this is bbc news. the headlines... every current rape case is to be reviewed — after several trials collapsed through a failure to disclose evidence in england and wales. prosecutors and investigators, police officers, are not doing the basics properly. 20 people killed and more than 100 injured as an explosion rocks the afg ha n injured as an explosion rocks the afghan capital, kabul. relief for a thousand workers at aerospace firm bombardier, as massive tariffs won't be imposed by america. three teenagers have been killed after a car ploughed into them in west london. a man is arrested. also in this hour... paris is on high alert for flooding. record rainfall has caused the river seine to burst its banks in one of the wettest january is in more than a century. and the travel show

discovers why sinkholes are appearing nearly —— near the red sea. good morning and welcome to bbc news. all current rape and sexual assault cases in england and wales are being reviewed "as a matter of urgency". the announcement from the director of public prosecutions follows the recent collapse of several high—profile trials, after vital evidence had not been shared with defence lawyers. it's believed a number of cases could be stopped as a result, as adina campbell reports. in a move seen to help rebuild trust in the justice system, every rape and sexual assault case in england and wales is now under review. the crown prosecution service has taken action after public concerns that evidence, particularly digital records, are not being disclosed early

enough to defence lawyers. 22—year—old liam allen was wrongly accused of rape and sexual assault, but his trial collapsed last month after the metropolitan police failed to disclose phone records which were vital evidence. last week, a rape charge against oxford university student oliver mears was dropped shortly before his trial when a diary which supported his case was uncovered. and danny kay, who had a rape conviction overturned after spending two years in prison, said earlier this month he felt let down by the justice system. devastating for a system that you trust to let you down like that. and i had complete faith in it. i trusted the truth would come out in trial and it didn't. earlier this week the bbc revealed the number of collapsed prosecutions increased by 70% over

the last two years. a national disclosure plan has now been published by the cps, the national police chiefs‘ council and the college of policing to help make improvements. adina campbell, bbc news. lets cross to clive coleman, our legal affairs respondent. this sounds quite extraordinary, really. many cases to be reviewed?m sounds quite extraordinary, really. many cases to be reviewed? it is not putting too fine a point on it to say this is something like a crisis for the criminaljustice system. lawyers working within that system have been telling me for many, many yea rs have been telling me for many, many years that this closure was a real issue. it was a real problem. we have now had a series of high—profile cases, rape cases, which have collapsed because of the failure by the prosecution to disclose to the defence, as they are

bound to do, any evidence that assists the defence case or undermines the prosecution case. as a result of that, we now have this urgent review of all rape cases and all serious sexual assault cases in england and wales that are live. that means where someone has been charged but is yet to stand trial. what is interesting about that is that it what is interesting about that is thatitis what is interesting about that is that it is a review simply of rape and sexual assault cases. lawyers have been telling me for a long time that this is a systemic problem. it is not simply one that is confined to those kind of cases. in those cases, we have seen the failure, the common thread, has been a failure to disclose electronic, digital evidence from mobile phones, from facebook. i think one of the issues at the core of this is that we simply live our lives differently these days. we live it online, on mobile phones, mobile devices. there isa mobile phones, mobile devices. there is a real question mark over the ability of prosecutors within the

criminal justice system ability of prosecutors within the criminaljustice system to locate the evidence that is hidden in those areas that can be absolutely critical. the thing is, this review is only looking at rape and sexual assault cases. only yesterday, a case, a people trafficking case, not rape or sexual assault, collapsed because of this closure failures. the effect of these disclosure failures can be absolutely devastating. in that case, a young woman who was one of the defendants was on remand for 13 months, during which time she had a child in prison. she should never have been there. this is an issue that certainly criminal lawyers field goes beyond rape and sexual assault. it is the action plan going forward that the director of public prosecutions, alison saunders, and the attorney generaljeremy wright qc, had been talking about, that it is hoped will address these problems

going forward. one of the issues is, another key issue, it does not look backwards. what about cases in the past where people may have been wrongly convicted as a result of disclosure failures? there is no review into those cases. some people may say, in fact, it was put to alison saunders recently, are people in prison who should not be there, and they are there because of disclosure failures? she said that was not the case. the case at woodgreen yesterday proves it was the case. this woman was in prison on remand, not convicted, who should not have been there. i think there will be pressure now to look at past cases in addition to cases going forward and current cases. just quickly, what you say about the modern world, technology and mobile phones, that is correct. but what is the basic problem? a lack of staff,

