should —— parts of wales. it should brighten up as the day wears on. this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 7pm: back on firm ground — dozens of passengers leave the diamond princess cruise ship after spending more than two weeks quarantined off the coast of japan. we are coming home. we are seeing our family and we can't wait. but also in a way, it's strange. it feels like it has been our home for that time. this is the scene live in tokyo, where a plane is waiting to take those passengers back to britain. also tonight, an islamic state supporter admits plotting to blow up st paul's cathedral. safiyya shaikh tried to buy bombs

from undercover police officers. the misery of addiction to prescription drugs. we have a special report, as experts call for more support to help addicts give the drugs up. from next year, wet wood and coal for domestic fires will be phased out in england — to help tackle air pollution. dearjurgen klopp... and what happened when a young manchester united fan asked liverpool's manager to lose a few games? and on newswatch, has bbc news reported the death of caroline flack with suitable sensitivity and restraint? join us tonight at 7:45pm here on bbc news.

good evening. and welcome to bbc news. british passengers who've been quarantined onboard a cruise ship offjapan for over two weeks — because of coronavirus — have finally been allowed to disembark. the diamond princess was carrying 78 britons, when it was held in yokohama. some are thought to be crew members who could be staying on the ship. others who've tested positive for the virus are being treated injapan, and some have already been evacuated to hong kong. around 35 britons who've tested negative are expected to be on an evacuation flight tonight heading back to the uk. the group are expected to land in wiltshire, before being quarantined at arrowe park hospital in wirral. our correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes reports from yokohama. behind me, you can see the diamond princess cruise ship. there are

about 1000 people left on board but those overwhelming majority of those are crew, almost all passengers have 110w are crew, almost all passengers have now left. the americans left way back last sunday night. the australians left on wednesday. there has been some criticism of the british government for the length of time it has taken to get the british passengers off the ship, but i can tell you about one and a half hours ago, at1:30am tell you about one and a half hours ago, at 1:30am local time, that operation finally got under way. they've had to wait longer than almost anyone else to get off the diamond princess, but tonight, finally, after 17 days of isolation, the british passengers were loaded onto buses and began their long journey home. on board one of these buses, elaine spencer and her husband. before they left their cabin, they recorded this thank you message. thank you to the government for deciding to bring us home. we are coming home, we are seeing ourfamily, and we can't wait. but also, in a way, it's strange.

it feels like it has been our home for all that time. thank you. and hopefully we are going to be home and i will see my family, or ourfamilies, in the next couple of weeks. bye— bye. bye — bye. nearby, in his cabin, alan sanford told me he and his wife are feeling the strain of such a long confinement. we haven't stepped out of this cabin since we were quarantined on the 4th of february. it's now, sort of, the 215t. even though the quarantine on the ship is over, we are going to go on an aeroplane, get to the wirral and do another 14 days quarantine. that's going to make about 31 days quarantine altogether. we are going to have to deal with it. there's a lot of people that suffer worse than that in the world, but, wow, the thought we are only halfway through it... it may seem a little unfair that the british passengers leaving the ship tonight are now going to have to spend another 1a days in quarantine when they get back to the uk, having spent two weeks or more shut

in their cabins on board the ship, but what we've seen with the americans and now the australians is that some of the passengers who tested negative for the virus when they left the ship are now testing positive when they've got back home. 164 australians flew back to darwin on wednesday. two of them have now tested positive for the virus and have been sent to hospital. as you know, we carefully screened everybody before they left the ship, before they got on the plane and during the flight. but as people also know, there has been ongoing detection of infection on the diamond princess cruise ship over the last few days, so it's not unexpected that some people might have been incubating the virus. meanwhile, in south korea, the number of cases of the virus has leapt by 100 in the last 2a hours, and a second death has been reported. the outbreak is thought to have begun at this church in the city of daegu.

