richard lister, bbc news.spicion of murder after a car drove into a pub in essex. police said a man in his 40s died when the vehicle hit the spinnaker inn in colchester in the early hours of this morning. three other people have been taken to hospital — one with life—changing injuries. airbnb, which allows people to rent property online, says it's banning bookings for so—called party houses. it follows the death of five people in a shooting in san francisco on halloween night. here's our north america correspondent chris buckler. parties have been a big issue for the company for a long time, but what has led them to act was a party thrown at a home in orinda, which is an affluent suburb in san francisco last week. now a woman rented that house, claiming she wanted to find a place to allow her asthmatic family to escape from the smoke from the california wildfires. in fact, she threw a halloween party in which 100 people turned up and it descended into violence. in which there were shootings and five people die

richard lister, bbc news.today, our correspondent chi chi izundu was at the service and sent this update. well, it has been an understandably emotional service for the vietnamese community here in britain that have congregated in the church just behind me. it started with a projection of the container containing those 39 bodies from that industrial park followed by a minutes silence. the mass is being led by bishop nicholas hudson who said that he wanted to offer prayers to some members of the congregation who could possibly be relatives of the dead and the victims. he also offered prayers for the emergency services that had to deal with that incident but he interestingly also offered prayers for the traffickers and said that he hoped, as a result of this tragedy, would have a change of heart. the headlines on bbc news: the brexit party leader, nigel farage, says he is not going to stand as a candidate in next month's general election. the government confirms the benefits freeze introduced by the conservatives

richard lister reports.minutes after shooting his ex—wife with a crossbow. you are under arrest for the offence of attempted murder. he is unrepentant, saying that she'd got in the way when he was aiming for her husband. that you fired and shot her, 0k?|j shut it into. yes, but you've told me that. sana muhammad had escaped her abusive ex—husband years before and remarried, but unmathallegadoo was obsessed with her. he bought two of these crossbows, duct tape and a hammer and hid in a shed in the garden of sana's family home with several crossbow bolts, waiting to attack the couple. police say, when spotted, he ran into the house and fired his ex—wife as she tried to flee. heavily pregnant, she was fatally injured, but medical teams were able to save her baby. it's amazing. a crossbow is a lethal weapon. the bolts missed the baby, and the baby was born healthy and is now a healthy one—year—old child. it's nothing short of a miracle. in court, the prosecution said unmathallegadoo had planned to kill sana and

richard lister, bbc news. our top story this lunchtime... from government — on the day the general election campaign officially begins. and coming up, our assistant political editor norman smith will answer your questions about the election. and in the sport on bbc news. after premiership champions saracens were found to have breached salary cap rules, exeter‘s chief executive has called on them to be relegated. the bbc has learnt that evidence provided by groups known as paedophile hunters was used in more than 250 prosecutions last year — even though their techniques are considered controversial. members of the groups pose as children online to lure and confront suspected child sex offenders — but, despite using their evidence, police have described them as vigilantes, whose activities could put child abuse investigations at risk. luxmy gopal reports. we are phoning the police. get off my phone! don't touch us! this is a sting by so—called paedophile hunters. 51—year—old christopher powell thought he was meeting a 14—year—old boy he had be

richard lister, bbc news.llows people to rent property online, says its banning bookings for so—called party houses. it follows the death of five people in a shooting in san francisco on halloween night. here‘s our north america correspondent chris buckler. parties have been a big issue for the company for a long time, but what has led them to act was a party thrown at a home in orinda, which is an affluent suburb in san francisco last week. now a woman rented that house, claiming she wanted to find a place to allow her asthmatic family to escape from the smoke from the california wildfires. in fact, she threw a halloween party in which 100 people turned up and it descended into violence. in which there were shootings and five people died — in their 20s and late teens. now, airbnb has said that‘s completely unacceptable and they say they are going to put in place new policies that will ban party houses. now that might prove difficult to do, but brian chesky, who is the co—founder and chief executive officer of

richard lister, bbc news. welsh secretary alun cairns resigns over allegations he knew a former aide had sabotaged a rape trial. the announcement coming minutes before boris johnson launched his election campaign. borisjohnson had an audience with the queen at buckingham palace, marking the start of the election period. a police ban on protests by extinction rebellion across london last month was unlawful, according to the high court. the two—time olympic champion nicola adams resigns from boxing overfears she could lose her sight. and saracens could be found to have won their last two titles unfairly. and tottenham and manchester city play tonight in the champions league. before that arsenal have an afternoon kick—off in the europa league but bill be without —— but will be without xhaka. the green party insisted that some things were bigger than brexit and the selection must be about the climate. they launch this ambitious plan. today i am proud to announce that the green party will invest £100 billion per ye