people not knowing how this works, how has this arisen? it used to be the case that the evidence collected would be paper, you would have a warehouse of paper in big cases. now much of the evidence is digital. that has to be properly scrutinised. you need the right training for police officers, disclosure officers, you need the right softwa re officers, you need the right software in order to do it effectively and come pensively. those are too matter of the big issues. the other big issue is very little. -- issues. the other big issue is very little. —— copper offensively. there is very little funding. criminal lawyers have been saying that this area is simply underfunded. defence lawyers are not being paid sufficiently, or at all, to look at what is called the unused material, material that the police will gather thatis material that the police will gather that is not being used in the prosecution itself, but it may contain critical evidence. so, in

addition to this being the way we live now problem, a technology problem, it is also a funding problem. he was talking about a case that collapsed yesterday. paul keleher is a barrister for a defendant who were acquitted in a human trafficking trial yesterday because social media evidence hadn't not disclosed. we are roughly right on the reasons why that case collapsed yesterday? that is correct. what happened to your client? she was one of three defence arrested, a couple of months after the lady that clive referred to. she was in custody for ten months, awaiting trial. she should not have been there in the first place, that has been discovered? that is certainly a tenable view. the case collapsed because the complainant was cross—examined using common amongst other things, material that had not been disclosed previously. when she had finished, the prosecution through in their

hand and accepted that the evidence showed she was no longer a credible witness. for those of us that know a little bit about the courts but not enough, where did things go wrong along the line? in this case, we are still waiting to find out. the judge has demanded an explanation from the crown prosecution service. he commented in rulings on the case that the police and the cps, the crown prosecution service, had com pletely crown prosecution service, had completely failed to apply the law of disclosure in this case, described those failures as lamentable and shocking. they said there was a wholesale failure to apply what is a straightforward law, which has been in place for 23 yea rs. which has been in place for 23 years. the prosecution failed, defence failures as well? the whole system seems to be failing on this? well, the defence had been asking for this material for well, the defence had been asking for this materialfor a well, the defence had been asking for this material for a considerable time. thejudge for this material for a considerable time. the judge commented for this material for a considerable time. thejudge commented when he discharged the jury that the

defence, when we got it, worked flat out to find the relevant parts. we we re out to find the relevant parts. we were just out to find the relevant parts. we werejust given 65,000 out to find the relevant parts. we were just given 65,000 messages, out to find the relevant parts. we werejust given 65,000 messages, and other material, to work through. as clive coleman was talking about, we live in a new world, we have to get used to this world of technology, mobile phones. that is at the base of this, isn't it? in the old days, you spend a lot of time with documents, rooting through things. it is all very different now and the legal profession can't cope, that is what it seems like? we could cope if we had sufficient resources. legal aid funding is a serious problem. the legal aid agency find it very difficult to pay defence lawyers to look at the sort of material. i can't speak for the prosecution. i suspect they are seriously under resourced and underfunded as well. at this problem has been around for yea rs. at this problem has been around for years. it has just been aggravated by the increase in social media material. do you accept that it is possible that all cases, people that ended up in prison and convicted, actually that was wrong as well, and

if we wanted to start looking back we could be in real issues here? if we wanted to start looking back we could be in real issues here7m seems to be logically that it must be the case, if these other cases we know about, there must be cases we don't know about that slipped through the net. one question about the cost of everything, you say underfunding, but reviews are going to cost a lot of money. in the end, presumably there will say you need more money, we are chasing around in a circle at a time when funds from government are under pressure? the bar society have been saying this for years, if you don't fund it at the beginning, mistakes after the ca re the beginning, mistakes after the care that are much more expensive to put right later on. it is a failure to apply legal resources properly. thank you very much indeed. at least 20 people have been killed in a huge explosion in the centre of the afghan capital, kabul. spokesman for the ministry of public health said more than 100 people were injured when a suicide bomb went off near the old interior ministry building.

