fail — essentially identical parties — have had it all their way now for almost a century. the other leaders said they would not go into a coalition with sinn fein, mainly because the party had links to paramilitary violence during the conflict in northern ireland. sinn fein emphasises its role in the peace process. no group is expected to win an overall majority of seats in the irish parliament. complex negotiations to form a government are set to follow the general election, which will be held on saturday. jane hill will be here shortly with the bbc news at one. now, though, it‘s time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good afternoon. some of us had some fog to contend with this morning, but for the most part, the weather at the moment is calm. it stays that way until friday. after that, there is something very different on the way for the weekend. the rest of this afternoon, it is mainly fine out there. the best of the sunshine generally across southern areas. further north you are, more in the way of cloud, even some spots of rain and drizzle for the north—west of scotland. temperatures generally between seven and 9 degrees. and this evening and tonight, it stays largely fine as well. the best of the clear spells to be found down towards the south. further north and in west there is more of that cloud and a spot of drizzle on what will be a fairly chilly night, not desperately cold for the time of year, but some spots will drop below freezing. some will see frost. and also the potential for some fog patches across southern and central parts of england and parts of wales. some of that fog could be fairly slow to clear as we go through the day. there will be some fairly large areas of cloud around as well, equally some sunny spells. a decent chance of seeing some sunny spells particularly across north east scotland through the day tomorrow. the fog lingers for a length of time and it will stay quite chilly, maybe four or 5 degrees, generally seven to nine. and then for friday, a fighting chance we will see more in the way of sunshine. but then, we see some showers pushing in to the west, more persistent rainjust behind, it starts to turn quite breezy, starts turning a little bit milder by this stage as well. during friday night, the weather starts to turn more active and we see this frontal system pushing eastwards. a quieter zone of weather for a time on saturday before rain returns from the west. with this rain, we will start to see sway of gales developing across northern and western parts of the uk. and then we get into sunday. sunday‘s weather is currently forming across the south of the usa. some rain and snow here. but that area of rain and snow will be picked up by a powerful jet stream, winds high up in the atmosphere, blowing potentially as high as 270 mph, super charging the atmosphere, bringing this unsettled weather away, spinning up a deep area of low pressure. you can see a lot of white lines, a lot of isobars on this chart. this has already been named by the met office, storm kiera. it is a little way ahead, but through saturday night and sunday, just about any of us can see damaging winds. it is worth staying tuned to the forecast. president trump says his time in office has produced a great american comeback. the president of the united states! in his state of the union address mr trump set out his case for another four years in power. jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again. but the senior democrat rips up a copy of the speech, after her offer of a handshake was apparently snubbed. we‘ll have the latest reaction live from washington. also on today‘s programme...

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dangerous sex offenders — joseph mccann — speaks probably, if anything, stronger now out on behalf of those who are suffering in silence. thanit ditching plastic packaging — probably, if anything, stronger now than it was before. if that's even the supermarket chain clearing multipack wrapping from its shelves. possible. tesco has removed plastic and it's just not cricket — wrap from its multipack attends in caught in the slips — an effort to reduce plastic waste. england's ben stokes lets rip. bleep. and coming up on bbc news — 15 years old and knocking out the defending champion — coco gauff stuns naomi 0saka at the australian open. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a coroner has ruled that the death of a baby boy a week after he was delivered at a hospital in kent was wholly avoidable. harry richford died at the queen elizabeth the queen mother hospital in margate in 2017. the trust say they wholeheartedly apologise for the failings in harry's care. it comes after the bbc revealed yesterday that there have been at least seven preventable baby deaths at the east kent nhs trust. with more, here's our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan. a warning, his report contains flashing images. we didn't get to hold harry until the day that he died. i'm so glad we got to spend those seven days with him and see him. it means he was a real, living human being for those seven days and that means everything to us. tom and sarah should have their toddler son buzzing around them on their seaside walk but a catalogue of maternity failures robbed the young couple of harry within days of his birth. if harry had brain damage similar to what he had when he died and he was under my care during those seven days i would be held accountable for that. but nobody has at the hospital. it all went wrong on this maternity unit over a two hour period one november night. first, a locum doctor, described as out of his depth, delayed delivering the baby. the coroner said he should never have been in charge that evening. he never had his cv checked by a consultant, as was the process. it doesn't feel like a very safe culture or a safe environment if that's the case. harry was born pale and floppy but he would have survived and been healthy if a paediatrician hadn't failed for 28 minutes to properly resuscitate him. everyone in theatre was panicking. the anaesthetist came up to me and said to me, "i'm going to put you under general anaesthetic," and i was glad that he was going to do that because i didn't want to be in that room any more. i've had to live with that for a long time because it meant that tom had to leave the room having seen harry being resuscitated because it was not a nice atmosphere to be in and it was panicked. it didn't feel like anybody was really in control. gravely ill, harry was transferred to a nearby intensive care unit but he never recovered and his parents were advised to turn off his life—support system. it was the worst week in our life in some respects, because you don't want to make that decision for your baby, but at the same time, you don't want your baby to grow up not having a good quality of life. east kent hospitals trust today apologised for the care it provided. it didn't address, however, why they'd initially recorded harry's death as "expected" and had refused four for months to tell the coroner of his case. both decisions would have meant they faced less scrutiny over the care they had provided. but they didn't account for the determination of harry's family to get to the truth. now personally vindicated, their focus today was to ensure other families don't suffer as they have. we don't want this to be like all of the prior cases which we heard about yesterday when the news broke. there were a number of cases which the bbc investigated and they found out all of those cases, had they learned from those cases, we wouldn't be stood here today because harry would still be alive and well. that was tom richford ending that report there. michael is with me now. what about mothers who are expecting to give birth at the hospital. should they be worried? it is important to remember at the outset that the vast majority, the overwhelming majority of women in this country have a safe and healthy experience when giving birth and there is a lot of work being done to make things better. there is an initiative called each baby counts which is an initiative to improve the investigations when things go wrong so the investigations when things go wrong so they go wrong less often but that said we are not as good as oui’ but that said we are not as good as our european neighbours at maternity outcomes and we have all heard of the scandals like morecambe bay, shrewsbury and telford and there is clearly a problem at east kent. there is national data that indicates that mortality rates for still bones and newborns are higher in that area than in similar units, and as we reported there have been sudden preventable deaths there since 2016. —— stillbirths. the care quality commission has gone in and there was an unannounced inspection this week because of concerns they have over maternity care in margate in particular. what the trust are saying is if you are a pregnant woman in that area and you have any concerns you should approach your midwife. michael buchanan, thank you. authorities are trying to trace 2,000 people who have flown from wuhan in china into the uk in the past fortnight. it comes as the chief medical officer says that 1a people who've already been tested in the uk for coronavirus have been given the all clear. in china, travel restrictions have been widened as the death toll climbed to 26 — and hundreds more were infected. people are being stopped from leaving the city of wuhan, where the virus originated, and there are also severe travel restrictions in several other cities. cases of the virus have been reported in neighbouring countries such as japan, thailand, south korea and singapore and two confirmed cases in the united states. here's our medical correspondent, fergus walsh. ten days from now on this waste ground in wuhan will be a brand—new hospital. the extraordinary pace