a damning report criticises the police for their investigation into claims of a vip paedophile ring that never existed. these were among the falsely accused suspects — the report says scotland yard unlawfully obtained warrants to search their homes. i have the utmost contempt for senior officers of the metropolitan police, past and present, for the turmoil that they have put people's lives through. i am deeply, deeply sorry for the mistakes that were made and for the ongoing pain that these mistakes have caused. i promise we will do all we can to prevent them happening again in the future. we'll bring you details of the report's findings and reaction.

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good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. a damning report has strongly criticised the metropolitan police for its investigation into claims of a vip paedophile ring which never existed. carl beech falsely claimed he was the victim of abuse by high—profile politicians and senior military officers. the report says the police unlawfully obained warrants unlawfully obtained warrants to search their homes. five years ago, the met described carl beech‘s claims as "credible and true". the following year, they raided the homes of wrongly—accused vips including the former mp harvey proctor. but later the operation midland inquiry was closed without a single

arrest — having cost millions and ruined reputations. instead, police investigated the accuser himself — carl beech — and this year he was jailed for 18 years for perverting the course ofjustice and child abuse offences. our home affairs correspondent june kelly reports. after hearing hours of allegations, police described carl beech‘s story as credible and true.” police described carl beech‘s story as credible and true. i had poppies pinned to my chest, whilst they did whatever they wanted to do. he claimed in the 70s and 80s he had suffered sexual abuse and physical torture at the hands of a vip paedophile ring. he even said he had witnessed three boys being murdered by the group, one hit by a car.

there was a lot of blood. in fact, the tail he told was both incredible and untrue. lord bramall, a former head of the defence staff, was one of those beech falsely named. he claimed the ex tory mp harvey proctor had actually murdered two boys. others he falsely accused include lord brittan, who died during the investigation, the late conservative prime minister sir edward heath, and the long—time labour politician lord janner. the police investigation into the so—called westminster paedophile ring went on for 18 months and ended without any arrests or charges. a senior retired judge, sir richard henriques, was brought in to review the police inquiry. finally, his full report has been published. it details one of the most damaging episodes in the modern history of the metropolitan police. but today, the metropolitan police. but today, the forces refusing to do any

interviews. instead, there was this statement. when we get it wrong, as we have in these circumstances, with such damaging consequences, we find it genuinely distressing. so, finally, let me be very clear. i am deeply, deeply sorry for the m ista kes deeply, deeply sorry for the mistakes that were made, and for the ongoing pain that these mistakes have caused. i promise we will do all we can to prevent them happening again in the future. microcode deputy assistant commissioner steve rodhouse headed the investigation. the review mentions a log that he made, acknowledging that beech, then known as nick, may have fabricated some 01’ known as nick, may have fabricated some or all of his allegations. he says, iam some or all of his allegations. he says, i am unable to see how he could properly formulate a decision to inform the public we believe nick. also criticised as deputy labour leader tom watson. the review says they can be no doubt that he

believed nick, adding that his interest created more pressure on officers. harvey proctor believes tom watson should resign as labour leader and be expelled from the party. i have icy contempt for mr beech. it is matched with my icy co nte m pt beech. it is matched with my icy contempt for tom watson. and the labour party should immediately dissociate themselves from mr watson. dolphin square, an apartment block in westminster, was one of the locations where carl beech claimed to have been abused. the review says tom watson was in a group which passed information to beech about dolphin square which he then used in his police interviews. carl beech is 110w his police interviews. carl beech is now a convicted liar and paedophile. he has done long—term damage to those whose lives and reputations he tried to destroy. but he has also raised questions about the competence and independence of the

country's leading police force in the face of political pressure. our correspondent richard galpin is outside new scotland yard. richard, we have heard about damage to reputations, what about the damage to the metropolitan police from this report? well, i think there has to be a very serious damage to the metropolitan police. i mean, the report is very, very damning. we now have the full report, and we have got a lot more detailfrom it. of course, for example, if you lookjust at detailfrom it. of course, for example, if you look just at the list of failures which the report highlighted, the list contains 43 points, including, of course, that absolutely key issue, that the metropolitan police had to basically com pletely metropolitan police had to basically completely accept everything that carl beech told them. there was to be no further questioning, theyjust accepted it as credible and true.

