this is bbc news i'm martine croxall. the headlines at eight. several people in the uk are being tested for coronavirus the respiratory disease which originated in china. it comes as three chinese cities are in lockdown tonight with citizens being told not to leave as the authorities try to contain the outbreak. a bbc news investigation uncovers several preventable baby deaths at an nhs trust in kent. no one spotted what was going on. and they could have saved him. the number of crimes that result in a charge or caution by police hits a new lowjust one in every fourteen cases. world leaders gather injerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp in occupied poland. and still to come, are these

glass like fragments part of a man's brain? a new study suggests extreme heat from the eruption of mount vesuvius could have had this effect one of the victims. the chinese authorities are taking drastic action to try to stop the spread of the new and potentially deadly corona virus. they've imposed a travel shutdown on several cities, notably wuhan, where the virus was first discovered, and huanggang. the unprecedented measures come just as tens of millions of people in china prepare to travel to their family homes to celebrate the chinese new year. here the government says there's an increased likelihood of the virus reaching the uk. several people are currently being tested in edinburgh, glasgow and belfast.

the world health organisation have decided not to classify it as a global health emergency. here's our beijing correspondentjohn sudworth. this is the moment a city of 11 million people was effectively shut off. pa ramilita ry police guarding the station, as all departing trains are canceled. in the hospitals, medical staff in full body suits are treating hundreds of infected patients. while images on social media appear to show a system struggling to cope. empty shelves in the shops. and scuffles over food. we spoke to one british man now stuck inside wuhan. it is a very surreal feeling, you know, knowing, especially that if you go outside,

there is potential to capture —— to catch such a deadly virus. and when you look outside the window, what is the atmosphere like? does it feel like a city under a blanket of fear? oh, yeah. 100%, 100%. behind me here, if you saw the street here at night time where i normally live, it's a very vibrant street, lots of restaurants, and it's open until two o'clock in the morning. you know, and chinese families come and they are celebrating. but if i show you out there now, it's dead. on china's main evening news, the lead item: a new year banquet for senior officials. president xijinping makes no mention of the crisis. but the facemasks on display at this beijing station are proof that the public is well aware of the risks. yeah, a little worried, because, you know... you're wearing your mask. yeah, a mask, i use one. goggles as well.

are you worried about the virus? no, because i believe in my country. and the government, yes. you believe in your government? yes. this is an epidemiologist‘s nightmare. how do you control the spread of a dangerous virus during the biggest movement of people on the planet? tens of millions, travelling every day for at least a fortnight, and the real question is whether the closure of the city of wuhan comes far too late to make a difference. alongside the public health announcements, there are signs of censorship and control. and questions are being asked whether more might have been done sooner. john sudworth, bbc news, beijing. a bbc news investigation has uncovered significant concerns about maternity services at one of england's largest hospital trusts. at least seven babies

have died at east kent nhs foundation trust since 2016, including three last year alone. officials have admitted all of the deaths were preventable. a 2015 review found major failings, including consultants refusing to go into work when on call. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. say daddy! if we didn't have evelyn, we'd be in a very dark, dark place. but it's always in the back of your mind, "what would he be like?" archie powell was born last february, a twin brother to evelyn. he fell ill within hours unfortunately, but the medics failed to realise that he was suffering from group b strep, a potentially serious infection. poor temperature control, low blood sugar, the grunting noise, irritability, not feeding, blotchy skin — these are all symptoms of group b strep and they were all aware of these symptoms, but no one

put it together. archie wasn't properly treated for 13 hours and died after four days, leaving a family of girls without their only brother. i get really angry at thinking about that group of professionals that were in that room with us, and no one spotted what was going on, and they could have saved him. archie was born here at the queen elizabeth the queen mother hospital in margate. it's run by the east kent hospitals nhs trust and it's struggled for years to provide good maternity care. in 2015, an independent review found significant concerns about the failure of consultants to conduct ward rounds, review women and attend out of hours. but the mistakes continued. why? the medical director has

told an inquest that what they were trying to overcome was a cultural problem and that can take years to sort out. national data indicates mortality rates in east kent for stillbirth and newborns are higher than at other similar units. the trust have apologised, saying they recognise that they have not always provided the right standard of care for every woman and baby. you are convinced that your daughter's death was preventable? yes. 100%. this sd scan shows a thriving baby but shelley became anxious at 36 weeks after noticing her daughter's movements had slowed, and went to her local hospital in dover to be monitored. went to hospital in dover to be monitored. the main midwife came in and said to me everything looks ok. "are you happy? " she said to me, and i said to her, "if you're happy, i'm happy." but it wasn't ok. contrast her earlier healthy heart monitoring — a continuous reading — with the second — full of gaps —

that assured a midwife the baby was fine. two days after this reading she was found to have died. she would be coming up for one next week. yeah, her birthday. 28th. how are you? trying to get through each day. get on with life, trying to. some days do i want to go outside and face the big wide world? no, i don't. michael buchanan, bbc news, kent. and if you are a past or current patient of east kent nhs foundation trust's maternity services and have concerns, the trust has set up a helpline. details are on screen now. the number of people being charged or cautioned by police in england and wales has fallen to a record low. according to the latest crime figures from the home office, only about seven per cent of reported crimes lead to a suspect being charged or cautioned.

