through her, which takes the toxin levels out of the leaf, meaning that it's safe for the joey, but gets it used to the leaves that it will eat in its future life. so there are two subspecies of koala — the northern koala, and what violet is, which is a southern koala, which is a bit bigger and hairier than its northern cousins. oh, look — it'sjust popping out there. they're probably the fussiest animal that we have. keeping the koalas happy so far from home is a major undertaking. if they don't like it, they will let you know very, very quickly. they only eat eucalyptus, some of which is grown specially for them in the grounds ta longleat. growling. with a new baby koala on site, this male is trying to persuade his partner to try for another. growling. you don't have to be an expert in koala body language to recognise a polite "no"! jonah fisher, bbc news.

time for a look at the weather. here's matt taylor. i bet they are enjoying the sunshine out there, being koalas. plenty around today for the first february, following on from the sunniest january on record across england thanks to exceptional amounts of sunshine in the eastern weather stations. as you are probably well aware, it was notjust a neighbour particularly dry foremost, most places falling below the 100% which would represent the average rainfall, but we finished january very windy and had started february in the same vein, particularly in northern scotland, rough seas in the highlands earlier on at the same areas for the point of the strong winds and the storms over the weekend, 40, 50 or 60 mph, hampering the recovery process and causing a

bit of further damage and destruction. this area of low pressure is dragging in slightly fresher air to northern and eastern areas. mild air, the dividing line for the weatherfront, areas. mild air, the dividing line for the weather front, not much on it, the cloud is well broken, the odd spot of light rain, northern ireland into wales, said the conditions, plenty of showers in northern scotland. even though it is fresher here, temperatures above—average for this stage in february. this evening and overnight the cloud and patchy rain pushes further north eastwards, bringing milder conditions more widely tonight into tomorrow, rain and drizzle at times but temperatures tomorrow morning, double figures for some, still holding onto chilly conditions in the north—east of scotland, sunshine and showers. the milder air takes hold foremost, coming in from the apple and take on this area of high pressure. cloud

for northern ireland, seven scotland, north—eastern england, brightening into eastern scotland in the afternoon, western scotland stays damp, parts of wales, central and southern england are driest and brightest. 0nly shetlanders in the colder air at 5 degrees, temperatures widely in double figures. light rain and drizzle in western areas on thursday to begin with, some sunny spells to england and wales, heavier rainfall northern ireland and scotland late on thursday, aberdeen at 9 degrees, five in stornoway. the coldest conditions for the week come in through thursday and identified it, chasing away a weather front bringing overnight rain into southern areas, that clears away in the morning, sunshine and showers for friday, a mixture of rain, hail, sleet and snow and a chillier field. thank you. that's it, so goodbye from me. now on bbc one, let'sjoin our news

teams where you are. good afternoon. it's just after 1:30, and this is your latest sports news, from the bbc sport centre. the author val mcdermid has said she will withdraw her support and sponsorship of raith rovers after the club signed striker david goodwillie. the player was ruled to be a rapist and ordered to pay damages in a civil case in 2017. he neverfaced a criminal trial over the rape claim after prosecutors said there was not enough evidence. the captain of the club's women's team, tyler rattray, has quit in protest. mcdermid, known for her popular crime fiction novels, has taken to social media saying... clubs and fans up and down the uk

will be reflecting on the business done on a busy transfer deadline day yesterday. premier league clubs spent £295 million injanuary transfer window — making it the second highest january transfer window spend ever. everton completed the signings of donny van der beek on loan from manchester united, and one of the big name moves, dele alli who'll go to goodison from tottenham on a 2.5 year deal — for a fee that could reach £40 million. ali has played 37 times for england, but his career has stalled at spurs in recent years, and he's only played for the club six times since antonio conte took over as manager. and barcelona have agreed a deal to sign arsenal striker pierre emerick aubameyang. he wasn't on the greatest of terms with manager mikel arteta and he's only scored four goals in 14 games this season. there's no fee involved, but the transfer will reportedly save arsenal around £25 million a year in wages. golf's saudi arabian—funded asian tour will stage its first event in england this year. the centurion club in hertfordshire

