jane porter is 3 chelsea first—timer. she has created a slice of scotland using repurposed whiskey casks which are filled with heather and thistle. i really feel like it gives an impression of scotland and also that people can see these sort of ubiquitous planters that you see everywhere and just think, you can do a little bit more with them, with some imagination. before the garden is open to the public tomorrow, some well—known faces have been enjoying the displays. roses are falling out of the sky and i have got apples forming, pears forming, figs forming, walnuts, i've got everything, actually, lemons on my lemon trees dropping off, which i have been picking every night for a gin and tonic. this year's show will be particularly special, as they celebrate the queen's 70 years on the throne. helena wilkinson, bbc news, at the chelsea flower show.

time for a look at the weather. it isa it is a good old delve into the mixed bag of weather this week. it is certainly cooler for the south—east of england for the flower show, but that will be good for keeping the blooms in top shape. however, there is a lot of clout around today and the cloud comes pouring in across the uk bearing rain for some of us. we never really recover those temperatures that we saw at the weekend. one area of low pressure pushing up from the continent and the weather fronts are trying to tuck down from the north—west. the picture across the uk is a bit of a messy one. this area of rainjust to uk is a bit of a messy one. this area of rain just to the east of london at the moment pulling away in the hours ahead. it should be out of the hours ahead. it should be out of the way by teatime, roughly in time for the school run, so hopefully drier conditions. heavier showers in the south—west and wales and some nudging into the midlands. showers in scotland and northern ireland.

the best place for dry weather perhaps lincolnshire and the west midlands. through the evening and over night this rain comes in and there are showers down the north sea coast. furtherwest there are showers down the north sea coast. further west it calms down a little bit and it gets drier and clearer. temperatures a little lower on the nightjust gone. there is the low in the north sea on tuesday and showers are swirling on the outside. particularly across the eastern side of the uk, some grey and damp weather. then it will brighten up quite nicely, and the sun will help develop some of those clouds and down will come the outburst through the afternoon, with a fresh north—westerly wind. a chance of just about anywhere getting wed on tuesday and temperatures mid to high teens at best. wednesday is another area of low pressure and this one is

coming in from the atlantic and this will bring some quite strong winds as well. rain particularly across the northern half of the uk and more short lived further south. the wind is definitely a feature for wednesday. gusts of 35 to 45 miles an hour in some spots. in terms of the temperatures, still struggling with that slightly more unsettled weather. hang on in there if you are after something drier and warmer because it looks like by the end of the week we should see high—pressure starting to build backing across the uk and things become a little quieter, brighterand uk and things become a little quieter, brighter and warmerfor quieter, brighter and warmer for friday quieter, brighter and warmerfor friday and into saturday. that's all from the bbc news at one so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc�*s news teams where you are. good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news.

as manchester city get ready for their title parade later this afternoon, we've heard from the new manchester united manager, erik ten haag, for the first time. he's been outlining his plans for the club. united finished 35 points behind city in 6th place. i have a good feeling with the people around. i have a good feeling from the meetings. and a good feeling about the plan and it is time to get the plan done and get it into process and to cooperate and be consistent in our plan and we have people with the right commitment and connection, we will achieve the success we want. the plan is huge and we only have a short time and of course we have written out of the staff and the players and we will see. ten haag will have steve

mcclaren alongside him in the dugout next season in an assistant coaching role. mcclaren worked under sir alex ferguson at old trafford between 1999 and 2001. mitchell van der gaag will also join the coaching staff from ajax crystal palace manager patrick vieira will face no action from police after an altercation with a fan at goodison park on thursday. everton won 3—2 to secure their premier league survival, and that led to thousands of fans invading the pitch at full—time — with vieira appearing to aim a kick at a fan after being taunted by him. but after both vieira and the fan were contacted, merseyside police said �*the opportunity to make a formal complaint was declined'. the football association say they will be investigating after a pitch invasion at manchester city yesterday, in which the aston villa goalkeeper robin olsen was assaulted. city have apologised to villa for the incident at fulltime, following their victory that clinched the prmier league title. greater manchester police have charged two men over separate incidents of crowd disorder but say