witnesses say the area was crowded at the time of the blast. the news comes a week after a major attack by the taliban on a high—profile hotel in kabul, the intercontinental, in which more than 20 people died. let's go live to couple with vat let's get the latest from kabul. can you give us the latest that you know? the latest that we know in kabul, the latest casualty figures, 40 kabul, the latest casualty figures, a0 killed and 1a0 wounded in this blast. it happened in a very crowded pa rt blast. it happened in a very crowded part of kabul city, near the old interior ministry building. we know there are a number of embassies and a number of public hospitals, private and public clinics also, and

the afghan peace council is operating from the same area. the area is closed to the public because only ambulances and permitted government vehicles are allowed to government vehicles are allowed to go through. according to the interior ministry, one source says the attackers used an ambulance for this blast, which was very huge, and a lot of damage caused to the public hospital. you said 40 that we know about killed. this is an appalling attack in every way. the atmosphere in kabul must be incredibly nervous? in the past few weeks, we have witnessed a wave of attacks by the taliban. sometimes it has been claimed by the is, which we call

daesh, and sometimes nobody takes responsibility, for example the save the children building the day before. this attack, happening one week after a high—profile attack on a hotel in kabul, where we know that 22 have been killed and 1a were foreigners, and also a number of wounded in the attack. as much as we know that there are counterterrorism operations by the afghan army and the taliban, also, they continue their attacks in the cities. it looks like the security forces cannot cope with what is going on? in one account, the security forces, as they say, they are claiming that

they have a big operation against they have a big operation against the taliban and the taliban are able to only do one or two of their planned attacks in a week. the police say that they have seized a number of the taliban and a number of those that are trying to do suicide attacks in the cities. in that case, we can say that the situation is very complicated. thank you very much. let's look at the headlines. every current rape case in england and wales is to be reviewed as a matter of urgency. it follows the collapse of urgency. it follows the collapse of several trials because crucial evidence was not disclosed. as you have just been hearing, evidence was not disclosed. as you havejust been hearing, it evidence was not disclosed. as you have just been hearing, it is evidence was not disclosed. as you havejust been hearing, it is now being reported that a0 people have been killed and more than 100 injured as a huge explosion rocks the afghan capital, kabul. it comes one week after a major taliban attack on a high—profile hotel in which more than 20 people died. there is relief for 1000 workers at

the aerospace firm bombardier has massive tariffs will not now be imposed by us authorities. the prime minister has welcomed the t7 yes, by the fact that yes, - by the fact that the australian open women's vinyl has turned into a humdinger. the stakes are turned into a humdinger. the stakes a re really turned into a humdinger. the stakes are really high for both players, simona halep and caroline wozniacki. they are both trying to win their first grand slam title. this was wozniacki in the first set, winning ona wozniacki in the first set, winning on a tie—break, which shows how close that was. but after another really closely ha rd —foug ht close that was. but after another really closely hard—fought second set, this happened in the last few moments. simona halep has levelled the match and won that by 6—3. it is

1-1 at the match and won that by 6—3. it is 1—1 at the moment, just about to start the deciding set. the heat is really intense. very hot and humid. there might be a break of ten minutes or so before that final set. live commentary of that women's final on bbc radio 5 live sports extra and the bbc sport website. highlights on bbc one from 1:15 this afternoon. ben stokes has been snapped up this morning for £1.a million, in the auction of players for the indian premier league. he's been bought by the rajasthan royals. that's despite facing a charge for affray, after an incident outside a nightclub in bristol. the all—rounder was the most valuable player of the 20—20 tournament last year. stokes is the joint most expensive of the overseas players. here are the other english players who've been bought so far. chris woakes has fetched £820,000 from royal challengers bangalore. wicketkeeperjos buttlerjoins stokes at rajasthan royals forjust under a90,000.

