danny shaw, bbc news.aisley, has made an emotional apology in the house of commons for failing to delcare two luxury holidays that were paid for by the sri lankan government. the north antrim mp has been suspended from the commons for 30 days starting from september and is facing calls to stand down from westminster. he says it was genuine mistake. i have apologised to the house and to colleagues. and i understand that subject to the decision of this house, i may from september be subject to a suspension lasting 30 days. i take my duties, mr speaker, as a member of parliament seriously. i believe i conduct myself with colleagues with integrity, with openness and that is why i have such remorse about the matter, as i believe it goes against the grain of who i am. especially how it is portrayed. it is to my constituents, mr speaker, who have sent me here since 2010 that i make the profoundest of all apologies. they have honoured me with unwavering support to be their voice and i hope they will continue to ha

our home affairs correspondent danny shaw has more detail.the metropolitan police conducting the investigation. you may remember the met said they had identified the source of the nerve agent at the city was contained in a small bottle in charlie rowley‘s flat in wilts. now we have a claim from charlie rowley‘s brother who said it was actually in a perfume bottle. it appears that he has told his brother that information. it will also seem to have been passed on to the police but, as i have said, we have had no confirmation from the metropolitan police. the metropolitan police are putting out as much detail as they can but they have not confirmed that piece of information. they have previously said that people should be very careful about what they pick up be very careful about what they pick up and they should not pick up things on the ground in that area that do not belong to them, including asthmatics, so it is possible it may have been contained ina perfume possible it may have been contained in a perfume bottle but we are just not sure. c

our home affairs correspondent danny shaw has more detail.d by the metropolitan police, which is conducting the investigation. the metropolitan police said they had identified the source of the nerve agent. they said it was contained in agent. they said it was contained in a small bottle that was in charlie rowley‘s flat in amesbury in wiltshire. now we have a claim from charlie rowley‘s brother, matthew, who spoke to the bbc and said it was actually a perfume bottle. —— actually a perfume bottle. —— actually in a purview bottle. it appears he told his brother that information and it seems to have been passed on to the police. as i've said, we had no confirmation from the metropolitan police of that information. the met are putting out a lot of detail, as much as they can but they haven't confirmed that information. they have previously said that people should be careful about what they pick up. they shouldn't pick up things from the ground in that area that don't believe to that —— belonged to them, including cosmetics. it's possible it was

earlier, i wasjoined by home affairs correspondent danny shaw who talked us through the case.idland spike in 2014 by these claims made by nick, it is one of the most controversial enquiries in recent history of scotland yard. it took 18 months to investigate and initially, detect gives described nick's account is credible and true. but in the investigation, what happened was that the number of seniorfigures were happened was that the number of senior figures were investigated, including retired lord bramall, also lord brittan, the late lord brittan, and harvey proctor, the former conservative mp were investigated, no charges were brought against any of them and the enquiry was closed, scotla nd of them and the enquiry was closed, scotland yard was heavily criticised bya scotland yard was heavily criticised by a judge in a report and in the case was sent off the northumbria police, a separate force, to investigate nick himself and whether he had actually been telling the truth. so the replication is from this case have already been pretty significant —— repercussions. what do y

our home affairs correspondent danny shaw is here. looking through the figures and there are also statistics — top to us about the number being solved. yes, more work for the police to do but they are solving fewer of them. we have figures from the home office for detecting and —— detections and 9% of all crimes result in a suspect being charged or summonsed, down from 15% in 2015 when these figures we re from 15% in 2015 when these figures were first compiled. that is really worrying because it suggests there are more offenders committing crimes and we are not being caught so you could get a potential spiral where the crime is continuing to rise and rise. that is a real concern for the police and home office. it may be a reflection of the fact we are getting more complex crimes, more sexual offences reported. these are more difficult crimes to solve but it could also be a reflection of the increased stretch of police forces. the police workforce, the number of officers is down again, 122,400 offices so you have fewer officers, more c

danny shaw, bbc news. suggesting no other us president has ever been tougher on russia. our washington correspondent chris buckler reports. when president trump shared a stage with vladimir putin in helsinki, to some within his republican party it appeared all too cosy, particularly as he seemed to side with the russian president over america's own intelligence agencies. now, after days of criticism, in an interview with america's cbs news, he has taken a deliberately tougher line. you say you agree with us intelligence that russia meddled in the election in 2016. yeah, and i've said that before, jeff. i have said that numerous times before, and i would say that that is true, yeah. but you haven't condemned putin specifically. do you hold him personally responsible? well, iwould, because he's in charge of the country, just like i consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country. so certainly as the leader of a country, you would have to hold him responsible, yes. after he returned t

our home affairs correspondent danny shaw explained the case.y nick, it's one of the most controversial inquiries in the recently history of scotland yard. it took 80 months to investigate. and initially, detective described nick's account as credible and true. but, during the investigation, what happened was that an number of senior figures were investigated, including the retired lord bramhall, and also lord britton, the late lord britton, the former conservative mp. they were investigated, no charges were brought against any of them in the inquiry was close. scotland yard was heavily criticised by a judge in a report, and in the case was then sent off to was then sent off to northumbria police, a separate force, to investigate make himself. and whether he actually was telling the truth. so the repercussions from this case have already been pretty significant. what, do you think, is likely to be the further fallout now that he's actually been charged with allegedly lying about some of these very powerful allegations which he made? well this is

