this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughanjones, and these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world... crucial talks on the future direction of nato are getting under way in madrid. borisjohnson will call on his fellow leaders to increase their military spending. what we also need to do to make sure that we think about the lessons of the last few months and the need for nato to revise its posture. iam i am live in madrid where nato leaders are said to approve a huge troop increase for the eastern flank and formally invite finland and sweden to join the alliance. tributes are paid to the british cancer campaigner, blogger and broadcaster

dame deborahjames, who has died aged a0 after receiving end—of—life care for bowel cancer. she challenged taboos and change the conversation around bowel cancer. a 29—year—old man has been charged with murdering zara aleena in england's capital, london, as she walked home from a night out in the early hours of sunday morning. a former white house aide gives damning testimony about donald trump's actions during the storming of the us capitol building last year, saying he knew people in the crowd were armed but he didn't care. ghislaine maxwell is jailed for 20 years in a us prison for recruiting and trafficking teenage girls for her then boyfriend jeffrey epstein. and a bbc investigation finds the number of holiday lets in england has risen by 40% in the past three years, with concerns some residents are being pushed out of areas as a result.

hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. we start with the nato summit in madrid, where president biden has announced that the us will expand its military presence across europe, in response to russia's invasion of ukraine. he said us forces would be strengthened across land, air and sea, because president putin had shattered peace on the continent. world leaders — gathered to discuss the future direction of nato — have received a boost after turkey dropped its opposition to finland and sweden's membership bids. the secretary—general of natojens stoltenberg says he expects swift ratification of sweden and finland's applications. he spoke as leaders gathered for the second day of the summit in madrid. we will make a decision today, or at least at

the summit to invite finland and sweden to become members, that's unprecedented quick. i think you will hardly find any other accession process with so few weeks between the application that happened in mid—may and the invitation, that will happen now. then of course, after the invitation we need the ratification process in 30 parliaments. that always take some time but i expect also that to go rather quickly because allies are ready to try to make that ratification process happen as quickly as possible. but, of course, i cannot promise anything on the author of 30 parliaments, they have to make those decisions themselves. when he arrived at the summit earlier, the uk prime mnister borisjohnson speaking ahead of the summit. if vladimir putin was hoping that he would be getting less nato on his western front as a result of his unprovoked, illegal invasion of ukraine, he has been proved completely wrong,

he's getting more nato. this is a historic summit in many ways, but we have already got two new members coming in, finland and sweden. a huge step forward for our alliance. we are expecting significant announcements and developments from this summit. in the last hour, president biden has been outlining plans to boost us forces in europe in response to russia's attack on ukraine. let's listen to what he had to say. the united states will enhance our force posture in europe and respond to the changed security environment as well as strengthening our collective security. earlier this year, we surged 20,000 additional us forces to europe to bolster our lines in response to russia's aggressive move, bringing our force total in europe to 100,000. we are going to continue to adjust our posture based on the threat in close consultation with our allies. here in spain, we are going to work

with allies to increase us navy destroyer stations in spain's naval base from four to six destroyers. in poland we are going to establish a permanent headquarters for the us fifth army core and strengthening our us nato interoperability across the entire eastern flank. we are going to maintain additional rotational brigades which is 3,000 freighters and another 2,000 personnel, a combat team here in europe headquartered in romania. and we are going to enhance our rotational deployments in the baltic states. and we are going to send two additional f35 squadrons to the uk and station additional air defence and other capabilities in germany and italy. and together with our allies

we are going to make sure that nato is ready to meet threats in all directions across every domain — land, airand sea. in a moment when president putin has shattered peace in europe and attacked the very tenants of rule based order the united states and our allies will step up, we are stepping up, we are proving that nato is more needed now than it ever has been and it's as important as it ever has been. we can cross live to madrid and our correspondent there mark lowen. we had the long list from president biden and what it all adds up to is a real, fundamental shift in the international order?— a real, fundamental shift in the international order? yes, indeed. a fundamental— international order? yes, indeed. a fundamental shift _ international order? yes, indeed. a fundamental shift in _ international order? yes, indeed. a fundamental shift in nato's - fundamental shift in nato's blueprint, its strategic concept, lewis. it is the set of guidelines that will take nato forward over the next decade. the last strategic

concept as it was set out in 2010 said the risk of a conventional war in europe was low and talked about the hope and need for a strategic partnership with russia. the world has changed in the last 12 years. the one that will be redefined at this nato summit will designate russia as the alliance' main threat and increase the firepower and manpower, shoring up nato's eastern flank. countries like estonia, latvia who feel vulnerable at the moment in the cross hairs of a ship is microaggression. there was a breakthrough at the summit with finland and spending the lack —— sweden being able to apply to join nato. that will pave the way for finland and sweden to be able to join the alliance. a very significant moment for the north atlantic treaty and one which will

be discussed by these members in this nato summit today as the formal invitation is put out to these nordic countries. we can discuss it more with someone from the finnish institute of international affairs. have finland and sweden given up too much to turkey for nato membership? having read this document i'm not sure that — having read this document i'm not sure that sweden and finland have given— sure that sweden and finland have given up— sure that sweden and finland have given up anything. two democracies, the rule _ given up anything. two democracies, the rule of— given up anything. two democracies, the rule of law have taken care of the rule of law have taken care of the pkk _ the rule of law have taken care of the pkk terrorist organisation for years _ the pkk terrorist organisation for years this— the pkk terrorist organisation for years. this document, there will be a joint _ years. this document, there will be a joint committee of civil servants meeting _ a joint committee of civil servants meeting every so often discussing security— meeting every so often discussing security concerns.— security concerns. turkey has concerns _ security concerns. turkey has concerns about _ security concerns. turkey has concerns about as _ security concerns. turkey has concerns about as sweden . security concerns. turkey has | concerns about as sweden and finland's supporters, the pkk and extradition of some people want by

turkey. we have a kurdish community in finland under kurdish community in finland under kurdish community in sweden? the in finland under kurdish community in sweden? ., ., in sweden? the rule of law, the courts work- — in sweden? the rule of law, the courts work. if _ in sweden? the rule of law, the courts work. if someone - in sweden? the rule of law, the courts work. if someone has - courts work. if someone has committed a crime and turkey has the evidence _ committed a crime and turkey has the evidence and you followed the normal european _ evidence and you followed the normal european global procedures, of course — european global procedures, of course finland is open to this. just sending _ course finland is open to this. just sending people out, it is never going — sending people out, it is never going to — sending people out, it is never going to happenjust on this basis. how important is it for the rest of the alliance that finland and sweden were john, the alliance that finland and sweden werejohn, particularly the alliance that finland and sweden were john, particularly the vulnerable baltic nations that look towards them as powerful forces in the region?— towards them as powerful forces in thereuion? , ., ., the region? because of geography you can relan the region? because of geography you can reptan all — the region? because of geography you can replan all of— the region? because of geography you can replan all of northern _ the region? because of geography you can replan all of northern europe's - can replan all of northern europe's defence _ can replan all of northern europe's defence. the uk has a central role in the _ defence. the uk has a central role in the baltic sea. nato can redo its defence _ in the baltic sea. nato can redo its defence of— in the baltic sea. nato can redo its defence of the north and north—east. finland _ defence of the north and north—east. finland is _ defence of the north and north—east. finland is a _ defence of the north and north—east. finland is a big military spender, more than 2% of gdp, some nato

members are not, still not reaching 30% threshold, like italy for example. are there enough resources being committed by the nato alliance, by the members to be able to commit to this huge troop increase, particularly in the baltic nations? , , ., , nations? they should be, europe collectively _ nations? they should be, europe collectively should _ nations? they should be, europe collectively should have - nations? they should be, europe collectively should have enough l collectively should have enough money — collectively should have enough money to do this. it is a man of collaborating and even for individual countries, italy, germany, notjust look individual countries, italy, germany, not just look at individual countries, italy, germany, notjust look at how individual countries, italy, germany, not just look at how much money— germany, not just look at how much money they— germany, not just look at how much money they are spending, finland spends _ money they are spending, finland spends a — money they are spending, finland spends a lot of money but it spends it very— spends a lot of money but it spends it very effectively and efficiently. they produce some sort of operational capability, whether or not it— operational capability, whether or not it is— operational capability, whether or not it is a — operational capability, whether or not it is a very robust air force or navy~ _ not it is a very robust air force or navy~ it — not it is a very robust air force or navy~ it will— not it is a very robust air force or navy. it will be looking at how much do they— navy. it will be looking at how much do they spend, but also how do we -et do they spend, but also how do we get military forces that will be able _ get military forces that will be able to— get military forces that will be able to take turns in nato defence. how does — able to take turns in nato defence. how does finland field now about the threat from russia by finnish

membership of the alliance? a senior russian official said they would be stationing ballistic missiles on their border?— stationing ballistic missiles on their border? , . , their border? they have said, this is no big deal- _ their border? they have said, this is no big deal. it _ their border? they have said, this is no big deal. it doesn't - their border? they have said, this is no big deal. it doesn't matter. their border? they have said, this is no big deal. it doesn't matter ifj is no big deal. it doesn't matter if they are _ is no big deal. it doesn't matter if they are 100 miles from the finnish they are100 miles from the finnish border— they are100 miles from the finnish border or— they are 100 miles from the finnish border or 200 miles, they are 100 miles from the finnish border or200 miles, it is they are 100 miles from the finnish border or 200 miles, it is not a big deai~ _ border or 200 miles, it is not a big deal. becoming part of the nato nuclear— deal. becoming part of the nato nuclear family was one of the motivations for the finnish government to seek nato membership and be _ government to seek nato membership and be under this nuclear umbrella. feel vulnerable? and be under this nuclear umbrella. feelvulnerable? no, the finnish defence — feelvulnerable? no, the finnish defence force has lots of militaries, the uk raf are training in finland — militaries, the uk raf are training in finland. most of russia's land forces _ in finland. most of russia's land forces are — in finland. most of russia's land forces are being decimated in ukraine _ forces are being decimated in ukraine. there is not a lot of concern _ ukraine. there is not a lot of concern at _ ukraine. there is not a lot of concern at this point in finland. thank— concern at this point in finland. thank you — concern at this point in finland. thank you for talking to us. with finland and sweden's membership which the formal membership will be sent today after turkey lifted its

veto, the border between russia and nato doubles. president putin has the opposite of what he wanted. he entered ukraine to stop nato expansion, he has the polar opposite. this afternoon, president zelensky will address the nato summit by video link and he will be pushing for more nato support, and we will have to see what the result is. but the overwhelming desire to send as support message to ukraine. thank you so much and keep us updated. we have a new tribute to the cancer campaigner, dame deborahjames he died of bowel cancer. the duke and duchess of cambridge have treated...

the host of the podcast also known as bowel babe was awarded a dame hoodin as bowel babe was awarded a dame hood in ma in recognition of her tireless fundraising. she had been receiving end—of—life care at home. jon kay reports. right to the very end of her life, dame deborahjames was determined to live every moment to the full. just a few weeks ago, she was at the chelsea flower show to see a rose that had been named after her. cheers! she wanted to make the very most of whatever time she had left. in herfinal weeks, deborah published a book. she started a fund for cancer charities which has raised millions of pounds. she launched a range of clothes, with a rebellious hope t—shirt, that has raise money for charity. and then on father's day, she posted this image with the words, "my dad is brushing my hair because i have no strength any more".

announcing her death last night, herfamily said... i was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer at the age of 35. we are actually talking about life and death here. it is heart—wrenching at times. come on, mummy, you can go faster than that. so, i have the poo cancer. there's nothing pink about my cancer, it's just brown. so, i was pooing blood and eventually got diagnosed with a 6.5 centimetre tumour up my bum, basically. deborah was always honest and open about her cancer. she shared her every step of herjourney from endless rounds of chemotherapy to the terrible

side—effects of the drug treatment she was on. but, through it all, she was determined to keep smiling, to keep dancing. # singing in the rain. our podcast is about living with cancer, right? and it is about showing life goes on. so if cancer wants me twirling around on the stage and wearing sequins and if it means i have to do treatment and train and dance, then, actually, that is what life is. let's dance through the rain. i love that saying, dance through the rain. prime minister borisjohnson said... dame deborah leaves behind a large, loving family and two children.

she says she was lucky to have five extra years to see them grow up. in herfinal days, she was surrounded by her family at her parents' home. and in her last interview she said she was convinced that new treatments will be found. cancer should become a chronic disease. i hope it will be in my kids' lifetime.come a chronic disease. but, i think, there are people doing amazing things and we need to support them and fund them. deborah was made a dame last month. the award presented in person by prince william at her parents' home. dame deborah wrote her own epitaph. a message posted on social media last night. it said...

picking up on that last message and the legacy about inspiring others to check themselves and make sure they are doing what they can to save themselves, i want to an interview now. teresa whitfield was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer after seeing deborahjames talking about symptoms on tv. she is now cancerfree. she told me how deborah's life has inspired her to carry on her work. i'm not sure how to follow the tributes that have been going on this morning, but without deborah, without seeing her on the tv three

years ago, i don't think i would have had the courage to go and pick up the telephone to talk to the gp, i don't think i would have realised what the symptoms of bowel cancer were and i don't think i would be here today. i was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer because i listened to deborah and she was, is, a total inspiration and a total rock star. she is the most amazing woman and we have to carry on the good work she has done. just to make sure that everything she has done for the past five years hasn't been in vain. you started by saying you don't know how you could follow any of that, that was one of the most powerful things i have heard. she would be utterly thrilled to hear your story, because that is exactly the awareness and the impact she wanted to have by talking so openly about it. if you don't mind, i will ask you about your experience, because it is absolutely terrifying at those early stages,

not to mention the gruelling treatment, too. tell us a bit about what you went through. i started feeling unwell probably six to 12 months before i realised there could be anything wrong. i was very tired and i thought i was working too hard. i did have blood in my poo. i went to the gp and i was told i was too young to be worried about anything, too fit and healthy and i didn't have enough symptoms to trigger an nhs intervention. i was sent away with pile cream and told not to worry about it, it will clear itself up. that was in the october and in the november i saw deborah on the tv and i went back in the following january back again in february because my symptoms were worse, i was having more blood in my poo.

this time i had a pain in my tummy. my doctor told me it was probably a urine infection. at that point she asked me what she could do to make me feel better. i said, find out what is going on. i was lucky we have private health care and i was able to go down that route and within three weeks i was diagnosed with bowel cancer, stage three, stage two bowel cancer which turned out to be stage three following surgery. i had six months of chemotherapy and five colonoscopies later i am cancer free, three years later. that is fantastic news to hear, without in any way minimalising what you went through before that. i want to reference your t—shirt for anyone who might not know the phrase, can you explain that for us. this is rebellious hope.

deb started the campaign to live life to the full, to have that rebellious hope and she has raised so much money for bowel cancer uk, has raised so much money for all cancer charities at the royal marsden. we have to carry on the campaign and carry on where she left off. she has had five years to save lives and save mine. she has now got a lifetime to change perception of bowel cancer, of bottoms. of poos, it is rebellious hope. i wear this with pride this morning. we are going to the us now.

ghislaine maxwell, once a prominent figure in new york society circles, is facing 20 years in a us prison for trafficking young girls to be abused byjeffrey epstein. she issued a statement, apologising to her victims, but herfamily said she would appeal. our correspondent, nada tawfik, was in court. a long—fought victory for annie farmer and all of ghislaine maxwell's victims. justice was slow. she was one of the earliest to report maxwell and the paedophile jeffrey epstein to police, in 1996. but today, annie said it was never too late for accountability. maxwell and epstein were predators who were able to use their power and privilege to harm countless individuals, and for far too long, the institutions that should be protecting the public were instead protecting them. and i still hope that we find out more about how that was allowed to occur.

maxwell did not look at her victims, but she did address them. she said she was sorry for the pain they had experienced. she also said her association with epstein, who she described as a manipulative, cunning man, was the greatest regret of her life. her statement felt like a very hollow apology to me. she did not take responsibility for the crimes that she committed and it felt like, once more, her trying to do something to benefit her and not at all about the harm that she had caused. the court allowed others who were not a part of the trial to also confront maxwell. the pain and anguish she caused was plain to see, as several accusers emotionally spoke about the lasting impact of her crimes, such as liz stein. she had a wonderful, full, beautiful life. and so many of usjust didn't have a chance to have that. i think that the closure part of her sentencing is maybe the beginning for a lot of us

to start having the life that we anticipated we might have if we had never met ghislaine maxwell and jeffrey epstein. the british daughter of the disgraced media tycoon robert maxwell ran in the most influential circles, rubbing elbows with presidents and princes. but in court, as she waited to hear her fate, she was supported byjust three members of her family. the judge rejected that maxwell was being punished in epstein's place and she had to accept her role in the horrific scheme. today is a step towards justice and perhaps healing for the victims. nada tawfik, bbc news, new york. a former white house aide has given damning testimony about donald trump's actions during the storming of the us capitol building last year. cassidy hutchinson was speaking to the congressional committee investigating the attack. she said mr trump was so desperate

to join the crowd he tried to grab the steering wheel of his limousine from a secret service agent. our north america editor, sarah smith reports from washington. a surprise witness. she delivered explosive testimony. describing how trump had been informed that many in the crowd on the 6th of january were carrying weapons. yet he was furious about security measures. metal detectors were used to find guns and knives. he wanted the screenings stopped to let more people in, ms hutchinson told the committee in previously recorded testimony. i overheard the president say something to the effect of, "i don't effing care they have weapons. "they're not here to hurt me. "take the effing mags away." donald trump: we are going to walk down and i'll be there with you. - trump did want to go to the capitol but as he ordered the secret service to drive him there he was told it wasn't safe. he said something to the effect of,

