we want our children to enjoy books but we don't want them to be taking language that could be offensive into the playground and that could potentially lead to bullying. i think children, they're very coarse in their talk together. so, absurd censorship orjust a way of preserving stories as attitudes change? david sillito, bbc news. nothing too offensive about the weather at the moment. we may well have started on a very windy note this morning but we finished off on an incredibly mild note across the country. temperatures peaked this afternoon at 17 celsius, 63 fahrenheit, imparts. the average for the time of year should generally be around eight celsius. we have a pizza wedge of mild air at the

moment with weather fronts toppling across that milder air but on the whole an incredibly mild night to come. these are the daytime maximum temperatures but this is how we will start the day tomorrow. cloudy and grey, thick enough perhaps for some drizzle out to the west. more persistent rain pushing towards the northern isles but generally speaking a quiet story. when we get some holes in the cloud sheltered eastern areas, some favourite spots for the warmest of the weather. 13 and 1a celsius, not has warm as today because of the cloud around. as we go into the middle part of the week, signs of a change to come. this is a cold front and yes, as it pushes its way steadily south and east it will introduce somewhat colder air as the wind direction swings round to a north—westerly. ahead of the front we will see some showers, showery outbreaks of rain drifting south and east through wednesday with brighter skies behind. crisper weather to come and a few scattered showers will turn increasingly wintry on higher ground

increasingly wintry on higher ground in scotland. look at the difference in scotland. look at the difference in the temperatures, 8—11. that trend continues. we could see a view showers during the early hours of thursday morning which may turn wintry down to east anglia potentially. we will keep an eye on that. a chillier start to thursday morning but on the whole thursday will be largely fine and dry with more rain to come in the far north—west but you will notice temperatures are back to where they should be for the time of year. thanks, louise. and that's bbc news at ten on the 20th of february. there's more analysis of the day's main stories on newsnight with victoria derbyshire, which is just getting underway on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it's time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, but from the ten team, it's goodnight. good evening — this is your update from the bbc sport centre.

john w henry has today given an insight into liverpool's future plans and has ruled out a full sale of the club. his fenway sports group revealed back in november they were searching for investment into liverpool, and were also reportedly open to a full sale. henry has now told reporters in boston they won't be in england forever, but aren't selling the club now. they are talking to investors and he believes something might happen in relation to that — but says it won't be a sale. the future ownership of manchester united has had a lot of attention over the last few days — with interest confirmed from qatar, aswell as ineos founder sirjim ratcliffe. but the current owners, the glazers, might still have a part to play. it's thought us—based elliott investment management are offering to put together an investment package, that would allow the glazer family to retain some kind of interest in united. they've owned the club since a £790 million deal back in 2005, but are the subject protests by fans, unhappy with the direction under their stewardship

back to liverpool's fortunes on the field now — they play in the last 16 of the champions league this week. jurgen klopp will go face to face with carlo ancelotti again tomorrow night at anfield — where real madrid are the visitors. last time they played was last season's champions league final in paris, which liverpool lost. we played this final in paris and i did not watch it back since then into this weekend. the thing i realised does not know why we didn't watch back and i had to. because we played a good game we could've won the game and they scored at the end we didn't. but that's seven or eight months ago and that's a different team, same club, different team, different times. i can't wait to play the game but it's a tough place as well. we need to play super game.

you need two super games. to get through but have no problem with that because if we don't play, our best, you don't have a chance. and that is the difference and it's pretty special. but i can't wait. watford have moved up to fifth in the championship after a thrilling 3—2 home win against west bromwich albion. ken sema scored twice for watford — with his second goal going in via a deflection off erik pieters to aid the hornets�* bid for an immediate return to the premier league. west brom are tenth after a run of three league games without a victory. the uk is among 30 countries that have pledged support to an ongoing ban on russian and belarusian athletes, competing in international sporting events amid russia's invasion of ukraine. it follows a summit involving all 30 nations earlier this month, including france, germany and the united states. the international olympic council is "exploring a pathway" for athletes from the two nations to compete as neutrals. but uk culture secretary lucy frazer

says the ioc�*s plans are "not credible". super league champions st helens have arrived back from australia today after defying the odds to win the world club challenge. they beat penrith panthers in sydney to become the first british side to win in australia in almost 30 years — as adam cottier reports: if winning four super weeks titles was not enough, now they have in their grasp a trophy that signifies a monumental achievement for the sport of rugby league in this country. arriving home from sydney today, there was a huge sense of pride among the centre team. with the self belief within the group work, we always knew what we capable of in doing that and hard—working group can compete in the day and we can compete with the very best and we have shown that.

