hello, it‘s wednesday, it‘s ten o‘clock, i‘m victoria derbyshire. our exclusive story today — an investigation for this programme has found that more than £20 million was raised on crowdfunding sites you're watching bbc news last year for cancer treatment at nine with me, annita mcveigh. the headlines: the home secretary meets police not available on the nhs. chiefs to discuss knife crime — as one of the country's most senior officers warns it should be treated as a national emergency. you just think, where am i going to get that money from? fundraising, it is an emergency, and it needs some emergency funding. fundraising, crowdfunding page, it was absolutely... it was draining. we need to have more officer hours on the streets. doctors and charities are warning mps are promised a vote that crowdfunding can put families on any changes under even more pressure to workers‘ rights after brexit, when they re at their as theresa may seeks support most vulnerable. and the biggest of them all, gofundme, says it‘s changing for her eu withdrawal deal. its website in light of our investigation. the us singer r kelly have you crowdfunded denies allegations for cancer treatment abroad? of sexual abuse in an interview on american television. how stupid would it be for me to, with my crazy past and what i've been through, "0h, right now ijust think i need to be a monster and hold girls against their will"?! lost in the wilderness —

two sisters, aged just eight and five, who spent two days missing in californian woodland describe how they survived. we found shelter, a branch close to the ground, and we had my sister's rain jacket to keep us warm. cheering and joy for the lionesses as england win the shebelieves cup for the first time after beating japan. good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. in the next half hour, the home secretary, sajid javid, will meet police chiefs from areas most affected by violent crime, amid calls for him to treat a series of fatal stabbings as a national emergency.

it comes after a spate of stabbings and a debate over the impact falling police numbers has had over crime levels. the prime minister has said there is "no direct correlation", but metropolitan police commissioner cressida dick says there is "obviously" a link between violent crime and falling police numbers. head of the national police chief's council sara thornton says more officers and more funding are needed. we think it needs to be treated as if it was an emergency. when you have an emergency, you get all the key people round the table to solve the problem. we think that needs to be done, setting up cobra with a senior minister, holding people to account, because it's not just about policing, it's all the other agencies and organisations that have an important part to play. but also we think it's an emergency and need some emergency funding. we need to have more officer hours on the streets. we know what tactics work, about targeting hotspots, about using stop and search, about tackling county lines gangs, but we just haven't got the capacity, we just haven't got the officers at the moment,

so we need some money now to pay for overtime, to pay for mutual aid between forces. but i think we also need to think about the longer term investment that we're willing to make into policing. the money this year is welcome, but there needs to be serious investment in the next spending review into policing. business secretary greg clark says he hopes the meeting would pave the way for more action to tackle knife crime. when this has been discussed in government, there is an absolute recognition of the urgency and importance of this, and it can only be solved by people coming together. i am sure sara thornton and cressida dick and others would acknowledge, they do acknowledge, that there are multiple factors that lead to this. i think it is the right thing to have this high—level meeting today,

but it is a meeting that i know is very much intended to produce a set of actions that will be implemented, that will take effect, and turn this round, and that has to be something that those of us that are not experts in this field, we must look to, and i think you see this happening, people with the experience and expertise come together to work together to solve this. last night, a teenager was charged with the murder of yousef makki. the 17—year—old was stabbed to death in greater manchester on saturday. a man has also been arrested in connection with the murder of a 17—year—old girl, jodie chesney, in east london on friday. she was attacked while playing music in a park with friends. our news correspondentjon donnison sent this from the home office. sajid javid due to meet with police chiefs from seven forces across england and wales,

from the areas worst affected by knife crime, so that includes the west midlands, greater manchester, yorkshire and of course london. and all this comes at a time when there is something of a row about the link between a fall in police numbers, there are more than 20,000 fewer police officers on the streets than there were nine years ago, and a rise in violent crime. we had the metropolitan police commissioner, cressida dick, yesterday saying that there was a clear link between the two, she said that anybody could see that. well, not apparently the prime minister, theresa may, who said there is no direct correlation between a fall in police numbers and violent crime. now, there have been some developments in terms of two high—profile cases over the past week. we have... greater manchester police have now charged a 17—year—old boy with the murder of yousef makki, who was stabbed to death

in hale barns on saturday. another 17—year—old boy has been charged with assisting an offender. both of those youths can't be named because of their age, but they are due to appear at manchester youth court later today. and then, in the case of jodie chesney, the 17—year—old girl who was stabbed in the park in east london on friday night, police say that a man has been arrested in connection with that murder in leicester, he is going to be transported down to london for questioning in due course. jon donnison reporting. counterterror police investigating three explosive devices sent to major transport hubs in london are warning workers to be vigilant for further suspicious packages. scotland yard said that images of two of the packages have been circulated to mail sorting offices and transport workers. the packages were found yesterday at heathrow airport, london city airport, and waterloo station. the ali—sized white postal bags contained yellow bags