of building a sign of how seriously china is taking the threat from the new coronavirus. the prefabricated building will have 1000 beds. it is urgently needed because hospitals in wuhan are overwhelmed with potential cases. the symptoms include cough, fever and breathing problems. and down like a dozen cities have now been quarantined, affecting more than 30 million people. as you see, nobody here, it is absolutely empty. this should be the busiest time of yearfor this should be the busiest time of year for travel and for hotels, but this one in wuhan is deserted. in downing street, borisjohnson hosted a reception to mark chinese new year. the government's emergency cobra committee also met to discuss the risk to the uk, which is considered low. we think that there's a fair chance we may get some cases over time. of course, this depends on whether this continues for a long time, but i think we should definitely see this asa think we should definitely see this as a marathon, not a sprint. there are still some key unknowns about this virus. how contagious is it? early case reports from china suggest people with no symptoms may be able to spread the virus. how deadly is it? so far, around one in four confirmed cases is severe. and most of those recover. it seems less deadly than sars which killed nearly 800 people worldwide. and what is the source? we're confident the virus jumped from animals to humans, but until the source is pinpointed, perhaps bats or snakes, there is a risk of completely new infections. this is the first image of the coronavirus. work is already under way to develop a vaccine. we can, potentially, move from years up to 16 weeks to get a vaccine developed and for very early clinical testing as long as all goes well. for now, the world can only wait and see what impact china's control measures will have on the spread of this virus. fergus walsh, bbc news. the government's spending watchdog says the risk and complexity of building the high speed two rail line were underestimated from the start. the national audit office says neither the department for transport or hs2 ltd allowed for all uncertainties when estimating initial costs. issues such as poor ground conditions emerged. a leaked review this week said it could be over £100 illion — tens of billions more than original estimate. seamus mallon has died at the age of 83. he was one of the most influential figures 83. he was one of the most influentialfigures in 83. he was one of the most influential figures in the 83. he was one of the most influentialfigures in the peace process and was the first person to hold the post of deputy first minister in the power—sharing devolved government set up after the good friday. —— good friday agreements. joseph mccann — who's been described as one of the country's most dangerous sex offenders — was jailed last month for at least 30 years for kidnapping and raping women and children last summer. after he was caught, it emerged that he should have still been behind bars serving time for previous violent offences — but he had been released by mistake. now the first of his victims to speak publicly has told the bbc that she has never received an official apology and she believes seniorfigures should be held to account for probation failings. she's been speaking to our home affairs correspondent, june kelly. held captive in this car is the first of the womenjoseph mccann kidnapped and raped. in the fortnight that followed, he targeted another ten victims. the youngest, a boy of 11. the eldest, a woman of 71, who has now spoken to us. he said, "i've got a knife, i've killed somebody this morning." like all rape victims, she has anonymity. but in this first interview by any of mccann's victims, she describes how he abducted her as she got into her car. i shouted, "get out of my car!" and he punched me in the face. and he said, "i'm sorry, i'm sorry. it's because you shouted at me. i wouldn't want to do that. i've got a grandma." mccann was already wanted for attacks in watford, london and lancashire when he turned up at this supermarket in greater manchester, hunting for his next victim. and it was in the car park that he punched and abducted the grandmother. he forced her to drive onto the motorway. she was kept prisoner in her own carforfour and a half hours. mccann stopped the car and raped her. he also kidnapped a 13—year—old girl off the street, forced her into the car with them and sexually assaulted her. the older victim took a chance when mccann fell asleep. she pulled off into a service station. i was working out all the time while we were driving, how am i going to get out of this situation? and i knew i would not outrun him and i knew i had to get to where there would be a lot of people. so i drove right up to a group of people, just got out and ran towards them and said, abducted and whatever. the little girl got out as well. and he ran after me and wrenched the keys out of my hand and drove off in the car. joseph mccann was eventually found hours later hiding up a tree. it emerged that at the time he was roaming around the country raping women and children, he should have been in prison. a man with a history of violence, he had been wrongly released. joseph mccann's case represents a catastrophic failure by the criminaljustice system. but this victim says there's one thing she hasn't received. have you ever had an apology? i've not had an apology. it would have been nice to have had something a bit more personal, i think. for somebody to come and see you? see me or a letter or something, you know? just something that recognises the victims, really, isuppose, yeah. hello! following mccann's mistaken release, two probation staff were sacked, one demoted. but all those who suffered at the hands of mccann have paid the price for a system in crisis, according to this victim. it's always the front line workers that get disciplined and that probation office was understaffed, had low morale and that was because of the changes that had been brought in by grayling. that's chris grayling ? chris grayling. who privatised part of the patient service. who privatised part of the probation service. and i think people that made those decisions at high levels should be brought to account. in response, chris grayling, the former justice secretary, who was responsible for the part privatisation, stressed that mccann was under the supervision of the national probation service, which remained in the public sector and wasn't part of any privatisation programme. and he said the problems in this case were down to the operational failure of a small number of staff. and when it comes to the lack of an apology, the ministry ofjustice says it recently began making contact with the victims. i'm doing this interview because i know a lot of the other victims are not in any state to do it. fortunately, i am. i'm older. i've had a good life and i'm not letting it ruin my life. they're all young women and children. they've got that for the rest of their lives. june kelly is with me now. unthinkable what those victims went through and that woman and incredible she hasn't had an apology. what an incredible woman she is speaking to us like that. she said there hasn't been enough focus on the victims. she spoke to us because she thinks what happened to mccann was down to the fact the probation service had been partly privatised, and she said that lead toa privatised, and she said that lead to a lot of experienced people leaving, and she thinks that had a knock—on effect on the entire system, including the public part of the system which was supervising joseph mccann. last year, it emerged that the area supervising him was 100 probation officers short and a report this month said there were 600 vacancies across england and wales, so this gives you an indication of the scale of the problem. the part privatisation has been regarded as a failure and is now being reversed. but chris grayling, justice secretary who brought it in, was adamant it wasn't a factor in this case. our interviewee, as you heard, disagrees. meanwhile, the ministry ofjustice says there is going to be a review on makoun, which has already been done, and will be shared with the victims and our interviewee, as you heard, disagrees. meanwhile,, interviewee, as you heard, disagrees. meanwhile, , the interviewee, as you heard, disagrees. meanwhile,, the ministry ofjustice says there is going to be a review on mccann, which has already been done, and will be shared with the victims and our interviewee says forward to receiving her copy. looking forward to receiving her copy. —— a review story this evening. the time is 6:16pm. our top story this evening. a coroner criticises a hospital for the "wholly preventable" death of a week—old baby. his parents call for an inquiry. coming up — a helping hand for prince charles as he meets christian leaders in bethlehem and visits the grave of his grandmother for the first time. coming up on sportsday on bbc news... england start the final test well, but lose four wickets against south africa, including ben stokes — who could be trouble after appearing to swear at a fan as he walked off. multipack tins — they're a staple of most supermarket shopping and it does mean you save a bit of money. but multipacks come wrapped in plastic and that's doing nothing to save the planet. now tesco is to ditch all its plastic wrapping from multipack tins in an effort to eliminate an estimated 67 million pieces of plastic in the uk every year. