this is bbc news. the headlines at 11pm: new measures on law and order, saying it's serious about fighting crime, the government promises 10,000 more prison places in england and wales and extends police stop—and—search powers to tackle knife crime. the use of stop—and—search in right legal and professional way drives the use of stop—and—search in right legal and professional ways drives the right kind of outcomes and that's effectively what we are seeking to do. these are fairly empty, headline—grabbing promises that have no evidence or resource to back them up. we've not heard a whisper on where the money is going to come from. china tells the uk to stop interfering in hong kong's affairs, as police again use tear gas on thousands of protesters. china'sjust made it clear it will not accept what it calls british meddling. the influence of hong kong's one—time colonial power these days is very limited.

please allow me to negotiate... 50 years after british troops were sent to northern ireland, we talk to some of the soldiers on patrol at the start of the troubles. and manchester united get off to a flying start in their premier league campaign, hitting four against chelsea. and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers, journalist and author yasmin alibhai—brown, and former conservative advisor mo hussein. stay with us for that. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the government has announced a package of measures on law and order, saying it's serious about fighting crime. labour has dismissed the plans as no more than empty promises

ahead of a possible general election. so what is the government proposing? ministers want to create 10,000 new prison places across england and wales. and a pilot scheme giving the police wider powers to stop—and—search suspects will be extended to all 43 forces. critics say there's little detail about how the policies will be funded, and warn that extending stop—and—search could lead to social unrest. 0ur correspondent richard lister reports. stop—and—search — the government says it cuts crime and it wants more police forces to use it more often. the plan is part of a law and order package unveiled by a prime minister who says he wants criminals to be afraid. figures suggest black people are almost 10 times more likely to be searched than white people. but the home secretary said the initialfeedback she had had from police was that stop and search works. from all the police forces that i've been speaking to, even in london and yesterday, i've heard that crime under 25s, the age group 25 years old,

has gone down by 15% because of increased use stop—and—search, and that means taking more weaponry off our streets. so, of course, the use of stop—and—search in the right legal and professional way drives the right kind of outcomes. london's metropolitan police force is one of seven that's been running a pilot stop and search programme launched by the previous home secretary in march. but today the met was unable to provide any figures on how the programme's worked so far. i'm not aware of the pilot having been evaluated, certainly haven't seen any published evaluation of it. i'm not aware of there being an equality impact statement. i really wonder on what basis has this decision been made and why hasn't the information being made available publicly. why hasn't there been a transparent decision? britain's overcrowded jails were another part of today's announcement. £2.5 billion to be spent on another 10,000 prison places. a major increase in prison capacity.

there are some 83,000 men and women in prison in england and wales. that's close to the total capacity which is around 85,000 prison places. today's announcement of an additional 10,000 places represents an increase of around 12%. the government says the first new prison will be here, alongside hmp full sutton in yorkshire. that expansion was first announced more than two years ago and the home office has been unable to give a full timetable for implementing the latest plan. we are seeing headline—grabbing policies with absolutely no evidence or resource behind them in the potential run up to a general election in the autumn. and nobody should be fooled by borisjohnson. he has form for empty promises that he's not delivered on. the prime minister pledged last month to recruit an additional 20,000 police officers. he said today the most dangerous criminals they face should spend longer injail. a move which could fill many of the extra prison places he's promised. richard lister, bbc news.

there have been further clashes between pro—democracy protesters and riot police in hong kong. tear gas was fired after petrol bombs exploded near the main police headquarters. earlier, beijing warned britain not to interfere in hong kong's affairs after the foreign secretary dominic raab suggested there should be an investigation into ongoing violence against pro—democracy protestors. from hong kong, here's jonathan head. this is how it starts every weekend now in hong kong. they've turned improvising barricades into an art form. they work with impressive speed and coordination. there's never much time before the police arrive. these confrontations are now a familiar routine in hong kong's streets. generally, the protesters retreat, avoiding direct contact. but, by nightfall, the clashes were happening in multiple locations

across the city and getting worse. the police are stressed and acting at times with little restraint. this was an underground station where protesters were corralled by the police and then beaten and driven down the escalators. the foreign secretary, dominic raab, has called for an independent investigation into police tactics. it's one of the five demands made by the protest movement. but his intervention has not gone down well with china which views this as an internal matter. the longer this goes on, the greater the risk of more overt intervention by china. now, that's something that clearly worries britain as a joint guarantor of the city's special status. china'sjust made it clear it will not accept what it calls british meddling.

