shamima begum, the london teenager who ran away to syria, gets legal aid to fight the decision to revoke her british citizenship. the 19—year—old remains in a refugee camp in syria after marrying a fighter with the islamic state group. as one cabinet minister says he feels uncomfortable at the granting of help to shamima begum, we'll be looking at its legal basis and asking what's next. also this lunchtime... the home secretary describes violent crime as a scourge — as new research suggests police might be able to forecast where knife attacks could happen. more long—term security for tenants in england under new government plans to stop evictions at short—notice without good reason. 90% of local councils can't fund schools adequately for children with special needs, according to the main teaching union.

and the man of the moment — tiger woods on his remarkable comeback victory at augusta. ijust couldn't be more happy and more excited. i'm kind of at a loss for words, really. and coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news: israel folau's international career looks to be over, after he's officially sacked by rugby australia for homophobic comments on social media. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. shamima begum — the east london teenager who joined the islamic state group — has been granted legal aid to help fight the decision to strip her of her british citizenship. ms begum is being held

in a detention camp in northern syria after is fighters were driven from the region. she left the uk aged 15, and wanted to return to raise a baby son, who has since died. there have been many other cases in the last decade of legal aid being granted to people stripped of their nationality because of terror links. in an interview this morning, the foreign secretary said granting this to shamima begum makes him "very uncomfortable". richard lister reports. shamima begum, now living in a syrian refugee camp after running away from london to marry a fighter from so—called islamic state.” away from london to marry a fighter from so-called islamic state. ijust wa nt from so-called islamic state. ijust want forgiveness, really, from the uk. after the defeat of is, she pleaded to be allowed back to the uk, but the home office stripped her of her citizenship. her sister wrote to the home secretary, sajid javid, to the home secretary, sajid javid, to say how they had lost shamima to

a murderous and misogynistic cult, and they would be challenging the decision to take away her one hobart rehabilitation, her british citizenship. the lawyer representing the family has told the bbc that legal aid has been provided to pay for a lawyer to fight on their behalf. the foreign secretary stressed the importance of legal aid, but... on a personal level, it makes me very uncomfortable, because she made a series of choices, she knew the choices she was making. i think we make decisions based on her future based on those choices. legal aid is available to anyone to challenge a government decision made against them if the problem is deemed serious and they cannot afford the legal costs. other controversial figures have also benefited from legal aid. the bill for defending radical cleric abu qatada run into hundreds of thousands of pounds before his deportation to jordan. richard thousands of pounds before his deportation tojordan. richard kemp is among those who believes legal aid should not be available to all.

the law needs to be changed so that we are dealing with people who are fighting ina we are dealing with people who are fighting in a foreign country, who are our enemies from overseas, they are our enemies from overseas, they are dealt with differently to criminal activity in the uk. others believe that cases like those of shamima begum and those who left with her, should be held in court to prevent more young people following in their footsteps. if we have legal aid on these issues are discussed openly, we can get to the bottom of this. at the moment, all of these authorities that have been involved in this are not prepared to give us this information. for now, shamima begum remains in limbo in syria, while the debate continues about who should pay for the legal battle over her future. our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani is here. what happens next? well, assuming there are no spanners in the works, this is the start now

ofa in the works, this is the start now of a very complicated legal process. a body called the special immigration appeals commission, essentially a semisecret court which deals with cases like this. the reason why it is semisecret is that while she may want to put forward arguments about why she should be reunited with her family in the arguments about why she should be reunited with herfamily in the uk, human rights grounds, there was kind of things, the case against her will be based on effectively secret intelligence, which informed the home secretary's decision to deprive her of her nationality. that has to be heard behind closed doors. these are complicated and processes. only are complicated and processes. only a small set of specialist lawyers have the skills to run these cases fairly and efficiently. that is why legal aid is regularly available in these cases, because they are serious allegations, the people involved have no means to properly defend themselves or put their case, so defend themselves or put their case, so the the view that everybody should have equal legal aid in this

