this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 3pm: cambridge university confirms that the woman killed in the london bridge attack was a former student. the prime minister tells the bbc that 7a people jailed for terror offences and released early will have their licence conditions reviewed. i absolutely deplore the fact that this man was out on the streets. i think it is absolutely repulsive, and we are going to take... that repulsive thing happened under the conservatives. it was conservative legislation and a conservative regime. our public services are the glue that binds our a failure to recruit has left huge staffing shortfalls, posing again a serious risk to our security. you cannot keep people safe on the cheap.

an irish woman who travelled to syria to join the islamic state group is arrested after arriving back in dublin with her two—year—old daughter. former wales rugby captain gareth thomas says he wants breaking the stigma around hiv to be his ‘everlasting legacy‘ in an interview with prince harry to mark world aids day. watford sack manager qu—que sanchez flores afterjust 85 days in the role. and claims that bullying is rife in the beauty industry — we'll have that and other stories in victoria derbyshire: the week in review. that's in half an hour. the prime minister has told the bbc that 7a people who were jailed for terror offences — have been released before

serving their full sentences. their cases are now being reviewed. it follows the attack on london bridge on friday in which the convicted terrorist usman khan killed two people and injured three others. khan had been released after serving half of a 16 year sentence. in the past hour it's been announced that the woman who died in the attack was a former student at the university of cambridge. one of the three other people injured was a member of staff from the university. sarah corker reports. just metres from london bridge... a service at southwark cathedral remembering those killed and injured in friday's attack. we have to help bear their pain, but also speak into that pain with words of hope. 25—year—old jack merritt was leading a prisoner rehabilitation event when he was fatally stabbed. in the words of his father, he was a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog.

and floral tributes have been laid at cambridge university where jack worked. a woman who also died has not yet been named. three others were injured. mobile phone footage shows the moment usman khan was chased along the bridge. he sprayed with a fire extinguisher and another man lunges at him with what looks like a long tusk. moments later he is pinned to the ground, tour guide thomas gray was one of those he intervened. i saw that something was going on, so originally before even knowing what the incident was, i wanted to go and separate them and make sure that somebody wasn't getting beaten to a pulp. police arrived within minutes and he was shot dead. usman khan was a convicted terrorist, jailed for his part in a plot to blow up the london stock exchange. he served half of the 16 year sentence in prison and was released last year.

in stafford, police have searched khan's top floor flat and taken away bags of evidence. friday's attack will raise questions about the extent to which convicted terrorists can be de—radicalised as well as the conditions of khan's license. he would have got permission to travel from stafford to london. there are questions about how closely he was being monitored once he left prison. the government has launched an urgent review into the licensing conditions under which terrorists are released. khan was wearing an electronic tag and attended friday's conference hosted by the organisation learning together and even appeared in a leaflet about their work with prisoners. the london bridge is still a crime scene as police continue to gather evidence today and questions for investigators will now focus on why khan turned on those trying to rehabilitate him. sarah corker, bbc news.

borisjohnson has been facing questions about why usman khan had been released early from from prison. mrjohnson said he would introduce longer prison sentences, and blamed khan's release on legislation introduced 11 years ago by the last labour government. here's our political correspondent susanna mendonca. after visiting the scene of the london bridge terror attack yesterday, today the prime minister took to a tv studio to explain what his government was doing. i'm sure people can imagine what we are doing to ensure that the 7a other individuals who had been let out early on the basis of this labour change of legislation, they are being properly invigilated to ensure there is no threat. election campaigning had been paused after the events of friday, but only briefly. now the conservative leader has turned his attention to sentencing laws, attempting to lay the blame at labour's door and suggesting that he was not responsible

for the actions of a tory government that he had been part of. it is absolutely repulsive and we are... it happened under the conservatives, it was conservative legislation and a conservative regime. would you like to apologise? let me repeat to you... the release was necessary under the law because of the automatic early release scheme, under which he was sentenced. in 2008, undera labour government, the criminaljustice and immigration act enabled more offenders to be released automatically, halfway three sentences, butjudges could still hand down prison sentences which have no fixed length for dangerous offenders. in 2012, usman khan pleaded guilty to a terror offence and was handed an indeterminate prison sentence which was to be a minimum of eight years. in the same year, under a conservative coalition government, a law passed in scrapping indeterminate sentences and reintroduced extended sentences of ten years or more.

