dramatic evidence at the inquests into the london bridge attacks from a nurse who was stabbed in the neck. she tried to save the life of this man — alexandre pigeard, but he told herjust to run for her life. we'll have the latest live from the old bailey. also this lunchtime... president trump declares a national emergency to protect us networks from firms like the chinese telecoms giant huawei. the government abandons its controversial part privatisation of the probation service. available within a decade — drugs designed to stop cancer becoming resistant to treatment. living with the menopause while you're still at school — a special report on early menopause among teenagers.

and arise sir andy — andy murray is knighted at the palace over two years after he was given the honour. and coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news... manchester city say they are disappointed but confident of a positive outcome as financial investigators refer them to uefa's adjuticatory chamber. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the inquests into the london bridge attacks have heard how helen kennett, an off duty nurse, tried to save the life of one of the victims.

alexandre pigeard told her to leave him and to run for her life instead. when she was confronted by one of the attackers, the nurse asked him what was wrong with him and he then stabbed her in the neck. helen kennett told the old bailey there was empty souless evil in her attacker‘s eyes. jon donnison reports. this is the moment alexandre pigeard first knew something was wrong as panic started to spread in the borough restaurant where he worked. minutes later he would be dead. the 26—year—old frenchman had been living in london for two years. the court heard how the staff heard a loud bang outside, the to see what happened. soon after the attackers descended into the courtyard and he was stabbed in the neck and midriff.

the court heard evidence from helen kennett, an off duty nurse. she nurse. she said she had had a few drinks, but as a nurse knew she could help. she described going to help alexandre pigeard, she thought help alexandre pigeard, she thought he had been involved in a car accident, then she saw a wound on his neck and an attacker holding the knife. she said she looked into the assailant's knife. she said she looked into the assaila nt‘s eyes knife. she said she looked into the assailant's eyes which were soulless and empty. what's wrong with you, she said to him. no, what's wrong with you? he replied. he then stabbed her in the neck. helen kennett told the court she was going to die. she tried to find her family, she said she didn't want to die alone. it was two hours before she got to an ambulance. jon donnison, bbc news. what else has the court been hearing today, jon?

what else has the court been hearing today, jon? incredible testimony from helen kennett, she says when she looks into the eyes of alexandre pigeard just before she herself was stabbed, he just looked at her and told her to run. unfortunately for her it was too late, she was also stabbed. she gave that testimony remarkably stoically today but as soon remarkably stoically today but as soon as remarkably stoically today but as soon as she had finished she broke down in tears and was comforted by family and friends in the court. the court also heard today from a woman who had been celebrating her birthday in the same restaurant, the borough bistro that night. she heard the bang, she saw the panic spreading, then she also said she saw one of the attackers stabbing their waiter who turns out it was alexandre pigeard. she said as he was being stabbed the attacker was smiling. jon, thank you very much indeed. president trump has declared a national emergency to protect us

communication networks from what he calls foreign adversaries. it's believed he's targeting the chinese telecoms giant huawei. several countries, led by the us, fear huawei poses a risk to their national security because it's too close to the chinese government. here, sir richard dearlove — the former head of m16, has said that involving huawei in britain's 56 network would be a potential security risk to the uk. peter bowes reports from washington. another fight with china, a foreign adversary whose telecom giant could pose a national security threat to the us. in a statement from the white house, there is no mention of specific countries or companies, but it is clear the trump administration has huawei in its sights. the us will ban transactions posing an unacceptable risk, with the president pledging to do what it takes to keep america safe and prosperous. this executive order was a long time coming. it's well known that huawei acts in many ways as an agent of the chinese communist party,

and so banning the type of activity that they do within our networks really makes a lot of sense. as the us and other countries develop sg networks, this is a battle over new technology and security on top of the trade war which has escalated in recent days. chinese companies can be pressured by the chinese government and the communist party. the question is — can customers of those companies around the world build their systems in a way that mitigate those risks or is it just too much of a risk? and that is really a technical question that will vary from one application to the next. the us commerce department has said american companies will be restricted from selling their technology to huawei, which is engaged in activities that are contrary to us national security or foreign policy interest. translation: we urge the united states to stop such

erroneous practices and create conditions for normal trade cooperation between enterprises of the two countries, and avoid further impact on the economic and trade relations between china and the united states. in a statement, the chinese company said: with donald trump describing the impasse over trade talks as a little squabble, this latest clash over technology and security will further test deteriorating us chinese relations. peter bowes, bbc news. our security correspondent frank gardner is in westminster. frank, this declaration of a national emergency by donald trump seems to highlight really the differences over huawei between the

us and the united kingdom. yes, although the uk has yet to say what its policy on 56 will be, it is still under review, but certainly the us and australia have been very robust in voicing their concerns over the security risks of using huawei. in the last few minutes, a major report has been issued here, has been published in parliament behind me, in which the authors of the report and the introduction is from a former mi6 secret intelligence service chief, sir richard dearlove, they list a number of reasons why they say huawei is not to be trusted. they quote the national intelligence law in china for example in 2017 which requires companies to share whatever intelligence is required of them by the government. huawei denies it would do this, has offered to do a no spying agreement. there are also concerns over the equipment itself.

