rape victims told to hand over their phones to the police — or risk their attackers not being prosecuted. it comes after the collapse of a string of trials when crucial evidence emerged on mobile phones — but campaigners are concerned. it's massively intrusive. it really has an impact on victims of rape who may be severely traumatised already by what happened. it's another violation, in effect, of traumatised victims. we'll have the latest from our legal correspondent this lunchtime. spain's socialists celebrate victory in the country's general election — though they can't form a government by themselves. fewer british holiday—makers booking summer breaks in europe, according to a new report — amid brexit uncertainty.

saving planet earth — scientists warn the way we treat our soil is fuelling climate change. and sale of the century — a charity shop in kent offers prada, gucci, and mulberry at a fraction of the usual price. this is normally only what you get in london. you don't have to go to london now, you can come to me and you can buy it in our shop for our charity in tunbridge wells. save the train fare. and coming up on bbc news: alex hales is out of the world cup picture after england withdraw the batsman from their squad. it follows the off—field incident that led to a suspension. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one.

victims of rape and other crimes are being told they must hand over their mobile phones to the police — or risk prosecutions not going ahead. police forces in england and wales are rolling out consent forms, which ask for permission to get access to messages, photos, emails and social media accounts. it's a response to the collapse of a string of rape and sexual assault cases, after crucial evidence emerged on mobile phones at the last minute. our legal correspondent, clive coleman, reports. there is going to be evidence in everyone‘s phone. liam allan was falsely accused of rape. the case against him only collapsed when text messages from his accuser — which proved his innocence — were disclosed days into his trial. he favours complainants being asked for their consent to hand over their mobile devices. i can't consider it an invasion of privacy because it assists, there is something in there that will either assist the case

or assist the defence and that needs to be...the police need to have access to that otherwise there is no right to a fair trial, that's gone. to ensure our fair trial system, the prosecution has to disclose to the defence any evidence gathered by the police that either assists the defence case or undermines the prosecution's. and because of the way we all live our lives today, a lot of that evidence is found on these things. following a series of collapsed trials, a number of reviews revealed a systemwide disclosure problem. at its core was the ability of police and prosecutors to get on top of unprecedented amounts of digital evidence. under a national disclosure improvement plan all cps prosecutors and 93,000 police staff have received specialist training. disclosure champions have been appointed and management systems used in complex terrorism cases are now being used in all rape cases. but most controversial are new forms

under which witnesses and victims including victims of rape are asked if they will consent to have their devices examined. if they don't it might halt a prosecution. will they cooperate? i'm optimistic that if properly explained and communicated the reference point of what we are calling a consent form for access to digital data, where it is reasonable and necessary in any given case, will succeed. and the reason i'm confident is that the people of this country, historically, have always supported criminal investigation and prosecution. but campaigners are worried. it's massively intrusive. it really has an impact on victims of rape who may be severely traumatised already by what's happened. it's another violation, in effect, of traumatised victims and what's more the danger is that it will deter victims

from coming forward. striking the balance in the digital age between protecting victims and the accused's right to a fair trial is complex. but if the correct balance is not found, the future of our fair trial system is in jeopardy. and clive is with me now. dealing with evidence in the digital age is really challenging for the police and the courts? to give you some idea, there is more computing power in one of these than what was available in the early moon landings and if you download the contents landings and if you download the co nte nts of landings and if you download the contents of a phone like this and print it on a4 paper and stack them one on top of another you would have a pile to miles high. add to that the complexity of searching text speak where people are not communicating in whole words, in abbreviations, ironic sentences. this is massive challenges for the criminal justice system this is massive challenges for the criminaljustice system where resources a re criminaljustice system where resources are tight. it's an uncomfortable truth that in a small

minority of cases complainants, victims, do make false allegations. in order to ensure those people are protected the police do not have the legal power to seize victims phones, it seems consent is the only option to protect those who are falsely accused but of course that's hugely controversial in terms of victims rights. thank you, clive coleman, our legal correspondent. in spain, the socialists are celebrating after winning the country's third election in four years. they're the largest party, though they fell short of a majority and will need the help of others to form a government. for the first time since military rule ended in the 1970s, a party of the far right is set to enter parliament. from madrid, james reynolds reports. after this country's third vote in four years, spain has a winner. voters picked their way through a collection of fractured parties and gave the governing socialist party more seats

