hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. police in england and wales are being given greater stop and search powers to tackle this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines at nine: rising knife crime. theresa may considers her next move police in england and wales to break the brexit deadlock are being given greater stop and search powers to tackle following the latest defeat of her withdrawal plan. rising knife crime. there's been a sharp rise in the number of adults calling a national helpline for the children of alcoholic parents, it's a very important tool. it's a according to figures seen by the bbc. vital tool in fighting serious the founder of facebook, violence. i want police officers to mark zuckerberg, calls feel more comfortable to use it so for governments to play a more active role in regulating they can protect more communities. theresa may considers her next move to break the brexit deadlock following the latest defeat of her withdrawal plan. there's been a sharp rise in the number of adults calling a national helpline for the children of alcoholic parents, according to figures seen by the bbc in sport, we'll have reaction as huddersfield are relegated from the premier league, thejoint earliest in the league's history. and our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9.35. this morning's reviewers

are anne ashworth, associate editor at the times, and political commentator james millar. stay with us for that. good morning. new stop and search powers are being given to police in england and wales to try and tackle rising knife crime. the home secretary, sajid javid, is making it easierfor officers to intervene where they think serious violence may occur. but opponents say it's intrusive and won't work. our home affairs correspondent, danny shaw has more. another knife off the streets. this 3.5 inch blade was found when a young man was stopped and searched in north london. now police in the seven areas worst affected by knife crime will be able to carry out more

searches, because the government is relaxing rules brought in when theresa may was home secretary. the whole government agree that stop and search is a vital power. we still, of course, want it to be targeted and focused and intelligence—led, which it will be. but with these new increased powers, we all agree, including the prime minister, this is exactly what is needed to help fight the rise in serious violence. under the changes, police will be able to search anyone in areas where they believe serious violence may occur. police inspectors can approve the powers rather than more senior officers. police say stop and search acts as a deterrent, helping to prevent violence and keeping weapons off the streets, but it's an intrusive tactic and highly controversial. too many of my experiences and stories i've heard have been very unpleasant, which leads to feeling a lot of tension between police and the young people to the point where you have young,

innocent civilians running away from police just to avoid being stopped and searched. but for the vast bulk of knife searches police conduct, they need reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying a weapon and those powers remain the same. danny shaw, bbc news. we are going to talk in a few minutes to an expert on knife crime. he's a community activist in the borough of hounslow in west london. he's also a school governor and speaks to schools on youth violence. last year he had a video go viral, in which he and his teenage son demonstrated how to avoid being a victim of knife crime by running away. before speaking to garvin, let's take a look at that video.

iam here i am here today with my son and i am teaching him how to defend himself if anybody attacks him. here we go. step one, here is the knife. someone pulls out a knife on you. come on then xxx ——! there is no shame in running away. if someone pulls out a knife on you, get the hell out of there. get as far away as possible. there is no shame in that. there are too many brave people in the morgue, too many brave people in the morgue, too many brave people in the morgue, too many brave people end up dead. our young people are being killed at left, right and centre. if someone pulls a knife on you, get away as fast as you can. that video went viral. we will be talking to him in just a couple of minutes about stop and search and what he thinks of those new powers that the police are being given to use stop and search. we can actually go to him now.

garvin joins we can actually go to him now. garvinjoins us now. we werejust watching your video. as we said, it went viral. what do you think of the increased use of stop and search? when it is used in the correct manner, there is no problem. every little bit helps at the end of the day. i grew up in an area in the 90s where you always felt being young and black was enough to be stopped and black was enough to be stopped and searched. i don't want to go back to that kind of environment. if it is intelligence led stop and searches, yeah. if my son wants to come home and say they have been stopped and searched, i prefer that than a policeman knocking on my door to say my son or daughter have been stabbed. when you say intelligence led, what do you mean? that the police have to have good reason to stop and search somebody? yeah, in my area i sit on a committee with the police. you have got the local

police officers that control the area, control that ward. they will have a mobile number which residents can have. so if they see any activities going on in the area, someone activities going on in the area, someone is looking suspicious, they can call the police directly and the police can look for them. that system there where it is more intelligence led, rather than just willy—nilly is hurting anyone. because in the past the criticism of stop and search is that it has exacerbated tensions in some areas? yeah. if we are going to have more police on the streets you have to have more familiar police in certain areas, the police that know their patch, know their ward, areas, the police that know their patch, know theirward, know areas, the police that know their patch, know their ward, know who they are dealing with. the people who live within that community know them as well. when i was younger we had several local police officers who would come into the youth centre and do different stop and search talks. you got to familiarise

