hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm rebecca jones. today at two. at least five people have died and many more are feared dead after a volcano in new zealand erupts unexpectedly. authorities say they do not expect to find survivors on the island, which is too dangerous to get to. the island is unstable. the possibilities of further eruptions, actually, the physical environment is unsafe for us to return to the island. the serial rapistjoseph mccann is given 33 life sentences. the judge describes him as a classic psychopath who will never cease to be dangerous. the world anti—doping agency bans russia from all major sporting events for four years,

including the next olympics and world cup. it's the final countdown to the general election — with one last push from all the parties. i'm here in crewe hearing from voters about the issues that matter to you. it is the eighth most marginal constituency, won by labour last time around byjust 48 votes. coming up on afternoon live — all the sport. yes, good afternoon, rebecca, and we will also be talking about the world anti—doping agency, and how they have a band russia from all major sporting events for the next four yea rs, sporting events for the next four years, including next year's tokyo olympics and the 2022 football world cup in qatar. and we will have all

the weather, and an unsettled week ahead? yes, it really is, really was windy overnight, gusts in excess of 80mph over the isle of wight, a bit quieter today, but much more turbulent weather in the week ahead. i will tell you all about it. also coming up... one of the last surviving pilots from the battle of britain has died at the age of 101. we will look back at his service career. hello and welcome to afternoon live. let's cross over to tyne and wear, where borisjohnson is giving a speech. when it comes to our standards, our industrial permits and all the rest of it, so, as we come out, it's all

protected, from the point of view of big motor manufacturing investors in oui’ big motor manufacturing investors in our country. but we will also have the opportunity to do further deals around the world. changing topic ever so around the world. changing topic ever so slightly, would you ever consider funding the air ambulance and the vital work they do? yes, i think that the air ambulance is a quite incredible organisation, and i and always amazed how little government gives to it, by comparison with charitable donations, and i will certainly make sure the nhs contributes to the cost of the airambulance, sure the nhs contributes to the cost of the air ambulance, because it does a fantasticjob and i have seen how it saves lives, particularly for victims of knife crimes or stabbings, the air ambulance can make all the difference, it arrives within 15 minutes, or in the golden hour, saving people's lives. why

don't you abolish tv licence fees? for everybody? well... i don't think at this late stage in the campaign, i'm going to make an unfunded spending commitment like that. but what i certainly think is that the bbc should cough up and pay for the licences for the over 75 is, as they promised to do. but at this stage, we are not planning to get rid of all tv licence fees, although i am certainly looking at it, and what i would say is that... i am under pressure not to extend her eyes a policy on the hoof, but you have to... you have to ask yourself whether that kind of approach to funding a tv, media, organisation, still makes sense in the long term, given the way other organisations manage to fund themselves. that is all i would say. the system of

funding by what is effectively a general tax, isn't it, funding by what is effectively a generaltax, isn't it, everybody funding by what is effectively a general tax, isn't it, everybody has a tv, it bears reflection, let me put it that way. how long can you justify a system whereby everybody who has a tv has to pay to fund a particular set of tv and radio channels? that is the question. i am going to go to the bbc in a minute to! to ask the first question, i think! fuel duty in the uk is far higher than think! fuel duty in the uk is far higherthan any other... think! fuel duty in the uk is far higher than any other... brexit...? yes, in the sense that obviously, we have the potential to do what we wa nt have the potential to do what we want with our fuel duty. i don't wa nt to want with our fuel duty. i don't want to make any more fiscal commitments than i have made already in this campaign, except to say, you may have missed it, fuel duty will not be going up. anything else?m

may have missed it, fuel duty will not be going up. anything else? if i may, you did mention infrastructure. yes, the a1. the a1, yes, exactly. our trucks use the roads, and apart from needing to have a good deal that we know how to go going forward , that we know how to go going forward, because it is the deal that matters, we really need to know that we are getting investments in the likes of the a1 up to edinburgh, and keep scotland and england linked together. yes, one reason why i think it is crazy to have another referendum on the union with scotland, when we had that in 2014 and everybody was told it was a once ina and everybody was told it was a once in a generation event, and why should we have that nowjust because of the price of a nicola sturgeon pact... on the a1, i said a few yea rs pact... on the a1, i said a few years ago, that we would dual it, i don't know why that hasn't happened. we have got to get on and do that.

we have got to get on and do that. we have got a massive programme of infrastructure investment, it's not just about big ticket investment schemes, or the northern powerhouse railway, whatever, it is about putting money into the roads, because that makes a huge difference to people's lives and to their ability to do theirjobs. we will certainly be looking at the a1. but i want to stress, the only way you can make these long—term investments in infrastructure is if you run a sound economy. and what you can't do is do what i'm afraid labour did last time, and that is racked up such colossal debts that you're basically bust as a country, which is where we were in 2010, if you remember. we need to be putting in money for the long—term, into infrastructure, and into the nhs, but also making sure that we stimulate the productive sectors of the economy as well, making sure we support business as well. any other questions? we have got some media people, hang on. richard, bbc look

north. you're saying that you are going to be a voice for sunderland in westminster and whitehall, why have you chosen conservative candidates here that are not conservatives from sunderland ? candidates here that are not conservatives from sunderland? they are from kingston upon times, they are from kingston upon times, they are from kingston upon times, they are from kensington in london, and they are from warrington in cheshire. the duke of wellington said, you know, he was born in... people are entitled to... i'm sure that valerie will do a fantasticjob representing this constituency. of course there, valerie will do a fantastic job course there, valerie will do a fantasticjob representing course there, valerie will do a fantastic job representing this constituency. as all our candidates well. and i think it would be very unfair... idon‘t well. and i think it would be very unfair... i don't remember tony blair having deep roots in sedgefield, for instance, it would be very unfair to disco innate against people on the basis of where they come from, it is not the way we do things. we have fantastic candidates. yes, hang on. prime

minister, you have set yourself a very tight deadline to get us out of europe, by the end of next year. the end of january. nissan europe, by the end of next year. the end ofjanuary. nissan have said they will go if you don't get a decent deal, don't tell me, tell the people in here whose jobs would be affected by that, can they really trust you to get a decent deal? yes. well, greg, we have a decent deal and you would have heard me describe it. it gets us out on 31st january and it enables us to take back control of our money, all borders and our laws, all the things that we we re and our laws, all the things that we were campaigning on, gisela stuart and aye, in the brexit campaign. but what it also does is, it keeps us in a state of grace, a state of equivalence, with our european union friends and partners. so, the zero tariff, zero quota arrangements that we have, thejust—in—time supply chains, they remain absolutely there. perfect and intact. dealwith

canada? there. perfect and intact. dealwith canada ? you there. perfect and intact. dealwith canada? you can do it in five minutes? we have a fantastic deal. we are coming out in a state of com plete we are coming out in a state of complete equivalence already, with zero tariffs, zero quotas, now is the moment to get brexit done and move on. kevin. from the sunderland echo. over the last nine years of the two governance that your party has been part of, sunderland city council has seen its funding slashed bya third, council has seen its funding slashed by a third, 5000 people have lost out by a third, 5000 people have lost our jobs, by a third, 5000 people have lost ourjobs, how on earth can sunderland trust your party on public services like football, because we believe in investing in, asi because we believe in investing in, as i say, notjust in infrastructure and public services, which is what we are doing with the nhs, putting money into hospitals here in the north—east and putting money into newcastle hospital, for instance. but also, we are the party that has done more to lift people, there's

5400 fewer people unemployed here in sunderland, since 2010, and now, this new one—nation government is absolutely determined notjust to invest in public services, notjust the biggest investment in health, but also as i say to help with the cost of living for everybody in the country. so, we're lifting up the minimum wage by the biggest ever amount, we're cutting national insurance contributions, we will lift up the threshold at which you have to pay national insurance to £12,500, which will give everybody a £500 tax cut. that is the way we wa nt to £500 tax cut. that is the way we want to help. and i think you've got to bear in mind that, as i said before, we were in a very, very tough situation in 2010, and it's been necessary to manage the economy prudently, we've done that, and we are now in a position to support businesses and enterprise, but above

all, what will help this part of the country and help all the country, is if we can get brexit done and move forward. because we cannot focus on anything, we cannot focus on finding local councils properly, we can't focus on the nhs, we can't focus on all the plans we have for this country while the politicians in this country are bogged down rowing, fighting, about brexit. what our deal allows us to do is come out on sist deal allows us to do is come out on 31st january and move forward. kate. dickinson. chronicle life. rather similar, but... does this election entirely come down to brexit and what can you offer voters in this region other than get brexit done? this election comes down to a stark choice between two ways forward for the country. i've never seen anything like it. we can either have another year, at least, of complete political chaos, plus a, far left

agenda that would destroy the economic productivity of this country, under corbyn and john mcdonnell, to say nothing of their breaking up the union with scotland 01’ breaking up the union with scotland or having another referendum on that, but you would also have drift and dither on the eu. our way forward is to get brexit done, invest massively in public services, support our nhs, support our brilliant businesses and unite the country, and unite the country through infrastructure, education and technology, that's what we're going to do. and that is what i think the country needs and i am going to go to laura, from the bbc. thank you very much, mrjohnson. do you really think, after nearly a decade of a very significant squeeze... ? studio: we seem to have got a problem there with the line from tyne and wear. three days to go, of

course, to the general election, borisjohnson is visiting four exit voting seats. let's see if we can go back to him... what we are doing to rebuild leeds general infirmary, and it is one of the hospitals that we will rebuild, from the beginning, it will rebuild, from the beginning, it will be a fantastic project. and we are putting, as i say, the biggest ever investment into our nhs, £34 billion. and i think that will be absolutely tra nsformative. for the nhs. and we are putting 50,000 more nurses in, we will have 6000 more gps, 50 million more gp appointments over the next five years, we want to transform our nhs, it is a fantastic, fantastic service. but you can only do that if you have a strong economy and you can only do that if we move this country forward and get brexit done. and this is a very, very ambitious government, we're a very impatient government, we're a very impatient government, we wa nt we're a very impatient government, we want to get on with our work,

what we don't want is parliament blocking us again. and that's why i hope everybody will vote for a one—nation conservative government one—nation conservative government on thursday and move us forward. paul. prime minister, one of your biggest challenges in this election is to persuade people that you really do care and you really are trustworthy and yet today when you are showing that picture of the four—year—old boy on the floor of an a&e department, you take the phone away and put it in your pocket. what does that say about how much you really care? well, pauli does that say about how much you really care? well, paul i thinki have answered that question, i don't know... but we are not only investing in children's services in leeds but we are also rebuilding the whole leeds infirmary from top to bottom. and we can do that because we are now putting the biggest ever investment into the nhs. what i don't want to see is a fantastic programme that is going to unite our country being blocked again. we have got a bill in parliament that would insist that we have to increase

funding on the nhs over and above inflation every year. that is now blocked by this parliament, because we haven't got a working majority. if we can get a working majority on thursday, we can take this country forward , thursday, we can take this country forward, get brexit done and invest massively in all public services. that is the choice we face. kate mccann, sky news. prime minister, you are here in the north—east, it isa labour you are here in the north—east, it is a labour stronghold. to win this election, you need to turn red seats like this blue. but for many people here that means voting conservative for the first time, a big decision, do you think you personally have done enough to convince them to trust you? i'm doing my best. kate, this is about, i think, a fundamental choice for this country. and i really think that we are in danger on thursday of taking a disastrous step, and it is notjust because i think that mr corbyn and

mr mcdonnell would be very bad for the uk economy, bad for our defences, i think they take the wrong approach to our national security, they spent a long time supporting various enemies of this country, whether it's the ira or hamas or hezbollah or whatever. it is not just hamas or hezbollah or whatever. it is notjust that, it's the political paralysis, and it's the failure to get on with the priorities of this country. that is the real problem. we have a very energetic, very dynamic, one—nation government that wa nts to dynamic, one—nation government that wants to get on, that wants to get on, with great investments in the nhs, in our infrastructure, in schools. it has started, 130 days ago i stood on the steps of downing street, set out our programme, we are delivering now. we want to get on and deliver it and we can only do that if we get brexit done and move forward. iam that if we get brexit done and move forward. i am going to go to richard wheeler, finally, from pa. hi. you mentioned a lot about the 635

candidates who have made the pledge on brexit. how long is that pledge lasting ford, is it to the end of january? is it the trade part and what happens if they break it, are they losing the tory whip again? this is about the 635... they are pledged to me personally to support the deal that we have done. and i cannot envisage any circumstances in which they would fail to do that. look, we have not lobotomised them, they have done it of their own free will. they believe in this deal, they see it as the best way forward for our country. and i think that they will be crazy if they didn't see it as the best way forward, it isa see it as the best way forward, it is a fantastic deal. and it actually brings together people from all parts of the european debate in the conservative party. there's a lot of them. so, i really draw the distinction, and to answer your question, yes, of course, if they then vote against it, they can

expect disciplinary procedures. but i really don't think that is going to happen. we have the candidates who are there, ready to back our deal, the deal is ready to go, it is a just add hot water, put it in, it is ready, and we can get it done. any other questions? yes?m is ready, and we can get it done. any other questions? yes? if labour and their manifesto scares the conservatives, why, then, was a fake website set up and paid google to put them above labour's website so people can't even find what they are looking for? i'm afraid... the question was about fake news websites being put up above labour's... websites being put up above labour's. .. if the websites being put up above labour's... if the manifesto and labour's... if the manifesto and labour themselves don't scare the conservatives, why were fake

websites set up and google paid so that their results would come higher on google than labour's actual manifesto? i am afraid short answer to that question is, i haven't foggiest idea. but as far as i understand it, as far as i understand it, as far as i understand it, as far as i understand it, what happens is that there is an awful lot of activity on there is an awful lot of activity on the internet to try and promote news of one kind of another. what i can tell you is that if you want to look at our manifesto, it is there online, it is a great manifesto, it will take this country forward and it will enable us to get brexit done and move on. that is what we want to do. similarline... and move on. that is what we want to do. similar line... well, i mean... i have heard about that and obviously, i think that a lot of this is basically a kind of media diversion. what the public really wa nt to diversion. what the public really want to know about is, what are our plans to get brexit done and move this country forward. people talk

together. and i have explained that what the people of this country want to hear is our plans to move this country forward get brexit done... thank you very much, i have answered your question. i know, but whati think the public of this country wa nt to think the public of this country want to hear is what our plans are to get brexit done and move forward. it's been interfered with... well, i am very sorry that you can't find that online but i am sure it is there somewhere. shouldn't you know what's going on? i'm afraid i do not know what you're. .. i'm what's going on? i'm afraid i do not know what you're... i'm pretty certain that you can find the labour ma nifesto certain that you can find the labour manifesto online. if you can't, then thatis manifesto online. if you can't, then that is obviously a problem. but i think it is there. and by the way, i think it is there. and by the way, i think that the more people who are aware of what labour's plans are, the better. because i think they would be economically ruinous for this country. and i think it would be disastrous if people were to vote forjeremy corbyn and john mcdonnell

