tonight at ten, wayne couzens is sentenced for indecent exposure. his victims say he could have been stopped from murdering sarah everard if he'd been picked up by police. the met release cctv of couzens at the scene of a crime which took place just days before he killed her. sarah everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by couzens. today, the police apologised for missing opportunities to stop him. iam i am sorry, and like many, i wish he had been arrested for these offences, and 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.

couzens has been sentenced for 19 months on top of the whole—life term he is serving four sarah everard's death. of the whole—life term he is serving for sarah everard's death. 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. in iran, fury from parents of hundreds of schoolgirls who've been victims of suspected gas poisonings. welcome to a place that is astonishing... and the beauty of the british isles, documented by sir david attenborough for the first time. and coming up on the bbc news channel, fulham look to equal a club record sixth away win in the top flight as they travel to brentford, who are also riding high. his extraordinary run in front of the goal continues.

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 i9—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 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, number plate clearly visible, pulling up at a drive—through mcdonald's in kent and exposing himself to staff. not the first time. this, 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 and then didn't happen at the mcdonald's in kent 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 about these incidents, can only have served to confirm and strengthen in the defendant's mind a dangerous belief in his invincibility, in his power sexually to dominate and abuse women without being stopped. 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 was already serving life in prison, 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... the mcdonald's worker broke down in tears as she spoke about sarah everard.

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 couzens�* 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. and lucy is here now. clear missed opportunities by the police — is anything likely to change now? imean, you i mean, you want to say yes, you hope that they have learned from couzens, from david carrick, the rapist policeman. the words of apology are genuine, the desire to change, i think, apology are genuine, the desire to change, ithink, is apology are genuine, the desire to change, i think, is genuine. apology are genuine, the desire to change, ithink, is genuine. there are enough inquiries and reviews that you hope they learn from them. one independent inquiry is looking at about those offices and how they ended up as police officers. the kc report is looking at internal

misconduct. and two other officers are being investigated over these failures we have just talked about. but then you learn that the met office has already resigned, so nothing can happen to them. you learn that carrick�*s offending started in 2015, when kent police ignored a number plate given to them when he exposed himself. so this is years of inaction. and then you hear more stories of sexual assault, indecent exposures, where the police have been slow, disinterested, and you wonder whether things really are going to change. sarah's murder shocked the country. i think today people are shocked again, but if you have reported an indecent exposure, i don't think you will be surprised. so apologies if that answer sounds a bit jaded. so apologies if that answer sounds a bit “aded. . , . ~ so apologies if that answer sounds a bit 'aded. , ., ~ i. so apologies if that answer sounds a bit 'aded. , . ~' ,, , bit jaded. lucy, thank you very much. bit jaded. lucy, thank you very much- lucy — bit jaded. lucy, thank you very much. lucy manning there. - 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 20s, 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. our 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 herfriend eve smith. they lost their lives, alongside 24—year—old rafeljeanne. 32—year—old shane loughlin was seriously injured, as was 20—year—old sophie russon, who's been in surgery but is said to be pulling through. when they didn't return home from 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. the car was eventually found just metres away from a busy dual carriageway, 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. 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 around 48 hours later, in the early hours of monday, that the car was discovered a few miles away. this picture of darcy ross and rafeljeanne shows them on their final night out. tonight, friends and family members held a vigil in their memory. a review of the police's actions is already under way. hywel griffith, bbc news, cardiff. more than 100 people crossing the channel in small boats have been brought to shore on the south coast today. it comes as the government gets set to introduce new legislation to ban those who do so from returning to the uk. it would mean anyone entering via that route would be removed and unable to apply for british

citizenship in future. labour says the plans were unworkable, and refugees' groups say they would leave thousands of people in limbo. more than 115,000 people 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. as you can see, the number of asylum seekers who have been returned has dropped significantly since 2010. of those who've arrived on small boats since 2018 and who've had an initial decision on their asylum claim, 61% were granted refugee status or leave to remain. our political editor, chris mason, is in dymchurch in kent

on the english channel coast. migrants have arrived on this beach and plenty like it all along the south coast. and this is becoming a bigger and bigger and bigger problem. and rishi sunak has made it one of his five priorities. three of those were economic, one related to the nhs. and then this, and his promise to stop the boats setting the bar incredibly high to try to achieve that. tomorrow we'll get a sense of exactly how he plans to do it. how does he plan to break up the smuggling gangs so central to the operation? how does he reduce the incentive for people to get on the boats and cross the english channel? and how does he speed up the processing of migrants once they were here? something that is currently costing a huge amount of money. he will make an argument about fairness, saying it is unfair that people are crossing the channel in small boats — disproportionately young men seeking a better life, not exclusively, but disproportionately, rather than those who might be fleeing war.

