tributes have been paid to the first victim to be named in the london bridge attack. cambridge graduate jack merritt, was running a prisoner rehabilitiation conference — to which his attacker had been invited. the british government says the licence conditions of every convicted terrorist released from prison in england and wales are to be reviewed. a maltese businessman has been charged with complicity in the murder of the journalist daphne ca ruana galizia. yorgen fenech was arrested last week as he attempted to leave malta on his yacht. he has pleaded not guilty to the charges. hundreds of climate campaigners in eastern germany have occupied several opencast coal mines to demand their closure. the protesters have rejected the government's plan to phase out coal mining by 2038 — and instead want the industry to be closed down immediately.

rail passenger groups have criticised a decision by train companies to increase fares by an average of 2.7% injanuary. it means some commuters — face rises of more than a hundred pounds in the cost of their season tickets. rail firms say the extra money will pay for improvements to the network. here's our business correspondent, katie prescott. christmas is coming and for commuters on south western railway that means almost a month of scenes like these as strikes on the line start on monday. so the news that train fares will rise again next year, above the standard rate of inflation, has not gone down well with these passengers in bristol. i think the rail service probably needs to be improved nationwide before they can think about putting up fares. i've just come over from cambridge and it would have been cheaper for me to go to paris. today's announcement means many commuters face an increase of more than £100 in the annual cost of getting to work. for example, a season ticket

from eastbourne to london goes up £136, tipping it over the £5,000 mark. a season ticket between glasgow and edinburgh will set you back by £4,200 a year, up £116. but the rail industry defends the increases, saying 98 pence from every pound spent on fares goes into running the railway. at the moment we're going through a record splurge on the railway network, more money is being put onto the network now than at any other time since the victorian era. so, we are replacing half of the entire nation's fleet, but we are also putting money elsewhere, by adding extra services where they are really needed. train companies and passengers say they would like to see a new, more flexible system for tickets put in place. but the future of fares and indeed the railways will be in the hands of whoever wins the election. katie prescott, bbc news. now on bbc news, our world. and just a warning there

are distressing images from the start. in 2007, the bbc film bulgaria's abandoned children, exposed tragic levels of neglect in mogilino, an institute for disabled children. the film created an international outcry. as a result, with funding from the eu, the bulgarian government closed many of the country's larger institutes, replacing them with group homes that house up to 1a people. over a quarter of a billion euros from the eu has been invested in these reforms. but a shocking report has just been released by the advocacy organisation disability rights international, revealing that while the new group homes are smaller and clean, some of the children and young

people within them are still suffering shocking levels of neglect. i see the conditions here today. they are exactly what i witnessed in mogilino and to some extent they are worse. i have come back to bulgaria to investigate life inside the new system of small group homes in 2019. but first, i am on my way to see two boys, milen and misho who i first met in 2007. growing up in mogilino social care home, a large institute in a remote village. milen was abandoned as a baby and has been at mogilino for 1h years. misho is his best friend. it is laundry time and

milen seems nervous. i can see that they have both been hit. maria, my interpreter, is not with me so i cannot speak directly with the abuser. i tried to communicate without words that i know what is going on. as a result of our camera witnessing

the appalling treatment of both milen and misho, they were moved to a small group home where they have spent the last 13 years. milen. hello. misho! misho. what is milen saying to you? he is worried that we will take him. to mogilino?

i asked the director of the home how milen and misho have been getting on. when he remembers mogilino, what does he remember?

this is the man? i remember that day very well. milen wants to see didi? yeah. milen and misho have been moved to a group home with a loving director who truly cares for them and who is now their official guardian. this is a glorious home, a success of the new policy where they have had the chance to recover from life at mogilino. but i want to see how young people in other homes are faring.

at a recent event at the un general assembly, bulgaria was identified as a model for reform. i have been invited tojoin in the team, disability rights international, for part of their tour around 2a group homes across bulgaria. they are documenting conditions for a report on social care across the country. we visit five group homes together. in the first home in north bulgaria, we filmed covertly in order to capture early images of what we are witnessing. ten young people live here across two floors and their lives are more or less confined to the boundaries of the home. mitko is 16 years old. he is autistic. there is only one carer on duty

and she is clearly struggling with mitko who gets aggressive. while small, this child is actually 15 years old. she lives just along the corridorfrom mitko. the children here are unlikely to be able to learn the skills to become independent. upstairs, two young people are sleeping. a child psychologist in sofia told the dri team that sedation is used in many homes in place of care.

later that day i was able to talk openly with mitko who agreed to be filmed. mitko, you are living here in this small group home with very young children who are disabled and we saw you earlier push one right over, sent her flying backwards.

he sings. mitko, how would you like your life to be? he sings.

some parents say they have little support to care for their own children in the community. and that they have no choice but to send their children away. the bulgarian government say they have created services to help parents look after their disabled children. today, there are around 300 small group homes. eu money has gone into building many of them. from the outside they can appear modern and pleasant but it is the care within them that is far more important. at this home, i was able to film openly. this group home, built in 2016 is part of the steppingstone idea for those with disabilities becoming integrated into the community. there are 1a people living here, the youngest being sofia

who is 1a years old. her only disability is that she is deaf. she is thrilled to find that one of the dri team can use sign language. none of the staff here have been trained to sign. can you communicate? with the people who live here? with you? so staff here cannot sign. she teaches people signs, which... sofia has been trying to teach a boy to sign so that she at last will have someone to talk to. sofia does not go to school. the staff tell us she is too disabled.