on thursday. i'm afraid i think it would be a serious, serious misstep. anyway... thank you... would be doing that...? anyway... thank you... would be doing that. . . ? of course, that is why i am here today, i, of course, wa nt why i am here today, i, of course, want everybody to understand that we have a very simple and a very clear agenda, which is to get brexit done and move the country forward. and i think what is going on, whether we're accused of interfering with the intranet or whatever it happens to be, i think an awful lot of distractions are being introduced into this debate. it is now three and a half years since the people of this country voted to leave the european union. and that is the fundamental issue that this election is all about. and i'm afraid that in parliament, you have three parties, jeremy corbyn, you have nicola sturgeon and the snp, and you have

the... what are the other ones? the liberal democrats. who are simply refusing to get brexit done. and at every stage in this election, they've thrown up more dust and more diversions to try and conceal what this is all about. this is a broken parliament, that will not allow the people of this country to have their voices heard. and it will not allow the people in this country to express their will. they expressed it 3.5 years ago. they spoke loud and clear. they said, let's get brexit done, and let's come out of the eu. all that's happened in the last 3.5 years is that they've been frustrated. if you vote conservative on thursday, we will get it done, we will take a country forward and we will take a country forward and we will have a brighter future. will take a country forward and we will have a brighterfuture. thank you all very much. so, a rallying cry there from boris johnson, three days ahead of the general election. and he is visiting four brexit voting seats held by labour. he has

been talking there in tyne and wear. you can see all the candidates in all the constituencies on the bbc news website. well, our political correspondent alex forsyth is in tyne and wear. and has been watching that, alongside you. and boris johnson, touching on a wide—ranging topics there, alex, not surprisingly, brexit, but the nhs came up surprisingly, brexit, but the nhs came up as surprisingly, brexit, but the nhs came up as well as bbc funding, what did you make of what he had to say? well, this is a campaign which so farfrom well, this is a campaign which so far from the conservative perspective in particular has been very tightly controlled, because they entered this campaign thinking that they were the frontrunners to win itand that they were the frontrunners to win it and they didn't want to do anything to disrupt it. so, a big pa rt anything to disrupt it. so, a big part of it has been about trying to keep it to the core message, focusing on brexit, and that was the first of what the prime minister came out here to do, coming to labour leave voting seats but two things have come up which you might have said were unexpected. the first

one, an announcement or at least the suggestion, that boris johnson one, an announcement or at least the suggestion, that borisjohnson would consider in the future if he were to be re—elected prime minister, of getting rid of the licence fee. he said it was something that had to be looked at and reconsidered, that perhaps it was not the right way to justify funding the bbc in the long term. he said he did not want to make a policy off—the—cuff but then went on to suggest that perhaps it is something he might look at, and thatis is something he might look at, and that is not something we have heard in that way from the prime minister before. the second one is an incident which you might say was slightly beyond his earlier this morning, the prime minister was shown a photograph by an itv reporter of a four—year—old boy who was lying on the floor of leeds hospital over the weekend because there were enough beds. initially he refused to look at the photograph and put the phone in his pocket. he then went on to look at it and said that it was a terrible, terrible photo and spoke about the conservative plans for investing in the nhs. but that came up again here, the prime minister was asked what it says about his empathy in a campaign where he is trying to make people who have never voted

conservative before trust him as a future the prime minister, what it says that he did not initially look at the photograph, and he chose instead to respond in the way he did, bringing it back to the conservative plans for investment in the nhs, and bringing it back to the sense that if you don't deliver brexit, you can't invest in public services. so the attempt is to keep it on core message, but those were two things which came up unexpectedly, and in election campaigns, things like that can make a difference. and these are seats that are held by labour and boris johnson has got to win if he wants to form a majority conservative government. so, how is what he is saying playing with the voters there? well, this has been the tory tactic from the very start. we are never short of fish markets during election campaigns, but we have seen this so much from borisjohnson, and there is a clear reason for that, he is appealing to the traditional labour voters, the ones who wanted to leave the eu. that is what the calculation has been, the way his

route to the majority, would be, taking seats like this in the midlands and the north which have been held by labourfor decades but because of what boris johnson been held by labourfor decades but because of what borisjohnson think isa because of what borisjohnson think is a frustration at the fact we haven't left the european union, he hopes that he can cut through with his get brexit done message. but it depends not only on asking people to abandon traditional tribal party loyalties which some of them have held for decades, but also to trust him as theirfuture prime held for decades, but also to trust him as their future prime minister. and that's why there are moments which call into question the way he relates to people, and when that happens, the fact that he is of a different background to some other prime ministers, all of that camp layout in a campaign like this. when he was asked to look at that photograph, moments like that could, just could, become important. thank you very much for that, alex. meanwhile, the leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, has been speaking at a party rally in barnsley. our political correspondent nick eardley is there. what has he been saying? the brexit

party have really struggled to get a foothold in this election, largely because of what alex has been talking about, because the tories have made getting brexit done their main campaign message. in the next few days running up to polling, nigel farage is concentrating on some key areas which have been held by the labour party traditionally for years and years and years but which voted leave in the referendum. grimsby is where boris johnson was this morning. we are about 50 miles along the road in barnsley. and mr farage has been making the argument that there are some people who want to leave the european union and have abandoned the labour party but won't make thejump to abandoned the labour party but won't make the jump to the tories, so he is arguing the brexit party can be almost a go—between. and continuing to argue, despite the fact that the brexit party vote appears to have been squeezed, despite the fact that some brexit party mps quit in opposition to mr farage's stands, he is continuing to argue that his

party ca n is continuing to argue that his party can pull off something of an upset in the next few days and in places like this, wins a bunch of labour votes, potentially get an mp. i have got to say, the polls still suggest that the brexit party is continuing to be squeezed and will still struggle on thursday, but they are continuing the fight, concentrating on a few key areas like this one. nick eardley, thank you. time to catch on the weather now, and it looked rather nice in barnsley, but it is unsettled this week, why is that? firstly we had a storm last night which brought really strong winds. this was east sussex. along southern and western coasts we had gusts of up to 70mph. the needles on the isle of wight saw gusts in excess of 80mph. some really strong winds. more unsettled weather to come, and a good place to

look is the jet stream. that is our risk as high up in the atmosphere which drive our weather patterns. it is likely weather equivalent of the generation game. we've got a conveyor belt of low pressure, one after the other, sadly there is no cuddly toy! it acts like a conveyor belt, these low—pressures, coming along, one after the other. in between we will have some drier, colder spells, and then it will be wet and windy, and also the temperatures is going up and down like a yo—yo all week. temperatures is going up and down like a yo-yo all week. is this unusualfor like a yo-yo all week. is this unusual for this like a yo-yo all week. is this unusualfor this time like a yo-yo all week. is this unusual for this time of year? not at all, we normally expect these turbulent weather patterns through november and december, right through the autumn and into the winter. we a lwa ys the autumn and into the winter. we always hope for something drier and settled, albeit colder, as we approach christmas, but in the week ahead, no change from what we have seen over ahead, no change from what we have seen over the past few days. and of course we have been looking out for it because of weather or not it will impact on people getting out to vote on thursday. exactly, thursday at the moment is looking wet and windy again with perhaps some snow over

the northern hills. but back to now, it is actually cold and fairly clear, some sparkling sunshine in places today. we have still got some strong winds along some naughty coasts, and that is bringing in a few showers. but this of high pressure means things are quieter with the winds easing down. tonight for many it is cold clear skies before crowds surged to build, northern ireland, rain arriving here later in the night. quite a cold night away from western coast without prosper many. particularly early on but as the night wears on those milder conditions i spoke about will start to filter their way eastwards, coupled with some heavy rain and strong winds. it turns much more unsettled across the western side of the uk as the night wears on, some heavy rain. further south and east it stays dry and cold. clear skies and temperatures in the

south—east staying just below freezing, done tomorrow. more u nsettled freezing, done tomorrow. more unsettled conditions tomorrow. the risk of gales. the strongest winds across scotland, northern ireland, northern england, irish sea coasts and some heavy rain. the heaviest across scotland, 60 millimetres of a ha rd across scotland, 60 millimetres of a hard ground but also some heavy rain across parts of north—west england and north wales. that will slowly slide eastwards as a day wears on. a wet, windy but mild date of august —— metro mild day tomorrow.

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not optimistic at all that that will change. they have had three swings at the bat, struck out three times. duplicity, deceit and deception exhibited isjust beyond the pale. and i think it's an embarrassment to the athletes in the world that now at this stage they are fighting for the rights of their clean athletes, as they call them, meanwhile they have destroyed all the data which could either exonerate them find that they are guilty. so that within itself is another layer of deception. russia now has 21 days to appeal to the court of arbitration for sport. but, wada believe that "this is the right decision at the right time." anthonyjoshua victorious anthony joshua victorious of anthonyjoshua victorious of course

on saturday night, winning back his world heavyweight title bout thes. what is his next move, because it has come too late for sports personality of the year! it certainly has! anthonyjoshua says he would like his next fight to be in london, that's after reclaiming his three world titles. his promoter eddie hearn says the new tottenham stadium is a possibility for a fight in the spring. now, that would be really special forjoshua as he's from watford, and has found memories of fights in london with that famous victory against wladimir klitschko in 2017. it's likely to be against his ibf mandatory challenger or deontay wilder — who remember holds the only belt thatjoshua doesn't have — or an all—domestic bout with tyson fury. but, before regaining his three world heavyweight belts, joshua revealed he was unwell in the run—up to their fight injune, where he lost to andy ruinunior first time round. i had an issue with my health, which i was going through for a long time.

i didn't know what was wrong with me. ijust felt so tired and drained. ijust thought it was down to training. i got myself sorted out and i feel $1 million. before the fight in the changing room, i asked for a bucket of water with ice. why do i feel so tired? you can see these types of things when i was in the ring. centuries from danni wyatt and tammy beaumont helped england's women to a 75—run win over pakistan. that was in the first one—day international in kuala lumpur. the pair shared a first—wicket stand of 188, as england made 284—6. kate cross then took four pakistan wickets. these three odis are england's last fixtures in the icc women's championship. that determines qualification for the 2021 world cup, which they are all but certain of making. really happy with that.

exceptionally happy for dani white today, to get her first international 100. that was tough. in the heat. i thought it was quite a hard wicket, but obviously she was playing differently. it is one of the more ugly runs perhaps as a bit of a tag for that one. but you've just got to get them sometimes! gareth thomas has begun his mammoth 500 mile cycle ride, which has been dubbed the tour de trophy, in aid of sport relief. the former wales rugby captain set off from cardiff this morning with the sports personality of the year trophy. and he'll be riding all the way to aberdeen, to deliver the award to this year's winner. he will in the saddle for 12 hours a day, seven days straight. impressive stuff. that's all of the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour.

throughout the election campaign, we've been putting your questions to political leaders and experts as part of your questions answered. today we are live from crewe. welcome. you join us live in crewe. applause with us here today in what is one of the most marginal constituencies in the most marginal constituencies in the country, it is the eighth most marginal seat and it was won last time by labour byjust 48 votes, so we are going here today by undecided voters around 45 of them, because today, just three days to go until the election there is polling that indicates around 13% of voters are undecided on what is going to be a critical election. brexit of course one of the key issues because the

outcome of the election could decide the future path with the conservative saying the key message is get brexit done and other parties wanting there to be a second referendum. the polling indicates it is really too close to goal. we want to find out the feelings of these undecided voters who have been chosen for us by britain thanks from across the country. i want to hear from you, marion, how are you peeling ahead of the election?” from you, marion, how are you peeling ahead of the election? i am quite concerned and confused, from the london bridge area and i have witnessed both the terror attacks that have happened in 2017 and 2018 and i'm quite concerned and they wa nt to and i'm quite concerned and they want to feel safe in my area. and i'm quite concerned and they want to feel safe in my arealj and i'm quite concerned and they want to feel safe in my area. i am undecided because i feel quite ambivalent about the selection simply because i can't understand which methods other than raising taxes and the use of quantitative easing will allow the money to be raised from the pledges. the policies, it is more about being personal against each other and

whatever one party suggests the other one says we are going to doublet, the other says we are going to triple it, where is the money going to come from? you have all been here on bbc news throughout the day. have any of you made up your mind throughout the course of the day so far? one, two, three. three, four. ok, five! you are starting to make your choices. let's hear some of the questions from some of the other undecided voters with us and see if they help someone of you to make up your minds throughout the course of our programme. rachel first of all, what is your question? my first of all, what is your question? my question is how the manifesto is costed. i should introduce or post, the experts here, chris mason political correspondent, as mars reality check correspondent, and mark easton. chris mason, the art that mike the parties are wanting to see that there are a must as a discoverable and so the basis that

the numbers add up. the conservatives and labour both have costings documents. nine pages for the conservatives, 37 pages per labour. labour making the most ambitious spending poses. in many senses the most questions asked about where the money will come from. snp equally have put some costings i think, although they are not aspiring to govern the whole of the uk given they are based just in scotla nd the uk given they are based just in scotland of course. liberal democrats, big focus on childcare. what is interesting is the institute for fiscal studies, a widely respected and thank the books of these numbers, have been critical of these numbers, have been critical of the conservatives and labour, saying that their plans are not credible step said the lib dems are the only party that puts debt on a decisively downward spiral but who knows of the thing that is a good or bad thing, relative to spending money on other stuff. also questioning the consequences of snp policy is an independent scotland. if you like, the referee or the marker of the political parties‘ homework question marks in red ink next to all four of

the big parties. why is that an important question for you, rachel? because it is a big factor in my decision making process step i am leaning towards labour at the moment because i am concerned by some of their more extravagant pledges such as for example free broadband, universally by 2030. i want to make sure that the costings are credible and that it can be afforded and it is not going to plunge the country back into debt. you have got the question. what are the plans to reduce the cost of living for young people? this is a really interesting question because it cuts across so many different areas of policy. i thought i would just pick three for you. one is the minimum wage, or the living wage, the commitment to a real living wage, the labour party says they would immediately bring in a real living wage for all workers aged 16 and over full stop the

conservatives would only do it for the over 21s and only then by 2024, the over 21s and only then by 2024, the snp in scotland would back a real living wage for everyone over 18, plaid cymru and wales a low—wage economy they point out in wales and and they would like to fight for a real living wage there. the liberal democrats want a review of a real living wage and whatever that concludes it would apply across whole economy and for those zero—hour contracts it would be 20% higher, so an interesting posse there. another big cost obviously for all of us but particularly for young people is housing. i thought i would tell you a little bit about that. the conservatives say they will create more affordable homes particularly for sale through shared ownership and a scheme called rent to buy. labour are promising but they cull 150,000 genuinely affordable homes by the end of the parliament each year, over which 100,000 a year will be council houses. the liberal democrats say they will provide 300,000 new homes

