this is bbc news. the headlines... damning criticism of a london council for allowing the decades—long abuse of more than 700 children in five children's homes. can they be gold and silver? yes, tom dean is olympic champion of the 200 metres freestyle and duncan scott gets the silver! 200 metres freestyle and duncan scott gets the silver! more medaljoy for team gb at the olympics, as tom dean and duncan scott pick up gold and silver in the men's 200 metres freestyle. they cheer. jubilation for tom dean's family and friends back home as they celebrated his gold medal success. and georgia taylor—brown

won a silver medal in the women's traithlon — and two more bronze, including bianca walkden in the taekwondo. more electronic tagging for burglars, and a promise to provide a named officerfor every neighbourhood are announced as part of a new crime reduction strategy for england and wales. an independent review into child sexual exploitation in bradford says some children in the city remain unprotected and are still being abused. and a woman who was seriously injured after being hit by a car at a festival says her two—year—old daughter was saved by her husband throwing her out of the way.

good afternoon. there's been more triumph for team gb at the olympics in tokyo, with gold and silver medals in the men's swimming 200 metres freestyle. tom dean touched home in 1 minute a422 seconds, securing a british record on his debut games, with duncan scottjust 0.04 seconds behind his team—mate. it's the first time in more than 200 years that two british male swimmers have shared the podium. and there there was more success, with georgia taylor—brown winnning silver in the women's triathlon. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre — here's hugh ferris. hello. i can add to that tally, because he might have won a bronze in what proved to be a very dramatic gymnastics team event. they have won a bronze for the first time they have done so for team gb

since 1948. alice kinsella, amelie morgan, and twin sistersjennifer gadirova and jessica gadirova. it came after the shock news that simone biles had to pull out after gymnastics final. the hugely sucessful and well—known gymnast started the event on the vault which was below her usual standard. then she left the arena only to return shortly afterwards and put on her tracksuit. confirmation then she'd withdrawn due to a medical issue. the us team said, "she will be assessed daily to determine medical clearance for future competitions. " biles was hoping to win all six golds available to her to become the most successful olympic gymnast of all time. but gold one has passed her by. britain's bianca walkden has won the second olympic medal of her career. she got another bronze in the taekwondo above 67

kilogram category. having come agonisingly close to a place in the final earlier on, walkden shrugged off her disappointment to beat poland's aleksandra kowalczuk, this time holdling on to a lead to eventually win 7 points to 3. it's her second consecutive bronze medal. earlier, team gb secured a fourth gold of tokyo 2020, and with it their best start to an olympics. tom dean and duncan scott also delivered britain's first one—two in the pool for 113 years. it came in the 200 metres freestyle final. in a thrilling finish, dean, who's in lane 6, touched home in1 minute 114.22 seconds, securing a british record at his debut games. scott finished just four one hundredths of a second behind. it might have been the early hours of the morning, but that wasn't going to stop tom dean's family back in maidenhead from inviting friemds, family and neighbours over. around 70 in their garden cheering dean all the way to gold! back in tokyo, dean could barely believe it, and was thankful for all the support he's received.

i can't thank my coach enough. he said we are right in the nation's story with the covid case is rising. i had six or seven weeks out of the pool i had six or seven weeks out of the pool, which is unheard—of. he brought me through it and i can't thank him enough. here we are. another shock earlier on in the tennis as the home favourite and one of faces of the games — naomi osaka — was knocked out in the third round by the world number 42 marketa vondrousova. osaka, who made history as the first tennis player to light the olympic cauldron at an opening ceremony, was beaten in straight sets. but andy murray goes on in the men's doubles — he and his partnerjoe salisbury are through to the quarter—finals in tokyo. they backed up their impressive opening—round win to beat germany's kevin krawietz and tim putz 6—2 7—6. in the singles, a really impressive win for liam brodie. he was only called up to the team a week before the games and he's now knocked out hubert hurkacz — the man who beat roger federer at wimbledon. brodie winning in three sets to reach the third round, one of the biggest wins

of his career so far. and a look back to great britain's first medal of the day came in the women's triathlon, where georgia taylor—brown took silver. she was beaten by bermuda's flora duffy, who made history by winning the island nation's first gold at an olympics, and a first medal of any kind since a bronze in boxing at the montreal games in �*76. for taylor—brown, second was a great achievement, too, revealing afterwards she was on crutches just 12 weeks ago and spent part of the bike stage of the race with a flat tyre but powered on regardless to finish second. much more to come over the course of the next few minutes as competition continues in tokyo. we will have more on that at 2:30pm. here is tom dean's family as he

comes through to win the gold—medal. that is how to celebrate a gold medal. that is how to celebrate a gold medal. let's go live to maidenhead now to speak to tom's sister, connie dean. a fantastic celebration! you must have loved every minute of that. you had a big screen where you are watching it. had a big screen where you are watching it— had a big screen where you are watchin: it. , . ., h, watching it. yes, we had a neighbour brina over watching it. yes, we had a neighbour bring over a — watching it. yes, we had a neighbour bring over a projector _ watching it. yes, we had a neighbour bring over a projector and _ watching it. yes, we had a neighbour bring over a projector and everyone l bring over a projector and everyone came together, we had technical issues but everyone could see it and we had 70 people there. we didn't expect it, it was amazing.- we had 70 people there. we didn't expect it, it was amazing. where you in any doubt —

expect it, it was amazing. where you in any doubt that _ expect it, it was amazing. where you in any doubt that thomas _ expect it, it was amazing. where you in any doubt that thomas would - expect it, it was amazing. where you in any doubt that thomas would get l in any doubt that thomas would get gold? in any doubt that thomas would get old? ., , , in any doubt that thomas would get told? ., , , in any doubt that thomas would get old? ., , _,, in any doubt that thomas would get old? ., , , ,., ., gold? no! he is my baby brother and he can do whatever _ gold? no! he is my baby brother and he can do whatever he _ gold? no! he is my baby brother and he can do whatever he wants! - gold? no! he is my baby brother and he can do whatever he wants! he - gold? no! he is my baby brother and he can do whatever he wants! he is l he can do whatever he wants! he is the most amazing trainer and the pressure just makes him the most amazing trainer and the pressurejust makes him better. and watching him walk out so relaxed, you just knew something amazing was going to happen. find you just knew something amazing was going to happen-— going to happen. and he is a confident — going to happen. and he is a confident kind _ going to happen. and he is a confident kind of _ going to happen. and he is a confident kind of swimmer, l going to happen. and he is a l confident kind of swimmer, he doesn't get nervous before a big race? ., . , doesn't get nervous before a big race? ., ., , ., , ~ race? no, he has a mindset like steel, it is _ race? no, he has a mindset like steel, it is incredible. _ race? no, he has a mindset like steel, it is incredible. tell- race? no, he has a mindset like steel, it is incredible. tell us . steel, it is incredible. tell us about him. _ steel, it is incredible. tell us about him, growing - steel, it is incredible. tell us about him, growing up- steel, it is incredible. tell us about him, growing up with l steel, it is incredible. tell us - about him, growing up with him, you are family of swimmers and you are an amazing swimmer yourself. you have a scholarship., don't you? obviously we know how much training and hard work goes into this from a very young age and you as a family, as i say, have been putting in that work and helping him down the years. it is a family effort. we lived in london until we were ten and when we moved to maidenhead we were so lucky

because we had the coach and we joined at the same time and he was a phenomenal coach. we were coached through and we had to wake up early every morning to go to school, come back, do two more hours and that was our routine for ten years. it was a family effort, with parents driving us to all of the meats, so it was a family effort. he us to all of the meats, so it was a family effort-— family effort. he has had some adversity along _ family effort. he has had some adversity along the _ family effort. he has had some adversity along the way, - family effort. he has had some l adversity along the way, getting covid twice, i think, quite badly the second time around and that interrupted his training programme, but hasn't damaged his performance. it is phenomenal. the first time wasn't too bad, but the second was really bad and he couldn't control his heartrate. six weeks out in an olympic year, it is unheard—of. to

come back and win olympic gold after not training, not being in a pool for six weeks, still making the team and winning olympic gold. it is unbelievable.— and winning olympic gold. it is unbelievable. ~ . , ., unbelievable. what is the x factor that makes _ unbelievable. what is the x factor that makes a _ unbelievable. what is the x factor that makes a gold _ unbelievable. what is the x factor that makes a gold medallist? - unbelievable. what is the x factor that makes a gold medallist? i i unbelievable. what is the x factor i that makes a gold medallist? i know he is your little brother, but what are his special qualities? is it mindset or a psychological thing? good question. he is a phenomenal trainer. hejust puts his all good question. he is a phenomenal trainer. he just puts his all into the game and is so analytical. he says he will do this and this and that will bring me the result i want, so he is very analytical and thatis want, so he is very analytical and that is just how he works and it just creates amazing success. i worry more and he isjust just creates amazing success. i worry more and he is just so to the point and that is what makes him so amazing. find point and that is what makes him so amazinu. �* ., , u,

amazing. and he edged out duncan scott, and duncan _ amazing. and he edged out duncan scott, and duncan is _ amazing. and he edged out duncan scott, and duncan is not _ amazing. and he edged out duncan scott, and duncan is notjust- amazing. and he edged out duncan scott, and duncan is notjust a - scott, and duncan is notjust a competitor but a friend and roommate. is that hard for time or is that just a roommate. is that hard for time or is thatjust a very roommate. is that hard for time or is that just a very friendly roommate. is that hard for time or is thatjust a very friendly rivalry and competition? —— is that hard—fought tom? he and competition? -- is that hard-fought tom? and competition? -- is that hard-fou~httom? ., , , , hard-fought tom? he idolises duncan and has taught _ hard-fought tom? he idolises duncan and has taught tom _ hard-fought tom? he idolises duncan and has taught tom so _ hard-fought tom? he idolises duncan and has taught tom so much. - hard-fought tom? he idolises duncan and has taught tom so much. it - and has taught tom so much. it couldn't have done it without him and he is a lovely man, so if you are going to be beaten by anyone, you may as well be beaten by a team—mate. you may as well be beaten by a team-mate— you may as well be beaten by a team-mate. they both looked so friendly towards _ team-mate. they both looked so friendly towards each _ team-mate. they both looked so friendly towards each other - team-mate. they both looked so friendly towards each other after| friendly towards each other after the race as well, so happy for each other. do you think they have spurred each other on, notjust in this race but down the years? obviously and i think it makes you both go faster. in the olympic trials, they were one and two in the world. even though they do not train together, i know tom really looks up

together, i know tom really looks up to duncan and wants to be like him. when tom gets home, what celebrations will then be? gosh, i won't be able _ celebrations will then be? gosh, i won't be able to _ celebrations will then be? gosh, i won't be able to sleep _ celebrations will then be? gosh, i won't be able to sleep until - celebrations will then be? gosh, i won't be able to sleep until he - won't be able to sleep until he comes back on monday! we are a big family, so we will all go to the airport and the whole club will come and he will come home and be with us and he will come home and be with us and then the next day, we will get olympic rings tatties.— olympic rings tatties. fantastic! i su ose olympic rings tatties. fantastic! i sunpose he _ olympic rings tatties. fantastic! i suppose he didn't _ olympic rings tatties. fantastic! i suppose he didn't sleep - olympic rings tatties. fantastic! i suppose he didn't sleep much - olympic rings tatties. fantastic! i | suppose he didn't sleep much last night. i suppose he didn't sleep much last niuht. ., ., ., ., , , night. i got an hour also, but my mum hasn't— night. i got an hour also, but my mum hasn't slept _ night. i got an hour also, but my mum hasn't slept yet. _ night. i got an hour also, but my mum hasn't slept yet. not - night. i got an hour also, but my mum hasn't slept yet. not a - night. i got an hour also, but my - mum hasn't slept yet. not a surprise and it was not _ mum hasn't slept yet. not a surprise and it was not night. _ mum hasn't slept yet. not a surprise and it was not night. in. _ mum hasn't slept yet. not a surprise and it was not night. in. many - and it was not night. in. many congratulations and the whole family and thank you forjoining us. —— it was not a night full sleep. an inquiry report has criticised

the london borough of lambeth for allowing the abuse of hundreds of children in its homes for decades. the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has been investigating allegations dating back as far as the 1970s. it said it was hard to comprehend the cruelty that was inflicted, and officials left children to cope with trauma on their own. lambeth council has apologised to victims. our correspondent, tom symonds, has been looking at the findings. tom, thank you for being with us. this was abuse on staggering scale, not just this was abuse on staggering scale, notjust in terms the amount of time that this was over, but the number of children involved, hundreds. absolutely. the independent enquiry into child sexual abuse, and very wide—ranging public enquiry, has been going for years now and has produced a whole load of reports and this is one of the most scathing.

this is one of the biggest past sexual abuse scandals. 705 children were abused across five children's homes by 177 staff and the report is highly critical of lambeth council, saying it is hard to comprehend the cruelty and sexual abuse inflicted on children and there was little compassion shown towards them. they were left to cope with the trauma of their abuse on their own. the particular criticism of lambeth council is that it often you it was putting children with people, mainly men, who were potentially going to abuse them. but it did not investigate when there were incidents and reports of abuse, but it did not pass on any information to new employers of those people who had committed abuse. the enquiry says that during that period in the

19805, says that during that period in the 1980s, lambeth was run by the labour party and it was taking on the conservative government of margaret thatcher which is trying to reduce the amount of funding to councils like lambeth and this report says that during that period, the council was embroiled in a political battle that left children, its own responsibility, as pawns in a toxic power game and was distracted by the battle it was fighting. these are highly critical comments from this enquiry. highly critical comments from this ennui . ., ~ highly critical comments from this ennui . ., ., as we've been hearing, the prime minister has completed his self—isolation. during a trip to surrey, he urged people to "remain cautious" and notjump to "premature conclusions" following the latest fall in covid cases. let's speak to our political correspondent nick eardley. nick, a lot of people being

encouraged by daily falls that we have been seeing for the last five or six days and scientists rather perplexed and struggling to come up with reasons for these falls, because many had predicted case numbers of anything up to 100,000 or more. it numbers of anything up to 100,000 or more. , , , , more. it is interesting because we have had six _ more. it is interesting because we have had six days _ more. it is interesting because we have had six days in _ more. it is interesting because we have had six days in a _ more. it is interesting because we have had six days in a row - more. it is interesting because we have had six days in a row acrossl have had six days in a row across the uk where the number of positive cases has gone down. as you say, that flies in the face of what some of the scientists were warning. it was only three weeks ago that the health secretary in england, sajid javid, was saying there was a good chance we would have 100,000 cases a day and yesterday, and it is different because it is an monday and figures are lower over the weekend, figure yesterday was under 25,000. but there does not seem to be an accepted explanation for that yet. some have said that it could be to do with the school holidays in england, to do with the better

weather, people spending more time outside, it could be to do with the fact that people were worried the cases were going up and so have taken precautions as a result. but when we heard from the prime minister this morning, his first time since he got out of his own self isolation last night, he didn't offer an explanation as to why that was. i think part of the reason is that the government does not want to get overexcited about this, they have seen numbers fluctuate in the past and does not want to get to a place where it is taking decisions now on the basis of a few days. here is a borisjohnson this morning. —— here is borisjohnson this morning. —— here is boris johnson this morning. i have noticed that, obviously, we are six days into some better figures, but it is very, very important that we don't allow ourselves to run away with premature conclusions about this. step four of opening up only took place a few days ago. people have got to remain very cautious and that remains

the approach of the government. so we have heard a similar message from some of the scientists as well, and really interesting to listen to professor neil ferguson on radio four this morning, who is one of those people who ten days ago was saying he thought it was almost inevitable the uk would get to 100,000 cases a day and he is also saying, do notjump to conclusions, we cannot assume that definitely will not happen, but adding into the mix that he thinks by the end of september, we will be looking back on the worst parts of the pandemic. so they will be in the past rather than the future. speaking to people privately who are involved in some of these decisions and other discussions about what these figures mean, there is some optimism and some are really enthused by what they have seen in the figures over

they have seen in the figures over the last few days and in certain parts of the uk for a bit longer as well. but do not expect anybody to be jumping ahead well. but do not expect anybody to bejumping ahead of the gun. one of the reasons is we have seen this virus change course before, we have seen new variants, good data turn to bad data quite quickly, but at the moment there is a cautious optimism, evenif moment there is a cautious optimism, even if it is being kept largely private. even if it is being kept largely rivate. ., . ., a even if it is being kept largely rivate. ., . ., ., ~ private. touching word. nick, thank ou ve private. touching word. nick, thank you very much _ private. touching word. nick, thank you very much indeed. _ lord clarke has been giving evidence to the inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal. around 3,000 people died after being given blood products containing hiv and hepatitis c in the 1970s and 1980s. lord clarke is the first former health minister from the time to testify. our health correspondentjim reed is following the inquiry. this enquiry in the building behind me has been examining events that happened a0 or 50 years ago but are still having an effect today.