that ' enquiries into the reported assault of a player on the etihad pitch are ongoing'. west ham's kurt zouma and his brother yoan, who plays for dagenham and redbridge, will appear in court tomorrow charged with a number of offences under the animal welfare act. the hammers defender was filmed on social media in february kicking and mistreating his pet cats. the two men are due to appear at thames magistrates' court for a first hearing tomorrow morning. the animals are still being cared for by the rspca who raised the investigation. the british number 3 harriet dart has been knocked out of the french open in the first round, beaten in straight sets by italy's martina trevisan. naomi osaka is also out. the former world number one and two time grand slam champion lost in straight sets to the 2019 semi—finallist amanda anisimova — the american who also beat her at the australian open.

afterwards osaka said she might skip the grass court season, now that wimbledon has been stripped of ranking points, because of its ban on russian and belarussian players. no problems for the world number one though. iga swiatek eased past the ukrainian lesia tsurenko in straight sets in under an hour. swiatek has won her past five tournaments and that was her 29th win in a row there was disappointment for double olympic championjadejones — she just missed out on a fourth successive european taekwondo championship in manchester. she was beaten in the semi final by poland's patrycja adamkiewicz — losing 27—24. however, reaching the semi finals mean she did win a bronze medal, so jones wasn't left completely empty handed. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website.

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welcome, and thank you forjoining us. let's start with a fundamental one. what is monkeypox and how do you catch it? monkeypox is caused by a virus which is normally found in western and central africa and lives in rodents, squirrels and other rat—type things in africa. although it was first noted by human beings and a monkey, it mainly lives in these rodents. it's caused by a virus which is similar to smallpox or closely related to smallpox but is nothing to do with chickenpox. just to clear that up. even though the names are similar, it's nothing to do with chickenpox but it is a bit similar to smallpox. so, what are the symptoms? we are seeing pictures of what the lesions look like and the, what is the word, to describe it, the pustules. i was hoping there was a more palatable word, but i couldn't think of one.

the pox, yes, tell us more about the symptoms. the way you get it is by extremely close contact with somebody, either people pick it up from animals or in some cases it can pass from animal to person and then from person to person through extremely close contact. and if you are getting it from another person it would normally be by touching someone who has those pustules on them. carry on. the symptoms are that if you come into contact with the virus you have to wait up to two or three weeks later, say 21 days, and you will develop really rather general symptoms such as a temperature and feeling extremely tired, muscles aching, and one key thing to look out for is swelling in your glands, under your neck, that's quite different from flu or covid, it is quite different.

and that will last for two or three days and then after that you come out in spots. most people get a few spots on their faces and then it will come on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet and they will grow and become quite big and i know people might be eating their lunch, but they are quite large, full of fluid and chock full of viruses and that is how it can be passed from person to person, bedding, towels, that sort of thing, while you have those spots, they can be picked up by someone else who uses the towel, so that is normally the symptoms will be resolving by themselves within two to four weeks and you don't normally need any treatment in normal healthy adults, it goes away by itself and it is probably quite distressing

to have these quite large spots. i can't see the pictures but... they are large. they look rather a bit gross, don't they? sometimes you can get spots all over, but it's not common. just picking up before a bit more about the treatment, and i know you said that generally people don't require treatment, but you said that 21 days after exposure you would start to get the initial symptoms and a general feeling of an wellness before the spots start to appear. the transmission is from direct contact with basically what is in the spots, so it has to be a very close, skin to skin contact or with some material that has touched it. in that case, what does it say about the value of people quarantining for three weeks once they have come into contact with a case?

