amol rajan, bbc news.ull documentary — the real mo farah — on the bbc iplayerfrom 6am tomorrow morning. it'll also be shown on bbc one at 9pm. an independent inquiry has found that more than a thousand children were sexually exploited over at least 30 years in the shropshire town of telford amid "shocking" failings by the police and the local authority. the report found that unnecessary suffering and even deaths of children might have been avoided had west mercia police "done its most basicjob". it says that child sexual exploitation went unchecked because of failures to investigate offenders, amid fears that investigations would "inflame racial tensions". from telford our correspondent phil mackie reports. a town where more than 1,000 children have been sexually exploited since the late 1970s. young girls were groomed, often by gangs, and subjected to some of the most appalling abuse. after three years the findings of an independent inquiry are damning. countless children were sexually assaulted and raped

player on the court and a boundary—busting social activist off the court, billiejean king talks to amol rajand career. when, in 1950s california, a young girl named billie picked up young girl named billie picked up a tennis racket she belonged to a world that few of us can imagine today and over the next few decades, billiejean king as she would come to be known, changed the world for women in america and far beyond. she did it via tennis. she was arguably the first female sports superstar winning 39 grand slams and completely dominating the sport, and yet it was in her parallel career as a social act best that she left a legacy that can be felt far beyond today. billiejean king is a game changer in the original sense. i have come to her spiritual home of wimbledon amid preparations for this year's championship to find out how she did it and which battles she is fighting next. what does it feel like as a former champion, coming back to the stage? i former champion, coming back to the staue? . , former champion, coming back to the staue? . ., former champion, coming back to the stale? . , . t

amol rajan, bbc news.which of the eight candidates they'll back to be the next party leader and prime minister. after months of huge protests against his rule — the president of sri lanka has left the country as the prime minister declares a state of emergency. the former president fled the country after months of protest. the met office has an amber warning across england and wales this weekend. you might have seen these astonishing shots on social media over the last couple of days harry shimmin, who was walking with friends in the mountains in kyrgyzstan. harry kept on filming as the torrent of snow and ice came closer — and closer — until he finally had that is looking pretty close. i think suddenly the penny drops. oh, dear. he shelters behind a rock as the avalanche engulfs them. luckily he managed to survive without a scratch — and this morning he talked to the bbc breakfast team from the safety of his hotel room. they asked him how he'd managed to keep on filming. yeah, good question, i suppose. pr

amol rajan, bbc news.iplayer now. it'll also be shown on bbc one tonight at 9pm. ijust want i just want to show you these pictures coming in from israel, us presidentjoe biden hasjust landed presidentjoe biden has just landed at presidentjoe biden hasjust landed at the airport near tel aviv. he is starting his first tour of the middle east since entering the white house last year. joe biden was met off the plane israel 's caretaker prime minister. he is now giving a press conference so let's listen in. i remember he taught us all about what happened in the holocaust, why did we not... why, why, why? he imbued in us a sense of obligation that we all have. as president, i'm proud to say that our relationship with the state of israel is deeper and stronger in my view than it has ever been. with this vision we are strengthening our connections even further. we have reaffirmed the unshakeable commitment of the us to israel security, including partnering with israel on the most cutting—edge defence systems in th

you know, this is my country. - amol rajan, bbc news.trialled by england players. our sports reporter sara orchard told me how they're going to work. these gum shields, they all have a little microchip chip in them, and what that microchip can ultimately detect is what is going on when a player isn'tjust playing in a rugby match, it's also what they are doing in training as well, and it's all about how the head is moving from force of an impact, but also how many times they are actually taking an impact. sometimes players don't even know that they've maybe hit the head on the ground or got a ball to the head. aware of how hard that impact can be. that's what these little microchips are going to tell them. and it may get a player has no idea, they have had what could be called the sub concussive impact come in a number of those, this microchip will send the data to the laptop and say that that should be removed from they've taken one too many hits today. for removed from they've taken one too many hits today-— many hits today. for those r