the figures also show that the number of reported robberies increased by i2% last year. and knife offences were at a new high, rising by 7%. tom symonds has this report. we're in nottingham with detectives on the robbery squad. if we can see them in the area, it establishes the time accurately and stuff. they are looking for cctv of some suspected muggers, who have struck twice in a park alongside the river trent. basically, i guess he's got two possible routes. this team has been set up specifically to tackle this problem. result? well, muggings here have gone up a little, but by far less than the rise in the rest of england and wales. we are focusing on those individuals that are causing us the most pain with the robbery team and a knife crime team, and that's been painful creating those resources, but you've got to be able to invest in that proactivity. from right here to where that road is... routine police work for these detectives. but in north london, concerned parents are also going on the beat.

here in enfield, they've started anti—mugging patrols. one school's hiring in private security. why? well, because so often, the victims are children. james, we've agreed not to use his real name, is 15, but he's been mugged twice. itjust made me feel very vulnerable and kind of unsafe, especially on my own road. i can't even leave my house and go 50 meters without someone trying to mug me, you know? it's not a nice feeling to know that, even on my own road, i'm not safe. one of the reasons for the rise in robbery is obvious, our smartphones are often on show for all to see. but there's another factor. in 2015, the number of suspects charged or summonsed to court by the police was about 1a%, which doesn't sound like very many, but that figure fell to 7.2% for last year. that's what today's stats show, and that picture is replicated

across the country for all crime. this has been the period, the second half of austerity, when police cuts have really begun to have an impact. the government's committed to restoring officer numbers. crime performance at the moment is unacceptably high. with a big new investment that we are putting into police officers, alongside some of the smarter more technology enabled approach that we are going to be taking towards crime, we are going to be throwing everything at this problem over the next few years, and try and get crime down to the historic lows that they were ten years ago. some good news today we've already revealed, murders and manslaughter are finally falling, but for the government, crime and the causes of crime remain a huge challenge. tom symonds, bbc news, nottingham. in this new potentially deadly virus. travel shutdown on central cities noticeably wound had like a

virus was first discovered. unprecedented measures tens of millions of favour title to the family house to celebrate the chinese new year. let's speak now to professor david hanging from the london school of tropical medicine who led the global response to the sars episode. how much is known about this virus so far?|j sars episode. how much is known about this virus so far? i think the good news is that more is known each day. so far, it's not clearly understood how this virus is spreading from person—to—person. we know in the world that it is spread by close contact with people who are infected what is not known if the other means that might be occurring such as face—to—face, contact and coughing in the face of someone else and possibly eating greater distance. there is a lot to learn but there is a lot that is learned every day. how is more learned? what needs to happen? there are many ways

that that jigsaw puzzle needs to happen? there are many ways that thatjigsaw puzzle expect needs to happen? there are many ways that that jigsaw puzzle expect to get it. one is information from the official reporting from the internet. which is been quite forthcoming and new information is provided daily to the world health organisation. in addition, the who has virtual groups of clinicians, epidemiologists and virologists who are watching what is happening and reporting to who because they are actually on site working with patient sitting upright. there are scientistic publications that are coming out online immediately showing what is going on in patients who have confirmed disease, looking at what is happening. and how long it takes for them to recover. all of this information is coming very typical with a new outbreak. it is not what you know, it is what you don't know if that is important at this time maybe operate. the world

health organisation has so far and not declared a global emergency. why not? what would it take? the decision is made by a group decision —— experience. what i will say is the temporary recommendations that they would make if they created a public health emergency and international concern, it would be measures that would minimise the spread of the virus internationally. impacting the least on travel and trade. this emergency committee and a public health emergency all has to do with travel and trade and making sure that the public in general is protected from the temporary recommendations. what do you know so far is there a particular bias in that it looks quite light? so we might know how to stop it spreading and he most at risk? yes it has been

