today at six... wayne couzens is sentenced for indecent exposure. one offence took place just days before he murdered sarah everard. as the met police release cctv of couzens at the scene of a crime, they apologise for missing opportunities to stop him. i am sorry and, like many, i wish he had been investigated for these offences and i am sorry for the sarah everard family. couzens has been sentenced for 19 months on top of the whole life term he is serving for murder. also on the programme... three people are found dead in a crashed car in cardiff days after they went missing. two others remain seriously ill in hospital.

misery for commuters in the north of england _ misery for commuters in the north of england with continuing plane delays and cancellations.— and cancellations. regional leaders t to find and cancellations. regional leaders try to find a — and cancellations. regional leaders try to find a solution. _ and cancellations. regional leaders try to find a solution. welcome - and cancellations. regional leaders try to find a solution. welcome to l and cancellations. regional leadersi try to find a solution. welcome to a place that is astonishing. and the beauty of the british isles, documented by sir david attenborough and coming up on sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel — we'll reflect on that astonishing match at anfield, and what it means for liverpool and manchester united. good evening. victims of the former metropolitan police officer wayne couzens, who's been sentenced for three offences of indecent exposure, have said he could have been stopped before murdering sarah everard. couzens was given a 19—month sentence for exposing himself, including for one crime

that was reported to police just days before he kidnapped, raped and murdered sarah everard. the met has apologised for not arresting couzens and the judge at the old bailey said failures to investigate him had added our special correspondent lucy manning reports. to his belief that he could sexually "dominate and abuse women without being stopped". our special correspondent lucy manning reports. wayne couzens in his car, numberplate clearly visible, pulling up at a drive thru mcdonald's in kent and exposing himself to staff — not the first time. this was four days before he kidnapped sarah everard. the police were called the next day, the number plate given. if they'd have checked, they would have known he was a sex—offending police officer. it's not an exaggeration to say what happened or didn't happen at the mcdonald's days before he kidnapped sarah everard could and should have prevented her murder.

the fact that no police came to find him or his black car, to question him or his black car, to question him about these incidents, can only have served to confirm and strengthen in the defendant's mine a dangerous belief in his invincibility, in his power sexually to dominate and abuse women without being stopped. do you know sarah? i don't know. 0k, do you know where sarah is? no. couzens was arrested a week after sarah disappeared, but he should have already been in handcuffs. police removed his black car from his house after the murder. it was the same one that had been reported to the met police days before. today, the former met police officer, who is already serving life in prison, was sentenced for three indecent exposures. two were at the mcdonald's in kent in the weeks and days before sarah's murder, leaving staff traumatised. he was also sentenced for performing a sex act as a female cyclist went

past on a narrow country lane. he was naked on duty. it was four months before sarah was killed. the victim also reported him. in court, his victims spoke about the failures. the cyclist said, "there were opportunities to identify you and they were not taken. "i did not feel that when i reported your crime it was taken as seriously as i felt that it should have been. "the horror of what happened will remain with me for the rest of my life." the mcdonald's worker broke down in tears as she spoke about sarah everard. "i was scared. "i felt like that could have been me. "i still think about this now. "i had no one contact me or ask for a statement. "it was only after sarah's murder that i became involved. "if he had been held accountable when we had reported the crime, we could have saved sarah." but what might have beens hang heavily here, if only his sexual offences had been properly

investigated in the years before sarah's murder, in the days before. now it's too late because indecent exposure wasn't and still isn't taken seriously enough. kent police and the met police now have investigations into their own failures to uncover couzen's sex offences. like many, i wish that wayne couzens had been arrested for these offences before he went on to rape and murder sarah everard. and for that, i'm sorry. do you accept there were missed opportunities to stop wayne couzens? i do accept there are missed opportunities. and have you apologised to sarah everard's family? i am sorry for the sarah everard family. i can't pretend to put myself in their shoes. i can't imagine what must be going through their minds today. sarah was just walking home. it's now clear couzens shouldn't have been out on the streets.

