the grand slam in dublin against england on st patrick s day weekend. good morning, this weekend is shaping up to be a tale of two halves, today a case of sunny spells and scattered sharp showers but mild for all, tomorrow will be a little bit quieterforjust that for all, tomorrow will be a little bit quieter forjust that little bit cooler, all the details coming up shortly. it s saturday march 18th. our top story president biden has said vladimir putin has clearly committed war crimes after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for the russian president. the icc alleges he is responsible for criminal acts, and failing to use his presidential powers to stop children being deported from ukraine to russia. our correspondent helena wilkinson reports. it helena wilkinson reports. is a war that he ordered that it is a war that he ordered, a war that brought death and devastation, a war that sent millions fleeing for their lives. but it s one that has now le
there was about six, eight police officersl at the bottom of my bed. it has been very difficult. very, very difficult. barrow is a peninsula in south cumbria, a long way away from most other places. it is isolated, but because of that, it s a really strong and tight community. it did used to have a good name for itself with the shipbuilding, and then everything s disappearing in barrow. there s the bad areas, and there s good areas. it s a beautiful town. i ve made amazing mates here. i ve made an amazing life here. you will walk down the street, - and you will see someone you know. everyone knew each other, or if you didn t know each other, you d have heard of them. so when a story like this breaks, everybody s notjust got an opinion on it, everybody knows someone involved in it as well. in the spring of 2020, a 19 year old barrow girl called ellie williams published a harrowing facebook post that would send shockwaves through her community. they put lit petrol rags and thre
Could jump dramatically. The charity, crisis, says the problem may climb by three quarters in the uk over the next ten years. A Second Chance to gold botswanan athlete Isaac Makwala will run in the final of tinais 200m after running his won alone against the clock. I wish to thank the imf for giving me another chance. And two women are rescued from the top deck ofa women are rescued from the top deck of a Double Decker Bus after it crashed into a shop on a busy london high street. The driver has been taken to hospital. Good morning. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Northumbria police has defended paying £10,000 to a convicted child rapist. 0fficers did it to gather information in an abuse investigation. The force is standing by its actions after 17 mostly south asian men and one woman were convicted of grooming vulnerable girls in newcastle. Critics said it could have put victims at greater risk. Responding to the convictions, a former director of Public Prosecutions, lord macdonald, sai
Or other asian muslim origin is well established. Today, ken macdonald, a former director of public prosecutions, said it is a disease of racism and sexism that will not abate until it is confronted. Labour mp Sarah Champion said that people are more afraid to be called a racist than they are afraid to be wrong about calling out child abuse, which has inhibited exposure of wrong doing. She asked, why are we not commissioning research to see what is going on and how we need to change what is going on, so that it never happens again . Theyre good questions, so we are going to ask them for the first part of the programme this evening. First, Rabiya Limbada reports from oxford. Some of the 18 men and one woman convicted of abusing girls in newcastle. The men convicted were mainly british born, and came from bangladeshi, pakistani, indian, iraqi, iranian and turkish communities. A report in 2011 by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre identified over 2000 potential localised
took advantage of. i m nazir afzal, and i m the former chief crown prosecutor. and i led nationally on tackling child sexual abuse and violence against women and girls, and particularly what we call street grooming or what you may call so called grooming gangs because of the nature of the crime, the ethnicity of the perpetrators being disproportionately british, pakistani or british, asian and the far right have decided to focus on it. they say they are there to support the victims or expose perpetrators. the reality is they re really interested in their own agenda. i found that in rochdale, where they were outside of court every day. and then at one point, in fact, they tried to destroy the case by damaging and attacking a defence team which came that close to the case being chopped down. we would never have been able to prosecute that case, and everything else that flowed from it wouldn t have happened. the vast majority of british asians detest the perpetrators. they don t want anyt