"i'm the effing president, take me up to the capitol now." when the president's secret service agent, bobby engel, refused to go to the capitol, trump got physical. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr engel grabbed his arm and said, "sir, you need "to take your hand off the steering wheel. "we're going back to the west wing. "we're not going to the capitol." mr trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engel. trump has responded, saying this is a "fake story that is sick and fraudulent." today is the first time we have heard exactly what was happening inside the white house on the 6th of january, how the president's most senior advisers anticipated the violence and did little to stop it, and then asked trump for a presidential pardon so they couldn't be prosecuted. did white house chief- of staff mark meadows ever indicate that he was interested . in receiving a presidential pardon relating to the 6th ofjanuary? mr meadows did seek that pardon, yes, ma'am.

first—hand evidence from someone who was right at the heart of the white house. sarah smith, bbc news. a man has been charged with the murder of 35—year—old zara aleena in east london. jordan mcsweeny has also been charged with attempted rape and robbery, according to the metropolitan police. zara aleena was found suffering head injuries, in the early hours of sunday, and died in hospital later that morning. in a tribute, her family described her as "a joy to all of us". they added that "women should be safe on our streets. she was in the heart of her community, ten minutes from home." more than 100 people have died in floods in bangladesh, after some of the heaviest rains in a century. aid agencies are warning millions of people are still in desperate need of aid and shelter. the bangladeshi community in the uk has been helping with those efforts as the bbc asian network's nadia ali reports.

south asia always experiences downpours during monsoon season, but this year the flooding has been extreme, especially in bangladesh. thousands of people across bangladesh have been affected by raging floods and landslides. many people are still stranded and in desperate need of fresh food and water. sylhet is the worst affected area. there is estimated to be over half a million bangladeshis in the uk, with a large amount coming from the sylhet district. i went out and spoke to one who was in sylhet just over a week ago, to find out how this has affected him and his family. you've just recently come back from bangladesh. how was your experience? what did you see? occasionally, we have floods in the uk. what i have seen there, entire areas, entire communities. the water doesn't discriminate

the rich or the poor. i, myself, ijust couldn't handle it. family members didn't have a home to live in. but you can see the worry in these family members' faces and the neighbours' faces. they were losing everything. homes and livelihoods left submerged after excessive downfalls. many have lost their loved ones, and people are still missing. most people are trying to find shelter in schools and hospitals. relief workers are trying their best to provide food and clean water. at this moment in time, the most emergency and urgent need is just to try and get people some food. there are many people that we have been distributing to in the last one or two days that simply haven't eaten for about nine days. people now don't have anywhere to go to the toilet as well, and so what ends up happening is the open water becomes

a defecation cesspit, almost. the flooding has proven to be damaging and deadly, and with the fear of this getting worse, the people of bangladesh are facing an uncertain future. nadia ali, bbc news. dramatic cctv images have emerged of the missile strike that destroyed a shopping centre in central ukraine. at least 18 people died in the attack in kremenchuk on monday afternoon. president zelensky, who released the footage, said it was an "act of state terrorism". joe inwood told us more from kyiv. if there was any doubt in people's minds about what happened in kremenchuk, this cctv probably eliminates it. when it is slowed down you can clearly see a cruise missile being fired and hitting a building at the back of the shops. when you compare it to satellite injury you can see a number of features in the cctv that enable it

to be geo— located, matched to the satellite imagery and it shows it was just out of the back of the amstor shopping centre so the suggestion that the russians have made that they had a warehouse nearby store in western arms and munitions is disproved by the cctv footage. ukrainians have maintained from the start that this is what it happen, a direct strike from a missile that was responsible for the deaths of at least 18 people with many more still missing and many in hospital. president zelensky has said this was a terrorist act. and in his nightly address yesterday he called out to people equal propagandists who are helping to spread what he said was russian this information and it is clear in this instance that the russian claims that they did not hit the shopping centre, were not true. a bbc investigation has gathered evidence of the repeated use of cluster munitions in the city of chernihiv, northern ukraine. these weapons — rockets or missiles that deploy a large number of small explosives —

are banned by more than 100 countries because of the harm they cause civilians. but neither russia nor ukraine has signed up to the international treaty prohibiting them. viktoriia zhuhan reports on how patients and medics in chernihiv have learned how to survive them. translation: there was a pop in the sky, and a puff— of white smoke appeared. everything around began to explode. oleksandr and his family were running out of supplies. their city, chernihiv in north ukraine, had been under siege by the russian for three weeks. seconds after they left home, they were hit. translation: the first thing i thought was that my - leg had been torn off. i had a crazy pain. i called out to ask my son, danil, are you in one piece? this family was among dozens of victims of a cluster attack in a residential area

on the 17th of march. cluster weapons cause multiple injuries to limbs and vital organs, cutting through bone, flesh and arteries. sergiy was oleksandr�*s surgeon that day. translation: the flesh was torn. one wound was all the way through his leg to the shin which damaged the muscles. i had never seen anything like it. this is the first time i have encountered such injuries. for these ecivilian medics, there was just one explanation — cluster weapons. and at the scene of the attack, near another hospital, we find proof. the bomb disposal unit showed us a timer on the cluster munitions that they found in a residential area in chernihiv. we found this fragment, and the bomb disposal unit believes it comes from a similar timer on a similar cluster munition. these piles of weapons were collected by the bomb disposal team all around the region.

at least one rocket came from the scene in march the 17th. translation: in one rocket projectile, there are 30 - such cluster elements. these are designed to kill people and destroy light armoured vehicles. this is how destructive they are. explosion these bombs leave specific small marks on the tarmac and small holes in the buildings. we found these very distinctive markings all over the city. the russian government has denied using cluster munitions in ukraine, and kyiv is building criminal cases against moscow. but media reports also accused ukraine of doing the same at least once, an accusation they have denied. translation: the three of us were in different. hospitals for 16 days. for the first four days, we had no connection at all. we did not know whether others were alive, who had what injuries.

they are now reunited in this kyiv hospital ward, but the family will carry this scourge of this attack for ever. viktoriia zhuhan, bbc news, chernihiv. more now on the death of deborahjames, the cancer campaigner who has died at the age of a0. we'll be speaking to a close friend of hers soon — but first let's have a look at some of the reaction on social media to deborah's death. radio one dj adele roberts, who had bowel cancer, said: tv presenter gaby roslin wrote...

chief executive of nhs england amanda pritchard said... i'm joined now by lucie kon, a friend of deborah's and former executive producer for bbc�*s panorama programme. the pair met after lucie was diagnosed with breast cancer, and they went on to make a documentary about the impact of delays in cancer diagnosis during the pandemic. thank you so much for coming on and talking to us this morning. just that list of tributes on social media isjust that list of tributes on social media is just extraordinary. that list of tributes on social media isjust extraordinary. what that list of tributes on social media is just extraordinary. what is your reaction? how are you feeling this morning? i

your reaction? how are you feeling this morning?— your reaction? how are you feeling this morning? i am quite numb this mornin: , this morning? i am quite numb this morning. i— this morning? i am quite numb this morning, ithink. _ this morning? i am quite numb this morning, ithink. my— this morning? i am quite numb this morning, i think. my reaction - this morning? i am quite numb this morning, i think. my reaction is- morning, i think. my reaction is that i'm devastated for deborah's family, for deborah obviously, an amazing lady that i feel massively privileged to have worked with and to become familiar with. in the way that lots of people do, over my career, and you don't always become really friendly with the people you work with but with deborah, she was just extraordinary. she showed me, taught me things, about myself, as well as how to be, and just loads of stuff that i just well as how to be, and just loads of stuff that ijust never realised i would and she will be massively missed. ifeel like she has would and she will be massively missed. i feel like she has left us all with the most extraordinary gift. in hertime all with the most extraordinary gift. in her time of the most extraordinary pain and awful torment, she has given us all this gift that we can keep working for, just to make it that there are no more deborahs, and i mean that in the sense that it was something

deborah said herself when she spoke to bbc reporters a while ago, was that she does not want other people who get a cancer diagnosis now and the future, and her children's lifetime, when they are adults, to go through what she has gone through. one into a basket cancer and he doesn't have it now because of the advances in science, and deborah has left this legacy of raising extraordinary amounts of money to ensure other people can get the treatment, and can get yours or things that will hold their cancer off, to let them live in the way that deborah lived, but unfortunately it was cut off for deborah. , , , ., ,, deborah. just remind us how your lives became _ deborah. just remind us how your lives became intertwined. - deborah. just remind us how your lives became intertwined. i - deborah. just remind us how your lives became intertwined. i got i lives became intertwined. i got abreast cancer _ lives became intertwined. i got abreast cancer diagnosis - lives became intertwined. i grrt abreast cancer diagnosis just before the first lockdown. i didn't really know anyone who had had cancer, i

knew about the bbc 5live podcast about it, i started googling, i had not previously spent much time and started following the presenters, of you me and the big c, and found this incredibly helpful and positive amazing resource of a community of people living with cancer not dying from cancer. deborah was one of those people. i work for panorama. i had surgery and treatment during the first lockdown. i was aware that other people were not so lucky, and i wanted to be able to do a programme for panorama about what was going on with cancer during covid so i got in touch with deborah through instagram, like a stalker! i have never done that before. i am a journalist. as a journalist you contact people but it felt a bit weird because it was quite personal. i contacted deborah and she got back to me so quickly, within about 20

minutes of me sending a message we were talking on the phone, in the afternoon in early march in 2020, and she said to me i will do a programme with you because she recognised it was a massive issue and that she had friends who were going to die, who died, three people we spoke to for that have died since, before now. she said i will do it but i don't want to be a victim and i said i don't want you to be a victim, i want you to be the reporter and she said, ok, cool. to be a victim, i want you to be the reporterand she said, ok, cool. she did not want to be treated like a victim. you have got cancer. it is actually quite normal. one in two of us get it. and deborah, she didn't want to be seen as somebody who was suffering with cancer, a victim of cancer any of those words, she wanted to be somebody who had cancer but they wanted to do something else, and she was massively into the science, and so enthusiastic and we

just became friends. we were doing a programme about cancer during covid, and we laughed so much. sorry, my voice went really high, then! we would so cancel one and two o'clock in the morning. just about things that were, we would one minute be talking on instagram or direct message then she would start talking to me on facebook messenger there on whatsapp, on text, all the same conversation but she was multitasking while we were talking. she was just bonkers and brilliant, i loved her, i love her, and i will do whatever i can now to keep my own small pathetic way, to keep her legacy going. i am nowhere near as an amazing woman, and she taught me so much about how to make the most out of it. she had a thing that she said to me and i'm sure lots of others, when you have got options, you have got hope, and deborahjust

wanted to have options and when the options ran out that was when it became devastating for her, and she has created a fund to make sure that other people have options, so they have hope, and that is a pretty awesome thing to have done, as she did. ., ~ awesome thing to have done, as she did. . ~ , ., awesome thing to have done, as she did. . ~ i. ., ., ~ ., awesome thing to have done, as she did. . ~ ., ., ~ ., , did. thank you for talking to us. bonkers did. thank you for talking to us. lbonkers and _ did. thank you for talking to us. bonkers and brilliant _ did. thank you for talking to us. bonkers and brilliant as - did. thank you for talking to us. bonkers and brilliant as a - did. thank you for talking to us. bonkers and brilliant as a fab i bonkers and brilliant as a fab tribute. thank you so much for that. we can speak now to the bbc�*s middle east editorjeremy bowen, who was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2019. lovely to see you, good to have you on. an immense number of tributes to her life and her impact and legacy. and lots focusing on this idea of talking about the taboo, being so important. talking about the taboo, being so im ortant. , ., ., talking about the taboo, being so imortant. , ., ., , important. yes, and the word she would use — important. yes, and the word she would use and _ important. yes, and the word she would use and that _ important. yes, and the word she would use and that i _

important. yes, and the word she would use and that i would - important. yes, and the word she would use and that i would use i important. yes, and the word she would use and that i would use is| would use and that i would use is to. one of the signs that you may have bowel cancer is if you find blood in your to. believe you me, if you end up with a diagnosis of bowel cancer, you have a great many discussions about that kind of thing, with nurses and doctors and you name it. but don't be embarrassed. it is the message that she had, and i would very much echo someone who has had bowel cancer, i have been in remission since i had surgery on a tumour, and i met deborah at the royal marsden hospital in london, a fabulous place, where we were both patients, and under the same consultant. and the thing about that hospital which is brilliant is that even though it is brilliant is that even though it is cancer, which is a horrible thing, it is almost quite a pleasure to go there. at least i have always

thought that. but, her message very much was, if you see anything that could be worrying like that, if you get blood in your poo, it might not be cancer, it might be piles, which is another to do, so go to the doctor, don't be embarrassed. and what happens is, they give you a little basin or tube, and you put a bit of it in there, and you know, pretty ghastly gathering and so on, and you put it in the box on the receptionist�*s cancer in my case, she said put it in the box, i can handle it myself, and then, they find something in it, they start the whole process with the colonoscopy, diagnosis, and the key messages, if you have it, if you get diagnosed early enough, that is it, they will kill you, you will not die. if you

don't get that diagnosis, then you might die. that is the thing to keep in your mind that should outweigh any kind of embarrassment about talking about bathroom issues. that is very powerful— talking about bathroom issues. that is very powerful and really important to hear. can i take you back to when you are having your diagnosis and going through it, the mental impact? it diagnosis and going through it, the mental impact?— mental impact? it was a bit weird because i didn't _ mental impact? it was a bit weird because i didn't have _ mental impact? it was a bit weird because i didn't have one - mental impact? it was a bit weird because i didn't have one of i mental impact? it was a bit weird | because i didn't have one of these moments were the doctor sets you down and says you have got bad news, have a cup of tea. i was actually a bit groggy, going in and out of semi consciousness, when i was having a colonoscopy, where they put a pipe up colonoscopy, where they put a pipe up your bottom with a camera attached to it. it sounds awful but if you have the sedation, it doesn't hurt, you don't feel anything. i was coming in and out of consciousness and i had one doctor say to another, that looks like cancer. so that is how i heard. it is not something anyone likes to have, and it was

alarming. i had surgery, which became a bit complicated, and while i was there, i will be quite honest, i was there, i will be quite honest, i had some long nights of the soul thinking i will not see my kids finishing school, or anything like that, but once the treatment is started and i had eight rounds of chemotherapy, again, that was not pleasant, but i think it did the job. and my mental attitude was, was always ok. i had a lot of faith in the doctors, a lot of faith in medical science. the doctors, a lot of faith in medicalscience. i the doctors, a lot of faith in medical science. i think they got it early enough. my cancer was stage three, and got into a few of my other glands, but should be ok, hopefully, and i am still in remission, so i get checked every six months, and while cancer is a terrible thing, they can do a lot,

and they can do much more, if you get to them early. that is the thing. look at the bowel cancer uk website, because it has got loads of very useful user—friendly information. i would very useful user—friendly information. iwould really recommend it. and the other thing is, i did not really have any symptoms. i had a bit of a family history. i said to the doctor i had some funny stomach pains but did not have the blood, and i said that the doctor i think i need to get a test and she agreed. i was getting to that age anyway but not the age well you automatically get a test. and so, i was fortunate, i think, fingers crossed. so, iwas fortunate, ithink, fingers crossed.— so, iwas fortunate, ithink, finaers crossed. , ., , , fingers crossed. jeremy, absolutely brilliant to have _ fingers crossed. jeremy, absolutely brilliant to have your _ fingers crossed. jeremy, absolutely brilliant to have your own, - fingers crossed. jeremy, absolutely brilliant to have your own, thank i brilliant to have your own, thank you for coming on and talking to me about poo, and deborah would be very pleased indeed! climate advisers have condemned the government for what they've described as a "shocking" lack of commitment to insulating people's homes.

