it's exactly one year since the world health organization officially declared the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. a serving police officer is being questioned on suspicion of the kidnap and murder of sarah everard, who was last seen in south london more than a week ago. police investigating her disappearance have found what they believe to be human remains in woodland in kent. the metropolitan police commissioner, dame cressida dick, said it was incredibly rare for someone to be abducted on the street — but she understood that women may be feeling scared. aru na iyengar reports. all along the route sarah took from clapham common over a week ago, posters bearing her image are on every lamp post and bus stop, appealing for information. yesterday evening, police investigating her disappearance discovered what appears to be human remains in woodland in ashford, kent. police say they are not yet able to confirm any identity, and that may take considerable time. officers also searched his house in deal, kent. cars were taken away. it is believed to be the home of a serving police officer. he has been arrested on suspicion of sarah's kidnap and murder, and over a separate allegation of indecent exposure. the officer, in his 40s, was responsible for guarding diplomatic buildings. he was not on duty on the night sarah disappeared. a woman in her 30s was also arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. the news today that it was a metropolitan police officer who was arrested on suspicion of sarah's murder, has sent shock waves and anger through the public and through the met. i speak on behalf of all my colleagues when i say that we are utterly appalled. sarah's disappearance in these awful and wicked circumstances, i know, are every family's worst nightmare. the met commissioner said it was incredibly rare for a woman to be abducted from our streets. patrols have been stepped up in this area of south london. sarah, a marketing executive, had been at a friend's house on leathwaite road, close to clapham common. she left there at around nine in the evening to return to her home in brixton, about 50 minutes walk away. police believe she made her way across clapham common. this footage showed sarah on poynder road at around 9:30pm. it was the last time she was seen. sarah's family is being supported by specialist police officers. her family and friends want people to come forward to help police with anything they saw that night. aruna iyengar, bbc news. our reporter, simonjones, sent this update from ashford in kent. police have described what happened to sarah everard as every family's worst nightmare and they're determined to find answers for her family. this morning at the scene where human remains were found yesterday there has been a lot of police activity, we've seen vehicles coming and going, we have seen sniffer dogs being exercised so there are hundreds of officers involved in this case and those investigations are very much continuing. initially, the focus had been on south london and clapham, where she was last seen just over a week ago, but yesterday it dramatically shifted to kent, as well as the search here where the remains were found. also, a property believed to belong to the suspect was being searched in deal and speaking to neighbours there, they are saying their sense is one of shock, shared by the metropolitan police who are having to investigate one of their own. the shock waves they say being felt right across the force and in the wider community, too. simonjones reporting. simon jones reporting. there's simonjones reporting. there's been a statement from the prior minister borisjohnson who says he is shocked and deeply saddened by the developments in the sarah everard case, adding "we must work fast to find all the answers to this horrifying crime. helen has been in touch on twitter saying, "we don't feel unsafe on the streets, we are unsafe on the streets". there is a huge conversation going on on social media and elsewhere as a result of this case about how women feel, our feeling as they walk around on the streets. get in touch if you want to comment on your experience. do it on twitter. the case has started a national conversation about women's safety, and the violence against them — and joining me now to talk about that is the labour mpjess phillips — who worked for the domestic abuse charity women's aid before entering parliament. thank you very much forjoining us today. you only have to glance briefly at social media, don't you, to see that absolutely women have experienced this, it isn'tjust the fear of experiencing, feeling threatened as they walk about on the streets but they have felt threatened.— streets but they have felt threatened. ., , , threatened. 0h, absolutely. everybody — threatened. 0h, absolutely. everybody i _ threatened. oh, absolutely. everybody i know— threatened. 0h, absolutely. everybody i know has - threatened. 0h, absolutely. everybody i know has some | threatened. 0h, absolutely. - everybody i know has some incident, or one or two, they can talk about. feeling threatened on the street. for younger women, there is a marked increase in the amount they get harassed on the street but every single woman i know before they leave the house, no matter what time of day, does a little risk assessment about how safe we are. and i think sarah everard's case has brought this conversation about because it feels as if it isn't fair, actually. we draw a line and we feel we should be safe on the streets. ., we feel we should be safe on the streets. . , , , ., streets. that sums up the mood of those conversations, _ streets. that sums up the mood of those conversations, doesn't - streets. that sums up the mood of those conversations, doesn't it, i those conversations, doesn't it, because as cressida dick says, it is incredibly rare for someone to be snatched off the street but that fear isn't rare, that fear is real and no one should have to go about their daily life without fear, carrying that with them, having to necessarily plan in the way you talk about so how do we start to turn this from the conversations going on right now into some sort of action? look, the reality is it is right to say it is rare to be snatched, what may be a random attack, off the street, and is the kind of thing we were raised as women to be frightened of and it is quite rare. it isn't rare for women to suffer violence in their homes, at work on the streets. that is not rare. what we have to do as a society and certainly those of us that our policymakers have got to do is make sure