in the commons, labour called for the leveson inquiry into press standards to be re—opened. ure secretary stuck to his announcement made last week that the second stage of leveson should not go ahead. the fact that this activity stopped in 2010 underlines the point that the world has changed. practises like these have been investigated, newspapers today are in a very different position to when these alleged offences took place. this view is in fact strengthened by today by the example because the behaviour we discovered today was before the leveson inquiry and existing or is in place to deal with it. criminal behaviour should be dealt with by the police and the courts and anyone who has committed a criminal offence should face the full force of the law. mr speaker, the world has not changed. the one rogue blaggard defence has been uttered from the mouth of the secretary of state. and when he announced last week that he was dropping the leveson inquiry, the culture secretary said he was doing so because the inquiry looked into everything in this area. and it was followed by a

the government says it's scrapping stage two of the leveson inquiry into press standards, claiming theia landscape has changed. but the news gets a furious response from labour. a breach of trust and a bitter blow to the victims of press intrusion. here, here. questions on the beast from the east to the transport secretary as snow causes chaos across the uk. also on this programme... peers call for more regulation on the use of facial recognition technology. these techniques are extremely powerful, but they are out of the bag. the train has left the station, or whichever metaphor you want to use. and after 81 countries add folic acid to food to try to prevent birth defects, questions as to why the uk hasn't. isn't it a disgrace that we haven't got to the point of preventing that suffering in our own country? but first, the government is to abandon the next stage of the leveson inquiry into press intrusion. the culture secretary, matt hancock, also told mps that he would repeal an existing law which would make newspapers pay the legal costs of people claiming libel, even if the case was

his admissions come days after the government abandoned the second phase of the leveson inquiry into did their phones, i did their mobiles, i did their bank accounts. i stole their rubbish. for 15 years, john ford was engaged by the sunday times. now, for the first time, he's speaking out about what he did, including targeting tony blair and gordon brown. he received a police caution for fraud in the course of his work. as a private investigator, he earned up to £40,000 a year. there were a lot of people who say that britain's newspapers for many years harboured huge and industrial scale criminal activity. does your experience, working for them, suggest that's true? absolutely, and i was at the forefront of it, i'm ashamed to say. for almost two centuries, the sunday times has been an ornament to british journalism, launching many of the most famous campaigns and names in the trade. like other titles owned by rupert murdoch, it was involved in the leveson inquiry into press ethnics. last week the government finally scrapped phase two of the leveson inquiry, which was due to look at a

for many people, the leveson inquiry was done and dusted in 2012.e so there was always going to be a second leveson inquiry. it was supposed to look at the extent of unlawful or improper conduct within news international, the news of the world and the son and other media organisations so this was looking at all of the press and also looking at whether the police received corrupt payments or we re police received corrupt payments or were otherwise complicit in this conduct. it was a question of illegal activity in the media and the police and the relationship between the two. it had the potential to be very embarrassing. since then we have had many court cases and people have been to prison. there have been 40 people sent to prison as a consequence of all of these various different cases. matthew hancock said today, the culture secretary, this is in the culture secretary, this is in the past. it would not be proportionate and not in the national interests to press ahead with this. he said essentially we know how bad it was. we don't need to know any

remember the leveson inquiry, 2012, a huge investigation into malpractice within the newspapers.lity, looking at police corruption, that they couldn't look at at the time, even though the government said it was definitely going to do it because of all the legal action that was taking place. that legal action came to an end and now the government has said, no, it won't actually do part two, looking at all office. matt hancock, the culture secretary, says it is not proportionate, not in the national interest, essentially newspapers have got their house in order, a new form of regulation and that police practices have changed. also there's the other element of this, section a0, which is essentially the stick forcing the newspapers to sign up to formally regulator. the newspapers really didn't want to do this, they haven't signed up to any formal regulator and this was supposedly to encourage them by giving them penalties within the libel courts. now, this is going to be scrapped at the earliest possible opportunity, because they said the newspaper industry, newspapers, couldn't face

the government has scrapped plans to hold the second stage of the leveson inquiry, which was due to looklations between police and journalists. lord justice leveson accused ministers of breaking their promise to phone hacking victims. but the culture secretary said it wouldn't be in the national interest. theresa may is to set out five so—called "tests" tomorrow afternoon, for a future deal with the european union post brexit. earlier she welcomed the eu's donald tusk to downing street. mrs may will pledge to bring the country together, and to argue for the "deepest and broadest possible" trade agreement between the uk and eu. we have lots more on our website, you can get in touch with us via social media. time now for all the sports news in sport today. hello, this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme. manchester city move 16 points clear at the top of the premier league after a footballing masterclass to beat arsenal 3—0. england thump france 4—1 at that she believes gupta and phil neville the perfect start to his reign as head coach. and the grea

