this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley a. the headlines at seven. the headlines at seven: failings by the security services were partly to blame for the deaths of two people killed by convicted terrorist usman khan. an inquest jury finds jack merritt and saskia jones were unlawfully as the number of new uk coronavirus cases rises to more than 4000, there's growing concern over the further easing of restrictions due next month. the downing street

flat refurbishment. an independent adviser says the prime minister didn't break the ministerial code but acted unwisely, not fully checking how it would be paid for. chelsea and manchester city fans arrive in porto in portugal ahead of tomorrow's all—english champions league final. and coming up in half an hour, clive myrie discusses why congress can't agree on reforming the police with the jamaican—born journalist bernard burrell and the columnist steve richards. stay with us for dateline london here on bbc news. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. an inquestjury has found that two graduates, jack merritt and saskia jones, were unlawfully killed

by the convicted terrorist usman khan at fishmongers�* hall in central london in 2019. the jury found that a catalogue of failings led to the deaths of the cambridge university graduates. the family of one of the events... our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford has the background to the case. both committed to helping others. the man who murdered them was living under a curfew, having just come out of prison. he was also still being

investigated by mi5. but still travelled alone to london to kill. convicted terrorist, usman khan, travelling to london alone on a train. only recently out of prison, there had been intelligence that he was planning an attack but the trip had been authorised. it ended with hand fighting on london bridgejust it ended with hand—to—hand fighting on london bridgejust outside fishmongers�* hall, while inside two young people, saskia jones and jack merritt, were dying. the inquest said the unacceptable management of khan and poor sharing of vital intelligence had contributed to their deaths. for those who hide behind the cloak of secrecy, to search their own conscience and review their own potential failings. however, it is beyond understanding and astonishing that not one of the agencies sufficiently considered the associated risk and therefore questioned the wisdom of sending usman khan and a company to london. usman khan unaccompanied to london.

the jury's conclusions brought an immediate apology from those responsible for protecting the public. saskia jones and jack merritt were extremely bright and talented young people. they had both chosen to do something good with their lives, to make tremendously positive contributions to society. the fact, that as the jury determined, there were omissions or failures in the management of the attack and in the sharing of information and guidance by the agencies responsible is simply unacceptable, and i am deeply sorry we went better than this in 2019. we weren't better than this in 2019. usman khan was jailed as a teenager for trying to set up a terrorist training camp. after eight years in prison he was still a high—risk category a inmate, seen as a violent, radicalising extremist. before he was released there were a recording in capital letters he intended to carry out an attack. in prison, he mixed with one of the murderers of lee rigby, and abu hamza.

jack merritt�*s parents told me there some�*s death was as a jack merritt�*s parents told me their son's death was as a result of a system not fit for purpose. they had this hugely dangerous person and they lost sight of him being dangerous from the beginning. with all that information, you would have thought the authorities would have put in place a system to monitor and manage him effectively and keep the public safe. they failed to do that. injail, khan studied with cambridge university's learning together university's learning together prison education scheme. he became their poster boy, even recording a video for them. after his release, living in a flat in stafford, he stuck to the rules, lulling everyone into a false sense of security. but mostly he spent days alone playing days alone playing violent video games. a prison psychologist had warned that if he started isolating, it was a worrying sign. once he knew he was travelling alone

to london, khan started to prepare, shopping for four large knives and materials to make a fake suicide belt. that same month, the public protection panel that was responsible for him, met to discuss his case but didn't consider the risk of him taking a train by himself to the capital. neither m15 or counter—terrorism please tell neither m15 nor counter—terrorism police told them about the intelligence that khan might be intending an attack. that was the key piece of intel that they had. and so, to not share that one piece is, well it is unforgivable. and so the scene was set for khan's brutal attack at an iconic london location. as jack merritt and others arrived for their fifth learning event, there were no metal detectors. hiding the knife under his belt, khan sat chatting to saskia jones, who he would soon stab to death. khan slipped to the toilet

and strap knives to his body. then he went about looking for people to stab to death, first saskia jones and thenjack merritt. he nearly killed at the people. —— first jack merritt. first, john crilly, who started challenging questions, what are you doing, what is going on here. hejust replied to me, "i'm going to kill you will, i'm going to blow you all up." i stupidly told him to blow it and go on with it. he said he was waiting for the police to come. the minutemen — waiting for the police to come. the minutemen chased usman khan out onto london bridge where he was shot. the jury london bridge where he was shot. the jury could there were seriously deficiencies ——.

