found in a pub on the outskirts of leeds yesterday to contact them or seek medical help. detectives have stressed their priority is to ensure the mother's welfare. emergency services were called to the three horseshoes public house in oulton at around 4.16 yesterday afternoon following the discovery of a newborn baby girl in the toilet area. she was tragically confirmed as deceased by attending paramedics. dci james entwistle of west yorkshire police, said: "this is a tragic incident and we are urgently appealing for the mother of the baby girl to contact us or seek medical help as she has been through an extremely traumatic ordeal and could well need treatment herself." rishi sunak is to announce plans to ban the sale of disposable vapes across the uk. the idea is to make the products less attractive to children but manufacturers say that e—cigarettes can help people quit smoking. i spoke to andrej kuttruf,

who is the chief executive and co—founder at evapo, who gave us his assessment on the ban. disposables are already banned for kids, yet black—market criminals are selling to kids without any consequences. so now to propose to ban these products for adults would really be an admission by the government that it can't enforce its existing laws and it will not tackle the black—market problem. we have millions of vapers in the country who would be at risk of falling back to smoking and these bans would hand the regulated vaping market to criminals on a silver platter. the roblem criminals on a silver platter. the problem is _ criminals on a silver platter. the problem is even _ criminals on a silver platter. the problem is even though they are banned, two thirds of 11—17 —year—olds are using disposable vapes. we don't know the long—term health impacts and they are targeted at younger people with the way the products are designed and the

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age, that's what happens. yes. even though they are clearly under age, that's what happens. yes, there are corner stores, _ age, that's what happens. yes, there are corner stores, i _ age, that's what happens. yes, there are corner stores, i see _ age, that's what happens. yes, there are corner stores, i see barbers - age, that's what happens. yes, there are corner stores, i see barbers andl are corner stores, i see barbers and suntan studios selling disposables and that shouldn't be the case. that's why we need a licensing scheme that only allows specialised retailers to sell the products. there should be rules around age her equivocation, not displaying vaping products next to sweets. these rules can be limited and the scheme can raise the money to put towards trading standards and enforce existing laws. —— rules around age verification. two teenage boys who died after being stabbed in bristol have been named locally as 15—year—old mason rist and 16—year—old max dixon. witnesses say they were attacked by a group of people who fled in a car. police in bristol say they have arrested a 44—year—old man and a 15—year—old boy and they remain in custody.

police have begun a murder investigation and they said a vehicle had been seized. i spoke to dan norris, who is the metro mayor of the west of england. he gave us his reaction to these murders. the first thing to obviously say, is to reach out to the families of max and mason, their friends, and say this is a terrible thing. we will try and empathise as best we can with this situation, where children have been stabbed. the communities locally are finding this shocking. it will notjust be knowle west where the incident happened, but the wider communities around. it will be very tough for everybody, and young people in particular will be very anxious about what has happened. what support are you and your office offering? as mayor i have resources that can offer things like careers guidance, but this needs national attention from national government.

every week there is a stabbing of this kind, as serious as this in my region alone, which covers beyond bristol, just in the last two years there was another incident where a young person was stabbed and killed in a mining community. it happens in other communities, places like bath, a fatal stabbing last year where one young person was killed, and now these two incidents in bristol. we need to grasp the fact that these are serious things happening across the region, in my area, across the country, across all sorts of different communities. keir starmer made an important speech, saying we had to be tough on knife crime and the causes of knife crime. we can'tjust shrug our shoulders and say it doesn't matter. it really does, and we need to support the servics already there so they can focus on this very serious approach, these murders, effectively, to make sure youth offending teams can actually deal with this more effectively and can have serious sanctions like curfews