the streets of the city are now empty and a massive disinfecting operation is under way. at tokyo's haneda airport this evening, canadian evacuees have been boarding this charter flight. the british evacuees should soon follow. their next stop, raf boscombe down in wiltshire. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news in yokohama. we are going to take you live to that plane. this is tokyo. you can see the stairs have been put in place and we are expecting those 35 brits to soon climb on board and then head towards boss come down ministry defence base and that is neil —— neil salisbury in wiltshire. a number of people have climbed on

board. not sure who they are exactly. local time, it board. not sure who they are exactly. localtime, it is board. not sure who they are exactly. local time, it is near 4am. that is the plane for the 35 brits who have tested negative for the coronavirus to climb on board and initially to wiltshire and then head to another 1a days of orienting. we are watching that closely. we will bring you the latest if anything develops. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:a0pm and 11:30pm this evening in the papers. our guests joining me tonight are yasmin alibhai—brown, a left—wing author and columnist, and benedicte paviot, anglo—french broadcaster and correspondent for france 24. a woman who supported the banned islamic state terror group has admitted plotting to blow herself up in an attack on st paul's cathedral. safiyya shaikh — a 36—year—old muslim convert from hayes in west london — pleaded guilty to preparing an act of terrorism,

by asking an undercover police officer to supply bombs. our home affairs correspondent, dominic casciani, has been following the case at the old bailey. this case on the face of it may seem almost physical but the idea of blowing up an entire cathedral. but in her words this morning, safiyya shaikh in it that was exactly her intention, that was exactly her plan, and the evidence as we understand it she went as far she possibly could and meeting some undercover police officers to acquire a undercover police officers to acquirea bomb, undercover police officers to acquire a bomb, to quite the reload up acquire a bomb, to quite the reload up under the dome of st paul's. so serious a threat she posed to national security that i understand mi5 national security that i understand m15 and the police made her one of the top ten priorities for investigation last autumn in the weeks up to her arrest and that meant that she had an enormous amount of resources thrown at her.

0ther amount of resources thrown at her. other forms of monetary... she came to light because of her own comments online and there'd been an divisive issue to how she was possibly running a pro islamic state social media chat forum. when the evidence confirms she was indeed behind that particular message group, which was encouraging attacks across europe, the investigation basically developed from there, undercover officers were tasked with refining her online. she confided in those officers who she believed were extreme like her and slowly revealed her plane that she wanted to attack st paul's. in a serious piece of evidence in this case, she said she a lwa ys evidence in this case, she said she always would send threats online. this time she wanted to make the threats real. she sent a picture of st paul's cathedral, saying i would like to put a bomb there. i want to destroy the enemies of the islamic state. and eventually, in a meeting in september, she sat down with a

female officer she believed to be nis recruit, passed over two bags and asked for those back to be food with explosives, and applicant the critical piece of evidence which led to her admission of guilt today. she is due to be sentenced in may by one of the most seniorjudges here at the court because of the nature of the court because of the nature of the offence, she could potentially face a life sentence. that was dominic casciani speaking earlierfrom that was dominic casciani speaking earlier from the that was dominic casciani speaking earlierfrom the old that was dominic casciani speaking earlier from the old bailey. safiyya shaikh was also reported to the government's prevent programme amid fears of how dangerous she could become. hanif qadir is a consultant in counter—extremism and rehabilitation. he has advised the government on its prevent programme and was one of its lead practitioners until 2016. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. could you just first off describe for our viewers what that programme actually does? how does it work? the programme is designed to axley prevent individuals from the coming radicalised into violent extremists and terrorist networks. it's also part of the counter

strategy. it's one of the four p. it's about providing mentor and counsellor support as those who have been identified as radicalised and heading on a path of destruction, which is known as the channel programme. just in brief, it is about preventing people from being radicalised. is it working? prevent, you have to understand it's two really could size it or celebrate it. and i would say prevent this ineffective tool. it's an effective programme. however, it depend on how it is being delivered and who are the ones delivering it. need to have experience. you need to understand the nature and the ideology of the beast that you're dealing with. you need to be able to work with these communities, have that ability, to effectively enable you to work with young men and women in community

groups and have that trust so you can have, move them away from any kind of negative or stream is ideology. it works when it's delivered effectively by experienced practitioners. you will find it working in one area when it won't working in one area when it won't work in another area. what i would say there is that from, time, we found practitioners in certain areas are not experienced, do not understand the nature of the problem too well. it's a multi—agency approach that really works. without the multi—agency approach and with individuals from those multi—agencies having the experience and knowledge, one person could cause a problem in that whole process , cause a problem in that whole process, and we found that in certain parts of the country, certain parts of the country, certain practitioners don't have the required experience and knowledge to support the people around the table. so why are they within the programme? why are they part of that panel? that's exacting my question that i put to the government many yea rs, that i put to the government many yea rs , eve n that i put to the government many years, even when i was the leader,

