hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm martine croxall. today at 2pm: four arrests in early morning terror raids in sheffield and chesterfield. the bomb squad's called to one of the houses. police in england and wales get a cash boost of £130 million with the option for local authorities to raise even more from taxes. the government outlines ways to tackle racial bias in the criminaljustice system in england and wales, but is criticised for ruling out diversity targets for judges. iam afraid i am afraid that without that they're going to see more of the same and we'll be back here in ten yea rs‘ same and we'll be back here in ten years‘ time still same and we‘ll be back here in ten years‘ time still with the judiciary not reflecting on our country. a leak is discovered on the uk‘s largest and most—expensive aircraft carrier, hms queen elizabeth. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with holli hamilton. doping allegations against two men associated with the sprinter, justin gatlin. that‘s right. these are fresh

allegations centred around these two people who are closely linked to the world champion sprinter and he has been quick to distance himself and insists he is a clean athlete. i will have more details shortly. thanks, holli and tomasz schafernaker has all the weather. what‘s it like in the run—up to christmas? yes, that‘s right. it looks like things are going to stay mild and throughout christmas if there is any snow probably in the far north of the country, but we‘ll talk about the country, but we‘ll talk about the details in half an hour. thanks, tomasz. also coming up — planting the right tree in the right place. every now and again it‘ll blip. every now and again it'll blip. like a little popping sound? yes. we‘ll hear why damejudy dench has taken to listening to trees. hello everyone. this is afternoon live.

i‘m martine croxall. a bomb disposal unit has been deployed in derbyshire as police made a number of arrests to stop a suspected islamist terror attack. four men were arrested in south yorkshire and derbyshire this morning. in chesterfield where the bomb squad has been called in, local residents have been moved from their homes. our correspondent danny savage is there. danny, how did this unfold? early this morning here in chesterfield in king street north there was some police activity. a man was arrested and then shortly afterwards, the area was sealed off, we have been talking to residents here about their alarm about the fact this they we re their alarm about the fact this they were asked to move from their homes. people have been moved out. they are at the local football club or gone to stay with friends, while this whole block, probably a square mile has been sealed off while the bomb disposal unit carry out their work on the edge of chesterfield. you can

see the vehicle behind me. officers keep coming and going from worthwhile other cordons. there is activity around a vehicle in a side alley where the 31—year—old man was arrested. that was not the only arrested. that was not the only arrest to take place. three other arrests took place at sheffield at different addresses where four raids took place. there was a raid at another arrests too. so we have four people in custody as part of this investigation at the moment. all of them are being held at a police station in west yorkshire. this was an operation carried out by the officers from the north—east counter—terrorism unit doing an operation. they say the investigation is islamist related. that‘s all they will say about this inquiry at the moment. but there was some alarm in one part of sheffield this morning when people living

heard what they thought was an explosion, it wasn‘t, it was the police putting in the door of one of the addresses they were searching and that made quite a noise when they did it. almost like a co—ordinated operation by the counter—terrorism unit today. a number of location including here in chesterfield where people have been left feeling fairly alarmed by what is happening with the bomb disposal unit in their neighbourhood. a nearby school has been told they have got to keep their pupils inside until they are released from school later on. it has affected a wide area of this community. danny, thank you very much indeed. the justice secretary says he is determined to see a "more diverse" judiciary but has ruled out targets to appoint more black and minority ethnicjudges in england and wales. it comes after a review by the labour mp, david lammy, which said the problem of "racial bias" in the criminaljustice system was getting worse.

our legal correspondent clive coleman reports. people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds make up around 14% of the population. so it was shocking that a review by the mp david lammy published in september which found that people from these backgrounds make up 25% of the prison population and 41% of the youth justice system. of equal concern, just 11% of magistrates and 7% ofjudges come from these communities. there are many complex reasons for the inequality, but according to this former prisoner, some are simple as communication. we talk with our hands and something as simple as that, it used to get misconstrued as aggressive behaviour, which is just something that happens in my culture, we talk with our hands a lot. to address the inequality, the review made 35 recommendations including allowing low—level offenders to defer prosecutions and opt for a rehabilitation programme.

gathering more data on the ethnicity and religion of offenders and publishing sentence remarks in the crown court with online feedback onjudges. the lammy report confirmed an uncomfortable truth, the criminal justice system, which is here to serve and treat us all equally, discriminates against and minority ethnic people. the government‘s wholesale acceptance of the spirit and most of the letter of the report represents a major attempt to right the wrong. the real test will be whether we can cut through what david lammy rightly identified as an enormous level of mistrust among people, particularly young people, in black and ethnic minority communities towards the criminaljustice system. mr lammy wanted change at the top, a national target for a representative judiciary by 2025,

but the government has not agreed to that. there are ethnic minority lawyers applying to our judiciary, they are just not getting through the process. that‘s why i was keen to set a target or a goal, and ambition, that the system could move towards. today‘s government response represents a step—change in the criminaljustice system‘s awareness of and response to race discrimination. the hope is thatjustice will become colour—blind. the home office has announced extra funding for the police in england and wales. police and crime commissioners are to be given the power to increase the portion of council tax going towards police funding. joining us now is our home affairs correspondent, danny shaw. so, the three pots of money being made available. tell us who is paying for

what? well, the biggest pot of money is potentially £270 million a year towards police forces in england and wales for 2018/2019. that‘s going to come out of the pockets of council tax payers because the government is going to allow councils or police and crime commissioners in england and crime commissioners in england and wales to raise up to £12 extra a year on the portion of the council tax that goes towards policing. that‘s a £1 per household? tax that goes towards policing. that's a £1 per household? it is £1 per household extra from what they are paying at the moment. they‘re providing central government £130 million, or up to £130 million for things such as firearms capability, improving digital working, that kind of thing and then there is an additional £50 million that was announced by amber rudd the home secretary on sunday which goes towards counter—terrorism policing.

how much latitude will the police constabularies have? in terms of the £270 million, it will be up to them whether they want to increase the portion of the council tax, called the precept or whether they want to leave it as it is and not increase it by as much as £1 a month and where they direct the resources will be up to police and crime commissioners. they have complained over the past few months that they are stretched, that neighbourhood policing is being severely tested, they‘re short of officers, they have had to cut numbers of officers in recent yea rs, had to cut numbers of officers in recent years, and also crimes recorded by police are going up, particularly in terms of frauds, we know are increasing, violent crime and sexual offences. so this presumably will help them, whether it goes as far as they want, remains to be seen. and also it remains to be seen how popular a move this is. people want to see more police around, but will they want to pay for it? well, exactly. the money has to come from somewhere. i guess it was hoped, certainly, i think local

police and crime commissioners may have hoped that central government would find the money and from existing resources and be able to give it centrally to them, but they have a flexibility to raise as much as they want up to £12 a year and to spend it, direct it how they want and that‘s the benefit of having local police and crime commissioners in charge of some portion of their funding. danny, thank you very much. danny shaw, home affairs correspondent, thank you. safety investigators in the united states say a train that plunged off the tracks, onto a motorway, was travelling at 80mph in a 30mph zone. three people were killed, and dozens more injured, when the train travelling from seattle to portland, derailed on a bend in the line. our correspondent james cook reports. amtrak 501, emergency, emergency. we are on the ground. the conductor calling for help from amtrak train 501 had just survived a deadly high—speed crash. is everybody 0k? i am still figuring that out. we‘ve got cars everywhere

and down onto the highway. passengers say the train rocked and creaked as it took a curve at speed and turmoil followed. ijust grabbed onto the chair in front of me for dear life. my laptop went flying, my phone went flying. people were screaming. it was crazy. the new express was taking a faster route from seattle to portland for the first time. the investigator in charge has obtained a download of the event data recorder on the rear locomotive. preliminary indications are that the train was travelling at 80mph in a 30mph track. some experts say the rail industry should have embraced technology to prevent such accidents years ago. it‘s really ridiculous, the amount of automation, the capability that we have, the fact they have not implemented it yet, for somebody like me, who is an engineer, it is just pathetic. this is the latest in a series of deadly rail accidents in the us. president trump says it vindicates his call to improve

the nation‘s infrastructure, but it is too early to say whether that would have made a difference. earlier a cbs correspondent spoke to us earlier a cbs correspondent spoke to us from the scene of the crash in washington state. well, there was some concern not over a possible derailment. i will tell you this stretch of railway did under go serious improvements before this new route started, but there were some concerns from local leaders about the possibility and the potential for a high—speed train coming through this air ya a posing a risk for motorists and drivers. i want to give you a live look at this situation. we are seeing an active on going and major scene this morning along interstate 5. the roadway is still shut down and almost 2a hours after this unfolded,

investigators and crews have been working through the night trying to piece together what happened, but systematically going through the wreckage and the rail cars and moving them out of the way so they can re—open this roadway and continue their investigation. kennet craig from cbs. it has cost more than £3 billion to build — it‘s the royal navy‘s biggest and most expensive ship. and now it has emerged that hms queen elizabeth is leaking. the aircraft carrier was commissioned by the queen less than two weeks ago. but during sea trials, she began taking on 200 litres of water an hour because of a faulty seal. our defence correspondent jonathan beale reports. this morning the royal navy‘s newest, largest and most expensive warship was tied up at portsmouth, undergoing what looks like repairs around her stern. a diving suit hanging up suggesting they have already been investigating the problem. they found a leak around the seal of one of the massive propeller shafts. with hms elizabeth taking on around

200 litres of sea water every hour. this morning, the defence secretary was insistent it is not as serious or expensive. she‘s in portsmouth having repairs that are needed. this is the aim of the sea trials is to make sure that we look at the problems that occur. it will not cost the british taxpayer any money. she will be out in the new year continuing her sea trials. a true flagship for the 215t century... this is still embarrassing for the royal navy, less than two weeks ago, amid fanfare, the queen commissioned her into service. at the time, there was no mention of any fault as the £3 billion ship was handed over to the navy. the leak was discovered earlier this year while she was undergoing sea trials. it is now on a list of repairs that still need to be rectified. the mod insists the contractors will be carrying out

and paying for the work. the question now is how easy will this repair be? can she be fixed while still in the water? will she have to be returned to a dry dock, potentially delaying the programme. it depends where the seal is, if it is at the ship and, if you like, of the shaft, not expensive, they can do that while the ship is in the water. if it is at the wet end, towards the stern it maybe more difficult. it has been a bumpy ride for the new jets that will eventually fly off her. the 35. today mps accused the mod of repeatedly failing to answer their questions about the costs of that programme. this project has been expensive and

complex and all the technical challenges have not been overcome. the saudi—led coalition say they have intercepted a missile. there are fears toys are us could collapse. it has to come up with the money by thursday in order for the pension protection fund to agree to the retailer‘s restructuring plan. this month, toys are us said it would close 26 uk stores leading to the loss of up to 800 jobs. you‘re watching afternoon live, these are our headlines: four arrests in erm morning terror raids in sheffield and chesterfield. the bomb squad is called to one of the houses. police in england and wales get an extra £180 million with

the option for local authorities to raise more from council taxes. us investigators say a passenger train that derailed killing three people was travelling at more than twice the speed limit. in sport, world champion sprinterjustin gatlin issued a statement insisting he was a clean athlete after doping allegations were made again his coach and agent. an investigation is under way after the daily telegraph said that undercover were offered drugs. police investigating reports that manchester city‘s raheem sterling was racially abused at the weekend. the police say it is being treated as a hate crime. gloucester by treated as a hate crime. gloucester rugby head coach and flanker will train as usual today despite allegations the pair were involved inafight allegations the pair were involved in a fight at the weekend. i will have more at 2.30pm.

the prime minister led a cabinet discussion on the future economic partnership the uk will seek with the eu. theresa may said the uk wa nted the eu. theresa may said the uk wanted a new deep and special partnership which secured the best possible trading terms with the eu and enabled us to set rules that are right for our situation. vicki young is at westminster. and i was reading on twitter that laura kuenssberg said that 25 ministers chose to speak at this cabinet meeting, they were all keen to be heard! they have been waiting sometime. this is 18 months after the referendum result. this is the first formal discussion of the cabinet. the meeting wept on for an hour and 45 minutes. 25 ministers did chip in. yesterday, there was a smaller meeting with some of the seniorfigures in the

smaller meeting with some of the senior figures in the cabinet to try and work out what they are going to be demanding from the european union. the so—called end state, that future relationship, now theresa may today said it would be based on the close economic partnership, and lots of security co—operation. she talked about againa of security co—operation. she talked about again a bespoke deal. what there has been lots of chat whether we will follow in the path of other countries such as norway for example. she is still saying, no, it‘s a bespoke deal that the uk wa nts. it‘s a bespoke deal that the uk wants. she said the uk needed to be creative when it talked about what it wants in the future and she also ruled out the european economic area asa ruled out the european economic area as a model for the uk saying it was important that the uk can set its own rules and i think that‘s where you get to the crux of this. we asked the prime minister‘s official spokesman whether there was disagreement around the cabinet table, he said they agree on the goals. it seems that for now, there are no big arguments about all of this, but it‘s very clear that the uk is going into this aiming high

and despite what some in the european commission are saying, they are certainly looking for a full trading relationship and a close relationship with the european union. but also very much making clear that there will be important trade deals with the rest of the world in future? yes, and that was striking, i think, from what the prime minister had to say at cabinet today, talking about grasping the opportunities of brexit. and this is the dilemma for the prime minister and for cabinet ministers is if you stay closely alined with the european union and if you were to stay in the single market they have ruled out that out, then you can‘t do these free trade deals with other third countries. so that is the problem. i think the debate, the issue that hasn‘t been resolved yet which will come back in the new year is about how quickly we do start to diverge from the rules of the european union. the point the uk government make is that we are com pletely government make is that we are completely lined at the moment. we have been in the eu for more than 40 yea rs have been in the eu for more than 40 years so we have been in the eu for more than 40 years so we start from a different

position than countries like canada for example, but there are big question marx over the financial sector. michel barnier, the chief negotiator for the european commission saying we wouldn‘t be able to cherry—pick and there won‘t be any deals where car manufacturing maybe in the single market or the customs union. he is ruling that out, the response from the uk government is, "well, they would, wouldn‘t they?" we are going into negotiations and then the negotiations and then the negotiations start in earnest next year. thank you very much. vicki young, our chief political correspondent. a bbc investigation has uncovered failings in the provision of health care at liverpool prison. whistle—blowers have revealed that inmates have died — and others have been seriously injured — as a result. the incidents occurred after inspectors visited the jail.