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. multipacks — we love ‘em. buy more, save more, from baked beans and tinned tomatoes to pasta, tuna and soups. they're a big seller — we buy more than 200 million multipacks a year at our main supermarkets alone. tesco is now getting rid of this wrapping from every single tin, saving 350 tonnes of plastic waste a year. it will require you and i to change the way we shop, because we've got used to the convenience of picking one six—pack of tuna, and now we'll have to pick up the number of tins that we want. same tuna, same value, but with no plastic. goodidea? very good idea. i really do get upset about the amount of plastic i take home. when it's as bad as that, that isjust ridiculous. it's useful when you're grabbing it, i've only got to grab one thing instead of three. but yes, it does annoy me and i suppose it's bad for the planet as well. it takes the whole supply chain for a change on this scale to happen. this is europe's largest food factory. heinz here in wigan churns out a billion tins a year, many wrapped in this non—recyclable plastic film. making the move with tesco will obviously help ensure that we are having those conversations with other retailers and that we open the doors to the possibility of eliminating shrink—wrap from all of our multipacks. getting rid of all this plastic wrapping seems such an obvious thing to do. of course, it's just a tiny fraction of the plastic that still ends up in our shopping trolleys. but the pressure is now on to remove it. this is an easy place to start. it will happen from march, another step by our supermarkets in ditching the plastic we don't need. emma simpson, bbc news. the foreign secretary, dominic raab, has accused the us government of a "denial ofjustice" after it refused an extradition request for the woman accused of killing teenage motorcyclist harry dunn. the 19—year—old died in august after a collision with a car driven by anne sacoolas, the wife of a us intelligence officer. after the accident, she left britain for the united states, claiming diplomatic immunity. duncan kennedy's report contains some flash photography. it was last august harry dunn died here, and today the scene was still framed by the caring tributes of those who loved him. anne sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day, is the american woman who's been charged with causing harry's death by dangerous driving. there was no sign of her today at this house in washington dc, where she was living. she flew to america after the accident, claiming diplomatic immunity. this afternoon, harry's family gathered to give their reaction to the news that the american government has now refused to extradite mrs sacoolas to britain. a decision harry's mum says is difficult to believe or accept. what does this do to your fight to get anne sacoolas back? just gives us more determination to carry on. it's just another hurdle. we've come across lots of them since the 11th of october. and it's just another one that we will get over, eventually. this is just a setback, not the end? absolutely. it certainly is. it won't be the end, it never will be the end, we're not going anywhere. the decision to block the extradition was taken at the highest level, with mike pompeo, the secretary of state, formally telling the british government. the americans insist mrs sacoolas was covered by diplomatic immunity at the time of the accident. it is now nearly five months since harry died here, and his parents had been expecting that it would be for the american courts to decide whether to extradite anne sacoolas. now that the american government has stepped in, they do see that as a setback, but say their fight will go on. tonight, the dunns' local mp, business secretary andrea leadsom, met the family and said they had the full support of boris johnson in their fight. the prime minister is very much on the side of the family in their desire to see justice done for harry. and all of us in government are working towards that end. harry done's family have already started a series of protests outside the american base anne sacoolas left moments before the accident. the family have set aside the grieving in order to garner support for their cause, one day say there will not be silenced. duncan kennedy, bbc news, northamptonshire. the metropolitan police will stop using facial recognition cameras on the streets of london. they would be used to identify suspects wanted for severe and violent crimes. the police say the camera correctly identify 70% of suspects. civil liberties campaigners meeting the are a threat to civil liberty. thousands of people have marched on the streets of baghdad to demand that all us troops be expelled from iraq. tensions have been heightened by the american military‘s assassination of the iranian general, qasem soleimani, in baghdad. the march was called for by the influential shia cleric moqtada al—sadr, and received support from iraqi shia militia groups. the prince of wales has called for "unity and tolerance" among different faiths on his first formal visit to the occupied palestinian territories. during a speech in bethlehem, prince charles said he would pray for "a just and lasting peace" in the middle east. he has also held talks with the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas. 0ur royal correspondent jonny dymond has this report. a palestinian welcome for the prince. this is the first time he's set foot in the occupied palestinian territories. a diplomatically delicate day started at the only mosque in bethlehem's old city. "charles," he wrote, in english and then arabic. after the mosque will come the church of the nativity, and it's the proximity of the two that brings charles here, part of his decades long effort to bring faiths together. inside the church, a chance to hear first—hand the struggles of christians in the middle east. we are doing our best to survive. to fight against every difficulty of this situation. more greetings, more meetings. the prince and the palestinian president talked for 45 minutes. and then, a chance to express his deep concern for the challenges palestinians face. it is my dearest wish that the future will bring freedom, justice and equality to all list onions, enabling you to thrive and prosper. and on this first official visit to the region, a personal moment. a visit to his grandmother's grave. princess alice asked to be buried on the mount of 0lives, overlooking the holy city. and today, prince charles paid his respects. jonny dymond, bbc news, jerusalem. cricket — and on the first day of the fourth test england are 192—4 against south africa injohannesburg. ben stokes's was the last wicket to fall with the england all—rounder getting involved in an expletive laden attack on someone in the crowd asjoe wilson reports. 6,000 feet above sea level in johannesburg, england were making good progress. through zak crawley and then dom sibley, england in fact got past 100 runs without losing a wicket. then the collapse came. a series of wickets fell, a series of catches were taken... both openers gone, and then joe denly followed. now this time, ben stokes could not assist. he was dismissed forjust two. naturally, he would be disappointed. but after these pictures, the television coverage next showed him aggressively addressing someone in the crowd. we've bleeped out the worst of the language. now, that footage inevitably sped through social media as at the sports personality of the year sat on the dressing room balcony. stokes knows how attention follows him. he also knows the behaviour expected of him. well, england closed the day 192—4. joe root and ollie pope survived. there is nowhere to hide in a test match and the cameras capture every emotion, as ben stokes is aware. and you can see him with the fans at the close of play here — a different interaction, all part of the same man. joe wilson, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich. it has been a bit reluctant to change over the last few days, we've had a lot of cloud, misty, murky and drizzly weather for most of us. if you go to see some sunshine today. that's how we start the weekend. you can see this haze of grey, that is oui’ can see this haze of grey, that is our low cloud, out in the atlantic we have a stripe of bright white cloud, this will bring a change in the weather but only through the second half of the weekend. for the time being, we are stuck with all the cloud, the odd spot of drizzle, some more meaningful rain for a time across some parts of scotland. if you get some clear spells in southern england they do, it could be cold enough for a touch of frost. most be cold enough for a touch of frost. m ost pla ces be cold enough for a touch of frost. most places holding between four and seven sources. tomorrow, a lot of grey, cloudy weather with mist and hill fog. a few brighter spells elsewhere, but also brightening up across the north—east of scotland because the wind will be picking up, breaking the cloud to some extent. at the same time, some rain pushing into north—west scotland. temperatures of eight to 10 celsius. this frontal system will be moving in as we get into sunday, bringing outbreaks of rain but also behind it a change to something colder. the raina a change to something colder. the rain a staggering eastwards through the day on sunday. it will be quite a windy day as well, particularly ahead of that rain band. behind it, things will turn brighter but they will also start to turn colder. temperatures across the north west coming down as the day goes on, five or six celsius in the west of scotland. the double digits towards the south east. the rain slides across the south east over the evening and through sunday night, a weather feature pushing evening and through sunday night, a weatherfeature pushing in from evening and through sunday night, a weather feature pushing in from the west, that could give some snow to fairly low levels across the northern half of the uk. that's worth bearing in mind for monday morning. could be icy as well. the start of the week will be colder, often quite windy with a mix of sunshine and showers. so it is 00:28:36,488 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 eventually going to change.

