black cab rapistjohn worboys independent enquiry.ore women in order to sexually abuse them. campaigners have won a legal challenge against the government over british arms sales to saudi arabia. and newly released images reveal the dramatic melting of ice in the himalayas. hello, good afternoon and welcome to bbc newsroom live. voting hasjust closed in the latest ballot to decide the conservative leadership, as mps decide which candidates will face a members vote. former foreign secretary boris johnson face a members vote. former foreign secretary borisjohnson looks certain to make the final pair, after topping the ballot in the first three rounds, but the race to join him remains too close to call, with jeremy hunt, michael gove join him remains too close to call, withjeremy hunt, michael gove and sajid javid fighting to remain in the contest. let's look at how the process works. the latest round of voting will whittle down the remaining candidates to three, with results expected from an hour's time. they will vote again this aftern

john worboys was jailed in 2009 for attacks on 12 women. then offered them drinks laced with sedatives so he could sexually assault or rape them. worboys denied the offences for almost a decade until he had the prospect of release. he was a sexual predator. he made cou ntless he was a sexual predator. he made countless victims traumatised. and i would like to pay tribute to those victims today having the courage and bravery to give their accounts. 18 months ago, the parole board said it was saferjohn worboys to be freed. he had convinced them he had taken responsibility for his crimes. in the row that followed, the chairman resigned in the high court overturned the release decision. the court said the parole panel should have taken court said the parole panel should have ta ken account court said the parole panel should have taken account of other allegations against him. police believe he drugged and abused over 100 women, among them the four victims whose cases were heard at the old bailey. mark rutte appeared in court via video link from

worboys targeted women who hailed his cab and drugged them in order to sexually assault them.s" need to be taken when vetting contributors for political debates. it follows criticism of the bbc‘s handling of the conservative leadership debate held on tuesday. two of the eight people who asked questions during the broadcast were suspended from theirjobs within 2a hours. thousands of georgians have stormed the country's parliament in tiblisi, protesting against continued russian involvement in georgia's politics. some protesters made it into the chamber, where a speech was being made in russian. russia occupied two georgian states in 2008 and its troops are still based there. a former conservative mp, harvey proctor, broke down in court today as he told the jury how he was described as a child murderer and paedophile decades ago by a man who is now on trial accused of lying about those claims. harvey proctor was giving evidence at the trial of carl beech, who's accused of making false accusations to police about a vip paedophile ring. mr beech denies 12 counts of perverting the

worboys targeted women who hailed his cab and drugged them in order to sexually assault them.aken when vetting contributors for political debates. it follows criticism of the bbc‘s handling of the conservative leadership debate held on tuesday. two of the eight people who asked questions during the broadcast were suspended from their jobs within 2a hours. thousands of georgians have stormed the country's parliament in tiblisi, the a british court has ruled that the uk's way of vetting arms sales to saudi arabia was unlawful, after a legal challenge at the court of appeal. it was brought by the campaign against arms trade, in protest at the way britain has sold arms to saudia arabia, which have then ended up being used in the war in yemen. here's our international correspondent, lyse doucet. cheering saudi arabia in the dock. today's ruling was about how britain decides where to sell its arms. but sales to the kingdom, which enable its devastating campaign in yemen, are what has fuelled this legal fight. this ruling is a devastating, devastating critique of uk foreign policy. b

john worboys, the black cab rapist who was almost freed from jail, pleads guilty to attacks on four more. good afternoon. the business news 110w. good afternoon. the business news now. carphone warehouse profits down. it's the second profits warning since alex baldockjoined the company as chief executive just over a year ago. may saw the biggest drop in british retail sales this year. cold weather is to blame with shoppers putting off buying summer clothes. sales in department stores were particularly weak. but to put it in context the sector has not grown since september of last year. as expected, uk interest rates have been held at 0.75%. all nine members of of the bank of england's monetary policy committee voted to keep them unchanged. slack‘s public debut is happening thursday on the new york stock exchange and the company has set a reference price of $26 per share for its direct listing, according to wsj, which would value the company at around £12.3 billion. that flotation does not have underwriters, who pick up all the unsold shares if there are any. but what does slack do? it ru