is set to host the £i.5 million tournament. from the ninth to i2thjune — one of ten international events. the asian tour season starts on thursday. the tour recently revealed it'd been boosted by a £148 million investment from the saudi arabia government's private investment fund. that funding has been increased by a further £75 million. finally, there's not long till the start of the winter olympics, with the snowboarding competition beginning on saturday. beijing 2022 will be the first games to use almost 100% artificial snow, deploying more than 100 snow generators and 300 snow—cannons working flat out to cover the ski slopes. the move has attracted some criticism from those concerned over the environmental impact, because of the amount of water used. but one of great britain's medal hopes says the man—made snow could help the british athletes. it is artificial snow here, but i grew up in the uk so it's all artificial snow. but it's different and it's actually running really well, a lot better than i expected. we actually got to run

through the course today, we didn't get to hit anything butjust inspect it. it is really amazing so i am looking forward to getting stuck into training. i'm loving my olympic experience so far. a lot of covid regulations now that weren't there four years ago. but all in all, it has been better than i expected it to be. we have to go through daily covid tests, health monitoring, taking temperature, even in the food hall we have screen protectors. so it is different, but all in all we can still walk around the village and it still feels relatively normal. i look forward to seeing how they get on. you can follow other stories on the bbc sport website. we will see you soon. the government has promised to publish an updated report on lockdown gatherings at number 10 once police have finished their inquiries. the publication of the initial findings blamed a "failure

of leadership" for rule breaking in downing street. earlier, my colleague victoria derbyshire spoke with will walden, borisjohnson�*s communications directorfor many years, and a senior advisor to the prime minister when he entered downing street. she asked him whether borisjohnson is going to change. to think that he's going to change ignores a lifetime of habit. he's 57 years old, i think the way he is is the way he is. when he talks about change, yes, he talks about changing the operation, and presumably they will make changes to the operation around him. there will be different people and different ways of operating. is he going to change fundamentally the way he operates? i suspect the boris i know, the answer is no. you only have to look at the fact that i don't think he has changed from his days in city hall to going to number ten. it is just the way he is. i suspect that drives officials mad.

it used to be part of the whole boorish stick. it is what made him the heineken politician. —— boris schtick but unfortunately it is not working and that is a real problem. if people are thinking that he himself will change going forward, they have got another thing coming. that is probably the calculation that tory mps are making. they are thinking we've got this guy who's a brilliant campaigner but he isn't going to change and is that going to deliver the agenda we have promised people going forward? if they think it probably is, they will stick with him. if not, they will get rid of him. when you worked for him, what sort of culture did he set? it certainly wasn't a boozy, late evening culture. who knows whether them being locked down in a work bubble contributed to that.

from my time in number ten previously or in the cabinet, i never saw anything like that. at the end of the day, unfortunately, whatever the prime minister says, he sets the tone, he's the boss. i don't think it can get much worse than a senior independent mandarin saying there is a serious failure in downing street. he did run a relaxed office. it was part of his modus operandi, part of his charm. everyone knew he was not totally for the detail, but was he a serious politician when he needed to be, yes. he was always focus. so i don't know what has gone on to change some of that. at the end of the day, the prime minister is the boss and he has to set the tone and he certainly has to change the tone going forward and he has to do it pretty quickly. obviously we have got the full report from sue gray

to come at some point, we've got the metropolitan police investigation. until then, would you say, the prime minister is safe in hisjob? who knows. politics is a strange one and it changes every 24 hours. if there were further revelations between now and the publication of the police report. and that could be a real problem. he is probably safer now, but the difficulty is number ten wants to move on from that, "we've got months before the police investigation and we can move on from this and focus on delivery of other things." but the sue gray report was excoriating. that leaves the prime minister and frankly the country in a very difficult position. we face weeks or months of uncertainty. number ten is not in control

of any of these events or the police investigation and they are not in control of the findings. a lot of this is fundamentally self—inflicted on the prime minister's part. whatever you think of the performance of the prime minister, they have had weeks to decide what the changes would be. he acknowledged that the changes around the staffing and how it number ten is run, that he only had one idea. your viewers may not know, but they had his secretary in charge 18 months ago and he got promoted and then he was never replaced. if he's going to move forward, he's got to focus on delivery, demonstrate that the changes around him are real, and coming to the commons yesterday with only one idea does not help with that narrative. ok, you worked with him very closely for a number of years. do you think he thinks he has not