the influence of hong kong's one—time colonial power these days is very limited. there are those here who is still hope for some kind of foreign support for their cause. in truth, though, they are largely on their own, and up against an unyielding and increasingly impatient china which has warned it won't stand by if this unrest goes on. jonathan head, bbc news, hong kong. a man's been charged this evening with the attempted murder of a policeman in birmingham after the officer was allegedly run over by his own patrol car yesterday. the 42—year—old constable suffered serious injuries in the incident in the moseley area of the city, but his condition isn't said to be life—threatening. the suspect will appear in court tomorrow. a second teenager has died two days after getting into difficulty in the sea off the essex coast. haider shamas, who was 18 and from luton, died yesterday. rescuers couldn't revive his 14—year—old sister malika after she was rescued from the water near clacton pier on thursday.

police say a third relative, a 15—year—old girl also pulled from the sea, is expected to recover. a political row has broken out in washington following the death ofjeffrey epstein, the multi—millionaire businessman and convicted sex offender. he was found in his prison cell in new york yesterday, apparently having taken his own life while awaiting trial on new sex traffiking charges. donald trump is facing strong criticism from democrats for retweeting a conspiracy theory linking his death to the clinton family. chris buckler reports from washington. jeffrey epstein was once a man at the centre of high society parties and a figure instrumental in the abuse of underage girls. his death in a new york prison just weeks after another apparent suicide attempt has raised many questions. some including the city's mayor have called it convenient given

the alleged involvement of some of his rich and famous friends. among those retweeting conspiracy theories was donald trump. you know what he had, he had information on the clintons and a man ended up dead. he gave publicity to completely unsubstantiated allegations about another president, bill clinton. his wife hillary ran against him for the presidency. this is another example of our president using this position of public trust to attack his political enemies with unfounded conspiracy theories. mr trump was himself at one time a friend of epstein. they were pictured partying together, but that was many years ago, and the president and the white house insist he is now concerned about getting to the truth about what happened at events epstein organised

in florida and new york. i think the presidentjust wants everything to be investigated, and trying to connect the president to this monster from years ago where they are seen dancing in a video, versus other people who are actively i suppose flying around with this monster. the authorities here in the us are acutely aware of the questions being asked about the death of a man who had links to some of america's most influential people. it's why the fbi are investigating. something that is extremely unusual in the case of an apparent suicide. and while epstein‘s victims know he won't now face trial, they are pushing for inquiries to be widened to look at the actions of his associates. among his many famous friends was prince andrew, who attended church with the queen at balmoral today. in recently released court documents, he's been accused of groping a girl at epstein‘s mansion, an allegation buckingham palace has called categorically untrue. but the death ofjeffrey epstein will not end the calls for greater scrutiny of what did happen at some of his notorious parties.

chris buckler, bbc news, washington. ukraine has described a visit by russia's president vladimir putin to the annexed crimean peninsula as a blatant violation of ukraine's sovereignty. mr putin was the guest of honour of a right—wing nationalist bikers' group. crimea was annexed from ukraine by russia in 2014, violating international law. a 17—year—old boy is in hospital with serious injuries after an arson attack on a house in west yorkshire. police say they're treating the incident in heckmondwike as attempted murder. two young girls aged 16 and 11 were in the house at the time. a warning, alasdair gill's report does contain some flashing images. 4am in the morning and a house in stonedeane court in heckmondwike is on fire. one bedroom is completely ablaze.