and of course that was an absolutely fatal mistake on the police. it also meant, for example, that they didn't carry out any further investigations, any background checks, trying to find out if there we re checks, trying to find out if there were any inconsistencies in what he was saying. none of that was done, simply because of this policy that they should just believe, at face value, everything that he told them. and, of course, it proved to be totally wrong. one of the other key points to come out is this business that they are saying it was unlawful for police officers to try to get search warrants to search the houses of the so—called suspects, the three of the so—called suspects, the three of them. and, you know, this is obviously very, very significant, because there are calls for a criminal investigation into some of the officers. richard, thank you very much. richard galpin reporting. the nhs has announced its biggest ever winter vaccination campaign.

about 30 million people — nearly half the uk population — will be offered the flu vaccine this year. for the first time, all primary school pupils in england will be offered a free vaccination — bringing england into line with scotland, wales and northern ireland. children are what's known as super spreaders because they're the most likely to pass the virus on to each other and to vulnerable relatives. last year there were nearly 1,700 flu—related deaths in england. our health editor, hugh pym, is outside public health england. a pretty ambitious plan? yes, it is. it is continuing the work of recent yea rs it is continuing the work of recent years in england, adding different years in england, adding different year groups or offering free vaccines via a nasal spray. from this year, it will be all primary schoolchildren. the whole effort is coordinated from here by public health england. that is simply bringing england into line with scotland, wales and northern

ireland, which have adopted this policy for the last couple of years. it should be rolled out over the next couple of months. the orders have just started going next couple of months. the orders havejust started going in, so it isn't happening immediately. there has been a slight delay in the vaccine becoming available to health trusts, who then go into schools and run these clinics. and that has put the whole thing back by a few weeks. we have heard in a very limited number of cases that some parents have been told that a clinic planned for this week or next week has been postponed and has been rearranged for december. those are a small number of cases, one or two concerned people have been asking about that. but public health england are stressing it doesn't matter if it happens this month, next month or even into december, your child will still be protected, although obviously the flu begins to kick in from mid—to—late december onwards. it is a very ambitious programme. officials here, their work does not end now, they will

work does not end now, they will work right through the winter as they monitor the strain of flu... sorry, we lost the line. facebook is under fire for plans to extend encryption across all its messaging services. critics claim the move will make it harder to fight online crime, including child abuse and terrorism. the british government has joined the us and australia in raising serious concerns about the plans.0ur security correspondent, gordon corera, reports. that's why i believe that the future is private. earlier this year, mark zuckerberg announced plans to use what's called end—to—end encryption on all of facebook‘s messaging services. this would mean only the sender and recipient of a message could read it. so even if law enforcement agencies asked the company for access to those messages, it would not be able to provide it. the home secretary has been in washington signing a deal to make it easier to get access

to data held in america. and in a joint letter with us and australian officials, she's called on facebook to rethink its plans. encryption is creating those spaces, spaces for terrorist individuals, terrorist organisations, child abusers, the people that are seeking to do harm to others, children, individuals, and our own countries and national security so i would really urge facebook to engage with us in active dialogue, which is something that has not happened thus far, that's why we have issued this letter. facebook owns whatsapp, already encrypted and subject of complaints from police. but the company now plans to extend encryption into its other services. today, privacy campaigners backed facebook, arguing it was important for everyone's communications to be protected. effectively what government is saying is that citizens shouldn't have a right to a private conversation and that government should always

have a back door in. facebook seems unlikely to back down and the battle over encryption and what kind of security we want and with what consequences, is onlyjust beginning. gordon corera, bbc news. the former conservative leadership candidate rory stewart has resigned from the party, and announced he will run as an independent candidate to become london's mayor. mr stewart will leave parliament at the next election. our political correspondent, iain watson, is in westminster. so, iain, he wanted to lead the party, and now he is leaving it? so, iain, he wanted to lead the party, and now he is leaving mm was just party, and now he is leaving mm wasjust in party, and now he is leaving mm was just in the summer he was a contenderfor was just in the summer he was a contender for the leadership, was just in the summer he was a contenderfor the leadership, come the autumn, he says the old—style party politics is essentially dead, suffocating, he has to break out of the embrace of the party political system. interestingly, he announced through his local newspaper that he was standing down as the mp for penrith and the border, quitting the conservative party, and said he