breaking news coming to us from the courts, because the man known as the black cab rapist, john worboys recommended for release by the parole board last year, this was for his original sentence back in 2019, for sexual offences, 19 sexual offences against women, but that release was stopped when victims appealed. now today, john worboys, who has changed his name tojohn ra dford, who has changed his name tojohn radford, has pleaded guilty to four other offences, pleading guilty to drugging four women with the intention of carrying out sexual assault. that news coming into us from the courts. a charity for children‘s hospices in england is warning that some will be forced to shut, unless the nhs increases its funding across the sector. together for short lives says a rise in costs and a drop in donations means hospices have had to turn families away. the government says funding for children‘s end of life care will double within the next five years. phil mackie reports. for little amad and his family, acorns children‘s hospice in walsall is a lifeline. it‘s this kind of respite care that‘s

the so called "black cab rapist" john worboys has admitted attacks on four more women.assaults on 12 victims in london. worboys targeted women who hailed his cab and drugged them in order to sexually assault them. the leader of the catholic church in england and wales, cardinal vincent nichols, has been accused of putting the church's reputation above the interests of the victims of sexual abuse. the claim is part of a damning report by the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, following an investigation into the archdiocese of birmingham. the cardinal has denied a cover up. the bbc is to examine whether "additional steps" need to be made on vetting and transparency for the bbc‘s political debates. it follows criticism of the bbc‘s handling of the conservative leadership debate held on tuesday. two out of the eight members of the public who asked questions of the leadership contenders were suspended from theirjobs within 24 hours. a former mp, harvey proctor, has broken down in court as he recalled being named a child murderer and paedophile by a man who is now o

john radford, previously known asjohn worboys, was almost freed from jail last year.tted to four further offences in which he drugged women with the intention of sexually assaulting them. iran and the united states say that an american surveillance drone has been shot down over the strait of hormuz. iran's revolutionary guard say they brought down the unmanned aircraft when it entered its airspace. pentagon sources say their us navy drone was flying in international airspace. tension remains high in the region following a number of attacks on oil tankers that washington and its allies have blamed on tehran. the uk's first hydrogen—powered train has gone on display in warwickshire. it's hoped the hydroflex will be a major step towards removing diesel trains from the rail network. hydrogen trains are said to be the greenest trains, giving off zero emissions and their only by—product is water. the train will be tested on the uk mainline in the next few months. an age—check scheme designed to stop under—18s viewing pornographic websites is expected to be delayed for a sec

of the systemic duty on the prosecution service to effectively prosecute rape, like in the case of worboyse. the cps say they are cases where they don't feel there is enough chance of obtaining a conviction. well, the reality is that they are dropping more cases, and what we're saying is that about five years there was an introduction... longerago, ten yea rs introduction... longerago, ten years ago, after a case went to court, thejudge set years ago, after a case went to court, the judge set out what was called the merits based approach, where you look at the evidence objectively and, rather than second—guessing what a jury will think. we know that rape is imbued with all sorts of myths and stereotypes, and that jurors with all sorts of myths and stereotypes, and thatjurors tend to acquit and lots of types of cases where they think that perhaps it didn't happen. unless you really, really robustly show how those myths and stereotypes are myths and stereotypes, jurors do tend to acquit more than they should do. but the test is, for the prosecutor, to consider the objective evidence, not to

john worboys was jailed in 2009 for attacks on 12 women.p in his black taxi and then offered them drinks laced with sedatives so he could sexually assault or rape them. worboys denied the offences for almost a decade until he had the prospect of release. he convinced the parole board he'd taken responsibility for these crimes and the board ruled it was safe to let him out. in the row that followed, nick hardwick, the parole board chairman, resigned and the high court overturned the release decision. the court said that the parole panel should have taken account of worboys‘ wider alleged pattern of offending. police believe he attacked over 100 women. some came forward after the coverage last year, and today worboys admitted drugging four of them. the lawyer who represented two of his victims in the high court hearing last year said the conviction today entirely undermined the explanations he had given to the pa role the explanations he had given to the parole board. the crown prosecution service described john worboys as a sexual predator w