british intelligence chiefs it's understood are reported to have given a limited clearance to non—sensitive material being used. they are saying that material can later become sensitive and is prone to trojan spy bugs being put in there by an adversary. thank you very much. frank gardner. the supervision of all offenders in england and wales is being brought back under public control. the government has decided to reverse the part privatisation of the probation service, introduced five years ago by the thenjustice secretary chris grayling. the chief inspector of probation recently described the system as irredeemably flawed. here's our home affairs correspondent danny shaw. he promised it would transform rehabilitation for offenders. chris grayling was the architect of the biggest probation shake—up in decades, allowing private firms to supervise former prisoners and people serving community sentences

who pose a low or medium risk but now the reforms are being scrapped. there was a mistake and chris grayling has to share responsibility for that. he thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread, we pleaded with him not to do it or at least pilot the scheme is first. he flatly refused, pushed it through and has cost the taxpayer millions, hundreds of millions of pounds. inspectors said chris grayling's model of part privatisation was irredeemably flawed and people would be safer with the public sector in charge. they were concerned offenders were not being properly supervised and were not able to access supervised and were not able to a ccess courses supervised and were not able to access courses to help them turn their lives around. very chaotic to say the least. i would turn up to appointments and the worker wouldn't be there or it would be a different worker or they wouldn't even be expecting me. under the new system, offenders will be monitored by the

national probation service in 11 regions. the private and voluntary sectors will provide unpaid work and drug misuse programmes for offenders but there will be no payment by results, a key element of chris grayling's approach. one aspect which hasn't worked is that when it comes to offender management, payment by results has not worked. complex reasons why that's the case, some of this is to do with the fact the caseloads have been different from what was anticipated. david gauke says the new system of supervising offenders will increase public safety. it will be introduced in wales this year and across england in 2021 but the current providers have been told it could ta ke providers have been told it could take four years until the service improves. they are concerned the new setup will become fragmented with offenders more likely to slip through the probation net. and danny is with me now.

briefly what went wrong with the original changes brought in by chris grayling? the standard of work being done by the probation companies with offenders to stop them reoffending was not of a high enough quality into many places. for example appointments with offenders being conducted over the telephone just once a month, or other appointments taking place in booths an open plan offices. there wasn't enough investment in the scheme from the beginning and the private companies we re beginning and the private companies were struggling to make money for a variety of reasons, and in fact one of them went into administration. quite a u—turn to abandon that. are the changes announced today going to improve things? in terms of supervision there will be one provider, the national probation service, responsible for offenders from the beginning of the sentence to the end, so that will make things perhaps more simple and streamlined, but the fact you have private

providers, voluntary groups, actually administering the scheme is on the ground means there may be a conflict about who is responsible if things go wrong. if you are an offender and you don't turn up for an appointment, will that be the responsibility of the private group or the national probation service and there you could get some problems. danny shah, thank you very much. —— shaw. theresa may has been facing senior conservative mps as pressure grows for her to step aside. she's been meeting the executive of the 1922 committee of tory backbenchers who want her to set a firm date for her departure from downing street. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith is in westminster. norman, any sign she will give them that date? i would think almost certainly not because we know when mrs may is asked a direct question she tends to go into automatic geoffrey boycott defensive mode. secondly i think her view is worship to give a date it would further

wea ken to give a date it would further weaken and undermine her already decidedly wobbly position, but also because frankly she has kind of given us a nod and a wink about the likely timetable for her departure because she has already said if she gets a deal through the commons next month, she will wait to get it through parliament which would mean leaving i guess in the second or third week ofjuly. if much more likely the deal goes down in flames in the first week ofjune, the expectation, including amongst her loyal allies, is she would have to go. number ten have been clear there is not going to be another attempt to try to get this plan through so it really comes down to whether mps on the 22 trust mrs may. there is a split, there are those who think mrs may should be allowed dignity to go in her own time, basically they are prepared to accept the nod and the wing, and there are those who fear mrs may could be pulling the wool over their eyes and will not bring

