this is bbc news. the headlines at 11am: every current rape case in england and wales is to be reviewed after several trials collapsed because crucial evidence wasn't disclosed. prosecutors and investigators are not doing the basics properly. a0 people have been killed and more than 100 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 januarys in paris in more than a century. this is the scene live in paris as people face an anxious wait to see how high the waters of the seine will rise.

and the dateline london panel talk davos, brexit and the middle east. that's all in half an hour here on bbc news. 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. yesterday saw another case collapsed because social media evidence was not disclosed. the judge in that trial has ordered the crown prosecution service to explain itself after three people held on trafficking and prostitution charges were thrown out after the material cast doubt on the complainant's story. earlier i spoke to paul keleher, a barrister for one of the defendants who were acquitted. the complainant was cross—examined

using material which have not been disclosed and when they've finished the prosecution through their hand in and accept that she was no longer a credible witness. just for those of us who do not know enough about it, what went wrong? we are still waiting to find out. thejudge has demanded an explanation from the crown prosecution service. he commented in ruling on the case that the police and cps had completely failed to apply the law of disclosure in this case, he described their failure is as lamentable and shocking and there was a wholesale failure to apply a straightforward law that has been in place for 23 years. so the prosecution failed, defence failure is as well? the whole system seems to be failing. the defence had been

asking for this material for some time and the judge commented that the defence, when we got it, worked flat out. we were given 65,000 m essa 9 es flat out. we were given 65,000 messages plus other material we had to work through. we live in the new world, we have to get used to this world of technology and mobile phones, in the old days you spent a lot of time with documents and you had clerks rooting through things but it's all different now and the legal profession cannot cope, it seems like. we could cope if we had sufficient resources. legal aid is a problem. the legal aid agency find it difficult to get lawyers to look at this material. i suspect the prosecution are underfunded as well but this problem has been around for

yea rs, but this problem has been around for years, it's just been aggravated by social media material. do you accept it's possible that people who ended up it's possible that people who ended up convicted, that was wrong as well and if we started looking back there could be a real issue? it seems it must be the case, by definition there are cases we do not know about. you say underfunding the reviews cost a lot of money and in the end of the it also you need more money, you're chasing around at the circle at a time when government funds are under pressure. the bar council have been saying this for yea rs, if council have been saying this for years, if you don't funded properly at the beginning, mistakes occur which are much more expensive to put right later on, it's much cheaper to apply resources properly. there are

calls for more police training to deal with investigation of these cases. this categorisation were raped might have occurred but the parties are known to reach other is a very specific category where you don't normally have additional evidence to confirm who is right or wrong, so evidence to confirm who is right or wrong, so anyone who puts what parties are saying in that particular light is important and thatis particular light is important and that is why text messages and the like are so powerful and it is obvious that prosecutors and investigators should be looking for that material. i don't deny there is a skilled challenge here, some of these cases have a large amount of material but you have to look for it and were mistakes have been made when people are not looking for this material, that is inexcusable, so we need to deal with these cases but

also the broader challenges it brings. you concerned about how police are dealing with evidence available? i am concerned that prosecutors and police officers work together to deal with the volume of information they have to process. it isa information they have to process. it is a team effort, there is no point pointing fingers at each other, they have to resolve this issue together and what is now happening is a joint investigation of the particular type of case that appears to have the most problems but we will also look more broadly at how disclosure can be done better, especially how we manage the large volume of electronic material that many criminal cases now involved. do police forces need more training? there is a need for training for police officers and prosecutors. the

disclosure system is not new, and police officers should know what they have to do and be doing it but we recognise that with the volume of information they have to process, that can be a challenge, so if we can find new ways we can look at those. there is no substitute for asking obvious questions about social media and text messaging which i think is right for police and prosecutors to look at in a very early stage in the type of place where we have encountered problems. that was the attorney general, jeremy wright. at least a0 people have been killed in a huge explosion in the centre of the afghan capital, kabul. a spokesperson for the ministry of public health said more than 200 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 kabul for the latest with asif marouf from the bbc‘s afghan service. bring us up to date with what we know about this explosion. four of the time being we know the explosion was claimed by the taliban in a tweet by their spokesperson and they used an ambulance to go to the important area, regarding the location of some embassies and the old interior ministry and other government departments. the blast happened in front of a public hospital and we saw a number of patients who escaped from the last area and for the time being while we area and for the time being while we are speaking, a big number of

