That our species was living outside africa some 80,000 years earlier than previously thought. And a standing ovation for baroness tessa jowell after an emotional speech in the lords about dealing with cancer. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Theres been a sharp rise in the number of serious Violent Crimes and sex offences recorded by police in england and wales. And official figures show cases of murder and manslaughter are at their highest level in almost a decade. However, a separate survey based on peoples experiences rather than figures recorded by the police suggests that overall crime is continuing to fall. Our Home Affairs Correspondent tom symonds reports. Behind the statistics, wasted lives. A decade after meschak cornelio first tried out the bike he had been given as a present, he became one of the four young men stabbed to death in london on new years eve, leaving his father confronting a nightmare. You saw his body . Yes. What is it like for a father to see his son dead in front of him . Oh, i was crying. He tells us in his native portuguese he has no idea why it happened, what might have been going on in his sons life. Translation my advice for other parents would be to talk more to your kids, try to find out, even if you think they have secrets away from home. Todays figures set out the rise in Violent Crime recorded by police. Knife crime went up by 21 , gun crime up by 20 . Manslaughter and murder went up by 10 . Now, the official survey of crime shows that the number of people who say they have been a victim is falling steadily. But Police Records are seen as an accurate measure of serious Violent Crime. And despite schemes like these bins where knives can be handed in, no questions asked, it is rising steadily. He said i didnt mean to kill him, that was not my intention. Ijust wanted to slash him, cut him across the arm, take photos and upload it onto social media. This is alison cope and shes talking about the murder of her own son. Her audience, students at coventry college. Were in ibiza, 2012. Josh ribera was better known as the grime artist depzman to his thousands of fans. A single slash of a knife took his life in 2013. His eyes flicker, they close, hits the floor. Its a tough listen. Alison tells them these are the consequences, but carrying a knife is your choice. She believes telling them not to doesnt work. She says that is how the governments current policy comes across. They are standing up and doing their token gesture and it isnt working. How many young people have to die for them to admit that what were doing is not correct . True, government policy recently has centred on enforcement, tough rules on knives, tough policing, tough sentences. But today, ministers appeared to signal a change towards alisons way. We have to get to the root causes and work as a society, government, police and civil society, to try and get to the root of this cultural issue, try and steer young people away from violence. But serious proposals for work with young people are not going to come cheap. And by the way, Police Numbers are now at their lowest level for two decades. Tom symonds, bbc news. Joining me now via webcam from dorset is the criminologist and filmmaker roger graef. In some ways, these figures look like they are producing conflicting evidence, because the separate crime survey, based on peoples experience, suggests that crime is falling. Whats going on . Firstly, its important to realise that crime is not a national or even citywide experience. It is very local, and the groups that are at risk from Violent Crime, particularly knife crime, are small and gang related and often young people who are on the street at night. That is a particular target group who are vulnerable to the increased number of knives. And the reason they are having this trouble is because they dont feel safe, so they carry the nose not just dont feel safe, so they carry the nose notjust to attack each other, but to protect themselves. Meanwhile, the rest of us, if you like, are not at risk in the same way. They are better at locking their doors and keeping their car doors and windows shut. And the more secure their lives are, then crime will fall. That is also independent of the police, it is people looking after their own situations. But the small target groups are the ones who are accurately be described as having more violence and more stabbings and so on because on the whole, those numbers are reliable. A lot of crime which happens behind closed doors is never discussed. That is particularly to do with domestic violence, child abuse and online fraud. 0nline fraud is the Fastest Growing area of any crime, but a lot of times, victims dont even know they are the victims and they dont know who to report and they dont know who to report and the police are completely out of their depth with fraud in a way that they are not with conventional Violent Crime. Is it the case that some victims are more willing to come forward that they were in the past . Im thinking particularly of victims of sex offences. Yes and no. U nfortu nately, victims of sex offences. Yes and no. Unfortunately, my film about rape in the 1980s generated a change of heart in the way police started to believe victims. They then reported it, so it looked like rape was going up, but actually, the reporting of rape and sex offences was going up. As things like that occur, there will be more reporting, but we cant tell yet whether it is a greater number of offences or more confidence in the police. But as you may have heard from other stories, the frequency of conviction in rape cases is still low. And the accused have been the victim of sloppy policing. So the cps