this is bbc news. the headlines at ham — oxfam is facing a review by the department for international development — after claims the charity covered up a sex scandal involving aid workers in haiti. two captured members of a british cell within so—called islamic state cell should go on trial for war crimes at the hague, according to a government minister. also in the next hour — britain's bid for an olympic title at the 2018 winter olympics. this is great skating. cheese food to the quarterfinals. triple world champion short—track speed skater, elise christie, is safely through, in her opening heat in the 500 metre event. a warning about a new scam involving the apple itunes service. tax authorities say elderly and vulnerable people are becoming victims. brexit, how long president zuma can survive in south africa, and the winter olympics. that's all in dateline in half an hour, here on bbc news. good morning and

welcome to bbc news. the government says oxfam has serious questions to answer over claims the charity covered up the use of prostitutes by some of its staff in haiti, and has condemned what it describes as the "appalling abuse of vulnerable people". oxfam insists it publicised the action it took against the aid workers involved, some of whom were fired. however, the times newspaper is reporting that several went on to work for other charities, who were unaware of their past behaviour. oxfam denies it provided positive references for any staff who were dismissed. jessica parker reports. an advert from the charity giant, oxfam. it got nearly £32 million from the uk department for international development in the last financial year,

but amid the sexual exploitation scandal, the government said last night... the allegations surround the the behaviour of aid workers here in haiti following the devastating earthquake in 2010. a times newspaper found inappropriate behaviour, including the use of prostitutes. the charity has denied a cover—up and said that it publicly announced an enquiry into the claims in 2011. it said the behaviour of some of its staff had been totally u na cce pta ble, but that allegations that underage girls may have been involved were not proven. four staff members were dismissed and three were allowed to resign as part of the external investigation. was this the first time that you ever heard of exploitative sexual behaviour going on at oxfam? no, no, no. i can only think of one or two

examples that come to mind, but we had already agreed that any sign that anybody was doing this, there would be an investigation. that investigation was noted and went to our trustee board once a quarter. today the times reports fresh claims that oxfam failed to warn other aid agencies about the staff, allowing them to take otherjobs in the sector. while there is a wide acknowledgement that hundreds of oxfam staff have done nothing wrong, the charity does now face serious questions about its past and what that could mean for its future. a little earlier i spoke to oxfam's current chief executive — who was not in charge at the time. he said the charity had gone public about the incident at the time. at the time, oxfam took serious and immediate action, and it was open, oxfam was actually

proactive in going to the british public, the department for international development and the charity commission to explain that there had been serious misconduct and that we had taken action. what oxfam did not do is describe the detailed nature of the offences, which included the use of prostitution, but also included other activities such as bullying and misuse of oxfam property. with hindsight, you could say that we should have said more, but at the time, oxfam was very unusual, no media coverage at all, we went public and said that we were concerned that public money had been misused, public trust abused, we have investigated this, people have misbehaved and we have taken action. you say that people had misbehaved, and it was related to inappropriate sexual behaviour, did you not say... people up and hitting on staff

members and they have been given the bush. —— given the push. they might see that as a different light from exposing the people that your aid workers had supposedly gone to help? yes, i do see that. and in 2018, we are in a different place to be worked into that 11 in terms of the sensitivity on those issues. that is why it would have been better to have said more. but, the team will try to balance delivering a large—scale life—saving operation in very difficult circumstances, with being transparent with the british public and they made a call at the time, which they thought balanced those interests. we might make that differently now, but the decision was made in good faith, and it certainly was not a attempt to cover up. quite the opposite, it was oxfam saying, this was unacceptable. we have acted. the defence minister, tobias ellwood, has suggested two members of the so—called

islamic state group, who are from london, should be tried at the international criminal court in the hague. the bbc understands that the two — who were part of a unit thought to have murdered 27 hostages — have been stripped of their british citizenship. our political correspondent, chris mason, reports. this is tobias ellwood. he was called a hero after giving first aid to pc keith palmer, the policeman who was stabbed to death during a terrorist attack last year. he also lost his brother in a terrorist attack in bali in 2002. now, mr ellwood, a defence minister has intervened over what should happen to these men, alexanda kotey, and el shafee elsheikh. they were part of a gang suspected of murdering alan henning, a driver and eight worker from eccles, and david haines, a long—time aid workerfrom perth. in interviews with the times and the daily telegraph, tobias ellwood demands what he calls

