should be some leaderboard should be some consolation. with four americans in the top five, it was certainly a good day for the home fans. others, including rory mcilroy, will need a second round surge to stop their masters hopes slipping away. andy swiss, bbc news, augusta. time for a look at the weather now with mel coles. hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm martine croxall. today at 2.00pm. it looks very nice outside. yes, a sweden considers reopening an investigation into rape allegations made against wikileaks founderjulian assange after his arrest over lovely spring picture. it is a case of spot the picture as far as the conspiracy charges in the us. weather is concerned. there are su btle weather is concerned. there are subtle changes. on the whole it is they could have kept it going while he was inside the embassy, settled and quite chilly. it is they decided not to. settled and quite chilly. it is now, if they reopen it, settled because high pressure is in then we'll deal with that the driving seat. anchored over when it comes to it. scandinavia. low pressure in the new research suggests overall levels atla ntic scandinavia. low pressure in the atlantic are trying to send rain our of violence in england and wales are falling, way. we are drawing in particularly despite the increase in knife crime. cold air. evident along north sea tougher rules called coast in particular. to give you an for to safeguard thousands idea of how chilly it is in some of children attending unregistered schools — as ofsted reports appalling conditions spots, 12 celsius is the average and a lack of care april temperature. some spots will

reach that today. the east will be the government and labour continue to hold talks as they look to break pegged back into made single figures at best. after what was essentially the brexit deadlock. coming up on afternoon live, at best. after what was essentially a bright start for many, we are now all the sport with huw. just starting to see more in the way of cloud work its way in on that easterly wind. as well as the cloud, there is also the chance of some showers for north—east scotland, east anglia and down towards the south east as we head through the afternoon. away from those areas, lengthy spells of sunshine on offer for most places. it is the keen easterly wind which takes the edge off the temperatures. in the sunshine it feels pleasant enough. temperatures are down and where they should be, particularly in the east. the best of the temperatures towards the west. as we head into this evening, the winds strengthen for northern ireland, the west coast of scotland. the cloud will dissipate as the night goes on. under clearing skies another chilly night, particularly in rural spots. a widespread frost expected first

thing on a saturday morning. but really the weekend is very similar to what we have got at the moment. a very similar setup. mostly dry but cool very similar setup. mostly dry but cool. some sunshine on offer. the best of the songs and will tend to best of the songs and will tend to be on saturday. there is the chance of showers for east anglia down towards the south east to start the day, which could have a sleety makes. the winds particularly gusty for northern ireland, the west coast of scotla nd for northern ireland, the west coast of scotland and west wales into the south—west. there will be some good spells of sunshine around. that makes a difference to the feel of the day. but with the wind it will feel cold once again. as we head through sunday, we see more in the way of cloud. for all of us it will feel noticeably fresher. here is the area of rain. it makes inroads through western parts of northern ireland. it may turn cheri through the day. the sunshine turning hazy. temperatures are starting to recover as we had to next week. a reminder of our main

story this lunchtime: sweden considers whether to reopen an investigation into allegations of rape made against wikileaks founderjulian assange. that's all from the bbc news at one. so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news... we're going to start with a big game in rugby union's premiership. leicester play newcastle tonight, with both teams facing the very real threat of relegation. if leicester go down it will represent a massive fall from grace for one of the sport's biggest names. our rugby union correspondent chris jones is here. can't be underestimated how big this match is, especially for leicester given their pedigree? they are the biggest rugby club in

england. they are the manchester united of club rugby union and if they were to go down it would be one of the biggest club rugby stories in english rugby history but they are tenth in the league with four games to go. just five points clear of the bottom side newcastle falcons and it could be some extraordinary situation where if the falcons went well tonight and was win against sale tomorrow, leicester could be bottom of the premiership come saturday evening. so make no mistake, this is a game of monumental significance for both sides. as you say, especially for this step. in an added twist, there are plenty of former leicester players and coaches on the newcastle side at the moment. the boss for newcastle, one of the coaches and the fly—half for the newcastle falcons spent six very successful yea rs falcons spent six very successful years there as well. confidence play such a big factor in rugby union. having won everything, now they are