danny shaw, bbc news.ding two who died, have been recognised by the queen for their bravery during last year's london bridge terror attack. three of them are to receive the george medal which is awarded for gallantry. eight people were killed last june when borough market and london bridge were targetted by attackers. donald trump has now said that he holds vladimir putin personally responsible for russian interference in the 2016 us election. at a press conference on monday president trump seemed to put russia's denials above the conclusions of us intelligence agencies. he's since said he misspoke, suggesting no other us president has ever been tougher on russia. israel's parliament has passed a law that defines the country as an exclusivelyjewish state. thejewish nation—state law also downgrades arabic as an official language, and views the advance ofjewish settlement as a national interest. the turkish government has ended the nationwide state of emergency that was imposed two years ago, following a fai

joining us on the set is our home affairs correspondent danny shaw.ind everyone of this case and what it was all about? this enquiry was known as operation midland and was barbed in 2014 by these claims made by nick. it is one of the most controversial claims made in the history of scotland yard. they described nick's count as credible and true. during the investigation and number of senior figures were investigated including the retired lord bramall, also in the retired lord bramall, also in the late lord leon britton and harvey proctor, the former conservative mp. they were investigated and no charges were brought against any of them and the enquiry was close. scotland yard was heavily criticised by a judge in the report. then report was sent to northumbria police, a separate force to investigate nick himself and whether he had been the truth. the repercussions of this case have already been significant, what is likely to be the further fallout now he has been charged with allegedly lying about some of these powerful allegations which he made? this

our home affairs correspondent, danny shaw explained the background to this a little earlier.ed nick. nick said he had been systematically abused in the 1970s and 80s and he witnessed three boys being murdered and he named a number of leading, high profile figures including harvey proctor, the former conservative mp lord bramhall and the late leon britton. scotland yard to 18 months to carry out their investigation and it resulted in no criminal charges whatsoever. the enquiry cost £2.5 million and the met was subject to fierce criticism after a report by a retired judge. what is the next stage? the details of these allegations have been set out today by the crown prosecution service. they say it is alleged that nick made a false allegation of witnessing the child homicide of an unnamed boy by harvey proctor. it is said he made an false allegation of witnessing the killing of a boy named scott. that he provided sketches of locations of which he had been physically and sexually abused, falsely claiming he produced those images from memory. it also says he provided a penknife an

danny shaw, bbc news.use they're stationed in scotland. anyone earning more than about £26,000 a year now pays higher income tax in scotland than elsewhere in the uk. the ministry of defence says about 8,000 military personnel have been affected, but they will be reimbursed — to ensure that all armed forces staff pay the same rate of tax. students at manchester university have defaced a muralfeaturing rudyard kipling's poem ‘if‘ — in a stand against the work which they have described as racist. the author's 1895 poem was painted on a wall of the university's newly renovated union building. but student leaders erased the work, replacing it with a piece by maya angelou in a bid to reverse "black and brown voices" being written out of history. the union has apologised for failing to consult students on its choice of poem. rachel is here with the business news. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. there's been a big rise in violent crime in england and wales, according to figures out today. scotlan

with me is our home affairs correspondent, danny shaw.s significant. it shows the dust appear to be is significant. it shows the dust appearto bea is significant. it shows the dust appear to be a post—brexit referendum affect. figures have been coming down since june referendum affect. figures have been coming down sincejune 2016, so net migration from the eu, the difference between the people coming to live in the uk for more than 12 months and those leaving is 101,000, the lowest since 2013. however, there is still 240,000 people who arrived in the uk from eu countries, so it is not as if the flow has stopped entirely. the large numbers of people coming to the here, but not quite so many working. we have separate figures for the first three months of this year, showing there was 2.29 million eu nationals working in the uk, 28,000 less than the year earlier, and that is the first annualfall for the year earlier, and that is the first annual fall for eight years. so, if you are eu people living here, and also emigration of eu nationals is

here's our home affairs correspondent, danny shaw, with a warning that his report does contain some flashing like this. an arson attack on a garden shed owned by polish people. and white powder sent to a mosque. police guidance says hate crime should be treated as a priority. officers are meant to attend victims within an hour of an allegation being reported. but the inspectorate of constabulary found the police response is patchy, and in many cases not good enough. the report found too many hate crimes were wrongly recorded. it took police an average of five days to visit victims in a0% of cases it looked at. and there were no visits to hate crime victims in over a third of the 180 cases examined in detail. it's important for victims of hate crime to be asked why it is that they think they've been victimised, so that it's identified from the outset. because if it is identified, it can then and it should then be flagged, and that in turn determines what service they receive. two years ago, there was a spike in hate crimes reported to police after the eu referendum. the inspectorate warns for