an agreed international process for captured fighters. guantanamo bay created a new combatant status that bypassed last month, president trump said that he was keeping guantanamo bay open. a decision is yet to be made about what will happen to alexander kotey and el shafee elsheikh. israel says one of its fighterjets has crashed after coming under syrian anti—aircraft fire. both pilots were rejected and taken

to hospital. israel said it had been responding to the launch of an iranian drone into its airspace. our middle east correspondent injerusalem, tom bateman, has been giving us more details about the incident. well, israel says that this was a drone carrying out a military mission sent by the iranians inside syria. what is notable is where the drone was, because we have heard in the past about so—called spill—over from the fighting in syria across israe‘s northern border, but according to the israeli military, this drone was many miles from the border with syria. it was south of the sea of galilee, which would put it closer to the jordanian border shared with israel, than the syrian one. so, that would be significant, and in response to this, israel have set up a combat helicopter which shot down this drone, and then they went to attack the place from which they believed the drone was launched inside syria,

and as its fighterjets were returning, israel says they came under massive in their words, anti—aircraft fire from syria. one of theirjets crashed. it is not clear if it was hit by the anti—aircraft fire or not, but syrian state tv says that it was shot down. the israelis do not use that form of words. two pilot were ejected, and one is seriously wounded. the background to this is is incredibly complicated presence in syria of all of these different international players, kind of jostling up against each other. was it inevitable that there would be an incident of this kind at some point? well, israel says that it has no interest in engagement in its neighbours‘ civil war, but it makes it widely known that it has red lines. the key red line is about iranian involvement. israel sees iran at it worst enemy and biggest threat.

it says there were weapons transfers from iran to hezbollah. they have attacked the facilities inside syria before. it happens on a fairly regular basis but they usually don't comment officially. this raises tensions as far as israel saying publically officially that it has attacked what it calls iranian facilities inside syria, so i think that there is a potential here for an escalation, but israel, while it says on the one hand, that syrians are playing with fire, it says that it does not seek a escalation. the north korean leader kimjong—un has invited the south korean president moonjae—in to visit him at the earliest date possible. the historic invitation was given by the sister of the north korean

leader who is part of a delegation visiting the south for the winter olympics. it's been seen as a direct challenge to the trump administration, which had urged caution rather than engagement with the north. our correspondent, steven mcdonnell is in pyeongchang. vice president mike pence is due to leave shortly, so that potential tension is gone but what about the state of relationship at the moment between north and south korea? it all sounds warm and engaging but some of the back drop has been in recent months everything but? certainly the thought is on in the winter olympics and we could not have believed that this might have been possible just a couple of months ago, there wasn't a north korean team coming to the olympics and somehow or other they got one mine open again across the dmz. they began the dialogue, a joint hockey

team, they all walked in together at the opening ceremony and of course, we have this high level political group here represent a north korean workers party but this historic meeting today, between kim jong—un‘s sister and the south korean minister resulted in this invitation from the north delivered by his sister for the south korean president to come to pyongyang. these events are moving so fast. like i say, a few months ago, there was barely any communication between cue correias. —— the two koreas. now there might be a meeting in pyongyang. i don't know how this will go down in washington because the trap of the station has not been keen —— trump

administration has not been keen on dialogue in the north, mike pence at the north is not ready to be rewarded with that. somehow or other, south korea has to tackle its relationship with its key ally and its nearest nuclear armed neighbour. it's a sign that some sort of dialogue is a way to go. it is an enormous significant event unfolding at the olympics. they take up the invitation? that's a good question. jae—in came to power promising dialogue with the north. there were the nuclear weapons test since then at the south has taken a tough stand with the north. his original position was he would open up some sort of dialogue. he would say i have a mandate to talk to the north and thinks there will be some

contribution to sterility in the region and maybe that might bring about peace or somehow or other, give up nuclear weapons and would go. but there will be pressure from other nations that i think maximum pressure is what is needed on north korea and this type of summit isn't the way to go. we will have to wait and see what happened. thanks for joining us. the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, is visiting bangladesh to see at first hand the crisis facing rohingya muslims. nearly 700,000 refugees have fled myanmar since a military crackdown began there last august. after meeting the bangladeshi government, mrjohnson spoke of the need to resolve the crisis. what we all want to see is safe, dignified and secure returns for the people, for the rohingya, back to their place of origin. and, talking to his excellency and the prime ministerjust now,

i was really struck by how bangladesh and the united kingdom really share a common analysis of what needs to be done. but i think where you are obviously right is we need to make those points together to the government. borisjohnson talking on his visit to bangladesh. the headlines on bbc news... the department for international to the will review its work with oxfam after claims the charity covered up after claims the charity covered up a sex scandal involving aid workers in haiti. the two captured members of the british islamic state cell should go on trial for war crimes at the hague, according to a government minister. there's a warning about a new scam involving the apple itunes service. tax authorities say elderly and vulnerable people are becoming victims. we will stay with that story.