losing everything. suddenly there is a couple of results and a turnaround. the players haven't changed. it's a bit like us. we had a tough start, our confidence suffered and the games we should have won we didn't. confidence plays a massive factor. trusting your own performance. one of our biggest stories has been the anti—lg bt social one of our biggest stories has been the anti—lgbt social media posts. this is a huge sporting story. one of the worlds best players on the verge of the sack for those instagram comments. and the england and saracens number eight has today put upa and saracens number eight has today put up a post of his own broadly in support of his position. he has been

asked by other people too unlike the post that falao put out. he has not done that and gone a step further and put out some sentiments that are broadly in line of where falao is coming from. we haven't heard from them yet but it is a real can of worms being opened here. like allow, he is using his social media platform to put across a point of view that many people find offensive. chris jones, our rugby union correspondent. thanks for joining us. let's take a quick look at some of the other headlines. arsenal have started an investigation after a video emerged online. arsenal have started an investigation after a video emerged online where a supporter can be heard allegedly racially abusing the napoli defender kalidou koulibaly during their europa league quarter final last night. the cardiff boss neil warnock has been charged by the fa over comments he made about match officials. he called them the "worst in the world" after his side's

2—1 defeat to chelsea on at the end of march. he's got until tuesday to respond to the charges. valtteri bottas egded out ferrari's sebastian vettel in second practice at the chinese grand prix. the mercedes driver managed to recover from an early spin to stay out in front. his team—mate lewis hamilton also spun early but could only finish fourth. max verstappen‘s red bull was third fastest. that's all the sport for now. the bbc sport website is your home for all things masters over the next few hours — bbc.co.uk/sport. super, thank you. a new criminal offence of "upskirting" takes effect in england and wales from today. anyone caught taking a photo underneath someone's skirt without their knowledge, could face a potential two year prison sentence and be placed on the sex offenders register. it follows an 18—month campaign by gina martin, who was targeted at a music festival in 2017. she explained why the incident spurred her to campaign for a change in the law.

it was one of those things where i didn't have any legal background or political background, so i thought i'd give it a go. i think there is a propensity when these things happen to kind of shout that someone should change things, and i just wanted to try myself. yeah, if you told me i'd be sitting here now and we'd have changed the law, all that time ago, i don't think i would have believed you. i think my advice to everyone as a community would be to call it out when you see it, to support victims and to report it, because if a new law is there, great, but if we don't know about it and are not reporting it, it doesn't do anything. we have to have a picture of how much this happens because it happens a lot. thejustice minister, lucy frazer, explained how the new law will be enforced. there was an opportunity to prosecute people for this type of act in two specific circumstances, either, as you say, under the public offences act, if you were doing this act in a street, a very public place, and you could prosecute as well if you are doing it in a very private place, like a street, but there was a gap in the law and it was very unclear if you were doing it in neither

of those types of places, for example, if you are doing it in a school, which is neither public nor private, or in a workplace, could you be caught by this legislation? and so that is why we have brought in some laws to make it absolutely clear that taking a photograph up someone's skirt, wherever you do it, is wrong. a german man remains under arrest in switzerland on suspicion of intentional murder subjected to culpable homicide, after the death of a british woman in a hotel. anna florence reed was found dead on tuesday in a room at the hotel on on the banks of lake maggiore, near the north italian border, following reports of a noisy disturbance in the room during the middle of the night. the foreign office says its staff are helping her family and are in contact with the swiss and uk police. a baby is in a critical condition in hospital after being attacked by a dog in the scottish borders. police were called to an address in hawick yesterday afternoon, where the boy was found. he was taken to border general hospital, before being flown by helicopter to the royal hospital for sick children in glasgow. police are continuing