every year of which 100,000 will be for social rent and do not immediately which is certainly an ambitious policy. the last thing we might look at is stopped in the shops. what is going to happen to the wider economy? i think it is a question of picture economist, because of the lib dems would argue that stopping brexit would mean a real boost for the economy and bring some order to the economy, protect and of living. the conservative side getting brexit done will improve the economic outlook. labour say their vision of brexit would protectjobs, the economy and they also promise to eradicate in work poverty. in lots of different ways the parties are offering different things. i think it is quite hard to work out how will these things are going to play across the piece for young people.|j was talking to the audience earlier to find out what the key issues concerning them which will help make up concerning them which will help make up their minds are. one of them is the nhs. we have two questions now

on the nhs. the first one you, claire, for christmas. is the nhs safe from privatisation? this is an issue that labour and other opposition parties have been hammering away at against the government, saying that you're going to sell off the nhs. given added weight by the release during the campaign of these documents which showed that over the last three yea rs showed that over the last three years there have been meetings between government officials and american officials about a post brexit trade deal. what those documents show is those officials have discussed things like the price of medicines. we know that big american pharmaceutical companies wa nt american pharmaceutical companies want more access to the nhs because it isa want more access to the nhs because it is a big valuable market. we also know that the price of medicines in the us is much higher than it is in the us is much higher than it is in the uk. the americans want to discuss others. the government said we are not going to discuss it, it is not going to be on the table. if they don't put the price of

medicines on the table, then when we try and do a trade deal with the united states there is things that we are going to want that they are not going to give us. that is the balance you have to address. but overall did those documents show the whole of the nhs is somehow going to be privatised? whole of the nhs is somehow going to be privatised ? no, whole of the nhs is somehow going to be privatised? no, that isjust not what they say. the government says thatis what they say. the government says that is never going to happen, the opposition says yes, but these talks are evidence that this is the thin end of a wedge and things will get worse as you go on. i guess end of a wedge and things will get worse as you go on. i guess in terms of the government's promise that this is not on the table, you have to decide whether you believe doris johnson and tae kim his word. margaret. who can assure the public that the nhs will not be sold off and funding should be increased? one thing you can do which is a fairly standard in trade talks is you can actually pass a law that says we will not talk about this sector in

these trade talks. one option would be for any government. as for the level of funding, funding has gone up level of funding, funding has gone up every year since the nhs was created in the 1940s. it is a question about how much. over the last nine years since 2010 the rate of increase, the rise and funding has been far lower than the average going back to the 1940s. so going forward all parties are promising to spend more. boris johnson forward all parties are promising to spend more. borisjohnson likes to say we will be spending an extra 34 billion overfive say we will be spending an extra 34 billion over five years on the nhs. actually we you take inflation into account its more like 20 billion. it account its more like 20 billion. it a lot of money but still below that historical average level of prices. both labour and the lib dems say they will spend a bit more. both of them roughly 26 billion over five yea rs. them roughly 26 billion over five years. the lib dems say they will do that by adding a penny on income tax. normally you add a penny under

income tax and it all goes into a central pot and then the government and treasury decide how it gets carved up. the lib dems are saying is they want that extra money which would be about £7 billion a year to be spent specifically on health and social careful step so everyone is going to say they will spend more but the problem is us we all know, the man going up, we are all getting older and living longer, there is more of us in the country. the pressures on the nhs are going to continue whatever happens. can either view make up your minds? you can say no! you have got to question. what are the politicians doing to address the windrush scandal? i suppose the windrush scandal, i am assuming by that you mean an environment in which that kind of awful situation can occur where people are treated wrongly by the immigration system. i think we have seen really over the last two

or three years a very significant change in tone from all the political parties. it used to be almost an arms race among the political parties as to who could be toughest on immigration and who would cut immigration most. i think what has happened in the last couple of years is as we have begun to think a lot more perhaps about the requirements that we have in this country for migrant workers in particular, the town has become much more nuanced. the conservatives certainly the hostile environment that some people say was the cause of windrush, that is certainly no more if you read the conservative ma nifesto, more if you read the conservative manifesto, it talks about attracting the brightest of the best from all around the world. the liberal democrats have actually said immigration is a brilliant thing, we need to embrace it and encourage people to come where we need them to boost our economy. labour also stressing the importance of attracting people to work in key public services, likewise the scottish national party very keen to attract migrant workers to scotland where they have got real shortages of labour in places. what we are

seeing is a more nuanced tone from all the political parties, only the conservatives are saying explicitly they want to cut immigration. even then as i say, within this idea we are actually going to be looking to try and make britain an attractive place for some people to come. sean, you have got question. which parties will continue to fund nuclear weapons despite the fact the nuclear weapons despite the fact the nuclear weapons pose an existential threat to our civilisation? in essence amongst the big four parties the one party that is distinct on this is the scottish national party who say that they regard nuclear weapons as weapons of mass description that they don't want, they think it is a waste of money, they think ethically they are the wrong approach to defence and that absolutely opposed to the nuclear submarines that carry the nuclear warheads being based in scotla nd the nuclear warheads being based in scotland on the clyde. what is quite striking given his history on the

topic, labour are committed to renewing the trident programme despite whatjeremy corbyn has it in past, something the of a battle within the labour movement on that. the liberal democrats say they want them to be... on page 91 of the ma nifesto, them to be... on page 91 of the manifesto, a minimum nuclear deterrent, perhaps a scaled—down version of what exists at the moment. the conservatives are committed to it as well. it would be intriguing is if there was a hung parliament and labour and the scottish national party tried to do some sort of deal, given they have diametrically opposed policies, how would they square that circle? diametrically opposed policies, how would they square that circle ?m sounds like you probably live in scotland, if this was your big issue, elsewhere in the uk... three more questions and i want to go back toa more questions and i want to go back to a wider audience so i have to go through them fairly quickly. elisa, you have a question. good afternoon. i know you briefly touched upon housing earlier on but my direct question is will social housing tenants have the right to buy and

when will that take effect? right to buy, very controversial policy, because many people like it, but those people who want to buy their homes, but the promises being made for many years is that they would be a like—for—like replacement of those home sold and that hasn't happened. it is controversial in that way. the labour party, i should say this is a policy that has already been abolished in wales and scotland, so we're abolished in wales and scotland, so we' re really abolished in wales and scotland, so we're really talking about england here. labour would suspend right to buy in england, that would be one of the things they would immediately, conservatives would continue with, both the council house tenants, traditional social housing tenants and those in housing associations, although that is often only on a volu nta ry although that is often only on a voluntary basis at the moment. the liberal democrats interestingly wouldn't abolish right to buy, but they would allow local councils themselves to decide what policy they want to implement in their local area. so, if

they want to implement in their localarea. so, if the they want to implement in their local area. so, if the conservatives when i think we will continue to see right to buy foursquare in the middle of the housing debate, any other version of a government and i suspect it will be something that may start to be reduced. for a lust for questions, deirdre, a question about party funding. for questions, deirdre, a question about party fundinglj for questions, deirdre, a question about party funding. i would like to know how each of the parties are funded, the election campaigns. so there has been a long—standing debate about whether or not you have the state funding of political parties, taxpayerfunding, the state funding of political parties, taxpayer funding, and the state funding of political parties, taxpayerfunding, and every government in power has concluded that asking tax payers to fund political parties will not be very popular, and therefore they are reliant on nations. we have seen because it is a legal obligation during the campaign week by week declarations of where the parties are getting their monies from, and in essence the conservatives tend to rely on rich private donors or companies, and labour tend to rely

on big donations from the trade unions. the liberal democrats and the brexit party and the snp again broadly speaking smaller numbers, but with the reliance on the whole on individuals, but that is broadly how it breaks down. because there is a sense that asking us as taxpayers to fund political parties would not necessarily, so the parties conclude, be very popular. last question from frank. my question is around the issue of education which i think is a major priority. what will the parties do to improve education for vulnerable children and children with disabilities in our schools today? this is one of these difficult questions because it is quite a detailed point within a wider policy and the manifestos are not necessarily, they haven't got whole paragraphs devoted to it but i have tried to pull out of the little details that might give you a clue as to how the party feel about this.

the conservatives say they would spend £780 million more on special needs across the parliament within about £7 billion increase in spending on education. the liberal democrats simply say they would increase sen funding. labour say they would provide the necessary funding and they would also introduce sen coordinator in schools and they would also make the point that they would move children who are wrongly in institutions or who don't need to be in institutions where possible, that they would move them back into their own homes. not a great deal of detail on that, i hope that gives you some clues as to where the parties stand. not much detail at all, it has come outside the manifesto and really at the end of things but i think it should have been furtherup of things but i think it should have been further up the list. thank you. there has been a lot of detail for everybody to take an across all of these issues. would you put your hand up if you have decided how to

vote was one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. we had five at the beginning, so you are gradually deciding! could you put your hand up if you will definitely vote ? your hand up if you will definitely vote? so, everybody here would definitely vote. when will you decide? on the day? last minute. literally when you are in the boot. thank you very much for coming. you are representative of a great number of people out there in the country. there is a yougov poll that indicates around 13% of voters are still undecided. down a little from last week, 15% last week. not long to make up your minds. if these voters are rising to go by there will be many people at the ballot box on voting day deciding then how to do it. we will have much more coverage here from crewe throughout the afternoon. this is one of those really important scenes that could potentially decide the outcome of this election. i was a bit later but

for now i will hand you back to the studio. we are going from crewe straight to bristol where the labour leader jeremy corbyn is speaking. bristol where the labour leader jeremy corbyn is speakinglj bristol where the labour leader jeremy corbyn is speaking. i finish with this because i have got many, many places to go. i want to thank you for being here stop thank you for your support for labour. thank you for your determination to elect a labour government and thank you for the hope you give to so many, so on thursday vote for hope, vote for change, but for a labour government. thank you very much, bristol! studio: wejust studio: we just caught the end of the labour leaderjeremy corbyn

issuing a rallying cry to people who had gathered on bristol's college green to hear him speak. we will catch up with everything he said in the next hour or so stay with us for that. hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm rebecca jones. today at 3. police in new zealand say they don't expect to find any more suvivors after one of the country's most active volcanos erupted early this morning. the island is unstable. the possibilities of further eruptions, actually, the physical environment is unsafe for us to return to the island. boris johnson has questioned the long—term future of the bbc licence fee while on the campaign trail in sunderland. the serial rapistjoseph mccann

is given 33 life sentences. the judge describes him as a classic psychopath who will never cease to be dangerous. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport. katie... hello, and the world anti—doping agency has banned russia from all major sporting events for the next four years, including next year's tokyo olympics and the 2022 football world cup. and alina has though weather. yes, turbulent conditions overnight and this morning, thanks to the storm. quieter now but more wet and windy weather tomorrow and later in the week, more details coming up in the next half an hour. british stars are well represented in this year's golden globe

nominations,. rocketman's taron egerton and fleabag's phoebe waller—bridge are both up for awards. hello, welcome to afternoon live. at least five people are dead after a volcano that's popular with tourists erupted without warning in new zealand. it's feared the death toll will rise. day trippers were seen walking inside the crater of the white island volcano just moments before the eruption. more than 20 people are missing, and police now say they don't expect any more survivors. they say it's too dangerous to attempt any kind of rescue because there could be more eruptions. richard lister reports. seconds after the eruption began, these tourists got off the island just in time.

minutes later, and a boiling ash cloud fills the sky. oh, my god. the boat crew know how dangerous this is. go inside! not half an hour before, they'd been at the crater‘s edge, with no idea of what was coming. after returning to their boat and seeing the blast, they go back to look for survivors. they find a sightseeing helicopter destroyed by the eruption. the plume of ash is still building and further down the beach, a large group of daytrippers is assembling on a rock, waiting for rescue. 23 people were picked up by tourist boats but others are still unaccounted for. among them, this group, seen on a monitoring camera heading for the craterjust before the eruption.

i know there will be a huge amount of concern and anxiety for those who have loved ones on or around the island at the time, and i can assure them, police are doing everything they can. the injured were brought to wha katane harbour, most were suffering from burns and five of them did not survive their injuries. helicopters transferred those who were critically ill to specialist hospitals, but this rescue and recovery operation has had to be suspended for now. the island is unstable, the possibilities of further eruptions, and actually, the physical environment is unsafe for us to return to the island. white island may be new zealand's most active volcano, but it's also popular with tourists. some 10,000 visit every year. last month, a volcano monitoring group raised the alert level, saying eruptions may be more likely.

it is quite plausible that this is the first stage of an eruption that could continue. but on the same side of the coin, it could just simply be a one—hit wonder. the police have been flying reconnaissance aircraft looking for any signs of life on the island. they say they've found none, and they‘ re assuming there are no more survivors. richard lister, bbc news. our reporter danny vincent is in new zealand. he told us that experts in the country are unsure whether this is a one—off eruption or if there could be more to follow. around 12 hours ago, this volcano erupted on the northern ireland, on the east coast of the island. now, here in new zealand, there's lots of uncertainty, the police are unsure

if there are survivors still after this tragic event, but also, the experts are unsure if this is a one—off eruption, or if it is likely that the eruption could continue. now, any attempts to rescue or even survey the island, the volcano itself, have stopped, not only because of nightfall, but also because of nightfall, but also because there's huge concern about the stability of the volcano. it is seen as an the stability of the volcano. it is seen as an extremely dangerous rescue operation, which has been halted, and i think at first light, it is likely that experts will go out again in the sky and try to survey the area. on the campaign trail, borisjohnson has said he's "certainly looking" at getting rid of tv licences. he said that using the tax system to fund the bbc long—term needs to be questioned.

