ofthe of the attacks. they kept of the attacks. hearing about the story, and the nature of it, there's been a number of court cases so it, there's been a number of court cases so there it, there's been a number of court cases so there are it, there's been a number of court cases so there are restrictions. he has been injail cases so there are restrictions. he has been in jail for cases so there are restrictions. he has been injailfora cases so there are restrictions. he has been injail for a while already. but the horrible ideas that somebody could be watching this today and thinking, "that could be me,i today and thinking, "that could be me, iwas in today and thinking, "that could be me, i was in the area at the time, i was a student at that time." reading some of the testimonies from the young men involved during the day is horrifying, some of them woke up the next day, didn't realise anything had happened. in fact they thought they had been imposing on him, and a lot of them didn't want to know the details, two of them have tried to commit suicide. this guy can never be allowed out, and he has this 30—year tariff. i'm not usually one for people to stay in jail for the re st of for people to stay in jail for the rest of their lives, but this guy needs to stay there for the rest of his life. you would agree with that? he is very disturbed and i think he needs a lot of psychological help in

prison. but it is clearly a huge risk. . we've been talking to various people who run support groups, in particular one in manchester today who is actually worked with some of the victims. and they've been talking about how difficult it is for men to come forward and report this. if they don't actually know what happened to? asi don't actually know what happened to? as i said before, a lot of them don't want to know any of the details, they're talking about how the day the police turned up on their doorstep wondering why the police wanted anything to do with them, and the police explained to them, and the police explained to them what happened to them. if you wa nt them what happened to them. if you want to know whether you been violated in the police to tell you that, you can't comprehend how people can get their heads around it. let's go to a different story now, over to the independent. the tensions between the united states and iran pension on many —— feature on many pages for some the headline

is "iran mourns for a military mastermind". this is of course after the assassination of qasem soleimani in baghdad, his funeral today — which attracted huge crowds, enormous crowds. there are pictures of them on some of the other papers, and it does make you wonder that where feeling on the streets will 90, where feeling on the streets will go, doesn't it? when you saw the crowds, and i think there was a crowds, and i think there was a crowd that just went crowds, and i think there was a crowd thatjust went on crowds, and i think there was a crowd that just went on for crowds, and i think there was a crowd thatjust went on for miles, you got the sense of the depth of feeling and anger. it is absently terrifying because it is quite clear now that you iran are going to have to retaliate —— absolutely terrifying. there is no way they cannot retaliate now. you have this worry it will escalate, and nothing is being done on the american side that shows any sign that they are trying to de—escalate this. in between the europeans, the british are trying to talk about dialogue

and bring the place together, but you don't get the sense that either side wants to talk at this stage. and it is very, very worrying because it is unclear to me what precipitated trump's moved to assassinate soleimani, who's been a threat to the us for a very long time, but successive us presidents have made thejudgement time, but successive us presidents have made the judgement it was not worth the risk have done lack of trying to take them out because the instability of the region outweighs it. it is unclear what his strategy or end point is, and i think that is what is so terrifying. so you get the sense that they are squabbling around all sized democrats sides to contain this, but the protagonists are not in the mood. you get the sense that the allies, us, didn't know about it. we had feared this from a trumpet ministration since he came into power in the first place. we learn from the american press over the weekend this was one of the menu of options that he had, and

they hope by showing the extreme ones, he'd go lower down the menu. unfortunately if you show donald trumpa menu, unfortunately if you show donald trump a menu, he'd go for the most extreme. millions of people are on the streets of tehran, soleimani will be buried tomorrow in his hometown. again, millions of people there. you read some of the quotes from people, the financial times have spoken to a teacher in tehran who said "i didn't cry for my own father, but i cry for soleimani". i'm sure there are lots of people in the country who didn't particularly like him, but there is still this huge sense that he was this a national hero and we are in a position where we really don't know what will happen next. their silence from the british government on this because they don't know where to place themselves at the moment. we will look at the financial times because you mentioned it, but while we turn to this, it is interesting because we spoke to a professor in tehran earlier who said that the american action had united people in iran who were perhaps critical of the regime in the past, but actually they come together. the fta take a

slightly different angle, don't they? "soleimani successor vows to expel united states as security threats drive up oil." they are worried about the oil prices, which i don't think everyone is considering that at the moment, they'd ratherjust not be the victims of a terror attack as a result of this. but there is a suggest in the oil price will continue to rise, which will have an impact on people eventually.|j continue to rise, which will have an impact on people eventually. i think there is a worry that there will be a target in the saudi oil fields, things like that, which is mentioned in here, or some of the traffic through the strait of hormuz, that might be something that affects the oil prices. going back to soleimani's replacement, he says they will open up the re us from the region, continue the work of the martyr soleimani. they're going to use this as a martyrdom. there may not be something in the next day, but there will be something from the

iranian proxies in the region, there will be an attack, and in 5—10 years, they will always refer back to soleimani. what has happened will not be this huge war because they don't happen any more. we willjust have many, many years of attacks in the name of soleimani. we need to put up with that because of this. but we don't know, the americans may produce evidence that attacks were being planned and this was a way of fending them off, and also that he has been responsible for the death of thousands of people, hasn't the? he has, but i don't think any of thatis he has, but i don't think any of that is news will stop he has been seen as an enemy that is news will stop he has been seen as an enemy by western allies for a long time. but the question is, was that the right response? there's a question about the legality of it that we don't know, but it looks usually dubious. but given how precarious things are in the middle east, given how unstable