which appeared capable of igniting a small fire when opened. the packages all had irish postmarks. the government has set out measures it says will protect workers‘ rights in the uk after brexit, as theresa may seeks labour support to pass her deal on leaving the eu. there will be a new single enforcement body to protect vulnerable and agency workers, and mps have been promised a vote on any changes to workers‘ rights after the uk has left. with me now is frances 0‘grady, the general secretary of the trades union congress. you are very welcome on bbc news this morning, you are saying the assurances are meaningless, why are you saying that when existing rides that workers here have that are currently enshrined in eu law will be transferred to uk law, this is in the withdrawal agreement? these

proposals are flimsy, they do nothing to protect workers‘ rights after brexit, they are not the cast—iron guarantee that we need, and that‘s why we‘ve been calling on the government, and it is not too late, to write those protections into the withdrawal agreement and promised that workers‘ rights in britain will at least keep pace with those rights in europe for the future. let's separate this out, are you talking about your concerns that existing rights will be eroded, or that future changes to workers‘ rights in eu law will not also apply to british workers? out - there is nothing to stop a future conservative government rating up those rights, we know theresa may will not be imposed for long, and his successors may wish to attack important rights, such as safe limits on working hours. so existing

rights are under threat, but the government is failing to guarantee that future rights will be protected, the words britain keeping pace with the rest of europe in the future. you can be outside the eu, like norway, and still stick by the rules. why on earth wouldn‘t take up sign up, in the withdrawal agreement with the eu, to sticking by those minimum standards? advice when the government says that any time in the future the eu announces a change in workers‘ rights, parliament will have a debate on those rights, you are saying that you don‘t take the government at its word, you don‘t trust it? well, the devil is in the detail, and all the government has promised to do is consider rides, improvements in rights coming from europe, a0 hours workers, new pa rents, europe, a0 hours workers, new parents, they will consider that, but they will not guarantee those

rights. —— for zero hours workers. we have minimum standards in trade deals for cars and fridges, why not for people too? advice given what you are saying, around the issue of trust, what advice would you give in to labour mps trust, what advice would you give in to labourmps in trust, what advice would you give in to labour mps in areas who voted to leave who are considering backing theresa may‘s deal if they feel she is giving them enough assurances on workers‘ rights? is giving them enough assurances on workers' rights? well, my advice to all mps is down to be taken in, look at the track record, this is the party that opposed the introduction of the minimum wage, that introduced employment tribunal fees that are priced workers out ofjustice, that made it easier to sack workers, and of course club unions with its trade union act, which made it hard for workers to stand up for the rights. why would we trust them? so what is

good enough for the tuc, something legally binding? we need legally binding written guarantees in the withdrawal agreement and the final deal. frances o'grady, thank you very much for your time this morning. new, satellite images of north korea suggest it is restoring a rocket—launch site it had pledged to dismantle, say analysts. the images were taken two days after talks between the leaders of the us and north korea ended without them reaching a deal on denuclearisation. the tongchang—ri site has been used for satellite launches and engine testing, neverfor ballistic missile launches. work to dismantle it began last year but stopped as the us talks stalled. lets talk now to our seoul correspondent laura bicker. hello to you, what are these satellite images purporting to show us? well, this is now two us think ta nks us? well, this is now two us think tanks and also evidence from south

korean intelligence services which suggest that building work is taking place on this rocket launch site. now, the building work itself seems to be part of the rocket launch pad, and that is one of the reasons why many people are concerned, but as you have just said, many people are concerned, but as you havejust said, this many people are concerned, but as you have just said, this was a satellite launch station, it was never used for launching ballistic missiles. however, it was used for testing the engines that were put into ballistic missiles, and it is a breach of un sanctions, continuing to co nstru ct breach of un sanctions, continuing to construct this site, and also when it comes down to it, the timing of this is rather unfortunate, because it comes off the back of the collapsed talks in hanoi between donald trump and kim jong—un. collapsed talks in hanoi between donald trump and kim jong-un. so more than symbolic, although it certainly is that, and in breach of those sanctions, so put this discovery and context for us, laura, given the unsuccessful conclusion to the summit in hanoi last week. this

is worth watching, but it is not an indication that north korea is getting ready to gear up and test another missile. what it is right now is perhaps a shot across the bow, a message, a signal to donald trump that not only can we dismantle these sites very quickly but we can rebuild them as well. so it is may bea rebuild them as well. so it is may be a kind of message from north korea to donald trump, if indeed thatis korea to donald trump, if indeed that is what pyongyang wants to do, but it is also one of these moments we re but it is also one of these moments were north korean analysts are sitting back and going, we are slightly concerned about the way things are, slightly concerned about the lack of momentum, and certainly here in seoul, it will be a message to president moon‘s administration, who is seeking talks between the united states and north korea, it will spur them into action a little bit more. the former boss of nissan, carlos ghosn, has been released on bail. he had been held for more than a hundred days, facing charges of financial misconduct.

