this is bbc news. the headlines... russia says it's suspending military action around the besieged steel plant in the ukrainian city of mariupol, to allow civilians to leave. a man in his late 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder, after four people were found stabbed to death in south london. borisjohnson says comments made about labour deputy leader angela rayner in a newspaper article are intolerable. the paper said some tory mps had suggested she tried to distract the prime minister in the commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs. i have to say, i thought it was the most appalling load of sexist, misogynist tripe. new data shows that almost a quarter

of adults found it difficult to pay their household bills last month and one in four struggled to pay their energy bills. emmanuel macron is re—elected as french president. he promises to unite the country, after defeating the antiimmigration candidate, marine le pen. russia's defence ministry says its forces are suspending hostilities to allow civilians to leave a steel plant in the beseiged port city of mariupol, where ukrainian fighters continue to resist russian forces. the ukrainian authorities have called for international guarantees for any such evacuation. in poland, the us defence secretary,

lloyd austin, says he wants russia to be weakened so that it can't repeat its actions in ukraine. he made the remarks after a trip to kyiv with the us secretary of state anthony blinken. our correspondent, danjohnson, has sent us this report, from western ukraine. this is the result of a strike on a substation providing power for the railway, near krasne in the west of ukraine. firefighters had it under control by the time we arrived. they confirmed nobody was hurt but the damage was significant. ukraine's military says it also shot down a missile this morning. we found some debris close to the attack. this is one of the main routes between lviv, kyiv and the rest of the country. attacks on the railway network were expected because these tracks have become the vital arteries, maintaining the flow of weapons into ukraine, over to the ease and onto the front lines. and the trains are still running. there were five strikes on the railway network across ukraine. disrupted trains also mean delays for people trying to get away from the fighting in the east,

and the timing of these attacks could also be significant. the us secretary of state visited kyiv yesterday, promising more support. the bottom line is this. we don't know how the rest of this war will unfold, but we do know that a sovereign, independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than vladimir putin is on the scene. and our support for ukraine going forward will continue, it will continue until we see final success. the ukrainian president seemed pleased to have seen the most senior us diplomat. translation: our talks - with them were long enough, commit more than three hours and meaningful, encouraging and effective. i am grateful to the people of the united states and personally to president biden for the strong and sincere support we received. strengthening our state and democracy as a whole.

there are more images from beneath the steelworks in mariupol. rush hour said it suspend attacks but the bombardments has continued in more loss of life. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, has condemned a mail on sunday article, about the party's deputy leader, angela rayner. he called it "rank sexism and misogyny." the story claimed some conservative mps had suggested ms rayner tried to distract the prime minister in the commons, by crossing and uncrossing her legs. more than 5,000 people have complained about the coverage to the press complaints watchdog, ipso. the mail on sunday is refusing to comment. this lunchtime on a trip to bury, the prime minister was asked about this story. prime minister, can ijust firstly ask you about a question that has been in the media over the weekend?

angela rayner and some of the comments made about her. yeah, i know, i... do you think this is a big problem at westminster? is it a cultural problem? well, it's hard to say, on the basis of that particular story, but i have to say, i thought it was the most appalling load of sexist, misogynist tripe, and i immediately got in touch with angela and we had a very friendly exchange, and if we ever find who is responsible for it, then i don't know what we will do with them but it will be the terrors of the earth. it is totally intolerable, that kind of thing. tracy brabin is the mayor of west yorkshire and a former labour mp and culture secretary who left westminster last may. back in 2020, she broke her ankle and leant for support on the dispatch box, causing her dress to slip off her shoulder. after receiving a barrage of abuse on social media, where she was called a slag, hungover, and a tart, she decided to auction the dress itself, raising over £20,000 for charity.

shejoins me now from leeds. quite the power move. we welcome back to your specific experience and a second. i want to start with the reaction we have been having to the article about angela rayner. calls for something to change in westminster. how do you assess the problem of sexism in westminster? firstly, angela is an amazing politician, and more than holds her own with borisjohnson. i would say she wins the despatch box every time she wins the despatch box every time she goes out. this is meant to diminish and demean her and i do think the outrage is appropriate, it was absolutely scurrilous and unacceptable, but the comment from the prime minister saying it is hard to know that there is a problem in westminster, there are 56 members of parliament that have been referred to the independent complains and

grievances committee. 0ne to the independent complains and grievances committee. one of those grievances committee. one of those grievances regards bribery for sexually favoured so it seems plain is the nose on your face that is a problem here. is the nose on your face that is a problem here-— problem here. given that it is a roblem problem here. given that it is a problem there, _ problem here. given that it is a problem there, what _ problem here. given that it is a problem there, what would - problem here. given that it is ai problem there, what would you problem here. given that it is a - problem there, what would you want done about it? figs problem there, what would you want done about it?— done about it? as the only female metro mary _ done about it? as the only female metro mary in _ done about it? as the only female metro mary in the _ done about it? as the only female metro mary in the country, - done about it? as the only female metro mary in the country, a - done about it? as the only female metro mary in the country, a lot i done about it? as the only female | metro mary in the country, a lot of it is about representation. if you have more women in positions, you will have less of this. to say that we need more women mps, there are only 22% of women councillors across the country, we have a slow rise of women mps, 34—32% in 2019, we need to make sure the women's voices are heard because i would put money on the fact that if women's voices were heard we would not be in the situation where men were trying to diminish women, it is utterly childish and unacceptable. let’s

childish and unacceptable. let's touch on what _ childish and unacceptable. let's touch on what happened - childish and unacceptable. let's touch on what happened with you. i bulked at reading out some of the abuse you received and the terms, i know you did to them out to demonstrate the problem. was it a shock to you? fit demonstrate the problem. was it a shock to you?— shock to you? of course, and who knew that — shock to you? of course, and who knew that a _ shock to you? of course, and who knew that a shoulder _ shock to you? of course, and who knew that a shoulder could - shock to you? of course, and who knew that a shoulder could create | knew that a shoulder could create such a furore? but it is about being able to be the voice for all the women who are not in senior positions with a loud voice like myself and angela and other women leaders, who are able to call out to people who are trying to diminish them. it's important for us to be them. it's important for us to be the voice for those women who cannot stand up to their boss or they would lose theirjob, who cannot stand up to their colleague because everyone seems to find it funny. because that representation, women at the top, really matters, so working with my brilliant deputy minister for policing and, we are able with a lived experience to be able to end

west yorkshire record misogyny as a hate crime, one of the only police forces in the country to do that. that comes from having women in senior leadership roles. i would say borisjohnson wants to solve this problem, he would make sure that more of his mps are women and to make sure that anybody who behaves in this way is not only called out but trained or sent out and sent packing because the sort of language, this diminishing is from the 1950s, this is not modern politics. i the 1950s, this is not modern olitics. . ., the 1950s, this is not modern olitics. . . .., the 1950s, this is not modern olitics. . ., ., politics. i have heard the call for representation, _ politics. i have heard the call for representation, the _ politics. i have heard the call for i representation, the characterising of misogyny as a hate crime, two specifics you are calling for. i want to address something you mentioned in passing almost, that some people find it funny or treat this issue as a joke. how do you go about rooting that out? it is this issue as a joke. how do you go about rooting that out?— about rooting that out? it is not funn , to about rooting that out? it is not funny, to diminish _ about rooting that out? it is not funny, to diminish women - about rooting that out? it is not funny, to diminish women in . about rooting that out? it is not i funny, to diminish women in front about rooting that out? it is not - funny, to diminish women in front of their colleagues or to try to

undermine women with a powerful voice, but of course, it was ever thus. women are always diminish because of what they wear and how they look as opposed to what they say. it's about listening to what we say. it's about listening to what we say not wear, but it's about leadership and decency and would suggest that keir starmer has shown what it is to be a decent politician but it comes from the top. i read an organisation of 750 people. we are putting inclusivity at the heart of everything we do. it's about leadership from the top and the things that are said by the prime minister gives other people cover to see what they want to say about women politicians, so it's about leadership having dignity and decency and having. a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after four people were stabbed to death in southwark in south london. officers were called to reports

of a disturbance at a home in bermondsey in the early hours on monday morning. the victims, three women and a man, were all pronounced dead at the scene. police gave an update in the last half hour... in the early hours of this morning, following a call from neighbours, officers forced entry into a house here. inside the house, they made a dreadful discovery of four people who had been stabbed. despite the best efforts of officers and paramedics, all four people were sadly pronounced dead at the scene. i can confirm that the deceased were three women, believed to be aged in their mid—60s, 40s and 30s, and one man believed to be aged in their mid—60s. i want to offer my heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of all those concerned.

this is a deeply shocking incident, and we will do everything we can to provide support to everyone affected at this difficult time. a man in his late 20s was arrested at the address, on suspicion of murder and he is currently in custody and at this early stage, we're not looking for any other person. we believe that all those involved may have been known to each other. that update was in the last 20 minutes or so. our home affairs correspondent tom symonds is at the scene. what more do we know? the police reflectin: i what more do we know? the police reflecting i think _ what more do we know? the police reflecting i think what _ what more do we know? the police reflecting i think what i _ what more do we know? the police reflecting i think what i have - what more do we know? the police reflecting i think what i have help i reflecting i think what i have help speaking to people here, it's a bit of a cliche but a bit of a close—knit area where people know each other well. some people clearly knew the family living at this house, there are some very deeply shocked neighbours in this area today. the police saying two things

today. the police saying two things today in this last statement. that are of note. firstly, that the man they have in custody or the person, new the people in the house who died in this incident. and that they are not looking for anybody else. that tells you it's a police investigation of a certain type, which will focus on what happened last night that any previous history that might help explain it. it does not help people in this area who woke up from a deeply disturbing night by screams in this area, a helicopter overhead and a massive police turn out, they will be shocked by what has happened here today, but clearly a major police investigation continuing. to recap on the new detail in that statement from the chief superintendent. he said three women had died, one in her 60s, one in their 30s and 40s and a man in his 60s, and the suspect in his 20s, a man who had

been arrested on suspicion of murder. ., , ., ., ,, been arrested on suspicion of murder. ., ., ,, , been arrested on suspicion of murder. ., .,~ , ., murder. could you talk us through the geography _ murder. could you talk us through the geography of— murder. could you talk us through the geography of where _ murder. could you talk us through the geography of where you - murder. could you talk us through the geography of where you are i murder. could you talk us through | the geography of where you are for the geography of where you are for the eight people who do not know that area of london? it is the eight people who do not know that area of london?— that area of london? it is a south london, southwark, _ that area of london? it is a south london, southwark, an _ that area of london? it is a south london, southwark, an area - that area of london? it is a south london, southwark, an area of. that area of london? it is a south | london, southwark, an area of low rise terraced houses, a friendly area, people have been friendly to us and happy to, in most cases, talk to us about the area and what it is like. the local mp, harriet harman, was here earlier. she pointed what i said earlier, this being a close—knit place where people know their neighbours, a long settled community. the street when it happened, the house is over that great barrier you may be able to see the police have put up, the door has been open all day, forensic officers, i think a dog team went in at one point. the road itself completely sealed off which is quite unusual. it shows they are looking closely at the road itself and a number of forensics tenants have been placed in that road in front of the house. to be clear, generally forensic pence are used to cover up items taken from the house or

perhaps found in the street to protect them from the elements will spat this stage it about protecting the crime scene and working from out what might have led to this attack. thank you very much. the headlines on bbc news... russia says it's suspending military action around the besieged steel plant in ukrainian city of mariupol to allow civilians to leave. a man in his late 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder after four people were found stabbed to death in south london. borisjohnson says comments made about labour deputy leader angela rayner in a newspaper article are intolerable. the paper said some tory mps had suggested she tried to distract the prime minister in the commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs. emmanuel macron, has vowed to unite france and be a "president for all," after his re—election as the country's leader. he won a convincing victory

over his rival, marine le pen, with 58% of the vote. mr macron also became the first sitting president in 20 years, to secure a second term. from paris, here's our europe correspondent, jessica parker. france has opted for the familiar. and last night, emmanuel macron chose the eiffel tower for a victory speech, where he tried not to sound too triumphant. translation: my friends, we will need to be kind - and respectful, because our country harbours many doubts and divisions. so we will need to be strong. but nobody will be left by the wayside. it means keeping to the path of a centrist, pro—eu leader, who argues for economic reforms. sylvia voted for macron. it is not my first choice, but in the second round, that is what i want. does france feel divided to you? actually, i work in paris, but i

live really far away from here, so i can really see in the little town around, they prefer marine le pen. so it's emmanuel macron for another five years. business as usual? well, not quite. last night, he acknowledged divisions within french society and promised to try and address them, be a "president for all." a nice sentiment, perhaps, but a huge political challenge. she wasn't close to winning, but marine le pen secured the far right�*s highest ever share of the vote, and tapped into deep discontent about immigration, rising prices and communities who feel left behind. in her constituency in northern france, these le pen supporters were despondent. translation: i swearl am never going to vote again. _ i don't have much money left, only for going out a little bit. i we don't have anything left. macron, he's only . there for rich people.

i'm really upset. for the next five years, - it's going to be a real struggle here in nord—pas—de—calais. also tempering macron�*s win, the fact that around 3 million people cast spoilt or blank votes, while turnout was at its lowest since the late �*60s. france has kept its president in place, but the country doesn't quite march on as before. jessica parker, bbc news, in paris. sexual offence victims, are facing the longest waits on record, for their cases to go to court in england and wales. it follows a bbc investigation, which found that last year, it took an average of nine months for a case to be concluded. but there are huge regional differences. here's dominic casciani. how long should someone wait forjustice? in the oasis of calm of her home, lisa tells me about the nightmare of criminaljustice delays after she was raped in 2017. she had damning evidence against her attacker, a man she knew well.

i was led to believe originally that it would be quite a speedy resolvement to the case and it would be taken on to charging, and that decision would come about. however, it didn't happen in that way, and it was a very long, drawn process. police and prosecutors took two years to charge the attacker, taking him to court in the summer of 2019. but existing backlogs meant no trial before the following april, and then the pandemic closed courts. the rapist was only convicted in late summer 2021. i think if i hadn't have gone forward and reported it, i would have been able to have brought my mental health round a lot quicker than extending the ordeal and having the additional impacts of a court system and just the lack of understanding of how people feel in that scenario, of building themselves up to be knocked back down again time and time again. national data and the bbc court by court analysis shows lisa's experience is not exceptional.

sexual offence complaints take the longest time to get through the courts — a national average of 8.6 months in england and wales. but there's huge variation across the country. leicester crown court have been the longest at 15 months last autumn. overall, the delay for all offences from report to crown court completion is 697 days. criminal barristers say the system is chronically underfunded. they've begun industrial action, refusing to take on some cases to force the government to inject more cash. a young junior barrister in the first three years of their practice is earning just over £12,000 a year before tax. a lot of barristers now are working under minimum wage. we're facing a huge exodus of practitioners from the profession. this temporary court, one of many set up during the pandemic, is part of the ministry ofjustice's solution to backlogs.