families are desperate to find their loved ones who are trapped in the area where the blast happened. they note the fate of their loved ones, they are queued up behind the hospitals to know if they are among the wounded or dead. this time a big number of civilians either prime victims of taliban blast. there have been a series of attacks but this is an appalling one. the atmosphere in kabul must be very nervous. in the past weeks, especially after a meeting by members of the security council in kabul, we know there are also a number of operations, counter terrorism operations by the americans against the taliban in the

south of the country and we have seen south of the country and we have seen attacks in the cities either taliban or by isis and the main victims of these attacks are civilians, so they are desperate and the situation is very complicated. the security forces, a difficult time for them but almost impossible to stop this sort of thing happening. exactly, because i know there was some intelligence information, especially for these type of attacks, it had been mentioned that a vehicle would be used but not an ambulance, and the security people, police and the army say there are a lot of operations against the taliban, stopping a number of attacks, according to them

one out of ten may happen like this as we see today. asif marouf, thank you. 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. 0ur 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 4000 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 voted 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 and 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 they 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. three teenaged boys have died after being hit by a car,

at a bus stop in west london. the collision, involving a black audi, happened in hayes last night. a 28—year—old man, who was inside the car, has been arrested. anisa kadri is in hayes in west london for us. what do we know about this awful accident? this morning we have seen accident? this morning we have seen a few people come here to pay tribute to the three teenagers who lost their lives. we understand they we re lost their lives. we understand they were all around 16th and you can see flowers on railings where people have left tributes to these three young men. they were with other teenagers by that bust up behind me and across the road when they were hit by a car, and they were with a number of people because some reports suggest that they were going toa reports suggest that they were going to a party that night. people

visibly upset have been here paying their respects and 828—year—old man has been arrested and taken to hospital. it's understood he was in the car the time. i described it as an accident but we do not yet know what caused it. yes, we don't know the cause, whether it was an accident but we know police are appealing for witnesses and they are looking at a number of different possibilities. thank you. new research suggests that plastic found in many second—hand toys could pose a risk to children's health, as it doesn't meet current safety standards. scientists tested 200 used plastic toys they found in nurseries, charity shops and homes across for nine hazardous elements. 20 toys had traces of all nine elements, with some concentrations high enough to fail european standards. dr andrew turner was behind that research and he joins us from our plymouth news room.

good morning. a lot of people will be alarmed about this. what sort of chemicals are we talking about and what sort of age or the tories were bits of kit? we are talking about toys that were manufactured before the original european toy safety go directive in 1994 and looking for chemicals which have toxicity over a sustained period of time, so the risk is ingesting or exposure to small quantities of these, so you wouldn't have any immediate physical signs but the impacts that affect you later in life. i remember years ago people talk about lead in toys and pencils, we have come a long way since then but is there any evidence

that people's health has been affected by this? there are studies that have shown that lead has an impact, mainly lead in petrol, but no concentration or amount of lead is saved, so we should try and minimise all possible sources of exposure. people have asked about the dangers of some of these stories, there are not necessarily dangerous handling them, it is when you choose them and so on, so especially younger children. what would your advice be to parents, old bits of kit, best to throw them out? it depends what it sees four and the age of the child. the ones to look out for our older ones which are brightly coloured red or yellow, they tend to contain cadmium, unknown carcinogen. 0lder figures

like dinosaurs or animals tend to have a thin layer of plastic which is hazardous, and also black plastics, they tend to be recycled from electronic waste which contains all sorts of nasty chemicals, so look out for those but bear in mind it is promoting or chewing which is a hazard, not necessarily handling them. so the basic advice is not to put things in your mouth, that still applies. thank you forjoining us. let's ta ke let's take a look at the headlines on bbc news. every current rape case in england and wales is to be reviewed after several trials collapsed because crucial evidence wasn't disclosed. 40 people have been killed and more than 100 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. residents in paris are bracing

themselves for further disruption this morning, as flooding in the city is expected to reach its peak. some of the wettest january weather in more than a century saw the river seine rise to more than five metres above its normal level yesterday. stefan levy reports. 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 the 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. sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's mike bushell. what a match we have for you. it's turning into an incredible women's final at the australian open tennis, with both players chasing a first grand slam title,

