this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 7pm. the government agrees to pay £33 million to eurotunnel — to settle a lawsuit over extra ferry services in the event of a no—deal brexit. labour says the transport secretary, chris grayling, must go. he stumbles from catastrophe to disaster, and it isjust he stumbles from catastrophe to disaster, and it is just gross incompetence on an industrial scale. enough is enough and that this man must be out of his post by monday. pakistan frees an indian fighter pilot — captured after his plane was shot down — amid rising tensions over kashmir. a man who gave his girlfriend drugs at a festival, and filmed her as she died — has been jailed for 8 and a half years. making landlords check tenants‘ immigration status is ruled to be a breach

of human rights. or not news watch, the bbc invites members of the public to help sheets its coverage of brexit for a day. join us tonight on a 7:45pm on the bbc news. the government has been forced to pay £33 million to eurotunnel to settle a legal dispute over brexit contingency plans in the event of no—deal. the department for transport had given ferry contracts companies, including one with no ships and no port. but eurotunnel said the process had

been "secretive and flawed." labour blames chris grayling, the transport secretary, who oversaw the contract process, and says he should resign. our business correspondent, joe miller is at the eurotunnel terminal in folkestone. the department for transport has already had to walk away from one of its three no—deal brexit ferry contacts. but the government has now had to spend tens of millions of pounds to avoid a trial which would likely have uncovered how it went about awarding those lucrative deals in the first place. the beneficiary is at the company behind me, eurotunnel, which has now secured public funding to upgrade its facilities. remember this? the brexit contract for seaborne freight — a company with no ferries, based at a port which isn't ready. in order to make sure these ferries are still sailing after a no—deal brexit, the taxpayer is now facing a £33 million bill. rivals eurotunnel said they were unfairly treated and sued the department for transport over what it called a "secretive" approach

to awarding shipping contracts. the company, which has run ferries in the past, said it should have been considered as part of no—deal plans. labour says it's a disaster, calling on the transport secretary to resign. a the country cannot afford chris grayling, he has got to go, for the credibility of our nation. and, my goodness me, the people working for him must be pulling their hair out. he stumbles from catastrophe to disaster and it's just gross incompetence on an industrial scale, enough is enough and this man has got to be out of his post by monday. chris grayling was nowhere to be seen: at his house, or his office, or his department today. but the government says its £33 million deal with eurotunnel was necessary to ensure vital medicines get through after brexit. the contracts and the ferries that are going to be available are critical for our contingency plans, so it's a good

thing that the agreement has been made today. sources close to the case say the government felt it was being held over a barrel by eurotunnel, and had it not settled, it could have faced seeing vital freight contracts cancelled and would have had to publiclyjustify why it only started no—deal planning late last year. today, the eurotunnel agreed it would spend some of the money on improving its terminal facilities here in folkestone. but the scrutiny of mr grayling isn't over — his department will face an independent review and may yet be brought back to face the courts. joe miller, bbc news, folkestone. our deputy political editor, john pienaar, has us the latest from westminster. to call chris grayling accident—prone would be to bend the laws of probability — nobody is that unlucky. there have to be other explanations, and there are. take this eurotunnel story —

the government was late getting going with it's no—deal brexit planning, chris grayling was trying to get ahead and critics say he stumbled. also today, the westminster financial watchdog, the national audit office, is blaming chris grayling forfailings in his part privatisation of the probation service — an extra £500 million cost to the taxpayer, rates of reported reoffending way up. all ministers run into trouble but chris grayling has a record of misadventures and missteps, and mishaps. there was the prison ban which was overturned by the courts, there was the chaos with the rail timetables, chris grayling was heavily criticised for that. now, today, downing street is telling us theresa may has full confidence in her transport secretary. though with brexit at such a critical stage, theresa may would hate to lose a loyal colleague and hand a scalp to her enemies and make an embarrassing story worse, to prolong it, not close it down.