barristers say there aren't enough lawyers to push cases through on time, but ministers predict that their long—term plan, including recording evidence in advance from rape victims, will turn things around. it's very difficult for anyone i that's been the victim of rape or serious sexual violence. you recover from the original crime and then you've got. to muster the courage to go through the process. - i'm absolutely committed to making sure that those victims _ have the support at every step of the wax _ how much confidence do you have in the system having gone through all of this? none. none at all. i would never, you know, god forbid it ever happened again, or to any of my family, i wouldn't promote going through the system and even reporting a crime of this nature any more. dominic casciani, bbc news. and if you've been affected by any of the issues in that report, there are details of organisations which may be able to help. just go to our website... or you can call for free...

the widow of a sub—postmaster who took his own life after being wrongly accused over money going missing from his till has been speaking for the first time about the effect the allegations had on him. martin griffiths died in 2013. he was one of hundreds of post office workers wrongly accused, with some going to jail. here's coletta smith. martin and i married in 1982. we had two children. we decided to look into buying a post office. and hope farm road came on the market and we decided to go for it. for 1a happy years, martin ran this cheshire branch of the post office, while gina ran the shop side of the business. but in 2009, everything changed. and then all of a sudden, money started going missing.

we had to pay the money back in order to carry on trading or otherwise they would have closed us down. the money was shown to be missing from the branch by the computerised till system called horizon. it had been rolled out to post offices across the uk from the year 2000. what gina and martin didn't know is that there were bugs and errors in it from the start, and horizon wasn't always accurate. if you had holes in your accounts, the post office would say they are your responsibility. "you have to make them good, because that's our money. "and if you can't explain or demonstrate you know how and where this money has gone, it's on you." 0verfour years, £60,000 of mystery losses racked up and the post office held martin responsible. they hounded him. they persecuted him. didn't seem to be any end to it at the time. and then they told him they wanted to terminate his position as postmaster, and they gave him three months. you know, martin hit rock bottom.

in september 2013, on his way to work, martin tried to take his own life and was rushed to hospital. he was put on a life support machine. i think he'd been planning it. i really do. he's a proud man, and i think he thought he was letting us all down. his children, his parents and me. they turned the machine off, i think, in the morning. and the worst the worst thing for me was seeing my children. ..have to see their dad die. martin was facing financial ruin. gina is in no doubt as to whom she blames, it was purely down to the post office. nobody else. so i blame them.

the post office says it's sincerely sorry for the impact of the horizon scandal on the lives of victims and their families. and it says it's made fundamental reforms to its operations and culture. two years after martin's death, gina accepted a financial settlement from the post office, but had to agree that she wouldn't discuss it. now, the facts about horizon that martin didn't live to hear are being uncovered and a public inquiry is under way. coletta smith, bbc news. there's more on this tonight in panorama — the post office scandal. that's on bbc one, at 8pm. some news coming into us from bbc radio scotland concerning a school there. police and staff are being kept inside the high school in

surrey, armed police are responding to what they call a concern for safety there. armed police at the school, pupils and staff being kept inside as officers presumably trying to work out what is happening, investigating inside and outside the building. the school has said a large police presence, understandably, in the area and the school is asking parents not to come to the school for the time being. that is being told to our colleagues in bbc radio scotland. any more details we will bring them straight to you. —— bbc surrey. mps say the airline regulator, should be given stronger powers to protect passengers affected by the sort of disruption, seen during the covid pandemic. air travel was hit hard by restrictions, including quarantines, testing regimes and travel bans. now mps want the civil aviation authority, to have the power to fine airlines who refuse to provide refunds, for delayed

or cancelled flights. in china, the capital beijing has kicked off mass testing for millions of people, after a sharp rise in covid cases. long queues formed outside supermarkets and shops, despite government assurances, over food supplies. there are fears there could be a lockdown in the capital lasting weeks, as is happening in shanghai. stephen mcdonell, has more details. beijing residents rush to buy food and other provisions. there is fear that the capital could be locked down, like shanghai, with its significant shortages of daily necessities. 0n social media, footage is circulating of empty shelves and crowds of shoppers lining up well into the night. the daily infection rate hasn't been high in beijing. but the government has ordered mass testing, warning that 0micron may have been spreading significantly in the city over the past week. this is the scene throughout the chaoyang district of beijing, with people lining up to have covid tests today. everyone in chaoyang district this week has to do three covid tests.

now, chaoyang is a huge area. it is as big as a city itself. there are millions of people living and working in chaoyang, and although there have only been 19 extra official cases added today to beijing's covid total, the fact that this testing is going on has really spooked residents in the city. "we are panicking a bit," this man said, adding that it is impossible not to panic. he showed us his shopping with disinfectant soap, vegetables, milk and the like. but a woman said that she has not stocked up on food at all because she thinks that the situation here will not become like that in shanghai. the extent to which this city is to be locked down will depend on the results of mass testing over the coming days. stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. good afternoon. should be dry for most for the rest of the day,

just an isolated shower here and there, and there will be a lot of dry weather again in the forecast this week, but with more cloud around. and therefore it will probably feel a bit cooler. we already have quite a bit of cloud, we have had this morning, across the north of the country, breaking up a little bit more here. the best of the sunshine notably across wales and the south—west, but the north sea coast, right on the coast might do quite well as well. but here it is quite chilly, with the sea breeze or the breeze coming in off that sea, and temperatures are a few degrees down on those of yesterday. but despite more cloud coming in overnight from the north, they are not going to be enough, or there is not going to be enough to stop that fall in temperature, again a touch of ground frost as we head towards morning. and so a chilly start first thing tuesday, but some good spells of sunshine, until the day wears on and cloud in the north and east meanders its way further south and west. so again, that will hold the temperatures down a little bit, but they are about average for the time of year. more online.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: russia says it's suspending military action around the besieged steel plant in the ukrainian city of mariupol to allow civilians to leave. a man in his late 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder after four people were found stabbed to death in south london. i want to offer my heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of all those concerned. this is a deeply shocking incident, and we will do everything we can to provide support to everyone affected. borisjohnson says comments made about labour deputy leader angela rayner in a newspaper article are intolerable — the paper said some tory mps had suggested she tried to distract the prime minister in the commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs. new data shows that almost a quarter of adults found it difficult to pay their household bills last month — and one in four struggled to pay their energy bills. emmanuel macron is re—elected

as french president — he promises to unite the country after defeating the anti immigration candidate marine le pen. sport now...and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, sport centre, here's isaac. good afternoon. the premier league has accepted the case for reform. the government has announced it will be setting up an independent regulator in football. the players�* union, the pfa, welcomed the endorsement of the issues raised in a fan—led review into the men's game. supporters will have more say in how the game is run. a new owner's test will be introduced and the regulator will have the power to sanction clubs in england who break financial and other rules. there have been a number of issues in football including the failed european super league and the collapse of bury fc where the prime minister has been today. what we want to do is to help fans across the country with the

independent review that we have got going on under tracey crouch so that we have a regulator, the first time in decades and decades, an independent regulator of football, will help fans to stick up for their interests and stick up for the interests and stick up for the interests of historic clubs, not just bury but across the country. i'm proud of the role the government has had on community funds, but this has been led by fans and i congratulate them.- has been led by fans and i congratulate them. has been led by fans and i conuratulate them. ., , congratulate them. how quickly will ou ut congratulate them. how quickly will you put that — congratulate them. how quickly will you put that independent _ congratulate them. how quickly will you put that independent regulator| you put that independent regulator into place? when you make that difference?— into place? when you make that difference? ., ., . ., difference? you watch, you hold your breath, difference? you watch, you hold your breath. knit. _ difference? you watch, you hold your breath. knit. it _ difference? you watch, you hold your breath, knit, it has _ difference? you watch, you hold your breath, knit, it has been _ difference? you watch, you hold your breath, knit, it has been decades - breath, knit, it has been decades without one, but i am hopeful we will be able to make rapid legislative progress. well, reacting to the annoucement, fans groups say they're encouraged, but they do want firm commitments that action will be taken soon.

it isa it is a cautious welcome. this is a step in the right direction, but the big thing is we need that timeline, we need to have some really firm guarantees. 0ne we need to have some really firm guarantees. one of the things we've seen is there have been numerous attempts to try and change and reform football in britain, over the last several decades, and those have been sitting on probably a dusty little shelf under the houses of parliament right now doing nothing. we need to have that guarantee that there will be a firm timeline, there will be an implementation of a regulator. it's what football needs desperately, and it's what we're hoping to see, hoping to get the commitment in the next few days. liverpool race to win four titles this season is still on but defender andy robertson refuses to admit that they're favourites to reach the final of the champions league. they're back to within a point of manchester city in the premier league after beating everton 2—0. robertson opened the scoring in the merseyside derby as their great run of form continued — 13 wins in 15 league games for liverpool.

next up is villareal in the first leg of their champions league semifinal at anfield on wednesday. robertson insists he and his team—mates aren't getting ahead of themselves. when you get to the semifinals, i don't think there are favourites, everyone wants to get the final and we know how tough it is and i don't think there are favourites. it is a big occasion and big moments happen in those games and it is about who deals with those of the best and that what will our determine our semifinal and the other semifinals so we don't believe we are favourites but we believe we are in for a tough game and we know where we want to go. the favourite for the world snooker title neil robertson continues his bid for a place in the quarterfinals later, but he needs to make up ground against jack lisowski, who leads by 9 frames to 7 at the crucible in sheffield. they resume at 7 o'clock and they'll play to a finish — first to 13 wins. judd trump is the 2019 champion, is in better shape — he leads anthony mcgill by 10 frames to 6.

that's all the sport for now. thank you for that, we are going to cut isaac short because we will move straight to the house of commons. brute straight to the house of commons. we believe the topic here is that article about angela rayner in the newspaper that suggested that some tory mps suggested she try to distract the prime minister in the commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs. there's been a furious backlash that, that listening.— there's been a furious backlash that, that listening. under these schemes, that, that listening. under these schemes. the — that, that listening. under these schemes, the ukraine _ that, that listening. under these schemes, the ukraine new- that, that listening. under these - schemes, the ukraine new extension scheme... has schemes, the ukraine new extension scheme... a ., ., , scheme... as you can hear, to be that, we — scheme... as you can hear, to be that, we will— scheme... as you can hear, to be that, we will pop _ scheme... as you can hear, to be that, we will pop back— scheme... as you can hear, to be that, we will pop back to - scheme... as you can hear, to be that, we will pop back to the - that, we will pop back to the commons and we have a little bit of a clear steer on exactly what is happening, when and if they do take

up happening, when and if they do take up that issue of that newspaper article published about angela rayner. latest official figures show nearly a quarter of adults reported difficulty, paying household bills in the last month, while energy costs in particular were difficult for four in ten households. the figures come from the office for national statistics. with me now is our economics correspondent andy verity. we all know, of course, about the cost of living crisis, we are starting to get more and more kind of numbers to back this up now. well, we report the inflation numbers, and that is climbing up there, on the old—fashioned number is 9% of the retail price index, and if component of that as energy prices. the we have been talking about this for months, but now we see people's difficulty paying those bills, this is march, remember, this is before the rise of the energy price cap of 54%, and what is that households had difficulty paying their energy bills. in a way, that is high, but when you look at the

broader point, how many households are struggling to pay all bills generally, that's only 23%, compared to 17% in november, you might say, well, that shows people are coping, but you have to remember, we have another energy price hike coming in october, which will knock the 0ctober, which will knock the average energy build up to about £2600 a year, and then mortgage cost, we expect interest rates to continue rising, the next meeting in may, and by yearfrom now we continue rising, the next meeting in may, and by year from now we expect them to be at an official rate of 2.5%, so or loading extra cost of the household, inevitably a lot of people find it difficult to pay. is people find it difficult to pay. is there any end in sight? is this going to get worse before it gets better? , , ., ., better? yes, it is going to get worse, unfortunately, - better? yes, it is going to get worse, unfortunately, but- better? yes, it is going to get i worse, unfortunately, but there better? yes, it is going to get - worse, unfortunately, but there is a little glimmer of hope in the energy price. if you look at what's happened to oil prices recently, they have actually come off a high. for example a barrel of crude from brent was priced at over hundred and

35 -- at £135 brent was priced at over hundred and 35 —— at £135 per barrel, you can hope that the energy price hike coming in october would be quite as bad as we anticipated. fine coming in october would be quite as bad as we anticipated.— bad as we anticipated. one of action in terms of — bad as we anticipated. one of action in terms of government _ bad as we anticipated. one of action in terms of government action, - in terms of government action, because to do more.— in terms of government action, because to do more. what leavers can because to do more. what leavers can be ulled because to do more. what leavers can be pulled here? _ because to do more. what leavers can be pulled here? i— because to do more. what leavers can be pulled here? i mean _ because to do more. what leavers can be pulled here? i mean the _ because to do more. what leavers can be pulled here? i mean the pressure l be pulled here? i mean the pressure now is on rishi sunak and the treasury to do something before the big fiscal event, because there is a lot of disappointment at how little was done to help people in the worst situations. the poorer 6 million households in the country who exist on a meagre income topped up by benefits and have seen as benefits slashed, how is the government going to help those? they could call another mini fiscal event to do something more to help them in terms of grants are in terms of other kinds of eventual support. fir of grants are in terms of other kinds of eventual support. or it, will leave it _ kinds of eventual support. or it, will leave it there. _ kinds of eventual support. or it, will leave it there. thank - kinds of eventual support. or it, will leave it there. thank you. i here in the uk, the government says it'll establish an independent

regulator in football after endorsing recommendations made in the fan—led review into the men's game. the regulator will have power to sanction clubs in english football who break financial and other rules. a "new owners test" will be introduced and legislation will give fans more say in the running of the game. let's talk to our correspondent, nesta mcgregor. good to have you on. this is a slightly complicated issue in some respects, that'sjust slightly complicated issue in some respects, that's just the slightly complicated issue in some respects, that'sjust the beginning. how did we get this point?- how did we get this point? yeah, exactl , how did we get this point? yeah, exactly. it's _ how did we get this point? yeah, exactly, it's worth _ how did we get this point? yeah, exactly, it's worth saying - how did we get this point? yeah, exactly, it's worth saying this - how did we get this point? yeah, exactly, it's worth saying this has been called the significant day for english football, but those in favour of these reforms are not celebrating it, because we don't have a timescale. how do we get here? if you look at teams like bury, macclesfield town, they've all beenin bury, macclesfield town, they've all been in trouble because of finances, derby county relegated in part because of sanctions imposed because of their financial problems, also

think back to last year, the big six wanting to break away and form a european super league, which would have changed the structure of english football, so it needs protecting at times even from itself. there is a finite review led by sports minister tracey crouch, her findings have now by sports minister tracey crouch, herfindings have now been by sports minister tracey crouch, her findings have now been accepted by the government and they are going to introduce most but not all of them are in a white paper this summer. , ., them are in a white paper this summer-— them are in a white paper this summer. , ., ., ., summer. lets get on to the actual chan . es, summer. lets get on to the actual changes. then. — summer. lets get on to the actual changes, then, what _ summer. lets get on to the actual changes, then, what stands - summer. lets get on to the actual changes, then, what stands out i summer. lets get on to the actuan changes, then, what stands out to you? changes, then, what stands out to ou? ~ . changes, then, what stands out to ou? . ., ., , , ., changes, then, what stands out to ou?. . ., ~ you? what has everyone talking the most is this — you? what has everyone talking the most is this need _ you? what has everyone talking the most is this need for _ you? what has everyone talking the most is this need for an _ you? what has everyone talking the | most is this need for an independent regulator, a bodies that will ensure that they do chaser means since for success, and they should get out of

