the police can't be sued for negligence, so 050 and another of worboys‘ victims claimed police failures to investigate breached article three of the human rights act and amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment. the metropolitan police, with the backing of two home secretaries, fought them to the supreme court. but today, judges ruled in the women's favour. we have held that failures in the investigation of the crimes, provided they are sufficiently serious, will give rise to liability on the part of the police. today's landmark ruling has huge implications for both the victims of violent crime and the police who investigated it. if they seriously fail in an investigation, they can face human rights actions by the victim and had to pay compensation. this is the highest court in the land, telling the police that in the most serious of cases, they have to do theirjob properly. the police unreservedly apologised to the victims they failed.

but suggested that today's ruling could mean resources being taken from less serious cases. the court referred to it as those cases involving serious violence and it's clear the worboys case fits in that criteria. we now need to look at all of those cases, look at how we balance the challenge of resourcing those against the many other demands we face. chanting: domestic violence... is a crime. today's judgement can't make up for the police errors in investigating john warboys, but it will put real pressure on them to ensure that such mistakes do happen again. clive coleman, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news: president trump meets survivors and victims‘ families from last week's school shooting in florida. he hears their testimonies and promises action. disagreements with brussels on brexit — ministers want the transition period to last longer than the 21 months

suggested by the eu. the supreme court rules in favour of victims of the serial sex attacker, john worboys, calling the police investigation "seriously defective". in syria the rebel—held enclave of eastern ghouta has been turned into "hell on earth" for civilians there according to the un secretary—general. antonio guterres called for an immediate halt in fighting in the suburb where a bombing campaign by syrian government forces has resulted in the death of 300 people so far this week as our middle east editor jeremy bowen reports. the syrians deny targeting civilians in eastern ghouta. explosions. these, they say, are precision strikes against artillery that has hit central damascus. screaming.

but the evidence from inside the enclave is that civilians are getting hurt and dying. the suffering of civilians could have a political effect. putting pressure on the rebel groups in eastern ghouta to make a deal. putting pressure on the rebel groups in eastern ghouta to make a deal. the lives of their children against strategic front line territory near central damascus that the regime wants to get back. this activist says helicopters are hovering over us here in eastern ghouta. god help us, we are being exterminated. i was able to cross from government—controlled damascus to eastern ghouta several times at the beginning of the war. even then it was very badly damaged by regime bombing. morale among the rebels was high and dozens of young men were joining what they believed was a revolution. what do you think

will happen to assad? killed. must be killed. when the war started the regime was under severe pressure. it lost control of a crescent of suburbs around damascus. eastern ghouta is the last of them that has not surrendered. in 2013 eastern ghouta was hit by a chemical attack that killed hundreds. the americans threatened a military strike against the regime and then decided against it. it was a turning point in the war after that the regime lost its fear of western intervention. in september 2015 russia intervened, decisively, on assad's side. now he is more secure and he is emboldened, more so than at any time since the war started. and the russians are becoming the dominant foreign power in the middle east. in northern syria the president has just sent militia

men to join the fight against the turkish incursion. he wouldn't have the confidence to move against nato power without the russians. and it suggests he will not listen to foreign condemnation of the attack on eastern ghouta. of the attack on eastern ghouta. jeremie bowen, bbc news. the government has ordered a review into the way medical problems, caused by nhs treatments, are dealt with. it follows three high—profile campaigns related to the the epilepsy drug sodium valproate, the hormone pregnancy test primodos and the use of vaginal mesh implants. the uk has seen the strongest six months of productivity growth since the recession of 2008, according to the latest figures from the office for national statistics. there was also a better than expected rise in wages in the first 3 months of the year. but unemployment was also up for the first time in two years, as our economics editor kamal ahmed explains. bring on the robots,

more efficient in helping this firm in hastings make electrical equipment more quickly. and the more quickly you make things, the more you make every hour, and the more wealth you create. that's productivity. since the financial crisis, our productivity performance has been pretty poor, but over the last six months there has been a jump into positive territory, the strongest since before 2008. global growth is helping firms. we're seeing a huge opportunity for us in the chinese market that we've been working on for the past 18 months, two years and that's starting to come to fruition now, and that's why we've found it's time to reward the staff. it's time to reward them in terms of bringing in machinery, like the robot behind me, that will help them and help us increase productivity. and where productivity goes, wages tend to follow, up over the last three months to 2.5% from 2.3%. that's still below