situation. where it goes exactly is that process will start, and it could be many years before we reach a resolution. the case of abu qatada, which was referred to in the package, is a prime example. the law is very complex, there are complex arguments that need to be tested before we get to a solution. shamima begum may be in this refugee camp for many days to come. the home secretary sajid javid, has described violent crime as a scourge and said he's given the police more powers and resources to help tackle the problem. it comes as a new study suggests that police in london could forecast where deadly knife attacks are likely to take place. the research found more than two—thirds of killings over the course of 12 months occurred in neighbourhoods where someone had been attacked with a knife the year before. our home affairs correspondent danny shaw reports. one of london's young victims of knife crime. he was 18 years old. he was attacked near this block of

flats. police said this followed a simmering dispute in the area with other teenagers. two 14—year—old boys were later convicted of murder. he was stabbed to death here, in neasden, in october 2017. the previous year, there had been eight knife attacks in this area. when researchers looked through records, they noticed a pattern. criminologists analysed 3500 knife attacks in london in 2016—17. then they looked at where 97 fatal stabbing had taken place the following year. they found 67 of them were in the same neighbourhood where there had previously been at least one knife attack. these findings are important for deciding where police should concentrate patrols, and especially where they should concentrate stop and search. because that is controversial, it has some costs. but it is well worth

it, if stop and search prevents murders. the devastating effects of knife crime are all too familiar to chanel wallace, whose brother was stabbed to death in nottingham 30 yea rs stabbed to death in nottingham 30 years ago. every time i see there has been another knife crime victim, it cuts the way it did the night my mum woke me up and told me, because i instantly think if that young man, young woman, has a sister, a brother, they are going to feel exactly how i did, they are going to feel lonely, sad, confused. today, the home secretary spoke candidly of his own concerns about what he described as the scourge of knife crime and his fear that his children could be the next victims. crime and his fear that his children could be the next victimsi crime and his fear that his children could be the next victims. i may be the home secretary, but i am not ashamed to confess that i have stayed up late at night, many times, waiting for the key to turn in the front door. and only then going to bed, safe in the knowledge that my children are home. sajid javid said

if people don't feel safe, something has gone terribly wrong. he is calling for a shift in mindset, so government departments work together to tackle the problem. and he wants to tackle the problem. and he wants to make better use of data to improve our understanding of the pathways into crime. private landlords in england will no longer be able to evict tenants at short notice without good reason, under new plans. the government says it wants to end the power given to landlords to evict tenants at the end of their contract — giving them as little as eight weeks' notice. leigh milner has more. when alessia told her landlord she would complain to her local council if nothing was done about the wet sealing in herflat, he issued a section 21 notice, which evict her from the property at the end of her tenancy, without a reason. it'sjust a horrible shock. it is not what you expect happen. it is a really

horrible time for your mental health. it is not a good situation to bn. it completely rocks your world. everything is uprooted and you only have two months to get everything sorted, which is not an adequate amount of time. it is claimed some renters who complain about problems in properties find themselves victims of revenge evictions. the balance of power in private renting has been all in the side of the landlord. they live in fear. people think if i complain about disrepair in my property, the next thing, a slap on the doormat, section 21. more than 11 million people live in privately rented accommodation in england. one in fourfamilies accommodation in england. one in four families with children rent. accommodation in england. one in fourfamilies with children rent. a survey suggested 75% of renters think indefinite tenancies would improve their quality of life. we are committed to consulting carefully on the technical aspects of this, around the fault eviction, where somebody is not paying the rent, is involved in anti—social

behaviour, or where a landlord wants to move back into their home, that we get that law right and also provide speedy redress to give assurance to landlords, too. the government will now consult on whether to scrap section 21 notices completely, which, in effect, would create open—ended tenancies. landlords will have to provide concrete legal reasons for evicting te na nts. concrete legal reasons for evicting tenants. at the moment, we think the section 21 use has increased because it is the only certain way to end a tenancy. on average it takes over 22 weeks for a landlord to get possession, if they have grounds to end it and it goes to the court process. so they are using section 21 because it is quicker and more certain. the government michael oher said court proceedings will be speeded up if somebody needs to be evicted for falling behind with rent 01’ evicted for falling behind with rent or anti—social behaviour. elsewhere, similar plans have been introduced in wales and scotland. the foreign secretary has sought to reassure international firms that britain is open for business,

despite the uncertainty over brexit. speaking to the bbc on a visit to japan, jeremy hunt said the government is determined to get a brexit deal passed before may 22nd to avoid the uk taking part in the european elections. rupert wingfield hayes reports from tokyo. applause for britain's foreign secretary, the easter holidays mean a trip to his beloved japan. he speaks japanese and the chance to show off his rather good japanese to a clearly impressed group of high school students. they murmur but even here there is no escaping brexit. the vision for the eu is they would like one day europe to become one country like the united states of america. the kids may have been won over but japan's industrial and political leaders are much less relaxed about the continuing paralysis in westminster.