he has also been challenged over his response to a photograph of a four—year—old boy who had to sleep on the floor of a leeds hospital because there weren't enough beds. our political correspondent alex forsyth is in tyne and wear. so, alex, two developments, let's start first of all with this news that borisjohnson put first of all with this news that boris johnson put a first of all with this news that borisjohnson put a reporter's phone in his pocket when shown a picture of this little boy who had to sleep ona of this little boy who had to sleep on a hospitalfloor. fill us in with the detail on that? yes, during this election campaign, the conservatives in particular have wanted to avoid anything unexpected, that is pretty much the attempt from all the major parties, because they like to keep things inasmuch control as possible. today was meant to be about boris johnson pushing his core message, which is his brexit offering, him saying that he would sort it out fairly quickly where he to be re—elected. but there have been two things which have come up which have distracted from that. the first, that off—the—cuff suggested policy

announcement that peace johnson would look at the licence fee, the the way the bbc is funded, in the future, where he to be re—elected. and the second one, perhaps the one that could have more impact in this campaign, was, earlier on this morning, borisjohnson was asked to look at a photograph of a four—year—old boy who was photographed on the floor of leeds general infirmary earlier this month, where he had been attending a&e, and apparently they were not enough beds available, and an itv reporter showed the image to boris johnson this morning and initially, the prime minister didn't look at that. and then he took the reporter's phone. we are told by sources close to the prime minister that in fact he was offered the phone, but this has got a lot of traction on twitter, this clip has been picked up and played out on social media and already condemned by some members of the labour party. you have to bear in mind that this isa you have to bear in mind that this is a prime minister who is trying to win ground from people who perhaps have never voted for his party before on the basis of trust and being able to relate. so, this... he

was asked about this photograph, asked about the fact he didn't look at it and this is what he said. we are not only investing in children's services in leeds but we are also rebuilding the whole leeds infirmary from top to bottom, and we can do that because we are now putting the biggest ever investment into the nhs. what i don't want to see, what i don't want to see, is a fantastic programme that is going to unite our country, being blocked again, we've got to build in parliament, we would insist that we have to increase funding on the nhs over and above inflation every year. that is now blocked by this parliament. because we haven't got a working majority. if we can get a working majority on thursday, we can take this country forward , thursday, we can take this country forward, get brexit done and invest massively in our public services. that is the choice we face. so, you

can see that when this was put to borisjohnson, what can see that when this was put to boris johnson, what he can see that when this was put to borisjohnson, what he spoke about was his desire to invest in the nhs and brought it back to the key campaign message of brexit, which is what he has been very much trying to do in these last, final days. but the fact that this has come up, the fa ct the fact that this has come up, the fact that he himself has made this announcement about the russian speaker that could shift the rhetoric away from what the prime minister had wanted, in what are a very crucial last 72 hours on the campaign trail. alex forsyth on the campaign trail. alex forsyth on the campaign bus, for now, many thanks. we can now capture with exactly what it was that he had to say about the licence fee. ..that the bbc should cough up and pay for the licences for the over—75s, as they promised to do. but at this stage, we are not planning to get rid of all tv licence fees, though i am certainly looking at it, and what i will say is that...

i'm under pressure not to extemporise policy on the hoof, but you have to... you have to ask yourself, you have to ask yourself, whether that kind of approach to funding a tv, a media, organisation, still makes sense in the long term, given the way other organisations manage to fund themselves. that's all i will say. i think the system of funding out of what is effectively a general tax, isn't it, everybody has a tv, it bears reflection, let me put it that way. i won't go... how long can you justify a system whereby everybody who has a tv has to pay to fund a particular set of tv and radio channels? that is the question. we can get more on those comments now without media correspondent, david sillito. what do you make of those comments? it is not the first timea those comments? it is not the first time a politician has raised some questions about the tv licence. and this is why it is a debate, it is

going on across the whole of europe. norway, denmark, just recently got rid of their tv licences and replaced it with, in one form, it is a form of income tax, added to the income tax, others have brought in advertising or direct government funding. if you are in italy or greece, it is just added to the electricity bill. in germany, you pay a tax and it is not linked at all to whether you have a tv or not. so, there are lots of countries all thinking about, well, the world is moving very fast, does a licence based on a television make sense in the long run? however, what will actually possibly happen in britain, the arrangement between the covenant and the bbc, it is done through the charter, the last charter was settled in 2017, and that runs for 11 years, so, this is going to be, if it is going to follow the normal pattern of the charter renewal, we are not looking at any change until

maybe 2027 or 2028. however, there is all this every five years, there is all this every five years, there isa is all this every five years, there is a look at the licence fee, may be a change in how much it actually is, so a change in how much it actually is, so that would come in 2022. so, that is the established negotiation process between the government and the bbc at the moment. so, if you're looking for a big change to the licence fee, the likelihood is it won't be happening for a good number of years yet. however, certainly he's saying he's thinking about the long—term future, bears reflection, was his phrase. and how much of a surprise where his comments, has he touched on this before? if you look in the manifesto, the only thing they talk about is the free licenses for the over—75s, and this has been an ongoing disagreement between the bbc and the government, the bbc says it was given expensively in the digital economy act responsibility for how many over—75s it was told explicitly in that act of parliament

that it was up to them to decide how many should have it. the government is saying at the moment, the conservatives are saying, that very definitely they feel the bbc should be paying for all over—75s, and of course, the bbc says it can't afford that so it has come up with a half—and—half process, where anyone who is receiving pension credit would receive the free licence. an old baileyjudge has given a man 33 life sentences for a series of rapes and violent sex attacks on 11 women and children across england. joseph mccann will spend at least 30 years in jail. his victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped. thejudge said he was "a threat to children and a paedophile".

the judge said he was "a threat to children and a paedophile". sarah corker is at the old bailey for us. sarah? yes, the full details of this case are just, too sarah? yes, the full details of this case arejust, too horrific sarah? yes, the full details of this case are just, too horrific to report. he is a serial rapist, he rode the country kidnapping and attacking women and children over a two—week period. his attacks started in watford, they continued in london, lancashire and greater manchester. he was finally arrested in cheshire in may. there was a police chase, he was in a stolen car, and he was eventually found by a police helicopter hiding up a 3ft is mccann refused to come here to the old bailey for his four—week trial. and again today, he refused to come for his sentencing. he said he had a bad back. in sentencing mccann, thejudge he had a bad back. in sentencing mccann, the judge said today he had a bad back. in sentencing mccann, thejudge said today in court, mccann is a coward, a violent bully and a paedophile, a coward because you have been unable to face your accuser is...

thejudge then went the judge then went on to say... and mccann was given 33 life sentences, and he will serve at least 30 years in prison before he's even eligible for parole. and the judge also called for an independent investigation into the failures in the criminal justice investigation into the failures in the criminaljustice system. he wa nted the criminaljustice system. he wanted to know why mccann had been released from prison by mistake in february. he should never have been roaming the streets in the first place. sarah, have we heard, and what have we heard, from the victims? yes, well, thejudge also praised the courage and bravery of his 11 victims. we heard that one victim escaped mccann by hitting him

over the head with a bottle of vodka. another jumped out over the head with a bottle of vodka. anotherjumped out of a first—floor window, and there was one victim impact statement that was read in court today, and the victim described the chronic pain she suffers every day, the nightmares and flashbacks, the inability to go out alone, and a life ofjust surviving, managing the trauma. and one issue also that was raised in court was the difficulty to get help and therapy, the lack of support for rape survivors. one victim said that there was an 8—12 month waitjust to get therapy. as for mccann, he has never uttered one single word of remorse or shown any concern for his victims. and today, he is starting a life sentence. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines... police in new zealand say they don't expect to find any more suvivors

after one of the country's most active volcanos erupted early this morning. the serial rapistjoseph mccann is given 33 life sentences — the judge describes him as a classic psychopath who will never cease to be dangerous. the world anti—doping agency bans russia from all major sporting events for four years — including the next olympics and world cup. and in sport — following russia's‘s four—year ban from all major sporting competitions, the world anti—doping agency says this is the right decision at the right time. after regaining his three world heavyweight titles, anthony joshua says he would like his next fight to be in london. and england's women have beaten pakistan by 75 runs in kuala lumpur to take a 1—0 lead in the one—day international series. that is all the sport for now, i will have more after half past.

within the last half an hour, the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has been speaking at a rally in bristol. we can now speak to our correspondent jessica parker, who is there. jessica, we missed what he said right at the very beginning, so just fill us in on what he's been saying and the reception he received? yet, imean, and the reception he received? yet, i mean, jeremy corbyn i think perhaps unsurprisingly going to his co re perhaps unsurprisingly going to his core message, really talking a lot about how he sees the last nine yea rs about how he sees the last nine years as nine years of austerity, nine years, as he put it, of cuts to public services. and, of course, that has been a central message of the campaign. and he was particularly keen, i think i can unsurprisingly, to talk about the nhs. and it was quite interesting, when he discussed the story of the four—year—old boy, as we know, in leeds general infirmary, those pictures emerging, cries of shame from the crowd, and when he discussed the idea, as labour sees it, of a donald trump trade deal

where labour believes the nhs would be at risk, you heard boos coming from the crowd. i think the crowd was made up largely of a lot of labour supporters and activists and members, i was speaking to some of them beforehand, though not all exclusively memos of the labour party, some people reallyjust coming along to bristol city centre to hear what the labour leader had to hear what the labour leader had to say. quite interesting that he has kicked off these last few days here in bristol, four seats in and around the city, all have been labour—held at the last general election. so, some might see this as a way ofjeremy corbyn trying to shore up his vote, rather than go on the attack. but he actually said during this relic that labour would be looking to gain seats, and this is really just be looking to gain seats, and this is reallyjust the be looking to gain seats, and this is really just the start of a whistle stop tour around the uk for the labour leader. jessica parker, our correspondent in bristol. staying with politics — bbc news has been focusing on constituencies around the uk which will be particularly closely contested.

today joanna gosling is in crewe —joanna. thank you very much. throughout the campaign, bbc news will be looking closely at the places where the election could be won and lost. we've been to ten parts of the uk where seats will be closely contested. today, we are in our last town, crewe, which is in the north west of england. the town, which is part of the crewe & nantwich constituency, is surrounded by five other seats ? four were conservative and one labour in the last election. crewe is eight in g on the list of the most marginal seats in the country. here, labour also won, just, with a 48 vote majority over the conservatives. it was the eighth closest contest in the country.

crewe is historically a railway town and so perhaps fittingly, a key issue is hs2. the scheduled route runs through 12.8 miles of the constituency. the local council wants to use hs2 to turn crewe into engineering to turn crewe into an engineering and manufacturing centre and "gateway to northern powerhouse". we have come to the crewe heritage centre and there is a lot of railway stock in this place, a place where lodger visitors, who are interested in the railways. in 1837, that is when the crewe railway station opened and as i mentioned, it is a really important part of the heritage for this area. it is the gateway to the north—west, and a key stop on the west coast main line. so, even if you've never stopped in crewe, it is likely you may well have passed through it at some point. let's talk more about hs2, and the issues around that. i'm joined now by paul coleman,

chief executive of the south cheshire chamber of commerce, and graham dellow from campaign group mid cheshire against hs2. graham, why are you against hs2? graham, why are you against hs27m is the route, to all intents and purposes, joanna. we've been against hs2 ever since the route of phase two was announced injanuary 2013. cost obviously comes into it now, the cost is rising all the time, but i suppose the overriding is the environmental damage, and the fact that it really is a duplication of an existing railway that does the job, basically. so, paul, why do you think it is a good idea? we think it isa think it is a good idea? we think it is a good idea, we're very supportive of hsz. the network that we currently have at the moment is full to capacity, we need to create more space full to capacity, we need to create more space for freight and we need to improve the connectivity for the north. a huge amount of money being

spent on it, the latest predictions are spent on it, the latest predictions a re £88 spent on it, the latest predictions are £88 billion, it has crept up a lot since it was first mooted, is that really the best use of money, do you think what we think obviously the info structure is important, it should not be a black check, but we think the benefits for this investment will last over 100 years. and we will be reaping the benefits along time from now. is there a tangible benefit to business that you can quote? well, already in crewe, we've been seeing a huge amount of activity, not any tracks are being laid yet but we have already had businesses locating, expanding in crewe who are starting to invest, create jobs and we are even seeing 98% of occupancy in our offices, so we are running out of space and we are starting to see that activity increased. so, graham and put i was going to say, we would question that, paul, i don't know, our research so far, in places like

crewe, has been very much that even the existing businesses and even new businesses couldn't really care less about, hs2 is not important to their move to crewe. crewe is important because it is in the middle of the country, it has got great transport connections, and hs2 just country, it has got great transport connections, and hs2just is not important to them at all. what about northern powerhouse rail, do you support that? yeah, initially when george osborne announced hs3, or northern powerhouse rail, we were supportive. but since then, hs2 has been failing for some good time, or, public opinion has been reducing for some time. and connecting the two together has now become... it is considered to be vital for the future of both of them, and we think it would be a disaster to join the two railways together. northern powerhouse rail on its own would be great to link better connections

with liverpool, manchester, leeds, hull and potentially newcastle and sheffield. that is the railway that should be built first, at least. could they be split as far as you're concerned, paul? we don't think so, speaking to my colleagues at other chambers, we believe that the connectivity, the huge infrastructure project, hsz, but northern powerhouse rail, the connections, to get all the communities around the north connected up and down to the south is vitally important. but there is no reason why npr should not connect with the existing west coast main line and east coast mainline. with the existing west coast main line and east coast mainlinelj with the existing west coast main line and east coast mainline. i know that you're both here not to talk politically about to talk about the rail, but as residents of a constituency where every vote counts, what is your feeling about how engaged the voters are and how people care about voting? they do care. they want to see the

investment, they want to see crewe prosper. it is a very marginal seat, there has been a few changes, different political parties come over the years, they do take notice of what the parties are saying. fortu nately, of what the parties are saying. fortunately, it is cross—party support for hs2, which is pleasing. i'm not sure if it is something that is going to sway the voters. i'm not sure if it is something that is going to sway the voterslj ee, is going to sway the voterslj agree, and hsz has certainly got cross—party agree, and hsz has certainly got cross— party support in agree, and hsz has certainly got cross—party support in westminster. but that's actually not what we're seeing in cheshire. we've contacted recently, we've canvassed all 25 parliamentary candidates in the five local constituencies, and with one exception, be they labour or tory or even labour, there has been great support for not building hsz. even labour, there has been great support for not building h52. thank you both of you forjoining us. it is three days to go until the election still a large number of undecided voters, and this is one of

those constituencies where every vote counts, it was won last time by a labour majority of 48. it is the place where jeremy a labour majority of 48. it is the place wherejeremy corbyn chose to kick off the road route for his election campaign, he said that there has never been a labour government without a labour mp here in crewe. and it is going to be one of those very closely watched on thursday night. i will hand you back to the studio. the nominations for the 77th annual golden globe awards were announced today in los angeles, with kit harington, helena bonham carter and phoebe waller—bridge among the british stars who are up for gongs. joining me now is entertainment journalist and broadcaster caroline frost. thanks for being with us, caroline. ido thanks for being with us, caroline. i do think it is important to stress that the golden globes reward both film and television, notjust film, as in the oscars. so, let's start with the films, if we may. i think we've got six nominations for

marriage story, five for the irishman, what struck me was the overwhelming dominance of netflix, most of these films are made by netflix? yes, they're coming good on the promises they have made over the last few years, if you think how quickly it has happened, this highly new proposition of streaming being taken seriously new proposition of streaming being ta ken seriously and new proposition of streaming being taken seriously and providing this great original content. only five yea rs great original content. only five years ago they got their first ever golden globe nomination, and here they are with the irishman, marriage story, the two popes, which is a surprise contender as well, and they are leading in both categories of film and tv, 17 nominations in each of those categories, very impressive. now, the brits have done well in the tv categories, haven't they? i was looking, let'sjust well in the tv categories, haven't they? i was looking, let's just deal with the film is first of all, jonathan pryce has got a nod as best actor, no british actresses, are there? not in a couple of actors,

perhaps a bit of a surprise inclusion for daniel craig, i think everybody is saying thank you for proving you can do something other than 007. rocketman, we are clearly seeing the success of these biopic music stories, sacha baron cohen, for his role in the spy. jonathan pryce perhaps a surprise entry for the two popes. so, he plays francis, the two popes, benedict and francis, people are debating how true to life this story is, this meeting of these two popes. but he plays francis and anthony hopkins is playing benedict and he has been nominated as a best supporting actor. so that one is seen as a supporting actor. so that one is seen as a bit of a surprise entry punching above its wait.