or tags or contracts with young people. we must be honest and say there are serious consequences if you carry a knife never mind use it. it's a very serious situation that needs national attention and national results. it has been described as an epidemic, the increase in knife crime in recent years across the country. what's behind it, do you think? i think lots of people would like to know the answer to that because then we could do something effective against it, hopefully. i think it's about general society, attitudes to one another, including young people. we don'tjust see it in relation to the crime we are talking about today. i have an epidemic of shoplifting happening in my region, it has gone up 43% in the last year alone. and often organised gangs carry knives and threatened staff, shop workers and others when they are committing crimes. it's an attitude, we have to say it's not acceptable and it can't

just happen from people like me as a regional mayor. i was talking to my shadow minister for policing, and he is acutely aware of the significance of this knife crime epidemic and we have to do something about it. as keir starmer said, shrugging our shoulders and pretending it doesn't matter. it has impact on young people, they are frightened to go around where these things happen, and we can't burden on young people with these kinds of things, they have enough on their plate growing up to be adults, never mind these serious incidents taking place. dan norris, the west of england's metro mayor. the care quality commission in england is to carry out a special review of an nhs trust which treated a man for mental illness before he went on to kill three people in nottingham lastjune. valdo calocane has been given an indefinite hospital order, for attacking barnaby webber, grace 0'malley—kumar and ian coates. jon kay has been speaking to barnaby�*s family, who say victim support within the criminaljustice system needs reform.

yeah, so this was barney's room. remembering his big brother. seven months on, charlie webber says losing barney will never get any easier. i mean, obviously, it's massively, massively devastating. and i think... i need people to realise that it's something that isn't just affecting my life, it's affecting everyone's life. like, people i'll know in the future, people i know now, people around me, everyone's life is affected. people who didn't even know him, but they know me, it's affecting them because it's affecting me. so it affects everybody. the thing for me that wakes me up, and it's almost the first thing i think about, is going into the hospital when we had to go and see... 0h. don't _ ..when i had to go and see my beautiful boy. barney's parents, david and emma, have told breakfast they had a call from the prime minister after

their son was stabbed to death. but they say it was six days before they were offered any specialist counselling. that first week of just shock and despair, yeah, that's when you kind of need it the most. barney and his friend grace 0'malley—kumar, were heading home to their university accommodation in nottingham when they were fatally stabbed last june. school caretaker ian coates was the third victim of paranoid schizophrenic valdo calocane, leaving their families shattered. barnaby, grace and ian have been failed here. the system has failed. the support, or lack of support, for victims and the families is shocking. having now been in the system and seen how the system deals with things, it's got to change. last week, a court accepted calocane's pleas of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. he will be detained indefinitely at a high security hospital. when you heard that the court was going to accept

manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, that there wouldn't be a murder conviction in this case, what was your... 7 sick to my stomach. hello! how are you? 0h, rubbish. barney and grace's parents didn't know one another until their children were killed together, but now they are joining forces. i like to hope that wherever they are, they are together. and i do feel that they probably are together. the families believe justice has not been done. they say the police, the crown prosecution service and the nhs still have questions to answer, and they want to know if their children's deaths could have been avoided. the heartbreaking thing is it was their last few days, last week of term, and ijust still can't get to terms with that.

both families say they will campaign on issues like knife crime and getting better support and counselling for grieving relatives. if the prime minister phoned you now and said, after everything you've been through so far, what do you think should happen to help other families who might face this horrendous situation in the future, what would you say? what would you tell him is needed? the ministry ofjustice need to throw proper, considered resources together to support, because the devastation that this has caused... i also think i'd be doing barney a disservice by not using the voice that we've had thrust upon us to try and make some change. shortly before he was killed, barney had told his mum and dad about a special friend called grace. he said they had so much in common. now their families are united in their determination. jon kay, bbc news.