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the first cases in europe have been confirmed in france. fergus walsh reports. ten days from now, on this waste ground in wuhan will be a brand—new hospital. the extraordinary pace of building — a sign of how seriously china is taking the threat from the new coronavirus. the prefabricated building will have 1000 beds. it is urgently needed because hospitals in wuhan are overwhelmed with potential cases. the symptoms include cough, fever and breathing problems. a dozen cities have now been quarantined, affecting more than 30 million people. as you see, nobody here, it is absolutely empty. this should be the busiest time of year for travel and for hotels, but this one in wuhan is deserted. in downing street, borisjohnson hosted a reception to mark chinese new year. the government's emergency cobra committee also met to discuss the risk to the uk, which is considered low. we think that there's a fair chance we may get some cases over time. of course, this depends on whether this continues for a long time, but i think we should definitely see this as a marathon, not a sprint. there are still some key unknowns about this virus. how contagious is it? early case reports from china suggest people with no symptoms may be able to spread the virus. how deadly is it? so far, around one in four confirmed cases is severe, and most of those recover. it seems less deadly than sars, which killed nearly 800 people worldwide. and what is the source? we're confident the virus jumped from animals to humans, but until the source is pinpointed — perhaps bats or snakes — there is a risk of completely new infections. this is the first image of the coronavirus. work is already under way to develop a vaccine. we can, potentially, move from years to up to 16 weeks to get a vaccine developed and for very early clinical testing, as long as all goes well. for now, the world can only wait and see what impact china's control measures will have on the spread of this virus. fergus walsh, bbc news. let's get some of the day's other news. day four of donald trump's impeachment trial in the us senate is well underway. democrat prosecutors argue that the president should be removed from office for abuse of power and for obstructing congress. they say he's used foreign policy for his own personal, political gain. mr trump has dismissed the trial as boring. police in germany say they're waiting to question a man who shot dead six members of his own family, including his parents. two other relatives were in injured in the attack, which took place in the town of rot am see in the south west of the country. protesters have been marching again in paris where french unions are striking against the government's pension reforms. they're rallying against president macron‘s plans to replace france's 42 separate pension regimes with a universal points—based system. the unions have threatened to continue protesting for months to come in an attempt to stop the proposed changes. the spanish prime minister, pedro sanchez, has been holding an emergency meeting to discuss the government's response to storm gloria. thirteen people have died and at least four others are still missing after heavy rain, snow and flooding affected the east of the country. at least 1a people have died in a powerful earthquake in eastern turkey. emergency workers are searching for dozens of people who are trapped under the rubble. gareth barlow has more details. rescuers carry sui’vivoi’s out from the rubble. the 6.8 magnitude quake sent buildings crashing to the ground and residents rushing into the streets. more than 30 people are feared trapped and more than 500 people have been reported injured. the exact moment the earthquake struck, captured live on turkish tv. amid the inky darkness, among ruined buildings, screams rang out as more than 400 rescue teams rushed to help survivors. dozens of after—shocks followed the main tremor, which was also felt in neighbouring syria, lebanon and iran. the region, 550 kilometres east of the capital ankara, is remote and sparsely populated so the true extent of the damage and fatalities could be slow to emerge. turkey lies on major fault lines and is prone to frequent earthquakes — around 17,000 people died in a massive quake in 1999. gareth barlow, bbc news. the newly unveiled logo for us president donald trump's space force appears to have boldly gone where star trek went before. twitter users noted that the emblem, revealed by the president, bears an uncanny likeness to the insignia from the cult sci—fi tv series. plenty sci—fi tv series. more on our website. britain's foreign secretary dominic raab has described america's refusal to extradite a woman charged with causing a british teenager's death as "a denial ofjustice". harry dunn died after his motorbike collided with a car being driven on the wrong side of the road by anne sacoolas last august. duncan kennedy's report contains some flash photography. it was last august harry dunn died here and today, the scene was still framed by the caring tributes of those who loved him. anne sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day, is the american woman who's been charged with causing harry's death by dangerous driving. she had left this nearby american intelligence base moments before the collision, but two weeks later, left britain, claiming diplomatic immunity. now the united states has refused to send her back, something harry's mum says is difficult to accept. itjust gives us more determination to carry on. it's just another hurdle. we've come across lots of them since the 11th of october and it's just another one that we will get over, eventually. this is just a setback, not the end? absolutely. the decision to block the extradition of anne sacoolas was taken by mike pompeo, the american secretary of state, who insisted mrs sacoolas was covered by diplomatic immunity at the time of the accident. it's now nearly five months since harry died here and his parents had been expecting that it would be for the american courts to decide whether to extradite anne sacoolas. now that the american government has stepped in, they do see that as a setback, but say their fight will go on. tonight, the dunns‘ local mp, the business secretary andrea leadsom, said the family had the full support of borisjohnson in theircampaign. the prime minister is very much on the side of the family in their desire to see justice done for harry and all of us in government are working towards that end. harry's family say they have had to set aside their grieving to pursue this cause and insist they won't be silenced. duncan kennedy, bbc news. a coronor has ruled that the death of a baby boy a week after he was delivered at a hospital in kent was wholly avoidable. harry richford died at the queen elizabeth the queen mother hospital in margate in 2017. the trust say they wholeheartedly apologise for the failings in harry's care. it comes after the bbc revealed on thursday that there have been at least seven preventable baby deaths at the east kent nhs trust. with more, here's our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan. a warning — his report contains flashing images. we didn't get to hold harry until the day that he died. i'm so glad we got to spend those seven days with him and see him. it means he was a real, living human being for those seven days and that means everything to us. tom and sarah should have their toddler son buzzing around them on their seaside walk. but a catalogue of maternity failures robbed the young couple of harry within days of his birth. if harry had brain damage similar to what he had when he died and he was under my care during those seven days, i would be held accountable for that. but nobody has at the hospital. it all went wrong on this maternity unit over a two—hour period one november night. first, a locum doctor, described as out of his depth, delayed delivering the baby. the coroner said he should never have been in charge that evening. he never had his cv checked by a consultant, as was the process. it doesn't feel like a very safe culture or a safe environment, if that's the case. harry was born pale and floppy, but he would have survived and been healthy if a paediatrician hadn't failed for 28 minutes to properly resuscitate him. everyone in theatre was panicking. the anaesthetist came up to me and said to me, "i'm going to put you under general anaesthetic," and i was glad that he was going to do that because i didn't want to be in that room any more. i've had to live with that for a long time because it meant that tom had to leave the room having seen harry being resuscitated because it was not a nice atmosphere to be in and it was panicked. it didn't feel like anybody was really in control. gravely ill, harry was transferred to a nearby intensive care unit, but he never recovered, and his parents were advised to turn off his life—support system. it was the worst week in our life in some respects, because you don't want to make that decision for your baby, but at the same time, you don't want your baby to grow up not having a good quality of life. east kent hospitals trust today apologised for the care it provided. they didn't address, however, why they'd initially recorded harry's death as "expected" and had refused for months to tell the coroner of his case. both decisions would have meant they faced less scrutiny over the care they had provided. but they didn't account for the determination of harry's family to get to the truth. now personally vindicated, their focus today was to ensure other families don't suffer as they have. we don't want this to be like all of the prior cases which we heard about yesterday when the news broke. there were a number of cases which the bbc investigated and they found out all of those cases, had they learned from those cases, we wouldn't be stood here today because harry would still be alive and well. the prince of wales has called for ‘unity and tolerance‘ among different faiths on his first formal visit to the occupied palestinian territories. during a speech in bethlehem, prince charles said he would pray for "a just and lasting peace" in the middle east. he has also held talks with the palestinian president mahmood abbas. 