prime minister shinzo abe looked exhausted by the whole subject. translation: i hope the negative impact of the uk's withdrawal from the eu onjapanese companies will be minimised. with somejapanese companies leaving the uk and others holding off on new investment, i asked the foreign secretary what message he had for them. we recognise that brexit paralysis is damaging for business, it's damaging for britain's international reputation, it's damaging for our influence and we are absolutely determined to conclude it as quickly as we possibly can. there is relief here injapan that a new deal brexit has been ruled out by the british government and parliament and there may even be some hope that britain is now heading for a slightly softer brexit. but there is also dismay that, despite the foreign secretary's reassurances, this whole brexit saga looks set to continue for another

six months, or even more. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in tokyo. liverpool will fall silent for a minute this afternoon to mark the 30th anniversary of the hillsborough disaster which led to the death of 96 liverpool fans. a minute's silence will be held at 6 minutes past 3 — the time the fa cup semi—final match was stopped in 1989. earlier today, 96 lanterns were lit on the steps of st george's hall — one for each of the victims. the city's mayorjoe anderson and lord mayor, councillor christine banks, laid wreaths in front of the lanterns to begin the day of remembrance. andy gill is at liverpool's anfield stadium. just tell us more about what is going to be happening today. well, behind me you can see the anfield memorial to the 96 people who died at hillsborough. people notjust from liverpool and merseyside, but

from liverpool and merseyside, but from across the country. among those who died, a father and son, brothers and sisters. you will always find flowers a nd and sisters. you will always find flowers and tributes at the memorial, but many more today as people come to remember those who died, and also to support the survivors and those who were injured as well. there is a private memorial service taking place inside anfield today. many of the families will be there at that. there is another private memorial service at the liverpool anglican cathedral. families are also attending there. some families have chosen not to go to either memorial service. they are remembering their loved ones privately, perhaps visiting the grave site. some families have gone away because they don't want to be around for the 30th anniversary of hillsborough. the hillsborough disaster affected so many people in liverpool especially. friends, neighbours, loved ones, all affected. and like throwing a rock into a pond, those ripples carry on.

today, many people thinking about those 96 people who went to a football match and didn't come home, wondering what their life would have been like if they had come home. andy, thank you. the time is just after 1:15pm. our top story this lunchtime. shamima begum — the london teenager who ran away to syria — gets legal aid to fight the decision to revoke her british citizenship. and still to come: sark seeks a dairy farmer — why the tiny channel island is advertising for someone who can make their milk. coming up in the sport in the next 15 minutes on bbc news: another major event is heading to london, the capital will host the rearranged world para swimming championships in september. tributes have continued to pour in to tiger woods, who staged one of sport's greatest comebacks by winning the masters in augusta —

more than a decade after his last major title. the now 15—time major winner said he faced "serious doubts" he would ever contend again, after a series of operations for his back. his future in golf was also thrown into doubt as he battled troubles in his personal life, and was arrested for reckless driving. but yesterday woods put all that behind him, winning the green jacket after finishing one stroke ahead of the field. andy swiss reports. just a few years ago they were writing him off, now he's written one of sport's most astonishing chapters. tiger woods hadn't won a major title for more than a decade, but roared on by the augusta crowd, he rolled back the years. while others faultered, woods was inspired, lifted by his fans to new dizzying heights. translation: oh, my good god. i tell you, i can't stand this. from there it was a march to glory and a tap in for triumph. what a moment. listen... cheering

suddenly, the personal problems, the years of injury seemed a distant memory and as he embraced his family 22 years after his first masters win, the emotion was clear. it's just unreal for me to experience this. my mom was here, she was there in ‘97 as well and so ijust couldn't be more happy and more excited. i'm kind of at a loss for words, really. woods' journey has been like no other. that's the way you do it. after dominating golf in his 20s, his personal and professional life unravelled. a debilitating back injury, even a police charge for reckless driving, and so this remarkable win has been lauded around the world. footballer gareth bale described it as "unbelievable," while donald trump said, "love people who are great under pressure. what a fantastic life comeback." and there was a similar sentiment from actor hugh jackman,