does that mean chris grayling is safe in hisjob? well, there was a surprise here when chris grayling survived theresa may's last reshuffle. if she gets her brexit deal through and if she goes on to have another cabinet reshuffle, and those are big ifs, there will be more surprises here. and a lot of criticism from critics if chris grayling is standing still at the end of that. throughout the day on bbc news, we've been giving you, our viewers, the opportunity to contribute to our brexit coverage. we'll bring you a flavour of what's been happening just after 7:30pm. and you can find more information about today's events at the bbc, and on brexit in general, at bbc.co.uk/brexit. a man has beenjailed for eight and a half years for the manslaughter of louella fletcher—michie, the daughter of the holby city

actor, john michie. ceon broughton supplied his girlfriend with drugs, then flimed her as she was dying, at the bestival music event in dorset in 2017. her family told winchester crown court they'd been torn apart by her death, and their lives have been forever diminished. sarah campbell reports. louella, hours before her death. alongside her, her boyfriend, ceon. today, her mother described how the family's hearts and souls had been ripped out, her father said his daughter's life was cut cruelly short. regardless of the outcome of this harrowing trial, there were never going to be any winners. we began our life sentence on what would have been louella's 25th birthday. ceon's life sentence is knowing that he didn't help louella to live. the couple had travelled to bestival in dorset for her 25th birthday weekend.

there, she took the drug 2cp, given to her by broughton, and suffered a fatal reaction to it. as she lay dying in this wooded area, broughton filmed her and failed to seek help until it was too late, despite the medical tent being just 400 metres away. sentencing him to 8.5 years, the trialjudge said broughton had only been concerned for himself and didn't want to get arrested — at the time, he had a suspended sentence for possessing a knife. a statement read on broughton‘s behalf said: finally, an apology — but there can be little comfort for louella's grieving family. today, her sister told the court that she tries every single day to understand why ceon didn't help louella. sarah campbell, bbc news. the prosecutor's office in georgia, has told the bbc it's received a request to extradite jack

shepherd, the man convicted of of killing a woman in a speedboat crash in 2015, on the river thames. shepherd handed himself in to police in georgia in january, after months on the run. our moscow correspondent, steve rosenberg, has been given exclusive access, to the prison in the capital tbilisi, where he's being held. on the edge of tblisi, this is penitentiary number eight. a high securityjail with around 3000 prisoners. and one of them is british — jack shepherd. after months on the run, he is behind bars in georgia, pending extradition proceedings. we are the first foreign tv crew to be allowed inside the jail. what we are not allowed is any contact with shepherd, but the this is jack shepherd's prison cell — room 101. he shares it with two other inmates.

shepherd sleeps on this bed here. the prison authorities tell me that for security reasons, shepherd is under 24—hour surveillance. jack shepherd surrendered to georgian police after ten months in hiding. he had fled britain to escape his trial for manslaughter. in his absence, he was sentenced to six years in prison for the death of charlotte brown. she had been on a date with shepherd when his speedboat crashed on the river thames. today, georgian prosecutors confirmed to me that they have now received the official request from britain for shepherd to be sent home. how confident are you that jack shepherd will be extradited? i'm very confident mr shepherd will be extradited to the uk. to this end, we will take every measure to convince the georgian judge that this person deserves to be extradited to the uk.

the authorities say that jack shepherd could be gone from here within a month. but until extradition is approved, this is where jack shepherd will remain — on remand in penitentiary number eight, under lock and key, in a georgian jail. steve rosenberg, bbc news, tbilisi. an operation to decontaminate sites across salisbury, has been completed, following the nerve agent attack on the former russian spy, sergei skripal, and his daughter, yulia. military teams have spent 13,000 hours on the clean—up. wiltshire police said it was "an important landmark" but not the end of the investigation. bbc reporter, will glennon, has been in salisbury today. it is a milestone day for salisbury and the surrounding areas of wiltshire. the announcement today that all the contaminated, and potentially

contaminated, sites are free of the novichok nerve agent. the clean—up operation has finished. it's 12 months this weekend since former russian spy, sergei skripal, and his daughter, yulia, were found poisoned, slumped on a city centre bench. a full scale chemical attack response followed. the military were deployed on the streets. hundreds of police officers led by the counterterrorism unit in london. at least three russian suspects have been identified by the investigation. then, in the summer, charlie rowley, and his partner, dawn sturgess, were also contaminated. dawn tragically died. so, in all, 12 contaminated sites were cleaned up, and all have now been handed back. it's been an incredible year, unprecedented. and right in the middle of it, there's that tragic event with the death of dawn sturgess. so that colours any feelings we have. but now, i think everyone is relieved that we have got

the sites cleaned up and we can now move on and focus on the future of the city. it's been an incredible challenge to find it all. and then actually get rid of it. as we found, the best way to get rid of it for some things are actually to bury it. 37 vehicles have been buried, many tonnes of rubbish and waste have been buried. that that we could incinerate, we have done. but it's been a huge challenge. that's why it's taken 12 months to get rid of this stuff. the authorities cannot say absolutely that there is no more novichok out there. the first attack was last march, then the second incident happened towards the end ofjune. when a discarded perfume bottle was found by charlie rowley. the authorities do not know the whereabouts of that bottle between march and june. but we are told that the risk to the public remains low.