moeen ali, who has had a poor winter for england, will be with fellow all—rounder woakes at royal challengers bangalore. he cost them £187,000. and jason roy, who hit the highest ever odi score for england earlier this month, went to delhi daredevils for £165,000. test captainjoe root is one who so far remains unsold. now we are talking about the fa cup, and alexis sanchez, the most expensive player in terms of wages in premier league history has shown he is worth the money as he ran the show against yeovil. he set up marcus rashford, bursting through to open the scoring for manchester united. sanchez, on paper, is worth 18 yeovil towns in terms of wages each year. romelu lukaku made it a—o

late on. i tell you what, he had to put up with some rough and tumble. taken out put up with some rough and tumble. ta ken out by put up with some rough and tumble. taken out by a yeovil player. boos from the crowd as well. but he walked away with a man of the match award, arranged by the sponsors. what did his manager think? he will also bring us this extra maturity and class. we are pleased with him and class. we are pleased with him and he was keen to play. we knew that was going to be difficult. we knew that it was going to be not an easy one for him. i am happy with his performance. plenty more fa cup matches today, you can follow them on the website. rory mcilroy leads the dubai desert classic as he starts his third round. the world number 11 finished a fog—delayed second round on saturday with five birdies in his last seven holes. and he'sjust birdied the second hole of his third round to move to 16 under — three shots clear of the field.

i mentioned the bbc sport website, it is the place to follow all of the fa cup action and the latest news from the australian open women's final. you have all of the fixtures and the build—up. later on, you can watch the goals as well. i will have more, and possibly the result of that australian open final. did you say five birdies in seven holes? he is going some! a bit like your golf? i wish! well, crazy golf... the prime minister has welcomed a landmark ruling by trade authorities in the us, overturning a decision to impose huge tariffs on planes which are partly built in the uk. the aerospace firm bombardier won a surprise victory in its dispute with the american company boeing about selling its passenger jets to us airlines. the wings for the planes are manufactured in belfast, where unions claim around 1000 jobs

could have been at risk. our ireland correspondent chris page reports. workers, politicians and business leaders had feared one of bombardier‘s biggest projects would be grounded. the firm in belfast has a,000 employees and a quarter of them work on the c series jet. but the programme was under threat after boeing claimed it was unfairly subsidised because of financial help from the canadian and british governments. the authorities in washington initially proposed to impose tariffs ofjust under 300% on imports of the c series. but last night, the us international trade commission decided not to go ahead with the tariffs, the four commissioners all voting in bombardier‘s favour. workers and their representatives were surprised but very pleased. the workforce has stood squarely behind this, put their shoulder to the wheel.

we've seen politicians nationally given up the ghost saying this is something that can't be overturned, we've demonstrated tonight the power of trade unionism globally, we worked with our colleagues in canada the us and this is a victory for workers tonight. the prime minister spoke to donald trump at the world economics summit in davos this week about the dispute. theresa may tweeted she welcomed the decision as good news for british industry. people had been prepared here for bad news from across the atlantic but there are delighted with this unexpected result. after months of worry, bombardier‘s victory in this trade dispute has brought a great sense of relief. chris page, bbc news, belfast. let's talk to our northern ireland business editor, john campbel, who is in belfast. an important day for industry in that part of the world? hugely important. just an overwhelming sense of relief. a lot of the commentary around this decision was that they were just going to ratify

those tariffs, as chris said in his package, the panel ruled unanimously that it would remove these tariffs. so, there was a plan for the bombardier partnership with airbus, to still try and sell the planes into the united states. it would be very complicated and expensive and will be open to fresh legal challenge. now the company can get on with building the planes and selling them to big american customers. that releases a huge weight from the shoulders of the belfast workforce. but is bombardier a really out of the woods altogether? well, this is a company that has been through the wars. it teetered on the edge of insolvency just a couple of years ago. it effectively had to be bailed out by the state government in quebec. we we re the state government in quebec. we were speaking to one of the union leaders earlier and they said, yes, there is a great sense of relief, we can crack on with the see series —— the c series. but there had been

redundancies announced in belfast which will still go ahead. this is a company that has some stability for the medium term but it still needs to secure its long—term future and sell a whole lot more of these planes. one thinks of belfast in historical terms as a great ship building place. but those days, presumably, are in the past. bombardier is absolutely central for providing a lot ofjobs? bombardier is absolutely central for providing a lot of jobs? it is. bombardier is absolutely at the centre of northern ireland manufacturing. it is the biggest manufacturing. it is the biggest manufacturing employer. it pays very well. it spends a load of money on research and development. it is hard to overemphasise just how important this company is to the northern ireland economy as a whole. thank you very much. three teenaged boys have died after being hit by a car, at a bus stop in west london. the collision, involving a back audi, happened in hayes last night. a 28 year—old man who was inside the car has been arrested. the release of black cab rapist john worboys from prison has been