the criticism was contained in the annual review of the climate change committee which has been looking at the progress of ministers in curbing harmful emissions. the government said the uk was "leading the world" on climate change. earlier i spoke to ami mccarthy, greenpeace uk's political campaigner, and she gave me her reaction to the report. i think it's ironic that the report is called a progress report when what it reveals is anything but progress from the government in making real steps towards reaching the targets that they set themselves, that need to be pursued for us to achieve net zero. what do you think they should be doing better? there's many things that the government needs to do better. i mean, straightaway, we need to be ensuring that we approve no new fossil fuels. and we need to start moving with speed towards a transition to reducing and eliminating oil and gas. we need to be hugely investing in energy efficiency, which will help right now

with the cost of living crisis, it's the fastest way to bring down bills. that means a huge national roll—out of things like insulation, double, triple glazing, to make our homes more energy—efficient, stop us wasting the energy that we are paying for, and we need a huge roll—out of renewable energy as well. we really need to be moving forward at speed and scale, take the shackles off the onshore renewable sector, and really start moving ahead. i want to go back to the first point you made about fossilfuels, and limiting them. i think there was a broad consensus on that, but the world has changed now, hasn't it, soaring inflation, rising costs, war in ukraine, post—pandemic, things have changed. it's now national security involved. can you accept that actually some people do want some allowances and a bit of a softening

of that position? sure, but the best way to improve our energy security is to be looking at renewable energy and actually investing in that at the scale that we should be. what if that cannot help people by this winter, if it is not enough to bring down prices or into next year? the way to bring down prices the fastest is to dramatically invest in energy efficiency and stop wasting so much energy. fossil fuels take years and years to come online, decades. they are the most expensive. we are currently importing hugely expensive oil and gas. if we just stop wasting so much energy through leaky roofs and, you know, old windows and things, then people's bills will come down straightaway. it is the fastest thing the government can do to really help people

through this cost of living crisis. thanks to emi mccarthy, speaking to me earlier. for many towns and villages, tourism is vital to the local economy — but it can come at a cost to those who live there. a bbc investigation has found that the number of holiday lets in england has risen by 40% in the past three years — and there are concerns residents are being pushed out of some areas as a result. helen catt reports now from north devon: they come to croyde for the sea, the sand and the surf. tourism isn'tjust welcome in north devon, it's vital. for us, it is everything. it is literally how we operate as a business. we pretty much only open through march till end of october and that is the tourist season. there is nothing here in winter, really. so it is the main time of year that everyone comes down. we welcome everyone down. the pandemic boosted staycationing in places like this, and the number of holiday lets has grown, too. by too much, say some locals. we've got holiday lets. it's a holiday let, holiday let.

if we are standing here, give me a sense of scale. looking down this road. looking down this road, you have three holiday lets there. there are a further two there. there is a further three right in front of us. wow, so that's in not a very large area. it sort of gives you an idea ofjust how bad things have got. charlotte grew up in the village of georgeham a mile or so from croyde. she and her children have moved back in with her parents because she can't find anywhere to rent. it does put a whole stop on your life. you can't plan anything. everything comes back to... well, we don't know where we are going to be living. so my children don't know where they are going to go to college. my youngest son, do you put him into nursery, do you not? i can't start back at work. charlotte's friend emma set up a campaign group after she, too, was served with a no—fault eviction notice. ijust think it's really unfair that

in an area where you have grown up and you have lived, been part of the community, you have been to school, all your friends and family are here, to feel that you are being pushed outjust so somebody can have a holiday, or that somebody can have a second home just doesn't really resonate as fair. and we have both said we understand that people want to move to the area. we understand that people want to have holidays, especially after being locked up after covid. but there has got to be a balance. figures obtained by the bbc show that here in north devon, the number of holiday lets went up by a third in a period of three years up to november last year. but this isn't just an issue facing the south west of england. other tourist hotspots across england are facing similar issues. in scarborough, which includes the resort of whitby, the number of holiday lets rose by 43%. on the isle of wight, the number went up by 39% and there have been significant rises in norfolk, including in great yarmouth, where there was an increase of 44%.

high saturations of holiday lets can also have a knock—on for local businesses, like here in keswick in the lake district. there aren't enough local people here to work in the businesses, because they can't live here. and if they can't live here, they can't work here. the community is crumbling and it's a crisis, it's a real crisis. the government is now launching a long promised call for evidence on the impact of holiday lets in england. there are many benefits to having more accommodation provision in uk. it's good for our tourism industry, there is a variety of accommodation offers there. but it can come with a downside, as well. so we want to get the right balance and one of the options is to licence accommodation, at one extreme. or, we could end up doing nothing. and we want to get the evidence base together in order to decide what to do. the challenge for ministers will be finding a balance between harnessing the economic benefits without communities feeling like they are being washed away.

airbnb is making its ban on parties — brought in during the pandemic — permanent. the company says the ban is effective against large or disruptive gatherings. aianb says more than 6,000 guests were suspended in 2021 because of the rule. millions of australian bees are in �*lockdown' because of an outbreak of a deadly parasite that's threatening to cost the honey industry tens of millions of dollars. the verroa destructor mites were first found at a port near sydney last week and have since been spotted in hives 100 kilometres away. keepers inside a new biosecurity zone will not be able to move hives, bees or honeycomb until further notice, while 400 hives within infested locations will be destroyed. australia was the only continent free of the varroa mites, which are the biggest threat to bees worldwide.

that's it from me, you can get me on social media. i am lewis vaughan jones. goodbye. hello again. we've seen some heavy rain overnight and first thing this morning across some parts of the country, and that is all courtesy of a weather front which is moving steadily eastwards. now, this second weather front following on behind is going to weaken, but it will still pep up the showers. so for wimbledon today, we're looking at the rain clearing, and then largely dry for the rest of the day. there's only a 5% risk of a shower in the afternoon. temperatures getting up to 22 celsius in light winds. that will feel quite pleasant. if we pick up that same—said weather front that is producing the rain, through the afternoon you can see where it is, and it is going to bring more rain in across the north—east of scotland. showers following on behind, some of which will be heavy and thundery, a lot of them will be in the north

and west, fewer in the south and east and in between we're looking at bright spells, or indeed some sunshine with temperatures between 15 to 23 celsius. pollen levels today are going to be high across much of england and wales, very high in east anglia and moderate across all of scotland and northern ireland. heading on through the evening and overnight, many of the showers will fade, but not all of them. cast your eye to what's happening in the south—east because we'll see some rain coming in through kent and east anglia for a time. if we follow this round, it is a weather front which will bring rain northwards, through northern england, into northern ireland and also scotland. it's not going to be a cold night, though, with all of this going on and tomorrow, all this rain, the showery rain pushes steadily northwards. on the southern side of it, we're looking at a mixture of sunshine and showers, perhaps the showers a bit more widespread tomorrow than today, and with the weather front close to east anglia and east of kent, we could well see a bit more cloud. temperatures down just a notch on today, as well, highs of 21. into friday, we still do have

this system with us, bringing some rain across the far north and east and behind it we're back into that dizzy cocktail of sunshine and showers or bright spells. it will be quite breezy, too, on friday with temperatures ranging between 1a and 22 celsius. thereafter, high pressure starts to build in and that doesn't mean it will be bone dry, especially not on saturday, there will be some showers around. but sunday looks like being the driest day of this weekend and as we head into the early part of next week, with high pressure

this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughanjones and these are the latest headlines at 11. �*inspirational and unfalteringly brave'— the duke and duchess of cambridge join those paying tribute to cancer campaigner, blogger and broadcaster dame deborah james, who died yesterday. she challenged taboos and changed the conversation around bowel cancer. one of the signs you may have it doesn't — one of the signs you may have it doesn't mean you have got it, but one of— doesn't mean you have got it, but one of the — doesn't mean you have got it, but one of the signs is if you find blood — one of the signs is if you find blood in _ one of the signs is if you find blood in your crew. some people get a bit embarrassed about talking about _ a bit embarrassed about talking about that.

crucial talks on the future direction of nato are getting under way in madrid — borisjohnson will call on his fellow leaders to increase their military spending. what we also need to do to make sure that we think about the lessons of the last few months and the need for nato to revise its posture. sophisticated criminals begin targeting people with cost of living scams as latest figures show £1.3 billion was stolen from people last year. a 29—year—old is charged with murdering 35—year—old zara aleena in east london as she walked home from a night out on sunday morning. her family have been paying tribute to her, saying she was pure of heart and a joy to all. a former white house aide gives damning testimony about donald trump's actions during the storming of the us capitol building last year, saying he knew people in the crowd were armed but he didn't care.

politicians, celebrities and charities have been paying tribute to the cancer campaigner, blogger and podcaster dame deborahjames, who has died of bowel cancer at the age of a0. the host of the "you, me and the big c" podcast — also known as "bowel babe" — was awarded a damehood in may, in recognition of her tireless fundraising. she had been receiving end—of—life care at home. jon kay reports. right to the very end of her life, dame deborahjames was determined to live every moment to the full. just a few weeks ago, she was at the chelsea flower show to see a rose that had been named after her. cheers! she wanted to make the very most of whatever time she had left.

in herfinal weeks, deborah published a book. she started a fund for cancer charities which has raised millions of pounds. she launched a range of clothes, with a rebellious hope t—shirt, that has raised money for charity. and then on father's day, she posted this image with the words, "my dad is brushing my hair because i have no strength any more". announcing her death last night, herfamily said... i was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer at the age of 35. we are actually talking about life and death here. it is heart—wrenching at times. come on, mummy, you can

go faster than that. so, i have the poo cancer. there's nothing pink about my cancer, it's just brown. so, i was pooing blood and eventually got diagnosed with a 6.5 centimetre tumour up my bum, basically. deborah was always honest and open about her cancer. she shared her every step of herjourney from endless rounds of chemotherapy to the terrible side—effects of the drug treatment she was on. but, through it all, she was determined to keep smiling, to keep dancing. # singing in the rain. our podcast is about living with cancer, right? and it is about showing life goes on. so if cancer wants me twirling around on the stage and wearing sequins and if it means i have to do treatment and train and dance, then, actually, that is what life is. let's dance through the rain. i love that saying,

dance through the rain. prime minister borisjohnson said... dame deborah leaves behind a large, loving family and two children. she says she was lucky to have five extra years to see them grow up. in herfinal days, she was surrounded by her family at her parents' home. and in her last interview she said she was convinced that new treatments will be found. cancer should become a chronic disease. i hope it will be in my kids' lifetime.come a chronic disease. but, i think, there are people doing amazing things and we need

to support them and fund them. deborah was made a dame last month. the award presented in person by prince william at her parents' home. dame deborah wrote her own epitaph. a message posted on social media last night. it said... the bbc�*s middle east editor jeremy bowen was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2019. he told me about the importance of being able to recognise those early signs of the disease.

one of the signs that you may have bowel cancer is if you find blood in your poo. believe you me, if you end up with a diagnosis of bowel cancer, you have a great many discussions about that kind of thing, with nurses and doctors and you name it. but don't be embarrassed. it is the message that she had, and i would very much echo as someone who has had bowel cancer, i have been in remission since i had surgery and chemo, and i met deborah at the royal marsden hospital in london, a fabulous place, where we were both patients, and under the same consultant. and the thing about that hospital which is brilliant is that even though it is cancer, which is a horrible thing, it is almost quite a pleasure to go there.

at least i have always thought that. but, her message very much was, if you see anything that could be worrying like that, if you get blood in your poo, it might not be cancer, it might be piles, which is another taboo, so go to the doctor, don't be embarrassed. and what happens is, they give you a little basin or tube, and you put a bit of it in there, and you know, pretty ghastly gathering it and so on, and you put it in the box on the receptionist�*s counter in my case, she said put it in the box, i can't handle it myself, and then, they find something in it, they start the whole process with the colonoscopy, diagnosis, and the key message is, if you have it, if you get

diagnosed early enough, that is it, they will cure you, you will not die. if you don't get that diagnosis, then you might die. that is the thing to keep in your mind that should outweigh any kind of embarrassment about talking about bathroom issues. that is very powerful and really important to hear. can i take you back to when you were having your diagnosis and going through it, the mental impact? it was a bit weird because i didn't have one of these moments were the doctor sits you down and says you have got bad news, have a cup of tea. i was actually a bit groggy, going in and out of semi consciousness, when i was having a colonoscopy, where they put a pipe up your bottom with a camera attached to it. it sounds awful but if you have the sedation, it doesn't hurt, you don't feel anything. i was coming in and out of consciousness and i had one doctor say to another, that looks like cancer. so that is how i heard.

it is not something anyone likes to have, and it was alarming. i had surgery, which became a bit complicated, and while i was there, i will be quite honest, i had some long nights of the soul thinking i will not see my kids finishing school, or anything like that, but once the treatments started and i had eight rounds of chemotherapy, again, that was not pleasant, but i think it did thejob. and my mental attitude was, was always ok. i had a lot of faith in the doctors, a lot of faith in medical science. i think they got it early enough. my cancer was stage three, and got into a few of my other glands, but should be ok, hopefully, and i am still in remission, so i get checked every six months, and while cancer is a terrible thing, they can do a lot,

and they can do much more, if you get to them early. that is the thing. look at the bowel cancer uk website, because it has got loads of very useful user—friendly information. i would really recommend it. and the other thing is, i did not really have any symptoms. i had a bit of a family history. i said to the doctor i had some funny stomach pains but did not have the blood, and i said that the doctor i think i need to get a test and she agreed. i was getting to that age anyway but not the age where you automatically get a test. and so, i was fortunate, i think, fingers crossed. iam very i am very used to speaking tojeremy about international affairs, so thank you to him for talking about his personal experience so candidly.

next we will go to ukraine. dramatic cctv images have emerged of the missile strike that destroyed a shopping centre in central ukraine. at least 18 people died in the attack in kremenchuk on monday afternoon. president zelensky — who released the footage — said it was an "act of state terrorism". joe inwood told us more from kyiv. if there was any doubt in people's minds about what happened in kremenchuk, this cctv probably eliminates it. when it is slowed down you can clearly see a cruise missile being fired and hitting a building at the back of the shops. when you compare it to satellite imagery you can see a number of features in the cctv that enable it to be geo—located, matched to the satellite imagery and it shows it was just out of the back of the amstor shopping centre so the suggestion that the russians have made that they hit a warehouse nearby storing western arms and munitions is disproved by the cctv footage.

ukrainians have maintained from the start that this is what happened, a direct strike from a missile that was responsible for the deaths of at least 18 people with many more still missing and many in hospital. president zelensky has said this was a terrorist act. and in his nightly address yesterday he called out to people he called propagandists who are helping to spread what he said was russian disinformation and it is clear in this instance that the russian claims that they did not hit the shopping centre, were not true. a website has been ordered to close. two days before rodrigo duterte i stepped down as president. the website has been trickle of his controversial war on drugs. we are

about to say goodbye to viewers on bbc two. coverage continues right now with me on the bbc news channel. other news channel, thank you for bearing with us. more money than ever before was stolen in 2021, according to figures released by the banking industry. £1.3 billion was stolen by criminals, which is an 8% increase from 2020. we can get more on this from our business and consumer correspondent colletta smith. what is going on here? new figures are out today _ what is going on here? new figures are out today looking _ what is going on here? new figures are out today looking at _ what is going on here? new figures are out today looking at last - what is going on here? new figures are out today looking at last year i are out today looking at last year stop activity across the banking sector last year. we have seen a record amount stolen from customers last year, £1.3 billion. we are

seeing two very different pictures across at. the banking industry have actually managed to clamp down on what they term unauthorised fraud. your bank details being stolen, perhaps your card being stolen, perhaps your card being stolen, perhaps your card being stolen, perhaps your login information being stolen and purchases made or money move from your account. that type of fraud has decreased, it has dropped by about 8% over the last year. what we have seen a massive increase in 39% increase, is what is known as authorised fraud. you might be scratching your head think and how could it be authorised, but it is a type of scam. effectively you are transferring euromoney to a criminal gang or some kind of criminal because they have congee. an example of what could happen, you get a text, may be a fake parcel delivery text, may be a fake parcel delivery text and you put in your name and postcode. maybe a week later you get

another call, somebody checking about the purchase you made, your most recent purchase, perhaps asking you to make a purchase. maybe you click on a buy one get one free offer and put in some bank details, even the name of your back. then a week later you get uncle from someone raving to be from your bank, i now have your name, the name of your bank, your postcode, your house address, they have a lot of information about you so they sound convincing on the phone. particularly if they say your account is under attack, we have noticed unusual activity. what you need to do is move money into a new account to keep it safe. a lot of people are falling for that. we are seeing a trend of more and more people pulling for effectively scams to save money because we are all under pressure financially at moments of the kind of scams that are saying click here for a buy one get one free or £50 off your next shopping bill, click here if you

haven't yet had your council tax rebate, that is all to glean information from us to then make a longer term scan. it is really interesting that these authorised scams are a long—term game for these, but can take a lot of money, and with victims of these kind of frauds, you're actually a lot less protected because you have made the transfer yourself, even though you didn't realise it was to a scammer, your bank doesn't have to legally give you that money back and people have been losing thousands and billions as we are seeing.- billions as we are seeing. thank ou. i billions as we are seeing. thank you- i band _ billions as we are seeing. thank you. i hand appreciated - billions as we are seeing. thank you. i hand appreciated that i billions as we are seeing. thank. you. i hand appreciated that before and it was interesting to see that step—by—step process of how they do it, a reminder we have three particular village out. thank you. a man has been charged with the murder of 35—year—old zara aleena in east london. jordan mcsweeny has also been charged with attempted rape and robbery, according to the metropolitan police. zara aleena was found suffering head injuries, in the early hours of sunday,

and died in hospital later that morning. in a tribute, herfamily described her as "a joy to all of us" and said their loss was "irreparable". they added that "women should be safe on our streets. she was in the heart of her community, 10 minutes from home." ghislaine maxwell — once a prominent figure in new york society circles — is facing 20 years in a us prison for trafficking young girls to be abused byjeffrey epstein. she issued a statement, apologising to her victims — but herfamily said she would appeal. our correspondent, nada tawfik, was in court. (tx a long—fought victory for annie farmer and all of ghislaine maxwell's victims. justice was slow. she was one of the earliest to report maxwell and the paedophile jeffrey epstein to police, in 1996. but today, annie said it was never too late for accountability. maxwell and epstein were predators who were able to use their power

and privilege to harm countless individuals, and for far too long, the institutions that should be protecting the public were instead protecting them. and i still hope that we find out more about how that was allowed to occur. maxwell did not look at her victims, but she did address them. she said she was sorry for the pain they had experienced. she also said her association with epstein, who she described as a manipulative, cunning man, was the greatest regret of her life. her statement felt like a very hollow apology to me. she did not take responsibility for the crimes that she committed and it felt like, once more, her trying to do something to benefit her and not at all about the harm that she had caused. the court allowed others who were not a part of the trial to also confront maxwell. the pain and anguish she caused was plain to see, as several accusers emotionally spoke about the lasting impact of her crimes, such as liz stein. she had a wonderful,

full, beautiful life. and so many of usjust didn't have a chance to have that. i think that the closure part of her sentencing is maybe the beginning for a lot of us to start having the life that we anticipated we might have if we had never met ghislaine maxwell and jeffrey epstein. the british daughter of the disgraced media tycoon robert maxwell ran in the most influential circles, rubbing elbows with presidents and princes. but in court, as she waited to hear her fate, she was supported byjust three members of her family. thejudge the judge rejected the defences claim that maxwell was being punished in epstein's plays and said her sentencing had to reflect the seriousness of her role and the horrific scheme. today is a major step towards justice and perhaps healing for the victims.