done anything wrong or do you think his "i'm sorry" was genuine? it is so difficult. yes, he is sorry. he recognises the boozy parties, whatever the circumstances are not acceptable. i think the problem that they have is they did not get in front of this in the very beginning. they said it did not happen. then they said ok, it happened, but i wasn't there. 0h, ok, i was there but it was not a party. people see that and think that cannot be right. so when he comes to apologise, there is contrition, but then he is political, he's very aggressive in response. and the problem that creates in people's minds is where is the line? is he sorry or not? we read that he goes around going to colleagues that i haven't done anything wrong. i don't think in the long term that

helps him or his narrative or his chance of surviving this. the family of a 21—year—old woman, who suffered life—changing injuries after being kidnapped by her ex—boyfriend, is campaigning to have his sentence increased. angel lynn was bundled into a van by chay bowskill who was sentenced to seven and a half years at a young offenders institute. the attorney general has now agreed to review the sentence. rachel stonehouse has this report. this is the moment angel lynn is kidnapped by her then boyfriend, chay bowskill, in september 2020. he grabs hold of her and forces her into a van, which is then driven off by his friend, rocco sansome. just a few minutes later, angel falls out the back of the van, here on the a6 near loughborough, sustaining life—changing injuries. almost 18 months later, she remains in hospital. she can't talk, she can't walk, she can't eat, she can't drink. she doesn't recognise... it's kind of...

there's nothing there. but obviously, as a parent, the fact that she's alive is hope for them. last week, bowskill was sentenced to seven and a half years for kidnap, controlling behaviour during the relationship, and pressurising his mum to withdraw her police statement. his friend, rocco sansome, was sentenced to 21 months. bowskill was found not guilty of causing angel's injuries, after he said she jumped out of the van, but the family are furious, as he could be out as early as 2024. they've now requested for his sentence to be reviewed. angel's family are not the only ones who believe there is a wider problem in the criminaljustice system. we have a criminaljustice system in general that doesn't fully understand the range of domestic abuse. when we think about the context of coercion and control, what is often understood to be a background of domestic abuse is often overlooked, because of maybe abuse not being reported, particularly to the police, or recorded in a particular way.

nearly a year and a half on, jackie and herfamily are still feeling the aftermath. how has it actually impacted how you feel in terms of your safety? erm, just... ijust feel reluctant to go out. even just in my house, having someone come to check the boiler — erm, it shouldn't, but it makes me concerned, and i can't help feeling that way. and i've always considered myself quite a strong person, but it's, yeah, worried me a little bit. rachael stonehouse, bbc news. now it's time for across the uk. there's criticism this lunchtime for an organisation where staff can be racist, misogynistic — and where bullying and harrassment takes place. the organisation in question — is london's metropolitan police service.

and the criticism has come from it's own watchdog which has been investigating for nearly four years. bbc london's lauren moss has the details. in total, we carried out nine separate investigations into these teams. we investigated a total of 40 police officers. two of them for gross misconduct, and a range of other disciplinary sanctions happened for these officers. what we actually uncovered was deeply worrying. we uncovered a culture of bullying, of sexual harassment, of misogyny, racism and a range of discrimination that was prevalent within these teams. and i have to say, our investigations wouldn't have been possible without the bravery of a serving police officers officers coming forward, who were victims and were fearful of reprisal, who cooperated with our investigations. it's only because of their courage

that the outcomes that we achieved against these officers were possible. what our investigation uncovered was officers bullying other officers within the team, and there was a culture of fear. what we found was that female officers, probationers, officers from diverse ethnic backgrounds were being bullied. this report is upsetting, it is graphic in nature, but we wanted to expose what canteen culture actually looks like. notjust for the public, but also equally importantly for members of the metropolitan police service. so that other officers can see what some of their colleagues have to go through. a man from sheffield says a church's attempt to change his sexual orientation left him feeling empty, ashamed and suicidal. matthew drapper says he still suffers flashbacks after a prayer session in 2014 where he claims he was encouraged to rid himself of the demons of his homosexuality.