this time after two thirds of the sentence has passed. in 2013, the court of appeal ruled that indeterminate sentences should be substituted for a 16 year fixed term of which he should serve half in prison, amounting to eight years. the labour leader in another tv studio pointed to cuts to policing on the part privatisation of the probation service and he was pressed on whether it means terrorists should serve full sentences. it depends on the circumstances of the sentence, but crucially depends on what have done. not necessarily, no. there has to be an examination of how our prison services work and crucially what happens when someone is released from prison. the liberal democrat leader jo swinson said the whole system needed to be looked at. absolutely essential that anyone convicted of terror offences is properly assessed before they can ever be released and that hearing

should happen with the parole board. that is what the law now states should happen. events often end up steering the direction of a general election and this one certainly has. well the vice—chancellor of the university of cambridge, professor stephen toope, has given this statement in response to friday's attack. 0n on behalf of the university of cambridge i want to express our shock and horror at the events that unfolded. 0f shock and horror at the events that unfolded. of course, we condemn utterly all forms of violence and terrorism. i want to express our deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims and to express our hopes for an early

recovery by those who have been injured. colleagues across the university and with partner universities work tirelessly to provide opportunities for education for everyone. i want to thank them for everyone. i want to thank them for that. and finally, i want to express my admiration for the tremendous courage shown by participants at the conference and members of the public whose selfless actions likely prevented even greater tragedy last friday. professor stephen toope also paid tribute to jack merritt, a cambridge university graduate who was one of the two victims of the attack. he had been working with an instructor at the university which organised by day's conference. a short while ago i spoke to our home affairs correspondent sarah corker for an update on the latest developments. the debate over sentencing is really

intensified over the weekend. i think it aspire to say that all political parties have helped to produce this rather confusing set of sentencing rules. that meant that usman khan was effectively released from prison halfway through that 16 year sentence. without being properly assessed and if we look back at the background when he was actually sentenced in 2012, the judge at the time said he should not actually be released until he was no longer deemed a threat to the public. but that type of sentence, that was scrapped a couple of months later. he was given a different sentence, this 16 year becks term, release halfway through. i think it aspire to say there has been a catalogue of failures, really, assessing whether he was effectively deradicalise. did he go through a programme that assisted him to do that? and then, his time out of prison, but he effectively monitored

by the security services? we knew he had a tag on, but whether any signs to suggest that he had extremist views and that he was planning this attack? so, some big questions that will be looked at. presumably also, as you say, he was out on licence, which can be built at any time if a prisoner breaks the conditions of their licence and we were told yesterday by the counterterrorism chief that there was an extensive list of conditions. presumably one that daniel sanford referred to earlier was that he would not have been able to go to this conference without somebody giving him permission. no, there would have been some very strict licensing conditions including, as i have mentioned, that's tag. but also, to be able to go to this conference he would need to get permission to travel from his home in stafford dam to london. we also know part of the conditions of his release was that he was taking part in a deradicalisation programme. he was

originally from stoke and that is where he plotted this attack for which he was imprisoned for in 2012, to blow up the london stock exchange. he was part of a group known as the stoke plotters. we believe that part of these licensing conditions was that he was not allowed to mix with pass associates and that he could not, in fa ct, fact, go into the stoke—on—trent area. an irishwoman who became a so—called islamic state bride in syria has been arrested after arriving back in ireland with her two—year—old daughter. lisa smith went to the war—torn country in 2015 after converting to islam and becoming radicalised. she had been living with her child in a syrian refugee camp. she has also revealed that the father of her child was a suspected member of is who died last year. 0ur correspondentjohn campbell joined me earlier and told me more about ms smith's background. she was a woman in her 30s, she had been a member of the irish defence forces. so, somebody with military