and probably the pioneers in the field of prevent him and rightly so because our programmes and all work quite effectively. they are not relating the programme effectively but also they not carrying out the key roles within the programme. and unfortunately, it is difficult for many people to find the kind of required experience and knowledge for everybody to build. and we have been doing training as well. sometimes you find the top leads in the organisation would take the training but it won't filter down. and until we find a mechanism to pass on the learning to every officer or institution across the country, i'm afraid we're going to find gaps in our provision, we are going to make mistakes in our programme and our delivery and we

are going to have, like we have got now, in anti—prevent sentiment that is festering across the country but also we are good have individuals like this individual that fall to the gap —— we are going to have a. we have mentoring programmes did did did work very effectively and can work effectively they are delivered properly for but if they are not, you're going to have results like this. there were questions that need to be raised here as well. aside from the programme being effective, we have to consider the aspect of what the role was of the undercover officers, but saying that, there is still us to be considered around how we deliver and how are programmes are working in sync with everybody across the country. and you're making it sound as if it is not fit for purpose yet. it is not quite ready to do the job? we have been doing prevent for a number of years.

it is near 12, 13 years we have been working with the programme. the dish programme was seen as best practice across the world. we had other countries come to the uk, look at our model, and the way we were delivering it. in the home office celebrating us as best practice. he moved away enough for some reason, we took a turn into a dead end where we took a turn into a dead end where we are still looking for a way out of it to find out where we went wrong. this has been a problem with governments, is where we need to rewind, as one of my colleagues would say, rewind ourselves and go back to look at how we are very effective in prevent for many years and protecting many young people to where we went wrong and i think central government, especially 0s ct, has a lot of thinking to do, where did they go wrong and go back where did they go wrong and go back where unfortunately government does not like backpedaling. it is about national security and protecting the

public. we need to rewind ourselves and go back and look at what was success , and go back and look at what was success, how would look like and then re—instigate or reintroduce that kind of programme... we are just running out of time. ijust wa nt to just running out of time. ijust want tojump in here. the lady, 36—year—old safiyya shaikh here, was a recent convert to islam. many people have said converts are vulnerable and can be exported. is there some element in truth in that when it comes to extremism was yellow there are elements of truth in that as well as they were people in our community that offer honourable. —— that are vulnerable. we have converts that have been effective and positive role models for other muslims born as muslims. but we have also got individuals who have converted, don't fully understand it and have been taken on a path of radicalisation by charismatic individuals within our communities. yes and no. 0k, hanif

qadir, thank you very much indeed for that insight. thank you. a man who was stabbed inside the central london mosque yesterday during afternoon prayers has been speaking about his ordeal. rafaat maglad had just led the call to prayer when he was attacked. a 29—year—old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. mr maglad says he forgives his attacker. 0ur religion editor martin bashir reports. morning. worshippers arrive at the london central mosque, responding to friday's call to prayer, which, on this occasion, is not delivered by the man who has been doing so for the last 25 years. how are you feeling? nursing his wounds, 72—year—old raafat maglad arrived after worshippers had taken their places in the very hall where, just 2a hours ago, he had been attacked. a man in red, seemingly part of the congregation, pulled a knife. mr maglad joined the congregation

and was following the lead of an imam. so, the imam said, "allahu akbar." he lifted up his head. i was halfway, when i felt something like somebody hitting you with a brick. something very... it is not the stab that i... i can't even... you know, all my body shook. and i recognised that the blood started to flow. a 29—year—old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. and mr maglad was taken to nearby st mary's hospital, where his injuries were assessed. they have four stitches. and he referred me to mri. and the mri detects the nerve, because if it is damaged then i can't lift my arm. my arm is very heavy. the mosque's leadership team says that while it advises all worshippers to remain vigilant, it doesn't want to turn a sacred

space into a fortress. and, despite yesterday's attacks, its doors remain firmly open. people trying to kick their dependency on prescription drugs need much more dedicated support — that's the call from experts and campaigners. almost a million people on prescribed medication — including tranquillisers, drugs for insomnia and nervous disorders — have been taking them for at least three years. of those, more than half a million are on strong painkillers known as opioids — even though there's no evidence that they help after 90 days. in the worst—affected parts of the uk, the nhs is now running campaigns to urge those affected to seek help. but as jeremy cooke reports, many are still struggling to find the right services.