the deal back in the 1st ofjune and drag it on. they want her to sign on the dotted line with the departure date, or else they say they will try to force her out. norman, thank you. a leading british scientist says drugs designed to stop cancer cells becoming resistant to treatment could be available within a decade. professor paul workman, the chief executive of the institute for cancer research, says the new approach could make it possible to manage cancer as a chronic condition, and make the disease more curable. our medical correspondent fergus walsh is here. focus, how significant is this, do you think was my we have known for a long time that cancers are inherently unstable copies of our dna. every time they survive, they change and mutate. it only needs a few cells to survive conventional treatment for the cancer to develop

drug resistance. we have known about this darwinian evolution for years. in fact, it was discovered by scientists at the institute of cancer research many years ago, but they are now setting up the well‘s first dedicated centre looking at darwinian cancer evolution and trying to find drugs that may help to combat it, and putting £75 million in. it sounds like a lot of money, and it is, but one the new cancer drug probably costs £1 billion to develop. although it is very good to have this money from charities, we will rely on big pharmaceutical companies to come up with the money needed. the general trend we have seen for a few years is trying to use more targeted treatments for cancer, and to turn it into a more chronic, manageable condition. labour has announced plans

to re—nationalise the national grid for electricity and gas, to provide what the party says will be a better dealfor the public. national grid says the idea would delay investment. labour also says it would install solar panels on nearly two million homes to generate electricity, as part of a new energy policy. simon gompertz has more. labour's big increase in solar panels would build on community projects like this in south london, powering the lifts and communal lights in a block of flats and promising lower bills. it means some kind of energy, and clean one... local backers like fay say the savings are winning over other residents. some people — full stop — "i just want to pay less," and if they can also see that in their bill with the solar energy, how could they complain after that? labour says 1 million council and housing association homes would get the panels,

saving £117 a year each on electricity bills, and there'd be interest—free loans and grants to help 750,000 other households install them. so this is what labour wants its green energy policy to look like, and it says that, to get this done quickly across the country, that's one of the reasons it wants to renationalise the national grid and the local electricity by adjusting for what it calls asset stripping, despite warnings that it could be challenged in court for paying too little. parliament ultimately decides on the amount that's paid, and parliament may wish to decide on a number of considerations ranging from how much a company has invested in the network, how much they were subsidised by the government when they took

over the industry from the public purse, if you like, many years ago, and how much tax they have paid. the national grid defended itself today, saying it was investing. we are exactly the same as any other company, so we are operating profits, pay taxes, pay interest on our dividends and the rest of the money is ploughed back in as reinvestment into the national grid and infrastructure investments. labour is promising a green revolution and lower bills. the government says that renationalisation, if it happens, would saddle taxpayers with debt. simon gompertz, bbc news. prince harry has accepted substantial damages and an apology from a news agency which used a helicopter to take photos of his home in the cotswolds. the duke of sussex sued splash news over the january incident, arguing it had breached his privacy and data rights under british law and the european convention on human rights. buckingham palace said prince harry

welcomed the formal apology. the time is 13:19pm. our top story this lunchtime: dramatic evidence at the inquests into the london bridge attacks from a nurse who tried to save the life of this man and was stabbed herself. and coming up: sky—high drama — the window cleaners left hanging on oklahoma's tallest building. coming up in the sport on bbc news in the next 15 minutes: a big win forjohanna konta in rome, knocking out the seventh seed sloane stephens in three sets at the italian 0pen. this time next week, voters across the uk will be heading to the polls in the european elections. you've probably had your polling cards through the letter box, but how much do you know about the elections and what they mean for the uk? 0ur political correspondent chris mason reports. the european union, a club of 28 countries, and yes,

the uk is still one of them. so, let's head to brussels, where at the heart of the eu, there are three institutions. firstly, the european commission. it is the executive of the eu. it dreams up plans for new european laws and implements the decisions of two other things. the european council and the european parliament. the council of the eu is where government ministers meet up from each member country to discuss, amend and adopt laws, and to coordinate policies. and then there is the european parliament. it meets here in brussels and also in strasbourg in france. it is the lawmaking body of the eu and the one bit that is directly elected by us. so, how big is it? well, there are 751 meps elected from all corners of the eu, with 73 of them coming from the uk. but here is the rub with these elections — they only happen if you are a member of the eu. and by now, the uk

wasn't meant to be, but it is, and so they are on. meps will be elected to represent 12 chunks of the uk. here's how it looked in two bits of the uk in 2014. firstly, in scotland, and then also in the south—east of england. now, the election uses a proportional system to work out which parties and candidates are successful. in scotland, wales and england, parties choose a list of candidates in each area and voters just choose a party. or any independent. things are a little different in northern ireland, where voters list candidates in order of preference. let's take a closer look at the result last time. that was five years ago. ukip won more seats in the uk than anyone else, followed by labour and then the conservatives. ten parties in total won seats representing different parts of

the uk. turnout was 34%, but loads has changed since then, not least of course the eu referendum in 2016. and we've also seen, watch this, the collapse of ukip. 2a seats last time round, all the way down to just three when the parliament dissolved. this time round, there are two new parties clamouring for attention, the brexit party, and change uk, with opposing views on our departure from the eu. and one final thought: what on earth happens if we go through this whole shebang and then the uk leaves? well, our 70—something beaming, victorious meps might be out of a job before they even start. so yeah, these elections are just a tad odd, but they could prove crucial in shaping the political weather and so determining everything from how long theresa may last as prime minister to what on earth happens with brexit.