is worried about this, but they dont know whether to bring more cases that are less likely to be sure convictions, just because they need to get more into the courts, or what else needs to change to build confidence in the system. We heard today from the police and Crime Commission for the west midlands, who was complaining about his budget, saying it had been cut by 25 since 2010. Is that releva nt to cut by 25 since 2010. Is that relevant to what we are seeing today . It is interesting, because the crime figures from the police measure police activity, how much the police have recorded. And they dont record everything. There are no further actions and other ways of filtering out crime. For example, during the miners strike, it looked like crime had dropped almost to zero because almost all the coppers had really been in police stations who would normally be in police stations were out combating the miners strike. So it looked like crime had dropped, but it had not. So the relation between the number of police and the actual amount of crime is more to do with recording. The majority of crimes are reported by us to the police, not discovered by us to the police, not discovered by the police. Thank you for your insight. And well find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrows front pages at 10 40 this evening in the papers our guests joining me tonight are the political commentator of the sunday express. It was a much anticipated meeting the first time theresa may and President Trump had seen each other since an online spat over tweets from the far right Group Britain first. That was followed swiftly by the president cancelling a visit to london to open the new us embassy. But today in the swiss resort of davos, the pair insisted the special relationship was as strong as ever. Tonight downing street has said the two countries are discussing a working visit to the uk by the president. From davos, heres kamal ahmed. He arrived at lunchtime, a blizzard of rotor blades and chutzpah. The president was here and the World Economic forum better sit up and take notice. He said he was here to spread peace and prosperity. Very excited to be here. Very happy to be here. The United States is doing very well. And there was one leader donald trump said he would be most delighted to meet. The Prime Minister and myself have a really great relationship, although some people dont necessarily believe that. But i can tell you, i have tremendous respect for the Prime Minister and the job shes doing. I think the feeling is mutual from the standpoint of liking each other a lot. The pm, not quite as loud a presence in davos today, said she agreed. Weve had a great discussion today and we continue to have that really special relationship between the uk and the United States. Standing shoulder to shoulder because we are facing the same challenges across the world and as you say, we are working together to defeat those challenges and beat them. And alongside that, working for a trade relationship in the future, which will be to both our benefits. Theresa may has faced some rocky moments with the man in the white house, but this wasnt a moment to remember those critical tweets about terror or cancelled official visits. He walked through here like a rock star, the first us president to visit the World Economic forum since bill clinton in the year 2000. The big and difficult question for theresa may is this politically, economically, how close does she want to get to this most controversial of big beasts . There is a contrast in style, certainly, but the uk needs america, especially as britain plots its exit from the European Union. We are not all on the same page. America has a strong relationship with the United Kingdom over time and theresa may cant afford to sever that by objecting too much. One of the worlds leading bankers explained why trump was a hit. The alternative to trump would have been more regulation, higher taxes. Instead, we have lower taxes and less regulation. That is stimulative to the market, there is a lot of collateral effects and people will debate that, so i havent thrown in that all necessarily is a good thing, not a bad thing. Theresa may left davos tonight, back to the uk and domestic matters. Tomorrow, the president s big speech on america, trade and putting the us first. Kamalahmed, bbc news, davos. Here, downing street has tonight moved to contradict comments made in davos by the chancellor Philip Hammond. He said changes to britains trade relations with the eu after brexit would be very modest. But a downing street source said the changes could not be described as very modest. Meanwhile, the backbench tory euroscepticJacob Rees Mogg has tonight called for a fundamental change in ministers tone on brexit, accusing uk negotiators of being cowed by the eu. I think the lancaster house speech on the conservative Party Manifesto set upa on the conservative Party Manifesto set up a good basis for brexit. The key is that that should be the policy that is implemented. There are some concerns about the eus demands for the transition period, andi demands for the transition period, and i think its important at this stage to make it clear that we will not simply roll over and accept what the eu is asking for. Well, the leading eurosceptic conservative backbencher, bernard jenkin, joins us live from westminster now. Do you agree with your colleague Jacob Rees Mogg that uk negotiators are being cowed by the eu . There are some different agendas running from within the government, and the chancellors speech rather reflects that. But those agendas dont reflect what the Prime Minister wa nts. Reflect what the Prime Minister wants. The Prime Minister