the health trust involved has apologised. our social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan reports. liverpool prison is arguably england‘s‘s worst jail. what are you doing? it‘s squalid, violent and riddled with drugs. you don‘t know. staff and prisoners have been let down by a failing regime. annette lost her grandson, ashley, through failures at liverpool prison. she raised him as her own and heard his growing concerns with the jail. in april, 2015, he died. the prison had repeatedly failed to give the 25—year—old that asthma medicine he desperately needed. he wasn‘t getting any support for his health. he kept on and on, wrote letters to the doctor, begging them to get his prescription that he needed. but they did not decide to order that prescription until the day he died. years later and the problems persist. in september, inspectors carried out an unannounced visit. we‘ve seen the unpublished report, it says, there is a lack of support for people with mental health needs and inpatients have an impoverished regime. within days, an inmate killed himself in the health care unit. less than three weeks later, another prisoner died by suicide.

staff told us the prison at the moment is so risky. a month later, a third death. medics informed us the seriously young man had died after waiting nearly 17 hours to see the prison gp. health care at the prison is run by lancashire care nhs foundation trust. they say services are improving and medical director admitted to me they had made mistakes. we have brought in new staff, we have considerably improved access to gps in the prison. so we have made improvements. but not at the pace and had the level we would have liked. inspectors have described living conditions at liverpool as the worst they have ever seen, rats and cockroaches are rife, blocked toilets. ministers say improvements are under way but such promises have been made before so staff and the 1100 inmates will want to see concrete changes before the jail

loses its appalling reputation. two more victims of the multiple car crash in birmingham at the weekend that left six people dead have been named. they were kasarjehangir who was 25, and 30—year—old mohammed fasha. the two men are understood to have been travelling in an audi with 26—year—old tauqeer hussain who was also killed, and a fourth man who was seriously injured when the car ploughed into a taxi in the early hours of sunday. dramatic footage has emerged showing a baby being rescued from a fire that swept through the cameron house hotel beside loch lomond yesterday. the young boy‘s parents were on their honeymoon when they found themselves trapped in their suite by the blaze in which two people died. many of the two hundred guests who were evacuated returned home while others were transferred to nearby lodges. senior executives from facebook, twitter and google have been giving evidence to mps about tackling

the growing rise in online hate crime. the social media companies are being urged to introduce tougher safeguards with some people calling forfines to be imposed if they don‘t act fast enough to remove offensive material. our media editor amol rajan explains what can these companies do with online hate crime. most people agree what abusive content is. everyone agrees there is too much of it, but no one really agrees what you should do about it. there are two reasons. the first is a matter of principle. these companies say they are not publishers with the responsibilities of people like the bbc or newspapers to vet material before it goes online. they are platforms who allow eve ryo ne online. they are platforms who allow everyone to put their stuff online and they rely on a community to police that content. so they say that‘s the principle of the open web. but i think the second issue is a practical one. the sheer volume of content online these days, 400 hours being on youtube every minute, means it is impossible to control completely. so, facebook and google said today that they have doubled or are doubling the number of human moderators looking at this content.

don‘t forget, you can let us know what you think. tweet us using the hashtag afternoon live. all the ways to contact us on screen right now. no, this is not simon mccoy! time for the weather forecast. this is tomasz schafernaker. what‘s it like in the run—up to christmas? overall, i mean this says it all. the picture that you can see behind me is pretty much what we are going to be seeing quite often. so it will be mild. it will be cloudy. and if there is any rain, it will be mosty and if there is any rain, it will be m osty a cross and if there is any rain, it will be mosty across northern areas so at least we are not expecting a wash outside, but not great. it doesn't look very attractive, does it? it is supposed to be deep and crisp and even. why is it so mild? always the jet stream! laughter that‘s what we fall back to, isn‘t it? let me show you what is

happening. this is thursday. you can see the jet stream. it is pushing mild air in our direction. there is friday. more air coming, mild air coming in our direction and saturday, and this jet stream is going to stay in the same place throughout the run—up to christmas and possibly into christmas. if we wa nt and possibly into christmas. if we want colder, snowier weather, this bit here, the colder bit there, with the jet stream needs to sink southwards like that. so that we get into the cold air. that‘s not what is happening. we are good at forecasting air currents high up there at 30,000 feet so we‘re confident that the weather isn‘t going to be cold. so, iceland and greenland are the cold places?” going to be cold. so, iceland and greenland are the cold places? i can say in iceland and greenland it will be cold! yes, as you would hope, really, wouldn‘t you ? be cold! yes, as you would hope, really, wouldn't you? i think you can deduce that as well yourself! let‘s talk about the short—term and let‘s start with some nice weather watcher pictures. we had some sunshine this morning. i have to admit that the fog probably wasn‘t

as widespread as we anticipated. yesterday i was talking about how thick it was going to be. there was some fog around, but it wasn‘t that bad. minus four celsius in bournemouth. there was freezing fog so it was very icy, but look at the temperatures, 14 celsius. i mentioned yesterday something called the fern effect. that‘s when the air goes over the mountains and basically things warm up mountains and basically things warm upa mountains and basically things warm up a little bit. that had a very local effect across scotland. there is cloud and sunshine and the best of the brightness across southern and central and eastern areas and it is around about five or six celsius in the south, 15 celsius across scotland, but only temporarily. that‘s not going to last. this weather front moves through tonight and brings rain to scotland, to northern ireland, a bit of a drizzle there around the lake district and then the rest of the country is just cloudy, cloudy, cloudy with temperatures around four or five celsius, but look at that, still mild there in glasgow and edinburgh around ten celsius. here is

tomorrow. the weather front brings a little bit more drizzle to southern areas, maybe around land shire, the la ke areas, maybe around land shire, the lake district and wales. scotland will have the brightest of the weather tomorrow with temperatures of around nine celsius, whereas for many of us, it will be possibly up to ten, 11, 12 celsius in the south. so fairly cloudy and mild. let‘s do it all over again on thursday. remember thatjet it all over again on thursday. remember that jet stream and it all over again on thursday. remember thatjet stream and that yellow colour, the yellow air, that‘s what is over us on thursday. fresher there in scotland with a bit more sunshine around on thursday. i showed you the jet stream. i‘m going to show you a different weather map. so we have got high pressure here. high pressure in the summer time brings us beautiful weather, but often at this time of the year there isa often at this time of the year there is a lot of cloud, gunk and drizzle stuck in it and when you have got the south—westerlies, all that cloud and drizzle comes our wap. so, once again, very little change on the

weather front for the foreseeable future which is about a week or so. after that, it could potentially turn stormy after christmas and between the new year. so that‘s well into the future, sort of! anyway, that‘s the latest from me. have a good day wherever you are. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. four men are being held by police on suspicion of terrorism offences. they were arrested at their homes in south yorkshire and derbyshire this morning. labour mp, david lammy — who reviewed race bias in the legal system — has criticised the government‘s decision to rule out targets for appointing more black and minority ethnicjudges. the police in england and wales are to get £180 million in extra funding for the next financial year — the portion of council tax going towards the police may also increase. safety investigators in the united states say a train that plunged off the tracks onto a motorway in washington state was travelling at well over twice the speed limit.

it‘s emerged britain‘s biggest warship — the aircraft carrier, queen elizabeth — is taking on hundreds of litres of seawater every hour because of a leak. let‘s get this board. we have learned that two men associated with justin gatlin are being investigated on doping charges? that‘s right, this is a man with five olympic medals and he is a world champion and it feels like we spend more time talking about doping allegations than his achievements and this time the accusations are directed at those who work directly with him. this comes from an investigation carried out by the telegraph, reporters went undercover posing as representatives from a film company and they told justin gatlin‘s court and one of his agents that they were looking for a coach

to train the actor to look like an athlete. the telegraph released the tutelage claiming to show both men talking about how they could obtain performance enhancing drugs which allegedly cannot be detected by tests. both men deny the accusations but lord sebastian coe says they will be taking this very seriously indeed. and what has the response been from justin gatlin? he has been very quick to distance himself, writing on instagram he said he fired mitchell as soon as he heard about this and says he has produced more than five years worth of officials drugs tests to say he has never tested positive and added that all legal options are on the table and he will not allow our lawyers to lie about him like this. meanwhile anti—doping officials have begun an investigation, alex has more. sebastian coe the president of

the iaaf which governs the sport of athletics globally has described these allegations as extremely serious. there is a joint investigation with the integrity unit which is an independent body, they are now looking into it, and they are now looking into it, and the united states anti—doping agency is working with them on this and has called on individuals to come forward with more information if they have it. the athletics integrity unit also talked specifically about designer drugs which cannot be detected, they said they are a real challenge in the sport of athletics which is why they rely on these type of investigations. and man has been arrested in connection with an arrested in connection with an arrested hate crime against raheem sterling at the weekend. police had been investigating reports he was racially abused and attacked after arriving at training, the club has

not yet commented. craig overton says he believes the england side are not far off winning games despite having just lost the ashes to australia. he went off with a cracked rib as they lost the third test in perth and he is a major doubt for the fourth game in melbourne, 3—0 down in the series, the spectre of another 5—0 whitewash down under are now haunts england. it in the background but we are confident that we have been competing in this series and not been that far off winning games. they have just performed better and for longer periods than as. we know what we‘ve got to do in those last games coming up. what is the mood in the camp? we are still battling, we are still fighting to get the result and show everybody what we can do out here. and the gloucester rugby head coach johan out here. and the gloucester rugby head coachjohan ackerman and flanker ruan ackermann will train as normal today which is despite claims

they were involved in a fight in cheltenham. apparently an investigation is taking place into an incident. they joined investigation is taking place into an incident. theyjoined the club shortly before the start of the season. the home office has announced the funding settlement for the police in england and wales for the next financial year. up to £130 million of central government money is being given for national priorities like technology and mobile working, and £50 million for counter—terrorism. and local police and crime commissioners are to be given the power to increase the portion of council tax going towards police funding by up to £1 a month for a typical household. home office minister nick hurd made the announcement to the house of commons a little earlier. asa as a government we are acutely aware

that the demands facing our police forces are considerable and changing. that is why this government made the decision to protect police funding in the 2015 spending review and that is why today we are proposing a settlement for our police that will increase funding for police forces by a further £450 million in 2018 2019. let me break it down, we propose police forces get the same cash grant from the centre as in 2017 — 18. on top of that we want to respond positively to requests from pcc‘s for more flexibility around the levels of police precincts so we impose empowering them to raise council tax contributions of local policing by £1 per month per household. £12 per year. policing by £1 per month per household. £12 peryear. if policing by £1 per month per

household. £12 per year. if they all use this flexibility that will result in a £270 million increase in the money we invest as a society in oui’ the money we invest as a society in our policing system. president trump‘s national security adviser has told the bbc that the us is ready to force north korea to give up its nuclear weapons — with or without their co—operation. general hr mcmaster told the bbc‘s yalda hakim that the regime of kim jong—un remains a ‘grave threat‘. are you committed to peaceful resolution to this? of course, that‘s what we want but we‘re not committed to a peaceful conclusion, but a resolution. we want it to be peaceful but as the president said, all options are on the table and we have to be prepared if necessary to compel the denuclearisation of north korea without the cooperation of that regime. leading republicans, such as senator lindsey graham have said there is a 30% chance of war. if they continue with the threats it could go up to 70%.

is war imminent? the chances of war could go up and down based on what we all decide to do. north korea is a great threat to all civilised people across the globe. let‘s talk about russia. all of the us intelligence communities have said that russia interfered in the 2016 elections. putting the politics to one side, would you say that this is a national—security risk and threat? certainly it is. with this strategy, we say explicitly in the document that the strategy views the world as it is, it does not create an aspirational model, so that‘s what we have to view russian behaviour as, look at what they are actually doing. of course we have to counter their destabilising behaviour and the sophisticated campaigns of propaganda and disinformation,

efforts to polarise communities and pit them against each other especially in the democratic world in a free and open society. they use it against countries to weaken their popular will and resolve. do you believe that russia meddled in the 2016 elections? i believe russia has engaged in a very sophisticated campaign of subversion to affect our confidence in democratic institutions,... they meddled? including your elections? they used propaganda and disinformation on both sides to support very left groups, to support the very right groups, and so what they want to do was create the kind of tension, vitriol that undermines our confidence in who we are. is this something the president is saying as well? yes, of course. he‘s acknowledging this meddling took place? yes, publicly. will you ensure this kind of interference does not happen in the future? certainly, to the degree we have

agency control over it but one of the most important things to do is to pull the curtain back on this activity and expose it. would your life be easier if the president stopped tweeting? aristotle said focus on what you can control. the president will do what he wants to do. and it‘s his way of reaching the american people. it‘s a communication which is very successful for him. he has quite a number of followers around the world. myjob is not to worry about twitter. we know trees can help in the fight against climate change, but did you know it‘s also important to plant them in the right places to see the greatest benefit? the bbc‘s helen briggs has been to london‘s kew gardens to find out about their role in urban areas in particular. she spoke to damejudi dench

about her passion for trees. trees in their winter glory, but they‘re more than just beautiful, as damejudi dench learned in a new bbc documentary, they‘re an ally in the fight against climate change. i‘m told that all those leaves are helping the tree to breathe in more carbon dioxide which it will then use to grow more branches. it‘s notjust about planting more trees, it‘s about the right trees in the right places. these giant trees are very, very important for drawing down carbon dioxide. in addition, in cities, a high density of trees is really important for removing particular matter from the air and when you‘ve got denser trees, you have less instance of the respiratory problems associateded with pollution. this nasa map shows how growing trees soak up carbon dioxide in the northern hemisphere summer.