actual to previous coronavirus is a machine ends. what was the source of vitamins and 2003, and the other nice corona virus in the middle east. let me initially understood like this transmitting anyway merce coronavirus transmitted, but now it appears to be transmitting in other ways as well. it is important that health workers are inadvertently getting infected. they then have a possibility of spreading the disease to other patients entered their families and communities. we have seen the transmission is being amplified on this virus and many parts of a world where updates are occurring. the professor from london school of tropical medicine. thank you for your time. you thank you for your time. you letting bbc news. bbc news

investigation uncovers a several preve nta ble investigation uncovers a several preventable and may be best. nhs trust in kent. a number of crimes that resulted in a constant and police hit a new low in just one that resulted in a constant and police hit a new low injust one in every 1a cases. hello there we start with football look to increase their lead at the top of the premier league table back top of the premier league table back to 16 points. bear away at walls and are currently one in my life thanks tojordan are currently one in my life thanks to jordan had to are currently one in my life thanks tojordan had to say. 15 minutes played at mullen county mothers are hosting a watford at the second attempt in their fa cups. third row that we play. a waterlogged pitch of delayed the original page. it came from three — 02 draw three all at printing part. it is currently 0—0.

manchester united has the fourth round on sunday. scotland jane russell will not face ireland next saturday after the meeting at scotla nd saturday after the meeting at scotland 26 nation training camp. it follows a breach of the teen protocol which is scott —— thought to be related to drinking alcohol. 92 player, left the teams training camp in edinburgh on his own accord. scotla nd camp in edinburgh on his own accord. scotland face on it on the first and second and it is not clear if he will be involved in the remainder of the tournament. vessel has a 46 caps for scotland. now a pivotalfew the tournament. vessel has a 46 caps for scotland. now a pivotal few days andi for scotland. now a pivotal few days and i had for cricketers into how to hunt as bad as they win the second test series away from home in four yea rs. test series away from home in four years. south africa started badly when it back and collapses that led to first taste defeat. despite injury tojeff to first taste defeat. despite injury to jeff alger today recovered to win the next to james anderson and tom best taking a starring role

with a bow. with watching out for the former captain suggests he could be alienated from the rest of this part. much like the end of his international career. ingrid finished their tour, at a high point. johannesburg is 6000 feet above sea level with their air is thinner and things happen in a clicker. the place and for pace, a good tend to have archer back from injury. last year, he hurtled onto the scene at 90 miles an hour that recently his form and body has caused him to stumble slightly. this object may become like him an outsider. his cap and responded on the front foot. a number of learnings or handsets are in this killer, we have archer back from injury. last year, he hurtled onto the scene at 90 miles an hour, recently his form and body has caused him to stumble slightly. this object may become like him an outsider. his cap and responded on the front foot. a number of learnings or handsets are in this killer, we are very keen on making

sure we get the best out of delphi. we keep making an environment where he can learn and develop. and keep growing and test cricket. he stopped short that he would actually play they'll have to decide how much the covering elbow. the pace of my click the craft at chris wilkes in the span of don bass. it is an important call. england has found themselves with a wrong tool on foreign soil with a wrong tool on foreign soil with the third test in a row and all input and with the third test in a row and all inputand a with the third test in a row and all input and a way series and victory. that would be a big challenge for it is good and a big challenge for it is good and a big challenge for it is good and a big challenge for it is good as well. one thing that we didn't very well to to continue this was me rabbit conditions and made them brilliantly this will be very different from that. making sure that we need nice after that very quickly and outplayed the opposition, which will be very difficult. they had very good understanding how this grant difference from other. over the yea rs difference from other. over the years they had hunted well here but they without the leader of the pack. the one edge of the panda said they

will look when i sign to butler converted a 64th and final test. he hopes goodbye comes with good luck. we would like to see vernon to leave this game the way that he deserves. he has lost body and performance and has been unbelievable. his record speaks for himself. in my perfect world i want to see him get the story that he desires. victories down, they must be earned. they're still greater that lie behind johannesburg. bbc news. that's all of sport you can find more and all of sport you can find more and all of the stories in the latest on the australian open tennis and on the salary cap sounded on sounded on saracens on the bbc sport website. bye for now. it was supposed to be

admitting the traffic stop. it was supposed to be a routine traffic stop in east london. instead pc stuart outten found himself fighting off a man armed with a rusty machete. today mohammed rodwan was found guilty of wounding with intent. our correspondent katharine carpenter reports from the old bailey. a warning her report contains graphic images. it should have been a routine traffic stop. when van driver mohammed rodwan refuses to cooperate, there's a struggle. you are not driving away, sir. you don't have insurance! you are not driving away, sir. and pc suart outten is repeatedly hit on the head with a rusty machete. machete, machete! i don't really focus on what it is until i realised that my head is getting wet, quickly. that's when i finally focused on his hand, and it's almost like when it's in the movies, when it slowly comes into focus, that he's got a two foot machete in his hand. as rodwan raises his machete again, pc outten fires his taser, but the first shot fails. so my thought process then is, "well, i've got one more shot, "and if this one doesn't work, he's going to end up killing me." i need an ambulance now, i've been stabbed! call 999! i'm trying to!