than any other group. this is what relief looks like. in the centre of madrid, spain's socialists celebrated their victory. their leader, the pro—european prime minister, pedro sanchez, saw off a conservative opposition, which included a rising movement from the far right. translation: we made it happen. the socialist party has won the election and, in doing so, the future has won and the past has lost. pedro sanchez argued during the campaign that he was the only spanish leader capable of stopping the advance of the hard right. and the numbers show that he has done so. he must now form a lasting coalition of his own. we have seen different things in the world. we've seen trump in the states. we've seen different things.

we've seen "brexit" — i'm sorry! and sometimes you have to get together and say "this is what we want". and you don't want those things, you don't want trump or brexit? oh, my god, no! we don't want franco to come back, all those old ideas, so i think it's a good thing to be here tonight and to support our president. the far right party, vox, the first significant movement of its kind since the end of general franco's fascist regime four decades ago, ended up on the losing side. but they did win enough votes to enter parliament in opposition. translation: we now have a voice in congress and we can tell everyone in spain that vox are here to say. thank you to all our two million supporters. by contrast, the winners, pedro sanchez and the socialist party, will continue to lead this country, probably in partnership

with a number of smaller left—wing and regional parties. the exact shape of the new administration may take weeks to decide. james reynolds, bbc news, madrid. and james joins us now from madrid. how hard will it be for the socialists to form a government? i think pedro sanchez may want to go it alone as a minority government with ad hoc support or he might want to get a formal coalition with the left—wing and regional parties. it's quite a difficult task because this election has shown how divided spain is, it's one of the most divided countries in western europe. four yea rs countries in western europe. four years after the end of the franco regime those divisions, those fractures, were largely hidden by two mean parties but this election has blown all that apart and exposed at the competing building blocks

which have always made up spain, from a populist left through to a traditionalist at heart rate, that ha rd rate traditionalist at heart rate, that hard rate is now in parliament for the first time but crucially it's an opposition, it does not have a share of power. so the socialists have power and will have to look for partners. one important point, the european union may be very relieved by this result, mr sanchez is pro—european and police in the structures of the eu, and it once he forms a government he might have more of a role in negotiating the eu's relationship with a post brexit uk. thank you, james reynolds, live in madrid. sri lanka has banned face coverings in public, following the suicide attacks on easter sunday that killed at least 250 people and injured hundreds. the president is using an emergency law to impose the restriction from today. he said any face garment which "hinders identification" will be banned to ensure security

but muslim leaders have criticised the move. heavy rain and high winds are hindering rescue efforts in northern mozambique as the second cyclone in a month continues to affect remote communities. cyclone kenneth struck on thursday night and the un says it's predicted to dump twice as much rainfall as cyclone idai did last month. around 700,000 people are thought to be at risk. talks between the government and labour, aimed at breaking the deadlock over brexit, will resume this afternoon. among those taking part will be the chancellor, philip hammond, and his labour shadow, john mcdonnell. our assistant political editor, norman smith, is in westminster. norman, i think i have asked you this before, but these talks have been rumbling on for a while, any sign they are making any progress?

to be honest they do feel a bit like a bunch of people trying to walk up a bunch of people trying to walk up a down escalator with nobody getting anywhere very fast and a real danger they all end up back at the bottom ina they all end up back at the bottom in a crumpled heap blaming one another. why? yes the talks have been going on for five weeks and they have not broken up in acrimony yet. yes, both sides say they are treating them seriously and there's not a huge gulf betweenjeremy corbyn‘s vision of staying in some sort of customs union and theresa may's plans for some sort of customs arrangement but the problem is one of party management. neither party can doa of party management. neither party can do a deal because of the backlash they would face from their own parties. jeremy corbyn from his remain supporting grassroots if he was to enable some sort of tory brexit deal, and theresa may, the men in grey suits would be knocking on her door if she relied on labour votes to get a brexit deal through. the only thing which may be changes it is if after the european

