today at one — metropolitan police officers are taken off their work investigating serious crime and terrorism, so they can help root out wrongdoing within the force. the head of the met says his clean—up campaign will mean many staff being removed from duty in the next few years. we have hundreds of people who shouldn't be here, and the tens of thousands of good men and women here are as embarrassed and angry about that as anybody, and they are helping me, they are helping us sort them out. we talk to a woman groomed and then abused by a serving police officer when she was a teenager. by putting that uniform on, by having that warrant card, it enabled him to carry out these acts, thinking he was untouchable. we'll be looking at the future

of the met with our home editor. also this lunchtime... scotland's former first minister nicola sturgeon cancels a public appearance today, as the police investigation into her husband continues. a new drug on the nhs for people living with inherited breast and prostate cancer. and delays again for holiday—makers booked on cross—channel ferries from dover, as the easter getaway begins. and coming up on the bbc news channel... we round up the latest action, he key interviews and discuss the day's biggest talking points in sport. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one.

dozens of metropolitan police officers have been diverted from investigating serious crime and terrorism to root out wrongdoing within the force. the head of the met, sir mark rowley, says he expects hundreds of staff to be removed from duty over the next few years. it comes after a damning report last month called britain's biggest police force instutionally racist, homophobic and misogynist. helena wilkinson reports. david carrick, the serving police officer who raped and sexually assaulted 12 women over nearly two decades. the country's biggest police force, the metropolitan police, in which he served, missed many opportunities to stop him. injanuary, after carrick�*s case, the force promised to root out rogue officers. dozens of serious crime and terrorism officers have now been moved to help investigate

wrongdoing in the force. the review has looked at inquiries into officers accused of sexual or domestic violence in ten years up until april last year. of the more than 1,000 individuals reinvestigated, it's concluded that 196 face urgent risk assessments or vetting reviews. 689 will undergo a new assessment to pursue new or missed lines of inquiry. 246 will face no formal action. the review determined correct action was taken at the time. criminal convictions of serving officers are also being looked into. we have 161 officers with criminal convictions. the majority of those, we knew about the criminal conviction before theyjoined policing. and in line with national vetting standards, they were assessed and it was felt appropriate for them to join.

it may be a very minor conviction ten or 15 years before theyjoined the police, and they've now got a good work history. but frankly, having looked at them, some of them concern me that i think we shouldn't have let them in. national vetting standards are quite permissive in giving a range of interpretation. we're looking here at putting some tougher standards in where, unless you've got the most minor historic conviction, you're not going to bejoining the police. earlier, the commissioner took questions from londoners and renewed his calls for more powers. in a lot of cases, well, in all cases, i don't have the final say on who is in the metropolitan police. i know that sounds mad. i'm the commissioner. you are holding me to account with this question because you want me to run a good police service. yet there are independent legal tribunals who can decide that we have to keep somebody even though we want to sack them, and that's one of the powers i've asked to be changed from the home secretary, and she is doing a review which will report at the end

of this month, that i think if you expect me to sort out the cultural issues in the met and get rid of the people, then give me the powers to do it. last month, a major review branded the met institutionally sexist, racist and homophobic. the review, by baroness casey, highlighted a boys�* club culture across the organisation. the metropolitan police commissioner says he expects hundreds of officers will be removed from this organisation over the next two or three years. there is no doubt the scale of the work needed to be done to get rid of rogue officers is huge. there's also an urgency to get the work done, but it will take time, as will restoring public confidence and trust in the police force. helena wilkinson, bbc news, at scotland yard. a woman who was groomed and then sexually abused by a serving metropolitan police officer when she was a teenager in the 19905

says she believes the force is now moving in the right direction. she has waived her right to anonymity to speak to the bbc and has been talking to our correspondentjayne mccubbin. he was a good police officer in many respects, yet by putting that uniform on, by having that warrant card, it enabled him to carry out these acts, thinking he was untouchable. where would i go to, if i can't go to... i can't go to the police? he is the police. last august, former met police officer anthony smith was jailed for 2h years for the rape and sexual assault of three young girls. the youngest was 13. he had started to groom liz when she was 1a. he groomed you. mm—hm. and he knew you were an ideal person to groom. i had grown up in a single—parent family. my mum had significant mental health issues, and when i was 13, i was abused by a school bus driver.