couzens's offending stretches back to 2015 when kent police were given a number plate of someone exposing themselves, no proper investigation. stretching back years, months and days where he could have been stopped. the met police apologised today but there one officer who has been investigated for potential failures has already resigned, so nothing is going to happen there. sarah's murder shocked the country and i think people will be shocked again today, but possibly people who have reported indecent exposure will not be surprised. couzens was a dangerous, corrupt, predatory officer who was allowed to serve on our streets for far too long. lucy manny reported. three people have been found dead in a crashed car days after they were reported missing by friends and family. eve smith, darcy ross, and rafeljeanne, all in their twenties, were found in a vehicle which had come off

a major road in cardiff. two others have been taken to hospital in a serious condition. friends who spent the weekend searching say the police should have done more to help find them. 0ur wales correspondent hywel griffith has been at the scene. flowers for friends who never made it home. throughout the day, tributes arrived from those who knew and loved the victims. and had spent the weekend searching for them. darcy ross was 21. the same age as her friend eve smith. they lost their lives, alongside 24—year—old rafeljeanne. 32—year—old shane loughlin was taken to hospital with 20—year—old sophie russon. both seriously injured. when they didn't return home after a night out on friday, word went out on social media. tamsin joined the search, but says she feels the police ignored their calls.

they weren't listening to us when we said we know this is not like the girls. yeah, they like a party but they weren't going to go out for that long and not contact any of us. so it was out of character? 100%, and i think the police could have done a lot, lot more. a lot more. and how does it feel to be here now, to see this place? i mean, to bury yourfriend at 20, 21, no—one should do that. you know. the police spent the morning examining the crash site, and removing the car as they tried to work outjust how long it had been there. the group's night out started on friday, at this social club in newport, where the three women met up with the two men. from newport they drove over 30 miles west, to porthcawl, to a caravan park. later they headed back to cardiff, where they were last seen in the llanedeyrn area, at around 2am. it was round 48—hours later, in the early hours of monday, that the car was discovered

a few miles away. the car was eventually found just metres away from a busy dual carriageway, but hidden by these trees. the question for the police is now whether they could and should have launched their search sooner, and whether that may have made any difference to the loss of life. this picture of darcy ross and rafeljeanne was taken on their final night out. their friends are left asking how it ended in such tragedy. hywel griffith, bbc news, cardiff. plans to ban migrants who cross the channel in small boats from returning to the uk are set to be introduced to parliament tomorrow. they would mean that anyone entering via that route would be removed and unable to apply for british citizenship in future. the labour leader sir keir starmer said the proposals were unworkable, while refugees' groups said thousands of people would be left in limbo. more than 115,000 migrants crossed the channel to britain in 2022,

according to government figures. it's the highest number since such records started in 2018. last year, of asylum seekers who arrived in the uk via any route, the highest number came from albania, nearly 16,000. the second largest group of almost 11,000 came from afghanistan, followed by iran, iraq and syria. of the just over 10,000 people who arrived on small boats since 2018 and who have received an initial decision on their asylum claim, 61% were granted refugee status or another type of leave to remain. 0ur political editor chris mason is in dymchurch in kent on the english channel coast. chris, this is a growing issue and one that the prime minister says is one of his priorities. it is and it is. yes, this is one of many beaches along the south coast where migrants have arrived in recent years, but the numbers have

really ballooned in recent months, presenting a real problem for the local communities, but also for the government. rishi sunak says this is a priority, it is one of his five priorities that he set up at the turn of the year. three of them are economic, one related to the nhs, and then there is this. he says he will stop the boats. how is he going to do it? he will set out the details tomorrow and there will be plenty demanding a lot of detail. how do you remove the incentive for people to get on boats and travel to the uk? how do you break up the criminal gangs who are involved in doing it? and how do you speed up the processing of those who have arrived here in their thousands to try and make it quicker? that whole process is taking a very long time and coming at considerable expense. i am told the prime minister has devoted a lot of time to this, he has been working on it for a good number of months. what they are trying to do is see if they can do

something sufficiently radical that it makes a difference, but stays within the law and, crucially, stays within the law and, crucially, stays within the law and, crucially, stays within the european convention on human rights and how can they pull that off? there is scepticism from the opposition parties as to whether it is doable. why is it happening now? the prime minister has done a deal with the european union over northern ireland and that makes things a little easier diplomatically and he is due to see the french president on friday. if he can pull it off, it would be quite a political achievement, but, my goodness, it is really difficult. 0ur political editor chris mason. former colleagues of the deputy prime minister dominic raab have spoken to the bbc about their experience of working with him, as an inquiry into bullying claims against him is thought to be reaching its final stages. 0ur political correspondent ione wells has been speaking to people who have worked closely with him about the challenges facing this inquiry.

