schools and the nhs could be held legally accountable if they fail to report signs of violent crime amongst young people. after a record number of fatal stabbings last year, the home secretary and the prime minister propose making it a "public health duty" to report concerns over children at risk. in the recent months, we've seen an appalling number of young lives cut short or devastated by serious violent crime, including a number of horrifying incidents that took place over this weekend. as downing street holds a summit on serious youth violence, we'll bring you the latest. also this lunchtime. here in westminster — as mps prepare to vote in another session to break the brexit dealock — a stinging attack from the man behind tory party discipline. chief whipjulian smith says the government should have made clear that the 2017 election result

would "inevitably" lead to closer links with europe — he's also critical of the cabinet's behaviour. the minimum wage goes up — affecting two million workers — but a string of household bills go up too. and as the government misses its target for moving people with learning difficulties out of secure units in england — we speak to the families of vulnerable patients. and coming up on bbc news. manchester united manager ole gunnar solskjaer revealed he's keen for the club to appoint a director of football. he's discussing the idea with the chairmen. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. ministers are considering

whether teachers, police officers and people working in the nhs in england and wales should have a legal duty to report concerns that children are becoming involved in knife crime. the idea was being discussed at a meeting in downing street this morning. there's been rising concern over the mounting number of knife attacks. 2017—18 saw 285 deaths from stabbings, the most ever recorded in the uk — and this weekend four people were stabbed in north london in what police believe were potentially linked attacks. here's our home affairs correspondent, dominic casciani. knife crime is rising, and so is public concern. there have been a0 deaths from stabbing so far in 2019. a fifth of knife offences last year we re a fifth of knife offences last year were committed by young people under 18. police chiefs described it as a national emergency that society and government must tackle. today in downing street, a summit of

week—long conference hosted by theresa may. it's an issue that families of young people and communities across the country are concerned about and want to see us tackling. more than 100 experts taking part, not just tackling. more than 100 experts taking part, notjust police but education, health and community leaders. their task is to find new ways to intervene in the lives of young people most at risk of crime. law enforcement is important but it's not the only solution. i wish it's not the only solution. i wish it were that simple. this is why we are bringing in health leaders, education leaders, victims and families affected by knife crime to see what they can do, what we can all do. this isn't the first time the government has committed to tackling youth violence. 0ver the government has committed to tackling youth violence. over the last 20 years there have been seven strategies and reports which have all come to the same conclusion, there needs to be morejoined up thinking and early intervention. critics are asking what's different about today. in a blog marking his first day as the chair of the

national police to council assistant commissioner martin hewitt has a clear message. he says this year there will be £970 million more for policing which is positive but not enough to meet all the challenges the service faces. ministers say england and wales can treat it as a public health problem and are proposing putting doctors, teachers and others under a legal duty to report early warning signs. serious youth violence is a disease, an illness and we need to have that approach of a public health model where you have different agencies working together to safeguard young people. police in seven areas of england and wales are also piloting an enhanced stop and search power. they can now use it in any neighbourhood where they think violence may break out. that could prove controversial. theresa may

previously banned it. the question is whether these measures will finally get results. dominicjoins me now. what's the reaction been from health workers and teachers? there has been some real concern today, partly on a practical basis of they aren't sure how this will be workable and how they are supposed to identify the concerns. the royal couege to identify the concerns. the royal college of nursing has said that we can identify someone who's had a knife wound but if we are under an obligation to report that the police, education union leaders are not sure it goes further than what they already do. they say they have strong working relationships with social services unsafe the problem is what happens after a vulnerable child is identified and passed on. that gets us into the question of cash where you have police and local authorities saying they need cash. very familiar arguments. for ministers, they are thinking this

duty could put an additional focus on how to solve the problem, rather like the prevent duty has caused people to think about the signs of extremism. they say of people are looking at the signs of gang activity it might save a young life. thank you. mps will resume their efforts to try to find a way through the brexit deadlock with further votes on a series of options in the commons later today. with more on that, let's go over to westminster and join simon mccoy. theresa may's cabinet is the "most ill disciplined in british political history". those are the words of the man who's role it is to keep conservative mps in line, the chief whipjulian smith. he's also told the bbc the government should have admitted that a softer brexit was "inevitable", after the conservatives lost their majority at the last election. later this evening, mps will vote for a second time on a series of alternatives to mrs may's brexit deal. 0ur political correspondent nick eardley reports. what goes on in here, number 10, is