put on temporary hold following a legal challenge by two of his victims. the 60—year—old was jailed for a minimum of eight years in 2009 for the rape and sexual assault of women in his black cab across london. lawyers representing the women were granted a stay on his release after making an urgent application to the high court. the entire us gymnastics board is to resign because of its handling of the sex abuse scandal involving the former team doctor, larry nassar. the country's olympic committee had threatened to strip the organisation of its powers if the directors failed to stand down. nassar has been given a prison sentence of up to 175 years for abusing more than 150 female gymnasts. peter bowes reports. as larry nassar begins to what amounts to a life sentence, the fallout from the abuse scandal has been swift and decisive. the entire board of usa gymnastics has gone and there have been other resignations too.

mark hollis was the athletic director at michigan state university when nassar worked there. he and another official have decided to quit. it's been an absolute honour to guide the athletic department for the last decade. that being said, today i'm announcing my retirement. i'm not running away from anything, i'm running towards something. comfort, compassion and understanding for the survivors in our community. togetherness, time and love for my family. there's been reports that michigan state university and usa gymnastics knew of the abuse claims but failed to take action. they've both denied there was a cover—up. with several investigations into abuse in us sport now under way, the recriminations are onlyjust beginning. peter bowes, bbc news. the residents of paris are bracing

themselves for further disruption from flooding. some of the wettest january whether more than a century saw the river seine rise to more than five metres above its normal level yesterday. hundreds of people have been evacuated, tunnels and roads have been sealed off. days of heavy rain in the french capital have left the city on high alert. roads, usually filled with paris traffic, are now devoid of cars and submerged in water. forecasters say the river seine's water levels could rise further over the weekend, to 6 metres, just shy of the 6.2 metre peak injune 2016, which led to two deaths and injured dozens more. a city usually bustling with tourists admiring all paris has to offer, the rising river levels themselves now the attraction.

this statue of a crimean soldier zouave has been used to alert locals to rising water levels for more than 150 years. by midday friday, the water was up to his thighs. in the southern suburb of villeneuve—le—roi, river police have been helping families flee their homes. translation: in the four years i've lived here, twice it has flooded. it's a big deal. i have two children. it's traumatising. experts say the river could stay high throughout next week, especially if more rain falls. and with increasingly unpredictable weather comes a sense of uncertainty for people in paris as to when the waters will return. stefan levy, bbc news. we can take you straight to paris, this is the scene live. the river seine is in the background,

difficult to tell from here, but it is running extremely high. the louvre museum has actually closed on lower levels to visitors. 650 people have so far been evacuated from their homes in the paris region. set to be the third highest flooding in paris since the records began, the modern way of taking records, in 1900. if you have been to paris, you know they have boat trips up and down the river. well, they are not running at the moment. that is the scene there, in a very rainy paris. rain, does that apply to us as well? let's get the latest details from susan powell. pretty gloomy weather across the british isles this weekend. we are under there somewhere! this is the big mass of cloud working its way across us big mass of cloud working its way across us at the moment. it is bearing rain this afternoon, particularly for the south—east of

england and east anglia. that is courtesy of a weather front. elsewhere, the prospects should become drier. stilljust before northern england, the south—west of england, sunshine further north. very windy for northern and western scotland, quite a lot of showers as well. the weather front, scotland, quite a lot of showers as well. the weatherfront, onto scotland, quite a lot of showers as well. the weather front, onto the continent, quite probably through the evening. dry if we are handing out and about. a little bit chilly towards the end of the evening. through the small hours, piling in with more cloud and a mild end to the night across england and wales. more rain heading into scotland and northern ireland. quite wet prospects for much of scotland and the north of northern ireland on sunday. further south, generally drier but still an awful lot of cloud. it will be a mild day. temperatures of 12 or 13 degrees.