nada tawfik, bbc news, new york. now to the nato summit in madrid, where president biden has announced that the us will expand its military presence across europe, in response to russia's invasion of ukraine. he said us forces would be strengthened across land, air and sea, because president putin had shattered peace on the continent. world leaders — gathered to discuss the future direction of nato — have received a boost after turkey dropped its opposition to finland and sweden's membership bids. let's hear some of what president biden had to say. the united states will enhance our force posture in europe and respond to the changed security environment as well as strengthening our collective security. earlier this year, we surged 20,000 additional us forces to europe to bolster our lines in response to russia's aggressive move, bringing our force total in europe to 100,000. we are going to continue

to adjust our posture based on the threat in close consultation with our allies. here in spain, we are going to work with allies to increase us navy destroyer stations in spain's naval base from four to six destroyers. in poland we are going to establish a permanent headquarters for the us fifth army corps and strengthening our us nato interoperability across the entire eastern flank. we are going to maintain additional rotational brigades which is 3,000 freighters and another 2,000 personnel, a combat team here in europe headquartered in romania. and we are going to enhance our rotational deployments in the baltic states. and we are going to send two additional f35 squadrons to the uk and station additional air defence and other capabilities

in germany and italy. and together with our allies we are going to make sure that nato is ready to meet threats in all directions across every domain — land, airand sea. in a moment when president putin has shattered peace in europe and attacked the very tenants of rule based order the united states and our allies will step up, we are stepping up, we are proving that nato is more needed now than it ever has been and it's as important as it ever has been. the secretary—general of natojens stoltenberg says he expects swift ratification of sweden and finland's applications. he spoke as leaders gathered for the second day of the summit in madrid. we will make a decision today, or at least at the summit to invite finland and sweden to become members, that's unprecedented quick. i think you will hardly find any other accession process with so few weeks between the application that happened in mid—may

and the invitation, that will happen now. then of course, after the invitation we need the ratification process in 30 parliaments. that always take some time but i expect also that to go rather quickly because allies are ready to try to make that ratification process happen as quickly as possible. but, of course, i cannot promise anything on behalf of 30 parliaments, they have to make those decisions themselves. borisjohnson said the unity among leaders in madrid represented a warning to russia. if vladimir putin was hoping that he would be getting less nato on his western front as a result of his unprovoked, illegal invasion of ukraine, he has been proved completely wrong, he's getting more nato. this is a historic summit in many ways, but we have already got two new members coming in, finland and sweden. a huge step forward

for our alliance. mark lowen is standing by for us in madrid. firstjohnson use the word historic they already and it certainly is. by, historic they already and it certainly is.— historic they already and it certainl is. �* ., ., certainly is. a ma'or achievement for nato certainly is. a ma'or achievement forman— certainly is. a ma'or achievement for nate to be — certainly is. a major achievement for nato to be able _ certainly is. a major achievement for nato to be able to _ certainly is. a major achievement for nato to be able to get - certainly is. a major achievement for nato to be able to get finland and sweden tojoin for nato to be able to get finland and sweden to join the alliance after turkey lifted its veto like last night. turkey had objected to finland and sweden's membership saying they were countries harbouring terrorists, but doctor a trilateral memorandum of understanding for both countries saying they were going to clampdown on illness of the pkk, the band kurdish militant group 30 glimpses being safe passage and safe asylum in finland and sweden, but also talk of extraditing some opposition activists, some 30 claims are terrors both countries that there

will be part potentially of some kind of exhibition procedure in the coming weeks and months. that is a major achievement that nato will now be able to bolster its northern flank, and finland and sweden providing some level of security i think is nato members for the baltic countries, estonia, latvia and little when you're that feel very much in the cross hairs of russian aggression. —— lithuania. in terms of the view from moscow, whether russia is feeling threatened potentially by nato expansion, let's discuss that now with a professor at johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. thank you for being with us. to what extent is this a bloody nose or threat or danger for this a bloody nose or threat or dangerfor president this a bloody nose or threat or danger for president putin, that he went into ukraine trying to stop nato expansion and taxi what he has got is quite the opposite with two new members about the joint? it new members about the joint? it seems i could use strategic defeat for russia — seems i could use strategic defeat for russia. you have to remember

that now— for russia. you have to remember that now this enlarged nato will be spending _ that now this enlarged nato will be spending much more on the military and in _ spending much more on the military and in fact— spending much more on the military and in fact outspending russia by a wide margin, so in the geopolitical global— wide margin, so in the geopolitical global strategic perspective that looks— global strategic perspective that looks like a huge blunder, i don't looks like a huge blunder, idon't think— looks like a huge blunder, i don't think find — looks like a huge blunder, i don't think find anybody in the russian strategic— think find anybody in the russian strategic community who will think otherwise — strategic community who will think otherwise. howeveryou strategic community who will think otherwise. however you have to remember— otherwise. however you have to remember they will also now uses alleged _ remember they will also now uses alleged threat of nato enlargement that led _ alleged threat of nato enlargement that led to is becoming more powerful— that led to is becoming more powerful to justify that led to is becoming more powerful tojustify their war that led to is becoming more powerful to justify their war in ukraine — powerful to justify their war in ukraine because they will say they have always said nato is a threat and now — have always said nato is a threat and now they are helping ukraine and therefore _ and now they are helping ukraine and therefore it— and now they are helping ukraine and therefore it is an extensional comfort— therefore it is an extensional comfort for russia so they're getting — comfort for russia so they're getting propaganda points out of this in— getting propaganda points out of this in order to bolster support for the war— this in order to bolster support for the war among the russian public. i the war among the russian public. suppose the war among the russian public. i suppose notjustjustify the war among the russian public. i suppose not just justify the actions suppose notjustjustify the actions in ukraine butjustifying beeping up their borders as well. with nato countries. the border between nato and russia is doubling with the

accession of finland and i saw before president dmitry medvedev is said russia should now station ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons on the border. feeding into the narrative that russia is trying to protect itself from an aggressive alliance. b. to protect itself from an aggressive alliance. �* ~ , , ., . alliance. a regime like russia which doesnt alliance. a regime like russia which doesn't have _ alliance. a regime like russia which doesn't have any _ alliance. a regime like russia which doesn't have any democratic- doesn't have any democratic legitimacy has to legitimate dies itself— legitimacy has to legitimate dies itself somehow, so they do it through— itself somehow, so they do it through that thread, i see nato as a threat _ through that thread, i see nato as a threat and _ through that thread, i see nato as a threat and therefore you the russian peopie _ threat and therefore you the russian people have to tolerate repressive government and tolerate the fact that instead of investing in hospitals and schools you will be investing — hospitals and schools you will be investing into our military, so this is basically— investing into our military, so this is basically what is happening in russia _ is basically what is happening in russia today, but these were arrested _ russia today, but these were arrested and —— bad news for russia. it is arrested and —— bad news for russia. it is the _ arrested and —— bad news for russia. it is the result— arrested and —— bad news for russia. it is the result of the russian invasion— it is the result of the russian invasion of ukraine. we it is the result of the russian invasion of ukraine.- it is the result of the russian invasion of ukraine. we are into the fifth month — invasion of ukraine. we are into the fifth month already _ invasion of ukraine. we are into the fifth month already of _ invasion of ukraine. we are into the fifth month already of russia's i fifth month already of russia's

invasion of ukraine. to what extent do you feel russia has had a major setback in terms of having to scale back its objectives as to what extent is that feeling into internal dissent at the highest echelons of the criminal?— the criminal? sadly it has not -- the criminal? sadly it has not -- the kremlin. _ the criminal? sadly it has not -- the kremlin. it _ the criminal? sadly it has not -- the kremlin. it hasn't _ the criminal? sadly it has not -- the kremlin. it hasn't affected . the criminal? sadly it has not -- i the kremlin. it hasn't affected the situation — the kremlin. it hasn't affected the situation that much. i'm sure there are a _ situation that much. i'm sure there are a lot _ situation that much. i'm sure there are a lot of— situation that much. i'm sure there are a lot of people in moscow who are a lot of people in moscow who are thinking this is crazy, but we thought— are thinking this is crazy, but we thought it — are thinking this is crazy, but we thought it was crazy, and they were approved _ thought it was crazy, and they were approved of this. however once the war began— approved of this. however once the war began there was a tendency to rally around the flag, to consolidate, and we have seen there's— consolidate, and we have seen there's not been a single high—level defection— there's not been a single high—level defection from the russian government, from the russian political— government, from the russian political elite, therefore the political elite, therefore the political elite, therefore the political elite is united at least in theory— political elite is united at least in theory publicly around putin and there _ in theory publicly around putin and there is— in theory publicly around putin and there is also considerable public support— there is also considerable public support but there is largely because the russian people do not know the truth about this war, they are being spoon-fed — truth about this war, they are being spoon—fed propaganda on tv and buying _ spoon—fed propaganda on tv and buying into it sadly. you

spoon-fed propaganda on tv and buying into it sadly.— spoon-fed propaganda on tv and buying into it sadly. you talk about rall in: buying into it sadly. you talk about rallying around _ buying into it sadly. you talk about rallying around the _ buying into it sadly. you talk about rallying around the flag. _ buying into it sadly. you talk about rallying around the flag. from i buying into it sadly. you talk about| rallying around the flag. from what you have seen from the russian media and russian comments, tv talk shows etc, what do you discern now is the actual aim of president putin, will it be to try to live off the dom bessin it be to try to live off the dom bess in eastern ukraine or carry on pushing further to make a renewed pushing further to make a renewed push into western ukraine, what is yoursense push into western ukraine, what is your sense of his renewed endgame? his aims are changing. his initial aim was— his aims are changing. his initial aim wasto— his aims are changing. his initial aim was to topple the ukrainian government and that proved unsuccessful so he tried to move the full narrative towards consolidation of russian — full narrative towards consolidation of russian position in the donbas, and they— of russian position in the donbas, and they are surely moving forward so they— and they are surely moving forward so they are — and they are surely moving forward so they are edging forward, the war in the _ so they are edging forward, the war in the dom — so they are edging forward, the war in the dom bess will continue despite — in the dom bess will continue despite nato, almost not related to what is _ despite nato, almost not related to what is happening. they are fighting, _ what is happening. they are fighting, the ground were there, and you might _ fighting, the ground were there, and you might say they are winning or

stalemate, — you might say they are winning or stalemate, but they are also going to see _ stalemate, but they are also going to see how— stalemate, but they are also going to see how our weapons that are being _ to see how our weapons that are being sent — to see how our weapons that are being sent to ukraine might change the situation for the end of the summers — the situation for the end of the summers of ukrainians are able to undertake— summers of ukrainians are able to undertake a counteroffensive and push _ undertake a counteroffensive and push the — undertake a counteroffensive and push the russians back. then i think putin— push the russians back. then i think putin may— push the russians back. then i think putin may have to rethink the full endgame — putin may have to rethink the full endgame scenario. i think for now is endgame _ endgame scenario. i think for now is endgame remains to consolidate russian — endgame remains to consolidate russian control over donbas as the medium—term gain. russian control over donbas as the medium-term gain.— russian control over donbas as the medium-term gain. thank you very much for your— medium-term gain. thank you very much for your thoughts. _ medium-term gain. thank you very much for your thoughts. talking i much for your thoughts. talking about the potential more weapon exports to ukraine, certainly what volodymyr zelensky will be pushing for when he addresses this nato summit by video like this afternoon stepped you get the sense that this alliance has been reinvigorated by the russian war in ukraine and alliance of the years old president macron was nothing as brain—dead, has now found certainly it's red on

tetra, certainly in this support ukraine and the international order and it has banned think it is against, president putin and his russia. plenty more to come from here on the nato summit in madrid open its couple of days but i will hand you back to studio.- open its couple of days but i will hand you back to studio. for many towns and villages, tourism is vital to the local economy — but it can come at a cost to those who live there. a bbc investigation has found the number of holiday lets in england has risen by 40% in the past three years — and there are concerns residents are being pushed out. jill williams is a labour councillor for east brighton and sits on the housing committee. good morning. we know the scale of the problem, we know the scale of the problem, we

know how areas need tourism and you want to be open and welcoming, but you have to look after people who want to live there as well. what do you want to do about it?— want to live there as well. what do you want to do about it? there needs to be a balance _ you want to do about it? there needs to be a balance struck. _ you want to do about it? there needs to be a balance struck. we _ you want to do about it? there needs to be a balance struck. we know i you want to do about it? there needs to be a balance struck. we know the l to be a balance struck. we know the lack of control on second homes in the investment market is a major contributor to a lack of affordable homes in our city and across the country. what i want to do is impose a ban on selling second homes for new developments. what we will do is impose a planning condition that you can only sell to people who want to live in the homes as a principal residence. live in the homes as a principal residence-— live in the homes as a principal residence. . , . ., ., ., , residence. that is an idea that has some objections. _ residence. that is an idea that has some objections. what _ residence. that is an idea that has some objections. what it - residence. that is an idea that has some objections. what it then i residence. that is an idea that has l some objections. what it then does is put the focus on old homes and the prices of those go up.- is put the focus on old homes and the prices of those go up. there is no evidence _ the prices of those go up. there is no evidence to _ the prices of those go up. there is no evidence to back— the prices of those go up. there is no evidence to back that _ the prices of those go up. there is no evidence to back that up i the prices of those go up. there is no evidence to back that up but i the prices of those go up. there is| no evidence to back that up but the focus often is on the mark—up on properties is on these new developments to investors and that is what we want to contend with here. ~ .,

is what we want to contend with here. ~ . , ., is what we want to contend with here. ~ . ,, ~' is what we want to contend with here. ~ ., ~ . ., . , ., here. what you think the chances are of this happening? _ here. what you think the chances are of this happening? i _ here. what you think the chances are of this happening? i am _ here. what you think the chances are of this happening? i am very - here. what you think the chances are of this happening? i am very hopeful| of this happening? i am very hopeful because i of this happening? i am very hopeful because i know _ of this happening? i am very hopeful because i know a _ of this happening? i am very hopeful because i know a lot _ of this happening? i am very hopeful because i know a lot of _ of this happening? i am very hopeful because i know a lot of people i of this happening? i am very hopeful because i know a lot of people that l because i know a lot of people that i am speaking to in our city are favour of it. if i am speaking to in our city are favour of it.— i am speaking to in our city are favour of it. if it does come into force, favour of it. if it does come into force. are _ favour of it. if it does come into force. are you _ favour of it. if it does come into force, are you seeing _ favour of it. if it does come into force, are you seeing this i favour of it. if it does come into force, are you seeing this as i favour of it. if it does come into i force, are you seeing this as some kind of model? you would like to see this across the uk? i kind of model? you would like to see this across the uk?— this across the uk? i absolutely do. what it will — this across the uk? i absolutely do. what it will do — this across the uk? i absolutely do. what it will do for _ this across the uk? i absolutely do. what it will do for our _ this across the uk? i absolutely do. what it will do for our city _ this across the uk? i absolutely do. what it will do for our city is - what it will do for our city is drive down the price of land so we can afford to build more social housing on there. ear; can afford to build more social housing on there.— can afford to build more social housing on there. say it doesn't work or it _ housing on there. say it doesn't work or it does _ housing on there. say it doesn't work or it does work _ housing on there. say it doesn't work or it does work but - housing on there. say it doesn't| work or it does work but doesn't have a huge impact, what else is there? what else can you do? what have a huge impact, what else is there? what else can you do? what we can do is lobby — there? what else can you do? what we can do is lobby the _ there? what else can you do? what we can do is lobby the government - there? what else can you do? what we can do is lobby the government to i can do is lobby the government to end the right to buy. we are hopeful with the new white paper there will be more renters rights. this will help the economy and help people being able to stay in our city and fill all the empty vacancies we have around. if fill all the empty vacancies we have around. ., fill all the empty vacancies we have around. . , ., , ., fill all the empty vacancies we have around. . , ., , around. if that proposal comes throu~h around. if that proposal comes through we _ around. if that proposal comes through we will— around. if that proposal comes through we will be _ around. if that proposal comes through we will be back - around. if that proposal comes