their inquiries into the incident. flooding has brought disruption to parts of derby. water from a broken pipe left city centre roads looking like rivers and forced guests at a hotel to leave via a ladder. homes and businesses in the city have been left without a water supply and four schools were forced to close. more now on the pregnancy and parenting club, bounty uk, that's been fined £a00,000 by the data watchdog for illegally sharing the personal information belonging to more than 1a million people. this is one of the biggest fines that the watchdog has ever imposed. our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones has been following the story. bounty uk is a parenting and pregnancy club. millions of mothers will have experienced this. they come into hospital, they offer to take photos, they offer various freebies, basically, free samples of nappies and so on. and they are found by the data watchdog to have collected 3a million records over

a period of time. they collected them both from their website, their app, and directly at the mothers' bedside. but they are then found to have illegally shared that data, that personal data with a whole range of marketing and credit reference agencies and organisations, including equifax and sky. that is illegal, they were found to have broken the law and of this huge fine has been imposed upon them. today was the second date the uk could have left the eu without a deal but instead a six month extension has been agreed. so where does this leave businesses and what should they be planning for now? our business presenter ben thompson has been to a haulage company in greater manchester to find out. we are in salford today at this regional distribution centre where goods are being moved all over the country. some of those will have come from europe and some are headed back there now but, with all of the uncertainty surrounding brexit, businesses like this have been trying to prepare for what happens next,

to make sure they've got the right paperwork in the right place for the right goods. but, with a deadline that keeps moving, how do they keep up with that? richard is with me. he is from the haulage association. richard, hello. it is a moving target for you, isn't it? you have had to make a lot of contingency plans, put a lot of processes in place, things that you don't really need yet but that deadline keeps getting pushed back so what does that mean for you? it is creating massive uncertainty for this industry. it is almost impossible to plan if we haven't got certainty and that also means that we need clarity in terms of what those processes look like and, at this stage, working very closely with government, with the dft and hmrc, we still haven't got clarity in terms of what the end—to—end process looks like for customers, so how can a business plan things in place if it doesn't understand? it is notjust about hauliers or distribution businesses, it is about those businesses that

are giving them work, they need to prepare, scale up and gear up, and that is impossible for them because they don't understand the process either. 98% of everything we consume in this country will have been on one of these trucks at some point in its life. it is sort of a forgotten industry, isn't it? in the sense that we just assume this will all work and it has always worked and always will work. it is an industry thatjust makes things happen, and you are right, we have almost become accepted, but i think this is a real challenge, you know, brexit and making sure we are planning for a smooth transition means we have to have time, we have to have clarity of those processes, and volume that comes in from europe into the uk primes the pump of uk supply chains, whether that is retailers or manufacturers, if that volume drops because of delays in the process, that is going to affect our economy, it's going to affectjobs. richard, for now, thanks. it's good to see you. that is the view from here in salford as these sort of trucks gets sent out right around this region. of course, no deal might now be off

the table as far as departure from the eu is concerned. there is still a concern about queues and paperwork checks at the borders, and that could add cost and time to an industry that really does rely on things working pretty smoothly. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news... sweden considers whether to reopen an investigation into allegations of rape made against wikileaks founderjulian assange. a study suggests overall levels of violence have fallen in england and wales — despite a rise in knife crime. the education watchdog says english councils are spending tens of thousands of pounds putting excluded children in centres that are not registered as schools. in the business news... bounty uk, a pregnancy and parenting club, has been fined £a00,000 for illegally sharing personal information belonging to more than 1a million people.

it gathered data from new mothers few of whom realised that it acted as a data broker supplying information to third parties that would use it to fine—tune direct marketing. high—end fashion chain lk bennett has been bought out of administration, by the company that runs its chinese franchises, byland uk. the deal saves 325jobs, although 15 of the retailer's stores are not included in the deal and will close, and 110 jobs will go. jet airways appears to have suspended all its international flights, raising fresh fears about the survival of india's largest private airline. it's saddled with debts of more than £765 million and is seeking a financial lifeline to avoid collapse. the pound is close to its strongest level in some two years, worth almost one euro and 16 cents. as for dollars, £1

