snow the cold and the warm, the snow gci’oss the cold and the warm, the snow across the alps so it is looking pretty messy across europe while the experienced this chilly that which will continue into monday. sir philip green says he "categorically and wholly" denies allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour", as lord hain defends naming him as the man behind a court injunction. i believe it was the right thing to do. i could visit extremely serious. is anybody he was using parliamentary privilege always does. police investigating the pipe bombs in the united states focus on a sorting office in miami, there are reports in the last few minutes of more suspicious packages. universal credit is causing ‘unacceptable hardship' to many claimants, according to mps. archaeologists move more than 40,000 skeletons to make way for a new railway station in london. worry and standing here at the

moment is going to be one of the platforms and this is going to run 500 metres along there. that is what gets you about the site. it is the size of it. 11,000 square metres. coming up on afternoon live all the sport with hugh. ben stokes been speaking to the bbc he has. good afternoon. the cricketers have ready been a great performance. he is now hoping to be judged on his future actions as he looks to get back to top form. we would have them later in the hour. thomas has all the weather. it's chilly out there. the cold snap is upon us. the cold in the next two days will be saturday. it'll only be three or 4 degrees in some parts of the uk. nope by a barrister and his

wife. this is often in life. the former attorney general, dominic grieve says the labour peer lord hain acted "entirely arrogantly" , and with "no regard for the rule of law" , when he named the businessman, sir philip green. yesterday, lord hain used parliamentary privilege to say that sir philip is the tycoon facing accusations of sexual and racial harassment, despite a court injunction keeping his identity secret. sir philip says he "categorically and wholly denies" any allegation of unlawful sexual or racist behaviour. 0ur correspondent theo leggett reports. he is the man who left school with no qualifications but built a retail empire, consorting with celebrities and being courted by politicians. but the sir philip green's

attempt to avoid bad publicity has been a failure. the daily telegraph was prevented from naming him in connection with unspecified allegations of sexual and racial harassment of his employees. yesterday the former cabinet minister peter hain used parliamentary privilege to identify him in the house of lords. i feel it is my duty under parliamentary privilege to name philip green as the individual in question. lord hain has since defended his actions. the judiciary committee in this casejudges, have their role to play and it is very important role to play, the rule of law depends on them exercising it carefully and responsibly in accordance with legal precedent but parliamentarians also their role to play. it is for members of the public and others to judge whether what i have done in this case is right or wrong.

i believed it was the right thing to do all stop but his actions have including the former attorney general, dominic grieve. it appears to me it was entirely arrogant decision that had absolutely no regard forjudicial process or the rule of law. parliamentary privilege is very important but, like any power which is extremely important, it is open to abuse and i cannot see, looking at this particular matter, that peter hain can argue that he has not abused it. other leading figures say that if the allegations are proven, sir philip should lose his knighthood. i think it is now but the honours committee, which is the prime minister guides, to look at the facts and if the allegations are correct, to continue a knighthood in this case is completely inappropriate. in a statement, sir philip said... with the topshop tycoon‘s name

already splashed across front pages and calls for a boycott circulating on social media, the question now is whether damage as already been done to his many retail brands. in many cases where business owners and businesses, and in this case, they are inextricable linked, allegations charges are brought against them, it can cause customers to feel uncomfortable spending their money with them and perhaps to boycott those locations and brand until such time as they are satisfied they are not perhaps lining the pockets of someone they might think is not on their moral platform. it is not the first time philip has faced a public backlash. in 2015 he sold bhs to former racing driver dominic chappell. it later collapsed with the loss of 11,000 jobs and lead a huge

deficit in its pension scheme. under pressure from mps and regulators, he eventually agreed to pay £363 million into the pension fund. that is their tarnished his personal reputation but the current publicity threatens to be far more damaging. 0ur political correspondent leila nathoo is in westminster — there is growing criticism of lord hain after some welcomed his intervention yesterday. yes, he said himself that he had received overwhelming support for using his parliamentary privilege in that way. that is a right that parliamentarians have so they can speak freely here in parliament, without fear of the courts. they are at now as you say a number of

critical voices saying he has gone too far. it should not be up to him too far. it should not be up to him to decide what is in the public interest. the former attorney general said that perhaps personal preference and attitudes towards sir philip green were getting in the way of considering what was right and the concern being that this was an undermining of the rule of law and an undermining of judges undermining of the rule of law and an undermining ofjudges who are carefully considering evidence and fa cts carefully considering evidence and facts all the time. i think this is a matter of debate now. number 10 are saying this is a matter for parliament, not government. it is important to separate those two out constitution only, but this is reigniting that debate about where the balance of power lies between parliament and the judiciary. isn't it clear that parliamentary is savagery will trump anything else's this is a balance of who gets to decide what is the final verdict on something. the most seniorjudges in

the land, because of the appeal have decided. they are effectively undermined by a parliamentarian doing what they think is right as an individual, perhaps not having seen the weight of evidence that the judges have. it is a matter of debate but there is a power of parliamentarians to use, how they choose to exercise it is a matter of each individual. i have to say it is he's very rarely. the last time that this debate was kick—started was over ryan giggs, n number of years ago. the footballer who was also named after an injunction. it is not something used regularly, i think clearly now questions are being asked again about whether they should be limits on the circumstances. it raises questions about the use of injunctions which of course, have been controversial in the past but for his part, sir philip green, denying all of the

allegation. yes. it is important he denies the allegations put to him but, he has taken out these injunctions but it has been rendered useless by what sir lord hain has donein useless by what sir lord hain has done in the house of lords yesterday. there is a question her, on his use of non—closure agreements. the premise that has made clear that she is going to look into the allegations surrounding the use. into the allegations surrounding the use. she talked about using them ethically and within ethical circumstances. i think there are plenty of questions raised about this case, in particular the parliamentary privilege aspect that looks like a debate that is not going to go away. thank you very much. within the last few minutes, there are reports in the united states that more suspicious packages have been found. in florida, an eleventh device was reported to have been sent to senator cory booker and police in new york city are said to be investigating a package at a local post office. detectives are still trying to identify who has been sending suspected pipe bombs to prominent critics of donald trump.

officials say they believed some of the packages originated in florida. 0ur correspondent gary 0'donoghue is in washington. tell us about these latest devices that are suspected to have been found. the very latest one we were told was discovered at a post office in new york, or manhattan. yesterday a bomb was discovered at a restau ra nt a bomb was discovered at a restaurant belonging to robert de niro. earlier on another device was found at cnn. this morning, addressed to the former director of national intelligence. he has been someone national intelligence. he has been someone who has been very vocal in criticising the president over russia and other issues. since the president came into office. it was

found at the post office in new york 01’ found at the post office in new york or manhattan island, it was addressed to him. earlier on we got some indication that a florida sorting office in south florida, just north of miami, being searched already. 0ne just north of miami, being searched already. one of those packages had gone through. we understand there is another package that came from that that was headed for a democrat senator, high profile. also someone who was potentially one of —— you might runfor who was potentially one of —— you might run for the nomination in 2020. what was the reaction to the white house as these devices keep cropping up? we had no immediate reaction to these two latest devices which brings the number 212. 12 cents to ten different people. these attacks are despicable, they say that they will hand the people down who are responsible. they say that

the country should unify but they also say that it is the media's fault that there is so much anger in american society at the moment. something the president are some very keen on. he rejects any idea that it very keen on. he rejects any idea thatitis very keen on. he rejects any idea that it is his language or any kind of rhetoric that he uses, that he whips up that is responsible in any way for creating the environment by things like this could happen. so, there are very substantial push back from this from the white house and from this from the white house and from the president. attempts to call for unification and people to come together have gone nowhere. thank you. the government says changes are being made. the public accounts committee says the department for work and pensions have no problems at the new benefit is causing. benefit is causing. here's our political correspondent chris mason. tinned tomatoes...

this is the front line, a food bank in lambeth in south london where those who cannot afford to feed themselves turn in desperation. universal credit has been fully rolled out in this area since december last year and in that time we have seen our numbers more than double, since last december, particularly through the school holidays and as people are moved onto universal credit. the report today says the government has a fortress mentality and has persistently dismissed evidence universal credit is causing hardship and there is a concern about the gap between coming off the old benefits and going onto the new one. thwere are people are often come if they are claiming for the first dambo will not have spare food in the cupboard and no money in the purse and they had to pay their rent and if they are waiting five weeks for money, that causes real trouble is and makes it difficult to live. sarah has two sons with disabilities. her eldest has moved onto universal credit. it is hard enough being a carer with all the fights you have

to get funding and support and when you are now £2500 down and will be another 2500 down in a year, it is scary. the government says it has already announced what it calls several improvements to universal credit and has recently begun a new partnership with citizens advice to deliver better support to the most vulnerable also unemployment is also at its lowest in over a0 years. ministers acknowledge there are losers under the new system but there are winners as well. there are 700,000 households right now that are being underpaid £2.4 billion of money because it is such a complicated system and that is changing under universal credit and people will be able to get that money. this is the fourth time this month that universal credit hat at a carpeting by critics, interventions byjohn major and gordon brown and then 30 bishops were critical as well. now this report acting

as a political prods on the government ahead of the budget on monday. there are plenty of mps, including conservatives, demanding change. the thing that myself and about 30—35 colleagues, we have written to be chancellor and asked the court amount of money you get to keep in universal credit when you start working before benefits are taken and we want those boosting back to the levels they were at before the money was taken out of the system in 2015. the focus is next on this man, the chancellor. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines sir philip green says he "categorically and wholly" denies allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour",— meanwhile as lord hain defends naming him as the man behind a court injunction. police investigating the pipe bombs in the united states focus

on a sorting office in miami, there are reports coming in of more suspicious packages universal credit is causing ‘unacceptable hardship' to many claimants, according to mps. in sport. in the books and performances all become what he is eventually remembered for. he was found not guilty of a at crown court in the summer. sloane stephens has taken the first set as she aims for a place in the final four at the wta finals in singapore facing the world number two and elite club with the second set going so far. a manchester united boss has full confidence in his striker despite the strike's eight—game street without a goal. i'll be back with more on this storyjust after half past. people living in england's

coastal communities are being warned to wake up to the challenges of climate change. the government's climate advisers say more than one—point—two million homes could be threatened by coastal flooding and erosion by the 2080s. in the worst—case scenario it's claimed sea levels in england will rise by at least one metre, before the end of the century. here's our environment analyst roger harrabin. in the eye of the storm — dawlish in devon in 2014, battered by the waves, train tracks destroyed. today's report says more of this will happen as sea levels are pushed higher by man—made climate change. here is another problem that the committee warns will get worse. these homes at hemsby in norfolk slipped into the sea as waves ate away the cliff below. the report says maybe 100,000 properties are at risk like this. the committee says the authorities have to get real with people about which homes are likely to be saved and which will be too expensive to protect.

the current approach to protecting the english coastline is just not fit for purpose. and we really do need to wake up to the very significant challenges that we have ahead. sea level is rising and that's going to mean that we get considerably worse coastal erosion and indeed coastal flooding. power plants, ports, gas terminals and other infrastructure are also at risk, the report says. it says the government needs to focus on protecting these assets, as well as saving people's homes. and to take seriously the inevitability of sea level rise. campaigners for coastal communities say theirs is a shared problem. rising sea levels are a direct result of global warming. now we all contribute to that, not just coastal communities, everybody in this country contributes to that. so the funding for all this should come centrally so we all bear an equal portion of the cost.

the government says more sea defences are being built. a spokesman said people would be protected from climate change. roger harrabin, bbc news. a forty—five year—old man's been arrested on suspicion of trying to steal a copy of the magna carta from salisbury cathedral. police say alarms were activated after the man attempted to smash a glass box surrounding the historic document — one of four surviving copies. it's thought the magna carta is undamaged and nobody was injured. a railcard for millenials will go on sale before the end of the year. up to four million passengers — aged between 26 to 30 — will be eligible for the card, which was trialled in the spring. the card will offer a third off most fares — but it will be digital only, meaning that passengers will need a smartphone to download it. work has started to move more than forty thousand bodies from a cemetery in central london, so a new station can be built as part of the hs2 high speed

rail link to birmingham. archaeologists say the dig will help them understand more about life in the capital throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. david sillito reports. back in the 1780s, london was running out of space. it had nowhere for the dead. and so it created new cemeteries. one of them is here come the next to euston station. and now, more than 200 years later, that land is needed for another purpose. the dead are going to have to find a new final resting place. and this is the reason why. this is where london's high—speed railway station is about to be built. and so, a small army of archaeologists have arrived to move thousands of bodies. how many people are we talking about? the records for the entire area suggest around 60,000 people were

interned in the cemetery. of course, some have already been removed over the years, but there's still a huge number of people buried here. you're looking at probably 40,000 individuals but still one of the largest barrier excavations ever to take place. you are excavating 40,000 plots. yes. and this huge tented site is only the beginning. where i'm standing at the moment is going to be one of the platforms which will run 500 metres along there. that's what gets you about this site. it is the sheer size of it. 11,000 square metres. but what will happen to all the bodies? the first man to sail around australia is buried here, matthew flinders, and so with bill richmond, one of britain's most celebrated boxers. initially they will be taken for archaeological analysis, so lavatories, stored in a morgue, and that's with the agreement of the church.