they distinguish between two different types of films. you get people like ramy malik last year are up people like ramy malik last year are up against somebody like christian bale and suddenly i think you're starting to compare apples and pears, later into were seasons they try to funnel them into one category and it becomes impossible to compare two such different performers, the supreme two such different performers, the supreme performance as eltonjohn, how do you compare that withjoaquin phoenix as thejoker, how do you compare that withjoaquin phoenix as the joker, and adam driver. apples and pears. we are short of time and we had to leave it there but i think we definitely got a sense of the main people to look out for, really grateful for your time. now it's time for a look at the weather with alina. hello. still some strong winds initially the suffering along north sea coast fading and a few showers. elsewhere a dry, clear cold evening ahead.

gradually turning cloudier and milderfrom the north gradually turning cloudier and milder from the north and west as the night wears on. further east we will see an early frost under clear skies and further west things will gradually turn milder as the night wears on. also wetter and windier. rain piling into north and north of scotland, england, northern ireland, wales, south—west england. further south and east it stays dry and across east anglia and the south—east temperatures just below freezing come done tomorrow. another turbulent day tomorrow. wet and windy for any and the risk of gales particularly across scotland, northern ireland and northern england coupled with some heavy rain, the heaviest across scotland, but also some very heavy rain to parts of north—west england and north wales. that will arrive to all by the end of the day. a much milder day tomorrow. 12—14 the top temperature. this is bbc news.

our latest headlines... police in new zealand say they don't expect to find any more suvivors after one of the country's most active volcanos erupted early this morning. the island is unstable. there is possibilities of further eruptions, but actually the physical environment is unsafe for us to return to the island. the serial rapistjoseph mccann is given 33 life sentences — the judge describes him as a classic psychopath who will never cease to be dangerous. the world anti—doping agency bans russia from all major sporting events for four years — including the next olympics and world cup. boris johnson has questioned the long—term future of the bbc licence fee while on the campaign trail in sunderland. sport now on afternoon live

with katie shanahan — russia have been banned from major sporting competition for four years — what does that mean for russian athletes? well, russian athletes won't be able to compete at big sporting events like next year's tokyo olympics and the 2022 football world cup in qatar. plus, 2022 winter olympics in beijing. it also means that the russian flag and anthem will not be allowed at those events. however, athletes who can prove they are clean will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag. this is a story that's been rumbling on for five years now, as it goes back to russia's state—sponsored doping scandal at the winter olympics in sochi. so, today, wada's executive committee met in switzerland. they voted unanimously to impose the ban. this was after russia's own anti—doping agency was found to have manipulated laboratory data.

i think the change of behaviour that is required from whoever it is in russia that has caused all this to happen, i'm not optimistic at all that that will change. they have had three swings at the bat, struck out three times. duplicity, deceit and deception exhibited isjust beyond the pale. and i think it's an embarrassment to the athletes in the world that now at this stage they are fighting for the rights of their clean athletes, as they call them, meanwhile they have destroyed all the data which could either exonerate them find that they are guilty. so that within itself is another layer of deception.

some people say the sanctions didn't go far enough and are calling for a blanket ban. russia now has 21 days to appeal to the court of arbitration for sport. but, wada believe that "this is the right decision at the right time." anthonyjoshua won anthony joshua won back anthonyjoshua won back his world titles on saturday night. what is his next move? has he been giving any indication? anthonyjoshua says he would like his next fight to be in london, that's after reclaiming his three world titles. his promoter eddie hearn says the new tottenham stadium is a possibility for a fight in the spring. now, that would be really special forjoshua as he's from watford, and has found memories of fights in london with that famous victory against wladimir klitschko in 2017. it's likely to be against his ibf mandatory challenger or deontay wilder — who remember holds the only belt thatjoshua doesn't have — or an all—domestic bout with tyson

fury. but, before regaining his three world heavyweight belts, joshua revealed he was unwell in the run—up to their fight injune, where he lost to andy ruinunior first time round. i had an issue with my health, which i was going through for a long time. i didn't know what was wrong with me. ijust felt so tired and drained. ijust thought it was down to training. i got myself sorted out and i feel $1 million. before the fight in the changing room, i asked for a bucket of water with ice. why do i feel so tired? you can see these types of things when i was in the ring. centuries from danni wyatt and tammy beaumont helped england's women to a 75—run win over pakistan. that was in the first one—day international in kuala lumpur. the pair shared a first—wicket stand of 188, as england made 284—6. kate cross then took four pakistan wickets.

these three odis are england's last fixtures in the icc women's championship. that determines qualification for the 2021 world cup, which they are all but certain of making. really happy with that. exceptionally happy for danni wyatt today, to get her first international 100. that was tough. in the heat. i thought it was quite a hard wicket, but obviously she was playing differently. it is one of the more ugly runs perhaps as a bit of a tag for that one. but you've just got to get them sometimes! more in the next hour. this afternoonjeremy corbyn was speaking to crowds in bristol, focussing heavily on austerity and how the labour party will try to rebalance the economy.

there is a very, very, very clear choice before the people of this country on thursday and it is this. we have had nine years of austerity in britain. we have had nine years of increasing gap between the richest and poorest. we have had nine years in which 150 people have become billionaires in britain. we've had nine years during which 4 million children are living in poverty. we've had nine years when our local councils, our health service and so many other services are being cut to the bone by the meanness of a central government more interested in creating the wealth for the wealthiest rather than a sustainable living for the poorest. and this christmas, 130,000 children across britain will wake up on christmas morning not knowing they have a safe secure place to call their home but the rest of this

year, never mind next year. that is the reality of what austerity has done to people all across this country. and the thousands who are sleeping rough on the streets of this country to stop when the un says the consensus of the past, the welfare state of the past has been replaced by a cold and uncaring ethos, they are dead right. when the un condemns the process of austerity in modern britain, the fifth richest country in the world, don't you think it's time to get rid of the government that brought that about? cheering and so, our manifesto, carefully written, fully costed, will be put before the people of this country on thursday. so that we can elect a government that is determined to start the process of changing things around, looking after people all across britain. and i am determined

that we win that election to do that. we need to gain constituencies all over the country, so i am delighted to be here in bristol where there are games to be made all across the south—west. i was an vomit and for the week before last, supporting them. —— falmouth and truro. iam supporting them. —— falmouth and truro. i am going to the west midlands today. all across the country basically messages the same. carry on with the tories and that is what you get. with labour you will get investment, you will get that sense of security for the future. cheering and you will get the protection of our national health service. cheering when the daily mirror today, the daily mirror today shows this picture, i will turn it around so eve ryo ne picture, i will turn it around so everyone can see it, this picture. ofa everyone can see it, this picture. of a four—year—old boy suffering from pneumonia, being treated on the floor of a hospital. and people ask

questions about this and i simply say this. the tories have had nine yea rs say this. the tories have had nine years to fund our nhs properly. it's time to bring their regime to an end and elect a labour government that is determined to fund our nhs properly. cheering but there is another threat to the nhs, a very big threat to the nhs, and that is the secret talks, the secret talks that have gone on for two years between the tory government and the united states' administration. it was borisjohnson really wa nts administration. it was borisjohnson really wants a no—deal brexit straight into the arms of donald trump and a trade deal with them. it is very clear to me, that trade deal with the united states, that trade deal would put all of our public services at risk into the hands of

global corporations. and it would open up what they gently call a health market. well, i have got news for them, there is no health market, we shut that down in 1948 when we established the national health service. health care free at the point of need for all. labour will offer people the choice, the choice over the relationship with europe, but we will not be on the cutting wages ruining conditions, destroying workers' rights. we would instead be sensible, principled and responsible by bringing people together, and thatis by bringing people together, and that is exactly what we will do. and i want to say this about hopes for the future. i have spoken at rallies on this green before and i have been delighted to stand alongside marvin and many others in the campaign to win in bristol and to win all across the country. our young people have

been so grievously treated by austerity and so grievously treated by this government. i want our schools to be properly funded. i don't want head teachers collecting money to keep the schools to get don't want head teachers having to choose between a cinco and another job. i want our schools properly funded. i want our young people to be able to make the choice of going to do vocational course through an apprenticeship or go to university, but the choice, the choice of how much debt they have to go into to go to university. cheering jeremy corbyn speaking in the last hour or so jeremy corbyn speaking in the last hourorso in jeremy corbyn speaking in the last hour or so in bristol. bbc news has been focusing on constituencies around the uk which will be particularly closely contested in this week's general election. todayjoanna gosling is in crewe. thank you. actually jeremy

thank you. actuallyjeremy corbyn chose crewe to start his cross—country election campaign trip five weeks ago because it is the eighth most marginal seat in the country. he said that there has never been a labour government without labour holding the seat. so, it isa without labour holding the seat. so, it is a seat that is closely fought over, it will be a key prize for the tories or labour. at the last election labour took the seat very narrowly from the conservatives, by just 48. also in the referendum, it voted to leave, so on paper it might look like it might be heading towards the tories but it really is too close to call and there have been lots of key figures from both of those parties out campaigning here. as a railway town and that is why we are here in the heritage centre, there is old railway stock, it is also the town where they build ice cream vans and there are two particularly beautiful ice cream va ns particularly beautiful ice cream vans here, the company would be morrisons has been building ice cream vans here in crewe since 1962,

there is a rather beautiful camper van up and about as well and that is carrying the team from newspaper and the country. steffan powell is in that camper van. i know you have got a really beautiful camper van out there, you're in crewe marketplace but i don't know what you think about these ice cream vans, they're pretty beautiful to. about these ice cream vans, they're pretty beautifulto. i went about these ice cream vans, they're pretty beautiful to. i went to whitby morrisons to do a piece with the makers of the ice cream vans over the summer and it is amazing how we put them together but we have come outside, you can have a good look at our election camper van, not quite as pretty as some of those amazing ice cream vans them are just around the corner. we are here in the centre, the market centre of crewe town centre, next to the christmas tree, nice and christmassy here in december and it is a christmas election. as you can see, crewe town centre has had better days i think it is practice i commit empty shopsjust days i think it is practice i commit empty shops just next to where we have partly camper van to die. it

has been one of the themes that we have picked up on on radio one and one extra newsbeat, a problem that microprogram at 1245 but inside the newsbeat camper van, we have got radio one listeners talking about issues they care about so we will meet them. i will see you inside and a bit. here it goes, hopefully that has worked and i should be inside and out with kelly, harrison and mark, thank you forjoining us today. it is a much warmer inside here than it was outside. it sounded great in practice but is a bit of a nightmare. thank you for coming with us. the town centre has seen better days, is that a big issue for you at this election? everything is shut down. businesses have gone out of the town because of how the town ce ntre the town because of how the town centre is so there is nothing there, it is not great at all. what about you, do you and your mates, and hang out? basically never. pretty much nothing to do here basically. all

behind the van there is a whole row of buildingsjust all behind the van there is a whole row of buildings just all closed and. behind the van there is a whole row of buildings just all closed and]! that something that worries you, kelly? i work with young people in the area and it is difficult for them to have aspirations when they come into the town and it is like this, what is there to look forward to? what is there to do? who do you look forfor answers to? what is there to do? who do you look for for answers to that. there isa look for for answers to that. there is a labour sitting mp at the moment and obviously can conservatives have beenin and obviously can conservatives have been in powerfor nine years, where do you think responsibility should lie? the response ability always full to someone else. you can't get a clear answer out of anyone. no one knows what is going on. hopefully they have a couple of days to try and win you over. there is a full list of all the candidates standing here in crewe nantwich on the bbc website. one of the issues we were talking about earlier on radio 1 thatis talking about earlier on radio 1 that is really important to you as the nhs. mark, you have had recent experience of health care system. my

dad has recently been in hospital and the thing about it is long hours going into a&e and that is really bad but the good thing is the staff, he said they were brilliant, they showed they cared and it is good thing but bad thing about waiting times. how was your dad now? he is not brilliant but he is all right. has the experience you have had put the nhs higher up your list of priorities? definitely because you don't think about it until you go through things and see things about what is important to you. kelly, we we re what is important to you. kelly, we were talking about things like funding towards the nhs. are used to work in the nhs as a nurse and i have seen it from the shop floor, as mark says there are fantastic staff working really hard every day totally under resourced, and so more money needs to be put into the nhs, more nurses, more staff on the ground. you loads people talk about that. how would you like to see that happen? would you prepared to pay

more taxes or would you want to see budgets cut from elsewhere to fund the nhs? iwouldn't budgets cut from elsewhere to fund the nhs? i wouldn't want to see budgets cut from other public services because they are all stretched, social care, education, i wouldn't want to see that, we would have to look at bigger businesses or our own national insurance contributions because it has to come from somewhere at. harrison, you are the youngest one inside the camper van. i think that is fair! why is the nhs top of your list of priorities? i think the nhs is really important as a society that would have this brick health care system. we are obliged in the uk because not many countries have free health if anything in the future because any accident anything happens i can just because any accident anything happens i canjust rely on the nhs. do you think the parties have been making enough of putting in focus on the nhs during this election campaign so far would you like to see more talk about what they would promise for the future? see more talk about what they would promise for the future ?|j see more talk about what they would promise for the future? i think there should be more focus on what specifically they are going to do with the nhs because they have been

very vague about it, very generic. if you want more details there is a big breakdown of the manifestos on the bbc website but from the christmassy newsbeat election camper van thank you forjoining us. back to rebecca jones in the studio. thank you for that. we are going to head straight back to crewe because our business presenter is meeting local businesses there. i hope you are ready. maybe not. we have only got one camera. can you hear me, egon? terrific, take it away. welcome to fairfield foods here in crewe. an important part of the food industry here, a massive facility thousand —— 70 5000 square feet. the main product here is a cheese but i have the big boss who will talk us through the business. tells about your business. what you see here is part of the range of

products that we distribute to wholesale cash and carry retail business. we are delivering from kirkcaldy to croydon. cheese is obviously the main focus and butter. we have been in this business from 1982. importing and exporting is a really important part of the business, isn't it, so cross—border trade. has not featured enough as far as you're concerned in the election campaign? i wouldn't say it has, part of the brexit situation and particularly in the event of a ha rd and particularly in the event of a hard deal, but we would hope for as pa rt hard deal, but we would hope for as part of a settlement going forward that we carry on with tariff free access both ways which seems a logical conclusion. do you think the message of the parties has been clear enough or could businesses like you? i think with two of the party basically trying to remain and wanting another referendum, i have

the sense that we just need to get this done. wejust the sense that we just need to get this done. we just need to move on, get out of no man's land and that u nfortu nately get out of no man's land and that unfortunately seems to be only one choice. is there a sense in which you feel that the voices of small and medium business isn't being heard or is it being heard and acted uponin heard or is it being heard and acted upon in westminster?” heard or is it being heard and acted upon in westminster? i think it needs to depend on the industry, it seems to be in westminster, they dwell on banking, finance, car factories etc, and here in the food industry, particularly agricultural products, you have to shout fairly loud to make your voice heard. has the uncertainty really impacted the way your business works? it certainly makes people pause or stop we have had a huge amount of planning while we are trying to understand each deadline approaching, what effect that will have on our business. and if you are overseas looking at bruton are trying to make investment decisions,

it clearly delays the process. for you, what is the absolute top priority for the new person that is going to be in ten downing street. to give us clarity, of the position going forward, binding so we have exactly what is unfolding because astle isn't clear and then to move on and tried to get whatever the trade deal is going to be forward with our european partners in place as fast as possible so we all understand that. he also do a lot of business with america, so is it important to get a trade deal over there as well? the difficulty we have at the moment is the tariff position. we have already got 25% extra ta riff position. we have already got 25% extra tariff being levied as far as we are concerned. the uncertainty in february of maybe having more to come depending on what the president over there decides, so a trade deal which impacts on the tariff position

would clearly be helpful, but as we sit here it doesn't seem awfully likely anytime soon. that sounds likely anytime soon. that sounds like quite a steep, quite a burden something for you to have to deal with, 25% and then more possibly. potentially more. that going to affect the way you trade with your partner is here and abroad? we are still hoping as it grows here and particularly in america, we hope sanity will prevail and the tariffs may be don't rise again and maybe our re—looked at over the next 6—12 months otherwise we will have to depend on what the market decides as to whether the customs there who like these products will carry on buying them. nick hilton, thank you so buying them. nick hilton, thank you so much. we'll be back here in an hour but for now it is back to you in the studio. egon, thank you. let's catch up with the weather.

