ofthe of the back of a is a big success of the back of a movement in america, the first x cop they have got. they came off the trolley year ago. he'd only been convicted of the three. there have been lots of other women. 60 women. they appear to be victims as well. quite frankly a really distasteful thing he has been doing, drugging people and then sexually molesting them. very good news i think that he has been brought to book in this way. however it might have been. has been brought to book in this way. however it might have beenm is so shocking because a lot of americans have grown up with the bill cosby show. the show where he is the wholesome that. —— wholesome that and the cuddly father. suddenly you think cranky, what is going on was backjury found that even hard to think of him in that way. possibly, but he is going to appeal the set. however he is 80 years old already. possibly 30 years in jail. for each count, tenures. a lot of

people but ended up being time barred by the statute of limitations. so it does seem as if he is facing a pretty uphill struggle. ijust feel that women need to see that if somebody has behaved in this way, there are consequences. behaved in this way, there are consequences. however powerful they are, they cannot get away with it. that is the thing, the women here have brought this allegation and it has been very, you showed the footage from the press conference with the prosecutor earlier this evening. she was there. it has taken an awful lot of courage for her to keep pursuing this. she first pursued it in a civil action in 2004, 2000 five. and try to bring him tojustice 2004, 2000 five. and try to bring him to justice and finally succeeded. it does show that somebody who has got the kurds can finally achieve something. 0bviously that will give hope, one would think, ina that will give hope, one would think, in a situation like this. the fa ct think, in a situation like this. the fact that the women were allowed to testify which is interesting in a case like that. that is important

for women to be able to give each other the strength to do this and to give each other the back—up. if you're on your own against the system, it is really horrendous. clearly, it is harderfor prosecutors to nail those things down. because memories faded bit, details get a bit hazy and so on. so sometimes you need a bit of extra back up to say actually there is a pattern of behavior. and there is no medical proof, it is her word against his. and the fact that there we re many against his. and the fact that there were many women coming forward gave her the credibility. let's move the daily telegraph. , trump, the news here finally confirmed that he will be coming to this country on a working visit. the state visit is still to be arranged. but he will meet the queen according to the telegraph. maybe he wouldn't have come here without that, i don't know. what you think is my possibly

not. but i think clearly it is a good thing. there were bound to be demonstrations. it is part of our tradition to be out there protesting as well. but in a sense we do need to engage with them. there are things about, trump that are unpleasant, distasteful and a lot of people don't like. but he is the leader of the biggest country and the most powerful country in the world. and we do need to have a relationship and there are important things that we would want to be able to influence them over if we can. and the same way emmanual macron has just been over in the united states trying to push him in the right direction, as he would see it, in certain areas. whether he will succeed or not, we don't know. but you got to try to engage. it is a good thing. you think there will be protests 7 good thing. you think there will be protests? definitely. it looks as if he is going to try and avoid coming into london. he is not going to address houses of parliament. which of the american presidents have done. he is actually only coming for 24 hours. it is a bit of a lightning

tour. but he has already to tell very warm words of how important an ally we are. certainly we do want to stay close allies of the united states. with france having just apparently much closer relationship than maybe previously would have happened, it is important. and to speak out about things. it wasn't as if he accepted everything the president said. he made a speech that was quite critical. exactly that. he went there and listed about five big areas that he was com pletely five big areas that he was completely on a different wavelength to donald trump and try to tell him what not to go down the route that donald trump wants to go down. he took that opportunity to. interesting that he is embracing this bromance what terms. imagine if theresa donated that. she did hold

hands with him. wanting to be bothered about that of all, where's your direction is different. she's taking him to task things. you might be an opportunity to also flesh out any differences that we have, the fa ct any differences that we have, the fact that he is coming and the fact that he is going to meet the queen is clearly really helpful. the queen is clearly really helpful. the queen isa is clearly really helpful. the queen is a fantastic ambassador. she's used to meeting lots of different people. let's move to another story. the telegraph, amber rudd's big story of the last two weeks. this one is rebuked by number ten over a customs union gaffe. this was at a lunch with westminster journalists. i was sitting there listening to her. she fielded dozens of questions. she was asked do you think it's more less likely we're going to stay in the customs union and she said i don't want to get involved in all of this. we're still having discussions. lots of people saying hang on a minute, that is not the government's actual policy. the telegraph has said here that it was customs union gaffe. 0f telegraph has said here that it was customs union gaffe. of course people are looking for the slightest

on it isa people are looking for the slightest on it is a very sensitive subject, whether we will or won't stay in the customs union and what the new arrangement might or might not be. we were talking about before, i think you are probably right that it was not suggesting that we were not, it was not an attempt to diverge policy. she tweeted after saying she should have been more clear and she was not intending to strike a different note at all. of course the trouble for her is it is a sensitive subject and she is completely over the rocks right now. i think people are looking for her to make mistakes. i think this is pretty mischievous. do you think as the remainder she was, did she do it deliberately? i just don't think this was a particular gaffe. she was basically saying i don't really want to get involved in this. those who wa nt to get involved in this. those who want to get rid of her or do anything to weaken the so—called

remained tied up trying to catch people and get rid of those who they feel are on the wrong side of the argument. and so the real pressure that she is under is from the guardian here. this is about false immigration. also come down from the wind rushed generation. we are now moving on to the targets for the removal of immigrants and yesterday she didn't seem to know that there were. and it turns out there are and now they seem to have struck them. there has been confusion. she has got to take a joke. ask take control of the situation. it could be that she was not properly informed about how he started sake rate and they could have caught them in different civil service —— she was not affirmed around hobbies operate. but clearly if you want to have a fair policy, having targets does opposite. because then you have to try and find enough people to hit your targets and if you haven't got enough qualifying you have to somehow find a way to make it up. i do think that this is a real problem for the government. and for the home