have been murdered by a man known to have a terrace past and still under active investigation by m15. ministers said this evening that a lot of work has been done to prevent terrific feet. —— fleet. to improve information sharing. this afternoon, the head of policing also warned that no system can prevent every attack. what about the long—term implications? 0ur security correspondent gave his assessment. i correspondent gave his assessment. i think the most boring thing looking at this is could it happen again —— worrying thing, and i think the answer is yes. there's an element that i would call sleeping syndrome. we weren't given enough information,

which is true, but let's have a look at the facts. at the time that usman khan came out of prison in december 2018, he was still considered to be high—risk. he was under enhanced surveillance by m15, but during the subsequent 11 months, despite the fact that he was clearly still a radicalised individual, they say, mis, that radicalised individual, they say, m15, that there was nothing in his actions that would have allowed them lawfully to put him under 2a hour surveillance. when he came up to london and conducted his despicable attack in november, he wasn't under 24 attack in november, he wasn't under 2a hour surveillance. the question i put to authority is why wasn't he, given he was clearly very violent. but he hadn't actually, there was nothing he had done in his actions that they knew in their knowledge that they knew in their knowledge

that would have allowed the more... that's one. m15 did have concerns and some intelligence. they say they passed this to the police. they don't have a direct communication with mappa. but the police do. m15 said they passed their concerns to the police, who in turn did not pass it on to mappa. that's what i'm talking about. one agency saying it wasn't entirely their fault. there's no question that collectively, this was a failure of authority, and the worrying thing here is that usman khan was clearly very clever at deceiving people. he deceived those around him and there will be others like that who have been, who will try to full their captors, as it were. what's worrying is the numbers that police and intelligence

agencies, they're notjust islamist extremists, there are far i �*s extremists, there are far i �*s extremis as well. —— far right. could it happen again? ifear the answer is possibly us unless these lessons are learned.— lessons are learned. sloping schlueter— lessons are learned. sloping schlueter syndrome, - lessons are learned. sloping schlueter syndrome, the - lessons are learned. sloping - schlueter syndrome, the difficulty of organisations to accept responsibility —— shoulder syndrome. and we'll find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30 this evening in the papers. 0ur guestsjoining us tonight arejessica elgot, the deputy political editor at the guardian, and jasmine cameron—chileshe, who's the political and diplomatic correspondent for the ft. there's been another jump there's been anotherjump in the number of new coronavirus infections across the uk. they've risen above 4000. 4182 new cases, and ten deaths reported in 24 hours till friday. in

the roll—out, more than... that means about 39 million billion people who've their first jab. 46.5% of the adult population is now fully vaccinated. the government is urging people to have both jabs. this will be the fourth to be made available, though it will be in use until later this year. it's a single dose, so it may be used as a booster. hugh pym has more. the race between the vaccines and the virus is gathering speed. a newjab for the uk will arrive later this year and importantly, janssen's vaccine, now approved by the regulator,

only requires one dose. it's a positive sign but it won't help ministers grappling with difficult decisions right now. the scottish government has extended level 3 restrictions in glasgow for another week because of concerns about cases of the indian variant. that means not going into other people's homes and no indoor alcohol sales in pubs and restaurants. if the massive public health efforts continue to have an impact, if our collective efforts to drive the virus back continue, then from next saturday, friday into saturday 5th june, the plan would be for the city to move to level 2. the office for national statistics survey of community infections suggests in scotland one in 630 people had the virus last week, that was an increase. in northern ireland it was one in 820, again with signs of an increase. in england it was one in 1120 with possible increases over two weeks. in wales case rates

were lower, at one in 3850. twickenham stadium in london is being prepared for a vaccination push on monday with 15,000 jabs offered in a single day. cases of the variant identified in india have been rising locally. data over the next week in england could determine whether the lifting of restrictions goes ahead on june 21st. if more covid patients end up in hospital, planned operations like this could be cancelled again and that is what the nhs really wants to avoid. here, florence is having a knee replacement at the barking, havering and redbridge trust. there's a dedicated covid—secure zone sectioned off for routine operations with waiting lists in england at a record high, there have been calls for more centres like this to be funded by the government. my colleagues are repeatedly

being phoned and questioned by patients saying, "we know things are getting better, when am i going to have my operation?" and they have to say, "i'm not sure when we can do it." gillian is one of those. she needs two knee replacements and has been waiting since the start of last year. i can't do anything, i don't leave the house. i'm very unsteady on my feet and my left knee now keeps giving way. it does, which scares me because i've had five falls. ensuring patients get the operations they need is another reason why health leaders say it's vital that covid is kept under control. hugh pym, bbc news. the prime minister has been clear that bracing the ministerial code over his flat —— breaking. lord geidt said he had unwisely allowed it to go ahead without more rigorous grow guard on how it will be paid for. alex forsyth has the details.