they have shown this because the world cup challenge saw them overcome the panthers and the champions and the rugby league recognised the biggest and richest in the world. and as the victory was sealed with the goal from lewis, st. helens became the first english club to win the world cup challenge since the warriors in 2017 in the first to win it in australia for 29 years. i think there was a bit of a mark—up down there. and it hasn't quite sunk in yet to be honest because we got on the plane the day after and with the script is achieved just not just this year but the last couple of years and icing on the character of mort the boy so they've done for the past couple of years. for the head coach, is the first game in charge and is replaced them tasked with carrying on the work of the australian and st. helens now turn their attentions

to attempting to win an unprecedented fifth success of super league title. there will always be a bit of a pressure but it's- been successful and so, - for us to win the first trophy for him, one for one it is. iand i'm super happy for him and now| we have to come back and do a header on the super league in 2023 now. they hope their triumph down under will set a precedent for super week for years to come in the latest defence of the domestic title begins in the castleford tigers. india are through to the semi—finals of the women's t20 world cup after beating ireland in a rain affected match in south africa. they won the toss and some big hitting from star player smriti mandhana saw them heading for a big total, but but ireland fought back three wickets from captain laura delany saw them restrict india to 155 from their 20 overs.

the irish needed a good start but lost two wickets to 155 from their 20 overs. in the very first over. they did reach 5a for two, before the heavens opened. and the umpires said no more play was possible. india winning by five runs via the duckworth—lewis method. that's all the sport for now. her name was ella, and some say she was the canary in the coal mine. this is the church which held her baptism, herfirst communion and,

aged nine, herfuneral. she literally drowned in her own mucus and i know that's really hard for people to hear, and i think there were a few times i wanted to die, too. i think i was in such despair. so, the decision i had to make is do you carry on and fight for others or do you just walk away? this was ella's best friend, anais. hello! mwah, mwah! you've gotten taller! no, i haven't. i'm still the same height! laughs. these have got... oh, my god, i haven't seen you for so long. i know! growing up, they had been inseparable. the very last phone call rosamond and ella had made was to anais,

the night before ella died. i have very, very fond memories, even though we were so young, i get little snippets and memories of us bouncing around and balancing on beams and she loved it so much — she was such an active person — and what, for me, was so shocking is how one day she'd go from being so bubbly and happy and the next day, she'd be really, really ill in hospital. i think she was fanatically calling your house and i think it went through — and it went through to an answering machine... voicemail, yeah. ..voicemail, and she was wishing you happy birthday. yeah. i think that voicemail, i still — i can't listen to it. i think i listened to it the day after... 0oh — i wondered that. ..before we came to your house. god — i always wondered that. yeah, but since then, i haven't been able to listen to it. but my birthday is a difficult day because i want to be happy because i know she should be want me to be happy on my birthday... you should be! yeah, you should be, because that's what she would have wanted. when i last saw her before my birthday, she was fine.

so for me, it was really difficult to find out what had happened. in fact, it took rosamond seven years to fight for answers, crowdfunding money to pay for a high court battle to win a new inquest. 0verwhelmed. absolutely a fantastic day. giggles. and in 2020, that inquest proved what was really behind what had begun as a small cough. coughs. ella's new death certificate was groundbreaking, eventually listing air pollution amongst the causes of death — a moment so significant, it made headlines right around the world. in her final two years, ella had been rushed into a&e here in lewisham 30 times... hello! ..often into the care

of doctor tina sajjhana. is there anyone who is left here? yes! there'sjonah... yep. ..and laurence. rosamond had been trained by staff here how to resuscitate her daughter — something that had happened many times when she stopped breathing and collapsed at home. you don't forget a child like that who's in hospital a lot, but i think there was something else. when ella smiled, she lit up the room. i will always remember us coming into a&e. she could be really sick when she came in. yeah, well, she will have collapsed at some point. watching her on that resuscitation bed, it wasjust incredibly frightening. losing a child is a very tragic thing but to turn that tragedy into something really positive, i think, i can only be admired — admired to the top degree. ella's death certificate was a world first. it made this little girl

from london global news. and since then, her face and her mother's fight has been adopted by clean air campaign is right around the world. 7 million people die every year because of pollution. 7 million. and this is notjust a number, may i remind you. my friend rosamond is in the audience today. rosamond, do you want to stand up briefly, please? give hera big hand. applause. she lost her beautiful nine—year—old daughter ella to pollution. the family lived less than 100 feet from south circular road, one of the busiest roads in london that had thousands and thousands of cars and buses and trucks driving by. normally, her death certificate would say asthma. but rosamond fought for the truth to save other children.

so, i want to say thank you to rosamond for standing up and showing all of us that we can't keep lying. we have to tell the truth! the government estimates as many as 38,000 people a year die as a result of air pollution. the charity asthma and lung uk say a quarter of uk schools are in dangerously polluted areas and city hall data suggests that's 98% for london. how noisy is it here in your playground? really noisy. sometimes it can get really noisy. cars. ambulances. police cars. like, trucks. i have a child that has asthma so obviously, it's quite a little bit of a worry because he gets, like, three or four times a year, he will get quite a lot of cough. do you think the government is doing enough? do you think individuals are doing enough?