0ur royal correspondentjonny dymond has this report. a palestinian welcome for the prince. this is his first time he's set foot in the occupied palestinian territories. charles, he wrote, first in english and then in arabic. a diplomatically delicate day started at the only mosque in the old city. a short and somewhat chaotic walk through the old city. after the mosque will come the church of the nativity, and it's the proximity of the two that brings charles here — part of his decades—long effort to bring faiths together. inside one of christianity‘s holiest places, a chance to see the spot where christians believejesus was born, and to hear first—hand of the struggle of christians in the middle east. we are doing our best to survive, to fight against every difficulty at this situation. more meetings, more greetings, and a time to express his concern for the challenges palestinians face. the prince and the palestinian president spoke for 45 minutes and he spoke directly to the situation of the palestinians under israeli occupation. it is my wish for the future that there will be freedom, justice and equality for palestinians, enabling you to thrive and prosper. and on this first official visit to the region, a personal moment. a visit to his grandmother's gray. princess al—assad asked to be buried on the mount of olives overlooking the holy city. and today, prince charles paid his respects. jonny dymond, bbc news, bethlehem. this is bbc news, the headlines... a massive campaign is under way to try to stop the spread of a new virus in china, as the first cases in europe are confirmed. and on day four of donald trump's impeachment trial democrat prosecutors are wrapping up their case against the president. joseph mccann, one of the country's most dangerous sex offenders, was jailed last month for at least 30 years for kidnapping and raping women and children last summer. after he was caught, it emerged that he should have still been in prison for previous violent offences. now, the first of his victims to speak publicly has told the bbc that she's never received an official apology, and that senior figures should be held to account for probation failings. she's been speaking to our home affairs correspondent, june kelly. held captive in this car is the first of the women joseph mccann kidnapped and raped. in the fortnight that followed, he targeted another ten victims. the youngest, boy of 11. the eldest, a woman of 71 who has now spoken to us. he said, "i've got a knife. "i've killed somebody this morning". like all rape victims, she has anonymity, but in this first interview by any of mccann‘s victims, she describes how he abducted her as she got into her car. i shouted "get out of my car!", and he punched me in the face and he said "i'm sorry, i'm sorry", and he shouted at me, "i wouldn't want to do that, i've got a grandma." mccann was already wanted for attacks in watford, london in lancashire when he turned up at this supermarket in greater manchester, hunting for his next victim. and it was in the car park that he punched and abducted the grandmother. he forced her to drive onto the motorway. she was kept a prisoner in her own car for four and half hours. mccann stopped the car and raped her. he also kidnapped a 13—year—old girl off the street, forced her into the car with them and sexually assaulted her. the older victim took her chance when mccann fell asleep. she pulled off into a service station. i was working out all the time i was driving, how am i going to get out of this situation? and i knew i wouldn't outrun him, and i knew i had to get to where there would be a lot of people. so i drove right up to a group of people, just got out and ran towards them and said i've been abducted. the little girl got out as well, and he ran after me and wrenched the keys out of my hand and drove off in the car. joseph mccann was eventually found hours later, hiding up a tree. it emerged, that at the time he was roaming around the country raping women and children, he should've been in prison. a man with a history of violence, he had wrongly released. joseph mccann‘s case represents a catastrophic failure by the criminaljustice system. but this victim says there's one thing she hasn't received. have you ever had an apology? i've never had an apology. it would've been nice to have had something a bit more personal, i think. for somebody to come and see me or send a letter or something, just something that recognises the victims, really, i suppose, yeah. hello? following mccann‘s mistaken release, two probation staff were sacked, one demoted. but all those who suffered at the hands of mccann have paid the price for a system in crisis, according to this victim. it's always the front—line workers who get disciplined, and that probation office was understaffed, it had low morale, and that was because of the changes that have been brought in by grayling. that's chris grayling ? chris grayling. who brought... who privatised part of the probation service, and i think people who made those decisions at high levels should be brought to account. in response, chris grayling, the formerjustice secretary, who was responsible for the part privatisation stressed that mccann was under the supervision of the national probation service, which remained in the public sector, and wasn't part of any privatisation programme. he said the problems in this case were down to the operational failure of a small number of staff. when it comes to the lack of an apology, the ministry ofjustice says it recently began making contact with the victims. i'm doing this interview because i know a lot of the victims are not in any state to do it. fortunately, i am. i'm older. i've had a good life, and i'm not letting it ruin my life. they are all young women and children, they have got that for the rest of their lives. 0ne ofjoseph mccann‘s victims ending that report by our home affairs correspondentjune kelly. just want to bring you some breaking news on our top story, the corona virus spreading from china out through the rest of the world and we are saying details are coming to all the time and we have details from australia and they are confirming their first case of the virus, that coming from health officials in victoria in the last few hours, france has confirmed two cases and in china itself, the latest details from their have confirmed 41 people are dead and confirmed cases, according to the state media, now 1287. as these details continue to come in, we will bring them to you. the former deputy first minister of northern ireland, seamus mallon, has died at the age of 83. he was one of the most influential figures in the peace process and was the first person to hold the post of deputy first minister in the power—sharing devolved government set up after the good friday agreement. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page looks back at his life. i congratulate both of you on being elected. first, first minister in northern ireland and first deputy first minister for northern ireland. applause. seamus mallon‘s place in history is assured, as the first irish nationalist to be joint head of the power—sharing devolved government at stormont. he became deputy first minister weeks after he helped to negotiate the good friday peace agreement, along with his party leader, john hume. the teacher from county armagh became involved in politics during a campaign for civil rights in the late 1960s. in 1986, he won a seat in the house of commons, which he held for almost two decades. but it was his work back at home which he most valued. his consistent condemnation of violence and his persistence in persuading people away from it, earned him international respect. 0nly last year he was still speaking out to encourage reconciliation. if we have the courage and the desire for two communities to live together in a palatable way, if we want that, we can we can get it. it's going to be tough, it's going to require a lot of goodwill and hope. but if we haven't got hope, you've nothing. tony blair's described seamus mallon as one of the most important architects of peace. 0ccasionally fierce, but always wise. there have been tributes from politicians across the island of ireland to a man who was massively influential in ending the most complex of conflicts. chris page, bbc news, belfast. huge swarms of locusts, like something out of the old testament, have been sweeping through large parts of east africa, destroying crops, and threatening the food security of the region. one of the worst affected countries is kenya, which last dealt with a plague of locusts on this scale half a century ago. 0ur senior africa correspondent anne soy reports. from a distance, it looks like northern kenyan is burning. but these are swarms of desert locusts, spreading like wildfire across the horn of africa. just one swarm can have more than 200 million insects. these are tiny creatures flying above me. they look harmless, but if you can see, hundreds of millions of them are flying at the same time, the amount of destruction they can cause is unimaginable. this man tells me this is the second invasion of locusts he has witnessed in about 60 years. this time, he has lost nearly all his maize and bean crops. translation: it is painful, we had no rain for several years. when it did finally rain last year, we were so happy. but then these insects have come and destroyed our crop. we have incurred large losses. he says he brought dozens of people here to help ward off the invasion. elsewhere, gunshots, tear gas and whistles. people and governments across the region are desperate to save plants from being devoured. conservation groups are helping track the movement of the swarms. the kenyan and ethiopian governments are using aerial spraying to try to kill the insects, but with little success. a region devastated by years of drought, seem to have recovered when it received unusually heavy rains. but that has now brought this misery, leaving communities on the edge. anne soy, bbc news. millions around the world will tune in to the grammy awards this sunday. as the recording academy grapples with how to reflect the diversity of the music industry — we turn to the relationship between race and country music. in 2018, rapper lil nas x released his hit single, old town road. billboard removed the song from its country charts, at first, saying it wasn't "country enough". some critics said race was a factor. cathy mcclay has been to nashville, the heart of country music, to find out more. country music is giving an opportunity for you to tell a story. when you think about country music, you probably don't picture people likejimmie. you probably don't picture people like jimmie. in a room full of country artists, there would be about two or three other people that look like me. i was excited and sad to be the first. number one in country, just because of the year. it is 2020, 2019 at the time and country stemmed from a black chart. 