that there are a punishable crimes of violence against women and girls that are taken seriously. if you look at data around rape conviction or domestic abuse conviction, the vast majority of people who come forward and say they've been a victim of that crime will never ever see a police referral of their case to the crown prosecution service, this is vanishingly rare, and vanishingly rare is people getting a conviction so we have to do something. we have to stop the system where violence against women and girls is something people feel they can do on the streets, homes and workplaces with total impunity! i want to see men as part of the debate because violence against women and girls is something i will against women and girls is something iwill campaign against women and girls is something i will campaign for against women and girls is something iwill campaignforand against women and girls is something i will campaign for and have campaigned for all my life but the reality of what we are talking about here is men's violence and men have a responsibility tojoin in here is men's violence and men have a responsibility to join in this conversation to take action and to start doing something about the fact women are frightened to walk the streets. we women are frightened to walk the streets. ~ ,., women are frightened to walk the streets. ~ ., ., ., ., streets. we saw a lot of men on social media _ streets. we saw a lot of men on social media saying _ streets. we saw a lot of men on social media saying what - streets. we saw a lot of men on social media saying what can . streets. we saw a lot of men on j social media saying what can we streets. we saw a lot of men on i social media saying what can we do to be allies, what can we do if we are walking down a relatively quiet street, whatever time of day, and there is a woman in front of me, what can i do to make herfeel safer? clearly, men are thinking about this and they have to be part of the solution because the vast majority of violent crimes are carried out by men on women. i spoke a little earlier to the director of the end violence against women campaign and she said in her... oh, whata shame, we campaign and she said in her... oh, what a shame, we have lostjess phillips in the middle of that conversation, let's see if we can get her back. she is back, great, good to have you back. i was saying i spoke earlier to a campaigner, she was talking about the most recent report at the beginning of this year calling for a single joined report at the beginning of this year calling for a singlejoined up strategy to deal with violence against women, championed by ministers. do you think there is enough of a joined up approach at the moment? what does a joined up approach look like to you? explain that to us. , �* ., ., that to us. there isn't one, and currently _ that to us. there isn't one, and currently have _ that to us. there isn't one, and currently have a _ that to us. there isn't one, and currently have a vyners - that to us. there isn't one, and currently have a vyners against women's is an girls strategy for the country that hasn't been updated in a timely manner and the government are seeking to take some of the biggest things out of that strategy and talk about it as if it isn't a crime that largely happens to women. the reality is we haven't done enough and year on year we've seen prosecutions fall to the point where criminality for these things is almost impossible to achieve, that is how it feels. what a joined up approach would look like is that health services are involved, that education is involved, that this is a housing solution for women, that this isn'tjust a criminaljustice solution in court. if you work with people, you work with victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence, street harassment, what is everybody�*s strategy to be doing something about this? if rare everybody's strategy to be doing something about this? if we take a ve basic something about this? if we take a very basic and _ something about this? if we take a very basic and fundamental - something about this? if we take a l very basic and fundamental approach to this and think about people walking around on the streets, this is about a conversation between adults, a conversation that should be started in schools with boys and girls about how we behave around one another. and also about thinking about how the other person might fuel. �* , ,., , about how the other person might fuel. absolutely! we've pushed for compulsory _ fuel. absolutely! we've pushed for compulsory education _ fuel. absolutely! we've pushed for compulsory education and - fuel. absolutely! we've pushed for compulsory education and we - fuel. absolutely! we've pushed for compulsory education and we willl compulsory education and we will have to see how that roll—out goes. with regard to relationship and gender roles and stereotyping, and how it feels to grow up in a world where your sister is under more threat than you are. that sort of thing has to happen. the reality is until we start taking violence against women and girls as seriously as it is, if there was a death because of any other crime, because of terrorism, because of, you know, any other violent incident, we see when knife crime incidents cause a big issue, how so much political weight goes into that when those things are on the rise, every single week, week in, week out, violence against women and girls is taking and damaging the lives of massive swathes of our population and we just don't care about it as much as we should. just don't care about it as much as we should-— just don't care about it as much as we should. jess phillips, thank you ve much we should. jess phillips, thank you very much for— we should. jess phillips, thank you very much forjoining _ we should. jess phillips, thank you very much forjoining us _ we should. jess phillips, thank you very much forjoining us today. - the uk foreign secretary, dominic raab, has issued a rebuke to china, after beijing approved controversial new laws, paving the way for hong kong's electoral system to be overhauled. the move will reduce democratic representation and allow a pro—beijing panel to vet candidates deemed as "patriotic". in a statement, mr raab said it was the latest step by beijing to "hollow out the space for democratic debate" in hong kong. our correspondent steve mcdonnell is in beijing and explained how the new laws were approved. what they've done in that final session is overwhelmingly rubber—stamp through changes developed by china's communist party leadership to overhaul