elections jeremy corbyn finds himself pressurised into backing another referendum and this morning one of his key allies, shami chakrabarti, one of his key allies, shami chakra barti, was seeing one of his key allies, shami chakrabarti, was seeing that's becoming more likely for the labour party. if in order to avoid that jeremy corbyn decided to have a soft, soft brexit deal with theresa may instead but i have to say there is no sign of it yet and my tip is eve ryo ne is no sign of it yet and my tip is everyone is going to end up in a crumpled heap, limbs flailing at the bottom of the escalator. thank you for that image, norman smith are assistant political editor. thomas cook says fewer people are booking summer holidays to countries in the european union this summer, as the uncertainty over brexit continues. the travel agent has seen bookings to destinations outside the eu increase by 10% compared with last year. our personalfinance correspondent, simon gompertz, is here. simon, why this fall in the numbers of people wanting to go to eu

countries? the first thing is the big package holiday companies are not having a good year so far, they see people are putting off their bookings for the summer because of uncertainty over for instance brexit. having looked at the numbers of thomas crook so far their latest figures, the show the number of people booking in known european destinations which don't use the euro has gone up to 47% saw almost half and that compares to 38% in last year at the same time. ten percentage point increase. big difference, thomas cook put it down to the pound having fallen against the euro so those destinations seem a bit more expensive but another influence is people arejust generally more keen on going further afield for the holidays. they are being more careful with their money in order to do that, choosing different times to change the pound

into other currencies for instance. but they want to go further. what sort of places are we going to? having said that the most popular place is still spain and that includes the canaries and the jogger, includes the canaries and the jogger, so a lot of destinations which is why spain stays at the top. leaping ahead behind that into second place is turkey, so beyond europe. turkey is seen as a value destination which has leapfrogged greece which is in third. an interesting one, further down the list after that, the usa and cyprus, is tunisia, really hit by the terrorist attacks in 2017, it's now in seventh and it represents north africa, morocco, tunisia and egypt are more popularfor africa, morocco, tunisia and egypt are more popular for family holidays. thank you, simon complex. the time is 1:15pm. our top story this lunchtime. rape victims are being told they must hand over their mobile phones to the police — or risk prosecutions against their

attackers not going ahead. and coming up — the latest disney blockbuster set to break all box office records. coming up on bbc news. manchester city forward raheem sterling just misses out on the players‘ award, but wins the football writers association player of the year. another city player — nikita parris — claims the writers' women's award. a new report has highlighted the critical role that soil plays in climate change. there's more carbon stored in soil than in all the world's trees — and it's being released into the atmosphere by deforestation and poor farming. the scientists behind the study say that already, nearly half the world's population is suffering because of the way that land is degraded. here's our environment analyst roger harrabin. soil erosion — a double problem.

here in the east of england, this isn't smog in the air, it's soil on a hot windy day. losing soil like this lowers our ability to grow crops. it also releases carbon trapped in the earth, and that contributes to climate change. in parts of the south of england, some carelessly farmed fields are steadily running into the rivers. soil degradation is a problem said to affect almost half the world's people. look at this tsunami of dust last year in phoenix, arizona. it's the result of a spectacular storm. for most farmers, soil loss is a creeping problem that's only noticed it too late. soils are really important for climate change as well, because they store a lot of carbon. there's three times more carbon stored in soil than there is in the atmosphere. so imagine if all that carbon was released from the soil into the atmosphere, we'd have the runaway climate change that people are concerned about. so, what to do?