0utside country stemmed from a black chart. outside the country music hall of fame, one of the well‘s extensive music collections, but only two of the artists here are black. those inductees were inducted into thousand in the first country black star who was inducted in 2005. while this part of country music history has usually been concealed, now more people are paying attention. country music itself is born in as much african—american history in what we think as white, rural southern history. documentary maker, ken burns looks at the roots of country music. rhiannon is one of the artist featured in the documentary and she has spent her career working to make sure those routes are not forgotten. the banjo became a well— known plantation instruments, 100 years of its existence, it was known as a black instrument. how did it get into the white community? in the 18405, entertainers looked at the banjo and they went, that is pretty cool. it is one of the first instruments 100 years before rock and roll. the reason we're not talking about it is because it was for the blackface as part of the minstrel show. the industry still has a long way to go in the area of diversity. for me, it is all about representation. if country is the route you want to take, come on in, there is plenty of room for everybody. that is it for me, get me any time on twitter. i am lewis vaughan—jones and you are watching bbc news. time for the weather. high pressure might have kept the uk drive for the first half of the week but the second half has been misty and murky. changes on the way with rain spreading east across the uk on sunday and after that colder, but when she showers in places as well. this is what is happening, high pressure is on the way out during saturday and by sunday, this weather front sweeps east with the rain and it is behind that we pick up the breeze, bring back some sunshine but bring some showers in that will give some snow in places, particularly sunday night into monday morning. for the start of the weekend, on saturday morning, a chilly side towards the far south of england, may be a hint of frost in the cold est may be a hint of frost in the coldest spots, but most are frost free, cloud, damp and drizzly and misty and murky in places. something brighter migrates north woods across england and wales in the day, but behind that thick cloud comes back with patchy rain and drizzle and we could see that towards parts of northern ireland and in the west of scotland. windy towards north—west scotland, rainbow persistent in the western isles to end the day and thatis western isles to end the day and that is the weather front resort area. this is the rain pushing into northern ireland overnight and into sunday morning and into western scotla nd sunday morning and into western scotland as well. another frost free start to the day on sunday. sunday is all about the rain moving east, but also the change, colder conditions following on behind. a marked change in colour showing up, thatis marked change in colour showing up, that is the colder air moving in and it is within that there will be brighter skies for early next week but also the showers and a chance of seeing some but also the showers and a chance of seeing some snow but also the showers and a chance of seeing some snow showers in places. as we go on to sunday, we will see the rain pushing east to all areas, clearing quickly from northern ireland, later in the day reaching the far south—east of england. brighten up the time the rain towards western parts of england and wales but the bus of the sunshine will be northern ireland and scotla nd will be northern ireland and scotland but there may be the odd shower behind. the colder feel two things once the rain has moved through. windy day across the board as well. the rain clears overnight, but this system comes in on monday morning and there's a chance northern ireland, another ireland and a specially now, seeing snow to relatively low levels on monday. don't get caught out by the ice. 0n monday, for the showers coming in towards the south and west commentary on hills and in the north and another breezy day. it will be a colder start to next week and then by the end of the week it is turning milder again. this is bbc news. the headlines: as the lunar new year begins, china has launched a massive campaign to try to stop the spread of the virus that has reportedly killed up to 41 people. the virus has also spread to europe. three cases have been confirmed in france. a powerful earthquake has struck eastern turkey, killing at least 14 people and damaging buildings near the epicenter of the tremor. at least 30 people are believed to be trapped under the rubble.

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offenders who was wrongly released from prison, tells the bbc she's never received an official apology. i'm doing this interview because i know a lot of the other victims are not in any state to do it — fortunately, i am. i am older, i have had a good life and i'm not letting it ruin my life. at least 1a people have been killed and hundreds injured in a powerful earthquake in eastern turkey. and at 11:30 we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers — writer and broadcaster mihir bose, and ruth lea economic adviser for arbuthnot banking. good evening. tonight, the first cases of the coronavirus are found in europe with three people infected in france. the health minister there warns there are likely to be more people with the disease. here, the authorites are trying to trace 2000 people who have flown from wuhan in china into the uk in the past fortnight. in china, travel restrictions have been widened after the death toll climbed to 26 and hundreds more were revealed to have been infected. people are being stopped from leaving the city of wuhan, the centre of the outbreak, and there are severe travel restrictions in several other cities. but cases of the virus have already been reported in neighbouring countries including japan, vietnam, thailand, south korea and singapore, as well as the united states. this report from our medical correspondent fergus walsh. ten days from now, on this waste ground in wuhan will be a brand—new hospital. the extraordinary pace of building — a sign of how seriously china is taking the threat from the new coronavirus. the prefabricated building will have 1000 beds. it is urgently needed because hospitals in wuhan are overwhelmed with potential cases. the symptoms include cough, fever and breathing problems. a dozen cities have now been quarantined, affecting more than 30 million people. as you see, nobody here, it is absolutely empty. this should be the busiest time of year for travel and for hotels, but this one in wuhan is deserted. in downing street, borisjohnson hosted a reception to mark chinese new year. the government's emergency cobra committee also met to discuss the risk to the uk, which is considered low. we think that there's a fair chance we may get some cases over time. of course, this depends on whether this continues for a long time, but i think we should definitely see this as a marathon, not a sprint. there are still some key unknowns about this virus. how contagious is it? early case reports from china suggest people with no symptoms may be able to spread the virus. how deadly is it? so far, around one in four confirmed cases is severe, and most of those recover. it seems less deadly than sars, which killed nearly 800 people worldwide. and what is the source? we're confident the virus jumped from animals to humans, but until the source is pinpointed — perhaps bats or snakes — there is a risk of completely new infections. this is the first image of the coronavirus. work is already under way to develop a vaccine. we can, potentially, move from years to up to 16 weeks to get a vaccine developed and for very early clinical testing, as long as all goes well. for now, the world can only wait and see what impact china's control measures will have on the spread of this virus. fergus walsh, bbc news. let's cross to china now and get reaction there to events and talk to sophia yan, china correspondent for the telegraph in beijing. good to have view with us. i wonder if you can give us a sense of how things are playing out? there is almost two conflicting reports. 0n the one hand hearing praise from the fast—moving response from the chinese authorities and on the other, newspapers with news trickling through of hospitals being under pressure and people not getting the support they need? the world health organization have commended beijing... they are comparing it to sars but that was 20 yea rs comparing it to sars but that was 20 years ago and then the government was covering up. they are straining to support a population of 1.4 billion. in wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak... people are being turned away because there aren't enough patient budgets. we are having trouble with your line. let's see if we can make an improvement because we are missing some of what you are saying. josepjansa is the principal expert emergency preparedness and response for the european centre for disease prevention and control. he told me earlier that he expects there will be confirmed cases of coronavirus in europe over the coming days and weeks. it is quite likely, especially from what has already been said, this is a particular time in the year where lots of people, millions of people are travelling back and forth to china. therefore, the likelihood of some cases being seen in eu countries will be seen. in terms of what governments should be doing, we have seen in the uk, government meeting and contingency plans and what to do at airports, what is the right approach? i think there are measures that have already been taken and the preparedness, how much we prepare in terms of the measures to try to contain, as much as possible, the potential spread of the virus, hygienic measures, some screening in the airports and also avoiding some contact with individuals who are coughing or with respiratory diseases. i think those general measures make