one group particularly affected were around a500 people with haemophilia. some were young children at the time and were infected with viral hepatitis and hiv, in many cases, after being given these contaminated blood products. lord clarke was the chief nhs person in charge of the health policy around that time at the beginning of the 1980s when the first report of a crisis around aids emerged. giving evidence this morning, he said when he joined that department in 1982, he never expected a problem like this to arise. the whole setup, the structure was completely shambolic bureaucracy, which is why blood products, relatively calm area that _ had this horrendous problem it took us all by surprise when a new

disease emerged, it was a quiet little part about this. it is very big because of the tragedy now, big because of this enquiry. so lord clarke will be giving further detailed evidence here for the next three days at this enquiry. it is very important, very much so, for the families, the relatives of people who have lost their lives and the survivors, notjust because of the detail he is providing, but because of the principle here. this is the first time such a senior minister has been giving evidence under oath at an like this. more news from the tokyo olympics, another medalfor team more news from the tokyo olympics, another medal for team gb, more news from the tokyo olympics, another medalfor team gb, a bronze medal this time in the dressage. they have won the bronze medal for the team dressage at the olympics. more details on that, but yet another medalfor team more details on that, but yet another medal for team gb. a congressional panel set up

to investigate the siege of the us capitol will hold its first public hearing today. supporters of donald trump stormed the building injanuary, as lawmakers gathered to certify the results of the presidential election which he had lost. our state department correspondent barbara plett usher is in washington. what will this committee seek to achieve? to find out what happened, why and how to prevent it happening again. they will ask what intelligence was shared at the time and what was not, what was happening behind—the—scenes at the white house, what was the role of white supremacist groups and why it took so long to secure the henan and the aim of the committee is to write the definitive version of what happened and put it out there. —— why it took so long to secure the capitol building. they also want to push back on the

narrative of many republicans, who have denied the violence and amplifying the claims of the former president that the election was stolen. ., ., ., ~' president that the election was stolen. ., ., ., ~ it is stolen. how long will it take? it is not clear. — stolen. how long will it take? it is not clear. we _ stolen. how long will it take? it is not clear, we are _ stolen. how long will it take? it is not clear, we are starting - stolen. how long will it take? it is not clear, we are starting with - stolen. how long will it take? it is not clear, we are starting with a i not clear, we are starting with a public hearing today, when four police officers who were attacked and beaten or verbally abused by the rioters will be testifying. i do not think all of the sessions will be public. some might be private and the committee has the power to subpoena documents and witnesses. so they are still working out that schedule. they are feeling optimistic they will be able to get what they want because this is the department of justice what they want because this is the department ofjustice under the biden administration and the expect support that they did not get under the trump administration. the length of time is not clear but they want public support for what they are doing and that is one of the reasons

why we are hearing from police officers on the first day, to put a human face on this and officers have broad appeal, really. republicans have dismissed this committee as a partisan exercise and have been doing counter messaging against it, so it is important for the democrats to win that public support.— to win that public support. barbara, thank ou to win that public support. barbara, thank you very _ to win that public support. barbara, thank you very much. _ an independent review into child sexual exploitation in bradford says some children in the city remain unprotected and are still being abused. the review assessed child protection in the city over a 17 year period, focusing on five victims. earlier, our correspondent danny savage, who is in bradford, spoke to my colleague reeta chakrabarti. yes, well, this 56—page report of investigation, explanation and recommendations to tackle the issue of child sexual abuse in bradford. this report focuses on five victims over a 17—year period and goes

into quite some detail about each of them. four girls and one boy, most of whom are now adults who suffered abuse 10, 15 years ago. and it is a fairly familiar theme that runs through it. these were vulnerable children, preyed upon by older men who would win their trust and then take them away and sexually abuse them. so the biggest question, i think, that comes out of this report is, how many children were abused over the last two or three decades in the city? and the biggest worry that comes out of the report is that it appears to be ongoing in places and the number of perpetrators is unknown, so what happens next? well, there are calls now from some of the victims named in this report, some of those five who were part of this investigation, saying what they want to see now is a rotherham—style investigation, with a much broader remit,

to try to establish how widespread the abuse of children was in the city, how long it has gone on for, how many perpetrators there where and how many more people need to be brought to justice. and various agencies who have been involved in this report — the police, the child protection authorities — have been giving interviews this afternoon and they won't be drawn on whether or not it is a good idea to have a further enquiry. that will be down to the secretary of state to decide whether or not there should be a wider investigation, but it certainly raises some very worrying questions. it is quite similar to what we've heard before from other large english towns like rotherham and rochdale, about how children were trafficked and abused. and it isjust, where does it go from here? some of the revelations in it have been heard before but it is just what happens now, and, you know, there are some difficult questions for the authorities to answer. and particularly, ithink, the thing that stood out for me is that they still haven't really got a handle on how widespread this issue still is. it hasn't yet been stamped out in bradford. one of the women who's fought

for answers from bradford council and west yorkshire police is fiona goddard. she was groomed and sexually abused by gangs of men from 2008 when she was living in a bradford children's home. she's been speaking to our correspondent emma glasbey. how old were you when you went into care? i how old were you when you went into care? ., , ' , how old were you when you went into care? ' , ., care? i was 12, 'ust turning 13 and i was care? i was 12, 'ust turning 13 and r was about— care? i was 12, 'ust turning 13 and r was about rs — care? i was 12, just turning 13 and i was about 13 when _ care? i was 12, just turning 13 and i was about 13 when the _ care? i was 12, just turning 13 and i was about 13 when the abuse - i was about 13 when the abuse started happening. it i was about 13 when the abuse started happening.— i was about 13 when the abuse started happening. it was outside the ates started happening. it was outside the gates of— started happening. it was outside the gates of bradford _ started happening. it was outside the gates of bradford children's i the gates of bradford children's home that gangs of men would pick fiona up, drive her across the city and sexually abuse her. now 27, fiona lives with the trauma of her past. fiona lives with the trauma of her ast. ~ , ., fiona lives with the trauma of her ast, ~ , ., ., , , , past. my mental health is severely im acted. past. my mental health is severely impacted- i — past. my mental health is severely impacted. i have _ past. my mental health is severely impacted. i have lost _ past. my mental health is severely impacted. i have lost everything i l impacted. i have lost everything i own multiple times because of having to move the safety reasons or to just be able to get away from the

memories. my children have suffered because i haven't been able to give them the life i would have wanted to give them and obviously my eldest daughter got adopted because of the fact i was getting abused. i have missed out on most of her life. it is very hard sometimes, looking back at the last, and nothing will ever give me that back.— at the last, and nothing will ever give me that back. fiona was often missin: give me that back. fiona was often missing from _ give me that back. fiona was often missing from the _ give me that back. fiona was often missing from the children's - give me that back. fiona was often missing from the children's home, | missing from the children's home, she sometimes came back bruised or even saying she had been sexually abused. but the abuse continued. there were so many missed opportunities to save me from years of abuse and they never did. if i saw someone who was repeatedly showing up beaten up or making allegations of sexual abuse, i would want to help that person or look into it and i am not a professional around that so i don't know how professional services would not want

to do the same. i think there needs to do the same. i think there needs to be an independent enquiry into at least a 20 year period in bradford. it has been happening for years, long before it started happening to me and long after it started happening to me. it has been hidden away. for happening to me. it has been hidden awa . ., ., ., ., , happening to me. it has been hidden awa. ., ., ., ., , , ., away. for now, fiona is focusing on her mental — away. for now, fiona is focusing on her mental health. _ away. for now, fiona is focusing on her mental health. she _ away. for now, fiona is focusing on her mental health. she has - her mental health. she has post—traumatic stress disorder but is still on a waiting list for treatment and openly admits she is struggling. it is treatment and openly admits she is stru: rulin. , ., ., treatment and openly admits she is strullllin. , ., ., ., treatment and openly admits she is struaalain. ., ., ., struggling. it is hard to move on with our struggling. it is hard to move on with your life — struggling. it is hard to move on with your life independently - struggling. it is hard to move on | with your life independently away from being that victim and it is hard to change from being that victim to a survivor. i think it is a personal battle that i must face and eventually i think i will be able to move on.— and eventually i think i will be able to move on. that is fiona goddard telling _ able to move on. that is fiona goddard telling her— able to move on. that is fiona goddard telling her story. - able to move on. that is fiona goddard telling her story. you j able to move on. that is fiona - goddard telling her story. you are watching bbc news, whether time now and the latest forecast from sarah keith lucas.

hello. plenty of heavy thunderstorms and downpours with us today and the next couple of days, too. there is an amber weather warning for parts of scotland for thunderstorms today and rain tomorrow, so flooding being likely. there are slow moving intense downpours. elsewhere across the uk, sunny spells and scattered heavy showers, some hail and a lot of rain falling in a short space of time. flooding possible for many areas. overnight, the showers fade away in the side quite quickly but we will continue to see slow moving downpours in central scotland and the north west of england, so quite a soggy start for many for wednesday morning. we could have flooding problems. temperatures about 13 and 15 degrees. to start the day, sunshine in the south at least, but heavy thundery showers developing. in central and northern parts of scotland they could be prolonged.

flooding lightly over the next three days. all the warnings are on a website. goodbye. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: damning criticism of a london council for allowing the decades—long abuse of more than 700 children in five children's homes. more medaljoy for team gb at the olympics — as tom dean and duncan scott pick up gold and silver in the men's 200 metres freestyle. cheering and applause jubilation for tom dean's family and friends back home as they celebrated his gold medal success. and georgia taylor—brown won a silver medal in the women's traithlon — and two more bronze including bianca walkden in taekwondo. more electronic tagging for burglars, and a pledge to provide a named officer for every neighbourhood are announced as part of a new crime reduction strategy

for england and wales. an independent review into child sexual exploitation in bradford says some children in the city remain unprotected and are still being abused. and a woman who was seriously injured after being hit by a car at a festival says her two—year old daughter was saved by her husband throwing her out of the way. even more medals to tell you about. sport now and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. the last hour and a half in tokyo has brought team gb a succession of bronze medals. the most notable of them was in a dramatic gymnastics women's tea m eve nt. alice kinsella, amelie morgan, and twin sisters jennifer and jessica gadirova. jessica with this vault that helped secure a first women's team medal since 1928.

russia won ahead of the united states which was where the drama happened because this comes after the shock news that simone biles has pulled out of the gymnastics team final. the hugely sucessful and well—known gymnast started the event on the vault which was below her usual standard. then she left the arena only to return shortly afterwards and put on her tracksuit. confirmation then that she'd withdrawn due to a medical issue. the us team said, "she will be assessed daily to determine medical clearance for future competitions. " biles was hoping to win all six golds available to her to become the most successful olympic gymnast of all time. britain's bianca walkden has won the second olympic medal of her career. she got another bronze in the taekwondo above 67 kilogram category. having come agonisingly close to a place in the final earlier on, walkden shrugged off her disappointment to beat poland's aleksandra kowalczuk. this time holdling on to a lead to eventually win 7 points to 3. it's her second

consecutive bronze medal. and news of yet another bronze in just the last few minutes in the team dressage competition. for charlotte dujardin it's a record—equalling fifth olympic medal. dujardin, the reigning individual dressage champion, carl hester and charlotte fry. earlier, team gb secured a fourth gold of tokyo 2020 and with it their best start to an olympics. tom dean and duncan scott also delivered britain's first one—two in the pool for 113 years. it came in the 200metres freestyle final. in a thrilling finish, dean, who's in lane 6, touched home in one minute aa.22 seconds, securing a british record at his debut games. scott finished just four hundredths of a second behind. i can't thank my coach enough, dave mcnulty.

he said we are writing an amazing story with the covid cases rising. i had six or seven weeks out of the pool, which is unheard—of. he brought me through it and i can't thank him enough. here we are. there was a brilliant comeback from great britain's here we are. men's rugby sevens side to reach the semi—finals. they were 21—0 down to the united states, but fought back to win 26—21 with dan norton crossing for the decisive score. they'll meet new zealand tomorrrow, as they try to go one better than the silver they picked up in rio. another shock earlier on in the tennis as the home favourite and one of faces of the games — naomi osaka — was knocked out in the third round by the world number a2 marketa vondrousova. osaka, who made history as the first tennis player to light the olympic cauldron at an opening ceremony, was beaten in straight sets. but andy murray goes on in the men's doubles, he and his partnerjoe salisbury are through to the quarter—finals in tokyo. they backed up their impressive opening—round win to beat germany's kevin krawietz and tim putz 6—2 7—6. and in the singles, a really impressive

win for liam brodie. he was only called up to the team a week before the games and he's now knocked out hubert hurkacz — the man who beat roger federer at wimbledon. broady winning in three sets to reach the third round — for one of the biggest wins of his career so far. and a look back to great britain's first medal of the day came in the women's triathlon, where georgia taylor—brown took silver. she was beaten by bermuda's flora duffy who made history by winning the island nation's first gold at an olympics — and first medal of any kind since a bronze in boxing at the montreal games in �*76. for taylor—brown second was a great achievement too, she revealed afterwards she was on crutches just 12 weeks ago and spent part of the bike stage of the race with a flat tyre but powered on regardless to finish second. great britain's women have drawn their final group game in the football tournament, having already qualified for the quarter finals. the team for the game against canada showed a lot of changes. adriana leon scored the opening goal of the game

in the second half. caroline weir's deflected shot with five minutes to go means team gb go through as group winners. a bit of football transfer news and manchester united look set to continue their summer spending by completing the signing of real madrid defender raphael varane. an initialfee of around £3a million has been agreed — potentially rising to £a2 million with add ons. varane won four champions league titles with real along with the world cup with france in 2018. and in rugby union... ..head coach warren gatland has made three changes to the british and irish lions line up as they look to wrap up the series against south africa in the second test on saturday. scotland scrum half ali price makes way for ireland's conor murray to come into the side. prop mako vunipola replaces rory sutherland and centre chris harris will start in place of elliot daly. no 8 taulupe faletau is on the bench after missing out on the first test. that's all the sport for now.