the rise in prices, but that living standard squeeze is easing. we've just had a pay rise. we haven't had it long enough yet to really decide whether it does make a difference or not. i'm sure it will but, like you say, it's still early stages. despite having a pay rise, when you look at how things, the cost of things is increasing, then what you have fluid at the end of each month after you've done your essential, utilities and things like that, the difference is quite noticeable. quite a noticeable difference for the government as well, the public finances are £7 billion better off than they were last year. better growth means higher tax revenues and less borrowing. a lot of important figures about the economy today. three of those figures are better, one is a worry. lower levels of government borrowing are good for the public finances. productivity is up, that's good for the creation of wealth. that leads to higher incomes, and there is some evidence of that. the one worry, unemployment, which has risen slightly

for the first time in two years. it's very hard to predict whether unemployment‘s going to carry on rising. you can't read too much into one month's figures. the employment rate is still quite high, but it's all going to depend on the outlook for the economy in the next few months. it's that outlook that really matters, for our incomes, for ourjobs. brexit uncertainty is still weighing on the economy, government debts are still high, but today it was the better economic figures that won out. kamal ahmed, bbc news. for the third time, the high court has ruled that ministers must to do more to deal with air pollution in towns and cities in england and wales. it said existing plans were unlawful because they won't bring pollution levels within legal limits in the shortest possible time. ministers will now have to introduce new measures in a further 33 towns and cities, as our science editor david shukman reports. the air we breathe. in dozens of places,

it's dirtier than the law allows. for years an environmental group has challenged the government to do more, and today the high court ordered ministers to double the number of areas where pollutions be cut. what it means today is that in those towns and cities that were covered by this order, the local authorities will have to take measures to try and fix that as soon as possible. and the government will have to help those local authorities to do that. this app shows that today in london the air quality isn't that bad. the problem is that, in towns and cities across the country, there are days when the air pollution reaches illegal limits. now thejudgement, here at the high court, acknowledges that the government is doing a great deal to clean up, but also says ministers need to do a great deal more. at prime minister's questions theresa may was asked about the court ruling. they have asked us to go further in areas with less severe air—quality problems. where we thought a pragmatic approach was appropriate, we will now formalise that. but actually, on two out of the three counts,

they found in the government's favour. wales will now see a new effort to improve the air. the welsh government admitted to the high court that its plans weren't adequate. southampton is one of several major cities where the government recently ordered a faster response. so too in leeds, another pollution hotspot, where today we found people are concerned. i feel like it's slowly killing us because it's bad air and i fell like they should find a way to cut down and sort it. we can't let it go because of our young people. it'sjust not fair. local authorities in leeds and other cities are working on plans to tackle pollution, but they feel they're having to make all the effort and they say national government isn't helping enough. we need to ensure that there's properfunding and that they're thinking for the country as a whole and they're notjust passporting this responsibility down to already stretched local authorities, expecting us to do it

without that support in place. the most obvious solution is to charge the dirtiest vehicles for coming into polluted areas, but that's also the most controversial option and ministers aren't keen on it. so what else can be done to cut pollution? switching away from diesels is one option. so is encouraging people onto public transport. none of this is cheap, but the government now knows that the courts are watching. david shukman, bbc news. one of the most influential christian preachers of the past century, billy graham, has died at the age of 99. the american evangelist devoted his life to promoting christianity, holding mass rallies across the world, and he was the first preacher to harness the power of television to broadcast his message to millions. he was a spiritual adviser to every us president from harry truman to barack 0bama. 0ur religion editor martin bashir looks back at his life. problems that face us tonight that never be solved unless we bring them

to the lord jesus christ. charismatic and handsome, billy graham preached a simple message that he took around the world, speaking to more than 220 million people, in 185 countries. london first felt the force of his evangelism in 195a. we've come here at the invitation of these churches to help lead you in a crusade to win into jesus christ. i want you to get up out you have your seat right now. he would lead a17 crusades, often in major sporting stadiums, from new york to nigeria. i don't believe anybody is here by accident. he was god. he was also man. it was at an earl's court rally, in1966, that cliff richard publicly declared his christianity. # he'll do for you...

