hello, this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines: the prime minister has pledged £2.5 billion to create 10,000 new prison places and has said that all police forces in england this is bbc news. and wales will be given extended stop and search powers. the headlines at 12. police in hong kong have fired tear the prime minister pledges gas at pro—democracy protesters £2.5 billion to create 10,000 new prison places — and says all police forces in england and wales will be given extended stop and search powers. police in hong kong fire tear gas at pro—democracy protesters in the tenth consecutive weekend of anti—government demonstrations. lawyers for the alleged victims of the multi—millionaire businessman and convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein say his apparent suicide in his prison cell shouldn't stop the investigation into his alleged crimes 200 people continue to search dense forest in malaysia near the resort where a 15—year—old schoolgirl from london went missing more than a week ago. and coming up — click reports on internet shutdowns in kashmir and a new car scanner in israel —

that's in half an hour. the government has announced a package of new measures in a crackdown on law and order. the prime minister has promised to create an extra 10,000 prison places after an increase in violent crime. this will involve the building of new prisons and the expansion of existing ones at a cost of around £2.5 billion. stop and search powers will also be extended to all police forces in england wales, which will allow police to stop someone in an area where they think

a crime may be committed. borisjohnson also called for tougher sentencing and an end to the early release of prisoners convicted of violent or sexual offences. labour said austerity measures taken by conservative governments had left the entire criminal justice system broken. jon donnison has more. borisjohnson, seen here meeting with police in the west midlands just days after assuming office, says the time for action on crime has come. he says too many serious violent or sexual offenders are coming out of prison long before they should, and that tougher sentences are needed. 10,000 new prison places will be created through the building of new prisons, and also the expansion of existing ones. the cost: up to £2.5 billion. amid fears over rising knife crime, the government has also confirmed that a pilot scheme allowing police

to stop and search someone where they believe a crime may, rather than will, be committed, will be extended to forces across england and wales. stop—and—search works. we hear again and again from police. we hear again and again that our police need to be empowered. and we need our police officers to be out making sure that those who wish to do harm are prevented from doing harm. the home secretary played down concerns that stop—and—search leads to certain groups, notably young black men, being unfairly targeted. this focus on law and order, after recent announcements on the nhs and immigration, will add to speculation that downing street is preparing for a general election soon after parliament returns from its summer break next month. in our sheffield newsroom is labour's shadow policing minister — louise haigh.

thanks for coming in to talk to us. it is very hard for an opposition when the government announces extra resources for the police or the prison service because you have got to welcome that. but i get sceptical about the decision to announce this now? of course we welcome the government's prioritisation of investment in policing after nine yea rs of investment in policing after nine years of brutal austerity affecting policing in the entire criminal justice system but of course i have concerns about how this is going to be implemented firstly he is pledging 20,000 new police officers which is less then we have lost in the last nine years and it breaks my heart to simply recruit similar number elite mac numbers again nine yea rs number elite mac numbers again nine years on. we have to be really wary about any promises borisjohnson makes. he promised to recruit 5000

additional officers when he was mayor of london but all he was doing was recruiting to cover that retirement and natural wastage in the fourth and we are actually expected to lose about 20,000 officers over the next years due to retirement so we need to be really holding to account whether these numbers are additional. thirdly, if we are only looking a police officer numbers had prison places we are not thinking about the wider criminal justice system and how it has suffered over the last nine years thanks to the legal aid cuts, cuts to the court system, thanks to theresa may's reform to police bail which means 80% of offenders are released under investigation rather than bail which adds to serious delays in the system as a whole. so u nless delays in the system as a whole. so unless you are taking it in that holistic way and looking at prevention in the first place and early intervention to tackle the causes of crime, there is absolutely no way borisjohnson could up to bed down on the huge rise in violent crime we have seen over the last six

yea rs crime we have seen over the last six years as a result of tory austerity. what do you make of the decision to roll out the stop and search plans that allow police to come up where they think there is a likelihood of crime, they have been doing it in the midlands and manchester and london, that they can stop and search more easily than they had been able to do in the past? of these reforms do is reverse theresa may's increasing of the thresholds from inspector to superintendent which means that now it is being reduced back to an inspector to allow the authorisation of a section 60 and that removes the reasonable grounds test for stop and search. at eight former special constable myself that i know that it is an important tool but section 60 is not particularly effective and a huge increase in stop and search doesn't actually result in lowering crime.