hurry up! shut up! he was in a very, very serious state. incredibly lucky. without a doubt, his training and his taser saved his life. what the jury here wasn't told was that mohammed rodwan had carried out a machete attack before. back in 1996, he stabbed two acquaintances at a house in east london. they needed surgery, and rodwan, who was using a different name at the time, was sentenced to nine years in prison. i don't believe he was attacking me personally, i believe he was attacking a police officer in uniform. i can't wait to go back out on patrol. rodwan will be sentenced for wounding with intent tomorrow. katharine carpenter, bbc news. ukraine was under intense pressure to do dental trumps political bidding. ukrainian officials publicly they didn't feel pressure to launch an investigation into the

might invent a price of getting a security aide. correspondent gary o'donoghue is in washington. what is the case that the democrats had been setting out today? having done all of that business with the text m essa 9 es of that business with the text messages and e—mails, and phone calls, meetings, flights to and from gearup calls, meetings, flights to and from gear up yesterday in great detail. today, they had looked at the constitutional arguments about the two charges. the two articles of impeachment and whether or not for example, a point of this agreement whether or not you have to commit a crime in order to be impeached. whether or not high crimes and misdemeanors include other things without statutory crimes. also the other thing and just think the democrats have a nap had on this afternoon, is the question ofjoe biden. they have gone through the whole business of joe biden. they have gone through the whole business ofjoe biden being involved with ukraine policy, his

son having a job and the oil industry, and gas industry there. joe biden calling for the removal of a prosecutor. all of these things that his president and the team say are suspicious. when they think they we re are suspicious. when they think they were interested and you can correct conducting these democrats have not been head—on and try to say there is nothing to say here. biden by calling for the resignation wasn't making an investigation into his son's firm. more likely, not less likely. they are dying in a forensic way. they had all day today and all day tomorrow to conclude the presentation. what is the exchange like crazy hello there aren't exchanges. that's the point. they're going to do this straight down the line off each side one after the end it. no interventions. senators can't jump up it. no interventions. senators can't jump up and ask questions at this stage. the other side can'tjump up and ask questions on the on a

challenge at their points. they get to set out in a case for three days and that the defence in the shape of the president's lawyers get to do exactly the same. we will see it more to add frail perhaps the next week the middle of next date went senators to get to submit questions to both sides. we may see a bit more sparring there. at the moment it is one after the other. morrisons is to cut around 3,000 managerialjobs across its stores as part ofa restructuring plan. while managers will go, the supermarket says it wants to add 4,000 shop floor staff mainly working on its fresh food counters. a royal marine recruit is in a critical condition in hospitalfollowing an incident during training. he was among a number of recruits taking part in a night time practise assault on tregantle beach in cornwall, when he and several other recruits got into difficulties in the water. efforts were made to resuscitate him before he was flown by helicopter to hospital in plymouth where he remains in a critical condition.

the ministry of defence is investigating. the net bill entered 19 complexes was signified and comments the final stage in the parliamentary process. eeg which would royal assent from mclean paved the way to leave the uk next. the uk has crossed the brexit finish line after parliament passed legislation implementing the withdrawal deal. he added the uk could doubt lloyd's as one and plate yea rs of could doubt lloyd's as one and plate years of rancour and division behind it. years of rancour and division behind it. the husband of nazanin zaghari ratcliffe who's been held on spying charges in iran since 2016 has urged borisjohnson to be tougher with iran in its efforts to secure the release of his wife. richard ratcliffe was accompanied by his five year old daughter as he met the prime minister at downing street, where they discussed efforts to release his wife. so we didn't talk about the past. he was very clear that he was

personally committed to doing what he could. we talked about a variety of different things that they had considered doing and that if there was anything they could do within reason they would be ready to do it. world leaders and holocaust survivors have marked the seventy fifth anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz in nazi occupied poland the largest of the second world war death camps where more than one million people were murdered. the israeli authorities have described the event at yad vashem, the hillside memorial injerusalem, as the biggest international gathering in the country's history. our international correspondent, orla guerin reports. survivors of the holocaust make their way on stage to light a memorial torch. in honour of the 6 millionjews annihilated by the nazis. among those gathered