"after all of woods' struggles his triumph is all the greater." it's very rare we get to see comebacks of this magnitude. most athletes, they have the kind of issues that tiger's had to deal with, they would have been dropped from funding, or they will have lost their place on the team and theyjust can't carry on. whereas, because he had that background, he's clearly got an intrinsic love of his sport and wanted to carry on anyway. congratulations, tiger. woods was often seen as aloof in his early years. but after everything he's been through, he is now winning a new affection. he's a lot more relatable now. right. you know, it's almost like what happened to him brought him back down to earth a little bit. you know, he's more relatable, he engages with the crowd a bit more, a bit more like phil mickelson does, and people have warmed to him a bit more. this famous course has seen some extraordinary feats over the years, but perhaps none quite like this. a win which for so long seemed unthinkable has, for tiger woods,

become a glorious reality. andy swiss, bbc news, augusta. a man has been charged in connection with a video published online last year that showed a cardboard model of grenfell tower being burnt. paul bussetti, who is 46 and from south london will appear in court later this month. thousands of families in england are facing untold misery because school funding for children with special educational needs is falling far short of what's required, according to the leading teaching union. the national education union says nine out of ten local councils don't have enough money to meet rising demand — but ministers say spending has been increased for those with severe and complex needs. our education correspondent frankie mccamley reports. teaching children with special educational needs is expensive. class sizes are small. currently, this school in gloucestershire has 35 places for special needs pupils. but in four years in order to balance the books, that's got

to go down to 22. it's heartbreaking. this is a school where inclusion is absolutely at the hub of its ethos. but under the current funding system that we have for special educational needs, a school this size cannot afford to educate the number of children with special educational needs as it's currently being asked to do. 12—year—old lucian is getting the help he needs but his mother said it was a struggle. it took quite a long time to actually get some help and it took a year for the ehcp to come through so he lost a whole year and during that time his confidence was really seriously knocked. here in liverpool on the first day of the national education union conference, funding is high on the agenda. this year, the union focused its research on special educational needs funding and it found that schools in england are simply not keeping up with demand. figures by the neu show the number

of children being granted special needs care plans has risen by 33% since 2015. whilst funding has only increased by 6% over the same period. that, the union says, translates into funding shortfalls for 93% of local authorities across england. we are now at the stage where we've got parents taking local authorities to court and it's not the local authority's fault. they just do not have the money to fund special needs support in the way that they need to do. part of the reason there is so much pressure on schools and council budgets is demand is going up and additional needs provisions have been extended to include 19—25—year—olds. the government says it's invested an extra £100 million to create special needs places, calling it a priority. but costs are still rising, leaving some at breaking point. frankie mccamley, bbc news.

gatwick airport says the drone attack that caused chaos before christmas — disrupting the journeys of around 140,000 passengers — was carried out by someone with knowledge of the airport's operational procedures. an airport executive told bbc panorama that the drone's pilot "seemed to be able to see what was happening on the runway". sussex police told the programme the possibility that an "insider" was involved was a "credible line" of inquiry. our transport correspondent tom burridge reports. who inflicted misery on tens of thousands of passengers in gatwick and beyond just before christmas is still a mystery, but bbc news has found out new details about the tactics of the drone operator as the airport's only runway was closed for more than 30 hours. we've now learnt that a security officer made the first sightings. he spotted two drones at the edge of the airfield, close to this bus stop. all flights were suspended.

three hours later, the drones had disappeared. but when a team went out to inspect the runway, a standard procedure before reopening, a drone was suddenly back — and that pattern was repeated throughout the next day. each time these vehicles went out to prepare the runway to reopen, a drone would, as if by magic, reappear over the airfield again. someone seemed to understand how an airport operates and could even see what was going on. gatwick, in its first interview since the incident, suggests whoever was operating the drones had inside knowledge. the drone attack was clearly a malicious attack. and, by virtue of the way that they operated, they clearly had some idea of how airports work and had some intelligence as to what we were doing. that has always been a line of enquiry for sussex police, which has a station at the airport. a drone expert who used to be in the raf and now advises