and then after that, everyone will be re—buried in consecrated ground. this isjust the beginning, a location near stoke and of, the site of a lost church, iron age, roman and saxon site crisscrossing the whole route. 0verall, on the whole line, we will have over 1000 archaeologists. excavating over 60 sites. that sounds pretty big. it is the biggest archaeological investigation ever undertaken in the uk and probably europe. in this part of london, any development is always going to be building on history. but this one has rather more ghosts than normal. david sillitoe, bbc news. with us is the chief executive of historic england. thank you very much for coming in. how valuable do

you think this particular site in london will be? also 140 miles along the line? the site in london is exciting enough in itself. it will give us a really interesting sample of late 18th century, 19th—century population and disease, that kind of thing. actually, as part of the whole archaeology connected with this train line it illustrates the diversity and richness of this country. how much pressure other and to get this work done before they lose access to the site? they are trying to build a row airline. they'll be working to a timetable set by the engineers but there will be unexpected discoveries as we a lwa ys be unexpected discoveries as we always need to allow for that. that is part of the excitement of the project. in this site in london, 40,000 bodies. when there are human remains involved, how does that change the approach? they have to be

licensed by the home office. it is important that they are respectfully treated and eventually they'll be reburied properly. which of the points along this line between london and birmingham, that you think the archaeologists are going to be especially interested in? has been a survey, so hopefully we have identified most of the features but you never know you actually peel back the earth. we have to have a careful supervision there is a massive range of sites from mesolithic sites west of london to iron age, british temples, walls of the roses battlefields and then right up to the second world war. layers of history. archaeologists have different specialisms. you need to have a range of skills, don't you? to make the most of what you are finding. yes. you need people to dig it up carefully and also people to analyse what you find. possibly,

bones and interpret it. how likely is it that some of the skeletons will be identified as being, belonging to certain people, notable people's we haven't found anyone yet. unfortunately all of the headstones were removed some time ago, but we do hope that there are going to be coughing plates with names on and we can identify particular graves. there were some famous people buried there. the developer pays. the public pay for it but it is up to us to make sure the public get a good result. they are engaged in it. thank you very much. celebrations are taking place to mark one hundred years since stonehenge was given to the nation by a local couple who had bought it at auction forjust £7,000. duncan kennedy has spent the day down the at the iconic stone—age monument. it might seem a little bit odd that

they are as elevating the 100th anniversary of a 5000 —year—old monument. you are right. it was exactly 100 years ago today that stones were gifted to the nation. incredibly before that, they were in private hands. it has to be said that the stones themselves almost falling down. symphony among the stones, a perfect case of classic rock. the london sinfonietta one of a number of birthday tributes to this ancient site. the musicians are here to celebrate 100 years since stonehenge was given to the nation. before that, all of this was in private hands. private hands but a very public state of disrepair. eventually, in 1915, it was decided to put stonehenge up for auction.

but that auction started a bidding war between isaac crook, a localfarmer, and cecil chubb, a local barrister, one that isaac did not quite win. well, he must have stopped bidding at 6,500. cecil chubb was still bidding and the hammerfell at 6,600. a difference of £100. but what would have happened to stonehenge if isaac crook had won that auction? do you think he would have just returned it to farmland? well, i honestly can't answer that. i mean, who knows what he would have done? instead, three years later in 1918, cecil chubb and his wife mary gave stonehenge to the nation. that act of generosity to actually saved stonehenge. until that point, the stones were propped up by wooden poles, some of them were at risk of collapse and its future was by no means certain and so when

the chubbs gave stonehenge to the nation, it kick—started a programme of care and conservation that english heritage continues to this day. today there was everything from a bouncy to a baked version of the ancient monument, all to celebrate it becoming an endearing slice of national life. we stones have been preserved in the past 100 years and get about 2 million visitors a year. but once upona time million visitors a year. but once upon a time it was a very different story. these were almost lost to the nation. time for a look at the weather... 0na on a friday, people are invited to get in touch with you and pose some questions. about the weather. i'm sure... the first one is about what

is the difference between mr, filed and something cold ceefax? the first one is quite easy. let's talk about fog. fog is obviously little droplets of water, suspended in the airabove droplets of water, suspended in the air above the droplets of water, suspended in the airabove the ground, droplets of water, suspended in the air above the ground, falling ever so air above the ground, falling ever so slowly to the grounds that they are practically still. let's define ita are practically still. let's define it a little but either. fog is when the visibility is around less than a kilometre. that's when we call it fog. kilometre is quite a long distance. it is the length of a high street. anybody walking around in the middle of a city, if there is about 1000 metres, you would notice it. we tend to stick on television to something like 100, 200 metres. that is what fog is. lift. mist is

very similar. this is a picture of fog. now we will look at most. most is thinner, when the visibility is greater than one kilometre that is when it becomes most. in this picture, it is being reported by a weather watcher as most, this is still fog because the trees are probably about 100 metres away. this is sick fog but what is interesting about this fog is that it is cold shallow fog. it is a fog that maybe only if you metres above the ground, maybe if you tens of metres. we have different types of fog. known as the harbour. that is fog over the sea which is moved by the wind and it tends to affect coastal areas. what makes the jet stream of? another good question. we often get

storms driven by jet another good question. we often get storms driven byjet streams. in this graphic which we quite often show in our weather forecasts, we have the blue which is cold arctic airand the have the blue which is cold arctic air and the yellow, which is our coming out of the subtropics. where these are matters, when they clash you get a current of air. it is the difference in the temperature, a bit like voltage. there is a voltage. because of the difference in temperature. you get a current of oui’ temperature. you get a current of our moving around. what actually makes this jet stream meander, because it does is the rotation of the planet. it is not one perfect river of air will stop also, in meteorology when you look at the physics, it tends to be a shot of cold dense air, for example coming out of canada basically pushes the air southwards and then it kicks back up this way. like a lasso. at the moment it is in action because

this is exactly what we're going to be talking about soon because it dips down and that means that the weather this weekend is if you have seen earlier forecast you know that it is going to be colder. that jet stream has thatjet stream has dug down. digging down, we get a rough idea of what the jet stream is doing. this is not the jet stream, this what the jet stream is doing. this is not thejet stream, this is what the jet stream is doing. this is not the jet stream, this is the wind closer to the ground. you can see the arctic air moving across the uk and moving into france, portugal and spain. it is notjust asked that'll be feeling the cold. this is what it looks like now. we have showers along eastern coasts, farm in wales also. look at these winds go. tonight, the temperatures are going to drop like a stone. normally they drop like a stone when the wind is very light and have clear skies

but tonight, we have clear skies. the wind is strong but it is the our coming from the arctic that is really nippy. we're talking about two or three degrees. it'll be below freezing outside of town. tomorrow, a northerly winds blowing, temperatures around seven or 8 degrees, briefly during the course of the afternoon. as was that we have occasional showers, dusty around the north sea coast. possibly even crashing into the greasy walls. this is sunday's weather forecast. it is blowing out of the north east, that means that perhaps around some of these western coasts to feel a little bit less cold, less windy. that's wind will be confined to eastern areas. perhaps maybe touching double figures again, but you probably won't even notice it. 0ne you probably won't even notice it. one day it might be crisp. a sunny day. where the wind is blowing in

newcastle it only feels like for degrees. very quickly, back to that jet stream, this is what the jet strea m jet stream, this is what the jet stream does when it meanders around the planet. a big area of weather, low— pressure the planet. a big area of weather, low—pressure forming across europe this weekend will you have the clash between the cold out to the north coming out of scandinavia and the warmerair coming out of scandinavia and the warmer air across the mediterranean. a quick outlook into monday, temperatures will be around single figures. it looks as though things might be warming up a little bit well into next week but before that happens with got a good few days of the sun chilly would also weather. wrap up warm. this is bbc news — our latest headlines.

sir philip green says he "categorically and wholly" denies allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour", as lord hain defends naming him as the man behind a court injunction. former attorney general dominic grieve says lord hain's decision undermines the rule of law. two more suspect packages are being investigated in new york and florida. it comes after several mail bombs were sent to prominent critics of us president donald trump. universal credit is causing "unacceptable ha rdship" for many of the claimants it was designed to help, according to a group of mps. but the government insists it is listening to critics of its flagship welfare reform. and the excavation of 40,000 bodies buried in an old cemetery has begun in central london, to clear the way for the hs2 rail line.

it's been described as britain's biggest ever archaeological dig. sport now. ben stokes is back playing cricket and he's been speaking to bbc. ben stokes was cleared of affray in august and it brought to an end a very difficult spell in his life, where he couldn't play club cricket for durham nor of course for england. the incident left some former england players saying he needed to seek help to help him focus on his sport. and that's just what he wants to do. he missed last winter's ashes series in australia, while he awaited trial. stokes is with the england side in sri lanka and says that despite the disciplinary hearing, he still has to face — he wants to be judged on his future actions, not his past.

joe lynskey took a closer look... ben stokes career spent 11 months on hold. this was the moment and he could focus on cricket again. the trial found could focus on cricket again. the trialfound him could focus on cricket again. the trial found him not could focus on cricket again. the trialfound him not guilty could focus on cricket again. the trial found him not guilty of affray. hours later he was named in the england squad. after a summer series they soon met for an autumn series they soon met for an autumn series in sri lanka. it is where he spoke to the bbc since. i mean, look, it's all about looking forward now. we've got a huge summer coming up next year with the ashes and the world cup so everything's, you know, fully focused on that. looking at things that went on is not the way that i like to think about things, it's all about looking to the future. stokes was on trial for his part in a fight eric bristow nightclub. he was forced to miss the winter ashes

series in australia. —— in a fight near a bristol nightclub. can you appreciate people's interest in what happened, and the fact you weren't playing for england when people would have loved to have seen you playing for england? yeah, that's the best thing, you know, about going forward is, you know, everything that you do from here onwards is, you know, england are among the favours for the world cup on home soil ben stokes hopes of playing rest on england cricket disciplinary hearing. the panel meeting december four months after the play was cleared. the stokes is embracing the crease and hoping to move forward. they have been some key matches in the wta finals in singapore. eighth seed kiki bertens has already reached the semis in singapore after naomi 0saka was forced to retire with injury. 0saka lost the first set 6—3 and after a quick medical

timeout for a leg injury ended the match before the second set was underway. bertens only made the event because of injuries to other players. she moves on to play either elina svitolina or karolina pliskova in saturday's semi—final. slone stephens is through to the semi—finals of the wta finals in singapore after beating germany's angelique kerber 6—3, 6—3. the american, currently 6th in the world rankings, dominated the match, which was over in an hour and forty minutes. she'll play karolina pliskova in saturday‘s semi final. england'sjustin rose and tommy fleetwood are tied for second at the world golf championship event in shanghai. rose went round in five under par. this recovery from the bunker at the ninth meant he didn't drop a shot. and he's eight under overall. fleetwood is level with him after his round of four under par. they both trail leader

american tony finau by three shots. jose mourinho has full confidence in his striker romelu lukaku despite the striker‘s eight game streak without a goal. the manchester united manager doesn't appear worried ahead of their game against everton on sunday and says he has been expecting lu ka ku to score in every game. his confidence levels will be back to normal, which clearly they are not that. but i always feel that every game is the game. that's all the sport for now. a bit of breaking news to bring you now. it is from lancashire. it is the site that the fracking company

are working on. there has been a micro—seismic event that has occurred and it measures 0.76 magnitude which is very small compared with an earthquake, but nonetheless it has been recorded as a micro—seismic event. for now, the fracking is going to be suspended for 18 hours. this is their message on twitter, i think. confirming the size of this local magnitude detected just after 11:30am this morning at the shale gas exploration site in lancashire. they were hydraulically fracturing the shale rock next to a horizontal well at the time and this seismic activity recorded is classed as a red event. it is in line with the monitoring system they use in oil and gas

authority. 0perations have been paused for the next 18 hours. seismic activity will be measured. the british geological survey records seismicity to one decimal place and have recorded this event asa 0.8 place and have recorded this event as a 0.8 magnitude. they go on to explain that micro—seismic events as is this result in tiny movements that are below anything that would be felt at the surface. if you are in that area, you won't have felt it. they wouldn't be detected on the surface. it is reassuring the monitoring and traffic light system is working as it should. all the releva nt is working as it should. all the relevant regulators have been informed and we verified the well integrity is intact. they don't believe it has caused any white damage. as per the hydraulic fracture plan in place, work will be

paused for at least 18 hours but it is expected to recommence in the morning. a fairly lengthy explanation about what has happened there this morning. you will recall that it was only in recent weeks that it was only in recent weeks that the company got the all clear from the high court to continue fracking after a pause of some seven yea rs. fracking after a pause of some seven years. that was following an earthquake in that area in 2011. 0perations paused following that micro—seismic event. let's return to oui’ micro—seismic event. let's return to our main story. the controversy around the naming in parliament of sir philip green in spite of a court injunction intended to protect his identity. the former attorney general dominic grieve has strongly criticised lord hain who named sir philip yesterday, saying that his action was "arrogant" and undermined the rule of law. sir philip says he "categorically and wholly denies" any allegation of unlawful sexual or racist behaviour. this is what mr grieve had to say. if mps do undermines the rule of law

because the courts are there to decide whether it injunctions should be granted or lifted and determine the difficult issues that can arise between private and rice, contractual rights and the public interest. that is what we put course there to do. if individual members of parliament all of the house of lords decide the hope think they know better and want to short cut what is in fact a process which is still taking place at this very moment in which a court is trying to make that determination, it undermines the rule of law. it is a very bad thing to do. what are the dangers? whatever lord hain may have been told by the people who informed him, he doesn't know all the background circumstances as to why the nondisclosure agreement existed. he hasn't had an opportunity to

consider the end result of this court case, which might lead to disclosure taking place in which case you wouldn't have had to do it at all or if disclosure didn't take place, to understand my best disclosure was being withheld. he decided he knew better and he should be able to stand up and say whatever he liked. you don't think lord hain acted in the public interest? no, i don't. he can't even say there were some final entered this case, the case is actually taking place at this very moment and it was an interim injunction that was in place. he can't even say, i've consider the matter very fully at the end and decided that i'm going to disagree with the judges. that would be serious enough as it is. he simply decided he was going to short cut this process because he knew better. the former attorney general dominic grieve. seven members of a gang have been jailed at birmingham crown court for using drones to smuggle drugs valued at half a million pounds into prisons.

