daniel sandford, bbc news, at the national crime agency. at some other stories in the headlines. four young children have been killed in an attack on a preschool in southern brazil. police say a 25—year—old man entered the nursery and attacked the children before turning himself in. a tornado struck missouri in the early morning, killing at least five people. local authorities report widespread damage to the area. this storm is one of many to devastate the us south and midwest. when commenting on the storm, an officer called it "heartbreaking" to see. the un chief has strongly condemned the taliban for barring afghan women from working for the organisation in the country. secretary general antonio guterres says female staff are essential and that this move will harm afghans. afghan employees — men and women — have been told to not report to work for the next 48 hours until there's more clarity on the situation. a new bbc investigation exposes a uk life—coaching organisation that is accused of being a cult. the group says it offers self—deve

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the national crime agency. 21 people have been convicted for their involvement police. 13 have already been jailed. here is phil mackie. this is the first time we can report this case because there have been a series of trials that have been going on since last year, the last of which has just ended at wolverhampton crown court with three further convictions. in total, 21 people have been convicted in connection with this sex abuse trial, the biggest west midlands police have dealt with. 13 in prison, four awaiting sentence, and four more convicted of less serious offences and have been given non—custodial offences. i really can't go into the detail of what the crimes were, because they are just so horrific. in fact, west midlands police have described this as a case of shocking and systematic abuse. it first came to light following a hospital admission by one of the young victims — they were all aged 12 years and under, and in that case — safeguarding concerns were raised, that led to a much wider investigation, which ultimately led to the series of trials whic

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the national crime agency.the uk. the home office has confirmed it's leased a barge to house asylum seekers in dorset. the uk government says it costs more than £6 million per day to house migrants in hotels and says the barge is a "significantly cheaper" solution. around 500 migrants will be accommodated on the vessel in portland in the south of england. 21 people have been found guilty of involvement in the biggest child sex abuse case ever investigated by west midlands police. seven children were abused over almost a decade in walsall and wolverhampton. the oldest was 12. police in scotland say the former chief executive of the snp, peter murrell, has been released without charge following his arrest earlier today. he was being questioned as part of an inquiry into the party's finances. his wife — the former first minister, nicola sturgeon — has said she will "fully co—operate" with the police if asked. a new bbc investigation exposes a uk life—coaching organisation that is accused of being a cult. the group

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the national crime agency. the time is 1315. interference, after being charged with 3a counts of falsifying business records. and coming up. taking stock of the gender pay gap. has it closed, five years after companies were forced, to reveal their rates? coming up on the bbc news channel. rory mcilroy says he is confident of completing golf�*s grand slam by winning the masters which gets under way in augusta tomorrow. this year is the northern irishman�*s 15th attempt to win the only major to have so far eluded him. a bbc investigation has exposed a british life—coaching business accused of being a cult. lighthouse international claimed it offered self—development and life coaching, but several people who signed up, say they were later encouraged to hand over tens of thousands of pounds, and separate from their familes, as the organisation took over their lives. here�*s catrin nye. it�*s been 18 months since jeffrey leejones left lighthouse international group, a life coaching company accused of being a cult. the 34—year—old sai

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the national crime agency.ve been killed in an attack on a preschool in southern brazil, a man entering the nursery and attacking the children before turning himself in. a tornado struck is already in the early morning, killing at least five people. local authorities report widespread damage to the area. the storm is one of need to devastate the us south and midwest. when commenting on the storm, an officer called it heartbreaking to see. the un chief is strongly condemned the taliban for barring afghan women from working for the organisation in the country. the secretary general says female staff are essential and that this move will harm afghans. afghan employees, men and women, have been told not to report to work the next 48 hours there is more clarity on the situation. former new zealand prime ministerjacinda ardern has bowed out of parliament with a standing ovation following her farewell speech earlier. the 42—year—old spoke about the honour she has felt representing her country and steering its people t