i didn't personally feel bullied. i did observe, though, what i would characterise as bullying behaviour. even the most challenging experiences, i've never seen him swear or raise his voice, like, to shout at people. the reason i left was i the intensity of the job. when does an exacting boss become a bully? the question facing the lawyer investigating dominic raab. we've spoken to people who worked closely with mr raab. they are not complainants but wish to remain anonymous to not compromise theirjobs. he was somebody who expected high standards of people. he, however, was pretty belittling and he would frequently humiliate members of his private office. at a flick of a switch, he could turn incredibly angry and pretty offensive. this person, who advised mr raab in a senior role in one department, said his conduct impacted taxpayers as well as colleagues. junior officials were protected and therefore would would not be

invited to go to meetings with him. the effect was that he probably achieved something that no minister or secretary of state should try to achieve, which was to shut up those who were meant to be advising him. dominic raab faces eight formal complaints involving at least 2a complainants who cannot speak out while the inquiry is ongoing. one of mr raab�*s former parliamentary staffers says he wasn't a bully, but the reports about his behaviour have resonated. there were a handful of occasions where i observed him make a member of staff cry because he was not happy with their work. if a member of his staff had delivered some work, which he didn't think was at the standard it should have been, he could... he would tear it, tear it apart, frankly, literally at times. literally, as in as in literally rip up people's work? i did observe that. from individuals we've spoken to,

dominic raab�*s behaviour seems to have had different impacts on different people. the lawyer investigating has to turn hours of different testimonies and characterisations into a document of fact. the deputy prime minister said he would resign if he's found to have bullied. is dominic raab a bully? are you? no. you're confident in that? yes, well, i'm confident that i behaved professionally throughout. some parliamentary staff members and civil servants we spoke to agreed, including this official who gave evidence to the inquiry. he was always very focused on the job, but always super nice. and what was your response when you heard about media reports accusing him of bullying? i was sad because it didn't correlate at all with my experience in the slightest. i think people would admit, like, it's hard work because he's a perfectionist. results of the inquiry are expected soon. it will then be for rishi sunak to be the finaljudge of his behaviour. ione wells, bbc news, westminster.

the time is 18.15. our top story this evening. wayne couzens sentence for indecent exposure, one offence took place just before he murdered serra everard. and the survivors of turkey's devastating earthquake. we look at the plight of more than million people left homeless coming up on sportsday in the next 15 minutes on the bbc news channel... no clean sweep for england, they won the series but fall well short against bangladesh in the final one—dayer. getting from a to b by train in the north of england has proved problematic for passengers over the last six months. three of the main operators in the region are running either a reduced timetable or cancelling the highest proportion of services, according to official government figures. there are growing calls for one —

transpennineexpress — to be stripped of its contract after it was shown to be cancelling hundreds of services every single week. today, business leaders and politicians all too familiar with the problems attended a conference in newcastle to discuss possible solutions. 0ur correspondent danny savage travelled up with them to find out what can be done to help. 7.50 this morning at northallerton. the train due at platform one hasn't turned up. my first train this morning is supposed to be a transpennine express service to york. but it's been cancelled. another service operated by a different company soon follows. but it's standing room only. people are fed up. the other night i was stuck in york for three and a half hours, waiting for a train home, and i ended up having to get my wife to come and pick me up from the york, because transpennine had cancelled all the services. every evening, transpennine express published a list of services