financial worries, there's another thing on price make it tougherfor people to own football clubs, so not only stricter tests on their financials, but also when it comes to matters of integrity, we talk about the saudi backed takeover, you can do newcastle united, also sanctions for dealings with vladimir putin, but football has always says it is a business, but of the community and should be treated differently. fans remain, chairman come and go. they want to give fans more power, this could be via a shadow board or a golden share, so fans might have a say in where a new stadium is built, changes to a new logo, even the colour of a kit. the problem is when a football club goes down is not like a new business, you can open a new supermarket or nightclub, but when a football club

goes, you tend not to just go and support another. he. goes, you tend not to 'ust go and support another._ goes, you tend not to 'ust go and support another. no, indeed. well, ou'd support another. no, indeed. well, you'd hope — support another. no, indeed. well, you'd hope not. _ support another. no, indeed. well, you'd hope not, anyway. _ support another. no, indeed. well,| you'd hope not, anyway. throughout the morning on the day here, we have heard supportive voices coming up broadly in support of this, but what about the critics?— about the critics? probably the bi est about the critics? probably the biggest critics _ about the critics? probably the biggest critics of _ about the critics? probably the biggest critics of the _ about the critics? probably the biggest critics of the premier l biggest critics of the premier league, or certainly they have opposition and its hugely significant. they say that they welcome change and accept the need for change, but what they don't want is for this to affect the competitive balance or affects the money that's been invested into the league. they also say that under the guidance and with help from the fa they have made english football one of the country's most successful global imports, bringing in billions of pounds every year, but not every football fan might be a fan of these changes. a lot of the times, if your club is in relegation trouble and the need to kind of spend beyond their means to carry get out of trouble, then they should be allowed to so, but there are also football

club is being run currently at the moment if the chairman was to turn their back on and they would be in a lot of trouble. {lilia their back on and they would be in a lot of trouble.— lot of trouble. ok, thanks a lot for that. let me bring you that statement from the commons speaker lindsay hoyle — relating to the mail on sunday story about angela rayner. before we start today's business i want to say something about the article and yesterday's mail on sunday about the right honourable memberfor ashton—under—lyne. sunday about the right honourable memberforashton—under—lyne. i sunday about the right honourable memberfor ashton—under—lyne. i said member for ashton—under—lyne. i said to memberfor ashton—under—lyne. i said to the house last week in response to the house last week in response to points of order, i took the issue of media very seriously, it is one of media very seriously, it is one of the building blocks of our democracy, but i share the views expressed by a wide range of members, including i believe the pro—minister, that yesterday's article was reporting unsubstantiated claims both misogynistic and defensive. there is what we believe. i express my sympathy for the right honourable member for ashton underline for this

type of comment for being demeaning, offensive to women in parliament i can only deter women who might consider standing for election to the detriment of us all. that is why i am arranging a meeting with the press lobby with the editors the mail on sunday to discuss the issue affecting our parliamentary community. i am also arranging separately, and i believe we have now got a time, where i will be meeting with the right honourable member for ashton underline this evening. member for ashton underline this evenina. , , . ~ member for ashton underline this evenin.. , , ., ,, ._ member for ashton underline this evenin. ,, ., ~' evening. the speaker, lindsay hoyle, u -adatin evening. the speaker, lindsay hoyle, updating the — evening. the speaker, lindsay hoyle, updating the house _ evening. the speaker, lindsay hoyle, updating the house of _ evening. the speaker, lindsay hoyle, updating the house of commons - evening. the speaker, lindsay hoyle, updating the house of commons in i evening. the speaker, lindsay hoyle, l updating the house of commons in the last few minutes. £50 million was promised overfive years to help find a cure for motor neurone disease last november. but campaigners say not a single penny has — yet — been awarded. now, 12 leading scientists have written to the care minister, gillian keegan, calling for urgent action to free up funding. megan paterson reports. rob burrow, mbe. a campaigning force who, along with friends doddie weir and stephen darby, has helped

the nation talk about motor neurone disease. mr robert burrow, for services to rugby and to motor neurone disease awareness during covid—19. it is a disease that has taken rob's voice and his mobility, but it can't dim his passion to help others survive it. in september last year, rob, as part of the united to end mnd coalition, went to downing street asking the government for a £50 million investment in mnd research. we are now on the brink of a meaningful treatment, so we needed to get funds to help prolong life and laterfind a cure. two months later, the government announced it would invest at least £50 million over five years into research in a bid to find a cure — a source of hope for campaigners like rob. with the government pledging £50 million for research to find a positive treatment and possible cure means all sufferers have hope in the future and the hope of living a longer life expectancy.

i feel on top of the world. it is like playing great in a game, knowing someone is listening to us. the hard work starts now for our amazing scientists to find an effective treatment. but, since then, how much of the £50 million has been awarded? according to campaigners, none at all. attempts to access the funding have been unsuccessful. scientists told individual research applications must be made, and the funding pot isn't ring—fenced for motor neurone disease. we submitted a proposal to the government spending review back in the autumn last year and it laid out a plan that would bring together a broad range of knowledge and expertise across the whole mnd research community in the uk. it involves 22 research centres across five universities. and in terms of timing, we knew that significant new money would have to wait until the new financial year in april, but we are now well into april and we did expect to be

further ahead, with much more clarity on how the government funding will be accessed. in a letter to the minister for care, gillian keegan, 12 leading mnd scientists say efficient, responsive and rapid access to the assured funds is crucial to understanding and treating mnd. the prime minister and the health secretary promised £50 million specifically for that purpose. this led to new hope for people living with the disease, hope that is now being undermined. no money has been received by researchers as of yet, and i am told that funds may not even be reserved for mnd. red tape and bureaucracy are also making the application process difficult and will make it harder to set up amazing new ways of potentially discovering new treatments and securing new investment. people with mnd are potentially being betrayed and do not have time to wait. a spokesperson for the department of health and social care told us.

the united to end mnd coalition will meet with the care minister this week. campaigners keen access to funding and the hope it brings will follow soon after. players from afghanistan's national women's football team have competed in a league match in australia — their first time playing since fleeing the taliban. stephanie prentice reports. back of the net and the celebration for the afghan women's team. these footballers fled to melbourne when the taliban seized kabul eight months ago. along with their families, they have been trying to rebuild their lives here and going back to the game

they love is a big part of that. it's brilliant for our team because it's the first time after a long time we have played together in a professional way and officially. i am really thankful to the australian people, australian government, they opened their hearts to us. it's everything. it's everything, it's humanity. here on the pitch, their biggest problems now — target precision, a minor injury and that goal being declared offside. in the end, the game was a draw, but for women here, coming together like this was a victory. all they want to do is to be given the chance to be treated equally and to be able to play the game that they love. and that obviously wasn't happening for them in afghanistan. they were being persecuted because of it. local team eta buffalo fc took the team under their wing, giving them new kit to play in.

their shirts are marked with numbers and not names, a safety precaution for the players�* families still in afghanistan. and a reminder that the shadow of taliban rule exists for afghan women even here. we are playing in jerseys - with afghanistan's national flag logo, which means a lot to us. it means that the taliban can't stop us from playing. - as a female sports player, we will continue to fight, i to play for afghan people and afghan women. - 0ur victory and pride go to them. victory, pride and with it defiance, as well as a chance to have some well—deserved fun. a team of international scientists have been exploring a remote chain of islands off the coast of mexico — aiming to discover more about why volcanoes erupt. they also want to research the movement of tectonic plates —

and the cause of tsunamis. they hope the information could help provide an early warning system. tim allman reports. they are amongst the most awe—inspiring, the most powerful and the most dangerous natural phenomena on earth. understanding why and when volcanoes erupt could save lives, so scientists have come here to one of the most remote places on earth for possible answers. translation: the question that volcanologists always have - is when will the next eruption take place. for that, we need monitoring, and the reality is that volcanoes are not really monitored because there are very few resources for it. in january this year, a huge underwater volcano exploded near the pacific island of tonga. the eruption, believed to be the most powerful of the century, created huge plumes of smoke and ash

and also caused a tsunami. it's hoped by examining the rocks and minerals of these islands, scientists will gain a greater understanding of the tectonic plates and what lies beneath. is the mantle pushing the plates? is the mantle doing nothing? knowing that relative motion determines how big stresses are and forces are in the crust and it's those stresses or forces that we need to know in order to see how big earthquakes can be. a number of samples have been sent to europe for further analysis and it's hoped the research will bear fruit later this year. when it comes to volcanology, being forewarned is forearmed. allotments grew in popularity during the world wars when people had to become more self—sufficient and grow their own fruit and veg.

now, with the rising cost of living, there's increased demand for plots once again. nina warhurst reports. the allotment is a great british tradition. a place to get away from it all, connect with nature and even have a go at being more self—sufficient. green spaces dividing into plots for people to grow their own have been around since the 18th century. but it was in 1916 that councils were given power to commandeer land to grow food to help with the war effort. newsreel: now he's got a garden of his own where among his pals he finds the greatest fun he's ever known in making things grow. - and, as the nation dug for victory, by the end of world war ii, a fifth of our fruit and veg was grown in gardens and allotments. it is only in the long—term that you can build up soilfertility to grow really good vegetables. you know, big onions,

big leeks and big celery. but for a while, they fell out of fashion and the percentage of fresh food that came from allotments fell to single figures. fast forward to 2020 and a global pandemic pushed us to connect with nature, pushing up allotment waiting lists. it is just a sanctuary for me. my work is stressful and i come here at any opportunity i can, get away to come here. it's very relaxing. and now, with the squeeze on budgets and concerns around where food comes from and how it gets here, could the humble allotment also become a vitally important part of life once again? in antartica on british territory the first same—sex wedding has taken place stephen carpenter, from caerphilly, and eric bourne, from rochford in essex, tied the knot on board rrs sir david attenborough, which they are stewards on. the couple, who have been

together for 20 years, shared their special day with the 30 crew of the uk's new polar ship. stephen carpenter and eric bournejoin me now. just checking first of all that you can hear me, and i want to say congratulations.— can hear me, and i want to say congratulations. yeah, we can hear ou, congratulations. yeah, we can hear you. thank— congratulations. yeah, we can hear you. thank you _ congratulations. yeah, we can hear you. thank you very _ congratulations. yeah, we can hear you, thank you very much - congratulations. yeah, we can hear you, thank you very much indeed. i congratulations. yeah, we can hear| you, thank you very much indeed. it was an amazing day, it was absolutely, yeah, unforgettable. well, unforgettable for so many reasons. stephen, first of all, just tell us, why antarctica? reasons. stephen, first of all, 'ust tell us, why antarcticai reasons. stephen, first of all, 'ust tell us, why antarctica?�* tell us, why antarctica? sorry, it's eric. wh tell us, why antarctica? sorry, it's erie why am _ tell us, why antarctica? sorry, it's eric. why am tactic, _ tell us, why antarctica? sorry, it's eric. why am tactic, we _ tell us, why antarctica? sorry, it's eric. why am tactic, we have - tell us, why antarctica? sorry, it's eric. why am tactic, we have had l tell us, why antarctica? sorry, it's. eric. why am tactic, we have had the privilege of sailing on the rss david attenborough, we have had our whole life on here, and the scenery in antarctica is unforgettable, and

to be working on the ship in the region, doing what the ship does, it's a once—in—a—lifetime event. 0nce—in—a—lifetime, absolutely magical. just before we spoke to you we were seeing some of the photos, which are gorgeous, too. now, normally i wouldn't ask about logistics, because they tend to be pretty boring, but what is it like organising the logistics of a wedding in antarctica? it organising the logistics of a wedding in antarctica? it was a lo . istical wedding in antarctica? it was a logistical nightmare. _ wedding in antarctica? it was a logistical nightmare. it - wedding in antarctica? it was a logistical nightmare. it was - wedding in antarctica? it was a logistical nightmare. it was all| logistical nightmare. it was all started planning last year when the ship was still in the uk and we try to get as much of the materials together as you possibly could before the ship left. for together as you possibly could before the ship left.— before the ship left. for the “ourne before the ship left. for the journey south. _ before the ship left. for the journey south. i— before the ship left. for the journey south. i did - before the ship left. for the journey south. i did a - before the ship left. for the l journey south. i did a foreign wedding, wedding abroad, that was tough enough, and i can't imagine the stresses that you went through. just talk us through a little bit of the highlights of the actual service itself. it

the highlights of the actual service itself. . , , the highlights of the actual service itself. , ., ., ., . itself. it was very emotional. we had the support _ itself. it was very emotional. we had the support of— itself. it was very emotional. we had the support of all— itself. it was very emotional. we had the support of all the - itself. it was very emotional. we had the support of all the crew. itself. it was very emotional. we i had the support of all the crew and the team that were down there, it was very tearful. there were quite a few tears around, notjust was very tearful. there were quite a few tears around, not just for myself and steve burke from the people who supported and helped us. it was actually unforgettable, as part of the catering crew ourselves, it was quite one of those ones where we were part of the crew setting at the wedding, so it is not normal, shall we say, but everyone supported us, and we really enjoyed the whole day. us, and we really en'oyed the whole da . �* . us, and we really en'oyed the whole da. . , day. brilliant, absolutely brilliant. _ day. brilliant, absolutely brilliant, and _ day. brilliant, absolutely brilliant, and i _ day. brilliant, absolutely brilliant, and i love, - day. brilliant, absolutely- brilliant, and i love, obviously its weddings, and we have to talk about the close of the outfits, you both look very smart, from the ankles up. the ankles stand is the big snow boots on. . �* , the ankles stand is the big snow boots on. . 2 ., ., boots on. yeah, it's one of those ones, boots on. yeah, it's one of those ones. when _ boots on. yeah, it's one of those ones. when you _ boots on. yeah, it's one of those ones, when you go _ boots on. yeah, it's one of those ones, when you go off _ boots on. yeah, it's one of those ones, when you go off the - boots on. yeah, it's one of those ones, when you go off the ship i

boots on. yeah, it's one of those i ones, when you go off the ship and take the pictures, you do need the protective fur clothing to go, so the brogues don't match up, so you have to take off the brogues and put on the snow boots.— on the snow boots. brilliant. just lastl , on on the snow boots. brilliant. just lastly. on a _ on the snow boots. brilliant. just lastly, on a technicality, - on the snow boots. brilliant. just lastly, on a technicality, this - on the snow boots. brilliant. just lastly, on a technicality, this is i on the snow boots. brilliant. just lastly, on a technicality, this is a| lastly, on a technicality, this is a legally binding wedding, isn't it, valid bekir in the uk? it is legally binding wedding, isn't it, valid bekir in the uk? it is indeed, it is all legally _ valid bekir in the uk? it is indeed, it is all legally by _ valid bekir in the uk? it is indeed, it is all legally by the _ valid bekir in the uk? it is indeed, it is all legally by the fcdo - valid bekir in the uk? it is indeed, it is all legally by the fcdo and i it is all legally by the fcdo and the british antarctic territory, so it is all legal back in the uk as well. , , , ., well. grey, so there is no escape from you- _ well. grey, so there is no escape from you. thank _ well. grey, so there is no escape from you. thank you _ well. grey, so there is no escape from you. thank you for - well. grey, so there is no escape from you. thank you for talking i from you. thank you for talking through that, and from everyone here, congratulations.— through that, and from everyone here, congratulations. thank you very much _ here, congratulations. thank you very much indeed. _ now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. good afternoon, should be dry for most for the rest of the day, just an isolated shower here and there, cloud around, orfeel a bit an isolated shower here and there,

cloud around, or feel a bit cooler. will have quite a bit of cloud we've had this morning across the north of the country. the best of the sunshine notably across wales and the south—west, but the north sea coast, right on the coast might do quite well as well. but here it is quite chilly, with the sea breeze or the breeze coming in off that sea, and temperatures are a few degrees down on those of yesterday. but despite more cloud coming in overnight from the north, they are not going to be enough, or there is not going to be enough to stop that fall in temperature, again a touch of ground frost as we head towards morning. and so a chilly start first thing tuesday, but some good spells of sunshine, until the day wears on and cloud in the north and east meanders its way further south and west. so again, that will hold the temperatures down a little bit, but they are about average for the time of year. more online.