hello. there is more wet and windy weather to come in the week ahead. we saw some very strong and gusty winds overnight and through this morning, gusting to 60 or 70 mph for some southern and western coasts, in excess of 80 mph for the needles on the isle of wight. still some gusty winds down the north sea coasts through the rest of the day. those will feed in a few showers. this brief ridge of high pressure to the west will tend to ease down the winds elsewhere. but waiting in the atlantic is another spell of wet, windy, but also milder weather. it is a real temperature yo—yo in the week ahead. through this evening for most of us, it's cold, clear skies before the cloud starts to build across northern and western scotland and northern ireland. further east where we keep the clear skies, we will see a widespread frost and temperatures getting below freezing. further west temperatures will start to rise as the night wears on, as this cloudy and wet and windy weather starts to move in to northern and western scotland, northern ireland, north—west england, wales and south—west england. staying dry further south and east, and here is where we will see the lowest temperatures. certainly east anglia,

south—east england just below freezing, dawn, but getting close to nine or 10 celsius further west. but tomorrow more gales, this time across northern ireland, northern england and scotland, which is where we will see the strongest winds. also some very heavy rain. you could see up to 60 millimetres of rain across northern parts of scotland. initially dry with some hazy sunshine across eastern england, but that rain will arrive to all of us through the day, coupled once again with strong and gusty winds. this is an idea of wind gusts through the afternoon. gales or severe gales for northern and western coasts through the day. mild though. temperatures getting up to 12 or 13 celsius. it may not feel that way given the rain and the strength of the wind. all change again as we go into wednesday. this frontal system pushes its way eastwards, and behind it we are back in the cold air again, so a colder feeling day on wednesday. still unsettled. further showers or longer spells of rain, particularly the further west you are, and some of those showers may well be wintry over the hills of northern england,

northern ireland and scotland. further south more likely to be just rain. but we will notice the difference in temperature midweek. temperatures just five or six celsius in the north, and 7—9dc further south. more wet and windy weather to come on thursday. milder here, but then colder and a bit drier by the time we get to friday.

hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm rebecca jones. today at 4. police in new zealand say they don't expect to find any more suvivors after one of the country's most active volcanos erupted early this morning. the island is unstable, there's possibilities of further eruptions, but actually the physical environment is unsafe for us to return to the island. borisjohnson is criticised over his response to a photo of a sick four—year—old boy who had to sleep on a hospital floor it's the final countdown to the general election — with one last push from all the parties. i'm here in crewe hearing from voters about the issues

that matter to you. serial rapistjoseph mccann is given 33 life sentences — the judge describes him as a classic psychopath who will never cease to be dangerous. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport, with katie. the world anti—doping agency has banned russia from all major sporting events for the next four yea rs, sporting events for the next four years, that includes next year's tokyo olympics and the 2022 football world cup in qatar. thanks, katie, and we'll bejoining you for a full update just after half—past. alina has all the weather. hello, we had some really strong winds overnight and this morning, a slightly quieter afternoon today, but tomorrow, there is more wet and windy weather, it is a really turbulent week of weather to come, i will tell you all about it in the next half an hour. thanks, alina.

also coming up — one of the last surviving pilots from the battle of britain has died at the age of 101. we look back at his service career. hello, this is afternoon live. at least five people are dead after a volcano that's popular with tourists erupted without warning in new zealand. it's feared the death toll will rise. day trippers were seen walking inside the crater of the white island volcano just moments before the eruption. more than 20 people are missing, and police now say they don't expect any more survivors. they say it's too dangerous to attempt any kind of rescue because there could be more eruptions. richard lister reports. seconds after the eruption began, these tourists got off the island just in time.

minutes later, and a boiling ash cloud fills the sky. oh, my god. the boat crew know how dangerous this is. go inside! not half an hour before, they'd been at the crater‘s edge, with no idea of what was coming. after returning to their boat and seeing the blast, they go back to look for survivors. they find a sightseeing helicopter destroyed by the eruption. the plume of ash is still building and further down the beach, a large group of daytrippers is assembling on a rock, waiting for rescue. 23 people were picked up by tourist boats but others are still unaccounted for. among them, this group, seen on a monitoring camera

heading for the craterjust before the eruption. i know there will be a huge amount of concern and anxiety for those who have loved ones on or around the island at the time, and i can assure them, police are doing everything they can. the injured were brought to wha katane harbour, most were suffering from burns and five of them did not survive their injuries. helicopters transferred those who were critically ill to specialist hospitals, but this rescue and recovery operation has had to be suspended for now. the island is unstable, the possibilities of further eruptions, and actually, the physical environment is unsafe for us to return to the island. white island may be new zealand's most active volcano, but it's also popular with tourists. some 10,000 visit every year. last month, a volcano monitoring

group raised the alert level, saying eruptions may be more likely. it's quite plausible that this is the first stage of an eruption that could continue. but on the same side of the coin, it could just simply be a one—hit wonder. the police have been flying reconnaissance aircraft looking for any signs of life on the island. they say they've found none, and they‘ re assuming there are no more survivors. richard lister, bbc news. david rothery is a professor of planetary geosciences at the open university, hejoins me now. we are very grateful to you. how surprised are you, first of all, that milkarek has erupted in this way? well, i had no idea it was going to erupt this morning, nor did

anybody, but it is not surprising that eruptions like this happen occasionally. —— white island. and theissue occasionally. —— white island. and the issue is, should tourists have been there or not? and what do you think? because it had erupted six times, hadn't it, since 2011? it depends what you count as a separate eruption. i looked at some data and it was six times since the year 2000. but it depends how you subdivide the events. this is the biggest eruption for a long time. but as the report said, about six days ago, it became a little bit more active, and the warning level was raised a little bit. but really, access to the island is controlled bya access to the island is controlled by a private tourist company in the states. —— the state geological monitoring body has no authority to deny people access to the island. so, there is an issue of who gives the ok for them to go to the island. i was the ok for them to go to the island. iwas in the ok for them to go to the island. i was in new zealand three years

ago. if i had not been prevented by an earthquake from travelling between the south island and the north island, i might well have gone to white island, and in the current circumstances, as they were yesterday, i would still have gone asa yesterday, i would still have gone as a tourist because it is something i want to see. in hindsight, it would have been a dreadful mistake. so what you're saying is, there is no real way of knowing if it is imminent or likely, but can you give usa imminent or likely, but can you give us a sense of what causes such an explosive eruption? ok. well, the volcano is there because it is sitting above a subduction zone where the pacific plate is going below the plate on which new zealand sits, and that causes melting deepdown and magma rises upwards. there is not a lot supplied to white island and a lot of what gets there mix is with seawater and gives you small explosions. this was a moderately big explosion, hot rocks, seawater, flashes of steam, breaks the rock to fragments and shoots it

out. when we saw film of the eruption, the white stuff was condensing water vapour, steam, the dark grey was rock fragments. so, it isa dark grey was rock fragments. so, it is a mixture of hot rock and hot stea m. is a mixture of hot rock and hot steam. the reports suggest most casualties were affected by burns. i would expect some injuries by falling blocks as well, if something the size of half a house hits you from 1000 feet and hits you on the head, you have got a fatal head injury. so there is two causes of death, the heat and the ballistic projectiles. given your professional expertise, would it in your view indicate that there might be other explosive eruptions in this area, how concerned should people be? well, i would not be concerned at all about it spreading to other volcanoes. volcanoes are individual systems, it takes a long while to generate magma. white island itself has probably had the biggest eruption it is going to have for the next many years. but people are

rightly being cautious about going backin rightly being cautious about going back in because it is not necessarily over. there could be something worse or something equivalent about to happen. i believed some of the monitoring equipment is still working so we will know about the earth tremors, and we will be able to tell if there isa and we will be able to tell if there is a large body of magma rising towards the volcano, which i think is unlikely. but it is an unsafe environment to work in. it is probably more dangerous to go in there than it would be to go in after an earthquake and look for survivors in destroyed buildings, for example. professor david rothery, from the open university, really good to hear your thoughts, thanks forjoining us. on the general election campaign, borisjohnson has been challenged over his response to a photograph of a four year old boy who had to sleep on the floor of a leeds hospital because there weren't enough beds. our political correspondent alex forsyth is in tyne and wear.

shejoins us now. alex, conservatives wanted to avoid the unexpected, didn't they, in the last three days of this general election campaign, fill us in, though, because this may have thrown them of course? yeah, i think any political party wa nts course? yeah, i think any political party wants to avoid the unexpected when you're three days out from an extremely important election. boris johnson had wanted these next 72 hours to be about his central message, which is his pledge on brexit. but there was another story which cropped up this morning and that was when he was at a fish market in grimsby and he was shown by an itv reporter a photograph of a four—year—old boy, who was on the floor at leeds general infirmary because there were no beds available earlier this month. the prime minister was asked to look at the photograph and initially, he refused to do so. he then took the reporter's phone and put it in his pocket before taking it out to look

at it again. then he did acknowledge it was a terrible photo. earlier, he issued an apology to the boy's pa rents for issued an apology to the boy's parents for what had happened, but this has got quite a lot of traction on social media, not least with senior labour party figures criticising the prime minister's response to the image that he was shown, and when he held a press conference this afternoon he was asked about this and this is what the prime minister had to say. we are not only investing in children's services in leeds but we're also rebuilding the whole leeds infirmary from top to bottom, and we can do that because we're now putting the biggest ever investment into the nhs. what i don't want to see, what i don't want to see, is a fantastic programme that is going to unite and level up our country being blocked again. we've got to building —— we've got a bill in parliament that would insist that we have to increase spending on the nhs over and above inflation every year. that is now blocked by this parliament,

because we haven't got a working majority. if we can get a working majority. if we can get a working majority on thursday, we can take this country forward, get brexit done and invest massively in our public services. and that is the choice we face. so, even when boris johnson asked about that photograph, he tried to bring it back to his co re he tried to bring it back to his core message, which on brexit, which was meant to be the focus for these last 72 hours or so. the fact that this has come up, the fact that it was an unplanned campaign moment, particularly when the prime minister is trying to convince people who might never have voted conservative before to turn to him, convince them that they can trust him there and that they can trust him there and that he is related, this is exact what the conservatives would not have wanted. alex, it is interesting, just in the last few moments we have received a statement from the hospital, leeds teaching hospital nhs trust, the chief medical officer there hasn't said, our hospitals are extremely busy at the moment and we are very sorry

that jack's family had a long wait in our emergency department. the chief executive have spoken to jack's mum and offered a personal apology. the statement which is lengthy and i won't read it all out but it goes on to say that there has been a large increase in the number of people visiting the paediatric emergency department, and the statement says, this week we saw the highest attendances we have seen since april 2016 and there were clearly shortages of beds. we're also hearing that the health secretary, matt hancock, may be visiting leeds general hospital, which is where this incident took place. that one unexpected issue that has cropped up today, but then an issue around bbc funding, with borisjohnson an issue around bbc funding, with boris johnson making an issue around bbc funding, with borisjohnson making what an issue around bbc funding, with boris johnson making what seemed an issue around bbc funding, with borisjohnson making what seemed to be off—the—cuff remarks about how the bbc was funded, i don't know what your interpretation was? yeah,

he might have considered this to be unexpected. boris johnson during that press conference was asked a question by a member of staff who was working at the road haulage company that he was visiting, about the licence fee. and borisjohnson gave an answer which as i say was not pre—briefed, nobody was expecting him to say it, but it might not have been entirely unwelcome, because it is the kind of a nswer unwelcome, because it is the kind of answer which might play well with the voters that borisjohnson is trying to target. this is what he said when he was asked about the licence fee. the bbc should cough up and paid for the over—755, which is what they promised to do. but we are not planning it at the moment. what i will say is that... i am under pressure not to extemporise policy on the hoof, but you have to... you have to ask yourself whether that

kind of approach to funding a tv, a media, organisation, still makes sense in the long term, given the way other media organisations fund themselves. that is all i will say. i think the system of funding out of what is effectively a general tax, isn't it, everybody who has a tv, it bears reflection. let me put it that way. i won't... bears reflection. let me put it that way. iwon't... how long can bears reflection. let me put it that way. i won't... how long can you justify a system whereby everybody who has a tv has to pay to fund a particular set of tv and radio channels? that is the question. so, thatis channels? that is the question. so, that is the prime minister saying that is the prime minister saying that he didn't want to talk about policy off—the—cuff and then seemingly doing just that. and so we have had two narratives emerging today which were not expected, we thought the focus would continue to be on brexit. one around the tv licence fee, which might not prove entirely unpopular with the people borisjohnson is trying to persuade. the other one is around the photograph of the boy and the way

the prime minister chose to respond to it. i think that is the one which the conservative campaign team will not be happy that it has come up with only 72 hours to go before people make their decision about who should run the country. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. police in new zealand say they don't expect to find any more suvivors after one of the country's most active volcanos erupted early this morning. borisjohnson is criticised over his response to a photo of a sick four—year—old boy who had to sleep on a hosptial floor. the serial rapistjoseph mccann is given 33 life sentences. the judge describes him as a classic psychopath who will never cease to be dangerous. in sport, following russia's‘s four—year ban from all major sporting competitions, the world anti—doping agency says this is the right decision at the right time.

