ita it a new low. investigation, calling it a new low. millions have until midnight tonight to register to vote in the general election. withjust to register to vote in the general election. with just over two weeks to go until polling dale do you like day campaign continue for the party leaders with pop starjustin timberlake has been charged with driving while intoxicated after being arrested in new york state. hello i'm annita mcveigh. the mother of the murdered teenager, stephen lawrence, has said a decision not to bring charges against four retired detectives, who ran the first, unsuccessful investigation into her son's killing is "unjustifiable". stephen was murdered in april 1993 in a racist attack in south london. the initial investigation failed to bring anyone to justice. two of the murderers were eventually convicted in 2012. baroness doreen lawrence said today's cps report marked "a new low

in the treatment of her family by the criminaljustice system". our reporter daniel de simone broke this story, here's his report. the racist murder of teenager stephen lawrence took place 31 years ago at a south london bus stop. the failed first investigation is widely seen as one of the biggest disasters in the history of the metropolitan police. today an official review has concluded that four senior retired officers who ran the first inquiry should not be charged with a criminal offence. this is a dreadful crime, a completely unprovoked attack on a young 18—year—old black youth. their investigation failed to bring anyone to justice. two of those officers were bill ilsley and ian crampton, pictured here after being criticised by a landmark public inquiry 25 years ago. the others were brian weeden and his deputy ben bullock.

prosecutors have been considering whether to charge the four with misconduct in a public office for investigative failures. the conclusion by prosecutors today upholds the decision not to charge made last year. as things stand it brings to an end attempts to hold met officers criminally responsible for the failed first case. last year the bbc publicly identified a sixth suspect in the murder, matthew white, who died in 2021, and exposed a series of failures relating to him, including that he wasn't made a suspect by the first investigation, which also mishandled an approach by matthew white's stepfather who wanted to tell police his stepson had admitted being present during the murder. but this major failure wasn't part of the case against any of the officers who weren't charged today. two of the prime suspects were convicted in 2012, but others responsible remain free.

so would you like to see the investigation reopened? definitely so. in april, stephen's mother, baroness doreen lawrence, told the bbc the case should be reopened. her call following the bbc�*s investigations led to an official review of the closed murder investigation being ordered. the breadth of that review is still being worked out, but it means there remains a prospect of furtherjustice for stephen lawrence. to the campaign trail now. it's the last day to register to vote in the general election. with just over two weeks to go, there are an estimated 11.3 million first—time voters not registered. a social media campaign involving celebrities, influencers and sports stars has been launched to encourage young people to sign—up. 0ur political correspondent, damian grammaticas, has the details. today is the very last day

you can register to vote. these may not be the voters of today, but rishi sunak has been taking his campaign far and wide. this was lincolnshire yesterday. mr sunak, in his search for voters, is sticking to his strategy to subject labour to scrutiny. today in devon, repeating that again. the choice is crystal clear, tax cuts at every stage of your life. if you are in work, setting up a small business and self employed, if you are a young couple wanting to buy a home, if you are a pensioner or have got a young family, the conservatives will deliver tax cuts for you. in contrast, labour willjust put up your taxes, and that will not create any financial security for anyone. the labour leader, meanwhile, keen to slay dragons about his party's plans, was also in the south of england in basingstoke, accompanied by the investor and tv personality theo paphitis. he is highlighting labour plans to set up banking hubs in towns to give people and companies access to banking services.

but it is part of the challenge for small businesses — whether it's hospitality, retail, we have just been talking about — and that's why i'm really pleased today to unveil our plan for supporting small businesses, for supporting high streets, to make sure that more people are out using those small businesses on their high street. it is all part of our manifesto, which is a manifesto for wealth creation, growth and making sure people genuinely feel better off with labour. his every move being filmed too, sir ed davey is also in the south of england. today he is up to more genteel stuff, dishing out croissants, but pushing one of the liberal democrats' favourite themes — water quality and their plan to spend £10 million to hire new inspectors to toughen up enforcement. his campaigning in hampshire is another sign the battlegrounds in this election extend into what has long been deep blue conservative territory. across the blue wall seats i have talked about in the home - counties, in surrey, _ sussex, hampshire, hertfordshire,