normally a secret. but brexit has eight divisions at the heart of government bear. another chief whip, the man in charge of government discipline, is making his frustrations clear. as you are aware, the discipline isn't as good as it should be. this is the worst example of ill discipline in cabinet in british political history. with parliament still figuring out what it wants, he thinks a close relationship should have been on the cards much sooner. the conservative party went to get a majority to deliver brexit, failed to get a majority. the government probably have been clearer of the consequences for that. but the parliamentary arithmetic would mean this would be inevitably a softer brexit. but any move towards a close relationship would provide a headache for theresa may. staying in a customs union headache for theresa may. staying in a custoitis union oi’ headache for theresa may. staying in a customs union or accepting a single market would mean some of the manifesto pledges made at the general election would be compromised. and such is the tension

here that some tories are prepared to considerfighting here that some tories are prepared to consider fighting against the government in a confidence motion if it reluctantly accepts the customs union. we are approaching the point where the stakes are so very high and transcend party politics and what this country is about, and the fundamental british value that political power rests on consent, that i think they are coming onto the table stop light at the same time, some in government says the pm has to listen to mps at. the prime minister has said she will listen to the house and one of the reasons we are in this difficulty is because of the numbers in house. last week, mps didn't givea the numbers in house. last week, mps didn't give a clear answer when asked what they thought of brexit strategies. tonight they will try again. 0ptions strategies. tonight they will try again. options include... some tory mps will argue against the no deal but others think the only solution to this is asking you again

in another referendum. it's possible parliament still won't be able to agree on a course of action but mps have been discussing compromise about backing not just have been discussing compromise about backing notjust exact brexit they want, but something similar. that could mean that pollen uses a much closer relationship with the eu than the one the government wants —— parliament chooses a much closer relationship. we want to revoke article 50 and put it back to the people but we won't be prepared to compromise on the basis of protecting jobs, staying in the single market and customs union so we will fight for the amendment. the pm might bring her own deal back in the coming days. the brexit stakes are high, the battle to define it continues. we can hear now from our assistant political editor, norman smith. a big day in terms of a vote in westminster and then these comments from julian smith, the chief whip, which are a big deal too. they are, because they point to the

difficulties, the weariness, the beginning of the recriminations over brexit on a day which really could bea game brexit on a day which really could be a game changer day, if at the second time of asking mps manage to secure a majority for a very different softer brexit, perhaps staying in some form of customs union, because that would pose huge, huge difficulties for the prime minister notjust because she has been against a customs union, but such a move would possibly split her party. you could have resignations in the cabinet. faced with that, mrs may might decide it's hopeless and she's just may might decide it's hopeless and she'sjust going to may might decide it's hopeless and she's just going to have a general election. then again, anticlimax klaxon... it election. then again, anticlimax klaxon. .. it could election. then again, anticlimax klaxon... it could all be a damp squib because mps might once again failed to reach a majority for anything. the signs are that they have failed to coalesce around any

one option. there are still around eight options on the table. the speaker might cull that about four or five but you sense all the different groups, those in favour of a second referendum, those in favour of staying in some sort of customs union. they aren't working with each other, which means by the close of play, we could end up with no option getting a majority orjust a small majority. if that happens, huge celebrations in downing street because the initiative will then pass back to mrs may and i expect she will come back for attempt numberfour. she will come back for attempt number four. thank you. eight alternative options have been put forward by mps — the speaker will this afternoon select which ones will be voted on. the bbc‘s reality check correspondent, chris morris is here to give us a summary of what these proposals include. and one of the most popular ideas seems to be a customs union with the eu.