well, we know cows' burps are a problem for climate change, but their dung also helps put carbon back into the soil. so, this mobile dairy in the south of england may prove part of the solution. it means cows spread their dung across the fields, not leave it in the farmyard. that way, nutrients and carbon from the pasture return to the soil. we were worried that the soil was becoming dead. there was no vitality in the soil, no resilience in the soil. so we realised we need to put grass back into the system, and to manage the grass we bought some dairy cows. here's the evidence. this field, with its light, stony soil, is depleted from crops grown with chemical fertilisers. see the much darker, carbon rich soil in the far ploughed field, previously fertilised by cows. the simplest way of combating climate change and improving the soil is to turn all this farmland into woodland. but that wouldn't feed

the people, would it? perhaps a form of farming like this can be gentler on environment, while keeping milk on the table. we've got to radically cut the number of cattle on earth, scientists tell us. is there a role for pasture fed cows like these that burp out methane but also help the soil? we don't have a clear answer yet. and roger is with me now. in all the talk about climate change, we don't often hear about soil. it's a cinderella subject. i think most people would have no idea there is more carbon in the soil than in all of the world's forests and there is more carbon in soil than in the atmosphere. as we've seen than in the atmosphere. as we've seenin than in the atmosphere. as we've seen in that film, we are losing it, degrading it, compacting it, building on it. we need that soil to be functioning to absorb the carbon from the atmosphere. we are talking about 3.2 billion people in the

world being affected by degraded soil, it's bad news. you briefly mentioned, cattle, livestock, can they be part of the solution? this is controversial. if we want to really ta ke is controversial. if we want to really take care of the planet, we would all go vegan tomorrow. given that that's not going to happen and people still want to meet and dairy, that sort of system, in which crops are grown on the land and cows are fed on the land in the uk is the least bad option. thank you. a new report has proposed that the social care system in england — which helps older and disabled people with tasks such as washing and dressing — should be funded in a similar way to the state pension. the plan, by the former conservative cabinet minister, damian green, says people should pay for a basic safety net, and then be allowed to pay extra if they want additional help.

here's our social affairs correspondent, alison holt. with more of us living longer, the demand from people needing help with day—to—day tasks like eating, getting dressed and washed is increasing. councils that provide that support have also had their budgets cut. it means the care system is under huge pressure. today's report says the need for reform is urgent, to provide a safety net to end the lottery of who gets state funded care and who doesn't. the report calls for a nationally funded pension style scheme. it proposes a universal care entitlement to provide anyone who needs it with a decent standard of help. people would pay a care supplement on top if they wanted a more expensive level of support. the report also says the underfunding of the current care system must be tackled. we need universal care provision that is better than it is now. so, it will involve spending more taxpayers' money.

we'll have to find £2.5 billion extra a year. but also on top of that, we need to allow people, if they can, and many people can particularly if they own property, they'll be able to actually buy an insurance policy or something like an annuity that will, when it's all pooled together, put a lot more money into the system. the government says it has put extra money into social care and plans for the future will be published at the earliest opportunity. alison holt, bbc news. a new study of nearly three million adults in the uk has highlighted the risks of being obese. it found even slightly overweight people are twice as likely to get type 2 diabetes. public health england says sustained action is needed to tackle the problem. the england batsman alex hales has been dropped from all international squads this summer. hales is serving a 21—day ban for an ‘off—field incident‘ but had been named in the provisional

world cup squad earlier this month. the england and wales cricket board said it wanted to make sure the team was free from distractions. stevie chalmers — the celtic forward who scored the winning goal in the 1967 european cup final — has died at the age of 83. celtic have scored! the victory was the first time a british side lifted the trophy — and was one of 12 honours chalmers won during his time at celtic. his death comes after the captain of that 67 team, billy mcneill, passed away last week. technology used by space telescopes is being redeployed to help doctors beat bowel cancer. researchers at university college in london have teamed up with the uk space agency, on a project to detect signs of the disease

using software originally designed to examine distant planets. it's hoped the programme will be accessible across the world, to spot pre—cancerous tissue which might otherwise be missed by doctors. richard galpin reports. doctors hunting for the earliest signs of bowel cancer. they are performing a colonoscopies, manoeuvring a camera around the patient‘s bowels, trying to find any little growths called polyps that can become cancerous. the biggest challenge is to detect precancerous polyps in the bowel. we know that one in five are missed during colonoscopies and we want to do anything we can to improve that detection rate. anything we can do to improve detection will reduce cancer incidence significantly. there are currently more than a quarter of a million people in the uk who have been diagnosed with