this is bbc news. the headlines... a man in his late 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder, after four people were found stabbed to death in south london. i want to offer my heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of all those concerned. this is a deeply shocking incident, and we will do everything we can to provide support to everyone affected. after visiting kyiv, the us secretary of state, says russia is brutilising ukraine, but failing to win the war. borisjohnson says comments made about labour deputy leader angela rayner in a newspaper article are intolerable. the paper said some tory mps had suggested she tried to distract the prime minister in the commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs. i have to say, i thought it was the most appalling load

of sexist, misogynist tripe. new data shows that almost a quarter of adults found it difficult to pay their household bills last month and one in four struggled to pay their energy bills. victims of sexual offences in england and wales are facing the longest waits on record for their cases to go through court. a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after four people were stabbed to death in south london. officers were called to reports of a disturbance at a home in bermondsey in the early hours of this morning. the victims, three women and a man, were all pronounced dead at the scene. tom symods reports. at 1:40am, there was screaming,

a neighbour said, and then a massive police response. 0fficers forced their way into a terraced house in a south london estate. another neighbour saw a disturbance in the back garden. police say the four victims had all been stabbed. paramedics arrived. despite their efforts, scotland yard said, three men and a woman all died at the scene. deeply disturbing for people living nearby. it's devastating. the thing is, there is a primary school up that end, there is a primary school, secondary school round the corner, and most of the families round here, we've got young children. you know, even parents, you can't even look over your own shoulder and go out, people are scared, i'm scared. police are contacting the relatives of those who died. they have not named the family who live at this house. they have arrested one man on suspicion of murder, and they believe he knew the victims. an early visitor to the scene was a local mp.

well, tragically, four people have been killed, and that is shocking, to happen anywhere, but especially in this very peaceful, quiet, very settled community here, so the police have arrested someone but it is really important, still, that people give information, any information that they have got, to the police, so that whoever committed this horrific crime can be brought tojustice. with postmortem examinations being arranged, and a stream of forensics officers arriving, this is the start of what will likely become a long and complex investigation. police gave an update a short while ago. in the early hours of this morning, following a call from neighbours, officers forced entry into a house here. inside the house, they made a dreadful discovery of four people who had been stabbed. despite the best efforts of officers and paramedics, all four people were sadly pronounced dead at the scene.

i can confirm that the deceased were three women, believed to be aged in their mid—60s, 40s and 30s, and one man believed to be aged in their mid—60s. i want to offer my heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of all those concerned. this is a deeply shocking incident, and we will do everything we can to provide support to everyone affected at this difficult time. a man in his late 20s was arrested at the address, on suspicion of murder and he is currently in custody and at this early stage, we're not looking for any other person. we believe that all those involved may have been known to each other. and tom symonds has this update from southwark.

the police saying two things today in this last statement that are of note. firstly, that the man they have in custody or the person, knew the people in the house who died in this incident. and that they are not looking for anybody else. that tells you it's a police investigation of a certain type, which will focus on what happened last night that any previous history that might help explain it. it does not help people in this area who woke up from a deeply disturbing night by screams in this area, a helicopter overhead and a massive police turn out, they will be shocked by what has happened here today, but clearly a major police investigation continuing. to recap on the new detail in that statement from the chief superintendent. he said three women had died, one in her 60s, one in their 30s and 40s and a man in his 60s, and the suspect in his 20s, a man who had been arrested

on suspicion of murder. a proposed humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians caught in the siege at the steelworks in mariupol has failed, after the ukrainians said they had not been involved in discussions to set it up. in poland, the us defence secretary, lloyd austin, says he wants russia to be weakened so that it can't repeat its actions in ukraine. he made the remarks after a trip to kyiv with the us secretary of state anthony blinken. 0ur correspondent, danjohnson, has sent us this report, from western ukraine. this is the result of a strike on a substation providing power for the railway, near krasne in the west of ukraine. firefighters had it under control by the time we arrived. they confirmed nobody was hurt but the damage was significant. ukraine's military says it also shot down a missile this morning. we found some debris close to the attack. this is one of the main routes between lviv, kyiv and the rest of the country.

attacks on the railway network were expected because these tracks have become the vital arteries, maintaining the flow of weapons into ukraine, over to the ease and onto the front lines. and the trains are still running. there were five strikes on the railway network across ukraine. disrupted trains also mean delays for people trying to get away from the fighting in the east, and the timing of these attacks could also be significant. the us secretary of state visited kyiv yesterday, promising more support. the bottom line is this, we don't know how the rest of this war will unfold, but we do know that a sovereign, independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than vladimir putin is on the scene. and our support for ukraine going forward will continue, it will continue until we see final success. the ukrainian president seemed pleased to have seen the most senior us diplomat. translation: our talks - with them were long enough,

commit more than three hours and meaningful, encouraging and effective. i am grateful to the people of the united states and personally to president biden for the strong and sincere support we received. strengthening our state and democracy as a whole. there are more images from beneath the steelworks in mariupol. but the bombardment of the plant, the city and much of the east of ukraine has continued over the weekend, meaning more loss of life. danjohnson, bbc news, krasne. 0ur reporterjoe inwood is in kyiv. the us has been the biggest financial backer of the ukrainians.

$300 million for ukraine to spend and to give nato members soviet equipment to use straightaway and maybe that is why there was such affection between the sides at the meeting. the pictures have been released and it is notjust handshakes but bear hugs between old colleagues who thought they would never see each other again. speaking earlier, they said the ukrainians had won this and russia had lost. that is a very subjective position as fighting clearly continues in the east of the country. you mentioned before at the steel plant, we have our development on the suggestion of a ceasefire. the deputy prime minister has said in the last few minutes the bbc�*s ukrainian service that she does not believe that will happen and she has seen the statements before from the ministry of defence in russia and it turned into a cheap first. vladimir putin has accused western intelligence services of seeking to destroy russia from within. here's our moscow correspondent, jenny hill.

iam i am struck by the thought that this is a man who is convinced he is in the right. he is defiant, unrepentant, and he sticks to the same narrative. we heard more about today and that narrative is that yes, ukraine is the enemy but the real villain of the piece is the west. it is helping ukraine on the battlefield. he said. he also services seeking and failing to divide russian society. putin knows full will the majority of the russian public are behind him and none of this bodes very well for the visit tomorrow of the us secretary general, coming to moscow for talks with mr putin and it is hard to see how anything positive can come out on that meeting given that nothing has stopped vladimir putin, not sanctions or threats or the fact that his special military operation as he still calls it is not going

according to plan. russia celebrated russian orthodox easter this weekend. there were more celebrations this morning at which the patriarch, the head of the russian orthodox church once again urged russians to rally around their president. the russian orthodox church believes and the kremlin believes vladimir putin believes that god really is on his side. the speaker of the house of commons, sir lindsay hoyle, has arranged a meeting with the editor of the mail on sunday after an article suggesting that labour's deputy leader, angela rayner, had been trying to distract borisjohnson at the dispatch box by crossing and uncrossing her legs. more than 5,000 people have complained about the coverage to the press complaints watchdog ipso. this lunchtime on a trip to bury, the prime minister was asked about this story. prime minister, can ijust firstly ask you about a question that has been in the media over the weekend? angela rayner and some of the comments made about her. yeah, i know, i... do you think this is a big problem at westminster? is it a cultural problem? well, it's hard to say,

on the basis of that particular story, but i have to say, i thought it was the most appalling load of sexist, misogynist tripe, and i immediately got in touch with angela and we had a very friendly exchange, and if we ever find who is responsible for it, then i don't know what we will do with them but it will be the terrors of the earth. it is totally intolerable, that kind of thing. the house of commons speaker, sir lindsay hoyle, said the mail on sunday story about angela rayner is "demeaning and offensive to women" and is likely to put women off becoming mps. before we start today's business, i want to say something about the article in yesterday's mail on sunday about the right honourable member for ashton—under—lyne. i said to the house last week in response to points of order, i took the issue of media freedom very seriously,

it is one of the building blocks of our democracy, however, i share the views expressed by a wide range of members, including i believe the prime minister, that yesterday's article was reporting unsubstantiated claims both misogynistic and defensive. those are what we believe. i express my sympathy for the right honourable memberfor the subject of this type of comment for being demeaning, offensive to women in parliament can only deter women who might consider standing for election to the detriment of us all. that is why i am arranging a meeting with the chair of the press lobby, the editors the mail on sunday to discuss the issue affecting our parliamentary community. i am also arranging separately, and i believe we have now got a time, where i will be meeting with the right honourable member earlier i spoke to west yorkshire mayor and former mp tracey brabin. back in 2020, she broke her ankle, and leant for support

on the dispatch box causing her dress to slip off her shoulder. she received a barrage of abuse on social media, firstly, angela is an amazing politician, and more than holds her own with borisjohnson. i would say she wins the despatch box every time she goes out. this is meant to diminish and demean her and i do unacceptable, but the comment from the prime minister saying it is hard to know that there is a problem in westminster, there are 56 members of parliament that have been referred to the independent complains and grievances committee. one of those grievances regards bribery for sexualfavours, so it seems plain as the nose on your face that there is a problem here. given that it is a problem there, what would you want done about it?

given that it is a problem there, what would you want done about it? as the only female metro mary in the country, a lot of it is about representation. if you have more women in positions, you will have less of this. to say that we need more women mps, there are only 22% of women councillors across the country, we have a slow rise of women mps, 34—32% in 2019, we need to make sure the women's voices are heard because i would put money on the fact that if women's voices let's touch on what happened with you. i baulked at reading out some of the abuse you received and the terms, i know you did tweet them out to demonstrate the problem. was it a shock to you? of course, and who knew that a shoulder could create such a furore?

but it is about being able to be the voice for all the women who are not in senior positions with a loud voice like myself and angela and other women leaders, who are able to call out to people who are trying to diminish them. you know, it's important for us to be the voice for those women who cannot stand up to their boss or they would lose theirjob, who cannot stand up to their colleague because everyone seems to find it funny. because that representation, women at the top, really matters, that is why working with my brilliant deputy minister for policing and crime, we are able with a lived experience to be able to in west yorkshire record misogyny as a hate crime, one of the only police forces in the country to do that. that comes from having women in senior leadership roles. so i would say if borisjohnson wants to solve this problem, he would make sure that more of his mps are women and to make sure that anybody who behaves

in this way is not only called out but is trained or sent out and sent packing because this sort of language, this diminishing is from the 1950s, this is not modern politics. i have heard the call for representation, the characterising of misogyny as a hate crime, two specifics you are calling for. i want to address something you mentioned in passing almost, that some people find it funny or treat this issue as a joke. how do you go about rooting that out? it is not funny to diminish women in front of their colleagues, or to try to undermine women with a powerful voice, but of course, t�*was ever thus. women in powerful roles are always diminished because of what they wear and how they look as opposed to what they say. it's absolutely about listening to what we say not wear.

the headlines on bbc news... a man in his late 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder, after four people were found stabbed to death in south london. after visiting kyiv, the us secretary of state, says russia is "brutilising ukraine," but failing to win the war. borisjohnson says comments made about labour deputy leader angela rayner in a newspaper article are intolerable. the paper said some tory mps had suggested she tried to distract the prime minister in the commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs. emmanuel macron, has vowed to unite france and be a "president for all," after his re—election as the country's leader. he won a convincing victory over his rival, marine le pen, with 58% of the vote. mr macron also became the first sitting president in 20 years, to secure a second term. from paris, here's our europe correspondent, jessica parker. france has opted for the familiar. and last night, emmanuel macron chose the eiffel tower for a victory speech, where he tried not

to sound too triumphant. translation: my friends, we will need to be kind - and respectful, because our country harbours many doubts and divisions. so we will need to be strong. but nobody will be left by the wayside. it means keeping to the path of a centrist, pro—eu leader, who argues for economic reforms. sylvia voted for macron. it is not my first choice, but in the second round, that is what i want. does france feel divided to you? actually, i work in paris, but i live really far away from here, so i can really see in the little town around, they prefer marine le pen. so it's emmanuel macron for another five years. business as usual? well, not quite. last night, he acknowledged divisions within french society and promised to try and address them, be a "president for all." a nice sentiment, perhaps, but a huge political challenge. she wasn't close to winning,

but marine le pen secured the far right�*s highest ever share of the vote, and tapped into deep discontent about immigration, rising prices and communities who feel left behind. in her constituency in northern france, these le pen supporters were despondent. translation: i swearl am never going to vote again. _ i don't have much money left, only for going out a little bit. i we don't have anything left. macron, he's only . there for rich people. i'm really upset. for the next five years, - it's going to be a real struggle here in nord—pas—de—calais. also tempering macron's win, the fact that around 3 million people cast spoilt or blank votes, while turnout was at its lowest since the late �*60s. france has kept its president in place, but the country doesn't quite march on as before. jessica parker, bbc news, in paris.

let's speak to a political scientist who describes himself as a left—wing intellectual. thanks for coming in the programme. hello. we thanks for coming in the programme. hello. ~ . ., thanks for coming in the programme. hello. . . ., ., , thanks for coming in the programme. hello. . ., ., ., , . hello. we have had the a result. win for macron which _ hello. we have had the a result. win for macron which people _ hello. we have had the a result. win for macron which people like - for macron which people like yourself on the left breathed a sign of relief no doubt. let's look at this. there was a substantial number of people in france who voted for a far right candidate. what is your reaction to that?— reaction to that? fully honest, i checked if _ reaction to that? fully honest, i checked if there _ reaction to that? fully honest, i checked if there are _ reaction to that? fully honest, i checked if there are interesting | checked if there are interesting social political science teacher positions abroad. i checked yesterday. in positions abroad. i checked yesterday-— positions abroad. i checked esterda . , ., ., yesterday. in terms of you thought about perhaps _