so what are voters making of the campaign so far? over the next two days the bbc‘s political editor in the west midlands, patrick burns, will be reporting from two very different parts of the region. today he's in north staffordshire, which registered one of the biggest votes to leave the european union. welcome to brexit central. biddulph is one of the towns in and around stoke—on—trent which sent shock waves through the political establishment with their resounding referendum leave vote. more than two thirds of electors here voted out. so, i'm here to sample some opinions now almost three years on from the referendum. and it's not just opinions i'm sampling. well, when in staffordshire... cheese and bacon, please. £1.60 p. people had a vote and it

hasn't been delivered. and it'sjust getting delayed and delayed and delayed. people are just losing faith in their politics today. they need to look at themselves because they didn't get together and deliver what the vote said. i think we just need a clear out. i believe now we'll never come out. here in tunstall, the leave vote was even higher. it's part of the stoke north constituency, where nearly three quarters of those who voted backed vote leave. the question now is, will they turn out in such great numbers in these european elections? this former stoke council leader lost his seat in the council elections, even though most other city independent candidates fared much better. now he says next week's european poll is one election we could have done without. three years ago, i did my duty and went to vote, and i did vote out. to leave the european lot.

but no one took any notice. i mean, as leader of the council if the government had given me a directive to do something, an order, say, to do something, and i hadn't done it in three years, i would have had government intervention, most probably. simmering anger which may help the new brexit party in what could be a fight to the death with the longer established ukip. but there is also an icy contempt here which could make it difficult for all parties to persuade voters to venture out at all. patrick burns, bbc, north staffordshire. more information on the european elections, including who's standing in your area, can be found on the bbc website. and tonight andrew marr will be looking at how the eu elections work and what could happen once the votes have been counted. join andrew for europe: the big vote at 8pm on bbc one.

for most women, the menopause starts in their 40s or 50s, but for one in 10,000, it begins in their teens — the so—called ‘early menopause.‘ the reason is largely unknown, so doctors at guys and st thomas's hospital in london are calling for young women affected to take part in a clinical research project. we've been to hear the story of annabelle, who's 15 years of age, currently doing her gcse‘s, and going through the menopause. i'm sweating. i have daily hot flushes. oh, my god, even my arms are red, and my chest. oh, my god. itjust makes you feel kind of trapped, and it's horrible. lovely, thank you, darling. it's been monumental on my parents because obviously they wanted grandchildren. my mum was especially really disappointed. it was a dreadful

shock, and obviously, we both had a cry. we won't be grandparents, either. which is a shame, but it's more about annabel, really. today, we are at the hospital at uch, and just getting the results from my past tests, from blood tests, and my bone density scan, and we'll hopefully find out why i've been diagnosed with early menopause. it really frustrates me, because it's really... inside, you're thinking, why me? and really just want to know why it happened. ifelt very alone. you have no one to talk to. no one else has it, so it's really hard at my age. when i was diagnosed, i didn't know anything about it. for years, i didn't actually know anyone that had the condition, until ijoined daisy last year, and then i've met like so many people through that. to go through it when you

are still a child and still a teenager is actually really, really difficult. it was really brilliant to meet annabel and holly, because i feel like, girls, they need to speak about it instead of holding everything inside. there is no real reason why i've got it. it was really disappointing, because it's frustrating. there's no real answer to what's happening, and it's this whole big mystery, what's going on inside my body. i don't think i'll ever come to terms with it completely. just trying to make something positive from a negative. because there's someone going through so much worse, and to think there's someone going through something worse than me, it makes you feel more lucky than anything. annabel, who is going through the menopause at the age of 15. andy murray has collected his

knighthood at buckingham palace more than two years after he was awarded the honour. sir andrew murray, for services to tennis and to charity. the three—time grand slam champion described it as a ‘proud day'. when the knighthood was announced in 2016 he said being known as a sir "sounded a bit strange" and he was more than happyjust being known as andy. now, before the weather, some dramatic pictures of two window cleaners at work in oklahoma city. they had a terrifying experience when their basket swung out of control while attached to the city's tallest building, the devon tower. it's not known how the lift came adrift but the workers managed to grab a rope and secure the basket which was swinging 50 floors above street level.