sima kotecha reports. using several of these, a gang ran a sophisticated drug operation. today, seven of them were jailed while six were given suspended sentences, all for transporting half £1 million worth of skunk, synthetic and others, crack cocaine and heroin into england's jails. this operation should that this is not a victimless crime. these are serious organised crime groups dealing a drug smuggling ring inside and outside prisons. i think the message needs to go out that using mobile phones in this way, to try and organise this, using drones in this way, if you are outside prison either assisting orjust driving somebody there, or inside the prisons organising it, you will end up with the police prosecuting you and end up with you injail. this cctv shows how it was done. drugs packaged up and tied to a drone while inmates instruct the pilots how to get them over barbed wired walls.

the operation began two years ago. the gang made at least 55 drone deliveries to seven prisons across the country, including hmp liverpool, birmingham and hewell, not too far from here. the group were caught after detectives found several drones that had crashed or were positioned for take—off, all with drugs attached. the operation has been referred to as a spider web of activity. officers say drone usage in this way is a big problem but the complacency of criminals, they say, is leading to further convictions. sima kotecha, bbc news, birmingham. the designer of a cot in which a seven—month—old baby boy "choked to death", has been jailed for three years and four months. leeds crown court heard how 0scar abbey got his head stuck while trying to crawl through a gap in the bed in november 2016. prosecutors said that craig williams, the owner

of playtime beds limited, which sold the cot to 0scar‘s parents, had given reassurances that it was suitable for children aged six or seven months. jamie is here come he will have the business news later. but first the headlines. sir philip green says he "categorically and wholly" denies allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour" — meanwhile the former attorney general dominic grieve has strongly attacked lord hain's decision to name sir philip under cover of parliamentary privilege. police investigating the pipe bombs in the united states focus on a sorting office in miami. there are reports of more suspicious packages. universal credit is causing "unacceptable hardship" to many claimants, according to mps. here's your business headlines on afternoon live. royal bank of scotland is setting aside £100 million

to deal with "the more uncertain economic outlook". rbs is among the first big banks to make such a provision in the run—up to the uk's exit from the eu. profits before tax rose 10% year on year, to £961 million. and a mixed bag of results for the world's biggest technology companies — some good numbers but even so the shares have been sliding. alphabet, the owners of google saw its share price down by as much as 8%. amazon shares declined by more than 5%. and supermarket giant asda is to begin consultations with staff on changes that could mean up to 2,500 job cuts. an asda representative said the firm needed to consider changing employees' roles and working hours. the spokesperson added that the proposed changes would allow asda to do a betterjob for its customers. how good are the numbers from the uk

conor mckerr smack it is very important for the elections. we had 4.2% in... of growth?. it is now down to 3.5%. i want to explain about how these figures work. they are different from what we have in the uk. this is a growth rate, it is the uk. this is a growth rate, it is the rate at which the economy is growing. if i was to provide an anthology, if you look at your speedometer, it says 60 miles an hour it doesn't mean that in an hour's time you will be 60 miles ahead, visit? especially fear going through battersea. you will slow down. at that particular time, you are going at 60 mph. at this particular point, the us economy is

growing at 3.5%. it is only when you get to the end of the year you say, over that whole time, the end of your destination, you can see how fast the economy has been growing. 3.5% sounds respectable. but it is a rates, if you would continue at this rate, come december 30 he will say, the economy has grown by 3.5%. kim gittleson is our north america business correspondent and she joins us from the new york stock exchange. these figures are important because of the midterms. they are pretty good, aren't they? fish. a growth rate of 3.5% is nothing to shy away from. the thing that is cheering investors is that a lot of foot powered that economic growth is consumer spending here. people like me going out to buy new clothes or something. a growing rate of 4% in

the past three months on matters of thing that surprised many people. we we re thing that surprised many people. we were not expecting that level of spending. exports from the us fell precipitously. especially when it came to goods, but felt by 7%. it is something we have been talking about for months. presidents donald trump's trade war. exporters were trying to get a of that tariffs. that is why we have seen that decline. i didn't do enough to stop the economic engine that is the us economy right now. in particular, there is another bit of good news that came out in this report. prices are not rising as fast as many people had been feeling. they rose atan people had been feeling. they rose at an annual rate of 1.6%, that is under the loose target of 2%. that means they won't feel the need to raise interest rates faster and that is something that is cheering

investors. you've got that situation going on, how do you fit into that what we heard from amazon and what we heard from all the tech companies, it seems to be worrying investors in the market generally. to use your metaphor, gdp is like looking in the rear—view mirror. we know what happened in the us economy. what is wearing investors when it comes to the earnings results from amazon and google, it is what will happen in future. both companies issued forecasts that suggest they don't think their sales will increase as quickly as many investors had been expecting in the fourth quarter, that is the thing thatis fourth quarter, that is the thing that is weighing on these technology shares. i had a look at all of them before i went on the air, they are all down right now. it is a bit of

good news when it comes to economic growth but if you're looking to the future, particularly if you're invested in the technology companies, there might be some concerns ahead. thanks very much for that. the summary of the american economy there. a summary of the markets now. despite those good figures, which is interesting the dow is down. a willing market is a market that does not respond to a bad or good news. you have good news, the market does not respond. it is still going down despite good news on the economy. thanks, see you later. prince harry and meghan have been given a warm welcome in tonga, the latest stop on their royal tour. children were given the day off school and people skipped work to catch a glimpse of the duke and duchess of sussex. 0ur royal correspondent

jonny dymond reports. for a style icon, a new accessory. the welcome for harry and meghan was warm and noisy. and this was just the start. mat—making was just part of the display of tongan culture waiting for the duke and duchess. but first south pacific chic met royalfashion. was that a shimmy from harry? then, a quick whip around the exhibits. no royal tour is complete without a tour of handicrafts and the tongans have really put on a show. this island is tiny but the royal visit has had a huge impact. it has been a long time since tonga was a sliver of empire.

but the link to britain survives. even though we have just come out with a new generation now, but we, like us new and our grandparents, parents you know the oldies, they talk about the connection and we feel it too. we feel it too and we live with it, too. to finish the trip, more music. and a little encouragement from harry. they were here for just a day but they made every minute count. coming back to australia, an aborted landing as the couple's pilot spotted a possible obstruction on the runway. after a brief airborne tour of sydney, their plane landed safely. jonny dymond, bbc news, sydney.

some breaking news. the scottish conservative leader has given birth toa conservative leader has given birth to a baby boy. the important detail. she announced his birth, ruth davidson and her partner, said they we re davidson and her partner, said they were delighted by his safe arrival at edinburgh royal infirmary this morning. i can't give you any of those important details like what his name is or how much he weighed, but we will be making enquiries. congratulations to them both. then paul robinson, £10, according to the voice in my ear. good grief, well done. time for a look at the weather. we will be shivering this weekend.

it has passed the uk and the airstream is coming all the way from the arctic today and through the weekend. sunshine and showers on the cards today. you can see that northerly wind straight out of the northerly wind straight out of the north affecting many of these eastern coasts bringing showers that but clear whether inland. these other temperatures at 7pm so we're talking about five in newcastle, eight or nine in london. tonight, you can imagine the temperatures are only going to drop even further. by the time we get to the early hours of saturday morning we are talking about freezing in most city centres. 0utside about freezing in most city centres. outside of town it will be below freezing the wintry showers. saturday will start of cold, it'll bea saturday will start of cold, it'll be a cold day. similar weather on sunday. goodbye. hello, you're watching afternoon live. today at 3pm. sir philip green says he "categorically and wholly" denies

allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour", as a former attorney general criticises lord hain for identifying sir philip using parliamentary privilege. if mps do this, it undermines the the courts are there to decide whether injunction to be granted or listed. police investigating the pipe bombs in the united states focus on a sorting office in miami, two more suspicious packages have been intercepted. claimants, according to a cross—party group of mps. universal credit is causing ‘unacceptable hardship‘ to many claimants, according to a cross—party group of mps. archaeologists move more than 40,000 skeletons to make way for a new railway station in london. where i am standing here at the moment is going to be one of the platforms and it is going to run 500 metres along there. that is what gets you about this site. it is the

size of it. 11,000 square metres. coming up on afternoon live all the sport. live all the sport with hugh and we‘ve we have the very first time since he was cleared of a fray in august. he hopes cricket fans will remember him for what he does going forward rather than what has happened in the past. we have more from him at half past. we have more from him at half past. you will get all the weather this afternoon. 0ur hats, gloves, thick coats. sometime next week it‘ll warm up a little bit but for the time being it is going to fill very chilly. also coming up — a ruin to treasure. marking 100 years since stonehenge was gifted to the nation by a barrister and his wife. hello everyone — this is afternoon live.

the former attorney general, dominic grieve says the labour peer lord hain acted "entirely arrogantly" , and with "no regard for the rule of law", when he named the businessman, sir philip green. yesterday, lord hain used parliamentary privilege to say that sir philip is the tycoon facing accusations of sexual and racial harassment, despite a court injunction keeping his identity secret. sir philip says he "categorically and wholly denies" any allegation of unlawful sexual or racist behaviour. 0ur correspondent theo leggett reports. he is the man who left school with no qualifications but built a retail empire, consorting with celebrities and being courted by politicians. he controls leading brands like topshop, miss selfridge and dorothy perkins. but the sir philip green‘s attempt to avoid bad publicity has been a failure.

the daily telegraph was prevented from naming him in connection with unspecified allegations of sexual and racial harassment of his employees. yesterday the former cabinet minister peter hain used parliamentary privilege to identify him in the house of lords. i feel it is my duty under parliamentary privilege to name philip green as the individual in question. lord hain has since defended his actions. the judiciary committee in this casejudges, have their role to play and it is very important role to play, the rule of law depends on them exercising it carefully and responsibly in accordance with legal precedent but parliamentarians also their role to play. it is for members of the public and others to judge whether what i have done in this case is right or wrong. i believed it was the right thing to do. but his actions have including the former attorney general, dominic grieve.

been heavily criticised by other leading figures, if members of the house of lords decide they know better and wants to short cut to what is in fact a process which is still taking place at this very moment. it internally undermines the rule of law and it is a very bad thing to do. other leading figures say if the allegations are proven, sir philip should lose his knighthood. the prime minister guides to look at the fa cts prime minister guides to look at the facts and if the allegations are correct consuming eight a knighthood in this case is inappropriate. in a statement phillips said. with the topshop tycoon‘s name

already is but because across french pages, and boycott circling on social media, the question is has read damage already been done? and very sorry. we have lost the sound on that package. i don‘t know what has gone wrong. let‘s discuss this further. i‘m joined now by christina michalos — a barrister who specalises in media law. thank you very much for coming in. what is your view of what has happened in the last 24 hours regarding the naming of sir philip green? in my view it is a disgrace ofa green? in my view it is a disgrace of a piece. it undermines the rule of a piece. it undermines the rule of law which is the principle that eve ryo ne of law which is the principle that everyone including politicians, subject to the law and nobody is above the law. through the power of

unpopularity it should not be a reason why pollitt mission to override a court decision. but is it a person‘s wealth that lets them get an injunction, or a super injunction which protect them from the scrutiny that another person would have to face? this is only a temporary injunction which a lot of people are not aware of. it was temporary pending trial where the whole thing would be discussed without evidence called up a final decision taken. it is typically a case with people with wealth that get these injunctions that become high—profile because they are the people that the media are they are the people that the media a re interested they are the people that the media are interested in. it sometimes happens that other people get injunctions, people who were harassed by their neighbours or business colleagues they have fallen out with. not business colleagues they have fallen outwith. not everybody that gets an injunction is wealthy or famous. when then is parliamentary privilege to be used as mac safely, responsibly, what sort of instant? wiki reason for parliamentary

privileges to protect parliamentary session. if they want to names of people, they are protected from defamation action so they can speak freely. that is completely different from deciding to undermine a court order. why is a completely different? a lot of people looking at this will say if there is no truth to these allegations which of course philip green said he wholly and categorically denied any truth in them, something that is alleged. if it is not is true it can bear scrutiny? that is the courts job. that is why we have a court process. it isa that is why we have a court process. it is a fundamental part of democracy. if you are going to say it isa democracy. if you are going to say it is a lightweight palminteri and to ignore a court order, that are terrible message to the public. why should members of the public, punish a person for a conviction. they are not covered by parliamentary privilege. it is sending a message to the public that they are above the law. it is a bad message. laws

are created by parliament, surely parliament is sovereign. parliament trumps the court. that is the real co re trumps the court. that is the real core of this issue. if parliament has a problem with this kind of order or this injunction, they should change the law. change the law, you don‘t just should change the law. change the law, you don‘tjust override it. that is the problem. what you think needs to happen with regard to explaining to peers and mps how parliamentary privileges are to be used? parliament is sovereign over its own procedure. it is responsible for deciding whether an individual has done some thing like this should be disciplined whether it is worth investigating. that is an issue. if it happens in the house of commons, it happens in the house of commons, it is for the commons, if it happens that the launch that is for the lords. this happened before with ryan giggs in junction. lords. this happened before with ryan giggs injunction. at that time the court order was not a reason to change the rule. if it keeps

happening, it may become a reason. thank you very much. british shale gas company cuadrilla has paused fracking at its preston new road site in lancashire for eighteen hours after the practice was suspected of triggering underground tremors earlier today. well our correspondent danny savage is in leeds. following this story. seismic events ? following this story. seismic events? a small earthquake if you like over in the fracking site in lancashire today. one the company stresses was very small and would not have been felt on the surface. it is significant because the drilling operation over there, which only began again last week after a seven—year break because of concerns over other quakes, it has tracked a traffic light system. anything which is apt to not .5 in magnitude between zero and 0.5, anything above 0.5 is red. what needs to stop all