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because you have resisted against that, militarily speaking, while we the french surrendered. i am flabbergasted and terrified about the situation. i'm not ashamed to say it. for a country that is supposed to be the country of human, it is such an awful shame to have 42% of the voters voting for the far right. it's impossible to understand.— right. it's impossible to understand. . , ., understand. what about people who oint out understand. what about people who point out it's — understand. what about people who point out it's not _ understand. what about people who point out it's not the _ understand. what about people who point out it's not the party _ understand. what about people who point out it's not the party of- point out it's not the party of previous years and previous decades, she has done a lot to reform it and moderate it. i she has done a lot to reform it and moderate it— moderate it. i don't want to seem nical moderate it. i don't want to seem cynical about _ moderate it. i don't want to seem cynical about it. — moderate it. i don't want to seem cynical about it, but _ moderate it. i don't want to seem cynical about it, but i _ moderate it. i don't want to seem cynical about it, but i would - moderate it. i don't want to seem cynical about it, but i would just i cynical about it, but i would just point the following facts, which is the only source you have to tell you that the national front, the only source you have to tell you that the nationalfront, the far—right party, did change, your

only source is marine le pen said so. if you believe the leader of the far right on her word to consider that the far right is no longer far right, i think it is not strong evidence enough.— right, i think it is not strong evidence enough. what about the challen . e evidence enough. what about the challenge ahead _ evidence enough. what about the challenge ahead for _ evidence enough. what about the challenge ahead for macron? - evidence enough. what about the challenge ahead for macron? in i evidence enough. what about the i challenge ahead for macron? in his acceptance speech he said he is going to try to unite france, he is the president and will rule for everyone. that is a challenge whoever you are. do you think it is in anyway possible?— in anyway possible? being the resident in anyway possible? being the president that _ in anyway possible? being the president that is _ in anyway possible? being the president that is truly - in anyway possible? being the i president that is truly satisfying for everyone is of course impossible. on the other hand, what could be possible is what we call in france a national amendment, that would include politicalfigures coming from all the parts of the political spectrum. coming from all the parts of the politicalspectrum. it coming from all the parts of the political spectrum. it would make some sense because if you think about it, if you mentioned

commitment and belief, millions of us left—wing voters chose to vote for macron had the second one and proudly so because we wanted to stand against the far right and didn't want the far right to win the election. but a fair response to that from emmanuel macron would indeed be a national unity government instead ofjust a centrist government. it would be a fair gesture i think but the problem is his political platform, emmanuel macron, his political platform is very similar to the one tony blair stood for when he was british pm, which is reforms that would create many angry movements towards social reform taking some rights away from you. social rights. i’m

reform taking some rights away from you. social rights.— you. social rights. i'm afraid we have not you. social rights. i'm afraid we have got to _ you. social rights. i'm afraid we have got to leave _ you. social rights. i'm afraid we have got to leave it _ you. social rights. i'm afraid we have got to leave it there - you. social rights. i'm afraid we have got to leave it there but i you. social rights. i'm afraid we l have got to leave it there but we will see what reforms come in the years ahead with emmanuel macron. thank you very much for coming on and giving us your perspective. lastest official figures show nearly a quarter of adults reported difficulty, paying household bills in the last month, while energy costs in particular were difficult for four in ten households. earlier our economics correspondent, andy verity gave us more details. we have been talking about this for months, but now we see people's difficulty paying those bills, this is march, remember, this is before the rise of the energy price cap of 54%, and what is showing is that households had difficulty paying their energy bills. in a way, that is high, but when you look at the broader point, how many households are struggling to pay all bills

generally, that's still only 23%, compared to 17% in november, you might say, "well, that shows people are coping," but you have to remember, we have another energy price hike coming in october, which will knock the average energy build up to about £2,600 a year, and then mortgage cost, we expect interest rates to continue rising, the next meeting in may, and by a yearfrom now we expect them to be at an official rate of 2.5%, so these are loading extra cost of the household, inevitably a lot of people will find it difficult to pay. is there any end in sight? is this going to get worse before it gets better? yes, it is going to get worse, unfortunately, but there is a little glimmer of hope in the energy price. if you look at what's happened to oil prices recently, they have actually come off a high. for example a barrel of crude was at £135

per barrel, now it's 100. if that softening feeds through, you can hope that the energy price hike coming in october would be quite as bad in october would not be quite as bad as we anticipated. what of action in terms of government action? what levers can be pulled here? i mean the pressure now is on rishi sunak and the treasury to do something before the big fiscal event, because there is a lot of disappointment at how little was done to help people in the worst situations. the poorest 6 million households in the country who exist on a meagre income topped up by benefits and have seen as benefits slashed, by £20 a week, how is the government going to help those? they could call another mini fiscal event to do something more to help them in terms of grants or in terms of other kinds of eventual support. mps say the airline regulator should be given stronger powers to protect passengers affected by the sort of disruption, seen during the covid pandemic. air travel was hit hard by restrictions, including quarantines, testing regimes and travel bans. now mps want the civil aviation authority to have the power to fine

airlines who refuse to provide refunds for delayed or cancelled flights. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. good afternoon. should be dry for most for the rest of the day, just an isolated shower here and there, and there will be a lot of dry weather again in the forecast this week, but with more cloud around. and therefore it will probably feel a bit cooler. we already have quite a bit of cloud, we have had this morning, across the north of the country, breaking up a little bit more here. the best of the sunshine notably across wales and the south—west, but the north sea coast, right on the coast might do quite well as well. but here it is quite chilly, with the sea breeze or the breeze coming in off that sea, and temperatures are a few degrees down on those of yesterday. but despite more cloud coming in overnight from the north, they are not going to be enough, or there is not going to be enough to stop that fall in temperature, again a touch of ground frost as we head towards morning. and so a chilly start first thing tuesday, but some good spells of sunshine,

until the day wears on and cloud in the north and east meanders its way further south and west. so again, that will hold the temperatures down a little bit, but they are about average for the time of year. more online. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: a man in his late 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder after four people were found stabbed to death in south london. after visiting kyiv, the us secretary of state, says russia is brutilising ukraine, but failing to win the war. borisjohnson says comments made about labour deputy leader angela rayner in a newspaper article are intolerable. the paper said some tory mps had suggested she tried to distract the prime minister in the commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs. new data shows that almost a quarter of adults found it difficult to pay their household bills last month — and one in four struggled to pay their energy bills. victims of sexual offences

in england and wales are facing the longest waits on record for their cases to go through court. victims of sexual offences in england and wales are facing sport, and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's isaac. good afternoon. change could be coming to football. the government has announced that it will be setting up an independent regulator in the sport. the premier league has accepted the case for reform and the players union has welcomed the endorsement of the issues raised in a fan—led review into the men's game. supporters will have more say in how things are is run. a new owner's test will be introduced and the regulator will have the power to sanction clubs in england who break financial and other rules. there have been a number of issues in football including the failed european super league and the collapse of bury fc where the prime minister has been today. what we want to do is to help fans across the country with the independent review

that we have got going on under tracey crouch so that we have a regulator, the first time in decades and decades, an independent regulator of football, who will help fans to stick up for their interests and stick up for the interests of historic clubs, notjust bury but across the country. well, reacting to the announcement, fans groups say they're encouraged, but they do want firm commitments that action will be taken soon. it is a cautious welcome. this is a step in the right direction, but the big thing is we need that timeline, we need to have some really firm guarantees. one of the things we've seen is there have been numerous attempts to try and change and reform football in britain, over the last several decades, and those have been sitting on probably a dusty little shelf under the houses of parliament right now doing nothing. we need to have that guarantee that there will be a firm timeline, there will be an implementation of a regulator. it's what football needs

desperately, and it's what we're hoping to see, hoping to get the commitment in the next few days. leeds united take on crystal palace in the premier league this evening. after the weekend's results it's a big game for leeds. burnley�*s victory yesterday means jesse marsch's side are just four points above the relegation zone, but a win at selhurst park would be a huge step towards safety. there's a lot of teams that want to stay in this league, and i don't think anyone is going to give less than their best effort, so expect investment teams, it would be foolish and naive, and again, my focus with us is just that we are maximising every day we step on the pitch that we had giving our best, and we have a group that has done that, sir, that can help us control our destiny more than anything. at the world snooker championship, the 2015 champion stewart bingham is one frame away from a place in the quarter finals.

kyren wilson who was a semi—finalist here last year. but in a tense last frame, bingham has found a way to a 13—9 vicotry which takes him into the last eight. he'll playjudd trump or anthony mcgiull. the four—time championsjohn higgins is the latest player into the quarterfinals. he beat thailand's noppon saengkham 13—7, taking just the two frames he needed this afternoon to seal his place in the last eight. where he'll face either neil robertson or england's jack lisowski. robertson trails 9—7 in their second round match, which will be played to a conclusion from 7. the australian's looking to win his first world title since 2010. in tonight's other matchjudd trump leads anthony mcgill10—6. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. sexual offence victims, are facing the longest waits on record, for their cases to go to court in england and wales. it follows a bbc investigation, which found that last year,

it took an average of nine months for a case to be concluded. but there are huge regional differences. here's dominic casciani. how long should someone wait forjustice? in the oasis of calm of her home, lisa tells me about the nightmare of criminaljustice delays after she was raped in 2017. she had damning evidence against her attacker, a man she knew well. i was led to believe originally that it would be quite a speedy resolvement to the case and it would be taken on to charging, and that decision would come about. however, it didn't happen in that way, and it was a very long, drawn process. police and prosecutors took two years to charge the attacker, taking him to court in the summer of 2019. but existing backlogs meant no trial before the following april, and then the pandemic closed courts. the rapist was only convicted in late summer 2021. i think if i hadn't have gone forward and reported it, i would have been able to have

brought my mental health round a lot quicker than extending the ordeal and having the additional impacts of a court system and just the lack of understanding of how people feel in that scenario, of building themselves up to be knocked back down again time and time again. national data and the bbc court by court analysis shows lisa's experience is not exceptional. sexual offence complaints take the longest time to get through the courts — a national average of 8.6 months in england and wales. but there's huge variation across the country. leicester crown court have been the longest at 15 months last autumn. overall, the delay for all offences from report to crown court completion is 697 days. criminal barristers say the system is chronically underfunded. they've begun industrial action, refusing to take on some cases to force the government to inject more cash.

a young junior barrister in the first three years of their practice is earning just over £12,000 a year before tax. a lot of barristers now are working under minimum wage. we're facing a huge exodus of practitioners from the profession. this temporary court, one of many set up during the pandemic, is part of the ministry ofjustice's solution to backlogs. barristers say there aren't enough lawyers to push cases through on time, but ministers predict that their long—term plan, including recording evidence in advance from rape victims, will turn things around. it's very difficult for anyone i that's been the victim of rape or serious sexual violence. you recover from the original crime and then you've got. to muster the courage to go through the process. - i'm absolutely committed to making sure that those victims _ have the support at every step of the way _ how much confidence do you have in the system having gone through all of this? none. none at all. i would never, you know, god forbid it ever happened again, or to any of my family,

i wouldn't promote going through the system and even reporting a crime of this nature any more. dominic casciani, bbc news. joining me now is kirsty brimelow qc who is a human rights lawyer. thanks so much for coming on the programme. thanks so much for coming on the programme-— thanks so much for coming on the programme-_ is i thanks so much for coming on the programme._ is if programme. you're welcome. is if our programme. you're welcome. is if your experience. _ programme. you're welcome. is if your experience, are _ programme. you're welcome. is if your experience, are things - programme. you're welcome. is if| your experience, are things getting worse? , . . worse? things are getting much worse, worse? things are getting much worse. it's _ worse? things are getting much worse, it's depressing _ worse? things are getting much worse, it's depressing to - worse? things are getting much worse, it's depressing to see i worse? things are getting much| worse, it's depressing to see the criminaljustice worse, it's depressing to see the criminal justice system worse, it's depressing to see the criminaljustice system on its knees. it used to be a system that we could be proud of, and we would very much try and export it as a model globally, and also other countries would look to our country as an example of how a system should work. that is no longer the case. in terms of reports, obviously hugely depressing, but also in terms of statistics, probably even worse than

that, because from a complainer's perspective, the average time in a serious sexual offence case, from complaint to the police up until completion of the trial, is just overfour completion of the trial, is just over four years now. completion of the trial, is just overfour years now. just completion of the trial, is 'ust over four years now.�* completion of the trial, is 'ust over four years now. just over four ears, over four years now. just over four years. did — over four years now. just over four years. did you _ over four years now. just over four years. did you say? _ over four years now. just over four years, did you say? and _ over four years now. just over four years, did you say? and it - over four years now. just over four years, did you say? and it is - over four years now. just over four years, did you say? and it is not i years, did you say? and it is not urel years, did you say? and it is not purely because _ years, did you say? and it is not purely because of— years, did you say? and it is not purely because of the _ years, did you say? and it is not| purely because of the pandemic. there was a backlog of thousands in march 2020, which was pre—pandemic. just to be clear, that i heard it correctly, four years from complaint to completion? for correctly, four years from complaint to completion?— to completion? for years. for years for serious — to completion? for years. for years for serious sexual _ to completion? for years. for years for serious sexual offences. - to completion? for years. for years for serious sexual offences. that's i for serious sexual offences. that's an extraordinary _ for serious sexual offences. that's an extraordinary length _ for serious sexual offences. that's an extraordinary length of- for serious sexual offences. that's an extraordinary length of time. i an extraordinary length of time. yes, and it's two years rather criminal offences. one reason why is even longer for criminal offences. one reason why is even longerfor a criminal offences. one reason why is even longer for a serious sexual offences because they go to the back

offences because they go to the back of the key because offenders are unbearable. of the key because offenders are unbearable-— of the key because offenders are unbearable. ~ . ., ., , unbearable. what about the solutions here? would — unbearable. what about the solutions here? would you _ unbearable. what about the solutions here? would you want _ unbearable. what about the solutions here? would you want to _ unbearable. what about the solutions here? would you want to see - unbearable. what about the solutions| here? would you want to see happen? the criminal bar association has reluctantly but very strongly, taking action, because the government is not taking action. what is needed is an immediate and urgent injection of cash. when the ministry ofjustice speak about backlogs going down because of pre—recorded interviews, as was said in that quick, there, i think by dominic raab, the difficulty is that barristers are not doing those cases because they are not funded sufficiently, so there was an independent review and report was published in december last year, and that was very clear that there had to be immediate action which meant a minimum, a minimum of 50% increase in legalaid to in legal aid to practitioners without delay. d0 in legal aid to practitioners without delay.— in legal aid to practitioners without delay. in legal aid to practitioners without dela . ~ without delay. do you think you will aet without delay. do you think you will net that? without delay. do you think you will get that? what _

without delay. do you think you will get that? what are _ without delay. do you think you will get that? what are the _ without delay. do you think you will get that? what are the chances - without delay. do you think you will get that? what are the chances of i get that? what are the chances of that actually happening? the chances ofthat that actually happening? the chances of that happening _ that actually happening? the chances of that happening immediately, - that actually happening? the chances of that happening immediately, so i of that happening immediately, so far the messages it has not coming immediately, potentially there will be an increase in new cases for the end of the year, but that means the payment then, the way the system works, payment will only actually come through the year after, potentially in 2024, so that isn't immediate, and our concern at the criminal bar, and we are supported by criminal solicitors in this, is that they just simply won't be sufficient barristers left to prosecute and defend these cases unless there is crisis injection of funding into the system. i unless there is crisis injection of funding into the system.- funding into the system. i see. thank you _ funding into the system. i see. thank you very _ funding into the system. i see. thank you very much _ funding into the system. i see. thank you very much for - funding into the system. i see. | thank you very much for coming funding into the system. i see. - thank you very much for coming on the programme, thank you. you might you very much. and if you've been affected by any of the issues in that report, there are details of organisations which may be able to help. just go to our website, bbc.co.uk/actionline. or you can call for