bowel cancer. it is survivable but treatment can involve radical surgery. treatment can involve radical surgery. leslie had her entire colon taken out. ifi could have turned the clocks back and had more colonoscopies and had those polyps detected earlier and removed at the time of the procedure and not had a diagnosis of bowel cancer, not only me but my whole family would have done that willingly. could this new softwa re done that willingly. could this new software be the answer to finding polyps which might otherwise go undetected? polyps which might otherwise go undetected ? it uses polyps which might otherwise go undetected? it uses artificial intelligence to spot them in real—time during a in the green box isa real—time during a in the green box is a polyp spotted by the ai. this is a polyp spotted by the ai. this is only useful if doctors have access to a powerful computer running the software. the researchers are also turning to space technology to see if they can

use satellites to enable any hospital in the world to have access to the programme. the really exciting part is we will be able to improve the lives of patients in london or in a remote area of africa. for those who know the impact of bowel cancer, any steps potentially leading to earlier prevention are to be welcomed. polyps are so difficult to detect and if there is a piece of software that will actually capture all polyps, imagine how amazing that is. clinical trials of the use of this artificial intelligence are planned for next year. richard galpin, bbc news. the latest disney blockbuster is on track to overtake avatar as the highest—grossing film of all time. avengers: endgame has already made box office history by taking a record—breaking

£900 million in global ticket sales in its opening run. in the us alone, the film brought in a record £270 million in the first few days. endgame, which is just over three hours long, is the 22nd movie in the marvel studios superhero franchise. we lost friends, we lost family. we lost a part of ourselves. this is the fight of our lives. is this going to work, steve? i know it is. because i don't know what i'm going to do if it doesn't. prada, gucci, kate spade and mulberry — designer names you'd normally associate with stores in the west end or king's road. but now high end fashion brands worth thousands of pounds are on sale for a fraction of their usual retail price — at a humble charity shop in kent. a mystery donor has given them to the mind store

in tunbridge wells — and shoppers there can't believe the bargains now on offer. our reporter claudia sermbezis went to take a look. mulberry. prada. paul smith. kate spade. it's a charity shop which has spent the last 20 years helping people with mental health issues. today, they've done a week's takings. well, it's absolutely amazing because to get this quality and quantity in, itjust ups the ante to a whole new level, where people say, "this is normally what you only get in london". well, you don't have to go to london now, you can come to me and you can buy it in our shop for our charity in tunbridge wells — save the train fare! hang on, now we're talking! where my purse? miu miu! here we are, miu miu. best coat ever. many of these things are actually still on sale online today. so, for example, this afternoon if i scroll down, there it is.

this dress here, there it is, £1,390, please. or £650. i'm all for sustainable fashion anyway and getting as much out of things. i'm a big believer in buying things that are pre—loved. i could never afford to buy fashion at that high end, but i love getting a bargain, like anyone. oh, i can't pronounce that one! i know it's a good one, though. apologies. many of the clothes have even got the original sales tickets. so, i'm buying a whistles black, frill skirt. yes. what's it like coming in and getting all these designer clothes? it's incredible. it's absolutely incredible. i mean, this is the best charity shop that we've got in this area, i think. a bit expensive for me, i think, but if you had the money, obviously, it would be nice, wouldn't it? i actually came in trying to find something, dare i say it, for a fancy dress outfit.

and then i've just walked in and seen this incredible designer wear section, which, yeah, i'm very intrigued to have a good rifle all the way through. philosophy! bought from the designers, this small horde would set you back a cool £60,000. but from the charity shop, umm, well, £20,000 is a bargain, isn't it? time for a look at the weather. u nfortu nately, flattery unfortunately, flattery isn't going to get you a good weather forecast today. it's not that bad today, it's what's coming up later in the week that isn't so great. it will right itself by that stage. we had some sunshine around this morning as well as some fog. it still only april. by the end of the week, after the warmth we had last weekend, we may be having some