let's cross live now to washington dc where the congressional committee investigating the january 6th attack on the us capitol is holding its first meeting. this is the chair, bernie thompson, we are expecting to hear from police officers who were amongst those attacked by rioters when they forced their way into the building and hunted down the likes of the house speaker nancy pelosi. we can now listen in to this committee hearing in washington into the events of the 6th of january. in washington into the events of the 6th ofjanuary— 6th of january. officer turning left instead of turning _ 6th of january. officer turning left instead of turning right. _ 6th of january. officer turning left instead of turning right. but - 6th of january. officer turning left instead of turning right. butjust l instead of turning right. butjust describing that attack does not come close to capturing what actually took place that day. we are going to

see some of what eyewitnesses saw on the 6th of january and lets see the video please, but please be advised that it contains graphic... that video please, but please be advised that it contains graphic. . .— that it contains graphic... that was a flavour of — that it contains graphic... that was a flavour of the _ that it contains graphic... that was a flavour of the committee - that it contains graphic... that was a flavour of the committee going i that it contains graphic... that was| a flavour of the committee going on right now. it is a process which some have said is a shambles because the house republican leadership have effectively boycotted this select committee, pulling theirfive committee, pulling their five appointments committee, pulling theirfive appointments last week. but they will be hearing and it will be interesting to listen to those first hand accounts from police officers who were attacked when rioters stormed the building, supporters of donald trump, stormed the building, and this is all happening live now in washington, six months after a mob of his supporters stormed what is the seat of american democracy in the worst attack on congress since

the worst attack on congress since the will of 1812, in fact. the american public will hear the first testimony —— the war of 1812. it has become a partisan flashpoint in washington, this whole process. they arejust washington, this whole process. they are just watching a video now of that attack which we cannot show you but this is a congressional panel in washington that is investigating the deadly us capitol insurrection and we will bring new flavours of it throughout the day as we hear some of that please testimony about how those police officers were attacked on that day. more burglars will have to wear electronic tags on release from prison, under a government plan to cut crime in england and wales. borisjohnson launched the programme on his first day out of covid isolation. it includes removing rules introduced by the former prime minister theresa may which made it harderfor police

to stop and search suspects — and having a named officer for each local area. but the police federation said these were old ideas presented as new. daniel sandford reports. a dramatic arrest in london this year as armed officers intercepted a man carrying two scorpion submachineguns. as the lockdowns ended, criminal activity has started up again — much of it linked to drugs. aware that crime is a high priority for the public, the prime minister and home secretary promised today to "build back safer" after the pandemic — with less crime, fewer victims and a safer society. what we are announcing today is plans to back the police but also to back the public, so that if you are the victim of a crime you have a named police

officer that you can go to, wherever you live, who will attend you, and make sure the police deal with your crime. while the government's beating crime plan has no major new policies, several pilot projects are being expanded, including one where burglars and robbers wear satellite tags so that movements can be monitored after their release from prison, and project adder, which looks to fight drug crime by tackling dealers and people who are addicted. ministers are also promising everybody in england and wales will be able to look up a name and contact details for a police officer responsible for their area. controversially, under the plan, the government has abandoned theresa may's tightening up of the stop and search rules. she introduced the changes because of concerns that the power was being used more against certain ethnic groups, but ministers say stop and search can have a big impact on reducing knife crime

and that is the priority. labour is accusing ministers of using gimmicks to cover up the impact of cuts. this government is soft on crime, frankly, and soft on the causes of crime. and that is the record of the past 11 years. you think of the cuts that have happened to youth clubs, to the number of youth workers, the number of social workers. and the criminaljustice system is still under huge pressure. the police federation is furious about a recent pay freeze, the courts have an enormous backlog caused by the pandemic and thejustice committee of mps warned today that cuts to legal aid have hollowed out parts of the system, and this is putting fair trials at risk. daniel sandford, bbc news. a woman seriously injured when an unoccupied car ran over a tent in denbighshire, says her two year old daughter was saved only when her husband three her out of the way. jenna o'neill suffered life changing injuries in the incident at the conscious tribal gathering

festival near corwen on saturday. rob thomas sent this report from the scene. jenna o'neill, her husband and their two—year—old daughter were camping at the bottom of a steep hill when this incident happened. according tojenna, the family were sat outside their tent just after eating their lunch. a number of vehicles were parked at the top of the hill above them and it seems one of the vehicles, which was unoccupied, began rolling towards where the family were sitting. she says her husband's quick thinking meant he was able to throw their daughter out of their way of the vehicle. stephen o'neill suffered a fractured ankle in the incident and was treated in hospital in wrexham. but she was more badly injured. she was left with a broken collarbone, broken ribs and a fractured pelvis. she also suffered damage to her liver and her spleen.

jenna was airlifted to hospital in stoke, where she is still being treated. she told the bbc that at the time of the incident, she thought her whole family had been killed. she described her husband as a hero for acting so quickly to protect their daughter. the police and ambulance services were of course called to the event. the conscious tribal gathering event was being staged here for the fifth time and it ended yesterday. it is described as a family friendly event featuring live music and a range of other activities. although it ended yesterday, a number of people are still at the site today, and the organisers have been asked to comment about the incident but have yet to issue any statement about what happened. officials in the united states have made renewed appeals to the unvaccinated, as the delta variant of covid—19 begins to take hold there. only around half the us population is fully jabbed against the virus, and local leaders are warning people of the dangers of refusing the vaccine. a growing number of counties in california are now asking people to wear face masks in all indoor

places, regardless of whether they've had the jab. our north america correspondent, sophie long reports. well, here's the truth. if you are fully vaccinated, you are safer with a higher degree of protection. but if you are not vaccinated, you are not protected. cheering and now... what we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. the message from the president is clear. but covid cases are climbing, and it's causing deep concern. we are going in the wrong direction. if you look at the inflection of the curve of new cases, and as you said in the run—in to this interview, that it is among the unvaccinated. and since we have 50% of the country not fully vaccinated, that is a problem. in some states like alabama, the vaccination rates are much lower, fuelling fears that intensive

care units could reach capacity once more. the new cases in covid are because of unvaccinated folks. almost 100% of the new hospitalisations are with unvaccinated folks. and the deaths, certainly, are occurring with unvaccinated folks. these folks are choosing a horrible lifestyle of self—inflicted pain. from the east coast to the west, officials are redoubling their efforts to push people to act responsibly. anybody that's hospitalised or is in an icu from covid right now, is there by choice, is there because they didn't make the effort to get vaccinated. and that's what we need to fix. but this is the land of the free. and in california's orange county, where hospitalisations are surging, even the seriously ill remain reluctant to have the injection that could save lives.

i think it's an individual decision. there's a lot of factors that are going into it. there are politics involved. and there are multiple sides of the equation. due to this latest surge being driven by the highly transmissible delta variant, la county has now reinstated its indoor mask wearing mandate, even for those who have been vaccinated. with the us in another pivotal moment, officials in other states could soon follow suit. sophie long, bbc news, los angeles. one person has been killed, four people are missing and 16 have been injured in an explosion at an industrial site housing the headquarters of the pharmaceutical company, bayer, in north—western germany. footgage on social media shows a thick cloud of black smoke billowing above the city of leverkusen. the police have closed the nearby autobahns. the german government's civil protection agency warned residents

in the area of "extreme danger" and urged people to keep doors and windows closed. a man from norfolk is back home with his family at last, after spending all of 2021 in hospital with coronavirus. sean hunte was in the norfolk and norwich hospitalfor 203 days — a 120 in critical care. now he's urging everyone who can, to get vaccinated. mike liggins reports. sean is back in his garden with his wife for the first time in a long time. he was taken ill injanuary this year and he had diabetes, pancreatitis and then he caught covid in the norfolk and norwich university hospital. he was put on a ventilator but the doctors did not think he would survive. the doctors said to me — think he would survive. the doctors said to me that _ think he would survive. the doctors said to me that i _ think he would survive. the doctors said to me that i was _ think he would survive. the doctors said to me that i was that _ think he would survive. the doctors said to me that i was that close - think he would survive. the doctors said to me that i was that close to i said to me that i was that close to death, they called my wife in a few

times, as well.— death, they called my wife in a few times, as well. they had someone to see me and — times, as well. they had someone to see me and they _ times, as well. they had someone to see me and they talked _ times, as well. they had someone to see me and they talked me - times, as well. they had someone to see me and they talked me through i see me and they talked me through whatever— see me and they talked me through whatever the process was, the different— whatever the process was, the different drugs they would use to help him — different drugs they would use to help him pass and i said, i'm not ready— help him pass and i said, i'm not ready to — help him pass and i said, i'm not ready to see _ help him pass and i said, i'm not ready to see you, i'm not ready to let him _ ready to see you, i'm not ready to let him go — ready to see you, i'm not ready to let him go-— let him go. there were times i thanht let him go. there were times i thought i _ let him go. there were times i thought i would _ let him go. there were times i thought i would not _ let him go. there were times i thought i would not make - let him go. there were times i thought i would not make it i let him go. there were times i i thought i would not make it until the end of the week and there were other times i did not think i would make it through the night. ifelt dreadful and i could not move and i could not speak because i had a track you could meet. fin could not speak because i had a track you could meet. on friday he left hospital— track you could meet. on friday he left hospital after _ track you could meet. on friday he left hospital after 203 _ track you could meet. on friday he left hospital after 203 days - track you could meet. on friday he left hospital after 203 days and - track you could meet. on friday he left hospital after 203 days and he | left hospital after 203 days and he can't speak highly enough of the staff at the hospital and is now urging anyone who has not been vaccinated to get a job. the urging anyone who has not been vaccinated to get a job. vaccinated to get a “0b. the risks of not having h vaccinated to get a “0b. the risks of not having it, _ vaccinated to get a “0b. the risks of not having it, i _ vaccinated to get a job. the risks of not having it, i think— vaccinated to get a job. the risks of not having it, i think they - vaccinated to get a job. the risks of not having it, i think they are l of not having it, i think they are just too great == of not having it, i think they are just too grea— of not having it, i think they are 'ust too area ., , ., ., ., just too great -- 'ab. you have got to let a just too great -- 'ab. you have got to get a vaccine — just too great -- jab. you have got to get a vaccine and _ just too great -- jab. you have got to get a vaccine and protect - to get a vaccine and protect yourself and your loved to get a vaccine and protect yourself and your loved ones, it is

too much- — yourself and your loved ones, it is too much. sean _ yourself and your loved ones, it is too much. sean knows _ yourself and your loved ones, it is too much. sean knows his- yourself and your loved ones, it is l too much. sean knows his recovery yourself and your loved ones, it is i too much. sean knows his recovery is likel to too much. sean knows his recovery is likely to be — too much. sean knows his recovery is likely to be long _ too much. sean knows his recovery is likely to be long and _ too much. sean knows his recovery is likely to be long and hard, _ too much. sean knows his recovery is likely to be long and hard, but- too much. sean knows his recovery is likely to be long and hard, but he - likely to be long and hard, but he loves food and dancing, and he's planning to be back on the dance floor as soon as possible. the headlines on bbc news... damning criticism of a london council for allowing the decades—long abuse of more than 700 children in five children's homes. more medaljoy for team gb at the olympics — as tom dean and duncan scott pick up gold and silver in the men's 200 metres freestyle. and georgia taylor—brown has won a silver medal in the women's traithlon — while bianca walkden picked up bronze in taekwondo. for more than 3,000 car workers at swindon's honda plant, this week is their last at the plant. the japanese car maker has been

a vital part of the area's economy for 35 years, but by friday the last vehicle will have rolled off the production line. even though the closure has been two years in the pipeline, many are still looking forjobs that match their skills. dave harvey has been hearing from some of them. it felt like my world had just collapsed. i like working at honda. when they announced it, we were on an apprenticeship as well. it was just like my world had collapsed. it was a huge shock. for me personally, i felt i'd got my foot on the ladder in terms of a career i was really interested in. it sort of knocked us for six, really. it was quite a blow. it has been a long two years forjim, michael and thousands of other honda workers trying to find work. midway through their apprenticeships, they have now been taken on by a new firm making cutting edge recycling machines, eager to snap up

staff with the honda track record. the guys are really great, really enthusiastic, always willing to dive in, be hands on. always wanting to be learning things, training. you know, they crave learning and continuous improvement. it's fantastic. it's completely different to honda. for example, on monday i was at the university of birmingham setting up our research rig. it's a completely different job. it's not even comparable. very positive, honestly. in fact, i think i'm in a better place now. the promise of further training and even degree level qualifications, i'm really happy, honestly. for the other 3,000 workers in this vast factory, their fortunes lay with the union, negotiating redundancy packages to keep them going while they look for work. they are unprecedented, in my view. i've not experienced anything in this industry or any other industry.

it equates to about six and a half weeks for every year i served. it is uncapped, unlike the statutory minimum. and there are additional bonuses wrapped up within that. they will walk out with very, very lucrative redundancy packages. especially if you have been here for a long time. honda swindon is surrounded by trading estates, small factories and several big warehouse operations. soon, thousands of ex—car workers will be here looking for work. the current conditions of the market, i'll be honest with you, there are more jobs than people. the biggest challenge for these guys is going to be their salary expectations. we had a conversation with a production operative. worked there for more than 20 years, and he was on over £20 an hour. you're probably looking realistically at anything from minimum wage up to £10 an hour. so i think there will be a bit of a reality check for a lot

of the honda workers. for michaelandjim, then, a bright future. but they have hundreds of friends still searching for jobs. you try and think, there are 3,500 people there. so, they might not all be so lucky. the bbc�*s business reporter dave harvey reporting from swindon. let's cross live now to washington dc where the congressional committee investigating the january 6th attack on the us capitol is holding its first meeting. the various police officers who were there that they have been sworn in and we can now listen to their testimony. ! and we can now listen to their testimony-— and we can now listen to their testimon . , ., ., , ., and we can now listen to their testimon . ., , testimony. i can you to tell you my sto . testimony. i can you to tell you my story- from _ testimony. i can you to tell you my story- from my — testimony. i can you to tell you my story. from my painful— testimony. i can you to tell you my story. from my painfulfirst - testimony. i can you to tell you my story. from my painful first hand i story. from my painful first hand experience what happened that day at the capitol. providing there is testimony solely in my personal capacity, not as a representative of the us. it is imperative that events

of the 6th of january artfully investigated in the congress and that the american people know the truth —— are fully investigated. and that all those responsible are held accountable especially to make sure that their horrific and shameful actions are never repeated. i applaud you for pursuing this objective. even though there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary, including hours and hours of videos, and photographic coverage, there is a continuous attempt to ignore or try to destroy the truth of what truly happened that day. and to whitewash the facts into something other than what they mistakenly reveal, an attack on our democracy. by a violent domestic extremists, and a stain on our history and our moral standing at home and abroad. as a child in the

dominican republic, i looked up to the united states as the land of opportunity, and a place to better myself. and from the moment i landed atjfk in 1992, i have tried to pursue that goal. thankfully, i achieved that goal on many levels. i was the first in my family to graduate college, joined the army, and became a police officer. on the 20th ofjuly, 1999, the day before my 21st birthday, i raised my hand and sought to protect the constitution of the united states —— swore to protect. because this country gave me an opportunity to become anything that i wanted. at that time, i started basic training

with the army reserves and i raised my hand several times in ceremony, in ceremonies, to pledge my commitment and to protect the constitution of the united states, and when ijoined the army reserves, when i was promoted to sergeant in the army, when i was promoted during my naturalisation ceremony and also when ijoined the united states capitol police and asked me when i was promoted to sergeant three years ago. —— lastly. i have always taken my odes seriously and on the 6th of january 20 201! fulfilled my oath once more. time to defend the united states capitol and members of congress. carrying out their constitutional duties, to satisfy the results of the november 2020 presidential election. to be honest,

i do not recognise my fellow citizens who came to the capitol on the sixth of january or the united states they claim to represent, and i was 25 years old and then a sergeant in the army, i was deployed to iraq, for a the operation, iraqi freedom, and sometimes i conducted missions for us and allied forces and local iraqi population, as well, but on the 6th of january, for the first time, i was more afraid to work at the capitol in my entire deployment to a —— than in my entire deployment to a —— than in my entire deployment to a —— than in my entire deployment to iraq. in iraq we expected violence because we were in a ward zone but nothing in my experience in the army or as a law enforcement officer prepared me for what happened on the 6th of january.