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the national crime agency.be given powers to cap rents, as part of its campaign for next month's local elections, involving 230 local authorities in england. at an event in suffolk, the green party co—leader, carla denyer, said controls should be introduced in areas where the rental market is "overheated". she said too many people were trapped in housing which was "unaffordable to rent and unaffordable to heat". all over our country, we have people unable to buy a home, trapped in housing that is unaffordable to rent and unaffordable to heat. that is why at the green party would bring in an immediate rent freeze and eviction ban. we can't allow people to become homeless in the middle of a cost of living crisis. carla denyer, the co—leader of the green party. a bbc investigation has exposed how a life—coaching organisation in the uk, which offers lessons in personal self—development, has encouraged people to hand over tens of thousands of pounds and taken over their lives. some people have accused the organisati

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the national crime agency. got some breaking news coming into us at the bbc. the house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccall is leading a investigation that has just landed in taipei. chairman mccall isjoined by mccall is joined by representative mccall isjoined by representative young kim of the indo—pacific and a ranking member of the subcommittee on the indo—pacific and some other representatives. the delegation, while they are there, will meet with time in his business leaders we understand as well as senior taiwanese officials from the executive and legislative branches to discuss the ways that the us can strengthen economic and defence relationships. this is of course significant because just on wednesday we saw the taiwanese president visiting california meeting with the us speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. so, this visit is another sign of the us strengthening its relations with taiwan. we will continue to follow that visit from michael mccall and his colleagues in taiwan and bring you mo

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the national crime agency. 21 people have been convicted for their partsse case investigated by west midlands police. the five jailed for the most serious offences will serve terms ranging from 15 years in prison — to life with a minimum term of 18 years. the seven victims, aged just 12 and under, were abused over nearly a decade in walsall and wolverhampton. 0ur correspondent phil mackie is in walsall now. this case was so big that this is the end of a series of trials. yes, the end of a series of trials. yes, the first trial — the end of a series of trials. yes, the first trial began _ the end of a series of trials. yes, the first trial began over - the end of a series of trials. yes, the first trial began over a - the end of a series of trials. was the first trial began over a year ago, this was the end of the third done for the first time we were able to report this case which frankly involved some absolutely sickening abuse that we won't go into the details of. and the children, the oldest of whom was just 12 years old, and it went on for a period of

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the national crime agency. we are keeping a close eye on hospital in italy, silvio berlusconi has been admitted to hospital in milan. he is in intensive care in a cardiac unit, suffering from some kind of heart problems, but his people are telling the media he may be in intensive care, but right now he is intensive care, but right now he is in a stable condition. he is now 86 years old, the billionaire media tycoon, he has had repeated bouts of ill—health in recent years, it was actually only last week when he just came out of hospital, because he had a very bad bout of covid, with obligations following that and pneumonia as well. so back inside hospital now in intensive care. being treated in a cardiac unit. as i said, the hospital not commenting, but his people saying he's right now in a stable condition. the italian prime minister, four times, being treated inside a hospital, as you can see here, in milan. concerns about his heart, he has had problems, but he has been repeatedly hospital over the past four years and unwell. stay with us here on bbc news,

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the national crime agency.nd people alike, the very popular tv presenter has announced she has had a baby girl through surrogacy in the us, at the age of 68 and today there has been another twist. 0ur news reporter has all the details. this woman found at all the details. this woman found at a south at the centre of this controversy, where last week the equivalent of hello magazine in spain published this as its front cover and you can see her here are pictured with a newborn baby girl, born via surrogacy in the us, this is outside a hospital in miami. this caused such a debate, because surrogacy is banned in spain and we are going to go through that in minutes, but first, some important background to this. this is her son, an old picture of them, because sadly he died in a 2020 from cancer, he wasjust 27 sadly he died in a 2020 from cancer, he was just 27 years old. but she made reference to this when she announced on the baby's birth on her instagram channel, you can see here she shared that same photo outsid

daniel sandford has more. come to the door! police! come to the door!ional operation against online fraud. officers from the national crime agency and the police arrested a man in his 30s on suspicion of fraud and computer misuse. one of 24 people arrested in the uk. the target of the raids was the genesis market website, a one—stop shop for hackers who could log in and buy stolen passwords for bank accounts, paypal accounts and accounts for services like amazon, uber and netflix. what was particularly dangerous about the data being sold on the genesis market website was that it wasn't just log in details. the hackers could purchase all of what is known as your digital fingerprints, your browser information, your ip address and your physical location. so that when the hackers logged in to a bank account or shopping website, it really did look as if they were the original user. hackers trying to use genesis market today did not get the usual login page. rather, they got this message from the fbi saying the website had been seized as part of operation coo