neighbours say the fire was started deliberately took hold within seconds with a family of four still inside. you could hear the screaming and i got up to look out the window and i saw the smoke and flames were licking out the doors, the windows, the back, the loft, it wasjust every bit of the house was in flames. west yorkshire police says this was an arson attack and is treating it as a case of attempted murder. they want anyone who has information about people acting suspiciously or of males buying petrol in cans to get in touch. ten minutes before the fire started, this cctv captured two people walking near the property with what could be a petrol can. police say a 17—year—old boys in a serious but stable condition in hospital while a woman and two girls were treated at the scene. one of the girls was at the front upstairs window jumping out. the mum and the other daughter were at the back and then the sun was in the loft extension. he jumped out of the side.

jumped out of the top bit? yeah, and the mum's car was parked on the drive and he hit the car on the way down. when the fire service came, they wanted us to lay him down on a blanket, but they couldn't, so they had to put on a board to load him into the ambulance. he was in a pretty bad way. the police think whoever was responsible may have hurt themselves and turned up at home this morning with burns. they are appealing for anyone who knows more to contact them. alistair gill, bbc look north, heckman wide. a number of flood warnings and alerts remain in place across the north of england and southern scotland tonight. there's concern about the river eden in cumbria, and the river rede burst its banks in northumberland, which left some people counting the cost of the damage. jonathan swingler reports from the village of 0tterburn, which has suffered some of the worst of the flooding. un has been running this business since the early 1990s. the floodwater has caused £50,000 worth

of damage. if you spoke me earlier today you would have seen tears in my eyes. my team have been great to me nursing me through it. but he says his cafe will soon be open and up says his cafe will soon be open and up and running. will be open tuesday morning, everything will be working and the weather is supposed to have improved by then. the fire service have been working hard to prevent further damage. what's happening here is the water is being drawn away from euan‘s business. the rain is still coming down, though. 0ver at rothbury, they've got problems with their water supply. the bad weather has disrupted a water treatment plant and in some cases door—to—door deliveries are being made. by this afternoon, 4000 bottles have been picked up from this school. what happens when you

turn the taps on? there is a lot of variation in the water, and it's not particularly clean. initially there were up to 1500 households in the rothbury and thropton area affected by this. we've worked through the night to get the treatment facility back up and running. the heavy rain has seen others nervously waiting to how high it will go. jonathan swingler, bbc look north. a cordon has been lifted at worthing seafront following an incident this afternoon involving hazardous materials, which left people vomiting and with sore eyes. a section of the beach was evacuated and two people were taken to hospital following the chemical incident in the sussex coastal town. police said both people had since been discharged. 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 10th 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 now, and time for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre. good evening. there was an emphatic win for manchester united in their opening game of the new premier league season. 0le gunnar solskjaer‘s team thrashed chelsea 4—0 at old trafford, making it a miserable start to managing in the premier league for frank lampard. marcus rashford scored the only goal of the first half from the penalty spot. after the break there were goals for anthony martial, rashford again and daniel james on his debut. it's united's biggest home win against chelsea since 1965.

4-0, 4—0, you can't really dream of more 01’ 4—0, you can't really dream of more or expect more. then again, we're just working on improving as a team, finding a style that suits us, suits the players we have and i think today showed that we still need a bit of time, but it's coming. where improving. in the day's other games, wolves and leicester played out a 0—0, although var did rule a goal out for wolves. and arsenal beat newcastle 1—0 at stjames's park, a pierre—emerick aubameyang goal the difference between the two sides. in the scottish premiership, rangers got their season off to a thumping start with a huge 6—1 win over10—man hibs at ibrox. jermain defoe scored his first hat—trick for the club, with two of the goals less than five minutes apart, to maintain rangers perfect start to the season. they're level with celtic on six points. elsewhere, st mirren beat aberdeen 1—0. england have stopped wales