there was no one else to go to. there was no one else to speak to. and he was a member of the met police. can the people of london have faith in the met to police itself and protect women and girls? i think that the majority of people that work within the police, whether that is in the met or other forces, are good people, and i have had that experience myself through my own case. but i do think that if the public can see that people are being sacked, you know, not given the opportunity to resign but they are sacked, we can move that forward but it is a huge task to undertake. but the public need to see that it is being done. a yougov poll commissioned by bbc london has found that almost three in four londoners feel met officers treat some parts of society differently. of the 1,000 people surveyed, almost half of female

respondents said they "totally distrusted" the force. our home editor mark easton is here. those poll findings are grim reading for the met. you know what they say, trust leaves on hope�*s back and arrived on foot, in other words, it is easy to lose and takes a long time to rebuild. in his letter to the home secretary and mayor of london, in which many of the figures we have been reporting today are revealed, sir mark rowley says that londoners need to see action being taken, that he is making a difference. that clearly is at the heart of his strategy, he wants to uncover more examples of misconduct and suspend more officers and sack more officers and you saw in that report his frustration that at the moment, because of the police regulations, it can be a legal tribunal that has the final say on whether somebody is actually dismissed. he wants to have those greater powers because he believes thatis

greater powers because he believes that is the only way that he is going to be able to rebuild trust, by being really tough with people and the home secretary is reviewing the process now. but it is a high—risk strategy, i think, because without public trust, the legitimacy of the police is injeopardy. the hope is that despite or perhaps because of all the scandals that are likely to be uncovered in the next few months, londoners will be convinced that the met is serious about rooting out bad cops and has changed. about rooting out bad cops and has chanced. ., ~ about rooting out bad cops and has chanced. . ~ i. about rooting out bad cops and has chanced. ., ~' ,, ., ., about rooting out bad cops and has chanced. ., ~ ,, ., ., , changed. thank you for “oining us. mark easton. * changed. thank you for “oining us. mark easton, there. _ the former chief executive of the scottish national party has been released without charge, pending further investigation into the party's finances. peter murrell was questioned by detectives for 11 hours after being arrested at the home he shares with his wife, the former first minister nicola sturgeon. today, she's pulled out of a public appearance she was due to make. 0ur scotland correspondent james shawjoins us from the couple's home in glasgow. james, bring us up to date.

well, as you can see, there is still a substantial police presence here, the blue tent right at the front of the blue tent right at the front of the home shared by nicola sturgeon and peter murrell. inside it is a van and as far as we can tell, through the course of the morning, police officers have been moving around the property, and putting potential evidence into the van. it is clear, although peter murrell has been released, his interview finished yesterday evening, this investigation is still very much a live investigation and a lot of evidence being gathered and you would think it would take some time for the police to process it and then they will send their report to then they will send their report to the public prosecutor in scotland, the public prosecutor in scotland, the procurator fiscal, and that body will make a decision as to what happens with the investigation, whether it goes to a full prosecution or whether there is not enough evidence for that. when it comes to peter murrell�*s wife,

nicola sturgeon, she has been keeping a low profile. she was due to appear at a climate change event, called climate of change, but her spokesperson said she did not want to distract from the issue and so she would be cancelling her appearance there later today. james, thank ou. health officials in england have warned that they can't guarantee patient safety during next week's four—day strike byjunior doctors. the walk—out starts at 7am on tuesday the 11th until 7am on saturday the 15th of april. nhs providers, which represents trusts, says the challenges are unprecedented. tens of thousands of appointments are expected to be cancelled, with consultants drafted in to provide cover. the doctors�* union, the bma, says it will consider pulling junior doctors off picket lines if individual hospitals report lives are in immediate danger. 0ur health correspondent

dominic hughes has more. so we're now going around to our ambulance off—load area. in the emergency department at royal stoke university hospital, preparations are under way for what will be the biggest disruption to nhs services since the series of strikes began in december. hi, how are you getting on? so there's just three on the way in. next week's four—day walk—out byjunior doctors, who make up around half of the hospital's medical workforce, many of them with years of experience, means it definitely won't be business as usual. so from tuesday, we're all being asked to consider whether we really need to go to hospital. we're here if you need us. so that would be the first thing that i'd say. and it's the same as we said over covid, if you're unwell and you need help, the nhs will be able to look after you at this time. but you'd like people to think carefully? think carefully, use it carefully, be sensible. it's easter, be sensible with your diy, please, be sensible with your alcohol intakes, and yeah, just keep yourself safe.