every year, the trees here at kew take up tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air, but they‘re notjust carbon capture machines, they‘re a living laboratory for scientists. and we are constantly learning new things about them. every now and again a little blip. like a popping sound? yes. so that little popping sound is the sound of the water travelling up from the roots all the way through the thousands of tiny little tubes called xylem tubes just behind the bark. kew has thousands of rare, exotic trees. the man who looks after them says there‘s no end to their uses. trees give us everything that we use today, so they give us the oxygen we breathe, they use our carbon dioxide to produce that. they‘re good for reducing the amount of run—off and preventing erosion,

they‘re the best air conditioners, they clean pollutants out of the atmosphere. they‘re good for our well—being and they‘re aesthetically beautiful. you know, that is so important today and becoming more and more relevant. scientists say trees have a big role to play in pollution control, but will only get the benefits if we plant the right trees in the right places. helen briggs, bbc news. and you can see "judi dench: my passion for trees" tomorrow at 8pm on bbc one. rachel is so busy, look at her. in a moment, the business news. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. four arrests in early morning terror raids in sheffield and chesterfield. the bomb squad‘s called to one of the houses. police in england and wales get

an extra £180 million pounds, with the option for local authorities to raise more from council taxes. us investigators say a passenger train that derailed killing three people, was travelling at more than twice the speed limit. toys r us and it‘s 3200 staff are facing an uncertain future in the uk after it was told to put £9 million into its struggling pension fund by the pension protection fund. it has to come up with the money by thursday in order for the ppf to agree to the retailer‘s restructuring plan. investors are meeting in london today to decide the fate of household goods giant steinhoff. the firm owns 6,500 outlets in 30 countries, including the uk‘s poundland and furniture chains bensons and harveys. the firm is in the spotlight after an accounting scandal that led to its shares slumping 80% and two top executives resigning. and shareholders at the london stock exchange have voted today to decide

whether to remove the company‘s chairman, donald brydon. the vote was proposed by one of lse‘s biggest investors which accused mr brydon of forcing out the lse‘s former chief executive, xavier rolet. the results will be announced later. why are toys r us in trouble? you would think they would be doing well at this time of year especially. they have been online in the uk since 1996, they employ 3200 staff, a stores, it‘s a big presence on the high street but the company is in trouble. they have put together a plan to restructure which would involve closing about 26 stores and losing 800 staff but the pension

protection fund has said they will only approve the restructuring plan if toys r us pud £9 million into the own pension fund because it is struggling. but it‘s a well—known company and this time of your business should be booming so let‘s find out it‘s not. let‘s ask fiona paton, retail analyst, global data why is an established toy retailer struggling at what you would think should be their busiest time of year? we have seen toys r us struggle from competitors such as amazon and argos, consumers choosing to switch online and we also have high street retailers doing really well at the moment with the in—store experience being much better than toys r us. the toys r us warehouse format can bea the toys r us warehouse format can be a bit boring in comparison. the pension protection fund say they will prove the restructuring that toys r us have put together if they put £9 million into the struggling

pension fund, do toys r us have the money to do that? it's a big company so they probably do but once the cvs goes through they might struggle to turn around the business without the £9 million, they need all the money they can get at the moment. is there any impact on this hardline with what happened with phs and their pension fund? definitely, there was a media circus around the bhs colla pse a media circus around the bhs collapse with pensions and they want to avoid that again and gain some credibility. do you think this restructuring plan, will it save the company? possibly but they will need a lot of money to invest in their current stores and make them more exciting and compete but also seeing other retailers be competitive on price so they are going to do, it is going to be a challenge to change that around. thank you very much.

a while back the wannacry virus was a problem? yes, it was thought to affect 300,000 computers and 150 countries around the world. you‘re in the uk the nhs was particularly ha rd in the uk the nhs was particularly hard hit, about 48 trusts had to cancel surgery and said people home. in november the uk government said they believe it originated from north korea and this week the us administration has said the same thing, the first time they have officially said they believe it is from north korea and it was a us aid who made this accusation in the wall streetjournal. let‘s get more form our correspondent yogita limaye on the streets of new york. how significant is it that the us

have made this accusation? well, in the past hour it was said it‘s not just the us, that australia, canada and new zealand agreed with the conclusion that this attack originated from north korea. it is significant because it‘s essentially rallying international cooperation against north korea. the us for a long time has been trying to convince the world that north korea isa convince the world that north korea is a threat and has been trying to contain a nuclear north korea. un sanctions repeatedly passed, these are economic sanctions, trying to put financial pressure on north korea so it stops its testing. but there has been a real concern and lots of analysts have accused north korea, that it has found another route to make money and that these cyber attacks. that is how the money it cannot now make to exports, this

has become a revenue stream for it. this is of course an accusation north korea has repeatedly denied even when the uk accused it of the attack in may. it said this was a wicked attempt to impose further international sanctions against it. we‘ll have to wait until wednesday morning to see what the reaction is to the claim. thanks very much for that. quick look at the markets as is customary? yes, the us markets up year, all hitting record highs, we expect donald trump‘s tax, complete changing of the tax system, it should pass at some point in the next 24 hours and the markets cannot wait, that is why we have been seeing this global rally. the nasdaq will turn green soon. we have put go compare o‘meara, it was about 4%

because they have announced a ta keover of because they have announced a takeover of my voucher codes .co .uk. investors seemed it‘s a good deal. breaking news regarding the incident we we re breaking news regarding the incident we were reporting yesterday at raf melbourne holland suffolk. there was an arrest after a vehicle was, tried to drive through the heavily fortified checkpoint which is used as an american military base and police have confirmed a 44—year—old british man was arrested and has been detained under section and 36 of the mental health act. the arrest was made on the suspicion of criminal trespass and criminal damage. police investigations are continuing and they are asking for you to contact suffolk police on 101 and if you have any further details,

and if you have any further details, and arrests being made following an incident. the health regulator is warning that the nhs workforce is at "crunch point" and it‘s calling on the government to act. in its annual report, the general medical council says the supply of new doctors is failing to keep pace with demand, and warns the service could suffer increasing pressure over the next 20 years. joining me now via webcam is dr chaand nagpaul, chair of the british medical association council. thank you very much forjoining us, where are you seeing the greatest shortage of doctors, what particular disciplines? i want to be clear this is assorted show effecting —— a shortage affecting the entire profession but some specialties are worst affected, for instance psychiatry, accident and emergency, general practice. 75% of specialties are reporting vacancies as we speak.

one in three gp practices have permanent vacancies for gps they cannot recruit. it is across the piece but worse in some specialties. why? we basically did not train enough doctors over the last decade which is one problem, there has been poor planning, and we are seeing greater numbers of doctors leaving the profession, retiring earlier. we see an increased number of doctors reducing their clinical sessions because of overwork and feeling stressed. junior doctors taking career breaks, many going abroad. all of this is adding together to us having fewer doctors at any one time than the nation needs and it‘s a very serious predicament and its significance that the general medical council who are here to ensure patient safety, protect

patients, are talking about a crunch time in the nhs. why are we not training more doctors? it seems from what i have been learning recently that even when you have got 18—year—olds with the most fantastic a—level results, they cannot get a place at medical school and sometimes only 50% of applicants get in. one problem we have had is we've not had enough places on offer and the government has announced increasing the number of places but that will not result in fully trained doctors for at least another ten yea rs trained doctors for at least another ten years so you‘re right, we have not had enough medical school places, we should have had many more available for 80—year—old to choose available for 80—year—old to choose a career in medicine. the other bit which is worrying is that those doctors who are in the system are choosing to leave and they are choosing to leave and they are choosing to leave early, go to other countries or to reduce sessions which is in effect resulting in a

smaller workforce at any one time. we need to be very clear, understand why doctors are leaving, why they are retiring earlier and why they are retiring earlier and why they are going abroad and we need to address that and make the nhs an attractive place to work. the problem we have is doctors are saying they are working under too much pressure without the resources. we know hospitals don‘t have enough beds and patients are waiting longer to see doctors which means doctors are trying to do far more than they feel able to do and that is why they are choosing to leave early. we need to address the system pressures that are resulting in this problem and some of those need to occur immediately over and above the ten yea rs immediately over and above the ten years it would take to train more doctors. there is also an added problem around the fact that a large number of doctors in the nhs are from abroad and we are extremely concerned about the impacts of brexit. four in ten european doctors who work in the nhs say they may

wa nt to who work in the nhs say they may want to leave as a result of brexit. we rely immensely on overseas doctors, they may be doing placements here as part of specialists training but they are still offering a service to the uk population and we are concerned the uk is not being seen as an attractive place for doctors to work from overseas and we need that as well to be addressed so that we have enough doctors to provide safe, quality care. thank you for talking to us this afternoon. this is my favourite, different nativity tale, a dog grooming company in leicestershire have created their own dog nativity. this picture quickly went viral on social media with users submitting their

own nativity puppy pictures and wishing each other happy holidays. is that what they mean by a dog in the manger? let‘s get a look at the weather. in the run—up to christmas the weather will be turning more mild across the uk, it was certainly chilly this morning with frost and fog and on the fog i think it was a bit less widespread and dense than we expected, still some problems, even accidents in some parts of the country. this is what it looks like through this evening, a lot of mild aircoming to the through this evening, a lot of mild air coming to the south west, itchy ba frost free night, temperatures well up, ba frost free night, temperatures wellup, 10 ba frost free night, temperatures well up, 10 degrees overnight, freshening winds and rain, it‘s a weather front moving across the uk tomorrow, to the south, it is cloudy and gloomy and in some places

drizzle particularly around the north—west of england and wales and its very mild as well. temperatures will be into double figures, in the north of scotland closer to eight or 9 degrees. hello, you‘re watching afternoon live — i‘m martine croxall. today at 3: four arrests in early morning terror raids in sheffield and chesterfield. the bomb squad‘s called to one of the houses. police in england and wales get a cash boost of £130 million, with the option for local authorities to raise even more from taxes. a train that came off a bridge in america, killing at least three people, was travelling at more than twice the speed limit for that section of track. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with holli hamilton. doping allegations against two men associated with the sprinterjustin gatlin. that‘s right. it probably wasn‘t the year ending justin gatlin had envisaged, doping allegations

centred around an agent and his coach. gatling insists he is a clean athlete. i will have more shortly. thanks holli. tomasz has all the weather. it looks like the weather in the run—up to christmas will stay fairly quiet, miles, cloud with some drizzle, so not particularly festive. also coming up — planting the right tree in the right place. every now and then, a little blip... like a little popping sound? yes. we‘ll hear why damejudi dench has taken to listening to trees. hello, everyone. this is afternoon live. i‘m martine croxall. police have made made a number of arrests in connection with an alleged islamist terror plot against the uk that could have come to fruition over the christmas period.

four men were arrested in south yorkshire and derbyshire this morning. in chesterfield, where the bomb squad was called in, local residents have been moved from their homes. our correspondent danny savage is in chesterfield. early this morning here in chesterfield in king street north, there was police activity. a man was arrested, and shortly afterwards the area was sealed off. we have been talking about residents‘ alarm about being moved from their home. they are down at the local football club or have gone to stay with friends while those whole block, possibly a square mile, has been sealed off while the bomb disposal unit carry out their work here on the chesterfield. this vehicle behind me is parked up there, and the helicopter overhead in the last few minutes also appears to show activity around a vehicle parked in activity around a vehicle parked in a side alley where this 31—year—old

man was arrested in this area early this morning. that was not the only arrest to take place, though. three other arrests took place in sheffield at different addresses in the city where four raids took place, there was a raid at another address in stocks bridge where no arrests took place. so we now have four people in custody, and all of them are being held at a police station in west yorkshire. this operation was carried out by officers from the north—east counterterrorism unit doing an operation. they say the investigation is islamist related, and that is all they will say about this inquiry at the moment. but there was some alarming one part of sheffield this morning when people living in mears brooke heard what they thought was an explosion. it wasn‘t, it was the police basically putting in the door one of the addresses they were searching, and that made quite a noise when they did it. so almost like they call

what needed operation by the counterterrorism unit today. a number of locations including here in chesterfield where people have been left feeling fairly alarmed by what has been happening, with the bomb disposal unit in their neighbourhood. a nearby school has been told to keep pupils inside for the day until they are released from school later on, so it has affected a wide area of this community. danny savage reporting from chesterfield. the home office has announced the funding settlement for the police in england and wales for the next financial year. up to £130 million of central government money is being given for national priorities like technology and mobile working, and £50 million for counter—terrorism. and local police and crime commissioners are to be given the power to increase the portion of council tax going towards police funding by up to £1 a month. home office minister nick hurd made the announcement to the house of commons a little earlier. asa as a government, we are acutely aware that the demands facing our

police forces are considerable and changing. that is why this government made the decision to protect police funding in the 2015 spending review, and that is why today, we are proposing a settlement for our police that will increase funding for police forces by a further £450 million in 2018—19. let me break it down, mr speaker. we propose that police forces get the same cash grant from the centre as in 2017-18. on same cash grant from the centre as in 2017—18. on top of that, we want to respond positively to requests from pccs for more flexibility around the levels of police precept. so we propose empowering them to raise council tax contributions from local policing by £1 a month per household, £12 a year. if they all use this flexibility, that will result in a £270 million increase in

the money we invest as a society in our policing system. home office minister nick hurd. danny shaw explains more about the proposed increase in council tax going towards police funding. that is going to come out of the pockets of council tax payers, because the government is going to allow councils, or police and crime commissioners in england and wales, to raise up to £12 extra per year on the portion of the council tax that goes towards policing. so that's £1 per month per household? yes, from what they are paying at the moment. in addition to that, they are also providing from central government up to £130 million for things such as firearms capability, including digital working, that kind of thing. and then there's an additional £50 million that was announced by amber rudd, the home secretary, on sunday,

which goes towards counter—terrorism policing. how much latitude will police constabularies have in how this is spent? in terms of the 270 million, that will be up to them. it is whether they want to increase the portion of the council tax call the precept, or leave it as it is, or not increase it by as much as a pound a month, and where they correct those resources will be up to police and crime commissioners. they have been saying that they are very stretched, that neighbourhood policing is severely tested, they are short of officers, they have had to cut numbers of officers in recent years, and also crimes recorded by police are going up, particularly in terms of frauds we know are increasing, violent crime and sexual offences. so this presumably will help them. whether it goes as far as they want remains to be seen. and it also remains to be seen how popular also remains to be seen how popular a move this is. people want to see more police around, but will they wa nt to more police around, but will they want to pay for it? exactly. the money has to come from somewhere. i

guess it was hoped, certainly i think local police and crime commissioners may have hoped that central government would somehow find the money from existing sources and give it centrally to them. on the other hand, they do have the flexibility to raise as much as they wa nt flexibility to raise as much as they want up to £12 a year, and to spend it, directed, how they want, and that's i suppose the benefit of having local police and crime commissioners in charge of some portion of their funding. our home affairs correspondent danny shaw. safety investigators in the united states say a train that plunged off the tracks onto a motorway was travelling at 80 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone. three people were killed and dozens more injured when the train, travelling from seattle to portland, derailed on a bend in the line. our correspondent james cook reports. amtrak 501, emergency, emergency. we are on the ground. the conductor calling for help from amtrak train 501 has just survived a deadly high—speed crash. is everybody 0k? i am still figuring that out. we‘ve got cars everywhere and down onto the highway.

