that is what has been heard at newcastle crown court today. himself a committed and manipulative paedophile. i think we can speak to our correspondence who has been in court today. what more can you tell us about what the court has been healing? this news is just has been healing? this news isjust coming has been healing? this news is just coming from the court. let me read you more about what the prosecuting barrister has told jury. the accused is a committed paedophile, limitless manipulation when required, including if necessary putting the blame on other people. he said that sort of individual concerned was only concerned for himself, not concerned with the impact of others. he said that the fact that the accused is a paedophile, he told the jury, may help to explain how he was quite so able and willing to conceive of and then relay to the audience such detailed and graphic stories of the sadistic sexual abuse of young boys at the hands of much older men. that has just been told to that jury older men. that has just been told to thatjury he

june kelly, bbc news, at newcastle crown court. our top story this evening.th of a participant in the programme. itv‘s boss says her decision was prompted by the gravity of the situation. wales voted for brexit in the referendum three years ago, so which way will its voters go in next week's eu parliamentary election? coming up on sportsday on bbc news... scotland have named their squad for next month's women's world cup. rachel corsie will captain the team, with kim little as deputy, as they make their debut in the tournament. many women suffer from sickness during pregnancy, but for around one in a hundred it's much, much worse. they suffer from what's called hyperemesis gravidarum, which causes severe nausea and vomiting — in some cases up to 50 times a day. you may remember that the duchess of cambridge had the condition. according to the nhs, around 15,000 women a year seek hospital treatment. bbc correspondent daniela relph, who also had the condition, is taking part in medical research to find out what causes it. my name's laura. i'm 15 weeks and five

june kelly, bbc news, at newcastle crown court.undred the nausea can be crippling. extreme sickness or hyperemesis gravidarum, causes severe nausea and vomiting, in some cases up to fifty times a day. you may remember that the duchess of cambridge had the condition and according to the nhs around 15,000 women a year need hospital treatment. bbc correspondent daniela relph, who also had the condition, is taking part in medical research, to find out how it's caused. my name's laura. i'm 15 weeks and five days pregnant. laura anderson has kept a video diary of her pregnancy. she's had drastic weight loss and constant vomiting. this is the harsh reality of extreme sickness in pregnancy. i'm so cold. also known as hg, hyperemesis gravidarum. i still can't eat, and i can't drink. and i'm hungry, and i'm stressed, and i can't sleep. any form or level of this horrible illness just makes you a complete shadow of who you were. the bbc has carried out its own research on the impact of this condition. more than 5000 women shared their experien

june kelly, bbc news, at newcastle crown court.ama, have approved a bill that will outlaw nearly all abortions including in cases of rape and incest. the only exception is when a woman's health is seriously at risk. if the law is ratified by the state's governor, as expected, it'll be the strictest of its kind in the united states. 0ur north america correspondent uleem maqbool, reports now from alabama. my body... my choice. my body... all eyes were on alabama for a sign of where america is heading. and its senators did this... 25 ayes, six nays, one abstention. house bill 314 passes. that bill all but outlaws abortion in the states at any stage of pregnancy and with no exemptions for rape or incest. women do have rights and i think that if it is a rape there is a plan b. you know, so they do have options. and so there are other options out there that they can explore, but i think that abortion is a wrong thing. not so much as a religion thing, but ijust think it's a murder. i live with grief... dina was 17 when she was raped. she

june kelly, bbc news, at newcastle crown court.deal and warned that failure to do so will result in either us leaving the eu without a deal or not leaving at all. mps are expected to vote on the withdrawal agreement in the first week ofjune, after the european parliamentary elections next week. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. time for the plan the prime minister stitched together with her continental colleagues to be tested again. theresa may's right to look nervous. not at the eu, but at home, where parliament has already said no to her deal three times. it seems almost impossible they'll say yes this time, but could the prime minister win them round? what this bill does is delivers on brexit. that's when mps come to look at this bill and they come to vote on this legislation, i'm sure that they will be thinking of the duty that we have to ensure that we deliver on the vote of the british people. this is the bill that delivers brexit. there's no lazing on this sunny afternoon. ministers desperately need to change do