the verbal results we enjoyed from the writers were bad enough, i was falsely accused —— we suffered from the rioters were bad enough, i was falsely accused of choosing my paycheque over my loyalty to the us constitution, even as i defended the very democratic process that protected everyone in the crowd. i was at the west terrace in the capitol working with my fellow officers to prevent the breach and restore order, but the rioters called me traitor. they called me a disgrace, and shouted that i can and army veteran and police officer, should be executed. —— that i can and army veteran and police officer. some had the audacity to tell me that it was nothing personal, that they would go

through me, through us, police officers, to achieve their goal, while they were going through metal barriers to use as weapons against us. they used more menacing language. if you shoot us, we all have weapons, we will shoot back. or we will get our guns, we outnumber you, they said, join us. i heard specific threats to the lives of the speaker nancy pelosi and vice president mike pence. the physical violence we experienced was horrific and devastating. mike fellow officers and i were punched, kicked, shoved, sprayed with chemical irritants and even blinded with either damaging lasers by a violent mob who apparently saw us, more

enforcement, officers dedicated to protecting them as us citizens, as an impediment to their attempted insurrection. the attempted to achieve their insurrection and used weapons against us. these weapons, including hammers, knives, patterns, and police shields taken by force as well as pepper spray and bear spray, some of the rioters were tactical gear, including bullet—proof vests and gas masks. rioter also forcibly took our battalions and shields to use against us. i was particularly shocked at the scene of insurrectionists attacking us with the very american flag they claimed they sought to protect. based on the tactics we saw and verbal commands we heard, it appears that many of

these attackers add law enforcement or military experience. —— had law enforcement. they were racists and we found ourselves in a day spirit desperate battle —— we found ourselves in a desperate battle. police officers were being pulled into the crowd. i have one right next to me. as we tried to push the rioters back from reaching the capitol, my attempt to assist other officers and grab one the back of the car and pulled him to the back of the police line, when i tried to help the second officer, i fell on top of some police shields on the ground which were slippery because of the pepper spray and bear spray. rioters immediately began to pull me by my leg, my shield and the gear

strap on my left shoulder. my survival instincts kicked in and i started kicking and punching as i tried in vain to get the attention of an officer behind and above me. they could not help me because they also were being attacked. i was finally able to hit the rioter who was grabbing me with my baton and able to stand. and then i continued to fend off new attackers as they kept rotating and attacking us again and again. we were subjected... what we were subjected to that day was like something from a medieval battle. we fought hand—to—hand, inch by inch, to prevent an invasion of the capitol by a violent mob intent

on ruining our democratic process. mike fellow officers and i were committed to not letting any rioters reach the capitol. it was very prolonged and a desperate struggle and the rioters who were attempting to reach the capitol were saying, trumpet centres, pick the right side, we want from! —— trump sent us. i heard officers screaming in agony, in pain, and i didn't know at that time that it was officer hodges and he is here to testify. i too was being crushed by the rioters and i could feel myself losing oxygen and recall thinking to myself, this is how i am going to die, defending.

defending this entrance. many officers fighting alongside me were calling for shields as there is had been stripped from them by the rioters. i was one of a few officers left with a shield, so i spent the majority of my time at the front of the line. i laterfound out my majority of my time at the front of the line. i later found out my wife and relatives were... they were here in the us. they were frantically calling and texting me from 2pm onwards. because they were watching it on television. it was now for 20 6pm and after giving cpr to one of the rioters who breached the capitol, in attempt to save her

life, i was able to let my family know that i was alive. after order had finally been restored at the capitol, after many hours i arrived at home at aam onjanuary the 7th. i had to push my wife away from me because she wanted to hug me. i thought, no, because of all the chemicals on my uniform. sorry. i couldn't sleep because the chemicals reactivated after i took a shower and my skin was burning. i

finally fell asleep two hours later, completely, physically and mentally exhausted, yet by 8am, i was already back on my way back to the capitol. and i continued to work for 15 consecutive days until the after the integration. imho i work despite my injuries because i wanted to continue doing myjob and helped secure the capitol complex. i continued to work despite. i am still trying to recover from continued to work despite. i am still trying to recoverfrom my injuries. many of my fellow capitol officers, as well as other officers, suffered terrible physical injuries from the violence inflicted upon us

on january the 6th. from the violence inflicted upon us onjanuary the 6th. i sustain injuries on both of my hands, my left shoulder, my left half, my right foot. i have had surgery on my right foot. i have had surgery on my right foot. i have had surgery on my right foot and i was just told that i need surgery on my left shoulder. i need surgery on my left shoulder. i have been on medical administrative lever for much of the last six months and i may be en route dilatation —— i may be in rehabilitation for the next year. where are the people expressing outrage to condemn the violence attacks on law enforcement at the capitol in our american democracy? i'm still waiting for them. as

america and the world was watching her and what was happening at the capitol, we did not receive timely reinforcement and the support we needed. in contrast, during the black lives matter test last year, us capitol police had all the support we needed and more. why was there a different response quiz might where it's not for the brave members of law enforcement, i dread to think what could have happened on january the 6th. i want to thank them for their courage and support, and i want to especially thank those capitol police officers who responded on their way home after working a midnight shift. despite being outnumbered, we did ourjob. every member of the house of

representatives, senators and staff members, made it home. sadly, as a result of our stay, we lost officers, some really good offices, but we held the line to protect our democratic process. because the alternative would have been a disaster. we are not asking for medals, recognition, we simply wants justice and accountability. for most people, january the 6th happened for a few hours. but for us, or those of us who were in the thick of it, it has not ended. that day continued to be a constant trauma for us literally everyday, whether because of our physical or emotional injuries or both. while it has now received much attention, sadly, many of my colleagues have resigned because of that day. i want to call

for close to see the pictures and videos and, to be honest, physical therapy is hard. i could have lost my life that day. not once, but many times. but as soon i recoverfrom my injuries, i will continue forward and proudly serve my country in the us capitol. as an immigrant to the united states, i am especially proud to have defended the us constitution and our democracy onjanuary the 6th. i hope everyone in a position of authority in our country has the courage, conviction to do their part by investigating what happened on that terrible day and why. this

investigation is essential to our democracy and i'm deeply grateful to you for undertaking it. i'm happy to assist as i can answer any questions you may have two the best of my ability. thank you.— ability. thank you. thank you... that is the _ ability. thank you. thank you... that is the evidence _ ability. thank you. thank you... that is the evidence of - ability. thank you. thank you... that is the evidence of one - ability. thank you. thank you... that is the evidence of one of i ability. thank you. thank you... | that is the evidence of one of the officers there onjanuary that is the evidence of one of the officers there on january the that is the evidence of one of the officers there onjanuary the 6th at the storming of the us congress at capitol hill, who said what we were subjected to this day was like something from a medieval battlefield. we thought hand—to—hand and inch by inch to prevent an invasion of the capitol by a violent mob intent on subverting the democratic process. that was the officer's evidence to that committee officer's evidence to that committee of enquiry into what happened, a committee which has been fiercely opposed by republicans in the house of representatives, who say the

whole thing is politically motivated by the democrats. but this wasn't officer who —— but this was an officer who —— but this was an officer who —— but this was an officer who was beaten by a flagpole while defending the capitol and his sliced open. we will pull away from that now but will go back to that a little later on. interesting evidence in ashington dc. your watching bbc news. an inquiry report has criticised the london borough of lambeth for allowing the abuse of hundreds of children in its homes for decades. the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has been investigating allegations dating back as far as the 1970s. it said it was hard to comprehend the cruelty that was inflicted, and officials left children to cope with trauma on their own. lambeth council has apologised to victims. our correspondent, tom symonds, has been looking at the findings. the independent enquiry into child sexual abuse,

which is a very wide—ranging public enquiry, has been going for years now and has produced a whole load of reports but this is one of the most scathing. this abuse scandal in lambeth is one of the biggest past sexual abuse scandals. 705 children were abused in five children's homes by 177 staff. the report is highly critical of lambeth council, saying it is hard to comprehend the cruelty and sexual abuse inflicted on children — there was little warmth or compassion shown towards them. they were left to cope with the trauma of their abuse on their own. the particular criticism of lambeth council is that it often knew it was putting children with people, mainly men, who were potentially going to abuse them. but it did not investigate when there were incidents

and reports of abuse, and even allowed staff with allegations surrounding them and it did not pass on any information to new employers of those people. the enquiry says that during that period, in the 1980s, lambeth was run by the labour party and it was taking on the on the conservative government of margaret thatcher which was trying to reduce the amount of funding to councils like lambeth. and this report says that during that period, the council was embroiled in a political battle that left children, its own responsibility, as pawns in a toxic power game and was distracted by the politics of the battle it was fighting. these are highly critical comments from this enquiry. let's speak to lord mann — former labour mp who has previously raised concerns about child sexual abuse. he's also a former councillor in lambeth, and he submitted a written statement to the inquiry.

thank you very much for being with us. what went wrong in lambeth? the council was us. what went wrong in lambeth? tue: council was totally us. what went wrong in lambeth? tte: council was totally dysfunctional, totally corrupt from top to bottom and people were not looking to see what was going on. and when you have that level of dysfunctionality and the deep, deep levels of corruption, then all too sadly and appallingly, what comes out, to me, is not a surprise. what comes out, to me, is not a sur-rise. �* ., what comes out, to me, is not a surprise-— surprise. and we have seen this before in other _ surprise. and we have seen this before in other areas _ surprise. and we have seen this before in other areas of - surprise. and we have seen this before in other areas of the - before in other areas of the country. what do councils need to do to stop this sort of thing ever happening again? what sort of safeguards do we need to see that we have not had in the past and maybe do not have now to prevent a repetition of this? we do not have now to prevent a repetition of this?— do not have now to prevent a repetition of this? we must treat children in care _

repetition of this? we must treat children in care as _ repetition of this? we must treat children in care as first-class - children in care as first—class citizens, not third class citizens. they were as third class citizens all the way through, as objects to be moved around, as problems to be put somewhere, and i think there are other councils many skeletons hidden away and that have not surfaced yet. this is notjust about one or two councils, but lambeth was particularly bad because it was so deeply dysfunctional, so deeply corrupted. i think the biggest single change to protect young children into the future is that i think there must be a legal duty of care and councillors, elected representatives, who can then be held to account if they fail to look at what is going on in their own systems. and i think that is a fundamental weakness in the current system where the councillors do whatever the council offices talent

and what we have found in lambeth is, as this report shows, the council officers were not doing theirjobs properly and it becomes a cycle of deprivation. that is precisely why these children were so let down, so badly abused. and lives were ruined in such a horrific way. and badly let down, but hundreds of them, and over such a long period of time, decades. it is astonishing that it took so long for this to come to light. t that it took so long for this to come to light.— that it took so long for this to come to liaht. , ., , ., , come to light. i first raise matters with the police _ come to light. i first raise matters with the police myself— come to light. i first raise matters with the police myself in - come to light. i first raise matters with the police myself in 1989 - come to light. i first raise matters with the police myself in 1989 and come to light. i first raise matters. with the police myself in 1989 and i think there was a disbelief, and i was not dealing with the children pass mccombes, but rather other parts of the council, but i was hearing rumours. —— with the children's homes. but it was so ingrained into the council, even looking back now. i think people

thought i was exaggerating and i brought in elizabeth appleby, a top qc, and being a woman qc, i thought she would be more likely to get on top of this. she spent six years in there and could not take out half of there and could not take out half of the stuff that was there. 199a, inspector clive driscoll, who immediately came to see me and i gave him all of my stuff and he persevered, but he was a police officer to much on his own. the police were not coping or dealing with this. i think we were letting down those children in so many different ways. now the system is a lot better but requires people to take responsibility and that is what was lacking in lambeth, and in other councils, but particularly grotesquely in lambeth. just councils, but particularly araotesuel in lambeth. , grotesquely in lambeth. just looking at the national _ grotesquely in lambeth. just looking at the national picture, _ grotesquely in lambeth. just looking at the national picture, is _ grotesquely in lambeth. just looking at the national picture, is this - grotesquely in lambeth. just looking at the national picture, is this a - at the national picture, is this a matter notjust at the national picture, is this a matter not just for local

authorities but fun national —— but for national governments to set out the guidelines to make sure this does not happen again? tt the guidelines to make sure this does not happen again?- the guidelines to make sure this does not happen again? it must be the responsibility _ does not happen again? it must be the responsibility of— does not happen again? it must be the responsibility of national- the responsibility of national government. local government will not be sufficient to deal with this. this needs national government. if there was a situation like lambeth had these days, then as happened with rotherham, the government would sendin with rotherham, the government would send in commissioners to sort it out and that is a big step forward to what was there in the past. but the changes are required by national government and i think people... there must be a system that means people realise they will be held to account and that is not there. they are adults now and are not all with us, those who are children and went through this, but for them to hold people to account, frankly, they get an apology, which is no big deal. in my view. they get some compensation,

they don't often even get that. but they don't often even get that. but they are not seeing the changes that are required to protect today's children and tomorrow's children, who end up in care.— children and tomorrow's children, who end up in care. good to talk to ou. who end up in care. good to talk to you- thank — who end up in care. good to talk to you- thank you _ who end up in care. good to talk to you. thank you so _ who end up in care. good to talk to you. thank you so much _ who end up in care. good to talk to you. thank you so much for- who end up in care. good to talk to you. thank you so much for your i who end up in care. good to talk to i you. thank you so much for your time and forjoining us on bbc news. thank you so much for your time and forjoining us on bbc news. more burglars will have to wear electronic tags on release from prison under a government plan to cut crime in england and wales. borisjohnson launched the programme on his first day out of covid isolation. it includes removing rules introduced by the former prime minister theresa may, which made it harderfor police to stop and search suspects, and having a named officer for each local area also. but the police federation said these were old ideas presented as new. daniel sandford reports. a dramatic arrest in london this year as armed officers intercepted a man carrying two

scorpion sub—machine guns. as the lockdowns ended, criminal activity has started up again — much of it linked to drugs. aware that crime is a high priority for the public, the prime minister and home secretary promised today to "build back safer" after the pandemic — with less crime, fewer victims and a safer society. what we are announcing today is plans to back the police but also to back the public, so that if you are the victim of a crime, you have a named police officer that you can go to, wherever you live, who will attend you, and make sure the police deal with your crime. while the government's beating crime plan has no major new policies, several pilot projects are being expanded, including one

where burglars and robbers wear satellite tags so their movements can be monitored after their release from prison, and project adder, which looks to fight drug crime by tackling dealers and people who are addicted. ministers are also promising everybody in england and wales will be able to look up a name and contact details for a police officer responsible for their area. controversially, under the plan, the government has abandoned theresa may's tightening up of the stop and search rules. she introduced the changes because of concerns that the power was being used more against certain ethnic groups, but ministers say stop and search can have a big impact on reducing knife crime and that is the priority. labour is accusing ministers of using gimmicks to cover up the impact of cuts. this government is soft on crime, frankly, and soft on the causes of crime. and that is the record of the past 11 years. you think of the cuts that have happened to youth clubs, to the number of youth workers, the number of social workers. and the criminaljustice system is still under huge pressure. the police federation is furious about a recent pay freeze,

the courts have an enormous backlog caused by the pandemic and thejustice committee of mps warned today that cuts to legal aid have hollowed out parts of the system, and this is putting fair trials at risk. daniel sandford, bbc news. i'm nowjoined by steve roberts, who is a former met police deputy assistant commissioner. thank you for your time. what do you think of these ideas and will they make a difference? will they cut crime? tt make a difference? will they cut crime? , , ., crime? it is very positive that the prime minister _ crime? it is very positive that the prime minister has _ crime? it is very positive that the prime minister has done - crime? it is very positive that the prime minister has done what i crime? it is very positive that the i prime minister has done what prime ministers should do and focused on crime and the safety of communities and set out some priorities for the police services. that is a proper and useful thing to be doing, and within these proposals, there are some very positive elements that will help to make communities safer.

