thank you forjoining us, former chief prosecutor for the crown prosecution service.news: a gang of 20 menof mainly pakistani heritage are convicted of systematic child sex abuse in huddersfield — the ringleader has been jailed for life. radical islamist preacher anjem choudary is released from prison on licence and is now at a bail hostel. former deputy prime minister nick clegg is tojoin facebook as head of its global affairs and communications team. in sport, chelsea and injured midfielder has described abuses she received on social media as a point. she has also thanked chelsea and the fa for reporting those responsible to instagram and the police. no more overtime at wimbledon, a changing the rules means the end of those fifth set thrillers as the all club introduces final set tie—break. johanna konta has lost in straight sets by the russian 6ci will be back on more of those stories at 5:30pm. the extremist preacher anjem choudary has been released from prison. choudary was jailed two years ago for inviting support for the islamic state terror group, and has been

didn't need to you she didn't need to go into the detail she got sufficient detail into the crown prosecution service them to bring charges all she needed to do was bring charges on it but were good enough for an interpol red notice to go out so for someone to be arrested pending extradition. proceedings or for european arrest warrant only had to do that because as you know the criticism of this whole story is that how is it these two men in this these great investigative journalists as you portray them. appeared to have outwitted to multi billion dollar nato intelligence security infrastructure because it would be in the interests of nato nations to present this evidence to the public to say we've caught him this is putin this is modern russia well i think that's come out through the previous occasions come up through the investigative journalism which i understand the u.k. authorities have. not disagreed with the findings which is a tacit way of saying we agree with it but he didn't it didn't need to come out. putin was never going to extra these individuals to the u.k. to. be charged to the britis

the crown prosecution service are trying to investigate what happened ina warzone trying to investigateme in syria. we know that significant numbers of brits went to syria to fight for so—called islamic state and then this segues into another different but related story and... just on that, the cps are saying these kids are going to fail. they don't think they can bring them to trial so these people are stuck in syria, basically, at the moment. but they are denying refusing to take them back because that would expose, if you like, their own lack of resource and lack of wherewithal, if you like, the difficulties in properly investigating all what these people did. the political explosiveness of it if people feel they haven't been given a it if people feel they haven't been givenafair it if people feel they haven't been given a fair trial. this would be as sensitive thing and require a lot of constituencies, particularly in the north and the midlands... and how do you get the evidence together in the courtroom? how do you present it? you need to use the english court syste m you need to u

the death of former aston villa player dalian atkinson has been referred to the crown prosecution servicen telford, and later died. the independent office for police conduct has now passed the matter on to the cps, who will consider potential criminal charges against two police officers. luke shaw has signed a new five—year contract at manchester united. it is a big turnaround for shaw, who was heavily criticised by boss jose mourinho last season. but he has made the left—back spot his own, and is back in the england reckoning, too. he has been rewarded with a new contract worth around £150,000 a week. the formula one drivers‘ championship could be wrapped up this weekend if lewis hamilton can collect eight points more than sebastian vettel at the us grand prix. a result like that in austin would bring a fifth world title for hamilton, taking him level with the greatjuan manuel fangio. hamilton would sitjoint second in the all—time list, behind only michael schumacher, who has seven. he also trails the german's record number of 91 race victories by 20. michael's stats are incredible, and

we learned a bit about why there is this length of time that the crown prosecution service say thereother of the suicide bomber. but whilst there could still be a prosecution of that man, the inquest cannot be held yet because they could affect the outcome of the prosecution. so it is legal process, but in the meantime, they say they wa nt to but in the meantime, they say they want to make progress and there will be legal work ongoing behind—the—scenes with the aim to stop the inquests within the next year or $0 stop the inquests within the next yearorso and stop the inquests within the next year or so and there was a lot of talk about where they will take place, whether there will be a jury, details like that. the next hearing in this process will be in february. judith, thank thank you very much. penny mordaunt has been heckled at a conference about sex abuse scandals. one former aid worker and russell blower from save the children confronted the cabinet minister onstage, alleging the government was trying to control women in the sector. it was the scandal that shocked the aid sect

distressing for them is the lack of consistency in how this is dealt with by police and by the crown prosecution servicecrown prosecution service and sometimes even when it is prosecuted, the sentences are really low. what we want from this strategy is to have a really co—ordinated and consistent approach to that. but thatis consistent approach to that. but that is talking about once something has happened and the really important thing is how we reduce the number of incidents in the first place. having proper data is where we have got to start, so the decision a few years ago to abolish national reporting was something we said was a disastrous decision and the figures bear that out. having data means you can be informed about how things are happening, where they are happening, but staff need to feel that something is being done with the data because one of the problems is, if you report something, and then you feel there is no action taken. so he is looking very much at looking at how to deal with it once it happens, how to empower staff if they are faced with a difficult situation, but in terms of und

the crown prosecution service also reacted.ol and drugs. at the heart of this case is the victims. who have all shown immense courage in coming forward to assist the investigation and support the prosecution case. i sincerely hope that the convictions of their abusers will go some way to helping these young women rebuild their lives. our thoughts remain with them. michael quinn from the crown prosecution service. the extremist preacher anjem choudary has been released from prison. choudary was jailed two years ago for inviting support for the islamic state terror group, and has been blamed for inspiring a long line of islamist extremists. he‘s served just under half his sentence — and will now complete the rest of it out ofjail, but under a regime of strict supervision, as our home affairs correspondent june kelly reports. backin back in the limelight after two yea rs back in the limelight after two years away, anjem choudary, the most notorious terror convict posed for the cameras. he didn‘t say anything because he‘s banned fr