training. she became disillusioned with her life, in 2011 she converted to islam, and then in 2015 she made that decision to leave her husband and go andjoin that decision to leave her husband and go and join the islamic state. now, she resurfaced again in the summer now, she resurfaced again in the summer of this year, when the islamic state was collapsing she was held by us backed forces in syria. she was in a refugee camp and at that time the bbc caught up at her in that camp. we asked what she had been doing while she was with islamic state and she denied that she had better military skills to any offensive use.

lisa smith is now in the custody of the irish police and they will of course be testing a story of prose, about what she did during those four yea rs about what she did during those four years in syria. they will clearly wa nt to years in syria. they will clearly want to know in detail who exactly she was wet, where she was and what she was wet, where she was and what she did. now, irish place can water for three days before they have to make some sudden decision on charge or release. the secretary general of the un, antonio guterres, has called for greater political will to tackle climate change. he was speaking ahead of the 2019 un climate change conference, known as cop25, which formally begins in madrid tomorrow. mr guterres praised young people for their efforts to improve

the environment and said subsidies on fossil fuels should be scrapped. the road map to stay below 1.5 degrees is still within reach. the technologies that are necessary to make this possible are already available. and the signals of hope are multiplying. public opinion is waking up everywhere. young people are showing remarkable leadership and mobilisation. what is still lacking is political will. political will to put a price on carbon. political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels. political will to stop subsidies on fossilfuels. building coal powered plants from 2020 onwards. political will to shift taxation from income to carbon, taxing pollution instead of people. we simply have to stop digging and drilling and take advantage of the vast possibilities offered by renewable energy

and nature —based solutions. the headlines on bbc news... cambridge university confirms that the woman killed in the london bridge attack was a former student. the prime minister tells the bbc that 7a people jailed for terror offences and released early will have their licence conditions reviewed. an irish woman who travelled to syria to join the islamic state group is arrested after arriving back in dublin. in sports, another premier league manager as been sacked. what would have got rid of their manager, he has been in charge for less than three months. his second spell at the club. yesterday buzz might defeat to southampton left them at the bottom of the table. celtic have extended their lead at the top of

the scottish premiership to three points, they beat ross county 4—1. rangers can draw level again, they have just kicked off against hearts. the formula 1 world champion lewis hamilton has won the final grand prix of the year. he led from start to finish in abu dhabi. a quick update on the premier league matches this afternoon, arsenal dry to all at norwich. sheffield united are bidding bills. we will have an update in the next hour. it's been revealed that a loud bang heard by people living in parts of south east england overnight was a sonic boom from two raf jets. hundreds of people across north london and the home counties were woken up by a loud bang that many said sounded like an explosion. the noise was generated by two royal air force typhoons, which launched from coningsby in lincolnshire and intercepted an unresponsive aircraft which later re—established contact. let's have a listen to recordings viewers have sent in. boom

explosion with some further details, our correspondent andy moore is with me now. it does not sound so threatening when you hear it in those conditions, but presumably people who heard this last night, there is a good chance they were to ben morgan bite. yes, in this day of the night, with no other sounds around, a lot of people registered by that. of course, coming after friday's terror attack, a lot of people they we re terror attack, a lot of people they were listening to the sound of an explosion. we dig out these sonic booms now again, but normally in the midst of daytime noise it is not so, it does not disturb you quite so quite so much. so, we know now it was caused by these two typing jets taking off from raf in lincolnshire to intercept this aircraft. we know it was a false alarm, but at the

time, who knows? it could to bid something very serious. let us just look at an exercise that gives us an idea of what happens when the alarm goes off. this is an exercise that happened for real in the middle of the night. bell rings so, you so everybody sprang into action there, we can now see the raf typhoon taxing out. fact, we here at last night that the typing is intercepted that's plain within about 12 minutes over central london last night. while we are looking at these pictures, i can tell you the story of what it looked like from the pilot on board that boeing 767. he has been speaking to me by e—mail and he said what happened was that they had a problem with the radio