the electoral system in hong kong, changes which will mean that there will be no official political opposition in hong kong's mini parliament any more. they do this by basically vetting all candidates standing in elections in hong kong and also enabling pro—beijing committee to directly appoint members of the legislative council fare. appoint members of the legislative council there. for those who want to know about the vote, here we go. in terms of when people are asked what do you think about this proposal to change hong kong electoral system, 2895 for, zero against, and one abstention. now, most of the votes today went that way. there aren't that many of them, there are around ten. for example, two others which were zero against was approving the government work report, the sort of big report on all the operations of the government, and also changes to the national people's congress rules, zero people voted against that. interestingly, though, it is only a little bit of dissent, i guess, but when people were asked to approve the work of the supreme court, 65 delegates voted against that motion, and 52 against the work of the prosecutors in this country. so, something is going on there, whereby some in the sort of upper echelons of the communist party are not happy with how the supreme court is going about its work. it's interesting, given the prosecutors here have a virtually ioo% success rate in the courts, i don't know where... ..what is prompting that dissent. john lewis has warned that there will be more store closures as it revealed an annual pre—tax loss of £517 million. it's thought to be the first annual loss in its history. the partnership's chairperson sharon white has been speaking to the bbc, and said that decision on which stores will be closed has yet to be announced. no decisions have been taken. as you imagine when we do take a decision our partners will be the first to know. it is part of a broader picture. you know, you look at the last year, this has been the biggest economic shock, the biggest public health emergency any of us have lived through. we have had a decades worth of changes in shopping habits in one yearand worth of changes in shopping habits in one year and we are adapting fast and we are changing faster how our customers want to shop with us. that was sharon — customers want to shop with us. that was sharon white. earlier i spoke to the bbc�*s business correspondent victoria fritz and asked her exactly how many stores can we expect to see close? the short answer is they are looking at the moment, and they will come back at the end of march with negotiations ongoing with landlords. now we know that it is probably likely to be up to eight department stores that will not reopen when the shops start reopening in april, and nonessential retail is allowed to be continued in britain but it is unknown where those locations might be but sharon white was talking about how there are areas that will not profitably sustain a john lewis store which is incredibly sad because as we all know they can act as anchors on high streets, you might go in thinking you're going to pick up one thing from a john lewis store and actually you're probably going to get a coffee on your way and do other things, so other smaller retail units often benefit from the traffic generated from those larger stores, exactly the same situation with shopping centres as well. when it comes to job losses, it isn'tjust the losses that might come from the headquarters, from all the department stores, think about futurejob department stores, think about future job losses as well because these big retailers are often a rite of passage for youngsters as they are entering the workforce, so their first taste of income and independence, and that all—important crucial work experience on young cvs as well so it isn'tjust the jobs immediately, which is something we've been seeing last year with the stores they were closing last year, which is part of the restructuring they've seen this year of restructuring the business but it is the future losses i am thinking about as well. it's exactly one year since the world health organization officially declared the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic — that's the point the disease was confirmed as a truly global problem. covid—i9 has so far claimed 2.6 million lives but there is hope on the horizon as vaccines reach some of the furthest corners of the world. our global health correspondent, naomi grimley, has been looking at the pandemic, one year in. it's been a year that most of us will remember for the rest of our lives. one of grief and loneliness on a scale none of us could have imagined. it is exactly 12 months since the world health organization officially sounded the alarm about the seriousness of covid—i9. we have therefore met the assessment that covid—i9 can be characterised as a pandemic. and, yet, after a whirlwind of scientific discoveries, we are now seeing vaccines being distributed to some of the most remote communities on earth. in brazil they've mounted a vaccination campaign reaching reservations and villages like this one deep in the amazon jungle. translation: i'm happy. we are grateful for the vaccination so we will not catch the disease and my people will get better. because of a new variant spreading their brazil has seen some of the worst death toll figures since the pandemic began in the last few days. but overall scientists are positive about bringing the pandemic to an end. we are in a much more powerful situation because we understand so much more about the virus now so i am very optimistic for the future, we have a better handle on the virus and we are able to keep up, i suppose, with the race against an evolving virus. this graph shows some of the differences in pace, however, of vaccination rates globally. chile, israel and the us have powered ahead. faring less well are brazil, russia and china. in europe, there's been a huge amount of disquiet over disappointing vaccine rates. the situation in france has not been helped by negative remarks from president macron about the oxford/astrazeneca vaccine which he later retracted. this family doctor is doing his best to persuade reluctant patients. translation: there's always a hesitation and we have - to convince some patients. that's time and energy used. if we don't have support both from government and media, it's hard to go up from there. patients trust us but only to a certain extent. meanwhile, the international covax programme says it's delivered over 20 million doses to more than 20 developing co