our correspondent richard lister is here. richard what more can you tell us? this relates to a nursery called jack and jill childcare in turkey, currently closed and ofsted suspended its licence about two weeks ago. devon and cornwall police began the major investigation at the end ofjuly after a family got in touch about what was described as a serious incident involving a child. detectives say they've identified a number of potential victims, children over the age of two years, and specialist officers are supporting them and their families, more than 100 of whom have been contacted more than 100 of whom have been co nta cted by more than 100 of whom have been contacted by the investigation team. police have arrested one of the workers at this nursery. they say they are not looking for anybody else in connection with these alleged offences. they've also reviewed more than 250 hours of cctv footage at the nursery. as part of the investigation. and they said the alleged sexual offences do not involve the taking or distribution of images in this investigation is

richard lister, bbc news.race millane in new zealand last year has gone on trial in auckland. the court has heard that the suspect, who can't be named for legal reasons, went on a date with another woman while grace millane's body was in a suitcase in his room. he denies murder and claims her death was accidental, as our correspondent phil mercer reports. grace millane came to new zealand for the adventure of a lifetime. but on the eve of her 22nd birthday, she disappeared. on wednesday, grace's parents arrived at the high court in auckland to find out what happened to her. in the dock, accused of murder, a 27—year—old man who, for legal reasons, we can't identify. the jury heard that the couple met through an online dating app and went drinking. grace millane went back with the defendant to his appointment. she died there. prosecutors say she was strangled in this city centre building. a week later, her contorted body was found stuffed in a suitcase in a shallow grave. only two people know what happened in th

our correspondent richard lister is here with the latest.latest. have got the protests a we have got the protests and talk of a meeting in beijing. this is the 22nd weekend of protests so this has been a long—running drama plaguing hong kong. there are rallies outside multiple shopping centres outside hong kong. there are some protesters in this one incident that formed a human chain. eyewitnesses said restau ra nts human chain. eyewitnesses said restaurants were vandalised before riot police intervened and subdued some protesters with pepper spray. some of these seem to be sparked when sam went to argue with the pro—democracy protesters. —— some went. the pro—democracy councillor saw what was happening and after what followed, he seemed to have pa rt what followed, he seemed to have part of his ear bitten off. some protesters turned on the original attacker. most of this was captured live by cameras that were following these protesters. there have been a number of arrests and as we also know, there are at least four people quite badly hurt.

richard lister reports.an peacefully enough, with demonstrators forming human chains in shopping centres, but here, in city plaza, things soon turned violent. a man set upon protesters with a knife, injuring several, and when a pro—democracy councillor intervened, he too was attacked, and part of his ear was bitten off. the man with the knife was then beaten up by some of the protesters, but police have not confirmed whether he was among those arrested. elsewhere, demonstrators smashed up restaurants and riot police were brought in. at the new town plaza, there was a tense stand—off as police searched the complex and removed some of the protesters. they in turn harassed the police, shining laser pointers at them and throwing objects. this was the 22nd consecutive weekend of protests in hong kong and after widespread and intense clashes on saturday, it was one of the most violent for sometime. it was one of the most violent for some time. beijing has signalled it intends to toughen its stance against the prot

richard lister reports.y's protests began peacefully enough, with demonstrators forming human chains in shopping centres, but here, in city plaza, things soon turned violent. a man set upon protesters with a knife, injuring several, and when a pro—democracy councillor intervened, he too was attacked, and part of his ear was bitten off. the man with the knife was then beaten up by some of the protesters, but police have not confirmed whether he was among those arrested. elsewhere, demonstrators smashed up restaurants and riot police were brought in. at the new town plaza, there was a tense stand—off as police searched the complex and removed some of the protesters. they in turn harassed the police, shining laser pointers at them and throwing objects. this was the 22nd consecutive weekend of protests in hong kong and after widespread and intense clashes on saturday, it was one of the most violent for sometime. beijing has signalled it intends to toughen its stance against the protests. as yet it is unclear whe

richard lister reports. demonstrators forming human chains in shopping centres, but here, in city plaza, things soon turned violent. a man set upon protesters with a knife, injuring several, and when a pro—democracy councillor intervened, he too was attacked, and part of his ear was bitten off. the man with the knife was then beaten up by some of the protesters, but police have not confirmed whether he was among those arrested. elsewhere, demonstrators smashed up restaurants and riot police were brought in. at the new town plaza, there was a tense stand—off as police searched the complex and removed some of the protesters. they in turn harassed the police, shining laser pointers at them and throwing objects. this was the 22nd consecutive weekend of protests in hong kong and after widespread and intense clashes on saturday, it was one of the most violent for some time. beijing has signalled it intends to toughen its stance against the protests. as yet it is unclear when that might happen or how, but as the in

earlier, our correspondent richard lister told my colleague shaun ley more about these developments inprotests, so this has been a long—running drama plaguing hong kong. there are rallies actually staged outside multiple shopping centres around hong kong. as you say, there are some protesters in this one particular incident, formed a human chain, eyewitnesses said that restaurants were vandalised before riot police intervened. and subdued some of the protesters with pepper spray. this incident that seems to have caused these injuries seems to have been sparked when someone went up to argue with the pro—democracy protesters. at some stage, he pulled a knife, it said. there was a fight, a pro—democracy councillor saw what was happening, he intervened and, in the course of the scuffle that followed, he seemed to have got part of his ear bitten off. 0ther protesters then turned on the original attacker and seem to have beaten him very badly. much of this was captured pretty much live by cameras that were following some of these protesters around. as you say, police say there have been a nu