0xfordshire and cambridgeshire, so many parts of traditional- conservative heartlands, the liberal democrats i are the only party who can beat the conservatives. i i have just been - in the west country. in devon and somerset, - but also dorset and cornwall, we are seeing a revival- of liberal democrat support as people who traditionally have - voted conservative say they can't do it any more. and they will not vote labour, i they will vote liberal democrat. with just over two weeks until polling day, the parties are all fine tuning their campaigns ahead of what will be their final push for your vote in the coming days — if, that is, you register in time. damian grammaticas, bbc news, westminster. scotland's first minister, john swinney, has on the campaign trail in 0ban today. he has called for labour to commit to abolishing the two—child benefit cap if the party wins power. what is happening just now is that it is abundantly clear that the labour party is going to win the election in

england and they will have a mandate to do bold and dramatic things. but they are not going to choose to do that, because they are not going to choose to lift the limit on bankers bonuses. the scottish government is keeping 100,000 children out of poverty already using our own resources and the tax changes we have made. the co—leader of the greens has been pressed on his party's pledges during an appearance on bbc radio 5 live. adrian ramsay argued the party's tax policies have been fully costed, insisting that it had been �*developed in consultation with a range of experts�*. he was also asked by a listener about nuclear power, and if he thought it was a viable option for the uk to achieve net—zero. here's his response. we have the climate emergency. both thoseissues

we have the climate emergency. both those issues are urgent ones. the auestion those issues are urgent ones. the question is. _ those issues are urgent ones. the question is. in _ those issues are urgent ones. tue: question is, in terms those issues are urgent ones. tte: question is, in terms of the money, the time it takes, what form of energy will give you the biggest return most quickly? the huge public subsidies that do nuclear power stations take means that if you put that money instead into renewable energy, into measures to reduce our energy, into measures to reduce our energy use insulation of our homes for example, that would have a far bigger impact far more quickly and putting us into a more energy secure situation and reducing our carbon footprint. let's have a look out the elections been on social media. also how unofficial posts are affecting voters. are affecting voters — using things like ai fakes and bot accounts. what is unfolding in our social media feeds this election? and could it about whether and how we decide to vote? i have been investigating using my undercover voters.

these are online profiles belonging to 2a characters that i created based on analysis of the national centre for social research. they are set up on these old iphones — so let me tell you a little bit about them. they are located in key battleground constituencies around the uk and are set to private with no friends. they give me an insight into what different people are targeted with, and recommended. what have they been seeing? well, the political party social media ads are in full swing. they are the election's new billboards. according to data, since the start of the election campaign up untiljune14, labour has spent more than £1.5 million on ads on meta's platforms instagram and facebook — the conservatives have spent £8a4,000. let's take a look at the other parties. the liberal democrats spent £69,000 and the green party spent 65,000. reform uk have spent £11,900. the snp have spent £6,800 and plaid cymru spending £3500 was a lot of these ads have appeared on my undercover voters phones

as they have seen ones where labour introduced candidates and others by conservatives to encourage voters not to hand starmer a big majority. what is different this time is that lots of the posts are the ones that have not been paid and do not look official. memes and videos on sites like tiktok when you cannot pay for political ads. reform uk's tiktok as 1.7 million by the greens has more than half a million. these accounts were being used before the election — labour's accounts has 5 million, the most, while the conservatives have 647,000 likes. the liberal democrats have 560,000 likes. the snp have 175,000 likes. and that is the main party, not individual candidates. views are more important than and it is impossible to know how many different people have watched clips and from where.