and people in this part of wiltshire will be pleased about today's announcement the clean—up has finished. because what they want to do is just get on with normal everyday life. pakistan has released the indian fighter pilot, captured two days ago when his jet was shot down in the disputed region of kashmir. he was handed over in darkness at a border crossing in the north indian state of punjab. we can talk to our correspondent, anbarasan ethirajan, who's in delhi for us tonight. there must be a collective sigh of relief in the country? absolutely, there was a huge relief among the indian public, vertically among the indian public, vertically among the indian authorities that wing commander abhinandan varthaman was released. finally, he was in the custody of the pakistani army for

nearly 60 hours. his plane was shot down by a pakistani fighterjet along the line of control that divides the kashmir region between india and pakistan. he became the human face of the conflict, the current round of tensions between india and pakistan, and she became an instant celebrity. when he finally walked across this border, there was a bout of celebration for there was a bout of celebration for the people waiting for him outside this border crossing. in many parts of india, many people are celebrating this by bursting firecrackers. there was relief that the current round of tensions have relieved now with the release of this fighter pilot phyla stop the crisis is far from this fighter pilot phyla stop the crisis is farfrom over, the two countries still have quite a few unresolved it issues. i'm interested to know to what extent you think public opinion and social media played in what's being described as a gesture of peace. social media and

also the traditional media have been playing an important role for the past few years in shaping the public opinion in both countries. you can see from the way that the governments have been reacting. first, a suicide it out on an indian military convoy, a0 indian soldiers we re military convoy, a0 indian soldiers were killed. that put a bout of pressure on the indian government, they said they had to take this initiative because the media was playing it out. then once at the ending jets at out what they described as suspected militant hideout, the pakistani government was under a lot of pressure to respond. again, this was because of the media, social and traditional. new two governments want to control the narrative is, that is why they we re the narrative is, that is why they were heeding this information through media outlets and social media. that is why we also see

public opinion changing with developments. and there was a lot of nationalism, jingoism going around social media in india when indian jets attacked. then an immediate change when the pilot was captured. a lot of hashtag saying no to war. then on the pakistani side, when it was announced the palette would be released, a lot of people appreciated it. the public have been quite strong, that is why the two governments are very conscious of how to control it. thank you for joining us. the headlines on bbc news: the government has been ordered to pay £33 million to eurotunnel in an agreement to settle a lawsuit over extra ferry services in the event of a no—deal brexit. pakistan has freed an indian fighter pilot — captured after his plane was shot down in pakistan—administered kashmir.

a man who gave his girlfriend drugs at a festival and filmed her as she died, has beenjailed for 8.5 years for manslaughter. five metropolitan police officers have been cleared of misconduct, over the death of a man who died at brixton police station. sean rigg was being restrained while in custody in august 2008. a police misconduct panel found, "none of the allegations are proved" — against the fiveofficers. the metropolitan police said it was sorry about mr rigg's death, and that it had "fully scrutinised" all the facts. june kelly reports. sean rigg had mental health problems and hadn't been taking his medication. there was concern over the way he was behaving. he was arrested and officers restrained him lying on his front for seven minutes. today, the disciplinary panel said this wasn't an excessive amount of time. one of the reasons for the officers

were cleared of gross misconduct. for sean rigg's sister, marcia, this was finally the end of a decade—long campaign to have someone held accountable for her brother's death. today's decision by the panel is the wrong decision. and my question is — if the officers apparently did the right thing, why is he dead? by the time sean rigg got to brixton police station, his physical health had deteriorated badly. he collapsed and died from a heart attack. one officer had talked about him feigning unconsciousness. the country's biggest police force says it has learned lessons from this case, especially in dealing with those with mental health problems. that has transformed in the period of the ten—and—a—half years since sean rigg died. we now work very closely with mental health trusts and with the ambition