from going top of the world rankings after a 33—19 win for eddiejones's side. from twickenham, patrick gearey reports. so england have kept wales from the top of the world. all the welsh needed to do was win or draw here at twickenham and they would have gone above new zealand to the number one ranking spot, but getting results and the home of english rugby is never easy. england named an experimental side but dominated the first 20 with billy vunipola and gotha cocina bulldozing through the welsh defence. wales scrum—half gareth davies slalom through the england defence to get wales back into it but it was a rusty welsh performance, epitomised by the third england try with ken 0wens throwing it to look karen dickie, his opposite number, from the lineout and 21—7 two england at half—time. in the second half george north and alun wyn jones in the second half george north and alun wynjones scored, it seemed to set upa alun wynjones scored, it seemed to set up a comeback but then george

ford and... anyjones has some thinking to do. he names his squad for the rugby world cup on monday —— anyjones. we'll worry about that tomorrow. today we will enjoy the efforts of the players. they worked really hard, put on a good display of rugby if you're in that 80,000 you would wa nt if you're in that 80,000 you would want to come back to twickenham and watch the side again. that's a good thing. sounded like a one—day cricket crowd and onstage. disappointing in terms of the result but not something dwell onto much. it's about... things we will need to address. some of the positives as well from today and making sure that performance next week's an improvement on today. that's a nice accolade in terms of numberone in the

that's a nice accolade in terms of number one in the world. the biggest prize for everyone is a couple of months in japan. whoever wins prize for everyone is a couple of months injapan. whoever wins the world cup is number one team in the world. serena williams had to retire from the rogers cup final with a back injury, handing the title to canadian teenager bianca andreescu. the 23—time grand slam winner was reduced to tears after calling for a medical timeout during the first set. andreescu becomes the first canadian to win the rogers cup women's singles title since 1969. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. thanks, mark! 50 years ago this week, british troops were deployed to northern ireland — a momentous decision, the repurcussions of which are still being felt today. theirjob was to try to end fierce sectarian rioting, and though initially welcomed by nationalists, within months they became hated figures. so what was it like for the soldiers on the streets? peter taylor, who covered the troubles extensively, has been speaking to some of the veterans.

i felt like a knight in shining armour. tea, buns, sandwiches. we had as much beer as we could take. and we had all the women we could handle. it was absolutely brilliant, a soldier's dream. those are the voices of soldiers i interviewed many years ago when their memories of deployment was still fresh. but the soldier's dream didn't last long. as the months and years rolled by, the dream became a terrible nightmare. the fact is that deployment was done on a wing and a prayer as the then home secretary, james callaghan, once told me. i never do believe, frankly, that anybody from this side of the water understands ireland. and i've neverflattered myself that i understand the situation fully and i think very few people do.

this was the summer of ‘69 and the omens were good. the reception was really fantastic. they welcomed us with open arms. tea. too much tea. buns, sandwiches. 6am, full breakfast. most young catholics had only seen soldiers on the cinema screen and in comics. you sort of grew up reading the hatspurn and comics like that. the next thing, the army's on the streets. it was great. as a kid, i always wanted to be a soldier when i grew up. we were mesmerised, in a way. did you join the army? ijoined the irish republican army, not the british army. within a year, my childhood illusions of playing these heroic characters would disabused when i witnessed them beating a young woman. i gradually had no more desire to be a part of the british army. but cups of tea and buns did little

to assuage the army's growing frustration. trying to hammer in a peace line here in dover street between the protestant shankill road and the catholic falls road stretched soldiers' patience to the limit. a one—man corridor, a one—woman corridor to your mother's house. connecting where it is now 289. no. these people were beginning to get on my nerves, to be honest. and it was a time of gritting one's teeth and trying to be terribly nice to them. you felt like saying to them, "look, forget it. i've had enough." i'vejust asked, sir, that i may be allowed to negotiate. please allow me to negotiate. what did you really feel? in a word, pissed off! because you couldn't do anything!