through we will be back with i around. if that proposal comes i through we will be back with you and we will see how it works out. thank you for talking to us. time now for the sport. we're only on day three of wimbledon but already there is plenty to cheer for the brits at this years' championships. nine british players through to the second round of the singles, that's the most for a generation, and with harriet dart playing shortly, that number could rise to ten which would be the most since 1984. dart takes on the spanish player rebeka masarova on court 12 very shortly. we have a bit of a rain delay which are causing some issues. this is where ryan peniston should be taking on stevejohnson in what would be his second round match. this is number three court. there has been a rain delay until at least 12

o'clock. the good news is that it shouldn't affect centre kof which does have a roof. hopefully play will get under way this afternoon. hopefully emma raducanu will take on caroline garcia on centre court. before andy murray takes on the big serving john isner. also in action is cameron norrie as is heather watson. she will play china's wang qiang. yesterday was a very emotional victory for watson. she had to return to play the final set but was in fine form when she did — taking it 6—2. these are the moments that you dream of as a little girl. i don't know why i'm getting emotional... cheering. i think i'vejust cheering. i think i've just had cheering. i think i'vejust had a cheering. i think i've just had a really rough couple of years like so many people

have. this means a lot. so this how centre court is shaping up today, what a line—up. the big three from monday. novak djokovic gets things under way against thanasi kokkinakis, and then emma raducanu against garcia and andy murray against isnerfor a place in the third round. one of the big talking points of the day at the all england club is the future of serena williams. she's been out of the game for almost a year but returned in the singles yesterday only to be beaten in her opening match by france's harmony tan. she lost in a gripping three—set match and the 23—time grand slam winner, who is now 40, says she is unsure whether she will play at wimbledon again. i don't know. i mean, obviously, the summer's, we're in the summer now and so, right in the swing of it. like i said coming into this, i'm just planning for right now and see how i feel and just to go from there.

away from wimbledon, at taunton, it's day three of englands women one—off test against south africa. england resumed on 328 — six this morning in reply to south africas 284 all out. they've now moved on to 351—6, nat sciver is still at the crease. she is now passed 130 so an excellent start for england. in rugby union, ireland's tour of new zealand didn't get off to the best start — as they were well beaten by the maori all blacks in hamilton. it was a one—sided first half in which the hosts scored four tries to ireland's one, to open up a 22—point advantage. it ended 32—17 to the maoris with ireland also losing james hume and cian healy to second—half injuries. the first test against new zealand is on saturday in auckland. and in football, wsl side manchester city have signed australia striker mary fowler

from montpellier on a four—year deal. more on that and the latest from wimbledon over on the website. all the action from every court is available to you on bbc sport website and app. that's bbc.co.uk/sport that's all from me. politics is coming up. what are we looking at, 20 minutes or so, coming up. what are we looking at, 20 minutes orso, prime coming up. what are we looking at, 20 minutes or so, prime minister's questions live from the house of commons. we will bring you coverage of that, so do stay with us. lots of big issues to be tackled there. speaking of big political issues, scotland. nicola sturgeon's scotland. nicola stu rgeon's announcement scotland. nicola sturgeon's announcement that she wants a second independence referendum yesterday. she gave us a date, she wants it to be held in october next year, 2023. let's see how that has gone down.

lorna gordon is there. what is the fallout from that? the lorna gordon is there. what is the fallout from that?— lorna gordon is there. what is the fallout from that? the uk government is sa in: it fallout from that? the uk government is saying it will — fallout from that? the uk government is saying it will examine _ fallout from that? the uk government is saying it will examine the _ fallout from that? the uk government is saying it will examine the first i is saying it will examine the first minister's proposals. it is reiterating its position which is now is not the time and it is emphasising it is clear in its constitution is reserved to westminster. in terms of the practicalities of what nicola sturgeon would like to see happen, we are in a holding pattern for the next few weeks and months. holyrood breaks for the summer recess after tomorrow. the supreme court has a full docket. there is speculation that perhaps it might, the hearing in front of the supreme court judges, if it goes ahead, will perhaps be september or october but it isn't scheduled yet, a date has

yet to be set. but before that the court has to accept the reference in the first place. nicola sturgeon has this three—pronged approach that she is now going to take in terms of trying to have a second independence referendum, the first is asking the prime ministerfor a referendum, the first is asking the prime minister for a section 30 order, that will pass the powers to the scottish parliament to hold another referendum. that seems unlikely to happen. the second is the supreme court part where she wants thejudges to the supreme court part where she wants the judges to rule on the legality of another referendum, because as the first minister says, in her opinion, legality must be clear and beyond doubt. it is absolutely fundamental that a referendum must be lawful. i think that is a matter of principle but it's also a matter of practical reality. an unlawful referendum would not deliver its purpose, probably would not even be deliverable. so i am acting in a responsible way, respecting the rule of law,

asking the supreme court to put this matter beyond legal doubt. i hope we get an outcome from the supreme court that allows us to take forward a referendum on the timescale i set out yesterday and have that on the 19th of october next year. the first minister has said that if the supreme court did go to a hearing and it ruled in the scottish government's favour, they would move to pass the 5—page referendum bill very quickly and move forward on its plans for a referendum in october of 2023, which would be nine years, one month and one day since the last one. if they didn't rule in favour of the scottish government's plans for the second independence referendum, herthird for the second independence referendum, her third strategy would be to make the next general election a de facto referendum on scottish

independence. she would like it to be a single issue general election but there are many unanswered questions about how that would work if it were to come to that. what with the mandate entail? there has been some confusion this morning. would it be the number of mps in favour of independence or against? would it be the number of votes cast and we've had some confusion over that this morning. john swinney, who was her deputy, issuing clarifications on twitter about what the scottish government see that mandate as being. other people, other sides in this debate, the uk government would have a doubt on that too undoubtedly and even if the pro—independent side, if an agreement was reached on what a mandate would entail, if all sides agreed on that, of course if a pro—independence majority were reached, a mandate was given, you would still have to have the uk government agree to negotiations

there after. going back to that question and that quote from nicola sturgeon there, she wants the legality of any referendum and any result to be beyond doubt because she wants it recognised by an international community. the number of children in england seeking special educational needs and disability support from councils has risen by nearly a quarter in a year according to the local government association. the lga has called for emergency action to ensure rising demand for support is met, and that government needs to resolve let's speak to counsel at anntoinette bramble. what are you calling for exactly? what do you want? ~ ., .., calling for exactly? what do you want? . . .., ., want? we are calling for the government _ want? we are calling for the government to _ want? we are calling for the government to scrap - want? we are calling for the government to scrap the i want? we are calling for the government to scrap the £1| want? we are calling for the i government to scrap the £1 billion deficit that councils have stacked

up, that is spiralling out of control, which is now affecting special educational needs. finances are re special educational needs. finances are pretty tight- _ special educational needs. finances are pretty fight i— special educational needs. finances are pretty tight. i appreciate - special educational needs. finances are pretty tight. i appreciate that i are pretty tight. i appreciate that but looking _ are pretty tight. i appreciate that but looking after _ are pretty tight. i appreciate that but looking after children - are pretty tight. i appreciate that but looking after children and i are pretty tight. i appreciate that i but looking after children and young people, providing the support they need is one of the most important things we do as a council. councils up things we do as a council. councils up and down the country are working hard to ensure we are part of giving children and young people the best start in life, but the reforms, while we welcome the reforms the government are trying to put in place, they are not working. we welcome the change brought into children, so children at a young age can get a plan, what the government didn't do is factor in the additional costs that would entail. so you have more children competing for the same part of money for even longer. children historically that

would have left not having a plan now getting up to 25. those children are coming back into the system and needing support, that is right but you need the additional funding and thatis you need the additional funding and that is not in place. flan you need the additional funding and that is not in place.— that is not in place. can you talk us through _ that is not in place. can you talk us through what _ that is not in place. can you talk us through what special - that is not in place. can you talk i us through what special educational needs and disability support is and why it is important? by, needs and disability support is and why it is important?— needs and disability support is and why it is important? a young person nets why it is important? a young person gets assessed _ why it is important? a young person gets assessed and _ why it is important? a young person gets assessed and depending i why it is important? a young person gets assessed and depending on i why it is important? a young person i gets assessed and depending on what that assessment identifies, a young person has support package in need. it could be speech therapy, speech and language therapy, it could be a one—to—one support worker, it could be working in a language group with a group of children. it's understand what that child will need to thrive in their environment which is absolutely the right thing to do. there is a missed opportunity from government with not incentivising mainstream schools to support children with special educational needs. lots of children are going

out to specialist schools, which is fine if that is right for that child, but actually schools are incentivised in a better way more children with special educational needs because they have mainstream provision. just needs because they have mainstream rovision, , ., , , needs because they have mainstream rovision, , . , , ., needs because they have mainstream rovision. , , ., ., provision. just lastly, what do you think the chances _ provision. just lastly, what do you think the chances are _ provision. just lastly, what do you think the chances are at _ provision. just lastly, what do you think the chances are at the i provision. just lastly, what do you i think the chances are at the moment of getting the fix you want? we think the chances are at the moment of getting the fix you want?- of getting the fix you want? we are meetin: of getting the fix you want? we are meeting here _ of getting the fix you want? we are meeting here today _ of getting the fix you want? we are meeting here today in _ of getting the fix you want? we are meeting here today in harrowgatel of getting the fix you want? we are l meeting here today in harrowgate at the local government association to talk about the special educational needs reforms and we will continue to lobby government until we get the funding and the right reforms in the system that do the best for our children and young people. we have to work with parents and we have to build back the trust in parents so they can trust the system to ensure their children get the support that they notjust need but actually deserve. they not 'ust need but actually deserve. , ., ., ., they not 'ust need but actually deserve. ., ., ., ., they not 'ust need but actually deserve. ., ., . ., ., ,, deserve. great to have you on. thank ou for deserve. great to have you on. thank you for giving — deserve. great to have you on. thank you for giving us _ deserve. great to have you on. thank you for giving us your _ deserve. great to have you on. thank you for giving us your time. _ climate advisers have condemned the government for what they've described as a "shocking" lack

of commitment to insulating people's homes. the criticism was contained in the annual review of the climate change committee, which has been looking at the progress of ministers in curbing harmful emissions. the government said the uk was "leading the world" on climate change. earlier i spoke to ami mccarthy, greenpeace uk's political campaigner, and she gave me her reaction to the report. i think it's ironic that the report is called a progress report when what it reveals is anything but progress from the government in making real steps towards reaching the targets that they set themselves, that need to be pursued for us to achieve net zero. what do you think they should be doing better? there's many things that the government needs to do better. i mean, straightaway, we need to be ensuring that we approve no new fossil fuels. and we need to start moving with speed towards a transition to reducing and eliminating oil and gas. we need to be hugely investing

in energy efficiency, which will help right now with the cost of living crisis, it's the fastest way to bring down bills. that means a huge national roll—out of things like insulation, double, triple glazing, to make our homes more energy efficient, stop us wasting the energy that we are paying for, and we need a huge roll—out of renewable energy as well. we really need to be moving forward at speed and scale, take the shackles off the onshore renewable sector, and really start moving ahead. i want to go back to the first point you made about fossil fuels and limiting them. i think there was a broad consensus on that, but the world has changed now, hasn't it, soaring inflation, rising costs, war in ukraine, post—pandemic, things have changed. it's now a national security involved. can you accept that actually some people do want some allowances

and a bit of a softening of that position? sure, but the best way to improve our energy security is to be looking at renewable energy and actually investing in that at the scale that we should be. what if that cannot help people by this winter, if it is not enough to bring down prices or into next year? the way to bring down prices the fastest is to dramatically invest in energy efficiency and stop wasting so much energy. fossil fuels take years and years to come online, decades. they are the most expensive. we are currently importing hugely expensive oil and gas. if we just stop wasting so much energy through leaky roofs and, you know, old windows and things, then people's bills will come down straightaway.

it is the fastest thing the government can do to really help people through this cost of living crisis. the government is due to publish its white paper outlining new reforms to the gambling industry in the coming weeks. it's expected to include new restrictions on the industry to tackle the rapid rise in online betting. measures are likely to include maximum stakes for online casinos, affordability checks and new powers for the gambling commission. welljoining me now is the ceo of the safe online gambling group, adam bradford. good morning. good morning. what do ou make good morning. good morning. what do you make of — good morning. good morning. what do you make of the _ good morning. good morning. what do you make of the various _ good morning. good morning. what do you make of the various proposals? i you make of the various proposals? what are you hoping? i you make of the various proposals? what are you hoping?— you make of the various proposals? what are you hoping? i think some of these are quite _ what are you hoping? i think some of these are quite sensible. _ what are you hoping? i think some of these are quite sensible. i _ what are you hoping? i think some of these are quite sensible. i think i these are quite sensible. i think actually they could have come around actually they could have come around a long time ago, things like affordability checks. why would you not want to check the amount someone is gambling is affordable when it is

so easy to place a bet using a credit card at the moment? things like that are good. just credit card at the moment? things like that are good.— like that are good. just to clarify, how would _ like that are good. just to clarify, how would that _ like that are good. just to clarify, how would that work, _ like that are good. just to clarify, how would that work, and - how would that work, and affordability chat?- how would that work, and affordability chat? they are supposed _ affordability chat? they are supposed to _ affordability chat? they are supposed to be _ affordability chat? they are supposed to be parts i affordability chat? they are supposed to be parts of- affordability chat? they are supposed to be parts of it i affordability chat? they are - supposed to be parts of it happening now but actually it's looking at where is the money coming from, how much does that person and? if they are a big spender with these websites in particular, is only right for the companies to do their due diligence, particularly when the technology is now available to look at patterns of someone's behaviour online. if someone is spending a lot late at night or is going on a big increase, we are saying that is the responsible thing for companies to do, to intervene at that point, try and support someone if they need it. what about other measures you would like to see? i what about other measures you would like to see? ~ ., what about other measures you would like to see? ~ . . ., , like to see? i think a decrease in advertising- _ like to see? i think a decrease in advertising- i— like to see? i think a decrease in advertising. i don't _ like to see? i think a decrease in advertising. i don't think - like to see? i think a decrease in advertising. i don't think a i

like to see? i think a decrease in advertising. i don't think a totall advertising. i don't think a total ban is quite the right way to go. especially if we are looking at things like football and sponsorships. that is heavily viewed by young people which is of a particular concern given that there are 55,000 young people currently said to be addicted to gambling, some of which under age. i think when we look at what the government is talking about in terms of the stake limits, i am not convinced that a steak limit on online casino games is the right way to go. i think if we are living in a free and fair society, think if we are living in a free and fairsociety, it think if we are living in a free and fair society, it is up to you what you spend but if those companies do spot that you are playing in an irregular way or spending more than usual, it is right that these affordability checks come in. in all i'm very happy that this is coming through but i am disappointed that we are having these continual delays to the paper, because even from our own experience with our families,

turmoil with gambling addiction, every day that these new measures are not coming into place, those people are being harmed. fin are not coming into place, those people are being harmed. on those --eole people are being harmed. on those peeple that — people are being harmed. on those peeple that have — people are being harmed. on those people that have been _ people are being harmed. on those people that have been harmed, - people are being harmed. on those| people that have been harmed, how big, how serious is the problem as things stand right now? we big, how serious is the problem as things stand right now?— things stand right now? we still don't have _ things stand right now? we still don't have a _ things stand right now? we still don't have a proper— things stand right now? we still don't have a proper grasp - things stand right now? we still don't have a proper grasp of - things stand right now? we still i don't have a proper grasp of what that figure is as to how many people in this country have a problem with gambling, but it is said to be something around 400,000. depending on what figures you look at, may be less, may more. i think what we do know in terms of the level of harm, the is a lot more stories now are people who have been very seriously affected in terms of ending up in prison, some people tragically taking their own lives. there are lots of side effects to this. unfortunately there is always going to be a level of people who have a

problem with gambling and i hope some of this legislation will provide better support to them. adam, thank you so much for coming on and talking us through that. really appreciate your time. more than 100 people have died in floods in bangladesh, after some of the heaviest rains in a century. aid agencies are warning millions of people are still in desperate need of aid and shelter. the bangladeshi community in the uk has been helping with those efforts as the bbc asian network's nadia ali reports. south asia always experiences downpours during monsoon season, but this year the flooding has been extreme, especially in bangladesh. thousands of people across bangladesh have been affected by raging floods and landslides. many people are still stranded and in desperate need of fresh food and water. sylhet is the worst affected area. there is estimated to be over half

a million bangladeshis in the uk, with a large amount coming from the sylhet district. i went out and spoke to one who was in sylhet just over a week ago, to find out how this has affected him and his family. you've just recently come back from bangladesh. how was your experience? what did you see? occasionally, we have floods in the uk. what i have seen there, entire areas, entire communities. the water doesn't discriminate the rich or the poor. i, myself, ijust couldn't handle it. family members didn't have a home to live in. but you can see the worry in these family members' faces and the neighbours' faces. they were losing everything. homes and livelihoods left submerged after excessive downfalls.