of making sure that if people have to be in police care and control, that that is for as short a time as possible. one of the officers, andrew burkes, has retrained as a church of england minister while waiting for the disciplinary process to get underway. the police watchdog has acknowledged it contributed to the delays. marcia rigg said that by never giving up their fight, sean rigg's family were the winners in this case. june kelly, bbc news. the high court has ruled that part of the government's immigration policy, brought in when theresa may was home secretary, is in breach of human rights legislation. the scheme, known as right to rent, requires landlords in england to establish the immigration status of prospective tenants. judge martin spencer said the scheme had "little or no effect" on controlling immigration, and caused landlords to discriminate against potential tenants because of their nationality.

well, with me now is olga nechaeva — she's the founder of no white walls, an online platform for co—living and house sharing. an online platform for how an online platform for do you feel about today's ruling? how do you feel about today's ruling? we are quite happy, and i'm sure a lot of landlords would say at the same today. data landlords and organisations that work with them feel that they were being forced to discriminate? it is less about being forced to discriminate, it is not the result you ever want to go to, it is more about feeling the response ability without having meals or ways to fully control the situation. because if you read through the legislation and detail of the scheme, a lot of those specifics, they don't really fit with the real world. for us being an online letting platform, we had to come up with pretty cumbersome

processes on how to establish what was required. what i'm hearing from te na nts was required. what i'm hearing from tenants who come to us, mainly young professionals, a lot of immigrants, people who come to work in the uk— a lot of them did mention that they would be turned away once they mention they did not have a british passport. it's interesting that you asa passport. it's interesting that you as a company went through some of that legislation to try and understanding, and yet, this report say that a lot of landlords just didn't understand it all. it is hard to understand. if you are a landlord, you are not trained to read how difficult these things are. yes, there were certain online services pay a bit of money and they give you that. but it still does not protect you for anything, because things like that, must track when it

expires, without the tenant renews it,. what happens if the tenant gets his visa council because he loses his visa council because he loses hisjob? there his visa council because he loses his job? there is his visa council because he loses hisjob? there is no way that his visa council because he loses his job? there is no way that the landlord can know about that. things that scare a lot of people. one of the statements in this report was that landlords were effectively being incorporated into britain? immigration policy, in terms of transforming ordinary people into bodyguards. very much so. i'm a landlord myself. you have a tenant coming in and asking them to produce their idea and compare that idea to their idea and compare that idea to theirfacial their idea and compare that idea to their facial features, their idea and compare that idea to theirfacialfeatures, because i'm supposed to do a face id check— that is just feels inhumane and not like to do for a landlord. it has not been scrapped yet. this is a

recommendation, thejudge been scrapped yet. this is a recommendation, the judge says been scrapped yet. this is a recommendation, thejudge says it is to be looked at again. part of the recommendation was that landlords need to be educated on the scheme. do you think that goes far enough? i don't. there has been a lot of different legislation concerning landlords. the actual reality is that it landlords. the actual reality is thatitis landlords. the actual reality is that it is hard, and education still doesn't stop you from overlooking certain incidences because you just do not have control over a tenants personal life, you do not know what is happening to them. so, i do not think it is a good solution to the problem. indeed innovation needs to be controlled, but landlords are not the board out agents —— immigration. with less than a month to go before the uk is scheduled to leave the eu, many questions remain unanswered. throughout the day, bbc news has given a group of viewers the opportunity to contribute their ideas

to how its journalists cover brexit. our reporter chi chi izundu and reality check correspondent chris morris spoke to the panel to hear some of the questions they would like to be answered. although, we have been talking to of a disease who had been invited to talk about what they want to now, when it comes to the brexit coverage for the next 20 days. some might argue the most important days. chris, you have been nothing but brexit since you started your role? it has been brexit, brexit, brexit. like most people here, it is hard to believe that nearly three years after the referendum, less than a month now before we're due to leave, we still don't really know what is happening. what is the main question that people ask you all the time? one of them is, why haven't we left yet? the short answer to that is, because it is so complicated. then there are questions about food,