onjerusalem's mount of remembrance, about 50 heads of state, princes and prime ministers. one absentee, the president of poland, angered that he was not invited to speak. this was the horror remembered today, the auschwitz death camp. the nazis killed more than a million here, mostlyjews. it was liberated by the red army 75 years ago. they opened the gates of hell, israel's prime minister said. for many, auschwitz is the ultimate symbol of evil. benjamin netanyahu used this platform to call for global action against iran, which he said wanted to develop a nuclear weapon to destroy the jewish state. they threaten the peace and security of everyone in the middle east

and everyone beyond. i call on all governments to join the vital efforts of confronting iran. the haunting music of a composer sent to auschwitz, who died in the gas chambers. prince charles said the lessons of the holocaust were still searingly relevant, and must not be forgotten. on this day, in this place, and in memory of the millions who perished, let us recommit ourselves to tolerance and respect. as this anniversary is marked here at yad vashem, jewish officials want to send an urgent warning. they say that violent acts of anti—semitism are on the rise, and thejewish life is once again under threat in europe.

they insist the world's duty to remember is more crucial now than ever. finally, the mourners' prayer, the kadish. recited by a survivor. naftali george. the message from yad vashem today, never again. orla guerin, bbc news, jerusalem. hello there there have been a few holes in the cloud today and is attempting to sell and. on the whole it looks like it will be cloudy overnight. the cloud until network and next in fog around some patchy rain running a down western scotland towards northern ireland. breaks around high ground when there is a risk and attach a frost from the whole temperature is four or 5 degrees. tomorrow cloudy grey day for many of us once again that rain

pushes back northwards at the western side of scotland. blustery showers at the far north of the country. sunshine across the sea set the pennines, north wales brightening up. a cloudy day with temperatures around eight or 9 degrees. hopefully a bit more sunshine on saturday. significant change on sunday as they went to pick up this band of rain will push its way eastwards and bend cold shower in eric follows behind by the end of the weekend. signalling a start of something much more u nsettled start of something much more unsettled often elect, often windy at least for the early part of next week.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. several people in the uk are being tested for the virus. the respiratory disease that originated in china. it comes as three chinese citizens are in lockdown as they

try to contain the outbreak. bbc news investigation and covers several preventable baby deaths in an nhs trust intent. no one spotted what was going on. no one did anything. charged and cautioned by police hits a new load just one in every 1a cases. world leaders gather injerusalem to every 1a cases. world leaders gather in jerusalem to mark every 1a cases. world leaders gather injerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the deliberation of the auschwitz death camp. to cut emissions to almost zero by 2,050. that is according to the government advisory committee on climate change. there the taxes on meat and dairy products might be necessary if people do not cut consumption voluntary and are calling for fundamental changes to

the way land is used. here is our environment analyst. meat and milk have become political. the cows and sheep that feed us also belch the planet—heating gas methane. the committee says we should all be eating a fifth less red meat and dairy produce by 2050. that's the date for getting britain's climate emissions to virtually zero. the changes we are advocating in this report are transformational to the way we use land overall. we're talking about freeing up a minimum of a fifth of agricultural land across the uk. that's a huge step. many livestock farmers strongly object to that idea. but other landowners see a potential opportunity. i think they absolutely recognise they need to be part of the solution and what we hearfrom our members is they are very much up for it. it's a huge transition and, actually, we are talking about making it over a quite short period of time, so i think they need careful and important guidance to enable them to do it. environmentalists, meanwhile, say if high street bakers can get rich

on vegan sausage rolls, no one will notice a 20% drop in meat—eating by mid—century. it's a pathetic damp squib of report. if we think we can address this huge existential crisis that we face, climate breakdown, the breakdown of our life support systems, with tiny, incremental measures, we are deceiving ourselves. the report has implications for livestock. it says the number of sheep and cows on the fields should be cut by 10% by 2050. it says a fifth of farmland should be taken for forestry or other activities that actually capture greenhouse gases. and there's a strong recommendation on the peat bogs that trap carbon. we must stop digging them up to enrich our gardens, the report says. some will think this document could have been much more radical. others will consider it a careful piece of work designed not to scare the horses,

or the cows, or the sheep. a plane helping to fight a huge bushfire in southeast australia has crashed, killing its three american crew. firefighters say they lost contact with the hercules aircraft over the snowy mountains, south of canberra. our correspondent shaimaa khalil is in sydney. the premier of new south wales has said that this latest tragic incident is a reminder that the fire season incident is a reminder that the fire seasonis incident is a reminder that the fire season is not over but of the dangerous conditions that the firefighters on the ground and those helping them from the sky operate under. they see 130 hercules was operating in a snowy area to help control the fire that was burning at an emergency level. huge plumes of snow, very low visibility with contact lost the aircraft itself has gone off the radar. we know that a

huge ball of fire than emerged when the aircraft itself crashed in that area and we know as the three us crewmembers have been described as experienced and well—known have died in the crash and there are no survivors. the new premier has said that flags will be flying at half mast out of respect for those who have been lost in the air tankers, the large air tankers have not been suspended as police investigate what happened in the crash and the cause of the crash and another reminder of the difficult conditions that have been happening and also that these fires are still blazing in some of them out of control. as we speak, several fires, 44 of those are not contained at the moment and even though there was a lull in the weather, the danger is not get over in this fire season.