but alongside genuine content expressing political opinions that have been ai fakes and hateful comments recommended to younger voters. i've been investigating other issues like posts, including one which had smeared politicians with deep fakes and misleading comments. and there are lots of repeated political comments, that sparked accusations of bots, fake accounts that have lots of accounts coming from genuine people but other profiles are more suspect or breaking the social media site's rules and have been removed by the company is following the investigation is put up a bit like this. all of this content, official or not, can shape narratives around particular parties and candidates. it is by that reason i've been in touch companies and tiktok, x and meta which owns facebook and instagram said they are ensuring users get reliable information this general election.

millions of people not yet registered to vote are being urged to sign up ahead of the deadline just before midnight tonight. more than 2.1 million people have registered since the election was called in may, government data shows. however, many eligible voters have are not yet registered. let's speak to ali gunn who is chair of the my vote, my voice — a campaign which encourages people with learning disabilities, and autistic people to vote in the general election. thank you forjoining us. i've been reading about the work you are doing and i want to get you to begin by describing for our viewers, you've holding voter registration parties and workshops, describing one of these events that took place in bradford. i think it's very illuminating.— bradford. i think it's very illuminatina. ., , ., ., illuminating. the voter registration -a last illuminating. the voter registration party last week _ illuminating. the voter registration party last week in _ illuminating. the voter registration party last week in bradford, - illuminating. the voter registration party last week in bradford, we - party last week in bradford, we invited 60 people and autistic

people across the area and of those 60 people, 40 people were registered to vote, we managed to get them registered. == to vote, we managed to get them registered-— to vote, we managed to get them reuistered. �* , registered. -- weren't registered. one woman _ registered. -- weren't registered. one woman didn't _ registered. -- weren't registered. one woman didn't know _ registered. -- weren't registered. one woman didn't know she - registered. -- weren't registered. one woman didn't know she was l one woman didn't know she was allowed to vote, is that correct? that's correct. many people didn't know they had the right to vote. this mirrors our research we did that found that 22% of the public don't know with learning disabilities have a right to vote. do you think there's been a real gap in the work you are doing now to try to get people with disabilities registered?— to get people with disabilities reuistered? �* , , ., ., ., registered? there's been a lot of ureat registered? there's been a lot of great work _ registered? there's been a lot of great work in _ registered? there's been a lot of great work in charities _ registered? there's been a lot of great work in charities and - great work in charities and organisations like ourselves who over the years we know there still a long way to go. there's been great campaigns to see over 100 organisations mobilised, 30 councils and 25 parliamentary candidates all engaged and ready to get people with learning disability and autistic people registered and using their vote on general election, if they want to. , ,

vote on general election, if they want to. ,, ,., ., .,, vote on general election, if they want to. ,, ., .,, , want to. unless someone has been brou:ht want to. unless someone has been brought along _ want to. unless someone has been brought along to — want to. unless someone has been brought along to the _ want to. unless someone has been brought along to the workshop - want to. unless someone has been | brought along to the workshop such as the 1 euro talking about, what are the key barriers to getting people with disabilities, people with autism registered?- people with disabilities, people with autism registered? having a sizeable information _ with autism registered? having a sizeable information is _ with autism registered? having a sizeable information is a - with autism registered? having a sizeable information is a big - sizeable information is a big barrier. that's why the website has easy read information for people to understand the process. as well as over people not aware of their rights it's really important for channel such as yourselves be raising awareness and letting people know they have got a right to vote and they can use it if they want to in the general election.— and they can use it if they want to in the general election. chatting to the --eole in the general election. chatting to the people you _ in the general election. chatting to the people you work _ in the general election. chatting to the people you work with, - in the general election. chatting to the people you work with, have - the people you work with, have any said whether they feel the political parties are speaking to them or talking about things that matter to them? t talking about things that matter to them? ~ , ., , talking about things that matter to them? ~ , .,, ., , them? i think people are definitely worried that _ them? i think people are definitely worried that the _ them? i think people are definitely worried that the parties _ them? i think people are definitely worried that the parties on - worried that the parties on prioritising the needs of people with learning disabilities and autistic people. it mirrors research that we did in february which found that we did in february which found that 41% that we did in february which found that a1% of the public didn't think