sense. as far as things are moving forward, the measures will be more specific also in parallel on the improvement in the knowledge of the ways of transmission and the likelihood of the virus to be transmitted from person to person, which is already there but we still don't know the intensity and the exact mechanism of transmission. and on that issue of trying to get greater knowledge of the virus, what is it that scientists will be trying with urgency to do now? they are working against the clock about the potential beginning of the outbreak, the measures, the origin and how the first cases were transmitted and then the first generation of cases and then the second generation. there are a lot of groups of scientists investigating that and i think that very soon we will start seeing their results, as some papers have already been published. and how important is cooperation and communication between countries at this stage? this is an essential point. it is not only the communication by itself, it is how do we communicate which kind of m essa 9 es we pass do we communicate which kind of messages we pass and how we manage the balance between normal preoccupation and the normal alarm between the populations, the politicians and the situation, and the real threat itself? it has to be the real threat itself? it has to be the right point, to pass the message that can help to prevent and to take the proper control and not to unnecessary alarm when we still don't know exactly what the impact of that epidemic. we are going to try to go back to the china correspondent for the telegraph who is in beijing. sorry to talk about the technical problems, you are starting to talk about the world health organization and their relationship to china? yes, there is a lot of communication between the world health 0rganization this week. medical experts expected the organisation to declare a crisis around the world. now this affects tens of millions of people in china and obviously the authorities have been trying to prevent further disease spread. they're trying to quarantine everybody at their home. in fact large—scale public gatherings have been cancelled. we are now in the chinese new year holiday period. a time when people across china are trying to celebrate with their families, hoping to have a great new year, it is the year of the raft. at this time around we have this big disease epidemic to be handling. so the authorities are trying to keep people at home and away from travel. but by the time that travel ban went into place, it was spread to many cities and people had already gone home for the holiday. how are people responding with the restrictions placed on them? they are worried, some people are cancelling their holiday dinners and people are wearing masks and lots of hand spray. but i talk to one woman who isa spray. but i talk to one woman who is a seafood vendor in wuhan and she sold fish at the market, which is the source of the outbreak and she is not worried at all. it depends on who you are speaking with. she is in her 40s and she is somebody, who, at this point doesn't think there is anything to be worried and she is right in the middle, the thick of things. in beijing, you are seeing taxi drivers and people on the street wearing face masks in hopes of defending themselves against this virus. we have been seeing pictures of huge numbers of diggers preparing to build a makeshift hospital in ten days, which will be used for quarantining people who are infected. quite an impressive feat of engineering and speed?m infected. quite an impressive feat of engineering and speed? it is, a lot of people saying it is only something china could do. it is an entire hospital being built with 1000 beds, within a week. this is meant to deal with this issue of capacity because now we have already seen cases capacity because now we have already seen cases patients, people who might be sick showing symptoms of fever and cough are being turned away from hospitals in wuhan. so the idea the authorities are trying to rally so quickly, they are trying to deal with the situation that has scaled up in a very fast and creative time. how much do you think has been learned from the sars epidemic? china is trying to give more information to the public. it is interesting, because there are certain disclosures they are making, trying to keep everybody updated. for beijing, the biggest challenge isa for beijing, the biggest challenge is a political one, for the leader. what they're trying to do make sure at home and abroad, they are giving the sense that china is doing everything they can and successfully containing this particular coronavirus. at least in china, in the early days and even now, people who have been complaining about not being able to receive treatment and have access to treatment when they think they are sick, these people are going online to complain and these complaints are being taken down so there is still a degree of censorship in china about the things people are allowed to say about a particular situation. because the party in charge, they are trying to manage public opinion and also have a better sense, at least on the outside, that they are successful in these efforts to contain the virus. really pleased we could get that line back up to you, sophia. thank you very much indeed. a coronor has ruled that the death of a baby boy a week after he was delivered at a hospital in kent was "wholly avoidable". harry richford died at the queen elizabeth the queen mother hospital in margate in 2017. the trust say they wholeheartedly apologise for the failings in harry's care. it comes after the bbc revealed yesterday that there have been at least seven preventable baby deaths at the east kent nhs trust. with more, here's our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan. a warning — his report contains flashing images. we didn't get to hold harry until the day that he died. i'm so glad we got to spend those seven days with him and see him. it means he was a real, living human being for those seven days and that means everything to us. tom and sarah should have their toddler son buzzing around them on their seaside walk. but a catalogue of maternity failures robbed the young couple of harry within days of his birth. if harry had brain damage similar to what he had when he died and he was under my care during those seven days, i would be held accountable for that. but nobody has at the hospital. it all went wrong on this maternity unit over a two—hour period one november night. first, a locum doctor, described as out of his depth, delayed delivering the baby. the coroner said he should never have been in charge that evening. he never had his cv checked by a consultant, as was the process. it doesn't feel like a very safe culture or a safe environment, if that's the case. harry was born pale and floppy, but he would have survived and been healthy if a paediatrician hadn't failed for 28 minutes to properly resuscitate him. everyone in theatre was panicking. the anaesthetist came up to me and said to me, "i'm going to put you under general anaesthetic," and i was glad that he was going to do that because i didn't want to be in that room any more. i've had to live with that for a long time because it meant that tom had to leave the room having seen harry being resuscitated because it was not a nice atmosphere to be in and it was panicked. it didn't feel like anybody was really in control. gravely ill, harry was transferred to a nearby intensive care unit, but he never recovered, and his parents were advised to turn off his life—support system. it was the worst week in our life in some respects, because you don't want to make that decision for your baby, but at the same time, you don't want your baby to grow up not having a good quality of life. east kent hospitals trust today apologised for the care it provided. they didn't address, however, why they'd initially recorded harry's death as "expected" and had refused for months to tell the coroner of his case. both decisions would have meant they faced less scrutiny over the care they had provided. but they didn't account for the determination of harry's family to get to the truth. now personally vindicated, their focus today was to ensure other families don't suffer as they have. we don't want this to be like all of the prior cases which we heard about yesterday when the news broke. there were a number of cases which the bbc investigated and they found out all of those cases, had they learned from those cases, we wouldn't be stood here today because harry would still be alive and well. a powerful earthquake has struck eastern turkey, killing at least 14 people and damaging buildings near the epicentre of the tremor. the quake shook the siv—riss district in the province of elayzig at a magnitude of 6.8. rescue efforts under way in the area and at least 30 people are believed to be trapped in the rubble. the quake occured in a remote region and was followed by dozens of after shocks. joseph mccann, one of the country's most dangerous sex offenders, was jailed last month for at least 30 years for kidnapping and raping women and children last summer. after he was caught, it emerged that he should have still been in prison for previous violent offences. now, the first of his victims to speak publicly has told the bbc that she's never received an official apology, and that senior figures should be held to account for probation failings. she's been speaking to our home affairs correspondent, june kelly. held captive in this car is the first of the women joseph mccann kidnapped and raped. in the fortnight that followed, he targeted another ten victims. the youngest, boy of 11. the eldest, a woman of 71 who has now spoken to us. he said, "i've got a knife. "i've killed somebody this morning". like all rape victims, she has anonymity, but in this first interview by any of mccann's victims, she describes how he abducted her as she got into her car. i shouted "get out of my car!", and he punched me in the face and he said "i'm sorry, i'm sorry", and he shouted at me, "i wouldn't want to do that, i've got a grandma." mccann was already wanted for attacks in watford, london in lancashire when he turned up at this supermarket in greater manchester, hunting for his next victim. and it was in the car park that he punched and abducted the grandmother. he forced her to drive onto the motorway. she was kept a prisoner in her own car