the death of former aston villa player dalian atkinson has been referred to the crown prosecution serviceouse in august 2016 in telford and later died. the independent office for police conduct has now passed the matter on to the cps, who will consider potential criminal charges against two police officers. luke shaw has signed a new five year contract at manchester united. it's a big turn around for shaw, who was heavily criticised by boss jose mourinho last season. but he's made the left back spot his own, and is back in the england reckoning, too. he's been rewarded with a new contract worth around £150,000 a week. eddiejones says england number eight nathan hughes "deeply regrets" a tweet that contributed to an additional two—week ban that's ruled him out of three of the autumn internationals. hughes was banned for four weeks for a punch, but had his suspension increased after tweeting "what a joke" in apparent reaction to the charges. hughes' absence is one of a number that eddiejones has had to deal with. so he's turned to gloucester number eight ben morgan, who's included for the f

the front page, at the bottom, about the justice system and the head of the crown prosecution serviceer of the cps will be one with a view listen to. she is the outgoing head. her point is valid, data downloads, everything is now on computers that needs to be downloaded as it takes so much time. that itself is affecting the rate at which investigations can take place and ultimately justice which investigations can take place and ultimatelyjustice victims of serious crimes. a sceptic would point out that someone in this position would rattle the tinfoil more money particular with the budget coming up. the technology has not kept up with data downloads and it makes it difficult for those working in this area to do the job. which leads us to the next story, sticking with the budget, this one, budget to get broadband up to speed. it is interesting because so much money is going into this, announced tomorrow. it is important. we forget how a remote community in the uk will not have access and so much is done online and if you do not have that it cuts you off. there are things you cannot do

in other cases the crown prosecution service doesn't follow their own system.s an add aggravated offence, such as it is in america it works. we need to get the uk to take this on board as well. gary fitzgerald, thank you very much. an update on our headlines. the bbc has learned that the government is planning to spend hundreds of millions of pounds to make changes to the universal credit. it is in order to help claimants. a crucial cabinet meeting is taking place as theresa may tries to rally ministers at the start of a critical 48 hours in brexit negotiations. and hate crimes have reached a record high in england and wales, with every category seeing an increase. in sport england beat spain three to win the nation ‘s league. it was their first win in spain for over 30 years. northern ireland are yet to win a point in the nation ‘s league, they lost to nil away against bosnia—herzegovina. and great britain's lizzie arnold is to retire at the age of 29. she became the first briton went to 0lympian to win back—to—back medals. the us secretary of state mike pompe

has support from the national crime agency, the british high commission in islamabad, the crown prosecution serviced pakistani authorities, working with the national crime industry. shahid mohammed was remanded in custody to make another appearance before leeds crown court tomorrow morning. thank you for that update. let's find out some more about what the boss of the royal bank of scotla nd the boss of the royal bank of scotland has been saying, he has warned that a no—deal brexit could put the uk economy into recession. he told the bbc that a bad brexit could result in zero or negative growth, which would hit rbs's share price. he said the bank was careful about lending to certain sectors of the economy, particularly retail and construction. we look at what we would expect on a normal economic consensus, it's about one to 1.5%, if we get a no growth in the economy, and 0k brexit scenario, if we get a hard brexit scenario, there are other factors that says it will be less than that and the economy may well go down to zero or negative growth next year if brexit is very very harsh. time now for a lo

thorough investigation and reviewed the original investigation, we submitted a file to the crown prosecution serviceient evidence to charge john cannan but was not sufficient evidence to chargejohn cannan but they did say that in their view we had done everything possible and had led all the lines of inquiry that were outstanding, we couldn't do much more. and there were two main reasons why they decline to charge john cannan, both of them were abuse of process issues. one was that the cps and senior treasury counsel felt that cannan had been tried by media and would not get a fair trial, the second was that some of the facts that had come to light, the police had known about in the original inquiry but had done nothing about. we have lost your picture but can still hear you, i am still not clear whyjohn cannan was named as the prime suspects. what was it that brought his name to the police? cannan was involved in the original inquiry, the original murder investigation, but never eliminated from the inquiry. we looked atjohn cannan under the suspects, eliminated all the other suspects and john canna

with support from the national crime agency, the british high commission in islamabad, the crown prosecution servicece by this time in front of leeds crown court, tomorrow morning. the business news in a moment. fir5t the headlines. the dutch authorities accuse russian intelligence of mounting a cyber attack on the international chemical weapons watchdog. in the us, thejustice department charges seven russian military intelligence officers with hacking anti—doping agencies. a drug dealer who trafficked three children including a teenage girl to use in a "county lines" crack and heroin selling ring has been jailed for 14 years after a landmark prosecution here's your business headlines on afternoon live. sales of new cars last month are more than 20% down on last year. meanwhile, nissan warns about the impact of a possible no—deal on brexit. 7,000 people work at ni55an'5 sunderland plant. the japanese firm is urging the uk and eu to work together and towards a balanced brexit. as we've been hearing the boss of rbs has warned a no—deal could tip the uk into recession. the bank is also becoming more ca