all it does is poison community relationship. it is to be used proportionately and effectively and it can be really effective but police officers tell me all the time, they have all the powers they need, they don't need any more. they just need more officers on the ground. and that is what we have been sent to the tories for the last nine years. i am pleased to see these numbers being announced but i am sceptical as to whether it will bea am sceptical as to whether it will be a reality. what would the labour government do differently? we pledged at the last election to invest in neighbourhood policing that has been a real consequence of the last nine years is that the loss of neighbourhood policing, building relationships, gathering intelligence on preventing crime. because a police are just there to respond to crime when it happens and only turning up when the worst has happened. it is really important they are in communities preventing crime from happening and we have lost so much of that. we need to invest in the whole picture. we need to invest in early intervention, youth services, mental health. we

wa nt to youth services, mental health. we want to stop young people becoming victims of violent crime and becoming perpetrators of violent crime in the first place. solely looking at the tough law enforcement and policing end of things isn't going to solve the problem. we need a strong justice response but we need prevention and... tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. thanks very much. with me is leroy logan a former superintendent with the metropolitan police. we have talked about this subject of stop and search many times and here we are again. do you look at these proposals and think that they at least are an improvement on what existed before you worried that it is reinventing the wheel? it is not reinventing the wheel at all. in fa ct, reinventing the wheel at all. in fact, it is more draconian tactics that they used to use in the 60s and 70s. that they used to use in the 60s and 705. it that they used to use in the 60s and 70s. it was... especially when they

say a person may commit an offence. it is similarto say a person may commit an offence. it is similar to section 60 where they say may occur. it is the thought police. now we are going back to this thought please type process. it is assumptions and stereotypes which unfortunately office rs stereotypes which unfortunately officers are not always going to... the unconscious bias but also the failures of institutional racism. we are not talking about the immediate use of a rest. we are talking about stop and search which may or may not lead to arrest. yes, but that is invariably and inextricably linked. my issue is that they are using police as a political tool here. look at how the social laws led to the report as a result of the brixton riots. it isjust to play to a certain type of populist tactics

for a a certain type of populist tactics fora certain a certain type of populist tactics for a certain type of voter who will respond to this and say yes, this is the only way we can do it. we can't stop and search our way out of the problem. we have to understand the causes of it. there are young people and in the wider community, they are scared. to try and scare them into submission and say, yes, you will go to prison and have longer sentences, it is important that we work with communities to get the intelligence to approach proactively on both individuals who are causing the crime. if you get back closer to where the numbers were a decade ago of officers, one that help with that? you could restore some of the community policing teams that have been lost and have intelligence led search stops and searches rather than stops and searches on the suspicion? absolutely, but is not just a question of numbers. it is also having the right officers with also having the right officers with a cultural understanding and

competence. in your safer schools, in those areas where they build relationships. you can have your enforcement but you need to have the partnership, building bridges with the communities. there is a direct link between trust and confidence and intelligent and that more information from the community, the more your stop and search and your section 60 will be more effective. 0n the question of trust and confidence, would you accept that... you have talked of unconscious bias, institutional racism. these are issues in which the police are light—years away from where they we re light—years away from where they were in the 70s and early 80s. the culture of policing has changed so much since then that most beat officers going with much more awareness of racial sensitivities. for example, the kind of officers you were dealing with before you join the police when you were growing up. i agree but i don't want the police services to go back and