things are in the middle east, was this the right move at this particular time? and what and it doesn't serve? i think that's the big question, and across, allies are trying to figure out the best way to move forward. interestingly, no one has come out and given donald trump the wrap around the knuckles for doing this. but it feels like a reckless act. i think they realise it is pointless to do that to donald trump. wrapping him on the knuckles does nothing, he just goes on twitter and criticises you then. then his followers get behind him. but as you say, what happened, whether it is right or wrong, he was a horrible, evil man but he has united iran against the west. there's been confusion tonight, and this was picked up on the front page of the guardian. letters suggesting the americans were moving out of iraq, now the americans seem to be saying that it is a draft, letter

that was leaked, and it was not right. is that correct? yes, and i think you get the sense of panic, that there is no plan. it would almost be funny if it wasn't possibly leading to a war. you get the sense they did not necessarily anticipate this was where we would end up. on the ground, there was a real concern, not least because the iraqi mps have reacted quite, you know, strongly and called for us troops to be pushed out. i think us troops to be pushed out. i think us troops will come under a lot of pressure and a proxy attacks will now happen, raising the question of their presence in the region. i think this is the new game and i suspect the military on the ground are smashing their heads trying to come up with a response because no one expected trump to do but none of the other presidents had done. this letter from brigadier general

william seeley, head of the us direct task force there, saying there would be onward movement in there would be onward movement in the coming days. that was the suggestion they were moving out. then they state that this is just a d raft then they state that this is just a draft letter, we didn't really mean that. itjust shows draft letter, we didn't really mean that. it just shows you that no one is talking to each other or knows what the other one is doing at the moment, which when you have 5000 troops there, you need someone knowing what's going on. we don't wa nt knowing what's going on. we don't want draft letters triggering a war. let's turn finally to the telegraph, and the picture on the front page of the disgraced film mogul harvey weinstein, who came to court today in new york on a walking frame. weinstein accused of frail state being an act. he had back surgery, andi being an act. he had back surgery, and i think rose mcgowan was saying that he's had some very good acting

lessons. he looks like he's playing the part of the victim himself. his people are calling the telegraph, arguing that the winning over look court of public opinion isjust arguing that the winning over look court of public opinion is just as important as the courtroom in manhattan where he's at. so he's playing it as if is is a movie at the moment. justice needs to be done and serve, and he has to have the benefit of this trial, but he denies all of it and there's been more allegations too, more charges in los angeles today. but he looks as though he's confident that he can win this round. he will certainly have the best lawyers. he certainly will. have you any thoughts? look, i think it is great he's been brought to trial. justice will be done, and we will see whether he is guilty or not. but if it looks like he is guilty, and that is what the courts decide, i think it is kind of

terrible that at no point there's been this admission of guilt, that he has tried to play this. and i hope that the implications will be tough on him if he is proved to be guilty. because to have used and abused your power in such a brazen way, if the allegations are correct, it is absently horrendous. and he thought he was untouchable, and that is unforgivable. and so, no doubt, if he is proved to be guilty, than the penalty will be pretty severe, not least because he is shown absolutely no contrition. we must leave it there for now, that is it for the papers is our. we'll be back at 11:30pm sol for the papers is our. we'll be back at 11:30pm so i hope you will be able tojoin at 11:30pm so i hope you will be able to join us for another look at the papers then. the headlines are coming up at 11pm, then off to the weather, with alina.

hello, we have multiple areas of low pressure pushing across the uk this week. today's rain has cleared away eastwards, and briefly tonight things are drier and quieter under clear skies, with more rain piles in the scotland and northern england later tonight, we could see a touch of frost across in the micro eastern counties of england. tomorrow cosmic system pushes in from the atlantic, this one likely to bring some destruction across... that is only pa rt destruction across... that is only part of the story, we also pull out some very mild air with temperatures quite widely around the mid teens, maybe even higher for the eastern side of scotland. but it is the strength of the wind we are concerned about through tuesday, particularly for scotland and northern england where we could see severe gales, the risk of disruption to travel. keep an ear or eye honour a bbc local radio. certainly a wet and windy start across scotland in the morning. rain will be pushing into england and wales and southeast

wing democrat england. mainly dry, but it is a windy day across, the strongest winds will be across scotla nd strongest winds will be across scotland and northern england where we could see them touching 60—75 mph for northern and western scotland. rain from the northern ireland by a windy day here, gus coming down 30-40 windy day here, gus coming down 30—a0 mph, where for most it will be dry. perhaps 16—i7dc across eastern scotland. overnight as we go to wednesday, our weak france liked its way southwards. most of the rain tending to fizzle out, turning colour across scotland. we start to really notice the difference in temperature from the north and south come wednesday morning, much colder for the north. still very windy across scotland as we go through wednesday. elsewhere the wins will tend to ease away, and for many we will see spells of sunshine and losing the cloud from southeast england. we could see some snow down

toa england. we could see some snow down to a couple hundred metres in places, and later on wednesday we see the cloud increasing with the rain arriving into wales in southeast england for the afternoon. central southern england and wales, double figures back into single figures, and that colder air will sink its way southwards through thursday and friday. but not before we have these areas of low pressure to deal with, a messy day on thursday where most of us will see some rain for this brief ridge of high pressure in time to end the week. friday looks dry. to some of the end of the week, rain on thursday with winds easing down, then briefly on friday, things are dry but a bit colder. good night.

this is bbc news. i'm rebecca jones. the headlines at 11:00: the most prolific rapist in british criminal history is jailed for life — reynhard sinaga drugged his unsuspecting male victims and then filmed his assaults. we believe there is over 190 victims that have been involved with sinaga, reynhard sinaga, and 70 have yet to be identified correctly. huge crowds gather in iran to mourn at the funeral of the iranian military commander killed by a us air strike. the former hollywood producer, harvey weinstein, faces new charges of rape and sexual assault , as his trial begins in new york. the labour mp rebecca long bailey becomes the