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 damaged is the home secretary, amber road, by the windrush scandal? can she blamed her

predecessor when that is the prime minister —— amber rudd. good evening and welcome to bbc news. one of american television's biggest stars, the comedian bill cosby, has been convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman. the 80—year—old is best known for starring in the 1980s tv series the cosby show. he was the first major black actor on prime time, and was held in huge affection by audiences. his conviction today follows allegations against him of sexual offences by some 60 women, stretching back decades. aleem maqbool reports. he was an icon, one of the most—watched men on television. he came to court today defiant, confident he would walk free. he was wrong. outside the courtroom, moments after bill cosby

was convicted, some of those who accused him of a sexual assault found it hard to contain their emotion, and their relief that he will now go to prison for his crimes. i thank the jury. i thank the prosecution. when i look at thatjury, there's that one young black man on thatjury, who i look upon as my son, and i know the disappointment that he felt in looking at a beloved black, male, iconic father figure, and being able to yet render a guilty verdict. ithank him. lili bernard looked up to bill cosby when she appeared on his show, and there is no doubt in his heyday that when he was an african—american hero, he was sometimes referred to as america's dad.

but there were always rumours that he used his position to abuse women. finally, in the past three years, around 60 came forward to say he assaulted them. but only one incident, involving andrea constand, happened recent enough for the case to go to trial. the first time it came to court, the jury could not agree on a verdict. this time, in a retrial, it was a unanimous decision to convict him. so what changed this time around? well, the judge allowed more women to testify, illustrating a pattern of cosby drugging and assaulting women, and it had the me too movement as its backdrop. we are so happy that finally we can say women are believed, and not only on #metoo, but in a court of law where they were under oath, where they testified truthfully, where they were attacked, where they were smeared, where they were denigrated. this fallen star now faces a lengthyjail term, but it is clear he is not

prepared to go quietly. we are very disappointed by the verdict. we don't think mr cosby‘s guilty of anything, and the fight is not over. but just a conviction of such a huge, previously untouchable celebrity on charges like these is a huge moment for america, and for all those here fighting for justice for women who have been sexually assaulted. the bbc has learnt the home office is to scrap immigration removal targets, a day after the home secretary said they didn't exist. amber rudd admitted in the commons earlier that there had been local targets for measuring performance. downing street insists it has full confidence in the home secretary, despite more calls for her to resign in the wake of the windrush controversy. our political editor laura kuenssberg has more. cameras at the front door — rarely a good sign for a cabinet minister. the home secretary said her department did not have targets for getting people who live here illegally to leave.

she was wrong. good morning. meaning the government apologised for the seventh time since this mess emerged. secretary amber rudd. the immigration arm of the home office has been using local targets for internal performance management. these were not published targets against which performance was assessed. but, if they were used inappropriately, then i am clear that this will have to change. but labour says the home secretary's performance has passed the point of no return. when lord carrington resigned over the falklands, he said it was a matter of honour. isn't it time that the home secretary considered her honour, and resigned? i say, with all conscience, is she really the right person to lead this office of state?

but the government side is still on her side. she has the total support of this side of the house. the total support of this side of the house, in trying to resolve a very difficult, very difficult legacy issue. most people in the real world, outside of the labour party, the snp and the metropolitan london elite in the media believe that the government don't do enough to remove illegal immigrants from this country, not that they're doing too much. this was the root of her embarrassment. being quizzed over the windrush fiasco yesterday, she appeared not in control of the facts. targets for removals — when were they set? we don't have targets for removals. except that wasn't quite true. documents like this, passed to the bbc, show that week after week after week, numbers were collected

and compared to those targets. so by morning, the home secretary had no choice but to admit that that was the case. but at lunchtime, government sources told me the targets would be scrapped. so in just a day, they didn't exist, then they did, and now they are to disappear. it is common for government departments to have targets, but for families like the williamses there is unease about how the system works. mum nelly is from indonesia. after being questioned at the airport over her immigration status, she is now desperately worried about being deported. we're told that we can't remain in the country as a family. and the consequences are, of course, that then we get split up as a family. it impacts my daughter, who's in a local school getting an education that is important for her. and i'm just astounded. i want to have the family together. not split, one in indonesia and one in the uk. that's not right.