the prosecution at newcastle crown court says carl beech had convictions for voyeurism, and making andes charges of perverting the course ofjustice and fraud. 0ur correspondent, fiona trott, is at newcastle crown court. fill us in exactly what happened. thejurors were fill us in exactly what happened. the jurors were told that the police found an app on carl beech's ipad which had images of young boys on the akamai indecent images of the most serious kind said the prosecution. it was said that carl beech made and indecent images. the man who accused people of murder and child abuse was himself a committed paedophile. carl beech had no reaction as thejury paedophile. carl beech had no reaction as the jury was told of these offences. it was said that the fa ct these offences. it was said that the fact that he was a paedophile may be how he conceived such a detailed and sadistic stories of the abuse of young boys out of the hands of much older men. thejury has heard young boys out of the hands of much older men. the jury has heard that carl beech told police that lord brandl, the former t

june kelly is at newcastle crown court. to have told two scotla nd beech is said to have told two scotland yard detectives investigating his claims. he said he had a friend called fred who had also been the victim of this vip paedophile ring and he produced correspondence had to be written by a friend. then he said that his real name was john and a friend. then he said that his real name wasjohn and he got the police in touch withjohn as they thought for that they had to e—mail contact with him but in factjohn was carl beech because he had set up a bogus e—mail account and he was pretending to be this person who was going to corroborate his claims. the prosecutor said that carl beech in fa ct prosecutor said that carl beech in fact are have a friend called john and that man has been traced and said he was never a victim of abuse. he also touched this morning on what motivated carl beech to make these bogus claims and he talked about the fa ct bogus claims and he talked about the fact that he was going to get attention and al

june kelly, bbc news, at newcastle crown court. let's take a look at some of today's other news. yaxley—lennon, known as tommy robinson, should face full contempt of court proceedings. it's alleged the english defence league founder could have prejudiced a jury after posts he published on social media last year. the think tank once of runaway incomes for high earners but rises in what it calls deaths of despair among the poorest. the rate of unemployment among women fell to 3.7% in the first three months of the year, the lowest since comparable records began in 1971. for men, the rate was 3.9 %, lowest since mid—1975. police! the threat from organised criminal gangs is "staggering", according to the head of the national crime agency, who says the uk must invest more in the fight against organised crime. lynne owens says her annual budget needs to double, to over £1 billion. manchester city say they're fully co—operating with an investigation into whether the club broke financial fair play rules. it's thought city could be banned from the champions league if they're found guilty.

june kelly, bbc news, at newcastle crown court.h and opportunities in the uk, are undermining trust in democracy and leading to a rise in middle—age death rates. the independent institute for fiscal studies, says high earners are enjoying runaway incomes, but "deaths of despair," such as from suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, are on the rise among the poorest. our social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan, has the story. in recent decades, the united kingdom has grown to become the fifth largest economy in the world. for many, however, it doesn't feel that way. on the edge of the city's richest, this market caters to those with pennies, not porsches. inequality is part of their daily lives. compared to the multi—million pound property is right next door. you have to fight to get your repairs done. then you have the rich next door, who have got less than five seconds to get something fixed for nothing. there is social housing, but there isn't, is there? it is all privatised. people have bought them and rented them out at extorti

june kelly, bbc news, at newcastle crown court.o years ago, richard livett, has described how he came "nose to nose" with one of the men wielding a knife. today, he told the inquests into the deaths of eight people about the chaotic scenes at the time, moments after three attackers had driven a van into pedestrians on the bridge. hundreds of millions of people have been voting in india's general election, and the results are due next week. a majority hindu country, critics of the current prime minister — narendra modi, who leads the hindu nationalist bjp party — say he's failed to reach out to the minority muslim population, which numbers more than 170 million. the united nations says it is concerned about a rise in targeted attacks against minorities, especially muslims, and the increase in violence has become a key election issue. our south asia correspondent, rajini vaidyanathan, reports. these are the muslims of the nomadic bakarwal tribe. they're outcasts, treated with resentment wherever they go. when they tried to settle in

our home affairs correspondentjune kelly is at newcastle crown court. what was said in court?people, including lord bramall, the former chief of the defence staff, lord britain, who served as home secretary as leon britton, former tory mp harvey proctor and greville janner, as well asjimmy proctor and greville janner, as well as jimmy several, who proctor and greville janner, as well asjimmy several, who he also said had abused him. the prosecution said this morning that carl beech‘s help had been that those he had accused who were still living with end". it is now hidden in the dock. and today the prosecutor told the jury that carl beech claimed he had witnessed no less three child killings and was subjected to rape, torture and sexual abuse by a number of prominent men. the qc said it was an extraordinary claim and also untrue. he spoke of the immeasurable distress caused to those that carl beech had accused, he said he had witnessed harvey proctor killing a child. what we can report for the first time is that while he was awaiting trial, carl beech actually fled the country