i don't think the government is not doing enough. and as well, there is no awareness. they don't want to make people aware of it. in this school not far from ella's home, they took matters into their own hands. it's a busy road, isn't it? yeah, it's kinda fortunate that... siren wails. ..it�*s busy. it's busy. i think it's got about 100,000 cars a day. we even sort of raised some money. in three months, we raised about £100,000 to build a green wall and to buy air purifiers for the classrooms, and we actually improved the air quality within a year by 37%. really?! yep. we couldn't quite believe it when we got the data. it was like, "whoa! "that kind of works!" if each of us does something — you know, we can all do something, can't we? for a decade, rosamond has asked the government to do more. she wants ella's law to make clean air a human right, but she and many in the science community are frustrated that uk ambitions fall far behind guidelines

recommended by the world health 0rganization. "we can and should go much further to reduce air pollution "and it is technically possible to do so." i think i said that. you did say that! and i think still think it. but is that an ambition shared by government? well, i think the thing which i've tried to lay out in a report i did at the end of last year, there are many things we could do with vehicles, things we could do with construction, things we could do with agriculture which will lead to faster improvements in air quality for everybody. exhaust emissions from road transport have decreased dramatically in the last decade, largely down to tighter standards and greener cars. but emissions from wood—burning stoves and fires in homes have more than doubled in that time and new data shows in 2021, this was one of the factors causing the uk to breach legal limits of one of the worst air pollutants, particulate matter 2.5.

the coroner in ella's inquest wrote to the government, saying the world health organization guidelines should be a minimum requirement and this would save lives. do you agree with that? well, i certainly think we should accelerate as fast as we can within the limits of what's technically possible. my point is there's a lot we can do technically we are currently not doing. in a statement, the government said: those who love ella say they can't understand the lack of urgency. i do have something for you. oh, lord, don't shock me or make me emotional because i'll kill you off—camera. this year, anais will graduate. oh, wow! her final year project is a study of the pollution which took a friend's life.

you know how obsessed with research i am. she's done a research project. i'm just so proud of you. abstract, of course. chuckles. it's got all of the scientific sections there. i know — i'm so proud of you! this is amazing! this project, i think with every line i wrote, i kind of felt ella with me and i went in thinking, "i just want to understand more about what happened "and what was actually going on inside of her body "to cause this". but as i carried on writing, i realised that i found it difficult to remain — to remain kind of subjective about it and for me, ijust see a kind of a lack an ambition, especially in this country. one. but make no mistake, significant change is already happening in ella's name. how are you? today, we've brought rosamond on a tour of london hospitals to hear for herself. what we used to do with conditions like asthma is we simply used to treat the child in front of us with the family and treat that disease. now, what we are started to do is to really link postcodes,

look at air pollution. we collect that data, we can put it onto our electronic patient record and we can actually link that to then the child's condition and explain to the parents and the child where they live, what the effects of their local environment's having on them. postcode by postcode, they will monitor pollution and link to medical records. here at royal london hospital, they are opening what is thought to be a first — a dedicated air pollution unit for children. it isn't just an academic endeavour, it's notjust to do research, - it's to make a real difference to children's lives. _ it's the first time that a clinic has been funded to do that. i they will give their young patients air pollution monitors which will track their environment at home and school, just as doctors track the impact. the hope is reports they draw up can be used to advocate for people whose health is been damaged by the air they breathe. when it comes to housing, we'll give them a report. . that will feed them backl to who owns their house. we can advocate for them. this is one of the best things

i've actually heard. you can now have the power to actually advocate for them. so, do you know what? that is amazing. two. to come hear all the hospitals, i suddenly felt overwhelming emotion and i thought, "oh, my god. "she has inspired all this." it's pretty amazing. three. rosamond believes giving more information to families is good but when families have limited resources to act on that information, less pollution is better. if i knew then what i knew now, i would be left with a huge dilemma. one of the first things i would've wanted to do straight away, which would have been really difficult, would have been to move. i don't think i've ever said this publicly — there was a house further away, but it cost £10,000 more. of course, you know, it has gone round and round in my head — if only i had the money.