the bail was set yesterday at a billion yen, that‘s $9 million, but his release was delayed after the prosecution appealed. millions of vulnerable people could struggle to have easy access to coins and notes as we move towards a cashless society. the use of cards has increased while a record number of cash machines and bank branches are closing, according to a new report. the access to cash review calls on the government to guarantee people are able to access money locally and ensure premises continue to accept it. 0ur personal finance correspondent simon gompertz has more. just outside ipswich — a cashless pub. you have to pay by card or smartphone. they save 15 hours a week not having to count the takings and drive them to the bank. we have greatly reduced the management time spent dealing with cashing up, also getting to the banks to get change. theft has been eradicated,

security issues, so we have no, zero theft from either staff and or robbers coming in, and the insurance premiums are a lot lower. in ipswich itself, there‘s still the opposite, a pub which only takes cash, and plenty of people who don‘t want to do without it. i do window cleaning, so you're dealing with a lot of cash. so i would say it would definitely be a problem. perhaps maybe they are housebound and they need someone to get something, give them cash, because i don‘t think it is safe in these days to give your card out. we are already seeing that the cash infrastructure is showing signs of collapse. i don't think we have more than a couple of years before something that's really important to the uk, ourability to get cash and spend cash, is in seriousjeopardy. this is about smoothing the transition to a world with hardly any notes or coins. the boot pub is showing the way. the only cash you see

here is the tips. the headlines on bbc news. the home secretary will meet police chiefs amid warnings from senior officers that knife crime is now a national emergency. mps are promised a vote on any changes to workers‘ rights after brexit, as theresa may seeks support for her eu withdrawal deal. new satellite images of north korea suggest it is restoring a rocket launch site it had pledged to dismantle. in it had pledged to dismantle. sport, england‘s wom the in sport, england‘s women have won the shebelieves cup, they beat japan 3-0 the shebelieves cup, they beat japan 3—0 in florida and seem to be hitting form just in time for the world cup in june. hitting form just in time for the world cup injune. real madrid, though, are out of the champions league, the kings of europe beaten bya league, the kings of europe beaten by a young ajax side at the burner bow last week. —— last night. but spurs are through, harry kane

delighted with his own performance and that goal, the first british tea m and that goal, the first british team through to the next stage of the competition. more sport at 9:a0, i will see you then. the government is reportedly set to cut trade tariffs on up to 90% of imports in the event of a no—deal brexit. tariffs are the charges imposed on goods which cross borders in the absence of a free trade arrangement. the charges are expected to remain for sensitive sectors including cars, textiles, beef, lamb and diary products. the cuts would be intended to protect consumers from price rises. the government says it will make an announcement once a decision is finalised. our business correspondent dom 0‘connell is with me now in the studio. dom, tariffs, a term that we bandy about quite a lot, but what are they, what is their function?” don‘t think people have banned ddt

word tariff around since the 1970s, it has been out of fashion for a long time! suddenly we are talking about our own trade deals, it is not the responsibility of the eu, a tariff is something that you pay if you import something from outside the uk, and if! you import something from outside the uk, and if i tariff is applied, it isa the uk, and if i tariff is applied, it is a tax, if you like, on the cost of the good if it is from outside the uk. historically, ta riffs have always outside the uk. historically, tariffs have always been about protecting your car industry, say, from cheap competition from overseas. further up the scale, there are things called dumping duties, where if you think someone is producing something and economically, making a loss to damage or industry, you put a very big tariff, sometimes chinese steel is an example of that. —— producing something uneconomically. chinese b i cycles, something uneconomically. chinese bicycles, also, dumping duties of up to a0%. it is a tricky thing, and we believe the government will scrap 90% of all tariffs, most of them very small, but some quite

significant and will put manufacturers in the uk at a bit of a disadvantage, they will face competition from outside the uk went no tariff applies. the government says this is to protect consumers from price rises, but the businesses, manufacturers that are based in the uk, they must be extremely worried about this. they will be, because first of all there is competition on the finished goods, so if you are having to export and pay a tariff selling in the uk, and your competition from outside doesn‘t, then of course you are not on a level playing field. but then you might import a lot of raw materials, but the government has a difficult decision to make, because the uk imports a lot of food, most of its manufactured goods. do you want to get a whole load of inflation added to the price of those goods because you are banging tariffs on them? you don‘t, because inflation would be a big fear post—brexit.

because inflation would be a big fear post-brexit. and this underlines the uncertainty of businesses and manufacturers that they have been talking about for months, they simply don‘t know what position the business is going to bn after the 29th of march. cynics might suggest that these government league is part of project fear ahead of the vote next week, trying to persuade mps to vote in favour of a deal. but it is a very real concern for a lot of manufacturers, we spoke to the boss of brompton banks, who are very worried about cheap chinese bikes coming to the uk, because at the moment, there would be eu anti—dumping duties that no longer apply, so a situation that might change, and not long to go until that brexit died, it doesn‘t give manufacturers any time to prepare for a world without tariffs. something we will watch very closely, dom, thank you very much. the us singer r kelly has angrily denied allegations of sexual abuse during an interview on american television. speaking to the cbs host,