do you have confidence in your home secretary, prime minister? not happy families in government right now. amber rudd's boss knows a thing or two about managing home office crises. but, while ms rudd is in place, it keeps the mess at some distance from theresa may's door. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. donald trump is making his first official visit to the uk since he was sworn in as president. he will arrive here on friday 13july. our north america editorjon sopel explained what we might expect from the trip. the strains on the special relationship, friday the 13th, what could possibly go wrong? and there have been bumps in that relationship since donald trump retweet does reason first, anti—muslim videos, since he made comments about the national health service, attacked the mayor of london, but all that there is still a very close partnership in britain and the us over defence, over intelligence, over defence, over intelligence, over national security. and we saw that coming together in the raid that coming together in the raid that the place on syria with the french. you also have the french, though, who have put themselves in

pole position, if you like, with this president. president macron flew out last night talking about the very special relationship that he had with donald trump, and in the past hour or two they have been taking down the french flags and they are going to replace them with they are going to replace them with the german flags, because angela merkel arrived a little bit later on. but there is real business to talk about in this meeting. i understand that donald trump is likely to meet the queen at either buckingham palace or windsor castle on his trip. the question is, will he meet the opposition leader, jeremy corbyn? that would be a meeting to be a fly on the wall out. but at the moment i think the real concern of the british is that, with the french and the germans making quite a bit of headway with donald trump, they are in danger of being left behind. the number of knife and gun crimes recorded by police in england and wales last year has gone up. figures from the office for national statistics reveal violent crime has risen by 21% compared to last year. there have been rises rises in burglary and car crime, too. our home affairs correspondent leila nathoo reports.

i was told i'd been stabbed i2 times, and i had nearly died. it was the dawn of 2017, and will flint was out celebrating the new year when he was stabbed while trying to stop an assault on a girl in the street. i had a punctured lung. the knife went into my left side, and narrowly missed my heart. physically, i'm starting to recover, but there was a lot of mental issues that were going on that i had to deal with, in order to overcome what i went through. willis now rebuilding his life. but, in the year that followed his attack, hundreds of thousands of others became victims of violence. overall, violent crimes recorded by police in england and wales increased by 21% last year, compared with 2016. knife crime stands out, with an increase of 22%. gun crime was also up ii%. but some of the rises we're seeing in violent crime, including the most extreme,

such as homicide, are changes in the drug activity that we're seeing taking place across the country. so the links of violence to drug—taking and drug—dealing are well—known, and we are seeing, for example, from hospital admissions, rises in the drug activity. across the country, police also recorded a sharp rise in vehicle thefts, and burglaries too, like this one captured recently on cctv in the west midlands. there are two sets of crime figures out today. a survey of people's experiences, which captures crimes not reported to police, shows a more stable picture, and over a longer term, crime has fallen. but the police data reveals what is happening at the serious end of the scale, where there has been a surge in violence, largely here in london, and in other cities. and, already this year, the trend looks to be continuing. in the capital, there has been a spate of killings. the government recently launched a new strategy to try to stop scenes like this happening time and again.

ministers want to focus on prevention, as well as policing, and tightening up legislation around weapons. any thoughts as to why we're seeing a rise in knife crime? these young people in south—east london have their own ideas. even if one person gets stabbed in london, that's one person too much. after yet another stabbing in their area, they have come together to discuss solutions. think about the background of people, and what their support is, with their family, with their friends, the area they live in. put pressure on government to actually increase funding for youth engagement opportunities. police ain't listening, the police are against us. provide young people with a safe place. youth clubs traditionally — they're always safe, they're always secure. everyone is searching for answers — how to stop violence devastating lives and devastating communities. leila nathoo, bbc news. the ukip leader says rises in council tax could be controlled if net migration into the uk was reduced to 50,000.

speaking ahead of next month's local elections, gerard batten said immigration takes its toll on the resources of local authorities. just in one place, in the london borough of havering, they have to build 30,000 new homes a year for the next 20 years. and that is purely because of the rising population due to migration. but there's no plan to build the additional hospitals and additional schools and additional roads and public services that these people will need. so it's unsustainable at the current numbers. morning, home secretary, did your department set regional targets for migrants? a hostile environment — after a week that's gone from bad to worse to miserable, amber rudd fights to keep her place

at the top table. immigration targets she didn't even know existed get scrapped. one friend of the pm told me that this would never have happened under her watch at the home office. if there was a bushfire, she would have got out the fire extinguishers. we'll ask amber rudd's party colleague andrew mitchell, who knows what the fire feels like, whether she can survive this. bill cosby, now aged 80, is finally found guilty of one of the 50 sexual assaults he's been accused of over the years. is this a turning point in how we deal with fame and sexual abuse? we'll ask american musician and feminist amanda palmer. kim il—sung, the great leader of the people, is at the railway station... also tonight, the north koreans know how to throw a good summit. in a few hours' time, kimjong—un meets the south korean leadership. will he offer anything more than a photo opportuntiy?

and this. we're in hungary, where the prime minister got re—elected by playing the anti—migrant card as hard as he could. how does that work when you're a member of the european union? if hungary had had this system when it was applying to join the european union, would it have qualified? no — no, clearly not. good evening. whatever your week has been like, thank your stars you haven'tjust had to abandon a bunch of immigration targets you didn't appear to realise existed 2a hours earlier whilst sitting on a wafer—thin majority of 346 as britain's home secretary. and that's not to mention her customs union snafu at a lunch for journalists. amber rudd has had better weeks.