with more on this, we can talk to our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford.ell us more about the latest on the story. more than 120 people arrested worldwide in this operation, which is been run by dutch police and the fbi in the united states and also police didn't new zealand, australia, canada, the uk, with the national agency took the lead and also all across europe. it's been a very big operation, running for around 36 hours now. the idea was to take this website, genesis market out of action and also to arrest many of the people suspected of using it to bleed back in very large numbers. it's thought about 2 million peoples dater was for sale on genis market. it wasn'tjust logins and passwords, simple access to peoples banking accounts and shopping accounts but also all sorts of other information about the computer they usually use, browse the information about ip address, physical location and putting all that together would allow a hacker to actually pretty much convinced a or a shopping service that it was the genuine owner of that username and passwo

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the national crime agency. taliban had informed them verbally but there had not yet been written communication of the move. the un has told its afghan staff — men and women — not to report to work for 48 hours, until it has clarity on the matter. cindy mccain is the head of the un�*s world food programme. she spoke to my colleague lucy hockings about the issue. oui’ our top priority today is with found out is of course are afghan women. tats found out is of course are afghan women.— found out is of course are afghan women. found out is of course are afthan women. a ~ ., ., afghan women. as you know, are aft han afghan women. as you know, are afghan women — afghan women. as you know, are afghan women were _ afghan women. as you know, are afghan women were workers - afghan women. as you know, are afghan women were workers who j afghan women were workers who through un agencies who now the taliban has said they cannot work for the un anymore so what this does to w wp in particular is it does not enable us to do a

our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, is at the metropolitan police headquarters at new scotland. yes. an awful lot going on in the capital this weekend for the police. yes, a ve bus this weekend for the police. yes, a very busy weekend _ this weekend for the police. yes, a very busy weekend for _ this weekend for the police. yes, a very busy weekend for the - this weekend for the police. yes, a very busy weekend for the police, l very busy weekend for the police, because you've got a semifinal, an fa cup semifinal on each of the two days of the weekend and then the london marathon on sunday morning, and those three things haven't come together since before the pandemic and then, on top of that, these four days of extinction rebellion demonstrations to those supposed to be nondisruptive demonstrations. be nondisru ptive demonstrations. extinction be nondisruptive demonstrations. extinction rebellion is in theory still on a nondisruptive pause. demonstrations are designed to draw attention to their concerns about climate change and not to disrupt, and clearly that promise not to d

we go to daniel, daniel sandford who is standing by for us.talk us through the procedure and the process here? between thejudge, effectively getting up and going out to consider sentencing is like what is going on? the to consider sentencing is like what is going on?— is going on? the “udge will have fou~ht is going on? the “udge will have fought back — is going on? the judge will have fought back thought _ is going on? the judge will have fought back thought a _ is going on? the judge will have fought back thought a lot - is going on? the judge will have fought back thought a lot about| is going on? the judge will have - fought back thought a lot about what she was going to say you're ready, she was going to say you're ready, she will probably have sketched out the bulk of what she was going to say, in the background of the case, and quite a bit of the legal discussion that we have talked about, that was —— that will form the middle part of her sentence. she won't have filled in the numbers, she would have waited to hear what the prosecution

daniel sandford, bbc news, at the national crime agency.ay. for many, it's been quite a cloudy day, and there's been some outbreaks of rain, some of it quite drizzly at times, a bit of a nuisance, really. and all that cloud and rain is spilling its way steadily eastwards. there's several weather fronts that have been invading from the far northwest, that's where the strongest of the winds have been as well today. the best of the sunshine across southeast england, but it's not lasting because the cloud arrives and the rain will push its way in. you can see a slightly darker blue. there's more intensity to the rain in the back edge of that wet weather. so there will be some heavier bursts from time to time slowly clearing its way eastwards. so, through the night, quite a lot of cloud around, yes, some outbreaks of rain, slowly improving across western scotland and northern ireland, here, a few scattered showers, but we keep that cloud and rain first thing in the morning. so temperatures are going to hold up above freezing, generally around 6—