i am concerned about some of the language which, really, becomes a populist us and them approach of putting anti—social behaviour onto chain gangs. it is very exclusionary and what we need to be doing is bringing these people back within society, including them and not excluding them, so the powers are useful, the experiment and pilot projects are useful but they must be handled carefully and that is especially so with stop and search. what is actually the evidence on that? we have seen an increase of that? we have seen an increase of that in london, but many say it hasn't made much of a difference to crime figures. tt is hasn't made much of a difference to crime figures-— crime figures. it is a blunt instrument _ crime figures. it is a blunt instrument and _ crime figures. it is a blunt instrument and it - crime figures. it is a blunt instrument and it is - crime figures. it is a blunt instrument and it is a - crime figures. it is a blunt i instrument and it is a matter crime figures. it is a blunt - instrument and it is a matter of how stop and search is used rather than the powers you have. there is no getting away from the fact it has been useful in the past and —— it

has been abused in the past and young black men have been disproportionately targeted. that being said, if it is used properly with active community support and targeted on the right people, it can be used to take a lot of bad people off the streets and take a lot of knives and other weapons away from people. and ultimately, to save lives. �* . ., lives. but the evidence so far in london does — lives. but the evidence so far in london does not _ lives. but the evidence so far in london does not suggest - lives. but the evidence so far in london does not suggest it - lives. but the evidence so far in london does not suggest it has| lives. but the evidence so far in - london does not suggest it has made much difference. tt is london does not suggest it has made much difference.— much difference. it is mixed, to put it mildl , much difference. it is mixed, to put it mildly. the _ much difference. it is mixed, to put it mildly, the evidence, _ much difference. it is mixed, to put it mildly, the evidence, but - much difference. it is mixed, to put it mildly, the evidence, but when i it mildly, the evidence, but when used properly, and used in a positive manner, it can be useful. but it is only one part of a menu of options that can be used to bring down crime and articulate violent crime. a , down crime and articulate violent crime. , , ,, , crime. many people will like this idea of having _ crime. many people will like this idea of having unnamed - crime. many people will like this idea of having unnamed in - crime. many people will like this idea of having unnamed in your. crime. many people will like this - idea of having unnamed in your area, name and contact details, so you know exactly who the officer in your

local area is and how to get in touch with them. does that make sense? tt touch with them. does that make sense? ., , , ., , , sense? it does, but i am slightly confused because _ sense? it does, but i am slightly confused because in _ sense? it does, but i am slightly confused because in any - sense? it does, but i am slightly confused because in any case i sense? it does, but i am slightly i confused because in any case where sense? it does, but i am slightly - confused because in any case where a person has reported a crime, there will always be an officer in the case responsible for investigating that crime. the person in charge of policing in a particular area, the borough commander or other commander, it is well—known and contact details are already published. i'm not sure what the prime minister has in mind there. how do you see crime in this country in general? the labour party say this is really about under resourcing and not enough police officers, not enough funding for the police not enough funding for the criminaljustice police not enough funding for the criminal justice system. police not enough funding for the criminaljustice system. it is not about tinkering with things like stop and search.— about tinkering with things like sto- and search. , ., stop and search. there is an element of truth in that. _ stop and search. there is an element of truth in that. the _ stop and search. there is an element of truth in that. the police _

stop and search. there is an element of truth in that. the police alone - of truth in that. the police alone and the justice system alongside it are not going to solve crime in our society. solving and preventing crime, including those people who are then back into a decent society, thatis are then back into a decent society, that is the job of the police service, the courts service, but also social services, child and adolescent mental health services, youth clubs, charities. this is a whole community approach we need if we are going to give our young people better and more decent lives. they have to have purposeful activity. they have to have purposeful activi . ., ~ they have to have purposeful activi . ., ,, , ., ., they have to have purposeful activi . ., ., ., ., ,, activity. thank you and good to talk to ou. activity. thank you and good to talk to you- former— activity. thank you and good to talk to you. former deputy _ activity. thank you and good to talk to you. former deputy assistant i to you. former deputy assistant commissioner of the met. an independent review into child sexual exploitation in bradford says some children in the city remain unprotected and are still being abused. the review assessed child protection in the city over a 17—year period, focusing on five victims. earlier, our correspondent danny savage, who is in bradford, spoke to my colleague reeta

chakrabarti. yes, well, this 56—page report of investigation, explanation and recommendations to tackle the issue of child sexual abuse in bradford. this report focuses on five victims over a 17—year period and goes into quite some detail about each of them. four girls and one boy, most of whom are now adults who suffered abuse 10, 15 years ago. and it is a fairly familiar theme that runs through it. these were vulnerable children, preyed upon by older men who would win their trust and then take them away and sexually abuse them. so the biggest question, i think, that comes out of this report is, how many children were abused over the last two or three decades in the city? and the biggest worry that comes out of the report is that it appears to be ongoing in places and the number of perpetrators is unknown, so what happens next?

well, there are calls now from some of the victims named in this report, some of those five who were part of this investigation, saying what they want to see now is a rotherham—style investigation, with a much broader remit, to try to establish how widespread the abuse of children was in the city, how long it has gone on for, how many perpetrators there where and how many more people need to be brought to justice. and various agencies who have been involved in this report — the police, the child protection authorities — have been giving interviews this afternoon and they won't be drawn on whether or not it is a good idea to have a further enquiry. that will be down to the secretary of state to decide whether or not there should be a wider investigation, but it certainly raises some very worrying questions. it is quite similar to what we've heard before from other large english towns like rotherham and rochdale, about how children were trafficked and abused. and it isjust, where does it go from here? some of the revelations in it have been heard before but it is just what happens now, and, you know, there are some difficult questions for the authorities to answer.

and particularly, ithink, the thing that stood out for me is that they still haven't really got a handle on how widespread this issue still is. it hasn't yet been stamped out in bradford. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. hello. plenty of heavy thunderstorms and downpours with us today and the next couple of days, too. there is an amber weather warning for central and northern scotland for thunderstorms today and rain tomorrow, so flooding being likely. there are slow moving intense downpours. elsewhere across the uk, sunny spells and scattered heavy showers, some hail and a lot of rain falling in a short space of time. flooding possible for many areas. this evening and overnight,

the showers fade away quite quickly but we will continue to see slow moving downpours in central scotland and the north west of england, so quite a soggy start for many for wednesday morning. we could have flooding problems. temperatures about 13—15 degrees, so mild. to start the day, sunshine in the south at least, but heavy thundery showers developing. in central and northern parts of scotland they could be prolonged. flooding likely over the next few days. all the warnings are on our website. goodbye. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: damning criticism of a london council for allowing the decades—long abuse of more than 700 children in five children's homes. more medaljoy for team gb at the olympics — as tom dean and duncan scott pick up gold and silver in the men's 200 metres freestyle.

jubilation for tom dean's family and friends back home as they celebrated his gold medal success. and there's further medal success for team gb including a silver medal for georgia taylor—brown in the women's triathlon, and bronze medals in the gymastics women's team final and the team dressage. more electronic tagging for burglars, and a pledge to provide a named officer for every neighbourhood are announced as part of a new crime reduction strategy for england and wales. and a woman who was seriously injured after being hit by a car at a festival says her two—year old daughter was saved by her husband throwing her out of the way. sport now and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon.

we will take whatever medals we can get. good afternoon. something of a bronze rush this afternoon and a couple of them at least are very significant. we'll start with the women's gymnastics team final which for team gb brought a first medal in the event since 1928. alice kinsella, amelie morgan, and twin sistersjennifer and jessica gadirova. jessica with this vault that helped secure a dramatic bronze after italy made a series of mistakes in their final discipline. the russian olympic committee won the gold ahead of the united states. that competition took place almost entirely without its biggest star. american simone biles came into these games hoping to become the greatest olympic gymnast of all time by winning each of the six events she could compete in but she withdrew

from the team final, afterwards saying it was to focus on her "mental health." biles' only appearance was to register a below—par vault in her opening discipline. after it, she left the arena, returning shortly afterwards but only to put on her tracksuit. and to support her team—mates. confirmation then followed that she'd withdrawn. the us team said it was for medical reasons originally. john watson spoke to her once the event had finished. i'm 0k, i'm ok, just dealing with things internally that will get fixed in the next couple of days about super proud of having stepped up to the plate tonight and work. congratulations. there is a great bond _ congratulations. there is a great bond in — congratulations. there is a great bond in the — congratulations. there is a great bond in the team? _ congratulations. there is a great bond in the team?— congratulations. there is a great bond in the team? yes, this has made us stronger. — bond in the team? yes, this has made us stronger. for— bond in the team? yes, this has made us stronger, for sure. _ bond in the team? yes, this has made us stronger, for sure. definitely. - britain's bianca walkden has won the second olympic medal of her career. she got another bronze in the taekwondo above 67 kilogram category. having come agonisingly close to a place in the final earlier on, walkden shrugged off her disappointment to beat poland's aleksandra kowalczuk.

this time holdling on to a lead to eventually win 7 points to 3. it's her second consecutive bronze medal. charlotte dujardin has become the most decorated female british olympian of all time after winning another medal, a bronze as part of the team dressage. it's a record—equalling fifth olympic medalfor the reigning individual dressage champion. a mark she's reached to match rower dame katherine grainger. dujardin won the bronze alongside carl hester and charlotte fry behind winners germany and the usa. earlier, team gb secured a fourth gold of tokyo 2020. and with it their best start to an olympics. tom dean and duncan scott also delivered britain's first one—two in the pool for 113 years. it came in the 200metres freestyle final. in a thrilling finish, dean, who's in lane 6, touched home in one minute aa.22 seconds, securing a british record at his debut games. scott finished just four hundredths of a second behind.

i can't thank my coach enough, dave mcnulty. he said we are writing an amazing story with the covid cases rising. i had six or seven weeks out of the pool, which is unheard—of. he brought me through it and i can't thank him enough. here we are. there couldn't be a better ending to the story. there was a brilliant comeback from great britain's men's rugby sevens side to reach the semi—finals. they were 21—0 down to the united states, but fought back to win 26—21 with dan norton crossing for the decisive score. they'll meet new zealand tomorrrow, as they try to go one better than the silver they picked up in rio. another shock earlier on in the tennis as the home favourite and one of faces of the games — naomi osaka — was knocked out in the third round by the world number a2 marketa vondrousova. osaka, who made history as the first tennis player to light the olympic cauldron at an opening ceremony, was beaten in straight sets.

but andy murray goes on in the men's doubles, he and his partnerjoe salisbury are through to the quarter—finals in tokyo. they backed up their impressive opening—round win to beat germany's kevin krawietz and tim putz 6—2 7—6. and in the singles a really impressive win for liam broady. he was only called up to the team a week before the games and he's now knocked out hubert hurkacz — the man who beat roger federer at wimbledon. broady winning in three sets to reach the third round — for one of the biggest wins of his career so far. and a look back to great britain's first medal of the day came in the women's triathlon, where georgia taylor—brown took silver. she was beaten by bermuda's flora duffy who made history by winning the island nation's first gold at an olympics — and first medal of any kind since a bronze in boxing at the montreal games in �*76. for taylor—brown, second was a great achievement too, she revealed afterwards she was on crutches just 12 weeks ago and spent part of the bike stage of the race with a flat tyre but powered on regardless

to finish second. the great britain final group game of the football competition at finished 1—1 against canada and that means they go into the quarterfinals after topping their group but we won't find out who they play in the last eightjust won't find out who they play in the last eight just yet. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. one person has been killed, four people are missing and 16 have been injured in an explosion at an industrial site housing the headquarters of the pharmaceutical company, bayer, in north—western germany. footgage on social media shows a thick cloud of black smoke billowing above the city of leverkusen. the police have closed the nearby autobahns. the german government's civil protection agency warned residents in the area of "extreme danger" and urged people to keep doors and windows closed.

these new pictures, captured by a drone, show the scale of the fire — with the spoke billowing across the sky. our correspondent damien mcguiness has the latest. the smoke has mostly cleared and the fire has been put out but the bad news is, one person has been confirmed dead, an employee of that chemicals plant. there are four other people still missing, also employees, and at least 16 people injured, two of them in a serious condition, so this is a very serious accident, for that particular industrial park. there are a lot of different large chemical companies and what appears to have happened this morning, there was an explosion, the reason for that is still not clear but there was an

explosion in a chemical review centre within that industrial complex and that explosion then caused a fire in a number of large chemical tanks where solvents were kept and presumably quite flammable liquid, and this fire then caused a lot of the problems and presumably the injuries and possibly the fatality. the broader situation is quite serious for the local people, the city of leverkusen, a large city with almost 150,000 people, and that area has been told really still, people should stay—at—home and they should close windows and doors, and thatis should close windows and doors, and that is because it is not clear whether the huge plume of black smoke which we saw earlier, how toxic that might be. officials say when they measure the air it does not seem dangerous at the moment but they are playing it safe is how they put it, so they have closed playgrounds and told people to stay inside and even say to people, if you pick fruit and vegetables in the

garden, make sure you are washing it very well, so they don't want these chemicals really to spread and cause any problems, but so far they say there is no indication that the air has been made toxic through the chemicals that have come from this plant but they are still not short so they are measuring everything and they have decided to keep it on the safe side and tell people to stay indoors. lord clarke has been giving evidence to the inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal. around 3,000 people died after being given blood products containing hiv and hepatitis c in the 1970s and 1980s. lord clarke is the first former health minister from the time to testify. our health correspondentjim reed is following the inquiry. this enquiry in the building behind me has been examining events that happened a0 or 50 years ago but are still having an effect today. one group particularly affected were around a,500

people with haemophilia. some were young children at the time and were infected with viral hepatitis and hiv, in many cases, after being given these contaminated blood products. ken clarke, now lord clarke, was the chief nhs person in charge of the health policy around that time at the beginning of the 1980s when the first report of a crisis around aids emerged. giving evidence this morning, he said when he joined that department in 1982, he never expected a problem like this to arise. the whole setup, the structure, was completely shambolic bureaucracy, which is why blood products, a relatively calm area until this horrendous problem

it took us all by surprise when a new disease emerged, it was a quiet little part about this. it is very big because of the tragedy now, big because of this enquiry. so lord clarke will be giving further detailed evidence here for the next three days at this enquiry. it is very important, very much so, for the families, the relatives of people who have lost their lives and the survivors, notjust because of the detail he is providing, but because of the principle here. this is the first time such a senior minister has been giving evidence under oath at an inquiry like this. a woman seriously injured when an unoccupied car ran over a tent in debighshire, says her two year old daughter was saved only when her husband three her out of the way. jenna o'neill suffered life changing injuries in the incident at the conscious tribal gathering festival near corwen on saturday. rob thomas sent this report from the scene. jenna o'neill, her husband and their two—year—old daughter were camping at the bottom of a steep hill when this incident happened.