after that teeth—grinding encounter, bruce willing served five tours in northern ireland. if they wouldn't desist in being a terrorist, then we took them out. he now lives in jersey, a retired brigadier. what were those early days like? it was just complete chaos. i mean, we really didn't have a clue. we had no doctrine, we had no rules, and we had never been in northern ireland. we just wandered in. but erecting a peace line did not ease sectarian tensions. just over a month after deployment, the army found itself on riot duty. the crowd used to throw stones at us, we used to wear press combat kit and shiny boots, you know. it was ridiculous. but, soon, it became deadly serious. i was shot on the 28th of april with a thomson machine gun. in an ambush. i was very, very lucky to survive. i lost many good friends in northern ireland almost 800 soldiers

and military personnel were killed, most by the ira. that was the unforeseen price of deployment 50 years ago. what was the army in the end able to do? leave. we got out, job done. peace had been restored to northern ireland. peter taylor, bbc news. and in the week ahead here on bbc news, we'll be hearing from some of the families living in derry when the troops arrived 50 years ago. and we'll be reporting on the divisions that still exist in the city. from house construction to prosthetics, 3d printing is increasingly being used as a faster and cheaper alternative. but can it help keep fighter planes flying? 0ur science correspondent richard westcott has been given rare behind—the—scenes access to a us air force base in suffolk to see the technology in action.

you've probably seen them, you will definitely have heard them. eagles are a common sight over east anglia. the american fighter planes, that is, recognisable by the two tails at the back. but tucked away on their home base, we've been allowed to see the new technology used to keep them fixed and flying. we're going to a secret bunker now. you can see it's very cold war chic. imean, i mean, what was this used four yea rs i mean, what was this used four years ago? adam, hello. hello, sir. and this is your special bunker, is it? yes it is. where you do your high—tech stuff. i love the doorbell, by the way. thank you! the aircraft has some cracks here.

fighter planes break a lot. it used to take months ordering replacement parts from america. now they just print them. so what kind of level of detail can you get? can you basically scan any part from any aircraft? yes. so the level of detail goes down to about 40 microns. i don't know what that is exactly... that is smaller than a human hair. it can pick up the fine details of the hairs and fibres on things. it can take nearly a day to print this so here, as they say, is one they made earlier. this is the broken part. adam, you've the part you printed. what's so good about that? so this part here, it printed in 23 hours, it may sound like a long time but it prevented a few weeks of downtime to reorder the equipment to...

and this is the technical bit. in another part of the base, where the engineering is a bit more old school. i'm assuming that because planes are made of metal it fatigues all the time when they pull those g forces? yes, especially the fighters. they like to break a lot. they're getting older more parts than what we would normally have to. what difference have these made to yourjob? a huge difference so far. it cuts down at least a day off the repair that we do and makes it far more convenient for us. we can mass—produce parts here and we do not have to waste time to heat treat. beforehand you had to trial and errorfit a part but with this thing it is accurate? absolutely. it let's us mould the part to exactly it lets us mould the part to exactly what we need and that way we can fit it 100% of the time every time we needed. 3d printing will transform the world. imagine a future where a doctor gives you a prescription and you print the drug in your home. for now, however, this technology is the key to keeping these aircraft in the air.

richard westcott, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen. it has been a weekend wild weather with many seeing over a month's worth of rainfall in the just past few days with flooding problems in the parts of scotland and northern england. very strong winds yesterday. through the week ahead, things remain unsettled so further rain at times and cool and breezy but not a washout all week with spells of slightly drier and sunny weather. for the rest of tonight, heavy showers in southern england and rain lingering in north—east england and southern scotland but clearer skies from the north—west developing and temperatures cooler than recent nights. a north—westerly airflow bringing cooler air and although the area of low pressure is layering to the east, still some in

the south of the country and this one producing showery rain for the morning and the odd rumble of thunderfor the morning and the odd rumble of thunder for the isle of wight and kent. to the north of that, sunnier skies for norfolk, lincolnshire, the midlands and wales. cloudy and damp in the north—east of england and a fuchsia is in north—western northern ireland and north—west scotland but generally in scotland, a much improved day on monday —— a few showers. temperature is cooler than recent days, 16—19 or so, below par for the time of year. through the day and into the evening, we keep heavy showers but most fade into the early hours of tuesday morning and quite cool and fresher than recent nights with temperatures around eight or nine in the countryside first thing. a fresh start on tuesday with some misty patch is possible. sunny spells, some showers, though, but on tuesday, fewer and farther between than what we saw on