one of 1a crimes result in someone being charged. fallen to a record low. figures from the home office show that only one in 1a crimes result in someone being charged. meanwhile, reported knife crime has risen by 7% in the 12 months up to last september — to around 114,000 offences, or more than 120 a day. there was also a 12% rise in the number of robberies — up to a total of 82,000. let's speak to leroy logan, a former superintendent in the metropolitan police. he's chair of youth charity voyage youth — which aims to empower marginalised young black people. one and 1a crimes is being charged? the chickens have come home to roost and austerity and notjust in policing but in the crown prosecution service, the probation

service, the number of crimes that are actually being reported because there are less police officers to go out there and investigate them and 700 less detectives of the past three years, but his investigate is there should be and their criteria is even higher the probability of getting a conviction. what does that impact the publics view of police —— how does that? the service, the court system, they lose trust in the criminal justice system. court system, they lose trust in the criminaljustice system. end of story and as a result of that. if police cannot make me feel secure was the point of beat reporting a crime? because there is a massive underreporting and people think that, i would not put myself out there to say i will make a

statement, i will go to an id parade and then i will go to court and give evidence. if police cannot make me feel secure, i'm not going to put myself on offer and those offences that need witnesses like sexual offences violence robberies, that is where you see the massive increase in convictions. it emboldens the criminals. they think that there's a good chance that i'm going to commit a crime whether it's a sexual offence of violence, robbery, and as a result of that less likely to get convicted because one, there's not enough people to deal with them and the victims are in fear and they feel they can get away with it. the victims are in fear and they feel they can get away with itm it is to deal with the number of police officers in the interest and we are saying about the other aspects regarding the criminal justice system. the prime minister has said that they're going to recruit an extra 20,000 police officers in england and wales and that would almost reverse the reduction in numbers since the conservatives came to power, how

adequate is that? they should have eroded the numbers in the first place. that is where we are. that will take years! he says he can do it in three years and i know that they close all of these police stations and we are going to put them, were you when to keep them and evenif them, were you when to keep them and even if you bring them in, the supervision that they need on job training and all of these aspects have to be considered. so it is not like they just turn have to be considered. so it is not like theyjust turn up yet this magic box of officers on the streets overnight and unfortunately, you still got the resignation rates of officers leaving. experienced offices. absolutely. the experience and that sort of expertise drain of officers and all of the force series. that is causing the disconnect that people feel, well, listen. i do not feel secure, i do not feel safe and they do not feel

that the justice system is there for me. in response to the story and the interviews that we have done around it and they have said, overall, the numbers are extremely concerning and there's been some reduction in murder rates and the crime survey shows a flat picture of violent crime being up too high, we have turned everything that we can at this recruiting so many more officers and taking a more assertive approach to fighting crime. we all have to work together to win this fight and we will not stop until we do. what does that mean, it's smarter, more assertive approach to fighting crime? forensic developments, cctv, etc. are you still need the human factor. you need thousands of people with their eyes and ears to tell you what is going on, especially the corporations. and they're still under this idea that they can arrest their way out of the problem research their way out of the

problem. those punitive tactics to try to get votes are not going to work here in the figures speak for themselves over the years. they need to reassure the public to work in partnership with them, especially young people who are in fear already, do not try to say it's a war on crime already, do not try to say it's a waron crime and already, do not try to say it's a war on crime and that you're going to go to prison, you have to work with people and understand their experience and reassure them that the justice system is there for them. unfortunately the figures show that it them. unfortunately the figures show thatitis them. unfortunately the figures show that it is not. parents who lose a child will, from april, receive two weeks paid bereavement leave, under legislation known as jack's law. it's named forjack herd, who died shortly before his second birthday. campaigners say the move is positive, but are calling for wider improvements in support for affected families. here's our personal finance correspondent, simon gompertz. baby jack, two weeks short of his second birthday, climbed a four and a half foot wall and tragically drowned in a pond on the other side.