free, on 0800 077 077. the government says it'll establish an independent regulator in football after endorsing recommendations made in the fan—led review into the men's game. the regulator will have power to sanction clubs in english football who break financial and other rules. a new owners test�* will be introduced and legislation will give fans more say in the running of the game. earlier i spoke to our sports correspondent nesta mcgregor about this. it's worth saying this has been called a significant day for english football, but those in favour of these reforms are not celebrating yet, because we don't have a timescale. how did we get here? if you look at teams like bury, macclesfield town, chester city, they've all gone bust because of different problems with their finances. currently, you look at derby county, relegated in part to sanctions imposed because of their financial problems, also think back to last year, the big six wanting to break away and form a european super league,

which would have changed the structure of english football, so, in the view of the government, english football needs protecting at times even from itself. so, it commissioned a fan—led review fronted by former sports minister tracey crouch, herfindings have now been accepted by the government and they are going to introduce most but not all of them in a white paper this summer. let's get on to the actual changes, then, a bit of detail, what stands out to you? what has everyone talking the most is this need for an independent regulator, a body that will oversee these clubs and make sure that they don't spend beyond their means as they chase success, and also with the power too sanction a club should it get into financial worries. another thing is this director and owners test, there is one currently in place, perhaps making it tougher for people to own football clubs,

so not only stricter tests on theirfinancials, but also when it comes to matters of integrity, if we talk about the saudi backed takeover of newcastle united, we saw protests there — also chelsea currently looking for new owners after roman abramovich was sanctioned for his alleged dealings with vladimir putin, but football has always said, yes, it is a business, but also a community asset, and should be treated differently. fans remain, chairmen come and go. they want to give fans more power, and this could be via a shadow board or a golden share, so fans might have a say in stuff like where a new stadium is built, changes to a logo, or even the colour of a kit. the problem is when a football club goes down it's not like a new business — you can open a new supermarket or nightclub and people will go, but when a football club disappears, you tend not to just go and support another. no, indeed. well, you'd hope not, anyway.

throughout the morning and the day here, we have heard supportive voices coming out broadly in favour, but what about the critics? probably the biggest critics are the premier league, or certainly they have opposition, and are hugely significant. they say that they welcome change and accept the need for change, but what they don't want is for this to affect the competitive balance or to affect the money that's been invested into the league. they also say that under the guidance and with help from the fa they have made english football one of the country's most successful global imports, bringing in billions of pounds every year, but also not every football fan might be a fan of these changes. a lot of the times, if your club is in relegation trouble and they need to kind of spend beyond their means to get out of that trouble, then they should be allowed to so, but there are also football clubs

being run currently at the moment if chairmen were to turn their back on them they would be in a lot of trouble. the headlines on bbc news. a man in his late 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder after four people were found stabbed to death in south london. after visiting kyiv, the us secretary of state, says russia is brutilising ukraine, but failing to win the war. borisjohnson says comments made about labour deputy leader angela rayner in a newspaper article are intolerable — the paper said some tory mps had suggested she tried to distract the prime minister in the commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs. the widow of a sub—postmaster who took his own life, after being wrongly accused over money going missing from his till, has been speaking for the first time, about the effect the allegations had on him. martin griffiths died in 2013. he was one of hundreds of post office workers wrongly accused, with some going to jail.

here's coletta smith. martin and i married in 1982. we had two children. we decided to look into buying a post office. and hope farm road came on the market and we decided to go for it. for 14 happy years, martin ran this cheshire branch of the post office, while gina ran the shop side of the business. but in 2009, everything changed. and then all of a sudden, money started going missing. we had to pay the money back in order to carry on trading or otherwise they would have closed us down. (tx sor)

the money was shown to be missing from the branch by the computerised till system called horizon. it had been rolled out to post offices across the uk from the year 2000. what gina and martin didn't know is that there were bugs and errors in it from the start, and horizon wasn't always accurate. if you had holes in your accounts, the post office would say they are your responsibility. "you have to make them good, because that's our money. "and if you can't explain or demonstrate you know how and where this money has gone, it's on you." 0verfour years, £60,000 of mystery losses racked up and the post office held martin responsible. they hounded him. they persecuted him. didn't seem to be any end to it at the time. and then they told him they wanted to terminate his position as postmaster, and they gave him three months. you know, martin hit rock bottom. in september 2013, on his way to work, martin tried to take his own life and was rushed to hospital. he was put on a life support machine. i think he'd been planning it. i really do. he's a proud man, and i think he

thought he was letting us all down. his children, his parents and me. they turned the machine off, i think, in the morning. and the worst the worst thing for me was seeing my children... ..have to see their dad die. martin was facing financial ruin. gina is in no doubt as to whom she blames, it was purely down to the post office. nobody else. so i blame them. the post office says it's sincerely sorry for the impact of the horizon scandal on the lives of victims and their families. and it says it's made fundamental reforms to its operations and culture. two years after martin's death, gina accepted a financial settlement from the post office, but had to agree that she wouldn't discuss it.

now, the facts about horizon that martin didn't live to hear are being uncovered and a public inquiry is under way. coletta smith, bbc news. there's more on this tonight in panorama: the post office scandal. that's on bbc one, at 8 o'clock. in china, the capital beijing has kicked off mass testing for millions of people, after a sharp rise in covid cases. long queues formed outside supermarkets and shops, despite government assurances, over food supplies. there are fears there could be a lockdown in the capital lasting weeks, as is happening in shanghai. stephen mcdonell, has more details. beijing residents rush to buy food and other provisions. there is fear that the capital could be locked down, like shanghai, with its significant shortages of daily necessities. on social media, footage is circulating of empty shelves and crowds of shoppers lining up well into the night.

the daily infection rate hasn't been high in beijing. but the government has ordered mass testing, warning that omicron may have been spreading significantly in the city over the past week. this is the scene throughout the chaoyang district of beijing, with people lining up to have covid tests today. everyone in chaoyang district this week has to do three covid tests. now, chaoyang is a huge area. it is as big as a city itself. there are millions of people living and working in chaoyang, and although there have only been 19 extra official cases added today to beijing's covid total, the fact that this testing is going on has really spooked residents in the city. "we are panicking a bit," this man said, adding that it is impossible not to panic. he showed us his shopping with disinfectant soap, vegetables, milk and the like. but a woman said that she has not stocked up on food at all because she thinks

that the situation here will not become like that in shanghai. the extent to which this city is to be locked down will depend on the results of mass testing over the coming days. stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing. in antartica on british territory the first same—sex wedding has taken place stephen carpenter, from caerphilly, and eric bourne, from rochford in essex, tied the knot on board rrs sir david attenborough, which they are stewards on. the couple, who have been together for 20 years, shared their special day with the 30 crew of the uk's new polar ship. earlier i spoke to the couple and began by asking eric for his memories of the day

it was an amazing day, it was absolutely, yeah, unforgettable. well, u nforg etta ble for so many reasons. stephen, first of all, just tell us, why antarctica? sorry, it's eric. why antarctica, we have had the privilege of sailing on the rss david attenborough, we have had our whole life on here, and the scenery in antarctica is unforgettable, and to be working on the ship in the region, doing what the ship does, it's a once—in—a—lifetime event. once—in—a—lifetime, absolutely magical. just before we spoke to you we were seeing some of the photos, which are gorgeous, too. now, normally i wouldn't ask about logistics, because they tend to be pretty boring, but what is it like organising the logistics of a wedding in antarctica? it was a logistical nightmare. it was all started planning last year when the ship was still in the uk and we try to get as much of the materials

together as you possibly could before the ship left. for the journey south. i did a foreign wedding, a wedding abroad, that was tough enough, and i can't imagine the stresses that you went through. just talk us through a little bit of the highlights of the actual service itself. it was very emotional. we had the support of all the crew and the team that were down there, it was very tearful. there were quite a few tears around, notjust for myself and steve but from the people who supported and helped us. it was unforgettable, as part of the catering crew ourselves, it was one of those ones where we were part

of the crew setting up the wedding, so it is not normal, shall we say, but everyone supported us, and we really enjoyed the whole day. brilliant, absolutely brilliant, and i love, obviously its weddings, and we have to talk about the close of the outfits, you both look very smart, from the ankles up. the ankles down is the big snow boots on. yeah, it's one of those ones, when you go off the ship and take the pictures, you do need the protective fur clothing to go, so the brogues don't match up, so you have to take off the brogues and put on the snow boots. brilliant. congratulations again to stephen and to eric. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. good afternoon. a little bit cooler today because we have more cloud around, but it is not producing much more than the odd shower so it remains dry. so that dry april story continuing. not as dry as last april,

but we have only seen a 30—40% roughly of the rainfall we would normally see across the south and east. the only place we have seen average rainfall is up in scotland and still little sign of any rain for the rest of the month — and that is because we have this high pressure very dominant across greenland and iceland also dominating our weather. it's giving us that chilly breeze from the north—east, which is limiting temperatures here and it has lowered the pollen levels somewhat, but still high levels of tree pollen across wales and the south west in particular for the remainder of the day. and that breeze is still quite a chilly one coming into east anglia and the south east, still some showers with the cloud further north, there be the odd one just about anywhere, but they are few and far between. it is cloudier than it has been, but still sunny spells around. temperatures highest where we have the best of the sunshine, across wales and the south west, where we have the higher levels of pollen. so, just subtle changes through the night. the cloud will come and go, but you can see we have more

distinctive cloud coming to the north east, so that will hold temperatures up here, but that elsewhere they will plummet again and we could have a touch of ground frost, as we had this morning. so, a chilly start tuesday, probably the best sunshine in the morning across tuesday in southern areas because the cloud in the north will make its way further southwards and westwards and we will see fair weather cloud developing. again, mostly dry, very limited shower activity but it will feel cooler because the breeze is coming from the north and north—east. a similar story through tuesday and into wednesday. the cloud thickens up further as the high pressure descends and the winds continue to fall light at that stage, so we will get some quite thick cloud around. temperatures therefore only nine or ten for the north sea coast, perhaps 13 or 14 where we see sunshine coming through, but must limited despite high pressure. that high pressure keeps things dry and still quite a keen breeze for southern parts of the uk and through the channel islands, but elsewhere we have the light wind, so not moving that

cloud around much. but the theme continues to be dry until the end of the working week. more on the website as ever.

this is bbc news. the headlines... a man in his late 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder, after four people were found stabbed to death in south london. i want to offer my heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of all those concerned. this is a deeply shocking incident, and we will do everything we can to provide support to everyone affected. after visiting kyiv, the us secretary of state, says russia is "brutilising ukraine," but failing to win the war. borisjohnson says comments made about labour deputy leader angela rayner in a newspaper article are intolerable. the paper said some tory mps had suggested she tried to distract the prime minister in the commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs.

i have to say, i thought it was the most appalling load of sexist, misogynist tripe. new data shows that almost a quarter of adults found it difficult to pay their household bills last month and one in four struggled to pay their energy bills. and the first same—sex wedding has taken place in british antarctic territory. the couple tied the knot on board the rrs sir david attenborough, in front of 30 fellow crew members. a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after four people were stabbed to death in south london. officers were called to reports of a disturbance at a house in bermondsey in the early hours of this morning.

the victims, three women and a man, were all pronounced dead at the scene. tom symonds reports. at 1:40am, there was screaming, a neighbour said, and then a massive police response. officers forced their way into a terraced house in a south london estate. another neighbour saw a disturbance in the back garden. police say the four victims had all been stabbed. paramedics arrived. despite their efforts, scotland yard said, three men and a woman all died at the scene. deeply disturbing for people living nearby. it's devastating. the thing is, there is a primary school up that end, there is a primary school, secondary school round the corner, and most of the families round here, we've got young children. you know, even parents, you can't even look over your own shoulder and go out, people are scared, i'm scared. police are contacting the relatives of those who died. they have not named the family who live at this house. they have arrested one man on suspicion of murder,

and they believe he knew the victims. an early visitor to the scene was a local mp. well, tragically, four people have been killed, and that is shocking, to happen anywhere, but especially in this very peaceful, quiet, very settled community here, so the police have arrested someone but it is really important, still, that people give information, any information that they have got, to the police, so that whoever committed this horrific crime can be brought tojustice. with postmortem examinations being arranged, and a stream of forensics officers arriving, this is the start of what will likely become a long and complex investigation. police gave an update a short while ago. in the early hours of this morning, following a call from neighbours, officers forced entry into a house here. inside the house, they made a dreadful discovery of four people who had been stabbed.

despite the best efforts of officers and paramedics, all four people were sadly pronounced dead at the scene. i can confirm that the deceased were three women, believed to be aged in their mid—60s, 40s and 30s, and one man believed to be aged in their mid—60s. i want to offer my heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of all those concerned. this is a deeply shocking incident, and we will do everything we can to provide support to everyone affected at this difficult time. a man in his late 20s was arrested at the address, on suspicion of murder and he is currently in custody and at this early stage, we're not looking for any other person. we believe that all those involved may have been known to each other.

and tom symonds has this update from southwark. the police saying two things today in this last statement that are of note. firstly, that the man they have in custody or the person, knew the people in the house who died in this incident. and that they are not looking for anybody else. that tells you it's a police investigation of a certain type, which will focus on what happened last night that any previous history that might help explain it. it does not help people in this area who woke up from a deeply disturbing night by screams in this area, a helicopter overhead and a massive police turn out, they will be shocked by what has happened here today, but clearly a major police investigation continuing. to recap on the new detail in that statement from the chief superintendent. he said three women had died, one in her 60s, one in their 30s and 40s and a man in his 60s,

and the suspect in his 20s, a man who had been arrested on suspicion of murder. a proposed humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians caught in the siege at the steelworks in mariupol has failed, after the ukrainians said they had not been involved in discussions meanwhile, in poland, the us defence secretary, lloyd austin, has said he wants russia to be weakened so that it can't repeat its actions in ukraine. he made the remarks after a trip to kyiv with the us secretary of state anthony blinken. our correspondent, danjohnson, has sent us this report, from western ukraine. this is the result of a strike on a substation providing power for the railway, near krasne in the west of ukraine. firefighters had it under control by the time we arrived. they confirmed nobody was hurt but the damage was significant.

ukraine's military says it also shot down a missile this morning. we found some debris close to the attack. this is one of the main routes between lviv, kyiv and the rest of the country. attacks on the railway network were expected because these tracks have become the vital arteries, maintaining the flow of weapons into ukraine, over to the ease and onto the front lines. and the trains are still running. there were five strikes on the railway network across ukraine. the us secretary of state visited kyiv yesterday, promising more support. the bottom line is this, we don't know how the rest of this war will unfold, but we do know that a sovereign, independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than vladimir putin is on the scene. and our support for ukraine going forward will continue, it will continue until we see final success.