which are going to be cancelled the following day. their pre—amended timetable is a fantasy. i've come to york to travel up to newcastle with the mayor of west yorkshire, but she's not here because her transpennine express service was cancelled too. 45 minutes later than planned, she arrives. rosie, hello. hi. so good to see you. how you doing? we jump on a service north and discuss transpennine woes. we were able to get a meeting with the transport secretary and tell him, from our lived experience, the chaos and the cancellations and how it's holding us back. he's heard what we've said and now it's a political decision, obviously, for the government. this is a problem across the north. ava nti west coast is underperforming. northern is running a reduced service. where do you begin? i mean, there's a wall at the front of the station that i regularly bang my head on when i arrive to find no trains. robert often travels

from warrington to manchester. i've lived in london and essex all my life previously. if that happened down there, there would be uproar. i think there would be a revolution, but up here itjust seems to be accepted. transpennine express acknowledged things aren't good enough, but say they are pulling out all the stops to make things better, including doubling their overtime offer to drivers. but what is the government doing? the service being provided by transpennine express is not acceptable. we have worked closely with them to train more drivers, to double the number of drivers that were being trained. but there is also an issue, i'd say, and i'm not the only person to make this point, with aslef, the trade union, about not having agreed a rest day working contract. this isn't about delays or overcrowding. this is about trains which don't run, often at short notice, and it's ruining people's daily lives in northern england. danny savage, bbc news. a rare public parole hearing has been told that one of britain's most violent offenders, charles bronson, wouldn't be able to cope if he was freed from jail. bronson, who now uses the name charles salvador,

is 70 and is currently being held in a specialist close supervision centre at woodhill prison in milton keynes. he was convicted of armed robbery in 1974, and apart from a couple of brief spells of freedom, he has been in prison ever since. in 1999 he took an art teacher hostage for which he received a life sentence, and his latest conviciton was in 2014 for assaulting a prison governor. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford has been listening to the parole hearing, and can tell us more. daniel? this is only the second par road hearing _ daniel? this is only the second par road hearing ever _ daniel? this is only the second par road hearing ever to _ daniel? this is only the second par road hearing ever to be _ daniel? this is only the second par road hearing ever to be held - daniel? this is only the second par road hearing ever to be held in - road hearing ever to be held in public and the for role board panel are being asked to decide whether charles bronson can safely be released from prison. since that 1974 conviction she has spent almost 50 years in prison, earning a reputation as one of the most disruptive and violent prisoners in the uk, because of that conviction for taking an art teacher hostage

earning him a life sentence, only the parole board can decide whether he can be released from prison. so, the prison parole hearing took place at hmp wood hill. that is where charles bronson was with the panel and his lawyer but we were able to watch it from the royal courts of justice and we heard from the prison 0fficer responsible for charles bronson and he said while he was no longer violent she did not think he would be able to cope with life outside prison and most intriguingly we heard from bronson himself and he started by telling the panel that he had done more porridge than goldilocks and the three bears. at times the hearing was punctuated by laughter, afterjust over an hour bronson said he was bored and when talking about taking a prison governor hostage he said there is nothing like wrapping a governor up like a christmas turkey, heened by saying in his gravelly voice give me a chance, a break, to prove to you people that i'm just a normal geezer, wanting to get on with his

life, and the parole board has a fortnight to make its decision. daniel, thank you. . now a look at some other stories making the news today. the british medical association says it will ballot consultant doctors in england on possible industrial action in a dispute over pay and pensions. the ballot will get under way next month. if successful it will allow senior doctors to take strike action as early as spring. it comes as junior doctors voted to strike for three days from next monday. the head of confederation of british industry has stepped down white complaints about his conduct at work, in a tweet he apologised for any offence of anxiety caused to his colleague, the cbi said it took all matters of workplace conduct extremely seriously. it's a month since the devastating earthquakes which killed more than 50,000 people across turkey and syria, and which left vast

numbers without proper shelter. the un estimates that in turkey alone, at least 1.5 million people who are still within the disaster zone are homeless. the true figure could be even higher. 0ur correspondent anna foster, who's been covering the tragedy from the start, sent this report from hatay province in southern turkey. surviving in the ruins. turkey's south is unrecognisable, ripped apart by the power of the quakes. this new landscape brings new challenges. those with nowhere to live now sleep where they can. some try to stay close to their damaged houses, songol tells me it's all they have left. the earthquake killed 17 members of her family. home is now a tent, but she isn't leaving.