has been clear that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. Shes not going to agree to some indeterminate transition. She will agree to an implementation period when it is clear what is being implemented. We are not going to shell out billions of pounds of public money for some uncertain outcome. She has been clear about this all along. It was in our manifesto that we wanted a comprehensive Free Trade Agreement. We dont want to be in the Customs Union or in any Customs Union with the European Union. The treasury has put provision for a Customs Union agreement with the eu into the trade bill. Some of us are asking why. Why is the treasury pursuing a different policy from the Prime Minister . It is rather destabilising. Could the chancellor have been agreeing with you when he talked about modest changes . He is saying these two economies, the uk and the eu, are very much aligned at the moment. A Free Trade Agreement would mean only modest changes, wouldnt it . |j Free Trade Agreement would mean only modest changes, wouldnt it . I think the chancellor could have been much clearer about where he disagreed with the cbi, for example. Instead, there are a few occasions where he welcomes the cbi leaders speech and agrees with points in it when the cbi is campaigning for a completely different policy from the Prime Minister. I think that either the chancellor is being a little careless in the ambiguity of his remarks, or rather, as the suspect, the treasury has a different agenda. But it will be much easier for the Prime Minister to do herjob if everybody stuck to her script and thatis everybody stuck to her script and that is what he should do. And youre confident that the Prime Minister agrees with you rather than her chancellor, that she wants to make a clean break from the European Union and pursue what you would see as the opportunities of brexit . Well, she has never said anything different. It is only other people who have suggested that the government is going to finish up with a different policy. I think she is finding this very difficult. I dont particularly want that have to be another reshuffle, but maybe she needs one to give herself more ministers who support her policy. So you think Philip Hammond should be sacked . I did not say that. It sounded like that was what you meant. So you think she should have a cabinet which is full of people who campaign for brexit . Well, most of the conservative party in parliament is now clearly for her policy. The british people voted for her policy. The manifesto that we stood on is her policy. The labour party never suggest in their ma nifesto party never suggest in their manifesto that they wanted to join a Customs Union with the European Union, or to reverse brexit. Sorry substantial number of the british people voted at the last general election more or less for her policy. Im afraid much of the political elite in this country, for a long time, has been out of line with the majority of what british people want. Even the cbi were very split when they officially wanted britain tojoin the split when they officially wanted britain to join the euro. I suspect that behind the scenes, the cbi is split now and doesnt fully support the policy that Carolyn Fairbairn is articulating that we should be in a Customs Union. I think you will find many businesses in this country are looking forward to the substantial opportunities of new trade deals with the fast growing part of the globe which is outside the European Union, rather than just protecting the vested interests that want to continue with the status quo with the European Union, which is of limited value in the long term compared to the potential outside. We talked about theresa may finding this difficult. What is your message to colleagues who seem to be trying to colleagues who seem to be trying to put her out of her misery by writing a letter saying they want a leadership contest . writing a letter saying they want a leadership contest . I think there is a certain amount of leverage speculation. I have not met a Single Member of parliament in my party who wa nts to member of parliament in my party who wants to get rid of theresa may and has sent a letter. If all these letters are going in, they are being extremely secretive. I have seen leadership coups before in my party. They have become much more obvious than now if there was to be a coup against theresa may. Bernard jenkin, thank you. The headlines on bbc news a sharp rise in serious Violent Crime and sex offences knife crimes rise by more than 20 . President trump tells theresa may he loves britain and expects a tremendous increase in trade between america and the uk. But back home, more trouble in the conservative party over brexit the chancellor says he wants modest changes after we leave the eu and downing street contradicts him. Sport now. The british number two kyle edmund says he has caught the bug for computing in the grand slams after his semifinal in the australian 0pen. He became the sixth british man to reach the last four of a major in the open era. From east yorkshire to melbourne. Kyle edmund, in every sense, has come a long way. His arrival so soon has been a surprise for some. Now, could his extraordinary journey continue . Well, to go further, edmund would have to stand his ground against marin cilic. That is anything but easy. The travails of this tournament seemingly now taking their toll, edmund was outplayed from the start. The first set lost, there was to be a little encouragement, first from his coach and then from frustration. A disputed line call, a lengthy row and for a moment, it seemed like the spark edmund needed. That took him towards a tie break. Bu