the ukrainian president seemed pleased to have seen the most senior us diplomat. translation: our talks - with them were long enough, commit more than three hours and meaningful, encouraging and effective. i am grateful to the people of the united states and personally to president biden for the strong and sincere support we received. strengthening our state and democracy as a whole. there are more images from beneath the steelworks in mariupol. but the bombardment of the plant, the city and much of the east of ukraine has continued over the weekend, meaning more loss of life. danjohnson, bbc news, krasne. in the past hour, the defence secretary ben wallace said britain would supply a small number of armoured vehicles fitted with anti—air missile launches to improve ukraine's short—range anti—air capabilities. he also updated the house

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and he sticks to the same narrative. we heard more of that today and that narrative is that yes, ukraine is the enemy but the real villain of the piece is the west. it is helping ukraine on the battlefield, he said. he also said it is seeking and failing to divide russian society. putin knows full well the majority of the russian public are behind him and none of this bodes very well for the visit tomorrow of the us secretary general, coming to moscow for talks with mr putin and it is hard to see how anything positive can come out on that meeting given that nothing has stopped vladimir putin, not sanctions or threats or the fact that his special military operation as he still calls it is not going according to plan. russia celebrated russian orthodox easter this weekend. there were more celebrations this morning at which the patriarch, the head of the russian orthodox church, once again urged russians to rally around their president.

the russian orthodox church believes and the kremlin believes vladimir putin believes that god really is on his side. jenny hill there. the speaker of the house of commons, sir lindsay hoyle, has arranged a meeting with the editor of the mail on sunday after an article suggesting that labour's deputy leader, angela rayner, had been trying to distract borisjohnson at the dispatch box by crossing and uncrossing her legs. more than 5,000 people have complained about the coverage to the press complaints watchdog ipso. this lunchtime on a trip to bury, the prime minister was asked about this story. prime minister, can ijust firstly ask you about a question that has been in the media over the weekend? angela rayner and some of the comments made about her. yeah, i know, i... do you think this is a big problem at westminster? is it a cultural problem? well, it's hard to say, on the basis of that particular story, but i have to say, i thought it was the most appalling load of sexist, misogynist tripe,

and i immediately got in touch with angela and we had a very friendly exchange, and if we ever find who is responsible for it, then i don't know what we will do with them but it will be the terrors of the earth. it is totally intolerable, that kind of thing. the house of commons speaker, sir lindsay hoyle, said the mail on sunday story about angela rayner is "demeaning and offensive to women" and is likely to put women off becoming mps. before we start today's business, i want to say something about the article in yesterday's mail on sunday about the right honourable member for ashton—under—lyne. i said to the house last week in response to points of order, i took the issue of media freedom very seriously, it is one of the building blocks of our democracy, however, i share the views expressed by a wide range of members, including i believe the prime minister, that yesterday's

article was reporting unsubstantiated claims both misogynistic and defensive. those are what we believe. i express my sympathy for the right honourable member for ashton—under—lyne for the subject of this type of comment in being demeaning, offensive to women in parliament, it can only deter women who might consider standing for election to the detriment of us all. that is why i am arranging a meeting with the chair of the press lobby, the editors the mail on sunday to discuss the issue affecting our parliamentary community. i am also arranging separately, and i believe we have now got a time, where i will be meeting with the right honourable ashton—under—lyne this evening. earlier i spoke to west yorkshire mayor and former mp tracey brabin. back in 2020 — she broke her ankle, and leant for support on the dispatch box causing her dress to slip off her shoulder.

i do think the outrage is appropriate, it was absolutely scurrilous and unacceptable, but the comment from the prime minister, saying it is hard to know that there is a problem in westminster, there are 56 members of parliament that have been referred to the independent complaints and grievances committee. one of those grievances regards bribery for sexual favours, so it seems plain as the nose on your face that there is a problem here. given you say there is that it is a problem there, what would you want done about it? as the only female metro mayor in the country, a lot of it is about representation.

if you have more women in positions, you will have less of this. we have fantastic women lobby journalists. but also to say that we need more women mps, there are only 22% of women councillors across the country, we have a slow rise of women mps, i think 32-34% in 2019, we need to make sure the women's voices are heard because i would put money on the fact that if women's voices were heard, we would not be in the situation where men were trying to diminish women, it is utterly childish and unacceptable. let's touch on what happened with you. i balked at reading out some of the abuse you received and the terms, i know you did tweet them out to demonstrate the problem. was it a shock to you? of course, and who knew that a shoulder could create such a furore?

but it is about being able to be the voice for all the women who are not in senior positions with a loud voice like myself and angela and other women leaders, who are able to call out to people who are trying to diminish them. it's important for us to be the voice for those women who cannot stand up to their boss, or they would lose theirjob, who cannot stand up to their colleague because everyone seems to find it funny. because that representation, women at the top, really matters, that is why working with my brilliant deputy minister for policing and crime, we are able with a lived experience to be able to end west yorkshire record misogyny as a hate crime, one of the only police forces in the country to do that. that comes from having women in senior leadership roles. so i would say if borisjohnson wants to solve this problem, he would make sure that more of his mps are women and to make sure that anybody who behaves in this way is not only called out but trained or sent out and sent

packing because the sort of language, this diminishing is from the 19505, this is not modern politics. i have heard the call for representation, the characterising of misogyny as a hate crime, two specifics you are calling for. i want to address something you mentioned in passing almost, that some people find it funny or treat this issue as a joke. how do you go about rooting that out? it is not funny to diminish women in front of their colleagues or to try to undermine women with a powerful voice, but of course, t�*was ever thus. women in powerful roles are always diminished because of what they wear and how they look as opposed to what they say. it's absolutely about listening to what we say not wear. the headlines on bbc news...

a man in his late 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder, after four people were found stabbed to death in south london. after visiting kyiv, the us secretary of state says russia is brutilising ukraine, but failing to win the war. borisjohnson says comments made about labour deputy leader angela rayner in a newspaper article are intolerable. the paper said some tory mps had suggested she tried to distract the prime minister in the commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs. lastest official figures show nearly a quarter of adults reported difficulty, paying household bills in the last month, while energy costs in particular were difficult for four in ten households. the figures come from the office for national statistics. earlier i spoke to our economics correspondent, andy verity. we have been talking about this for months,

but now we see people's difficulty paying those bills, this is march, remember, this is before the rise of the energy price cap of 5a%, and what it is showing is that 43% of households had difficulty paying their energy bills. in a way, that is high, but when you look at the broader point, how many households are struggling to pay all bills generally, that's still only 23%, compared to 17% in november, you might say, "well, that shows people are coping," but you have to remember, we have another energy price hike coming in october, which will knock the average energy build up to about £2,600 a year, and then mortgage cost, we expect interest rates to continue rising, the next meeting in may, and by a year from now we expect them to be at an official rate of 2.5%, so these are loading extra cost of the household, inevitably a lot of people will find it difficult to pay.

is there any end in sight? is this going to get worse before it gets better? yes, it is going to get worse, unfortunately, but there is a little glimmer of hope in the energy price. if you look at what's happened to oil prices recently, they have actually come off a high. for example a barrel of crude was at £135 per barrel, now it's 100. if that softening feeds through, you can hope that the energy price hike coming in october would be quite as bad that the energy price hike coming in october would not be quite as bad as we anticipated. what of action in terms of government action? what levers can be pulled here? i mean the pressure now is on rishi sunak and the treasury to do something before the big fiscal event, because there is a lot of disappointment at how little was done to help people in the worst situations. the poorest 6 million households in the country who exist on a meagre income topped up by benefits and have seen as benefits slashed, by £20 a week, how is the government going to help those? they could call another mini fiscal event to do something more to help

them in terms of grants or in terms of other kinds of eventual support. emmanuel macron, has vowed to unite france and be a "president for all," after his re—election as the country's leader. he won a convincing victory over his rival, marine le pen, with 58% of the vote. mr macron also became the first sitting president in 20 years, to secure a second term. let's get more now from our europe correspondent, nick beake. yes, the son has been shining here on the first day of the second term for emmanuel macron. he has vowed to be a president for all the country but the reality is this campaign has exposed deep differences within french society, whether that is people living in the city or the countryside, people feel they are valued players in france's role in a globalised world, a globalised

community, people feel they have been left behind and ignored, people are not listening to them and they wanted to see france go in a different direction. emmanuel macron�*s success in becoming the first french president to be re—elected in 20 years is something that has been celebrated by otherworldly just today and they have been congratulating him on this achievement, among them president president biden. france has opted for the familiar. and last night, emmanuel macron chose the eiffel tower for a victory speech, where he tried not to sound too triumphant. translation: my friends, we will need to be kind - and respectful, because our country harbours many doubts and divisions. so we will need to be strong. but nobody will be left by the wayside. it means keeping to the path of a centrist, pro—eu leader, who argues for economic reforms. sylvia voted for macron.

it is not my first choice, but in the second round, that is what i want. does france feel divided to you? actually, i work in paris, but i live really far away from here, so i can really see in the little town around, they prefer marine le pen. so it's emmanuel macron for another five years. business as usual? well, not quite. last night, he acknowledged divisions within french society and promised to try and address them, be a "president for all." a nice sentiment, perhaps, but a huge political challenge. she wasn't close to winning, but marine le pen secured the far right�*s highest ever share of the vote, and tapped into deep discontent about immigration, rising prices and communities who feel left behind. in her constituency in northern france, these le pen supporters were despondent. translation: i swearl am never

going to vote again. _ i don't have much money left, only for going out a little bit. i we don't have anything left. macron, he's only . there for rich people. i'm really upset. for the next five years, - it's going to be a real struggle here in nord—pas—de—calais. also tempering macron's win, the fact that around 3 million people cast spoilt or blank votes, while turnout was at its lowest since the late �*60s. france has kept its president in place, but the country doesn't quite march on as before. jessica parker, bbc news, in paris. let's go back to nick. it's interesting. there were leaders across the eu very quick to congratulate macron. they were very worried for the future of the european project if marine le pen got in, worried about nato given her

comments on that. clearly very welcome results. it where does this leave the relationship with the uk? this is interesting because if we cast our minds back before russia's invasion of ukraine, things were testy. it was a fractious relationship post—brexit between france and the uk, emmanuel macron and borisjohnson, so will we see them being united in some way in the weeks and months to come? we will have to see what happens with the northern ireland protocol. the way trade arrangement is carried out after brexit, that will be interesting. worth noting that vladimir putin has been among those world leaders to congratulate emmanuel macron in the last 2a hours orso emmanuel macron in the last 2a hours or so and that's an indication that the dialogue continues. you remember macron got a lot of criticism here in france for going to the kremlin. of course mr macron would say he was trying to keep the peace in europe. a lot of people here saw him as

being too busy to deal with the mundane stuff of election business in france. and was spending his time on the international affairs. for president macron, starting his second term he has to tread a balance to keep people happy and we know a lot of people are not happy, they elected him reluctantly, not because they loved his vision for france but desperately wanted to keep out marine le pen. they wanted to prevent france electing its first far right president. in to prevent france electing its first far right president.— far right president. in terms of i su ose far right president. in terms of i suppose every _ far right president. in terms of i suppose every newly _ far right president. in terms of i suppose every newly elected . far right president. in terms of i - suppose every newly elected leader says it, they will try to unite the country, particularly difficult for macron now?— country, particularly difficult for macron now? really difficult and i think what would _ macron now? really difficult and i think what would be _ macron now? really difficult and i think what would be interesting i macron now? really difficult and i i think what would be interesting will be the elections, parliamentary elections injune because that will give an indication of the parliament here, the composition and the checks and balances and friction and frustration that emmanuel macron might face in trying to get through

his domestic agenda, certainly. one, he was confronted with time and time again as he went to different communities, people say they felt much more poor, even though the economy has been growing, unemployment falling, the cost of living crisis as marine le pen was talking about, how she characterised it was something a lot of people were talking about. he will have to get through his reforms which will benefit the french people, he says, but one thing he talks about was raising the pension age, that he will have to perform quite a delicate political operation to get these things through. he has to, he does not have to worry about re—electing in five years time, he might feel the shackles come off somewhat but certainly very busy at home and abroad and in ukraine he remains a european politician who has had that dialogue with vladimir

putin at a time of courseware germany has a new president. angela merkel has left the stage and macron is left as the dominant force in european politics.— is left as the dominant force in european politics. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen. we had some sunshine, bit more cloud generally, some showers, it's felt cooler because of the lack of sunshine today. but we haven't been without sunshine, and that's the story for the rest of the week. it will feel a bit cooler from story for the rest of the week. it will feel a bit coolerfrom day today because we will have a bit more cloud is that claridges comes around our area of high pressure, so these are the showers to the south, a few showers across scotland, northern england, northern ireland, but they are tending to peter out at the moment, and we will basically keep the status quo to the rest of the afternoon evening, some good

sunshine coming in on the east coast, but quite chilly, the north sea quite chilly at this time of year, tends to melt i overnight, starry skies and a chilly night with temperatures falling low enough for a touch of ground frost by the time we had towards dawn. rather more cloud, though, is once again working across scotland into northern england for the sunshine for northern ireland first thing, high levels of uv and southern areas, as well as high levels of tree pollen, but so we see the sunshine for the longest, western area is the highest temperatures, distinctly chilly if you have that most is on the gold coast.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: a man in his late 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder after four people were found stabbed to death in south london. after visiting kyiv, the us secretary of state says russia is brutalising ukraine, but failing

to win the war. borisjohnson says comments made about labour deputy leader angela rayner in a newspaper article are intolerable — the paper said some tory mps had suggested she tried to distract the prime minister in the commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs. new data shows that almost a quarter of adults found it difficult to pay their household bills last month — and one in four struggled to pay their energy bills. and the first same—sex wedding has taken place in british antarctic territory — the couple tied the knot on board the rrs sir david attenborough, in front of 30 fellow crew members. sport and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's isaac. change could be coming to football. the government's announced that it'll be setting up an independent regulator in the sport. the premier league has accepted

the case for reform and the players union has welcomed the endorsement of the issues raised in a fan—led review into the men's game. supporters will have more say in how things are run. a new owner's test will be introduced and the regulator will have the power to sanction clubs in england who break financial and other rules. there have been a number of problems in football including the failed european super league and the collapse of bury fc. the former sports minister tracey crouch led the review and was pleased with government endorsement but it does come with a slight reservation. i think this is a massive step forward for english football, i think today we should celebrate the fact that the government have accepted or support alternative strategic recommendations that the finite review put forward, i think they reckon as there is a need for change, and that change needs to happen. obviously, like many football fans, i always get a bit nervous when things are still there

to be played for, and i would have liked to have seen the implementation sooner, but at the same time is a massive complex issues, and i think football fans will recognise that it is right for government to really look at the detail of some of these reforms. fans groups too are encouraged by today's announcement, but like crouch, they want firm commitments that action will be taken soon. it is a cautious welcome. this is a step in the right direction, but the big thing is we need that timeline, we need to have some really firm guarantees. one of the things we've seen is there have been numerous attempts to try and change and reform football, seven or eight over the decades, and those have been sitting on probably a dusty little shelf under the houses of parliament right now doing nothing. we need to have that guarantee that there will be a firm timeline, there will be an implementation of a regulator. it's what football needs desperately, and it's what we're hoping to see, hoping to get the commitment in the next few days.