our correspondent fiona trott is outside newcastle crown court. the prosecution said he told police, a former chief of defence staff, lord bramall, raped him, a former tory mp, harvey proctor, murdered a boy in front of him, another boy was killed by harvey proctor, and the former head of mi5 harvey proctor, and the former head of m15 and lord brittan, the former home secretary, were also involved. he said, as a schoolboy, he was subjected to rape, torture and sexual abuse by dozens of men includingjimmy sexual abuse by dozens of men including jimmy savile. the jury heard he told police he was abused by his stepfather. the court has been played in interview that he gave to police, in which he described this first alleged murder ofa described this first alleged murder of a boy called scott, which he said happened back in 1979, he said the boy was run over. mr beech was crying in the police interview, he told a detective that his alleged abuses warned him not to be friends with scott, but i didn't listen, and he died because i didn't do as i was tol

investigation by the metropolitan police, which cost £2.5 million. 0ur correspondent fiona trott is at newcastle crown courtt on what has been going on there. the prosecution told the court is quite impossible to conceive of allegations of a worse kind. this is what he told the police, they said, a former chief of defence police, they said, a former chief of d efe nce staff police, they said, a former chief of defence staff raped him come of the former tory mp harvey proctor murdered a boy in front of him. he made allegations against the former secretary, the late prime minister edward heath and the presenterjimmy savo. this afternoon, the court heard mr beech had a lifelong fear of water. the prosecution said the police found photographs and videos of him swimming all over the world. the qc said it was an adult lifetime of swimming memories. thejury the qc said it was an adult lifetime of swimming memories. the jury was also played interviews carl beech gave with police. you're talking about an alleged murder involving a school friend called scott back in the 1970s, and he said that boy was deliberately ru

carl beech from gloucester is on trial at newcastle crown court, where he denies 12 counts of pervertingnce. 17—year—old aaron campbell was ordered to serve a minimum of 27 years of a life sentence for killing the schoolgirl on the isle of bute. campbell snatched alesha from her bed as she slept at her grandparents‘ home injuly last year. the head of the national crime agency wants her budget doubled to deal with what she describes as the "staggering" threat posed by organised gangs across the uk. lynne owens says that without the extra investment of nearly three—billion—pounds, members of the public would "feel the consequences". our home affairs correspondent, danny shaw, reports. jailed last month, zain qaiser was behind a sophisticated online scan investigated by the national crime agency. the 24—year—old used his computer programming skills to blackmail pornography website users out of hundreds thousands of pounds. the case highlights the increasing complexity of serious and organised crime and is why the nca is calling for more staff and expertise to counter the threat. according t

they were remanded in custody and are due to appear at sheffield crown court tomorrow. newcastlehaled in a deal reported to be worth £350 million. ashley, who bought the club in 2007, put it up for sale in 2017. the us president donald trump has been the first foreign leader to meetjapan's new emperor. president trump met emperor naruhito and empress masako at the imperial palace in tokyo. it's part of his four—day state visit to japan. now it's time for the weather with darren. by by the end of the week it will feel much, much warmer across many parts of the country. we started the week bank holiday monday with cooler, fresher air, sunshine and a few heavy showers. this is where we will find warmer and coming up from their mid atlantic later in the week. at the moment cooler, fresher air coming down from iceland bringing more showers overnight and into tuesday. the bulk of the showers on tuesday. the bulk of the showers on tuesday will be across the eastern side of the uk stop in the afternoon mainly eastern parts of england. further west, much drier and more into the way of sun

they were remanded in custody and are due to appear at sheffield crown court tomorrow. newcastle a deal reported to be worth £350 million. ashley, who bought the club in 2007, put it up for sale in 2017. the us president, donald trump, has been the first foreign leader to meetjapan‘s new emperor. president trump met emperor naruhito and empress masako at the imperial palace in tokyo. it's part of his four—day state visit to japan. today's football news is that aston villa will play in the premier league next season, after a memorable 2—1victory against derby county, in the championship play—off final at wembley. the promotion is worth at least £170 million, and returns the club to the top flight for the first time since relegation in 2016. our correspondent patrick gearey was watching. roll up, roll up, for wembley‘s big bank holiday giveaway. one lucky winner of derby county and aston villa gets a trip to the premier league, and with it at least £170 million over three years. if you stay up for one season, that becomes 300 million. it makes the 6.6 million going to next weekend'