yourself with them, you got to know their faces, yourself with them, you got to know theirfaces, built yourself with them, you got to know their faces, built up trust. yourself with them, you got to know theirfaces, built up trust. now yourself with them, you got to know their faces, built up trust. now you don't really see police patrolling the streets at all. you might see them driving through. if it is more a community police officers and police officers that know their areas and know the young people, or the older people in the area, they will build a better relationship between the general public and the police. you say you were stopped and searched when you were younger. and your son, who is 14, has been stopped and searched. do you mind if he is stopped and searched?” stopped and searched. do you mind if he is stopped and searched? i tell my son. if you get stopped and searched, you have got nothing to hide. you have got certain questions you can ask them. their name, their badge number, for your own security. just co—operate, let them get on with theirjob and move on. if you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about. to what extent will increasing these powers

deal with the issue of knife crime and the rise we have seen in knife crime? it may have a slight little deterrents. i don't think it is one thing. idid deterrents. i don't think it is one thing. i did an interview last week with this cressida dick, and they have got £100 million for it police. more community spaces. do more things in these communities because a lot of these knife crime is happening in the poorer parts of london. why don't we try to do something to raise the aspirations of these young people, and try to create something, rather than just saying, we will throw more police on the streets? all they will do is mop it up after the incident. let's try to prevent the incidents happening in the first place. good to talk to you. thank you so much for being with us. thank you. no thank you.

the prime minister is considering her next move in the brexit process, ahead of yet another decisive week in the commons. her withdrawal agreement was defeated for a third time on friday. despite that, theresa may is thought to be considering putting the deal back to the commons as soon as tuesday. that vote could be impacted by tomorrow's indicative votes, when mps consider another round of brexit alternatives. the front running options for a majority are expected to be a customs union and a second referendum, although parliament didn't find consensus on either of those ideas last week. 0ur political correspondent, jonathan blake, joins me now. first of all, the prime minister this weekend mulling over her options. how do you see her decision making going? we are told the prime minister is having conversations this weekend and it remains her ambition to try to get her deal

negotiated with the european union, passed in the house of commons. it has been defeated heavily twice. and then by a slightly narrower margin, at least the withdrawal agreement pa rt at least the withdrawal agreement part of it, which sets the divorce terms for the uk and the eu, on friday. she will though have an eye on what is going to be happening in the house of commons this week because mps will try again on monday, tomorrow, to find a consensus of some kind around an alternative to the prime minister parr‘s micro—deal. it seems as if the most likely contender for the course of action mps can unite behind is the customs union with the eu. a slightly softer brexit to what some see as the deal the prime minister has negotiated. mps will try to force the government plasma account into taking a different course of action. time and again theresa may has ruled that out as something that will not only break a ma nifesto something that will not only break a manifesto pledge to take the uk out

of the customs union and the single market, but also not be delivering brexit in terms of what people voted for the referendum. not for the first time the prime minister with a new deadline. just another two weeks set by the eu. the pressure increasing on her. she is running out of time and options but keeping us out of time and options but keeping us guessing about her next move. there is talk about a possible run—off between her deal and whatever parliament can coalesce around possibly, the customs union idea. is that feasible? it is a possibility. it is not necessarily anyone —— something anyone in government is talking about. it would fit with the strategy that downing street has pursued of letting time run on. and presenting the deal to mps repeatedly in the hope that they will see it as what has come now to be the least worst option as far as a lot of members of parliament are concerned. the

alternatives may be a further referendum, may be a long indefinite extension to the brexit process, some kind of softer brexit or revoking article 50, these are not palatable ideas to a lot of mps. i don't think theresa may has necessarily given up hope yet that her deal will be passed but it remains a significant challenge. there are the hardline brexiteers, they call themselves the spartans now, still refusing to back her deal and saying they will never back her deal? yes, there are a couple of dozen or so who will remain staunchly opposed to theresa may's deal. 0ther brexiteers who have been opposed to it until this point decided on friday to back the withdrawal agreement. 0thers decided on friday to back the withdrawal agreement. others do remain completely opposed to it and will do come what may. there are

others whose minds may be changed. there are some on the labour side who would be willing to back the prime minister's deal in certain circumstances. but the deadline of the 12th of april now looming, and the 12th of april now looming, and the prime minister has to either get her deal through or come up with a new plan, otherwise it is a longer extension, or a no—deal brexit. thank you. adrian goldberg from 5 live investigates has more on this there's been a sharp rise in the number of adults calling a national helpline for the children of alcoholic parents, according to figures seen by the bbc. in 2013, the majority of calls to the national association of children of alcoholics were from children. but now, more than 80% of calls are from people over the age of 18. the department of health said it was investing £6 million to tackle the issue. adrian goldberg from 5 live investigates has more on this story and joins us now. tell us more about what you found?