gayle king, the r&b star, whose real name is robert sylvester kelly insisted he was not guilty of ten charges of aggravated sexual abuse against four alleged victims — three of whom were underage. is this camera on me? yes, it‘s on. that‘s stupid! use your common sense. don‘t... forget the blogs, forget how you feel about me. hate me if you want to, love me if you want, butjust use your common sense. how stupid would it be for me to, with my crazy past and what i‘ve been through, "0h, right now ijust think i need to be a monster and hold girls against their will"?! slow ambulance response times to the most serious call—outs in rural areas in britain is putting lives at risk, a bbc investigation has found. in some rural communities, patients are waiting more than 20 minutes on average for help with cardiac arrests, seizures and major blood loss, despite national targets of six to eight minutes. john 0wen has more. ambulance service,

is the patient breathing? when dealing with high—priority emergencies in a place like rural herefordshire, the challenges can be considerable. i personally liken it to playing a game of chess, really, in that you‘re constantly moving people around, trying to get to the patients in the quickest possible time. for the most serious emergencies, seconds count. figures obtained by the bbc show that in rural communities, critically injured patients or patients with life—threatening conditions like cardiac arrest wait an average of four minutes longer for an ambulance than patients in urban areas. time that could mean the difference between a life saved and a life lost. ambulances are supposed to attend the most serious category one emergencies in an average of seven minutes. and while in urban areas ambulance services often outperform that target, the bbc‘s analysis found that in some rural areas the average wait time is over 20 minutes.

anthony marsh, chair of the association of ambulance chief executives, acknowledges that emergencies in rural areas are sometimes harder to reach quickly. in those examples, it is important to understand the excellent services that our control room staff deliver to provide pre—arrival advice while the ambulance and while the paramedics are en route. ambulance services also point out other methods that they use to reach patients in rural areas quickly, like community first—responders, volunteers who work to provide first aid to emergency call—outs, and partnering with police and fire services. john 0wen, bbc news. we will be telling you more about that during the morning briefing at 9:30am. the use of facial recognition technology is being trialled in prisons to help identify visitors

smuggling drugs and mobile phones to inmates. the system has already been put to use at one prison in yorkshire, whilst elsewhere two other ukjails have been using biometric technology to identity documents and scan irises. our home affairs correspondent danny shaw reports. using the latest technology in prisons to stop drugs being smuggled in. this is a demonstration by a prison officer of an iris scanner. it was piloted at hmp lindholm in south yorkshire to check the identity of visitors. and this is facial recognition technology trialled at humber prison. the cameras could help spot people with fake identities and flag those making repeat visits, bringing contra band in for different prisoners. some visitors at humber turned back in case they were caught. they have come in,

they have seen the new system, they have seen that it is all photographs and face watch and they have just walked away and not gone through the booking. although the vast majority of prison visits are genuine, intelligence work has identified it as a key route for bringing in drugs, and ministers say that biometric systems they have piloted could be the solution. they are working in terms of identifying people who shouldn‘t be visiting prisons. they are also acting as a deterrent to those who shouldn‘t be visiting prisons. so the evidence does point to that, and if that continues to be the case as we go on, then i think that is something that we will see more widely used. technology has also been used to verify id documents, but penal reformers say it may miss the point. they say highly trained staff and purposeful prisons are the best way to cut drugs and violence. imagine having perfect sight but not being able to recognise other people‘s faces — even your relatives and close friends. that‘s the reality for people with prosopagnosia,

also known as face blindness. it is a condition which affects around one in 50 people in the uk. 0ur wales correspondentjordan davies has been to meet boo james, who has lived with face blindness all her life. meeting your partner in a coffee shop should be a piece of cake, but for boo james, it can be a challenge. she has face blindness, a condition which means she can‘t recognise people‘s faces — friends, family, even her own reflection. i have definitely been on a bus having someone waving at me, not knowing who it was, and then later discovering that was possibly my mother through conversation and other such happenings, so even close family are not safe. but what is even more extraordinary is that boo only discovered she had the condition in her a0s. i used to explain this to myself by thinking that i actually did not like other people. if i met them and liked them,

and they did not cling to my memory, how interested was i? so i decided i should not actually mix with people much if that was the level of interest i had in them. it is difficult to describe how those with the condition see faces. i can see the component parts of the face, i can see there is a nose, i can see their eyes and a mouth and ears in various features, but it is very difficult for my brain to hold them all together as an image of a face. for example, i am looking at your face now but if i then turned away, i would find they had very little picture of what i have just seen. so if ijust showed you this person? no, no idea at all. can you tell me what maybe you are picking up there? well, i can see is an older gentleman, he has got the lines around the eyes. i think the eyebrows ought to be distinctive, perhaps they are to other people.

if i told you this was donald trump. really, so that is what he looks like? the president of america. and now researchers in wales are looking to learn more about prosopagnosia, its official title. scientists at swansea university are looking for people who think they may have the condition to take part in their new research. if we can work out exactly which part of the brain is going wrong, then we can start to look at the mediation of this problem, so we are looking at here in swansea are developing a rehabilitation programme for people with prosopagnosia. for boo, there is no real treatment for the condition at the moment, but she hopes better awareness of face blindness could make something as simple as a walk in a busy park a little less daunting. jordan davies, bbc news. in a moment the weather, but first here‘s victoria derbyshire with what she‘s got coming up in her programme at ten.