according tojenna, who is from gloucestershire, the family were sat outside their tent just after eating their lunch. a number of vehicles were parked at the top of the hill above them and it seems one of the vehicles, which was unoccupied, began rolling towards where the family were sitting. jenna says her husband's quick thinking meant he was able to throw their daughter out of the way of the vehicle. stephen o'neill suffered a fractured ankle in the incident and was treated in hospital in wrexham. butjenna herself was more badly injured. she was left with a broken collarbone, ten broken ribs and a fractured pelvis. she also suffered damage to her liver and her spleen. jenna was airlifted to hospital in stoke, where she's still being treated. she told the bbc that at the time of the incident, she thought her whole family had been killed. she described her husband as a hero for reacting so quickly to protect their daughter. the police, fire and ambulance services were of course

called to the scene. the conscious tribal gathering event was being staged here for the fifth time and it ended yesterday. it is described as a family friendly event featuring live music and a range of other activities. although it ended yesterday, a number of people are still at the site today, and the organisers have been asked to comment about the incident but have yet to issue any statement about what happened. let's cross live now to washington dc where the congressional committee investigating the january 6th attack on the us capitol is holding its first meeting. the committee is hearing from police officers who were in the capitol hill building on the day and one has described it as like a medieval battlefield. this is harry dunn who is one of the police officers giving evidence and he has talked about how it was hard for black police

officers there because he said they were fighting against the people storming the building, the donald trump supporters, and there were people who hated what they represented and hated their skin colour as well, he said. we can listen to him now.— listen to him now. seeing that messaae listen to him now. seeing that message cause _ listen to him now. seeing that message cause me _ listen to him now. seeing that message cause me concern. i listen to him now. seeing that| message cause me concern. to listen to him now. seeing that - message cause me concern. to be sure, looking back now, it seemed to foreshadow what happened later. at the time, though, we have not received any threat warnings from our chain of command and i had no independent reason to believe that violence was heading our way. as the morning progressed and the crowd of protesters began to swell on the east side, many displaying donald trump flags, the crowd was chanting slogans like, stop the steal and we

want to draw, but demonstrations were still being conducted peacefully. —— we want trump. then we found out we had an active ten 100 at the republican committee nearby, this is police code for suspicious package such as a potential bomb. that radio dispatch got my attention and i started to get more nervous and worried. especially because the crowds on the east front of the capitol were continuing to grow. around the same time i started receiving reports on the radio about large crowd movements around the capitol, coming from the direction of the ellipse to both the west and east fronts of the capitol, and then i heard urgent radio calls for additional police officers to respond to the west side and an exclamation, a desperate voice that demonstrators on the west side had breached defence. now it

was obvious that there was a direct threat to the capitol, and i quickly put on a steel chest plate which weighs approximately 20 lbs and carrying might rival sprinted around the north side of the capitol to the west terrace —— carrying my rifle. i had a broad view of what was going on from there. i was stunned by what i saw. and what seemed like a sea of people, capitol police officers and metropolitan police officers were engaged in desperate hand—to—hand fighting with the rioters across the west lawn. untilthen, i had fighting with the rioters across the west lawn. until then, i had never seen anyone physically assault capitol police or mpd let alone witness mass assaults being perpetrated on law—enforcement officers and i witnessed them using all sorts of weapons against officers including flagpoles, metal bike racks they had torn apart, and

various projectiles. officers were being bloodied in the fighting, many were screaming, and many were blinded and coughing from chemical irritants being sprayed on their faces. i gave decontamination aid to as many as i could, flushing their eyes with water to dilate the chemical irritants. soon after i heard attentional units, the capitol has been breached —— attention all units will stop and that writers were inside various places inside the building and at that point i rushed into the capitol with another officer going to the basement on the senate side where i heard an officer needed a defibrillator. after returning outside to the west terrace to assist the officers i went back inside the capitol and up the stairs towards the crypt. and there i saw rioters who had invaded

there i saw rioters who had invaded the capitol carrying a confederate flag, a don't tread on me flag, and i decided to stand my ground to prevent any rioters from heading downstairs to the lower west terrace entrance. because that is where officers were getting aid and were vulnerable, and i confronted a group of insurrection is at the top of the stairs, warning them to go back down the steps, and one of them shouted, keep moving, patriots. another displayed what looked like a law enforcement badge and told me, we are doing this for you. one of the invaders approach me like he was going to try to get past me and head down the stairs, and i hit him, knocking him down. after getting relieved by other officers in the crypt, i took off running upstairs towards the speakers lobby. i helped the plainclothes officer it was getting hassled by interactions.

some of them were dressed like members of a militia group and they were wearing tactical vests, cargo pants, and body armour. i was physically exhausted and it was hard to breathe. and to see because of all the chemical spray in the air. more and more insurrection is to work pouring into the area by the speakers lobby by the rotunda and some were wearing hats that said donald trump 2020, and i told them to just leave the capitol and they responded by saying, no, man, this is our house, president trump invited us here, we are here to stop this steal, joe biden is not the president, nobody voted forjoe biden, they said. i am a law

enforcement officer and i do my best to keep politics out of myjob. but in this circumstance i responded by saying i voted forjoe biden, my not count? i nobody? —— am i nobody? that prompted a torrent of racial epithets and one woman yelled, you hear that, guys, this man voted for joe biden, and then the crowd, ran 20 people, joined in screaming, hurling abuse, and no one had ever ever called me the n word while wearing the uniform before, and in the days following the attempted insurrection, other black officers shared with me their own stories of racial abuse on the 6th of january. one officer told me he had never in his entire a0 years of life being

called the n word to his face and that streak ended on the 6th of january, yet another black officer later told me he had been confronted by insurrection it's in the capitol who told him, put your gun down and we will show you what kind of n word you really are. to be candid, the rest of the afternoon is a blur. but i know i went throughout the capitol to assist those who needed aid and help expel more insurrection is. in the crypt, i encountered the sergeant who was giving assistance to an conscious woman who had been in the crowd of rioters —— unconscious woman. she was administered cpr. as the afternoon progressed i was completely drained both physically and emotionally. and in shock and total disbelief over what had happened. once the building

was clear, i went to the rotunda to recover with other police officers and share experiences from what happened that afternoon. representative rodney davis was offering support to officers and when he and i saw each other he came over and he gave me a big hug. i sat down on a bench in the rotunda with a friend of mine who was also a black capitol police officer, and told him about the racial slurs i had suffered. i became very emotional and began yelling, how the blanket could something like this happen, is this america? i began sobbing. officers came over to console me. later on, after ordering security, order and security had been restored

in the officers through the hard work and sacrifices of law enforcement, members took the floor of the house to speak out about what happened that day and amongst them was the house minority leader kevin mccarthy. along with my fellow officers, i had protected him that day and i would protect him today and tomorrow. i had protected that day and will protect today and tomorrow. the minority leader to his great credit said the following to the house, the violence, destruction and chaos we saw earlier was unacceptable, undemocratic and un—american. it was the saddest day i have ever had a serving in this institution, he said.— i have ever had a serving in this institution, he said. studio: we believe that _ institution, he said. studio: we believe that evidence _ institution, he said. studio: we believe that evidence there, - institution, he said. studio: we i believe that evidence there, coming from one of the police officers who was at the us capitol building,

congress, the 6th of january when it was stormed by donald trump supporters, a mob of his supporters, and some very vivid evidence there from some of the officers who were attacked by the mob including that officer harry dunn. very strong language used in his testimony. apologies if any viewers found that some of that language offensive but thatis some of that language offensive but that is live coverage of that testimony at that committee in congress into what happened on the 6th of january. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. hello. plenty of heavy thunderstorms and downpours with us today and the next couple of days, too. there is an amber weather warning for central and northern scotland for thunderstorms today and rain

tomorrow, so flooding likely. especially where there are slow moving intense downpours. elsewhere across the uk, sunny spells and scattered heavy showers, some hail and a lot of rain falling in a short space of time. so, flooding possible for many areas. this evening and overnight, the showers fade away quite quickly but we will continue to see slow moving downpours in central scotland and maybe the north west of england, so quite a soggy start for many for wednesday morning. we could have flooding problems. temperatures about 13—15 degrees, so mild. to start the day, some sunshine in the south at least, but heavy thundery showers developing. in central and northern parts of scotland they could be prolonged. flooding likely over the next few days. all the warnings are on our website. goodbye.

it hasn't yet been stamped out in bradford. this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines at four... damning criticism of a london council for allowing the decades—long abuse of more than 700 children in five children's homes. can they be gold and silver? yes, tom dean is olympic champion of the 200 metres freestyle and duncan scott gets the silver! more medaljoy for team gb at the olympics — as tom dean and duncan scott pick up gold and silver in the men's 200 metres freestyle they cheer. jubilation for tom dean's family and friends back home as they celebrated his gold medal success. and there's further medal success for team gb,

including a silver medal for georgia taylor—brown in the women's triathlon, and bronze medals in the gymastics women's team final and the team dressage. simone biles pulls out of the gymnastics women's team final to focus on her mental health, before the us goes on to claim the silver medal. other headlines... more electronic tagging for burglars, and a pledge to provide a named officerfor every neighbourhood are announced as part of a new crime reduction strategy for england and wales after the storming of the us capitol building injanuary, police officers who came face—to—face with the protestors give evidence to a congressional committee. the rioters called me traitor, a disgrace, and shouted that i, an army veteran and police officer, should be executed.

good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. an inquiry report has criticised the london borough of lambeth for allowing the abuse of hundreds of children in its homes for decades. the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has been investigating allegations dating back as far as the 1970s. it said it was hard to comprehend the cruelty that was inflicted, and officials left children to cope with trauma on their own. lambeth council has apologised to victims. our correspondent, tom symonds, has been looking at the findings. the independent enquiry into child sexual abuse, which is a very wide—ranging public enquiry, has been going for years

now and has produced a whole load of reports but this is one of the most scathing. this abuse scandal in lambeth is one of britain's biggest past sexual abuse scandals. you're right, 705 children were abused in five children's homes by 177 staff. the report is highly critical of lambeth council, saying "it is hard to comprehend the cruelty and sexual abuse inflicted on children — there was little warmth or compassion shown towards them. they were left to cope with the trauma of their abuse on their own." and the particular criticism of lambeth council is that it often knew it was putting children with people, mainly men, who were potentially going to abuse them. but it did not investigate when there were incidents and reports of abuse, and even allowed staff with allegations surrounding them

to leave and it did not pass on any information to new employers of those people. the enquiry says that during that period, in the 1980s, lambeth was run by the labour party, a labour council, and it was taking on the conservative government of margaret thatcher which was trying to reduce the amount of funding to councils like lambeth. and this report says that during that period, the council was embroiled in a political battle that left children, its own responsibility, as pawns in a toxic power game and was distracted by the politics of the battle it was fighting. these are highly critical comments from this enquiry. we will hear reaction to that in just a moment from the former labour mp lord mann. for we hearfrom him, this is the latest on the coronavirus case numbers and death statistics. we have just had them coronavirus case numbers and death statistics. we havejust had them in from the government, here they are.

good news and bad news, really. the good news is case numbers have fallen again, the seventh day in a row they have fallen, 23,511. by way of comparison, last tuesday was pretty much a double that, a6,558. there really is a sustained fall in the number of cases, which has baffled a number of scientists, some of whom had been predicting that case numbers could rocket to 100,000 or more, but they are falling and falling day by day. debts, however, have risen. —— deaths have risen. 1a! have risen. —— deaths have risen. 1a1 deaths is the latest coronavirus figure within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test. a week ago, it was 96, so a big rise on last week in

terms of the number of deaths. we will get more details and analysis of all of those figures for you with our health correspondent, butjust to give you the latest figures there, 23,000 cases, anotherfall in there, 23,000 cases, anotherfall in the number of cases and arise in the number of deaths, to 131. that is within 28 days of covid test. more now on the findings about child abuse in lambeth we were reporting at the top of the bulletin. earlier, i spoke to the former labour mp lord mann. he had previously raised concerns about child sexual abuse, as well as submitting a written statement to the inquiry. he was also a former councillor in lambeth and told me what went wrong there. the council was totally dysfunctional, totally corrupt from top to bottom and people were not looking to see what was going on.

and when you have that level of dysfunctionality and the deep, deep levels of corruption, then, all too sadly and appallingly, what comes out, to me, is not a surprise. and we have seen this before in other areas of the country. what do councils need to do to stop this sort of thing ever happening again? what sort of safeguards do we need to see that we have not had in the past and maybe do not have now to prevent a repetition of this? we must treat children in care as first—class citizens, not third—class citizens. they were treated as third—class citizens all the way through, as objects to be moved around, as problems to be put somewhere, and i think there are other councils with many skeletons hidden away

and that have not surfaced yet. this is notjust about one or two councils, but lambeth was particularly bad because it was so deeply dysfunctional, so deeply corrupted. i think the biggest single change to protect young children into the future is that i think there must be a legal duty of care on councillors, elected representatives, who can then be held to account if they fail to look at what is going on in their own systems. and i think that is a fundamental weakness in the current system, where the councillors do whatever the council offices tell them, and what we have found in lambeth is, as this report shows, the council officers were not doing theirjobs properly — it ends up being a cycle of deprivation.

that is precisely why these children were so let down, so badly abused, and lives were ruined in such a horrific way. and badly let down, but hundreds of them, and over such a long period of time, decades. it is astonishing that it took so long for this to come to light. i first raised matters with the police myself in 1989, and i think there was a disbelief, and i was not dealing with the children's, homes but rather other parts of the council, but i was hearing rumours. it was unbelievable. it was so ingrained into the council, even looking back now. i think people thought i was exaggerating. there's been more triumph for team gb at the olympics in tokyo, with gold and silver medals in the men's swimming 200 metres freestyle.

tom dean touched home just ahead of his team—mate duncan scott. it's the first time in more than 100 years that two british male swimmers have shared the podium. and there there was more success, with georgia taylor—brown, who recovered from a puncture on the bike to take silver in the women's triathlon. team gb's women picked up a surprise bronze in the team gymnastics — their first medal in the event since 1928. but the event was dominated by simone biles of the united states, who pulled out of the competition. she says she's now going to focus on her mental health. simone biles stayed in the arena to support her team, who went on to win silver. well, for a full round—up of all the action, from the bbc sport centre, here's hugh ferris. then, thank you very much indeed. —— ben, thank you very much indeed.

—— ben, thank you very much indeed. more medals for team gb, including one in the women's team gymnastics, which also provided the most dramatic event of the day. britain won bronze — a first medal in the event since 1928. alice kinsella, amelie morgan, and twin sistersjennifer and jessica gadirova. both 16. jessica with this vault that helped secure a dramatic bronze after italy made a series of mistakes in their final discipline. the russian olympic committee won the gold ahead of the united states, who were without their biggest star for almost the entire competition. american simone biles came into these games hoping to become the greatest olympic gymnast of all time by winning each of the six events she could compete in. but she withdrew from the team final, afterwards saying it was to focus on her �*mental health'. biles' only appearance was to register a below—par vault in her opening discipline. after it, she left the arena, somewhat abruptly, returning shortly afterwards but only to put on her tracksuit and support her team—mates

from the sidelines. confirmation then followed that she'd withdrawn, which the us team originally said was for medical reasons. biles has since revealed she didn't want to go on after that first vault, and she also spoke tojohn watson once the event had finished. i'm ok, just dealing with things internally that will get fixed in the next couple of days but super proud of how they stepped up to the plate tonight and work. congratulations. there is a great bond in the team? yes, this has made us stronger, for sure. definitely. britain's bianca walkden has won the second olympic medal of her career. she got another bronze in the taekwondo above 67 kilogram category. having come agonisingly close to a place in the final earlier on, walkden shrugged off her disappointment to beat poland's aleksandra kowalczuk. this time she held on to a lead to eventually win seven points to three. it's her second consecutive bronze medal. charlotte dujardin has become the most decorated female

british olympian of all time after winning another medal — a bronze as part of the team dressage. it's a record—equalling fifth olympic medal for the reigning individual dressage champion, a mark she's reached to match rower dame katherine grainger. dujardin won the bronze alongside carl hester and charlotte fry, behind winners germany and the usa. earlier, team gb secured a fourth gold of tokyo 2020 and with it, their best start to an olympics. tom dean and duncan scott also delivered britain's first one—two in the pool for 113 years. it came in the 200 metres freestyle final. in a thrilling finish, dean, who's in lane 6, touched home in! minute aa.22 seconds, securing a british record at his debut games. scott finished just four hundredths of a second behind. great britain's first medal of the day came in the women's triathlon, where georgia taylor—brown took a silver medal. she was beaten by bermuda's flora

duffy, who made history by winning the island nation's first gold at an olympics. for taylor—brown, second was a great achievement too, she revealed afterwards she was on crutches just 12 weeks ago and spent part of the bike stage of the race with a flat tyre, but still powered on and regardless finished second. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport there was rugby and hockey action earlier in the day, and tennis and football and team gb's footballers have drawn 1—1 as well. more burglars will have to wear electronic tags on release from prison under a government plan to cut crime in england and wales. borisjohnson launched the programme on his first day out of covid isolation. it includes removing rules introduced by the former prime minister theresa may

which made it harderfor police to stop and search suspects, and also includes having a named officer for each local area. but the police federation said these were old ideas presented as new. daniel sandford reports. a dramatic arrest in london this year as armed officers intercepted a man carrying two scorpion sub—machine guns. as the lockdowns ended, criminal activity has started up again — much of it linked to drugs. aware that crime is a high priority for the public, the prime minister and home secretary promised today to "build back safer" after the pandemic — with less crime, fewer victims and a safer society. what we are announcing today is plans to back the police but also to back the public, so that if you are the victim of a crime, you have a named police officer that you can go to, wherever you live, who will attend

you, and make sure the police deal with your crime. while the government's beating crime plan has no major new policies, several pilot projects are being expanded, including one where burglars and robbers wear satellite tags so their movements can be monitored after their release from prison, and project adder, which looks to fight drug crime by tackling dealers and people who are addicted. ministers are also promising everybody in england and wales will be able to look up a name and contact details for a police officer responsible for their area. controversially, under the plan, the government has abandoned theresa may's tightening up of the stop and search rules. she introduced the changes because of concerns that the power was being used more against certain ethnic groups, but ministers say stop and search can have a big impact on reducing knife crime and that is the priority. labour is accusing ministers of using gimmicks to cover up the impact of cuts.