the police services to go back and the hotter powers will start to embolden certain people, not only how they come in. they may come in for the wrong reasons. it is a power trip. we want to make sure that they officers, who are a lot more professionalised and thoughtful, but they need to understand that occupational culture can create a sort of control that stops people from challenging unconscious bias and systemic failures. that is why the authority level for inspectors to be giving these powers of section 60 isa to be giving these powers of section 60 is a problem because a critical distance between that inspector and those constables who are going to roll up that section 60 is very narrow. when you are superintendent, asi narrow. when you are superintendent, as i was, you can keep the critical distance and challenge those offices and say, listen, if there is not enough intelligence you have to come back. there was one thing... the numberof back. there was one thing... the number of section 60. it didn't impact on hackney being the top

borough for three years with less stop and search but more later like, more intelligence based and reducing crime and knowing the intervention and prevention programmes to prevent people from coming into that cycle of crime and violence. thank you very much. china has warned britain to stop "meddling" in hong kong, after the foreign secretary called for an independent investigation into disorder in the territory, in a telephone call with the city's chief executive. dominic raab told carrie lam that he condemned violence on all sides. there have been further clashes between protesters and police in hong kong today, the 10th weekend of demonstrations. stephen mcdonell is in hong kong. we can see that night has fallen. it isa we can see that night has fallen. it is a big contrast to when i spoke to you about four hours ago when most of the people were sitting on the ground are wandering around and you certainly were dressed up in preparation for a riot. absolutely,

you can see how hit has changed. this is a group of hundreds rather than thousands of protesters. and the idea is, instead of having a sort of a stand—off with huge groups with the police, it is a new kind of guerrilla tactics. a small group that might move somewhere, disrupt things, block traffic if it is at a police station, threw projectiles at the police and then move again. it is constantly moving. constant negotiation between the groups of protesters like this all over hong kong. where should we make? where should we strike next? the idea is that they don't want to get caught and they think this is making it harderfor and they think this is making it harder for the and they think this is making it harderfor the police. the police on the other hand are also moving more quickly. instead of walking in and controlling an area, they are running in and grabbing people in the hope of arresting more activists and they want to try and take the

wind out of their sails in that respect. and stephen, there are report that two petrol bombs were thrown and that was partly what prompted tear gas from the riot police as they closed in on the protesters. is typical of the sort of exchanges you have seen in recent days? petrol bombs would be new. certainly protesters have shown a propensity to throw other projectiles, bricks, polls and the like. police have responded with tear gas, rubber bullets. if the protesters are going to throwing petrol bombs, that would be an escalation on their part. as you can see, they are moving off in the distance in the direction of where you are speaking about. it could be that things are going on there. that

is how it keeps changing. but certainly we are an escalation in the violence. if it came to petrol bombs a normal thing, that would be another level. like i say, it keeps accelerating, becoming more violent with no sign of winding up. one more brief thought. has there been much sign of the authorities attempted to shut down social media during these incidents? presumably part of the mobility has come from their ability to exchange whatsapp messages and use all the other technological methods could put them one step ahead of the police. one of the cornerstones of hong kong's difference to the rest of china is freedom of expression, having free social media. all of these young protesters here, imagine if you are in your 20s now, well, by the time they are in their 40s in 2047, hong

kong will be completely absorbed into mainland china. that is one of the things they are fighting about. to have an independentjudiciary, a free press, social media not controlled by the communist party. i will give you an example of the difference. in mainland china on china's version of twitter, any comment favourable towards the pro—democracy movement would be shot. many of these young radical protesters think this is a fight for hong kong. they want to guarantee their freedom hong kong. they want to guarantee theirfreedom in the hong kong. they want to guarantee their freedom in the future. the peaceful way hasn't worked and that escalation, upping the ante is the only way of the mouth delivering this. thank you. the fbi is to investigate the death

of the multi—millionaire businessman and convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein, who was found dead in his cell, in a new yorkjail. the fbi is to investigate the death of the multi—millionaire businessman and convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein, who was found dead in his cell, in a new yorkjail. the 66—year—old is believed to have taken his own life, while awaiting trial on new charges, of trafficking dozens of underage girls for sex. 0ur north america correspondent reports. the body ofjeffrey epstein is taken away from a new york hospital. the multimillionaire sex offender was found dead in his prison cell saturday morning as he awaited trial for sex trafficking. 0nce epstein's extravagant lifestyle saw him party with donald trump. the president called him a terrific guy. he has since distanced himself from the convicted sex offender. originally a maths teacher in manhattan, the financier mysteriously accumulated a fortune