good morning, our exclusive story today, a staggering £20 million was raised on crowdfunding sites last yearfor cancer raised on crowdfunding sites last year for cancer treatment not available on the nhs. you just think, where am i going to get that money from? it was like fundraising, fundraising, crowdfunding, it was just absolutely — it was... it was draining. doctors and charities are warning that crowdfunding can put families under even more pressure on when they are at their most vulnerable. also, last week to make room and told us they were abused by michaeljackson, quote, hundreds of times. today michaeljackson‘s nephew defends his dead uncle over the claims. join us at ten on bbc two, the bbc news channel and online. that is victoria at ten o‘clock, right now matt taylor has the weather forecast.

quite a lot of rain across the uk at the moment, a lot across scotland, with its hills now, a chilly day, the worst of the rain from northern ireland, clusters of showers working northwards and eastwards across wales and much of england during the day, some heavy with hail and thunder. sunshine between the showers this afternoon, 15 degrees potentially on the east of england compared to six or seven in the north of scotland, and that will work southwards to the next 2a hours, certainly tonight a chilly night across scotland and northern ireland, outbreaks of rain and hills now spreading into the north later. clear skies in the south, the best of thursday morning, if you showers around, some in southern counties of england and wales could stay dry all day, easing to something brighter later in the afternoon, not a pretty day in the north of england, scotland, the midlands, feeling much

colder tomorrow, especially in the breeze. bye for now. hello this is bbc news, the headlines. the home secretary meets police chiefs to discuss knife crime as one of the country‘s most senior officers warns it should be treated as a national emergency. it is an emergency and it needs emergency funding. we need to have more office hours on the streets. mps are promised a vote on any changes to workers‘ rights after brexit, as theresa may seeks support for her eu withdrawal deal. new satellite images of north korea suggest it is restoring

a rocket launch site it had pledged to dismantle. the us singer r kelly denies allegations of sexual abuse in an interview on american television. how stupid would it be for me to, with my crazy past and what i‘ve been through, "0h, right now ijust think i need to be a monster and hold girls against their will"?! and social media star kyliejenner becomes the world‘s youngest self—made billionaire at the age of twenty—one thanks to her line of cosmetics. time now for the morning briefing, where we bring you up to speed on the stories people are watching, reading and sharing. as the home secretary, sajid javid, meets police forces this morning, the conversation surrounding how best to tackle knife crime continues. 0n bbc breakfast, sarah thornton, chair of the national police chiefs‘ council and donna murray—turner, who chairs the croydon safer neighbourhood board, have been discussing the issue and the role of the police. the police that are in position now

should really be targeting and working on how their officers engage with the community. it is not enough to just see a young person, you can put more officers on the street, but who is going to engage with them? we currently have a real problem with the great wall of silence when somebody is stabbed. that is never going to change if the way that they engage with the community doesn‘t change. let‘s ask sarah about this. you would have been listening to what donna was saying there and it is moving the conversation on from just numbers on the street, arrests so to speak, to what is happening in day—to—day life, that engagement. i would agree completely that it is about local officers, neighbourhood officers, building relationships with local communities. that will make a difference. but the difficulty that we have is we just haven't got the capacity, we haven't got the numbers to do that in the way that we would like to. i agree completely with the approach but my point is we just haven't got the ability to do that sort of preventative, proactive patrol in communities which we know is so valued. donna, do you want

to come back on that? i disagree. i believe that if you have the will to make it work, if the investment in a person is genuine enough, they can make it work. it is a lot of commitment, it is a lot of man hours and it is sacrifice but if we really want to change it... with man hours this is what sarah thornton is making the point about, with man hours you need more staff, you need more police to be able to have the time to engage. i understand and i hear her point, but in croydon we have officers who do it in their own time, who come to community meetings in their own time because they want to be part of that and they want to give their voice and they want to hear more importantly what the community says and feels and take that back to their role, so they give of their own time. when you hear sarah thornton making a very valid point, about police numbers, do you think that police are not seeing things, and i will come back to sarah on this as well, do you think the police are not seeing things from your point of view? it‘s just like we will solve it with more funding and more numbers and that will not make the difference that

you are hoping it will make? i think they do see things from my point of view, i think they fully understand that more community engagement is needed. where i think the gap is, is they don‘t want to have it because when you have community engagement you have accountability and that can sometimes be a very uncomfortable process and not everybody wants to go through that. let‘s take that back to sarah, donna is making a very valid point. what would you like to say on this? of course police numbers are part of the solution, but they are not the only part of the solution. i think the sort of engagement that donna is talking about with communities is absolutely essential. we need to be asking ourselves why does a child take a knife to use against another child? the answers to that are very complex and it needs to involve a whole range of people to solve this problem and to stop killing now. another of our top stories this morning is that mps have been promised a vote on any changes to workers‘ rights after brexit. protecting employment rights has been one of the main demands made by labour mps, who theresa may is trying to persuade to support her withdrawal deal.