be temporarily stopped. what we have had today is a magnitude tremor measured at the site by the british geological survey of 0.8. that means that drilling for shale gas, in the exploratory phase at the moment, which only began a couple of weeks ago is it better to last three months. that drilling will now stop for at least 18 hours although the company says it will start again tomorrow morning. a temporary stop but it plays into what protesters have been saying for some time now, for many years that they fear that this is what would happen, but the company say it is because they put these sensitive sensors there which measure any movements below the surface, and they basically are going by the rules if you like. there was a tremor detected of a certain level. they stop others are registered. they are doing it right, they would say. but they still will be pressing on with that work. too

small for it to have been felt by people at the surface, the company are saying. but it was a much bigger eventin are saying. but it was a much bigger event in 2011 which stopped fracking taking place for years. yes in 2011, with a series of earthquakes, one registering a magnitude of 2.3. they we re registering a magnitude of 2.3. they were caused, traced back to the shale drilling at the time. that is what caused it all to stop back in 2011. lots of more tests have been done, more government has been bought on to that site between preston and black will ever since. to continue the operation of extracting gas. there are many challenges to that. the last one was defeated earlier this month which meant that work could begin again. they are abiding by very strict guidelines at the moment. the work is on the way but when things like this happen, they stop, things are assessed but then the idea is they

will still carry on with this. thank you very much. the fbi in the united states has confirmed the discovery of two more suspicious packages after a series of pipe bombs were sent to prominent critics of president trump. one of the latest devices was sent to the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, and was found in a post office in new york. the other, addressed to the democrat senator, cory booker, was discovered in florida. police say the latest packages closely resemble ten sent earlier this week, which were crude bombs packed with powder and shards of glass. 0ur correspondent gary 0‘donoghue has the latest from washington well the very latest one we were told was discovered at a post office in new york, or manhattan. yesterday a bomb was discovered at a restau ra nt a bomb was discovered at a restaurant belonging to robert de niro on manhattan island as well. earlier on another device was found at cnn. this morning as we

understand this almost addressed to james clapper, the former director of national intelligence. he has been very vocal in criticising the president over russia and other issues since the president came into office. we understand from the fbi that that package found that that post office in new york or on manhattan island was addressed to him. earlier on, we got some indication that a florida sorting office, south florida just north of miami, which was being searched already which one of those packages had gone through. we understand there is another package that came from the battle is headed for senator cory booker again, a democrat. a very high high—profile democrat. a very high high—profile democrat and also somebody who was potentially who might run for the democratic nomination in 2020. what is the reaction from the white house? we have had no immediate

reaction to these two latest devices which bring the number to 12. thence to ten different people. the line has been pretty clear. these attacks are despicable. they say that they will have these people down who was responsible and they say that the country should unify but they also say that it is the media‘s fault that there is so much anger in american society at the moment. that is something the president is very keen on. he rejects any idea that it is his language or any rhetoric that he uses that he whipped up that is responsible in any way for creating the environment where things like this could happen. so, there is a very substantial push back on this from the white house and from the president. all sorts of attempts to cause for unification and people to come together frankly, have got absolutely nowhere. let‘s show you these live pictures

of downtown new york. heavy police presence. this is where the 12th device was found this morning. addressed to james clapper, the former director of national intelligence. federal sources saying that this particular device this package, was consistent with the other 11. the 11th one being reported in florida, today. that had been addressed as we said, to the critic senator cory booker. it appears that a vehicle has driven away this device from the postal facility in new york city, very similar sort of process to that but we have seen in other instances. but, the growing number of suspected devices in these suspicious packages causing a great deal of concern in the united states.

you‘re watching afternoon live, these are our headlines sir philip green says he "categorically and wholly" denies allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour". meanwhile a former attorney general has criticised lord hain for identifying sir philip using parliamentary privilege. in the united states, two more suspicious packages have been intercepted as a nationwide hunt continues for those responsible for sending pipe bombs. universal credit is causing ‘unacceptable hardship‘ to many claimants, according to mps. in sport — cricketer ben stokes hopes his future england performances will become what he is eventually remembered for. the all—rounder was found not guilty of affray at bristol crown court during the summer. sloane stephens has secured a spot in the last four at the wta finals in singapore after knocking out world number 2 angelique kerber. she‘ll face karolina pliskova next. the other semi sees kiki bertens meet elina svitolina. and manchester united boss jose mourinho has bemoaned the treatment of his players during the recent

international window. claiming some nations were "not very professional". i‘ll be back with more on those stores later. seven members of a gang have been jailed at birmingham crown court for using drones to smuggle drugs valued at half a million pounds into prisons. the gang targeted seven differentjails including birmingham and liverpool. sima kotecha reports. using several of these, a gang ran a sophisticated drug operation. today, seven of them were jailed while six were given suspended sentences, all for transporting half £1 million worth of skunk, synthetic and others, crack cocaine and heroin into england‘s jails. this operation should that this is not a victimless crime. these are serious organised crime groups dealing a drug smuggling ring inside and outside prisons. i think the message needs to go out

that using mobile phones in this way, to try and organise this, using drones in this way, if you are outside prison either assisting orjust driving somebody there, or inside the prisons organising it, you will end up with the police prosecuting you and end up with you injail. this cctv shows how it was done. drugs packaged up and tied to a drone while inmates instruct the pilots how to get them over barbed wired walls. the operation began two years ago. the gang made at least 55 drone deliveries to seven prisons across the country, including hmp liverpool, birmingham and hewell, not too far from here. the group were caught after detectives found several drones that had crashed or were positioned for take—off, all with drugs attached. the operation has been referred to as a spider web of activity. officers say drone usage in this way is a big problem but the complacency of criminals,

they say, is leading to further convictions. sima kotecha, bbc news, birmingham. two men have been found guilty of the manslaughter of a teenager in lancashire — who died after eating a takeaway. 15—year old megan lee suffered an allergic reaction after eating food from the royal spice indian in 0swaldtwistle — which is now under new ownership. takeaway bosses mohammed abdul kuddus and harun rashid were found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence at manchester crown court. a group of mps says universal credit is causing ‘unacceptable hardship‘ for many of its claimaints. the government recently said it would delay the roll—out of the scheme — which merges six payments into one. but the public accounts committee says the department for work and pensions has ignored problems that the new benefit is causing. the government says changes are being made. here‘s our political correspondent chris mason. tinned tomatoes... this is the front line, a food bank in lambeth in south london where those who cannot afford

to feed themselves turn in desperation. universal credit has been fully rolled out in this area since december last year and in that time we have seen our numbers more than double, since last december, particularly through the school holidays and as people are moved onto universal credit. the report today says the government has a fortress mentality and has persistently dismissed evidence universal credit is causing hardship and there is a concern about the gap between coming off the old benefits and going onto the new one. there are people are often come if they are claiming for the first dambo will not have spare food in the cupboard and no money in the purse and they had to pay their rent and if they are waiting five weeks for money, that causes real trouble is and makes it difficult to live. sarah has two sons with disabilities. her eldest has moved onto universal credit. it is hard enough being a carer with all the fights you have

to get funding and support and when you are now £2500 down and will be another 2500 down in a year, it is scary. the government says it has already announced what it calls several improvements to universal credit and has recently begun a new partnership with citizens advice to deliver better support to the most vulnerable also unemployment is also at its lowest in over 40 years. ministers acknowledge there are losers under the new system but there are winners as well. there are 700,000 households right now that are being underpaid £2.4 billion of money because it is such a complicated system and that is changing under universal credit and people will be able to get that money. this is the fourth time this month that universal credit hat at a carpeting by critics, interventions byjohn major and gordon brown and then 30 bishops were critical as well. now this report acting as a political prods

on the government ahead of the budget on monday. there are plenty of mps, including conservatives, demanding change. the thing that myself and about 30—35 colleagues, we have written to be chancellor and asked the court amount of money you get to keep in universal credit when you start working before benefits are taken and we want those boosting back to the levels they were at before the money was taken out of the system in 2015. the focus is next on this man, the chancellor. it‘s being reported that the supermarket giant asda is set to start consulting staff over 2 and a half thousand job losses next year. areas that could be affected include petrol, bakery and back office. it is thought thatjobs in the george areas of asda stores could also be affected. the company has declined to comment on any potential cuts. people living in england‘s coastal

communities are being warned to wake up to the challenges of climate change. the government‘s climate advisers say more than one—point—two million homes could be threatened by coastal flooding and erosion by the 2080s. in the worst—case scenario it‘s claimed sea levels in england will rise by at least one metre, before the end of the century. here‘s our environment analyst roger harrabin in the eye of the storm — dawlish in devon in 2014, battered by the waves, train tracks destroyed. today‘s report says more of this will happen as sea levels are pushed higher by man—made climate change. here is another problem that the committee warns will get worse. these homes at hemsby in norfolk slipped into the sea as waves ate away the cliff below. the report says maybe 100,000 properties are at risk like this. the committee says the authorities have to get real with people about which homes are likely to be saved and which will be too expensive to protect.

the current approach to protecting the english coastline is just not fit for purpose. and we really do need to wake up to the very significant challenges that we have ahead. sea level is rising and that‘s going to mean that we get considerably worse coastal erosion and indeed coastal flooding. power plants, ports, gas terminals and other infrastructure are also at risk, the report says. it says the government needs to focus on protecting these assets, as well as saving people‘s homes. and to take seriously the inevitability of sea level rise. campaigners for coastal communities say theirs is a shared problem. rising sea levels are a direct result of global warming. now we all contribute to that, not just coastal communities, everybody in this country contributes to that. so the funding for all this should come centrally so we all bear an equal portion of the cost.

the government says more sea defences are being built. a spokesman said people would be protected from climate change. roger harrabin, bbc news. a 45 year—old man‘s been arrested on suspicion of trying to steal a copy of the magna carta from salisbury cathedral. police say alarms were activated after the man attempted to smash a glass box surrounding the historic document — one of four surviving copies. it‘s thought the magna carta is undamaged and nobody was injured. up to four million passengers aged between 26 to 30 — will be eligible for the card, which was trialled in the spring. the card will offer a third off most fares — but it will be digital only, meaning that passengers will need a smartphone to download it. celebrations are taking place to mark 100 years since stonehenge was given to the nation by a local couple who had bought it at auction forjust £7000

duncan kennedy has spent the day down the at the iconic stone—age monument. the 100th anniversary of a 5000 —year—old monument. you are right. it was exactly 100 years ago today that stones were gifted to the nation. incredibly before that, they were in private hands. it has to be said that the stones themselves almost falling down. symphony among the stones, a perfect case of classic rock. the london sinfonietta one of a number of birthday tributes to this ancient site. the musicians are here to celebrate 100 years since stonehenge was given to the nation. before that, all of this was in private hands. private hands but a very

public state of disrepair. eventually, in 1915, it was decided to put stonehenge up for auction. but that auction started a bidding war between isaac crook, a localfarmer, and cecil chubb, a local barrister, one that isaac did not quite win. well, he must have stopped bidding at £6,500. cecil chubb was still bidding and the hammerfell at £6,600. a difference of £100. but what would have happened to stonehenge if isaac crook had won that auction? do you think he would have just returned it to farmland? well, i honestly can‘t answer that. i mean, who knows what he would have done? instead, three years later in 1918, cecil chubb and his wife mary gave stonehenge to the nation.

that act of generosity to actually saved stonehenge. until that point, the stones were propped up by wooden poles, some of them were at risk of collapse and its future was by no means certain and so when the chubbs gave stonehenge to the nation, it kick—started a programme of care and conservation that english heritage continues to this day. today there was everything from a bouncy to a baked version of the ancient monument, all to celebrate it becoming an endearing slice of national life. well stones have been preserved in the past 100 years and get about 2 million visitors a year. but once upon a time it was a very different story. these were almost lost to the nation. the leader of the scottish conservatives ruth davidson has given birth to a baby boy. the baby — named finn paul davidson — weighed in at 10 pounds1

and a half ounces. miss davidson announced she and her partnerjen wilson were "delighted" by the baby‘s safe arrival at edinburgh royal infirmary saying "it was wonderful to welcome baby finn into the world this morning. he is beautiful and already very loved." now it‘s time for a look at the weather with tomasz shafernaker. we will be shivering this weekend. in fact, it has passed the uk and the airstream is coming all the way from the arctic up today and through the weekend. sunshine and showers on the weekend. sunshine and showers on the cards are today and through the weekend as well, we can see that northerly wind out of the north affecting many of these eastern coasts, bringing showers there. clear whether inland. these are the temperatures at 7pm, five in newcastle, 8—9 in london. tonight,

you can imagine the temperatures are only going to drop even further. by the time we get to the early hours of saturday morning we are talking about freezing in most city centres, outside of town it will be below freezing. wintry showers continue across the scottish ales. that means across the scottish ales. that means a saturday is going to be cold, it‘ll be a cold day. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. the former attorney general dominic grieve strongly attacks lord hain‘s decision to name sir philip green using parliamentary privilege. sir philip says he "categorically and wholly" denies allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour". two more suspect packages are being investigated in new york and florida. it comes after several mail bombs were sent to prominent critics of us president donald trump. universal credit is causing "unacceptable hardship" for many of the claimants

it was designed to help, according to a group of mps. but the government insists it is listening to critics of its flagship welfare reform. and the excavation of 40,000 bodies buried in an old cemetery has begun in central london to clear the way for the hs2 rail line. it‘s been described as britain‘s biggest ever archaeological dig. sport now on afternoon live with hugh woozencroft. ben stokes has given his first interview to the bbc since his trial for affray in august. he was cleared of afraid that if you think back to when he was charged and when that‘s video emerged of an incident outside a nightclub, there we re incident outside a nightclub, there were many involved with cricket england to thought ben stokes reputation and his career would never really be the same again. he is back out onto the page, trying to rebuild his form but as for his