travel, practical stuff, there are questions about food, travel, practicalstuff, how will there are questions about food, travel, practical stuff, how will it affect my daily life? the trouble is affect my daily life? the trouble is a lot of the answers cannot be absolute. if you're an individual or businesses, one of the problems is that no one can give you an absolute a nswer that no one can give you an absolute answer about what will happen to stop opera spot now. we have pip, simone, and sheldon, who have some questions for you. one of the top questions for you. one of the top questions regarding food. how much is the average basket of shopping going to go up? the thing about food at the moment is that we import about a third of it from the eu. at the moment, we do not pay any ta riffs the moment, we do not pay any tariffs when that food comes into the country, so no taxes. if we leave with no—deal at the end of march, then the government must decide what kind of tariff it is going to impose. if it imposes zero ta riffs going to impose. if it imposes zero tariffs on food coming in from

europe, it must impose zero on food coming in everywhere else. if that happens, farmers here feel it will destroy their livelihood. so, there probably will be some tariffs on certain food products coming in from europe. another question is how will companies deal with that? will it ta ke companies deal with that? will it take the cost on them self, or pass it to the consumer? one of the specific issues at this time of year is that we are very dependent for a lot of things like fresh fruit and vegeta bles lot of things like fresh fruit and vegetables coming from europe. as you know, supermarkets can source us stuff from elsewhere. a couple years ago, there was problems with letters, and they flew them in from south america instead of spain. if you do that all the time, you will have bigger transportation cost. will the company built at cost, or

will eddie be passed on to the consumer? if you know what every every single item in your shopping basket will change price, it is hard to know. in the event of no—deal, there could be some fairly sharp price rises. you have some concerns about the nhs? i'd like to know how the nhs will be affected in regards to staffing and medicine. staffing is an issue. as you know, a lot of nurses and doctors who work for the nhs are from other countries in europe. at the moment, that is freedom of movement so they can come and work here without restrictions. we don't know what immigration policy will be put in place after brexit, apart from the fact that the government has said that freedom of movement will come to an end. that is an issue for a lot of hospitals, they are already reporting difficulty in recruiting nurses. immigration scheme at —— immigration

numbers came out yesterday, they showed that the number of people arriving from the eu have already fallen pretty sharply since the referendum. maybe these people are thinking it safer to go to germany, france, perhaps? the value of the pound has fallen, so if you are trying to send you those whom to yourfamily in trying to send you those whom to your family in pollen, trying to send you those whom to yourfamily in pollen, you're going to get less money working here then you would have a couple of years ago. staffing is a real concern for hospitals. at the moment, we actually send more medicines to the eu then they send to us, so it is very much a two—way street and neither side wants medical supplies to run out. my best guess is people will be heaven and earth to ensure medical supplies will still be in the right place when people need them. i think for a lot of people, it is uncertainty, they hear ribbons on social media, well that struggle

be in the supply, what if there are delays at a borders?. it comes down to that word, uncertainty, people aren't quite sure. what's your question for chris? me and my friends like to travel into the eu. i'd like to know what kind of difficulties we might come across it we re difficulties we might come across it were to leave from the uk and drive into the eu? one of the big questions is as if they're going to bea questions is as if they're going to be a deal or not? in terms of driving, if there was no—deal, after the 29th of march, you would need an international driving permit from the post office. and you would need a green card insurance, what you use at the moment would not be valid in the eu. if it is a deal, for nearly two years, the eu. if it is a deal, for nearly two yea rs, nearly the eu. if it is a deal, for nearly two years, nearly everything would stay the same. after that, still to be negotiated. i hope our audience

members have enjoyed their time at their bbc i'd also feel that you can come and tell us exactly what you wa nt to come and tell us exactly what you want to know from brexit at any given point at time. let's catch up with the weather. after a quiet start, think set to turn very unsettled, with spells of wind and rain, and even a named storm on sunday. bands of rain spreading across the country tonight, things tend to ease down, behind it, something a bit clearer and drier, but anotherfairly mild night. into the weekend, spells of wind and rain, both cited and on sunday, we have got a name storm likely to bring some disruption to england and wales. we start off on a

fine note, on saturday, with plenty of sunshine around. the winds will increase, is this the area of low pressure arrives, and it is heavy rain, initially in northern ireland, heading across, it won't arrive across the east until after dark. gusts of 60—70 mph are likely. hello this is bbc news. the headlines:

the government has been ordered to pay £33 million to eurotunnel in an agreement to settle a lawsuit over extra ferry services in the event of a no—deal brexit. pakistan has freed an indian fighter pilot — captured after his plane was shot down in pakistan—administered kashmir. a man who gave his girlfriend drugs at a festival and filmed her as she died has beenjailed for 8.5 years for manslaughter. the georgian authorities have been asked to extradite jack shepherd back to the uk after he killed a woman in a speedboat crash on the river thames. figures obtained by the nspcc show a sharp rise in the use of the social media network instagram to groom young children. altogether police recorded more than 5,000 online child grooming offences in the 18 months to september in england and wales. sex offenders used instagram for grooming more than any other online platform. the nspcc has accused social media firms of "ten years of failed self—regulation".

our technology reporter chris fox is with me and has more on this. chris, just give us a bit more background to this please. the macro to put across several freedom of information requests. 39 of them replied, and some didn't. they found that there were several cases of adults using messaging features on social networks to contact children and send them sexual messages. of those 2000 cases, 1300 cases, the police logs which app was used, and they said a third of them, it was instagram. 23%. why instagram? it is very visual, it is picture based, and people can look at pictures and then go straight into the messages. it is obviously very useful, if you

are an adult, but it is not good if young people are posting pictures and then getting predatory messages. interestingly, snapchat, which is used by a lot of children, that was only named in 1a% of them, but that is because snapchat does not have the same kind of discovery that instagram has. you can't create a public profile on snapchat, fill it with previous photos in the same way that instagram can. that is why we are seeing less of it on snapchat. these are direct messages, private messages, or are we talking about the comments feature is that you find on the social media platforms? this is about adults sending personal messages, private messages, but there are also problems with the comment section. we have seen this week, youtube has announced, it is going to switch off the comments on ebony videos of young children completely, because purgatory predators were leaving open the explicit is just any comments, they

we re explicit is just any comments, they were using comments to signal interest in videos, and it is happening. i was looking this morning, on innocuous videos of children doing gymnastics, or going swimming, any parent might post something like that on youtube. if you look at the comments, it is easy to find comments of people saying, look at that in seconds n, that's a good bit. youtube will now switch off comments completely on all videos of children. they are going to use algorithms, interestingly, to detect whether children have a child in it. it is very interesting, to see if that works, and it will take months to fully take effect, and we will see in a few months whether it works. what sort of responses have you had from instagram, facebook and snapchat? facebook owned instagram, and it says it uses the latest technology to detect child abuse. it also works with the child protection organisation to get best practice and eliminate this material.

snapchat also goes to great lengths to protect children on its platform, and says that children shouldn't share their snapchat username publicly with people they don't know, because that is the only way that people could start... of these compositions keep happening involving these social media issues. a few weeks ago, it was the issue of self harming and tragic suicide. what is it, we hear the government saying they are engaging, there is a lot of engagement going on, but why is it so difficult? what are the reasons being given by these companies to try and combat a crime thatis companies to try and combat a crime that is quite simply repugnant? well, thinking about youtube, is it 0k well, thinking about youtube, is it okfor well, thinking about youtube, is it ok for parents to upload videos of their children, just doing gymnastics on youtube. most people would say there's nothing wrong with that, parents can share videos of their children if they want to, but thenif their children if they want to, but then if people are using those videos, and watching them in a more

sinister way, and using the comments to signal that, how can you stop that, is it just to signal that, how can you stop that, is itjust people who are bad actors, abusing a platform, and should everybody else be punished, because of the bad actions of a feud. switching off the comments is another way to stop those comments being left in videos of children, but that affects real content creators, who have never posted anything bad, youtube users comments to decide what videos are popular, and whether they should be recommended to others and going to the feed, and so on, so by disabling comments on some videos, they are making it harder for them comments on some videos, they are making it harderfor them to promote their content. is that fair on people who are not doing anything wrong? ok, very complicated. thank you very much indeed. the united states is offering a million dollar reward for information about the son of osama bin laden, the late leader of al-anda. us officials say hamza bin laden is emerging as the leader of the islamist militant group. in recent years, he's called on followers to take revenge