yes, a lot of the debate today is not about the withdrawal agreement but the economic relationship we will end up with. a customs union means there are no tariffs or import taxes between the uk and eu. business like that because means goods can move relatively freely. 0n the other hand you can't do your own independent trade deals, you have to impose the same tariffs on the eu as other countries. the other thing that customs union doesn't fully do is sort out the border in ireland or even the fears of trade problems and delays between dover and calais. and staying in the single market is another option. yes, it's about the rules and regulations that govern our chemical industry or pharmaceutical industry or food standards or animal welfare. if you are in the single market, those rules and regulations are the same. if you are not it means there have

to be some checks on boarders. the one red line for the prime minister about the single market is that it allows the free movement of people. she is fully against that although if you look at free movement at the moment, it's fallen quite sharply, the rate of people arriving from the eu has fallen quite sharply since the referendum. what about mps who wa nt to the referendum. what about mps who want to leave with no deal? no deal doesn't mean that's it and went going to have no trade with the eu in the future whatsoever. broadly, most of them want a free trade agreements along the lines of what we did with canada. it means they wouldn't be tariffs on many things but a lot of the other infrastructure doesn't go away. thank you. you can see more of that interview with the chief whip, julian smith, this evening at 9pm on bbc two — in the brexit story: laura kuenssberg's inside story, and all developments today in westminster on the bbc news channel.

two million workers are getting a pay rise from today, as the minimum wage goes up. but utility bills and the cost of the tv licence are going up as well. 0ur personal finance correspondent simon gompertz is here. first of all, what about the minimum wage? those 2 million are on different levels of minimum wage according to their age. the biggest one for 25 years and over which is called the national living wage, that's going up by nearly 5% and it's going to end up at £8.21, which is an extra 38p an hour. below that level, 21—2a is an extra 38p an hour. below that level, 21 —2a yea rs is an extra 38p an hour. below that level, 21—2a years old, it's up by a.3% and you get to £7.70 an hour. unions are saying it should be that that group gets the national living wage, the higher amount. there are lower levels than that for younger age groups. so more money for people

on the minimum wage but there will be higher bills. the big one is gas and electricity, and we've got an increase of £117 a year for nearly half of households. those are the ones on standard variable tariffs, which they could switch from. council tax is going up, in england it's going up by an average of a.7%. smaller increases in scotland, slightly more in wales. the last thing to mention is the licence fee which is going up to £15a 50 p. that's a rise of £a. the government has missed its target of reducing the number of people with learning difficulties being held in secure units in england. its self—imposed deadline of reducing numbers by at least 35% expired last month, and has now been extended to 2020. an investigation into assessment and treatment units — or atus — was launched in 2011 after the bbc‘s panorama exposed abuse of patients at winterbourne view —

a private hospital near bristol. the government promised to end their use for those capable of living in the community with proper support, as noel phillips reports. she is my only child. she is everything to me, she is my life. it is just unbelievable, i am living a nightmare. 26—year—old ayla haines has spent the last seven years in psychiatric hospitals after being sectioned at the age of 1a under the mental health act. her mum says her prolonged stay has had a detrimental effect on her health. she's got a huge bald patch on her head now where her hair will never grow. she is so desperate to end it all, really, she currently has a toothbrush inside her, because she swallowed a toothbrush. an actual toothbrush? an actual toothbrush. you couldn't imagine this happening to anyone, it is your worst nightmare. she loved dressing up. ayla is currently at a medium secure

unit, 200 miles away from her home in cardiff. are you worried that you might never see her again? yes, very much so. i'm 78 years of age and i've got a heart condition. and it's distressing, not only for me, but having to watch ayla suffer, and watch my daughter suffer. and being powerless to do anything about it. i've tried for seven years, and written to so many people for help. atus, or assessment and treatment units, came under increasing scrutiny in 2011 after the bbc‘s panorama programme exposed horrific abuse of patients at winterbourne view. in 2015, the government set a target to move between 35% to 50% of people with learning disabilities and autism out of inpatient units and into the community. it was called transforming care. but the programme has missed its own five year deadline, only achieving around 20%,

and leaving over 2000 people on psychiatric wards. people are spending many, many years in there, and they shouldn't be. awful things are happening to people in there, and they shouldn't be. and in the same way that asylums were closed, these places need to be closed. these are happier times for fazia hussain, who spent 22 months at a secure unit in the east midlands. she has now been reunited with her family. so, i do think we won the lottery, in a way, in the support that we got and the care that she has at the moment. there have been 40 deaths in these units since 2015. and nine of those were deaths of people under 35. the government must recommit itself, must re—pledge to close these placements down. the department of health has told us they are determined to reduce the number of people in mental health hospitals, and that the nhs is committed to reducing inpatient numbers by 2020. noel phillips, bbc news.