the practice known as conversion therapy is illegal in many countries and a consultation is going on at the moment to ban the practice in the uk. look north's amy garcia reports. a lot of the time i was on the verge of being suicidal, actually. i used to pray at night a lot of the time, and i would wake up in the morning and i would wake up in the morning and be straight or be changed, or that i would just die in the night. remembering a low point in his life. a dedicated christian, at the age of 25 matthew moved everything to be close to st thomas of philadelphia. 0n close to st thomas of philadelphia. on one occasion in 2014, matthew says he was encouraged to take part in an intense prayer session. what says he was encouraged to take part in an intense prayer session.- in an intense prayer session. what i went through _ in an intense prayer session. what i went through was _ in an intense prayer session. what i went through was an _ in an intense prayer session. what i went through was an exorcism - in an intense prayer session. what i l went through was an exorcism where in an intense prayer session. what i i went through was an exorcism where i was told to pray the demons of homosexuality out of myself. i was repeating this prayer, which was very much saying i repent for believing that i am gay, i break any agreement that i made with satan that i might be gay.—

that i might be gay. matthew believes that _ that i might be gay. matthew believes that what _ that i might be gay. matthew believes that what he - that i might be gay. matthew- believes that what he experienced in this church was conversion therapy, a practice that tries to change the sexual orientation or the gender identity of l gdp 0 plus people. -- lg btq —— lgbtq plus. but it is something this human rights campaigner has been calling forfour rights campaigner has been calling for four years. rights campaigner has been calling forfouryears. she rights campaigner has been calling forfour years. she says rights campaigner has been calling for four years. she says she is dealing with hundreds of cases. it is absolutely horrendous to their identitx — is absolutely horrendous to their identity. they have a right to their own identity, that is being stripped away from — own identity, that is being stripped away from them. they are being told they are _ away from them. they are being told they are wrong in terms of who they are. they are wrong in terms of who they are we _ they are wrong in terms of who they are. we have seen people go on to self-harm —

are. we have seen people go on to self—harm. we have even had cases where _ self—harm. we have even had cases where people have died by suicide, because _ where people have died by suicide, because they would ingest and internalise the pain of everything they have — internalise the pain of everything they have gone through. matthew has been in a relationship _ they have gone through. matthew has been in a relationship with _ they have gone through. matthew has been in a relationship with his - been in a relationship with his partnerfor been in a relationship with his partner for four years now, been in a relationship with his partnerforfour years now, but he says he is still haunted by his experience. amy garcia, bbc look north. the new york times has bought the popular word game wordle for an undisclosed seven—figure sum. the free, web—based game, which now boasts millions of players, was created by the software engineer, josh wardle. he said the game's success has been "a little overwhelming." the new owners say the game will remain free to play — for the time being. earlier, my colleague ben boulos spoke to countdown�*s susie dent — lexicographer and wordle user — he asked her why it's so popular.

it's like a collective code breaking exercise, ben. it's a process of elimination and i think itsjoy is in its simplicity. it's a bit like countdown, actually, in that once you've done it, you know the rules. i think it's very, very easy to get. and of course the same challenge is set for everyone each day. and community sharing like that — with a word game as opposed to, say, a video game — is really rare. you might have it between crossword players on a really low level but this one has been spectacular on that score. we're just going to go back to the live coverage of my colleague's attempt at it. 0h, marvellous, we've got one letter — and it is in the right place. so we will continue to guess the letters. but ijust wonder whether it's a reflection of perhaps our shorter attention spans? because in the past, people did crosswords and you'd devote maybe half an hour depending how good you are, but this is just guessing one word. do you think it appeals to us because you've just to guess one

word and that's it — once you have done it, its complete. i suppose that's true, but actually what is lovely is that there is just one challenge a day, and i'm really hoping that the new york times will keep that — because we're so used to apps or games that let us play as often as we like, to the point where you can just exhaust it and yourself. whereas this one is just one a day — and i think most of us think "i would like to do another one now." so i'm not sure it's about short attention span. i think crosswords are also still doing really well, and during lockdown so many of us opened our cupboards and found all our dusty board games and things, so i like to think in some ways it's coming back. it's like a sort of version of the slow tv, if you like. if ever there was a cue, let's show some coverage of slow tv. i should say, in fairness to robert, this is a team effort among colleagues in the gallery. slow progress, i think — slow and steady. we're on three guesses. so the l is correct but in the wrong place, the 0 is correct in the right place.