and with it the world number one status. and you get the sense that the sta kes m ea n and you get the sense that the stakes mean so much for these players. caroline wosniacki will overtake simona halep as the world's best if she can win this final, and indeed she took the first set on a tie break, but the second set proved just as hard fought and halep levelled the match, taking the second set, 6—3. in the third set caroline wozniacki had time out without a leg problem, but fought back, and we can now see that wozniacki is 5—4 up. still very close. halep is serving to stay in the match. live commentary of that women's final on bbc radio 5live sports extra and the bbc sport website. highlights on bbc one from 1:15pm. halep trying to stay in the match, 4-3 halep trying to stay in the match, 4—3 down, 5—3 down, even. ben stokes has been snapped up this morning, for nearly £1.4 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 2020 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 £490,000. 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. just to update you on that score i’u ns just to update you on that score runs at tennis, it is 5—4 to

wozniacki in the decider, we will update you in the moment, but first the fa cup, where there are 12 more fourth—round ties taking place today. peterborough host leicester in the early kick—off, could be an upset there, southampton against watford kicking off at 3pm, and the late kick—off is liverpool at home to west brom. look out for giant—killing as newport county try to do what they did to leeds. beating leeds was my highlight because i could enjoy that game and it was due to our hard work of getting in that position. and what happened at the end of last season was obviously more important for the football club. you only have to see the struggles hartlepool are going through and it could quite easily have been us. we're fortunate.

we're working hard to keep improving and that's what we always do here. apologies if i was a bit distracted but she has done, caroline wozniacki has won the australian open, so after never winning a set in a grand slam final before, she has beaten simona halep in the deciding set 6—4 to ta ke simona halep in the deciding set 6—4 to take the australian open title. it means she now replaces simona halep as the world number one. that has just happened in melbourne so we will bring you a full report in an hour's time. that's all the sport for now. now for the weather with susan powell. hello. some rather gloomy weather prospects for the british isles this weekend. an area of low pressure to the north of us feeding

all this cloud our way, but this little clearer slot here may bring some sunshine this afternoon but this curl to the far north is the centre of an area of low pressure so that will keep things windy with a risk of gales for the north and west of scotland but hopefully some sunshine here despite a few showers this afternoon. further south we're still under that more solid mass of cloud. here's a closer look, very windy for the northern and western isles, quite a few showers getting fed in on the wind but there will be some sunny spells. northern ireland after a grey start, in for a dry and sunny afternoon, sunshine creeping into northern england, still quite a bit of low cloud as we make our way into the midlands, wales and the south—west, some drizzle possible here and then for the south—east of england and anglia, under the weather front some wet prospects for the second half of the day. our weather front will clear off into the constant quite promptly this evening so some drier weather

if you're heading out, turning a little chilly as the wind falls light in the latter part of the evening, but by the end of the night, in piles more cloud, more missed, more murk but at least it will be a mild start to sunday, so frost not a problem but this covering of cloud likely to be a stubborn one throughout the day on sunday. this time our weather front, basically still coming from west to east, just sits across northern ireland and scotland, pushing through as opposed to clearing, we willjust keep the rain, especially for the south west of scotland, on and off through much of sunday. northern ireland perhaps seeing the worst rain to the north but a gloomy day here. further south, drier prospects but a lot of cloud, with the help of the hills we could get a few breaks in the cloud and if we do we're in very mild air, so one or two places could see temperatures of 14 or 15 celsius. one more catch up with that weather front, this is monday, the front slides south into england and wales, a bit reinvigorated, we could see some heavy rain across england and wales for a time on monday and quite keen winds. further north, drier and brighter for scotland and northern ireland.

changing wind direction as well coming in from the north west. some cooler weather on the way here on monday. hello and a warm welcome to dateline london. the conversation has already begun. i'm jane hill. this week we ask — was anything achieved at the world economic forum in davos? what do the british chancellor's comments there tell us about brexit? and the situation on the syria—turkey border — what is the us going to do about its muddle in the middle east? my guests this week — eunice goes, the portuguese writer and journalist. henry chu, europe bureau chief of variety. the british political commentator and author, steve richards. and the french—algerian journalist, nabila ramdani. welcome to you all. we start in the swiss resort of davos, where donald trump was the first us president

to attend the world economic forum for 18 years. his presence attracted an enormous amount of attention, just as he likes it. but was there just a shade less protectionism in his speech than had been anticipated? you'd have thought the gathering was all about trump. of course, the world's political and business elite was there too. emmanuel macron of france called for greater co—operation — so did germany's angela merkel. but was she overshadowed by him?