will buy you $1.31. of course the prices we quote are better than what you will get when you are buying foreign exchange to go travelling. you'll get about 1.14 euros and about $1.29 — those are the best rates at the moment. but even so compared with three years ago that's about 15% less than you would have got in early 2016. joining us now is elsa lignos, global head of fx strategy at rbc capital markets. what way do we think the pound is going? is it strengthening? i have seen some strengthening over the last month or so. no, it is not a huge amount. in part because it has been whipped around by other stories, whether it is the worst european data dragging down the euro 01’ european data dragging down the euro or slight optimism in the us picking up or slight optimism in the us picking up the us dollar. in fact i think that reflects the fact that investors have to... they're just

waiting for the outcome of the brexit negotiations. the eyes of american investors, are we rather link to the euro still? to some degree but i think even more so than that it degree but i think even more so than thatitis degree but i think even more so than that it is a more general market move, taking the dollar up or down against pretty much everything else in the pan just gets dragged around for the ride. that reflects the fact that investors are having a very tough time pricing in the potential scenarios because you still have everything on the table, another brexit jelly and very little certainty as to when and if this will be resolved. if you are buying the pound, what are you looking for? what do you want? i think there is a couple of things people are looking for. people are looking for clarity about the future relationship about the uk and the eu. would there be a customs union, free trade agreement how long will that take? more importantly, the political risk

because all these brexit negotiations are engendering a lot of political unrest and... from an investors point of view, what is there that is risky about the uk in political terms? i think anytime you have elections, we saw this in 2015 and even more in 2010, it opens a very different policy parts. we know the two major parties in the uk are very different visions of what the uk should or could be and that clearly has implications for investors in terms of how they trade the pound what they think the fair value of the pound should be. thank you very much. fairytale castles, magic and cartoon heroes — the media giant disney has announced details of its new streaming service. it hopes families will splash the cash on yet another monthly subscription to see its films

and tv shows. but disney is entering a very crowded market. leading the pack is of course netflix — with 139 million subscribers around the world. it spends big on content in a bid to attract viewers, reportedly more than $12 billion last year alone — that's just over £9 billion. the e—commerce giant amazon has more than 100 million prime subscribers. it says video has been a key driver of growth, but it's thought to spend less on content than netflix. and apple has been spending a lot on content and stars, including oprah winfrey, as it gets ready to launch its own streaming service. earlier we spoke to alice enders, head of research, at enders analysis. it has really been the structure of the model and also the problem of acquiring a studio that would allow them to have more of an adult entertainment focus.

so yesterday's presentation was also about hulu tv and how disney plans to really split its major assets between those two platforms and of course disney plus, very aggressively priced. not an apparent netflix killer, as such. the compa ny‘s objectives are not to slay netflix. we see that service as being very family centred. very much families with children, families that enjoy disney products, merchandise, theme parks, going to the cinema and all the rest of it. disney doesn't want to harm their experience. itjust wants to give them a plus. let's have a look at the market. if you are buying foreign exchange to go on holiday he would expect about

196 go on holiday he would expect about 1% less than that. a few years ago it was a great deal less on that but there is more competition. it is really worth shopping around to find the best deal you can find online. you won't get that rate but you will get somewhere around 1.29. that is a business news. austrialians will vote in a general election on the 18th may to decide whether the conservative government wins a third term or is replaced by a labour administration. hywel griffith looks ahead through the medium of a sport unique to the country — aussie rules! it's going to be mean, it's going to be dirty, and one things for certain — someone has got to lose. just like aussie rules football, australian politics can be a brutal game, never more so than in an election. on one side, the reigning champions the coalition, a team which has been through a lot of off—field bustups since the last election,

dramatically sacking its captain and putting in a new man, scott morrison, or scomo to his team—mates. he's only been prime minister for a few months, can he make it past may? well, on form, the government could struggle to hold on. they've been lagging behind in the polls for the last two and a half years, but there's one key issue they'll want to bring into play time after time. the strong economy. this is an economy that it's on its way back. when that happens, your economy strengthens. that's what will drive the economy forward. so what about the opposition? well, since being kicked out of office by the voters in 2013, the labour party has sorted out its infighting and, remarkably for australia, stuck to the same leader for the last five and a half years. we are united, we are determined, and we are ready, ready to serve, ready to lead, ready to deliver a fair go for australia.