many have lost their loved ones, and people are still missing. most people are trying to find shelter in schools and hospitals. relief workers are trying their best to provide food and clean water. at this moment in time, the most emergency and urgent need is just to try and get people some food. there are many people that we have been distributing to in the last one or two days that simply haven't eaten for about nine days. people now don't have anywhere to go to the toilet as well, and so what ends up happening is the open water becomes a defecation cesspit, almost. the flooding has proven to be damaging and deadly, and with the fear of this getting worse, the people of bangladesh are facing an uncertain future. nadia ali, bbc news. we'll be going to the house of commons shortly for prime minister's questions —

but first let's speak to our political correspondent, jonathan blake. jonathan, change of the team sheets. yes, an unfamiliar prime minister's questions today with the deputies standing in for their bosses. it will be deputy labour leader angela rayner asking the questions of the deputy prime minister done the —— dominic raab. prime minister's questions might not provide the main political headlines of the day, nevertheless it will be an interesting affair to watch. these two have met each other at least a couple of times before at the dispatch box. dominic raab, not one of parliament's big performers but angela rayner quite the contrast to that really. a relatively fiery parliamentarian who is pretty plain

speaking and not afraid to make jokes at her opponent's expense. we will have to see what the substance is, never mind the style of this prime minister �*s question session. any number of topics which labour may choose to focus on today. of course the recent rail strikes is something angela rayner said she supported. having said the workers were left with no option but to take industrial action. we have had by—elections in the last week or so. the conservatives are losing out to labour in wakefield and the liberal democrats are down in tiverton and honiton, so maybe that will crop up. but as i say, the main political action elsewhere from westminster today but an opportunity for angela rayner to press dominic raab on the government's policies. the rayner to press dominic raab on the government's policies.— government's policies. the big issue runnina government's policies. the big issue running throughout _ government's policies. the big issue running throughout all— government's policies. the big issue running throughout all political- running throughout all political discussions is the cost of living

crisis, jonathan. discussions is the cost of living crisis, jonathan._ discussions is the cost of living crisis, jonathan. that's right and it is something _ crisis, jonathan. that's right and it is something labour _ crisis, jonathan. that's right and it is something labour have - crisis, jonathan. that's right and j it is something labour have kept crisis, jonathan. that's right and i it is something labour have kept up the pressure on the government on pretty relentlessly and something which angela rayner in particular will perhaps be keen to highlight. she has taken dominic raab to task before on workers wages, on job security, that is part of her brief, so perhaps that will come up today and let's hear the exchanges now. i and let's hear the exchanges now. i have been asked to reply on behalf of my right honourable friend the prime minister. he attended the commonwealth heads meeting in rwanda and today he is in the nato summit in madrid. i know the thoughts of the whole house will be with the family and friends of dame deborah james following the news of her death. i lost my father at a young age to cancer. i know first—hand the pain herfamily must be age to cancer. i know first—hand the pain her family must be feeling but we also know that dame de was a huge inspiration to so many and raised

millions to help others affected by cancer. , ., , , millions to help others affected by cancer. , ., , ., cancer. 52% of disabled people are in work cancer. 5296 of disabled people are in work compared _ cancer. 5296 of disabled people are in work compared with _ cancer. 5296 of disabled people are in work compared with 8196 - cancer. 5296 of disabled people are in work compared with 8196 for- in work compared with 81% for non—disabled people. disability action yorkshire which is a charity works to close that gap and they have highlighted the success of the work to access scheme. 0ne young person is now a trainee brewer at roosters brewery. will he consider how we can boost awareness amongst employers of this access to work scheme and consider how we can simplify the application process so more disabled people don't get deterred and will embrace it? not deterred and will embrace it? can i thank him for raising the work of disability action yorkshire who are doing terrific work. i can reassure him the dwp is committed to improving awareness through campaigns and partnerships with employers and disability organisations and are working on a

digital surface that will make it more accessible and visible. angela ra ner. more accessible and visible. angela rayner- thank— more accessible and visible. angela rayner. thank you, _ more accessible and visible. angela rayner. thank you, mr _ more accessible and visible. angela rayner. thank you, mr speaker. . more accessible and visible. angela| rayner. thank you, mr speaker. can more accessible and visible. angela l rayner. thank you, mr speaker. can i also share with the deputy prime minister his deepest condolences and experiences. we mourn the loss of dame deborahjames, who fearlessly campaigned to inspire so many. i am sure there is no doubt she saved the lives of many more. and to the family of zara aleena tragically murdered this week in ilford. i want to congratulate the new members who won the by—elections, including my honourable friend the member for wakefield. mr speaker, this week the government lost two by—elections in one day, the first in three decades. it is no wonder the prime minister has fled the country and left him to

carry the can. the people of wakefield and tiverton held their own vote of no confidence. the prime minister is notjust losing the room, he is losing the country. but instead of showing humility, he intends to limp on until the 2030s. does he think the cabinet will prop him up for this long? i does he think the cabinet will prop him up for this long?— him up for this long? i thank her. i oint out him up for this long? i thank her. i point out to _ him up for this long? i thank her. i point out to her— him up for this long? i thank her. i point out to her that _ him up for this long? i thank her. i point out to her that we _ him up for this long? i thank her. i point out to her that we want - him up for this long? i thank her. i point out to her that we want the l point out to her that we want the prime minister to go on a lot longer than she once the leader of the labour party to go on. we have a working majority of 75 and are focusing on delivering for the people. record low employment that would not have happened if we listen to the labour party. more policing and tougher sentencing. she voted

against both and so did the labour party. we will protect the public from damaging rail strikes. when we have labour frontbenchers joining picket lines. have labour frontbenchers 'oining picket [mi have labour frontbenchers 'oining picket iineefi have labour frontbenchers 'oining ticket lines. ., ., ., picket lines. here we go again. the truth is what _ picket lines. here we go again. the truth is what i _ picket lines. here we go again. the truth is what i want _ picket lines. here we go again. the truth is what i want from _ picket lines. here we go again. the truth is what i want from my - truth is what i want from my honourable friend is not to be the leader of the opposition but to be the prime minister of this country. and to be honest, it could not come quick enough. britain cannot stomach this prime ministerfor quick enough. britain cannot stomach this prime minister for another eight years. his backbenchers cannot stomach him for another eight minutes. if they continue to prop him up, i doubt voters will stomach him up, i doubt voters will stomach him for even eight seconds in the ballot box. let's imagine the prime minister is clinging on into the 20305. minister is clinging on into the 2030s. underthis

minister is clinging on into the 2030s. under this tax hi low growth tory government, at this rate by 2030, the british public will have endured 55 tax rises. how many more tax rises will the government inflict on working families before he says enough is enough? i inflict on working families before he says enough is enough? i think she was right _ he says enough is enough? i think she was right first _ he says enough is enough? i think she was right first time. _ he says enough is enough? i think she was right first time. i - he says enough is enough? i think she was right first time. i will - she was right first time. i will tell you what we are doing. near—record levels of youth employment. we are cutting taxes next month and national insurance. £330 million. we are delivering for families through the difficult times with the cost of living. we heard yesterday what the labour party plan. their plan is no plan. the leader of the labour party said he is starting from scratch. he has only been in the job two years. sir tony blair who has experience of

winning elections said there was a gaping hole in labour's policy offer and, all the while, she is revelling in it. we are serving the people of this country, she is playing political games. mr this country, she is playing political games. this country, she is playing tolitical tames. ~ .,~ ., political games. mr speaker, iwould revel in the opportunity _ political games. mr speaker, iwould revel in the opportunity for— political games. mr speaker, iwould revel in the opportunity for the - revel in the opportunity for the people of this country to have more than by—elections to see what they think of this government opposite. call a general election and see where the people are, mr speaker. this is a man who once said high levels of government taxation was hurting uk competitiveness. now he backs the prime minister who wants to put taxes up 15 times. at this rate, working people will be paying £500 billion more in tax by 2030. how high does he think the burden on working people should get before he says enough is enough? we

working people should get before he says enough is enough?— working people should get before he says enough is enough? we are those who are helping _ says enough is enough? we are those who are helping working _ says enough is enough? we are those who are helping working people - says enough is enough? we are those who are helping working people with i who are helping working people with a tax cut of £330. the support for those on the lowest incomes. £650 support for 8 million on the lowest incomes. and, frankly, the record level of investment coming into this country from the i billion for vaccines, the highest level tech investment in europe, we are the ones for a plan for lower unemployment and a highly skilled economy. with labour it is back to zero. , , ., , zero. he pretends to empathise with those struggling _ zero. he pretends to empathise with those struggling with _ zero. he pretends to empathise with those struggling with the _ zero. he pretends to empathise with those struggling with the tory - zero. he pretends to empathise with those struggling with the tory cost l those struggling with the tory cost of living crisis when he himself said food bank users are not in poverty but simply have a cash flow problem. the honourable member spent over £1 million in nine months on private jets.

over £1 million in nine months on privatejets. it shows how over £1 million in nine months on private jets. it shows how out of touch the government is. at this rate by 2030, a million more people will be using food banks. how many more working people will be pushed into poverty by his prime minister before he says enough is enough. if before he says enough is enough. if the labour party wants to help working people they should be clear in standing up against militant reckless strikes by rmt. the right honourable lady has flip—flopped all over the place when it came to the strikes. first she said they will lose, lose and then she tweeted workers were left with no choice. when she was asked by the bbc a straight question, do you like the rmt? she said i am having to go now i have a train to catch. she talks

about working people... she talks about working people... she talks about working people... she talks about working people, where was the right honourable lady when the comrades were on the picket line last thursday and when the labour front bench were joining them rather than standing up for the public? she was at the glyndebourne music festival, sipping champagne, listening to opera. champagne socialism is _ listening to opera. champagne socialism is back _ listening to opera. champagne socialism is back at _ listening to opera. champagne socialism is back at the - listening to opera. champagne socialism is back at the labour party. well, well, that says a lot about the party opposite. i will tell them about militancy. it is this government acting in a militant way. and when they should have been at the negotiating table, they were at the negotiating table, they were at the negotiating table, they were at the banqueting table getting hundreds of thousands squeezed out of their donors instead of dealing with the crisis. he talks about trains. no one can get trains because of his failed transport minister. �* , ., ~'

minister. and i tell you... i think we williust _ minister. and i tell you... i think we willjust have _ minister. and i tell you... i think we willjust have a _ minister. and i tell you... i think we willjust have a little - minister. and i tell you... i think we willjust have a little quiet. i l we willjust have a little quiet. i want _ we willjust have a little quiet. i want to— we willjust have a little quiet. i want to hear_ we willjust have a little quiet. i want to hear the _ we willjust have a little quiet. i want to hear the question - we willjust have a little quiet. i want to hear the question and i we willjust have a little quiet. i. want to hear the question and you will want — want to hear the question and you will want to— want to hear the question and you will want to hear— want to hear the question and you will want to hear the _ want to hear the question and you will want to hear the answer. - want to hear the question and you will want to hear the answer. angela ra ner. i will want to hear the answer. angela rayner- i think _ will want to hear the answer. angela rayner. i think it _ will want to hear the answer. angela rayner. i think it is _ will want to hear the answer. angela rayner. i think it is ironic— will want to hear the answer. angela rayner. i think it is ironic you - rayner. i think it is ironic you have to intervene because of the baying mob here when they have people through their noisy protest laws being stopped from protesting out on the street. they do not like it when the public say what they think of them. the honourable gentleman opposite has a stronger stomach than colleagues behind him. order. honestly, iwant stomach than colleagues behind him. order. honestly, i want to hear the question— order. honestly, i want to hear the question and — order. honestly, i want to hear the question and answer. _ order. honestly, i want to hear the question and answer. i _ order. honestly, i want to hear the question and answer. i hate - order. honestly, i want to hear the question and answer. i hate to - order. honestly, i want to hear the question and answer. i hate to sayl question and answer. i hate to say it, question and answer. i hate to say it. so— question and answer. i hate to say it. so do— question and answer. i hate to say it. so do your— question and answer. i hate to say it, so do your constituents. - question and answer. i hate to say it, so do your constituents. thinkl it, so do your constituents. think about— it, so do your constituents. think about them — it, so do your constituents. think about them for— it, so do your constituents. think about them for once, _ it, so do your constituents. think about them for once, instead - it, so do your constituents. think about them for once, instead of. about them for once, instead of yourselves _ about them for once, instead of yourselves-— about them for once, instead of ourselves. ., ,, , ., ~ ., ,, yourselves. thank you, mr speaker. when they were _ yourselves. thank you, mr speaker. when they were asked _ yourselves. thank you, mr speaker. when they were asked about - yourselves. thank you, mr speaker. when they were asked about the - when they were asked about the absent prime minister's plans to stick around until 2030, one honourable member opposite said he had lost the plot. another said

anyone with half a brain would realise how dire things are and a former conservative leader said the country would be better off under new leadership. and now the prime minister is at war with his own defence secretary after confirming he will break his manifesto pledge and increase in defence spending. under this government britain is set to have less troops, less planes and less ships. the only thing the prime minister is interested in is defending his ownjob. minister is interested in is defending his own job. just how many more troops have to lose theirjobs before he finally says enough is enough? in before he finally says enough is enouth? .. , before he finally says enough is enouth? , ., enough? in fact, there is a £24 billion increase _ enough? in fact, there is a £24 billion increase for _ enough? in fact, there is a £24 billion increase for armed - enough? in fact, there is a £24 i billion increase for armed forces and spending on the armed forces is rising to 2.3% of gdp making us the largest military spender in europe and we will take no lessons from the right honourable lady when it comes

to that. the first thing she did when she became an mp was to vote against trident, leaving us exposed. she was campaigning for the right honourable memberfor she was campaigning for the right honourable member for islington north to be prime minister, someone who would take us out of nato. talking about nato, where was the honourable member when the situation with afghanistan, on a sun lounger. i take no lectures from the honourable member when it comes to doing yourjob. the prime minister said he felt no shame on the by—election defeats. he said his government had been quite exceptional. i agree, government had been quite exceptional. iagree, they government had been quite exceptional. i agree, they have been exceptional, an exceptional record on stagnant wages, rising poverty and broken promises. the prime minister wants to drag this out until 2013. minister wants to drag this out until2013. how minister wants to drag this out until 2013. how much more can he stomach before he finds the guts,

how many more tax rises, how many more families drove into poverty and how many manifesto pledges broken? i hope for the sake of the british public we never find hope for the sake of the british public we neverfind out. and when will the deputy prime minister grow a backbone and tell the prime minister the game is up? mr speaker, i cannot minister the game is up? mr speaker, i cannot help — minister the game is up? mr speaker, i cannot help thinking _ minister the game is up? mr speaker, i cannot help thinking she _ minister the game is up? mr speaker, i cannot help thinking she is _ i cannot help thinking she is auditioning for the leadership contest from that side, not really referring to anything on this side. she has the support of the honourable member. we are putting in place policies to grow the economy. order. we have had questions already for scotland~ — order. we have had questions already for scotland~ it— order. we have had questions already for scotland. it has— order. we have had questions already for scotland. it has not— order. we have had questions already for scotland. it has not continued, - for scotland. it has not continued, it is not— for scotland. it has not continued, it is not your— for scotland. it has not continued, it is not your debate. _ for scotland. it has not continued, it is not your debate. he _ for scotland. it has not continued, it is not your debate.— it is not your debate. he was 'ust announcing fl it is not your debate. he was 'ust announcing his i it is not your debate. he was 'ust announcing his support �* it is not your debate. he was 'ust

announcing his support for h it is not your debate. he wasjust announcing his support for the i announcing his support for the honourable lady in the forthcoming... we are putting place an economic plan to help people with the cost of living, the labour leader is getting ready for year zero. we are supporting ukraine with sanctions on russia with military support. the honourable lady voted to abolish trident. we are the ones making the streets safer with more police, tougher sentencing, under the act in force this week. she voted against both. they are not fit to govern, mr speaker. mr speaker, the eden project _ to govern, mr speaker. mr speaker, the eden project north _ to govern, mr speaker. mr speaker, the eden project north has - to govern, mr speaker. mr speaker, the eden project north has been - to govern, mr speaker. mr speaker, | the eden project north has been five years of my parliamentary life and we have gone through three prime ministers, four chancellors, a plethora of ministers. but the levelling up bid is going to go in shortly. we have a shovel ready plan and planning permission. does he agree with me it is money worth spending in morecambe?- agree with me it is money worth