the government has scrapped plans to hold the second stage of the leveson inquiry, which was due to look and relations between police and journalists. lord justice leveson accused ministers of breaking their promise to phone hacking victims. but the culture secretary said it wouldn't be in the national interest. that's a summary of the news — now it's time for newsnight with kirsty. the icy fang and churlish chiding of the winter's wind... shakespeare made it sound exciting, but for the millions affected it's anything but. add to that fears over the energy supply — are we coping as well as we should? there's plenty of gas in the world, there's plenty of import infrastructure, so it's not really a shortage of gas overall. but what we saw today is our ability to handle short—term spikes in demand is not great. also tonight... has putin launched a new arms race? we'll be speaking a former us ambassador to nato. the italians head to the polls on sunday, after a campaign dominated by anti—immigrant rhetoric. is this new, or are old tensions bubbling to the surface? and... charting all his fai

the government's announced its abandoning the next stage of the leveson inquiry into press intrusion, wake of the phone hacking scandal. the culture secretary, argued the industry had changed and he reminded mps that phase one had cost £48 million. i have informed sir brian that we are formally closing the inquiry. but we will take action to safeguard the lifeblood of our democratic discourse and tackle the challenges our media face today, not a decade ago. this announcement conveniently timed to be buried under a flurry of snow is a disappointment. a breach of trust and a bitter blow to the victims of press intrusion. but it is not in any way a surprise. uk millennials are on track to be the most overweight generation since records began, health experts say. based on population trends, more than seven in every ten people born between the early—19805 and the mid—90s will be too fat by the time they reach middle age. five—year—olds are now eating their own body weight in sugar every year, obesity is the second largest cause of cancer and it reduces life expectancy up to ten years. what

the government has scrapped plans to hold the second stage of the leveson inquiry, which was due to lookelations between police and journalists. lord justice leveson accused ministers of breaking their promise to phone hacking victims. but the culture secretary said it wouldn't be in the national interest they were dubbed britain's lost children — thousands of them forcibly sent abroad to countries such as australia and canada after world war ii. they were promised new lives, but instead many suffered physical and sexual abuse. now an independent inquiry into the scandal has urged the british government to pay compensation to all the survivors, as tom symonds reports. a dark history. british children lied to, deported, sexually abused, and even tortured. the pain has not gone even now. all we did was do as we were told and suffered immensely for it. the child migrants from poor backgrounds were promised a betterfuture. when visitors came, especially from britain, that's how it seemed. but last year the now—elderly migrants gave hours of chilling evidence of what their carers said. you're

and the culture secretary has announced the government is formally closing the leveson inquiry into presson head coach eddiejones say he won't risk getting public transport after a very unpleasant experience last weekend. good afternoon. pretty sad, really, when you look at it. it surrounds a couple of incidents on to train journeys heading back from edinburgh to eddiejones. journeys heading back from edinburgh to eddie jones. england journeys heading back from edinburgh to eddiejones. england beaten by scotla nd to eddiejones. england beaten by scotland on the saturday. this was on the sunday. he was travelling by himself in standard class out of edinburgh. he was apparently abused and jostled on that service. he was off to the manchester united match asa off to the manchester united match as a guest of the alex ferguson. we've received this footage of his arrival at manchester oxford road. posing for some selfies, he's harangued and sworn at by a group of men. after the match he was also subject to abuse on the train journey to london euston as well. british transport police were made a

the culture secretary scraps the second phase of the leveson inquiry, set up following the phone hackingndal, saying the press had cleaned up its act. scottish rugby say they're appalled by abuse suffered by england's head coach eddiejones on his train journey last weekend. he vows never to travel by public transport again. it's five o'clock — our top story. throughout the uk, there is severe disruption to transport and travel as the country endures a third day of freezing weather. thousands of children have been unable to go to school. a red alert — the most severe weather warning, meaning there's a risk to life — is in force for south west england and south wales until two o'clock in the morning. the icy blast is expected to last at least another 48 hours. the met office predicts that between ten and 20 cm of snow will fall in the red alert area, with the potential for up to 30 to 50 cm over parts of dartmoor, exmoor and parts of southeast wales. ice has been building on tiverton‘s grand western canal, and drivers are being warned that widespread icy stretches on the roads will make co