when a newjob comes with a new pad, it's perhaps natural to want to put your stamp on it. the prime minister and his partner certainly did, refurbishing the downing street flat early last year, but who paid became a problem. there were repeated questions. who initially paid for the redecoration of his flat? he always insisted he had fitted the final bell. fitted the final bill. i paid for downing street refurbishment personally. turns out he did eventually. an investigation found there were initially plans for a trust to fail but that fell through, so a tory donor stumped up before the prime minister settled the bill himself. a report by an independent adviser found borisjohnson didn't break the rules but acted unwisely when he allowed the refurbishment of the apartment at number 11 downing street to proceed without rigorous regard

to how it would be funded. downing street says the prime minister didn't know many of the problems about how their work would be funded, and when he found out, he made sure taxpayers would not be burdened. but while the report found borisjohnson stuck to the rules, it still suggests he should have paid more attention to how the refurbishment was paid for, and it secretary, matt hancock. he has already had a tough week. are you worried about yourjob? now he has been told he breached the rules over links to his sister's company, which was allowed to bid for nhs contracts. he says at the time he didn't know and the report agrees, saying it was a result of his lack of knowledge and not deliberate, so in technical terms, a minor breach of the ministerial code but he acted with integrity. number 10 agrees saying it no further action is required, but labour says

there are still questions to be answered over issues that, in the middle of a pandemic, have been both difficult and distracting. alex forsyth, bbc news, westminster. helen, notwithstanding criticism that's been made with this whole saga,is that's been made with this whole saga, is this report now officially the end of the matter? figs saga, is this report now officially the end of the matter?— the end of the matter? as far as downin: the end of the matter? as far as downing street _ the end of the matter? as far as downing street is _ the end of the matter? as far as downing street is concerned, i l the end of the matter? as far as - downing street is concerned, i think they believe it is. they've said this independent report shows the prime minister acted in accordance with the ministerial code at all times, but he's repaid the money. i think they see this as drawing a line. with regard to matt hancock, the prime minister will take no further action there. there is an ongoing outstanding investigation into this being done by the electoral commission. they are looking at the conservative party's actions and role in this, so that has still reports. that's certainly not the end of the matter. as you heard and alex's report, labour flagging questions that come with this. the fact that this criticism

of borisjohnson this. the fact that this criticism of boris johnson for this. the fact that this criticism of borisjohnson for having been unaware of, not sufficient numbers of questions, and the role of others in this about the cabinet office, what about various other people? i think the questions are probably still going to be asked. i think downing streetjesus is drawing a line. downing street jesus is drawing a line. ., downing street jesus is drawing a line. . , . line. helen, thanks very much. downin: line. helen, thanks very much. downing street _ line. helen, thanks very much. downing street said _ line. helen, thanks very much. downing street said boris - line. helen, thanks very much. i downing street said boris johnson downing street said borisjohnson raised concern —— downing street, i believe, is drawing a line. he also defended his hostility towards muslim immigrants to hungary and denied he was anti—semitic. ryan giggs will go on trial this year accused of controlling his girlfriend. he is accused of assaulting kate last november. the trial will take place at the manchester crown court injanuary.

ryan giggs denies the charges. i'll be back with our panel of guest for dateline london. at half past seven it's dateline london, but first a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. in that big football match. here's a ceremony parens —— sarah mulcher rinse. first to portugal, where pep guardiola's been telling the media he feels privileged to be there ahead of tomorrow's all english champions league final. manchester city will be looking to win the trophy for the first time in their history when they take on chelsea — who won it for the first time in 2012. thousands of fans have also made their way to porto — and despite the enormity of the occasion, guardiola insists he and his squad are in a relaxed mood. i know the way we want to play and with who we are going to play, and i'm not going to bother them much. these are incredible privilege to be