passengers say the train rocked and creaked as it took a curve at speed and turmoil followed. ijust grabbed onto the chair in front of me for dear life. my laptop went flying, my phone went flying. people were screaming. it was crazy. the new express was taking a faster route from seattle to portland for the first time. the investigator in charge has obtained a download of the event data recorder on the rear locomotive. preliminary indications are that the train was travelling at 80mph in a 30mph track. some experts say the rail industry should have embraced technology to prevent such accidents years ago. it‘s really ridiculous, the amount of automation, the capability that we have, the fact they have not implemented it yet, for somebody like me, who is an engineer, it is just pathetic. this is the latest in a series of deadly rail accidents in the us. president trump says it

vindicates his call to improve the nation‘s infrastructure, but it is too early to say whether that would have made a difference. james cook, bbc news, los angeles. the justice secretary says he is determined to see a "more diverse" judiciary, but has ruled out targets to appoint more black and minority ethnic judges in england and wales. it comes after a review by the labour mp, david lammy, which said the problem of "racial bias" in the criminaljustice system was getting worse. our legal correspondent clive coleman reports. people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds make up around 14% of the population. so it was shocking that a review by the mp david lammy published in september found that people from these backgrounds make up 25% of the prison population and 41% of the youth justice system. of equal concern, just 11% of magistrates and 7% ofjudges come from these communities.

there are many complex reasons for the inequality, but according to this former prisoner, some are simple as communication. we talk with our hands and something as simple as that, it used to get misconstrued as aggressive behaviour, which is just something that happens in my culture, we talk with our hands a lot. to address the inequality, the review made 35 recommendations including allowing low—level offenders to defer prosecutions and opt for a rehabilitation programme. gathering more data on the ethnicity and religion of offenders and publishing sentencing remarks in the crown court with online feedback onjudges. the lammy report confirmed an uncomfortable truth, that the criminaljustice system, which is here to serve and treat us all equally, discriminates against and minority ethnic people. the government‘s wholesale acceptance of the spirit and most

of the letter of the report represents a major attempt to right the wrong. the real test is going to be whether we can cut through what david lammy rightly identified as an enormous level of mistrust among people, particularly young people, in black and ethnic minority communities, towards the criminaljustice system. mr lammy wanted change at the top, a national target for a representative judiciary by 2025, but the government has not agreed to that. there are ethnic minority lawyers applying to our judiciary, they are just not getting through the process. and that‘s why i was keen to set a target or a goal, and ambition, that the system could move towards. today‘s government response represents a step—change in the criminaljustice system‘s awareness of and response to race discrimination. the hope is thatjustice will become colour—blind. clive coleman, bbc news.

40 for a british man arrested in connection with an incident or dareus mulipola yesterday has been detained under the mental health act. shots were fired after a car went through a military checkpoint. suffolk police said the incident was being treated as trespassed, not terrorism. two more victims of the multiple car crash in birmingham at the weekend that left six people dead have been named. they were kasarjehangir who was 25, and 30—year—old mohammed fasha. the two men are understood to have been travelling in an audi

with 26—year—old tauqeer hussain who was also killed, and a fourth man who was seriously injured when the car ploughed into a taxi in the early hours of sunday. there are fears toys r us could collapse after it was told to put £9 million into its pension fund. it has to come up with the money by thursday in order for the pension protection fund to agree to the retailer‘s restructuring plan. earlier this month, toys r us said it would close at least 26 uk stores, leading to the loss of up to 800 jobs. it has cost more than £3 billion to build. it‘s the royal navy‘s biggest and most expensive ship. and now it has emerged that hms queen elizabeth is leaking. the aircraft carrier was commissioned by the queen less than two weeks ago. but during sea trials, she began taking on 200 litres of water an hour because of a faulty seal. our defence correspondent jonathan beale reports. this morning the royal navy‘s newest, largest and most expensive warship was tied up at portsmouth, undergoing what looks like repairs around her stern. a diving suit hanging up suggesting they have already been investigating the problem. they found a leak around the seal of one of her massive propeller shafts. with hms elizabeth taking on around 200 litres of sea water every hour. this morning, the defence secretary

was insistent it is not as serious or expensive. she‘s in portsmouth having repairs that are needed. this is the aim of the sea trials is to make sure that we look at the problems that occur. it will not cost the british taxpayer any money. she will be out in the new year continuing her sea trials. a true flagship for the 215t century... this is still embarrassing for the royal navy, less than two weeks ago, amid fanfare, the queen commissioned her into service. at the time, there was no mention of any fault as the £3 billion ship was handed over to the navy. the leak was discovered earlier this year while she was undergoing sea trials. it‘s now on a list of repairs or snags that still need to be rectified. the mod insists the contractors will be carrying out and paying for the work. the question now is how easy will this repair be? can she be fixed while

still in the water? or will she have to be returned to dry dock, potentially delaying the programme? it depends where the seal is, if it is at the ship and, if you like, of the shaft, not expensive, they can do that while the ship is in the water. if it is at the wet end, towards the stern, it may be more difficult. then they may need to get it into dock to deal with it. but i suspect it isa dock to deal with it. but i suspect it is a minorfault. the navy doesn‘t seem to think it is a big deal. the cost of the carrier has almost doubled. it has been a bumpy ride for the new jets that will eventually fly off her. the 35. today mps accused the mod of repeatedly failing to answer their questions about the costs of that programme. this whole project has been expensive and complex and all the technical challenges have not been overcome. jonathan beale, bbc news.

you‘re watching afternoon live. these are our headlines: four arrests in early morning terror raids morning terror raids in sheffield and chesterfield. the bomb squad‘s called to one of the houses. police in england and wales get an extra £180 million, with the option for local authorities to raise more from council taxes. us investigators say a passenger train that derailed killing three people was travelling at more than twice the speed limit. in a moment, tackling online hate crime. social media sites are criticised by mps for not doing enough to crack down on abusive content. and in sport, world champion sprinterjustin gatlin insist he is a clean athlete after doping allegations were made against his coach and agent. an investigation is under way after the daily telegraph said undercover reporters were offered performance enhancing drugs. both deny the allegations. police

investigating reports that raheem sterling was racially abused at the weekend have made an arrest. the clu b weekend have made an arrest. the club has yet to comment on the allegations. police say it is being treated as a hate crime. and gloucester rugby head coach and flanker will train as usual today despite allegations the pair were involved in a fight at the weekend. i will be back with more on those stories on afternoon live at 3:30pm. germany has admitted that mistakes we re germany has admitted that mistakes were made in the aftermath of last year‘s lorry attack on a christmas market in berlin that left 12 people dead and 70 injured. speaking on the anniversary of the attack, chancellor merkel said ‘everything humanly possible‘ was being done to help those affected and improve security, the christmas market remains closed today — out of respect for those mown down by a failed asylum seekerfrom tunisia.

our correspondent jenny hill is in berlin. it has been a solemn day, notjust across berlin but across germany. angela merkel is attended a special church service alongside families of those who were killed and the 70 injured, some very severely, when the truck was driven at speed into a crowded christmas market one year ago. after the service, which was private, there were more solemn scenes just outside, where a permanent memorial has been officially inaugurated. it is very simple, just the names of the 12 dead engraved into the stone steps of the church. but alongside them, a very long golden crack has been carved into the pavement, a symbol i suppose of the very deep and enduring wound inflicted by anis amri, notjust on the people who we re amri, notjust on the people who were there that night bus on germany

itself, because of course he attacked one of this country‘s most treasured festive traditions. the christmas market really matters to german people, and that‘s why today is particularly painful for i suspect most of the country itself, notjudge the people who fell victim to the attack that night. come —— compounding the sense of pain has been the feeling that perhaps the authorities were not as prepared as they could have been to deal with they could have been to deal with the aftermath of such an attack. a number of the families of the victims that night wrote to angela merkel recently expressing their day satisfaction with her, saying that she should have done more to consult them, perhaps write to them meet them, perhaps write to them meet them, she has now held a meeting with them. but also voiced their concern that the authorities, the police, word properly resourced. they perhaps could have done more to prevent the attacks, the relatives say, but that also they will put through hell themselves by administrative failures which meant for example some of those families

we re for example some of those families were sent bills by the hospital mortuary, some of them waited three days before they were told that their loved ones had been killed in the attack so a lot of pain, and that‘s why today angela merkel in her very short impromptu speech said that this country would do more to make sure it was better prepared should such an attack ever happen again on german soil. the christmas market itself was closed today at a respect for the victims of the attack, but elsewhere, christmas markets have been back in business. it is very much business as usual. i was at this particular marketjust a few days ago, and people there said despite the extra security, they we re despite the extra security, they were determined to carry on with this tradition, determine to have a good time. perhaps one man put it best when he said, this kind of attack could happen anywhere. i am going to sit here, he said, with my gluhwein and my sausage, because thatis gluhwein and my sausage, because that is the best way i can demonstrate my defiance. jenny hill

in berlin, thank you very much. after south africa‘s ruling african national congress selected him to be their new leader yesterday, cyril ramaphosa has been on a walkabout at the party conference it was his first public duty as the newly elected president of the governing party. he said his leadership would try to combine the different views expressed at the conference before his election as leader. the saudi—led military coalition says it has intercepted a missile fired towards the saudi capital, riyadh. houthi rebels in yemen said they‘d launched a rocket into saudi territory, aimed at one of riyadh‘s palaces. the houthis are fighting a saudi—led coalition which supports yemen‘s government in the country‘s civil war. senior executives from facebook, twitter and google have been giving evidence to mps about tackling the growing rise in online hate crime. the social media companies are being urged to introduce tougher safeguards, with some people calling forfines to be imposed if they don‘t act fast enough to remove offensive material. our media editor amol rajan explains. most people agree what abusive

content is. but no one really agrees what we should do about it. the first reason is a matter of principle. these company say they are not publishers with the responsibility of faces the bbc or newspapers to vet material before it goes online. they are platforms to allow everyone to put content online, and they rely on the community to police that content, and that is the principle of the open web. but the sheer volume of content online these days, 400 hours going onto youtube every minute, is impossible to control completely, so facebook and google say they are doubling the number of human moderators looking at this content. colin gregor, son of the founder of the bakery greggs has had his

sentence reduced. dramatic footage has emerged showing a baby being rescued from a fire that swept through the cameron house hotel beside loch lomond yesterday. the young boy‘s parents were on their honeymoon when they found themselves trapped in their suite by the blaze, in which two people died. many of the 200 guests who were evacuated returned home while others were transferred to nearby lodges. the prime minister has led a cabinet discussion on the future economic partnership the uk will seek with the eu. theresa may said the uk wanted a "new deep and special partnership" which secured the best possible trading terms with the eu and "enabled us to set rules that are right for our situation". they have been waiting some time. this is 18 months after the referendum result, the first formal

discussion of the whole cabinet. the meeting went on for a narrow and 25 minutes, 25 ministers did chip in with what they want. yesterday there was a much smaller meeting with some of the seniorfigures was a much smaller meeting with some of the senior figures in the cabinet to try and work out what they are going to be demanding from the european union, the so—called end state, that future relationship now. theresa may said today it would be based on the close economic partnership and lots of security cooperation. she talked about again a bespoke deal. there has been lots of chat about whether we will follow in the path of other countries such as norway, for example. she is still saying, no, it is a bespoke deal that the uk wants. she says that the uk needed to be creative when it talked about what it wants in the future, and she also ruled out the european economic area as a model for the european economic area as a model forthe uk, european economic area as a model for the uk, saying it was important that the uk can set its own roles. and i think that is where you get to the crux of this. we asked the prime

minister‘s official spokesman whether there was disagreement around the cabinet table, he said they agree on the goals. it seems that for now there are no big arguments about all of this, but it is very clear that the uk is going into this aiming high, and despite what some in the european commission are saying, they are certainly looking for a full trading relationship and a close relationship and a close relationship with the european union. but also very much making clear that there will be important trade deals with the rest of the world in future. and that was striking from what the prime minister had to say, talking about it being the opportunities of brexit, and this is the dilemma for the prime minister and four cabinet ministers, if you stay closely aligned with the european union, if you were to stay in the single market, they have ruled that out, but then you can‘t do these free trade deals with other third countries, and i think the debate, which hadn‘t been resolved yet, which hadn‘t been resolved yet, which will come back in the new year, is about how quickly we do

start to divert from the rules of the european union. the point the uk government make is that we are com pletely government make is that we are completely aligned with the eu at the moment, we have been in there for 40 years, so we start from a very different position to countries like canada. michel barnier, the chief negotiator for the european commission says we won‘t be able to cherry pick, there would be sectoral deals where maybe that car manufacturers could still be in a union. he has ruled that out, but the government say, he would say that, wouldn‘t he? we will set out what we want, they will set out what they want, and the negotiations started in earnest next year. vicky young, our chief political correspondent. a different nativity "tail" for you now...as a dog grooming company in loughborough have created their own dog nativity. the picture from wags to riches in mountsorrel quickly went

viral on social media, with users submitting their own pics and wishing each other "happy howlidays". i wonder what they had to do to bribe them to sit so quietly! don‘t forget, you can let us know what you think. tweet us using the hashtag #afternoonlive. all the ways to contact us on screen right now. logged in and simon mccoy‘s twitter account. that is very dangerous! tomasz schafernaker has the weather. in the run—up to christmas, the weather will remain mild. the fog is a little less widespread in dense than weeks bective, but still some problems, even accidents in some parts of the country because of it. this is what it looks like through