would not be standing against local conservatives there as an independent. and thenjust conservatives there as an independent. and then just a few hours later he said he would be standing as an independent when it comes to the london mayoral race next year, it would be standing against the conservative candidate, sean bailey. he, in turn, says he welcomes sean bailey. he, in turn, says he welco m es eve ryo ne sean bailey. he, in turn, says he welcomes everyone to that particular race. but rory stewart will now have an opportunity to test his contention that his old party is too aggressive on brexit and people are in the mood for compromise. thank you, iain watson at westminster. a man has been able to move all four of his paralysed limbs, wearing a device which mimics the skeleton and is controlled by his mind. the team developing the technology in france say it might one day dramatically improve people's quality of life. the patient said taking his first steps in the suit felt like being the "first man on the moon". james gallagher reports. it's a small step for thibaut, but could this be a giant leap in paralysis? his arms and legs were paralysed

after a fall damaged his spinal cord four years ago. but when he's strapped into this robotic suit he can use his thoughts to move again. he told me learning to walk came quite quickly, but using the exoskeleton to precisely bend and stretch his arms or rotate his wrists took much longer. so how does the exoskeleton work? well, first, thibaut has implants resting on the surface of his brain, they are reading his thoughts, his brain activity, his brain waves, and they are being beamed to a computer. now, the computer has to rapidly digest that information and transform that brain activity into instructions which are sent to the exoskeleton. from thought to movement, it takes less than a third of the second. thibaut first used his brain implants to control a computer game, before trying the exoskeleton. now the french researchers plan to test the technology on three more patients.

we perform a proof of concept, like the man on the moon. but it is just a step towards neuroprosthesis at home. this experimental exoskeleton is not going to become widely available soon. if you look, thibaut is attached to the ceiling to stop him falling over. it means the exoskeleton can't be used outside the laboratory, and this kit is also too expensive for most of the world to benefit. but this is still a breakthrough and shows the potential of technology to transform lives. james gallagher, bbc news. the time is 16 minutes past one. our top story this lunchtime... a damning report criticises the police for their investigation into claims of a vip paedophile ring that never existed. and would you pay thousands of pounds for an old pair of trainers? we find out why some people do.

coming up on bbc news... a miraculous escape for motogp‘s marc marquez after this dramatic crash ahead of the thai grand prix. he was given the all clear to return to the track a few hours later. britain's katarina johnson—thompson has powered her way to a gold medal in the heptathlon at the world athletics championships. after a career scarred by disappointments, it's the first time she's won an outdoor medal at this level — and she achieved four personal bests in the process. our sports correspondent natalie pirks is in doha. it actually felt like a dream, the lights and everything, it's been unbelievable. i cannot believe this is the result, there's been so many attem pts is the result, there's been so many atte m pts to is the result, there's been so many attempts to try and perform on this stage. i'm just so, attempts to try and perform on this stage. i'mjust so, so attempts to try and perform on this

stage. i'm just so, so happy. attempts to try and perform on this stage. i'mjust so, so happy. it was a night when one woman from liverpool stood on top of the world after the performance of her life! that's an excellent run. this morning, she had barely slept but told me how, from a personal best in her first event, it felt like the stars were aligning. i think i screamed! i don't normally screen! but, i saw the time and i think with me, what you'd normally see on my face is how i'm feeling and a lot of the time, i haven't been performing too well so i've been looking a bit sad! but things, things have been going well so obviously i've been elated. she's right, for years, in major events we'd watched her mental fragility get the better of her but this time, after moving to france and changing her coaches, we witnessed instead a serene cantered to victory against one of the greatest athletes the sport has ever seen. olympic and previous world champion. katarina was racking up