on the us and its allies for the killing of his father, who ordered the 9/11 attacks. our washington correspondent chris buckler reports. the united states has published a wanted posterfor hamza bin laden, and they believe this is the new face of al-anda. the group has been responsible for many killings and bombings, but none were more devastating than this. on september 11th 2001, its members flew planes into the twin towers of new york's world trade center. one of a series of murderous attacks on america, apparently masterminded by osama bin laden. almost two decades on, the us has new concerns about al-qaeda and its late leader's son. hamza has released audio and video messages on the internet,

calling on his followers to launch attacks against the united states and its western allies. and he has threatened attacks against the united states in revenge for the may 2011 killing of his father. after a ten—year search, osama bin laden was found at a safe house in pakistan and killed in an operation ordered by the then—president barack obama. after a firefight, they killed osama bin laden and took custody of his body. in the compound they found letters that suggested he was grooming his son hamza to succeed him, and now intelligence officials believe he is emerging as a key leader in the extremist group. today's al-qaeda is not stagnant. it's rebuilding, and it continues to threaten the united states and our allies. the us is offering $1 million for information that leads them to hamza bin laden. officials believe he could be

in afghanistan, pakistan or iran. but they admit they don't know for sure. the united states has published a wanted posterfor hamza bin laden, and they believe this is the new face of al-anda. the group has been responsible for many killings and bombings, but none were more devastating than this. on september 11th 2001, its members flew planes hundreds of pupils have been kept away from a primary school in birmingham by their parents today, in protest over lessons on same sex relationships. parkfield school, which has a majority of muslim pupils, says it's promoting diversity and inclusion. our midlands correspondent sima kotecha has the story. today, a quieter parkfield school, 600 fewer pupils out of a total of more than 700. it is being called a protest. some parents, most of whom are of muslim faith, are unhappy about the school teaching their children about same—sex relationships. telling children as long as four that it's ok to be gay, if you are a muslim, if you are a christian, itjust doesn't go with our beliefs, our rights. but there are same—sex couples in society, like there are people with different

faiths and cultures, so why not allow your child to see what reflects society? i just don't think there is a need. it is not age—appropriate. through its no outsiders programme, involving storybooks, children are introduced to characters in same—sex couples. the school wouldn't talk to us today, but in a letter seen by the bbc, that has been sent to parents, it says at no point during any teaching with the school ever encourage children to become lgbt, and at no point promote this as a specific way of life. it goes on to say no outsiders is all about saying that everybody is different, in many ways, and we should treat everybody equally, with dignity and respect. the children are due back here on monday, but some parents tell us they will permanently remove them if the school doesn't change it syllabus. relationship education is always going to be a hot topic for pa rents. parents have got a right to have their voice heard. there are lots of different

ways in which you can teach the equalities act. ofsted has previously said that all children must learn about same—sex relationships, regardless of their religious background. scientists have begun the first ever exploration below the surface of mars. nasa landed a robotic probe called insight on the red planet late last year, and after several months of checks and preparations, research is finally underway. our science editor david shukman reports. it is a mission to mars like no other. a fiery descent last november, that unfolded exactly as planned, in this nasa animation. it is a hazardous journey, that others have made before, but this time, the spacecraft touching down on the surface, has a uniquejob. so, for mission control, getting there was a huge relief. touchdown confirmed.

amid all the celebrations, they would be checking that everything is working, so the science can begin. nasa is not the only team exploring mars. others are busy there, as well. amazingly, there are six spacecraft in orbit around the red planet, taking pictures and gathering data. three from america, two from europe and one from india. but only nasa has successfully got robotic missions down onto the ground itself, and the latest to touch down is very different from the ones that have gone before. here it is. it is getting its power from solar panels, like the others, but it has a completely new type of mission. not investigating the surface of mars, but what is inside it, instead, and it is doing it with some very clever instruments. a sensor, based on the ground, is detecting seismic activity, tremors from volcanoes, for example. that is to build up

a picture of the internal structure of the planet. now, a special type of drill, has another role, to burrow underground, the deepest ever attempted on another world, five metres down, to measure the heat flowing up from the interior. it's all part of trying to understand what has happened to mars, how it formed at the same time as earth, but ended up so very different. one of the key instruments, a seismonitor, was designed and built in britain, at imperial college london, and oxford university. the highly sensitive device, that can pick up the slightest tremor to help create a snapshot, of the interior of mars. every time an earthquake goes off, it is like a flashlight, and you can use the same, imagine the same thing on mars. if there is a big enough mars quake that we can see ringing around the planet, that would be very exciting,