that gained him entrance into high society and royal circles. he was close friends with prince andrew, seen here as recently as 2010 in new york. but his social status and opulent parties, his accusers say, masked lurid crimes at his many palacial estates. for more than a decade epstein faced allegations that he sexually assaulted dozens of young girls, recruited to give him and other wealthy men massages. 0ne alleged victim, virginia roberts, said jeffrey epstein instructed her to have sex with at least half a dozen prominent men, beginning when she was 16 years old. she was photographed with prince andrew and in 2015 she alleged she was forced to have a sexual relationship with him. buckingham palace has said those allegations are categorically untrue. in 2008jeffrey epstein pleaded guilty to lesser prostitution charges. that widely criticised plea deal is now under investigation by the department ofjustice. after 13 months in prison he continued to live a life of luxury but he was arrested again last month and charged with sex trafficking. epstein was found unresponsive on the floor of his prison cell here in manhattan.

many are now questioning how he could have apparently taken his own life and why greater precautions weren't put in place after he was found semiconscious with neck injuries just two weeks ago. his victims say they would have preferred that he had lived to face justice. an 18—year—old man who got into difficulty in the sea off the essex coast has died, days after his teenage sister was killed in the same incident. haider shamus and his 14—year—old sibling malika, both from luton, were rescued from the water near clacton pier on thursday. the headlines on bbc news... the prime minister pledges £2.5 billion to create 10,000 new prison places and says all police forces will be given extended stop and search powers. police in hong kong fire tear gas at pro—democracy protesters in the tenth consecutive weekend of anti—government demonstrations. the fbi is investigating the death of the multi—millionaire businessman and convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein, who was found dead in his new york prison cell.

sport. hello. we'll see if manchester city will stay top of the table for the first premier league weekend. their big win yesterday sees them clear of liverpool, brighton, burnley and spurs on goal difference three more games today, leicester city face wolves, arsenal make the trip to newcastle, those are both 2 o'clock. while there's a tough start for frank lampard, his first match in charge of chelsea is at manchester united. i always enjoy playing at old trafford. incredible stadium, incredible history and always a difficult match, no matter what year 01’ difficult match, no matter what year orteam. so it difficult match, no matter what year or team. so it is a completely different thing now. i suppose we might be in similar stages in the

way that we know people will be talking about 0llie and it is his chance to make a stamp on that team with the window and pre—season behind him. i am trying to make a stamp here. so it makes for a competitive match. so it makes for a competitive match. two matches today in the scottish premiership. rangers and hibs both won last weekend something's got to give at ibrox. aberdeen travel to st mirren. england and wales face each other at twickenham in a world cup warm up match this afternoon. it isa it is a very strong wales team they are up against. it is a very strong wales team they are up against. england have had to deal with injuries and also an alleged fight between two of their players, mike brown and ben t'eo at a training camp last week. here's our rugby union correspondent chris jones he is trying to brush it under the carpet i'm saying nothing to say here but there was an incident. that

is fact rather than speculation and it has contributed to him not being in england camp. it happened on a team social. it was quite a boozy affair. quite a few players had a fair bit to drink. brown was not drunk... there was certainly an incident. ben was the aggressor but the details are a little bit sketchy. these kind of things always tend to come out in the wash. even though england and eddie jones want to say there is nothing to see here, i'm sure that the full picture will emerge before too long and what eddie jones will be desperate to do is put a good performance out on the pitch this afternoon with a young and inexperienced england side because if they take a beating against wales then a lot of questions will be asked.