that time when you have those symptoms just before the spots turn up, you can actually spread it that way as well through droplet infection and breathing, but it's doesn't hang around in the air in the way that we have learned to think about covid. you still need extremely close contact. you could not know you have got monkeypox and i think you are going down with the flu which is why i was emphasising the swollen glands in your neck which is not something you would normally see with other sorts of infections we are worrying about or that we are aware of at the moment. but if you did not know it was monkeypox you could pass it other people and that would be the rationale of quarantining people to make sure they don't pass it to anyone else and also for their own health and safety as well to make sure they rest and people are also going to be offered the vaccine to help stop them getting sick themselves. it is a confusing picture, at the start of anything, when public health professionals are working out exactly the best way to contain

something and deal with it, and what we've been hearing primarily is that it is the close contact, the direct contact once the pustules appear, but from what you are saying the decision to introduce quarantine was introduced because it can be spread before someone is even aware they have an infection so how much does that change the situation when we look at the fact it is now in 15 countries? it's still very, very small numbers of people and i think there might be a few more cases being reported or confirmed in the uk today but this morning it was 20 and 80 across non—african countries, so if you think of europe, the usa, canada and a couple of cases in singapore but 80 in total. not a huge number of people, so the people who will be asked to self—isolate are the ones who had

extremely close contact to have monkeypox and we are not talking about large numbers of people but what we are trying to do is stop the virus spreading from person to person and it isn't very usual for this to happen so normally what happens is somebody gets it from the rodent or a monkey, from an animal and they can then pass it to another person and that second person can pass it to another person but that normally peters out after a couple of cycles and we don't really know what will happen with this one and it is a bit unusual to see that it is spreading so much but we wouldn't expect it to spread really widely to everybody and it's very difficult to catch it. you have to be in close contact with people to catch it on the quarantine is to make sure it doesn't get further than it has done already. a number of viewers are asking about stigmatising the gay community because there has been particular

focus on the gay community because at least the first number of cases we knew about were from men who have sex with men, but it's unclear the context in which those cases were spread and on enormous viewer asks, is it dangerous to point out that, point the finger at one particular group of people in terms of infections? yes, i find that rather upsetting because it is just a quirk of fate, an accident that one of those people who had picked it up then came in close contact with someone else and then a second person, was a man who had sex with men and was in the lgbtqi+ community and it's not a sexually transmitted disease but it is spread by close contact, and intimate contact would include that but it is an accident of virology that it has happened and that the people coming

into contact with each other that we know about our in this particular group and it is upsetting because it is unfair to say it's these particular groups or a particular group are more susceptible or likely to get it and the other thing that is unhelpful is it might make people think, i'm not going to get it and anyone could get it, anyone who has close contact with someone who has monkeypox can get it and it's nothing to do with your sexuality or gender or ethnicity or geography, as we've seen, because it's all over europe and north america now. there is nothing special about anybody that says you can or cannot get a particular virus, certainly not in the case of monkeypox. there is nothing special about anybody and it's unfair to point the finger at a particular group but also unhelpful because you might think it's

not going to affect me, and it probably isn't, let's face it, there's not many cases, but there is no particular reason why it shouldn't be you either. thank you very much indeed. now it's time for across the uk. the conservative mp for reigate, crispin blunt has described the child sex assault conviction of a former mp as a "serious miscarriage ofjustice", despite previously retracting similar comments. last month mr blunt apologised after defending imran ahmad khan, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15—year—old boy. mr blunt has announced he is standing down at the next election.

in an interview with politics south east looking back at his own career, he said he still believes mr khan did not get a fair trial. mr khan will be sentenced today. charlotte wright reports. just hours after he said it was a dreadful miscarriage ofjustice he retracted it, but now when asked about it for the first time on camera, he has stood by his original remarks. i remain totally convinced... what do you mean, you saw what happened? i attended part of the trial. did you attend the whole trial? no, i didn't attend the whole trial, but i know what decisions were made within the trial, which meant that in myjudgment, he did not get a fair trial.

last month mr khan was found guilty of assaulting a 15—year—old boy and thrown out of the conservative party. in a statement posted online, crispin blunt said the case relied on lazy homophobic troops. he later took it down and apologise, not least to victims of sexual offences. when someone has gone through the and got _ when someone has gone through the and got a _ when someone has gone through the and got a conviction which is relatively— and got a conviction which is relatively uncommon, for someone's story— relatively uncommon, for someone's story still_ relatively uncommon, for someone's story still not be taken seriously and their— story still not be taken seriously and their expense called into question— and their expense called into question after there is a verdict, a guilty— question after there is a verdict, a guilty verdict, it's really insulting.— guilty verdict, it's really insultinu. ~ , ., ., ~' guilty verdict, it's really insultinu. ~ , ., ., ~ ., insulting. why do you not think that that would be _ insulting. why do you not think that that would be seen _ insulting. why do you not think that that would be seen as _ insulting. why do you not think that that would be seen as outrageous, l that would be seen as outrageous, criticising the verdict of a jury question which is why on reflection i withdrew my statement. why did you publish it in the first place?