he was also a pastor to presidents, from nixon to clinton, but he never took sides. he was even invited to preach before the queen and other members of the royal family at sandringham, in 1984, and said afterwards that he did not change his message, but simply pointed to jesus. i don't actually think we've had somebody who simply says the bible says, the bible says, the bible says and doesn't intrude his own ideas into the message. so he's being real on message and i don't think we've seen anybody of that character, apart from saint paul. in his hometown of charlotte, north carolina, there was shock and sadness. we just loved him and it feels like the world's going to fall apart a little with him gone. i thinkjust leaving a legacy of sharing the gospel, no matter what role you've been given, is the most important thing. his son franklin graham, who's also an evangelist,

described a recent conversation. i said, "daddy, what do you want on your tombstone?" he thought, he said, "just preacher." that's it. god loves you. unlike so many american preachers, billy graham was never caught up in any kind of scandal and insisted that his financial affairs were transparent and audited by others. it was the simplicity of his message and the sincerity of his life that will be his legacy. the american preacher, billy graham, who's died at the age of 99 let's catch up with all the weather. the big freeze is still some days away but you may have noticed more ofa away but you may have noticed more of a bite to the easterly wind. from

110w of a bite to the easterly wind. from now onwards, temperatures at dropping away by a degree or so every single day. this is the satellite. they cannot come away from the atlantic because of an intense high pressure building a ci’oss intense high pressure building a cross scandinavia bringing an settle weather. even some mist and fog it conditions in the morning. fairly frosty but not too cold in towns and cities. a bit colder outside of town. easterlies starting to get stronger, pushing the colder air out of the continent. in our reach, briefly nudging up to four. at least for most of us it is looking on the bright side. this is bbc news. our latest headlines: president trump meets survivors and the families of victims from last month's school shooting. he promises action, but defends the role of firearms.

a brexit negotiation document suggests the length of the transition period could be extended, as more than 60 tory mps call on ministers to insist on a clean break with the eu. victims of the black cab rapist john worboys win a landmark case against police, after the supreme court rules scotland yard was liable forfailures in its investigation. the un says the situation in a rebel—held suburb of damascus in syria is "beyond imagination". hundreds have died in government airstrikes since sunday. the american evangelist billy graham has died at the age of 99, after battling parkinson's disease for several years. he devoted his life to spreading the christian message. as we've been hearing, president trump has been meeting victim's of last week's

florida school shooting, in which 17 people were killed by a former pupil. in a televised event at the white house, they shared their experiences with the president, who in turn said background checks would be tightened up. he also suggested that teachers could be trained to use firearms. here is a little more of what was said in those exchanges. thank you very much. ijust want thank you very much. i just want to say, before we really begin, we are going to be very strong on a background checks, will be doing very strong background checks. a very strong background checks. a very strong background checks. a very strong emphasis on the mental health of somebody. and we are going to do plenty of other things. again, next week, the governors are coming in from most of the states and we will be having a very serious talk about what is going on with school safety. very important. and we are

going to cover every aspect of it, many ideas that i have, many ideas that other people have, and we will pick out the strongest ideas, the most important ideas, the ideas that are going to work and we will get them done. it won'tjust be talked like it has been in the past. it has been going on too long, too many insta nces, been going on too long, too many instances, and were going to get it done. again, iwant instances, and were going to get it done. again, i want to thank you all for being here. i would like to hear your stories, and also if you have any suggestions in the future based on this horrible experience that you have gone through, i'd love to have those ideas stop lua want to take a second, first, for having me, mr president, mr vice president, second, first, for having me, mr president, mrvice president, mr secretary. i was on the second floor of that building, texting my mum, texting my dad, texted three of my brothers that i was never going to see them again. then it occurred to me

that my 14—year—old brother was directly above me in that classroom where scott beigel was murdered. scott beigel got my brother in the class, he was the last kid to get back in that class. i am sure a lot of you have read my texts on the internet with my brother, i did not intend for them to go viral, ijust wanted to share with the world, because no brothers or sisters or family members or anyone should ever have to share those texts with anyone. and that is why i am here. i lost a best friend. who was practically a brother.

and i'm here to use my voice because i know he can't and i know he's with me, cheering me on to be strong, but it is hard. and to feel like this, it doesn't even feel like a week. time has stood still. to feel like this, ever, i can't feel comfortable in my country knowing that people have, will have, are ever gonna feel like this. i want to feel safe at school. you know, senior year and junior year are big years for me where i turned my academics around, started connecting with teachers, and i started actually connecting with school. and now i don't know how i'm ever going to step foot in that place again or go to a public park

after school or walk anywhere. me and my friends get scared when a car drives by. anywhere. and... i think, i agree with hunter and huck, and how we need to let ideas flow and get the problem solved. i don't understand... i turned 18 the day after. woke up to the news that my best friend was gone. and i don't understand why i can still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. and ar. i was reading today that a 20—year—old went into a store and