for four and half hours. mccann stopped the car and raped her. he also kidnapped a 13—year—old girl off the street, forced her into the car with them and sexually assaulted her. the older victim took her chance when mccann fell asleep. she pulled off into a service station. i was working out all the time i was driving, how am i going to get out of this situation? and i knew i wouldn't outrun him, and i knew i had to get to where there would be a lot of people. so i drove right up to a group of people, just got out and ran towards them and said i've been abducted. the little girl got out as well, and he ran after me and wrenched the keys out of my hand and drove off in the car. joseph mccann was eventually found hours later, hiding up a tree. it emerged, that at the time he was roaming around the country raping women and children, he should've been in prison. a man with a history of violence, he had wrongly released. joseph mccann's case represents a catastrophic failure by the criminaljustice system. but this victim says there's one thing she hasn't received. have you ever had an apology? i've never had an apology. it would've been nice to have had something a bit more personal, i think. for somebody to come and see me or send a letter or something, just something that recognises the victims, really, i suppose, yeah. hello? following mccann's mistaken release, two probation staff were sacked, one demoted. but all those who suffered at the hands of mccann have paid the price for a system in crisis, according to this victim. it's always the front—line workers who get disciplined, and that probation office was understaffed, it had low morale, and that was because of the changes that have been brought in by grayling. that's chris grayling ? chris grayling. who brought... who privatised part of the probation service, and i think people who made those decisions at high levels should be brought to account. in response, chris grayling, the formerjustice secretary, who was responsible for the part privatisation stressed that mccann was under the supervision of the national probation service, which remained in the public sector, and wasn't part of any privatisation programme. he said the problems in this case were down to the operational failure of a small number of staff. when it comes to the lack of an apology, the ministry ofjustice says it recently began making contact with the victims. i'm doing this interview because i know a lot of the victims are not in any state to do it. fortunately, i am. i'm older. i've had a good life, and i'm not letting it ruin my life. they are all young women and children, they have got that for the rest of their lives. 0ne ofjoseph mccann's victims ending that report by our home affairs correspondentjune kelly. more than 200 private patients of an orthopaedic surgeon have been contacted over concerns about operations he performed. spire health care said it had alerted 217 people whose shoulder operations were carried out by orthopaedic consultant habib rahman. 0ur health editor hugh pym explained the timeline of events a little earlier. this relates to habib rahman's work at the spire health care hospital, parkway hospital in solihull. it's not clear how the concerns first came to light. a lawyer says she was contacted by a small number of patients alleging inappropriate and unnecessary shoulder surgery. spire moved quite quickly and suspended his right to practice while an independent review was carried out by the royal college of surgeons. in the light of that, his right to practice was withdrawn at the hospital last year. he is still doing some work for the nhs with restrictions. spire have contacted these 217 patients, offering them an independent review. now, coincidentally, it's the same hospital where ian paterson worked. he was convicted of wounding patients because of unnecessary breast surgery and, as it happens, a review in a couple of weeks' time will be published on lessons learned after the paterson saga. lessons learned about the accountability and oversight and scrutiny of surgeons across all private hospitals. boris johnson has signed the withdrawal agreement sealing britain's departure from the european union. the prime minister called it a fantastic moment, and said it brought to an end "far too many years of argument and division." the uk is due to leave the european union at 11pm on the 31st january. britain's biggest trade union, unite, has backed rebecca long bailey in the labour leadership contest. the shadow business secretary now needs just one more union or group to endorse her to reach the final stage of the race to replace jeremy corbyn. sir keir starmer and lisa nandy are already through. survivors and bereaved families from the grenfell tower fire say they may oppose the opening of the second phase of the public inquiry into the tragedy, which is due start next week. they dispute the appointment of an engineer, benita mehra, whom they claim has a conflict of interest, as a charity she ran received a donation from a us metals company which produced the cladding on the tower. the government says it's listened to their concerns and may respond over the weekend. the foreign secretary dominic raab has described america's refusal to extradite a woman charged with causing a british teenager's death as "a denial ofjustice". harry dunn died after his motorbike collided with a car being driven on the wrong side of the road by anne sacoolas in northamptonshire last august. duncan kennedy's report contains some flash photography. it was last august harry dunn died here and today, the scene was still framed by the caring tributes of those who loved him. anne sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day, is the american woman who's been charged with causing harry's death by dangerous driving. she had left this nearby american intelligence base moments before the collision, but two weeks later, left britain, claiming diplomatic immunity. now the united states has refused to send her back, something harry's mum says is difficult to accept. itjust gives us more determination to carry on. it's just another hurdle. we've come across lots of them since the 4th of october and it's just another one that we will get over, eventually. this is just a setback, not the end? absolutely. the decision to block the extradition of anne sacoolas was taken by mike pompeo, the american secretary of state, who insisted mrs sacoolas was covered by diplomatic immunity at the time of the accident. it's now nearly five months since harry died here and his parents had been expecting that it would be for the american courts to decide whether to extradite anne sacoolas. now that the american government has stepped in, they do see that as a setback, but say their fight will go on. tonight, the dunns' local mp, the business secretary andrea leadsom, said the family had the full support of borisjohnson in theircampaign. the prime minister is very much on the side of the family in their desire to see justice done for harry and all of us in government are working towards that end. harry's family say they have had to set aside their grieving to pursue this cause and insist they won't be silenced. duncan kennedy, bbc news. the former deputy first minister of northern ireland, seamus mallon, has died at the age of 83. he was one of the most influential figures in the peace process — and the first person to be deputy first minister in the power—sharing devolved government set up after the good friday agreement. and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers mihir bose and ruth lea — that's coming up after the headlines at 11:30. now it's time for the weather with lucy martin. hello there. next week's weather will have a very different feel to the weekjust gone. the relatively quiet weather replaced with something more unsettled, and we see a transition to this as we move through this weekend. so, we take a look at the pressure chart as we start the weekend, high pressurejust holding on, but low pressure will start to take control. and this cold front will introduce some wet and windy weather as the weekend wears on. so, saturday does look fairly similar to what we've seen on friday. there's a lot of cloud around, some mist and hill fog. there will be some patchy rain and drizzle at times, perhaps a few brighter spells pushing north across england and wales, a predominantly cloudy day with the temperatures at a maximum of around 9—10d celcius. later in the day, we will see some more significant rain pushing into the far north and west. the breeze picking up here as well. and that's thanks to this cold front, which is going to bring about that change. it pushes its way southeast as we move into sunday. behind it, notice the blue colour here, a chillier air mass to come. here's how sunday starts then, outbreaks of rain in the west in heavy bursts, and they will gradually work east as we move through the day. behind that front, it will brighten up. northern ireland, western scotland seeing some sunshine coming through, also a few showers. showers could be wintry for parts of scotland, and it will be a blustery day across the board for with a south—south westerly wind. temperatures ahead of that cold front staying in the double figures, but it will turn cold air from the north and west. temperatures in glasgow sitting around 5—6d celsius. as we move into the start of next week then, that cold front clears towards the southeast. this feature could bring some issues though for rush hour first thing. so, something to bear in mind if you are planning to travel. for northern ireland, parts of scotland, parts of northern england, the potential for some snow first thing, and also some ice patches. tricky driving conditions. elsewhere, we are looking at a good deal of sunshine through the day and a splattering of showers mostly in the south and west. the temperatures across the north sitting at around 4—6d celsius, 7—10 further south. into tuesday, low pressure still in charge of our weather. so we're going to stick with that cooler shower shower theme. tuesday brings sunny spells, but also the chance of some showers, and those showers, again, could be wintry for parts of scotland and northern england and northern ireland. there will be some showers in the southwest, these showers here could merge to form longer spells of rain. it will be blustery in the southwest too.

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