our business correspondent joe lynam is here. tell us the background to this. what exactly have it instructors got to do with fraud and the taxman? because they are as good as cash. once you get your little code, you can exchange it for by a lot of very expensive stuff on the apple website and exchange it for something that will give you cash and untraceable because it's about this 16 digit code you get. this latest scam is vulnerable and elderly people are getting calls usually on their landlines, because their number has been sold by the fraudsters around and unfortunately, elderly people are prayed and other victims of the scam. they get a call, they say "you are facing a huge tax bill. " h r c or who they pertain to be, say we

will have to notify them to leg notify them or see their assets. they are frightening? the bbc has done a lot on fraud and we were the first broadcast a fraud going on and the tactics used by these people, they very believable. the elderly victim assumes that the h mrc person is genuine, they say go down to your and —— retailer and is genuine, they say go down to your and —— retailerand by is genuine, they say go down to your and —— retailer and by these itunes vouchers. then read out the number to us over the phone. what happens is, the ugly person thinks that has hung up the phone —— the elderly person thinks they have hung up but hasn't. the remains on the line, wait to come through, then takes the numberand wait to come through, then takes the number and disappears. they use that to buy things that you've effectively paid for? you buy very expensive stuff on itunes but not

just songs but hardware like a macbook. h mrc are bringing this to everyone's attention because a lot of people have been affected, as angela mcdonald told you earlier. since 2016, about 1500 people have fallen victim to this fraud. it's mainly people who are over 65 but very sadly the loss for each customer has been about £1150. and last week, we had of an elderly gentleman aged 81 who had fallen foul of this scam a couple of times and had lost £20,000 as part of that. it's a fascinating and worrying story. it's good we are talking about. thank you. survivors of sexual abuse in the church of england are holding a protest this morning at a meeting of the general synod, as the church faces criticism over how it deals with complaints.

it comes as fresh information has been passed to police in the case of a bishop — accused 60 years after his death of sexual abuse. and our religion editor, martin bashir is at church house in central london. this whole case of the bishop seems to be overshadowing a lot of other cases and people who are still around who feel they have suffered asa around who feel they have suffered as a result of neglect by the church? that could be one way of looking at things but this morning, in the right and bitter sunshine at 9am, the archbishop of york and canterbury and the bishop of london elect, stood alongside a group of survivors of sexual abuse in a two minute moment of silence and this morning's session has entirely been spent on the issue of safeguarding in the church. the bishop of chichester said we sit in the dust and there was a sense of humility, regret and repentance on the part of eve ryo ne regret and repentance on the part of everyone gathered here. since 2014, there has been a five fold increase

in the amount of money spent on safeguarding in the church of england but the latest figures show that in 2016, there were 3300 cases of safeguarding raised, of which 18% involved members of the clergy. so ina sense, involved members of the clergy. so in a sense, this morning has been an opportunity to the reflect on the past, and prepare for the future. and it's worth remembering next month, the church of england will be the subject of scrutiny at the independent enquiry into child sexual abuse. they are slated to appearfor about appear for about three weeks, and the bishop of bath and wells and with the church of england's lead bishop on safeguarding, warned this synod that the future will be challenging for the church in relation to this issue of child sexual abuse. thank you. sport now, and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. thank you and good morning. it's

been a great start by elise christie. she put the nightmare of four years ago behind her, in the heats for the 500 metre short track speed skating. christie is the world champion, and led from the front all the way, holding off the challenge of her chinese rival and local favourite — to qualify quickest for the quarterfinals, and what's more setting a new olympic record time. faring better than the snowboarders. all three men failed to qualify for the slopestyle final..joe linski watched a dramatic opening morning. in snowboarding, you match ambition in the air with poise in the fall. it's the olympic sport that rewards bravery. the ground came up to meet him. and british athletes have medal interest here. they have been training on a giant airbag to take the risk out of their tricks. jamie nicholls was on the edge of a final place ahead of his second run, but he had to push the boundaries to make it. oh,jamie!