a new coming in regarding the investigation into the alaskan airlines plane which had a section which blew out on a flight on the 5th of january. reuters are reporting that according to an investigation there are signs that suggest the plane lacked bolts when it's suggest the plane lacked bolts when its left the boeing factory. they are reporting, the wall street journal is reporting that. the section of the plane blew out to me there on the 5th of january. there were 177 people on board the flight and thankfully nobody lost their life. we will bring you more when we get more details about that investigation. an investigation by bbc panorama has revealed serious concerns about maternity services at the gloucestershire hospitals nhs trust. midwives say a poor culture and staff shortages led to baby deaths that could have been avoided. the trust has apologised and says it has increased staffing in its maternity unit. a warning you may find this report from our social affairs correspondent michael

buchanan distressing. this one's tyrion, and this one's theon. lara white has a large family, five children in total, and there should be a sixth. in 2019, the 43—year—old gave birth to her sonjasper at the cheltenham birth centre. but within minutes he started to deteriorate. was there any panic in the room at that point? no. no, there was nothing. just... just the midwife working on the baby. she wasn't panicking. she quite happily passed him back to me. there was, in fact, a delay of 50 minutes before the two midwives caring for laura and her baby called a priority ambulance to transfer him to doctors in gloucester. jasper died hours later. an nhs investigation couldn't be sure, however, if the delay contributed to his death. ijust wanted to get out of the hospital.

i couldn't stand to be in there any more. it's horrid. seven months later, midwife michelle learned ofjasper�*s death, and raised concerns about his care with the maternity management team. i identified the two midwives that i was concerned about. did you see any steps being taken to ensure that their practices were safe ? no. what happened to that baby was brushed under the carpet. four months on, a second baby who'd been born at cheltenham died too. the same two midwives had failed to transfer her mother to doctors quickly enough. even after that second death, managers allowed one of the midwives to return to work. michelle was stunned. the way i felt, i was treated by the managers, it was...they didn't have any proof.

"we haven't got any proof, michelle." and i said, "but two babies have died. how much more proof do you actually need?" both midwives are now being investigated by their regulator. both midwives are now being investigated by the regulator. the trust says it's deeply sorry for the failings in the deaths of both babies, and that it's strengthened ways staff have to speak up safely. inspectors say 10% of maternity units in england have inadequate safety levels, including gloucestershire. a poor culture, say midwives, is compounded by a lack of staff. what we deemed as safe when we first opened the ward was a minimum - of eight staff on the ward on a day shift, and a minimum of six - on a night shift. we're barely seeingl those numbers now. you could end up with four- and five midwives on a day shift. a midwife still working at the trust, who wishes to remain anonymous, says the pressure can be intolerable. i've come on to night shifts where there's only two midwives

for covering the ward when there should be the six. is it going to have to get to the point where a midwife literally takes her own life because of how she feels about work, because of the pressure that she's under? is it going to take that for something to change? amid a national shortage of 2,500 midwives in england, the gloucestershire trust said it had recruited an extra 21 midwives in the past three years. so this is where jasper is buried? yes, it is, yeah. we put his ashes under it, and every birthday we buy a new tree decoration to remember him by. each summer the fruit tree blooms, and a new decoration is hung, as jasper white's family hold on to the son, the brother, they lost. michael buchanan, bbc news, gloucester. and michael buchanan joins and michael buchananjoins us and michael buchanan joins us from the newsroom. a traumatic situation for those parents. what does your

investigation tell us about maternity care in gloucestershire and across the country? i maternity care in gloucestershire and across the country?- maternity care in gloucestershire and across the country? i think the midwives we _ and across the country? i think the midwives we have _ and across the country? i think the midwives we have been _ and across the country? i think the midwives we have been speaking l and across the country? i think the i midwives we have been speaking to, and the team has been speaking to them for well over a year, believe what is going on in gloucester is an insight into what is going on at far too many maternity units across england. the gloucester hospital trust has been rated by inspectors as among the 10% worst trusts across england, rated as inadequate for safety, but bear in mind that somewhere in the region of 70% of maternity units in england are rated ijy maternity units in england are rated by hospital inspectors as not being safe enough so clearly there is a nationwide problem. the two problems we repeatedly came across in gloucester according to the midwives are a poor culture and lack of staffing. that is recognised as a problem in maternity units across the country. they have been three independent reviews into maternity care in the last decade or so and all of those reviews highlighted a