because, in myjudgment, and it remains myjudgment myjudgment crispin blunt has been the conservative mp for reigate for 25 years. at conservative mp for reigate for 25 ears. �* ~x conservative mp for reigate for 25 ears. �* ., ., ., ., . years. a few weeks ago he announced he would stand _ years. a few weeks ago he announced he would stand down _ years. a few weeks ago he announced he would stand down at _ years. a few weeks ago he announced he would stand down at the _ years. a few weeks ago he announced he would stand down at the next - he would stand down at the next election. but these comments prompted fresh criticism from with easeis prompted fresh criticism from with ease is own party. we prompted fresh criticism from with ease is own party-— ease is own party. we have a problem. _ ease is own party. we have a problem, certainly _ ease is own party. we have a problem, certainly within - ease is own party. we have a - problem, certainly within piecing on the wider— problem, certainly within piecing on the wider criminaljustice system in surrey— the wider criminaljustice system in surrey of— the wider criminaljustice system in surrey of making sure that victims stay engaged with process, particularly looking at the backlogs and i don't want anyone in a position— and i don't want anyone in a position of authority that makes victims — position of authority that makes victims feel they are not at the centre — victims feel they are not at the centre and heart of the criminal justice — centre and heart of the criminal justice system. a centre and heart of the criminal justice system.— centre and heart of the criminal justice system. a spokesperson for the conservative _ justice system. a spokesperson for the conservative party _ justice system. a spokesperson for the conservative party said - justice system. a spokesperson for the conservative party said mr- the conservative party said mr blunt�*s views are wholly unacceptable. mr khan is appealing the verdict. and you can watch the full interview on politics south east on the bbc iplayer.

a school in abertillery in monmouthshire is closed today — after a boy lost a finger in what his mother says was a racially motivated incident. abertillery learning community says it's helping police and the council to investigate. 11 year old raheem bailey's mother says he injured himself while running away from bullies who racially abused him. our reporter nelli bird is outside the school. nelli, what more can you tell us? this is the secondary campus and the other school as a part of it and they are closed today on the council say they have done that because of safety. the alleged incident happened on tuesday and raheem's mother, chantelle, told us he was being attacked by a group of kids and was on the floor and being kicked and as he tried to run away from then he got his finger caught on a fence and it was so badly injured that after six hours of surgery had to be amputated. chantelle bailey surgery had to be amputated. cha ntelle bailey says surgery had to be amputated. chantelle bailey says he has been at the school since september and has been subjected to racist abuse and

also bullying because he is small for his age. and that is something that has angered many people, including equality campaigners. shocked. seriously outraged. very angry. and disappointed that, yet again, another black child has been devastated, has had his life severely impacted, both physically and psychologically, mentally, by racism. and this story first came to light on friday and since then and over the weekend it's had an absolutely massive response. people so shocked at the details and the details of the story, also wanting to show support for raheem and that is just not normal people, but celebrities, sportsmen, and anthonyjoshua has also sent his best wishes to raheem and also a fundraising campaign has

reached hundred thousand pounds, just to try to get treatment for raheem, a pathetic finger, but it's gone much further than that in the last time i spoke to his mother, chantelle, she said that relatively, raheem was doing ok but as the paint has worn off, he was starting to struggle to understand what was happening and sometimes saying, this isn't real? not thinking he had lost his finger and she was having to have these difficult, gentle conversations, was how she put it. police are here at the school today and have been in and out and for today there are no pupils here as the investigations continue. thank ou ve the investigations continue. thank you very much _ the investigations continue. thank you very much indeed. _ the essex police marine unit has been taking part in a europe—wide operation, boarding ships looking for illegal activity, or migrants on board. the unit was set up 73 years ago to patrol the coastline and waterways of essex. our reporter debbie tubbyjoined them. this is effectively a police beat