that the government was doing enough for people with learning disabilities. we really like to see all the parties produce easily read manifestoes. three parties have done this so far we're still waiting for labour and conservatives to produce bears. ., , , , bears. hopefully this interview will hel some bears. hopefully this interview will help some people _ bears. hopefully this interview will help some people know _ bears. hopefully this interview will help some people know that - bears. hopefully this interview will help some people know that they l bears. hopefully this interview will i help some people know that they can register to vote and they can get that done before the deadline for the thank you very much. the bbc wants to better understand what matters most to you voters. we're running a project called your voice your vote. running a project called your voice yourvote. it's running a project called your voice your vote. it's all about listening to you during the listening campaign and answering the questions you sent us. our and answering the questions you sent us. 0uranalysis and answering the questions you sent us. our analysis looks at some of those questions on the topic of political donations. you've been sending questions and comments on the election. the way to get in touch is... this time we're looking at donations to political parties. the first

relates to businessmen and consider donor frank hester. accused of making racist comments about labours diane abbott. mr hester apologised for making rude comments but said his remarks had nothing to do with diane abbott gender or colour of skin. nigel from sussex contacted us about mr hester asking us is the government morally obliged to election? political donations go to parties or individual politicians, not to the government. party donations are regulated and public by the electoral commission for the parties on a national level must report any donations and loans over 11,000, £180. and the donor in each case too. that also applies of several smaller amounts from the same donor cross this threshold. normally the electoral commission releases details of this every three months. during the general election

campaign this data is published weekly. some was released on friday, showing that labour raised £926,000 in the first week of the campaign look up the conservatives raise 574,000. to put that in context, here are the donations in the first three months of this year. the conservatives accepted the most with the just under £9 million, conservatives accepted the most with thejust under £9 million, more conservatives accepted the most with the just under £9 million, more than half of that was from frank hester is company put up next to a comment from andrew who says receiving money from andrew who says receiving money from a foreign government is dangerous to democracy and is on patriotic. please get the candidate to state where the funding comes from. well andrew, it's illegalfor parties or candidates to take donations from foreign governments. more broadly, under uk law there are rules on who a party or candidate can take donations from. donations of a £500, political parties must check the donor is uk registered either on the electoral register or as a company, trade union or other

organisation. candidates have the same rules but the threshold is lower. anything over £50 must be disclosed. this is greg in sheffield asking... there is no prospect of this. lobbying has long been part of the uk's democracy and lobbyist can donate like any individual or company. none of the major parties want a ban on lobbyists. some do suggest reforms to help political donations are working overall. the lib dems on a cap on donations. the greens want to introduce state funding of political parties, to reduce dependence on donations. labour says it wants a strength that the rules around donation. no band has been suggested either on lobbying or on donations. thank you for all your questions. if you want to get in touch about the election... much more on the

election... much more on the election coming up later. let's look at some of the days other news. the inquiry into the scandal caused by the failure of the post office's horizon it system has heard how senior managers tried to "sabotage" an investigation. the claim was made by ian henderson — a forensic accountant who was brought in to check the accounting software in 2012. he claimed that the company was more concerned with protecting its brand than supporting sub—postmasters. i had formed the view that quite early on in the process the post office was getting advice from external lawyers about the financial consequences of what we were finding. the fact that they might be looking at material amounts of compensation i remembered doing a back of a cigarette packet calculation and i felt that if all of the claims being raised by sub postmasters in working group materialise we were looking at at

least £300 million in compensation. that was a huge underestimate. with the details of what happened at the enquiry today — here's our correspondent azadeh moshiri. many of the victims of the scandal are attending because he is independent forensic encounters, are considered champions to these victims. i spoke tojuan who told me i can't because i want to hear them tell the truth. they feel that something they haven't heard before something they haven't heard before so but they know they are to people who know they are cooperating with the inquiry. as you say, those are big statements coming out. it's important to listen to the context in place, ian henderson and ron warmington giving evidence today are two independent investigators who were paid by the post office. they came on board as there was growing concern in 2012. and some names are fairly familiar, they were in the