translation: having no | electricity is a big problem. the fear, it's too big. all night long there are nonstop aftershocks, it is so hard to sleep. anger at the slow response has only grown louder. shokrut complained about this building four years ago. eight people died here. translation: help us, - save us, they were shouting. arms and legs were dangling out but there was nothing we could do. negligence greatly exaggerated this. so what has happened is more and more people havejoined this conversation at the building and they are telling us that some of them who lived here, they knew it was dangerous, they said they had filed a complaint, so what we are doing now is finding out why, finding out what they saw, what they said, and try to pull together some evidence of the conversations they had with the person who owned this building. first shokrut showed us proof

of his official complaint on the government website. "the columns have cracked, no—one has shown any interest, i request your attention before any loss of lives." over the next seven days we try to get the building's owner to tell us why it wasn't made safe. camera is on. he didn't reply. this part of the country isn't the only place with dangerous buildings. istanbul, turkey's biggest city. a studyjust three months ago said a quake here could kill up to 90,000 people. massoud's apartment block was condemned when it failed its earthquake safety test. he lost family members four weeks ago, now he is losing his home as well. translation: a relative called and we all woke up screaming. |

he sobs. it's a horrible situation. from north to south, this is a country in shock. rebuilding will take time, healing will take even longer. people here in turkey will feel the impact for years. anna foster, bbc news, hatay. he's famous for presenting some of the most dazzling film of the natural world abroad, but now a new bbc one documentary series will, for the first time, see sir david attenborough focus on the wildlife of the british isles. the series promises to reveal a previously unseen side of british wildlife. here's our climate editor, justin rowlatt. welcome to a place

that is astonishing. nature in these islands can be extraordinary. it rivals anything i've seen elsewhere. it's not far. it's home. at 96—years—old, sir david attenborough is back on location, to bring you the british isles as you have never seen them before. scenes like this. 0rca killer whales hunting a baby seal off the coast of scotland. their strategy is one of surprise. these programmes cost the same as a major international wildlife series, and the sequences they capture are as spectacular as anything you could see anywhere on earth. the 0rca takes its catch out into open water, and there shows younger members of the pod how to drown it.

i think very few people realize that we are actually globally important for wildlife. we have more ancient oak trees in england than the whole of europe. we've got 50% of the world's common bluebells, a quarter of europe's badgers, most of the world's chalk streams. the series shows animal behaviours that have never been filmed before, like our biggest bird of prey, white tailed eagles hunting barnacle geese in flight. the goose is so heavy, the young eagle has to struggle to hold on. but our wildlife is at risk. 60% of our flying insects have vanished in the last 20 years. 97% of our wild flower meadows since the second world war. wild salmon could be extinct in the british isles within two decades, the series warns. it prompts an urgent call to action from sir david.

britain as a whole is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world. never has there been a more important time to invest in our own wildlife, to try and set an example for the rest of the world and restore our once wild isles forfuture generations. so what can be done? we can make choices ourselves about what we buy, how we travel, what we eat. we can also put pressure on our politicians at local and national level, and force them to really show the leadership that's required to see big scale visionary changes in how we manage the environment. the message is clear — it's up to us all to save the fragile and beautiful ecosystems of our island nation. justin rowlatt, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett.

darren, snow in march? is there more to come? there is, so far, most of the snow has really been across northern scotland, but this cold arctic air sweeps down across all of us, we will find snow falling in some other parts of the country as well. at the moment we have rain moving down in england and wales, that colder air follows in quickly, so we could see a bit of sleet and snow in the south, further north a lot of ice, more snow, notjust in northern scotland but for northern ireland, and the north east of england and there is going to be a frost for many northern parts of the country as well. temperatures down to minus four or so. southern parts of england and wales staying cloudy, wet weather round and potential for a bit of sleet and snow in there, evenif a bit of sleet and snow in there, even if it dries off a bit. the odd shower. it could be windy and it could feel colder, look at the temperature, sitting round four or five degrees at very best. now what

is happening is some weather fronts are sliding