trade unions have already dismissed the assurances as meaningless. the business secretary greg clark outlined the government‘s proposals. one of the things that the prime minister has said is that once we leave the european union, we will continue to be a leader in workers‘ rights and we have no intention of dilluting them. but people in the house of commons have said, ok, that is an assurance, but how can we take that into something concrete so that it is valid for years into the future? and so in response to some suggestions actually from across the other side of the house of commons we have said, ok, we can see that that assurance would be appropriate to give and so this mechanism to make sure that parliament has a clear say is going to be introduced. i think it is a good step,

it is a pragmatic step to really underline his commitment that has been given but it now underline this commitment that has been given but it now entrenches that in parliament. now let‘s take a look at some of the most—read and most—watched stories on bbc online. at number one is that access to cash story we have already told you about this morning, basically saying that people should be able to pay by cash for various services and products and also have access to cash in the first place via atms and local banks and concerns raised in this report, that people, especially the elderly and more vulnerable, it may not be able to get that access to cash as we move towards a cashless society. number three is about ambulance services and an investigation by the bbc into ambulance response times in

various parts of the uk. if you want to check out what ambulance response times i like in your area scroll down in that story and you can see in colour a place where you can enter your postcode or click on the map and find out about the response times in yourarea. map and find out about the response times in your area. a quick look at what you are watching on the bbc news website. at number three is this great story about the two little sisters in california missing a2 days and how they kept themselves say. just eight and five, and we will have that story coming up in the next few minutes. that is it for the next few minutes. that is it for the morning briefing. a little bit of breaking news from the electoral commission which has announced that the grassroots group momentum has been fined almost £17,000 for what

it says i am multiple breaches of electoral law. momentum, which supports the labour leaderjeremy corbyn, fined £16,700 for multiple breaches of electoral law. that is from the electoral commission. now it is time for the sport and a full round—up from the bbc sports centre. what a marvellous one for the lionesses and great timing before the world cup. good morning. let‘s start with england‘s women who‘ve won the shebelieves cup in the us. they did it by beating japan 3—0, it‘s arguably their biggest success to date and comes at a perfect time, with the world cup kicking off in france injune. jo currie was watching in florida. england are lighting up the world stage. lifting the shebelieves cup, their biggest trophy to date, and what‘s more in a world cup year.

an occasion to celebrate. champions against the odds. obviously we are delighted. you can see from the celebrations in the changing rooms, lots of music and dancing. i think for us, we are tired, but at the same time we are looking forward at what is to come over the next few months. most importantly, enjoy tonight. ready to pounce, the lionesses started with confidence, encapsulated by lucy stanfiorth‘s strike from outside the area, which settled the nerves early on. minutes later, england were at it again. this time, veteran karen carney with a pinpoint header to put them further ahead. beth mead, one of the younger players, will be desperate to book her place at this summer‘s the world cup. she showed exact why she is worth her spot with her second eye—catching goal of the tournament. after the change of ends, they continue lionesses continued the lionesses continued to hunt for more goals. chioma ubogagu going closest, but they could not add to their 3—0 lead.

not that it mattered. the manner of england‘s performance in this match and throughout the tournament underlines this team‘s coming of age. you enjoy moments like these. you don‘t get many moments in your life where you get your hands on a trophy. it is my first as a manager, the first for some of these younger players and we‘re going to enjoy tonight. the thing about lifting trophies is it raises expectations. but the more you get your hands on the silverware, the better you handle the pressure. and the celebrations continued in the dressing room. england on a real upwards curve at the moment, fingers crossed for the world cup which starts in france injune. what a night in the champions league — the kings of europe, real madrid, are out. they‘ve absolutely dominated this competition in recent years, winning the last three in a row, but they were taken apart by ajax who scored some cracking goals at the bernabeu. they won 5—3 on aggregate, a—1 on the night, that‘s real‘s

biggest home defeat in a european knockout game and their grip on the famous trophy has finally been broken. no such problems though for spurs, they‘re the first english side through to the quarter finals. keeper hugo loris was in inspired form as they completed a dominant two—leg win over borussia dortmund, harry kane with the only goal of the night as they won 1—0 on the night, a—0 on aggregate. well, this morning the spurs boss mauricio pochettino has been fined £10,000 and given a two match touchline ban, after accepting an improper conduct charge following tottenham‘s loss to burnley in the premier league last month. that news is just n. the champions league dominates this morning‘s back pages. the times focuses on what it call‘s real madrid‘s "humiliation". what next for that man, gareth bale, lots of talk about his future in the last couple of weeks. the guardian one of a few papers to carry that picture of harry kane,

he‘s now spurs‘ top scorer in european competiton. and the mirror looks forward to tonight, manchester united 2—0 down to paris saint germain going into their second leg, 0le gunnar solskjaer rekons they can pull off a shock. and there‘s full match commentary live from paris on bbc radio 5 live from 7 o‘clock tonight. england won the first twenty—twenty international against the west indies. tom curran got four wickets as the west indies set england 161 to win in st lucia and it was jonny bairstow who was the star with the bat, his 68 was his best in a t20 international as england won by a wickets. a major boycott is set to effect today‘s race meeting at lingfield. 0nly seventeen runners remain for the six scheduled races with trainers and owners calling for a boycott due to an ongoing row over prize money. three of the races will