we'll continue with that painful process, susie, but i just wonder what you think would perhaps change if the new york times does something like, and they haven't indicated that they will, but perhaps makes several available a day? or perhaps makes it six letters instead of five? are there any changes you think would be to its detriment? both of those, actually. i thinkjosh wardle has absolutely found a sweet spot for this. i think six maybe — it's lovely that there's no time pressure but also, there is the pressure of getting it in five. and i think if you relaxed the rules a little bit that might go. and equally, if you had more than one a day, you mightjust get a bit associated with it. i'm not sure. i hope the new york times won't put it behind a pay wall. but then the question is, will there be lots of clones? i don't know if you can copyright

a game like this — i'm guessing so. but i don't blamejosh wardle for getting a reward for it. i think some people are thinking, could he have crowdfunded it? 0r had a tipjar? 0r done it in a different way? but hopefully it will remain on the web any way — and free for as long as it can. and the fact it will keep going, obviously, is the best thing. 0k, susie, we are going to take one final look at robert's efforts. and there will be people shouting at the screen because he has put e back in at the end, and on his first guess it showed him that wasn't in the word at all. fool! that is not me being mean to him, that was his gas. and just so we don't leave you on a cliffhanger, our producer robert did manage to get it on his sixth — and last — guess. the correct answer was knoll. that's k-n-o-l-l.

he isa he is a chelsea fan. that explains a lot. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello, while we've got a bit of sunshine to the north and east of the country at the moment, once again it is another pretty windy day. 0k, winds are not as strong as they were through the weekend, but in northern scotland whipping up some pretty rough seas so far today. and it is here where we are seeing gusts of 50—60 mph, maybe a little bit more, to take us through the rest of the day and into the evening. even further south into northern england, we could still see gusts close to gale force. it's this area of low pressure which is going to snow across scandinavia, continues to clear away, those winds will ease down later. but its opening the door to slightly chillier air across the north and east of the country compared with this morning. to the south and west, milder air holds on. dividing line. well, it there is not a huge amount of cloud on it, but some patchy light rain and drizzle, particularly across some western areas. northern ireland, through wales, towards central southern england. many northern and eastern areas stay clear. a few showers continue, wintry in nature across the north of scotland.

and a chillier feel to end the day across the north—east. four in lerwick, six in aberdeen. then, into this evening and overnight, briefly quite chilly across eastern areas to begin with, but then cloud, patchy rain and drizzle starts to work its way eastwards once again, lifting temperatures towards dawn back into double figures. so, for some, a temporary dip and then temperatures rising by the end of the night and into tomorrow. and that's because our weather front is moving back northwards again, dragging in the air all the way from the mid—atlantic. so temperatures are going to be pushing back above normal for this stage of the year as we go through wednesday. here is the dividing line. cloud, patchy rain and drizzle. northern scotland, down through eastern england initially. that pushes its way eastwards, then we see some good cloud breaks here and there in eastern scotland, parts of eastern wales, into the south. making it feel pretty warm actually for a january day. but still further rain at times into north—west scotland. a mild night will follow to take us into thursday. a few spot of light rain or drizzle around initially, but turning wet and windy across scotland and northern ireland later on. some of the rain will be heavy and, watch the temperature difference, 12 in london, nine in aberdeen.

other side of our weather front in stornoway, four degrees. colder air is going to push its way back in is that whether front pushes its way southwards. it may actually bring a bit of rain to southern counties for a change through thursday night into friday, but it opens the door to blustery and chilly conditions for friday. the overnight rain clearing away from the south—east. good sunny spells to some southern and eastern areas. but frequent showers in the north and west, a mixture of rain, hail, sleet and snow. and your temperatures on friday afternoon, mid single figures for some of you.

this is bbc news, i'm ben brown. the headlines at 2pm... the prime minister tries to rally support from his top team— the cabinet after that damning report into parties the deputy pm says the government needs to reflect on sue gray's initial findings. it was important that we looked and learned the lessons that she has highlighted and also the prime minister has come back and said ok, i want to address and fix this. not only did the prime minister and others break the rules, but they have taken the country for fools by insulting our intelligence in the cover—up that has gone on since. the pm has left for ukraine, to hold talks with the country's president as tension grows over whether russian forces on the border will invade. a plea to get young children vaccinated against measles,

as the take up rate drops to its lowest level, in a decade.