spending in morecambe? there is no treater spending in morecambe? there is no greater campaigner _ spending in morecambe? there is no greater campaigner than _ spending in morecambe? there is no greater campaigner than the - greater campaigner than the honourable member for his constituents. i cannot discuss the details of specific bids but at the next round of funding allocations in the autumn, and he will not have to wait too much longer. can the autumn, and he will not have to wait too much longer.— wait too much longer. can i associate — wait too much longer. can i associate myself _ wait too much longer. can i associate myself with - wait too much longer. can i i associate myself with remarks wait too much longer. can i - associate myself with remarks of the deputy prime minister and deputy leader of the labour party at the sad death of dame deborahjames. our thoughts and prayers are with her family. we thank herfor all she has done to raise money. mr speaker's mr spea ker�*s scotland's first minister mr speaker's scotland's first minister has set the date and started the campaign. our nation will have its independence referendum on the 19th of october 2033. the reality is —— 2023. the reality is commerce, and has already paid the price for not being independent. —— scotland has already paid the price. breaking

international law, damaging brexit we did not vote for, contrast that with our european neighbours we have greater income inequality, higher poverty. why not scotland? we will make the positive case for independence. will the opposition if they can make the case for continued westminster rule? i they can make the case for continued westminster rule?— westminster rule? i would like to thank the honourable _ westminster rule? i would like to j thank the honourable gentleman, always good to see him in his place. genuinely, good to see him in his place. it's not the right time for another referendum, given the challenges that we face as one united kingdom. he referred to some of the challenges in scotland, i think actually the people of scotland want their two governments to work together and we are keen, willing and enthusiastic to do so. ian blackford.— willing and enthusiastic to do so. ian blackford. there is no case for

the union as _ ian blackford. there is no case for the union as we _ ian blackford. there is no case for the union as we have _ ian blackford. there is no case for the union as we have just - ian blackford. there is no case for the union as we have just heard i ian blackford. there is no case for. the union as we have just heard from the union as we have just heard from the deputy prime minister. because mr speaker the harsh reality is that the tories might be a democratic debate, but they don't have the right to block scottish democracy. as the late canon kenyon wright said, what what if the other voice responds by saying, we say no, we are the state? his answer, well, we say yes and we other people. just last year —— we are the people. just last year —— we are the people. just last year, the leader of the scottish conservatives no less, put it in his own words. a vote for the scottish national party is another vote for an independence referendum. well, you won't often hear me say this but i agree with him and so do the scottish people. scottish democracy will not be a prisoner of any prime minister in this place. so why is the uk government scared of

democracy, or is it simply, is it simply that they have run out of ideas to defend the failing westminster system ? ideas to defend the failing westminster system? i ideas to defend the failing westminster system? i think the honourable _ westminster system? i think the honourable gentleman, - westminster system? i think the honourable gentleman, i - westminster system? i think the honourable gentleman, i think. westminster system? i think the | honourable gentleman, i think he westminster system? i think the i honourable gentleman, i think he is rather airbrushing history with that long soliloquy. he mentioned the problem is that scotland faces. a huge tax burden imposed by the snp, scotland's record on science and maths under the international rankings have dropped below england and wales, and the snp had presided over the worst drug death rate in europe, highest since records began. i think the people of scotland expect their government in westminster and holyrood to work together to tackle the issues on their day—to—day lives. together to tackle the issues on their day-to-day lives.- together to tackle the issues on their day-to-day lives. there are t reat their day-to-day lives. there are great opportunities... _ their day-to-day lives. there are great opportunities... thank - their day-to-day lives. there are great opportunities... thank you | great opportunities... thank you very much, mr deputy speaker, mr speaker! very much, mr deputy speaker, mr sneaker! . t, very much, mr deputy speaker, mr sneaker! ,, ., , ., very much, mr deputy speaker, mr speaker!_ my - very much, mr deputy speaker, mr i speaker!_ my sincere speaker! shame, shame! my sincere a nolo t ies!

speaker! shame, shame! my sincere apologies! there _ speaker! shame, shame! my sincere apologies! there are, _ speaker! shame, shame! my sincere apologies! there are, mr— speaker! shame, shame! my sincere apologies! there are, mr speaker, i apologies! there are, mr speaker, great opportunities to create exciting newjobs in low carbon energy along the east anglian coast, and east coast college are up for the challenge of providing local people with the necessary skills. however they and other colleges are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain teachers in such work as fabrication, engineering and construction. will my right honourable friend ensure that the government come up with a cross departmental strategy to address this staffing crisis in our further education colleges which could undermine the levelling up agenda? obviously deputy day! we undermine the levelling up agenda? obviously deputy day!— obviously deputy day! we are investint obviously deputy day! we are investing £52 _ obviously deputy day! we are investing £52 million - obviously deputy day! we are investing £52 million to - obviously deputy day! we are l investing £52 million to support obviously deputy day! we are - investing £52 million to support the training and retaining of excellent staff and looking at focusing on the experience and skills we can find in industry to train the next generation of technical experts. his

generation of technical experts. fir? country that values its independence andindeed country that values its independence and indeed it is self respect could agree to a treaty which signed away its independence and self—government. ultimately pooling sovereignty can only be sustained with this consent of the people. does the deputy prime minister agree with the prime minister and his predecessor, yes or no? i with the prime minister and his predecessor, yes or no?- with the prime minister and his predecessor, yes or no? i have to sa , that predecessor, yes or no? i have to say. that is _ predecessor, yes or no? i have to say. that is why — predecessor, yes or no? i have to say, that is why we _ predecessor, yes or no? i have to say, that is why we had _ predecessor, yes or no? i have to say, that is why we had the - say, that is why we had the referendum a few years ago. the people of scotland have spoken, and we think it is not the right time to be re—litigating this issue. we think it is not the right time to be re-litigating this issue.- be re-litigating this issue. thank ou, mr be re-litigating this issue. thank you, mr speaker. _ be re-litigating this issue. thank you, mr speaker. speaking - be re-litigating this issue. thank you, mr speaker. speaking with | be re—litigating this issue. trifle; you, mr speaker. speaking with lord ahmed yesterday, i think the government for now listening and allowing high—risk british council contractors are still in afghanistan to be processed immediately upon the application to the resettlement scheme, not having to wait a further two months until application window closes. with taxation at 840 year

high, when will the government be bolder in cutting taxes given the evidence the world over shows that lower taxes increases prosperity, raises living standards and better enables the government to help the less fortunate, even if such a policy means cutting spending such as hs2? mi; policy means cutting spending such as hs2? g ., ., .,, policy means cutting spending such ashs2? g ., ., , as hs2? my honourable friend makes an important — as hs2? my honourable friend makes an important point _ as hs2? my honourable friend makes an important point about _ as hs2? my honourable friend makes an important point about driving - an important point about driving growth and the economy and that is why we are cutting taxes with the 130% super deduction for capital i30% super deduction for capital investment, that will notjust create good jobs but well paid and betterjobs by missing productivity. —— boosting productivity. we are increasing the employment allowance which represents a tax cut for half a million businesses, we have provided business rate relief of 7 billion over five years and we are cutting national insurance next month worth £330 for a typical employee. month worth £330 for a typical employee-— month worth £330 for a typical em-lo ee. ., ,, ~ a

employee. thank you, mr speaker. as to msp employee. thank you, mr speaker. as tory msp murdo _ employee. thank you, mr speaker. as tory msp murdo fraser _ employee. thank you, mr speaker. as tory msp murdo fraser points - employee. thank you, mr speaker. as tory msp murdo fraser points out, - tory msp murdo fraser points out, scotland has a third of britain's landmass, half of its territorial waters, 60% of uk fishing zones, 98% of oil reserves, 63% of natural gas, a quarter of europe's offshore wind resources, and 90% of the uk's freshwater. can the deputy prime minister explain, if his opposition to scottish independence is because he fears the loss of these invaluable resources? she is absolutely — invaluable resources? she is absolutely right _ invaluable resources? she is absolutely right in _ invaluable resources? she is absolutely right in what - invaluable resources? she is absolutely right in what she | invaluable resources? she is. absolutely right in what she has just said. there are huge assets right across scotland and that is why we think we are stronger together in delivering for the people of scotland. mr together in delivering for the people of scotland. together in delivering for the n-eole of scotland. ~ ,,, ., ,, people of scotland. mr speaker, the de . u people of scotland. mr speaker, the deputy prime _ people of scotland. mr speaker, the deputy prime minister— people of scotland. mr speaker, the deputy prime minister will— people of scotland. mr speaker, the deputy prime minister will be - people of scotland. mr speaker, the deputy prime minister will be aware| deputy prime minister will be aware that in north east hertfordshire we have some of the best farmland in the country. and at a time when there are concerns about food production, food security, at a time when the government is considering

rural land use, isn't it time to ensure that our productive farmland isn't covered in solar plants and that they are positioned rather on brownfield sites, on buildings, and on low—grade agricultural land? i on low—grade agricultural land? i think it makes a powerful point and in our 2023 land—use framework we will set out land—use across the country. he is right that we have got to protect the most versatile agricultural land, and any plans for ground mounted solar installations will have to take that very point into account. his point is well made. into account. his point is well made, ., into account. his point is well made. ., , , ., ., made. so far this year, 52 women have been — made. so far this year, 52 women have been killed _ made. so far this year, 52 women have been killed in _ made. so far this year, 52 women have been killed in the _ made. so far this year, 52 women have been killed in the uk. - made. so far this year, 52 women have been killed in the uk. our. have been killed in the uk. our rights to free speech, safe spaces, fairness in sport and even the words we use to describe our own bodies are all under threat. will the deputy prime minister set a clear signal as some of his cabinet colleagues have done this week that

britain respects the rights of women and will he accept the memo to his forthcoming bill of rights which enshrines a women's right to choose in law? ., .. enshrines a women's right to choose in law? . ,, ., ., ., , in law? can i think the honourable lad for in law? can i think the honourable lady for her— in law? can i think the honourable lady for her -- _ in law? can i think the honourable lady for her -- thank _ in law? can i think the honourable lady for her -- thank her - in law? can i think the honourable lady for her -- thank her for - in law? can i think the honourable lady for her -- thank her for her i lady for her —— thank her for her question and i have huge respect for the way she has stood up for women's rights. and frankly, the appalling harassment, trolling and bullying she has faced. the position as she knows is settled in uk law is relation to abortion. i don't think there is a strong case for change. i would not like to find ourselves in the greatest respect like the uk position where it is located —— the us position where it is litigated in the courts rather than settle in this place. in the courts rather than settle in this place-— the courts rather than settle in this lace. , . , 11" , this place. in february 2019, this has passed _ this place. in february 2019, this has passed my — this place. in february 2019, this has passed my excellent - this place. in february 2019, this has passed my excellent civil- has passed my excellent civil partnerships, marriages and deaths

at, mandating government to extend civil partnerships to opposite sex couples, and requiring thejustice secretary to empower coroners to investigate stillbirths. the first two parts have come into force but two parts have come into force but two and a half years on, despite further shocking revelations about deaths of babies at several hospitals, no report has been published zero regulations to give coroners the powers they need. why not? ., ., .. , coroners the powers they need. why not? . . ~' , ., ., not? can i thank my honourable friend, not? can i thank my honourable friend. he _ not? can i thank my honourable friend. he is— not? can i thank my honourable friend, he is right _ not? can i thank my honourable friend, he is right to _ not? can i thank my honourable friend, he is right to raise - not? can i thank my honourable friend, he is right to raise this i friend, he is right to raise this stillbirth is an appalling tragedy which has the most devastating impact on families across the country. he is right, the mha, the dhs sea have consulted on proposals to provide coroners with new powers in this regard. i have looked at this and we will be publishing the governments response shortly. threatened, terrified, alone. this

was how survivors of sexual violence told me they felt when they were pressured into signing a nondisclosure agreement and gagging clauses by their universities. no victim of sexual assault or harassment should ever be coerced into silence by the very institutions who were meant to protect them, not at university, not at work, not anywhere. so will the government back my bill to ban the use of ndas in cases of sexual harassment, bullying and misconduct, and would the deputy prime minister consider meeting with me in his role asjustice consider meeting with me in his role as justice secretary to discuss consider meeting with me in his role asjustice secretary to discuss how we will put a stop to this deplorable practice once and for all? ., , deplorable practice once and for all? . , , deplorable practice once and for all? . , ., all? can i just say to the honourable _ all? can i just say to the honourable lady, - all? can i just say to the honourable lady, i- all? can i just say to the honourable lady, i will. all? can i just say to the i honourable lady, i will look all? can i just say to the - honourable lady, i will look very carefully at any particular proposal she has. we have got to do everything we can to protect women and girls in this country. and frankly to make them feel more confident in the justice system. that's why i am relieved but, i wish us to go further but i am relieved

that the volume of rate convictions in the last year alone is up by two thirds. in the police, courts, sentencing and crime act this week we have taken extra measures, for example extending the time limit for reporting domestic abuse, and criminalising taking photos of mother breast—feeding without consent, and i will look at the proposal she has raised with me. thank you, mr speaker. we are investing nearly £190 billion this year into the nhs and yet many of us see disturbing deficiencies within nhs management. no more so than in the shrewsbury and telford nhs trust. fouryears the shrewsbury and telford nhs trust. four years ago in 2018, my right honourable friend the member for ludlow and i secured £312 million for a major ana modernisation within our local trust. —— a major a&e expansion. for

now half years later construction has not stated. how can government intervened to break this deadlock and allow the £312 million we have secured to be utilised for the people of shropshire and mid wales? he is a doughty champion of his constituents particularly on nhs services. we recently received the case for the transformation of a&e services in telford, it is still being processed but the trust is aiming to present the full business case in 2023 with construction the same year. case in 2023 with construction the same year-— case in 2023 with construction the same ear. ~ ., ., . , same year. when he announced his bill of rights _ same year. when he announced his bill of rights last _ same year. when he announced his bill of rights last week, _ same year. when he announced his bill of rights last week, the - same year. when he announced his bill of rights last week, the deputy| bill of rights last week, the deputy prime minister said it would strengthen our uk tradition of freedom. freedom, shameless, from the government whose contempt for the government whose contempt for the role of law and devolution can

be judged the role of law and devolution can bejudged in equal measure. they are scrapping welsh law against our will, denying scotland the right to choose their own future, that isn't freedom. will he prove me wrong, will he prove me wrong, by enshrining self—determination in his bill of rights? flan enshrining self-determination in his bill of rights?— bill of rights? can i think the honourable _ bill of rights? can i think the honourable lady, _ bill of rights? can i think the honourable lady, it - bill of rights? can i think the honourable lady, it was - bill of rights? can i think the - honourable lady, it was very deaf to the way she got that in. i think we have all heard across the benches today the case for reinforcing free speech, whether it is the privacy laws or the way people are shouted down when they express legitimate opinions and i also think that the people of wales want to join with us, as across the country, making sure we can deport more foreign nationalfenders. that sure we can deport more foreign national fenders. that is the reality for people in wales and across the united kingdom and i think the bill of rights will strengthen ourfreedom think the bill of rights will strengthen our freedom but also curb those abuses and inject some common sense into the system.—

sense into the system. thank you, mr s-eaker. sense into the system. thank you, mr speaker. derriford _ sense into the system. thank you, mr speaker. derriford hospital— sense into the system. thank you, mr speaker. derriford hospital in - sense into the system. thank you, mr speaker. derriford hospital in my - speaker. derriford hospital in my constituency as part of the new hospital building programme announced by this government and work on the new emergency department starts this year which is a significant investment for the amazing staff there and the brilliant shelf executive who worked so hard. given —— chief executive. given the pressures on real estate, will my honourable friend consider prioritising capital investment into that part of the uk to ensure that we can accelerate plans particularly ian blackford referred to nicola sturgeon's announcement yesterday stu rgeon's announcement yesterday their sturgeon's announcement yesterday their plan for a new referendum. that's it for the moment from the house of commons. inspirational and unfortunately brave, the duke and duchess of come