have just two runners. before we leave you, how about this from the former england and chelsea captain john terry on social media. it was pancake day. yes, that is john terry flipping his blanket from his pan onto his feet and then back again. iam his pan onto his feet and then back again. i am not sure his pan onto his feet and then back again. iam not sure i fancy his pan onto his feet and then back again. i am not sure i fancy eating that. that is all from me, more at quarter past 11. he does know he is supposed to eat them, not play football with them, doesn‘t he? iam not doesn‘t he? i am not so sure. 0ld habits die hard. i am not so sure. 0ld habits die ha rd. let‘s i am not so sure. 0ld habits die hard. let‘s turn to the breaking news that momentum has been fined for multiple breaches of electoral law. let‘s get more on this with our assistant political editor, norman smith. what are these beaches that

it has been fined for. these are breaches for not declaring while spending, inadequate record—keeping, not providing sufficient invoices, not providing sufficient invoices, not declaring all donations received, something like £22,000, including around £10,000 from the transport and salaried staff association, which has resulted in a fine of £16,700. that may not see massive in comparison to some of the fines meted out to other major political parties, but it is the largest fine ever imposed on a nonparty campaign group. the criticism of the electoral commission is of poor book—keeping, or failing commission is of poor book—keeping, orfailing to respond commission is of poor book—keeping, or failing to respond to advice and requests from the electoral commission. they are particularly critical of momentum because it is a full—time political campaigning group. in other words, the

implication is they should have known better. but i am sure it will be seized on byjeremy corbyn‘s critics to again raise doubts about momentum which has attracted criticism and allegations of being a party within the party. but it is a significant fine, the largest ever imposed on a nonparty political organisation. assess for us how powerful and how influential you think momentum is in british political life at the moment. think momentum is in british political life at the momentm think momentum is in british political life at the moment. it has a significant role at the moment because of the support it provides forjeremy corbyn at a grassroots level where he draws most of his support from. in the parliamentary party probably a large number of labour mps party probably a large number of labourmps are party probably a large number of labour mps are deeply critical of jeremy corbyn. their ability to move against him to try and redirect his political trajectory is significantly curbed by the very evident supportjeremy corbyn has at

grassroots level and the fact he has 12 successive leadership contests by huge margins in large part because of the mobilisation, organisation and campaigning of momentum. they area and campaigning of momentum. they are a critical part ofjeremy corbyn‘s political success and they play a significant role in british politics for that reason. norman smith responding to the news about momentum being fined by the electoral commission. last year, 285 people were stabbed to death in england and wales, the highest number since records began and one in five people found carrying a knife, were under the age of 18. after two more teenagers lost their lives at the weekend — lost their lives at the weekend, what more can be done to tackle the problem? steve barnabis, ran a youth centre in walthamstow which was used as a safe space by young people, here‘s his story. (tx next) we had about a00 young people who

used to visit on a weekly basis and it was a safe space for them to go. it has been a year since the centre close and i am still getting contact know from parents asking about where are we? what are we doing? what projects are we running? i their places by the young people to go? this is a road that was branded a few years ago, two years ago, as being one of the worst roads in the whole of the uk. there were two killings, the crime rate was high. but for us it was where a lot of our young people came from. with the cuts we are young people came from. with the cuts we are concerned young people came from. with the cuts we are concerned with the most serious crimes that we might have to respond to, rather than the community projects and the community work that we need to be involved in as well. the biggest thing that needs to be addressed is investment

in young people, people taking the time and having an interest in what is happening to young people. there are so many good things around the area and so many good projects that ino area and so many good projects that i no longer about. there is no one fixed thing that will solve this problem. steve barnabas. steve barnabas. two californian girls, aged just eight and five, who spent almost two days in the wild before being discovered have been speaking for the first time about their extraordinary survival. the sisters were reunited with their families on sunday after a successful search and rescue operation. charlotte simpson has more. it was starting to drizzle, so i knew we had to find shelter fast. finally back in their parents‘ arms, dehydrated but safe and well. leia and caroline carrico wandered into woods near their home in the small community of benbow on friday. but the sisters lost their way, following a deer trail

that took them far beyond a safety marker their parents had told them not to pass. we sort of forgot that no—one should pass that marker, but leia just wanted a little more adventure. aa hours later, a team of rescuers found the girls huddled under a bush nearly one and a half miles from where they‘d started. we found shelter, a tree branch close to the ground. and we had my sister‘s rain jacket to keep us warm. we turned it sideways so each of us had an arm hole that we stuck our arms into. aged just eight and five, leia and caroline used wilderness training they‘d learned at youth club to help them survive, drinking water from leaves and eating cereal bars they‘d brought with them. they did the right thing. i mean, they might‘ve wandered off, but they stuck together and they pulled themselves through. they saved each other.