i saw the back door was opened and ijust knew. i called him and he didn't come back and i saw the pond and the dog was sat by the pond, and i just knew. the family didn't have long enough to grieve, so lucy has been pushing for a change. it was varied, what you could take time off for, so anything from 2a hours to three days. there was no more than three days and any extra time that had to be taken had to be taken as a sick leave or holiday, and obviously the death of anybody is not really a holiday. # these days are always hard.# such a terrible loss, lucy and other campaigners said, needs a guaranteed time to cope with and to talk through. i think the introduction of this parental leave is an important indicator that we are doing well, we could do better, we could always do better, and i think one of the things that we need to do better at is breaking the taboo,

breaking the stigma. people don't talk about the death of a baby or a child, leaving parents very isolated, very much on their own. now there will be a right to bereavement leave for parents of children who have died under the age of 18, including stillbirths from 2a weeks of pregnancy. it will be a minimum of two weeks, which you can use in separate chunks of a week taken within a year. you will have that right from the day you start work, but after 26 weeks with an employer you will also get up to £1118 statutory bereavement pay for each week taken. the business secretary praised the way parties had worked together for a reliable space to grieve. there's huge support from colleagues right across the house, some of whom have had their own really tragic cases of bereavement of children and of stillbirth. many have told their stories very bravely and it has been a fantastic piece of cross party collaboration.

what's being called jack's law, applying from the 6th of april, should help 10,000 parents a year. several people in the uk are being tested for coronavirus — the respiratory disease which originated in china. a bbc news investigation uncovers several preventable baby deaths at an nhs trust in kent. the number of crimes that result in a charge or caution by police hits a new low — just one in every fourteen cases. an update on the market numbers for you — here's how london's and frankfurt ended the day. are getting on. the eruption of mount vesuvius in ad79 was one of the deadliest ever recorded — the damage wreaked in nearby roman towns, catastrophic. and new research suggests that the heat was so immense it

turned one victim's brain to glass, thought to be the first time this has been seen. a study, published in the new england journal of medicine, says scientists discovered a solid, glassy black material, found inside the skull of a victim at herculaneum, that appears to be the remains of a human brain, transformed by heat. let's speak now to dr pier paolo petrone, forensic anthropologist at the university of naples federico ii and a co—author of the study. he joins us from naples. thank you very much forjoining us on bbc news. you have seen this class, tell us what it looks and feels like. it was a very unbelievable finding. because i'm working at the site for 25 years now and it was the very first time that

i saw something like this. so i had the chance to work, to study this last victim because it is just the last victim because it is just the last human victim found within the town because on the beach, there are some skeletons that were removed and this is just the last victim that you can see on the site. so i was working near the skeleton, disclose to the skeleton and i saw some small black glassy fragments shining within the skull because the skull just exploded due to the very high temperature of the search. i took one small fragment of this and i made analysis and then we could find

first, some fatty acids on the human rain and from air. but that was not enough, because when doing medicine, it is the top medicaljournal, saying that this is good but not enough. you must find the smoking gun to close this research. he found the cerebral human tissue and it was a very big result because it is the very first time there human rain was found and not only in archaeology but in recent context, so nowhere else would be possible to see this. really unbelievable. over the conditions that allowed this to

happen? a good question. actually, normally, in biology, it is made and obtained, if you expose it tissue, a biological tissue to a very high temperature and you need to have a very rapid drop in temperature. so these to list two things. the temperature was very high and we know because we made experiments that could detect the temperature is high as at least 900 degrees fahrenheit does close to the body but another thing that is very important was that actually, the process tells us that the drop in temperature was very rapid. so we have very high thermal effects on the body and on the skeleton, but a very rapid drop in temperature. so

it is very interesting and very new. fascinating but very gory, drizzly to listen to. you say you have been working there for 25 years. how surprised are you at what you keep finding was yellow i was very surprised, of course. i never saw something like this and at any archaeological site or context. this was something really unbelievable. but these telus, archaeological excavation is very important and the site is very important because actually, in this town, we find something like 350 victims, which are very important to us because it is just the cross—section of the population because as me, and i was banding next to skeletons some

centuries, the living population, all of that together at once for a natural catastrophe, in this case a volcanic eruption. this is important because through archaeology and anthropology, geology, we know actually what it could be. and that is an eruption. we know that at the moment, there is where there is 3 million people, and that is very important to us. absolutely fascinating, we are glad that you're able tojoin fascinating, we are glad that you're able to join us fascinating, we are glad that you're able tojoin us and fascinating, we are glad that you're able to join us and all about it. thank you so much for talking to us. the international court ofjustice has ordered myanmar to take emergency measures to protect its rohingya community from genocide. thousands of rohingya died and more than 700,000 fled to bangladesh

during an army crackdown in 2017. the case, lodged by the african nation of the gambia, called for emergency measures to be taken against the myanmar military until a fuller investigation could be launched. anna holligan was at the hague and brings us this report. the judges ruled that the rohingya who remain in myanmar‘s rakhine state face a real risk of genocide. in order to ensure their right to exist, the un's top court issued four emergency measures for myanmar to prevent killings, destruction or any acts designed to stop the rohingya from giving birth — in other words, any actions that violate the genocide convention, to ensure its military doesn't commit acts of genocide, preserve and prevent the destruction of evidence of genocide and report on the measures implemented within four months, and then again every six months, until the icj reaches a decision on the bigger question of whether myanmar is guilty of deliberately trying to destroy the rohingya people.