senior consultant doctors will be on hand to help out in departments like a&e, but the duration and timing of the strike in the easter holidays means it poses particular challenges. we've been planning what we're going to do, how we're going to do it, putting rotas together to try to keep things safe. and the issue of patient safety weighs heavily on the bosses trying to manage the pressures. myjob is to make sure that our patients are kept as safe as possible and to put that mitigation in place. i can say it will be incredibly difficult to do that. the impact of the strike is causing concern across the health service. the body representing hospital, community, mental health and ambulance trusts has heard from leaders throughout the nhs. a constant theme that we have heard is that there is going to be significant risk to patient safety. and it's notjust urgent and emergency care that's a worry. there are fears too about the effect on the growing number of patients who now face delays

to planned surgery. it's impossible to say that there won't be harm to individual patients, particularly those that have been cancelled more than once over the last few months. so... i think, like everyone, we want people that can to do everything they possibly can to avert the strikes next week. there is still time for the strike to be called off. hi, site manager, can i help? but at present, that seems unlikely. the nhs and patients are braced for what could be a tough week. dominic hughes, bbc news, stoke. hundreds of people with inherited breast or prostate cancer genes could now benefit from a new drug treatment on the nhs in england and wales. it's designed to treat specific cancers linked to faulty versions of genes. the health care body nice said it would "improve quality of life". 0ur health correspondent

sophie hutchinson reports. it came as a huge shock at the time. i led such a fit and active life up until then. ava lee and her husband danny love outdoor sports. but just over two years ago, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, caused by a faulty inherited gene known as brca. i was scared about what was going to happen next, because i knew that the type of cancer that i had, it can come back. she was then given early access to the ground—breaking treatment 0laparib following a recent successful trial. what has it meant for you and your family for you to be on this treatment? i think it's given me a realistic chance of a future without cancer, that i can live a long and healthy life. scientists at the institute for cancer research in london have played a leading role in the development of 0laparib.

this is very exciting. 0laparib, taken for a year as a tablet treatment, reduces the risk of life—threatening recurrence, and improves the chance of surviving breast cancer by about a third. 0laparib works by targeting the repair system in these cancer cells, which weakens them and destabilises them, and ultimately cuts off a tumour�*s ability to grow. hundreds of nhs patients with early stage breast cancer will now be eligible for 0laparib in england and wales. and in line with scotland, patients with advanced prostate cancer will also be offered this life—extending treatment. although it has been the worst time of my life, it has also... there are positive things to come out of it and i think that i'll treasure every day that i have with family and friends from now on. sophie hutchinson, bbc news.

cross—channel ferry operators in dover are trying to stagger the number of coaches this easter weekend, to avoid last week's long queues of up to 1a hours. but there are already delays today at the start of the easter getaway, with queues for passport checks by french officials. 0ur transport correspondent katy austin is in dover with the latest. how is it looking so far? well, lorries are _ how is it looking so far? well, lorries are being _ how is it looking so far? well, lorries are being cued - how is it looking so far? well, lorries are being cued up - how is it looking so far? well, lorries are being cued upjustl lorries are being cued upjust outside the town and this morning tourist traffic cars looked pretty busy. the fts, the ferry operator, said earlier there was a 90 minute wait at border controls, that's where the french border police check people's passports here before they head over to france. now they are saying traffic is free flowing. last weekend of course many coach passengers in particular experienced really bad delays, more than 12

hours in some cases. that was put down to several things including the time those post—brexit passport checks take as well as bad weather and more coaches turning up than expected. ahead of another busy few days now, a review has been done and the port says measures are in place to try and avoid a repeat. notably, coach travel that would have taken place tomorrow, good friday, expected to be the busiest day, is being spread out over more days to try and avoid a bottleneck and what the port described as a horrible situation happening again. we have noticed not many coaches have been arriving this morning actually at the port says 30% fewer are expected over the coming days. they've also asked people not to arrive earlier to avoid adding to any congestion. there is another really big strike in france today over pension reforms. that's having some impact on travel, with some flights cancelled and a couple of eurostar services affected too. kat? cancelled and a couple of eurostar services affected too. katy austin, thank ou services affected too. katy austin, thank you very _