i am amazed she has not become more institutionalised, trapped in silence with no—one seeming to make any effort to relieve her isolation. along the corridor are two young men who appear to live in their beds. it looks to be some kind of fortified porridge. the dri team tell me it is contrary to all accepted practice to feed them like this. coughs. can you tell me about this young man? and what is his condition?

further along the corridor from the two angels is george's room. george lives in total isolation. his door is locked from the outside. george is in his 30s. his diagnosis is simply epilepsy. he is naked most of the time. the staff say this is his choice. he doesn't speak. he has a potty at the end of his bed. it's possible he'll spend the rest

of his life inside this room, being observed by staff through the glass window. how can this be the best help on offer for a young, vulnerable man who may have many years ahead of him yet? george? it's very distressing to see such dire conditions in a relatively new system held up as an example of good practice. it's clear how fortunate milen and misho are to be living in their home. mitko and sofia are struggling in clearly unsuitable homes.

i want to catch up with someone else i met in mogilino — didi, who is milen‘s other friend at the institute. didi arrived at mogilino back in 2007. like mitko, didi is autistic. her motherfound it more and more difficult coping with her, so she sent her far away so that she couldn't find her way home.

didi would cling to the belief that her mother would come and get her, but milen had been listening to the staff and he knew the truth. didi's mother never visited her at mogilino and didi never returned home. instead, after the film, she was moved to a special adult boarding school, and i filmed with her in 2009. all the students stay here for three years to learn life skills to prepare them for

the outside world. man sings. today, i am visiting didi, who has been moved to a remote small group home. man continues singing. when you think of the time you spent in mogilino, what do you remember? and what was it you liked about your boarding school in sofia?

it is heartbreaking to see didi. she was doing so well when i saw her eight years ago, making friends, working as a seamstress, contributing to society. now, isolated here, surrounded by old people, she has regressed completely.

she is desperately thin and frantic and stutters as she talks. the institutionalised rocking that first appeared when she came to mogilino, but disappeared in the boarding school, is back. it feels a horrendous waste of a life. each resident is given a lunchtime sedative to make them more manageable for the staff. do you think it's ok that you live here with old people? what i see is somebody who is misplaced in the environment she's in. she's in a home for people suffering with schizophrenia, but she does not have that diagnosis.

you said that she had been waiting for around six months for a placement, because she has already been here for eight years. when i see the way you are with didi, and didi said she loves you, didi cares for you, she has an affinity with you because she can communicate with you. mitko and sofia's directors are in a similar position. they have no power to get more suitable placements for those in their care. milen and misho‘s home proves small homes can be wonderful, nurturing places. but there is a reason for that — their director, who loves them as her own, as family.

do you believe that it's good to have this, the small group homes and protected homes, or is it better to encourage the keeping of your own children and the fostering of children so that children go into families?

while the new system of group homes is officially referred to as family—like residences, or small group homes, from what i've seen, many are neither small, nor are they family homes.

0n on saturday some parts of the uk struggle to get above freezing all day and for the first day of december it is a cold and frosty start really for many parts of the country. in we are firmly in the cold air under the area of high pressure and the weather front earlier brought some cloud and patchy rain to the channel islands and the far south—west of england and the far south—west of england and by the end of the night that has gone, the breeze having pushed it away and further north some patches of fog around across england and wales but they should leave through the veil of your, around carlisle and through the central belt of scotland. a few showers for northern ireland. if you think i was for the north of scotland but widely, a

frost for the northern half of the uk and rather more patchy further south we have more of a breeze and still some mist and fog and low cloud to clear away and it should move away though more readily in the breeze. a few patches may linger through carlisle breeze. a few patches may linger through ca rlisle and breeze. a few patches may linger through carlisle and it will take a while for the fog to live through the central belt of scotland. a few showers getting blown in on the breeze in the north of scotland and one 01’ breeze in the north of scotland and one or two down is not seacoast and heading towards kent, especially in the afternoon. these are the temperatures in the afternoon, another chilly day, 3—7d typically, not as cold as it was yesterday through the midlands but not as mild in the south—west but we are at least getting sunshine. the high pressure and the cold air is still with us overnight and into monday and we start seeing some changes though arriving into the north—west and it will not be as cold in scotland, nor indeed for northern ireland probably earlier on monday, more of an atlantic influence, air coming in on the south—west. but a frosty start for england and wales, lots of fun trying to come on monday. a little more clout in those

south—westerly breezes for northern ireland and especially into scotland, and patchy rain here, mainly in the north of scotland. the highest temperatures in the north—west of scotland, 10 degrees here. ten into the far south—west of england, typically six or seven degrees. a chilly day then on monday for many parts of the uk underneath that area of high pressure. it is going to shrink away towards the near continent and eventually mild atla ntica re near continent and eventually mild atlanticare will replace it. but with lighter winds across southern parts of england nearer the high pressure, tuesday and perhaps even wednesday morning there may be some fog and low cloud keeping it on the chilly side but later on in the week we're going to get milder, windier with some patchy rain mainly and in the north and west.

this is bbc news. welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm james reynolds. our top stories: the first victim of the london bridge terror attack to be named is jack merritt — killed while running a prisoner rehabilitation conference to which his assailant was invited. the attacker — usman khan — was jailed seven years ago for terrorism offences but freed last year. the but freed last year. british government urges that michael the british government urges that michael launches an urgent review into prisoners released from prison. a prominent maltese businessman is charged with complicity in the murder of the investigative journalist, daphne caruana galizia. hundreds of climate campaigners in eastern germany occupy open—cast coal mines to demand their immediate closure.