it was huge. that was huge. that's how it goes sometimes in competitions. today, obviously, wasn't my day. right now, it looks like i might just miss out on the finals by one spot, right now, which i would be gutted. this is a youthful olympic discipline in many ways. billy morgan's made his name with tricks on youtube. now he had to keep thejudges watching. the problem was he too was playing catch up, forced into mistakes. i knew i was going to be slow coming into that jump. on the second round, the gap down, i knew, i felt headwind there. i was like, "oh, no!" that's all i could think about. in these events, months, years of training could be defined in an instant — in an error. a more patient struggle would decide these games‘ first medal. skiathlon combines two kinds of cross country — equally gruelling. but it was sweden's charlotte kalla who would glide first past the galleries. and there was more history on the hill with marit bjoergen in silver. she is now the most decorated female winter olympian. now back home, and in

the six nations, a mouthwatering contest at twickenham, where england take on wales. england, remember, are bidding to win the title three years in a row — they domainated against italy last week . but wales were mightily impressive too, in their win against scotland. it's a big occasion for everyone involved. but, for us, it's the next game. the next game on ourjourney, the next game to develop, improve, and focus on performance. i tell you what, if we get our performance right, we'll get a result. you're not playing the venue, you're playing, you know, obviously, the occasion, the game and the guys that are involved on the park. obviously, 80—odd thousand fans are going to make the occasion. but past results and past performances mean very little. the first game of the day is in dublin, where ireland take on italy. the irish beat france last weekend thanks to a late drop kick, from jonny sexton — and skipper rory best,

says the euphoria of that moment has boosted the team all week. it's just amazing how the kick of a ball on 82 and a half minute can change the context of how you are feeling, and the mood, and like i say, getting back home to the six nations is a big thing for us. it's also round two, of the women's six nations — england host wales and scotland take on france. the big match in the premier league today is the north london derby — tottenham against arsenal at wembley. and there'll be a sombre atmosphere at celtic today, after their former midfielder liam miller passed away — he's died of cancer aged just 36. celtic play partick thistle in the fifth round of the scottish cup. that's all the sport — now for the weather with nick miller. changeable weather for most of us.

less cold than it has been today. rain around for some of us, tomorrow much colder again. england and wales seeing showery abbots of rain through the course of the afternoon. there will be snow showers. coming later to parts of south—east england and try for a time house were then norway and back to northern ireland. a snapshot of the uk at 4pm, we will see some clearer weather in scotland which means there will be some sunshine at times, a scattering of showers that in the west but after some sunny showers that in the west but after some sunny spells and northern ireland, it clouds over again and outbreaks of rain come back. generally try a picture from northern england, wales, western england and into east anglia. some early sunshine today. it's been a cold start across eastern areas, there will be a slow recovery today,

elsewhere some slot into double figures may be as high as 12 degrees in south—west england. more rugby today, sunshine on the ground a tease. cloudy damp at twickenham. it will get stronger and gales in places, this isn't just will get stronger and gales in places, this isn'tjust rain, some slow especially in the southern scotla nd slow especially in the southern scotland and northern england, not just on hills, even relatively low level. some accumulation especially in the hills, and snow showers in the north—west, you will notice as temperatures dip close to freezing, that means a risk of ice going into the morning. tomorrow a much colder day, changing the wind direction north—westerly. you see the land, there will be good spells sunshine with showers coming in from the north—west, going further south—east in the day, and it will cold enough for sleet and snow or hail, and the temperatures down compared to today.

it is going to feel much colder. further opportunities for rain and snow as we go through the week, the next node could be monday night into tuesday morning. we will keep you updated on that. hello and a very warm welcome to dateline london. i'm jane hill, today we look at some very tough talking in this week's brexit moves — we wonder how long president zuma can survive in south africa? and as the winter olympics kick off, what diplomatic benefits could follow the sporting endeavours? my guests — the times columnist iain martin, and the american writer jef mcallister, agnes poirer of france's marianne magazine, and nesrine malik, now a columnist for the guardian newspaper. welcome to you all. the eu is having some problems understanding the uk's position. the chief negotiator barnier didn't pull his punches on friday at the end of a week of technical

discussions in brussels. he said a transition period once britain leaves the eu next year isn't a given, and that the uk decision to quit the customs union and single market means irish border checks are unavoidable. the british cabinet minister in charge of talks, david davis, said he was "surprised" by such comments after all the work that's gone on. iain, what is happening? in the's attempted to leave the european union, and the brits have a lwa ys european union, and the brits have always been really good at comedy and forests. viewers will be familiar with monty python.