after regaining his three world heavyweight titles, anthony joshua says he would like his next fight to be in london. and england's women have beaten pakistan by 75 runs in kuala lumpur to take a 1—0 lead in the one—day international series. i will be back with more on those stories after half past. the serial rapistjoseph mccann has been given 33 life sentences and will spend at least thirty years injail. his victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped. the judge said he was "a threat to children and a paedophile". sarah corker is at the old bailey for us. sarah, what happened in court? well, joseph mccann was described as a brutal and dangerous man who has shown no remorse for his crimes. for

two weeks he roamed around the country kidnapping and raping women and children. his attacks started in watford, they continued in london, lancashire and greater manchester. he was finally arrested in may in cheshire, there was a police chase, mccann was driving a stolen car, and he was finally found hiding up a tree by the police helicopter. now, mccann refused to come to the old bailey for his four week trial. again, today, he refused to come to court for his sentencing. he said he had a bad back. today in court the judge called mccann a coward, a violent bully and a paedophile.

mccann was given 33 life sentences, and he will serve at least 30 years in prison before he's even eligible for parole. thejudge in prison before he's even eligible for parole. the judge also called for parole. the judge also called foran for parole. the judge also called for an independent investigation into failures in the. justice system, why was it that mccann was freed from us by mistake in february? he should never have been roaming the streets. and what about the victims, have we heard from them? yes, the judge the victims, have we heard from them? yes, thejudge praised the courage and bravery of the 11 victims today. we heard one victim escaped from mccann by hitting him over the with a bottle of vodka. anotherjumped over the with a bottle of vodka. another jumped out of over the with a bottle of vodka. anotherjumped out of a first—floor window. and one victim impact statement was read out in court today. the victim described the chronic pain she suffers every day, the nightmares, flashbacks, the inability to go out alone and a life

of just surviving, managing inability to go out alone and a life ofjust surviving, managing the trauma. and one issue raised was the difficulty in getting help and therapy, a lack of support for rape survivors. one victim said she'd been told there was an 8—12 month waiting list for therapy on the nhs, so waiting list for therapy on the nhs, so she paid for it herself. as for mccann, he has never uttered a single word of remorse or shown any concern or interest for his victims. today, he is starting a life sentence. sarah corker at the old bailey, thank you so much for that. let's the the latest now on that criticism of borisjohnson — criticism of borisjohnson over his reaction to a photo of a sick four year old boy who had to be treated on the floor of leeds general infirmary. our correspondent nick eardley is outside the hospital now. what can you tell us? the health secretary, matt hancock, is in there

just now speaking with hospital management about the case. this is all, of course, about four—year—old jack, front page of the daily mirror this morning, who was in for overnight treatment, to be monitored, the hospital has released a statement confirming that within the last couple of hours. but because there were no beds available, his mother had to make him a makeshift bed out of coats, and that picture of the young boy who at the time had potentially suspected pneumonia, that picture has gone viral today, in part because it has become a big issue in the general election. boris johnson was asked by a reporter about it earlier today. the reporter tried to show mrjohnson a picture ofjack on the floor of this hospital, and the prime ministerfrankly the floor of this hospital, and the prime minister frankly was reluctant to engage on the issue, wouldn't look at the photo, didn't want to talk about it, ended up with the reporter's phone which had the picture on it in his pocket, before

eventually bringing the phone back out and then eventually, after a few minutes, apologising for what had happened. this has become a big issue today in the general election campaign, because the labour party are saying it shows the conservatives don't care, the liberal democrats are saying something similar, and it appears that the health secretary has been scrambled here now to try and limit some of the damage done by that. why is it such a big issue on the election campaign? for the simple reason that one of the main attacks labour have been using on the conservatives is, the nhs isn't being properly funded and isn't safe with the conservative party, something mrjohnson has denied time and time again. butjust the video of that reaction to that picture of jackin of that reaction to that picture of jack in the daily mirror this morning, i think, jack in the daily mirror this morning, ithink, will do jack in the daily mirror this morning, i think, will do the prime minister, as i say, he was extremely relu cta nt to minister, as i say, he was extremely reluctant to engage, and some people are raising questions about whether

he was empathetic or not, and whether he took it seriously or not. nick eardley, we must leave it there for now, thank you so much for that update. russia has been banned from all major sporting events for four years, including the next olympics and world cup. the punishment was announced by the world anti—doping agency after it found that russian officials had tampered with data to cover up evidence of cheating. athletes who can prove they were untainted by the doping scandal will still be allowed to compete but only under a neutral banner. our sports correspondent andy swiss reports. russia faces an unprecedented punishment. afterfresh russia faces an unprecedented

punishment. after fresh revelations of another cover—up by russian officials, this morning, the world anti—doping agency band russia from all major sporting events for four yea rs, all major sporting events for four years, following a string of transgressions, their patience had run out. russia was afforded every opportunity to get its house in order and to rejoin the global anti—doping community, for the good of its athletes and for the integrity of sport. but it chose instead a different route. they've had three swings at the bat, struck out three times, the complicity, deceit, deception that they've exhibited isjust beyond the pale. and i think it's an embarrassment to the athletes in the world. it has recently emerged russia's anti—doping agency tampered with laboratory data, altering or deleting athletes‘ test results. earlier, the new head of the russian agency told the bbc the scale of the

previous regime‘s cover—up. thousands of entries were deleted? yeah. thousands, thousands. the punishment means there will be no rush at team at next year‘s olympics. only athletes who can prove they are clean will be able to compete under a neutral flag, prove they are clean will be able to compete under a neutralflag, as some did last year in the winter games in erm, chang. it also means russia are banned from the football world cup. remember, they hosted the last tournament. but their national tea m last tournament. but their national team will not be at the next one, in 2022. russia can appeal against today‘s punishment but five years on from the now notoriously so she games, one of sport‘s and traditional superpowers is out in the cold. andy swiss, bbc news. bbc news has been focusing on constituencies around the uk where parties could make important gains. today joanna gosling is in crewe —joanna.

throughout the campaign, bbc news has been looking closely at the places where the election could be won and lost. we‘ve been to 10 parts of the uk where seats will be closely contested. today, we‘re in crewe, our last town — it‘s in the north west of england. the town, which is part of the crewe & nantwich constituency, is surrounded by five other seats ? four were conservative and one labour in the last election. here, labour also won ? just ? with a 48 vote majority over the conservatives. it was the eighth closest contest in the country. in terms of the eu referendum it was also close. crewe fell under cheshire east for the brexit vote, and that region narrowly voted leave 51% leave to 49% remain.

one of the big campaign issues during the election is austerity. our correspondent phil mccann has been looking at the effects of cuts to school budgets and social care in crewe. save our schools! the normally conservative leaning town of nantwich, just a few months before the last election. local schools were about to see their funding change, so they got less per pupil than anywhere else in england. those funding changes were later altered, but for schools like this one in nantwich and across the region, their costs have been going up, and their funding isn‘t matching it. why do we get less funding than other places? our children need itjust as much. i think that there needs to be more funding for children with additional needs, because my youngest child, who is in preschool at the minute, she is possibly got additional she's possibly got additional needs, but she's too young for the funding.

we fund most of the school anyway, so... so, a lot of it is about parents coming together? yeah, the parents tend to make up i suppose the lack in funding. parties say they will put more money into schools, taking funding back at least to where it was before the funding squeeze nine years ago. at the moment, we‘re ok but it will have an impact going forward if there aren‘t changes, so hopefully there be changes. up in crewe, and up the generation gap, a subsidised christmas lunch by a charity that helps people with disabilities, and those who are lonely. stock in the house, public transport is not as good as it should be, they're stuck in the house, public transport is not as good as it should be, the family have to work so hard for every penny, often they cannot provide time for their parents, they cannot afford to put people into the care system, and the provision is not a there. and the provision is not there. it seems to be the disabled that seem to get caught in the first round. it is councils who run social care who‘ve been amongst the hardest hit by government savings. care centres like this one

in crewe have closed. across the north—west, government grants to councils have gone down by more than 50% since the cuts began nine years ago. more public sectorjobs have gone in our region than anywhere else. but the north—west economy has grown slightly more quickly than most of the rest of the country. and we have seen an increase in the number of jobs. however, what we do know is that a lot of those jobs are poorly paid, or relatively insecure. the railway works that defined crewe are being partially demolished, but they‘re being replaced by new houses. developments like this, and the stats, indicate the economy of crewe and the north—west is a successful. the economy of crewe and the north—west is successful. but that‘s not necessarily the experience of lots of those who live here. phil mccann, bbc north west tonight, crewe. i‘m joined now by two local business owners, local business owners.

first of all i will tell you a little bit about this beautiful ice cream van, one of the best—known businesses in this area, has been making ice cream vans since 1965 and there are a few of their lovely old specimens here in the crewe heritage centre. john malam, director, of blitz fireworks and karen makin, who is founder and director of the store — plastic free shop — in nantwich. welcome, both of you. john, you‘re undecided, why is that, what are you thinking? i don't think there's any of them really that are credible. i think we are led by people that are self—serving, for their own ends. i would like a little bit of all of them. so, what are your particular areas of concern and interest? brexit. you voted leave? i voted leave. it is an area of concern, i did not vote for a deal, i voted to come out. i am not anti—european, i love our european neighbours, but i am anti being run by them, i would like to take back control of our own country. does that not then take you

to the brexit party? no, they are not boxed up right either. some of the principles are what i voted for, but i wouldn‘t wa nt what i voted for, but i wouldn‘t want the country run by them. you can only vote for one party! what are you going to do, when are you going to decide? don't know, if it wasn‘t for the fact that i was brought up to believe you should vote, and that people have died to make sure you have got a vote, if it wasn‘t for that i wouldn‘t vote because i don‘t think any of them are credible. knowing this was a seat that was won by 48 votes last time, does that make it even more imperative as far as you‘re concerned about? i don't know. i vote for what i think, i don‘t vote because it was such a magical seat blasting, i vote for people who do the right thing, i was under gwyneth dunwoody, always labour, subsequent failures by governments has led me to sometimes not vote, and other times it has led me to vote

conservative. karen, how are you peeling ahead of the selection, what are you going to be doing? peeling ahead of the selection, what are you going to be doing7m peeling ahead of the selection, what are you going to be doing? it has beena are you going to be doing? it has been a really hard decision but i have decided to vote labour.m been a really hard decision but i have decided to vote labour. is that a change from before? , no, i voted labour in the last election but i have also in the past voted lib dems andl have also in the past voted lib dems and i would love to be able to vote for the lib dems of the green party but unfortunately the decision for me has been with it being such a contested seat, my feeling is it would end up being a wasted vote and i have come to the conclusion that this time i think it is really important my vote does count one way or the other. so why has it been so ha rd or the other. so why has it been so hard for you to come down on the side of labour in the end when you say you voted labour before? so, i think ultimately it is frustration with our political system. it's not particularly with personalities involved, not with the policies, they are actually very good and i would love to see more of a focus on

them, but when it sort of comes down to it! them, but when it sort of comes down to it i think i would echo your sentiments, i would love a bit of each, but really my heart would lie with may be more collaborative politics with the system which isn't so politics with the system which isn't so divisive and work together a bit. deciding one party over another is the chance to point would you like to see a hung parliament? i wouldn't be against it. something that breeds more collaborative, more or less you against me ports going would be wonderful. what would you think? it made me smirk a bit but a hung parliament. there is a few in there that could do with it. wherejeremy corbyn is concerned, if ever there was a case of a politician of his past coming back to huddleston, i like our royal family and past coming back to huddleston, i like our royalfamily and i like what the royal family are about, i like what they do do before this election, and the fella can‘t bow

his head at the cenotaph, he doesn‘t wa nt to his head at the cenotaph, he doesn‘t want to sing the national anthem, i don‘t like that. i don‘t think we would have defence. i think it would strip every bit of defence out of the country with the exception of the country with the exception of the absolute basic minimum and i liked the fact we have a deterrent that we are able to stand on our own two feet and to be able to offer assistance, and pro—military, i like our military. i don‘t like how they are treated afterwards. i think we treat our military absolutely appallingly. he is not the man to treat them better. thank you very much for sharing your views. just a few days away from the election on thursday. you know how you are voting, it will be deciding on the day? quite probably, but it will be paris, iam day? quite probably, but it will be paris, i am not sure, day? quite probably, but it will be paris, iam not sure, but we day? quite probably, but it will be paris, i am not sure, but we will see. lots of people deciding at the moment. 13% it is estimated have yet to see which way they will vote.

more a bit later, but for now back to the studio. i will hunt you straight to alina jenkins with the weather. some strong winds initially across the east coast feeding a few showers, but elsewhere i called evening behind. gradually cloudier from the north in west of the night goes on. further east we will see an early frost under clear skies. for the things will gradually turn milder as the night wears on. also wetter and windier. when piling into northern and western scotland, no posting ireland, wales and south—west england. further south and east of size drive and across south—east england and east anglia temperatures probably stay just below freezing. another turbulent day tomorrow. wet and windy for many of the risk of gales particularly across scotland, northern ireland and northern ireland. coupled with some heavy rain, the heaviest across scotla nd some heavy rain, the heaviest across scotland up to 60 millimetres of a higher ground but also some very heavy rain for parts of north—west

england and north wales. that will arrive too old by the end of the day but a much milder day tomorrow. 12-14 the but a much milder day tomorrow. 12—14 the top temperature. this is bbc news. our latest headlines... police in new zealand say they don‘t expect to find any more suvivors after one of the country‘s most active volcanos erupted early this morning. the island is unstable. there are possibilities of further eruptions, but actually the physical environment is unsafe for us to return to the island. borisjohnson has been criticised after refusing to look at a picture of a sick four—year—old boy who had to sleep on a hospital floor. the serial rapistjoseph mccann is given 33 life sentences — the judge describes him as a classic psychopath who will never cease to be dangerous.

the world anti—doping agency bans russia from all major sporting events for four years — including the next olympics and world cup. sport now on afternoon live with katie shanahan — russia have been banned from major sporting competition for four years — what does that mean for russian athletes? especially those who can prove they weren‘t involved in doping. those that can prove they weren‘t part of the doping scandal will be able to compete under unusual flag but those athletes that were involved won‘t be able to compete at those big sporting events you spoke about like the olympic games in tokyo and the 2022 football world cup in qatar, plus the 2022 winter olympics in beijing. it also means the russian

flag and anthem will not be allowed at those events. it will be really interesting to see. this has been rumbling on for five years now, interesting to see. this has been rumbling on forfive years now, as it goes back to russia‘s state—sponsored doping scandal at the winter olympics in sochi. today the winter olympics in sochi. today the executive committee met in switzerland and voted unanimously to impose the ban. this was after russia‘s own anti—doping agency was found to have manipulated laboratory data. some people have said the sanctions didn‘t go far enough and are calling for a blanket ban. you can argue this isn‘t enough but i would say this, every world championship for four years, not just the olympics or any other world games, every world championships, there won‘t be a russian president there, no government officials, no team, neutral athletes only, there, no government officials, no team, neutralathletes only, no russian flag. that is a significant sign and a significant message that

says, you buy yourfog conduct have forfeited your place at the top of world sport, if that is not enough we will have to go again next time, but yes, we want to try and get a punishment that does do enough teeth say that message without punishing innocent athletes. russia now has 21 days to appeal to the court of arbitration for sport. but, wada believe that "this is the right decision at the right time." let‘s talk about boxing, because anthonyjoshua memorably won back his world heavyweight titles on saturday night. too late u nfortu nately for saturday night. too late unfortunately for bbc sport personality of the year, but what is going to happen going forward to him, do you think? anthonyjoshua says he would like his next fight to be in london after reclaiming his three heavyweight titles from andy ruinunior on saturday. his promoter eddie hearn says the new tottenham stadium, which has a capacity of 60,000, is a possibility for a fight in the spring.