this evening, mild air coming in through the south—west, a frost free night for most of us, temperatures well up, night for most of us, temperatures wellup, up to 10 night for most of us, temperatures well up, up to 10 degrees overnight across the north west of scotland, and here additionally some freshening winds and some rain, too. it isa freshening winds and some rain, too. it is a weather front but is moving across the uk tomorrow cloudy and gloomy to the side of it, drizzly in places. and it is very mild to the site of the weatherford, temperatures in two double figures. in the north of scotland, closer to eight or nine celsius. i don‘t think it will be as warm in scotland as in some spots today. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. four men are being held by police on suspicion of terrorism offences. they were arrested at their homes in south yorkshire and derbyshire this morning. the police in england and wales are to get £180 million in extra funding for the next financial year — the portion of council tax going towards the police may also increase. safety investigators

in the united states say a train that plunged off the tracks onto a motorway in washington state was travelling at well over twice the speed limit. labour mp, david lammy — who reviewed race bias in the legal system — has criticised the government‘s decision to rule out targets for appointing more black and minority ethnicjudges. it‘s emerged britain‘s biggest warship — the aircraft carrier, queen elizabeth — is taking on hundreds of litres of seawater every hour because of a leak. the prime minister has led a full cabinet discussion on the future economic partnership the uk will seek with the eu, and wants the government to be ‘creative‘ when designing the new trade deal. ina in a moment the artist to create snow window paintings in the run—up to christmas. let‘s get the sport with holly

hamilton, we have been learning today about allegations of doping against two associates ofjustin gatlin. that's right, think about him fora gatlin. that's right, think about him for a second, a man with five olympic medals, world champion, and it feels like we spend more time talking about doping allegations than his achievements on the track. but this time these accusations are directed at those working with him and this comes from an investigation carried out by the telegraph newspaper. they went undercover posing as representatives from a film company and told gatlin‘s coach and one of his agents they were looking for a coach to trainer actor to look like an athlete. the telegraph released footage claiming to show both men openly talking about how they could obtain performance enhancing drugs which cannot be detected by tests. both men deny the allegations but the iaaf president lord coe says they

will take the allegations very seriously. what has the response been from justin gatlin? quick to distance himself from the allegations and he has responded on social media strongly denying any involvement and in this post he said he is not using and has not used performance enhancing drugs and are shocked and surprised by the allegations. he has wasted no time in filing dennis mitchell and says all options are on the table. his legal representatives say he has more than five years worth of official drugs tests to show he‘s never tested positive for a banned substance. anti—doping officials have begun their investigations into these allegations. alex has more. lord coe, who is the president of the iaaf which governs the sport of athletics globally said, he has described these allegations as extremely serious. there is now a

joint investigation with the athletics integrity unit which is an independent body, they are now looking into it, and the united states anti—doping agency is working with them on this and it has called on individuals to come forward with more information if they have it. the athletics integrity unit are also to talk specifically about designer drugs which cannot be detected. they said they are a real challenge which is why they rely on these type of investigations. a man has been arrested on an alleged hate crime against raheem sterling. police have been investigating reports he was racially abused and attacked on saturday after arriving attacked on saturday after arriving at training. the club has not yet commented on the allegations. england bowler craig overton says he believes the side are not far off winning games despite having just lost the ashes to australia. he went off with the cracked a rib as they lost the third test in perth and he

isa lost the third test in perth and he is a major doubt for the fourth game in melbourne. the spectre of another 5-0 in melbourne. the spectre of another 5—0 whitewash down under now wants england. it's in the background but we are still confident that we have been competing in this series and we are not far off winning games. they have just performed for better for longer periods than us and we know what we‘ve got to do in those last two games. score more runs and take a few more wickets, as simple as that. what is the mood in the camp? we are still fighting to get the result and show everybody what we can do out here. gloucester rugby head coach joanne akerman can do out here. gloucester rugby head coachjoanne akerman and flanker ruan ackermann will train as usual today despite allegations they we re usual today despite allegations they were involved in a fight in cheltenham on saturday evening. gloucestershire police have confirmed they are investigating an incident which left a man with facial injuries and have called for more witnesses. theyjoined the club shortly after the start of the

season at gliding gloucester to second place in the premiership. that‘s all the sport now, or the latest coming up later this afternoon. more now on the news that britain‘s biggest warship — the aircraft carrier, queen elizabeth — is taking on hundreds of litres of seawater every hour because of a leak. the royal navy said the ship was scheduled for repair and the fault would not affect the programme of sea trials. joining me now from stratford—upon—avon is former submarine commander, ryan ramsey. from what you have read, what is going wrong? i would not say it's going wrong? i would not say it's going wrong, this isjust a defect which has to be dealt with. when you consider the magnitude of the british industrial base and royal navy has undertaken by putting something so massive and such leading technology forward it‘s amazing this is the only thing we

have had to deal with. i‘m convinced that the professionalism of the military and mod will sort that out. it's military and mod will sort that out. it‘s a leaking seal, for something that costs so much, the least you would expect is that it does not ta ke would expect is that it does not take on water, it sounds quite alarming. you could argue that, but seals on anything, they can suffer issues. end this case an issue has come up earlier than it should have but like i say, the whole thing with this is how the royal navy and ministry of defence deal with it and if that means bringing it back into a pairappeared in if that means bringing it back into a pair appeared in the water or out of the water and maintaining the programme and maintaining the ability going forward. is it not embarrassing that this much money has been spent and it‘s still taking on water like this? i don't think it‘s an embarrassment it‘s just there is an issue. it is better it

is bound now during trials so they can look at how to rectify it rather than on operations. you want to iron out all of those things now so that when the carrier goes on its first operations but it does it right. what happens when if you are at sea, maybe some days from land, and you encounter a problem like this which a vessel cannot afford to take on hundreds of litres of water in an hour, who is on board to fix it? during my time in command, i suffered a leak, one of the seals with the submarine i was on. the way you deal with it, the first thing is there are secondary seals and emergency seals but if you want to keep stuff going you can also use inaudible to get the water out because you‘re

controlling the flow. inaudible aboard ships and submarines capable of putting repairs in progress. with great relief to those on board, thank you very much for talking to us thank you very much for talking to us this afternoon. you are welcome. apologies for the breaking up in sound towards the end of that interview. a bbc investigation has uncovered failings in the provision of health care at liverpool prison. whistleblowers have revealed that inmates have died — and others have been seriously injured — as a result. the incidents occurred after inspectors visited the jail. the health trust involved has apologised. our social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan reports. liverpool prison is arguably england‘s‘s worst jail. what are you doing? it‘s squalid, violent and riddled with drugs. you don‘t know. staff and prisoners have been let down by a failing regime. annette lost her grandson, ashley, through failures

at liverpool prison. she raised him as her own and heard his growing concerns with the jail. in april, 2015, he died. the prison had repeatedly failed to give the 25—year—old that asthma medicine he desperately needed. he wasn‘t getting any support for his health. he kept on and on, wrote letters to the doctor, begging them to get his prescription that he needed. but they did not decide to order that prescription until the day he died. years later and the problems persist. in september, inspectors carried out an unannounced visit. we‘ve seen the unpublished report, it says, there is a lack of support for people with mental health needs and inpatients have an impoverished regime. within days, an inmate killed himself in the health care unit. less than three weeks later, another prisoner died by suicide. staff told us the prison at the moment is so risky. a month later, a third death.

medics informed us the seriously ill man had died after waiting nearly 17 hours to see the prison gp. health care at the prison is run by lancashire care nhs foundation trust. they say services are improving and medical director admitted to me they had made mistakes. we have brought in new staff, we have considerably improved access to gps in the prison. so we have made improvements. but not at the pace and had the level we would have liked. inspectors have described living conditions at liverpool as the worst they have ever seen, rats and cockroaches are rife, blocked toilets. ministers say improvements are under way but such promises have been made before so staff and the 1100 inmates will want to see concrete changes before the jail loses its appalling reputation. online pornography, sexting and how

to stay safe online — there are all topics that could soon be covered by sex education classes in english schools. the government is asking parents, teachers and young people for their opinions on what should be included in new guidelines. it‘s the first time they‘ve been updated in 17 years. here‘s our correspondent richard galpin. what‘s different about what‘s the same... the guideline force teaching school children about relationships and sex have not changed since the turn of the century. and with lessons like this to be made compulsory in all england‘s schools, an update is urgently needed, particularly given how much time many children now spend online. here, there are new risks like sexting, when explicit images of children are posted via messaging apps. and there‘s cyber bullying and the availability online of hard core pornography. often young people don‘t

necessarily know what‘s inappropriate in terms of behaviour and materials versus what is appropriate. they‘re confronted by so much stuff these days on the internet. then they often don‘t know what is illegal versus what is legal in terms of what they themselves are doing, so it really is time that we now update this guidance. the government now wants pupils, teachers and parents all to suggest how sex and relationship education could be updated to make it more releva nt. hafisa who is now at university and toby who is in sixth form told me just how important it‘s become to have a more modern approach to sex and relationships education. when i was at school, we got a really basic education so we sort of learned this is a penis, this is a vagina, this is a condom, here is how pregnancy looks. these are stds. but we weren‘t really taught much about consent, lgbt

issues or what it means to be lgbt. according to toby, many boys‘ views of sex are shaped from a young age by watching pornography on the internet. 12 or 13, young boys looking at pornography online which is degrading to women, sexism and misogynistic. they look at these and they think that they expect girls to do things behind closed doors. it‘s just not like that and there are incidences of coercion and the way they talk about girls openly in the classroom is very sort of degrading towards women and girls. it‘s not right that that should be happening in the classroom. sexual harassment and assaults in schools are a major issue. the hope now is that by broadening what‘s taught in sex education classes will help young people learn the importance of healthy, stable relationships. richard galpin, bbc news. we know trees can help in the fight

against climate change, but did you know it‘s also important to plant them in the right places to see the greatest benefit? the bbc‘s helen briggs has been to london‘s kew gardens to find out about their role in urban areas in particular. she spoke to damejudi dench about her passion for trees. trees in their winter glory, but they‘re more than just beautiful, as damejudi dench learned in a new bbc documentary, they‘re an ally in the fight against climate change. i‘m told that all those leaves are helping the tree to breathe in more carbon dioxide which it will then use to grow more branches. it‘s notjust about planting more trees, it‘s about the right trees in the right places. these giant trees are very, very important for drawing down carbon dioxide. in addition, in cities, a high density of trees is really important for removing particular matter from the air and when you‘ve got denser trees, you have less instance of the respiratory problems

associateded with pollution. this nasa map shows how growing trees soak up carbon dioxide in the northern hemisphere summer. every year, the trees here at kew take up tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air, but they‘re notjust carbon capture machines, they‘re a living laboratory for scientists. and we are constantly learning new things about them. every now and again a little blip. like a popping sound? yes. so that little popping sound is the sound of the water travelling up from the roots all the way through the thousands of tiny little tubes called xylem tubes just behind the bark. kew has thousands of rare, exotic trees. the man who looks after them says there‘s no end to their uses. trees give us everything that we use today, so they give us

the oxygen we breathe, they use our carbon dioxide to produce that. they‘re good for reducing the amount of run—off and preventing erosion, they‘re the best air conditioners, they clean pollutants out of the atmosphere. they‘re good for our well—being and they‘re aesthetically beautiful. you know, that is so important today and becoming more and more relevant. scientists say trees have a big role to play in pollution control, but will only get the benefits if we plant the right trees in the right places. helen briggs, bbc news. and you can see "judi dench: my passion for trees" tomorrow at 8pm on bbc one. ina in a moment the business news with rachel but first a look at the headlines. four arrests in

early—morning terror raids in sheffield and chesterfield, the bomb squad called to one of the houses. police in england and wales get an extra £180 million with the option for more more to be raised through council tax. us investigators say a train which derailed killing three people was travelling at more than twice the speed limit. toys r us and it‘s 3200 staff are facing an uncertain future in the uk after it was told to put £9 million into its struggling pension fund by the pension protection fund. that‘s before they would approve a restructuring plan. it has to come up with the money by thursday. investors are meeting in london today to decide the fate of household goods giant steinhoff. the firm owns 6,500 outlets in 30 countries, including the uk‘s poundland and furniture chains bensons and harveys. the firm is in the spotlight after an accounting scandal that led to its shares slumping 80% and two

top executives resigning. and shareholders at the london stock exchange have voted today to decide whether to remove the company‘s chairman, donald brydon. the vote was proposed by one of lse‘s biggest investors which accused mr brydon of forcing out the lse‘s former chief executive, xavier rolet. the results will be announced later. the adage for christmas presents was something you want, something unique, something it away and to read. i have never heard that. but very good, would you rather have a book or e—reader?. many people predicted the demise of physical books but it looks like they are

fighting back. we have a tester which tracks book sales. hazel kenyon is sales director at nielsen bookscan. it isa it is a key time for book sales, how many are we buying? in christmas week it's encouraging to see sales grow every year, in 2017 we see sales are up, significant amount tempered with five years ago. this is physical book sales which absolutely as you are saying we did hear of doom and gloom about in the book trade about how e—reader's were charting the demise of the physical book but data shows it's not the case. it's a really good news story and people are going out for christmas to buy physical books.|j just wonder how often at christmas people push the boat out and buy maybe a folio book or a hardback

instead of a paperback? actually what we see is more of that sort of book being purchased because it's a nice gift. when you want to go and buy a book for someone it's not often you would buy a paperback fiction, you push the boat out and get a gorgeous hardback copy table books with nonfiction content and we see a huge amount of hardback and nonfiction books at christmas. over the christmas period almost a fifth of all nonfiction books are bought at that time so absolutely it's the time to go out and splurge. you have the list of the top ten bestsellers and at the top is david walliams, i haven‘t aged over tom and i have a copy “— haven‘t aged over tom and i have a copy ——i haven‘t aged over tom and i have a copy —— i haven‘t aged older, and i have bought him a copy, but are there any surprises on the list? children's fiction is a stall wort, it is really popular as is

nonfiction, puzzles and games. the bletchley park puzzle book is in the top ten. for the first time in five years we see a return of fiction to the top ten at christmas. we have got the new dan brown mag is not so new now but new dan brown and also darker from yelljames. new now but new dan brown and also darker from yell james. these new now but new dan brown and also darker from yelljames. these are offers we see in the charts a lot but it's the first time since bridgetjones in 2013 but it's the first time since bridget jones in 2013 that we see a fiction book selling well enough to get into the top ten. we have talked again about e—reader's causing the demise of physical books, it hit fiction hard so to see them appearing in the chart is a nice surprise. thanks very much for your time. any christmas facts? yes, one

of the big high—street retailers marks & spencer ‘s have released some top search terms on the website this week for gifts people are buying, things you might find under the tree, what is on there? slippers. number two! dressing down? tell me what number one is? pyjamas? yes, everyone needs new pyjamas. how many mince pies do you think they will sell on friday? 2 million. bang on! you are good at this! lets have a quick look at the markets. thanks very much rachel. breaking news,

prince harry is succeeding the duke of edinburgh as captain general of the royal marines, the queen has given herformal approval to the royal marines, the queen has given her formal approval to this appointment and success in. he assumes the role which has been held by the duke of edinburgh for 64 yea rs, by the duke of edinburgh for 64 years, back to june 19 by the duke of edinburgh for 64 years, back tojune 19 53. the final official duty was received major general robert mcgowan, commandant general of the royal marines, and major general charles strickland, who is the prince harry was also there to take up the role. an artist has been showing off how he creates spectacular "snow window" paintings in the run up to christmas. tom baker from berkshire, spends december travelling around the country creating spectacular displays for home owners, big companies and even celebrities. ben moore reports. meet the man who is seriously

chilling out this christmas. my name is tom baker and chilling out this christmas. my name is tom bakerand i chilling out this christmas. my name is tom baker and i am the snowman. it's it‘s not just santa it‘s notjust santa who works hard over christmas. i start on the 31st of october and then i don‘t have a day off until it finishes. it all starts with a simple spray of snow. he uses a lot of it, but his tools are basic. just regular snow spray. i used that, which isjust a paintbrush that i sharpen the end of. i used to use my finger for the larger bets. and then the scraper.