bought ar with an expired id. how is it so easy to buy this type of weapon? had we not stop this after columbine. and sitting with a mother who lost her son. it is still happening. —— i am who lost her son. it is still happening. —— lam sitting who lost her son. it is still happening. —— i am sitting with. who lost her son. it is still happening. —— lam sitting with. in australia there was a shooting in a school in 1999, you know, after that they took a lot of ideas, they put legislation together, and they stopped it. can anyone here guess how many shootings there have been in the schools since then in australia? zero. we need to do something. and that's why we are here. so let's be strong for the forlan who don't have a voice to speak any more and let's never let this happen again —— the forlan. please, please. we are here because

my daughter has no voice. she was murdered last week and she was taken from us. shot nine times on the third floor. we, as the country, failed our children. this shouldn't happen. we go to the airport, i can't get on a plane with a bottled water, but we leave it, some animal can walk into a school and shoot our children. it'sjust can walk into a school and shoot our children. it's just not right and we need to come together as a country and work on what's important and that's protecting our children in the schools. that's the only thing that matters right now. everyone has to come together and not think about it, different laws, we need to come together as a country, not different parties, and figure out how we

protect the schools. it's simple. it is not difficult. we protect airports, we protect concerts, stadiums, embassies, the department of education, that i walked into day, that has a security guard in the elevator, how do you think that makes me feel? in the elevator that got a security guard. i'm very angry that this happens, because it keeps happening. 9/11 happened once and they fixed everything. how many schools, how many children have to get shot? it stops here with this administration and me. i'm not gonna sleep until it's fixed. and, mr president, we are gonna fix it. because i am to fix it. i'm not going to rest. —— i'm gonna fix it. my going to rest. —— i'm gonna fix it.

my boys need to libidos. you guys, look at this, me, i am a my boys need to libidos. you guys, look at this, me, iam a man, but to see your children go through this, bury their sister, i wanted to sink in. —— my boys need to see this. we can't forget about this, all these school shootings. it does not make sense. it should have been one a school shooting and we should have fixed it. and i am kissed. because my daughter i am not going to see again. she is not here. two i am annoyed. it stops. we all work together and come up with the right idea, school safety. it is not about gun laws right now. that is another fight, another battle. let us fix

the schools and then you can battle it out, whatever we want, we need oui’ it out, whatever we want, we need our children safe, monday, tomorrow, your kids are going to go to school, do you think everyone's it's a safe? idid not do you think everyone's it's a safe? i did not think it was going to happen to me. if i'd known that i would have been at the school every day if i had known it was that dangerous. let us get together and work with the president and fix the schools. that's it. no other discussions. security, what have we have to do, get the right people, the consultants, these are row commodities. i never going to see my kid again. i want you to know that. never ever will i see my kid. i wa nted never ever will i see my kid. i wanted to sink in. it is eternity. my wanted to sink in. it is eternity. my beautiful daughter, i am never going to see her again. it is simple. we can fix it. does anybody have any ideas on how to stop it? what is your recommendation to stop it? yes? i don't know if i'm going

to say so you haven't already heard. you know, i could tell you that addition to all the sorrow that were feeling in our community right now, there is also a lot of anger. anger that the police can visit a person dozens that the police can visit a person d oze ns of that the police can visit a person dozens of times and not take action, anger that the fbi could get at least two credible tips and not take action. and one possible solution, which we discussed with the secretary over lunch, was is a tragedy strikes, can we wait for the first responders to get to the campus four or five or six or seven minutes later? and one possible solution, which may not be very popular, would be to have people in the school, teachers, administrators, who have volunteered to have a firearm safely locked in the classroom, who were given a

training throughout the year... there are plenty of teachers who are already licensed to carry firearms. have them raise their hands to volunteer for the training and went on like this starts, the first responders are already on campus. and if it's not the teachers, you could have people who work on the campus, a custodian could be an undercover policeman, someone who works in the library or the lunch room could be an undercover policeman. he serves lunch every day, but he also has a firearm at the ready. a guidance counsellor. if you can't stop it from happening, and with hundreds of millions of guns out there, i don't know if it will ever be fully stocked, but the challenge becomes once it starts to end it as quickly as possible ——