the time is 1:18. our top story this lunchtime. schools and the nhs could be held legally accountable if they fail to report signs of violent crime amongst young people. the home secretary and prime minister propose making it a "public health duty" to report concerns over children at risk. and coming up — how man's best friend can help both victims and witnessess of crimes. coming up on bbc news — wales and scarlets full—back leigh halfpenny admits he feared for his career after suffering a head injury. he says his three months on the sidelines was a "frustrating" time. two prescription drugs used by millions to treat pain, anxiety and epilepsy are being reclassified as class c controlled substances.

the move comes over concerns linking pregabalin and gabapentin to almost 600 deaths in england between 2013 and 2017. in most cases they are safe when used as prescribed — but doctors and pharmacists say they have been increasingly handed out too readily and been used recreationally. louise fewster reports. she was such a lovely girlgrowing up. she was so helpful to me. she was the oldest of ourfour children. happy memories of a daughter they lost a year ago. sarah jolly was a recovering alcoholic and was turning her life around for her three children. she had had help to come off the drink. she was looking forward to the future and to find out that she had died was an absolutely enormous shock. the inquest into sarah's death showed she had six times the prescribed dose of pregabalin in her system. her doctor had given her the drug for back pain.

it was this, combined with other prescription drugs, that killed her. you don't think that your gp is going to give you something that could potentially cause an addiction and, once you're addicted, could potentially cause your death. pregabalin and gabapentin are used to treat nerve pain, epilepsy and anxiety. in most cases, the drug is safe when used as prescribed. last year, over 1a million prescriptions were issued for the drugs. in 2013, there were just a1 deaths in england linked to the medications, but in 2017, there were more than four times as many deaths. today, the government has reclassified the drugs to be class c controlled substances in a bid to prevent misuse and addiction. now that it's a class c drug, a patient has to request it every single time that they need it. they can't have batches of prescriptions in hand. also, it means that doctors are generally advised not

to prescribe more than 30 days' worth of tablets. but drug experts say that reclassification of prescription drugs does not help tackle the underlying causes of addiction. we can'tjust ban our way out of suffering and pain. we need to invest in drug treatment and that's something that provides an alternative for gps to refer people into who do become dependent or they think might need some help and support. families like thejollys have welcomed today's move and hope stricter controls will help patients in the future. for our daughter to die from this prescribed medication, it's really hard to take, in some respects. with the reclassification of the drug, hopefully families will never have to go through this again. louise fewster, bbc news. the party of president erdogan of turkey has suffered sweeping losses in local elections across the country, losing control of the capital, ankara.

his akp party is also behind in the biggest city istanbul, with only a few ballot boxes left to be counted. voters appear to have turned against his party as the country suffers a deep recession. mark lowen reports from istanbul. it seemed to be unimaginable, but turkey's opposition candidate looks like he has done it, taking control of the country's economic powerhouse, istanbul. ekrem imamoglu seems to have won the city byjust a few thousand votes and he's savouring it. it went down to the wire last night. the governing ak party candidate, a former prime minister himself, claimed victory here prematurely. there is a turkish saying — whoever wins istanbul, wins turkey, and losing this city will be an agonising blow to president erdogan. but his pain didn't stop there. in the capital, ankara, the opposition celebrated a win

after a quarter of a century, gaining several other cities, too, as the tide turns in their favour. it was a chastened mr erdogan who addressed his supporters at the party hq — not the combative triumphalism of the past, but an acknowledgement that he's losing his base. translation: starting tomorrow morning, we will begin our work to identify our shortcomings and begin to make up for them. with early morning, a parallel reality. the government has put up billboards thanking istanbul for its directory. —— for its victory. they have now been taken down as residents take in a momentous result. translation: for istanbul, we were confident, we were sure but i'm obviously sad about ankara. it is a surprise. but i think the people of ankara will recognise their mistake and come back to the akp.