on water, patrolling the second longest coastline in the country, covering 562 miles of waterways. this has a top speed of 56 knots, that's equivalent to 64 mph, and it can be used in any weather conditions. only a handful of police forces in the country have a special marine unit. are you going far? it emerges they're just on a day trip. the marine unit has the power to check not only small boats but also large ships. they have no intelligence to say this cruise ship in the thames estuary is carrying anyone illegally, but as part of a europe—wide operation they are checking security on as many vessels as possible. we look for any signs of modern—day slavery, see if they've got any information they might be able to pass us about where they've come from and any concerns they've had on the way over there, suspicious activity. the ladder is lowered, they are given permission to go on board. this ship's voyage with 1000 passengers on board includes the seychelles and iceland.

it plans to dock in the thames estuary for the night. do you have any issues at the ports when you are on the continent with people trying to get on? they put some fences all around. the check takes only minutes. thank you. they disembark. the cruise ship's journey isn't disrupted. we talked about dock security while they were in france and on the continent, just to see whether there'd been any risk to people getting aboard that shouldn't be. they not only board commercial boats but constantly look for illegal activity, even on these, the maunsell forts, built to deter german forces and defend our coastline. we have just spotted this vessel coming into the thames estuary, and we can see it has come from portsmouth, the main shipping channel. it's ok. thank you. thea;t channel. it's ok. thank you. they want to check _ channel. it's ok. thank you. they want to check it _ channel. it's ok. thank you. they want to check it didn't _ channel. it's ok. thank you. they want to check it didn't take - channel. it's ok. thank you. they want to check it didn't take anyone up. want to check it didn't take anyone u, �* want to check it didn't take anyone u . _ �* , �* , want to check it didn't take anyone up. don't be frightened. any issues or problems? _ up. don't be frightened. any issues or problems? nothing _ up. don't be frightened. any issues or problems? nothing in _ up. don't be frightened. any issues or problems? nothing in the - up. don't be frightened. any issues i or problems? nothing in the channel, any concerns? it’s or problems? nothing in the channel, any concerns?—

this patrol, assigned to keep our coastline safe, may not have found marine crime, migrants or missing people today, but they never know what criminals or weather conditions they might have to face. we are delving into a mixed bag of weather again this week and looking cooler than the weekend and the days ahead often breezy, and there will be some showers for you to dodge as well. monday's picture, what a mess, the area of low pressure pushing up on the south and weather fronts moving down from the north and a chance of rain, just about anywhere as we finish off monday but the heavier, more persistent rain will tend to drift eastward through the small hours of tuesday and quite wet

across central and eastern england and becoming drierfor scotland, and becoming drier for scotland, northern and becoming drierfor scotland, northern ireland and northern england but cooler than the night just gone. temperatures to the south still looking like they might stay in double figures. some rain around first thing on tuesday and it will clear and brighton, first thing on tuesday and it will clearand brighton, but first thing on tuesday and it will clear and brighton, but as the day plays out we will see showers developing on the odd one could be heavy and the chance of a downpour, a bit like today, just about anywhere. still on the cooler side as well with top temperatures 17 or 18 degrees.

this is bbc news and i am rebecca jones. these are the latest headlines dr chris smith a 21—year—old russian soldier is jailed for life, after admitting killing an unarmed civilian in the early stages of the invasion in ukraine in the country's first war crimes trial. thousands of youngsters will end up in care, unless there is a radical reset of the system. that is the warning from a landmark review of child protection in england. it is crucial that when families _ protection in england. it is crucial that when families hit _ protection in england. it is crucial that when families hit crisis - protection in england. it is crucial that when families hit crisis and l that when families hit crisis and they have got difficulty, that there is a low stigma, really intensive help on offer. is a low stigma, really intensive help on offer-— is a low stigma, really intensive help on offer. people at high risk of developing _ help on offer. people at high risk of developing monkeypox - help on offer. people at high risk of developing monkeypox after i help on offer. people at high risk - of developing monkeypox after coming into contact with positive cases are urged to self—isolate for three weeks. that, as scotland confirms

its first case of the virus. and in