itv drama but depicted as one character, bob rutherford. ian henderson said by 2015 the relationship with the post office had completely changed. he said that there was sabotage as you mention, he also said that the former post office boss tried to steer investigators away from looking into potential miscarriages ofjustice. and in his witness statement he said that he felt he was dealing with a cover—up by the post office and possibly a criminal conspiracy. it's worth mentioning what the other independent accountant said, he gave evidence that there was duplicity and disgraceful behaviour piled even higher. these are big statements as you mentioned, second side went on to be sacked by the post office later on. they say because they were

getting too close to the truth. researchers say they've taken a major step forward in diagnosing parkinson's — with a simple blood test that can predict the disease several years before symptoms appear. scientists from university college london and the university medical centre geottingen used artificial intelligence to test for eight kinds of protein to identify patients at risk. they hope it can lead to a cheap, finger—prick test which could help early diagnoses. with me is now is our health correspondent — philippa roxby. tell us a little bit more about the research that went on. the researchers _ research that went on. the researchers looked - research that went on. the researchers looked at - research that went on. tt;e: researchers looked at proteins in the blood. they narrowed them down from thousands of proteins in the blood to just eight using an ai machine learning tool. which they believe these eight accurately identify people who will develop parkinson's in the future. separate to that they started trying to test that out on a small number of people

who are at risk of parkinson's. some developed the disease and some don't. they correctly identified 16 people that they thought would develop parkinson's from this test for that is still quite small numbers. there's a long way to go. they're going to keep following people up. they've been following note for a number of years, seven years now they will keep doing that to see how accurate this test is for that there is huge potential. trier? that there is huge potential. very earl in that there is huge potential. very early in the _ that there is huge potential. very early in the process, _ that there is huge potential. very early in the process, as _ that there is huge potential. very early in the process, as you say. if it can be predicted with increasing certainty, who might want to develop parkinson's, how might that help if along that some more potential treatments, line? the along that some more potential treatments, line?— along that some more potential treatments, line? the sad thing at the moment. _ treatments, line? the sad thing at the moment, there _ treatments, line? the sad thing at the moment, there is _ treatments, line? the sad thing at the moment, there is no - treatments, line? the sad thing at the moment, there is no cure - treatments, line? the sad thing at the moment, there is no cure for i the moment, there is no cure for parkinson's and new treatments that slow or stop the disease. their only therapies to help manage the symptoms. things like trevor him two tremors and movement problems with it a double edge sword well ahead of symptoms appearing when there are no treatment is a difficult thing. much of the potential is helping to

recruit people into trials to find these new treatments and use therapies for the and the more people they can get in the very early stages of them parkinson's the easier it will be to work out how these new therapies are going to work in the potential for them. that's really where the potential lies. tt that's really where the potential lies. ,. , .., that's really where the potential lies. ,. , ., . ~ lies. if the scientist can track someone _ lies. if the scientist can track someone who _ lies. if the scientist can track someone who they _ lies. if the scientist can track someone who they predict i lies. if the scientist can track. someone who they predict will lies. if the scientist can track - someone who they predict will have parkinson and really follow them closely at the point of which they change, they might be able to work out what's going on with a view to developing these treatments, is that what they're hoping to do? that’s what they're hoping to do? that's exactl it. what they're hoping to do? that's exactly it- if— what they're hoping to do? that's exactly it. if you _ what they're hoping to do? that's exactly it. if you can _ what they're hoping to do? that's exactly it. if you can catch - exactly it. if you can catch somebody early in the disease and try out these therapies you could see how these persons development of the disease changes for that perhaps it stalled, perhaps it slowed down for that perhaps it stalled, perhaps it they know they in it for the future. ., ~' , ., , it they know they in it for the future. ., ,, i. , . russia's president putin is on his way to north korea, for his first visit there in 24 years. the trip was announced on north korean state tv — and the ruling worker's party