reputation, that still has some way to go. he will face a disciplinary panel in december that he is in sri la nka panel in december that he is in sri lanka with the england squad at the moment and he‘s spoken to the bbc for the first time since been cleared. he says he wants to start looking forward rather than back and hopes the england fans will remember him for what he does from here on out. ben stokes korea has spent 11 months on hold. this is when he could focus on hold. this is when he could focus on cricket again. the trial had found him not guilty of affray and hours later he was named in an england squad that gets little time for reflection. after a summer series with india, they left for an autumn in sri lanka. it is where stoke spoke to the bbc for the first time since. i mean, look, it‘s all about looking forward now. we‘ve got a huge summer coming up next year with the ashes and the world cup so everything‘s, you know, fully focused on that. looking at things that went on is not the way that i like to think about things,

it‘s all about looking to the future. stokes was on trial for his part in a fight near stokes was on trial for his part in afight neara stokes was on trial for his part in a fight near a nightclub. the process meant he was forced to miss the winter‘s ashes series in australia. without him, england lost four of the five tests. can you appreciate people‘s interest in what happened, and the fact you weren‘t playing for england when people would have loved to have seen you playing for england? yeah, that‘s the best thing, you know, about going forward is, you know, everything that you do from here onwards is, you know, what people will hopefully remember, and it‘s what i‘m trying to do. the world cup and the ashes and to be in england, it is an exciting thing to be thinking about. england are favourites for that world cup on home soil ben stokes hopes of playing life —— rests on the disciplinary hearing. the panel meets in december, four months after the play was cleared. ben stokes is

in tracing the crease and hoping to move forward. he will be in action in these 2020 match against sri lanka tomorrow. jose mourinho isn‘t happy. i think i‘ve said that sentence so many times. who is targeted at this time? he used to be smiling all the time but it‘s not the case this time. sometimes it‘s his player‘s fault, sometimes the referee or sometimes the board, but this timejose has taken aim at some of the international federations over how they‘ve communicated with manchester united of late. belgium, portugal, chile and scotland have all come in for criticism with mourinho unhappy players including marouane fellaini and alexis sanchez weren‘t immediately sent back to england after picking up injuries in the recent round of international games. some of them, the national teams, they were very professional and they sent the players back. we could

start the process early. but some of them, they wouldn‘t and they kept them, they wouldn‘t and they kept the players and we didn‘t even know the players and we didn‘t even know the nature of the injuries. when the players arrived here two days before chelsea, we had no idea of what is going on. eighth seed kiki bertens has reached the semi finals of the wta finals in singapore after naomi 0saka was forced to retire with injury. 0saka lost the first set 6—3 and after a quick medical timeout for a leg injury ended the match before the second set was underway. bertens only made the event because of injuries to other players. she moves on to play elina svitolina in saturday‘s semi—final. slone stephens is also through to the last four after beating germany‘s angelique kerber 6—3, 6—3. the american, currently ranked 6 in the world,

dominated the match to set up a meeting with karolina pliskova in tomorrow‘s semi. that‘s all the sport for now. the health secretary matt hancock says he‘d like to see a law banning under thirteens from social media. he told parliament‘s house magazine that although the terms the health secretary matt hancock says he‘d like to see a law and conditions of social media sites are that they shouldn‘t be used by children, nothing is done to enforce that. mr hancock said a legal ban would be considered as part of an investigation into the use and effects of social media by the chief medical officer. i‘m nowjoined by social media and content partnerships editor of business insider, rosie percy. how realistic is that suggestion that 13—year—old should be banned from social media ? that 13—year—old should be banned from social media? the main issue i haveis from social media? the main issue i have is the work enforceable. it is realistic to expect teenagers to follow terms and conditions. but how

do you legally enforce that? if you are buying wine, you can show a passport or driver ‘s license. do you think every 13—year—old will have a passport number to access facebook. it doesn‘t say we shouldn‘t try to enforce it. more can be done to make children‘s use of social media better. they should be more than because they do believe that social media can have a detrimental affect on well—being and mental health. but i don‘t think mike hancock‘s suggestion is a realistic way. the emphasis you are putting on it is that the user is responsible, what about the responsibilities of the social media companies? some make a lot of money from running those platforms. companies? some make a lot of money from running those platformslj companies? some make a lot of money from running those platforms. i do think the platforms need to be responsible for the content that is hosted on the site and perhaps they could be better resources for those using the platforms as well as the pa rents of using the platforms as well as the parents of the children using them. they can also be... the health

secretary campos marie sources into mental health services seek and help those who are adversely affected. front of mine uses the expression, thatis front of mine uses the expression, that is putting an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff rather than passing offence at the top of it. why not prevent the mental health issues in the first instance? that comes back over having better controls over social media platforms. i believe it could be incorporated into kiddie killers. social media is such an everyday pa rt social media is such an everyday part of life, it wasn‘t when i was in school. —— —— it could be incorporated into the curriculum. rather than falling off a cliff, why aren‘t they taught the responsible use of these platforms? we need to re—form the way... plateau should be

held responsible. what sanction could be levied against the platters if they do is make sure the terms and conditions are idiots to? that is an issue for them. until they‘ve got a legal task force where someone has got a form of id way you can improve you age served as a passport number, that is the only way to go about it. i don‘t think that is realistic. thank you very much. scientists say they‘ve created a new antibiotic, which appears promising in early clinical trials. the drug acts like the trojan horse in the greek legend, tricking its way inside bacteria. trials on 448 people with a kidney or urinary tract infection suggested the drug was as effective as current treatments. let‘s speak now to hugh pennington, he‘s emeritus professor of microbiology at aberdeen university. thank you very much forjoining us.

how are you? and reasonably optimistic. it is nice to have a new antibiotic, we haven‘t had many in recent yea rs antibiotic, we haven‘t had many in recent years because we have hit all the easy targets. it is proving quite difficult to find new ones which make the bacteria die through new routes, as it were come new attack strategies. this is good news. what other questions in your mind about whether it will ever come to fruition? is it's going to do what the scientists hope it will do in bigger trials? that is a straightforward practical question to ask. it has worked so well in 400 patients per it have to do is have a larger scale. we have to work out whether it has any complications, side—effects. that is something that has to go on and that takes several

yea rs has to go on and that takes several years to get that information in this we know who to give it a two and who is going to benefit. the other thing is, bacteria will get resista nt to other thing is, bacteria will get resistant to its because that has been the problem with the new antibiotics. the vast majority, the bacteria get resistance to them. that means we have to be careful in how we use these new antibiotics. we give it to the people who really need it, the people who really need it in the right amount and length of time. that is the other side of antibiotic development that we have to be looking at carefully. one antibiotic isn‘t going to be a cure for all infections, is it? no, this is useful for a particular set of bacteria which are intrinsically resista nt to bacteria which are intrinsically resistant to antibiotics anyway. we don‘t have as wide a range for some bacteria. these bacteria cause

common infections like you‘re an infections. weekend to those without and ticks. this isn‘t some very small niche we‘re looking at in terms of the availability of treatment. they are bacteria which are quite hard to treat. that is then good news in the sense of the target this bacterium, this antibacterial drug is aimed for. it seems to be working at this moment in time. how much use would it be if we, as patients, stop demanding adebayo ticks when they are not needed. —— antibiotics. adebayo ticks when they are not needed. -- antibiotics. that is an issue that has been on the go... alexander fleming talked about it using adebayo ticks in —— antibiotics inappropriately. it isn‘t a new issue but it is one that we have been finding quite hard to

grapple with. the number of prescriptions has gone down, in the uk we‘ve always had than to be ticks only on prescription. in other parts of the world you can go to the pharmacy and buy them over—the—counter. the bacteria can go around the world. even if we cope with it well here in the uk, sarah other parts of the world where the bacteria are revolting. —— evolving. we don‘t be the worldwide problem. the bacteria travel with problem. they could swap genes around and all sorts of things. thank you very much. the designer of a cot in which a seven—month—old baby boy "choked to death" has been jailed for three years and four months. leeds crown court heard how 0scar abbey got his head stuck while trying to crawl through a gap in the bed in november 2016. prosecutors said that craig williams, the owner of playtime beds limited, which sold the cot to 0scar‘s

parents, had given reassurances that it was suitable for children aged six or seven months. she recently waltzed and foxtrotted on to our screens as one of the stars of strictly, but away from the dance floor, burns survivor katie piper, is working to help others affected by an issue close to her heart — as graham satchell reports. i received 85% burns. i was later told that i had a 1% chance of survival. so, i am that 1%. danielle owes her life to the nhs. after being in a devastating fire, she had more than 200 hours of surgery. but, when she was finally discharged, she became terribly depressed. i felt isolated, alone, ugly, unwanted. as far as i was concerned, my life was over — i lost my life in the fire. danielle is meeting strictly star

and burn survivor katie piper. hi, how are you? this is a new rehabilitation centre set up by the charity the katie piper foundation. it's such a big thing that's affected when you're burned, isn't it? the strength. the centre will offer a range of services — physiotherapy, intensive mental health counselling, peer support. services not currently available on the nhs in this form. being a burn survivor myself and having my ownjourney, i had fantastic treatment on the nhs, but recognised a gap in the rehabilitation of a survivor. so, we‘ve nearly put in the finishing touches. katie‘s charity is trying to fill that gap. burn survivors will live here on site for a month. it‘s hoped, in the first year, 20 patients will be treated. i hope that it shows a life—changing situation does not have to be life—ending. so proud of you!

that these kind of injuries, while temporarily devastating, don't have to destroy you. hello. nice to see you again. how are you? katie is meeting professor shokrollahi, a consultant surgeon at the whiston hospital on merseyside and the clinical lead at katie‘s charity. i'm just going to do a quick shot of the laser. so there we go. and it's very, very precise, because we have set that with micron precision. professor shokrollahi‘s laser treatment will also be offered at the centre. it had a dramatic impact on danielle. basically, my face was probably out here, all risen. the scars were so thick. no make—up will cover the lumps up, so to have that so it‘s now a lot smoother, again, it changed my life. it gave me a new lease of confidence. just look, i could not even get out of bed and now i‘m here, talking to you about helping other people, so just a big full circle.

ijust couldn‘t be prouder of katie and her vision and what we‘re all doing here. danielle has transformed her life. she‘s now working with katie‘s rehabilitation team, offering guidance, support and hope. graham satchell, bbc news. you are watching bbc news. jamie is here with props. more on that in a moment. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. sir philip green says he "categorically and wholly" denies allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour". meanwhile a former attorney general has criticised lord hain for identifying sir philip using parliamentary privilege. in the united states, two more suspicious packages have been intercepted as a nationwide hunt continues for those responsible for sending pipe bombs. universal credit is causing "unacceptable hardship" to many claimants, according to mps

here‘s your business headlines on afternoon live. royal bank of scotland is setting aside £100 million to deal with "the more uncertain economic outlook". rbs is among the first big banks to make such a provision in the run—up to the uk‘s exit from the eu. profits before tax rose 10 per cent year on year, to £961 million. and a mixed bag of results for the world‘s biggest technology companies, some good numbers but even so the shares have been sliding. alphabet, the owners of google saw its share price down by as much as 8%. amazon shares declined by more than 5%. and supermarket giant asda is to begin consultations with staff on changes that could mean up to 2,500 job cuts. an asda representative said the firm needed to consider changing employees‘ roles and working hours.

the spokesperson added that the proposed changes would allow asda to do a betterjob for its customers. comics eh? i was going to talk about gdp actually! no! you have got a hat. this is comic con. jamie can‘t wear this because his head is too big. i‘ve got a very small brain! this because his head is too big. i've got a very small brain! this is stea m i've got a very small brain! this is steam punk. we are talking comics. the mcm comic con show has opened in london‘s excel centre today. you go along and you dress up as a

comic character. do you have those fantasies? no. it is an interesting business story. kristina rogers, from reedpop and she‘s also the main event manager of the london and new york comic cons. you have gone from zero revenues 200 million or so. why is it so successful? it plays into people‘s passions. it taps into what people want to experience and spend their time doing. you get to leave your day—to—day life and go do something really, really fonfara weekend with this community that is equally as passionate as things as you are. what is interesting is unlike businesses that have gone from the physical to online, to the virtual, to the digital, this is going the other way. it is taking all those things you see in a movie

or digitally and it is making it into a physical experience. you take the online community and they talk all year and they get to meet up in person. who are they? 0ur markets varies from gamers to comic fans, we have outlander fans this year, if you are fans of the avengers, if you‘d just like dressing up. you are fans of the avengers, if you'djust like dressing up. in a way it markets itself, doesn‘t it. you don‘t have to do much. you provide this arena for people to go and do their thing. come and have fun, that is really hard! it is the merchandising industry which is the spinnerfrom movies merchandising industry which is the spinner from movies and merchandising industry which is the spinnerfrom movies and comics merchandising industry which is the spinner from movies and comics and all the rest of it. it is a great shopping experience but we have built up booths with brands such as universal way you can take pictures, coca—cola has a fun walk through. what is the most popular thing? the

most popular stand? steam punk emporium is a big stand. it is what is your passion and that is going to be your favourite thing. this year, nintendo has a great space, playstation has a great space. there‘s a little bit of everybody. thanks very much indeed. i think you should go. where that hat. put it on, show as. like a pimple on the haystack. i like it, it suits you. my head grows at the back, it is impossible to find hats. tell us about that market. look at that. the ftse is down. dow is also

down. we had bad figures out, not bad figures, not too bad at all. but people are worried about the future of some of the tech companies. things are not as good as they‘d like. 3.5% growth in the economy, the us economy. but people are worried about uncertainty. it is a phrase you have heard before. i‘m glad to put these on. can you please take them with you! thanks very much, jamie. the things you do! work has started to move more than 40,000 bodies from a cemetery in central london, so a new station can be built as part of the hs2 high speed rail link to birmingham. archaeologists say the dig will help them understand more about life in the capital throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. david sillito reports. back in the 1780s, london was running out of space. it had nowhere for the dead. and so it created new cemeteries. one of them is here come the next to euston station.