the local sheriff said it was a miracle the girls had been found, glad that for once this was a story that had a happy ending. i‘m very happy ending indeed. kylie jenner has become the world‘s youngest self—made billionaire at the age of 21. the reality television star and entrepreneur has joined the exclusive rich list published each year by financial magazine forbes. she founded her beauty products company — kylie cosmetics — just three years ago. a warning — there‘s some flash photography in this report from tim allman. # worked hard for the money, so hard for the money, so you better treat us for the money, so you better treat us right. she is a social media phenomenon, but it turns out she is also an

extremely canny businesswoman. to be fair, kyliejenner was extremely canny businesswoman. to be fair, kylie jenner was hardly extremely canny businesswoman. to be fair, kyliejenner was hardly a proper to begin with, but there is rich and then there is really rich. kyliejenner puts rich and then there is really rich. kylie jenner puts my rich and then there is really rich. kyliejenner puts my introduction to being a billionaire is something that has shocked all of us and it is really something. we call her the first selfie billionaire and it really speaks to the way that people can make businesses these days.” really speaks to the way that people can make businesses these days. i am going to show you howl can make businesses these days. i am going to show you how i get ready on twitter, so keep watching. i am going to use this really pretty pink. she made her business through regular appearances on instagram, twitter and youtube. with a relatively small staff kylie cosmetics sold more than $360 million worth of make—up last year alone. that means she has become a billionaire two yes faster than the previous record holder, mark zuckerberg. he had to wait until the

grand old age of 23. but she is some way off the top spot, that position is held by amazon founderjeff bizos, who is worth $131 billion. kylie is not complaining, she told the magazine the recognition feels really good, nice pat on the back. the recognition feels really good, nice pat on the back. today is bbc young reporter news day. it s a day when the bbc works with hundreds of young people, giving them the chance to get involved in skills workshops and training, as well as opportunities to tell their own stories. 16—year—old jake has been telling his story about being a dj with a twist. he performs at parties using makaton, it s a sign language commonly used by cbeebies mr tumble as a form of basic sign language. dj jay, as he s known, applied for the bbc young reporter competition and made it through to the final. here s his story. i always start my show with, "hello, my name is dj. i‘m also going to do dance,

i‘m going to do singing." 16—year—old jake is a dj with a difference. i‘m the first makaton—friendly dj in the uk all round. and that basically means i can do makaton in my performances and include people. makaton is a simplified sign language mainly known for using by mr tumble. he‘s made it world—famous. adults and children can use it. it‘s just simplified, it‘s easier. 0k, we‘re going to do some signing and some singing to the song, this is me, from the greatest showman. does everybody know that song? yeah! yeah? sometimes if a child‘s deaf i can sign songs to them, so they can hear the song, they can feel the beat, they can feel the music. it‘s just an amazing reaction when the kids smile and they can see you communicate with them. i can do this is me from the greatest showman. how long did it take you to perfect that? well, it took me about four months. it was the first song i ever learned.

and there is a special person who convinced jake to take up makaton and include it in his act. it‘s alice my little cousin. alice has down‘s syndrome. and ever since we were little we have always had a close bond, a special bond. and when i saw her, i thought, i‘m an entertainer, i can do it. she makes me laugh, she makes me smile and ijust love being around her. but alice isn‘t his only fan. what do you make of this disco? amazing. they're not leaving anyone out. they're getting everyone to be involved. and that‘s really important, isn‘t it? yeah. you're all taking part. it's not one person. we're all in a group and we're all having fun, basically. i want everyone to be included and just have fun and have laughter and have what every other child will have at a party.

well done to jake. you can find stories by other young reporters throughout the day on the bbc and on the bbc young reporter website — bbc. co. uk/youngreporter coming up on the victoria derbyshire programme is an exclusive report on crowdfunding for cancer patients, the impact on them and their families. she will also be talking to michaeljackson‘s nephew. she will also be talking to michaeljackson‘s nephew. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with simon king. it has been a miserable start to the day and many of us have had some rain and there will be miserable clouds this morning. blustery wind as well making those waves crash onto the beach. low pressure firmly in charge of the weather at the moment and as we go through the day

it will not move very far and you can see there is a weather front bringing rain across scotland and northern ireland. we have also had some hill snow in scotland and that will be welcome for the scottish ski resorts. heavy showers in the south—west. these showers will be heavy and thundery with hail and it will move its way eastwards. limited sunny spells and the rain in scotla nd sunny spells and the rain in scotland and northern ireland will continue with more snow. quite chilly, temperature is about 7—9. in the south—east and wales it is 13-15, the south—east and wales it is 13—15, on the mild side. that rain will drag its way further south and east overnight and still some hill snow and clear spells towards the south. temperatures getting down to a-6. this south. temperatures getting down to a—6. this area of low pressure will edge its way out into the north sea on thursday and then the wind

changes direction and comes more from a northerly direction. that cold air locked in over the arctic will move further south, and it will become chillier as we go through thursday. still some showers across scotland, northern part of england and wales. still some hill snow. brighter skies in scotland, northern ireland and to the south of england. but a big contrast in temperatures. then on into friday and a ridge of high pressure becomes established in the morning before this next weather system the morning before this next weather syste m m oves the morning before this next weather system moves in from the west. we will start off on a chilly note on friday morning with a bit of frost around and that will disappear. the cloud increases from the west and outbreaks of rain move in by the end of the day into western areas and maximum temperatures between 8—11. at the weekend it stays unsettled

and there will be a strong wind around over the weekend. it will continue to feel rather chilly after today‘s temperatures of 13—15.