communications. they did not know for about ten minutes, and then for another ten minutes they were trying to sort out the problem. the pilot was concentrating on his switches and a cockpit and while he was doing that he just about re—establish ready communication, he looked out his left—hand side and had the fright of his life and so this raf typhoon right alongside him. they ply very close. he said he could see the strobe lights. there it is taking off there. the pilot could see the strobe lights of the typhoon, he put on his landing lights to acknowledge that he had seen lights to acknowledge that he had seen the biter. managed to establish radio communications and they went on thereby and all is well. the pilot has the tweeting about the experience. he said that was a seriously fast response by the raf, true prose. that is from the guy in the cross hairs. certainly not release just a way to getting up close look at a typhoon. so, that is why the story behind thousands of

people looking up in the middle of the night. in terms of the noise disturbing people and others slipping through it, how much of an issueis slipping through it, how much of an issue is this in terms of sonic booms? because presumably it is a bit different in the middle of the night then if the aircraft created that kind of noise barrier between them in the middle of the afternoon. some people have complained on twitter about raf carrying out exercises and disturbing people. that is not the case. an aircraft will only go supersonic when there is an absolute necessity and the necessity here was to get to that unresponsive aircraft as quickly as possible, which they did in 12 minutes. the raf will not do that likely. so, even that they were people up, they are there to keep us safe. indeed, thankfully it was a false alarm, but you can never tell until you piracy try to find out what is going on. it must be a very strange experience. mega drivers the

police tell them to pull over. the pilot said he has had a heart attack. i am glad he and everyone else is safe. i am sure they are very sorry if your sleep is disturbed last night. malta's governing labour party has been holding an emergency meeting, as speculation mounts that the prime minister, joseph muscat, will resign. he's under intense pressure, following the murder of the investigative journalist, daphne ca ruana galizia, two years ago. ministers have been linked with the businessman yorgen fenech, who's been charged with complicity in the murder. damian grammaticas reports from malta. at the prime minister's retreat out of view today, emergency talks. the question, whether to force the prime minister to go. this wasjoseph muscat just two days ago. it is the investigation into the murder of a campaigning journalist that is at the heart of the crisis. myjob is to see this investigation concluded. daphne caruana galizia was blown up by a car bomb two years ago. she had been writing about the close

business ties of those around the prime minister. they included malta's richest man yorgen fenech, the energy minister he had dealings with, konrad mizzi and the prime minister's own chief of staff, keith schembri. last night the businessman, yorgen fenech was brought to court and charged with being part of the plot to murder the journalist. he denied involvement. daphne caruana galizia's family had long said people close to the minister were implicated. for two years he failed to take action. we now expect the prime minister to leave office and parliament, with immediate effect to allow a free and full investigation into his and keith schembri's involvement in daphne's assassination. the businessman was in custody last night. the prime minister himself hopelessly compromised. malta, sullied and corrupted on his watch.

those close to the prime minister resigned earlier in the week, but the news coming out at the meeting here is that the party has backed the prime minister to decide at his own time of choosing whether and when he goes. but what he says, it seems this political crisis in malta will continue and a big demonstration has been called for this evening in the letter. iraq's parliament has accepted the resignation of the prime minister, adel abdul mahdi. there've been two months of anti— government demonstrations which have seen more than four— hundred people killed and thousands wounded. mr abdul mahdi submitted his resignation after violence intensified last week in the south of the country where the security forces continued to use live ammunition and teargas against protesters. rugby star gareth thomas says he wants his everlasting legacy to be greater awareness of hiv, after revealing his own positive diagnosis back in september. the former wales rugby captain has been speaking to prince harry in an interview for the terrence higgins trust, as part of world aids day. you've got a new purpose in life