and now, more than 200 years later, that land is needed for another purpose. the dead are going to have to find a new final resting place. and this is the reason why. this is where london‘s high—speed railway station is about to be built. and so, a small army of archaeologists have arrived to move thousands of bodies. how many people are we talking about? the records for the entire area suggest around 60,000 people were interned in the cemetery. of course, some have already been removed over the years, but there‘s still a huge number of people buried here. you‘re looking at probably 40,000 individuals but still one of the largest barrier excavations ever to take place. you are excavating 40,000 plots. yes. and this huge tented site is only the beginning. where i‘m standing at the moment is going to be one of the

platforms which will run 500 metres along there. that‘s what gets you about this site. it is the sheer size of it. 11,000 square metres. but what will happen to all the bodies? the first man to sail around australia is buried here, matthew flinders, and so with bill richmond, one of britain‘s most celebrated boxers. initially they will be taken for archaeological analysis, so lavatories, stored in a morgue, and that‘s with the agreement of the church. and then after that, everyone will be re—buried in consecrated ground. this isjust the beginning, a location near stoke and of, the site of a lost church, iron age, roman and saxon site crisscrossing the whole route. 0verall, on the whole line, we will have over 1000 archaeologists. excavating over 60 sites. that sounds pretty big.

it is the biggest archaeological investigation ever undertaken in the uk and probably europe. in this part of london, any development is always going to be building on history. but this one has rather more ghosts than normal. david sillitoe, bbc news. tymon offer a look at the weather forecast. the first close—up of the seasonis forecast. the first close—up of the season is upon us. it is going to be a lot colder. this weekend, temperatures are going to bea this weekend, temperatures are going to be a lot less. a biting cold northerly wind from the arctic and a cold front has been moving across the country. here it is, you can see the country. here it is, you can see the line of cloud. the clouds are streaming in from the norwegian sea, over the coming two or three days

that cold air stream establishes itself across the uk and reaches areas as far south as spain, portugal and much of europe apart from the mediterranean. this is what it looks like through this evening. six o‘clock, temperatures starting to nudge down into single figures. through tonight mother‘s day bridges are going to drop even further. you can see the wind blowing from the north. clear in lent and you can see those temperatures in city centres, evenin those temperatures in city centres, even in london, at 2 degrees. tomorrow, frequent showers around these eastern coasts, some shows will go a little bit inland and there will be frequent sunny spells as well, a biting northerly wind. it might be around 8 degrees on the thermometer but it will feel colder in the wind. 0n thermometer but it will feel colder in the wind. on sunday, this

high—pressure sends the wins out of the north—east. they will be lighter particularly around the west so some sunshine in places like wales, but blustery along the north sea coast. that averages on sunday will be into single figures. this is briefly touching mine are 10 degrees in the afternoon. most of the data be considerably lower than that. it will feel like it is for degrees in newcastle. that is sunday. how about the rest of europe? it is unsettled in the mediterranean. the coldstream from the scandinavian countries. to our masses collide and there will be bad weather in europe. hello, you‘re watching afternoon live — i‘m martine croxall. today at 4: sir philip green says he "categorically and wholly" denies allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour", as a former attorney general criticises lord hain for identifying sir philip using parliamentary privilege. if mps do this, it undermines

the rule the courts are there to decide whether injunction should be granted or listed. —— or lifted. in the united states, two more suspicious packages have been intercepted as a nationwide hunt continues for those responsible for sending pipe bombs. universal credit is causing ‘unacceptable hardship‘ to many claimants, according to a cross—party group of mps. archaeologists begin to move more than 40,000 skeletons to make way for a new railway station in london. where i am standing here at the moment is going to be one of the platforms and it is going to run 500 metres along there. that is what gets you about this site. it is the size of it. 11,000 square metres. coming up on afternoon live all the sport with hugh woozencroft. ben stokes is speaking to the bbc?

yes, since the first time he was cleared of affray in august, he wa nts to cleared of affray in august, he wants to look to the future rather than the past and we will hear from the manchester united boss, jose mourinho, not very happy with the international federations his players have been with. thanks hugh, and tomasz schafernaker has all the weather. is briskly right word? yes, the perfect word. same in today and tomorrow into sunday. it looks like it may warm up next week, but until then, thick coat at the ready. thanks tomasz. also coming up — a ruin to treasure. marking 100 years since stonehenge was gifted to the nation by a barrister and his wife. hello everyone, this is afternoon live.

i‘m martine croxall. the former attorney general, dominic grieve says the labour peer lord hain acted "entirely arrogantly", and with "no regard for the rule of law", when he named the businessman, sir philip green. yesterday, lord hain used parliamentary privilege to say that sir philip is the tycoon facing accusations of sexual and racial harassment, despite a court injunction keeping his identity secret. sir philip says he "categorically and wholly denies" any allegation of unlawful sexual or racist behaviour. meanwhile, the legal firm gordon dadds, which is acting for the daily telegraph in its effort to have sir philip‘s injunction lifted, has issued a statement denying that lord hain has had any involvement in its legal case. in the parliamentary register of members interests lord hain is listed as a paid adviser to gordon dadds. this report now from our correspondent theo leggett. he is the man who left school with no qualifications but built a retail empire, consorting with celebrities and being courted by politicians.

he controls leading brands like topshop, miss selfridge and dorothy perkins. but sir philip green‘s attempt to avoid bad publicity has been a failure. the daily telegraph was prevented from naming him in connection with unspecified allegations of sexual and racial harassment of his employees. yesterday the former cabinet minister peter hain used parliamentary privilege to identify him in the house of lords. i feel it is my duty under parliamentary privilege to name philip green as the individual in question. lord hain has since defended his actions. the judiciary committee in this casejudges, have their role to play and it is very important role to play, the rule of law depends on them exercising it carefully and responsibly in accordance with legal precedent but parliamentarians also their role to play. it is for members of the public and others to judge

whether what i have done in this case is right or wrong. i believed it was the right thing to do. but his actions have including the former attorney general, dominic grieve. -- his —— his actions have been heavily criticised. if members of the house of lords decide they know better and wants to short cut to what is in fact a process which is still taking place at this very moment. it internally undermines the rule of law and it is a very bad thing to do. other leading figures say if the allegations are proven, sir philip should lose his knighthood. it is for the honours committee to look at the facts and if the allegations are correct, continue

the knighthood in this case is an appropriate. in a statement, sir philip green said... with the topshop tycoon‘s name already is but because across french pages, and boycott circling on social media, the question is has read damage already been done? —— already across front pages. -- already across front pages. in many cases where business owners have charges or allegations brought against them, it can cause customers to feel uncomfortable spending their money with them. perhaps they will boycott those locations and stores and brands until they are satisfied that they are not lining the pockets of someone they might think is on their moral platform. it isn't the first time he has faced public backlash. in 2015, he‘s sold bhs to

a former racing driver for £1. backlash. in 2015, he‘s sold bhs to a former racing driverfor £1. the department store chain letter collapsed with the loss of 11,000 jobs and leaving a huge deficit in its pension scheme. under pressure from mps and regulators, sir philip eventually agreed to pay £363 million into the pension fund. that tarnished his personal reputation, but the current public that he threatens to be far more damaging. 0ur political correspondent leila nathoo is in westminster — growing criticism of lord hain? let‘s deal with the statement from the legal firm let‘s deal with the statement from the legalfirm gordon dadds. in the parliamentary register of members, lord hain is listed in connection with them. he is, he is listed as being an adviser to gordon dadds, the legal firm representing the telegraph newspaper. we haven‘t had

a statement from lord hain about this orfrom the a statement from lord hain about this or from the telegraph newspaper yet about this connection. but this isa yet about this connection. but this is a publicly available article, on the official register of interests. we have had a statement from gordon dadds, the legal firm we have had a statement from gordon dadds, the legalfirm itself. it says mark lord hain is a self—employed consultant who provides occasional advice to gordon dadds, writing principally to african affairs. any suggestion that the firm has in any way acted improperly is entirely false. lord hain did not obtain any information from gordon dadds regarding this case, including any information which would enable him to identify sir philip green from having any involvement in it. he has not had any involvement in this case, nor in any involvement in this case, nor in any of our work for the telegraph newspaper. so gordon dadds, categorically denying any connection between lord hain‘s revelation in parliament as philip green‘s name and their work for the telegraph

newspaper. we have had more criticism of lord hain‘s decision to use chinaman to privilege in that way. —— to use the parliament in that way. so there are questions about parliamentary privilege. this was the debate that flared up a few yea rs was the debate that flared up a few years ago, when ryan giggs was named in parliament, who had taken out an injunction and there was a breach of that injunction in parliament. there was a big debate again about whether parliamentarians should be able to breach those injunctions, using their protections as parliament to privilege. it died down since then and it has now been reignited by this latest case. a lot of criticism now against lord hain, who himself said that he has received over rum and support for what he did, but criticism now saying that he went to five, it shouldn‘t be up to individuals to decide what is in the

public interest and what isn‘t. especially when there are judges who have seen a wealth of evidence considering the case and evidence and facts, they have come to a decision that it shouldn‘t be critics say. it didn‘t be up to individual parliament aryans to then —— parliamentarians to over undermine that decision. there will now be a decision between parliament and judiciary and whether parliamentary privilege is being abused. defendants will say it is being used rarely and lord hain said he thought carefully about using it at all, so if you look at it, there area at all, so if you look at it, there are a handful of incidents where injunctions have been broken. i think this will raise concerns that mps and members of the house of lords do have the ability to go further than the court. thank you very much. summer breaking news from the usa,

where one person is now in custody in connection with packages containing explosives being sent to members of the parliament like donald trump. two more of the packages in a similar type were also found in florida and new york. let‘s speak to our washington correspondent. we have had confirmation in the last few methods of this arrest. we have been told by the justice department that one person has been arrested in connection with these bombings. the latest word is that they seem to have been arrested in the miami area of florida. you will know that there isa of florida. you will know that there is a big sorting facility that is being searched there as we speak and it has been being searched since yesterday. 0ne device was found there this morning that was heading for the senator cory booker. another

device had travelled through there, heading back to another democratic conquers woman after it had been failed to be delivered to another target. —— congress woman. so the investigation is focusing on the south florida part. we are getting confirmations of that in the last 12 hours, that is where the fbi are focusing their investigation. this confirms that that is where they will continue to focus their investigations, with the news of this arrest. it follows the discovery of the 11th and 12th packages of a similar type. yes, we have had 12 packages addressed to ten different individuals. the one this morning to cory booker, there was another one this morning in new york city, in midtown manhattan, that was spotted by a female postal worker at a sorting office, just a few blocks down from where the cnn headquarters is. they got one two

days ago. this one in new york this morning was addressed to james clapper, the director of national intelligence. he is another prominent president trump critic. he appears on cnn regularly, and it was addressed to him at cnn. there was another package heading to their headquarters, which was intercepted by this postal worker this morning. the fact that these are prominent critics of the president who have received these packages, just as we are approaching the mid—term elections, this has been commented on by similar people. these are leading democratic politicians, in terms as a former president, former vice president, former presidential candidate, congresswoman, former attorney general... and indeed, supporters and sympathisers, people like robert de niro, who got a package yesterday that was

intercepted at his place in new york. the democratic donor and billionaire, his was the first one discovered on monday. so there is a pattern here and questionably, very few people would deny there is some sort of political connection between the recipients of these packages in that sense. they now have someone in custody and we will have to see whether that is a significant arrest or not. we don‘t know yet whether it isa or not. we don‘t know yet whether it is a significant arrest. if it turns out to be so, they will want to be working on emotive and find out what the individual was up to whether they were associated with anyone else, whether there was a group of people. this was a quite a large endeavour, there could be more packages in the system, we don‘t know. thank you forjoining us. british shale gas company cuadrilla has paused fracking at its preston new road site in lancashire after a small tremor was detected. the firm said it would halt fracking operations for 18 hours

after the practice was suspected of triggering underground tremors earlier today. danny savage has been following developments. a small earthquake, if you like, at the fracking site in lancashire today. but one which the company stresses was very small and would not have been felt on the surface. but it is significant, because the drilling operation over there, which only began at the beginning of last week after a seven—year break cause of concerns over earthquakes, it has a traffic light system. anything which is up to 0.5 in magnitude, between zero and 0.5 acres amber on the scale. anything above 0.5 is red and means work has to stop. what we have had today is a magnitude tremor measured at the site by the british geological survey of 0.8. that means

that drilling for shale gas, they are in the exploratory phase at the moment, which only began a couple of weeks ago, it is expected to last three months, that. for at least 18 hours. the company says they do think they will start again tomorrow morning. a temporary stop, but it plays into what protesters have been saying for some time and for many yea rs saying for some time and for many years that they fear this is what would happen. the company say it is because they have put these sensitive centres there, which measure any movement below the surface and they are basically going by the rules. if there is a tremor ofa by the rules. if there is a tremor of a certain level, they stop, others are registered, so they are doing it right, but they still will be pressing on with that work. you‘re watching afternoon live, these are our headlines: sir philip green says he "categorica in the past few minutes the us