but there's, of course, broader questions as well around the morality of all of this and exactly how the uk should respond to it and how it should work with neighbouring countries to do something about it. the reason it's happening tomorrow is because on friday the prime minister will meet the french president, emmanuel macron, in france. and a decent relationship with paris is absolutely crucial to trying to do something about this and doing it successfully. one month on from the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria, aid agencies say a massive relief and rebuilding effort is needed. the un children's agency, unicef, says the scale of the catastrophe in syria is beyond belief, with lack of access to clean water and a cholera outbreak. more than 50,000 people in turkey and syria are known to have lost their lives. those who survived face an uncertain future. one of the most serious problems is finding somewhere safe to live. the un estimates that in turkey

alone at least 1.5 million people still inside the disaster zone are homeless, and it's unclear how long it will take to find them proper shelter. our correspondent anna foster, who's been covering the tragedy from the start, joins us now from hatay province in southern turkey. reeta, four weeks on, and the reconstruction and rebuilding efforts are yet to begin, and turkey faces some pressing problems. as you say, the need for many, many people to find some kind of safe shelter. there is a growing anger that so many buildings collapsed needlessly and led to this huge loss of life, and led to this huge loss of life, and there is also a fear in other parts of the country about the impact on people and their lives, not if, but when the next earthquake strikes. 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.

here, 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. our political correspondent ione wells has been speaking to people who have worked closely with mr raab about the challenges facing the 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. iran's supreme leader has called a wave of suspected poisonings of schoolgirls in recent months an "unforgivable crime" — in a rare departure from blaming the west or foreign influences. more than a thousand girls at dozens of schools across the country have been subjected to apparent gas attacks since november. there's widespread suspicion that the girls are being targeted forjoining the protests for women's rights which have swept iran. bbc persian�*s parham ghobadi reports. they gasp. the shocking images of iranian schoolgirls gasping for breath

after possible gas attacks. the poisoned students are bussed away in ambulances to packed hospitals. concerned parents run to save their children. some are barred from entering the school. protests have been held in front of the education ministry. but they were beaten and arrested. many students say they were not allowed to leave school despite the smell of gas. translation: they closed the school doors, saying it was a sweat smell and nothing to worry about. i fainted in the corridor. school poisonings have been going on for more than three months. here at bbc persian, we've been monitoring school poisonings and verifying the videos posted on social media. here are ourfindings. on november 30th, schoolgirls in the religious city

of qom said they felt sick after inhaling odorous gas. in december, cities in two more provinces reported the same incidents. injanuary, students in two other provinces were poisoned, while schools in qom and other cities were repeatedly attacked in the meantime. in february, two more, including capital tehran. in march, it expanded exponentially and now almost the entire country is affected. after months, iran's supreme leaderfinally broke his silence on the issue. translation: they must be condemned to severe punishments. it's a serious and unforgivable crime. there will be no amnesty for them. many iranians suspect these are revenge attacks on schoolgirls who joined the protests that swept the country for months since september. iranian girls were at the forefront of fighting for freedom. now they are facing a frightening and invisible adversary. parham ghobadi, bbc news.

getting from a to b by train in the north of england has been a challenge 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. 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. i'm meant to be catching the transpennine express service to york. but it's been cancelled. another train 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 york because transpennine had cancelled all the services. every evening, transpennine express publishes 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. 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 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. but what is the government doing? 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. aslef says it is not

responsible for the situation. cancelled trains lead to overcrowding on those that are running. it's ruining people's daily lives in the north. danny savage, bbc news. now, 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.

orca 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 orca takes its catch out into open water, and there shows younger members of the pod how to drown it. i think very few people realise that we are actually globally important for wildlife. you know, we have more ancient oak trees in england than the whole of europe. we have got 50% of the common bluebells, a quarter of the badgers, most _ bluebells, a quarter of the badgers, most of— bluebells, a quarter of the 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 wildflower 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. that series starts at 7pm this sunday on bbc one. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. there is more snow across the forecast, and notjust across scotland, where it has been a wintry scene. we have snow following this band of wet weather, which is going to stick across southern parts of england and wales. could be a bit of sleet and snow as well. i see

conditions further north. more snow to come in northern