window scraper. he started doing the windows for his children four years ago and since then his business has... snowballed. i only probably get a 200 a year. he will do any design but it comes at a price. generally starts at about 150 and thenit generally starts at about 150 and then it will go up from there. what is the most expensive? over £1000 for large windows. like his fake snow his fame is spreading. he‘s been given a top—secret job at a spreading. he‘s been given a top—secretjob at a famous london landmark. and that is not all. this could be the start of an international career hopefully? hopefully, some enquiries from abroad, one from the empire state building. it has a lot of windows!

just a ground floor i think, the entrance i think. that is it, he can go where we can. we are not allowed to know a lot about the big job at somerset house and we are not allowed inside to film. despite doing almost a thousand windows in total, christmas doesn‘t believe the snowman called. are you sick of christmas? you know what, i love christmas. as he finishes work and those odd he says his windows are a reminder that this time of year is as fleeting as the driven snow. it's not something you buy and pack it away and put it in the loft and get it out next year, it‘s gone forever, it‘s in the moment. that‘s christmas isn‘t it? it‘s in the moment. that‘s christmas isn't it? it it‘s in the moment. that‘s christmas isn‘t it? it is here and then it is gone. all that with a spray can! were to get a look at the weather. in the run—up to christmas the

weather will be turning more mild across the uk, it was chilly this morning with frost and fork and on the fog i think it was a little bit less widespread and dense than we expected but still some problems, even accidents in some parts of the country. this is what it looks like through this evening, a lot of my old air, it should be a frost free night for most of us, temperatures will be well up. here additionally some freshening winds and rain, it‘s a weather front moving across the uk to the south, it is cloudy and gloomy, in some places drizzle particularly around the north west and north wales and its mild as well. temperatures will be into double figures, in the north of scotla nd double figures, in the north of scotland closer to eight or 9 degrees. it would be quite as warm. hello, you‘re watching afternoon live — i‘m martine croxall. today at 4:

four arrests in early morning terror raids in sheffield and chesterfield. the bomb squad‘s called to one of the houses. police in england and wales get a cash boost of £130 million, with the option for local authorities to raise even more from taxes. a train that came off a bridge in america, killing at least three people, was travelling at more than twice the speed limit for that section of track. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport. doping allegations against two men associated with the sprinterjustin gatlin. we are indeed. suspicions hangover the sprinter as an associate is filmed in sinew eight in that he uses performance enhancing drugs. and tomasz schafernaker is here to talk about the weather. how is it

looking? it is not particularly festive, we are not even expecting frost, it will be grey and drizzly over the next few days are probably right through christmas as well. also coming up — planting the right tree in the right place. every now and then, a little blip... like a little popping sound? yes. we‘ll hear why damejudi dench has taken to listening to trees. hello, everyone. this is afternoon live. i‘m martine croxall. police have made made a number of arrests in connection with an alleged islamist terror plot against the uk that could have come to fruition over the christmas period. four men were arrested in south yorkshire and derbyshire this morning. in chesterfield, where the bomb squad was called in, local residents have been moved from their homes. in chesterfield, the army disposal

unit was called in. a large area was cordoned off, and residents were evacuated. people have been urged to be alert, but not alarmed. a 31—year—old man was arrested in the early hours of the morning, and then briefly held in a police vehicle. early hours of the morning, and then briefly held in a police vehiclelj briefly held in a police vehicle.” could see a white male in his 30s at a guess, he had no top on, i‘m not sure if he had been dragged out of bed or what, and he had short sobottka shorts on, and that is all i could see. the detentions have been described as intelligence led and preplanned, part of an ongoing investigation. derbyshire police confirmed they had only targeted one person for arrest. in sheffield, there were three arrests, including one at this rundown property in mears brooke. police said that what some people thought was an explosion was actually the sound of a forced entry to the property. we were woken

up entry to the property. we were woken up about 5:30am by a really loud bang. initially we did think that somebody had crashed outside of our house. so we were looking outside, and all we could see were police office rs and all we could see were police officers dressed in riot gear. and they were storming a house across they were storming a house across the road from us. in sheffield, a total of four houses are being searched. three men, aged 22, 36 and 41, were detained in the city. angus crawford, bbc news. the home office has announced the funding settlement for the police in england and wales for the next financial year. up to £130 million of central government money is being given for national priorities like technology and mobile working, and £50 million for counter—terrorism. and local police and crime commissioners are to be given the power to increase the portion of council tax going towards police funding by up to £1 a month. home office minister nick hurd made the announcement to the house of commons a little earlier. as a government, we are acutely aware that the demands facing our police forces

are considerable and changing. that is why this government made the decision to protect police funding in the 2015 spending review, and that is why today, we are proposing a settlement for our police that will increase funding for police forces by a further £450 million in 2018—19. let me break it down, mr speaker. we propose that police forces get the same cash grant from the centre as in 2017—18. on top of that, we want to respond positively to requests from pccs for more flexibility around the levels of police precept. so we propose empowering them to raise council tax contributions for local policing by £1 a month per household, £12 a year. if they all use this flexibility,

that will result in a £270 million increase in the money we invest as a society in our policing system. our home affairs correspondent danny shaw explained more about the proposed increase in council tax going towards police funding. that's going to come out of the pockets of council tax payers, because the government is going to allow councils, or police and crime commissioners in england and wales, to raise up to £12 extra a year on the portion of the council tax that goes towards policing. so that‘s £1 a month per household? essentially a pound a month per household from what they are paying at the moment. in addition to that, they are also providing from central government up to £130 million

for things such as firearms capability, including digital working, that kind of thing. and then there's an additional £50 million that was announced by amber rudd, the home secretary, on sunday, which goes towards counter—terrorism policing. how much latitude will police constabularies have on how this is spent? in terms of the 270 million, that will be up to them. it is whether they want to increase the portion of the council tax, called the precept, or leave it as it is, or not increase it by as much as a pound a month, and where they correct those resources will be up to police and crime commissioners. they have complained over recent months that they are very stretched, that neighbourhood policing is severely tested, they are short of officers, they have had to cut numbers of officers in recent years, and also crimes recorded by police are going up, particularly in terms of frauds we know are increasing, violent crime and sexual offences. so this presumably will help them. whether it goes as far as they want remains to be seen. and it also remains to be seen how popular a move this is. people want to see more police around, but will they want to pay for it?

exactly. the money has to come from somewhere. i guess it was hoped, certainly i think local police and crime commissioners may have hoped that central government would somehow find the money from existing sources and give it centrally to them. on the other hand, they do have the flexibility to raise as much as they want up to £12 a year, and to spend it, direct it, how they want, and that's i suppose the benefit of having local police and crime commissioners in charge of some portion of their funding. our home affairs correspondent danny shaw. safety investigators in the united states say a train that plunged off the tracks onto a motorway was travelling at 80 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone. three people were killed and dozens more injured when the train, travelling from seattle to portland, derailed on a bend in the line. our correspondent james cook reports. amtrak 501, emergency, emergency. we are on the ground. the conductor calling for help from amtrak train 501 has just survived a deadly high—speed crash.

is everybody 0k? i‘m still figuring that out. we‘ve got cars everywhere and down onto the highway. passengers say the train rocked and creaked as it took a curve at speed, and turmoil followed. ijust grabbed onto the chair in front of me for dear life. my laptop went flying, my phone went flying. people were screaming. it was crazy. the new express was taking a faster route from seattle to portland for the first time. the investigator in charge has obtained a download of the event data recorder on the rear locomotive. preliminary indications are that the train was travelling at 80mph in a 30mph track. some experts say the rail industry should have embraced technology to prevent such accidents years ago. it‘s really ridiculous. the amount of automation,

the capability that we have, the fact they have not implemented it yet, for somebody like me, who is an engineer, it is just pathetic. this is the latest in a series of deadly rail accidents in the us. president trump says it vindicates his call to improve the nation‘s infrastructure, but it‘s too early to say whether that would have made a difference. james cook, bbc news, los angeles. the justice secretary says he is determined to see a "more diverse" judiciary, but has ruled out targets to appoint more black and minority ethnic judges in england and wales. it comes after a review by the labour mp, david lammy, which said the problem of "racial bias" in the criminaljustice system was getting worse. our legal correspondent clive coleman reports. people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds make up around 14% of the population. so it was shocking that a review by the mp david lammy published in september found that people from these backgrounds make up 25% of the prison population and 41% of the youth justice system. of equal concern, just 11% of magistrates and 7% ofjudges come from these communities.

there are many complex reasons for the inequality, but according to this former prisoner, some are simple as communication. we talk with our hands and something as simple as that, it used to get misconstrued as aggressive behaviour, which is just something that happens in my culture, we talk with our hands a lot. to address the inequality, the review made 35 recommendations including allowing low—level offenders to defer prosecutions and opt for a rehabilitation programme. gathering more data on the ethnicity and religion of offenders and publishing sentencing remarks in the crown court with online feedback onjudges. the lammy report confirmed an uncomfortable truth, that the criminaljustice system, which is here to serve and treat us all equally, discriminates

against and minority ethnic people. the government‘s wholesale acceptance of the spirit and most of the letter of the report represents a major attempt to right that wrong. the real test is going to be whether we can cut through what david lammy rightly identified as an enormous level of mistrust among people, particularly young people, in black and ethnic minority communities, towards the criminaljustice system. mr lammy wanted change at the top, a national target for a representative judiciary by 2025, but the government has not agreed to that. there are ethnic minority lawyers applying to our judiciary, they are just not getting through the process. and that‘s why i was keen to set a target or a goal, and ambition, that the system could move towards. today‘s government response represents a step—change in the criminaljustice system‘s awareness of and response

to race discrimination. the hope is thatjustice will become colour—blind. clive coleman, bbc news. a 44—year—old british man arrested in connection with incident at raf mildenhall yesterday has been detained under the mental health act. united states security staff, who work at the base, fired shots after a car went through through a military checkpoint. suffolk police said the incident was being treated as trespass, not terrorism. all six victims of the multiple carcrash in birmingham at the weekend have been named. they were 42—year—old lucy davis and her partner leejenkins, along with their taxi driver imtiaz mohammed, aged 33. kasarjehangir who was 25, and 30—year—old mohammed fasha, are understood to have been travelling in an audi with 26—year—old tauqeer hussain, who was also killed. there are fears toys r us could collapse after it was told to put

£9 million into its pension fund. it has to come up with the money by thursday in order for the pension protection fund to agree to the retailer‘s restructuring plan. earlier this month, toys r us said it would close at least 26 uk stores, leading to the loss of up to 800 jobs. it has cost more than £3 billion to build. it‘s the royal navy‘s biggest and most expensive ship. and now it has emerged that hms queen elizabeth is leaking. the aircraft carrier was commissioned by the queen less than two weeks ago. but during sea trials, she began taking on 200 litres of water an hour because of a faulty seal. our defence correspondent jonathan beale reports. this morning the royal navy‘s newest, largest and most expensive warship was tied up at portsmouth, undergoing what looks like repairs around her stern. a diving suit hanging up suggesting they have already been investigating the problem. they found a leak around the seal of one of her massive propeller shafts. with hms queen elizabeth taking

on around 200 litres of sea water every hour. this morning, the defence secretary was insistent it is not a serious or expensive problem. she‘s in portsmouth having repairs that are needed. this is the aim of the sea trials is to make sure that we look at the problems that occur. it will not cost the british taxpayer any money. she will be out in the new year continuing her sea trials. a true flagship for the 215t century... this is still embarrassing for the royal navy. less than two weeks ago, amid fanfare, the queen commissioned her into service. at the time, there was no mention of any fault as the £3 billion ship was handed over to the navy. the leak was discovered earlier this year while she was undergoing sea trials. it‘s now on a list of repairs, or snags, that

still need to be rectified. the mod insists the contractors will be carrying out and paying for the work. the question now is how easy will this repair be? can she be fixed while still in the water? or will she have to be returned to dry dock, potentially delaying the programme? it depends where the seal is. if it is at the ship end, if you like, of the shaft, not expensive, they can do that while the ship is in the water. if it is at the wet end, towards the stern, it may be more difficult. then they may need to get it into dock to deal with it. but i suspect it is a minor fault. the navy doesn‘t seem to think it is a big deal. the cost of the carrier has almost doubled. and it‘s been a bumpy ride for the new jets that will eventually fly off her. the f35. today mps accused the mod of repeatedly failing to answer their questions about the costs of that programme. this whole project has been expensive and complex, and all the technical challenges have not been overcome.