bill shorten could soon be australia's next pm. there's only one problem — the opinion polls suggest he's even less popular than the current prime minister. when it comes to political leaders, there's no such thing as a fans's favourite. the election is a tussle between two main teams but there are plenty of other players, minor parties and independents will be grappling for votes too. some on the right wing, fighting on immigration, others coming in from the left with a focus on climate change. their results really matter because if, as in 2016, the election is really tight, whoever forms the next government may well have to depend on those crossbenchers to keep hold of power. because voting here is compulsory, every australian has got skin in the game. expect plenty of rough—and—tumble right to the final whistle on voting day. rolling stones front man, sir mick jagger, has posted

a photograph of himself on social media, after having life—saving heart surgery last week. "a walk in the park!" the caption says. he had heart valve replacement surgery in new york, just days after postponing the latest leg of his no filter world tour. he's expected to make a full recovery. a marble staircase said to have been climbed by christ on his way to be sentenced to crucifixion has been restored to its original state after nearly 300 years. the so—called holy staircase, which lies in rome, has been a popular place for catholic pilgrims for centuries. kathryn armstrong has more. it may look like your average marble staircase, but for many catholics around the world this particular set of 28 stairs has huge significance. the scala sancta, or holy staircase, is thought to have been climbed byjesus on his way to be sentenced to crucifixion. but for nearly 300 years, the stairs have been encased in wood to protect them from the wear and tear of millions of pilgrims

who, by tradition, crawl up them. now, for a limited time only, the staircase has been uncovered. translation: i'm really emotional, because i'm having family problems. i think about my children and their health. i will pray for my family, for everyone, and for peace. translation: i already did it when it was wooden steps, but it's much more moving now. if you think about the fact thatjesus was here, and where he was held, and where he suffered, it's very emotional. while preparing the staircase for the public, experts from the vatican museums were amazed to find thousands of notes that had been left by pilgrims over the centuries, including one from an italian man who had escaped from slavery. the steps will remain open to the public for two months before being covered once more to preserve them for future generations. catherine armstrong, bbc news.

now it's time for a look at the weather. some subtle changes from time to time but the overall feel is very much the same. it is quite settled but it is chilly and while many places have had blue skies overhead, we had a bit of frost to start the day. it settle because high pressure is anchored over scandinavia, helping to settle things down. low pressure out towards the west trying to send rain our way but it gets blocked by that area of high pressure. we are drawing in fairly cool air, evident across north sea coast. we are starting to pull in more cloud as we head through this afternoon and that will gradually filter westwards. there will be some brea ks filter westwards. there will be some breaks with sunny intervals, some showers in north—east scotland, east anglia and down toward the south—east. away from that it is essentially dry. still quite cool. this and try making a big difference to the feel of the day. the best of

the temperatures will always be the further west but even here they remain fairly disappointing for this time of year. as we head towards this evening, the winds will pick up across northern ireland and the west coast of scotland and the cloud will tend to dissipate. under clearing skies, once again it will be a chilly night, especially in rural spot where temperatures will dip a little below freezing. a patchy frost to start the day for many areas but essentially it is a very similar setup as we head into this weekend. it is settled, mostly dry, will be quite cool still and we will see some sunshine, especially on saturday. however, the icing on the morning we could have some showers in east anglia and down towards the south—east which could have a wintry flavour to them. some sleet mixed in there as well. when is quite strong for northern ireland, the west coast of scotland, west wales in the south—west of england also noticing that breeze. there will be some good

spells of sunshine around but it remains cool. in many places host averages head back into single figures. as we head through sunday, generally there will be more cloud around. without that sunshine it will be generally colder. that rain makes inroads. a little bit showery the western part of northern ireland before the end of play on sunday but elsewhere, a lot of fine, dry weather to be had. temperatures come down from where they have been. it remains fairly settled as we head into the start of next week with some sunny spells at times. quite a lot of cloud around but are still 00:28:38,267 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 quite breezy.