the lifetime best. its height, this is long, that's enormous! look at the smile on her face. she knows. and by the last event at midnight she needed to get her tired body around the track two more times. instead, she smashed the british record set by jessica instead, she smashed the british record set byjessica ennis—hill backin record set byjessica ennis—hill back in 2012. she is the world champion. no longer in the shadow of a british great, she's now a star in her own right. the final score was so her own right. the final score was so high it was the sixth biggest world score of all time. this result means the absolute world to me, it means the absolute world to me, it means i wasn't deluded in thinking that i was able to do these things! backin that i was able to do these things! back in 2009 she won the world title, she is now the first heptathlete in history to do the double. she will receive her first major gold medal later today, first though, some sleep, we think she earned it! documents submitted

by the government to the court of session in edinburgh say the prime minister will send a letter asking brussels for a delay to brexit if no agreement is reached with the eu by the 19th of october. let's speak to our scotland correspondent, lorna gordon, in edinburgh. just tell us a bit more about what's in these documents, lorna? here is the conundrum. the prime minister has previously said he would rather be dead in a ditch and then ask for an extension, just a couple of days ago in fact, he said there was no doubt the only alternative to his government ‘s proposals was no deal. it's a position that he and other ministers in his government have set out again and again and again. and yet, this morning, here in the outer house of the court of session, government documents submitted to the court stated that the prime minister will send a letter to the eu asking for an extension to the brexit deadline no later than

october at the 19th. the petitioners here don't trust the prime minister to carry that out, that's why they brought the case, we expect to hear from the government lawyers this afternoon. lorna, many thanks. the question of how to manage the border on the island of ireland has stalled the brexit process since the referendum. the uk's membership of the eu and the good friday agreement which ended the troubles, mean the border has become invisible. but brexit has thrown into doubt the way of life of those who live along it, as our ireland correspondent chris page now reports. the border is being used as a politicalfootball and it's not doing anyone any good in the island of ireland. boating on the border is the essence of tranquillity. but the simplicity of life on the water also shows the complexity of the issue which has stalled brexit. here and in other parts of the border it's just, it's just unpoliceable, a hard border, it's unworkable, whatever they say.

they can put whatever agreement they want in place but it's not going to be possible. how can you police a hard border here? it's not going to be possible. in some places it's hard to know where the border is at all but here, we do know where it is because this stretch of the waterway actually marks the frontier. over there, it's northern ireland, this bank is the irish republic. the canal has become a symbol of the peace process. it's a gateway to both countries which shows how much has changed. when it opened 25 years ago the conflict wasn't over and still overshadowed everything. now, the waterway is an artery for this area's lifeblood — tourism. visitors often start theirjourney on the longest river in the republic. on the shannon, business people want brexit to be settled. uncertainty doesn't help people

to book a holiday and it would definitely be great if we could get this thing over the line and out of the way by the end of october. a deal is the best possible solution for irish tourism. about halfway to northern ireland, the canal curves through the town of ballinamore. people here feel they are at a pivot point, gail gets supplies for her garden centre from across the border and she hopes there won't be any complications. we are a small family business, myself and my husband run it along with just a few part—time workers so we can't really afford to be taking on an extra administrative layer within the business. our time is very tight, we are always on the run here, there's always a million things to do. the closer you get to the frontier, the more real brexit feels. for so long, so many have thought so little about crossing the border. brexit has sent ripples through

politics, business and identity. in ireland, what people seem to want most is calmness amidst the uncertainty. chris page, bbc news, on the shannon erne waterway. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british—iranian woman jailed in iran, is sending her daughter home to london to start school. five—year—old gabriella has been visiting her mother in prison at least once a week for the past three years. our, diplomatic correspondent, caroline hawley, is with me. caroline, this must be a hugely difficult decision. put yourself in the family ‘s shoes, this is a terrible decision but one that nas and a gary radcliffe and her husband richard felt compelled to make and richard felt compelled to make and richard told me a few moments ago that they have applied for an exit visa for her to leave the country and apply school —— and apply to go to school. mezzanine went on hunger