jonathan beale, bbc news. you‘re watching afternoon live. these are our headlines: police have arrested four men in chesterfield in sheffield, saying they were responding to an alleged islamist terror plot that was planned for christmas. council taxpayers in england and wales could be asked to pay an extra £1 a month to provide more money for the police. us investigators say that a train derailed, killing seven people, was travelling at twice the speed limit. in a moment, tackling online hate crime. social media sites are criticised by mps for not doing enough to crack down on abusive content. and its port, american sprinter justin gatlin has sacked as coach under allegations of doping. undercover reporters were told by the agent that the sprinter is allegedly using performance enhancing drugs, while his coach said he could supply and administer

them. police make an arrest following investigations into the racist abuse received by manchester city‘s raheem sterling at the training ground. they say it is being treated as a hate crime. and gloucester rugby head coach and his son will train as usual despite allegations that the pair were involved in a fight at the weekend. more on all of those stories at around half past. let‘s return to the story of the train derailed in washington. it appears that the train was travelling at twice the speed that was allowed for the track. chris martin as cbs news joins us now. chris, tell us more. investigative

investigators are trying to answer the question on why this train was travelling so far, 80 mph where they should‘ve been travelling at only 30 mph. that much they know right now, but investigators are hoping to get some answers perhaps from the train crew as to why the train was travelling at that speed. they are also to looking to see its speed was the sole factor in this derailment. the pictures look very dramatic, it was a huge incident for the emergency services to have to deal with yesterday. it was, absolutely. we are talking about 12 or so train ca rs we are talking about 12 or so train cars that jumped the we are talking about 12 or so train cars thatjumped the tracks behind me with some 80 folk on board when this happened. and in this area here, interstate five, this is a major route, and this was a busy time of day when this did realm that happened, so you put all of that together, and it was quite the

horrific scene, not just for the people on board the train but for the people riding on the interstate as well. we know this morning that there are still dozens of folks in area hospitals here, some taken in very serious condition. we are waiting at this point for some updates on those patients to see their how they are doing today. chris, thank you very much, chris martinez from cbs. dramatic footage has emerged showing a baby being rescued from a fire that swept through the cameron house hotel beside loch lomond yesterday. the young boy‘s parents were on their honeymoon when they found themselves trapped in their suite by the blaze, in which two people died. many of the 200 guests who were evacuated returned home while others were transferred to nearby lodges. senior executives from facebook, twitter and google have been giving evidence to mps about tackling the growing rise in online hate crime. the social media companies are being urged to introduce tougher safeguards, with some people calling forfines to be imposed if they don‘t act fast enough to remove offensive material. our media editor amol rajan explains. most people agree what abusive content is.

everyone agrees that there is too much of it. but no one really agrees what we should do about it. the first reason is a matter of principle. this company say they are not publishers with the responsibility that faces the bbc or newspapers to vet material before it goes online. they are platforms to allow everyone to put content online, and they rely on the community to police that content, and that is the principle of the open web. but the second issue is a more practical one. the sheer volume of content online these days, 400 hours going on to youtube every minute, is impossible to control completely, so facebook and google say they are doubling the number of human moderators looking at this content. our media editor. we are hearing that the us president donald trump and the prime minister, theresa may, will be speaking in a scheduled call a little later. we don‘t know the details of that call, but they had

that rather public disagreement over some tweets that donald trump had sent not so long ago. he had chosen to retweeti ng sent not so long ago. he had chosen to retweeting videos that had been posted by the far right group britain first deputy leaderjayda fransen. we britain first deputy leaderjayda fra nsen. we know britain first deputy leaderjayda fransen. we know now that twitter has suspended a number of accounts, including that of jayda fransen, so there may be some smoothing of the waters that is needed between donald trump and theresa may after that rather public falling out over those tweets. so a call scheduled for later today. after south africa‘s ruling african national congress selected him to be their new leader yesterday, cyril ramaphosa has been on a walkabout at the party conference it was his first public duty as the newly elected president of the governing party. he said his leadership would try to combine the different views expressed at the conference before his election as leader. the saudi—led military coalition says it has intercepted a missile fired towards the saudi capital,

riyadh. houthi rebels in yemen said they‘d launched a rocket into saudi territory, aimed at one of riyadh‘s palaces. the houthis are fighting a saudi—led coalition which supports yemen‘s government in the country‘s civil war. damejudi dame judi dench damejudi dench is indulging in a perhaps unlikely passion for trees, as our correspondent helen briggs reports. trees in their winter glory, but they‘re more than just beautiful, as damejudi dench learned in a new bbc documentary, they‘re an ally in the fight against climate change. i‘m told that all those leaves are helping the tree to breathe in more carbon dioxide which it will then use to grow more branches. it‘s notjust about planting more trees, it‘s about the right trees in the right places.

these giant trees are very, very important for drawing down carbon dioxide. in addition, in cities, a high density of trees is really important for removing particular matter from the air and when you‘ve got denser trees, you have less instance of the respiratory problems associateded with pollution. this nasa map shows how growing trees soak up carbon dioxide in the northern hemisphere summer. every year, the trees here at kew take up tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air, but they‘re notjust carbon capture machines, they‘re a living laboratory for scientists. and we are constantly learning new things about them. every now and again a little blip. like a popping sound? yes. so that little popping sound is the sound of the water travelling up from the roots all the way

through the thousands of tiny little tubes called xylem tubes just behind the bark. kew has thousands of rare, exotic trees. the man who looks after them says there‘s no end to their uses. trees give us everything that we use today, so they give us the oxygen we breathe, they use our carbon dioxide to produce that. they‘re good for reducing the amount of run—off and preventing erosion, they‘re the best air conditioners, they clean pollutants out of the atmosphere. they‘re good for our well—being and they‘re aesthetically beautiful. you know, that is so important today and becoming more and more relevant. scientists say trees have a big role to play in pollution control, but will only get the benefits if we plant the right trees in the right places. helen briggs, bbc news. and you can see "judi dench:

my passion for trees" tomorrow at 8pm on bbc one. kensington palace has announced that the queen has given her approvalfor prince harry to become the ceremonial head of the royal marines. he‘s to replace his grandfather as captain general, the duke of edinburgh has held the position since 1953, when he was appointed following the death of king george the sixth. prince harry served in the army for ten years , including two tours in afghanistan. this will make your heart burst. a different nativity "tail" for you now as a dog grooming company in loughborough have created their own dog nativity. the picture from wags to riches in mountsorrel quickly went viral on social media, with users submitting their own nativity puppy pics and wishing each other "happy howlidays". their favourite carol?

theirfavourite carol? bark their favourite carol? bark the herald angels sing, of course! tomasz schafernaker is here. how is it looking on the run—up to christmas day? the lovely christmassy weather that we had a couple of weeks ago, i think that was it, because this is what we‘re looking at in the run—up to christmas, mild, some of us like that in some of us don‘t, cloudy, and a little rain in the north, really boring. i can‘t offer any than that. why is it so mild? it is a lwa ys than that. why is it so mild? it is always the jet stream which is a key player, so let‘s have a look at the jet stream over the next few days. this is the air mass, warm and cold aircoming from

this is the air mass, warm and cold air coming from different parts of the world. you can see the shape, very much following the shape of the jet stream. so whenever the jet strea m jet stream. so whenever the jet stream is coming from the south and going over us, we get warmer coming up. when the jet stream dips, going over us, we get warmer coming up. when thejet stream dips, we get the cold air, so across canada, up in the arctic, no surprises across scandinavia it is cold, but we are going to see this pattern continuing for many days yet, probably into christmas as well, and for things to change, this pattern needs to shift. it's change, this pattern needs to shift. it‘s not, so we are relatively confident that there is no snow on the way. there might be a little on the way. there might be a little on the tops of mountains, but it does. that would technically make it a white christmas? it would, but every year we do have that. let‘s talk about the short—term, though. ithink that. let‘s talk about the short—term, though. i think the message for the rest of today is whatever you have got out there right now is what‘s going to remain

for the rest of the day. this is a picture from this morning. it wasn‘t quite as foggy as we were expecting this morning. but look at the temperature contrasts, —4 in bournemouth and 15 degrees in the far north of scotland, and these temperatures will carry on, 14 in the north of scotland, that is something called the phone effect, we have been talking about that for couple of days. in the south, a little colder, five, six, 7 degrees, grey cloud across the welsh hills and around the lake district as well. and a little ten in newquay with the palm trees. so, what about this evening? a weather front approaches the north—west, there will be some light rain from belfast, edinburgh, ca rlisle, will be some light rain from belfast, edinburgh, carlisle, the la ke belfast, edinburgh, carlisle, the lake district. sight of that, generally drive but the murky and

dull around coastal areas. no frost tonight, we are not expecting any ice tomorrow morning. and it looks like england and wales tomorrow are infora like england and wales tomorrow are in for a cloudy day, drizzle around the north—west of england and wales, but northern ireland and scotland are infora but northern ireland and scotland are in for a brighter day, the best of any brightness tomorrow somewhere around here, so eastern scotland, five, the borders of scotland as well. and how about thursday? not much changes, a lot of cloud, that mild south—westerly air coming in off the atlantic, double—figure temperatures, in fact a little above the average for the time of year across the south, so that is thursday out of the way, and let‘s see what is heading our way on friday. high pressure to the south—west of the country means very settled conditions, thejet stream is out there with the low pressure, this is the wind bringing in the cloud and a little drizzle. there will be some rain around across northern ireland and scotland come

the weekend, but probably not of the south. a quick sneak peek of what the weather might be doing around about christmas time if the graphics move. they are not. never mind. we lost there, i have said enough. it‘s not going to snow. that‘s the latest from me. this is bbc news. our latest headlines. four men are being held by police on suspicion of terrorism offences. they were arrested at their homes in south yorkshire and derbyshire this morning. the police in england and wales are to get £180 in extra funding for the next financial year — the portion of council tax going towards the police may also increase. safety investigators in the united states say a train that plunged off the tracks on to a motorway in washington state was travelling at well over twice the speed limit. the labour mp, david lammy, who reviewed race bias

in the legal system — has criticised the government‘s decision to rule out targets for appointing more black and minority ethnicjudges. it‘s emerged britain‘s biggest warship — the aircraft carrier, queen elizabeth — is taking on hundreds of litres of seawater every hour because of a leak. sport now on afternoon live withjohn watson. reports of doping allegations regarding two associates of the american sprinterjustin gatlin. that‘s right, the sprinter who won the 100 metre gold in london at the world championships in the summer, caught have been doping allegations after an athletics agent was filmed by undercover reporters insinuating that the sprinter was using performance enhancing drugs while his coach dennis mitchell said athletes avoid detection because the drugs they use cannot be detected by test. justin gatlin has sacked his coach. this report on what we know.

four months ago he stunned the world, beating usain bolt to become world, beating usain bolt to become world champion in an admittance. but justin gatlin is ending a brilliant year under of suspicion. it stems from a video of undercover reporters from a video of undercover reporters from the telegraph newspaper at his florida training camp. the paper claims the coach and an athletics agent, robert wagner, offered to supply and administer performance enhancing drugs to an actor training forfilm. the video enhancing drugs to an actor training for film. the video apparently shows robert wagner insinuating that gatlin is taking banned substances. both robert wagner and gatlin deny the claims. the city five—year—old‘s legal representatives added that the sprinter had more than five years of official drugs tests to show he had never tested positive for any banned substance. himself released this

statement earlier. i am not using and have not used performance enhancing drugs. i was shocked and surprised to learn that my coach would have anything to do with even the appearance of his current accusations. i fired the appearance of his current accusations. ifired him as soon the appearance of his current accusations. i fired him as soon as i found out about this. the fired coaches dennis mitchell, here in the green t—shirt. he allegedly said athletes could get away with doping because the drugs could not be detected by tests. mitchell, a former olympic medallist with a chequered past involving banned su bsta nces chequered past involving banned substances denies that he ever suggested that any of his current athletes used any drugs. and for those fighting for fair sport is another blow to integrity. we want sport to be credible so we need to doa sport to be credible so we need to do a lot more to improve the immediacy of the sanctioning system in order that we are actually making sure that what people see, they can believe in. the us anti-doping agency said it‘s only fair to let

due process occur before jumping to any conclusions but after serving two drugs bans in the past gatlin is rarely afforded the benefit of the doubt. natalie pirks, it is bbc news. a man has been arrested because of an alleged hate crime against raheem sterling last weekend. police allege the player was racially abused and attacked after arriving at training on saturday. troy deeney will serve a four match suspension after watford failed to obtain his red card against huddersfield at the weekend. troy deeney was dismissed after a tackle and will not be available for the games against brighton, leicester, swansea and manchester city. manuel la nzini leicester, swansea and manchester city. manuel lanzini will serve a two match suspension after his denial of a charge of successful deception of a match official was rejected. it follows the awarding of a penalty for west ham against stoke

city on sunday. gloucester rugby say they will stand by head coachjohan ackerman and his son ruan ackermann who plays the club despite allegations they were involved in a fight in cheltenham last weekend. gloucestershire police have confirmed that they are investigating an incident which left a man with facial injuries. father and sonjoined a man with facial injuries. father and son joined the club before the start of the season. the club says after reviewing the evidence that they will stand by the pair. and thatis they will stand by the pair. and that is all the sport for now. your next update in around one hour‘s time. now on afternoon live — let‘s go nationwide — and see what‘s happening around the country — in our daily visit to the bbc newsrooms around the uk. dominic heale is in nottingham, and can tell me about the world‘s first vending machine created specifically to help the homeless. nice to see you. and in a moment i‘ll be talking

to harry gration in leeds, about the worrying rise in grandparents with caring responsibilities falling into debt. thank you as well forjoining us. first to dominic in nottingham. how does this extraordinary invention work? it is thought to be the first vending machine for the homeless in the world, it provides food and clothing and shelter to the homeless, it‘s the brainchild of the charity action hunger. homeless people and rough sleepers are given a preloaded card which loads the machine, and when the little slots open as a result of this card being introduced there is water, fresh fruit, energy bars, foil blankets, importand fruit, energy bars, foil blankets, import and this time of year, gloves, woolly hats, to brushes and sanitary products. the content varies depending on the time of

year, some of the food comes from fairshare, a campaign year, some of the food comes from fair share, a campaign against food waste, tesco a re fair share, a campaign against food waste, tesco are involved along with other partners. it seems simple but very effective. who gives out the cards? a local drop in centre called the friary which works with the homeless. the card only allows three items a day to be withdrawn and to keep it active the recipient has to visit the drop—in centre at least once a week. that is so that workers can monitor the health and well—being of homeless people and rough sleepers, and i suppose provide that human contact that the machine cannot. how likely is it that the scheme could be rolled out in other places? very likely. the charity looking at rolling it out in birmingham and london in the new year and they want 20 such machines to be placed across the uk by next summer. you come to be placed across the uk by next summer. you come here to be placed across the uk by next summer. you come here to get something to eat or drink or clean

dry socks, perhaps, the access is brilliant. as we can hear, the reaction, albeit on the first day, has been incredibly positive. people like the location, they like the fa ct like the location, they like the fact that its 24 hours a day access. it is worth remembering at this time of great consumerism that sometimes all that people want or need is a dry pairof all that people want or need is a dry pair of socks. and son people are asking on social media today if they can donate —— some people. thank you. now to harry in leeds. this is very pertinent story particularly at this time of year, many people finding it hard to make ends meet. grandparents in particular, those with caring responsibilities. how big is the problem? it's big. as a grand pedant myself, you like to think you give as much as you can, especially this time of your —— as a grandparent.