i think most people like me, average people, we have very little choice. let's be really honest here about it. it is the poorest that live closer to roads. it is up to the government, it is the government's duty to look after its citizens. they have to clean up the air. after ella died, rosamond and ella's brother and sister sophia and robert chose a different way to walk to school every day. robert still developed asthma. we met them rehearsing for their sister's memorial concert — a memorial which would celebrate a short life but huge legacy. she was my role model because i always would try to copy her or look up to her and yeah, she was our favourite person. i think kind of proud but also it's quite bittersweet that, like, it had to be a life lost to have change but i'm proud that, like, her name will be remembered as, like, she helped a positive change

in the world. what can you say to ella's siblings now who, at times, have really struggled? what message could you give to them? i think sometimes, when bad things happen and clearly - unexpected and horrible, good can come out of it. i she will change and has changed and is changing the way- we conduct medicine, - people's attitudes towards air pollution and health, _ and i think that will have a very, very long—term effect _ which hopefully will save many other children's lives that - are in a similar position, and that's an amazing gift she's given everybody. i we have come a long way but, as the government admits, there is still a way to go. 70 years ago, thick smog descended on london — the great smog. a smog so thick at times, it stopped ambulances and public transport. that event led to the uk's very first clean air act and many

in the science community believe we need another clear air revolution today. change is happening because of this death certificate. and the research that convinced the coroner to write the death certificate came from professor stephen holgate. so, you are the man whose research pieced this all together? yes, and that involved also excluding other causes of severe asthma worsening. and by doing that, we were only left with one alternative — that was the air pollution. and i think what we had with ella is an extraordinary brave little child. being able to translate this all the way back to an individual makes it much more alive and much more understandable and, for the politician's point of view, much more relevant for them to get on and start cleaning up the air we breathe. because we know that by cleaning up the air,

we don't only improve asthma, we reduce dementia, diabetes, chronic obstructive lung disease, heart disease, strokes, etc, etc, etc, so it all can be done and it's just a matter of will and, you know, we've done this before. we had the clean air act in 1952. we changed the way we heated our homes and got rid of coal. we've got to do the same. we've got to step up to the challenge and improve the life of everybody as a result of that. the need to rise to the challenge is very much accepted. but how we do that and when we do that is up for debate. rosamond says she will not apologise to those who don't like measures brought in to try to make the air we breathe safer.

they believe in freedom — the freedom to choose. it's an ideological choice. i sometimes think when it comes to a matter of life and death, you need to rise above that. if, on the 10th anniversary of ella's death, you were to send off a letter to heaven, what would you say to her? thank you, ella, and thank you of the privilege of being your mum. and still love you — that has never changed. that's quite easy for me to answer that. even in my moments when i go to the cemetery, i do say, "oh, bubba, i know you suffered so much and it will never make up for it, but so much is being done in your name and so many lives are being saved". i think that's important.

hello there. gales to begin with on monday, warmth to finish it. in fact, it was a very mild day, pretty much across the country, but highs of 17 celsius recorded in east anglia, 63 fahrenheit. the average for this time of year across the country, generally around eight degrees. now, we do have these weather fronts across the far north which are bringing outbreaks of light rain. but this milder air sandwiched between those two weather fronts is what's known as a broad, warm sector, and it can often at this time of year bring a lot of clouds. so, it's going to be a gray start, but an incredibly mild start first thing on tuesday morning. here's the rain from those weatherfronts, then, pushing out of the western isles up into the northern isles. not as windy as monday morning,

but a noticeable breeze and the cloud always thick enough for a spot or two of drizzle. now, on the whole, gray skies more cloud around, but where we do get some breaks, temperatures will tend to respond. 13, 1a degrees, not out of the question. a change to come, though, as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, there's a cold front sinking its way steadily south. not bringing that much in the way of rain, but certainly introducing a change of wind direction. coming round from the northwest to cool a fresher source. so, to begin with, on wednesday, we'll have some light showery rain sinking its way into east anglia and the south east of england, brightening up considerably behind with a few scattered showers being driven along by those northwest winds. and some of them to higher ground in scotland, turning increasingly wintry. notably fresher feel to the day, seven to 11 degrees, the overall high. now, through wednesday into the early hours of thursday morning, mightjust have to keep a close eye on the chance, perhaps, of a few wintry showers running down through the north sea here under clearer skies and lower temperatures.

so, it's going to be a chilly start to thursday morning. touch of light frost in the far north, not out of the question, but high pressure always sitting out to the west. so, the wind direction coming round from a north westerly, not too cold, but certainly fresher than it has been in recent days. so, there will be a little bit more in the way of sunshine around on thursday. thicker cloud and outbreaks of showery rain into the far north, but in the sunnier moments shouldn't feel too bad. top temperatures of around eight or nine degrees, down to where we should be really for the time of year. it looks likely that we will continue to see a good deal of dry but fresher weather for many as we head towards the weekend.

we are concerned that china is considering supporting russia's welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... president biden has made an extraordinary and symbolic trip to kyiv. nearly a year after russia's full scale invasion, president biden said putin had been �*plain wrong' to think russia could outlast ukraine and its allies. kyiv stands and ukraine stands and democracy stands. america stands with you and the world stands with you. meanwhile, us secretary of state antony blinken has this message for china. we are concerned that china is considering supporting russia's war

effort in ukraine with lethal assistance, something that