strike, it was a desperate plea to be released, you may remember she had a spell in a psychiatric ward, now the couple had decided that it is time for her and it is in her best interest for gabriella to come back to school. the news came in a letter which mezzanine wrote from jail in which she describes the cuddles that gabriella gives her when in prison as the most beautiful and uplifting in the world, she says she has lived for those visits but she has lived for those visits but she clearly feels really desperate now and no longer hopes that she will be released soon. richard told me of course she is hoping for some magic last—minute release so they can return together but it's a hope against hope, really. caroline, thank you. plaid cymru's leader, adam price, has said he expects a referendum on welsh independence by 2030. mr price will be addressing his party's conference in swansea this afternoon. it's promised free social care in wales.

the green party's annual conference will get under way in newport this afternoon. the conference is expected to focus on tackling global warming and campaigning for another referendum on the uk's membership of the european union. at least 15 people in england have tested hiv positive while waiting tojoin a trialfor a pill which prevents the disease. taking daily ‘prep' tablets can stop a person from becoming infected, but places on the trial have been restricted as ben hunte reports. i was stunned. it wasjust like, oh, my god, how has this happened? david is one of the people identified by hiv consultants who acquired the virus whilst waiting for a place on the impact trial. he says he couldn't afford to spend £30 a month buying prep privately. trying from two different clinics to get onto it, and not being able to get onto it, and then getting hiv, i was very, very angry. why is it that you weren't practising safer sex whilst waiting?

i generally had regular partners, as opposed to casual ones. one slipped through the net somehow, or he's lied. the bbc has learned that the pill costs the nhs £11 a month while someone is sexually active, compared to 100 to £500 per month to treat an hiv—positive person for life. hiv professionals gathered in london one prep available to anyone in a high—risk group. nhs england are funding the drug through the trial, but it's local authorities that fund sexual health clinics. now it's available as the unbranded generic version, which is much less expensive, but the reality of creating more sexual health appointments when our funding has been cut is a very big challenge. high—risk patients can take the daily pill which prevents hiv from establishing in the body, but to get access to the free pill you have to be part of a clinical trial, and spaces are limited and places vary around the country.

access to prep is currently through sexual health clinics, like this one in london, and many but not all have waiting lists. how many people do you know of who have acquired hiv while waiting for a place on the prep trial? on the service, i know three people who have acquired hiv, people waiting to get prep are very unlikely to complain and go public because it's a very stigmatising thing to actually talk about openly. nhs england and public health england declined an interview. but the nhs says trainers — almost everyone's got a pair but some people now collect them as a hobby and own hundreds. this year sotheby‘s sold a rare pair of trainers for more than £360,000.

well, what began as a niche hobby is now part of a global, multi—billion pound industry — as chi chi izundu reports. # everybody got their eyes on my feet. # but you won't catch these on the high street.# they're exclusive, they‘ re collectables and to some, they are considered works of art. # protect your footwear, keep them tidy.# my name is shanice, i'm 27 and i'm a trainer enthusiast. otherwise known as a sneaker head. i've probably got between 150 and 200 pairs. shanice likes to buy what's known as hype trainers, all the limited edition footwear, brand—new from specialist retailers and yes, she does wear them all the time. i get to wear trainers for different purposes and then they became like a fashion icon and a way for me to distinguish myself from like my peers. shanice isn't alone. trainer collecting has been big since the ‘80s when former basketball star michaeljordan teamed up with nike and created the airjordans. other collaborations with sporting icons and celebrities have helped keep the buzz going and the global trainer market is now estimated

to be worth more than £47 billion. to buy these in the shops, this will cost £260 and if i was to resell these, they would cost in excess of two grand. known as the ‘king of trainers', franklin has been collecting for over 20 years. i like to buy to wear. i understand that there is a lot of value in not wearing, so some people actually buy them to collect them. lauren's got 30 pairs. and estimates they are worth around £16,000. got different insoles in, put a couple of them in so then, they are going to fit. traditionally sneaker heads have been men but with more women adding to their collection getting their size in that hype shoe when you have smaller feet is a problem. i would like to see it happen where every shoe was in every size.