we‘ve talked to many grandparents in the course of bringing this item to you. maureen is 74 and thinking about retirement. her daughter, sadly was a drug addict and died in tragic circumstances, leaving two children aged two and five. maureen has been looking after those children for 14, 15 years. they are now virtually adults. so you can imagine the strain on her throughout those 15 years. the problem is that basically she‘s got into debt. she‘s been going to food banks to get help but the bills to mount up. her story really gets you there. before you know it, you are not in hundreds of pounds of debt, you are an thousands. —— in thousands. ijust thought, i'll be able to pay them off. forgetting that i was getting

nearer and nearer to retirement. off. forgetting that i was getting nearerand nearerto retirement. it has been suggested that i should go for bankruptcy. so yes, it's pretty dire. it is very hard, isn't it, for people like maureen who wants to do the right things by her grandchildren but what help is available? me give you some statistics to put it into some kind of perspective. it's estimated that there are 180,000 children looked after by their grandparents. as far as foster carers are concerned, they look 60,000 children. the difference between the two is quite profound. foster carers get an allowance, what some say is a proper allowance, probably never enough, the trouble with grandparents is that they don‘t get any hand—outs at all. although once they get are measured by the local council, etc. so two charities are saying this. grandparents plus

and the family fund say, let‘s have and the family fund say, let‘s have a national allowance to try to help these people, especially at this time of year, to help them bring up their children, through no fault of their children, through no fault of their own, they are looking after their own, they are looking after their grandparents and they are acting as parents in this particular way. logic seems to suggest they have a strong case. thank you, harry, in leeds. thank you for joining us for news nationwide. if you would like to see more about those stories find them on the bbc i player and we go nationwide every weekday afternoon at 430 share on afternoon live. the home office has announced the funding settlement for the police in england and wales for the next financial year. up to £130 million of central government money

is being given for national priorities like technology and mobile working, and £50 million for counter—terrorism. and local police and crime commissioners are to be given the power to increase the portion of council tax going towards police funding by up to £1 a month for a typical household. home office minister nick hurd made the announcement. you‘ll have locally elected democratically accountable police commissioner so it is right that they are in the driving seat on this. they said we would like to see more investment in policing, we would like the power to raise our precepts of it, £1 a month, because we think people want to support more investment in local police, give us the power and that is what we‘re proposing now. as a government we are very proposing now. as a government we are very sensitive about raising taxation. we have worked since 2010 to keep council tax levels as low as possible. but the reality is, if we

wa nt to possible. but the reality is, if we want to see more investment in policing that money has to come from somewhere, either from policing that money has to come from somewhere, eitherfrom additional borrowing, or from somewhere, eitherfrom additional borrowing, orfrom taxation. somewhere, eitherfrom additional borrowing, or from taxation. that was home office minister nick heard speaking earlier after making that announcement. david jamieson is the police and crime commissioner for the west midlands — the second largest police force in the country. thank you very much forjoining us today. what do you make of this settlement? what the government has effectively announced as a further cut to police funding. in the west midlands we received £22 million, inflation was raging at 3% so what we have in effect now is a further cut to our funding we have in effect now is a further cut to ourfunding and some of we have in effect now is a further cut to our funding and some of the burden of the cost of policing moving from the central tax payer to the local taxpayer. how resistance

will council tax payers be? on a band d property some pay more or less. it is actually a further cut to ourfunding. the pay less. it is actually a further cut to our funding. the pay rise less. it is actually a further cut to ourfunding. the pay rise is totally unfounded, it‘s effectively a cutting off about a hundred police officers. they are saying that the cut isn‘t as big as you thought it was going to be, we needed £22 millionjust to was going to be, we needed £22 million just to stand still and they say, if you go to the local taxpayer and ask for more that‘s the way you can sustain it. the government will

have to face up to this. crime is going up, the demands on the police are going up, week in the west midlands have particular problems dealing with counterterrorism, and at the same time this is a government that is actually reducing the amount of money available for our police at this present time. how much would you need to raise per household locally to bridge the gap? to bridge the gap to get the £22 million would have to put up the council tax and a band d property up by 20 or £30 at least. we‘ve got a lot of low band and property in the west midlands whereas places like souare can raise enormous amounts by doing that. i am saying the government, not being disingenuous

about this now, they should put the government funded grant in so at least we can sustain the level of funding, we would need £22 million next day just to stand funding, we would need £22 million next dayjust to stand still. mr jamieson, thank you for your time. a bbc investigation has uncovered failings in the provision of health care at liverpool prison. whistleblowers have revealed that inmates have died and others have been seriously injured as a result. the incidents occurred after inspectors visited the jail. the health trust involved has apologised. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. liverpool prison is arguably england‘s worstjail. liverpool prison is arguably england's worst jail. what are you doing. squalid, violent, riddled with drugs. staff and prisoners being let down by failing regime. annette hill lost her grandson through failures at liverpool prison. she had raised him as her

own and heard his concerns with the jail. in april 2015 he died. the prison had repeatedly failed to give the 25—year—olds the medicine he needed. he wasn't getting any support for his health. he kept on and on, even wrote letters to the doctor, begging them to get his prescription that he needed. he didn‘t decide to order that prescription until the day he died. girls later the problems persist, in september, inspectors carried out a visit, we have seen the unpublished report says this lack of support from people with mental health needs and patients have an impoverished regime. within days and inmate killed himself in the health care unit. less than three weeks later another prisoner died by suicide. staff said that prison at the moment was so risky. a month later, a third death. medics informed us the seriously young man had died after waiting nearly 17 hours to see

the prison gp. healthcare at the prison is run by lancashire care nhs trust. they say services are improving but their medical derrida admitted they had made mistakes. we have made improvements but not at the pace and the level we would have liked. inspectors have described living conditions that liverpool as the worst they have ever seen, rats and cockroaches rife, blocked toilets, pools of you are in. ministers say today improvements are underway but such promises have been made before so staff and the 1100 inmates will want to see concrete changes before the prison loses its appalling reputation. michael buchanan, bbc news, liverpool. in a moment, the business news.

first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. police who‘ve arrested four men in chesterfield and sheffield say they were responding to an alleged islamist terror plot, that was planned for christmas. council tax payers in england and wales could be asked to pay an extra pound a month to provide more funding for the police. us investigators say a passenger train that derailed killing three people was travelling at more than twice the speed limit. the future of toys r us in the uk has been plunged into doubt after the pension protection fund said it could vote against the company‘s rescue plan. the retailer was told to put £9 million into its struggling pension fund by the ppf in order for it to support the toy retailer‘s restructuring plan. failure to agree a deal could put all its 3,200 staff at risk of redundancy. investors have been meeting in london today to decide the fate

of household goods giant steinhoff. the firm owns 6,500 outlets in 30 countries, including the uk‘s poundland and furniture chains bensons and harveys. the firm is in the spotlight after an accounting scandal that led to its shares slumping 80% and two top executives resigning. the chairman of the london stock exchange, donald brydon, has won the backing of the majority of shareholders. an extraordinary general meeting held earlier today say 79% of shareholders voted in his favour. one 5% shareholder in lse, had pressed to get rid of mr brydon amid unhappiness over the departure of xavier rolet, the group‘s former chief executive, who left last month, a year earlier than planned. a very well—known high street name in trouble. yes, toys r us has been in the uk since 1985, been online here since 1986, a hundred online

stores and 3200 staff, the company is now in trouble, they say they need to restructure, the plan will close 26 stores and lose 800 members of staff. the problem is that the pension protection stand has said, we will not support the restructuring unless you put £9 million into a struggling pension fund. toys r us is a big company and say they should have the money to dilbert whether they feel it is the right thing for them to do to make their restructuring plan work. the feeling is that the pension protection fund is taking a hard line because of what happened with bhs. got to find the money by thursday. will keep an eye on the story. let‘s look at the markets today. the ftse is up there, european markets had a strong day of trading yesterday. the tax has fallen a bit today, that‘s because we had a slight dip in german business confidence figures today.

figures going down rather than that. we‘ve put up the american exchanges because there have been big global rallies going on and one thing is it this year was the promise of the president to cut taxes. it looks as if those cuts could be imminent, vote is expected between 6:30pm and 7pm today. it could cut corporate tax down to 21% which could be a huge boost for corporate america. politically very controversial but the markets tend to like that. yes, although look at the nasdaq, they are down. why are they down when this is what they want?” are down. why are they down when this is what they want? i don't know! i will tell you. there's this adage, by on the rumour, sell a fa ct. adage, by on the rumour, sell a fact. the markets have been looking forward to this, the other saying is that it forward to this, the other saying is thatitis forward to this, the other saying is that it is better to travel than to arrive. they love just as

that it is better to travel than to arrive. they lovejust as it that it is better to travel than to arrive. they love just as it is about to happen they seek profit taking and people worrying that they are overvalued. this is why they are down even though they are getting what they want. also some news of bitcoin. is it on your christmas list? not at all, they are so expensive. we've also got a south korean exchange which was exchanging bitcoin and it has gone bankrupt today, because they suffered a second hack so lots of their coins are stolen. they‘ve closed the exchange. some people have lost a lot of money. of their bitcoin exchanges are still running but this is the issue. people say it‘s not secure and shouldn‘t be at the top of your christmas list. it is not even on mine, i would not know what i was doing, it would be very risky prospect. thank you so much. an artist has demonstrated how he

spends each winter creating snow pictures. tom baker from spends each winter creating snow pictures. tom bakerfrom sandhurst in berkshire spence december travelling around the country creating displays. his clients vary from private homeowners to large companies and celebrities. ben more reports. meet the man who is seriously chilled at christmas. and tom baker and and the snowman. —— my name is tom baker and i am the snowman. it's notjust santa claus who works hard at christmas. a start on october 31 and i do not have a day off until it finishes. it all sta rts day off until it finishes. it all starts with a simple spray of snow.

tom uses a lot of it but his tools are basic. just regular snow spray. i use that which is a paintbrush, a sharp in the end. i used to use my fingerfor sharp in the end. i used to use my finger for this sharp in the end. i used to use my fingerfor this bit, sharp in the end. i used to use my finger for this bit, and sharp in the end. i used to use my fingerfor this bit, and the window scraper. tom started doing the windows for his children four years ago and since then his business has, er snowballed! i only probably get through 150—200 a year. er snowballed! i only probably get through 150-200 a year. he would do any design that it comes at a price. generally starts at about £150 and then it will go up from there. what‘s the most expensive? over £1000 for large windows. like his fake snow,

his fame is spreading. he‘s been given a top—secret job at a famous london landmark. and that‘s not all. this could be the start of an international career hopefully? it could become a yeah. i have had have had some enquiries from abroad, one from the empire state building. it has a lot of windows! just the ground floor i think, the entrance i think. that‘s it, he can go where we can‘t. he has a big job to do at somerset house. we are not allowed to know a lot about the big job at somerset house and we are not allowed inside to film. despite doing almost a thousand windows in total, christmas doesn‘t leave the snowman cold. are you sick of christmas? do you know what, i love christmas. as tom finishes work and thaws out, he says his windows are a reminder that this time of year is as fleeting as the driven snow. it‘s notjust something you buy and pack it away and put it in the loft and get it out next year, it‘s gone forever, it‘s in the moment.

that‘s christmas isn‘t it? it‘s here and then it‘s gone. the snowman of berkshire. that‘s it from your afternoon live team for today. next, the bbc news at 5 with huw edwards. time for a look at the weather. here‘s tomasz shafernaker. in the run—up to christmas the weather will turn marred across the uk. it was chilly this morning with frost and fork, with the fog i think it was a bit less widespread and dense than we expected but still some problems, even accidents in some problems, even accidents in some part of the country due to the fog. this is how it looks this evening, a lot of mild air coming in from the south—west, it should be a frost free night for most, temperatures well up, even 10 degrees tonight across the north west of scotland, and additionally some freshening winds and rain. it isa some freshening winds and rain. it is a weather front that is moving

across the uk tomorrow, to the south cloudy and gloomy, in some places drizzle, especially around the north—west of england, and it is mild to the south, temperatures in the double figures in the north of scotland, i don‘t think it will be as warm in scotland as it was in the south today. police believe he may have foiled an alleged islamist terror plot. four men have been arrested. bomb disposal experts have been called into a property in chesterfield. but is normally very quiet. it is a shock to come home from work and see that. but that is why i approached the riot van. we will have the latest from chesterfield in just a we will have the latest from chesterfield injust a moment. the other main stories on bbc news at five. the justice secretary, david lidington, says the government wants to see a "more diverse" judiciary — despite ruling out

targets for appointing more black and minority ethnicjudges. the hms queen elizabeth, the navy‘s new £3 billion