for 16 years, president erdogan has dominated turkey. revered and reviled in equal measure, the champion of conservative, pious turks has transferred the country's infrastructure, but he has clamped down on opponents and burned bridges with the west and is now being punished for an economic crisis. for long, president erdogan has seemed unbeatable here with a fractured, moribund opposition. that has now changed and it will breathe life into his opponents and could even prompt talk of his party splitting. this feels like a watershed moment for turkey and its leader as he finally begins to lose his grip on this polarised country. mark lowen, bbc news, istanbul. a comedian with no political experience is on course to win the most votes in the opening round of the presidential election in ukraine. volodymyr zelenskiy plays the ukranian president in a tv show, and now exit polls suggest he has a clear lead over the incumbent, president poroshenko.

the two men are likely to face each other in a run—off in three weeks' time. a vietnamese woman accused of murdering the half—brother of the north korean leader in malaysia has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. doan thi huong was sentenced to just over three years after she admitted "causing injury" to kim jong—nam. he died when a nerve agent was smeared on his face at kuala lumpur airport in 2017. she could be released as early as next month. the grammy—nominated rapper nipsey hussle has been shot dead in los angeles. reports say he was shot several times at close range outside the clothing store he owned. hours before his death, hussle himself tweeted that having strong enemies was a blessing. his death has sparked an outpouring of grief from fellow celebrities as the city's mayor blamed "senseless gun violence". discovery and the bbc have agreed to split up the broadcaster uktv and strike a new 10—year agreement.

they've also agreed to a partnership involving discovery's new streaming service. our media correspondent david sillito is here. david, talk us through the significance of this. little moments in the history of broadcasting, because everything is changing. you may not have heard of uktv but you have probably watched it. all those channels they have on free view and on sky, they have been set up over the last 25 years or so by the bbc and originally thames tv, the ownership has changed over the year and they are at the moment owned jointly by bbc and discovery and they decided to do some housekeeping so they have divided them up so discovery gets the lifestyle channels, the bbc will get the entertainment channels. then there is another area, this is a sign of how the world is changing. i had a little look back, there was a deal

donein little look back, there was a deal done in 2011 between the bbc and netflix, they talked about them having 20 million subscribers. fix now has about 1a0 million subscribers, everything is heading towards streaming so this is a big deal between the bbc and discovery globally. it means those big natural history programmes will not be seen on netflix anymore but will be seen on netflix anymore but will be seen on the new discovery streaming service. there are loads of streaming services, along so all the broadcasters are thinking, where do we put our programmes, how will they best be seen and who will be paying the money for these extra streaming services? so a little moment, so those big programmes will be seen globally on discovery in future. for both victims and witnessess of crime, giving evidence to police can be a difficult and often traumatic experience. now, police are hoping that a strategy being used in america could help people through the process, with some help from man's best friend. our correspondent john maguire reports.

oliver the labrador personifies a man's best friend. loyal, unconditional and calming. he is being trained as a facility dog. the idea is that he sits with a vulnerable victim or witness being interviewed by the police and offers silent support. even in this demonstration we're filming today, oliver knows exactly what to do. oliver is lying on rachel, and when he does that and rachel sort of strokes him like that, it actually releases oxytocin in both oliver and rachel, so oxytocin is our social bonding hormone. it releases the love hormone, so we naturally become more relaxed and more calm and in doing so, it allows rachel to communicate more openly when testifying in an interview. there are over 200 of these dogs across north america and have been for the past 20 years, but there is no research and what we're doing at the moment is we're working with the kent police and we're evaluating the benefits and the effectiveness of oliver

and dogs like oliver in providing companionship when victims and witnesses are being interviewed in a police interview process. this recreation of a police interview room at the university is used to study the psychology of the process. kent police are working with the university to determine the programme's effectiveness. anything that's going to be able to support our witnesses and victims being able to help us and give their evidence, to make it better can only be a good thing. at the moment, we are in the research gathering stage, so we're going to use this research to see actually on an evidence basis whether oliver is a support to witnesses and victims once they give their evidence to the police. oliver's been in place in september and in that time has helped four people. he is the first of his kind in europe and yet another new role for working dogs. john maguire, bbc news, canterbury.