this government is soft on crime, frankly, and soft on the causes of crime. and that is the record of the past 11 years. you think of the cuts that have happened to youth clubs, to the number of youth workers, the number of social workers. and the criminaljustice system is still under huge pressure. the police federation is furious about a recent pay freeze, the courts have an enormous backlog caused by the pandemic and thejustice committee of mps warned today that cuts to legal aid have hollowed out parts of the system, and this is putting fair trials at risk. daniel sandford, bbc news. joining me now is festus akinbusoye, who's the conservative police and crime commissioner for bedfordshire. thank you very much indeed for being with us. of course, what the police are saying and the labour party are

saying is, actually, if you want to deal with crime, you must invest more in our police service and pay police officers more. they are subject to a pay freeze at the moment. subject to a pay freeze at the moment-— subject to a pay freeze at the moment. ~ ., moment. well, the government actually are _ moment. well, the government actually are investing _ moment. well, the government actually are investing in - moment. well, the government| actually are investing in policing, but if you look at what is happening with the recruitment of police officers, like in my area now, we have more police officers now then we have ever had before. if you look nationally, the prime minister promised 20,000 more officers since the last election and nearly half of those have been delivered. these are offices delivering excellent services in our communities making our areas safer. it would be wrong to suggest the government are not investing in policing in our communities because that is happening and we are seeing that now. do happening and we are seeing that now. y ., happening and we are seeing that now. ,, ., happening and we are seeing that now. , ., ., ., happening and we are seeing that now. ., ., now. do you agree with a pay freeze for aolice now. do you agree with a pay freeze for police officers? _ now. do you agree with a pay freeze for police officers? in _ now. do you agree with a pay freeze for police officers? in an _ now. do you agree with a pay freeze

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speak with resident in his local area like i have done in my area, they constantly say, we want to know who is the officer in our community policing team and councillors want to know who the community sergeant is. so what the government is doing now is fulfilling a requirement for the name and contact details of the officer to be in public domain so that residents in the local community can actually have contact with this officer. this is not an earth—shattering thing. it is common—sense, something residents need and it actually brings residents and communities closer together with policing, with the aim of improving confidence in the police service in their local area. and there is a lot of talk in these proposals about making it easier for police to do stop and search, but if you look at the evidence in london, and cressida dick has been using stop and search a lot more, it

hasn't made much difference to the overall crime rate, has eight? t do overall crime rate, has eight? i do not think anyone _ overall crime rate, has eight? t if not think anyone who has been a victim of homicide which is the result of stabbing or shooting will complain much, or theirfamily will complain much, or theirfamily will complain much, or theirfamily will complain much, about stop and search. i have been stopped and searched myself and i must say that nothing was found. at the same time, i have a special constable here in bedfordshire and drugs were found. my bedfordshire and drugs were found. my question was, is it effective and does it work as a tactic at? the evidence seems to be, in london recently, that it doesn't. the alternative _ recently, that it doesn't. the alternative is _ recently, that it doesn't. the alternative is not _ recently, that it doesn't. the alternative is not to - recently, that it doesn't. t'te: alternative is not to prevent recently, that it doesn't. tte: alternative is not to prevent stop and search from taking place, because the fact of the matter is if you just recover one knife or

firearm off one person from ten stops, that potentially saves ten lives, so the solution to this is not always to do less and less stop and searches and things like that. the point is to make it more effective and when stop and searches take place, they are open to scrutiny. there is a scrutiny panel now in bedfordshire and scrutinises the weight the police you stop and search and feedback is given to officers to reflect on how it has been done. the solution is not to prevent them doing it, but to make them delete mac —— to make sure they are doing it properly. them delete mac -- to make sure they are doing it properly.— are doing it properly. thank you for beina with are doing it properly. thank you for being with us. _ are doing it properly. thank you for being with us, festus _ are doing it properly. thank you for being with us, festus akinbusoye, | being with us, festus akinbusoye, the police and crime commissioner for bedfordshire. a congressional inquiry into the us capitol insurrection of january the 6th has begun with powerful testimony

from police officers assaulted during the violent riot by supporters of donald trump. more than 535 people who entered the capitol have been arrested on charges like assaulting police officers, impeding an official proceeding and trespassing. more than 300 suspected participants are still unidentified. sergeant aquilino gonell was a police officer serving on the night of the capitol riots — he told the inquiry that it was like something from a medieval battlefield. the rioters called me traitor, a disgrace, and shouted that i, an army veteran and a police officer, should be executed. some of the rioters had the audacity to tell me that it was nothing personal, that they would go through me, through us, police officers, to achieve their goal as they were breaking metal barriers to use as weapons against us.

others used more menacing language. "if you shoot us — we all have weapons — we will shoot back." or, "we will get our guns, we outnumber you." they said, "join us." i heard specific threats to the lives of the speaker nancy pelosi and then also vice president mike pence. the physical violence we experienced was horrific and devastating. my fellow officers and i were punched, kicked, shoved, sprayed with chemical irritants and even blinded with eye damaging lasers by a violent mob who apparently saw us, law enforcement officers dedicated to ironically protecting them as us citizens, as an impediment

to their attempted insurrection. that was aquilino gonell, just one of the police officers giving evidence to that committee in congress in the united states. evidence to that committee in congress in the united states. lord clarke has been giving evidence to the inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal. around 3,000 people died after being given blood products containing hiv and hepatitis c in the 1970s and 1980s. lord clarke is the first former health minister from the time to testify. our health correspondentjim reed is following the inquiry. this inquiry in the building behind me has been examining events that happened a0 or 50 years ago but are still having an effect today. one group particularly affected were around a,500 people with haemophilia. some were young children at the time and were infected with viral hepatitis and hiv, in many cases, after being given these contaminated blood products.

ken clarke, now lord clarke, was the chief nhs person in charge of the health policy around that time at the beginning of the 1980s when the first report of a crisis around aids emerged. giving evidence this morning, he said when he joined that department in 1982, he never expected a problem like this to arise. the whole setup, the structure, was a completely shambolic bureaucracy, which is why blood products. — a relatively calm area until it had this horrendous problem that took us all by surprise when a new disease emerged, it was a quiet little part of all this. it is very big because of the tragedy now, big because of this inquiry. so lord clarke will be giving further detailed evidence here for the next three days at this enquiry. it is very important, very much so, for the families, the relatives of people who have

lost their lives and the survivors, notjust because of the detail he is providing, but because of the principle here. this is the first time such a senior minister has been giving evidence under oath at an inquiry like this. joining us from the inquiry is clive smith, chair of the haemophilia society. thank you very much for being with us. as we were saying in the introduction, this is the first testimony from a former senior health minister. what did you make of lord clark of�*s evidence and how important was it to hear from of lord clark of�*s evidence and how important was it to hearfrom him? have had two previous inquiries, this is the first we have really had an enquiry that has been able to call senior politicians to account. sadly many of them are no longer with us. the prime minister of the day, for example, and as you rightly identified, lord clark is one of

those people. it has been incredibly important to hear from those people. it has been incredibly important to hearfrom him today, because people want to know why those people died, because compensation will not assuage any of the problems they have had over the years. they need answers from senior politicians and today is the first step in this journey which has taken a0 years to get to. you step in this journey which has taken 40 years to get to.— 40 years to get to. you want answers- — 40 years to get to. you want answers. did _ 40 years to get to. you want answers. did we _ 40 years to get to. you want answers. did we get - 40 years to get to. you want answers. did we get any i 40 years to get to. you want | answers. did we get any from 40 years to get to. you want i answers. did we get any from lord clark? t answers. did we get any from lord clark? ~' ., ., ., clark? i think the mood at the enaui clark? i think the mood at the enquiry here _ clark? i think the mood at the enquiry here is _ clark? i think the mood at the enquiry here is that _ clark? i think the mood at the enquiry here is that lord i clark? i think the mood at the enquiry here is that lord clarkj clark? i think the mood at the i enquiry here is that lord clark has been very evasive and he is not answering questions directly. he is trying to put responsibility onto others. this afternoon, he was trying to put responsibility onto patients, those with haemophiliac, to know that blood inputs from the us were contaminated with hiv. we talked about council of europe documents and he suggests that patients must be very switched off if they did not know these products

were contaminated, effectively suggesting that patients should have educated themselves. you suggesting that patients should have educated themselves.— suggesting that patients should have educated themselves. you noted that the content of — educated themselves. you noted that the content of kenneth _ educated themselves. you noted that the content of kenneth clarke - educated themselves. you noted that the content of kenneth clarke is i the content of kenneth clarke is demonstrating towards the enquiry is jaw—dropping. you are clearly not happy. jaw-dropping. you are clearly not ha . _ ., jaw-dropping. you are clearly not ha-a . ., ., jaw-dropping. you are clearly not ha-a. ., ., , ., jaw-dropping. you are clearly not ha a a , ., ., , ., . jaw-dropping. you are clearly not ha-a. ., ., , ., . happy. now, and before lunch, he was asked whether — happy. now, and before lunch, he was asked whether the _ happy. now, and before lunch, he was asked whether the -- _ happy. now, and before lunch, he was asked whether the -- he _ happy. now, and before lunch, he was asked whether the -- he asked - asked whether the —— he asked whether the questions he was being asked were relevant. the chief of the enquiry is high becausejudge and he had to interject and say that he will be the judge and archetype whether the question is relevant and will continue to answer questions until he interrupts. so his evidence has been quite jaw—dropping. it is the way he is saying it, the disdain and contempt he is holding the community in today, he has had the chance to say sorry and explain what has gone wrong and he is doing no more than trying to protect his

reputation. more than trying to protect his reputation-— more than trying to protect his reautation. ., ., ., ,, ,, , reputation. how do you assess this en a ui reputation. how do you assess this enquiry and — reputation. how do you assess this enquiry and the — reputation. how do you assess this enquiry and the progress _ reputation. how do you assess this enquiry and the progress it - reputation. how do you assess this enquiry and the progress it is i enquiry and the progress it is making? how important do you think it is and will it come up with answers as to how to stop this thing ever happening again? willing to provide comfort to the victims and their relatives? —— will it provide comfort. tt their relatives? -- will it provide comfort. ., , , , _ comfort. it has been impeded by the aandemic, comfort. it has been impeded by the pandemic. but _ comfort. it has been impeded by the pandemic, but the _ comfort. it has been impeded by the pandemic, but the enquiry _ comfort. it has been impeded by the pandemic, but the enquiry has i pandemic, but the enquiry has continued online and it has made good progress. the first phase was personal testimony from those effective, we are now in phase two and are starting to see from those top involved in making the decisions and we also know lord fowler will be called to give evidence in september of this year. we are getting into the meat of the enquiry. in terms of whether a not available deliver answers, people are optimistic. we have an excellent chair and team behind the church who are doing their best to uncover what happened

a0 years ago. it is difficult to piece all the pieces of the jigsaw together but we are getting a good picture of what went on and what happened. what we need from the government is them to tell the truth. it is not good enough to just come along unprepared, as kenneth clarke clearly appears to be. he has had to refer to documents again today and read through them, documents he was provided well in advance of enquiry and he seems to have been surprised by them today. we need the truth from the government and politicians at the top in order to make these recommendations and ensure nothing like this can happen again. thank ou. many thanks. let's get more now on the latest on coronavirus in the uk — as we've been hearing the number of cases has fallen for the seventh consecutive day —

but the number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test is at its highest since march. let's speak to our health correspondent catherine burns. we will start with the positive things, we have had a week now where the number of new infections has dropped every day and we were waiting to see with interest today because on tuesdays we often get a bounce in numbers because of a lag from the weekend but that has not happened. they have fallen again so thatis happened. they have fallen again so that is positive news but other measures are not so positive. 131 deaths reported and that is the first time in this most recent wave we have gone over 100 and the last time the number of deaths was so high was on the 12th of march. the other thing is hospitalisations and these are not updated across the four nations every day but if you break it down to just england, 836 people were admitted on the 25th,

two days ago, the highest number since the 25th of february, so what does this mean? it is not surprising to see that deaths and hospitalisations are still rising because as we know as we have seen through the pandemic they lag behind what happens, people get infected and then a week or so later that hospitalisations go up and then people die potentially, so what we are going to see now in the next few days, we want to see hospitalisations start to come down because that is when we will know that this is a really positive thing but it is absolutely good news but the question is what is going to come next, because what we don't know yet, the figures do not reflect the opening up which happened on the 19th ofjuly. we have got to wait another few days to see if this lovely fall in cases we are seeing is going to continue or whether it will be another spike up. the is going to continue or whether it will be another spike up.- will be another spike up. the fall in cases has _ will be another spike up. the fall in cases has baffled _ will be another spike up. the fall in cases has baffled some - will be another spike up. the fall i in cases has baffled some scientist because they were predicting may be 100,000 cases per day and there have

many potential explanations for this, the end of the euro 2020, the good weather, school holidays, what is the explanation? you good weather, school holidays, what is the explanation?— is the explanation? you have basically said _ is the explanation? you have basically said a _ is the explanation? you have basically said a lot _ is the explanation? you have basically said a lot of - is the explanation? you have basically said a lot of them, l is the explanation? you have i basically said a lot of them, and it is not as simple as one thing happens and then something else happens. a few small things happen to have a big impact and like we said, euro 2020, people were gathering inside and in pubs, but they have now finished. the weather has got better so we are more outside, and schools, people gathered inside, but they have closed for the summer holidays and this means we are outside more and not in such close contact indoors so thatis not in such close contact indoors so that is one possible explanation, but they are so many things we don't know right now. we are in uncharted territory and we have never been in this position before where we are dealing with the epidemic without any restrictions but also in a highly vaccinated population, and so the other thing we don't know and this is what will be key, is how people are going to behave, and if we all go back to our old

pre—pandemic ways of seeing each other all the time that will have a real impact but if we keep some of the cautious behaviour, still keep in contact quite low, there does not mean they will be the inevitable spike in cases but the next few cases will be absolutely key. tt is cases will be absolutely key. it is fascinating. _ cases will be absolutely key. it is fascinating, watching the figures. thanks forjoining us. sport now and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. the women's gymnastics team final delivered a medal for great britain. and also what could prove to be one of the storylines of tokyo 2020. team gb won bronze, a first medal in the event since 1928. alice kinsella, amelie morgan, and twin sisters

jennifer and jessica gadirova, both 16. jessica with this vault that helped secure a dramatic bronze after italy made a series of mistakes in their final discipline. the russian olympic committee won the gold ahead of the united states, who were without their biggest star for almost the entire competition. simone biles came into these games hoping to become the greatest olympic gymnast of all time by winning each of the six events she could compete in but she withdrew from the team final, afterwards saying it was to focus on her "mental health". biles' only appearance was to register a below—par vault in her opening discipline. after it, she left the arena, returning shortly afterwards, but only to put on her tracksuit and support her teammates from the sidelines. confirmation then followed that she'd withdrawn. with the us team originally saying it was for medical reasons. biles has since revealed she didn't want to go on after that first vault. and she also spoke tojohn watson once the event had finished. i'm ok, just dealing with things

internally that will get fixed in the next couple of days but super proud of how they stepped up to the plate tonight and worked. congratulations. _ there is a great bond in the team? yes, this has made us stronger, for sure. definitely. britain's bianca walkden has won the second olympic medal of her career. she got another bronze in the taekwondo in the above 67 kilogram category. having come agonisingly close to a place in the final earlier on, walkden shrugged off her disappointment to beat poland's aleksandra kowalczuk. this time holdling on to a lead to eventually win 7 points to 3. it's her second consecutive bronze medal. charlotte dujardin has become the most decorated female british olympian of all time after winning another medal, a bronze as part of the team dressage. it's a record—equalling fifth olympic medalfor the reigning individual dressage champion, a mark she's reached to match rower dame katherine grainger. dujardin won the bronze alongside carl hester and charlotte fry behind winners germany and the usa.