leeds united are up against crystal palace in the premier league this evening. after the weekend's results it's a big game for leeds. burnley�*s victory yesterday means jesse marsch's side are just four points above the relegation zone, but a win at selhurst park would be a huge step towards safety. there's a lot of teams that want to stay in this league, and i don't think anyone is going to give less than their best effort, so expect investment teams, it would be foolish and naive, and again, my focus with us is just that we are maximising every day we step on the pitch that we had giving our best, and we have a group that has done that, so, that can help us control our destiny more than anything. two former champions have sealed their places in the quarterfinals of the world snooker championship in this afternoon's session. 2015 winner stewart bingham fought his way into the last eight with a 13—9 win over kyren wilson, who like bingham was a semi—finalist here last year. they had been level at 8—all,

but bingham prevailed in a tense finish. he'll find out whether he'll play eitherjudd trump or anthony mcgill later. their match concludes this evening. the four—time championsjohn higgins is also into the quarter finals. he beat thailand's noppon saengkham 13—7, taking just the two frames he needed this afternoon to seal his place in the last eight. he'll face either neil robertson or england's jack lisowski. the 2010 champion robertson will have to fight his way back into this match this evening — lisowski here leads by 9 frames to 7. robertson's the crucible favourite this year after wins at the masters and the tour championship earlier this month. that's all the sport for now. p&o ferries has hit back at claims that it tried to get its new cheaper agency staff to accept even lower wages. the rmt union said it received reports of new workers at dover

being asked to sign new contracts, replacing ones they had signed weeks ago, on lower pay. our transport correspondent simon browning is here. a couple of different new lines coming out about p&o ferries, we will deal with that in a moment. it's a busy day for p&o news, they've received reports that new seafarers have been taken on an employee by p&o agency have been offered cheaper contracts than the ones they originally agreed four weeks ago after those 800 people were sacked quite unceremoniously, so these new seafarers complained, saying they were offering us cheaper wages, please help us, come aboard, we need to get inspected and we need this to be sorted out. it was reported to the maritime coastguard authority, they went and inspected

the spirit of britain vessel, and found they had been offered less money on lower contracts. there's been a dispute about this, and p&o hit back pretty categorically saying they were not offered lower wages, but they came back and said there is going to continue to uphold the investigation on the finding that it has found on—board the vessel, and that it has found on—board the vessel, and thatitis has found on—board the vessel, and that it is sticking with the fact that it is sticking with the fact that those workers were offered cheaper contracts, so it has been a real tit—for—tat of the workers dispute, just a small part of this dispute, just a small part of this dispute about firing and rehiring and bringing in cheap agency workers, and i have stuck form the remote firm and said its happen. taste remote firm and said its happen. we will keep an eye on that and see what becomes of that. the second issue on this is ticketing. there seem to be some ticket sales going on sale this morning, is that right? that's correct. i've been checking

p&0 that's correct. i've been checking p&o ferries website quite regularly, when they came on sale this morning at seven o'clock, they were showing listings tomorrow and tuesday, liam, 12 listings tomorrow and tuesday, liam, i2 midday and eight in the evening, they also listing ferries for wednesday. by the middle of the day, the tuesday once disappeared, that wednesday ones are on sale, p&o got in contact and said they had had an error with the website and they should not be on sale. bit of a problem with the website, p&o said they would inform us when the operation of get back under way, but this only clarify data when sailings will recommend this. thanks for clearing that, the authors of the clarify now is when ships will be held for inspection, an update on that. this isjust a detail that emerged this afternoon, this is the spirit of britain was detained after an inspection on the 11th of april, it has come to light that some of

the main six reasons why the vessel was detained is due to issues with life saving appliances, with the loosing and oil —— pollution and oil mechanisms, and what they have found, pianos say the safety of their vessels is absolutely imperative, they are going through unprecedented levels of instruction to make sure they can get their vessels back to see. grant shapps sent to parliament in 2p endo that they would be inspected before they went back to see. this is just happened in the last few minutes, problems with the recreational facilities, garbage records, flag state records and problems with the familiarity of staff with life—saving appliance. again, p&o said that the safety of passengers

is the foremost priority, and any suggestion that safety has been compromised as false, and just make sure the nca did clear that the sailing, it stand 2p sexual offence victims, are facing the longest waits on record, tour for their cases to go to court in england and wales. it follows a bbc investigation, which found that last year, it took an average of nine months for a case to be concluded. but there are huge regional differences. here's dominic casciani. how long should someone wait forjustice? in the oasis of calm of her home, lisa tells me about the nightmare of criminaljustice delays after she was raped in 2017. she had damning evidence against her attacker, a man she knew well. i was led to believe originally that it would be quite a speedy resolvement to the case and it would be taken on to charging, and that decision would come about.

however, it didn't happen in that way, and it was a very long, drawn process. police and prosecutors took two years to charge the attacker, taking him to court in the summer of 2019. but existing backlogs meant no trial before the following april, and then the pandemic closed courts. the rapist was only convicted in late summer 2021. i think if i hadn't have gone forward and reported it, i would have been able to have brought my mental health round a lot quicker than extending the ordeal and having the additional impacts of a court system and just the lack of understanding of how people feel in that scenario, of building themselves up to be knocked back down again time and time again. national data and the bbc court by court analysis shows lisa's experience is not exceptional. sexual offence complaints take the longest time to get through the courts — a national average of 8.6 months

in england and wales. but there's huge variation across the country. leicester crown court have been the longest at 15 months last autumn. overall, the delay for all offences from report to crown court completion is 697 days. criminal barristers say the system is chronically underfunded. they've begun industrial action, refusing to take on some cases to force the government to inject more cash. a young junior barrister in the first three years of their practice is earning just over £12,000 a year before tax. a lot of barristers now are working under minimum wage. we're facing a huge exodus of practitioners from the profession. this temporary court, one of many set up during the pandemic, is part of the ministry ofjustice's solution to backlogs. barristers say there aren't enough lawyers to push cases through on time, but ministers predict that their long—term plan, including recording evidence

in advance from rape victims, will turn things around. it's very difficult for anyone . that's been the victim of rape or serious sexual violence. you recover from the original crime and then you've got. to muster the courage to go through the process. - i'm absolutely committed to making sure that those victims _ have the support at every step of the wax _ how much confidence do you have in the system having gone through all of this? none. none at all. i would never, you know, god forbid it ever happened again, or to any of my family, i wouldn't promote going through the system and even reporting a crime of this nature any more. dominic casciani, bbc news. earlier i spoke to human rights lawyer kirsty brimelow qc who said the situation just keeps getting worse. it's depressing to see the criminaljustice system on its knees. it used to be a system that we could be proud of, and we would

very much try and export it as a model globally, and also other countries would look to our country as an example of how a system should work. that is no longer the case. in terms of reports, obviously hugely depressing, but also in terms of statistics, probably even worse than that, because from a complainer�*s perspective, the average time in a serious sexual offence case, from complaint to the police up until completion of the trial, is just over four years now. just over four years, did you say? and it is not purely because of the pandemic. there was a backlog of thousands in march 2020, which was pre—pandemic. just to be clear, that i heard it correctly, four years from complaint to completion? four years. four years for serious sexual offences. that's an extraordinary length of time. yes, and its two years

rather criminal offences. one reason why is even longer for a serious sexual offences is because they go to the back of the queue because because offenders are on bale. what about the solutions here? would you want to see happen? the criminal bar association has reluctantly but very strongly come out taking action, because the government is not taking action. what is needed is an immediate and urgent injection of cash. when the ministry ofjustice speak about backlogs going down because of pre—recorded interviews, as was said in that clip, there, i think by dominic raab, the difficulty is that barristers are not doing those cases because they are not funded sufficiently, so there was an independent review

and a report was published in december last year, and that was very clear that there had to be immediate action which meant a minimum, a minimum of 50% increase in legal aid to practitioners without delay. do you think you will get that? what are the chances of that actually happening? the chances of that happening immediately, so far the messages it is not coming immediately, potentially there will be an increase in new cases for the end of the year, but that means the payment then, the way the system works, payment will only actually come through the year after, potentially in 2024, so that isn't immediate, and our concern at the criminal bar, and we are supported by criminal solicitors in this, is that they just simply won't be sufficient barristers left to prosecute and defend these cases unless there is crisis injection

of funding into the system. and if you've been affected by any of the issues we have been discussing, there are details of organisations which may be able to help. just go to our website, bbc.co.uk/actionline. or you can call for free, on 0800 077 077. the widow of a sub—postmaster who took his own life, after being wrongly accused over money going missing from his till, has been speaking for the first time, about the effect the allegations had on him. martin griffiths died in 2013. he was one of hundreds of post office workers wrongly accused, with some going to jail. here's coletta smith. martin and i married in 1982. we had two children. we decided to look into buying a post office. and hope farm road came on the market and we decided to go for it. for ia happy years, martin ran this cheshire branch of the post office, while gina ran the shop side

of the business. but in 2009, everything changed. and then all of a sudden, money started going missing. we had to pay the money back in order to carry on trading or otherwise they would have closed us down. the money was shown to be missing from the branch by the computerised till system called horizon. it had been rolled out to post offices across the uk from the year 2000. what gina and martin didn't know is that there were bugs and errors in it from the start, and horizon wasn't always accurate. if you had holes in your accounts, the post office would say they are your responsibility. "you have to make them good, because that's our money. "and if you can't explain or demonstrate you know how and where this money has gone, it's on you." 0verfour years, £60,000 of mystery losses racked up and the post office held martin responsible.

they hounded him. they persecuted him. didn't seem to be any end to it at the time. and then they told him they wanted to terminate his position as subpostmaster, and they gave him three months. you know, martin hit rock bottom. in september 2013, on his way to work, martin tried to take his own life and was rushed to hospital. he was put on a life support machine. i think he'd been planning it. i really do. he's a proud man, and i think he thought he was letting us all down. his children, his parents and me. they turned the machine off, i think, in the morning. and the worst — the worst thing for me was seeing my children... ..have to see their dad die.

martin was facing financial ruin. gina is in no doubt as to whom she blames, it was purely down to the post office. nobody else. so i blame them. the post office says it's sincerely sorry for the impact of the horizon scandal on the lives of victims and their families. and it says it's made fundamental reforms to its operations and culture. two years after martin's death, gina accepted a financial settlement from the post office, but had to agree that she wouldn't discuss it. now, the facts about horizon that martin didn't live to hear are being uncovered and a public inquiry is under way. coletta smith, bbc news. there's more on this tonight in panorama, the post office scandal. that's on bbc one, at 8 o'clock.

in antarctica on british territory the first same—sex wedding has taken place stephen carpenter, from caerphilly, and eric bourne, from rochford in essex, tied the knot on board rrs sir david attenborough, which they are stewards on. the couple, who have been together for 20 years, shared their special day with the 30 crew of the uk's new polar ship. earlier i spoke to the couple and began by asking eric for his memories of the day. why antarctica, we have had the privilege of sailing on the rss david attenborough, we have had our whole life on here, and the scenery in antarctica is unforgettable, and to be working on the ship in the region, doing what the ship does, it's a once—in—a—lifetime event. once—in—a—lifetime, absolutely magical.

just before we spoke to you we were seeing some of the photos, which are gorgeous, too. now, normally i wouldn't ask about logistics, because they tend to be pretty boring, but what is it like organising the logistics of a wedding in antarctica? it was a logistical nightmare! it was all started planning last year when the ship was still in the uk and we try to get as much of the materials together as we possibly could before the ship left for the journey south. i did a foreign wedding, a wedding abroad, that was tough enough, so i can't imagine the stresses that you went through. just talk us through a little bit of the highlights of the actual service itself. it was very emotional. we had the support of all the crew and the team that were down there, it was very tearful. there were quite a few tears around,

not just for myself and steve but from the people who supported and helped us. it was unforgettable, as part of the catering crew ourselves, it was one of those ones where we were part of the crew setting up the wedding, so it is not normal, shall we say, but everyone supported us, and we really enjoyed the whole day. brilliant, absolutely brilliant, and i love, obviously it's weddings, and we have to talk about the clothes of the outfits, you both look very smart, from the ankles up. the ankles down is the big snow boots on. yeah, it's one of those ones, when you go off the ship and take the pictures, you do need the protective fur clothing to go, so the brogues don't match up, so you have to take off the brogues

and put on the snow boots. congratulations from all of us to stephen and eric. you can see it was cold where they were getting married, but they were wearing sunglasses, so it's nice weather. what about the weather here? a little bit warmer, but try, just without the tundra and ice. try april. not as dry as last april was, does look set to be as dry as last april, but it is going to be a dry one again, and some of the dry spots, central and south—eastern areas, scotland have had their average rainfall, but very little sign of any rain for the rest of the month, that is because of the pressure pattern that's high pressure pattern that's high pressure with us, and that's drifting down from greenland and iceland are becoming more dominant in the next few days, and bringing with it a north wind. we have had

some sunshine, yes, coming and going, a little bit of cloud, mcadam had over the weekend, so it has felt cooler. the breeze, however, has started to drop a little lighter. underneath that cloud there is just enough thickness for a few showers. behind at the sun comes out, but there will be petering out with just a few spots of rain. still, as i say, not too bad out there, but it does feel distinctly chilly compared with what we have been used to. as we go through this evening and overnight showers peter out in the skies tend parts. it will turn cold again, this morning we could have a touch of grass frost first thing. you may let us know cloud, and tomorrow's cloud, once again, those banks will drift away southwards and westwards, so i think will sunshine on offerfor northern westwards, so i think will sunshine on offer for northern ireland and we have seen today, such shone for wales in southern and central parts of england, and tomorrow high uv in southern and central parts of

england, an tomorrow high uv and southern parts. that's why we will see the highest temperatures, as well, 15 and i6, tempered somewhat in the east coast because of the breeze, and again tomorrow high levels too. now, as we go through tomorrow evening and overnight it is likely will pick up a rather more cloud. when we have the high pressure sinking south, tending to travel this cloud underneath it, is a rather grey stop to someone wednesday morning, still quite a chilly breeze coming in on the north sea coast, through the english channel, as well, you can see sunshine will be a premium on wednesday. certainly won't be nonexistent, we will see some brightness in some sunshine, of course. we have high pressure with us, just not as abundant as it has been recently. that continues through thursday keeping a weather fronts at bay, so the story changes very little, temperatures around but where they should believe this time of year.

this is bbc news. the headlines: as the war in ukraine enters its third month, we report from the east, where towns are forced to live underground. exhausted residents tell us they no longer care who wins, they just want the war to end. translation: my brain hurts. two idiots are fighting, two old men. all of them are guilty, all of them. meanwhile, across ukraine five railway stations have been struck by russian missiles. the number of dead or injured is not yet known. a young star in the making, but she is one of several accusing their british gymnastics coach of mistreatment. a man in his late 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder borisjohnson says comments made about labour deputy leader angela rayner in a newspaper article are intolerable.

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