now, that would be really special forjoshua as he‘s from watford, and has found memories of fights in london with that famous victory against wladimir klitschko at wembley two years ago. it‘s likely to be against his ibf mandatory challenger or deontay wilder — who, remember, holds the only belt thatjoshua doesn‘t have — or an all—domestic bout with tyson fury. joshua revealed he was unwell in the run—up the first ruiz fight injune, where he lost. i had an issue with my health, which i was going through for a long time. i didn‘t know what was wrong with me. i just felt so tired and drained. i just thought it was down to training. i got myself sorted out and i feel $1 million. before the fight in the changing room, i asked for a bucket of water with ice. why do i feel so tired? you could see these types of things when i was in the ring. centuries from danni wyatt

and tammy beaumont helped england‘s women to a 75—run win over pakistan. that was in the first one—day international in kuala lumpur. the pair shared a first—wicket stand of 188, as england made 284—6. kate cross then took four pakistan wickets. these three odis are england‘s last fixtures in the icc women‘s championship. that determines qualification for the 2021 world cup, which they are all but certain of making. and with six days to go to sports personality — gareth thomas has begun his mammoth 500—mile cycle ride, which has been dubbed the tour de trophy, in aid of sport relief. the former wales rugby captain set off from cardiff this morning with the sports personality of the year trophy. and he‘ll be riding all the way to aberdeen, to deliver the award to this year‘s winner. he will in the saddle for 12 hours a day, seven days straight. impressive stuff. that‘s all the sport for now.

more stories on the bbc sport website. bye for now. thank you. more on that criticism from boris johnson over that photograph of a second four—year—old boy who had to be treated on the floor of leeds general infirmary. we were reporting that the health secretary matt hancock has been to leeds general infirmary. our political editor lauren canonsburg has tweeted and this is what she said... matt hancock was dispatched to leeds hospital to try to sort out the mess. . . hospital to try to sort out the mess... during labour activists scrambled to go and protest and it turned nasty when they arrived. one of them punched matt hancock‘s advisor. other comments on twitter saying that there are some reports that there was a flash mob of labour

activists and that it is matt hancock‘s special adviser who has been bunched. we can‘t verify that. those are just some other tweets that have popped up on twitter. let‘s just remind ourselves what is the background to the story. this was the mirror front page this morning, under the headline desperate. alongside a photograph of a year old boy appearing to be treated on the floor of leeds general infirmary. when boris johnson was shown at this picture on a phone belonging to a reporter, he didn‘t really want to engage with theissue didn‘t really want to engage with the issue and in the end was seen to put the phone in his pocket. as we said laura kuenssberg is now saying that matt hancock the health secretary was then dispatched to leeds hospital, in her words to try and sort out the mess, but it would

appear that labour activists of some sort were also sent to leeds hospital and that the protests there have turned nasty. we have also heard from the hospital in response to that picture and the story, that the hospital is extremely busy at the hospital is extremely busy at the moment and it has apologised to the moment and it has apologised to the little boy and his family after a long wait in the emergency department. the little boy is called jack. it is a lengthy statement, but clearly at some point there were only chairs available in the treatment room and no bed and he had to wait for a bed. so, treatment room and no bed and he had to wait fora bed. so, a treatment room and no bed and he had to wait for a bed. so, a developing story there, but as i sighed boris johnson challenged over his response to that photograph that you are watching at the moment, and it would appear some punches or at least one

punch has been thrown there now. we will of course bring you any more update on that as soon as we get it. as campaigning in the general election reaches its final days, bbc trending has been looking at how a number of local facebook groups intended for gentle chat about hedgehogs and wheelie bins are being overwhelmed by bitter arguments about politicians and brexit. bbc trending‘s marianna spring is with us and has been looking at this. what have you found? we have been looking at local facebook groups up and down the country, wales, scotland, south—west england and london. we have noticed they have become overrun with optics as polling day approaches. so what we did was talk to a number of admen of these groups and also... administrators. yes, as well as a number of members of these local facebook groups particular one especially bitter local facebook group ina especially bitter local facebook group in a tank near hastings. it is

called st leonards on sea is the place to be. it is an interesting case because the admin was the only person running the group u nfortu nately person running the group unfortunately died in 2010 and therefore it hasn‘t had anyone in charge of it for the past nine years stopped it started off as a group to talk about how pretty the seaside is and to celebrate st leonards and it has become a political wild west where everyone is talking about politics and particularly in recent weeks of your seat the politics has ramped up and it has got 6000 members which might not seem like a lot but is one of the main sources of information for the time the new admin clinic and had to take over and there has been no source of drama and people arguing about who should be in charge so we got together three of the women who have been arguing on facebook and we spoke to about whether they were happy that the group is now talking a lot about politics and also about the arguments and debates that they have been involved in, so this is them now. i was looking for a lovely local group. it is hostile. i have just found it disgusting. really disgusting. they think some people

might be surprised that it has become so political? but the way we use it, there is 5000 people, so what we all do i think as we black people that annoy us. it is a really good representation about what is going on. —— block people. good representation about what is going on. -- block people. you get what you call trolling and we do that. the closer it has got to the election it has got livelier. what if you learnt about the importance of these local facebook groups. they are not echo chambers in the way they are brexit related and politically inclined facebook groups, they are groups where people have different opinions and talk about politics, which is different and could mean that people are influenced by the debates and arguments they are getting on with people. those ladies we got to talk to another all have difficult critical opinions and were really getting stuck into the debate. patsy the final lady you heard from side

to us how it was the only way she speaks to people outside of her filter bubble because within her social media feed everyone sang the thing. the other thing that is very important is these people joined the group is not thinking they‘ll be talking about politics, they wanted to talk about hedgehogs or wheelie bin vandals for local issues in they end up embroiled in this political right and whilst decades ago you might have met in a town hall and spoke about local issues this is the new way of people getting involved and it is much easier to get involved in a political discussion perhaps than it was full stop that said, using social media to talk about politics can mean the competition gets nastier and it is not the same as looking someone in the eye is that group had to do their talking to another about politics and so the moderators of these groups, the admins are people looking after them have quite a hard task of trying to make sure they keep on top of the content being posted and making sure people aren‘t herbal to another. one thing we noticed is that the people running these facebook groups, in some cases 10,000 members are more, actually have a lot of editorial response ability and not similar to editors

and journalists and in this election they are having to make calls about they are having to make calls about the content on their facebook groups. fascinating, marianna spring, thank you for coming to talk to us about it. let‘s go back to the story we were telling you about. the health secretary matt hancock has arrived as we said at leeds general infirmary. our health correspondent dominic hughes asked him about his reaction when he first saw the photograph of jack williment—barr lying on the floor of the hospital. to tell you the truth i was horrified. i have got three small children myself and i have spent too many evenings in a&e and i know what it feels like. i want to make it better. one of the good things about what is happening here at the leeds general as they had already identified the problems from this unitand identified the problems from this

unit and that there wasn‘t enough space and i have got a plan, a funded plan to, in fact they are tripling the size of the unit next year, so tripling the size of the unit next year, so we are tripling the size of the unit next year, so we are putting in the record amount of funding, biggest ever injunction into the nhs and thatis ever injunction into the nhs and that is needed. it is funded because we have record number of people in work who are able to fund it. but i wa nt to work who are able to fund it. but i want to make sure the nhs is always there for everybody who needs it and that means constantly looking to see what improvements need to be made. what do you say to jack‘s family when he was ended up lying on the floor, it is not good enough, is it? it is not good enough and i have apologised. the trust have handled it very well. the staff here have been brilliant. jack‘s family have been brilliant. jack‘s family have been at pains to point out that the staff have been absolutely superb. u nfortu nately i staff have been absolutely superb. unfortunately i think lots of families looking at this photo will recognise it if they spend any time in any a&e over the last couple of yea rs in any a&e over the last couple of years because after nine years of conservative government that is where we are at. in the last year

there has been an increase in the number of children coming to a&e here at the leeds general of about a third, and so the task we have got is to make sure we rise to that, that challenge of increased demand for nhs services. one of the ways they are doing that at the leeds general is by increasing, in fact troubling, the size of this unit and then over the next five years we will completely rebuild this hospital, it is a £600 million injection of fund, in fact it is the biggest investment in health care in leeds since the 1860s. so we are putting the investment into make sure the nhs is always there. that is my point. it is not reallyjust this hospital. it is every a&e across the country struggling. every a&e almost without exception is treating more people and doing more than ever before. the demand on the

nhs is rising, not least because of our ageing population. also with an increase in the number of children attending a&e. and we have to make sure the fans go up to match that. you have to have sustainable source of that funding and we can only have that if you have a strong economy stuff that is why we are able to commit the biggest increase in nhs funds in its history. then you have to make sure those fans get to the right place and i am really pleased that here at the leeds general, even before this case came to light, they are rebuilding and expanding, tripling the size of the unit that needed to be there to treat jack. why are you here today? this wasn‘t on your plans for today, is it?” have come because i wanted to get reassurance from the trust that they are doing everything they can. i have been very impressed with the response of the trust. not only did i know that there was a problem in this area before and i have already allocated the funds to sort it out,

but also the staff have been absolutely brilliant in response to this pressure of this increase of a third in the number of children attending the a&e here at leeds and i want to thank them, the staff of the nhs right across the country who are coping with this increased demand. honestly it looks a bit like you are panicking because you‘re in the middle of a campaign and this is the middle of a campaign and this is the sort of thing can derail campaigns. it looks terrible, doesn‘t it? campaigns. it looks terrible, doesn't it? no, i think campaigns. it looks terrible, doesn't it? no, ithink what campaigns. it looks terrible, doesn't it? no, i think what people wa nt to doesn't it? no, i think what people want to see is the substance of increase investment in the nhs, making sure we are dealing with the problems in the nhs and that is exactly what we‘re doing here at the leeds general. the health secretary matt hancock talking to our health correspondent. let‘s go back to crewe. our business presenter egon cossou is talking to businesses and he is there. hello. i am at fairfield foods, an important pa rt

am at fairfield foods, an important part of the food industry in crewe. an absolutely giant facility here. 75,000 square feet. the main product here is cheese. with me here is mark bev and the general manager. good afternoon, how are you? we are outside the grating room, what is that. basically for every load of cheese we buy we take a representative sample and place it into the grading room such as this cheese here. in front of me i have too much different cheese, mild and extra mature. once we have taken samples we take the cheesemakers grading iron and take a sample and test the cheese. the first thing we do is take a quarter of the cheese and bring it straight out in the first thing we do is smell it. we are not looking for a particular smell, but cream flavours. when i look at the body of the cheese to see if it fills the iron, and a smear on see if it fills the iron, and a smear on the back. we take a small sample of the cheese itself and we need it between our fingers.

breaking down the fat, feeling the body and then we can taste it from there. how is that? typical mild cheddar. just about broken down as mild. at the other end of the scale, we have an extra mature cheddar. the same process, cheese iron in, single core, straight out. same thing. smell, make sure there is a clean flavour, no trace behind. check the iron stop and turn it over again. fat smear on the back of the cheese brea ks fat smear on the back of the cheese breaks down at the changes take place from a mild to an extra mature you notice the body changes. take a piece and it snaps. clean break. it is much more friable. write it down in between yourfingers. not is much more friable. write it down in between your fingers. not every cheesemaker taste of cheese but i like to taste cheddar. you have been

in this industry for several decades now. bring it up—to—date with the current economy. what is your main concern as you head towards a general election? the main concern for us is clarity. all businesses need clarity to plan for the future. i think we have gone through this malaise for the last two or three yea rs malaise for the last two or three years now, malaise for the last two or three yea rs now, because malaise for the last two or three years now, because of brexit and the general state of the economy that we are looking for clarity. what we are asking forfrom this are looking for clarity. what we are asking for from this election whoever wins on thursday, we want them to get into power, get on with them to get into power, get on with thejob and them to get into power, get on with the job and take the country forward. do you think though that in the defence of the politicians in westminster, they‘ve been very clear of what it is they want to see out of what it is they want to see out of brexit, is that not coming across? i think what is coming across? i think what is coming across is the clear confusion. we have total extremes, people at one end of the spectrum and people at the other. so through the whole process as a business we have spent many months and many thousands of pounds like lots of businesses

trying to accommodate and plan for continual changes. from legislation ideas to what may happen, what should happen, to the point where nothing has happened. what impact is this having on the economy as a whole do you think in the area, just briefly. it is an investment issue because companies have held on investing either through new products or new plants and equipment to go forward for the future and that has a knock—on effect for our staff. there on site we have employees with their families. we are responsible for their livelihood. the more certainty we can get the more we can secure a future for them and for ourselves and invest in our business is to go forward. a very clear message there. that‘s it. we had a day of cheese here in crewe. back to you in the studio. thank you for that. now the weather. some strong winds initially

across the east coast elsewhere it is a dry and cold evening behind. gradually cloudier from the north in west of the night goes on. further east we will see an early frost under clear skies. for the things will gradually turn milder as the night wears on. also wetter and windier. rain piling into northern and western scotland, no further south and east of size drive and across south—east england and east anglia temperatures probably stay just below freezing. another turbulent day tomorrow. wet and windy for many of the risk of gales particularly across scotland, northern ireland and northern ireland. coupled with some heavy rain, the heaviest across scotland up to 60 millimetres of a higher ground but also some very heavy rain for parts of north—west england and north wales. that will arrive to everyone by the end of the day but much milder day tomorrow. 12 to 14 the top temperature.

this is bbc news, i‘m ben brown. the headlines at 5. police in new zealand say they don‘t expect to find any more suvivors after the eruption of one of the country‘s most active volcanos. at least five people have been killed and more than 20 missing. tourists had been walking around the rim of the crater when the adoption happen. i know there will be a huge amount of concern and anxiety for those who have loved ones on or around the island at the time. we‘ll be talking to a vulcanologist about why the volcano erupted — and why tourists were allowed to visit it. also in the programme. borisjohnson — on the campaign trail — borisjohnson is criticised for his response to this picture of a sick boy who had to sleep on a hospital