fully stocked. u nfortu nately end it as quickly as possible —— fully stocked. unfortunately you can't wait five or six or seven minutes. what my daughter said earlier, there are 32 states that have laws that require the schools to prepare for this and yet more than half the county, and this cou nty than half the county, and this county is one of them, and our school was prepared, and thank god it was only 17 lives, but when more than half the counties won't spend the money out of their budget for the money out of their budget for the training, even though the law says they should, it will be that many more the next time. so between having the schools trained the lockdowns and possibly having armed personnel, staff that are willing to do it, yes, anonymously, i don't wa nt to do it, yes, anonymously, i don't want to get to know who has the firearms, i don't want the shooters to know who have the firearms, i do people walking around the firearms on their side, but when that alert goes off and they put the kids in the closets and there could be kids

under the desks, then i want the teacher to open that safe, pull out that firearm, and be ready to do what needs to be done while you're waiting for the helicopters and the swat tea ms waiting for the helicopters and the swat teams to come. years ago we had mental institutions and hospitals and a lot of them have close. some people thought it was a stigma and some people thought, frankly, the legislators said it was too expensive. today, if you catch somebody, they do not know what to do with them. there is no place to bring them and we have that a lot. evenif bring them and we have that a lot. even if they caught this person — i am being nice when i use the word person bashed it would not have known what to do. there is that middle ground of having that institution, where you have trained people that could handle it. to find

out how sick he really is because he isa out how sick he really is because he is a sick guy and he should have been nabbed a number of times, frankly. your content and idea about school concealed carry only works when you have people very adept at using firearms, which we have many. it would be teachers, coaches. if the coach had a firearm in his locker when he ran at the sky, the coach was very brave and save a lot of lives, i suspect, coach was very brave and save a lot of lives, isuspect, but coach was very brave and save a lot of lives, i suspect, but if he had a firearm, he would have shot and that would have been the end of it. this is obviously for people that are very adept at carrying a gun. concealed carry, where teacher would have a gun on them. they do the special training and they would be there and you would no longer have a gun free zone. gun free zone to a

maniac, because they are all powers, is let's go in and let's attack because bullets are not coming back at us. if you do this, and a lot of people are talking about it, and it is certainly a point we would discuss but concealed carry the teachers and people of that type of talent, let's say 20% of the teaching force, and, you said it, and attack has lasted on average about three minutes. it takes five — eight minutes for responders, for the police to come into the is over. if you had a teacher who is adept at firearm, they could well and the attack very quickly and the good thing about a suggestion like that, and we will be looking at it very strongly. i think a lot of people will be posed and i think a lot of

people will like it. but you cannot have 100 security guards in marjory stoneman douglas high school, it is an massive school with a lot of acreage to cover and so that would bea acreage to cover and so that would be a situation discussed a lot by a lot of people. a lot of people that would be armed, they may be marines that left the marines and the army, the airforce that left the marines and the army, the air force and that left the marines and the army, the airforce and are that left the marines and the army, the air force and are very adept at doing that. you would have a lot and they would spread evenly throughout they would spread evenly throughout the school so the other thing i really believe is, if these cowards new back—to—school was well guarded, professionals with great training, i think it would not go into the school to start off with. i think it could very well solve the problem. we will be doing the background checks and other things. a lot of

airline pilots carry guns now. and i have to say that things have changed a lot. people are not attacking the way they routinely attacked and maybe you would have the same situation at school. does anybody like that idea? yes? for meadow, your beautiful meadow. do people feel strongly against it? we can understand both sides and certainly it is controversial. anybody else something to stay say? i have a sense of what you are going through now i have been going through it for five years. this is my son daniel, he was seven years old when he was

shot to death at sandy hook elementary just over five years shot to death at sandy hook elementaryjust over five years ago. my elementaryjust over five years ago. my wife jackie could not be here today because she is a school teacher and takes a job seriously. to send me as an ambassador. she will tell you she has spent over a decade in the bronx and she will tell you that school teachers have more than enough responsibilities right now than to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to ta ke responsibility of lethal force to take a life... applause . nobody wants to see a shoot out in the school and at deranged sociopath on his way to commit an act of murder ina on his way to commit an act of murder in a school, knowing the outcome is going to be suicide, is not going to care whether somebody is there with a gun. that is the plan. i going to build on what my friend and colleague said, we tried

this legislative approach. we have been pleading with legislators, what can we do? we finally said we have to go home and do this ourselves and we built something. sandy hook elementary has built something that works. we train students, teachers and educators with the tools of how to recognise these people and with the tools of how to intervene, and with the tools to get them to the help they need before they pick up a gun or any other weapon and commit a horrible tragedy. it works. we do not charge for it. we are not asking the money. we have a ready start school shootings, prevented suicides, we have a ready captured social issues like bullying and cutting, we know that it works and we have a solution right here. we are asking the youtube please help.