our correspondent richard lister has been following the case.ovember the 12th, sana muhammad, who was 35, pregnant with her six chat was preparing dinner at the family home in ilford when her husband went out into the garden, and he surprised mrs mohammed's ex—husband, ramanodge unmathallegadoo. he had been hiding and the shared armed with two crossbows. he ran out of the shed, and mr mohamed right and to dry to warn his wife what was happening. but ramanodge unmathallegadoo fired the crossbow, it hit mrs mohammed, and she dry fairly quickly but her unborn child was saved with an emergency caesarean. the courtyard that ramanodge unmathallegadoo had never been able to get over the fact that his wife had divorced him and gone on to marry and have more children. it seems that in 2012 there was an incident in which is it then wife jumped out of an upstairs window because she was afraid that her husband was going to cool him. after a trial in 2013, he was cleared of trying to attack, but he was a trial in 2013, he was cleared of trying to attack, but

our correspondent richard lister is at the old bailey. richard. to alfie, to lie about stephen waters and‘s involvement. eventually, though, alfie‘s mum, who we re eventually, though, alfie‘s mum, who were sitting in the rear seat with alfie between her feet, were sitting in the rear seat with alfie between herfeet, confess were sitting in the rear seat with alfie between her feet, confess to what happened to police and there was a trial that followed here at the old bailey. during the trial, more details emerged about what had happened, when these four adults and two children had got into this overcrowded car that adrian had asked stephen watson to push his seat forward and he said to her he wasn‘t being told what to do by a three—year—old and pushed his seat back not once but twice causing those injuries which eventually killed him. in the initial trial, adrian was found guilty of child cruelty but the jury was unable to agree on the verdict of the manslaughter charge against stephen waterson. so he was facing a retrial. on the eve of the retria

our correspondent, richard lister has been following the case.aved. the cutout he had never been able to get over the fact his wife had divorced him and got on to remarry and have more children. in 2012 there was insta nt more children. in 2012 there was instant riches then wife jumped out and upstairs window because she was and upstairs window because she was a freighter was going to kill him. after a trial in 2013 he was the of trying to attack her but he was subjected to a banning order stopping him from coming close to her and her new family even though that order was still in place and still did not stop him from murdering her on the court heard that although he said he was trying to scare her husband, in fact it seemed he was equipped to tie the couple up potentially kill them both and the unborn child and although he was able to kill his ex—wife at least a child was saved. the leaders of the 4 main parties are gearing up for a question time leaders special...they'll each face 30 minutes of questions from the audience. it's all taking place

richard lister is at the old bailey. this was a murder that horrified the nation. yes, it was. chesney as blameless. her friends and family gathered. her father blameless. her friends and family gathered. herfather peter blameless. her friends and family gathered. her father peter said blameless. her friends and family gathered. herfather peter said he had lost the most precious human being he would ever know. he described his life is being shattered by the death of his daughter. jodie was a promising student at a local six—gun college, she was an explorer scout, within two weeks of completing her duke of —— six form college. completing her duke of edinburgh gold. she was described as an extraordinary young person. she was sitting with a group of friends one evening this year when suddenly out of the darkness, came svenson ong—a—kwie and aaron isaacs, 19 and 17 respectively. it was determined by the judge that it was determined by the judge that it was svenson ong—a—kwie who wielded the knife, which almost passed through the knife, which almost passed throuthodie the knife, whi

richard lister is at the old bailey.s an horrific scene, and some of those there that night were giving statements on the impact of jody's death night were giving statements on the impact ofjody's death to the court, some 15 people describe the impact of her death on them. her father said that the pain had destroyed his life and that his daughter was the most precious human being he had ever known. she was universally described as a bright student, she was at a local sixth form college, a very keen student, devoted to his studies, a classical pianist, she was 18 explorer scout, she visited downing street as part of that experience. she was working towards her gold duke of edinburgh award scheme, she was somebody who was respected by her peer group as somebody who tried very hard to get on in life when she was apparently, as you say, a victim of mistaken identity in what seems to have been a drug to four. —— drug turf war. the two people who have been convicted and sentenced, one named for the first time, the 17—year—old

richard lister is here with more detail. wife what was happening, but he fired the crossbow. it hit mrs mohammed and she died fairly quickly. her unborn child was saved with an emergency cesarean. there was a history of violence in this relationship. there was. he had never really been able to get over the fact that his wife had divorced him and gone on to remarry. it seems that in 2012 there was an incident in which his then wife jumped out of an upstairs window because she was afraid that her husband was going to kill him. after a trial in 2013 he was cleared of trying to attacker but he was subjected to a banning order stopping him from coming close to her and her new family, even though that order was still in place it didn‘t stop him from murdering her and the court heard that although he said he was just trying to scare her husband, in fact it seemed he was equipped to tithe the couple up, potentially kill them both and the unborn child and although he was able to kill his ex—wife, at least the child was saved. what we