these figures come from the national association of children of alcoholics. in 2013, they tell us the majority of calls they received seeking help and support, the majority of those calls were from children. they did at that time have around 6500 calls a year from adults. anybody over the age of 18. that figure has rocketed between 2013 and 2018, to the point where last year they had 23,000 calls from people over the age of 18. that now makes up around 81% of their caseload. a really significant increase in the number of adults contacting that helpline for its support and assistance. do we know why there has been such a big rise? what are the theories behind it? why there has been such a big rise? what are the theories behind mm is very interesting. around 2018, when you had high—profile figures like liam byrne talking as an adult

about his experiences having been a child of an alcoholic, and what he perceived as the stain —— micro—shame and stigma to talk about that, prompted other adults to come forward and say they too had problems like this as a child with a pa rent problems like this as a child with a parent who had turned to drink. the charity also say they are getting an increasing number of calls as well from people who are adults but finding that their older parents are turning to drink in later life. maybe as a result of a bereavement, feeling lonely, maybe having retired and losing a sense of purpose. we have got both of these strands going on at the same time. that means there is a significant increase in there is a significant increase in the number of adults reaching out for help dealing with someone in theirfamily who for help dealing with someone in their family who is for help dealing with someone in theirfamily who is or for help dealing with someone in their family who is or has for help dealing with someone in theirfamily who is or has been an alcoholic. and the government saying they are putting money into trying to deal with this problem? yes, there is an additional £6 million being offered for support for alcoholics. the target group for

thatis alcoholics. the target group for that is these children, people under 18, but there are calls may be for more assistance as well for this hitherto unacknowledged group of adults who find that their older pa rents a re adults who find that their older parents are then developing alcohol problems. that is where there is a call for greater resistance in the future. the government has allocated an extra £6 million for alcohol support and advice. thank you. the headlines: police in england and wales are being given greater stop and search powers to tackle rising knife crime. theresa may considers her next move to break the brexit deadlock. there has been a sharp rise in the number of adults calling a national helpline for the children of alcoholic parents. according to figures that have been seen by the bbc. an anti—stall system has been blamed for the fatal crash

of a boeing 737 max aircraft in ethiopia earlier this month. sources involved in the investigation say the black box shows the nose of the plane was pushed down by the system, before it crashed killing all 157 people on board. in mozambique, the authorities say the number of cases of cholera in the port of beira has doubled over the past 48 hours. 271 people have now been infected with the disease since cyclone idai struck beira two weeks ago. government and aid workers are seeking to contain the spread of the disease. brunei has defended their right to implement islamic laws that would allow death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality. celebrities, including the actor george clooney, have called for a boyoctt of hotels owned by the brunei investment company, including the beverly hills hotel and the dorchester in london. brunei plans to implement sharia law in full from april 3rd.

more than £200 million is being handed to councils in england as part of government plans to improve road surfaces. the department of transport says the money could help local authorities resurface more than a thousand miles of road. a report published last week warned that councils in england and wales would need to spend nearly 10 billion pound over a decade to bring all their roads up to scratch. it's another £200 million to repair potholes, it's enough to re—tarmac a road from london to edinburgh and back. it's part of the financial support that's been rolled out over the last few months, 400 million extra in the budget. but we're also now really driving to improve the technology used to repair potholes. this money can'tjust be used to patch and mend. we've got to do a betterjob, we've got to hold utility companies to account, and we're putting in place measures to do that. people are frustrated with broken down roads and we've got to change that. facebook founder mark zuckerberg says regulators and governments should play a more active role in controlling

internet content. writing in the washington post, he says the responsibility for policing content is too great forfirms alone. he has called for new laws in four areas, including harmful content and election integrity. digital marketing and tech expert dan sodergen joins us now. what do you make of what mark zuckerberg has been saying?m what do you make of what mark zuckerberg has been saying? if we are honest we have to think about the second and third consequences here of what mark and other folk are saying, but also what we are going to do about the future of the world itself. it's a pretty big topic. what you really have to think about is that if we are allowing facebook to start policing the social media world, that is a huge responsibility. not only in the way of cost but that's my from a moral

and societal point of view. we have to be really careful. mike ehning, governments, you should be involved in the process. this is the future of citizen journalism and a host of other things as well. do you think facebook in particular have been guilty of doing too little in the past to address this issue? we have all got to take a little bit of responsibility. as individuals in society we maybe have not been digitally aware enough and digitally mindful of what we are doing on social media. the governments could have been pushing a lot quicker against a lot of things happening. however, facebook and others have made money from sites that are very negative and very extremist. they actually make money from some of the advertising. that is the part where facebook has to have a real responsibility. they have to crack down on those sites and stop profiting from them. do you think

technically they can do that? is that relatively simple for them to do? it is certainly a lot easier than article 13, part of the copyright laws, which will be extremely hard to police. the other side of it from the politically extremist side of it, they could cut down and that quite quickly. the only problem is if we allow them to, then we have an issue because they will have to start using face recognition software and other things to police theirs. then you will start to find that we give them too much power. in the past social media companies have said, we are not publishers, we are platforms. are there no changing their minds on that? no, i think are there no changing their minds on that? no, ithink governments are there no changing their minds on that? no, i think governments are trying to get them to change their minds. they are platforms. it is a little bit like blaming a library for the kind of books they have and