and you've turned a negative into a positive. yeah. and i'll tell you what i feel like. and this is the truth, mate. i always felt that my life was to play rugby and to represent wales, which i did with all the passion i have, right? but i actually feel that my rugby gave me the platform to actually do what i'm doing now. and i believe what i do now, like, what i do now is really what i care about. because there's not many people from a simple life like i've come from who could have the power to change other people's lives. that's, like... it's one of the most fulfilling things. it blows me away. i sit down with my parents sometimes and we look at my trophy cabinet, which i'm really proud of. it's big. yeah, it's big, it's big. but i look and i think,

you know what, they'll gather dust and they'll go away and they'll be forgotten about. but i'd like to think where we go on this journey of education and breaking stigma around hiv is something i will have a legacy everlasting. there is a 2030 goal and you've now just signed up as a commissioner. yes. i'm going to be a commissioner to sit on a panel with a group of people, we have a common goal that in ten years' time within england there will be zero new transmissions of hiv. now, this whole thing might be bizarre anyway, like, we're sitting in a rugby ground, me and you having a chat about hiv, talking about zero transmissions of hiv in ten years' time. like, i can't believe that we're actually at a point where that's a reality. but it is. it is a reality. and it's something that, for me, it's my next step. we know there's a hell of a lot to do but what you've managed to do in the space of, you know, six or eight weeks has been transformational.

genuinely transformational. as you said, we should all know our status. and if it's treated just the same as any other virus that's exactly what should be happening. yeah. from my perspective, all i can do is thank you for the difference that you've made and the lives you are saving on a daily basis now. and you will have every single one of us backing you the whole way. you're not in this alone. you're not. you now know that. i know. you put the trust in the british public. and quite rightly. you know, they support you all the way. falkirk council says it is on standby to help vulnerable residents after thousands of homes were left without heating following the failure of a gas main in central scotland. with the temperature in the area just above freezing, electric heaters and cookers are being offered to elderly or sick customers, and those with young children. scottish gas networks said engineers were trying to fix the problem but didn't know when gas would be restored. now it's time for a

look at the weather. another cold and frosty nights for england and wales. for scotland and northern ireland a little bit different, cloud increasing from the north and west bringing aspects of rain into northern scotland at the night wears on. clouds cover keeping temperatures above freezing for northern ireland, but mainly dry here. could just see the odd pocket of brass across southern scotland, before the cloud structure increase. widespread frost for england and wales, —3 orfour celsius here. much milderfor wales, —3 orfour celsius here. much milder for the wales, —3 orfour celsius here. much milderfor the part north wales, —3 orfour celsius here. much milder for the part north and west of scotland. more rain tomorrow, rain becoming patcher on itsjourney eastwards. some rain into the central belt and far southern scotla nd central belt and far southern scotland by the afternoon. cloudy and dryfor scotland by the afternoon. cloudy and dry for northern ireland, a good deal of sunshine for england and wales before the cloud increases. another cool day here, milder, though, none the north and west of scotland. the week ahead, cold

advice, milderfrom the north and eight by the risk of bulk and wet and when nearby friday. goodbye. hello. this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines: cambridge university confirms that the woman killed in the london bridge attack was a former student. the prime minister tells the bbc that 7a people jailed for terror offences and released early will have their licence conditions reviewed. i absolutely deplore the fact that this man was out on the streets. i think it's absolutely repulsive, and we are going to take action. that repulsive thing happened under the conservatives. it was conservative legislation and a conservative regime. a failure to recruit has left huge

staffing shortfalls, with staff supervising more cases than ever expected, posing again a serious risk to our security. you can't keep people safe on the cheap. an irish woman who travelled to syria to join the islamic state group is arrested after arriving back in dublin with her two—year—old daughter. time now for a look back on the highlight‘s from this week's victoria derbyshire programme. hello and welcome to this week's programme. first, an exclusive investigation for our programme found that claims of bullying are rife within the beauty industry. make—up artists and beauty therapists told us that bullying ranges from minor name—calling to psychological abuse. and, with their workers having no recognised dedicated union, victims