services affected too. katy austin, thank you very much. _ it's 1:18pm. our top story this lunchtime... metropolitan police officers are taken off their work investigating serious crime and terrorism — so they can help root out wrongdoing within the force. and coming up — the husband of bowel cancer campaigner deborahjames speaks about her legacy for the first time. coming up on the bbc news channel... the lionesses are back in action with more silverware up for grabs at wembley. we'll look ahead to england's game tonight against the copa america winners brazil. the french president has told his chinese counterpart that he's counting on him to, as he put it, bring russia to its senses over the war in ukraine. emmanuel macron made the comments during his state visit to beijing. china has so far refused to condemn russia's invasion of ukraine. our world affairs correspondent

paul adams reports. an elaborate ceremony outside beijing's great hall, the start of an ambitious trip, with the war in ukraine and europe's complex relations with china at the top of a busy agenda. president macron is on a charm offensive, talking about a new strategic and global partnership, about tackling what he describes as a spiral of mounting tensions between china and the west. but he also wants to persuade his chinese counterpart to do something about ukraine. translation: the russian aggression in ukraine has. dealt a blow to stability. i know i can count on you to bring back russia to reason and everyone back to the negotiating table. president xi's recent visit to moscow caused alarm in the west. china says it has a peace

plan for ukraine but the closeness of this relationship has everyone worried. china's support for russia in its war on ukraine, from a european perspective, is significant. if china really wants to be a mediator in this conflict, it has to start pressuring russia to a different approach. no obvious sign of that back in beijing. president xi speaking instead of china and france as promoters of a multipolar world, hoping to see in emmanuel macron a counterweight to what china views as america's overbearing influence. china doesn't like the latest security pact between the us, britain and australia. the submarine deal at the heart of it caused fury in france, which thought it had its own contract with australia. china and europe are both anxious to improve ties. the eu commission chief ursula von der leyen is also in beijing. but a war halfway across the world hangs heavy over these talks.

how china deals with it, she says, will determine how relations develop. paul adams, bbc news. this weekend marks 25 years since the good friday agreement, which largely ended three decades of conflict in northern ireland during which more than 3,500 people were killed. president biden is visiting northern ireland next week to commemorate the historic peace deal. it was announced after days and nights of intense negotiations, and was supported by most of northern ireland's political parties — including those linked to paramilitary organisations. it set up a new power sharing and devolved government for northern ireland, representing both nationalists and unionists. well, our ireland correspondent chris page was in his last year at sullivan upper school in county down at the time of the agreement. he's reunited with classmates and his teacher to reflect on it. explosion. no—one under 30 had known peace in northern ireland until the good friday agreement.

the parties which signed it included those who were linked to paramilitary organisations. at sullivan upper school we discussed the deal in class and debated it at the current affairs society. there was still this amazing optimism of everyone here that, yes, this can happen and, you know, we're not going to give up hope on it. in terms of teaching it i sort of felt there's something happening here. this is actually, it's notjust history, this is now. we're going to start this report from bbc newsline on the 22nd of may, 1998, right from the start, just to set the scene. news archive: for one teenager, it was an important day _ in more ways than one. it's my birthday for a start, so i'm 18 on the very day of the referendum which means that i can vote. it's my first vote and, as i say, ijust finished an a level today. you know, i'd always been interested in politics in my life, but really, it had always felt like a kind of a distant thing that other people do. you know, what really comes to me is how alive politics

felt at that period. my own kind of personal history was that my father was a prison governor in the maze prison, and he was shot and killed by the ira outside our home in 1984, when i was three and a half. like, one of my father's murderers is going to get out under good friday and did get out of prison under the good friday agreement and i would have voted if i had a vote, i would have voted in favour of it. the national leaders who brokered the peace deal knew it involved i political and moraljeopardy. you have to talk to the extremes, you know. you can be blue in the face talking to people who are not involved in violence but will that stop violence? it's not easy for democratic governments. if you want to solve it you have to take that risk. this is not a conflict that has got any place in the new millennium. what were the main elements that meant it became possible in 1998? the good friday or belfast agreement became possible because there was a new mood and sentiment,