earlier, team gb secured a fourth gold of tokyo 2020. and with it their best start to an olympics. tom dean and duncan scott also delivered britain's first one—two in the pool for 113 years. it came in the 200metres freestyle final. in a thrilling finish, dean, who's in lane 6, touched home in one minute aa.22 seconds, securing a british record at his debut games. scott finished just four hundredths of a second behind. i can't thank my coach enough, dave mcnulty. he said we are writing an amazing story with the covid cases. i had six or seven weeks out of the pool, which is unheard—of. he brought me through it and i can't thank him enough. here we are. there couldn't be a better ending to a story. great britain's first medal of the day came

in the women's triathlon, where georgia taylor—brown took silver. she was beaten by bermuda's flora duffy who made history by winning the island nation's first gold at an olympics. for taylor—brown second was a great achievement too, as she revealed afterwards she was on crutches just 12 weeks ago and spent part of the bike stage of the race with a flat tyre but powered on regardless to finish second. some news away from the olympics now and toby alderweireld has completed a transfer from tottenham hotspur to qatar stars league side al—duhail. the belgium international had two years remaining on his contract. but he'll make the move to the middle east after making over 200 appearances for spurs. and in rugby union... head coach warren gatland has made three changes to the british and irish lions team as they look to wrap up the series against south africa in the second test. scotland scrum half ali price makes way for ireland's conor murray to come into the side. prop mako vunipola replaces rory sutherland and centre chris harris will start in place of elliot daly. south africa have also made three

changes for the game on saturday. and finally, some racing news and a great year for hollie doyle has continued today. she's won the goodwood cup on the alan king trained horse trueshan. she becomes the first woman to ride the winner of the group one race, which was first run over 200 years ago. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. let's return to the news that more burglars will have to wear electronic tags on release from prison, under a government plan to cut crime in england and wales. borisjohnson launched the programme on his first day out of covid isolation. it includes removing rules introduced by the former prime minister theresa may which made it harderfor police to stop and search suspects.

another idea is having a named police officer for each local area. and now for more on the policing plans story. i'm joined by marcellus baz, the founder and ceo of anti—violence charity switch up. from the youth point of view, you are a former gang member, knew were stabbed, do these plans help in dealing with youth violence and gang violence and knife crime? —— you were stabbed. violence and knife crime? -- you were stabbed.— violence and knife crime? -- you were stabbed. ., ., ., , ., were stabbed. there are areas of the alan that were stabbed. there are areas of the plan that work— were stabbed. there are areas of the plan that work and _ were stabbed. there are areas of the plan that work and there _ were stabbed. there are areas of the plan that work and there are - were stabbed. there are areas of the plan that work and there are some i plan that work and there are some areas that seem quite soft and the resources that are being put into the plan, i was actually shocked to see how small amounts of money that they are putting in, especially after the pandemic when things are really heightened. i would have liked to see more money put in to

already exhausted front line services. ' ., ., ., services. £17 million programme to aersuade services. £17 million programme to persuade young — services. £17 million programme to persuade young people _ services. £17 million programme to persuade young people who - services. £17 million programme to persuade young people who go i services. £17 million programme to persuade young people who go to i persuade young people who go to hospital with a stab wound or come into contact with the police, to stay away from violence, but you do not think that is enough money? that is not enough — not think that is enough money? “ttagt is not enough money. when you look at other areas where money is being put and when you are talking to communities affected by crime and violence and ask how their —— they would want their money to be spent, from their taxes, it is a difficult time at the moment, on the front line services, they are exhausted and people are suffering with their mental well—being and we have got £17 million for therapeutic support. we know that they are so many issues around people suffering with their mental health, young people, not able to get into other statutory

services, and then you have got, there are some areas which are working, the fact of getting into hospital when people are being stabbed, that moment is key, but it is all about making sure that the right people are in the right place to do thejob. i don't really right people are in the right place to do the job. i don't really feel that the police, if you look at the spectrum, they are on the other side of the spectrum, and young people are not going to go over there and open up to them. you need somebody in the middle and i would suggest it would be people from the community, with lived experience, you can relate to them and understand them and speak their language, to be able to help them and deter them from that. the second area i feel that it's really important that they have got right is early intervention work with primary schools but that has to be done by the right people who can make the impact and again i would

suggest multi—agency working approach around these young people and their families and people that have got lived experience, to be able to make that initial contact and build that trust to then lead them into other provisions to provide that support. you them into other provisions to provide that support. you have got lived experience _ provide that support. you have got lived experience and _ provide that support. you have got lived experience and you _ provide that support. you have got lived experience and you were i provide that support. you have got lived experience and you were in i provide that support. you have got lived experience and you were in a| lived experience and you were in a gang and you were stabbed, so what do you say to people, how do you try to change people who are either parts of gangs or victims of that kind of violence or caught up in that world? how easy or difficult is it to talk to them and to try and change them? we it to talk to them and to try and change them?— it to talk to them and to try and chanae them? . ., ., , ., ., change them? we have a programme that works and _ change them? we have a programme that works and we _ change them? we have a programme that works and we are _ change them? we have a programme that works and we are talking - change them? we have a programme that works and we are talking to i change them? we have a programme that works and we are talking to the i that works and we are talking to the government about how we can potentially roll this out and it consists of areas which are really missing within the system. we have lived experience, mentors, like fatherfigures, we know some

lived experience, mentors, like father figures, we know some of the people we are working with come from single—parent households, they can help to guide them, and then we have counselling, and there needs to beat cultural awareness around that, and people from diverse backgrounds can feel like they are talking to somebody who they can relate to —— there needs to be. then we have one—to—one education and most importantly, employability, which will help them to get a job so that when we do place them in placements with our business partners that we have got, locally and nationally, they can sustain that employment rather than going into employment, having a relapse and then coming back out, some people can tick a box and say we have a young person in thejob and say we have a young person in the job but that person may only last a couple of days. this is how we do things and we are also are very honest and transparent with young people and we do hard—hitting workshops to give them a really good insight of what that life consists of and it isn'tjust all glamour and

when you have real conversations and you can actually relate to them and have that trust with young people, then you can start feeding them into these programmes and helping them to be able to get out of the dark and into the right.— into the right. very well put. fascinating _ into the right. very well put. fascinating listening - into the right. very well put. fascinating listening to i into the right. very well put. fascinating listening to you. | into the right. very well put. i fascinating listening to you. the founder of the anti violence charity switch up, there. thanks forjoining us. joining me now is emmanuelle andrews, the policy and campaigns officer at the civil liberties group liberty. an increase in the use of stop and search is one of the key proposals from the prime minister, reversing changes brought in by theresa may, his predecessor. what do you make of that? many people will say that they agree with it, is the way to tackle crime. ., «a agree with it, is the way to tackle crime. ., ~', ., agree with it, is the way to tackle crime. ., ., .,

crime. thanks for having me. successive — crime. thanks for having me. successive governments i crime. thanks for having me. | successive governments have crime. thanks for having me. i successive governments have over relied on policing, surveillance and punishment and we know this perpetuates structural inequality and these proposals follow the same strategies which have increasingly alienated and criminalised young people resulting in the problems we have in society today, and so many communities, especially those of colour, experience overbearing policing and this is no more true than with proposals to expand stop and search. the data ran a stop and search does not support its continued use so we are seeing that only around a% of stop and search actually results in an arrest and often that is on an obstruction basis and when an obstruction is taken out of those figures only about 1% results in an arrest for possession of a weapon which is supposedly the intended object of the stop and search so we really need to move away from these ill considered proposals which risk counter outcomes as well as undermine civil liberties for

everyone but especially marginalised communities and actually listen to communities and actually listen to communities and actually listen to communities and think about what safety means from a perspective from the community is facing the psalms. some people will say, ok, even if it is 1% of stop and search leading to the confiscation of a weapon, maybe thatis the confiscation of a weapon, maybe that is worth it, if the weapon is going to go on and kill somebody, it is a price worth paying. tt is is a price worth paying. it is understandable _ is a price worth paying. it is understandable that - is a price worth paying. tit 3 understandable that people look to a percentage and seat hope but the reality on the ground is that the over policing and the over surveillance and monitoring that occurs from short—term solutions like stop and search which the evidence does not support, that creates the exact harness which trigger and create these violence in the first place so the short—term solutions have really damaging long—term effects and they cause harm notjust of the individuals impacted but to entire communities

who are constantly profiled and harassed and we are talking about safety and safer communities, so we need to be thinking about the long—term impact of these supposedly short—term solutions because they just create more harm in the long term. ., ., , , , just create more harm in the long term. ., ., , ,, ., ., term. you are dismissing that as a short-term — term. you are dismissing that as a short-term solution _ term. you are dismissing that as a short-term solution but _ term. you are dismissing that as a short-term solution but what i term. you are dismissing that as a short-term solution but what are i short—term solution but what are your proposed longer term solutions, how do you think the government have to deal with issues like gang violence and knife crime and the violence and knife crime and the violence against young people which we are seeing is so distressingly prevalent? we are seeing is so distressingly revalent? we are seeing is so distressingly prevalent?— we are seeing is so distressingly revalent? , a, , , , ,, ~ we are seeing is so distressingly revalent? , a, , ,, cw , prevalent? the previous speaker put it well when — prevalent? the previous speaker put it well when they _ prevalent? the previous speaker put it well when they said _ prevalent? the previous speaker put it well when they said we _ prevalent? the previous speaker put it well when they said we need - prevalent? the previous speaker put it well when they said we need to . prevalent? the previous speaker put it well when they said we need to be i it well when they said we need to be listening to communities with lived experience and i think rather than asking the police to solve problems which they often exacerbate we need to support proposals which reduce police powers and fast at ferric communities by establishing evidence and rights —based responses to harm —— and foster fairer communities. we

need to focus on the causes of these issues so we need to look at health care and education and housing, social welfare, and the previous speaker mention mental health support and we need to be looking at supporting people in schools and about their experiences, that ultimately we need to be working together with communities that are facing these problems.— facing these problems. thanks for 'oinin: us. an independent review into child sexual exploitation in bradford says some children in the city remain unprotected and are still being abused. the review assessed child protection in the city over a seventeen year period, focusing on five victims. earlier our correspondent danny savage who is in bradford spoke to my colleague reeta chakrabarti.

yes, well, this 56—page report of investigation, explanation and recommendations to tackle the issue of child sexual abuse in bradford. this report focuses on five victims over a i7—year period and goes into quite some detail about each of them. four girls and one boy, most of whom are now adults who suffered abuse ten, 15 years ago. and it is a fairly familiar theme that runs through it. these were vulnerable children, preyed upon by older men who would win their trust and then take them away and sexually abuse them. so the biggest question, i think, that comes out of this report is, how many children were abused over the last two or three decades in the city? and the biggest worry that comes out of the report is that it appears to be ongoing in places and the number of perpetrators is unknown, so what happens next? well, there are calls now from some of the victims named in this report, some of those five who were part of this investigation, saying what they want to see now is a rotherham—style investigation,

with a much broader remit, to try to establish how widespread the abuse of children was in the city, how long it has gone on for, how many perpetrators there were and how many more people need to be brought to justice. and various agencies who have been involved in this report — the police, the child protection authorities — have been giving interviews this afternoon and they won't be drawn on whether or not it is a good idea to have a further inquiry. that will be down to the secretary of state to decide whether or not there should be a wider investigation, but it certainly raises some very worrying questions. it is quite similar to what we've heard before from other large english towns like rotherham and rochdale, about how children were trafficked and abused. and it isjust, where does it go from here? some of the revelations in it have been heard before but it is just what happens now, and, you know, there are some difficult questions for the authorities to answer. and particularly, ithink, the thing that stood out for me is that they still haven't really got a handle on how widespread this issue still is.

it hasn't yet been stamped out in bradford. one of the women who's fought for answers from bradford council and west yorkshire police is fiona goddard. she was groomed and sexually abused by gangs of men from 2008 when she was living in a bradford children's home. she's been speaking to our correspondent emma glasbey. how old were you when you went into care? i was 12, just turning 13 and i was about 13 when the abuse started happening. it was outside the gates of a bradford children's home that gangs of men would pick fiona up, drive her across the city and sexually abuse her. now 27, fiona lives with the trauma of her past. my mental health is severely impacted. i've lost everything

i own multiple times because of having to move for safety reasons or to just be able to get away from the memories. my children have suffered because i haven't been able to give them the life i would have wanted to give them and obviously my eldest daughter got adopted because of the fact i was getting abused. i've missed out on most of her life. it's very hard sometimes, looking back at the loss, and nothing will ever give me that back. fiona was often missing from the children's home, she sometimes came back bruised or even saying she had been sexually abused. but the abuse continued. there were so many missed opportunities to save me from years of abuse and they never did. if i saw someone who was repeatedly showing up beaten up or making allegations of sexual abuse, i would want to help that person

and look into it and i am not a professional around that so i don't know how professional services would not want to do the same. i think there needs to be an independent inquiry into at least a 20 year period in bradford. it's been happening for years, long before it started happening to me and long after it started happening to me. it's been hidden away. for now, fiona is focusing on her mental health. she has post—traumatic stress disorder but is still on a waiting list for treatment and openly admits she is struggling. it's hard to move on with your life independently away from being that victim and it's hard to change from being that victim to a survivor. i think it's a personal battle that i must face and eventually i think i will be able to move on. now it's time for

a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. over the past couple of days we have had plenty of heavy downpours that have led to some flooding disruption in parts of the uk and there is more to come, so the theme of sunny spells but also thundery and torrential downpours at times continues to the rest of today and for the next few days as well, or down to the fact we have a slow—moving area of low pressure dominating the weather, not many isobars and this means the heavy intense downpours are not moving through very quickly. there is an amber warning across parts of scotland for those thunderstorms and we have got them today, bringing torrential slow—moving downpours, flooding and disruption likely across the region and it's notjust across the region and it's notjust across scotland we are seeing heavy showers, plenty bubbling up elsewhere, and a few of them in the south recently but if you catch when it could bring some hail and intense flooding rainfall. temperatures around 21 — 22 and may be 2a in

eastern england but those showers will continue to be a problem across scotland and north—west england through the evening and overnight but elsewhere they fade away so things becoming dry especially in the south as we begin wednesday morning and temperatures will be around 13—15 but further intense downpours for this area of low pressure, not moving anywhere in a hurry as we move through the course of wednesday, so especially across scotland once again, that is where we are concerned about more heavy rain, and anotheramber we are concerned about more heavy rain, and another amber weather warning in place tomorrow over scotland. the heavy rain likely to bring flooding problems, disruption likely once again in central and northern scotland. elsewhere, away from the flooding areas, we could see disruption with heavy showers and thunderstorms but they will move through a bit quicker on the breeze but almost anywhere could catch an intense downpour, but summer sunshine in between. a touch cool in recent days by the time we get to

wednesday and by the time we get to thursday, low—pressure starting to ship so we will see the winds starting to rotate, and further rainfall mounting up over parts of scotland and northern england and northern ireland. a bit dry and further south and top temperatures by thursday afternoon coming down a notch around 15—21. goodbye for now.

this is bbc news. i'm reeta chakrabarti. the headlines... damning criticism of a london council for allowing the decades—long abuse of more than 700 children in five children's homes. can they be gold and silver? yes, tom dean is olympic champion of the 200 metres freestyle and duncan scott gets the silver! more medaljoy for team gb at the olympics — as tom dean and duncan scott pick up gold and silver in the men's 200 metres freestyle. cheering. jubilation for tom dean's family and friends back home, as they celebrated his gold medal success. and there's further medal success for team gb — including a silver medal for georgia taylor—brown

in the women's triathlon, and bronze medals in the gymastics