poor culture as being fundamental to failings and fundamental to failures and mothers and babies dying in unavoidable circumstances. there is a forth ongoing review taking place at the moment, the royal college of midwives say there is a need for more than 2000, 2500 midwives in england, and the impact of short staffing, you could hear there, the pressure is on the midwives, but not just them. we came across an incident in which the lack of staff contributed to the death of a baby. a woman had gone into have labour induced and had to wait five days in the hospital before there were enough staff on shift in order to provide her with the care she needed and unfortunately by that time her baby had died. the gloucestershire trust for its part says it is sorry for its failings and is determined to learn when things go wrong and that it has offered ways that staff can speak up and raise concerns in a

safe manner. the nhs in england are investing more money in maternity care, they say, and hiring more staff as well.— care, they say, and hiring more staff as well. michael buchanan, thank you- _ bbc panorama s midwives under pressure is on bbc one at 8pm and available on the iplayer. if you have been affected by any of the issues raised help is available from bbc action line — just visit bbc.co.uk/actionline the social media site x — formerly known as twitter — has blocked users for searching for taylor swift. this is the message which comes up when a search for the american singer and songwriter is entered into the website. it comes after faked explicit images of the singer spread across the site earlier this week. x says the action is only temporary. it's believed that some of the images — we're not showing them here — were generated by artificial intelligence. one had reportedly been viewed more than 47 million times

before being taken down. erin woo reports on x and twitter, tiktok and snapchat for the american news outlet the information. shejoined us from san francisco, and told us what she made of the decision by x to block searches about taylor swift. what we've seen is just a really blunt instrument from elon musk�*s x, after cuts to the trust and safety team made it essentially impossible or difficult to use any kind of more fine—grained tooling to try to shut down these images. elon musk has really slashed the trust and safety team, and more specifically teams that would have done more proactive trust and safety work, so that's really hampered the company's ability to respond to something like this. i think that they definitely didn't respond perhaps as quickly as they could have. had this happened back in october 2022, before elon cut so much of the team, but i think it's hard to say whether or not this is "too late".

the prime minister rishi sunak has been speaking in the last few minutes about the situation in the middle east. mr; minutes about the situation in the middle east-— middle east. my “ob as prime minister is h middle east. my “ob as prime minister is to _ middle east. my “ob as prime minister is to do _ middle east. my job as prime minister is to do what - middle east. my job as prime minister is to do what i - middle east. my job as prime l minister is to do what i believe middle east. my job as prime - minister is to do what i believe is right for the long term of our country. talk to any parent or teacher, as i have been doing at this school in darlington this morning, and they will talk about the worrying rise in vaping in children. children should not be vaping, we don't want them getting addicted and we don't understand the long—term impact of vaping yet so we are taking a strong action, banning disposable vapers, taking powers to go after the flavours, appearance and packaging, and also improving enforcement, making it easier to levy on the spot fines for retailers who shouldn't be selling tickets will stop taking together it is a strong set of measures to improve the health of our children and it's the health of our children and it's the right long—term thing for our

country. it's important we maintain vapes for adult smokers who want to stop because for those people it is obviously preferable that they vapes rather than smoke. that's why we are pioneering a campaign where1 million people are being provided with kits to help them through the nhs. we are one of the first countries in the world to do a programme like that. it's also why we have balanced these proposals targeting the things that are particularly appealing to children, and that's about particularly protecting children's health, targeting the marketing of flavours and where they appear in stores and disposable vapes are behind the worrying rise in children's vaping with children disproportionately and overwhelmingly using disposable vapes. we are getting the balance right, supporting adult smokers in quitting smoking, but targeting all the things that make sure children shouldn't have access to vapes. i don't think there is anything on conservative about caring about children's health. 0n smoking there has been a long tradition in