the government and airports, believes it's the most likely theory. it was evident that that person really didn't want to be caught. that's really into the disruptive actor or that's at the higher end, possibly a hostile nation state poking hard at the system to see what the reaction would be. now, of the balance of those two, i think really the probability is much more towards the individual conducting something that he felt was having a go back at an organisation perhaps he had some sort of beef with. once the military had set up counter—drone equipment on top of the south terminal, the number of drone sightings dropped significantly. gatwick has defended closing the airport for so long. safety, it says, must come first. drone detected. since the incident, uk airports, including gatwick, have been investing in new equipment like this radar developed in the netherlands. most drones are too small for standard radar. this one can pick them up and differentiate them from birds. it was used to protect world leaders at the g20 last summer,

and demonstrated to us at this dutch military airbase. if a drone flies onto a runway, there's no simple solution. bringing it down can be risky, hacking it orjamming it, hard. gatwick has exposed just how vulnerable to drones a lot of places are. airports are actually one of the most difficult areas to protect. that has to do with the collateral damage that intervention methods could lead to. only an innocent couple has been arrested for what happened at gatwick. sussex police says more than 100 people, mainly airport staff and police officers, saw the drones. it hasn't released video of them because it says the footage is such poor quality. tom burridge, bbc news, at gatwick. and you can see more on that story in panorama: the gatwick drone attack — tonight at 8:30pm on bbc one. now, wanted — dairy farmer — must have own cows and be willing to work in a place where cars are banned from the roads and people

and goods transported by horse—drawn vehicles. only a few hundred people live there but the tiny channel island of sark is looking for a new dairy farmer. since its last dairy closed last year, the local community has had to rely on imported milk. now a charitable trust has been set up to fund a new dairy. the only problem is there's no farmer to look after it. sark is just a few miles from the coast of france, and our correspondent john fernandez is there. if the live wire lifestyle isn't quite for you and you'd prefer a high street that looks a bit more like this, then perhaps you'd prefer a move to sark. the island would like to hear from you if you have dairyfarming like to hear from you if you have dairy farming experience. the only catch is you may need to bring your own cows. an island ofjust 400 people. no cars, just bikes and tractors. and, for more than a year now, no sark milk. it breaks my heart, at the moment, to have to buy milk from guernsey.

not that guernsey milk is bad, but it's a guernsey product, and a very good guernsey product. i would far rather be selling sark milk, sark butter, sark cream. the island, which is home to around 400 people, hasn't had a commercial dairy since around 18 months ago, when this facility closed down. now, that happened because the farmer in charge, chris nightingale, who doubles up as one of the island's politicians, decided to retire. and that left the island with no commercial dairy. the lack of a dairy has been a nightmare for caragh, who makes chocolates on the island. sark cream is like liquid gold. it's cream that doesn't pour. and we have such a great island here, there's no pollution, the grazing is perfect. and the cream is so rich. it was the whole inspiration for our chocolates. you just can't get anything like it anywhere else. so, the island dairy closing down last year has been a big blow to us. so she, alongside a small group, decided to do something about it. the idea is to put

the buildings in this corner, along these two sides. probably either an l—shaped building or two buildings. richard has been working behind the scenes to make the idea of a sark community dairy a reality. all they need now is a farmer. they need to have experience in dairy, and preferably in handling dairy cows. milking, producing milk, processing milk and, ideally, in making cheese. ideally it should be a couple. i think it's a two—person operation. the accommodation will be provided in no less than the queen's own representative on sark‘s own digs — the seigneur. you just need to bring your own cows and lots of ideas, as even the fields are being given by the community. the team behind this project hope

that the potential of this scheme will bring the right person to sark, and they believe, with sights like this on your doorstep every day and night, it will hopefully be a budding farming family's dream job. so, if you'd like to get in touch with the people behind this sark project they would love to hear from you. they are looking for someone with bags of enthusiasm, lots of ideas and perhaps a bit of cash to start this project rolling because they know that this is a once—in—a—lifetime opportunity for sark. john, many thanks. john fernandez there. time for a look at the weather. here's chris fawkes. you might say it was a friesian start, temperatures below freezing but we have some sunshine out and about at the moment, the best of it across eastern parts of the uk but the weather is on the change. as we headed through the weekend we saw temperatures at just 12 headed through the weekend we saw temperatures atjust 12 celsius, many lower than that through sunday, thanks to these cold winds coming

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