newspaper published a letter �*in which mr putin pledged his unwavering support for pyongyang. russian flags and portraits of president putin are on display in the north korean capital. mr putin stopped off en—route to pyongyang in the eastern russian city of yakutsk. there are concerns in the west that the two nuclear powers could increase co—operation on weapons systems — in violation of international sanctions. 0ur correspondent, shaimaa khalil, is following the story from seoul and sent this update. this is significant not because it's his first visit in two decades but also seen as another grand gesture in this growing relationship between the two pariah states. it's seen as a show of appreciation by vladimir putin to kim young wound enjoying support for russia's war and ukraine. using footage and pictures that were shared by russian state

owned news agency showing big posters of vladimir putin in the streets and also banners welcoming him for that once saying the friendship between north korea and russia is eternal. that was outside the main airport. for the two leaders this is a chance of big optics, a show of unity against the west. but also to show the united states that they still have friends to rely on. at the heart of it these two men know that each has something the other wants. north korea needs everything from food, fuel, foreign currency and satellite technology after failed to launch its spy satellite in may. russia needs munition, high—caliberyou satellite in may. russia needs munition, high—caliber you to eight artillery. we know from the us and ukraine that north korea has been provided that despite the denials for the very few people can provide that kind of support and north korea can definitely provide that support that russia needs.

police and sorry say three children reported missing after a trip have been found safe at the age 14, nine and seven travelled from milton keynes to the park were found in london. detective said the children all wanted to eight new one another and officers received a huge amount of information which helped locate them. the pop starjustin timberlake has appeared in court in new york state, charged with driving while intoxicated. us police say the singer—songwriter was pulled over in the early hours of tuesday — in sag harbor — which is in the upmarket hamptons area of long island. now it's time for a look at the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello there. good evening. a few heavy thundery downpours around for some today, but some brighter spells in between cloudier towards the south than we saw yesterday. so the temperature is not quite as high, but still some long sunny spells around for many spots, including in lancashire. and that really sets the scene

for the rest of the week when it will feel a lot more like summer than it has been of late. drier, a little warmerfor most, but not completely dry. still the chance of some showers and indeed some longer spells of rain. but on wednesday, it does look mostly dry. and that's because high pressure continues to build in from the azores. chance of an isolated shower or two. a front moves into the far north west of scotland. but overnight tonight, well, the showers from today willjust continue to fade away. long, clear spells. some areas of cloud at times locally across parts of scotland, we could see lows of around three or four degrees celsius. so a little chilly here. but further south will see temperatures stay in double figures. lots of sunshine to start the day on wednesday. a bit more fairweather cloud bubbling up through the afternoon and that cloud will thicken across northwest scotland, eventually bringing some splashes of rain, perhaps spilling more clouds across northern ireland too. still chilly for the far north of scotland. elsewhere, the high teens,

the low 20s in celsius, the temperatures reacting to the sunshine along with a pollen levels too. where we've got the best of the sunshine. those pollen levels will be high or very high across the grass policies and has begun now. thursday marks the summer solstice. a few changes have to keep an eye on this area of low pressure over the continent could produce a few showers towards the far south east of england and our weather front continues to sink southwards and eastwards. more cloud over the north west for northern ireland and for much of scotland. perhaps a few outbreaks of rain here and there. at times. it may not be completely dry, but the best of the brightness and the dry weather will probably be for eastern areas of england. and here temperatures away from any showers will rise to around 22 degrees celsius. and then we look out towards the atlantic to find our weather for the rest of the week. now, these weather fronts will be approaching, bringing outbreaks of rain in the north west scotland, northern ireland on friday morning. and then that rain will continue to track further eastwards as we head through friday afternoon and into the evening. but lots of dry weather developing over the weekend.

it will be feeling warmer and there'll be plenty of sunshine too. bye for now. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm gavin ramjaun. scenic surroundings for scotland today but steve clarke's men have a mountain to climb at the euros — we'll hear

from him live shortly.