justice department has said that it has a person in custody in connection with the discovery of suspicious packages being sent to prominent political figures. earlier two more packages were intercepted. universal credit is causing ‘unacceptable hardship‘ to many claimants, according to mps. in sport, cricketer ben stokes hopes his future england performances will become what he is eventually remembered for. he was found not guilty of affray at bristol crown court during the summer and wants to look forward. sloane stephens has secured a spot in the last four at the finals in singapore, after working at the world number two, angelique kerber. the other semifinal will see steadily now. the head of manchester city game, the manchester boss, pep guardiola, says

there is a race for the premier league title. i will be back with more after 4:30pm. seven members of a gang have beenjailed at birmingham crown court for using drones to smuggle drugs valued at half a million pounds into prisons. the gang targeted seven differentjails including birmingham and liverpool. sima kotecha reports. using several of these, a gang ran a sophisticated drug operation. today, seven of them were jailed while six were given suspended sentences, all for transporting half a million pounds worth of skunk, synthetic and others, crack cocaine and heroin into england‘s jails. this operation shows that this is not a victimless crime. these are serious organised crime groups dealing a drug smuggling ring inside and outside prisons. i think the message needs to go out that using mobile phones in this way, to try and organise this, using drones in this way, if you are outside prison either assisting orjust driving somebody there, or inside the prisons

organising it, you will end up with the police prosecuting you and end up with you injail. this cctv shows how it was done. drugs packaged up and tied to a drone while inmates instruct the pilots how to get them over barbed wired walls. the operation began two years ago. the gang made at least 55 drone deliveries to seven prisons across the country, including hmp liverpool, birmingham and hewell, not too far from here. the group were caught after detectives found several drones that had crashed or were positioned for take—off, all with drugs attached. the operation has been referred to as a spider web of activity. officers say drone usage in this way is a big problem but the complacency of criminals, they say, is leading to further convictions. sima kotecha, bbc news, birmingham. two men have been found

guilty of the manslaughter of a teenager in lancashire — who died after eating a takeaway. 15—year old megan lee suffered an allergic reaction after eating food from the royal spice indian in 0swaldtwistle — which is now under new ownership. takeaway bosses mohammed abdul kuddus and harun rashid were found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence at manchester crown court. a group of mps says universal credit is causing ‘unacceptable hardship‘ for many of its claimaints. the government recently said it would delay the rollout of the scheme — which merges six payments into one. but the public accounts committee says the department for work and pensions has ignored problems that the new benefit is causing. the government says changes are being made. here‘s our political correspondent chris mason. tinned tomatoes... this is the front line, a food bank in lambeth in south london where those who cannot afford to feed themselves turn in desperation. universal credit has been fully rolled out in this area since december last year and in that

time we have seen our numbers more than double, since last december, particularly through the school holidays and as people are moved onto universal credit. the report today says the government has a fortress mentality and has persistently dismissed evidence universal credit is causing hardship and there is a concern about the gap between coming off the old benefits and going onto the new one. there are people are often come if they are claiming for the first time will not have spare food in the cupboard and no money in the purse and they had to pay their rent and if they are waiting five weeks for money, that causes real trouble is and makes it difficult to live. sarah has two sons with disabilities. her eldest has moved onto universal credit. it is hard enough being a carer with all the fights you have to get funding and support and when you are now £2500 down and will be another 2500 down in a year, it is scary.

the government says it has already announced what it calls several improvements to universal credit and has recently begun a new partnership with citizens advice to deliver better support to the most vulnerable also unemployment is also at its lowest in over 40 years. ministers acknowledge there are losers under the new system but there are winners as well. there are 700,000 households right now that are being underpaid £2.4 billion of money because it is such a complicated system and that is changing under universal credit and people will be able to get that money. this is the fourth time this month that universal credit hat had a carpeting by critics, interventions byjohn major and gordon brown and then 30 bishops were critical as well. now this report acting as a political prods on the government ahead of the budget on monday. there are plenty of mps, including conservatives, demanding change.

the thing that myself and about 30—35 colleagues, we have written to be chancellor and asked the court amount of money you get to keep in universal credit when you start working before benefits are taken and we want those boosting back to the levels they were at before the money was taken out of the system in 2015. the focus is next on this man, the chancellor. let‘s bring you an update and some live pictures from the united states regarding that investigation into those pipe bomb devices that have been sent in the post to prominent critics of the us president donald trump. these are live pictures from plantation, florida. this van has

been covered with that blue tarpaulin, a huge amount of federal activity. fbi officers and the police, a big presence there this afternoon. it follows the confirmation just a short while ago that the department ofjustice has said that they do have one person in custody in relation to the sending of these suspicious packages. 12 of them in total, all looking very similar. the 11th was found in florida today and then a short while later, another one was found and intercepted at a postal facility in downtown new york. we don‘t have any of the details at the moment, yet, as to the identity of the person who has been taken into custody in connection with these explosive packages. but clearly a lot of investigation now focusing on this pa rt investigation now focusing on this part of florida. plantation, which is not too far from fort lauderdale.

we will bring you more details on that activity there and the arrest when we get it. the supermarket giant asda is set to start consulting staff over 2 and a half thousand job losses next year. areas that could be affected include petrol, bakery and back office. it is thought thatjobs in the george areas of asda stores could also be affected. the company has declined to comment on any potential cuts. a 45 year—old man‘s been arrested on suspicion of trying to steal a copy of the magna carta from salisbury cathedral. police say alarms were activated after the man attempted to smash a glass box surrounding the historic document — one of four surviving copies. it‘s thought the magna carta is undamaged and nobody was injured. work has started to move more than 40,000 bodies from a cemetery in central london, so a new station can be built as part of the hs2 high speed rail link to birmingham. archaeologists say the dig will help them understand more about life in the capital throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. david sillito reports. back in the 1780s, london

was running out of space. it had nowhere for the dead. and so it created new cemeteries. one of them is here come the next to euston station. and now, more than 200 years later, that land is needed for another purpose. the dead are going to have to find a new final resting place. and this is the reason why. this is where london‘s high—speed railway station is about to be built. and so, a small army of archaeologists have arrived to move thousands of bodies. how many people are we talking about? the records for the entire area suggest around 60,000 people were interred in the cemetery. of course, some have already been removed over the years, but there‘s still a huge number of people buried here. you‘re looking at probably 40,000 individuals but still one of the largest burial

excavations ever to take place. you are excavating 40,000 plots. yes. and this huge tented site is only the beginning. where i‘m standing at the moment is going to be one of the platforms which will run 500 metres along there. that‘s what gets you about this site. it is the sheer size of it. 11,000 square metres. but what will happen to all the bodies? the first man to sail around australia is buried here, matthew flinders, and so with bill richmond, one of britain‘s most celebrated boxers. initially they will be taken for archaeological analysis, so lavatories, stored in a morgue, and that‘s with the agreement of the church. and then after that, everyone will be re—buried in consecrated ground. this isjust the beginning, a location near stoke and the site of a lost church, iron age, roman and saxon site crisscrossing the whole route.

0verall, on the whole line, we will have over 1000 archaeologists excavating. that is big and logical terms? it is the biggest excavation ever undertaken in the uk and probably europe. biggest excavation ever undertaken in the uk and probably europem this part of london, any development will be building on history, but this one has rather more ghosts than normal. an update for you following that vision by lord hain to name sir philip green as the person covered by the injunction, preventing the daily telegraph reporting a story about him and allegations of sexual and racial harassment. sir philip green holy and categorically denies. it has transpired from the list of the members interests that lord hain

is an occasional adviser to the legal firm is an occasional adviser to the legalfirm gordon dadds, which is advising the daily telegraph in this matter. a statement from lord hain this afternoon... i took the decision to names philip green in my personal capacity as an independent member of the house of lords. i categorically state that i was com pletely categorically state that i was completely and aware gordon dadds we re completely and aware gordon dadds were advising the telegraph regarding this case. gordon dadds, a highly respected international law firm paid absolutely no part in the sourcing of my information or my independent decision to name sir philip green. they were unaware of my intentions until i spoke in the house of lords. so that is a statement from lord hain this afternoon, saying that he has been unaware that the law firm that he occasionally advisers were acting in that case. some more details

regarding that arrest that the department ofjustice in the united states confirmed a short while ago. 0ne states confirmed a short while ago. one person is in custody in the guard to the sending of those 12 suspect packages which seemed to contain explosive devices. a 56 rolled man, we are understanding has been arrested, police say that dna evidence was used in tracking down the person who is now in custody. the arrest happened at 10:30am local time, that is 3:30pm our time, so only one hour ago. it took part at an auto parts shop in the city of plantation, florida. we were looking at pictures of a short while ago of at pictures of a short while ago of a vehicle under a boot or pollen, there it is. these are the pictures coming to us from plantation, not too far from fort lauderdale, coming to us from plantation, not too farfrom fort lauderdale, where the arrest took place will stop selling 56 rolled man arrested and

dna evidence used to tracking down. time to look at the weather forecast now. we have been talking about mist and fog. but how is fog formed? it isa and fog. but how is fog formed? it is a complicated process so let me try and summarise this as simply as possible. we are surrounded by gas, obviously, and, we‘ve got nitrogen, oxygen. you can‘t see the particles. we‘ve also got another gas, water vapour. it is a gas. tiny little bit of water, molecules floating around in the air. basically, what happens is, these water molecules come together, they go apart, they come together, they go apart, they come together again. when the temperature drops, everything starts to slow down and the water molecules that

are combined. the technical term is the starts to coalesce. they start sticking together more and more until they form a little droplets of water that is visible to the naked eye. when you get lots of that, that is when a cloud forms. what is fog? it isa is when a cloud forms. what is fog? it is a cloud very close to the ground. it is something interesting has to happen. when this process of cooling down happens, the air ends up cooling down happens, the air ends up drying out because all the molecules and other sticking to each other. that is that doubt and we get a little dry layer here and everything stops. there is one way to get moisture back in that dry layer. we need a breeze above our heads to the sturdy bit, like a current come and add a bit more moisture to that dry area. then the process ca n moisture to that dry area. then the

process can start over again until the fall builds up builds up and up and up. that is how fog forms. beautifully done! that is one of the questions that has been sent and to you and your colleagues in the weather department. we invite viewers to do that on a friday. another one is, what makes the jet strea m another one is, what makes the jet stream move? the jet stream is a current of air and it is driven by ed temperature. it is between the warm air coming from the southern climes and the cold aircoming in from the southern climes and the cold air coming in from the north. that is what the jet stream does. it writes that temperature contrast, almost like a slope, it slides around the planet. 0ne almost like a slope, it slides around the planet. one thing that makes this whole thing meander is the fact that the earth rotate. when it rotates, rather than a straight current of air blowing there, it sta rts current of air blowing there, it starts to meander. sometimes what happens is, we get a big shot of

cold aircoming happens is, we get a big shot of cold air coming from canada that moves the jet stream southwards. what goes down must come up. that is when we get these ripples in the jet streams and it is those ripples that create different pressures and our weather. guess what? that is a bit ofa weather. guess what? that is a bit of a bit in the jet stream. the weather. guess what? that is a bit of a bit in thejet stream. the air is coming in from the arctic and we‘re in for cold weather. it will be the coldest spell since the spring. you can see the motion of the air. that is where our air is coming from and yes, these showers, and there are showers there, will be wintry. but we‘re talking about the hills in scotland, certainly the mounties and possibly the north york moors. that cold air will be affecting parts of europe as well. this is what it looks like friday night. there is a cold wind blowing

from the north. we‘ve got showers around eastern coasts, western coasts as well. further inland, it will be clear. despite the wind, temperatures are still going to drop. temperatures love dropping when that is cold air. in some of the northern towns and cities, it‘ll be freezing or below. tomorrow, the wind coming in from the north. christensen shown out their best if you are unlucky you could get a few showers. quite big waves out to sea. this sunday, we will talk about this low later, high pressure over scandinavia and the uk. yes, a lot of sunshine around but also a north—easterly wind. that wind will drag some sunshine is deep inland. pa rt drag some sunshine is deep inland. part of the midlands might catch some showers. if you live in oxford, you could leave your brolly. services on sunday, mostly into

single figures did because the wind will be strong it will feel colder so newcastle may be feeling like three or 4 degrees. that is against the bearskin of your hands and face. we‘re talking about the cold in the north and that has spawned a weather system. the meandering in thejet strea m system. the meandering in thejet stream has spawned a low pressure. the weather is not looking great across part of the mediterranean. in the alps, the list and so on the way. quickly, and applicants are monday, temperatures barely into double figures. that is it from me, goodbye. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. the former attorney general dominic grieve strongly attacks lord hain‘s decision to name sir philip green using parliamentary privilege. lord hain hasjust said that he was unaware that a legal firm he works for was advising

the daily telegraph on the case. sir philip says he "categorically and wholly" denies allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour". a 56 year old man has been arrested in plantation in florida in connection with the discovery of suspicious packages being sent to prominent political figures. universal credit is causing "unacceptable hardship" for many of the claimants it was designed to help, according to a group of mps. but the government insists it is listening to critics of its flagship welfare reform. sport now on afternoon live with hugh woozencroft. ben stokes has given his first interview to the bbc since his trial for affray in august. ben stokes was cleared of affray in august and it brought to an end a very difficult spell in his life, where he couldn‘t play club cricket for durham nor of course for england. the incident left some former

england players saying he needed to seek help to help him focus on his sport. and that‘s just what he wants to do. he missed last winter‘s ashes series in australia, while he awaited trial. joe lynskey took a closer look. ben stokes kerry has spent 11 months on hold. this was the moment he could focus on cricket again. a six day trial had found him not guilty of affray and hours later he was named in the england squad that gets little time for reflection. after a similar series with india they left foran autumn in similar series with india they left for an autumn in sri lanka. it is where ben stokes spoke to the bbc for the first time. i mean, look, it‘s all about looking forward now. we‘ve got a huge summer coming up next year with the ashes and the world cup so everything‘s, you know, fully focused on that. looking at things that went on is not the way that i like to think about things, it‘s all about looking to the future. ben stokes was on trial for his part

inafight ben stokes was on trial for his part in a fight near a nightclub. the process meant he was forced to miss the winter ashes series in australia. without him, england lost four of the five tests. can you appreciate people‘s interest in what happened, and the fact you weren‘t playing for england when people would have loved to have seen you playing for england? yeah, that‘s the best thing, you know, about going forward is, you know, everything that you do from here onwards is, you know, what people will hopefully remember, and it‘s what i‘m trying to do. it is really an exciting thing to be thinking about. england are among the favourites for the world cup on home soil but ben stokes hopes of playing rests on a disciplinary hearing was the panel meeting december, four months after the player was cleared. ben stokes is embracing the crease and hoping to move forward. that is all the sports for now. we will have more in an hour. the designer of a cot in which a seven—month—old baby boy