and that may not be for years. while the court doesn't have the power to enforce its rulings, human rights group have urged governments and un bodies to weigh in, to ensure that the emergency measures are enforced. anna holligan, bbc news, in the hague. accident and emergency departments in wales have recorded their worst ever waiting times. only 72 percent of patients were seen within four hours in december. the target is 95 percent, but it's never been met. the figures are worse than the latest in england and scotland, but better than in northern ireland. more from our wales correspondent, hywel griffith. the front line for a service that is struggling. every winter brings pressure on these wards but december saw a record number of patients that arrived here. only half were seeing

ana within arrived here. only half were seeing an a within four hours. some in beds, many on chairs but wherever the staff confined space. you'll make nowhere to go and you cannot do yourjob to the best of your ability. it is extremely difficult how can they explain it, i suppose it feels like you're in a place where you have no control, but you're trying to deal with what is in front of you at the time. this was the fourth month in a row where the waiting times have been the worst ever. but it is the whole system that's suffering. if the a&e is full and the paramedics cannot hand over their patients and that creates another problem. ambulances stacked up side the hospital to 999 calls. the response times of worsened and that too can have life—changing consequences. last year, the family waited with her for an ambulance to arrive and she had a

chest infection, it did not start as an emergency, but after five chest infection, it did not start as an emergency, but afterfive hours of waiting, she had a heart attack and they could not save her. absolutely horrendous, she deserved better than that, the weight and the stress, the phone calls, is doing cpr and trying to be on the front of the same time and itjust did not work. if they had come sooner, i do believe that things might've been different. the nhs in wales is run by labour, public spending per head here is higher than in england, lower than in scotland but the waiting times are worse than either, so why? wales does have a significantly older population than the other home countries. if they had a culture of not such rigorous performance management of these targets, and the big focus of the tension in the english nhs, that is not really been the case in wales.

the welsh labour government says it will invest more cash into the hospitals to get through winter and it stands accused of lowering staff causing the patients to suffer. the winter has been so mild and even with daffodils poking out it has not been as cold because they have much more clout around that is the story at the moment, underneath the area of high pressure. this weather frontier wandering its way southwards across scotland, bringing some rain across the side of the country. but things did actually see the sunshine today. for many of us, it was pretty grey and gloomy and fog particularly on the hills, you can see a bit more of that overnight as the cloud continues to lower. a few breaks here and there and across the northeast of scotland where you see a bit of rain towards parts of

northern ireland as well. on the whole, it should be having temperatures of four or 5 degrees. another great day for many parts of the country, the mist and fog turning to lift a little bit and some bread to skies but sunshine for north wells brightening up the northern ireland to the east of the pin nines in scotland with temperatures not be quite a size today in scotland and that rain will be moving its way northwards to the western side around eight or 9 degrees. in that weather front moves away during the evening and then high pressure also starts to move away on saturday we start to see another weather front approaching from the atlantic besides of change and bully pick up more sought to south—westerly breeze on saturday, it is going to be generally dry and we break up the cloud a little bit more up with one or two showers across wales, southwest england and the weather front to the far northwest by the end of the day and temperatures around 79 degrees. more significant changes to the second

half of the weekend. the weather from bringing rain eastwards and behind it will going to find some colder air coming into parts of the uk and the winds would be stronger on sunday as well. mild ahead of that rain, but the shower with brea ks that rain, but the shower with breaks of rain being on and off moving very slowly and lingering during the afternoon and also for the west, it does bring up some sunshine, showers and the northwestern and wintry and of the hills of west in scotland as the air gets colder here, still mild in the southeast with some rain. as we handed next week, there's more rain or showers to come in the weather looks much more unsettled and that means some stronger winds as well.

hello, i'm nuala mcgovern, this is outside source. chinese cities are in lock down and new years' celebrations are cancelled as the coronavirus takes its toll. now whenever you look people are wearing masks. they are lining up to buy more masks. some people are cancelling their trips and there is a lot of concern. 18 people have died from complications and more than 500 are infected, and the virus is spreading abroad. the world health organisation says it's not a global emergency, yet. day 3 of donald trump's impeachment trial, and the democrats have the floor again, trying to persuade senate republicans that the president should be removed from office. the articles of impeachment against president trump rank among the most serious charges ever brought against the president.