office, but of course they were warned about it and theyjust didn't do anything until it was too late. we've talked about over the years also is of crises in the home office. the basis of there? is quite close. maybe not quite as disastrous as the foreign prisoner one which just went on and on because there was no ability to control that as a subject. i think the question here is one of competence because the wind rushed problem arose because the home office was not, amber rudd was not aware properly of it and people had been warning about it and raising the issue. when a petition started in particular the home office was still very slow to respond. that is a question of competence will stop at this case of course very embarrassing for the home secretary because before the home affairs select committee is today was confronted about these targets, said they didn't know about it, they didn't exist and had no idea what they were. you had to admit that they do exist. it's a

problem. as much as anything you can argue about the rights and wrongs of different policies and clearly that situation is entirely wrong, but if you don't look like you know what is going on in your own department that isa going on in your own department that is a big problem for you. and if you get forced into doing it by being found out rather than taking control in the beginning and saying look, there seems to be a problem and we are looking into it to do with it, which would have been rather sensible to do. it is very easy for us sensible to do. it is very easy for us to criticize. ijust think i feel for those couple caught up in this. these people who have been lately serving as here and been here for decades and suddenly they are being told they're not welcome and thrown out and done nothing wrong. let's move out and done nothing wrong. let's m ove o nto out and done nothing wrong. let's move onto the ftb does it turns out wembley is for sale. £800 million. u nless wembley is for sale. £800 million. unless the bbc‘s paying very generously i'm a you would be squirming to buy that. quite strange

concept. being sold off to somebody. the home of british football getting american football. it was owned by the fa and they got a massive debt, it was a very bad financial deal that cost them an awful lot more than they were cut off from the fa's point of view if they can sell it and this man owns actually he bought fulham football club and an american football franchise and so on, of course from the fa's point of view the advantage is that they raise an awful lot of money which they want to invest into grassroots which could be a good thing for football. it's a lot of money to invest. they we re it's a lot of money to invest. they were saying women's football, grassroots football facilities. there is no other ready source of funding for that type of thing. as long as we can still play ridges foot ball long as we can still play ridges football at wembley, english foot ball football at wembley, english football and they are saying that is committee but theyjust want a home for american football here. i much prefer english myself. and there might be. the ideas that may be fewer englishmen matches their a nswer fewer englishmen matches their answer might have to go around the country. but speaking of all of that

asa country. but speaking of all of that as a northerner, i think that is a good thing. but they did it before when they were building wembley and people like that. we should have more games around the country. that would not be a bad thing. we will see whether it happens or not. stadium in the northern parts. maybe we could support another one with the money. ok, that is it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online thumb on the bbc news website. it is all there for you seven days a week. if you missed the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbci player. thank you and goodbye. good evening. it has been another day of sunshine and scattered showers around. and temperatures certainly much cooler than they were a week or so ago. this picture comes

from one of our weather watches. blue skies, but also some big sarah kraus. we will continue to see some of those showers. here's the recent radar picture, particularly all across the north of scotland were the heaviest of the showers are. because the country, most hours our easing away but from the southwest you will notice this area of rain moving in. for the early hours of friday that could be bringing some bursts of heavy rain across south wales and the southwest of england, too. but in clear skies and got a chilly night ahead. in particular parts of scotland where we could see the grass. dominated by an area of low pressure heading in from the southwest during wet and windy weather, patchy rain than slowly pushing it further east. across much of england and wales. if we take a look at friday morning, a little bit more detail, that ring to be producing some fairly heavy burst across parts of cornwall, devon, southwest. some patchy rain dripping midlands right through parts of yorkshire. patchy rain will be pushing its way west to east across

england and wales but there will be a few dryer, particularly towards the southeast. across the country, a better day for the far north of england, scotland and northern ireland. and except sunny spells and a few scattered showers. temperatures great for the time of year. stuck in the background at eight or 9 degrees. 0n the weekends on unsettled continues. sunshine and showers, cool breeze, more rain arriving in the southeast as we in the weekend. we'll have a look at that in just the weekend. we'll have a look at that injust a the weekend. we'll have a look at that in just a moment. the weekend. we'll have a look at that injust a moment. saturday, and cloudy day for much of england and wales. remnants of a bit of rain likely in the far south east early on. then it dries up for a time. there will be more sunshine towards the north and west, sunny spells and a few scattered showers in northern ireland, northern england and scotland. temperatures between 9-i3d. scotland. temperatures between 9—i3d. during sunday, a similar date across england and wales. i cloudy, and fewer showers across england and northern ireland but you could catch one or two. again the temperatures are one or two. again the temperatures a re pretty one or two. again the temperatures are pretty cool for the time of year. around 9—12d on sunday. then

it looks like more persistent rain works in from the southeast, all down to this area of low pressure, pushing and from france to bring some fully heavy rain. getting you to your latest forecast. bye—bye. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00pm: guilty of sexual assault, the iconic american comedian bill cosby faces up to 30 years in prison. after all is said and done, women were finally believed, and we thank the jury so much for that. the bbc understands the home office will scrap immigration removal targets, just a day after home secretary amber rudd said they didn't exist. president trump will come to the uk injuly. the white house says it is a working visit. after two decades of decline, violent crime rose by more than 20% in england and wales last year. and on newsnight, how