‘choked to death‘ has been jailed for three years and four months. leeds crown court heard how 0scar abbey got his head stuck while trying to crawl through a gap in the bed in november 2016. prosecutors said that craig williams, the owner of playtime beds limited, which sold the cot to 0scar‘s parents, had given reassurances that it was suitable for children aged six or seven months. troops from jordan and israel are taking part in a search and rescue effort, after more than 20 people, most of them children, were killed in flash floods near the dead sea. angry parents are now demanding to know why a school trip was organised, despite weather warnings. 0ur middle east correspondent, tom bateman, reports. daylight brought at least some fresh hope in the search for the children still missing. by dawn, more than 2,000 rescuers from two countries were involved in the operation. jordanian narine diversjoined air force helicopters and israeli aircraft scouring the area. the storm waters surged over several miles through the arid landscape east of the dead sea.

the schoolchildren and their teachers were on a bus trip to a hot springs area. they had stopped for a picnic when the flash flooding hit. translation: the operation is divided into ten groups and the search continues. there are jets that are operating now searching on the beach and the high areas. we expect four people are missing so far and the search missions continue. hundreds of relatives converged at a hospital a few miles from the resort area. rescuers said some of the children had survived only by clinging to rocks as the storm waters surged past. families desperately sought news, hoping their children were among the survivors. there was anger from parents who asked why the bus trip had gone ahead despite warnings of bad weather. jordan‘s government said the school only had permission for a trip to a different area of the country.

ministers have accused it of breaking safety regulations and are promising a full investigation. the health secretary matt hancock says he‘d like to see a law banning under thirteens from social media. he told parliament‘s house magazine that although the terms and conditions of social media sites are that they shouldn‘t be used by children, nothing is done to enforce that. mr hancock said a legal ban would be considered as part of an investigation into the use and effects of social media by the chief medical officer. well i spoke to rosie percy, the social media and content partnerships editor of business insider, and i asked her if banning under thirteens from social media was realistic. it is realistic to expect teenagers to follow terms and conditions. how do you legally enforced that? if you

are buying wine, you will show a passport or driving licence, this matt hancock think every 13—year—old wilkie in the past on number two access facebook. more can be bent to make children‘s use of social media better and i think more should be done because i do believe social media can have a detrimental affect on well—being and mental health. i don‘t think matt hancock‘s suggested isa don‘t think matt hancock‘s suggested is a realistic way to go about it. the emphasis you are putting on it is that the user is responsible, what about the responsibilities of the social media companies? sir make a lot of money from running these platforms. i do think the platforms they to be more responsible for the content that is hosted and the could be bettered the sources for those using the platforms. i think there can be more then, matt hancock, why

not put moby sources into mental health services so he can help those who are adversely affected by social media. a friend of mine uses the expression, that is putting the ambulance at the bottom of a cliff rather than putting offence at the top of it. why not prevent the mental health issues in the first instance? that comes back to having better controls over social media platforms. i do think that. i believe it could be incorporated into curriculum. social media is an everyday pa rt into curriculum. social media is an everyday part of life, it was as when i was in school. when children now, it is there every day. children aged eight to 11 are using facebook and instagram. why aren‘t they told the appropriate responsible use of these platforms? we need to really inform the way children are being taught that technology. i do believe plateau should be held responsible as well. how? what kind of sanction

could be levied against the platforms if they don‘t make sure their terms and conditions are adhered to? that it be an issue you would have to go into your mac berg, who will tell you how to enforce the terms and conditions better. until they got a legal task force were somebody has to have a form of id when you can prove your age, that is the only way to go about it. i don‘t think that is realistic. that was rosie percy. celebrations are taking place to mark one hundred years since stonehenge was given to the nation by a local couple who had bought it at auction forjust £7,000. duncan kennedy has spent the day down at the iconic stone—age monument. symphony among the stones, a perfect case of classic rock. the london sinfonietta one of a number of birthday tributes to this ancient site.

the musicians are here to celebrate 100 years since stonehenge was given to the nation. before that, all of this was in private hands. private hands but a very public state of disrepair. eventually, in 1915, it was decided to put stonehenge up for auction. but that auction started a bidding war between isaac crook, a localfarmer, and cecil chubb, a local barrister, one that isaac did not quite win. well, he must have stopped bidding at 6,500. cecil chubb was still bidding and the hammerfell at 6,600. a difference of £100. but what would have happened to stonehenge if isaac crook had won that auction? do you think he would have just returned it to farmland? well, i honestly can‘t answer that. i mean, who knows what

he would have done? instead, three years later in 1918, cecil chubb and his wife mary gave stonehenge to the nation. that act of generosity to actually saved stonehenge. until that point, the stones were propped up by wooden poles, some of them were at risk of collapse and its future was by no means certain and so when the chubbs gave stonehenge to the nation, it kick—started a programme of care and conservation that english heritage continues to this day. today there was everything from a bouncy to a baked version of the ancient monument, all to celebrate it becoming an endearing slice of national life. theo is here. in a moment he will be telling us what‘s hot and what‘s not

in the business news. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. the former attorney general dominic greive has strongly criticised lord hain for naming sir philip green using parliamentary privilege. sir philip says he "categorically and wholly" denies allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour". a 56 year old man is arrested in florida over the pipe bombs that have been sent to public figures. two more were found today. universal credit is causing ‘unacceptable hardship‘ to many claimants, according to mps here‘s your business headlines on afternoon live. royal bank of scotland is setting aside £100 million to deal with "the more uncertain economic outlook". rbs is among the first big banks to make such a provision in the run—up to the uk‘s exit from the eu. profits before tax rose 10 per cent year on year, to £961 million. there‘s been a mixed bag of results for the world‘s biggest technology companies — some good numbers but even

so the shares have been sliding. amazon was down nearly 9% at one point, while google‘s parent alphabet was down 8% before rallying. and supermarket giant asda is to begin consultations with staff on changes that could mean up to 2,500 job cuts. an asda representative said the firm needed to consider changing employees‘ roles and working hours. the spokesperson added that the proposed changes would allow asda to do a betterjob for its customers. well, it‘s friday, and it‘s been a turbulent week on the markets, so what note are they ending on? it began badly and hasn‘t recovered. big losses on the major exchanges around the world. in london, we‘re ending the week limping towards the weekend. shares are down, even in the us where we had some good

economic news, shares are heading downwards. if we look at today's stories, there is a warning from asda about thousands ofjobs. this is a reflection of how the retail industry is. they said changes are needed in order to allow it to compete with the big discounters. they have changed the face of supermarkets in the uk. even though asda is teaming up with sainsbury‘s, it needs to find a way of cutting costs. the unions aren‘t happy with it. they want to protect jobs so they could be a fight looming there. the royal bank of scotla nd looming there. the royal bank of scotland saying it is setting aside £100 million because of what it calls the effects of economic uncertainty. it sounds like a lot of money but maybe not that much. it is taking £100 million hit now in case the value of its assets falls over the value of its assets falls over the next few months. if loans were left unpaid or whatever because of people not paying their debts. it is taking a bit of pain ahead of time.

what could possibly be the cause of this economic uncertainty? i am joyed by a senior analyst. economic uncertainty, i am guessing this is about the risk of a disorderly brexit. that is a good guess. without putting too fine a point on it, that is what rbs are saying. what has happened between the last time rbs spoke to worse in this and nine, brexit looks as if it will have a higher chance of falling in a disorderly way. £100 million, you say. £200 million for pp! claims as well. it is causing banks a few headaches. got a deadline for claims next august. as we approach that deadline, we may find the banks actually having to put more money into paying out claims because there isn't much motivates people rather

than the deadline. asda is facing uncertainty of a different kind. what do you make of today‘s announcement about potential job losses ? announcement about potential job losses? it is another bit of bad news from the high street. we heard from debenhams at the beginning of the week. problems at asda are slightly different, slightly different market. it isn't about online sales as with the general retailers where the online merchants are eating their lunch. this is about the discounters, lidl and all day. as the playing on the the price market has been at the sharp end of the discounters activities. this is ahead of the big merger with sainsbury's. they may be some store closures. a little bit of uncertain times faster star. quickly, april week on the market during a permanent. what you make of it?

october has been a of having crashes. that has been born from the la st crashes. that has been born from the last month or so. markets have been ina good last month or so. markets have been in a good run, we have had some disappointing results from some us companies. with the tech giants, amazon and apple, the results were pretty good. this is part of life on the stock market. they never go up ina straight the stock market. they never go up in a straight line but they are remarkably reliable in the long term. thank you very much. let‘s have a look at the markets. ftse is down 1.4%. a similar story in europe. also those tech shares are still markedly down. thank you very much. you survived it! i hope you will come back. prince harry and meghan have been given a warm welcome in tonga, the latest stop on their royal tour.

children were given the day off school and people skipped work to catch a glimpse of the duke and duchess of sussex. our royal correspondent jonny dymond reports. for a style icon, a new accessory. the welcome for harry and meghan was warm and noisy. and this was just the start. mat—making was just part of the display of tongan culture waiting for the duke and duchess. but first south pacific chic met royalfashion. was that a shimmy from harry? then, a quick whip around the exhibits. no royal tour is complete

without a tour of handicrafts and the tongans have really put on a show. this island is tiny but the royal visit has had a huge impact. it has been a long time since tonga was a sliver of empire. but the link to britain survives. even though we have just come out with a new generation now, but we, like us new and our grandparents, parents you know the oldies, they talk about the connection and we feel it too. we feel it too and we live with it, too. to finish the trip, more music. and a little encouragement from harry. they were here for just a day but they made every minute count. coming back to australia, an aborted landing as the couple‘s pilot spotted a possible

obstruction on the runway. after a brief airborne tour of sydney, their plane landed safely. jonny dymond, bbc news, sydney. let‘s ta ke let‘s take you to florida where we can see live pictures of a fan and a tarpaulin on a low loader being taken away from plantation, florida. this follows the arrest of a 56—year—old man in connection with the sending of those 12 explosive devices to prominent public figures. critics of the president. we‘re going to hearfrom critics of the president. we‘re going to hear from the critics of the president. we‘re going to hearfrom the president very shortly. he is hosting a summit of young black leaders at the white house. he is going to address this arrest, this 56—year—old man being

in custody. police say dna was used to track him down. the arrest happened at 10:30am local time. we will wait for president trump to arrive there. we should be hearing from him within the next hour and we will hear what he‘s got to say here on bbc news. that is its from your afternoon live team. the next news is bbc news at five with ben brown. time to look at the weather forecast now. the first cold snap of the season is upon us. it will be colder than it has been in recent weeks. last weekend temperatures got up to 20 degrees in a few spots. this weekend, it is going to be a lot less a biting cold northerly wind from the arctic. the cold front has been moving across the country. here it is. all these clouds are streaming in from the norwegian sea.

we shall see showers peppered across the country and over the coming two or three days that cold air stream establishes itself across the uk. it reaches areas as far south as spain, portugal and much of europe. the mediterranean will be milder but u nsettled. mediterranean will be milder but unsettled. this is what it looks like through this evening. temperatures just starting to nudge down into single figures, six in newcastle, holding at ten in london. tonight, temperatures will drop further. the wind blowing from the north, wintry showers across the hills. clear inland and we can see those temperatures in city centres, 2 degrees, first thing in the morning. tomorrow, frequent showers around some of these eastern coasts. some showers will go further inland. they will be frequent sunny spells as well but a biting wind. it will

feel colder in the wind. come sunday, look at that high pressure in scandinavia. it sends the wind from the north—east. they will be lighter particularly around the west. more sunshine for places like the irish sea coast, wales, sunshine inland to. it will feel pretty chilly. the temperatures on sunday will be mostly into single figures. this is briefly touching nine or 10 degrees in the afternoon. but it will be lower than that most of the day it will feel like for degrees in newcastle. that is sunday. what about the rest of europe? it is u nsettled about the rest of europe? it is unsettled in the mediterranean. warm aircoming infrom unsettled in the mediterranean. warm air coming in from the south. to air masses collide and create a lot of bad weather in parts of europe. goodbye. today at 5pm... claims lord hain was arrogant to name sir philip green as the businessman accused of racial and sexual ha ra rssment. sir philip has denied the allegations.

a former attorney general says peter hain abused parliamentary privilege by naming him. if mps do this, it undermines the rule of law, because the courts are there to decide whether injunctions should be granted or lifted. we‘ll be talking to a former mp who also broke an injunction using parliamentary privilege. the other main stories on bbc news at 5: a suspect is arrested in florida over the pipe bombs that have been sent to public figures. two more were found today, one of them addressed to a democrat senator. fracking has been suspended at a site in lancashire following an earth tremor. universal credit is causing "unacceptable hardship" to many