parliament about having three votes, not party political. some people might disagree with me on this but i think it's the right long—term thing for the country. smoking causes one in four cancer deaths and is responsible for a hospital admission every minute and if we don't do something about it then hundreds of thousands of people will die in the coming years and we have a chance to do something about it. if we raise the smoking age incrementally it will mean people stop smoking on the vast majority of people take up smoking when they are young. if we can stop that start it means we are well on the way to having the first smoke—free generation in the country. we know it works. when you raise the smoking age to 18 we saw a big fall in the numbers of young people smoking. when the us raise their smoking aids to 21 with a saw a 40% reduction. if we can get this right we will do something incredible for the country and wonderful for the incredible for the country and wonderfulfor the nhs incredible for the country and wonderful for the nhs to incredible for the country and wonderfulfor the nhs to relieve long—term pressure and save the billions of pounds smoking costs the

society. the billions of pounds smoking costs the socie . ~ , ., ., society. the prime minister talking about plans _ society. the prime minister talking about plans to _ society. the prime minister talking about plans to ban _ society. the prime minister talking about plans to ban disposable - society. the prime minister talking i about plans to ban disposable vapes. he talked about the situation in the middle east as well, urging iran to de—escalate tensions there. we will have more on that at the top of the hour. now the weather with carol kirkwood. hello again. the weather this week once again is going to be fairly changeable. today, what we've got is cold air coming in across the north behind this weather front, which is producing rain. but we are still in the milder conditions, represented by the yellows further south. now, that rain we are looking at is going to be heavy in parts. it's affecting parts of southern scotland, northern england, wales, the north—west midlands and the southwest. the heaviest of which will be falling across the north of england. we could have some sleet and snow in the hills of the southern uplands and also the hills of the north of england. but to the north of that in the sunshine it's going to be colder than it was yesterday and not as windy. come south, we are looking at 1a or indeed 15, way above average for the time of year, which in parts of the southeast is eight or nine.

through this evening and overnight, the rain continues to push steadily eastwards. behind it, for england and for wales there will be a lot of cloud, patchy light rain and drizzle. but for scotland and northern ireland, under clear skies, it's going to be a cold night. we could see —5, that's our lowest temperature, with the risk of ice and some frost. we could actually also see some frost across parts of northern england, but as we come south, no issues with frost at all. so tomorrow, we are left with a bit of cloud across england and wales. bits of that will break up through the day to allow some brighter spells to come through. we've got a ridge of high pressure building up across us, so a lot of dry weather. any showers we see in the north—west highlands could prove to be wintry on the hills and temperatures slipping down, 5 to about 9 degrees will be our maximum temperatures. then as we move on through the rest of wednesday, low pressure is crossing into the north of scotland, but look at all those isobars, and this weather front. it's going to be a very windy day in the northern half of the country on wednesday with gales, even severe gales, and this rain will be heavy as it pushes steadily southwards, with some hill snow in it.

come further south again into england and to wales, and we are looking at a drier day, blustery winds, not as windy as in the north, and these are our temperatures. so they are starting to go up a little bit once again, a range of 7—11 north to south. beyond that, if we look at the outlook period, well, temperatures will be roundabout where they should be at this time of year. it will be wet and windy at times, especially so in scotland. further south, though, we are looking at something drier, but windy at times too.

live from london, this is bbc news. the united states says it will respond to a drone strike injordan that killed three us military personnel. israel says it's killed dozens of palestinian gunmen across gaza in intensive operations over the past 2a hours. the uk is to ban the sale of disposable vapes — to make the products less attractive to children.

and — the boy—band from pakistan finding international success with thanks to a former member of one direction. president biden has said the united states will respond to a drone attack on an american military base injordan near the syrian border, at a time and in a manner of its choosing. mr biden blamed the attack on radical iran—backed militant groups operating in syria and iraq. tehran has denied any involvement in the attack in which three service personnel were killed and 3a injured. it's the latest in a series of attacks against us bases in the region since the war in gaza began — as our world affairs correspondent, paul adams reports. the americans say the attack happened at a base known as tower 22, right on the

syrian—jordanian border.