the thoughts in those books. then you get it at that point where you start blaming the wrong person. if you blame the platform and make them responsible, what they will do is they will clamp down on everything to start off with and then you have a bigger problem because we are not really thinking about what the internet is about, which is the democratisation of social media, and we have to remember that one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. social media can do some fantastic terrorist. social media can do some fa ntastic stuff. terrorist. social media can do some fantastic stuff. if we start clamping down on it, especially from the viewpoint of a few very rich people mainly in the western world, there could be a big problem for the globe. very good to talk to you. thank you. for transgender people, the process of transitioning can be a difficult and lonely one. to mark the 10th anniversary of international tra nsgender day of visibility, our lgbt correspondent, ben hunte, has been to meet two trans people with very different accounts of their decision to transition.

a dark eye shadow, dark tan, a mid—tan and a light tan. meet annabel. this is a cover stick. she is a 63—year—old transgender woman living in caenarfon in wales. last year, she transitioned to being a full—time female. this period of my life is the best period of my life. and it's because i haven't got to pretend to anyone. i'm me, like it, leave it, except me, don't accept me, it's not my problem. —— accept me. annabel works a few mornings a week as a cleaner. before she transitioned, she spent decades hiding her true self. she lived a double life. i come from a generation where being trans was the equivalent of being a paedophile. so it was never talked about when i was younger. the decision to transition wasn't an easy one, it was a combination

of a lifetime of denial. one night i'd be at this elaborately—constructed image of a male biker and the next night i'd be dolled up to the eyeballs going to a gay club in broome and no one set of friends knew about the other set of friends. annabel‘s love of painting and the support of her son got her through the shame and guilt she felt. it was tough at the beginning but if you just get past your own internal prejudice, itjust becomes, like i say, itjust becomes the new normal. for annabel to decision to transition and live full—time as a female was made easier because her employers and herfamily supported her decision, but not all trans people had it that easy. people like dan. dan is a 42—year—old trans man who transitioned over 20 years ago. some of my family have never known

so that's a bit strange because it does feel like, in some ways, i disappeared when i transitioned. but i kind of understand that as well, i think it's about my immediate family wanting to protect me. dan says transitioning earlier would have saved him many years of misery. i think it's really important for children to know about the possibilities and the options available to them. i didn't know the options which left me with a sense of my own ridiculousness. i didn't know anybody who'd transitioned. it meant that i suffered from depression for quite a few years, through my childhood and into my adolescence. photographs of dan, annabel and other trans people are the subject of an exhibition opening in london tomorrow. with people like dan and annabel becoming more visible all the time, attitudes and laws towards gender

are constantly changing. two very different journeys, coming together in an exhibit helping to shed light on older transgender experiences. ben hunte, bbc news. all across the world famous landmarks have descended into darkness — albeit only for 60 minutes — as part of a global call for action on climate change. earth hour takes place every year, and nearly 200 countries and territories take part. the bbc‘s tim allman reports. hong kong is renowned for its iconic skyline. but even here, they sometimes have to turn out the lights. victoria harbour suddenly a lot less illuminated than normal. and the fight against climate change was the inspiration. we need to find a balance with this planet. it has finite resources, and we believe that there are things that people can do, that cities can do, to help us achieve a sustainable future.

earth hour began over ten years ago in australia. so it was no surprise to see sydney taking part. both the city's famous harbour bridge and the opera house cast into darkness. the big switch—off taking place at 8:30 in the evening, local time. dozens of countries, thousands of cities. this is mumbai's main railway terminus. 0r here in moscow. the kremlin, for an hour at least, becoming a place of shadows. in greece, the acropolis, which long predated electric light, an island of darkness in the centre of athens. and in paris, the eiffel tower celebrating its 130th birthday was briefly extinguished like a candle. so many places, one special hour. but as the swedish teenage activist greta thunberg tweeted, earth hour is every

hour of every day. time for the weather. hello. for those of you in scotland and northern ireland a sunnier and less breezy day today. cloud could threaten showers in southern counties as we go through the afternoon. temperatures mainly 15 what that will be tempered by the strength of the wind. tonight, the breeze will push cloud back to northern ireland and into western scotland. a few showers. elsewhere, in towns and city centres, it will bea in towns and city centres, it will be a cold night with a widespread frost. a lovely bright start to the day for the vast majority. already showers in northern ireland and western scotland becoming abundant through the day. some parts of

eastern scotland may stay dry with the breeze picking up. showers into the breeze picking up. showers into the isle of man and cumbria later. sunniest in the south east. temperatures up a little bit. they will drop drastically for tuesday and wednesday. april showers for all.