here, and my career to play champions league, and now we are here. i more than grateful. everyone is going to handle the best way and play again. again. chelsea held their press conference after city and manager thomas tuchel says he's hoping to repeat their success against pep guardiola's side in the fa cup and premier league. they've beaten them twice in their last two meetings. they are may be in the moment the strongest _ they are may be in the moment the strongest team in europe, may be in the world _ strongest team in europe, may be in the world. they have a huge gap between — the world. they have a huge gap between them and us in the league, but will_ between them and us in the league, but will close for 19 minutes in 90 minutes — but will close for 19 minutes in 90 minutes. this is what we want to do tomorrow _ there are thousands of fans of both clubs in porto ahead of this game with 6,000 tickets offered to each english club. let's hear now from fans

of manchester city and chelsea. 0ne one of the most exciting days of me life. the sun is out. last time city, that was... life. the sun is out. last time city, that was. . ._ life. the sun is out. last time city, that was... it's unbelievable bein: city, that was... it's unbelievable being somewhere _ city, that was... it's unbelievable being somewhere in _ city, that was... it's unbelievable being somewhere in london. - city, that was... it's unbelievable being somewhere in london. i've| city, that was... it's unbelievable - being somewhere in london. i've been stuck_ being somewhere in london. i've been stuck in _ being somewhere in london. i've been stuck in home for the last month with the — stuck in home for the last month with the rules, and to be here in sunny— with the rules, and to be here in sunny portugal and going to the game tomorrow— sunny portugal and going to the game tomorrow is _ sunny portugal and going to the game tomorrow is really the stuff of dreams — tomorrow is really the stuff of dreams. ~ , ., , tomorrow is really the stuff of dreams. ~ , ., ., tomorrow is really the stuff of dreams. ~ , . ., ., dreams. when chelsea play in a game like this, i've — dreams. when chelsea play in a game like this, i've got _ dreams. when chelsea play in a game like this, i've got to _ dreams. when chelsea play in a game like this, i've got to get _ dreams. when chelsea play in a game like this, i've got to get on _ dreams. when chelsea play in a game like this, i've got to get on a - like this, i've got to get on a plane — like this, i've got to get on a plane and _ like this, i've got to get on a plane and calm. _ like this, i've got to get on a plane and calm. it's - like this, i've got to get on a i plane and calm. it's wonderful because — plane and calm. it's wonderful because city— plane and calm. it's wonderful because city fans, _ plane and calm. it's wonderful because city fans, we - plane and calm. it's wonderful because city fans, we have - plane and calm. it's wonderful because city fans, we have no| because city fans, we have no history. — because city fans, we have no history. we _ because city fans, we have no history, we love _ because city fans, we have no history, we love them. - because city fans, we have no history, we love them. it's- because city fans, we have no. history, we love them. it's been really— history, we love them. it's been really nice — history, we love them. it's been really nice so— history, we love them. it's been really nice so far. _ history, we love them. it's been really nice so far. the _ history, we love them. it's been really nice so far.— really nice so far. the biggest niuht really nice so far. the biggest ni . ht of really nice so far. the biggest night of this _ really nice so far. the biggest night of this club's _ really nice so far. the biggest night of this club's history. i really nice so far. the biggest. night of this club's history. just got to enjoy them all. celtic are continuing their search for a new manager after eddie howe turned down the chance of taking over at parkhead. the former bournemouth boss was the club's preferred candidate and had been talking to them since last month.

it's not clear why he decided against the move, but it's understood the make—up of his backroom team could have played a part. there are renewed fears over whether this summer's olympic games can go ahead. the japanese government is preparing to extend the current state of emergency in tokyo and other areas ofjapan untiljune the 20th. that'sjust over a month before the games are due to begin. 0rganisers have also said that athletes from south asian countries will be allowed to compete but will be subjected to stricter measures amid concerns of the indian variant of covid spreading into japan. and the women's tennis association has released a statement following naomi 0saka's declaration that she won't be doing press conferences at next week's french open because of the effect they have on her mental health. the wta said mental health is of the utmost importance to them and that they welcome futher discussions with players.