this is my diazepam for this morning. that's valium. jim has a problem. what's next? antidepressant. a drug problem. citalopram, carbocisteine, 0ndansetron. this is montelu kast, to help me breathe. all of these, all on prescription, several times a day. nitrazepam, which is a benzo psychoactive. his life is dominated by his total dependency on prescription drugs. morphine, which i take three times a day. i just... including powerful opioid painkillers. is this too much? this would probably overdose most people. are you addicted? yeah. jim was badly burned when he was eight. the pain meant prescription painkillers. and he's still on them. 35 years, i've been taking these every day. do they work for you? i'll be honest, i don't know what works and what doesn't work any more. this pain map of britain shows thatjim is not alone. there's a very clear

north—south divide. manchester university research reveals prescription painkiller hotspots in our poorest communities. and patients staying on the drugs often for way too long. we see an increasing amount of patients using opioids for long term. but using for long term, there is no evidence to prove they work. all i could think about was the pain and the medication and it consumes your life. jazz is 23 and already with a ten year history of using prescription painkillers. her hip dysplasia brought serious, chronic pain. her doctors knew that opioids, pregabalins and other drugs could relieve the agony. but forjazz, there was a heavy price to pay. i was a child that got put on this, through no fault of my own. and now i've got to go through all of this. coming off the medication was a million times harder than any of the surgery stuff. she'd become hooked, and with no nhs service available,

the best on offer was a place at a centre for street drug heroin addicts. it was suggested for me to go on methadone, to get off my prescribed medication. what did you make of that? ijust thought it was a bit ridiculous, treating an opioid with an opioid. it'sjust another thing to get addicted to. jazz is now getting help from her gp and campaigning to stop others getting hooked. in sunderland, that campaign is being piloted on the streets — an indication that things are changing. the government now requires addiction warning labels on prescription opioids. but those advising mps want structured, comprehensive support for all of those at risk. we need a helpline so people can get hold of information, get hold of help. we need a referral service, so gps can refer you to an expert who can help you. and we need doctors to have access to alternatives so people don't have to be put on the drugs in the first place. just morphine in a patch. so i've got one on each arm. specialist help is whatjim could use. he's tried hard to come

off his medication, but the withdrawal has made him too sick. if i took heroin, there's about 20 services i could use. with this... where's the service? there's none. because these things will ruin your life. it is hard forjim to accept he will be on drugs for the rest of his life. harder still to accept the series of medical decisions that led him here, to all of this. jeremy cooke, bbc news. if you've been affected by any of the issues raised in jeremy's report, details of organisations offering information and support with addiction are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline. or you can call for free, at any time, to hear recorded information on 08000155 947.

we've just got some breaking news coming in concerning the royal family, this coming from the sussexes. 0ur royal correspondent has updated us with the latest. a spokesperson for the sussexes has had while the duke and duchess of sussex are focused on the nonprofit organisation given the use of the word royal comment there for has been agreed that there nonprofit organisation, when it is announced this spring, will not be named sussexroyal foundation. this spring, will not be named sussexroyalfoundation. an this spring, will not be named sussexroyal foundation. an update there on the brand sussexroyal. the duke and duchess of sussex then do not intend to use sussexroyal in any territory post through spring 2020, and just to reiterate that, therefore the trademark applications that were filed as protective measures acting on advice from and

following the same model of the royal foundation have now been removed. in terms of their nonprofit organisation, formerly known as sussexroyal, it will now not be known as the sussexroyal foundation. a cannabis farm the size of a football pitch has been discovered in gateshead. the drugs factory was uncovered by officers from the team valley. it's estimated that 3,000 plants were being grown and cultivated. police say three foreign nationals have been arrested. as the clean—up to storm dennis continues, those affected by the floods in pontypridd recieved a royal visit this afternoon. prince charles met residents and businesses on the high street — in an area that was left under a couple of feet of water last sunday. __ up —— up to seven feet of