serena williams plays in the final of the rogers cup in toronto later today against the canadian teengaer bianca andreescu. it would be williams first title since winning the australian open in 2017, she came from a set down to beat qualifier marie bouzkova in her semi—final. danny willett and justin rose are well placed going into the final round of the northern trust championship in newjersey. it's the first of the lucrative fed ex cup events, rose is 11 under par as is willett. patrick reed leads on 14 under. rory mcilroy is ten under, with ian poulter two shots further back. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. all the build up to twickenham this afternoon as well. i will be back

afternoon as well. i will be back after 1am. a 200 strong search team is continuing to scour dense forest near the resort where a 15—year—old british schoolgirl went missing more than a week ago. nora quoirin, who has learning difficulties, disappeared while on holiday with her family. her mother has thanked the teams looking for her daughter. 0ur correspondent howard johnson, is following the search operation from the nearby town of seremban. the search area has come down from six kilometres to four square kilometres today and in that area close to the resort where she went missing more than a week ago, this is day eight of the search and rescue effort. they have been looking with police and army workers in this area for any trace of nora.

they have been looking along river beds, using sniffer dogs, a loud—hailer, recording nora's mother's voice saying "nora, i love you, i am here." they hope it might coax her out of the jungle if she is in the vicinity. the family also say there is a chance she may have been abducted, given that the window to the villa was left open on the lower ground floor on the night she disappeared. the police are not ruling out that she was abducted and they will continue the case as a missing persons case. there has basically been no sighting of her since she disappeared? no sighting whatsoever. no leads. they talked to the taxi driver who took her to the resort last saturday. nothing from that. they have been questioning the staff at the hotel. we have also heard that in the area around there are some resort owners who haven't been questioned yet but there will be a press conference here in the next hour or so with the police. we will be putting some questions

to them to see if there is any evidence today that might point us in the direction of where nora might have disappeared to. that's howard johnson reporting from malaysia. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. some of you will set under sunny skies today but elsewhere rain once again featured in the forecast and particularly in areas where we really don't need it. and that is parts of southern scotland and northern england. the potential for further flooding. travel disruption certainly possible. bbc local radio is your best port of call for the latest travel news on the move. and it is that sort of area in which the persistent rain will be around through much of this afternoon. to the south of it we will see some heavy and thundery showers develop. to the north of it, we started with some rain across the northern parts of scotland and in northern ireland. things should brighten up a bit. but the breeze picks up. it's a northerly to north—westerly breeze. it is going to make it feel much cooler. there will be some rain across central scotland, it is really through the central belt,

lanarkshire, the lothian and borders into cumbria and northumberland, areas where we have seen flooding of late where we could see yet more heavy and persistent rain. to the south of that, some sunshine out but through parts of wales and the midlands and southern england, particularly towards the south—west, some heavy and thundery showers could develop. those could be problematic in their own right. still a fresh breeze but not as strong as yesterday. in the sunshine where it is dominant, east anglia and the south—east. up to 22 and 23 celsius. further north, temperatures in the mid teens at best. a much cooler feel and certainly for this stage in august. as we go into tonight, southern scotland is still raining and the far north of england. probably north—east england will be the focus for the biggest rainfall through the night into tomorrow morning. some showers continue across the south, particularly and south wales. we could see one or two for a short while on the south—east corner but a lot of dry weather with some clear skies around. quite a cool night across scotland and northern ireland and with temperatures down into single figures fairly widely. but this is the big chart for monday. high pressure to the south—west. low pressure to the north east. a run of north—westerly winds and still that

weather front trailing across the far north of england, producing outbreaks of rain which will edge its way into parts of yorkshire through the day. some heavy and maybe thundery showers in the south—east of england and east anglia. isolated showers towards the west but for many of you monday will be a brighter day. a lot more sunshine around. a good deal drier as well. but also cooler. no 20s on the temperature chart and that continued through much of this week. up to 21 at a time. cool for august. the wettest of the weather is likely to be on wednesday as low pressure pushes him on tuesday night, england and wales wet and windy. if you have plans, do not forget there will be some times 00:29:36,180 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 also. see you soon.