we need to do this nationally. —— asking for you to please. my story is far too well— known. i asking for you to please. my story is far too well—known. i had asking for you to please. my story is far too well— known. i had two sons who were at sandy hook school. my eldest survived my six—year—old son and did not. i have been working tirelessly on this issue for over five years now. the organisation that i help lead is focused on keeping kids safe at school because no parent should go through this. every parent who send their kids to schools should go without any question in their mind that they will be coming home that day. this is not a difficult issue. you are absolutely right. there are solutions and this administration has the ability to put them in place

and after sandy hook they said we would not let this happen again and yet it has continued to happen for five years. how many more deaths can we take as a country, how many more teenagers, six and seven—year—old is be allowed to die. do not let this happen on your watch. there are things you can do right now. mental health you mentioned earlier. funding for that would be very much appreciated. the stock school violence act, enabling recording systems across america, it is in the senate again. back in get a lot of help the schools. i absolutely agree that seemed sandy hook 's there has been an increase in safety. we have invested a lot in the security of our schools but will the need to

focus on prevention. how can we help identify and prevent these actions from happening? people who are at risk at hurting themselves before others. that is what we need to focus on by preventing these acts and you have the ability. there is legislation available right now. they are offering training available across the state. you could mandate these sorts of programmes and a shawl schools, students and educators are chained about how to recognise these signs and know what to do when they see them. —— trained. these deaths are preventable, it is not difficult. i implore you, consider your own children. you do not want to me be. no parent does and you have the ability to save lives today. please do not waste this. thank you.

well come along to our 10—day forecast, a period which takes us into the beginning of march. the time of year when you might expect temperatures to rise. well, what will they do? anything but rise. i have taken at norwich as an example. those temperatures are struggling to get above freezing even by day. the cold air being drawn in from the east from the southern flank of this area of high pressure which becomes increasingly dominant. the can expect a lot of dry and fine weather and sunshine. thursday is a case in point. generally cloud increasing by the afternoon. perhaps the odd spot of rain and snow on high ground. very similarfare on of rain and snow on high ground. very similar fare on friday. of rain and snow on high ground. very similarfare on friday. a

of rain and snow on high ground. very similar fare on friday. a cold start then some decent spells of sunshine. the breeze becoming that bit more noticeable towards the south. although temperatures look similar, on the strength of that is, it will fill particularly chilly and a sign of things to come. a high—pressure at the start of the weekend asserting itself across scandinavia. the isoba rs weekend asserting itself across scandinavia. the isobars starting to squeeze together so those weeds continuing to increase. —— winds. patchy cloud on saturday. with the stronger winds it will start to feel colder. but the temperatures going to dip further as we go into the second half of the weekend. these cold easterly winds go all the way to siberia and that is where our air will be coming from. many areas seeing spells of sunshine but chances are cloud thickening across eastern scotland, north—east england and these areas could start to see

wintry flurries. after a high of 1— four degrees on sunday. 0n wintry flurries. after a high of 1— four degrees on sunday. on monday, a very cold night. the knights generally will be very cold. —6, minus seven degrees and maybe colder than that. monday, the best of the brightness in western areas but that cloud starting to thicken up in the east and do not take us know too literally but there is certainly the potential for snow showers starting to develop most especially in eastern areas. temperatures even by date struggling to get above freezing. high—pressure dominating through next week and, initially, these cold easterly winds all the way from siberia, not only towards the british isles but a long way south across europe. 0ur headline for next week, certainly a lot of cold weather, some sharp overnight frost at one of the big question is,

where exactly will we see snow? it is very difficult predicting exactly where. how long will the cold last? it looks like as we get into early march, the area of high pressure might retreat westwards and we swap the winds from siberia to a northerly wind. still a cold direction but maybe not quite as cold so temperatures might bounce at a little. —— bounce back. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: survivors of last week's high school massacre rally in florida — and visit the white house. i can't feel comfortable in my country knowing that people have, will have, are ever gonna feel like

this. i want to feel safe at school. a monstrous campaign of annihilation. the un human rights chief accuses the syrian government of gross abuses in its assault on eastern ghouta. i'm sharanjit leyl in london. also in the programme: the hong kong pop star denise ho tells the bbc she's been stopped