he's been speaking to amol rajan. welcome, welcome.k they know. is not the man millions think they know— they know. talking about it, let alone — they know. talking about it, let alone coming _ they know. talking about it, let alone coming out - they know. talking about it, let alone coming out in - they know. talking about it, | let alone coming out in public to tell people... talking to my own family... ifelt to tell people... talking to my own family... i felt vulnerable at times, lonely. how can i share with the whole world? he shot to national and internationalfame by winning international fame by winning two internationalfame by winning two olympic gold medals in london 2012. he is one of britain's most decorated olympian is. he was knighted in 2017 for services to athletics and has become a regular on tv screens and newspaper front pages. this is the reader to come to the but in a tv documentary, he reveals his real name is hussein abdi kahin and he was illegally trafficked to the uk as a child for the purposes of domestic servi

amol rajan, bbc news.ed back story he has lived with all this time. you can watch the full documentary, the real mo farah, on the bbc iplayer now. it'll also be shown on bbc one tonight at 9pm. when you think about that little boy, your heart breaks, looking down that emotion because there was no place for it. across england, there are nearly 2.5 million people living in areas that are known as left behind neighbourhoods — deprived areas where people are more likely to be in debt, rely on benefits and have poor access to secure employment. there are 225 communities like this, but more are in the north east than anywhere else. fiona trott reports from one such neighbourhood in bishop auckland. extremely stressed. i live on my own. i'm a single person, and i have my own home. that sounds like it's all great. but, at the end of the day, i also have a lot to lose. susan loves living in this corner of county durham, but it's hard. i am extremely worried. not only that we don't have supermarkets, we only have on

amol rajan, bbc news.. the expectation here is that rishi sunak of the former chancellor, has the most support among mps. how much support does he have and how close are penny mordaunt and liz truss to catching the former chancellor at the top of the pile? secondly, who goes out? there are two things that will matter. one is anyone with under 30 votes from mps will drop out of the race at this stage. even if everyone gets 30, the pot and place will drop out of the race. the expectation around here is that jeremy hunt at the former health secretary and nadhim zahawi, the current chancellor, our people to watch for, keep an eye on their numbers. nobody knows for sure who is going to get through. nobody is saying for sure whether they have gone through from the lower end of the scale. let's see who goes through and after the votes, if there are two or three candidates who drop out, the next question is going to be, who do their supporters fall in line behind? i suspect it is fairly busy with media here. i sus

which made abortion legal across the us, and on saturday morning on radio 4's today programme, amol rajant, there's jubilation from anti—abortionists. i've won today! but anti—abortion or anti—abortionists is not a popular description among those on the other side of this impassioned debate. the conservative mp peter bohn told a radio station this week that he was disappointed the bbc are using anti—abortion rather than pro—life. clearly a fraught subject, and a bbc spokesperson had this to say: now, as of friday, you may have noticed that you're no longer able to watch this or any other programme in high definition on the bbc news channel via freeview. that's because of a reduction in freeview�*s broadcast capacity, and the bbc has advised viewers that if they want to watch the news channel in hd, they'll have to do so on the iplayer. but that doesn't satisfy paul hetherington. here's a video he recorded for us. so, i've recently started getting pop—ups from the bbc on the news channel, telling me that bbc news hd is soon being removed to be replaced byjust standard definition, although

sir mo farah sits down with the bbc�*s amol rajan following revelations he was trafficked to the uk as child. temperatures continue to soar across parts of europe — in the uk the heatwave is now set to peak early next week. hello and welcome to westminster. british conservative mps will cast their first vote today for who they want to replace borisjohnson as party leader and uk prime minister. let's take a closer look at the timetable for today.there are eight candidates through to the first round of voting each one of them needs to secure 30 votes today to stay in the race. if they all cross that 30—vote threshold, then the candidate with the fewest number of votes would be eliminated. the poll opens at 1:30 — the electorate is made up of conservative mps. we are expecting a result at about five o'clock. to be announced, as before, by graham brady, the chairman of the conservative backbench 1922 committee. further votes will take place over the next few days in order to whittle the number of candidates down to two. let's get more from our political correspondent, ione wells. i can rep