they went on to say... simon yates has won stage 19 of the giro d'italia, but remains third overall with just two days of racing left. the british rider attacked around four miles from the finish on the final climb and held on to take his first stage win at this year's race. egan bernal battled to take third to retain the leader's pinkjersey. yates is almost three minutes behind the colombian. the race finishes in milan on sunday. great britain were unable to follow up wednesday's win over belarus at the ice hockey world championship, losing 4—1 to sweden. liam kirk opened the scoring for britain in latvia with his fifth goal of the tournament. it was given after a review showed brendan connolly was pushed in the build up. that was as good as it got though as the swedes came back to win,

the defeat leaves britain seventh in group a. that's all the sport for now. you can stay up—to—date on all of the build—up to that champions league final on the bbc sports website. next up, it's the weather. some of us probably look at the sky wondering where this fantastic weather we are were promised is. just a little while longer. it was a temporary blip on friday. it is going to turn increasingly sunny and warmer as we go through the bank holiday weekend. here's the cloud from friday. you can see a little hit and miss, some showers around. the best of the weather was a cross northern scotland and closer to the north sea coast. that's because high pressure is building, think of the high pressure as a mountain that stops

the weather front coming off the atlantic. so the weather front that's been here across the west is in the process of disintegrating, so it's raining itself out. the clouds are starting to break up, but it does mean that saturday morning is going to be pretty overcast, murky and even drizzly in some areas. we will have to wait a little while longer. we'll call it a cloudy morning on saturday, but brightening up morning on saturday, but brightening up as we go through the course of the afternoon. i think second half of the afternoon should be absolutely fine for most of us. here's the forecast for saturday. starts off grey, best of the sunshine probably across eastern areas of the country, could be a few local briefs showers here and there. temperatures 21 in london, 19 in liverpool. expecting around 20 or so in glasgow. high pressure is firmly in glasgow. high pressure is firmly in charge of our weather on sunday, light winds, strong sunshine. don't forget we haven't been used to the sun so far this spring, so a slap on

the sunscreen if you're out for any lengthy period of time. temperatures up lengthy period of time. temperatures up to 23 degrees around merseyside on sunday. after that, the high pressure really does become quite dominant across the northwest of europe. scandinavia, parts of central europe as well, and the high pressure is a vortex in itself. it's actually going to be drawing in warmth from the south and spreading it across the uk and keeping the weather fronts at bay in the atlantic. temperatures on monday easily getting out into the low 20s throughout the country. that's it from me. enjoy the bank holiday weekend. coming up on bbc news... it was box office tv for westminster watchers, but did the bbc give too much airtime and credence to the words of dominic cummings? that's news watch

at 8:45pm here on bbc news. hello, i'm sean leah, welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk columnists, bbc specialists in the foreign correspondents who write from abroad cased and blog for audience back home from the dateline london. this become a pandemic panic, as boris johnson �*s former top adviser justified his damning indictment of britain's prime minister as unfit for thejob. a year after britain's prime minister as unfit for the job. a year after george boyd was murdered by an officer, sworn to protect, what does congressional deadlock on police are from telus about american politics and president biden? joining us on dateline's original contributors, and also steve richards who has been

writing and broadcasting about british politics for 30 years now. with me in the studio, presenter bbc foreign correspondents, clive myrie, good to have you all with us. and you atone for my thank you very much for watching. thousands of people died in the uk during the cobra pandemic because of things the british from it did or didn't do was stop dominic cummings thinks the answer is yes since he was until six months ago prime minister boris johnson's closest adviser. his extraordinary seven—hour testimony before parliamentarians on wednesday have the potential to be highly damaging, not least to his former boss. borisjohnson is, according to dominic cummings, unfit to lead the country. steve richards, there was huge build—up to this testimony. did it deliver in terms of a informed critique about how government functioned at one of the toughest times civilian governments have experienced? times civilian governments have exnerienced?— times civilian governments have experienced? yes, i think it did. you say there — experienced? yes, i think it did. you say there was _ experienced? yes, i think it did. you say there was a _ experienced? yes, i think it did. you say there was a huge - experienced? yes, i think it did. i you say there was a huge build-up experienced? yes, i think it did. - you say there was a huge build-up to you say there was a huge build—up to

my you and i waited for many of these political dramas, and that were anti—climactic when they happen. so i assumed this was going to be one of those. it really wasn't, notjust because it went on for so long, i watched, like you did, the whole lot, but as you say, here it was borisjohnson's chosen senior adviser who was on the inside during all of these key moments, making a series of extraordinary assertions. now, some say with some credence that here is a subjective, unreliable narrator, but that would only be true if what we all know and experience was with at odds with what he was saying. but we know they locked down late in the first lockdown when all those football matches and rock concerts were taking place was stopping other was a dispute in automotive glass or about whether to lockdown. so, etc, etc, and there were remarkable moments, like when he said this hasn't been reported much that when

borisjohnson went on to him