and so people realised that in the end we could carry on exhausting ourselves with violence, or we could reach for peace. what are your thoughts on the good friday agreement, sort of then and now? one of the things i'm conscious the good friday agreement didn't do was give us a way collectively to reckon with the past. there are so many communities that have been overlooked. what sort of left me from those conversations was the courage i of the political leadership here, you know, how they put - |their political career on the line j to do the right thing in the end. i'm really hopeful that| that can happen again. the peace isn't perfect. political power sharing has frequently collapsed. but political violence is rare now and that was hard to imagine 25 years ago. chris page, bbc news, belfast. chris and his team have made a documentary about the agreement which is now streaming on bbc iplayer.

it's called troubles and peace. king charles has taken part in his first ever maundy thursday service as king at york minster, and continued the tradition of handing out specially minted coins to mark the occasion. the monarch has been involved in an annual service since at least the 1200s. to match his age of 7a, the king handed out coins to 7a men and 7a women who've made an outstanding contribution to their local communities. meanwhile, buckingham palace says it is cooperating with an independent study into links between the british monarchy and the slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell is here. nick, what is the significance of this? �* ., ., ., . this? both of the king of the prince of wales have _ this? both of the king of the prince of wales have expressed _ this? both of the king of the prince of wales have expressed their - of wales have expressed their personal sorrow at the suffering caused by the slave trade. they know i think that this is an issue they

absolutely must address, so this independent study will be carried out by historian, a phd student at the university of manchester. she will work with the historic royal palaces, the royal collection and have complete access to the royal archives which is the important thing. it will focus on the raynes of william iii, george iii and william iv and of course that was at a time when many leading figures in british society had shareholdings in slave trading companies and it's thought that some of those british monarchs may have had that. now, king charles is on record as having said that he wants to deepen his knowledge about what really happened, so this inquiry will be a step towards that. it will take three years to complete. it will be finished in 2026. qm. three years to complete. it will be finished in 2026.— finished in 2026. 0k, nicholas witchell, thank _ finished in 2026. 0k, nicholas witchell, thank you _ finished in 2026. 0k, nicholas witchell, thank you very - finished in 2026. 0k, nicholasl witchell, thank you very much, finished in 2026. 0k, nicholas- witchell, thank you very much, our royal correspondent. the husband and children of cancer campaigner dame deborahjames have been speaking for the first time since she died about her legacy.

the bowelbabe appeal she set up has now raised more than £11 million for cancer research. our reporter graham satchell has been to meet the family. so, this is the bowelbabe fund page and the amazing £11.3 million. deborahjames' husband seb and their two children, hugo and eloise, blown away by the amount of money people have donated to the bowelbabe fund. it's unbelievable, to be honest. it's just amazing to think, like... well, first of all, the legacy that it is. and second of all, the amount that could be achieved for this 11 million isjust, i think, beyond what anyone could realise at this point. when deborahjames was diagnosed with bowel cancer, she started sharing her story on social media. she was honest about the treatment she was having. but there was always joy and dancing, especially with her daughter.

we'd dance every second. if she had chemo and she felt bad that day, we would just get up and dance because it would help to stop thinking about things because we were just dancing together. how was your day? seb has not spoken publicly since his wife died last year. he has been spending time with his children, and working out how the bowelbabe fund should be spent. there is that strong underlying driver of, let's prevent it, this is important. that we kind of remind people to look after themselves, to check out for, you know, check their poo, as deborah would always say. dame deborah always talked about having rebellious hope. she told her family at the end to enjoy life, to make the most of every moment. rebellious hope, i think, it's really deep but it means a lot. what does it mean to you? it means, regardless of anything, there is always something that

will keep you going. you always push through and there will always be, you know, a rainbow on the other side. the family of cancer campaigner dame deborahjames with their reflections on her legacy. in the last few minutes it's been announced chelsea has a new coach. frank lampard returns to chelsea as caretaker boss. a record goal scorer at the club, he will take over, but only on a caretaker capacity. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. it's going to get cold tonight, there's going to be a frost in some parts of the country particularly in northern ireland where the cloud is going to be breaking up more readily and already we've got some sunshine too. we do have to clear away yesterday's cloud and rain, it's moving away into the north sea. it's followed by some showers that we

will have a look at in a moment but it's this