—— cambridge pay tribute to dame deborahjames who died yesterday. sophisticated criminals begin targeting people with cost of living scams as latest figures show £1.3 billion was stolen from people last year. a29—year—old man has been remanded in custody charged with murdering zara aleena as she walked home after a night out on sunday morning. her family have said she was pure of heart and a joy to all. a former white house aide gives testimony about donald trump's action during the storming of the us capitol building last year, saying he knew people in the crowd were on but didn't care. and a bbc investigation finds the number of holiday lets in england has risen by 40% with some residents are being pushed out of areas as a

result. politicians, celebrities and charities have been paying tribute to the cancer campaigner, blogger and podcaster dame deborahjames, who has died of bowel cancer at the age of 40. the host of the you, me and the big c podcast — also known as bowel babe — was awarded a damehood in may, in recognition of her tireless fundraising. she had been receiving end—of—life care at home. jon kay reports. right to the very end of her life, dame deborahjames was determined to live every moment to the full. just a few weeks ago, she was at the chelsea flower show to see a rose that had been named after her. cheers! she wanted to make the very most of whatever time she had left. in herfinal weeks, deborah published a book. she started a fund for cancer charities which has raised millions of pounds. she launched a range of clothes, with a rebellious hope t—shirt,

that has raised money for charity. and then on father's day, she posted this image with the words, "my dad is brushing my hair because i have no strength any more". announcing her death last night, herfamily said... i was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer at the age of 35. we are actually talking about life and death here. it is heart—wrenching at times. come on, mummy, you can go faster than that. so, i have the poo cancer. there's nothing pink about my cancer, it's just brown. so, i was pooing blood

and eventually got diagnosed with a 6.5 centimetre tumour up my bum, basically. deborah was always honest and open about her cancer. she shared her every step of herjourney from endless rounds of chemotherapy to the terrible side—effects of the drug treatment she was on. but, through it all, she was determined to keep smiling, to keep dancing. # singing in the rain. our podcast is about living with cancer, right? and it is about showing life goes on. so if cancer wants me twirling around on the stage and wearing sequins and if it means i have to do treatment and train and dance, then, actually, that is what life is. let's dance through the rain. i love that saying, dance through the rain. prime minister borisjohnson said...

dame deborah leaves behind a large, loving family and two children. she says she was lucky to have five extra years to see them grow up. in herfinal days, she was surrounded by her family at her parents' home. and in her last interview she said she was convinced that new treatments will be found. cancer should become a chronic disease. i hope it will be in my kids' lifetime.come a chronic disease. but, i think, there are people doing amazing things and we need to support them and fund them. deborah was made a dame last month. the award presented in person by prince william

at her parents' home. dame deborah wrote her own epitaph. a message posted on social media last night. it said... tributes to dame deborahjames. the bbc�*s middle east editor jeremy bowen was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2019. he told me about the importance of being able to recognise those early signs of the disease. one of the signs that you may have bowel cancer is if you find blood in your poo. some people get a bit embarrassed

talking about that. believe you me, if you end up with a diagnosis of bowel cancer, you have a great many discussions about that kind of thing, with nurses and doctors and you name it. but don't be embarrassed. it is the message that she had, and i would very much echo as someone who has had bowel cancer, i have been in remission since i had surgery and chemo, and i met deborah at the royal marsden hospital in london, a fabulous place, where we were both patients, and under the same consultant. and the thing about that hospital which is brilliant is that even though it is cancer, which is a horrible thing, it is almost quite a pleasure to go there. at least i have always thought that. but, her message very much was, if you see anything that could be worrying like that, if you get blood in your poo, it might not be cancer, it might be piles, which is another taboo, so go to the doctor,

don't be embarrassed. and what happens is, they give you a little basin or tube, and you put a bit of it in there, and you know, pretty ghastly gathering it and so on, and you put it in the box on the receptionist�*s counter in my case, she said put it in the box, i can't handle it myself, and then, they find something in it, they start the whole process with the colonoscopy, diagnosis, and the key message is, if you have it, if you get diagnosed early enough, that is it, they will cure you, you will not die. if you don't get that diagnosis, then you might die. that is the thing to keep in your mind that should outweigh any kind of embarrassment about talking about bathroom issues. that is very powerful and really important to hear. can i take you back to when you were

having your diagnosis and going through it, the mental impact? it was a bit weird because i didn't have one of these moments were the doctor sits you down and says you have got bad news, have a cup of tea. i was actually a bit groggy, going in and out of semi consciousness, when i was having a colonoscopy, where they put a pipe up your bottom with a camera attached to it. it sounds awful but if you have the sedation, it doesn't hurt, you don't feel anything. i was coming in and out of consciousness and i had one doctor say to another, that looks like cancer. so that is how i heard. it is not something anyone likes to have, and it was alarming. i had surgery, which became a bit complicated, and while i was there, i will be quite honest, i had some long nights of the soul thinking i will not see my kids finishing school,

or anything like that, but once the treatments started and i had eight rounds of chemotherapy, again, that was not pleasant, but i think it did thejob. and my mental attitude was, was always 0k. i had a lot of faith in the doctors, a lot of faith in medical science. i think they got it early enough. my cancer was stage three, and got into a few of my other glands, but should be ok, hopefully, and i am still in remission, so i get checked every six months, and while cancer is a terrible thing, they can do a lot, and they can do much more, if you get to them early. that is the thing. look at the bowel cancer uk website, because it has got loads of very useful user—friendly information. i would really recommend it.

and the other thing is, i did not really have any symptoms. i had a bit of a family history. i said to the doctor i had some funny stomach pains but did not have the blood, and i said that the doctor i think i need to get a test and she agreed. i was getting to that age anyway but not the age where you automatically get a test. and so, i was fortunate, i think, fingers crossed. thank you to jeremy thank you tojeremy bowen. talking about his personal experience. now to the nato summit in madrid, where president biden has announced that the us will expand its military presence across europe, in response to russia's invasion of ukraine. he said us forces would be strengthened across land, air and sea, because president putin had shattered peace on the continent. world leaders — gathered to discuss the future direction of nato — have received a boost after turkey dropped its opposition to finland

and sweden's membership bids, something described by russia as "destabilising". we will make a decision today, or at least at the summit to invite finland and sweden to become members, that's unprecedented quick. i think you will hardly find any other accession process with so few weeks between the application that happened in mid—may and the invitation, that will happen now. then of course, after the invitation we need the ratification process in 30 parliaments. that always take some time but i expect also that to go rather we will make a decision today, or at least at the summit to invite ratification process happen as quickly as possible. but, of course, i cannot promise anything on behalf of 30 parliaments, they have to make those decisions themselves. among those attending the summit are the co—chairs of the us senate's nato observer group. they recently led a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers in a joint statement of support and a letter

to president biden calling for finland and sweden's swift accession to the military alliance. they spoke to our correspondent kasia madera. american politicians are here observing and also encouraging the addition of sweden and finland tojoin nato. and we've got a bipartisan team here. we've got from the democrat party, senatorjeanne shaheen, and we've got from the republicans, senator tom tillis. it's very good of you to both join us here in terms of this addition, in terms of the change of turkey's mind. we were expecting it, but we were certainly not expecting it so early on, right at the beginning of the summit. well, we were very excited. we came through helsinki and stockholm on our way here to madrid just to show our support that there is bipartisan support in the united states senate for the accession applications of both finland and sweden. and we wanted to make sure that

turkey knew that the finland and sweden knew that and that everyone here knows that because they both bring tremendous capabilities and they share our values. they will be a great asset with naito. but turkey had its concerns and of course nato is about consensus. so how did you convince and how was turkey convinced to overcome their concerns? is it quite a high price that nato is paying for this? i think we should give credit to finland, sweden and turkey because their discussions that have been ongoing since they announced that they would like to join nato, that made the difference. of course, other members of nato's have probably weighed in in a number of discussions, but this is a real success for finland, sweden and turkey to have resolved their disputes and have a completely different nato's summit than we would have had otherwise. well, it's certainly a different nato summit because like i say, there was a there was

an expectation, but certainly not possibly not even at this summit. and it came very, very early on. and it's great news. it's whatjens stoltenberg really wanted to bring to the table. but i just wonder, concerns about human rights records in turkey. are you genuinely convinced that these have been overcome? well, i think there will be continued discussions. obviously, every country that's a member of nato, their parliaments, have to ratify this agreement. but our hope is to have the united states senate be at the front end of that process, to be early on ratifying this agreement, because we think it's an important message to send to the rest of the native countries. but turkey is insisting on the extradition of kurds, especially from sweden. that's their main concern. are you comfortable with that? i think when you come in to nato, you have to be concerned. and i think there's common ground with counterterrorism and working together. you elevate the relationship when you're a member of nato.

and i think that they were able to work out many of those things. and i believe that probably and in both cases, there were concessions made to get to an agreement. and what about the arms as well? of course, because that was something that turkey really, really was worried about. well, again, i think this is an agreement that was negotiated by the three countries and by nato's. i think this is a real win for the secretary general of nato, jens stoltenberg. and... that finland and sweden were not going to negotiate something that they didn't see in their interest. and turkey was not either. i mean, that's one of the things we know about this compact nato and about the countries that are participants. they're in nato because it's in their own interest, it's in their own national security interest. and that's what was negotiated

in this agreement. you will now have twice the size border of nato with russia. that's going to annoy president putin. well, it should because he miscalculated. and i want to go back to the negotiations. the reason why it's so important to respect the concerns of the member nations is that you build relationships that matter. and i think that putin completely misjudged nato's ability to respond to his invasion of ukraine. he miscalculated. he thought that this alliance was going to somehow disintegrate what had happened. what happened is we integrate it more tightly. and now he's about to have 830 miles, 1340 kilometres of nato's borders at his doorsteps. he's the one that invited that through his illegal, murderous actions in ukraine. and nato's was stress tested and we passed the test. and the fact is, putin made the biggest foreign policy blunder since hitler went into russia. and history is going to show this

and it's going to show that what he has done is to unite the nato countries, to unite the transatlantic alliance and democracies around the world. it's that message of unity that we keep hearing at this summit. senator shaheen, senator tillis, thank you. like i say, the message of unity thatjens stoltenberg really wants to amplify with this summit here in madrid. dramatic cctv images have emerged of a missile strike that destroyed a shopping centre in the centre of ukraine. president zelensky who released the footage said it was an act of state terrorism. joe inward told us more from kyiv. if act of state terrorism. joe inward told us more from kyiv.— act of state terrorism. joe inward told us more from kyiv. if there was an doubt told us more from kyiv. if there was any doubt in — told us more from kyiv. if there was any doubt in people _ told us more from kyiv. if there was any doubt in people 's _ told us more from kyiv. if there was any doubt in people 's mind - told us more from kyiv. if there was any doubt in people 's mind about i any doubt in people 's mind about what happened in kremenchuk, this cctv limits it. you can really clearly see a missile being fired and hitting a building at the back

of the shot. when you compare it to satellite imagery, you can see a number of features that allow it to be geo— located, and it shows it was quite clearly out the back of the shopping centre. the suggestion from the russians which they have made is that they actually struck a warehouse that was store western arms, i think that is disproved by this cctv footage. ukrainians have maintained that this has happened and it was a direct strike responsible for the deaths of at least 18 people, many more still missing and many in hospital. president zelensky has said this was a terrorist act and he has also called out the people he called propagandists who are helping to spread what he said was russian disinformation and it is quite clear in this instance that the russian claims that they didn't hit the shopping centre were not true.

the labour leader keir starmer says the government "must" halt a planned 10,000 person cut in defence personnel. speaking a little earlier, he said that the armed forces need a "reboot in light of what's happened in ukraine". i think the first thing to say is that the tory government has been cutting defence for ten years now and despite what they said in 2019 at election time, they're planning to cut 10,000 more from our armed forces. we, the labour party, have always put the defence of our nation first and called on them to halt that further cut. what i want to see now is a reboot in light of what's happened in ukraine. i want to see the government come forward with a review and that has to include spending, because they've obviously got it wrong over a number of years now and they're beginning to recognise that. the labour leader also called for an emergency budget to "sort" the cost of living crisis out and said the government should reverse tax increases that are "hurting people" i think the situation that we find ourselves in is a cause of the government.

in the autumn the prime minister was saying we were going to have a high wage economy, encouraging people down this route. now he's created the conditions by putting up taxes in the middle of a cost of living crisis, where people are really struggling. talk to the residents here in crawley. i spoke to one woman this morning, she is doing three jobs because she cannot make ends meet. she and i are calling on the government for an emergency budget to sort this out, including reversing these tax increases, which are really, really hurting people. more money than ever before was stolen in 2021, according to figures released by the banking industry. £1.3 billion was stolen by criminals, which is an 8% increase from 2020. our business and consumer correspondent, colletta smith, has been looking at the figures. new figures are out today looking at last year, activity across the banking sector last year. we have seen a record amount stolen from customers

last year, £1.3 billion. we are seeing two very different pictures across at. the banking industry have actually managed to clamp down on what they term unauthorised fraud. your bank details being stolen, perhaps your card being stolen, perhaps your login information being stolen and purchases made or money move from your account. that type of fraud has decreased, it has dropped by about 8% over the last year. what we have seen a massive increase in 39% increase, is what is known as authorised fraud. you might be scratching your head think and how could it be authorised, but it is a type of scam. effectively you are transferring your own money to a criminal gang or some kind of criminal because they have conned you. an example of what could happen, you get a text, maybe a fake parcel

delivery text and you put in your name and postcode. maybe a week later you get another call, somebody checking about the purchase you made, your most recent purchase, perhaps asking you to make a purchase. maybe you click on a buy one get one free offer and put in some bank details, even the name of your bank. then a week later you get uncle from someone claiming to be from your bank, they now have your name, the name of your bank, your postcode, your house address, they have a lot of information about you so they sound convincing on the phone. particularly if they say your account is under attack, we have noticed unusual activity, what you need to do is move money into a new account to keep it safe. a lot of people are falling for that. we are seeing a trend of more and more people falling for effectively scams to save money because we are all under pressure financially at moments of the kind of scams that are saying click

here for a buy one get one free or £50 off your next shopping bill, click here if you haven't yet had your council tax rebate, that is all to glean information from us to then make a longer term scan. it is really interesting that these authorised scams are a long—term game for these, but can take a lot of money, and with victims of these kind of frauds, you're actually a lot less protected because you have made the transfer yourself, even though you didn't realise it was to a scammer, your bank doesn't have to legally give you that money back and people have been losing thousands and billions as we are seeing. the nhs app is to be updated — adding features for patients in england to access more personalised care. by march 2023 — all users will be able to recieve messages from their gp and start to view and manage hospital elective care appointments. by march 2024, the app should offer face—to—face video consultations.

the department of health says the changes are part of plans to digitise the healthcare system. here's the health secretary — sajid javid. today we're launching a digital revolution for the nhs and care through this new plan. i want patients to have effective and quick access for their health needs at their fingertips and that's not only better for them in terms of outcomes, but it's betterfor the nhs. it will save time and it will save money. so the plan we're publishing today covers everything from digital robots to remote monitoring, the use of artificial intelligence, electronic patient records and that nhs app. everyone remembers the nhs app from the height of the pandemic. some 28 million people already have downloaded it. i think that's something like 60% of adults. so we're going to have new features to that over the coming months and years. you'll be able to book your gp appointment and have messages you exchange with your gp. you'll be able to monitor and manage your hospital appointments. you'll be able to access

not just your records but your children's health records. so there's so much more we can do. i've seen great examples of what we can achieve here today at the great ormond street, where they're already a step ahead in terms of digital technology. and really the end result of all this is that i want the values of the nhs from 1948 when it was founded, but we've got to be planning for 2048. time for the weather. we started with a lot of club this morning, a weather front overhead bringing with a lot of club this morning, a weatherfront overhead bringing out breaks of rain. that band of rain has been working its way eastwards and clearing out of the way but it is followed by widespread showers and many of you will see a passing downpour, howeverthere and many of you will see a passing downpour, however there will be places that miss the showers and stay dry. cornwall could be one of

those areas because although the showers pop up anywhere come across south—west england we have a convergence zone where the winds bashed together and that will mean most of the showers will form in inland areas meaning the coasts with relatively few showers. you could dodge the downpours there. east anglia and south—east england another place that should brighten up another place that should brighten up with fewer showers than other parts of the uk. temperatures in the high teens in the west, low 20s in the east but we are looking at this necks lamp of cloud coming in this evening and overnight and that will bring in widespread outbreaks of rain from the south, across england, probably parts of wales and eventually it will reach scotland by the end of the night. some of the rain is likely to be quite heavy for a time and temperatures on the whole, similar to those last night, staying in double figures. for thursday morning we start off with

that rain across eastern scotland. the rain quite heavy at times, pushing its way northwards. it will be followed by a day of sunshine and showers. the wind is light and that means the showers could be long—lived but also heavy, thundery with a bit of hail mixed in. temperatures into the 20s across eastern areas, in the west temperatures in the high teens. the winds pick up on friday. we could see lengthy spells of rain across eastern scotland but otherwise another showery day but they will be blown through that bit more quickly. temperatures similar again, blown through that bit more quickly. temperatures similaragain, ranging temperatures similar again, ranging from temperatures similaragain, ranging from the high teens to the low 20s. where the sunshine pops out it will not feel too bad. next week signs the pressure will tend to rise, the weather settling down and it should turn warmer with time as well. that is your latest.

an amazing and inspiring woman, who taught us how to live and die — tributes to dame deborahjames following her death from bowel cancer. the campaigner and broadcaster has raised millions of pounds for research and treatments. deborahjames died yesterday surrounded by her family — who said she had challenged taboos, and changed the conversation around cancer. we'll be discussing her legacy and hearing about new treatments for the disease. also this lunchtime: nato leaders discuss the alliance's future strategy — the us says it's to expand its military presence across europe, after the invasion of ukraine.